Halo 2 in 480p looks beautiful on my 52" HDTV. I changed the settings on my XBox and turned off the HD option to compare, and the difference was huge. It'd be nice if more games were 1080i, but 480p is still a big difference.
As someone who uses a 10D on a daily basis, I completely agree. It's a very sturdy camera, which goes almost everywhere with me. I would have smashed the 300D into little pieces by now, I'm sure. Not that I abuse my cameras on purpose, but I do use them in a lot of different situations, and have had them knocked into things by people rushing by, or going through crowded areas, etc.
I love vintage Macs. I have one of those little Mac Classics (I think that's what it is) with a black and white screen, a few older Powermacs that need some work (both need a hd I think) and a g3-266 tower that works perfectly (running 9.2, going to drop Yellow Dog Linux on it as soon as I have the time.) The g3 is my newest Mac, only one I use regularly, actually.
Both my main machines, laptop and desktop, are Athlon 64s running Windows and Linux, though. I'm not a huge fan of the look of OSX either, but use it at work on a few of the machines. Very easy to use from the bit I use it. I still prefer KDE over everything, though.
Cablevision does. I have a client with locations in CNY (using RR) and down in Long Island. When they're at a residence in Long Island (where some of them live) they have to connect to the VPN (or use webmail) to send mail because port 25 is blocked otherwise. It's great fun, because it's not in CNY with RR, and they don't understand why it doesn't work no matter how many times I explain it.
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The laptop I'm currently using has the | key above the enter key AND to the left of the spacebar. I really needed two of them, after all.
And the left CTRL key is to the right of the Fn key, so I keep hitting Fn instead and wonder why nothing happened (or why my computer just went into hibernate or something else annoying.) At least the ~ is in the proper location, my last laptop had it as the uppermost right key.
It's funny, but I think that's the best way I've heard it put. And I feel so extra nerdy relating to that, especially after seeing a preview of Episode III last night, and enjoying it. At least I had a nice laugh at all the people dressed up waiting for the midnight opening when we got out.
Thanks for the support, though. I quit once for over a year, and then ended up starting back up myself. And quitting this time is so much harder for some reason.
I think it also comes down to what people already own. I have an X-Box and a PS2, but only one game for my PS2 currently. I'll probably buy the X-Box 360 first, and the PS3 down the line after the first or second price drop. Truthfully, considering Ebaying my PS2 now, I have the new mini and the newest GTA for it, and have maybe put about 15 hours on it at the most. I feel like it was a waste picking it up. Barely have any time to play games as is, don't need a ton of consoles laying around collecting dust.
I've closed all my Excel docs many times because of this, and it drives me nuts. I don't edit the ones I'm working in, but I'll maybe about 10-15 open, so clicking once on that red X closes them all on me. Urg.
CWShredder does a great job of getting rid of the various CoolWebSearch variants. I always start with the Merjin version, then update it, run it again, update it, etc, until I'm at the current version. Takes about 5 minutes (with all the updates and everything) and works great.
"Rodents tend to eat pretty much everything (Cat5 cables, cardboard, styrofoam, cafeteria food). "
All the pet rats I've had always seem to like phone books. If I left a phone book on the floor for them to "play" with, they left everything else alone. I doubt it works for this rat problem, but I always found it amusing how they loved to make a mess of them.
I've seen a few that still had commercials in them, and it was interesting seeing local ads for another part of the country, especially compared to our local ads. But it's only been a few, maybe a handful, out of who knows how many missed episodes (before I got that lovely DVR for no additional charge from my cable company.)
I have an old IBM 386sx/16mhz laptop floating around. Tiny grey scale screen, 4 megs memory, battery doesn't hold a charge (no idea last time it did.) It works great, even has a 20 meg hard drive. I found an old copy of Wolf3D and put it on it, and it played great! Oh, it has a built in keyboard but no kind of pointing device built in, and the PS/2 port is broken, so you have to use a serial mouse (I have one that looks like a gigantic blue crayon I bought just for it! Pen style, with a small ball at the tip.)
I get the unit out once in awhile to see if it still turns on, and end up playing Wolf3D for hours.
When I obtained it in trade for a pack of cigarettes, it had MS DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 installed.
I wish I was kidding about this. I love the stupid old thing and refuse to part with it, though.
I don't want any one system to win. I like the competition between the companies forcing them to really push out decent games (hopefully.) And truthfully, I'll trust an Xbox on release date more than a PS# on release date. Both the PS1 and PS2 had such serious release issues (I worked at a video game retailer at the time of the PS2 release, and saw more defective units than any other console I've ever dealt with!)
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I'm very happy about 16:9 widescreen and 1080i. I know I bought that 52" HDTV for some reason. Yeah, some X-Box games do, but not enough, and the difference is very noticiable on a TV this size, especially when you get used to HDTV. My PS2 looks like absolute crap on it, I ended up moving it into another room and hooking it up to a 17" LCD.
I've been doing really good so far, actually. I'm going through with the whole Nicoderm plan, though, but it really does seem to help. Especially at first. I remember wanting to kill people when I tried to quit cold turkey, the patch got me over that hump quite a bit. Still a bit irriatable, but not nearly as bad.
How would I show my technical superiority if I only had one item on my belt! I'm going to have to start gaining weight soon so I don't run out of belt space, otherwise someone else will become ubergeek.
I actually had a conversation with a tech support guy in India working for Microsoft about this. He was basically telling me how great he lives compared to the rest of the country, like how he has enough of an income to actually go on vacation to go skiing. Whole conversation cropped up because I looked outside and gasped "it's snowing, but it was 60 yesterday!" and he told me I was lucky, it was over 100 there already.
I did end up fixing the problem myself after hours with tech support not helping, though, no fault of outsourcing, though. He got a tech located in Texas on the line who was completely incompentant compared to him.
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Halo 2 in 480p looks beautiful on my 52" HDTV. I changed the settings on my XBox and turned off the HD option to compare, and the difference was huge. It'd be nice if more games were 1080i, but 480p is still a big difference.
As someone who uses a 10D on a daily basis, I completely agree. It's a very sturdy camera, which goes almost everywhere with me. I would have smashed the 300D into little pieces by now, I'm sure. Not that I abuse my cameras on purpose, but I do use them in a lot of different situations, and have had them knocked into things by people rushing by, or going through crowded areas, etc.
I love vintage Macs. I have one of those little Mac Classics (I think that's what it is) with a black and white screen, a few older Powermacs that need some work (both need a hd I think) and a g3-266 tower that works perfectly (running 9.2, going to drop Yellow Dog Linux on it as soon as I have the time.) The g3 is my newest Mac, only one I use regularly, actually.
Both my main machines, laptop and desktop, are Athlon 64s running Windows and Linux, though. I'm not a huge fan of the look of OSX either, but use it at work on a few of the machines. Very easy to use from the bit I use it. I still prefer KDE over everything, though.
Cablevision does. I have a client with locations in CNY (using RR) and down in Long Island. When they're at a residence in Long Island (where some of them live) they have to connect to the VPN (or use webmail) to send mail because port 25 is blocked otherwise. It's great fun, because it's not in CNY with RR, and they don't understand why it doesn't work no matter how many times I explain it.
The laptop I'm currently using has the | key above the enter key AND to the left of the spacebar. I really needed two of them, after all.
And the left CTRL key is to the right of the Fn key, so I keep hitting Fn instead and wonder why nothing happened (or why my computer just went into hibernate or something else annoying.) At least the ~ is in the proper location, my last laptop had it as the uppermost right key.
" Now what am i going to do with 100,000 shares of infiniumlabs ?"
Buy a large Coke?
And when can I buy this new Pinto? I think it would great with 19" rims and a huge spoiler.
It's funny, but I think that's the best way I've heard it put. And I feel so extra nerdy relating to that, especially after seeing a preview of Episode III last night, and enjoying it. At least I had a nice laugh at all the people dressed up waiting for the midnight opening when we got out.
Thanks for the support, though. I quit once for over a year, and then ended up starting back up myself. And quitting this time is so much harder for some reason.
I think it also comes down to what people already own. I have an X-Box and a PS2, but only one game for my PS2 currently. I'll probably buy the X-Box 360 first, and the PS3 down the line after the first or second price drop. Truthfully, considering Ebaying my PS2 now, I have the new mini and the newest GTA for it, and have maybe put about 15 hours on it at the most. I feel like it was a waste picking it up. Barely have any time to play games as is, don't need a ton of consoles laying around collecting dust.
I've closed all my Excel docs many times because of this, and it drives me nuts. I don't edit the ones I'm working in, but I'll maybe about 10-15 open, so clicking once on that red X closes them all on me. Urg.
CWShredder does a great job of getting rid of the various CoolWebSearch variants. I always start with the Merjin version, then update it, run it again, update it, etc, until I'm at the current version. Takes about 5 minutes (with all the updates and everything) and works great.
"CHECK OUT MY PICS @ www.tubgirl.com"
Where the hell did you get my vacation pictures???
"Rodents tend to eat pretty much everything (Cat5 cables, cardboard, styrofoam, cafeteria food). "
All the pet rats I've had always seem to like phone books. If I left a phone book on the floor for them to "play" with, they left everything else alone. I doubt it works for this rat problem, but I always found it amusing how they loved to make a mess of them.
I've seen a few that still had commercials in them, and it was interesting seeing local ads for another part of the country, especially compared to our local ads. But it's only been a few, maybe a handful, out of who knows how many missed episodes (before I got that lovely DVR for no additional charge from my cable company.)
I have an old IBM 386sx/16mhz laptop floating around. Tiny grey scale screen, 4 megs memory, battery doesn't hold a charge (no idea last time it did.) It works great, even has a 20 meg hard drive. I found an old copy of Wolf3D and put it on it, and it played great! Oh, it has a built in keyboard but no kind of pointing device built in, and the PS/2 port is broken, so you have to use a serial mouse (I have one that looks like a gigantic blue crayon I bought just for it! Pen style, with a small ball at the tip.)
I get the unit out once in awhile to see if it still turns on, and end up playing Wolf3D for hours.
When I obtained it in trade for a pack of cigarettes, it had MS DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 installed.
I wish I was kidding about this. I love the stupid old thing and refuse to part with it, though.
No, they have to get on line for it!
I don't want any one system to win. I like the competition between the companies forcing them to really push out decent games (hopefully.) And truthfully, I'll trust an Xbox on release date more than a PS# on release date. Both the PS1 and PS2 had such serious release issues (I worked at a video game retailer at the time of the PS2 release, and saw more defective units than any other console I've ever dealt with!)
I'm very happy about 16:9 widescreen and 1080i. I know I bought that 52" HDTV for some reason. Yeah, some X-Box games do, but not enough, and the difference is very noticiable on a TV this size, especially when you get used to HDTV. My PS2 looks like absolute crap on it, I ended up moving it into another room and hooking it up to a 17" LCD.
Actually, I'm banned after the last incident.....
I've been doing really good so far, actually. I'm going through with the whole Nicoderm plan, though, but it really does seem to help. Especially at first. I remember wanting to kill people when I tried to quit cold turkey, the patch got me over that hump quite a bit. Still a bit irriatable, but not nearly as bad.
How would I show my technical superiority if I only had one item on my belt! I'm going to have to start gaining weight soon so I don't run out of belt space, otherwise someone else will become ubergeek.
In my case, normally an explosion under the hood.
No, you have to sell it as a "Porn Enabled Router" to get the best sale!
I actually had a conversation with a tech support guy in India working for Microsoft about this. He was basically telling me how great he lives compared to the rest of the country, like how he has enough of an income to actually go on vacation to go skiing. Whole conversation cropped up because I looked outside and gasped "it's snowing, but it was 60 yesterday!" and he told me I was lucky, it was over 100 there already.
I did end up fixing the problem myself after hours with tech support not helping, though, no fault of outsourcing, though. He got a tech located in Texas on the line who was completely incompentant compared to him.
Which is exactly how much is left when running Longhorn on a machine with a gig of memory!