"my office is in a nice area that I cannot afford to live near"
Then your company should be taxed for putting their offices in an area too expensive for the average earnings of one of their employees.
Or, better yet, you should look for a new job. Or move someplace that isn't congested. I'm so glad I live in the midwest where I don't have to put up with a real estate market full of $500,000 homes that are smaller than my garage. lol. Talk about a sucker born every minute!
I'd like to see our gov't give tax breaks to companies who allow a significant portion of their workforce to work from home. It gets these 1-hour commuters off our roads.
I'd also like to see income tax breaks for employees who live within a 15 mile radius of their office or who use public transportation/alternative methods to get to work.
I'm sick and tired of reading about these idiots who have these 60 mile commutes to their work office so they can keep their kids in a good school district and remain with their employer. I'm far from a tree-hugger, but these people are just wasting resources and clogging our roads with traffic.
Let them work from home! If they can't get their work done, fire them.
"Sounds like the video card isn't the component that's holding you back any more."
Well, at what point does a computer monitor start to become a home entertainment monitor?
I already have a 42" Grand Wega HDTV for my xb360. I'd love to have the desktop real estate a 24" LCD affords, but I'd have to buy a bigger desk and frankly I don't want some behmoth desk taking up half my den.
Somewhere down the road home theater and the personal computer will converge but it's not 2006.
I know that 1600x1200 really stresses the GPUs in these cards but I often wonder how many people are actually gaming at that resolution.
I have lots of hardcore gamer friends in the area and I've seen their rigs and I know that only 1 of them has a monitor bigger than 19" and runs 1600x1200. Sure, 1600x1200 looks great on a 19" monitor too, but with a monitor that small 1280x1024 still looks very nice and to push the res up to 1600 really isn't worth the FPS hit. Or at least, that is the concensus amongst my friends.
I don't mind paying the $500 for something I want, I have camera lenses that cost twice that amount. But somehow it just seems excessive to spend an extra $200 over a $299 card to gain 5-15 FPS for a game in some high resolution I'll never use anyway.
Setting aside the legitimacy of RealNetwork's patent, what is it with the popular feeling on this site and Digg that PATENTS = BAD. Sure, open source software is great and all but if somebody comes up with a great idea why CAN'T they get filthy rich from the concept and continue to milk it for years?
I'm hardly the champion of capitalism but absurd extremist "everything-needs-to-be-free" views seen here are frankly disgusting.
If you are content with people ripping off your ideas and profiting from them, please move to China or some other shithole where creativity is not encouraged.
When you are playing these games for such a long time you start to recognize the pattern involved. The game is *designed* to take up as much of your time as possible in order to extract the most money out of my wallet. No game out there is as profitable as WoW.
But that's not the worst. The worst is that when you click to sign into your character, you have that sinking feeling in your stomach that you could be doing something better to enrich your existence on this Earth. You could be volunteering, you could be putting in extra time with your family, you could be going to the gym and get in the best shape of your life (what I did).
I'm still a gamer to the core. And without WoW I have SO MUCH MORE TIME for more games than ever before. So this isn't about gaming versus real life...I will never give up gaming, and I get to enjoy more of it and remain a happier and healthier human being than I ever was during those 8 months I was addicted to WoW.
I guess it took a good couple of years for the lemmings to figure out AOL wasn't the hottest thing too.
Can somebody PLEASE tell me of one real benefit to having a slow, RAM-hogging, ugly, bloated piece of software (Azureus) over a tiny, resource-frugal, clean-interface client (uTorrent)?
I swear, Azureus users are the same people who use those stupid, big flashy WinAmp skins that take up a 1/4 of the screen. All flash, no go.
Azureus regularly uses between 50-85mb of RAM.
I have NEVER seen uTorrent use more than 3mb.
Both download files at the same speed on a properly configured PC.
Assuming a Chinese player is more likely to be a gold farmer isn't much different than assuming a Middle Eastern looking person is more likely to be a terrorist.
You're right, it's not. But are you suggesting that a greater amount of care and concern should not be exercised when teaming up with a Chinese player? Don't WoW players have the right to be picky about who they team up with, especially in those high level raids or whatever they call them?
What other country is poor enough to make such an endeavor profitable?
I highly doubt Japanese, French, German, or American people would farm for gold. Why? Because those nationals can all get jobs that pay (at least) $8 an hour. In China, $8 an hour for most is fantasy.
Why spend 30 hours farming 1000 gold when you can work 8 hours of $8-per-hour wage ($64) to buy the 1000 gold?
I get *zero* spam on my gmail account.
If you use your email account carefully, you won't get spam. Just as if you use your internet browser carefully, you won't get spyware.
Pain, lack of bass/increase in treble, and lack of range are the telltale signs of an improper fit. Try other sleevs, such as foams (it's much easier to get a quality fit with them).
"Pain" is a little strong. A bunch of toilet paper stuck in your armpit doesn't cause pain, it's just uncomfortable.
I've tried a variety of those earbuds and none worked. And I don't exactly have unusual ears. No dumbo here. Mega$$$ earbuds are just a toy for gadget freaks. Again, better off saving the money. You can't have a $300 listening experience in a McDonalds.
After experimenting with a range of the Shure and Etyomotics I'm going to have to say the problem isn't isolation, it's simply comfort and sound quality. Ear buds simply cannot reproduce sound over a wide range as well as open air headphones. Treble is great. Bass is laughable. And the earbuds simply HURT and cause fatigue much, much faster.
But the real issue is this: you're not going to get at-home listening quality while listening to music on the bus or waiting in line at Wal-Mart. Etymotics and Shures try to do the impossible - block out outside noise. Folks, it can't be done.
It's much more reasonable to buy something like Koss KSC-35's (very cheap and reliable, but have warmer bass than any earbud I have ever tried) and enjoy music the best you can in public without playing with hearing loss. The KSC-35's are wrap-around "traditional" headphones...there is no headband they simply attach to the exterior of your ear. Very portable and not dorky looking. And they are NOT fatiguing at all.
If you really want a good headphone experience, leave the poser Shure and Etymotics on the shelf, pick up some of those Koss headphones, and use the saved money to buy REAL headphones to listen to while at home: sennheiser 600's and a good headphone amp.
Firely is sci-fi for the new generation of fat, indiscriminate sci-fi fans. It's garbage.
I was dragged to Serenity open night and I was appalled at 1) how bad the movie was and 2) the hygiene of the Firefly fans.
Joss Whedon cannot write dialog to save his life. It's so bad, it's funny. I laughed my ass off when (major character) made ridiculous speeches shortly prior to his death.
Joss - you write for TV. Stick to the minor leagues and let the big boys handle the feature films.
This is Adblock causing you trouble. Many people are reporting the same trouble with 1.5 - having to resort to IE (ugh!!) to get java and flash to work properly.
The fix is to uninstall Adblock extension and find the "Adblock Plus" extension.
Here is the link - remember to uninstall Adblock first, restart browser, then go here:
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/extfirefox/Adblock_ Plus_0.5.11_enh.xpi
You might have to enable downloads from this site first.
It works exactly like Adblock and best of all - Java and Flash work beautifully just as before.
Ok so the Japanese rock at designing walkmans and videogames and the Taiwanese are good at manufacturing motherboards for computers.
(blank stare)
AND???
I could be totally wrong, but I suspect that much of the design actually comes from European or American engineers. Aren't the chipsets used on motherboards designed by companies such as Advanced Micro Designs and Intel?
And don't lecture us about East Asians valuing creativity. If they did, the governments would not allow DVD copies of King Kong to be sold on every street corner for $1.50. There is no respect for copyright. There is no respect for copyright, instead, the idea is reverse engineered and mass produced.
Lovely, you ported Linux onto a PDAphone.
Why?
Why not try to load Windows on there. At least then you could have it do something more useful than stroke the ego.
Bit Comet - nice and small and fast but will get you kicked from private trackers.
Bit Tornado - the former champion, too bad the guy who develops it doesn't pay any attention to the requests of his users. Hasn't seen any significant enhancements in years.
Azureus - Pure garbage. BT client for the same people who use large and ostentatious WinAmp skins. Slow downloads. Resource hog. Just plain ugly.
Bit Lord - Not bad, but not great either.
uTorrent - Perfect BT client. Tiny, fast, uses little resources, great UI. The recommended BT client of many admins who run trackers.
Vandals do not paint surfaces that are not visible.
And even if they did paint in places you couldn't normally see...it doesn't give them the right to do it.
Just because a vandal pays taxes does not mean he/she has the right to alter the appearance of an object. Their share in the ownership of that property is tiny....if he lives in a city of one million people, and everybody pays equal taxes (they do not) that is.0001%.
Call them what they are: vandals.
I don't care if they paint on the side of a church or on the undercarriage of a bridge that nobody will ever see: IF IT IS NOT YOURS, YOU DON'T DEFACE IT.
People generally have a wide variety of tastes when it comes to art. How dare you push your art onto others? Would you like it if I came into your house, went into your bedroom, and painted a big fucking picture of David Hasselhoff above your bed? Oh wait, you mean you PREFER the bland, white ceiling to my amazing art??
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I don't need to be in an office, and I'm not.
"my office is in a nice area that I cannot afford to live near"
Then your company should be taxed for putting their offices in an area too expensive for the average earnings of one of their employees.
Or, better yet, you should look for a new job. Or move someplace that isn't congested. I'm so glad I live in the midwest where I don't have to put up with a real estate market full of $500,000 homes that are smaller than my garage. lol. Talk about a sucker born every minute!
I'd like to see our gov't give tax breaks to companies who allow a significant portion of their workforce to work from home. It gets these 1-hour commuters off our roads. I'd also like to see income tax breaks for employees who live within a 15 mile radius of their office or who use public transportation/alternative methods to get to work. I'm sick and tired of reading about these idiots who have these 60 mile commutes to their work office so they can keep their kids in a good school district and remain with their employer. I'm far from a tree-hugger, but these people are just wasting resources and clogging our roads with traffic. Let them work from home! If they can't get their work done, fire them.
Nah, if it was Digg there would be more than 15 people online to make a comment on the story. :)
-former Slashdotter who has seen the light
"Sounds like the video card isn't the component that's holding you back any more."
Well, at what point does a computer monitor start to become a home entertainment monitor?
I already have a 42" Grand Wega HDTV for my xb360. I'd love to have the desktop real estate a 24" LCD affords, but I'd have to buy a bigger desk and frankly I don't want some behmoth desk taking up half my den.
Somewhere down the road home theater and the personal computer will converge but it's not 2006.
I know that 1600x1200 really stresses the GPUs in these cards but I often wonder how many people are actually gaming at that resolution. I have lots of hardcore gamer friends in the area and I've seen their rigs and I know that only 1 of them has a monitor bigger than 19" and runs 1600x1200. Sure, 1600x1200 looks great on a 19" monitor too, but with a monitor that small 1280x1024 still looks very nice and to push the res up to 1600 really isn't worth the FPS hit. Or at least, that is the concensus amongst my friends. I don't mind paying the $500 for something I want, I have camera lenses that cost twice that amount. But somehow it just seems excessive to spend an extra $200 over a $299 card to gain 5-15 FPS for a game in some high resolution I'll never use anyway.
Setting aside the legitimacy of RealNetwork's patent, what is it with the popular feeling on this site and Digg that PATENTS = BAD. Sure, open source software is great and all but if somebody comes up with a great idea why CAN'T they get filthy rich from the concept and continue to milk it for years? I'm hardly the champion of capitalism but absurd extremist "everything-needs-to-be-free" views seen here are frankly disgusting. If you are content with people ripping off your ideas and profiting from them, please move to China or some other shithole where creativity is not encouraged.
It's quite simple, really.
When you are playing these games for such a long time you start to recognize the pattern involved. The game is *designed* to take up as much of your time as possible in order to extract the most money out of my wallet. No game out there is as profitable as WoW.
But that's not the worst. The worst is that when you click to sign into your character, you have that sinking feeling in your stomach that you could be doing something better to enrich your existence on this Earth. You could be volunteering, you could be putting in extra time with your family, you could be going to the gym and get in the best shape of your life (what I did).
I'm still a gamer to the core. And without WoW I have SO MUCH MORE TIME for more games than ever before. So this isn't about gaming versus real life...I will never give up gaming, and I get to enjoy more of it and remain a happier and healthier human being than I ever was during those 8 months I was addicted to WoW.
I guess it took a good couple of years for the lemmings to figure out AOL wasn't the hottest thing too. Can somebody PLEASE tell me of one real benefit to having a slow, RAM-hogging, ugly, bloated piece of software (Azureus) over a tiny, resource-frugal, clean-interface client (uTorrent)? I swear, Azureus users are the same people who use those stupid, big flashy WinAmp skins that take up a 1/4 of the screen. All flash, no go. Azureus regularly uses between 50-85mb of RAM. I have NEVER seen uTorrent use more than 3mb. Both download files at the same speed on a properly configured PC.
Assuming a Chinese player is more likely to be a gold farmer isn't much different than assuming a Middle Eastern looking person is more likely to be a terrorist. You're right, it's not. But are you suggesting that a greater amount of care and concern should not be exercised when teaming up with a Chinese player? Don't WoW players have the right to be picky about who they team up with, especially in those high level raids or whatever they call them?
What other country is poor enough to make such an endeavor profitable? I highly doubt Japanese, French, German, or American people would farm for gold. Why? Because those nationals can all get jobs that pay (at least) $8 an hour. In China, $8 an hour for most is fantasy. Why spend 30 hours farming 1000 gold when you can work 8 hours of $8-per-hour wage ($64) to buy the 1000 gold?
I get *zero* spam on my gmail account. If you use your email account carefully, you won't get spam. Just as if you use your internet browser carefully, you won't get spyware.
I have yet to see a HD upconverted picture from a DVD and was wondering if it really is worth the $150 to buy a new DVD player that has this feature.
Pain, lack of bass/increase in treble, and lack of range are the telltale signs of an improper fit. Try other sleevs, such as foams (it's much easier to get a quality fit with them). "Pain" is a little strong. A bunch of toilet paper stuck in your armpit doesn't cause pain, it's just uncomfortable. I've tried a variety of those earbuds and none worked. And I don't exactly have unusual ears. No dumbo here. Mega$$$ earbuds are just a toy for gadget freaks. Again, better off saving the money. You can't have a $300 listening experience in a McDonalds.
After experimenting with a range of the Shure and Etyomotics I'm going to have to say the problem isn't isolation, it's simply comfort and sound quality. Ear buds simply cannot reproduce sound over a wide range as well as open air headphones. Treble is great. Bass is laughable. And the earbuds simply HURT and cause fatigue much, much faster. But the real issue is this: you're not going to get at-home listening quality while listening to music on the bus or waiting in line at Wal-Mart. Etymotics and Shures try to do the impossible - block out outside noise. Folks, it can't be done. It's much more reasonable to buy something like Koss KSC-35's (very cheap and reliable, but have warmer bass than any earbud I have ever tried) and enjoy music the best you can in public without playing with hearing loss. The KSC-35's are wrap-around "traditional" headphones...there is no headband they simply attach to the exterior of your ear. Very portable and not dorky looking. And they are NOT fatiguing at all. If you really want a good headphone experience, leave the poser Shure and Etymotics on the shelf, pick up some of those Koss headphones, and use the saved money to buy REAL headphones to listen to while at home: sennheiser 600's and a good headphone amp.
Firely is sci-fi for the new generation of fat, indiscriminate sci-fi fans. It's garbage. I was dragged to Serenity open night and I was appalled at 1) how bad the movie was and 2) the hygiene of the Firefly fans. Joss Whedon cannot write dialog to save his life. It's so bad, it's funny. I laughed my ass off when (major character) made ridiculous speeches shortly prior to his death. Joss - you write for TV. Stick to the minor leagues and let the big boys handle the feature films.
This is Adblock causing you trouble. Many people are reporting the same trouble with 1.5 - having to resort to IE (ugh!!) to get java and flash to work properly. The fix is to uninstall Adblock extension and find the "Adblock Plus" extension. Here is the link - remember to uninstall Adblock first, restart browser, then go here: http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/extfirefox/Adblock_ Plus_0.5.11_enh.xpi
You might have to enable downloads from this site first.
It works exactly like Adblock and best of all - Java and Flash work beautifully just as before.
Ok so the Japanese rock at designing walkmans and videogames and the Taiwanese are good at manufacturing motherboards for computers. (blank stare) AND??? I could be totally wrong, but I suspect that much of the design actually comes from European or American engineers. Aren't the chipsets used on motherboards designed by companies such as Advanced Micro Designs and Intel? And don't lecture us about East Asians valuing creativity. If they did, the governments would not allow DVD copies of King Kong to be sold on every street corner for $1.50. There is no respect for copyright. There is no respect for copyright, instead, the idea is reverse engineered and mass produced.
Cannot innovate, can only imitate. Creativity isn't valued. Hell, the individual isn't valued.
Lovely, you ported Linux onto a PDAphone. Why? Why not try to load Windows on there. At least then you could have it do something more useful than stroke the ego.
Bit Comet - nice and small and fast but will get you kicked from private trackers. Bit Tornado - the former champion, too bad the guy who develops it doesn't pay any attention to the requests of his users. Hasn't seen any significant enhancements in years. Azureus - Pure garbage. BT client for the same people who use large and ostentatious WinAmp skins. Slow downloads. Resource hog. Just plain ugly. Bit Lord - Not bad, but not great either. uTorrent - Perfect BT client. Tiny, fast, uses little resources, great UI. The recommended BT client of many admins who run trackers.
Vandals do not paint surfaces that are not visible. And even if they did paint in places you couldn't normally see...it doesn't give them the right to do it. Just because a vandal pays taxes does not mean he/she has the right to alter the appearance of an object. Their share in the ownership of that property is tiny....if he lives in a city of one million people, and everybody pays equal taxes (they do not) that is .0001%.
Call them what they are: vandals. I don't care if they paint on the side of a church or on the undercarriage of a bridge that nobody will ever see: IF IT IS NOT YOURS, YOU DON'T DEFACE IT. People generally have a wide variety of tastes when it comes to art. How dare you push your art onto others? Would you like it if I came into your house, went into your bedroom, and painted a big fucking picture of David Hasselhoff above your bed? Oh wait, you mean you PREFER the bland, white ceiling to my amazing art??