I prefer them (non leaking) too, but it doesn't really bother me that much. I tend to keep the backlight at the lowest setting or completely off 99% of the time.
There's no way to even stop it from happening with the K70, because the switches (and leds) are bolted directly to the aluminium top plate. It makes cleaning so much easier compared to other keyboards, but some light will always leak to the chassis plate.
There's no way to even stop it from happening with the K70, because the switches (and leds) are bolted directly to the aluminium top plate. It makes cleaning so much easier compared to other keyboards, but some light will always leak to the chassis plate.
Haven't had one of those myself, but I heard the keycaps they use are pretty poor quality and come off by themself when mashing the keys repetitively.
G710+ is propably best value for money, seen them go for under 100€ here and it comes with pretty much all bells and whistles. It's just an awful looking thing and I personally don't like brown switches.
Edit: Apparently G710+ can suffer from backlighting issues, so beware.
G710+ is propably best value for money, seen them go for under 100€ here and it comes with pretty much all bells and whistles. It's just an awful looking thing and I personally don't like brown switches.
Edit: Apparently G710+ can suffer from backlighting issues, so beware.
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Each key has a separate switch, resulting in awesome feel and no ghosting or key rollover.
http://www.overclock.net/t/491752/mechanical-keyboard-guide
K70 (Cherry MX Red) because mechanical keyboard addiction and I miss media/volume controls too much. Will buy some 40A-L O-rings from WASD keyboards aswell to test how quiet reds can really be.
Recorded a short video from alpha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUG4NDXyf7w
AdAway is enough reason to root, install F-Droid (Play store alternative for free open source software) to keep it up to date.
Does WP8 have adblocking Boris?
Does WP8 have adblocking Boris?
Why wont these small scale devs ever learn to use torrents with magnet links for big hype launches like this... would avoid so much problems.
"The biggest technical problem for OLEDs was the limited lifetime of the organic materials. One 2008 technical report on an OLED TV panel found that "After 1,000 hours the blue luminance degraded by 12%, the red by 7% and the green by 8%." In particular, blue OLEDs historically have had a lifetime of around 14,000 hours to half original brightness (five years at 8 hours a day) when used for flat-panel displays." Wikipedia
Pentile AMOLEDS aren't perfect even when they're brand new as they have a permament greenish-blueish hue (and it's a shit technology altogether) but have it your way.
I don't think they would include the entire editor that they showed on the stream atleast, maybe some tracks/maps with some pre-placed cars... but we'll find out soon enough! 
I don't mean the screen will stop suddenly working one day, AMOLEDS just degrade over time and start looking worse and worse as you'll need to push more voltage to the screen to compensate for aging. Then there's of course the permament green tint that AMOLED pentile screens suffer from, compare one next to a regular RGB matrix IPS-LCD and the difference is huge. Readability in bright daylight isn't very great either with AMOLEDS, LCD will be much brighter in sunlight.
You're right about battery, and it's a shame modern phones are moving to "non-replaceable" batteries. That said, if you want to change the battery in a HTC, you can still do it. Just need a few tools to pop the screen off and then you can change the battery. The phone will most likely be outdated before you'll need to do that however, such is the rate of progress in modern day mobile devices.
If you treat your phone like you hate it, then plastic is propably a better option. I try to take good care of my high end phones as they're so damn expensive, but it will depend on how you use yours. In average day-to-day use, if you don't drop your phone all the time, aluminium is a much nicer solution than plastic as it feels so much better and tighter.
You're right about battery, and it's a shame modern phones are moving to "non-replaceable" batteries. That said, if you want to change the battery in a HTC, you can still do it. Just need a few tools to pop the screen off and then you can change the battery. The phone will most likely be outdated before you'll need to do that however, such is the rate of progress in modern day mobile devices.
If you treat your phone like you hate it, then plastic is propably a better option. I try to take good care of my high end phones as they're so damn expensive, but it will depend on how you use yours. In average day-to-day use, if you don't drop your phone all the time, aluminium is a much nicer solution than plastic as it feels so much better and tighter.
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HTC all the way. It just feels so much better in hand compared to Samsungs slippery plastic, much tighter build quality too.
Also I wouldn't rate the AMOLED screen above IPS-LCD. Sure it really blows up colors to max saturation, but it's not calibrated and has a much shorter lifespan.
Also I wouldn't rate the AMOLED screen above IPS-LCD. Sure it really blows up colors to max saturation, but it's not calibrated and has a much shorter lifespan.
Phone as a single payment (~600€) and just monthly unlimited/fastest data plan after that (~13€).
Perks of being a bachelor I suppose.
Perks of being a bachelor I suppose.
Oh the amount of disappointment and butthurt if they will just announce a release date and pricing after the timer ends.
Sounds like your settings are all wonky then. Try this:
In LFS: wheel turn 900 degrees, compensation 0, force around 30-40%.
In profiler: overall strenght 105%, spring 0, damper 0, centering spring 0 and unchecked, degrees of rotation 900.
That should make your wheel work in LFS like it should, those are the equal settings I use with the T500 and it results in this.
Why would you want to disable it? That's what cars do in real life and it (force feedback) is the one thing LFS does better than anything else out there.
If you really want to disable it, which I don't recommend, then disable force feedback and simply enable centering spring on your wheel. You'll miss out on learning useful driving skills if you ever get in a pinch with a real life car though.
If you really want to disable it, which I don't recommend, then disable force feedback and simply enable centering spring on your wheel. You'll miss out on learning useful driving skills if you ever get in a pinch with a real life car though.
As it all happens automatically when you connect to the server or start your game, I can't see a huge issue here. If you don't feel like waiting a few moments while stuff downloads, then you don't have to subscribe to any mods and keep racing vanilla.
There's one solution to fragmentation atleast. If they got LFS on Steam (which we all know isn't going to happen) then Steam Workshop could handle all the heavy lifting regarding mods and keeping everything synchronized.
Found a nice track/car? Subscribe to the mod and Steam takes care of downloading and keeping it up to date automatically. Can't join a server because you're missing some mods? Subscribe to it while in-game and Steam handles the rest and you're racing with fresh content in seconds.
But like I said, I believe hell will freeze over before we see LFS on Steam. It's just the most convenient and elegant solution to modding, if only the devs would be interested in allowing it.
Found a nice track/car? Subscribe to the mod and Steam takes care of downloading and keeping it up to date automatically. Can't join a server because you're missing some mods? Subscribe to it while in-game and Steam handles the rest and you're racing with fresh content in seconds.
But like I said, I believe hell will freeze over before we see LFS on Steam. It's just the most convenient and elegant solution to modding, if only the devs would be interested in allowing it.
The thing is, modders don't need to do physics in LFS. They only need to give the cars some of the main parameters: body size and mass, suspension arm types and lenghts, tire size, engine specs and things like that. You don't need to input any excel spreadsheet data to get realistic physics or entire tire model for a car, that's already all in the unified physics engine. It's a bit funny how people still presume LFS physics work on a car-by-car basis and think that modding shouldn't be allowed because of it.
And that's also the whole point of allowing LFS for modding - the physics would still be as fantastic as they always were and the community would get the content it desires.
Also, the physics argument doesn't hold any water over third party tracks, which don't rely on physics at all.
And that's also the whole point of allowing LFS for modding - the physics would still be as fantastic as they always were and the community would get the content it desires.
Also, the physics argument doesn't hold any water over third party tracks, which don't rely on physics at all.
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Right on the money there.
Whenever I've been critical about LFS' progress or its shortcomings, it's not because I hate the devs or want to mock them, it's because I still want it to be THE best sim out there and want the devs to be aware of the biggest issues and flaws and do something about them. I mean we haven't been sticking around with the same piece of software for over 10 years now because we dislike it.
That said, it has become pretty hard to recommend LFS to newcomers now in its current state, before it was the obvious and only option.
Just terrible cockpit camera movement and derpy shift animation as far as I can see.
Got the summer badge from trading cards too, holding on to my spare cards for now to see will their value go up after the sale ends since they will no longer be generated and there's gonna be a finite number of them available. Made a few euros from them already before the market totally crashed though.
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