Freenet sacrificed performance and usability for near-total security and anonymity. As a result, the perverts filled it with animal and child porn and everyone else decided they'd rather make the opposite sacrifice.
If you have specific advanced requirements like that, pop open the command line and enter it into the config yourself. The "firewall preferences" screen is just a wizard on top of ipfw.
Like the article says, the problem is with the market. There is no demand for CC devices over and above normal closed cable boxes. The fact that renting a box from the cable company includes a de facto service plan for the thing also makes them sufficiently attractive to most people.
Actually, most modern cards can use certain compressed texture formats natively without decompressing them. I know the Xbox 360 can do that and its graphics hardware is 2 years old.
The Wii doesn't use the sensor bar to replace acceleration sensors, it's to give the controller a point of reference to determine its position in space.
Apple recommends that you back up too and a new backup tool (more like a version-controlled Finder) is one of the banner features of the next OS X release.
Most people do not care about being locked into one music player program. Most people do not own multiple computers or store their music in several places. Most people do not use a lot of music formats. The sound quality argument is a wash, it's good enough to not be unbearable (especially since most people use it with cheap headphones and/or outdoors). Most people don't read slashdot to realize they should care about these issues, or when they hear about them decide they are not important. Most people bought iPods.
There are a large number of entities that could be argued are successful species that are merely dependent on humans for survival and reproduction the way plants depend on bees, not the least of which are domestic pets.
Third party support is weak, first party support is industry-leading. Technical specs are weak, user experience is industry-leading. Traditional priorities of competitors are weak, brand new ideas that happen to be just what people didn't know they were looking for are industry-leading. Hollow and obviously manufactured branding is weak, charismatic executives are industry-leading.
No, actually. "The interface still lacks the ability to add torrents" is right there in the summary.
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Thanks for replying. The review does mention MAME many times; I'm glad the book is more comprehensive than it implies. If I ever want to do this sort of project, I know where I'll look first now:)
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Does the book out anywhere that abandonware is a myth and that unless you already own an arcades' worth of authentic machines this project will involve copyright infringement? I'm not saying this is right or wrong, just that it would be irresponsible not to make readers aware of that issue.
You may be joking, but the first few generations of Apple's LCD monitors really didn't have buttons. They had touch-sensitive symbols printed on the plastic with lights behind them for feedback.
It was ruled not to be a violation, but nowhere does it say anyone is required to facilitate it or forbidden to block it. All that ruling says is that if you breach the security of a printer cartridge you can't be prosecuted for it. Whether that's actually possible is a different issue.
There have already been rumors that Apple will drop the built-in optical drive from some notebooks. But yeah, unless they start using flash or iPod hard drives, that will always be the lower limit.
An FTP session running over a 100Mbit LAN should see about 10MB/sec real data transfer, maxing out the line and accounting for overhead. They're claiming that their gadgets could move a file between each other at 150 megabytes per second over the same cable?
As the saying goes, this requires some very extraordinary evidence. Or there are a lot of missing qualifiers like "over a specific worst-case line that TCP doesn't come close to theoretical maximum performance on".
The article complaining about the AppleTV is over a month old, and too old to point out that the AppleTV now has an official, fully-supported YouTube browser.
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Freenet sacrificed performance and usability for near-total security and anonymity. As a result, the perverts filled it with animal and child porn and everyone else decided they'd rather make the opposite sacrifice.
If you have specific advanced requirements like that, pop open the command line and enter it into the config yourself. The "firewall preferences" screen is just a wizard on top of ipfw.
Like the article says, the problem is with the market. There is no demand for CC devices over and above normal closed cable boxes. The fact that renting a box from the cable company includes a de facto service plan for the thing also makes them sufficiently attractive to most people.
Actually, most modern cards can use certain compressed texture formats natively without decompressing them. I know the Xbox 360 can do that and its graphics hardware is 2 years old.
The Wii doesn't use the sensor bar to replace acceleration sensors, it's to give the controller a point of reference to determine its position in space.
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2007/07/06/halo-3-laser-tag-command-features-plasma-rifle-plasma-pistol-energy-sword-for-your-inner-master-chief.htm
Apple recommends that you back up too and a new backup tool (more like a version-controlled Finder) is one of the banner features of the next OS X release.
Most people do not care about being locked into one music player program. Most people do not own multiple computers or store their music in several places. Most people do not use a lot of music formats. The sound quality argument is a wash, it's good enough to not be unbearable (especially since most people use it with cheap headphones and/or outdoors). Most people don't read slashdot to realize they should care about these issues, or when they hear about them decide they are not important. Most people bought iPods.
There are a large number of entities that could be argued are successful species that are merely dependent on humans for survival and reproduction the way plants depend on bees, not the least of which are domestic pets.
Third party support is weak, first party support is industry-leading. Technical specs are weak, user experience is industry-leading. Traditional priorities of competitors are weak, brand new ideas that happen to be just what people didn't know they were looking for are industry-leading. Hollow and obviously manufactured branding is weak, charismatic executives are industry-leading.
It's already easy to talk about homosexuality in games. Just jump on Xbox Live.
You may also encounter discourse on race relations.
How easily we forget things like the faulty capacitor espionage clusterfuck.
This was debunked by badastronomy.com. (Or at least that article is a bad argument for it.)
It would be pretty funny if they didn't find Dateline's other undercover reporter.
No, actually. "The interface still lacks the ability to add torrents" is right there in the summary.
Thanks for replying. The review does mention MAME many times; I'm glad the book is more comprehensive than it implies. If I ever want to do this sort of project, I know where I'll look first now :)
Does the book out anywhere that abandonware is a myth and that unless you already own an arcades' worth of authentic machines this project will involve copyright infringement? I'm not saying this is right or wrong, just that it would be irresponsible not to make readers aware of that issue.
You may be joking, but the first few generations of Apple's LCD monitors really didn't have buttons. They had touch-sensitive symbols printed on the plastic with lights behind them for feedback.
The biochemist then put on a straw hat, went out to terrorize the city, and was swiftly foiled by Batman.
I don't know about that, I keep getting emails promising me that feature can be unlocked.
It's a cell phone that "meshes" with existing wifi networks. They're not using the technical networking sense of "mesh".
It was ruled not to be a violation, but nowhere does it say anyone is required to facilitate it or forbidden to block it. All that ruling says is that if you breach the security of a printer cartridge you can't be prosecuted for it. Whether that's actually possible is a different issue.
There have already been rumors that Apple will drop the built-in optical drive from some notebooks. But yeah, unless they start using flash or iPod hard drives, that will always be the lower limit.
An FTP session running over a 100Mbit LAN should see about 10MB/sec real data transfer, maxing out the line and accounting for overhead. They're claiming that their gadgets could move a file between each other at 150 megabytes per second over the same cable?
As the saying goes, this requires some very extraordinary evidence. Or there are a lot of missing qualifiers like "over a specific worst-case line that TCP doesn't come close to theoretical maximum performance on".
The article complaining about the AppleTV is over a month old, and too old to point out that the AppleTV now has an official, fully-supported YouTube browser.