Hmm... Haven't noticed a big difference so far, but I've only tried it briefly. IntelliJ IDEA seems as fast/slow as before. Some more system properties that refer to Java2D are available from Sun; the page also explains how to set the opengl flag globally, ie for all programs: using the environment variable _JAVA_OPTIONS, as in export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dsun.java2d.opengl=true'. Works for me, I think.
Apart from having a somewhat recent version of any up-to-date client (BitTornado, Azureus, lots more), there isn't a whole lot to tweak. If you get bad download speeds, it's either because the torrent is horribly seeded or because you don't upload enough yourself. Capping upload at a low level is heavily penalised in BT. It might be a firewalling issue, too, I guess. Incidently, I'm just downloading the Tribes: Vengeance demo using BT, faster than using most web sites and without any mirror hunting.
Actually, the German government was one of the few who originally took a stance against the proposed EU patent legislation. However, after a couple of (key?) changes to the proposition, they agreed with it.
I tend to agree, but 30 seconds of leading time are fairly rare (as they should be!) and a mini-game isn't worth it for the 2 to 10 seconds more often seen. Scrolling text IS great though, it doesn't even have to add to the story for all I care. Many developers have notices that and added that and a lot of games now have text in the loading screen. My only gripe is that it usually doesn't take very long for you to have seen all the texts and you get repeats all the time. They should be easily extensible, heck add RSS support for what it's worth - user supported short strategies and hints!:)
I'm not sure if I remember correctly and if the grandparent was referring to it anyway, but I think one the main characters (the tutor) of Hikaru No Go is also called Sai. Hikaro No Go being the anime that inspired the name of the distribution.
One way that usually works is to set your sound config up to record "What You Hear". Kind of like the analogue gap, except it never becomes analogue and leaves your computer.;) Of course, that'll only get you uncompressed PCM files and, when re-compressed, artifacts, but I doubt there's anything else you can do.
Shame that they don't offer either MP3 or OGG versions of the show. Wonder why they decided against using them, especially considering that the BBC has some experience with OGG - they used to have some live radio streams running it.
Are you seriously contesting that throughout the past few hundred years, Europeans haven't been coming to the New World to get away from little things like oppression, poverty, and even starvation? Please.
No, I am absolutely not. I don't know how you got that from my post. In fact, I brought up the "poverty" thing - I guess the most common reason for immigration to the USA (thus "crucially").
What I said is that the analogy does not apply. While people did flee from Europe for all those reasons, people won't flee from Earth for those reasons in the forseeable future. Especially not poverty. This is for various reasons, one of them being the fact that there is no where to flee to for the moment. There is no "New World", and nothing even vaguely analogous to it.
You might be right saying that many people would like to live in some kind of wonderland in outer space, in the same vein as the many people who would like to live in some kind of fairy tale world. Space is pretty big, as you correctly point out, and pretty much none of what we've seen of it so far makes for a good destination for any settlers. And while the analogy of the settlers fleeing oppression and, crucially, poverty in Europe and seeking their luck in the New World might be in some people's heads[1], it's really doesn't apply. I guess we'll have to deal with the oppression in some other way.
[1] Probably mostly in the heads of people who are neither poor nor oppressed.
I wanted to write an insightful rebuttal, except I don't seem to understand what exactly to rebut. A bit too much metaphor, too little substance maybe. To reach space in a "meaningful way"? "Citizens of space"? Very elaborate, though...
If there was some sort of actual incentive to go to space, like Earth being growingly uninhabitable or some sort of extremely rare material only available on an asteroid, then yes, space "exploration" would increase. That's what you seem to be saying - but that's really quite obvious, isn't it? But for now the only incentive is academic, and most of the actual exploring is better done from Earth itself.
It could've hardly been "better compatible" at that time.
I think what the grandparent said, or wanted to say, was that eMule was a better, compatible client, ie it was compatible and better at the same time. It was not more compatible than the original client - that wouldn't make any sense, like you say.:)
In my opinion, eMule would actually do good by adopting some of the features of Horde.
They have. On the one hand, there's the eMule alternative of the serverless protocol. But what's more, once you have found a peer for a file using whatever protocol, the two clients engage in a source exchange, ie they tell each other about the respective list of known peers using the file. I guess this would be a swarming feature in P2P terms. Source exchange is extremely effective and has been in eMule for a long time.
Because a lot of places do not legally require warranties.
As long as we're only sticking to the rich, first-world countries - what places are that? Apart from the US...? I know there's a two year warranty on mostly everything mandated in the EU, I assume the non-EU countries in Western Europe have similar laws. I don't know about Australia, Canada and Japan/Asia in general.
I don't really agree; prices have changed a lot. These days you get good 17" LCDs and sometimes not-so-good 19" LCDs for the price of a normal 15" LCD two years ago (something like 400 to 500 Euros). Plus the quality has increased a great deal, two years ago LCDs (arguably) fit for gaming were rare, now they're the norm. The same goes for the other specs like viewing angle and contrast.
They're still quite expensive, though, and I don't think I'll buy one as long as my CRT works.
A hate working on a monitor that has a little black dot in the middle of the screen.... or worse, a little white or colored dot because the pixel is stuck the other way round. Anyway, I definitely agree, this can be extremely annoying. Hopefully in a few years you won't have to put up even with dead pixels anymore - having more than a certain amount already gets you a replacement under the warranty.
I think there are lots of controls like that in the program; one is in the parameter window, which you can reach with F3 (only with an open fractal, I assume). The angle control (in the "Area" tab) works the way I described, as do the controls you get when you click on the symbol to the left of the other parameters. Actually, the program then displays three controls, all of them controlling the same parameter but with each working on a different order of magnitude - very odd, but quite efficient. They're not actually scrollbars but rather I think they're called sliders in standard GUI terminology.
Not exactly. A joystick does reset itself to neutral when you let go of it, but whatever parameter the joystick controls typically goes to neutral as well. That said, you could use it in the way I described, but it's not very practical and thus I have not seen it done yet.
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Coral cache (or whatever the correct term is) of the QuickTime version. Works fine for me.
Hmm... Haven't noticed a big difference so far, but I've only tried it briefly. IntelliJ IDEA seems as fast/slow as before. Some more system properties that refer to Java2D are available from Sun; the page also explains how to set the opengl flag globally, ie for all programs: using the environment variable _JAVA_OPTIONS, as in export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dsun.java2d.opengl=true'. Works for me, I think.
IIRC the Q3 port was the topic of a Slashdot story some weeks ago. ...
Here it is.
Apart from having a somewhat recent version of any up-to-date client (BitTornado, Azureus, lots more), there isn't a whole lot to tweak. If you get bad download speeds, it's either because the torrent is horribly seeded or because you don't upload enough yourself. Capping upload at a low level is heavily penalised in BT. It might be a firewalling issue, too, I guess. Incidently, I'm just downloading the Tribes: Vengeance demo using BT, faster than using most web sites and without any mirror hunting.
Actually, the German government was one of the few who originally took a stance against the proposed EU patent legislation. However, after a couple of (key?) changes to the proposition, they agreed with it.
I tend to agree, but 30 seconds of leading time are fairly rare (as they should be!) and a mini-game isn't worth it for the 2 to 10 seconds more often seen. Scrolling text IS great though, it doesn't even have to add to the story for all I care. Many developers have notices that and added that and a lot of games now have text in the loading screen. My only gripe is that it usually doesn't take very long for you to have seen all the texts and you get repeats all the time. They should be easily extensible, heck add RSS support for what it's worth - user supported short strategies and hints! :)
Help!
Move!
Hilarious! :)
No, more like basketball without the concrete boots.
I'm not sure if I remember correctly and if the grandparent was referring to it anyway, but I think one the main characters (the tutor) of Hikaru No Go is also called Sai. Hikaro No Go being the anime that inspired the name of the distribution.
One way that usually works is to set your sound config up to record "What You Hear". Kind of like the analogue gap, except it never becomes analogue and leaves your computer. ;) Of course, that'll only get you uncompressed PCM files and, when re-compressed, artifacts, but I doubt there's anything else you can do.
Shame that they don't offer either MP3 or OGG versions of the show. Wonder why they decided against using them, especially considering that the BBC has some experience with OGG - they used to have some live radio streams running it.
I keep hearing good things about these "shirts". Do they identifiy you as one of the techno-congniscenti? :)
No offense taken, or at least that's what I'm saying now. :)
Are you seriously contesting that throughout the past few hundred years, Europeans haven't been coming to the New World to get away from little things like oppression, poverty, and even starvation? Please.
No, I am absolutely not. I don't know how you got that from my post. In fact, I brought up the "poverty" thing - I guess the most common reason for immigration to the USA (thus "crucially").
What I said is that the analogy does not apply. While people did flee from Europe for all those reasons, people won't flee from Earth for those reasons in the forseeable future. Especially not poverty. This is for various reasons, one of them being the fact that there is no where to flee to for the moment. There is no "New World", and nothing even vaguely analogous to it.
You might be right saying that many people would like to live in some kind of wonderland in outer space, in the same vein as the many people who would like to live in some kind of fairy tale world. Space is pretty big, as you correctly point out, and pretty much none of what we've seen of it so far makes for a good destination for any settlers.
And while the analogy of the settlers fleeing oppression and, crucially, poverty in Europe and seeking their luck in the New World might be in some people's heads[1], it's really doesn't apply. I guess we'll have to deal with the oppression in some other way.
[1] Probably mostly in the heads of people who are neither poor nor oppressed.
I wanted to write an insightful rebuttal, except I don't seem to understand what exactly to rebut. A bit too much metaphor, too little substance maybe. To reach space in a "meaningful way"? "Citizens of space"? Very elaborate, though...
If there was some sort of actual incentive to go to space, like Earth being growingly uninhabitable or some sort of extremely rare material only available on an asteroid, then yes, space "exploration" would increase. That's what you seem to be saying - but that's really quite obvious, isn't it? But for now the only incentive is academic, and most of the actual exploring is better done from Earth itself.
It could've hardly been "better compatible" at that time.
:)
I think what the grandparent said, or wanted to say, was that eMule was a better, compatible client, ie it was compatible and better at the same time. It was not more compatible than the original client - that wouldn't make any sense, like you say.
In my opinion, eMule would actually do good by adopting some of the features of Horde.
They have. On the one hand, there's the eMule alternative of the serverless protocol. But what's more, once you have found a peer for a file using whatever protocol, the two clients engage in a source exchange, ie they tell each other about the respective list of known peers using the file. I guess this would be a swarming feature in P2P terms. Source exchange is extremely effective and has been in eMule for a long time.
Because a lot of places do not legally require warranties.
As long as we're only sticking to the rich, first-world countries - what places are that? Apart from the US...? I know there's a two year warranty on mostly everything mandated in the EU, I assume the non-EU countries in Western Europe have similar laws. I don't know about Australia, Canada and Japan/Asia in general.
I don't really agree; prices have changed a lot. These days you get good 17" LCDs and sometimes not-so-good 19" LCDs for the price of a normal 15" LCD two years ago (something like 400 to 500 Euros). Plus the quality has increased a great deal, two years ago LCDs (arguably) fit for gaming were rare, now they're the norm. The same goes for the other specs like viewing angle and contrast.
They're still quite expensive, though, and I don't think I'll buy one as long as my CRT works.
A hate working on a monitor that has a little black dot in the middle of the screen. ... or worse, a little white or colored dot because the pixel is stuck the other way round. Anyway, I definitely agree, this can be extremely annoying. Hopefully in a few years you won't have to put up even with dead pixels anymore - having more than a certain amount already gets you a replacement under the warranty.
I think there are lots of controls like that in the program; one is in the parameter window, which you can reach with F3 (only with an open fractal, I assume). The angle control (in the "Area" tab) works the way I described, as do the controls you get when you click on the symbol to the left of the other parameters. Actually, the program then displays three controls, all of them controlling the same parameter but with each working on a different order of magnitude - very odd, but quite efficient. They're not actually scrollbars but rather I think they're called sliders in standard GUI terminology.
Joystick.
Not exactly. A joystick does reset itself to neutral when you let go of it, but whatever parameter the joystick controls typically goes to neutral as well. That said, you could use it in the way I described, but it's not very practical and thus I have not seen it done yet.
Well, at least the AskJeeves site didn't return an advertisement for "Big Huge Penis pictures".
Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter... ;)