If you switch to Teapot's ubuntu release, there's a hotkey to drop down to high dpi B&W mode, even with backlight full on. It's pretty great. I'm extremely pleased with mine running like this. FBreader(?) works very well for ebook duties. I wish the screen was available on other machines, it's really great tech. I do like the keyboard tech as well, but it's not as standout as the screen, I think.
That's why the SNES version is still my favourite. Non-race battle mode and no BS item wrangling. I wouldn't mind the new games so much if they just weighted best items to players in low positions but they give people in the back the entire god damned world and if you're in front you get bananas.
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=1562761 is the slickied thread, there's an in-thread wiki if you're not familiar with sd. It's only good for one person/one address, but I suppose if you ply students with free sodas you could get a bunch of keys.
Yes but now they're in Windows. That's the point and I'm sorry you don't get it but it is pretty nice. It's one thing if you can work with linux/bsd/osx/foo on the desktop but for those of us that can't, or don't want to, Windows progressing is only ever a good thing.
As far as the cost is concerned, there were numerous pre-order deals available and if you're a student or MSDNAA eligible you can get it for free or cheap as free. I picked up W7Pro/XP preorder for $80 iirc, and, not that I'd use it, it came with a vista license too. Some of my co-workers picked it up for $30 just because they had a.edu e-mail.
I'm not sure Valve is immune to the heat generated from some of the other DD services. Direct2Drive's recent per-week sales are now over. The buzz generated on slickdeals and the gamer forums I frequent was pretty high. I log in to steam last night and lo, they've got an extremely similar per-week deal going. It's even THQ games, which were what most people, again in my circles, were excited about on D2D. Titan Quest/SupCom/CoH/foo. I can't believe that's coincidence. If hope blizz does get into it, I want more ridiculously cheap games.
I agree, especially if you hold out for a slickdeal. I just helped my brother get set up with a core2quad dell vostro (not the SFF one). We maxed the ram out and put a monster video card in, it destroys his old machine, he's happy. I couldn't have built it from scratch as cheap as he got it, and certainly not if you include the massive widescreen ultrasharp that came with it.
Just avoid the extreme low-end and/or SFF machines. That's the only time you'll run into issues with prebuilt machines, ime.
In what way does Microsoft impede new computer technology?
Netbooks are the first thing that comes to mind for me. They're basically dictating specs to the mainstream OEMs. We don't have dual core atoms or screens of sane resolutions because the current extended XP license doesn't allow it.
I'm amazed that any of these projects make it out of brainstorming with the "need" for modern hardware. There's already ASICs/FPGAs of the Apple IIe and C64, why aren't there platforms being built around them? It seems like building something even with 386/486 industrial SBCs would make more sense, construct around off-the-shelf parts.
Wait a minute-- are you trying to claim that racing around a track at 100, 200 MPH in a tight crowd is easier, or requires less attention than cruising down the boulevard at 45? Really?
Indeed, I wonder if this will end up biting cable companies in the ass in the long term. In-home DVRs and slingbox-type devices are getting cheaper and cheaper. Will they go a-suing a customer for "excessive use of services" just to be overturned by their own case law?
I wouldn't mind a ctf_2fort_old that opens up the map a bit. Even after ~two years, it still feels cramped compared to qwtf. Might just be in my head, I guess. How hard is hammer to use anyway? TF2 needs some q2 maps ported.:3
Dell small business sometimes has better deals than the "consumer" side for the same hardware. Yeah the label is different sometimes, but the threads on slickdeals/fatwallet/foo will usually let you know which model corresponds to which. As far as crapware is concerned the dell decrapifier is now the PC decrapifier and one of the best free apps out there, everyone should use it before they do anything else on a prebuilt machine.
Unless you have a specific need- HTPC/Silent PC/foo. Just get wait for a slickdeal on a dell vostro. Up the ram and stick a real video card in there and you've got a sweet machine for less bucks and less work. Usually they come with a gigantic widescreen monitor, too. It's not 1998 anymore, BYO doesn't make sense most of the time.
Personally I think it's past due for someone to start regulating commercial diesel trucks.
They have been, for years now. The most recent upgrade in standards had drivers scrambling to buy tractors so they wouldn't have to put up with the lower MPG, sore running rigs.
I wonder if they're bringing this suit to try to scare GB into handing over all Duke IP. This comes awfully soon after their offer to purchase it outright for $30M.
Greetings from the People's Republic of Massachusetts!
We haven't had smoking in bars or restaurants for years and they just banned cigar bars. Even better, they're trying to go after PRIVATE CLUBS (VFW/Fraternal orders/foo) to ban smoking there! We don't have any transfat in Boston anymore, either. They're trying to ram through a bill that will require chain restaurants to put calorie information on the menu next to the item. I wonder how long it'll be before salt and caffeine taxes are levied. Time to open up a few smoke-easys and sell lard-fried cake doughnuts and percolated coffee.
...we need a law 'to get off your fat ass and walk a little' or a 'stop being such a spoiled whiney little bitch' law.
I'm about fourty minute's walk away from the general store. I don't mind the walking but the fact that I have to do it on a highway with no sidewalks is a bit frightening sometimes. This is in Massachusetts not Montana, god help the folks out in the deep nothing.
Maybe you can live free with a car. Up here hitching has been illegal for a long time and unless you live and work in downtown Boston there isn't any metro. Not having access to a vehicle in the states is an extreme handicap, the country is much too big and everything is spaced out far too much. Local shops don't exist and local jobs aren't far behind.
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If you switch to Teapot's ubuntu release, there's a hotkey to drop down to high dpi B&W mode, even with backlight full on. It's pretty great.
I'm extremely pleased with mine running like this. FBreader(?) works very well for ebook duties. I wish the screen was available on other machines, it's really great tech.
I do like the keyboard tech as well, but it's not as standout as the screen, I think.
That's why the SNES version is still my favourite. Non-race battle mode and no BS item wrangling.
I wouldn't mind the new games so much if they just weighted best items to players in low positions but they give people in the back the entire god damned world and if you're in front you get bananas.
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=1562761 is the slickied thread, there's an in-thread wiki if you're not familiar with sd. It's only good for one person/one address, but I suppose if you ply students with free sodas you could get a bunch of keys.
Yes but now they're in Windows. That's the point and I'm sorry you don't get it but it is pretty nice.
It's one thing if you can work with linux/bsd/osx/foo on the desktop but for those of us that can't, or don't want to, Windows progressing is only ever a good thing.
As far as the cost is concerned, there were numerous pre-order deals available and if you're a student or MSDNAA eligible you can get it for free or cheap as free. I picked up W7Pro/XP preorder for $80 iirc, and, not that I'd use it, it came with a vista license too. Some of my co-workers picked it up for $30 just because they had a .edu e-mail.
I'm not sure Valve is immune to the heat generated from some of the other DD services. Direct2Drive's recent per-week sales are now over. The buzz generated on slickdeals and the gamer forums I frequent was pretty high. I log in to steam last night and lo, they've got an extremely similar per-week deal going. It's even THQ games, which were what most people, again in my circles, were excited about on D2D. Titan Quest/SupCom/CoH/foo.
I can't believe that's coincidence. If hope blizz does get into it, I want more ridiculously cheap games.
I agree, especially if you hold out for a slickdeal. I just helped my brother get set up with a core2quad dell vostro (not the SFF one). We maxed the ram out and put a monster video card in, it destroys his old machine, he's happy.
I couldn't have built it from scratch as cheap as he got it, and certainly not if you include the massive widescreen ultrasharp that came with it.
Just avoid the extreme low-end and/or SFF machines. That's the only time you'll run into issues with prebuilt machines, ime.
Denny's serves meat now?
Netbooks are the first thing that comes to mind for me. They're basically dictating specs to the mainstream OEMs.
We don't have dual core atoms or screens of sane resolutions because the current extended XP license doesn't allow it.
I'm amazed that any of these projects make it out of brainstorming with the "need" for modern hardware. There's already ASICs/FPGAs of the Apple IIe and C64, why aren't there platforms being built around them? It seems like building something even with 386/486 industrial SBCs would make more sense, construct around off-the-shelf parts.
Yes, but only for Michael Schumacher.
Indeed, I wonder if this will end up biting cable companies in the ass in the long term. In-home DVRs and slingbox-type devices are getting cheaper and cheaper. Will they go a-suing a customer for "excessive use of services" just to be overturned by their own case law?
I wouldn't mind a ctf_2fort_old that opens up the map a bit. Even after ~two years, it still feels cramped compared to qwtf. Might just be in my head, I guess. :3
How hard is hammer to use anyway? TF2 needs some q2 maps ported.
...go on.
Family Guy is more like the MASH of our generation. Will Seth get a horrible science telezine in his elder years?
What I want to know is where are all these kids getting all these iPhones? Why the hell do they have them in the first place?
Indeed. Didn't they announce a map editor/sdk for L4D before launch? Where the hell is that?
Dell small business sometimes has better deals than the "consumer" side for the same hardware. Yeah the label is different sometimes, but the threads on slickdeals/fatwallet/foo will usually let you know which model corresponds to which.
As far as crapware is concerned the dell decrapifier is now the PC decrapifier and one of the best free apps out there, everyone should use it before they do anything else on a prebuilt machine.
Unless you have a specific need- HTPC/Silent PC/foo. Just get wait for a slickdeal on a dell vostro. Up the ram and stick a real video card in there and you've got a sweet machine for less bucks and less work. Usually they come with a gigantic widescreen monitor, too.
It's not 1998 anymore, BYO doesn't make sense most of the time.
"Only thing a wino is afraid of is running out of wine."
They have been, for years now. The most recent upgrade in standards had drivers scrambling to buy tractors so they wouldn't have to put up with the lower MPG, sore running rigs.
Only when I run out
I wonder if they're bringing this suit to try to scare GB into handing over all Duke IP. This comes awfully soon after their offer to purchase it outright for $30M.
Greetings from the People's Republic of Massachusetts!
We haven't had smoking in bars or restaurants for years and they just banned cigar bars. Even better, they're trying to go after PRIVATE CLUBS (VFW/Fraternal orders/foo) to ban smoking there! We don't have any transfat in Boston anymore, either. They're trying to ram through a bill that will require chain restaurants to put calorie information on the menu next to the item. I wonder how long it'll be before salt and caffeine taxes are levied.
Time to open up a few smoke-easys and sell lard-fried cake doughnuts and percolated coffee.
I'm about fourty minute's walk away from the general store. I don't mind the walking but the fact that I have to do it on a highway with no sidewalks is a bit frightening sometimes.
This is in Massachusetts not Montana, god help the folks out in the deep nothing.
Maybe you can live free with a car. Up here hitching has been illegal for a long time and unless you live and work in downtown Boston there isn't any metro. Not having access to a vehicle in the states is an extreme handicap, the country is much too big and everything is spaced out far too much. Local shops don't exist and local jobs aren't far behind.
This comes up every so often and I post these links every time I notice it:
IBM Metapad. It was a modular computing concept device and I've been waiting for it to become real since I first heard about it.
http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableComputing/MetaPad/metapad.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/technology/designconsulting/port_metapad.html
You want a PDA? Netbook? Desktop? It's all three~