I've got 5 years experience and have gotten %100 raise in two years(my first two). I left that job because I could see where the company was going(down). I got a job that I hated, and was happily laid off in 9 months. I now work from home for $48K/yr. The money's not great, but the hours are.
I have a koolance (www.koolance.com) case and I have to tell you that using it is as easy as can be. It's hassle free, quiet, and cool. After having this case, I see no reason for a PC to be air cooled.
Why oh why must they keep referring to centrino powered computers as powerful? They even went so far as to say that one of the centrino powered laptops was one of the world's most powerful. What crap! I test laptops out for performance to recommend to customers which laptops to use for our simulation software and I have not EVER recommend centrinos yet.
I hate to inform you of the curren state of affairs, but PC games on XP just work. I stay on Windows for games. Switching to Linux is not something a PC gamer does.
Consoles make tons more money. The games for consoles were created on PCs. Mods for games are often more popular than the games themselves(Desert Combat, Counterstrike) but must be created on PCs. The most powerful graphics cards available are for PCs. You can say that a console is just as powerful, but you're wrong. Military spec for simulation is 60 fps. A standard TV runs well below that (30, I think). A console only needs to produce 30 fps for a standard TV and then it only has to deal with 544x372(or so) pixels. I try to exceed 30 fps at all times and run a resolution of 1600x1200. That's almost 10 times as many pixels as a console needs to produce. Many people state that a high end PC graphics card costs as much as a console. They're right, but a graphics card that matches the output of a console system costs $50. I, for one, am tired of games coming out for PC that are watered down because they were simultaneously developed for consoles.
I think that this should be required under fair use. Consumers should be allowed to fix their own cars if they have the know-how. As it is, most new cars cannot even have a problem diagnosed by an owner, but must be taken to a dealer, who charges you at least $75 just to hook up a computer and say, "Your oxygen sensor is bad." I get really pissed off that I can't read the codes on my '99 Cherokee unless I buy an OBD2 code reader and then I have to know what the numeric code it gives means. On older vehicles, the codes are easy to find, but on newer ones, it's getting much more difficult and in some cases impossible. The auto dealers will throw lots of money at this and buy off the congressmen and this won't happen.
I think it may happen for a certain class of throw-away cars, but it won't be norm for a very long time. There are just too many people who know how to get under their own hood to take that away. If you want to ensure that it never happens, make sure you make your kids do their own car work and instill in them the idea that being able to fix your own car is something to be proud of.
The first time someone who actually knows how to replace their own air filter ($12-$15 for a standard one) has to pay the dealer $100 to do it, they'll never buy a car like that again.
Does it not occur to you that maybe the SDI test was to test the interceptors ability to adjust course, not its ability to find the target? Do none of you think of that? We're talking about a complex system. You should test all the pieces independently before you put them all together to see if they work.
Monkeys.
I've always found Return to Castle Wolfenstein to be pretty boring as far as multiplayer goes, but lots of people love it. I prefer Soldier of Fortune 2's multiplayer. I don't really like the Quake or Unreal multiplayer/"death lasers and bombs in space" sort of stuff. Vietcong doesn't have much support, but the multiplayer is pretty fun. It looks like Far Cry(coming soon) is going to have some good multiplayer, but you never know until it comes out.
I work for a professor(not as a student). I get all sorts of totally great textbooks for free. The publishers send him tons of books trying to get him to use them, and he gives them to me. I'm not sure what the karma factor is here since I reap the benefits of everyone else's high prices...
Does anyone else notice that the two tests that showed positive have let the drop of test solution spread out? Does the fact that the two that tested negative have the solution beaded up indicate very little interaction between the two substances? Where's a chemist on this? It doesn't look like they're mixing...
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I've got 5 years experience and have gotten %100 raise in two years(my first two). I left that job because I could see where the company was going(down). I got a job that I hated, and was happily laid off in 9 months. I now work from home for $48K/yr. The money's not great, but the hours are.
The hard drive is definitely the loudest thing on my Koolance water-cooled case. plug plug. I wish they'd give me free stuff for this.
I make several thousand dollars in on-line purchases of bike and computer parts each year. I won't ever report them.
I have a koolance (www.koolance.com) case and I have to tell you that using it is as easy as can be. It's hassle free, quiet, and cool. After having this case, I see no reason for a PC to be air cooled.
I'm very happy about this decision. Those ads always annoyed me.
Why oh why must they keep referring to centrino powered computers as powerful? They even went so far as to say that one of the centrino powered laptops was one of the world's most powerful. What crap! I test laptops out for performance to recommend to customers which laptops to use for our simulation software and I have not EVER recommend centrinos yet.
I hate to inform you of the curren state of affairs, but PC games on XP just work. I stay on Windows for games. Switching to Linux is not something a PC gamer does.
Consoles make tons more money. The games for consoles were created on PCs. Mods for games are often more popular than the games themselves(Desert Combat, Counterstrike) but must be created on PCs. The most powerful graphics cards available are for PCs. You can say that a console is just as powerful, but you're wrong. Military spec for simulation is 60 fps. A standard TV runs well below that (30, I think). A console only needs to produce 30 fps for a standard TV and then it only has to deal with 544x372(or so) pixels. I try to exceed 30 fps at all times and run a resolution of 1600x1200. That's almost 10 times as many pixels as a console needs to produce. Many people state that a high end PC graphics card costs as much as a console. They're right, but a graphics card that matches the output of a console system costs $50. I, for one, am tired of games coming out for PC that are watered down because they were simultaneously developed for consoles.
I think that this should be required under fair use. Consumers should be allowed to fix their own cars if they have the know-how. As it is, most new cars cannot even have a problem diagnosed by an owner, but must be taken to a dealer, who charges you at least $75 just to hook up a computer and say, "Your oxygen sensor is bad." I get really pissed off that I can't read the codes on my '99 Cherokee unless I buy an OBD2 code reader and then I have to know what the numeric code it gives means. On older vehicles, the codes are easy to find, but on newer ones, it's getting much more difficult and in some cases impossible. The auto dealers will throw lots of money at this and buy off the congressmen and this won't happen.
I think it may happen for a certain class of throw-away cars, but it won't be norm for a very long time. There are just too many people who know how to get under their own hood to take that away. If you want to ensure that it never happens, make sure you make your kids do their own car work and instill in them the idea that being able to fix your own car is something to be proud of. The first time someone who actually knows how to replace their own air filter ($12-$15 for a standard one) has to pay the dealer $100 to do it, they'll never buy a car like that again.
Does it not occur to you that maybe the SDI test was to test the interceptors ability to adjust course, not its ability to find the target? Do none of you think of that? We're talking about a complex system. You should test all the pieces independently before you put them all together to see if they work. Monkeys.
I've always found Return to Castle Wolfenstein to be pretty boring as far as multiplayer goes, but lots of people love it. I prefer Soldier of Fortune 2's multiplayer. I don't really like the Quake or Unreal multiplayer/"death lasers and bombs in space" sort of stuff. Vietcong doesn't have much support, but the multiplayer is pretty fun. It looks like Far Cry(coming soon) is going to have some good multiplayer, but you never know until it comes out.
I work for a professor(not as a student). I get all sorts of totally great textbooks for free. The publishers send him tons of books trying to get him to use them, and he gives them to me. I'm not sure what the karma factor is here since I reap the benefits of everyone else's high prices...
Does anyone else notice that the two tests that showed positive have let the drop of test solution spread out? Does the fact that the two that tested negative have the solution beaded up indicate very little interaction between the two substances? Where's a chemist on this? It doesn't look like they're mixing...