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Comment Re:What is the point (Score 1) 283

Because right or wrong, there are a large amount of people who wont play a computer game because its too "nerd like".

That's crazy-talk. You're right that they want to exploit the existing fan base *and* non-gamers who may wander in, but this has nothing to do with the War On Nerds.

The article says that judging by the IMDB page, its set during the first contact war, so they wouldn't be having to ruin everyones Shepard on them if they did make the film.

My Shepard is female, because I don't like watching guy's butts when I play video games for hours on end. I doubt they will cast a female Shepard.

Comment Re:Much as I love Linux .... (Score 1) 222

One more way to help the average consumer save on energy costs.

Except you pay for it in maintenance fees, not to mention up-front cost. I recently had a problem with my gas heater - the 'starter' went out. Since when do gas heaters have starters? The repair man said it was to save on energy. Okay, but what do I now have to pay him for replacing something I otherwise could have fixed with a match?

Comment Re:questions (Score 1) 102

The size is going to be mostly textures, sounds, models, etc. The binary itself cannot be shared across applications, but it's going to be fairly small. Third parties cannot install a 'shared object' or 'DLL' on iOS.

Comment Re:Registry is bad, but not for the reasons you th (Score 2, Insightful) 645

It's natural to want them to have the same %USERPROFILE% (read $HOME) on a fileserver somewhere, and on Unix, that works just fine. But under Windows, when the user logs into machine A, the system will lock ntuser.dat (the file containing the registry), which prevents the user logging in under machine B. Application-specific configuration files that are locked only during actual changes don't have this problem.

Not to derail your insightful post, but this is one of the main reasons I switched to linux. You can actually place system folders on different partitions so that 1. fragmentation of cat pictures doesn't slow down the OS, 2. the OS can be wiped while retaining user data. It used to take me a whole day to force Windows to install like that - where Documents were on one partition and Program Files were on another, pagefile was on another, etc. That was several years ago, and now I tried doing some of the same thing in Windows 7 and broke my Windows Updates because they rely on things being on the same partition /even if you create a junction point/. It's like Microsoft is just relying on drives getting bigger, faster, and more reliable than actually doing something intelligent with their OS file system layout.

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