Same here, I don't even buy Nvidia boards anymore.
When I built my Core 2 Duo rig I opted for an Intel chipset board, maybe no the fastest or most overclock-able but it's damn stable, the drivers work well and I haven't had a single issue with it yet. I love AMD, but I often find alot of the motherboard chipsets suck ass.
Arrest me for getting a lift in a friends car, not paying for the listening permission to hear what is on his CD player and getting the song stuck in my head, then whistling it down the street, thus pirating illegally distributing whistle-tabs!
Was that a black notebook? (The IBM).. did it just go shiney or wear through to a white ugly plastic?
I'd rather go from rough plastic finish to smooth black than grey to lime vomit plastic, anyday!
It appears the coating (electroplating?) is fading. My fiance was given an old temporary Acer TM and some parts that used to be the grey finish were a sort of faint green/lime colour.. so go figure.
My next notebook is most likely going to be an IBM anyway.
What? America is only doing this NOW??!! Sheesh!
All our bills are different colours, sizes and can be handled by blind people.
The only thing I really don't like, is the coins we have here: 5,10,20,50 cent coins which are TINY! and a R1, R2 and R5 (Rands) coins and then upwards it's bills.
I have low vision, (to the degree of -20 diopters in each eye) and I struggle to manage the small coins, I usually end up throwing them all in a big cup, and once a year I make the effort to count them out and get "real money" (bills) for them at the bank.
Just out of interest, it's about R7 (South African Rands) for $1 (USD)
When I purchase something I have this habit of taking it in my hand and squeezing it gently, it if warps or feels light and easily manipulated I will not buy it.
My father has been through about 5 mice in the timespan I had one, and that one died because GTA pissed me off. I then told him to go buy a Logitech OEM mouse and he still has this after 4 years, he's an accountant, I'm a gamer, you would think, even if we both bought titanium mice mine would die at least 50% quicker than his.
To this day, my trusty old Logitech OEM lives in my notebook and has been dropped, stood on and keeps going, the feet are worn away, the plastic ridges around where the feet should be are worn away, but she keeps going.
I prefer to buy from companies that I like, even out of principal, I would rather support a company that gives a toss.
There seems to be an awful lack of respect between companies and users in the PC and gadget market, go speak to a musician that's been around for a while and he'll swear blind about a Denon or a Pioneer tube amp, or that Shure microphone that's been used for 100 concerts and dropped and thrown about../rant
I know the article is satire, but I have a comment about a similar siutation but with video games:
When I buy a PC game for myself, sometimes my gf wants to play multiplayer with me. I recently purchased Dark Messiah, now, AFAIK I need to own two legal copies, just so we could deathmatch now and then.
That's bullshit.
I know some games allow you to multiplayer with a few friends by (legally) installing the client side of the multiplayer version onto several computers.
I personally have not tried installing more than one copy of Dark Messiah just yet, but I assume this is the case, as it seems to be with most games.
I think it should either be allowed or, when you purchase a game you can purchase a second license for a cheap fee which would allow multiplayer and/or the full single player version to be installed.
As long as this is not used for the papery 250Gb storage medium!
But seriously, I think this is a great idea, but I think the information should not fade or be erased over time, but rather the paper should be manually erased when needed.
THis would allow people to put paper in the 'to be erased' tray and grab a 'new' sheet when they need paper for temporary use.
When I was 12 we got our first computer, a 386 and I started with the PC version of Mortal Kombat, then.. Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Quake, yadda yadda, all the violent FPs, full of 'satanic' symbols, fowl language, blood, gore, sweat and more fun than you can shake a stick at.
but I had parents that tought me the basis of right and wrong and what was real and not real.
and I turned out just fine, except.. sometimes, when shopping in an over crowded mall I have fantasies about God mode, two Uzis and and unlimited ammo.
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Same here, I don't even buy Nvidia boards anymore.
When I built my Core 2 Duo rig I opted for an Intel chipset board, maybe no the fastest or most overclock-able but it's damn stable, the drivers work well and I haven't had a single issue with it yet. I love AMD, but I often find alot of the motherboard chipsets suck ass.
but I'm still waiting for support for my Sound Blaster XFi :(
Arrest me for getting a lift in a friends car, not paying for the listening permission to hear what is on his CD player and getting the song stuck in my head, then whistling it down the street, thus pirating illegally distributing whistle-tabs!
Was that a black notebook? (The IBM) .. did it just go shiney or wear through to a white ugly plastic?
I'd rather go from rough plastic finish to smooth black than grey to lime vomit plastic, anyday!
It appears the coating (electroplating?) is fading. My fiance was given an old temporary Acer TM and some parts that used to be the grey finish were a sort of faint green/lime colour.. so go figure. My next notebook is most likely going to be an IBM anyway.
My Acer Travelmate is starting to fade where my wrists lean on the space infront of the keyboard. You'd figure they'd think about these things.
Aww man, you're making me cry here, I miss those days.
I remember having Doom 2 deathmatches with a mod or a command (I can't recall, this was years ago) that increased the amount of dead players.
We set this amount to 999 or something, after about 30 minutes it was too much, you could barely see the ground on some of the smaller levels!
I've heard talking in tongues and clearly they seem to be suffering from dementia!
http://www.bit-tech.net/news_images/amd_announces_ dtx_for_small_form_factor/article_img.jpg
But having a network card with reduced lag will help me get a first post!
Mine came with the restore partition which I promptly nuked along with the 2 lame FAT32 partitions to install Linux on.
I am told I was supposed to have burnt a DVD from the restore partition to make a restore DVD, or something.
So now I have a legal copy of XP I can't use.
Maybe it the article's title read, "Bill Gates on Meth" .. maybe then I'd read!
That's cause they're all kiddie fiddlers!
CPU, FPU, GPU, PhysixPU, NPU...
What's next, OPU? One Processor to Rule Them All (TM)?
What? America is only doing this NOW??!! Sheesh! All our bills are different colours, sizes and can be handled by blind people. The only thing I really don't like, is the coins we have here: 5,10,20,50 cent coins which are TINY! and a R1, R2 and R5 (Rands) coins and then upwards it's bills. I have low vision, (to the degree of -20 diopters in each eye) and I struggle to manage the small coins, I usually end up throwing them all in a big cup, and once a year I make the effort to count them out and get "real money" (bills) for them at the bank. Just out of interest, it's about R7 (South African Rands) for $1 (USD)
Well put.
/rant
When I purchase something I have this habit of taking it in my hand and squeezing it gently, it if warps or feels light and easily manipulated I will not buy it.
My father has been through about 5 mice in the timespan I had one, and that one died because GTA pissed me off. I then told him to go buy a Logitech OEM mouse and he still has this after 4 years, he's an accountant, I'm a gamer, you would think, even if we both bought titanium mice mine would die at least 50% quicker than his.
To this day, my trusty old Logitech OEM lives in my notebook and has been dropped, stood on and keeps going, the feet are worn away, the plastic ridges around where the feet should be are worn away, but she keeps going.
I prefer to buy from companies that I like, even out of principal, I would rather support a company that gives a toss.
There seems to be an awful lack of respect between companies and users in the PC and gadget market, go speak to a musician that's been around for a while and he'll swear blind about a Denon or a Pioneer tube amp, or that Shure microphone that's been used for 100 concerts and dropped and thrown about..
With people like the RIAA, soon I'll need a license to play that!
I know the article is satire, but I have a comment about a similar siutation but with video games:
When I buy a PC game for myself, sometimes my gf wants to play multiplayer with me. I recently purchased Dark Messiah, now, AFAIK I need to own two legal copies, just so we could deathmatch now and then.
That's bullshit.
I know some games allow you to multiplayer with a few friends by (legally) installing the client side of the multiplayer version onto several computers.
I personally have not tried installing more than one copy of Dark Messiah just yet, but I assume this is the case, as it seems to be with most games.
I think it should either be allowed or, when you purchase a game you can purchase a second license for a cheap fee which would allow multiplayer and/or the full single player version to be installed.
Well, when Microsoft crumbles and sinks under it's own weight and stupidity, I wonder if Ballmer will be playing a chair on the roof.
Sounds like a case of Corporate Entropy.
As long as this is not used for the papery 250Gb storage medium!
But seriously, I think this is a great idea, but I think the information should not fade or be erased over time, but rather the paper should be manually erased when needed.
THis would allow people to put paper in the 'to be erased' tray and grab a 'new' sheet when they need paper for temporary use.
This post is a dupe! I read this on www.slashdot.cn last week!
Can we now say again, "Sorry, my dog ate my homework!" ?
When I was 12 we got our first computer, a 386 and I started with the PC version of Mortal Kombat, then.. Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Quake, yadda yadda, all the violent FPs, full of 'satanic' symbols, fowl language, blood, gore, sweat and more fun than you can shake a stick at. but I had parents that tought me the basis of right and wrong and what was real and not real. and I turned out just fine, except.. sometimes, when shopping in an over crowded mall I have fantasies about God mode, two Uzis and and unlimited ammo.