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It doesn't happen as often, but back in the day id coded games cross-platform, and certainly beyond casual games.
Sort of. But really they're just chucking polygons to a graphics card, that's not too big of a deal. It took a while to get Doom and Quake on the Mac. Linux Doom came out pretty quickly but if I rememeber you couldn't even use the mouse, and when you could it sucked.
Dell is very cheap (except for disk drive upgrades), very fast, and their on-site, same-day service is excellent.
You should see what Rackspace wants to increase your monthly fees by, if you increase your server RAM from 24GB to 48GB. I figured even if they want to charge us 'Dell Prices' for the upgrade, hell even 'Apple prices' , I'd be fine with that. But they want to increase your fee EVERY MONTH because you have a more powerful server.
Our data has grown 50% in the last 24 months, and buying 48GB would have been incredibly expensive at the time. But I wasn't here so I didn't get to spec out the machine and just ship it to them.
We simply block traffic from China, Russia, South America, and a couple other countries based on IP. Cuts down on spam, scans/bots, and we don't have any customers from there anyway.
An un-loaded gun is pretty useless.
Half the time, ex-military also means ex-Kentucky trailer dweller.
Dell has offered that resolution on laptops since the Pentium III days. Now the world has gone crazy with 1366x768 or whatever that horrible, glossy, wide-screen resolution is.
Being able to upload a file via FTP might be all you need to run an exploit and get root access. Or download the password file. Maybe get the password by sniffing an FTP session that is also used in another part of the system.
Duke also had more colors than green and brown.
You forgot about DJGPP and CWSDPMI, and Tran's PMODE
Why would anyone in their right mind use Mac OS 7/8/9 for a webserver?
And why would you use OS X to do the same? Linux is free, performs better, runs on more hardware...
OS X is wonderful but it doesn't make sense as webserver.
Very underpowered for Quake. The 100MHz+ 486's kind of worked, but you really needed at least a Pentium 75MHz or better.
486/66 was fine for Doom, though... Then again he said it was an upgraded 486/33 so it probably wasn't at it's full potential and probably had a shit video card.
They don't have the manpower and budget to setup, much less maintain all those machines.
I configured a PC this morning, Dell wants $820 for the 8GB RAM option. This isn't a server with ECC memory, just a desktop. Crucial charges $219 for the 8GB kit. A 1TB hard drive is $219! I can buy 3 of them for that price.
And like it was already said, you can't get over 3GB or 4GB without buying the high-end machine with all the other expensive options you don't want.
But, it's hard to beat Dell when you want to order 25 computers and need them here by Thursday. And for $499 you get a decent speced machine with a 3-year warranty.
The left/right movement inside the Flash game isn't very good. There's too long of a delay. It sounds minor, but it throws the game off a lot. Just like some of the home-made Mario Brothers clones, if the gameplay feel when running and jumping isn't PERFECT, it's very bad. 'Close' doesn't even feel right.
Other than that, it's very impressive.
Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much.
