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New techniques and tools keep raising the bar for electronic game designers. Focal Press keeps ahead of the curve with a set of new and recent titles to help designers get their game on.
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03/01/2011
Question by ♉MELLOW LOVER♉: WINDOWS 7 EXPERTS IS THERE ANYWAY TO SET “TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES” DISK SPACE TO “0″ IN INTERNET PROPERTIES?
IN INTERNET PROPERTIES> BROWSING HISTORY>TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES AND HISTORY SETTINGS
DOWN WHERE IT SAYS “DISK SPACE TO USE” “8-1024MB” I HAVE MINE SET TO “8″ BUT IS THERE ANYWAY TO CONFIGURE IT FROM “GROUP POLICY” OR ANYWHERE IN WINDOWS 7 TO SET IT TO “0″ INSTEAD OF 8
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Answer by quittix3
First of all, do you even know what the “TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES” are even for? Your browser needs temporary internet space to perform quite a few basic things..
And besides, its just 8mb… its not going to hurt anything since your hard drive probably has 10′s of thousands of megabytes.. , if your that desperate for space get a new hard drive.
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After the kitchen, the most popular room in most homes has to be the family room or great room. It has to function as a media room, a game room, a music room, a reading roomand often a homework area too. Because this room is so lived in, there are lots of family rooms that could use a serious makeover. But where to start?
“Start with design that reflects the interests of the family members, of course! Use photos, children’s artwork, mementos, maps, antiques and art collections to tell your family’s story in this room,” says Jan Jessup, director of communications for Calico Corners Calico Home. “Think about having frames made that can open to switch out kids’ artwork or to showcase the latest photos from a family trip. Those personal items may suggest colors or textures to incorporate.” Then consider how to make the room work on a practical level. Here are ten tips on how to create a family room that is both functional and great looking:
1. Really comfortable seating is essential.
Sofas, sectionals and chairs for a family room should be chosen for reading and viewing comfort. Do you like to nap on the sofa? Be sure it’s wide and deep enough–and that the arm is low enough to nestle your head. Do you like to read to children? Make sure they can fit around you. Do you prefer to sit cross-legged on the sofa? It should be deep enough to accommodate your folded legs. Chairs and sofas with an outside depth of 38 – 39 inches or more are ideal for both sitting and reclining.
2. Select furniture that’s the right scale for the room.
If your great room is oversize, or has a cathedral ceiling, you probably need large-scale upholstered furniture that can stand up to the size of the room. Traditional sofas or settees 72 to 78-inches wide will look diminutive in a big room. Look for large-scale sofas at least 88-92 inches wide with depth and height of about 38-39 inches for furniture with presence in a spacious room.
Many sofas have an inside width of 68-69 inches (as this is a common frame size), but could have an overall width of 78 – 89 inches due to large-scale padded arms. Compare outside dimensions to inside width. “You may not be getting more actual seating space with a longer length sofa,” advises Jessup. Shop with a measuring tape–make notes about the size and scale of the pieces that you find most comfortable. Sofas with an inside width (between the arms) of 72 to 75-inches will be long enough for 6-footers to nap stretched-out. Think about how you’ll really use your furniture, not just the aesthetics of the piece. Function must complement form.
“Older adults have an easier time getting up from chairs that are a little more upright and not too deep (such as wing chairs) or chairs with good arm leverage (such as English arm chairs),” adds Jessup.
3. Consider sectional seating for design flexibility.
Sectional sofas with a variety of components are a good way to create more spacious seating that can be tailored to the size and shape of the room. “If you want to pack more people into a tight space, your best choice is a sectional sofa,” notes designer Suzanne Kasler in her book, Inspired Interiors. “The L-shape creates a very strong line and utilizes every square inch, even the corner.”
When upholstering a sectional, avoid large prints and plaids or the finished effect may be overpowering. An interesting texture, small menswear plaid, chevron, herringbone or basketweave pattern will be subtle and more interesting than a plain solid fabric–and will also hide wear and wrinkles. Remember that sectional components in an L-shaped unit will change direction at the corner–and so will the fabric they wear. Be sure you like the effect before making a final fabric selection.
4. Vary the scale and visual weight of the furniture in the room.
For example, have large chairs, medium-size chairs and smaller slipper chairs. Incorporate ottomans and benches. Have firmer chair seats and cushier chair seats. Have a great reading chair or chaise. Be able to reconfigure the furniture and pull in extra seating for big family gatherings and parties. Furniture with a little variety creates a more interesting room than a matching suite that all appears to have come from the same source.
5. Consider skirted arm chairs with a swivel mechanism so that they can turn easily for conversation or movie watching. Most fully upholstered skirted chairs can be ordered with a swivel, swivel-glider or swivel-rocker mechanism.
6. Ottomans are critical to reading and viewing comfort.
Ottomans should pull up easily to chairs or sectional components to support your legs. Will they be large enough for a long-legged spouse? Or will two people want to share one ottoman? Shop accordingly. If an ottoman will serve as both footrest and coffee table, consider a large 36″ to 48″ rectangular or square ottoman to serve all needs.
Large upholstered cocktail ottomans with no sharp corners or hard edges are more kind to toddlers and small children on the run and can also serve as a coffee table. A pretty tray placed on the ottoman can contain books, magazines, accessories and remotes.
7. Find a fabric you love to pull out colors for pillows, window treatments, skirted tables and accessories.
If you have little ones, consider a more colorful combo for a family room as brighter colors really speak to kids, advises Jessup. “Start with the fabric, because there a million shades of paint, and you can always find that later.”
8. Lots of pillows are great for lounging, movie watching or support while reading.
Have pillows made in a variety of sizes and shapes–lumbar pillows to cradle your back while reading, smaller pillows to tuck under an elbow, larger pillows for napping–and even floor pillows for kids who love to lounge on the carpet. “Square pillows at least 18″ to 22″ are good sizes for a sofa,” says Jessup. “They’re large enough to show off a fabric and make a design statement. Little bitty pillows just get in the way.”
The Calico stores offer both feather/down and fiberfill pillow forms covered in a neutral solid fabric in a huge variety of sizes and shapes–even pillow balls and cubes. The Calico custom workrooms can transform any fabric into a pleasing pillow.
9. Use window treatments to control glare on a television screen.
Light falling from a window onto a television screen creates sun glare–perhaps not a problem at night, but surely an issue for Saturday morning cartoons or a weekend football game. Window treatments that can be drawn, or shutters or shades that can be closed, will help to control glare–and add privacy.
10. Select carefree fabrics. Then relax, enjoy and live with your family in the family room.
The Calico stores have a very large selection of high performance fabrics, including many Sunbrella jacquard and woven upholstery-weight fabrics. These are designed for furniture use and are easy to live with–spills can be cleaned up with a sponge and a little dish soap.
“No one will guess that these are stain-resistant, fade-resistant Sunbrella fabrics,” notes Jessup, “as they look like denim, duck, matelass
Sony’s catchphrase for the PlayStation 3 is PLAY B3YOND (aka Beyond) – and what the PS3 offers is a device that is capable of playing the latest PS 1080p games, surfing the Web, play blu-ray videos and so much more.
It’s black, it’s shiny, it’s a dust magnet and it is a console gaming system that offers so much more than merely the ability to play the state-of-the-art games.
But first things first …
The local phone company tech showed up at the door to install DSL. Cool. Problem was the wireless modem was connected to the wall outlet upstairs and the PS3 was in the master bedroom (hooked up to the HDTV) downstairs. Look in the manual … Select Network Settings … Select Internet Connection Settings … Select “Wireless” and then press the X button. A firmware download later, the machine was surfing the Web, using a Logitech USB keyboard.
There were a couple of retail games included in the box – Genji: Days of the Blade and Resistance: Fall of Man. Genji was tried – nope, need to upgrade the firmware to the next iteration (from 1.00 to 1.02). Again, not a problem. Resistance comes packaged with the firmware upgrade and other games down the line will do the same thing (think PC and getting the latest iteration of DirectX with the game).
Sony ushers in its version of the next-gen console system with the launch of the PS3 on November 17. Pre-sales indicate the machine will sell out. The first 500,000 units shipped carried the blu-ray release of Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby. Sony wants those who buy the console to see what blu-ray can do. Words don’t do a blu-ray justice. It could be mentioned that blu-ray disks hold much more information than DVDs (DVDs can hold nine gigs of information while blu-ray disks can hold 50 gigs), and in the case of movies come the closest yet to a visual experience that is amazing. Imagine all that on a disk.
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What’s in the box …
The PS3 comes in two models, the lower-priced (9) 20-gigabyte playstation 3 hard drive and the (9) 60-gig playstation 3 hard drive. There are differences, aside from the hard-drive size between the two.
The 60-gig machine uses a Cell Broadband Engine and the main memory is 256-meg XDR RAM with 256-megs of GDDR3 VRAM. The hard drive is a 2.5” Serial ATA and the main input/output devices include a memory stick, SD and CompactFlash disks as well as four USB 2.0 ports. The 20-gig machine only has the USB ports, not the other input/output device ports. The hard drive size and the input/output configurations are the differences between the two machines.
The machine will support screen sizes of 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p with the ability to connect either through HDMI cables (not included) or the composite analog cables (5 connections – three for video and two audio channels). Both machines have the digital audio capabilities and the Blu-ray/DVD/CD (read-only) disc drives.
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Blu-ray and Cell Broadband Engine …
The Cell Broadband Engine was developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba and is purported to deliver up to 10 times the processing speed of a typical home computer. The hype on the engine states that developers should be able to start approximating actual intelligence in games, rather than artificial intelligence, meaning the enemies should get a lot smarter. The engine is capable of performing 200 billion calculations per second and has a clock speed of 3.2 GHz.
The blu-ray disc offers next-gen media capabilities that can render high-definition graphical power to a receiver that is also HD. It can support 1080p, which is 1,080 lines of progressive scan – the highest resolution available. Blu-ray discs can carry more than five times the amount of data of a DVD. DVDs can hold up to 9 gigs of information but the blu-ray disc can hold 50 gigs – which translates, in gaming terms, into titles that will be much bigger in terms of detail or game scope. Blu-ray also supports 7.1 surround sound.
Navigating the crossbar menus is a breeze and hooking up the PlayStation Network is also easy.
Anticipations and expectations ran high for the next-generation console systems and Sony has delivered. This machine is amazing.
Pros:
Blu-ray, Cell Broadband, storage, Web access, sixaxis controller and high-def graphical output all add up to a machine that is delicious to look at and delightful to play on, or just to watch movies on. The machine is easy to use, but the cover is a dust magnet and will need to be tended to (wait, isn’t that a ‘con?’ Nope, the sleek machine design is a definite ‘pro.’)
Cons:
There is a marked difference in storage and input/output between the 20-gig and 60-gig machine. Everything else is the same, but with only a price point difference of 0, it seems silly to not buy the bigger machine. Clever marketing is not entirely too friendly in asking consumers to cough up that extra 0 for more machine. Sony did tout this as backward compatible with all PSOne and PS2 titles, but – while not confirmed – there does seem to be some titles that will not run on the machine.
Sony has said that this is the foundation for the next 10 years. Maybe it is, maybe technology will outgrow it sooner, but one thing is certain – this machine fits today’s entertainment needs wonderfully.
Verdict: 9.7
The games, both as launch titles and those coming in the next few months, will be amazing and will take console gaming into the next generation. The controls are easily accessed and used – both on the PS sixaxis controller and the crossbar navigational system. This machine has so much that using it merely as a gaming device seems rather silly. No, it won’t be a primary Web surfing tool (and it is recommended you get a USB keyboard for that anyway) but the PlayStation Network is a definite bonus. Blu-ray provides wondrous graphical output and the machine does play CDs as well as old PS titles (maybe not all, but still the majority). With online downloads, or games with the latest firmware support, this is a machine built to play, to use with entertainment media and to go online with.
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Sixaxis controller …
No more forced feedback from the controller – that has been replaced by gyroscopes in the peripheral that will enable players (if supported by the game) to use controller movement to affect the game. Let’s face it – we have all tried to take corners in a racing game by tilting the controller in the direction we wanted to turn. With the sixaxis controller, that will be possible. Menus will be able to be accessed by tilting the controller, or flight controls will rely on the angle that the controller is at. In every other way, this is the PS control device. However, only one sixaxis controller comes in the box.
PlayStation Network …
Signing up is fast and free. You can connect to the Internet via the CAT5 port or the wireless network card. Each account is broken into two parts – the Master account and the secondary account. On the network you can download demos, keep track of a friends, send messages, and chart game progress. There is an option to input billing information (credit card) so that you can buy games and such through the network and load them onto the hard drive of the machine.
Using the machine …
The PS3 has a crossbar menu on the boot screen. This is exactly the same as the PSP. You can store video, audio, downloads, browse the Internet, message friends, access the PlayStation store (where there are free downloads and downloads you would pay for as well), or launch a movie or game.
The disc simply slides into the front of the machine, a la a CD player in your car, and the buttons to eject it, or turn off the machine take only a whisper of a touch. Using the controller, which has a lithium battery in it and once charged can go wireless, the PS3 owner can quit the game by pressing the PS logo, holding it down and waiting for the prompts. The power supply is built into the casing, and while I puts out some heat, it does not feel as hot as the 360 external power supply.
Go ahead, spend the extra 0 for the bigger machine, you may be glad you did so – especially if you plan to store photos and such on the machine. About the only thing that would have made this better would be a R/W disc.
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Question by Unbreakable: Is the future good for computer security experts?
I’m 20 years old and I know how to program using java and c++. I’m thinking of studying computer science in university next year, But are the future jobs good for this profession? I was thinking of a masters in computer security.
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Answer by Laissez-Faire Guy
I think so. The world is only moving towards more and more dependence on computers and networks. And hackers and criminals are always trying to figure out new ways of ripping us off. There’s got to be someone there to protect companies and people from these threats. Why not you?
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