I think netbooks get a weird exception clause for 2 years after the purchase of the netbook or something like that IIRC. Also thanks for catching my little mistake there.
Plus, by making the Oracle licensing scheme slightly more favourable towards sparc than power or intel, they can mess with IBM/other competitors pretty well. Before anyone complains about the immorality of such moves, I would like to point out that this is Oracle we're talking about, and they already do this when they're mad at Sun/HP/IBM...
Sun and Oracle already work pretty closely with eachother, and I think, without Sun's inept executives (ie. Jonathan Schwartz) bogging them down, Oracle will be able to go far with Sun's excellent employees, who ARE used to that kind of responisbility.
Yay! Finally someone who doesn't just repeat the/. standard: "Sun sucks, use Linux on a giant pile of cheap boxen instead" line.
I salute you, good sir.
I used to be a KDE user back in the day, but I just can't get into the 4.x thing and have moved to Gnome since.. Still, I miss the good 'ol days of KDE...:(
i did the same with compiz on my ~3Ghz P4 toshiba laptop with 512 megs of ram and it runs fine... though i hardly use that machine anymore since i bought a new macbook:)
Depending on ram and video chipset, you could probably have a compiz on too is all i'm saying (especially in a more moderate form), it's not that much of a performance hog.
That's a pretty common government thing to do...
When I used to work for Environment Canada, we used to spend like insanity when it came up to budget time, just so we wouldn't lose that budget room should we need it in a future year.
It (and a few other things that I won't discuss now) actually sickened me to the point where I had to leave government employment and join the corporate world oncemore, which while not perfect is a little bit more sane, where success and competence are somewhat more linked.
Myself I just have my linux (slackware) vm for my *nix tinkery stuff.. it takes up 10 gigs on my hard disk, and it lets my do my *nix tinkering in an environment where I can be reasonably sure not to pwn everything in my OSX, which contains all my school assignmnents, etc... It's the same reason I have an XP vm (under XP) on my windoze box. It's nice to have an isolated environment sometimes.
You forget the target market for the Shuffle, people who want a ludicrously tiny player -- for whom the nano is excessively large... They like to work out while their player is clipped some random place, and they don't want to go looking for the buttons if they want to change tracks or whatever.
The corded controls make a lot of sense for this segment -- buttons on the unit as well would probably have been way to tiny to use, most likely.
Really what they should have done was just put inline remote support in a chassis like they had, but they were obviously feeling some pressure from somewhere to make it tinier.
I dunno about this MMO thing... like BioWare isn't exactly an MMO sort of company. I seem to recall all of their games in the past being primarily of the single-player type (with the possible exception of NWN (which I played as exclusively single player, anyways)).
First off, your laptop's graphics chipset is WAY newer than that in the desktop, I'd say that's your big bottleneck on the desktop right there... But yeah, the dual-core-ness of the mac shouldn't make much difference, but it'd do something.
I have a 3700+ with an X800 and I can run circles around wow. Though my X2 4400+ with a GeForce 7950 GTO kicks that one's ass...
Though I imagine that if i were able to not run the bloated POS that is Windoze on my computer, it'd be even nicer and faster. If only more games were ported to MacOS or Linux...
Really? I didn't have any framerate issues with my computer running this game, and it's significantly less badass than yours. It's an Athlon X2 4400+, with a BFG Geforce 7900 GT OC, and 2 gigs of ram. I played the whole game through 2x, once as a mage and once as a paladin, and never had any of the extreme framerate issues you did with everything maxxed out. Though it did make my videocard overheat once and start drawing artefacts...
I do agree with you, however, that the UI definitely could use some work, and that there were some unforgiveable bugs in the game. But most of the ones I encountered, involved either quest completion or plot advancement, and I just had to load back a ways to get through them.
Sun uses Solaris, thank you very much.
But anyways, Hummingbird Exceed is really sweet, and though all i use it to do most of the time is run an X-terminal, and emacs on top of my CDE desktop, it's definitely the way to go. It's good to have the option to use an x app once in a while.
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I think netbooks get a weird exception clause for 2 years after the purchase of the netbook or something like that IIRC. Also thanks for catching my little mistake there.
January 31st, 2009, looks like. That'd be what, 8 months back? http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx
Plus, by making the Oracle licensing scheme slightly more favourable towards sparc than power or intel, they can mess with IBM/other competitors pretty well. Before anyone complains about the immorality of such moves, I would like to point out that this is Oracle we're talking about, and they already do this when they're mad at Sun/HP/IBM...
Sun and Oracle already work pretty closely with eachother, and I think, without Sun's inept executives (ie. Jonathan Schwartz) bogging them down, Oracle will be able to go far with Sun's excellent employees, who ARE used to that kind of responisbility.
Yay! Finally someone who doesn't just repeat the /. standard: "Sun sucks, use Linux on a giant pile of cheap boxen instead" line.
I salute you, good sir.
I used to be a KDE user back in the day, but I just can't get into the 4.x thing and have moved to Gnome since.. Still, I miss the good 'ol days of KDE... :(
i did the same with compiz on my ~3Ghz P4 toshiba laptop with 512 megs of ram and it runs fine... though i hardly use that machine anymore since i bought a new macbook :)
Depending on ram and video chipset, you could probably have a compiz on too is all i'm saying (especially in a more moderate form), it's not that much of a performance hog.
That's a pretty common government thing to do... When I used to work for Environment Canada, we used to spend like insanity when it came up to budget time, just so we wouldn't lose that budget room should we need it in a future year. It (and a few other things that I won't discuss now) actually sickened me to the point where I had to leave government employment and join the corporate world oncemore, which while not perfect is a little bit more sane, where success and competence are somewhat more linked.
Myself I just have my linux (slackware) vm for my *nix tinkery stuff.. it takes up 10 gigs on my hard disk, and it lets my do my *nix tinkering in an environment where I can be reasonably sure not to pwn everything in my OSX, which contains all my school assignmnents, etc... It's the same reason I have an XP vm (under XP) on my windoze box. It's nice to have an isolated environment sometimes.
You forget the target market for the Shuffle, people who want a ludicrously tiny player -- for whom the nano is excessively large... They like to work out while their player is clipped some random place, and they don't want to go looking for the buttons if they want to change tracks or whatever. The corded controls make a lot of sense for this segment -- buttons on the unit as well would probably have been way to tiny to use, most likely. Really what they should have done was just put inline remote support in a chassis like they had, but they were obviously feeling some pressure from somewhere to make it tinier.
but then you can't get it to start playing, since there's no play button...
I dunno about this MMO thing... like BioWare isn't exactly an MMO sort of company. I seem to recall all of their games in the past being primarily of the single-player type (with the possible exception of NWN (which I played as exclusively single player, anyways)).
Yeah, that's happened to me a few times now, so i keep my wireless driver and the ndiswrapper package around for when i install.
Was it just me or did ubuntu.com just get slashdotted there, and come up again just recently? Good work my slashdotting friends.
Haha I like the gizmodo article, it made me chuckle...
Not to mention the service interruption, but imagine the backlog once everyone realizes their crackberries are working again... Frankly, I'm scared.
In Soviet Russia, you screw the RIAA.
First off, your laptop's graphics chipset is WAY newer than that in the desktop, I'd say that's your big bottleneck on the desktop right there... But yeah, the dual-core-ness of the mac shouldn't make much difference, but it'd do something. I have a 3700+ with an X800 and I can run circles around wow. Though my X2 4400+ with a GeForce 7950 GTO kicks that one's ass... Though I imagine that if i were able to not run the bloated POS that is Windoze on my computer, it'd be even nicer and faster. If only more games were ported to MacOS or Linux...
Really? I didn't have any framerate issues with my computer running this game, and it's significantly less badass than yours. It's an Athlon X2 4400+, with a BFG Geforce 7900 GT OC, and 2 gigs of ram. I played the whole game through 2x, once as a mage and once as a paladin, and never had any of the extreme framerate issues you did with everything maxxed out. Though it did make my videocard overheat once and start drawing artefacts...
I do agree with you, however, that the UI definitely could use some work, and that there were some unforgiveable bugs in the game. But most of the ones I encountered, involved either quest completion or plot advancement, and I just had to load back a ways to get through them.
Man, I'm gonna miss RvB... Hopefully whatever they do next will be better than that Strangerhood one they did [shudders].
Sun uses Solaris, thank you very much. But anyways, Hummingbird Exceed is really sweet, and though all i use it to do most of the time is run an X-terminal, and emacs on top of my CDE desktop, it's definitely the way to go. It's good to have the option to use an x app once in a while.
Mcnealy's still the chairman, just not the CEO... but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be doing all this open stuff if he wasn't supportive of it.
Or AIX, perhaps...
Yeah, those hortas from TOS episode 26 - The Devil in the Dark, are pretty sweet...
I more thought that the GC looked like a kid's purple lunch pail...