My Aussie gamer friends are all on Internode, so there must be a reason.
I believe their ping is quite low to North America. (Something like 220ms for L4D - BigPond is apparently 250+ ms, in addition to their caps being horribly low)
Someone already commented that the Market app likely pushes such commands to your phone.
If true, then I have to ask - do you get any confirmation popups after clicking the install button? (I don't have an Android phone or device, so I wouldn't know)
They buy a Linux phone from an obscure company that is also barely usable as a phone, but at least completely hackable.
Nokia?
You only really need to support Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, and Suse?
Gentoo users will figure it out themselves.
Many distros have Ubuntu compatibility, so if it works in Ubuntu, it'll work for them. Ubuntu is by far the biggest target.
Who needs Steam? Better, who needs to cut Steam in for a cut for something Linux has native?
Short of a few indy devs, Linux users need Steam to bring them developers and publishers.
Whatever cut Steam takes, it's worth it.
I fully agree with you.
But I've been tinkering with Linux a lot recently, and wanted to point one thing out. Distros like PuppyLinux can actually save your session onto write-once multisession DVDs, so settings like your Wifi SSID and password can easily be saved/restored.
I totally agree about the loading times. I've wondered for a long time about why consoles lacked HDDs.
Two things. First - it sounds like you're in basically the same boat as us. (Canada)
CanadaPost/Purolator (Mail/Courier) are basically the best way to move stuff around up here. There is Fedex - but they cost a fair bit.
UPS is on-par with Purolator's pricing, but offers sub-par service. Most packages look like they were drop kicked. In recent months, they've started subcontracting all deliveries to Purolator where I live. DHL is better than UPS, but that doesn't say much.
Nothing beats Purolator for delivery condition (not even Fedex), and nothing beats Fedex for tracking.
Unlike the US, UPS is really bad up here. A great example of how much private corporations can suck. A couple times they've tried to deliver 5-sided boxes with packing peanuts and items leaking out, while requesting $40+ in on-delivery handling charges, for orders that should've cost nothing extra. Fees like that make them more expensive than Fedex, so it's no surprise that CanadaPost, Purolator, and Fedex are top dogs up here.
It's interesting that I've never received a DOA hard drive via Purolator. Newegg is full of DOA comments, so I wonder how much UPS and other sub-par couriers are thrashing your equipment?
Second, wouldn't a 2-5% increase in postage costs solve all of USPS's money woes? This isn't like taxes, where if it goes up, companies get creative. USPS has to deliver service in addition to low rates - if quality service and cheap prices are at the right mix, companies use them. If either one falls or rises too far, companies find alternatives. Raising rates won't lose any customers, as long as service stays good or improves, and they're still cheaper than most couriers. Keeping rates stable but reducing service will lose customers, which starts the downward spiral of less mail volume, leading to higher prices.
lawd that's a lot of movies in a month. Watching 3 a week is stretching it for me.
:/
"Watch" them, and head to Blockbuster on Monday evening.
He's ripping them to HDD. At the end of the month, he has nearly enough movies to last a year.
Micropayments are any payment where the traditional transaction fee makes up a large percentage of the payment.
So for Paypal, a $1.00 transaction would have about 33% overhead. Anything over ~20% I consider a micropayment - but this would vary from person to person.
It's a bit silly... I suspect they could still rake in cash even if they only charged $0.01 per transaction.
As expected, Nintendo is using a severely underpowered chip that is at least 5 years obsolete in pure technological terms.
It seems to have more actual vertex shading power than the iPhone 3GS.
In this market, going for streamlined capabilities and lower power consumption probably beats DirectX 10.1 support. (which the SGX535 only has in theory - there's no drivers out to provide such capabilities?)
I'm interested in seeing how much RAM they stick on it. Since they're Nintendo, I'll bet on... 64-128MB.
Don't worry - VIA is still pushing out hardware that meets your requirements. Parallel, Serial - PCI and PCIe!
US: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138187
Canada: http://pccyber.com/?v=Product&i=MB-BS-VIOTECH3100%2B
Although in all seriousness, boards with PCI ports won't stop being produced overnight. You'll only have issues if you need a board with lots of them. Companies like Asus are still pushing out boards with a couple PCI ports.
Here's a passive heatsink board with 1, and a GF7025 board with 2:
http://ncix.com/products/?sku=50891&vpn=AT5NM10-I&manufacture=ASUS
http://ncix.com/products/?sku=50891&vpn=AT5NM10-I&manufacture=ASUS
How about user licensing? $36/yr per user, giving you access to whatever version of Windows you need, on however many PCs you own?
It's stable income, and a good deal for power users. I know they give OEMs steep discounts - this would put more profit back in their pockets, assuming people would go for subscription software.
Wireless N router, or Wireless N modem? I hate those combo units.
Right now I'm using a SpeedTouch 516 modem. It has one ethernet port. It works well with my ADSL, and I can stick wireless routers, gigabit switches, etc. behind it.; I'm tired of ISPs trying to pack everything into those all-in-one units, usually in a poor fashion that requires bi-weekly rebooting.
P.S. Where did my AJAX comment box go? For some reason slashdot started loading new pages whenever I click on comments? Ugh...!
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup!
I suspect it's more than 5%. Most gamers care, as would most people doing software development, or anything involving VMs. 10-15% would be a more reasonable estimate.
You also have to factor in people getting "that computer guy" to build their PCs for them.
The sum of the Universe is zero.
