In order to gain RoHS (?) compliance they have lead free solder in the system, rumour has it that this (amongst other issues also) is one of the reasons the machine has issues.
Obviously there's a heat / warping problem and the board is rumoured to bend at high heat, none the less the solder has been listed as a problem too.
For almost every build of GBS there was problems, quirks and annoying weird stuff in general. However the final 2 builds (IIRC) were absoloutely fine for me, worked perfectly and saved me a heck of a lot of trouble and time, between Vista, XP, Ubuntu, work, desk, laptop I must've had 5 fully sync'd installs - it was great:/
The best part was, when it did work smoothly, history, passwords, cookies, bookmarks - the whole lot went - it was fantastic! - It'll be sorely missed.
Yep, mod this up! It's an absoloute fucking scam (again) on paypals behalf.
Once you add bank to an existing account, it opts to directly withdraw from the bank rather than credit card, you CAN'T make the credit card default. In Australia, this means I get charged bank fees for using my regular bank account, (maximum 5 transactions a month free, than small but annoying fees)
The credit card obviously has no fees - they are happy with the interest you pay as a dipshit consumer in debt (which I'm not)
Paypal have done this so that people can't do ccard chargebacks as easily.
I've seen several complaints across the web about it and I simply do not know how. I am the first person to complain when something changes un-necessarily (Windows Vista's explorer in classic mode is nothing short of an abortion, a filthy disgusting abortion and I mean every goddamned word of that, you'd be surprised how many little bugs are in it)
That being said, this firefox bar is virtually flawless, it seems to remember what I normally open based on what I type, how often I go there, how many times I hit the down arrow for another option etc. As a hardcore keyboard user, I love it. The only flaw is one of the benefits and that's how it hunt and pecks through your bookmarks. If you share your machine and say you have bookmarks like 'tranny gets railed by 15 guys' it could be kind of bad if your co-worker jumps on your PC and starts typing in 'tran' for transmission or transformers in the address bar:/
Baring that though, it truely is gold. Oh and it's genuinely and substantially faster.
Now just fix google browser sync, tabs menu and we're good to go.
That would actually be quite a funny joke to pop in to the game, if the final level seems like the first level - at least for the first 5 minutes of it.
Some of you guys are forgetting our disabled friends in the gaming crowd.
There's a fellow over at shacknews who has lost the ability to do much with one hand (if I recall) and I always feel for the guy when I hear about things like this, it must be so difficult to enjoy a good game when you're using a controller with one hand (that being said he's still finished some pretty awesome games)
I can imagine a good engineer could whip up some kind of combo controller which supports both feet one hand and an elbow perhaps to get yourself some fairly good controls but of course the market is so small, it's not made, so these people just sit ignored sadly.
Don't post articles on the damned pringles can, curse those people and their glorious snack food product:( Oh that salty powdered flavouring.............
I have only got into Ebay in the last 2 years and I couldn't agree more, Ebay have become one of the scummiest companies on the internet, the fees are ridiculous. If you use paypal and the item sells in a certain price range, fees can be as high as 15% - that's insane for an online transaction using some html and images - they are making a killing and it's primarily due to being a monoply.
Agreed on the exiting thing, it's all about smart code really. I do note a lot of applications and websites seem to assume that bandwidth is 'free' though which is unfortunate. I can muster up drive space easily but here in Australia - plentiful bandwidth is expensive.
Save games are currently 2mb per save for Half Life 2 and the majority of games now have poorly coded save systems - anywhere from 1->25mb per save game.
Also assuming they would compress,.... yeah well - who knows? As long as they do it smart, great but if not, it could really thrash some internet links.
It's also not up to you to decide it isn't too complicated for them now is it?
We clearly disagree here, I find the concept of even speaking to them arrogant, you find the concept of not speaking to them arrogant - we're all entitled to our opinions I spose and good for you.:/
Actually they are an engdangered species or did you not read the actual article? They are people, simple ones, with simple lives - let them be.
Oh and it has nothing to do with my entertainment, precisely the opposite, some other morons would likely love to meddle with their lives, for their entertainment, fuck that.
If there's one thing I'm learning about life as I get older - and maybe just maybe I'm turning a little hippie but the one beautiful and pure thing in nature is innocence.
When we watch a movie and a child or an animal dies, most of us get upset, we cry, we're sad - it's wrong. You have an adult die and it's a whole different thing, the key thing is the innocence, it's a beautiful and pure thing.
Nature in itself is innocent, beautiful and natural; sorry but I don't care how we could help these people, we've got enough mess as it is now, let them enjoy themselves, they are living life how they want to and frankly good on them.
As an Australian with our stupid internet account limitations, I'm curious what kind of bandwidth this uses. Some accounts see as little as 6gb per month in peak times here (12:01am to 11:59pm) for example.
I would like to THINK the game is smart enough to use a local copy, until you're finished.. I would not like to have each save upload 1mb or 2mb (however big saves are) then download that much again per load - especially on a level chock full of quickloads:/
Could hamper performance and cause shaping to occur on the internet account once the limit is reached:/
Yep Windows 95 with a beefy enough system you could run 99% of games on it. Most gamers at the time of Win 3.11 didn't bother with Windows 3.11 even being installed if they didn't need it, we had dos based menu packages like quickmenu and some other awesome ones I wish I recalled the name for:(
Admitedly few gamers could afford the memory required, I mean back then people could afford the 8mb to run Doom 2 or 16mb to run Wing Commander 3 smoothly IF they had some decent coin but to afford not only enough ram for the greedy games AND Windows, rare. None the less 95 was a new era as was 2k once the games developers and Microsoft tightened things up.
It sounds silly but we gamers simply didn't run our games with some 'silly os' in the background eating up our precious resources. Now that era is gone, imaging making a bootdisk or a config.sys sile just to run a game now - sure windows isn't perfect but for gaming things have come a long long way. SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T3
...I still haven't told you about my son have I. He's a big fan of yours......unfortunately my son's not all that they promised. But then again, who knows what he could do. For future reference, right handed men don't hold it with their left. Just one of those things. You're gonna miss your flight Vincent,... (queue music, begin sobbing)
My OS partition is 25gb and that's me being extremely generous, I used to work with 7gb but thanks to XnView's thumbnail database and Picasa being a complete moron application without the ability to re-direct the cache database there too - I'm keeping 25gb to be sure.
256 is more than enough.
That being said, you wouldn't want to use Vista on this drive, what with the read / write constant disk thrashing it does because it's well... stupid - it'll wear this sucker out in no time.
(It's sad that I'm old enough to remember a time where the drive light did not flash, EVER unless you did something, you could actually sometimes spot a machine with a virus just with un-authorised disk access back in the 6.22 days...)
Today is my fourth attempt in 12 months to try and use Vista and I loathe it within hours of installation. I've made several posts about Vista in the past, such as this one. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=364823&cid=21406737
At this point in time, I am definately not in the crowd which claims it's got poor performance or compatibility, both of these are not major issues for me. What continues to tick me off and continues to be a problem which I firmly believe will NEVER be fixed is the classic user interface for us 'tech types' (who don't use linux) is absoloutely and utterly appalling!
As you'll see from the link up there, there's a plethora of small niggles in Vista which quite simply don't exist in XP - the much older OS. Today I bring you another which I managed to capture, it's a small simple little bug but it's JUST PLAIN FRUSTRATING AND STUPID (sorry but it is) http://abrasion.shackspace.com/WTF.wmv (encoded with Windows Media Encoder 9, sorry people, you'll likely need a recent version of WMP) That movie there really summarises some of the well, dumb shit that Vista does.
Why would clicking NEAR the folder and having the folder highlight, not update the window to the right? Before anyone says it, I agree that's a ridiculously small problem but none the less XP does this fine! it's awkward, annoying and it wastes my time.
So, looks like my desktop PC is about to get XP MCE, because I'm not putting up with Vista as my primary OS just so I can record TV shows, stuff that.
- Scott P.S if ANYONE from MS does actually read this, message me, email me - reply to us all anonymously and explain why on earth such a simple thing was missed? Did anyone actually test this UI when developing this OS or did every moron leave the bloody aero theme on during testing?
Those were the days, DOS 6.22 and Norton (not Nortons you illiterate fools!) Utilities 6 In those days we didn't have these dopey unmovable files (well except the root directory) and in my case I had under 1000 files on my entire drive, I'd run speeddisk daily on my 20mb WD MFM drive, the ones which made the classic chirp chirp noise you still hear today added as a sound effect for a computer room on a movie.
Speeddisk was brilliant and you could watch it do its work, file systems weren't a bloody mess of cookie files and temporary internet files, hiberfil.sys, pagefiles which can't be moved and god knows what. Norton Utilities back then was a very very good product which offered all kinds of power over your machine which the standard OS could not provide. Now I won't go near it, I'll install O&O defrag, Acronis's disk director / true image and so on to managage my system
20% of the US population hasn't used email? Good lord who cares!
I bet 85% of the US population have never been in a war. I bet 100% of the US population are under 19' tall. At least 20% of the US population will never see this post. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if 10% of the US population don't even own a cell phone.
It's rare that I would complain about the news here but whoever approved this AND whoever submitted it, wtf, really? Just WTF.
Issue one and I'm not sure what it is, but youtube and flash video seems fishy - despite me installing the same plugin it suggests on a fresh install (which normally works under 2)
(Videos load, won't play just kinda sits there showing the first frame)
Second issue, not Mozillas fault - oh god I'm dying without google browser sync:( (Also RC1 killed compatibility with 'tabs menu' which is a brilliant little tool, it gives you 'tabs' up the top - much like 'windows' so you can change to whichever tab you like quickly)
Is it possible, IS IT POSSIBLE? You're actually asking is it possible, really?
This whole damned video display industry, from TV to computers to god knows what has gone 20 years backwards in display quality, ever since the LCD 'won' and the average consumer decided they preferred convenience and desk space over picture quality.
At the slow rate we're going at now, we might just have black levels and the colour reproduction of a basic, cheap CRT in about 5 years, maybe in 10 years time we might finally have a flat panel on my desk which is as good as the CRT's which have been replaced.
I've owned 4 different panels, I must've used 50 or more and none of them even come close to the quality of a CRT. Just last night while cooking my kitchen (overlooks my lounge) I had my TV and laptop displaying the same movie (so I can watch while I cook) the colour difference is nothing short of astounding, the black level difference is horrible.
Crisp text, yes I know, I know and flicker - don't try that one, a good CRT doesn't flicker (120hz, 100hz etc) I've accepted the sacrifice of an LCD on my computer desk and my laptop, well there's no choice but my loungeroom television, as much as I am tired of such a small one (36") and lack of crispness - I can not allow a plasma or LCD in my lounge - I can't do it to myself as I'll always be noticing the flaws.
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In order to gain RoHS (?) compliance they have lead free solder in the system, rumour has it that this (amongst other issues also) is one of the reasons the machine has issues.
Obviously there's a heat / warping problem and the board is rumoured to bend at high heat, none the less the solder has been listed as a problem too.
Oh by the way SOUL-DERR
SOULLL-DER
NOT 'sodder'
For almost every build of GBS there was problems, quirks and annoying weird stuff in general. :/
However the final 2 builds (IIRC) were absoloutely fine for me, worked perfectly and saved me a heck of a lot of trouble and time, between Vista, XP, Ubuntu, work, desk, laptop I must've had 5 fully sync'd installs - it was great
The best part was, when it did work smoothly, history, passwords, cookies, bookmarks - the whole lot went - it was fantastic! - It'll be sorely missed.
Yep, mod this up! It's an absoloute fucking scam (again) on paypals behalf.
Once you add bank to an existing account, it opts to directly withdraw from the bank rather than credit card, you CAN'T make the credit card default.
In Australia, this means I get charged bank fees for using my regular bank account, (maximum 5 transactions a month free, than small but annoying fees)
The credit card obviously has no fees - they are happy with the interest you pay as a dipshit consumer in debt (which I'm not)
Paypal have done this so that people can't do ccard chargebacks as easily.
That address bar is brilliant.
:/
I've seen several complaints across the web about it and I simply do not know how.
I am the first person to complain when something changes un-necessarily (Windows Vista's explorer in classic mode is nothing short of an abortion, a filthy disgusting abortion and I mean every goddamned word of that, you'd be surprised how many little bugs are in it)
That being said, this firefox bar is virtually flawless, it seems to remember what I normally open based on what I type, how often I go there, how many times I hit the down arrow for another option etc.
As a hardcore keyboard user, I love it.
The only flaw is one of the benefits and that's how it hunt and pecks through your bookmarks.
If you share your machine and say you have bookmarks like 'tranny gets railed by 15 guys' it could be kind of bad if your co-worker jumps on your PC and starts typing in 'tran' for transmission or transformers in the address bar
Baring that though, it truely is gold.
Oh and it's genuinely and substantially faster.
Now just fix google browser sync, tabs menu and we're good to go.
That would actually be quite a funny joke to pop in to the game, if the final level seems like the first level - at least for the first 5 minutes of it.
Some of you guys are forgetting our disabled friends in the gaming crowd.
There's a fellow over at shacknews who has lost the ability to do much with one hand (if I recall) and I always feel for the guy when I hear about things like this, it must be so difficult to enjoy a good game when you're using a controller with one hand (that being said he's still finished some pretty awesome games)
I can imagine a good engineer could whip up some kind of combo controller which supports both feet one hand and an elbow perhaps to get yourself some fairly good controls but of course the market is so small, it's not made, so these people just sit ignored sadly.
http://home.comcast.net/~rcmerritt/aboutme.htm
So be thankful you have what you have when some of you make jokes on such a topic.
Don't post articles on the damned pringles can, curse those people and their glorious snack food product :( .............
Oh that salty powdered flavouring
I have only got into Ebay in the last 2 years and I couldn't agree more, Ebay have become one of the scummiest companies on the internet, the fees are ridiculous. If you use paypal and the item sells in a certain price range, fees can be as high as 15% - that's insane for an online transaction using some html and images - they are making a killing and it's primarily due to being a monoply.
Agreed on the exiting thing, it's all about smart code really.
I do note a lot of applications and websites seem to assume that bandwidth is 'free' though which is unfortunate.
I can muster up drive space easily but here in Australia - plentiful bandwidth is expensive.
Save games are currently 2mb per save for Half Life 2 and the majority of games now have poorly coded save systems - anywhere from 1->25mb per save game.
Also assuming they would compress,.... yeah well - who knows? As long as they do it smart, great but if not, it could really thrash some internet links.
It's also not up to you to decide it isn't too complicated for them now is it?
:/
We clearly disagree here, I find the concept of even speaking to them arrogant, you find the concept of not speaking to them arrogant - we're all entitled to our opinions I spose and good for you.
Actually they are an engdangered species or did you not read the actual article?
They are people, simple ones, with simple lives - let them be.
Oh and it has nothing to do with my entertainment, precisely the opposite, some other morons would likely love to meddle with their lives, for their entertainment, fuck that.
If there's one thing I'm learning about life as I get older - and maybe just maybe I'm turning a little hippie but the one beautiful and pure thing in nature is innocence.
When we watch a movie and a child or an animal dies, most of us get upset, we cry, we're sad - it's wrong.
You have an adult die and it's a whole different thing, the key thing is the innocence, it's a beautiful and pure thing.
Nature in itself is innocent, beautiful and natural; sorry but I don't care how we could help these people, we've got enough mess as it is now, let them enjoy themselves, they are living life how they want to and frankly good on them.
As an Australian with our stupid internet account limitations, I'm curious what kind of bandwidth this uses.
:/
:/
Some accounts see as little as 6gb per month in peak times here (12:01am to 11:59pm) for example.
I would like to THINK the game is smart enough to use a local copy, until you're finished..
I would not like to have each save upload 1mb or 2mb (however big saves are) then download that much again per load - especially on a level chock full of quickloads
Could hamper performance and cause shaping to occur on the internet account once the limit is reached
You're assuming I had a CDROM, not in my 286 baby, not in my 286 :)
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=a220%20i5%20d1&hl=en&meta=
Yep Windows 95 with a beefy enough system you could run 99% of games on it. :(
Most gamers at the time of Win 3.11 didn't bother with Windows 3.11 even being installed if they didn't need it, we had dos based menu packages like quickmenu and some other awesome ones I wish I recalled the name for
Admitedly few gamers could afford the memory required, I mean back then people could afford the 8mb to run Doom 2 or 16mb to run Wing Commander 3 smoothly IF they had some decent coin but to afford not only enough ram for the greedy games AND Windows, rare.
None the less 95 was a new era as was 2k once the games developers and Microsoft tightened things up.
It sounds silly but we gamers simply didn't run our games with some 'silly os' in the background eating up our precious resources.
Now that era is gone, imaging making a bootdisk or a config.sys sile just to run a game now - sure windows isn't perfect but for gaming things have come a long long way.
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T3
They managed to squeeze in (out?) 'blast' too .......
...I still haven't told you about my son have I. He's a big fan of yours... ...unfortunately my son's not all that they promised. But then again, who knows what he could do.
For future reference, right handed men don't hold it with their left. Just one of those things.
You're gonna miss your flight Vincent,... (queue music, begin sobbing)
My OS partition is 25gb and that's me being extremely generous, I used to work with 7gb but thanks to XnView's thumbnail database and Picasa being a complete moron application without the ability to re-direct the cache database there too - I'm keeping 25gb to be sure.
... stupid - it'll wear this sucker out in no time.
256 is more than enough.
That being said, you wouldn't want to use Vista on this drive, what with the read / write constant disk thrashing it does because it's well
(It's sad that I'm old enough to remember a time where the drive light did not flash, EVER unless you did something, you could actually sometimes spot a machine with a virus just with un-authorised disk access back in the 6.22 days...)
Hi gents,
Today is my fourth attempt in 12 months to try and use Vista and I loathe it within hours of installation.
I've made several posts about Vista in the past, such as this one.
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=364823&cid=21406737
At this point in time, I am definately not in the crowd which claims it's got poor performance or compatibility, both of these are not major issues for me.
What continues to tick me off and continues to be a problem which I firmly believe will NEVER be fixed is the classic user interface for us 'tech types' (who don't use linux) is absoloutely and utterly appalling!
As you'll see from the link up there, there's a plethora of small niggles in Vista which quite simply don't exist in XP - the much older OS.
Today I bring you another which I managed to capture, it's a small simple little bug but it's JUST PLAIN FRUSTRATING AND STUPID (sorry but it is)
http://abrasion.shackspace.com/WTF.wmv (encoded with Windows Media Encoder 9, sorry people, you'll likely need a recent version of WMP)
That movie there really summarises some of the well, dumb shit that Vista does.
Why would clicking NEAR the folder and having the folder highlight, not update the window to the right?
Before anyone says it, I agree that's a ridiculously small problem but none the less XP does this fine! it's awkward, annoying and it wastes my time.
So, looks like my desktop PC is about to get XP MCE, because I'm not putting up with Vista as my primary OS just so I can record TV shows, stuff that.
- Scott
P.S if ANYONE from MS does actually read this, message me, email me - reply to us all anonymously and explain why on earth such a simple thing was missed? Did anyone actually test this UI when developing this OS or did every moron leave the bloody aero theme on during testing?
Yeah boy!
Speeddisk 6.0 lovers represent!
Those were the days, DOS 6.22 and Norton (not Nortons you illiterate fools!) Utilities 6
In those days we didn't have these dopey unmovable files (well except the root directory) and in my case I had under 1000 files on my entire drive, I'd run speeddisk daily on my 20mb WD MFM drive, the ones which made the classic chirp chirp noise you still hear today added as a sound effect for a computer room on a movie.
Speeddisk was brilliant and you could watch it do its work, file systems weren't a bloody mess of cookie files and temporary internet files, hiberfil.sys, pagefiles which can't be moved and god knows what.
Norton Utilities back then was a very very good product which offered all kinds of power over your machine which the standard OS could not provide.
Now I won't go near it, I'll install O&O defrag, Acronis's disk director / true image and so on to managage my system
Oh my lord! awesome - now all it needs is a hotkey.
Thanks for the response.
20% of the US population hasn't used email?
Good lord who cares!
I bet 85% of the US population have never been in a war.
I bet 100% of the US population are under 19' tall.
At least 20% of the US population will never see this post.
Hell I wouldn't be surprised if 10% of the US population don't even own a cell phone.
It's rare that I would complain about the news here but whoever approved this AND whoever submitted it, wtf, really? Just WTF.
Issue one and I'm not sure what it is, but youtube and flash video seems fishy - despite me installing the same plugin it suggests on a fresh install (which normally works under 2)
:(
(Videos load, won't play just kinda sits there showing the first frame)
Second issue, not Mozillas fault - oh god I'm dying without google browser sync
(Also RC1 killed compatibility with 'tabs menu' which is a brilliant little tool, it gives you 'tabs' up the top - much like 'windows' so you can change to whichever tab you like quickly)
Is it possible, IS IT POSSIBLE?
You're actually asking is it possible, really?
This whole damned video display industry, from TV to computers to god knows what has gone 20 years backwards in display quality, ever since the LCD 'won' and the average consumer decided they preferred convenience and desk space over picture quality.
At the slow rate we're going at now, we might just have black levels and the colour reproduction of a basic, cheap CRT in about 5 years, maybe in 10 years time we might finally have a flat panel on my desk which is as good as the CRT's which have been replaced.
I've owned 4 different panels, I must've used 50 or more and none of them even come close to the quality of a CRT.
Just last night while cooking my kitchen (overlooks my lounge) I had my TV and laptop displaying the same movie (so I can watch while I cook) the colour difference is nothing short of astounding, the black level difference is horrible.
Crisp text, yes I know, I know and flicker - don't try that one, a good CRT doesn't flicker (120hz, 100hz etc)
I've accepted the sacrifice of an LCD on my computer desk and my laptop, well there's no choice but my loungeroom television, as much as I am tired of such a small one (36") and lack of crispness - I can not allow a plasma or LCD in my lounge - I can't do it to myself as I'll always be noticing the flaws.