Key word: Warehouse. We aren't talking about an unmanned Antartic research station where custom hardware would be bought anyway. This is probably a lit warehouse with lights running off the AC mains. These computers would not be solar powered.
Man, I just heard about this incredible peice of equipment on New Scientist. It's called a "Heater." It has a coil and a fan and stuff. Not quite sure how it works, but I think for the amount of times a nearly always on computer will boot, it might be worth living dangerously and trying one out, in conjunction with one of those newfangled "Thermostat" things.
Yeah, it was what was called a joke. I didn't read the article, but unless HD-DVDs are going to be slower than DVDs for the forseeable future, then the only way games would be slower to load would be if games had more content. So, by extension, I said that CDs would be EVEN BETTER.
...At least, I think it was on slashdot. Those videos of the old woman playing side scrollers and stuff in her chair, swearing away at the console? Anyone remeber that?
Not sure where it is, but it was called "Old Grandma Hard Core" or something. You might try googling for that, but I won't.
I don't think microsoft is doing everything they can to make games load faster. Sure, DVDs mean less data is loaded than HD-DVD, but then wouldn't it be better to put the games on CDs instead? And who needs more than 600 MB?
I think it has something to do with the "Pauli Exclusion Principle," which actually explains the structure of the periodic table. Something to do with no two electrons being able to share the same quantum state and position.
So I think it is only limited by the speed of the equipment, not the process.
I sort of agree with you there. A friend of mine asked me one day if I had heard about the new 1 TB drives that fit in a small space or something. There are always new ones. That wasn't an important advancment he was talking about, just one of many incremental changes.
It does take a while for the gravity of a discovery to sink in. Until then, xbox sounds good!
I have a feeling they will have an incredibly annoying comercial with a bunch of 23 year olds pretending to be 17 year olds, dancing and listening in awe to some shitty Crazy Frog song (on Microsoft External Zpeakers connected to the coolest kid's Zune), with the tagline "I gotta get this tune on MY Zune!"
As I am A Real Man, I would plug my digital video camera into my computer by firewire, and use it as a mouse. Better res, and way more manly to hold a 1.68 lb camera and power cables and my assorted arm weights 5 centimeters above the table.
It dosen't have programmable buttons. Oh well, the ones below my laptop's touchpad will do.
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Have two sections, one for gamers and one for people who just want to surf the internet.
Have a few consoles and screens linked together for tournaments, when it would be hard for the players to gather the necessary cables and screens to one house.
Get the newest and most anticipated games right away. Sell them for a small loss (depending on regulations, but I was thinking of console games) when fewer people are interested.
Sell food and pop. Maybe set up the equipment so that food can be eaten at the computers.
The people going are probably going for the social setting, not the games. Put speakers on stands towards the player so that he can talk to others and hear, rather than using headphones, but still can be heard over the noise.
Have regular tournaments for prizes (such as 100 free hours or such) as publicity.
...get an appropriatly sized messanger bag with lots of pockets (for external drive, power connections, mouse, etc) and get some of that foam for bed rolls (like neopreme, but about 4 times the thickness) of similar width to your laptop. Place foam in bag, covering sides and bottom. Stick in the laptop. As such, it won't protect the sides much or the top of the bag, but I don't think dropping your bag sideways is likely. Add protection for perhiphials if desired. Wander around campus and damage your back with the weight of your desktop-replacement, external hard drive, and power cables.
Sure, they might be able to draw vector graphics, just like any system, by rasterizing them and then sending them to the output (I am not too well versed in this stuff) or having the canvas rasterize it for X. I think Fresco would keep graphics as vector for a longer period, making resizing to different screens easier. However, it dosen't seem to be very active, as the status page is down, and the wiki was closed due to vandalism.
I was wrong on one thing. It did get on CNN. However, look at all the flak that sticks to Gore (like the fake "I invented the interwebs") and the distinct lack of flak that sticks to Bush (Never was in any war, voting machine strangeness, close ties to oil industry, etc) and tell me that this would not be a death knell for Gore if it was his doing.
When someone follows the money, it should all come clear.
I wasn't saying that he was. I was just saying that there are ambiguous terms. If you don't want such images, then there should be a filter, or it should be obvious in the link text that it is a dirty site. And just how dirty of a dirty site would you want removed? What if you are searching for information on pornograpy, and don't want to see smut? Your proposal would seperate searchers into perverted and non-perverted, rather than prudeish and non-prudeish. A seperate filter would enable the most control over what you see and what you don't see.
So you want searches for, say, "Big Tits" or "Wet Pussy," to go to birds and cats? Perhaps the family filter could be improved, but I don't think that should reflect on what the non-prude searcher sees. Unless the page title is deceptive... but that will be pageranked down anyways. No one except other low rank affiliate sites would link to it in similar deceptive terms. But hey, better results for relevant stuff is always nice, wouldn't complain about that.
Someone mentioned earlier that as Tux was not used as a parody of Linux or other Tux related stuff, it was not fair use as such, and could be infringment. However, it could be considered that the Manbearpig symbol was used as parody... somehow. Maybe they will say the video was a parody of bad Al Gore parodies. Maybe.
Almost makes me think that Gore might have supported the video... but it would probably have been too risky. This probably won't get on CNN or Fox or any cable news. Was it on ABC news, or just their website? And if it was found out to be as I suggest, that would be the end for Gore.
Perhaps the whole "We need your help" is more a way to make people think they are involved in the political process, rather than a fundraising method. Of course corprate donations are much bigger, and tax dollars support some political activities (or do they? I might be wrong). Almost like rich musicians pretending to "keep it real," these appeals for aid would make parties seem more homely.
Also, who knows, maybe the video was put up by Gore to increase publicity... but I highly doubt it.
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Key word: Warehouse. We aren't talking about an unmanned Antartic research station where custom hardware would be bought anyway. This is probably a lit warehouse with lights running off the AC mains. These computers would not be solar powered.
Man, I just heard about this incredible peice of equipment on New Scientist. It's called a "Heater." It has a coil and a fan and stuff. Not quite sure how it works, but I think for the amount of times a nearly always on computer will boot, it might be worth living dangerously and trying one out, in conjunction with one of those newfangled "Thermostat" things.
Yeah, it was what was called a joke. I didn't read the article, but unless HD-DVDs are going to be slower than DVDs for the forseeable future, then the only way games would be slower to load would be if games had more content. So, by extension, I said that CDs would be EVEN BETTER.
Does that make it clear for you?
...At least, I think it was on slashdot. Those videos of the old woman playing side scrollers and stuff in her chair, swearing away at the console? Anyone remeber that?
Not sure where it is, but it was called "Old Grandma Hard Core" or something. You might try googling for that, but I won't.
I don't think microsoft is doing everything they can to make games load faster. Sure, DVDs mean less data is loaded than HD-DVD, but then wouldn't it be better to put the games on CDs instead? And who needs more than 600 MB?
I think it has something to do with the "Pauli Exclusion Principle," which actually explains the structure of the periodic table. Something to do with no two electrons being able to share the same quantum state and position.
So I think it is only limited by the speed of the equipment, not the process.
I sort of agree with you there. A friend of mine asked me one day if I had heard about the new 1 TB drives that fit in a small space or something. There are always new ones. That wasn't an important advancment he was talking about, just one of many incremental changes.
It does take a while for the gravity of a discovery to sink in. Until then, xbox sounds good!
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I have a feeling they will have an incredibly annoying comercial with a bunch of 23 year olds pretending to be 17 year olds, dancing and listening in awe to some shitty Crazy Frog song (on Microsoft External Zpeakers connected to the coolest kid's Zune), with the tagline "I gotta get this tune on MY Zune!"
As I am A Real Man, I would plug my digital video camera into my computer by firewire, and use it as a mouse. Better res, and way more manly to hold a 1.68 lb camera and power cables and my assorted arm weights 5 centimeters above the table.
It dosen't have programmable buttons. Oh well, the ones below my laptop's touchpad will do.
I've already hit Disillusionment 2.5 sp3 myself.
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These may or may not be useful, but anyway...
Have two sections, one for gamers and one for people who just want to surf the internet.
Have a few consoles and screens linked together for tournaments, when it would be hard for the players to gather the necessary cables and screens to one house.
Get the newest and most anticipated games right away. Sell them for a small loss (depending on regulations, but I was thinking of console games) when fewer people are interested.
Sell food and pop. Maybe set up the equipment so that food can be eaten at the computers.
The people going are probably going for the social setting, not the games. Put speakers on stands towards the player so that he can talk to others and hear, rather than using headphones, but still can be heard over the noise.
Have regular tournaments for prizes (such as 100 free hours or such) as publicity.
...get an appropriatly sized messanger bag with lots of pockets (for external drive, power connections, mouse, etc) and get some of that foam for bed rolls (like neopreme, but about 4 times the thickness) of similar width to your laptop. Place foam in bag, covering sides and bottom. Stick in the laptop. As such, it won't protect the sides much or the top of the bag, but I don't think dropping your bag sideways is likely. Add protection for perhiphials if desired. Wander around campus and damage your back with the weight of your desktop-replacement, external hard drive, and power cables.
Oh, I probably should see it. I blame SomethingAwful for making me into such a cynic (and not even a very good one).
Replace "Weird Al" with "Mentally" and you will see the parent post as it was meant to be seen.
Not that I have ever seen it, I just feel like hating on it anyway.
Hmm, odd... I didn't even see that. I blame slashcode!
I doubt it. However, I'm pretty sure they have at least a few virtual groupies.
Sure, they might be able to draw vector graphics, just like any system, by rasterizing them and then sending them to the output (I am not too well versed in this stuff) or having the canvas rasterize it for X. I think Fresco would keep graphics as vector for a longer period, making resizing to different screens easier. However, it dosen't seem to be very active, as the status page is down, and the wiki was closed due to vandalism.
I was wrong on one thing. It did get on CNN. However, look at all the flak that sticks to Gore (like the fake "I invented the interwebs") and the distinct lack of flak that sticks to Bush (Never was in any war, voting machine strangeness, close ties to oil industry, etc) and tell me that this would not be a death knell for Gore if it was his doing.
When someone follows the money, it should all come clear.
I wasn't saying that he was. I was just saying that there are ambiguous terms. If you don't want such images, then there should be a filter, or it should be obvious in the link text that it is a dirty site. And just how dirty of a dirty site would you want removed? What if you are searching for information on pornograpy, and don't want to see smut? Your proposal would seperate searchers into perverted and non-perverted, rather than prudeish and non-prudeish. A seperate filter would enable the most control over what you see and what you don't see.
So you want searches for, say, "Big Tits" or "Wet Pussy," to go to birds and cats? Perhaps the family filter could be improved, but I don't think that should reflect on what the non-prude searcher sees. Unless the page title is deceptive... but that will be pageranked down anyways. No one except other low rank affiliate sites would link to it in similar deceptive terms. But hey, better results for relevant stuff is always nice, wouldn't complain about that.
Someone mentioned earlier that as Tux was not used as a parody of Linux or other Tux related stuff, it was not fair use as such, and could be infringment. However, it could be considered that the Manbearpig symbol was used as parody... somehow. Maybe they will say the video was a parody of bad Al Gore parodies. Maybe.
Almost makes me think that Gore might have supported the video... but it would probably have been too risky. This probably won't get on CNN or Fox or any cable news. Was it on ABC news, or just their website? And if it was found out to be as I suggest, that would be the end for Gore.
Perhaps the whole "We need your help" is more a way to make people think they are involved in the political process, rather than a fundraising method. Of course corprate donations are much bigger, and tax dollars support some political activities (or do they? I might be wrong). Almost like rich musicians pretending to "keep it real," these appeals for aid would make parties seem more homely.
Also, who knows, maybe the video was put up by Gore to increase publicity... but I highly doubt it.