This is not true. The steam auto-update that broke every single game for over 3 hours last night as well as the HL2DM package was auto-downloaded and auto-installed as soon as I booted my computer last night. I was given no choice. Perhaps in order to play HL2DM you actually have to 'activate' it, but the code is already on your machine unless you have specifically set options NOT to download it.
'Our response to being bored and rich is not to discard our possessions and live more simply, but to buy more stuff to reduce the space in which we might contemplate our shame.'
This type of thing is typically said by people who are bored and poor (and trying to say something profound.) The amount of useful technology that has appeared in the past 20 years is a multiple of the useful technology that appeared in the previous 80.
I tried this in one of my machines, as well as the car audio application it is intended for. Not only does it STINK (I mean *really* bad), it doesn't do much to reduce noise. The reason it works in cars and not in computers is that it reduces noise caused by vibrations, which in some cars can be quite loud. Vibrations aren't typically the problem in computers, usually it's fan noise caused by air on the rapidly-spinning blades.
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No it doesn't; nCircle has nothing to do with Nessus. It doesn't even use nmap. I work on the project, so I know.
This is not true. The steam auto-update that broke every single game for over 3 hours last night as well as the HL2DM package was auto-downloaded and auto-installed as soon as I booted my computer last night. I was given no choice. Perhaps in order to play HL2DM you actually have to 'activate' it, but the code is already on your machine unless you have specifically set options NOT to download it.
OOPS I'm goin to hell. Hold me a spot pls.
This type of thing is typically said by people who are bored and poor (and trying to say something profound.) The amount of useful technology that has appeared in the past 20 years is a multiple of the useful technology that appeared in the previous 80.
Actually 11mb is fine, that's plenty of bandwidth, but it's the latency that would be an issue.
I tried this in one of my machines, as well as the car audio application it is intended for. Not only does it STINK (I mean *really* bad), it doesn't do much to reduce noise. The reason it works in cars and not in computers is that it reduces noise caused by vibrations, which in some cars can be quite loud. Vibrations aren't typically the problem in computers, usually it's fan noise caused by air on the rapidly-spinning blades.
If we were close enough to the CO for DSL we'd drop them like a ton of bricks. This is just YARTHTCC (Yet Another Reason To Hate The Cable Companies.)
He doesn't belong on Slashdot. Send him to Slate where they can find a use for his Barron's like 'end of the world' syndrome.
That's not the release version. That's just a mirror of PR3 (again.)