OSX is intrinsically more secure than Windows There fixed that for you. Let us not forget Windows also faces much more exposure due to it's market share. But then again anything that's not locked in a room with no network access is going to be vulnerable to one degree or another.
It's not necessarily a bad idea, if we had a copyright system for the people by the people. Instead it's just the media mafia and false positives ensuring this is going to be a grand ol' cluster fuck.
I'll probably give damn small a try, out of curiosity, really all OSes should deserve words like "damn small," "nano," "pico," "tiny," and such. If I need or want bloat, I should have to add it myself. Amen brother... My computer is pretty much a glorified jukebox with some games and media creation tools. Where's the OS that gives me as many cycles and memory as my hardware can provide?
When you can get a brand new and amazingly more powerful laptop for 400 dollars, five year old laptops are not worth 300 dollars. Yeah, buy and throw away, rinse and repeat!
Seriously though, I kept my 1ghz P3 long after the point of diminishing returns. The amount of money I spent on incremental upgrades would of bought a brand new rig.... But not one I new so intimately. Or ran so stable. Plus I'm sure there was a bit of emotional attachment to the damn thing, so many LAN parties so many mp3s, so much fun. Eventually it got the the point the only upgrade left would of been to purchase a P3-Tualatin off E-Bay... But by that point the system I intended to replace it with dropped to >$100 per component... I passed the ol' p3 along to someone else that could still get adequate use out of it.
The point is, it may be easier or even cheaper to junk your kit and buy new gear. But it's not always what you want, can or will do.
Taking care of ones citizenry via programs funded by the entire population for the 'greater good' seems to me to have little to do with spying on ones citizens to such a dramatic extent.
But then again you were simply looking to bash ideas you are disagree with.
However, adultery is NOT against the law. No but just as with so many other things in our lives, sometimes we want to keep things on the DL... (thats on the 'down low')
Exploring ones sexuality, researching substances the government deems illegal for responsible adults or expressing dissent. Those all come to mind as activities best undertaken without someone looking over your shoulder.
Just because something might happen or even DID happen doesn't mean you put life on hold But think of the children!
But no I appriciate hearing that, it reminds me of republicans blasting the supreme court ruling on Guantanamo detainies, one said it will cost us a city.
Well that may be true, probably not... But still isn't that the whole point? To live free? I'll gladly accept the risk someone with bad intentions might 'get me' if that means I and my fellow citizens can enjoy my freedom and civil liberties.
This 'think of the children' mentality is destroying us.
even the lest efficient CANDU's use about 8 to 10KG of fuel / day Well that sounds great on the surface, but even if they only used.05g what really matters the projected amount of usable fissionable materials present on the Earth. Got any figures on that?
I wasn't even aware they supported windows? At least that has been my experience with their horrible drivers. Odd I've found Catalyst releases to be the better of the two heavy weights. Not great since they've both aimed to become more than the simple dialog boxes needed. Especially on older hardware... You can hard boil an egg by the time Nvidia control panel launches on my girlfriends 750mhz duron w/ a nvidia 6600. Funny that, the driver options run slower then any currently installed program on it!
Then how much would you pay for Ubuntu, which causes even fewer headaches than Windows XP as long as GNU/Linux supports your hardware?
Why, nothing of course.:) Awesome, and of course this software plays all the latest found-in-electronics-boxed-3D-fighting-games with super action missiles, correct?
Write software that works 90% of the time and crashes randomly 10% of the time (who cares the 10% is during critical computing) Nice the generic windows diss... My only question is, What of us gamers running win boxes that are rock solid? And have never had anything but a rock solid box? Aside from the odd hardware failures that is...;)
Last I saw, Firefox didn't come with Windows Live Search set as the default. Yeah it defaults to Google last I checked. On IE8 you have to goto a webpage and actively seek to enable Google search.
Maybe if my friends used it I might, That's what I always thought, but then I realize how few shits I'd give about what my friends would write... and it all becomes clear, all those sites are pointless!
minwin comes to mind as a possible xp replacement in the long term for such devices, since they have so bluntly stated win7 is going to be an evolved vista... really dashed my hopes for a sleek gaming rig of the future...
ow do they feel about the loss of my money as a possible subscriber / music listener? I'm sure they give about two shits worth of thought to you. But then again that's the problem =)
200 for mine, ati model... ran auto overclock feature in the drivers... reported back 92c. It's nice to be able to boil my ramen noodles while waiting for the next level to load.
as opposed to Intel's corporate agenda that tanks gaming because "businesses" don't "need" it. Exactly, businesses do not need advanced 3d acceleration. They are businesses, the bottom line is king. (increased hardware costs, lost productivity, etc.)
Both AMD and Nvidia/VIA will put more balanced machines out there. That is an incorrect statement since none of those companies actually sell working "machines". Instead they develop and sell components. Which aside from VIA are all comparable with one another in terms of price and performance (generally).
that a $1200 Macbook (with the fastest dual core processors out there) play games like WoW like crap Well that's a given. Proper 3d acceleration is a must for any modern game. It should be noted my girlfriend has proven to be an ample tank for my alt priest while playing on a 750Mhz AMD Duron with 1gb of memory and an nVidia GeForce 6600LE AGP card. While I happily played my character to end game (name:mithrilvar server:moonrunner 70/war/a) on a 1ghz Intel Pentium 3 with 768mb ram and a 6600LE video card.
But it's "cheaper" for Intel to hose it's partners with the integrated graphic and eventually the game industry will change how they make games so they can run on 4 year old intel crapware. Well yes it's cheaper, but that's the name of the game. Even the very latest IGP's (from nvidia/ati) are only 'passable' when it comes to current gaming trends. So what would be the point when even the very best to be offered pales in comparison to a dedicated card?
In regards to your theory they are holding out for software developers to adapt to their slower hardware... Well that would be great if it was true as that would allow them to concentrate on game play. All of my favorite games run on dramatically older hardware (civ3/4, simcity4, serious sam, baldur's gate, etc.) and I know I'd love to see more games of a similar caliber;)
If you have a good graphics chip, you only need 1.5 GHz or so to run the average PC game if you have a modern true DX9 card in the box I would say something rated 2.0ghz these days, as my experiences with an ATI x1800 XT (one of the fastest dx9 single card solutions to have been released) have shown me. And dual core is a must. Of course if you buy a nice DX10 card I'm sure you could get by with 1.5ghz, but with prices the way they are why short yourself and leave your video card bottlenecked by the cpu?
the porn industry is the one pushing the development of computing! But has anyone ever found reliable data indicating the porn industries revenues? I know everyone quotes billions, but I'd love to know just how powerful an industry it really is.
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It's not necessarily a bad idea, if we had a copyright system for the people by the people. Instead it's just the media mafia and false positives ensuring this is going to be a grand ol' cluster fuck.
that made me giggle!
Seriously though, I kept my 1ghz P3 long after the point of diminishing returns. The amount of money I spent on incremental upgrades would of bought a brand new rig.... But not one I new so intimately. Or ran so stable. Plus I'm sure there was a bit of emotional attachment to the damn thing, so many LAN parties so many mp3s, so much fun. Eventually it got the the point the only upgrade left would of been to purchase a P3-Tualatin off E-Bay... But by that point the system I intended to replace it with dropped to >$100 per component... I passed the ol' p3 along to someone else that could still get adequate use out of it.
The point is, it may be easier or even cheaper to junk your kit and buy new gear. But it's not always what you want, can or will do.
Taking care of ones citizenry via programs funded by the entire population for the 'greater good' seems to me to have little to do with spying on ones citizens to such a dramatic extent.
But then again you were simply looking to bash ideas you are disagree with.
Exploring ones sexuality, researching substances the government deems illegal for responsible adults or expressing dissent. Those all come to mind as activities best undertaken without someone looking over your shoulder.
But no I appriciate hearing that, it reminds me of republicans blasting the supreme court ruling on Guantanamo detainies, one said it will cost us a city.
Well that may be true, probably not... But still isn't that the whole point? To live free? I'll gladly accept the risk someone with bad intentions might 'get me' if that means I and my fellow citizens can enjoy my freedom and civil liberties.
This 'think of the children' mentality is destroying us.
You'd think you would re brand the mirror if your trying to pull in ad revenue from the retarded masses ;)
Melange = Oil, Interstellar travel = grocery runs to Wal-Mart...
Hence why Iraq was important.. or something, where am I?
Nah dude... Nah... You can't see the forest from the the trees, its all about home delivery applications now that the R&D has been fruitful.
Then how much would you pay for Ubuntu, which causes even fewer headaches than Windows XP as long as GNU/Linux supports your hardware?
Why, nothing of course.minwin comes to mind as a possible xp replacement in the long term for such devices, since they have so bluntly stated win7 is going to be an evolved vista... really dashed my hopes for a sleek gaming rig of the future...
I love a good compression scam....
Considering windows is already loading by the time this system kicks in I'd say it's value is zero.
Shaders? Z-buffers? Mip mapping? Back in my day we had to walk from system memory to frame buffer uphill and in the snow both ways!
200 for mine, ati model... ran auto overclock feature in the drivers... reported back 92c. It's nice to be able to boil my ramen noodles while waiting for the next level to load.
In regards to your theory they are holding out for software developers to adapt to their slower hardware... Well that would be great if it was true as that would allow them to concentrate on game play. All of my favorite games run on dramatically older hardware (civ3/4, simcity4, serious sam, baldur's gate, etc.) and I know I'd love to see more games of a similar caliber