Assuming you're close enough to the exchange for ADSL to not suck, switch to O2. They've been the best ADSL provider I've had here in the UK.
No caps, no "peak-time" and the speeds are close to as advertised (I pay for a 20Mb line and get 18Mb, with BT it was down at 12Mb, on the same telephone line as well, so figure that one out)
The above is false, I have installed and upgraded Firefox on a number of machines in the past 2 years where I have not had admin access and have not had any problems at all.
On Xbox Live your content is tied to both an account an to some extent the hardware. You can run anything you've downloaded on your original hardware both and on and offline. If you want to run it on another Xbox however you need to be online.
Why not use this same system for PC games?
Obviously you have problems with upgrades, but they currently allow you to transfer your DRM between Xbox console once a year (if my memory serves me correctly.
Maybe tied it to a combination of processor, motherboard and GPU and if 2 of the three change you need to transfer?
Although at the end of the day what I'm propossing is still DRM so I can't see Slashdot getting on board with it.
It's seems the UK government is constantly trying to do some and more to stop it's citizens having any kind of privacy.
While it's great that people like the ORG and JRRT are standing up to them and other organisations doing the same, you have to wonder, what can they really do when half the population is too ignorant to care?
But I'm afraid for Sony that PC-based emulators will get enough power with quad-cores CPU to run PS2 games flawlessly before they manage to provide a back-compatible PS3 again.
Aside from a few graphical issues and problems playing FMV (random black flickering every few seconds for me in FFXII) PCSX2 is pretty much there for a lot of games.
You need a half-decent GPU as well as a good processor to get the most out of it though.
And TA is an RTS which I still don't think is matched to this day.
Personally I don't think it ever will be. Myself and a small group of my friends still play it on occasion.
Supreme Commander was such a letdown. It did many things brilliantly (the cartographic view included in one of the later patches being one of them), but it just wasn't TA at it's heart.
See, what you do is connect up an external DVD drive (or put Win 7 on a bootable USB stick), run the Win 7 installer... and as if by magic it installs Windows 7! Who would have thought it?
You get a warning during the install process that you need just over 8GB free (this is on the Linux version of the Mini 9), but you can just ignore it and carry on.
Granted, in doing this you boot and have ~9.7MB of space left on the SSD, but if you disable the page file and hibernation this comes down to around 2.8GB.
I've only just started seeing what you can and can't safely strip out with vLite, and currently after stripping out drivers, speech support and languages (obvious choices to go) the Win 7 footprint is just under 4GB.
It runs just as well as, if not seemingly better than XP on the same machine on only 512MB of RAM.
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Assuming you're close enough to the exchange for ADSL to not suck, switch to O2. They've been the best ADSL provider I've had here in the UK.
No caps, no "peak-time" and the speeds are close to as advertised (I pay for a 20Mb line and get 18Mb, with BT it was down at 12Mb, on the same telephone line as well, so figure that one out)
(this comment didn't really go anywhere, but I'll post it anyway...)
I'm glad you did, as I've never seen the book you linked to before... and now I'm going to be buying it.
As in my mind, it teaches C++ the "right" way, at least for me, who is trying to move from C#/Java into C++.
The above is false, I have installed and upgraded Firefox on a number of machines in the past 2 years where I have not had admin access and have not had any problems at all.
Yes, but in that same article, just above that, it has the same code written as:
COMPUTE X1 = (-B + SQRT(B ** 2 - (4 * A * C))) / (2 * A)
COMPUTE X2 = (-B - SQRT(B ** 2 - (4 * A * C))) / (2 * A)
That's a fairly common misconception, it's literal translation is actually "empty hand" rather than "open hand".
How much performance do you really need for solitaire though?
I'm all for cutting things down in size, but eventually you reach the point of diminishing returns.
Slashdot users apparently.
On Xbox Live your content is tied to both an account an to some extent the hardware. You can run anything you've downloaded on your original hardware both and on and offline. If you want to run it on another Xbox however you need to be online.
Why not use this same system for PC games?
Obviously you have problems with upgrades, but they currently allow you to transfer your DRM between Xbox console once a year (if my memory serves me correctly.
Maybe tied it to a combination of processor, motherboard and GPU and if 2 of the three change you need to transfer?
Although at the end of the day what I'm propossing is still DRM so I can't see Slashdot getting on board with it.
The only flaw I have with Steam is that they dont allow you to tie activation keys to your account.
They do for some games, such as Unreal Tournament 3.
Others such as Crysis, Fallout 3 they do not however.
See here for a list of games you can do it with: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-WUSF-3601
Urm this has NOTHING to do with the government RTFA
"Meanwhile, the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust has issued a new report slamming the UK government's plans for a Communications Database."
Why don't you RTFA?
It's seems the UK government is constantly trying to do some and more to stop it's citizens having any kind of privacy.
While it's great that people like the ORG and JRRT are standing up to them and other organisations doing the same, you have to wonder, what can they really do when half the population is too ignorant to care?
What specific problem do you have with the BIOS on ASUS boards?
Or rather, on which specific board do you have a problem with the BIOS?
But I'm afraid for Sony that PC-based emulators will get enough power with quad-cores CPU to run PS2 games flawlessly before they manage to provide a back-compatible PS3 again.
Aside from a few graphical issues and problems playing FMV (random black flickering every few seconds for me in FFXII) PCSX2 is pretty much there for a lot of games.
You need a half-decent GPU as well as a good processor to get the most out of it though.
And TA is an RTS which I still don't think is matched to this day.
Personally I don't think it ever will be. Myself and a small group of my friends still play it on occasion.
Supreme Commander was such a letdown. It did many things brilliantly (the cartographic view included in one of the later patches being one of them), but it just wasn't TA at it's heart.
Nothing to see here.
What the hell have you done to it to get a 5-10 boot time?
Running a similar setup I'm at a usable desktop in a little under a minute, sometimes just over.
So how exactly will Win7 fit on your Dell Mini 9?
Quite easily.
See, what you do is connect up an external DVD drive (or put Win 7 on a bootable USB stick), run the Win 7 installer... and as if by magic it installs Windows 7! Who would have thought it?
You get a warning during the install process that you need just over 8GB free (this is on the Linux version of the Mini 9), but you can just ignore it and carry on.
Granted, in doing this you boot and have ~9.7MB of space left on the SSD, but if you disable the page file and hibernation this comes down to around 2.8GB.
I've only just started seeing what you can and can't safely strip out with vLite, and currently after stripping out drivers, speech support and languages (obvious choices to go) the Win 7 footprint is just under 4GB.
It runs just as well as, if not seemingly better than XP on the same machine on only 512MB of RAM.