lost_soul
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Somehow I broke the MicroSD slot on my Atrix HD. I insert the card but it does not read it. Now I'm considering getting something new, or perhaps I can fix this? Perhaps the pins in the slot are bent? Part of me wonders if I can slap an Apple sticker on this thing and sell it for twice what I paid for it. I mean, now that it has no (functional) SD slot, it is just like an Apple product! (joking about this last part, of course)
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Rigged my first model the other day...
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blender lets you save the models mesh as a picture, then you use a paint program to create the texture then add that texture as the uv texture for the model.
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Do you mean rigged to a skeleton? That's a lot more involved than uv maps.
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Yep, I used a model from another game, made a skeleton, and rigged it so that all of the respective pieces can move. It was a learning experience. However, properly texturing a complex object evades me... (for now)
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@7:16, Holy crap! Look at that!!! and its real-time too... It makes me want to cry that this never got added to the core GLSL renderer. It also seems as though this project died out, sadly.
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Kinda OT, but this guy has a great voice. I wonder if he would want to be a guard? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2-FfB9kRmE He has a great mic too.
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I doubt that last thing would work. The device would just say "It has been 60 days since you checked in with HQ. You must check in, or else your books will become locked. I've read people saying this about Steam. I.e. if you use offline mode, it will require a check-in eventually.
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I have actually never used any of these e-book platforms. When I read something, I prefer straight .txt.
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Yeah, if it is concentual, and I mean not by having something inside of a massive EULA that people do not understand, nor agree with, I do not have a problem with it.... like if there's a feature to sync your position in books across devices that you actually have to manually enable. But when somebody sells me something, the relationship ends there. They have no right "checking up on me". Just as I have no right selling you a TV and then piering in your windows or activating the mic to listen in on you in order to enforce some bogus license terms that I pulled out of my behind.
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http://www.theregist...y_is_important/ Oh, look! The Americans are invading your privacy, again! Its not bad enough that they have the right to take things away from you after you pay for them, they need to monitor every single page you read, too! And before any of you say "You do not HAVE to use this software" tell that to all the publishers who make content available exclusively in formats like this, and tell it to all the corrupt pieces of shit that crafted legislation banning people from writing alternative software that can read the files. Disclaimer: I am an American, in the US. I believe that gives me a right to criticize what a corrupt piece of shit this place is. Its not as though I'm from Russia or something, just being a racist.
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That's it, I'm getting rid of Flash off of all these machines. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/08/adobe_says_it_slurps_ebook_data_in_plain_text_because_privacy_is_important/
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I've been looking for a program just like Windows Firewall Notifier, thanks Biker!
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You'll need to install a browser before you install Privacy Badger.
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@GW, it was android firewall that prompted me to look for the equivalent on windows.
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I got a new wireless keyboard/mouse combo for ten bucks! Talk about a great deal! Within 10 minutes of hooking it up, I wondered if it is encrypted. It uses 128-bit AES.
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I saw that some other wireless keyboards use 8-bit encryption. YES, 8-BIT! Even a 486 would be able to crack that.
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Blooth is the way to go, if you can find one that ticks all the boxes and doesen't cost an arm and a leg.
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Indeed. If anybody at Logitech is reading this, we love you guys. You make really affordable products that just keep going. You do not remove features from products we already bought, or do any other sleezy things. Sincerely, a happy user.
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I made a post about this the other day in the random article of the day thread. The whole obsession with making things thinner and thinner cracks me up, especially when stuff like this happens. "Instead of using high performance parts and a strong battery to keep the thing going, they make it so thin that it bends. Meanwile they charge an arm and a leg for the thing.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuw9frP1GNo Useless, right? Wrong! Imagine a wireless keyboard with these embedded in a few of the most commonly used keys. When you press the keys as you use the keyboard, it charges up an ultra-capacitor, which powers the keyboard.
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Would it really require that much more processing power? What if you had the ability to set objects in the world as "cover"? Then, if the player is right next to the cover object, his light gem is less affected? This is instead of doing some super-complex lighting method.
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"Look man, let's just keep making them thinner! Thinner, man, THINNER!!! I want it to be no thicker than a piece of paper!" http://www.theregist...nbois_get_bent/
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The hardware detection method in Linux is actually really good. You can install a distro to an external HDD. Then if you boot it on a wide range of machines, it will just detect the hardware during the startup process, provided that it has drivers for the devices. If you install Windows to an external HDD, then try to go around booting it on different machines, it will flip out. If it even boots, it will spend a minute detecting all of the new hardware.
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There has been the occasional Linux bashing `round these parts. I myself have talked trash about Linux... but guess what? I installed a new video card in this machine yesterday (replaced GTX460 with GTX750TI 2 GB). So what happened? I powered it on. Up came the Linux desktop with perfect hardware acceleration, at native resolution. There were no "found new hardware" messages. I did not have to reboot to finish installing a driver. It was like nothing had even changed, except for faster performance and a slashed TDP. Then I booted into Windows. Up comes the VGA desktop, lacking hardware acceleration. Then came the "found new hardware" message. I then had to install the drivers from the CD.
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You ordered a package. The tracking system says it was delivered, but it is nowhere to be found. You call the office, but they CAN NOT even radio the driver to find out what he did, because that would be too ****ing simple. They want to contact the shipper, as though he can do jack about it. Welcome to the US, where everything is inefficiant, expensive, and more complicated than it needs to be.
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Its the same in the UK. But if the item goes missing its the person/company that shipped it responsibility.
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My neighbors and I are constantly delivering misdirected packages and mail to each other.
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i constantly find my mail in the dustbin outside that's gone to the wrong address.
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I understand that in games, it is bad to have overlapping geometry. Consider a wall with support beams that actually go through it, instead of stopping at the edge. Is this bad for CG in general? If I'm making an animation, is it important to not have any intersecting geometry? I've seen a lot of CG models (not for game use) made by others that have this, and nobody seems to care.
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Even though I NEVER smoke and I have had alcohol perhaps 4 times, they say I have high blood pressure. If I'm gonna be punished even when I stay away from those things, why not just go on a binge? I guess its because Alcohol tastes like **** and smoking ****s up the lungs.
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I have very low blood pressure, drink like a fish and smoke like a chimney. Yay for me
When I've been in the hospital for surgery the doctors always see my blood pressure and say, "ohh! we have an athlete here!" LOLHBP is generally hereditary.
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@Lux: +1
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IMO Smoking would be like getting hit in the groin by a baseball. I do not need to go through it to say that it would be unpleasant.
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I'll agree with that. I used to use Debian, but I left for Lubuntu. (I would not use straight Ubuntu because of the bloat). Anyway, while Debian isn't that hard to get going, they have dumb policies on some things. Some of the packages that I use have been removed from the newer versions of Debian, while they are still in the Ubuntu flavors. If we want to install them, we have to go through a bunch of crap that no average user is interested in. They were there, and they served their purpose, why were they removed? How much RAM do you have? Are you going to get more any time soon? Under Linux, it goes like this. You CAN use more than 4 GB of RAM with a 32-bit OS. However, each individual program that you run will be limited to about 2.6 GB of RAM or so. If a program tries to use more than 2.6 GB of RAM on a 32-bit machine, (and even if you have 10 GB free), the program will crash due to not being able to use more memory. Your other memory is still there for other programs to use, though. I used to use Blender on a 16 GB machine with a 32-bit OS. The 16 GB was usable, but if Blender tried to use more than 2.6 GB, it crashed. Are you gonna run a lot of proprietary software? Some proprietary software can have problems with 64-bit, especially old proprietary software. However, this situation is mostly resolved due to the new ability to install 32-bit libraries alongside 64-bit libraries painlessly.
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I use Lubuntu 14.04. It is pretty good. It runs 90% of the software I use on a regular basis, and it _never_ bugs me about the cloud. It doesn't try to get me to subscribe to things, or save my files to the cloud, or any of that which Windows is headed in the direction of. I'm not an evangilist or anything (butchered spelling). Linux still has a lot of short-comings and things that need to be improved before the masses would accept it. Then again, when malware peddlers target Mac and Windows users through the use of malicious ads on big sites like Youtube, they do not even bother with Linux because of the small user base. This is a reason to *keep* Linux's user-base small. Sure, its a greedy outlook on things, but it helps keep us secure even when our platform does have holes in it.
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The new Moto G has a Micro-SD slot. The original model did not, and we complained. I have no clue about removable batteries, though.
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Yeah as Android users, it would be cool to see Apple REALLY push the performance. If I had designed that Apple, I would have used 4 GB of RAM, a quad-core CPU, and a honking big battery to keep it going for a long time. When a manufacturer goes easy on the specs, their competitors can also skimp on hardware. Its like the AMD vs Intel thing. AMD got clobbered in the high-end CPU world, but if AMD pulls out a monster CPU tomorrow, its good for Intel users too because it keeps progress moving at a fast rate for everybody. Also, Motorola listened to us and included SD slots on their new models.
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Meanwile, look at *this*. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphone_6 Look at how much they charge for this thing, and look at the specs. It costs close to a grand and has 1 GB of RAM. But hey, at least its 64-bit! Seriously, you can brag about that to clueless people as though its an exclusive feature. However, 64-bit will not get you very far at all with such little RAM. My Android device that costs a fraction of this has 1 GB of RAM. It also has a Micro-SD slot, and an HDMI port. When I bought this Android, I kinda felt like I was already getting an obsolete device, but next to the people who buy this new Apple "flagship" model, I made out like a bandit. Now, its not my business to tell people what device they get. However, Apple has tried to ban Android devices in the past, like this. http://www.geeky-gad...u-s-28-08-2014/ Just because you have an army of followers who will buy anything with a fruit logo on it, does not mean you can try to halt progress for the rest of us, Apple.
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This game is actually a lot of fun. There's no complex dialogue or cut-scenes. The single objective is to run around at insane speeds and eradicate EVERYTHING. Most of the level design is quite good. I would even rather play this than Doom 3. I see where Romero was coming from when he says Doom 3 just lacks compared to these games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhKBdvyHUPY Thanks to the people who made Gzdoom for making these games have full mouse-look.