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No. This fine, all by itself, is pocket money for Microsoft, and peanuts for something the size of EU. Obviously, it's a lot of cash, but it has to be put into perspective.
Apparently Neverwinter Nights 2 has some sort of problem in it is *very* slow for some people with reasonably fast PCs. I've tried it and it also runs almost unbearably slow with things set to medium everything and a couple of lows (1024, no AA) on a 7800.
20fps with your 7800GTX in NWN2 is certainly not acceptable:)
That would be assuming that the story-to-movie conversion was done with the same ambience, character personality, etc.
As we all know from many many failed examples where the directors/whatever gutted or mutated the original work to fit their "vision", that barely ever happens. Just about the only "perfect" translation was Sin City. The rest are some few good efforts and a whole lot of terrible ones.
When will the studios, producers, and directors learn to leave the original stories and characters alone? Seems pretty straightforward logic to me: if the [comic/game] was successful, then it the original plot might (hint hint) have been just perfect as it was.
Even though I'd love to be proven wrong, every time that I see that comic X or game Y is going to be turned into a movie, I just cringe when imagining the predictable end result.
A proper GUI. Repeat after me, "a proper GUI". I've tried using GIMP in the past, first on Linux, then on Windows, every time that it seemed to show some advance, and the GUI didn't seem to change, if at all.
It's misplaced options everywhere, needless mini-windows everywhere (instead of combining several within one), the whole retarted concept GUI (sorry guys, but outside the UNIX window manager world, that simply *does* *not* *work*), the non-standard file and print dialogs (GTK on Windows was always a kludge and never an integrated concept, for samples of this, see Eclipse and Firefox), etc etc etc. Never mind the fact that the UI doesn't even look the same as other apps. Basically, it's little problems anywhere and everywhere that come together to form a big big problem.
And now I'm bracing for the impact of a thousand replies stating that 1) it's meant to be learnt / 2) use a proper window manager / 3) the options are there if I want to find them (why should I "find them"? they're supposed to "be found"), and all of the other mantras that will kept being chanted over and over again.
Oh and by the way, even though I don't think it's a problem per se, the "GIMP" name isn't also the best choice. If anything, it's not catchy or easily remembered.
As a final note: I would absolutely LOVE if the GIMP became a proper, standard, polished, full-bodied app. I use several OSS apps by choice and I love those, but unfortunately the UI (or lack of) problem common with many free/OSS apps is definitely present.
They have tried this over and over again about 10-odd years ago with "Interactive Movies", basically 'games' that you could pick cutscenes in, little more than that. They failed miserably and terribly, except for the odd corner case.
Apparently, history does repeat itself (and they still haven't learned from the previous mistake).
When people put a movie in, they want to be *passively entertained*. Having the brain in between two states (passive and active) doesn't really work.
I was joking, but in any case you do have a point.
However, given the amount of money that Sony has, this battery recall won't cost them anything but a few peanutes of their lunch money. Bad PR probably, but still, unless the media decide to put it up as scandal, this kind of thing goes under the Average Joe's radar.
So by saying "And YES testing it includes PHP5" you're telling me that according to a little genie in some bottle, PHP 5 somehow needs yet another amount of testing? Maybe what, ten years down the road, when the software is useless, it's deemed "stable"?!
My point is, we are talking about something that has, by anyone's measure, been tested to hell and back, and not just by the Debian people. Just saying "well it's for Debian, it needs testing" isn't really a valid argument when the item in question, such as this one, has already had pretty much all the testing it could have.
Failed to explain something there... PHP 5 isn't present in the stable/official Debian repository, had to eventually install PHP 5 from an alternative repository, after lots of trouble actually finding it.
Or an outdated product, as I've come to realize. I have a rented server running Debian, which has given me nothing but headaches because some of the packages are horribly outdated, namely PHP5. I mean, PHP 5 is what, over two years old now, how come they didn't think it was stable nor tested? This is one of the reasons why the next server I rent will be running something else. Better to have "untested" (use that word carefully) stuff working than no stuff at all. Must be that "security-through-obsolence" paradigm rearing its head:)
I had lots of RSI problems in my right arm. I use the mouse for normal computer use but sometimes I'll do some heavy bouts of FPS and other mouse-driven games. So my arm started getting numb/stuck from the wrist, some days even the shoulder would feel stiff (even as I type it's not 100% the same but no big deal).
My solution? I started doing my regular mouse work using the mouse in the left hand. I can't play FPS left-handed so I still use my right hand for that, but after I convinced myself that it was either learning to use the other hand or totally fuck up my arm, it took me about 2 weeks to get it right.
Plus, I get the added bonus that I automatically, without thinking, start doing some stuff with my left hand, like stirring a cup of coffee, picking up stuff, etc.
Yes VESA DDC. And I know that X supports reading the monitors specs... it just never happens to get them right:) Might not be the case with the latest and greatest nVidia binary drivers, but every single time that I tried some distros (Ubuntu 5.something was the latest), the refresh rates were "almost right" but never there.
Well I certainly appreciate all the pointers you've given, but it only goes as far to prove the point that some is *very* wrong with X for not doing something as simple as collecting the correct monitor data from DPMS:)
Ditto to that. It's been SEVEN years since I first started dabbling in Linux and it *still* won't properly detect one of most basic things ever, the monitor's refresh rates. It's VESA DDC and their friends, folks, they're open standards, what's the big problem?
And never mind that at least for me, this puts a severe hamper in usability for those who can't bother to use fine-tuning tools and quickly kill the patience of those that do. Having used high resolutions for the past years and not having them properly detected even once causes to the picture to never be straight or correctly stretched in the monitor. And that's after over half an hour's fiddling for just *one* resolution.
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Well, that's the plan isn't it? Keep them addicted for life, all while paying the monthly fee :)
I thought we were (supposedly) running out of IPv4 space... but the map shows quite a few unallocated blocks. What gives?
No. This fine, all by itself, is pocket money for Microsoft, and peanuts for something the size of EU. Obviously, it's a lot of cash, but it has to be put into perspective.
"These are not the docs we are looking for"
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Had heard of that, already did, didn't help, unfortunately :(
Well, hoping for a patch.
Apparently Neverwinter Nights 2 has some sort of problem in it is *very* slow for some people with reasonably fast PCs. I've tried it and it also runs almost unbearably slow with things set to medium everything and a couple of lows (1024, no AA) on a 7800.
:)
20fps with your 7800GTX in NWN2 is certainly not acceptable
That would be assuming that the story-to-movie conversion was done with the same ambience, character personality, etc.
As we all know from many many failed examples where the directors/whatever gutted or mutated the original work to fit their "vision", that barely ever happens. Just about the only "perfect" translation was Sin City. The rest are some few good efforts and a whole lot of terrible ones.
When will the studios, producers, and directors learn to leave the original stories and characters alone? Seems pretty straightforward logic to me: if the [comic/game] was successful, then it the original plot might (hint hint) have been just perfect as it was.
Even though I'd love to be proven wrong, every time that I see that comic X or game Y is going to be turned into a movie, I just cringe when imagining the predictable end result.
A proper GUI. Repeat after me, "a proper GUI". I've tried using GIMP in the past, first on Linux, then on Windows, every time that it seemed to show some advance, and the GUI didn't seem to change, if at all.
It's misplaced options everywhere, needless mini-windows everywhere (instead of combining several within one), the whole retarted concept GUI (sorry guys, but outside the UNIX window manager world, that simply *does* *not* *work*), the non-standard file and print dialogs (GTK on Windows was always a kludge and never an integrated concept, for samples of this, see Eclipse and Firefox), etc etc etc. Never mind the fact that the UI doesn't even look the same as other apps. Basically, it's little problems anywhere and everywhere that come together to form a big big problem.
And now I'm bracing for the impact of a thousand replies stating that 1) it's meant to be learnt / 2) use a proper window manager / 3) the options are there if I want to find them (why should I "find them"? they're supposed to "be found"), and all of the other mantras that will kept being chanted over and over again.
Oh and by the way, even though I don't think it's a problem per se, the "GIMP" name isn't also the best choice. If anything, it's not catchy or easily remembered.
As a final note: I would absolutely LOVE if the GIMP became a proper, standard, polished, full-bodied app. I use several OSS apps by choice and I love those, but unfortunately the UI (or lack of) problem common with many free/OSS apps is definitely present.
They have tried this over and over again about 10-odd years ago with "Interactive Movies", basically 'games' that you could pick cutscenes in, little more than that. They failed miserably and terribly, except for the odd corner case.
Apparently, history does repeat itself (and they still haven't learned from the previous mistake).
When people put a movie in, they want to be *passively entertained*. Having the brain in between two states (passive and active) doesn't really work.
Might you tell me what one thing has to do with the other?
I seem to find all the stuff I forget from time to time there...
That has got to be a memory leak. Oh well, at least you have garbage collection.
That was also quite an "a trocious" spelling mistake :)
I was joking, but in any case you do have a point.
However, given the amount of money that Sony has, this battery recall won't cost them anything but a few peanutes of their lunch money. Bad PR probably, but still, unless the media decide to put it up as scandal, this kind of thing goes under the Average Joe's radar.
It's a tactic from Sony. Sell the exploding batteries to Dell and Apple, watch until they start doing recalls, profit :)
So by saying "And YES testing it includes PHP5" you're telling me that according to a little genie in some bottle, PHP 5 somehow needs yet another amount of testing? Maybe what, ten years down the road, when the software is useless, it's deemed "stable"?!
My point is, we are talking about something that has, by anyone's measure, been tested to hell and back, and not just by the Debian people. Just saying "well it's for Debian, it needs testing" isn't really a valid argument when the item in question, such as this one, has already had pretty much all the testing it could have.
Very handy link, thanks!
Failed to explain something there... PHP 5 isn't present in the stable/official Debian repository, had to eventually install PHP 5 from an alternative repository, after lots of trouble actually finding it.
MORE TIME TESTING = MORE STABLE PRODUCT
:)
Or an outdated product, as I've come to realize. I have a rented server running Debian, which has given me nothing but headaches because some of the packages are horribly outdated, namely PHP5. I mean, PHP 5 is what, over two years old now, how come they didn't think it was stable nor tested? This is one of the reasons why the next server I rent will be running something else. Better to have "untested" (use that word carefully) stuff working than no stuff at all. Must be that "security-through-obsolence" paradigm rearing its head
I had lots of RSI problems in my right arm. I use the mouse for normal computer use but sometimes I'll do some heavy bouts of FPS and other mouse-driven games. So my arm started getting numb/stuck from the wrist, some days even the shoulder would feel stiff (even as I type it's not 100% the same but no big deal).
My solution? I started doing my regular mouse work using the mouse in the left hand. I can't play FPS left-handed so I still use my right hand for that, but after I convinced myself that it was either learning to use the other hand or totally fuck up my arm, it took me about 2 weeks to get it right.
Plus, I get the added bonus that I automatically, without thinking, start doing some stuff with my left hand, like stirring a cup of coffee, picking up stuff, etc.
Yes VESA DDC. And I know that X supports reading the monitors specs... it just never happens to get them right :) Might not be the case with the latest and greatest nVidia binary drivers, but every single time that I tried some distros (Ubuntu 5.something was the latest), the refresh rates were "almost right" but never there.
Wasn't talking in the KVM switch context.
Well I certainly appreciate all the pointers you've given, but it only goes as far to prove the point that some is *very* wrong with X for not doing something as simple as collecting the correct monitor data from DPMS :)
:)
Thanks again for the tips though
Ditto to that. It's been SEVEN years since I first started dabbling in Linux and it *still* won't properly detect one of most basic things ever, the monitor's refresh rates. It's VESA DDC and their friends, folks, they're open standards, what's the big problem?
And never mind that at least for me, this puts a severe hamper in usability for those who can't bother to use fine-tuning tools and quickly kill the patience of those that do. Having used high resolutions for the past years and not having them properly detected even once causes to the picture to never be straight or correctly stretched in the monitor. And that's after over half an hour's fiddling for just *one* resolution.
It does, but then money comes along and closes the argument right there, right now.