Do you think any fewer people would have bought Guitar Hero or the latest Dance Dance Revolution if they had the occasional 2D dancing character in the background instead of the occasional 3D dancing character in the background?
With 256Mb, you don't really need a slimmed down window manager. I run whatever version of gnome ships with debian etch quite happily on 256Mb/800Mhz laptop.
Consumers these days aren't interested in building meaningful relationships with publishers. They are interested in investing in a one-hit-wonder at the right time, and then moving on.
Of course you can also give +6 to Troll and Flamebait. This leaves you with all the stuff worth reading, with a good sprinkling of the really funny stuff.
To the people who are saying "I bought it, so it shouldn't have ads"; how do you feel about doing exactly the same thing with your television channels?
(I do agree about the spyware concept being bad an' all)
Ditto. I keep ssh open to the outside world so I can log in from work. I keep apache tomcat open on 8080 just for interesting bits and pieces now and then, and apache on 80 so I've got somewhere to share files.
I get maybe between zero and three sustained ssh brute-force attacks on ssh a day, and a few various unusual URLs in the apache log. Each sustained ssh attack does a fair number of attempts, but the whole thing's over in 15 minutes.
IF it ran linux, what difference would it make? How would that make it any more or less desireable than if it ran some other OS? It's not as if it's going to boot into a login prompt.
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whoops, -1 Redundant :(
Isn't the UK 240 volts?
Do you think any fewer people would have bought Guitar Hero or the latest Dance Dance Revolution if they had the occasional 2D dancing character in the background instead of the occasional 3D dancing character in the background?
Yes, absolutely.
I see they're confused about the tab key too ;)
Yep, 2007 will definitely be the year of the linux desktop.
With 256Mb, you don't really need a slimmed down window manager. I run whatever version of gnome ships with debian etch quite happily on 256Mb/800Mhz laptop.
Apple & Nintendo are probably the only two companies with the competence to make it work.
I agree. I read as far as this comment, and I know I don't have to read further.
Consumers these days aren't interested in building meaningful relationships with publishers. They are interested in investing in a one-hit-wonder at the right time, and then moving on.
Of course you can also give +6 to Troll and Flamebait. This leaves you with all the stuff worth reading, with a good sprinkling of the really funny stuff.
"some type of ridiculous loop, chasing the cheapest labor around the globe"
ermm....
yes?
Where's the ridiculous bit? Sounds like a free market economy to me. (IANAnEconomist)
No, we don't buy new or used. We're all far too busy to play games :(
To the people who are saying "I bought it, so it shouldn't have ads"; how do you feel about doing exactly the same thing with your television channels?
(I do agree about the spyware concept being bad an' all)
Being overweight causes just about every other part of your body to perform less effectively, so why not your brain too?
I'd have been highly surprised if the study reached any other conclusion.
fud, no, yes, notfud
Love the new tagging system
Even if you're a master of Microsoft "anti-ware" solutions and tweaks, what happens when someone who isn't takes a few wrong turns with their OS?
Probably the same as what happened to me when I tried Red Hat Linux in 2001. You get rooted via a 'useful' service you never asked for.
Ditto. I keep ssh open to the outside world so I can log in from work. I keep apache tomcat open on 8080 just for interesting bits and pieces now and then, and apache on 80 so I've got somewhere to share files.
I get maybe between zero and three sustained ssh brute-force attacks on ssh a day, and a few various unusual URLs in the apache log. Each sustained ssh attack does a fair number of attempts, but the whole thing's over in 15 minutes.
IF it ran linux, what difference would it make? How would that make it any more or less desireable than if it ran some other OS? It's not as if it's going to boot into a login prompt.
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The sad situation is that putting 'Actual in-game footage' on a video of your game is something to be proud of.
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Number of rubbish bags stolen from the front of my house in the last month: 6
I bet the devils did it on the same day each week!
They do it where I live too. Big gang of fellers in a great big antisocial looking lorry.
One of the dupes is even listed on the 'Related Stories' section! Useful feature, that.
We've been running out of IP4 addresses for years now.
Has anybody got the equivalent of one of those scary 'peak oil' graphs that'll tell us when it's genuinely going to start becoming a problem?
I agree!
It just REALLY annoys me when X on Debian stable (Sarge & Etch) causes my Dell C600 laptop to hang with a white screen!
How many times do we have to say it?!?!?!