I have a Dell Inspiron notebook just like him (I'm posting from it right now), and placing the laptop in my lap does no such thing. Am I the only one here that understands the concept of "lap"? "Lap" does not mean "groin", it means "the top part of your legs".
If anything, the only part of me that gets warmed up is a little above the knees, nowhere near my happy sacks.
I don't see what the problem is, then. If it's a laptop, you don't have to sit on the edge of the couch, you can pick it up and put it in your lap! Hence, laptop...
No matter how good it looks right now it does not represent how the game will play or even perhaps the actual in game graphics. So its a little early to be calling the Death of Unreal Tournament and the Unreal engine etc.
And of course, complying with Moore's Law, every 9 months technology gets decreases in power by one half.
There are also games included with purchases. Anyone ever play Chex Quest?
I also had a copy of that, but never played it (I just wanted the Chex;)). From what I could tell it was some FPS, with Chex in it or something weird like that.
I support that idea, at least, since I don't want my lv. 97 Superlative Love Ninja to heal up by drinking Sprite
That reminded me of a game from the olden days of the big, clunky, battery eating Game Gear.
I had to look it up, but I believe it was this game: Cool Spot. You were the 7UP dot, with arms and legs, and it was a platforming game. The game essentially WAS an advertisement. This is probably the biggest form of advertising ever in any video game, and I hope games don't turn for the worse and get so loaded with advertisements that we end up with games like this again.
If you remember, cable tv (around 1978) was originally completely ad-free. The reasoning was that the content was paid for by your subscription.
From what I gather, it is still this way in the UK. The new (as well as the old) British shows that I download don't seem to have commercial breaks, it's just one big continuous show. Instead of 22 minute shows here, it's the full 30 minutes, with maybe 30-60 seconds cut off to advertise other shows on that channel.
The only negative of the UK's system is you are required to pay for cable if you own a TV, even if you don't watch cable (IE, you use the TV for DVDs, Video Games, etc).
Correct me if I'm wrong on any of this, as I don't live in the UK, I'm basing this off of people I know, what I see of the shows, and the "Young Ones" eating their TV when the guys came around to collect their fee.
Come on man, buy some new components. Shit, some times people on here amaize me with their stupididty.
I did, I bought a brand new laptop.
I do 100% of my stuff on my laptop, and have my ghetto computer running Azureus 24/7 downloading shows and games using the TV out on its graphics card. It has no problems with doing that at least.
My "stupidity" was only assumed by you, I didn't add the other facts because I didn't think they were relevant. Oh, and testing those OSs? A few clicks and the torrents are added to Azureus, and a burn to CD-RWs to see if the OS works on it. I did that because I needed something for my fingers to do while waiting on different tasks to perform on my laptop.
"MemTest86 goes bonkers on it, I left it on for a week once and it still was finding errors in my RAM"
Wow. A classic.
It's called memtest86 not memfix86, fixing your RAM is not one of its features, even if you run it for a month.
Yeah, obviously. But it STOPS once it's finished scanning, giving you an "overall errors found". It didn't finish after a week of scanning, still finding errors.
I have never understood this criticism. I have never had a problem installing and using FreeBSD on any hardware I have tried it on. By contrast, I have NEVER gotten sound to work in any Linux distro on any hardware I own.
On my ghetto hardware (a power surge fried my surge protector, part of my motherboard, processor, and RAM, simultaneously, MemTest86 goes bonkers on it, I left it on for a week once and it still was finding errors in my RAM!), only one OS installs, period. NOT "type of" OS like GNU/Linux, but complete OS, which is Slackware Linux.
Windows XP/2K (the only two I've tried) bluescreen during initial setup preparation. Ubuntu, KUbuntu, Fedora Core, etc all corrupt immediately, forcing me to format because the kernel doesn't boot. FreeBSD/NetBSD both freeze before the setup screen starts up. I booted into MEPIS Live CD, and copied the files to the hard drive, but after about 10 minutes of usage the entire thing crashed and burned because my computer couldnt handle the big text file the currently installed packages' information are stored in.
Yet every time I install Slackware (a total of 8 or so times since said incident), not a single problem occurs, every program is installed perfectly, and everything runs fine.
I guess my point is, that FreeBSD doesn't support every peice of hardware, damaged hardware isn't supported, unlike in Slackware.
You must have something confused. I think the porting is in the other direction. However, FreeBSD can run Linux binaries.
I think programs like KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, XFCE, GAIM, etc are designed on Linux first, not on FreeBSD. That's why the software repository for FreeBSD is called "ports"...
Why must every good thing be turned into some kind of zealot-fest, rally to my agenda? How about we all simply enjoy the damn distro without trying to conquor this, push agenda that, holy-war upon everything that doesn't agree with me?
Because essentially, the more support an OS has (especially an open source one), the more usability it creates, the more new ideas flow into it, the more hardware vendors create drivers for it, etc.
There's been so many dozens of IE vulnerabilties that allow software to be installed with *zero* user interaction that it doesn't take a security "idiot" to get smacked by these things.
Even with all those things, only a security "idiot" would use IE.
GHH allows you to safely monitor attempts by malicious attackers to compromise your security. The logging functions that GHH implements allows you, the administrator, to do what you like with the information. You can use the attack database to gather statistics on would-be-attackers, report activities to appropriate authorities and temporarily or permanently deny access to resources.
That's a little different than a Honeypot, that sounds more like an IDS. But what I'm trying to figure out is how in the hell do they manage to log usage of the Google Cache, Google searches involving your domain, etc?
It is called "experiential advertising." Most car commercials are of this type.
What? Most car commercials are: "Introducing the new Blah Blah, equipped with Blah Blah Blah at 1.9% APR financing for 2 years with 4 year warranty." All the time showing you the car, usually in motion, so you can get the feel for the look and design of the car while getting the facts. This is NOTHING like what we are talking about here.
Great. Lets compare the graphical qualities of a 4 year old console versus a yet unreleased one.
Graphics are certainly not everything. I have a pretty awesome PC, playing Doom3 very well. Yet I much more enjoyed playing JDoom (OpenGL remake of the ORIGINAL doom) with friends in multiplayer than I enjoyed Doom3. Graphics mean NOTHING.
Maybe I'm thinking on a higher level than all of you people, but all of you Nintendo fanboys completely missed my point.
When I quote something, I'm referring to it. My quote is:
"Twilight Princess.
Let's see who wins this Christmas, shall we?:)"
I must be referring to who will win the Christmas, not what you, or even I, think is a better game.
The mass majority of gamers think "GRAPHICS GRAPHICS!", not "GAMEPLAY GAMEPLAY!". When they see the difference, I'm sure they'll chose PGR over Twilight Princess, plus they are getting the "latest and greatest" console to show off to all of their friends.
I'm comparing the graphical qualities of a 4 year old console with a yet unreleased one because this Christmas they are going to be sitting side-by-side competing. Competition makes consumer compare.
Ignore what ATI tells you on their website. Download the fglrx package from them anyway, they work with mobility products about as well as they do with desktop products.
With my ATI Radeon X300 PCI Express Mobility, they don't. I didn't even know about the "no laptop" thing.
I'm currently running generic Mesa GLX drivers, running at ~500 FPS in glxgears. Good enough for what I do on this partition (separate Windows partition for games), but I would love to see what this thing can do with real drivers... those generic drivers give out about 50 FPS on my desktop PC!
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I have a Dell Inspiron notebook just like him (I'm posting from it right now), and placing the laptop in my lap does no such thing. Am I the only one here that understands the concept of "lap"? "Lap" does not mean "groin", it means "the top part of your legs".
If anything, the only part of me that gets warmed up is a little above the knees, nowhere near my happy sacks.
for us, wonder what he'll tell the cop.... =D
"Hi officer, my name is Jeff Gordon, was I driving too fast back there?"
He said he's using a laptop/notebook computer.
Wow, I must be blind.
I don't see what the problem is, then. If it's a laptop, you don't have to sit on the edge of the couch, you can pick it up and put it in your lap! Hence, laptop...
You could always just buy a laptop and use that instead, but of course, that's more expensive than just buying a rolling desk.
Really it all depends on how big your living room is, where the desk is going to be placed, and how big your computer is.
No matter how good it looks right now it does not represent how the game will play or even perhaps the actual in game graphics. So its a little early to be calling the Death of Unreal Tournament and the Unreal engine etc.
And of course, complying with Moore's Law, every 9 months technology gets decreases in power by one half.
There are also games included with purchases. Anyone ever play Chex Quest?
;)). From what I could tell it was some FPS, with Chex in it or something weird like that.
I also had a copy of that, but never played it (I just wanted the Chex
but he is making a profit on another company w/o their permission - and they are losing money. That is NOT cool.
http://www.fedexfurniture.com/
Where on that site do you see him selling these things?
He accepts donations, but a donation is just that, A DONATION, not profit.
Here's another one.
Personaly, me, I have one computer (DP G5) in my house and thats it. Wouldnt have it any other way.
Some people are different I suppose. I prefer to have a desktop style PC for all my server/media needs, so I wouldn't need to leave my laptop on 24/7.
Plus, my laptop doesn't support TV out (or it does, and I have to buy some sort of add-on to make it work).
I support that idea, at least, since I don't want my lv. 97 Superlative Love Ninja to heal up by drinking Sprite
That reminded me of a game from the olden days of the big, clunky, battery eating Game Gear.
I had to look it up, but I believe it was this game: Cool Spot. You were the 7UP dot, with arms and legs, and it was a platforming game. The game essentially WAS an advertisement. This is probably the biggest form of advertising ever in any video game, and I hope games don't turn for the worse and get so loaded with advertisements that we end up with games like this again.
If you remember, cable tv (around 1978) was originally completely ad-free. The reasoning was that the content was paid for by your subscription.
From what I gather, it is still this way in the UK. The new (as well as the old) British shows that I download don't seem to have commercial breaks, it's just one big continuous show. Instead of 22 minute shows here, it's the full 30 minutes, with maybe 30-60 seconds cut off to advertise other shows on that channel.
The only negative of the UK's system is you are required to pay for cable if you own a TV, even if you don't watch cable (IE, you use the TV for DVDs, Video Games, etc).
Correct me if I'm wrong on any of this, as I don't live in the UK, I'm basing this off of people I know, what I see of the shows, and the "Young Ones" eating their TV when the guys came around to collect their fee.
Come on man, buy some new components. Shit, some times people on here amaize me with their stupididty.
I did, I bought a brand new laptop.
I do 100% of my stuff on my laptop, and have my ghetto computer running Azureus 24/7 downloading shows and games using the TV out on its graphics card. It has no problems with doing that at least.
My "stupidity" was only assumed by you, I didn't add the other facts because I didn't think they were relevant. Oh, and testing those OSs? A few clicks and the torrents are added to Azureus, and a burn to CD-RWs to see if the OS works on it. I did that because I needed something for my fingers to do while waiting on different tasks to perform on my laptop.
"MemTest86 goes bonkers on it, I left it on for a week once and it still was finding errors in my RAM"
Wow. A classic.
It's called memtest86 not memfix86, fixing your RAM is not one of its features, even if you run it for a month.
Yeah, obviously. But it STOPS once it's finished scanning, giving you an "overall errors found". It didn't finish after a week of scanning, still finding errors.
Not once in my post did I say "fix".
I have never understood this criticism. I have never had a problem installing and using FreeBSD on any hardware I have tried it on. By contrast, I have NEVER gotten sound to work in any Linux distro on any hardware I own.
On my ghetto hardware (a power surge fried my surge protector, part of my motherboard, processor, and RAM, simultaneously, MemTest86 goes bonkers on it, I left it on for a week once and it still was finding errors in my RAM!), only one OS installs, period. NOT "type of" OS like GNU/Linux, but complete OS, which is Slackware Linux.
Windows XP/2K (the only two I've tried) bluescreen during initial setup preparation. Ubuntu, KUbuntu, Fedora Core, etc all corrupt immediately, forcing me to format because the kernel doesn't boot. FreeBSD/NetBSD both freeze before the setup screen starts up. I booted into MEPIS Live CD, and copied the files to the hard drive, but after about 10 minutes of usage the entire thing crashed and burned because my computer couldnt handle the big text file the currently installed packages' information are stored in.
Yet every time I install Slackware (a total of 8 or so times since said incident), not a single problem occurs, every program is installed perfectly, and everything runs fine.
I guess my point is, that FreeBSD doesn't support every peice of hardware, damaged hardware isn't supported, unlike in Slackware.
You must have something confused. I think the porting is in the other direction. However, FreeBSD can run Linux binaries.
I think programs like KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, XFCE, GAIM, etc are designed on Linux first, not on FreeBSD. That's why the software repository for FreeBSD is called "ports"...
Why must every good thing be turned into some kind of zealot-fest, rally to my agenda? How about we all simply enjoy the damn distro without trying to conquor this, push agenda that, holy-war upon everything that doesn't agree with me?
Because essentially, the more support an OS has (especially an open source one), the more usability it creates, the more new ideas flow into it, the more hardware vendors create drivers for it, etc.
OSX has nothing to do with *BSD? Your not serious are you? Darwin *is* a BSD environment.
Okay, let's reorder his post to get your misunderstanding corrected:
An odd little thing is that many people [...] don't know that Apple has anything at all to do with [BSD] either.
"Well, boss, we're having problems with Linux at our datacenter, but don't worry, I can go on IRC and ask someone to help me."
Actually I think it goes something like this:
"Well, boss, we're having problems with Linux at our datacenter, but don't worry, I just saved a ton of money on car insurance by switching to Geico."
There's been so many dozens of IE vulnerabilties that allow software to be installed with *zero* user interaction that it doesn't take a security "idiot" to get smacked by these things.
Even with all those things, only a security "idiot" would use IE.
THIS IS THE WORST IDEA EVER!... (etc)
You have flourescent light bulbs where you live? This is more for buildings, or maybe the hallways of apartment buildings, than anything else.
GHH allows you to safely monitor attempts by malicious attackers to compromise your security. The logging functions that GHH implements allows you, the administrator, to do what you like with the information. You can use the attack database to gather statistics on would-be-attackers, report activities to appropriate authorities and temporarily or permanently deny access to resources.
That's a little different than a Honeypot, that sounds more like an IDS. But what I'm trying to figure out is how in the hell do they manage to log usage of the Google Cache, Google searches involving your domain, etc?
older coworker who gave him this sage advice on romantic relations with people at work: never deficate where you eat.
I like, "Don't get your meat where you get your bread."
"Don't punch a clock with a timecard in your pants."
I like that one better.
It is called "experiential advertising." Most car commercials are of this type.
What? Most car commercials are: "Introducing the new Blah Blah, equipped with Blah Blah Blah at 1.9% APR financing for 2 years with 4 year warranty." All the time showing you the car, usually in motion, so you can get the feel for the look and design of the car while getting the facts. This is NOTHING like what we are talking about here.
"We're talking about a software archive."
No, we're talking about cheese.
Yum.
Great. Lets compare the graphical qualities of a 4 year old console versus a yet unreleased one.
:)"
Graphics are certainly not everything. I have a pretty awesome PC, playing Doom3 very well. Yet I much more enjoyed playing JDoom (OpenGL remake of the ORIGINAL doom) with friends in multiplayer than I enjoyed Doom3. Graphics mean NOTHING.
Maybe I'm thinking on a higher level than all of you people, but all of you Nintendo fanboys completely missed my point.
When I quote something, I'm referring to it. My quote is: "Twilight Princess.
Let's see who wins this Christmas, shall we?
I must be referring to who will win the Christmas, not what you, or even I, think is a better game.
The mass majority of gamers think "GRAPHICS GRAPHICS!", not "GAMEPLAY GAMEPLAY!". When they see the difference, I'm sure they'll chose PGR over Twilight Princess, plus they are getting the "latest and greatest" console to show off to all of their friends.
I'm comparing the graphical qualities of a 4 year old console with a yet unreleased one because this Christmas they are going to be sitting side-by-side competing. Competition makes consumer compare.
Ignore what ATI tells you on their website. Download the fglrx package from them anyway, they work with mobility products about as well as they do with desktop products.
With my ATI Radeon X300 PCI Express Mobility, they don't. I didn't even know about the "no laptop" thing.
I'm currently running generic Mesa GLX drivers, running at ~500 FPS in glxgears. Good enough for what I do on this partition (separate Windows partition for games), but I would love to see what this thing can do with real drivers... those generic drivers give out about 50 FPS on my desktop PC!