From 1981 to 2011 I have been using Tape Backups for my private, business and customer systems. It was cheap, reliable and fast, my first drive had 5MB with a transferrate of 20KB/s, my last drive hat 200GB with a transfer rate of 30MB/s.

But no more.

Drives are fucking expensive (and they die a lot), media are fucking expensive (and are no better than other media),

Lets say I could buy a drive with 2TB for â200 and a 2TB media for â10 or a 10TB for â500 and a 10TB media for â50 then I would at least consider using tape again.

But right now I pay â1600 for a 2TB drive and â40 for a 2TB catridge. Thats insane, I can buy 60TB of hard disk storage just for the drive alone and get another 2TB cheaper than buying tapes.

And trust me, hard drive stored in a dark, locked box will work even better than tapes.

I do not think SteamOS is of any relevance today. And it wont be important next year.

I do not think Steam 4 Linux is a perfect alternative to windows. And at best it will be a acceptable although rough alterantive to windows next year.

But I do now that Steam 4 Linux DOES deliver. Not big time but every month a little bit bigger. I bought over 200 games for Steam and even though I did care little about running games on Linux I still have over 60 games running on linux.

I did not expect that when Steam 4 Linux was announced.

So while Steam 4 Linux does NOT replace my windows game machine - a massive tower costing â1000 and eating 400W to give me bleeding edge results - it gives me two great bonuses:

I now have 60 games running on my el cheapo Notebook with Ubuntu which did cost me â300 and uses 30W. I can run another 140 games through Steam Remote gaming as long as my windows system is also running. I am planning to buy an el cheapo Nettop based on AMD Beema for â100, converting my Big-Screen TV into a gaming station. And I will get another one of these for my bed room.

There will be more games.

There will be better support.

Maybe we will see Steam directly installed into smart TVs. So I would not even need to add some el cheapo nettop box.

This will be slow like it has been for two years but maybe suddenly in five years I will say "ok lets play something different" and find it surprising that this game does not run on linux. Maybe I will even find it surprising that this game does need a extra computer instead of running directly on my TV.

Then I will open my Steam inventory and see that 80% of my games are available for Linux and are running natively on my TV. Then I will just wonder why I should bother for the other 20%. I will start to ignore these 20% and keep an old Windows system in the attic next to my Amiga and my C64 just in case I want to play these 20% again. Which I wont like I never played most Amiga games ever again.

Mission accomplished.

You simply do not understand how "cloud storage" works.

We had all this even back in the 1980ths, just using different buzz words. All these storage/service-solutions do a win-doublewin-bet, they do not aim at a short term profit, they try to claim their market share. As soon as the competitors start to fail and die or their architecture become dominating they will just raise prices or at least stop lowering them.

Seriously?

Apple is a company producing furniture for girls.

Apple is producing products for idiots and is therefore very successful.

Let me sum up, to produce crappy products for idiots you need to use knowledge not available to companies producing sane products for sane people.

The link in the articel seems to be broken and show chaotically formated text.

Please correct.

Has anyone figured out how to read that Crap Page Medium.com on a normal computer without getting headaches because the letters are pretty much ten times larger than useful?

Right now I have to disable ALL Javascript and then use a alternate CSS to make it readable in Firefox.

man this medium page is but guly.

giant fonts, no use of the screen.

bleark.

Man is that Medium.com Site buttugly. Giant Fonts, most parts of the page empty.

Bleark.

The amount of released CO2 simply does not matter because when the plant regrows it will absorb exactly the same amount again.

The only question is the total amount of CO2 in the biosphere, not the output of single reactions inside the biosphere. Reducing the total amount can be either done by "growing" more CO2 containers or store CO2 by industrial methods eg underground. The later sounds strange but works pretty well, a single plant with a 10MW power source can easily outperform a 100km forest in CO2 reduction.

> Steam is extremely heavy on OS X

Everything is extremely heavy on Macox. Coz it can not carry much.

> I avoid it if I can launch the game by itself

I avoid Macox too.

OMG that medium.com site is exceptionally hard to read. giant font, 90% empty screen. Butt Ugly.

I will avoid this shit as much as possible.

Actually x86 IS efficient for for something completely different. The architecture itself is totally unimportant as deep inside it is yet another micro code translator and doesn't differ significantly from PPC or Sparc nowadays.

x86 short instructions allow for highly efficient memory usage and for a much, much, much higher Ops per Cycle. This is just that big of a deal that ARM has created a short command version of ARM opcodes just to close in. But then this instruction set is totally incompatible and also totally ignored.

Short instructions do not matter on slow architectures like todays ARM world. These just want to safe power and therefore it fits in well that ARM also is a heavy user of slow in-order-execution.

A nice example, increasing a 64 bit register in x86 takes ONE byte and recent x86 CPUs can run this operation on different register up to 100 times PER CYCLE, all commands to be loaded in THREE to EIGHT Cycles from memory to cache. On the other hand, the same operation on ARM takes 12 bytes for a single increment operation, to load some dozend of these operations would take THOUSANDS of clock cycles.

And now you know why high end x86 is 20-50 times faster than ARM.

This is a fair offer but as an interesting fact, you could have gotten the Valve complete pack from a russian reseller for as low as 6-9 TF2 keys = 15 Dollar all day long.

http://store.steampowered.com/...
http://www.steamprices.com/us/...

As far as I remember in the whole history of civil nuclear power there were roughly 687 fatalities recorded by civil nuclear power, even if one includes cases of long term neglected diseases.

On the other hand, in the same time around 2.500.000 people died of hydropower with 250.000 alone in one major dam bust 40 years ago in china.

As nuclear power produced roughly 10 times as much energy in the same time based on "deaths per watt" hydropower is 35.000 times more lethal than nuclear power.

Tell this to the believers of the anti nuclear church and they will nail you to a cross... always look on the bright side of life...

the whole article is stupid to the bone.

1. todays active defense systems are already capable of only engaging objects on a dangerous course and ignoring all others.

2. spamming thousands of missiles over days wouldn't go unnoticed by the target of the attack. in other words, the attacker will get taken out before he has done any relevant damage.

3. there is no nation on earth able to spam thousands of missiles for extended periods.

Now lets discuss how many cute kittens one must throw against an AEGIS cruiser to overwhelm its defences.