So, they got rid of the instanced world in Guild Wars 2?
I believe it's still instanced, but most instances hold far more people and you don't need to be grouped. In the Beta I was certainly in events with 30-40 other players in one small location in a zone when the event started as I was randomly running around.
The best thing Obama could have hoped for would be that Obamacare would be tossed out. Now the Republicans are outraged and far more motivated to turn out and vote.
Fortunately in GW2 every class has a heal spell and resurrection only costs a few copper pieces when you die, so health care isn't a big issue there.
I don't know about Guild Wars 2, but in Guild Wars 1 about 75% of the content was designed for max level players; leveling there was just a tutorial, not a grind.
As someone else mentioned, in GW2 you also effectively 'delevel' when going to low-level zones so you can still go back and do old stuff that you missed while leveling without it being too easy. They do still need to fine-tune that code though as I sometimes found I was fighting mobs several levels higher than my effective level even though my real level was much higher than the mobs.
It's quite fun and plays fine on my two year old laptop so a four year old desktop would probably handle it. The minimum requirements aren't particularly high.
Fortunately it now looks like it will be released when I'm not on a business trip so I can actually get my old character names:).
But seriously, does triple-buffering really offer much over traditional double-buffering?
Uh, yes.
With double-buffering and sync to vblank, your frame rate is an integer divisor of the display frame rate. If your screen displays 60fps but your device can only render 59fps, then you'll actually see 30fps and the device will be idling nearly half the time waiting for vblank so it can switch to the other buffer.
With triple-buffering, if you can render 59fps you can display 59fps. The downside is that it can cause a small increase in latency.
Democracy has never counted in the EU because the majority of the people of Europe have never wanted a bloated, centralised state where bureaucrats in Brussels tell them what to do.
When EU citizens vote wrong, they're forced to vote again and again until they give the right answer.
They say this will start at $499 and the dock puts this at about $650.
With the existing Transformers, the dock adds about $120 if you buy it in a box with the tablet; it's only $150 if you buy it separately. So if the tablet is $499 I'd expect the tablet plus dock to be around $620.
So, much of the dock functionality is useless, but you want a keyboard and a big battery, and it has that in one package. OK.
If you're going to use the dock all the time, you'd be better off buying a netbook. But it's very useful when you do want a proper keyboard and more battery life.
You can use any Bluetooth keyboard with the iPad and battery docks are a dime a dozen....
Because the keyboard dock turns it into an Android netbook, rather than a kludgy collection of knocked-together addons where you have to support the display with your knees?
A kernel change broke it for a card 4 years old? So the driver worked fine until Linus broke it?
If I remember correctly, the ATI driver was calling a kernel function which they're not supposed to access, and a security fix changed the parameters or visibility for that function so the driver no longer worked.
It wouldn't have mattered, except ATI decided to drop support for the chip so there was no official route to update the driver; I believe that was about two years after I bought the machine.
What kind of piss-poor cpu can't decode mpeg2 in several times realtime?
An Atom struggles to play 1080P MPEG-2, and you can forget 1080P H.264. Whereas my Xbmc box with an Atom and Nvidia Ion chipset has no problem with anything we've thrown at it.
There's a reason why all my Linux boxes except the oldest one have either Nvidia or Intel graphics. In the case of the old one I had to manually patch the ATI driver kludge source because ATI dropped support and a kernel change broke it.
So, not a penny of my IT budget has gone to ATI since 2008 because their drivers aren't very good and they don't support them.
So the Conservatives staged a coup by forcing the left-wing parties to push them into an election that no-one other than the left-wing politicians actually wanted?
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So, they got rid of the instanced world in Guild Wars 2?
I believe it's still instanced, but most instances hold far more people and you don't need to be grouped. In the Beta I was certainly in events with 30-40 other players in one small location in a zone when the event started as I was randomly running around.
The best thing Obama could have hoped for would be that Obamacare would be tossed out. Now the Republicans are outraged and far more motivated to turn out and vote.
Fortunately in GW2 every class has a heal spell and resurrection only costs a few copper pieces when you die, so health care isn't a big issue there.
GW1 isn't massive? I've played on and off since the Beta and I still haven't visited all the zones.
I don't know about Guild Wars 2, but in Guild Wars 1 about 75% of the content was designed for max level players; leveling there was just a tutorial, not a grind.
As someone else mentioned, in GW2 you also effectively 'delevel' when going to low-level zones so you can still go back and do old stuff that you missed while leveling without it being too easy. They do still need to fine-tune that code though as I sometimes found I was fighting mobs several levels higher than my effective level even though my real level was much higher than the mobs.
It's quite fun and plays fine on my two year old laptop so a four year old desktop would probably handle it. The minimum requirements aren't particularly high.
Fortunately it now looks like it will be released when I'm not on a business trip so I can actually get my old character names :).
Unity is on the most popular Linux distribution.
What, Mint has started shipping Unity now?
Ubuntu stopped being the most popular distro when they pushed Unity on the entire user base.
But seriously, does triple-buffering really offer much over traditional double-buffering?
Uh, yes.
With double-buffering and sync to vblank, your frame rate is an integer divisor of the display frame rate. If your screen displays 60fps but your device can only render 59fps, then you'll actually see 30fps and the device will be idling nearly half the time waiting for vblank so it can switch to the other buffer.
With triple-buffering, if you can render 59fps you can display 59fps. The downside is that it can cause a small increase in latency.
Like supporting multiple user accounts on a single tablet?
So if it doesn't matter what the outcome of the vote will be, then why bother to have one?
PR. You can't just tell people what to do, you have to pretend that they're telling you to tell them what to do.
Democracy has never counted in the EU because the majority of the people of Europe have never wanted a bloated, centralised state where bureaucrats in Brussels tell them what to do.
When EU citizens vote wrong, they're forced to vote again and again until they give the right answer.
Bingo. The more Gnome tried to copy Windows, the less competitive it became; if I wanted to run Windows I could... run Windows.
I knew it had jumped the shark the day I told it to shut down and it said 'Program Unknown is still running. Do you really want to shut down?'
Then they decided to copy Android instead, and it became simply irrelevant because my Linux machine isn't a tablet.
I have a better idea: fix the OS to allow users to deny individual permission to applications.
Of course Google won't do that because then they might not be able to track you so well for their targeted advertising.
They say this will start at $499 and the dock puts this at about $650.
With the existing Transformers, the dock adds about $120 if you buy it in a box with the tablet; it's only $150 if you buy it separately. So if the tablet is $499 I'd expect the tablet plus dock to be around $620.
And a GPS dongle because the one that is built in is broken....
Only on the Prime, because of the metal case. The GPS in the plastic-cased 300 works fine.
So, much of the dock functionality is useless, but you want a keyboard and a big battery, and it has that in one package. OK.
If you're going to use the dock all the time, you'd be better off buying a netbook. But it's very useful when you do want a proper keyboard and more battery life.
No, it's a pretty good Android tablet and a not so good netbook.
I think this is at least the fourth Transformer model, isn't it?
So pairing a Bluetooth keyboard and a using a stand makes it a "kludge"?
Uh, yes. Is this supposed to be a trick question?
You can use any Bluetooth keyboard with the iPad and battery docks are a dime a dozen....
Because the keyboard dock turns it into an Android netbook, rather than a kludgy collection of knocked-together addons where you have to support the display with your knees?
Oh wait, they don't
Probably because Canadians prefer to live in Canada than become illegal immigrants in America.
A kernel change broke it for a card 4 years old? So the driver worked fine until Linus broke it?
If I remember correctly, the ATI driver was calling a kernel function which they're not supposed to access, and a security fix changed the parameters or visibility for that function so the driver no longer worked.
It wouldn't have mattered, except ATI decided to drop support for the chip so there was no official route to update the driver; I believe that was about two years after I bought the machine.
What kind of piss-poor cpu can't decode mpeg2 in several times realtime?
An Atom struggles to play 1080P MPEG-2, and you can forget 1080P H.264. Whereas my Xbmc box with an Atom and Nvidia Ion chipset has no problem with anything we've thrown at it.
Why should they support Linux leeches?
There's a reason why all my Linux boxes except the oldest one have either Nvidia or Intel graphics. In the case of the old one I had to manually patch the ATI driver kludge source because ATI dropped support and a kernel change broke it.
So, not a penny of my IT budget has gone to ATI since 2008 because their drivers aren't very good and they don't support them.
Without this the SecureBoot only limits what people can do with their computers
I thought that was the whole point of 'Secure Boot'?
So the Conservatives staged a coup by forcing the left-wing parties to push them into an election that no-one other than the left-wing politicians actually wanted?
They're even more cunning than we thought!