I'm fairly sure that this will come with a bundled CPU. Look at the heatsink/fan assembly -- it's like a laptop. Asking consumers to fiddle around with that would be a bit silly.
Just FYI, my use of 'crack' in the summary is _meant_ to be a pun. I know it sucks to point out jokes... but I wanted to make sure it didn't go unnoticed:P
A lot play games, but some people just go to watch TV, movies, surf, or hang out with friends.
There's a fairly big social element to them, too -- it's one of the few places where you can go to a pub/bar and be surrounded by likeminded geeks, for example.
Yep, the best way is to go for a shower in the middle of the day, or very late at night.
The main thing is that it's completely pot luck. The showers are usually quite far away from the hall/sleeping area. You can trudge all the way over there to find all of the showers occupied.
FWIW, I'm a long-time LANner, and yeah... the smell can sometimes be pretty pungent.
Often the main problem is trying to provide enough showers for 1,000 people or more. Most of these venues are set up to provide showers for just a few people (usually sports athletes or similar). Some LAN parties try to get around this by bringing in a hoard of portable showers (and toilets!), but it's still impossible for everyone to shower in the morning (or evening).
Finally, a piece on the University of Essex (where I currently study)
The main guy behind this is Dr Clark, who's been teaching us graphics this year. We've been working with POV-RAY, which he then proceeds to execute on his 30-strong Shuttle cluster - the same cluster they use to simulate their flying gridswarms.
He calls it the fastest desktop computer in the world...
If you have even a tiny bit of imagination and a creative Games Master (you can rotate GMs in casual play, too), why not play some one-off games of Call of Cthulhu?
Or if you fancy something a little bit more 'campaign' like, I can highly recommend Deadlands (http://www.peginc.com), or perhaps just straight D&D 3.5:)
Whether or not it's censorship, lack of free-speech, whatever. THEY HAVE THE WORK COPYRIGHTED.
Mod me down, but this has to be said.
Copyright laws exist to protect the authors -- they might be using the law pretty heavy-handedly, but it's the law, they can use it.
When someone violates the GPL (a copyright breach, in effect), we go mental at that person until they release the code again under the GPL.
This is the same thing, it's just the copyright holder isn't held in such high asteem as linux/opensource, whatever. It doesn't mean that they can't use the law. The law is available to everyone, for whatever purpose.
She's an EX-British-TV presenter. She wasn't very good, to be honest, and got bounced around a lot -- even onto Channel 5 (like the C-Class Celebrity graveyard).
That's quite impressive, withstanding a slashdotting... still maxing out my pipe at 120kb/sec here.
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Doesn't Cringely's opinion matter at all?:) Maybe he doesn't want to be an editor here -- out of curiousity, has he even ever showed an interest to Slashdot?
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I'm fairly sure that this will come with a bundled CPU. Look at the heatsink/fan assembly -- it's like a laptop. Asking consumers to fiddle around with that would be a bit silly.
There are a lot of square inches of cotton in a t-shirt, you know :) At least 100 square inches! Probably nearer a thousand or more.
Just FYI, my use of 'crack' in the summary is _meant_ to be a pun. I know it sucks to point out jokes... but I wanted to make sure it didn't go unnoticed :P
Hey -- I'm the writer of the story!
The ruling also used the phrase 'photoshopping' -- which surprised me, but there you go.
A lot play games, but some people just go to watch TV, movies, surf, or hang out with friends.
There's a fairly big social element to them, too -- it's one of the few places where you can go to a pub/bar and be surrounded by likeminded geeks, for example.
Yep, the best way is to go for a shower in the middle of the day, or very late at night.
The main thing is that it's completely pot luck. The showers are usually quite far away from the hall/sleeping area. You can trudge all the way over there to find all of the showers occupied.
It needs a proper, web-based queuing system...
Plenty. There's still LAN bandwidth too, don't forget (I assume it's 1Gbps locally, but could be 100Mbps... but either way...)
Plus, I'm sure a network bod will chime in and discuss the chances of all 12,000 people using their 10Mbps internet bandwidth allowance at one time...
FWIW, I'm a long-time LANner, and yeah... the smell can sometimes be pretty pungent.
Often the main problem is trying to provide enough showers for 1,000 people or more. Most of these venues are set up to provide showers for just a few people (usually sports athletes or similar). Some LAN parties try to get around this by bringing in a hoard of portable showers (and toilets!), but it's still impossible for everyone to shower in the morning (or evening).
'or' should be 'for', before 'four days'
So long, chief :)
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Yay!
Finally, a piece on the University of Essex (where I currently study)
The main guy behind this is Dr Clark, who's been teaching us graphics this year. We've been working with POV-RAY, which he then proceeds to execute on his 30-strong Shuttle cluster - the same cluster they use to simulate their flying gridswarms.
He calls it the fastest desktop computer in the world...
Why has no one mentioned table-top RPGs yet?
:)
If you have even a tiny bit of imagination and a creative Games Master (you can rotate GMs in casual play, too), why not play some one-off games of Call of Cthulhu?
Or if you fancy something a little bit more 'campaign' like, I can highly recommend Deadlands (http://www.peginc.com), or perhaps just straight D&D 3.5
Damn it, I hate previews! They give everything about the game away!
Don't forget, he is Australian.
http://tom.madoka.be/stuff/funstuff/movies/starwar skid/
:)
The other one someone posted was a BitTorrent link that had no seeders
I just bought this box today, completely un-aware of its ability to run Linux.
Maybe this is God's way of telling me to move away from The One True OS, Windows, and move to Linux...
Hilary Rosen, obviously.
Er, I don't know about you, but I just clicked the bit of text 'dial-up' or 'high-speed', and the movie started streaming...
:)
RTFA.
Or RTFA-P (properly).
Some of these pictures are quite interesting
I take it you all know BBC already produced a (pretty damn good) version of Neverwhere filmed in the disused London Underground stations, right?
:)
No links to support this, but go search
Whether or not it's censorship, lack of free-speech, whatever. THEY HAVE THE WORK COPYRIGHTED.
Mod me down, but this has to be said.
Copyright laws exist to protect the authors -- they might be using the law pretty heavy-handedly, but it's the law, they can use it.
When someone violates the GPL (a copyright breach, in effect), we go mental at that person until they release the code again under the GPL.
This is the same thing, it's just the copyright holder isn't held in such high asteem as linux/opensource, whatever. It doesn't mean that they can't use the law. The law is available to everyone, for whatever purpose.
Yes, but Bowie's the second richest musician in the world, only behind Paul McCartney.
:)
As if he cares about copyright
She's an EX-British-TV presenter. She wasn't very good, to be honest, and got bounced around a lot -- even onto Channel 5 (like the C-Class Celebrity graveyard).
Changing country was probably a good idea...
If you're having trouble loading it at a decent pace (or at all, like me), Apple have got a copy (in QT, obviously)
m be rofsecrets.html
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/harrypottercha
That's quite impressive, withstanding a slashdotting... still maxing out my pipe at 120kb/sec here.
Doesn't Cringely's opinion matter at all? :) Maybe he doesn't want to be an editor here -- out of curiousity, has he even ever showed an interest to Slashdot?