LCDs still suck at colour, so I'm still with a 19" behemoth
Grow up...there are plenty of LCD's out there with a wider color range and better delta tracking than CRTs.
Not that I actually believe that you have any use for that amount of color accuracy considering every single professional photographer I know (and I know many more than most people) uses LCDs on a daily basis.
It doesnt seem to work that way at my school. Of the former gamers in my dorm, it seems like they would have been the people playing hardcore starcraft (as well as some diablo II but I also spent a lot of time on that game) while I was playing CS. Then there is the fact that fully half of the people on the floor are girls and throw in a handful of mac users and there arent that many people left to play. Of those that are left, college computing has turned so much towards laptops that a lot of people with lower end laptops would even struggle with CS. There are two people on my floor of the house with desktops (three if you count my RA who has...6) and then my suitemate who changed his mind and is bringing a desktop next year. Several years ago when CS was more popular and desktops were more prevalent, if you couldnt already run CS you just needed a $50 video card to get going.
Of course, I have been meaning to start a CS or CS:s server or something just to see what happens (I'm trying to get a new dedicated 100mbps port activated in my room as I have the misfortune of having my switch plugged into a port that is locked at 10mbps). There certainly are college CS players out there...when I play, I usually play on the server at UW-Madison since by some strange connection, my campus is linked with them 150 or so miles away and I get amazing pings.
That being said, I thought I should add that as someone who is only seval months away from not being a teenager any more: I play games less now.
I'm in college and there are simply a lot more things to do whether it be work or walking down the hallway to someone elses room. No longer to I get home from school like I did in 10th grade at 3:00 to an empty house and load up a game of counterstrike since thats where all of my friends are, now my friends are down the hall (and really, though people still play CS to this day, gamers are much more spread out than they were back then). Even still in high school I started playing less. Last year I certainly played less. There were definately games that I would devote my time to (such as HL2 when it came out) but there was much less compulsive multiplayer action. Frankly, by then my friends and I all could drive, I had a part-time job and a girlfriend who was closer and more readily available than the girlfriend I had through so much of my counterstrike time.
there will always be computer games, I played some WoW over the summer (and intend to play again this summer) and I still will hop into a CS:s server or something in college when I feel like some gaming (the HL2 expansion gets released the first day of my reading period before finals week, its probobly going to kill me) but other things certainly have priority over gaming.
Or else they say that they intend to spend less time gaming just like they say they intend to study more and lose weight and get a job and find a girlfriend etc...
The tiny cheapass speakers hooked up in my bathroom get the sounds. My Promedia Ultra 5.1 system does not. I also believe that my home hifi does not (but thats not in the dorm with me).
There are numerous other speakers that do this (my mini guitar amp does as well) but it seems that when it gets more expensive, the amplification unit is better shielded and this does not occur.
So what if your kid is intentionally bad about recharging his phone? What if they are good about it and simply forget?
At what point are you going to stop invading your kids privacy? When they start Middle School? High School(can only hope someone around them tells them whats up by then)? No, probobly not because you are going to then want to track them when they start to drive...do you finally say "here take this new phone, we have been tracking you your whole life like cattle or endangered birds but its time to stop" when they go to college?
Certain kids are going to requir special circumstances but mostly you are just going to have to form a trusting relationship with your kids by the time they would be doing things like the grandparent mentioned. Be thankful if at the very least they call you when they go somewhere else (but what would you have done before mobile phones? oh thats right...trusted your kids)
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My school has a web based ssh connection stashed somewhere on their website. I think it is set to automatically ssh into the central server on the system (the other linux boxes require a CS account) but from there you can run ssh and connect to anything and run pine there.
Of course, I dont do that....I use thunderbird and squirrelmail if I am on the go.
Correct, his kids cant possibly spend enough money on coke for it to make an earnings difference and besides...wouldnt you get sick of coke and want a mountain dew or something sometime?
Ever read Nietzsche? Get buried so deep in combinations of comma seperation, hyphening, and parentheses that its no wonder some people find it unreadable and incomprehensible (in his defense, my writing is much like his in that I really like to go off on tangents inside of seperative literary devices)
I used to log everything when I ran channels for a large alliance on planetarion. I'm pretty sure you are correct that P was deaf, but if you were in the channel of any alliance that had their shit together, you were being logged. My logs were usefull, the were automatically combed for people who messed up and typed.join password and would then automatically cycle the private channels (before we got an invite bot going). they were also scanned for coordinates when the game got to where people were secretive about where they were.
Granted, my personal logs are not going to be requested by a court, but if an investigation was going on while I was still there, and it was made more clear that the logging was being done, they would have every word of everything anyone said in any channel I was ever in.
Not only do you fail to make your link clickable but you write it in such a fasion that there is a space inserted into it making simple copy/paste or the clickable link plugin completely useless.
The page file in windows is different than the swap file used in a linux system. It is not simply a haven for data to go when your RAM is full, but it is where the system puts data that had to be loaded into memory but isnt exactly needed. This is why it will move pages of your memory to the file even when your ram is nowhere near full. This isnt a bad thing as you arent going to be using those pages when you play your game so you will have more RAM available for the game.
The key to the swap file is to make sure it is on a fast sector of the disk and to make sure it is a constant size. Set the minimum and the maximum to the same value so that the OS never spends time resizing it and it doesnt get fragmented. As to size, harddrives are huge these days, set it to one or two gigs and leave it there.
My school distributes a disk containing firefox and thunderbird (as well as some utilities most people never touch like putty) to all entering students. Next year that package will also include gaim so that people can interface with the jabber server they are pulling out of testing next quarter.
The lab systems and such all run office and such but its not like they pay for it as stated by another poster. There are tons of sun thin clients displaying what looks like a windowmaker desktop running mozilla/firefox and a couple other random things spread out about the campus for checking email. The print servers in the dorms run FreeBSD with a custom WM that was written for the purpose (but is available to anyone in the ports tree).
The CS department even teaches a course on "Free Software Practicum"
Despite all of this, most of hte people dont know/care about the difference between OSS and traditional software and it definately wouldnt get someone voted onto the student government.
Let's see...My phone lasts me a couple of days now. My ipod lasts me about 8 hours (and has a larger battery). Why on earth would I want to combine these two items into a package that would allow for an even smaller battery? I personally like my phone to have batteries when I NEED it and I'd like to be able to finish off the batteries in my ipod and still be able to use my phone.
It is silly to combine all of this into one thing. Even if you are a casual photographer, the 3MP coming through a shitty plastic fixed focus lense is not going to be anything close to the pictures that come from even the $100 bargain camera.
I am suprised that noone has mentioned Skagen watches so far. I really like their mesh bands which are available in stainless steel, titanium, and black titanium.
They are amazingly slim and the titanium is quite strong and scratch resistant. I own a black one and its a beatiful watch, quite comfortable to wear and the japanese movement is fairly accurate (obviously its not a several thousand dollar watch but...), and it has the date on it. The design is very modern and clean and they are very affordable (I ended up exchanging a Citizen Ecodrive for this watch and I couldnt be happier for 1/6th of the price).
From TFSummary, it is quite clear that they want a back door through hard-drive encryption so they dont have to figure out how to decrypt them for use as evidence.
What good would the government get out of being able to remote-reformat?
If you are looking at the first part, there are plenty of college/grad students with access to those million dollar laboratories where after a certain point they can pretty much do whatever they want. Presumably they woudl be working on projects but nothing stops them from taking a break or two.
For the second problem, if they start killing your hardware in future releases of a disk or by removing priveledges of all hardware, there are going to be some pretty fucking pissed customers when they hack the key used in bunch of different models of sony players or something. The millions of people who end up owning these devices will be SOL if the priveledges on that key are revoked.
$120 for the xbox? Thats like saying someone had to buy windows xp NOW in order to play their game (which is perfectly reasonable, it has been out for ages).
Buying a fully decked out xbox 360 is going to cost you a lot more than $120 and really it ends up being similar to the amount a "not-bat-shit-insane" gamer would have to spend above and beyond their basic new office/internet computer to get it ready to play games.
My college gets great fucking internet (University of Chicago). Unfortunatly my dorm room is wired to a 10mbit switch (and I have a 10/100 switch in the room with a few devices on it). It is not rare for me to saturate the ethernet link when I know there is tons of bandwidth left on the world link. A kid down the hall has a 100mb port activated and it runs great.
Now I know that I shouldnt be complaining about getting ONLY 10mbit as it is still way faster than the cable I had at home (especially upload) and it is capable of downloading faster than the speeds a lot of sites give me but the real problem is transfers on the local network. I bought the switch initially because transfers between my laptop and desktop were just as slow on the wired ethernet as they were on the wireless.
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I got a couple suggestions but I havnt yet gone with a place. I'll be looking more in the summer when I am home from school
Grow up...there are plenty of LCD's out there with a wider color range and better delta tracking than CRTs.
Not that I actually believe that you have any use for that amount of color accuracy considering every single professional photographer I know (and I know many more than most people) uses LCDs on a daily basis.
Of course, I have been meaning to start a CS or CS:s server or something just to see what happens (I'm trying to get a new dedicated 100mbps port activated in my room as I have the misfortune of having my switch plugged into a port that is locked at 10mbps). There certainly are college CS players out there...when I play, I usually play on the server at UW-Madison since by some strange connection, my campus is linked with them 150 or so miles away and I get amazing pings.
I'm in college and there are simply a lot more things to do whether it be work or walking down the hallway to someone elses room. No longer to I get home from school like I did in 10th grade at 3:00 to an empty house and load up a game of counterstrike since thats where all of my friends are, now my friends are down the hall (and really, though people still play CS to this day, gamers are much more spread out than they were back then). Even still in high school I started playing less. Last year I certainly played less. There were definately games that I would devote my time to (such as HL2 when it came out) but there was much less compulsive multiplayer action. Frankly, by then my friends and I all could drive, I had a part-time job and a girlfriend who was closer and more readily available than the girlfriend I had through so much of my counterstrike time.
there will always be computer games, I played some WoW over the summer (and intend to play again this summer) and I still will hop into a CS:s server or something in college when I feel like some gaming (the HL2 expansion gets released the first day of my reading period before finals week, its probobly going to kill me) but other things certainly have priority over gaming.
Do they actually do any of those? maybe
There are numerous other speakers that do this (my mini guitar amp does as well) but it seems that when it gets more expensive, the amplification unit is better shielded and this does not occur.
At what point are you going to stop invading your kids privacy? When they start Middle School? High School(can only hope someone around them tells them whats up by then)? No, probobly not because you are going to then want to track them when they start to drive...do you finally say "here take this new phone, we have been tracking you your whole life like cattle or endangered birds but its time to stop" when they go to college?
Certain kids are going to requir special circumstances but mostly you are just going to have to form a trusting relationship with your kids by the time they would be doing things like the grandparent mentioned. Be thankful if at the very least they call you when they go somewhere else (but what would you have done before mobile phones? oh thats right...trusted your kids)
Of course, I dont do that....I use thunderbird and squirrelmail if I am on the go.
Correct, his kids cant possibly spend enough money on coke for it to make an earnings difference and besides...wouldnt you get sick of coke and want a mountain dew or something sometime?
Ever read Nietzsche? Get buried so deep in combinations of comma seperation, hyphening, and parentheses that its no wonder some people find it unreadable and incomprehensible (in his defense, my writing is much like his in that I really like to go off on tangents inside of seperative literary devices)
That's like complaining about being made fun of by spanish grammar nazis when you use english grammar with spanish words...you're still wrong.
Granted, my personal logs are not going to be requested by a court, but if an investigation was going on while I was still there, and it was made more clear that the logging was being done, they would have every word of everything anyone said in any channel I was ever in.
Not only do you fail to make your link clickable but you write it in such a fasion that there is a space inserted into it making simple copy/paste or the clickable link plugin completely useless.
The page file in windows is different than the swap file used in a linux system. It is not simply a haven for data to go when your RAM is full, but it is where the system puts data that had to be loaded into memory but isnt exactly needed. This is why it will move pages of your memory to the file even when your ram is nowhere near full. This isnt a bad thing as you arent going to be using those pages when you play your game so you will have more RAM available for the game.
The key to the swap file is to make sure it is on a fast sector of the disk and to make sure it is a constant size. Set the minimum and the maximum to the same value so that the OS never spends time resizing it and it doesnt get fragmented. As to size, harddrives are huge these days, set it to one or two gigs and leave it there.
The lab systems and such all run office and such but its not like they pay for it as stated by another poster. There are tons of sun thin clients displaying what looks like a windowmaker desktop running mozilla/firefox and a couple other random things spread out about the campus for checking email. The print servers in the dorms run FreeBSD with a custom WM that was written for the purpose (but is available to anyone in the ports tree).
The CS department even teaches a course on "Free Software Practicum"
Despite all of this, most of hte people dont know/care about the difference between OSS and traditional software and it definately wouldnt get someone voted onto the student government.
It is silly to combine all of this into one thing. Even if you are a casual photographer, the 3MP coming through a shitty plastic fixed focus lense is not going to be anything close to the pictures that come from even the $100 bargain camera.
Wanna go pick up some chicks at BJU?
They are amazingly slim and the titanium is quite strong and scratch resistant. I own a black one and its a beatiful watch, quite comfortable to wear and the japanese movement is fairly accurate (obviously its not a several thousand dollar watch but...), and it has the date on it. The design is very modern and clean and they are very affordable (I ended up exchanging a Citizen Ecodrive for this watch and I couldnt be happier for 1/6th of the price).
What good would the government get out of being able to remote-reformat?
well, the tetris clones all run fine when coded in ASM
For the second problem, if they start killing your hardware in future releases of a disk or by removing priveledges of all hardware, there are going to be some pretty fucking pissed customers when they hack the key used in bunch of different models of sony players or something. The millions of people who end up owning these devices will be SOL if the priveledges on that key are revoked.
I think in leet
Buying a fully decked out xbox 360 is going to cost you a lot more than $120 and really it ends up being similar to the amount a "not-bat-shit-insane" gamer would have to spend above and beyond their basic new office/internet computer to get it ready to play games.
Now I know that I shouldnt be complaining about getting ONLY 10mbit as it is still way faster than the cable I had at home (especially upload) and it is capable of downloading faster than the speeds a lot of sites give me but the real problem is transfers on the local network. I bought the switch initially because transfers between my laptop and desktop were just as slow on the wired ethernet as they were on the wireless.