The newer GBAs have a different screen that's nowhere near as bad as the original. If that doesn't help, there's also a contrast control hidden under the back label.
people can access information anywhere in the world at anytime Ah yes, the one thing a desktop app can do that a web app can never do. I wouldn't rely on Google Maps any more than 100ft from the nearest building with power and networking.
I don't watch hollywood's factory trash and I don't listen to the shit on the Top 40. What right do those nazis have to dictate what operating systems I may or may not use on hardware I bought and own?
Argh. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's lusers mincing the terminology. Like calling everything on the screen a "website" - if I hear "wat's dis website" again and see a blank desktop I'll scream.
Hollywood can give me movies in a format I'll accept or they can e2fsck off. Personally I'd prefer them to reiser4fsck off, so that they're completely screwed and unrecoverable
They'd release rushed, shitty hardware that wouldn't work properly until you connect to the internet to patch it, and which would be susceptible to viruses. Viruses that could reconfigure your processor to short the +5V to ground. How fun.
9/10ths of the "teaching" done in my course this year was powerpoint. The problem with Powerpoint is this: it takes two and a half hours of slides (per class) to explain something I could have read in 5 minutes.
I did the math with wasted time and travel time to/from classes, and decided I was wasting my life staring at Arial-typeface text on a projector screen. So I stopped going altogether, other than to go in last week and tell them I want to drop out.
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Hmm, it took me a while to figure out your post was referencing itself with all this talk of scripting and automation.
Yes, roland really is that predictable and monotonous. Until a while ago you could spot his/its posts solely based on the link text "Read more" always present in them.
Quite frankly I think submissions linking to zdnet should be discarded in much the same way they're written - automatically.
Higher framerates are always good to have even if you don't use them. For one, it makes it less likely that you'll see jerkiness going from simple geometry to a complex scene. Also if you turn vsync on it should cap the framerate and CPU usage, which in this case would mean 2 lightly-loaded CPUs instead of one doing a lot of work and one unused.
Not only that, but when it's released half a year late in the UK the Mac Pro will only run in 64-bit mode as they took out all the x86-32 hardware! Don't worry though, the price decreased from $4000 to only £3800!
UT2k4 has pretty decent AI provided you tell your team's bots what to do. You can play 16v16 and never get bored of it. They know how to drive most of the time too.
Some of the N64 shooters were pretty good (or glitched). In Goldeneye/Perfect Dark the enemies rarely just mindlessly ran at you, they'd attack in groups, or form groups. Sometimes you'd get a grenade thrown at you completely at random. Sometimes an enemy would run all the way across the level to attack you even if you had gone undetected so far. In PD you can get them to surrender or (very very rarely) even change sides.
However, I've never seen an AI that really impressed me. They all seem preoccupied with winning as fast as possible. The bots in UT, for example... never stop for other team members when driving, won't give weapons to someone who specialises in them, won't try to save injured players, and definitely have no clue about tactics other than "find nuke, shoot nuke at enemy base" or "spam area to be defended with mines and commence camping".
The problem is that they follow clearly defined patterns. I'll be impressed when they create AI that does unexpected things because it figured out it can, rather than because it was programmed to do it.
I've tried to solve exactly this problem myself. Here's a few things I've tried:
Strip down the hardware. Having another PC is a good place to start, that way you can run a headless server. Disable things you don't need in the BIOS. If your stuff isn't CPU-heavy, consider using a Pentium 2. They can run fanless, which is a nice thing to have in any case. If you can live without optical/floppy drives, disconnect those too.
Tweak the kernel. cpufreq is quite good, works on a lot of processors and doesn't have much of a performance impact. Remove or modularise any hardware drivers you don't need, since the kernel might decide to keep them powered off if it can't use them. Also enable performance tweaks like DMA in the disk/network stuff.
Don't run unnecessary software. More unused RAM is more disk cache. Read the documentation on Linux's laptop mode setting too - you can make it force the hard disk to stay powered down and only write every few minutes. If you can, just skip the hard disk altogether and run everything from tmpfs.
If you're still not satisfied, you could try some more extreme methods like disconnecting indicator LEDs.
Live streaming 1080i? I know it's possible in the rest of the world where 10-100Mbps is common, but how would they get that to US customers still living in the stone age?
Meanwhile, are there any other common college apps that Vista fails to work with? I'd guess there are, otherwise my college would've upgraded IE6 and VS6.0 by now at least...
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The newer GBAs have a different screen that's nowhere near as bad as the original. If that doesn't help, there's also a contrast control hidden under the back label.
They made the Game Boy Advance LCD.
Oh wait... you said windows. Never mind.
A company involved in DRM that gives half a damn about giving the consumer a choice?
people can access information anywhere in the world at anytime
Ah yes, the one thing a desktop app can do that a web app can never do. I wouldn't rely on Google Maps any more than 100ft from the nearest building with power and networking.
I didn't notice the first time, but then I've already blocked ads because of people like these.
to not trust closed-source software for anything security-related. And the EU as well.
I don't watch hollywood's factory trash and I don't listen to the shit on the Top 40. What right do those nazis have to dictate what operating systems I may or may not use on hardware I bought and own?
Argh. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's lusers mincing the terminology. Like calling everything on the screen a "website" - if I hear "wat's dis website" again and see a blank desktop I'll scream.
Hollywood can give me movies in a format I'll accept or they can e2fsck off.
Personally I'd prefer them to reiser4fsck off, so that they're completely screwed and unrecoverable
They'd release rushed, shitty hardware that wouldn't work properly until you connect to the internet to patch it, and which would be susceptible to viruses. Viruses that could reconfigure your processor to short the +5V to ground. How fun.
30 minutes of config, 1.9 days of `emerge -e world`.
Hey, it's still quicker than Windows took.
9/10ths of the "teaching" done in my course this year was powerpoint. The problem with Powerpoint is this: it takes two and a half hours of slides (per class) to explain something I could have read in 5 minutes.
I did the math with wasted time and travel time to/from classes, and decided I was wasting my life staring at Arial-typeface text on a projector screen. So I stopped going altogether, other than to go in last week and tell them I want to drop out.
Hmm, it took me a while to figure out your post was referencing itself with all this talk of scripting and automation.
Yes, roland really is that predictable and monotonous. Until a while ago you could spot his/its posts solely based on the link text "Read more" always present in them.
Quite frankly I think submissions linking to zdnet should be discarded in much the same way they're written - automatically.
Higher framerates are always good to have even if you don't use them. For one, it makes it less likely that you'll see jerkiness going from simple geometry to a complex scene. Also if you turn vsync on it should cap the framerate and CPU usage, which in this case would mean 2 lightly-loaded CPUs instead of one doing a lot of work and one unused.
Not only that, but when it's released half a year late in the UK the Mac Pro will only run in 64-bit mode as they took out all the x86-32 hardware! Don't worry though, the price decreased from $4000 to only £3800!
Almost as fast as this, actually.
Sounds like you'd be better off with a VNC client. Which has been done, IIRC.
It's DRM-free, yes, but I'm having a hard time finding a "track" containing music.
Wasn't GMail itself also released on April Fools' Day...?
UT2k4 has pretty decent AI provided you tell your team's bots what to do. You can play 16v16 and never get bored of it. They know how to drive most of the time too.
Some of the N64 shooters were pretty good (or glitched). In Goldeneye/Perfect Dark the enemies rarely just mindlessly ran at you, they'd attack in groups, or form groups. Sometimes you'd get a grenade thrown at you completely at random. Sometimes an enemy would run all the way across the level to attack you even if you had gone undetected so far. In PD you can get them to surrender or (very very rarely) even change sides.
However, I've never seen an AI that really impressed me. They all seem preoccupied with winning as fast as possible. The bots in UT, for example... never stop for other team members when driving, won't give weapons to someone who specialises in them, won't try to save injured players, and definitely have no clue about tactics other than "find nuke, shoot nuke at enemy base" or "spam area to be defended with mines and commence camping".
The problem is that they follow clearly defined patterns. I'll be impressed when they create AI that does unexpected things because it figured out it can, rather than because it was programmed to do it.
- Strip down the hardware. Having another PC is a good place to start, that way you can run a headless server. Disable things you don't need in the BIOS. If your stuff isn't CPU-heavy, consider using a Pentium 2. They can run fanless, which is a nice thing to have in any case. If you can live without optical/floppy drives, disconnect those too.
- Tweak the kernel. cpufreq is quite good, works on a lot of processors and doesn't have much of a performance impact. Remove or modularise any hardware drivers you don't need, since the kernel might decide to keep them powered off if it can't use them. Also enable performance tweaks like DMA in the disk/network stuff.
- Don't run unnecessary software. More unused RAM is more disk cache. Read the documentation on Linux's laptop mode setting too - you can make it force the hard disk to stay powered down and only write every few minutes. If you can, just skip the hard disk altogether and run everything from tmpfs.
If you're still not satisfied, you could try some more extreme methods like disconnecting indicator LEDs.Live streaming 1080i? I know it's possible in the rest of the world where 10-100Mbps is common, but how would they get that to US customers still living in the stone age?
Meanwhile, are there any other common college apps that Vista fails to work with?
I'd guess there are, otherwise my college would've upgraded IE6 and VS6.0 by now at least...
Whoever decided it was a good idea to add animated PNG support to the core instead of making it a plugin is clearly smoking crack.