Exactly what I was thinking.

I'd agree. A lot of the recent games I played pump you with fmv/cut scenes that to be honest half the time I can't even understand. I pick up a game and play it for 30 mins, and I've actually only 'played' for about 10, the rest has been watching 'story' and bad voice acting. Where are the games I can just play!?

Uh what?

I helped my uncle jack off a horse.

I helped my uncle, Jack, off a horse.

Well it's really just for conversion of vinyl and tapes etc, perhaps some guitar/mic recording. Quality is probably good enough to be honest, but I was interested in seeing some measurements to back it up.

A USB breakout box is desired as it means I can use a higher quality offboard DAC for playback, as the analog sound out the mac is OK, it's nothing amazing imo.

I remember in times gone by, a proper review of a video card would involve scoping the output and looking at the quality of the signal. Likewise with the soundcards, it's so hard to find any real info on them other than 'surround' and 'supports windows'.

I have a m audio delta 2940 PCI card I bought on ebay and hooking it up to my Tripath 2020 amp with fostex full rangers literally (figuratively) blew me away. The quality of the output compared to the rear output on the SBLive (kx drivers) was night and day. Amazing. I got it to do some digitisation of old audio recordings.

Does anybody have any quantitive measurements of the Apri 2010 Mac book pro As i'm interested in doing some recording with that wondered how good a quality I'm likely to get.

Doesn't anybody else find this to to be one of the most annoying design decisions ever made?

I absolutely hate it when the PDF loads into the browser rather than the PDF software. All your menus mess up, you can't fully use the PDF software, you can't fully use your browser, the PDF software hogs your browser up.

I blame Internet Explorer.

I've had a Wii since launch. I have over a hundred games, and I'd say there is around 20 that are triple A titles worth bying a Wii for.

For the next Wii I'd really like to see:

proper 1080p HD gfx - imagine how good SMG would look, for example, or SMBW in glorious 1080p. Sonic Unleashed has some impressive gfx engine as well. Even Gutiar hero looks better on 360 than Wii, and that's just stupid shapes moving on a screen.

Surround sound

More memory I'm running out of game save space.

A better multiplayer setup The friend code thing is retarded.

Facility to link up Wii locally for fullscreen LAN game action

Probably some other things I can't remember just now.

Ahh yes with HD then hopefully the power to use as a slick media playback device with nice remote would be a possibilty as well.

Of course, by wimpy I mean, wonky. Damn iPhone autocorrect.

Would the iPad orientation sensor get confused when used in zero g environment? Does it use gravity to determine which way is up? What about gps do you get wimpy gps readings when using a gps receiver in space?

I get this as well. Various distros, various systems. KDE usually feels faster than Gnome. Also I think a lot of it is perceptual. For example, right click the Gnome desktop, it will draw the blank menu canvas, and then draw the menu entries. This is visibly possible to see. Repeatedly. It doesn't seem to cache it. Main menus have a similar thing, but it draws the canvas, then the text, then loads in the icons quite nicely.

Windows does it different, it draws 'instantly' (unless your system has a load on, in which case maybe you get the outline and then a pause and then the whole menu completely appears., or items load in one-by-one)

MacOSX is *instant*. Always. Bookmarks menu in Safari, lags the first time you open it, like Gnome right click. Then it's instant.

I guess it's kinda similiar to the browser configuration wait.to.render whereby the browser might wait a few hundred ms to collect enough data to draw the page, rather than drawing it instantly and perhaps havingto reformat due to unforeseen content.

I remember maybe a year or 2 ago I stuck Ubuntu 8.10 on a Dell Precision workstation (xeons, 4GB, quattro gfx) and that ran Gnome amazingly well. The menu speed was fast as. I remember actually being blown away a little as it ran gnome so well, but that was a £2500 system so it bloody well should've.

Tools -- Options --- classic mode (turn off the stupid 'sidebar'), disable thumbs.db creation.

Windows is so annoying with the sidebar thing if you click a video and then try to delete it it won't let you delete it because it's caching the preview for the sidebar.

It's a driving simulator, not a crashing simulator.

I think it would be fun to find it, but I have no idea how to start looking. 1. Download 900GB file. 2. ?????? 3. Profit!!!!!

This. I don't get why is hasn't happened already. Is Gnome+kde just too big?

Fuck everything, we're doing 1 big blade. (or maybe 2 when in the open setting - shhh don't complicate things)