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Tobias Dammers
Member #2,604
August 2002
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Thanks, there's no need for me. Linux seems to be a lot smarter with RAM usage, I hardly see it dip into swap even though I have only 2 GiB. --- |
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MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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My RAM is at 50% used most of the time, and Windows STILL use the page file. The HD is a real pain in the ass bottleneck on my system for some unknown reason however. I had a HD that was supposed to be much slower, and it's like 10x times faster then my current one... --- |
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Tobias Dammers
Member #2,604
August 2002
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MiquelFire said: My RAM is at 50% used most of the time, and Windows STILL use the page file.
That's why 'OS' is on my list. --- |
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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Yep, I've witnessed that too. Swap partition is constantly unused and everything runs smooth. As I boot into Win7 it even yelled at me it doesn't have memory and I should stop programs (well I was running Maya 2011...). I had to turn the swap on and it still uses it. On the other hand it seems that Windows can run much longer on the battery with window compositing compared to Mint 10 with Compiz. Anyway I would second Johan with the TV broadcast aspect ratio. It's pain in the ... [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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If you read up on how and why Windows uses the pagefile, it makes perfect sense. |
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Tobias Dammers
Member #2,604
August 2002
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Oh yeah, aspect ratio. Why did someone at some point decide that 16:9 or 16:10 were acceptable aspect ratios for computer screens? The only thing for which this is useful is watching movies full-screen. That's hardly ever what I do though, my computers are for working, and procrastinating on the internet. --- |
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gnolam
Member #2,030
March 2002
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Tobias Dammers said: Why did someone at some point decide that 16:9 or 16:10 were acceptable aspect ratios for computer screens?
Because that way, you can sell people a smaller screen with a larger size metric. Measuring the length of the diagonal (in Illogical, no less!) is an exceptionally silly way of comparing screen sizes. -- |
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jhuuskon
Member #302
April 2000
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I like 16:9. Let's leave it at that, I'm sure if I elaborated further Tobias would prove that I can't possibly like 16:9. You don't deserve my sig. |
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MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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What about 9:16? (If I ever get the desk space to get a second monitor, I would so get one that allows me to rotate it to portrait mode) --- |
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james_lohr
Member #1,947
February 2002
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People licking things to help pick them up is one of my pet peeves. Keep your saliva to yourself you filthy individual! slap
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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Generally poor code that the author clearly didn't allocate very many brain cells to. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
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GameCreator
Member #2,541
July 2002
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Hey, practically all my variables are global. Have to keep track of them somehow.
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Vanneto
Member #8,643
May 2007
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I don't like 3:00 PM. I don't know why, I just don't. Makes me feel all weird. In capitalist America bank robs you. |
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HardTranceFan
Member #7,317
June 2006
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People who put cutlery with the handle down in the dishwasher basket. To get them out you need to prick yourself, or handle the bit that touches your food. I don't like mix & matching of glasses when they get put away in the cupboard. I always line them up in rows of the same type. It used to be subconsciously, but even if I think about it the urge is there to line them up. It's borderline OCD. And washing pegs. Must have the same coloured pegs (of the same type) on an item of washing. Again, it used to be a subconscious thing, but now there's an unshakable urge to maintain habit. I need Dr Phil -- |
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LennyLen
Member #5,313
December 2004
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HardTranceFan said: People who put cutlery with the handle down in the dishwasher basket. To get them out you need to prick yourself, or handle the bit that touches your food. If you're washing a lot of cutlery, and you put it in handles up, you're not likely to get good water circulation around the dirty parts of the cutlery.
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Sirocco
Member #88
April 2000
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People on the internet. All of them. Especially myself. --> |
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gnolam
Member #2,030
March 2002
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Vanneto said: I don't like 3:00 PM.
Me neither. 12-hour clocks are awful. -- |
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Dizzy Egg
Member #10,824
March 2009
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People who tell me about the dream they had last night, and people who watch a documentary on the Multiverse and then claim to understand string theory.
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Dizzy Egg said: People who tell me about the dream they had last night A couple of hours ago, I took a nap, and dreamed that I took a nap. In the dream, I woke up three hours late for work, then when I woke up IRL I was all "WTF??!?". They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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Tobias Dammers
Member #2,604
August 2002
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Arthur Kalliokoski said: A couple of hours ago, I took a nap, and dreamed that I took a nap. In the dream, I woke up three hours late for work, then when I woke up IRL I was all "WTF??!?". You're probably still dreaming. In the real world, you actually ARE three hours late for work. --- |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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X-G
Member #856
December 2000
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I N C E P T I O N EDIT: Tobias Dammers said: Why did someone at some point decide that ... 16:10 were acceptable aspect ratios for computer screens I just realized that on a 16:10 screen, 320x200 VGA has square pixels. *mind blown* -- |
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MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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X-G said: I just realized that on a 16:10 screen, 320x200 VGA has square pixels. *mind blown* Wow. That really does blow the mind. --- |
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J-Gamer
Member #12,491
January 2011
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I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet: people who keep asking questions that are in a tutorial/manual AFTER you pointed them to it or even to the specific page where it's pointed out. RTFM Example: Him: Why is this not compiling?(followed by a class with a function without parameters and accessing variables that aren't part of the class/globals) /EDIT: He finally got the hint... phew " There are plenty of wonderful ideas in The Bible, but God isn't one of them." - Derezo |
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Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001
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X-G said: I just realized that on a 16:10 screen, 320x200 VGA has square pixels. Wow! I could have sworn they were rectangular. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest. |
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