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Comment Re:Go to silentpcreview.com (Score 1) 229

And their forums are an awesome resource.

I recently made a 'quiet-ish' gaming HTPC. It has all top-of-the-line hardware in a smaller form-factor case (antec nsk24800). I had to mod the case, the VGA card, and the heatsink to get everything fitting and decently cooled. Was it worth it? Probably not... but it makes the geek in me happy. My final build photos are here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=62147

Comment Re:Still alive?! (Score 1) 156

Mandriva 2011 supports KDE only, no GNOME mess here.

I'm a huge Mandriva fan. I've been using it for 8+ years in some way or another. And I'm also a huge Gnome fan.

Will I hate my life if I try to stick with Mandriva + Gnome? Am I better off switching distros?

Comment Re:Yikes (Score 1) 616

Solution: Use Objective C. It's a better language. It makes more sense. It has a better design philosophy. There is usually only one or two correct ways to do something, rather than C++ where you have a million options and a hundred third party libraries and each has its own object model.

Comment Re:Sad day for WebOS (Score 1) 514

People have enough crap that they play with instead of paying attention to the road, now they're going to be swiping through multiple cards on their in-dash systems looking for things while careening down the highway? Wonderful....

My 2009 "luxury" car has a terrible UI where the radio should be. If the next generation has good software, I'd be more than happy. What I would like to see, though, are touch screens in the middle of the steering wheel so you don't have to turn your head to navigate through the menus. People are going to do this anyway, so may as well make it less dangerous.

Comment Re:Yes, for now (Score 1) 456

I bet a few Twitter project managers have been sleepless lately.

Apple just integrated Twitter into iOS 5 (which is still in beta, but soon to be released). Considering Apple's antagonism with Google, G+ probably will not receive such first-tier treatement.

Comment Re:No way... (Score 2) 242

I think the problem is that more people would put up with that kind of crap for "their dream job programming teh games". Just like illegal immigrants put up with crap to "live in teh americas".

And possibly also the personality type that's attracted to making games. That's usually the type that "I like games, so I will learn how to program" rather than "I like to program, so maybe I will program games". In my experience the former ain't as smat.

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