This one just in:

ARM is starting to become more competitive and some people think their portables are adequate ;D

I guess one thing which may have changed is that the supposedly "PC gamers" and what is the average there may have decreased / isn't even counted for any more because so many have moved to more portable stuff so what one view as a "serious PC rig" as among the best there is out there whereas previously maybe the consoles was compared to a PC more people had.

AKA compare the Xbox One to a tablet and you won't be disappointed by the performance ..

EA made their claim how the PCs couldn't run the new FIFA 14 engine, some people are like WHAT?! but the thing is likely that yeah, the most dedicated gamers with the latest and most expensive gear could run it. But most people is either lagging the latest technology simply by when they bought their rig or they have a reasonably priced laptop or something such and that's not the latest and greatest gaming PCs and is inferior to the Xbox One and Playstation 4.

FWIV - Also 1080p games and with possibly more details and AA would still of course be nicer than 720.

Xbox, 2001-2002. 64 MB 200 MHz DDR shared graphics memory, 733 MHz PIII-ish, 233 MHz NV2A.
Geometry engine: 115 million vertices/second, 125 million particles/second (peak)
932 megapixels/second (233 MHz Ã-- 4 pipelines), 1,864 megatexels/second (932 MP Ã-- 2 texture units) (peak)
(CPU random page 3 GLFOPS, GPU? Nvidia supposedly claim 80, some Xbox book say 22 in total.)

Xbox 360, 2005-2006, 512 MB 700 MHz GDDR3, 3,2 GHz Tri-Core PowerPC, 500 MHz Xenos, 500 MHz 10 MiB eDRAM.
Maximum vertex count: 6 billion vertices per second, 240 GFLOPS
Maximum pixel fillrate: 16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4X multisample anti aliasing. Maximum texel fillrate: 8 gigatexels per second (16 textures Ã-- 500 MHz)

Xbox One, 2013-2014, 8 GB DDR3, 1.75 GHz Octo-core AMD APU, 853 MHz AMD GCN, 32 MB ESRAM.
1.31 TFLOPS.
"Xbox One supports 4K resolution (3840Ã--2160) (2160p) video" (So for something like "New super mario bros" I guess 4K wouldn't had been impossible.)

I don't know how much you can trust the numbers but from the claimed GFLOPS numbers Xbox One with be 5.5 * Xbox 360 which would be 3 * Xbox.

But it took 4 years to get to Xbox 360 and 8 years to get to Xbox One.

Still obviously better.
Previously my impression was that consoles use close to top of the line hardware when released and as is I don't see the AMD APU as such, but it's still GTX 650-650TI area and more GK106 GTX 660 for the PS4 (looking at gflops alone.)

That isn't the best you can get but it just recently was the "reasonable budget high-end" or something such, isn't the 760 still same GPU but higher clocked? Sure going all the way to 770/780/R290X may be worth it from a price/performance perspective but it's still up there.

People have problem enough running QHD games with one graphics card. Gaming (advanced looking game) isn't something which would happen with current gen graphics so that's totally out of the question.

"There's a bunch of fighter jets in my pickled cucumbers!"

But your comment is!

(Damn is weird, I wondered what page I was on, if it was some blog post I had ended up in or whatever.) .. no html quote tag in it either? I'll keep it and post this way anyway just to show how stupid it is.

Rocketpacks have been around for long, they run out quickly though.

Jetpacks I think they also used later. (One of the guys really into it died (I don't think it was from the pack.))

As in can it shot down missiles or not? And if so which ones?

That goat.cx-guy?

I'll be known as ...

... Cowboy Neal!

It's dark outside.

It's night.

This wouldn't help me get to bed earlier anyway so why bother. (~04:42 local time as if it matters.)

As long as all they need is a browser they will be fine. ... heck, even SteamOS would be a better choice.

I kinda get the impression that possibly in the US the rich rules politics and in Russia the politicians rule the rich.

Whichever is better? ..

No, just privatizing the resources and have the rich buy the rights to them and the production. .. If the people of Ã...land decided they wanted to be part of Sweden rather than Finland or had Alaska not belonging to USA and they voted to become part of the USA had that been much of a problem?

I guess the real problem is Russia put troops there but then again without that happening they likely wouldn't have had the chance to vote. I'm not into what happened with the riots, coup and new government but the old was democratically elected wasn't it? And the US had interests in Ukraine getting closer to the west and who knows what they did to help the events which happened.

The US priority isn't to make everyone happy and help everyone. Their interest is to help themselves. It's the same for Russia. The US want to be everywhere and be the preferred ally because they believe that benefits them.

But now I don't know the true story and I live to far away from Ukraine and I can't really expect to get the correct information either from US or Russian officials. Last news was that even the government of the US get the correct information from the CIA.

That's a silly comment considering Gnome 3 is made to have extensions isn't it?

It would be like saying Irssi is a poor IRC client because some functionality other IRC clients includes in the binary isn't there without additional scripts.

The thing is not everyone will need them, want them, prefer the same things and so on.

So there's nothing wrong with making stuff scriptable and changeable.

If Gnome3 showed nothing than the old diagonally black and white crossed screen with black and white popup menus it could still be good if that was the default and you could add anything you wanted on top.

Personally I haven't used either of Windows 7 or 8 but I doubt I'd have an issue with either and would be able to use both.. Or Gnome3 if I took the time to learn how the user interface worked to begin with. My reaction to Gnome3 atm is somewhat like what I can imagine a Windows user reaction would be with CDE.

Since everyone is different and since the people within psychology want to be able to describe everyone and everything as far as the mind goes of course people will be described by various titles/diagnosed as belonging to this or that personal trait.

Not that weird, "nerds" (not full-blown autism? But still placed under the same umbrella for some reason) have likely always existed but they was likely just seen as such or labeled as such.