A person must remember that although America holds free speech as a basic right, there is a stipulation: so long as what's being said does infringe upon the rights of others or endanger another human being.
Another thing, not all Americans are right wing hypocrites...just our national government and the NRA and...
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You'll find that games under Windoze will quickly suck up a lot of drive space. For instance a full install of Diablo II (which I'm on the last part of) takes 1500 megs and a multiplayer install is 950 megs. Now add that up with a full install of Baldur's gate (2.5 gigs) and about a dozen other games at 500 megs to 1 gig, and it's time for a new hard drive. Admittedly my amiga 2000 has an 82 meg SCSI hardrive (full height 5.25...ouch!) and I'm only useing about 10 megs of it (gotta love it!). True is your final comment that drives are full of junk and most of it's not used. I use about 2-2.5 gigs for a custom install of SuSE on each of my 8 or so machines that are running it. I only use around 20-30 packages on a regular basis. Do some rendering with blender, download some MP3s, forget where you compiled a program and recompile it, and soon you do have a drive full of junk...not to mention if you have Star Office or Applixware installed (Applix rules!!!) This all boils down to the fact that with a normal person playing games and using office suites, playing mp3s and using some other applications you do need more space. This will continue until people learn how to program efficiently. On this note, I took a 41k mod file created in Octamed and converted it to MP3. It's now 2.5 megs. How's that for compression....how much drive space did I lose?
Uh, you'd be crazy at the age of 22 if you didn't play with legos, or at least fantasize about it. I'm 27 and addicted... Now, back to work on the computer case.
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The visor looks like a pretty neat toy for a lot less money. Does anyone have experience with it?
Another thing, not all Americans are right wing hypocrites...just our national government and the NRA and ...
You'll find that games under Windoze will quickly suck up a lot of drive space. For instance a full install of Diablo II (which I'm on the last part of) takes 1500 megs and a multiplayer install is 950 megs. Now add that up with a full install of Baldur's gate (2.5 gigs) and about a dozen other games at 500 megs to 1 gig, and it's time for a new hard drive. Admittedly my amiga 2000 has an 82 meg SCSI hardrive (full height 5.25...ouch!) and I'm only useing about 10 megs of it (gotta love it!). True is your final comment that drives are full of junk and most of it's not used. I use about 2-2.5 gigs for a custom install of SuSE on each of my 8 or so machines that are running it. I only use around 20-30 packages on a regular basis. Do some rendering with blender, download some MP3s, forget where you compiled a program and recompile it, and soon you do have a drive full of junk...not to mention if you have Star Office or Applixware installed (Applix rules!!!) This all boils down to the fact that with a normal person playing games and using office suites, playing mp3s and using some other applications you do need more space. This will continue until people learn how to program efficiently. On this note, I took a 41k mod file created in Octamed and converted it to MP3. It's now 2.5 megs. How's that for compression....how much drive space did I lose?
I think this guy heard the words "Publish or perish", and this was the result.
Uh, you'd be crazy at the age of 22 if you didn't play with legos, or at least fantasize about it. I'm 27 and addicted... Now, back to work on the computer case.