International net gambling companies will either go broke or will become rather small, US government "rethinks" it's decision and allows internet gambling again. In the mean time the US gambling corps will have had enough time to create competing products or prepare hostile takeovers which will go live when the law is cancelled. Well done US!
I think so too, But still there's the performance gap.
My old Thinkpad T40p (replaced with a PBG4/1.5/9700) outperformed the PB on almost every 3D game, and it had a 9000 with 64 MB. Not that the PB is bad, it's not, it's just that using Windows most games run smoother.
Yep, it is great. good software deserves to be rewarded, I have a Windows licence and a Linux licence. Will probably soon add a Mac licence also. It's quick, has lots of good features, and the interface (in 7.5) has finaly been cleaned up. The email (which I don't use anymore) was a little strange in the past, but clever: you have a database of emails with a bunch of views on this database -> instead of a bunch of folders with emails in them.
Ridiculous. If I came up with the name "millyon" and then got sued by the descendants of the person who first coined the term "million".... Get a life. Is this descendant perhaps not too successful?
I believe that Stardock's Windowblinds may have similar functionality. I may be wrong, but I have this memory. also don't several, or all, twindow managers do this?
Well, I use Xcode to write standard C/C++ GLUT OpenGL apps. What do you mean "It also does not support any other language"? Geesh, go read some stuff.
Xcode takes a little getting used to, but once you learn it (and I am only part-way there) it is quite nice and has (in my case) made life a little easier in some respects, and yes also harder in some others.
I just bought a Powerbook 17" a week-and-a-half ago and love it. Before buying I went to an Apple Store and tested the 1GHz 15" against my Thinkpad T40p and the Powerbook outperformed it. Except on UT2004. I just looked at the things I do daily, and I'm not interested in film editing or Photoshop filters.
Of course this will be unpopular, but it's not exactly a bad idea.
How many Mandrake installations are the free download? They make no money of those, this way they can make some money on the free download installations also. This is, imho, better than only offering the older version for free download, this way you can have the latest always!
It's just a few ads to ensure you can still get it all for free.
Let's just hope they don't just allow any idiot to advertise.
Perspective: I'm an employee at one of the largest EGM manufacturers.
For more in-depth information regarding poker machines follow this link: http://www.dgr.nsw.gov.au/HTML/LAB/tech_standards. html. This will take you to the page at the NSW (Australia) Government's Standards page for Electronic Gaming Machines.
They're random. They go through quite rigorous testing. The RNG has to comply with what a particular jurisdiction specifies.
Fines for not complying can include loss of licence, which means you may as well close your company. So the manufacturers are very carefull with their products, but some mistakes do happen occasionally.
There is no real cheating, everyone is told that a particular machine gives back a certain percentage. So imagine you walk up to a 90% RTP machine and insert $90, you loose it all. The next person plays $10 and gets $90. There's the 90% RTP, $100 went in, $90 went out.
I'll repeat some advice from a previous poster: If you can't afford to lose the money you want to insert, DON'T PLAY! It's "entertainment". Some people go to a strip-club, buy "dancin' dollars" and stuff them down g-strings and watch pretty girls (hopefully) go 'round, other people buy credits and watch the pretty pictures spin 'round!
Forgot about the drives in my previous post. Yes they're horribly slow, my external firewire drive at 5400rpm is a lot faster than the laptop's internal 4200rpm. BUT! Rescue from slow drives is at hand! See the following article at Extreme Tech. IBM will soon give us 7200rpm mobile drives! I see myself spending more money on my laptop next year... Oh well.
Off topic: are the P4M and the ATI7500 in the IBM laptops "removable" at all?;)
My IBM A31 (P4/1600,512DDR,ATI7500/32,15") plays the games I want to play very well!
I get higher framerates in Counterstrike than most of the desktops in my workplace (these are recent Dell boxes), it runs UT2003 VERY well, Q3, AND it allows me to do all the OGL and DX8 development I need to do (ok, without shaders).
I've never been able to play games on a 19" or 21" screen, always preferring 17", so ok maybe 15" inch is slightly smaller than MY optimal, but the portablility more than makes up for that.
Yes, they can get stolen, but so can your desktop! Insurance is a smart thing, some can pay you for loss of data and all sorts of problems.
I agree they're too expensive, but they're also a good tax write-off, the extra cost is worth the portability. I can't take my desktop to my favourite cafe and set it up on the little table now, can I? I am actually most productive in public, something to do with forced concentration. (I am also almost non-productive at my workplace, and fairly productive at home, hehe.)
Don't knock a good laptop. Gee, I was baited, well done!;)
The way the music companies are going about this is just wrong.
I am very much in favour of protecting the rights of the creater/owner. I worked on some software a while ago on a royalty basis. This software was available at the local user-groups before it was available in the shops. Someone at the publisher had handed a copy to a friend. Obviously this cost me money.
We just need a solid cross-industry method of license 'management' that allows 'fair use', backups, hardware upgrades, insurance claims and what-not.
But, as in my earlier post, if it doesn't work in my players, I won't buy it! Looks like I will have to add a portable disc player to my travel pack!
Yes, we can always leave... I spent a SHORT time in the US, and on return I was praising Sydney's previously-too-humid air!:) I'm originally from Holland, and am now having a hard time thinking of living anywhwere else but Australia (in my case Sydney). Anyway, different topic... might be interesting.
aaarrgghh.... As a software engineer in Australia, this is just waaaaaaaaay out of my reach (and yes, the $141K is the australian base). Super performance with 4 seats, on a smallish wheelbase: perfect for a computer geek in Sydney. Oh to put one of these on the putty road or the old pacific highway...
Correct, most touch their keyboards very little. Personally, on my last long flight I played Unreal Tournament for 6 hours (yes, yes, against bots) on a double battery machine (which probably shows me to be a right wanker...) First and only time I didn't swear profusely during gaming. Took my mind of the freezing temperature.
Everyone has their own "productive period", mine is from 1pm to approx 3am, with a break for dinner. Just a shame that most employers don't accept this. Most people I work with (software/hardware development) are NOT productive in the morning. Most come in about 10-10:30, stay until say 19:00, with some not doing anything all day and then staying until midnight. (of course this clashes slightly with a previous comment by myself).
Which is why THAT particular department in a company is called HUMAN RESOURCES. Lovely, eh? In any case: try not to do the ridiculously long hours, they burn you out, and make your loved ones believe that you don't want them around. Destruction all-round.
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International net gambling companies will either go broke or will become rather small, US government "rethinks" it's decision and allows internet gambling again. In the mean time the US gambling corps will have had enough time to create competing products or prepare hostile takeovers which will go live when the law is cancelled. Well done US!
Both systems have had some search capabilities for quite some time, this is just a natural extension.
I think so too, But still there's the performance gap.
My old Thinkpad T40p (replaced with a PBG4/1.5/9700) outperformed the PB on almost every 3D game, and it had a 9000 with 64 MB. Not that the PB is bad, it's not, it's just that using Windows most games run smoother.
Yep, it is great.
good software deserves to be rewarded, I have a Windows licence and a Linux licence. Will probably soon add a Mac licence also.
It's quick, has lots of good features, and the interface (in 7.5) has finaly been cleaned up.
The email (which I don't use anymore) was a little strange in the past, but clever: you have a database of emails with a bunch of views on this database -> instead of a bunch of folders with emails in them.
GO OPERA!
Ridiculous.
If I came up with the name "millyon" and then got sued by the descendants of the person who first coined the term "million"....
Get a life. Is this descendant perhaps not too successful?
I believe that Stardock's Windowblinds may have similar functionality. I may be wrong, but I have this memory.
also don't several, or all, twindow managers do this?
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Well, I use Xcode to write standard C/C++ GLUT OpenGL apps. What do you mean "It also does not support any other language"? Geesh, go read some stuff.
Xcode takes a little getting used to, but once you learn it (and I am only part-way there) it is quite nice and has (in my case) made life a little easier in some respects, and yes also harder in some others.
Troll.
I just bought a Powerbook 17" a week-and-a-half ago and love it.
Before buying I went to an Apple Store and tested the 1GHz 15" against my Thinkpad T40p and the Powerbook outperformed it. Except on UT2004. I just looked at the things I do daily, and I'm not interested in film editing or Photoshop filters.
For more have a look at my switch
Most of all, Apple's are just another nice computer, just like from Toshiba, IBM, Sony.... buy what you like and enjoy!
Of course this will be unpopular, but it's not exactly a bad idea.
How many Mandrake installations are the free download? They make no money of those, this way they can make some money on the free download installations also. This is, imho, better than only offering the older version for free download, this way you can have the latest always!
It's just a few ads to ensure you can still get it all for free.
Let's just hope they don't just allow any idiot to advertise.
For more in-depth information regarding poker machines follow this link: http://www.dgr.nsw.gov.au/HTML/LAB/tech_standards. html. This will take you to the page at the NSW (Australia) Government's Standards page for Electronic Gaming Machines.
They're random. They go through quite rigorous testing. The RNG has to comply with what a particular jurisdiction specifies.
Fines for not complying can include loss of licence, which means you may as well close your company. So the manufacturers are very carefull with their products, but some mistakes do happen occasionally.
There is no real cheating, everyone is told that a particular machine gives back a certain percentage. So imagine you walk up to a 90% RTP machine and insert $90, you loose it all. The next person plays $10 and gets $90. There's the 90% RTP, $100 went in, $90 went out.
I'll repeat some advice from a previous poster: If you can't afford to lose the money you want to insert, DON'T PLAY! It's "entertainment". Some people go to a strip-club, buy "dancin' dollars" and stuff them down g-strings and watch pretty girls (hopefully) go 'round, other people buy credits and watch the pretty pictures spin 'round!
Enjoy!
They didn't BUY it. Jeezsh you guys!
Forgot about the drives in my previous post.
;)
Yes they're horribly slow, my external firewire drive at 5400rpm is a lot faster than the laptop's internal 4200rpm.
BUT! Rescue from slow drives is at hand!
See the following article at Extreme Tech.
IBM will soon give us 7200rpm mobile drives! I see myself spending more money on my laptop next year... Oh well.
Off topic: are the P4M and the ATI7500 in the IBM laptops "removable" at all?
Enjoy!
Not true! (oh, and these are my opinions)
;)
My IBM A31 (P4/1600,512DDR,ATI7500/32,15") plays the games I want to play very well!
I get higher framerates in Counterstrike than most of the desktops in my workplace (these are recent Dell boxes), it runs UT2003 VERY well, Q3, AND it allows me to do all the OGL and DX8 development I need to do (ok, without shaders).
I've never been able to play games on a 19" or 21" screen, always preferring 17", so ok maybe 15" inch is slightly smaller than MY optimal, but the portablility more than makes up for that.
Yes, they can get stolen, but so can your desktop! Insurance is a smart thing, some can pay you for loss of data and all sorts of problems.
I agree they're too expensive, but they're also a good tax write-off, the extra cost is worth the portability. I can't take my desktop to my favourite cafe and set it up on the little table now, can I? I am actually most productive in public, something to do with forced concentration. (I am also almost non-productive at my workplace, and fairly productive at home, hehe.)
Don't knock a good laptop. Gee, I was baited, well done!
So long as the CD works in all machines/players that take the format!
Why do you want to copy music anyway? (ok, I know, mp3 it for your computer...)
The way the music companies are going about this is just wrong.
I am very much in favour of protecting the rights of the creater/owner. I worked on some software a while ago on a royalty basis. This software was available at the local user-groups before it was available in the shops. Someone at the publisher had handed a copy to a friend. Obviously this cost me money.
We just need a solid cross-industry method of license 'management' that allows 'fair use', backups, hardware upgrades, insurance claims and what-not.
But, as in my earlier post, if it doesn't work in my players, I won't buy it! Looks like I will have to add a portable disc player to my travel pack!
... the laptop has a dvd/cdrw drive in it....
If I can't play it, I won't buy it.
You're right: you are NOT alone in this.
Yes, we can always leave... I spent a SHORT time in the US, and on return I was praising Sydney's previously-too-humid air! :) I'm originally from Holland, and am now having a hard time thinking of living anywhwere else but Australia (in my case Sydney).
Anyway, different topic... might be interesting.
huh! funny! Netscape7 kindly remembered the old form data... heading was obviously wrong: should be something like "ooh, drool..."
aaarrgghh....
As a software engineer in Australia, this is just waaaaaaaaay out of my reach (and yes, the $141K is the australian base). Super performance with 4 seats, on a smallish wheelbase: perfect for a computer geek in Sydney. Oh to put one of these on the putty road or the old pacific highway...
Correct, most touch their keyboards very little.
Personally, on my last long flight I played Unreal Tournament for 6 hours (yes, yes, against bots) on a double battery machine (which probably shows me to be a right wanker...)
First and only time I didn't swear profusely during gaming.
Took my mind of the freezing temperature.
Everyone has their own "productive period", mine is from 1pm to approx 3am, with a break for dinner.
Just a shame that most employers don't accept this.
Most people I work with (software/hardware development) are NOT productive in the morning. Most come in about 10-10:30, stay until say 19:00, with some not doing anything all day and then staying until midnight.
(of course this clashes slightly with a previous comment by myself).
Which is why THAT particular department in a company is called HUMAN RESOURCES. Lovely, eh?
In any case: try not to do the ridiculously long hours, they burn you out, and make your loved ones believe that you don't want them around. Destruction all-round.