A couple of decades ago I ran a cyberpunk RPG game and my players would get really pissed at me when they were "hacking into the Gibson" on factory produced systems and there heads would explode. Then we'd have an argument about why they thought that a corporation that had all the power to do what it wants wouldn't just build in a real kill switch.
We aren't there yet, but year by year I feel more vindicated by my argument.
I've got an old work system that supports three monitors with a GF9400GT and the intel onboard (G41) port. Also had an ancient Athlon 1.2GHz system that supported three monitors with a GF2MX and a Voodoo Banshee PCI card. In a galaxy long ago we set up a UT99 "system" that ran 4 monitors so you could see behind you. That was pretty awesome. I'm glad that today (13 years later) the kids can experience it.
Look, if Kal-El wants to fuck another Kryptonian or some other consenting superhero that can resist his hypersonic ejaculation... well I don't really care. Otherwise it's murder.
This has nothing to do with CO2 emisions, I don't think republicans are supposed to believe in CO2 and they certainly don't believe in some hippy-dippy "biosphere" that humans could affect.
It is however a possibly good way to target taxes at people that are considering not filling oil companies' coffers and, by way of extention, paying the tax on that which "pays for the roads." This tax is then used to bribe state governments so that they will enact state laws and regulations that the Supreme Court has (or will likely) deem their right to decide.
Or it could just be an attempt to remind republicans that a good citizen consumes conspicuously.
It might be fine to ride a bicycle in a club or for health reasons, but only if you have to drive your truck to the meet up point or trail (you wouldn't mount a bike carrier to your Mercedes afterall) and wear specialy purchased clothing while you do so.
It is, however, completely disgraceful to use a bicycle for transportation. Goodness, you'd look like a chinese laborer.
A 17" laptop isn't a "luggable". That name is already used for regular PCs with a case designed for carrying. Think Osborn or IBM Portable PC. Modern Luggables usually encorporate ATX boards or at least allow the use of Desktop Cards, RAID, etc...
I've watched some of the SSoHPKC walkthroughs and it doesn't seem too insane. Established youtube channel with ads and 10k-50k views per 10 minute spot. Sounds like better ratings than what some of my local TV stations get.
Actualy, because we stopped using it indiscriminately on crops, road ditches, and everydamn thing you could hit with a nozzle, it has become more effective today. But if we go back to using it indiscriminately the problem will resurface more quickly than if we just use it to spray mosquito nets. If DEET is losing its effectiveness, it just proves the point that shit evolves.
Its just like using Ampicillin for every biotic infection. You have to pick your battle.
What we really need to do is figure out what makes my stepdad immune to mosquitos. Freaky dude never gets bit and he lived in Florida for 10 years.
That was my first thought and preconception, but Top Gear UK are some dumbasses that are fun to watch spout ideas about what makes a "good" car. They carp about the "fit and finish" of US cars, "ooo look it has a squeeky plastic dashboard" "leafsprings!" then go on about how great an Earl Shribe baby blue painted Austin looks fabulous. Then Jeremy shreds some multi thousand dollar tires on a custom AMG Merc and blames the car. That's Top Gear.
Anybody but Elon Musk would know what TopGearUK is. So he sued them and lost. And since he has no sense of humor he tried more serious and newsworthy advertisments.
The NYT is supposed to be serious and newsworthy, and it looks like (best case) this asshat did poor due diligence on his roadtest and tried to skate on it. (Worst case) this jackass is hiding his hatred for the car by sabotaging the test. I'm inclined to blame incompitence over conspiracy.
No I saw it, Zombieland had fast-ish zombies. Umbrella corp made super giant zombies with big axes. I Am Hero had nasty fast zombies.
But your basic zombie (NOTLD / Walking Dead) is just an infectious walking corpse. Somehow the crows (that are all immune from what I can tell) don't just peck all their eyeballs out. Everyone runs around in guinea tshirts and shorts and everyone acts all surprised that a biter got 'em.
Indeed, more is definitley better. If you own 5 monitors scattered over a couple of PCs and a couple of laptops (pretty conservative here) . Between cheap old dual head cards that you certainly already own, Synergy (google that if you have to), and/or Zonescreen ( everyone really needs this, it even works with my HP touchpad) you can get that evil genius wall of data effect.:)
And now you have a project that will kill your weekend.
When my eyeballs were young I used a nice Dell p1110 (rebranded Sony Trinitron 20") at 1800x1440 and a cheaper 19" CRT at 1600x1200.Back then if I wanted to read the text printed on a CPU die then it wasn't a prob...
Over a decade later I need reading glasses. The solution was to get bigger monitors a push them to the the back of my desk or even mount 'em on the wall. My current perfered setup is to use 3 largish but still fairly cheap 1080p monitors with > 1 meter between eyeball and screen.
Sometimes I miss the higher resolution of the old Dell/Sony CRT but the modern setup uses no space on my desk at all. and 1080p is cheap enough to do 3 monitors which makes up for it..
If you are young and briliant you have a choice, help the world or help yourself and become filthy rich. Of course choosing the second leaves the option of later forming a massive foundation to help other people make the world a better place than you would if you chose the "good" option. And you still got to be rich.
Though now you could just 3d print a a plinking round out of a polymer. The gyrojet was a design that became expensive to fire because the rounds were banned from production. They were banned because they were classed as destructive devices by being above 50 cal.
Sound's like they have a city ordinance against sub-letting and devote city inspector resources to enforcing it. I think they also require a licence to operate a bnb, but that would require you to own the property if they don't allow sub-leases... I guess.
Sounds like a law that could be handled better as a contract clause.
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A couple of decades ago I ran a cyberpunk RPG game and my players would get really pissed at me when they were "hacking into the Gibson" on factory produced systems and there heads would explode. Then we'd have an argument about why they thought that a corporation that had all the power to do what it wants wouldn't just build in a real kill switch.
We aren't there yet, but year by year I feel more vindicated by my argument.
I've got an old work system that supports three monitors with a GF9400GT and the intel onboard (G41) port. Also had an ancient Athlon 1.2GHz system that supported three monitors with a GF2MX and a Voodoo Banshee PCI card. In a galaxy long ago we set up a UT99 "system" that ran 4 monitors so you could see behind you. That was pretty awesome. I'm glad that today (13 years later) the kids can experience it.
Look, if Kal-El wants to fuck another Kryptonian or some other consenting superhero that can resist his hypersonic ejaculation... well I don't really care. Otherwise it's murder.
This has nothing to do with CO2 emisions, I don't think republicans are supposed to believe in CO2 and they certainly don't believe in some hippy-dippy "biosphere" that humans could affect.
It is however a possibly good way to target taxes at people that are considering not filling oil companies' coffers and, by way of extention, paying the tax on that which "pays for the roads." This tax is then used to bribe state governments so that they will enact state laws and regulations that the Supreme Court has (or will likely) deem their right to decide.
Or it could just be an attempt to remind republicans that a good citizen consumes conspicuously.
It might be fine to ride a bicycle in a club or for health reasons, but only if you have to drive your truck to the meet up point or trail (you wouldn't mount a bike carrier to your Mercedes afterall) and wear specialy purchased clothing while you do so.
It is, however, completely disgraceful to use a bicycle for transportation. Goodness, you'd look like a chinese laborer.
A 17" laptop isn't a "luggable". That name is already used for regular PCs with a case designed for carrying. Think Osborn or IBM Portable PC. Modern Luggables usually encorporate ATX boards or at least allow the use of Desktop Cards, RAID, etc...
Here's an example...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chassis-plans-mp3x17-fnt-obl-open-1280.jpg
I've watched some of the SSoHPKC walkthroughs and it doesn't seem too insane. Established youtube channel with ads and 10k-50k views per 10 minute spot. Sounds like better ratings than what some of my local TV stations get.
Actualy, because we stopped using it indiscriminately on crops, road ditches, and everydamn thing you could hit with a nozzle, it has become more effective today. But if we go back to using it indiscriminately the problem will resurface more quickly than if we just use it to spray mosquito nets. If DEET is losing its effectiveness, it just proves the point that shit evolves.
Its just like using Ampicillin for every biotic infection. You have to pick your battle.
What we really need to do is figure out what makes my stepdad immune to mosquitos. Freaky dude never gets bit and he lived in Florida for 10 years.
The People for the Eating of Tastey Animals oppose DEET because it makes mosquitos taste funny when fried in lard.
Maybe making stupid people more stupid is a good thing. Seemed to work for the Morlocks and Eloi.
"MCA-Wire"
PCI was such a hack, good to see were getting back to our roots.
The PC is dead, long live the king!
That was my first thought and preconception, but Top Gear UK are some dumbasses that are fun to watch spout ideas about what makes a "good" car. They carp about the "fit and finish" of US cars, "ooo look it has a squeeky plastic dashboard" "leafsprings!" then go on about how great an Earl Shribe baby blue painted Austin looks fabulous. Then Jeremy shreds some multi thousand dollar tires on a custom AMG Merc and blames the car. That's Top Gear.
Anybody but Elon Musk would know what TopGearUK is. So he sued them and lost. And since he has no sense of humor he tried more serious and newsworthy advertisments.
The NYT is supposed to be serious and newsworthy, and it looks like (best case) this asshat did poor due diligence on his roadtest and tried to skate on it. (Worst case) this jackass is hiding his hatred for the car by sabotaging the test. I'm inclined to blame incompitence over conspiracy.
No I saw it, Zombieland had fast-ish zombies. Umbrella corp made super giant zombies with big axes. I Am Hero had nasty fast zombies.
But your basic zombie (NOTLD / Walking Dead) is just an infectious walking corpse. Somehow the crows (that are all immune from what I can tell) don't just peck all their eyeballs out. Everyone runs around in guinea tshirts and shorts and everyone acts all surprised that a biter got 'em.
It's a tardfest.
If you need cheap monitors Goodwill has tons of them for $20. A perfectly good 15" LCD will set you back $8-12.
Very nice. thanks for the info.
Somebody mod this up.
Nothing wrong with it. I'm sure you'll make do.
No the solution is to go with 3 monitors. More is better.
Indeed, more is definitley better. If you own 5 monitors scattered over a couple of PCs and a couple of laptops (pretty conservative here) . Between cheap old dual head cards that you certainly already own, Synergy (google that if you have to), and/or Zonescreen ( everyone really needs this, it even works with my HP touchpad) you can get that evil genius wall of data effect. :)
And now you have a project that will kill your weekend.
No one will ever need more than 640 pixels...
Zing!
When my eyeballs were young I used a nice Dell p1110 (rebranded Sony Trinitron 20") at 1800x1440 and a cheaper 19" CRT at 1600x1200.Back then if I wanted to read the text printed on a CPU die then it wasn't a prob...
Over a decade later I need reading glasses. The solution was to get bigger monitors a push them to the the back of my desk or even mount 'em on the wall. My current perfered setup is to use 3 largish but still fairly cheap 1080p monitors with > 1 meter between eyeball and screen.
Sometimes I miss the higher resolution of the old Dell/Sony CRT but the modern setup uses no space on my desk at all. and 1080p is cheap enough to do 3 monitors which makes up for it..
If you are young and briliant you have a choice, help the world or help yourself and become filthy rich. Of course choosing the second leaves the option of later forming a massive foundation to help other people make the world a better place than you would if you chose the "good" option. And you still got to be rich.
But if you can get them up stairs withith you you can outrun them downstairs... Oh wait that's bears and cows. Zombies you just walk away from.
I wanna do a movie where the survivors wear ripstop nylon (or something similar) to stop bites while they sleep and just out walk the zombies.
Though now you could just 3d print a a plinking round out of a polymer. The gyrojet was a design that became expensive to fire because the rounds were banned from production. They were banned because they were classed as destructive devices by being above 50 cal.
Sound's like they have a city ordinance against sub-letting and devote city inspector resources to enforcing it. I think they also require a licence to operate a bnb, but that would require you to own the property if they don't allow sub-leases... I guess.
Sounds like a law that could be handled better as a contract clause.
You ever been to Titusville?