Is it that? A combination of a 4- or 8-way switch with a pushable button? I guess all makers of joysticks will be delighted. For G*ds sake, make that thing turnable too, that way you could control screen rotation or whatever along with everything else.
The single most important thing that - IMHO - makes EverQuest and other MMORPGs differ from chemical drugs is that it's far more selective. You really have to be inclined towards that type of game for it to become a problem. Me and others I know started playing some of those games, be it Ultima Online, Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot or whatever and then just quit it after some time because we just didn't find the fun part in it in spite of being the exact stereotype (male single "nerds" with too much time on our hands).
A chemical drug that causes physical or psychical addiction does so far more indiscriminately; unless you've got a very strange metabolism, it'll get you. There surely are people that fall for the massive timesinks MMO games are, but I think their number is far less alarming and their problems are far easier to cure than, say, those of alcoholics. It's far less painful. You don't suffer pain or shiver all the time. You just feel like something was missing until one or two weeks later it's all over. I know there are "reports" of people deliberately having their credit card invalidated to make them quit, but there always are some nutcases that just can't stop.
Of course hippie-slackers such as yourself will proably lay about in traffic (not a bad ideal actually) and whine about how we are depriving the asteroid of its rights and blah, blah, blah.
Ah, the sweet smell of prejudice. First off, I wouldn't think that I'd meet your definition of "hippie-slacker" all too well (whatever that might be). If by hippie-slacker you mean "CS student with a basic understanding of physics that shaves regularly and is just a little sceptical about governments going gung-ho", then yes, that's about me.
Second, I'd like to know what rights an asteroid has in your whacky little - and certainly interesting in case of a hit - world. That's a problem a lot of people would certainly love to see answered. I can imagine a dialogue going like this:
Operator: "Incoming asteroid! Stop in an orbit and cease all hostile activities. You have the right to remain silent. You also have the right to be strip-mined into oblivion. Please stand by until the chinese shuttles arrive." Asteroid: "..."
It'd be really great to know when such a thing is coming. But what should be done if one was coming? Even if it was possible to nuke the thing away (which is highly improbable), I could still understand every government who wanted to keep its nukes at home for now with the U.policeS.ofA throwing their stupid weight around.
And despite all recent attempts, my karma is still excellent.
The only reason why video overlay might not work for you is if you were using in XF86Config file generated by ATI's config utility from before they supported video overlay.
Well, it did work insofar as the video was shown. It did not work because the video overlay caused artifacts all over the screen! Little chunks of the video image were drawn at random locations horizontally from the overlay window, which - needless to say - sucked. And I used config files from the same driver versions' utility, and yes, I did read the README.
I had this behaviour in every version. I reportet it to ATI in every version. I did never even get a reply. So to all those who cry "support DRI" and stuff: I'm right behind you in that matter. But those folks can't do shit about Via sitting on patents for S3TC/DXTC, and I don't have the time or knowledge to work around this myself. I've since given up on getting any commercial game to run too desperately. If it doesn't work after a sane amount of time, I just play it in Windows and the current DRI drivers at least allow me to do some basic GL hacking with some basic extensions.
Having an ATI card myself (a Radeon 8500), 3D support in X still seems like a faraway place. ATI is restrictive as hell with what GL extensions should be presented by the opensource driver, those suckers at Via hug their shitty little texture compression algorithm and the ATI drivers failed on video overlay in every version I tried.
Similar to a weather forecasting method my statistics prof presented. It goes like this:
Normal prediction methods score in between 50% and 60%. (At least in my area... it's kinda bitchy here)
Chances are over 70% that tomorrows weather will be just like todays
If your forecast always is "It's gonna stay like today", you have a better success ratio than all the scientific methods.
Or an alternative method:
Chances of rain are 70% average
Forecast "It's gonna rain tomorrow" is right in 70% of all cases, still better than scientific methods
And what's right for the weather can't be wrong for music, right? Both suck and no one really gives a damn. You just have to dress right. Raincoat and earplugs.
There is a more or less loosely Nethack-based webcomic somewhere out there. Most of the time, the hero gets blown up by the town idiot or other weak creatures. Anyone got an idea where that comic is?
In theory, a perfect system could be built from a lot of communicating "black boxes" without knowing the whole system. That's what the fun is all about. In the Real World however, this approach is not possible since there are too many broken black boxes and too many unsupported standards that make a secure approach impossible without knowing or at least controlling (=choosing which black boxes to use) the whole system.
Most of the time, I'm sitting at a line provided by the university. It has a 650MB up/650MB down hard limit per month. Your router port is blocked when you exceed it. I can live with that pretty well. 1GB per day is way beyond what an average private user will ever need as long as (s)he isn't using the so-called "value added" services that don't work anyways in most cases or leech ripped stuff off the net. Heck, you can even squeeze a Debian testing reinstall in 200MB which leaves you with a good month worth of bandwith for all the pr0n you might possibly want.
Always remember: 'wget -m' is not typical web access!
I appreciate that you're probably getting a lot of grief from strangers today, and probably feel bewildered and a little hurt. You probably feel that you were just doing your job, and that people (including me) are just shooting the messenger.
That's true, of course, to a degree. But in this case it isn't an adequate excuse. Yes, as a lawyer, your job is, in the end, to do what your client instructs. But when your client instructs you to do something extraordinarily foolish and liable to cause grave damage to your clients' own interests, part of a responsible lawyers duty is to councel caution and reflection.
To prove validity of that, have a look at the Nuremberg Trials where it was decided that shooting the messenger is perfectly legal if only the message was bad enough. OK, now keep the "-1, Flamebait"s coming.
The troubling part is when it says "System 5 license". I don't want to replace all that SysV stuff. You might as well start the next iteration of OS theory then.
Eh, somebody's got to hold the record for most twinkies eaten, fewest days in the gym, and fewest encounters with a real woman that doesn't go by the name "Mom". I'd say they're "the best" at some things.
Hmmm... I'd like to sign up for two of those titles, but for fairness I want to put that relative to my age, there's no point in contesting against an older geek stereotype. Did I say that I ain't exactly fat?
And moderators, please don't waste your time to mod this one down. There are far too many postings that'd deserve a +1 (something) to give this one a -1 (offtopic).
OK, after fiddling with the config, it actually got somewhat better. If you create a XF86Config using the fglrxconfig tool and then copy some stuff from there to your real XF86Config (omitting the BusID and Screen entries), XVideo works and the overlay problems seem to be gone. My system still restarts X when switching to a text console though and 2D feels a little slower than with the DRI drivers.
On an unrealted note: does anyone here know how to get the "two screens, one framebuffer" behaviour under Windows?
Basically, all parser errors occur on lines that use the __KE_DEBUG (or something similar) macro in fglxr_public.c. The macros are defined as __KE_DEBUG(fmt,args...) and it seems gcc <2.96 can't handle that when called with just one parameter. All I did was rewriting each call to that macro to have at least NULL as second parameter.
There are also errors that are caused by the patched drmP.h. I got around those by disabling the patch contained in make.sh.
I just had a 1-hour confrontation with those drivers. There are several things:
XVideo is dud.
Video overlay creates artifacts all over the screen like it did since the first fricken FGL drivers.
The drivers cannot be compiled with gcc 2.95 without modification and don't work properly (oh wonder) when compiled with gcc 3.0 on a 2.95 system.
The drivers depend on DRI 3.0.x, recent DRI CVS is 4.1.0. No fun.
Well, after installing a fresh X 4.2.1 from debian unstable, fixing about thirty parser errors in a source file and wreaking general havoc, I was at least able to start X. 3D seems to work, but I was not inclined to do much testing beyond fgl_glxgears and glxinfo after realizing that I was unable to use a text console without snapping back to the X console every second.
All this slowly leads to a heartfelt "fuck ATI" feeling and I'll have plenty time to ponder this while I restore my X config that mysteriously lost all 3D acceleration and Xvideo capabilities after switching back to the DRI driver.
Games are a strong incentive to use Windows. Personally, I use Win2k for recreational purposes and Linux for everything work-related. But give me some good games for Linux (I'm talking full ports here, not "but you can't use the editor" crap), like UT2003 and IL2 Sturmovik plus a program that has similar capabilities to VirtualDub for grabbing and editing video and Windows will get off the disk.
Yeah! Next time, he plans to use black powder in his modding attempts! How long do you think can a 1700+ run before ignition? Does the P4's thermal throttling prevent total burnout?
Have a look at Samsungs' 17" TFT (the 171P). The designer insisted on two 1.5m cables for VGA and DVI fixed to the device "for design reasons", at least that's what I was told when I asked. That's one argument against, huh?
So what do you think they'll do to a whole laptop?
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Is it that? A combination of a 4- or 8-way switch with a pushable button? I guess all makers of joysticks will be delighted. For G*ds sake, make that thing turnable too, that way you could control screen rotation or whatever along with everything else.
The single most important thing that - IMHO - makes EverQuest and other MMORPGs differ from chemical drugs is that it's far more selective. You really have to be inclined towards that type of game for it to become a problem. Me and others I know started playing some of those games, be it Ultima Online, Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot or whatever and then just quit it after some time because we just didn't find the fun part in it in spite of being the exact stereotype (male single "nerds" with too much time on our hands).
A chemical drug that causes physical or psychical addiction does so far more indiscriminately; unless you've got a very strange metabolism, it'll get you. There surely are people that fall for the massive timesinks MMO games are, but I think their number is far less alarming and their problems are far easier to cure than, say, those of alcoholics. It's far less painful. You don't suffer pain or shiver all the time. You just feel like something was missing until one or two weeks later it's all over. I know there are "reports" of people deliberately having their credit card invalidated to make them quit, but there always are some nutcases that just can't stop.
Ah, the sweet smell of prejudice. First off, I wouldn't think that I'd meet your definition of "hippie-slacker" all too well (whatever that might be). If by hippie-slacker you mean "CS student with a basic understanding of physics that shaves regularly and is just a little sceptical about governments going gung-ho", then yes, that's about me.
Second, I'd like to know what rights an asteroid has in your whacky little - and certainly interesting in case of a hit - world. That's a problem a lot of people would certainly love to see answered. I can imagine a dialogue going like this:
It'd be really great to know when such a thing is coming. But what should be done if one was coming? Even if it was possible to nuke the thing away (which is highly improbable), I could still understand every government who wanted to keep its nukes at home for now with the U.policeS.ofA throwing their stupid weight around.
And despite all recent attempts, my karma is still excellent.
Well, it did work insofar as the video was shown. It did not work because the video overlay caused artifacts all over the screen! Little chunks of the video image were drawn at random locations horizontally from the overlay window, which - needless to say - sucked. And I used config files from the same driver versions' utility, and yes, I did read the README.
I had this behaviour in every version. I reportet it to ATI in every version. I did never even get a reply. So to all those who cry "support DRI" and stuff: I'm right behind you in that matter. But those folks can't do shit about Via sitting on patents for S3TC/DXTC, and I don't have the time or knowledge to work around this myself. I've since given up on getting any commercial game to run too desperately. If it doesn't work after a sane amount of time, I just play it in Windows and the current DRI drivers at least allow me to do some basic GL hacking with some basic extensions.
I just resisted the urge to mod this as funny.
Having an ATI card myself (a Radeon 8500), 3D support in X still seems like a faraway place. ATI is restrictive as hell with what GL extensions should be presented by the opensource driver, those suckers at Via hug their shitty little texture compression algorithm and the ATI drivers failed on video overlay in every version I tried.
If you want 3D support in X, buy nVidia.
Patent graph theory right away!
Similar to a weather forecasting method my statistics prof presented. It goes like this:
Or an alternative method:
And what's right for the weather can't be wrong for music, right? Both suck and no one really gives a damn. You just have to dress right. Raincoat and earplugs.
There is a more or less loosely Nethack-based webcomic somewhere out there. Most of the time, the hero gets blown up by the town idiot or other weak creatures. Anyone got an idea where that comic is?
You know, you almost had me with the aliens and Saddam.
... will get a completely new meaning.
Come on,that one was mandatory.
In theory, a perfect system could be built from a lot of communicating "black boxes" without knowing the whole system. That's what the fun is all about. In the Real World however, this approach is not possible since there are too many broken black boxes and too many unsupported standards that make a secure approach impossible without knowing or at least controlling (=choosing which black boxes to use) the whole system.
Most of the time, I'm sitting at a line provided by the university. It has a 650MB up/650MB down hard limit per month. Your router port is blocked when you exceed it. I can live with that pretty well. 1GB per day is way beyond what an average private user will ever need as long as (s)he isn't using the so-called "value added" services that don't work anyways in most cases or leech ripped stuff off the net. Heck, you can even squeeze a Debian testing reinstall in 200MB which leaves you with a good month worth of bandwith for all the pr0n you might possibly want.
Always remember: 'wget -m' is not typical web access!
In Germany, judges eat YOU. All their brain are belong to trash.
Oh, well, my Karma was too good anyway.
In message #5098583 it is written:
To prove validity of that, have a look at the Nuremberg Trials where it was decided that shooting the messenger is perfectly legal if only the message was bad enough. OK, now keep the "-1, Flamebait"s coming.
The troubling part is when it says "System 5 license". I don't want to replace all that SysV stuff. You might as well start the next iteration of OS theory then.
... what the heck is this damn Soviet Russia joke about?!?
Hmmm... I'd like to sign up for two of those titles, but for fairness I want to put that relative to my age, there's no point in contesting against an older geek stereotype. Did I say that I ain't exactly fat?
And moderators, please don't waste your time to mod this one down. There are far too many postings that'd deserve a +1 (something) to give this one a -1 (offtopic).
OK, after fiddling with the config, it actually got somewhat better. If you create a XF86Config using the fglrxconfig tool and then copy some stuff from there to your real XF86Config (omitting the BusID and Screen entries), XVideo works and the overlay problems seem to be gone. My system still restarts X when switching to a text console though and 2D feels a little slower than with the DRI drivers.
On an unrealted note: does anyone here know how to get the "two screens, one framebuffer" behaviour under Windows?
Basically, all parser errors occur on lines that use the __KE_DEBUG (or something similar) macro in fglxr_public.c. The macros are defined as __KE_DEBUG(fmt,args...) and it seems gcc <2.96 can't handle that when called with just one parameter. All I did was rewriting each call to that macro to have at least NULL as second parameter.
There are also errors that are caused by the patched drmP.h. I got around those by disabling the patch contained in make.sh.
I just had a 1-hour confrontation with those drivers. There are several things:
Well, after installing a fresh X 4.2.1 from debian unstable, fixing about thirty parser errors in a source file and wreaking general havoc, I was at least able to start X. 3D seems to work, but I was not inclined to do much testing beyond fgl_glxgears and glxinfo after realizing that I was unable to use a text console without snapping back to the X console every second.
All this slowly leads to a heartfelt "fuck ATI" feeling and I'll have plenty time to ponder this while I restore my X config that mysteriously lost all 3D acceleration and Xvideo capabilities after switching back to the DRI driver.
Games are a strong incentive to use Windows. Personally, I use Win2k for recreational purposes and Linux for everything work-related. But give me some good games for Linux (I'm talking full ports here, not "but you can't use the editor" crap), like UT2003 and IL2 Sturmovik plus a program that has similar capabilities to VirtualDub for grabbing and editing video and Windows will get off the disk.
Yeah! Next time, he plans to use black powder in his modding attempts! How long do you think can a 1700+ run before ignition? Does the P4's thermal throttling prevent total burnout?
Have a look at Samsungs' 17" TFT (the 171P). The designer insisted on two 1.5m cables for VGA and DVI fixed to the device "for design reasons", at least that's what I was told when I asked. That's one argument against, huh?
So what do you think they'll do to a whole laptop?
It's not the producer who has to give a 2yr warranty, it's the retailer. Notice something strange here?