Comment: Re:Oh really? (Score 1) 143
at 9 bucks a month, you could have had xbox live gold for 22 months. Add in the extra power, and your supposed savings seem pretty small, a few cents a day, at most.
Comment: Re:Linux fanboys are funny (Score 1) 429
I'm sure it's the geek factor... not the fact that M$ has a gross portion of the market share and that's why malware writers focus on Windoze more than anything.
It's more likely both.
Comment: Re:Come on, folks, OPEN YOUR EYES! (Score 0) 191
Justin Bieber isn't American either, he's Canadian. So you're wrong and a bigot to boot
Why BioWare's Star Wars MMO May Already Be Too Late 328
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from the i-find-your-lack-of-faith-disturbing dept.
Since the announcement of Star Wars: The Old Republic, many gamers have been hopeful that its high budget, respected development team and rich universe will be enough to provide a real challenge to the WoW juggernaut. An opinion piece at 1Up makes the case that BioWare's opportunity to do so may have already passed. Quoting:
"While EA and BioWare Austin have the horsepower needed to at least draw even with World of Warcraft though, what we've seen so far has been worryingly conventional — even generic — given the millions being poured into development. Take the opening areas around Tython, which Mike Nelson describes in his most recent preview as being 'rudimentary,' owing to their somewhat generic, grind-driven quest design. Running around killing a set number of 'Flesh Raiders' in a relatively quiet village doesn't seem particularly epic, but that's the route BioWare Austin seems to be taking with the opening areas for the Jedi — what will surely be the most popular classes when The Old Republic is released. ... the real concern, though, is not so much in the quest design as in BioWare Austin's apparent willingness to play follow the leader. Whenever something becomes a big hit — be it a movie, game or book — there's always a mad scramble to replicate the formula; in World of Warcraft's case, that mad scramble has been going for six years now. "
Comment: Re:If Linux wants to have broader adoption... (Score 1) 645
Compared to the constantly moving target that is the Linux ABI (or lack thereof).
Give me a break
Comment: Re:Why not? (Score 1) 645
Because we are comparing Windows to Linux:
- Provision of real, available, phone-based technical support
And who is to do this? Can you call Microsoft to get help with your problems, without being IT head of a big company having big contracts? I have never heard of anyone being able to do so. Support always comes from the community: friends, family, and even the shop they bought the computer from. But not from the maker.
- Real, complete documentation
Admittedly I have never really dived into Windows documentation, but the "trouble shooting" wizards have never been helpful for me.
And if you're thinking of documentation of applications... I bet it's as bad for Windows as it is for Linux as it's the developer (person or company) that has to make it!
anybody can phone Microsoft for support, and have been able to for decades. You get 2 free support calls for Windows XP/Vista/Seven, after that, I think it's 49 bucks per incident. If you did not know that MS has vast technical support via phone, chat and email, you have no right to be even posting. That's one of the reasons businesses like MS, the support options. As far as documentation is concerned, MSDN and technet are massive, searchable and filled with with more documentation than anyone would ever need.
Comment: Re:Article summary (Score 2, Interesting) 444
Have you used SQL Server? I thought not.
Comment: Re:And yet they're still the only cards... (Score 1) 412
my AMD 3650 suspends just fine, and is very functional under Linux. I'm not sure how they can have "no functional support at all". On my laptop, with an Intel gpu, it suspends and hibernates just fine, so I'm not sure how that is primitive.
Feel free to explain what you mean.
Comment: Re:Terrorism (Score 1) 156
Uh, wtf are you going on about?
Comment: Re:Terrorism (Score 1) 156
The Israelis lost that country 3000 years ago, that would be like giving the US back to the Natives. Are you willing to give up your home for the same principles? Thought not.