I would think that if you were playing against a wall shaped oponent, it would be reletively easy to make them hit the ball out to the side or off the edge of the court. Only a moron would lose
I agree, just let them have at it (not talking about anything besides internet access here, access to computers/time/etc may not apply directly to this).
I'm also 17 and well...lets just say I remember when that first copy of Mosaic was new and cool...Had a computer in my bedroom since about 7th grade.
The only problems I see with this are that when I started, the bad stuff was a lot harder to find. Im sure compuserve had some bad content but I probobly would have had to pay extra to view it; with the whole.com thing all being new and not how it is today (not to mention SLOW downloads), there werent porn popups and shit at every turn. And with the computer to myself, it just so happened that I was the one who used it the most and when a new one was purchased it went in my room and hte old one left (no networking attempt needed at that time, just goodbye box). Of course by now (and id say it certainly applys to the 15 year old), I NEED a computer in my bedroom or another seperated room becasue of how much it is used for school (and only have ONE somewhat distant friend with incredibly overprotective parents who doesnt have access to a computer in a private place). I dont know how the younger people are using computers for school but maybe if the 2 younger kids had the computers in the same room (providing you have an extra semi-private room), it would encourage them to be good while still giving them freedom to chat and the like (probobly arent going to porn it up while thier sibling is there but they wouldnt mind IM'ing their honey)--possibly even have all 3 children there provided they can get quiet time for papers and such.
Mechassault was a lot of fun on Xbox Live, though it got a bit repetitive. Fortunately, even the single-player campaign is worth its current $20 pricetag - playing through every difficulty level was a blast for me.
as an added bonus with Mechassualt, you can make back your investment by renting it to people who want to install Xbox linux without buying the game...$2 an install sounds good.
I love knoppix and use it on several computers of mine (and mostly on computers belonging to others) but it wont run on my new athlon-64 (with the ASUS mobo...K8V deluxe)
If anyone can tell me what to exclude on boot I would be very happy indeed. It will boot in failsafe mode and it tends to hang after loading the APM drivers (booting with noapm does not solve the problem.) Any ideas would be great!
i'm sure glad I ordered the ASUS with my a64 2 days after release...either way it would have run but i'm glad that mine scored higher in the benchmarks and I would highly reccomend it for anything.
mine didnt come wiht the wifi or the ram (but its the same ram I bought..very nice) but the onboard networking is incredibly fast and low resource for onboard networking...nice job asus!
I have always wanted the computer to control mice in games like warcraft and starcraft, there have been so many occasions where I KNOW that no human would be able to select those particular units on seperate screens and give them orders all at once. Make the computer do everything with a mouse and a field of view.
my 2 friends with verizon service and that phone will fully charge it, and if they leave it on from about 6:30, through the school day, to 2:30 without talking once, it will be dead.
many other people complain about poor verizon battery life here in MN
I dont know why you would want to drop your home internet...I dont think celular would be quite as fast or as reliable.
As for verizon (in the minneapolis area), they are by far the worst of the large providors. Everyone that I know with service from them is dissatisfied with almost every aspect (except the billing, never messed up billing). Even the phones they provide have problems on their network here, resulting in bad battery life...and wtf is with their new phones from LG, I have never heard of them.
Most provides seem to provide access to 3g systems...I dont know about in CA but here in the US you can get unlimited data from tmobile for around $20 a month. Buy their pc card or a phone with a data jack and plug it into a computer. network card on the computer to network card where you are....crossover cable or a switch on your end and BOOM you have faster internet.
I know AT&T has similar plans and verizon (but verizon sucks)
What about places where the computers stay on for a reason...I am using hte computer now but it is also crunching for Folding@home, so it still helps.
One example I can think if is: If I was the sysadmin for my school district, I sure as hell would be running folding or grid or something on EVERY SYSTEM...teachers computers sit in disuse during most of thier teaching time, lab computers sit in disuse unless the lab is in use...but they remain powered on. Every computer in my school (and the other schools I have been in recently, not sure about the elementary schools) is a pretty speedy P4 with the exception of an iMac lab at one of the middle schools, a few laptop labs, and a few special purpose computers (lighting control in the "modern" auditoriums and the such). There is a HUGE amount of CPU power just sitting there waiting to cure a disease or something.
simply put up private auctions for support and give bidding power to all the people you support. Repairs go to the highest bidder. You could even have categories of repair...maybe dutch auctions for common repairs and upgrades.
firewire cables have HUGE markups...I had to buy one 2 years ago (shool project, needed movie off the camera NOW) and it was $54 for one pretty short 6 to 4 pin firewire cable. I have seen the same length online for prices that come down as low as $5. When I recieved my nomad jukebox about 9 months ago, it came with the exact same cable (in addition to a USB cable) and I highly doubt that the cost of the nomad was raised $50 to include a fricking cable. The same time it was purchased, best buy still had the same price on the firewire cables. It is completely an "I need this now" type of deal, I only wish the store price was double the online price, not 4-5x as much.
...ok how is the sound of an AWP being fired from the other side of a map not included in this list...its not exactly something people are likely to forget after spending a fair amount of time with CS
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*texan voice*So what? we have the other 19/30 of the world dont we?
I wish I had mod points...its funny or insightful or at least interesting...MOD UP
I would think that if you were playing against a wall shaped oponent, it would be reletively easy to make them hit the ball out to the side or off the edge of the court. Only a moron would lose
I'm also 17 and well...lets just say I remember when that first copy of Mosaic was new and cool...Had a computer in my bedroom since about 7th grade.
The only problems I see with this are that when I started, the bad stuff was a lot harder to find. Im sure compuserve had some bad content but I probobly would have had to pay extra to view it; with the whole .com thing all being new and not how it is today (not to mention SLOW downloads), there werent porn popups and shit at every turn. And with the computer to myself, it just so happened that I was the one who used it the most and when a new one was purchased it went in my room and hte old one left (no networking attempt needed at that time, just goodbye box). Of course by now (and id say it certainly applys to the 15 year old), I NEED a computer in my bedroom or another seperated room becasue of how much it is used for school (and only have ONE somewhat distant friend with incredibly overprotective parents who doesnt have access to a computer in a private place). I dont know how the younger people are using computers for school but maybe if the 2 younger kids had the computers in the same room (providing you have an extra semi-private room), it would encourage them to be good while still giving them freedom to chat and the like (probobly arent going to porn it up while thier sibling is there but they wouldnt mind IM'ing their honey)--possibly even have all 3 children there provided they can get quiet time for papers and such.
as an added bonus with Mechassualt, you can make back your investment by renting it to people who want to install Xbox linux without buying the game...$2 an install sounds good.
say...they say but the link says
I see 300 people downloading from a bittorrent link that says otherwise
This wouldnt be a problem if they used OSS to vote. The problems could be caught and fixed before a vote...and nobody has to keep the info secure.
If anyone can tell me what to exclude on boot I would be very happy indeed. It will boot in failsafe mode and it tends to hang after loading the APM drivers (booting with noapm does not solve the problem.) Any ideas would be great!
Yeah thats what I was thinking...I also think that if I lived where you live, you would have converted me to verizon by now
mine didnt come wiht the wifi or the ram (but its the same ram I bought..very nice) but the onboard networking is incredibly fast and low resource for onboard networking...nice job asus!
I have always wanted the computer to control mice in games like warcraft and starcraft, there have been so many occasions where I KNOW that no human would be able to select those particular units on seperate screens and give them orders all at once. Make the computer do everything with a mouse and a field of view.
my 2 friends with verizon service and that phone will fully charge it, and if they leave it on from about 6:30, through the school day, to 2:30 without talking once, it will be dead. many other people complain about poor verizon battery life here in MN
Hows the battery life on the T720? The people I know who have them with verizon get terrible battery life and signal. Its better with other companies.
As for verizon (in the minneapolis area), they are by far the worst of the large providors. Everyone that I know with service from them is dissatisfied with almost every aspect (except the billing, never messed up billing). Even the phones they provide have problems on their network here, resulting in bad battery life...and wtf is with their new phones from LG, I have never heard of them.
I know AT&T has similar plans and verizon (but verizon sucks)
a 1-alarm fire would be the nearest station had to come out and control it, a 5-alarm would be a fire that took the 5 nearest stations to control it.
One example I can think if is: If I was the sysadmin for my school district, I sure as hell would be running folding or grid or something on EVERY SYSTEM...teachers computers sit in disuse during most of thier teaching time, lab computers sit in disuse unless the lab is in use...but they remain powered on. Every computer in my school (and the other schools I have been in recently, not sure about the elementary schools) is a pretty speedy P4 with the exception of an iMac lab at one of the middle schools, a few laptop labs, and a few special purpose computers (lighting control in the "modern" auditoriums and the such). There is a HUGE amount of CPU power just sitting there waiting to cure a disease or something.
XNView is GPL'd and runs on linux/windows...gret image browser, faster and better than acdsee
What has this world come to...now you have to call your lawyer and start sueing things just to move your pointer...wtf
simply put up private auctions for support and give bidding power to all the people you support. Repairs go to the highest bidder. You could even have categories of repair...maybe dutch auctions for common repairs and upgrades.
firewire cables have HUGE markups...I had to buy one 2 years ago (shool project, needed movie off the camera NOW) and it was $54 for one pretty short 6 to 4 pin firewire cable. I have seen the same length online for prices that come down as low as $5. When I recieved my nomad jukebox about 9 months ago, it came with the exact same cable (in addition to a USB cable) and I highly doubt that the cost of the nomad was raised $50 to include a fricking cable. The same time it was purchased, best buy still had the same price on the firewire cables. It is completely an "I need this now" type of deal, I only wish the store price was double the online price, not 4-5x as much.
I got my chip and mobo in last night but I still have to wait for the other parts. I cant wait to see how this baby really runs.
...ok how is the sound of an AWP being fired from the other side of a map not included in this list...its not exactly something people are likely to forget after spending a fair amount of time with CS