I only knew about it because I recently got a GEERS payout myself, yes they are under a heavy workload, but as long as your insolvency practitioner is doing his job it will get done reasonably quick.
First is the employees super funds, then taxes, then wages, then everyone else they owe money to.
The employees are covered for loss of wages by the GEERS scheme, which they can submit and get their: Lost wages; Lost holiday pay; Redundancy payout (according to industry standards or their contract, and if contract its subject to evaluation).
That's wonderful, but as should be quite obvious by the fact I state I have purchased a windows codec for all 3 of my media machines (main pc, laptop and media center machine) you could kind of assume that I am running windows on all 3:)
Not knocking mplayer, its great for what it does, but for all my machines being able to run steam and the games that brings is a requirement, as well as a few other things that are in "windows only land".
My laptop at least doesn't have an NV graphics (only offering on these HP tablet machines is ATI) but the CPU optimization is good enough in their codec that 1080p still runs smooth.
K-lite is just a codec pack, most of these use the standard ffmpeg for h.264, the multi threaded version of which is still "experimental", also coreavc not only is extremely optimised it also supports CUDA, so if you have an NV based netbook it will run much better with very little CPU usage.
I own a copy of coreavc for all my machines I expect to play h.264 on (3 copies), and was very happy to see haali splitter (along with coreavc) is now 64-bit, so full windows media centre support:)
It works, its cheap, I like paying programmers/companies who do a good job, it makes a nice precedent.
To be fair, windows 7 will swap data out, my PC atm is sitting here with 8GB of ram, 1.1GB used by programs, 5.9GB used by cache and its reporting 1.2GB free, so it still pages out data. However I have never noticed it pageing, so likely its paging out the "right data", in other words stuff that is not used, just how an OS should work:)
One point, turning off the page file is never a good idea, it means that the few things that can be paged out quite happily without negative effect stay in memory, taking up room the cache could use to make the rig run faster.
My current machine has gone from XP to vista to 7, and I gotta say 7 is the smoothest, vista was the most stable, and XP, well, it "seemed" fast, but that was because it tied up one of my CPU cores all the time waiting to draw the next window.
Your brothers machine could do with a nice modern vid card or some cleaning up by the sound of it, on a modern PC 7 interface shouldn't lag.
While yes, puppy linux may run super fast, its also lacking a lot of what makes people stay with windows;)
If you never watch bad films, you will have no idea just how good some are, you need a yard stick somewhere:)
However I liked both the films so far, and hope they spend the time needed to make a 3rd (well 4th, since there was an animated tie in from pitch black to chronicles) rather than just making some craptacular action film with no storyline (not looking at anyone in particular, *cough* 2012 *cough*).
Diesel is perfect for this role, kinda the same way Keanu Reeves was perfect as Ted Logan, its not just type-casting, the roles were made for them:)
Well, not sure how good they are now, but back when I studied at Uni we examined a few super-computer clusters and the rule of thumb in most cases was 1 CPU core per node was stuck doing IO for that node anyway, this was all before the move to Hypertransport with AMD though, so it may be much different for them now.
The fact was, it was a number that was constant, it wouldn't get worse with more nodes, it was always x nodes lost per y nodes, as this is. Just add more nodes:)
A worse problem would be if it was x^2 nodes per y nodes, then you're just throwing away money adding more.
Nah, lets go a step further, run a screen cap on every computer in the world at 30fps (to catch the ones watching child porn movies) and just pipe it strait to the FBI servers...
Nope, I have a touch screen and it just doesn't work like that, a touch screen emulates your mouse (because the game doesn't have any other input), so if you touch or stylus on one side of the screen, its like moving your mouse to the left, your screen pans left at a constant rate until you point to the dead centre of the screen again (it thinks your mouse is still moving left so long as your stylus/touch is on that side).
In short, FPS are unplayable with touch screen unless the game has something built in to support it (think rail-shooters).
RTS games however are a great place to take your stylus for a spin, company of heroes, sins of a solar empire, dawn of war 2... all work well with stylus + keypad (I use a cybersniper WASD pad).
Yeah, nothing beats the great game play, well, except for "double shotgun dude" running around a map and dropping a nuke to finnish it, makes for a great game, unless of course he is cut short on his rampage by the host dropping from game, that just RULES:)
Back to TF2 for me, strategy + fun + dead stable == win.
The problem here is that this is again subjective and overall useless without a lot of people providing their data an...
Nm, gotta run to the patent office and give them my ideas on "opinion acquisition and sharing augmented reality device".
Imagine walking into a room and instantly having the aggregate opinion of everyone in the area toward you come up as statistics, maybe even have a "One person here found you really hot, open a chat with them?" option:)
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I only knew about it because I recently got a GEERS payout myself, yes they are under a heavy workload, but as long as your insolvency practitioner is doing his job it will get done reasonably quick.
Actually....
First is the employees super funds, then taxes, then wages, then everyone else they owe money to.
The employees are covered for loss of wages by the GEERS scheme, which they can submit and get their: Lost wages; Lost holiday pay; Redundancy payout (according to industry standards or their contract, and if contract its subject to evaluation).
According to Australian law anyway :)
That's wonderful, but as should be quite obvious by the fact I state I have purchased a windows codec for all 3 of my media machines (main pc, laptop and media center machine) you could kind of assume that I am running windows on all 3 :)
Not knocking mplayer, its great for what it does, but for all my machines being able to run steam and the games that brings is a requirement, as well as a few other things that are in "windows only land".
My laptop at least doesn't have an NV graphics (only offering on these HP tablet machines is ATI) but the CPU optimization is good enough in their codec that 1080p still runs smooth.
K-lite is just a codec pack, most of these use the standard ffmpeg for h.264, the multi threaded version of which is still "experimental", also coreavc not only is extremely optimised it also supports CUDA, so if you have an NV based netbook it will run much better with very little CPU usage.
I own a copy of coreavc for all my machines I expect to play h.264 on (3 copies), and was very happy to see haali splitter (along with coreavc) is now 64-bit, so full windows media centre support :)
It works, its cheap, I like paying programmers/companies who do a good job, it makes a nice precedent.
To be fair, windows 7 will swap data out, my PC atm is sitting here with 8GB of ram, 1.1GB used by programs, 5.9GB used by cache and its reporting 1.2GB free, so it still pages out data. However I have never noticed it pageing, so likely its paging out the "right data", in other words stuff that is not used, just how an OS should work :)
One point, turning off the page file is never a good idea, it means that the few things that can be paged out quite happily without negative effect stay in memory, taking up room the cache could use to make the rig run faster.
My current machine has gone from XP to vista to 7, and I gotta say 7 is the smoothest, vista was the most stable, and XP, well, it "seemed" fast, but that was because it tied up one of my CPU cores all the time waiting to draw the next window.
Your brothers machine could do with a nice modern vid card or some cleaning up by the sound of it, on a modern PC 7 interface shouldn't lag.
While yes, puppy linux may run super fast, its also lacking a lot of what makes people stay with windows ;)
If you never watch bad films, you will have no idea just how good some are, you need a yard stick somewhere :)
However I liked both the films so far, and hope they spend the time needed to make a 3rd (well 4th, since there was an animated tie in from pitch black to chronicles) rather than just making some craptacular action film with no storyline (not looking at anyone in particular, *cough* 2012 *cough*).
Diesel is perfect for this role, kinda the same way Keanu Reeves was perfect as Ted Logan, its not just type-casting, the roles were made for them :)
Don't forget KAOS :)
Hell, all the classics are up for grabs.
Although, The Jedi Knights would be a great one.
No, you need Teepee for bunghole!
Will look great on a resume,
"2010 - present: Leader of a nationally recognised evil organisation bent on the destruction of freedom and tyranny of all"
Yeah, but if its IO bound, it should probably be re-written :)
Well, not sure how good they are now, but back when I studied at Uni we examined a few super-computer clusters and the rule of thumb in most cases was 1 CPU core per node was stuck doing IO for that node anyway, this was all before the move to Hypertransport with AMD though, so it may be much different for them now.
The fact was, it was a number that was constant, it wouldn't get worse with more nodes, it was always x nodes lost per y nodes, as this is. Just add more nodes :)
A worse problem would be if it was x^2 nodes per y nodes, then you're just throwing away money adding more.
Yup, you can get a larger battery for that one that will let the thing go for roughly 8 hours or so (on high performance setting).
Love my TM2, does everything I need a tablet to do, and everything I need a laptop for.
I guess German and Japanese is so hard to mix up...
Huh, what?
Oh yeah.
Fucking WOOOOOOOOSSSSSHHHHHH.
Nah, lets go a step further, run a screen cap on every computer in the world at 30fps (to catch the ones watching child porn movies) and just pipe it strait to the FBI servers...
Yup, I use OOo on all my PCs (yes, even a tablet pc) for writing and formatting :)
Save to PDF == win.
Not to mention the amount of times its installed but not used.
We pre-install OOo with all new PCs, however most people also buy MS Office as well.
I was thinking more Unreal Tournament: MMMmmmmm MULTI KILL!
Eta till this is in some PC game where it works as tested?
Nope, I have a touch screen and it just doesn't work like that, a touch screen emulates your mouse (because the game doesn't have any other input), so if you touch or stylus on one side of the screen, its like moving your mouse to the left, your screen pans left at a constant rate until you point to the dead centre of the screen again (it thinks your mouse is still moving left so long as your stylus/touch is on that side).
In short, FPS are unplayable with touch screen unless the game has something built in to support it (think rail-shooters).
RTS games however are a great place to take your stylus for a spin, company of heroes, sins of a solar empire, dawn of war 2... all work well with stylus + keypad (I use a cybersniper WASD pad).
I didn't, I got mine on steam, but there were a lot of suckers who didn't.
I did get my $60 or so of play out of it, but compared to TF2 for replay value per dollar spent, very very fail.
Yeah, nothing beats the great game play, well, except for "double shotgun dude" running around a map and dropping a nuke to finnish it, makes for a great game, unless of course he is cut short on his rampage by the host dropping from game, that just RULES :)
Back to TF2 for me, strategy + fun + dead stable == win.
Oh and the $120AU price tag was criminal.
We got to install microwave, err, towers
Except he is not in London, he is at school in Coventry. RTFA :)
The problem here is that this is again subjective and overall useless without a lot of people providing their data an...
Nm, gotta run to the patent office and give them my ideas on "opinion acquisition and sharing augmented reality device".
Imagine walking into a room and instantly having the aggregate opinion of everyone in the area toward you come up as statistics, maybe even have a "One person here found you really hot, open a chat with them?" option :)