It's been reverse-engineered. Isn't that supposed to be legal?

You sad, sad person.

Labour is an end in itself. Producing is what differences us from animals. Read some Marx.

If you're living just for the money, you're doing it wrong. Or right, according to what this society wants to turn you into.

In Argentina,

A PS3 costs about 900 US dollars.
A Wii costs about 600 US dollars.
I don't know the figure for a 360, but it must be around 800~900 US dollars.

And a PS3 game must cost about 150 dollars or something like that (don't have the exact figures, either, but seeing how most good but old PS2 games are about 100 dollars...).

I've asked a friend of mine who traveled to the US to bring me a Nintendo DS (even got a 20% discount on it!), and with an R4 I'm able to play almost all games for a fraction of what would cost to buy them legally here (A DS is about 250~300 US dollars, no idea about the games but most unofficial retailers package a flashcard for about 25 extra dollars).

Console and game prices are bullshit on this side of the world. Stop fucking whining, Nintendo.

"Privative" is probably just a direct translation from "privativo", which is the word used in Spanish for "proprietary". Cut the dude some slack.

It's DDR1 (more expensive) and it's the machine at my workplace.

But the point was to show that Windows XP performance isn't suited for 128 MiB of RAM.

In my work machine with 512 MB of RAM, spoiled by the multitasking I'm accustomed to in my home machine, I've got Windows dropping over 700 MB of virtual memory on the page file. When I had 512 MB of RAM on my desktop (a couple of months ago), with even higher usage I barely slipped over 400 MB of swap space used.

With my kind of usage, it's sluggish as hell, especially if you tend to multitask a lot (say thanks to Windows' "Oh, let's nice all minimized apps!" mentality). On 512 MB of RAM.

There are, you know, other DEs or window manager which are designed exactly to work on that kind of hardware. Xfce being the most prominent one (my mom uses it on her Pentium I 500 with 128 MiB of RAM).

Aw, come on. Most consumers are idiots. The Black Friday death surely shows so. That you believe you bought the iPhone for an actual reason doesn't mean Joe Average did so.

The GPL is there for a reason.

Yes you are!

So... if you do the benchmarks on PCs that don't have a GPU that can decode H264, is it still a bullshit benchmark?

GPUs have nothing to do with video decoding, it's handled 100% by the CPU. At least until we get a software that can reliably take advantage of the relatively recent introduction of h264 decoding on some high-end GPUs.

Tell me about it. I routinely have to dive into an old AIX server that only has ksh, not bash, and man does it drive me insane. Not only it doesn't support tab completion, it doesn't even support standard history recall! Pressing up just moves the cursor up and sends the escape character to the console, resulting in a garbage command.

locate is a wonderful tool. Learn it, use it, love it.

find is especially useful when dealing with a huge number of files. I once had to copy a crapload of files (over 12000) from a specific directory in one of our client's server to another directory, and cp was outright refusing to take so many arguments.

I solved it with find . -exec cp {} /path/to/directory \;, since this way cp would execute on one file at the time.