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| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4245 |  Eye of the Night (312) Jun 22, 2007 - 02:22 pm
| This kind of lottery is different from normal lotteries. Everyone is forced to participate, even if only those who pay are eligible for prices. People get the unsollicited risk of an emotionally damaging change to their social environment forced upon them - unless they pay up.
Lotteries like this should be forbidden. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16088 | Eye of the Night (312) Jun 22, 2007 - 04:40 am
| Iarsiq, as I said about performance there is the matter of *principle*. And most games don't run in Unix.
For power consumption, current flowing does not mean a constant power draw. Memory draws more power during read and write operations, while CPUs and GPUs draw more power under load than while idle. I do not want to waste energy - I do play games, but in those cases the energy drawn by CPU and GPU is made useful, not wasted. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16088 | Eye of the Night (312) Jun 21, 2007 - 08:06 am
| Iarsiq, it may be a little bit per program, but a lot of such programs together do add up big. The total difference in performance may end up being only 5-10% worse performance than without all that crap installed, but there is also the matter of principle. I should have the right to decide exactly what to install and what not to install on my PC, without whole bunches of crap being lumped together with an OS that is required by a lot of games.
Also, with the caching you mention, I hope I can configure somewhere what may and may not be cached. All that extra reading from the HD only serves to decrease the MTBF of my HDs, especially when programs are cached when I don't use them. Not to mention the energy it costs and the environmental impact. I can see Vista caching the whole time while my PC is on, all for naught as it all gets wiped from memory anyway when I shut down my PC to conserve power when I'm not using it. Did microsoft even consider the environmental impact when they thought of that particular feature? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16088 | Eye of the Night (312) Jun 21, 2007 - 07:24 am
| You assume wrong. I wouldn't mind have to select what to install. It also saves a bunch of crap I never use from getting installed and eating up system resources. Take Internet Explorer, for example. It preloads parts of itself into memory during windows start-up to start faster once the computer is running - even if you never use IE, it still adds to the computer boot time and occupies both memory and HD space. I don't want all that bloatware forcibly installed on me.
And considering people are making "light" windows install CDs, I'm not the only one. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15700 | Eye of the Night (312) May 29, 2007 - 11:52 am
| Of course its execs from the american branch of Nintendo that are slinging mud at the competition. I guess its the bad influence of american politics rubbing off on them.
Those execs should get a warning about this, to stop bad-mouthing competitors, and focus only on the strong points of Nintendo. Keep the competition clean and take the moral high ground. Flag this | Edit this post |
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