A Laptop cart would probably be your best option. The cart will allow you the portability to bring the computers to other class rooms, rather than being in a static place, offers a place for them to charge when not in use, as well as offers a secure place to lock away the laptops when not in use.
In addition to the portability, you don't have to worry as much about the systems, since you can lock them away when they are not in use. Setting up mini PC's would either make it much more difficult to set up to make them portable or would be at risk for more damage if they were left on each and every desk (not that laptops are excluded from rough and uncaring use).
There are also plenty of windows 98, ME, and 2000 computers with legitimate licenses for those versions of windows, but are running pirated copies of XP instead.
I assume by activation you mean windows activation. In this case you have to go through Microsoft, not eMachines. If you can't activate online, and you haven't tried already, do the phone activation. Having reactivated plenty of systems for various reasons, that should do it.
For papers, Wikipedia is a definate no dice. It's a good start to find other sources, or to give you an idea of what you need to know, but It's not quite trustworthy. On the other hand, Wikipedia can be an excellent source for studying and review. I have had several courses in which not only did wikipedia entries cover certain material better, but provided alot of information that ended up being on the finals.
This won't effect people putting up pirated movies at all. Those who are smart will edit out the first five seconds of the movie. Those who are stupid will just post it with their information.
Mod parent up... What he says is true beyond belief.
As a casual player, of possibly playing an hour or so a day, the world event was more or less pointless, as I would never see the light of the new instance (and a year later, I still haven't even been able to get to a level to see them). On top of that, we saw many hardcore players grind for the items to sell on the auction house so others would buy them to open up the gates.
While it could be considered a world event, the term "event" Is the wrong term to use for what was little more than massive grinding and farming by the more hardcore players.
The thing with World of Warcraft is it does infact actually have a large amount of static content. There is plenty of quests to drive a storyline, but unfortunately most of this content is ignored by people who speed through these quests to get to the next best level.
The war effort that the player was talking about wasn't that "Storyline driven" At all. The result of the event was predetermined, and it was just a matter of time until it was unlocked. It was hardly the "teaming up" to conquer a huge task as he describes it.
Creating a game with towns that rise and fall, with invasions of all sorts would be to the extent of two things. Either a player inputted game where the players create the cities and what not, or massive, constant changing content by the developers. The first one is not the style of world of warcraft at all. If a player wants that, they may as well go to a game "like A tail of two deserts" (or whatever the game is called). The Second option would be on par to creating expansion packs that change existing content instead of adding it, which doesn't make alot of sense. For those who wish to "Change the world" There are plenty of options in the game, such as controlled territories, or guilds that set up their own raids, either in instances or towns.
Part of what I have seen in MMORPGs is it is difficult to have a world that is ever changing, because people start and stop the game at different periods of time. Having a kingdom go from prosperity to ruin may sound like a good idea, but in doing so, you must create new content for both before, during, and after, with some of the content in each portion being erased.
Some ideas that we see in RPGS would be nice, but unrealistic in an MMORPG.
I've only had two hard drives die on me. The first being a 12 GB hard drive that died 8 months ago that was over 7 years old. The second one, I fried when I hacked together a machine for my workbench.
What may be your best option would be to get one backup drive, internal or external, and use it strictly for backing up your important data once a week or so. This way you have a backup hard drive that is rarely used, and you can replace your drives if they die.
Despite what you think, context does need to exist. Actions are based off of past actions, as well as split second decisions. If this perp assaulted an officer before the video clip started, then by all means is heavy force required. The fact that this video clip does not show the full incidence should be enough to show that we do not know the full event.
It's amazing how much we as a society have changed the earth. We have leveled mountains for minerals, sunk forests for dams, and change everything around us. If you live in a quickly expanding city, I would recommend you check out some of the areas that will be developed in the next several years. When anything is really built, the whole terrain is usually changed, and leveled out just so we can build on it.
The title and description is rather misleading. The article goes through how difficult it was to actually install many of these. In one case he actually had to open firefox to download the executable in order to "infect" Internet Explorer. In addition to that, he mentions that he was able to reset Internet Explorer rather easily removing all browser addons minus Yahoo's toolbar.
The greatest thing I have found that makes windows XP better than windows 2k is the wireless client. The one built into windows XP is the easiest one that I have used for scanning and connecting to wireless networks. With Windows 2k you are stuck at the mercy of the developer of the wireless card, and often times their wireless clients (especially in older cards) is overly complicated and difficult to use.
Perhapse it's just the market in my city, but you can get a nice computer for 399 - 499 CDN. These type of deals are usually factory refurbished from the manufacturer, but are today's technology. if you watch the papers for a deal, you can easily get something good (with xp, dvd burner, and what not) for under 500 CDN.
Considering that no matter what you search on Google you get an EBay ad, it's funny that they are then fighting against google, who provides a huge portion of their advertisement.
What ever happened to the new style of slashdot to attract more ladies to slashdot, or the "how to make your own OMG ponies glitter art" slashbacks. Those were very interesting and informative articles.
I would recommend a couple including: 1) Daemon tools - for mounting ISO's 2) AVG Free Antivirus - a good free antivirus 3)Winamp - a pretty good media player, although very similar to itunes 4) Any DVD & Clone DVD - for copying DVD's 5) Windows updates - not so much of a tool, but it will patch your system and protect you from some security threats
To be honest though, there aren't many essential apps that are overly usefull that a mac currently has. Window's won't be much more usefull unless you have specific apps that you want or need that fit your interests.
As a user who uses linux and windows, and has also had an ibook with OSX you aren't missing a ton. I use my windows box primarily for gaming and multimedia purposes (imagery, my camera, movies, music), and linux for coding / general net surfing.
Companies shouldn't be able to patent business practices, which for the most part are policies rather than innovations. This has been going on for too long now, where basic common sense is being owned by corporations.
It's not very surprising that this would have happened. The prices on them are on par to a DVD, and it's possible to get a used DVD of a movie at a blockbuster for a fairbit cheaper. The few people who actually use their PSPs to watch movies actually use a memory stick to store their videos, so they can watch whatever without the hassle of buying a movie that you would use far less than an actual DVD.
It's amazing what brand trust will do. Dell for instance got a high rating, not necessarily for their quality, but their advertising. Everywhere you go, and read, you are likely to find a dell ad offering a decently speced machine that is cheap. Working at a computer store and as a technician, it's amazing how many people come in looking for a Dell. To many of these people, they aren't looking for a computer, they are looking for a dell, as if the two things were completely different.
As for the quality of dells, I have had mixed results. Obviously their cheap systems are a good deal for someone looking for a basic machine, even though the amount of upgrading you can do to them are severely limited.
I think their position on where apple is is also correct. Their computers are quite nice in all respects, but for the average joe, they are over priced and don't play their videogames.
I think the biggest oddball on this survey is Microsoft. While the other companies are mainly in the hardware arena, most people know Microsoft only for windows. Many people that I have met give microsoft a simple shrug and disregard them entirely. To many people, the computer is a "Dell" running "Windows" and microsoft does not enter their mind for more than a few moments.
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One option is to find a store that sells refurbished computers or a nice sized ma & pop shop. many items that are marked as refurbished are actually end of line, open box, demo models, and among that sort of line up. You can usually save yourself a bit of money going with a machine that is marked as refurbished but are still widely being sold as brand new (you also usually get better service, but that is dependent on the store). I've even seen some of the latest machines like AMD X2's in the refurbished market, and often times these machines have the upgradability of most high end machines, but are cheaper than if you were to actually build them yourself by a fair profit margin. In addition, if you do find a good store you like, you will be in a better position at getting deals off of the merchandise, as they will also want to keep you as a client.
If you are not interested in buying a prebuilt machine and upgrading, then find a computer hardware store. The prices will obviously be substantially cheaper than your local futureshop or bestbuy, but it can be easy to get carried away in building a system.
It's not a bad start, but I doubt it will compete with MS Office in the way OpenOffice does. Besides the lack of formatting features (like font size), it doesn't sound like there is much of a difference between what some webmail provides, with the notable exception you can save the document to a file format. The fact that it is online only will probably cause more problems, such as potential for downtime, or when offline (something which will prevent this from being seriously used by those in a business, or for homework) as well as security issues.
Sadly, I can see this becomming the odd knicknack on the internet that someone may use if they find themselves on a public computer and need to type something to print.
As a service technician and sales associate, I would recommend windows if you can get a hold of it. While windows XP will probably be out of your league unless you buy it, I wouldn't settle for anything less than windows 98SE. The biggest issue you will probably have from a software standpoint is maintaining them with proper drivers. I would recommend copying each computer's drivers to a CD incase you do need to do a reinstall. Also, from experience with a wide variety of installing on older machines with varying parts, is to use driver sites, or tool kits (like the driverguide toolkit at driverguide.com) to find these drivers.
If you do decide to go with linux, use cross platformed software like firefox and openoffice to help minimize the transitions. If you intend to teach email and IM, stick with one service which is simple and generic enough so that the same methodologies and feel are kept when changing to something a little different. Teach as much cross compatibility as you can, so when they do move to windows that the feel is nearly identical.
Finally, if you are pressed for finding good donation, and you do have a small budget, you can resort to buying cheap refurbished machines. In my city, cheap pentium 2 400MHz machines start at 20 bucks (CDN) with memory ranging from 64 - 256mb of ram. Another alternative is to see if there are any computer auctions. It is possible to get a whole skid of computers on the cheap, and would provide you with additional parts for faster machinesd if they do go down on you.
I know where you are comming from, I get this 3d sickness when playing first person shooters on my computer (I am fine with 4rd person aspects, RTS, racing games, and console shooters).
I have found that a smaller screen, or sitting farther back can help a fairbit. Also, freshair will help you go for a fairbit longer, as well as smoother framerates. If you have to kick the graphics down a notch so it's smoother, you will be more pleased in the long run. Finally, Turn off the "head bob" on first person shooters if you can. I've found I can last a fair bit longer when that feature is turned off, as there will be less motion from the game.
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A Laptop cart would probably be your best option. The cart will allow you the portability to bring the computers to other class rooms, rather than being in a static place, offers a place for them to charge when not in use, as well as offers a secure place to lock away the laptops when not in use. In addition to the portability, you don't have to worry as much about the systems, since you can lock them away when they are not in use. Setting up mini PC's would either make it much more difficult to set up to make them portable or would be at risk for more damage if they were left on each and every desk (not that laptops are excluded from rough and uncaring use).
There are also plenty of windows 98, ME, and 2000 computers with legitimate licenses for those versions of windows, but are running pirated copies of XP instead.
I assume by activation you mean windows activation. In this case you have to go through Microsoft, not eMachines. If you can't activate online, and you haven't tried already, do the phone activation. Having reactivated plenty of systems for various reasons, that should do it.
For papers, Wikipedia is a definate no dice. It's a good start to find other sources, or to give you an idea of what you need to know, but It's not quite trustworthy. On the other hand, Wikipedia can be an excellent source for studying and review. I have had several courses in which not only did wikipedia entries cover certain material better, but provided alot of information that ended up being on the finals.
This won't effect people putting up pirated movies at all. Those who are smart will edit out the first five seconds of the movie. Those who are stupid will just post it with their information.
Mod parent up ... What he says is true beyond belief.
As a casual player, of possibly playing an hour or so a day, the world event was more or less pointless, as I would never see the light of the new instance (and a year later, I still haven't even been able to get to a level to see them). On top of that, we saw many hardcore players grind for the items to sell on the auction house so others would buy them to open up the gates.
While it could be considered a world event, the term "event" Is the wrong term to use for what was little more than massive grinding and farming by the more hardcore players.
The thing with World of Warcraft is it does infact actually have a large amount of static content. There is plenty of quests to drive a storyline, but unfortunately most of this content is ignored by people who speed through these quests to get to the next best level.
The war effort that the player was talking about wasn't that "Storyline driven" At all. The result of the event was predetermined, and it was just a matter of time until it was unlocked. It was hardly the "teaming up" to conquer a huge task as he describes it.
Creating a game with towns that rise and fall, with invasions of all sorts would be to the extent of two things. Either a player inputted game where the players create the cities and what not, or massive, constant changing content by the developers. The first one is not the style of world of warcraft at all. If a player wants that, they may as well go to a game "like A tail of two deserts" (or whatever the game is called). The Second option would be on par to creating expansion packs that change existing content instead of adding it, which doesn't make alot of sense. For those who wish to "Change the world" There are plenty of options in the game, such as controlled territories, or guilds that set up their own raids, either in instances or towns.
Part of what I have seen in MMORPGs is it is difficult to have a world that is ever changing, because people start and stop the game at different periods of time. Having a kingdom go from prosperity to ruin may sound like a good idea, but in doing so, you must create new content for both before, during, and after, with some of the content in each portion being erased.
Some ideas that we see in RPGS would be nice, but unrealistic in an MMORPG.
I've only had two hard drives die on me. The first being a 12 GB hard drive that died 8 months ago that was over 7 years old. The second one, I fried when I hacked together a machine for my workbench. What may be your best option would be to get one backup drive, internal or external, and use it strictly for backing up your important data once a week or so. This way you have a backup hard drive that is rarely used, and you can replace your drives if they die.
Despite what you think, context does need to exist. Actions are based off of past actions, as well as split second decisions. If this perp assaulted an officer before the video clip started, then by all means is heavy force required. The fact that this video clip does not show the full incidence should be enough to show that we do not know the full event.
It's amazing how much we as a society have changed the earth. We have leveled mountains for minerals, sunk forests for dams, and change everything around us. If you live in a quickly expanding city, I would recommend you check out some of the areas that will be developed in the next several years. When anything is really built, the whole terrain is usually changed, and leveled out just so we can build on it.
The title and description is rather misleading. The article goes through how difficult it was to actually install many of these. In one case he actually had to open firefox to download the executable in order to "infect" Internet Explorer. In addition to that, he mentions that he was able to reset Internet Explorer rather easily removing all browser addons minus Yahoo's toolbar.
The greatest thing I have found that makes windows XP better than windows 2k is the wireless client. The one built into windows XP is the easiest one that I have used for scanning and connecting to wireless networks. With Windows 2k you are stuck at the mercy of the developer of the wireless card, and often times their wireless clients (especially in older cards) is overly complicated and difficult to use.
Perhapse it's just the market in my city, but you can get a nice computer for 399 - 499 CDN. These type of deals are usually factory refurbished from the manufacturer, but are today's technology. if you watch the papers for a deal, you can easily get something good (with xp, dvd burner, and what not) for under 500 CDN.
Considering that no matter what you search on Google you get an EBay ad, it's funny that they are then fighting against google, who provides a huge portion of their advertisement.
What ever happened to the new style of slashdot to attract more ladies to slashdot, or the "how to make your own OMG ponies glitter art" slashbacks. Those were very interesting and informative articles.
I would recommend a couple including:
1) Daemon tools - for mounting ISO's
2) AVG Free Antivirus - a good free antivirus
3)Winamp - a pretty good media player, although very similar to itunes
4) Any DVD & Clone DVD - for copying DVD's
5) Windows updates - not so much of a tool, but it will patch your system and protect you from some security threats
To be honest though, there aren't many essential apps that are overly usefull that a mac currently has. Window's won't be much more usefull unless you have specific apps that you want or need that fit your interests.
As a user who uses linux and windows, and has also had an ibook with OSX you aren't missing a ton. I use my windows box primarily for gaming and multimedia purposes (imagery, my camera, movies, music), and linux for coding / general net surfing.
Companies shouldn't be able to patent business practices, which for the most part are policies rather than innovations. This has been going on for too long now, where basic common sense is being owned by corporations.
It's not very surprising that this would have happened. The prices on them are on par to a DVD, and it's possible to get a used DVD of a movie at a blockbuster for a fairbit cheaper. The few people who actually use their PSPs to watch movies actually use a memory stick to store their videos, so they can watch whatever without the hassle of buying a movie that you would use far less than an actual DVD.
It's amazing what brand trust will do. Dell for instance got a high rating, not necessarily for their quality, but their advertising. Everywhere you go, and read, you are likely to find a dell ad offering a decently speced machine that is cheap. Working at a computer store and as a technician, it's amazing how many people come in looking for a Dell. To many of these people, they aren't looking for a computer, they are looking for a dell, as if the two things were completely different.
As for the quality of dells, I have had mixed results. Obviously their cheap systems are a good deal for someone looking for a basic machine, even though the amount of upgrading you can do to them are severely limited.
I think their position on where apple is is also correct. Their computers are quite nice in all respects, but for the average joe, they are over priced and don't play their videogames.
I think the biggest oddball on this survey is Microsoft. While the other companies are mainly in the hardware arena, most people know Microsoft only for windows. Many people that I have met give microsoft a simple shrug and disregard them entirely. To many people, the computer is a "Dell" running "Windows" and microsoft does not enter their mind for more than a few moments.
One option is to find a store that sells refurbished computers or a nice sized ma & pop shop. many items that are marked as refurbished are actually end of line, open box, demo models, and among that sort of line up. You can usually save yourself a bit of money going with a machine that is marked as refurbished but are still widely being sold as brand new (you also usually get better service, but that is dependent on the store). I've even seen some of the latest machines like AMD X2's in the refurbished market, and often times these machines have the upgradability of most high end machines, but are cheaper than if you were to actually build them yourself by a fair profit margin. In addition, if you do find a good store you like, you will be in a better position at getting deals off of the merchandise, as they will also want to keep you as a client. If you are not interested in buying a prebuilt machine and upgrading, then find a computer hardware store. The prices will obviously be substantially cheaper than your local futureshop or bestbuy, but it can be easy to get carried away in building a system.
It's not a bad start, but I doubt it will compete with MS Office in the way OpenOffice does. Besides the lack of formatting features (like font size), it doesn't sound like there is much of a difference between what some webmail provides, with the notable exception you can save the document to a file format. The fact that it is online only will probably cause more problems, such as potential for downtime, or when offline (something which will prevent this from being seriously used by those in a business, or for homework) as well as security issues. Sadly, I can see this becomming the odd knicknack on the internet that someone may use if they find themselves on a public computer and need to type something to print.
Mesa thinks this be ghud.
As a service technician and sales associate, I would recommend windows if you can get a hold of it. While windows XP will probably be out of your league unless you buy it, I wouldn't settle for anything less than windows 98SE. The biggest issue you will probably have from a software standpoint is maintaining them with proper drivers. I would recommend copying each computer's drivers to a CD incase you do need to do a reinstall. Also, from experience with a wide variety of installing on older machines with varying parts, is to use driver sites, or tool kits (like the driverguide toolkit at driverguide.com) to find these drivers.
If you do decide to go with linux, use cross platformed software like firefox and openoffice to help minimize the transitions. If you intend to teach email and IM, stick with one service which is simple and generic enough so that the same methodologies and feel are kept when changing to something a little different. Teach as much cross compatibility as you can, so when they do move to windows that the feel is nearly identical.
Finally, if you are pressed for finding good donation, and you do have a small budget, you can resort to buying cheap refurbished machines. In my city, cheap pentium 2 400MHz machines start at 20 bucks (CDN) with memory ranging from 64 - 256mb of ram. Another alternative is to see if there are any computer auctions. It is possible to get a whole skid of computers on the cheap, and would provide you with additional parts for faster machinesd if they do go down on you.
I know where you are comming from, I get this 3d sickness when playing first person shooters on my computer (I am fine with 4rd person aspects, RTS, racing games, and console shooters). I have found that a smaller screen, or sitting farther back can help a fairbit. Also, freshair will help you go for a fairbit longer, as well as smoother framerates. If you have to kick the graphics down a notch so it's smoother, you will be more pleased in the long run. Finally, Turn off the "head bob" on first person shooters if you can. I've found I can last a fair bit longer when that feature is turned off, as there will be less motion from the game.
Apparently You have never read a review for Big Rig Racing. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/bigrigsotrr/rev iew.html/