He was not complaining about the school. In fact there is a large number of schools which have very good technology related programs. However, the problem in New Orleans in jobs. There is only a very small amount of technology related jobs in New Orleans. When you graduate, you will usually have to look at jobs somewhere else. Your only way around this is to know someone in the few technology companies with local offices.
Brush cleaners for electric motors or model railroad tracks work even better then erasers. They are brown little square objects. Anytime one of my friends gives me his old carts, I can usually fix it by cleaning the contacts this way. To fix the deck I usually open up the deck and fix the little metal prongs that were supposed to hold to the cartridge tight. Most people these wore out and started their problems (I'm not sure how, I had a deck and I still play it to this day and I've never had to open it). Guess I got lucky.
Why is the parent modded down? He makes an informative post for people who have not heard of EAC. EAC does infact recognize hybrid CD's. Also, it does very accurate rippings just like CD paranoia which I believe off which it was moddled.
Half a second of delay isn't noticable? Obviously, you have no knowledge about human perception when it comes to voice. Most humans will begin noticing delay around 50ms when it comes to spoken conversation. By the time you hit 500 ms, it becomes annoying if you are not used to it. Transcribe that into at least a second and you will find that conversations often suffer from the problem of both sides trying to speak at once and having to stop and restart. This is all very annoying.
The only people who have problems with steam are people with crummy net connections and people who try to use it when traffic is very high.
I love comments like the parents. This reminds me why I stopped playing CS and DOD online. Some people cannot get good connections even when living in major cities. Also, when you buy the game you should be able to play it as soon as you install it. The whole activation method is useless, and is one reason I'm not buying HL2 right now (and I own a copy of Every Valve game except for Condition Zero) and HL2. As long as people with your sentiment are around though, I can see things will only get worse. The whole selfish, "I got mine. Anyone who doesn't is a dumbass" attitude just reminds me of why PC gaming has gone downhill
Doesn't that kind of negate the idea of user space and kernel space? I can see maybe some pieces of the kernel being in user space. However, for the main task of what a kernel is supposed to do (schedule, manage, I/O)... I don't know why that would be user space.
Even better try Objective Caml. The fast functional programming language with one of the best object systems around. In fact, I've looked at the additions Haskell is making to add object oriented programming. OCaml is largely being used as the basic template.
33% is actually on the low side for markup. Standard buisness practice is to mark everything up by at least 100% or more. There are some products which of course don't fit this practice, but in general every point of transaction tries to go up by 100%.
No they don't dude. The old NES's, you had to blow in the cartidge to get them to work. It was a cartridge problem AND a system defining problem.
It wasn't a cartridge problem. You blowing in the cartridge only made it worse over time. The real problem was the retaining clips holding the cartridge in the NES would get weak and not hold the cartridge tightly against the contacts. The moisture provided from your breath would help to temporarily make it work, but it is the reason many NES games will not work for people while all of mine still work to this day.
Pixel Shader 2.0? That is Geforce FX area. Geforce 6800's bring Pixel Shader 3.0 (finally turning complete) to the table. I assume ATI cards are much the same way.
Go into your settings and adjust the default refresh rate for which ever resolution your running doom 3 at. This even helps for the guys who have cards not making 60fps. Most video cards tend to cap opengl at 60 fps for some reason unless you change the default behavior.
Maybe you should try turning up your refresh rate? I use both LCD's and CRT's. The LCD's give me headaches after a while and the text always seems blurry. You might also have the brightness way to high on your CRT. Try adjusting it down when your not doing something like playing a game.
I also didn't mention but the other people reminded me, I'm looking at page faults. Almost ever *nix machine I use with less then 256 MB of ram wants to swap everytime everytime I switch applications and thus feels slower. A windows 2000 with 96 megs of ram feels much more responsive and usually only thrashes when I start Eclipse.
I think you must be a troll. Last time I used *nix (which was 5 minutes ago), the amount of resources just to get a decent default config running (X with a window manager and desktop enviroment plus some basic service) blows away what my Windows computer is using with several applications running (some quite large). In almost every computer I've used, *nix has gotten far worse on memory usage then Windows. So stop spotting crap.
I would like to note, Windows has had support for desktop acceleration for some time now (at least since Windows 98). Win2K got alpha transparency (which is done in hardware if available). So it is not like this is new. The new feature is using the 3D capabilties of a GPU to do 2D features.
Nope. I run windows xp and even with norton (bloatware), mozilla, office, and gaim open, I'm only allocating 250 megs. He has something else running. Usually in linux just start some basic services and X I'm already over that mark.
My only problem with this is what happens if the company goes out of buisness. I think I often get a hankering to play games which date back to dos and windows 3.1 days. If I can no longer get to the server, then I can no longer authenticate to play the game. That is very annoying.
Well first off, I don't know if I would call what I get in my mailboxes US English. Anti spam filter perhaps. Secondly, if your audiance is world wide, you would want to use English. The internet is primarily an English speaking place. It is true that you have some sites written in the local dialect. However, most sites will feature some English page because it is so universal. You can go almost anywhere and speak to people in English and have a pretty good chance of being understood.
You should still notice a pretty good difference. Most games store the really bandwidth intensive stuff (textures, vertex arrays) on the video card, and then just run the commands over the bus to display those. The only problem you really run into is when you don't have enough onboard memory on the card and have to move data from main memory to the card. However, most games are optimized to try and avoid that situation.
You must have not used AIM lately. It doesn't install gator, but while installing aim if your not paying attention it will install both weatherbug and WildTangent? Ever try removing Wild Tangent from your control panel after having removed what you thought was all components. That was a nightmare.
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He was not complaining about the school. In fact there is a large number of schools which have very good technology related programs. However, the problem in New Orleans in jobs. There is only a very small amount of technology related jobs in New Orleans. When you graduate, you will usually have to look at jobs somewhere else. Your only way around this is to know someone in the few technology companies with local offices.
Brush cleaners for electric motors or model railroad tracks work even better then erasers. They are brown little square objects. Anytime one of my friends gives me his old carts, I can usually fix it by cleaning the contacts this way. To fix the deck I usually open up the deck and fix the little metal prongs that were supposed to hold to the cartridge tight. Most people these wore out and started their problems (I'm not sure how, I had a deck and I still play it to this day and I've never had to open it). Guess I got lucky.
Why is the parent modded down? He makes an informative post for people who have not heard of EAC. EAC does infact recognize hybrid CD's. Also, it does very accurate rippings just like CD paranoia which I believe off which it was moddled.
Half a second of delay isn't noticable? Obviously, you have no knowledge about human perception when it comes to voice. Most humans will begin noticing delay around 50ms when it comes to spoken conversation. By the time you hit 500 ms, it becomes annoying if you are not used to it. Transcribe that into at least a second and you will find that conversations often suffer from the problem of both sides trying to speak at once and having to stop and restart. This is all very annoying.
The only people who have problems with steam are people with crummy net connections and people who try to use it when traffic is very high.
I love comments like the parents. This reminds me why I stopped playing CS and DOD online. Some people cannot get good connections even when living in major cities. Also, when you buy the game you should be able to play it as soon as you install it. The whole activation method is useless, and is one reason I'm not buying HL2 right now (and I own a copy of Every Valve game except for Condition Zero) and HL2. As long as people with your sentiment are around though, I can see things will only get worse. The whole selfish, "I got mine. Anyone who doesn't is a dumbass" attitude just reminds me of why PC gaming has gone downhill
Last time I checked the US was in more then 4 times zones. Your forgetting Alaska, Hawaii, and several other territories.
Doesn't that kind of negate the idea of user space and kernel space? I can see maybe some pieces of the kernel being in user space. However, for the main task of what a kernel is supposed to do (schedule, manage, I/O)... I don't know why that would be user space.
Even better try Objective Caml. The fast functional programming language with one of the best object systems around. In fact, I've looked at the additions Haskell is making to add object oriented programming. OCaml is largely being used as the basic template.
33% is actually on the low side for markup. Standard buisness practice is to mark everything up by at least 100% or more. There are some products which of course don't fit this practice, but in general every point of transaction tries to go up by 100%.
No they don't dude. The old NES's, you had to blow in the cartidge to get them to work. It was a cartridge problem AND a system defining problem.
It wasn't a cartridge problem. You blowing in the cartridge only made it worse over time. The real problem was the retaining clips holding the cartridge in the NES would get weak and not hold the cartridge tightly against the contacts. The moisture provided from your breath would help to temporarily make it work, but it is the reason many NES games will not work for people while all of mine still work to this day.
Pixel Shader 2.0? That is Geforce FX area. Geforce 6800's bring Pixel Shader 3.0 (finally turning complete) to the table. I assume ATI cards are much the same way.
Go into your settings and adjust the default refresh rate for which ever resolution your running doom 3 at. This even helps for the guys who have cards not making 60fps. Most video cards tend to cap opengl at 60 fps for some reason unless you change the default behavior.
Direct X 7. You need it for some of the effects they did in the game.
Didn't have to wait for OpenGL 2.0. It was already available in at least 1.5 as ARB extensions.
s/run\ faster/have\ higher\ clockspeeds/ you forgot the last / My perl chokes on your subsitution regular expression.
Maybe you should try turning up your refresh rate? I use both LCD's and CRT's. The LCD's give me headaches after a while and the text always seems blurry. You might also have the brightness way to high on your CRT. Try adjusting it down when your not doing something like playing a game.
I also didn't mention but the other people reminded me, I'm looking at page faults. Almost ever *nix machine I use with less then 256 MB of ram wants to swap everytime everytime I switch applications and thus feels slower. A windows 2000 with 96 megs of ram feels much more responsive and usually only thrashes when I start Eclipse.
I think you must be a troll. Last time I used *nix (which was 5 minutes ago), the amount of resources just to get a decent default config running (X with a window manager and desktop enviroment plus some basic service) blows away what my Windows computer is using with several applications running (some quite large). In almost every computer I've used, *nix has gotten far worse on memory usage then Windows. So stop spotting crap.
I would like to note, Windows has had support for desktop acceleration for some time now (at least since Windows 98). Win2K got alpha transparency (which is done in hardware if available). So it is not like this is new. The new feature is using the 3D capabilties of a GPU to do 2D features.
Nope. I run windows xp and even with norton (bloatware), mozilla, office, and gaim open, I'm only allocating 250 megs. He has something else running. Usually in linux just start some basic services and X I'm already over that mark.
My only problem with this is what happens if the company goes out of buisness. I think I often get a hankering to play games which date back to dos and windows 3.1 days. If I can no longer get to the server, then I can no longer authenticate to play the game. That is very annoying.
Well first off, I don't know if I would call what I get in my mailboxes US English. Anti spam filter perhaps. Secondly, if your audiance is world wide, you would want to use English. The internet is primarily an English speaking place. It is true that you have some sites written in the local dialect. However, most sites will feature some English page because it is so universal. You can go almost anywhere and speak to people in English and have a pretty good chance of being understood.
You should still notice a pretty good difference. Most games store the really bandwidth intensive stuff (textures, vertex arrays) on the video card, and then just run the commands over the bus to display those. The only problem you really run into is when you don't have enough onboard memory on the card and have to move data from main memory to the card. However, most games are optimized to try and avoid that situation.
You must have not used AIM lately. It doesn't install gator, but while installing aim if your not paying attention it will install both weatherbug and WildTangent? Ever try removing Wild Tangent from your control panel after having removed what you thought was all components. That was a nightmare.
This only holds true for smaller diesels... but: If the valves ain't a rattling, you got them suckers to damn tight.