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Gris - Jan 19, 2010 11:17:50 am PST #12383 of 25501
Hey. New board.

That'll be one CRAZY laptop! What do you think, the return of the $3000 laptop? More?

I don't think there are many laptops in that form factor with a discrete graphics card.

Why not, I wonder? Is the assumption that most people who want good video performance (gamers, casual or otherwise) also want large screens? I could see that, but I know plenty of people like me who use a laptop primarily for consumer reasons and thus enjoy the portability of a smaller laptop but like to be able to at least PLAY recent games. Intel integrated graphics are not supported at even the lowest level by most games these days, but laptops are still being sold with them even at the $800 and $900 level.

Sony has a laptop or three that totally whoop the Macbook (and 13" Pro)'s butt for performance at that size, but the cost range is more in the $2000 range.

I guess my conclusion from all this research is that Apple has done a very good job of designing its line for people exactly like me. Heh.

Still liking Windows 7 a lot, though having trouble getting Dragon Age running, despite having a perfectly legitimate license key. First I ran into space issues (the game requires fifteen GB of free space to install, beyond the install file itself!) then realized I got the WRONG install file (shouldn't have ahemmed the Windows version since I didn't actually want to pirate the game - I forgot that perfectly legal game download methods exist these days), so I'm now downloading a 7 GB installation program. Fast, but still gonna take 3 hours. Oh well.


tommyrot - Jan 19, 2010 11:23:05 am PST #12384 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Anyone heard of PDFmyURL.com?

Also, check this out: [link]

eta: Interesting - it ignores the second '?' and everything after. Lemme try this link, which will probably do the same thing....


Fred Pete - Jan 19, 2010 11:33:18 am PST #12385 of 25501
Ann, that's a ferret.

A co-worker friend has asked for help, and I thought I'd ask around for more help.

Over the weekend, she bought a Nook. And, as she puts it, she's finally found "her" electronic gadget. In fact, she's worried that she'll blow her budget on download books.

I've referred her to Project Gutenberg and manybooks. Anybody have any other ideas? She prefers mysteries but also enjoys "serious literature" and the occasional romance.


Ginger - Jan 19, 2010 11:38:50 am PST #12386 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Recommendations for places to get public domain and less-expensive e-books or recommendations for books per se?


Steph L. - Jan 19, 2010 12:42:15 pm PST #12387 of 25501
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Anyone heard of PDFmyURL.com?

The need for that befuddled me for a minute, because I'm one of Those Intolerable Mac Users, and I can make anything into a PDF, out of any program, via the print function. It's so amazingly useful.


Typo Boy - Jan 19, 2010 1:00:43 pm PST #12388 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

The same on my XP box, either via one paid piece of software, and several free pieces of software all of which add "print to pdf" as additional printers. However what would genuinely be useful to be is something that rather than printing a web page or sending it to a pdf, would capture a web site - including urls linked on the web page, and then urls linked on those urls. That would be tricky to write. The software would have to avoid including pages that are on other servers, since these are probably external links. (Maybe it would have to have the option of choosing external servers that are OK.) Also it would have avoid getting caught in endless loops by not capturing a page more than once. Umm and I'm not sure such a server would deal with dynamic content. Probably can be done. Heck, maybe I should google and see if it has BEEN done.


§ ita § - Jan 19, 2010 1:08:14 pm PST #12389 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Probably can be done.

Adobe Acrobat Professional does it.


Typo Boy - Jan 19, 2010 1:10:10 pm PST #12390 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

As, after doing does Teleport Pro, and a bunch of software on the web. It looks like one should ask permission before using any of these though, because apparently downloading an entire website causes a spike in traffic.


§ ita § - Jan 19, 2010 1:11:00 pm PST #12391 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

apparently downloading an entire website causes a spike in traffic

Stands to reason.


Fred Pete - Jan 20, 2010 5:25:38 am PST #12392 of 25501
Ann, that's a ferret.

Recommendations for places to get public domain and less-expensive e-books or recommendations for books per se?

Apologies for the delay -- I posted just before leaving the office. She's looking for places to get public domain books.