As a gamer the biggest headache with antivirus stuff is not the amount of memory that it uses, it's the fact that it intercepts every read and write to your hard disk and performs checks on the files. This puts a huge load on your cpu, and also significantly slows down disk access, niether of which help playing games.
Ok, so with NetHack you are not likely to notice, but even D2 takes a hit with antivirus stuff.
Taiwan has a democratically elected government. China has...
Taiwan has freedom of speach (which the local press take *way* too far). China has...
Taiwan attempts to take part in world organizations such as UN and WHO. China actively suppresses Taiwan from joining these organizations. During the recent SARS outbreak, China lobbied to prevent WHO officials from visiting Taiwan.
Taiwan has a National Health Scheme that leaves the US system for dead.
The US claims to support Democratic Governments, yet actively attempts to have Taiwan "reunified" with China, thereby replacing a Democratically Elected government with a Dictatorship.
Of course... I can see how people could get "China" and "Taiwan" confused. [sarcasism] Maybe we should also include Singapore in the list as it is a predominately Chinese (ethnic) country also? [/sarcasism]
(For the purists, yes Taiwan is officially called the "Republic of China", not to be confused with the "Peoples Republic of China", and did start out 50 years ago as a Military Dictatorship. The current President is from the "opposition" party, which clearly indicates that it is not a "rubber stamp democracy". The primary reason it has not shed the old name is due to the US's less than stellar performance in supporting Democracy, ie stating that if Taiwan changed it's name they would allow China to invade them.)
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As a gamer the biggest headache with antivirus stuff is not the amount of memory that it uses, it's the fact that it intercepts every read and write to your hard disk and performs checks on the files. This puts a huge load on your cpu, and also significantly slows down disk access, niether of which help playing games.
Ok, so with NetHack you are not likely to notice, but even D2 takes a hit with antivirus stuff.
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... I can see how people could get "China" and "Taiwan" confused. [sarcasism] Maybe we should also include Singapore in the list as it is a predominately Chinese (ethnic) country also? [/sarcasism]
Taiwan has a democratically elected government. China has
Taiwan has freedom of speach (which the local press take *way* too far). China has
Taiwan attempts to take part in world organizations such as UN and WHO. China actively suppresses Taiwan from joining these organizations. During the recent SARS outbreak, China lobbied to prevent WHO officials from visiting Taiwan.
Taiwan has a National Health Scheme that leaves the US system for dead.
The US claims to support Democratic Governments, yet actively attempts to have Taiwan "reunified" with China, thereby replacing a Democratically Elected government with a Dictatorship.
Of course
(For the purists, yes Taiwan is officially called the "Republic of China", not to be confused with the "Peoples Republic of China", and did start out 50 years ago as a Military Dictatorship. The current President is from the "opposition" party, which clearly indicates that it is not a "rubber stamp democracy". The primary reason it has not shed the old name is due to the US's less than stellar performance in supporting Democracy, ie stating that if Taiwan changed it's name they would allow China to invade them.)