Though you can get quite a bit of improvement just by going through the add/remove list and getting rid of all the cruft you've installed and forgotten about.
Or had installed for you. (I'm talking to you Wild Tangent and your scummy scam.) System performance is directly related to how much task bar space is still empty.
You can have both you know. I don't think there have been many laptops sold in the last ten years without some kind of monitor output, a PS/2 keyboard/mouse port and/or several USB ports.
and If I also recall correctly, recent review of the tapes suggested that he did in fact say it correctly, but there was some kind of error in transmission.
Indeed, however there is some overlap especially weight concerns. I suspect that the poster may have planned a few nights roughin' it in case of no hostel. In any event, I was replying to a poster who clearly was focused on outdoors backpacking.
It's too bad that there isn't a good term for the hotel/hostel low-baggage traveling vs. real backpacking.
Wait.. companies hate standards, yet "froze" them? Isn't that just another way of saying they standardized the standards, which up until that point apparently weren't?
Companies don't hate standards. They hate costs. If you want them to change, you have to convince them that either the increased revenue will offset the capital expense or that the reduced marginal cost will offset it.
No, it's still useful to have both on the same disk. For me and everyone like me...
I have no intention of purchasing an HD TV for at least two years. There simply isn't enough programming to justify it for me yet. (If I was into football and golf, perhaps, but I'm not so it's moot.)
Knowing that my DVDs are now obsolete: I'll be able to play them on future players, but there will be better versions of my current library of movies soon. I have no intention of purchasing any more films until I'm ready to make the switch to HD, since that would mean either sacrificing future quality or increasing my re-purchase list.
If there are both versions on the same disk, I can buy movies now and watch them while holding out on the rest of the equipment until it has a more reasonable cost. i.e. I'm no home theater guru, so I don't want to spend more than about $400-$500 for the whole setup. $100-$150 for the player and $300-$400 for the display, which I expect to be able to do in the 2009--2010 time frame.
I am however agnostic about the format. I'll be purchasing a multiple-format player (Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, DVD, DVD+/-R,RW, CD, VCD, CD-R,RW; the list is getting long...) when the time comes, but I won't be purchasing any films at all until then unless they have one of the formats and DVD (or I'm impatient enough to make the previously stated trade-off)
I disagree. If only that a competetive ranking on more individual sports (i.e. tennis, etc) allows more even pairings. Thus everyone has a chance to win, but winning isn't just a hollow victory.
With enough variety of sports, there should be something that everyone can be the champion of, without gimping anything.
Yeah a Zippo is great. Because what you really want is poorly sealed liquid fuel *anything* in a bag full of textiles.
If you must have fire, use a butane lighter. The worst thing that can happen is that it will all leak out and dissipate, possibly making you a little cool depending on the size of the hole.
Ok on with the other bits of your list:
- Wax dipped wooden matches
Actually not a bad idea. I assume you meant the "strike anywhere" variety, since waterproof "box-only" matches are pretty easy to find. Similar problem with the lighters though, make sure to keep them in a rigid container so there is no possibility they will rub against anywhere.
- Camp stove (the little foldable ones that use the white pellet fuel - available at Canadian tire)
gas (i.e. propane, butane) stoves aren't much bigger, but are quite a bit more efficient and avoid the liquid fuel problem.
- Metal pot/dish to cook in and eat from
- Fork or Spoon.
- Swiss Army Knife/Leatherman
- Water purification filter/pellets if clean fresh water will not be available in the region, or if contamination is not biological (i.e. boiling won't fix it)
- A mini first aid kit.
- A good loud whistle
- air mattress / thermarest
Ditch it. Not all that heavy, but a bit bulky. You don't even need a tent if you carry a hammock. Wal-mart hammock for ~$11 (with spreaders) is very light and takes up much less space than an air mattress.
- Wool socks + full change of clothes
And nylon sock liners if you find wool scratchy. Poly socks are ok too. Stay away from natural fibers.
- Dehydrated meals
- Pint of Whiskey / Vodka
- DEET / Cigarettes / Cigars to deter biting insects
Make sure it's 100% deet. Some companies cut it with alcohol ostensibly to make it safer. Unfortunately, alcohol increases its absorption into your skin and provides no insect-repelling function. Better to just use 100% and less of it. And on your clothes. From a pump rather than aerosol. (they're smaller and lighter than the aerosol anyway, and a little bit goes a long way.)
- Bag to carry all garbage out in
Also, emergency poncho, rain-fly. The uses are endless.
- VHF radio in case med-evac required. (FRS/walkie-talkies for within the group)
That just about covers it.
iPod? MacBook? Stay home if that is what you are after.
And of course... Leave no Trace.
Don't forget to pack out your human waste too. If you find that too icky, you'll need a collapsible shovel.
Competition may be frustrating for people who continuously lose, but getting rid of it makes the games boring for everyone. The trick is to segregate them into groups of equivalent skill without singling out anyone into the "loser's league."
Perhaps by having non-conventional or out-of-season sports run concurrently with the vanilla sports. The better athletes seem to prefer the regular events, while the less skilled could simply choose something else if frustrated, always with the excuse, "well I like dodgeball, pickleball, badminton, or curling more than basketball, baseball, football, or boring football (a.k.a soccer)."
Any sports not practiced at home will even the playing field as well, so there's no reason to restrict anyone to any strata.
Anyone who says dodgeball is stupid better not play FPSs.
Why doesn't your uni just get a site license to make available to the students? I'm sure many of the software companies would be amenable to this, and not charge much over the license for the computer labs anyway, since it means the students would get used to using their software.
Yeah, but they probably also have a statement in there that "if any of these provisions are unenforceable in your state, this does not invalidate the rest of the document"
because many of the provisions are unenforceable in every state. I don't know why they're in there to begin with, but it seems like a relative of the typical liability waiver.
When you own one restaurant, It doesn't make sense to scrimp on the napkins to save $5/year. When you own a twenty thousand restaurant chain, that's an entire person's salary. And maybe you could use slightly lesser quality ingredients too..
"You may think text adventure were nothing big, but they used to be HUGE. Text adventure games definately inspired a generation of MUD games. MUD games inspired Everquest, which inspired World of Warcraft."
Which is..disappointing.
Since they all seem to end up in the old rehashed "roll die, compare to stat" mode to simulate variety. When will we get a completely deterministic RPG?
It's not an elitist point of view. It's just that it's an entirely different game. It's not really a FPS, because you're not in control of the actual shooting. It's also not FPS because it's typically from a third-person POV. It's about control. You simply cannot execute a disk-jump jet-away, quickly half-turn midair, cycle to magnum, and shoot the rocket launcher out of the hand of an opposing player while he's trying get a lock on you in a console game. At least not in any way you can feel like YOU did it.
Aimbots are stupid because you're not really playing the game. So what's the point? Auto-aim can be just as stupid depending on the game that depends on it.
Well that's interesting, but even your European brethren do not have unlimited bandwidth. Their bandwidth is their bandwidth.
Now, would you rather have 1.5 Mbps service with a monthly limit of 40 Gb or 2 kbps service with no monthly limit?
Frankly, the "European" style I've seen touted so much seems like they're getting ripped off on the burst rates, since no one browses continuously. OTOH, their full, continuous bandwidth is apparently greater than my max bandwidth, so they're not getting ripped off too much.
Um.. they come with the game. It's called "autoaim" or somesuch. It lets you hit targets by aiming in their vicinity, and it's the only way console FPS are playable without a mouse.
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Perhaps.
Though you can get quite a bit of improvement just by going through the add/remove list and getting rid of all the cruft you've installed and forgotten about.
Or had installed for you. (I'm talking to you Wild Tangent and your scummy scam.) System performance is directly related to how much task bar space is still empty.
You can have both you know. I don't think there have been many laptops sold in the last ten years without some kind of monitor output, a PS/2 keyboard/mouse port and/or several USB ports.
and If I also recall correctly, recent review of the tapes suggested that he did in fact say it correctly, but there was some kind of error in transmission.
Didn't get the reference, eh? Well don't worry, we've all been there. You're probably better off not having seen it anyway.
Indeed, however there is some overlap especially weight concerns. I suspect that the poster may have planned a few nights roughin' it in case of no hostel. In any event, I was replying to a poster who clearly was focused on outdoors backpacking.
It's too bad that there isn't a good term for the hotel/hostel low-baggage traveling vs. real backpacking.
Fertilizer. Some of the most fertile land in the world is precariously located in the shadow of a frightening volcano. Why do you think that is?
Not to mention that you don't even get to fly your own ships.
Wait.. companies hate standards, yet "froze" them? Isn't that just another way of saying they standardized the standards, which up until that point apparently weren't?
Companies don't hate standards. They hate costs. If you want them to change, you have to convince them that either the increased revenue will offset the capital expense or that the reduced marginal cost will offset it.
I will pay the $50 to get the tuner. Digital TV won't necessarily be HD anyway. And my needs are sub 32".
No, it's still useful to have both on the same disk. For me and everyone like me...
I have no intention of purchasing an HD TV for at least two years. There simply isn't enough programming to justify it for me yet. (If I was into football and golf, perhaps, but I'm not so it's moot.)
Knowing that my DVDs are now obsolete: I'll be able to play them on future players, but there will be better versions of my current library of movies soon. I have no intention of purchasing any more films until I'm ready to make the switch to HD, since that would mean either sacrificing future quality or increasing my re-purchase list.
If there are both versions on the same disk, I can buy movies now and watch them while holding out on the rest of the equipment until it has a more reasonable cost. i.e. I'm no home theater guru, so I don't want to spend more than about $400-$500 for the whole setup. $100-$150 for the player and $300-$400 for the display, which I expect to be able to do in the 2009--2010 time frame.
I am however agnostic about the format. I'll be purchasing a multiple-format player (Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, DVD, DVD+/-R,RW, CD, VCD, CD-R,RW; the list is getting long...) when the time comes, but I won't be purchasing any films at all until then unless they have one of the formats and DVD (or I'm impatient enough to make the previously stated trade-off)
I disagree. If only that a competetive ranking on more individual sports (i.e. tennis, etc) allows more even pairings. Thus everyone has a chance to win, but winning isn't just a hollow victory.
With enough variety of sports, there should be something that everyone can be the champion of, without gimping anything.
Yeah a Zippo is great. Because what you really want is poorly sealed liquid fuel *anything* in a bag full of textiles.
If you must have fire, use a butane lighter. The worst thing that can happen is that it will all leak out and dissipate, possibly making you a little cool depending on the size of the hole.
Ok on with the other bits of your list:
- Wax dipped wooden matches
Actually not a bad idea. I assume you meant the "strike anywhere" variety, since waterproof "box-only" matches are pretty easy to find. Similar problem with the lighters though, make sure to keep them in a rigid container so there is no possibility they will rub against anywhere.
- Camp stove (the little foldable ones that use the white pellet fuel - available at Canadian tire)
gas (i.e. propane, butane) stoves aren't much bigger, but are quite a bit more efficient and avoid the liquid fuel problem.
- Metal pot/dish to cook in and eat from
- Fork or Spoon.
- Swiss Army Knife/Leatherman
- Water purification filter/pellets if clean fresh water will not be available in the region, or if contamination is not biological (i.e. boiling won't fix it)
- A mini first aid kit.
- A good loud whistle
- air mattress / thermarest
Ditch it. Not all that heavy, but a bit bulky. You don't even need a tent if you carry a hammock. Wal-mart hammock for ~$11 (with spreaders) is very light and takes up much less space than an air mattress.
- Wool socks + full change of clothes
And nylon sock liners if you find wool scratchy. Poly socks are ok too. Stay away from natural fibers.
- Dehydrated meals
- Pint of Whiskey / Vodka
- DEET / Cigarettes / Cigars to deter biting insects
Make sure it's 100% deet. Some companies cut it with alcohol ostensibly to make it safer. Unfortunately, alcohol increases its absorption into your skin and provides no insect-repelling function. Better to just use 100% and less of it. And on your clothes. From a pump rather than aerosol. (they're smaller and lighter than the aerosol anyway, and a little bit goes a long way.)
- Bag to carry all garbage out in
Also, emergency poncho, rain-fly. The uses are endless.
- VHF radio in case med-evac required. (FRS/walkie-talkies for within the group)
That just about covers it.
iPod? MacBook? Stay home if that is what you are after.
And of course... Leave no Trace.
Don't forget to pack out your human waste too. If you find that too icky, you'll need a collapsible shovel.
Competition may be frustrating for people who continuously lose, but getting rid of it makes the games boring for everyone. The trick is to segregate them into groups of equivalent skill without singling out anyone into the "loser's league."
Perhaps by having non-conventional or out-of-season sports run concurrently with the vanilla sports. The better athletes seem to prefer the regular events, while the less skilled could simply choose something else if frustrated, always with the excuse, "well I like dodgeball, pickleball, badminton, or curling more than basketball, baseball, football, or boring football (a.k.a soccer)."
Any sports not practiced at home will even the playing field as well, so there's no reason to restrict anyone to any strata.
Anyone who says dodgeball is stupid better not play FPSs.
The original text was one inch above my post. You literally had to read it before reading my post. There was no need for gratuitous Latin verbiage.
Why doesn't your uni just get a site license to make available to the students? I'm sure many of the software companies would be amenable to this, and not charge much over the license for the computer labs anyway, since it means the students would get used to using their software.
Spelling mistakes in quotes are supposed to be preserved.
Yeah, but they probably also have a statement in there that "if any of these provisions are unenforceable in your state, this does not invalidate the rest of the document"
because many of the provisions are unenforceable in every state. I don't know why they're in there to begin with, but it seems like a relative of the typical liability waiver.
When you own one restaurant, It doesn't make sense to scrimp on the napkins to save $5/year. When you own a twenty thousand restaurant chain, that's an entire person's salary. And maybe you could use slightly lesser quality ingredients too..
"You may think text adventure were nothing big, but they used to be HUGE. Text adventure games definately inspired a generation of MUD games. MUD games inspired Everquest, which inspired World of Warcraft."
Which is..disappointing.
Since they all seem to end up in the old rehashed "roll die, compare to stat" mode to simulate variety. When will we get a completely deterministic RPG?
It's not an elitist point of view. It's just that it's an entirely different game. It's not really a FPS, because you're not in control of the actual shooting. It's also not FPS because it's typically from a third-person POV. It's about control. You simply cannot execute a disk-jump jet-away, quickly half-turn midair, cycle to magnum, and shoot the rocket launcher out of the hand of an opposing player while he's trying get a lock on you in a console game. At least not in any way you can feel like YOU did it.
Aimbots are stupid because you're not really playing the game. So what's the point? Auto-aim can be just as stupid depending on the game that depends on it.
Well that's interesting, but even your European brethren do not have unlimited bandwidth. Their bandwidth is their bandwidth.
Now, would you rather have 1.5 Mbps service with a monthly limit of 40 Gb or 2 kbps service with no monthly limit?
Frankly, the "European" style I've seen touted so much seems like they're getting ripped off on the burst rates, since no one browses continuously. OTOH, their full, continuous bandwidth is apparently greater than my max bandwidth, so they're not getting ripped off too much.
Indeed, and most of the rest are research or tourist submarines. Neither are capable of sustained submergence or significant underwater travel.
If you've never heard the song, why would it even occur to you that you might want to buy it?
Um.. they come with the game. It's called "autoaim" or somesuch. It lets you hit targets by aiming in their vicinity, and it's the only way console FPS are playable without a mouse.
Where do you get OEM parts in retail quantities?