One thing you've got to keep in mind that more cores, logical or otherwise, only help when you're running multiple processes or processes that spawn (and make effective use of) child threads. If you're doing comparisons with software that's not multithreaded, the only difference you'll see is that of clock speeds and processor efficiency. What I'm trying to say is that you can't expect a eight logical cores to be that much faster than four when the software's only running on one and the difference you're seeing is because the i7 is a better-designed processor.
It's an insightful observation. A surprising number of theatres advertising IMAX-like capabilities (and who may or may not incorrectly use the IMAX name) don't actually have “genuine” IMAX projection equipment.
I use a thick IMAP client for my Google Apps-powered e-mail account on my desktop, and generally stick to Gmail on whatever portable I've got at the time. While I do have a couple peeves with Gmail's IMAP support, it's worked out quite well. I, too, thought offline reading might be an issue, but seeing as my thick client – Thunderbird, as it happens – keeps an offline copy of everything, it's yet to prove a problem.
It gets worse: many so-called Vista “OEM” keys on laptops will only work with the manufacturer's recovery disc, and won't work with a legitimate (but generic) OEM disc. In three instances, I've had to give up and tell clients they'll have to cough up the $40 and buy a recovery disc because I just couldn't get Windows to activate otherwise.
(Sorry for not replying sooner – I didn't notice this until just now.)
I'm not trying to say resellers are useless; even if it all comes from one or two top-level suppliers, it's still some form of free market and hopefully pushes Rogers/Bell to a little more honesty than they'd have if the resellers didn't exist. My point is, though, that when the reseller's bandwidth is being capped/filtered in some way (i.e., upstream's upstream still has final say on what the bandwidth does), even an account on a reseller is pointless. For example, a friend of mine has Teksavvy DSL and BitTorrent is capped during the day because Bell has decided that's what their doing in his area, regardless of who's getting the bill for the bandwidth.
Matter of principle? He may have Silverlight installed because he's on a shared computer and someone else uses Silverlight, or as part of a corporate rollout, or even because his employment currently (or once) involved Silverlight development, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have standards.
...but quickly realised how bad the AI is compared to human counterparts
The big problem is that Valve didn't make too many changes to the AI between L4D and L4D2, so the bots can't really “deal” with some of the new things (melee weapons especially). IIRC (I only played the game briefly on a friend's account), the original L4D bots were much more useful.
Summary's incorrect, as usual. Valve gave everyone affected a free copy of the game to gift to someone else, and a copy for themselves if they didn't already have L4D2. Essentially, Valve gave out 24,000 copies of L4D2.
Came here to comment about Borderlands doing it “right” as far as I'm concerned. I purchased it a couple weeks back when it went on sale on Steam, and I just logged my 24th play hour today – already around three times as much play as you'll get out of most other modern games. I did try multiplayer briefly the other day, and while the other player's character was significantly lower-level than mine (enough that I ended up mostly babysitting his character for brief the time we played), it seemed to fall together very well.
Graphics Card? 1x is hardly the cutting edge in graphics card bandwidth.
And yet, it's all the bandwidth I need to attach a less-powerful video card (such as the Matrox G550, which can run off a PCIe x1 slot) to my laptop, allowing me to dock onto another monitor or two on my desk quickly and easily.
UT3 was quickly disregarded because at time of launch (late 2007), it required a lot more horsepower to run smoothly than the majority of people had. Only in the last year or so, as computers powerful enough to handle the engine have become more common, has it started to pick up steam with third-party developers.
As a side note, the installers are slow to start over SMB shares on Windows too. I think it's probably to do with the installer's self-verification functionality.
The only caveat is that the integrated update requires ftp/ftps.
Supposedly, if you have the permissions set correctly on the WordPress files (no, I can't figure it out either, although it did happen once by magic when I used an automated installer), the autoupdater doesn't even need this.
One of those errors – the first – relates to Facebook integration. The rest all stem from the two Flash videos. Everything else is technically just peachy (although their formatting leaves something to be desired).
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One thing you've got to keep in mind that more cores, logical or otherwise, only help when you're running multiple processes or processes that spawn (and make effective use of) child threads. If you're doing comparisons with software that's not multithreaded, the only difference you'll see is that of clock speeds and processor efficiency. What I'm trying to say is that you can't expect a eight logical cores to be that much faster than four when the software's only running on one and the difference you're seeing is because the i7 is a better-designed processor.
The balloons are to make up for the clowns.
It's an insightful observation. A surprising number of theatres advertising IMAX-like capabilities (and who may or may not incorrectly use the IMAX name) don't actually have “genuine” IMAX projection equipment.
I'd hate to know what you do when the CD's in ISO form...
I use a thick IMAP client for my Google Apps-powered e-mail account on my desktop, and generally stick to Gmail on whatever portable I've got at the time. While I do have a couple peeves with Gmail's IMAP support, it's worked out quite well. I, too, thought offline reading might be an issue, but seeing as my thick client – Thunderbird, as it happens – keeps an offline copy of everything, it's yet to prove a problem.
368MB?! Holy cow – mine's only at 18MB at the moment and rarely goes over 60.
And, curiously enough, can still be found today.
The best part? Their careers site is rim.jobs.
It gets worse: many so-called Vista “OEM” keys on laptops will only work with the manufacturer's recovery disc, and won't work with a legitimate (but generic) OEM disc. In three instances, I've had to give up and tell clients they'll have to cough up the $40 and buy a recovery disc because I just couldn't get Windows to activate otherwise.
This was originally on Reddit yesterday: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cwj3t/i_got_bored_so_i_jailbroke_apple_store_iphone_4s/.
(Sorry for not replying sooner – I didn't notice this until just now.)
I'm not trying to say resellers are useless; even if it all comes from one or two top-level suppliers, it's still some form of free market and hopefully pushes Rogers/Bell to a little more honesty than they'd have if the resellers didn't exist. My point is, though, that when the reseller's bandwidth is being capped/filtered in some way (i.e., upstream's upstream still has final say on what the bandwidth does), even an account on a reseller is pointless. For example, a friend of mine has Teksavvy DSL and BitTorrent is capped during the day because Bell has decided that's what their doing in his area, regardless of who's getting the bill for the bandwidth.
Matter of principle? He may have Silverlight installed because he's on a shared computer and someone else uses Silverlight, or as part of a corporate rollout, or even because his employment currently (or once) involved Silverlight development, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have standards.
The big problem is that Valve didn't make too many changes to the AI between L4D and L4D2, so the bots can't really “deal” with some of the new things (melee weapons especially). IIRC (I only played the game briefly on a friend's account), the original L4D bots were much more useful.
Summary's incorrect, as usual. Valve gave everyone affected a free copy of the game to gift to someone else, and a copy for themselves if they didn't already have L4D2. Essentially, Valve gave out 24,000 copies of L4D2.
Came here to comment about Borderlands doing it “right” as far as I'm concerned. I purchased it a couple weeks back when it went on sale on Steam, and I just logged my 24th play hour today – already around three times as much play as you'll get out of most other modern games. I did try multiplayer briefly the other day, and while the other player's character was significantly lower-level than mine (enough that I ended up mostly babysitting his character for brief the time we played), it seemed to fall together very well.
And with DSL, your choice is...? Bell and Bell resellers? Some choice.
...that one of my first thoughts on this was, “That should be spelt ‘pooed’”?
And yet, it's all the bandwidth I need to attach a less-powerful video card (such as the Matrox G550, which can run off a PCIe x1 slot) to my laptop, allowing me to dock onto another monitor or two on my desk quickly and easily.
In the case of IE, you can let the browser do the checking itself. (And yes, parsing comments is a very good contender for the most stupid thing ever.)
UT3 was quickly disregarded because at time of launch (late 2007), it required a lot more horsepower to run smoothly than the majority of people had. Only in the last year or so, as computers powerful enough to handle the engine have become more common, has it started to pick up steam with third-party developers.
As a side note, the installers are slow to start over SMB shares on Windows too. I think it's probably to do with the installer's self-verification functionality.
Well, like any Gnome app. There's no “native” LAF for KDE yet.
Supposedly, if you have the permissions set correctly on the WordPress files (no, I can't figure it out either, although it did happen once by magic when I used an automated installer), the autoupdater doesn't even need this.
One of those errors – the first – relates to Facebook integration. The rest all stem from the two Flash videos. Everything else is technically just peachy (although their formatting leaves something to be desired).
Reddit is very current, and the comment system, while not as good as Slashdot, isn't entirely intolerable.