I don't get it. Just install the development environment. Having Visual Studio installed is not going to make other applications slower. Just don't run Photoshop, Visual Studio, Reason and Crysis at the same time?
Yes, security is all about layers, but more layers wont matter at all, when what you're trying to protect is in the outer layers. In this case, the user data is all that anyone cares about. If you loose that, it doesn't matter. The extra layer will then save you from spending a couple of hours reinstalling Windows, assuming you trust the rest of the system to be clean? I wouldn't.
GP actually had pretty reasonable advice, but I guess it wouldn't be slashdot unless good advice was modded down in favor of folklore about swap partitions.
Isn't it obvious? Because you like the design of the hardware, and feel that the price difference is worth it. It's precisely the same reason someone would go buy a ThinkPad or similar upper-tier laptop and run Linux on it.
How could this not be a good idea? This is an optional feature, that rewards websites who display unobtrusive ads, while still blocking the annoying ads. If you don't like it, you are free to disable it at any time and control your own whitelist.
But if you care about price so much, why would you want SLI in the first place? There's nothing stopping you from running a single NVIDIA card on an AMD platform.
The philosophy governing Gmail and the philosophy governing mutt is quite different. This isn't a question of either program being better than the other, but a question of using the right tool for the job.
Gmail isn't sluggish, but of course it does take a while for a new web page to load. If this is a problem to you, then another email client may suit your needs better, I would guess Gmail supports using POP and IMAP for excactly this reason.
honestly there is no legitimate reason for any DRM to be present in the OS.
Actually, there is. Without DRM support in the OS, you wont be able to play DRM-protected media. Want to buy Blu-ray discs? Sorry, not possible because the OS is missing DRM-support.
DRM support in the OS is not stopping you from playing back non-DRM files, ie. your pirated Blu-ray rips will play just fine, so will everything else. You can rip your CDs and DVDs like before, no problem.
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I don't get it. Just install the development environment. Having Visual Studio installed is not going to make other applications slower. Just don't run Photoshop, Visual Studio, Reason and Crysis at the same time?
1984 happened. Literally.
He's probably referring to the popup's after you close a game, showing you new games available on steam. They can be turned off in preferences.
Yes, security is all about layers, but more layers wont matter at all, when what you're trying to protect is in the outer layers. In this case, the user data is all that anyone cares about. If you loose that, it doesn't matter. The extra layer will then save you from spending a couple of hours reinstalling Windows, assuming you trust the rest of the system to be clean? I wouldn't.
GP actually had pretty reasonable advice, but I guess it wouldn't be slashdot unless good advice was modded down in favor of folklore about swap partitions.
Isn't it obvious? Because you like the design of the hardware, and feel that the price difference is worth it. It's precisely the same reason someone would go buy a ThinkPad or similar upper-tier laptop and run Linux on it.
How could this not be a good idea? This is an optional feature, that rewards websites who display unobtrusive ads, while still blocking the annoying ads. If you don't like it, you are free to disable it at any time and control your own whitelist.
You do realize that
1) Ubuntu 11 does not exists, it's 11.04 or 11.10
2) Ubuntu uses Unity by default, not GNOME 3
Also, couldn't you just search for "terminal"?
Sorry to break the news to everybody but online voting in one form or another is the future.
Why?
But if you care about price so much, why would you want SLI in the first place? There's nothing stopping you from running a single NVIDIA card on an AMD platform.
Apparently it's not very effective... http://www.mininova.org/search/wolverine/seeds
Well all that doesn't matter if they're never really intending to use the data to catch bad guys
This isn't really about security at all, it's all just a security theatre, a show for the crowd. It wont help them catch bad guys.
The philosophy governing Gmail and the philosophy governing mutt is quite different. This isn't a question of either program being better than the other, but a question of using the right tool for the job.
Gmail isn't sluggish, but of course it does take a while for a new web page to load. If this is a problem to you, then another email client may suit your needs better, I would guess Gmail supports using POP and IMAP for excactly this reason.
honestly there is no legitimate reason for any DRM to be present in the OS.
Actually, there is. Without DRM support in the OS, you wont be able to play DRM-protected media. Want to buy Blu-ray discs? Sorry, not possible because the OS is missing DRM-support.
DRM support in the OS is not stopping you from playing back non-DRM files, ie. your pirated Blu-ray rips will play just fine, so will everything else. You can rip your CDs and DVDs like before, no problem.
So in fact, DRM support is giving you a CHOICE.
Visual Studio 2008?
Because we didn't feel Vista proved an upgrade over XP. A lot of people went out and bought XP as an upgrade to Win98.