so basically "Sony is going to pay us millions and millions of bucks to power their next console, and all we had to do is slightly modify our ASIC that we were going to release to PCs anyway"?
they probably undercut Nvidia's price, and if they went Nvidia they'd have to go somewhere else for CPUs, since Nvidia doesn't do CPUs outside of Tegra anymore, and Tegra is probably too small-scale for what a console wants
At 8200 dpi, the mouse is incredibly sensitive, yet it retains remarkable precision. With my Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000, if I tried to turn up the pointer speed, it would skip several pixels on fine movements. Not so with the Kone XTD.
I have it set to 1600 dpi with the sensitivity set to -2 (on a scale to -5 to +5). Buttons give a reassuring click; the middle mouse button is a bit soft, but nonetheless has a clearly audible click.
8200dpi is too sensitive for me... I mean if you ran it at native 8200dpi the mouse would fly all around the screen with the slightest touch
my steelseries sensei goes up to 5700 native dpi or 11400 "DCPI" (double CPI? software?) but if I set it anywhere near 5700, a gentle touch sends the mouse from the bottom-leftcorner to the upper-right
higher sensitivities are less strain on your wrist when you have to do frequent large mouse movements, which are more common on new OSes like Windows 8 and Ubuntu Unity
The computers at the labs at the college I attend have higher pointer speed settings, and many people prefer higher mouse sensitivities, so I feel that getting used to faster settings would be helpful.
As someone who's used to a heavy wireless mouse, the Kone XTD felt a bit too light for me without any weights added. Putting 10 g of weights into the mouse made it feel natural for me, though still considerably lighter than my Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000.
Regarding the new "Titan Wheel": The scrolling action feels just right to me, the clicks are soft but solid, and the overall quality is very good, better than most consumer mice.
The overall build quality, ergonomics, and "feel" of the mouse are superb. But then again, this is what I'd expect when I pay $90 for a mouse...
@Geek could you stop trolling? There's no shame in admitting you don't know the answer! ;) Next time, try to give the answer without insulting people, thanks! __
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XY? aha, yes! I KNEW you were a woman!
Come to think of it, Geek, please stop replying to my questions, I ask you friendly. It's just that I like to work with nice people.
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Thanks for your effort so far, good luck in collecting those credits! :) — PrincessPooleRulz4 hours ago
I can confirm the 1000 Hz polling rate using the mouse rate checker here. (Clear the Show check box; it can make it inaccurate at very high polling rates due to the overhead of repeatedly showing the instantaneous polling rate.)
There is a noticeable, if subtle, gain in responsiveness.
@JourneymanGeek Yes. The mouse buttons are fully customizable, and Easy-Shift[+] adds an extra layer of functions for as many as 23 possible functions.
Create an image from a working laptop, which will be restored to him the same.
Create an image from a working laptop by running sysprep it and restore it to the one that is not working.
it's still very elemental / in the early startup phase, but that also means he has few customers and is very personal with each individual customer. he also cut me a few special deals to lower my monthly expense
his web presence isn't the kind you get when you sign up with Softlayer or Hetzner, but I don't expect to be going in via KVM over IP every week with this server
his labor costs are low at least :P a lot of your bill at softlayer or rackspace etc. is labor
I'm setting up a web server on EC2 running Debian GNU/Linux 6.0. For simplicity's sake I'd like to use FTP. I realize this is insecure but I'm using Dreamweaver which doesn't support SFTP (see this question).
I've installed the FTP service based on this guide but do not understanding how to conf...
I quite clearly remember uploading a database to a large EC2 instance over FTP and thinking "Wow. This is really stupid. If we were security paranoid and this contained sensitive data I should be fired."
I need internet to use apt-get to install network-manager to enable my internet, but in order to enable my internet I need internet to install a package that enables my internet!
and for some reason, there's free usecured wifi for anyone who happens to pass nearby my work
I managed to fix it by downloading the specific package version on a coworker's machine and copying it to /var/cache/apt/archives (and setting proper permissions, etc)
Had to try a few times, the package versions on packages.ubuntu.com aren't the ones my system tries to install
@allquixotic I don't know my IP, never checked if it's static or DHCP
I guess I could call the networking office, but it would take a few days to hear back from them
Also, my MAC address is tied to both my IP and physical ethernet port. If I plug a different machine on this port, no internet for me.
Then I have to call the networking office, wait a couple days, etc
Hey
Does anyone know a text/code editor for linux where I can set the charset/encoding like in Notepad++?
Not sure on how to formulate the googlequery for that
@allquixotic I don't know, my main experience with Java is with browser plugins for home banking, not a broad experience, but hateful nonetheless. That and the very common security breach news. But I'll try it anyway
Oh, jedit is apt and only 2MB
My internet sucks, but some mirrors are quite faaaaast
@RudáAlmeida Java running in a web browser as a plugin and Java running on the desktop / server as a native process are two completely different things
they seem similar on the surface but really they couldn't be more different in terms of security, performance, and hell even functionality
Java on the desktop is not fundamentally different than, say, .NET/Mono or Visual Basic 6, except that it's more cross platform than VB6 (and faster) -- it's just a virtual machine that takes care of memory management and pointers and has a lot of library code
also, since Java 6, its JIT compiler is optimized enough that you can use it for serious, performance-sensitive workloads like Minecraft (client and server) and large websites
and it's fully free software and open source
there's really no reason to hate it if you disable the java browser plugin
@allquixotic It's not that I hate it... I just hear its bad fame and got suspicious
jedit does support multiple charset encodings, but I have to reopen the file each time I change it and there's no dropdown to select it, I have to type the charset name =/
Let's see this sublimetext2 everyone's been talking about
@Tanner There's a huge (well, huge for the IT niche nation-wide) webcomic here, and almost every cartoon there's a cofee reference. Oh, make it two IT webcomics
@Tanner Pfffft. I bet like everything else, the real good stuff is for export and we get the second-grate quality that didn't pass export's QC.
@Tanner I really, really love sushi and ice cream. Pizza isn't bad too, but one can eat too much of it, unlike sushi or ice cream =P
Create an image from a working laptop, which will be restored to him the same.
Create an image from a working laptop by running sysprep it and restore it to the one that is not working.
