As is described in the article, they will happily pay that. However this particular ISP was against profiting in any way from monitoring their customer
The company behind it (MaxNet) also got bought out by a much larger player with an Australian head office (Vocus) which many suspect played a hand in them turning it off
You obviously haven't actually done this with many games on the PC. Whilst technically you should be able to, more often than not the only way to play the old game is via virtualization or some level of emulation. Or by buying it again from GOG who have re-written the parts than don't play nice with the newer OS's.
Evan buying old games from Steam is iffy and usually needs work-arounds to get running
Whilst I'll agree it's not up to HDD standards yet. There are two very important things to point out here.
1. Endurance gets worst as the size manufacturing size gets smaller. 19nm is the worst, not the best for endurance.
2. The massive speed benefits more than make up for the size disadvantage. Use SSD's today to store data you have backed up, or as a boot drive for an OS that's easily replaceable, for simply for a cache drive like Fusion drive or the Intel Windows drivers give you.
Don't exclude a revolutionary technology just because you need to be a little more careful how you store your data
And this will only make it worse, if you were a Joe Sixpack who saw this headline on a news site and currently purchased say, 50% of your music/vmovies and pirated the other 50%.
Would you continue purchasing given the chance your computer will be locked down, or would you just pirate all your music/movies now to be sure they can't install any rootkit?
Yup, because before dropbox there was a simple and effective rsync client for windows that could and would work to keep some folders in sync across all your computers and be publicly available without needing to setup your own server. All for free
Nothing with any payload capacity in the multi-rotor family can stay in the air for 30mins
To give you and idea, a typical hobby quadcoptor with little to no payload has a flight time of ~ 10mins.
Various competitions are held to make quads with high flight times and people get 60-90mins in them, however those could never carry any payload and are doing nothing but hovering
That's true on a 32bit OS, on a 64bit OS an entire 4GB space can be given to a 32bit game, since the kernel doesn't need to reserve 2GB for itself to map video and everything else
Firewalls can and do block incoming traffic. The only machine allowed to make outbound connections is the SMNP trap server, and it can only connect to internal SMTP server.
Sneakernet is the problem, electronically securing systems that must send electronic alerts, not so much
The better question to ask, is how are manufacturers ever going to be able to offer 100w from a USB port. Do we really want our computer PSU's to have to be able to handle another 20A on the 5v rail just to be able to offer a single 100w capable port?
What about your TV or anything else that ghas a USB port? One of the reasons USB is so popular is because you didn't need to re-engineer your entire power supply and all it's rails.
Intel was using fibre cables for pre-release demos/trade shows etc, but I don't think they were ever released to retail. I'm not even sure they were using the same connector as those that were released
Just because a company folds it doesn't mean there isn't a market for the goods they sold.
If Dell or HP fell over, someone else would step in to fill the void, sure they may not get quite as big as either HP or Dell were, but there is still a market there to service, and that market wants Intel
Even if that's so, this is Yahoo, so no one will ever listen to him and they will continue to do all the batshit crazy stuff they do that no one likes or even cares about
Wow am I glad I don't live in the US if that's the usual response to a rape claim.
The rest of the world watches US news like this (the Ohio rape) in utter disbelief.. actually that's wrong, it's not disbelief, it's sadness at how bad thing are getting there.
Seriously it might be time to find a new place to live
Everyone says he shouldn't have been fired, but from what can be implied from the company press release's this may not have been his first incident of this nature.
That may just be them covering their ass, but if not, and he has already had warnings for similar behavior then firing him may well have been the correct response. I tend to think that because both of these developers worked at the same company, and only one has been fired that this is the more likely scenario than them just getting rid of him
1000 warheads is enough to kill every living thing in Russia. In fact it's enough to indirectly kill every living thing on the planet (or close enough)
Why does it matter if both sides have the same amount? Both sides can detect one anothers launches and launch before getting hit so I ask again... why?
It's EA, they don't care about either of these things. If they did they would have actually fixed the capacity issues before launch. This isn't the first time this has happened for an EA launch and it won't be the last
Why pay for more servers for launch, when you can put in as many as you'll need to run under normal load once it settles down and lose so few customers that it won't even make a blip on the graph.Especially as the ones who get punished are obviously the "hardcore" ones who will just keep coming back, even after bitching the whole time when the servers can't handle the load
Seriously, the Oceana launch that happened today is having exactly the same problems.
At this point this is what you get if you buy EA games. Give it a week and it might be working enough to play, give it a month and it might be reliable
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As is described in the article, they will happily pay that. However this particular ISP was against profiting in any way from monitoring their customer
The company behind it (MaxNet) also got bought out by a much larger player with an Australian head office (Vocus) which many suspect played a hand in them turning it off
You obviously haven't actually done this with many games on the PC. Whilst technically you should be able to, more often than not the only way to play the old game is via virtualization or some level of emulation. Or by buying it again from GOG who have re-written the parts than don't play nice with the newer OS's.
Evan buying old games from Steam is iffy and usually needs work-arounds to get running
Whilst I'll agree it's not up to HDD standards yet. There are two very important things to point out here.
1. Endurance gets worst as the size manufacturing size gets smaller. 19nm is the worst, not the best for endurance.
2. The massive speed benefits more than make up for the size disadvantage. Use SSD's today to store data you have backed up, or as a boot drive for an OS that's easily replaceable, for simply for a cache drive like Fusion drive or the Intel Windows drivers give you.
Don't exclude a revolutionary technology just because you need to be a little more careful how you store your data
For some definitions of "supported" I suppose. Minimum useful support came in Win98 SE and read proper support came with Win2000
...... and real
And this will only make it worse, if you were a Joe Sixpack who saw this headline on a news site and currently purchased say, 50% of your music/vmovies and pirated the other 50%.
Would you continue purchasing given the chance your computer will be locked down, or would you just pirate all your music/movies now to be sure they can't install any rootkit?
Yup, because before dropbox there was a simple and effective rsync client for windows that could and would work to keep some folders in sync across all your computers and be publicly available without needing to setup your own server. All for free
Except there wasn't.
Exactly, a decent sized RC plane will give you way more options for long flights (then the battery swapping isn't an issue)
Nothing with any payload capacity in the multi-rotor family can stay in the air for 30mins
To give you and idea, a typical hobby quadcoptor with little to no payload has a flight time of ~ 10mins.
Various competitions are held to make quads with high flight times and people get 60-90mins in them, however those could never carry any payload and are doing nothing but hovering
That's true on a 32bit OS, on a 64bit OS an entire 4GB space can be given to a 32bit game, since the kernel doesn't need to reserve 2GB for itself to map video and everything else
Firewalls can and do block incoming traffic. The only machine allowed to make outbound connections is the SMNP trap server, and it can only connect to internal SMTP server.
Sneakernet is the problem, electronically securing systems that must send electronic alerts, not so much
The better question to ask, is how are manufacturers ever going to be able to offer 100w from a USB port. Do we really want our computer PSU's to have to be able to handle another 20A on the 5v rail just to be able to offer a single 100w capable port?
What about your TV or anything else that ghas a USB port? One of the reasons USB is so popular is because you didn't need to re-engineer your entire power supply and all it's rails.
Ever tried putting 5v @ 20A though a PCB trace?
Apple had a 12 month exclusive on it, it's available on anything now but as is common with Apple, nothing they touch ends up as "the standard"
Intel was using fibre cables for pre-release demos/trade shows etc, but I don't think they were ever released to retail. I'm not even sure they were using the same connector as those that were released
Just because a company folds it doesn't mean there isn't a market for the goods they sold.
If Dell or HP fell over, someone else would step in to fill the void, sure they may not get quite as big as either HP or Dell were, but there is still a market there to service, and that market wants Intel
You're missing all the fun then. Call a Canadian and American and see what happens :)
Even if that's so, this is Yahoo, so no one will ever listen to him and they will continue to do all the batshit crazy stuff they do that no one likes or even cares about
Wow am I glad I don't live in the US if that's the usual response to a rape claim.
The rest of the world watches US news like this (the Ohio rape) in utter disbelief.. actually that's wrong, it's not disbelief, it's sadness at how bad thing are getting there.
Seriously it might be time to find a new place to live
Everyone says he shouldn't have been fired, but from what can be implied from the company press release's this may not have been his first incident of this nature.
That may just be them covering their ass, but if not, and he has already had warnings for similar behavior then firing him may well have been the correct response. I tend to think that because both of these developers worked at the same company, and only one has been fired that this is the more likely scenario than them just getting rid of him
Well the second one happens with or without the first one :)
Why?
1000 warheads is enough to kill every living thing in Russia. In fact it's enough to indirectly kill every living thing on the planet (or close enough)
Why does it matter if both sides have the same amount? Both sides can detect one anothers launches and launch before getting hit so I ask again... why?
That's not proof, that like me saying I'm a millionaire, and to prove it you link to my quote saying I'm a millionaire
It's EA, they don't care about either of these things. If they did they would have actually fixed the capacity issues before launch. This isn't the first time this has happened for an EA launch and it won't be the last
Why pay for more servers for launch, when you can put in as many as you'll need to run under normal load once it settles down and lose so few customers that it won't even make a blip on the graph.Especially as the ones who get punished are obviously the "hardcore" ones who will just keep coming back, even after bitching the whole time when the servers can't handle the load
Seriously, the Oceana launch that happened today is having exactly the same problems.
At this point this is what you get if you buy EA games. Give it a week and it might be working enough to play, give it a month and it might be reliable
Seriously... you thought an Apple connector would ever be low cost... wow... just wow