>>1890
Are you sure that you're not thinking about Asus?

I mean, I've been emphatically warned away from Acers.

>>1891
My computer is an Acer, my friend's is an Acer, and they're both the best computers I've ever used.

>>1893
That's interesting. I wonder why I've been hearing so much bad press about them. I'll have to look into this. Thanks again for all of your help. If you find anything else you'd like to suggest, please don't hesitate to do so. You've been a great help.

>>1871
That I do.
But first I would need to know what your budget is.

>>1872
I suddenly find myself with an extra hundred or so dollars since I didn't buy my laptop last weekend. And of course, I don't have to buy all my peripherals all at once. So yeah. Upwards of a hundred dollars.

>>1880
For a gamepad, I'd say stick with keyboard and mouse.
Mouse, I'd go with anything laser Acer.
Now headphones, this is where the fun comes in. Let me show you the best of the best.
Welcome to the world of Turtle Beach.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826502011&cm_re=turtle_beach-_-26-502-011-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16874502007&cm_re=turtle_beach-_-74-502-007-_-Product

Take your pic, if I could get one of these, It'd be the Ear Force.

>>1845

So your ad blocking/malware filters were blocking it?

>>1846
What I think happened is that some kind of malicious software had altered the Hosts file and then proceeded to lock everything down so I couldn't change it back.

I don't think adblock or anti-malware would try to keep me from reaching Google.

That, and the last person to use this computer didn't use it very wisely.

>>1848
Most likely happened when the spambot guy altered the captcha so his bots could post again.

>>1815
I had this problem a long bit ago. My new computer doesn't, though.

>>1815
Restart your browser session?

>>1817
That does not help. Firefox seems to have a few problems here and there.
Like mine, I cannot use drop-down menus.

>>1706

>>1705

haz them

also this poster seems useful . though i dont know how

take this dimension guide of various types of screen

You know, I honestly wouldn't doubt it.

Your power supply is dishing out enough juice.
You need a new one, bro. Sorry to say. I had this problem more than once with more than one computer.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibm-scientists-create-most-comprehensive-map-of-the-brains-network

>>1753
Consciousness and sentience is my least favorite subject. No matter how you slice it, the nihilist is probably right. :\
I'd like to be proven otherwise, but it doesn't look that way.

>>1753
I am such a nerd. This game was the first thing that article made me think of. In the game's world, the mechs have targeting AIs that are modeled after different animals, and each has different properties relating to their functionality. When they mentioned using that data to design cognitive computing chips, I was thinking that any specialization the originating brain had would probably show through in the chips.

Unrelated: are there any neural modeling experiments like Folding@Home?

>>1745
It's funny. Common cold war knowledge is that Area 51 is used for testing MiGs and other Soviet tech so better tactics can be developed against them.

How people got "alien" out of that I'll never know...

>>1746

Unusual aircraft? The secretive nature of it all (they must be hiding *something*!)? Peyote? Alternately, they had no actual alien tech there, Roswell was just a weather balloon, BUT aliens actually do visit Area 51 to study our military tech and strategy...not because they're invading or anything, just as a curiosity, and perhaps as a way of learning about their own past, the way we study chimps to learn how our hominid ancestors might have lived.

>>1741 >>1745

Anything that helps get the world on track to a Deus Ex-like Transhuman Utopian potentiality is fine by me.

You are now realizing that the Green Flu from L4D Universe is actually the Grey Death in DE Universe and they are infact the same.

http://www.dyson.com/fans/

I wonder if these things could be used as aircraft propulsion...Imagine next-gen choppers and Ospreys using them instead of blades! No need for antitorque rear rotors on helis! And THESE babies could become a reality!

>>1719

I don't think so, tim. this is just a powered down jet engine.

>>1732

Aww dang, I checked the website, it has an engine dealie in the base. I thought it used an electric force thingy to propel the air. I read about one sed for computer fans. It works like the Ionic Breeze thing.t

http://www.mp4nation.net/catalog/

The S:Flo2 is a rebrand of about the finest portable digital music player you can get and it's comparatively cheaper than iPods and Cowons. If you're skeptical, look it up on Head-Fi, big audiophile forum. And I can personally vouch for MP4 Nation being legit and having good customer service, even if the site looks amateur.

First off, go here.
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/

I've been loving the Cowon iAudio 7 for the past year or so. The main reason I like it is because it has the native ability to browse my music by folders instead of ID3 tags. I hate tagging my music, it's a waste of my time.

The player also supports quite a few formats, mp3, wav, wmv, ogg...no m4a unfortunately. I've been frustrated a few times - friend shares an album with me, I put it on my player without checking the file extensions beforehand, and then learn I can't play any of the songs.

The player isn't for everyone. The main controls are touch sensitive rather than tactile (I prefer tactile buttons). Both my husband and I got the same player - for some reason my player requires an occasional reset because the forward button gets "stuck" as if my finger was held on it when in fact nothing is touching it.

The controls are also not as intuitive as I'd like, but once you get past learning the controls it isn't bad at all. It can display images and play videos, but don't expect great things. This should be used purely for music playing.

Really though, it's all about what features are important to you.

>>1730
>Listen to a song by Trail of Dead
>comes another song by Trail of Dead from the Same Album
>another track, skip it, skip another one
>ANOTHER TRAIL OF DEAD SONG

  And a color counterpart, though it's not quite perfect

  arduinos are fun. now if only I had the money or time to invest in physical programming.

>>1622
'Fraid I'd be in a strictly observational role of the process, if anything. The stuff is interesting, but to be honest I wouldn't know my elbow from a compiler.

>>1623
OK, I got an Idea, we'll make a compiler for the .^cake.

but I'm too unimaginative to think of what the syntax should be like.

so any Ideas, anyone?

any Ideas?

A friend of mine just sent me The Art of Assembly Language; Second Edition.
This will probably be like watching a peep in the microwave, but I'll record a journal of my thoughts every chapter. Expect pain and the palming of face at my comprehension skills.