Get a Sager(or any other Clevo reseller), they are the most amazing developer laptops. They have an upgradable video card, can have a matte high resolution screen (so high that you have to change the DPI), and quad core and core i7 processors. And its all upgradable and relatively inexpensive.

They are just a no brainer for gaming and developing.

>so the graphics requirements are based on what's in an X-Box 360.

I dont think thats such a limiting factor. Lets say they develop the xbox game first, instead of the PC version. They settle on 1080i for resolution and only a certain level of quality for textures. They also tone down the physics and AI to a level it doesnt slow down the xbox cpus.

Okay, now when you port the PC version, you let the user select the resolution he likes and you up the textures to max and ungimp the physics and AI. Its not that hard. Any company that wants to produce a good PC game from an Xbox start is able to. The real question here isnt the technical limitations, which are easy enough to get past, but if the business wants to produce a quality port. If the PC market isnt big enough then they have little incentive to make a decent port and will just outsource the port to some shitty porting company and PC users will just have to deal with it.

The problem is, the law does not say you cannot mess with your electronics, the law says you cannot bypass security measures in place that protect the intellectual property of the item you are messing with.

That said, I agree the law is stupid, vague, and consistently abused to stifle innovation and peoples rights, but currently, it is the law, and while I would love for it to be repealed, the odds of that ever happening are very very slim.

Streisand Effect

Wow. I've always wondered what the legalese for SHUT THE FUCK UP! was.

But if that was the case, then the sale of the physical disk wouldn't be a problem. However, they complain about that as being against the license, so they licensed not just the copy on the disk, but the disk itself. Otherwise, you could sell the physical disk, even if the buyer couldn't legally use it.

Well I think it is a good legislative response but enforcement is going to be tough.

Of course just because you can't enforce something reliably doesn't mean you shouldn't not pass the law. For the majorityof offenders simply having a law out there that bbans it will cause parentys to crackdown a little more knowing that they can get a point on their license and a large fine.

the funny thing is its actual illegal in many states to sleep in your car. I know someone who got arrested in Georgia for sleeping in his car on the side of the road.

Laws tend to contradict with themselves.

I am all against texting and driving and I only text at stop lights, especially cause I have a slider phone...but how in god's name are they going to enforce this.

How can they tell if someone was texting right before they crashed...I mean what evidence can you hold against someone to show that they were texting and driving?

I know there is some things you could do like phone records but although that might be enough evidence for a insurance company to deny someone's claim its not enough to sentence someone to a possible 15 years in prison.

For drunk driving you can prove unequivocally that someone was driving drunk using a breathalyzer or a blood test without there being reasonable doubt...but if your trying to prove someone was texting while driving there is plenty of room for reasonable doubt.

I must say SD card micros are fantastic. I have like 10 8GB Class 6 Patriots and some of them I use with those little tiny SD card adapters and they make for a great USB drive. The rest I use for my PSP and my DS.

At 16 bucks a piece you can't beat them with a stick.

Don't most athletes who are at the Olympic level have some sort of athletic advantage. Obviously it's about determination and perseverance in training but its also about have really good genes. An average joe/jane will never ever be able to go to the Olympics no matter how hard they train.

I am sick of the federal government overstepping their power by trying to force states to pass laws or lose funding. This is just like what happened with raising the drinking age. The federal government needs to stop sidestepping the system and let the states make decisions for themselves.

If someone wanted to attack a cellphone network why wouldnÂt they just use a windows mobile phone which you can access the baseband, load custom ROMs, and do super low level programming right out of the box. I mean I unlocked my windows mobile phone for $10 and about 20 minutes of my time, and I didnÂt have to do any quirky and unreliable hacks like unlocking through jailbreaking.

Besides all of this is pretty much moot as the Copyright Office has declared unlocking a phone not to be copyright infringement...so if someone were to get sued for jailbreaking they could easily just cite that judgement in thier motion to dismiss.

There is a reason why there is no such things as programming mouses...because programmers rarely using mice...

A better solution would be to learn how to use keyboard shortcuts.

HAH! And you thought modchips were just for running *legal* backups of your own games...think again!

At least geeks will have a steady income installing them once every new car has this.