My other 'desktop' computers are used as servers or for work-only (aka workstations).
There are quite a few valid reasons for using a laptop for gaming. For one, I like to be able to sit on my bed or sofa and play Battlefield 2 without any lag via 802.11g and a logitech wireless mouse. I like to be able to bring my laptop easily to my friends' houses or to LAN partys without having to worry about alot of cables or weight (though my laptop is pretty heavy). I like to be able to do some horrible mundane task in WoW while watching an utterly crappy SciFi movie on TV in comfort. The main difference of a laptop over a desktop is portability at the cost of more $$ for equal performance. Otherwise there is nothing stopping even affordable (read ~$1000) laptops from being decent to great (~$2000) gaming machines.
No, given power constraints, I don't do ANY real gaming on battery only. My laptop would only last 40 minutes or so with that scenario and that's what, one round of BF2?
My current laptop is an Alienware and before that I had a Dell that I used just as much (and was alot cheaper), and with a little lag was also perfectly fine for all my FPS needs (played doom 3 fine and that was like a radeon 9600 mobile w/ 64MB of ram or something? maybe 128).
Urine is typically quite sterile (except for the occasional malfunctioning kidney or urinary tract infection letting some bacteria through)
The problem is urine tends to have a composition that fosters the growth of bacteria as they somehow manage to get into it. In fact this is one reason urine smells, typically urine is quite odorless when leaving the body. The 'stale urine' ammonia smell you remember from bathrooms is a biproduct of the decomposition of urea by bacteria.
I do believe one major reason DNA testing isn't used for lesser crimes is because of it's expense. At least here in the states. That said, this quicker method doesn't say anything about being a cheaper method, so I doubt this will make that much of an impact with use in lesser crimes.
I've seen multiple underground facilities like this sell before. Many Titan missile bases and such are sold via ebay. I even saw one that came close to the square footage [not the cost, i think it went for 2-4 million (and cost many many many times that to make so i consider that a deal)] of the one in the article
it's nothing really all that uncommon in the states.
The problem is, even with a Good Thing like Google (usually), people still use Ad Blockers because of OTHER types of ads. These Ad blockers tend to block Google ads too, and so even a website that uses what everyone considers nice and clean has to face the ad blocker music (albeit they usually arn't a large enough percent to even matter from my own experience with website advertisements).
But this could lead some websites to create even more intrusive, and trickier, ways of getting the advertisements around ad blockers causing even more problems for the typical end user.
a) Transfer could cause mass-DNS-outages/destroy the very fabric of space time itself! b) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver -- showing the US government only controls what, 3 root name servers directly? (even though US commerce department could change that, it obviously is allowing ICANN to create international roots...) c) DNS root servers are not the internet, and thus if other countries want to control 'the internet' or really the WWW (world wide web) they can just set up their own root servers and try to convince everyone to use them. d) the UN sucks as managing anything, and the 'internet' would just go into pieces, you'd have 'the US internet', the 'retarded internet', the 'chinese internet, the 'other people internet', though that kind of already happens by itself. e)"they can just close their borders and shut down their trade. Noone will miss them." I really wish they would, with some exceptions. Mexico, Canada, Japan, the U.K., and some other countries seem to do just fine with the US as a whole and I see no reason for us to stop trade or interaction with them. As for the rest of the world? I say we cut our network connections, cease our trade, and go information blackout on their asses. I don't feel the US needs them, and would become a much better country if it became more self-reliant again. f) "Some countries have been frustrated that the United States and European countries that got on the Internet first gobbled up most of the available addresses required for computers to connect, leaving developing nations with a limited supply to share." -- those countries could be leaders and use ipv6, plenty of ip addresses there. China does it, why can't they? or are they talking about domain names? ffs, those are commercially owned, it's not our fault our people like to buy and use them! g) We spent our money, and we continue to spend our money, creating, maintaining, etc alot of the root namservers and a large portion of the internet. And yet we should allow a group of other countries who paid nothing and had nothing to do with the development or research or anything behind it to have partial control? Like I said, if they want new root namservers, more power to them to setting them up and getting people to change. But they cannot have ours. Our's work. We know our's work. Everyone else knows our's work.
Last I leave with you this note: the internet is not held hostage by the US. We don't control the internet. We theoretically control WWW policy. But that is not the internet. Soooo..."If the USA's position won't change, i guess people can just ignore the states and set up an alternative dns servers/architecture."
That's exactly what they should do instead crying to us if they don't like it. And good luck to them there, as it would be HELL to do such a thing (from a technical and security standpoint.)
Exactly. If the UN wants control over the internet, they can setup their own UN internet. They can fund a UN DNS system, they can pay for the upkeep, the bandwidth, and trying to promote other people to use it.
I'm quite fine with the current internet how it is. I don't see the US really doing much evil with the internet, and the current 'internet' DNS system IS the US' baby. Look at China, they basically already have their own 'internet'. This is just a bunch of whining democrats who don't know anything, and want control over something that other people worked hard to create and maintain.
It's not like the American public cries out every time someone in the Army dies. We give them lots of equipment to try and increase their safety, but it's just a given that their line of work is DANGEROUS.
It's a sad thing when someone dies. But it just happens. They know the consequences, no one forces astronauts to go up there. And I bet if you asked any of them if they thought it was worth it given the risk that they'd all say yes.
I don't believe Hussein is really a 'terrorist'. That word is just so overused.
I think he just suffers from some severe pschological issues. Like being a sick egotistical tyranical man.
Hussein did do ALOT of good in Iraq. Even if he had some downfalls (read: alot of downfalls), he built up alot of the infrastructure in a country that has historically been in the stone ages, and I do believe we put Hussein where he was in the first place. Actually, for all I know, our supporting him into power in the past could have lead to the chain of events that made him such a sick person, corruption by the people arround him, slowly leading to thinking such things were ok, to spawning children that were even WORSE than himself about such things.
I'm not so sure Hussein was the terrorist in Iraq. I think he was an instrument to carry out terrorism in Iraq...for the US. In that theory, the US is the terrorist.
But then again WHO REALLY KNOWS? Finding out REAL information about such people is hard. The media isn't very trustworthy about information (shown time and time again), the government even less so. For all I know Iraq is the 'good guy' and we are the 'bad guy' and we set off bombs in england just to get more support from british citizens.
and it's not like they're really looking for a ton of money.
$50 million is not really much to AMD (it's not going to determine if their buisness continues or not).
I think AMD truly believes that Intel is not being fairly competitive and so AMD wants to put a little pressure on Intel to become fair using the courts.
as far as I can tell, http://www.thedarkcitadel.com/ is just a blog, and he is linking from auto-generated links made by the blog software.
now he does appear to have a couple text advertisement links on his blog to help pay hosting costs (maybe these links drive up his traffic and make him more money like he says about roland), but otherwise it seems rather innocent.
though it is fairly odd that he just doesn't directly link
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Prey on people.
I wish they prayed on people! Well, maybe not directly on them, maybe just for them.
I *only* use my laptop for gaming.
My other 'desktop' computers are used as servers or for work-only (aka workstations).
There are quite a few valid reasons for using a laptop for gaming. For one, I like to be able to sit on my bed or sofa and play Battlefield 2 without any lag via 802.11g and a logitech wireless mouse. I like to be able to bring my laptop easily to my friends' houses or to LAN partys without having to worry about alot of cables or weight (though my laptop is pretty heavy). I like to be able to do some horrible mundane task in WoW while watching an utterly crappy SciFi movie on TV in comfort. The main difference of a laptop over a desktop is portability at the cost of more $$ for equal performance. Otherwise there is nothing stopping even affordable (read ~$1000) laptops from being decent to great (~$2000) gaming machines.
No, given power constraints, I don't do ANY real gaming on battery only. My laptop would only last 40 minutes or so with that scenario and that's what, one round of BF2?
My current laptop is an Alienware and before that I had a Dell that I used just as much (and was alot cheaper), and with a little lag was also perfectly fine for all my FPS needs (played doom 3 fine and that was like a radeon 9600 mobile w/ 64MB of ram or something? maybe 128).
Urine is typically quite sterile (except for the occasional malfunctioning kidney or urinary tract infection letting some bacteria through)
The problem is urine tends to have a composition that fosters the growth of bacteria as they somehow manage to get into it. In fact this is one reason urine smells, typically urine is quite odorless when leaving the body. The 'stale urine' ammonia smell you remember from bathrooms is a biproduct of the decomposition of urea by bacteria.
I do believe one major reason DNA testing isn't used for lesser crimes is because of it's expense. At least here in the states. That said, this quicker method doesn't say anything about being a cheaper method, so I doubt this will make that much of an impact with use in lesser crimes.
when most people think of java they think APPLETS.
well, applets have had a very very bad history due to the whole MSJVM and crappy browser plugins and such.
and thus, when people think of java, they think, hey, those slow cruddy applet things.
I've seen multiple underground facilities like this sell before. Many Titan missile bases and such are sold via ebay. I even saw one that came close to the square footage [not the cost, i think it went for 2-4 million (and cost many many many times that to make so i consider that a deal)] of the one in the article
it's nothing really all that uncommon in the states.
Then may your nights forever be filled with lonely HIV infected women.
When can I get tested!?
then the navy could agree and just have a 'all bets are off' policy applied to environmentalism in a wartime.
wait, we're in a wartime now, oh well.
As long as some females get hosed along with me, i'm up to the challenge!
The problem is, even with a Good Thing like Google (usually), people still use Ad Blockers because of OTHER types of ads. These Ad blockers tend to block Google ads too, and so even a website that uses what everyone considers nice and clean has to face the ad blocker music (albeit they usually arn't a large enough percent to even matter from my own experience with website advertisements).
But this could lead some websites to create even more intrusive, and trickier, ways of getting the advertisements around ad blockers causing even more problems for the typical end user.
a) Transfer could cause mass-DNS-outages/destroy the very fabric of space time itself!
b) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver -- showing the US government only controls what, 3 root name servers directly? (even though US commerce department could change that, it obviously is allowing ICANN to create international roots...)
c) DNS root servers are not the internet, and thus if other countries want to control 'the internet' or really the WWW (world wide web) they can just set up their own root servers and try to convince everyone to use them.
d) the UN sucks as managing anything, and the 'internet' would just go into pieces, you'd have 'the US internet', the 'retarded internet', the 'chinese internet, the 'other people internet', though that kind of already happens by itself.
e)"they can just close their borders and shut down their trade. Noone will miss them."
I really wish they would, with some exceptions. Mexico, Canada, Japan, the U.K., and some other countries seem to do just fine with the US as a whole and I see no reason for us to stop trade or interaction with them. As for the rest of the world? I say we cut our network connections, cease our trade, and go information blackout on their asses. I don't feel the US needs them, and would become a much better country if it became more self-reliant again.
f) "Some countries have been frustrated that the United States and European countries that got on the Internet first gobbled up most of the available addresses required for computers to connect, leaving developing nations with a limited supply to share." -- those countries could be leaders and use ipv6, plenty of ip addresses there. China does it, why can't they? or are they talking about domain names? ffs, those are commercially owned, it's not our fault our people like to buy and use them!
g) We spent our money, and we continue to spend our money, creating, maintaining, etc alot of the root namservers and a large portion of the internet. And yet we should allow a group of other countries who paid nothing and had nothing to do with the development or research or anything behind it to have partial control? Like I said, if they want new root namservers, more power to them to setting them up and getting people to change. But they cannot have ours. Our's work. We know our's work. Everyone else knows our's work.
Last I leave with you this note: the internet is not held hostage by the US. We don't control the internet. We theoretically control WWW policy. But that is not the internet.
Soooo..."If the USA's position won't change, i guess people can just ignore the states and set up an alternative dns servers/architecture."
That's exactly what they should do instead crying to us if they don't like it. And good luck to them there, as it would be HELL to do such a thing (from a technical and security standpoint.)
Exactly. If the UN wants control over the internet, they can setup their own UN internet. They can fund a UN DNS system, they can pay for the upkeep, the bandwidth, and trying to promote other people to use it.
I'm quite fine with the current internet how it is. I don't see the US really doing much evil with the internet, and the current 'internet' DNS system IS the US' baby. Look at China, they basically already have their own 'internet'. This is just a bunch of whining democrats who don't know anything, and want control over something that other people worked hard to create and maintain.
that happens during a normal heavy rain/flood ;)
they just take the coffins and bury them again lol
the last thing you want to do on the internet is piss off the SomethingAwful crowd.
I mean, just look at the name. You don't even have to KNOW that they're goons to know it's bad when you piss them off.
It's an allusion to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/ (The Graduate).
If you haven't seen the movie, shame on you.
I mean, obviously if you use windows all day and never once have heard the screams of the damned you must be.
I'm ashamed to call myself a fellow slashdotter if you haven't played DOOM!
they're just patenting a METHOD to serve up specific ads based on figuring out your location based on your IP address.
You can always come up with a DIFFERENT way to serve up specific ads based on figuring out your location based on your IP address and do it.
the same one cell phones do: a GPS address.
the only problem is they would then be required to build GPS into all of the VoIP phones/equipment...
It's not like the American public cries out every time someone in the Army dies. We give them lots of equipment to try and increase their safety, but it's just a given that their line of work is DANGEROUS.
It's a sad thing when someone dies. But it just happens. They know the consequences, no one forces astronauts to go up there. And I bet if you asked any of them if they thought it was worth it given the risk that they'd all say yes.
Just looking gets many a man in trouble all the time!
I don't believe Hussein is really a 'terrorist'. That word is just so overused.
I think he just suffers from some severe pschological issues. Like being a sick egotistical tyranical man.
Hussein did do ALOT of good in Iraq. Even if he had some downfalls (read: alot of downfalls), he built up alot of the infrastructure in a country that has historically been in the stone ages, and I do believe we put Hussein where he was in the first place. Actually, for all I know, our supporting him into power in the past could have lead to the chain of events that made him such a sick person, corruption by the people arround him, slowly leading to thinking such things were ok, to spawning children that were even WORSE than himself about such things.
I'm not so sure Hussein was the terrorist in Iraq. I think he was an instrument to carry out terrorism in Iraq...for the US. In that theory, the US is the terrorist.
But then again WHO REALLY KNOWS? Finding out REAL information about such people is hard. The media isn't very trustworthy about information (shown time and time again), the government even less so. For all I know Iraq is the 'good guy' and we are the 'bad guy' and we set off bombs in england just to get more support from british citizens.
and it's not like they're really looking for a ton of money.
$50 million is not really much to AMD (it's not going to determine if their buisness continues or not).
I think AMD truly believes that Intel is not being fairly competitive and so AMD wants to put a little pressure on Intel to become fair using the courts.
That's about it.
as far as I can tell, http://www.thedarkcitadel.com/ is just a blog, and he is linking from auto-generated links made by the blog software.
now he does appear to have a couple text advertisement links on his blog to help pay hosting costs (maybe these links drive up his traffic and make him more money like he says about roland), but otherwise it seems rather innocent.
though it is fairly odd that he just doesn't directly link
Not to mention a player doesn't have to download everything at once.
It could download each level as the player needs, and even do it wisely, downloading the next level while the player is playing the current level.
Thus it may take a week to download the entire game (depending on how much the player plays) but the end-user wouldn't notice a difference.
I keep a Jew in the room over.
in fact he pays half the rent.
so where's my free Windows XP copy eh?