Hmm? What can you say about that though? Just curious. I agree, it is not that big of a problem. Hmm, both my Wii and my Gamecube have ATI stickers but I think only the Wii box has an IBM sticker. Dunno if the actual Wii itself has one to be honest.
Additionally, I had always heard that the GPU in the 360 was an ATI R500 core which was related to the R520 PC GPU cores. Doesn't sound like MS made that if it was an ATI GPU...
Indeed. And to add to that, the DS and PSP have good, established game development companies, especially the DS with Nintendo itself making games, almost unquestionably the best first-party developer. While I suppose they're making Spore for iPhone, it's not like developers are flocking to make games for a device that costs twice as much as the closest gaming handheld, and probably has more power to boot.
Funny, one of my friends did that with our school I think, but I'm not exactly sure what happened with it. We're in California though, so that story isn't about us.
Moan? I wasn't moaning, I was just questioning the OP's statement about it being a GPL fanboy's wet dream. Where in my post did I complain that it's not GPL? You're confusing my pedantism with whining, which is totally different. I use Google Docs every day, in fact it just saved my ass today because my new laptop doesn't have Office and I needed to finish up a presentation for a class. I don't think anyone's whining here, especially not the OP or me. And by widgets, do you mean API? I'm kind of confused by that statement.
Next-gen drive? I think the 360 is doing fine without a so-called next-gen drive. Hell, PCs have the most technologically advanced games, no contest, and we're still using DVDs on PC. I think saying they "went cheap by using DVD" is a bit of a stupid statement. The other components sure, but not the DVD drive.
The inline typing notification was changed to an option in 2.4.2, so you can turn it back to an icon. Personally, I like it inline because I notice it more easily, but to each his own. I do think that a lot of the resistance to changes in Pidgin is simply resistance to change, but at the same time the developers' refusal to add options (and subsequent backpedaling in the next version) is kind of ridiculous as well.
I think it would be good if people started running bleeding-edge builds of Pidgin like the nightlies for Firefox, so they could give feedback as things change rather than whine after the fact. There is a site that offers nightly builds of Pidgin, which is nice. http://geddeth.dk/downloads/pidgin/ Alternatively, if you really care about Pidgin changes you could check the commit logs and read the mailing list and give your feedback immediately and non-antagonistically so the developers are more likely to pay attention to it. People complain that the developers are stubborn, but a lot of the users are pretty stubborn too.
Hmm, that's an interesting point. It does seem like AMD is falling further and further behind in process technology. But I think their partnerships with IBM and stuff might help them improve, although I don't really know anything about their relationship with IBM.
Wow, that's actually pretty good. If you mentioned bubblesort to 90% of the population they would probably be like WTF? He probably took a CS course somewhere along the way then, or at least knew some CS majors. Tangentially, bubblesort really makes no sense logically. My natural impulse would be to use an insertion sort for most purposes, and I think that's what most people would do.
That's one chip though, and stuff like USB drives and SSDs have multiple chips, not just one. Similarly, if you look at a stick of RAM there are several RAM chips on the stick.
I guess you didn't know, but AMD used to have a large flash memory division that was spun off to form the company called Spansion since their main cash cow is processors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD#Corporate_history
I guess you never played the original DOS game? Actually, I'm not even sure if it was DOS since I was too young at the time to distinguish operating systems.
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Hah, I preempted a spelling nazi attack! I mostly did that because often it's me being the spelling/grammar/semantics nazi.
Don't you mean, suddenly throne? (misspelling intended)
Seriously, I thought it was common knowledge that the GPU was ATI. Don't know how this article even got here.
Additionally, I had always heard that the GPU in the 360 was an ATI R500 core which was related to the R520 PC GPU cores. Doesn't sound like MS made that if it was an ATI GPU...
Not on many phones, anyway. Most verizon phones are so locked down downloading games is pretty difficult.
Indeed. And to add to that, the DS and PSP have good, established game development companies, especially the DS with Nintendo itself making games, almost unquestionably the best first-party developer. While I suppose they're making Spore for iPhone, it's not like developers are flocking to make games for a device that costs twice as much as the closest gaming handheld, and probably has more power to boot.
Seriously. I don't think people buy more than two or three of those Java
Funny, one of my friends did that with our school I think, but I'm not exactly sure what happened with it. We're in California though, so that story isn't about us.
Good game sir, good game.
That was kind of the point. I guess no one got it until you spelled it out.
Moan? I wasn't moaning, I was just questioning the OP's statement about it being a GPL fanboy's wet dream. Where in my post did I complain that it's not GPL? You're confusing my pedantism with whining, which is totally different. I use Google Docs every day, in fact it just saved my ass today because my new laptop doesn't have Office and I needed to finish up a presentation for a class. I don't think anyone's whining here, especially not the OP or me. And by widgets, do you mean API? I'm kind of confused by that statement.
Also, since when is Google Docs under the GPL?
Next-gen drive? I think the 360 is doing fine without a so-called next-gen drive. Hell, PCs have the most technologically advanced games, no contest, and we're still using DVDs on PC. I think saying they "went cheap by using DVD" is a bit of a stupid statement. The other components sure, but not the DVD drive.
Err, that's inaccurate, the Wii does use a standard dual-layer DVD drive, that's why modchips let you play burned games.
Wow, it took this far down the page for someone to make a Stallman joke? I'm surprised.
WTF? His username is VValdo. Looks like Waldo, but now I'm curious. Where's the real Waldo?
The inline typing notification was changed to an option in 2.4.2, so you can turn it back to an icon. Personally, I like it inline because I notice it more easily, but to each his own. I do think that a lot of the resistance to changes in Pidgin is simply resistance to change, but at the same time the developers' refusal to add options (and subsequent backpedaling in the next version) is kind of ridiculous as well.
I think it would be good if people started running bleeding-edge builds of Pidgin like the nightlies for Firefox, so they could give feedback as things change rather than whine after the fact. There is a site that offers nightly builds of Pidgin, which is nice. http://geddeth.dk/downloads/pidgin/ Alternatively, if you really care about Pidgin changes you could check the commit logs and read the mailing list and give your feedback immediately and non-antagonistically so the developers are more likely to pay attention to it. People complain that the developers are stubborn, but a lot of the users are pretty stubborn too.
Learn to Google please. http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/ It's a bit buggy, but overall works.
In the google summer of code project branch.
Hmm, that's an interesting point. It does seem like AMD is falling further and further behind in process technology. But I think their partnerships with IBM and stuff might help them improve, although I don't really know anything about their relationship with IBM.
Wow, that's actually pretty good. If you mentioned bubblesort to 90% of the population they would probably be like WTF? He probably took a CS course somewhere along the way then, or at least knew some CS majors. Tangentially, bubblesort really makes no sense logically. My natural impulse would be to use an insertion sort for most purposes, and I think that's what most people would do.
That's one chip though, and stuff like USB drives and SSDs have multiple chips, not just one. Similarly, if you look at a stick of RAM there are several RAM chips on the stick.
I guess you didn't know, but AMD used to have a large flash memory division that was spun off to form the company called Spansion since their main cash cow is processors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD#Corporate_history
I guess you never played the original DOS game? Actually, I'm not even sure if it was DOS since I was too young at the time to distinguish operating systems.