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The philosophy of life
At one of philosophy lectures, the professor put a really big jar on the table and filled it with couple tenis balls. Afterwards, he asked studedns if the jar was full? They all agreed...
Then the professor took a box full of small stones and poured them into the jar, afterwhich he asked again if the students thought if the jar was full? They nod with their heads looking at eachother.
The next box the professor took was filled with fine sand, the kind that you find on the beach. When he poured sand into the jar, it filled all the small holes between the stones and the tennis balls. He asked students again if the jar was full? The studends answered with "yes", whereby you could see they were all a bit confuzed by the simple question.
Then, the professor took two cups of coffee from beneth his table and poured them into the jar. The students laughted...
"Now", said the professor whlist the laughter died across the hall, "I want you to understand that this jar represents your life. Tennis balls represent all the important things in your life: your family, children, your health and your faith.
The stones are less important things in your life, such as your job, your house and your car. The sand represents all small material things in your life.
If you fill the jar with the sand first, you won't have any space for stones and tennis balls... The same goes for your life. If you spend your time on small material things only, you will never find time for important things in your life.
Take good care of things that are key to your happines. Find time to play with your kids, go to your doctor, take out your partner to dinner, visit your parents..."
One of the students raised her hand and asked what the coffee stands for? The professor smiled and said: "I'm glad that you asked that question. I've pured that coffee to show you, that no matter how full you think your life is, there is always some space for a cup of coffee with your friends".
"Overclock" FIREFOX!
Overclock FIREFOX!
1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
Hope you like it...it worked for me :)
Graphic settings for your needs.
In forums are 1000 of different answers to question "What graphic setting are the best?". To get good answer you will have to understand how VSync, Antialiasing and Anisotropic filtering work. Read carefully following blog and according to your system and desires set yourself your graphic settings up.
Vertical Sync:
Vertical Synchronization (also called Vertical Sync, or simply VSync) is the synchronization of your graphics card and monitor's abilities to redraw the screen a number of times each second (measured in FPS or Hz).
If VSync is disabled (set to No), you may see some image "tearing" as your monitor and graphics card go slightly out of synchronization when the refresh rate exceeds the monitor's abilities, however your FPS can now exceed your monitor's refresh rate. You can have a refresh rate higher than 60Hz, it's just that your monitor will simply show some frames more than once. It is always recommended that you have as high a refresh rate as possible to ease eyestrain.
By turning VSync on your graphic card will synchronize every frame send to monitor with monitors ability and timing to show it in regular order.
1 more thing is here important : when VSync is on and you get ex. 60FPS you can use lower resolution and some programs (like re4ce or refreshclock) to get your monitor to have 100FPS without turning VSync off and avoiding image "tearing" and missynchronization of your graphic card and monitor.
Antialiasing:
Antialiasing is a method of smoothing the jaggedness of lines in 3D graphics. This setting has (up to) five options: Off, 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x. When set to Off, there is no additional Antialiasing used, unless you have forced Antialiasing enabled in your Graphics card's control panel. Antialiasing set to Off provides the fastest performance.
When set to 2x Antialiasing, this uses your graphics card to smooth out jagged lines at the cost of some FPS. Higher levels of Antialiasing will reduce FPS even more, but smooth out jaggedness considerably, particularly for distant objects. Note that if you have any level of Antialiasing enabled in your graphics card control panel, they will override these settings.
Anisotropic filtering:
Also referred to simply as Anisotropic (or AF) for short. This is a method which makes textures (the surfaces of all 3D objects) appear cleaner and crisper.
Raising the resolution of a game is one way of improving texture appearance, however textures receding into the distance may still become noticeably blurry and their finer features may become indistinguishable even at very high resolutions.
Anisotropic Filtering is used to enhance the details of textures, and to reduce the blurriness which occurs on textures that are further away.
The higher the level of Anisotropic Filtering applied, the clearer the textures will appear, but the greater the strain on your graphics card in filtering the image to produce the clearer representation of textures. Also, at very high levels of AF the clarity of distant textures may be unrealistically high.
I hope this has helped you and your game. Note that these guieds are simplified version of the proffesional guides, I didn't want to bother you with all other stuf, but these are the basics. If u want to learn some more search the net for guides, or msg me and I will help you in any way that I can.
By Milan 'Constantine' Danduković
Sep 23, 2007 17:53
At one of philosophy lectures, the professor put a really big jar on the table and filled it with couple tenis balls. Afterwards, he asked studedns if the jar was full? They all agreed...
Then the professor took a box full of small stones and poured them into the jar, afterwhich he asked again if the students thought if the jar was full? They nod with their heads looking at eachother.
The next box the professor took was filled with fine sand, the kind that you find on the beach. When he poured sand into the jar, it filled all the small holes between the stones and the tennis balls. He asked students again if the jar was full? The studends answered with "yes", whereby you could see they were all a bit confuzed by the simple question.
Then, the professor took two cups of coffee from beneth his table and poured them into the jar. The students laughted...
"Now", said the professor whlist the laughter died across the hall, "I want you to understand that this jar represents your life. Tennis balls represent all the important things in your life: your family, children, your health and your faith.
The stones are less important things in your life, such as your job, your house and your car. The sand represents all small material things in your life.
If you fill the jar with the sand first, you won't have any space for stones and tennis balls... The same goes for your life. If you spend your time on small material things only, you will never find time for important things in your life.
Take good care of things that are key to your happines. Find time to play with your kids, go to your doctor, take out your partner to dinner, visit your parents..."
One of the students raised her hand and asked what the coffee stands for? The professor smiled and said: "I'm glad that you asked that question. I've pured that coffee to show you, that no matter how full you think your life is, there is always some space for a cup of coffee with your friends".
"Overclock" FIREFOX!
By Milan 'Constantine' Danduković
Mar 24, 2006 15:43
Overclock FIREFOX!
1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
Hope you like it...it worked for me :)
Graphic settings for your needs.
By Milan 'Constantine' Danduković
Aug 31, 2005 17:32
In forums are 1000 of different answers to question "What graphic setting are the best?". To get good answer you will have to understand how VSync, Antialiasing and Anisotropic filtering work. Read carefully following blog and according to your system and desires set yourself your graphic settings up.
Vertical Sync:
Vertical Synchronization (also called Vertical Sync, or simply VSync) is the synchronization of your graphics card and monitor's abilities to redraw the screen a number of times each second (measured in FPS or Hz).
If VSync is disabled (set to No), you may see some image "tearing" as your monitor and graphics card go slightly out of synchronization when the refresh rate exceeds the monitor's abilities, however your FPS can now exceed your monitor's refresh rate. You can have a refresh rate higher than 60Hz, it's just that your monitor will simply show some frames more than once. It is always recommended that you have as high a refresh rate as possible to ease eyestrain.
By turning VSync on your graphic card will synchronize every frame send to monitor with monitors ability and timing to show it in regular order.
1 more thing is here important : when VSync is on and you get ex. 60FPS you can use lower resolution and some programs (like re4ce or refreshclock) to get your monitor to have 100FPS without turning VSync off and avoiding image "tearing" and missynchronization of your graphic card and monitor.
Antialiasing:
Antialiasing is a method of smoothing the jaggedness of lines in 3D graphics. This setting has (up to) five options: Off, 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x. When set to Off, there is no additional Antialiasing used, unless you have forced Antialiasing enabled in your Graphics card's control panel. Antialiasing set to Off provides the fastest performance.
When set to 2x Antialiasing, this uses your graphics card to smooth out jagged lines at the cost of some FPS. Higher levels of Antialiasing will reduce FPS even more, but smooth out jaggedness considerably, particularly for distant objects. Note that if you have any level of Antialiasing enabled in your graphics card control panel, they will override these settings.
Anisotropic filtering:
Also referred to simply as Anisotropic (or AF) for short. This is a method which makes textures (the surfaces of all 3D objects) appear cleaner and crisper.
Raising the resolution of a game is one way of improving texture appearance, however textures receding into the distance may still become noticeably blurry and their finer features may become indistinguishable even at very high resolutions.
Anisotropic Filtering is used to enhance the details of textures, and to reduce the blurriness which occurs on textures that are further away.
The higher the level of Anisotropic Filtering applied, the clearer the textures will appear, but the greater the strain on your graphics card in filtering the image to produce the clearer representation of textures. Also, at very high levels of AF the clarity of distant textures may be unrealistically high.
I hope this has helped you and your game. Note that these guieds are simplified version of the proffesional guides, I didn't want to bother you with all other stuf, but these are the basics. If u want to learn some more search the net for guides, or msg me and I will help you in any way that I can.
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