Also here in the UK, I use Be who provide a true unlimited, unshaped connection.
I regularly use about 100GB/mo but can easily exceed 300GB during the Christmas period. I'd settle for a 250GB limit with a 105Mb connection, but I'd jump ship as soon as a better ISP started offering similar connection speeds. I bet this Comcast service employs some sort of traffic shaping too.
Actually, the interesting thing about piracy is how it enables easier preservation. Storing widely shared rips of films in open formats is a very redundant way to ensure old films don't get lost.
I recall that Max Payne 2 on Steam uses the Myth cracked exe; You used to be able to see the Myth logo inside the actual exe but they patched it out. I'm fairly certain I've heard of other instances where cracked exes have been used in digital releases of old DRMed games.
Has anyone noticed that mod points seem to come around more frequently lately? I had a run a couple of weeks ago where I received three batches of points in a week!
Right, but from that Wikipedia article it also seems that he owns a large chunk of Coca-Cola, which employs death squads against union activists in Latin America.
It's very hard to be that wealthy and not have blood on your hands in this world. Giving his money away is the very least he should be doing, although it is heartening to see that he accepts the idea of redistributive tax.
Right, except in those situations there were still countries,things to kill and die for, arguably religion in the case of NK, possessions, greed and hunger.
Other than that, those systems were just like the John Lennon song Imagine.
The only loss experienced by corporations will be lost opportunities. If you actually bother to look at how the nuclear industry is subsidised, you'll see that in every country the risk is underwritten by the state. In the event of a massive catastrophe, all the company loses is the capital invested in the plant, the state is left cleaning up for potentially hundreds of years.
There's no way you could make nuclear power companies liable for the cost of cleanup in the event of catastrophic meltdown. That would require them to put extraordinary amounts of capital into escrow - hundreds if not thousands of times the cost of the plant - and would mean nuclear power would become economically unviable. Even if you mandated insurance, who would underwrite it? The payout in the event of a serious meltdown would cause a meltdown in the insurance sector and.
Financial service companies were dumb enough to play hot potato with sub-prime mortgages, but even they're not dumb enough to underwrite the risk of nuclear power.
If you pay attention to Steam even a little bit, you'd know that's total rubbish. New games now sell on Steam for less than RRP, just like B&M retail stores. If you're prepared to wait a few months, you can get recently released games for heavy discounts.
The biggest sale of them all is the legendary Steam Holiday Sale. Just about every serious PC gamer I know ranks games they plan on buying as either a day one purchase, sale purchase or holiday sale buy. The PC market has already started to adjust to this new pricing reality, hence publishers renewed focus on PC gaming. They know they can make a title appeal to a relatively large range of value segments in the space of a single year; in the long run this might also get rid of the Xmas focus as more publishers put out their weaker titles in the middle of the year knowing that even though it'll have limited appeal at full price, the faithful will build word of mouth in time for the 50% holiday sale discount.
Other than that I'd agree that combat in DAO was pretty easy, even on the hardest difficulty. That was mainly due to mages being massively overpowered. As long as you did the mage tower first to get Wynne the rest of the game was plain sailing, especially with a mage PC.
Apparently in DA2 they've replaced spell combos with cross class combos to make the other classes more relevant. Even in other RPG systems (i.e. D&D, although in D&D they're a lot weaker to start with) mages have always been massively overpowered engines of destruction, so I guess it makes sense to just acknowledge that the power to control elements & stuff means massive combat potential and just let the other classes support them.
Most games are fine with living on a traditional HD. You only have to worry about the initial load times and then after that, everything will be cached in RAM anyway.
Just have all your OS and regular apps on SSD and install games on your RAID. The few games that have random small I/O patterns (for me, that's my Baldur's Gate 1+2 Tutu + mods install that has loads of crap in the override folder), put them on your SSD. Most games just have resource files containing relatively large assets so your regular disk will be reading a few MB at a time before seeking. Those resources files are often optimised to put common assets close together in the assumption they'll be on optical media on a console, which obviously has much worse random I/O performance.
That paper, which is now going on 7 years old, is the very first link of a Google search. It doesn't magically recreate obscured objects, but the GP never claimed that was possible. It does describe the process of using examples from a scene to fill the area previously covered by a deleted object, which is what the GP claimed was possible.
I bet there's an extension for Photoshop that implements that technique but, as you can't be bothered to do even the most basic research before spouting your uninformed opinion, I can't be bothered to search for it.
The only reason for buying a SSD over a Winchester drive is random I/O. That's always been the case and will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.
SSDs aren't going to compete with traditional rotating media on either cost/GB or raw throughput (compared to RAID) because you can do both those very cheaply with traditional media. The big win is in small random small page I/O, which is what makes up most of an average desktop load.
Now that I'm used to having my OS on an SSD, I find it agonising booting up systems that run on traditional media. A traditional 7200RPM drive can easily drop into the single digit MB/s during system boot up and initial log on. Modern "green" HDDs will drop below 1MB/s when dealing with sustained random 4k I/O! You can mitigate that by not having programmes start up automatically and disabling services that you don't really use, or you can install an SSD and just have that problem disappear.
Prestwick is where all of the northern UK en route traffic is controlled, it's nothing to do with the aerodrome. Southern UK airspace is controlled at Swanwick in Southampton (referred to as CTC in that pprune thread). This being/., the terrible summary doesn't make that clear.
Basically what's going on here is that NATS (it used to stand for National Air Traffic Services, now it's just NATS) is trying to save a few quid by automating the job of the Air Traffic Services Assistants (ATSA). Information about flights used to be written up on paper strips for the Air Traffic Controllers, now it's put in a computer system.
I've never really had a situation on my home desktop where the contents of everything except/home and/var were more than 120GB. The only time I had/var balloon was when I was using MythTV, so if you're not running that you can keep/var on the SSD too.
You can get 120GB SSDs reasonably cheap these days. They're worth it.
That will always be a problem if you use your disks to capacity. The solution is to not fill your disks to capacity if you plan to be using them as random read / write media.
For home desktop use, you should really be be upgrading your storage solution at around 80% full. You should also be using a SSD for the drive your OS is installed on.
Just turn on Shadow Volume Copy. Whenever your users call asking for you to recover something from a backup, walk them through the process of right clicking and choosing the Previous Versions tab.
That turns accidental user deletions which, lets be honest, will never go away into 5m of mutually wasted time.
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Also here in the UK, I use Be who provide a true unlimited, unshaped connection.
I regularly use about 100GB/mo but can easily exceed 300GB during the Christmas period. I'd settle for a 250GB limit with a 105Mb connection, but I'd jump ship as soon as a better ISP started offering similar connection speeds. I bet this Comcast service employs some sort of traffic shaping too.
On the Richter Scale each whole number represents an order of magnitude difference in energy, so a 9 is 100 times more powerful than a 7.
Actually, the interesting thing about piracy is how it enables easier preservation. Storing widely shared rips of films in open formats is a very redundant way to ensure old films don't get lost.
I recall that Max Payne 2 on Steam uses the Myth cracked exe; You used to be able to see the Myth logo inside the actual exe but they patched it out. I'm fairly certain I've heard of other instances where cracked exes have been used in digital releases of old DRMed games.
Has anyone noticed that mod points seem to come around more frequently lately? I had a run a couple of weeks ago where I received three batches of points in a week!
Right, but from that Wikipedia article it also seems that he owns a large chunk of Coca-Cola, which employs death squads against union activists in Latin America.
It's very hard to be that wealthy and not have blood on your hands in this world. Giving his money away is the very least he should be doing, although it is heartening to see that he accepts the idea of redistributive tax.
Right, except in those situations there were still countries,things to kill and die for, arguably religion in the case of NK, possessions, greed and hunger.
Other than that, those systems were just like the John Lennon song Imagine.
Ah, thanks for the information! I understood that we have lots of plutonium waste here in the UK, but I didn't realise it wasn't weapons grade.
Most (all?) civilian nuclear power produces plutonium that ends up in nuclear weapons. That's not just something dictatorships get up to.
The only loss experienced by corporations will be lost opportunities. If you actually bother to look at how the nuclear industry is subsidised, you'll see that in every country the risk is underwritten by the state. In the event of a massive catastrophe, all the company loses is the capital invested in the plant, the state is left cleaning up for potentially hundreds of years.
There's no way you could make nuclear power companies liable for the cost of cleanup in the event of catastrophic meltdown. That would require them to put extraordinary amounts of capital into escrow - hundreds if not thousands of times the cost of the plant - and would mean nuclear power would become economically unviable. Even if you mandated insurance, who would underwrite it? The payout in the event of a serious meltdown would cause a meltdown in the insurance sector and.
Financial service companies were dumb enough to play hot potato with sub-prime mortgages, but even they're not dumb enough to underwrite the risk of nuclear power.
If you pay attention to Steam even a little bit, you'd know that's total rubbish. New games now sell on Steam for less than RRP, just like B&M retail stores. If you're prepared to wait a few months, you can get recently released games for heavy discounts.
The biggest sale of them all is the legendary Steam Holiday Sale. Just about every serious PC gamer I know ranks games they plan on buying as either a day one purchase, sale purchase or holiday sale buy. The PC market has already started to adjust to this new pricing reality, hence publishers renewed focus on PC gaming. They know they can make a title appeal to a relatively large range of value segments in the space of a single year; in the long run this might also get rid of the Xmas focus as more publishers put out their weaker titles in the middle of the year knowing that even though it'll have limited appeal at full price, the faithful will build word of mouth in time for the 50% holiday sale discount.
Surely it should be "John Carmack is a creator of Doom."?
You can't save during combat at all in DAO.
Other than that I'd agree that combat in DAO was pretty easy, even on the hardest difficulty. That was mainly due to mages being massively overpowered. As long as you did the mage tower first to get Wynne the rest of the game was plain sailing, especially with a mage PC.
Apparently in DA2 they've replaced spell combos with cross class combos to make the other classes more relevant. Even in other RPG systems (i.e. D&D, although in D&D they're a lot weaker to start with) mages have always been massively overpowered engines of destruction, so I guess it makes sense to just acknowledge that the power to control elements & stuff means massive combat potential and just let the other classes support them.
Most games are fine with living on a traditional HD. You only have to worry about the initial load times and then after that, everything will be cached in RAM anyway.
Just have all your OS and regular apps on SSD and install games on your RAID. The few games that have random small I/O patterns (for me, that's my Baldur's Gate 1+2 Tutu + mods install that has loads of crap in the override folder), put them on your SSD. Most games just have resource files containing relatively large assets so your regular disk will be reading a few MB at a time before seeking. Those resources files are often optimised to put common assets close together in the assumption they'll be on optical media on a console, which obviously has much worse random I/O performance.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.67.9407&rep=rep1&type=pdf
That paper, which is now going on 7 years old, is the very first link of a Google search. It doesn't magically recreate obscured objects, but the GP never claimed that was possible. It does describe the process of using examples from a scene to fill the area previously covered by a deleted object, which is what the GP claimed was possible.
I bet there's an extension for Photoshop that implements that technique but, as you can't be bothered to do even the most basic research before spouting your uninformed opinion, I can't be bothered to search for it.
The only reason for buying a SSD over a Winchester drive is random I/O. That's always been the case and will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.
SSDs aren't going to compete with traditional rotating media on either cost/GB or raw throughput (compared to RAID) because you can do both those very cheaply with traditional media. The big win is in small random small page I/O, which is what makes up most of an average desktop load.
Now that I'm used to having my OS on an SSD, I find it agonising booting up systems that run on traditional media. A traditional 7200RPM drive can easily drop into the single digit MB/s during system boot up and initial log on. Modern "green" HDDs will drop below 1MB/s when dealing with sustained random 4k I/O! You can mitigate that by not having programmes start up automatically and disabling services that you don't really use, or you can install an SSD and just have that problem disappear.
That's because "something in between your HDD and your memory" is a good definition of a certain type of cache.
What you should have said is that SSDs should be used to store the OS and common programmes.
PC133 was more like 1GB a sec. 133Mhz * 64bit bus / 8 / 1024^3 ~ 1GB/s.
Prestwick is where all of the northern UK en route traffic is controlled, it's nothing to do with the aerodrome. Southern UK airspace is controlled at Swanwick in Southampton (referred to as CTC in that pprune thread). This being /., the terrible summary doesn't make that clear.
Basically what's going on here is that NATS (it used to stand for National Air Traffic Services, now it's just NATS) is trying to save a few quid by automating the job of the Air Traffic Services Assistants (ATSA). Information about flights used to be written up on paper strips for the Air Traffic Controllers, now it's put in a computer system.
I've never really had a situation on my home desktop where the contents of everything except /home and /var were more than 120GB. The only time I had /var balloon was when I was using MythTV, so if you're not running that you can keep /var on the SSD too.
You can get 120GB SSDs reasonably cheap these days. They're worth it.
Windows 7, and I just deleted and then restored a 6GB file to make sure.
On one of my drives, my maximum Recycle Bin size is is 192GB.
You mean like Shadow Volume Copy?
You can access it by right clicking on something and navigating to the Previous Versions tab.
That will always be a problem if you use your disks to capacity. The solution is to not fill your disks to capacity if you plan to be using them as random read / write media.
For home desktop use, you should really be be upgrading your storage solution at around 80% full. You should also be using a SSD for the drive your OS is installed on.
Just turn on Shadow Volume Copy. Whenever your users call asking for you to recover something from a backup, walk them through the process of right clicking and choosing the Previous Versions tab.
That turns accidental user deletions which, lets be honest, will never go away into 5m of mutually wasted time.
If you thought STS-133 was impressive, how about 45m of slow-motion shuttle launch footage in HD?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwqZ4qAUkE