Eh, I just don't see a place for pagers in today's world. I'm able to set a separate ringtone (including a separate SMS-tone) for my work numbers and it works just fine. But then again, I'm the kind of geek that likes to have an all-in-one device, hence why my next phone will be wifi-capable once my contract with Verizon expires.
The 8800GT is shitty? News to me, my slightly overclocked card can tear Crysis apart. In fact, it's been proven that 9800's are 8800s slightly factory overclocked -- it's falling in to the mid-range category, but very slowly. You name a game that I can't run on it and I'll prove you wrong. 260/280 GTX's are still too pricey to even be considered by a good chunk of the market.
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I'm gonna have to agree there. I tossed chrome on my EEE PC 1000H and it's running absolutely great, even flash playback is significantly smoother then it was in firefox.
I actually started experiencing this about two months ago, and it was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'd be downloading a torrent, even with encryption, and suddenly me entire connection would be throttled to no more then 5kb/sec down, as well as terrible latency that made any online game absolutely unplayable. It was terrible. Stopping the torrent fixed it after 10-15 minutes or so, but as I said, it was the last straw. I have since switched to SBC Global (owned by AT&T I think?) and get 6mbit down and.6 up, as opposed to comcast's advertised 10/1. Overall though, it's actually faster, because it isn't randomly throttled when I try to download even a legit torrent. SBC's service also has yet to disconnect for more then a minute or two -- whereas comcast was out for at least 24 hours of every month. Comcast's service is absolutely terrible, and they've already lost at least this customer because of it.
Because the company is based in Illinois. As a resident of it, I can safely tell you that you can't move more then a mile without seeing at least some corn. They're using easily obtainable local resources because they're not a large, well-funded company.
It'd be interesting for sure. If they could truly replace every single function of sleep in human beings with a single, mass-producible drug the human race could be a lot more efficient in countless ways. It scares me to think of how much it'd change society, though.
I never really understood the whole browser inclusion with the antitrust aspect. Of all things Microsoft does, not including a free alternative, or alternative at all, to a internet browser seems petty. I just recently had to format this computer, and recently built another and I promptly downloaded Fire Fox. I think Opera's problem is they just aren't making it like FF and IE are...
That's not to say that MS is innocent, but they're not blatantly stopping any installation of alternative browsers, or office suites. That and Internet Explorer isn't even a product they're making money off of anymore. If I wanted IE7 I could go and download it right now for free. In a browser war versus three free products, who the hell cares which one wins? Start and anti-trust suite over their operating system monopoly, not their browser monopoly.
The [i]Linux[/i] ram footprint isn't budging -- the only reason it seems to be rising is because more and more distros are coming with useless eye candy pre-enabled. I can make my Debian box use ~300mb of ram running firefox with a dozen tabs, pidgin, xchat, and xmms very, very easily -- hell, I'm probably under that most of the time.
When Robertson asked his subjects to tell them a relative's birth date, 87 percent of respondents over age 50 could recite it, while less than 40 percent of those under 30 could do so. To be honest, that doesn't say much to me. I didn't memorize most of my realtives' birthdays until I was older simply because I didn't care. The often-selfish mind of a child doesn't really care about birthdays that aren't his/hers because they don't get anything out of it.
But their own birthday? Oh my god, presents! APRIL THIRD, APRIL THIRD! GIVE ME MY CAKE AND TOY CAR!@
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But can our brain(s) run Vista?
Eh, I just don't see a place for pagers in today's world. I'm able to set a separate ringtone (including a separate SMS-tone) for my work numbers and it works just fine. But then again, I'm the kind of geek that likes to have an all-in-one device, hence why my next phone will be wifi-capable once my contract with Verizon expires.
Well, it does have a nice rhyme to it..
The 8800GT is shitty? News to me, my slightly overclocked card can tear Crysis apart. In fact, it's been proven that 9800's are 8800s slightly factory overclocked -- it's falling in to the mid-range category, but very slowly. You name a game that I can't run on it and I'll prove you wrong. 260/280 GTX's are still too pricey to even be considered by a good chunk of the market.
I'm gonna have to agree there. I tossed chrome on my EEE PC 1000H and it's running absolutely great, even flash playback is significantly smoother then it was in firefox.
I actually started experiencing this about two months ago, and it was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'd be downloading a torrent, even with encryption, and suddenly me entire connection would be throttled to no more then 5kb/sec down, as well as terrible latency that made any online game absolutely unplayable. It was terrible. Stopping the torrent fixed it after 10-15 minutes or so, but as I said, it was the last straw. I have since switched to SBC Global (owned by AT&T I think?) and get 6mbit down and .6 up, as opposed to comcast's advertised 10/1. Overall though, it's actually faster, because it isn't randomly throttled when I try to download even a legit torrent. SBC's service also has yet to disconnect for more then a minute or two -- whereas comcast was out for at least 24 hours of every month. Comcast's service is absolutely terrible, and they've already lost at least this customer because of it.
Because the company is based in Illinois. As a resident of it, I can safely tell you that you can't move more then a mile without seeing at least some corn. They're using easily obtainable local resources because they're not a large, well-funded company.
Guess everyone's busy trying out the "new" flight simulator!
$10 says Apple has a fit over them calling it something prefixed with an i.
It'd be interesting for sure. If they could truly replace every single function of sleep in human beings with a single, mass-producible drug the human race could be a lot more efficient in countless ways. It scares me to think of how much it'd change society, though.
The [i]Linux[/i] ram footprint isn't budging -- the only reason it seems to be rising is because more and more distros are coming with useless eye candy pre-enabled. I can make my Debian box use ~300mb of ram running firefox with a dozen tabs, pidgin, xchat, and xmms very, very easily -- hell, I'm probably under that most of the time.