Maybe this is very uninformed but it seems to me most players, except some slot-loading ones, could accomodate a 1mm thicker disc without problems at all.
My slot-loading Sony car stereo (quite old)had problems ejecting burnt CDs with a printed label sticker. And that's how thick?.2mm or something? It happened only with a couple of brands, so I guess not all CD-R's are the same thickness.
These modders are obviously quite 1337 and have surely attracted attention from game developers. Most likely they're working on a beta supplied by the company.
I've got a Piii 667 with Radeon 7200 64MB VIVO (old half-assed crap radeon) and Utk3 runs smooth, utk4 ok smooth (got no fps count, but no skipping).
In Linux though I don't know.
I had to try Doom 3 on this box, and I was surprised I even got it started! The Radeon didn't understand much of vertex lighting and some of the other new features - they turned into black polygons. And the frame rate? 3-4 fps if there was no action, 0,5 fps if I moved around a bit and had other people in view.
That's with no advanced features and 640x480 low quality. In two months I'll be getting an Athlon64 based machine with Radeon X800.
Doom 3 is the only game in a few years I have bought, and the only one that made me want to upgrade my computer for the game only - just by looking at those first videos.
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Is this real? Jeez! That uninstall should get even the most ignorant non-techie joe schmoe to suspect there's spyware in it, just by stating there's nothing so many times.
I got a cousin whose Windows XP would display 31 (he counted them) popups (a new, different one after the previous had been closed), when he logged on his user profile.
After I reinstalled XP for him, I installed Firefox and ordered him to use that and forget about IE unless he wanted to be hit upside the head with my cluestick. He doesn't know much about the underlying technology of computers and recent software but everyone in the family understands when I say "use that and evil stuff might be installed on the PC even if you're only surfing around". They take my word for it as I'm the resident geek.
I did the same with his family's computer. Now I just have to explain stuff to the youngest son who insists on using BearShare, Kazaa (even if I've said NOOOO!) and such stuff. He downloads and installs small programs. Once, the family computer was infected with over 150 viruses.
My cousin is extremely happy with Firefox, once I've shown him the concenpt of tabbed browsing, he's never looked back. And the computer don't get as much spyware installed now. The younger brother screws that up a bit 'cause he won't listen. Damn nu-metal ignoramus:)
When WinXP is 64-bit I guess big companies like Adobe will be quite quick to release 64-bit versions of Photoshop, AfterEffects etc. Photoshop FLIES on a G5 (granted, the AltiVecs has something to do with that too) Also, a 64-bit version of 3D Studio MAX would be sweet.
I agree, in times of peace there's no need for a strong defense. Not that the Norwegian defense is that strong anyways - our main objective, I guess, is to resist until NATO can come to our aid:)
The compensation is nothing. You get your lousy pay (10$ a day when I was there) and at the end of service you get some cash, for me it was around $1000.
True. You can set the Macrovision, region coding and CSS stuff in your favourite DVD authoring app, however you can only get those on DVD if you use the "Create DLT tape" function and deliver that to the pressing plant.
DLT is the standard for transferring DVD images to a replication facility, all good authoring apps have it.
Seems my WWII history is suffering from severe bit rot. I take it I stand corrected. Again. I won't bother being an ass and double-check it, I'll take your word for it:)
The problem is that nothing ever goes wrong for the mistakes you make.
True. Major flaw. They should use live rounds:)
We had the same kinds of drills every few weeks. Nobody ever learnt anything.
I learned lots of group advance and group retreat tactics, not that I'll ever find a use for them...
I managed to sneak up on a moose, I thought it were enemy soldiers, I only stopped a meter short... Whooah.
Happens to me every couple of months, more in the fall. But then I live in the forest and elk-hunting is prohibited in my county. Big fucking scary animals up close. And the grunting sound deer make when they're looking for mates, echoing in the forest: Spooky stuff. But I digress...
Nevertheless, I met so much fascism and so many fascists in the Norwegian military, and when I realized that they actually was right in how to build efficient military forces, I became a pacifist.
I've become a pacifist too, but not based on the fascism (which is how it must be done for an efficient military, as you say) but rather a change in personal beliefs. I'd still kill to protect family and close friends under threat though. I think. But then again you never really know until it happens.
It is not the fine snow that kills, that is, they kill very few. What kills is that you don't have the muscles to keep the chest up, so you stop breathing due to the pressure.
I (and the avalanche expert who taught us (red cross I guess, don't remember the name)) obviously stand corrected.
Navigation with map and compass, navigation without compass,
Well, my experience was that most officers couldn't find their way out of a paper bag, and that was reflected in how they taught...
Guess my contingent was lucky, our officers (especially the company chief Captain) were skilled, good teachers and genuinely nice people. Except for a couple of UB's of course. Always count on the UB's and sergeants to be most fascist.
The Royal Marines are cool chaps. The base I was stationed at was housing British, Danish, German and American troops for winter training before the big Operation Whatever war game.
A week after first arriving (flying up half the country), I ended up in the base's hospital due to some crazy violent influenza (along with half the guys that came on the same plane as me) - 39,8C fever, runs and the works. During my two-week stay I made friends with a couple of Royal Marines. Nice folks, but as I said, bonkers. And they don't know how to ski very well:)
ObWeAreBestBragYouSuck: The local county "guerilla" home defense military "Heimevernet" had such a good combat record that they invited SAS troops to have a go at attacking the base. SAS lost:)
Hehe it was an attempt at a joke which I don't get myself now. Guess it was WWII based - german soldiers had worse winter attire and wasn't as trained in cold/snow combat as the Finnish, and AFAIR got killed in large numbers.
I'm glad we didn't have any rain while we had war games. That would be a pain, true. Or in the summer - dirt, water, and bugs galore (I hate bugs).
(1) I was not punished, 'cause the platoon leader was asleep and you can't really hear the difference between weapons since all the grunts use Heckler&Koch AG3's. We (always two on watch detail but the other guy was busy looking at the comet too:) sounded the alarm after a couple of rounds so as far as the lieutenant knew we shot first.
(2) It's not that hard even if the soldier is wearing full winter camo. The winter camo is (and should be) a bit dirty, that together with shadows and other things you just notice exposes the person quite fast. Unless he's really really good at crawling and sneaking. Slowly.
The military service is something I learned a lot from. I already knew about safe weapons handling since I've been shooting rifles and pistols since I was twelve, but stuff like makeshift first-aid (making stretchers, wound handling, etc) and learning to calculate avalanche risk, rescuing people from avalanches, what to do if you're taken by an avalanche (surf's up - hold your breath. People mostly die from drowning in an avalanche since they breathe the fine snow on top of the avalanche before getting buried). We got to see avalanche rescue dogs in action - those canines are insanely amazingly fast at finding people!
Navigation with map and compass, navigation without compass, how to make good shelter if you haven't got a tent etc. Lots and lots of valuable knowledge.
The Finnish army practices lying in the snow, waiting for enemies to take out with one shot of the rifle.
If you want winter experience, learn from Finnish, Norwegian or Swedish soldiers.
When I served my time in the Army, in Harstad, Norway (look it up)in jan-jul '97 there was a snowfall record. 2,5-3 meters of snow in valleys and -15 to -35 Celsius was the norm.
Advantages: You learn to handle extreme cold. It's easy to dig trenches and to camouflage the tent.
Disadvantages: It's bloody cold. When you've had your 4 hours of sleep inbetween watches, the uniform is not frozen anymore, but it's still damp/wet. When you get outside everything turns to ice.
Super-duper-advantage: During watches I got to see the Hale-Bopp comet at night, in perfect sky conditions. With night vision goggles too, that was incredible (and quite green/white). I missed an attack on the base though, the enemy got first strike there...:)
True, my XP is generally rock solid as well. Had an uptime of 26 days once, and that was under heavy load all the time. If I weren't using Photoshop, 3DS MAX or AfterEffects for some hi-res DVD footage, it was rendering during the day (when I sleep). 26 days. It went down because of a power failure.
However I've found that rebooting the Windows box every week or so is good. Just to fix the memory leaks that piles up after a while.
Oh... it's a 667 Coppermine @ 800 MHz, 640 MB RAM. KDE runs sweet on it, haven't tried XFCE yet but it sure looks nice:)
If people come to me and say they wanna try out Linux, I recommend them to go with Slackware, saying that if they have the patience they'll be able to tackle any computer problem after installing and configuring it for the first time.
It was the first distro I tried, and the one I go to for server stuff. But SuSE on the desktop:)
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Mod me as redundant, but HOW THE HELL does a webdesigner get the idea that JPEG is the best format for that logo?
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Maybe this is very uninformed but it seems to me most players, except some slot-loading ones, could accomodate a 1mm thicker disc without problems at all.
.2mm or something? It happened only with a couple of brands, so I guess not all CD-R's are the same thickness.
My slot-loading Sony car stereo (quite old)had problems ejecting burnt CDs with a printed label sticker. And that's how thick?
An upside to that would be LEGAL analogue pirate radios!
But the FCC would probably say that the frequencies would still be regulated and off-limits unless you pay a trillion dollars to them for a license.
Mickey would be dead some time ago hadn't it been for Disney lobbying hard to get the Sonny Bono act of '99 passed...
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These modders are obviously quite 1337 and have surely attracted attention from game developers. Most likely they're working on a beta supplied by the company.
I've got a Piii 667 with Radeon 7200 64MB VIVO (old half-assed crap radeon) and Utk3 runs smooth, utk4 ok smooth (got no fps count, but no skipping).
In Linux though I don't know.
I had to try Doom 3 on this box, and I was surprised I even got it started! The Radeon didn't understand much of vertex lighting and some of the other new features - they turned into black polygons. And the frame rate? 3-4 fps if there was no action, 0,5 fps if I moved around a bit and had other people in view.
That's with no advanced features and 640x480 low quality. In two months I'll be getting an Athlon64 based machine with Radeon X800.
Doom 3 is the only game in a few years I have bought, and the only one that made me want to upgrade my computer for the game only - just by looking at those first videos.
Is this real? Jeez! That uninstall should get even the most ignorant non-techie joe schmoe to suspect there's spyware in it, just by stating there's nothing so many times.
:)
DON'T BE AFRAID! IT REALLY CONTAINS NO SPYWARE!
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I got a cousin whose Windows XP would display 31 (he counted them) popups (a new, different one after the previous had been closed), when he logged on his user profile.
:)
After I reinstalled XP for him, I installed Firefox and ordered him to use that and forget about IE unless he wanted to be hit upside the head with my cluestick. He doesn't know much about the underlying technology of computers and recent software but everyone in the family understands when I say "use that and evil stuff might be installed on the PC even if you're only surfing around". They take my word for it as I'm the resident geek.
I did the same with his family's computer. Now I just have to explain stuff to the youngest son who insists on using BearShare, Kazaa (even if I've said NOOOO!) and such stuff. He downloads and installs small programs. Once, the family computer was infected with over 150 viruses.
My cousin is extremely happy with Firefox, once I've shown him the concenpt of tabbed browsing, he's never looked back. And the computer don't get as much spyware installed now. The younger brother screws that up a bit 'cause he won't listen. Damn nu-metal ignoramus
What the hell do you think guns were invented for? And you call the other guy stupid.
Sure, guns were invented for having fun shooting at paper with circles drawn on it. Right.
When WinXP is 64-bit I guess big companies like Adobe will be quite quick to release 64-bit versions of Photoshop, AfterEffects etc. Photoshop FLIES on a G5 (granted, the AltiVecs has something to do with that too) Also, a 64-bit version of 3D Studio MAX would be sweet.
Damn, man, "children's navi" was the first thing I thought of when I saw that computer :)
OT: have seen the series except for the last episode (which annoys the _Hell_ out of me). Tentacle pr0n was a joke, no?
I agree, in times of peace there's no need for a strong defense. Not that the Norwegian defense is that strong anyways - our main objective, I guess, is to resist until NATO can come to our aid :)
The compensation is nothing. You get your lousy pay (10$ a day when I was there) and at the end of service you get some cash, for me it was around $1000.
Argh. Yet again, I stand corrected. I should really stop posting for today.
:/
My apologies; I'm way high on caffeine and fatigue
Do you seriously think I get paid? To viral-market the Boy Scouts? I don't.
Or do you find me stupid for finding such outdoorsy stuff interesting?
Or am I so tired I read your post completely wrong and should just shut up?
I think the latter, but I don't know. What did you mean exactly? o_O'
True. You can set the Macrovision, region coding and CSS stuff in your favourite DVD authoring app, however you can only get those on DVD if you use the "Create DLT tape" function and deliver that to the pressing plant.
DLT is the standard for transferring DVD images to a replication facility, all good authoring apps have it.
Seems my WWII history is suffering from severe bit rot. I take it I stand corrected. Again. I won't bother being an ass and double-check it, I'll take your word for it :)
:)
I'm not Finnish though, I'm Norwegian
We learned the "lots of people in a line, poking with rods" approach.
The Royal Marines are cool chaps. The base I was stationed at was housing British, Danish, German and American troops for winter training before the big Operation Whatever war game.
:)
:)
A week after first arriving (flying up half the country), I ended up in the base's hospital due to some crazy violent influenza (along with half the guys that came on the same plane as me) - 39,8C fever, runs and the works. During my two-week stay I made friends with a couple of Royal Marines. Nice folks, but as I said, bonkers. And they don't know how to ski very well
ObWeAreBestBragYouSuck: The local county "guerilla" home defense military "Heimevernet" had such a good combat record that they invited SAS troops to have a go at attacking the base. SAS lost
Hehe it was an attempt at a joke which I don't get myself now. Guess it was WWII based - german soldiers had worse winter attire and wasn't as trained in cold/snow combat as the Finnish, and AFAIR got killed in large numbers.
I'm glad we didn't have any rain while we had war games. That would be a pain, true. Or in the summer - dirt, water, and bugs galore (I hate bugs).
(1) I was not punished, 'cause the platoon leader was asleep and you can't really hear the difference between weapons since all the grunts use Heckler&Koch AG3's. We (always two on watch detail but the other guy was busy looking at the comet too :) sounded the alarm after a couple of rounds so as far as the lieutenant knew we shot first.
(2) It's not that hard even if the soldier is wearing full winter camo. The winter camo is (and should be) a bit dirty, that together with shadows and other things you just notice exposes the person quite fast. Unless he's really really good at crawling and sneaking. Slowly.
The military service is something I learned a lot from. I already knew about safe weapons handling since I've been shooting rifles and pistols since I was twelve, but stuff like makeshift first-aid (making stretchers, wound handling, etc) and learning to calculate avalanche risk, rescuing people from avalanches, what to do if you're taken by an avalanche (surf's up - hold your breath. People mostly die from drowning in an avalanche since they breathe the fine snow on top of the avalanche before getting buried). We got to see avalanche rescue dogs in action - those canines are insanely amazingly fast at finding people!
Navigation with map and compass, navigation without compass, how to make good shelter if you haven't got a tent etc. Lots and lots of valuable knowledge.
The Finnish army practices lying in the snow, waiting for enemies to take out with one shot of the rifle.
:)
If you want winter experience, learn from Finnish, Norwegian or Swedish soldiers.
When I served my time in the Army, in Harstad, Norway (look it up)in jan-jul '97 there was a snowfall record. 2,5-3 meters of snow in valleys and -15 to -35 Celsius was the norm.
Advantages: You learn to handle extreme cold. It's easy to dig trenches and to camouflage the tent.
Disadvantages: It's bloody cold. When you've had your 4 hours of sleep inbetween watches, the uniform is not frozen anymore, but it's still damp/wet. When you get outside everything turns to ice.
Super-duper-advantage: During watches I got to see the Hale-Bopp comet at night, in perfect sky conditions. With night vision goggles too, that was incredible (and quite green/white). I missed an attack on the base though, the enemy got first strike there...
You never know :) The Japanese car companies have made some crazy stuff...
True, my XP is generally rock solid as well. Had an uptime of 26 days once, and that was under heavy load all the time. If I weren't using Photoshop, 3DS MAX or AfterEffects for some hi-res DVD footage, it was rendering during the day (when I sleep). 26 days. It went down because of a power failure.
:)
However I've found that rebooting the Windows box every week or so is good. Just to fix the memory leaks that piles up after a while.
Oh... it's a 667 Coppermine @ 800 MHz, 640 MB RAM. KDE runs sweet on it, haven't tried XFCE yet but it sure looks nice
Suffering is the way to enlightenment, yeah :)
:)
If people come to me and say they wanna try out Linux, I recommend them to go with Slackware, saying that if they have the patience they'll be able to tackle any computer problem after installing and configuring it for the first time.
It was the first distro I tried, and the one I go to for server stuff. But SuSE on the desktop