I have to admit, the G5 iMacs look pretty nifty. Not that I'm going to buy one... but my main complaint would be that the video processor is imbedded on the mainboard... so there's no way to upgrade it a year from now when it won't play the latest / greatest games any more. Some laptops (like Dell Inspirons since it Inspiron 8000) have the video card on a seperate (but proprietary) daughter card. While it's not officially supported by Dell, you can purchase a newer / faster video card for them. Too bad there isn't a "standard" mini-agp, or mini-pci-x video card for laptops and all-in-one units like the G5 iMac.
This is very true. My last 2 Dell laptops have both had 4-pin (un-powered) Firewire ports, so the nifty external firewire drive I had didn't work on the laptop unless I had external power. This is a pain, especially if you're on the go.
Some of the (few) PC's that include Firewire ports have 4-pin ports on the front where you'd be plugging in something like a little flash drive, and the powered ports on the back. This is also a pain.
IMHO firewire is great when you need high-speed transfer - like DV cameras, or external HD's and CDRW's. But for a small flash drive, USB makes a lot more sense.
If the earth gets destroyed by an asteroid... it's pretty much a moot point. There's not any place else where all of the plants & animals can survive that we know of, much less feasably use. It's very egocentric to think that millions of years later some alien race would want to resurrect the creatures of a planet that was destroyed.
If you look at the pictures, there's a lot of bezel around the screen. Looks like they could theoretically fit a much larger screen on it without increasing the overall dimensions. I have a Dell i8500, 1920x1200 uxga 15.4" screen. People often comment that the text is way too small on that screen. I imagine the text on this little sucker would be even harder to read, and I'm sure it's probably not as bright as the i8500's.
Before you all go out to buy this, you need to first purchase a custom ECU for about $1000, and this company only makes them for a handfull of cars (Subaru, Mitsu Evo, Toyota MR2, Nissan 300zx, Neon SRT4...). Follow the 2nd link in the original post for more info.
My house is a 2 story, 3 bedroom built in 1923, and has plaster over wood lath, not wire mesh... so I don't have quite the farraday cage issue.
My WAP (a DI-614+) is in the basement - about 5 feet off the ground on a shelf. It works great in the whole house, using just the stock antennas. Oddly, I get better reception on the 2nd floor than I do in the 1st floor living room right above the WAP.
Even though it's in the basement, I can still pick with netstumbler about 50 yard down the street with the laptop sitting in the front seat of my car. I'm running WEP and not advertising the AP....
My Dell i8500 will run for about 4 hours under "normal" desktop use running Linux, with an Orinico wireless card in it. As to the original post... you know they usually have AC power available at net cafe's, right?
Or try SCCA Solo-2 "Autocross". Autocross is a good way to learn how to control a car - it emphasizes control and handling over speed. You can do it with just about any passenger car (as long as it's in decent mechanical shape) and the cost is minimal.
Prior to getting your driver's license, younger drivers are restricted to go-carts... so this might not be exactly what you're looking for.
I think it would be good idea to get a good grasp on the basics before doing either a track event, or autocross.
Realistic racing sims like LFS are a great tool for teaching a new driver, IMHO, because they'll teach respect for control of your vehicle. and that there are consequences to bad driving... unlike some of the "arcade-y" driving games where it's not even possible to get go off the track.
I'm planning to rent a copy of RoTK for a friend that hasn't seen it yet (was out of the country) but I'm not buying it until the extended version comes out.
Exactly... game and other software producers don't have anything more to lose than every other industry when it comes to the resale of used goods.
The only technical / legal issue with selling used games and software (or audio CD's) is that it's difficult or impossible enforce the removale of the software from the original owner's computer before the sale.
It's more of a long-term issue than they want to look at... but if I buy a used game, and enjoy it, when I'm shopping for a new game in the future, I will be more likely to buy a sequel, or a title by the same developer.
143 is imap, 993 is imaps. That's not "outbound" email. IMAP (like POP) is a client protocol for accessing email (or news) servers. See the imap web site for info.
These people are talking about SMTP - port 25 - which is how email servers send / receive email messages between servers.
There are ways to get around it. I've created a couple of legit mass email applications for clients (definitely not spam!), the most recent as a PHP app. It took quite a bit of tweaking, but I was able to get it to sneak the emails it generates past most spam filters.
Sending mass email using CC or BCC is just about a guaranteed way to trip the filters at AOL or Hotmail. I'm pretty sure they check the message id in the header, among other things.
For the most part, I tested by sending email thru spamassassin, and tweaking it to get the lowest score possible. There are other various techniques you can use too... for instance, spacing the timing out, or write your app in such a way that it doesn't blast the emails out to one ISP as fast as it can.
YMMV, but using these methods I've been able to send out 3k to 5k mass emails without many problems.
That Sony looks nice... it's bigger than what I want. A quick google reveals that you can find one for $1799. I found the Apple 23" Cinema for $1723 on pricewatch, but I'd need the adapter to use it on my PC, and that's another $100.
"Beautiful" is very subjective. I know a lot of people like them - I personally think the clear plastic look is ugly. I can't imagine that the easel style design allows for very good adjustment.
It would be nice if other monitor manufacturers would produce units with the same screen. Apple doesn't build the LCD screen, they just buy them from someone and put them in their monitor, just like the Dell or Gateway branded monitors.
I've been shopping around for a new LCD monitor. My Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop has a wonderful 15.4" 1920x1200 LCD screen. So far I haven't found any decent monitors, other than the these Apple units, that offer a wide-aspect LCD with higher than 1280x768 resolution.
Ideally, I'd like a 17 to 19" wide-screen that did 1920x1280, and had a "conventional" LCD screen look, and a nice adjustable stand.
One problem with his "variety" of Linux distributions is that several of them are Debian derived - He tried Debian, Xandros, Knoppix Knotix and Morphix, all Debian~ish.
I agree that trying RedHat, Fedora or Mandrake may have helped out.
I'm a Mandrake user myself, and sound is usually not too hard to get working. However, I do have a big problem with the current state of things with ALSA - as of the version that's with Mandrake 9.2, it's buggy, "doesn't play well with others" (as in it has device-locking problems). I'm currently using the OSS drivers instead of the ALSA drivers on my 2 main Linux workstations - a generic Intel PC w/ SBLive! and a Dell i8500 w/ Intel sound, because neither of them worked reliably with the ALSA driver.
I'm going to try Mandrake 10.0 on one of them soon, I've read in some threads that ALSA support is supposed to be improved in the 2.6.x kernel. I hope it is...
I've seen the Recon PDA's. They are a nice ruggedized PDA - essentially a Compaq Ipaq with a shock-proof & water resistant case.
I think these are being marketed to industrial users who need a very stury handheld. They are a lot heavier and bulkier than an Ipaq. You wouldn't be carrying one of these around in your shirt pocket.
IMHO, you would be better off buying a standard Ipaq, with a ruggedized sleeve if you'd like. You could break 2 or 3 Ipaqs and still be money ahead of someone who bought the Recon.
I was at a private LAN last summer, out near f-stick Nebraska. My friends there were mostly very good FPS players - DoD and CS. They totally own me at FPS games. I can hold my own against them in BF42 and DC, but that's a different skill set...
The guy hosting the party took us out for some real target shooting. We started with a Ruger 10/22, moved up to a 20 gauge, a 12 gauge "pumpo", and finally a high-powered 7mm rifle (not sure of the exact size, but it was BFG, much larger casing than a 30-06).
I grew up with BB guns, pellet guns,.22's and 12 gauge shotguns, but I haven't done much shooting for the last 10 or 12 years. Other than our host, none of the other guys had any significant experience with a firearm.
On round 1 with the.22, the host and I were the only ones to hit our targets. Once we moved up to the scatter guns, some of the others did better. With the 7mm, the targets (pop cans) were WAY out there. I only hit one by skipping debris off the ground in front of it.:) Nobody else hit one.
I do agree that gaming does have some skill transfer to meatspace... like strategy, or driving / flying skills from a simulator (only as a complement with the real thing), but without some real-world practise, I don't think FPS games directly transfer to real firearm skills.
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Oh, crap... there is such a thing as mini agp
I have to admit, the G5 iMacs look pretty nifty. Not that I'm going to buy one... but my main complaint would be that the video processor is imbedded on the mainboard... so there's no way to upgrade it a year from now when it won't play the latest / greatest games any more.
Some laptops (like Dell Inspirons since it Inspiron 8000) have the video card on a seperate (but proprietary) daughter card. While it's not officially supported by Dell, you can purchase a newer / faster video card for them.
Too bad there isn't a "standard" mini-agp, or mini-pci-x video card for laptops and all-in-one units like the G5 iMac.
Ah. That would be Stunt Car Racer?
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This is very true. My last 2 Dell laptops have both had 4-pin (un-powered) Firewire ports, so the nifty external firewire drive I had didn't work on the laptop unless I had external power. This is a pain, especially if you're on the go.
Some of the (few) PC's that include Firewire ports have 4-pin ports on the front where you'd be plugging in something like a little flash drive, and the powered ports on the back. This is also a pain.
IMHO firewire is great when you need high-speed transfer - like DV cameras, or external HD's and CDRW's. But for a small flash drive, USB makes a lot more sense.
If the earth gets destroyed by an asteroid... it's pretty much a moot point. There's not any place else where all of the plants & animals can survive that we know of, much less feasably use.
It's very egocentric to think that millions of years later some alien race would want to resurrect the creatures of a planet that was destroyed.
http://www.mythtv.org
If you look at the pictures, there's a lot of bezel around the screen. Looks like they could theoretically fit a much larger screen on it without increasing the overall dimensions.
I have a Dell i8500, 1920x1200 uxga 15.4" screen. People often comment that the text is way too small on that screen. I imagine the text on this little sucker would be even harder to read, and I'm sure it's probably not as bright as the i8500's.
Before you all go out to buy this, you need to first purchase a custom ECU for about $1000, and this company only makes them for a handfull of cars (Subaru, Mitsu Evo, Toyota MR2, Nissan 300zx, Neon SRT4...). Follow the 2nd link in the original post for more info.
My house is a 2 story, 3 bedroom built in 1923, and has plaster over wood lath, not wire mesh... so I don't have quite the farraday cage issue.
My WAP (a DI-614+) is in the basement - about 5 feet off the ground on a shelf. It works great in the whole house, using just the stock antennas. Oddly, I get better reception on the 2nd floor than I do in the 1st floor living room right above the WAP.
Even though it's in the basement, I can still pick with netstumbler about 50 yard down the street with the laptop sitting in the front seat of my car. I'm running WEP and not advertising the AP....
My Dell i8500 will run for about 4 hours under "normal" desktop use running Linux, with an Orinico wireless card in it.
As to the original post... you know they usually have AC power available at net cafe's, right?
CowboyNeal is insane. No batmobile can touch the 60's Lincoln Futura Batmobile. Had a supercharged Ford 427, and looked awesome.
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Gotta go... Natalie Portman is on Letterman now...
Or try SCCA Solo-2 "Autocross". Autocross is a good way to learn how to control a car - it emphasizes control and handling over speed. You can do it with just about any passenger car (as long as it's in decent mechanical shape) and the cost is minimal.
Prior to getting your driver's license, younger drivers are restricted to go-carts... so this might not be exactly what you're looking for.
I think it would be good idea to get a good grasp on the basics before doing either a track event, or autocross.
An excellent racing sim - still "in development" but with very accurate physics... Live For Speed. It's not OSS, and for Win32 only.
For OSS racing sims, there's Racer, or TORCS.
Realistic racing sims like LFS are a great tool for teaching a new driver, IMHO, because they'll teach respect for control of your vehicle. and that there are consequences to bad driving... unlike some of the "arcade-y" driving games where it's not even possible to get go off the track.
True dat.
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I'm planning to rent a copy of RoTK for a friend that hasn't seen it yet (was out of the country) but I'm not buying it until the extended version comes out.
Exactly... game and other software producers don't have anything more to lose than every other industry when it comes to the resale of used goods.
The only technical / legal issue with selling used games and software (or audio CD's) is that it's difficult or impossible enforce the removale of the software from the original owner's computer before the sale.
It's more of a long-term issue than they want to look at... but if I buy a used game, and enjoy it, when I'm shopping for a new game in the future, I will be more likely to buy a sequel, or a title by the same developer.
143 is imap, 993 is imaps. That's not "outbound" email. IMAP (like POP) is a client protocol for accessing email (or news) servers. See the imap web site for info.
These people are talking about SMTP - port 25 - which is how email servers send / receive email messages between servers.
You can game on an LCD, as long as you have a decent one. I've been gaming on an LCD for a couple of years now.
There are ways to get around it. I've created a couple of legit mass email applications for clients (definitely not spam!), the most recent as a PHP app. It took quite a bit of tweaking, but I was able to get it to sneak the emails it generates past most spam filters.
Sending mass email using CC or BCC is just about a guaranteed way to trip the filters at AOL or Hotmail. I'm pretty sure they check the message id in the header, among other things.
For the most part, I tested by sending email thru spamassassin, and tweaking it to get the lowest score possible. There are other various techniques you can use too... for instance, spacing the timing out, or write your app in such a way that it doesn't blast the emails out to one ISP as fast as it can.
YMMV, but using these methods I've been able to send out 3k to 5k mass emails without many problems.
That Sony looks nice... it's bigger than what I want. A quick google reveals that you can find one for $1799. I found the Apple 23" Cinema for $1723 on pricewatch, but I'd need the adapter to use it on my PC, and that's another $100.
"Beautiful" is very subjective. I know a lot of people like them - I personally think the clear plastic look is ugly. I can't imagine that the easel style design allows for very good adjustment.
It would be nice if other monitor manufacturers would produce units with the same screen. Apple doesn't build the LCD screen, they just buy them from someone and put them in their monitor, just like the Dell or Gateway branded monitors.
I've been shopping around for a new LCD monitor. My Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop has a wonderful 15.4" 1920x1200 LCD screen. So far I haven't found any decent monitors, other than the these Apple units, that offer a wide-aspect LCD with higher than 1280x768 resolution.
Ideally, I'd like a 17 to 19" wide-screen that did 1920x1280, and had a "conventional" LCD screen look, and a nice adjustable stand.
One problem with his "variety" of Linux distributions is that several of them are Debian derived - He tried Debian, Xandros, Knoppix Knotix and Morphix, all Debian~ish.
I agree that trying RedHat, Fedora or Mandrake may have helped out.
I'm a Mandrake user myself, and sound is usually not too hard to get working. However, I do have a big problem with the current state of things with ALSA - as of the version that's with Mandrake 9.2, it's buggy, "doesn't play well with others" (as in it has device-locking problems). I'm currently using the OSS drivers instead of the ALSA drivers on my 2 main Linux workstations - a generic Intel PC w/ SBLive! and a Dell i8500 w/ Intel sound, because neither of them worked reliably with the ALSA driver.
I'm going to try Mandrake 10.0 on one of them soon, I've read in some threads that ALSA support is supposed to be improved in the 2.6.x kernel. I hope it is...
It's now called the "Dutiverse". I said so.
I've seen the Recon PDA's. They are a nice ruggedized PDA - essentially a Compaq Ipaq with a shock-proof & water resistant case.
I think these are being marketed to industrial users who need a very stury handheld. They are a lot heavier and bulkier than an Ipaq. You wouldn't be carrying one of these around in your shirt pocket.
IMHO, you would be better off buying a standard Ipaq, with a ruggedized sleeve if you'd like. You could break 2 or 3 Ipaqs and still be money ahead of someone who bought the Recon.
I was at a private LAN last summer, out near f-stick Nebraska. My friends there were mostly very good FPS players - DoD and CS. They totally own me at FPS games. I can hold my own against them in BF42 and DC, but that's a different skill set...
.22's and 12 gauge shotguns, but I haven't done much shooting for the last 10 or 12 years. Other than our host, none of the other guys had any significant experience with a firearm.
.22, the host and I were the only ones to hit our targets. Once we moved up to the scatter guns, some of the others did better. With the 7mm, the targets (pop cans) were WAY out there. I only hit one by skipping debris off the ground in front of it. :) Nobody else hit one.
The guy hosting the party took us out for some real target shooting. We started with a Ruger 10/22, moved up to a 20 gauge, a 12 gauge "pumpo", and finally a high-powered 7mm rifle (not sure of the exact size, but it was BFG, much larger casing than a 30-06).
I grew up with BB guns, pellet guns,
On round 1 with the
I do agree that gaming does have some skill transfer to meatspace... like strategy, or driving / flying skills from a simulator (only as a complement with the real thing), but without some real-world practise, I don't think FPS games directly transfer to real firearm skills.