To me, Twitter seems more like a giant IRC channel except that it requires explicit/unignore ("follow" in twitter terms) for anyone you care to actually see. Twitter posts are probably on average around a reasonable line on IRC, where bulletin boards actually allow for long in depth posts (something Twitter does not do).
At least the Judge had enough understanding to draw a somewhat reasonable parallel though.
Yep, pretty much at least. I've found that even in video games the positional audio stuff tends to be so screwed up it is not even worth having.
I've switched to headphones (HD650) with a decent DAC / tube amp setup and now I can barely tolerate listening to anything at all on speakers. The amount of stuff you can hear with good headphones makes even a good speaker setup sound absolutely unacceptable.
I have considered even going "higher end" on audio gear, but the prices just start to get completely unreasonable beyond a certain point.
It was only a year ago Adobe decided a sandbox might help.
Of course with Adobe designing it the sandbox will also have a nice plentiful selection of its own exploits. Unless Adobe hires another company to design their sandbox for them then I wouldn't trust it for a minute.
Yep, it's totally ridiculous. Just this week I upgraded my Comcast internet and decided to drop TV entirely. In my area on the extreme 50 service, the difference between having and not having basic TV was only $2 total on the bill. I still decided to drop it anyway.
Or at that point, just go all out and pick a BSD distro if spare hardware is on hand. Although beware that the OpenBSD version of pf has diverged slightly, so the syntax is going to be a little bit different going with anything past 4.6 IIRC. Supposedly NetBSD has the fastest IP stack of them all though, and should probably have the more classic pf.
And if anyone feels the need to chime in about iptables here, I don't care what extra useless features it has, pf is much easier to use.
Maybe Apple won't bring it back, but others have taken a shot at making similar products. For a while I used a tool called "Runtime Revolution" which as I understand it is very similar to what Hypercard was. Even has the same terminology like "cards" and "stacks". It was also cross platform for Win / Mac / Linux.
It looks like the company has transformed this product into something called LiveCode now.
The somewhat tricky part about programming with it is the thing is basically always running, no compile step involved, although there were buttons to halt message passing so it could basically be paused for when UI work required to UI to stop doing stuff.
I'd be quite happy if I was only getting throttled down to 55 Mbps on downstream. For Comcast the 50 Mbps plan is almost the most extreme one you can get. Think I get throttled all the way down to something like 10/1.
I suspect that Carmack has had to fight considerably to make this happen.
Not really. Carmack has talked about how he didn't really have to fight for it, and was surprised the lawyers were even favorable about it, but expected that if patents became too big a deal he would probably be forced to stop. So apparently this one wasn't that big a deal, but there could be others lurking around that nobody is aware of yet.
still can't stand onboard motherboard audio after all these years
I can't stand it because it's too damn noisy. There's always a lot of noise on there, and that's even when using a card. Asus came up with some fancy high end card that looks like it has some shielding on it, but I've found the easiest way to get rid of that noise is to switch to an external box with either USB or FW interface. As soon as that signal is analogue it really needs to be away from the PC to have a fighting chance.
you have to already be online in order to set the client into offline mode
This is incorrect. Disabling (or unplugging) the network connection will allow the user to set offline while launching steam. Had to do this to play something when their servers were on the fritz a few weeks ago.
Yep, this exactly. As much as I want to play it, I know from past experience buying it right now is a risky chance to take, and could taint the whole experience.
To confirm this, I at least took a look over at the Bethesda support forum, and it's most certainly all there. Crash to desktop, choppy framerate on extreme hardware, game freezes, sound issues... the list goes on.
Although in Minecraft, you can get some high res textures that make the game look a little more modern, and there are also modded shaders which can do some neat stuff as well. Even stuff like bump mapping.
I was playing with the default 16x16 for a long time, but I've finally got a little sick of it and made the switch up to 32x32.
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3) The crashes are often preceded by rapidly increasing memory use. Firefox corrupts Microsoft Windows, so that Windows needs to be re-started. When Firefox corrupts Microsoft Windows, it often damages operations in Windows that are not connected with browsing.
Ok, but I'd consider that a Windows bug as well. It should be caught as a segmentation fault if it is actually stepping on memory it shouldn't be touching. Either that or the system running it actually has some problems of its own.
I've pretty much abandoned Firefox already, but it would be nice to see them at least provide a little competition to keep the other browsers moving ahead.
It's not just GNU/Linux though, I still have serious problems with resume in Windows 7 (and I think Win 7 actually puts that as the default "power" button on the menu). In my case, as soon as the video driver has been updated to current, resume can pretty much be abandoned as never working again. Screen just stays black, or maybe its a brief blink then back to black. In any event, totally broken.
The only machine I have that can actually suspend / resume correctly is my Macbook. It's sad, but I actually point that out specifically when people ask what is good about it.
VMWare install still works better for most operating systems as guests
That's been my experience, especially when using something a little more obscure like NetBSD as guest. VirtualBox was completely failing to boot, and I tried everything I could think to tweak around with in the options. I'm somewhat certain at this point it had something to do with the storage device emulation but I could be wrong. VMWare had everything running perfectly on the first try with no mucking about in the options.
as an essential and elementary free parameter of the quantum theory, I'd say that counts as much as anything else as "control something about the physical universe".
If the constant actually was in control then it wouldn't be WRONG now would it? A control would apply everywhere, out to the ends of the universe. Riposte, fatality,/thread.
Astronomical observations seem to indicate that the constant, which controls the strength of electromagnetic interactions
This is just too glaringly bad to not bash, although there probably have been worse summaries. The constant does NOT CONTROL ANYTHING about the physical universe, as that is obviously the whole point of this research. It is simply a number which we have determined appropriately models the physics we are able to explore and understand to some degree.
I thought that an API was in the works, though. It sure would be nice to be able to install mods more easily.
Notch has commented on this somewhere. The API is going to be the source code itself. The better mod designers will get access to it after signing something.
Technically I guess users can view the source already since it's Java, but it's in a really garbled form or something, so having the code in pure form will probably help.
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To me, Twitter seems more like a giant IRC channel except that it requires explicit /unignore ("follow" in twitter terms) for anyone you care to actually see. Twitter posts are probably on average around a reasonable line on IRC, where bulletin boards actually allow for long in depth posts (something Twitter does not do).
At least the Judge had enough understanding to draw a somewhat reasonable parallel though.
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I've run into nothing that ive thought it should be able to do that it can't, including removing in to servers at the office in a pinch.
That's some odd selective auto correct there. Then again, that is one of the things my iPhone seems to get wrong often.
b) 500GB of words is 55 metric arse-loads. What are you not telling us?
Maybe using PDFs and wants to backup Adobe Reader with it.
Yep, pretty much at least. I've found that even in video games the positional audio stuff tends to be so screwed up it is not even worth having.
I've switched to headphones (HD650) with a decent DAC / tube amp setup and now I can barely tolerate listening to anything at all on speakers. The amount of stuff you can hear with good headphones makes even a good speaker setup sound absolutely unacceptable.
I have considered even going "higher end" on audio gear, but the prices just start to get completely unreasonable beyond a certain point.
It was only a year ago Adobe decided a sandbox might help.
Of course with Adobe designing it the sandbox will also have a nice plentiful selection of its own exploits. Unless Adobe hires another company to design their sandbox for them then I wouldn't trust it for a minute.
Yep, it's totally ridiculous. Just this week I upgraded my Comcast internet and decided to drop TV entirely. In my area on the extreme 50 service, the difference between having and not having basic TV was only $2 total on the bill. I still decided to drop it anyway.
Or at that point, just go all out and pick a BSD distro if spare hardware is on hand. Although beware that the OpenBSD version of pf has diverged slightly, so the syntax is going to be a little bit different going with anything past 4.6 IIRC. Supposedly NetBSD has the fastest IP stack of them all though, and should probably have the more classic pf.
And if anyone feels the need to chime in about iptables here, I don't care what extra useless features it has, pf is much easier to use.
Maybe Apple won't bring it back, but others have taken a shot at making similar products. For a while I used a tool called "Runtime Revolution" which as I understand it is very similar to what Hypercard was. Even has the same terminology like "cards" and "stacks". It was also cross platform for Win / Mac / Linux.
It looks like the company has transformed this product into something called LiveCode now.
The somewhat tricky part about programming with it is the thing is basically always running, no compile step involved, although there were buttons to halt message passing so it could basically be paused for when UI work required to UI to stop doing stuff.
ISPs will still throttle your ass to 55 Mbps
I'd be quite happy if I was only getting throttled down to 55 Mbps on downstream. For Comcast the 50 Mbps plan is almost the most extreme one you can get. Think I get throttled all the way down to something like 10/1.
I suspect that Carmack has had to fight considerably to make this happen.
Not really. Carmack has talked about how he didn't really have to fight for it, and was surprised the lawyers were even favorable about it, but expected that if patents became too big a deal he would probably be forced to stop. So apparently this one wasn't that big a deal, but there could be others lurking around that nobody is aware of yet.
still can't stand onboard motherboard audio after all these years
I can't stand it because it's too damn noisy. There's always a lot of noise on there, and that's even when using a card. Asus came up with some fancy high end card that looks like it has some shielding on it, but I've found the easiest way to get rid of that noise is to switch to an external box with either USB or FW interface. As soon as that signal is analogue it really needs to be away from the PC to have a fighting chance.
you have to already be online in order to set the client into offline mode
This is incorrect. Disabling (or unplugging) the network connection will allow the user to set offline while launching steam. Had to do this to play something when their servers were on the fritz a few weeks ago.
Yep, this exactly. As much as I want to play it, I know from past experience buying it right now is a risky chance to take, and could taint the whole experience.
To confirm this, I at least took a look over at the Bethesda support forum, and it's most certainly all there. Crash to desktop, choppy framerate on extreme hardware, game freezes, sound issues... the list goes on.
From the reviews I've read, running MW3 isn't really that much of a technological achievement. Maybe if it was Battlefield 3...
Although in Minecraft, you can get some high res textures that make the game look a little more modern, and there are also modded shaders which can do some neat stuff as well. Even stuff like bump mapping.
I was playing with the default 16x16 for a long time, but I've finally got a little sick of it and made the switch up to 32x32.
3) The crashes are often preceded by rapidly increasing memory use. Firefox corrupts Microsoft Windows, so that Windows needs to be re-started. When Firefox corrupts Microsoft Windows, it often damages operations in Windows that are not connected with browsing.
Ok, but I'd consider that a Windows bug as well. It should be caught as a segmentation fault if it is actually stepping on memory it shouldn't be touching. Either that or the system running it actually has some problems of its own.
I've pretty much abandoned Firefox already, but it would be nice to see them at least provide a little competition to keep the other browsers moving ahead.
It's not just GNU/Linux though, I still have serious problems with resume in Windows 7 (and I think Win 7 actually puts that as the default "power" button on the menu). In my case, as soon as the video driver has been updated to current, resume can pretty much be abandoned as never working again. Screen just stays black, or maybe its a brief blink then back to black. In any event, totally broken.
The only machine I have that can actually suspend / resume correctly is my Macbook. It's sad, but I actually point that out specifically when people ask what is good about it.
VMWare install still works better for most operating systems as guests
That's been my experience, especially when using something a little more obscure like NetBSD as guest. VirtualBox was completely failing to boot, and I tried everything I could think to tweak around with in the options. I'm somewhat certain at this point it had something to do with the storage device emulation but I could be wrong. VMWare had everything running perfectly on the first try with no mucking about in the options.
as an essential and elementary free parameter of the quantum theory, I'd say that counts as much as anything else as "control something about the physical universe".
If the constant actually was in control then it wouldn't be WRONG now would it? A control would apply everywhere, out to the ends of the universe. Riposte, fatality, /thread.
Astronomical observations seem to indicate that the constant, which controls the strength of electromagnetic interactions
This is just too glaringly bad to not bash, although there probably have been worse summaries. The constant does NOT CONTROL ANYTHING about the physical universe, as that is obviously the whole point of this research. It is simply a number which we have determined appropriately models the physics we are able to explore and understand to some degree.
(10.9 Gb of which is in that crappy WinSxS directory)
I think Windows actually over reports the size of that due to all the linking in there. About WinSxS.
I thought that an API was in the works, though. It sure would be nice to be able to install mods more easily.
Notch has commented on this somewhere. The API is going to be the source code itself. The better mod designers will get access to it after signing something.
Technically I guess users can view the source already since it's Java, but it's in a really garbled form or something, so having the code in pure form will probably help.
Internet games. sex, plastic surgery, eating, ...
Yes, anyone still alive has at least a mild addiction to eating.
I really hope the black list is easier to maintain.
Can we change course? Where is our sci-fi paradise?
There used to be this sci-fi notion that one day everything would be massively screwed up, and be even worse than now.
Looks like the writers of dystopian future might have had a little more realistic foresight than their optimistic counterparts.