Then they could add a new event kind of like a course that you have to run.
Start off with a big 8 person bong (hookah) and everyone takes a big hit and then runs to 1st station and plays a quick RTS match then after that another big hit and then on to the 2nd station where they play a round of FPS gaming and so on.
Maybe instead of trying to make good movies they should first try to stop making so many BAD movies.
I can understand that you can't just go out and make a good movie, but what I'm tired of is them just cranking out movie after movie without respect for quality.
I don't understand how you can ban one product that has grown out of the ground for 1000s of years and at the same time sell alcohol and cigarettes.
Why should I be a criminal because I want to get high and watch TV or play video games with my friends instead of drinking or smoking myself to death like my grandparents did.
As for the driving under the influence, the same could be said for quite a few over the counter products. The faster we get our robot drivers the happier I will be.
i don't think you would ever get it to run in flash thats just foolish but java would most likely work.
The only problem with that is the whole part of this is to keep your client open afterwards so you can upload to other people so if you just have an app that is open when your at the page its not going to do you any good.
Now that I think of it you might be able to do a firefox plug-in that would keep uploading. Now that would be cool.
I'm pretty sure google is smart enough to change with the times. They could write like a youtube client that did the same thing. Sure there might be a little more waiting time before the loading of the video but i think people would be ok with it for the quality.
Yea but you can send out 2.5Mbit and thats more than enough to stream low-mid quality video. Sure your not going to be streaming some 1080 but its still a start. I thought shoutcast worked a little like this but i could be wrong.
I like Hulu as well but I have to disagree on the ad's being the same volume as the show. I find that most of the shows are very quite and the ad's very loud and well some might be different you'll still run in to ones that just show you the same damn ad every time.
Also they really need to work on when the ad's come in to a show its annoying to have someone cut off mid sentience just to watch the same damn 30 sec pitch for shitty shampoo that i don't want.
Other than that if Hulu can keep it up and get some good ad deals I see them (and sites like them) taking off in a big way.
The first one is free to play now and both 1st and 2nd run on Linux without wine.
Its not an RTS per say but it still pretty damn fun.
I feel your pain I long for a RTS and after 10 of starcraft its just not cutting it when i know starcraft 2 is coming soon. I think that will be the biggest test of my linux only plan i really want to be able to play starcraft 2 the min it comes out. I guess I'll deal with that when it comes maybe it will play good enough on wine.
I was really scared to make the full switch and thought about dual booting for awhile until i got the hang of Linux.
But then one day I woke up to a frozen computer and when I restarted all I got was the file missing message. I was really pissed because i was in the middle of ripping and encoding an old family movie for a friend and when i went to reinstall i couldn't find my XP cd and the Ubuntu one was sitting on top of my computer from showing someone the live CD that i just threw it in and haven't looked back.
Its been wonderful. It's been about 6 months since then and already I've manged to get two friends too ditch windows as well both of who play quite a lot of games on steam. I was really shocked at how easy it was these are guys who know a bit about computers but have never touched a linux box i managed to get them to change because they had both used vista and knew it wasn't for them but were tired of xp after using if for the last 6-7 year and ready for a big change.
The best was my 2nd friend who switched he had been surfing and tried to click on a link and missed by a bit and hit an ad (this was in firefox mind you) and had his whole desktop changed to look like a mac desktop and all his screen res and other options taken away. He was pretty pissed about that.
All in all my advice for people thinking of a change is that unless you have some program that you need that you know for sure won't work in Linux (hell i have IE installed and it work's fine you would be amazed what wine can do)Just try to make a full switch if you can't go back to windows or try to dual boot but i think most people overestimate how much they need windows i thought for sure i would be back within days but here i am 6 months later with no plans to ever install windows again.
Steam runs quite nicely once you figure out the browser and font issues. Everyone talk about games on Linux like there aren't any but i consider myself a gamer and there is only one OS on my computer
Nexuiz is better than quite a few FPS's I've played and i didn't even have to pay for it.
I also have Prey, Guild Wars, Starcraft, Grand Theft Auto 2, Diablo 2, Age of Wonders and all the games on my steam account installed.
Some of them might be older but they are still damn fun. Besides the only way to get games on Linux is to have a demand for them. As someone with a single OS I'm helping to creating that demand.
I'm no fan of the oil giants but if i remember correctly they make most of there money from the sale of crude oil not gas and with crude oil being the highest its ever been
I know of Tomato but when i was picking there were more guides for installing dd-wrt.
As for the other business I had not read about that and well it seems like an issue i'll keep in mind i don't think it will make me change just yet i like the interface and know it too well to switch at the current moment.
But if your just starting out Tomato seems like the best place to start but it still seems to be lacking features that dd-wrt has, but maybe i just don't know it well enough.
If you gave a little more info. If you have line of sight then its no problem at all just buy 2 routers that can be flashed to DD-WRT. (I suggest the Asus WL-500G Premium or the Linksys WRT54GL I own both and they both work like a charm just make sure you buy the right connector Asus: rp-SMC/linksys: rp-TNC)
my guess is your going to want to grab the 24db one seeing as how the 30 jumps quite a bit in price. after that mount them both with line of sight connect everything up and you should be good to go.
If you don't have line of sight then its going to depend on whats in the way if its possible at all.
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Then they could add a new event kind of like a course that you have to run.
Start off with a big 8 person bong (hookah) and everyone takes a big hit and then runs to 1st station and plays a quick RTS match then after that another big hit and then on to the 2nd station where they play a round of FPS gaming and so on.
Man I'm ready for that contest.
Umm.. yeah and so can alcohol, sleeping pills, anti-depressants, sedatives and a whole host of other interesting substances.
Ummm.. yeah and marijuana can do that without the horrible side-effects that sleeping pills and anti-depressants can have. Whats your point?
Also I kind of enjoy my liver, and after watching 2 grandparents die of liver cancer I'd like to keep it as clean as possible.
I have an old toughbook that has 192mb and a 500mhz CPU.
I have Xbuntu on it and it works well enough, but i did have to use the text installer the live cd was just too much for the 24x CD drive.
I don't think i would pay for a laptop that had less than 256, theres just no point when ram is so cheep.
Hell, modern PDAs approach the specs of this thing.
Yep heres two.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N810
Granted it is an ARM CPU but its still the same clock speed. You can pick up the N800's for 190-210 in some places and I'm sure >200 on eBay.
Maybe instead of trying to make good movies they should first try to stop making so many BAD movies.
I can understand that you can't just go out and make a good movie, but what I'm tired of is them just cranking out movie after movie without respect for quality.
They will most likely get pushed back to come out the same time as Duke Nukem Forever 2: Forever and a Day.
http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7189
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1775.html
I don't understand how you can ban one product that has grown out of the ground for 1000s of years and at the same time sell alcohol and cigarettes.
Why should I be a criminal because I want to get high and watch TV or play video games with my friends instead of drinking or smoking myself to death like my grandparents did.
As for the driving under the influence, the same could be said for quite a few over the counter products. The faster we get our robot drivers the happier I will be.
But this is within there own network if they can't keep there own network in shape thats not the consumer's fault.
Or even worse a flash window that only scrolls at a set speed. Time it for like 5 mins and see how many make it through.
when i bought mine about 8 months ago i only paid 260. You can get them for under 200 now.
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=n800&cid=3395770308078996794&scoring=p
I might buy a new one soon and then i could put this old one in my bathroom for watching movies in the shower.
i don't think you would ever get it to run in flash thats just foolish but java would most likely work.
The only problem with that is the whole part of this is to keep your client open afterwards so you can upload to other people so if you just have an app that is open when your at the page its not going to do you any good.
Now that I think of it you might be able to do a firefox plug-in that would keep uploading. Now that would be cool.
I'm pretty sure google is smart enough to change with the times. They could write like a youtube client that did the same thing. Sure there might be a little more waiting time before the loading of the video but i think people would be ok with it for the quality.
or they could just turn on Multicast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast
Yea but you can send out 2.5Mbit and thats more than enough to stream low-mid quality video. Sure your not going to be streaming some 1080 but its still a start. I thought shoutcast worked a little like this but i could be wrong.
I like Hulu as well but I have to disagree on the ad's being the same volume as the show. I find that most of the shows are very quite and the ad's very loud and well some might be different you'll still run in to ones that just show you the same damn ad every time.
Also they really need to work on when the ad's come in to a show its annoying to have someone cut off mid sentience just to watch the same damn 30 sec pitch for shitty shampoo that i don't want.
Other than that if Hulu can keep it up and get some good ad deals I see them (and sites like them) taking off in a big way.
Your preaching to the converted here, I know the joys of a Linux only system.
Now if everyone else could just understand.
Well its a long shot but Savage?
http://www.s2games.com/savage/
The first one is free to play now and both 1st and 2nd run on Linux without wine.
Its not an RTS per say but it still pretty damn fun.
I feel your pain I long for a RTS and after 10 of starcraft its just not cutting it when i know starcraft 2 is coming soon. I think that will be the biggest test of my linux only plan i really want to be able to play starcraft 2 the min it comes out. I guess I'll deal with that when it comes maybe it will play good enough on wine.
I installed steam under 7.10 and had some problems but at one point it started working better but i wasn't sure if it was fixed. Good to know.
I was really scared to make the full switch and thought about dual booting for awhile until i got the hang of Linux.
But then one day I woke up to a frozen computer and when I restarted all I got was the file missing message. I was really pissed because i was in the middle of ripping and encoding an old family movie for a friend and when i went to reinstall i couldn't find my XP cd and the Ubuntu one was sitting on top of my computer from showing someone the live CD that i just threw it in and haven't looked back.
Its been wonderful. It's been about 6 months since then and already I've manged to get two friends too ditch windows as well both of who play quite a lot of games on steam. I was really shocked at how easy it was these are guys who know a bit about computers but have never touched a linux box i managed to get them to change because they had both used vista and knew it wasn't for them but were tired of xp after using if for the last 6-7 year and ready for a big change.
The best was my 2nd friend who switched he had been surfing and tried to click on a link and missed by a bit and hit an ad (this was in firefox mind you) and had his whole desktop changed to look like a mac desktop and all his screen res and other options taken away. He was pretty pissed about that.
All in all my advice for people thinking of a change is that unless you have some program that you need that you know for sure won't work in Linux (hell i have IE installed and it work's fine you would be amazed what wine can do)Just try to make a full switch if you can't go back to windows or try to dual boot but i think most people overestimate how much they need windows i thought for sure i would be back within days but here i am 6 months later with no plans to ever install windows again.
Gamers is what he means. And yes a lot of Gamers dual boot if they want to use Linux.
Steam runs quite nicely once you figure out the browser and font issues. Everyone talk about games on Linux like there aren't any but i consider myself a gamer and there is only one OS on my computer
Nexuiz is better than quite a few FPS's I've played and i didn't even have to pay for it.
I also have Prey, Guild Wars, Starcraft, Grand Theft Auto 2, Diablo 2, Age of Wonders and all the games on my steam account installed.
Some of them might be older but they are still damn fun. Besides the only way to get games on Linux is to have a demand for them. As someone with a single OS I'm helping to creating that demand.
I'm no fan of the oil giants but if i remember correctly they make most of there money from the sale of crude oil not gas and with crude oil being the highest its ever been
Couldn't you just make a special model voip phone that could force the line to switch back to some kind of basic phone service?
It might be a little hard to set up but it would a pretty good back up.
I know of Tomato but when i was picking there were more guides for installing dd-wrt.
As for the other business I had not read about that and well it seems like an issue i'll keep in mind i don't think it will make me change just yet i like the interface and know it too well to switch at the current moment.
But if your just starting out Tomato seems like the best place to start but it still seems to be lacking features that dd-wrt has, but maybe i just don't know it well enough.
Thanks for the heads up.
If you gave a little more info. If you have line of sight then its no problem at all just buy 2 routers that can be flashed to DD-WRT. (I suggest the Asus WL-500G Premium or the Linksys WRT54GL I own both and they both work like a charm just make sure you buy the right connector Asus: rp-SMC/linksys: rp-TNC)
After you figure that out go to http://www.hyperlinktech.com/familylist.aspx?id=146 or where ever you want to get an Antenna.
my guess is your going to want to grab the 24db one seeing as how the 30 jumps quite a bit in price. after that mount them both with line of sight connect everything up and you should be good to go. If you don't have line of sight then its going to depend on whats in the way if its possible at all.