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Actually the first picture in the article looks ripped from Half Life 2, looking at The Citadel. The second picture looks like they took a monster from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
Hmm. depends. From what i understand there are a few ways of accessing sound in Windows. Through the old legacy win32 interface, direct to hardware driver access(EAX etc) and DirectSound. Each of those access the card in their own way separately of each other and don't know about each other's volume. Hence the reason Vista uses a software stack. All those streams are now sent through a single software stack and each can be controlled and modified( eg, volumne, special effects, pitch, tone, etc) by a single layer.
An example is World of Warcraft starts using DirectSound to pump out sound at 75%. Then your email application pops up and tells Windows, hey i want you to turn the sound to 100% so i can play a "you've got mail sound". Neither of these applications know about each other, and they both want access to the same card. In XP, there is going to be conflicts, the email application might turn your sound up, but forget to turn it down causing WoW to get really loud. WoW is still at 75% but because your email application told the card to go higher, well, it gets noisy.
In Vista, you get two streams heading into a single control layer which can adjust the volume on each input stream seperately before merging into a single stream to the card.
As you mentioned it would require special hardware support and then Windows would have to support it.
"I would love to switch but I need $windows_app" is not a viable excuse anymore.
What if $windows_app=="Supreme Commander" or $windows_app=="Crysis". Oh yeah, they are going to run well under VMWare or Cedega/WINE(Wine is NOT an emulator!)
But one thing MS *did* mess up was hardware based audio
I'm divided on that issue. On the one hand it's nice to have hardware based audio, on the other hand, it's nice to have a software stack and per application volume control.
Anyone that even in fantasy-land thinks that a bunch of uncivilized mental cases who live in caves and want to go meet allah by killing large numbers of people can build a nuclear bomb from scratch is nuts
Hmmm.. What about a bunch of civilized mental cases who live in houses and skyscrapers and want to go meet God by praying to him and believing his son rose from the dead?
Just for anyone interested here is the relevant PDF
Where multiple items bearing identical bar codes, or the same PLU number, are scanned and the scanned price is higher than the shelf price, the customer is entitled to receive the first item scanned free of charge and the remaining items at the lower price (that is, the shelf price).
Most major supermarkets where i live(Australia) actually give you the item for free if the scanned price is different to the advertised/labelled/listed price as part of their policy.
It is however a special loss, and these men and women deserve our acknowlegement, our respect, and our tears at their passing.
So you are saying that these deaths are more important than say.. when *my* father died? What makes them more or less "special"? Or this one of those nasty "context" things?
Different people take humour in different ways. I like the NASA one, hadn't heard that before. Seriously though, you are saying earth shattering for injured and families.. Oh no. 6 or 7 people hurt/killed. How many are murdered each day in America? How many murdered killed, die of famine each day, killed in Iraq from bombs, blown up by landmines, crushed to death? Really, i'm sick of the double standards we humans have. Certainly condolences to the families, but I'll be damned if I'm going to make these deaths any more or less special than any other.
I agree the whole explorer thing is crap. Perfect example is how it's not multi-threaded. Just look at what happens when you browse a network share that isn't availiable.
Why does explorer crash taking out all explorer windows?
Well i have the answer to one of your questions. Each explorer window runs as a separate thread in a single.exe application. When one thread crashes, this causes the entire application to be terminated, hence all your explorer windows crashing. The solution to this is a simple registry modification that causes each window to be run as a separate process. It will use more memory and possibly more CPU but it's worth it. Tip #101 here http://www.xptuneup.com/tip0125.htm
As i mentioned in my other post the best way to deal with same side griefing is to complain to the guild master of the guild of the person who griefed you. A number of times my friend was griefed by the same person while trying to herb. The guild of this person was a rather respected guild on the server so she complained to the guild master, he was reportedly quite upset that one of his guild members was acting that way, and had a nice long chat with him.
Remember, since your guild tag is viewable to everyone, your actions in the world reflect upon not only you but your guild. I have blacklisted a couple of guild simply because of the character of certain people, swearing, being offensive, etc. Most guilds will take complaints seriously and act upon them.
And if they aren't guilded, well you don't really have much choice but to ignore them. Leave and come back later, i've done that numerous times. Chances are they don't have a guild because they act that way.
You are a mage, you start casting pyroblast. It takes 6 secs to cast, at the 5th second, some rogue or hunter puts in a single stab or arrow, he tags it, it's now his kill, your pyroblast then hits and you get all the aggro because you did more damage. If your pyroblast does in the order of 4k damage like mine, you can one-shot a monster. Hence, he stole your kill. Also applies to other dots like Shadow Word:Pain. It doesn't tag a monster as soon as it's put on, so if you cast it on a mob, then someone hits it, they get the kill because the Shadow Word takes a second before it does any damage.
He can't skin it unless you've ignored the corpse right? If a person harasses by following you and picking
Wrong. If there is loot on the corpse, then someone can't skin it. But if you loot the corpse, that corpse then becomes available to anyone else to skin. Same applies to herbing certain mobs in Outlands.
As for true griefing? I've had that done to me. I was running around Stranglethorn Vale killing goblins. A lvl 70 horde rogue ran around gathering up all the mobs that i wasn't fighting and ran at me. He then vanished(which removes all aggro) expecting me to get killed by the mobs. If i had cast any type of area of effect spell(AOE) against the mob i was fighting or if i was a shaman and had an AOE totem down i would have hurt all those mobs and they would have attacked and killed me.
The best way to handle same side griefing is to complain the guild master of the offender if they are guilded. Most guilds look down on griefing and take it very seriously.
Say there is a sudden genetic mutation in monkeys. This mutation makes monkeys 1000% more intelligent and they become hell-bent on destroying the world, it also makes them stronger and more agile, they are also all totally insane(think orcs in Warhammer 40K). Would not a chemical or biological weapon be the tool be of use to rid the world of this menance?
You know, it only just occurred to me that when you watch TV you get adds, you paid for the TV. You go to the football stadium to watch the game, you'll still see ads, even though you paid to get in. Although i'm not condoning ads in games (i hate them myself), it seems that just because you paid for something, doesn't mean you don't get ads.
If you follow the forum link you'll see two other links.
One to HP's internal support site
, another to IBM's internal support site and another to DELL's internal support site, all explaining about the microcode fixes and offering BIOS updates. And are dated in April and May.
Certainly wasn't an increase in memory, i have used 2gig for a long time now. I did install Vista itself to a new SATA drive, but the games still ran from the same IDE drive. Certainly the swap file itself would have been faster, and I won't discount the hardware as having an effect, it could possibly be also because a new install of an Operating System(Windows/Linux/OSX) is usually faster due to less clutter. Unfortunately i didn't do extensive benchmarks to determine the root cause of the increase. I think it's probably a combination of things, including the new drive, and Vista's more (well i'm assuming)efficient caching drive/memory practices.
Actually now that i think about i did have a very negative experience with the ready-boost functionality. It's supposed to use your usb drive as extra memory. Whenever it's turned on iTunes will play all videos with a huge amount of stutter until you turn it off again. It's been widely reported http://vista.blorge.com/2007/04/16/vista-itunes-an d-readyboost-do-not-play-well/ but i have 2gig so i don't really need it anyway.
I have yet to hear a fellow PC gamer enthusiast say something positive about Vista.
Leaving aside cost of the O/S, i have nothing against Vista(I use Home Premimum) at the moment. I'm using the NVIDIA 158 BETA drivers for my 8800GTS which are extremely stable with exceptional(compared to the early release drivers) performance. If i had to say anything positive about Vista and gaming, it's that loading times for games and game levels were almost halved after i moved from XP to Vista. Your mileage may vary though.
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Actually the first picture in the article looks ripped from Half Life 2, looking at The Citadel. The second picture looks like they took a monster from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
Hmm. depends. From what i understand there are a few ways of accessing sound in Windows. Through the old legacy win32 interface, direct to hardware driver access(EAX etc) and DirectSound. Each of those access the card in their own way separately of each other and don't know about each other's volume. Hence the reason Vista uses a software stack. All those streams are now sent through a single software stack and each can be controlled and modified( eg, volumne, special effects, pitch, tone, etc) by a single layer.
An example is World of Warcraft starts using DirectSound to pump out sound at 75%. Then your email application pops up and tells Windows, hey i want you to turn the sound to 100% so i can play a "you've got mail sound". Neither of these applications know about each other, and they both want access to the same card. In XP, there is going to be conflicts, the email application might turn your sound up, but forget to turn it down causing WoW to get really loud. WoW is still at 75% but because your email application told the card to go higher, well, it gets noisy.
In Vista, you get two streams heading into a single control layer which can adjust the volume on each input stream seperately before merging into a single stream to the card.
As you mentioned it would require special hardware support and then Windows would have to support it.
Most major supermarkets where i live(Australia) actually give you the item for free if the scanned price is different to the advertised/labelled/listed price as part of their policy.
I don't understand what your point is with the first two paragraphs but i agree wholeheartedly with your third.
Different people take humour in different ways. I like the NASA one, hadn't heard that before. Seriously though, you are saying earth shattering for injured and families.. Oh no. 6 or 7 people hurt/killed. How many are murdered each day in America? How many murdered killed, die of famine each day, killed in Iraq from bombs, blown up by landmines, crushed to death? Really, i'm sick of the double standards we humans have. Certainly condolences to the families, but I'll be damned if I'm going to make these deaths any more or less special than any other.
if it sounds heartless... first thing that came into my head after reading this article..
"Where's the kaboom?.. There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom"
Hmm... well ooops, that IRC channel is a different group. still if you are interested in iphone hacking that's the place to watch :P
Would have been nice if someone had actually linked the wiki page instead of having to goto the IRC channel.... http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php?title=M ain_Page
I agree the whole explorer thing is crap. Perfect example is how it's not multi-threaded. Just look at what happens when you browse a network share that isn't availiable.
As i mentioned in my other post the best way to deal with same side griefing is to complain to the guild master of the guild of the person who griefed you. A number of times my friend was griefed by the same person while trying to herb. The guild of this person was a rather respected guild on the server so she complained to the guild master, he was reportedly quite upset that one of his guild members was acting that way, and had a nice long chat with him.
Remember, since your guild tag is viewable to everyone, your actions in the world reflect upon not only you but your guild. I have blacklisted a couple of guild simply because of the character of certain people, swearing, being offensive, etc. Most guilds will take complaints seriously and act upon them.
And if they aren't guilded, well you don't really have much choice but to ignore them. Leave and come back later, i've done that numerous times. Chances are they don't have a guild because they act that way.
Wrong. If there is loot on the corpse, then someone can't skin it. But if you loot the corpse, that corpse then becomes available to anyone else to skin. Same applies to herbing certain mobs in Outlands.
As for true griefing? I've had that done to me. I was running around Stranglethorn Vale killing goblins. A lvl 70 horde rogue ran around gathering up all the mobs that i wasn't fighting and ran at me. He then vanished(which removes all aggro) expecting me to get killed by the mobs. If i had cast any type of area of effect spell(AOE) against the mob i was fighting or if i was a shaman and had an AOE totem down i would have hurt all those mobs and they would have attacked and killed me.
The best way to handle same side griefing is to complain the guild master of the offender if they are guilded. Most guilds look down on griefing and take it very seriously.
Say there is a sudden genetic mutation in monkeys. This mutation makes monkeys 1000% more intelligent and they become hell-bent on destroying the world, it also makes them stronger and more agile, they are also all totally insane(think orcs in Warhammer 40K). Would not a chemical or biological weapon be the tool be of use to rid the world of this menance?
Actually it'd probably be more along the lines of
There's no place like "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%"
or
There's no place like "%USERPROFILE%"
You know, it only just occurred to me that when you watch TV you get adds, you paid for the TV. You go to the football stadium to watch the game, you'll still see ads, even though you paid to get in. Although i'm not condoning ads in games (i hate them myself), it seems that just because you paid for something, doesn't mean you don't get ads.
Please explain by what you mean as a "joke"?
If you follow the forum link you'll see two other links.
One to HP's internal support site , another to IBM's internal support site and another to DELL's internal support site, all explaining about the microcode fixes and offering BIOS updates. And are dated in April and May.
Here is a story from April 29th.. Which actually tells you WHAT the microcode fixes http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?threadi d=33889730
Certainly wasn't an increase in memory, i have used 2gig for a long time now. I did install Vista itself to a new SATA drive, but the games still ran from the same IDE drive. Certainly the swap file itself would have been faster, and I won't discount the hardware as having an effect, it could possibly be also because a new install of an Operating System(Windows/Linux/OSX) is usually faster due to less clutter. Unfortunately i didn't do extensive benchmarks to determine the root cause of the increase. I think it's probably a combination of things, including the new drive, and Vista's more (well i'm assuming)efficient caching drive/memory practices.
n d-readyboost-do-not-play-well/ but i have 2gig so i don't really need it anyway.
Actually now that i think about i did have a very negative experience with the ready-boost functionality. It's supposed to use your usb drive as extra memory. Whenever it's turned on iTunes will play all videos with a huge amount of stutter until you turn it off again. It's been widely reported http://vista.blorge.com/2007/04/16/vista-itunes-a
I think the point he was trying to make was not that they were invented because of space programs but that they were popularized by them. As qouted by one NASA Astronaut "Without velcro, we can never go to space.". As for Tang. It was initially intended as a breakfast drink, but sales were poor until NASA began using it on Gemini flights in 1965, and that use was heavily advertised. Since that time, it has been associated with the U.S. manned spaceflight program.