On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Vic Marriott wrote: >>>> Personally, I'd build the best white-box machine I could afford and >>>> throw Linux on it. <<< > > Hi Gene, > > Once again the point is being missed. > > Things like food and shelter are higher up the finances queue than > another computer set-up. Those of you who can afford such luxuries might > like to have a thought for the rest of the world, which is still paying > the price for what a few greedy bankers have done to world economics. > Oh for f*cks sake. Look, this discussion isn't about who can afford what, it was originally about getting the most performance you can by incrementally upgrading. This isn't the place to whinge about world economics. If you can afford it, great. If you can't, well you can't. So there you go.
> My other half moans enough about the time I spend on this "Silly Game" > as it is. Imagine what would happen if I bought another computer just > for FG. You might try denigrating THEIR hobby and when complaints result, say, "sucks when the shoe is on the other foot, doesn't it?" *plonk* g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Buying desktop hardware and installing a server OS doesn't make a server-class system any more than sitting in a puddle makes you a duck. [Cipher in a.s.r] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
