I'm pretty sure no Final Fantasy fan wants to see Cloud fight Kefka
Because we all know that Kefka would win. Cloud would sit there crying about how he's not really a human (or something like that.. I haven't played it in a long time) while Kefka poisoned him or gave him a cheapshot. Kefka was the most evil character I've ever seen in a video game.
How would an AV scanner affect my battery life? Would it constantly run residently, waiting for me to download something? If it halves my battery, no thank you.
Yes, but you must also consider that the newer lines of Intel chips, the single core ones, are also running at lower clock speeds. At least the mobile chips are. I really don't pay much attention to Intel desktop.
1.83GHz, at a time when Pentium4 processors run somewhere close to 3.80GHz. I think the MHz myth is close to buried. The new myth has to do with power consumption!
I don't need a course. I've obviously got the basics down:P
Either way, most distros have their own fancy packaging mechanism that allow any idiot to install applications. YaST works well for Suse. I'm not sure Red Hat/Fedora have a GUI-based tool, but RPMs are fairly well known for ease of use, and yum is a good CLI tool for installation. Ubuntu/Debian has Synaptic. Gentoo is extremely easy with portage, and there are several GUI frontends to it. Point is, it is possible for any idiot to install an application. They just have to learn a different interface than what they're used to.
They probably mentioned CoH since NCSoft has published (or planned to publish) a fair amount of differentMMOs in recentyears, with CoH (arguably) being the most recognizable/successful.
It said the "City of Heroes publisher", not "City of Heroes developer". You might be able to safely stop worrying, although NCSoft could still probably hire them for it. I would think they're probably busy with City of Heroes and Villains, but I don't know the size of their workforce. Although I do know that they've had Junior Programmer postings on their site for more than a year now. Maybe they're trying to develop some good talent from the ground up.
It's not that ATI is getting OSS friendly, it's that the Xorg radeon driver works for those cards. As you may have seen, cards above the 9250 are not supported, as they still have to deal with the drivers that ATI releases in-house, closed-source.
Chances are, you care because it's pretty and pleasing to the eyes. If not, move along.
I don't see why your post refers to the question about how it affects application developers if you haven't written a line of code since GWBASIC. That tells me than anything to do with application development doesn't matter to you at all, anyway.
allowing any user to load and install any application or hardware accessory
Isn't that part of the reason Windows is so insecure? Any user can install an application (when using default setup, as most people use), so the exploits can do more than screw with the user's home directory.
I agree. If people really wanted to watch TV about video games, G4 would have been a more successful channel. As it stands, I would rather get information from games from the internet or a magazine, and not have to sit through commercials. And I would rather see games first hand, either by playing, or watching a friend. At least when I make fun of friends for making mistakes, they can hear it.
Technically, I can do a live update from Windows. But Asus doesn't seem to care enough to write decent software, as it does not recognize that mine is an Asus brand.
But look at TV. You can see extreme acts of violence and gore (watch CSI, if only for gore), but most acts of sex are completely removed. Even on CSI, they always have the naughty parts on corpses covered. When I first watched the pilot for Firefly, I was amazed that they had a pseudo-sex-scene. Most likely because in the 23 years I've watched TV, I've never seen anything like that on a network station.
Maybe in more civilized countries, but not in the USA. Here, we take pride in glamorizing violence as it contributes nothing at all to society, while degrading the reason that we are all here. After all, it's yucky. And nobody should ever think of it. EVER.
I don't see what would stop Sony from partnering with Opera for the PSP, if they wished. Opera seems to have gotten a good foothold in the portable browsing department, with rival companies using their technology. Just because Nintendo uses them, it doesn't mean that Sony has to do something different. Sometimes two different companies can recognize the same thing as a good thing.
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Don't forget that they're also looking to produce a George Foreman killer.
I'm pretty sure no Final Fantasy fan wants to see Cloud fight Kefka
Because we all know that Kefka would win. Cloud would sit there crying about how he's not really a human (or something like that.. I haven't played it in a long time) while Kefka poisoned him or gave him a cheapshot. Kefka was the most evil character I've ever seen in a video game.
How would an AV scanner affect my battery life? Would it constantly run residently, waiting for me to download something? If it halves my battery, no thank you.
2004 election. We'd have Kerry. Either way, better than Bush, I would hope.
Yes, but you must also consider that the newer lines of Intel chips, the single core ones, are also running at lower clock speeds. At least the mobile chips are. I really don't pay much attention to Intel desktop.
Wow. Whatever you've done in your life to make you come up with that, please let me know, so that I may never do it.
1.83GHz, at a time when Pentium4 processors run somewhere close to 3.80GHz. I think the MHz myth is close to buried. The new myth has to do with power consumption!
I don't need a course. I've obviously got the basics down :P
Either way, most distros have their own fancy packaging mechanism that allow any idiot to install applications. YaST works well for Suse. I'm not sure Red Hat/Fedora have a GUI-based tool, but RPMs are fairly well known for ease of use, and yum is a good CLI tool for installation. Ubuntu/Debian has Synaptic. Gentoo is extremely easy with portage, and there are several GUI frontends to it. Point is, it is possible for any idiot to install an application. They just have to learn a different interface than what they're used to.
They probably mentioned CoH since NCSoft has published (or planned to publish) a fair amount of different MMOs in recent years, with CoH (arguably) being the most recognizable/successful.
It said the "City of Heroes publisher", not "City of Heroes developer". You might be able to safely stop worrying, although NCSoft could still probably hire them for it. I would think they're probably busy with City of Heroes and Villains, but I don't know the size of their workforce. Although I do know that they've had Junior Programmer postings on their site for more than a year now. Maybe they're trying to develop some good talent from the ground up.
It's not that ATI is getting OSS friendly, it's that the Xorg radeon driver works for those cards. As you may have seen, cards above the 9250 are not supported, as they still have to deal with the drivers that ATI releases in-house, closed-source.
Chances are, you care because it's pretty and pleasing to the eyes. If not, move along.
I don't see why your post refers to the question about how it affects application developers if you haven't written a line of code since GWBASIC. That tells me than anything to do with application development doesn't matter to you at all, anyway.
allowing any user to load and install any application or hardware accessory
Isn't that part of the reason Windows is so insecure? Any user can install an application (when using default setup, as most people use), so the exploits can do more than screw with the user's home directory.
Not at I agree that it's a sport, but couldn't definition #3 be argued that it is, in fact, a sport? Since you're actively participating in the game.
I agree. If people really wanted to watch TV about video games, G4 would have been a more successful channel. As it stands, I would rather get information from games from the internet or a magazine, and not have to sit through commercials. And I would rather see games first hand, either by playing, or watching a friend. At least when I make fun of friends for making mistakes, they can hear it.
Could you spell "know" right? Seriously... it isn't that much to ask.
I'd swear Action News off, if it weren't for Cecily Tynan and Dorothy Krysiuk (spelling?). They make news in the morning worthwhile.
Technically, I can do a live update from Windows. But Asus doesn't seem to care enough to write decent software, as it does not recognize that mine is an Asus brand.
Because a BIOS patch is much more pratical for most users? I get annoyed just by having to use a floppy drive to update my BIOS.
Perhaps you can continue whatever work Nikola Tesla had started before being shut down by the government.
But look at TV. You can see extreme acts of violence and gore (watch CSI, if only for gore), but most acts of sex are completely removed. Even on CSI, they always have the naughty parts on corpses covered. When I first watched the pilot for Firefly, I was amazed that they had a pseudo-sex-scene. Most likely because in the 23 years I've watched TV, I've never seen anything like that on a network station.
Maybe in more civilized countries, but not in the USA. Here, we take pride in glamorizing violence as it contributes nothing at all to society, while degrading the reason that we are all here. After all, it's yucky. And nobody should ever think of it. EVER.
I don't see what would stop Sony from partnering with Opera for the PSP, if they wished. Opera seems to have gotten a good foothold in the portable browsing department, with rival companies using their technology. Just because Nintendo uses them, it doesn't mean that Sony has to do something different. Sometimes two different companies can recognize the same thing as a good thing.
And I'm sure it'll be like deja vu all over again once it makes the homepage of digg three more times, only with slightly different titles.