Bahamut

The only reason I haven't updated it is because I'm still wondering whether people are up for it. So people chime in on your status here so I know to update the first post!

Just letting people know, Tensei-San wants a collab or at the very least help in suggesting a good direction for him to take with his piece. Any volunteers/suggestions?

My Macbook is nearing 2 years old - almost all of my problems cropped up at about 1 year in, and have been getting steadily worse. For its specs, I didn't expect it to have it so bad - I've never had any Windows laptop crap up this bad so quickly, let alone a desktop (2 Ghz Intel Core Duo, 2 GB of RAM, 80 GB hard drive). It came with Tiger, but I bought & installed Leopard when it came out primarily for the backup feature, although it did improve the OS usage immensely. The 4 workspaces idea taken from Linux really helps for me, since the screen gets too cluttered easily, and the Time Machine backup feature is useful if any future problem crops up, although I seem to recall Windows having had a similar feature for much longer. One of the main extra problems that will probably come up for you in regular usage is slower programs - I find that a lot of programs are still buggy with the x86 OS X, and in daily usage I have at least one program crash on me every day, with a good amount of time involving something I've been working on and can't recover. I don't think things will be fleshed out for another several years with programs when virtually all of the Mac userbase runs on Intel Macs. And lastly, the specs don't nearly match the bang for the buck from what I've seen compared to Windows OEM laptop vendors. Being the sole manufacturer of the hardware, Apple gets to control its pricing, and it charges arm and leg for its higher end computers (Macbook Pro & Mac Pro). I'm still miffed that my brother spent less on his computer than mine, and it ran better and longer. If you have to do music production on a laptop, then I guess you don't really have a choice, but a desktop can accomplish so much more with so much less money. Most people I know don't absolutely need the portability (in most cases of those who claim to prefer laptops, it tends to be excuses to have a computer around) and spending the premium for a laptop doesn't make financial sense, but I don't profess to know your situation. If you really want a Mac, why not buy an iMac? The screen is much nicer and bigger, the specs are better, and you get all of the same benefits sans portability.

Are those the Star Ocean remakes? Maybe I'll give them another try.

And I'm telling you as someone using a Mac and Windows that I have had roughly the same number of issues, if not more computer crashes (but no reformatting issue thankfully). I never even used this laptop for anything extreme - it's used exclusively for web-browsing, music listening, email, and chatting.

The Macbook Pros are not without their faults either. I have heard of overheating issues with it due to its design and crappy thermal paste (this is more with the early Macbook Pros but still). While I use a Macbook for a laptop, I can say that my experience is less than pleasant on it as well. It seems much slower compared to its Windows counterparts (my brother's Dell laptops are so much better than this crap), and parts of it literally have chipped away in about an year of use (not even from the computer falling, but while in one place) - there's a hole where I can see inside my computer. In addition, the USB ports are very spotty at times with USB detection, and there are still some programs that seem quite buggier than their counterparts on other computers (Firefox 2 & 3 come to mind). I can tell you right now, a lot of the problems you think a Mac would solve, won't do any of the sort at all. Some of them aren't Apple's fault (i.e. battery problems), but their marketing, or at the very least the marketing done by Apple fanboys, is somewhat deceptive in making a lot of people think that they are these flawless machines on an OS that magically cures any problems some people have on a Windows machine.

Strange, I've always viewed geek as the word with the socially awkward implication.

Yeah there is - I got my 360 Premium for essentially $200 ($300 with a $100 gift card) a little more than 1 1/2 years ago. Deals are still there if you know where to look .

As much as the iTunes CDDB sucks, this mistake was by zircon if I remember right . It's also found on the Beatport store.

Should be Ladder to the Sky

Why would you buy a Macbook Pro

There was actually a limited printing of pressed CDs of VotL, but these CDs are not for sale. They were given to remixers who participated on the project, as well as given to some others as promotional giveaways (for example, Nobuo Uematsu possesses a copy of VotL). You can always download mp3 copies of the songs from here (just click the mirror links for each song). You could always download the torrent and use a particular torrent program to uncheck downloading any of the lossless copies of the songs.

I've definitely seen this in action multiple times, and I found this link elsewhere actually, stemming from complaints about the hitbox on another forum I frequent.

Yeah, I have that problem too. I'm hoping that the next generation of handhelds are more ergonomic.

So what is a good setting then? Does this affect whether the server becomes a custom server or not?

Nope, I think Valve just fails at adequate back hit detection.

An additional shameless bump, and just to add - I'd like people to claim these last 6 WIPs. Is there anything I can do to get people to claim the rest?

Bumping this thread up - there are a few tracks left, so submit a WIP for them quick, as we want this project finished fairly quickly after the August 10th deadline!

But...I was responding to this exaggerated comment: Or specifically, the first half of it. Generally to be successful you have to work hard in general., regardless of the discipline However, the hard sciences/mathematics/engineering are not beaten for the additional mental stress incorporated into the work through deep abstract thinking as well as comparable workloads in terms of time spent. So in short, I was not the one who brought this comparison up initially, and merely responded to it.

Yet another DS revision.

Ever joined a server with some funky hit detection? It may have altered cl_lagcompensation: http://www.wegame.com/watch/TF2_Hitboxes/

Then they're probably at the wrong school for physics then. I remember doing stuff like spending a whole week almost completely dedicated to doing a take home thermodynamics final for example. I'm talking 12+ hours a day during this time. And then there's what some others do such as spending 40 hours in 3 days studying for one test. And when days aren't so crazy, we still would have stuff like some 9 hours straight in class days. It is easily the most brutal major I've seen/experienced.

Harder than a physicist or electrical engineer? I doubt it . But music certainly is a more uncertain path. /offtopic

Speaking of which, where's the video of Jill & Andy singing in Rock Band from last year's NYC meetup?

Agreed, easily my best game in Granary ever (not to say it was my best performance, I was terrible as soldier there).