If someone has physical access, then they have root if they want it, period. As long as SP2 only offers that prompt on a local display, there's not much of a problem.
The majority of PCs out there right now are less powerful than the PS2.
Probably not true. The XBox is significantly more powerful than the PS2, with a 733Mhz proc, 64MB RAM, and a GeForce 3.5. I think it's safe to say that a huge majority of PCs currently in use have faster procs and more RAM. I don't know about the GFX card stats over the set of all PCs, but I'll bet you that 95% of PCs that have ever run a 3D game (i.e. everything except onboard-video office machines) have better vidcards than the XBox. So, if almost every single gaming PC out there is better than an XBox, it follows that they're also more powerful than the PS2.
Doom3 should run on a GeForce3 or Radoen 8500. If your machine can't even muster that, then you didn't have the computing power to play last year's games either.
IPv6 has more than enough address space to individually address every particle in the entire planet. If you can find use for atoaster with an IP address, then why not give it one?
Sony's connection software will convert MP3s to the ATRAC format, which has a smaller file size
ATRAC3 is not smaller than MP3, it's actually lower quality at the same bitrate (or higher bitrates for the same quality). So you get the quality loss from transcoding added to the loss of an inferior format at a lower bitrate. Thanks, but no thanks.
What exactly do you think "profoundly gifted" means? That someone can do well on tests? That's the most meaningless criteria ever. Washington, Marx, Edison, Churchill, etc. weren't geniuses by the textbook definition, but they were still great men who changed people's lives. Why should I care if you can get a perfect score on an IQ test? What possible use is that?
You may be a genius, but if you want to earn respect from society you've got to do more than just be.
Yeah, it'd be cool to buy a song after you heard it, but I don't think a radio with built-in CDR would be the best way to do that. You could just as easily go and buy the song online right after you heard it, and save yourself a couple hundred dollars in radio hardware. Besides, the radio would have to record everything, and only let you listen to the recording if you decided after the fact that you want to "buy" the content that's already on your radio.
That'd require some mega-DRM - the digital broadcast would have to be encrypted to prevent unauthorized radios from "pirating" songs. I don't really think we want the RIAA getting into the radio business, they've fucked up the CD business enough as it is.
That would be stupid. It'd have no advantage over something like iTunes, and you'd have to wait for the song to come on (which could be a long time if you're not looking for one of the five most popular singles).
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Sure, but what are you gonna feed the HD signal from? Current DVDs don't support HD.
But how will you get rid of them? Norton, Spybot, etc., wouldn't run either.
Text looks like shit at DVD res compared to a nice SXGA or UXGA projector.
If someone has physical access, then they have root if they want it, period. As long as SP2 only offers that prompt on a local display, there's not much of a problem.
Bull shit. iPods do not play WMA.
ESPN broadcasts the countdown round of the MATHCOUNTS middle-school competition. .
No, by process of logic, if he neither uses nor recommends *nix, he likes it less than XP and OSX. Also, reckon has a k.
MS was convicted of abusing its monopoly.
It was also against US sanctions. Whatever you may think of the Iraq war, I think it's safe to say that there was no US law explicitly forbidding it.
Email is trivial to forge anyway, even without access to the sender's account.
It would appear so.
Debian?
True, although that's a very small minority (1% according to Google).
The majority of PCs out there right now are less powerful than the PS2.
Probably not true. The XBox is significantly more powerful than the PS2, with a 733Mhz proc, 64MB RAM, and a GeForce 3.5. I think it's safe to say that a huge majority of PCs currently in use have faster procs and more RAM. I don't know about the GFX card stats over the set of all PCs, but I'll bet you that 95% of PCs that have ever run a 3D game (i.e. everything except onboard-video office machines) have better vidcards than the XBox. So, if almost every single gaming PC out there is better than an XBox, it follows that they're also more powerful than the PS2.
Yes and yes.
You know that +1, Funny doesn't count for karma anymore, right?
If you're gonna go for that, what not go all the way with the 2560 x 1600 30in Cinema Display?
Doom3 should run on a GeForce3 or Radoen 8500. If your machine can't even muster that, then you didn't have the computing power to play last year's games either.
No one except trolls uses those terms, and people don't take trolls seriously either.
Correct.
I think you're ignorant because you don't know what normal mapping is, even though all of use 3D artists out there consider that beginner's knowledge.
Yes, I am ignorant of the meaning of normal mapping. Your point?
That joke was funny, in 2001. Nowadays a $500 computer could run Doom 3 just fine.
IPv6 has more than enough address space to individually address every particle in the entire planet. If you can find use for atoaster with an IP address, then why not give it one?
ATRAC3 is not smaller than MP3, it's actually lower quality at the same bitrate (or higher bitrates for the same quality). So you get the quality loss from transcoding added to the loss of an inferior format at a lower bitrate. Thanks, but no thanks.
You may be a genius, but if you want to earn respect from society you've got to do more than just be.
That'd require some mega-DRM - the digital broadcast would have to be encrypted to prevent unauthorized radios from "pirating" songs. I don't really think we want the RIAA getting into the radio business, they've fucked up the CD business enough as it is.
That would be stupid. It'd have no advantage over something like iTunes, and you'd have to wait for the song to come on (which could be a long time if you're not looking for one of the five most popular singles).