The remaining portion is the copy-protection in most games... Most computers have two IDE chains with two devices a-piece - that means you have three random games available per day, plus other things you can stuff on the computer.
The other alternative is to use images mounted with something like Daemon Tools - you can have as many virtual discs mounted as you have drive letters. Or you could just use a No-CD crack - sure it's probably not legal, but I doubt anyone would be able to tell.
I wonder what the legalities are though in regards to a store providing a game for public play like that? I know they do it with consoles all the time, but I wonder if they need some special agreement/licence - like an "Internet Cafe" does to have multiplayer gaming.
Who says it has to be a return mission? Come on, don't you think there would be plenty of qualified volunteers for a one way mission? This is why I think China will be space pioneers (well, 2nd generation pioneers) - because they will be able to launch one way missions without too many naysayers complaining about it.
That's what I was wondering about. The other thing is I found when I connect my iPod with the USB cable it will only charge if it's "on". If I try and turn it off (holding play) the USB device gets "disconnected" and it stops getting power. With the firewire cable it continues to charge, just like if it was plugged into the wall adapter.
I prefer to charge this way to reduce wear on the HDD, I would think if the USB device was active it would occasionally need to spin the disk, like if you went to "My Computer" under Windows. Hopefully they've done something about it, or it's just a product of the USB interface in the computer i'm plugging in into (a Dell at work, I use the firewire at home)
"Vista Windows" and "Vista Blinds" already have a very similiar name registered, and their office is just down the adjoining road from 1 Microsoft Way.
A more cynical person would wonder whether someone in Microsoft Marketing drives past those companies on the way to work each day...
Maybe someone who knows a bit more about this can explain, but as far as I can see while you get a tax break by giving money to charity you don't actually end up with more money.
Let's make an assumption that there is a flat 10% income tax for ease of calculation.
Say I make $100, that means my tax bill is $10. So I get $90 and the Government gets $10.
Now if I instead make a tax-deductible donation of $50 to charity. My taxable income is now $50, so my tax bill is $5. So I get $45, the charity gets $50 and the government gets $5. As far as I can see the only difference is you're giving money to the charity instead of the government.
I know tax is a lot more complex than this, so I'm probably missing something that just being able to say where your money goes.
Maybe that will mean some of the delayed games are at least out by then:) If I get one, I'll wait for the initial scrambling to blow over and get one once the prices start dropping - probably by mid-2006.
wow you're just flat at wrong, most x-box games did in fact make use of the hard drive. Perhaps just for faster save/load, perhaps just for caching, but those things resulted in significant performance increases and reduced load times.
I'm just guessing here (but hey, this is/. - facts are irrelevant!) but my theory is that the xbox API provides the use of the HDD for caching etc automatically. I mean that the game doesn't have to be coded such that "Load this level from the DVD and cache it on the HDD", the developer just says "Load this level" and the API will load from DVD and cache the first time or read from cache the second.
What I'm getting at is that if you have an XB360 with a HDD then you'll get that functionality anyway, and if you don't you won't. The developer doesn't have to do anything different. What people are saying is there weren't many, if any, games that actually used the HDD explicitly in the game and had a dependency on it.
I can't think of a legitimate way to consistently download 30GB a month, unless you're downloading Linux ISOs every day - and even those are probably on the ISPs "free" mirrors .
Maybe they mean 24 megabyte/sec, after all the headline does say "24MB" not "24Mb". Unlikely:)
I'm on an exchange that is "Planned" for an Internode DSLAM (Glebe NSW), woo! Better than not being on the list at all. I can't wait to be paying $10/mo less for 16 times the speed. Well, 16 times is the max - but still.
I don't know the history, but I would say there was probably already people working on what would become Longhorn when XP was released, so Longhorn was probably based on the release XP codebase. Of course they would have had to backport any security patches etc from the last few years (well, you'd hope so).
I'd tune it to watch that on TV. Until the robots get smarter and take over the world. We wouldn't have a chance. Until their batteries died, at least.
They might figure out they can use humans as giant batteries and farm us! Of course they'd need to figure out some way to keep our minds busy while they do this...
I'm using light mode on FF on Windows and it's fine. Sure it looks like ass but I wouldn't expect otherwise from/. - I can still read the content and comments without the extra fluff, so who cares about the rest.
IBM / Lotus Domino sounds like a good fit. Supports webmail, POP3 and IMAP out of the box, servers are extremely reliable if administered properly. Scalable, supports clustering (and real clustering, not like Exchange). Runs on Linux, Windows, and big iron from IBM. Sounds pretty much like what you're looking for, since you didn't say "free".
I hope they keep "Light" mode in the new interface. Everytime I go to someone elses PC where I'm not logged in and look at/. I can't stand looking at the "full" design.. it's just so "heavy":)
What I don't understand is why people wouldn't want to visit a site to get the new content. Like, I have Opera, so presumeably can do RSS right now, though I don't have it enabled. I just don't get the point.
I'll use a practical example, I like to read about 20 development related websites. These sites don't all necessarily update daily or at a particular time. With an RSS reader I can come in to work, grab my morning coffee and have a list of all the new posts on these sites since yesterday. I don't have to go to 20 different sites in the browser "just in case" they've updated. Even with "Open all bookmarks in tabs" you'd still need to look at each site and manually determine whether the top story is one you've seen or not.
So for people with similar habits to mine, RSS is very useful. It doesn't apply to every kind of site, if you read a site regularly you may as well just visit it (eg. Slashdot or a newspaper site).
The Universal Programming Guide clearly states that Intel based Macs will not use OpenFirmware. But yes, I still would say there will be some sort of DRM type thing going on to make sure OS X only runs on Apple hardware.
Had the same problem with the search history thing a few weeks back, wouldn't work anywhere but on.com but I automatically get redirected to.com.au most of the time. Sent them the feedback at the time, don't know if they fixed it.
It's not vapourware, some people managed to buy songs via iTMS Australia using Australian credit cards by URL manipulation before Apple closed the hole. The last thing I read was that one of the record labels didn't sign on at the last minute for some reason so that is what has delayed the launch.
And of course there's the thing that other posters have said is that Apple has never said anything about an Australian iTMS anyway:)
WOW! What kind of cool plan do you have that you get free minutes if you don't initiate the call? I need to be on that one because neither Cingular nor T-mobile have that plan.
On any mobile phone plan in just about any country outside the US you don't pay for incoming calls, only outgoing. Paying for incoming calls would be stupud, because you don't have any control over whether someone calls you or not - so why should you pay for it?
This is Australia we're talking about. I can only think of ONE shrink-wrapped product that's developed here that has made any impact. (MYOB)
It may not technically be shrinkwrapped but I remember reading somewhere that a lot of development on Websphere is done in some R&D centre on the Gold Coast. Then again, there's another story on/. today that IBM is laying of 13,000 people..:)
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The remaining portion is the copy-protection in most games... Most computers have two IDE chains with two devices a-piece - that means you have three random games available per day, plus other things you can stuff on the computer.
The other alternative is to use images mounted with something like Daemon Tools - you can have as many virtual discs mounted as you have drive letters. Or you could just use a No-CD crack - sure it's probably not legal, but I doubt anyone would be able to tell.
I wonder what the legalities are though in regards to a store providing a game for public play like that? I know they do it with consoles all the time, but I wonder if they need some special agreement/licence - like an "Internet Cafe" does to have multiplayer gaming.
but what about getting them back?
Who says it has to be a return mission? Come on, don't you think there would be plenty of qualified volunteers for a one way mission? This is why I think China will be space pioneers (well, 2nd generation pioneers) - because they will be able to launch one way missions without too many naysayers complaining about it.
The only legal files you can put on your iPod are the ones you buy from ITMS though. Ripping a CD you bought to put on your iPod is still illegal.
That's what I was wondering about. The other thing is I found when I connect my iPod with the USB cable it will only charge if it's "on". If I try and turn it off (holding play) the USB device gets "disconnected" and it stops getting power. With the firewire cable it continues to charge, just like if it was plugged into the wall adapter.
I prefer to charge this way to reduce wear on the HDD, I would think if the USB device was active it would occasionally need to spin the disk, like if you went to "My Computer" under Windows. Hopefully they've done something about it, or it's just a product of the USB interface in the computer i'm plugging in into (a Dell at work, I use the firewire at home)
"Vista Windows" and "Vista Blinds" already have a very similiar name registered, and their office is just down the adjoining road from 1 Microsoft Way.
A more cynical person would wonder whether someone in Microsoft Marketing drives past those companies on the way to work each day...
Maybe someone who knows a bit more about this can explain, but as far as I can see while you get a tax break by giving money to charity you don't actually end up with more money.
Let's make an assumption that there is a flat 10% income tax for ease of calculation.
Say I make $100, that means my tax bill is $10. So I get $90 and the Government gets $10.
Now if I instead make a tax-deductible donation of $50 to charity. My taxable income is now $50, so my tax bill is $5. So I get $45, the charity gets $50 and the government gets $5. As far as I can see the only difference is you're giving money to the charity instead of the government.
I know tax is a lot more complex than this, so I'm probably missing something that just being able to say where your money goes.
Isn't the urban legend that he wrote Nibbles and Gorillas (I think that's the name of it) which came with qbasic in DOS 5 (I think it was 5...)?
Maybe that will mean some of the delayed games are at least out by then :) If I get one, I'll wait for the initial scrambling to blow over and get one once the prices start dropping - probably by mid-2006.
wow you're just flat at wrong, most x-box games did in fact make use of the hard drive. Perhaps just for faster save/load, perhaps just for caching, but those things resulted in significant performance increases and reduced load times.
/. - facts are irrelevant!) but my theory is that the xbox API provides the use of the HDD for caching etc automatically. I mean that the game doesn't have to be coded such that "Load this level from the DVD and cache it on the HDD", the developer just says "Load this level" and the API will load from DVD and cache the first time or read from cache the second.
I'm just guessing here (but hey, this is
What I'm getting at is that if you have an XB360 with a HDD then you'll get that functionality anyway, and if you don't you won't. The developer doesn't have to do anything different. What people are saying is there weren't many, if any, games that actually used the HDD explicitly in the game and had a dependency on it.
According to my fellow graduates who got jobs with SAP out of Uni (this was in 1998) it stands for "Salary Acceleration Program".
We still have quotas, don't forget :)
I can't think of a legitimate way to consistently download 30GB a month, unless you're downloading Linux ISOs every day - and even those are probably on the ISPs "free" mirrors .
Maybe they mean 24 megabyte/sec, after all the headline does say "24MB" not "24Mb". Unlikely :)
I'm on an exchange that is "Planned" for an Internode DSLAM (Glebe NSW), woo! Better than not being on the list at all. I can't wait to be paying $10/mo less for 16 times the speed. Well, 16 times is the max - but still.
I don't know the history, but I would say there was probably already people working on what would become Longhorn when XP was released, so Longhorn was probably based on the release XP codebase. Of course they would have had to backport any security patches etc from the last few years (well, you'd hope so).
I'd tune it to watch that on TV. Until the robots get smarter and take over the world. We wouldn't have a chance. Until their batteries died, at least.
They might figure out they can use humans as giant batteries and farm us! Of course they'd need to figure out some way to keep our minds busy while they do this...
I'm using light mode on FF on Windows and it's fine. Sure it looks like ass but I wouldn't expect otherwise from /. - I can still read the content and comments without the extra fluff, so who cares about the rest.
IBM / Lotus Domino sounds like a good fit. Supports webmail, POP3 and IMAP out of the box, servers are extremely reliable if administered properly. Scalable, supports clustering (and real clustering, not like Exchange). Runs on Linux, Windows, and big iron from IBM. Sounds pretty much like what you're looking for, since you didn't say "free".
I hope they keep "Light" mode in the new interface. Everytime I go to someone elses PC where I'm not logged in and look at /. I can't stand looking at the "full" design.. it's just so "heavy" :)
What I don't understand is why people wouldn't want to visit a site to get the new content. Like, I have Opera, so presumeably can do RSS right now, though I don't have it enabled. I just don't get the point.
I'll use a practical example, I like to read about 20 development related websites. These sites don't all necessarily update daily or at a particular time. With an RSS reader I can come in to work, grab my morning coffee and have a list of all the new posts on these sites since yesterday. I don't have to go to 20 different sites in the browser "just in case" they've updated. Even with "Open all bookmarks in tabs" you'd still need to look at each site and manually determine whether the top story is one you've seen or not.
So for people with similar habits to mine, RSS is very useful. It doesn't apply to every kind of site, if you read a site regularly you may as well just visit it (eg. Slashdot or a newspaper site).
No Open Firmware on x86 Macs
Source: Apple, Universal Binary Guidelines.
The Universal Programming Guide clearly states that Intel based Macs will not use OpenFirmware. But yes, I still would say there will be some sort of DRM type thing going on to make sure OS X only runs on Apple hardware.
Dude! My Powerbook G4 heats up my lap quite nicely, thank you!
Had the same problem with the search history thing a few weeks back, wouldn't work anywhere but on .com but I automatically get redirected to .com.au most of the time. Sent them the feedback at the time, don't know if they fixed it.
It's not vapourware, some people managed to buy songs via iTMS Australia using Australian credit cards by URL manipulation before Apple closed the hole. The last thing I read was that one of the record labels didn't sign on at the last minute for some reason so that is what has delayed the launch.
:)
And of course there's the thing that other posters have said is that Apple has never said anything about an Australian iTMS anyway
WOW! What kind of cool plan do you have that you get free minutes if you don't initiate the call? I need to be on that one because neither Cingular nor T-mobile have that plan.
On any mobile phone plan in just about any country outside the US you don't pay for incoming calls, only outgoing. Paying for incoming calls would be stupud, because you don't have any control over whether someone calls you or not - so why should you pay for it?
This is Australia we're talking about. I can only think of ONE shrink-wrapped product that's developed here that has made any impact. (MYOB)
/. today that IBM is laying of 13,000 people.. :)
It may not technically be shrinkwrapped but I remember reading somewhere that a lot of development on Websphere is done in some R&D centre on the Gold Coast. Then again, there's another story on