Cedega isn't open-source, but they contribute back to wine, which is.
CCP paid for significant work on Cedega (and so wine) for EVE to run. They changed their own code to improve compatibility. As a result, you can now run EVE on wine, if you don't want to use the Cedega packaged client.
Are digital cameras (and even worse, camcorders), really a good thing? This well-written and thoughtful article argues that the answer is no. As much as I believe you when the words "well-written and thoughtful article" are followed by [shelleytherepublican.com], the article is full of factual inaccuracies and downright lies.
For example, the following:
The majority of liberals who own expensive digital cameras are members of "kiddie-porn clubs". ...deserves a Wikipedia-style "citation needed":)
It's actually supposed to be pretty easy for the defense to win a speeding ticket case. This is true regardless of whether you were actually speeding, GPS data, or any other evidence you present. The cops have to prove their case. This means showing up to court with the proper evidence. The evidence has to be maintained and presented in a condition where it is admissible. Very often, one or more of these things do not happen and the defense wins by default. Everyone should always take their speeding tickets to court. Speed limit laws need to be made unprofitable for the government and then maybe we can get our freedom back on the roads. Maybe in America, but in the UK the fixed camera take TWO pictures, and coupled with lines on the road a fixed distance apart and a really accurate timer, they can prove really easy that you were speeding.
Then after a few days, we'll get tired of the repetitiveness or the lack of involved skill and quit playing. It looks like a "casual" game. Which means that there's not really much skill involved, it's just something you can enjoy with little effort, to unwind at the end of a hard day's work, etc. Not everyone is an adrenaline junkie.
"Casual" games are very much like tv, something to do to be mildly entertained with little or no effort involved.
You have to add Wine's own repository to Ubuntu's "Software Sources" (System->Administration) that's all. If you're not using Ubuntu, then do the equivalent for your OS. Wine has both Debian-style and Redhat-style repositories available.
So what you're saying is we need gory public deaths for murderers to discourage murders?
Unfortunately, then this happens: Look! The murder rates are going down. The public are scared, and cheering for us for catching the murderers! But wait, we're running out of murderers. No matter, just rebrand other criminals. Hell, execute a few people who've only committed lesser crimes, it'll make the crime rates for those go down too! My god, it works. The prisons are even emptying for the first time ever. -Total government control, anyone who speaks out or is suspected of any crime is executed- -Uprising, civil war- -Rinse and repeat because people never learn from history-
I have ZERO problems with my nVidia 8800GTS on Ubuntu Gutsy (and previously Feisty) x86-64 and Windows XP x64 SP2.
I used to have an assortment of ATI cards, but none of them have been without issues.
My X800GTO had ram trouble, and had to have the ram underclocked to run stable. I had a dead, followed by a working X1900XTX. With that card, in Windows x64, suspend (mode 3) didn't work more than once between restarts, among other issues. In Ubuntu Feisty, I had to alter xorg.conf to enable DRI (hardware acceleration) by disabling a few other things (I forget what now). I also had video rendering issues, even in VLC etc, because the card was swapping two colour channels in videos. More hacks to fix that (disabling the quality video scaling IIRC, resulting in blockier videos). Beryl (now Compiz again) showed me that it didn't support AIGLX mode, so I had to use the command line to switch to xgl. Even after that I frequently had issues with windows and menus ending up solid white or black, which could have just been beryl's fault.
With my 8800GTS I initially had issues because Ubuntu was loading the wrong driver (nvidia instead of nvidia_new or something like that). That was sorted in Ubuntu itself within a week. I haven't had any other problems with the 8800GTS, before or since.
Azureus is considered bad because it uses 10-100 or more times the system resources of uTorrent (which is now the official bittorrent client), and some of its implementations of newer bittorrent features (eg DHT) are incompatible with the version in the official client or any other client.
The only advantage it had over uTorrent was that it was "free". This new client means that there is no reason to use Azureus any more.
Can I install this on a free partition on my Windows XP box? Yes, well, kind of. Ubuntu, like most flavours of linux, needs multiple partitions, so your best bet is probably to delete the partition and install to the empty space, allowing ubuntu to create its own partitions. You can install it to different partitions on the same disk as a Windows partition though.
How big does this parition need to be? The website says 4GB of disk space is needed, and 8GB is recommended.
Do I get a choice of OS when I turn the power switch on? Yes.
Will it run on my P3 450, 512mb ram, geforce 2 64mb? Yes. The recommended minimum requirements include a 500MHz cpu, and 192MB of ram, but it'll probably run fine on your slightly slower cpu. An alternate version of ubuntu called Xubuntu exists specifically to have lower system requirements if necessary.
Will it run faster than the install of XP I currently have on it? There aren't any conclusive tests, so try it and see. You can boot directly into ubuntu off the install cd (before installing anything!) but you will have to put up with pauses whenever it needs to load anything off the cd, so you can't use that to test performance.
Your best bet is to install it and find out for yourself!
It's worth noting that older antennas designed for the analogue spectrum often don't pick up the spectrum used for digital broadcasts particularly well, and may need to be replaced. (At least in the UK, I don't know what spectrums other countries use)
A digital signal stays "perfect" for a lot further than an analogue one, but in return a bad digital signal is a lot worse than a bad analogue one.
In other words, if you get a "moderately bad" or above signal, you'll benefit from the change to digital. If you get a really poor analogue signal, a digital receiver might fail to display any image at all. Though if your analogue signal is that bad, you probably already have satellite tv.
The train naturally tries moves all the air around it in the same direction as the train, at the same speed. Pushes the air in front, drags the air that's behind, to the sides, above and below.
The tunnel walls naturally try to do the same thing, but as the tunnel walls aren't moving they effectively try to stop the air moving.
The faster the air is moving, the less work you have to do to make the train move. If you add turbines in the walls, which would slow the air more effectively than bare walls, then the air ends up going slower, and you have to put more energy into moving the train. The net result is that the turbines (inefficiently) get energy from whatever powers the train.
"Regenerative braking" would be better, if they don't use it already. Regenerative braking involves using a generator/alternator to generate power from the spinning wheels of the train, which in turn slows them down, which slows the train down. A lot of hybrid/electric cars use this to charge up their batteries a little while braking, to extend their range and improve their fuel efficiency. It's not free energy though, because you have to be moving first.
The only "free" energy (from our point of view) is solar radiation that normally misses our planet completely. Any other way of generating energy has other negative consequences for us. The planet might naturally counteract the bad effects from some of these, or the bad effects might be so small as to be unnoticeable for millions of years, but they're still there.
Yes, that means that wind turbines slow the wind, and wave power generators slow the waves, and who knows what effects they will have on our climate.
For Windows x64 you'll probably also need this workaround to even be able to install the game.
I did.
Not that you'd get that kind of support from other games companies. It's a beta demo, and they go out of their way to fix and work-around issues. It's beta, so you expect bugs. Just wow.
Some hard-disks are the same. I've had 2 identically branded Maxtors (but different firmware / revision), one 160 GB = 160,000,000 kiB = 151 GiB, one 160GB = 160,000,000,000 Bytes = 149 GiB.
If they're going to lie to us, they could at least be consistent about it.
1: That's more than the size of some peoples' entire hard disk. 2: Different definitions of GB, as said it works out like this: 4TB (hdd) = 4,000GB = 4,000,000,000,000 Bytes. 4TB (pc) = 4,096GB = 4,398,046,511,104 Bytes. Which is a 398GB (hdd) or 371GB (pc) difference.
February/March releases are: "We can't get it done by Christmas, but if we don't force it out before the end of the financial year (April) it'll make us look bad". Note "us" = "the execs".
Seriously, so few games release Q2 and Q3 of the year (summer) because a Q4 release means Christmas (in fact holding it back a few months can actually improve sales because of Christmas), and Q1 means before the end of the financial year.
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I'm 22, in '98 I was 13. Most definitely a kid.
Enjoy feeling old.
Are you saying the PS3 have overtaken the PS2 or the original Playstation in 2007?
Because if it's the former, I have some news for you: the PS2 is still outselling the PS3.
However, EVE does now run on Wine.
Cedega isn't open-source, but they contribute back to wine, which is.
CCP paid for significant work on Cedega (and so wine) for EVE to run.
They changed their own code to improve compatibility.
As a result, you can now run EVE on wine, if you don't want to use the Cedega packaged client.
For example, the following: The majority of liberals who own expensive digital cameras are members of "kiddie-porn clubs". ...deserves a Wikipedia-style "citation needed"
The cops have to prove their case. This means showing up to court with the proper evidence. The evidence has to be maintained and presented in a condition where it is admissible. Very often, one or more of these things do not happen and the defense wins by default.
Everyone should always take their speeding tickets to court. Speed limit laws need to be made unprofitable for the government and then maybe we can get our freedom back on the roads. Maybe in America, but in the UK the fixed camera take TWO pictures, and coupled with lines on the road a fixed distance apart and a really accurate timer, they can prove really easy that you were speeding.
"Radar guns" on the other hand...
That sounds pretty normal for tech support.
"Casual" games are very much like tv, something to do to be mildly entertained with little or no effort involved.
I play 32-bit EVE Online under 64-bit Wine on 64-bit Ubuntu. Works pretty nearly perfectly.
http://www.winehq.org/site/download
You have to add Wine's own repository to Ubuntu's "Software Sources" (System->Administration) that's all. If you're not using Ubuntu, then do the equivalent for your OS. Wine has both Debian-style and Redhat-style repositories available.
Enjoy.
So what you're saying is we need gory public deaths for murderers to discourage murders?
Unfortunately, then this happens:
Look! The murder rates are going down. The public are scared, and cheering for us for catching the murderers!
But wait, we're running out of murderers.
No matter, just rebrand other criminals. Hell, execute a few people who've only committed lesser crimes, it'll make the crime rates for those go down too!
My god, it works. The prisons are even emptying for the first time ever.
-Total government control, anyone who speaks out or is suspected of any crime is executed-
-Uprising, civil war-
-Rinse and repeat because people never learn from history-
Just like there isn't anything more in this post than in the subject :)
I have ZERO problems with my nVidia 8800GTS on Ubuntu Gutsy (and previously Feisty) x86-64 and Windows XP x64 SP2.
I used to have an assortment of ATI cards, but none of them have been without issues.
My X800GTO had ram trouble, and had to have the ram underclocked to run stable. I had a dead, followed by a working X1900XTX. With that card, in Windows x64, suspend (mode 3) didn't work more than once between restarts, among other issues. In Ubuntu Feisty, I had to alter xorg.conf to enable DRI (hardware acceleration) by disabling a few other things (I forget what now). I also had video rendering issues, even in VLC etc, because the card was swapping two colour channels in videos. More hacks to fix that (disabling the quality video scaling IIRC, resulting in blockier videos). Beryl (now Compiz again) showed me that it didn't support AIGLX mode, so I had to use the command line to switch to xgl. Even after that I frequently had issues with windows and menus ending up solid white or black, which could have just been beryl's fault.
With my 8800GTS I initially had issues because Ubuntu was loading the wrong driver (nvidia instead of nvidia_new or something like that). That was sorted in Ubuntu itself within a week. I haven't had any other problems with the 8800GTS, before or since.
An Informative Anonymous Coward?
So they do exist.
No, a client is perfectly capable of being slow.
Azureus is considered bad because it uses 10-100 or more times the system resources of uTorrent (which is now the official bittorrent client), and some of its implementations of newer bittorrent features (eg DHT) are incompatible with the version in the official client or any other client.
The only advantage it had over uTorrent was that it was "free". This new client means that there is no reason to use Azureus any more.
Your best bet is to install it and find out for yourself!
It's worth noting that older antennas designed for the analogue spectrum often don't pick up the spectrum used for digital broadcasts particularly well, and may need to be replaced. (At least in the UK, I don't know what spectrums other countries use)
A digital signal stays "perfect" for a lot further than an analogue one, but in return a bad digital signal is a lot worse than a bad analogue one.
In other words, if you get a "moderately bad" or above signal, you'll benefit from the change to digital. If you get a really poor analogue signal, a digital receiver might fail to display any image at all. Though if your analogue signal is that bad, you probably already have satellite tv.
Shouldn't that be "University of East Anglia (UEA)" ?
It's worth noting that the old iPlayer beta installer refused to install on my Windows x64.
So frankly a flash-based player sounds good to me too.
Effectively, yes.
The train naturally tries moves all the air around it in the same direction as the train, at the same speed. Pushes the air in front, drags the air that's behind, to the sides, above and below.
The tunnel walls naturally try to do the same thing, but as the tunnel walls aren't moving they effectively try to stop the air moving.
The faster the air is moving, the less work you have to do to make the train move. If you add turbines in the walls, which would slow the air more effectively than bare walls, then the air ends up going slower, and you have to put more energy into moving the train. The net result is that the turbines (inefficiently) get energy from whatever powers the train.
"Regenerative braking" would be better, if they don't use it already. Regenerative braking involves using a generator/alternator to generate power from the spinning wheels of the train, which in turn slows them down, which slows the train down. A lot of hybrid/electric cars use this to charge up their batteries a little while braking, to extend their range and improve their fuel efficiency. It's not free energy though, because you have to be moving first.
The only "free" energy (from our point of view) is solar radiation that normally misses our planet completely. Any other way of generating energy has other negative consequences for us. The planet might naturally counteract the bad effects from some of these, or the bad effects might be so small as to be unnoticeable for millions of years, but they're still there.
Yes, that means that wind turbines slow the wind, and wave power generators slow the waves, and who knows what effects they will have on our climate.
Yes and yes. I'll sort it out tonight.
For Windows x64 you'll probably also need this workaround to even be able to install the game.
I did.
Not that you'd get that kind of support from other games companies. It's a beta demo, and they go out of their way to fix and work-around issues. It's beta, so you expect bugs. Just wow.
Some hard-disks are the same. I've had 2 identically branded Maxtors (but different firmware / revision), one 160 GB = 160,000,000 kiB = 151 GiB, one 160GB = 160,000,000,000 Bytes = 149 GiB.
If they're going to lie to us, they could at least be consistent about it.
1: That's more than the size of some peoples' entire hard disk.
2: Different definitions of GB, as said it works out like this:
4TB (hdd) = 4,000GB = 4,000,000,000,000 Bytes.
4TB (pc) = 4,096GB = 4,398,046,511,104 Bytes.
Which is a 398GB (hdd) or 371GB (pc) difference.
Mounting them on the tunnel walls would have the same effect. They'd slow the air moving through them, which would exert drag on the train.
There's no free energy.
February/March releases are: "We can't get it done by Christmas, but if we don't force it out before the end of the financial year (April) it'll make us look bad". Note "us" = "the execs".
Seriously, so few games release Q2 and Q3 of the year (summer) because a Q4 release means Christmas (in fact holding it back a few months can actually improve sales because of Christmas), and Q1 means before the end of the financial year.