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Comment Re:It wasn't time (Score 1) 663

Basically, Windows 7 is great and there aren't super compelling features or changes that warrant an upgrade, yet. If Windows 7 sucked like Vista or ME, then there would have been more of a drive to upgrade.

It doesn't really matter though. New computers are being bought and sold all the time and the transition to 8 will continue. It certainly isn't an upgrade that has people running out to buy boxed copies, but when people decide its time for a new computer, they'll make the switch.

Comment Re:no more donuts for Gabe... (Score 1) 768

I don't think people are rationally examining this and are caught up in the hype.

The bulk of the steam catalog and nearly all of the AAA titles are made by companies other than Valve. A large portion of these games utilize DirectX and there is little evidence that Valve could convince companies to undertake the porting of these games to Linux. Given that most games don't run on Linux, his claim that Linux is better for gaming is fucking laughable.

Learn to read between the lines; Valve is butthurt about the Windows App Store and are throwing a temper tantrum.

Comment Re:Yet another Apple "standard" (Score 0, Troll) 311

Bullshit from somebody who doesn't remember correctly.

The main push for USB adoption came with the release of Windows 98, released in May of 1998.

The iMac was released in August of 1998 and although it was one of the best selling Macs of all time, it is largely insignificant compared to the hundreds of millions of Windows machines sold at the same time.

Comment I'd just like to interject for a moment. (Score -1, Offtopic) 231

What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Comment Zzzz (Score 1) 41

I can't imagine anything more sleep inducing than a podcast of a kernel mailing list. You better include a warning not to listen while driving or operating machinery.

Amiga

Submission + - Amiga in an FPGA released under GPL (hetnet.nl) 2

exolon42 writes: This is a mandatory read for every (former or current) Amiga hacker. You have to give it to the Dutch: tulips, cheese, and now a guy named Dennis has recreated the original Amiga chipset in a Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA, and recently released all sources under the GPL to boot! This includes the design of a PCB containing the FPGA, the required MC68000 and normal PC-style hardware connectors so you can build your own. A thought-provoking fact is that the Verilog-sources for the recreated chips (Denise, Paula, Agnus etc.) are only around 500-1000 lines each... chips in the eighties didn't contain 1 billion transistors!

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