And what if his cat gets thirsty? Will it suffer any ill effects?
I wouldn't worry. The mineral oil will kill the cat long before the level drops far enough to have any ill effects on the mobo. Now, if the cat dies and falls into the aquarium, there might be a problem.
You didn't miss much. My high school drivers ed class had those driving simulators. This was back in '75. The football coach put a bad movie on, and we'd sit there and pretend to drive. Trouble is, it didn't work very well. No feedback on anything, so when it was turning time we'd just spin the wheel as fast as it would go. Some of the gauges worked, so we'd see if we could get the speedo to read 90 when we hit a school zone.
All in all, I learned more about safe driving from watching "Dukes of Hazard".
In that case, it's probably much cheaper to get a laptop with a 15" screen and buy a seperate 19" monitor. You've got a laptop thats actually portable, and the big screen for when you're ready to sit down and work for a while.
Well, as serious as a question can be in a MPFS thread.
Why is it that Monty Pythons Flying Circus and all its various incarnations are still going strong and still considered funny and relevant? I mean, it's been 30 years... most of the humor from that era seems terribly tired and dated. Somehow, Python endures. My 13-year-old son dropped a line from Hole Grail into a conversation a couple of weeks ago, and I swear he's never seen the movie.
The question isn't whether we'll ever need a video card with 512 meg of memory. Hell, we'll probably be running 2 gig behemoths with multiple GPU's sometime in the future, and complaining about how slow they are.
The question is whether there's a compelling reason right now to pay the extra $100 or $200 these cards are going to command. It would appear that there isn't, and won't be anytime in the near future. Why shell out the extra bucks for something that'll be obsolete by the time you can actually use it?
Hey, if it wasn't for us bleeding-edge performance crazed idiots, the video card companies would have no incentive to come out with new products. Which would mean that the old stuff wouldn't become obsolete, and you'd still be paying $150 for a Voodoo II with 16 meg.
...isn't it about time we shelved that idiotic phrase "best practices"? Can't you just ask for the best way, or the best method? People are using "best practices" for everything from EMail management to installing a new kitchen sink. It's hokey and pretentious, and I'll be really glad if I never see it again.
Okay, I feel better now. Thank you.
P.S. My karma is right on the edge, so if you mod me down I'll probably lose all my bonuses and everything.
I admit, booting the system to "what is your bidding my master", sounds appealing."
If that's all you need to complete your Star Wars experience, I can set you up for just a few hundred dollars. No need to shell out thousands for some overpriced computer system!
In other news, I've decided that since motion pictures are in color now, and they have sound, the movie industry is on its last legs. I mean seriously, there's not much technological innovation any more. Movies made five or ten years ago still look pretty good. Movie plots these days are all derivitive... it's a horror movie, or a romantic comedy, or an action-adventure.
All this considered, the movie industry should have imploded long ago.
On the other hand, someone I worked with mentioned GoDaddy as a good place to register domain names cheap, and danged if two months later, I wasn't able to recall them pretty much effortlessly. I've been with GD for two years, never had a problem. I pay $3.95 a month for hosting, which gets me a web page I never use and 150 email forwarding accounts. $3.95 for no spam ever is pretty darn cheap.
I thought the Super Bowl commercial was pretty cheesy myself, but they seem to have gotten a bunch of publicity out of it. I guess it was money well spent.
It probably goes without saying, but if you do make the bag-of-grass or night-of-drinking deal, try to make sure they do the repair work BEFORE you pay them. No matter how vehemently they claim that their hands are even steadier after a few hits or a six-pack.
You're underestimating the power of postitive thought! All those million people who downloaded Opera are behind this effor 1000 per cent! In fact, I'm downloading Opera again, just to show my support! I predict he'll make the swim in record time, just due to the power of positive thought!!!
1. Pull the plug on the download servers if/when the count hits 999,999.
2. Upload a few hundred thousand copies of Opera. That'll make the counter go back down, right?
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There's even a nice, crunchy phrase like "PR Gods". And the casual mention of a startup called eBay, not that he actually ever comes out and says that his old PR firm represented eBay, but the implication is there.
"Selective truth" indeed.
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Actually, the guarantee is that you'll lose up to 20 pounds in two weeks. People hear the "20", not the "up to".
The only thing I'd add is that if they try to get rid of you by suggesting some time-consuming fix (like say, reloading your OS)... you've already tried that, and it didn't work.
Valve would really piss off the distributors and retail outlets if they offered HL2 direct for less. It wouldn't be much different then if iD offered Doom 3 for five dollars less if you bought it mail-order direct from them rather then getting it from Best Buy. You hack off the retail outlets, and they won't carry your game any more.
Once people stop being so phobic about technology like Steam, you'll probably see a much wider range of game prices from all sorts of different companies.
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And what if his cat gets thirsty? Will it suffer any ill effects?
I wouldn't worry. The mineral oil will kill the cat long before the level drops far enough to have any ill effects on the mobo. Now, if the cat dies and falls into the aquarium, there might be a problem.
You didn't miss much. My high school drivers ed class had those driving simulators. This was back in '75. The football coach put a bad movie on, and we'd sit there and pretend to drive. Trouble is, it didn't work very well. No feedback on anything, so when it was turning time we'd just spin the wheel as fast as it would go. Some of the gauges worked, so we'd see if we could get the speedo to read 90 when we hit a school zone.
All in all, I learned more about safe driving from watching "Dukes of Hazard".
Comes with an toy uzi for drive bys.
And an inflatable doll for parking.
In that case, it's probably much cheaper to get a laptop with a 15" screen and buy a seperate 19" monitor. You've got a laptop thats actually portable, and the big screen for when you're ready to sit down and work for a while.
Not typo... freudian slip.
That's not progress!
Do the robots have rocket launchers and lasers? Or even titanium buzzsaw blades at the end of their arms?
No?
You mean it's *just* soccer?
Then why do I care?
Well, as serious as a question can be in a MPFS thread.
Why is it that Monty Pythons Flying Circus and all its various incarnations are still going strong and still considered funny and relevant? I mean, it's been 30 years... most of the humor from that era seems terribly tired and dated. Somehow, Python endures. My 13-year-old son dropped a line from Hole Grail into a conversation a couple of weeks ago, and I swear he's never seen the movie.
I've always been a non-smoker. Nobody ever wishes ME luck, or tells me they're pulling for me.
Also, it's Stilton. Obviously, you're just a wannabe cracker.
The question isn't whether we'll ever need a video card with 512 meg of memory. Hell, we'll probably be running 2 gig behemoths with multiple GPU's sometime in the future, and complaining about how slow they are.
The question is whether there's a compelling reason right now to pay the extra $100 or $200 these cards are going to command. It would appear that there isn't, and won't be anytime in the near future. Why shell out the extra bucks for something that'll be obsolete by the time you can actually use it?
Does it make sense to shell out tons of cash for a hardware product that'll be obsolete by the time the software that fully utilizes it is released?
You're welcome.
Hey, if it wasn't for us bleeding-edge performance crazed idiots, the video card companies would have no incentive to come out with new products. Which would mean that the old stuff wouldn't become obsolete, and you'd still be paying $150 for a Voodoo II with 16 meg.
...isn't it about time we shelved that idiotic phrase "best practices"? Can't you just ask for the best way, or the best method? People are using "best practices" for everything from EMail management to installing a new kitchen sink. It's hokey and pretentious, and I'll be really glad if I never see it again.
Okay, I feel better now. Thank you.
P.S. My karma is right on the edge, so if you mod me down I'll probably lose all my bonuses and everything.
I admit, booting the system to "what is your bidding my master", sounds appealing."
If that's all you need to complete your Star Wars experience, I can set you up for just a few hundred dollars. No need to shell out thousands for some overpriced computer system!
In other news, I've decided that since motion pictures are in color now, and they have sound, the movie industry is on its last legs. I mean seriously, there's not much technological innovation any more. Movies made five or ten years ago still look pretty good. Movie plots these days are all derivitive... it's a horror movie, or a romantic comedy, or an action-adventure.
All this considered, the movie industry should have imploded long ago.
On the other hand, someone I worked with mentioned GoDaddy as a good place to register domain names cheap, and danged if two months later, I wasn't able to recall them pretty much effortlessly. I've been with GD for two years, never had a problem. I pay $3.95 a month for hosting, which gets me a web page I never use and 150 email forwarding accounts. $3.95 for no spam ever is pretty darn cheap.
I thought the Super Bowl commercial was pretty cheesy myself, but they seem to have gotten a bunch of publicity out of it. I guess it was money well spent.
It probably goes without saying, but if you do make the bag-of-grass or night-of-drinking deal, try to make sure they do the repair work BEFORE you pay them. No matter how vehemently they claim that their hands are even steadier after a few hits or a six-pack.
You're underestimating the power of postitive thought! All those million people who downloaded Opera are behind this effor 1000 per cent! In fact, I'm downloading Opera again, just to show my support! I predict he'll make the swim in record time, just due to the power of positive thought!!!
Better ideas:
1. Pull the plug on the download servers if/when the count hits 999,999.
2. Upload a few hundred thousand copies of Opera. That'll make the counter go back down, right?
There's even a nice, crunchy phrase like "PR Gods". And the casual mention of a startup called eBay, not that he actually ever comes out and says that his old PR firm represented eBay, but the implication is there.
"Selective truth" indeed.
Actually, the guarantee is that you'll lose up to 20 pounds in two weeks. People hear the "20", not the "up to".
Lead a $17 million dollar security upgrade for the entire enterprise.
"Very impressive. Are you still employed there?"
"No, they went bankrupt shortly thereafter."
giant recursive loop of ignorance.
Man, I like that. Mind if I steal it?
The only thing I'd add is that if they try to get rid of you by suggesting some time-consuming fix (like say, reloading your OS)... you've already tried that, and it didn't work.
Valve would really piss off the distributors and retail outlets if they offered HL2 direct for less. It wouldn't be much different then if iD offered Doom 3 for five dollars less if you bought it mail-order direct from them rather then getting it from Best Buy. You hack off the retail outlets, and they won't carry your game any more.
Once people stop being so phobic about technology like Steam, you'll probably see a much wider range of game prices from all sorts of different companies.