You are missing something. I pay a monthly fee for the privilege. I expect to receive what was agreed to.
F*ck canceling my account, I'm calling a lawyer -- I'm sick to death of having companies changing their services without notice or consent. I'm also calling my congressperson, there oughta be a law.
It really should get back to Adobe that there will be backlash against their format if they don't stop bundling so much crapola into the Reader.
I'm no hacker, but I'm usually on the vanguard of public opinion. If I'm frustrated with something, or doing something new, I typically find that it's on the local evening news six months later. Joe Sixpack and Grammaw are going to realize eventually that it's PDFs that are making their "'pooter lock up" and ask companies not to use them, or avoid them. Then again, maybe not.
Preview is nice and all, but far from a perfect PDF viewer. It cuts a lot of corners.
Which is GREAT! All the corners mentioned in the grandparent post mean every time I unwittingly click on a.pdf link at work I curse and swear, because my PC has been highjacked. AAARGH!!! Just because I click a damn link, my computer is FROZEN until acrobat gets done loading! Seriously, on a 2.4Ghz P4 PC, a large PDF can take over a minute to load. AND NOTHING ELSE MAY HAPPEN WHILE THIS IS GOING ON! Oh, how I hate hate hate PDFs.
Please, people, this is a cry for help! Tell me how to avoid this! Tell me or I'll use Metro! I mean it!
Wow, I rarely have to correct the same retard twice in one morning. Especially someone with such a low an ID number.
Prior to XP, the "home" line of products (95,98,ME) used the DOS kernel, and the "corporate" line of products (NT & 2k) used the NT kernel. XP is a development of that NT kernel, but is "friendly" enough for use by the mouthbreathers that heretofore used the DOS-based OSes. So now that both the "home" and "corporate" OSes are using the same kernel, Microsoft has one platform line to support.
Some folks (dramatic music) custom build their own computers.
In which case, this does not apply to you. This change applies specifically and exclusively to pre-activated OEM versions of Windows XP. And if you were a (dramatic music) L33+ M@$+0r haXz0r you probably wouldn't need to reinstall so often. XP is highly retard-resistant.
Motley Crue were one of the first glam bands to break mainstream way back in the day. GnR's first video, "Welcome to the Jungle" was recorded at the very dying edge of that scene in L.A. as evidenced by Axl's big hair. In every other video the hairspray is left alone.
Check into Douglas Hofstadter's work in cognitive science. He argues quite effectively that how we conceive of the signals we receive is inextricably tied to the perceptive act.
Human beings are very adept at making a quick judgements on the stream of information we receive from the senses. We then follow along logical paths from those judgements, but we also quickly discern if we're headed down a wrong track and will "re-view" the evidence we've been given. His philosophy is that if you segment AI into perception and cognition, you're missing a fundamental feature of human intelligence.
Go to his page at UI, check his wiki, or better yet read his books.
My point was simply that even with Exploder taking up 16-20MB (my typical range per the processes tab). That's only 2% of my available RAM, seems like that is a reasonable allowance for something so silly as a shell...
I'm not sure I can buy the memory mgmt argument. Doubtless past win32 kernels (*cough* 9x *cough*) definately had this problem. That's why rebooting became the default solution on those systems. But I've been on an NT kernel for six years now, and each time its become more & more robust. Linux devotees love to tout their uptime, but XP has really closed the gap. My workstation stays up for months at a time, and more often than not the reboot is because I've tired of the sensation I share a room with a hoverbot. I haven't always had RAM to burn, and I've never had a bluescreen that wasn't related to some hardware issue (usually my own fault).
Are you playing with a K6-2 and 128MB RAM? Why are you playing PC games? Xboxes are so much cheaper...
On today's machines, the issues of resource conservation are pretty much moot. To paraphrase from ArsTechnica's Pentium history, the CPU designers six years had to ask "How do we do all the things we need to within our transistor budget?" Then by the end of the P3's lifetime, it was "Look at what we can do with the resources we have!" and with the latest PM's and P4 Prescott it's more like "Are you telling me no one can think of anything else we can do with these transistors? Oh well, I guess we'll just give it more cache."
Yes, that's my point exactly: in-game, you always see a circle; this is not what happens in reality.
My original post is that for all the loving that's been liberally applied to iD's modeling lighting in a realistic way, I expected this effect to be reproduced in-game.
In fact, I expected that would have been an emergent feature of the system, not one that would need to be programmed in. Clearly, some shortcuts have been taken if that effect has not been reproduced. Let me be clear. I'm not a game programmer, and I'm genuinely impressed by the game. It's just one aspect of the game experience that isn't faithful to reality, and frankly the hype was that there would not be anything that glaringly contrived.
OOG, that's really ugly. I saw some other shots maxed out at 60fps, so I'm guessing you're not just trying to take pics off a Savage4 or something.
This is an interesting problem, and one I imagine iD knew about ahead of time, since the default behavior is for kills to "gib out" after they're killed.
A little more info might be helpful. Did it just get super-choppy once you'd piled them up like that? I'm guessing you were running at 8x6, since that's what the pics are. What sort of setup are you using?
eh, one thing I was a little disappointed by (considering how much saliva has been lavished on iD's collective knob) was that the lens warp effect of the flashlight doesn't distort (keystone) when you shine it along a wall. It's always the same circle, as if you were shining it orthoganally to the surface. Call me picky, but someone mentioned it in an early review, and when I saw it for myself I immediately noticed that they'd taken that shortcut, to some mild disappointment. Not that I'm not enjoying the game...I'm just saying...
On the rag doll effect, I've noticed when you kill an imp or marine and it falls back against a desk or the railing or something it slumps over it pretty realistically.
Now, I wouldn't be suprised if you'd missed that detail, dazzled as you were by iD's groundbreaking CSS* technology.
No matter how you try to dress up the Boston Tea Party, it was hooliganism, and was not endorsed by several of the more sage founding fathers, such as Ben Franklin.
There's actually a (somewhat) cogent discussion of your questions in the thread I linked to. Just follow my link above, and then up to the parent's parent or so. Good stuff about why we don't print receipts now for people, and etc. s'late. I been playing too much D3.
For those too sane to try that exercise, here's a representative sample:
(2) PHYSICAL SEARCH- Section 304(d)(1) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1824(d)(1)) is amended by--
(A) striking `forty-five' and inserting `90';
(B) inserting `(A)' after `except that'; and
(C) inserting before the period the following: `, and (B) an order under this section for a physical search targeted against an agent of a foreign power as defined in section 101(b)(1)(A) may be for the period specified in the application or for 120 days, whichever is less'.
Say what you like about Michael Moore, he's got a point. That is a MESS. Fourty-five whats just became ninety whatevers? Would it not have been easier to read if they had just rewritten the entire phrase they're amending? It goes on and on like that, 402 pages of it, all of it modifying the existing code in these oblique ways. If you submitted a kernel patch like that, Linus would have rejected it out of hand!
Now, I'm not saying they did anything untoward in this machination. I don't know! What I do know is that they made a lot of hey when the Abu Gahrib story broke about everything they did being "100% legal". I don't doubt it! I bet they could enter my house without a search warrant or look at what I've checked out at the library without my knowledge too!
Maybe you're too young to remember the Cold War, but that was what we were told happened in the Soviet Union!
And yes, I will eat my hat and promptly admit I was wrong *IF* this election is monitored by the UN and when he loses the popular vote AGAIN he leaves quietly. Happily.
There's a fine line between Civil Disobedience and Hooliganism. The major tenet of CD is nonviolence, that in a free society, social change can be created without resorting to violence of any kind.
It's really pretty practical actually; it's impossible to get somebody all riled up for social change, put a sledgehammer in their hands and tell them "Now, that's *ONLY* for the voting machines. No hitting!" Witness the French "Revolution": once you tell Jimmy Rebel "go forth and smash!" he rarely stops where you want him to.
Well, there's always just voting en masse via absentee ballot. I've already registered in NC, and they'll mail me my ballot in a couple weeks (fifty days from voting day, to be exact). Here's a clearinghouse of sorts with information for all fifty states. I've already posted as to my reasons for this here.
Make sure your vote counts: make them count it by hand!
I've always told everyone this rule of thumb: Take the minimum requirement (WinXP: 64MB). Double it (128MB). That's the REAL Minimum. Now, Double it again (256MB). That's the real amount to run any apps (IE, Word). Now, Double it again (512MB). That's the amount you need to get any real work done (Photoshop, VStudio, BF1942).
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You are missing something. I pay a monthly fee for the privilege. I expect to receive what was agreed to. F*ck canceling my account, I'm calling a lawyer -- I'm sick to death of having companies changing their services without notice or consent. I'm also calling my congressperson, there oughta be a law.
The movie houses are NOT SO FUCKING PROUD!
It's a very mumble business.
jaz
It really should get back to Adobe that there will be backlash against their format if they don't stop bundling so much crapola into the Reader.
I'm no hacker, but I'm usually on the vanguard of public opinion. If I'm frustrated with something, or doing something new, I typically find that it's on the local evening news six months later. Joe Sixpack and Grammaw are going to realize eventually that it's PDFs that are making their "'pooter lock up" and ask companies not to use them, or avoid them. Then again, maybe not.
jaz
(see rant)
Which is GREAT! All the corners mentioned in the grandparent post mean every time I unwittingly click on a .pdf link at work I curse and swear, because my PC has been highjacked. AAARGH!!! Just because I click a damn link, my computer is FROZEN until acrobat gets done loading! Seriously, on a 2.4Ghz P4 PC, a large PDF can take over a minute to load. AND NOTHING ELSE MAY HAPPEN WHILE THIS IS GOING ON! Oh, how I hate hate hate PDFs.
Please, people, this is a cry for help! Tell me how to avoid this! Tell me or I'll use Metro! I mean it!
jaz
Anyway, if you want to know how this will come out (Death of Microsoft), go here: http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/ols-master.html.
Flash required, work friendly (but with sound)
jaz
Prior to XP, the "home" line of products (95,98,ME) used the DOS kernel, and the "corporate" line of products (NT & 2k) used the NT kernel. XP is a development of that NT kernel, but is "friendly" enough for use by the mouthbreathers that heretofore used the DOS-based OSes. So now that both the "home" and "corporate" OSes are using the same kernel, Microsoft has one platform line to support.
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Human beings are very adept at making a quick judgements on the stream of information we receive from the senses. We then follow along logical paths from those judgements, but we also quickly discern if we're headed down a wrong track and will "re-view" the evidence we've been given. His philosophy is that if you segment AI into perception and cognition, you're missing a fundamental feature of human intelligence.
Go to his page at UI, check his wiki, or better yet read his books.
jaz
I'm not sure I can buy the memory mgmt argument. Doubtless past win32 kernels (*cough* 9x *cough*) definately had this problem. That's why rebooting became the default solution on those systems. But I've been on an NT kernel for six years now, and each time its become more & more robust. Linux devotees love to tout their uptime, but XP has really closed the gap. My workstation stays up for months at a time, and more often than not the reboot is because I've tired of the sensation I share a room with a hoverbot. I haven't always had RAM to burn, and I've never had a bluescreen that wasn't related to some hardware issue (usually my own fault).
On today's machines, the issues of resource conservation are pretty much moot. To paraphrase from ArsTechnica's Pentium history, the CPU designers six years had to ask "How do we do all the things we need to within our transistor budget?" Then by the end of the P3's lifetime, it was "Look at what we can do with the resources we have!" and with the latest PM's and P4 Prescott it's more like "Are you telling me no one can think of anything else we can do with these transistors? Oh well, I guess we'll just give it more cache."
Wake up and smell computing in 2004.
jaz
My original post is that for all the loving that's been liberally applied to iD's modeling lighting in a realistic way, I expected this effect to be reproduced in-game.
In fact, I expected that would have been an emergent feature of the system, not one that would need to be programmed in. Clearly, some shortcuts have been taken if that effect has not been reproduced. Let me be clear. I'm not a game programmer, and I'm genuinely impressed by the game. It's just one aspect of the game experience that isn't faithful to reality, and frankly the hype was that there would not be anything that glaringly contrived.
jaz
This is an interesting problem, and one I imagine iD knew about ahead of time, since the default behavior is for kills to "gib out" after they're killed.
A little more info might be helpful. Did it just get super-choppy once you'd piled them up like that? I'm guessing you were running at 8x6, since that's what the pics are. What sort of setup are you using?
jaz
Have you used a flashlight recently? Why don't you get one now?
OK, got it?
No, really, I'll wait...
No, a FLASHLIGHT...
Ah, good. OK. Turn it on.
Yes, you'll need batteries...
No, I'll wait...
OK, now turn it on...
ON...
Yes, like that! Now you're getting it! OK, now walk up to a wall.
NOT THAT...close.
You OK? Damn. Look directly at the wall. With the flightlight on...
You'll notice that the light on the wall is a circle.
Like a doughnut...
A steering wheel? ok, good.
Now, this is the tricky part. Instead of shining the light directly at the wall...
No, don't shine it in my eyes! No, please stop shining it in my eyes.
Don't put it up there either...OK.
Point the flashlight at an angle to the wall.
An angle, like you're shooting pool maybe?
YES! Yes good! Now, what shape does it make on the wall?
Like a football, good! That shape is called an "oval" or by really smart people, an "ellipse."
Well, where did the time go? That's all we have on Pothead Science for now kids!
And remember what Dr. Retardo says:
"Don't! . . . . Put that! . . . . In your mouth!"
See you next week!
...
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Now, I wouldn't be suprised if you'd missed that detail, dazzled as you were by iD's groundbreaking CSS* technology.
jaz
* Can't See Shit (TM)
No matter how you try to dress up the Boston Tea Party, it was hooliganism, and was not endorsed by several of the more sage founding fathers, such as Ben Franklin.
s'late. I been playing too much D3.
jaz
Interesting perspective... if only I could *mod* as an AC, I'd give you a bump just for being original...
Not for NC. Of course, knowledge of a topic or even reading a link is no barricade to bloviating on /.
Please, go read that. We'll wait.
Got all that? I didn't think so.
For those too sane to try that exercise, here's a representative sample:
Say what you like about Michael Moore, he's got a point. That is a MESS. Fourty-five whats just became ninety whatevers? Would it not have been easier to read if they had just rewritten the entire phrase they're amending? It goes on and on like that, 402 pages of it, all of it modifying the existing code in these oblique ways. If you submitted a kernel patch like that, Linus would have rejected it out of hand!
Now, I'm not saying they did anything untoward in this machination. I don't know! What I do know is that they made a lot of hey when the Abu Gahrib story broke about everything they did being "100% legal". I don't doubt it! I bet they could enter my house without a search warrant or look at what I've checked out at the library without my knowledge too!
Maybe you're too young to remember the Cold War, but that was what we were told happened in the Soviet Union!
And yes, I will eat my hat and promptly admit I was wrong *IF* this election is monitored by the UN and when he loses the popular vote AGAIN he leaves quietly. Happily.
It's really pretty practical actually; it's impossible to get somebody all riled up for social change, put a sledgehammer in their hands and tell them "Now, that's *ONLY* for the voting machines. No hitting!" Witness the French "Revolution": once you tell Jimmy Rebel "go forth and smash!" he rarely stops where you want him to.
jaz
Make sure your vote counts: make them count it by hand!
jaz
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