few applications (minus gamers) even need a 1ghz processor to shine
Windows XP, MS Office Autosave, Mozilla, OpenOffice, GCC/BCC/other compilers... And just you wait untill Mr. Gates comes up with a fully rendered, anti-aliased, AI-capable, mail-reading 3D Clippy in 32-bit colors at 1600x1200. THAT will make your computer sweat, especially with autosave set at 5 seconds.
Seriously though, allot of programs do well with more proc power, such as 3D-rendering tools and their associated programs, heavy graphical editing (although you'd be better off with a Mac in such a case) and basically any compiler come to mind...
Yes, but is it also Amiga HARDWARE compatible? I read something quite a while ago that stated that it is physically impossible for normal FDDs to read Amiga(D)OS formatted disks... Would I be able to stick my old Amiga games into the bloody machine and play them? (This time while being able to read and understand english)
Regarding nr 2; One of the best things about Linux is diversity. There are various distros with various characteristics ranging from how hard it is to install, how hard it is to maintain, update, etc. I personally much prefer the Slackware or Debian way of dealing with installing and managing, but other people would prefer a graphical install enviroment. Some would prefer automatic installs, others manual installs, etcetera. Some machine might require bootdisks with a specially compiled kernel just to start the installation. So many different ways as how things can be handled and I'm only talking about installing Linux...
EA and McD sign another secret contract of which the contents are still unknown. Several minutes later, 80% of the playerbase of "The Sims: Online" was wiped and banned due to an "unfortunate accident". Film at 11.
You're ready to have a hair-trigger response to the constant stream of security patches and updates you'll need to use
Excuse me, but isn't that the same for any OS? All software has bugs and all software has the risk of being exploited for maliscious use, regardless of OS.
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Oopsie... I know two computer litterate girls online actually. One is from NZ and I really don't know much about her. The other one I know IRL and she absolutely rocks. She definetely isn't a die hard feminist even though she is one of the 2 only girls doing an ICT related. She's also a pretty good C++ programmer so far. And no, she doesn't use Linux. So before you people ask...:P
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Fortunately, you are wrong. There are LOADS of normal women on the net who are pretty much okay and normal. Sure, everyone got their own trait and personality and such but the majority of online women are just like the men. They like to chat, hang around with friends, etc. The bad thing is, that the minority of online sluts are also the most vocal of all online women. The kind of "woman" (doubtful at times) who can't seem to talk about anything else then sex, piercings/tatoos in 'unusual' regions of the body and forcing their pictures down everyone's throath. They usually have a domain based on their online nickname which involves a "blog", a 30sec refresh standard webcam viewer, links to other people's standard 30sec refresf webcam viewers, LOTS of picturing starring themselves, useless information about themselves and RL friends and links to other sites which are pretty much the same. Fortunatly, this is only a minority. (And yes, my spelling is crap. It's 2:25 AM ffs.)
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It was a simple jok. Get that through your dense skull, you whiny twit. Of course you have the right to be offended at sexist remarks, but this was clearly a joke. maybe a bad joke according to you, but different people have different kinds of humour. I, for one, liked the joke pretty much. Besides, isn't it ironic that someone with the name "SlashChick" complains about receiving too much negative attention? If you don't want desperate guys to hit on you, don't use names with "chick", "babe", "sexy" etc.
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Jawohl herr Spelling Nazi. Anyways, I severely doubt the gender of any supposed "females" online untill I know them quite well enough to be sure. I have encounter enough "women" on MUDs and IRC that didn't turn out to be women anyways. The other few are usually completely overhyped and overreacting bitches like SlashChick here. And before you start; I know enough women IRL and online that aren't stuck-up overzealous feminists.
If users attempt to access Xbox Live with an Xbox installed with modified hardware or unapproved software, yadda yadda...
Unapproved software? let me get this straight, people buy a hideously expensive though souped-up PC in a horrid black box which the MS marketing department calls an "Xbox" and people can't even decide what to put on their own PC/Xbox? Anyone got a slight idea that this is specifically aimed at those people who put Linux on their very own Xbox?
I hope not, I work in a supermarket and one of the main reasons I work there is the fact that some girls behind the counter would look great in my bed, naked... Mmmm...
Completely irrelevant, but why for the love of Eris can't I have a purdy looking conscience like Seraphim? Instead of Seraphim I got... Well... Nothing really, I don't have a conscience. But if I had one I'd kill for my conscience to be Seraphim. *swoon*
They are not so great for quiet strategy games or RPGs, in my humble opinion.
Ahem. The SNES was the console that brought forth quite some RPG classics such as Final Fantasy 6, Secret of Mana, Tales of Phantasia, etc. The Playstation series also have quite a few nice RPGs on them, all of them running quite decently. Same story for the Dreamcast. What about the PC? We only got the Baldur's Gate series and some RPGs for retards that only involve massive clicking and paying 1000+ USD on ebay for a game item. (Hello Diablo2 and mearly any MMORPG) Though I have to admit, the BG series easily rank up to the best RPGs. The lack of PC RPGs (Specifically Manga/Anime like RPGs) is making me look into buying a pretty little PS2 some time... Sadly.
But to stay on subject; I still use windows because of the fact that games simply run without much of a hassle on windows. In fact, IMHO, most things on windows are less of a hassle. If I want to change my resolution, I can do it with easy. In Linux, I'd have to shut down x, edit my config file with emacs which makes as much sense to me as ancient runes (at least I know how to save a file and quite emacs, unlike in vi) and then restart x. Besides, windows inherent insecurities aren't such a big problem when everything is neatly hidden behind a Linux firewall/NAT router...:)
But when do we get some more low to the ground replacements for obselete equipment, most notably floppy drives, who are so slow and unreliable these days it simply hurts to have to use them. ZIP disks failed because they ended up too commercialized. LS-120s are (hear-say) even slower then normal floppy drives... All other would-be floppy drive replacements have their flaws (availability, price, prop, lockdown, etc...) so when do we FINALLY get a floppy drive replacement?
This news doesn't matter. In a few months Intel will have brought out another, even faster chip that can do more, do it faster and more efficient while (hopefully being cooler then it's precursor.)
Well, the MS marketing department obviously has no clue what they are doing then...
Marketing Manager: Look, give me some Microsoft notebooks and a Microsoft PC to use in our new flash on the double! MicroSerf: Uhm, we don't make those, we only cripple them. Marketing Manager: Damn it! What is the first, least expensive thing you can find? MicroSerf: Uhm, this company we just bought out used "Macintosh" equipment, so called "Powerbooks" as wel as some sort of desktop system... Marketing Manager: Excellent! We'll use those! Make sure the flash files include blue gradients. MicroSerf: Blue gradients? Marketing Manager: LOTS of blue gradients and a cheesy music that would make a Game Boy cry. MicroSerf: Jawohl herr oberst!
I see busybox allot these days as a replacement for the standard GNU utils provided with Linux in, for example, my Slackware or Debian boot disks. (Yay for non-bootable scsi CD-ROM btw) Though it has probably been around for ages, I've just began to wonder how the BusyBox binary with all it functionality would compare againt the GNU utils. I think it's pretty obvious that the more obscure GNU util commands have been excluded from the BusyBox binary, but that's an acceptable sacrifice unless I need to do odd things. What I really mean is, how do these two compare in speed, reliability and availability?
Great thinking there. I know, there are lots of other problems that can be solved by being lazy and ignorant! Let's start World War 3! It kills (pun intended) the overpopulation problem as well as this issue with too many nukes left. And it greatly helps in reducing the ground prices in several large cities, it gives the economy a fresh start as well and it's good for the geiger counter/gas mask/nuclear bunker industry!
I know, why don't we cut down the entire Amazon forest as well? That will create lots of job oppurtunities for lumberjacks! We will satisfy the global economy by seriously reducing the world price for paper and wood while still giving countries like Brazil more areable land to grow crops and build cities upon! It's a win win situation!
Get a grip people. Global warming needs to be stopped, news like this is not giving people the correct idea. What use would the passage be to sea traffic IF MOST PORTS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY FLOODING AND CLIMATIC SHIFTS?
Enforce the google parnet link on ALL nyt links posted in articles. Why? Because is so damned much easier. Reject stories without parnet nyt links, reduce the karma of the submitter, send cowboyneal over with a stick of butter and some mild narcotic, anything! The easy links are there people, use them when you submit something!
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Windows XP, MS Office Autosave, Mozilla, OpenOffice, GCC/BCC/other compilers... And just you wait untill Mr. Gates comes up with a fully rendered, anti-aliased, AI-capable, mail-reading 3D Clippy in 32-bit colors at 1600x1200. THAT will make your computer sweat, especially with autosave set at 5 seconds.
Seriously though, allot of programs do well with more proc power, such as 3D-rendering tools and their associated programs, heavy graphical editing (although you'd be better off with a Mac in such a case) and basically any compiler come to mind...
Sweet jesus, someone teach this person how to troll. I've seen sharper insults on IRC made by 15 year olds.
Yes, but is it also Amiga HARDWARE compatible? I read something quite a while ago that stated that it is physically impossible for normal FDDs to read Amiga(D)OS formatted disks... Would I be able to stick my old Amiga games into the bloody machine and play them? (This time while being able to read and understand english)
Look ma, we got Netscape Composer! Aint it pretty?
Come again?
Regarding nr 2; One of the best things about Linux is diversity. There are various distros with various characteristics ranging from how hard it is to install, how hard it is to maintain, update, etc. I personally much prefer the Slackware or Debian way of dealing with installing and managing, but other people would prefer a graphical install enviroment. Some would prefer automatic installs, others manual installs, etcetera. Some machine might require bootdisks with a specially compiled kernel just to start the installation. So many different ways as how things can be handled and I'm only talking about installing Linux...
EA and McD sign another secret contract of which the contents are still unknown. Several minutes later, 80% of the playerbase of "The Sims: Online" was wiped and banned due to an "unfortunate accident". Film at 11.
Excuse me, but isn't that the same for any OS? All software has bugs and all software has the risk of being exploited for maliscious use, regardless of OS.
Do.... You.... Speak.... Like.... This.... Offstage.... As.... Well...?
Oopsie... I know two computer litterate girls online actually. One is from NZ and I really don't know much about her. The other one I know IRL and she absolutely rocks. She definetely isn't a die hard feminist even though she is one of the 2 only girls doing an ICT related. She's also a pretty good C++ programmer so far. And no, she doesn't use Linux. So before you people ask... :P
Fortunately, you are wrong. There are LOADS of normal women on the net who are pretty much okay and normal. Sure, everyone got their own trait and personality and such but the majority of online women are just like the men. They like to chat, hang around with friends, etc. The bad thing is, that the minority of online sluts are also the most vocal of all online women. The kind of "woman" (doubtful at times) who can't seem to talk about anything else then sex, piercings/tatoos in 'unusual' regions of the body and forcing their pictures down everyone's throath. They usually have a domain based on their online nickname which involves a "blog", a 30sec refresh standard webcam viewer, links to other people's standard 30sec refresf webcam viewers, LOTS of picturing starring themselves, useless information about themselves and RL friends and links to other sites which are pretty much the same. Fortunatly, this is only a minority. (And yes, my spelling is crap. It's 2:25 AM ffs.)
It was a simple jok. Get that through your dense skull, you whiny twit. Of course you have the right to be offended at sexist remarks, but this was clearly a joke. maybe a bad joke according to you, but different people have different kinds of humour. I, for one, liked the joke pretty much. Besides, isn't it ironic that someone with the name "SlashChick" complains about receiving too much negative attention? If you don't want desperate guys to hit on you, don't use names with "chick", "babe", "sexy" etc.
Jawohl herr Spelling Nazi. Anyways, I severely doubt the gender of any supposed "females" online untill I know them quite well enough to be sure. I have encounter enough "women" on MUDs and IRC that didn't turn out to be women anyways. The other few are usually completely overhyped and overreacting bitches like SlashChick here. And before you start; I know enough women IRL and online that aren't stuck-up overzealous feminists.
Also, women overreact far too much, as proven by SlashChick (argueable) here.
Otherwise; good troll.
Unapproved software? let me get this straight, people buy a hideously expensive though souped-up PC in a horrid black box which the MS marketing department calls an "Xbox" and people can't even decide what to put on their own PC/Xbox? Anyone got a slight idea that this is specifically aimed at those people who put Linux on their very own Xbox?
I hope not, I work in a supermarket and one of the main reasons I work there is the fact that some girls behind the counter would look great in my bed, naked... Mmmm...
Completely irrelevant, but why for the love of Eris can't I have a purdy looking conscience like Seraphim? Instead of Seraphim I got... Well... Nothing really, I don't have a conscience. But if I had one I'd kill for my conscience to be Seraphim. *swoon*
Ahem. The SNES was the console that brought forth quite some RPG classics such as Final Fantasy 6, Secret of Mana, Tales of Phantasia, etc. The Playstation series also have quite a few nice RPGs on them, all of them running quite decently. Same story for the Dreamcast. What about the PC? We only got the Baldur's Gate series and some RPGs for retards that only involve massive clicking and paying 1000+ USD on ebay for a game item. (Hello Diablo2 and mearly any MMORPG) Though I have to admit, the BG series easily rank up to the best RPGs. The lack of PC RPGs (Specifically Manga/Anime like RPGs) is making me look into buying a pretty little PS2 some time... Sadly.
But to stay on subject; I still use windows because of the fact that games simply run without much of a hassle on windows. In fact, IMHO, most things on windows are less of a hassle. If I want to change my resolution, I can do it with easy. In Linux, I'd have to shut down x, edit my config file with emacs which makes as much sense to me as ancient runes (at least I know how to save a file and quite emacs, unlike in vi) and then restart x. Besides, windows inherent insecurities aren't such a big problem when everything is neatly hidden behind a Linux firewall/NAT router... :)
But when do we get some more low to the ground replacements for obselete equipment, most notably floppy drives, who are so slow and unreliable these days it simply hurts to have to use them. ZIP disks failed because they ended up too commercialized. LS-120s are (hear-say) even slower then normal floppy drives... All other would-be floppy drive replacements have their flaws (availability, price, prop, lockdown, etc...) so when do we FINALLY get a floppy drive replacement?
This news doesn't matter. In a few months Intel will have brought out another, even faster chip that can do more, do it faster and more efficient while (hopefully being cooler then it's precursor.)
Well, the MS marketing department obviously has no clue what they are doing then...
Marketing Manager: Look, give me some Microsoft notebooks and a Microsoft PC to use in our new flash on the double!MicroSerf: Uhm, we don't make those, we only cripple them.
Marketing Manager: Damn it! What is the first, least expensive thing you can find?
MicroSerf: Uhm, this company we just bought out used "Macintosh" equipment, so called "Powerbooks" as wel as some sort of desktop system...
Marketing Manager: Excellent! We'll use those! Make sure the flash files include blue gradients.
MicroSerf: Blue gradients?
Marketing Manager: LOTS of blue gradients and a cheesy music that would make a Game Boy cry.
MicroSerf: Jawohl herr oberst!
I see busybox allot these days as a replacement for the standard GNU utils provided with Linux in, for example, my Slackware or Debian boot disks. (Yay for non-bootable scsi CD-ROM btw) Though it has probably been around for ages, I've just began to wonder how the BusyBox binary with all it functionality would compare againt the GNU utils. I think it's pretty obvious that the more obscure GNU util commands have been excluded from the BusyBox binary, but that's an acceptable sacrifice unless I need to do odd things. What I really mean is, how do these two compare in speed, reliability and availability?
Just curious here... :P
Great thinking there. I know, there are lots of other problems that can be solved by being lazy and ignorant! Let's start World War 3! It kills (pun intended) the overpopulation problem as well as this issue with too many nukes left. And it greatly helps in reducing the ground prices in several large cities, it gives the economy a fresh start as well and it's good for the geiger counter/gas mask/nuclear bunker industry!
I know, why don't we cut down the entire Amazon forest as well? That will create lots of job oppurtunities for lumberjacks! We will satisfy the global economy by seriously reducing the world price for paper and wood while still giving countries like Brazil more areable land to grow crops and build cities upon! It's a win win situation!
Get a grip people. Global warming needs to be stopped, news like this is not giving people the correct idea. What use would the passage be to sea traffic IF MOST PORTS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY FLOODING AND CLIMATIC SHIFTS?
Enforce the google parnet link on ALL nyt links posted in articles. Why? Because is so damned much easier. Reject stories without parnet nyt links, reduce the karma of the submitter, send cowboyneal over with a stick of butter and some mild narcotic, anything! The easy links are there people, use them when you submit something!
The word annoys me senseless as well. Could you please share some URLs of (semi) serious weblogs btw?