I would love to use public transportation to get to my job.
A bus nearby would get me to the electric line in the chicago area to board in Richton park. An hour and twenty minutes later I could switch trains and head to naperville. After that hour and twenty minute ride I could walk three blocks to work.
Or I can drive for forty minutes and get to work.
I would love to actually move to naperville, but when I bought my house at a fantastic price (it was worth 40 thousand more than I agreed to pay for it) I can't actually sell it cause I'm 60 thousand in the hole due to the market crash.
I can't get a job locally that pays a living wage, crook county has made sure not only to overtax, but to actually chase businesses away. So either I commute or lose everything.
The mass transit system in the chicago area sucks. Unless you manage to live in the city itself, and work in the city itself it's worthless. It would fold overnight if it couldn't tax all the collar counties that can't use the system anyway.
It's a collosal mess and money pit. Just like everything that Chicago runs.
It's the interface. It sucks. I bought a machine to game on, not one to sell me other crap. Two years ago when they changed to pre metro I boxed up the x-box and games and gave it to my nephews.
X-Box is doomed. Simply because it's not about gaming, but all about sales.
Which gets blindly clicked thru since they see that pop up dozens of times a day.
I am a fan of microsoft up until after win xp, but UAC and the effing annoyance it causes with legit apps was definitely not the way to go to improve security.
I wasn't aware you could run multiple i-pads at the same time from one keyboard and mouse and share everything with clipsync. When was this integrated ?
but how do you cut and paste between the three tablets?
I finish the sql query on one monitor, copy, paste it into the code on the middle monitor - start the application, and watch the results on the third monitor.
I can then either tweak the code, or change the query - would three ipads fix that? I assume I'll need three keyboards and three mice as well, or will all three ipads use the same keyboard when they have focus?
Rendering 3 D images comes to mind. I need a lot pf power for that (been doing since bryce came out). Cad is another cruncher I use. I have no use for a pad, so I don't know their capabilities.
How well does it support gaming peripherals like a yoke and pedals? Can you run multiple monitors off of it? For instance right now I have SQL management express on one monitor, the.Net development studio on the middle monitor, and am typing here on the third to respond.
The pc's are not dying, the decline in sales is due to not having to ride the wave of upgrades to play the latest and greatest.
A pc has gone from being outdated after 2 years to being solid for at least five.Granted, there will be the older people who still use a pentium 450 to get email won't be buying, but the corporate world and the gaming world (which inflated pc sales) is still going to be buying PCs.
My four year old dual core still meets all my gaming and programming challenges, over the next year or so, I'll be building a quad core that will take me for another five or six years. back in the day it was a new pc every two years.
On a drunken beerday many many years ago, i postulated that a cessna flung at.99 c (just under the speed of light) striking the earth would probably destroy it.
I was ridiculed, maybe rightly, but if we're running physics and math here, what would the effect be?
Turn in your fan card and go seek other bands more your style.
Aye an' a bit of Mackerel settler rack and ruin ran it doon by the haim, 'ma place well I slapped me and I slapped it doon in the side and I cried, cried, cried.
Democracies start to fail when people realize that they can vote for more money for themselves. As long as the entitlements keep rolling in, there will be more people ready to vote themselves some more free gubment cheese.
Look at the rise in food stamps, healthy young people collecting social security, and the free cell phone program.
I learned a lot by moving into a diverse area on the way down from twice being awarded All-America City.There are teens with Link cards purchasing chips and soda, there are folks you see with Cadillac escalades getting free groceries off of link, and while helping someone to try to get onto LIHEAP, they were turned away because they were not on social security, but the young couple fresh from vacation who were on social security got to stay.
It's a crying shame how much the system is abused, and how it will continue to be abused until a good, hard long look is taken at the abuse, and the ones enabling it get punished for their crimes.
So yeah. Unfortunately, there will always be people voting as often as they can to have a life that is work free, provided by a government that cares. It's sad, but it's happening, and I don't believe it's sustainable in any run.
My wiring is good, my switches are fine, and the sockets are properly installed - all of the 5 to 10 year old bulbs are working fine.
CFL's rarely last more than 10 months. If they do they are at half the brightness of a ten year old bulb.
I'm stockpiling bulbs. I have a 40 year supply.
I also know I won't be owning a hybrid, electric, or flying car in the next 40 years either.
But congrats for overpaying to help the environment. I'm glad you are helping the Chinese to create almost useless products, pollute their environment horribly, and profit hugely with work camps that pay their workers less than a Starbucks coffee a week.
You are everything I expect from the liberal feel good crowd embracing horrible lighting.//thumbs up!
I'm kinda at a loss here. Who wants to "afford" a Mac?
I don't use Apple products because they were very late to do anything about gaming. It still sucks at embracing gaming especially with legacy games.
This whole Mac red herring is kinda idiotic to the point that win 8 sucks.
I can "afford" a Mac. I'll never buy one. Well, I might buy one if the Steam effort in Linux fails, Win 8 becomes the only windows, and Mac becomes the gaming system of the planet.
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Heh, This is a desperate attempt to stop people like me from adblocking so we can actually use the service.
Have to agree...
Ex- Microsoft shill posting in Ubuntu now.
Fuck windows 8
I would love to use public transportation to get to my job.
A bus nearby would get me to the electric line in the chicago area to board in Richton park. An hour and twenty minutes later I could switch trains and head to naperville. After that hour and twenty minute ride I could walk three blocks to work.
Or I can drive for forty minutes and get to work.
I would love to actually move to naperville, but when I bought my house at a fantastic price (it was worth 40 thousand more than I agreed to pay for it) I can't actually sell it cause I'm 60 thousand in the hole due to the market crash.
I can't get a job locally that pays a living wage, crook county has made sure not only to overtax, but to actually chase businesses away. So either I commute or lose everything.
The mass transit system in the chicago area sucks. Unless you manage to live in the city itself, and work in the city itself it's worthless. It would fold overnight if it couldn't tax all the collar counties that can't use the system anyway.
It's a collosal mess and money pit. Just like everything that Chicago runs.
Isn't Google making money via advertising on youtube with all the posted videos that are infringing on copyrights?
I'm not going to go to win7 or the disgusting win 8.
Thanx to Steam, I am now posting this in Ubuntu and downloading a new game.
I'm looking forward to learning all about Ubuntu :)
It's the interface. It sucks. I bought a machine to game on, not one to sell me other crap. Two years ago when they changed to pre metro I boxed up the x-box and games and gave it to my nephews.
X-Box is doomed. Simply because it's not about gaming, but all about sales.
Which gets blindly clicked thru since they see that pop up dozens of times a day.
I am a fan of microsoft up until after win xp, but UAC and the effing annoyance it causes with legit apps was definitely not the way to go to improve security.
I wasn't aware you could run multiple i-pads at the same time from one keyboard and mouse and share everything with clipsync. When was this integrated ?
but how do you cut and paste between the three tablets?
I finish the sql query on one monitor, copy, paste it into the code on the middle monitor - start the application, and watch the results on the third monitor.
I can then either tweak the code, or change the query - would three ipads fix that? I assume I'll need three keyboards and three mice as well, or will all three ipads use the same keyboard when they have focus?
Rendering 3 D images comes to mind. I need a lot pf power for that (been doing since bryce came out). Cad is another cruncher I use. I have no use for a pad, so I don't know their capabilities.
How well does it support gaming peripherals like a yoke and pedals? Can you run multiple monitors off of it? For instance right now I have SQL management express on one monitor, the .Net development studio on the middle monitor, and am typing here on the third to respond.
Can I get the same from an I-pad?
What about paper? they do math on paper still, so that's a pc too?
The pc's are not dying, the decline in sales is due to not having to ride the wave of upgrades to play the latest and greatest.
A pc has gone from being outdated after 2 years to being solid for at least five.Granted, there will be the older people who still use a pentium 450 to get email won't be buying, but the corporate world and the gaming world (which inflated pc sales) is still going to be buying PCs.
My four year old dual core still meets all my gaming and programming challenges, over the next year or so, I'll be building a quad core that will take me for another five or six years. back in the day it was a new pc every two years.
End of the PC?
If I have to start programming on a smart phone, tablet, or laptop, I'm gonna quit programming and start a slushie business.
Cause hell will have frozen over. And the ice will be free as in not beer.
Thank you both. I am in appreciation of your taking time to answer.
On a drunken beerday many many years ago, i postulated that a cessna flung at .99 c (just under the speed of light) striking the earth would probably destroy it.
I was ridiculed, maybe rightly, but if we're running physics and math here, what would the effect be?
once a year for TFC?
Turn in your fan card and go seek other bands more your style.
Aye an' a bit of Mackerel settler rack and ruin ran it doon by the haim, 'ma place well I slapped me and I slapped it doon in the side and I cried, cried, cried.
I currently own a sixth copy of Pink Floyd's "The final cut"
And yes, after three decades of listening to to that album, I have easily heard it over a thousand times.
Since this is a couple years ago, how is this news for nerds?
Wouldn't a story about a $30,000 NASA Contest to Boost Space Station's Power be more news than this?
Where did the nerds move to so they could get more news for nerds instead of two year old stories about apple?
The stupid IBM popup ad hovers over part of the summary and it can't be dismissed in Firefox.
I'm running firefox, and I do not see any pop up ad. Of course, I am on 3.6 with ab+, no script, and a few other goodies.
The United States Homeland Security should not be involved in arresting people in Saipan.
The fact that it has happened is egregious.
WTF is going on with the Obama Whitehouse?
So, since I've been rated as a troll already - go figure.
The solution is to just punish the people making money by giving more benefits to those that won't work?
Well, Yes. More Democrats did vote.
Democracies start to fail when people realize that they can vote for more money for themselves. As long as the entitlements keep rolling in, there will be more people ready to vote themselves some more free gubment cheese.
Look at the rise in food stamps, healthy young people collecting social security, and the free cell phone program.
I learned a lot by moving into a diverse area on the way down from twice being awarded All-America City .There are teens with Link cards purchasing chips and soda, there are folks you see with Cadillac escalades getting free groceries off of link, and while helping someone to try to get onto LIHEAP, they were turned away because they were not on social security, but the young couple fresh from vacation who were on social security got to stay.
It's a crying shame how much the system is abused, and how it will continue to be abused until a good, hard long look is taken at the abuse, and the ones enabling it get punished for their crimes.
So yeah. Unfortunately, there will always be people voting as often as they can to have a life that is work free, provided by a government that cares. It's sad, but it's happening, and I don't believe it's sustainable in any run.
too many people without lobotomies voting is my guess...
My wiring is good, my switches are fine, and the sockets are properly installed - all of the 5 to 10 year old bulbs are working fine.
CFL's rarely last more than 10 months. If they do they are at half the brightness of a ten year old bulb.
I'm stockpiling bulbs. I have a 40 year supply.
I also know I won't be owning a hybrid, electric, or flying car in the next 40 years either.
But congrats for overpaying to help the environment. I'm glad you are helping the Chinese to create almost useless products, pollute their environment horribly, and profit hugely with work camps that pay their workers less than a Starbucks coffee a week.
You are everything I expect from the liberal feel good crowd embracing horrible lighting. //thumbs up!
I'm kinda at a loss here. Who wants to "afford" a Mac?
I don't use Apple products because they were very late to do anything about gaming. It still sucks at embracing gaming especially with legacy games.
This whole Mac red herring is kinda idiotic to the point that win 8 sucks.
I can "afford" a Mac. I'll never buy one. Well, I might buy one if the Steam effort in Linux fails, Win 8 becomes the only windows, and Mac becomes the gaming system of the planet.
Till then I'll stick with XP.