lost_soul
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This song is just beautiful, especially starting at 0:50 and onward. I actually listen to music like this as I'm doing other things, like messing with Blender.
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Hahaha I was playing System Shock 2 a wile ago. I was killing those little worms. Some of them were over a ledge in front of me, about 20 feet below me. I looked over the ledge to pick them off, imagining that they would not be able to do anything to stop me. Then one of them jumped up to where I was and it made *me* jump. lol
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I personally feel that if you want to scare the player, smaller is better. Small enemies that surprise you or (when you feel like you killed them all(, another pops up in your face is the way to go. There isn't much scary about a giant monster stomping around making lots of noise, where you can clearly see him or figure out where he is way before he attacks you. A good demonstration of this are headcrabs.
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@Airship: yep, and the other part of the problem is that those in charge are generally allowed to do whatever the fuck they want without getting in (serious) trouble. For an example of this, search for "loveint". People who were given powers above you and I _DID_ use the powers to snoop on love interests. Nobody went to jail for this. They were just scolded and told not to do it again. Some of their justifications used were that they were "just testing the features". Now, if I went out and tapped the line of a girl I had a crush on, what do you imagine would happen to me? Can I just tell the authorities that I was testing my technical skills and get off with a harsh scolding the way the elite can? Its like I told my friend: Loveint is funny, but its also not funny. Imagine if they were snooping on you for no justifyable cause, other than the agent had a crush on you. How would that make you feel?
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It will stay isolated to being audited by machines, until a guy with the clearance to perform maintenance on said machine feels like digging out some dirt on an enemy, or investigating his love interest. Either this will happen, because human beings are corrupt by nature, or hackers will find a way to compromise the entire thing some day. Then everybody's life will become public.
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1:26 "Brakes are for losers, so watch me take this corner at 30 MPH near all of these other people." *thud*! https://www.youtube....h?v=n-VymQeFoVQ If there are any Russians here, in a lot of these clips people say somethinbg that sounds like "Why you mad?". What does that mean?
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Yep, sometimes compiling things can be a bitch. A lot of the "fanboys" will say that you "never need to compile anything because its available from the package manager", but sometimes you want to run something that isn't popular.
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lost_soul's half-assed solution of the day: There's a hard drive with over 100 bad sectors, making everything run EXTREMELY SLOW. Instead of swapping out the hard drive, I moved the OS to the later half, away from the bad sectors! Now it runs fast and fine!
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Oi nutter, replace the drive. If its under warranty get it swapped, if not they are so cheap just buy another one.
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How old is this drive? Modern drives should remap bad sectors automatically so the OS doesn't even see them.
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That could be a harbinger of bricked drive to come.
Also, running a full format on the drive should mark and bad sectors and never write to them so you can use the remainder of the drive but as mentioned above, if its an older drive, it may be going to the grave.
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Great news! Its time for another angry rant! I'm using a laptop connected to an external display. I have it so that the external display is used when connected and the internal display is automatically disabled, but guess what? When I launch TDM, the external display in front of my face shuts off, and the internal display comes back on with the game! Seriously, what the fuck? Did I not explicitly choose to disable the internal display during my current X session? Why the living hell does it switch the internal display back on just because I launch a full-screen 3d application? Then, when I quit TDM, the internal display goes off and the external comes back on, as if to taunt me. This is not an Optimus machine. So, far as I understand, there is just a single X instance running. So, why the fuck doesn't "disable" mean "disable"? This is not the fault of TDM. I imagine any game that I try to run full-screen will do this. Its gotta be something with X.
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I wasn't even around when this was made, but I openly admit that the music of today (that I hear when I'm in public places) is complete shit compared to this.
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Seriously, WTF!?
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Lost_soul introduces The Dark Drive: A USB flash drive with both TDM and a bootable installation of Linux on it. Even if the hard drive dies in the PC, you can still play TDM!
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32 GB is as low as $8 though (US Black Friday)
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Yeah, but some of the lowest-end drives can be extremely slow. This is a problem if you're gonna run an entire session off of them. I can't post an "iso" of this for a wide variety of reasons, sorry... but anybody can do a Lubuntu install to a flash drive, install their video drivers, and load up TDM.
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That's a well known problem with a known solution: you spend more money. You can have an anybrand 32 GB USB 2.0 stick for $8, or you can get something like Sandisk Extreme for about $1/GB with high sequential and random speeds.
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Model in review is 64 GB, 16 and 32 GB versions are available on Newegg.
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Yeah, but it seems like such a trivial thing to build into the TV if it already has USB. It does not require a lot of processing power to just dump the stream to a drive. This isn't like the old days, where a machine had to convert the TV from analog to digital. Still, that's a very reasonable price.
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Yeah, Dropbox is a good choice. Its free and gives you like 2 GB. I would imagine Google lets you do something similar if you have Gmail. They have a Google Drive product.
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I found a device on Amazon called a "HomeWorx". This seems to be the ideal device. You connect an antenna to it, a USB hard drive, and it can capture OTA tv to said hard drive for you. I was originally looking for a USB tv tuner, but this would be a better option because of tiny power usage compared to a huge PC. The users say that VLC can play the files that this thing generates, so that implies there's no American malware (aka digital rights management) involved. My goal is to be able to put TV shows on my tablet. From what I gather, I can either copy them from here to the SD card, or use my PC to encode them into a more suitable and compact format for the tablet. It doesn't seem to require any net connection, or subscription, or any of that. Like you, I watch very little TV, so subscribing does not make sense. It would just capture literally a couple of shows.
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Its cool to see somebody actually trying this. How much RAM does that tablet have? If its 1 GB, I imagine you'll run into trouble loading missions.
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http://www.modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=62498 Great song... I just love the way it sounds.
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That's something else I've wanted to see. Back in the day, we had VHS units. Now we have digital TVs with USB ports or SD slots. Why can I not stick a USB drive in there and capture the TV shows onto it? Why do I need an extra bulky box with a subscription like Tivo to do that? I've been meaning to get an ATSC tuner card for the computer. I have an old analog card, but it is almost useless now.
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400 bucks for a tablet with 16 GB of NAND, and no expandable sd slot? Please, stop... I'm laughing so hard that it hurts! http://www.dailytech...rticle36823.htm Why would I buy this thing when I have an older tablet that accepts 128 GB cards? This old tablet also cost less than half that new model. The screen is not nearly as high-res, but its 7 inch, so I can not even tell.
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Will a windows machine read the memory card if it is in UDF? I've never tried this before. However, I saw some guy say that XP cannot write to UDF volumes, because UDF was to be used with optical media, not flash media. XP is dead now though.
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Wow! They have HD camcorders that exclusivly use FAT32? I would return that thing as defective. We users are trying to escape from FAT by adopting platforms other than Windows, yet the manufacturers push FAT even when some of them get sued for doing so, like TomTom. Are manufacturers being threatoned or bribed? "Either you adopt our new file structure, or we raise your Windows license costs". This is the same thing that happened in the 90s with OEMs. "Either you ship Windows exclusively on your PCs, or we raise your license costs."
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Woohoo! Even my el-cheap-o tablet can read the shiny new 128 GB MicroSD card. All I had to do was get rid of the shitty EXFAT structure, which is the latest Microsoft standard designed to put other platforms at a disadvantage, corner the market, etc... Business as usual in Redmond. It would be nice if we were allowed to use Ext4 on memory cards in Android, because that is what the freaking thing uses internally. However, it will not read cards with Ext4. You would hope Google would allow this, but since Google tried to do something as brain-damaged as removing Ext4 support from Chromebooks, I would not expect it any time soon. So basically we're stuck with FAT f***ing 32 on Android, a file structure from the 90s that can not even accept individual files that are larger than 4 GB. I'm not a movie guy, just a music guy, so it really does not affect me. Its still f***ing retarded, though.
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How to hard-lock a Linux box: step 1. Insert a scratched or dirty CD. Step 2, try to advance through songs. We have made 0 progress since the early 90s. Even the mouse pointer stops moving and you can't switch to a console!
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Thank god no body uses CDs anymore
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I'm surprised the technology doesn't seem to really have improved much from DVD to Bluray, other than raw storage space, given how insistent some organisations have been on staying purely in the physical realm. Download speeds are a solid argument against using physical media, but having the option to back your downloads up is important too
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Well, they did make an optical drive that has multiple lasers and multiple read-assemblies. This gives a greater read rate, while not spinning the disk so fast that it explodes from the force. I wonder if anybody has tried making a hard drive with two read-arms, one on each side. This would give faster performance without spinning the disk faster too.
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We have some good news. The new version of Unity in Ubuntu will not send your searches to Amazon by default. If you want that "feature", you have to actually enable it manually. I am just sitting here imagining some people at the NSA sitting there saying
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It turns out Apple's spotlight sends your searches to Apple by default too.... Look, everybody is doing it now. Windows 8 does it, Ubuntu does it, and now the Mac alegedly does it too. Are they all being paid by three-letter agencies to gather more info about us?