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  1. 99% of the hardware is not fast enough. Most Chromebooks use bottom-of-the-barrel GPUs. (Celerons with integrated graphics) Hopefully as Chromebooks continue to build steam and as tech advances, they will get better parts. I've seen reports that say Chromebooks are becoming a major success at schools. BTW for anything with an ARM processor, forget about running TDM on it.
  2. "hickups" are so ****ing annoying...

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    2. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      There is actually a decline in creepy crawlies worldwide, such as spiders etc. Wehich means there is inevitably going to be a rise in insect pests.

       

    3. Lux

      Lux

      We went moutainbiking last weekend in Kentucky and these trails were NOT well traveled. We were riding through spider web after spider web through the eerie wood. There was one about every 3-6 meters average. I almost got one in my mouth and another in my eye! When we'd stop riding there were webs hanging off the bikes and our arms and spiders on our handlebars and clothes! It was... wow. Not well traveled trails indeed.

    4. PranQster

      PranQster

      A heaping spoon of sugar cures the hiccups right quick...never tried it on spiders though.

  3. Hey, this is really cool. My favorite aspect is the atmosphere: the sounds and visuals, lighting, etc. Thanks for another fun mission. I've already completed it twice.
  4. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249698/What_about_Windows_Mr._Nadella_ The times... they're changing, man. I wonder if they are going to try a version of Windows that requires a subscription? If they were, this guy would be the guy to do it. It doesn't seem like that idea would be successful now, though. They're too late. The Ipad/phone and Android have taken off. If they had tried a subscription-based Windows before all of these competitors showed up on the scene, they would have easily pulled it off. Now though? Many people would just say **** that, I'm getting an Ipad/something else.
  5. I made my first animation tonight. Its just a simple hallway, with a window on the side and light coming in. I have a blue object traveling through the hallway, past the window. This is using Cycles. Why'd I do it? I wanted to see the kick-ass global illumination effect in real-time. As the blue object passes the window, it receives the bright sunlight, but splatters blue light onto the rest of the room as it goes by.
  6. The thing is, when you have 70+ gigs of music, its not a matter of seconds of scanning... its a matter of minutes. The long scan will drain 4-6% of the battery. I would like to be able to justt leave the thing turned on, but I frequently find it dead within a couple days because some mis-behaving app has went rogue and sucked the life out of the battery.
  7. Consider the following. You have a mobile device with two physically separate disks. There's the internal NAND, and the SD card. When the device is powered on, it builds a database of all of the files on both of these drives so that files can be found quickly. Thing is though, it does this even if no changes have been made to the drives since the last power off, wasting loads of battery power and causing UI lag... and it does this at EVERY boot! Proposed solution: When the device is instructed to power off, it creates a file on the drive with a timestamp, and then immediately unmounts the file system. Then when you turn it on again, the device copies the last modification time of the file systems on the drives into memory. Then it actually mounts the file system and compares the date in memory to the timestamped file I mentioned above. If they are within a couple of seconds of each other, no external changes have been made to the drive and it is not necessary to rebuild the entire database from scratch. However, if they are out of sync, that indicates that somebody hooked the SD card to another machine, meaning the database needs rebuilt. Why is something this simple not implemented? I'm not even an engineer and stuff like this seems so logical.
  8. Happy Birthday, Bikerdude... and thanks for the missions you've released to the community.
  9. http://www.modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=103104 No matter how many times I listen to this, it just never gets old. The song is a fraction of a meg, but it is 4x longer than a traditional song. There are lots of different sections to the music, all of which are strung together and fit perfectly, though they're distinct. Its the type of music you can have playing in the background while you're doing other things, and it will not bug you. That's why I still say this guy is brilliant.
  10. It looks like the secondary GPU in this thing *is* FUBAR. No matter what I do, it refuses to come online in Linux and Windows shows it has a code 43. Oh well, there's still the Intel GPU.
  11. This is cool because (although the first PCs were a complete joke when it comes to multimedia), people are still finding ways to push them further than they were designed to go.
  12. Pretty sad when a 3.5 GHz CPU loses to a 3.3 GHz CPU in a race... especially when the 3.5 GHZ CPU is a couple years newer! The older chip rendered a scene in 3:05 and the newer one took 3:55!

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    2. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Didnt I read somewhere you can offload Blender cycles to the GPU..?

    3. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      Yep, but there are restrictions. The entire scene must fit in VRAM, and if you render hair with the GPU, it is very slow.

    4. jaxa

      jaxa

      Buy an i5 next time

  13. I've always loved this song too. The best part starts at 1:41.
  14. I have it running now as a desktop. Turns out, the HDMI port is still operational. This thing is still really fast and I'm glad it is still usable. (it can process 8 threads at a time!) I need to get NVIDIA Optimus going though in Linux. The name I gave the machine during installation is "FUBAR"... lol
  15. I have a laptop that was messed up by a surge. The backlight in the screen is out, and the thing will not turn on if a battery is inserted. It will, however, turn on with the battery removed and while plugged in. It will also boot and you can see the screen if you use a flashlight. I guess the motherboard is messed up. It is a Sandy/Ivy bridge I5 with 8 gigs of RAM and an NVIDIA GT card, so I would really like to turn it into a franken-desktop, if I can. Those parts are just too good to trash if it can be made usable without significant costs. Any ideas? I figure it uses LEDs for the screen lighting and not a CCFL. When did CCFLs go out of style? I wonder what voltage the screen LEDs run on and if it can be rigged to run from an external adapter, It seems like the VGA port is also FUBAR too, because when I connected it to a monitor, I got a yellow (but perfectly clear) screen. I've seen that happen when a pin isn't making contact, so the port must be broken. There is also an HDMI port, but I cannot test that yet because I do not have an HDMI cable. I got it to boot from a USB drive and it started talking to me (with Knoppix). I was also wondering if I can take the parts out of here (CPU/RAM and build a tiny desktop with a micro motherboard that will fit them.
  16. @5:10... The stupidity is astounding. If it were up to me, this guy would be permanently banned from driving. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSHYmPlG0NI&list=PLB4ADF6A3E3C816D3
  17. How many of you (who prefer digital games) live in a nation which is interested in harvesting absolutely everything about you and what you do just in case they need the information to use against you one day? Why is it somebody's business how many times I replay a game, or how far I get in it, or how many times I reinstall it, or how many times I frag a certain character? These are problems we don't (yet) have with games on disk. They're going to implement smart meters soon though, so they can spy on you more effectively based on your power consumption. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45946984/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/smart-electricity-meters-can-be-used-spy-private-homes/ Consider this: The amount of power your TV consumes is related to what is on the screen. Given that a movie consists of frame after frame of varying brightnesses on the screen, if they can monitor the readings on the meter over a couple of hours, they can figure out what movie you're watching based on the dips and surges in power consumption of the screen.
  18. I would just like to say that the AMD Radeon Linux drivers have come a long way. I'm typing this on a machine with a Radeon 3000 IGP and it runs beautifully for desktop use. Compiz is buttery-smooth at 1080p, and I can even run my older games in Wine without issue. I could give this thing to a person who isn't into demanding games and they would be perfectly happy with it.
  19. Physical, as long as there's no malware requiring a disk in the drive to play. I just assembled this machine I'm typing on last night and it has no DVD drive.
  20. I think I'm in love... with ice cream. Ever buy a gallon of it? When you live by yourself, you can eat as much as you want.

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    2. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      @LS watch those celeries though mista.

    3. Melan

      Melan

      Love kills. :(

    4. Sotha

      Sotha

      Love makes stuff worthwhile. :)

  21. I recently discovered a bad RAM module in my machine. Windows would BSOD on occasion for seemingly no reason, until I ran memtest. I use Linux most of the time, and Linux appeared to run "fine" even with the bad RAM. However, files that I would copy would randomly get corrupt without the system complaining at all, so I didn't know it was even happening. This is obviously not acceptable. Why did Linux not panic the way Windows did? Having an unstable machine that keeps going is worse than a machine that just crashes out-right for obvious reasons.
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