I have just been performing a file sync with all my saved games every morning between my laptop and desktop for about 3 months now. It saves internet usage, costs nothing, works for all games, and provides a backup in case one machine dies catastrophically.
Steam cloud is an interesting concept, but it really doesn't provide any additional functionality against what I have already been doing.
I agree with parent 100% on the DS-263N.
I was using exclusively CRTs up until July of this year, when my last good (professional quality) one died. I was reluctant to switch away, because most LCDs I have seen looked like crap. I was proven wrong with the DS-263N.
I am a visual effects and game dev artist, so color accuracy and display uniformity is a must for me. I also do a lot of gaming, so input lag and scaling options (for 4:3 only games) is also a big factor.
Before I purchased, I did a lot of reading and searching for the right monitor. I stumbled upon the LCD thread at the AnandTech forums. It had everything I needed to know about choosing the right monitor. In the "Displays du Jour" section of the post, the DS-263N was listed as being an excellent 8-bit IPS TFT with less than a frame of input lag. I read a numerous consumer reviews on the monitor, and they were also consistently favorable.
I finally made the jump to the DS-263N, and I was not disappointed.
It's BRIGHT, much brighter than my CRT.
The viewing angle is amazing, and the gamma does not change when you shift your view. It only dims just a bit at extreme angles, but the dimming is uniform.
The monitor has 1:1, aspect, and stretch scaling options. So I can happily Quake away at 1600x1200 with no pixel interpolation and only bars to the each side.
The only two issues I have with it are:
1) A single dead green subpixel in the corner (However, I rarely notice it. It's almost impossible to see when gaming or watching a movie)
2) You can adjust the side bar color for viewing non-native resolutions, but it's impossible to get it completely black.
Aside from those issues, it is one of the best monitors I have ever used.
Unfortunately, they were discontinued from production earlier this year and the DS-265W is supposed to take its place.
Hopefully, it will be just as good or better than the DS-263N when it's released.
I am working on a UT3 modding project with one of the environment artists that worked on Legendary.
From what he tells me, pretty much everyone on team that wasn't in management thought the extra title was stupid.
Oh crap, you're right! I don't want my office building to explode due to an open exhaust port!
I better get on the roof and start duct taping over those air conditioning units today!
I keep seeing all these articles about bringing more types of processing applications to the gpu, since it handles floating point math and parallel problems better. I only have a rudimentary understanding of programming compared to most people on this site, so the following may sound like a dumb question. But how do you determine what types of problems will perform well (or are even possible to be solved) through the use of GPUs, and just how "general purpose" can you get on such specialized hardware?
Summary - "At the Web 2.0 Expo, we asked Tim O'Reilly, Dan Farber, Matt Mullenweg, Jay Cross, Brian Solis, Kevin Marks, Steve Gillmor, Jeremy Tanner, Maggie Fox, Tom McGovern, Sam Lawrence, Stowe Boyd, David Tebbutt, Dave McClure, Chris Carfi, Vamshi Krishna and Rod Boothby the same question: "What is Cloud Computing?". Here's what we got. (more)"
When I first looked at the result, I thought of the Afterburn particle rendering system. However Afterburn uses raymarching to render, which involves tracing rays through a procedurally generated volume at regular steps.
Re:Black Mesa played around with Xen for a while..
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Resonance Cascade - What happens when you run Windows inside of Windows.
Can you prove to me that there isn't a magical entity that is magically immune to empirical observation that defecates in your bed every night? If you can't prove against it, it must exist right?
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I have just been performing a file sync with all my saved games every morning between my laptop and desktop for about 3 months now.
It saves internet usage, costs nothing, works for all games, and provides a backup in case one machine dies catastrophically.
Steam cloud is an interesting concept, but it really doesn't provide any additional functionality against what I have already been doing.
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...and reveal to ragers and trolls exactly what buttons to press to get you angry.
This is excellent information, thanks! Just a note, I just tested this and it also appears to work on steam installs.
Microsoft Bob 2?
From what I understand from all the latest the tech news on /., we are going to have a super-awesome sci-fi future world in 2012.
It was Colonel Mustard in the billiard room with the lead pipe.
Don't like it? Find another job.
That's exactly what I'd do.
And when enough people within the same company stop liking it and find new jobs, the company will either:
A) Find employees that will work in those conditions
B) Change their attitude
C) Go under
iPod makes the most sense.
I agree with parent 100% on the DS-263N.
I was using exclusively CRTs up until July of this year, when my last good (professional quality) one died. I was reluctant to switch away, because most LCDs I have seen looked like crap. I was proven wrong with the DS-263N.
I am a visual effects and game dev artist, so color accuracy and display uniformity is a must for me. I also do a lot of gaming, so input lag and scaling options (for 4:3 only games) is also a big factor.
Before I purchased, I did a lot of reading and searching for the right monitor. I stumbled upon the LCD thread at the AnandTech forums. It had everything I needed to know about choosing the right monitor. In the "Displays du Jour" section of the post, the DS-263N was listed as being an excellent 8-bit IPS TFT with less than a frame of input lag. I read a numerous consumer reviews on the monitor, and they were also consistently favorable.
I finally made the jump to the DS-263N, and I was not disappointed.
It's BRIGHT, much brighter than my CRT.
The viewing angle is amazing, and the gamma does not change when you shift your view. It only dims just a bit at extreme angles, but the dimming is uniform.
The monitor has 1:1, aspect, and stretch scaling options. So I can happily Quake away at 1600x1200 with no pixel interpolation and only bars to the each side.
The only two issues I have with it are:
1) A single dead green subpixel in the corner (However, I rarely notice it. It's almost impossible to see when gaming or watching a movie)
2) You can adjust the side bar color for viewing non-native resolutions, but it's impossible to get it completely black.
Aside from those issues, it is one of the best monitors I have ever used.
Unfortunately, they were discontinued from production earlier this year and the DS-265W is supposed to take its place.
Hopefully, it will be just as good or better than the DS-263N when it's released.
I'm sorry, but I'd rather bleed out from the insides than slowly forget who my friends and family are.
Yes, that's correct.
I didn't realize that my post could have been confused like that until I read it again.
I am working on a UT3 modding project with one of the environment artists that worked on Legendary.
From what he tells me, pretty much everyone on team that wasn't in management thought the extra title was stupid.
Oh crap, you're right! I don't want my office building to explode due to an open exhaust port! I better get on the roof and start duct taping over those air conditioning units today!
I keep seeing all these articles about bringing more types of processing applications to the gpu, since it handles floating point math and parallel problems better. I only have a rudimentary understanding of programming compared to most people on this site, so the following may sound like a dumb question. But how do you determine what types of problems will perform well (or are even possible to be solved) through the use of GPUs, and just how "general purpose" can you get on such specialized hardware?
Thanks in advance.
What is Cloud Computing - Video
Summary -
"At the Web 2.0 Expo, we asked Tim O'Reilly, Dan Farber, Matt Mullenweg, Jay Cross, Brian Solis, Kevin Marks, Steve Gillmor, Jeremy Tanner, Maggie Fox, Tom McGovern, Sam Lawrence, Stowe Boyd, David Tebbutt, Dave McClure, Chris Carfi, Vamshi Krishna and Rod Boothby the same question: "What is Cloud Computing?". Here's what we got. (more)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PNuQHUiV3Q
Most of their customers don't even know what the RIAA is.
It may not be error-free, but the brain is probably the most powerful pattern recognition system ever to exist.
When I first looked at the result, I thought of the Afterburn particle rendering system. However Afterburn uses raymarching to render, which involves tracing rays through a procedurally generated volume at regular steps.
Resonance Cascade - What happens when you run Windows inside of Windows.
Simple... When there ceases to be a demand.
It's true that information wants to be free.
However, more often than not it gets smashed, squashed, garbled, and wrinkled in the process.
Riiiight...
This is one hell of a slippery slope, my friends.
Using logic, you can't prove a negative.
Can you prove to me that there isn't a magical entity that is magically immune to empirical observation that defecates in your bed every night? If you can't prove against it, it must exist right?
If a black hole were to be created and not evaporate in femtoseconds, would it not just rocket into space at nearly the speed of light?