Comment Re:Pretty easy (Score 2, Informative) 633
Consumer grade optical media degrade when stored. Planning to exceed 15 years is a huge gamble
Comment Dead space no remappable keys (Score 5, Insightful) 330
Having trouble making a good conversion from pad to keyboard is one thing, but not being able to remap the keys is just stupid.
Comment Another selling point for double parity (Score 3, Insightful) 227
Another thing with RAID arrays that have quiete a few drives is, you have no method of correcting a flipped bit. You need at least RAID6 to correct these errors. With such vast amounts of data, a flipped bit isn't that unlikely.
Comment Re:Lenovo has officially jumped the shark (Score 1) 186
The Thinkpad SL series ist your average walmart consumer notebook, theres almost nothing left of the original thinkpad glory in that one.
Comment Understatement (Score 4, Informative) 403
"A little more speed" ? how a bout a lot more speed ? Putting the OS on a quality SSD gave lots of people immense performance gains.
Comment Vista is going the Windows ME way (Score 1) 309
A few nice features added but easily outweighted by too much crap that only pissed off the end user.
Comment Producing for consoles will dumb it down (Score 2, Insightful) 102
The originality of the first 2 Thief titles will never be possible when the game is dunbed down for the console generation.
Just look at Bioshock which was supposed to be the spiritual successor of the beloved System Shock series.
Another victim of the consoles is Deus Ex 2 which I consider a sibling title of Thief 3, same studio, same problems due to console restraints.
Just look at Bioshock which was supposed to be the spiritual successor of the beloved System Shock series.
Another victim of the consoles is Deus Ex 2 which I consider a sibling title of Thief 3, same studio, same problems due to console restraints.
Comment Re:What will happen to Btrfs (Score 1) 117
On the positive side, a properly implemented ZFS in Linux would be awesome.
Comment Come on (Score 2, Insightful) 1582
A good april fools is less obvious
Comment Sony Arrogance (Score 1) 616
The PS3 has more Potential (tm)
Demanding devs to code multithreaded in Assembly when the competitor is around the next corner with proven design is ridiculous.
It will take some more years for developers to get better abstraction tools for the architecture, and by then the next xbox will be out.
Red Hat Enlists Community Help To Fight Patent Trolls 166
Stickster writes "Back in 2007, IP Innovation filed a lawsuit against Red Hat and Novell. IP Innovation is a subsidiary of Acacia Technologies. You may have heard of them — they're reported to be the most litigious patent troll in the USA, meaning they produce nothing of value other than money from those whom they sue (or threaten to sue) over patent issues. They're alleging infringement of patents on a user interface that has multiple workspaces. Hard to say just what they mean (which is often a problem in software patents), but it sounds a lot like functionality that pretty much all programmers and consumers use. That patent was filed back on March 25, 1987 by some folks at Xerox/PARC, which means that prior art dated before then is helpful — and art dated before March 25, 1986 is the most useful. (That means art found in a Linux distribution may not help, seeing as how Linus Torvalds first began the Linux kernel in 1991.) Red Hat has invited the community to join in the fight against the patent trolls by identifying prior art. They are coordinating efforts through the Post Issue Peer to Patent site, which is administered by the Center for Patent Innovations at the New York Law School, in conjunction with the US Patent and Trademark Office."
Comment Re:Heh (Score 2, Insightful) 86
It is about the target audience. WoW is played by the masses, Vanguard aims at the old hardcore Everquest crowd. One of VGs main problems was that there wasn't enough gaming content for them so they quickly abandoned the game.
Comment Mirroring is not intended as a data backup (Score 3, Informative) 711
It is an inexpensive protection against a total harddisc failure, but effective at this part.
A software going rogue or a user deleting the wrong files can't be helped by it.
Comment Re:Wait a year (Score 1) 371
Microsoft maybe won't make it to the top 20 in the worlds most evil things/entities/whatever, but easily into the top 5 of the most evil of the IT buisiness.
