Computer illiterate people who think they know things V8: Mandrith appreciation Station. - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=howling techie;27246465]Is the 'magic mouse' as uncomfortable as it looks?[/QUOTE] I've used one, it's actually pretty nice, in my opinion Wouldn't buy one for retail price though. Maybe $25, max

[QUOTE=howling techie;27246465]Is the 'magic mouse' as uncomfortable as it looks?[/QUOTE] Not really. It takes 20 mins to get used to and it's really a joy to use. It makes scrolling and shit much smoother.

[QUOTE=codenamecueball;27246557]Not really. It takes 20 mins to get used to and it's really a joy to use. It makes scrolling and shit much smoother.[/QUOTE] yeah magic mouse is actually decent but i wouldnt buy one @ retail price

[QUOTE=Binladen34;27245843]I've never seen the AI do shit that stupid in BF2. Unless you count taking an AH-1Z and somehow flipping it upside down in mid air.[/QUOTE] They've done it a few times while I was on Zatar Wetlands. They want to go to the center island, then they turn around and go the other way to protect the base, then the base is safe and they go back (thus executing a second U-turn and blocking up traffic). It's quite annoying but funny to watch.

[QUOTE=Niteshifter;27246895]They've done it a few times while I was on Zatar Wetlands. They want to go to the center island, then they turn around and go the other way to protect the base, then the base is safe and they go back (thus executing a second U-turn and blocking up traffic). It's quite annoying but funny to watch.[/QUOTE] Never played on much SP maps. Just Road to Jalalabad, the one in armored fury with the A-10 (Forgot the name) and the nuclear power plant. (Damn I forgot most of the BF2 maps. I haven't played in a good year)

Shut up about Battlefield and Apple.

Computer illiterate people who think they know things V9: dead skeletons waiting for content

Was it just my school or does it seem like every dumbass thinks its clever to take the ball out of the ball-mice? They must have replaced every ball out of every mouse at least five times over the course of the year.

[QUOTE=Niteshifter;27245724]They are very bad at driving priorities though. I've had one time where one of them tried to make a U-turn on a bridge in a tank and caused all the other bots to wait. I decided to C4 the tank because it was taking too long.[/QUOTE] Yeah, they'r pussy drivers. Also, every time I rush a tank to C4 it, I'm inevitably teamkilled by bots tossing grenades at it. [QUOTE=Binladen34;27245843]I've never seen the AI do shit that stupid in BF2. Unless you count taking an AH-1Z and somehow flipping it upside down in mid air.[/QUOTE] Sounds like the first time I got in a helo. And the second time. And the third time. About the twentieth try, I managed to control the thing. Although I think I'm pretty OK at it by now - I can actually land it without much difficulty. I really need to dig out that design document I wrote for a Battlefield-esque MMO. Something tells me people would like it. Especially since I made an entire faction for CODfags, so you can easily avoid having to play with them.

[QUOTE=Spartan8907;27248003]Was it just my school or does it seem like every dumbass thinks its clever to take the ball out of the ball-mice? They must have replaced every ball out of every mouse at least five times over the course of the year.[/QUOTE] There still exist ball-mices? o_O

Haha, just started an argument with some dumbass on Youtube over DirectX vs OpenGL. [editline]7th January 2011[/editline] Expect content incoming.

[QUOTE=ProWaffle;27248061]Haha, just started an argument with some dumbass on Youtube over DirectX vs OpenGL. [editline]7th January 2011[/editline] Expect content incoming.[/QUOTE] Incomming "DirectX/OpenGL haz moar pixals!"

[QUOTE=Tobba;27248093]Incomming "DirectX/OpenGL haz moar pixals!"[/QUOTE] Glide FTW.

[QUOTE=ProWaffle;27248061]Haha, just started an argument with some dumbass on Youtube over DirectX vs OpenGL. [editline]7th January 2011[/editline] Expect content incoming.[/QUOTE] Which side are you on? :ohdear:

[url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1044908-So-my-inter-webs-does-not-allow-me-to-play-gmod-online.?p=27179319&viewfull=1#post27179319[/url] Oh my god...

[QUOTE=kimr120;27248301][url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1044908-So-my-inter-webs-does-not-allow-me-to-play-gmod-online.?p=27179319&viewfull=1#post27179319[/url] Oh my god...[/QUOTE] I sense a troll. If not then :wtc:

Orkel's a great mod. That's all I can say about the thread.

Self-served content. I got my new computer parts today and was in the middle of migrating parts out of my old computer and into my new one. I decided to reinstall Windows because it's been over half a year since I have and I like to format and reinstall a couple of times a year. I spent about 20 minutes trying to get the CD drive to load up before I realized I forgot to plug the SATA cable into the motherboard. And worse than that, I started up the computer without connecting the CPU power connector.

While the subject of Battlefield is still fairly fresh, let us not forget the wonderful combo that was the BF1942 AI combined with the helicopters in DesertCombat: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDsLYz9IMnI[/media]

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[QUOTE=kimr120;27248301][url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1044908-So-my-inter-webs-does-not-allow-me-to-play-gmod-online.?p=27179319&viewfull=1#post27179319[/url] Oh my god...[/QUOTE] Took me a minute to realize that he said satellite internet was fast. Pretty funny :v: Definitely a troll.

[QUOTE=TehDoomCat;27246228]This. Plus, if they come with iLife (like ours did), you have video editing and music composition software out-of-the-box, which was a haven for my music & media teachers back in school, since our IT staff were so fucking slow at installing software. It took them a year to install Audacity on one suite of computers for us music tech lot, for christ's sake. And the mac minis were tiny, so easy to steal. I wonder if anyone did... they were small enough to hide in a school bag, definitely :v: And unless I have a fuckton of expendable cash, I'm probably never going to buy a mac. But I think they're hated on far too much. They're not bad. I think there's a grain of truth in the "they're better for graphic design hurr"... which is why they're so damn expensive, they can afford to be in the graphic design industry niche market. Good colour management profiles, streamlined UI, decent (mostly stable) Unix... makes for a good workflow for editing photos. I guess the argument is, they're the best... if you can afford to waste hundreds of extra pounds/dollars on them. I think most people forget to distance the hardware from the OS - the OS being the good part, the hardware being way overpriced. I wouldn't mind a macbook one day. Mostly to piss off macfags though, as I would promptly install Arch Linux and Windows on it :v:[/QUOTE] I've been trying to get my school to install Ableton live Education version on one room of computers for 2 years now.

My Content: My whole school has Mac computers only. Every classroom, the teachers desk has a mac. The only places they don't have Mac computers is the Deans' office and Main office (i think) More Content: I brought my logitech USB mouse to school one day for computers, I was going to plug it in because I hate the default Mac computer mouse. The teacher told me "You aren't going to plug that in to the computer" like she though it was a USB drive that could destroy all the computers [editline]...[/editline] Dumbs? How? Everytime people post their content, you rain them with agrees disagrees or funnies

Holy crap you guys should check this out. I was wandering around Wikipedia, looking for info about overclocking (how much of a power draw increase could you expect for a certain increase in clock speed), and discovered the most insane computer ever devised: The IBM zEnterprise 196 M80 Featuring: 24 quad-core 5.2 gHz processors Every core has 1.5MB of L2 Cache (most current i7s have 256KB) Every processor has 24MB of L3 Cache (most current i7s have 8MB, some have 12MB) You can add 96MB of L4 Cache to each processor 3 usable terabytes of RAM in a setup that's pretty much RAID for memory Liquid-cooling optional Can run Linux (Red Hat or SuSE) or z/OS. Some of those things don't even seem possible. Seriously, did IBM hire a mad scientist just to come up with these specs? If there wasn't a page where I could request a price quote, I would nominate IBM as content for this thread. Because this shit is BANANAS. 5.2gHz, on air cooling? More RAM than most people have disc space? Enough processing power to run a small country? I almost forgot what I was browsing Wikipedia for in the first place.

IBM Deserves a huge winner. [editline]7th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=The Spie;27251645][b]My Content: My whole school has Mac computers only. Every classroom, the teachers desk has a mac. The only places they don't have Mac computers is the Deans' office and Main office (i think)[/b] More Content: I brought my logitech USB mouse to school one day for computers, I was going to plug it in because I hate the default Mac computer mouse. The teacher told me "You aren't going to plug that in to the computer" like she though it was a USB drive that could destroy all the computers[/QUOTE] Get the fuck out.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;27251712]Holy crap you guys should check this out. I was wandering around Wikipedia, looking for info about overclocking (how much of a power draw increase could you expect for a certain increase in clock speed), and discovered the most insane computer ever devised: The IBM zEnterprise 196 M80 Featuring: 24 quad-core 5.2 gHz processors Every core has 1.5MB of L2 Cache (most current i7s have 256KB) Every processor has 24MB of L3 Cache (most current i7s have 8MB, some have 12MB) You can add 96MB of L4 Cache to each processor 3 usable terabytes of RAM in a setup that's pretty much RAID for memory Liquid-cooling optional Can run Linux (Red Hat or SuSE) or z/OS. Some of those things don't even seem possible. Seriously, did IBM hire a mad scientist just to come up with these specs? If there wasn't a page where I could request a price quote, I would nominate IBM as content for this thread. Because this shit is BANANAS. 5.2gHz, on air cooling? More RAM than most people have disc space? Enough processing power to run a small country? I almost forgot what I was browsing Wikipedia for in the first place.[/QUOTE] That is a beast of a machine. Folding@Home? That is more like PermanentPress@Home...

[QUOTE=The Spie;27251645]My Content: My whole school has Mac computers only. Every classroom, the teachers desk has a mac. The only places they don't have Mac computers is the Deans' office and Main office (i think)[/QUOTE] You're correct: you are content. There is nothing wrong with using a Mac. It might be a poor fiscal decision, and it won't be the best gaming rig, but it's not a Tinkertoy computer. Anyone who thinks so is not only computer illiterate, but an asshole as well for thinking he's better because he uses a different OS. I'm aware I'm acting the complete opposite of how I did three years ago. I'm sure everyone who remembers my old account is laughing.

[QUOTE=Squad;27252178]That is a beast of a machine. Folding@Home? That is more like PermanentPress@Home...[/QUOTE] Imagine how many worksets you could get done in a day

[QUOTE=gman003-main;27251712]Holy crap you guys should check this out. I was wandering around Wikipedia, looking for info about overclocking (how much of a power draw increase could you expect for a certain increase in clock speed), and discovered the most insane computer ever devised: The IBM zEnterprise 196 M80 Featuring: 24 quad-core 5.2 gHz processors Every core has 1.5MB of L2 Cache (most current i7s have 256KB) Every processor has 24MB of L3 Cache (most current i7s have 8MB, some have 12MB) You can add 96MB of L4 Cache to each processor 3 usable terabytes of RAM in a setup that's pretty much RAID for memory Liquid-cooling optional Can run Linux (Red Hat or SuSE) or z/OS. Some of those things don't even seem possible. Seriously, did IBM hire a mad scientist just to come up with these specs? If there wasn't a page where I could request a price quote, I would nominate IBM as content for this thread. Because this shit is BANANAS. 5.2gHz, on air cooling? More RAM than most people have disc space? Enough processing power to run a small country? I almost forgot what I was browsing Wikipedia for in the first place.[/QUOTE] I could see a computer like that being the basis for point cloud rendering. Or some huge AI experiment. But not much more.

[QUOTE=Binladen34;27252281]I could see a computer like that being the basis for point cloud rendering. Or some huge AI experiment. But not much more.[/QUOTE] It's apparently intended to replace racks of servers with a single mainframe running a few hundred VMs. It says 50 servers per core is a reasonable expectation. On their quote request page, the drop-down box for "what function will this server provide?" includes server consolidation, data consolidation, data protection, web applications, disaster tolerance/security, data sharing/universal data access, database/research applications, and other. Apparently, "supervillainy" isn't a common response, although I can imagine possibilities with something like this. Also on the quote request page, the menu for "estimated external disk storage" ranges from "<10TB" to ">100TB".