[Nuclear1]

Nuclear is aiming to misbehave.

Serenity on SciFi. Booyah!

[Bob-san]

I played Left 4 Dead... 1. And won in a Versus match.

[Aardwolf]

I'm trying to get somebody in the same major as me to collaborate on a game.

[Colonol Dekker]

I'm en route to marble arch for a MASSIVE event. Possibly the most personally important thing to happen since I passed my basic and combat engineer training.
 
 
The 150th anniversary of my regiments formation, there are a good three hundred plus turning up, it's black tie, free drink. Sexy women officers in evening wear, . . . . . . . and in March. It'll be topped. 
 
Nuke will have to hold the fort til tuesday when I wake up.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I managed to get and sustain a bit of High Tech industry in SimCity 4. FINALLY.

I'm also having a bout of hiccups.

[qazwsx]

I just configured Xlink Kai. HURRAH!
Now I can play monster hunter freedom 1/2/Unite over the internet 

[Nemesis6]

I earned the Tank Burger achievement in Left 4 Dead 2.

[Nuke]

i woke up, again. the redundancy is driving me mad.

[iamzack]

my foot and sock are covered in blood from some injury i don't remember getting last night

[Retsof]

My laptop is not recognizing my AC adapter, turns out this is a common problem with Dells that has never been fixed, and to fix it I'll need a new adapter...  guh.

[Thaeris]

my foot and sock are covered in blood from some injury i don't remember getting last night

You shouldn't keep a switchblade in your boot. 

[Bob-san]

My laptop is not recognizing my AC adapter, turns out this is a common problem with Dells that has never been fixed, and to fix it I'll need a new adapter...  guh.

That's Dell for you.

[NGTM-1R]

That's Dell for you.

On the other hand, they have great support policy. (Seriously, come to your home and everything.)

[Scotty]

School has a Valentine's Show in an hour or so.  Wondering whether I should go or not.  Don't know if enough friends to make it worth it are going to be there.

[Bob-san]

That's Dell for you.

On the other hand, they have great support policy. (Seriously, come to your home and everything.)

But you lost time waiting for the problem to be corrected. Things like unrecognized official AC Adapters or broken keyboards or even broken LCD's... they're cheap to manufacture but end up costing a lot of time and money to fix, during which you're either impeded or completely and totally stopped from using the computer. Being unable to charge and having the battery run out quickly is just another issue that pops up frequently.

[Nuke]

That's Dell for you.

On the other hand, they have great support policy. (Seriously, come to your home and everything.)

like i want a bunch of dead beat dell techs in my house rummaging through my system touching my keys and mousing my mouse. **** that.

[Aardwolf]

I hereby announce my dislike for a couple of recent trends in laptop design!

• Glossy screens. Seriously, wtf? I bought a computer with a long battery life so I could do stuff like playing video-games in the back seat on long car rides. But that doesn't work, because I can't see anything. Also it gets marks on it a lot faster.
• Volume controls. The little touch-sensitive things that make the volume go up/down or mute it have to go through the OS. Meaning if my computer went into standby while I had music playing, when I wake it up again, I'm not going to be able to turn that music off until I log in. Apologies to everyone in the room who's trying to listen to the professor.
• The CD tray... basically the same issue as the volume controls. My new laptop doesn't even HAVE a tray. The disk just slides in/out. Cool idea, but it prevents me from using mini-CD's or irregular CD's which would work in any 'normal' disk drive, and as with the volume controls, I can't eject the damn CD unless I'm logged in!

Bleh.

[Bob-san]

I can entirely agree with problem #1; glossy screens are beyond annoying. I buy laptops that I can use most anywhere; even my little netbook (with a matte screen) can be used outside on a sunny day. Loss of contrast? Yep. Loss of use? Nope. I decided against glossy screens 110% for myself after having used my mum's laptop in the living room. If there's bright light behind you, it's not going to work well. I had better luck actually on a cross-country roadtrip with a glossy screen, but that was because of tinted windows and a closed sunroof.

[iamzack]

I'm watching Caprica on Hulu. I like it a lot so far.

[Nuke]

I hereby announce my dislike for a couple of recent trends in laptop design!

• Glossy screens. Seriously, wtf? I bought a computer with a long battery life so I could do stuff like playing video-games in the back seat on long car rides. But that doesn't work, because I can't see anything. Also it gets marks on it a lot faster.
• Volume controls. The little touch-sensitive things that make the volume go up/down or mute it have to go through the OS. Meaning if my computer went into standby while I had music playing, when I wake it up again, I'm not going to be able to turn that music off until I log in. Apologies to everyone in the room who's trying to listen to the professor.
• The CD tray... basically the same issue as the volume controls. My new laptop doesn't even HAVE a tray. The disk just slides in/out. Cool idea, but it prevents me from using mini-CD's or irregular CD's which would work in any 'normal' disk drive, and as with the volume controls, I can't eject the damn CD unless I'm logged in!

Bleh.

#1 just sucks, my screen has such a narrow view angle where you have to fine tune the angle of the screen to be able to see anything, then you get glare from hell. whoever designs stuff like this needs to be shot.

#2 valume controls have always sucked. i actually uninstalled the hotkey support drivers for a number of reasons, the first of which was that the web button would always runb internet explorer even if it was not the default application. the volume control just didnt work most the time, all the other buttons just launched pre-installed applications i never used. the easy way around this is to disable logons when returning from sleep mode. less secure but who cares.

#3 isnt so bad. the rate of failure for those tray based laptop cd/dvd drives is ridiculously high. this is because the number of exposed precision components, namely the laser lens is too great. id rather loose the ability to use mini cds and oddly shaped cds for a slot loading machine without the laser lens in such a vulnerable position.