It's not a laptop, it's a small form factor desktop machine. If you only want to use the machine and points A and B, and don't care about the trip in between, it's the way to go.
You should be able to get it through any dealer that orders from Ingram Micro in your area.
Something like this doesn't really *need* 3D graphics though. Would The Simpsons be any better if they got Mainframe to do the animation?
If the focal selling point of a game is that it's in 3D, then that game shouldn't be made. Gameplay and entertainment value are why games should be made.
Sam and Max Hit The Road was a great adventure, with excellent writing and production. It's too bad we'll miss out on a sequel so that another Pod Racer game or somesuch will see the light of day, and our beloved Max won't have a chance to disembowel anyone for our entertainment pleasure.
Gee, that's great, but we had athlon's and P4's side by side and the heat in the case was about 5 degrees in favor of the P4s in a regular case, similar heat sinks and fans.
I'm less worried about on-die heat as I am about ambient heat caused by dissipation and lack of air flow. The chances of the CPU hitting electron-migration temperatures is slim without a critical failure.
Doesn't mean I want my hard drive retaining extra heat because it has less cool air to dissipate into naturally.
I have a Shuttle SB61G2 with a 2.4 GHz HT P4, a gig of ram, a 120 gig hard drive, and a Radeon 9600. It probably weighs about 7 or 8 pounds.
It's readily upgradable, has a small desktop footprint, and is easy to transport. As long as I have a monitor or TV I can use at my destination it's perfect for work or gaming.
Without the video card it cost me 1000 CDN. I could have shaved off another hundred or more by going with an Athlon, but I was taking heat into consideration with the tight airflow restrictions.
You get a laptop for the convenience of portability at the cost of being able to upgrade. And generally a desktop is a statically placed computer that can be upgraded, but isn't all that portable. They just hybridized the negative aspects of both, slapped on a nice big screen and put it to market.
What type of user is going to derive the most benefit from this?
As far as Linux goes I'm a relative newb. I can edit configuration files, install packages from source, use SSH, and set up Apache/PHP and MySQL. That doesn't sound too bad at first, but I still don't have the ability to troubleshoot or utilize the OS to the degree that I can with Windows, simply due to familiarity.
What I'm wondering is if customizing a distro is fairly straightforward, or a massive headache even for the experienced.
I want to be able to boot up a LiveCD that has a collection of Care Sheets for various pets and livestock (that part should be simple), as well as a database that can be used for husbandry and breeding purposes.
I don't know whether putting a live database on a pre-canned OS is a good idea, due to security issues or whatnot. I would assume that restricting access to the db to local accounts would be the way to go, etc. etc.
Anyone have experience building their own, and want to share the experience?
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You don't even wanna know what he has to do to a polar bear to get his health back.
(yes, I know they're from opposite poles but this would be a multicultural game.)
Tux Racer II: Grand Theft Penguin
Gotta include the link.
Osama bin Laden captured by Aibo. News at 11. :)
Even if we did end up with drastically smarter children, the education system as it is now wouldn't do them a hell of a lot of good.
It doesn't even address the needs of the faster and slower students as it is now.
"BAM!!! Oh shit..."
Yeah, there aren't any on this page:
http://www.carorcar.com/intro.html#clubracing
[clickclickclick]
Oddly enough the name Yakuza is based on a number too. Ya-Ku-Za. 8-9-3. A losing hand in the game hanafuda.
Remember REPP232? I don't remember what the acronym stood for but Repp would take a CGA image and convert it to ASCII or vice versa.
:)
Was kinda neat to take that cheesy ASCII porn and turn it into cheesy CGA porn
Who does SCO attack first? :)
ask=as.
:(
crap
It's not so much fighting evil, ask seeking to gain a monopoly on it :)
It's okay, if you were trying to be funny they would have modded you "Off Topic" :)
How typically American. Attacking innocent barns! :)
If you want to look at a naked Richard Hatch through a scope, you go right ahead.
*shudder*
Try drinking it when you have IBS. You practically have to master time travel to make it to the bathroom on time.
It's funny how the Japanese appears on the site when you don't have the fonts installed. Looks like a fanboy forum. :)
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Ghost in the Shell?????????
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2004?????????
CG?????
It's not a laptop, it's a small form factor desktop machine. If you only want to use the machine and points A and B, and don't care about the trip in between, it's the way to go.
You should be able to get it through any dealer that orders from Ingram Micro in your area.
http://www.shuttle.com/index7.html
I'd love it if the game were done using an updated version of SCUMM with only an increase in resolution.
:)
Heck, Lucas could make a nice little pile of change re-releasing all the original SCUMM projects with a moderate graphical update and that's it.
I'd pay 60 bucks (CDN) for a "Scumm Rises to the Top" bundle
Something like this doesn't really *need* 3D graphics though. Would The Simpsons be any better if they got Mainframe to do the animation?
If the focal selling point of a game is that it's in 3D, then that game shouldn't be made. Gameplay and entertainment value are why games should be made.
Damn! I was really looking forward to this.
Sam and Max Hit The Road was a great adventure, with excellent writing and production. It's too bad we'll miss out on a sequel so that another Pod Racer game or somesuch will see the light of day, and our beloved Max won't have a chance to disembowel anyone for our entertainment pleasure.
Gee, that's great, but we had athlon's and P4's side by side and the heat in the case was about 5 degrees in favor of the P4s in a regular case, similar heat sinks and fans.
I'm less worried about on-die heat as I am about ambient heat caused by dissipation and lack of air flow. The chances of the CPU hitting electron-migration temperatures is slim without a critical failure.
Doesn't mean I want my hard drive retaining extra heat because it has less cool air to dissipate into naturally.
Not exactly their best selling points.
I have a Shuttle SB61G2 with a 2.4 GHz HT P4, a gig of ram, a 120 gig hard drive, and a Radeon 9600. It probably weighs about 7 or 8 pounds.
It's readily upgradable, has a small desktop footprint, and is easy to transport. As long as I have a monitor or TV I can use at my destination it's perfect for work or gaming.
Without the video card it cost me 1000 CDN. I could have shaved off another hundred or more by going with an Athlon, but I was taking heat into consideration with the tight airflow restrictions.
You get a laptop for the convenience of portability at the cost of being able to upgrade. And generally a desktop is a statically placed computer that can be upgraded, but isn't all that portable. They just hybridized the negative aspects of both, slapped on a nice big screen and put it to market.
What type of user is going to derive the most benefit from this?
Beggars can't be choosers. Besides, it might lead to less ego-destroying vacuum hose incidents in single Engineering students.
As far as Linux goes I'm a relative newb.
I can edit configuration files, install packages from source, use SSH, and set up Apache/PHP and MySQL. That doesn't sound too bad at first, but I still don't have the ability to troubleshoot or utilize the OS to the degree that I can with Windows, simply due to familiarity.
What I'm wondering is if customizing a distro is fairly straightforward, or a massive headache even for the experienced.
I want to be able to boot up a LiveCD that has a collection of Care Sheets for various pets and livestock (that part should be simple), as well as a database that can be used for husbandry and breeding purposes.
I don't know whether putting a live database on a pre-canned OS is a good idea, due to security issues or whatnot. I would assume that restricting access to the db to local accounts would be the way to go, etc. etc.
Anyone have experience building their own, and want to share the experience?