Even in Firefox 39 (possibly earlier), Google gets to set a permanent cookie if you have malware/"web forgery" detection enabled (which is the default).
Even with an addon like 'Self-Destructing Cookies' you still can't get rid of the Google cookie. You can even try for yourself in Settings > Privacy > Show Cookies on a fresh install of Firefox.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
This is a fallacy. If you take a look at the kind of presentations you see at top-tier computer graphics conference (i.e. SIGGRAPH -- shameless plug [paywalled] and another one), you will see that using all the fancy features of today's presentation software really can help in delivering the content of the presentation in a nice and intuitive way. The problem is that most people aren't willing spend one week on a presentation (except for top-tier computer graphics conferences).
I had the exact same feeling of disappointment as you, and also the exact same concerns regarding the required activation. I applaud you for spending the time to write a real physical letter to Rockstar. Hopefully it will have an impact, especially if more people do this. Personally I wrote (among other - I collected about every Rockstar e-mail I could find) to mouthoff@rockstagames.com about my concerns, and I would suggest others do the same if they feel the same way.
You probably should have used the very extensive configuration with regards to key mapping that San Andreas allows. I agree, the standard controls are very weird and counter-intuitive, but it's nothing 5 minutes spent on choosing your own (saner) mapping won't fix.
The plane missions are notoriously hard though. It's not just the controls. It takes quite a lot to get used to controlling the planes in San Andreas. In short, you just need practice. P.S. Don't use the mouse. Planes are most easily controlled with the keyboard (optionally a real controller).
Reopening a class certainly has it's drawbacks too, which is why I mainly try to avoid it. There's a good reason why almost? all the core Java classes are final.
What about Thinkpad batteries? Are they safe? Although it doesn't say anywhere on the battery that it's a Sony, it *does* say so in software. I have a Thinkpad T43.
Except this has an internal HDD, which no matter how much you twitch and turn it makes ALL the difference. It's a nice piece of hardware, but the price is too much. I'd get one if getting a seperate NAS and router wasn't so much more cost-effective.
At least OpenWRT already supports the WL-500gP fully in the latest stable version. The WL-700gE probably won't be supported for a while, since it only has 2MB flash.
... bullshit. These are purely artificial limitation you've put on high-level languages yourself. There are no clearly defined rules that divide low-level languages from high-level languages like that - it's just plain silly. The terms high- and low-level language are inherently relative and depend heavily on the context. To name an example, say we are talking about the field of Machine Architecture. In this field C is clearly a high-level language, since it's on top of assembly level, which is on top of the OS level, which is on top of the absolute machine code level, which is on top of the micro-code level, which again is on top of the actual hardware level. Actually you can continue futher down through the abstraction levels even further, but then you'd be leaving the field of Computer Science.
Now if we're speaking in the field of programming languages actually used today, you could surely argue that C is one of the lower-level languages out there, and hence call it a low-level langauge. Personally, I prefer to always look at it from the Machine Architecture viewpoint, but I guess it's a matter of preference.
If you're like me, and prefer the original IBM Model M, you'll be pleased to know that IBM sold off their patented buckling-spring (the infamous spring that makes typing on a Model M so good) technology to a company called Unicomp. They sell new USB keyboards with buckling-spring key switches, and you even get the infamous IBM trackpoint on some models! You never have to leave the home row again - not even if you have to use your "mouse"! What more could you ask for in a keyboard? You won't get a better keyboard and eventhough the price is steep for the top-models, they'll probably last 20 years like the original Model M models.
And no, I don't work or am in any way affiliated with Unicomp. I just want to pass on the message on - Model M reborn with USB and trackpoint. Sweet!
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Actually it is a lot better because it actually understands and interprets unix-style newlines correctly. I have lost count on the times I've opened a file downloaded from some *nix box via FTP in notepad and sweared as I saw the garbled output - wordpad is the solution. I can't imagine how notepad ever got to be associated with.txt files over wordpad.
7xxx doesn't say *anything* about the performace. It's just the graphics card "generation". What is *does* mean, is that it will support the latest technologies like HDR and SM3.0, but again I stress - it doesn't say anything about the performace. In fact, your Geforce 6600 is most likely more powerful (I haven't seen seen benchmarks, but this is almost certainly true) than the 7300 chip. And yes, I deliberately excluded previous generation cards from my posts, since it wouldn't add to my point. Buying last generation graphics cards is almost never a good idea if you want the most bang for the buck, since Nvidia and Ati repeatably produce new generations which cover all the price points from top of the line to low-range with support for the latest technologies, which you'll miss out on with a previous generation graphics card. Yes, your 6600 (GT?) has now been replaced by the 7600GT.
The short answer: Yes.
The long answer: Unless you play any new games on a regular basis and find them to be rather slugish, then no, you won't benifit anything from upgrading. The only reason to upgrade your graphics card today is the get better performance in games and other 3D applications. Nothing will be gained 2D-wise. Perhaps with aiglx and the like you will be able to use the true power of your graphics card, but that's not now. Also, these new effects would have to be damn shiny for them to put pressure on even a low-end card like the 5200FX.
Actually most every new game today is GPU bound, so naturally the absolute most significant performace boost will be from the graphics card. I used to think the same way as you do, but you will gain MUCH more performace by getting a low end CPU, motherboard, RAM and then spending most your budget on the graphics card.
Not going for the top of the line graphics card, motherboard, CPU, RAM heck virtually every piece of hardware yields you the most bang for the buck. Is anyone really surprised by this? It's common knowledge that companies will use high prices for their top-of-the-line hardware to cover the price of R&D, while later supplying nerfed versions of the same hardware to cover the casual or mid-range consumers.
7900GTX = top of the line performance 7900GT = high-end though much better performance/dollar ratio. 7600GT = mid-range runs-all graphics card that great for the budget-aware gamer. 7300GS = low-range graphics card for the casual gamer that wants to play the odd game of Sims 2 or similar.
That's because ATI is focusing on stability right now with their Linux drivers. ATI's linux drivers have been known to be buggy and crash, and ATI clearly wants to get rid of this reputation before they go for performance.
It seems, after investigating further that the NSLU2 can trasfer data at around 4-6 Mbytes/s on average. Faster than the WL-HDD, though still rather slow if you want to use it extensively, maybe even having an NFS mount on it.
You can't, however, attach a HDD to the WRT54G(S). I've just ordered myself an Asus WL-500g Deluxe with two USB 2.0 ports. Should be nice for a little web server with OpenWRT, though the performance should be poor. 1.3Mbytes/s I've heard. I guess this Linksys device has better USB performance, it being meant for file sharing, though it's not a guarantee. The WL-HDD (connects a regular IDE HDD) can only transfer 2Mbytes/s.
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Even in Firefox 39 (possibly earlier), Google gets to set a permanent cookie if you have malware/"web forgery" detection enabled (which is the default). Even with an addon like 'Self-Destructing Cookies' you still can't get rid of the Google cookie. You can even try for yourself in Settings > Privacy > Show Cookies on a fresh install of Firefox. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
This is a fallacy. If you take a look at the kind of presentations you see at top-tier computer graphics conference (i.e. SIGGRAPH -- shameless plug [paywalled] and another one), you will see that using all the fancy features of today's presentation software really can help in delivering the content of the presentation in a nice and intuitive way. The problem is that most people aren't willing spend one week on a presentation (except for top-tier computer graphics conferences).
I had the exact same feeling of disappointment as you, and also the exact same concerns regarding the required activation. I applaud you for spending the time to write a real physical letter to Rockstar. Hopefully it will have an impact, especially if more people do this. Personally I wrote (among other - I collected about every Rockstar e-mail I could find) to mouthoff@rockstagames.com about my concerns, and I would suggest others do the same if they feel the same way.
You probably should have used the very extensive configuration with regards to key mapping that San Andreas allows. I agree, the standard controls are very weird and counter-intuitive, but it's nothing 5 minutes spent on choosing your own (saner) mapping won't fix.
The plane missions are notoriously hard though. It's not just the controls. It takes quite a lot to get used to controlling the planes in San Andreas. In short, you just need practice. P.S. Don't use the mouse. Planes are most easily controlled with the keyboard (optionally a real controller).
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Reopening a class certainly has it's drawbacks too, which is why I mainly try to avoid it. There's a good reason why almost? all the core Java classes are final.
... always planetmath.org
What about Thinkpad batteries? Are they safe? Although it doesn't say anywhere on the battery that it's a Sony, it *does* say so in software. I have a Thinkpad T43.
Except this has an internal HDD, which no matter how much you twitch and turn it makes ALL the difference. It's a nice piece of hardware, but the price is too much. I'd get one if getting a seperate NAS and router wasn't so much more cost-effective.
At least OpenWRT already supports the WL-500gP fully in the latest stable version. The WL-700gE probably won't be supported for a while, since it only has 2MB flash.
... bullshit. These are purely artificial limitation you've put on high-level languages yourself. There are no clearly defined rules that divide low-level languages from high-level languages like that - it's just plain silly. The terms high- and low-level language are inherently relative and depend heavily on the context. To name an example, say we are talking about the field of Machine Architecture. In this field C is clearly a high-level language, since it's on top of assembly level, which is on top of the OS level, which is on top of the absolute machine code level, which is on top of the micro-code level, which again is on top of the actual hardware level. Actually you can continue futher down through the abstraction levels even further, but then you'd be leaving the field of Computer Science.
Now if we're speaking in the field of programming languages actually used today, you could surely argue that C is one of the lower-level languages out there, and hence call it a low-level langauge. Personally, I prefer to always look at it from the Machine Architecture viewpoint, but I guess it's a matter of preference.
... I'd mod you down for flamebait. Damn you!
If you're like me, and prefer the original IBM Model M, you'll be pleased to know that IBM sold off their patented buckling-spring (the infamous spring that makes typing on a Model M so good) technology to a company called Unicomp. They sell new USB keyboards with buckling-spring key switches, and you even get the infamous IBM trackpoint on some models! You never have to leave the home row again - not even if you have to use your "mouse"! What more could you ask for in a keyboard? You won't get a better keyboard and eventhough the price is steep for the top-models, they'll probably last 20 years like the original Model M models. And no, I don't work or am in any way affiliated with Unicomp. I just want to pass on the message on - Model M reborn with USB and trackpoint. Sweet!
everybody's favorite chair-throwing monkey-dancing "developer"-chanting Google-killing Steve Ballmer hates Google.
Actually it is a lot better because it actually understands and interprets unix-style newlines correctly. I have lost count on the times I've opened a file downloaded from some *nix box via FTP in notepad and sweared as I saw the garbled output - wordpad is the solution. I can't imagine how notepad ever got to be associated with .txt files over wordpad.
7xxx doesn't say *anything* about the performace. It's just the graphics card "generation". What is *does* mean, is that it will support the latest technologies like HDR and SM3.0, but again I stress - it doesn't say anything about the performace. In fact, your Geforce 6600 is most likely more powerful (I haven't seen seen benchmarks, but this is almost certainly true) than the 7300 chip. And yes, I deliberately excluded previous generation cards from my posts, since it wouldn't add to my point. Buying last generation graphics cards is almost never a good idea if you want the most bang for the buck, since Nvidia and Ati repeatably produce new generations which cover all the price points from top of the line to low-range with support for the latest technologies, which you'll miss out on with a previous generation graphics card. Yes, your 6600 (GT?) has now been replaced by the 7600GT.
The short answer: Yes. The long answer: Unless you play any new games on a regular basis and find them to be rather slugish, then no, you won't benifit anything from upgrading. The only reason to upgrade your graphics card today is the get better performance in games and other 3D applications. Nothing will be gained 2D-wise. Perhaps with aiglx and the like you will be able to use the true power of your graphics card, but that's not now. Also, these new effects would have to be damn shiny for them to put pressure on even a low-end card like the 5200FX.
Actually most every new game today is GPU bound, so naturally the absolute most significant performace boost will be from the graphics card. I used to think the same way as you do, but you will gain MUCH more performace by getting a low end CPU, motherboard, RAM and then spending most your budget on the graphics card.
Not going for the top of the line graphics card, motherboard, CPU, RAM heck virtually every piece of hardware yields you the most bang for the buck. Is anyone really surprised by this? It's common knowledge that companies will use high prices for their top-of-the-line hardware to cover the price of R&D, while later supplying nerfed versions of the same hardware to cover the casual or mid-range consumers.
7900GTX = top of the line performance
7900GT = high-end though much better performance/dollar ratio.
7600GT = mid-range runs-all graphics card that great for the budget-aware gamer.
7300GS = low-range graphics card for the casual gamer that wants to play the odd game of Sims 2 or similar.
Oh noes.. I can just see it. "Is that a lightsaber, or are you just happy to see me?"
It's the :hover event. If you hover the nose with the mouse, the nose turns blue.
... he was one word short of the 30 word minimum for Slashdot articles.
And anyone that states the obvious gets +5 Insightful. ;)
That's because ATI is focusing on stability right now with their Linux drivers. ATI's linux drivers have been known to be buggy and crash, and ATI clearly wants to get rid of this reputation before they go for performance.
It seems, after investigating further that the NSLU2 can trasfer data at around 4-6 Mbytes/s on average. Faster than the WL-HDD, though still rather slow if you want to use it extensively, maybe even having an NFS mount on it.
You can't, however, attach a HDD to the WRT54G(S). I've just ordered myself an Asus WL-500g Deluxe with two USB 2.0 ports. Should be nice for a little web server with OpenWRT, though the performance should be poor. 1.3Mbytes/s I've heard. I guess this Linksys device has better USB performance, it being meant for file sharing, though it's not a guarantee. The WL-HDD (connects a regular IDE HDD) can only transfer 2Mbytes/s.