Changing batteries? Why aren't more mice like mine:
Put two rechargeables into the mouse (usually provided)
Connect the wire provided between your wireless reciever and your mouse.
Use the mouse like a wired one for ~8 hours while it recharges from USB.
Disconnect and it'll run wireless for about a week.
When I'm not gaming, I don't care too much about the wire, then I remove it when I want to play HL2 or whatever. It works if you're that sort of person.
The dude can memorize a 22 digit number in four seconds (according to the article) so I'm sure he can take a similar time to juggle the numbers around in his head. Perhaps his mental algorithm focuses on certain numbers at a time so that he can handle it.
Freedom Fighters is indeed underrated. I've completed it twice on medium and hard difficulties and it's been a blast throughout. It rarely gets boring. I'm starting HL2 now so I hope it's very similar in that respect.
10+ hours is a shock though, the game is quite addictive so if I didn't have lectures and social events and stuff I could probably finish it in one day! I really hope that's an inaccurate value.
It's fine for me, too, for casual use. Usually I'm using the 17" all the time and only rely on the 19" for occasional glances (MSN, downloads, documentation, IRC)
Anything more and the difference between the crystal TFT and blurry CRT became immediately apparent... although I am running the CRT at 1280x960 (x1024 is 75 Hz, and 1600x1200 is 60 Hz). Perhaps it's too high of a resolution.
Exactly. I've had an astigmatism in my eyes since I was very young, but an 85 Hz 19" CRT is fine for me. I've used it very regularly for 3 years or so without ill effects. On the other hand, for a small portion of that time the monitor reset to 60 Hz and I didn't realise. I began getting very severe headaches. Eventually I discovered it and changed it back, and my eyes became fine again.
Some people like yourself prefer 100+, some are fine with 60 Hz. It varies completely.
On the other hand, my new 17" TFT runs at 60 Hz and hasn't caused any problems because they don't flicker. I suggest them for games too, since the newer ones have very good response times and no visible ghosting (although, again, it depends who you are as some people notice it more than others). My only advice: don't dual screen a CRT and a TFT with different refresh rates, it seems to mess your eyes up if you focus on both:/
It's iTunes-specific I think, but very useful. You can make filters such as 'all 5-star rated rock songs', '30 random songs from the 1960s' or specific part or all of album/artist names. The results of that filter are your playlist and update themselves as required.
That said, a simple search box somewhere would be enough (as long as it's not like Winamp's jump function)
I've seen it briefly. Does it have smart playlists or the powerful searching speed of iTunes (let's say > 4k songs)? If so, it would be quite suitable for me, and I might consider it. As much as the 38 MB 'doesn't matter' if foobar2k does the same job with less resources, it seems like it's be universally a better program.
Wow? Only 2MB! I have a gig of ram, so I'm quite happy to load iTunes up instead. It might take up 38 MB of ram (!) but it's a hell of a lot nicer to use.
Thirdly, Winamp still makes them money. Although open source commercial software is possible, it's undesirable. There simply isn't any incentive for AOL to release the source.
The Player must remember to feed his or her pet every day after the Angel has grown beyond the infancy stage.
Oh great. Wean them on an enforced once-a-day checkup or they start losing the game. Before you know it, they'll be on the streets peddling their nubile bodies for next month's subscription cash.
I think the reason nobody has mentioned it is because you're in the minority for caring about it. Prior to this post I didn't know what a CR was, and having used many of both CRTs and TFTs any apparent problems with the contrast didn't even enter my mind.
I'm at University, and I take my PC home during holidays as well as to and from LAN parties. Keeping the cables tidy would make it much easier - nothing's worse than having to fumble about with about 20 interlocked cables that have magically tied themselves together en route. That said, I can't be arsed.
Oh, and as mentioned by another reply this article seems to be about internal cables. Not that I RTFA; also can't be arsed.
I'd call myself a geek but I bought an iPod for the same reason. It hits the right balance between really easy to use and having a good supply of features.
Unfortunately that gift is also it's curse. I dropped by #gentoo a few months ago when installing it for the first time and you'll typically get 3-4 questions being worked through at any given moment. Not only is this a little confusing, but a lot of questions went unanswered because so much text was flowing through.
That said, it's definitely the first place I'd go for advice, it just needs some more non-n00bs to handle the influx.
I must have missed this, and for anyone else who didn't know, OSTG is the new name for the Open Source Development Network (OSDN) Slashdot is a part of. They're now called the Open Source Technology Group.
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But very few have discovered the sequel, which is much more risque but probably more hilarious.
- Put two rechargeables into the mouse (usually provided)
- Connect the wire provided between your wireless reciever and your mouse.
- Use the mouse like a wired one for ~8 hours while it recharges from USB.
- Disconnect and it'll run wireless for about a week.
When I'm not gaming, I don't care too much about the wire, then I remove it when I want to play HL2 or whatever. It works if you're that sort of person.While I agree that it's a little contrived, the BlogTorrent software was designed for use in blogs first and foremost, so it's an appropriate name.
Now I forgot, he did what in 11.8 seconds
:)
Clearly, your memory abilities aren't quite as good as Mittring's
The dude can memorize a 22 digit number in four seconds (according to the article) so I'm sure he can take a similar time to juggle the numbers around in his head. Perhaps his mental algorithm focuses on certain numbers at a time so that he can handle it.
Freedom Fighters is indeed underrated. I've completed it twice on medium and hard difficulties and it's been a blast throughout. It rarely gets boring. I'm starting HL2 now so I hope it's very similar in that respect.
10+ hours is a shock though, the game is quite addictive so if I didn't have lectures and social events and stuff I could probably finish it in one day! I really hope that's an inaccurate value.
woops.
Why, you racist bastard!
It's fine for me, too, for casual use. Usually I'm using the 17" all the time and only rely on the 19" for occasional glances (MSN, downloads, documentation, IRC)
Anything more and the difference between the crystal TFT and blurry CRT became immediately apparent... although I am running the CRT at 1280x960 (x1024 is 75 Hz, and 1600x1200 is 60 Hz). Perhaps it's too high of a resolution.
Exactly. I've had an astigmatism in my eyes since I was very young, but an 85 Hz 19" CRT is fine for me. I've used it very regularly for 3 years or so without ill effects. On the other hand, for a small portion of that time the monitor reset to 60 Hz and I didn't realise. I began getting very severe headaches. Eventually I discovered it and changed it back, and my eyes became fine again.
:/
Some people like yourself prefer 100+, some are fine with 60 Hz. It varies completely.
On the other hand, my new 17" TFT runs at 60 Hz and hasn't caused any problems because they don't flicker. I suggest them for games too, since the newer ones have very good response times and no visible ghosting (although, again, it depends who you are as some people notice it more than others). My only advice: don't dual screen a CRT and a TFT with different refresh rates, it seems to mess your eyes up if you focus on both
"When winter rolls around, the robots will simply freeze to death"
Yeah, I'm sure your cable internet provider loves the fact you run a mail server 24/7.
And even if they DO, my ISP doesn't. Switching to another would cost more than a forwarded domain, too.
It's iTunes-specific I think, but very useful. You can make filters such as 'all 5-star rated rock songs', '30 random songs from the 1960s' or specific part or all of album/artist names. The results of that filter are your playlist and update themselves as required.
That said, a simple search box somewhere would be enough (as long as it's not like Winamp's jump function)
And when it comes to slashdot, get a sense of humour before YOU post please :)
I've seen it briefly. Does it have smart playlists or the powerful searching speed of iTunes (let's say > 4k songs)? If so, it would be quite suitable for me, and I might consider it. As much as the 38 MB 'doesn't matter' if foobar2k does the same job with less resources, it seems like it's be universally a better program.
Wow? Only 2MB! I have a gig of ram, so I'm quite happy to load iTunes up instead. It might take up 38 MB of ram (!) but it's a hell of a lot nicer to use.
Thirdly, Winamp still makes them money. Although open source commercial software is possible, it's undesirable. There simply isn't any incentive for AOL to release the source.
The Player must remember to feed his or her pet every day after the Angel has grown beyond the infancy stage.
Oh great. Wean them on an enforced once-a-day checkup or they start losing the game. Before you know it, they'll be on the streets peddling their nubile bodies for next month's subscription cash.
I think the reason nobody has mentioned it is because you're in the minority for caring about it. Prior to this post I didn't know what a CR was, and having used many of both CRTs and TFTs any apparent problems with the contrast didn't even enter my mind.
I'm at University, and I take my PC home during holidays as well as to and from LAN parties. Keeping the cables tidy would make it much easier - nothing's worse than having to fumble about with about 20 interlocked cables that have magically tied themselves together en route. That said, I can't be arsed.
Oh, and as mentioned by another reply this article seems to be about internal cables. Not that I RTFA; also can't be arsed.
Don't you mean a Gamekube? :)
At least now I know why Nintendo always calls things 'Game Paks' and 'Memory Paks'. Their marketing department used to work for KDE.
I'd call myself a geek but I bought an iPod for the same reason. It hits the right balance between really easy to use and having a good supply of features.
I wonder why they took Guaranga out of GTA 3 and up :(
Unfortunately that gift is also it's curse. I dropped by #gentoo a few months ago when installing it for the first time and you'll typically get 3-4 questions being worked through at any given moment. Not only is this a little confusing, but a lot of questions went unanswered because so much text was flowing through.
That said, it's definitely the first place I'd go for advice, it just needs some more non-n00bs to handle the influx.
Well yeah -- if you remember how often one Slashdotter's flamebait is often another's plain truth.
Oh, come on now. The site has 'Flame me, dawg' at the bottom of the page. The guy's a troll.
I must have missed this, and for anyone else who didn't know, OSTG is the new name for the Open Source Development Network (OSDN) Slashdot is a part of. They're now called the Open Source Technology Group.