Steam won't be able to do anything about issues of drivers or "various distros with various libraries" (whether that's even a problem, I don't think so, but the statement is so vague...), short of making deals with ATI and NVIDIA and requiring their own special distro to use (which would be massive FAIL).
Plus I dunno, I can just click some Doom 3, Prey, and Quake Live icons and be running those games in a few short seconds. Not exactly a painful experience ya know.
VirtualBox and VMware both do OpenGL pass through (and VirtualBox even has experimental Direct3D support, by using Wine libraries to translate it to OpenGL at runtime).
On the other hand, and as you point out, any service pack is of the order of gigabytes, these days.
As odd as it feels to defend the argument, I feel like I should point out that Windows Vista's SP2 was 700MB, which is still about 300MB off from even a single gigabyte.
Is the problem a lack of APIs to load stuff, or the inability to discover how much video memory is present/free?
Doom 3's console messages on startup note the amount of video RAM I have. Even moreso, Steam's hardware survey is also able to detect this while running under Wine!
This is where OpenSolaris and ZFS snapshots will be very useful. Download random untrusted application, it ends up doing bad things, you roll back the filesystem to the safe state.
Whether or not it's allowed, Epic Megagames already does it. Unreal Tournament 2004 Editor's Choice Edition on GOG.com is $9.99, but $14.99 on Steam.
Just one example, I'm sure there's many more.
Virtually everybody with a standard DVD player has a VCD players as well (they're not strictly required to support it, but it's such a simple thing to support, practically all of them do)
IPv6 is a very mature solution. The reason you've been hearing about the IPv4 space running out for years is because it's been prepared for, for about that long of a time. Estimates as to when it'll run out haven't drastically changed, although we are now much closer to the point than we were five years ago:-)
Plus I have an IPv6 connection and home and I'm loving it!
Have you tried telling the OpenSSH and/or FreeBSD mailing lists about your issue? They might not even be aware of the bug, if you've only been posting about it on random forums...
BSD was pirated and the development of its free versions was halted for years due to lawsuits. The lawsuits cleared the Free developers,
BSD wasn't "pirated" per se, it was more of a dispute over what the license agreement meant and whether Net/1 was covered by AT&T copyright or not. (Don't take my word so literally though, there's better sources to find out all the details if you'd like...)
so you should ask yourself: what would happen if the modified versions of Windows are taken to a court by honest developers and their generous efforts towards computer users everywhere were approved by a judge?
What if? Registry and INI file hacks can only get so far (which is all these "slim versions" really do; remove files like IE, WMP, etc that Microsoft pretends are essential but really aren't, maybe hack the registry so that some features supposed to be reserved only for Windows Server are also available on XP/Vista (such as PAE support, or more than 2 physical CPU support)). It is pretty impressive, to be honest, some of the hacks that are preformed without any source code, but why would Microsoft be forced to hand out source code to their operating system for any real improvement?
This will, again, give a performance benefit relative to ntfs-3g
Where is there always this myth that NTFS-3G must be slow because it's in userspace? What makes you think that kernel-space processes can run the CPU faster than user-space?
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Steam won't be able to do anything about issues of drivers or "various distros with various libraries" (whether that's even a problem, I don't think so, but the statement is so vague...), short of making deals with ATI and NVIDIA and requiring their own special distro to use (which would be massive FAIL). Plus I dunno, I can just click some Doom 3, Prey, and Quake Live icons and be running those games in a few short seconds. Not exactly a painful experience ya know.
It defaults to reporting as a purchase for Windows only, so it seems to be covered.
Maybe you can pick a better example, the zlib site itself mentions more than one release just in the year 2010.
VirtualBox and VMware both do OpenGL pass through (and VirtualBox even has experimental Direct3D support, by using Wine libraries to translate it to OpenGL at runtime).
I support web sites that force both hands to be doing something. At least it makes us look more productive.
As odd as it feels to defend the argument, I feel like I should point out that Windows Vista's SP2 was 700MB, which is still about 300MB off from even a single gigabyte.
Doom 3's console messages on startup note the amount of video RAM I have. Even moreso, Steam's hardware survey is also able to detect this while running under Wine!
Becaue it was all the rage, apparently.
sudo -i
It's called ROM
I have the same combination on my luggage!
Wolfenstein 3D was the shot heard 'round the world. Doom was the revolution.
This is where OpenSolaris and ZFS snapshots will be very useful. Download random untrusted application, it ends up doing bad things, you roll back the filesystem to the safe state.
Whether or not it's allowed, Epic Megagames already does it. Unreal Tournament 2004 Editor's Choice Edition on GOG.com is $9.99, but $14.99 on Steam. Just one example, I'm sure there's many more.
Virtually everybody with a standard DVD player has a VCD players as well (they're not strictly required to support it, but it's such a simple thing to support, practically all of them do)
That's called having a firewall. All decent operating systems come with one built-in these days.
IPv6 is a very mature solution. The reason you've been hearing about the IPv4 space running out for years is because it's been prepared for, for about that long of a time. Estimates as to when it'll run out haven't drastically changed, although we are now much closer to the point than we were five years ago :-)
Plus I have an IPv6 connection and home and I'm loving it!
Have you tried telling the OpenSSH and/or FreeBSD mailing lists about your issue? They might not even be aware of the bug, if you've only been posting about it on random forums...
Lucky for them, Microsoft seems only interested in selling their own patchworks over Windows' issue rather than fixing the problem at the source.
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Ever heard of Windows Product Activation or Windows Genuine Advantage [sic]? And before you counter it--- yes, they have disabled legitimate users before (slashdot had a whole hoopla about it).
BSD wasn't "pirated" per se, it was more of a dispute over what the license agreement meant and whether Net/1 was covered by AT&T copyright or not. (Don't take my word so literally though, there's better sources to find out all the details if you'd like...)
What if? Registry and INI file hacks can only get so far (which is all these "slim versions" really do; remove files like IE, WMP, etc that Microsoft pretends are essential but really aren't, maybe hack the registry so that some features supposed to be reserved only for Windows Server are also available on XP/Vista (such as PAE support, or more than 2 physical CPU support)). It is pretty impressive, to be honest, some of the hacks that are preformed without any source code, but why would Microsoft be forced to hand out source code to their operating system for any real improvement?
Because the newer index takes 15 seconds to render and spikes my CPU up by 10 degrees just to load the page.
Has anyone else using the classic index lost the ability to add tags? I'm running Firefox 3.5.2 here and can't do it.
Where is there always this myth that NTFS-3G must be slow because it's in userspace? What makes you think that kernel-space processes can run the CPU faster than user-space?
It was called UMSDOS, but it hadn't been maintained for years and was eventually removed from the kernel around 2004.