Actually, I imagine that this technology will turn the casemod industry on its ear. You certainly wouldn't want your cold cathode lamp interfering with your CPU operation. No strobe lights in your case. The CPU die will be using photons rather than electrons, so no doubt the CPU will be MUCH cooler, and there will be no need for watercooling or peltiers. Windows on the side of cases may disappear, because you wouldn't want someone to use flash photography and make your PC lock up.
This pretty much sums up my take on the whole case modding thing: Your PC case should be square, and grey, and shoved in a corner where nobody can see it. If you want to impress me, do it with code.
Where you laugh, I cry. Our director of IT got a virus on her laptop and started spreading it around the company. When I got one of the emails, I looked at the header, found the originating IP address and tracked it back to her machine. She proclaimed "It didn't come from me, it came from finance first."
Well, they just made the charter public, and they had more than one company agree to it. Now if any one company does anything that violates these guidelines, the other companies will initiate legal actions (It's in there, RTFPDF). Plus, they will be up for public humiliation by the press, which results in (you guessed it), lost profits!
You are right, the story does seem to mimic Half-Life. Every good FPS since Half-Life has had the same formula too. You're an average guy just minding your own businees, going about your everyday work when some event happens and causes you to fight for your life. You progress through the game collecting weapons, ammo, skills, whatever, and at some point in the game you lose consciousness, get captured, whatever, and LOSE all your great stuff. You then struggle a little more and eventually find your stuff, or more just like it, and a BFG.
There, follow this formula and I guarantee you a Game of the Year Sticker on your box.
I sometimes get together with some friends for dinner and drinks at a local restaurant, which has a few TVs around the bar. Whenever I sit facing the TV, I am sometimes drawn to it, even though it is usually displaying sports (which I don't even watch on my own television). It's not that the volume is too loud/quiet, or that the TV is on the wrong station, or even the fact that the TV is *ON* that bothers me.... It's the fact that it has about 5 inches of vertical foldover that really drives me nuts. I *KNOW* I can fix it if I could just get up there with a screwdriver....
One of the funniest changes couldn't really be seen in a screenshot. At the end of Return of the Jedi, the second death star is destroyed, and all the worlds rejoice in their freedom from the evil empire. We see scenes from Corusant, Endor, and a new shot of Naboo. With subtitles turned on, all the people of Naboo are in the streets partying, and the subtitles say "Weesa free!"
I know exactly what you mean. Dell just uses poor hard drives in almost all of its desktops. Most of the defective drives I have replaced from dells were Quantum Fireballs, and they have ALWAYS been failure prone. A couple others have been IBM Deskstars (does anyone remember the phrase Death-star?). I just can't imagine the drives going bad so often if they had used Good Seagate or WD hard disks.
All your incandescent bulbs are being replaced with Flourescent, neon, and LED lamps. Also, the days of your motion picture projector are limited with the dawning of totally digital motion pictures. Please give our regards Mr. Tesla.
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It's OK if you have a deep personal relationship with your Macintosh....
You PAID for it.
Actually, I imagine that this technology will turn the casemod industry on its ear. You certainly wouldn't want your cold cathode lamp interfering with your CPU operation. No strobe lights in your case. The CPU die will be using photons rather than electrons, so no doubt the CPU will be MUCH cooler, and there will be no need for watercooling or peltiers. Windows on the side of cases may disappear, because you wouldn't want someone to use flash photography and make your PC lock up.
This pretty much sums up my take on the whole case modding thing: Your PC case should be square, and grey, and shoved in a corner where nobody can see it. If you want to impress me, do it with code.
Where you laugh, I cry.
Our director of IT got a virus on her laptop and started spreading it around the company. When I got one of the emails, I looked at the header, found the originating IP address and tracked it back to her machine. She proclaimed "It didn't come from me, it came from finance first."
"My killbot has lotus notes and a machine gun."
House of the dead.
Well, they just made the charter public, and they had more than one company agree to it. Now if any one company does anything that violates these guidelines, the other companies will initiate legal actions (It's in there, RTFPDF). Plus, they will be up for public humiliation by the press, which results in (you guessed it), lost profits!
You are right, the story does seem to mimic Half-Life. Every good FPS since Half-Life has had the same formula too.
You're an average guy just minding your own businees, going about your everyday work when some event happens and causes you to fight for your life. You progress through the game collecting weapons, ammo, skills, whatever, and at some point in the game you lose consciousness, get captured, whatever, and LOSE all your great stuff. You then struggle a little more and eventually find your stuff, or more just like it, and a BFG.
There, follow this formula and I guarantee you a Game of the Year Sticker on your box.
Maybe I do.
I sometimes get together with some friends for dinner and drinks at a local restaurant, which has a few TVs around the bar. Whenever I sit facing the TV, I am sometimes drawn to it, even though it is usually displaying sports (which I don't even watch on my own television). It's not that the volume is too loud/quiet, or that the TV is on the wrong station, or even the fact that the TV is *ON* that bothers me.... It's the fact that it has about 5 inches of vertical foldover that really drives me nuts. I *KNOW* I can fix it if I could just get up there with a screwdriver....
Did he say Digum? I vaguely remember some sort of sugar smacks frog saying that....
...and yet they still can't make them go straight when you push 'em.
But it takes a rocket scientist to really screw things up.
One of the funniest changes couldn't really be seen in a screenshot. At the end of Return of the Jedi, the second death star is destroyed, and all the worlds rejoice in their freedom from the evil empire. We see scenes from Corusant, Endor, and a new shot of Naboo. With subtitles turned on, all the people of Naboo are in the streets partying, and the subtitles say "Weesa free!"
I laughed my assa offa!
Now connect it to a robot, and have a virtual human.
I know exactly what you mean. Dell just uses poor hard drives in almost all of its desktops. Most of the defective drives I have replaced from dells were Quantum Fireballs, and they have ALWAYS been failure prone. A couple others have been IBM Deskstars (does anyone remember the phrase Death-star?). I just can't imagine the drives going bad so often if they had used Good Seagate or WD hard disks.
But without beer and TV, what will I drink and watch all day?
Just turn on the Air Conditioning. That always works for me.
Well, it did lock up once...
I would inflate it with a giant Fix-a-Flat can.
The goggles do nothing!
I thought the LaBrea Tarpit had been around for millions of years....
Whippersnappers!
Dear Thomas Edison,
All your incandescent bulbs are being replaced with Flourescent, neon, and LED lamps. Also, the days of your motion picture projector are limited with the dawning of totally digital motion pictures.
Please give our regards Mr. Tesla.
Yours Truly,
The Future.
A level 5 computer today will no longer be a level 5 computer in 5 years. Do we just come up with a different numbering system then?
Maybe each system should be ranked by its PERFORMANCE (MIPS), and not some arbitrary numbering system.