I personally would look at the third amendment (protection from unreasonable searches/seizures) as giving me the right to obfuscate my activity from such unreasonable searches and seizures.
If you have a bunch of soldiers in your house, unreasonable search and seizure is the least of your worries.
I believe you meant the 4th Amendment, although the US is heading down the road where we might seriously have to worry about violations of the 3rd Amendment.
It is not making the use of a proxy for your normal, every day, non-criminal activities illegal. It is when you actively use a proxy to attempt to hide your identity when committing a crime.
By definition, a proxy helps to "attempt to hide your identity", whether or not that hiding is truly effective or intentional is a matter for debate.
But, take things like libel, which in the US used to have truth as an iron-clad defense. That is no more (at least in one jurisdiction), so if you use a proxy to do something libelous, you are now on the hook for more than before.
The point the GP was making (and that you missed completely) is that so many actions are illegal that sometimes even knowing is hard, and as things like copyright infringement become criminal in all cases (if the **AA has their way), then the act of posting a video to YouTube via a proxy isn't just a DMCA takedown issue, but becomes a crime with 25% more jail time than not using a proxy, regardless of any reason you might be using the proxy.
Theoretically someone at my ISP could do exactly what Opera is doing.
Not if you are making a direct SSL connection to the server and paying attention to any warnings your browser gives you about the cert subject not matching the hostname in the URL.
Yes, it's possible that Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner, etc., have all managed to get SSL certs for every "interesting" site issued to them with nobody noticing, but it's not likely.
Anyway taxing smokers is smart, because smokers have health problems that taxpayers end up subsidizing through medicare/medicaid. Raising taxes on smokers results in fewer smokers, which results in a lower tax burden for nonsmokers.
Actually, recent research has shown that smokers cost society less in the long run, basically because they die so much earlier than the average person.
Although smokers do cost more to society in health care, it isn't for long enough to offset the fact that dead people don't get Social Security checks, etc. Well, except for maybe in Chicago, where they even get to vote.
The cost of the guaranteed bandwidth connections is driven by the SLA (service level agreement) rather than the committed bandwidth these days. That is, it's not expensive because 10Mbps means 10Mbps 24/7, it's expensive because they have agreed that if you call them at 3:00A.M. to report a problem, they'll dispatch a tech RIGHT NOW. If it's unavailable for more than 45 minutes in a year, they owe you huge service credits (it's typically guaranteed 5 nines uptime). If you have such a connection, it's not uncommon for them to call YOU to report a problem and resolution. That's why it's so godawful expensive.
Yeah, $100/month for 20Mbps/20Mbps is way too much for anyone to afford.
That's the cost of a Verizon FiOS business account with an SLA. I've had less than 2 hours downtime in two years of service. That's not five-nines (which would require less than 5 minutes outage per year), but it is four-nines. Response has been great the few times I've called. Once, it wasn't even their problem...my router (not their equipment) had flaked out, even though all the logs and stats showed it as working.
Although you probably shouldn't waste mod points on an AC, this needs to be modded down.
Verizon FiOS does not oversell, gives you full speed 24/7, and no caps. In my neighborhood, technically they could oversell, as they can only support about 27Mbps for every house. So, if every house subscribed to FiOS, and they all ordered the 50Mbps service, it would be oversubscribed. As long as they get less 50% buy-in (or anybody decides that 20Mbps is enough for them), they're fine.
Verizon is making money in buckets on FiOS, despite the enormous build-out costs. And, they just keep increasing speeds. Anybody who has the 15Mbps service can just call and get a free, permanent upgrade to 20Mbps. It would be nice if they just increased everyone's speed without telling them, but sometimes they have to act a little like the cable companies.
I work at a relatively small ISP, and our Internet circuits cost us $50-75/meg (plus we have multiple paths for redundancy), and that doesn't include our infrastructure (routers/switches, UPS/generator, A/C, people, etc.). If you want a guaranteed 6 meg pipe, you shouldn't expect to get it for $99.
You—like many other people—are confusing "speed of pipe" and "number of bytes transferred".
We know your ISP doesn't pay $50 per megabyte transferred, because you'd have to charge customers thousands of dollars a month for the equivalent of dial-up access. You might pay $50 for each megabit/second of pipe you want to the Internet, but if you do, you are getting severely overcharged.
If you sell me a 6Mbps connection, then, yes, I (and everyone else) expect to be able to use all 6Mbps twenty-four hours a day. Most users probably won't use it 24/7, but they all expect that whenever they get on the Internet, then that's the speed they'll get.
Your costs don't change if people do use their connection to download 24/7, because all peering agreements are based on transit out of a network. So, you don't want people uploading a lot, but downloading is essentially "free", since there are no costs beyond the price of the pipe, and that is charged based on the max speed, not the number of bytes transferred.
Last, there are ISPs that realize everything I have said is true, and manage to provide the full speed that was contracted for every hour of every day, with no limit on the total bytes transferred, all at a reasonable cost. And, those ISPs aren't losing money.
For everyone else, it should mean lower prices and more stable service.
I guess you didn't notice that in this Time Warner announcement, there weren't any reductions in any of the prices...they just jacked up the prices for some users.
There never will be "lower prices and more stable service" when the company is a de-facto monopoly for an area. Well, at least not as long as local government can still be "encouraged to see things from Comcast's point of view" (i.e., bribed with campaign contributions).
Changes in the environment like temperature can result in variation in the output from the touchscreen.
I have personally used hundreds of different outdoor ATMs with touchscreens. I'm sure there are millions of other people that also use them. Not once have I ever had a significant problem selecting the button I wanted, as long as the touchscreen worked at all. I have also never heard anyone else complaining about touching "Withdrawl" and getting "Deposit" (or similar completely wrong button selection).
I'm also pretty sure that these machines are not calibrated every day. But, even if they were, it really doesn't matter, because the voting machines are calibrated every day.
So, why is it millions of ATMs can work just fine with maybe 1-2% having problems, yet putting what should be the exact same touchscreen on a voting machine causes the error rate to jump an order of magnitude (at least)?
I don't know about other providers, but with Verizon FiOS I pay exactly the quoted price.
There are no taxes, extra fees, etc., like you see on cable and cell phone bills. Like you said, it's not uncommon for those charges to increase the bill by 10-20%, so it pays to do your homework when you shop around.
Even 200GB/month is nowhere near testing "unlimited" on an 8Mbps line. It's only 600Kbps (or about 7.5% utilization), continuously.
3200Kbps is what I have my BitTorrent client limit set at during the "I'm likely to be doing something else that I don't want delayed" times.
I've averaged about 6.5Mbps over the course of the last few months, which is about 2TB/month. Most of that is upload...I only download about 200GB/month. And, I'm still using only about 4% of my download and less than 40% of my upload bandwidth.
Helps that I also follow the first commandment of Unix: thou shalt not place / and/home on the same filesystem. It's a lot easier to preserve data when it's all on a completely different physical drive from C:.
Before Vista, it wasn't easy at all to place "/home" (i.e., "Documents and Settings") on any other drive but the same one as the OS install. There really wasn't even a way to get "/home/yourusername" anywhere other than the OS install drive (at least not without roaming profiles, which requires Active Directory, which requries a Win2K or later server).
Sure, it was easy to put "/home/yourusername/My Documents" anywhere, but there's a lot of important data that isn't covered by that, like your Firefox configuration.
On my OS images, I do the basic install, then put the disk in another machine and muck about with the registry so that instead of "C:\Documents and Settings", the user profiles are stored in "D:\UserProfiles". After that, all the rest of the image load out gets installed.
So yeah, I do not want to use a quad core PC just to download torrents at 4mbps.
I use an 8-core machine to download torrents. Of course, it also has 16GB of RAM and runs VMware ESX server as the OS.
The other 10 VMs along with the torrent VM make the investment in hardware pretty much a better price/performance than anything else. Most of the VMs never need more than about 300MHz worth of CPU, but it's nice most they can use 4GHz if they need it.
Funny is, these are the same people demanding 64bit Flash plugin because they run 64bit browser on an 64bit OS.
I've pretty much given up even trying to run 64-bit apps that have a large number of 3rd-party add-ons, since most of the add-ons have not been re-compiled for 64-bit.
Although I suppose a 64-bit browser could be faster, the best thing about a 64-bit OS is that the 32-bit browser can go ahead and use 1GB of RAM and it doesn't really matter. I only have 6GB, but it's also only $100 for another 6GB. A 64-bit OS really helps you run more apps at the same time, and not worry about how much RAM they are taking.
Your bizarre "I've got so much memory I'd better use 300 megs to do tasks that could be done in 3 so as not to waste it!" made me laugh, so thank you.
Then, too, if you configure Vuze correctly, it doesn't really need much RAM at all, for what it does.
I have a VM that has been running for a month with Vuze downloading and seeding an average of 30 torrents 24/7 (a total of about 300 connections), and only use about 160MB. If I had not raised the cache size by 32MB, I'd be using a lot less, but I like the extra performance.
I don't see 4MB/torrent to be excessive memory use, especially when some of the torrents are 20GB total size. And, it's only about 400KB/connection. In order to keep feeding those connections, it's nice to keep some data in memory.
I'm not sure how a 3 order of magnitude drop could possible happen, as that would imply a 32GB drive at $0.44, which is 1.375 cents/GB.
At that price, a 1TB drive would be just about the same price as lunch for two at a fast food place. Two orders of magnitude is just barely possible, but by then, I think spinning platter hard drives will be given away with Happy Meals.
And when a storage is built on flash memories it may be possible to work with it in segments where parts of the disk isn't powered in order to save power and generate less heat.
Flash drives all do this right now automatically.
Unless the controller is actively accessing a particular block, there is no power to that part of the flash, as there is no need to power it in any way. This is the underlying concept behind all non-volatile memory (like flash)...it doesn't have to be continuously powered to maintain its state.
Also, many software vendors will not even officially support new OS's/IE versions for multiple years after their released.... and if their not supported by the vendor, the business will not willingly jump on board. So it's very likely a business wont even start to deploy the next new OS for 3 years after it's released.
And, then, when you do finally upgrade, it's suicide to try a partial or gradual deployment of a new OS, based on some of my testing.
I ran into an issue where I cannot get printer drivers that are the same name as the drivers installed with XP, even though they are for the same printer. Because of this, I can't serve the driver from the Win 2003 print server machine, unless I have two different printers defined.
This means I can't tell people to connect to "HP LaserJet in room 123", but must tell them "HP LaserJet in room 123 - OS version". It also means that any changes to the default config need to be done to both "printers", and if the config isn't exactly the same, it might not really result in the same output. Ugly.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg, as I haven't gotten every little app tested yet. Some, I find that when I go to a vendor site, I can no longer obtain the same version that we run on XP, even though it did exist for other Microsoft OS releases. I found some through BitTorrent, but others I'm SOL, since the vendor response is "upgrade to the new version"...which will require me to upgrade all the XP machines, too, and do a lot more testing. Double ugly.
So, yes, it's true I didn't need to get a whole new machine, I did end up having to shell out for a new video card, which wasn't cheap.
If you don't want to do bleeding-edge 3D gaming, then you can get a very nice video card (either ATI or NVidia chipset) for less than $100.
I just spent about $75 on an ATI 4830 that is faster than my ATI Crossfire X1900 Pro pair of cards that cost nearly $400 about two years ago. NVidia has similar updates to price/performance.
The scary part is that you can take two (or three) of these current $75 cards and use Crossfire or SLI and have faster video than you could have dreamed of two years ago, and it's still slow compared to the fastest single-GPU cards today.
Well, I know how to copy and paste as well as the next guy: £
Then, it would appear "the next guy" can't copy and paste correctly, since you managed to insert an extra symbol when you pasted.
Also, since this is HTML, whether you have a £ symbol on your keyboard isn't important. To reliably have anything with a character code outside of the 7-bit ASCII range display, you must use HTML entities.
So, to get £ to display, you would have to type "£".
It's nit-picking, for sure, but in reference to this particular list, Asimov's usage is the correct one.
Also, because people who are interested in building robots with human-like AI are very likely to try and follow Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, his contribution to the science of robotics is more than just the name.
I don't have my Dark Places engine games handy right now, so I can't give the exact setting, but try disabling (or reducing) some of the variable lighting and shadow settings.
When running Quake 1 under Dark Places, I was getting more than 100fps with dual Radeon X1900 Pro cards, until I enabled one of the über-lighting settings. At that point, I dropped down to less than 20fps.
True, but that small amount probably wouldn't be a problem.
You could even set to download nothing and still see most of the peers connected to the tracker, but you'd likely be ignored after a while because you don't have any pieces.
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I personally would look at the third amendment (protection from unreasonable searches/seizures) as giving me the right to obfuscate my activity from such unreasonable searches and seizures.
If you have a bunch of soldiers in your house, unreasonable search and seizure is the least of your worries.
I believe you meant the 4th Amendment, although the US is heading down the road where we might seriously have to worry about violations of the 3rd Amendment.
It is not making the use of a proxy for your normal, every day, non-criminal activities illegal. It is when you actively use a proxy to attempt to hide your identity when committing a crime.
By definition, a proxy helps to "attempt to hide your identity", whether or not that hiding is truly effective or intentional is a matter for debate.
But, take things like libel, which in the US used to have truth as an iron-clad defense. That is no more (at least in one jurisdiction), so if you use a proxy to do something libelous, you are now on the hook for more than before.
The point the GP was making (and that you missed completely) is that so many actions are illegal that sometimes even knowing is hard, and as things like copyright infringement become criminal in all cases (if the **AA has their way), then the act of posting a video to YouTube via a proxy isn't just a DMCA takedown issue, but becomes a crime with 25% more jail time than not using a proxy, regardless of any reason you might be using the proxy.
Theoretically someone at my ISP could do exactly what Opera is doing.
Not if you are making a direct SSL connection to the server and paying attention to any warnings your browser gives you about the cert subject not matching the hostname in the URL.
Yes, it's possible that Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner, etc., have all managed to get SSL certs for every "interesting" site issued to them with nobody noticing, but it's not likely.
Anyway taxing smokers is smart, because smokers have health problems that taxpayers end up subsidizing through medicare/medicaid. Raising taxes on smokers results in fewer smokers, which results in a lower tax burden for nonsmokers.
Actually, recent research has shown that smokers cost society less in the long run, basically because they die so much earlier than the average person.
Although smokers do cost more to society in health care, it isn't for long enough to offset the fact that dead people don't get Social Security checks, etc. Well, except for maybe in Chicago, where they even get to vote.
The cost of the guaranteed bandwidth connections is driven by the SLA (service level agreement) rather than the committed bandwidth these days. That is, it's not expensive because 10Mbps means 10Mbps 24/7, it's expensive because they have agreed that if you call them at 3:00A.M. to report a problem, they'll dispatch a tech RIGHT NOW. If it's unavailable for more than 45 minutes in a year, they owe you huge service credits (it's typically guaranteed 5 nines uptime). If you have such a connection, it's not uncommon for them to call YOU to report a problem and resolution. That's why it's so godawful expensive.
Yeah, $100/month for 20Mbps/20Mbps is way too much for anyone to afford.
That's the cost of a Verizon FiOS business account with an SLA. I've had less than 2 hours downtime in two years of service. That's not five-nines (which would require less than 5 minutes outage per year), but it is four-nines. Response has been great the few times I've called. Once, it wasn't even their problem...my router (not their equipment) had flaked out, even though all the logs and stats showed it as working.
ISP's live and die by the oversell
Although you probably shouldn't waste mod points on an AC, this needs to be modded down.
Verizon FiOS does not oversell, gives you full speed 24/7, and no caps. In my neighborhood, technically they could oversell, as they can only support about 27Mbps for every house. So, if every house subscribed to FiOS, and they all ordered the 50Mbps service, it would be oversubscribed. As long as they get less 50% buy-in (or anybody decides that 20Mbps is enough for them), they're fine.
Verizon is making money in buckets on FiOS, despite the enormous build-out costs. And, they just keep increasing speeds. Anybody who has the 15Mbps service can just call and get a free, permanent upgrade to 20Mbps. It would be nice if they just increased everyone's speed without telling them, but sometimes they have to act a little like the cable companies.
I work at a relatively small ISP, and our Internet circuits cost us $50-75/meg (plus we have multiple paths for redundancy), and that doesn't include our infrastructure (routers/switches, UPS/generator, A/C, people, etc.). If you want a guaranteed 6 meg pipe, you shouldn't expect to get it for $99.
You—like many other people—are confusing "speed of pipe" and "number of bytes transferred".
We know your ISP doesn't pay $50 per megabyte transferred, because you'd have to charge customers thousands of dollars a month for the equivalent of dial-up access. You might pay $50 for each megabit/second of pipe you want to the Internet, but if you do, you are getting severely overcharged.
If you sell me a 6Mbps connection, then, yes, I (and everyone else) expect to be able to use all 6Mbps twenty-four hours a day. Most users probably won't use it 24/7, but they all expect that whenever they get on the Internet, then that's the speed they'll get.
Your costs don't change if people do use their connection to download 24/7, because all peering agreements are based on transit out of a network. So, you don't want people uploading a lot, but downloading is essentially "free", since there are no costs beyond the price of the pipe, and that is charged based on the max speed, not the number of bytes transferred.
Last, there are ISPs that realize everything I have said is true, and manage to provide the full speed that was contracted for every hour of every day, with no limit on the total bytes transferred, all at a reasonable cost. And, those ISPs aren't losing money.
For everyone else, it should mean lower prices and more stable service.
I guess you didn't notice that in this Time Warner announcement, there weren't any reductions in any of the prices...they just jacked up the prices for some users.
There never will be "lower prices and more stable service" when the company is a de-facto monopoly for an area. Well, at least not as long as local government can still be "encouraged to see things from Comcast's point of view" (i.e., bribed with campaign contributions).
Changes in the environment like temperature can result in variation in the output from the touchscreen.
I have personally used hundreds of different outdoor ATMs with touchscreens. I'm sure there are millions of other people that also use them. Not once have I ever had a significant problem selecting the button I wanted, as long as the touchscreen worked at all. I have also never heard anyone else complaining about touching "Withdrawl" and getting "Deposit" (or similar completely wrong button selection).
I'm also pretty sure that these machines are not calibrated every day. But, even if they were, it really doesn't matter, because the voting machines are calibrated every day.
So, why is it millions of ATMs can work just fine with maybe 1-2% having problems, yet putting what should be the exact same touchscreen on a voting machine causes the error rate to jump an order of magnitude (at least)?
I don't know about other providers, but with Verizon FiOS I pay exactly the quoted price.
There are no taxes, extra fees, etc., like you see on cable and cell phone bills. Like you said, it's not uncommon for those charges to increase the bill by 10-20%, so it pays to do your homework when you shop around.
Even 200GB/month is nowhere near testing "unlimited" on an 8Mbps line. It's only 600Kbps (or about 7.5% utilization), continuously.
3200Kbps is what I have my BitTorrent client limit set at during the "I'm likely to be doing something else that I don't want delayed" times.
I've averaged about 6.5Mbps over the course of the last few months, which is about 2TB/month. Most of that is upload...I only download about 200GB/month. And, I'm still using only about 4% of my download and less than 40% of my upload bandwidth.
This does not allow you to change the directory used for user profiles, as that is already set, and can only be changed when the OS is not running.
Helps that I also follow the first commandment of Unix: thou shalt not place / and /home on the same filesystem. It's a lot easier to preserve data when it's all on a completely different physical drive from C:.
Before Vista, it wasn't easy at all to place "/home" (i.e., "Documents and Settings") on any other drive but the same one as the OS install. There really wasn't even a way to get "/home/yourusername" anywhere other than the OS install drive (at least not without roaming profiles, which requires Active Directory, which requries a Win2K or later server).
Sure, it was easy to put "/home/yourusername/My Documents" anywhere, but there's a lot of important data that isn't covered by that, like your Firefox configuration.
On my OS images, I do the basic install, then put the disk in another machine and muck about with the registry so that instead of "C:\Documents and Settings", the user profiles are stored in "D:\UserProfiles". After that, all the rest of the image load out gets installed.
So yeah, I do not want to use a quad core PC just to download torrents at 4mbps.
I use an 8-core machine to download torrents. Of course, it also has 16GB of RAM and runs VMware ESX server as the OS.
The other 10 VMs along with the torrent VM make the investment in hardware pretty much a better price/performance than anything else. Most of the VMs never need more than about 300MHz worth of CPU, but it's nice most they can use 4GHz if they need it.
Funny is, these are the same people demanding 64bit Flash plugin because they run 64bit browser on an 64bit OS.
I've pretty much given up even trying to run 64-bit apps that have a large number of 3rd-party add-ons, since most of the add-ons have not been re-compiled for 64-bit.
Although I suppose a 64-bit browser could be faster, the best thing about a 64-bit OS is that the 32-bit browser can go ahead and use 1GB of RAM and it doesn't really matter. I only have 6GB, but it's also only $100 for another 6GB. A 64-bit OS really helps you run more apps at the same time, and not worry about how much RAM they are taking.
Your bizarre "I've got so much memory I'd better use 300 megs to do tasks that could be done in 3 so as not to waste it!" made me laugh, so thank you.
Then, too, if you configure Vuze correctly, it doesn't really need much RAM at all, for what it does.
I have a VM that has been running for a month with Vuze downloading and seeding an average of 30 torrents 24/7 (a total of about 300 connections), and only use about 160MB. If I had not raised the cache size by 32MB, I'd be using a lot less, but I like the extra performance.
I don't see 4MB/torrent to be excessive memory use, especially when some of the torrents are 20GB total size. And, it's only about 400KB/connection. In order to keep feeding those connections, it's nice to keep some data in memory.
First, they don't say 3-3000 percent (nor do they say 3-3000 times, which is what the original post above says). They say 1-3 orders of magnitude.
Also, prices have already fallen significantly since their published data. They list a 32G SSD at $739; the same one is $449 today at http://rocketdisk.com/index.php?cPath=8&gclid=CJbK8OH14ZkCFSQeDQodaikyXA
I'm not sure how a 3 order of magnitude drop could possible happen, as that would imply a 32GB drive at $0.44, which is 1.375 cents/GB.
At that price, a 1TB drive would be just about the same price as lunch for two at a fast food place. Two orders of magnitude is just barely possible, but by then, I think spinning platter hard drives will be given away with Happy Meals.
And when a storage is built on flash memories it may be possible to work with it in segments where parts of the disk isn't powered in order to save power and generate less heat.
Flash drives all do this right now automatically.
Unless the controller is actively accessing a particular block, there is no power to that part of the flash, as there is no need to power it in any way. This is the underlying concept behind all non-volatile memory (like flash)...it doesn't have to be continuously powered to maintain its state.
Also, many software vendors will not even officially support new OS's/IE versions for multiple years after their released.... and if their not supported by the vendor, the business will not willingly jump on board. So it's very likely a business wont even start to deploy the next new OS for 3 years after it's released.
And, then, when you do finally upgrade, it's suicide to try a partial or gradual deployment of a new OS, based on some of my testing.
I ran into an issue where I cannot get printer drivers that are the same name as the drivers installed with XP, even though they are for the same printer. Because of this, I can't serve the driver from the Win 2003 print server machine, unless I have two different printers defined.
This means I can't tell people to connect to "HP LaserJet in room 123", but must tell them "HP LaserJet in room 123 - OS version". It also means that any changes to the default config need to be done to both "printers", and if the config isn't exactly the same, it might not really result in the same output. Ugly.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg, as I haven't gotten every little app tested yet. Some, I find that when I go to a vendor site, I can no longer obtain the same version that we run on XP, even though it did exist for other Microsoft OS releases. I found some through BitTorrent, but others I'm SOL, since the vendor response is "upgrade to the new version"...which will require me to upgrade all the XP machines, too, and do a lot more testing. Double ugly.
So, yes, it's true I didn't need to get a whole new machine, I did end up having to shell out for a new video card, which wasn't cheap.
If you don't want to do bleeding-edge 3D gaming, then you can get a very nice video card (either ATI or NVidia chipset) for less than $100.
I just spent about $75 on an ATI 4830 that is faster than my ATI Crossfire X1900 Pro pair of cards that cost nearly $400 about two years ago. NVidia has similar updates to price/performance.
The scary part is that you can take two (or three) of these current $75 cards and use Crossfire or SLI and have faster video than you could have dreamed of two years ago, and it's still slow compared to the fastest single-GPU cards today.
Well, I know how to copy and paste as well as the next guy: £
Then, it would appear "the next guy" can't copy and paste correctly, since you managed to insert an extra symbol when you pasted.
Also, since this is HTML, whether you have a £ symbol on your keyboard isn't important. To reliably have anything with a character code outside of the 7-bit ASCII range display, you must use HTML entities.
So, to get £ to display, you would have to type "£".
It's nit-picking, for sure, but in reference to this particular list, Asimov's usage is the correct one.
Also, because people who are interested in building robots with human-like AI are very likely to try and follow Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, his contribution to the science of robotics is more than just the name.
I don't have my Dark Places engine games handy right now, so I can't give the exact setting, but try disabling (or reducing) some of the variable lighting and shadow settings.
When running Quake 1 under Dark Places, I was getting more than 100fps with dual Radeon X1900 Pro cards, until I enabled one of the über-lighting settings. At that point, I dropped down to less than 20fps.
True, but that small amount probably wouldn't be a problem.
You could even set to download nothing and still see most of the peers connected to the tracker, but you'd likely be ignored after a while because you don't have any pieces.
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Implementation is left as an exercise for the reader.