Venus is hotter than Earth by so much (even hotter than Mercury!) because of its atmosphere, not because of its distance to the sun. I think that given the right atmosphere and tectonic activity and whatnot, Venus could have actually been a very Earth-like place.
It's the same with fencing. Lefties have an advantage: Assuming 10% of people are left-handed, 9/10 of a fencer's opponents are righties. 1/10 are lefties. Fencers in general will tend to be more accustomed to facing righties.
Righty faces righty: No advantage.
Righty faces lefty: Advantage lefty.
Lefty faces lefty: No advantage.
Lefties will, then, 9 times out of 10 have a familiarity advantage and 1 time out of 10 have no advantage.
Even when they were the New Hotness, I got the impression from everything I read that the G5s were huge power-sucking monstrosities. There's a reason there were no G5-based laptops, IIRC.
1) Drivers and DirectX were current. Are always current, unless I know they break something. nvidia's drivers frequently break things, though, so perhaps they were not good with XBMC at the time.
2) This was quite a while ago--don't even have most of the same components anymore (well, the 8800 GT is still around).
3) PS3MS worked much better for my purposes anyway.
4) If you'll look a couple levels up, I replied to my first comment saying that the problems did not appear when I just installed it in linux (after getting a few other fans protecting their loved one).
5) I'll still slander XBMC, because it ha(s/d) an obnoxious UI.;)
6) I'll concede that the UI probably wasn't designed with a mouse in mind.
So I actually just gave it a try on my laptop running linux (a slower, but still reasonably fast system), just to see, and it actually ran much better. I still think the UI is ass, but it definitely wasn't the torpid thing I saw on Windows a couple of years ago. Bad build, crappy nvidia drivers, vagaries of Windows XP, combination of the above?
I knew someone would say something like that--but I can guarantee that my system wasn't 'misconfigured'. I'm actually half-convinced that the slow menus were a UI decision sort of like Windows Vista's half-second start-menu-fade-in. Though it may be that it was a bad build of the program, or a conflict between the program and a driver, or some setting in XBMC that needed to be changed.
GeForce 8800 GT not enough? Maybe somewhere in the chugging menus there was a setting to enable video acceleration that defaulted to 'off', but woo. I'd honestly never seen a program run that poorly on that computer.
I'm amazed this thing could ever run on an XBOX. I installed it once on a dual-core 2.2GHz something-or-other with a few gigs of ram and it was just... awful. Huge delay between pressing a button and anything happening. Slow menu changes. Etc.
Those things might be able to eat the tiny cockroaches you get some places, but every time I see a cockroach and a gecko together, the gecko runs away--presumably its sense of self-preservation. The roaches are easily 3/4 the size of even the full-grown geckos.
It's funny--I used to use Slack back in the day and have been using Ubuntu for the past couple of years, but I'm seriously considering going back to Slackware again. When everything works out of the box Ubuntu is great, but if anything is broken it seems to actively try to inhibit you from fixing the problem.
Reruns and hassle-free non-infomercial background noise. I don't have cable or satellite myself, but I do miss having the random Star Trek/Law&Order/Random Cop Drama/Heroes/Battlestar/Star Gate marathons on SciFi/USA/Spike while I putter around doing more important things.
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Venus is hotter than Earth by so much (even hotter than Mercury!) because of its atmosphere, not because of its distance to the sun. I think that given the right atmosphere and tectonic activity and whatnot, Venus could have actually been a very Earth-like place.
I could just be talking out of my ass, though.
With a Wii you can play the new Zelda, Mario, and Metroid games, if those are up your alley.
The most commonly used HFCS has 55% fructose and 42% glucose. Table sugar, broken down, is 50% fructose and 50% glucose.
It's the same with fencing. Lefties have an advantage: Assuming 10% of people are left-handed, 9/10 of a fencer's opponents are righties. 1/10 are lefties. Fencers in general will tend to be more accustomed to facing righties.
Righty faces righty: No advantage.
Righty faces lefty: Advantage lefty.
Lefty faces lefty: No advantage.
Lefties will, then, 9 times out of 10 have a familiarity advantage and 1 time out of 10 have no advantage.
FF4b5's GPU acceleration makes all of the text fuzzy and hard on the eyes, in Win7 on an nvidia card. Is there a solution to this?
You just jinxed it. Shia will play Eddie. I hope you're happy.
I don't have cable and haven't for ages, but you just made me want to give Time Warner money just so that Apple loses.
That guy was pretty cool. Whatever happened to him?
What?
Oh my god those sites need to exist! Rumpelstiltstunes! Amazing!
All of that stuff's actually still here, except for the couple tons of metal that we sent to other planets.
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Even when they were the New Hotness, I got the impression from everything I read that the G5s were huge power-sucking monstrosities. There's a reason there were no G5-based laptops, IIRC.
Derp derp derp. 36,000 mi^2 and 94,000 km^2. I am good at math.
Everyone knows this, of course, but I can't help but note: 1% of the Sahara is a lot of desert. 360,000 mi^2. 940,000 km^2.
What is a 'hardcore'?
1) Drivers and DirectX were current. Are always current, unless I know they break something. nvidia's drivers frequently break things, though, so perhaps they were not good with XBMC at the time.
2) This was quite a while ago--don't even have most of the same components anymore (well, the 8800 GT is still around).
3) PS3MS worked much better for my purposes anyway.
4) If you'll look a couple levels up, I replied to my first comment saying that the problems did not appear when I just installed it in linux (after getting a few other fans protecting their loved one).
5) I'll still slander XBMC, because it ha(s/d) an obnoxious UI. ;)
6) I'll concede that the UI probably wasn't designed with a mouse in mind.
So I actually just gave it a try on my laptop running linux (a slower, but still reasonably fast system), just to see, and it actually ran much better. I still think the UI is ass, but it definitely wasn't the torpid thing I saw on Windows a couple of years ago. Bad build, crappy nvidia drivers, vagaries of Windows XP, combination of the above?
It was a Windows machine, and I think it was before VDPAU was available, anyway.
I knew someone would say something like that--but I can guarantee that my system wasn't 'misconfigured'. I'm actually half-convinced that the slow menus were a UI decision sort of like Windows Vista's half-second start-menu-fade-in. Though it may be that it was a bad build of the program, or a conflict between the program and a driver, or some setting in XBMC that needed to be changed.
GeForce 8800 GT not enough? Maybe somewhere in the chugging menus there was a setting to enable video acceleration that defaulted to 'off', but woo. I'd honestly never seen a program run that poorly on that computer.
I'm amazed this thing could ever run on an XBOX. I installed it once on a dual-core 2.2GHz something-or-other with a few gigs of ram and it was just... awful. Huge delay between pressing a button and anything happening. Slow menu changes. Etc.
Those things might be able to eat the tiny cockroaches you get some places, but every time I see a cockroach and a gecko together, the gecko runs away--presumably its sense of self-preservation. The roaches are easily 3/4 the size of even the full-grown geckos.
It's funny--I used to use Slack back in the day and have been using Ubuntu for the past couple of years, but I'm seriously considering going back to Slackware again. When everything works out of the box Ubuntu is great, but if anything is broken it seems to actively try to inhibit you from fixing the problem.
Reruns and hassle-free non-infomercial background noise. I don't have cable or satellite myself, but I do miss having the random Star Trek/Law&Order/Random Cop Drama/Heroes/Battlestar/Star Gate marathons on SciFi/USA/Spike while I putter around doing more important things.