A PS3 costs about 900 US dollars.
A Wii costs about 600 US dollars.
I don't know the figure for a 360, but it must be around 800~900 US dollars.
And a PS3 game must cost about 150 dollars or something like that (don't have the exact figures, either, but seeing how most good but old PS2 games are about 100 dollars...).
I've asked a friend of mine who traveled to the US to bring me a Nintendo DS (even got a 20% discount on it!), and with an R4 I'm able to play almost all games for a fraction of what would cost to buy them legally here (A DS is about 250~300 US dollars, no idea about the games but most unofficial retailers package a flashcard for about 25 extra dollars).
Console and game prices are bullshit on this side of the world. Stop fucking whining, Nintendo.
In my work machine with 512 MB of RAM, spoiled by the multitasking I'm accustomed to in my home machine, I've got Windows dropping over 700 MB of virtual memory on the page file. When I had 512 MB of RAM on my desktop (a couple of months ago), with even higher usage I barely slipped over 400 MB of swap space used.
With my kind of usage, it's sluggish as hell, especially if you tend to multitask a lot (say thanks to Windows' "Oh, let's nice all minimized apps!" mentality). On 512 MB of RAM.
There are, you know, other DEs or window manager which are designed exactly to work on that kind of hardware. Xfce being the most prominent one (my mom uses it on her Pentium I 500 with 128 MiB of RAM).
Aw, come on. Most consumers are idiots. The Black Friday death surely shows so. That you believe you bought the iPhone for an actual reason doesn't mean Joe Average did so.
GPUs have nothing to do with video decoding, it's handled 100% by the CPU. At least until we get a software that can reliably take advantage of the relatively recent introduction of h264 decoding on some high-end GPUs.
Tell me about it. I routinely have to dive into an old AIX server that only has ksh, not bash, and man does it drive me insane. Not only it doesn't support tab completion, it doesn't even support standard history recall! Pressing up just moves the cursor up and sends the escape character to the console, resulting in a garbage command.
find is especially useful when dealing with a huge number of files. I once had to copy a crapload of files (over 12000) from a specific directory in one of our client's server to another directory, and cp was outright refusing to take so many arguments.
I solved it with find . -exec cp {}/path/to/directory \;, since this way cp would execute on one file at the time.
That said, of course you're right every ten years or so there is a terrorist attack that isn't muslims killing for islam.
No, you're wrong. The real reason why they're killing people lies somewhere else, in the fact that they're being manipulated by their leaders, who only rarely (or never) personally participate in any kind of attack. Sort of like how the real reason why the US invaded Iraq wasn't to liberate its people.
Every now and then some communists kill around a bit. It's been a while though.
Not only leadership. The situation in Islam countries is often of major poverty, and there are several reasons for that--ONE of them being leadership. International context and the original social framework are just as, if not more important (these latter often serve as a reason to explain the appearance of "evil" leaders).
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Arcades did, for all intents and purposes, die.
They didn't die in Japan though. The arcade scene is still thriving there.
It's been reverse-engineered. Isn't that supposed to be legal?
For the most part, a job is nothing more than a means to make money.
You sad, sad person.
Labour is an end in itself. Producing is what differences us from animals. Read some Marx.
If you're living just for the money, you're doing it wrong. Or right, according to what this society wants to turn you into.
In Argentina,
A PS3 costs about 900 US dollars.
A Wii costs about 600 US dollars.
I don't know the figure for a 360, but it must be around 800~900 US dollars.
And a PS3 game must cost about 150 dollars or something like that (don't have the exact figures, either, but seeing how most good but old PS2 games are about 100 dollars...).
I've asked a friend of mine who traveled to the US to bring me a Nintendo DS (even got a 20% discount on it!), and with an R4 I'm able to play almost all games for a fraction of what would cost to buy them legally here (A DS is about 250~300 US dollars, no idea about the games but most unofficial retailers package a flashcard for about 25 extra dollars).
Console and game prices are bullshit on this side of the world. Stop fucking whining, Nintendo.
"Privative" is probably just a direct translation from "privativo", which is the word used in Spanish for "proprietary". Cut the dude some slack.
It's DDR1 (more expensive) and it's the machine at my workplace.
But the point was to show that Windows XP performance isn't suited for 128 MiB of RAM.
In my work machine with 512 MB of RAM, spoiled by the multitasking I'm accustomed to in my home machine, I've got Windows dropping over 700 MB of virtual memory on the page file. When I had 512 MB of RAM on my desktop (a couple of months ago), with even higher usage I barely slipped over 400 MB of swap space used.
With my kind of usage, it's sluggish as hell, especially if you tend to multitask a lot (say thanks to Windows' "Oh, let's nice all minimized apps!" mentality). On 512 MB of RAM.
There are, you know, other DEs or window manager which are designed exactly to work on that kind of hardware. Xfce being the most prominent one (my mom uses it on her Pentium I 500 with 128 MiB of RAM).
Aw, come on. Most consumers are idiots. The Black Friday death surely shows so. That you believe you bought the iPhone for an actual reason doesn't mean Joe Average did so.
The GPL is there for a reason.
Yes you are!
So... if you do the benchmarks on PCs that don't have a GPU that can decode H264, is it still a bullshit benchmark?
GPUs have nothing to do with video decoding, it's handled 100% by the CPU. At least until we get a software that can reliably take advantage of the relatively recent introduction of h264 decoding on some high-end GPUs.
Tell me about it. I routinely have to dive into an old AIX server that only has ksh, not bash, and man does it drive me insane. Not only it doesn't support tab completion, it doesn't even support standard history recall! Pressing up just moves the cursor up and sends the escape character to the console, resulting in a garbage command.
locate is a wonderful tool. Learn it, use it, love it.
find is especially useful when dealing with a huge number of files. I once had to copy a crapload of files (over 12000) from a specific directory in one of our client's server to another directory, and cp was outright refusing to take so many arguments.
/path/to/directory \;, since this way cp would execute on one file at the time.
I solved it with find . -exec cp {}
God, I wish I could mod you up over fucking 9000.
Whoops, meant to rate funny.
Sorry about that.
I'm sorry ... "Christian Countries"? Which ones would those be, exactly?
Umm... those who support the Christian church through public funding? What about a country whose paper money says "In God we trust"?
Well, no, not exactly. Technically it would be wrong to say that Floods only exist because of water.
And your point is...?
Yeah, 'cause the WMD plan turned out so we-
Oh wait...
Religion is being used as an excuse!
THANK YOU. A thousand internets for you, my friend.
That said, of course you're right every ten years or so there is a terrorist attack that isn't muslims killing for islam.
No, you're wrong. The real reason why they're killing people lies somewhere else, in the fact that they're being manipulated by their leaders, who only rarely (or never) personally participate in any kind of attack. Sort of like how the real reason why the US invaded Iraq wasn't to liberate its people.
Every now and then some communists kill around a bit. It's been a while though.
lol communism.
Haha, no, I'm not. I've got lots of American friends. I'm just not friendly towards the typical American bigots, that's all :)
Not only leadership. The situation in Islam countries is often of major poverty, and there are several reasons for that--ONE of them being leadership. International context and the original social framework are just as, if not more important (these latter often serve as a reason to explain the appearance of "evil" leaders).
Yes, I understand that, too... but still, claiming that the Islam is the sole cause for terrorism is terribly shortsighted.