I would assume that for example, this would mean developers not caring about official support/endorsement from Apple would no longer be limited to using AJAX for making their "applications" - though that may not matter since people willing to modify their iPhone firmware/OS are most likely not going to spend $600 USD on a phone and another $70 or $100 on data plans from a wireless telco...
Because I doubt all the people who are so cheap to still be running on hardware from more than 5 years ago are willing to go spend a minimum of $500 USD for the absolute bottom grade Mac Mini (compared to other Macs) - in reality, the machines people would be buying would more likely be the $1000+ machines (the Mini is the only one I know of significantly under $1000)
If Windows installations suddenly stopped working tomorrow, would people go spend a minimum of $600 or see if somebody with a working machine can go download and burn an ISO download for Debian or Fedora for 50 cents a disk and $2 for the bandwidth and time (from the people that don't care about spreading Linux)?
I've got to ask though - if you had not bought the Wii and DS-Lite already, would be willing to buy a PS3 instead (assuming $250 for a Wii and $130 USD as I just pulled off the Best Buy site 2 seconds ago) for the extra $120 (assuming this price drop in question isn't total BS)?
In other words, if you still had the (assumed) $380 you spent on your Wii and DS-Lite, would you spend the extra $100+ or so for a PS3?
Quoth the all-knowing Wikipedia (third paragraph):
The Kentsfield's layout was strategically similar to that of Pentium D, as also the Kentsfield comprised two separate silicon pieces, called dies, (dual-core each) in one package constituting its quad-core[25] (i.e. Kentsfield's quad-core - or rather "double dual-core" - was a result of "gluing" two dual-cores together, so all Core 2's dual- and quad-core CPUs share the Core architecture otherwise impossible). Hence, the max. power consumption (TDP) of the Kensfield (QX6800 - 135 watts[26], QX6700 - 110 W[27], Q6600 - 105 W[28]) was approx. double of its similarly clocked Core 2 Duo counterpart. For example, the QX6700 consisted of two E6700 chips connected together by a 1066 MT/s FSB on one MCM, resulting in lower costs but less bandwidth to the northbridge. The Kentsfield was one socket processor sitting in a LGA775 socket, as well as Core 2 Duo (AMD Quad FX consisted of two dual-core processors in two separate sockets on one motherboard with a 2 x 125 W[29]= 250 W TDP).
Particularly note:
(i.e. Kentsfield's quad-core - or rather "double dual-core" - was a result of "gluing" two dual-cores together...
and
For example, the QX6700 consisted of two E6700 chips connected together by a 1066 MT/s FSB on one MCM, resulting in lower costs but less bandwidth to the northbridge. The Kentsfield was one socket processor sitting in a LGA775 socket, as well as Core 2 Duo
Now I suppose perhaps I read that wrong, but it sounds an awful lot like 2 sockets, or at the very least 2 processors as it says "glued together" instead of making a "true quad-core" - however wrong I was, doesn't that still say that Intel's quad-core solution here is inferior?
OTOH, perhaps an Athlon x64 3800 x2 is overkill in speed for whatever purposes he uses it for, meaning he actually doesn't have any need for a faster Intel Core 2 Duo?
Also, AMD may not quite be the absolute fastest, but last I looked on Newegg (around last week) they certainly were the cheapest. And I don't mean only the processor was cheapest - each time I spec out parts for a motherboard/cpu/RAM/etc (that is, using a minimum standard of manufacture and processor class being Athlon/whatever Intel's equivalent is called now) using an AMD socket motherboard is AFAIK every time cheaper than an Intel solution...
Yes, and it is this very "Barcelona" K10 and "Phenom" - which unlike Intel's "Quad-core" which is 2 dual-core processors on one 2 socket motherboard, AMD's approach will actually have 4 cores on one die. This means AMD doesn't have the same self-imposed bottleneck that Intel put on themselves by using 2x socket (the bus speed between the 2 is the bottleneck).
Well, you're an AC who's never going to read this, but for anybody else that agrees with it before thinking about what I posted...
Ok, "Link's Awakening" - it was something like 10 years ago I last played...
Second - I wasn't talking about the gameplay difference between Zelda and the FF series. I was talking about the plot-lines, just in case you didn't read that in context with the rest of my post which centered on the *story* of FF-10. Personally, the plots from the Zelda games I'd played are pitiful crap compared to most any FF plot (with the exception of 9, which generally just sucked)...
And in many cases, nor *should* people watch everything - and some shows shouldn't even be on the air at all for how idiotic they are. I mean, thanks to shows like "Survivor" people will actually think now that when stranded on some random desert island they will magically be rewarded with matches or whatnot. How many people think they can actually sing or make lyrics due to "American Idol" and the 20 clone shows airing???
Though I've never played Ocarina of Time, only something like Zelda 2 (a gold NES cartridge?), Link's Awakening (SNES) and Seasons and Ages (GBA, and didn't really like 'em...
Personally I much prefer Final Fantasy 10.
If you haven't spent a lot of time getting to understand the world it is set in and the events in said world, you might be one to think it was a crappy game. However, if you actually spent time talking to Maechen (the scholar guy in-game studying the history of the game's world) just about every chance you get it'll really help you to understand just how good the story was (basically like every religion/war - win the war and rewrite history to make your side look like the good guys).
Also, it's rather fun to level up your magic users with their ultimate weapon (removes the 9,999 damage limit, bringing it up to 99,999) - suddenly that dinky little rod the girl has isn't so dinky when it does 65k per hit and her turns come fast enough you get 5 or 6 hits before even your next fastest character gets up, let alone the enemy... (in other words, fill up Yuna's sphere grid *entirely*)
This is NOT a 3D display which physically projects part of the screen to wrap your hands around it - this is basically a force-feedback glove with servo's on it to provide the force-feedback/touch resistance used in conjunction with a 2D flat-panel monitor providing a holographic display...
Just clearing things up for people there - cuz its only the very top of TFA, and I'm sick of shitty headlines hyping old news just to generate page views on/. or some idiot blogger who *just* saw an article on tech we knew about a month ago...
DISCLAIMER: I am not a kernel/xorg/any_kind_of coder, so if I'm wrong, don't be suprised...
But on the other hand, it should make it easier to put them on other OS's using XOrg - from Solaris, the BSD's, or just about anything else on XOrg, correct? Or at least I thought thats what part of the point of having something fairly modular like XOrg was...
That aside, the mere fact that nobody can be held liable for the lost of data and that backups are likely not made
Ya, but how much do you wanna bet (without even RTF or checked any of MS's pages on this) that the TOS/EULA on this new service from MS includes a clause that they aren't responsible for data-loss, and another clause that no file may be bigger than 30MB.
The reason I say 30MB is its *just* enough for MS to say "Hey, ours is more than Google!" but yet not by enough to really matter (as in you still won't be able to put anything more than 50-100MB up). A week from now I'll bet that Google will announce a superior competing service - assuring many chairs flying in Redmond accompanied by many an utterance of "I'm gonna fucking kill Google!"
Ya, except that these administrative tasks don't actually take an administrative account, it just adds a dialog box into every action - some idiot who's used to seeing "Do you want to open your document? Cancel or Allow?" and when he gets a "porn.jpg.exe will seriously fubar your Vista install, Cancel or Allow?" he clicks allow and it goes through.
Now from using Fedora 5, 6, and now 7, and Debian 4.0/testing/unstable - if something prompts for administrative/root access, and Joe User isn't doesn't have that root password because he's been deemed too stupid to be trusted with it, he can guess all day long and not be able to get in.
Now go back and look at which one is more secure, just from adding an actual limited user accounts methodology instead of just adding a dialog box wrapper to every action like Vista does... Now which is more secure???
Also its an entirely different architecture - Intel P4 fanboys will say that an AMD FX7x running at like 2.x or 3.x (whatever its at) is a slow piece of crap. Basically, clock speed (bad car analogy: horsepower) isn't everything, its the actual work that it can do (torque) that matters for heavy stuff...
Exactly! Heck, even MS themselves tried it just the other day with Ubuntu on their Windows Marketplace!
Though admittedly it was most likely automatically pulled in by mistake, I still think its a hilarious mishap for them to have a Linux distro - the current bane of MS, advertised on one of their sites...
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For those that don't know already, the licensing on KDE4'slibraries will be changing (from the KDE3x libraries), allowing KDE4 to be natively ported to Windows and OSX, which sounds pretty damned nice to me - first even having KDE3x would be great IMHO, but with the features KDE4 is claiming, hell yes I'm going to help the hype myself some...
Yup, mine too - I'm not sure if its because of NoScript or not, though I kinda doubt it, as I've had for example the HP site do this without NoScript installed (hell, this was before I even found noscript)...
Ermm... uTorrent supports all of that... Straight from Wikipedia - the official site probably lists even more features...
Of the list below, particularly note "Azureus must first upgrade to enhanced messaging protocol" - meaning that Azureus would in-fact be the client lacking usable features...
Not to mention that some people may not have the greatest machine and think they shouldn't have to make major hardware upgrades to a machine to run something AND still have to deal with programs being buggy. For example, somebody might have an old P2 or P3 sitting in their closet as a NAS, which they like to occaisionally remote SSH or VNC into and add torrents from work - if you don't have the memory to spare, how can you run Azureus at all?
Features present in Torrent include:
* Unicode support for Windows 95/98/ME, avoiding use of the Microsoft Layer for Unicode which is several times larger than Torrent.
* UPnP support for all versions of Windows, without needing Windows XP's UPnP framework.
* Protocol encryption (PE),
* Peer exchange (PEX) with other Torrent clients,
o libtorrent and clients based on it (MooPolice, etc.) have full Torrent PEX support.
o KTorrent has full Torrent PEX support as of 2.1 RC1.
o Azureus must first upgrade to enhanced messaging protocol[2].
* RSS ("broadcatching").
* "Trackerless" BitTorrent support using DHT, compatible with the original BitTorrent client and BitComet.
* User configurable intelligent disk caching system.
* Full proxy server support.
* HTTPS tracker support.
* Configurable bandwidth scheduler.
* Customizable search bar and icons.
* Localized for 38 languages[3].
* Initial seeding of torrents.
* Customizable user interface design[4]
* Configuration settings and temporary files are stored in a single directory, allowing portable use.
* WebUI
* Embedded Tracker - a simple tracker designed for seeding torrents, lacking a web interface or list of hosted torrents. It is not designed for secure or large-scale application.[5]
* Most of the features in Torrent work under Linux and Macintosh OSX under the Wine compatibility layer or the latest version of the proprietary software Cedega.
Reading your post gives me the impression that you just found Ubuntu less than a month ago, and are still telling your friends "It's *just* like Winblows but better - and you get the purty Compiz too!"
I agree - for example my Compaq laptop which I bought about a year and a half ago only has 1 slot for RAM, having came with the stock 512MB, I've already upgraded to 1GB (1.25 if you count shared video memory). So even if I had the cash to go out and buy more RAM right now, since it only has 1 slot, money isn't the issue - space limitations come into play also...
Peronsally I prefer "innotek VirtualBox" - iirc, its based on QEMU, but comes out of the box with easy to use wizards for setting up vm's, which I found easier to use than the free VMWare Server offering. Fairly easy to setup on Windows and Debian. The only thing I don't like is no emulation of x64 processors, but I'm willing to give that up for more user-friendliness since it only means going and downloading an x86 version of whatever guest OS I want to run...
OpenArena is another good Quake3 clone - if I remember correctly, it's on the Fedora Core 6 repositories. A number of people in a webserver class I took played when the class wasn't doing anything...
Maybe you still think its just the lawyers influencing these decisions and that Ballmer and Gates still actually would care about the company if "we just swayed them in the right direction" - these decisions would still happen, if not more often and more aggressive attacks against the open source community even without lawyers. Quoting Steve Ballmer off of Wikipedia (and the source from the wiki quote: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-268520.html)
He has referred to the free Linux software system as a "[...] cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
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I would assume that for example, this would mean developers not caring about official support/endorsement from Apple would no longer be limited to using AJAX for making their "applications" - though that may not matter since people willing to modify their iPhone firmware/OS are most likely not going to spend $600 USD on a phone and another $70 or $100 on data plans from a wireless telco...
Because I doubt all the people who are so cheap to still be running on hardware from more than 5 years ago are willing to go spend a minimum of $500 USD for the absolute bottom grade Mac Mini (compared to other Macs) - in reality, the machines people would be buying would more likely be the $1000+ machines (the Mini is the only one I know of significantly under $1000)
If Windows installations suddenly stopped working tomorrow, would people go spend a minimum of $600 or see if somebody with a working machine can go download and burn an ISO download for Debian or Fedora for 50 cents a disk and $2 for the bandwidth and time (from the people that don't care about spreading Linux)?
So you mean to tell me that you lug a standalone set-top DVD player and television with you on 3 or 4 hour flights?
I've got to ask though - if you had not bought the Wii and DS-Lite already, would be willing to buy a PS3 instead (assuming $250 for a Wii and $130 USD as I just pulled off the Best Buy site 2 seconds ago) for the extra $120 (assuming this price drop in question isn't total BS)?
In other words, if you still had the (assumed) $380 you spent on your Wii and DS-Lite, would you spend the extra $100+ or so for a PS3?
OTOH, perhaps an Athlon x64 3800 x2 is overkill in speed for whatever purposes he uses it for, meaning he actually doesn't have any need for a faster Intel Core 2 Duo?
Also, AMD may not quite be the absolute fastest, but last I looked on Newegg (around last week) they certainly were the cheapest. And I don't mean only the processor was cheapest - each time I spec out parts for a motherboard/cpu/RAM/etc (that is, using a minimum standard of manufacture and processor class being Athlon/whatever Intel's equivalent is called now) using an AMD socket motherboard is AFAIK every time cheaper than an Intel solution...
Yes, and it is this very "Barcelona" K10 and "Phenom" - which unlike Intel's "Quad-core" which is 2 dual-core processors on one 2 socket motherboard, AMD's approach will actually have 4 cores on one die. This means AMD doesn't have the same self-imposed bottleneck that Intel put on themselves by using 2x socket (the bus speed between the 2 is the bottleneck).
Well, you're an AC who's never going to read this, but for anybody else that agrees with it before thinking about what I posted... Ok, "Link's Awakening" - it was something like 10 years ago I last played...
Second - I wasn't talking about the gameplay difference between Zelda and the FF series. I was talking about the plot-lines, just in case you didn't read that in context with the rest of my post which centered on the *story* of FF-10. Personally, the plots from the Zelda games I'd played are pitiful crap compared to most any FF plot (with the exception of 9, which generally just sucked)...
Though I've never played Ocarina of Time, only something like Zelda 2 (a gold NES cartridge?), Link's Awakening (SNES) and Seasons and Ages (GBA, and didn't really like 'em...
Personally I much prefer Final Fantasy 10.
If you haven't spent a lot of time getting to understand the world it is set in and the events in said world, you might be one to think it was a crappy game. However, if you actually spent time talking to Maechen (the scholar guy in-game studying the history of the game's world) just about every chance you get it'll really help you to understand just how good the story was (basically like every religion/war - win the war and rewrite history to make your side look like the good guys).
Also, it's rather fun to level up your magic users with their ultimate weapon (removes the 9,999 damage limit, bringing it up to 99,999) - suddenly that dinky little rod the girl has isn't so dinky when it does 65k per hit and her turns come fast enough you get 5 or 6 hits before even your next fastest character gets up, let alone the enemy... (in other words, fill up Yuna's sphere grid *entirely*)
This is NOT a 3D display which physically projects part of the screen to wrap your hands around it - this is basically a force-feedback glove with servo's on it to provide the force-feedback/touch resistance used in conjunction with a 2D flat-panel monitor providing a holographic display...
/. or some idiot blogger who *just* saw an article on tech we knew about a month ago...
Just clearing things up for people there - cuz its only the very top of TFA, and I'm sick of shitty headlines hyping old news just to generate page views on
DISCLAIMER: I am not a kernel/xorg/any_kind_of coder, so if I'm wrong, don't be suprised...
But on the other hand, it should make it easier to put them on other OS's using XOrg - from Solaris, the BSD's, or just about anything else on XOrg, correct? Or at least I thought thats what part of the point of having something fairly modular like XOrg was...
The reason I say 30MB is its *just* enough for MS to say "Hey, ours is more than Google!" but yet not by enough to really matter (as in you still won't be able to put anything more than 50-100MB up). A week from now I'll bet that Google will announce a superior competing service - assuring many chairs flying in Redmond accompanied by many an utterance of "I'm gonna fucking kill Google!"
Ya, except that these administrative tasks don't actually take an administrative account, it just adds a dialog box into every action - some idiot who's used to seeing "Do you want to open your document? Cancel or Allow?" and when he gets a "porn.jpg.exe will seriously fubar your Vista install, Cancel or Allow?" he clicks allow and it goes through.
Now from using Fedora 5, 6, and now 7, and Debian 4.0/testing/unstable - if something prompts for administrative/root access, and Joe User isn't doesn't have that root password because he's been deemed too stupid to be trusted with it, he can guess all day long and not be able to get in.
Now go back and look at which one is more secure, just from adding an actual limited user accounts methodology instead of just adding a dialog box wrapper to every action like Vista does... Now which is more secure???
Just so people know - this is a dupe from a story on Saturday - C.I.A. to Let "Skeletons" Out of its Closet [ http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/ 23/1313253&from=rss ]
Also its an entirely different architecture - Intel P4 fanboys will say that an AMD FX7x running at like 2.x or 3.x (whatever its at) is a slow piece of crap. Basically, clock speed (bad car analogy: horsepower) isn't everything, its the actual work that it can do (torque) that matters for heavy stuff...
Exactly! Heck, even MS themselves tried it just the other day with Ubuntu on their Windows Marketplace!
Though admittedly it was most likely automatically pulled in by mistake, I still think its a hilarious mishap for them to have a Linux distro - the current bane of MS, advertised on one of their sites...
For those that don't know already, the licensing on KDE4's libraries will be changing (from the KDE3x libraries), allowing KDE4 to be natively ported to Windows and OSX, which sounds pretty damned nice to me - first even having KDE3x would be great IMHO, but with the features KDE4 is claiming, hell yes I'm going to help the hype myself some...
No, I really doubt bulls fuck their own shit...
Yup, mine too - I'm not sure if its because of NoScript or not, though I kinda doubt it, as I've had for example the HP site do this without NoScript installed (hell, this was before I even found noscript)...
Of the list below, particularly note "Azureus must first upgrade to enhanced messaging protocol" - meaning that Azureus would in-fact be the client lacking usable features...
Not to mention that some people may not have the greatest machine and think they shouldn't have to make major hardware upgrades to a machine to run something AND still have to deal with programs being buggy. For example, somebody might have an old P2 or P3 sitting in their closet as a NAS, which they like to occaisionally remote SSH or VNC into and add torrents from work - if you don't have the memory to spare, how can you run Azureus at all? Reading your post gives me the impression that you just found Ubuntu less than a month ago, and are still telling your friends "It's *just* like Winblows but better - and you get the purty Compiz too!"
I agree - for example my Compaq laptop which I bought about a year and a half ago only has 1 slot for RAM, having came with the stock 512MB, I've already upgraded to 1GB (1.25 if you count shared video memory). So even if I had the cash to go out and buy more RAM right now, since it only has 1 slot, money isn't the issue - space limitations come into play also...
Peronsally I prefer "innotek VirtualBox" - iirc, its based on QEMU, but comes out of the box with easy to use wizards for setting up vm's, which I found easier to use than the free VMWare Server offering. Fairly easy to setup on Windows and Debian. The only thing I don't like is no emulation of x64 processors, but I'm willing to give that up for more user-friendliness since it only means going and downloading an x86 version of whatever guest OS I want to run...
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OpenArena is another good Quake3 clone - if I remember correctly, it's on the Fedora Core 6 repositories. A number of people in a webserver class I took played when the class wasn't doing anything...