Because more than once, I've been somewhere - customer's house, friend who lives like the amish's house, etc. and had to get a windows update, or some silly file I left elsewhere - and someone (knowingly or not) having an open access point nearby made it possible.
"The "true" quad-core line appears to be nothing more than marketing hyperbole"
No, it's not marketing.
You're not seeing the usefullness on the desktop.
HPC is another story - and it's also the place that the plain old Opteron has been holding its own, against the faster, clock per clock, Core 2 microarchitecture.
Having requests go through the FSB (which is a WTF this day and age) kills cache snooping, etc, between cores.
I can confirm windows tries to autorun any such file, if present, and if not, searches the disk for "content" (images, music, etc.) to present an autorun option to the user.
If you have beaten portal already, you owe it to yourself (especially if you're interested in game design) to run through it with the developer commentary ON!
I love that feature! It's like watching a DVD, then turning on the commentary track.
It's amazing how much work they put into this game that you won't even notice (as that was the point of the work).
The company that liscensed the patent goes "It's all the PTO's fault!!11 one", and there's not much anyone can do. If the liscence involved a per-device fee, you can stop paying that, but anything you've already paid is gone.
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harder to type than hEl20!mxqrtT78as ?
No.
Because more than once, I've been somewhere - customer's house, friend who lives like the amish's house, etc. and had to get a windows update, or some silly file I left elsewhere - and someone (knowingly or not) having an open access point nearby made it possible.
http://xkcd.com/331/
I also highly suggest, right now, that everyone change your passwords to currentpassword x 3 or 4, or more:
For example, is passwordpasswordpassword any harder to remember than just password?
But it greatly expands the key space to be searched for anyone trying to brute force...
"The "true" quad-core line appears to be nothing more than marketing hyperbole"
No, it's not marketing.
You're not seeing the usefullness on the desktop.
HPC is another story - and it's also the place that the plain old Opteron has been holding its own, against the faster, clock per clock, Core 2 microarchitecture.
Having requests go through the FSB (which is a WTF this day and age) kills cache snooping, etc, between cores.
The "true" quad core doesn't have this problem.
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the dvd comes with "contents of space-wasp's stomach"
is a terrorist threat
parent +1 excellent point, please, mods.
I can confirm windows tries to autorun any such file, if present, and if not, searches the disk for "content" (images, music, etc.) to present an autorun option to the user.
Uh, wrong.
Rightclick on page with annoying flash ad -> Block Content..
Click the offending ad -> it disappears with "Content Blocked" across it
(Opera 9+)
If you have beaten portal already, you owe it to yourself (especially if you're interested in game design) to run through it with the developer commentary ON!
I love that feature! It's like watching a DVD, then turning on the commentary track.
It's amazing how much work they put into this game that you won't even notice (as that was the point of the work).
Renderman, Pixar's renderer, is not a raytracer.
It's a rasterizer.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.
*cough*
Yeah, the "word" server can arbitrarily be applied to anything.
I'm not allowed to send emails anymore - I'm "serving" them to an SMTP server.
We're going through puberty, you insensitive clod!
Please please please buy this game.
Seriously.
We, gamers, are not helping ourselves by buying EA-churned out crap.
Buy this game instead, and support something UNIQUE!
I was so bummed to hear that the studio had been canned.
AFAIK, diddly squat.
The company that liscensed the patent goes "It's all the PTO's fault!!11 one", and there's not much anyone can do. If the liscence involved a per-device fee, you can stop paying that, but anything you've already paid is gone.
IANAL
The thing is - why was OOXML tried as a "fast track" item anyway? You know what I mean?
How freaking important could a document standard (hard to type without a straight face) be, that it needed to be fast-tracked?
(Yes, I know that's not why they attempted to fast-track it.)
they can only send 16,000 files to the RIAA and MPAA to check, at once.
It causes rudeness in anonymous forums, you insensitive clod!
Screw that, I'm doing whichever option is easier.
Have fun with your Hardware RAID when the controller card dies and you lose all your data.
In the meantime, I'll take the small performance hit of software RAID for the robustness it provides.
You must be new here.
They can have a patent on ENCODING all they want. That means anyone trying to encode something in this way, has to pay.
But enforcing a patent against DECODING (as in, the reason I can't simply install Linux and listen to MP3s) is simple douchebaggery.