I've been a user for years, even donated a few bucks here and there to make up for my use of the free services. Great company, crazy fast service, easy to use website.
I'm running teapot's ubuntu on mine. It's a great little machine but I'm hoping they decide to sell the 1.5 logic boards bare, it'd be infinitely more usable imo. The screen is the best tech to come out of the project, I wish other OEMs would license it. It's amazing even in bright sunlight.
The proverbial "99c game" will be cracked because crackers crack. If it's 99c, it'll sell like mad, even if the game is horrible. When the game prices are good, whether on gogamer or a steam sale, I buy the game. No game is worth $60 to me. Torchlight is the perfect example, great game, right price. I bought it when the price was higher and wasn't even mad when it went down to $5 on sale. On the contrary, I told friends to go pick it up! Even games I've already purchased, I'll buy again if they're on steam and cheap. UT, Q4, CoH, etc. Just for the ease of installation factor.
PBS is slowly becoming as bad as Discovery/History. Nova/The News Hour/Frontline is only a few hours a week. The whole of the rest of the scheduling can be pretty grating sometimes. My local station, WGBH, is considered one of the best ones and it's been showing just horrid, infomercial-style lectures on both WGBH-2 and WGBX-44. WGBX-44.4 seems like the Alan Alda channel. Maybe I'm just hitting it at the wrong times but I can only take so much Antiques Roadshow, concert repeats and whatever else. As far as the newer stuff, I actually don't mind Nova Science Now, feels like Prof. Kaku's Science Fantastic, if a little more mainstream. I don't like its short radio sister, though, that's far too watered down.
How about we get the 1.5 and 1.75 boards/machines shipping before this absolutely insane concept gets press releases. Looking at the specs and mockups, I think Ol' Nick has completely lost it. He's doing more damage to an already ailing charity, someone needs to shut him up.
OLPC owner here- It's only "more" is on the hardware side. Its software, even now, is a complete mess of unimplemented or half-implemented features. I actually really love the machine and it's too bad. Especially now with the XO-2 announced and the XO-1.5 coming soon, I can't see anyone putting much more work into the software. Realistically, 1.5 and 2 are both going to be XP machines... One of the big boys *needs* to license the LCD tech, it has to be seen to be believed. If there were another laptop equipped with a like panel, I'd be all over it.
Tycho said it best, "...there are lessons about what makes for good play still bottled up in Duke Nukem 3D, lessons haven't truly informed the last thirteen years of industry progress." If anything at all comes from the DNF fiasco, I hope that some younger gamers (and developers!) go back and give D3D a playthrough. Maybe it's not as great as we remember but it sure as hell deserved a better fate than it got.
But meh manufacturing. I think that's what a lot of these lower end notebooks are missing these days.
That's a feature, not a bug. There's a reason you can go get a subnoteb^Wnetbook at the local walmart for $199 when "real" subnotebooks still start at over $1k. Netbooks cost nothing to make, sell for nothing and are throwaway gadget machines.
Pretty much the whole DV line top to bottom was a mess. I see them rather often with power issues, dead/dying motherboards, dead mini-pcie slots, dead backlights, the DC jacks are held on with spit and hope. I know there's an extended support advisory for some of the models but out of the hundred+ I've checked only a few were on the list. I know nvidia problems didn't help HP over the last few years, but there's too many non-video/chipset related problems for me to just blame nvidia.
Don't feel too bad, every console is network aware now. Launching early, and patching to playability (or not) will be standard fare for them soon enough.
The keyboard on the XO isn't very good unless you've got small hands or play piano, I can touch type on it. It's no model m.:P The alphasmart's keyboard is one of the best ones I've used in a portable device.
Save yourself a lot of money and get an Alphasmart Dana off ebay. Or if it absolutely has to be emacs, an XO-1. They're both ridiculous cheap for what they are.
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FSC smokes just taste bad, none of my regular brands made the transition without being "off". I've quit cigs because of it.
I've been a user for years, even donated a few bucks here and there to make up for my use of the free services. Great company, crazy fast service, easy to use website.
Have people wait in lines for days and sell out.
I'm running teapot's ubuntu on mine. It's a great little machine but I'm hoping they decide to sell the 1.5 logic boards bare, it'd be infinitely more usable imo.
The screen is the best tech to come out of the project, I wish other OEMs would license it. It's amazing even in bright sunlight.
Just make sure that you hit the thrusters at the right moment or you won't be able to escape the sun's gravity for the slingshot.
I'm not saying you can have a better time with Colt 45 than without it... but why take chances?
The proverbial "99c game" will be cracked because crackers crack. If it's 99c, it'll sell like mad, even if the game is horrible.
When the game prices are good, whether on gogamer or a steam sale, I buy the game. No game is worth $60 to me. Torchlight is the perfect example, great game, right price. I bought it when the price was higher and wasn't even mad when it went down to $5 on sale. On the contrary, I told friends to go pick it up!
Even games I've already purchased, I'll buy again if they're on steam and cheap. UT, Q4, CoH, etc. Just for the ease of installation factor.
The few British cameramen I know can't hold steady until *after* they've had their few pints for breakfast.
Five-wanged vixen/dragon/Na'vi hybrid of eternal lactation looking for a good time, yaff~
PBS is slowly becoming as bad as Discovery/History.
Nova/The News Hour/Frontline is only a few hours a week. The whole of the rest of the scheduling can be pretty grating sometimes. My local station, WGBH, is considered one of the best ones and it's been showing just horrid, infomercial-style lectures on both WGBH-2 and WGBX-44. WGBX-44.4 seems like the Alan Alda channel.
Maybe I'm just hitting it at the wrong times but I can only take so much Antiques Roadshow, concert repeats and whatever else. As far as the newer stuff, I actually don't mind Nova Science Now, feels like Prof. Kaku's Science Fantastic, if a little more mainstream. I don't like its short radio sister, though, that's far too watered down.
How about we get the 1.5 and 1.75 boards/machines shipping before this absolutely insane concept gets press releases. Looking at the specs and mockups, I think Ol' Nick has completely lost it. He's doing more damage to an already ailing charity, someone needs to shut him up.
OLPC owner here-
It's only "more" is on the hardware side. Its software, even now, is a complete mess of unimplemented or half-implemented features. I actually really love the machine and it's too bad. Especially now with the XO-2 announced and the XO-1.5 coming soon, I can't see anyone putting much more work into the software. Realistically, 1.5 and 2 are both going to be XP machines...
One of the big boys *needs* to license the LCD tech, it has to be seen to be believed. If there were another laptop equipped with a like panel, I'd be all over it.
Tycho said it best, "...there are lessons about what makes for good play still bottled up in Duke Nukem 3D, lessons haven't truly informed the last thirteen years of industry progress." If anything at all comes from the DNF fiasco, I hope that some younger gamers (and developers!) go back and give D3D a playthrough.
Maybe it's not as great as we remember but it sure as hell deserved a better fate than it got.
That's a feature, not a bug. There's a reason you can go get a subnoteb^Wnetbook at the local walmart for $199 when "real" subnotebooks still start at over $1k. Netbooks cost nothing to make, sell for nothing and are throwaway gadget machines.
Tell that to Digital.
I drink when I'm *at* work, I'm certainly not changing that when I'm on-call!
Pretty much the whole DV line top to bottom was a mess. I see them rather often with power issues, dead/dying motherboards, dead mini-pcie slots, dead backlights, the DC jacks are held on with spit and hope. I know there's an extended support advisory for some of the models but out of the hundred+ I've checked only a few were on the list.
I know nvidia problems didn't help HP over the last few years, but there's too many non-video/chipset related problems for me to just blame nvidia.
Don't feel too bad, every console is network aware now. Launching early, and patching to playability (or not) will be standard fare for them soon enough.
Nah, no we won't.
It's a great idea, as long as I can disable the phone part. Don't want my Ultimate Wizard game interrupted.
The keyboard on the XO isn't very good unless you've got small hands or play piano, I can touch type on it. It's no model m. :P
The alphasmart's keyboard is one of the best ones I've used in a portable device.
Save yourself a lot of money and get an Alphasmart Dana off ebay.
Or if it absolutely has to be emacs, an XO-1. They're both ridiculous cheap for what they are.
They made more than two?
Are you short and heavy?
...only if she's 5'3"