1) It's rock solid stable. GIMP is crash-prone on Windows. I swear I've caused it to crash by missing a toolbar button and clicking inbetween. 2) It has easy to create extensions, vastly enhancing capabilities. Stuff like, altering the colour tone of multiple images to match. You give it an old-style Western scene, and it'll turn any photo into that. Like most gimp-lovers, you seem to think "ease of use" counteracts "powerful". Software can be both. Paint.net is simplistic, powerful, and extensible.
50 ms is about the lowest I've seen, to places like Seattle. Most often Battle.net is in the 100-150ms range. When I play TF2, there's about two dozen servers under 100ms, two dozen under 200ms, and the rest are considerably higher. Sorting by ping, they start at just over 50 and end well over 300, in just the first page(screen) of results. Most of those servers are empty, too.
50ms... you're going to make me drool.
You're going from under 10 millisecond pings for an internal network
Mine has under 2ms. It might be lower than that - hard to say, exactly.
Please tell me they're only thinking of putting it in as an opt-in option, not as the default or only option...
Well, after my experience with the OO.o developers, I'm going to guess it'll be implemented as an opt-in on-install hidden option(no checkbox), which requires cmdline arguments added to the installer to turn off, and requires a complete reinstall to disable.
And after being told it's a bad idea, and implementing it, they will take 9 months to fix it.
At least they included a ruler, right? The article said the gas plume extended the equivalent distance of Neptune. The artist's impression shows the distance ratios, somewhat.
Seen that. Spawned, got stuck on a rock. Couldn't move around a corner to tongue someone, until they were out of range.
"hunters literally bouncing off of other players when lunging"
Seen that one too. I mentioned it on here in the past - a guy landed on top of me, so I looked up and shot him.:P
"the unspeakably fucking AWFUL survivor AI that will sit around with it's thumb up the ass while a hunter eats your intestines"
Indeed. I've seen them jiggle back and forth while you're getting mauled, without meleeing the hunter off you, or shooting it.
And yet when boomed, they always get the hunter off right away.
"survivors hanging off of the edge of something when the ground is two feet below them"
Yes. I've seen people fall 2 feet to their death. One guy got pulled out a window, but didn't grab on. He was hanging against a stone column outside. We shot the tongue, he fell a foot, and died.
I believe the fall damage was calculated from the window - not where he finally dropped from.
"smoker tongues breaking for no discernible reason at all"
Sometimes the person getting tongued can shoot the tongue off before it pulls. I find that quite annoying.
"lousy anti-cheat protection"
What anti-cheat protection?
Between all the endless tank spawners, aim hackers, glitch abusers, and no-clippers I encounter, I'm surprised there's any protection at all.
"bugged instakill zones with smokers"
It is so annoying getting smoked off that crane crate ladder, through the air and off the building. There's so many areas where you can get insta-kills if you know how. About a half dozen per campaign.:/
"The tank's hit window sometimes being ridiculously narrow for such a massive monster with huge, beefy arms that swing very wide"
Yeah, that's weird. I think it has something to do with ping. This really slow guy with red health was walking left and right, and I couldn't hit him for some reason. I finally backed off and tossed a rock at him, since that actually worked.
Here's some extra bugs:
Randomly getting lit on fire.
Super-speed no-noise infected door glitch.
Tank spawning in fire barrels, inside walls, etc.
Tank climbing into walls.
Tank randomly dying. Usually happens when "stuck" out of range, but one time I just died(full health) when charging at the survivors on Dead Air 2 (crane)
I've found it handy on rare occasion for gathering info on serious IO errors.
Although for most of my drives that have failed over the years, I mostly use it as an incrementing counter. When the number of errors is increasing daily, you better replace that drive quickly!:P
I had one drive which would lock up when trying to access certain parts of a drive. Then it'd spit out IO errors for about a minute, and resume functioning. I think the SMART error counter hit 4000 after a day or so of that...
But another drive failed before it even hit 10 lifetime errors, so who knows?
This is a total lie. I copied WinLogon (MinLogon) from WinCE into my XP, and it's definitely the fastest to shut down. Often, if nothing is being written to the drive, and nothing is open, it shuts down in about a half second. One time I had Steam open by accident, and it delayed shutdown by a whole dozen or so seconds, while it closed.
So Windows CE is definitely the fastest version of Windows to shut down.
As far as not using the shell for day-to-day tasks, you can do that with Linux now. Ubuntu has all those point-and-click controls you love, and you're free to use them instead of the shell if you like.
Bolded the problem word. That should be most.
You'll get things done more slowly, because GUI configs suck, but that's your choice.
A GUI should be usable nearly as fast, or else it's poorly designed and tacked on as an afterthought.
What may make you believe it's impossible to go without using a shell in Linux is the fact that Linux people tend to suggest typing shell commands when people ask how to fix problems on a forum. This is because the shell is the best, fastest way to fix problems in Linux, even when other options are available, and we won't suggest an inferior solution unless pressed for it.
And there lies the problem. It is inferior, but it doesn't have to be.
Idiot? Alright, lets let the flaming begin, you ignorant turd!
I had to use the terminal yesterday, to check SMART info, because one of my HDDs is making a high pitched screeching noise. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work. I think an update broke it. I had the insight to write all the commands down rather than relying on my own memory, so that seems most likely.
There's also the advantage of owning the software. If for example you develop a design, you can archive both the design and the tools so they can still be used 15-20 years from now and "resurrected" from the basement. You can't do that with online aps which are constantly updated with no way to "freeze" a tool at a certain point.
Conversely, an online tool will constantly be updated, and the format constantly migrated forward, so you will have no compatibility issues ever. (except perhaps when exporting to an offline file) The archived offline tool won't run on a new OS in 15 years, and if you're a business, you'll have to pay someone a shit ton of money to get a virtualized OS up and running with those old tools, pushing the "$12" cost significantly higher.
I am with you. 11.6" is just too big. Lets get back to the 7" and 8" models please.
I disagree. 7" and 8" are just too small, and 15.4" is too big. I think 11.6" is just right, especially since you get a better resolution for viewing webpages.
The performance degradation in the Intel X-25 is not because of a "firmware bug". All SSD's will suffer performance degradation whether or not their writing/wear leveling algorithms have been updated via firmware.
1) As ShadowRangerRIT pointed out, it is a bug. 2) These don't suffer performance degradation, so your "all" comment is 100% incorrect.
However, if you want to apply that statement to all crappy consumer SSDs powered by Intel or JMicron controllers, then I will happily submit defeat.
You obviously haven't played in a loooooong time. Valve "fixed" all of that stuff in VS mode.
I see why you quoted that.;)
Randomness puts them pretty close together, but "pretty close" can be in the middle of a hallway, vs in a room with a closed door. Or spawning a tank before a crescendo, spawning it right after, or spawning it ontop of a flame barrel. Or maybe just not giving control fast enough, and letting the AI charge forward into a molotov.
I'm still waiting for all the bugs relating to smoker pulling to be resolved.
The other day on Dead Air two, a friend of mine got pulled out a window, and didn't grab the ledge. He didn't fall to his death - he dropped down and was hanging against a column. We shot the tongue, and he fell a few feet, to his death. Very lame.
And then later a smoker pulled one of us right over a railing, and off a ledge, causing death. I believe it had something to do with climbing a ladder at the time of the pull - but Francis should've been firmly on the ground after being dragged for a second to get to the ledge.
I'd challenge somebody to a game of L4D - except that, cheating is so rampant, there's no way to guarantee the results are legitimate.
Some are easy to spot, like aim hax, or fast movement. Others are harder, like somebody always knowing where the special infected are, even when they aren't making noise. It could be a skilled player, or something else.
And sometimes cheating is indistinguishable from bugs. One time a hunter pounced me on that board in Dead Air one, and the pounce didn't register. He was sitting on my head, so I looked up and shot him with my shotgun. Didn't take long for him to ragequit, after that.
I gather Canada Post was looking at them as a potential means of improving mail delivery speeds. Segways travel about four times faster than a walking person.
But that was a few years back, and I haven't seen anyone on them yet, so I suppose the idea was rejected?
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Sure, here's two reasons:
1) It's rock solid stable. GIMP is crash-prone on Windows. I swear I've caused it to crash by missing a toolbar button and clicking inbetween.
2) It has easy to create extensions, vastly enhancing capabilities. Stuff like, altering the colour tone of multiple images to match. You give it an old-style Western scene, and it'll turn any photo into that. Like most gimp-lovers, you seem to think "ease of use" counteracts "powerful". Software can be both. Paint.net is simplistic, powerful, and extensible.
But Warcraft III has been getting buggier and buggier with every new patch.
With a downhill track record, I'll hope for bug-free and polished, but won't hold my breath.
I actually have EV Nova, for XP. It's quite fun. It introduced me to RPG space adventures.
pings of a 50-100 milliseconds or more.
I'm in Canada, man. I'd kill for 50 ms ping!
50 ms is about the lowest I've seen, to places like Seattle. Most often Battle.net is in the 100-150ms range. When I play TF2, there's about two dozen servers under 100ms, two dozen under 200ms, and the rest are considerably higher. Sorting by ping, they start at just over 50 and end well over 300, in just the first page(screen) of results. Most of those servers are empty, too.
50ms... you're going to make me drool.
You're going from under 10 millisecond pings for an internal network
Mine has under 2ms. It might be lower than that - hard to say, exactly.
Please tell me they're only thinking of putting it in as an opt-in option, not as the default or only option...
Well, after my experience with the OO.o developers, I'm going to guess it'll be implemented as an opt-in on-install hidden option(no checkbox), which requires cmdline arguments added to the installer to turn off, and requires a complete reinstall to disable.
And after being told it's a bad idea, and implementing it, they will take 9 months to fix it.
106.5 million? Look how little that is compared to the amount of money they'd lose, licensing H.264!
VP8 should give similar results to H.264 as used on Youtube. (Lots of quality enhancing features turned off to speed up encoding)
it sounds too good to be true man
I agree.
It seems there's one company already producing similar stuff:
http://www.innovationcooling.com/overview.htm
But they don't claim such a huge difference.
At least they included a ruler, right? The article said the gas plume extended the equivalent distance of Neptune. The artist's impression shows the distance ratios, somewhat.
"being blocked by the smallest obstructions"
Seen that. Spawned, got stuck on a rock. Couldn't move around a corner to tongue someone, until they were out of range.
"hunters literally bouncing off of other players when lunging"
Seen that one too. I mentioned it on here in the past - a guy landed on top of me, so I looked up and shot him. :P
"the unspeakably fucking AWFUL survivor AI that will sit around with it's thumb up the ass while a hunter eats your intestines"
Indeed. I've seen them jiggle back and forth while you're getting mauled, without meleeing the hunter off you, or shooting it.
And yet when boomed, they always get the hunter off right away.
"survivors hanging off of the edge of something when the ground is two feet below them"
Yes. I've seen people fall 2 feet to their death. One guy got pulled out a window, but didn't grab on. He was hanging against a stone column outside. We shot the tongue, he fell a foot, and died.
I believe the fall damage was calculated from the window - not where he finally dropped from.
"smoker tongues breaking for no discernible reason at all"
Sometimes the person getting tongued can shoot the tongue off before it pulls. I find that quite annoying.
"lousy anti-cheat protection"
What anti-cheat protection?
Between all the endless tank spawners, aim hackers, glitch abusers, and no-clippers I encounter, I'm surprised there's any protection at all.
"bugged instakill zones with smokers"
It is so annoying getting smoked off that crane crate ladder, through the air and off the building. There's so many areas where you can get insta-kills if you know how. About a half dozen per campaign. :/
"The tank's hit window sometimes being ridiculously narrow for such a massive monster with huge, beefy arms that swing very wide"
Yeah, that's weird. I think it has something to do with ping. This really slow guy with red health was walking left and right, and I couldn't hit him for some reason. I finally backed off and tossed a rock at him, since that actually worked.
Here's some extra bugs:
Those wouldn't run on newer hardware.
But I bet WinXP modified a bit running on new hardware shuts down faster than Win3.1 on old hardware. ;)
I've found it handy on rare occasion for gathering info on serious IO errors.
Although for most of my drives that have failed over the years, I mostly use it as an incrementing counter. When the number of errors is increasing daily, you better replace that drive quickly! :P
I had one drive which would lock up when trying to access certain parts of a drive. Then it'd spit out IO errors for about a minute, and resume functioning. I think the SMART error counter hit 4000 after a day or so of that...
But another drive failed before it even hit 10 lifetime errors, so who knows?
Who cares if it's standard? It still doesn't require a command line in Windows.
Hey, why is the other guy modded insightful, instead of you? You nailed the issue on the head.
You should look into nLite. It might help you out - there's a setting there that can terminate anything that refuses to shut down within 5-10 seconds.
nLite lets you customize your WinXP ISO.
> fastest version of Windows to shut down,
This is a total lie. I copied WinLogon (MinLogon) from WinCE into my XP, and it's definitely the fastest to shut down. Often, if nothing is being written to the drive, and nothing is open, it shuts down in about a half second. One time I had Steam open by accident, and it delayed shutdown by a whole dozen or so seconds, while it closed.
So Windows CE is definitely the fastest version of Windows to shut down.
As far as not using the shell for day-to-day tasks, you can do that with Linux now. Ubuntu has all those point-and-click controls you love, and you're free to use them instead of the shell if you like.
Bolded the problem word. That should be most.
You'll get things done more slowly, because GUI configs suck, but that's your choice.
A GUI should be usable nearly as fast, or else it's poorly designed and tacked on as an afterthought.
What may make you believe it's impossible to go without using a shell in Linux is the fact that Linux people tend to suggest typing shell commands when people ask how to fix problems on a forum. This is because the shell is the best, fastest way to fix problems in Linux, even when other options are available, and we won't suggest an inferior solution unless pressed for it.
And there lies the problem. It is inferior, but it doesn't have to be.
Idiot? Alright, lets let the flaming begin, you ignorant turd!
I had to use the terminal yesterday, to check SMART info, because one of my HDDs is making a high pitched screeching noise. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work. I think an update broke it. I had the insight to write all the commands down rather than relying on my own memory, so that seems most likely.
There's also the advantage of owning the software. If for example you develop a design, you can archive both the design and the tools so they can still be used 15-20 years from now and "resurrected" from the basement. You can't do that with online aps which are constantly updated with no way to "freeze" a tool at a certain point.
Conversely, an online tool will constantly be updated, and the format constantly migrated forward, so you will have no compatibility issues ever. (except perhaps when exporting to an offline file) The archived offline tool won't run on a new OS in 15 years, and if you're a business, you'll have to pay someone a shit ton of money to get a virtualized OS up and running with those old tools, pushing the "$12" cost significantly higher.
If you're going to be a troll, at least use your own account so you can get modded into the ground.
I never mentioned winning or losing. I did mention people ragequitting, though. ;)
The article did go over important stuff like the keyboard, heatpoints(important for portable usage), etc.
7" is too small IMHO. It'd have to be a bell curve if you're grading size. Also, is "size" physical size or resolution?
I am with you. 11.6" is just too big.
Lets get back to the 7" and 8" models please.
I disagree. 7" and 8" are just too small, and 15.4" is too big. I think 11.6" is just right, especially since you get a better resolution for viewing webpages.
The performance degradation in the Intel X-25 is not because of a "firmware bug". All SSD's will suffer performance degradation whether or not their writing/wear leveling algorithms have been updated via firmware.
1) As ShadowRangerRIT pointed out, it is a bug.
2) These don't suffer performance degradation, so your "all" comment is 100% incorrect.
However, if you want to apply that statement to all crappy consumer SSDs powered by Intel or JMicron controllers, then I will happily submit defeat.
You obviously haven't played in a loooooong time. Valve "fixed" all of that stuff in VS mode.
I see why you quoted that. ;)
Randomness puts them pretty close together, but "pretty close" can be in the middle of a hallway, vs in a room with a closed door. Or spawning a tank before a crescendo, spawning it right after, or spawning it ontop of a flame barrel. Or maybe just not giving control fast enough, and letting the AI charge forward into a molotov.
I'm still waiting for all the bugs relating to smoker pulling to be resolved.
The other day on Dead Air two, a friend of mine got pulled out a window, and didn't grab the ledge. He didn't fall to his death - he dropped down and was hanging against a column. We shot the tongue, and he fell a few feet, to his death. Very lame.
And then later a smoker pulled one of us right over a railing, and off a ledge, causing death. I believe it had something to do with climbing a ladder at the time of the pull - but Francis should've been firmly on the ground after being dragged for a second to get to the ledge.
I'd challenge somebody to a game of L4D - except that, cheating is so rampant, there's no way to guarantee the results are legitimate.
Some are easy to spot, like aim hax, or fast movement. Others are harder, like somebody always knowing where the special infected are, even when they aren't making noise. It could be a skilled player, or something else.
And sometimes cheating is indistinguishable from bugs. One time a hunter pounced me on that board in Dead Air one, and the pounce didn't register. He was sitting on my head, so I looked up and shot him with my shotgun. Didn't take long for him to ragequit, after that.
Is it proper English to use "google" intransitively?
No. These would be proper:
"though I'm sure I could bing it."
"though I'm sure I could use Bing to search around."
Most of us say "google it" because Google is the only search engine to give you the correct results, right at the top. :P
I gather Canada Post was looking at them as a potential means of improving mail delivery speeds. Segways travel about four times faster than a walking person.
But that was a few years back, and I haven't seen anyone on them yet, so I suppose the idea was rejected?