I don't know about you guys, but nothing beats the Arizona Tea Energy drink. You know, in the 20oz can....99 cents at the store. It's cheap and it tastes great (asst fruits and green tea). Not only that, but it's loaded with all sorts of energy boosters. I don't know that it has as much kick as some of the other products, but it quenches your thirst, give you a boost, it's dirt cheap, and tastes great all at once (something I've yet to see with any other product).
Actually, it wouldn't. More and more of the government sector is going towards standardized SGML documentation. In fact, many important documents that are being created in word are being converted to SGML for documentation purposes. So, in fact, it would take nothing more than a few extra tags for sensitive information.
Well, if you guys think Logitech keyboards are any better (and generally they're worse to be honest), you don't know keyboards. I'm using the first decent keyboard I've found to buy in years. It's an Intcomex. I has one of the most natural ergonomic splits I've ever used and the keys are nearly as sturdy as an old 80's big blue keyboard.
Of course, if you're typing anywhere under 50WPM you could probably use one of those roll up, travel jelly keyboards and be fine. But if you're a real typer, you're not going to be happy with many consumer keyboards.
And, for the record, MS mice are great. Better than Logitech for me and many in my office because they seem to fit our hands while the Logitech ones tend to be a little small and unergonomic.
If there's one thing I learned from Magic: the Gathering it's that Forking will never make you any friends. It's also illegal and banned under type II rules.
Just like a Red Hat deck...always stacking, full of burn, and ready to screw over the entire community with a 20 point forked Fireball...
Maybe this'll force the price of all the other cards in the market down low enough to where I can soup up my computer on the cheap. Those 5900's are looking pretty nice right about now...
At last count, the X-Box still sucks and there's still more worthy games on the Gamecube. I guess if you like shooters, the X-Box wins there. It also has Ninja Gaiden, an amazing game. But, other than that I still can't find any compelling reasons to own one other than to hack it.
I own as many Gamecube games as I own PS2 games. What it lacks in quantity it more than makes up for in quality, IMO.
I think the next gen of systems, when the battlegrounds are evened out and all systems can maximize the graphics potential of HDTV's, all systems support 5.1, and all systems are optimised and ready (out of the box) for online play, then things will be evened out. Microsoft's main advantage now is online play and HDTV support. Next gen, that will be gone. PS2 will still have the backing of major publishers and Nintendo will still be the powerhouse of the game development world. Microsoft better have a plan, or it's gonna be in distant 3rd real quick...
I really like the concept of a multimedia oriented motherboard.
And, if it wasn't for the fact that I have a modded X-Box that I paid $125 that, for the most part, does all of this except for tv tuning and has the added advantage of playing X-Box games as well. By the time I build this mobo into a case, it's gonna be the same size as an X-Box too...
The review hit the nail on the head, though. If they did the same thing, but made it micro-ATX and threw on on-board wifi, people would jump on it. I know I'm looking for a small multimedia hub for the bedroom. Heck, I don't even want to put a hard drive in it. I just want a shell that will pull stuff off my main PC.
I was about to say...rich bastard. I was pimpin' 3.1 on 4mb of RAM. Eventually upgraded to 8MB of RAM, which set me back about $200...as did that 4x Sun Moon cd-drive upgrade. But, heck, back when you only had a 1gb hd, you had to have a 4x drive. It's not like you could install a cd's worth of information on your computer. That would be INSANE!
EV1 is deciding to pay up front now to avoid legal fees and press. However, once multiple people are sued, it's brought to court and the court finds SCO's claims completely ludicrious (which they are), all the companies that have paid up to SCO are going to be able to reclaim damages paid to SCO under false pretenses. In actuality, I would think that companies that were giving bad press from SCO, such as EV1, may be able to collect some kind of damages.
I'm not a lawyer and I'm just speaking what I'd see as common sense...so, it's just my 2 cents...
Got you all beat. I live in Orlando and our annual average is around 45" a year. Lightning storms like crazy to boot. But, honestly, the "bad" weather is just about the only part of Florida that I actually find "good." There's nothing more soothing than I nice, long thunderstorm...
...by the RIAA. You get it through Kazaa, it discourages people to download music (or at least potentially wrecks havok on the users computer), and it gets automatically blamed on linux nerds (most of all which support file sharing) because it blocks www.SCO.com.
I gotta give the RIAA credit...brilliant, brilliant work...
I've been looking into getting one of the newer minidisc/mp3 players anyway, so getting one that holds 1gb is great for me.
Why is the minidisc great? * - You can quickly put music and mp3's on it (32x write on the current gen ones). * - Current gen discs hold 5 hours worth of music a disk. The newer discs will hold approx 50 hours. * - They are rewritable. * - The discs can't be scratched * - You can use md players as pocket voice recorders * - Small size * - More reliable than hard-drive solutions * - Less access time / less skipping than cd/dvd solutions.
Sure, the media costs a little bit more than a cd or a dvd, but it's designed for those who want to quickly throw a bunch of songs on a device to go. Sure, you can backup your whole collection onto a series of discs too...but if you're looking to have your whole collection in your hands and you hate media...yeah, you need a hd player.
Like the orriginal minidisc, this will be a solution that a niche audience will love. Personally, I will use it exclusively. And, if nothing else, it gives you a third format option...ATRACK.
Okay Tom....great idea, I love the fbuck's concept. But just the concept....
See, to make it work you have to have VALID prices for your hardware. I want to know WHERE IN THE WORLD you can get a TI4600 for $65. If you go to www.bizrate.com, his source (btw, why not pricewatch? That's the defacto standard among computer geeks) you DO pull up a TI4600 for that price. However, when you read the details it's for a MX400 card.
Good work but, please, next time verify your information and use price watch. Until then, long live Anandtech!
Amen! I'm just waiting for a nice portable cd player that plays regular cds as well as MP3 dvds. Heck, if they even wanted to make it audio dvd compatible while they're at it, even better. But, really, if I could just have a good quality DVD MP3 player (one portable, one in my car) I'd be set for life. My 10 DVD MP3 collection could finally be of some use outside of my laptop.
yikes, umm...I ruined that one. I meant all in fullscreen. Yeah, got 4 dvd's all in fullscreen. HORRIBLE! So, I spend $2000 on a HD widescreen to watch fullscreen movies???
...but they do have a somewhat valid point. Not a legal point, but a point.
I know the first time I heard of Mythica and that it featured Norse mythology that I thought it was a Mythic game. I played Dark Ages of Camelot for a year and played exclusively in the Norse realm. I honestly thought that it was Mythic's new product focusing on that part of DAoC.
I still get confused when I hear about it. I have to think about it for a few seconds to realise it's a MS product.
However, this is ENTIRELY Mythic's fault. Microsoft has done NOTHING wrong. Mythic just picked an awfully generic term to name their company after. If they thought no company would ever use the term "myth," "mythic," or "mythology" or any variation of either of those 3 words then they were smoking crack.
The Narnia books are my all time favorite books. Every year I take my copies off the bookshelf and reread them and everytime I reread them I get something new out of them.
These stories are beautiful in every sense of the word. Unlike Tolkien (and I will and do directly compaire their books because they were great friends and each directly influenced the others work), Lewis is much more direct and, in my oppinion, a much more skilled writer (notice I say writer, not story teller). The amount of imagery, story, and allegory he fit in such small books is dumbfounding....and yet, when you read the books, you aren't overtaken with them at all. They just work.
I have a bad feeling that The Magicians Nephew will be touched upon at the beginning of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I, for one, feel that this would hurt the overall effect of the movie. I really doubt that they'll want to try and tackle the Magicians Nephew as its own movie either...it wouldn't be interesting to the masses. I also don't think they'll make a Last Battle movie because of the overwhelming Christian overtones in it.
In fact, I'm worried that they'll remove ALL these religious overtones. I'm agnostic mind you, but Lewis's message is what really makes this series.
All we can really do is wait and see...and cross our fingers. December 2005 couldn't be longer away....
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I don't know about you guys, but nothing beats the Arizona Tea Energy drink. You know, in the 20oz can....99 cents at the store. It's cheap and it tastes great (asst fruits and green tea). Not only that, but it's loaded with all sorts of energy boosters. I don't know that it has as much kick as some of the other products, but it quenches your thirst, give you a boost, it's dirt cheap, and tastes great all at once (something I've yet to see with any other product).
Actually, it wouldn't. More and more of the government sector is going towards standardized SGML documentation. In fact, many important documents that are being created in word are being converted to SGML for documentation purposes. So, in fact, it would take nothing more than a few extra tags for sensitive information.
Well, if you guys think Logitech keyboards are any better (and generally they're worse to be honest), you don't know keyboards. I'm using the first decent keyboard I've found to buy in years. It's an Intcomex. I has one of the most natural ergonomic splits I've ever used and the keys are nearly as sturdy as an old 80's big blue keyboard. Of course, if you're typing anywhere under 50WPM you could probably use one of those roll up, travel jelly keyboards and be fine. But if you're a real typer, you're not going to be happy with many consumer keyboards. And, for the record, MS mice are great. Better than Logitech for me and many in my office because they seem to fit our hands while the Logitech ones tend to be a little small and unergonomic.
"Yo B, turn that sh*t down..."
"Naw man, it's cool...just makin' ice cream"
"Word"
If there's one thing I learned from Magic: the Gathering it's that Forking will never make you any friends. It's also illegal and banned under type II rules. Just like a Red Hat deck...always stacking, full of burn, and ready to screw over the entire community with a 20 point forked Fireball...
Maybe this'll force the price of all the other cards in the market down low enough to where I can soup up my computer on the cheap. Those 5900's are looking pretty nice right about now...
How the heck are we supposed to put in the Justin Bailey code to see Samus half way naked in the movie....
I don't know about you, but I like intergalactic bounty hunter boobies with my action...
I hear ya...I'm up to 1890 pages on my current manual and I just got enough new info to fill another 300. Volume 3, here we come...
I've played games of tiddly winks that were more impressive than the original Ghost in the Shell
The real question is, can it overclock my Ballz?
At last count, the X-Box still sucks and there's still more worthy games on the Gamecube. I guess if you like shooters, the X-Box wins there. It also has Ninja Gaiden, an amazing game. But, other than that I still can't find any compelling reasons to own one other than to hack it.
I own as many Gamecube games as I own PS2 games. What it lacks in quantity it more than makes up for in quality, IMO.
I think the next gen of systems, when the battlegrounds are evened out and all systems can maximize the graphics potential of HDTV's, all systems support 5.1, and all systems are optimised and ready (out of the box) for online play, then things will be evened out. Microsoft's main advantage now is online play and HDTV support. Next gen, that will be gone. PS2 will still have the backing of major publishers and Nintendo will still be the powerhouse of the game development world. Microsoft better have a plan, or it's gonna be in distant 3rd real quick...
I really like the concept of a multimedia oriented motherboard.
And, if it wasn't for the fact that I have a modded X-Box that I paid $125 that, for the most part, does all of this except for tv tuning and has the added advantage of playing X-Box games as well. By the time I build this mobo into a case, it's gonna be the same size as an X-Box too...
The review hit the nail on the head, though. If they did the same thing, but made it micro-ATX and threw on on-board wifi, people would jump on it. I know I'm looking for a small multimedia hub for the bedroom. Heck, I don't even want to put a hard drive in it. I just want a shell that will pull stuff off my main PC.
I was about to say...rich bastard. I was pimpin' 3.1 on 4mb of RAM. Eventually upgraded to 8MB of RAM, which set me back about $200...as did that 4x Sun Moon cd-drive upgrade. But, heck, back when you only had a 1gb hd, you had to have a 4x drive. It's not like you could install a cd's worth of information on your computer. That would be INSANE!
EV1 is deciding to pay up front now to avoid legal fees and press. However, once multiple people are sued, it's brought to court and the court finds SCO's claims completely ludicrious (which they are), all the companies that have paid up to SCO are going to be able to reclaim damages paid to SCO under false pretenses. In actuality, I would think that companies that were giving bad press from SCO, such as EV1, may be able to collect some kind of damages.
I'm not a lawyer and I'm just speaking what I'd see as common sense...so, it's just my 2 cents...
I think this is the only invention that could ever popularize pocket protectors to the main stream.
I can see it now, $100 "static-free" pocket protectors...
Got you all beat. I live in Orlando and our annual average is around 45" a year. Lightning storms like crazy to boot. But, honestly, the "bad" weather is just about the only part of Florida that I actually find "good." There's nothing more soothing than I nice, long thunderstorm...
...by the RIAA. You get it through Kazaa, it discourages people to download music (or at least potentially wrecks havok on the users computer), and it gets automatically blamed on linux nerds (most of all which support file sharing) because it blocks www.SCO.com.
I gotta give the RIAA credit...brilliant, brilliant work...
I bet all Gates' friends back at the D&D will never believe this.
"Sir Bill Gates, level 15th Paladin...a true warrior for the people if I do say so myself" - Bill Gates
I've been looking into getting one of the newer minidisc/mp3 players anyway, so getting one that holds 1gb is great for me.
Why is the minidisc great?
* - You can quickly put music and mp3's on it (32x write on the current gen ones).
* - Current gen discs hold 5 hours worth of music a disk. The newer discs will hold approx 50 hours.
* - They are rewritable.
* - The discs can't be scratched
* - You can use md players as pocket voice recorders
* - Small size
* - More reliable than hard-drive solutions
* - Less access time / less skipping than cd/dvd solutions.
Sure, the media costs a little bit more than a cd or a dvd, but it's designed for those who want to quickly throw a bunch of songs on a device to go. Sure, you can backup your whole collection onto a series of discs too...but if you're looking to have your whole collection in your hands and you hate media...yeah, you need a hd player.
Like the orriginal minidisc, this will be a solution that a niche audience will love. Personally, I will use it exclusively. And, if nothing else, it gives you a third format option...ATRACK.
See, to make it work you have to have VALID prices for your hardware. I want to know WHERE IN THE WORLD you can get a TI4600 for $65. If you go to www.bizrate.com, his source (btw, why not pricewatch? That's the defacto standard among computer geeks) you DO pull up a TI4600 for that price. However, when you read the details it's for a MX400 card.
Good work but, please, next time verify your information and use price watch. Until then, long live Anandtech!
Amen! I'm just waiting for a nice portable cd player that plays regular cds as well as MP3 dvds. Heck, if they even wanted to make it audio dvd compatible while they're at it, even better. But, really, if I could just have a good quality DVD MP3 player (one portable, one in my car) I'd be set for life. My 10 DVD MP3 collection could finally be of some use outside of my laptop.
yikes, umm...I ruined that one. I meant all in fullscreen. Yeah, got 4 dvd's all in fullscreen. HORRIBLE! So, I spend $2000 on a HD widescreen to watch fullscreen movies???
...all in widescreen. Please God, tell me why such a thing exists....
I know the first time I heard of Mythica and that it featured Norse mythology that I thought it was a Mythic game. I played Dark Ages of Camelot for a year and played exclusively in the Norse realm. I honestly thought that it was Mythic's new product focusing on that part of DAoC.
I still get confused when I hear about it. I have to think about it for a few seconds to realise it's a MS product.
However, this is ENTIRELY Mythic's fault. Microsoft has done NOTHING wrong. Mythic just picked an awfully generic term to name their company after. If they thought no company would ever use the term "myth," "mythic," or "mythology" or any variation of either of those 3 words then they were smoking crack.
These stories are beautiful in every sense of the word. Unlike Tolkien (and I will and do directly compaire their books because they were great friends and each directly influenced the others work), Lewis is much more direct and, in my oppinion, a much more skilled writer (notice I say writer, not story teller). The amount of imagery, story, and allegory he fit in such small books is dumbfounding....and yet, when you read the books, you aren't overtaken with them at all. They just work.
I have a bad feeling that The Magicians Nephew will be touched upon at the beginning of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I, for one, feel that this would hurt the overall effect of the movie. I really doubt that they'll want to try and tackle the Magicians Nephew as its own movie either...it wouldn't be interesting to the masses. I also don't think they'll make a Last Battle movie because of the overwhelming Christian overtones in it.
In fact, I'm worried that they'll remove ALL these religious overtones. I'm agnostic mind you, but Lewis's message is what really makes this series.
All we can really do is wait and see...and cross our fingers. December 2005 couldn't be longer away....