Yeah, Tuxracer will convert all the windoze lusers! With it's bump mapping and Halo-like gameplay, I dont think any gamer could resist!!!!1!!1
In all seriousness folks, you cant just make some CDs with Linux on em and say "HEY! LOOK! I can game on Linux!" People want to see the proof. Gamers will not give up ANYTHING in performance, and running something non-natively sounds kind of dumb when you want 300fps. Most of us (inclusing me) want to play all the games WHEN they come out, not wait for some emulator/patch to come out 1 week later. Until you get tons of native Linux games, there is no way to convert these users.
But Dell makes them think they do. Everyone of my "computer stupid" friends are buying these new 3.4ghz dells with huge hard drives, when I have a 386 that I surf and read mail with. Fools.
I am reconsidering buying that Mac Mini now. The thing keeping me from having a mac was the price and lack of a reason to just do everything in Word on a PC. Apple has outdone itself.
Some people are sure to mention this, but I want to put out the fire before it starts.
"Burn-In", aka running new components at their max to get them to run faster, is complete hemp. There is no evidence to support this, and you are just decreasing your machine's life. However, burning-in can show a faulty components.
The GIANT spyware tool was the best rated anti-spyware program, how did Microsoft screw it up in like 2 weeks? It appeared they only modified some graphics, but it looks like they did more....
Because they could stick these on HUNDERDS of protester's cars and follow them and where their cars meet. Do the feds have hundreds of cars to track all these innocent people? Now they do.
It is because of this kind of crap we don't have 15 megabit pipes for 30 bucks a month like South Korea does.
I am TIRED of being behind Asian countries. Are we not *supposed* to be the most advanced country on earth. I don't think so. We are a rusty country, full of aging infrastructure, telecommunications monopolies (they are still monopolies even if it's not on paper), and a bureaucratic system that has been bought by Big Tele. We have lost our edge. The early American inventors are turning in their graves. We used to be the envy of earth with our mightly technology, now we are all but a joke to the Japanesse technocratic elite.
People dont seem to GET the challenges of AI, hell, getting a freakign robot to WALK took us DECADES. Now they want them to play soccer? This is flying cars all over again.
Yahoo has already fallen out of favor. With their BLOATED website and TONS of multimedia ads (big bandwidth for even broadband) I have not used thier search in at least 5 years.
The small screen and crappy interface don't help, either. I mean, the menus for phones are the WORST I have seen on almost any device. I could have designed a better menu than those people did.
In America, we get SCREWED by the internet providers that own the main connections to the backbone. In South Korea they are getting at least 15 MBits/sec.
I'm here sitting with my damn 1.5 Mbits asymetrical connection, if I upload any faster than 10kb/s then it cuts my download to 20kb/s. It is totally useless for the picture site I run (images are 700kb to 2 megs each and updated constantly).
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In all seriousness folks, you cant just make some CDs with Linux on em and say "HEY! LOOK! I can game on Linux!" People want to see the proof. Gamers will not give up ANYTHING in performance, and running something non-natively sounds kind of dumb when you want 300fps. Most of us (inclusing me) want to play all the games WHEN they come out, not wait for some emulator/patch to come out 1 week later. Until you get tons of native Linux games, there is no way to convert these users.
But Dell makes them think they do. Everyone of my "computer stupid" friends are buying these new 3.4ghz dells with huge hard drives, when I have a 386 that I surf and read mail with. Fools.
The letters "e" and "o" are pretty far from eachother on a keyboard.
I am reconsidering buying that Mac Mini now. The thing keeping me from having a mac was the price and lack of a reason to just do everything in Word on a PC. Apple has outdone itself.
I feel ya my brother!
"Burn-In", aka running new components at their max to get them to run faster, is complete hemp. There is no evidence to support this, and you are just decreasing your machine's life. However, burning-in can show a faulty components.
The GIANT spyware tool was the best rated anti-spyware program, how did Microsoft screw it up in like 2 weeks? It appeared they only modified some graphics, but it looks like they did more....
I wish it had the source.
Yes, but people can't accpet we can't keep having kids and living anywhere we want.
Talking about the attorney general.
I'm talking about the little-guy judges, not Bush's lap dancing appointees.
It is the ONLY branch we can remotely count on, a small glimmer of hope swimming in a sea of darkness.
Attach a scope, JUST like firing a rifle, but it's always on...and always firing...with unlimited ammo.
Because they could stick these on HUNDERDS of protester's cars and follow them and where their cars meet. Do the feds have hundreds of cars to track all these innocent people? Now they do.
I am TIRED of being behind Asian countries. Are we not *supposed* to be the most advanced country on earth. I don't think so. We are a rusty country, full of aging infrastructure, telecommunications monopolies (they are still monopolies even if it's not on paper), and a bureaucratic system that has been bought by Big Tele. We have lost our edge. The early American inventors are turning in their graves. We used to be the envy of earth with our mightly technology, now we are all but a joke to the Japanesse technocratic elite.
*rolls eyes*
People dont seem to GET the challenges of AI, hell, getting a freakign robot to WALK took us DECADES. Now they want them to play soccer? This is flying cars all over again.
Yahoo has already fallen out of favor. With their BLOATED website and TONS of multimedia ads (big bandwidth for even broadband) I have not used thier search in at least 5 years.
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IBM has been the top patent register for like a decade straight.
Axapta what?
The US economy would fall flat, millions would be out of jobs. Welcome to The Depression 2.
The small screen and crappy interface don't help, either. I mean, the menus for phones are the WORST I have seen on almost any device. I could have designed a better menu than those people did.
SMS? That has got to be the slowest way to cordinate anything... EVER.
I'm here sitting with my damn 1.5 Mbits asymetrical connection, if I upload any faster than 10kb/s then it cuts my download to 20kb/s. It is totally useless for the picture site I run (images are 700kb to 2 megs each and updated constantly).