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The Nintendo 64 seems to have done alright in the console market with no optical drive. So did the various Nintendo DS versions in the handheld market.
Yes, but they still had the physical game media. That's the point here.
Seems like a whole lot of tablets being sold today with no optical drive either.
Tablets have established online marketplaces and, tablet apps are much smaller downloads than full console games.
I also find this Slashdot's obsession of tucking Linux in every possible device rather awkward. Is it some holy water that makes everything good? All that effort is spent much better by making Linux run better on ordinary PCs which the world is filled with.
Every time a new Ubuntu release is coming, I hear that Unity or Compiz have "performance improvements" and excitedly go test it, but there never is significant improvements. Just yesterday I gave the Raring Ringtail daily build (2013-02-19) a spin, but the same sluggishness was there, including the always-slow opening Dash, which you mentioned. I would otherwise like to use Unity, but I can't waste all my system resources to basic desktop handling.
While I am a Visual Studio fanboy, I gotta say that uninstalling VS is also a pain in the ass. It sprinkles around a good bunch of these little "Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data-Tier App Framework" programs, which you will have a field day removing one-by-one, as the main uninstaller does not delete them.
Some of you have probably heard about this already, but there is this fun game... With your buddy, you both open a random article in Wikipedia. Then you decide some common article that you both try to reach by clicking only Wikipedia article highlighted words. The one who reaches that article first, wins.
Jesus christ you guys are paranoid. Do you have any idea how much Windows writes to the disk, and SSDs are generally designed to survive that. If they don't, they can be considered as a completely unusable product.
Majority of the content there is still pirated and that is the main agenda of the site. A little bit of legal content there does not make much difference.
I like the morphism that all the artists here on slashdot think its hip to hate which imitates physical objects. Aero, shadows, translucent effects, and even leather for the address book in iOS are pleasant and work well. I feel like I am in a time warp looking at the new graphics. It is butt ugly and I hope MS changes it back (I doubt they will) as they just assume we are crankly old middle aged men who hate change. Bah get used to it!
My theory is that there are UI structures built using HTML and scripting so it's hard to guarantee accurately positioned graphics. Thus they possibly thought that it's better to resort into simple boxes and things like that.
They "facilitate" copyright infringement, which is not a crime in most countries unless it is done for money, about as much as Google or any search engine.
Maybe it should be crime. I would understand if facilitating copyright infringement was a crime.
Now, as you mentioned Google, they don't directly facilitate copyright infringement. See, there's this little difference that TPB deliberately indexes only pirated content. There's quite a difference.
Furthermore, TPB does not host anything which they do not have the copyright for.
Maybe, but they certainly are serious partners in crime. Torrenting would be helluvalot harder if there was not an indexing service like TPB available, even if you had all the decentralized magnet links in the world.
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With products like Chromebook Pixel, Intel's Ultrabooks, and increasing popularity of Macs, the market seems to be taking a direction of expensive laptops. Apparently people do have money and are willing to pay for these things. With Intel HD Graphics 4000...
Probably something like $699.
The Nintendo 64 seems to have done alright in the console market with no optical drive. So did the various Nintendo DS versions in the handheld market.
Yes, but they still had the physical game media. That's the point here.
Seems like a whole lot of tablets being sold today with no optical drive either.
Tablets have established online marketplaces and, tablet apps are much smaller downloads than full console games.
Another good point. I have to revoke my comment above.
I also find this Slashdot's obsession of tucking Linux in every possible device rather awkward. Is it some holy water that makes everything good? All that effort is spent much better by making Linux run better on ordinary PCs which the world is filled with.
The DRM of PS3 was really good engineering, though.
Good point. This might help writing an emulator tremendously.
The slowness of Unity is there with systems that have 3D acceleration working just fine.
Every time a new Ubuntu release is coming, I hear that Unity or Compiz have "performance improvements" and excitedly go test it, but there never is significant improvements. Just yesterday I gave the Raring Ringtail daily build (2013-02-19) a spin, but the same sluggishness was there, including the always-slow opening Dash, which you mentioned. I would otherwise like to use Unity, but I can't waste all my system resources to basic desktop handling.
While I am a Visual Studio fanboy, I gotta say that uninstalling VS is also a pain in the ass. It sprinkles around a good bunch of these little "Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data-Tier App Framework" programs, which you will have a field day removing one-by-one, as the main uninstaller does not delete them.
Some of you have probably heard about this already, but there is this fun game... With your buddy, you both open a random article in Wikipedia. Then you decide some common article that you both try to reach by clicking only Wikipedia article highlighted words. The one who reaches that article first, wins.
Actually it was quintuple-second-post.
There can be distinction: a company that actively develops Linux, versus one that just picks it up as a module and does not contribute.
The file system cache should be enough for anyone. All operating systems fill all the free RAM with copies of files that been read or written lately.
I ran Duke3D on P60 and it ran full speed all the times. (Of course the SVGA modes were another story, but that is understandable.)
And a recursive call to main().
Jesus christ you guys are paranoid. Do you have any idea how much Windows writes to the disk, and SSDs are generally designed to survive that. If they don't, they can be considered as a completely unusable product.
You are just meta-searching there. If there wasn't TPB and other torrent indexes, Google would not show up much results for pirated torrent queries.
Yes you can, the core message of TPB being "bring your warez here".
(which I consider to be as effective as playing the piano in oven gloves.)
Jazz...
Majority of the content there is still pirated and that is the main agenda of the site. A little bit of legal content there does not make much difference.
I like the morphism that all the artists here on slashdot think its hip to hate which imitates physical objects. Aero, shadows, translucent effects, and even leather for the address book in iOS are pleasant and work well. I feel like I am in a time warp looking at the new graphics. It is butt ugly and I hope MS changes it back (I doubt they will) as they just assume we are crankly old middle aged men who hate change. Bah get used to it!
My theory is that there are UI structures built using HTML and scripting so it's hard to guarantee accurately positioned graphics. Thus they possibly thought that it's better to resort into simple boxes and things like that.
You cannot simplify it that far. It makes a very important difference what those particular bits are.
They "facilitate" copyright infringement, which is not a crime in most countries unless it is done for money, about as much as Google or any search engine.
Maybe it should be crime. I would understand if facilitating copyright infringement was a crime.
Now, as you mentioned Google, they don't directly facilitate copyright infringement. See, there's this little difference that TPB deliberately indexes only pirated content. There's quite a difference.
Furthermore, TPB does not host anything which they do not have the copyright for.
Maybe, but they certainly are serious partners in crime. Torrenting would be helluvalot harder if there was not an indexing service like TPB available, even if you had all the decentralized magnet links in the world.