My Rating System
Some of you might be a little confused as to how my rating system works for my rants. The rating section is perhaps the one part of my site that I can call "relatively fair" because it's based on a pretty well-defined set of questions that I ask, and there's no room for my opinion in that part. (There's PLENTY of room for my opinion everywhere else in the rants.) Here are my criteria:
Penguins are good points, the more the better. The maximum
rating is 4 out of 4 penguins.
Installs correctly: 1 Penguin for Yes
Detects all hardware: 1 Penguin for Yes (half-penguins for
detecting MOST hardware, or the important stuff)
Useful offline: 1 Penguin for Yes
Can I do actual work on it? 1 Penguin for Yes
To further clarify, when I say "does it detect my hardware?" I mean this hardware. When I ask "is it useful offline?" I mean can I install it and do anything other than look at the pretty icons without an internet connection (this is important to me since I'm not blessed with broadband). When I ask "Can I do actual work on it?" I mean can I run the Eclipse IDE and develop Java apps using the Sun Java VM, play all my 3D accelerated games, listen to MP3 music, and manage this website (which I cart around on a USB flash drive).