I can't tell if this is a joke flying over my head or if you really believe it. If it's the latter, could you cite a source for this? I've never heard anything like it before.
Even then, some American companies today make big chunky V8 cars. If one were only looking for V8 thunder and low quarter-mile times, they'd be the right way to go. Examples include the new Mustang, Dodge's new Charger, and Chevy's upcoming Camaro. Though their engines aren't massive 400-something CID, their superior tuning makes up for it.
There were two nice things about the muscle car era - ease of modification (due to larger engine bays and lack of any onboard computers) and low insurance rates.
I don't understand. It got around Top Gear's track far quicker than a 575 while also being much cheaper. I'd say that's "mission accomplished" from an engineering perspective.
It may not be "classy" like a (much more expensive) European supercar or comfortable like a sporty 4-door, but it wasn't designed to be either of those things. Like any good American performance vehicle, it's fast, unrefined, and cheap; that's the fun in it.
I'll concede the Crossfire and F-150 to you, but why did you list that very positive review of the Z06? On the track, that Corvette completely ruined the 575's shit for £100,000 less.
I'd rather disembowel myself with a corkscrew than run Gnome or buy an Intel processor, thank you. However, I'm very happy running KDE on my AMD X2 3500. It overclocks like a dream, and only cost me $59.
With proper cooling, a Core 2 Duo e4300 like the one I have can clock to around 200% of its stock speed. Let's see your "X2 3500" do that, assuming it exists - it doesn't seem to be for sale anywhere.
There is no reason for someone who only wants to do email/web/schoolwork to buy a full on desktop computer. I would bet money that most laptops being sold today are going to people who are not transporting them very far.
You have just made an excellent case for why these people should not buy laptops. Desktops are way cheaper to purchase and own than laptops. You never have to replace batteries (short of a CMOS), and if you want to upgrade them a few years later, it's easy and cheap. Laptops, with their soldered-in processors and graphics chips, turn into paperweights within a few years. Laptops sacrifice everything for mobility. If all you want is email/web/schoolwork, a $300 beige box is the ticket for you.
From TFA: "While we're on the subject of the card being fanless, you're going to need to have good airflow inside your system to keep this card adequately cool."
I've used a few passive cards before, and they've all crashed my games when they haven't had airflow over them. I thought elimination of airflow (i.e. noise) was the purpose of passive coolers?
The best compromise between noise and performance is, imo, to buy an active Zalman cooler like the VF700 on my X800. It has a 5V "quiet" setting that keeps the card cool and very quiet as well as a 12V setting that's great for overclocking. Their design is pretty different from any stock cooler, and once you see the difference in performance, you'll understand why.
1. AAC has its flaws (compatibility), but MP3 sounds awful at any bitrate compared to AAC or OGG. And OGG isn't compatible with iTunes / iPod. Winner: AAC.
2. iTunes screws the artists just as much as buying their CD in the case of both indie artists and RIAA slaves.
Thanks for playing, but you've just made an ass of yourself and you'll need to go away now.
The only DRMed video and audio you can get for the iPod comes from the iTunes Music Store. Your existing library of Mp3s and Mp4 videos will also play on it; no DRM. I myself have encoded just under a hundred short movies to Mp4 for playback on the iPod - all of them work fine.
I am so sick of people thinking that content on an iPod HAS to have come from the iTMS. It doesn't. And saying otherwise demonstrates how little you know about it.
Good Lord - you're using a controller with a PC? I always considered having a keyboard and mouse to be one of the PC's greatest assets, and now you're throwing that all away.
Please tell me the controller is only for flight sims or racing games or something.
"I have a friend of mine who told me that his son was on-line when he was thirteen, and a sexual predator had wanted him to send nude pictures of himself to them, and my friend sent him a major virus for his computer."
This is from a *Police Chief* who doesn't seem to realize that he incriminated his friend. But then again, his friend probably wasn't l33t enough to send him a "major virus", so two wrongs might have made a right:P .
Perhaps stupidity is infectious in this community?
Putting a man on the moon is not hard. All you need is some math, rockets, and life support systems.
People who say shit like "Why can we put a man on the moon and yet not cure cancer" bug the hell out of me - putting a man on the moon is easy.
I don't want my tax dollars going to support a cause to see "what we are made of". I want it going to feed the hungry, cure sickle cell anemia, that sort of thing.
Is there something stopping people from making a high-definition CRT TV? Most of the TVs I see that support more than 480 lines are not chunky enough to be CRTs.
Yet I have this CRT with a VGA interface that supports up to 1600x1200 resolution. It cost about $80 and is 19" diagonally. It seems that small and mid-size HD TVs could be made by just slapping a TV tuner onto a computer display.
Would it cost a lot to make a large (30-50 inches) CRT Television that supported more than 480 lines?
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I can't tell if this is a joke flying over my head or if you really believe it. If it's the latter, could you cite a source for this? I've never heard anything like it before.
Even then, some American companies today make big chunky V8 cars. If one were only looking for V8 thunder and low quarter-mile times, they'd be the right way to go. Examples include the new Mustang, Dodge's new Charger, and Chevy's upcoming Camaro. Though their engines aren't massive 400-something CID, their superior tuning makes up for it. There were two nice things about the muscle car era - ease of modification (due to larger engine bays and lack of any onboard computers) and low insurance rates.
The editing of this summary is awful. What the fuck, Zonk? I see multiple typos on just about every line.
I'll concede the Crossfire and F-150 to you, but why did you list that very positive review of the Z06? On the track, that Corvette completely ruined the 575's shit for £100,000 less.
You can't honestly have not heard air being displaced somewhere over your head during that post, could you?
And now, so have I.
*high-five*
I feel I should mention that MINI coopers are hideous and so are the people who drive them.
Honestly, they're almost as bad as PT Cruisers.
From TFA: "While we're on the subject of the card being fanless, you're going to need to have good airflow inside your system to keep this card adequately cool."
I've used a few passive cards before, and they've all crashed my games when they haven't had airflow over them. I thought elimination of airflow (i.e. noise) was the purpose of passive coolers?
The best compromise between noise and performance is, imo, to buy an active Zalman cooler like the VF700 on my X800. It has a 5V "quiet" setting that keeps the card cool and very quiet as well as a 12V setting that's great for overclocking. Their design is pretty different from any stock cooler, and once you see the difference in performance, you'll understand why.
1. AAC has its flaws (compatibility), but MP3 sounds awful at any bitrate compared to AAC or OGG. And OGG isn't compatible with iTunes / iPod. Winner: AAC.
2. iTunes screws the artists just as much as buying their CD in the case of both indie artists and RIAA slaves.
Thanks for playing, but you've just made an ass of yourself and you'll need to go away now.
The only DRMed video and audio you can get for the iPod comes from the iTunes Music Store. Your existing library of Mp3s and Mp4 videos will also play on it; no DRM. I myself have encoded just under a hundred short movies to Mp4 for playback on the iPod - all of them work fine.
I am so sick of people thinking that content on an iPod HAS to have come from the iTMS. It doesn't. And saying otherwise demonstrates how little you know about it.
Good Lord - you're using a controller with a PC? I always considered having a keyboard and mouse to be one of the PC's greatest assets, and now you're throwing that all away.
Please tell me the controller is only for flight sims or racing games or something.
Heh.
And people wonder why I use a Mac.
It's from a CD single, I think. Not sure which version I have as it's been released in several forms, but the song name is Satan and it's by Orbital.
The "daddy, what does regret mean" part is at the start of an otherwise wordless song, so Orbital may have borrowed it.
Your signature is from a song by Orbital and they are the COOLEST.
This silly news station has an entire section devoted to children (http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=childre n_first&id=3297128). After browsing through it for a moment I found this little gem:
:P .
"I have a friend of mine who told me that his son was on-line when he was thirteen, and a sexual predator had wanted him to send nude pictures of himself to them, and my friend sent him a major virus for his computer."
This is from a *Police Chief* who doesn't seem to realize that he incriminated his friend. But then again, his friend probably wasn't l33t enough to send him a "major virus", so two wrongs might have made a right
Perhaps stupidity is infectious in this community?
Putting a man on the moon is not hard. All you need is some math, rockets, and life support systems.
People who say shit like "Why can we put a man on the moon and yet not cure cancer" bug the hell out of me - putting a man on the moon is easy.
I don't want my tax dollars going to support a cause to see "what we are made of". I want it going to feed the hungry, cure sickle cell anemia, that sort of thing.
I feel like my eyes have been assaulted.
Keep up the good work.
Ooooooh, BURRRRN!
The parent is right, though. Here's a few codenames:
-Rape
Wow, I guess there's only one.
Is there something stopping people from making a high-definition CRT TV? Most of the TVs I see that support more than 480 lines are not chunky enough to be CRTs.
Yet I have this CRT with a VGA interface that supports up to 1600x1200 resolution. It cost about $80 and is 19" diagonally. It seems that small and mid-size HD TVs could be made by just slapping a TV tuner onto a computer display.
Would it cost a lot to make a large (30-50 inches) CRT Television that supported more than 480 lines?
A much better interview can also be seen here.
For Mac users tired of having AIM, MSN and Yahoo! open at the same time, the solution is here
This article is right; high-end cases are making a comeback