Some distros are significantly faster. The thing about Linux is that it's not one operating system, it's a huge collection of different distributions, each tailored for different needs. Damn Small Linux is going to fill a different niche than Gentoo, which will fill a different nice than Ubuntu or Red Hat, etc. etc.
Linux can use any number of GUIs, or no GUI at all. If you want something significantly faster than Windows, don't use Gnome or KDE, as these are a bit bloated (or "fully-featured", if you want to put it nicely). Use XFCE or IceWM or Fluxbox, instead.
Lots of computer monitors can display 720p, and some of the more high-end ones can display 1080p. After all, 720p is just 1280x720 resolution. Computers have been doing better than that for quite some time (although it's a big step above the 640x480 that a standard def TV does).
Not every computer is for games, you know. Not even more than like 10%. The cheap Wal*Mart Special, the mass produced home/corporate desktop, is where the real money is.
Some Windows PC needs to make the initial disk image for Windows-formatted iPods. This one was either compromized or deliberately planted the virus. I'm betting on the former, but this is in China, after all.
Nintendo is extremely careful about load times. I mean, hell, they went with cartridges instead of CDs for the N64 because of load tims. Gamecube devkits have deliberately-limited transfer rates from the dev hard drive so that the devs need to deal with load times. I'm sure it won't be a big deal here.
Plus, it does have an internal Flash drive, although I think that's mostly for downloaded stuff.
The issue is g-grandparent poster is saying Xeon is infereor to Opteron because some Opteron motherboards can do SLI, where Xeon motherboards are "stuck" with "only" one graphics card (the horror!), when in reality that's a non-issue, not least of which because while two quad-core processors can be cost-justified under certain circumstances, two graphics cards really can't be.
If an employee isn't smart enough to manage the differences between MS Word and OOo Writer by himself, show him the fucking door, because he's clearly so goddamn stupid he'll generate problems in other areas. Seriously.
Who cares about SLI on a dual-CPU system? I dunno about you, but where I come from, dual-socket systems are for doing Serious Buisness, not for playing fucking video games. If you want to play games, there's a $400 machine right over there that should be a good deal cheaper.
Maybe you could rig up a system where I park my car on a conveyer belt, and go inside the station for a nice cup of coffee while it is pulled into a fully-automated charging station and then rolled out to be boarded when it's done.
Actually, what probably happened was somebody in a game store surrepetitiously opened the box and copied the key while nobody was looking. It happens, it happens to everyone, and it sucks.
Did you try talking to Customer Support? And I mean, talking, not starting with screaming? Give it a shot.
Well, I've been eating ramen, but I'm in college, so it's kind of a given. I mean, it's better than the more expensive food that they serve us at the shitbuffet I mean dining hall.
But they're not always readily avaliable. You need to go through eBay, which can be risky, and some of the rarer ones (ever try tracking down a copy of FFT, or Radiant Silvergun, or Lunar II, or Panzer Dragoon Saga, or...) go for big monies.
That just means that the key used has to be from a significantly high-profile device. Say, hypothetically, the PS3 AACP key was cracked. Do you really think Sony would let the consortium invalidate the PS3's key (and thus make it impossible to play Blu-Ray discs on their new baby)?
I don't either. Hell, they'd probably sue to prevent it.
Considering that Ubuntu also submits its patches back to the Debian trunk, if Debian was to fold (horrifically unlikely, but a scary thought nonetheless), I figure that it would just mean that the middleman would be removed.
No, what you should do is shred(1) the drive and then reinstall the OS or whatever. If you try to keep your current install, this is what happens to you.
Fun fact: In Windows, if you delete the folder for a program (or if the program has a poorly written uninstall program), program configuration stays in the Registry. (Kind of like forgetting to delete config files in/alt under *nix). That's what happened here.
Moral of the story: nuke the drive from orbit; it's the only way to be sure.
The thing is, any DRM encryption is inherently flawed. With traditional encryption, person A is trying to send a message to person B without an attacker, person C, intercepting it. So persons A and B exchange keys, etc. without person C's knowlege and then can send messages at will. Person C does not have the key, therefore cannot (in theory) get the plaintext.
With DRM, person B is person C. Person A wants to sell person B a movie, and encrypts it, but must give person B the decryption key (in the ROM of a DVD player, in playback software, etc. etc.) so that they could watch said movie. Person B then has the encrypted data, the encryption algorythm (in machine code, granted, but there) and the key. In the words of Cory Doctorow, "hilarity ensues".
I give AACP three months before a crack is found, and another month before cracking software is widely availiable.
Not all consoles discourage homebrew. The PSP certainly does, but hey, that's why I didn't buy it. The GP2X is the homebrew king, but then, it doesn't really have that many acutal commercial games. The DS is pretty good with homebrew if you get the equipment (or at least Nintendo isn't actively trying to fuck the customers, the way Sony does). That's just for handhelds (although it always seems that the handheld homebrew scene is bigger than the console homebrew scene, probably because if you're in your house anyway, you might as well just use a PC).
Assume that I have a set-top gaming PC and four USB gamepads. What free four-player party games do you recommend that match the fun of Super Smash Bros. Melee or the Bomberman series?
MUGEN is quite good, if you can get it running right. It's better with two players than four, but some would say the same is true for Melee.
It's not a matter of multiple cores, it's a matter of a GPU core needs much quicker access to its RAM than a CPU core does. Of course, that problem is (relatively) easily surmountable, we just need a memory bus faster than HyperTransport. Nothing we'll be getting within the next couple of years, but five or ten years from now, everything might be on one chip.
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Some distros are significantly faster. The thing about Linux is that it's not one operating system, it's a huge collection of different distributions, each tailored for different needs. Damn Small Linux is going to fill a different niche than Gentoo, which will fill a different nice than Ubuntu or Red Hat, etc. etc.
Linux can use any number of GUIs, or no GUI at all. If you want something significantly faster than Windows, don't use Gnome or KDE, as these are a bit bloated (or "fully-featured", if you want to put it nicely). Use XFCE or IceWM or Fluxbox, instead.
This is what you get for relying on Microsoft for software. Really, anyone should have expected this, and should expect this in the future.
Are you kidding? There's been at least one occurrence of Godwin's law taking effect in the first post here. No way this guy is setting a record.
Lots of computer monitors can display 720p, and some of the more high-end ones can display 1080p. After all, 720p is just 1280x720 resolution. Computers have been doing better than that for quite some time (although it's a big step above the 640x480 that a standard def TV does).
Not every computer is for games, you know. Not even more than like 10%. The cheap Wal*Mart Special, the mass produced home/corporate desktop, is where the real money is.
Some Windows PC needs to make the initial disk image for Windows-formatted iPods. This one was either compromized or deliberately planted the virus. I'm betting on the former, but this is in China, after all.
Nintendo is extremely careful about load times. I mean, hell, they went with cartridges instead of CDs for the N64 because of load tims. Gamecube devkits have deliberately-limited transfer rates from the dev hard drive so that the devs need to deal with load times. I'm sure it won't be a big deal here.
Plus, it does have an internal Flash drive, although I think that's mostly for downloaded stuff.
The issue is g-grandparent poster is saying Xeon is infereor to Opteron because some Opteron motherboards can do SLI, where Xeon motherboards are "stuck" with "only" one graphics card (the horror!), when in reality that's a non-issue, not least of which because while two quad-core processors can be cost-justified under certain circumstances, two graphics cards really can't be.
It's just Intel catching up from the Pentium 4 era, where it took a hell of a lot longer than 18 months.
If an employee isn't smart enough to manage the differences between MS Word and OOo Writer by himself, show him the fucking door, because he's clearly so goddamn stupid he'll generate problems in other areas. Seriously.
Who cares about SLI on a dual-CPU system? I dunno about you, but where I come from, dual-socket systems are for doing Serious Buisness, not for playing fucking video games. If you want to play games, there's a $400 machine right over there that should be a good deal cheaper.
Maybe you could rig up a system where I park my car on a conveyer belt, and go inside the station for a nice cup of coffee while it is pulled into a fully-automated charging station and then rolled out to be boarded when it's done.
That actually sounds like it might work.
Will "continue to fail"? I must have missed the part where Steam was failing, what with all these new non-Valve games flocking to the platform.
And why isn't your computer connected to the Internet? It's not that hard. I mean, you're connected right now, right?
Actually, what probably happened was somebody in a game store surrepetitiously opened the box and copied the key while nobody was looking. It happens, it happens to everyone, and it sucks.
Did you try talking to Customer Support? And I mean, talking, not starting with screaming? Give it a shot.
If you're doing anything interesting with your hard drives (RAID, JBOD, whatever), you need a floppy drive to install XP. Big pain in the ass.
Well, I've been eating ramen, but I'm in college, so it's kind of a given. I mean, it's better than the more expensive food that they serve us at the shitbuffet I mean dining hall.
But they're not always readily avaliable. You need to go through eBay, which can be risky, and some of the rarer ones (ever try tracking down a copy of FFT, or Radiant Silvergun, or Lunar II, or Panzer Dragoon Saga, or...) go for big monies.
That just means that the key used has to be from a significantly high-profile device. Say, hypothetically, the PS3 AACP key was cracked. Do you really think Sony would let the consortium invalidate the PS3's key (and thus make it impossible to play Blu-Ray discs on their new baby)?
I don't either. Hell, they'd probably sue to prevent it.
Considering that Ubuntu also submits its patches back to the Debian trunk, if Debian was to fold (horrifically unlikely, but a scary thought nonetheless), I figure that it would just mean that the middleman would be removed.
No, what you should do is shred(1) the drive and then reinstall the OS or whatever. If you try to keep your current install, this is what happens to you.
Fun fact: In Windows, if you delete the folder for a program (or if the program has a poorly written uninstall program), program configuration stays in the Registry. (Kind of like forgetting to delete config files in /alt under *nix). That's what happened here.
Moral of the story: nuke the drive from orbit; it's the only way to be sure.
The thing is, any DRM encryption is inherently flawed. With traditional encryption, person A is trying to send a message to person B without an attacker, person C, intercepting it. So persons A and B exchange keys, etc. without person C's knowlege and then can send messages at will. Person C does not have the key, therefore cannot (in theory) get the plaintext.
With DRM, person B is person C. Person A wants to sell person B a movie, and encrypts it, but must give person B the decryption key (in the ROM of a DVD player, in playback software, etc. etc.) so that they could watch said movie. Person B then has the encrypted data, the encryption algorythm (in machine code, granted, but there) and the key. In the words of Cory Doctorow, "hilarity ensues".
I give AACP three months before a crack is found, and another month before cracking software is widely availiable.
Not all consoles discourage homebrew. The PSP certainly does, but hey, that's why I didn't buy it. The GP2X is the homebrew king, but then, it doesn't really have that many acutal commercial games. The DS is pretty good with homebrew if you get the equipment (or at least Nintendo isn't actively trying to fuck the customers, the way Sony does). That's just for handhelds (although it always seems that the handheld homebrew scene is bigger than the console homebrew scene, probably because if you're in your house anyway, you might as well just use a PC).
MUGEN is quite good, if you can get it running right. It's better with two players than four, but some would say the same is true for Melee.
It's not a matter of multiple cores, it's a matter of a GPU core needs much quicker access to its RAM than a CPU core does. Of course, that problem is (relatively) easily surmountable, we just need a memory bus faster than HyperTransport. Nothing we'll be getting within the next couple of years, but five or ten years from now, everything might be on one chip.