I just wanted to know wh...oh who gives a shit it's 2011 and I'm playing Bulletstorm on Windows 7 with a 465GTX setup.

/The experiment was, pointless. And yes, I'm really playing it: it's "fuck my dick" awesome.
//VVVVVVV

Why didn't they keep the VESA card slots? Why don't I have a VGA slot? Why don't I have a floppy disk drive? BOOHOO!!! Seriously, it's the same type of test and it makes you look stupid.

>> ^Payback:

HOLY FUCK THE TRILOGY HAS A THIRD PART????


The reason this was such a big deal is because in the last few weeks/months Bioware has been letting little details slip about their newest project they were going to be presenting at the spike VGAs on dec. 11.

The clues were all over the map for two specific games: Mass Effect 3, and Shattered Steel. Clues that were the atomic weight of iron and the point at which iron can shatter (i.e. Steel is refined iron, so Shattered Steel, etc)

There was a whole slew of these conspiracy theories, and finally it was confirmed to be ME3 they were working on.

AFAIK, Keynote (and iWork) won't run on windows (your only option with Sony)
You can run windows apps on Macs using Parallels, VMware Fusion, or VirtualBox. (I've used all of them, the newest parallels is about the best feature wise, but costs money where virtualbox is free. Vmware has a free Player for other OS, but not for mac). You can also dual-boot a mac to windows, but this is less convenient.

The macbook air has a max memory limit of 4GB. This might limit your work in Matlab, depending on the toolboxes you use and the datasets you create. Also, the macbook air does NOT have a firewire 800 port, so if you want to use an external hard drive, you are stuck with USB 2.0. I also heard the new Airs have some technical problems, so I agree that you should wait a few months.

I would suggest a Macbook Pro, but this has 13" screen, and is over 3lbs.

So if those are both "must have" requirements, then the only thing you can get is the 11" MacBook Air. Those only have an SSD option, and between the OS, AutoDesk, and Matlab, will start to quickly fill that 64 or 128GB capacity (more like 120 after formatting).

Don't forget to buy the $29 mini-displayPort to VGA adapter if you are going to use this for presentations - most places still have VGA connections on projectors. (monoprice has one that is slightly cheaper and also works fine)

>> ^Croccydile:

>> ^ant:
/me wonders if 3:27+ had yellow Norton boxes.

Those are Office 2007 actually
>> ^blackjackshellac:
I found myself with a monitor lacking a vga cable so I figured while driving by BestBuy that I'd pop in and see if I could get a replacement cable. Long story short: 45 !@#! dollars for a !@#! vga cable. I didn't even look at the HDMI cables lest my head explode.
Fuck Best Buy, stupid twats.
ps. Ordered one from newegg for 5$

I had a similar experience looking for HDMI stuffs only to come across 6' cables ranging from $50 to nearly $100 (?!) The sad part is I later found a Belkin 6' HDMI for $20 at Lowes. A hardware store. What the fuck Best Buy? (Guess which one I wound up buying)


Look at the end of the rack with yellow and black boxes.

>> ^ant:

/me wonders if 3:27+ had yellow Norton boxes.


Those are Office 2007 actually

>> ^blackjackshellac:

I found myself with a monitor lacking a vga cable so I figured while driving by BestBuy that I'd pop in and see if I could get a replacement cable. Long story short: 45 !@#! dollars for a !@#! vga cable. I didn't even look at the HDMI cables lest my head explode.
Fuck Best Buy, stupid twats.
ps. Ordered one from newegg for 5$


I had a similar experience looking for HDMI stuffs only to come across 6' cables ranging from $50 to nearly $100 (?!) The sad part is I later found a Belkin 6' HDMI for $20 at Lowes. A hardware store. What the fuck Best Buy? (Guess which one I wound up buying)

I found myself with a monitor lacking a vga cable so I figured while driving by BestBuy that I'd pop in and see if I could get a replacement cable. Long story short: 45 !@#! dollars for a !@#! vga cable. I didn't even look at the HDMI cables lest my head explode.

Fuck Best Buy, stupid twats.

ps. Ordered one from newegg for 5$

For god's sake people, this has always been possible.

Has NO ONE used an SVGA/VGA/HDMI cable to run from their computer to a TV Monitor? I mean, wow, every single modern TV in production today has an Input specifically designed FOR a computer video output. Honestly they could do WITHOUT the appliance and just write a piece of software that you can run while your TV is connected to your computer.

This is so incredibly unnecessary.

Goddamnit Blade Runner, its all your fault for starting this crap!

Although seriously, if I'm watching a movie or TV show these days and they do this crap its an instant WTF GTFO moment for me. Real security cameras are VGA at best (has anyone come across an actual product that uses HDTV grade stuff?) and the definition is laughable to even recognize a face if the person is standing right there in front of it.

The "zoomed out" pictures they show in the clips there are about 4x better definiton than the real thing... I would love it if the stuff here even provided that.

>> ^demon_ix:
^ The thread on reddit took offense to calling this 8 bit. Apparently it's 16 bit at least. The thread sort of got side-tracked when someone suggested it might be 9.3453-bit.


Sigh... most of them probably have never heard of palettes.

Alot of the 8-bit systems used palettes, meaning while only 2^8=256 simultaneous colours could be displayed in a the framebuffer, those 256 could be chosen out of a far larger range of colours. In the case of VGA, for example, 262144 were available, giving 64 values each for red, green and blue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Graphics_Array#The_VGA_color_palette

So reasonably fine graduations were possible even with an 8-bit limit in the framebuffer. Many games of the time would use a custom palette for each scene/map/level, to squeeze the best quality out of each situation.

The only way to successfully argue that this is or is not 8-bit is to analyze every single frame for a maxiumum of 256 colours displayed at a time. To be technically accurate, it could use a separate palette for each frame. Compounding the problem, though, video compression can make it appear that more than 256 colours were used so the original uncompressed form would need to be analyzed. Prolly be someone with too much time on their hands =P

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Yeah, and the vid is seriously fucked up.

Jesus vs, youve let me down. This got upvoted to the top15? THIS pile of crap? The VGA adventure game look (This is neither 8 bit nore 16 bit. It is a low resolution animation style much closer to the PC VGA adventure game erra) was nice but every second of watching this made me feel dumber and dumber.

This is why I think that all law enforcement officers should be cam'd and mic'd at all times.

I'm sure we can modify their badges to capture audio and VGA res video. In order for the department to arrest or bring any charges just require that the video and audio of any officer within 1/4 mile needs to be entered into the public record. Then watch all the crooked cops quit the next day.

P.S. don't forget to make not wearing the badge a felony with a mandatory 1mo sentence in a general population prison.

There must be pictures of my progression through computers... which were:
Sinclair ZX Spectrum. 1983 Hey... same year, although I was 7 I learned to program on this thing... in Basic. And saved those programs to tape damn you... tape!

Atari ST Didn't have one, but my best friend at the time did... and I coveted it.

Amstrad of some description Again, didn't have it, my uncle did, and we'd use it weekly. Not really a huge leap in power over the Spectrum... but it did have a disc drive instead of tape.

Some form of 8088 based PC

Then a steady progression of PCs, from CGA to EGA to VGA to the now monster power of a dual core, directx 10 beast.

My exposure to Apples? We used Apple IIes in primary school and I think into early high school before they upgraded them all to PCs. And for some reason there was a Commodore 64 in the corner... weird.

I did not grow up on console gaming like most, but the Spectrum and then into the PC... in fact the Wii is the first console I've ever owned.

I had the Tandy 1000( I think they named it that because thats how much it cost, with no peripherials).
Everything looked like an Andy Warhol painting with its CGA 4 color graphics.

So I bought a $200.00 dollar ATI wonder card at Eggheads only to find out I also needed a $ 400.00 Vga monitor.
I added a 10 meg Hardcard for $400.00 because I realized I needed a hard drive to save stuff and use a "menu" program ($30.00). I also added some kind of card that would double my speed to 14 mhz, I think it cost $400.00 also.
I then dropped in a 2400 baud modem for a little over a $120.00.

All this because I knew that the local BBs had a couple of hundred porn pictures that I could download for free. ...I feel stupid now.

"The resolution isn't very good. However, I just managed to add about 45 gigabytes of information to a VGA CCTV still image by sheer MAGIC and IGNORANCE."

TV is for fat stay-at-home moms who don't know anything about what a computerbox typewriter is.

Yeah. What I've personally found infuriating is the cost of adapters to plug in external monitors to the Macs.

I mean, I "get it" from a design point of view that they want mini-sized connectors to fit the form factor... but I still find it crazy you don't have something as basic as a VGA plug available (though I guess VGA connections aren't a Mac thing in the first place).