For now, perhaps.
As more people discover streaming video, and demand better picture quality and less jittering, the demand for bandwidth will skyrocket. One HD movie per week would be over 200GB per year, probably closer to double that.
I used it to set up a demand dialler and firewall on my old 486.
It was interesting because there was an error in the diald package. The distro included a newer version that used different file locations, but the install script still used the old file locations. I learned a lot figuring that one out!
Wing Commander 2, now, that was hard to beat.
I found WC2 had only 1 mission that was near impossible. WC3 had several, as did WC4.
In the case of Thief 3 . . . Quite a lot of the people who played it first like it.
Actually, I know this to be true. However, several of those people that I know revised their opinion of Thief 3 after going back and playing Thief 1 and 2.
every Civ game has at least a couple low difficulties that should be trivial for anyone who enjoys that sort of game.
I found Civ3 and 4 had no difficulty levels that were easy, let alone trivial. As I said, "Even at the easiest difficulty settings these games are very hard to beat."
Might and Magic IX - Went for eye candy over game play.
The third Krondor game - More eye candy, virtually no game play.
Thief 3 - "Consolized" the game. Missions were composed of several small linked play areas instead of large rambling areas to explore. This was done to adapt the game to console hardware limitations.
MOO3 - An example of change for its own sake. Did anyone actually like this game?
Wing Commander III and IV - Examples of challenge disorder. There were too many missions in these games that were virtually impossible to beat, and the dynamic difficulty setting system made it impossible to adjust the games to your personal skill level.
SimCity 2 and later - Added too much complexity, ruining the game experience. Remember: KISS!
Civ3 and 4 - More challenge disorder. Even at the easiest difficulty settings these games are very hard to beat.
There are more, I am sure, but I'll let other Slashdotters come up with them. And yes, I am aware that many people enjoyed many of these games but, speaking from my own knowledge (from conversations with other gamers), each of the games I have listed lost a large part of their audience, with only the hard core fans of the franchise claiming to like them.
Same as in the movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still" I think?
Which one? The remake and the original take different views.
You forgot security.
Once MS stops patching holes in WinXP, you either have to move on, or run everything in a sandbox.
And when that happens, I will almost certainly move to Linux as my primary OS (right now, for various reasons, it is secondary).
In my opinion they are right.
The problem with Vista -now- really is primarily PR.
The launch kinks have mostly been worked out.
I've heard that one before.
The driver situation has significantly improved.
Which is why, last time I did a Vista install, both the printer and network drivers mysteriously disappeared a week later, only to mysteriously reappear the next day. New equipment, with Vista certified drivers, btw.
And the price of 'suitable hardware' has continued its downward trend.
Okay, I'll give you that one.
The only major obstacle in the face of Microsoft really is public perception that "Vista sucks"
and this perception exists, perhaps, because Vista really DOES suck?
I keep hearing that the problems with Vista have been solved, but every time (yes, EVERY time) I have tried Vista, or set it up for someone, I have had problems. I simply no longer believe any claims that Vista has been fixed.
Fine, I looked at the new features list. One or two interesting items, but nothing that makes me sit up and go "Gotta have it!"
I tossed it because it has such poor support for Win98 guests (no shared folders, or other tools). I run many older OSes as guests, so I'm sticking with VMWare.
It doesn't have to be that way.
You can take a basic app and write add-ons. Each customer that needs a new feature gets an add-on written (or possibly modified if there is an existing add-on that is close to what is needed). Customers only run the add-ons they need, keeping the interface uncluttered.
Don't people use auto-update?
The Recording Industry Association of America is declaring attorney-blogger Ray Beckerman a "vexatious" litigator and is seeking unspecified monetary sanctions to punish him in his defense of a New York woman accused of making copyrighted music available on the Kazaa file sharing system. The RIAA said Beckerman, one of the nation's few attorneys who defends accused file sharers, "has maintained an anti-recording industry blog during the course of this case and has consistently posted virtually every one of his baseless motions on his blog seeking to bolster his public relations campaign and embarrass plaintiffs," the RIAA wrote (.pdf) in court briefs. "Such vexatious conduct demeans the integrity of these judicial proceedings and warrants this imposition of sanctions.",
Beckerman is accused, among other things, of "providing false and misleading information and for unreasonably and vexatiously multiplying and prolonging this litigation."
How can they expect anyone to believe this crap?
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
