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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2007/02/yahoo_sees_the.html
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And btw - setting brightness lower makes the problem worse, because the dark period of one pwm cycle becomes longer, increasing the time between the light flashes.
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Okay, thanks for all the comments. After all that testing, reading, etc. I grabbed a cheap TN monitor BenQG2420HD - they offered it with 33% discount to empty the stock, to make room for all the extra-hip LED panels. After a few hours of testing, I have decided to keep it. First, it does not strain my eyes like the LED ones. After gaming for a few hours, nothing. After the same time at a LED monitor, my eyes are red and full of tears. The colors are noticeably inferior to the Fu
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More info: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1677617?start=0&tstart=0 I tried two new PLS, IPS panels - Eizo Foris 2332 and Fujitsu P23T-6P, and the strain is unbearable. The worst thing is CCFL monitors are disappearing from the market.
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http://vasyafromukraine.webs.com Extremely interesting read. After my old Dell 2209WA became defective, I tried to find a new monitor I could use. To my surprise, I have found out that the modern LED monitors are extremely unpleasant to look at, and I started to look for the source of the problem. It seems that all the flickers PWM and temporal dithering introduce to a computer screen is very harmful for the neural system -
The city-building aspect of the game is like the appendix in human body. It serves no obvious purpose, but for some reason not known to us, it is still there. Most of the time, it can be safely ignored, but sometimes its inflammation can cause a great discomfort, or even death.
Well, after playing the game for a week or so, it's not so great. Solid gameplay, it's basically the old COE2 with some polish, and also some horribly outdated interface and gameplay elements.
Use SMART. SMART can warn you in advance - it monitors read errors, spin-up times, etc. Most (all?) modern discs support SMART, look for utilities that read their values. I am surprised Windows don't do it automatically. If you are concerned about a HDD failure, buy 2 (preferably same model) drives and set up a RAID0 (mirror) - if one disk fails, the raid controller will tell you, and you can replace it and replicate the data to the new disk without data loss or ope
So, to continue my story - after a month of haggling with the vendor I purchased the 2209WA from, I managed to get my refund. I purchased the Eizo Foris 2332BK, and hearing so much praise about Eizo, I must say I am disappointed a bit. Good: Very nice colors and color gradients, especially very dark shades of black. Still not as good as CRT, but I daresay better than 2209WA Being a PLS panel, the IPS pearly glow is greatly reduced. Also, the mat
So, months have passed, I believe it is a time for an update. Meanwhile, the depletion of the most critical resource did not stop, the economies around the world would like to grow - but there is not enough energy for everyone. That is very well reflected by the rising price, that once again approaches the 2008 levels. Once it crosses a critical threshold, I believe we have a new 2008 with demand destruction, bankruptcies, job losses, stagflation and depression. The long-touted perpetual grow
It's OUT!!! Just reading the manual... OMG, Hoburgs are playable!
Ad controls - I did not even try to use kb&mouse seriously, I pulled out my XBOX360 gamepad. I bought it specifically for the purpose of playing console ports - they never, ever have the control scheme right. This game is no exception - don't forget that console players always have to fight not only the in-game foes, but the camera and the aiming too. Gamepads can never even approach the fluidity and natural aiming of mouse and keyboard, so console games use various aids to be playabl
I would vote fore Neutral Evil. They don't give a damn about principles, so they can't be lawful, and they are not impulsive enough to be chaotic. I would go with plain, neutral evil - they are happy as long as they can buy developers and screw and mess their games, as long as their hell-born MS Excel suits can "streamline" the gameplay and depth out of former decent titles. Their ultimate game will be Pong 3D: Multiplayer? check Streamlined? check (only
I am at the last episode now, it's really, really dragging. There were some enjoyable characters, like two crazy members of a heavy metal band and a fight using stage pyrotechnics as weapons - but then I remembered that it's ripped from Left for Dead 2... who in turn probably ripped it from Tarantino's "From Dusk Till Dawn" ... at least I think. And yes, it's absolutely maddeningly linear, you can explore a small part here and there, but the most you will find is a few
That's why they call themselves the " E vil A lliance"
Ad Bioware mastery - did you know that EA started to rename other dev team it owns to capitalize on Bioware's popularity? http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/38905/EA_Kickstarts_BioWare_Social_Division_With_KlickNation_Acquisition.php Seems there is a number of "Bioware" teams working on totally unrelated projects.
Only two days now!
Elana - The author Tarn Adams could not probably be bothered with graphics, he could not be bothered even to rework the not-so-consistent menu system, heck, he could not be even bothered with fixing ages old bugs, so dwarves never pick new clothes or military uniforms, and whips work like lightsabers. Who would hunt for bugs when there is so much new to implement - catacombs, and markets, and trade routes, and zombies, and evil rains that turn people to goo or make them
Well, I am just playing it. I very much liked the beginning, since there is a "promise" of great things to come. The setup is interesting enough, some scenes are properly spooky, the atmosphere and the mystery seems to build up nicely. However, there are major downsides - the actual gameplay, while built around a very nice effect of "dark forest coming all alive" (we all know it from childhood, when fantasy and fears play tricks with eyesight in the dark, only hundred times magn
I agree, and as I said, it's not really a game. Despite that, I rather enjoyed it and don't regret buying it.
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As to games running "slowly" - any running application can create bottlenecks that may or may not concern a single particular component. For example, when running Dwarf Frortress, Graphics card is completely irrelevant, CPU is what matters, but because the game is not threaded, you will want a CPU with faster clock frequency and fewer cores. Arma 2, for example, has a huge texture pool and data is always streamed from memory to videocard memory, so the throughput of the videoc
... it's out on STEAM for 7Euro or so. I think it's rather good, I recommend it. Though it's not really a game... Can't say any more since it would be a spoiler. If you decide to play it, don't read too much about it.
Well, I genned a smaller world with 1050 years of history without problems. The game did not crash yet, but I've been playing only adventure mode so far. There are performance issues, though, sometimes the games stops while travelling and swaps data like crazy... for minutes. I managed to become a vampire by drinking vampire blood, it is quite fun.
This time it includes graphomanic necromancers that can revive not only slain combatans, but also their bodyparts - imagine, chopped of hands trying to strangle you, but also cow skins from nearby butcher shop, even llama hair are ominously crawling on on the ground! Example of a book: "Nasty Storage was a legendary toad leather-bound book. The written part consists of 31 pages short story entitled 'Nasty Storage' authored by Sodel Openediron. It concerns the stori
Why throw away money for overpriced boxes when I can (and do) build my own?