Comment not much (Score 1) 385
mythbusters house and the walking dead.
ill occasionally watch something on hulu or grab a torrent.
ill occasionally watch something on hulu or grab a torrent.
Comment sadly (Score 1) 418
sadly the gaming world is in the grip of FPSwhores right now, not many games made in other genres unless you wanna go play WOW all day.
i personally play an adult game wrapped in a kid like candy shell.
minecraft
think legos but you have to get the blocks yourself while trying to not get killed every 20 minutes when the sun goes down.
i personally play an adult game wrapped in a kid like candy shell.
minecraft
think legos but you have to get the blocks yourself while trying to not get killed every 20 minutes when the sun goes down.
Comment sure (Score 1) 561
260 days weightless to do fuck all i want to?
where do i sign up?
where do i sign up?
Comment easy (Score 1) 1270
assure that Germany fared better during WW1
now hear me out first.
there was no way that Germany could have flat out won the first world war, they didn't have the manpower to do it.
i would go back and make sure that the US didn't get involved, the war would have stretched out for a bit longer but Germany would have eventually lost or gone to armistice on much better terms that what they ended up with.
France would have never ended up taking back Alsace-Lorraine and in turn would have not crippled Germany's economy and industrial base.
further, Germany would not have gotten sucked into economic depression paying war reparations as well as not ended up with massive unemployment from the loss of its industrial base.
with its economy not faltering its people would not have ended up turning to Nazism to save them and Hitler would have stayed as a mediocre painter, never raising to the point of being able to control the country and drive our ancestors straight into World War 2.
Also, because America did not get involved its economy and workforce would not have suffered so greatly and possibly the Great Depression could have been avoided entirely.
now hear me out first.
there was no way that Germany could have flat out won the first world war, they didn't have the manpower to do it.
i would go back and make sure that the US didn't get involved, the war would have stretched out for a bit longer but Germany would have eventually lost or gone to armistice on much better terms that what they ended up with.
France would have never ended up taking back Alsace-Lorraine and in turn would have not crippled Germany's economy and industrial base.
further, Germany would not have gotten sucked into economic depression paying war reparations as well as not ended up with massive unemployment from the loss of its industrial base.
with its economy not faltering its people would not have ended up turning to Nazism to save them and Hitler would have stayed as a mediocre painter, never raising to the point of being able to control the country and drive our ancestors straight into World War 2.
Also, because America did not get involved its economy and workforce would not have suffered so greatly and possibly the Great Depression could have been avoided entirely.
Comment failures (Score 1) 715
working on a neighbors hp desktop, would only power on for a few seconds.
bestec PSU killed it, total loss had to get a new PC
other neighbor same PC same problem, also a total loss.
bestec PSU killed it, total loss had to get a new PC
other neighbor same PC same problem, also a total loss.
Submission + - Lizard Evolves to Life Birth (nationalgeographic.com)
Csiko writes: Evolution has been caught in the act: a species of Australian lizard is abandoning egg-laying in favor of live birth.
Submission + - The Last of the Punch Card Programmers (bbc.co.uk)
Peter Cus writes: English lacemaking manufacturer, to compete on quality, has reverted to 19th-Century Leavers machines. These machines use Jacquard punch cards. Ian Elm, thought to be the last of the card punchers, says young people don't want factory work.
Submission + - Hands-on with the iPad alternatives (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: This week's IFA show has seen a flurry of Android-based alternatives to the iPad emerge from leading manufacturers. The Samsung Galaxy Tab made a strong first impression on PC Pro's reviewer. The 7in tablet's TFT screen "beams forth with rich, saturated colours and wide, wide viewing angles", the device is capable of Full HD playback and the TouchWiz UI is "clearly intended to draw customers away from the iFamily". Elsewhere, ViewSonic has launched a pair of 7in and 10in tablets, the larger of which dual boots into either Android or Windows 7. "Our first moments with Windows 7 were surprisingly painless, too: we expected the Atom processor and 1GB of memory to be horrendously sluggish, but it wasn’t the case," PC Pro reports. Finally, Toshiba's 10.1in Folio 100 marries Android 2.2 with Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform to deliver "mighty graphics crunching power". The build quality left a little to desire, though. "The 14mm thick chassis feels lightweight, and even relatively gentle twisting motions left the Folio’s plastic body creaking under the stress."
Submission + - 4chan Does Something Nice (nytimes.com)
Hugh Pickens writes: "Members of 4chan aren't known for doing things that are cute and heart-warming and when they decide to go after someone, it's typically to subject them to ridicule. But not this time. Someone at 4chan decided that the Internet should get together and wish 90-year-old WWII veteran William J. Lashua a happy birthday, and soon Lashua's local branch of the American Legion was deluged by birthday calls from people as far away as Sweden. The account someone set up for Mr. Lashua's birthday on facebook had 3,956 "likes" and over 500 comments, most of which wished him a happy birthday and thanked him for his military service. It's not clear how 4chan originally came across a photo of Lashua, but a member of the site posted a snapshot of a flyer that was on the bulletin board at a store in Ashburnham, Massachusetts asking for guests to attend the nonagenarian's birthday on at the American Legion hall and the post took off. In contrast to their usual behavior, 4chan members "were giving him nice phone calls and sending him nice notes" and discouraging those who wanted to do something stupid or mean. "They were all being.. well, shucks, awful nice.""
Submission + - HP Holds Navy Network Hostage for $3.3 Billion (wired.com)
Tootech writes: military An anonymous reader writes "From the This could only happen to the Gov't Dept: Someday, somehow, the U.S. Navy would like to run its networks — maybe even own its computers again. After 10 years and nearly $10 billion, many sailors are tired of leasing their PCs, and relying on a private contractor to operate most of their data systems. Troops are sick of getting stuck with inboxes that hold 150 times less than a Gmail account, and local networks that go down for days while Microsoft Office 2007 gets installed in 2010. But the Navy just can’t quit its tangled relationship with Hewlett-Packard. The admirals and the firm recently signed another $3.3 billion no-bid contract that begins Oct. 1st. It’s a final, five-year deal, both sides promise, to let the Navy gently wean itself from its reliance on HP. But that’s what they said the last time, and the time before that.
It’s become a Washington cliché that the military and the intelligence community rely too much on outside contractors. Everyone from President Obama to Defense Secretary Robert Gates has promised to cut back on Pentagon outsourcing. But the Navy’s ongoing inability to separate itself from Hewlett-Packard – after years of trying – shows how difficult that withdrawal is going to be.
Just to make sure its core networks keep running – to make sure marines and sailors can keep e-mailing each other on Oct. 1st — the Navy is paying Hewlett Packard $1.788 billion. (Booz Allen Hamilton, another outside contractor, handled the negotiations with Hewlett-Packard for the military.) The service will spend another $1.6 billion to buy from HP the equipment troops have worked on for years, and to license the network diagrams and configuration documents, so that the Navy can begin to plan for a future in which they’re not utterly reliant on HP for their most basic communications. In essence, the Navy is paying to look at the blueprints to the network it has been using for a decade.
“HP is holding the Navy hostage, and there isn’t a peep about it,” one Department of the Navy civilian tells Danger Room. “We basically had two recourses: pay, or send in the Marines.”"
It’s become a Washington cliché that the military and the intelligence community rely too much on outside contractors. Everyone from President Obama to Defense Secretary Robert Gates has promised to cut back on Pentagon outsourcing. But the Navy’s ongoing inability to separate itself from Hewlett-Packard – after years of trying – shows how difficult that withdrawal is going to be.
Just to make sure its core networks keep running – to make sure marines and sailors can keep e-mailing each other on Oct. 1st — the Navy is paying Hewlett Packard $1.788 billion. (Booz Allen Hamilton, another outside contractor, handled the negotiations with Hewlett-Packard for the military.) The service will spend another $1.6 billion to buy from HP the equipment troops have worked on for years, and to license the network diagrams and configuration documents, so that the Navy can begin to plan for a future in which they’re not utterly reliant on HP for their most basic communications. In essence, the Navy is paying to look at the blueprints to the network it has been using for a decade.
“HP is holding the Navy hostage, and there isn’t a peep about it,” one Department of the Navy civilian tells Danger Room. “We basically had two recourses: pay, or send in the Marines.”"
Submission + - Electricity from water vapor may become viable pow (ecoseed.org)
renewableenergywade writes: Rainy days might actually come in handy as a power source after Brazilian chemists from the University of Campas claimed they have figured out a 200-year-old riddle about how moisture in the atmosphere becomes electrically charged.
Submission + - IE6 – Stop Enabling Yesterday’s Browse (clubajax.org)
JavaStreet writes: Internet Explorer 6 in its heyday was a great browser. It raised the bar so high, it stood alone; the other browsers languished in its wake. It had the backing of Microsoft to the tune of $100 million a year in the late 1990s. IE6 became the darling of enterprise website development using it as the standard to which they would develop. IE hit a peak usage share of around 95% during 2002, 2003. But that is yesterday’s technology, it is time to move on.
Comment bullshit (Score 0, Flamebait) 620
you cant take a SHIP out of dock with a plex in the hold, they are station only items.
guys full of shit.
Comment not that long (Score 1) 454
sony vaio pcgv505bx, made in 2003, battery lasts roughly 20 seconds after you unplug it.
still a decent craptop, 2.0ghz, 1 gig of ram, 320gig hdd.
still a decent craptop, 2.0ghz, 1 gig of ram, 320gig hdd.
