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For anybody that doesn't believe me; http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Warrior-Pc/dp/B00FJS28QM/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1456966624&sr=8-4&keywords=shadow+warrior and http://www.gog.com/game/shadow_warrior

It depends how serious they are about the 'only 5 left in stock' thing. (Of course, GOG regulars would wait for a sale anyway. Apparently I got it at 75% off back in December 2013.)

Wasn't that game recently 90% off on GOG as part of some sale? I think the price was something like $4 at the time.

Jealousy. Not that it's very applicable these days since most carriers offer "free" iPhones but old feelings die hard and the 4chan crowd is full of folks who wouldn't have afforded iPhone when it was a rich person's toy. The iPhone represents lazy consumer culture to them now so they still get some glee from watching "sheep" brick their devices.

A little column A and a little column B

maybe someone at apple thought they wern't selling enough and told the world some little white lie to sell more.

everthing seems to go through google, and therefore if everyone is browsing the web you then get a google bottleneck, their servers can't handle the load, so they start to timeout, but web pages still try to load google script. they don't seem to be able to skip google if its not there.

This whole UEFI idea is utterly PoS. I'm an old-school BIOS fan.

Tell me about it. Allowing software running in the OS to screw with firmware is a bad idea as far as security goes. To mess with firmware, you should need to boot into a utility in the existing firmware. Of course, if you're with a spy agency, such a feature is a dream-come-true if you want to permanently root target computers.

Prior to this, it was on 4.1, now its on 5.1. (this is several versions newer and better) Its almost like the community cares more about updating products than the manufacturer, and all the attempts to lock things down are to force you to get a new one prematurely.

Yeah Cyanogenmod is a cool OS, if you want to go complete google free this is one way to do that.

CM is also great for older devices because there's no crapware. A lot of Android devices come with crapware, but its worse than it ever was on Windows because you can't easily get rid of the crapware on Android like you can on Windows.

Depends who's computer it is, I guess.

Absolutely hilarious, regardless of computer ownership.

I believe MJ12 encountered the same problem...

I personally would like to see the PS4 become a hybrid console/compact gaming PC, so that's why I'm excited about this.

hmm, who has got a PS4 and some basic linux skills, would love to see this..

Imagine TDM running on a Beowulf cluster of PS4s!

Thats why I have a box full of them, lol.

haha same here - I have a full drawer of technical stuff of which I don't remember its purpose xD

hmm, which make, model of the hardware...?

I think AMD is doing this with all their drivers, am I right?

Yes, but NVIDIA does it too. I actually yank the network cord, or I switch off the modem before launching an install if I'm on an unpatched machine. I mean, we pay hundreds for the hardware and they still show us ads. Far as I can tell, the NVIDIA one fetches ads over the net, because the screen is empty if you're not connected. The AMD drivers loaded the ads from disk though.

No, that's rule number 2!

Rule number 1 is: Restart the computer.

I.T. crowd rules.

hmmm.

You don't need to re-install. Just boot off a Live image and edit your sudoers from there.

I'm using Qemu on Linux to host. It uses the KVM (kernel virtual machine), to map the hardware. In addition to the graphics card, I mapped through a USB hub and optical drive. You can literally plug two keyboards/mice and monitors into it and host a tournament on one machine.

I use a hardware KVM switch to switch sides. A single button press toggles between Windows and Linux on one keyboard/mouse/monitor. The machine is 6-core with 16 GB of RAM, so I split it in two. (3 cores/8 GB for each side). The machine MUST support VT-D/AMD-V and an IOMMU for it to work.

For anybody that tries this, it seemed like the Windows side was occasionally dying. I would switch to it and it would just be black. The issue is that Windows suspends after a wile by default and I guess QEMU/KVM do not support this because it can't wake. Just turn suspend off in the guest to fix it.

Well, hopefully if they're dumb enough to do this, they're dumb enough to not check on said tires and the problem eventually solves itself.

Eh, when I lived in NYC, the morning delivery trucks come in around 4 with their screeching loud air breaks every morning. It's just part of living there. So things could be worse.

are you talking about a tablet?

Its a Lenovo K3 Note. Its got a 5.5 inch 1080p screen, 2 GB of RAM, an 8-core 1.7 GHz CPU, 16 GB internal flash with SD slot, a big 3000 MAh battery, and you can change the battery too. There are two SIM slots. It was just 160 bucks unlocked.

Go onto the XDA forum, as some one will have figured out how to root it. Then you can install 'app master' and remove all the amazon bloatware - http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/ufficial-thread-lenovo-k3-note-t3102997

The security of Linux has nothing to do with it being "obscure". The security comes from the open source nature and the fact that if a program misbehaves people can remove it, modify it, or even switch to a different distro.

@Chakk, your missing the point. It has nothing to do with your average user being IT illiterate, but more to do with M$ attempting to harvest private data without consent.

computers use you!

Updated.

As far as i read you can download a tool from Microsoft, and then you'll be able to choose which updates you want to install. And yeah, i think they do the mandatory automatic updates due to user convenience, or should i say ignorance. But i agree that it should be configurable at least for people who don't want it. That's not a "professional" option but rather something every version should have.

Don't worry just yet.

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1269367

People are really hysteric about everything concerning Windows.

It happens everywhere. More poverty more fights, more drunks, less control, less authority.

I guess in impoverished islamic countries it's even worse.

Violence - the simple problem solving model for simple people.

when you say street fight in japan do you mean on playstation?

I would think it more likely that movies and games both draw from the same free sound libraries, so you'll get crossover now and then.

This really makes me sick! Really, it irritates me that much everytime that I'm totally excited!

Yeah, that happens all the time with the cloacking eletric sound of the Predator in AvP, I hear it everywhere in ads and b-movies. But in a word, yes, yes it does.