Bittorrent could really benefit from IP v6, which is seperated into address blocks by location. If a client was built that preferred peers that shared the first few bytes of their IP with you, it would dramatically reduce international packets.
I've only seen it running on (windows xp) pc and xbox 360, but it definitely supports both direct-x and opengl. I honestly don't know if it runs on linux or not. I haven't seen a native AMD64 build either, unfortunately.
The company I work at licences the Unreal 3 engine for their upcoming games. Our game merely needs recompiling to switch targets between pc, xbox360 and ps3 (though we don't have any ps3s at our studio. Ironically we have a wii despite not developing for it). I'd bet that Gears of War is the same, that they merely need to change the project config and press build to get a pc version.
I thought that the "future discs will not include support for the compromised device keys" was done by having a list of compromised keys on the disk? Doesn't that make it easy to ignore?
Now that's an insightful post. I'm sorry I doubted you, but you really spoke like you didn't know what you were on about before. I still don't think that the wiimote is a good basis for a sign-to-texting device (making one at all is still a great idea), but using a wii for physio seems like a good idea.
There have been therapy-based consoles before, I seem to remember one for treating something like ADD that paused the game whenever the player stopped paying proper attention. If they improved the wiimote's sensors (there's a distinct deadzone with low-speed motion, especially noticable in wii-sports golf), then the wii could be great for physio or sports training, especially if the controllers were shaped and weighted appropriately.
I was wondering when someone was going to mention avast. I switched to it from AVG for FOUR reasons: 1: Virus got past AVG and stopped it detecting any more viruses. Was a PITA to disinfect. 2: AVG Free's annoying inability to disinfect a file when it first detects the infection, forcing you to run the main program. 3: A false positive in Multimedia Fusion created programs (and another AVG false positive was reported on the MMF forums two years after I stopped using AVG) 4: No free 64-bit Windows support
Since installing it I've found several more advantages, namely it's dedicated scanners for various download programs (instead of just relying on the on-access scanner), and the fact that it can quarantine files for being "suspicious", instead of requiring a detection of a specific virus.
Since I installed it I haven't had any virus problems on my pc. That's not saying it hasn't detected anything, just no viruses have managed to infect my pc.
I just checked, and the Unreal 3 Engine does indeed support OpenGL. However, it defaults to Direct-X. This might only be because we're currently developing an xbox360 game, but I seem to remember that to use OpenGL in Unreal Tournament 2004 in Windows you had to edit the ini or use a command-line option, because it doesn't show up on the options screen.
Seems even Epic thinks that Direct-X is better, at least on Windows PCs.
I don't particularly care about what race my character in a game is. Though I can see why people could become outraged over "all the dark-skinned races in my fantasy game are evil".
I think it's more for when you join a series part-way through and want to download it to watch the first few eps, or for downloading older shows that aren't currently being aired (or are being repeated at random).
These reasons, along with the convenience of not having to have a tivo and bypassing your country's year+ delay in showing new shows are why most people download torrents of tv shows.
Unfortunately a lot of installers seem to extract themself to %temp% and then run one of the extracted files to continue, so this isn't a permanent solution. Unless you're not ever going to install anything that is.
Actually over a week ago both Intel and IBM announced hafnium-alloy based chip technology that reduces electron leakage by ten times (i.e. to 1/10th of the current amount). Or at least that's what I can piece together from the 4-5 different slashdot articles, and this announcement: http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articl eid=926&cid=1
I can't stand a 60Hz CRT signal either. The best test for flicker is to look to one side, your peripheral vision is much more sensitive to flicker than your forward vision. If you can't see any flicker in your peripheral vision, then the screen / refresh is fine.
Almost all these health warnings about spending long periods of time working at a computer affecting your vision are because of flicker or a blurry screen. It's much better to run at a high resolution and refresh with a larger font or DPI setting than lowering the resolution to make the text larger. For those who don't know, you can set the resolution in display properties->settings, the refresh rate display properties->settings->advanced->monitor and you can increase the DPI setting in windows with display properties->settings->advanced->DPI. Make sure a TFT/LCD screen is set to the resolution it was designed for, otherwise it'll be blurry and/or give a nice moire effect on high-detail images.
A CRT screen being blurry is often from fingerprints, but CRTs are generally more blurry than TFT/LCD displays. CRTs also have a habit of distorting the picture when switching from a black to a white image, or if part of the image is white. If you have a CRT, try watching the edge of your display while opening something like Word that is mostly white (preferably starting with a dark desktop). Displays that try to compensate with stronger or more magnets tend to have an uneven edge to the picture and are a pain to set up correctly.
I think the problem is more for companies that send out emails to people who have subscribed to them. There's probably a lot of people who would rather press "spam" than "unsubscribe", even for mail they signed up for in the first place. And not just for advertising emails either, this happens to newsletters and so on that aren't sales-related at all. This has resulted in a lot of website FAQs with the entry "Q: I didn't get my newsletter / registration email. A: Check your spam folder".
Generally, spam seems to come from @yahoo and @hotmail or other free email addresses, and anything from a registered domain is solicited email.
I've never had this, if I insert a usb pen it uses the last drive letter it used unless that letter is already in use, when it picks the next one. My usb pen is "M:" at the moment. A: and B: reserved (no floppy drive), C: boot hdd, D: E: dvd writer and reader, F: virtual dvd, G: linux disk (not readable under windows but has a letter anyway), H: I: J: K: 4-socket multi card reader. I'm not sure what happened to L:.
I had my Sony Ericsson T610 thrown -hard- against a solid brick wall. The battery cover came off but the battery didn't escape, it was even still powered on. I just put the cover back on and put it back in my pocket before it happened again. Friends are interesting when slightly fermented (drunk) aren't they?
In general it seems to be the "solid block" phones that can survive the most punishment, most dual-screen sliding/flip phones are quite easy to damage.
I have a Nokia 6020 now (I got it on renewal of my contract), and I throw it in the air and catch it if I get bored. Despite missing the catch often, it's quite undamaged.
But if you can penetrate the defences of a savvy user you can penetrate the defences of the kind of person who -would- click on a "Buy! V|AGr4 N0W!@" email.
We are talking a SERVER line of cpus here. EE chips are a desktop cpu brand.
For servers TDP is incredibly important, because server rooms are air-conditioned, a room full of higher TDP cpus costs much much much more to run from an electricity point of view.
That's not to say that they won't overstep their vcore or TDP limits to get the upper hand on performance, but that wouldn't win them the performance/watt ratio crown that's the all-important stat for server cpus.
It's a 1986 HP-28S with a broken battery cover, currently taped in place with "Highly Flammable" warning tape from a chemistry lab. Apparently it's an older slower version of the 48 series you love so much.
I have an old RPN calculator at home, not sure what brand it is atm but it might be HP. One of the things it could do which seems to be rare nowadays is the ability to manipulate formulas, eg: 'y=x*x-3' enter 'y=22' enter 'x' solve (or something like that) and it would solve the equation for you, giving 'x=5'. A few other examples: 'y=x*x-3' enter 3 + sqrt would leave 'sqrt(y+3)=x' on the stack.
It could also do bracket expansion, simultaneous equations, formulaic integration / differentiation ('y=x*x' 'y' differentiate = 'dy/dx = 2x'), had a full hierarchical filesystem and was fully programmable (there are even assemblers for it on the net). Though programming in RPN is difficult at best.
Too true, but every version of linux claims to be easy to set up but nine times out of ten it isn't. I don't have the time to try 37 different distributions to find one that actually works. Care to recommend one?
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"PvP was pretty much entirely skill based"
Or, PvP was dominated by Fighter/Monks. Anyone else just died.
At least in the first Guild Wars.
Bittorrent could really benefit from IP v6, which is seperated into address blocks by location. If a client was built that preferred peers that shared the first few bytes of their IP with you, it would dramatically reduce international packets.
I've only seen it running on (windows xp) pc and xbox 360, but it definitely supports both direct-x and opengl. I honestly don't know if it runs on linux or not. I haven't seen a native AMD64 build either, unfortunately.
The company I work at licences the Unreal 3 engine for their upcoming games. Our game merely needs recompiling to switch targets between pc, xbox360 and ps3 (though we don't have any ps3s at our studio. Ironically we have a wii despite not developing for it). I'd bet that Gears of War is the same, that they merely need to change the project config and press build to get a pc version.
I thought that the "future discs will not include support for the compromised device keys" was done by having a list of compromised keys on the disk? Doesn't that make it easy to ignore?
Now that's an insightful post. I'm sorry I doubted you, but you really spoke like you didn't know what you were on about before. I still don't think that the wiimote is a good basis for a sign-to-texting device (making one at all is still a great idea), but using a wii for physio seems like a good idea.
There have been therapy-based consoles before, I seem to remember one for treating something like ADD that paused the game whenever the player stopped paying proper attention. If they improved the wiimote's sensors (there's a distinct deadzone with low-speed motion, especially noticable in wii-sports golf), then the wii could be great for physio or sports training, especially if the controllers were shaped and weighted appropriately.
Sign language is more in the fingers, the wii-mote would be useless here.
Stop modding him insightful.
Actually, that makes a lot of sense.
I was wondering when someone was going to mention avast. I switched to it from AVG for FOUR reasons:
1: Virus got past AVG and stopped it detecting any more viruses. Was a PITA to disinfect.
2: AVG Free's annoying inability to disinfect a file when it first detects the infection, forcing you to run the main program.
3: A false positive in Multimedia Fusion created programs (and another AVG false positive was reported on the MMF forums two years after I stopped using AVG)
4: No free 64-bit Windows support
Since installing it I've found several more advantages, namely it's dedicated scanners for various download programs (instead of just relying on the on-access scanner), and the fact that it can quarantine files for being "suspicious", instead of requiring a detection of a specific virus.
Since I installed it I haven't had any virus problems on my pc. That's not saying it hasn't detected anything, just no viruses have managed to infect my pc.
I just checked, and the Unreal 3 Engine does indeed support OpenGL. However, it defaults to Direct-X. This might only be because we're currently developing an xbox360 game, but I seem to remember that to use OpenGL in Unreal Tournament 2004 in Windows you had to edit the ini or use a command-line option, because it doesn't show up on the options screen.
Seems even Epic thinks that Direct-X is better, at least on Windows PCs.
I don't particularly care about what race my character in a game is. Though I can see why people could become outraged over "all the dark-skinned races in my fantasy game are evil".
I think it's more for when you join a series part-way through and want to download it to watch the first few eps, or for downloading older shows that aren't currently being aired (or are being repeated at random).
These reasons, along with the convenience of not having to have a tivo and bypassing your country's year+ delay in showing new shows are why most people download torrents of tv shows.
Unfortunately a lot of installers seem to extract themself to %temp% and then run one of the extracted files to continue, so this isn't a permanent solution. Unless you're not ever going to install anything that is.
Hopefully all those will be covered by any new ethernet equipment that has the "energy efficient" logo.
Actually over a week ago both Intel and IBM announced hafnium-alloy based chip technology that reduces electron leakage by ten times (i.e. to 1/10th of the current amount). Or at least that's what I can piece together from the 4-5 different slashdot articles, and this announcement: http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articl eid=926&cid=1
I can't stand a 60Hz CRT signal either. The best test for flicker is to look to one side, your peripheral vision is much more sensitive to flicker than your forward vision. If you can't see any flicker in your peripheral vision, then the screen / refresh is fine.
Almost all these health warnings about spending long periods of time working at a computer affecting your vision are because of flicker or a blurry screen. It's much better to run at a high resolution and refresh with a larger font or DPI setting than lowering the resolution to make the text larger. For those who don't know, you can set the resolution in display properties->settings, the refresh rate display properties->settings->advanced->monitor and you can increase the DPI setting in windows with display properties->settings->advanced->DPI. Make sure a TFT/LCD screen is set to the resolution it was designed for, otherwise it'll be blurry and/or give a nice moire effect on high-detail images.
A CRT screen being blurry is often from fingerprints, but CRTs are generally more blurry than TFT/LCD displays. CRTs also have a habit of distorting the picture when switching from a black to a white image, or if part of the image is white. If you have a CRT, try watching the edge of your display while opening something like Word that is mostly white (preferably starting with a dark desktop). Displays that try to compensate with stronger or more magnets tend to have an uneven edge to the picture and are a pain to set up correctly.
I think the problem is more for companies that send out emails to people who have subscribed to them. There's probably a lot of people who would rather press "spam" than "unsubscribe", even for mail they signed up for in the first place. And not just for advertising emails either, this happens to newsletters and so on that aren't sales-related at all. This has resulted in a lot of website FAQs with the entry "Q: I didn't get my newsletter / registration email. A: Check your spam folder".
Generally, spam seems to come from @yahoo and @hotmail or other free email addresses, and anything from a registered domain is solicited email.
I've never had this, if I insert a usb pen it uses the last drive letter it used unless that letter is already in use, when it picks the next one. My usb pen is "M:" at the moment. A: and B: reserved (no floppy drive), C: boot hdd, D: E: dvd writer and reader, F: virtual dvd, G: linux disk (not readable under windows but has a letter anyway), H: I: J: K: 4-socket multi card reader. I'm not sure what happened to L:.
I had my Sony Ericsson T610 thrown -hard- against a solid brick wall. The battery cover came off but the battery didn't escape, it was even still powered on. I just put the cover back on and put it back in my pocket before it happened again. Friends are interesting when slightly fermented (drunk) aren't they?
In general it seems to be the "solid block" phones that can survive the most punishment, most dual-screen sliding/flip phones are quite easy to damage.
I have a Nokia 6020 now (I got it on renewal of my contract), and I throw it in the air and catch it if I get bored. Despite missing the catch often, it's quite undamaged.
But if you can penetrate the defences of a savvy user you can penetrate the defences of the kind of person who -would- click on a "Buy! V|AGr4 N0W!@" email.
We are talking a SERVER line of cpus here. EE chips are a desktop cpu brand.
For servers TDP is incredibly important, because server rooms are air-conditioned, a room full of higher TDP cpus costs much much much more to run from an electricity point of view.
That's not to say that they won't overstep their vcore or TDP limits to get the upper hand on performance, but that wouldn't win them the performance/watt ratio crown that's the all-important stat for server cpus.
IIRC you could do it in one line with spaces: 2 3 +
It's a 1986 HP-28S with a broken battery cover, currently taped in place with "Highly Flammable" warning tape from a chemistry lab. Apparently it's an older slower version of the 48 series you love so much.
Picture!
I have an old RPN calculator at home, not sure what brand it is atm but it might be HP. One of the things it could do which seems to be rare nowadays is the ability to manipulate formulas, eg:
'y=x*x-3' enter
'y=22' enter
'x' solve
(or something like that) and it would solve the equation for you, giving 'x=5'. A few other examples:
'y=x*x-3' enter
3 +
sqrt
would leave 'sqrt(y+3)=x' on the stack.
It could also do bracket expansion, simultaneous equations, formulaic integration / differentiation ('y=x*x' 'y' differentiate = 'dy/dx = 2x'), had a full hierarchical filesystem and was fully programmable (there are even assemblers for it on the net). Though programming in RPN is difficult at best.
Oh, it also did unit conversion.
Too true, but every version of linux claims to be easy to set up but nine times out of ten it isn't. I don't have the time to try 37 different distributions to find one that actually works. Care to recommend one?