Wormsie

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  1. Averting the climate crisis

    I think the majority of the people who don't believe in the climate change are the ones who just don't want to believe that anything bad is happening - and that they don't have to do anything, and there's nothing wrong in what they are doing - and want to comfort themselves. The climate changes "naturally" as well, but that's not the point, the point is that pollution, CO2, etc. by people can greatly affect thet climate. Just by studying the substances and their role in forming the climate, I don't think it's that difficult to see what's happening. Then again, I don't believe the most extreme view (which is along the lines of 'the world will be compleltely destroyed during the next ten years'). It didn't happen ten years ago when people were saying the same thing and it isn't happening now. I'm also pro-nuclear energy. It's a lot simpler way to solve the pollution problem. Besides, so far nuclear power has mostly been replaced by non-renewable energy sources, not by renewable energy sources.
  2. Buying A Computer

    Ooooh, a thread I can take part in! When they were saying the MacBook has a slow graphics card, they weren't lying. When they said it's completely unsuitable for gaming, they were lying. If you are looking for a laptop machine with which you can play the latest (OK, late as in after 2005) graphics-heavy games, get a MacBook Pro. If you want to play the latest games with the graphics settings tuned to low (and without an external screen with a bigger resolution), a MacBook is a very suitable choice. Civ4 runs quite well on the 13 inch screen MacBook with all options at defaults (even though the game complains that it won't work on this setup), but when you plug in a bigger monitor with a bigger resolution, the game slows down considerably (not surprising). Surprisingly many games have a native Mac release (playing Max Payne at the moment) and Bootcamp works like charm. The only problem is that booting to another OS is... well for some reason you don't want to do it, even though when gaming you won't have any use for the programs running in the bachground anyway. Fable: The Lost Chapters ran OK in Windows when I tuned down all the settings considerably. What a game, I'd been missing out. I wonder if the Mac release will be faster?
  3. omg P!nk...

    I always found it strange that she did "Stupid girls".
  4. Hello all, My adventures in the world of Apple continue. As I have a 19'' widescreen display I'd naturally want to use it with my laptop when I'm at home - so that the main display is on the widescreen and the lid of the notebook is closed. Otherwise I would have bought the display for nothing. Now, as an external display with the main controls in the 13'' laptop screen, everything works just fine. But it's not what I want as it's awkward to have the main windows and toolbar and dock on the smaller screen. So I asked my friend to borrow his Bluetooth Apple keyboard. I first made sure the macbook found the keyboard and then closed the lid. Then I pressed a key on the external keyboard waking my Mac from sleep mode. For a while everything was OK, I could unlock the screensaver on the bigger display and the dock was in its place and the resolution was OK. Then the screen flickered and my Mac crashed. ("It Just Works!") Are you able to use an external display like that? Somebody said I'd need a dock (or something) but I thought it'd work out of the box. Any tips?
  5. MacBook, External Displays, Sleep Mode

    Also, I want to make it known that if you play mostly old adventure games, the Mac is a very good choice (as you can install DosBOX and ScummVM on it, and Windows with Boot Camp). I was running GK3 in the highest resolution without any problems. I know, I know, it's age old. But for some people like me that's almost enough. Additionally I've been able to run Civilization 4 and Age of Empires 3. Civ4 was OK with a the laptop screen and a lower resolution, but when I switched to the bigger screen it started lagging even in the beginning when there's not much to show on the screen. Civ 4 is badly programmed anyway. I've seen videos on YouTube of HL2 running pretty well.
  6. MacBook, External Displays, Sleep Mode

    It worked! Perhaps it was the Mighty Mouse or the attached power cord. Didn't want to test. We might never know...
  7. Photoshop competition!!11onetwo

    I pity Photoshop.
  8. MacBook, External Displays, Sleep Mode

    There's nothing there.
  9. Tim Schafer

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  10. Tim Schafer

    Or: taking care: of b4b13s? :tup::tup:
  11. MacBook, External Displays, Sleep Mode

    Hookay Yup, I've tried that. It's nice for watching videos etc.
  12. MacBook, External Displays, Sleep Mode

    Reading Apple website, maybe it was just because I didn't have the power cord plugged in. Can anyone confirm?
  13. MacBook, External Displays, Sleep Mode

    And yeah, I tested it only once, but as it crashed it wasn't too promising to test again.
  14. Buying a new Mac/PC, advice?

    I've been thinking of buying a new PC/Mac. Here's my wishlist - if you have any suggestions, please tell me. - It should be relatively small, and take only a little space. That's why I've been thinking of a laptop or a mac mini/iMac. My current PC with its CRT monitor uses up a whole table in my apartment. - I don't need it for gaming. Well, if it runs DOSBox and ScummVM, it's good enough for me. :-) - Now that I have switched away from Windows, I don't want to go back. So it's either Linux (okay, I admit it, perhaps with a tiny Windows partition in case I ever want to replay Gabriel Knight 3 or any other Windows games - and to those people who talk about VMWare or Wine, no, I have't got them working and have only the slightest clue of what they are about) or, possibly, a Mac. - Portability would be a nice additional feature ( = laptop) - A large 19"-20" widescreen would also be a nice additional feature - which rules out laptops (19" laptop is no longer portable, I'm afraid). This because I will be using it for watching DVDs, possibly with friends, and for that a 12"-13" is too little. I could, of course pay 200-300 euros extra for a widescreen TFT monitor. Either that or get an iMac or a mac mini (mac mini is perhaps too slow for me - or rather, I'd want to invest in processor speed a little so that my computer isn't left behind too soon.) More specific questions: Is the MacBook (not the Pro, just the plain version) durable or does it break apart in a few months? Some people have recommended Lenovo laptops. Any other small, durable, laptops in the ~ 1500 EUR pricerange? What about external USB hard drives, are they reliable or not? I've heard that it is possible to connect an existing hard drive to ... something and that to a USB module. Is that a better solution? I already have a hard drive I could use for that, and salvaging it would save me a little money. Thank you.
  15. Buying a new Mac/PC, advice?

    It is a lot better, because in the Linux version the dialogs aren't hidden every time you want to focus on the main window. I found that really tedious always. And of course, being GTK-based, it suits the Linux environtment better, sort of blends in.
  16. Buying a new Mac/PC, advice?

    Inkscape and VLC I know from Linux already. Inkscape sucks on Windows, though. Adium and Colloquy I've already installed, and both are great. But thanks for the site, it will come in handy. *reads* Ooooo... One nagging problem I have with the Mac. I know most CD players tend to make an awful noise with some CDs, even while most play just fine and quietly. The Mac seems to be no exception. But I was really expecting something better. 1) Do you have a similar problem with CDs on your MacBook? 2) The noise it makes is because of the higher speed that CDs are read as opposed to DVDs. Now, I'm going to rip most of my audio CDs and there's no problem with DVDs, but sometimes you do want to put a data (or audio) CD into your CD drive. Is there a program/setting for slowing down the CD so that instead of it being read at the ridiculous speed of 48x, it would be read at, say, 16x? In an unrelated note, what the FUCK has happened to ScummVM? For some fucking reason, perhaps because they can add them, in The Curse of Monkey Island there's lots of unnecessary subtitles. And the first screen, "choose between easy and hard", was practically ruined by this.
  17. Buying a new Mac/PC, advice?

    I got the MacBook! Everything's gone well so far, and I've noticed that a lot of things that are different on Macs are very enjoyable. The only problem is shareware software, but then again, so much of the software made nowadays is open source that it's less and less of a problem. Besides, these days I'd hve the money, or rather, the methods of payment, for shareware...
  18. Why I hate you, and the internet

    Yufster just totally changed her opinion. She's so weak.
  19. Why I hate you, and the internet

    And I don't understand why the Thumb changed into blog format. It's like you aren't serious anymore.
  20. Why I hate you, and the internet

    I'm familiar with what Yufster described. On the other hand, I've seen people desperately trying to support their shitty little uninformed opinions* with fundamentalist vigour, and they just come across as silly. But for most people, I guess, giving in is easier. And forum people are funny anyway. I think this might be partly due to the Thumb being full of people having a few individuals who expression of their opinion is generally in the lines of "this game is the rulez, it's soo intelligent and the design is ingenious, and everybody who doesn't understand it is a little fucktard. You don't want to be a little fucktard, do you?" They might do it in a slightly more subtle fashion but not much. And other thing I love are all-informative one-liners. Like saying just "No" to what someone else has said. Oh so authoritative. When the exchange of opinions is the way it is here in the Thumb, it's no wonder people act that way (we are 'social' creatures afterall, and a part of that is that people want leaders. The more brutal you are in expressing yourself, the more caveman-like others are in their responses.) Maybe. Anyway, it was an entertaining post Yufster wrote. I've noticed that now that I'm older, I fear her much less! :woohoo:The Thumb seems like fun after all these years, perhaps I'll become a hard-core Mac gamer? Playing WoW on my shitty MacBook at 1 frame per second... *-sp33k!!
  21. Buying a new Mac/PC, advice?

    But sometimes... What I felt odd, as well, was that Tim Schafer has often talked about how important it was that you should guide people through the game so you have to give them a strong motivation for all their actions. But I didn't feel that motivation, I felt like there were things I wanted to do that I found fun, but that the game wanted me to do something completely different (what it was was sometimes unclear and quite random as well) and just draged me away from everything fun. Like a frustrated parent in a toyshop. And at the same time lost and without direction... Hmm. Is there a contradiction here? I felt lost because what the game wanted me to do wasn't what I wanted to do.
  22. Buying a new Mac/PC, advice?

    But in the beginning, for example, I found all the characters and puzzles by accident, and voilá, a whole system that I understood nothing of and which made no sense was revealed to me. And the bear, why was there a bear runing around terrorizing me and possible others too. I felt kinda lost in the game. Lost and without direction.
  23. Buying a new Mac/PC, advice?

    The demo was fun, but I couldn't bring myself to play from that point on. But I'm thinking of trying again...
  24. Buying a new Mac/PC, advice?

    For some reason the guy deleted his post. Hmm. Anyway, I would have wondered about how fast Psychonauts would run on a Macbook, is it possible at all? Not that I liked Psychonauts that much.