2-3 years is NOTHING. I'd upgrade every 1 year if the hardware came out fast enough. Some of us like to be on the cutting edge of technology.
If you want to use an obsolete console for 5-7 years (!) thats fine by me, but don't expect any sympathy from game developers who know where the real money is.
> And why shoudl I* buy the comapnies latest console, when if I just continue to save my money, I'll be able to afford the next model 3 years later.
You are right, you shouldn't. No one is forcing you to upgrade, so do whatever makes you happy, just don't expect to play the latest games.
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> International patent law, however, is another matter.
The matter being that unless sizeable amounts of money are involved, nothing gets enforced.
The spaces are there because you chose "Plain Old Text" when you posted.
And third URL doesn't even work, so here are some working and proper links:
Part I
Part II
Part III
You can easily use a program like Partionmagic or Ghost to dupe Windows XP installations if you first run Microsoft's sysprep tool.
Its fairly painless... on first boot after duping you just have to input a new product key and configure the hostname.
I don't suppose there's any chance it'll be able to use X 4.2.0 and 4.3.0 binary drivers, or at least OSS ones after a recompile ?
Hardware support is what makes or breaks a windowing system...
> 9.5 million is affordable? For whom?!
The X-prize winner.
No, do not just say.
4x40yrs is a hell of a lot different than 1x10 plus 1x200+
The 10 is negligeable, and part of an evolutionary, not pointlessly revolutionary process.
> UR S1G 1S T3H G0DW1N!
I'm glad someone understands.
The first Republic was just a false start. Its significance is zero beyond giving HS History professors something else to quiz you on.
Basically yes, only you pay instead of ads.
Now that the technology is gaining popularity and starting to be profitable, Uncle Sam wants to turn the beaurocrats loose.
Oh.. I can see how that might be a problem.
But on my 5mbps connection its kind of nice; no more watching tables repeatedly resize themselves 20 times in 3 seconds.
Yeah but its windows only. Check out Privoxy. Its open source and runs on all these OSs
I like it better than Proxomitron.
> Once again, with formatting this time :P
;-)
Karma whoring at its best
> IBM is the Ring that Rules them All.
Does that make it evil? Or just very tempting?
> Do we like or hate big blue this week?
Well lets see...
0 XOR 1 XOR 0
Any questions?
2-3 years is NOTHING. I'd upgrade every 1 year if the hardware came out fast enough. Some of us like to be on the cutting edge of technology.
If you want to use an obsolete console for 5-7 years (!) thats fine by me, but don't expect any sympathy from game developers who know where the real money is.
> And why shoudl I* buy the comapnies latest console, when if I just continue to save my money, I'll be able to afford the next model 3 years later.
You are right, you shouldn't. No one is forcing you to upgrade, so do whatever makes you happy, just don't expect to play the latest games.
Basically you should do everything in Q2 or Q3
> Your sig indictates you absolutely nothing about history.
Thanks... I think. It's only a humorous coincidence.
They're just showing off Windows' most used feature...
It's either that or disableing task manager and setting the shell to sol.exe (my favorite windows security mod!)
> it will only aid me in damning the lot of you as ignorant philistines.
that insult is sooo 900 B.C.
> Don't be a zealot. The Slashdot community is far more intelligent than this.
When did this happen?
Correct, but idiots will still be spewing the "ATI has driver problems" myth for years to come.
> Doesn't energy constitute matter?
....
Of course, just divide by c^2
sounds like a job for suprnova.org
The point is you can't use the same off-the-shelf software as everyone else.
For the average consumer, this is unacceptable.
> Matthew Szulik fails to give a reasonable example of why a consumer could not use Linux on a pre-installed computer
Here are a few examples:
Quicken
TurboTax
Microsoft Office
Paintshop Pro
Putt Putt goes to the Moon