I purchased Halo for the PC, and am patched to the latest version.
What the crap are you talking about with the vehicle buffer/float thing? It just doesn't exist in the game. PC version vehicles behave exactly as they do on the XBox.
And the only time Halo/PC has ever crashed on me was when switching to a super-high resolution (1600x1200) -- which actually turned out to be ATI's fault (drivers.)
It doesn't help when people pirate the crap out of a game, too. Most people I know who played Syberia downloaded a copy off the net, while I only had to pay $15 for a legit copy. Sheesh.
SACD is vastly superior, in many ways, to DVD-A. I wish DVD-A would just give up the ghost and die already. If I want music on DVD, I'd rather be watching the concert with it, or the music videos. That's the whole point of DVD.
Fraunhofer reproduces surround sound by adding to MP3 encoding extra information that describes the spatial characteristics of the main audio track.
Using this extra information helps MP3 players recreate the surround sound effect.
Pfft. Glorified "expand stereo". We don't need this. A DSP would handle it just fine.. even a lot of built in motherboard sound chipsets have an "expand stereo" slider nowadays. This is pretty much worthless.
That guy sounds like an idiot. I just let it download it's pre-cache dealie, and I was fine. On another box I have Steam installed on, I stopped the pre-caching, and it was fine as well. Haven't had a single problem.
To this day I haven't been able to play my copy of Enter The Matrix, due to bugs/glitches.
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard Athlon 2.0Ghz ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 1 gigabyte of PC2100 (Crucial) nForce digital SP/DIF audio
-- Video is horribly slow, especially when going into "Focus" mode (try playing with 1 FPS.) Audio drops out randomly, or starts to screech super loud and I have to hurry and turn down my speakers, even with EAX/3d audio disabled. You can see through certain walls, and during cutscenes, entire characters will disappear/reappear. Gamma is incorrect and inconsistent. Wheels appear as squares during driving sequences (even with the level of detail settings adjusted.)
It boggles my mind that something that buggy was even released to the public.
No way this works for gaming. I've been using the set for a few months now, and while it is an excellent wireless keyboard/mouse combo (way better than the Logitech junk I had previously) I could never see someone using the gyro feature in a game. It's very difficult to master.
Most of these other applications fail because they don't want to compete. If someone makes a better product than what is provided with their computers, odds are they are going to find it and buy it, if necessary.
If Microsoft wants to include their own browser/media player/virus scanner/popup blocker/disk defragmenter/image program (Paint?)/insert-your-program-of-choice-here that's just fine. Why does it bother people so much? You don't HAVE to use their apps.
Truth be told, your average Jane/Joe probably doesn't want to go out and try to find some free/expensive program to do those things. They'd just rather it be there and work.
Besides, I don't know if you've been keeping up with the virus scanning industry, but it's pretty much gone to crap. And one of the last decent pieces of software, Grisoft/AVG is FREE. Oh no! They're going to put Norton out of business! Bye bye McAfee! (insert sky-is-falling-type-remark-here.) Oh wait, they're still around.
Your other examples of "Microsoft Monopoly" are pretty weak. Winzip? Pfft. I won't even start on the Netscape issue. I hate to break it to you, but Outlook has had spam detection in it for a while. Oh no! All those poor spam detection companies are going bankrupt! Oh wait, they're not.
I'd argue that Western Digital has a vastly superior procedure, where they will 2nd day you a replacement hard drive for free, while you send in the faulty one. I hate waiting for weeks to get a replacement drive. Shouldn't be this difficult.
Especially since an IBM just went bad in my server.. (clicks on startup randomly and never stops) I'll have to return that and get a Hitachi drive now, I guess...
Yes, one of the most overused pieces of movie music in history. The "Battle at the Pyramid" track from the Stargate soundtrack is used in countless movie trailers, not to mention all over the TV show. Heh. Like you said, they finally have some newer music based on David Arnold's original score for the film. I like the "sad" version of the theme; it's almost piano-y.
I love that Switch parody ad. Fricken hilarious, and so true.
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I remember when they released the latest and greatest 8000-series of the Inspiron, and it was plagued with problems, such as power/battery issues, video card issues (GeForce2Go required a different/higher voltage than the ATi cards.) I personally had to deal with all of this junk, along with Dell claiming it wasn't their fault. Searching their forums, I could find at least 25 others having the same exact issues as me, with the same exact hardware (first release of the Inspiron 8xxx series, 8000.)
So in the future, I'm wary to buy any series/model from them that's "brand new", especially if it's a laptop. Seems like they iron out the kinks and them release a newer revision (8100, 8200, etc.) that works pretty darn well.
This is actually why I have two partitions on my system; a strictly-games Windows 2000 partition, and a business/programming Windows XP partition. Don't have to worry about services/background apps slowing down my games, and things tend to work better in 2k anyhow, gaming wise at least.
Actually, all you need is the Microsoft Data Access Components installed ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ ) if you wish to just read/write to the Access database.
And as a side note, if you're doing any sort of development in Access, your database shouldn't even be in the Access file. You're much better off using a real database, like MS SQL or MySQL/etc. to handle the data storage, and link to that through ODBC or ADO (I prefer ADO, but whatever.) Also, your program's logic (especially when it's complex) should be contained server-side, in the form of a stored procedure in the database. Anything else is asking for trouble.
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I purchased Halo for the PC, and am patched to the latest version.
What the crap are you talking about with the vehicle buffer/float thing? It just doesn't exist in the game. PC version vehicles behave exactly as they do on the XBox.
And the only time Halo/PC has ever crashed on me was when switching to a super-high resolution (1600x1200) -- which actually turned out to be ATI's fault (drivers.)
Moderation, -1: Parent is full of crap.
Codec packs in general are asking for trouble. More often than not, they install all sorts of crap you don't need.
Just go grab ffdshow from sourceforge, and you're set to play divx/xvid/mpeg4/etc.
I'd install MatrixMixer and AC3Filter (also on SourceForge) while you're at it, as well.
It doesn't help when people pirate the crap out of a game, too. Most people I know who played Syberia downloaded a copy off the net, while I only had to pay $15 for a legit copy. Sheesh.
SACD is vastly superior, in many ways, to DVD-A. I wish DVD-A would just give up the ghost and die already. If I want music on DVD, I'd rather be watching the concert with it, or the music videos. That's the whole point of DVD.
Fraunhofer reproduces surround sound by adding to MP3 encoding extra information that describes the spatial characteristics of the main audio track.
Using this extra information helps MP3 players recreate the surround sound effect.
Pfft. Glorified "expand stereo". We don't need this. A DSP would handle it just fine.. even a lot of built in motherboard sound chipsets have an "expand stereo" slider nowadays. This is pretty much worthless.
Same thing for "I, Robot". A bunch of people started laughing after the trailer. Pfft.
Sorry, wrong. It's track #26 from the movie soundtrack "Battle at the Pyramid" -- the TV show theme is a tiny re-working of that track.
That guy sounds like an idiot. I just let it download it's pre-cache dealie, and I was fine. On another box I have Steam installed on, I stopped the pre-caching, and it was fine as well. Haven't had a single problem.
Check out http://www.grcsucks.com/ for info debunking GRC/ShieldsUp/Steve Gibson. He's a quack.
To this day I haven't been able to play my copy of Enter The Matrix, due to bugs/glitches.
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard
Athlon 2.0Ghz
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
1 gigabyte of PC2100 (Crucial)
nForce digital SP/DIF audio
-- Video is horribly slow, especially when going into "Focus" mode (try playing with 1 FPS.) Audio drops out randomly, or starts to screech super loud and I have to hurry and turn down my speakers, even with EAX/3d audio disabled. You can see through certain walls, and during cutscenes, entire characters will disappear/reappear. Gamma is incorrect and inconsistent. Wheels appear as squares during driving sequences (even with the level of detail settings adjusted.)
It boggles my mind that something that buggy was even released to the public.
No way this works for gaming. I've been using the set for a few months now, and while it is an excellent wireless keyboard/mouse combo (way better than the Logitech junk I had previously) I could never see someone using the gyro feature in a game. It's very difficult to master.
Here here!
You just hit the nail on the head.
Most of these other applications fail because they don't want to compete. If someone makes a better product than what is provided with their computers, odds are they are going to find it and buy it, if necessary.
I'm so tired of hearing this crap.
If Microsoft wants to include their own browser/media player/virus scanner/popup blocker/disk defragmenter/image program (Paint?)/insert-your-program-of-choice-here that's just fine. Why does it bother people so much? You don't HAVE to use their apps.
Truth be told, your average Jane/Joe probably doesn't want to go out and try to find some free/expensive program to do those things. They'd just rather it be there and work.
Besides, I don't know if you've been keeping up with the virus scanning industry, but it's pretty much gone to crap. And one of the last decent pieces of software, Grisoft/AVG is FREE. Oh no! They're going to put Norton out of business! Bye bye McAfee! (insert sky-is-falling-type-remark-here.) Oh wait, they're still around.
Your other examples of "Microsoft Monopoly" are pretty weak. Winzip? Pfft. I won't even start on the Netscape issue. I hate to break it to you, but Outlook has had spam detection in it for a while. Oh no! All those poor spam detection companies are going bankrupt! Oh wait, they're not.
I'd argue that Western Digital has a vastly superior procedure, where they will 2nd day you a replacement hard drive for free, while you send in the faulty one. I hate waiting for weeks to get a replacement drive. Shouldn't be this difficult.
Especially since an IBM just went bad in my server.. (clicks on startup randomly and never stops) I'll have to return that and get a Hitachi drive now, I guess...
Here's another vote for Nuendo. After working with Pro Tools for a while and dealing with it's quirks, Nuendo's take on things is refreshing.
Yes, one of the most overused pieces of movie music in history. The "Battle at the Pyramid" track from the Stargate soundtrack is used in countless movie trailers, not to mention all over the TV show. Heh. Like you said, they finally have some newer music based on David Arnold's original score for the film. I like the "sad" version of the theme; it's almost piano-y.
I love that Switch parody ad. Fricken hilarious, and so true.
I remember when they released the latest and greatest 8000-series of the Inspiron, and it was plagued with problems, such as power/battery issues, video card issues (GeForce2Go required a different/higher voltage than the ATi cards.) I personally had to deal with all of this junk, along with Dell claiming it wasn't their fault. Searching their forums, I could find at least 25 others having the same exact issues as me, with the same exact hardware (first release of the Inspiron 8xxx series, 8000.)
So in the future, I'm wary to buy any series/model from them that's "brand new", especially if it's a laptop. Seems like they iron out the kinks and them release a newer revision (8100, 8200, etc.) that works pretty darn well.
Hah. I wish I had mod points. You rule.
This is actually why I have two partitions on my system; a strictly-games Windows 2000 partition, and a business/programming Windows XP partition. Don't have to worry about services/background apps slowing down my games, and things tend to work better in 2k anyhow, gaming wise at least.
Doesn't the EXIF specification already allow for information such as GPS location to be saved in the tag?
http://www.exif.org/
There also appears to be a propposal for LocationIFD, to further enhance/add to this functionality.
Actually, all you need is the Microsoft Data Access Components installed ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ ) if you wish to just read/write to the Access database.
And as a side note, if you're doing any sort of development in Access, your database shouldn't even be in the Access file. You're much better off using a real database, like MS SQL or MySQL/etc. to handle the data storage, and link to that through ODBC or ADO (I prefer ADO, but whatever.) Also, your program's logic (especially when it's complex) should be contained server-side, in the form of a stored procedure in the database. Anything else is asking for trouble.
At least O'Neil got to cap the girl who started that whole mess, much to Daniel's dismay.
Yes, we are geeks.
When will companies realize people don't want to LICENSE or RENT something like movies/music from them. They want to OWN.
Or just use an archiving format that can encrypt filenames as well, and give you much better compression.