Glad I'm not alone in doing this! And I've noticed that HumbleBundle is often 10% cheaper than the Steam price, at least for the things I've been buying.
Not bashing Steam in any way, just keen to promote alternatives and competition.
...it only needs 512M RAM (on Windows). And apparently has no memory requirements at all on Linux. o_O
OK, I'll concede it's using around 2G currently on my machine but that's only because there is plenty spare at the moment and I'm pretty sure that all modern browsers would use the same or worse.
Surely this runs so embiggeningly fast that it's unusable?
I remember running some assembler demo's (back in the day) that made "legacy" hardware do things that just didn't seem possible. The thought of running an OS with that same performance on modern hardware is frightening. Hopefully they've tuned the input routines so that you don't eeennnddd uuuppp wwwiiittthh kkkeeeyyybbboooaaarrrddd jjjiiitttttteeerrr:o)
The media are meant to act as one of the bridges between the scientific communities and the general public but it's an area where they fall well short of the mark.
This reminds me of the study that was done, asking a group of people how well the media reported on their specific subject of knowledge. Most agreed that the media rarely got things right either by omitting essential information (e.g. "dumbing down") or making incorrect assumptions or correlations. The interesting thing is that the same group of people were happy to accept that the media reported accurately on fields outside their own subject around 90% of the time. Think about those two things for a minute, makes sense that we know more detail about our own subject, but why would we trust a source of information, for things we don't know, that we consider inaccurate for things we do.
Thanks, that one must have flown straight passed me - I'd never heard of it. Perhaps MythTV is just a bit too effective at cutting out those annoying adverts!
I thought Mars One was linked to some sort of reality TV show where the entire mission would be filmed and broadcast like "Big Brother" in space.
I also assumed that they could make such a show without ever leaving Earth - but the gormless participants wouldn't need to know that (until much later). Once you've gone through the X-Factor style selection process to see who is most (un)suitable for a trip to Mars you then send them off to a training facility and from there you start to control the contestants access to outside media.
By the time "the launch window" comes around you could easily have them (and hell, us as well, the viewing public) convinced that they are onboard a genuine Mars mission rocket heading into space... much easier to achieve - and cheaper and safer - if it's all in a studio.
Oh come on, I think you're being over harsh there... He didn't say that his analogy exploded into pieces on impact whilst shunting the main weight of the argument into the body cavity of the oncoming traffic.
How I hate that phrase "You're so lucky to have such well behaved children!", there's no luck involved it's hard work being a good parent. GPP is even worse: "blessed with an angel of a child"... utter nonsense. Teach your children early on that there are rules and standards they need to follow - encourage with rewards and praise, discourage with simple punishments (time on the "naughty step" or temporary loss of TV or cherished toy). All this hard work will pay off and your children will grow up to be well rounded, polite adults.
Totally off-topic but I had to reply, you're about the fifth person this week I've seen that stores computer components "in the loft". Here in Scotland, anything I store in the loft has to be mold, damp and mildew proof - and computer components definitely wouldn't fare well up there. It's not that we have a damp house, on the contrary it's a modern ventilated timber frame with a secure (non-leaking) roof... it's simply that it rains/snows/hails/sleets here a lot so we only get truly dry a couple of months a year.
This is BT investing in the network and it's a smart investment too. By upgrading the boxes on the end of the old fibre they've shown they can breath new life into it - something which was in doubt when the previous technology ran into problems. These boxes and associated optics are not cheap but it's much better to be spending money there than on a new programme to dig up the roads.
I mostly agree with you and yes, it is depressing but I think there is another reason pushing people onto these locked down devices and it's simply that Microsoft still haven't worked out how to protect their systems from malware & viruses. Now before everyone jumps in and says this isn't just a MS problem, malware attacks 3rd party software too - I know that and I'll gladly put Java and Adobe in the same sin bin.
Let's say that Average Joe buys a nice shiny Windows laptop for $2000 - it's his machine, he can install whatever software he likes and there's no lock down right? But even on day one there is crapware installed by the laptop vendor that has started to slow his machine down (preinstalled AV "trials", desktop gadgets, Troubleshooting "assistants" and of course add-on toolbars). Now lets move on 6 months, the shiny laptop that was pretty fast on day one is now crawling - he's probably got a virus or some other malware by this stage (possibly because his OS updates didn't force 3rd party updates) and to combat this he's now got 2 or 3 always active anti-virus/anti-malware scanners running. It's possible he's also got malware masquerading as Antivirus running too and all these applications are fighting with the system and each other for resources.
But look over there, someone with a crappy netbook isn't having these problems because it's running Linux, or there's someone else with an Apple iThing (which they religiously keep updated and haven't been hit by any unfortunate 0-day exploits) and finally there's someone with a Chromebook who again have no need for multiple AV programs.
I hate that people opt for locked down systems over Linux but I think I hate more being called out to try and fix the crappy mess that Windows has left someone with when they mistakenly clicked that dodgy link on the web.
Sort out the United Kingdom, it is easy, just sort out Ireland, Schotland, Wales and Brittain
The United Kingdom comprises England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The rest of Ireland is the Republic of Ireland (or Eire) and it is not part of the UK; though it could contentiously be included as part of the British Isles. And that's where the trouble starts, so instead of Great Britain it is now the United Kingdom with the Republic of Ireland as a completely seperate entity.
But I'm just being pedantic, there are, as you say, many issues to sort out among these friendly countries before we can even start to hammer out peace in the Middle East.
You stated reading as your primary goal so the only answer is an e-ink e-reader. Tablets are capable of providing reading apps but none of them provide anything like a "printed page" experience. An e-ink e-reader looks and reacts like a printed page; it is non-reflective, non-glossy, non-backlit. The lack of back lighting is a plus not a negative because the lights used to illuminate most tablet screens are in the spectrum that triggers your brain into the "wake up, wake up, dawn is here" state. That's not so good for reading at bedtime. Step outside with a tablet and it's unreadable; you end up looking at a mirror (with smeared fingerprints). Step outside with an e-ink e-reader and you can read naturally.
I've been careful not to push you to a particular brand of e-ink e-reader but I would push for one that supports as many formats as possible especially those that are DRM free. If you get tied down now to Amazon formatted material you may find you regret it in the long run; some of their practices have been Orwellian.
Say one, perhaps gold in colour with a slightly annoying, camp voice, that's humanoid and another that's really the brains of the operation in a tri-wheeled body that communicates with a series of clicks & beeps (it's also got a useful rotary arm for shutting off that valve).
It would make for a more entertaining video at the end of the competition.
Woah! I was getting a bit creeped out by some of the more paranoid comments from our brethren and just at the right/wrong moment a junior spider abseils off my ceiling light across the room and onto my keyboard. The slightest movement of my hand makes it scurry in and under the ] (right angle bracket) key. It shall feast well tonight!
And my comment... don't use Xbox it's Microsoft shit. Easy.
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Not bashing Steam in any way, just keen to promote alternatives and competition.
With your use of the word "actually", I can't tell if I 'whooshed' you or you're 'whooshing' me.
Now, now, no knocking good old Firefox, it's still working well for me. And according to the current requirements:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/38.0.1/system-requirements/
...it only needs 512M RAM (on Windows). And apparently has no memory requirements at all on Linux. o_O
OK, I'll concede it's using around 2G currently on my machine but that's only because there is plenty spare at the moment and I'm pretty sure that all modern browsers would use the same or worse.
Surely this runs so embiggeningly fast that it's unusable?
I remember running some assembler demo's (back in the day) that made "legacy" hardware do things that just didn't seem possible. The thought of running an OS with that same performance on modern hardware is frightening. Hopefully they've tuned the input routines so that you don't eeennnddd uuuppp wwwiiittthh kkkeeeyyybbboooaaarrrddd jjjiiitttttteeerrr :o)
There definitely is a law in England requiring you to wear a seat belt: "You must wear a seat belt if one is fitted in the seat you’re using - there are only a few exceptions"
The media are meant to act as one of the bridges between the scientific communities and the general public but it's an area where they fall well short of the mark.
This reminds me of the study that was done, asking a group of people how well the media reported on their specific subject of knowledge. Most agreed that the media rarely got things right either by omitting essential information (e.g. "dumbing down") or making incorrect assumptions or correlations. The interesting thing is that the same group of people were happy to accept that the media reported accurately on fields outside their own subject around 90% of the time. Think about those two things for a minute, makes sense that we know more detail about our own subject, but why would we trust a source of information, for things we don't know, that we consider inaccurate for things we do.
Thanks, that one must have flown straight passed me - I'd never heard of it. Perhaps MythTV is just a bit too effective at cutting out those annoying adverts!
I thought Mars One was linked to some sort of reality TV show where the entire mission would be filmed and broadcast like "Big Brother" in space.
I also assumed that they could make such a show without ever leaving Earth - but the gormless participants wouldn't need to know that (until much later). Once you've gone through the X-Factor style selection process to see who is most (un)suitable for a trip to Mars you then send them off to a training facility and from there you start to control the contestants access to outside media.
By the time "the launch window" comes around you could easily have them (and hell, us as well, the viewing public) convinced that they are onboard a genuine Mars mission rocket heading into space... much easier to achieve - and cheaper and safer - if it's all in a studio.
Oh come on, I think you're being over harsh there... He didn't say that his analogy exploded into pieces on impact whilst shunting the main weight of the argument into the body cavity of the oncoming traffic.
How I hate that phrase "You're so lucky to have such well behaved children!", there's no luck involved it's hard work being a good parent. GPP is even worse: "blessed with an angel of a child"... utter nonsense. Teach your children early on that there are rules and standards they need to follow - encourage with rewards and praise, discourage with simple punishments (time on the "naughty step" or temporary loss of TV or cherished toy). All this hard work will pay off and your children will grow up to be well rounded, polite adults.
This is jam hot.
Good job.
Where is the "-Not enough Info" moderation when you need it?
I really want to know if photons as quanta don't have crosstalk but this single response on Slashdot has left me begging!
Totally off-topic but I had to reply, you're about the fifth person this week I've seen that stores computer components "in the loft".
Here in Scotland, anything I store in the loft has to be mold, damp and mildew proof - and computer components definitely wouldn't fare well up there. It's not that we have a damp house, on the contrary it's a modern ventilated timber frame with a secure (non-leaking) roof... it's simply that it rains/snows/hails/sleets here a lot so we only get truly dry a couple of months a year.
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I was hoping for a Novell Netware reference. No one else remember 3.12? None of your remote server support in those days!
Microsoft did games on Windows? And people played them? And they were popular? No, thought not.
This is BT investing in the network and it's a smart investment too. By upgrading the boxes on the end of the old fibre they've shown they can breath new life into it - something which was in doubt when the previous technology ran into problems. These boxes and associated optics are not cheap but it's much better to be spending money there than on a new programme to dig up the roads.
I mostly agree with you and yes, it is depressing but I think there is another reason pushing people onto these locked down devices and it's simply that Microsoft still haven't worked out how to protect their systems from malware & viruses. Now before everyone jumps in and says this isn't just a MS problem, malware attacks 3rd party software too - I know that and I'll gladly put Java and Adobe in the same sin bin.
Let's say that Average Joe buys a nice shiny Windows laptop for $2000 - it's his machine, he can install whatever software he likes and there's no lock down right? But even on day one there is crapware installed by the laptop vendor that has started to slow his machine down (preinstalled AV "trials", desktop gadgets, Troubleshooting "assistants" and of course add-on toolbars). Now lets move on 6 months, the shiny laptop that was pretty fast on day one is now crawling - he's probably got a virus or some other malware by this stage (possibly because his OS updates didn't force 3rd party updates) and to combat this he's now got 2 or 3 always active anti-virus/anti-malware scanners running. It's possible he's also got malware masquerading as Antivirus running too and all these applications are fighting with the system and each other for resources.
But look over there, someone with a crappy netbook isn't having these problems because it's running Linux, or there's someone else with an Apple iThing (which they religiously keep updated and haven't been hit by any unfortunate 0-day exploits) and finally there's someone with a Chromebook who again have no need for multiple AV programs.
I hate that people opt for locked down systems over Linux but I think I hate more being called out to try and fix the crappy mess that Windows has left someone with when they mistakenly clicked that dodgy link on the web.
http://xkcd.com/1141/
Where did you get your UK knowledge from?
Sort out the United Kingdom, it is easy, just sort out Ireland, Schotland, Wales and Brittain
The United Kingdom comprises England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The rest of Ireland is the Republic of Ireland (or Eire) and it is not part of the UK; though it could contentiously be included as part of the British Isles. And that's where the trouble starts, so instead of Great Britain it is now the United Kingdom with the Republic of Ireland as a completely seperate entity.
But I'm just being pedantic, there are, as you say, many issues to sort out among these friendly countries before we can even start to hammer out peace in the Middle East.
You stated reading as your primary goal so the only answer is an e-ink e-reader. Tablets are capable of providing reading apps but none of them provide anything like a "printed page" experience. An e-ink e-reader looks and reacts like a printed page; it is non-reflective, non-glossy, non-backlit. The lack of back lighting is a plus not a negative because the lights used to illuminate most tablet screens are in the spectrum that triggers your brain into the "wake up, wake up, dawn is here" state. That's not so good for reading at bedtime. Step outside with a tablet and it's unreadable; you end up looking at a mirror (with smeared fingerprints). Step outside with an e-ink e-reader and you can read naturally.
I've been careful not to push you to a particular brand of e-ink e-reader but I would push for one that supports as many formats as possible especially those that are DRM free. If you get tied down now to Amazon formatted material you may find you regret it in the long run; some of their practices have been Orwellian.
Say one, perhaps gold in colour with a slightly annoying, camp voice, that's humanoid and another that's really the brains of the operation in a tri-wheeled body that communicates with a series of clicks & beeps (it's also got a useful rotary arm for shutting off that valve).
It would make for a more entertaining video at the end of the competition.
Woah! I was getting a bit creeped out by some of the more paranoid comments from our brethren and just at the right/wrong moment a junior spider abseils off my ceiling light across the room and onto my keyboard. The slightest movement of my hand makes it scurry in and under the ] (right angle bracket) key. It shall feast well tonight!
And my comment... don't use Xbox it's Microsoft shit. Easy.
If you are born completely deaf, what language do you think in?
Please don't let them put anything else "in Flash". It isn't necessary (WebGL). It isn't secure (ever). It isn't needed (full stop).
It's been hard enough to play video streams "through" flash on Linux, don't push the next gaming craze down the same toilet.