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  • MATATAT said:

    Edit: oh yeah it's an integrated gpu (in the pic). Adding more ram probably won't help with games.

    Couldn't it potentially though? Don't integrated gpu's use system memory? Sometimes you set a fixed amount of system memory to be used for graphics, but other times it uses X amount based on free memory so wouldn't adding more help with that?
    Depends on how recent the integrated chip is, also you need to allocate the portion of your RAM in BIOS under the Intel HD Graphics portion approximately 1/8 but it is slow relative to VRAM.
  • There's an Nvidia NVS 5400M
  • So shredders. (Not the kind from TMNT).

    With moving, I've accumulated a lot of papers I no longer need. I thought about going to the local Office MaxDepot, but saw this Amazon

    Any suggestions, thoughts, comments, butts?
  • That's a very expensive pair of scissors/hammer. Probably won't work on butts.
    There are better ones that are versatile and aren't exclusively limited to credit cards, cds, small sheets of paper.
  • A cheap shredder is worth the effort rather than dealing with the paper by hand.

    It will likely wear out not too long after your shredding project, so don't buy an expensive shredder.

    Shred it all and then dump it with your kitchen waste.
  • Rym said:

    A cheap shredder is worth the effort rather than dealing with the paper by hand.

    It will likely wear out not too long after your shredding project, so don't buy an expensive shredder.

    Shred it all and then dump it with your kitchen waste.

    I never had a shredder last more than a few months. They all suck.
  • This is why big companies don't do their own shredding any more. They get companies like Iron Mountain to shred/store all their documents while all the important information is digital.
  • I saw Mad Max: Fury Road on opening weekend, but one thing bothers me: Whenever I see this film discussed online, it is inevitably that someone starts shouting the War Boys slogans. Stuff like "Witness Me!", "Ride on Valhalla on shining chrome", "I'm being expected", "What a day, what a wonderful day", etc. in way of the "whoo game" as Rym and Scott titled it.

    Now I get the appeal of these slogans. They are literally designed to be appealing, to be fun to be shouted. But I'm never quite sure what people repeating them are doing.

    The War Boys in the film are a subtribe indoctrinated to be kamikaze fighters for the service of the tyrant Immortan Joe. From their birth they are isolated from outside contact and fed this stuff, that the highest, and perhaps only glory they can achieve is by sacrificing themselves in service of their master. They are literally examples of the kind of testosterone poisoning the film directly blames for the destruction of the world.

    I can never tell if the people using these slogans online either did not get this pretty central pillar of the film, or simply do not care and play the "whoo game" and unwittingly give in to sloganeering and indoctrination the film irrevocably declares evil.
  • chaosof99 said:

    I saw Mad Max: Fury Road on opening weekend, but one thing bothers me: Whenever I see this film discussed online, it is inevitably that someone starts shouting the War Boys slogans. Stuff like "Witness Me!", "Ride on Valhalla on shining chrome", "I'm being expected", "What a day, what a wonderful day", etc. in way of the "whoo game" as Rym and Scott titled it.

    Now I get the appeal of these slogans. They are literally designed to be appealing, to be fun to be shouted. But I'm never quite sure what people repeating them are doing.

    The War Boys in the film are a subtribe indoctrinated to be kamikaze fighters for the service of the tyrant Immortan Joe. From their birth they are isolated from outside contact and fed this stuff, that the highest, and perhaps only glory they can achieve is by sacrificing themselves in service of their master. They are literally examples of the kind of testosterone poisoning the film directly blames for the destruction of the world.

    I can never tell if the people using these slogans online either did not get this pretty central pillar of the film, or simply do not care and play the "whoo game" and unwittingly give in to sloganeering and indoctrination the film irrevocably declares evil.

    It's completely a woo game. It's like using a catch phrase from any media. Like those people who say "Woah" like from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, in a sarcastic manner when something simple or obvious is being reiterated. When I was in 4th year University the 13 guys that sat together would just quote the movie Old School or Super Troopers.

    You are reading too much into it unless you meet someone who earnestly says these things in real life.
  • Is Re/Code the new Verge?
  • Rochelle said:

    So shredders. (Not the kind from TMNT).

    With moving, I've accumulated a lot of papers I no longer need. I thought about going to the local Office MaxDepot, but saw this Amazon

    Any suggestions, thoughts, comments, butts?

    Matches are cheaper.
  • Pegu said:

    Is Re/Code the new Verge?

    Possibly the old Verge? The new Verge replaced all their good writers and appropriate editing to a mind numbingly broad array of stupid click-bait articles. I would take anything over the current Verge.
  • sK0pe said:

    Pegu said:

    Is Re/Code the new Verge?

    Possibly the old Verge? The new Verge replaced all their good writers and appropriate editing to a mind numbingly broad array of stupid click-bait articles. I would take anything over the current Verge.
    The Verge just relearned the same lesson as the sites they stole all the writers from. Paying big money for top writing talent decreases the bottom line. Quality content costs does not increase ad sales revenue enough to justify the cost.
  • edited June 2015
    Rochelle said:

    So shredders. (Not the kind from TMNT).

    With moving, I've accumulated a lot of papers I no longer need. I thought about going to the local Office MaxDepot, but saw this Amazon

    Any suggestions, thoughts, comments, butts?

    Fire is free.

    Edit-Damn it, I didn't see Wyatt's comment.
    Post edited by ninjarabbi on
  • Apreche said:

    sK0pe said:

    Pegu said:

    Is Re/Code the new Verge?

    Possibly the old Verge? The new Verge replaced all their good writers and appropriate editing to a mind numbingly broad array of stupid click-bait articles. I would take anything over the current Verge.
    The Verge just relearned the same lesson as the sites they stole all the writers from. Paying big money for top writing talent decreases the bottom line. Quality content costs does not increase ad sales revenue enough to justify the cost.
    That's super true, I didn't think of it because I don't do web development and don't see advertisements. People who use ad blockers really see Internet content in a completely different way.
  • I'm making a YouTube Channel when I can post stuff that isn't one of my formal shows. I need a present tense verb implying a one-off nature.
  • I'm making a YouTube Channel when I can post stuff that isn't one of my formal shows. I need a present tense verb implying a one-off nature.

    Fantasmu...you didn't specify it had to make sense.
  • I'm making a YouTube Channel when I can post stuff that isn't one of my formal shows. I need a present tense verb implying a one-off nature.

    Jaunt
  • edited June 2015
    Has anyone found a desktop music player that doesn't suck? I had hopes for Tomahawk until I realized you can't remove songs from it which is just plain weird. I went back to WinAmp.
    Post edited by Pegu on
  • I've substituted basically all my music listening to Spotify so I don't really have any need for a music player. But the times I do I just use iTunes.
  • I mostly use songza and gmusic these day.
  • I like playing things locally.
  • foobar2000 seems to work.
  • Pegu said:

    I like playing things locally.

    I'm not sure what this means, because you can "download" stuff from Spotify using offline mode.

    Unless you mean you like managing a bunch of MP3s.
  • I use VLC to play the rare instance of offline music. It works great
  • It's weird I stopped listening to local audio as well however you can make Google Music play from the local storage of the library. When I need something specific that I haven't dropped in my music folder I just play it in VLC.
  • Ruffas said:

    foobar2000 seems to work.

  • Believe it or not, I still use the Zune desktop software. I needed it when I still had a Windows Phone, but I kept it since I really didn't find anything that worked much better.

    Nobody is writing new desktop apps for Windows anymore; and why should they, there's no money in it.
  • I almost forgot about the Zune until someone mentioned it the other day.
  • Does anyone here have someskill at defining words? (E.g. idieogame) I am trying to lock down a definition for one and want to run it pass someone.
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