What I meant was apple trademarked the name firewire and wouldn't let anyone else use it, until recently. So for average joe, this created confusion in purchasing devices, cause the average person isn't going to know the difference between ieee1394 and firewire, and in this case there is none, but a consumer would probably think they are two different things.
It was (is?) the better tech over usb, and anything wire 'fire' in the name should have sold like hotcakes
I remember when optical mice first came out, they were actually worse in a sense than the old ball/roller based mice. For gaming if you would move the mouse quickly from side to side, your pointer would lose track sometimes and typically would go lower and lower instead of panning across the middle.
Long fixed with optical mice, but I've had for a few years a fairly nice logitech that needs replacing.
Is it still pretty much necessary for gaming to get a high end mouse? I believe when they made dual optical it solved the tracking issues, do not all mice by now have dual tracking?
I'm not so concerned about some insane dpi, I just don't want the pointer drifting if it's used quickly. When I look at reviews, it's usually for highend mice; it's hard to find out info on current run of the mill mice.
We don't like to think it but there's a lot in a name, Mac calling it the trademarked 'firewire' and all others calling IEEE 1394 didn't help. Yeah they finally did, but too late.
I'm totally willing as well. More details though. Does that have a virtual keyboard feature? Multi-touch?
With touch interfaces, there's the bare minimum of mimicking a mouse (and how well? easy to navigate?) but then there's driver issues and then any additional software that takes advantage of it, like the virt keyboard or say an image program recognizing swipes, stretch with two fingers etc.
Yes I agree. And I've never looked but it's disappointing to read linux doesn't have great support for touch displays, well according to other posts listed here.
And I've always pictured a multitouch being able to bring up a virtual keyboard so one can type a quick email/message. I know virtual keyboards have existed for ages, but I mean a nice, maybe semi-transparent overlay keyboard that can be quickly brought up/discarded.
Does the Mac or some other windows variant have something like this?
No they can still run ads, and they can even do target specific ads based on my current search. But don't build up a profile history on me. What other form of advertising does that?
A tv show on say sports might run ads about other sports stuff, athletic gear etc. That's as far as I want an advertising relationship to go.
These issues concern me, but I admit I do not know much about this. How about I do a search and you keep nothing? Does any search engine provide that?
I hope this catches on for enemy territory's sake
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Carmack Talks Quake Live
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I used to play quake 1/2/3 but my interest started to wane by the time q3 was out. But I still play enemy territory which I think would really benefit from unified stats so it could play matchmaker and put the more experienced players together. Of course not just looking at kill/death ratio but focusing the stats on how often the person follows the obj.
They'd have to massage (and change what's tracked in) the stat data to get stuff like that, but for a game like ET it would be worth it (in that it's more important with this game to match appropriately than q3), and would then probably have a better chance at forming a good online community then quake 3 has.
So I hope q3 does good enough to green-light doing it with ET, and carmack even mentions ET always had a bigger community than q3.
But no one seems to know, what does this use? A custom plugin? Cross-platform? He mentioned mac in a video last year but nothing since. Hoping there is a linux client down the road.
just going by google's past. google earth was always behind the windows version in features (not sure if they are currently/finally in sync).
It reminds of john carmack with id, he does cross-platform not because it's profitable, but because 'it's a good thing'. Now his games might not have linux binaries day 1, but it's damn quick, usually a matter of days, or a week or two tops. But google is saying months, so obviously cross-platform isn't a top priority. And I've read other comments of others who have looked through the code and they mention that there are some very specific windows things in there that, from a coding perspective, does not lend itself to being cross platform, so no I don't think google 'gets it'.
A lot of people complain about where's a linux version when talking about photoshop or something, and in those cases I understand why it's not on linux or at least why the company has no current interest, but of all companies, you'd think google would get, market share of the OS be damned.
How does mozilla release cross-platform the same day, when their codebase is supposedly a huge mess?
Ya I know it's in beta, but FF is released for all platforms, beta or not.
I would just think (or I guess hope) google would 'get it' and release cross-platform, and not 5 months down the line get a feature lacking version, that forever will be behind the windows version.
I would agree that ET is the best multiplayer game of all time. I'll exclude single player games cause really they are a much different experience.
I played doom back in the day, but that feeling of when quake first got going online was amazing, seeing the development of quakeworld, the mods (ctf with keys back in the day, quake arena etc), then quake 2 and still loving it. But then quake 3 came out, and there was nothing wrong with the game, but I just felt like I've been there done that, one too many times.
First time in my life I felt sad becoming bored of a game, it felt like a chapter ended and I'd never have that feeling again.
Then Enemy Territory came out and it was crack in game form, not only was that feeling back, it was stronger than ever! What a fantastic game, and free (and cross-platform) to boot.
The only downfall is being such a focused class based, goal oriented game, it sucks when you play on a server when people don't know what they are doing.
But I read that depending on how well quake live goes, ET might get the same treatment. Player ranking will solve those issues.
Anyway, if you never tried it, you really should, it's fantastic, can't say enough about it.
OT, but good as time as any to mention, in my history I see individual email threads from gmail with the subject listed. If someone sits at my computer, I don't necessarily want others to see the topics of my email. This happens even using https throughout the session. Is there a way to prevent this?
Linux suppot for dialup is next to nil. Yes it's because of those winmodems, but you'd think a couple of the common chipsets would be reverse engineered or something could be done like ndiswrapper.
I mention this cause I have a friend who got a machine with vista and it runs fairly slow, I was going to set him up with linux, but realized he uses a winmodem for dialup. So that blew that idea.
You can't be serious comparing nvidia to ati on linux. Night and day my friend. Not sure why you've had problems. I gone through 3 generations of nvidia on linux and it's been pretty damn good.
Opengl games and apps just work. Aiglx perfect. Do people wrangle with some issues like tv out. yeah. And nvidia dropping proper xv overlay (can't adjust contrast/brightness etc) since 6 series kinda sucks. But man the nightmares I've had trying to get anything going with ati on linux. The experience was just awful. I'm not going to bother with details.
"AMD's proprietary driver is now on par with NVIDIA's Linux driver"
That's a bold statement my friend. Granted, they've made huge leaps over their pos drivers of not too long ago, but I think it's a little too soon to make a claim like that.
Just look at the known issues with the latest driver:
Moving the mouse or tapping a key may fail to close an OpenGL screen-saver and bring the user back to the x desktop.
Hmm, can't rely on stopping an opengl screensaver... that's not too good.
And looking at what's just fixed in this driver:
Quake 3 Arena (demo): Segmentation faults no longer occur when attempting to play the game.
Quake3: Corruption is no longer noticed when changing the display resolution when the game is running.
Wow, they just got quake3 working. Hey, we all know quake3 pushes opengl to it's limits and this is to be expected.
Don't mean to bash on them as it's great they are doing this. As far as buying an ati card, I've gone from when hell freezes over to cautious optimism.
But as I said, things are looking a lot better and I'll definitely consider ati for my next purchase, I just wouldn't run out and do it tomorrow.
"If no measures were taken, then 700,000 customers would have been affected by congestions during peak periods."
He says would have, so no one was currently affected. Whether I was downloading a torrent, using my voip phone, playing online games, I certainly noticed no congestion prior to this throttling during peak times or not.
The service seems to me to be the exact same before or after throttling (minus torrents of course). And when have you heard a company being so proactive? Did they even have one complaint about network congestion due to torrents?
Even though we're in an era of people being more health conscious, most people don't apply it.
Cut out the crap food and just work out. It's that simple. I've been skinny most my life. Actually being a skinny geek is what motivated me to work out because I had a negative body image. I stopped working out though when I turned 30, and coupled with a poor fast food diet, I went from 190 lbs to 240. All fat. One day I realized, this isn't me, and got back to my old ways.
I train 6 days a week. You might say, 'who has the time?'. I only train about 30-40 minutes. It doesn't take 3 hours at the gym killing yourself.
You want to save even more time? Screw steady state cardio, do HIIT training (high intensity interval training). Explode for 10-12 minutes instead of plodding along for 30. It'll be over sooner, and it's actually fun. You can do sprints, skipping or burpees are killer.
Yeah, stupid name, but you won't laugh if you try it.
Bottom line, it's not your job, it's you. The blame lands in your lap.
There are so many things in life you might say you wish you didn't do. 'I regret eating that pizza. I wish we didn't see that boring movie. etc.'
You will never finish a workout and think, I wish I can go back half an hour and not have done this workout. It might be hard as hell to start, but once you're done you'll never regret it.'
OT: will dialup support ever improve on linux?
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Dealing With Dialup
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· Score: 1
I know it's the winmodem issue with proprietary chipsets with typically windows only drivers.
But what about using something similar like ndiswrapper to actually use the windows drivers? Or, I can't imagine there are that many new modems/chipsets, it's not like dialup modems are a booming industry.
After this many years I would think some would be reverse engineered or something? But from what I've read it's still choose from the 3 actual hardware modems or get a external modem.
I actually have a friend on dialup (which for him, he's happy with given the price), I was going to setup him up with linux but realized he had a dialup modem and decided it wouldn't workout.
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These numbers are kind of useless. Of course there are going to be way more deaths by smoking because there are way more smokers.
What I meant was apple trademarked the name firewire and wouldn't let anyone else use it, until recently. So for average joe, this created confusion in purchasing devices, cause the average person isn't going to know the difference between ieee1394 and firewire, and in this case there is none, but a consumer would probably think they are two different things.
It was (is?) the better tech over usb, and anything wire 'fire' in the name should have sold like hotcakes
I remember when optical mice first came out, they were actually worse in a sense than the old ball/roller based mice. For gaming if you would move the mouse quickly from side to side, your pointer would lose track sometimes and typically would go lower and lower instead of panning across the middle.
Long fixed with optical mice, but I've had for a few years a fairly nice logitech that needs replacing.
Is it still pretty much necessary for gaming to get a high end mouse? I believe when they made dual optical it solved the tracking issues, do not all mice by now have dual tracking?
I'm not so concerned about some insane dpi, I just don't want the pointer drifting if it's used quickly. When I look at reviews, it's usually for highend mice; it's hard to find out info on current run of the mill mice.
We don't like to think it but there's a lot in a name, Mac calling it the trademarked 'firewire' and all others calling IEEE 1394 didn't help. Yeah they finally did, but too late.
I'm totally willing as well. More details though. Does that have a virtual keyboard feature? Multi-touch?
With touch interfaces, there's the bare minimum of mimicking a mouse (and how well? easy to navigate?) but then there's driver issues and then any additional software that takes advantage of it, like the virt keyboard or say an image program recognizing swipes, stretch with two fingers etc.
Yes I agree. And I've never looked but it's disappointing to read linux doesn't have great support for touch displays, well according to other posts listed here.
And I've always pictured a multitouch being able to bring up a virtual keyboard so one can type a quick email/message. I know virtual keyboards have existed for ages, but I mean a nice, maybe semi-transparent overlay keyboard that can be quickly brought up/discarded.
Does the Mac or some other windows variant have something like this?
But that would be logical and convenient.
Does this onboard nvidia also have that flaw that gets so much news?
No they can still run ads, and they can even do target specific ads based on my current search. But don't build up a profile history on me. What other form of advertising does that?
A tv show on say sports might run ads about other sports stuff, athletic gear etc. That's as far as I want an advertising relationship to go.
These issues concern me, but I admit I do not know much about this. How about I do a search and you keep nothing? Does any search engine provide that?
I used to play quake 1/2/3 but my interest started to wane by the time q3 was out. But I still play enemy territory which I think would really benefit from unified stats so it could play matchmaker and put the more experienced players together. Of course not just looking at kill/death ratio but focusing the stats on how often the person follows the obj.
They'd have to massage (and change what's tracked in) the stat data to get stuff like that, but for a game like ET it would be worth it (in that it's more important with this game to match appropriately than q3), and would then probably have a better chance at forming a good online community then quake 3 has.
So I hope q3 does good enough to green-light doing it with ET, and carmack even mentions ET always had a bigger community than q3.
But no one seems to know, what does this use? A custom plugin? Cross-platform? He mentioned mac in a video last year but nothing since. Hoping there is a linux client down the road.
just going by google's past. google earth was always behind the windows version in features (not sure if they are currently/finally in sync).
It reminds of john carmack with id, he does cross-platform not because it's profitable, but because 'it's a good thing'. Now his games might not have linux binaries day 1, but it's damn quick, usually a matter of days, or a week or two tops. But google is saying months, so obviously cross-platform isn't a top priority. And I've read other comments of others who have looked through the code and they mention that there are some very specific windows things in there that, from a coding perspective, does not lend itself to being cross platform, so no I don't think google 'gets it'.
A lot of people complain about where's a linux version when talking about photoshop or something, and in those cases I understand why it's not on linux or at least why the company has no current interest, but of all companies, you'd think google would get, market share of the OS be damned.
How does mozilla release cross-platform the same day, when their codebase is supposedly a huge mess?
Ya I know it's in beta, but FF is released for all platforms, beta or not.
I would just think (or I guess hope) google would 'get it' and release cross-platform, and not 5 months down the line get a feature lacking version, that forever will be behind the windows version.
I would agree that ET is the best multiplayer game of all time. I'll exclude single player games cause really they are a much different experience.
I played doom back in the day, but that feeling of when quake first got going online was amazing, seeing the development of quakeworld, the mods (ctf with keys back in the day, quake arena etc), then quake 2 and still loving it. But then quake 3 came out, and there was nothing wrong with the game, but I just felt like I've been there done that, one too many times.
First time in my life I felt sad becoming bored of a game, it felt like a chapter ended and I'd never have that feeling again.
Then Enemy Territory came out and it was crack in game form, not only was that feeling back, it was stronger than ever! What a fantastic game, and free (and cross-platform) to boot.
The only downfall is being such a focused class based, goal oriented game, it sucks when you play on a server when people don't know what they are doing.
But I read that depending on how well quake live goes, ET might get the same treatment. Player ranking will solve those issues.
Anyway, if you never tried it, you really should, it's fantastic, can't say enough about it.
OT, but good as time as any to mention, in my history I see individual email threads from gmail with the subject listed. If someone sits at my computer, I don't necessarily want others to see the topics of my email. This happens even using https throughout the session. Is there a way to prevent this?
Linux suppot for dialup is next to nil. Yes it's because of those winmodems, but you'd think a couple of the common chipsets would be reverse engineered or something could be done like ndiswrapper.
I mention this cause I have a friend who got a machine with vista and it runs fairly slow, I was going to set him up with linux, but realized he uses a winmodem for dialup. So that blew that idea.
You can't be serious comparing nvidia to ati on linux. Night and day my friend. Not sure why you've had problems. I gone through 3 generations of nvidia on linux and it's been pretty damn good.
Opengl games and apps just work. Aiglx perfect. Do people wrangle with some issues like tv out. yeah. And nvidia dropping proper xv overlay (can't adjust contrast/brightness etc) since 6 series kinda sucks. But man the nightmares I've had trying to get anything going with ati on linux. The experience was just awful. I'm not going to bother with details.
From the article:
"AMD's proprietary driver is now on par with NVIDIA's Linux driver"
That's a bold statement my friend. Granted, they've made huge leaps over their pos drivers of not too long ago, but I think it's a little too soon to make a claim like that.
Just look at the known issues with the latest driver:
Moving the mouse or tapping a key may fail to close an OpenGL screen-saver and bring the user back to the x desktop.
Hmm, can't rely on stopping an opengl screensaver... that's not too good.
And looking at what's just fixed in this driver:
Quake 3 Arena (demo): Segmentation faults no longer occur when attempting to play the game.
Quake3: Corruption is no longer noticed when changing the display resolution when the game is running.
Wow, they just got quake3 working. Hey, we all know quake3 pushes opengl to it's limits and this is to be expected.
Don't mean to bash on them as it's great they are doing this. As far as buying an ati card, I've gone from when hell freezes over to cautious optimism.
But as I said, things are looking a lot better and I'll definitely consider ati for my next purchase, I just wouldn't run out and do it tomorrow.
http://www.pcghx.com/aid,646920/News/Video_shows_ray_traced_Quake_Wars/
Well, the 43rd one kinda sucked.
firefox 2 is in the hardy repositories.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=firefox&searchon=names&suite=hardy§ion=all
"If no measures were taken, then 700,000 customers would have been affected by congestions during peak periods."
He says would have, so no one was currently affected. Whether I was downloading a torrent, using my voip phone, playing online games, I certainly noticed no congestion prior to this throttling during peak times or not.
The service seems to me to be the exact same before or after throttling (minus torrents of course). And when have you heard a company being so proactive? Did they even have one complaint about network congestion due to torrents?
I'm getting
Undefined subroutine &main::from_json called at ladown line 18.
Any suggestions?
Dont want to sound mean, but it's the truth.
Even though we're in an era of people being more health conscious, most people don't apply it.
Cut out the crap food and just work out. It's that simple. I've been skinny most my life. Actually being a skinny geek is what motivated me to work out because I had a negative body image. I stopped working out though when I turned 30, and coupled with a poor fast food diet, I went from 190 lbs to 240. All fat. One day I realized, this isn't me, and got back to my old ways.
I train 6 days a week. You might say, 'who has the time?'. I only train about 30-40 minutes. It doesn't take 3 hours at the gym killing yourself.
You want to save even more time? Screw steady state cardio, do HIIT training (high intensity interval training). Explode for 10-12 minutes instead of plodding along for 30. It'll be over sooner, and it's actually fun. You can do sprints, skipping or burpees are killer.
Yeah, stupid name, but you won't laugh if you try it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v/R4KRofyvRPg&l=63&sk=pHnpfDQLUPWWgqBEDDbfeaF-gzW6-8Z3U&fmt_map=&t=OEgsToPDskLvCCyAZA763kgMJEqJTX5D&hl=en&plid=AARNtgMFBGZbAwI5AAAAoAAAAAA
Bottom line, it's not your job, it's you. The blame lands in your lap.
There are so many things in life you might say you wish you didn't do. 'I regret eating that pizza. I wish we didn't see that boring movie. etc.'
You will never finish a workout and think, I wish I can go back half an hour and not have done this workout. It might be hard as hell to start, but once you're done you'll never regret it.'
I know it's the winmodem issue with proprietary chipsets with typically windows only drivers.
But what about using something similar like ndiswrapper to actually use the windows drivers? Or, I can't imagine there are that many new modems/chipsets, it's not like dialup modems are a booming industry.
After this many years I would think some would be reverse engineered or something? But from what I've read it's still choose from the 3 actual hardware modems or get a external modem.
I actually have a friend on dialup (which for him, he's happy with given the price), I was going to setup him up with linux but realized he had a dialup modem and decided it wouldn't workout.