The latest Steam Survey puts 41.49% of PC gamers in the Less Than 250 GB Total HD Space catagory (by less than, that does not include those with 250GB of space.)
Only 10.44% of PC gamers have over 1 TB of storage.
I personally think that PC gamers likely have above-average storage available due to more-frequent new system purchases (landing a new HD each time), so saying that an "average" user probably has 200 GB or less is probably just about right on target.
The Windows drivers are using every setting of that motherboard, while the Linux drivers dont even know about some of them.
You only experience problems in Linux.
Could it maybe be that your Linux installation cannot cope with some of those settings, which it doesnt even know exist, being non-default?
Use your brain instead of your religion. The problem is on the Linux end. Nobody at all is getting paid to make sure that every advanced feature of your motherboard is leveraged under Linux, while there is surely a team of developers bring paid a very healthy salary to make sure that every feature can be leveraged under Windows.
I've got to agree that NVidia is going to be squeezed out of the desktop graphics market, but I don't agree that their only niche will be high end graphics. I think they will definitely lose the high end graphics market. Their only niche will be the low-end market, where they will continue to do nicely selling all flavors of motherboard chipsets.
And as I said, most applications seem to have this built in concept of "latency == bad"
Wrong.
Most applications have this concept that it doesnt matter, because for most applications it doesnt matter. You even went ahead and explained this yourself. Please.
There are *some* applications where Latency = Very Very Bad.
Will PulseAudio support them, ever?
That is the chasm Linux audio is standing in front of. On the one hand you got this nice group-think that the design of the audio api should have all these rerouting features and so forth, and on the other hand you have applications that absolutely cannot work with high latency.
I do not think that its in the best interests of the linux community to tell the people who demand high performance audio to go fuck themselves. I believe that its in the best interests of the linux community to get a nice solid high performance api working, then work to spread it to every distro until it is as ubiquitous as posix.
Only then should you build your monumental kitchen-sink api, and only do so on top of that now standard high-performance api.
The probability that a gambler will walk away a winner from a night at most casino games (blackjack, craps, roulette, etc..) can be controlled with one of the various betting systems. This is possible because players choose how much they want to bet at any given time. Changing bet size based on how the nights been going can't reduce the houses edge, but it does afford the gambler some control over the distribution of possible outcomes.
At the two extremes you've got the two classic images of gamblers. The guy who "lets it ride" walks away a small loser the majority of the time, while the "chases his losses" guy walks away a small winner the majority of the time. Both are going to lose all their money over the long run, but one night doesn't make a long run.
On a related tangent is Kelly Betting. If the tables were turned and you had the edge on those games, then there is an optimal percentage of your bankroll that you should wager each hand/roll/spin that will maximize your bankroll growth rate. The so called Kelly Criterion.
The regulations on electronic gaming equipment puts fairly strict limitations upon how they can operate, precisely because regulators want a set of proofs about the method of determining the outcome.
The methodology to go from state to outcome must be as simple as possible.
Follow the money. The OEMs bundle things for a profit. The rules are that you absolutely have to let the OEM in on the action to play here profitably, because the OEMs are the gate keepers of things-bundled-by-OEMs. So Microsoft is sniffing around a new market? The market is only new to Microsoft, as others have been playing in it for a very long time.
As long as Microsoft negotiates with OEM's like everyone else for the privilege of playing in that market, then I don't see an anti-trust issue.
So they could easily let you pay the fees for filing suit in small claims court, not bother showing, and then appeal when you win to regular court, which...
And if competitors want their customers to get a better sync experience, they should spend the money to give them a similar or better experience.
I suppose you didnt mean by opening their own music store with similar buying power (as in, 80% market share), so that their own music store client could have integrated syncing with the same selection of music..
I know you didnt mean that, but thats what you said.
If you would like to claim otherwise... show me how I can view a web site that requires ActiveX in Linux, without cheating by using something like MSIE in VMware or Wine.
A) ActiveX components are binary programs, so this is a non-issue. Your hysterical whining is translated as a complaint about why programs written specifically for one architecture not working in another. Well, "DUH!!!" Of course they don't.
B) Those "cheats" as you call them, are methods specifically designed to overcome this "DUH!!!" of yours.
Don't let the "DUH!!!" pwnzer you in the future. Learn something, then if your informed opinion continues to be the same, we wont be able to attribute it to your own biased ignorance.
Apple will sell music to anyone, in a standard non DRM format too.
Only if they run Apple software.
The same software that is a portal for their dominant market position also has syncing capabilities, but will only sync with iPod's.
A lot of people are missing this key point. iTunes is the portal to these music sales, and apple is preventing interop with that portal so that another of their products enjoys a unique advantageous position.
Suppose I stick HideMyIdentity.ZIP on FreeNet. How does a person download this file without getting personal information (such as my IP address, or what other files I am sharing) about me without involving a layer of other FreeNet users who are used to facilitate the transaction?
Isn't that facilitation just a clever way to say that they are sharing the file HideMyIdentity.ZIP in proxy?
I suggest that its accurate to say that when you are using FreeNet that not only are you sharing files on your hard drive marked for sharing, but that you are also sharing the files of every other FreeNet user, and that further you have absolutely no control at all over what those files are. The FreeNet FAQ addresses concerns about sharing child porn/etc by saying that if you truly believed in free speech that then you shouldn't mind, and that if you do mind then don't run FreeNet.
So let me get this straight - you think it's ok for vendors to prevent you importing their products in order to get them cheaper, but at the same time offshoring their workforce in order to get it cheaper?
I didn't say anything one way or the other.
So let me get this straight.. you are looking for an argument?
Do you understand what region locking even is? Yeah, sure I can import video games for personal use, but if I can't play them on my region locked console I have a $50 shiny coaster. That sounds like same fine protection to me.
Sounds to me like you imported from the wrong region. That should have been a $5 shiny coaster.
THIS is the point of region locking. In some regions, that $50 disc is sold for the equivalent of $5. The region locking isolates each region so that shit like this can happen.
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The latest Steam Survey puts 41.49% of PC gamers in the Less Than 250 GB Total HD Space catagory (by less than, that does not include those with 250GB of space.)
Only 10.44% of PC gamers have over 1 TB of storage.
I personally think that PC gamers likely have above-average storage available due to more-frequent new system purchases (landing a new HD each time), so saying that an "average" user probably has 200 GB or less is probably just about right on target.
So you admit to being a pirate, while taking the moral high ground by denouncing piracy?
Smooth!
I run plenty of steam games on Win7 RC with an 8800GT and have experienced absolutely none of your issues
What would you think if I sang out of tune,
would you stand up and walk on on me?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song,
and I'll try not to sing out of key.
The Windows drivers are using every setting of that motherboard, while the Linux drivers dont even know about some of them.
You only experience problems in Linux.
Could it maybe be that your Linux installation cannot cope with some of those settings, which it doesnt even know exist, being non-default?
Use your brain instead of your religion. The problem is on the Linux end. Nobody at all is getting paid to make sure that every advanced feature of your motherboard is leveraged under Linux, while there is surely a team of developers bring paid a very healthy salary to make sure that every feature can be leveraged under Windows.
First Thought!
Yes, WoG is a very big success story, and this was true long before 'name your own price.'
These two guys have made millions on the Wii version alone.
I've got to agree that NVidia is going to be squeezed out of the desktop graphics market, but I don't agree that their only niche will be high end graphics. I think they will definitely lose the high end graphics market. Their only niche will be the low-end market, where they will continue to do nicely selling all flavors of motherboard chipsets.
Yes. Quite a bit of clue.
Do you have an arguments that you would like to make, or is your claim to fame here that you just want to insinuate that you have one?
And as I said, most applications seem to have this built in concept of "latency == bad"
Wrong.
Most applications have this concept that it doesnt matter, because for most applications it doesnt matter. You even went ahead and explained this yourself. Please.
There are *some* applications where Latency = Very Very Bad.
Will PulseAudio support them, ever?
That is the chasm Linux audio is standing in front of. On the one hand you got this nice group-think that the design of the audio api should have all these rerouting features and so forth, and on the other hand you have applications that absolutely cannot work with high latency.
I do not think that its in the best interests of the linux community to tell the people who demand high performance audio to go fuck themselves. I believe that its in the best interests of the linux community to get a nice solid high performance api working, then work to spread it to every distro until it is as ubiquitous as posix.
Only then should you build your monumental kitchen-sink api, and only do so on top of that now standard high-performance api.
I guess a 15 megabit connection can handle that download speed.
Looking at the screen-shot of it in the article, by guess is that no, you will not have nice math symbols..
..the article wont even be formatted as intended.
Imagine an E-Reader with an 80x25 text screen. Thats pretty much what this thing appears to be.
Wikipedia vs Choosing Randomly.
hmmmmm
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The probability that a gambler will walk away a winner from a night at most casino games (blackjack, craps, roulette, etc..) can be controlled with one of the various betting systems. This is possible because players choose how much they want to bet at any given time. Changing bet size based on how the nights been going can't reduce the houses edge, but it does afford the gambler some control over the distribution of possible outcomes.
At the two extremes you've got the two classic images of gamblers. The guy who "lets it ride" walks away a small loser the majority of the time, while the "chases his losses" guy walks away a small winner the majority of the time. Both are going to lose all their money over the long run, but one night doesn't make a long run.
On a related tangent is Kelly Betting. If the tables were turned and you had the edge on those games, then there is an optimal percentage of your bankroll that you should wager each hand/roll/spin that will maximize your bankroll growth rate. The so called Kelly Criterion.
I can somewhat back this up.
The regulations on electronic gaming equipment puts fairly strict limitations upon how they can operate, precisely because regulators want a set of proofs about the method of determining the outcome.
The methodology to go from state to outcome must be as simple as possible.
Follow the money. The OEMs bundle things for a profit. The rules are that you absolutely have to let the OEM in on the action to play here profitably, because the OEMs are the gate keepers of things-bundled-by-OEMs. So Microsoft is sniffing around a new market? The market is only new to Microsoft, as others have been playing in it for a very long time.
As long as Microsoft negotiates with OEM's like everyone else for the privilege of playing in that market, then I don't see an anti-trust issue.
So they could easily let you pay the fees for filing suit in small claims court, not bother showing, and then appeal when you win to regular court, which...
For those of you who do not know, the parent poster is talking about these topics:
A) A programming language called Brainfuck.
B) Homophobia.
C) How long the parent has known about Brainfuck.
It seems clear to me that there is a language called Brainfuck that everyone needs to be made aware of.
And if competitors want their customers to get a better sync experience, they should spend the money to give them a similar or better experience.
I suppose you didnt mean by opening their own music store with similar buying power (as in, 80% market share), so that their own music store client could have integrated syncing with the same selection of music..
I know you didnt mean that, but thats what you said.
If you would like to claim otherwise... show me how I can view a web site that requires ActiveX in Linux, without cheating by using something like MSIE in VMware or Wine.
A) ActiveX components are binary programs, so this is a non-issue. Your hysterical whining is translated as a complaint about why programs written specifically for one architecture not working in another. Well, "DUH!!!" Of course they don't.
B) Those "cheats" as you call them, are methods specifically designed to overcome this "DUH!!!" of yours.
Don't let the "DUH!!!" pwnzer you in the future. Learn something, then if your informed opinion continues to be the same, we wont be able to attribute it to your own biased ignorance.
Apple will sell music to anyone, in a standard non DRM format too.
Only if they run Apple software.
The same software that is a portal for their dominant market position also has syncing capabilities, but will only sync with iPod's.
A lot of people are missing this key point. iTunes is the portal to these music sales, and apple is preventing interop with that portal so that another of their products enjoys a unique advantageous position.
Suppose I stick HideMyIdentity.ZIP on FreeNet. How does a person download this file without getting personal information (such as my IP address, or what other files I am sharing) about me without involving a layer of other FreeNet users who are used to facilitate the transaction?
Isn't that facilitation just a clever way to say that they are sharing the file HideMyIdentity.ZIP in proxy?
I suggest that its accurate to say that when you are using FreeNet that not only are you sharing files on your hard drive marked for sharing, but that you are also sharing the files of every other FreeNet user, and that further you have absolutely no control at all over what those files are. The FreeNet FAQ addresses concerns about sharing child porn/etc by saying that if you truly believed in free speech that then you shouldn't mind, and that if you do mind then don't run FreeNet.
So let me get this straight - you think it's ok for vendors to prevent you importing their products in order to get them cheaper, but at the same time offshoring their workforce in order to get it cheaper?
I didn't say anything one way or the other.
So let me get this straight.. you are looking for an argument?
Do you understand what region locking even is? Yeah, sure I can import video games for personal use, but if I can't play them on my region locked console I have a $50 shiny coaster. That sounds like same fine protection to me.
Sounds to me like you imported from the wrong region. That should have been a $5 shiny coaster.
THIS is the point of region locking. In some regions, that $50 disc is sold for the equivalent of $5. The region locking isolates each region so that shit like this can happen.