Can anyone explain to me why this game is not exactly like playing with Barbie dolls?
Because, knave, playing with dolls would never cause your ez-bake oven to explode, burn down the kitchen, trap little Bobby in the corner and kill half your family by the time the firemen arrive.
But that doesn't do anything useful, other than stop you from accessing www.netscape.com. The search tool most likely works like their SmartDownload tool. I stopped using Netscape, but I do use their SmartDownload product. The spyware included in that uses a combination of ip addresses and netscape nameservers. Put a packet sniffer on your computer some time, you'll find some interesting tidbits. Just sniff packets for a while and add some rules to your firewall, if you have one.
deny all from any to 198.95.251.10 via $oif deny all from any to 64.12.151.213 via $oif deny all from any to 207.200.73.80 via $oif deny all from any to 149.174.213.7 via $oif deny all from any to 64.12.184.25 via $oif
The only degradation that could occur is if the USB somehow dropped packets, which I understand is possible if you're using bulk transfer, but I would expect the Soundblaster to use the isochronous mode, which gives some QOS guarantees.
Isochronous mode: gets a slot in a frame, guaranteed. No guarantees that it will be received error free. No facility for retransmission of packets.
Bulk mode transfer: error detection; goes into a frame if there's room after Isochronous and interrupt devices get their space.
What do you mean, the noise of the USB bus? It will be a digital signal out to the device, so no noise.
Unless the signal is degraded sufficiently by the cheap hubs, connectors and cables that it travels through...
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Can anyone explain to me why this game is not exactly like playing with Barbie dolls?
Because, knave, playing with dolls would never cause your ez-bake oven to explode, burn down the kitchen, trap little Bobby in the corner and kill half your family by the time the firemen arrive.
But that doesn't do anything useful, other than stop you from accessing www.netscape.com. The search tool most likely works like their SmartDownload tool. I stopped using Netscape, but I do use their SmartDownload product. The spyware included in that uses a combination of ip addresses and netscape nameservers. Put a packet sniffer on your computer some time, you'll find some interesting tidbits. Just sniff packets for a while and add some rules to your firewall, if you have one.
deny all from any to 198.95.251.10 via $oif
deny all from any to 64.12.151.213 via $oif
deny all from any to 207.200.73.80 via $oif
deny all from any to 149.174.213.7 via $oif
deny all from any to 64.12.184.25 via $oif
...works for me.
The only degradation that could occur is if the USB somehow dropped packets, which I understand is possible if you're using bulk transfer, but I would expect the Soundblaster to use the isochronous mode, which gives some QOS guarantees.
Isochronous mode: gets a slot in a frame, guaranteed. No guarantees that it will be received error free. No facility for retransmission of packets.
Bulk mode transfer: error detection; goes into a frame if there's room after Isochronous and interrupt devices get their space.
What do you mean, the noise of the USB bus? It will be a digital signal out to the device, so no noise.
Unless the signal is degraded sufficiently by the cheap hubs, connectors and cables that it travels through...