I've never bought or acquired a USB stick that wasn't FAT or FAT32 formatted. I've never seen one formatted NTFS. I suppose FAT/FAT32 is used since it is usable by just about every OS without reformatting.
If you don't get what I am trying to say, imagine trying to give verbal instructions to Joe Sixpack how to format his new USB stick so he can use it in his Mack-in-tosh...
All of my USB sticks are FAT/FAT32 but all my USB hard disks are NTFS, fwiw.
How about cost? I bought my current PS2 slim a few years ago, but after the PS3 had launched. The PS2 was at the time about 30% of the price of the then-new PS3. I needed a new DVD player at the time, which the PS2 was good for (and which I still use today as my main DVD player), plus I'm not a console-heavy gamer. I prefer gaming on PC, but I have picked up a dozen or so PS2 games at a fraction of their original price. Compare that to the ridiculous price a current-gen console game sells for when new. I have never paid more than $20 for any PS2 game that I own and I have never bought used.
I will probably never buy a latest-gen console, simply due to the cost of games. If I want better graphics, then I game on PC where I can get far better graphics than even the latest console. The console in my house is mainly for casual gaming or a few games that I play co-op with my wife.
If the new PS3 would have PS2 backward compatibility, then I would consider it today as an upgrade, but not the current hardware which has been castrated. I had originally planned to upgrade to PS3 some time after it came out but then Sony decided to remove one of my main incentives to upgrade.
Communist Russia? Did I miss something? Say what you will about Russia today, but true communism hasn't existed there for some time now. The only true more-or-less communist countries left are Cuba, N. Korea and China. Russia has embraced capitalism for better or worse, mostly they have adopted the worst parts.
Welcome to the 21st century. Enjoy your stay.
And before you say I don't know what I'm talking about... how many times have YOU been to Russia?
Exactly. Hardcore and even mainstream gamers are fighting over a few milliseconds of LCD input lag or response time, how exactly is cloud computing going to address latency when the actual screen rendering is going to be done hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away, all the while passing these packets through a crappy home router built to a low-price point?
I'm sorry, but the infrastructure to support this just doesn't exist today and I really don't see it happening in the near future, unless some radical changes are coming to the way we connect to the internet. And frankly I just don't see that coming any time soon.
It's not about bandwidth, which we have a good supply of now in many markets. For real-time apps like games, it's all about latency or lack of.
The big deal is this is an LTS (long term support) release, not an incremental non-LTS release like 9.10. If you only want the latest and greatest (and potentially unstable), then stick with the incremental releases. If you don't want the potential hassle of wiping+reformating every 6-mo, then LTS is a better choice. In a way, the incremental releases are like betas, and the LTS is the finished product that comes out of beta less often. Incremental releases also tend to push the bleeding edge on new hardware support and often this support is very flaky. LTS releases will generally not include hardware support unless it has been proven to be reliable. There are always corner cases though.
LTS releases are not on a 6-mo cycle and have not always been solid out of the gate but generally have been. I've had far more problems with the incremental releases or upgrading from one incremental release to another. Upgrading from one LTS to another is more reliable in my experience.
I'm looking forward to this LTS after running the last beta for the last few weeks. I have several machines running older LTS releases but I usually have one running an incremental release just to check the changes in-between LTS's. If this LTS is stable and there are no early gotchas, I will be upgrading all of my boxes to it in the coming months.
Exactly how do the police know that a person is a non-citizen visitor or a citizen? If only non-citizens are required to carry papers proving their status, what's to stop someone simply saying they are a citizen and don't need to carry papers?
Laws such as this are utter failures. It will not improve the immigration problem and only enforces the idea of racial profiling. Up next will be a requirement for all US citizens to carry identification due to the above problem, and the transformation to a police state will be complete.
"Papers please", better get used to that. It's coming...
Exactly why are US troops carrying *personal* communications devices during military actions? Sure makes it easier for the enemy to track the troops, what with all the radio traffic from cell phones.
I would agree with parent. Mini and Mobile are two very different browsers. I have used Mini on several non-smart phones and it gets the job done, and not much else. Mobile is a MUCH improved experience on a smartphone compared to Mini, but that's expected. It's the only browser I use on my Nokia E75.
So, while I would not say Mini sucks, it's definitely a low bar to clear. If you have a smartphone Mobile is far better and will likely never be allowed by Apple.
Exactly, and then the cycle will just repeat again. And again. Ad infinitum. When will the US ever learn that the current 2-party system is totally fucked? I mean come on, it's just getting ridiculous. As an American living abroad, I'm disgusted. It's just getting to the point of being totally silly.
I believe you are referring to 2008 _R2_, which is built on the same codebase as Win7 and is 64-bit only. 2008 is built on the Vista codebase and was available in x86 and x64 flavors (plus IA-64).
You should do some research on OpenGL. If anything, it is more capable, advanced and supported on many more platforms when compared to DirectX. The problem started when MS decided they wanted to get rid of OpenGL as a game platform on the PC and replace it with DirectX. It gives them another lock-in for the Windows platform, which they have then used to sell DirectX to potential Xbox developers.
If you look at "professional" apps, there is hardly any DirectX; it's all OpenGL. And it's that way for a reason. OpenGL also existed LONG before DirectX came to the scene.
Bang- for-buck only applies if you only buy a relatively few games over the life of a console. Console games are more expensive on release than PC equivalents. Remember, the cost of the console hardware is subsidized by shifting some of the cost to the games. Result for consoles: More expensive games.
Yes, games are being held back by consoles. PC games used to push the edge of the envelope, not they simply follow the consoles. It's getting particularly bad, with many games designed for consoles and then poorly ported to PC. It wouldn't be so bad if the studios would at least make an effort to port them properly. I've come across all of these problems in many games over the past few years:
- Poorly designed menu systems that do not support mice (keyboard/gamepad only) - Poorly designed keyboard maps that don't follow established PC standards, which leads to the next item - Inability to remap or customize keyboard controls - Games which do not support standard PC peripherals (e.g. some PC games only support console gamepads. I don't own an Xbox so don't force me to buy a damn Xbox gamepad to play your game). Same for driving wheels/pedals. - Games with severely limited graphics options. These are a must to tailor the game experience to the hardware and performance expectations. - Games with crippled graphics effects (limited draw distances, low-res textures, artificially limited environments, etc) - Games with poor savegame support, or only support checkpoints - Games being launched on consoles, with PC ports following very late afterward (sometimes 6-12 months later or never)
I could go on and on. Literally, there are very few games I've purchased in the last 5 years which do not have at least one or two of the above problems, with a few managing to tick nearly all of the above. I blame the cross-platform game development environments which basically force the game design onto consoles with PC's being treated as second class citizens. It's not likely to change either, as consoles are very popular and many game studios see them as a more profitable market.
I don't hate consoles, they are fine for what they do and I happen to own 2 (Wii and PS2), but the games I play on consoles are vastly different than the games I play on PC. I want my PC games to push the envelop of technology, sadly this seems to be against the trend.
I believe the only hope in passing ACTA was to keep it secret. The cat's out of the bag with the leaked and commented document. Yes, I've read it and yes it's very scary. Much of it goes way beyond countering counterfeiting and piracy.
Now that the public has access to the leaked document, hopefully a lot of people will read it, make their own conclusions, and let their representatives know how they feel about it. That's the way to defeat this. At least here in the EU, our MEP's have said wait a minute, let's take a deeper look into this.
If ACTA passes as it is today, we are all going to be screwed. Keep up the pressure on your elected representatives.
Mod parent up. This is precisely what is wrong with the American legal system. Even if you do no wrong, companies and corporations can drag you through the legal system and exhaust any funds you have trying to defend yourself.
Even. If. You. Have. Done. Nothing. Illegal.
Rampant abuse by shady lawyers doesn't help either, since they get paid no matter who wins a case.
Whatever you do, don't delete your account. That just gives FB a snapshot of your current profile to keep for all eternity. If you want FB to keep as little data on you as possible, it's really quite simple although it requires patience. Gradually remove all information and apps from your FB profile, in the end leave only the bare minimum that's required to keep the profile alive. Then leave it that way for a while, at least a year or two. Then delete the account.
FB can't possibly keep backups of every state of your profile and eventually they will be overwriting your older data with your updated and reduced profile footprint. Eventually this means they will have little data on you. Do it gradually, so it does not trip un-known snapshots of your profile which might be saved for longer.
I mean come on, I play Faroudja upscaled DVD (PAL 576i) on my 40" 1080p HDTV and from my sofa 15 feet away it looks great. Blu-ray only looks a bit sharper thanks to the distance. Just because it's not HD doesn't mean it's useless.
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I've never bought or acquired a USB stick that wasn't FAT or FAT32 formatted. I've never seen one formatted NTFS. I suppose FAT/FAT32 is used since it is usable by just about every OS without reformatting.
If you don't get what I am trying to say, imagine trying to give verbal instructions to Joe Sixpack how to format his new USB stick so he can use it in his Mack-in-tosh...
All of my USB sticks are FAT/FAT32 but all my USB hard disks are NTFS, fwiw.
I'd be surprised if it's any higher than your garden variety 10" netbook screen, 1024 x 600 or so.
Something called unit quantities. That's the retail price for a single screen. Buy 10,000 of them and the price will be substantially lower.
How about cost? I bought my current PS2 slim a few years ago, but after the PS3 had launched. The PS2 was at the time about 30% of the price of the then-new PS3. I needed a new DVD player at the time, which the PS2 was good for (and which I still use today as my main DVD player), plus I'm not a console-heavy gamer. I prefer gaming on PC, but I have picked up a dozen or so PS2 games at a fraction of their original price. Compare that to the ridiculous price a current-gen console game sells for when new. I have never paid more than $20 for any PS2 game that I own and I have never bought used.
I will probably never buy a latest-gen console, simply due to the cost of games. If I want better graphics, then I game on PC where I can get far better graphics than even the latest console. The console in my house is mainly for casual gaming or a few games that I play co-op with my wife.
If the new PS3 would have PS2 backward compatibility, then I would consider it today as an upgrade, but not the current hardware which has been castrated. I had originally planned to upgrade to PS3 some time after it came out but then Sony decided to remove one of my main incentives to upgrade.
Communist Russia? Did I miss something? Say what you will about Russia today, but true communism hasn't existed there for some time now. The only true more-or-less communist countries left are Cuba, N. Korea and China. Russia has embraced capitalism for better or worse, mostly they have adopted the worst parts.
Welcome to the 21st century. Enjoy your stay.
And before you say I don't know what I'm talking about... how many times have YOU been to Russia?
Exactly. Hardcore and even mainstream gamers are fighting over a few milliseconds of LCD input lag or response time, how exactly is cloud computing going to address latency when the actual screen rendering is going to be done hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away, all the while passing these packets through a crappy home router built to a low-price point?
I'm sorry, but the infrastructure to support this just doesn't exist today and I really don't see it happening in the near future, unless some radical changes are coming to the way we connect to the internet. And frankly I just don't see that coming any time soon.
It's not about bandwidth, which we have a good supply of now in many markets. For real-time apps like games, it's all about latency or lack of.
The big deal is this is an LTS (long term support) release, not an incremental non-LTS release like 9.10. If you only want the latest and greatest (and potentially unstable), then stick with the incremental releases. If you don't want the potential hassle of wiping+reformating every 6-mo, then LTS is a better choice. In a way, the incremental releases are like betas, and the LTS is the finished product that comes out of beta less often. Incremental releases also tend to push the bleeding edge on new hardware support and often this support is very flaky. LTS releases will generally not include hardware support unless it has been proven to be reliable. There are always corner cases though.
LTS releases are not on a 6-mo cycle and have not always been solid out of the gate but generally have been. I've had far more problems with the incremental releases or upgrading from one incremental release to another. Upgrading from one LTS to another is more reliable in my experience.
I'm looking forward to this LTS after running the last beta for the last few weeks. I have several machines running older LTS releases but I usually have one running an incremental release just to check the changes in-between LTS's. If this LTS is stable and there are no early gotchas, I will be upgrading all of my boxes to it in the coming months.
Exactly how do the police know that a person is a non-citizen visitor or a citizen? If only non-citizens are required to carry papers proving their status, what's to stop someone simply saying they are a citizen and don't need to carry papers?
Laws such as this are utter failures. It will not improve the immigration problem and only enforces the idea of racial profiling. Up next will be a requirement for all US citizens to carry identification due to the above problem, and the transformation to a police state will be complete.
"Papers please", better get used to that. It's coming...
Exactly why are US troops carrying *personal* communications devices during military actions? Sure makes it easier for the enemy to track the troops, what with all the radio traffic from cell phones.
Oh right... military intelligence.
Sorry, I meant GP, not parent.
I would agree with parent. Mini and Mobile are two very different browsers. I have used Mini on several non-smart phones and it gets the job done, and not much else. Mobile is a MUCH improved experience on a smartphone compared to Mini, but that's expected. It's the only browser I use on my Nokia E75.
So, while I would not say Mini sucks, it's definitely a low bar to clear. If you have a smartphone Mobile is far better and will likely never be allowed by Apple.
Exactly, and then the cycle will just repeat again. And again. Ad infinitum. When will the US ever learn that the current 2-party system is totally fucked? I mean come on, it's just getting ridiculous. As an American living abroad, I'm disgusted. It's just getting to the point of being totally silly.
I believe you are referring to 2008 _R2_, which is built on the same codebase as Win7 and is 64-bit only. 2008 is built on the Vista codebase and was available in x86 and x64 flavors (plus IA-64).
Where are all the massive black holes generated by the LHC? Has anyone seen one yet?
An A4 is blazing? Seriously? But can it multitask?
You should do some research on OpenGL. If anything, it is more capable, advanced and supported on many more platforms when compared to DirectX. The problem started when MS decided they wanted to get rid of OpenGL as a game platform on the PC and replace it with DirectX. It gives them another lock-in for the Windows platform, which they have then used to sell DirectX to potential Xbox developers.
If you look at "professional" apps, there is hardly any DirectX; it's all OpenGL. And it's that way for a reason. OpenGL also existed LONG before DirectX came to the scene.
Bang- for-buck only applies if you only buy a relatively few games over the life of a console. Console games are more expensive on release than PC equivalents. Remember, the cost of the console hardware is subsidized by shifting some of the cost to the games. Result for consoles: More expensive games.
Yes, games are being held back by consoles. PC games used to push the edge of the envelope, not they simply follow the consoles. It's getting particularly bad, with many games designed for consoles and then poorly ported to PC. It wouldn't be so bad if the studios would at least make an effort to port them properly. I've come across all of these problems in many games over the past few years:
- Poorly designed menu systems that do not support mice (keyboard/gamepad only)
- Poorly designed keyboard maps that don't follow established PC standards, which leads to the next item
- Inability to remap or customize keyboard controls
- Games which do not support standard PC peripherals (e.g. some PC games only support console gamepads. I don't own an Xbox so don't force me to buy a damn Xbox gamepad to play your game). Same for driving wheels/pedals.
- Games with severely limited graphics options. These are a must to tailor the game experience to the hardware and performance expectations.
- Games with crippled graphics effects (limited draw distances, low-res textures, artificially limited environments, etc)
- Games with poor savegame support, or only support checkpoints
- Games being launched on consoles, with PC ports following very late afterward (sometimes 6-12 months later or never)
I could go on and on. Literally, there are very few games I've purchased in the last 5 years which do not have at least one or two of the above problems, with a few managing to tick nearly all of the above. I blame the cross-platform game development environments which basically force the game design onto consoles with PC's being treated as second class citizens. It's not likely to change either, as consoles are very popular and many game studios see them as a more profitable market.
I don't hate consoles, they are fine for what they do and I happen to own 2 (Wii and PS2), but the games I play on consoles are vastly different than the games I play on PC. I want my PC games to push the envelop of technology, sadly this seems to be against the trend.
I believe the only hope in passing ACTA was to keep it secret. The cat's out of the bag with the leaked and commented document. Yes, I've read it and yes it's very scary. Much of it goes way beyond countering counterfeiting and piracy.
Now that the public has access to the leaked document, hopefully a lot of people will read it, make their own conclusions, and let their representatives know how they feel about it. That's the way to defeat this. At least here in the EU, our MEP's have said wait a minute, let's take a deeper look into this.
If ACTA passes as it is today, we are all going to be screwed. Keep up the pressure on your elected representatives.
Mod parent up. This is precisely what is wrong with the American legal system. Even if you do no wrong, companies and corporations can drag you through the legal system and exhaust any funds you have trying to defend yourself.
Even. If. You. Have. Done. Nothing. Illegal.
Rampant abuse by shady lawyers doesn't help either, since they get paid no matter who wins a case.
Whatever you do, don't delete your account. That just gives FB a snapshot of your current profile to keep for all eternity. If you want FB to keep as little data on you as possible, it's really quite simple although it requires patience. Gradually remove all information and apps from your FB profile, in the end leave only the bare minimum that's required to keep the profile alive. Then leave it that way for a while, at least a year or two. Then delete the account.
FB can't possibly keep backups of every state of your profile and eventually they will be overwriting your older data with your updated and reduced profile footprint. Eventually this means they will have little data on you. Do it gradually, so it does not trip un-known snapshots of your profile which might be saved for longer.
Yeah, because DVD-quality is so crap.
I mean come on, I play Faroudja upscaled DVD (PAL 576i) on my 40" 1080p HDTV and from my sofa 15 feet away it looks great. Blu-ray only looks a bit sharper thanks to the distance. Just because it's not HD doesn't mean it's useless.
I call bullshit on your bullshit. GP is correct.
Is that report from the same Federal Reserve that *enabled* the whole US economy to go into the dumpster recently?
Oh yeah, that's a reputable source of economic data.
Someone who is fucking stupidly?
Thanks, I'll be here all evening, try the salmon.