Playing a FPS is pointless if your framerate drops to 13 or so in a gun fight. You get fragged every time. Yet another misleading article aimed at getting more people to pre-order this game.(mho anyway)
The scary thing is that it is working. Take that TNT2 dude at the beginning of this thread for example.
All you need to do is slap the term "medical" ona product and double or triple the price.
Surely this is not true. I would have expected that medical stuffs in many cases need to adhere to a quality standard (ISO perhaps) before they can be sold as "Medical".
I know I can't wack a CE compliance sticker on my products if they haven't been tested. There seems to be a trend in this thread to assume that because something looks the same it is. This is an incorrect assumption. I bet an electronics board populated with good quality components will generally outlast the same board built with inferior parts despite the fact that both may seemingly function the same. Its not that hard to load up a pick and place machine with cheaper lesser quality parts.
FYI windows does have a command line. Start-> Run -> cmd.exe on windows xp boxes. To my knowledge it does support pipes to some degree. It also has tab completion. To be honest I think it is a great improvement over command.com. Bash still ownz tho.
Have you ever installed cygwin on an XP box? It has a nice little shell.
I don't believe that terminal is always faster either. I generally find a GUI file manager a much easier way to select, group and move specific mp3s around my hdd. Each to his own I guess.
If the low spec gear runs the game well why not have these framerates next to the others? Why not list the colour depth and screen resolution that that this lower spec gear was running at? To me it just seems like a real neat way to get people with underspec hardware to commit to a game that won't run well on their system. After all the article has a great link at the end to where you can go and preorder the game.
For those of you that have not yet pre-purchased your copy of DOOM 3 because you thought your system would not be up to par and are not planning a system upgrade, you can now rest easy
Or we can wait until some more independant reports on how the game runs on low spec gear before we commit to it. Not crap like "it gives a good experience".
Its lunch time so i thought I would throw my hat in the ring.
I have been using Gnome 2.6 for i guess a few months now and I have to say it is excellent. I used to use fluxbox (a great WM) but to be honest I haven't really looked back.
I use it nightly as a desktop workstation. I do everything on it from developing firmware for Atmel micros, GUIs in GTK2, web browsing, warez downloading and playing enemy territory.
Gnome 2.6 is faily well intergrated these days. Generally a right click on something will bring up options with what you can do, Left click selects - its nice and predictable. Ctrl-C Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V work as they do in Windows - very cool.
Straight after installation I could do drag and drop burning (good for making an mp3 cds for my car). Another thing that has me impressed are all the cool system tray apps that come with it. They are easy to add and handy too. Right now I have one for net, one for cpu and one for local weather. The Local weather one is awesome as I can always have my finger on the pulse.
I can't say I like spatial browsing though. Not default at least. Personally I found it really frustrating. Its not like i didn't give it a go either - I had it in spatial mode for about a month. It spreads like a cancer across your workspace. Before you know it you have waaaaaay too many windows open. Hiding the address bar is pretty stupid too imho - it makes it really easy to get lost and confused (especially when spatial mode decides you need 3 windows open to traverse 3 directorys). Perhaps if spatial mode didn't open a new window each time (or swapped middle and left click functions), and showed where you were I wouldn't mind it as much. My problem with spatial browsing was solved when i turned it off:)
Another dislike is definitely the file select dialog. Who makes a file select dialog where entering the text yourself is not an option? Would it really have thrown the file select dialog into chaos if it was included? Why make it so it is completely unintuitive for a computer user who has been using Windblows for years? Now a file select dialog with text entry and typeahead search on the files in that directory would be great default behaviour. (please don't tell me about the hotkey either - that is not intuitive)
Generally though I think Gnome 2.6 is pretty awesome. It is the best Linux DE I have ever used and I will continue to use it. It is definitely a step foward for the Linux Desktop.
Friends of mine with bigger monitors often run a double sized taskbar, however I too can't stand the way a big taskbar looks. Like you I have done the old fixit of the big taskbar accident on my parents puter many times. Funny how it allows a 1/2 screen sized taskbar even when no tasks are running.
Another thing that would be cool would be if in the ALT-TAB menu if you could click the icon of the task you want brought to the foreground.
Just curious, which version of windows did have this feature as I thought 95' was the first with the taskbar?
Here are my choices for soothing hold music. I have tried to leave my selection fairly broad so it is suitable for the general pubic (left off some lesser known tunes) Just a tip too, it is always a good idea to leave the gain on the hold music sequencer well and truly in the clipping region as this will help improve Customer Hold Satisfaction (CHS).
Anyway, here is my list. Please feel free to add as necessary:)
Slayer
Black Sabbath
Deicide
Morbid Angel
Decay Of Salvation
Solstice of Suffering
With a playlist like this you are sure to get a high CHS ratings.
Dimmers generally use phase control or some sort of pulse width modulation. Basically the circuit switches the electricity on and off quickly, making it appear as it is dimmer.
In short, there is almost NO reason to not use those fluorescent bulbs and it would result in a far greater amount of energy savings right now...
Personally i like incandescent lights as they work with a simple dimmer switch. Dimming the lights to a suitable level is also a good way of reducing power consumption. You can have the power on tap and use it when you need it. In my room i run 2 x 150w incandescent, they mostly run at about 1/2 intensity as 300W of power in my room really gets things bright. Also I prefer the colour of incandescent lamps.
Personally I think people need to start to look more at using dimmable fluorescent ballasts as these still can provide a heap of light at relatively low dim levels. The dimming is also handled at the ballast so control is cheap - all you need is a standard momentaty switch to run systems such as 'switchdim'.
Anyhow, that is my reason for running incandescent lighting.
odd
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"Atmel cpu's should be avoided... Atmel is pretty much hostile towards casual/hobbiest users"
Not true.
Atmel does pay for hosting of AVRFREAKS.net an AVR enthusists web site that is great for getting started with this type of uC. Many of their engineers also frequent the site. Not only that but in my experience AVRs are a much better platform to work with than pics and HC11.
Better yet, there is a GCC port for the AVR based controllers that works well in both windows, and unix. Best of all it's free! Check out the WINAVR project.
You can make a ISP programmer (In circuit programmer) for an AVR based controller for less than 5 bucks (check out Peter Fleury's AVR site) this works well in conjunction with AVRDUDE avr microcontroller programmer (in winavr package)and avr-gcc c compiler.
To get started all you need to do is build the programmer and upload some example code (provided) to your microcontroller for it to start dancing.
Yeah, Rock 'n' Roll fantasy dude, like shit on James Dean. I'm totally with you on this one.
However, it must be said, Linux really needs to focus more on stuff like UBS to firewire AGP bridge interfaces as this is where technology is heading- we all know that kernel 2.7.423rc289 is having problems with its UDP uplink to the north bridge, hopefully the UBS stuff works better when they figure this one out (fingers crossed:).
Finally the community should really start to put more focus on the upgrade of the x server to the y server as we all know that the newest bluetooth enabled high speed digital graphics modules only work with UBS2.18.
some other r0x0r is the sux0r!!! - sooooo l337 and funny!!!
My mum died last night, I'm goin to a rob a bank.
Now all i need is my trusty tricorder from my 1/3 replica of an enterprise refresher station.
Live long and prosper!
Sure 3.5k aus is a bit, but the internet has a whole lot more to offer than.avi.mp3.torrent
In rural Australia there are many farms. With the internet automation of farming procedures could be achieved.Ie Feeding stations, gates, harvesting....
Surely this would lower the cost of farming and make it worthwile.
Its amusing how many of your cry about how Linux is still lacking desktop penetration, yet you are quick to run anybody down using it to make a product for PROFIT (Perish the thought!).
Lay down your purism, pour your haterade down the drain and sit back and enjoy the fact that hardly anybody will buy that overpriced box..
Would you all rather it was running windows? I would! I wish it was running on window ME with 32 megs of ram for the power Tivo user. Yeh baby.
Some nice pointed out specs on the site crediting those who have paved their way (ie Redhat etc) might be good though.
Interesting you mention UNDO/REDO as this too is what drove me crazy with Glade-2. At one stage I didn't realise it had a widget hierachy view as on my system it starts hidden - this made it even more infuriating when making changes to gui layouts - no UNDO and no knowing what widget was owned by what.
Once I got the feel for it though I found glade most useful - can't wait till they REDO writing Glade and Glade-3 is out!
Rather than mock your question like most posters, I will try and give some advice:)
First and foremost make sure you know what you want to do - two hours of research into the course curriculum is better than 2 years studying stuff your not interested in. Too many people go into training without really knowing what they are going to learn - they end up either dropping out or getting a job they don't like. For example, friends of mine went into an IT degree thinking it was purely computer programming, only to be rudely shocked when they found out the degree was dominated with marketing and management training.
Personally I would suggest looking to something like a short term TAFE course to get you started in what you are interested in then look to get some industry experience whilst working part time on a Uni course. You can learn heaps more in the industry in a short period of time than in a university. Also by spending time in the industry much of the stuff you study at UNI will make a whole lot more sense. - I remember learning transistor theory 1st year uni, but it is not until now that i am in the industry that it has started making sense.
Basically follow your interest. Study what is relevant to that interest and you should be happy. Don't listen to the neigh sayers talking cash and job prospects- i think they're a little -1 offtopic:)
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yeah I agree.
Playing a FPS is pointless if your framerate drops to 13 or so in a gun fight. You get fragged every time. Yet another misleading article aimed at getting more people to pre-order this game.(mho anyway)
The scary thing is that it is working. Take that TNT2 dude at the beginning of this thread for example.
All you need to do is slap the term "medical" ona product and double or triple the price.
Surely this is not true. I would have expected that medical stuffs in many cases need to adhere to a quality standard (ISO perhaps) before they can be sold as "Medical".
I know I can't wack a CE compliance sticker on my products if they haven't been tested. There seems to be a trend in this thread to assume that because something looks the same it is. This is an incorrect assumption. I bet an electronics board populated with good quality components will generally outlast the same board built with inferior parts despite the fact that both may seemingly function the same. Its not that hard to load up a pick and place machine with cheaper lesser quality parts.
FYI windows does have a command line. Start-> Run -> cmd.exe on windows xp boxes. To my knowledge it does support pipes to some degree. It also has tab completion. To be honest I think it is a great improvement over command.com. Bash still ownz tho.
Have you ever installed cygwin on an XP box? It has a nice little shell.
I don't believe that terminal is always faster either. I generally find a GUI file manager a much easier way to select, group and move specific mp3s around my hdd. Each to his own I guess.
If the low spec gear runs the game well why not have these framerates next to the others? Why not list the colour depth and screen resolution that that this lower spec gear was running at? To me it just seems like a real neat way to get people with underspec hardware to commit to a game that won't run well on their system. After all the article has a great link at the end to where you can go and preorder the game.
For those of you that have not yet pre-purchased your copy of DOOM 3 because you thought your system would not be up to par and are not planning a system upgrade, you can now rest easy
Or we can wait until some more independant reports on how the game runs on low spec gear before we commit to it. Not crap like "it gives a good experience".
Its lunch time so i thought I would throw my hat in the ring.
:)
I have been using Gnome 2.6 for i guess a few months now and I have to say it is excellent. I used to use fluxbox (a great WM) but to be honest I haven't really looked back.
I use it nightly as a desktop workstation. I do everything on it from developing firmware for Atmel micros, GUIs in GTK2, web browsing, warez downloading and playing enemy territory.
Gnome 2.6 is faily well intergrated these days. Generally a right click on something will bring up options with what you can do, Left click selects - its nice and predictable. Ctrl-C Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V work as they do in Windows - very cool.
Straight after installation I could do drag and drop burning (good for making an mp3 cds for my car). Another thing that has me impressed are all the cool system tray apps that come with it. They are easy to add and handy too. Right now I have one for net, one for cpu and one for local weather. The Local weather one is awesome as I can always have my finger on the pulse.
I can't say I like spatial browsing though. Not default at least. Personally I found it really frustrating. Its not like i didn't give it a go either - I had it in spatial mode for about a month. It spreads like a cancer across your workspace. Before you know it you have waaaaaay too many windows open. Hiding the address bar is pretty stupid too imho - it makes it really easy to get lost and confused (especially when spatial mode decides you need 3 windows open to traverse 3 directorys). Perhaps if spatial mode didn't open a new window each time (or swapped middle and left click functions), and showed where you were I wouldn't mind it as much. My problem with spatial browsing was solved when i turned it off
Another dislike is definitely the file select dialog. Who makes a file select dialog where entering the text yourself is not an option? Would it really have thrown the file select dialog into chaos if it was included? Why make it so it is completely unintuitive for a computer user who has been using Windblows for years? Now a file select dialog with text entry and typeahead search on the files in that directory would be great default behaviour. (please don't tell me about the hotkey either - that is not intuitive)
Generally though I think Gnome 2.6 is pretty awesome. It is the best Linux DE I have ever used and I will continue to use it. It is definitely a step foward for the Linux Desktop.
wow, i better start ducking....
They are chilling on the LHS of the screen.
Where are the screenshots? - seems logical to post considering it only took 45mins for a prototype.
Why boast how easy it was to get it happening then not showing it happening?
odd
Friends of mine with bigger monitors often run a double sized taskbar, however I too can't stand the way a big taskbar looks. Like you I have done the old fixit of the big taskbar accident on my parents puter many times. Funny how it allows a 1/2 screen sized taskbar even when no tasks are running.
Another thing that would be cool would be if in the ALT-TAB menu if you could click the icon of the task you want brought to the foreground.
Just curious, which version of windows did have this feature as I thought 95' was the first with the taskbar?
odd
Everyone seems to bitch about this feature. I personally like it. One thing did occur to me though while reading the threads.
:)
Why not implement a taskbar that gets bigger as app listing increases? Perhaps the taskbar needs to become a little more adaptable?
This way people can still read their taskbar entries (not too compressed).
Anyway, just a thought. (oddbudman Patent Pending
What makes you think that graffiti artists "Think that they have a right to deface property"?
Do you think this is the reason why Graffiti happens?
Here are my choices for soothing hold music. I have tried to leave my selection fairly broad so it is suitable for the general pubic (left off some lesser known tunes) Just a tip too, it is always a good idea to leave the gain on the hold music sequencer well and truly in the clipping region as this will help improve Customer Hold Satisfaction (CHS).
:)
Anyway, here is my list. Please feel free to add as necessary
Slayer
Black Sabbath
Deicide
Morbid Angel
Decay Of Salvation
Solstice of Suffering
With a playlist like this you are sure to get a high CHS ratings.
Dimmers generally use phase control or some sort of pulse width modulation. Basically the circuit switches the electricity on and off quickly, making it appear as it is dimmer.
In short, there is almost NO reason to not use those fluorescent bulbs and it would result in a far greater amount of energy savings right now...
Personally i like incandescent lights as they work with a simple dimmer switch. Dimming the lights to a suitable level is also a good way of reducing power consumption. You can have the power on tap and use it when you need it. In my room i run 2 x 150w incandescent, they mostly run at about 1/2 intensity as 300W of power in my room really gets things bright. Also I prefer the colour of incandescent lamps.
Personally I think people need to start to look more at using dimmable fluorescent ballasts as these still can provide a heap of light at relatively low dim levels. The dimming is also handled at the ballast so control is cheap - all you need is a standard momentaty switch to run systems such as 'switchdim'.
Anyhow, that is my reason for running incandescent lighting.
odd
"Atmel cpu's should be avoided... Atmel is pretty much hostile towards casual/hobbiest users"
Not true.
Atmel does pay for hosting of AVRFREAKS.net an AVR enthusists web site that is great for getting started with this type of uC. Many of their engineers also frequent the site. Not only that but in my experience AVRs are a much better platform to work with than pics and HC11.
Better yet, there is a GCC port for the AVR based controllers that works well in both windows, and unix. Best of all it's free! Check out the WINAVR project.
You can make a ISP programmer (In circuit programmer) for an AVR based controller for less than 5 bucks (check out Peter Fleury's AVR site) this works well in conjunction with AVRDUDE avr microcontroller programmer (in winavr package)and avr-gcc c compiler.
To get started all you need to do is build the programmer and upload some example code (provided) to your microcontroller for it to start dancing.
Yeah, Rock 'n' Roll fantasy dude, like shit on James Dean. I'm totally with you on this one.
:).
However, it must be said, Linux really needs to focus more on stuff like UBS to firewire AGP bridge interfaces as this is where technology is heading- we all know that kernel 2.7.423rc289 is having problems with its UDP uplink to the north bridge, hopefully the UBS stuff works better when they figure this one out (fingers crossed
Finally the community should really start to put more focus on the upgrade of the x server to the y server as we all know that the newest bluetooth enabled high speed digital graphics modules only work with UBS2.18.
some other r0x0r is the sux0r!!! - sooooo l337 and funny!!!
Sweet man, Voyager is on in a couple of minutes so this will be my last comment. Live long and prosper!
Is it called "Station"?
My mum died last night, I'm goin to a rob a bank. Now all i need is my trusty tricorder from my 1/3 replica of an enterprise refresher station. Live long and prosper!
I have nothing.
Is it only me - cause when i read green hills I immediately thought about the Windowss XP background :P
Is it really as bad as all you people say it is?
.avi .mp3 .torrent
Sure 3.5k aus is a bit, but the internet has a whole lot more to offer than
In rural Australia there are many farms. With the internet automation of farming procedures could be achieved.Ie Feeding stations, gates, harvesting....
Surely this would lower the cost of farming and make it worthwile.
Its amusing how many of your cry about how Linux is still lacking desktop penetration, yet you are quick to run anybody down using it to make a product for PROFIT (Perish the thought!). Lay down your purism, pour your haterade down the drain and sit back and enjoy the fact that hardly anybody will buy that overpriced box.. Would you all rather it was running windows? I would! I wish it was running on window ME with 32 megs of ram for the power Tivo user. Yeh baby. Some nice pointed out specs on the site crediting those who have paved their way (ie Redhat etc) might be good though.
Interesting you mention UNDO/REDO as this too is what drove me crazy with Glade-2. At one stage I didn't realise it had a widget hierachy view as on my system it starts hidden - this made it even more infuriating when making changes to gui layouts - no UNDO and no knowing what widget was owned by what.
Once I got the feel for it though I found glade most useful - can't wait till they REDO writing Glade and Glade-3 is out!
Rather than mock your question like most posters, I will try and give some advice :)
:)
First and foremost make sure you know what you want to do - two hours of research into the course curriculum is better than 2 years studying stuff your not interested in. Too many people go into training without really knowing what they are going to learn - they end up either dropping out or getting a job they don't like. For example, friends of mine went into an IT degree thinking it was purely computer programming, only to be rudely shocked when they found out the degree was dominated with marketing and management training.
Personally I would suggest looking to something like a short term TAFE course to get you started in what you are interested in then look to get some industry experience whilst working part time on a Uni course. You can learn heaps more in the industry in a short period of time than in a university. Also by spending time in the industry much of the stuff you study at UNI will make a whole lot more sense. - I remember learning transistor theory 1st year uni, but it is not until now that i am in the industry that it has started making sense.
Basically follow your interest. Study what is relevant to that interest and you should be happy. Don't listen to the neigh sayers talking cash and job prospects- i think they're a little -1 offtopic
Australia supported the war. We even sent troops. However we seem to have gotten SFA in return.