The College I attend (which I'm graduating from in 29 days! WOOT!), forces us to lease HP laptops from them. Now, some of the previous models they had us use were complete crap, but I'm actually really enjoying this HP Compaq nw8240. If you buy the exact model I have (with the very nice (and, unfortunately, ATI) Video Card along with the other niceties like built-in bluetooth, 802.11bg, and a suprisingly decent sound card it'll cost you (like US$3000). But, if you've got the pennies... it's a nice machine.
I say this because I've had two dell laptops, and well, they sucked.. even after I added very expensive options to them on Dell.com.
Agreed. I'd happily buy my mom or other relative a Dell. It's like "fire and forget."
But, these are gaming machines. Now, I could have a slanted opinion of computer gamers: Namely, most of my friends and I are gamers and we build our own... of course we're almost all Engineers (EEs, CEs and SEs). However, when I think of a gamer obtaining a new system, I think of them piecing the thing together off of newegg or mwave or (for the brave) pricewatch. Why do we do this? We're finicky. Some of us want supreme sound cards. Most want extremely high-end video cards. Also, we're performance junkies. Most in my group aren't over-clockers but I've seen plenty of gamers that are. I know a decent amount of people that before starting up [current game that's being obsessed over] will at least bring up the task manager (games implies windows) and close all non-needed processes before continuing.
Also, as a whole, most of my friends are pretty damn cheap. We want the most bang for our buck... and that's never going to be Dell.
I'll definately buy a pre-built machine from Dell from now on instead of building my own systems from parts I individualy select and with only the exact software I want on them.
...sit my girlfriend down with a bejeweled type game and we may not see her for a few days (well, hours at least). Also, that girl could play the Sonic Collection for years without stopping.
Most of the women I know can't stand shooters or most RPGs, but give them puzzle or platform jumpers and they're as happy as me with Oblivion.
I think there's more to it than that. Male gamers, particularily, are generally not paired with gamer grrlz. Guys (arrogantly) dream of living with a woman who games and can understand the devotion they throw on games. It's one thing to understand that "Oh yeah, Bob likes to game." It's quite another to be able to truthfully say "Bob spent about six hours last night creating a wicked cool mod for Oblivion. You play a [details...]. I think he got some stuff right but he was to work on the [intricate details...]. I'm helping him model the [you guessed it, more details..]." This kind of statement is hotter to me than a stack of pr0n. I realize there's something fundamentally wrong with me because of this. But yes, I dream of a girl who would understand that I'd rather sit at home and play [Game] for three days straight than go up to my parents or go down with her to her parents' house.
..why, when I was their age we didn't have no 'Hot Coffee' or Grand Theft Auto 3: San Andreas! All we had was pixelated blood and gore in Wolfenstein3D and we LIKED IT! They should stop hollerin' about wantin' M-Rated games and do what kids are supposed to do: Download pr0n off of the internet!
...this could be bad... nay.. this could be the worst. thing. ever.
Commericials will be changed forever.
[OPENING SHOT. CAMERA PANS OVER GREYING, SLIGHTLY ROTUND GENTLEMAN CALMLY TYPING AT HIS COMPUTER. HE IS SITTING AT HIS DESK, IN A SUNLIT HOME OFFICE. IT IS EARLY MORNING AND THE EXTERIOR SHOWS WAVES CALMY IMPACTING AGAINST THE SURF]
[VOICEOVER (John Lithgow)] : Meet David Random. Today David will walk a total of twenty-five feet. But just because he'll barely get out of his chair doesn't mean he won't be active. David will correspond with thousands of people, write seven hundred lines of code, recompile his kernel, download five Styx CDs, and write a major post in his blog. All the while, he won't miss a second of the Brazil-Argentina Futbol game. How will he do this? David utilizes the power of Google/Nike.
[THE MAN LEANS BACK IN HIS OFFICE CHAIR, PUTTING HIS HANDS OVER HIS HEAD AND SMILING]
[VOICEOVER] : With Google/Nike, you'll never need to visit more than one website... that would be like needlessly running around...
[THE MAN LEANS BACK TOO FAR, FALLING TO THE GROUND IN AN EXPLOSION OF PAPER, COFFEE, AND OFFICE SUPPLIES]
[VOICEOVER] :...we wouldn't want you to strain yourself.
[FADE TO BLACK, SHOWING THE GOOGLE/NIKE LOGO AND THE SLOGON : "Google/Nike, we own you."]
is there any reason I wouldn't just go to my local paper's website instead? I live in the biggest city in my state and we have a whopping.... let me count here.... one major paper. I could go to the half-dozen tv-stations' websites, but generally they just have (badly) transcribed versions of their aired stories. I don't see any god reason for this other than giving Y! another venue to sell advertising.
It's a little tricky setting up a game, but if you put about three ounces of rum in waterdish, they're easy to catch. That said, it's more fun to do it with sober cats... their claws have a higher chance of being extended at any given point in time.
Now, if you start to get the knack of the game before she does, just drug her cat more. Her cat won't be as painful, but she'll be able to swing it harder without it trying to claw her eyes out.
After a few rounds, you'll both be laughing, exhausted, and covered in each others' blood.
Oh, and if you're both knocked unconcious, the cats will eat you. They'll start with with your tongues, btw.
Bioware just likes good eats. They have maple syrup, beer, and putin (sp?) in Vancouver, now they'll have Barbeque Ribs, Barbeque shrimp, Barbeque Steaks, Barbeque Pork Loin....etc
Now they just need to start a development house in Wisconsin for some cheese, brats, and uh... cheese.... and they'll be all set!
...that people that post about video games are shills.
That said, Madden NFL 06 is pure engineering genious. The new QB Vision Control and QB Precision Placement really brings you into the game. NFL superstar mode brings you into the world of top talent.
Overall, Madden NFL 06 will totally change the way we think about console NFL games.
....the game will feature no guns, no violence, and no swearing... ...So it's NUDY tennis! Those crazy Rockstar developers!
It's defnately Love-Love, in my book.
....I was going to really get some awesome work done this quarter.
I didn't really want to graduate anyways, I guess.
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....but I wanted to order games from sleazy catalogs and have them delivered to my door in nondescript black boxes.
I also wanted to see spam in my mailbox saying "Watch NASTY CINDY TAKE the triforce ALL THE WAY to the palace!" and "DIRTY TRISHA CAN'T GET ENOUGH of Mario Brothers!" That'd have been hot! OH well.
I did the whole "Use our download client instead of buying a CD" thing for Guild Wars. I have to say that was the slickest game installer I've seen in a long time. I haven't played the game much since the first month, but wow was that installer easy as hell. I'm not saying Steam is chopped liver or anything. I will say that If I play another NCSoft created MMO, I will definately go the digital distrobution route again.
I'm not a shill, I didn't really care for the game that much (what can I say, I'm a loot whore... I like getting loot). I just thought the installer was hot-shit.
....when the hell did Lara Croft have a good name?
Am I the only one who's always thought of this series as "that game that idiots and 11 year olds who don't know what a good game is play on their playstations?"
Everyone is entitled to play what they want, but when the hell has Boob Raider been critically acclaimed?
I attend school at MSOE Where Laptops are not just required, you have to lease the damn things from the school (they're HP/Compaq laptops). There IS a decent amount of theft, but generally it's one of two things
Either it's some random person from the neighborhood (not a student) who wanders into a school building, finds a laptop someone left ungaurded, yoinks it, and then runs (with no time to turn the laptop off, let alone the wireless).
Or, it's students who need their laptops repaired. The tech-support guys tend to need your laptop for a week or two for even the simplest repairs, so students tend to wait until between quarters (think short semesters, with pathetically small breaks in between them, oh and there's three of them, not four) to turn in their laptop for repair. What happens? The student's grades come back during the break and the results are bad. They have to leave the school. So this angry, bitter, ex-student now is SUPPOSED to return the LOANER laptop they got when they turned in their regular laptop. Instead, a lot (apparently) simply keep the loaner whilst giving the school a one-finger salute.
I wouldn't really care about the theivery (especially the first kind, as I only leave my laptop alone in LOCKED labs with security cameras pointing at it.. and I back-up my stuff:) ). But the power-supply pin on my laptop FELL OFF recently and so I took the beast in to get repaired (we're currently on break week). The laptop the school makes me lease is a HP Compaq nw8240. The loaner they gave me is a HP Compaq nw8000. I wouldn't really care about getting an older laptop (even if I hadn't gotten used to the wide-screen laptop), but they GIMP the loaners now because of the theiving! The wireless NICs don't work. You can't put the suckers in higher than 1024x768 resolution, and apparently other things... (I haven't used it much as it's craptacular). I imagine these are all software things and I could just blow the image away and put Linux on it... I'm just too lazy to do that for a laptop I shouldn't have longer than about a week or two.
My point of this post is that Theiving of a students' laptops are almost always done by non-students (If you are a student, you've already got a laptop:) ). There's occasionally the guy that steals his buddy's laptop to sell on Ebay to score some [insert drug type here] or to pay for tuition, but this is very uncommon. As it is, with a population of about 2000 students (all with laptops), the rate of laptop theft if about 1/month. Bike thefts, OTOH, are around 3/month.
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The College I attend (which I'm graduating from in 29 days! WOOT!), forces us to lease HP laptops from them. Now, some of the previous models they had us use were complete crap, but I'm actually really enjoying this HP Compaq nw8240. If you buy the exact model I have (with the very nice (and, unfortunately, ATI) Video Card along with the other niceties like built-in bluetooth, 802.11bg, and a suprisingly decent sound card it'll cost you (like US$3000). But, if you've got the pennies... it's a nice machine.
I say this because I've had two dell laptops, and well, they sucked.. even after I added very expensive options to them on Dell.com.
Agreed. I'd happily buy my mom or other relative a Dell. It's like "fire and forget."
But, these are gaming machines. Now, I could have a slanted opinion of computer gamers: Namely, most of my friends and I are gamers and we build our own... of course we're almost all Engineers (EEs, CEs and SEs). However, when I think of a gamer obtaining a new system, I think of them piecing the thing together off of newegg or mwave or (for the brave) pricewatch. Why do we do this? We're finicky. Some of us want supreme sound cards. Most want extremely high-end video cards. Also, we're performance junkies. Most in my group aren't over-clockers but I've seen plenty of gamers that are. I know a decent amount of people that before starting up [current game that's being obsessed over] will at least bring up the task manager (games implies windows) and close all non-needed processes before continuing.
Also, as a whole, most of my friends are pretty damn cheap. We want the most bang for our buck... and that's never going to be Dell.
I'll definately buy a pre-built machine from Dell from now on instead of building my own systems from parts I individualy select and with only the exact software I want on them.
No, wait. No.
...sit my girlfriend down with a bejeweled type game and we may not see her for a few days (well, hours at least). Also, that girl could play the Sonic Collection for years without stopping.
Most of the women I know can't stand shooters or most RPGs, but give them puzzle or platform jumpers and they're as happy as me with Oblivion.
....a machine that can tell me where my lost left socks have gone!
"A" is 4, "B" is 5, "C" is 6 and so on until the letter Z , which corresponds to number 24," wrote Palazzolo and Oliva.
Apparently Palazzolo and Oliva can't add.
zkdw d gxpedvv
....and, of course, I forgot to add "for Easter." after my last sentence. GO ME!
I think there's more to it than that. Male gamers, particularily, are generally not paired with gamer grrlz. Guys (arrogantly) dream of living with a woman who games and can understand the devotion they throw on games. It's one thing to understand that "Oh yeah, Bob likes to game." It's quite another to be able to truthfully say "Bob spent about six hours last night creating a wicked cool mod for Oblivion. You play a [details...]. I think he got some stuff right but he was to work on the [intricate details...]. I'm helping him model the [you guessed it, more details..]." This kind of statement is hotter to me than a stack of pr0n. I realize there's something fundamentally wrong with me because of this. But yes, I dream of a girl who would understand that I'd rather sit at home and play [Game] for three days straight than go up to my parents or go down with her to her parents' house.
..why, when I was their age we didn't have no 'Hot Coffee' or Grand Theft Auto 3: San Andreas! All we had was pixelated blood and gore in Wolfenstein3D and we LIKED IT! They should stop hollerin' about wantin' M-Rated games and do what kids are supposed to do: Download pr0n off of the internet!
...the winner will be whoever plays Bon Jovi's "Runaway".
I'm sure that will work out fine.
...this could be bad... nay.. this could be the worst. thing. ever.
...we wouldn't want you to strain yourself.
Commericials will be changed forever.
[OPENING SHOT. CAMERA PANS OVER GREYING, SLIGHTLY ROTUND GENTLEMAN CALMLY TYPING AT HIS COMPUTER. HE IS SITTING AT HIS DESK, IN A SUNLIT HOME OFFICE. IT IS EARLY MORNING AND THE EXTERIOR SHOWS WAVES CALMY IMPACTING AGAINST THE SURF]
[VOICEOVER (John Lithgow)] : Meet David Random. Today David will walk a total of twenty-five feet. But just because he'll barely get out of his chair doesn't mean he won't be active. David will correspond with thousands of people, write seven hundred lines of code, recompile his kernel, download five Styx CDs, and write a major post in his blog. All the while, he won't miss a second of the Brazil-Argentina Futbol game. How will he do this? David utilizes the power of Google/Nike.
[THE MAN LEANS BACK IN HIS OFFICE CHAIR, PUTTING HIS HANDS OVER HIS HEAD AND SMILING]
[VOICEOVER] : With Google/Nike, you'll never need to visit more than one website... that would be like needlessly running around... [THE MAN LEANS BACK TOO FAR, FALLING TO THE GROUND IN AN EXPLOSION OF PAPER, COFFEE, AND OFFICE SUPPLIES]
[VOICEOVER] :
[FADE TO BLACK, SHOWING THE GOOGLE/NIKE LOGO AND THE SLOGON : "Google/Nike, we own you."]
[WOMANS VOICE] : David? You ok?
is there any reason I wouldn't just go to my local paper's website instead? I live in the biggest city in my state and we have a whopping.... let me count here.... one major paper. I could go to the half-dozen tv-stations' websites, but generally they just have (badly) transcribed versions of their aired stories. I don't see any god reason for this other than giving Y! another venue to sell advertising.
...beating each other with live cats.
It's a little tricky setting up a game, but if you put about three ounces of rum in waterdish, they're easy to catch. That said, it's more fun to do it with sober cats... their claws have a higher chance of being extended at any given point in time.
Now, if you start to get the knack of the game before she does, just drug her cat more. Her cat won't be as painful, but she'll be able to swing it harder without it trying to claw her eyes out.
After a few rounds, you'll both be laughing, exhausted, and covered in each others' blood.
Oh, and if you're both knocked unconcious, the cats will eat you. They'll start with with your tongues, btw.
Bioware just likes good eats. They have maple syrup, beer, and putin (sp?) in Vancouver, now they'll have Barbeque Ribs, Barbeque shrimp, Barbeque Steaks, Barbeque Pork Loin....etc
Now they just need to start a development house in Wisconsin for some cheese, brats, and uh... cheese.... and they'll be all set!
...that people that post about video games are shills.
That said, Madden NFL 06 is pure engineering genious. The new QB Vision Control and QB Precision Placement really brings you into the game. NFL superstar mode brings you into the world of top talent.
Overall, Madden NFL 06 will totally change the way we think about console NFL games.
....the game will feature no guns, no violence, and no swearing...
...So it's NUDY tennis! Those crazy Rockstar developers!
It's defnately Love-Love, in my book.
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Bow chicka wow wow.
"The goddamned Metroids won't stay still so I can hit them with my fricken ice beam! Gah! I guess I'll just cyber with your gramma instead."
....I was going to really get some awesome work done this quarter.
I didn't really want to graduate anyways, I guess.
(You have created a Potion)
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(Your Alchemy has increased to 90)
(You should rest and meditate on what you've learned.)
....but I wanted to order games from sleazy catalogs and have them delivered to my door in nondescript black boxes.
I also wanted to see spam in my mailbox saying "Watch NASTY CINDY TAKE the triforce ALL THE WAY to the palace!" and "DIRTY TRISHA CAN'T GET ENOUGH of Mario Brothers!" That'd have been hot! OH well.
I did the whole "Use our download client instead of buying a CD" thing for Guild Wars. I have to say that was the slickest game installer I've seen in a long time. I haven't played the game much since the first month, but wow was that installer easy as hell. I'm not saying Steam is chopped liver or anything. I will say that If I play another NCSoft created MMO, I will definately go the digital distrobution route again.
I'm not a shill, I didn't really care for the game that much (what can I say, I'm a loot whore... I like getting loot). I just thought the installer was hot-shit.
....when the hell did Lara Croft have a good name?
Am I the only one who's always thought of this series as "that game that idiots and 11 year olds who don't know what a good game is play on their playstations?"
Everyone is entitled to play what they want, but when the hell has Boob Raider been critically acclaimed?
I attend school at MSOE Where Laptops are not just required, you have to lease the damn things from the school (they're HP/Compaq laptops). There IS a decent amount of theft, but generally it's one of two things
:) ). But the power-supply pin on my laptop FELL OFF recently and so I took the beast in to get repaired (we're currently on break week). The laptop the school makes me lease is a HP Compaq nw8240. The loaner they gave me is a HP Compaq nw8000. I wouldn't really care about getting an older laptop (even if I hadn't gotten used to the wide-screen laptop), but they GIMP the loaners now because of the theiving! The wireless NICs don't work. You can't put the suckers in higher than 1024x768 resolution, and apparently other things... (I haven't used it much as it's craptacular). I imagine these are all software things and I could just blow the image away and put Linux on it... I'm just too lazy to do that for a laptop I shouldn't have longer than about a week or two.
:) ). There's occasionally the guy that steals his buddy's laptop to sell on Ebay to score some [insert drug type here] or to pay for tuition, but this is very uncommon. As it is, with a population of about 2000 students (all with laptops), the rate of laptop theft if about 1/month. Bike thefts, OTOH, are around 3/month.
Either it's some random person from the neighborhood (not a student) who wanders into a school building, finds a laptop someone left ungaurded, yoinks it, and then runs (with no time to turn the laptop off, let alone the wireless).
Or, it's students who need their laptops repaired. The tech-support guys tend to need your laptop for a week or two for even the simplest repairs, so students tend to wait until between quarters (think short semesters, with pathetically small breaks in between them, oh and there's three of them, not four) to turn in their laptop for repair. What happens? The student's grades come back during the break and the results are bad. They have to leave the school. So this angry, bitter, ex-student now is SUPPOSED to return the LOANER laptop they got when they turned in their regular laptop. Instead, a lot (apparently) simply keep the loaner whilst giving the school a one-finger salute.
I wouldn't really care about the theivery (especially the first kind, as I only leave my laptop alone in LOCKED labs with security cameras pointing at it.. and I back-up my stuff
My point of this post is that Theiving of a students' laptops are almost always done by non-students (If you are a student, you've already got a laptop
Take the greatest greatest injection of herion you've ever had and multiply it by a thousand and you're not even close.