Bizarre. I live in Perth and it gets just as hot here. I leave my server on 24/7, it has used an intel 1GHz PIII, now it's using an Athlon 2200+, and either processor doesn't get too hot with stock cooling.
You must be somewhere in the NT if you get up to 50C, or somewhere in the Kimberley. In which case you would surely have A/C?
Actually, the reason Intel is asking for the fan is because they will look at the thermal gunk on the bottom of the fan, then tell you that you didn't install the fan correctly, thus voiding your warranty. I reckon if you check the fine print in the warranty documentation, they'll disavow any responsibility if they believe the fan has been installed incorrectly.
And when I say incorrectly, there really isn't much to it, the fan goes on and it clips on and it's done, but "incorrectly" means a whole different thing in warranty legalese.
Sony does lots of R&D, but they funnel it into a product that comes out in the end as slightly better in some ways than what exists on the market. They then make that technology completely proprietary because they are afraid someone apart from Sony might make money out of it.
What invariably follows is that the rest of the world either rips off Sony, or more likely arrives at the same technology level by natural progression, and designs a cheaper and more ubiquitous technology that has an open standard and is followed everywhere.
So that prediction of Cell becoming a standard baseline is impossible because Sony has no intention of letting anyone but themselves use Cell, and making sure that Cell is priced slightly more expensive than whatever the rest of the world is using.
It reminds me of a story by Jack Handy about an old man who was a prospector who used to dig all day in the rocks looking for gold (Sony). Then the nearby volcano erupted and gold nuggets got flung around everywhere (The rest of the world). Everyone gathered all the nuggets that were freely available, but the old man prospector refused because he knew there was gold in his little plot! So he kept digging. Then he got bored and hungry and went to pick up some of the gold nuggets that came out of the volcano, but everyone had already picked them all up. It's a very strange business model Sony has there.
I almost always wear a tie. Obviously the poster of this article is profoundly against the wearing of formal clothing, and from the sound of it doesn't know how to tie one without choking himself. A properly tied tie should be comfortable, not constricting.
Here are some reasons to wear a tie: -You'll appear more professional than your workmates who don't wear one -You'll appeal more to management types -You gain the appearance of having status and importance -It's the only safe place in formal workwear for a man to express himself. -Ties are a "success indicator", which essentially means that you will be viewed more favourably by persons of the female persuasion (unless your tie has flashing boobies on it).
If none of those reasons has any appeal to you, then don't wear a tie, dress down. The people climbing upwards on the ladder of success will thank you for getting out of their way.
A modded XBox? They can do amazing things nowadays. Of course in some places in the world, modifying equipment that you have purchased and own yourself can be illegal (see DMCA).
Modded XBoxen can play DVD's, DivX and Xvid (and yes Ogg and Ogm), can connect to your network, and heaps of other stuff. And they're very cheap for what you get. Apparently you can also play games on them, but the games don't compare favourably to the PC equivalents.
Thankfully here in Australia, the trade agreement that is currently being forced on us by the USA hasn't taken place yet so we can still adjust and modify equipment that we own.
Actually Hefner has done some atrocious things in his magazines.
In order to sanitise his magazine to appease the moral masses (and sell more copy), his fake breasted women all have parts of their, well, lower body parts photoshopped out.
This in turn causes hundreds of normal girls who see these magazines going to doctors and asking for plastic surgery because they don't think they're "normal".
Uh, Nudity in computer games has been going on for a very very long time actually. Leisure Suit Larry has been running since, oh, before VGA even.
This is only being drummed up because computer games are now more in the eye of the public.
I would imagine the same groups that have been constantly telling us that video games turn all human children into psychopathic murderers are taking a break from that to assure us that video games turn them all into sex fiends.
In reality, nothing will change, this will blow over, and it's nothing but good publicity for the game sellers.
Masking tape uses less adhesive than most other tapes so it will come off with much less goo. And you can write on it. Also you have to be careful if you use any tape on electronic components that you don't put the tape directly on the electronics.
wire ties are also excellent however for keeping cables in bundles.
Elastic has a habit of cracking after a long duration. The hair ties might do better because they have the cotton around them.
Especially for smaller cables. Those 20M CAT5's you run into can be a bit troublesome though.
Also cable ties have worked out nicely for me, the wire ones with the flat plastic coating. Neat bundles for all the kettleplugs helps them fit into a nice box.
While this sounds like an interesting project, I feel this is one of those things where a filing cabinet or a chest of drawers or any other combination of cupboards, carboard boxes or cheap plastic containers, a bit of masking tape and a marker pen would probably do a better job.
I'd say most hardware types, myself included because I have this problem, would only keep enough stuff that a bit of organisation would do wonders for.
Get all your ISA cards and put them in one drawer, and label it "ISA Cards". Same for the stack of old IDE hard drives. Repeat until done. What I find handy is to also label each drive with a set of parameters in one uniform place (don't cover the little airhole thingy).
Neaten up the cables you want to keep and wrap them in masking tape. Write the specifications on the tape if you like - "CAT-5, 5M". Put them all into the one drawer/bucket/cupboard.
Making a database or using an application to handle the database sounds like a pretty complex operation, I think it would just be one more thing to worry about. Better to keep your stuff organised logically, which in turn would make you more organised. Adding a database into the equation will just complicate things even more.
That's a good point, well backed up, but on the upside, if you follow the process along, open source has another advantage. The fixes for open source software seem to come out within hours after really serious exploits are found. Microsoft, being a product seller, spends way too much time rationalising the budgetary costs of fixing the bug, implementing, then testing it. They have to, because you sure hear about it whenever a MS patch breaks something else.
I'm a big advocate of the theory of open source software, although I'm a gamer and the unfortunate reality is that Windows does games better to this date. Doesn't mean I'm not eagerly watching the progress that Linux is making.
Don't forget that all the open source game developers are Indy. Go check out the games in progress at sourceforge, I was really surprised. Freeciv is an excellent and free game, and there are loads of others in work.
The only thing working against the indy game developers is publicity, because of course the big companies control the big media distribution and so on... Indy gaming needs the same kind of pro-selling word of mouth that Linux has been getting from day one.
There's always a risk that any application that's handling data, especially unclean internet data, can be the victim of a buffer overflow. Here's where the open source nature of Mozilla beats MSIE hands down, the code is open to scrutiny which means that someone somewhere has probably already looked after most of the exploits already. That's the theory, anyway.
Ahh, but 3DO didn't have Microsoft to lever their technology onto 90% of desktop PC's in the western world, now, did they?
That's the primary reason why this will work. Microsoft will use every dirty trick in the book, and some new ones they have patents on, to make this happen.
This includes the vast piles of wealth and the traditional "break the law until someone manages to make us stop" behaviour.
True, XBox has failed in Japan. But many things that will sell great in the rest of the world will fall flat in Japan. And many things that will sell great in Japan will fall flat in the rest of the world.
Used underwear in vending machines in the USA? I don't think so.
That is definately the way things used to be. But now the market has changed in such a significant way that companies like Lian Li, Antec and Alienware have an entire business model that only survives because of PC's designed specifically for gaming. This is only a recent development since S3 released the first of the true 3D accelerators for X86 platforms.
Before that, every X86 was more or less the same, file servers would have the same components as workstations as personal computers as family PC's for the home. Now, the differences between a file server and a highly tuned gaming rig are tremendous.
The same applies to an extent to operating systems. People will choose the operating system that enables the best gaming performance (or in the case of Windows, that allows 90% of gaming to work at all).
True, MS is having no luck getting involved in the big tin area of servers. Data Centre edition is a joke.
Mind you the money isn't tremendously fantastic. Microsoft is much more worried about Linux/Apache running the Web than Solaris/HP-UX/whatever.
Market share in the USA puts the XBox just slightly in front of Gamecube I believe, I think it's more than 20%, but for sure the PS2 has over 50%. More significant is that with current pricing in many places XBox is now outselling PS2. What this means is that, if this trend continues, and continues with the next generation of consoles, Microsoft will be market leader within 5 years. It isn't about what the current market share is, it's about the trends which indicate the future.
I know you were. But like I say, most of the technology in Star Wars is nonsensical. We have ships that make point-five past lightspeed, and can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, and armoured vehicles that are entirely susceptible to wooden logs and small furry critters with rocks.
Having said that, most of the technology in Star Trek is just as bad, what with the particle of the month and all the rest.
Ahh, but the problem is, computer hardware is too powerful for one console to offer an exclusive gaming experience that is clearly superior to any competition.
Apple is an unusual example, because they're not really about the hardware. Apple is all about the OS. You take away the OS and it's just not an Apple anymore, it's just a PC with really nice hardware. Apple just have a very strange hardware/software bundle experience going on. OS/X has increased Apple's market share, from what I can see at the expense of both Linux and Windows users, because the underlying platform is less proprietary.
The same survivability can't be said for a console, which I see as going the same way as the Amiga. At the dawn of time, the Amiga was a superior gaming platform to the PC in just about every respect. But PC hardware developed rapidly until it was on par with Amiga. Amigas proprietary nature killed it off, as the Amiga could not offer, as you suggest, a superior gaming experience.
Apple doesn't offer a superior gaming experience either, but then that isn't what the Mac is reknown for. The Mac has a stronger focus with a loyal group of graphic designers and so on, where the Mac offers an experience that their audience can't find anywhere else.
Completely wrong. From the article, the guy reckons he wants people like Panasonic and Teac and whoever else to start making XNA compliant gaming platforms. Microsoft are obviously not trying to sell more XBoxes here. It's something different.
This fits in with Microsoft, who, despite their continual involvement, do not want to be a hardware company. They're making a loss on the XBox just to get a major foothold in the gaming industry, we've known this for a while.
The interesting thing is that we haven't seen exactly what the long term goal of Microsoft is with the gaming market. Now we can see. They want a stranglehold, and they're doing embrace and extend.
Stage 1: Xbox and XBox 2. Sell these puppies at a loss. Everyone gets a pretty good console (at least equivalent to the next in the market) for next to nothing. Everyone is using XBox. (Not yet achieved but getting there). A Microsoft device in every home, as it were.
Stage 2: XNA. Make all the gaming platforms interdependent through a Microsoft controlled set of standards. Market penetration is immense, especially because we assume XNA runs all the old DirectX games plus all the new XNA exclusive titles (see how many gaming franchises MS owns nowadays?). Consumers love choice. Websites will be contrasting Panasonic XNA consoles to Alienware XNA PC's to Nokias new XNA gamephone, all of which run the latest GTA, Evercrack, Counterstrike, Doom, EA sportsgames, everything. Microsoft on every gaming device in every home.
Stage 3: Control. Just like every other market MS has controlled, kill the competition, embrace, extend, litigate, leverage, and stretch the law as hard as it goes to keep picking up royalties and license fees for XNA and XNA licensed platforms.
Genius, if you ask me. Evil perhaps, but there's a reason Bill Gates can drop $1000 on the ground and not pick it up because he makes more money by ignoring it for the whole time it would take to bend over.
Microsoft easily dominates over 90% of the PC gaming market. As I understand it, they are second biggest player just behind Sony in terms of sales, and at retail the XBox is just starting to exceed sales of PS/2 in some places. If this trend continues, given that MS were lower than dirt three years ago in the console arena, MS will achieve dominance in the gaming market in about 5 years.
I live in Australia. We have some pretty big mosquitos. But if you are happy to compare the MS juggernaught to a mosquito, I never, ever, ever want to meet a mosquito where you come from.
Well that's a little out of context. This whole topic is about gaming, and therefore Linux's success in gaming. I suggest, in order to make this more useful for you, that gaming has a spill on effect into new markets.
To a small extent, the success of games on Windows has put a lot of Windows PC's into the home, and by extension of familiarity, a lot of Windows PC's on managers desks and throughout companies.
Apple tries very hard at the same tactic - ever wonder why there are so many Macs in schools? Because Apple practically gives them away there.
If Linux was the premiere gaming OS, and only lamerz used Windows for gaming (not the case at the moment), Linux proliferation in single PC families would dramatically increase. Imagine if 80% of homes with PC's were running Linux, because the best gaming experience was on Linux. We can then also imagine a change in the reputation of Linux in other PC industries.
I suggest, then, that Linux would experience more success than currently if it were a better gaming platform.
Likewise, and this is a sad one, the only reason I use Windows instead of Linux is because I'm a gamer. I much prefer the idea of Linux. I could do everything non-gamey that I need to do on Linux. Don't get me wrong, Tuxracer is a great game. Really.
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Bizarre. I live in Perth and it gets just as hot here. I leave my server on 24/7, it has used an intel 1GHz PIII, now it's using an Athlon 2200+, and either processor doesn't get too hot with stock cooling.
You must be somewhere in the NT if you get up to 50C, or somewhere in the Kimberley. In which case you would surely have A/C?
Actually, the reason Intel is asking for the fan is because they will look at the thermal gunk on the bottom of the fan, then tell you that you didn't install the fan correctly, thus voiding your warranty. I reckon if you check the fine print in the warranty documentation, they'll disavow any responsibility if they believe the fan has been installed incorrectly.
And when I say incorrectly, there really isn't much to it, the fan goes on and it clips on and it's done, but "incorrectly" means a whole different thing in warranty legalese.
Step 3 for intel: Profit.
I agree with most of that, except the prediction.
Sony does lots of R&D, but they funnel it into a product that comes out in the end as slightly better in some ways than what exists on the market. They then make that technology completely proprietary because they are afraid someone apart from Sony might make money out of it.
What invariably follows is that the rest of the world either rips off Sony, or more likely arrives at the same technology level by natural progression, and designs a cheaper and more ubiquitous technology that has an open standard and is followed everywhere.
So that prediction of Cell becoming a standard baseline is impossible because Sony has no intention of letting anyone but themselves use Cell, and making sure that Cell is priced slightly more expensive than whatever the rest of the world is using.
It reminds me of a story by Jack Handy about an old man who was a prospector who used to dig all day in the rocks looking for gold (Sony). Then the nearby volcano erupted and gold nuggets got flung around everywhere (The rest of the world). Everyone gathered all the nuggets that were freely available, but the old man prospector refused because he knew there was gold in his little plot! So he kept digging. Then he got bored and hungry and went to pick up some of the gold nuggets that came out of the volcano, but everyone had already picked them all up. It's a very strange business model Sony has there.
I almost always wear a tie. Obviously the poster of this article is profoundly against the wearing of formal clothing, and from the sound of it doesn't know how to tie one without choking himself. A properly tied tie should be comfortable, not constricting.
Here are some reasons to wear a tie:
-You'll appear more professional than your workmates who don't wear one
-You'll appeal more to management types
-You gain the appearance of having status and importance
-It's the only safe place in formal workwear for a man to express himself.
-Ties are a "success indicator", which essentially means that you will be viewed more favourably by persons of the female persuasion (unless your tie has flashing boobies on it).
If none of those reasons has any appeal to you, then don't wear a tie, dress down. The people climbing upwards on the ladder of success will thank you for getting out of their way.
A modded XBox? They can do amazing things nowadays. Of course in some places in the world, modifying equipment that you have purchased and own yourself can be illegal (see DMCA).
Modded XBoxen can play DVD's, DivX and Xvid (and yes Ogg and Ogm), can connect to your network, and heaps of other stuff. And they're very cheap for what you get. Apparently you can also play games on them, but the games don't compare favourably to the PC equivalents.
Thankfully here in Australia, the trade agreement that is currently being forced on us by the USA hasn't taken place yet so we can still adjust and modify equipment that we own.
Actually Hefner has done some atrocious things in his magazines.
In order to sanitise his magazine to appease the moral masses (and sell more copy), his fake breasted women all have parts of their, well, lower body parts photoshopped out.
This in turn causes hundreds of normal girls who see these magazines going to doctors and asking for plastic surgery because they don't think they're "normal".
This is just plain wrong!
Uh, Nudity in computer games has been going on for a very very long time actually. Leisure Suit Larry has been running since, oh, before VGA even.
This is only being drummed up because computer games are now more in the eye of the public.
I would imagine the same groups that have been constantly telling us that video games turn all human children into psychopathic murderers are taking a break from that to assure us that video games turn them all into sex fiends.
In reality, nothing will change, this will blow over, and it's nothing but good publicity for the game sellers.
Masking tape uses less adhesive than most other tapes so it will come off with much less goo. And you can write on it. Also you have to be careful if you use any tape on electronic components that you don't put the tape directly on the electronics.
wire ties are also excellent however for keeping cables in bundles.
Elastic has a habit of cracking after a long duration. The hair ties might do better because they have the cotton around them.
Especially for smaller cables. Those 20M CAT5's you run into can be a bit troublesome though.
Also cable ties have worked out nicely for me, the wire ones with the flat plastic coating. Neat bundles for all the kettleplugs helps them fit into a nice box.
While this sounds like an interesting project, I feel this is one of those things where a filing cabinet or a chest of drawers or any other combination of cupboards, carboard boxes or cheap plastic containers, a bit of masking tape and a marker pen would probably do a better job.
I'd say most hardware types, myself included because I have this problem, would only keep enough stuff that a bit of organisation would do wonders for.
Get all your ISA cards and put them in one drawer, and label it "ISA Cards". Same for the stack of old IDE hard drives. Repeat until done. What I find handy is to also label each drive with a set of parameters in one uniform place (don't cover the little airhole thingy).
Neaten up the cables you want to keep and wrap them in masking tape. Write the specifications on the tape if you like - "CAT-5, 5M". Put them all into the one drawer/bucket/cupboard.
Making a database or using an application to handle the database sounds like a pretty complex operation, I think it would just be one more thing to worry about. Better to keep your stuff organised logically, which in turn would make you more organised. Adding a database into the equation will just complicate things even more.
Sometimes the low tech fix is the best fix.
That's a good point, well backed up, but on the upside, if you follow the process along, open source has another advantage. The fixes for open source software seem to come out within hours after really serious exploits are found. Microsoft, being a product seller, spends way too much time rationalising the budgetary costs of fixing the bug, implementing, then testing it. They have to, because you sure hear about it whenever a MS patch breaks something else.
I'm a big advocate of the theory of open source software, although I'm a gamer and the unfortunate reality is that Windows does games better to this date. Doesn't mean I'm not eagerly watching the progress that Linux is making.
Don't forget that all the open source game developers are Indy. Go check out the games in progress at sourceforge, I was really surprised. Freeciv is an excellent and free game, and there are loads of others in work.
The only thing working against the indy game developers is publicity, because of course the big companies control the big media distribution and so on... Indy gaming needs the same kind of pro-selling word of mouth that Linux has been getting from day one.
There's always a risk that any application that's handling data, especially unclean internet data, can be the victim of a buffer overflow. Here's where the open source nature of Mozilla beats MSIE hands down, the code is open to scrutiny which means that someone somewhere has probably already looked after most of the exploits already. That's the theory, anyway.
Ahh, but 3DO didn't have Microsoft to lever their technology onto 90% of desktop PC's in the western world, now, did they?
That's the primary reason why this will work. Microsoft will use every dirty trick in the book, and some new ones they have patents on, to make this happen.
This includes the vast piles of wealth and the traditional "break the law until someone manages to make us stop" behaviour.
True, XBox has failed in Japan. But many things that will sell great in the rest of the world will fall flat in Japan. And many things that will sell great in Japan will fall flat in the rest of the world.
Used underwear in vending machines in the USA? I don't think so.
That is definately the way things used to be. But now the market has changed in such a significant way that companies like Lian Li, Antec and Alienware have an entire business model that only survives because of PC's designed specifically for gaming. This is only a recent development since S3 released the first of the true 3D accelerators for X86 platforms.
Before that, every X86 was more or less the same, file servers would have the same components as workstations as personal computers as family PC's for the home. Now, the differences between a file server and a highly tuned gaming rig are tremendous.
The same applies to an extent to operating systems. People will choose the operating system that enables the best gaming performance (or in the case of Windows, that allows 90% of gaming to work at all).
True, MS is having no luck getting involved in the big tin area of servers. Data Centre edition is a joke.
Mind you the money isn't tremendously fantastic. Microsoft is much more worried about Linux/Apache running the Web than Solaris/HP-UX/whatever.
Market share in the USA puts the XBox just slightly in front of Gamecube I believe, I think it's more than 20%, but for sure the PS2 has over 50%. More significant is that with current pricing in many places XBox is now outselling PS2. What this means is that, if this trend continues, and continues with the next generation of consoles, Microsoft will be market leader within 5 years. It isn't about what the current market share is, it's about the trends which indicate the future.
I know you were. But like I say, most of the technology in Star Wars is nonsensical. We have ships that make point-five past lightspeed, and can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, and armoured vehicles that are entirely susceptible to wooden logs and small furry critters with rocks.
Having said that, most of the technology in Star Trek is just as bad, what with the particle of the month and all the rest.
Ahh, but the problem is, computer hardware is too powerful for one console to offer an exclusive gaming experience that is clearly superior to any competition.
Apple is an unusual example, because they're not really about the hardware. Apple is all about the OS. You take away the OS and it's just not an Apple anymore, it's just a PC with really nice hardware. Apple just have a very strange hardware/software bundle experience going on. OS/X has increased Apple's market share, from what I can see at the expense of both Linux and Windows users, because the underlying platform is less proprietary.
The same survivability can't be said for a console, which I see as going the same way as the Amiga. At the dawn of time, the Amiga was a superior gaming platform to the PC in just about every respect. But PC hardware developed rapidly until it was on par with Amiga. Amigas proprietary nature killed it off, as the Amiga could not offer, as you suggest, a superior gaming experience.
Apple doesn't offer a superior gaming experience either, but then that isn't what the Mac is reknown for. The Mac has a stronger focus with a loyal group of graphic designers and so on, where the Mac offers an experience that their audience can't find anywhere else.
Completely wrong. From the article, the guy reckons he wants people like Panasonic and Teac and whoever else to start making XNA compliant gaming platforms. Microsoft are obviously not trying to sell more XBoxes here. It's something different.
This fits in with Microsoft, who, despite their continual involvement, do not want to be a hardware company. They're making a loss on the XBox just to get a major foothold in the gaming industry, we've known this for a while.
The interesting thing is that we haven't seen exactly what the long term goal of Microsoft is with the gaming market. Now we can see. They want a stranglehold, and they're doing embrace and extend.
Stage 1: Xbox and XBox 2. Sell these puppies at a loss. Everyone gets a pretty good console (at least equivalent to the next in the market) for next to nothing. Everyone is using XBox. (Not yet achieved but getting there). A Microsoft device in every home, as it were.
Stage 2: XNA. Make all the gaming platforms interdependent through a Microsoft controlled set of standards. Market penetration is immense, especially because we assume XNA runs all the old DirectX games plus all the new XNA exclusive titles (see how many gaming franchises MS owns nowadays?). Consumers love choice. Websites will be contrasting Panasonic XNA consoles to Alienware XNA PC's to Nokias new XNA gamephone, all of which run the latest GTA, Evercrack, Counterstrike, Doom, EA sportsgames, everything. Microsoft on every gaming device in every home.
Stage 3: Control. Just like every other market MS has controlled, kill the competition, embrace, extend, litigate, leverage, and stretch the law as hard as it goes to keep picking up royalties and license fees for XNA and XNA licensed platforms.
Genius, if you ask me. Evil perhaps, but there's a reason Bill Gates can drop $1000 on the ground and not pick it up because he makes more money by ignoring it for the whole time it would take to bend over.
Microsoft easily dominates over 90% of the PC gaming market. As I understand it, they are second biggest player just behind Sony in terms of sales, and at retail the XBox is just starting to exceed sales of PS/2 in some places. If this trend continues, given that MS were lower than dirt three years ago in the console arena, MS will achieve dominance in the gaming market in about 5 years.
I live in Australia. We have some pretty big mosquitos. But if you are happy to compare the MS juggernaught to a mosquito, I never, ever, ever want to meet a mosquito where you come from.
DVD? You mean... DVD-R? Or DVD+R? Or DVD+RW? OR DVD-RW? Or Dual Layer DVD+R? Or....
It'll be just like everything else Microsoft. Works okay everywhere, works great on Windows/XBox/MS Office/MSIE/Insert MS WMD here.
Well that's a little out of context. This whole topic is about gaming, and therefore Linux's success in gaming. I suggest, in order to make this more useful for you, that gaming has a spill on effect into new markets.
To a small extent, the success of games on Windows has put a lot of Windows PC's into the home, and by extension of familiarity, a lot of Windows PC's on managers desks and throughout companies.
Apple tries very hard at the same tactic - ever wonder why there are so many Macs in schools? Because Apple practically gives them away there.
If Linux was the premiere gaming OS, and only lamerz used Windows for gaming (not the case at the moment), Linux proliferation in single PC families would dramatically increase. Imagine if 80% of homes with PC's were running Linux, because the best gaming experience was on Linux. We can then also imagine a change in the reputation of Linux in other PC industries.
I suggest, then, that Linux would experience more success than currently if it were a better gaming platform.
Likewise, and this is a sad one, the only reason I use Windows instead of Linux is because I'm a gamer. I much prefer the idea of Linux. I could do everything non-gamey that I need to do on Linux. Don't get me wrong, Tuxracer is a great game. Really.