Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't understand how my post could be considered a troll. I can certainly understand how somebody could disagree with it, but I don't think it deserves a 'Troll' mod.
Disagree with me? Think I'm a fuckwad for linking to what you think is just a pyramid scheme? Reply.
If you'll note, it's optional. The idea is you help me by signing up, then you get some friends to sign up for your iPod, so your analogy is also rather flawed.
I know/. has quite a few anti free*.com people, but if you don't like it, don't click it. I figure it's worth the minimal effort of signing up for a free trial with a junk email address. If I do eventually get an iPod, that's pretty damn cool. If I don't, all I've lost is a minimal amount of time.
Insightful is still a pretty dumb idea. If you're going to use a different mod, use underrated. That doesn't carry any description, it just ups the score and (as far as I know) karma.
Uh... I don't think you quite understand what he's saying. There is NO GUI at all for anything other than Windows and Mac. Hardly what I'd call intuitive if you have to look up all the different switches to do anything other than play with the default config. I'd like to see you try to get it to run fullscreen with different key mappings without wasting 10 or more minutes on google.
+4 Funny? I have a 1.3 GHz C3 relative (not exactly sure what it is) that's significantly slower than my old Celeron 633. Celerons are far worse than a P3 of the same speed, so I'd say that the Athlon is much more than twice the speed.
Think of nearsightedness. Would that help you do close in work? But you couldn't hunt very well, could you? Maybe your tribe-mate is far-sighted. He'd be a better hunter, but not too good at close-in work like sewing.
Nearsighted people have average eyesight up close and below average eyesight at a distance. Farsighted people are the exact opposite. In either case, your vision isn't any better than the average person's in any situation. Nice try, though.
You seem to be confusing evolution with something sentient. Evolution doesn't have any plan at all. Organisms with minor flaws (like most allergies) can often reproduce without any problem, so they don't get weeded out.
Let's think about this for a second. How do moderators decide what gets modded up and what gets modded down? And how would you have made this comment without going through at least a few others?
Seems to me like you just called yourself and all mods "trolls and lamerz". Good job.
I've owned both the NX70V and a C700(very similar to the C860, but half the battery). They both lasted maybe 5 hours if you were playing MP3s with the screen off. The C860 has a battery twice as large as my C700, so I might believe you if you swapped your two estimates. I've never seen the NX get 10 hours under ANY circumstances.
The 14 hours for the Jornada seems a bit far fetched since HP claims 9, but I have no first hand experience with any of the Jornada series.
If you really wanted to use something like this, it would be "Some guy's been banging your wife for 10 years. You found out about it almost immediately and did nothing. Now you want to beat the guy to a pulp".
I do back up the small things like source, but I simply don't have the space to back up the rest. I'm 17 and jobless, so I pretty much just have the one large hard drive.
I have every file I've ever downloaded in the past 5 years or so in one folder. Last I checked it was about 10 gig distributed over several thousand files. I also have the source for several games I've written in there. I probably don't need much of the stuff that's in there (other than the source), but it's damn nice to have when getting a freshly formatted system running the way you like it.
Maybe you should face the facts that not everyone uses their download directory the way you do.
I built my own MythTV box for around $250. Athlon 2400(about $100 with motherboard), GeForce 4 MX something or other ($20 from a friend that was selling his), 80 GB HD (around $30), some WinTV tuner card ($20 on froogle), 512 MB of RAM (pretty sure I got that for around $50) and a $20 case and power supply. The NIC and sound were built in to the motherboard and I just borrowed a CD drive from an existing computer for the install, so I don't think I left anything out.
Hardly a high end system these days, but it's more than sufficient for a PVR. 80 GB will get around 100 hours of video using MPEG4.
But it is broken. The hitboxes are completely fucked up, you get a head shot if you aim for the arm and miss if you aim for the head. I'm talking about controlled tests with an accurate weapon like an AWP, not just what appears to be the case during a fight.
And could somebody please tell me how the hell an AWP can shoot through 20 feet of solid brick and still kill somebody? I'm serious, you can wall people on AWP maps through the bunkers.
... 2 hours? A 4.7 MB file (The size of the Windows Firefox install) at 3.6 KBps (28k) would only take about 22 minutes. A fairly long time, but hardly unmanageable
No, they were under inflated, which increased the amount of friction from flexing and contact with the road. Then then overheated and destroyed themselves.
I could be remembering an entirely different version of Dune or maybe this was in the shorter version too, but that whole telekinetic Fremen thing was just complete BS. It really makes it seem like they just have better guns than the Sardaukar, when in the book the Fremen overwhelm any opposition with little more than a knife.
Again, this is just a vague memory of what I think is the extended Dune movie.
Flash cards are inconvenient compared to a hard drive based player, but the niche is there.
How can a flash card possibly be more inconvenient than a hard drive based player? Is drawing more power and breaking after a fairly minor fall now convenient?
Are you referring to the need to insert the card after you buy it as opposed to the iPod where it comes with the hard drive already installed? If so, how can the ability to easily upgrade the storage compare to the minimal effort of putting the card in for the first time?
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Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't understand how my post could be considered a troll. I can certainly understand how somebody could disagree with it, but I don't think it deserves a 'Troll' mod.
Disagree with me? Think I'm a fuckwad for linking to what you think is just a pyramid scheme? Reply.
If you'll note, it's optional. The idea is you help me by signing up, then you get some friends to sign up for your iPod, so your analogy is also rather flawed.
/. has quite a few anti free*.com people, but if you don't like it, don't click it. I figure it's worth the minimal effort of signing up for a free trial with a junk email address. If I do eventually get an iPod, that's pretty damn cool. If I don't, all I've lost is a minimal amount of time.
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Insightful is still a pretty dumb idea. If you're going to use a different mod, use underrated. That doesn't carry any description, it just ups the score and (as far as I know) karma.
Bits. 150,000,000 / 6 / 8 = 3MB.
Um... no.
First of all, there is no PalmOS 6 anymore. They renamed it to Cobalt.
Second, it's already been released and is very definitely not Linux based.
There are rumors of a future version being Linux based, but nothing solid so far.
Uh... I don't think you quite understand what he's saying. There is NO GUI at all for anything other than Windows and Mac. Hardly what I'd call intuitive if you have to look up all the different switches to do anything other than play with the default config. I'd like to see you try to get it to run fullscreen with different key mappings without wasting 10 or more minutes on google.
+4 Funny? I have a 1.3 GHz C3 relative (not exactly sure what it is) that's significantly slower than my old Celeron 633. Celerons are far worse than a P3 of the same speed, so I'd say that the Athlon is much more than twice the speed.
I don't think it counts as karma whoring when you lose karma...
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80% Funny
20% Overrated
I don't use a mouse pad because none of them provide a large enough mousing surface.
You obviously haven't seen this.
That will drain this money faster, even though I think they only have to last until MS comes out with Longhorn
Only until Longhorn comes out?
I guess that's not quite as bad as saying they only have to last until Duke Nukem Forever comes out...
Think of nearsightedness. Would that help you do close in work? But you couldn't hunt very well, could you? Maybe your tribe-mate is far-sighted. He'd be a better hunter, but not too good at close-in work like sewing.
Nearsighted people have average eyesight up close and below average eyesight at a distance. Farsighted people are the exact opposite. In either case, your vision isn't any better than the average person's in any situation. Nice try, though.
You seem to be confusing evolution with something sentient. Evolution doesn't have any plan at all. Organisms with minor flaws (like most allergies) can often reproduce without any problem, so they don't get weeded out.
Let's think about this for a second. How do moderators decide what gets modded up and what gets modded down? And how would you have made this comment without going through at least a few others?
Seems to me like you just called yourself and all mods "trolls and lamerz". Good job.
I don't think I can take these psycho mods much longer. Insightful? What. The. Fuck.
And now people are modding it overrated because of the fucked up mod instead of giving it the funny it deserves.
I call bullshit
I've owned both the NX70V and a C700(very similar to the C860, but half the battery). They both lasted maybe 5 hours if you were playing MP3s with the screen off. The C860 has a battery twice as large as my C700, so I might believe you if you swapped your two estimates. I've never seen the NX get 10 hours under ANY circumstances.
The 14 hours for the Jornada seems a bit far fetched since HP claims 9, but I have no first hand experience with any of the Jornada series.
Its about time one of them, I don't kare which one, got the upper hand and snowballed.
Apparently you do...
Worst. Analogy. Ever.
If you really wanted to use something like this, it would be "Some guy's been banging your wife for 10 years. You found out about it almost immediately and did nothing. Now you want to beat the guy to a pulp".
I do back up the small things like source, but I simply don't have the space to back up the rest. I'm 17 and jobless, so I pretty much just have the one large hard drive.
I have every file I've ever downloaded in the past 5 years or so in one folder. Last I checked it was about 10 gig distributed over several thousand files. I also have the source for several games I've written in there. I probably don't need much of the stuff that's in there (other than the source), but it's damn nice to have when getting a freshly formatted system running the way you like it.
Maybe you should face the facts that not everyone uses their download directory the way you do.
I built my own MythTV box for around $250. Athlon 2400(about $100 with motherboard), GeForce 4 MX something or other ($20 from a friend that was selling his), 80 GB HD (around $30), some WinTV tuner card ($20 on froogle), 512 MB of RAM (pretty sure I got that for around $50) and a $20 case and power supply. The NIC and sound were built in to the motherboard and I just borrowed a CD drive from an existing computer for the install, so I don't think I left anything out.
Hardly a high end system these days, but it's more than sufficient for a PVR. 80 GB will get around 100 hours of video using MPEG4.
But it is broken. The hitboxes are completely fucked up, you get a head shot if you aim for the arm and miss if you aim for the head. I'm talking about controlled tests with an accurate weapon like an AWP, not just what appears to be the case during a fight.
And could somebody please tell me how the hell an AWP can shoot through 20 feet of solid brick and still kill somebody? I'm serious, you can wall people on AWP maps through the bunkers.
... 2 hours? A 4.7 MB file (The size of the Windows Firefox install) at 3.6 KBps (28k) would only take about 22 minutes. A fairly long time, but hardly unmanageable
Unless I'm missing something here, the Virtual Boy was made by Nintendo.
No, they were under inflated, which increased the amount of friction from flexing and contact with the road. Then then overheated and destroyed themselves.
I could be remembering an entirely different version of Dune or maybe this was in the shorter version too, but that whole telekinetic Fremen thing was just complete BS. It really makes it seem like they just have better guns than the Sardaukar, when in the book the Fremen overwhelm any opposition with little more than a knife.
Again, this is just a vague memory of what I think is the extended Dune movie.
Flash cards are inconvenient compared to a hard drive based player, but the niche is there.
How can a flash card possibly be more inconvenient than a hard drive based player? Is drawing more power and breaking after a fairly minor fall now convenient?
Are you referring to the need to insert the card after you buy it as opposed to the iPod where it comes with the hard drive already installed? If so, how can the ability to easily upgrade the storage compare to the minimal effort of putting the card in for the first time?