The thing most of you people are not realizing is that the shift has tablet functionality which neither the eee pc, x300, or airbook have. Not only that, but it runs windows mobile as well as vista. I also believe it is GSM quad band/HSDPA (or at least it was supposed to when I read about it 5 months ago), so essentially it can replace your phone, PDA, and travel laptop. If I had 1.5k sitting around I'd definitely get one.
I know, I picked up Sins of a Solar Empire two weeks ago and haven't even played it yet as I know it will suck the life right out of me. WoW I have no problem with, as I can just log out whenever I want, but with a RTS I'll be playing all night watching the sun rise in the morning.
I know most of us build our own computers, but anyone who bought a computer in the 90s remembers the horror of having a whole bunch of random crap media players and junkware installed as the default media player (even worse than what we have today). I'm glad my OS comes with a media player, browser, and heck I'd even like the OEM copy to come with DVD codecs as well.
Except for the tearing/install issue, I've never encountered any of the other things you have mentioned. And I appreciate that I can install games to my HD, so when I'm actually playing most of the time I don't have to wait for obnoxious load screens.
I have a fujitsu t4220 tablet. With the extended battery and 4200 rpm hard drive it got about 7.5hrs of battery. I put in a 7200 rpm drive and now I get about 7.3 hours. Not much of a difference (and the slight difference there is may be because the of wear/tear on the battery over the past 6 months).
Dude, you're going to leave a gaming group you've had for 24 years because of a ruleset? Any ruleset is playable with a good group; I have a great time with my shadowrun group even through the ruleset is a disaster.
If you have an HTC windows mobile device, check out xda developers. They have tools so that you can either download or build your own custom windows mobile ROMS.
I have the same card. It is supposed to be twice as fast as its predecessor, with shader 3.0 and hardware T&L. However, apparently twice the speed of suck is still suck.
If you have practiced any type of medicine you would realize no matter how much you emphasize lifestyle changes, patients seldom do it, and still show up to your office expecting you to do something. Alternative medicine exists because there is a market for it, people will take anything as long as they don't have to do something themselves.
On an enterprise level, if one of your workers sends me an infected file, I don't care that all your systems are linux and that it doesn't affect it. I'm permanently putting your company on my block list
Except you really didn't pay for it. Netflix is primarily used for movie rentals, including the streaming service. All you are paying for is to access the content for a limited amount of time. It's actually somewhat unfortunate this occurred as this was sort of a value-added service, and I'd hate for them to get rid of it entirely.
XP on a fresh install is blazing fast. I don't know why, but after 6 months of use it just seems sluggish, even with defrag, scandisk, registry cleaning, spyware/adware checks.
I believe that is the router I have, a pure piece of crap. Randomly decides to assign the same ip to multiple computers, and about as slow as dialup. As soon as I find a decent replacement it is going in the trash.
I love the Wii, but the graphics ARE terrible. I've had xbox games that look better than any Wii game out right now. While I agree that it takes time to tap the full potential of the hardware, the graphics right now should at least be noticeably better than the gamecube, not "might be slightly better than gamecube, maybe".
You can also try j river media center. It is way too expensive (they have a free trail), however, it is highly customizable, it can transcode easily between formats (helpful if you rip in FLAC), and rips with the lame mp3 encoder. It is also relatively fast. I have about 4k songs and searching through the library is instant.
Are you fucking serious? Creative is charging $10 for what is essentially a driver? Well, one more company on my shitlist (creative, say hello to sony and best buy).
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Here are the actual specs (it does have GSM/HSDPA): http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=600
The thing most of you people are not realizing is that the shift has tablet functionality which neither the eee pc, x300, or airbook have. Not only that, but it runs windows mobile as well as vista. I also believe it is GSM quad band/HSDPA (or at least it was supposed to when I read about it 5 months ago), so essentially it can replace your phone, PDA, and travel laptop. If I had 1.5k sitting around I'd definitely get one.
I know, I picked up Sins of a Solar Empire two weeks ago and haven't even played it yet as I know it will suck the life right out of me. WoW I have no problem with, as I can just log out whenever I want, but with a RTS I'll be playing all night watching the sun rise in the morning.
I'm not running server software, just vista 32, and it takes me about 20 minutes to copy 30gb pre-sp1; I havn't tested sp1 yet.
I know most of us build our own computers, but anyone who bought a computer in the 90s remembers the horror of having a whole bunch of random crap media players and junkware installed as the default media player (even worse than what we have today). I'm glad my OS comes with a media player, browser, and heck I'd even like the OEM copy to come with DVD codecs as well.
The x3100 on my laptop at least says it does. I'm playing WoW and Sins of a Solar Empire on it.
Except for the tearing/install issue, I've never encountered any of the other things you have mentioned. And I appreciate that I can install games to my HD, so when I'm actually playing most of the time I don't have to wait for obnoxious load screens.
I have a fujitsu t4220 tablet. With the extended battery and 4200 rpm hard drive it got about 7.5hrs of battery. I put in a 7200 rpm drive and now I get about 7.3 hours. Not much of a difference (and the slight difference there is may be because the of wear/tear on the battery over the past 6 months).
To be honest I haven't even looked at it. Our DM was familiar with 3rd edition, had the books, so that is what we went with.
Dude, you're going to leave a gaming group you've had for 24 years because of a ruleset? Any ruleset is playable with a good group; I have a great time with my shadowrun group even through the ruleset is a disaster.
If you have an HTC windows mobile device, check out xda developers. They have tools so that you can either download or build your own custom windows mobile ROMS.
I have the same card. It is supposed to be twice as fast as its predecessor, with shader 3.0 and hardware T&L. However, apparently twice the speed of suck is still suck.
Secunia lists only one open vulnerability for Vista, which has to be executed by a local user.
http://secunia.com/product/13223/?task=advisories
If you have practiced any type of medicine you would realize no matter how much you emphasize lifestyle changes, patients seldom do it, and still show up to your office expecting you to do something. Alternative medicine exists because there is a market for it, people will take anything as long as they don't have to do something themselves.
On an enterprise level, if one of your workers sends me an infected file, I don't care that all your systems are linux and that it doesn't affect it. I'm permanently putting your company on my block list
Except you really didn't pay for it. Netflix is primarily used for movie rentals, including the streaming service. All you are paying for is to access the content for a limited amount of time. It's actually somewhat unfortunate this occurred as this was sort of a value-added service, and I'd hate for them to get rid of it entirely.
XP on a fresh install is blazing fast. I don't know why, but after 6 months of use it just seems sluggish, even with defrag, scandisk, registry cleaning, spyware/adware checks.
I believe that is the router I have, a pure piece of crap. Randomly decides to assign the same ip to multiple computers, and about as slow as dialup. As soon as I find a decent replacement it is going in the trash.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1100
At this point we'd be better just randomly electing people president.
AT&T 8525.
Yah, but that's sort of my point, can you name a Wii game (other than the RE4 remake) that looks as good as RE4?
I love the Wii, but the graphics ARE terrible. I've had xbox games that look better than any Wii game out right now. While I agree that it takes time to tap the full potential of the hardware, the graphics right now should at least be noticeably better than the gamecube, not "might be slightly better than gamecube, maybe".
You can also try j river media center. It is way too expensive (they have a free trail), however, it is highly customizable, it can transcode easily between formats (helpful if you rip in FLAC), and rips with the lame mp3 encoder. It is also relatively fast. I have about 4k songs and searching through the library is instant.
Are you fucking serious? Creative is charging $10 for what is essentially a driver? Well, one more company on my shitlist (creative, say hello to sony and best buy).