I suggest looking into how libraries work and expanding their concept for the digital age. In my hometown there's a library with a very low subscription fee (regular ones don't have any) but it keeps up with the newest books and also has wide range of movies and music albums and even some PC games. I miss it a lot since there's no such thing in a city I live now - it kept me from breaking the law as often as I do now:)
It's "only" 7th in the series and probably beginning of a new trilogy. Sands of Time was a well crafted and self-confined story that you could treat as something that can stand on it's own. Prince of Persia is growing to be something like The Legend of Zelda universe with different Links in different times.
Do you have any idea how hard is it to balance a diverse cast of characters? SFIV is probably just the first in the new series, expect SFIV 6th Strike Hyper Super Turbo Rainbow World Champion 3 in a few years with much more characters and tweaked gameplay.
The only thing that keeps many people using Ext3 is availablity of drivers on operating systems on Linux and clear upgrade path. Being supported by third-party partition management tools helps a lot too. I can ready my data on Windows (Ext2 IFS for Windows is awesome), OSX (though the only driver doesn't have write support) and more.
If it will be her only computer then I'm sorry for her already. Eee is good on-the-go secondary computer. It can't replace desktop with 19" display which seems to be standard now. I'm not talking about gaming, there's this trend that only high-end computers should have big displays which is amazingly dumb. I'd rather spend most of my money on decent peripherials, especially display.
I'll get Eee once they solve battery issues, I hope Atom will allow to work with WiFi enabled for 3-4 hours.
At the moment PS3 is the most attractive BR player (very cheap, upgradeable) and it's hurting Microsoft a lot, especially in many places outside USA where piracy is not widespread - west of Europe, Japan, probably Korea etc.
Hardcore gamers and people with HD TV that enjoy HD video content are often the same bunch which makes PS3 pretty attractive product.
Yup, it's easy to get everything you need once you have physical access to the computer, why would you contact Google if you can just change the user password and then do everything with his web browser which probably logs user automatically to all his webmail accounts.
Once you have access to the web browser then most likely you can get dozen of passwords used to logging into websites which are probably all the same or there's just about 3-5 of them.
It's quite fast since 10.3. I have been waiting for reasonably fast package management in Suse for some time now and most promises were not fulfilled. It seems that Suse developers finally got their act together and 11.0 will bring near apt/dpkg speeds.
Actually OpenSUSE 10.3 was the first RPM-based distro that didn't make me want to throw some furniture at my computer. There are still some nasty quirks (like opening dozens of windows that steal focus during installing packages via YaST) but I can stand those.
That's because every anime is so fucking deep. Japanese cinema has about the same amount of crap produced as Hollywood and animations are no exception, I'd dare to say that it's even worse - how many ninja schoolgirls fighting alien invaders with gigantic robots while exposing their panties can we watch?
I actually find Mac touchpad and its gestures to be worse than on a regular setup on Linux or Windows, especially the scrolling. IMHO it's much more comfortable and intuitive to move your finger on the right edge of a touchpad to do this. Also, having a two physical buttons means you can set third button to be easier accessible by double-finger tap.
Yup. Intel had great position and marketing when AMD finally did something good and Athlons64 were making Pentium 4 32434GHz look silly. But consumers ignorance, reinforced by gigahertz myth allowed them to still sell a lot more processors. Of course a part of that is bigger production capacity of Intel but still I was amazed how many people made uninformed decisions when buying processors (they still do, it so happens that Core 2 Duo is actually awesome:)).
It sucks. But a lot of web content is available in Flash only. You're childish when your dislike for Flash means that nobody should use it. And somehow Nokia N810 can do it with less powerful processor.
Hey, I liked Quake 4. It was nothing revolutionary but quite fun. Compare it to Bioshock and you realize that Quake 4 didn't get 10/10 reviews just because it wasn't insanely overhyped and reviews weren't paid for.
Stage6 was quite popular due to availability of many TV shows but they've started to seriously fight it 2 or 3 months ago. It was THE place to get many british sitcoms. I wonder if this has anything to do with the shutdown.
What's a PC laptop? Apple computers are not "PCs"? I'm fucking going to bitch about this marketing crap everytime I see it.
Also, artificial restrictions in Mac OSX are possible to hack, sorry. And it's not that great OS too.
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I suggest looking into how libraries work and expanding their concept for the digital age. In my hometown there's a library with a very low subscription fee (regular ones don't have any) but it keeps up with the newest books and also has wide range of movies and music albums and even some PC games. I miss it a lot since there's no such thing in a city I live now - it kept me from breaking the law as often as I do now :)
It's "only" 7th in the series and probably beginning of a new trilogy. Sands of Time was a well crafted and self-confined story that you could treat as something that can stand on it's own. Prince of Persia is growing to be something like The Legend of Zelda universe with different Links in different times.
Do you have any idea how hard is it to balance a diverse cast of characters? SFIV is probably just the first in the new series, expect SFIV 6th Strike Hyper Super Turbo Rainbow World Champion 3 in a few years with much more characters and tweaked gameplay.
Give up on arguing with those idiots. It's the same kind that compares netbooks/subnotebooks to draggable notebooks.
The only thing that keeps many people using Ext3 is availablity of drivers on operating systems on Linux and clear upgrade path. Being supported by third-party partition management tools helps a lot too. I can ready my data on Windows (Ext2 IFS for Windows is awesome), OSX (though the only driver doesn't have write support) and more.
I don't want to entrust my data to a single OS.
Because nobody on Slashdot knows that primary filesystem used on Linux is called Ext3 and we're too stupid to figure out what Ext4 might be. Come on.
I can't wait for faster fsck. It takes something like an hour on my 500GB ext3 partition. Terabytes of storage are not that far away.
If it will be her only computer then I'm sorry for her already. Eee is good on-the-go secondary computer. It can't replace desktop with 19" display which seems to be standard now. I'm not talking about gaming, there's this trend that only high-end computers should have big displays which is amazingly dumb. I'd rather spend most of my money on decent peripherials, especially display.
I'll get Eee once they solve battery issues, I hope Atom will allow to work with WiFi enabled for 3-4 hours.
At the moment PS3 is the most attractive BR player (very cheap, upgradeable) and it's hurting Microsoft a lot, especially in many places outside USA where piracy is not widespread - west of Europe, Japan, probably Korea etc.
Hardcore gamers and people with HD TV that enjoy HD video content are often the same bunch which makes PS3 pretty attractive product.
Yup, it's easy to get everything you need once you have physical access to the computer, why would you contact Google if you can just change the user password and then do everything with his web browser which probably logs user automatically to all his webmail accounts.
Once you have access to the web browser then most likely you can get dozen of passwords used to logging into websites which are probably all the same or there's just about 3-5 of them.
It's quite fast since 10.3. I have been waiting for reasonably fast package management in Suse for some time now and most promises were not fulfilled. It seems that Suse developers finally got their act together and 11.0 will bring near apt/dpkg speeds. Actually OpenSUSE 10.3 was the first RPM-based distro that didn't make me want to throw some furniture at my computer. There are still some nasty quirks (like opening dozens of windows that steal focus during installing packages via YaST) but I can stand those.
Just watch Ghost in the Shell movie and TV series. I actually stopped watching anime because nothing comes close to their quality.
That's because every anime is so fucking deep. Japanese cinema has about the same amount of crap produced as Hollywood and animations are no exception, I'd dare to say that it's even worse - how many ninja schoolgirls fighting alien invaders with gigantic robots while exposing their panties can we watch?
Damn, somehow I have replied to this post while I wanted to reply http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=521830&cid=23064620
I actually find Mac touchpad and its gestures to be worse than on a regular setup on Linux or Windows, especially the scrolling. IMHO it's much more comfortable and intuitive to move your finger on the right edge of a touchpad to do this. Also, having a two physical buttons means you can set third button to be easier accessible by double-finger tap.
Yup. Intel had great position and marketing when AMD finally did something good and Athlons64 were making Pentium 4 32434GHz look silly. But consumers ignorance, reinforced by gigahertz myth allowed them to still sell a lot more processors. Of course a part of that is bigger production capacity of Intel but still I was amazed how many people made uninformed decisions when buying processors (they still do, it so happens that Core 2 Duo is actually awesome :)).
I don't know, I don't own one. But I'm sure as hell I'm not forced into either using it or not being able to use it.
It sucks. But a lot of web content is available in Flash only. You're childish when your dislike for Flash means that nobody should use it. And somehow Nokia N810 can do it with less powerful processor.
My E50 with 200MHz ARM9 can decode 320x240 DivX, it's enough. I wouldn't see a difference even if it was 1080p h.264.
Hey, I liked Quake 4. It was nothing revolutionary but quite fun. Compare it to Bioshock and you realize that Quake 4 didn't get 10/10 reviews just because it wasn't insanely overhyped and reviews weren't paid for.
Stage6 was quite popular due to availability of many TV shows but they've started to seriously fight it 2 or 3 months ago. It was THE place to get many british sitcoms. I wonder if this has anything to do with the shutdown.
"I'm a PC running Windows" would satisfy me.
I'm complaining because it's like saying "Porsche is better than a car". It's annoying me.
What's a PC laptop? Apple computers are not "PCs"? I'm fucking going to bitch about this marketing crap everytime I see it. Also, artificial restrictions in Mac OSX are possible to hack, sorry. And it's not that great OS too.