I personally would like to see the ISS dissapear into the atmosphere as well. NASA has a lot of problems related to this dead-end project, and could do a lot worse than injecting it's budget into things like reusable craft and advancing propulsion
No, almost all geeks use Google, but the ordinary web surfer will tend to use the prettier, more advertised search engines, like Altavista, Yahoo and Lycos.
This is also true for the ISPs own packages which sometimes force the browser to use their own search engines.
A lot of people haven't even seen Google.
As far as i know, there has been no internet based company which has managed to gain a monopoly, due to the completely unstable nature of the internet, It's hard to gain a complete grasp on any business area without loosing it due to a shake up in that sector.
It's a shame these quality browsers can't stop intrusive flash inside divs..
It's a problem with all browsers in fact. There's actually no way of stopping those types of ads. the only ones browsers can successfully block properly are popups - and the technology for stopping such a method is very simple indeed; Af popup is requested by javascript, but not from a direct user-driven event, then disallow it.
Personally i think advertising will move away from popups in the few years to come, and transist to placing themselves on the actual pages, in front of content as layers.
These kind of ads are unstoppable, without severly reducing the abilities of legitimate sites.
Exactly. And just because someone doesn't know how to set up, or even obtain a firewall which can stop outgoing packets from certian hardware/software, it doesn't mean they don't deserve the same privacy rights as us
The deepest point the ocean is currently Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench in the Western Pacific Ocean at 35,840 feet / 10,924 meters. Our atmosphere extends out for millions of miles. there is no actual boundary, just the usual point where the atmosphere turns from earths gases, eventually thinning out into space. (the Exosphere, our highest level ot atmosphere is 700-800 km / 434-497 miles)./factoids
I wouldnt call that monopolistic behavour, that's only a bad choice in marketing.
A product that doesn't fit the consumers needs does not neccesarily mean the company is trying to monopolise the market.
I myself don't see what the problem is with Sony's choice - if the people who know to make a choice don't want Star Office, they will also know that there are plenty of other places they can go.
He was also great in "The Legend Of Bagger Vance" - highly underrated movie, staring alongside Matt Damon, this was one of his less pure comedy type roles, and more fitting to a man with plenty of humourous wit.
Another quick point, if you're against laptops, you could just take your desktop with you.. plug in the monitor, rest it on someone else's lap, stick the CPU inside the luggage compartment, and so on... you could be set up and playing by the time you get to wherever you're going! (that is if the plane has plug sockets)
I'm very for laptops as gaming machines, i own one myself. But trying not to sway from the point of my reply, gamers don't *reall* play on laptops without a power cable. Sometimes a quick fling is nice, just to make yourself feel that you didnt waste £1,500+ on a laptop. Chances are if you're ever somewhere where you can't plug it in, you aren't in an ideal gaming environment anyway.
By "serious" locations, a word you've obviously taken too far, i mean "not the back seat of your mom's bronco", but "your desk", "someone elses desk", or "somewhere you can actually put a mousemat"
I totally agree - no-one cares how big their gaming laptop is, or how much battery power it takes. This is because for one thing, gaming laptops are primarily used for their power, not their looks. And usually when you're in a situation which calls for a quick round of your FPS of choice, there are power sockets.
When i chose my laptop the only consideration was to make sure the weight stayed under 4kgs (incidentally, the a51 from alienware is 6kgs. that's one heavy machine!)
Although i do agree with your last statement, it's saddening to think that even us geeks have "macho" needs. ("My framerates bigger than yours!")
Interesting you mention battery life. Could you really get stuck into a game in a situation where you'd need a battery to play it? Don't kid yourself, it's always something you'd love to do, like playing the latest FPS in a canal boat on the rivers of venice, but there are better things to do..
Serious gamers use serious locations to play. This is why most of them prefer desktops anyway, because they know a desktop is adequately catered for in terms of power.
In these same situations, a laptop would probably be plugged in as well.
First things first, let me get this straight. I'm all for frame rates. But i don't like to be elitist about it. 40 plus is fine for me, or anything where it doesn't realistically affect my frame rate.
Laptops do contain some awful video cards sometimes, and that's usually the decision made by the company at the time of specification. Way before actual production. But there are a few that are pretty good. Namely the high range of dells running 9700s and i believe there is a dell with a gf4 chipset in it also.
Say if you are thinking primarily of frame rates, i'm sure you could find something worth buying which wont be an embarrassment at the next LAN party.
(I myself have a Dell 250n, and it's wonderful for me).
The main aim with a laptop is portability. If you remember the last BYOC LAN you went to, i'm sure you can also remember the annoying part of getting your pride and joy unplugged from the desk, all into the vehicle of your choice, and then unpacked at the actual location. With a laptop, it goes without saying this kind of affair is an absolute breeze.
That's why i chose my laptop over upgrading my desktop, which now stays at home. Yes, there are some games that take a while to load (namely Battlefield 1942, but i'm sure i'm not the only one facing *that* particular problem), but overall, the tried and tested LAN games (quake 3, UT, CS...) are all perfect for this machine, and many like it.
I noticed a comment about a 5.1 system being unavailable to a laptop. This is untrue, especially with the Creative Audigy external USB soundcard. And anyway, who's prepared to take 6 speakers to a LAN party? Chances are you'd use headphones anyway, and with many laptops carrying virtual surround sound in their chipsets, you could be better off with most desktop owners.
A note on the Alienware a51: i was actually going to buy this machine, but after shopping around (something i normally don't bother doing), i found that there are many better machines, at much lower prices. Realistically, You're paying for a brand.
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Which unfortunately the recording industry is yet to accept; If you can play it back, you can record it.
So basically, what you're saying is that dark matter purely exists to balance theories, and without it, a lot of science wouldn't make sense.
I personally would like to see the ISS dissapear into the atmosphere as well. NASA has a lot of problems related to this dead-end project, and could do a lot worse than injecting it's budget into things like reusable craft and advancing propulsion
No, almost all geeks use Google, but the ordinary web surfer will tend to use the prettier, more advertised search engines, like Altavista, Yahoo and Lycos.
This is also true for the ISPs own packages which sometimes force the browser to use their own search engines.
A lot of people haven't even seen Google.
As far as i know, there has been no internet based company which has managed to gain a monopoly, due to the completely unstable nature of the internet, It's hard to gain a complete grasp on any business area without loosing it due to a shake up in that sector.
And if the window's open, and you're in the middle of times square...
The internet is a global presence, coward
Really? And you consider the fundamental advancement of space technology (in any shape of form) to be less important than entertainment?
NASA is wasting it's money daily, this is just another example of that waste.
The day we get our prioritys right is the day we solve half the problems on this planet..
It's a shame these quality browsers can't stop intrusive flash inside divs..
It's a problem with all browsers in fact. There's actually no way of stopping those types of ads. the only ones browsers can successfully block properly are popups - and the technology for stopping such a method is very simple indeed; Af popup is requested by javascript, but not from a direct user-driven event, then disallow it.
Personally i think advertising will move away from popups in the few years to come, and transist to placing themselves on the actual pages, in front of content as layers.
These kind of ads are unstoppable, without severly reducing the abilities of legitimate sites.
Exactly. And just because someone doesn't know how to set up, or even obtain a firewall which can stop outgoing packets from certian hardware/software, it doesn't mean they don't deserve the same privacy rights as us
The deepest point the ocean is currently Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench in the Western Pacific Ocean at 35,840 feet / 10,924 meters. Our atmosphere extends out for millions of miles. there is no actual boundary, just the usual point where the atmosphere turns from earths gases, eventually thinning out into space. (the Exosphere, our highest level ot atmosphere is 700-800 km / 434-497 miles). /factoids
It's not a name, it's a status. Posting anonymously automatically gives your posts less credibility. and status
I wouldnt call that monopolistic behavour, that's only a bad choice in marketing. A product that doesn't fit the consumers needs does not neccesarily mean the company is trying to monopolise the market. I myself don't see what the problem is with Sony's choice - if the people who know to make a choice don't want Star Office, they will also know that there are plenty of other places they can go.
He was also great in "The Legend Of Bagger Vance" - highly underrated movie, staring alongside Matt Damon, this was one of his less pure comedy type roles, and more fitting to a man with plenty of humourous wit.
We could just throw them all up their to see for themselves... ;)
Another quick point, if you're against laptops, you could just take your desktop with you.. plug in the monitor, rest it on someone else's lap, stick the CPU inside the luggage compartment, and so on... you could be set up and playing by the time you get to wherever you're going! (that is if the plane has plug sockets)
I'm very for laptops as gaming machines, i own one myself. But trying not to sway from the point of my reply, gamers don't *reall* play on laptops without a power cable. Sometimes a quick fling is nice, just to make yourself feel that you didnt waste £1,500+ on a laptop. Chances are if you're ever somewhere where you can't plug it in, you aren't in an ideal gaming environment anyway.
By "serious" locations, a word you've obviously taken too far, i mean "not the back seat of your mom's bronco", but "your desk", "someone elses desk", or "somewhere you can actually put a mousemat"
I totally agree - no-one cares how big their gaming laptop is, or how much battery power it takes. This is because for one thing, gaming laptops are primarily used for their power, not their looks. And usually when you're in a situation which calls for a quick round of your FPS of choice, there are power sockets.
When i chose my laptop the only consideration was to make sure the weight stayed under 4kgs (incidentally, the a51 from alienware is 6kgs. that's one heavy machine!)
Although i do agree with your last statement, it's saddening to think that even us geeks have "macho" needs. ("My framerates bigger than yours!")
Serious gamers use serious locations to play. This is why most of them prefer desktops anyway, because they know a desktop is adequately catered for in terms of power.
In these same situations, a laptop would probably be plugged in as well.
I've got a 2.2ghz laptop that wants a word with you ;)
So if you took your desktop machine in the car with you, would that be a more appropriate solution?
First things first, let me get this straight. I'm all for frame rates. But i don't like to be elitist about it. 40 plus is fine for me, or anything where it doesn't realistically affect my frame rate.
Laptops do contain some awful video cards sometimes, and that's usually the decision made by the company at the time of specification. Way before actual production. But there are a few that are pretty good. Namely the high range of dells running 9700s and i believe there is a dell with a gf4 chipset in it also.
Say if you are thinking primarily of frame rates, i'm sure you could find something worth buying which wont be an embarrassment at the next LAN party. (I myself have a Dell 250n, and it's wonderful for me).
The main aim with a laptop is portability. If you remember the last BYOC LAN you went to, i'm sure you can also remember the annoying part of getting your pride and joy unplugged from the desk, all into the vehicle of your choice, and then unpacked at the actual location. With a laptop, it goes without saying this kind of affair is an absolute breeze.
That's why i chose my laptop over upgrading my desktop, which now stays at home. Yes, there are some games that take a while to load (namely Battlefield 1942, but i'm sure i'm not the only one facing *that* particular problem), but overall, the tried and tested LAN games (quake 3, UT, CS...) are all perfect for this machine, and many like it.
I noticed a comment about a 5.1 system being unavailable to a laptop. This is untrue, especially with the Creative Audigy external USB soundcard. And anyway, who's prepared to take 6 speakers to a LAN party? Chances are you'd use headphones anyway, and with many laptops carrying virtual surround sound in their chipsets, you could be better off with most desktop owners.
A note on the Alienware a51: i was actually going to buy this machine, but after shopping around (something i normally don't bother doing), i found that there are many better machines, at much lower prices. Realistically, You're paying for a brand.