Google is the ONLY search engine I use. Period. I use their toolbar as well, which is EXTREMELY handy. They would definitely lose me if this went through.
I remember when Google first came out. I was still using Yahoo and AltaVista at the time. The first time I did a search with Google, I went OMFG!!! It actually brought me what I was looking for on the FIRST LINK!!!
Seriously, this would ruin the entire interwebnet experience for me.
Oh
My
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God
I would love to do that. I work for an ISP providing tech support for approx. 4,000 subscribers (cable). We have 3 people on our team. And yes, 3 of us cover 4,000 people at about 50 calls a day. Some of those people are such complete fucking jackasses or idiots that I would love to yell that at them.
A few key rules:
1. If you are over 60, you should not own a computer.
2. If you cannot figure out how to program a VCR, you should not own a computer.
3. Any given person, at any given moment, will try to lay the blame on you.
Doom 3 Xbox exclusive my ass. Xbox fanatics don't even know wtf Doom 3 IS. id Software knows where their market is, and that's with hardcore PC gamers. That is ALL that needs to be said. Whoever posted the original needs to be shot, for this is nothing but a big floating log of BS.
If google went public, I would start trading stocks. Right now, the market is so horrible that I'm afraid to get into it, even though I have the money to invest. I'd like to go for some high risk stocks, but there's a difference between high risk and losing your nuts in one day. Google would be my only investment. Until then, or until our economy improves, i'll stick with bonds.
Ok. When I pay for 768 kbs up/down, I want to be able to utilize that bandwidth ALL THE TIME. I don't want to be capped at 30GB worth of file transfers a month, when I could, theoretically, push 312.5 GB of file transfers (one way!). I want what I pay for, NOT what the ISP feels like giving me AFTER I've already given them my money for an allotted amount of bandwidth per second. When I first signed up for cable, there WASN'T anything in the contract stating that there was a monthly limit on file transfers. I didn't know until I got a call from my ISP saying that they "could" charge me $2,000 dollars for my bandwidth "ABUSE" *cough use*. I then went back and re-read the contract.. it appears as if it was added in AFTER I signed up.
Pr0n,years worth of MP3s, Keyboard drivers, complete OS images, etc.
I have 200 GB worth of data sitting at home that I would KILL to back up to something reliable. This would be perfect. Hard drives just aren't reliable enough for my data.
3x faster you say, eh?
How? The highest rotational speeds achieved are still 15k rpm, and IDE is slowly catching up.
Serial ATA also introduces command queing into the mix, something that has been exclusive to SCSI up until now. Apparently, you also haven't noticed the random access and full seek times for this specific drive- they rival, if not beat, any SCSI drive I've seen.
Oh, there is a career in anime, you just have to be one of the best. You can't be a mediocre artist and try to get into something big enough to pay your bills with. You have to be top notch, just as with any other form of art.
Am I the only one here that actually likes using gamespy? It updates the servers much faster than the game engines can, and also detects WAY more game servers than the games do themselves.
Try using Gamespy 3D instead of that Arcade BS. Yes, I will agree, Gamespy Arcade sucks. So? Use Gamespy 3D. They're NOTHING alike. It's like going from Win XP (Arcade, bloatware), to using TurboLinux (Gspy 3D, simple, powerful).
Yes, I have great job security at the University. They are widely renowned for having one of the fastest college/university networks in the world, so I don't think I'm going anywhere anytime soon.
I work at the University Of Michigan. I'm a Computer Systems Specialist, a fancy term for PC tech. My colleagues and I (7 people) support a University building by ourselves (about 600 users). And still,I only take about 2 work orders per day, and they're usually easy (like some idiot who couldn't figure out how to turn on the printer). The rest of the time I play around online, read books, play the occasional game of Quake 3 (we upgrade enough to have Geforce 4 MX's in most of our machines:), and spend about one hour working. I LOVE MY JOB!!!!!!!!
I take it you've never been addicted to a video game. How about being so addicted, you are actually afraid to interact with people in the real world. This happened to me. I'm recovering now. And yes, I have low self esteem, along with other problems like depression and obsessive compulsive disorder. FPS games have always been my game of choice. However, when I started playing Quake 3 I knew something was different. I would come home from school and do nothing but play Quake. I would eat, relieve myself, and play Quake 3. I joined a clan shortly after I started playing. Then, I dropped out of high school. It took me about 2 months to find a job. During those 2 months, I did NOTHING but play Quake. I didn't have any friends, so I really had nothing else to do. I was literally playing Quake 12-16 hours a day. After I got a job, it got cut down to 6-8 hours a day. I played like this for 3 years. I often missed work for Quake. Then I ended up in a mental ward at a hospital for a week for depression. I've cut the Quake down to maybe 2 hours very other day. I've gotten a real job (PC Tech at the University Of Michigan), and have (somewhat of) a life. Does this make me lazy? No. I've always been lazy, gaming has nothing to do with it. Does it make me pathetic? No. Since when does having problems make someone pathetic? Are you actually ignorant enough, and enough of an assbackwards redneck, to think this? If you are, well.... FU.
A true nerd will optimize his system, no matter how long it takes. When did everyone around here become a "white collar" nerd? I understand that most of these tweaks are... well... misguided, but half of the readers here act... well... afraid of tweaking there systems. What happened to the days of the computer cowboys? When did everyone lose their enthusiasm, their drive for computers? BTW, if you are afraid to go into the BIOS, I pity you. You can actually gain a lot in terms of performance with BIOS tweaks. And flashing a BIOS? Piece of cake. Try soldering resistors onto a video card to up the voltage. Now THAT's nerdy!
Ok. So let me get this straight. Developers should stop making more complex games just because you don't want to have to upgrade your system? I take it you're not getting DooM ]|[.
The games that tax a system do it for a reason: they look better than console games! And what are you talking about with incompatibility? What are you running, a Voodoo 5?
Personnally, I would not trust something that has this little power. Build me a tattoo gun running on an 8 way Xeon setup, then I might think about it.
I once worked in a factory that made refrigeration units. Have you ever ran a footpedal drillpress that the minimum requirement is 4000 parts A DAY? No? Let me break it down. That equals 500 parts an hour, and 8.3 parts per minute. Do you know how fast that is? Especially when you're soaked with coolant from the waist down, and you're hands have turned to prunes from it? Work THAT job, and then tell me that we geeks don't have it any better. BAH!
Ummm... ok. First of all, if you don't even have an Nvidia or ATI card on that laptop, you WON'T be able to play this game. Period. All the other laptop vidcard solutions are so slow it won't even run on it, so quit your bitching and upgrade.
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Google is the ONLY search engine I use. Period. I use their toolbar as well, which is EXTREMELY handy. They would definitely lose me if this went through.
I remember when Google first came out. I was still using Yahoo and AltaVista at the time. The first time I did a search with Google, I went OMFG!!! It actually brought me what I was looking for on the FIRST LINK!!!
Seriously, this would ruin the entire interwebnet experience for me.
No. No. And FUCK NO.
Yay for Qtip42, the creator. He posts on a forum, http://www.genmay.com , that I post on. Good job dude.
Oh My Fucking God I would love to do that. I work for an ISP providing tech support for approx. 4,000 subscribers (cable). We have 3 people on our team. And yes, 3 of us cover 4,000 people at about 50 calls a day. Some of those people are such complete fucking jackasses or idiots that I would love to yell that at them. A few key rules: 1. If you are over 60, you should not own a computer. 2. If you cannot figure out how to program a VCR, you should not own a computer. 3. Any given person, at any given moment, will try to lay the blame on you.
Doom 3 Xbox exclusive my ass. Xbox fanatics don't even know wtf Doom 3 IS. id Software knows where their market is, and that's with hardcore PC gamers. That is ALL that needs to be said. Whoever posted the original needs to be shot, for this is nothing but a big floating log of BS.
If google went public, I would start trading stocks. Right now, the market is so horrible that I'm afraid to get into it, even though I have the money to invest. I'd like to go for some high risk stocks, but there's a difference between high risk and losing your nuts in one day. Google would be my only investment. Until then, or until our economy improves, i'll stick with bonds.
Anyone else remember reading about this over 6 months ago? REPOST.
Ok. When I pay for 768 kbs up/down, I want to be able to utilize that bandwidth ALL THE TIME. I don't want to be capped at 30GB worth of file transfers a month, when I could, theoretically, push 312.5 GB of file transfers (one way!). I want what I pay for, NOT what the ISP feels like giving me AFTER I've already given them my money for an allotted amount of bandwidth per second. When I first signed up for cable, there WASN'T anything in the contract stating that there was a monthly limit on file transfers. I didn't know until I got a call from my ISP saying that they "could" charge me $2,000 dollars for my bandwidth "ABUSE" *cough use*. I then went back and re-read the contract.. it appears as if it was added in AFTER I signed up.
Score: -1, Unintelligable.
$200 dollars for a Lindows PC at Wal-Mart. Not $300.
Pr0n,years worth of MP3s, Keyboard drivers, complete OS images, etc. I have 200 GB worth of data sitting at home that I would KILL to back up to something reliable. This would be perfect. Hard drives just aren't reliable enough for my data.
Sigh. 1984 anyone? I hate the US government with a passion. I hope they're reading this. They can .... off and die.
.... Ummm.... ANYTHING is going to be ineffective if hit by a power outage.. Sigh :rolleyes:
3x faster you say, eh? How? The highest rotational speeds achieved are still 15k rpm, and IDE is slowly catching up. Serial ATA also introduces command queing into the mix, something that has been exclusive to SCSI up until now. Apparently, you also haven't noticed the random access and full seek times for this specific drive- they rival, if not beat, any SCSI drive I've seen.
Hmmm.... wireless USB 2.0 cameras anyone? (Or are they out there already... LINKS!!!!)
Oh, there is a career in anime, you just have to be one of the best. You can't be a mediocre artist and try to get into something big enough to pay your bills with. You have to be top notch, just as with any other form of art.
Am I the only one here that actually likes using gamespy? It updates the servers much faster than the game engines can, and also detects WAY more game servers than the games do themselves. Try using Gamespy 3D instead of that Arcade BS. Yes, I will agree, Gamespy Arcade sucks. So? Use Gamespy 3D. They're NOTHING alike. It's like going from Win XP (Arcade, bloatware), to using TurboLinux (Gspy 3D, simple, powerful).
Yes, I have great job security at the University. They are widely renowned for having one of the fastest college/university networks in the world, so I don't think I'm going anywhere anytime soon.
I work at the University Of Michigan. I'm a Computer Systems Specialist, a fancy term for PC tech. My colleagues and I (7 people) support a University building by ourselves (about 600 users). And still,I only take about 2 work orders per day, and they're usually easy (like some idiot who couldn't figure out how to turn on the printer). The rest of the time I play around online, read books, play the occasional game of Quake 3 (we upgrade enough to have Geforce 4 MX's in most of our machines :), and spend about one hour working. I LOVE MY JOB!!!!!!!!
I take it you've never been addicted to a video game. How about being so addicted, you are actually afraid to interact with people in the real world. This happened to me. I'm recovering now. And yes, I have low self esteem, along with other problems like depression and obsessive compulsive disorder. FPS games have always been my game of choice. However, when I started playing Quake 3 I knew something was different. I would come home from school and do nothing but play Quake. I would eat, relieve myself, and play Quake 3. I joined a clan shortly after I started playing. Then, I dropped out of high school. It took me about 2 months to find a job. During those 2 months, I did NOTHING but play Quake. I didn't have any friends, so I really had nothing else to do. I was literally playing Quake 12-16 hours a day. After I got a job, it got cut down to 6-8 hours a day. I played like this for 3 years. I often missed work for Quake. Then I ended up in a mental ward at a hospital for a week for depression. I've cut the Quake down to maybe 2 hours very other day. I've gotten a real job (PC Tech at the University Of Michigan), and have (somewhat of) a life. Does this make me lazy? No. I've always been lazy, gaming has nothing to do with it. Does it make me pathetic? No. Since when does having problems make someone pathetic? Are you actually ignorant enough, and enough of an assbackwards redneck, to think this? If you are, well.... FU.
A true nerd will optimize his system, no matter how long it takes. When did everyone around here become a "white collar" nerd? I understand that most of these tweaks are... well... misguided, but half of the readers here act... well... afraid of tweaking there systems. What happened to the days of the computer cowboys? When did everyone lose their enthusiasm, their drive for computers? BTW, if you are afraid to go into the BIOS, I pity you. You can actually gain a lot in terms of performance with BIOS tweaks. And flashing a BIOS? Piece of cake. Try soldering resistors onto a video card to up the voltage. Now THAT's nerdy!
Ok. So let me get this straight. Developers should stop making more complex games just because you don't want to have to upgrade your system? I take it you're not getting DooM ]|[. The games that tax a system do it for a reason: they look better than console games! And what are you talking about with incompatibility? What are you running, a Voodoo 5?
Personnally, I would not trust something that has this little power. Build me a tattoo gun running on an 8 way Xeon setup, then I might think about it.
I once worked in a factory that made refrigeration units. Have you ever ran a footpedal drillpress that the minimum requirement is 4000 parts A DAY? No? Let me break it down. That equals 500 parts an hour, and 8.3 parts per minute. Do you know how fast that is? Especially when you're soaked with coolant from the waist down, and you're hands have turned to prunes from it? Work THAT job, and then tell me that we geeks don't have it any better. BAH!
This article has already been exposed. Check out hardocp.com.
Ummm... ok. First of all, if you don't even have an Nvidia or ATI card on that laptop, you WON'T be able to play this game. Period. All the other laptop vidcard solutions are so slow it won't even run on it, so quit your bitching and upgrade.