Wouldn't it be possible to create a (monentary) >194 decibel sound by increasing the atmosphere to more than 29.4 psi? Or does that just count as a single shockwave with no decibel value?
Restricting it to an arbitrary value would actually be quite effective. A real SSH session uses a tiny amount of bandwidth; a service tunneled over SSH would use vastly more. Cut it down to 10 or 20K/sec and you won't be watching that 600MB movie anytime soon.
While there are some moral people out there, the sad fact is that the vast, vast majority (probably higher than 99%) are using it for steali^H^H^H^H^Hcopyright infringement. As it is today, the only thing that stops one from downloading to their hearts' content is their personal sense of right and wrong; since piracy is so rampant this must be where the fault lies.
Also, fansubs are still copyright violations, just more defensible ones that warezing games or American movies.
Not necessarily... If you required that all supported platforms have a network connection (or even better, an always-on connection like broadband or cellular) then you could easily develop a collection of different games that can share static data files with each other without needing any least-common-denominator cross-platform stuff.
I don't think the seek time is necessarily all that great. The actuator is also minaturized and the precision of movement required is likely higher than a normal hard disk.
The overhead, in processor time in the controller and accounting on the disks themselves, involved in a 30-way RAID configuration would be enormous and probably well above the point of diminishing returns.
These things really are designed for applications where space is a premium; you could get orders of magnitude more space for the same cost or less with physically larger disks.
You can change the port priorities by dragging them up and down in the network preferences' Network Port Configurations section. I'm not saying that will solve your problem, just correcting a minor error:P
You can't bring up UT2K4 as an example of Unreal 1's multiplayer. When it was first released, U1's MP was *horrible*; it was tuned for a LAN by default and took significant effort to get even halfway decent performance on a modem. It took several patches to resolve this, and the network code wasn't truly competitive with the Quake series until Unreal Tournament.
I do, however, agree that it had great sound, graphics, and level design (except for pretty much the first 5 and last 5 maps, which probably turned off a lot of people to it at first).
Yeah, and DOS is also why each game shipped with its own collection of custom-built mouse, sound, video, and modem drivers. A modern OS should also provide a hardware abstraction layer, unless you're running on a console platform and can guarantee that every user has identical hardware.
It was relevant to the subthread at hand, which was Japan's advantage over the US in manufacturing since WW2. And yes, it was implied that GM is doing exactly that, or at least in facilities inherently inferior to equivalent Japanese facilities for a variety of reasons including this one.
And they had an advantage that Europe also got after WW2: Their manufacturing infrastructure was completely destroyed, so they had a chance to start from scratch with cutting-edge (at the time_) technology throughout the entire process. The US was (and is) still trying to maintain their much older and less capable facilities, since that was still less expensive than starting over and there was no carpet-bombing to force them into it.
Some people do play games in order to do things that are absolutely impossible in the real world. Is it realistic to be floating, bodiless, over the field where the army you command is fighting? And yet, RTSes remain popular.
I hate to trot out this old argument, but sometimes a game and a person just don't "mesh" and the person will never be good at or enjoy the game. I'm like that with fighting games, which depend on combos and timing. I was able to grok Descent pretty quickly, but I could easily understand if someone doesn't.
Consoles are inherently a technological plateau; that's why they're attractive to developers (the idea that the installed base will all have identical hardware for 5 years).
The "good old days" of gaming were also full of ripoffs, boring variations on a theme, and mindless clones of the latest and greatest. They all tanked and were lost to history, we just remember the classics more.
Why? What do we gain by maintaining a disadvantageous free trade relationship?
Free trade isn't a moral or ethical choice, it's an economic and political one; the material loss and gain is all that's considered here (sidestepping the queston of humanitarian issues).
Sorry, I think I'd prefer a usable Internet over the freedom to get thousands of viruses a day from idiot Comcast users. You should not be allowed to run a spambot for the same reason you can't hold a rock concert in your living room at 1 in the morning- the pain and inconvenience it causes everyone else (who *also* have rights and privileges and, in the case of Internet access, services they are paying for and not receiving because of the viruses) outweighs any possible benefit to you. Absolute freedom leads to anarchy and tragedy of the commons.
If it's your fault that it's impossible to track a cracker any farther than your deliberately open AP, then you're probably guilty of something or other related to obstructing a criminal investigation. At least, that's the way things seem to work these days:/
Plus, on most browsers I've seen, there is no "cancel and leave site" button, just "OK" . All the dialog says is that the cert is not from one of the major authorities and some vague instructions about making sure the domain is who it says it is- a task that your average nontechnical user has no idea how to accomplish if he even knows what that message means.
Don't forget that cartridge games don't need memory cards (just throw some RAM in along with the ROM) and can include their own processing ability and specialized hardware like the SuperFX chip.
There are vastly more people whose creativity is greatly impaired (and cannot live a normal life) due to their mental disorders. And, disregarding the tinfoil hat brigade, these devices wouldn't be any more "required" than a pacemaker or a parolee's tracking bracelet. They're merely a more advanced treatment than therapy or drugs.
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Wouldn't it be possible to create a (monentary) >194 decibel sound by increasing the atmosphere to more than 29.4 psi? Or does that just count as a single shockwave with no decibel value?
Restricting it to an arbitrary value would actually be quite effective. A real SSH session uses a tiny amount of bandwidth; a service tunneled over SSH would use vastly more. Cut it down to 10 or 20K/sec and you won't be watching that 600MB movie anytime soon.
While there are some moral people out there, the sad fact is that the vast, vast majority (probably higher than 99%) are using it for steali^H^H^H^H^Hcopyright infringement. As it is today, the only thing that stops one from downloading to their hearts' content is their personal sense of right and wrong; since piracy is so rampant this must be where the fault lies.
Also, fansubs are still copyright violations, just more defensible ones that warezing games or American movies.
The correct response, of course, being "No, you look ext!"
Not necessarily... If you required that all supported platforms have a network connection (or even better, an always-on connection like broadband or cellular) then you could easily develop a collection of different games that can share static data files with each other without needing any least-common-denominator cross-platform stuff.
I don't think we've hit it yet, I prefer the iPod Mini's merged touchwheel/button doohickey to the controls on the larger iPod.
- I don't think the seek time is necessarily all that great. The actuator is also minaturized and the precision of movement required is likely higher than a normal hard disk.
- The overhead, in processor time in the controller and accounting on the disks themselves, involved in a 30-way RAID configuration would be enormous and probably well above the point of diminishing returns.
These things really are designed for applications where space is a premium; you could get orders of magnitude more space for the same cost or less with physically larger disks.You can change the port priorities by dragging them up and down in the network preferences' Network Port Configurations section. I'm not saying that will solve your problem, just correcting a minor error :P
You can't bring up UT2K4 as an example of Unreal 1's multiplayer. When it was first released, U1's MP was *horrible*; it was tuned for a LAN by default and took significant effort to get even halfway decent performance on a modem. It took several patches to resolve this, and the network code wasn't truly competitive with the Quake series until Unreal Tournament.
I do, however, agree that it had great sound, graphics, and level design (except for pretty much the first 5 and last 5 maps, which probably turned off a lot of people to it at first).
Yeah, and DOS is also why each game shipped with its own collection of custom-built mouse, sound, video, and modem drivers. A modern OS should also provide a hardware abstraction layer, unless you're running on a console platform and can guarantee that every user has identical hardware.
It was relevant to the subthread at hand, which was Japan's advantage over the US in manufacturing since WW2. And yes, it was implied that GM is doing exactly that, or at least in facilities inherently inferior to equivalent Japanese facilities for a variety of reasons including this one.
And they had an advantage that Europe also got after WW2: Their manufacturing infrastructure was completely destroyed, so they had a chance to start from scratch with cutting-edge (at the time_) technology throughout the entire process. The US was (and is) still trying to maintain their much older and less capable facilities, since that was still less expensive than starting over and there was no carpet-bombing to force them into it.
Some people do play games in order to do things that are absolutely impossible in the real world. Is it realistic to be floating, bodiless, over the field where the army you command is fighting? And yet, RTSes remain popular.
I hate to trot out this old argument, but sometimes a game and a person just don't "mesh" and the person will never be good at or enjoy the game. I'm like that with fighting games, which depend on combos and timing. I was able to grok Descent pretty quickly, but I could easily understand if someone doesn't.
Consoles are inherently a technological plateau; that's why they're attractive to developers (the idea that the installed base will all have identical hardware for 5 years).
The "good old days" of gaming were also full of ripoffs, boring variations on a theme, and mindless clones of the latest and greatest. They all tanked and were lost to history, we just remember the classics more.
Why? What do we gain by maintaining a disadvantageous free trade relationship?
Free trade isn't a moral or ethical choice, it's an economic and political one; the material loss and gain is all that's considered here (sidestepping the queston of humanitarian issues).
There is no list because that's BS.
Sorry, I think I'd prefer a usable Internet over the freedom to get thousands of viruses a day from idiot Comcast users. You should not be allowed to run a spambot for the same reason you can't hold a rock concert in your living room at 1 in the morning- the pain and inconvenience it causes everyone else (who *also* have rights and privileges and, in the case of Internet access, services they are paying for and not receiving because of the viruses) outweighs any possible benefit to you. Absolute freedom leads to anarchy and tragedy of the commons.
If it's your fault that it's impossible to track a cracker any farther than your deliberately open AP, then you're probably guilty of something or other related to obstructing a criminal investigation. At least, that's the way things seem to work these days :/
Plus, on most browsers I've seen, there is no "cancel and leave site" button, just "OK" . All the dialog says is that the cert is not from one of the major authorities and some vague instructions about making sure the domain is who it says it is- a task that your average nontechnical user has no idea how to accomplish if he even knows what that message means.
Don't forget that cartridge games don't need memory cards (just throw some RAM in along with the ROM) and can include their own processing ability and specialized hardware like the SuperFX chip.
I'll point out that you must be new here.
I just hope it doesn't come back to Earth foaming at the spectroscope, and have to be put down.
Just out of curiosity, what's a legitimate reason to have $10,000 in cash in your house?
There are vastly more people whose creativity is greatly impaired (and cannot live a normal life) due to their mental disorders. And, disregarding the tinfoil hat brigade, these devices wouldn't be any more "required" than a pacemaker or a parolee's tracking bracelet. They're merely a more advanced treatment than therapy or drugs.