I think you need to check your numbers. Most LCDs use roughly the same amount of power, ~180 watts. Plasmas are way worse, My 42" Panasonic is close to 500 watts. Meanwhile, I once used a 57" CRT projection HDTV that was only 11 watts. That was less than the digital cable box at 35 watts.
I was a big fan of NWN on PC but I picked up DA:O for PS3 and the controls work quite well. You can toggle into the radial menu and switch to any of your party members to set targets and use spells, abilities, and items while the action is paused. The only major thing its missing from the PC is click-to-move from an overhead view, instead you have to run your characters in place if you need to move them without selecting an attack target. It also has an FF12 "gambit" style system called tactics that allow simple logic for automatic actions, and you don't have to buy the conditions unlike 12. The number of lines increases with skills and levels.
As for FF14, I assume it will support keyboard since FF11 on PS2 did via USB. It also had an autotranslate function that would let you select from various predetermined text chats which would show up in the appropriate language for all players since the servers had no region restriction, so very often there was a mix of English and Japanese speaking players in party. I only played 11 on PC but I know these existed for console. Haven't seen the 360 version but I assume its similar.
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we do not know we don't know.
-Donald Rumsfeld
Thats pretty much what I am making this post from. After disabling as much useless crap and stupid services as possible and using classic mode, it works but its really f'ing annoying. Frequent reboots help, which really pisses me off. Unfortunately its a work computer and I can't ask to add more ram and refuse to by my own for $30 out of principle.
It never adds up. These numbers all always pulled out of someone or something's ass. They have no fracking idea how much traffic crosses the internet, where its going, where it came from, and what it is. No idea.
It sounds like the person harassing you was also committing lots of fraud which would have been a bit easier to prove and carries rather harsh penalties.
Yes, I'm at work on a 640Kb down maybe 90 or 128 up connection. Yes thats bits. At home however, I can get sustained 2MB (yes bytes) down but still not much more than 150KB up.
You can send private messages directly to another user if you want. Not as robust as email but pretty much the same. Still, its a closed system so you can only communicate with other facebook users and give all control of retention to facebook. So I sure as hell would never use to talk to the VA. Send intimate messages to the wife? Not any worse then sending them with hotmail, yahoo, or gmail.
I agree that the specialization of tasks is necessary for our complex society and admit that I couldn't build my own lightbulb or start my own sewage treatment plant. But most middle-class americans spend about as much or more time in front of a computer as they do driving a car, but when they car runs out of gas, they know to put fuel in it, and if the tires are low on air, most know to fill that too. Yet for some reason their eye's glaze over when you try to explain that their hard drive is full because they have too much pr0n or too many mp3s. They know the difference between a windshield and an engine, but don't know the difference between a monitor and a cpu. For some reason they are actively scared of or resistant to learning about PCs, more so than almost anything else.
Anyway, the essence of my previous post, is that geeks are curious about the world around us (in general) and the unwillingness of the general populace to learn about technology seems to be symptomatic of an incurious, stubborn attitude. That is all.
Your comments reflect the malignant attitude of ignorance and anti-intellectualism that will become the downfall of our society. If people don't want to know how the machines that make their daily lives go by smoothly, then they should go live in the forest and sacrifice goats to the nature gods to bring them more berries. It is perfectly reasonable to rely on experts to maintain the various and increasingly complex constructs in our lives operating them, this is the basis of civilization, but everyone should have at least a basic understanding of how a computer works, and how waste is processed, instead of leaving it to esoteric circles of wizards in lofty towers to keep the evil gods of blue screens of death and smelly shit at bay.
Agreed with the game sizes and music mostly. Movies I used to get 700MB or 1.4GB rips, then slowly the full dvd-iso at 4.5, now I get the x264 1080P versions which are going anywhere from about the same (4.5) to 12+ GB. That growth seriously outpaces my used of skype, pandora, youtube, hulu, facebook and other media-rich web content that has increased during the same period.
I just saw this "old news" article on Kotaku http://kotaku.com/5346805/old-news-97-sony-forces-nintendo-game-prices-down
It really puts things in perspective how expensive games used to be before pressed discs on the psx. Recall these prices have no adjustment for inflation, and we are now bitching about 59.99 games when 12 years ago they were just coming down from $70 !
My PS3 is on pretty much 24/7 doing Folding@Home and I don't expect it to fail anytime soon. Sure it isn't reading from the BD drive at all during that time, but the same holds true for playing PSN games off the hard drive. 360s fail a lot more and that's all there is too it.
No problem, and yea it is a much narrower band, but because the band of each photorecptor overlaps widely but at varying intensities we can distinguish a wide range of monochromatic colors, so the gamut of a TV system doesn't cover the periphery of the chromaticity chart because all the colors it produces are desaturated. Plus there is the huge area it can't reach at all because of the choice of primaries.
I meant the TV pixels represent far more than one wavelength per primary color, of course our photorecptors do to, in fact they overlap in certain ranges.
No they don't. They represent a peak at a frequency and a reasonable amount of energy in the region surrounding it. Since our eyes are pretty much 100% QE, we see the desaturation even though the ratio of energy might be quite dramatic. See my other post.
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I think you need to check your numbers. Most LCDs use roughly the same amount of power, ~180 watts. Plasmas are way worse, My 42" Panasonic is close to 500 watts. Meanwhile, I once used a 57" CRT projection HDTV that was only 11 watts. That was less than the digital cable box at 35 watts.
Surprisingly its the same color as their Lemon-Lime under a blacklight.
I was a big fan of NWN on PC but I picked up DA:O for PS3 and the controls work quite well. You can toggle into the radial menu and switch to any of your party members to set targets and use spells, abilities, and items while the action is paused. The only major thing its missing from the PC is click-to-move from an overhead view, instead you have to run your characters in place if you need to move them without selecting an attack target. It also has an FF12 "gambit" style system called tactics that allow simple logic for automatic actions, and you don't have to buy the conditions unlike 12. The number of lines increases with skills and levels. As for FF14, I assume it will support keyboard since FF11 on PS2 did via USB. It also had an autotranslate function that would let you select from various predetermined text chats which would show up in the appropriate language for all players since the servers had no region restriction, so very often there was a mix of English and Japanese speaking players in party. I only played 11 on PC but I know these existed for console. Haven't seen the 360 version but I assume its similar.
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we do not know we don't know. -Donald Rumsfeld
Thats pretty much what I am making this post from. After disabling as much useless crap and stupid services as possible and using classic mode, it works but its really f'ing annoying. Frequent reboots help, which really pisses me off. Unfortunately its a work computer and I can't ask to add more ram and refuse to by my own for $30 out of principle.
Actually XP crashed quite a bit before SP1.
Its a reference to the seminal PC game X-COM aka UFO: Enemy Unknown.
The attitude of religious institutions against gay marriage you express directly from the horses mouth: http://blog.beliefnet.com/kingdomofpriests/2009/06/how-women-will-be-hurt-by-gay-marriage.html
I'm pretty sure its the OPPOSITE of voting, as in you are putting your name and reputation behind the petition.
It never adds up. These numbers all always pulled out of someone or something's ass. They have no fracking idea how much traffic crosses the internet, where its going, where it came from, and what it is. No idea.
It sounds like the person harassing you was also committing lots of fraud which would have been a bit easier to prove and carries rather harsh penalties.
Yes, I'm at work on a 640Kb down maybe 90 or 128 up connection. Yes thats bits. At home however, I can get sustained 2MB (yes bytes) down but still not much more than 150KB up.
You can send private messages directly to another user if you want. Not as robust as email but pretty much the same. Still, its a closed system so you can only communicate with other facebook users and give all control of retention to facebook. So I sure as hell would never use to talk to the VA. Send intimate messages to the wife? Not any worse then sending them with hotmail, yahoo, or gmail.
You'll see a few games with DSi features released in the US for holidays this season.
I agree that the specialization of tasks is necessary for our complex society and admit that I couldn't build my own lightbulb or start my own sewage treatment plant. But most middle-class americans spend about as much or more time in front of a computer as they do driving a car, but when they car runs out of gas, they know to put fuel in it, and if the tires are low on air, most know to fill that too. Yet for some reason their eye's glaze over when you try to explain that their hard drive is full because they have too much pr0n or too many mp3s. They know the difference between a windshield and an engine, but don't know the difference between a monitor and a cpu. For some reason they are actively scared of or resistant to learning about PCs, more so than almost anything else. Anyway, the essence of my previous post, is that geeks are curious about the world around us (in general) and the unwillingness of the general populace to learn about technology seems to be symptomatic of an incurious, stubborn attitude. That is all.
Although I've never tried 2003, I know for a fact that office 97 and 2000 both work in Vista, I don't understand why xp/03 wouldn't.
Your comments reflect the malignant attitude of ignorance and anti-intellectualism that will become the downfall of our society. If people don't want to know how the machines that make their daily lives go by smoothly, then they should go live in the forest and sacrifice goats to the nature gods to bring them more berries. It is perfectly reasonable to rely on experts to maintain the various and increasingly complex constructs in our lives operating them, this is the basis of civilization, but everyone should have at least a basic understanding of how a computer works, and how waste is processed, instead of leaving it to esoteric circles of wizards in lofty towers to keep the evil gods of blue screens of death and smelly shit at bay.
No problem dude I was just being a pedantic dick.
"1-kilogram weight from several feet"
I wouldn't trust specs from someone who mixes metric and customary like that.
Agreed with the game sizes and music mostly. Movies I used to get 700MB or 1.4GB rips, then slowly the full dvd-iso at 4.5, now I get the x264 1080P versions which are going anywhere from about the same (4.5) to 12+ GB. That growth seriously outpaces my used of skype, pandora, youtube, hulu, facebook and other media-rich web content that has increased during the same period.
I just saw this "old news" article on Kotaku http://kotaku.com/5346805/old-news-97-sony-forces-nintendo-game-prices-down It really puts things in perspective how expensive games used to be before pressed discs on the psx. Recall these prices have no adjustment for inflation, and we are now bitching about 59.99 games when 12 years ago they were just coming down from $70 !
My PS3 is on pretty much 24/7 doing Folding@Home and I don't expect it to fail anytime soon. Sure it isn't reading from the BD drive at all during that time, but the same holds true for playing PSN games off the hard drive. 360s fail a lot more and that's all there is too it.
No problem, and yea it is a much narrower band, but because the band of each photorecptor overlaps widely but at varying intensities we can distinguish a wide range of monochromatic colors, so the gamut of a TV system doesn't cover the periphery of the chromaticity chart because all the colors it produces are desaturated. Plus there is the huge area it can't reach at all because of the choice of primaries.
I meant the TV pixels represent far more than one wavelength per primary color, of course our photorecptors do to, in fact they overlap in certain ranges.
No they don't. They represent a peak at a frequency and a reasonable amount of energy in the region surrounding it. Since our eyes are pretty much 100% QE, we see the desaturation even though the ratio of energy might be quite dramatic. See my other post.