Work is about 150 miles off. Home... is pretty close, definitely enough that a strike such as that described would be cause for concern.
Posts made by nexekho1
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RE: Am I nukeable?
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RE: Train wreck
Some of those are a little misguided/down to unfamilliarity with the OS.
Icons bounce so if the dock is hidden they pop up out of the screen border without opening the dock in front of what you're doing.
Window switching is meant to be done via Exposé or whatever it's called now. It's not as good as start+1/2/3/4/5/6 on Windows, but it's not that bad. Their reveal desktop mode is far, far better than the Windows equivalent which seems to forget to bring the windows back when you hit it again if you open any windows. (thus making it useless for quick desktop access without interrupting your workflow)
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RE: I just wrote a poem... I'm curious to read what TheDailyWTF thinks.
You got your fetish in my misanthropic transhumanist webcomic character!
Oh yeah? Well you got your misanthropic transhumanist webcomic character in my fetish! -
RE: If certain tech companies produced carpentry tools...
I've got one! What if they made drink receptacles!
Apple would obviously make a shiny aluminum Thermos because it's all about aluminum, branding, and insular double walled gardens.
Microsoft would be mostly selling ordinary but well-used, dependable mugs after years of perfecting them, but over the past few years sold a few aluminum cheese graters as mugs in an effort to chase Apple but getting pretty much nowhere due to them mostly copying only the flaws .
The Linux guys provide origami templates to make your own paper cup from. They don't actually fit together as the tabs have dependencies on slots that don't actually exist. -
RE: Powerful ‘Flame’ cyberweapon tied to popular Angry Birds game
Tempted to go write some malware in UScript, as it'll drag the whole of UE3 along for the ride (~40mb exe) making it the BIGGEST MALWARE EVER.
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RE: Talking to the code
Talking to the code is a great method of debugging, actually. Coding Horror refers to it as rubber duck problem solving.
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RE: More WTFery from SorryIAsked.com (i.e. StackOverflow)
@Vanders said:
It's like they thought Unicode support might be a good idea but then realised doing it right would be hard, so they made wchar_t completely useless then sat back and ate donuts.
That's a good way to describe the entire string handling feature set in C. -
RE: More WTFery from SorryIAsked.com (i.e. StackOverflow)
I'd argue not deciding upon a single data format for a character to be a pretty big implementation detail.
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RE: Samsung vs Mac
About the aforementioned "static between songs" problem - does it happen if you say open a piano app, play a note then let go for a few seconds? I've noticed that when running out to external speakers a few seconds after all sound stops there's a loud pop as the audio amp gets shut down to save power.
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RE: If an error message falls in a forest...
I hate to say it but, I've been bad and done UI from a DLL before as well.
An engine that was very locked down needed some extensions to support settings/multiple savegames (yep really) so a DLL ended up being written in C++ to handle all that. It was not pretty. To log what was going on a terminal window had to be opened by the DLL as there didn't seem to be any real way to interface with the debugging tools in the engine itself, and short of logging to text files there was no way around.
All of which was removed for production of course. -
RE: Fun With Beancounters
Oh, it says 2001 in tiny, sidewards print.
If you go to User Friendly's homepage, it's under the heading "CARTOON FOR May 23, 2012".
That took more actual attention than it was worth. -
RE: Fun With Beancounters
@pjt33 said:
When you say "in a good while", do you mean more than 11 years? Or does "this joke AGAIN?!" indicate surprise that the archives are accurate? (Not saying that it wasn't an old joke back then, but certainly not as old as it is now).
Huh? It's just an ancient as hell "joke" that's probably older than HTTP. It's today's comic. I don't follow. -
RE: Samsung vs Mac
@morbiuswilters said:
Poor people aren't buying unsubsidized smartphones; they're getting a free smartphone on 2 year contract from Verizon. And they have to buy a data plan, but they'd have to buy Internet for a computer, too.
I just a few days ago put down £145 for a brand new unlocked SIM-free Nokia Lumia 710, should be a nice upgrade from my current Samsung D600. I wish I'd spent a bit more on postage for next day.
I would never outright buy a smartphone like that at their non-fire-sale prices of £250-£500, but £145 is a bargain for what'll be (to me) an iPod Touch with GPS.
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RE: Security
@morbiuswilters said:
I'm in favor of putting everyone like you on an island, shipping all the "non-terrorists" who are buying and planting bombs there and watching in delight as the numbers of both are thinned.
Now you're thinking like a Sims player. -
RE: Wrong Direction
@serguey123 said:
You kinda made it 1x1.@nexekho said:
Chaos was a great boss what're you talking aboutThat who Chaos was? I thougth we were talking about this guy
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RE: Fun With Beancounters
Not having seen UserFriendly in a good while, I looked 'em up.
Christ this joke AGAIN!? -
RE: Wrong Direction
[img]http://images.wikia.com/supersmashbrosfanon/images/d/d2/Nintendo_DS_Stylus.png[/img]
I can't imagine it'd be a very good seal with that notch.
On the plus side, if you add rifling to the tube you can get a good spin going for better accuracy. -
RE: Mac is for usability
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
As time passes, I find myself agreeing with the Borg more and more.
I wouldn't "resist" if a cube appeared in orbit.
The only real disconcerting thing is that I'd have to share a hive mind with the idiots on this planet. -
RE: Mac is for usability
Both "dock" and "Maximize" come up with the right result.
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RE: Mac is for usability
@Scarlet Manuka said:
The point is, how is the user supposed to know that the feature is called "Window snap"?
Because that's what it does. What else would it be called?If your Aero/glass/transparency breaks, try searching for ANY OF THEM.
You get the right result for all three.
That's kinda the point in that you don't have to know the name of what you're looking for, just think of a word that describes it. -
RE: Over packaging
@dhromed said:
I foresee the worlds greatest popporpg.
What if later in the game you discovered the domes you're popping are actually artificial biodomes built by the remainder of a dying race, and you've accidentally committed genocide? -
RE: Over packaging
My most recent packaging overkill was that I ordered a Monotron Duo - just a bit of fun. Now, bearing in mind this thing is about the size of a wallet, and comes in that typical totally indestructible thick plastic blister pack, how do you think I received it? Of course, in a jiffy bag, surrounded by bubble wrap, in a cardboard box you could store 3 full size pizzas stacked up in, surrounded by bubble wrap, in a plastic bag.
Given it's a £30 product and shipping was free, [i]jesus![/i] -
RE: I just don't understand this filing methodology
I've seen on some systems that the inbox has its own, low quota and the deleted items bin doesn't. Such systems reinforce the aforementioned behaviour.
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RE: Mac is for usability
@Lorne Kates said:
I'm claiming it's the Start Orb. I'll try to screen shot it tomorrow if I can figure out how to undo all the customizations.
I know that I don't have Vista. The words "Windows 7" are (were) plastered all over the start menu, etc.
If you right click the taskbar, and tick "Use small icons", you get a teesny little bit of overlap. It's nowhere near enough to cover anything up, really. -
RE: Mac is for usability
@Cassidy said:
How did you know to type "window sn"...?
For real?
Wow.
He searched for "Window snap" but it got it before he finished typing.
If you didn't know you could do that on modern operating systems... wow. -
RE: Mac is for usability
@Sutherlands said:
- I can drag windows while holding the mouse button... why would I need the alt key?
IIRC from my time using Ubuntu it allows you to drag from anywhere on the window not just the bar when holding alt. More useful for playing with wobbly windows than anything else. -
RE: Mac is for usability
Morbs do you have plans to download your conciousness into some kind of portable unit? Even if it's only an app or something iWilters would be an amazing fountain of wisdom and incredibly convenient.
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RE: Oh Great . . . What did they break this time?
Just out of curiosity I started switching between standard/scientific on a calculator I'd already got open (usually I have 20-30 open by the time I shutdown because I'm too lazy to do any mental arithmetic and my keyboard has a dedicated hotkey for it) and watching the readout. It was different every time. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
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RE: Filematrix
Oh I just went up a few levels to the homepage and he is not only a master developer, but he has also written a book on sex education.
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RE: Filematrix
FileMatrix has been heavily optimized along the years. While its entrails do not concern you, I want to give you an idea of the level of optimization at which FileMatrix is today.
For example, on WindowsXP, on a computer with a 1.3 Ghz processor, loading a directory with 25'000 files takes half a second. And yes, you read it right: twenty five thousands files!
Please note that this refers to the loading speed after the operating system has cached the directory, caching which takes several seconds no matter what program you use.
This is faster than other file managers because all FileMatrix's controls are custom designed by me. For instance, WindowsExplorer needs more than two seconds to load the same directory. Though this is of little practical effect, it shows the level of optimization reached in FileMatrix.
And this performance is reached despite the fact that FileMatrix also sorts files by type (directories, links, programs, documents, and generic files), sorting which requires more work and which is not performed by other programs.
Translucency effects are most impressive when there is a background picture. On high quality monitors, these effects are stunning.
I think this man is the result of an illegal experiment to crossbreed a beginner programmer and a master marketer.
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RE: Oh Great . . . What did they break this time?
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
I ran out of GDI objects last week – that was a new one on me for Firefox. The only other software that would do that, was GTK+ runtime for Windows.
I keep my PC hibernated during the day, and since the 25th, Firefox is already holding over 5,000 GDI objects (29 tabs in two windows). (I just closed one window by moving its only tab to another window, and it's just lowered to 4,700 GDI objects.)
I enabled the GDI objects column out of curiosity, and my audio card's control panel (which isn't even open) is using 5,550. Wow.
My question is: why do GDI objects even have what appears to be an artificial ceiling? Are they statically allocated or something?
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RE: ATI SmartSave
@topspin said:
With such shitty drivers, people should probably think twice before adopting WebGL.
Agreed. There's a thousand ways to screw up via 3D APIs when you're not trying to, and you people want these APIs [i]exposed to the fucking internet[/i]!? -
RE: ATI SmartSave
@Cassidy said:
Is it that bad?
It's worse for OpenGL applications than DirectX, much, much worse.
@Cassidy said:The flipside is that nVidia used to have poor Linux support so people recommended going for ATi cards if you wanted a nooks desktop. Is that still the case, or not?
I've not used Linux much in recent years but on an ATi laptop I had problems with the framebuffer being misaligned. (entire screen off by a few rows with those missing rows filled with noise) -
RE: ATI SmartSave
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
The other day, Firefox did something naughty and crashed my video card
Given my experiences with working rendering pipelines and ATi's drivers I'd say Firefox probably didn't do anything wrong -
RE: Comments that piss me off
I would say comments should also tell you when if it's executed only under circumstances. (i.e. this event fires when the game over signal fires, this event fires when the game closes would have saved me some confusion)
Also, when NOT to use this function.
Lastly, what this function affects. I recently had a bit of a cock-up involving an inventory manager because I assumed that calling a texture swap function on a Scaleform object only affected that Scaleform object - no comment to the contrary - when in fact it swaps that resource in every Scaleform object running. -
RE: Comments that piss me off
Ah, damnit, that's the one, I could've sworn I tried that. Thanks.
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RE: Comments that piss me off
//Player Jumped function bool DoJump( bool bUpdating ) { if (bJumpCapable && !bIsCrouched && !bWantsToCrouch && (Physics == PHYS_Walking || Physics == PHYS_Ladder || Physics == PHYS_Spider)) { if ( Physics == PHYS_Spider ) Velocity = JumpZ * Floor; else if ( Physics == PHYS_Ladder ) Velocity.Z = 0; else if ( bIsWalking ) Velocity.Z = Default.JumpZ; else Velocity.Z = JumpZ; if (Base != None && !Base.bWorldGeometry && Base.Velocity.Z > 0.f) { Velocity.Z += Base.Velocity.Z; } SetPhysics(PHYS_Falling); return true; } return false; }
From the Pawn class, from which players, AI, cars, planes, boats, etc. extend from...
What is bUpdating?
Who knows?
Who thought it necessary to comment this with "Player jumped?"
What does the return value signify? I'm guessing if we actually jumped or not?
Poor commenting pisses me off immensely.
Also, I have absolutely no idea how to indent that code here. If you want it indented, here's a pastebin.[Fixed formatting. -ShadowMod]
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RE: Testing creates problems later
@morbiuswilters said:
I'm sick of this fucking industry. I'm going to switch to a field where "engineering" doesn't mean "I saw some guy talk about it once at a conference and now I just do it blindly, ad nauseum, until the next fad catches on."
I'm afraid almost every single computing industry is like this. I've known 3D artists who flip the green channel of normal maps (basically inverting the direction of lighting details on one axis) religiously without checking or thought because it "fixes problems". This is only necessary going between some software packages because not all orient the lighting tangents the same way. Most of the time it doesn't need flipping and the result is say stones that have highlights on the wrong side.
Heck, even Epic's animation export tool documentation describes the "superstition" of animators of moving to frame zero to "prevent crashes" even though the current frame doesn't matter at all.
And then there's the matter of "EVIL NGONS!" (all surfaces must be quads or triangles) used completely blindly even though as long as the surface is convex and planar it should not be an issue.
Don't even get me started on guitarists.
Every industry you could enter is full of ridiculous superstition and practice. -
RE: Test Everything
Unrealscript uses ** too. Whenever I see it I insert a random curseword mentally.
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RE: I don't trust computers
@bgodot said:
I also subscribe to the 'evil genie' theory of computer; in that they do exactly what they are told to do, which may not be what you actually wanted.
I prefer the theory that circuit boards are actually runes to trap evil imps -
RE: USBee logic analysers/USB oscilloscopes
Yeah that's the newer suite. I downloaded the latest version and got two separate suites, the generic USBee one you pictured and then one specific to AX.
Oh, and that white bar in line with the toolbar is a scrollbar.