The cut/paste formatting issue is very annoying. And yes, you can clear formatting, but I'd rather that be done by default. In fact if there was a toggle to turn off pasting with original formatting, I'd use it. I don't use formatting, so it's silly to have the whole row of buttons up just so I can hit the Clear Formatting button once every 36-48 hours.
Perhaps it wouldn't annoy me so much if the Clear Formatting action was available from a drop-down menu as well as the button. But as it stands, I think the default behavior should be to only apply formatting from the pasted text to the pasted text, and nothing else.
Also, I have the same rendering problem (white pixels to the left of the status drop-down menu) on WinXP SP2, with whatever GTK+ version was bundled with GAIM 2b4. ClearType is off. For grins, I even turned off font smoothing entirely but there was no change.
I recently purchased one of these to power a new SLI system. Just because it's built for gaming doesn't mean I'm going to give up on having a quiet system.
The PSU does look cool, and it does seem to perform well (though I've no real way of measuring it other than whether it successfully powers my system or not).
My one complaint is that the fan they include, to kick in when needed, is an exceptionally loud little fan. That just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Regardless, as the reviewer said, you need decent case ventilation to accompany this PSU. I have a 120mm exhausting the case, and one 88mm intake across from the zalman-cooled cpu (dual core athlon). There are also two 88s running air over the HDD rack at the bottom front of the case, but as this is one of those shiny, slick little cases without a grill in the front, those are just moving internal air. The two video cards are XFX GeForce 6600 LEs with only broad heatsinks, no fans.
That said, it seems to be good enough airflow for most conditions, with the PSU fan only kicking on when spending a little time in a demanding video game like Half-Life 2.
When people ask me what kind of game system I think they should get if they're considering buying one, I ask them what games they want to play. You don't buy an Xbox if you want to play Metroid. If you like fighters it's either PS2 or Xbox, and I'd lean toward the PS2. If you want a killer first person shooter, Halo. Xbox.
Video games are not an interchangeable, static quantity across systems. I own a GameCube and a Xbox because there are games for those systems that I want to play. Because the PS2 does not sport any titles that I felt compelled to play, I didn't buy one.
More so than when you compare game libraries between consoles, PC games stand quite apart. World of Warcraft is not available on any game consoles. Unreal Tournament has what I feel is an awful port on Xbox. Deus Ex, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (yes, still) and countless others either do not exist in the console gaming world, or have shadows of themselves there that are not worth mentioning.
So if the games you want to play are on the PC, that's the platform you need. And having a PC equipped to satisfy modern gaming requirements means money. They're the most expensive consumer PCs, no contest.
So how likely do you think it is that someone who has bought a system or the parts for a system capable of playing the latest games can sink a bunch of money into an expensive new Mac? Not likely at all, in my experience.
I don't know how your post got modded up, as it struck me as very ignorant. But that last comment is probably right on target.
Not only that, but most of the adventuring will be instanced, if I recall a developer interview correctly. The idea is to bring the table-top feeling to the game, where it's you and your party, rather than the much less intimate experience we're used to in MMO worlds.
I'm keeping an eye on this game. It could be an interesting new take on MMO gaming, despite the worn-out subject matter.
I totally disagree. Fight Club was MARKETED out of the theatre. They marketed the movie as a completely different idea than what the movie was actually about. None of the previews actually tell you anything about the movie except that there's a fight club and you don't talk about it. That is NOT what the movie was about.
I was going to reply with exactly the same statement. I only ended up watching it after wandering by while my girlfriend was watching it on a rented DVD. Prior to that I'd roll my eyes at any mention of the movie because of what I was told the movie was about by Our Marketing Masters.
A video game has just been released that perpetuates the notion that Fight Club was about nothing more than semi-organized streetfighting.
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If you ask me, he was talking about World of Grand Theft Old Republic Halo-Life 2: Echoes.
Regarding Musicmatch, I'll definitely agree that it's chunky, but I'm also a subscriber and have been since version 3 or 4 (I forget). I mainly purchased a license for ripping CDs to MP3 (which in short order I found wasn't the best move) and I've continued using it as such over the years. It's a stable app with enough bloat and feature creep to make me annoyed, but it's no more a system hog than iTunes is and I have more options than iTunes provides as well.
Also, just for giggles, here's what I find in Task Manager regarding Musicmatch:
3,248 K mm_director.exe
6,224 K MM_TDM~1.EXE
3,548 K MMDiag.exe
9,420 K mmjb.exe
2,896 K mmtask
Total: 25,336 K
I also happen to be ripping all tracks from a noisy CD to MP3 at variable bitrates up to 320 kbps. So those numbers are a little higher than normal. YMMV, of course.
Or, you could just turn down your detail settings... for free.
As funny as that was, he's right about the hardware needs. Even with everything scaled down as far as it will go, the game ran at an average of 4 frames per second on my dual celeron 533s (at 575mHz) with 512 MB RAM and a 64 MB Radeon 7500.
It's just not a game that you can scale up the ugly until performance is acceptable.
"Oooh switch to firefox" is the most ignorant and misguided response to this. Does soccer mom really care about a firefox? Nope.
The good news is, she doesn't care about a Internet Explorer either.
I spent some extra time while replacing my mother's aging and cruft-hobbled Win98SE install (with XP, for the record) to install and configure both Firefox and Thunderbird alongside IE and OE. The fox and the bird are default, but I wanted to make sure that if she found them unacceptable for any reason, her known devices were still there and up for the task.
She was nervous about having to suddenly rely on unfamiliar programs to do her thing but as long as they did the same things as IE+OE she was up for it. I made sure to import her "favorites" and contacts and picked out a theme for Firething with her and introduced her to tabbed browsing briefly. I showed her how to check her mail and where to change things for either program. After that all I could do was walk away and hope for the best.
A few days later I got an email from her thanking me again for my help and commenting on how much speedier everything was. I checked the user agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7. =^)
We'll see how it goes when I install the new version tonight, but Thunderbird 0.6 refused to import any file attachments from my mail stored via Outlook.
The problem with the Alien & Aliens debate is that many fans of Alien wanted another horror/suspense movie, where the Aliens fans enjoyed the action more. They really are two different movies and isn't fair to judge one of them by the goal of the other.
There's a third group, of which I am part, who enjoy both, or most, or all of the movies. While I wouldn't go out of my way to see 3 or Resurrection again, I didn't regret having seen them.
Don't be too surprised. The author, David Kushner, is also responsible for the still somewhat recently released book about id software (among other things) titled Masters of Doom
...wrapped inside those guilty pleasures is a pretty innovative fighting game.
Truth. I was lent two games to tide me over when I bought a non-bundle Xbox. One was Spider-Man (neat game, but I'd already had it on PC for awhile) and the other was Dead or Alive 3. I'd always sneered when people mentioned the game, but it really is an impressive fighter. The variance of fighting styles and unique combat mechanics make it an engaging game quite apart from the eye-catching animations.
It's great to see the sanity element actually injected into a video game, but there is no other inspiration for it than the original Call of Cthulhu role playing game. (For the kids, that's the one with the dead trees, writing utensils, and funny dice.*)
You did a fabulous job of restating almost everything I listed above. I'm sure all the other third graders will appreciate having my post translated (though incompletely) to your reading level. Maybe if you show it to your teacher you'll get some extra credit!
You did misunderstand the issue of buying the e-Reader however, as it's not money but having to acquire and carry about additional hardware and media that is annoying. So you only a B- on the Reading Comprehension for this post. Better luck next time.
Perhaps you'd like to point out where there is a choice?
I'd like to play (for example) Donkey Kong Jr. on my portable game device, but to do so I have to buy another gadget, and have another set of media to carry and store. Why?
So what is the choice? Either get this new stuff, or collect an emulator and the ROMs, or... what? Hit up eBay for 20 year old hardware?
Or of course there's always the option of not playing the games at all.;^)
It doesn't exactly piss me off, it's just annoying.
Am I the only one who sees this as unnecessary? Why should I have to buy an add-on device for my GBA to play all these goofy cards instead of plonking down the money for one anthology cart with 5 or 10 retro titles on it?
Namco Museum, the Pac-Man collection, Atari Classics... that's how it should be done. This card silliness just ticks me off.
Ahhh... I was wondering when someone would bring up doors/chains.
I miss do miss Operation Overkill II, Global War, Netrunner, Pimpwars, and sometimes even Legend of the Red Dragon. But I can't say any of them really affected me.
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That's probably a side-effect of serving svn via Apache. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch06s04.html
If I had a mod point available I'd totally reward that Ghostbusters reference.
Brilliant. Thanks!
The cut/paste formatting issue is very annoying. And yes, you can clear formatting, but I'd rather that be done by default. In fact if there was a toggle to turn off pasting with original formatting, I'd use it. I don't use formatting, so it's silly to have the whole row of buttons up just so I can hit the Clear Formatting button once every 36-48 hours.
Perhaps it wouldn't annoy me so much if the Clear Formatting action was available from a drop-down menu as well as the button. But as it stands, I think the default behavior should be to only apply formatting from the pasted text to the pasted text, and nothing else.
Also, I have the same rendering problem (white pixels to the left of the status drop-down menu) on WinXP SP2, with whatever GTK+ version was bundled with GAIM 2b4. ClearType is off. For grins, I even turned off font smoothing entirely but there was no change.
I can't imagine what the person who modded your post as Offtopic was thinking. I found this a fascinating read. Thanks for sharing it.
I recently purchased one of these to power a new SLI system. Just because it's built for gaming doesn't mean I'm going to give up on having a quiet system.
The PSU does look cool, and it does seem to perform well (though I've no real way of measuring it other than whether it successfully powers my system or not).
My one complaint is that the fan they include, to kick in when needed, is an exceptionally loud little fan. That just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Regardless, as the reviewer said, you need decent case ventilation to accompany this PSU. I have a 120mm exhausting the case, and one 88mm intake across from the zalman-cooled cpu (dual core athlon). There are also two 88s running air over the HDD rack at the bottom front of the case, but as this is one of those shiny, slick little cases without a grill in the front, those are just moving internal air. The two video cards are XFX GeForce 6600 LEs with only broad heatsinks, no fans.
That said, it seems to be good enough airflow for most conditions, with the PSU fan only kicking on when spending a little time in a demanding video game like Half-Life 2.
When people ask me what kind of game system I think they should get if they're considering buying one, I ask them what games they want to play. You don't buy an Xbox if you want to play Metroid. If you like fighters it's either PS2 or Xbox, and I'd lean toward the PS2. If you want a killer first person shooter, Halo. Xbox.
Video games are not an interchangeable, static quantity across systems. I own a GameCube and a Xbox because there are games for those systems that I want to play. Because the PS2 does not sport any titles that I felt compelled to play, I didn't buy one.
More so than when you compare game libraries between consoles, PC games stand quite apart. World of Warcraft is not available on any game consoles. Unreal Tournament has what I feel is an awful port on Xbox. Deus Ex, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (yes, still) and countless others either do not exist in the console gaming world, or have shadows of themselves there that are not worth mentioning.
So if the games you want to play are on the PC, that's the platform you need. And having a PC equipped to satisfy modern gaming requirements means money. They're the most expensive consumer PCs, no contest.
So how likely do you think it is that someone who has bought a system or the parts for a system capable of playing the latest games can sink a bunch of money into an expensive new Mac? Not likely at all, in my experience.
I don't know how your post got modded up, as it struck me as very ignorant. But that last comment is probably right on target.
Of course, dungeons will be instanced...
Not only that, but most of the adventuring will be instanced, if I recall a developer interview correctly. The idea is to bring the table-top feeling to the game, where it's you and your party, rather than the much less intimate experience we're used to in MMO worlds.
I'm keeping an eye on this game. It could be an interesting new take on MMO gaming, despite the worn-out subject matter.
I totally disagree. Fight Club was MARKETED out of the theatre. They marketed the movie as a completely different idea than what the movie was actually about. None of the previews actually tell you anything about the movie except that there's a fight club and you don't talk about it. That is NOT what the movie was about.
I was going to reply with exactly the same statement. I only ended up watching it after wandering by while my girlfriend was watching it on a rented DVD. Prior to that I'd roll my eyes at any mention of the movie because of what I was told the movie was about by Our Marketing Masters. A video game has just been released that perpetuates the notion that Fight Club was about nothing more than semi-organized streetfighting.
If you ask me, he was talking about World of Grand Theft Old Republic Halo-Life 2: Echoes.
Regarding Musicmatch, I'll definitely agree that it's chunky, but I'm also a subscriber and have been since version 3 or 4 (I forget). I mainly purchased a license for ripping CDs to MP3 (which in short order I found wasn't the best move) and I've continued using it as such over the years. It's a stable app with enough bloat and feature creep to make me annoyed, but it's no more a system hog than iTunes is and I have more options than iTunes provides as well.
Also, just for giggles, here's what I find in Task Manager regarding Musicmatch:
3,248 K mm_director.exe
6,224 K MM_TDM~1.EXE
3,548 K MMDiag.exe
9,420 K mmjb.exe
2,896 K mmtask
Total: 25,336 K
I also happen to be ripping all tracks from a noisy CD to MP3 at variable bitrates up to 320 kbps. So those numbers are a little higher than normal. YMMV, of course.
Or, you could just turn down your detail settings... for free.
As funny as that was, he's right about the hardware needs. Even with everything scaled down as far as it will go, the game ran at an average of 4 frames per second on my dual celeron 533s (at 575mHz) with 512 MB RAM and a 64 MB Radeon 7500.
It's just not a game that you can scale up the ugly until performance is acceptable.
"Oooh switch to firefox" is the most ignorant and misguided response to this. Does soccer mom really care about a firefox? Nope.
The good news is, she doesn't care about a Internet Explorer either.
I spent some extra time while replacing my mother's aging and cruft-hobbled Win98SE install (with XP, for the record) to install and configure both Firefox and Thunderbird alongside IE and OE. The fox and the bird are default, but I wanted to make sure that if she found them unacceptable for any reason, her known devices were still there and up for the task.
She was nervous about having to suddenly rely on unfamiliar programs to do her thing but as long as they did the same things as IE+OE she was up for it. I made sure to import her "favorites" and contacts and picked out a theme for Firething with her and introduced her to tabbed browsing briefly. I showed her how to check her mail and where to change things for either program. After that all I could do was walk away and hope for the best.
A few days later I got an email from her thanking me again for my help and commenting on how much speedier everything was. I checked the user agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7. =^)
We'll see how it goes when I install the new version tonight, but Thunderbird 0.6 refused to import any file attachments from my mail stored via Outlook.
Those are some scary numbers until you realize how many more people live in the United States than United Kingdom.
The problem with the Alien & Aliens debate is that many fans of Alien wanted another horror/suspense movie, where the Aliens fans enjoyed the action more. They really are two different movies and isn't fair to judge one of them by the goal of the other.
There's a third group, of which I am part, who enjoy both, or most, or all of the movies. While I wouldn't go out of my way to see 3 or Resurrection again, I didn't regret having seen them.
Don't be too surprised. The author, David Kushner, is also responsible for the still somewhat recently released book about id software (among other things) titled Masters of Doom
...wrapped inside those guilty pleasures is a pretty innovative fighting game.
Truth. I was lent two games to tide me over when I bought a non-bundle Xbox. One was Spider-Man (neat game, but I'd already had it on PC for awhile) and the other was Dead or Alive 3. I'd always sneered when people mentioned the game, but it really is an impressive fighter. The variance of fighting styles and unique combat mechanics make it an engaging game quite apart from the eye-catching animations.
It's great to see the sanity element actually injected into a video game, but there is no other inspiration for it than the original Call of Cthulhu role playing game. (For the kids, that's the one with the dead trees, writing utensils, and funny dice.*)
*Optional equipment including tables, chairs, caffeine-laden beverages, greasy potato chips, soap, girls....
It's not a rumor. Until someone creates a "Y" adapter, you're (externally) powerless with headphones.
Someone has. Macro Kit SP
You did a fabulous job of restating almost everything I listed above. I'm sure all the other third graders will appreciate having my post translated (though incompletely) to your reading level. Maybe if you show it to your teacher you'll get some extra credit!
You did misunderstand the issue of buying the e-Reader however, as it's not money but having to acquire and carry about additional hardware and media that is annoying. So you only a B- on the Reading Comprehension for this post. Better luck next time.
Perhaps you'd like to point out where there is a choice?
;^)
I'd like to play (for example) Donkey Kong Jr. on my portable game device, but to do so I have to buy another gadget, and have another set of media to carry and store. Why?
So what is the choice? Either get this new stuff, or collect an emulator and the ROMs, or... what? Hit up eBay for 20 year old hardware?
Or of course there's always the option of not playing the games at all.
It doesn't exactly piss me off, it's just annoying.
Am I the only one who sees this as unnecessary? Why should I have to buy an add-on device for my GBA to play all these goofy cards instead of plonking down the money for one anthology cart with 5 or 10 retro titles on it?
Namco Museum, the Pac-Man collection, Atari Classics... that's how it should be done. This card silliness just ticks me off.
Ahhh... I was wondering when someone would bring up doors/chains.
I miss do miss Operation Overkill II, Global War, Netrunner, Pimpwars, and sometimes even Legend of the Red Dragon. But I can't say any of them really affected me.
Well, *I* got it the first time. =^P
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