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Officialguy · 9 days

How so? Yes, he's arrogant and somewhat of a troll but peel that persona away and you have an amazingly bright, poetic and insightful journalist with decades of motoring experience and a fuckload of charm.

Officialguy · 10 days

Pretty infantile in my opinion. Top Gear is great because Clarkson is a charismatic, masterful wordsmith and because there is so much chemistry between the hosts.

All the blatantly scripted nonsense and over the top segments (like the one in question) make me feel like they're insulting my intelligence.

pavius · 4 months

Thanks for the heads up!

pavius · 4 months

It does run in Wine. However, I've seen several features disabled by way of leaving them in the UI but removing the functionality. That would mean the Linux version is based on a different branch of code (as is evident here with the beautifully proportioned "No" button).

pavius · 4 months

This specific station is Ubuntu 10.04, though it is not to blame. Teamviewer Linux always trails behind its Windows counterpart in functionality and polish, as do many applications (so I feel).

xxAidsxx · 6 months

I would try two things, just for troubleshooting: 1) Disable your onboard sound device 2) Play on non-Punkbuster servers

bigalexe · 6 months

The onboard Realtek issue exists in BF3 as well (something with Punkbuster, it seems).

pavius · 6 months

Well, TIL. I really did enjoy BF3, especially when I played with a friend - teamwork in this game is like nothing I remember.

My refund was already processed and I may return to the game if I hear that the issues are under control.

pavius · 6 months

Yep. Also made 100% sure that Windows does not see it in the device manager.

pavius · 6 months

Hmmm, maybe I bought BF2 when it was stable? I don't recall any special issues with it.

pavius · 6 months

Exactly. I bought a Creative Soundblaster just to get around this and I've seen it re-occur at least 3 times since then (and this is after I reinstalled Windows 7, just to make sure everything is clean).

pavius · 6 months

I already bought a new mouse and sound card for this game, not to mention hours troubleshooting/reading the same support threads over and over.

Though the most amount of money I ever spent on a single game was GTA IV - XBox and new TV, just because my old one wasn't full HD.

pavius · 6 months

Funny thing is that while I was able to play (before the patch) a friend of mine had the same exact issues I'm having now. I was ranking up like a pimp while he was pulling his hair in frustration. The tides have turned.

pavius · 6 months

My 360 RROD'ed. Thanks for rubbing salt on the wounds.

tojal · 1 year

It can't be turned off, but it does break easily

pavius · 1 year

Cool. It does, however, say that this is only supported on 64 bit platforms.

Regardless, my goal at the time was to be able to simulate as much of my kernel as possible. I tried not to wrap a Win32 kernel object so that I would be able to manage my own kernel threads manually, not just from a scheduling standpoint.

This would allow me to test stack management, the thread control block, etc. This also gives the user a familiar environment - being able to peek at the same thread states he would see on the target at any given time.

pavius · 1 year

The second thread (the interrupt thread) only behaves like that in the code example I attached to the post. In the actual (commercial) project, there was a differential timer mechanism that only interrupted the kernel thread when needed.

As for VEH - sounds interesting and worth a read.

pavius · 1 year

The preemptive simulated kernel runs many simulated threads within a single Windows thread (as opposed to the current offerings of "simulating" an RTOS thread by spawning a Windows thread).

TheEvidence · 1 year

My first hunch was that there are photodiodes measuring the intensity of light as feeding that back into the LEDs to get the right brightness. A camera flash may cause the mechanism to either detect a failure or super high brightness and shut down that segment.

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