It'll be interesting to see how this competition for the mobile market shapes up between Apple and Google. Obviously Apple has a much larger vested interest in the mobile market, but ANY competition is generally good for the consumer.
I think that for the most part you hit the nail on the head. There's a new trend developing in games, however, where people will *hate* the game and stick it out to the bitter end to "earn" achievements -- especially if said achievements are publicly displayable. In fact in brings a whole new meaning to MMORPG's and "the grind".
You can significantly reduce the amount of memory that Vista uses by tweaking the startup services. I stumbled across an excellent site that has a table of all the default Vista services and what they do, with a categorized breakdown of what you should and should not disable.
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It'll be interesting to see how this competition for the mobile market shapes up between Apple and Google. Obviously Apple has a much larger vested interest in the mobile market, but ANY competition is generally good for the consumer.
I think that for the most part you hit the nail on the head. There's a new trend developing in games, however, where people will *hate* the game and stick it out to the bitter end to "earn" achievements -- especially if said achievements are publicly displayable. In fact in brings a whole new meaning to MMORPG's and "the grind".
My 1+ year subscription to EasyNews would indicate otherwise...
You can significantly reduce the amount of memory that Vista uses by tweaking the startup services. I stumbled across an excellent site that has a table of all the default Vista services and what they do, with a categorized breakdown of what you should and should not disable.