Something like this could be useful for doing general purpose gpu programming. It can be a real pain to shoehorn your data in and out of the video card, so a tool to make that easier would be welcome I think. Of course, the process had better be fast and easy to program around or there would be no point.
I believe that Zboard's support around 10 simultaneous key presses too, so you would be fine except when you are pounding the keyboard with your fists;-)
The Keyboard inserts work well, they are quick to take in and out and they are easy to store.
The alternative button layout is good and bad. You don't loose your home key as easily when you are rushed, but on the other hand, the key size and spacing could be tweaked and the arrangment of the regular keys makes it pretty difficult to type chat messages.
No one really needs or wants the weapon laybels on the number keys, overall though, the keyboard looks cool and makes an interesting computer accessory if you're interested in that sort of thing
Zboards have very good game recognition and make it easy to set up and store your custom key mappings in one place. The utilities work well and aren't a major system hog.
Zboards have better driver support for large key sequences. Some keyboards don't work properly when holding down 3 or 4 keys at once.
I haven't had any reliability problems with mine in the year I've owned it. My girlfriend even melted a bunch of the keys by accident and that still didn't damage anything other than those keys
Looks like an interesting piece of tech. To bad it doesn't support a few more formats, but I guess it's easy enough to convert stuff to pdf with OOo, etc. The Connect Store working in other browsers than ie 5.5 would be nice to.
That may be true, but print(and other media) will still stay around as long as the consumption of digial media is tied to inconvenient technology. Reading a book, magazine or newspaper is far more pleasent to many, rather than looking at the same text on a computer, pda, etc. It's nice being able to hold something in your hand and take it anywhere without batteries or cords. Outmoded idea? maybe, but it's the truth.
Trillian is probably still more user friendly then gaim is. I'm a gaim user myself and I think it's more for users who want a striped down im client with only essential features. Trillian is a bit more about eye candy and user friendlyness, not to knock it though because I used it for a long time.
On the secound point, I don't think that makes much sense. I experts shouldn't work directly on Wikipedia, then who should? random people with only a vague idea of what they are talking about?@! Also, an expert on physics need not be a PHD, I would trust someone with a Bachelors in physics to describe Newtonian motion. Also, I don't think that controversial articles are the norm. Sure, some topics are more open to interpretation than others, but not all of them are going to be fought over.
What I had in mind would fall more into the realm of content protection I think. It would entail something like giving higher status to content that comes from certain sources. Think of this as a way of grading the potential quality of the imformation. The contributions with a higher status should not be quite as easy to change, but content with that status would be tightly regulated so not to introduce harmful changes.
That wouldn't be necessary and there are already alternatives in place. An expert contributer need not be an editor and/or a proof reader for the content that they contribute. If Wikipedia were to recognized contributions made by experts, then the editing staff would just have to make sure that those articles are more stable. Either experts could be give special account privledges or their posts could be given precedence in some cases.
There will be problems with any large group effort like Wikipedia, that is not to say that there aren't ways to make it work better though.
Not only that, but why start from scratch when there is such an enourmous body of good source material? A better project would be to gather acknowledged experts, and get them to contribute to Wikipedia instead.
Oblivion doesn't ship until febuary 20th according to eb, so it still won't be a launch title! That's also assuming that there are no delays getting the product out there.
As was brought up in the other/. article about this, Windows GL drivers are pretty much useless now. You already have to have vendor drivers installed to play any GL games that I know of.
That doesn't stop you from using a graphical remote administration client, look at how many there are for other stuff like dbms's. Sure it's harder to get secure, but if you are administering windows remotely, you probably have to go through that already.
Maybe it would make more sense to bring game ratings in line with movie ratings (if they aren't already) and publisise this fact. At least then the ESRB would have the leverage of equivocating their ratings with ones that are presumably more accepted by the public.
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Anyone who has any sense already agrees with what you are saying. The problem is, is that the situation has nothing to do with common sense and everything to do with making noise and a big stink to get exposure. I'm not even sure if Christian groups like this one even care so much about the outcome of their actions as much as long as they get to come around to their way of thinking. Maybe they might as well call themselves the National Institute for Advertising Christian Values?
If I remember correctly, Trillian doesn't have very good nat traversal so you have make sure forward all the ports (at least if you're using a router) used by the protocols you are using. Other than that, I'm not sure what what else could be causing your problems. Gaim seems to work ok for me though;)
Another bogus headline. You would think that a chatting virus might use one of an im robot at least, not send two static messages. I guess people will fall for it anyway.
To the other posters as well I'm not saying that you couldn't use it as a regular computer as well. It's just that my idea of a media center computer is one that hums away quietly next to my home theatre system etc. I don't think that would be very convenient for use as a desktop as well. I'm sure it would make a good server, but as I stated in my original post, there are more economical ways of doing this. Also to the below poster, it's fine if you don't have old hardware around, but it's still less expensive to get your hands on.
Now if Front Row ends up having superior features to other media center software, then that would be a different story
I don't know if I would buy a mac mini just to use it for as a pvr etc. Sure it would probably be cheaper than a comercial pvr, but why buy a whole bunch of new hardware when you can use old hardware that's lying around?
I'm kind of disappointed that they choose the 360 as the primary development platform for the next Wolfenstein game. I really like the series, but I'll be kind of disappointed if the game gets to arcadified for the console audience. New ideas or not, I sure hope their ideas still cater to the pc gaming audience.
That's probably the case, but a lot of problems with pb deal with their auto-updating mechanism (which times out and gets you kicked) or the updates themselves (which causes odd program behaviour, crashes and again, kicks). While I always use PunkBuster myself, I'm just acknowledging that it has problems, some of those being out of your control to fix. For that reason, I think it's good that PunkBuster is optional.
That is the case, but think about it this way. At some point the industry gets torn between whether to provide what gamers who want what is familiar to them or those who require something that is completely different. Another thing is that it seems to me that there are a lot of people out there who want to see a new version of title X; Some of those people go on to cry about it when title X+1 and any further versions fail to be completely revolutionary every time. Anyway, my point in all this is that if you want to see updates of your favorite game, fine, but don't expect the developer to create something totally new at the same time. For those who want to see new kinds of games, don't spend too much time complaining about ones that aren't what you want; Just buy games that meet your interests and ignore the rest if you don't like them.
Not sure why you have such a dislike for Punkbuster, it does cause problems sometimes but that isn't really the norm. You are also not even required to enable PB, there are usually enough non-pb servers that you will still have a place to play.
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Something like this could be useful for doing general purpose gpu programming. It can be a real pain to shoehorn your data in and out of the video card, so a tool to make that easier would be welcome I think. Of course, the process had better be fast and easy to program around or there would be no point.
I believe that Zboard's support around 10 simultaneous key presses too, so you would be fine except when you are pounding the keyboard with your fists ;-)
Looks like an interesting piece of tech. To bad it doesn't support a few more formats, but I guess it's easy enough to convert stuff to pdf with OOo, etc. The Connect Store working in other browsers than ie 5.5 would be nice to.
That may be true, but print(and other media) will still stay around as long as the consumption of digial media is tied to inconvenient technology. Reading a book, magazine or newspaper is far more pleasent to many, rather than looking at the same text on a computer, pda, etc. It's nice being able to hold something in your hand and take it anywhere without batteries or cords. Outmoded idea? maybe, but it's the truth.
Trillian is probably still more user friendly then gaim is. I'm a gaim user myself and I think it's more for users who want a striped down im client with only essential features. Trillian is a bit more about eye candy and user friendlyness, not to knock it though because I used it for a long time.
So, in otherwords, the fbi is starting another big unsuccessful project to sink hundreds of millions of dollars into?
The poster is right, when I was using trillian, msn transfers didn't work unless you had port forwarding set up on your router.
I won't argue further on the first point.
On the secound point, I don't think that makes much sense. I experts shouldn't work directly on Wikipedia, then who should? random people with only a vague idea of what they are talking about?@! Also, an expert on physics need not be a PHD, I would trust someone with a Bachelors in physics to describe Newtonian motion. Also, I don't think that controversial articles are the norm. Sure, some topics are more open to interpretation than others, but not all of them are going to be fought over.
What I had in mind would fall more into the realm of content protection I think. It would entail something like giving higher status to content that comes from certain sources. Think of this as a way of grading the potential quality of the imformation. The contributions with a higher status should not be quite as easy to change, but content with that status would be tightly regulated so not to introduce harmful changes.
That wouldn't be necessary and there are already alternatives in place. An expert contributer need not be an editor and/or a proof reader for the content that they contribute. If Wikipedia were to recognized contributions made by experts, then the editing staff would just have to make sure that those articles are more stable. Either experts could be give special account privledges or their posts could be given precedence in some cases. There will be problems with any large group effort like Wikipedia, that is not to say that there aren't ways to make it work better though.
Not only that, but why start from scratch when there is such an enourmous body of good source material? A better project would be to gather acknowledged experts, and get them to contribute to Wikipedia instead.
Oblivion doesn't ship until febuary 20th according to eb, so it still won't be a launch title! That's also assuming that there are no delays getting the product out there.
As was brought up in the other /. article about this, Windows GL drivers are pretty much useless now. You already have to have vendor drivers installed to play any GL games that I know of.
That doesn't stop you from using a graphical remote administration client, look at how many there are for other stuff like dbms's. Sure it's harder to get secure, but if you are administering windows remotely, you probably have to go through that already.
Maybe it would make more sense to bring game ratings in line with movie ratings (if they aren't already) and publisise this fact. At least then the ESRB would have the leverage of equivocating their ratings with ones that are presumably more accepted by the public.
Anyone who has any sense already agrees with what you are saying. The problem is, is that the situation has nothing to do with common sense and everything to do with making noise and a big stink to get exposure. I'm not even sure if Christian groups like this one even care so much about the outcome of their actions as much as long as they get to come around to their way of thinking. Maybe they might as well call themselves the National Institute for Advertising Christian Values?
If I remember correctly, Trillian doesn't have very good nat traversal so you have make sure forward all the ports (at least if you're using a router) used by the protocols you are using. Other than that, I'm not sure what what else could be causing your problems. Gaim seems to work ok for me though ;)
Another bogus headline. You would think that a chatting virus might use one of an im robot at least, not send two static messages. I guess people will fall for it anyway.
Now if Front Row ends up having superior features to other media center software, then that would be a different story
I don't know if I would buy a mac mini just to use it for as a pvr etc. Sure it would probably be cheaper than a comercial pvr, but why buy a whole bunch of new hardware when you can use old hardware that's lying around?
I'm kind of disappointed that they choose the 360 as the primary development platform for the next Wolfenstein game. I really like the series, but I'll be kind of disappointed if the game gets to arcadified for the console audience. New ideas or not, I sure hope their ideas still cater to the pc gaming audience.
That's probably the case, but a lot of problems with pb deal with their auto-updating mechanism (which times out and gets you kicked) or the updates themselves (which causes odd program behaviour, crashes and again, kicks). While I always use PunkBuster myself, I'm just acknowledging that it has problems, some of those being out of your control to fix. For that reason, I think it's good that PunkBuster is optional.
That is the case, but think about it this way. At some point the industry gets torn between whether to provide what gamers who want what is familiar to them or those who require something that is completely different. Another thing is that it seems to me that there are a lot of people out there who want to see a new version of title X; Some of those people go on to cry about it when title X+1 and any further versions fail to be completely revolutionary every time. Anyway, my point in all this is that if you want to see updates of your favorite game, fine, but don't expect the developer to create something totally new at the same time. For those who want to see new kinds of games, don't spend too much time complaining about ones that aren't what you want; Just buy games that meet your interests and ignore the rest if you don't like them.
Not sure why you have such a dislike for Punkbuster, it does cause problems sometimes but that isn't really the norm. You are also not even required to enable PB, there are usually enough non-pb servers that you will still have a place to play.