I have my laptop for less intensive games, like Open Arena, or Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, plus the thousands of ROMs and the emulators that play them. It also serves as my portable HD video player and music player when I'm on the road or elsewhere that I cannot lug my desktop and 32" LCD.
Just because it doesn't do BRAND-NEW gaming doesn't mean it's useless for gaming. People flip out all the time at the astounding MUGEN character list I've created (over 10K characters, only 300 actually in the game and working properly) and that so far has managed to impress far more of my gaming friends than any stupid new bleeding-edge game.
Gaming != new and shiny games. Gaming is about enjoying what you're playing - it doesn't need the newest graphics. I still see more active Unreal Tournament servers than UT3 servers, and there's far more WolfET servers than Quake Wars.
"With a desktop PC, you can simply replace the old graphics card with a new one."
Hey! Guess what? Laptops have MXM slots FOR THE EXACT SAME PURPOSE. You may have to dig a little deeper to get the card in, but the effect is the same - upgraded system.
Can you tell me the strain that has 30%? Last I heard it was only physically possible for about 23% THC production in the trichrome due to the size of the pocket inside of the gland.
Brick weed is stuff that's been kiefed and then compressed - it's also generally been exposed to light, which destroys THC over time.
Wow, I study to get a degree in Cannabis Cultivation/Business and end up using the knowledge on Slashdot. What's the world coming to?
It has a linux server (no client yet but WINE does run the windows client all fine, or run it in a VM) and it has an OSX and Windows binary.
Minimal time and setup required. Video, voice, and text all in one room or private conversation. You have the choice of either running your own room or just using it for direct IM video chatting.
1. WRONG. Ruderalis was the strain used primarily for making hemp ropes. Sativas buds are small and STRINGY (pure sativas, anyways) while Indica buds are fat and hard like rocks. Most weed found today is a cross between the two, although there are some ruderalis crosses specifically for auto-flowering (no need to change light timing,) but the yields of THC are reduced due to Ruderalis not producing any worthwhile amount of THC.
2. WRONG. THC is the main psychoactive ingredient, CBD and CBN are PRECURSORS. THC is made in the trichrome of the flower,where UV light is filtered and used to convert CBD and CBN into THC. You can also make THC from CBD and CBN using a weak acid bath.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to school to continue my degree in Cannabis Cultivation (Yes, it's an actual degree here in California!)
What in the world are you talking about? I just sent my laptop back to HP - not only am I getting a replacement but an UPGRADED one at that.
I worked for HP as a repair tech - the only way they ask you for more money is if you're out of warranty date or YOU DAMAGED IT without buying their ADP protection plan. No other reason.
Until a customer with the said chip in their laptop takes it to Geek Squad and they erase everything first just to check to see if it's not the OS causing problems.
Thankfully I took my hard drive out before sending my laptop back.
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"You and I both know it, let me know when you upgrade it."
I just put in a 320GB hard drive from it's built-in 40GB. I also added a wireless laser keyboard and laser mouse. Oh, and a webcam and bluetooth printer.
"To say that you CAN do all the things a computer can do (install another OS, enable feature X, etc.) means you're stuck installing and setting up a basic computer,"
Umm, no. I'm posting to Slashdot from my PS3 right now. The Built-in web browser is more than enough. I *DON'T* have to install another OS, but if I wanted to, I can. As it is, with many applications being web-based, I don't need to download and install a text editor, photo editor, etc, as all the major stuff happens on the remote side, requiring very little power from my end except for sending them data.
"I still have a computer from -1998- that I use as a server. 10 years and STILL useful for most tasks. Let me know how your N64/PS1/Dreamcast are holding up."
I still have a working TI 99/4A (With Hunt The Wumpus!) and a working 8088 (With Xanadu, Jill of the Jungle, Ultima 4-6, and it's still serving as a full-function multi-node BBS) made by Packard Bell (Does anyone remember that company?) My PS1 still runs fine, as does the N64, never owned a DC because I hated the huge controllers. I got an Atari 1200XLS that still works. Original thick clunky Gameboy? Still works. Still gets used, though not as often as my shiny new PSP.
Anyways, as long as we're moving towards web-based apps, my PS3 *CAN* do just about anything your computer can do, and THEN SOME. I can hook my PSP up to the PS3 and play PS3 games on my PSP wirelessly - does your computer have that sort of functionality?
And if I wanted to run a web-server on my PS3, I can. HELIOS is designed specifically for the PS3, and turns it into a powerful cost-effective solution that can stand up against an IBM Blade server.
What prevents something from becoming autonomous? You fail to explain that so your entire statement makes no sense to me. Please explain your position with reproducible facts.
"So damn sick of people who have no idea how something works lending their halfassed opinions to the matter and expecting people to listen."
Yet you lend your half-assed opinion on a subject you obviously know nothing about and expect it to be modded insightful or interesting.
Get out of here, fool. We don't fall for that kind of nonsensical correlation and illogical thinking (except for the fools with a UID as high as yours.)
"And yet you feel the need to open your mouth and proclaim doom."
And yet you feel the need to talk down as if you knew everything - we've had multiple lab-modified genes survive outside of a lab - what in the world makes you think this one would be no different? How about those things we sent out into space without any radiation shielding? A few survived where I'd guarantee the same amount of humans would not survive.
Keep talking. There's stuff to shoot you down, yet.
"Hell, take an existing microbe and remove the genes that regulate its pH level and it will kill itself in a few generations."
Darwin frowns and smiles upon you simultaneously. We can almost safely assume said microbe is world-wide, so changing its pH level won't do much, besides allow the resistant microbes in differing pH environs to survive and proliferate and wage war once a critical mass is reached.
I'll take the random A+ high school biology student over a Wikipedia article. This is coming from interviewing people for a position at my business - you can see the Wikipedia in the resume and hear/feel it in their oral interviews. If you pay attention to Wikipedia, that is. I prefer free-thinking high school students to Wikipedia whores anyday.
It would be investigating - to identify the infringing snippets of code - whether that infringement is copyright or patent.
Since their job is to protect or enforce whatever patent/trademark/copywritten material rights he/she has, as a person representing their own investigation in a matter involving purely themselves should be allowed to speak and have their evidence presented. Reasonable Doubt and all that, yanno.
"Second, assuming they do take the fifth, and the "evidence" upon which all of the cases are based is wiped out, won't SafeNet just hire some people with investigator's licenses to continue the farce? Or is there some reason that a legitimate, licensed investigator would refuse to participate?
I don't know."
I'll tell you right away, having witnessed this situation - they will hire licensed PIs, who will find either A. nothing or B. nonsensical evidence than can be misconstrued as fact. It's either that or risking hiring a 'sympathetic' and adequately-credentialed IT person to testify as an expert witness in court, which may turn against them.
What about us witnesses that are reporting what's happening on our own computer? We need a license to document to a court what's being screwed with without our permission on our own built and bought systems?
Sorry, I won't buy that nor will I submit to such a line of thinking. If you screw with my property, I will fully investigate to the best of my means and report to a court of law to let them sort it out.
What's sad is the court of law is sadly ill-educated on technological matters.
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I have my laptop for less intensive games, like Open Arena, or Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, plus the thousands of ROMs and the emulators that play them. It also serves as my portable HD video player and music player when I'm on the road or elsewhere that I cannot lug my desktop and 32" LCD.
Just because it doesn't do BRAND-NEW gaming doesn't mean it's useless for gaming. People flip out all the time at the astounding MUGEN character list I've created (over 10K characters, only 300 actually in the game and working properly) and that so far has managed to impress far more of my gaming friends than any stupid new bleeding-edge game.
Gaming != new and shiny games. Gaming is about enjoying what you're playing - it doesn't need the newest graphics. I still see more active Unreal Tournament servers than UT3 servers, and there's far more WolfET servers than Quake Wars.
"With a desktop PC, you can simply replace the old graphics card with a new one."
Hey! Guess what? Laptops have MXM slots FOR THE EXACT SAME PURPOSE. You may have to dig a little deeper to get the card in, but the effect is the same - upgraded system.
Spam abuses my property if I'm paying for a limited amount of bandwidth per month (I.E. Australian ISPs) and it eats all of that bandwidth up.
They rejected an iPhone app because it COMPETES with the iTunes service?
Hello, antitrust lawsuit. Welcome to Microsoft's shoes, Apple.
Can you tell me the strain that has 30%? Last I heard it was only physically possible for about 23% THC production in the trichrome due to the size of the pocket inside of the gland.
Brick weed is stuff that's been kiefed and then compressed - it's also generally been exposed to light, which destroys THC over time.
Wow, I study to get a degree in Cannabis Cultivation/Business and end up using the knowledge on Slashdot. What's the world coming to?
It has a linux server (no client yet but WINE does run the windows client all fine, or run it in a VM) and it has an OSX and Windows binary.
Minimal time and setup required. Video, voice, and text all in one room or private conversation. You have the choice of either running your own room or just using it for direct IM video chatting.
1. WRONG. Ruderalis was the strain used primarily for making hemp ropes. Sativas buds are small and STRINGY (pure sativas, anyways) while Indica buds are fat and hard like rocks. Most weed found today is a cross between the two, although there are some ruderalis crosses specifically for auto-flowering (no need to change light timing,) but the yields of THC are reduced due to Ruderalis not producing any worthwhile amount of THC.
2. WRONG. THC is the main psychoactive ingredient, CBD and CBN are PRECURSORS. THC is made in the trichrome of the flower,where UV light is filtered and used to convert CBD and CBN into THC. You can also make THC from CBD and CBN using a weak acid bath.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to school to continue my degree in Cannabis Cultivation (Yes, it's an actual degree here in California!)
Nah, in this case it'd be cockfit.
No, the G84 and G86 chips have faulty packaging around the die causing thermal problems as well - I just sent in my laptop for this EXACT issue.
What in the world are you talking about? I just sent my laptop back to HP - not only am I getting a replacement but an UPGRADED one at that.
I worked for HP as a repair tech - the only way they ask you for more money is if you're out of warranty date or YOU DAMAGED IT without buying their ADP protection plan. No other reason.
Until a customer with the said chip in their laptop takes it to Geek Squad and they erase everything first just to check to see if it's not the OS causing problems.
Thankfully I took my hard drive out before sending my laptop back.
"You and I both know it, let me know when you upgrade it."
I just put in a 320GB hard drive from it's built-in 40GB. I also added a wireless laser keyboard and laser mouse. Oh, and a webcam and bluetooth printer.
"To say that you CAN do all the things a computer can do (install another OS, enable feature X, etc.) means you're stuck installing and setting up a basic computer,"
Umm, no. I'm posting to Slashdot from my PS3 right now. The Built-in web browser is more than enough. I *DON'T* have to install another OS, but if I wanted to, I can. As it is, with many applications being web-based, I don't need to download and install a text editor, photo editor, etc, as all the major stuff happens on the remote side, requiring very little power from my end except for sending them data.
"I still have a computer from -1998- that I use as a server. 10 years and STILL useful for most tasks. Let me know how your N64/PS1/Dreamcast are holding up."
I still have a working TI 99/4A (With Hunt The Wumpus!) and a working 8088 (With Xanadu, Jill of the Jungle, Ultima 4-6, and it's still serving as a full-function multi-node BBS) made by Packard Bell (Does anyone remember that company?) My PS1 still runs fine, as does the N64, never owned a DC because I hated the huge controllers. I got an Atari 1200XLS that still works. Original thick clunky Gameboy? Still works. Still gets used, though not as often as my shiny new PSP.
Anyways, as long as we're moving towards web-based apps, my PS3 *CAN* do just about anything your computer can do, and THEN SOME. I can hook my PSP up to the PS3 and play PS3 games on my PSP wirelessly - does your computer have that sort of functionality?
And if I wanted to run a web-server on my PS3, I can. HELIOS is designed specifically for the PS3, and turns it into a powerful cost-effective solution that can stand up against an IBM Blade server.
I knew about it weeks before the SEC filings - it's called "Internal Email" you should look into it.
What prevents something from becoming autonomous? You fail to explain that so your entire statement makes no sense to me. Please explain your position with reproducible facts.
"So damn sick of people who have no idea how something works lending their halfassed opinions to the matter and expecting people to listen."
Yet you lend your half-assed opinion on a subject you obviously know nothing about and expect it to be modded insightful or interesting.
Get out of here, fool. We don't fall for that kind of nonsensical correlation and illogical thinking (except for the fools with a UID as high as yours.)
"And yet you feel the need to open your mouth and proclaim doom."
And yet you feel the need to talk down as if you knew everything - we've had multiple lab-modified genes survive outside of a lab - what in the world makes you think this one would be no different? How about those things we sent out into space without any radiation shielding? A few survived where I'd guarantee the same amount of humans would not survive.
Keep talking. There's stuff to shoot you down, yet.
Everything will be burned in the end - whether you do it now or later REALLY doesn't matter in the Universal Grand Scheme.
"Hell, take an existing microbe and remove the genes that regulate its pH level and it will kill itself in a few generations."
Darwin frowns and smiles upon you simultaneously. We can almost safely assume said microbe is world-wide, so changing its pH level won't do much, besides allow the resistant microbes in differing pH environs to survive and proliferate and wage war once a critical mass is reached.
I'll take the random A+ high school biology student over a Wikipedia article. This is coming from interviewing people for a position at my business - you can see the Wikipedia in the resume and hear/feel it in their oral interviews. If you pay attention to Wikipedia, that is. I prefer free-thinking high school students to Wikipedia whores anyday.
Even I have had some crackpot ideas, some probably more fu*ked than this video. Like how we can explain past lives by analyzing the energy memory.
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It's explained and funny to the morons that don't get the original reference. It's kinda our way of spreading our humor out to the masses.
"Going through code may not be investigating."
It would be investigating - to identify the infringing snippets of code - whether that infringement is copyright or patent.
Since their job is to protect or enforce whatever patent/trademark/copywritten material rights he/she has, as a person representing their own investigation in a matter involving purely themselves should be allowed to speak and have their evidence presented. Reasonable Doubt and all that, yanno.
"Second, assuming they do take the fifth, and the "evidence" upon which all of the cases are based is wiped out, won't SafeNet just hire some people with investigator's licenses to continue the farce? Or is there some reason that a legitimate, licensed investigator would refuse to participate?
I don't know."
I'll tell you right away, having witnessed this situation - they will hire licensed PIs, who will find either A. nothing or B. nonsensical evidence than can be misconstrued as fact. It's either that or risking hiring a 'sympathetic' and adequately-credentialed IT person to testify as an expert witness in court, which may turn against them.
With the right connections, hell yes. I knew about the Solectron/Flextronics takeover before it was ever announced on their site.
What about us witnesses that are reporting what's happening on our own computer? We need a license to document to a court what's being screwed with without our permission on our own built and bought systems?
Sorry, I won't buy that nor will I submit to such a line of thinking. If you screw with my property, I will fully investigate to the best of my means and report to a court of law to let them sort it out.
What's sad is the court of law is sadly ill-educated on technological matters.
"Copyright is purely a government-granted legal fiction."
Everything is a human construct. The only laws that never change and that constantly kill us are the laws of nature.
Yea, I'm stepping out of my usual snarky techheaded self to say that. Sorry.