Here I thought they were talking about Neverwinter Nights and games like that. Whatever complaints you may have about the character builder and the like, you certainly can't fault them for having "very little story".
Honda's may not be butt ugly (it's not the Aztek or the xB at least), but they do lose points for always taking the most generic and boring styling decisions at every opportunity. If you ask someone to draw a "generic car", they're going to draw an Accord.
On the other hand, it won't rust like a rolled steel or cast iron burner, and unless you take your grill on the road a lot the physical strength won't matter as much as the corrosion resistance. I'd say the ceramic grid is likely a better technology, and I bet it's more expensive than the steel/cast iron version.
Since it's apparently made for Women, I'm guessing no.
More accurately, I'm betting they're using the case to dissipate heat (which is going to be tough when it's covered in pleather) so they really can't afford to stick any sort of high end graphics in there. I'm betting keeping that Core2 cool will be work enough. The 14 hour battery life is another good indication that it won't play games very well, although it looks like they managed that by not putting an optical drive on there and filling up half of the case with battery.
Well, I'm not sure how accurate alcohol testing is since it's typically mixed with other chemicals that can be beneficial or harmful. For instance, the benefits of the antioxidants in Red Wine outweigh the possible detriments of the alcohol when taken in moderation (on the order of half a glass a day IIRC).
I hated the D-Pad on the Dreamcast. It was so hard and angular that my thumb was sore in no time on it. In fact everything on that controller was hard and angular.
The most common method is to have your goods delivered to a vacant home. It won't work for anything that needs a signature, but that's how people have been abusing credit cards for years. Then you just casually walk by and pick up your package and nobody is the wiser.
Of course you gotta be quick about it and not use a house too many times or the police might catch on and stake it out--although all they can technically get you on is theft of the one item if you're careful.
Yeah, it's pretty freaky to read some of the ads in the back of comic books and women's magazines from the early 20s where they were touting Radium as some sort of miracle drug for whatever ails you.
Was that added in a patch? I'm scrolled out all of the way and I can still make out the individual treads on the tanks. You can't even see more than a quarter of an average base at a time because the screen is so tight.
That's because you have to get the last two movies if you pick up the Trilogy box. They're reimbursing you for the time and effort of throwing away those discs.
I hope so too. Command and Conquer 3 has that same problem where you feel like you're scraping your nose on the ground because the camera is so tight. That screen size made sense when everybody was running 640x480, but at 1280x1204 it's just claustrophobic.
I don't work in the industry, but I have to say that $40M for a long haul power line sounds pretty cheap, especially when you give it the old anti-terr'ism spin. Personally, I'm impressed that they can run a cryogenic cable underneath NYC that cheaply.
You want Intel Graphics as a actual video card? You are aware that you can buy low end nVidia and ATI cards for less than $50 that will outperform them right?
Even as a person who has used Netflix for years now and absolutely love their service, I can say that if this is true they should be nailed to the wall over it. This is the sort of Patent System BS that must not be allowed to stand if we are to maintain our technology superiority as a country.
It's said that no great idea ever comes out of nowhere. All of the greats stood of the shoulders of giants. However, if people get it into their head to abuse the patent system like this, then there will be no shoulders to stand on and in the end no great achievements.
If the downlink is required to be 2Mbps to count as "broadband", I think the uplink should be a minimum of 512Kbps. Far too many people are stuck on lines that have 128Kbps up and far too easily saturate the uplink and bog the whole connection down.
Just one oberservation: Anything about 9/11 that relies mostly on eyewitness testimony of a small handful of people is utterly wrong. Eyewitnesses seeing "explosions in the basement" but yet still managing to stay alive are dubious at best. Did anybody ever ask them how they knew it was an explosion and how they knew where it was coming from? Was the answer "there was a loud noise", and "it seemed to come from underground"?
Yeah, but what if it's the "state approved" translation that's horrible? You'd be up a creek. In this case, the horrible translation would be replaced by a much better one when someone realized they could do a better job. This happens a lot in the fansub community. Often the first translation is the worst because it's a rush job, but then a "HQ" fansubber will follow up and put out a solid translation.
You're going to need that week of battery life to compile just about anything of note on a 386-level CPU these days. 386 level is probably too much of a tradeoff IMHO, something that's say PII-400 level, while it won't last as long, wouldn't be handicapped by the CPU nearly as much and should still get at least a good solid day of continuous use. A PII-400 is enough oomph to browse the web for instance.
That depends. Laptops are saving power because presumably they're idle most of the time and this program can tell you which processes behave badly while "idle" (by, say, polling the HDD for no good reason). On a server presumably your machine spends very little time idle (since you're serving stuff), so there isn't much opportunity for power savings from an application like this.
That's all great an all, but is anybody going to buy something from a link that has crazy ransom-note-like letters with random colors and digital noise all over the place? Not to mention the likely bad grammar and all of the other things that make spam risky. Sometimes I think this image spam is just a way to try to make spam blocking researchers waste a lot of time with OCR software.
On the other hand, I wouldn't think people would click on regular spam either, so obviously I'm underestimating the stupidity of some people.
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Maybe they'll blow everyone's mind and release a game that isn't a FPS.
Nah, it'll never happen.
Here I thought they were talking about Neverwinter Nights and games like that. Whatever complaints you may have about the character builder and the like, you certainly can't fault them for having "very little story".
Honda's may not be butt ugly (it's not the Aztek or the xB at least), but they do lose points for always taking the most generic and boring styling decisions at every opportunity. If you ask someone to draw a "generic car", they're going to draw an Accord.
On the other hand, it won't rust like a rolled steel or cast iron burner, and unless you take your grill on the road a lot the physical strength won't matter as much as the corrosion resistance. I'd say the ceramic grid is likely a better technology, and I bet it's more expensive than the steel/cast iron version.
Since it's apparently made for Women, I'm guessing no.
More accurately, I'm betting they're using the case to dissipate heat (which is going to be tough when it's covered in pleather) so they really can't afford to stick any sort of high end graphics in there. I'm betting keeping that Core2 cool will be work enough. The 14 hour battery life is another good indication that it won't play games very well, although it looks like they managed that by not putting an optical drive on there and filling up half of the case with battery.
Well, I'm not sure how accurate alcohol testing is since it's typically mixed with other chemicals that can be beneficial or harmful. For instance, the benefits of the antioxidants in Red Wine outweigh the possible detriments of the alcohol when taken in moderation (on the order of half a glass a day IIRC).
I hated the D-Pad on the Dreamcast. It was so hard and angular that my thumb was sore in no time on it. In fact everything on that controller was hard and angular.
The most common method is to have your goods delivered to a vacant home. It won't work for anything that needs a signature, but that's how people have been abusing credit cards for years. Then you just casually walk by and pick up your package and nobody is the wiser.
Of course you gotta be quick about it and not use a house too many times or the police might catch on and stake it out--although all they can technically get you on is theft of the one item if you're careful.
Yeah, it's pretty freaky to read some of the ads in the back of comic books and women's magazines from the early 20s where they were touting Radium as some sort of miracle drug for whatever ails you.
Was that added in a patch? I'm scrolled out all of the way and I can still make out the individual treads on the tanks. You can't even see more than a quarter of an average base at a time because the screen is so tight.
Yeah, I was wondering who needed to meet some arrest quota that month.
Who actually buys porn on disc anymore? That's what the internet is for.
That's because you have to get the last two movies if you pick up the Trilogy box. They're reimbursing you for the time and effort of throwing away those discs.
I hope so too. Command and Conquer 3 has that same problem where you feel like you're scraping your nose on the ground because the camera is so tight. That screen size made sense when everybody was running 640x480, but at 1280x1204 it's just claustrophobic.
I don't work in the industry, but I have to say that $40M for a long haul power line sounds pretty cheap, especially when you give it the old anti-terr'ism spin. Personally, I'm impressed that they can run a cryogenic cable underneath NYC that cheaply.
You want Intel Graphics as a actual video card? You are aware that you can buy low end nVidia and ATI cards for less than $50 that will outperform them right?
Even as a person who has used Netflix for years now and absolutely love their service, I can say that if this is true they should be nailed to the wall over it. This is the sort of Patent System BS that must not be allowed to stand if we are to maintain our technology superiority as a country.
It's said that no great idea ever comes out of nowhere. All of the greats stood of the shoulders of giants. However, if people get it into their head to abuse the patent system like this, then there will be no shoulders to stand on and in the end no great achievements.
If the downlink is required to be 2Mbps to count as "broadband", I think the uplink should be a minimum of 512Kbps. Far too many people are stuck on lines that have 128Kbps up and far too easily saturate the uplink and bog the whole connection down.
Just one oberservation: Anything about 9/11 that relies mostly on eyewitness testimony of a small handful of people is utterly wrong. Eyewitnesses seeing "explosions in the basement" but yet still managing to stay alive are dubious at best. Did anybody ever ask them how they knew it was an explosion and how they knew where it was coming from? Was the answer "there was a loud noise", and "it seemed to come from underground"?
Well, as in legal.
Yeah, but what if it's the "state approved" translation that's horrible? You'd be up a creek. In this case, the horrible translation would be replaced by a much better one when someone realized they could do a better job. This happens a lot in the fansub community. Often the first translation is the worst because it's a rush job, but then a "HQ" fansubber will follow up and put out a solid translation.
You're going to need that week of battery life to compile just about anything of note on a 386-level CPU these days. 386 level is probably too much of a tradeoff IMHO, something that's say PII-400 level, while it won't last as long, wouldn't be handicapped by the CPU nearly as much and should still get at least a good solid day of continuous use. A PII-400 is enough oomph to browse the web for instance.
That depends. Laptops are saving power because presumably they're idle most of the time and this program can tell you which processes behave badly while "idle" (by, say, polling the HDD for no good reason). On a server presumably your machine spends very little time idle (since you're serving stuff), so there isn't much opportunity for power savings from an application like this.
That's all great an all, but is anybody going to buy something from a link that has crazy ransom-note-like letters with random colors and digital noise all over the place? Not to mention the likely bad grammar and all of the other things that make spam risky. Sometimes I think this image spam is just a way to try to make spam blocking researchers waste a lot of time with OCR software.
On the other hand, I wouldn't think people would click on regular spam either, so obviously I'm underestimating the stupidity of some people.
The only IE available on the Mac is IE 5 though, which isn't that great at displaying pages anymore.