We've installed IE Tab plugin into FF at work and then set the url for the intranet to be forced to open in IE Tab in the options. Now I don't need to open IE at all, works a charm. (admitedly it's initially slow to open as it needs to load the guts of IE when it does it)
I don't know much about science or astronomy but I would have thought if something is heading on a course for the moon, wouldn't it be more likely the earths stronger gravitational field would have grabbed it?
Take note of the home / ins / del / page up / page down keys and how they've been moved around by Microsoft for reasons unknown, breaking the standard US form factor we've been using for years (and hell! I had to convert from UK in the first place) Also take note of F1 F2 F3 / F4 F5 F6 - they've split the F keys by 3 not 4 and they require an "F lock" to be enabled for them to work as default, otherwise they serve other functions (it should be the other way around)
Finally the cursor keys are slightly lower down on the keyboard itself. Absoloute abominations and very arrogant of Microsoft to boot, sadly they come with many cheap PC's - gives me the absoloute niggles.
**(IGNORE THE OTHER POST)** I'm learning how to use the quote feature of slashdot, why does submit need to be 3.1 pixels from preview?
And all three consoles had network capability and 5.1 audio, some through SPDIF, others through Dolby Prologic II. I wouldn't call the Gamecube's PL II 'proper' 5.1 to be honest, you might but it's not.
The only thing that ensures a console is NEXT gen is if it's out in the next generation. The number of years in a cycle have nothing to do with a generation. Like, all your kids are by definition the next generation, it doesn't depend on when you give birth to them. Well, almost... What I meant was simply more next gen, it was an attempt to emphasize the word. Likely be a larger jump, more features, etc. I don't care about the semantics of the term 'next gen', technically the Wii is next gen (well current gen but you know what I mean) - I would argue it's not 'next gen' at all. Ultimately my point is the Xbox 360 and PS3 could've had an even larger leap and even more 'next gen' if they kept them in the oven a bit longer.
We're not just upping the ante with texture detail, polygons, quantity of multi-textures per surface, we're also increasing the resolution which impacts us 4x slower (well approximately)
But you're wrong. A few games use these resolutions. The flagship game of the XB360, Halo 3, is not even 720p! And you can count on one hand the 1920x1080 games, which are only on PS3
No, the old games were rendered at approximately 640x480 at most, generally lower, we're now 'apparently' at 1280x720 (see my next point) Oh and you're wrong on the 1920 thing, there's several MS games rendered internally at 1920 (few but some) I believe there's a tennis game and one or two others.
We're already seeing HD games which are rendered at a lower resolution and upsampled by the onboard chips.
What do you mean? If they are rendered at lower than 720p, they are not HD games. My HDTV upscales anything to 1920x1080 in progressive mode, which doesn't make the Wii games HD.
You've just emphasized my original point, these 'next gen' systems are ALREADY too weak to run the games in the resolutions they claim, we're explaining the same thing to each other. They don't all run at 1280x720, some render at 1024x576 - this tells me the graphical power of these 'next gen' systems isn't as good as it should be and - back to my original point these should have been left in the oven longer.
I'd like to NOT see a new system from anyone for at least 4 years from now, bare minimum or I simply won't be joining them.
Be prepared to play the end of this gen on the Wii then.
That's a bit of a silly thing to say, you haven't been following the trends of the industry much or listening to your gametheory, egm, gamespot and 1up podcasts much now have you?:)
The Wii is the weakest of the current gen and making a good profit, if anything it'll be the first to get a new model coming out. Further to this point, Nintendo have a tendency to iterate their systems, see the DS and Gameboy lines, there's a slim chance we'll see the Wii 2.0 or Wii HD (with backwards compatibility) within 2 years I believe, the other 2 - despite this article are in a world of hurt from the mammoth release of these 2 expensive behemoth consoles, they need to sit tight, hold ship and now milk us gamers for profit on games.
Sorry about the other post, someone move the damn submit button half an inch to the right.
And all three consoles had network capability and 5.1 audio, some through SPDIF, others through Dolby Prologic II. I wouldn't call the Gamecube's PL II 'proper' 5.1 to be honest, you might but it's not.
The only thing that ensures a console is NEXT gen is if it's out in the next generation. The number of years in a cycle have nothing to do with a generation. Like, all your kids are by definition the next generation, it doesn't depend on when you give birth to them. Well, almost... What I meant was simply more next gen, it was an attempt to emphasize the word. Likely be a larger jump, more features, etc. I don't care about the semantics of next gen, technically the Wii is next gen (well current gen but you know what I mean) - I would argue it's not 'next gen' at all. Ultimately my point is the Xbox 360 and PS3 could've had an even larger leap if they kept them in the oven a bit longer.
We're not just upping the ante with texture detail, polygons, quantity of multi-textures per surface, we're also increasing the resolution which impacts us 4x slower (well approximately)
But you're wrong. A few games use these resolutions. The flagship game of the XB360, Halo 3, is not even 720p! And you can count on one hand the 1920x1080 games, which are only on PS3
We're already seeing HD games which are rendered at a lower resolution and upsampled by the onboard chips. What do you mean? If they are rendered at lower than 720p, they are not HD games. My HDTV upscales anything to 1920x1080 in progressive mode, which doesn't make the Wii games HD.
Yeah I was actually agreeing with you to an extent, however you did seem to be making the excuse for the news that MS is coding a new game for a next gen console, even factoring in 2+ years lead time on developing next gen games, I personally find this news far far too early.
I honestly don't even want to HEAR about next gen consoles for another 24 months, this transition online has been epic, the flame wars, speculation, discussion, hype, articles over the past 36 months in the gaming arena have been,.. frankly exhausting. Now that I've finally joined the next gen (I waited as long as I could, only got them 2 weeks ago) I just want to sit back, relax and see more articles on the GAMES and stuff for this gen, rather than speculative things on the future:)
I agree that 5-6 years is nice, I believe with the cost of entry now though that we're going to see them try and milk as long as possible (and I won't be upset by that) Also, the PS1 and PS2 may have dragged on but you need to keep in mind the PS2 is still kicking some ass and getting the occasional game for it too, this is what Sony mean when they claim 10 years. The PS1 I think was 8 or 9, the PS2 will be likely utterly dead at 10 and the PS3, to my knowledge they'd also like to get a full 10 out of. Sure they can replace it but unlike MS, ffsake, please please make it at least 6 years - my wallet and internet browsing time slice simply don't allow for anything sooner.
Actually most of us 'hardcore' gamers would still like to see longer periods between consoles.
It's my firm belief the last generation was cut short by at LEAST a year before it needed to be, the PS2, GC and Xbox all were quite capable of outputting some fairly nice graphics in their final days, also 2 of the 3 had network capability, 2 of them could hold full DVD sized data (9gb) they had digital audio out (in most cases) supported 5.1 audio or pro logic 1 / 2 and all 3 could (in most cases) output via component in progressive scan, infact there was a small selection of high definition games to boot.
They were close to the end but I'm sure another 12 months, maybe 18 could have been comfortably squeezed out of them. The Xbox obviously couldn't for financial reasons, this doesn't change the fact,...that sucks for us - it was by far the most powerful console and some of it's top end games just looked great The PS2 while fairly weak, people figured out, look at Shadow of the Colossus, God of War 2 etc - damn fine looking games Gamecube, I don't know much about but I do believe some of the games also looked quite nice.
The thing is, I don't like dropping 700$ on a console, 200$ on accessories, 150$ on a couple of launch games every 4 or 5 years, I'd much prefer 'milking' my dollar out with 6 / 7 or even 8 year cycles, this also ensures the next console is damn well NEXT gen.
The Xbox 360 and PS3 both do look nice, no doubt but I don't think the leap was that great. The graphical capabilities of both new HD consoles is obviously better but is it leaps and bounds better? We're not just upping the ante with texture detail, polygons, quantity of multi-textures per surface, we're also increasing the resolution which impacts us 4x slower (well approximately)
We're already seeing HD games which are rendered at a lower resolution and upsampled by the onboard chips. If they had waited another year, we'd have seen several good changes, possible examples. HD-DVD in the 360 (forget the movie war for a moment!, this means not only more room for games but more DENSELY packed data, meaning slower spin speeds, meaning a QUIETER SYSTEM ala the PS3) Arcade model possibly not existing? Movement control in all 3 next gen systems (to clarify, I personally couldn't care about this) HD capability on the Wii Digital audio out on the Wii (WTF?) Better online infrastructure. The first year of the next gen consoles not being crap! (1 or 2 great games per system:/ ) More consoles on shelves at launch, especially the PS3 with it's blue diode issues HDMI across all 3, following STANDARDS etc.
I could speculate all day, to get back on point, it's my belief that yes, all 3 of these new consoles are too early (specifically the 360) and I'd like to NOT see a new system from anyone for at least 4 years from now, bare minimum or I simply won't be joining them. (I also doubt the next gen will be backwards compatible, hence we need to milk this gen out thoroughly)
It's all fun and games to rag on Sony, but as someone who has recently purchased a 360 AND a PS3 within a week of each other, I can tell you that the PSN system isn't as terrible as people make out.
XBL may be integrated much more tightly with the games and 'os' if you will but it damn well costs money and frankly that is annoying from an end user standpoint. Yes it's cheap and yes the service is pretty good however PSN is free, totally and utterly free. The burnout demo, thanks to some clever coding has created the Xbox Live experience without the need for live, the multiplayer system works identically on both and is one of the first titles where someone may go 'well hang on, this is identical on PS3, why would I buy the X360 version?'
Xbox live does have it's silly flaws though, thanks to Microsoft's somewhat ridiculous rules. (I was about to link a forum post of mine on their page but how interesting, I can't sign in to the xbox.com forums) Suffice to say see the top post: http://msnemailchange.blogspot.com/
I totally agree that it's not a TV, also yes the native resolution is 'too high' That's not to say however it's not perfectly usable as an SD or HD TV if you're sitting 5-10' away based on it's size - at least as a basic alternative, the non native resolutions isn't going to totally destroy the image (that's more for text)
Also yes I do realise you can get a cheaper and larger TV for less, the fellow who purchased this isn't too bright - but the poor sap just wanted to output 1280x800 or 1680x1050 from his laptop to it, via VGA - of course he couldn't - as it simply doesn't have a VGA port (his fault for buying but I mean cmon - it should've been there in the first place)
The 3008 is definately a far far superior product with the addition of those ports.
The 3007 was always an odd one, unlike the 2407 it was lacking those other inputs and being the premium model, no one could figure out why. Some people bought them anyway and coupled it with a monster video card but I know at least one poor sap who didn't do his research and purchased one, only to find it had no component ports (admitedly you should check but he just assumed on a display that large)
He's since spent hundreds trying to plug a DVD player and regular VGA laptop into it by purchasing component / vga to DVI converters etc (not cheap) and still having issues.
The 3007 might be a good monitor but with only a single input on a display that large, it really was overpriced, you'll see it absoloutely tumble on ebay in the coming months, if you own one, sell it now while you can.
You're mis-reading my comment, people silly enough to 'just try it once' who happen to be weak and maybe try it 2 or 3 times, etc - obviously I'm implying enough to be addicted.
As for your other comment, if protecting my mother from herself is selfish, well frankly - fuck you.
As far as I'm concerned smoking should be banned, period.
It's taken 2 grandparents from me and a mother in the future, no doubt. In Australia, the government continue to increase taxes on it to give people the incentive to quit, they also enjoy massive income from it.
This product wipes out millions of people globally annually, while I am one of those weirdo's who believe we have too many people and I completely find people who do it to be quite simply foolish (including friends and family), on the other hand as discussed here, it is a drug, a very very addictive drug. These people silly enough 'just to try it once' have or will wind up in a grave due to it.
I'd tie my own mother down and give her the shot myself if I could, losing a loved one (now or later) is always painful to endure, knowing life could have been prolonged is just plain frustrating.
While you're at it, Vista's explorer - yeah, don't copy anything from that either. See more info here from me. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=364823&cid=21406737 Specifically take note of what I whine about in the JPG's - it's that kind of shit which kills users.
What is it with intetnet sites (slashdot, news sites, digg etc) having fascinating articles but no cool pictures to back them up?
Did anyone else groan intensely last year when 'worlds largest squid has been caught!' articles came up with no pictures? "Meteor smashes into datacentre" "Worlds largest seal clubs man in Alaska" "100ft tall hot woman with massive breasts seen naked crossing major highway" "Worlds coolest event happens! No pictures here!"
That site is an existing site with one of these fascinating reactors, I found the site some time last year (and had a hell of a time finding the damn link in my history too) check it out purely for the cool factor, good stuff.
Windows 98 / 98SE was replaced with ME and ME was replaced by XP in the CONSUMER level. Sure us technicians used NT / 2000 and then XP but your average home user did not, XP was the first version of Windows where the NT based kernel was marketed to the 'dummies'
When I saw this on Maxconsole about 12 hours ago, I though to myself - I hope slashdot don't report on that stuff, those guys have a bit more sense, the more technical types know vaopourware when we see it.
but no........
Most of us enthusiasts and techs on this site have been reading about 'magical future disc formats'!!! since about when the CD came out for PC's well over 10 years ago, it's all bloody rubbish until their is one on shelves, period.
Exactly- this word has run its course, too many dipshits don't know how to use it.
Only way to repair a bricked item is for the manufacturer to repair it or some kind of emergency flash for example - like that old virus long ago which took out the ABIT BH6 boards bios.
It's the late 90's all over again, even the PC got spoilt.
Mass Effect, Mario, Bioshock, Crysis, Orange Box, Halo 3 etc Remember, the year has been so jam packed with games that God of War 2 was this year even - yet it feels like 3 years worth of games have come out since.
You know the problem I speak of? I am sure FF just has some weird kind of memory management, despite the fact I HAVE a 2mpixel image open and in memory from a web site, it still seems to not only re-download it but it takes forever to push it from ram to disk, like nothing else.
Slashdot Mirror
This might help you with the intranet issue.
We've installed IE Tab plugin into FF at work and then set the url for the intranet to be forced to open in IE Tab in the options.
Now I don't need to open IE at all, works a charm. (admitedly it's initially slow to open as it needs to load the guts of IE when it does it)
I don't know much about science or astronomy but I would have thought if something is heading on a course for the moon, wouldn't it be more likely the earths stronger gravitational field would have grabbed it?
I've ranted on this before but for the life of me can't find my original whinge.
http://i3.iofferphoto.com/img/1139040000/_i/10421992/1.jpg
Take note of the home / ins / del / page up / page down keys and how they've been moved around by Microsoft for reasons unknown, breaking the standard US form factor we've been using for years (and hell! I had to convert from UK in the first place)
Also take note of F1 F2 F3 / F4 F5 F6 - they've split the F keys by 3 not 4 and they require an "F lock" to be enabled for them to work as default, otherwise they serve other functions (it should be the other way around)
Finally the cursor keys are slightly lower down on the keyboard itself.
Absoloute abominations and very arrogant of Microsoft to boot, sadly they come with many cheap PC's - gives me the absoloute niggles.
I'm learning how to use the quote feature of slashdot, why does submit need to be 3.1 pixels from preview? And all three consoles had network capability and 5.1 audio, some through SPDIF, others through Dolby Prologic II. I wouldn't call the Gamecube's PL II 'proper' 5.1 to be honest, you might but it's not. The only thing that ensures a console is NEXT gen is if it's out in the next generation. The number of years in a cycle have nothing to do with a generation. Like, all your kids are by definition the next generation, it doesn't depend on when you give birth to them. Well, almost... What I meant was simply more next gen, it was an attempt to emphasize the word.
Likely be a larger jump, more features, etc.
I don't care about the semantics of the term 'next gen', technically the Wii is next gen (well current gen but you know what I mean) - I would argue it's not 'next gen' at all.
Ultimately my point is the Xbox 360 and PS3 could've had an even larger leap and even more 'next gen' if they kept them in the oven a bit longer.
No, the old games were rendered at approximately 640x480 at most, generally lower, we're now 'apparently' at 1280x720 (see my next point)
Oh and you're wrong on the 1920 thing, there's several MS games rendered internally at 1920 (few but some) I believe there's a tennis game and one or two others.
You've just emphasized my original point, these 'next gen' systems are ALREADY too weak to run the games in the resolutions they claim, we're explaining the same thing to each other.
They don't all run at 1280x720, some render at 1024x576 - this tells me the graphical power of these 'next gen' systems isn't as good as it should be and - back to my original point these should have been left in the oven longer.
That's a bit of a silly thing to say, you haven't been following the trends of the industry much or listening to your gametheory, egm, gamespot and 1up podcasts much now have you?
The Wii is the weakest of the current gen and making a good profit, if anything it'll be the first to get a new model coming out.
Further to this point, Nintendo have a tendency to iterate their systems, see the DS and Gameboy lines, there's a slim chance we'll see the Wii 2.0 or Wii HD (with backwards compatibility) within 2 years I believe, the other 2 - despite this article are in a world of hurt from the mammoth release of these 2 expensive behemoth consoles, they need to sit tight, hold ship and now milk us gamers for profit on games.
Sorry about the other post, someone move the damn submit button half an inch to the right.
Likely be a larger jump, more features, etc.
I don't care about the semantics of next gen, technically the Wii is next gen (well current gen but you know what I mean) - I would argue it's not 'next gen' at all.
Ultimately my point is the Xbox 360 and PS3 could've had an even larger leap if they kept them in the oven a bit longer. We're not just upping the ante with texture detail, polygons, quantity of multi-textures per surface, we're also increasing the resolution which impacts us 4x slower (well approximately) We're already seeing HD games which are rendered at a lower resolution and upsampled by the onboard chips.
What do you mean? If they are rendered at lower than 720p, they are not HD games.
My HDTV upscales anything to 1920x1080 in progressive mode, which doesn't make the Wii games HD.
Yeah I was actually agreeing with you to an extent, however you did seem to be making the excuse for the news that MS is coding a new game for a next gen console, even factoring in 2+ years lead time on developing next gen games, I personally find this news far far too early.
:)
I honestly don't even want to HEAR about next gen consoles for another 24 months, this transition online has been epic, the flame wars, speculation, discussion, hype, articles over the past 36 months in the gaming arena have been,.. frankly exhausting.
Now that I've finally joined the next gen (I waited as long as I could, only got them 2 weeks ago) I just want to sit back, relax and see more articles on the GAMES and stuff for this gen, rather than speculative things on the future
I agree that 5-6 years is nice, I believe with the cost of entry now though that we're going to see them try and milk as long as possible (and I won't be upset by that)
Also, the PS1 and PS2 may have dragged on but you need to keep in mind the PS2 is still kicking some ass and getting the occasional game for it too, this is what Sony mean when they claim 10 years.
The PS1 I think was 8 or 9, the PS2 will be likely utterly dead at 10 and the PS3, to my knowledge they'd also like to get a full 10 out of.
Sure they can replace it but unlike MS, ffsake, please please make it at least 6 years - my wallet and internet browsing time slice simply don't allow for anything sooner.
Actually most of us 'hardcore' gamers would still like to see longer periods between consoles.
,...that sucks for us - it was by far the most powerful console and some of it's top end games just looked great
:/ )
It's my firm belief the last generation was cut short by at LEAST a year before it needed to be, the PS2, GC and Xbox all were quite capable of outputting some fairly nice graphics in their final days, also 2 of the 3 had network capability, 2 of them could hold full DVD sized data (9gb) they had digital audio out (in most cases) supported 5.1 audio or pro logic 1 / 2 and all 3 could (in most cases) output via component in progressive scan, infact there was a small selection of high definition games to boot.
They were close to the end but I'm sure another 12 months, maybe 18 could have been comfortably squeezed out of them.
The Xbox obviously couldn't for financial reasons, this doesn't change the fact
The PS2 while fairly weak, people figured out, look at Shadow of the Colossus, God of War 2 etc - damn fine looking games
Gamecube, I don't know much about but I do believe some of the games also looked quite nice.
The thing is, I don't like dropping 700$ on a console, 200$ on accessories, 150$ on a couple of launch games every 4 or 5 years, I'd much prefer 'milking' my dollar out with 6 / 7 or even 8 year cycles, this also ensures the next console is damn well NEXT gen.
The Xbox 360 and PS3 both do look nice, no doubt but I don't think the leap was that great.
The graphical capabilities of both new HD consoles is obviously better but is it leaps and bounds better?
We're not just upping the ante with texture detail, polygons, quantity of multi-textures per surface, we're also increasing the resolution which impacts us 4x slower (well approximately)
We're already seeing HD games which are rendered at a lower resolution and upsampled by the onboard chips.
If they had waited another year, we'd have seen several good changes, possible examples.
HD-DVD in the 360 (forget the movie war for a moment!, this means not only more room for games but more DENSELY packed data, meaning slower spin speeds, meaning a QUIETER SYSTEM ala the PS3)
Arcade model possibly not existing?
Movement control in all 3 next gen systems (to clarify, I personally couldn't care about this)
HD capability on the Wii
Digital audio out on the Wii (WTF?)
Better online infrastructure.
The first year of the next gen consoles not being crap! (1 or 2 great games per system
More consoles on shelves at launch, especially the PS3 with it's blue diode issues
HDMI across all 3, following STANDARDS
etc.
I could speculate all day, to get back on point, it's my belief that yes, all 3 of these new consoles are too early (specifically the 360) and I'd like to NOT see a new system from anyone for at least 4 years from now, bare minimum or I simply won't be joining them.
(I also doubt the next gen will be backwards compatible, hence we need to milk this gen out thoroughly)
This is not my post but I feel I need to link it here for you.
http://www.digg.com/apple/HD_DVD_vs_Blu_Ray_Battle_Over_Where_the_Studios_Stand?t=11796471#c11796471
The 'bad guys' are in both camps, Sony is NOT the only representative of Blu Ray.
Finally back up
Here is a forum post outlining the problem and their, frankly stupid rules.
http://forums.xbox.com/17297131/ShowPost.aspx
It's all fun and games to rag on Sony, but as someone who has recently purchased a 360 AND a PS3 within a week of each other, I can tell you that the PSN system isn't as terrible as people make out.
XBL may be integrated much more tightly with the games and 'os' if you will but it damn well costs money and frankly that is annoying from an end user standpoint.
Yes it's cheap and yes the service is pretty good however PSN is free, totally and utterly free.
The burnout demo, thanks to some clever coding has created the Xbox Live experience without the need for live, the multiplayer system works identically on both and is one of the first titles where someone may go 'well hang on, this is identical on PS3, why would I buy the X360 version?'
Xbox live does have it's silly flaws though, thanks to Microsoft's somewhat ridiculous rules.
(I was about to link a forum post of mine on their page but how interesting, I can't sign in to the xbox.com forums)
Suffice to say see the top post: http://msnemailchange.blogspot.com/
I totally agree that it's not a TV, also yes the native resolution is 'too high'
That's not to say however it's not perfectly usable as an SD or HD TV if you're sitting 5-10' away based on it's size - at least as a basic alternative, the non native resolutions isn't going to totally destroy the image (that's more for text)
Also yes I do realise you can get a cheaper and larger TV for less, the fellow who purchased this isn't too bright - but the poor sap just wanted to output 1280x800 or 1680x1050 from his laptop to it, via VGA - of course he couldn't - as it simply doesn't have a VGA port (his fault for buying but I mean cmon - it should've been there in the first place)
The 3008 is definately a far far superior product with the addition of those ports.
The 3007 was always an odd one, unlike the 2407 it was lacking those other inputs and being the premium model, no one could figure out why.
Some people bought them anyway and coupled it with a monster video card but I know at least one poor sap who didn't do his research and purchased one, only to find it had no component ports (admitedly you should check but he just assumed on a display that large)
He's since spent hundreds trying to plug a DVD player and regular VGA laptop into it by purchasing component / vga to DVI converters etc (not cheap) and still having issues.
The 3007 might be a good monitor but with only a single input on a display that large, it really was overpriced, you'll see it absoloutely tumble on ebay in the coming months, if you own one, sell it now while you can.
You're mis-reading my comment, people silly enough to 'just try it once' who happen to be weak and maybe try it 2 or 3 times, etc - obviously I'm implying enough to be addicted.
As for your other comment, if protecting my mother from herself is selfish, well frankly - fuck you.
As far as I'm concerned smoking should be banned, period.
It's taken 2 grandparents from me and a mother in the future, no doubt.
In Australia, the government continue to increase taxes on it to give people the incentive to quit, they also enjoy massive income from it.
This product wipes out millions of people globally annually, while I am one of those weirdo's who believe we have too many people and I completely find people who do it to be quite simply foolish (including friends and family), on the other hand as discussed here, it is a drug, a very very addictive drug. These people silly enough 'just to try it once' have or will wind up in a grave due to it.
I'd tie my own mother down and give her the shot myself if I could, losing a loved one (now or later) is always painful to endure, knowing life could have been prolonged is just plain frustrating.
Reading this old classic article, I always loved this one (and agreed so much)
http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/qtime.htm
While you're at it, Vista's explorer - yeah, don't copy anything from that either.
See more info here from me.
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=364823&cid=21406737
Specifically take note of what I whine about in the JPG's - it's that kind of shit which kills users.
What is it with intetnet sites (slashdot, news sites, digg etc) having fascinating articles but no cool pictures to back them up?
Did anyone else groan intensely last year when 'worlds largest squid has been caught!' articles came up with no pictures?
"Meteor smashes into datacentre"
"Worlds largest seal clubs man in Alaska"
"100ft tall hot woman with massive breasts seen naked crossing major highway"
"Worlds coolest event happens! No pictures here!"
Anyhow to get the rant over with,.........
http://ucdcms.ucdavis.edu/solar2/photos/
That site is an existing site with one of these fascinating reactors, I found the site some time last year (and had a hell of a time finding the damn link in my history too) check it out purely for the cool factor, good stuff.
Peter North could power a small factory then couldn't he?
I question your knowledge...
Windows 98 / 98SE was replaced with ME and ME was replaced by XP in the CONSUMER level.
Sure us technicians used NT / 2000 and then XP but your average home user did not, XP was the first version of Windows where the NT based kernel was marketed to the 'dummies'
Learn your OS history, please.
Australia loves copying you guys, trust me I know - I live here.
The hummer is taking off big here now too......... oh the humanity.
Those stupid 'facts' were lame about 12 hours after the first one was ever posted.
Also Chuck Norris may have been the propular one but if I recall Vin Diesel was the original star these things were targeted at.
When I saw this on Maxconsole about 12 hours ago, I though to myself - I hope slashdot don't report on that stuff, those guys have a bit more sense, the more technical types know vaopourware when we see it.
but no........
Most of us enthusiasts and techs on this site have been reading about 'magical future disc formats'!!! since about when the CD came out for PC's well over 10 years ago, it's all bloody rubbish until their is one on shelves, period.
Exactly- this word has run its course, too many dipshits don't know how to use it.
Only way to repair a bricked item is for the manufacturer to repair it or some kind of emergency flash for example - like that old virus long ago which took out the ABIT BH6 boards bios.
It's the late 90's all over again, even the PC got spoilt.
Mass Effect, Mario, Bioshock, Crysis, Orange Box, Halo 3 etc
Remember, the year has been so jam packed with games that God of War 2 was this year even - yet it feels like 3 years worth of games have come out since.
Just to let people know, this worked - it's still quirky but does seem to alleviate (sp?) some pausing issues.
What's that?
You know the problem I speak of?
I am sure FF just has some weird kind of memory management, despite the fact I HAVE a 2mpixel image open and in memory from a web site, it still seems to not only re-download it but it takes forever to push it from ram to disk, like nothing else.