This guide is better titled "how to make up for your tiny penis". There's absolutely nothing on their list thats needed to take advantage of todays "cutting edge" games.
Todays "cutting edge" games are designed to play on 3 or 4 year old hardware - because the publishers want to sell it to more than the 2% who runs out to buy the latest videocard.
I always think Simpsons when another gamer-tech review comes out. "It's slightly faster... TO THE MAX!"
I played Unreal 2 for a few hours last night on my wont-work obsolete need-an-upgrade Radeon 7200. Guess what? My obsolete out-of-date SB Live! card - not even 5.1 sound, mind you, a paltry 4 channels - worked just fine too. I've recently upgraded my mobo and CPU and bought a new HD. And I didnt spring for the absolutely necessary 8meg cache version either.
How did the tech industry manage to convince everyone that they absolutely need the latest and greatest bullshit? The machine they were 'upgrading' from is perfectly adequate to play every game they benchmarked.
1600x1200 with FSAA and AF is nice, but it doesnt make the games any funner.
Here's my upgrade guide. I wait until I want to play a particular game, and if I absolutely cant, I upgrade. And I double my current specs.
Unreal 2 is a bore, BTW, for those looking for a review.
Maybe so, but if I want my electronic mortgage payment to go through on that business day, I have to get it done by 3. If I want to order nephew's birthday present, I have to do it before the webstore closes if I want it to ship in time.
Just because the servers are running 24/7 doesnt mean all the businesses are. So I go to the bank and the toy store and my lunch-hour (which is usually the 5 minutes it'd take to wolf down a sandwich) turns into 1.5-2 hours.
That's the point of the article, I guess. Though I dont totally agree with it.
>> The report notes that people have to take days off from work to deal with personal business that could have been done in a few minutes or hours from a work net connection
If you're payed a wage, and you take a day off, you dont get paid. If you handle it in the office, you do get payed. So while employers may want less unproductive time, at least they arent paying for it.
Usually the strictly controlled ones are the cubicle jockeys, not those with a salary.
As for morale; that's what casual fridays are for! Me, I'm in my spider-man underroos. And I'm not worried about wasting time on/., because I'm on salary!
> They deregulated the power companies in California
I like how they call making a ton of zany laws restricting how a business can operate deregulation.
The approach is to regulate so much that you reach a critical mass of regulation and therefore it's deregulated once you pass through the event horizon?
Of course they meant morphing. Apparantly no "journalists" (read PR drones) proofread their copy these days. Here I thought it was just a slashdot phenomenon.
There are dyes available now for vinyl and plastics. I've used them myself. They penetrate the plastic and literally dye it. All the little bumps and raised lettering and whatnot stays, it doesnt put a color coat on top.
I'd imagine similarly formulated dyes could be used to recolor your car. Should be much cheaper than a conventional strip/sand/prime/sand/paintx2/sand/clearcoatc6/san d/polish job you'd have to go for now. All you need to do is make sure the surface is clean and spray it.
>> I ask agian, why do you think people who have no college should be banished to the domain of "carpenters/plumbers/welders/machinists"?
Banished to the domain? Hardly.. Have you any idea what a master plumber or carpenter makes? You're a fool for looking down your nose at people who work with their hands for a living.
You can get a job in IT with HS education. But chances are that 30k job will pay 30k for the rest of your life.
If you want a future out of high school, you're better off as a tradesman.
Besides, people will always need carpenters, contractors, plumbers and electricians. The wont always need a RHCE
>> And I'd hope that even a high school graduate could make more than $30k a year with a good understanding of Linux systems administration.
You probably could. If you had a good understanding of systems administration in general. They wont. They'll have a bunch of general knowledge about how linux works and what some of the config files are for. If they're lucky they'll get to sit at a help desk. If they stick with the high school education alone and put in enough years, the annual cost of living increase might get them to 30k.
This is a good learning base to move on to college, but nothing short of going to work for your dad is going to get you 30k as a 'redhad administrator' out of high school.
If they want to make a living, and dont plan on going to college/university, their better off learning a trade down in the shop wing.
They're much more likely to be brought on as a carpenters/plumbers/welders/machinists apprentice than get a job in an office. They put in their dues on the jobsite, and can wind up a very well paid craftsman.
A lot of companies are giving up on certifications like this. Many more are looking for people with actual skills with computers and administration. You should be able to hand your IT guy a manual and he should be able to figure out the nuances of the system.
These children are being done a disservice by this. It's no different than the 'get Microsoft certified and make $50,000 a year' ads blaring on the radio.
Spoken like a 16 year old who still lives at home.
Life sucks sometimes. You or your children get sick. Your car breaks down. You get layed off. The city jacks up the FFA of your house to an unreasonable amount to cover their own mismanagement.
There are a million things that can happen to damage your credit through no fault of your own.
Not everyone with less-than-perfect credit blew it all on big stereos and alcohol.
The other companies bought licenses to something they may never have needed to license. They had the option to refuse and deal with whatever consequences there could have been.
>> As for "not hurting", what are these people thinking?
Depends. Virtually every order I've ever made on the internet was for a product I couldnt easily obtain locally. Shipping costs easily outweigh the sales tax I would pay here in Maryland.
A few orders I make are because its simply more convenient (eg; I can order 500 crickets for my bearded dragon online and it's much easier than asking for them at the local pet shop).
My mother orders our kids christmas presents from Amazon, because it's easiest to have them shipped directly to us without the hassles of Customs and exchange rates - she lives in Canada.
How many people actually shop online because they might save a few nickels on tax? I doubt it's enough to 'hurt', since the "internet economy" already proved itself to be pretty trivial.
I assume that the examples use windows-specific libraries and stuff. Like MFC and COM stuff. Or maybe it just discusses the location of various options in the VStudio IDE.
If the book had anything insightful to offer, it really wouldnt matter what flavor implementation the examples are in. I have a really great OpenGL book, for instance, thats full of X-Windows specific examples (like creating and maintaining viewports, etc). Being able to take the ideas to windows is no big thing (cant think of the title of it).
If the book sucks then it sucks because it has nothing to say, not because it uses VC++ as an example. If being VC++ -centric is the only basis for saying it sucks, then the reviewer sucks.
They used to be able to do it without a warrant, but not anymore (sometime in the mid-90s IIRC it went to the supreme court). But they didnt just randomly drive around and find your friend. He would have to be on their radar. The heatscans and electric bills are just more evidence they gathered
I work with cops every day (I write dispatching/RMS software for them), and I can guarantee your friend was pooched for 1 of 2 reasons:
1) A trash pull. He was throwing all his cuttings in the trash. Once your trash leaves your property, anyone can search through it. Although the cops would probably have to suspect him in the first place to bother.
2) The #1 reason behind 99% of busts: someone ratted him out. You'd be surprised how talky people get when you threaten them even with something like a fine. Wives turn on husbands, brothers and best friends on each other. And every dealer/grower I've met talks wayyyyy to goddamned much when they have a couple beers at a party.
I'm not surprised it still works
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I'm sure the outer shell of the laptop insulated it somewhat from the heat for the 20 minutes it was in there.
And 400 F isnt enough probably to destroy any of the stuff inside that isnt plastic. Paper doesnt even burn until 420. Perhaps if it was on at the time, some chips would fry.
As to why it happened, my guess is a kid did it. Some kids are just stupid brats. Once I had a PC up on my desk, case open as I was fiddling around with some upgrades. Some of the family came to visit, it was christmas eve. So I left it there and went to be social.
One of my nephews (on their mothers side) came into the room (when I wasnt there) and picked up a pair of wire cutters, and just started cutting wires inside. IDE cables, power wires, CD-rom audio cables. Pissed me off because he pretty much killed a good $99 PSU.
I asked him why he did it? Just looks at his shoes and goes "i dunno". But I know. He's a stupid little brat and did it to get attention.
The joke was on him. The PC was for his father to give him for christmas.
32-bit ARM with embedded memory 2.9" reflective TFT screen... and so on
Known long before GBA's release.
And no, I'm looking for something that could actually compete with GBA. Like NeoGeo Pocket would have, or GP32 or Wonderswan could, if the world were a more perfect place.
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This guide is better titled "how to make up for your tiny penis". There's absolutely nothing on their list thats needed to take advantage of todays "cutting edge" games.
Todays "cutting edge" games are designed to play on 3 or 4 year old hardware - because the publishers want to sell it to more than the 2% who runs out to buy the latest videocard.
I always think Simpsons when another gamer-tech review comes out. "It's slightly faster... TO THE MAX!"
I played Unreal 2 for a few hours last night on my wont-work obsolete need-an-upgrade Radeon 7200. Guess what? My obsolete out-of-date SB Live! card - not even 5.1 sound, mind you, a paltry 4 channels - worked just fine too. I've recently upgraded my mobo and CPU and bought a new HD. And I didnt spring for the absolutely necessary 8meg cache version either.
How did the tech industry manage to convince everyone that they absolutely need the latest and greatest bullshit? The machine they were 'upgrading' from is perfectly adequate to play every game they benchmarked.
1600x1200 with FSAA and AF is nice, but it doesnt make the games any funner.
Here's my upgrade guide. I wait until I want to play a particular game, and if I absolutely cant, I upgrade. And I double my current specs.
Unreal 2 is a bore, BTW, for those looking for a review.
>> The web is open 24 hours!
Maybe so, but if I want my electronic mortgage payment to go through on that business day, I have to get it done by 3. If I want to order nephew's birthday present, I have to do it before the webstore closes if I want it to ship in time.
Just because the servers are running 24/7 doesnt mean all the businesses are. So I go to the bank and the toy store and my lunch-hour (which is usually the 5 minutes it'd take to wolf down a sandwich) turns into 1.5-2 hours.
That's the point of the article, I guess. Though I dont totally agree with it.
>> The report notes that people have to take days off from work to deal with personal business that could have been done in a few minutes or hours from a work net connection
/., because I'm on salary!
If you're payed a wage, and you take a day off, you dont get paid. If you handle it in the office, you do get payed. So while employers may want less unproductive time, at least they arent paying for it.
Usually the strictly controlled ones are the cubicle jockeys, not those with a salary.
As for morale; that's what casual fridays are for! Me, I'm in my spider-man underroos. And I'm not worried about wasting time on
> They deregulated the power companies in California
I like how they call making a ton of zany laws restricting how a business can operate deregulation.
The approach is to regulate so much that you reach a critical mass of regulation and therefore it's deregulated once you pass through the event horizon?
Same reason we want HDTV, even though we can watch friends right now.
>> what other areas are really hurt by the current level of quality?
Ever been on a conference call?
DRM phones
I just want to be able to tell if the 1-900 girl is having an orgasm or an asthma attack.
Sound quality of phones suck ass.
>> Other than a huge File Sharing Node, why would we want fiber?
Because competition for the cable monopolies is a Good Thing (tm).
Besides, this article is about copper, and how all the copper in the ground can still be utilized to do what fiber could.
With all the bandwidth that can be squeezed out of copper, offered by fibre, 3G wireless, etc..
Will we ever see CD-quality (mono, but 44.1khz mono) phones?
Surely they could be introduced as a backwards-compatible upgrade.
Of course they meant morphing. Apparantly no "journalists" (read PR drones) proofread their copy these days. Here I thought it was just a slashdot phenomenon.
There are dyes available now for vinyl and plastics. I've used them myself. They penetrate the plastic and literally dye it. All the little bumps and raised lettering and whatnot stays, it doesnt put a color coat on top.
n d/polish job you'd have to go for now. All you need to do is make sure the surface is clean and spray it.
I'd imagine similarly formulated dyes could be used to recolor your car. Should be much cheaper than a conventional strip/sand/prime/sand/paintx2/sand/clearcoatc6/sa
Ah
Remember when Joey was pretending to sell Degrassi grass?
Good times.
Everybody wants something
they take your money
and never give up
The Zit Remedy ROCK!
Who buys a TiVo in a country with like 2 TV channels?
Whats the selling hook? Pause live cricket matches? They're so boring they're self-pausing.
>> I ask agian, why do you think people who have no college should be banished to the domain of "carpenters/plumbers/welders/machinists"?
Banished to the domain? Hardly.. Have you any idea what a master plumber or carpenter makes? You're a fool for looking down your nose at people who work with their hands for a living.
You can get a job in IT with HS education. But chances are that 30k job will pay 30k for the rest of your life.
If you want a future out of high school, you're better off as a tradesman.
Besides, people will always need carpenters, contractors, plumbers and electricians. The wont always need a RHCE
>> And I'd hope that even a high school graduate could make more than $30k a year with a good understanding of Linux systems administration.
You probably could. If you had a good understanding of systems administration in general. They wont. They'll have a bunch of general knowledge about how linux works and what some of the config files are for. If they're lucky they'll get to sit at a help desk. If they stick with the high school education alone and put in enough years, the annual cost of living increase might get them to 30k.
This is a good learning base to move on to college, but nothing short of going to work for your dad is going to get you 30k as a 'redhad administrator' out of high school.
If they want to make a living, and dont plan on going to college/university, their better off learning a trade down in the shop wing.
They're much more likely to be brought on as a carpenters/plumbers/welders/machinists apprentice than get a job in an office. They put in their dues on the jobsite, and can wind up a very well paid craftsman.
A lot of companies are giving up on certifications like this. Many more are looking for people with actual skills with computers and administration. You should be able to hand your IT guy a manual and he should be able to figure out the nuances of the system.
These children are being done a disservice by this. It's no different than the 'get Microsoft certified and make $50,000 a year' ads blaring on the radio.
They didnt write slammer. They wrote a goofy IRC bot gathering worm that exploited IIS. /. doesnt check facts, or even read the articles they link to.
Spoken like a 16 year old who still lives at home.
Life sucks sometimes. You or your children get sick. Your car breaks down. You get layed off. The city jacks up the FFA of your house to an unreasonable amount to cover their own mismanagement.
There are a million things that can happen to damage your credit through no fault of your own.
Not everyone with less-than-perfect credit blew it all on big stereos and alcohol.
I dont think so.
The other companies bought licenses to something they may never have needed to license. They had the option to refuse and deal with whatever consequences there could have been.
>> As for "not hurting", what are these people thinking?
Depends. Virtually every order I've ever made on the internet was for a product I couldnt easily obtain locally. Shipping costs easily outweigh the sales tax I would pay here in Maryland.
A few orders I make are because its simply more convenient (eg; I can order 500 crickets for my bearded dragon online and it's much easier than asking for them at the local pet shop).
My mother orders our kids christmas presents from Amazon, because it's easiest to have them shipped directly to us without the hassles of Customs and exchange rates - she lives in Canada.
How many people actually shop online because they might save a few nickels on tax? I doubt it's enough to 'hurt', since the "internet economy" already proved itself to be pretty trivial.
Nothing with the language itself.
I assume that the examples use windows-specific libraries and stuff. Like MFC and COM stuff. Or maybe it just discusses the location of various options in the VStudio IDE.
If the book had anything insightful to offer, it really wouldnt matter what flavor implementation the examples are in. I have a really great OpenGL book, for instance, thats full of X-Windows specific examples (like creating and maintaining viewports, etc). Being able to take the ideas to windows is no big thing (cant think of the title of it).
If the book sucks then it sucks because it has nothing to say, not because it uses VC++ as an example. If being VC++ -centric is the only basis for saying it sucks, then the reviewer sucks.
Am I the only one who thinks that sounds like a really, really, really lame comic strip for geeks.
They used to be able to do it without a warrant, but not anymore (sometime in the mid-90s IIRC it went to the supreme court). But they didnt just randomly drive around and find your friend. He would have to be on their radar. The heatscans and electric bills are just more evidence they gathered
I work with cops every day (I write dispatching/RMS software for them), and I can guarantee your friend was pooched for 1 of 2 reasons:
1) A trash pull. He was throwing all his cuttings in the trash. Once your trash leaves your property, anyone can search through it. Although the cops would probably have to suspect him in the first place to bother.
2) The #1 reason behind 99% of busts: someone ratted him out. You'd be surprised how talky people get when you threaten them even with something like a fine. Wives turn on husbands, brothers and best friends on each other. And every dealer/grower I've met talks wayyyyy to goddamned much when they have a couple beers at a party.
I'm sure the outer shell of the laptop insulated it somewhat from the heat for the 20 minutes it was in there.
And 400 F isnt enough probably to destroy any of the stuff inside that isnt plastic. Paper doesnt even burn until 420. Perhaps if it was on at the time, some chips would fry.
As to why it happened, my guess is a kid did it. Some kids are just stupid brats. Once I had a PC up on my desk, case open as I was fiddling around with some upgrades. Some of the family came to visit, it was christmas eve. So I left it there and went to be social.
One of my nephews (on their mothers side) came into the room (when I wasnt there) and picked up a pair of wire cutters, and just started cutting wires inside. IDE cables, power wires, CD-rom audio cables. Pissed me off because he pretty much killed a good $99 PSU.
I asked him why he did it? Just looks at his shoes and goes "i dunno". But I know. He's a stupid little brat and did it to get attention.
The joke was on him. The PC was for his father to give him for christmas.
These are specs
... and so on
32-bit ARM with embedded memory
2.9" reflective TFT screen
Known long before GBA's release.
And no, I'm looking for something that could actually compete with GBA. Like NeoGeo Pocket would have, or GP32 or Wonderswan could, if the world were a more perfect place.