Normally I'm not an RTS fan. Probably because I would always get my ass handed to me in Starcraft. But this game just looks amazing. The fact that it hs such an interesting and diverse scale is astounding. The nukes in particular. I remember in C&C and SC that a nuke might kill a few units and maybe damage a few structures but the nukes in this game actually seem like real nukes, full blown devistation. The whole zooming in idea reminds me of GoogleEarth.
I don't know about the US but that would be the deal of the century in Canada. I'm stuck with a 3MBPS ADSL (in actuality runs much slower) as my fastest consumer option. And it costs ~$40 cad a month on top of phone costs.
Jokingly, yes.
What I actually meant is that I'm not in a big city (Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, etc.) but I'm not in the backwoods rural areas either.
Broadband has been around for how long now? My provider still can't get the basic sevice right. Living in a lesser populated area of Canada, broadband providers seem to be able to get away with offering the bare bare minimum quality and still manage to charge more than the average good broadband provider. Maybe a switch to faster broadband around all of Northa America might help pressure them in to improving their service but I am not very hopeful.
Internet over powerline souds appealing as a new choice for broadband. Especially considering in my city there are two consumer options, cable and ADSL. Both are implemented very poorly and have shoddy speeds. I am with the ADSL provider now and I swear they are blocking certain incomming ports, though they say they aren't.
I might give it a try on my next system later this summer if they have an amd64 version available by then. I like Gentoo not so much because everything is compiled from source but because I very much like portage. I hear Arch uses a very similar system. The one other thing about Gentoo is that the community is the best I have seen myself. Helpful no matter how obscure or noobish the question. I can't speak for Arch's community but the Gentoo community really makes me want to stick with Gentoo.
I got an ATI card because I was told it had better performance than nvidia, especially in HL2. Now that I have my 9800, I realize what a waste it was, especially in Linux. HL2 was okay but definetely not worth getting this card for, especially for all the trouble it has caused (in an amd64 system). Next time I'm going nvidia.
I have never really been a fan of Fedora. I tried core 3 for amd64 when it came out. I found I didn't have the control I wanted and regularly found myself in dependancy hell. I also found it had way to much stuff I would never use and didn't have mp3 playbck that I would. I know it isn't hard to get it, but still. I have since moved to Gentoo and am very happy.
Personally, I have always found WYSIWYG editors to produce very messy code. It's refreshing to hear that Nvu actually supports standards, but like most other WYSIWYG editors, it's produced code looks a bit messy.
I think I may just be a stickler for good looking code but maybe because it's hard to add PHP and other such code when it's hard to navigate the initial generated code.
Vim is still my editor of choice:)
But then also, you generally (not always) don't have to worry about a plain 'crashing' or not working because of your lack of understanding. You aren't flying the plane so you don't need to know or care how it works. But a computer is a machine that you do use yourself so you should know, or at least care how it works to the extent that you want to use it. Otherwise, not caring is the next best thing to being stupid.
I had 2MB on a keychain but I tend to be forgetful and leave my keys in my pockets. This leads to keys in the washing machine. Washing machines don't like ram...
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Intel supporting or not supporting AMD is completely different than deliberately targeting AMD for poor compilation. Something along the lines of:
if (cpuid == "Genuine Intel") compileOptomizedBranch();
else if (cpuid == "Authentic AMD") compileCrappyBranch();
else compile();
Normally I'm not an RTS fan. Probably because I would always get my ass handed to me in Starcraft. But this game just looks amazing. The fact that it hs such an interesting and diverse scale is astounding. The nukes in particular. I remember in C&C and SC that a nuke might kill a few units and maybe damage a few structures but the nukes in this game actually seem like real nukes, full blown devistation. The whole zooming in idea reminds me of GoogleEarth.
I don't know about the US but that would be the deal of the century in Canada. I'm stuck with a 3MBPS ADSL (in actuality runs much slower) as my fastest consumer option. And it costs ~$40 cad a month on top of phone costs.
Jokingly, yes. What I actually meant is that I'm not in a big city (Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, etc.) but I'm not in the backwoods rural areas either.
Broadband has been around for how long now? My provider still can't get the basic sevice right. Living in a lesser populated area of Canada, broadband providers seem to be able to get away with offering the bare bare minimum quality and still manage to charge more than the average good broadband provider. Maybe a switch to faster broadband around all of Northa America might help pressure them in to improving their service but I am not very hopeful.
Internet over powerline souds appealing as a new choice for broadband. Especially considering in my city there are two consumer options, cable and ADSL. Both are implemented very poorly and have shoddy speeds. I am with the ADSL provider now and I swear they are blocking certain incomming ports, though they say they aren't.
I might give it a try on my next system later this summer if they have an amd64 version available by then. I like Gentoo not so much because everything is compiled from source but because I very much like portage. I hear Arch uses a very similar system. The one other thing about Gentoo is that the community is the best I have seen myself. Helpful no matter how obscure or noobish the question. I can't speak for Arch's community but the Gentoo community really makes me want to stick with Gentoo.
I got an ATI card because I was told it had better performance than nvidia, especially in HL2. Now that I have my 9800, I realize what a waste it was, especially in Linux. HL2 was okay but definetely not worth getting this card for, especially for all the trouble it has caused (in an amd64 system). Next time I'm going nvidia.
I have never really been a fan of Fedora. I tried core 3 for amd64 when it came out. I found I didn't have the control I wanted and regularly found myself in dependancy hell. I also found it had way to much stuff I would never use and didn't have mp3 playbck that I would. I know it isn't hard to get it, but still. I have since moved to Gentoo and am very happy.
Personally, I have always found WYSIWYG editors to produce very messy code. It's refreshing to hear that Nvu actually supports standards, but like most other WYSIWYG editors, it's produced code looks a bit messy. I think I may just be a stickler for good looking code but maybe because it's hard to add PHP and other such code when it's hard to navigate the initial generated code. Vim is still my editor of choice :)
Not only do they need to make dumb laws for their own country, they bully other countries to adopt their laws and views. Figures...
But then also, you generally (not always) don't have to worry about a plain 'crashing' or not working because of your lack of understanding. You aren't flying the plane so you don't need to know or care how it works. But a computer is a machine that you do use yourself so you should know, or at least care how it works to the extent that you want to use it. Otherwise, not caring is the next best thing to being stupid.
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All Canadian money has braille on it for the blind. It is also color coded for the almost blind.
I had 2MB on a keychain but I tend to be forgetful and leave my keys in my pockets. This leads to keys in the washing machine. Washing machines don't like ram...