Random aside, but if you already have it installed on a laptop why not just plug that into a monitor and keyboard when you get home? Or were you going to buy a fairly low spec laptop?
These hard hacks are awesome. Make you wish you where able to build stuff like that. I am sorta limited to soft-hacks, that is fun, but nothing like this:-/ But everyone his own.
Strap a phone to the top of a remote control car and do a Skype video call with it (or even better, get some app that can do local video calls for improved latency).
Better tracks with some camber. Better cars. Better camera. Better cabinet to sit in. Better car to cabinet feed back. Force feed back wheel & chair tilt.
There are already several versions of this, with names like "road rallies", "go karting", and "track days".
Not that I don't think this is cool, but if you have enough money to build all of that, you have enough money to pursue the real options, which are a lot more fun than sitting in one of those arcades with the stupid tilting seats (besides, if you're going to add tilt you need to tilt the whole thing - when I go over a bump in my car it doesn't change the position of the seat in relation to the pedals).
I do love my driving games, but until we have gravity generators to simulate the feeling of acceleration, real life driving is always going to feel better. You can do 0-60 in 4 seconds in a game and not really care, but in a real car you're going to be grinning.
That game was amazing, though I only had the demo of it. To simulate it properly the car would need to go seriously fast though and have some kind of aerodynamic device that could help it stick to walls/ceilings, and also reorient itself when the car flipped (but not while simply upside down on a roof)..
No air brakes or hovering either. The driving dynamics are completely different to wipEout. This is just a normal driving game with wipEout style graphics.
Thanks, that's interesting:) I'd read an article tonight that said that GPUs only really use their cache for texture filtering, guess it was too old, or just plain wrong.
CPUs have high speed cache that is faster than the mainboard RAM for high speed processing on a set of data, and swap the cache to/from RAM as necessary (kind of like how you page RAM to your hard drive when you run out of RAM).
Such a small cache would be useless for GPUs though, so they need faster RAM to read the massive amounts of texture/vertex/shader/whatever data they have as quick as possible. They also benefit more from stuff like RAM that is optimised for high sequential read speeds, so it does make sense to use RAM that has been specially designed for GPUs if you actually care about graphics performance (I doubt most Mac Mini users do).
HTML automatically strips out extra white space, so I think the web has automatically decided the answer to this question - unless you add in a manual non breaking space every time you type a sentence..
Don't work? No qualifications? You're just looking like a troll now.
Whenever I've tried WINE it hasn't always worked with stuff like the very latest games, but within a year or two stuff works fine. Thanks for reminding me of this fact - it's been long enough since I played stuff like the GTA 3 series, HL2 and all its mods etc that it is probably worth buying a medium spec laptop just to play them all again (I've just been console gaming the last 2-3 years).
I'm not going to be buying any more PC games until they're available natively on Linux. When Steam comes out for Linux I may actually build a gaming PC again, but until then I've found that I can actually enjoy full time console gaming much more than I expected.
You get piles of stuff for free with any Ubuntu distro, and none of it is pirated (at least I haven't heard of any "Linux for Pirates", but maybe it exists)
Yeah I was thinking just make them all to the highest standard, but some people like to save money, and may not even have a HDTV that handles 1080p etc, so they would be happier with one of the cheaper cables (though from other comments here I gather that all the cables are physically the same, just some have been tested to a higher data throughput rate).
He's talking about HDMI 1.3 cables. I'm thinking it sounds like stuff like ethernet might require an extra core through the cable or something like that, and that the "standard" cables will be ones that failed the high speed tests, just like you can buy tri-core CPUs which are really quad core CPUs with one duff core.
Once again a Slashdot summary designed to rage or amuse, yet the names are... wait for it....
Standard HDMI Cable Standard HDMI Cable with Ethernet Standard Automotive HDMI cable High Speed HDMI Cable High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet
Standard cables are tested to support video up to 720p/1080i.
High Speed are tested to 1080p resolution.
How can anyone complain about that? It isn't any more complicated than Standard vs HD, though admittedly some people won't know what ethernet means. I don't know what the difference with the automotive cable is either, but I assume that the High Speed with Ethernet would work for all needs.
The specifics are outlined in a 38 page document on the HDMI website. At the most basic level cables are split into 'Standard' and 'High Speed' versions. Standard cables are tested to support video up to 720p/1080i. High Speed cables on the other hand are tested to 1080p resolution. Within these categories come the inevitable subcategories. Standard is split three ways into Standard HDMI Cable, Standard HDMI Cable with Ethernet and Standard Automotive HDMI cable. High Speed Cables come in two versions - High Speed HDMI Cable and High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet.
Oh noes, how are we possibly going to be able to tell which cable to buy?:0
With the exception of "Standard Automotive HDMI cable" they all seem rather good, self explanatory names to me. Much better names than just "HDMI 1.4 cable" anyway. Besides, the packaging probably will still say HDMI 1.4 somewhere..?
why the hell some outfits feel the need to collect that much information about you just to sell you some food.
Email address: to reset your password if you forget it (you'd want an account so you don't have to type in your address and payment info each time). Address: should be obvious. Phone number: to phone in case they don't get an answer at the door.
TFA doesn't mention any extra personal details that were stolen. I don't see what's so crazy about them needing these other details for online ordering.
Landrover Defenders are pretty ugly, cheap, slow (0-60 in around 15 seconds) and economical (diesel).. but they're also very practical when it comes to offroading, which is why these guys were stealing them.
I enjoy driving too much to choose to drive something slow and economical. I don't think liking fast cars always has to do with ego. Some cars definitely are more about image than the driving experience, but I care about how much fun it is. Anything that does 0-60 in under 8 seconds or so, doesn't wallow excessively round corners, and has a half decent sound system is good enough for me.
I'm currently driving a 15 year old Toyota MR2, the model which I always used to think of as looking kinda "girly" and curvy compared to the awesome boxy 1st gen, but it really is the nicest car I've ever driven, being mid engined with rear wheel drive (as indicated by the name):)
My next car is going to be something like a Nissan 350Z, it's RWD and I just love the sound it makes. A few people I've mentioned this to say the 350Z is ugly and looks like a Nissan Micra or VW Beetle, but I really don't care if it's fun to drive:)
I see. All the thefts I've heard of over here have been of the joyrider kind - some just for fun, some actually used as the getaway car for other kinds of theft (a gang that liked stealing Landrovers so that they could get away from the cops over unconventional terrain..). Stealing for parts is a pretty smart way to go though if you have a good market.
Number of security updates per month is a poor measure of how safe a browser is.
A 100% safe browser would never need any updates.
Likewise a browser could have plenty of flaws, but hardly any updates to patch those flaws. It would be receiving less updates per month, and still be less safe than a browser that started off with the same number of flaws but is having them patched more quickly.
As far as pink goes.. how many thugs do you know that desperately want to be seen in a more feminine light?
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Random aside, but if you already have it installed on a laptop why not just plug that into a monitor and keyboard when you get home? Or were you going to buy a fairly low spec laptop?
These hard hacks are awesome. Make you wish you where able to build stuff like that. I am sorta limited to soft-hacks, that is fun, but nothing like this :-/ But everyone his own.
Strap a phone to the top of a remote control car and do a Skype video call with it (or even better, get some app that can do local video calls for improved latency).
Better tracks with some camber. Better cars. Better camera. Better cabinet to sit in. Better car to cabinet feed back. Force feed back wheel & chair tilt.
There are already several versions of this, with names like "road rallies", "go karting", and "track days".
Not that I don't think this is cool, but if you have enough money to build all of that, you have enough money to pursue the real options, which are a lot more fun than sitting in one of those arcades with the stupid tilting seats (besides, if you're going to add tilt you need to tilt the whole thing - when I go over a bump in my car it doesn't change the position of the seat in relation to the pedals).
I do love my driving games, but until we have gravity generators to simulate the feeling of acceleration, real life driving is always going to feel better. You can do 0-60 in 4 seconds in a game and not really care, but in a real car you're going to be grinning.
That game was amazing, though I only had the demo of it. To simulate it properly the car would need to go seriously fast though and have some kind of aerodynamic device that could help it stick to walls/ceilings, and also reorient itself when the car flipped (but not while simply upside down on a roof)..
No air brakes or hovering either. The driving dynamics are completely different to wipEout. This is just a normal driving game with wipEout style graphics.
Thanks, that's interesting :) I'd read an article tonight that said that GPUs only really use their cache for texture filtering, guess it was too old, or just plain wrong.
CPUs have high speed cache that is faster than the mainboard RAM for high speed processing on a set of data, and swap the cache to/from RAM as necessary (kind of like how you page RAM to your hard drive when you run out of RAM).
Such a small cache would be useless for GPUs though, so they need faster RAM to read the massive amounts of texture/vertex/shader/whatever data they have as quick as possible. They also benefit more from stuff like RAM that is optimised for high sequential read speeds, so it does make sense to use RAM that has been specially designed for GPUs if you actually care about graphics performance (I doubt most Mac Mini users do).
HTML automatically strips out extra white space, so I think the web has automatically decided the answer to this question - unless you add in a manual non breaking space every time you type a sentence..
Don't work? No qualifications? You're just looking like a troll now.
Whenever I've tried WINE it hasn't always worked with stuff like the very latest games, but within a year or two stuff works fine. Thanks for reminding me of this fact - it's been long enough since I played stuff like the GTA 3 series, HL2 and all its mods etc that it is probably worth buying a medium spec laptop just to play them all again (I've just been console gaming the last 2-3 years).
I think it probably exists to make profit off of cables that fail the high speed tests.
Try learning how to use the shift key before you complain about people not being able to use computers.
I left that sentence saying Ubuntu by mistake. I'm pretty tired after being laid up sick all day, though I can't even be assed going to bed yet.
I'm not going to be buying any more PC games until they're available natively on Linux. When Steam comes out for Linux I may actually build a gaming PC again, but until then I've found that I can actually enjoy full time console gaming much more than I expected.
I loved early 90s shareware, you insensitive clod! On the Mac anyway, the PC scene was a bit crap.
Correct, I gave them up around 2 years ago.
*I meant Linux rather than Ubuntu there, poor editing..
You get piles of stuff for free with any Ubuntu distro, and none of it is pirated (at least I haven't heard of any "Linux for Pirates", but maybe it exists)
Yeah I was thinking just make them all to the highest standard, but some people like to save money, and may not even have a HDTV that handles 1080p etc, so they would be happier with one of the cheaper cables (though from other comments here I gather that all the cables are physically the same, just some have been tested to a higher data throughput rate).
He's talking about HDMI 1.3 cables. I'm thinking it sounds like stuff like ethernet might require an extra core through the cable or something like that, and that the "standard" cables will be ones that failed the high speed tests, just like you can buy tri-core CPUs which are really quad core CPUs with one duff core.
Once again a Slashdot summary designed to rage or amuse, yet the names are... wait for it....
Standard HDMI Cable
Standard HDMI Cable with Ethernet
Standard Automotive HDMI cable
High Speed HDMI Cable
High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet
Standard cables are tested to support video up to 720p/1080i.
High Speed are tested to 1080p resolution.
How can anyone complain about that? It isn't any more complicated than Standard vs HD, though admittedly some people won't know what ethernet means. I don't know what the difference with the automotive cable is either, but I assume that the High Speed with Ethernet would work for all needs.
You joke, but check this from TFA:
The specifics are outlined in a 38 page document on the HDMI website. At the most basic level cables are split into 'Standard' and 'High Speed' versions. Standard cables are tested to support video up to 720p/1080i. High Speed cables on the other hand are tested to 1080p resolution. Within these categories come the inevitable subcategories. Standard is split three ways into Standard HDMI Cable, Standard HDMI Cable with Ethernet and Standard Automotive HDMI cable. High Speed Cables come in two versions - High Speed HDMI Cable and High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet.
Oh noes, how are we possibly going to be able to tell which cable to buy? :0
With the exception of "Standard Automotive HDMI cable" they all seem rather good, self explanatory names to me. Much better names than just "HDMI 1.4 cable" anyway. Besides, the packaging probably will still say HDMI 1.4 somewhere..?
why the hell some outfits feel the need to collect that much information about you just to sell you some food.
Email address: to reset your password if you forget it (you'd want an account so you don't have to type in your address and payment info each time).
Address: should be obvious.
Phone number: to phone in case they don't get an answer at the door.
TFA doesn't mention any extra personal details that were stolen. I don't see what's so crazy about them needing these other details for online ordering.
Landrover Defenders are pretty ugly, cheap, slow (0-60 in around 15 seconds) and economical (diesel).. but they're also very practical when it comes to offroading, which is why these guys were stealing them.
I enjoy driving too much to choose to drive something slow and economical. I don't think liking fast cars always has to do with ego. Some cars definitely are more about image than the driving experience, but I care about how much fun it is. Anything that does 0-60 in under 8 seconds or so, doesn't wallow excessively round corners, and has a half decent sound system is good enough for me.
I'm currently driving a 15 year old Toyota MR2, the model which I always used to think of as looking kinda "girly" and curvy compared to the awesome boxy 1st gen, but it really is the nicest car I've ever driven, being mid engined with rear wheel drive (as indicated by the name) :)
My next car is going to be something like a Nissan 350Z, it's RWD and I just love the sound it makes. A few people I've mentioned this to say the 350Z is ugly and looks like a Nissan Micra or VW Beetle, but I really don't care if it's fun to drive :)
I see. All the thefts I've heard of over here have been of the joyrider kind - some just for fun, some actually used as the getaway car for other kinds of theft (a gang that liked stealing Landrovers so that they could get away from the cops over unconventional terrain..). Stealing for parts is a pretty smart way to go though if you have a good market.
Ah, that'll teach me to SkimTFA.
Number of security updates per month is a poor measure of how safe a browser is.
A 100% safe browser would never need any updates.
Likewise a browser could have plenty of flaws, but hardly any updates to patch those flaws. It would be receiving less updates per month, and still be less safe than a browser that started off with the same number of flaws but is having them patched more quickly.
As far as pink goes.. how many thugs do you know that desperately want to be seen in a more feminine light?