Exactly!
Sanity at last.
You're only vulnerable if you're the kind of person that will click on unsolicited attachments or use software with insecure hooks into the O/S (like IE and OE).
WinXP Home SP2 boxes are pretty safe on the net with their default config as long as you don't use OE or IE (or similarly insecure software) and don't run dodgy executables.
Look at the Doom3 engine for example - or the source engine.
Engines for PC games are made with the future in mind as making a new engine sucks up so much development time and money that the engine has to be good for three or four years.
There are *still* new games coming out on the Quake3 engine and Counter Strike, the most played game in the world, is running on what is essentially a Quake1 engine!
Sure, developers take time to get to grips with console hardware - but PC API's don't change *that* frequently and at the end of the day it's the API and not the graphics card that counts IMO.
I agree.
It's just not ready for the general public yet.
How many of us install KDE, Gnome et al, only to mostly use the CLI? I know I do, as do most of my contemporaries.
I strongly believe that Linux is still best experienced via a command lineon the machine itself, or through a Samba/Telnet combination from OSX or WindowsXP.
Don't get me wrong, it's potentailly wonderful, but GUI design and implementation are costly and difficult. The guys with the money will dominate the desktop market for quite some time IMO.
If you're going to do something like this...
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...wouldn't it be easier to build a PC for yourself in the first place?
Then you have all the advantages of picking your own hardware, learning how the thing works (so you can fix it when it goes wrong), having seperate warrenties on all the components and being able to install the O/S of your choice.
I could understand why the verage Joe might want one of these MACs, but somebody cabable (or willing to learn how to) of upgrading their machine in this way should really not bother in the first place - it's a waste of money for them.
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NOD32 rocks. I would use it even if viruses didn't exist ;)
Exactly! Sanity at last. You're only vulnerable if you're the kind of person that will click on unsolicited attachments or use software with insecure hooks into the O/S (like IE and OE). WinXP Home SP2 boxes are pretty safe on the net with their default config as long as you don't use OE or IE (or similarly insecure software) and don't run dodgy executables.
Nah - PC engines are now scalable upwards.
Look at the Doom3 engine for example - or the source engine.
Engines for PC games are made with the future in mind as making a new engine sucks up so much development time and money that the engine has to be good for three or four years.
There are *still* new games coming out on the Quake3 engine and Counter Strike, the most played game in the world, is running on what is essentially a Quake1 engine!
Sure, developers take time to get to grips with console hardware - but PC API's don't change *that* frequently and at the end of the day it's the API and not the graphics card that counts IMO.
I agree. It's just not ready for the general public yet. How many of us install KDE, Gnome et al, only to mostly use the CLI? I know I do, as do most of my contemporaries. I strongly believe that Linux is still best experienced via a command lineon the machine itself, or through a Samba/Telnet combination from OSX or WindowsXP. Don't get me wrong, it's potentailly wonderful, but GUI design and implementation are costly and difficult. The guys with the money will dominate the desktop market for quite some time IMO.
...wouldn't it be easier to build a PC for yourself in the first place? Then you have all the advantages of picking your own hardware, learning how the thing works (so you can fix it when it goes wrong), having seperate warrenties on all the components and being able to install the O/S of your choice. I could understand why the verage Joe might want one of these MACs, but somebody cabable (or willing to learn how to) of upgrading their machine in this way should really not bother in the first place - it's a waste of money for them.