You don't have to upgrade your machine with the latest expensive stuff every 6 months to play games.
I'm still running a machine from 2005 and have played crysis, fallout 3, etc without any problems.
Virtualization would actually do a better job then powering down for a lot of companies.
I see so many examples of small/medium sized companies that have a ton of overpowered servers running 24/7 that sit idle almost all the time. Ones a web server, ones an email server, one hosts the database, one runs some old app that one person in the office needs, ones for backup, etc.
Throw all that kind of crap in one machine, which will still never really get loaded down, and you've just saved a lot of power, noise, spac
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If you use irssi for irc you can just leave it running in something like screen and get to it from any ssh client.
Unless they are one of the "bug chasers" trying to get pozed up with AIDS.
You don't have to upgrade your machine with the latest expensive stuff every 6 months to play games. I'm still running a machine from 2005 and have played crysis, fallout 3, etc without any problems.
Totally unacceptable, I wouldn't even recommend this for checking your email.
That might work on some or most files, but there still is no replacement for Acrobat.
I know this one, this is the same guy who also said it's like a series of tubes and not a dump truck.
ogg/theora porn?
Virtualization would actually do a better job then powering down for a lot of companies. I see so many examples of small/medium sized companies that have a ton of overpowered servers running 24/7 that sit idle almost all the time. Ones a web server, ones an email server, one hosts the database, one runs some old app that one person in the office needs, ones for backup, etc. Throw all that kind of crap in one machine, which will still never really get loaded down, and you've just saved a lot of power, noise, spac