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"Yes, but were you doing anything else with the rest of it? If not, why do you want more than 1/4 of the RAM you paid good money to buy, to be doing nothing? It's there to be used!"
What makes you think that I wasn't using the rest of it? I didn't say that Firefox was the only program running, so it seems especially silly to assume that it was.
Re:Leaks? I'll show you LEAKS!
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When browsing sites that have a lot of images, I've noticed that Firefox gobbles memory up fairly quickly.
On Windows, I've managed to get Firefox up to 758MB of RAM before I shut it down. That's 3/4 of my real RAM used by a single non-computational-heavy application.
The site in question wasn't a porn site, it was Home of the Underdogs and their Hall of Belated Fame.
According to the sources I was reading when I wrote that, the 5200 was also in 1982. I wasn't sure which was first. I could have listed both, but I was lazy.
But there were still PSX consoles in the wild that didn't come with the DualShock, and those folks had to buy a DualShock as an accessory. You couldn't guarantee that a PSX owner had a DualShock any more than you could guarantee that a Genesis owner had the Arcade Pad (or a Sega CD, for that matter). Because of that, 99+% of the games published for the PSX, even well after the release of the DualShock, were backwards-compatible with the original digital pad.
Backwards compatibility doesn't stop games from working with both. Most PS games made in 1998 and later support the left analog stick, and a good number support vibration.
I see sticks, but I'm not seeing analog. At the very least, the default controller wasn't analog (something not even Sony managed until the PS2).
Sony managed it with the Playstation Dual Shock, which replaced the old playstation main system in stores in 1998/1999.
It didn't rumble. The dual analog controller was just that: a standard PSX controller with two sticks.
"This rumble feature is similar to the one featured on the first edition of the Japanese Dual Analog, a feature that was removed shortly after that controller was released." -- Wikipedia entry for DualShock. If you don't trust Wikipedia, JFGI, and you'll get more sites that note that the first edition of the Dual Analog in Japan did indeed have Force Feedback.
Sony made rumble on controllers standard faire with the Playstation Dual Analog system. Every console released after that has had rumble built into its controllers.
The same controller also made dual analog sticks standard faire, which Nintendo and Microsoft both copied.
Sega made pressure sensitive shoulder buttons, copied by Nintendo with the Gamecube controller. PS2 has pressure sensitive buttons, but they aren't triggers. I have no idea how Microsoft has done it.
So, it's safe to say that Nintendo doesn't always lead, but also follows.
P.S. I mentioned Nintendo dominating the portable market in a different comment in reply to someone else.
Unfortunately, as strong as Nintendo is with first party games, the lack of third party games is what, IMO, made them come in third in the current (well, previous now that the 360 is out) generation.
The internet is a public place. Just like when you go outside, people can see what you are doing as you walk down the street or hang out in a park. The internet is not a private network, it is a public exchange. There are no guarantees that your email packet won't pass through my router enroute to a destination, so why can't I sneak a peak at your packets?
There's a slight problem with your logic: The DoJ isn't monitoring Google's upstream service provider. Instead, they're asking Google for log files, stored on Google servers, which are Google's private property.
Yes, it was a generalization. I'm well aware that there are exceptions to the rule. However, they are in the minority, and since those particular ones are already free, you probably won't be using a general p2p client like DirectConnect to find them.
Having said that, I'm going to point out that DirectConnect has no special music searching capabilities. This means that you can't search for anything that isn't in the file or directory name, such as genre. Maybe the i2hub version did, but I doubt it.
Just because something is illegal does not neccesarily mean that you are exposing yourself to liability. If you speed on an empty highway, you are not exposing yourself to punishment because nobody's gonna catch you.
Exactly... but in this case, the students are trying to hold the road responsible because they were speeding.
"Had the students known that they were exposing themselves to copyright infringement liability by using the i2hub service, they likely would not have used the service," the legal group wrote.'
This isn't a hard concept to understand. Really, it isn't. If you're downloading music that you see on CDs in stores, for free, it's illegal.
Blaming the i2hub's operators is a diversionary tactic. It's pretty obvious that they chose to connect to a file sharing network, and IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that shows intent on their part.
For the first time in over a decade, there's not just one, not even just two, but three (GBA, DS, PSP) popular handhelds already on the market, so Tiger chose then to enter? What were they thinking?
Just curious, but what do you mean by "tighter SQL integration?" Perl's DBI is pretty good at what it's supposed to do. Class::DBI, SQL::Abstract, and other similar modules provide tighter integration if so required.
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QFE: "Perl 5 isn't perfect, though, and some of its flaws are more apparent the closer Perl 6 comes to completion." Bolded for emphasis.
In other words, the spec still isn't nailed down. I may have only been been loosely following Perl 6's progress, but having seen the concatention operator change from . to ~ to _ during Perl 6's development, I'll wait until the final spec comes out, thanks.
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Like a Microsoft version of UNIX? :P
Microsoft even has a special program to assist you!
What's wrong with using HTML file uploads?
What makes you think that I wasn't using the rest of it? I didn't say that Firefox was the only program running, so it seems especially silly to assume that it was.
On Windows, I've managed to get Firefox up to 758MB of RAM before I shut it down. That's 3/4 of my real RAM used by a single non-computational-heavy application.
The site in question wasn't a porn site, it was Home of the Underdogs and their Hall of Belated Fame.
*looks at URL* You do realize this is /. you're talking about?
According to the sources I was reading when I wrote that, the 5200 was also in 1982. I wasn't sure which was first. I could have listed both, but I was lazy.
Backwards compatibility doesn't stop games from working with both. Most PS games made in 1998 and later support the left analog stick, and a good number support vibration.
Sony managed it with the Playstation Dual Shock, which replaced the old playstation main system in stores in 1998/1999.
It didn't rumble. The dual analog controller was just that: a standard PSX controller with two sticks.
"This rumble feature is similar to the one featured on the first edition of the Japanese Dual Analog, a feature that was removed shortly after that controller was released." -- Wikipedia entry for DualShock. If you don't trust Wikipedia, JFGI, and you'll get more sites that note that the first edition of the Dual Analog in Japan did indeed have Force Feedback.
The same controller also made dual analog sticks standard faire, which Nintendo and Microsoft both copied.
Sega made pressure sensitive shoulder buttons, copied by Nintendo with the Gamecube controller. PS2 has pressure sensitive buttons, but they aren't triggers. I have no idea how Microsoft has done it.
So, it's safe to say that Nintendo doesn't always lead, but also follows.
P.S. I mentioned Nintendo dominating the portable market in a different comment in reply to someone else.
Their console market is what they need to shore up.
Analog stick, Emerson Arcadia, 1982
Rumble, Sony Dual Analog Japanese version, 1996 (Rumble Pack was 1997)
That leaves... shoulder buttons.
Unfortunately, as strong as Nintendo is with first party games, the lack of third party games is what, IMO, made them come in third in the current (well, previous now that the 360 is out) generation.
There's a slight problem with your logic: The DoJ isn't monitoring Google's upstream service provider. Instead, they're asking Google for log files, stored on Google servers, which are Google's private property.
Having said that, I'm going to point out that DirectConnect has no special music searching capabilities. This means that you can't search for anything that isn't in the file or directory name, such as genre. Maybe the i2hub version did, but I doubt it.
Exactly... but in this case, the students are trying to hold the road responsible because they were speeding.
This isn't a hard concept to understand. Really, it isn't. If you're downloading music that you see on CDs in stores, for free, it's illegal.
Blaming the i2hub's operators is a diversionary tactic. It's pretty obvious that they chose to connect to a file sharing network, and IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that shows intent on their part.
For the first time in over a decade, there's not just one, not even just two, but three (GBA, DS, PSP) popular handhelds already on the market, so Tiger chose then to enter? What were they thinking?
DB: Oracle.
I'm too lazy to search WoW's forum for the Blue post that stated all this, but I know there was one.
What's the current release date on that now, anyway? 2038?
Just curious, but what do you mean by "tighter SQL integration?" Perl's DBI is pretty good at what it's supposed to do. Class::DBI, SQL::Abstract, and other similar modules provide tighter integration if so required.
In other words, the spec still isn't nailed down. I may have only been been loosely following Perl 6's progress, but having seen the concatention operator change from . to ~ to _ during Perl 6's development, I'll wait until the final spec comes out, thanks.
Only if you have the cash to support them. Or is that cache to support them?
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