• CIPWTTKT&GC v 0x15 (v21): Thinkpads are Forever
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[QUOTE=alien_guy;38105096]I drink them for the riboflavin because its the best chemical name ever. [SUB] Its the name for Vitamin B2 btw.[/SUB][/QUOTE] How is riboflavin better than [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachurin]pikachurin[/url]
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;38105024]Well hello there, new mouse. [img]http://imgkk.com/i/3s2s.jpg[/img] For $50, it seems surprisingly better made than my old MX518. Hopefully it stays that way.[/QUOTE] what mouse is that?
I'd guess Performance Mouse MX based on their website [editline]20th October 2012[/editline] It's the only listed mouse that has that Darkfield whatever and looks like that
It's the successor to the MX Revolution, Logitech's first mouse with the frictionless scrolling function.
I recently got a G600, great mouse. I need a new mouse for my laptop though. My CM Storm Sentinel kicked the buck a few weeks ago and my MX518 is missing in action :(
I am in need of a new mouse but I can't really decide which one to buy. The G500 looks good to me, just wondering if there are better choices in the price category.
[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;38105563]I am in need of a new mouse but I can't really decide which one to buy. The G500 looks good to me, just wondering if there are better choices in the price category.[/QUOTE] How about the G400? It was literally advertised as "the new MX518" and that's pretty much what it is. Dunno how much it costs, though. [editline]20th October 2012[/editline] I'll get that one probably if my MX518 ever breaks
I'll abandon my Deathadder when they stop selling them. If they stop manufacturing them, I'll buy like 20 of them and store them, and if one breaks I'll replace it.
For once, I can bring work-related content that's not caused by clients: Everyone likes XML, right? It's a format you can read and write from pretty much any language, which makes it great for passing data between servers. You don't have to worry about byte order, or word length, or newline encoding. Just pass a big XML string. So there's this point-of-sale system (computerized cash register, basically) that we have to integrate with. I'll avoid naming names, but their name sounds a hell of a lot like "Microsoft" without actually being "Microsoft". They're kind of shitty (the system runs Windows CE on a 486, and the UI is a nightmare), but they're apparently cheap and common. I suspect I may have used one back when I had a shitty high school cashier job. Their API is fairly standard XML. A bit reliant on attributes, but still perfectly valid. "This should be simple", I thought. I'd written an interface to a similar, better system, also using standard XML. And then I checked how they send their XML messages to us. XML+HTTP(S) is pretty much the lingua franca of inter-server communications. Every other system I've integrated with was either XML+HTTP, SOAP (which is XML+HTTP), or JSON+HTTP. This one? It sends us XML, wrapped in a tiny ASCII-based packet, sent over straight-up TCP. It's like something from the 90s. Seriously, what the fuck? This is like taking a Kepler GPU and putting it in an ISA slot. Absolutely preposterous, and a royal pain in my ass. Why? Because our entire product is a website. PHP. It runs under Apache. And, unless Apache really did something surprising, there's no way to make Apache read in that request. I'm basically just going to write a little inet daemon and have it strip off the meager headers, encapsulate it in HTTP, and forward the request on to an actual HTTP webservice. Which is going to do terrible things to our latency, but too bad.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38104880]What exactly are energy drinks supposed to benefit other than a very short term boost of energy and a lot of being tired afterwards i'd rather just drink water or milk to be brutally honest[/QUOTE] For some reason I only get the "boost of energy" part. No tiredness, lasts a few hours, only downside is I get a little stupid for a bit afterward. Probably from all the Mountain Dew and energy drinks I drank in high school, my system's built up resistance to the negatives, but at the same time that doesn't make sense because then I'd build a resistance to the positives and ah fuck it i'm just going to say I'm fucking magic
What the fuck Sony? So I got a download of The Campaign, ripped from bluray. After exactly twenty minutes, I get an error "Audio outputs temporarily muted. Do not adjust the playback volume. The content being played is protected by Cinavia and is not authorized for playback on this device". They've made it so you can't playback certain pirated movies on their console. There goes my plan of having the PS3 + Serviio replace my old Xbox. Instead, I'll have to settle with having XBMC on the Raspberry Pi. Assholes.
I'm tempted to grab spotify premium since I think I'll listening to it a lot at work as I'm running benchmarks. But I primarily just listen to trance on Armin Van Buuren's state of trance playlists. I wonder is 10 bucks per month is worth it. Then again I spend that much on lunch each day.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;38106092]What the fuck Sony? So I got a download of The Campaign, ripped from bluray. After exactly twenty minutes, I get an error "Audio outputs temporarily muted. Do not adjust the playback volume. The content being played is protected by Cinavia and is not authorized for playback on this device". They've made it so you can't playback certain pirated movies on their console. There goes my plan of having the PS3 + Serviio replace my old Xbox. Instead, I'll have to settle with having XBMC on the Raspberry Pi. Assholes.[/QUOTE] That's not the WTF, that's obvious. And I do believe they've even publicly said the console won't let you play pirated movies. The WTF is that apparently they don't let you play some genuine ones either. [editline]20th October 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Brt5470;38106117]I'm tempted to grab spotify premium since I think I'll listening to it a lot at work as I'm running benchmarks. But I primarily just listen to trance on Armin Van Buuren's state of trance playlists. I wonder is 10 bucks per month is worth it. Then again I spend that much on lunch each day.[/QUOTE] It's worth it if buying all the albums you'd listen to from the cheapest possible source and ripping them costs less [editline]20th October 2012[/editline] Wow I didn't recognize you Brt because of that new avatar
Since you seem to have Win 8, tell me, are Metro apps (That aren't those little square things you can have many of) designed so that they fill the whole screen and you can't run another app at the same time? Because if they are I'm not going to update, probably.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38106235][url]http://www.ebuyer.com/270615-samsung-320gb-spinpoint-m8-hard-drive-hn-m320mbb[/url] Well that's awfully cheap, shame about the RPM though.[/QUOTE] That's not cheap, you can easily buy a 500GB drive for around $30 on eBay
I still recommend the Seagate 7200.14's if people are looking for the new Samsung F4's........................
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38106348]Nope, you can snap multitask, or choose the better option and never ever touch the metro apps at all.[/QUOTE] Euggh, it's like having a tiling window manager except it's not actually tiling either. If Win 8 wants to make me use Metro, which it does, I don't think I'll really want to update. Especially on my desktop. Maybe I'll get a laptop with Win8 at some point, though. It's just dumb that they're switching the whole UI toward a more tablet-oriented one instead of letting you choose to not have Metro at all on devices it's unsuitable for. Mouse gestures are a horrible, horrible thing.
[QUOTE=esalaka;38106897]Euggh, it's like having a tiling window manager except it's not actually tiling either. If Win 8 wants to make me use Metro, which it does, I don't think I'll really want to update. Especially on my desktop. Maybe I'll get a laptop with Win8 at some point, though. It's just dumb that they're switching the whole UI toward a more tablet-oriented one instead of letting you choose to not have Metro at all on devices it's unsuitable for. Mouse gestures are a horrible, horrible thing.[/QUOTE] The multitasking is just the same as on Windows 7? Stay out of the metro apps and you'll have no problems.
[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;38103023]Yep. Two of my friends had their non-jailbroken iPod Touch 4G's bricked after updating.[/QUOTE] Oh shit, well atleast my ipod wasnt bricked.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;38106914]The multitasking is just the same as on Windows 7? Stay out of the metro apps and you'll have no problems.[/QUOTE] My point exactly is that it makes more sense to use Win7 because what new Windows 8 essentially brings is Metro and I don't want Metro.
[QUOTE=esalaka;38107067]My point exactly is that it makes more sense to use Win7 because what new Windows 8 essentially brings is Metro and I don't want Metro.[/QUOTE] except it brings a lot more than just metro jeez I thought people started realizing this a bit earlier
[QUOTE=esalaka;38107067]My point exactly is that it makes more sense to use Win7 because what new Windows 8 essentially brings is Metro and I don't want Metro.[/QUOTE] No it doesn't because Windows 8 is much faster in general.
at least try metro before being a luddite for the sake of being a luddite
I also find it awesome that you can get windows 8 pro for just 40$ instead of 70$ or even more.
[QUOTE=Strikebango;38107217]I also find it awesome that you can get windows 8 pro for just 40$ instead of 70$ or even more.[/QUOTE] Just the download though: [QUOTE]Starting October 26th, you'll also have the option to download Windows 8 Pro for $39.99.[/QUOTE]
Don't actually see why people use DVDs anymore. Installing off of a flashdrive is infinitely faster, assuming you don't just have an image to push out over a network, which admittedly few people have for their homes.
Don't actually see why people use CDs anymore. Installing off of a ssd is infinitley faster, assuming you don't just have an image to push out over a network, which admittedly few people have for their homes.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;38107290]Don't actually see why people use DVDs anymore. Installing off of a flashdrive is infinitely faster, assuming you don't just have an image to push out over a network, which admittedly few people have for their homes.[/QUOTE] I far prefer DVD since I have a single copy of the material I want and I can archive it.
[QUOTE=Strikebango;38107315]Don't actually see why people use CDs anymore. Installing off of a ssd is infinitley faster, assuming you don't just have an image to push out over a network, which admittedly few people have for their homes.[/QUOTE] Assuming you are installing to an SSD, and have one to install with, sure. The point is that a huge number of people have an 8 gig flash drive now, and it's far easier to just burn to that rather than mess with optical media.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;38107337]I far prefer DVD since I have a single copy of the material I want and I can archive it.[/QUOTE] I don't use them at all anymore i use a usb stick more, but i use cds for linux for example.
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