100€? Are we both talking about RAM? Because when one of mine died a year or two ago they were like 30€ for two. Although back then the machine was only 18 months old so it was free.
Oh yeah, 4 GB of course. More is probably more expensive...
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100€? Are we both talking about RAM? Because when one of mine died a year or two ago they were like 30€ for two. Although back then the machine was only 18 months old so it was free.
Oh yeah, 4 GB of course. More is probably more expensive...
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Speaking of web sites.
Take a look at either of these two:
http://www.blackmesasource.com/
http://www.visionect.com/
Notice the interface?
All the "screens" are in a continuous scroll, and if you press something on the link bar, it scrolls up and down to fit it.
It's a weird design i first saw at Black Mesa's site, and i thought it was their own piece of web design nonsense.
But then i saw it on another site, the second one, which is about as unrelated to Black mesa and gaming in general as possible.
Yet, same type of design.
That begs the question - what is the origin of this type of design?
Is there some universally popular site that uses it?
Take a look at either of these two:
http://www.blackmesasource.com/
http://www.visionect.com/
Notice the interface?
All the "screens" are in a continuous scroll, and if you press something on the link bar, it scrolls up and down to fit it.
It's a weird design i first saw at Black Mesa's site, and i thought it was their own piece of web design nonsense.
But then i saw it on another site, the second one, which is about as unrelated to Black mesa and gaming in general as possible.
Yet, same type of design.
That begs the question - what is the origin of this type of design?
Is there some universally popular site that uses it?
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It's necessary, TARS.
I think it's one of the features of CSS3 that more or less completely changed the way a web page can be designed. Along HTML5, you can now do this type of web pages, with animations based on scrolling, image hyperlinks, and more.
Android's Kit Kat webpage is a pretty good example: http://www.android.com/versions/kit-kat-4-4/
Android's Kit Kat webpage is a pretty good example: http://www.android.com/versions/kit-kat-4-4/
Quick_Nick
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astrosammy
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... No more DCS, FSX and KSP for a while
Oh, and hello Real Life! Don't be to happy about finally seeing me again,
you will be suffering even more when I have a new Computer which can actually run these games!
... No more DCS, FSX and KSP for a while
Oh, and hello Real Life! Don't be to happy about finally seeing me again,
you will be suffering even more when I have a new Computer which can actually run these games!
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My glee at getting my new computer built has just been tempered by frustration with discovering that I did indeed make a bad choice of video card. I'd found a review saying that the card in question works well with Linux, and rendering-wise, that seems to be true for the most part. But fglrx seems to have some hanging bugs (leading to an unkillable X server with unresponsive keyboard and mouse and the need to restart the machine via ssh), nor do the drivers seem to play well with Wine. It's not something that's so bad as to make the machine unusable or make me want to replace the card right away, but it will probably be the last time I buy a Radeon for a long while.
EDIT: Actually, it's a bit worse than I thought. It causes a crash if I change the view angle in the KSP ship editor. It doesn't make the ship editor totally unusable, but pretty nearly so.
EDIT: Actually, it's a bit worse than I thought. It causes a crash if I change the view angle in the KSP ship editor. It doesn't make the ship editor totally unusable, but pretty nearly so.
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Today, 50 years ago, the first IBM System/360 computer had been build. Not only it was the most expensive computer in terms of the R&D costs of "2.5 Manhattan projects", more accurate is $5.545 billion in 1960 ($40 billion today), it also reduced the execution costs of computer programs from $1.38 for 100,000 operations to 3.5 cent.
It was especially used by NASA during the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.
And it is still alive and calculating: The AP-101 avionics computer is a modification of the System/360, it was used in the Space Shuttle (AP-101B, AP-101S) and still flies in the B-1B and the B-52 family. The Space Shuttle used five AP-101S on board, the B-1B even has eight AP-101F installed.
It was especially used by NASA during the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.
And it is still alive and calculating: The AP-101 avionics computer is a modification of the System/360, it was used in the Space Shuttle (AP-101B, AP-101S) and still flies in the B-1B and the B-52 family. The Space Shuttle used five AP-101S on board, the B-1B even has eight AP-101F installed.
Any numbers on how many Manhattan projects it was in terms of a lethality statistic? 0.0001 Manhattan projects due to that one guy that got stuck between the machine and wall while delievering it?
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I'd previously had a low end Radeon with horrible OpenGL glitches in both Linux and Windows, but had heard that higher-end Radeons were generally decent. And I'd seen a good review of this card in particular, and was a bit miffed with certain aspects of the proprietary NVidia drivers (things like framebuffer support and high resolution text modes in virtual terminals).
I really want to like this card, and for the most part it's likeable. Hopefully the drivers will improve going forward.
Other than the Radeon driver issues, though, I'm really liking this new machine, and I've worked most of the bugs out of the software side of things. MATE is on and Unity is gone, and I've worked out some configuration issues I was having with MATE. I pulled my laptop apart to transfer my home folder over a few nights ago, and the new machine is working well enough that I haven't felt a lot of pressure to get the laptop set up again, though the Radeon driver bug may make it necessary to do KSP ship design on the laptop instead of the desktop.
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