lost_soul

http://www.dailytech...rticle34795.htm Hi, I'm writing this post from the future. The year is now 2065 and a 1.5 Mb/s DSL connection still costs what it did in 2014, and indeed still what it did in 2004. The only "progress" we have had is now your video streaming, VOIP, and music streaming can run slightly faster if your video/VOIP/music provider signs a contract with your ISP to not be throttled. Of course they'll pass these costs along to you while they're at it.

This is the kind of shit we have to deal with...... http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-7-tablet-2012/195587-what-mediaserver-why-draining-my-battery-so-much.html Apparently a process that scans your media files will prevent your phone from going to sleep and also drain the battery incredibly quickly. Annoying as all hell.

Somebody needs to build a small form factor battery pack for cell phones. It is thin, roughly the size of the phone, and can attach to the back via velcrow or something. It has a low-profile, right-angle micro-usb plug so that it does not stick out far and will not break if placed into a pocket. The actual USB cable needs to be just an inch or two, so that it can fit snugly with the phone... I've checked and (surprisingly) I cannot find something like this. Either that, or build us a case with a battery pack in the back.

Yeah, the Pandora looked awesome. I followed that project until it was finished. The problem was that (because it was made by a small. group of guys), it was outdated upon release and supplies were limited. They had lots of great ideas though, like dual SD slots.

I personally don't care if its waterproof. I mean, by the age of thirty, I've figured out that high tech gadgets and H2O do not mix. Note that I've *seen* plenty of phones and Ipods that went for a swim. I've also seen loads with crushed screens, even though they supposedly make them very tough and I've never crushed an LCD on a tablet/phone/player myself.

Regarding your above post, I had a good laugh yesterday. All those cheap phones you speak of allow you to replace the battery, and almost none of these expensive ones do. What's the deal? It isn't as though those cheap phones are bulky and heavy either. That's the primary excuse I've seen for why smart phone batteries are not replaceable.

Me personally... I just want a tiny computer that I can carry everywhere in my pocket, with my entire music collection on it, which can also browse the web. Most tablets are too big for that. I might not even get the phone I ordered activated unless I can find a very cheap provider. I spend less than 5 minutes on the phone a day so I don't need an expensive contract or a mandatory monthly bill. I'm not one of those zombies you see out in public texting people and on FB constantly. I'm instead one of those zombies whose always listening to music or reading something.

Yeah, I saw that. It looks awesome, especially for the price. Finally a manufacturer that isn't raping customers who want lots of built-in storage. (The 64 GB model is hardly more expensive than the 16 GB model!) Sadly, I already ordered that other phone. 64 GB internal-storage is nice, but SDXC support is nicer. The SDXC spec allows for up to 2 TB cards! I just want to fit my entire 83 GB music collection in my pocket. I wonder *why* they dont ship with an SD slot? Some people say it is because of XFAT IP issues, but they can just not support that file system and use something like ext4 on the card. If a clueless user complains that the card isn't read when they stick it in their Windows machine, they can be educated as to why. Hopefully this thing is legit and it puts pressure on the other manufacturers.

It isn't necessarily a dust issue though. My laptop has spent 98% of its life in a travel bag and is thus very clean on the inside. It still gets that hot. Even though we find that excessive, it is still below the critical level and they can thus say it is within specifications. Remember that most people don't push machines nearly that hard.

I use a program called cpufreq for Linux. You can specify the max clock rate the CPU is allowed to run at. I don't know how to do it in Windows, though I'm sure there are ways. BTW Linux tells me anything over 87C is "high" and 105C+ is critical. I imagine your CPU is similar because its from the same family.

Well, I was doing rendering on my laptop in Linux. It is an I7 3610QM and it was reaching into the 90s, like yours. I solved it by underclocking the CPU by 200 MHZ (on all the cores). That brought it WAY down to less than 70. So, if you can slow your CPU down a couple hundred MHz in Windows, that will solve your heat problem and T4 will probably run just as well if not a tiny bit slower.

This seems to be the only android phone that isn't either extremely over-priced, or a complete piece of shit (no SD slot or outdated OS). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfpnFiwrboY I've been looking for a fairly priced phone with no contract that is not $500 (like a galaxy), or running something like Gingerbred and thus obsolete crap. It also must have an SD card slot. This fits all those bills. Even though its old, it still has 1 GB of RAM and a multiple-core CPU so performance looks quite reasonable. I see phones that are newer than this coming with less RAM... You can also install up to Android 4.3 on this thing and it has received attention from the modding community. What do you think? Worth $140? The only thing that scares me about this is the battery life. Some people say it isn't very good.

Tis a bit of a shame nothing has come out of this contest as far as actual playable content is concerned. Most of us who have been around the modding and gaming scene for two decades are not impressed by simple texture repaints. People were doing more advanced stuff than that with DooM and Wolfenstein 3D two decades ago. In reality, those of you who design great missions for us to play (and the mod creators too) are the ones who deserve a nice, shiny new rig with lots of RAM and a great graphics card.

Hmm I think it is because I like the atmosphere... I like the spooky sounds, the creepy feeling that nobody (friendly) is around, the way I have to wonder what is going to jump out at me or surprise me, etc. I really like missions that have a dark secret. For example, you break into a mansion and find a hidden haunted crypt underneath.... or you complete an objective and everything goes to hell. If you do not understand what I mean here, play Wicked Relics for T2. If you're too lazy/too busy to do that:

I really like my current TV. Its dumb, but big and it has nice black levels for TDM. It has no net connection. My favorite feature is that you can turn the screen off and just keep the amplifier/speakers on, which is great because I use it at night to listen to things while I fall asleep. That's an example of an awesome feature that every TV needs to have. Also, XBone doesn't require a net connection to play single player games. They dropped that requirement because people raged about it. I imagine MS and Sony are secretly planning behind closed doors to both implement that on next gen though, so people have "no choice". If I were them, that's what I would do... something like: "We both want to do this, but our users rebel against it. Let's both implement the feature so that the user has no option but to except it, or not play modern games." Even if they could get in legal trouble for doing this, they would achieve their goals and any fines they receive would be both a decade late and a drop in the bucket.

I wonder if you've got a 5400RPM hard drive. The PC manufacturers are still trying to shove those things down consumers' throats, even though they're pathetically slow. I went to buy a drive the other day and those were all they had... pffft Anyway, I don't think there is a lot you can do to shorten load times. Exit any other programs that are running before playing TDM, including Itunes, Skype, and the like. How much RAM do you have? I think turning texture compression off can speed up load times, but you need a video card with lots of RAM. Even my 1 GB card was choking on the mission "Requiem" with texture compression turned off because it was such a large map with lots of different architecture and textures. Have you defragmented since you started playing TDM?

Now we have 6 TB hard drives. That's over 5500 GB of usable space, folks. As I figured out before, 520 GB can easily hold 10 years of speech-quality audio, which means ALL of the audio throughout your entire existence (every single minute of it) can be recorded onto just a single HDD! Scared yet? http://www.extremete...led-with-helium What's even scarier is that some day, the price of this thing will be 1/100 of what it is today.

I prefer not being able to escape from the level... but I know you can never fix all those types of flaws. Also, sometimes in games it will seem as though you can reach an area, but when you try, you find out you're not supposed to be there. An example of this is Amnesia, near where you have to mix the chemicals to destroy the debris blocking your path in the basement. After you destroy it, there's a hole in the ceiling where you can see chandeliers above. That is an example of taunting the player; I stacked up stuff to try to go up there because it looked legit, but I was stopped by an invisible wall.

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If you can give us some better sounds for when the player is walking through very shallow water, it would be appreciated. Currently, the AI sounds in shallow water are great, but the ones the player makes are not so good.

What codec would you use? Would you use H.264, or would you use Dirac? Apparently Theora isn't so good as far as file size is concerned. I guess you can always support multiple formats and just let the mapper decide.

Why, being able to take away content from people that you never had anything to do with in the first place! http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?332690-Sintel-blocked-by-Sony-on-Youtube Praise be to the imaginary property brigade, who can have any content they deem "theirs" removed at the drop of a hat, without proof and without due process. This particular situation is not an issue for me, because I have this on DVD. However, if I was dumb enough to rely on the cloud for all my entertainment, (the way they want things to go), and my favorite art was taken down without due process or a legitimate reason (be it music or anything else), I would be extremely pissed.

Note to self: If I ever make a game, play the following April fools joke on the player. if date ==4/1/xxxx then print "Sorry, your save file is corrupt. All of your progress has been lost and you must restart the game from the beginning" (and then a few lines below) print "just joking! -- your save file is fine" I remember when games had surprises if you played them on certain dates.