My personal suggestion (and current setup) is a Nexus 7 and a Dodocase (http://www.dodocase.com/products/hardcover-for-nexus-7). The Nexus 7 is a great all-around device for just about anything and the DODOCase is essentially a hand-made hard cover book that when opened and held apart like a book makes for a comfortable, and very traditional feeling reading experience. When you want to use it as a tablet just fold the cover behind or use the included strap to prop it up for watching movies and so on. Also, the adhesive that many people questioned as a poor design decision holds the tablet in place very well and is unobtrusive, it really shouldn't concern anyone unless they're swinging the thing around their head by the cover...
I had a rooted Nook Color prior to this that I also liked, but the extra horsepower of the Nexus makes a substantial difference for the non-reading activities you might use it for. The only thing I really liked more about the Nook was the very nice rubberized finish. The Nexus doesn't feel as rugged but it still a very solid device in its own right.
While I've never liked IGN's site (for too many reasons to describe, lets just say I share the general consensus), I do like several of their sister sites, such as Rotten Tomatoes and Gamespy (and before the subscriber bullshit, File Planet). While Gamespy certainly has gone down hill as well, it's still the main place I get my gaming news online, Rotten Tomatoes is where I look for a quick synopsis of movie reviews, and File Planet is at the very least where I go to see what's new in the gaming download world.
I'm not saying that people don't have the right to know. I'm just saying that it's fortunate that mom and pop (or whoever) that don't know any better don't see negative headlines that can be easily misunderstood as a flaw in the product. Are you afriad of being modded flaimbait you Anonymous coward you =) ?
It's fortunate that the vast majority of people won't hear about this or something like it. Even though this hacker attack doesn't actually involve a flaw in the Firefox or Mozilla browsers, something like this could definitely scare away potential users who are weary of giving up their Internet Explorer anyway.
What's always troubled me about my system's cooling is that the temperature LCD's show a temperature quite different from motherboard monitor... My LCD's show around 55 degrees celsius under a full load, where as motherboard monitor sometimes shows as high as 70 degrees celsius. I don't know which one I should trust. The system is a Monarch Hornet Pro, so I expect it to run a bit toasty because of the form factor, but 50 sounds kind of low for AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton) with such little cooling and space fpr air to circulate, yet 70 seems pretty warm.
You are right about the jumping animation. It's either extremely choppy, or non-existant. Also, especially noticable in the movies, is that the walking animation is a little bit awkward as well.
Actually you do get the ability to cast fireballs, but only for about the last 10 minutes of playtime. It's shame, as they are pretty cool to play around with.
Very cool concept, and incredibly lush outdoor environments (my 6600GT choked on it at a couple of spots). However, it's only got about an hour of gameplay. Hopefully more will come out of it, the little bit that's there is fun to play.
Yes, but you see, there are also Legal uses for DVD-Decrypter. People can abuse anything, I just think that the companies are trying to have it both ways, selling devices that make copies, yet complaining about copying software.
Is it just me, or are all of these media giants such as Sony hypocritical assholes? If you don't want people to copy your movies (for legal or illegal purposes), don't sell DVD burners you fucking morons! Companies like this want to rape the consumer from both ends, selling the devices that makes copies, yet suing people for putting them to use. It's time for companies to take responsibility for their own creations. Yes, the author of DVD-Decrypter made a product that breaks their protections, and that is bad. But if they didn't make devices that could copy DVDs then there would be no practical use for it.
I was extremely impressed with Vida Linux (running on Athlon XP 2500+ with the AMD binaries). It was very fast, simple to install, and quite stable. However, one day it just crashed out on me so I decided to give Ubuntu a try and it has been my latest distro of choice for a couple months now. Actually the systems feel very similar (especially Porthole and Synaptic).
I remember back when my elementary school had a job fair (I'm currently a senior in High School, so this wasn't too awfully long ago). There was a programmer that attended it, however, he really didn't do things in a child friendly manner. He showed us examples in Visual Basic, a "paint" type program if I remember correctly. While I was already interested in computers, I don't his presentation really drew in many others.
If I were you, I would start by showing them simple games, and I would highly recommend Python as a language for them to start with. It's syntax is so clean and readable that it should be something that they have a good chance of being able to pick up on if they have an interest. I would highly recommend the book "Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner" as a starting point. For anyone with experience, it is a nice brisk read that will get you up to speed, and for the beginner it covers damn near everything you would want to know. Also, the majority of the author's examples in the book are games, which helps with motivation. While the majority of this book is command line apps/games, it does go into TKinter and PyGame in the later chapters.
You forgot the almighty FISHING ROD CONTROLLER! That was seriously one of the coolest accessories for the Dreamcast and I hate fishing (both in games and real life).
Pretty sure he's talking about systems like the 3DO and the Atari Jaguar, Sega 32x, etc. All of that crap came out sometime between the evolution between 16 and 32-bit game consoles, and apart from the good titles which you could count on one hand, they were crap.
I remember in PC Gamer a while back they were talking about an Age of Mythology board game. While I've never played it, they seemed to like it and it sounded pretty cool.
Although ET is free and this mod looks pretty cool (the game is damn fun on it's own anyway), I've always hated Quake 3's netcode. Now, granted I'm usually playing it on dial-up, but it's the only FPS engine doesn't ever seem to run playably. I ping around 220 in most games, and that's perfectly fine to me, but with Q3 based games I stay above 300 AND I get the connection problem icon in the upper corner 90% of the time.
What was so bad with Patrick and Kevin? I mean, it was no where near the incredible duo of Leo and Patrick, but they weren't bad. Kevin brought a "youthful", "fresh" kind of air to the show (which I bet the marketing folks liked), and it was still fairly solid content wise. Once Patrick left, the new guy (what the hell happend to him? There for a couple weeks, gone the next), albeit annoying, was reasonable (and a computer science major I believe, making him at least somewhat educated on the subject =p ). But WHY do they have the current two hosts? I'm sure they struck a happy medium somewhere in their hosting pairs post Leo & Pat where the execs could be happy and us geeks could have out show
I like the guy's humor, but that was way too short to be very good. If they had done about double that and added a little more substance then it would have been much better in my opinion.
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My personal suggestion (and current setup) is a Nexus 7 and a Dodocase (http://www.dodocase.com/products/hardcover-for-nexus-7). The Nexus 7 is a great all-around device for just about anything and the DODOCase is essentially a hand-made hard cover book that when opened and held apart like a book makes for a comfortable, and very traditional feeling reading experience. When you want to use it as a tablet just fold the cover behind or use the included strap to prop it up for watching movies and so on. Also, the adhesive that many people questioned as a poor design decision holds the tablet in place very well and is unobtrusive, it really shouldn't concern anyone unless they're swinging the thing around their head by the cover... I had a rooted Nook Color prior to this that I also liked, but the extra horsepower of the Nexus makes a substantial difference for the non-reading activities you might use it for. The only thing I really liked more about the Nook was the very nice rubberized finish. The Nexus doesn't feel as rugged but it still a very solid device in its own right.
While I've never liked IGN's site (for too many reasons to describe, lets just say I share the general consensus), I do like several of their sister sites, such as Rotten Tomatoes and Gamespy (and before the subscriber bullshit, File Planet). While Gamespy certainly has gone down hill as well, it's still the main place I get my gaming news online, Rotten Tomatoes is where I look for a quick synopsis of movie reviews, and File Planet is at the very least where I go to see what's new in the gaming download world.
I'm not saying that people don't have the right to know. I'm just saying that it's fortunate that mom and pop (or whoever) that don't know any better don't see negative headlines that can be easily misunderstood as a flaw in the product. Are you afriad of being modded flaimbait you Anonymous coward you =) ?
It's fortunate that the vast majority of people won't hear about this or something like it. Even though this hacker attack doesn't actually involve a flaw in the Firefox or Mozilla browsers, something like this could definitely scare away potential users who are weary of giving up their Internet Explorer anyway.
What's always troubled me about my system's cooling is that the temperature LCD's show a temperature quite different from motherboard monitor... My LCD's show around 55 degrees celsius under a full load, where as motherboard monitor sometimes shows as high as 70 degrees celsius. I don't know which one I should trust. The system is a Monarch Hornet Pro, so I expect it to run a bit toasty because of the form factor, but 50 sounds kind of low for AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton) with such little cooling and space fpr air to circulate, yet 70 seems pretty warm.
Interestingly enough, my PC's temperature LCD's have always shown Linux not only to be cooler, but to run cooler then Windows...
You are right about the jumping animation. It's either extremely choppy, or non-existant. Also, especially noticable in the movies, is that the walking animation is a little bit awkward as well.
Actually you do get the ability to cast fireballs, but only for about the last 10 minutes of playtime. It's shame, as they are pretty cool to play around with.
Very cool concept, and incredibly lush outdoor environments (my 6600GT choked on it at a couple of spots). However, it's only got about an hour of gameplay. Hopefully more will come out of it, the little bit that's there is fun to play.
Yes, but you see, there are also Legal uses for DVD-Decrypter. People can abuse anything, I just think that the companies are trying to have it both ways, selling devices that make copies, yet complaining about copying software.
Is it just me, or are all of these media giants such as Sony hypocritical assholes? If you don't want people to copy your movies (for legal or illegal purposes), don't sell DVD burners you fucking morons! Companies like this want to rape the consumer from both ends, selling the devices that makes copies, yet suing people for putting them to use. It's time for companies to take responsibility for their own creations. Yes, the author of DVD-Decrypter made a product that breaks their protections, and that is bad. But if they didn't make devices that could copy DVDs then there would be no practical use for it.
I was extremely impressed with Vida Linux (running on Athlon XP 2500+ with the AMD binaries). It was very fast, simple to install, and quite stable. However, one day it just crashed out on me so I decided to give Ubuntu a try and it has been my latest distro of choice for a couple months now. Actually the systems feel very similar (especially Porthole and Synaptic).
Maybe Microsoft could have something that closely resembles this feature in Longhorn =)
At least it's not XTREME!...
I remember back when my elementary school had a job fair (I'm currently a senior in High School, so this wasn't too awfully long ago). There was a programmer that attended it, however, he really didn't do things in a child friendly manner. He showed us examples in Visual Basic, a "paint" type program if I remember correctly. While I was already interested in computers, I don't his presentation really drew in many others. If I were you, I would start by showing them simple games, and I would highly recommend Python as a language for them to start with. It's syntax is so clean and readable that it should be something that they have a good chance of being able to pick up on if they have an interest. I would highly recommend the book "Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner" as a starting point. For anyone with experience, it is a nice brisk read that will get you up to speed, and for the beginner it covers damn near everything you would want to know. Also, the majority of the author's examples in the book are games, which helps with motivation. While the majority of this book is command line apps/games, it does go into TKinter and PyGame in the later chapters.
You forgot the almighty FISHING ROD CONTROLLER! That was seriously one of the coolest accessories for the Dreamcast and I hate fishing (both in games and real life).
Pretty sure he's talking about systems like the 3DO and the Atari Jaguar, Sega 32x, etc. All of that crap came out sometime between the evolution between 16 and 32-bit game consoles, and apart from the good titles which you could count on one hand, they were crap.
I remember in PC Gamer a while back they were talking about an Age of Mythology board game. While I've never played it, they seemed to like it and it sounded pretty cool.
I actually experience nearly the same thing in Call of Duty... However, it's not *quite* as bad.
Although ET is free and this mod looks pretty cool (the game is damn fun on it's own anyway), I've always hated Quake 3's netcode. Now, granted I'm usually playing it on dial-up, but it's the only FPS engine doesn't ever seem to run playably. I ping around 220 in most games, and that's perfectly fine to me, but with Q3 based games I stay above 300 AND I get the connection problem icon in the upper corner 90% of the time.
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What was so bad with Patrick and Kevin? I mean, it was no where near the incredible duo of Leo and Patrick, but they weren't bad. Kevin brought a "youthful", "fresh" kind of air to the show (which I bet the marketing folks liked), and it was still fairly solid content wise. Once Patrick left, the new guy (what the hell happend to him? There for a couple weeks, gone the next), albeit annoying, was reasonable (and a computer science major I believe, making him at least somewhat educated on the subject =p ). But WHY do they have the current two hosts? I'm sure they struck a happy medium somewhere in their hosting pairs post Leo & Pat where the execs could be happy and us geeks could have out show
I like the guy's humor, but that was way too short to be very good. If they had done about double that and added a little more substance then it would have been much better in my opinion.
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Note that he said laptop "nirvana", not hell. =)