Quote from vipex123 :

German media and British media talking about the possibility that Schumacher may be in a coma for the rest of his life. For now here is this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new ... acher-coma-rest-life.html

Brain specialist saying Schumacher won't be the same if he does awake from the coma: http://www.independent.co.uk/n ... -head-injury-9066613.html

You should take these news with a grain of salt - the papers are hungry fot information more than anyone. Even the doctors who provide comments might not be the most accurate source of info because they can providr only educated guesses and you caestimatesn be sure that the papers will print the most dire and schoking estimates

My brother had one of these. I might actually still have it buried deep in one of my boxes with random junk.

I remember it died in a somewhat similar fashion. There were no display issues, but it would switch itself off after a few minutes for no apparent reason. I managed to temporarily fix it by reflowing but it lasted for just about a week.
If you decide to go through with the reflowing, there is at least one suggestion I can share. The G62 I dealt with was a bit of a bitch to put back together because the heatsink just wouldn't fit tightly on the CPU and GPU. The chipset heatsink was even worse because there was like 1 mm wide gap between the chip and the piece of metal that was supposed to spread the heat. I ended up using an unusually generous amount of thermal grease to fill the gaps. I had to take it apart three times before I got it right...

Quote from chose1337 :

ve problem with LEDs not working. I install the app exactly how it was written in Readme.txt. Launch LFS via G27LEDApp.exe but LEDs are just blinking and blinking. They don't react to gas pedal, they're just blinking.

Only thing I can think of is that the addon doesn't receive correct OutGauge data. Either OutGauge is misconfigured or perhaps blocked by some overzealous firewall (although in that case the LEDs shouldn't blink). The debugging output would probably tell me more...

Quote from The Very End :

However, it seems everything Steam OS does - other can and have done before. So why changing from the old to this?

Because the question of what it can do was never the point. The real advantage here is that you have a game distribution system built around a fully open platform. You can get it for free, you can run it on whatever you want, you can modify it however you want. There will be nobody telling you what you can and cannot do with your device - compare this to the attitude Sony or Apple have.
Openness of the Linux/FOSS ecosystem also gives Valve full access to each and every component of the OS. They can tweak Steam to play nice with some specifics of the Linux kernel, they can distribute their own modified version of the kernel optimized for gaming (which they do BTW), the possibilities are endless...

^^^
EDIT: Clicked "Post" a moment too late...

1100 in GMT+1

According to Gary Hartstein's twitter it makes perfect sense to delay the PC until the medical staff has had a chance to run an evaluate all post-op medical tests.

https://twitter.com/former_f1doc/status/417438949133783041

A press conference is to be held at 1100. I suppose that means nothing significant is expected to happen over night? That sounds like good news...

As for the output to Excel I suggest you write your data into a CSV file. Excel can parse such files with almost no extra work involved and it is easy to read those files with other tools as well.

Well, it is a bit suspicious to put your server's IP on the website because all legit LFS can be connected to without that info. (LFS is actually designed to not give away server's IP addresses until you try to connect to them)

Okay... what are you trying to do? What you posted is a config file, not a PHP code.

I think that PRISM takes advantage of PHP 5.5 (or at least it's on the TODO list) so you should probably get that.
Are you trying to run some application written with PRISM? If you do, it might be better to ask the author of that app for help...

Either you don't have PHP installed or you don't have the path to the interpreter set in the %PATH variable. It would also help if you posted your code...

There are no "correct" values because everybody might have different preferences. You can use the spreadsheet few posts above to create your own values or use a config made by DarkKostas.

Quote from eddy678 :

Is there any way in which I can boot Windows XP up from drive D on startup?

You can change the boot device order in BIOS. Vista should also be able to recognize XP on the other hard drive and offer you a boot menu, but the detection of other OSes is done during installation. It's probably possible to rerun the detection even from an already installed OS though.

Windows might have trouble booting if you move if from one computer to another because it remembers HW configuration of the computer it was installed on...

I suppose that all those values are defined in a C-style enum like this

therefore you don't need to know the actual numerical value. Unless specified otherwise, the first value is 0, second value is 1 and so on...

Whether it is legal to resell OEM software depends on the laws of the country/region you live in. For example - according to a European Court of Justice ruling - it is legal to resell used software in EU (http://www.zdnet.com/oracle-ca ... are-in-europe-7000000189/). Whether this applies to OEM as well is probably a question for another lawsuit though...

I haven't tried that but can't you use IS_HLV for this? I guess this would suffice is most cases where you need to check if a car is driving on a "legal" path. You could also define some zones where it would be legal to veer off track a bit (AS Nat final esses come to mind) and check against those using coords in CarContOBJ struct.
On the other hand if you want to check if a driver gained some advantage by cutting the track or if he just spun out of control, you'd have to use a custom system (IMHO). Perhaps a set of polygons that cover the entire track generated from the track nodes? This should allow you to detect cutting the track and maybe even calculate how big an advantage the driver gained...

Quote from Impreza WRX :

Apple sells entire solutions. Its a lot easier to keep the money flowing on a forced upgrade path. Microsoft has several years (3-5) between milestone changes of Windows, and backwards compatibility hardware-wise to a great degree. MacOS? Nope. Every generation of Apple device brings about changes that can't be backported to older hardware, not easily, and with a yearly release cycle, you have to spend a ton of money to keep things rolling.

Isn't this pretty much what I said? Apple doesn't have huge industries and corporations demanding that their 15+ year old software works with new computers and Windows pushing them to maintain backwards compatibility, so they can redesign and innovate.

Quote from Impreza WRX :

Have you tried GNOME3 or Ubuntu's Unity interface? It's the same storm of grief and rage from users of the most popular desktop and distro of Linux, but a year before Windows 8 came along.

I believe that the initial distaste for Unity goes on account of its slowness and numerous bugs, GNOME Shell had similar problems (to less extent) plus many people dislike the continuous dumbing down of the configuration options ("yes, of course you can change that... if you know JavaScript and rewrite that yourself...") I'm not sure about Unity, but GNOME Shell's mouse gestures oriented controls seem like an awkward thing to use on laptop. On desktop with a proper mouse I kinda like it though...

MS cannot break legacy compatibility anytime soon even though I'm convined they actually wish they could. There is a huge amount of corporate applications that still rely on legacy WinAPI and these applications usually cannot be easily fixed. There are applications out there whose lifecycle is "Developed by A which was a branch of B, B was taken over by C, C went bankrupt and sold to pieces so the original app is now owned by D." There is a good chance that by the time D owns the app, it's source has become a hardly maintainable mess nobody from the D company actually understands.

Windows division of MS makes money by selling new version of Windows. If you take in account how hard if was for MS to make people move away from XP, you can probably imagine that convincing people to switch to a Windows version with limited (or none) support for legacy apps would be next to impossible.

Apple can do whatever they want because their userbase is much smaller and there aren't many huge industries that rely on MacOS.

This is the most bitter of ironies. R.I.P Paul Walker.

Quote from cargame.nl :

Besides the Users directory is also protected. Stop using Windows directories

Really? How does the user write stuff into their "home" directory on Windows? Isn't the Desktop or My Documents folders there?

Quote from Scawen :

All I want to hear from is a graphics programmer, telling me how to run a debug version of DX8 or DX9 in Windows 7.

I hardly do anything on Windows, but according to Google and MSDN there shouldn't be a problem unless you're using Windows 8 or MSVS2012. Microsoft managed to create a bit of a mess with 32b/64b versions of their libs. Basically, if you want to develop and run 32bit applications, you need to install 32bit libraries. Bundles for 64bit Windows contain only 64bit binaries, not 32+64bit as some might expect, perhaps you're missing the debug DX runtime? (this only applies to 64bit version of Windows of course)

Quote from Bose321 :

Those last few posts make me wanna smash my head on my desk. Why not install a virtual machine? It's 2 seconds work. There's even a XP VM from Microsoft.

3D acceleration in all commonly used virtualization tools is shoddy at best and badly broken in latest VirtualBox (at least for me). It most definitely cannot be used for debugging. The performance is quite horrible as well.

Quote from P.Derast :

Thank you Scawens for replying your opinions about Mantle API(also, sharing your ignorance with us).
By ignorance I mean:


Also 200-series AMD cards support mantle, and upcoming AMD APU's, not only that, but Mantle is open-source, so Nvidia could implement that if they wished.
You don't see many developers adapting it, but Battlefield 4 is supposedly getting mantle next month, Star Citizen, and the list goes on.

Ignorance? HD7xxx+ means any card above and including HD7xxx series. And no, Mantle API is not open source, it is specifically designed for AMD's GCN GPU architecture and therefore it cannot be adopted by any other manufacturer. It is an API designed for consoles brought to the world of PCs. (https://twitter.com/Thracks/status/383872285351739393)

Bottomline, Mantle is not an option for LFS and probably will never be.

Quote from P.Derast :

Are you saying that switching to DirectX 10/11 won't make lfs look like crysis? :O

No, it will not. Version of the Direct3D API alone has about as much effect on the game's appearance as version of Windows (= none).

Quote from P.Derast :

But Scawen, what's your opinion on Mantle API?

Mantle is a low-level API that currently works only with certain HD7xxx+ AMD cards. Because it's specific to AMD, I don't see many developers adopting it. Because it's low-level, it makes less sense to deploy in on PCs. Different PCs have different HW and different HW would probably require different rendering code to achieve good performance. At last but not least, it's currently available only on Windows.

Quote from Scawen :

One thing bugs me, and probably someone can make it clearer, and this really disgusts me, there is a patent on Force Feedback which is somehow controlled by Microsoft, so there is no such thing as a FF wheel that works on operating systems other than Windows. Hopefully you can easily build drivers that allow FF on Linux but are they illegal?

I did some work on Logitech FFB drivers for Linux and there were no black helicopters circling my roof nor angry emails in my mailbox. Valve has also released their "SteamOS" which is pretty much their own Linux distro, so if there were any patent issues, they'd know. As far as I know you can freely write whatever you please. I'm not a lawyer but as long as you're not making money using someone else's IP - whatever that actually means - the companies can't really get at you. As a game developer you'd be just using some API and I can't imagine how could anyone use that as a basis for a lawsuit. iRacing has recently released Mac and Linux version and they had no particular issues on this front.