What a bullshit. You don't even know what he's doing with his computer. For all you know he might be a cracker, game modder or whatever. Doing these things web-based is quite different.
I don't really see the point of this card, since it will only keep the data for 16 hours if not powered. In other words, if you leave for a weekend and for some reason the power to your PC is turned off, your tough out of luck
FTFA: As long as your power supply is still plugged in and turned on, regardless of whether or not your system is running, shut down or in standby mode, the i-RAM will still be powered by the 3.3V line feeding it from the PCI slot.
By "turned on" they mean the switch that some psu's have, not the power button on the front.
This will only be available on new computers, so why not have high standards for the cpu requirement.
Hi Bill Gates!! You here too?!!
You're completly right man. Right now it's working fine on 4MHz cpu's. So why not redesign it with much higher requirements and basically doing the same? What took you so long? I guess you hit the bloat limit on windows and looking for another project.
What idiot modded this as troll? He made an fair observation. Technically it IS a silly name, how can you call something 'giant' when it is almost certain that an even bigger one will be build? A hypothetical example: Is it still a giant when we have space telescopes 100x the size of this one?
Ah yes, it takes a long time to master all the tricks and knowledge, especialy when you're young and just starting to learn this stuff. Now I am looking back I think I could do all the programming I used to do in a year in just a few months. Being distracted by trying to sqweeze every cycle out the processor wasn't very productive either. I remeber spending a few days to optimize my joystick read routine, really nuts:-/
Trying to sync stuff to the display was the bane of my existence
Usually double buffering is used to eliminate flickering by drawing to an offscreen buffer and swapping the buffers during the Vertical Blank. The swapping is done without any copying. In the gfx library there is a WaitVBL() function which can be used to wait for the vertical blank. I don't know how to swap buffers with the gfx library (i did everything directly with the hardware) but I *think* kickstart 2.0 has support for this and with 1.3 you probably have to install your own copperlist. Not that it really matters anymore:)
For certain effects they were quite neat. For example, rotate a 3d wire-frame object, take the last four rendered frames and put each in it's own bitplane, create a nice color palette and.. voila you have a very nice rotating object with some afterglow/sparkling effect.
There appears to be some kind of threshold for telescopes, go beyond that and you have a giant telescope. Don't ask me why they don't use the SI prefixes, megascope, gigascope, petascope, yottascope, microscope.
Y'know, it's not Microsoft's fault for assuming that Joe Public isn't some completely uneducated _moron_ who doesn't know the basic vocabulary of the english language.
They don't have to assume anything, only stick to the facts. Like usually ms is assuming too much and ignoring the facts.
Yep, been there, done that. Seen 'There's Something About Mary'? I should have thought about it but.. well, you know, the excitement and all. I think it's still floating around up there.
IF (I didn't read the article) the officer doesn't remember it 100% then why does he bring it up as an argument to invalidate the suspect's story? That's higly suspicious. Next time he might be giving you a ticket for driving in the wrong direction on a two-way street.
They should also make sure that: - keys don't make annoying loud click noises - keys are not too unsensitive or too soft so you won't break a finger to make it register a keypress. (some keyboards are really horrible at this but most are ok) - For gamers key rollover is important - For gamers keysizes are important (The small cursor keys on MS split keyboard is a good example of what not to do) - Split keyboard is desired. - Detachable numpad is desired to reduce distance to mouse.
I was commenting on the logout-login-install-logout-login routine, not recommending against running as admin.
Anyway, you probably could just run warcraft as admin. If you tick the "run as different user" in the program/shortcut properties you don't even have to shift-click.
Most of time you can shift-click and select run-as on the installer. (also on 'windows update' and 'computer management'). If you need to do more complicated stuff you're ofcourse not a 'normal user' and should run as admin like you do.
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What a bullshit. You don't even know what he's doing with his computer. For all you know he might be a cracker, game modder or whatever. Doing these things web-based is quite different.
just testing
FTFA: As long as your power supply is still plugged in and turned on, regardless of whether or not your system is running, shut down or in standby mode, the i-RAM will still be powered by the 3.3V line feeding it from the PCI slot.
By "turned on" they mean the switch that some psu's have, not the power button on the front.
Hi Bill Gates!! You here too?!!
You're completly right man. Right now it's working fine on 4MHz cpu's. So why not redesign it with much higher requirements and basically doing the same? What took you so long? I guess you hit the bloat limit on windows and looking for another project.
They are more likely to be used in printers and such consumer electronics.
I propose that the submissions will be done in leet speak, this would make the spelling mistakes less noticeable .
Just put a disc in it and it won't click anymore, or you could use one of those noclick utilities.
What idiot modded this as troll? He made an fair observation. Technically it IS a silly name, how can you call something 'giant' when it is almost certain that an even bigger one will be build? A hypothetical example: Is it still a giant when we have space telescopes 100x the size of this one?
Trying to sync stuff to the display was the bane of my existence
Usually double buffering is used to eliminate flickering by drawing to an offscreen buffer and swapping the buffers during the Vertical Blank. The swapping is done without any copying. In the gfx library there is a WaitVBL() function which can be used to wait for the vertical blank. I don't know how to swap buffers with the gfx library (i did everything directly with the hardware) but I *think* kickstart 2.0 has support for this and with 1.3 you probably have to install your own copperlist. Not that it really matters anymore :)
Pro: Closed hardware encourages creating advanced demos/games because programming the hardware was fun and everyone had the same configuration.
Con: Completly dependend on the manufacturer, if it doesn't update the hardware regulary it gets behind the competition very fast.
For certain effects they were quite neat. For example, rotate a 3d wire-frame object, take the last four rendered frames and put each in it's own bitplane, create a nice color palette and .. voila you have a very nice rotating object with some afterglow/sparkling effect.
There appears to be some kind of threshold for telescopes, go beyond that and you have a giant telescope. Don't ask me why they don't use the SI prefixes, megascope, gigascope, petascope, yottascope, microscope.
Actually it stands for: Vista Is Superb Terrific Awesome.
Next time I want to play boggle
They don't have to assume anything, only stick to the facts. Like usually ms is assuming too much and ignoring the facts.
Yep, been there, done that. Seen 'There's Something About Mary'? I should have thought about it but.. well, you know, the excitement and all. I think it's still floating around up there.
Hmm no that's not what I heard. They needed some New Technology, so it was named NT. After they named it NT someone figured out it was also VMS++.
Didn't your mother tell you to leave your brain at home when participating in riots?.
IF (I didn't read the article) the officer doesn't remember it 100% then why does he bring it up as an argument to invalidate the suspect's story? That's higly suspicious. Next time he might be giving you a ticket for driving in the wrong direction on a two-way street.
Exactly. You only said it completly reversed.
They should also make sure that:
- keys don't make annoying loud click noises
- keys are not too unsensitive or too soft so you won't break a finger to make it register a keypress.
(some keyboards are really horrible at this but most are ok)
- For gamers key rollover is important
- For gamers keysizes are important (The small cursor keys on MS split keyboard is a good example of what not to do)
- Split keyboard is desired.
- Detachable numpad is desired to reduce distance to mouse.
I bet he has also a swiss army knife, camara-phone and a calculator watch.
Anyway, you probably could just run warcraft as admin. If you tick the "run as different user" in the program/shortcut properties you don't even have to shift-click.
Most of time you can shift-click and select run-as on the installer. (also on 'windows update' and 'computer management'). If you need to do more complicated stuff you're ofcourse not a 'normal user' and should run as admin like you do.
I have to agree. I am a moron and even i find boxen moronic. I take 10 soviet russia jokes for every boxen.
It looks like AmigaOS is slowly crawling to the top again. heheheh