Logitech VX Nano. Clicking the scroll wheel puts in in "free scroll" mode, clicking the button above the wheel defaults to the middle button, but can be configured to just about anything.
You must be kidding. For one, having lived for many years both in Europe and the US, I can tell you that the drivers in the US are _far_ superior. Much more disciplined and much much safer. In Europe I am literally scared to drive (even though there are some exceptions).
Contrary to your statements, the average driver in Europe is more disciplined, safer and far better at handling emergency situations than the average American driver, thanks to much more rigorous and thorough training and far more advanced testing.
Personal experience with numerous American expats among friends, relatives and colleagues supports this to a great degree.
The fact that you are scared to drive in Europe speaks of your lack of solid experience, because most Europeans assume much higher skill levels we tend towards a slight bit of arrogance towards 'lesser' drivers, as it were. Drive with confidence and you'll fit right in.
Um, what the hell have you been smoking, and what European countries have you actually visited?
Precisely because a driving license costs a substantial amount here, 99% of the people who have one drive at least once every two or three days and this is at the very very least. There are a lot of people who choose not to drive, but in the vast majority of cases they also decide to simply not get a license they'll never get around to using.
Even though I live in a rather small country, I've driven my car about 35000km in the last 18 months. This is pretty much average for my country, which has reasonably good public transport outside the major cities and amazing public transport inside those cities.
Faster with an ICE? No, the Tesla does 0-100kph in 3.7 seconds. The top speed may be lower, but how often do you get to go more than 200kph?
Cheaper and longer range? Obviously, but you can't be the first and the best. The Tesla is a pretty capable sports car, but it is first and foremost a technical and engineering exercise. This is the first car they've made and a damn cool one at that. Wait for the Model S to see what you can really do with electricity once you've got the basics down.
We pay roughly the same amount as you do in Norway. Don't own a TV? You still have to pay full price if you have an internet connection faster than 256kbit/s or a 3G-capable phone.
Bullet is used in a number of AAA games, mostly kept secret as part of NDAs, however Rockstar Games have worked together and publicized their work with the Bullet developers to modify and integrate it into the RAGE graphics engine, which is used for GTA IV, Table Tennis, Midnight Club: LA and the upcoming Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3.
That's about as good an endorsement as you can possibly get of any physics engine.
Beyond a certain point, FSAA will increase perceived quality as much as higher DPI.
Absolutely.
As an example, I use a 24" 1920x1200 monitor for my primary display. I can run GTA Vice City (I know it's an old game, bear with me) perfectly at 1920x1200, 32bit color, maximum draw distance and effects. But I think it actually looks better if I run it at 1280x800 with maximum settings and 8xAA and 16x anisotropic filtering added.
Of course, the game was originally designed for the PS2 and meant to run at SDTV resolutions, so getting rid of jagged edges makes more sense than jacking up the resolution to far beyond what is necessary for full texture details to be visible. Newer games with high-res textures will definitely benefit more from higher resolutions, but the textures set the limit for how big a resolution you need for the best possible image quality.
Sure, you could run Wolfenstein on your 2560x1600 30" monitor and possible even hack it to be able to use that resolution, but it'll still look like shit due to low-resolution graphical assets:-)
To contribute to an overall lessening of power usage. You may not pay directly for the amount of electricity you use, but coal still needs to be burned to produce. Show some responsibility.
Now I'm very curious. Everything I've read indicates that morning excercise is a great idea, especially since cardio work on an empty stomach helps burn fat and kick starts your metabolism for the day. It seems to work great for me.
Perhaps I'll give that documentary a watch, it sounds interesting.
You have use your iPhone, since the almighty iPhone is obviously the only phone sufficiently advanced to contain a camera, making it "A hotbed for amateur photography".
iPhone, iPhone, iPhone! Just let me strangle whoever wrote that article, please?
The smaller ISPs haven't blocked anything and the bigger ISPs who've been forced to implement the block have only done so by redirecting DNS entries to a "STOP! This page is blocked!" page.
Within 24 hours, anyone who gave a damn about using TPB etc. switched over to using OpenDNS. The blocking is only really intended to prevent the non-technical majority from going to the site, but they probably weren't even using it in the first place anyway.
I'm not the AC you adressed, but my job has a pretty good gym which you can get unlimited access to for ~$20/month.
Most employees have full 24/7 campus access and loads of people show up to work out before beginning work. Even more people go there right before they go home, it's a great way to fit in an hours worth of excercise 2-3 times per week. Working hours are flexible enough that you don't have to worry about spending too much time in the gym, too.
For reference, I work in the IT department of a major telco in Denmark.
Purely on economics, the Fit hybrid or any economy-oriented turbodiesel car will beat out the Tesla Model S, no doubt about it.
But none of those are capable of doing 0-60 in under 6 seconds. The Model S is a luxury sedan meant to compete with the offerings from BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar etc., not with econoboxes.
Your $10,000 vehicle conversion will be nowhere near the same quality nor performance as a Model S, you're being silly.
For XFCE-centric distros, Xubuntu is quite nice and well-integrated. I used to run it on my Eee 701 and it did pretty well with the Eee kernel repository I found through Eeeuser.com.
But I have to say that compared to the Arch Linux I put on it last week, Xubuntu is really rather slow in comparison. Arch has an Eee kernel repository, too, but even without it most things work pretty much out of the box on Arch.
Absolutely, the W124, W126 and W201 were the last really great Mercedes'. Easy to work on, reliable engines, cheap spare parts and built before the really complicated automotive computers were introduced.
My parents have had two W201's (1985 2.0 NA diesel and 1988 2.5 turbodiesel) and both were utter tanks and a pleasure to drive. After that they got a 1996 C250 diesel and it was a real heap, despite lower miles. Everything that could go wrong on that car did. In the end, the automatic transmission gave up the ghost and they decided to cut their losses and get a Citroën instead!
The 1985 W201 is still running fine with more than 1 million kms on it. The place they sold it uses it as a courtesy car.
Perhaps mr. vegan straightedge 'look at me, I've got an iPhone' Fallout Boy-listening hipster twitterhead isn't quite as innocent as he claims.
If all he really did was take a photo and not act all high and mighty when the asked him to not do so, then OK, that's fair. I'm sorry, but his demeanor, writing style and 'counter'-culture obsession makes me automatically distrust him until I've heard all sides of the story.
It's a private business. They can bar you from entering or making use of their services, but they can never prevent you from turning around and walking away.
I live in Europe, and would like to watch Lost, Breaking Bad, Burn Notice, Kings and a multitude of other great shows. A few are broadcast here, but they're more than a year behind on episodes, leaving me completely unable to discuss the shows on an equal basis with my friends here and across the pond.
Others are simply never broadcast here at all and the only legal way of watching them is to wait a year or so for the hideously overpriced DVD box sets to come out. Often these have to be imported from the US adding shipping costs etc. to the total.
I don't want to break the law, I just want to follow some of the great programs currently being made. If a show I've downloaded grabs me, I'm sure to buy the box set. I did for Firefly and Deadwood among others. If it doesn't grab me, I delete it. What's the point of keeping something around if it doesn't do anything for you? Effectively, I'm renting shows in a non-legal way because it's the only option.
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Can it produce a viable gasoline substitute?
Put them on 125cc bikes and they won't be going any faster than the average car.
I fully support a mandatory 2-year riding period before being allowed to drive a car.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Gruntle
For some reason, it sounds vaguely dirty.
Logitech VX Nano. Clicking the scroll wheel puts in in "free scroll" mode, clicking the button above the wheel defaults to the middle button, but can be configured to just about anything.
Which Europe did you live in?
Consider section 2.1 and 4.1 of the following paper: http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/safety/publications/2009/pdf/rsr_05.pdf and the statistics on this page: http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/reports/papers/fatals.html
(Note: It was commissioned so that the traffic fatality rates in Australia could be compared to the rates of other OECD countries, hence the Australia-centric nature of some of the chapters)
Contrary to your statements, the average driver in Europe is more disciplined, safer and far better at handling emergency situations than the average American driver, thanks to much more rigorous and thorough training and far more advanced testing.
Personal experience with numerous American expats among friends, relatives and colleagues supports this to a great degree.
The fact that you are scared to drive in Europe speaks of your lack of solid experience, because most Europeans assume much higher skill levels we tend towards a slight bit of arrogance towards 'lesser' drivers, as it were. Drive with confidence and you'll fit right in.
Um, what the hell have you been smoking, and what European countries have you actually visited?
Precisely because a driving license costs a substantial amount here, 99% of the people who have one drive at least once every two or three days and this is at the very very least. There are a lot of people who choose not to drive, but in the vast majority of cases they also decide to simply not get a license they'll never get around to using.
Even though I live in a rather small country, I've driven my car about 35000km in the last 18 months. This is pretty much average for my country, which has reasonably good public transport outside the major cities and amazing public transport inside those cities.
Just don't try to stomp the fire out if you have to abandon your position quickly. Pressure-detonated explosives are tricky like that...
Faster with an ICE? No, the Tesla does 0-100kph in 3.7 seconds. The top speed may be lower, but how often do you get to go more than 200kph?
Cheaper and longer range? Obviously, but you can't be the first and the best. The Tesla is a pretty capable sports car, but it is first and foremost a technical and engineering exercise. This is the first car they've made and a damn cool one at that. Wait for the Model S to see what you can really do with electricity once you've got the basics down.
Yeah me too. Just think about it, with two keyboards, you would write with both hands! Imagine how productive this would make you!
Damn straight! Incidentally, Denmark also has some of the highest alcoholism and teen drinking rates in the world, which is hardly a coincidence.
Try living in Denmark.
We pay roughly the same amount as you do in Norway. Don't own a TV? You still have to pay full price if you have an internet connection faster than 256kbit/s or a 3G-capable phone.
There's no escaping the "Media License"!
Bullet is used in a number of AAA games, mostly kept secret as part of NDAs, however Rockstar Games have worked together and publicized their work with the Bullet developers to modify and integrate it into the RAGE graphics engine, which is used for GTA IV, Table Tennis, Midnight Club: LA and the upcoming Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3.
That's about as good an endorsement as you can possibly get of any physics engine.
I was primarily thinking of Wolfenstein 3D, althought RTCW is beginning to look a bit long in the tooth by now.
Absolutely.
As an example, I use a 24" 1920x1200 monitor for my primary display. I can run GTA Vice City (I know it's an old game, bear with me) perfectly at 1920x1200, 32bit color, maximum draw distance and effects. But I think it actually looks better if I run it at 1280x800 with maximum settings and 8xAA and 16x anisotropic filtering added.
Of course, the game was originally designed for the PS2 and meant to run at SDTV resolutions, so getting rid of jagged edges makes more sense than jacking up the resolution to far beyond what is necessary for full texture details to be visible. Newer games with high-res textures will definitely benefit more from higher resolutions, but the textures set the limit for how big a resolution you need for the best possible image quality.
Sure, you could run Wolfenstein on your 2560x1600 30" monitor and possible even hack it to be able to use that resolution, but it'll still look like shit due to low-resolution graphical assets :-)
To contribute to an overall lessening of power usage. You may not pay directly for the amount of electricity you use, but coal still needs to be burned to produce. Show some responsibility.
Now I'm very curious. Everything I've read indicates that morning excercise is a great idea, especially since cardio work on an empty stomach helps burn fat and kick starts your metabolism for the day. It seems to work great for me.
Perhaps I'll give that documentary a watch, it sounds interesting.
No no no...
You have use your iPhone, since the almighty iPhone is obviously the only phone sufficiently advanced to contain a camera, making it "A hotbed for amateur photography".
iPhone, iPhone, iPhone! Just let me strangle whoever wrote that article, please?
And we all know how that worked out, don't we? ;-)
The smaller ISPs haven't blocked anything and the bigger ISPs who've been forced to implement the block have only done so by redirecting DNS entries to a "STOP! This page is blocked!" page.
Within 24 hours, anyone who gave a damn about using TPB etc. switched over to using OpenDNS. The blocking is only really intended to prevent the non-technical majority from going to the site, but they probably weren't even using it in the first place anyway.
I'm not the AC you adressed, but my job has a pretty good gym which you can get unlimited access to for ~$20/month.
Most employees have full 24/7 campus access and loads of people show up to work out before beginning work. Even more people go there right before they go home, it's a great way to fit in an hours worth of excercise 2-3 times per week. Working hours are flexible enough that you don't have to worry about spending too much time in the gym, too.
For reference, I work in the IT department of a major telco in Denmark.
Purely on economics, the Fit hybrid or any economy-oriented turbodiesel car will beat out the Tesla Model S, no doubt about it.
But none of those are capable of doing 0-60 in under 6 seconds. The Model S is a luxury sedan meant to compete with the offerings from BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar etc., not with econoboxes.
Your $10,000 vehicle conversion will be nowhere near the same quality nor performance as a Model S, you're being silly.
For XFCE-centric distros, Xubuntu is quite nice and well-integrated. I used to run it on my Eee 701 and it did pretty well with the Eee kernel repository I found through Eeeuser.com.
But I have to say that compared to the Arch Linux I put on it last week, Xubuntu is really rather slow in comparison. Arch has an Eee kernel repository, too, but even without it most things work pretty much out of the box on Arch.
Absolutely, the W124, W126 and W201 were the last really great Mercedes'. Easy to work on, reliable engines, cheap spare parts and built before the really complicated automotive computers were introduced.
My parents have had two W201's (1985 2.0 NA diesel and 1988 2.5 turbodiesel) and both were utter tanks and a pleasure to drive. After that they got a 1996 C250 diesel and it was a real heap, despite lower miles. Everything that could go wrong on that car did. In the end, the automatic transmission gave up the ghost and they decided to cut their losses and get a Citroën instead!
The 1985 W201 is still running fine with more than 1 million kms on it. The place they sold it uses it as a courtesy car.
I second this request.
Perhaps mr. vegan straightedge 'look at me, I've got an iPhone' Fallout Boy-listening hipster twitterhead isn't quite as innocent as he claims.
If all he really did was take a photo and not act all high and mighty when the asked him to not do so, then OK, that's fair. I'm sorry, but his demeanor, writing style and 'counter'-culture obsession makes me automatically distrust him until I've heard all sides of the story.
It's a private business. They can bar you from entering or making use of their services, but they can never prevent you from turning around and walking away.
Hulu and Netflix are great, but...
I live in Europe, and would like to watch Lost, Breaking Bad, Burn Notice, Kings and a multitude of other great shows. A few are broadcast here, but they're more than a year behind on episodes, leaving me completely unable to discuss the shows on an equal basis with my friends here and across the pond.
Others are simply never broadcast here at all and the only legal way of watching them is to wait a year or so for the hideously overpriced DVD box sets to come out. Often these have to be imported from the US adding shipping costs etc. to the total.
I don't want to break the law, I just want to follow some of the great programs currently being made. If a show I've downloaded grabs me, I'm sure to buy the box set. I did for Firefly and Deadwood among others. If it doesn't grab me, I delete it. What's the point of keeping something around if it doesn't do anything for you? Effectively, I'm renting shows in a non-legal way because it's the only option.