Everytime I log in to YouTube I get pestered to use my real name with the only optout being to 'ask me again later'
Now I can't review Android apps because I do not want to join google +, I've had enough, any recommendations for a good email provider for my secondary account (primary is family and trusted only)
I keep hearing that Ghz is not everything and more cores is the way to go.... Except that desktop CPUs pretty much have the same no' of cores as they did 5 years ago.
Meanwhile, back in the real world privacy means you can go clubbing on the weekend, get shitfaced and then go back to your boring office admin job on Monday and not get fired for something you didn't do at work because your boss looked up you personal life on the internet and the company you work for has decided how you should live your personal life.
of course you're right, environmentalists aren't really interested in keeping the land, water, sea and air free of poisonous substances, its all just a big power play. (nice trolling)
No, the submitter sees where it's going, look at Nvidia's Tegra 4 and with MS and Sony going for a surprisingly underpowered chip (1.6Ghz rather than the 3.6Ghz that the chip can run at) whilst mobile phones which cost as much as a console and can be plugged into a TV and have far less draconian DRM systems, and are a lot more open than PS or Xbox and can now play back HD1080 and are fully portable etc, and have you even looked at the 3d games available for android - that's now, mobile phones are getting more powerful on an almost monthly basis.
So yes, mobiles are a far bigger market than consoles and the 3d game aspect has barely started.
No, but the chip they selected can run at 3.6Ghz and they're running it at only 1.6Ghz, the math speaks for itself. My processor will wipe the floor with this chip even though the console is not even out yet.
You are going for the wrong comparison, the correct comparison is:
Solar, up to 20% efficient at converting free energy (light). Gasoline..it's not free, it's getting more and more expensive to get it out of the ground and the higher quality stuff is starting to run out right now.
And I don't know why we keep getting articles about efficiency when it is obviously cost, ROI time and subsidies that really matter.
Save money, get fit, avoid lateness, be lazy, just cycle to work and back, simple solution. And eat lots of fruit'n'veg and cut down on salt, sugar and sat'fat if you have to, good health isn't complicated.
"All this "loading" takes large amounts of RAM so the OS starts paging"
Why on earth would you run a PC without enough memory, I've turned my paging file off for years, it never paged when I had 4GB, I've got 16GB now. The last time my computer slowed due to paging is probably over a decade ago.
Put 2GB in for ~$14 and turn that monstrosity called swap off.
'I get 3 weeks of vacation, and 5 sick days. The 3 weeks of vacation, I had to work here for 10 years to get.'
UK, 1st year of job, minion work, 5 weeks holiday, I got paid in full for the 5 weeks i was sick, and 9 bank holidays on top. People expect you to take your holidays, management take long holidays.
The games are not particularly improving in any way and the 2011 games are going cheap and have been bug-fixed and the DLCs are often all thrown in for free, So, what are the best 20 games of 2011, that is honestly what I'd prefer to know.
Can't speak for other brands but I have bought a couple of dozen Philips 8000hr and 10000hr CFL bulbs and they're all lasting as long as they should (several year now).
100% agree, with the emphasis on crappy, I don't mind an initial CD check, but once the game's installed you should be given the option of check CD *or* check via internet, once at the load of the game only.
And clean up the installer: GTA-IV is a nightmare, Dotnet.x.x games for windows live, media player version x, social club, etc I don't mind these things being needed but streamline the installation FFS and make it work because it took multiple install attempts of this stuff to get the game to work, it utterly ruined the game experience.
Keyboard control: Just Cause 2 and many others ruined gameplay because some fucking moron has decided arbitrarily that you can't map one button to two different actions like Jump and Brake. The other problem is ignoring half the keyboard such as function keys, keypad keys etc, Very sloppy. Proper customisable keyboard controls should be specified as a deal-breaker to the lazy idiots who do software conversions to the PC.
Choice override: GTA-IV gets my hardware details wrong and then limits my video options. DON'T DO THIS, high-lighting a setup that may go slow is one thing, removing your ability to configure the options is really bloody annoying Rockstar-North or whoever implemented this ghastly idea.
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Everytime I log in to YouTube I get pestered to use my real name with the only optout being to 'ask me again later'
Now I can't review Android apps because
I do not want to join google +, I've had enough, any recommendations for a good email provider for my secondary account (primary is family and trusted only)
Calling someone a cunt because they missed a typo is not constructive criticism.
Me chill-out, who's the one calling someone a cunt because they missed a spelling mistake, I'm not the one who needs to chill out here.
if you don't like slash dot then fuck off and leave it to those of us who do like it, and don't mod this up because it s off-topic
The page you linked on Wikipedia shows that the robbery rate is at it's lowest for 45 years (1968).
Also rape, murder, manslaughter, assault etc are all considerably down from their peaks in the eighties and nineties.
From now on, I'm sticking with companies with better support
Which is?
(Not Motorola, their phones come out without very out of date OS and then they don't upgrade it.)
'Bill Gates dumps another $10 million into researching new GM crops for agricultural takeover of Africa '
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18845282
http://www.naturalnews.com/036561_Bill_Gates_GM_crops_Africa.html
Where is my 32 core 10Ghz Beast?
I keep hearing that Ghz is not everything and more cores is the way to go.... Except that desktop CPUs pretty much have the same no' of cores as they did 5 years ago.
The fun's over :-(
Look again, on amazon.com now for $29.99 and that's not a promotion.
Funny that in the UK we can buy it on DVD for just $20.30 inc tax and shipping, or $33.38 on steam promo 1/2 price.
Do you think it's worth buying if you've already played borderlands 1?
Meanwhile, back in the real world privacy means you can go clubbing on the weekend, get shitfaced and then go back to your boring office admin job on Monday and not get fired for something you didn't do at work because your boss looked up you personal life on the internet and the company you work for has decided how you should live your personal life.
of course you're right, environmentalists aren't really interested in keeping the land, water, sea and air free of poisonous substances, its all just a big power play. (nice trolling)
No, the submitter sees where it's going, look at Nvidia's Tegra 4 and with MS and Sony going for a surprisingly underpowered chip (1.6Ghz rather than the 3.6Ghz that the chip can run at) whilst mobile phones which cost as much as a console and can be plugged into a TV and have far less draconian DRM systems, and are a lot more open than PS or Xbox and can now play back HD1080 and are fully portable etc, and have you even looked at the 3d games available for android - that's now, mobile phones are getting more powerful on an almost monthly basis.
So yes, mobiles are a far bigger market than consoles and the 3d game aspect has barely started.
Couple of examples of Tegra3 / android games:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpzkCTe76Bc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U2r3yKg0Ng
No, but the chip they selected can run at 3.6Ghz and they're running it at only 1.6Ghz, the math speaks for itself. My processor will wipe the floor with this chip even though the console is not even out yet.
The physical copy is cheaper than that off of amazon in the UK, maybe you need to look harder.
Or just remove the ability to plea bargain, it has nothing to do with justice and seems to be mostly an American thing.
You are going for the wrong comparison, the correct comparison is:
Solar, up to 20% efficient at converting free energy (light).
Gasoline..it's not free, it's getting more and more expensive to get it out of the ground and the higher quality stuff is starting to run out right now.
And I don't know why we keep getting articles about efficiency when it is obviously cost, ROI time and subsidies that really matter.
Finally, the faked moon landings will be shown for what they are and we can find out what kind of cheese the moon is really made of.
Save money, get fit, avoid lateness, be lazy, just cycle to work and back, simple solution. And eat lots of fruit'n'veg and cut down on salt, sugar and sat'fat if you have to, good health isn't complicated.
"All this "loading" takes large amounts of RAM so the OS starts paging"
Why on earth would you run a PC without enough memory, I've turned my paging file off for years, it never paged when I had 4GB, I've got 16GB now. The last time my computer slowed due to paging is probably over a decade ago.
Put 2GB in for ~$14 and turn that monstrosity called swap off.
90% of the cases on that slashvertisement site looked like a bunch of 90's fugly rejects... and the flash, gah, make it stop.
I wouldn't pay $40 for one of those.
'I get 3 weeks of vacation, and 5 sick days. The 3 weeks of vacation, I had to work here for 10 years to get.'
UK, 1st year of job, minion work, 5 weeks holiday, I got paid in full for the 5 weeks i was sick, and 9 bank holidays on top. People expect you to take your holidays, management take long holidays.
So glad I don't live in USA.
The games are not particularly improving in any way and the 2011 games are going cheap and have been bug-fixed and the DLCs are often all thrown in for free, So, what are the best 20 games of 2011, that is honestly what I'd prefer to know.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/09/burma-ethnic-tensions-escalate
You can cross Buddhists off your list of 'holier than thou's, harder to say about Pagans, not many about these days.
Can't speak for other brands but I have bought a couple of dozen Philips 8000hr and 10000hr CFL bulbs and they're all lasting as long as they should (several year now).
Stop putting crappy DRM on your software
100% agree, with the emphasis on crappy, I don't mind an initial CD check, but once the game's installed you should be given the option of check CD *or* check via internet, once at the load of the game only.
And clean up the installer: GTA-IV is a nightmare, Dotnet.x.x games for windows live, media player version x, social club, etc I don't mind these things being needed but streamline the installation FFS and make it work because it took multiple install attempts of this stuff to get the game to work, it utterly ruined the game experience.
Keyboard control: Just Cause 2 and many others ruined gameplay because some fucking moron has decided arbitrarily that you can't map one button to two different actions like Jump and Brake. The other problem is ignoring half the keyboard such as function keys, keypad keys etc, Very sloppy. Proper customisable keyboard controls should be specified as a deal-breaker to the lazy idiots who do software conversions to the PC.
Choice override: GTA-IV gets my hardware details wrong and then limits my video options. DON'T DO THIS, high-lighting a setup that may go slow is one thing, removing your ability to configure the options is really bloody annoying Rockstar-North or whoever implemented this ghastly idea.