Seriously, I wish Firefox gave you the user the option of "Yes, install this extension even though it's not marked as compatible, I ACCEPT FULL RESPONSIBILITY." It's a pain opening the archives and updating the version compatibility values manually.
Hey everybody, I found a big red button that will blow up the world! I'm going to make its location public so that the governments are forced to fix this little vulnerability.
Yes, just imagine how much computing power it takes to simulate the motion of every single sub-atomic particle in a drop of water. All nature needs is... a drop of water.
Hey, I'll have you know my integrated Nvidia 7100 can play Gothic 1 at 1280x1024 with max settings! (My POS 8800GT freezes on many older games, so I run a dual-GPU dual-monitor setup for such occasions.)
It really depends on whether you want the "authentic" experience or not. I find filters like hq make most VGA games look much better, others prefer the original. Good thing DOSBox has both the hq3x and normal3x filters.
NVIDIA has scaling (with blurriness), unless the drivers decide your monitor is an HDTV and replace the scaling options with desktop resizing options (which is annoying as hell, let me tell you)....
I have this 23" 1080P monitor currently on sale at NewEgg and Microcenter. Its scaling is better than NVIDIA and serviceable, but still somewhat blurry/smeared. Cheap though.
Strangely enough this native 1920x1080 monitor cannot support 1440x1080. Go figure.
For me, NVIDIA scaling always makes things blurry. Even on my old 1280x1024, whenever I used fixed aspect ratios on a 640x480 game it, it would give me a 1280x960 image with tons of blurring. Fixed aspect ratio on a 1280x960 game (Morrowind) worked perfectly though:)
The monitor's own scaling was better, and my current 1920x1080 monitor is even better than that, but there is still smearing with the monitor's own fixed aspect ratio. And NVIDIA insists on treating this monitor as an HDTV, so I don't even have the option changing/disabling flat panel scaling in the drivers. Jumping through hoops I can disable it for resolutions of 1024x768 or lower only....
Direct 3D Windower was recommended to me, but I couldn't get it to work.
Seriously, writing speeches is tough work. And the Congressmen's official speech writers have families they want to come home to. Can you blame them for plagiarizing a few points from genentech.com/speechsamples4u? I just hope Genentech doesn't start enforcing their copyrights!
"I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the universe, and once every thousand years there's this little bird-" "What little bird?" said Aziraphale suspiciously. "This little bird I'm talking about. And every thousand years-" "The same bird every thousand years?" Crowley hesitated. "Yeah," he said. "Bloody ancient bird, then." "Okay. And every thousand years this bird flies-" "-limps-" "flies all the way to this mountain and sharpens its beak-" "Hold on. You can't do that. Between here and the end of the universe there's loads of-" The angel waved a hand expansively, if a little unsteadily. "Loads of buggerall, dear boy." "But it gets there anyway," Crowley persevered. "How?" "It doesn't matter!" "It could use a space ship," said the angel. Crowley subsided a bit. "Yeah," he said. "If you like. Anyway, this bird-" "Only it is the end of the universe we're talking about," said Aziraphale. "So it'd have to be one of those space ships where your descendants are the ones who get out at the other end. You have to tell your descendants, you say, When you get to the Mountain, you've got to-" He hesitated. "What have they got to do?" "Sharpen its beak on the mountain," said Crowley. "And then it flies back-" "-in the space ship-" "And after a thousand years it goes and does it all again," said Crowley quickly. There was a moment of drunken silence, "Seems a lot of effort just to sharpen a beak," mused Aziraphale. "Listen," said Crowley urgently, "the point is that when the bird has worn the mountain down to nothing, right, then-" Aziraphale opened his mouth. Crowley just knew he was going to make some point about the relative hardness of birds' beaks and granite mountains, and plunged on quickly. "-then you still won't have finished watching The Sound of Music." Aziraphale froze. "And you'll enjoy it," Crowley said relentlessly. "You really will." "My dear boy-" "You won't have a choice." "Listen" "Heaven has no taste." "Now-" "And not one single sushi restaurant." A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face."
How exactly does this "negative energy/mass" thing work? In fact, when equal parts of matter and antimatter annihilate each other, you get LOTS of energy, as opposed to 0 energy, don't you?
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I'll give it a shot, thanks!
Seriously, I wish Firefox gave you the user the option of "Yes, install this extension even though it's not marked as compatible, I ACCEPT FULL RESPONSIBILITY." It's a pain opening the archives and updating the version compatibility values manually.
Hey everybody, I found a big red button that will blow up the world! I'm going to make its location public so that the governments are forced to fix this little vulnerability.
Hell, my 8800GT barely fit in my CoolerMaster Centurion 5.
Yes, just imagine how much computing power it takes to simulate the motion of every single sub-atomic particle in a drop of water. All nature needs is ... a drop of water.
There's a much easier way :)
Hey, I'll have you know my integrated Nvidia 7100 can play Gothic 1 at 1280x1024 with max settings! (My POS 8800GT freezes on many older games, so I run a dual-GPU dual-monitor setup for such occasions.)
Is it telling that they didn't bother to benchmark it with AA/AF turned on?
The Crysis demo became near unplayable on my 8800GT at 1280x1024 High detail when I cranked up AA to 4x.
Really? Compare the USP and the Glock pistols in Counter-Strike - which one does more damage?
But until that happens, we shall consider ourselves foreigners. We owe neither allegiance nor taxes to any foreign government.
So basically you're a smuggler avoiding tariffs?
You forgot to mention the most important bit of info - what state do you live in?
Just ask your PC how to reverse entropy, and the rest will take care of itself.
I didn't know the movie was about some planet collision!
It really depends on whether you want the "authentic" experience or not. I find filters like hq make most VGA games look much better, others prefer the original. Good thing DOSBox has both the hq3x and normal3x filters.
But you'll be a billionaire once you bother to check your bank account!
Just stay away from anchovies.
If you enjoy a blurry picture, sure.
NVIDIA has scaling (with blurriness), unless the drivers decide your monitor is an HDTV and replace the scaling options with desktop resizing options (which is annoying as hell, let me tell you)....
I have this 23" 1080P monitor currently on sale at NewEgg and Microcenter. Its scaling is better than NVIDIA and serviceable, but still somewhat blurry/smeared. Cheap though.
Strangely enough this native 1920x1080 monitor cannot support 1440x1080. Go figure.
For me, NVIDIA scaling always makes things blurry. Even on my old 1280x1024, whenever I used fixed aspect ratios on a 640x480 game it, it would give me a 1280x960 image with tons of blurring. Fixed aspect ratio on a 1280x960 game (Morrowind) worked perfectly though :)
The monitor's own scaling was better, and my current 1920x1080 monitor is even better than that, but there is still smearing with the monitor's own fixed aspect ratio. And NVIDIA insists on treating this monitor as an HDTV, so I don't even have the option changing/disabling flat panel scaling in the drivers. Jumping through hoops I can disable it for resolutions of 1024x768 or lower only....
Direct 3D Windower was recommended to me, but I couldn't get it to work.
While the U.S. may not ban specific games, various obscenity/cp laws have effectively banned large swaths of hentai ;)
Sometimes simply knowing the gender is enough.
Sometimes simply knowing the username is enough.
Seriously, writing speeches is tough work. And the Congressmen's official speech writers have families they want to come home to. Can you blame them for plagiarizing a few points from genentech.com/speechsamples4u? I just hope Genentech doesn't start enforcing their copyrights!
So what you're saying is, Don't Ask, Don't Tell?
Eternity in Heaven:
"I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the universe, and once every thousand years there's this little bird-"
"What little bird?" said Aziraphale suspiciously.
"This little bird I'm talking about. And every thousand years-"
"The same bird every thousand years?"
Crowley hesitated. "Yeah," he said.
"Bloody ancient bird, then."
"Okay. And every thousand years this bird flies-"
"-limps-"
"flies all the way to this mountain and sharpens its beak-"
"Hold on. You can't do that. Between here and the end of the universe there's loads of-" The angel waved a hand expansively, if a little unsteadily. "Loads of buggerall, dear boy."
"But it gets there anyway," Crowley persevered.
"How?"
"It doesn't matter!"
"It could use a space ship," said the angel.
Crowley subsided a bit. "Yeah," he said. "If you like. Anyway, this bird-"
"Only it is the end of the universe we're talking about," said Aziraphale. "So it'd have to be one of those space ships where your descendants are the ones who get out at the other end. You have to tell your descendants, you say, When you get to the Mountain, you've got to-" He hesitated. "What have they got to do?"
"Sharpen its beak on the mountain," said Crowley. "And then it flies back-"
"-in the space ship-"
"And after a thousand years it goes and does it all again," said Crowley quickly.
There was a moment of drunken silence,
"Seems a lot of effort just to sharpen a beak," mused Aziraphale.
"Listen," said Crowley urgently, "the point is that when the bird has worn the mountain down to nothing, right, then-"
Aziraphale opened his mouth. Crowley just knew he was going to make some point about the relative hardness of birds' beaks and granite mountains, and plunged on quickly.
"-then you still won't have finished watching The Sound of Music."
Aziraphale froze.
"And you'll enjoy it," Crowley said relentlessly. "You really will."
"My dear boy-"
"You won't have a choice."
"Listen"
"Heaven has no taste."
"Now-"
"And not one single sushi restaurant."
A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face."
- Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman
live a good life (I'm kind, honest, generous, fair, etc)
Don't leave out "humble"!
How exactly does this "negative energy/mass" thing work? In fact, when equal parts of matter and antimatter annihilate each other, you get LOTS of energy, as opposed to 0 energy, don't you?