Graffitti at the Q Station

armchair_warrior

WhyFi wrote: [quote=BigGuy]Oh man I am so aching for a LAN party. Pizza, beer and guns.

Never been... not that I have anything portable enough... nor have I put in a ton of hours on an FPS.

portable sucks, in lan parties guys show off their over clock machines and their cooling systems. basically showing off who has the larger e peen .

bigguy

Yea it's a pretty male scene. For some reason I was never able to pick up any girls by telling them I went to lan parties. Girls are weird.

armchair_warrior

woot whyfi is a Minister of Propaganda grats!!!

drano

armchair_warrior wrote: [quote=WhyFi][quote=BigGuy]Oh man I am so aching for a LAN party. Pizza, beer and guns.

Never been... not that I have anything portable enough... nor have I put in a ton of hours on an FPS.

portable sucks, in lan parties guys show off their over clock machines and their cooling systems. basically showing off who has the larger e peen .

So...does that mean Counter-strike?

armchair_warrior

Drano wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior][quote=WhyFi][quote=BigGuy]Oh man I am so aching for a LAN party. Pizza, beer and guns.

Never been... not that I have anything portable enough... nor have I put in a ton of hours on an FPS.

portable sucks, in lan parties guys show off their over clock machines and their cooling systems. basically showing off who has the larger e peen .

So...does that mean Counter-strike?

god i havent play that game since napster came out. when it was being beta tested.

bigguy

For some reason I never really played CS.

armchair_warrior

its pretty fun i guess. i never like fps

drano

BigGuy wrote: For some reason I never really played CS.

It hasn't changed too much after Source. I duck in for a round now and then if I only have a few minutes - I'm not very good, but the crowd playing is so obnoxious that it's still pretty fun. Plus I gotta keep up on my 1337.

armchair_warrior

i remember last time i touch it they came out with punk buster or something like that. does those type of programs still work? or kids gotten smarter and cheat in new ways.

whyfi

armchair_warrior wrote: i remember last time i touch it they came out with punk buster or something like that. does those type of programs still work? or kids gotten smarter and cheat in new ways.

I've seen keyboards online that have macros slowed down just enough to escape detection... or so they say. :?

doctorj

C'mon guys, here we were trying to have a dadaist conversation about graffiti and property rights, and all you want to talk is LAN party.

Can I come too?

bigguy

Yes they can still cheat. Battlefield2 has some exploits apparently.

Does anyone have a big enough space (and desire) for a lan party? doctorj promises not to tag anything.

whyfi

BigGuy wrote: Yes they can still cheat. Battlefield2 has some exploits apparently.

Does anyone have a big enough space (and desire) for a lan party? doctorj promises not to tag anything.

I'd attend (I'm sure that I wouldn't last long at a LAN with serious gamers, so this would be a fun introduction), but I don't have the room to host.

doctorj

BigGuy wrote:
Does anyone have a big enough space (and desire) for a lan party?

How many ft^2 do you reckon we need?

drano

Sounds like a good idea, but I do lack the space to host...

I don't have a cooling system, but I do have a Dell laptop so maybe the battery will blow up or something...

doctorj

Drano wrote: I do have a Dell laptop so maybe the battery will blow up or something...

Did you check the serial number on the battery on the website?

I have one of the *special* batteries right here. Dell can't replace it for weeks, yet I need to take a long flight...

alafairnadia

doctorj wrote: [quote=Drano] I do have a Dell laptop so maybe the battery will blow up or something...

Did you check the serial number on the battery on the website?

I have one of the *special* batteries right here. Dell can't replace it for weeks, yet I need to take a long flight...

I'm actually totally surprised that homeland security hasn't decided to ban dells.

drano

doctorj wrote: [quote=Drano] I do have a Dell laptop so maybe the battery will blow up or something...

Did you check the serial number on the battery on the website?

I have one of the *special* batteries right here. Dell can't replace it for weeks, yet I need to take a long flight...

It's on my to-do list for tonight. One more thing to look forward to...

whyfi

alafairnadia wrote: I'm actually totally surprised that homeland security hasn't decided to ban dells.

Some of the tech sites that I frequent are speculating that laptops in general will be banned soon.

doctorj

alafairnadia wrote:
I'm actually totally surprised that homeland security hasn't decided to ban dells.

Well... the chance of a catastrophy is pretty small. And it's not just Dell, it's any Sony battery of this series, and more generally, Li+ion batteries in all sorts of devices. And it takes time to convince all airports and airlines in lots of countries that fly into the US to start screening passengers for batteries that might be hazardous... my guess is they've looked at the risk and the cost and decided not to bother.

whyfi

doctorj wrote: And it's not just Dell, it's any Sony battery of this series.

Apple bought a batch of them, too.

alafairnadia

WhyFi wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]I'm actually totally surprised that homeland security hasn't decided to ban dells.

Some of the tech sites that I frequent are speculating that laptops in general will be banned soon.

lame. global economy? let's run it using an abacus!

bigguy

Exploding laptops would definitely add to the square footage we need. Excluding that, I'd say a few hundred - 3-4 hundred anyway. Oh, and electrical that can handle it.

dailyheights

topic split!!

alafairnadia

dailyheights wrote: topic split!!

can't do it in this forum or I woulda. wait .. you're an admin, can't you??

armchair_warrior

i wouldnt be able to host jack till probably next year when i move out of the basement in my new building :P. yes i'm gonna live in the basement. i ran out of monies!!!

stacey

doctorj wrote: [quote=Drano] I do have a Dell laptop so maybe the battery will blow up or something...

Did you check the serial number on the battery on the website?

I have one of the *special* batteries right here. Dell can't replace it for weeks, yet I need to take a long flight...

My battery is not one of the serial numbers listed for recall but it gets really really hot after I use it for about an hour and a half.

doctorj

stacey wrote:
My battery is not one of the serial numbers listed for recall but it gets really really hot after I use it for about an hour and a half.

I think that's normal; batteries have an internal resistance which means a proportion of their power is lost as heat when in use. So there's a certain amount of heat discharged over the three hours of normal use. What is not normal is if an internal short circuit develops and the entire thing discharges within seconds, igniting the casing.

armchair_warrior

get a laptop cooler. i use my laptop all the time. and it stays cool hehe.