I just heard about this earlier today...and well it was fun to come home and see it on/. in chicago
Another interesting minneapolis segway fact, they own several at the Target corporate offices, and you'll see everything up to VP's late for a meeting speeding across the office
I was sitting on a boat going around manhatten (harbor lights cruise or something) with some friends and one of them used up their disposable camera...I decided it might be a good time to demonstrate the more interesting properties of the cameras...
Needless to say, many people of all sizes shocked themselves with the camera that day. Nobody was stunned or even really hurt, but I suppose nobody tried to hold it onto their skin for a while (but its a capacitor so it shouldnt matter that much...)
I'm replying to myself, but I just called again today and when a man picked up I got "answering service"
I asked him if he had disney world tickets and he said "this is an answering service." he asked me what I was looking for and and I said flamingo travel...I got a negative answer and "is there anything else I can help you with."
I called the first time...she said reservations and I said that I would like to reserve some travel. She said something like she didnt know what I needed and hung up.
I called again and said "I'm sorry, we seem to have been disconnected" to which she replied "I hung up on you because you dont know what you need"
does anyone know what these people want to sell me so that I can lead them on a bit more?
If you prevent them from logging in, you prevent them from establishing the internet connection that will help you recover the device.
So, I guess you have to weigh enhanced recovery chances (and the ability to trash your files) with security (that could be gotten around if they really wanted)
While the other lamp-oriented reply may have been aimed at humor, I bring a serious suggestion:
In order to do some renovation, I had to clear everything out of a room, so my gaming computer is sitting in a basement room (right next to kitty litter and the washing machine) where it can be rather cold (minnesota here). The first time I went for a gaming session, I had a desklamp on the table and turned it on. As I felt its warmth an idea popped into my head and now whenever I am using that computer for something, I position the lamp right over my hand.
a 60watt bulb a couple of inches above your had does a wonderful job of keeping them from getting cold and stiff and provides just enough light to see your keyboard and the rest of your desk. I only wish that I had it for my left hand as the keyboard fingers need much more agility (since the mouse is mostly hand and arm) but the light makes too much glare there
However, Torque is not the engine behind tribes as the article title says, that engine I believe would be shared with starsieg and is called the darkstar engine.
As a gamer, I have come to realize that yes, it's always cool when a sequel is coming, but I have figured out why. The biggest one that came close to me is Tribes and Tribes 2. I started playing tribes late in the game and Shifter quickly became the only mod/ruleset that I would play. When tribes 2 was coming, it was cool, there would be new things but still tribes. When it actually came out, I realized that what I really wanted was a sort of expansion pack. I wanted the new graphics (although tribes graphics are just fine gameplay-wise) and the new vehicle setups...but I didnt like that it didnt play the same, it was still tribes, there was a shifter mod--why was it different?
what I really wanted from the sequel was a game that played the same (but maybe added some cool and balanced features) and more importantly made it cool and added new players. So now look at a more current perspective. Why do people want a HL2? on the multiplayer side, they loved CS and they want CS2, they are tired if the shrinking player base and this would refresh it without forcing a change from the game they love. THIS is what stops the innovation, they know a sequel can be sucessful, but the people dont accept the changes and thus either the game falters, or they patch it and make it closer to the original.
as the other reply touched on, Intel is sold in all the retail boxes.
among harder core games maybe AMD stats would be better, but a lot of the people playing steam games are teens who know little about computers and are using their family (or personal, but provided by family) computers that were most definately retail purchased. Although for the %'s to end up this way, I would have to assume that a good amount of those retail boxes were AMD (not a huge amount, but enough to impact the stats).
What dissapoints me is that--from looking at what it said it was sending--it didnt directly say that I had an atlon-64. It might be possible to figure out by the speed and feature set (SSE2 isnt on previous AMD's right?), but now it just reports as a 2ghz AMD rather than the speed p4 it can really compete with.
I think you are thinking on the wrong level. Lighting control requires none of the features you speak of. The lighting control system I use at work is a custom pII system (designed for stability and has the lighting specific ports added) that is connected to a monitor and a board with lots of sliders, buttons, and a wheel. There is nothing intricate displayed on the monitor, its most common use is displaying what is basically a screen full of numbers (looks kind of like the more advanced console applications in linux).
What makes the system special is the board with sliders and the overall stability. Any computer with a DMX controller connected could run a cue based show, but its the ability to work on the fly that is valueable. Try to run a show if your cues go bad, a normal PC doesnt have crossfaders (with controlable time too) and multiple sets if dimmers (set up one scene while the other is in action, then switch)
The real uses of a powerful PC in lighting is with a program like WYSIWYG from etc(I think?) that works kind of like a 3d modling program for lights. Build your stage and lighting rigs and then start experimenting with color and angles. You can connect it to an in place lighting system and then transfer the cues over from WYSIWYG. It is a lot easier than physically adjusting hte lights just to see.
There is one (of the machines with a swipe instead of an insertion slot) near where I work but it wants me to pay the fee every time I use it. There is a small bank branch with 2 ATM's in a grocery store near my house where I dont have to pay the fee, but being bank ATMs, they are the big standard looking ATM's where you must insert your card. I did however notice the last time I was there that the screen had been replaced on one because it was much brighter and sharper.
Maybe more bank ATM's should start having a card swipe but the only problem I see with a card swipe is you could potentially walk away with your account open whereas when it takes your card, you wait until you get your card before you leave.
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yes, I agree that many (often more intelligent) americans have seen the errors in driving huge cars and have made the switch.
As for the eclipses being made here, its quite possible (I know hondas are definately made in factories around the workd, but the prototypes, design, and parts come from japan) but they could also be made and shipped. I know the design is all done in japan by mitsubishi and when they get the "sneak peek" photos of new generation cars rolling out of boats (in Car & Driver for example), the eclispes have been coming off japanese boats for the current and next generation.
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You had to bring up the eagle talons...
Too bad they are really just rebranded Eclipses (ok so they were a combined initiative but the eclipse name lives on with mitsu). But with all the mitsubishi engineers working on them and the fact that many of their parts are kept up by the mitsubishi enthousiasts, I would not consider them an american car.
but then they nerfed the k98 for 1.1...made it not as accurate (I never really thought it a balance problem when playing on the oposing team and half the allied maps had the enfield)
The TI-89 is allowed for use on the AP Calculus, AP Statistics, AP Physics, AP Chemistry, PSAT/NMSQT, SAT I, SAT II Math IC & IIC
I remeber reading the book when I took the PSAT/NMSQT and the 89 is in fact allowed. For tests like the sat/act, having an 89 isnt a big deal becasue you dont need the advanced functions, any scientific calculator should get through the test. For the higher tests, if its the tool you have been using when you learned the material and you will have available when you need to apply it, it makes sense that you should be able to use it on the test. The AP physics test for example tests more on concept/formula basis, your ability to do the math (which isnt all that advanced most of the time) is not the focus. If it is important enough, they could make calculators be cleared before use but I know a lot of people who wouldnt be happy clearing off their custom programs
Why do people bring up the qwerty keyboard thing (and the 89 does not have qwerty)? i've read it even on tests that qwerty calculators were banned but the 83+ has a key for every letter and you could easily store answers (hint, store them as a program). I know people who can enter data quite fast on a phone and that only has a third of the neccessary keys.
Would someone just give me a good reason why there are tests where the 92+ is banned but the 89 is legitimate (same calculator). Another question would be...why did I see TI-83's (not plus) selling for almost the price of a plus model a few months ago? They are much less complex than the 83+ and even the 83+ is extrememly overpriced. There be a market for releasing a competing graphing calculator with the 83 series for around $50 new if you could get around the fact that high schools routinely say that all students are required to have an 83/83+.
However, the HDD in the 64 died and is in the process of being replaced and so far I havnt had anything I really needed to do that I could do just fine right here on the PIII. Why upgrade from a p4? maybe the proper option is to make sure there is enough ram/decent graphics card or get rid of all the junk you are running on startup/spyware.
ooh maybe you are lucky or they switched back, my ex's Dell (not sure what but it was the new design with a p4 1.8 or something) had a restore cd and a hidden partition that I found when I booted up knoppix..it wasnt a restore partition but it had some dell crap in it maybe about a 30meg partition.
it was possible to coax the restore CD into doing a windows install but it was not easy (and for anyone wondering, your CD key is mounted on the case..its not in any of the documentation)
try that again...I have a dell from when tehy had nice biege cases and it shipped with windows OEM cds, but the new dells in thier black fold open case things...they come with a system restore cd, bunch of software and a custom windows install, no seperate disks or options anymore
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Another interesting minneapolis segway fact, they own several at the Target corporate offices, and you'll see everything up to VP's late for a meeting speeding across the office
Needless to say, many people of all sizes shocked themselves with the camera that day. Nobody was stunned or even really hurt, but I suppose nobody tried to hold it onto their skin for a while (but its a capacitor so it shouldnt matter that much...)
I asked him if he had disney world tickets and he said "this is an answering service." he asked me what I was looking for and and I said flamingo travel...I got a negative answer and "is there anything else I can help you with."
Is it working? is our work done?
does anyone know what these people want to sell me so that I can lead them on a bit more?
So, I guess you have to weigh enhanced recovery chances (and the ability to trash your files) with security (that could be gotten around if they really wanted)
In order to do some renovation, I had to clear everything out of a room, so my gaming computer is sitting in a basement room (right next to kitty litter and the washing machine) where it can be rather cold (minnesota here). The first time I went for a gaming session, I had a desklamp on the table and turned it on. As I felt its warmth an idea popped into my head and now whenever I am using that computer for something, I position the lamp right over my hand.
a 60watt bulb a couple of inches above your had does a wonderful job of keeping them from getting cold and stiff and provides just enough light to see your keyboard and the rest of your desk. I only wish that I had it for my left hand as the keyboard fingers need much more agility (since the mouse is mostly hand and arm) but the light makes too much glare there
Maybe you wouldnt have that problem if you didnt buy a $16 mouse in the first place ;)
However, Torque is not the engine behind tribes as the article title says, that engine I believe would be shared with starsieg and is called the darkstar engine.
what I really wanted from the sequel was a game that played the same (but maybe added some cool and balanced features) and more importantly made it cool and added new players. So now look at a more current perspective. Why do people want a HL2? on the multiplayer side, they loved CS and they want CS2, they are tired if the shrinking player base and this would refresh it without forcing a change from the game they love. THIS is what stops the innovation, they know a sequel can be sucessful, but the people dont accept the changes and thus either the game falters, or they patch it and make it closer to the original.
among harder core games maybe AMD stats would be better, but a lot of the people playing steam games are teens who know little about computers and are using their family (or personal, but provided by family) computers that were most definately retail purchased. Although for the %'s to end up this way, I would have to assume that a good amount of those retail boxes were AMD (not a huge amount, but enough to impact the stats).
What dissapoints me is that--from looking at what it said it was sending--it didnt directly say that I had an atlon-64. It might be possible to figure out by the speed and feature set (SSE2 isnt on previous AMD's right?), but now it just reports as a 2ghz AMD rather than the speed p4 it can really compete with.
I think you are thinking on the wrong level. Lighting control requires none of the features you speak of. The lighting control system I use at work is a custom pII system (designed for stability and has the lighting specific ports added) that is connected to a monitor and a board with lots of sliders, buttons, and a wheel. There is nothing intricate displayed on the monitor, its most common use is displaying what is basically a screen full of numbers (looks kind of like the more advanced console applications in linux).
What makes the system special is the board with sliders and the overall stability. Any computer with a DMX controller connected could run a cue based show, but its the ability to work on the fly that is valueable. Try to run a show if your cues go bad, a normal PC doesnt have crossfaders (with controlable time too) and multiple sets if dimmers (set up one scene while the other is in action, then switch)
The real uses of a powerful PC in lighting is with a program like WYSIWYG from etc(I think?) that works kind of like a 3d modling program for lights. Build your stage and lighting rigs and then start experimenting with color and angles. You can connect it to an in place lighting system and then transfer the cues over from WYSIWYG. It is a lot easier than physically adjusting hte lights just to see.
Maybe more bank ATM's should start having a card swipe but the only problem I see with a card swipe is you could potentially walk away with your account open whereas when it takes your card, you wait until you get your card before you leave.
As for the eclipses being made here, its quite possible (I know hondas are definately made in factories around the workd, but the prototypes, design, and parts come from japan) but they could also be made and shipped. I know the design is all done in japan by mitsubishi and when they get the "sneak peek" photos of new generation cars rolling out of boats (in Car & Driver for example), the eclispes have been coming off japanese boats for the current and next generation.
Too bad they are really just rebranded Eclipses (ok so they were a combined initiative but the eclipse name lives on with mitsu). But with all the mitsubishi engineers working on them and the fact that many of their parts are kept up by the mitsubishi enthousiasts, I would not consider them an american car.
but then they nerfed the k98 for 1.1...made it not as accurate (I never really thought it a balance problem when playing on the oposing team and half the allied maps had the enfield)
I remeber reading the book when I took the PSAT/NMSQT and the 89 is in fact allowed. For tests like the sat/act, having an 89 isnt a big deal becasue you dont need the advanced functions, any scientific calculator should get through the test. For the higher tests, if its the tool you have been using when you learned the material and you will have available when you need to apply it, it makes sense that you should be able to use it on the test. The AP physics test for example tests more on concept/formula basis, your ability to do the math (which isnt all that advanced most of the time) is not the focus. If it is important enough, they could make calculators be cleared before use but I know a lot of people who wouldnt be happy clearing off their custom programs
Would someone just give me a good reason why there are tests where the 92+ is banned but the 89 is legitimate (same calculator). Another question would be...why did I see TI-83's (not plus) selling for almost the price of a plus model a few months ago? They are much less complex than the 83+ and even the 83+ is extrememly overpriced. There be a market for releasing a competing graphing calculator with the 83 series for around $50 new if you could get around the fact that high schools routinely say that all students are required to have an 83/83+.
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well...my via chipset has 64bit drivers for SATA becasue...its a via chipset for the Athlon64 so it would sure make sense for them to have drivers.
However, the HDD in the 64 died and is in the process of being replaced and so far I havnt had anything I really needed to do that I could do just fine right here on the PIII. Why upgrade from a p4? maybe the proper option is to make sure there is enough ram/decent graphics card or get rid of all the junk you are running on startup/spyware.
I know lots of people think very highly of the 7inch (most common size in cars) and the rest should be of the same quality
Man from michigan sued sears and won under a junk fax law
it was possible to coax the restore CD into doing a windows install but it was not easy (and for anyone wondering, your CD key is mounted on the case..its not in any of the documentation)
try that again...I have a dell from when tehy had nice biege cases and it shipped with windows OEM cds, but the new dells in thier black fold open case things...they come with a system restore cd, bunch of software and a custom windows install, no seperate disks or options anymore