You hate Bladerunner too I guess. Just because you dislike something, and don't take from it what others do, does not make them or you right on the matter.
Agree. The first time I was asked to meta-mod here, one of my own posts was the first in the list. That made no sense. I skipped it but I think rating moderations, rather than agree/disagree makes more sense.
And the WiiFit IX featuring a treadmill, fan resistive bicycle, and free weights to go with those sensors, so you can run, walk, bike, and lift weights without going outside at all.
Fair enough. But I still think that there are extreme situations in any era, in which outsiders would not easily adapt. Like if you dropped an ancient Roman administrator into modern Detroit, or some super religous Templar or Saracen into San Fransisco.
There's potential for enough things to be jarringly different, that adaptation would be highly unlikely, and they would seek escape rather than to try.
Roman senator would likely be unable to speak with anyone directly, and have no marketable skills. Sure they could learn to flip burgers, but would probably feel highly degraded to do something so lowly, when they had power/respect previously.
Templar/Saracen would be very shocked by how irreverent secular society can be, etc.
Not with email fully supplanting snail mail, quantum entanglement used to teleport things, and Roomba(c) brand auto-shovelers. not to mention escalators, and trash -> bio fuel converters in every home/car. Books? In the Vatican maybe.
Of course, the paperless office hasn't really worked out so far, so I doubt the shitjobless society will work out anytime soon either. Maybe if you cryo until 12947 and by some miracle we havn't killed ourselves off yet.
But what if you woke up, and Sex was illegal, Salt was illegal, profanity was illegal, and Taco Bell was an up scale restaurant after the Fast Food Wars?
You might adapt, but some grouchy old person might refuse to.
There's a mod for Doom3 that has the first Episode of original Doom. It is awesome, and has a great soundtrack. The same songs, but I think done by OCRemix artists, in a fast and hardcore kind of rock/metalish sound.
The only downside was it's only the first episode. Of course, that could have changed, last I looked at it was at least 2 years ago. But it ruled.
I think this is the best and most rational response to the "but I bought X bandwidth, I should be able to max it out constantly" argument I have ever read. Good job.
Apparently millions of teen and preteen zombies swearing at each other and tea bagging the dead in multiplayer is what passes for a strong plot in an Xbox game these days.
And keep it useful and not potentially offensive, i.e. don't put in an Easter Egg like the one originally in SimCopter (some speedo wearing dudes that made out with eachother, swarmed the chopper and then had to go to hospital..)
It is a type tag to separate things still in the firehose from things not in the hose. I think there are other system tags, maybe idle to separate that crap too.
The 2 Metroid games for GC did this. Fairly well too.
Unless you rushed across a room to the next door, there'd be no wait between rooms. Sometimes if you made it to the door quickly, it would pause before opening. Just the door though, nothing else paused. I think that's a good example of preemptive loading.
The only things I'd really call loading screens were the elevators between areas in Metroid Prime, and the stupid light/dark warps in Echoes. Otherwise there weren't any in game load screens that I can remember.
An older example of (almost) doing this is Halflife, where there wasn't a separate screen between areas, but it did freeze for a sec and say Loading. It was close though.
Probably because KDE4 was unusable in FC8, only partially usable in FC9 (I have used it since FC9 launch, but there are still a boat load of features I wish were there but aren't) And still not really improved now that FC10 is here.
That's probably why the KDE spins are difficult. KDE3 worked perfectly well though from my experiences using it prior to making a switch for 4.
I did for my sister's machine, which runes ubuntu like a pro (AthlonXP 1700ish, like 5 years old at least) It does fine.
But the HP computer I posted about above, the people are so computer illiterate it hurts to try to explain the difference between documents in a folder and web pages, that the internet is not all on their computer, and that CDs aren't the same as DVDs.
Putting on linux would put me in an even worse support position than I'm in now.
the transfer speed they tout is probably the peak transfer speed. But the time it takes to launch a program also depends on factors besides the transfer speed. Like seek time for example.
Hard disks have to position the heads at the right sector before starting a read. Maybe these SSDs don't have a solid state analog to that activity and are thus faster by however long that takes.
I don't know the specifics, but I'd guess that comparing overall program access and launch time to peak transfer speed is apples and oranges.
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Hopefully they build their own theatres for this shit, and keep regular movie theatres separate.
I'd hate to actually go to a theatre for once, and have it overrun by retards trying to catch the game.
You hate Bladerunner too I guess. Just because you dislike something, and don't take from it what others do, does not make them or you right on the matter.
Agree. The first time I was asked to meta-mod here, one of my own posts was the first in the list. That made no sense. I skipped it but I think rating moderations, rather than agree/disagree makes more sense.
They probably pay the ones that let them broadcast the show. But.. If that's the case, I don't know why anyone caught by the show would ever consent.
No amount that the station could offer them would be enough, and it could possibly violate some kind of son of sam type laws.
I'm not sure, but I'd think they would have to be agreeable somehow, otherwise get blurred/omitted.
And the WiiFit IX featuring a treadmill, fan resistive bicycle, and free weights to go with those sensors, so you can run, walk, bike, and lift weights without going outside at all.
While that may seem like fun, I bet it would be pretty awful when you do find cancer.
Nowhere does op claim to have used ReadyBoost on XP, he compared Vista w/ ReadyBoost to a 'tight XP installation'
Meaning Vista+ReadyBoost is apparently 'faster' as far as responsiveness goes than a clean and properly tweaked windows XP installation.
I still think pics or it didn't happen, but never was ReadyBoost on XP mentioned.
Fair enough. But I still think that there are extreme situations in any era, in which outsiders would not easily adapt. Like if you dropped an ancient Roman administrator into modern Detroit, or some super religous Templar or Saracen into San Fransisco.
There's potential for enough things to be jarringly different, that adaptation would be highly unlikely, and they would seek escape rather than to try.
Roman senator would likely be unable to speak with anyone directly, and have no marketable skills. Sure they could learn to flip burgers, but would probably feel highly degraded to do something so lowly, when they had power/respect previously.
Templar/Saracen would be very shocked by how irreverent secular society can be, etc.
Not necessarily true, conclusion does not follow the premise.
Not with email fully supplanting snail mail, quantum entanglement used to teleport things, and Roomba(c) brand auto-shovelers. not to mention escalators, and trash -> bio fuel converters in every home/car. Books? In the Vatican maybe.
Of course, the paperless office hasn't really worked out so far, so I doubt the shitjobless society will work out anytime soon either. Maybe if you cryo until 12947 and by some miracle we havn't killed ourselves off yet.
But what if you woke up, and Sex was illegal, Salt was illegal, profanity was illegal, and Taco Bell was an up scale restaurant after the Fast Food Wars?
You might adapt, but some grouchy old person might refuse to.
Been so long Ultima :/
Every bowling alley I've ever been in has also had pool tables. ?
There's a mod for Doom3 that has the first Episode of original Doom. It is awesome, and has a great soundtrack. The same songs, but I think done by OCRemix artists, in a fast and hardcore kind of rock/metalish sound.
The only downside was it's only the first episode. Of course, that could have changed, last I looked at it was at least 2 years ago. But it ruled.
I think this is the best and most rational response to the "but I bought X bandwidth, I should be able to max it out constantly" argument I have ever read. Good job.
Apparently millions of teen and preteen zombies swearing at each other and tea bagging the dead in multiplayer is what passes for a strong plot in an Xbox game these days.
Being unconstitutional is basically immoral, because it amounts to the elected government breaking an oath.
Lying, or variations of it, is in most moral philosophies, considered an immoral activity.
This of course assumes that whatever they are doing indeed clashes with the constitution, which I'm not fully convinced of.
And keep it useful and not potentially offensive, i.e. don't put in an Easter Egg like the one originally in SimCopter (some speedo wearing dudes that made out with eachother, swarmed the chopper and then had to go to hospital..)
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It is a type tag to separate things still in the firehose from things not in the hose. I think there are other system tags, maybe idle to separate that crap too.
The 2 Metroid games for GC did this. Fairly well too.
Unless you rushed across a room to the next door, there'd be no wait between rooms. Sometimes if you made it to the door quickly, it would pause before opening. Just the door though, nothing else paused. I think that's a good example of preemptive loading.
The only things I'd really call loading screens were the elevators between areas in Metroid Prime, and the stupid light/dark warps in Echoes. Otherwise there weren't any in game load screens that I can remember.
An older example of (almost) doing this is Halflife, where there wasn't a separate screen between areas, but it did freeze for a sec and say Loading. It was close though.
Probably because KDE4 was unusable in FC8, only partially usable in FC9 (I have used it since FC9 launch, but there are still a boat load of features I wish were there but aren't) And still not really improved now that FC10 is here.
That's probably why the KDE spins are difficult. KDE3 worked perfectly well though from my experiences using it prior to making a switch for 4.
Still use gnome on my laptop though with FC9.
Yes. I refreshed when I got off work today and it was titles only. Turned off beta index and it's all good again.
I did for my sister's machine, which runes ubuntu like a pro (AthlonXP 1700ish, like 5 years old at least) It does fine.
But the HP computer I posted about above, the people are so computer illiterate it hurts to try to explain the difference between documents in a folder and web pages, that the internet is not all on their computer, and that CDs aren't the same as DVDs.
Putting on linux would put me in an even worse support position than I'm in now.
the transfer speed they tout is probably the peak transfer speed. But the time it takes to launch a program also depends on factors besides the transfer speed. Like seek time for example.
Hard disks have to position the heads at the right sector before starting a read. Maybe these SSDs don't have a solid state analog to that activity and are thus faster by however long that takes.
I don't know the specifics, but I'd guess that comparing overall program access and launch time to peak transfer speed is apples and oranges.
That band's website is gone, replaced by a domain name squatter.