Evening Reading
- Robot garage
- Ancient village near Stonehenge
- One leaning tower is plenty
- Space stations progress
Lastly, now it's Vista hangover, yawner, our impressions, TR concerns
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fuck vista
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IAMTP. Vista is a waste of money.
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I'm going to stick to my right hand for a while. I'm too poor for porn.
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porn negates the need for your hand? This is impressive porn.
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I'm going to stick to the wall w/ bubblegum and snot for a while. I'm too poor for Velcro.
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Vista is friggin' expensive, yeah.
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That sucks. Any other legacy games not installing?
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I only have it because it's free through MSDN-AA at my school. Other than that, I'd have waited until I needed DirectX10.
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thats how im getting it. but the guy said they just got it and it'll be a week or two before we get it. all engineers have access to msdn her
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oh dognose, you should know better.
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Then again, you won't have to upgrade it with a "new and improved" version of the OS every 8-12 months like with Apple.
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I Shack through Prodigy on my 2400bps.
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I hear that's how Alec wrote LNC.
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Using Teddy Ruxpin in a post? jesus christ dognose now you've really made my day difficult to decide >:(
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13756452
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I just get the sound effects guy from Police Academy to do the work for me.
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Who knows when I'll end up installing it. I'm getting a free and legal copy, but it MUST be compatible with Flock, SmartFTP and Photoshop CS2.
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I didn't realize anyone else out there used Flock.
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I use it for work, because I can post and check RSS feeds from the same application.
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It breaks DirectSound, which is used by damn near every game prior to last year to carry positional audio. Until MS brings back this functionality, I'm not interested. OpenAL is great, but older (and I mean older as in older than a year or two) don't use it.
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I'm not even a big fan of OpenAL; it's one evil monopoly funding another evil near-monopoly. And how can Microsoft say that Vista has DirectX when DirectSound, the most-used DirectX API aside from Direct3D, is broken?
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This is not correct. They removed DirectSound from Vista. EAX can be transported through either OpenAL or DirectSound. DirectSound is the one used by damn near every game until recently and therefore, with it removed, EAX is busted for those games. This applies to ANY positional format that used DirectSound, of which there are several.
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yeah, but emulated DirectSound takes away most of its original reason for existing (so games and applications could deliver real-time sound in order to synchronize it with video). An emulation path is only going to make things slower with more latency, right?
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wow, looks like they're trying to make game developers pump out PC ports of console games. Then again, perhaps Microsoft learned a few things about sound APIs for games in the 5-plus years of XBox development.
Still, they're basically killing off an entire API, threatening to make all of our current games as obsolete as the DOS games that didn't get win32 ports. I'm not happy about this.
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so does this mean that every game that uses DirectSound now has delayed audio? Kinda like trying to play Quake 2 on NT4, where you'd be forced to use waveout because NT4 had no such thing as DirectSound?
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How is the keyboard code, anyone know if all the XP style shortcuts work?
control, escape, s,c for control panel?
Windows D desktop?
control escape, r for run?
Windows R run?
Control tab, control shift tab, alt tab, alt shit tab
Alt space n, alt space x, alt space r?
What about name completion in the Windows explorer address bar?
c:\prog(downarrow)r}\commdownarrow}\ etc etc ?
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I miss the old days when you could use key combinations to maximize or minimize the current window. It seems like Microsoft wants to kill off the keyboard entirely as a control device, and relegate it to text data entry only.
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...BWAHAHAHA!
No, marketing wants to push it out NOW and generate all kinds of buzz that will fizzle when everyone figures out what's wrong. Those in the know will hold out for at least Service Pack 1, and those who blindly take the plunge are sunk.
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I'm planning on getting a new laptop soon, and I imagine it'll be on there.
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One of my buddies decided to jump to a C2D rig with an 8800GTX in it this week...
So he's going to be my Vista Ultimate 64bit guinea pig.
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Well, yeah actually, but I was talking about my good friend Chris :p
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I plan to do the same. I'll wait until I have to switch...I really don't want to deal with all the broken/asinine crap that seems to be a large part of this release.
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There's NOTHING to be gained by switching to Vista right now. Wait a couple of years.
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Ok, just installed vista on my most unused drive. It was completley plainless. I'm quite impressed. I put the dvd in while in xp, it asked me to upgrade or clean install. I chose clean install, chose the drive, and it was automagic from there. I laid in bed and looked over it occasionally and it was fine.
Writing this from IE7/Vista. So far, so good.
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