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Copyright materials should be used and treated within the expressively terms of use.The probability of getting caught has nothing to do with the legality. The last thing one should do is to do something knowing it's illegal.

Interesting. Take it this way: There's a huge flock of stupid people who don't know how to use a computer because they are using A (replace A with whatever you think fits best.) You are a genuine expert because you use B (again, replace B with your favourite.) Were there not A, computers weren't so popular as it is; better, there's now such an enormous, unlimited opportunity layed down for you to take chance by helping them. You should be thanking A, let alone blaming them.

There are a couple of free DOS alternatives in the world, it you'd really need them.I would discourage people, though, to download bootable stuff from sites that are obviously not officially authorized by the original copyright holder to re-distribute such binaries.

A straight answer to your thread title is:No, the Processor isn't everything --- and definitely not for gaming.For gaming, you'll need to have a well balanced PC config.There's always going to be some "bottleneck", in which your current config is the graphics.Upgrading your CPU will improve your game playability to some extent, but not as much as it can, with a proper graphics card in combination.It's a little tricky to tell you what to upgrade without knowing what sort of games you are willing to play, but let me put down some rough indicator for the graphics, vs your current CPU:GeForce5200 - okay for light games; heavy 3D ones are playable but with rooms for improvements6600 - will work fine, but at average resolutions, not at max resolutions6600GT or 6800 - your CPU will start to be the bottleneck than the graphics6800GT - wonderful, but with a CPU of 3GHz +7800GT - the top performer, use a powerful CPU together, or it will be underperformingNote that I have only mentioned nVidia GeForce and didn't list the ATI, only to make this concise; the point is that it isn't only the CPU, nor the graphics --- it is the balance of both. You may want to ask for others to give you further advice when you decide which is going to be the first you want to upgrade.If you do upgrade your CPU, you will get the right improvements with video encoding, for example. If you upgrade your graphics first, to 6600GT or higher, it'll improve your gaming environment immediately, with yet some more possible improvements later when you change your CPU.This is more or less a matter of budget and priority.Hope this helps.

Refer to this, too, if you haven't yet: http://www.microsoft.com/err/technet/ (Although the URL may sound like for WinXP Pro, it is applicable to XP Home as well.) Now, besides what others have commented, the first thig you may want to check up if you have UPnP enabled with your router. Go into the setup and turn it on. The same applies to your counterpart. I am assuming that both you and your counterpart are on DSL connection. There are cases sometimes with Cable ISPs that users are only provided with private IPs, not global IPs (possible in large flats or appartments.) If this is the case, you have no luck; Remote Assistance wouldn't work. Just for info, in an correctly configured environment, 1) only WinXP Pro can be a "Remote Access" server, but anyone can access it. 2) Both XP Pro and Home can host a "Remote Assistance" and serve/access each other.

I believe the most well-known solution to run Windows apps on Linux is the WINE (although that's not to say it is commonly used.) As a commercial product, there is CodeWeavers, which is basically built upon WINE technology of API re-implementations.There is yet another product under the name of DAVID, by SpecOps Labs of the Philippines. (http://www.specopslabs.com/)Unlike WINE, DAVID is a Windows application enabler using a hybrid approach of application porting, virtual machine and API implementations.It isn't distributed free or not even individually, at least to my knowledge, but is bundled with a distribution here in Japan - called TurboLinux (http://www.turbolinux.com/ --- english version)Since SpecOps is an Asia based project, I am not sure how much this one is known elsewhere, and that's why I though I might note this down for you to find out what kind of progress they are making, if any, nearby yours. The SpecOps site has at least some mention on IBM being interested in their technology, but I was personally not able to track further.

You are not going to spend any money on a stuff you don't know what it will give you; I understand that's what the poll results so far inidicates, and I agree, too.A good question was asked earlier in this thread, as to how Google funds itself.Free as it may appear to you, they must and are making every efforts to secure enough income, invisibly and/or indirectly.Say there's a free-for-end-users OS; for example, it can have a forced advertisement show up every time you boot your machine, start an app, or simply just every XX seconds or minutes. They'll charge the advertiser instead of the end-user.For me, it is hard to imagine Google is willing to develop just another head-to-head, apple-to-apple replacement to existing OS's, with the only difference being the way it is charged for.I agree to twitch, Google may rather come up with a shell, plug-in, applications that will add-value to any existing platforms (which is basically an extention to what they do already today.)Otherwise, Google may launch an appliance type of thing dedicated to the Internet based activities like web-surfing, e-mailing, instant messaging, etc.If that's what you call an OS, why not?

The e-wallet is just like your real-leather wallet; it has no key. The system does not have a dedicated PIN auth session of its own. Your loss, if any, will be limited to whatever amout you have pre-charged onto it; it isn't like a credit card.Besides, I figure it is partly a matter of how soon users will get used to treating their cell phones with more care, like they treat their wallet.Nevertheless, you can enable the password lock of the cell phone terminal, in order to prevent unauthorized use of the e-wallet, as well as placing phone calls or viewing/sending e-mails.Having said that, I must confess that personally I am not yet convinced to take this additional risk when I will still have to carry my wallet anyways.

Here in Japan the use of cellular phones as electronic wallet (e-wallet) seems to be finally picking up.In order to use your cell phone as an e-wallet, you would pre-charge some money into it through a dedicated phone app. Then by just hovering your phone over the reader terminal at stores, your payment is done.Multiple million units of e-wallet ready cell phone terminals had already been distributed into the market thanks to heavy promotion by the dominant cell phone operator NTT DoCoMo, all waitng for more stores to be equipped with the payment transaction reader terminals.Lately I have noticed there are more and more convenience stores, fast food restaurants installing reader terminals. Some coke vending machines on the street are equipped with a reader panel, too.A technology university has announced this week their plan to implement a system where mobile phones will replace student ID cards, on top of the e-wallet functionality. New enrolls will be provided with cell phone terminals free.Maybe the time is coming when the cell phone is the most important stuff you should never lose --- next to your life.

You can find many IHV (independent hardware) companies like LaCie offering RAID subsystems, in which many cases they utilize 4 units of 500GB hard drives.For the ease of installation, products aimed at SOHO and individual enthusiasts are often built in tower chasis.For corporates, a 2TB unit is made out of 4 x 500GB drives more often laid out in a "rack" (imagine something like a flat big tray.)There are solutions like stacking multiple racks to be connected through fiber channels to the server. If you had 7 racks stacked that'll make 14TB, for example.In reality, however, corporate storage solutions would generally sacrifice a lot of raw capacity for security and backup. They use techniques like RAID to reserve a part of capacity to achieve higher reliability. In other words, the capacity made available to store data is much less than plain sum of the disk capacity used.

Certainly this case posted by the OP wasn't the first time someone was said to be killed by playing games too much. The worse thing is, it was neither the last; a few weeks ago, there was another game-designer-wannabe high school student reported to have died of over playing. Only a week ago from now, yet another man has died in an Internet cafe after having stayed there for over 10 days (both in Korea.)No one knows for sure except themselves who've died, but my guess is that they weren't trying to kill themselves. Nor did they notice they were being hurt that badly as they play --- and that's a big part, though not all, of the reason why they died.I guess the lesson is, one can always die of some reason he does not think will even harm himself.But if you happen to be the one sitting right next to that innocent guy who is damaging himself --- then let him know.

I have bought a GF 6800 128MB based card a couple of days ago.It was a replacement to a GF4 Ti4200 128MB 8x, and I guess that's the last graphics upgrade i'm making to my AGP system.

In Japan, roughly 19 million out of 90 million total subscribers were on 3G or W-CDMA technology as of end of November 2005.

To my knowledge, the largest capacity packed in a single hard drive unit is 500GB, which are commonly available on the store shelves for individuals.There are a number of external storage boxes configured to hold like 2TB, making use of multiple hard drives inside the box.The needs for larger storage capacity in the enterprise world is supported by enormous number of arrayed disk drives, than putting the data onto one disk. Therefore the capacity of such storage system can be really huge.By the way, your question title reminded me of my days i was selling 9" hard drives carrying only a few hundred of megabytes --- yes they were big too,,,physically. <grin>

In Japan we are starting to see a huge trend of many MMORPG's launching with "free" entry price system.There are even some MMO game titles migrating to "free-entry" price system after having run as a flat-rate monthly subscription type for over months, or even years.Most of those free-entry MMOs are offering sales (in exchange of real money) of in-game materials item by item.I understand this trend to be one of the responses from the gaming industry to such feelings, needs and evaluations from earlier posters in this thread.With the "free-entry" and price-per-item system, you'd stay online as often and/or long as you wish, and pay only for what you want as you play.Whether this will cost one less --- or more --- is probably yet to be observed.

Actually the biggest reason why you would want to clear the pagefile at shutdown is to increase security.For instance, some applications may be leaving important information such as id's and passwords in the pagefile in clear text (i.e., not encrypted), when the PC shuts down.Therefore it is very useful and important to clear the pagefile especially on mobile PCs (as a precaution against theft) and/or shared PCs.Whether it will let you shut down faster by clearing the pagefile is dependant on many things like your configuration (both hardware and OS.)Eg. Your RAM size, pagefile settings in the OS, how many applications are still running at shutdown... etc. In general, it is believed that by "not" clearing the pagefile at shutdown it'll be quicker, so i'd say those who are experiencing a shortening of wait time --- you are lucky.