Either CM is making that quote up or he got the negative attention he deserves and is trying to save face.
I'd guess it's the latter.
N64 *is* a little underpowered for a system coming out in 1996, but honestly it's powerful enough. We've reached a bit of a plateau with graphics on consoles. PS and Saturn games look *damn good*. If the N64 can do that, people will be happy.
The bigger problem for the N64 is that I think the console market has changed. People have SO MANY gaming options these days that game consoles just aren't as interesting as they used to be. Especially for the price. Nintendo wants to sell this thing for $250.00, but that buys you a Nomad.
Nintendo, Sony, and Sega need to realize that they don't have the gaming market to themselves anymore. Not like they used to, anyway. And in this economy, cost is king. If they think they are going to be selling new consoles for $250, they are nuts.
Honestly, I think that both Sony and Sega should keep their current consoles alive indefinitely. I mean, why not? Keep lowering the price, and keep them alive. I'd love to be able to pick up an fully-loaded PS with a G Con gun for $100 in 2001, and still have new games coming out for it. Like I said, we've reached a bit of a plateau with consoles. Why not stay on that plateau for a while?
^ TFTFY
It's why you're better off to wait for jesus to return than the mythical "year of linux desktop".
You should RTFM before posting this heresy. man revelation states that the mark of the beast is linux kernel 6.6.6, which predates the Second Coming of Christ. Older print manuals invoked kernel 6.1.6, but that turned out to be an error with a possessed dot matrix printer.
The point was that if you don't trust them you should not use Ubuntu because they make it and thus have root access. I think that's a legitimate point to make.
The (sensible) objections to Shuttleworth's comments all hedge on the fact that he's muddling different aspects of privacy and control over a machine with "got r00t?". Yes, those installing Ubuntu connect to Canonical repos to update their system, and there's a whole chain of trust that goes back to Debian, linux kernel devs, et al.
However, the root user (or user in
The worry here is the same worry people have with Google's tight integration with Android. Except in this example, Canonical drinks ur milkshake or hands it off to Amazon (with the promise of other data-miners in the future). Having this functionality and monetary incentive tightly tied to the desktop of a major distro is a threat to freedom and privacy, although how big remains to be seen...I have a feeling it won't get too far because of community outrage, or Ubuntu will lose more ground to Mint, etc.
This is one of the many reasons to install Trisquel as a base system and then add repos as appropriate. You know they'll strip out any crap like this, if not stay away from Unity completely.
As well as Wyoming, only state where I have been passed while going over 100mph.
You apparently need to spend more time on the East Coast. I've been passed by motorcycles weaving through traffic, going that speed.
^ ambiguity of English grammar
As well as Wyoming, only state where I have been passed while going over 100mph.
You apparently need to spend more time on the East Coast. I've been passed by motorcycles weaving through traffic, going that speed.
I have been reporting that problem for a while, but they just assume that I am an idiot who just doesn't know how to use a computer.
My fix is switching to the 3.4 kernel on the Eee PCs at work, and the Intel graphics problems go away. Needless to say, switching to a bleeding-edge kernel can break things, so be cautious.
I'd try this PPA first with a LiveCD: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa
Section "Device"
Identifier "intel"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
EndSection
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
