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And am consuming 166M at the moment.
The point I'm trying to make though, is that just running vista and browsing your files with explorer requires at least 1 GB to do smoothly. Wouldn't it be nice if it required a more sane amount of memory, for doing such trivial things, so that applications that needed memory, like MMO, Office suites, browsers, and image/video editing could make use of the memory you had?
1GB of RAM is like what, $20? $30 in a notebook? And it's not like it's hog tied to explorer.exe, the OS utilizes the free resources and gives it up when needed, giving it to programs like firefox and MSVC and whatever else I'm doing at the moment. Yeah, I'll take 1.5G on Vista over 0.5G on Linux, anyday:) The programs I write will consume 0.5G, easy, and when you are running off a ramdisk it slows things to a crawl:) And at half a gig, I'm curious how big your ramdisk is...
512M is slim pickings, and you don't even have that because your Intel graphics are eating up part of it (how much? 32M-128M). Hell, Firefox will easily chew through 200M RAM on my machine with just 5 tabs open.
I mostly do programming (intense computational, big arrays, lots of math, 3D graphics) and play a MMO occasionally when I have the time, so the RAM is welcome by both applications. 1.5G on Vista is plenty for both in my case.
Don't get me wrong I like linux, here at work I have two computers under my desk, one is XP, one is RHEL, but Vista really isn't as bad as people paint. A $350 laptop will run it just fine.
AMD Sempron, forget the gigahertz on it (I'm at work), nVidia mobile chip (not intel graphics). Intel graphics is your first problem. RAM is your second.
Huh, that's funny, 'cause I seem to remember running XP on my ancient Thinkpad with a 2.5 gig hard disk... with Office and games to boot! Now that hard disk is in my wife's Dell laptop (less ancient, but she spilled water on it, we saved everything but the HDD... just uses it for internet and writing so it's perfect size), still running XP with the latest service pack.
I bought a laptop that runs Vista for $300 (+$40 in RAM). It runs it well. I write code, play MMO games, etc. Vista's not as bad as the FUD'ers make it out to be.
If she's your wife and she hasn't introduced you to her "toys" yet, you're missing out on half the fun:P
Of course we are all speaking in theory because no one in slashdot is married, the only women we see are images on our computers and our mothers when we ascend from the basement (MOM!!! MORE HOT POCKETS!!!), and of course the wife and two kids I have in the picture here in my office are fake... they came with the frame:)
The difference between a 12 year old and a 24 year old? I'll grant you. When you start getting into the 60's and 70's it really gets mucky though and it's a case by case basis. I know 70+ year olds who are mentally and physically in way better shape than some 50 and 60 year olds I know. Especially those who keep an active mind.
I told my last ISP to take a hike when they started to use "traffic shaping"
And if removing 5% of users like you results in 50% more bandwidth to dish out to commercial customers who pay waaay more than you do, in the end, on a spreadsheet, it's a net win for the provider. They won.
University of Alabama in Huntsville, degree in Mechanical/Aerospace engineering. Out of state, I paid under $4k a semester fulltime. In state was half price, so $2000/semester or $4000/year. By the way, for my senior year, I was working parttime, $7.50 an hour, and not only feeding and housing myself but my prengant wife and our (shortly thereafter) newborn child. It's not impossible, and that doesn't factor in scholarships (90% of which are need based), student loans (which are deferred until graduation, plus if you live on campus you can charge it to your student loans), etc. It isn't difficult to get a 4-year degree.
Same with airport security snooping in my laptop... I am not plugging my laptop into your plane, your servers, or anything that should concern you. It has nothing to do with people who have a bomb in their luggage.
Ah, but the airplanes are not a public service in the sense a sidewalk is. It is a service that can be revoked if you don't follow the operating companies' procedures. Which is why you must present your baggage before boarding.
Search your feelings, boy, you know the content to be true!
FYI, I think it's a load of crap. (1) because only certain type of property get taxed, at least here in the US, I only pay tax on my car and home. Not my computer, TV, radio gear, home furnishings, etc. (2) Because, as mentioned several times already, there is a maintenance fee schedule to help comp the system. And (3), it'd be a state thing. The state taxes my car. The state taxes my property. We have enough problems with people sung from certain districts in Texas (and elsewhere) over patents, what if we get some state that sets themselves up as a patent haven, where the fees are low and the laws loose? It wouldn't work out.
I've said it before, I'll say it again, if you are going to post editorials from someone the slashdot admin refers to as a "frequent contributor", then give him his own damn account so we can filter his editorializing out. Like JonKatz in the days of old. Thanks.
Bikes are no more dangerous than cars; It's the idiot in control that causes accidents.
That is precisely GP's point. You are only a small fraction of the equation compared to the tens or hundreds of cars you drive by/with on a given day. You can be the greatest driver in the world but it only takes one idiot to knock you out for good.
Don't get me wrong, I bicycle to work in the summer, rain or shine. I love it. But don't fool yourself, the bike is far more dangerous than the car. When two cars collide, the chances of both parties walking away from the scene is far, far higher than when a car collides with a bike.
Yeah, you beat me to it. "They say you're losing your mind, they say you're leaving Nehalem"... In college I actually had a Diablo II warrior named "Nehalem"... barbarian who specialized in warcrys:P
Except for companies like Amazon, who have deals with the major music labels and no DRM. For the same price. No, I'd have to agree, Steve is pretty two-faced (or a crappy negotiator, and locked himself into a long-term deal he now can't get out of... which sucks for him, again, given the market position Amazon is now in)
I think both EQ and EQII tackle that problem pretty well. In EQ you have alternate advancement, where you willingly funnel experiance into ability points to guide your character's abilities beyond spellcasting/melee abilities you natively receive through leveling. Faction also plays heavily into the game, if you want to play in certain areas, which drives your character's "story".
In EQII there are a number of abilities and spell upgrades that come with levels and quest completions. You can defect from your side (good and evil, qeynos and freeport) and become either neutral or betray to the other side. It's a bitch but some people genuinely want to be a dark elf in a good city. That's character development for you.
In both games there are titles for skill accomplishments, both required for advancement and not required, like tradeskills and fishing, etc. Back in EQ, there are a lot of people proud of being master tradeskillers, having every tradeskill maxed although it's not required to advance through the game, and it's a very expensive habit.
But in short, it's difficult to force character development on people. In the end, you have to make the game open-ended enough where people find ways to develop themselves and become proud for who they are. If you force character development, then all players become cookie cutters in whatever "character development" method you set up. Better to leave multiple paths, I think, and let people choose for themselves.
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:) The programs I write will consume 0.5G, easy, and when you are running off a ramdisk it slows things to a crawl :) And at half a gig, I'm curious how big your ramdisk is...
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And am consuming 166M at the moment.
The point I'm trying to make though, is that just running vista and browsing your files with explorer requires at least 1 GB to do smoothly. Wouldn't it be nice if it required a more sane amount of memory, for doing such trivial things, so that applications that needed memory, like MMO, Office suites, browsers, and image/video editing could make use of the memory you had?
1GB of RAM is like what, $20? $30 in a notebook? And it's not like it's hog tied to explorer.exe, the OS utilizes the free resources and gives it up when needed, giving it to programs like firefox and MSVC and whatever else I'm doing at the moment. Yeah, I'll take 1.5G on Vista over 0.5G on Linux, anyday
Also what makes you think that those people have there own PCs?
Where do you think they use their memory sticks?
512M is slim pickings, and you don't even have that because your Intel graphics are eating up part of it (how much? 32M-128M). Hell, Firefox will easily chew through 200M RAM on my machine with just 5 tabs open.
I mostly do programming (intense computational, big arrays, lots of math, 3D graphics) and play a MMO occasionally when I have the time, so the RAM is welcome by both applications. 1.5G on Vista is plenty for both in my case.
Don't get me wrong I like linux, here at work I have two computers under my desk, one is XP, one is RHEL, but Vista really isn't as bad as people paint. A $350 laptop will run it just fine.
AMD Sempron, forget the gigahertz on it (I'm at work), nVidia mobile chip (not intel graphics). Intel graphics is your first problem. RAM is your second.
Huh, that's funny, 'cause I seem to remember running XP on my ancient Thinkpad with a 2.5 gig hard disk... with Office and games to boot! Now that hard disk is in my wife's Dell laptop (less ancient, but she spilled water on it, we saved everything but the HDD... just uses it for internet and writing so it's perfect size), still running XP with the latest service pack.
I bought a laptop that runs Vista for $300 (+$40 in RAM). It runs it well. I write code, play MMO games, etc. Vista's not as bad as the FUD'ers make it out to be.
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Nothing drums up the page hits like a little controversy
what women do alone in their bedrooms
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If she's your wife and she hasn't introduced you to her "toys" yet, you're missing out on half the fun
Of course we are all speaking in theory because no one in slashdot is married, the only women we see are images on our computers and our mothers when we ascend from the basement (MOM!!! MORE HOT POCKETS!!!), and of course the wife and two kids I have in the picture here in my office are fake... they came with the frame
The difference between a 12 year old and a 24 year old? I'll grant you. When you start getting into the 60's and 70's it really gets mucky though and it's a case by case basis. I know 70+ year olds who are mentally and physically in way better shape than some 50 and 60 year olds I know. Especially those who keep an active mind.
Dude, can I have your tots?
And Clinton is 60. Not exactly a spring chicken herself.
Sure, but my $300 laptop has an onboard GeForce 6 series chip. Just got to avoid Intel graphics like the plague and you'll be fine.
Have you ever tried putting a round peg in a square hole before? It's not easy!
I told my last ISP to take a hike when they started to use "traffic shaping"
And if removing 5% of users like you results in 50% more bandwidth to dish out to commercial customers who pay waaay more than you do, in the end, on a spreadsheet, it's a net win for the provider. They won.
Aw man, you'd have to keep it on Adult Swim, but that'd actually be pretty hilarious IMO.
I mean, look at the job they did of him being Obi Wan Kenobi on "Blue Harvest"
University of Alabama in Huntsville, degree in Mechanical/Aerospace engineering. Out of state, I paid under $4k a semester fulltime. In state was half price, so $2000/semester or $4000/year. By the way, for my senior year, I was working parttime, $7.50 an hour, and not only feeding and housing myself but my prengant wife and our (shortly thereafter) newborn child. It's not impossible, and that doesn't factor in scholarships (90% of which are need based), student loans (which are deferred until graduation, plus if you live on campus you can charge it to your student loans), etc. It isn't difficult to get a 4-year degree.
a bag of walnuts!
Yup, Gamasutra has a copy (word doc).
Bear in mind this is data from year one, and we're now a few years into station exchange. But still a good read.
Same with airport security snooping in my laptop... I am not plugging my laptop into your plane, your servers, or anything that should concern you. It has nothing to do with people who have a bomb in their luggage.
Ah, but the airplanes are not a public service in the sense a sidewalk is. It is a service that can be revoked if you don't follow the operating companies' procedures. Which is why you must present your baggage before boarding.
Noooooo! It's unpossible!
Search your feelings, boy, you know the content to be true!
FYI, I think it's a load of crap. (1) because only certain type of property get taxed, at least here in the US, I only pay tax on my car and home. Not my computer, TV, radio gear, home furnishings, etc. (2) Because, as mentioned several times already, there is a maintenance fee schedule to help comp the system. And (3), it'd be a state thing. The state taxes my car. The state taxes my property. We have enough problems with people sung from certain districts in Texas (and elsewhere) over patents, what if we get some state that sets themselves up as a patent haven, where the fees are low and the laws loose? It wouldn't work out.
I've said it before, I'll say it again, if you are going to post editorials from someone the slashdot admin refers to as a "frequent contributor", then give him his own damn account so we can filter his editorializing out. Like JonKatz in the days of old. Thanks.
Bikes are no more dangerous than cars; It's the idiot in control that causes accidents.
That is precisely GP's point. You are only a small fraction of the equation compared to the tens or hundreds of cars you drive by/with on a given day. You can be the greatest driver in the world but it only takes one idiot to knock you out for good.
Don't get me wrong, I bicycle to work in the summer, rain or shine. I love it. But don't fool yourself, the bike is far more dangerous than the car. When two cars collide, the chances of both parties walking away from the scene is far, far higher than when a car collides with a bike.
Yeah, you beat me to it. "They say you're losing your mind, they say you're leaving Nehalem" ... In college I actually had a Diablo II warrior named "Nehalem" ... barbarian who specialized in warcrys :P
Except for companies like Amazon, who have deals with the major music labels and no DRM. For the same price. No, I'd have to agree, Steve is pretty two-faced (or a crappy negotiator, and locked himself into a long-term deal he now can't get out of ... which sucks for him, again, given the market position Amazon is now in)
I think both EQ and EQII tackle that problem pretty well. In EQ you have alternate advancement, where you willingly funnel experiance into ability points to guide your character's abilities beyond spellcasting/melee abilities you natively receive through leveling. Faction also plays heavily into the game, if you want to play in certain areas, which drives your character's "story".
In EQII there are a number of abilities and spell upgrades that come with levels and quest completions. You can defect from your side (good and evil, qeynos and freeport) and become either neutral or betray to the other side. It's a bitch but some people genuinely want to be a dark elf in a good city. That's character development for you.
In both games there are titles for skill accomplishments, both required for advancement and not required, like tradeskills and fishing, etc. Back in EQ, there are a lot of people proud of being master tradeskillers, having every tradeskill maxed although it's not required to advance through the game, and it's a very expensive habit.
But in short, it's difficult to force character development on people. In the end, you have to make the game open-ended enough where people find ways to develop themselves and become proud for who they are. If you force character development, then all players become cookie cutters in whatever "character development" method you set up. Better to leave multiple paths, I think, and let people choose for themselves.