> There were literally at least 10-15 games I would have bought in a heartbeat that never left
> japan(I know this isn't nintendos fault but their 3rd party programmers)
It's not only that. The ESA and those crazy politically-correct demanders are also partially to blame for blocking games with contents it finds "offensive".
Gnome 3 dropped their equivalent of the start button, instead opting for the same "hover over corner for a second to get start menu" thing. Unity followed suit.
About half of the techies facing the change didn't like it and threw Gnome3 out for XFCE.
I wonder if the removal of the start button in Win8 will result in the resurrection of alternative shell apps like litestep and WindowBlinds...
Also, am I the only one to think the "hover in the corner for a second" thing will cause serious issues with some full screen games?
The same enterprises that forces IE6 down the throats of it's employees are the same ones that're blocking Youtube and Facebook among other social and video sites, considering them counter-productive.
Seconded. I bought a LG 32LW45 just the other day as it was on offer. I don't see any drop in image quality with 3D content when 3D mode is on unless I move real close to the screen, in which then the scan lines becomes somewhat obvious. The fact that the glasses aren't flickery at all (and the fact that I can actually have this polarizing feature added to my prescription glasses the next time I get them made) are all advantages that active shutter glasses lack.
My only complaints are that the sets start up with a picture lag which gradually disappears, and that sometimes it fails to detect 3D mode properly (though I'm beginning to suspect this to be the fault of the HDMI cable- what happens when you buy cheapo from Carrefour I guess).
Samsung can go take their active 3D and shove it up their arse. I'm convinced of the advantages of passive 3D, even if resolution is halved and the picture is interlaced.
Probably a way of setting it up so people in unprivileged countries cannot download games by lying about their locations.
For example, the XBox 360 is rubbish over here in Malaysia because XBox Live is not available in the country- if you own a XBox 360, you're limited to only offline play.
Ditto for Win7 phones (is there any wonder they're flops over here?)- simply because Windows Phone Marketplace (and again, XBox Live) isn't available here and thus those phones are useless.
The Wii Shop is also not available in Malaysia.
Now, on a current Wii, you could get around any blockades simply by telling it you're in South America. The Wii's current payment system for Brazil simply asks for your Credit Card number, CVV and Postcode, and will blindly accept the card because Malaysia uses a similar postal code system to Brazil, and what do you know? The postcode on the card account matches the one given!
If they were to switch to the NN system, you'd be required to register yourself before you can buy any games,. If you're located in a country that the Big N refuses to sell games online to or offer online service to at all, you're screwed.
Of course, you can do what people do and set up an account using a collaborators' address, but that's just dishonest...
How about pressing Microsoft to make Windows Phone Marketplace and XBox Live available in more areas worldwide, particularly the poorer areas of South East Asia (hint: Malaysia)? No one wants a smartphone that will not allow you to add apps to.
According to ZDNet- if Apple rejects the book for whatever reason, you're still bound by the fact that you used iBooks Author to write the book and it has to be consigned to the Trash. You can't take it and publish it elsewhere.
To me, that's faff. It means that if Apple doesn't like what you wrote, you have to throw the book away, no way to take it to a different publisher.
Flame- what happens when Apple doesn't like your work.
Have an A6 with G2 graphics myself. Did you remember to turn on dual graphics in the Catalyst Control Center, enable Crossfire support in the game, set the game to Maximum Performance in switchable graphics and set power management to Maximum performance? I have all of them set, and i get excellent performance in Team Fortress 2 and Garry's Mod.
I'd assume that the speed differences were because the CPU was being used to refresh the framebuffer (as is the case of many consoles and computers that used the TV for display at the time). Remember that NTSC had a higher framerate compared to PAL or SECAM. Thus the framebuffer would need to be refreshed much more frequently to keep sync.
Problem is, I've met tons of Macs users who had never, ever run System Update. Ever. Under the excuse of "It ain't broke, why fix it?".
Seriously, the solution to this problem is to teach safe computing in school. Be it Linux, Windows, Mac OS, Solaris or BSD, if the user is gullible, then the computer is always at risk.
You mean the fucking whole of Asia. I have not been able to log in to my PSN account for over a month now. Apparently they want to have Japan's servers back up first before turning on the Hong Kong/Taiwan server, which will then restore services to the rest of Asia.
Aside from getting that 3.61 firmware update, I've not used my PS3 for anything useful since it went down.
On Nvidia cards, The icons were washed out and mostly white outlines with a bit of color on the side. And performance was crap even though the machine I was running the LiveCD from was a Phenom II with dual NVidia GTX260s SLIed (yes, I have multiple Linux boxes).
It's not GNOME3's fault really, it's the fact that neither AMD nor NVidia wants to release proper open source drivers for their cards on Linux and that most distros can't ship them by default because they override part of X with their own proprietary libraries that will render the X installation unusable on other cards. So they ship with whatever open source drivers that happen to be available, which are far from polished.
Posted Wednesday 20th April 2011 18:51 GMT
RAMChYLD
re: it's probably time to start learning how to tweak Xfce
→#
I've always liked XFCE. I like to think of it as Gnome-lite and have my root account boot into it.
I'd probably be moving to it full time too if Gnome 3 won't run on my Athlon XP 1700+ with 2GB of RAM and NVidia GeForce440MX 8X AGP adapter. As outdated as the machine is (It was built in 2001 after all, and started out with a then-whopping 256MB of DDR1 RAM, which was upped several times over the past years, with the final 2GB configuration coming last year), it still runs Gnome 2.30 with Compiz fine. I hope it doesn't wheeze and stutter under the Gnome 3.
In the end, it's not about having a flashy desktop. It's about finding one that balances between the flashiness against performance.
Except it was supposedly a Kingston DataTraveller 4G. Looks like the real deal, but feels somewhat cheaper (my aunt got it for me tho, so I can't really complain). It even reported itself as a 4GB device to Windows. Only when I copied files onto it and the files were getting corrupted that I realize something was wrong. FSCK it on my Linux box and every three bytes out of four was erratic.
Granade. I'd like to kill the person making these fakes with one.
Posted Monday 4th April 2011 03:53 GMT
RAMChYLD
re: You mean something like a network attached storage device?
→#
Well, autostereoscopic 3D LCD panels (displays that don't require the viewer to wear glasses) have been around for quite some time. Only problem is, no manufacturer have the guts to adopt the system for use with 3DTV. They're currently used only in a few niche markets (i.e. ad displays, a few cellphone models in Japan, professional 3D workstation displays and the Nintendo 3DS).
Posted Wednesday 2nd March 2011 08:43 GMT
RAMChYLD
But if they replace the 30-pin proprietary port with a thunderbolt...
→#
Android is currently among the biggest craze among consumers where cellphone OSes are involved. Nokia could've jumped on the bandwagon and regain the lost userbase instead of going for an OS where you can't even do cut and paste and there's no Angry Birds.
Nokia is making a rather bad decision here. I'd rather an Android Nokia phone than a WinPhone7 one. Especially since WinPhone7 is 10 steps back from Windows Mobile 6.0.
It's an employee with a moral problem copying the code and releasing it onto the Internet. A PEBCAK issue if you ask me. If you want to pin the blame on someone, I'd say blame Kaspersky's HR department for hiring that shady dude in the first place.
Will it run iPhone4 retina-enhanced apps at their native 960x480 resolution instead of the 3GS standard that is 480x320? I regularly run iPhone apps on my iPad, and an iPad does have a higher res than a iPhone 4 (1024x768) and will benefit from the better res provided by running retina-enhanced apps at the enhanced (widescreen) resolution.
I'd test it out myself (having already downloaded the firmware at work so I could just plug in the iPad and continue from there when I get home), but then I'm stuck at work for another 2 hours and 40 minutes, and will probably be stuck in a traffic jam for another hour or so.
1. Why does the Freeview screenie have satellite channels like CNN and the such? (If you guys do get the channel free off Freeview, lucky devils you Brits. We Asians have to pay for the channels!)
2. The Freesat screenie shows only local channels. You guys should have sat channels listed there instead.
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Posted Monday 20th February 2012 07:53 GMT
RAMChYLD
Re: @Greg J Preece → #
In Ageing Mario blamed for Nintendo's woes
> There were literally at least 10-15 games I would have bought in a heartbeat that never left
> japan(I know this isn't nintendos fault but their 3rd party programmers)
It's not only that. The ESA and those crazy politically-correct demanders are also partially to blame for blocking games with contents it finds "offensive".
Posted Wednesday 15th February 2012 07:05 GMT
RAMChYLD
Actually → #
In China clamps down on foreign telly on its channels
A lot of the stuff produced in Britain are exponentially better than the crud churned out by many other countries internationally.
Posted Monday 13th February 2012 09:39 GMT
RAMChYLD
This guy is a psycho → #
In IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop
Nuff said. Rational folks won't own a gun. Hell, the only gun IT guys own are Nerfs, or if you're richer, stun guns.
And his daughter is right to demand being paid for doing household chores.
I hope social services deal with this psycho. Preferably by taking his daughter away.
Posted Wednesday 8th February 2012 03:28 GMT
RAMChYLD
Prior art → #
In Has Microsoft finally killed off Windows 8 Start button?
Gnome 3 dropped their equivalent of the start button, instead opting for the same "hover over corner for a second to get start menu" thing. Unity followed suit.
About half of the techies facing the change didn't like it and threw Gnome3 out for XFCE.
I wonder if the removal of the start button in Win8 will result in the resurrection of alternative shell apps like litestep and WindowBlinds...
Also, am I the only one to think the "hover in the corner for a second" thing will cause serious issues with some full screen games?
Posted Friday 3rd February 2012 04:14 GMT
RAMChYLD
Good plan, but... → #
In Death of IE6 still greatly exaggerated, says browser hit squad
The same enterprises that forces IE6 down the throats of it's employees are the same ones that're blocking Youtube and Facebook among other social and video sites, considering them counter-productive.
Posted Thursday 2nd February 2012 02:45 GMT
RAMChYLD
RE: I love my LG → #
In LG 3D TV ads misled buyers, judges watchdog
Seconded. I bought a LG 32LW45 just the other day as it was on offer. I don't see any drop in image quality with 3D content when 3D mode is on unless I move real close to the screen, in which then the scan lines becomes somewhat obvious. The fact that the glasses aren't flickery at all (and the fact that I can actually have this polarizing feature added to my prescription glasses the next time I get them made) are all advantages that active shutter glasses lack.
My only complaints are that the sets start up with a picture lag which gradually disappears, and that sometimes it fails to detect 3D mode properly (though I'm beginning to suspect this to be the fault of the HDMI cable- what happens when you buy cheapo from Carrefour I guess).
Samsung can go take their active 3D and shove it up their arse. I'm convinced of the advantages of passive 3D, even if resolution is halved and the picture is interlaced.
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Posted Saturday 28th January 2012 05:35 GMT
RAMChYLD
Locking out more people from their services → #
In Nintendo unveils Network for console connectivity
Probably a way of setting it up so people in unprivileged countries cannot download games by lying about their locations.
For example, the XBox 360 is rubbish over here in Malaysia because XBox Live is not available in the country- if you own a XBox 360, you're limited to only offline play.
Ditto for Win7 phones (is there any wonder they're flops over here?)- simply because Windows Phone Marketplace (and again, XBox Live) isn't available here and thus those phones are useless.
The Wii Shop is also not available in Malaysia.
Now, on a current Wii, you could get around any blockades simply by telling it you're in South America. The Wii's current payment system for Brazil simply asks for your Credit Card number, CVV and Postcode, and will blindly accept the card because Malaysia uses a similar postal code system to Brazil, and what do you know? The postcode on the card account matches the one given!
If they were to switch to the NN system, you'd be required to register yourself before you can buy any games,. If you're located in a country that the Big N refuses to sell games online to or offer online service to at all, you're screwed.
Of course, you can do what people do and set up an account using a collaborators' address, but that's just dishonest...
Posted Saturday 28th January 2012 05:18 GMT
RAMChYLD
Here's a thought Elop → #
In Dumb salesmen are hurting us – Nokia CEO
How about pressing Microsoft to make Windows Phone Marketplace and XBox Live available in more areas worldwide, particularly the poorer areas of South East Asia (hint: Malaysia)? No one wants a smartphone that will not allow you to add apps to.
Posted Sunday 22nd January 2012 19:21 GMT
RAMChYLD
re: Delusional → #
In Windows Phone to overtake iOS in 2015
I'll drink to that. Evil as Apple be, at least the App store is available in 9/10 of the world.
Windows Marketplace and Zune Marketplace? Nope. Only two third of the world gets it.
Remind me again why I'd want a phone that I can't load new software on to.
Posted Sunday 22nd January 2012 06:27 GMT
RAMChYLD
There's a even worse side to using the app → #
In Use iBooks Author, only Apple can ever publish the result
According to ZDNet- if Apple rejects the book for whatever reason, you're still bound by the fact that you used iBooks Author to write the book and it has to be consigned to the Trash. You can't take it and publish it elsewhere.
To me, that's faff. It means that if Apple doesn't like what you wrote, you have to throw the book away, no way to take it to a different publisher.
Flame- what happens when Apple doesn't like your work.
Posted Friday 20th January 2012 19:04 GMT
RAMChYLD
Why stop at 3? → #
In NASA shuts off Voyager 1's central heating
They need to continue up to Voyager 6 so that we can have V'Ger.
For added bonus points, make the CPU of the Voyager 6 a PowerPC 7450.
Terminator. Because that's just what V'Ger is.
Posted Wednesday 18th January 2012 04:07 GMT
RAMChYLD
The fun is starting → #
In Google to join Wednesday's anti-SOPA protest
If this bill passes, it will set a bad example for the governments of the rest of the world.
Let the blocking begin.
Posted Wednesday 11th January 2012 06:50 GMT
RAMChYLD
Did you turn on Multi-GPU → #
In HP Pavilion dv6 15.6in quad-core notebook
Have an A6 with G2 graphics myself. Did you remember to turn on dual graphics in the Catalyst Control Center, enable Crossfire support in the game, set the game to Maximum Performance in switchable graphics and set power management to Maximum performance? I have all of them set, and i get excellent performance in Team Fortress 2 and Garry's Mod.
Posted Wednesday 11th January 2012 06:09 GMT
RAMChYLD
RE: Something → #
In Intel caught faking CES ultrabook gaming demo
> My Samsung NC10 plays 720p easily and can, with the right codec, do 1080p.
Care to elaborate? The NC10 only has a resolution of 1024x600. Have you tried hooking up a Full HD TV and running it as a second display of 1920x1080?
My Dell 10v can't handle it either, so don't feel bad. Why I threw it aside and bought a regular notebook when my annual bonus came in.
Posted Wednesday 4th January 2012 08:24 GMT
RAMChYLD
Speed differences → #
In The Commodore 64 is 30
I'd assume that the speed differences were because the CPU was being used to refresh the framebuffer (as is the case of many consoles and computers that used the TV for display at the time). Remember that NTSC had a higher framerate compared to PAL or SECAM. Thus the framebuffer would need to be refreshed much more frequently to keep sync.
Posted Sunday 11th December 2011 21:19 GMT
RAMChYLD
Wait, what credit card? → #
In Four Romanians charged with hacking 150 Subway shops
Subway only accepts cash, bro. At least, this is the case in Malaysia.
Paris, because of the question mark.
Posted Thursday 6th October 2011 02:44 GMT
RAMChYLD
RIP → #
In Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is dead at 56
A true visionary who brought GUI to the masses.
RIP Steve Jobs.
Posted Friday 24th June 2011 06:53 GMT
RAMChYLD
Sonic 2 sound test code → #
In Sega celebrates two decades of Sonic the Hedgehog
19 65 09 17, then exit the screen (do not reset) and hold A while pressing start If I recall correctly. Man, those were the days.
Posted Friday 27th May 2011 09:21 GMT
RAMChYLD
Fail not averted → #
In New Mac scareware variant installs without password
Problem is, I've met tons of Macs users who had never, ever run System Update. Ever. Under the excuse of "It ain't broke, why fix it?".
Seriously, the solution to this problem is to teach safe computing in school. Be it Linux, Windows, Mac OS, Solaris or BSD, if the user is gullible, then the computer is always at risk.
Posted Wednesday 25th May 2011 09:08 GMT
RAMChYLD
Finally, XGA support → #
In Opera rolls new Mini onto iPhone and iPad
I was thinking it would never come and I'd be stuck with a fugly blown up 480x320 on my iPad.
Shame that it fails at many Web2.0rhea sites tho.
Posted Thursday 19th May 2011 03:22 GMT
RAMChYLD
Japan? → #
In New PlayStation Network hack hijacks user accounts
You mean the fucking whole of Asia. I have not been able to log in to my PSN account for over a month now. Apparently they want to have Japan's servers back up first before turning on the Hong Kong/Taiwan server, which will then restore services to the rest of Asia.
Aside from getting that 3.61 firmware update, I've not used my PS3 for anything useful since it went down.
Posted Thursday 21st April 2011 08:45 GMT
RAMChYLD
It's not just you ATI users → #
In Sanity saver: Fedora 15 answers Ubuntu's Unity
On Nvidia cards, The icons were washed out and mostly white outlines with a bit of color on the side. And performance was crap even though the machine I was running the LiveCD from was a Phenom II with dual NVidia GTX260s SLIed (yes, I have multiple Linux boxes).
It's not GNOME3's fault really, it's the fact that neither AMD nor NVidia wants to release proper open source drivers for their cards on Linux and that most distros can't ship them by default because they override part of X with their own proprietary libraries that will render the X installation unusable on other cards. So they ship with whatever open source drivers that happen to be available, which are far from polished.
Posted Wednesday 20th April 2011 18:51 GMT
RAMChYLD
re: it's probably time to start learning how to tweak Xfce → #
In Sanity saver: Fedora 15 answers Ubuntu's Unity
I've always liked XFCE. I like to think of it as Gnome-lite and have my root account boot into it.
I'd probably be moving to it full time too if Gnome 3 won't run on my Athlon XP 1700+ with 2GB of RAM and NVidia GeForce440MX 8X AGP adapter. As outdated as the machine is (It was built in 2001 after all, and started out with a then-whopping 256MB of DDR1 RAM, which was upped several times over the past years, with the final 2GB configuration coming last year), it still runs Gnome 2.30 with Compiz fine. I hope it doesn't wheeze and stutter under the Gnome 3.
In the end, it's not about having a flashy desktop. It's about finding one that balances between the flashiness against performance.
Posted Tuesday 12th April 2011 09:41 GMT
RAMChYLD
I have a similar device... → #
In Punter bags 500GB SSD, finds 128MB Flash inside
Except it was supposedly a Kingston DataTraveller 4G. Looks like the real deal, but feels somewhat cheaper (my aunt got it for me tho, so I can't really complain). It even reported itself as a 4GB device to Windows. Only when I copied files onto it and the files were getting corrupted that I realize something was wrong. FSCK it on my Linux box and every three bytes out of four was erratic.
Granade. I'd like to kill the person making these fakes with one.
Posted Monday 4th April 2011 03:53 GMT
RAMChYLD
re: You mean something like a network attached storage device? → #
In Windows Home Server 2011 signed off
You mean a Time Capsule?
http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/
Posted Monday 28th March 2011 08:19 GMT
RAMChYLD
Why do we need a title? → #
In Microsoft: Mystery bug blocks Syrian secure Hotmail
> "We do not intentionally limit support by region or geography and this issue was not restricted to
> any specific region of the world. We apologize for any inconvenience to our customers that this
> may have caused," a Microsoft spokesperson said.
Says the company that told me I was not eligible for a XBox Live account for my Malaysian Live account.
Stop talking rots MS. Between this and the fact that games on the 360 can be region-locked, we really know where you stand.
Posted Wednesday 16th March 2011 10:13 GMT
RAMChYLD
Or well... → #
In Asus Eee Pad Slider
There's always WinCE...
I'm sold on this baby tho. Need an Android tab for experimenting and this looks like the ticket.
Posted Wednesday 9th March 2011 10:10 GMT
RAMChYLD
Almost there tho → #
In BBC to take cautious approach to 3D 'hype'
Well, autostereoscopic 3D LCD panels (displays that don't require the viewer to wear glasses) have been around for quite some time. Only problem is, no manufacturer have the guts to adopt the system for use with 3DTV. They're currently used only in a few niche markets (i.e. ad displays, a few cellphone models in Japan, professional 3D workstation displays and the Nintendo 3DS).
Posted Wednesday 2nd March 2011 08:43 GMT
RAMChYLD
But if they replace the 30-pin proprietary port with a thunderbolt... → #
In Fanboi rumor mill dances for
iPad 2iPad 3How do you fscking sync it with a PC? Or hook it up to a TV?
Will Apple bundle a free PCIe Thunderbolt card with every purchase? Or finally offer bluetooth/WiFi sync?
I'm quite happy with my first-gen fondleslab as is tho.
Posted Friday 18th February 2011 20:12 GMT
RAMChYLD
You know what? Otellini is right → #
In Intel boss searches planet for post-Nokia MeeGo spouse
Android is currently among the biggest craze among consumers where cellphone OSes are involved. Nokia could've jumped on the bandwagon and regain the lost userbase instead of going for an OS where you can't even do cut and paste and there's no Angry Birds.
Nokia is making a rather bad decision here. I'd rather an Android Nokia phone than a WinPhone7 one. Especially since WinPhone7 is 10 steps back from Windows Mobile 6.0.
Nokia failed here, hence the icon.
Posted Tuesday 1st February 2011 20:23 GMT
RAMChYLD
It's not a hack → #
In Kaspersky plays down source-code leak
It's an employee with a moral problem copying the code and releasing it onto the Internet. A PEBCAK issue if you ask me. If you want to pin the blame on someone, I'd say blame Kaspersky's HR department for hiring that shady dude in the first place.
Posted Tuesday 23rd November 2010 10:30 GMT
RAMChYLD
It begs to be asked tho... → #
In iOS 4.2 multi-tasking comes to the iPad
Will it run iPhone4 retina-enhanced apps at their native 960x480 resolution instead of the 3GS standard that is 480x320? I regularly run iPhone apps on my iPad, and an iPad does have a higher res than a iPhone 4 (1024x768) and will benefit from the better res provided by running retina-enhanced apps at the enhanced (widescreen) resolution.
I'd test it out myself (having already downloaded the firmware at work so I could just plug in the iPad and continue from there when I get home), but then I'm stuck at work for another 2 hours and 40 minutes, and will probably be stuck in a traffic jam for another hour or so.
Posted Friday 12th November 2010 10:04 GMT
RAMChYLD
Wait, what? → #
In Panasonic Pure Line TX-L37D28 37in LCD TV
I noticed two problems with the article:
1. Why does the Freeview screenie have satellite channels like CNN and the such? (If you guys do get the channel free off Freeview, lucky devils you Brits. We Asians have to pay for the channels!)
2. The Freesat screenie shows only local channels. You guys should have sat channels listed there instead.