ZSNES (and I assume SNES9x) supports those and a few other similar techniques, but it also has an option for high quality mode 7 and can play the sound at a higher quality than the SNES (although a lot of people say that it is not perfect emulation).
The most recent versions of ICQ and AIM both use the OSCAR protocal. That is, not only are they connected, they are the exact same service. I do not know exactly when the OCSAR version of ICQ came out, but it must have been several years ago.
Flying cars don't need (physical) roads. That makes a difference. And, as another poster mentioned, they could go faster. But if flying cars ever do become popular, it would likely be quite far in the future.
No, the problem is with citing encyclopedias. Instead, you may read the article to get a general idea of whatever you are looking up and get further informations from the sources listed by the article.
You misunderstand his point. The only way to get a command shell in Windows XP is to have a GUI window with a command shell. (Sure you can full screen it, but it is still dependent on the GUI.) On Linux, this would be like needing X running to get a terminal. Older versions of Windows were based on DOS (95, 98, ME) and had a boot to command-line option which did not load the GUI. In Windows XP that option boots to a GUI with a big cmd window.
I'll accept your production server running Windows and having a CD drive (there's no shortage of those), but why exactly does it have autoplay enabled, again?
Ummm... as far as I know, even with entangled photons, you cannot transfer information faster than the speed of light. Now, that method may speed up the transfer by a very small amount, but most lag is created by switches and routers, not the time it takes for a signal to go through the cable (at least, as long as you are not going across an ocean or bouncing off a satellite).
I use both Opera and FireFox (mainly FireFox), and I remember back around Opera 6 or so, the rendering was horrible, but I have not encountered any problems with the more recent versions.
I own both Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2, and I find that I like the single player better in the first and the multiplayer better in the second. Monkey Target is definitely the best minigame. The main difference is that in Super Monkey Ball 1 you switch off, but in 2 you play up to four players at the same time so there is less down time.
Okay, then I have no idea why it was two discs. Especially since a lot of areas were accessable on both discs. The only part that was different that I noticed was which dungeons you could access.
Although the first was my favorite in the series, it seems negligent to not mention that the series was continued with the same action/turn-based battle system on N64, GCN, GBA, and (?) DS. (I know there were two handheld ones, but I only own the first.) Unforunately, only the first was made by Square.
Okay, I want to know what exactly you are doing with 9 GIGABYTES of data other than storing FMVs that would limit your ability to make a game with several hundred hours of playtime. (Considering that a "long" game is around 70-90 hours.) Seriously. The only GCN game I own that has more than one (~1.5GB) disc is Tales of Symphonia, and it had a good amount of FMV (anime cutscenes, not easily replaced with real-time).
Yeah, I know. I also have the Customize Google FireFox extension set to change it to HTTPS if I somehow accidently go to HTTP (which is a bit hard with the yellow address bar for HTTPS).
But my point was that it is not default. I am only using HTTPS because I know about it and choose to use it. If there was no CPU usage problem with serving HTTPS pages to many users, then Google would default to HTTPS and only provide HTTP to browsers without HTTPS support (which are quite rare).
As I understand it, MythTV is currently able to do automatic ad-skipping (usually) because there are some sort of indicators that a commercial is coming up. I think the suggestion was that TV stations would have an arms race over automatic ad-skipping. But you can still just have a skip 30 seconds button.
Odd. I must be very lucky because I have a kernel with suspend2 on my laptop and using the hibernate script it seems to hibernate even faster in Linux than in Windows or at least about the same (both are usually 10 seconds). Unforunately, in Linux I have to disable hardware acceleration on fglrx (icky ATI drivers) for hibernate to work. On the other hand, I cannot get it to resume from sleep (suspend to RAM) at all.
It sounds like they want to mostly cache files that get read every boot-up, which would tend to not get changed much. This would avoid the however-many-writes limitation of flash.
I have seen this said on/. a few times, so could you please point out where I can find an mp3 player that costs less than the iPod? I have had enough trouble finding players that will even support ac3/mp4, which surprised me. Perferably, I would like a player that supports mp3, ac3, ogg vorbis, and flac, but I know that is unlikely.
Wouldn't it be cheaper if they produced memory sticks with just regular ROM with the data instead of flash? Still more than a CD (you can ask Nintendo about that one;)), but less than flash.
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ZSNES (and I assume SNES9x) supports those and a few other similar techniques, but it also has an option for high quality mode 7 and can play the sound at a higher quality than the SNES (although a lot of people say that it is not perfect emulation).
The most recent versions of ICQ and AIM both use the OSCAR protocal. That is, not only are they connected, they are the exact same service. I do not know exactly when the OCSAR version of ICQ came out, but it must have been several years ago.
Flying cars don't need (physical) roads. That makes a difference. And, as another poster mentioned, they could go faster. But if flying cars ever do become popular, it would likely be quite far in the future.
No, the problem is with citing encyclopedias. Instead, you may read the article to get a general idea of whatever you are looking up and get further informations from the sources listed by the article.
You misunderstand his point. The only way to get a command shell in Windows XP is to have a GUI window with a command shell. (Sure you can full screen it, but it is still dependent on the GUI.) On Linux, this would be like needing X running to get a terminal. Older versions of Windows were based on DOS (95, 98, ME) and had a boot to command-line option which did not load the GUI. In Windows XP that option boots to a GUI with a big cmd window.
I'll accept your production server running Windows and having a CD drive (there's no shortage of those), but why exactly does it have autoplay enabled, again?
Would you care to explain? KDE's Konquorer and ioslaves seem to beat Explorer.
Ummm... as far as I know, even with entangled photons, you cannot transfer information faster than the speed of light. Now, that method may speed up the transfer by a very small amount, but most lag is created by switches and routers, not the time it takes for a signal to go through the cable (at least, as long as you are not going across an ocean or bouncing off a satellite).
I use both Opera and FireFox (mainly FireFox), and I remember back around Opera 6 or so, the rendering was horrible, but I have not encountered any problems with the more recent versions.
I own both Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2, and I find that I like the single player better in the first and the multiplayer better in the second. Monkey Target is definitely the best minigame. The main difference is that in Super Monkey Ball 1 you switch off, but in 2 you play up to four players at the same time so there is less down time.
Okay, then I have no idea why it was two discs. Especially since a lot of areas were accessable on both discs. The only part that was different that I noticed was which dungeons you could access.
Although the first was my favorite in the series, it seems negligent to not mention that the series was continued with the same action/turn-based battle system on N64, GCN, GBA, and (?) DS. (I know there were two handheld ones, but I only own the first.) Unforunately, only the first was made by Square.
Okay, I want to know what exactly you are doing with 9 GIGABYTES of data other than storing FMVs that would limit your ability to make a game with several hundred hours of playtime. (Considering that a "long" game is around 70-90 hours.) Seriously. The only GCN game I own that has more than one (~1.5GB) disc is Tales of Symphonia, and it had a good amount of FMV (anime cutscenes, not easily replaced with real-time).
Mac or *nix freak? I use Windows XP. My .sig is from personal experience. :)
No, that's why in Windows XP SP2, the default setting is to have updates be downloaded and installed automatically.
Yeah, I know. I also have the Customize Google FireFox extension set to change it to HTTPS if I somehow accidently go to HTTP (which is a bit hard with the yellow address bar for HTTPS).
But my point was that it is not default. I am only using HTTPS because I know about it and choose to use it. If there was no CPU usage problem with serving HTTPS pages to many users, then Google would default to HTTPS and only provide HTTP to browsers without HTTPS support (which are quite rare).
Sure, right after Google turns on SSL by default for GMail.
I think beta would be a major improvement for DNF.
As I understand it, MythTV is currently able to do automatic ad-skipping (usually) because there are some sort of indicators that a commercial is coming up. I think the suggestion was that TV stations would have an arms race over automatic ad-skipping. But you can still just have a skip 30 seconds button.
Odd. I must be very lucky because I have a kernel with suspend2 on my laptop and using the hibernate script it seems to hibernate even faster in Linux than in Windows or at least about the same (both are usually 10 seconds). Unforunately, in Linux I have to disable hardware acceleration on fglrx (icky ATI drivers) for hibernate to work. On the other hand, I cannot get it to resume from sleep (suspend to RAM) at all.
It sounds like they want to mostly cache files that get read every boot-up, which would tend to not get changed much. This would avoid the however-many-writes limitation of flash.
I have seen this said on /. a few times, so could you please point out where I can find an mp3 player that costs less than the iPod? I have had enough trouble finding players that will even support ac3/mp4, which surprised me. Perferably, I would like a player that supports mp3, ac3, ogg vorbis, and flac, but I know that is unlikely.
Wouldn't it be cheaper if they produced memory sticks with just regular ROM with the data instead of flash? Still more than a CD (you can ask Nintendo about that one ;)), but less than flash.
And it was "Super Mario 64" not "Mario 64"; if you want to nitpick, at least be complete. :-p
It needs root privs to add itself to init scripts, sure, but it could add itself to .bashrc or Gnome/KDE startup just for that user with no problem.