First of all, Windows RT is a runtime. Secondly, this is the pricing for a *device*, not an operating system. Thirdly, Microsoft's own Win8 tablet is retailing for $200. Who let this idiot put this up?

Anyone who *actually* games wants to know who the fuck cares about underpowered Intel video card drivers. Oh, it will be able to play 5 year old Valve games? WHOOPTY-FUCKING-DOO.

Perhaps you forgot about the time, years ago, when the FOSS crowd courted ATI, saying "Release your specs! The FOSS community will do the rest!" What did ATI do? They released the specs. An opensource driver was born, and it's an unstable, slow piece of shit. When these FOSS folks realized they weren't technically competent enough to actually create a driver for a modern GPU architecture, they went back to demonizing ATI for not releasing their proprietary driver under a free license.

What's the moral of the story here? Just because something is open source doesn't mean "the community" is going to be able to do shit about it. Intel wants to point and say, "Look! Intel GPU can play 5 year old valve games!" Valve wants to say, "Look, Linux is a viable gaming platform!" At the end of the day, it's totally irrelevant to people who want to play new games on modern GPU's.

>And yes, I'm using both preload and readahead on the Linux system, so don't give me the "Windows uses RAM to store things it will need in the future" because my Linux does as well. If you're *only* using 231MB of 16 gigabytes, you're not caching nearly as many things as it could/should be. The only point you make is that Linux is terrible at putting your system's resources to good use.

Open source drivers for what platform, now? Less knee-jerks, more summary.

Funny how Valve just *loves* Linux now that Microsoft threatens their primary business model. Meanwhile, John Carmack, who supported Linux before it was trendy and cool and has no financial incentive to shit all over Microsoft claims that Linux is not a good platform for games. Gee, I wonder who I should believe?!?!

You are aware that the PS3 architecture is notoriously difficult to develop for, right? Bethesda should be given a medal for getting Skyrim running on a system with a single general purpose processor and 256 megabytes of system RAM.

Oh, I get it. Your life (understandably) is so boring, drab, and uneventful that you convince yourself that you're living in a dystopian novel. You then go on the internet trying to convince anyone who isn't needlessly indignant that they should be, and if they arent, then SHEEPLE, blah blah blah. You guys crack me up.

I've traveled a fair amount and have had no issues with the TSA. "The internet" loves having things to be indignant about, and TSA was the golden child in that regard for a long time. Apparently, some of you are still holding onto it.

No seriously, good. Chronic torrenters use a disproportionately high amount of bandwidth compared to other people. Your desire to attain every single movie released in the past 30 years in high def shouldn't affect my typical internet usage that we pay the same amount of money for.

Any service with a commenting section is full of people projecting their anger and insecurities on others. Given the nature of slashdot, it's particularly bad here.

In fairness, twitter isn't usable in opera either because it is unable to process so many lines of non semi-colon delimited javascript statements.

Exactly. The comment was way too obvious. Neckbeards are easily trolled.

Except that it is released, and you can go try it now. The UI is clean and responsive, at least that much is true. Not that any of the sexually repressed, RMS clones that troll slashdot have any interest in sharing an objective opinion regarding anything that isn't linux circa 4 years ago.

This is all you need to know about sexual harassment and how to prevent it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVuAGFcGKY

Please bless us with the specs of your 4-year old $300 PC so we can all point and laugh at the big, fat liar.