Tyrone Chicken

A. He is just being tongue in cheek. B. Are you guys actually on about how he is treating expensive objects as toys? This is the same community that builds crazy dual Xeon, quad SLI, color coded computers for playing video games and is the same community that wastes loads of helium to get an extra 100MHz. We are some of the biggest wasters of money and resources. Maybe if you read the article you would notice that he doesn't use OSX at all and installs Windows on all his Macs.

I don't think you understand. Mining is incredibly difficult and now there are dedicated chips for bitcoin that will mine literally over a hundred times faster than your PC.

Because there wasn't an order in the first place.

Windows 2000 was very good. What are you on about? I've never heard anyone claim it was bad (in comparison to other Windows OSs).

I'm in the United States and I still ordered two. You can usually purchase items off the UK site even if you're in the US.

I doubt any of us are actually going to get one. They've had issues like this before and they've cancelled the orders.

Please based Bezos!

There aren't a lot of examples to show you. Most developers don't write their own engines instead they license them from other developers and once again, there aren't a lot of things already made for Java. In the C, C# and C++ realm you have things like Source, Unity, CryEngine, ID Tech, Unreal, etc. Java is fast enough for pretty much anything, but there aren't a lot of game development related things pre-made and ready to go for a new company. Also, Jagex hasn't dropped Java; The HTML5 version of the game is simply an option, not to mention the fact that the backend is still entirely Java and their in-house scripting language.

You should edit the Text Editors section. Sublime isn't only Windows/Linux.

I use https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/. Fairly fast, no logs and it's got servers around the world.

I'd say it'd be a pretty substantial upgrade from a 3570k.

If it's just you and your friends trying to play Minecraft or something, then you don't need to build a proper server. You need to give out more information. If you want to host some public gameservers from your house, it's a fairly bad idea due to both reliability and speed of your network, so I'd just rent a cheap VPS/Dedicated server depending on your needs. Unless you're running loads of machines, co-location in a datacenter doesn't make a lot of sense due to the fact that co-location costs are fairly high for a 1u slot and parts get outdated very quickly, so your machine will be incredibly by the time it pays itself off. You can route yourself through some sort of proxy, but I don't see why you would. If someone wants to attack you, then a free/cheap reverse proxy isn't going to mitigate an attack for you and things like CNServers, BlackLotus or Staminus all will run you hundreds per month. If they are truly your friends, then you shouldn't need to worry about it. You're not giving out enough info on what you want to do with your server. Some things are OS specific. Once again, you're not giving out anywhere near enough info on what you actually want to do with your machine.

I've got about 500 days (1200-ish+ hours) or so on RuneScape (sad I know). I've got a pretty short attention span, so I've only got a few games with more than a thousand hours on it.