Perhaps if it was completely broken, the DoJ would have as case, but as long as it unofficially works, then no one is going to be able to prove anti-competitive behavior just because they dropped official support for a competing OS.
Bochs will never replace VPC as long as Bochs is written in "pure" platform neutral code. VPC works as well as it does because of platform-specific optimizations done all over the place, both in C code and in assembly. This can break compatibility(such as with the new G5), but it's the only way to get enough speed to be useful, otherwise it's going to be like trying to use MAME to run Windows(MAME of course is also pure, but it can get away with this because the environment it emulatates runs at a fraction of the speed of the host).
The story's submitter has the whole thing wrong; from their about page:
* Life support systems consist of oxygen flask and metering valve sufficient to keep 2 persons in the craft for 30 hours
* The submersible is a two-man craft
* It has a maximum speed of approximately 4 knots
No, I mean mine is a Rev. A 12" PB; I have the same cache, the same bus, and the same memory expansion. The only different is weight/design, and the dual display capibilities, along with a slightly faster processor.
No, iTunes is still an innovation for the Mac platform; it was availible long before it was on the PC. The grandparent post is simply trying to point out that Linux needs something big like that to come out for Linux, and just for Linux, otherwise it's an innovation for all platforms it is introduced on. And in that case, why get Linux?
True, but still, the education/government prices are nowhere near the family pack prices. The family pack is $40/machine; no education contract I've seen gets below 2x that amount, although the contract does stipulate 3 years of free upgrades.
No, the family pack is only for home users; commercial and education users need to look elsewhere. Likely, Apple gave them a special contract(especially if they built a customized version of the OS) which cost a fair bit more.
Not really; the Animatrix had a very specific anime style, and had cartoons closer to 10 minutes long. These are going to be very short 3 minute cartoons.
If you want to take a look at what the parent is talking about, just find a Mac running OS X; icons are done via scalable vectors so that the dock can be manipulated without compromising icon quality(size changes, magnification, etc). It's another one of those little things that sounds pointless, but's worth big points with users.
I'm not entirely sure about 10.2.x on down(I'm pretty sure they're stuck at 8), but 10.3(aka Panther) finally takes care of the issue officially. With Panther, Apple's finally gone to the *nix standard of shadow hashes, so you can have whatever long password you want.
As backwards as that sounds, I'm part of an organization that does just that; and I'd like to offer the reasoning behind that. At our conception, one of the most popular games in existance was Starseige: Tribes, a game rated T, meaning there were often teenagers(both young and old) playing. Now, Tribes features no blood and no gore, so it's largely "fantasy violence", not unlike say Power Rangers, or some other show akin to that. This, coupled with the desire of some members of the community to play in an environment where they wouldn't be harrassed(or cursed at/towards/or otherwise see), resulted in us setting up servers like that for Tribes.
To this day, the servers are extremely popular, and always full. Sure, it's a handful to keep new players under control, but people seem to like playing in an environment where they don't get cursed at, or otherwise treated poorly by other players. We run such servers for other games too(including M games) for the exact same reason, and those servers are also popular.
It may seem backwards to you, but to some people, that's simply how they want to live.
No one is saying that the only security for HL2 is obscurity, only that it was another layer. Unfortunately, it's probably one of the most important layers, as the source code gives cheaters an idea of what to mess with to pull of things like wallhacking, and other cheats that are always going to be impossible to prevent, but were harder because of obscurity. All things considered, this is a "bad thing."
Yes, but what happens when PrivSep is exploited? It too is just like any other code: human written, and potentially weak. It's another layer of security that would have to be bypassed, but it's by no means the end of exploits in other code.
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I remember when G4 went down; it was a happy day, as it was the bird that carried Channel One(aka the "We own your kids" corperation). Let us hope that they made the mistake of moving to T4 now.
While putting the current.13 micron G5 in a laptop would be hard, it's not impossible. The chip itself is hot, but at lower speeds, it's not particularly hot. Desktop P4's are being put in to laptops, and those do upwards of 90wts of heat(with Prescott set to surpass 100wts), which makes for a hot laptop, but isn't impossible, as it results in a powerful "desktop replacement" machine.
The reason we're not seeing a PB G5 is because the kind of "desktop replacements" being made out of P4's are unreasonable as far as Apple's concerned. Apple wants something sleek, and they're willing to wait for it. Still, compared to the P4, the G5 is far less of a challenge to implement in to a laptop.
Here's a clue: don't trust studies. They are generally paid for by people with agendas.
But on the contrary, don't balk at any study just because someone paid to have it done. As odd as it sounds, companies that do studies don't just pull "statistics" out of their ass, they are by and large sizable companies with good reputations doing honest work. The reason why studies seem to agree with the organization funding them is that often, the organization sets the parameters, creating a situation where things would look good for the company that funded the study. Looking at the numbers, I believe that Giga is right; in their subject pool, Windows was cheaper. The study should only be distrusted when the parameters used don't fit a situation you're trying to use it as proof in; for a company similar to the subject pool, this study would seem to be an accurate comparison.
The music doesn't just have no pawn shop value; it's completely useless. Sure, the iPod can play it, but without authorization(or someone figuring out how to crack FairPlay), it can't be used on a computer, another portable MP3 player, etc without exploiting analog, at which point it's probably not worth the effort. For as much as the SlashBots hate DRM, this is one of the benefits of such a system, even as leinient as FairPlay is.
According to News.com, the reason they scrubbed the iTunes auction was because he violated one of eBay's rules, which states that "eBay prohibits the listing of items or products to be delivered electronically through the Internet", aka the "You can't sell it if it doesn't physically exist" policy. Such as transfer may still be legal, but it looks like eBay isn't the place to do it.
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Perhaps if it was completely broken, the DoJ would have as case, but as long as it unofficially works, then no one is going to be able to prove anti-competitive behavior just because they dropped official support for a competing OS.
Bochs will never replace VPC as long as Bochs is written in "pure" platform neutral code. VPC works as well as it does because of platform-specific optimizations done all over the place, both in C code and in assembly. This can break compatibility(such as with the new G5), but it's the only way to get enough speed to be useful, otherwise it's going to be like trying to use MAME to run Windows(MAME of course is also pure, but it can get away with this because the environment it emulatates runs at a fraction of the speed of the host).
Humm, I'm a moron; the guy was quoting CNN, not listing the facts himself, so CNN screwed up, not him. Sorry.
The story's submitter has the whole thing wrong; from their about page:
* Life support systems consist of oxygen flask and metering valve sufficient to keep 2 persons in the craft for 30 hours
* The submersible is a two-man craft
* It has a maximum speed of approximately 4 knots
No, I mean mine is a Rev. A 12" PB; I have the same cache, the same bus, and the same memory expansion. The only different is weight/design, and the dual display capibilities, along with a slightly faster processor.
The 12" PB is exacltly the same though. The only difference is that the PB can also drive an external screen to ungodly resolutions, instead of 1024.
You think you have it bad? I bought a 12" PB a month before the refresh. Now the iBook is almost better than my PB, at only 60% of the cost.
Indeed. The fact of the matter is that if Apple didn't patent it, someone else would, and then sue Apple over it.
No, iTunes is still an innovation for the Mac platform; it was availible long before it was on the PC. The grandparent post is simply trying to point out that Linux needs something big like that to come out for Linux, and just for Linux, otherwise it's an innovation for all platforms it is introduced on. And in that case, why get Linux?
True, but still, the education/government prices are nowhere near the family pack prices. The family pack is $40/machine; no education contract I've seen gets below 2x that amount, although the contract does stipulate 3 years of free upgrades.
No, the family pack is only for home users; commercial and education users need to look elsewhere. Likely, Apple gave them a special contract(especially if they built a customized version of the OS) which cost a fair bit more.
Not really; the Animatrix had a very specific anime style, and had cartoons closer to 10 minutes long. These are going to be very short 3 minute cartoons.
If you want to take a look at what the parent is talking about, just find a Mac running OS X; icons are done via scalable vectors so that the dock can be manipulated without compromising icon quality(size changes, magnification, etc). It's another one of those little things that sounds pointless, but's worth big points with users.
I'm not entirely sure about 10.2.x on down(I'm pretty sure they're stuck at 8), but 10.3(aka Panther) finally takes care of the issue officially. With Panther, Apple's finally gone to the *nix standard of shadow hashes, so you can have whatever long password you want.
HomeLAN servers; all the servers labeled "HomeLAN Fed(eration)" are run with these rules.
As backwards as that sounds, I'm part of an organization that does just that; and I'd like to offer the reasoning behind that. At our conception, one of the most popular games in existance was Starseige: Tribes, a game rated T, meaning there were often teenagers(both young and old) playing. Now, Tribes features no blood and no gore, so it's largely "fantasy violence", not unlike say Power Rangers, or some other show akin to that. This, coupled with the desire of some members of the community to play in an environment where they wouldn't be harrassed(or cursed at/towards/or otherwise see), resulted in us setting up servers like that for Tribes.
To this day, the servers are extremely popular, and always full. Sure, it's a handful to keep new players under control, but people seem to like playing in an environment where they don't get cursed at, or otherwise treated poorly by other players. We run such servers for other games too(including M games) for the exact same reason, and those servers are also popular.
It may seem backwards to you, but to some people, that's simply how they want to live.
No one is saying that the only security for HL2 is obscurity, only that it was another layer. Unfortunately, it's probably one of the most important layers, as the source code gives cheaters an idea of what to mess with to pull of things like wallhacking, and other cheats that are always going to be impossible to prevent, but were harder because of obscurity. All things considered, this is a "bad thing."
Excuse me, but when has WASTE not been availible? It was there(and at version 1.1) almost a month ago, last I checked.
Yes, but what happens when PrivSep is exploited? It too is just like any other code: human written, and potentially weak. It's another layer of security that would have to be bypassed, but it's by no means the end of exploits in other code.
I remember when G4 went down; it was a happy day, as it was the bird that carried Channel One(aka the "We own your kids" corperation). Let us hope that they made the mistake of moving to T4 now.
Humm, I can't even get that thing to compile, it complains about unsigned char to char* conversion.
While putting the current .13 micron G5 in a laptop would be hard, it's not impossible. The chip itself is hot, but at lower speeds, it's not particularly hot. Desktop P4's are being put in to laptops, and those do upwards of 90wts of heat(with Prescott set to surpass 100wts), which makes for a hot laptop, but isn't impossible, as it results in a powerful "desktop replacement" machine.
The reason we're not seeing a PB G5 is because the kind of "desktop replacements" being made out of P4's are unreasonable as far as Apple's concerned. Apple wants something sleek, and they're willing to wait for it. Still, compared to the P4, the G5 is far less of a challenge to implement in to a laptop.
But on the contrary, don't balk at any study just because someone paid to have it done. As odd as it sounds, companies that do studies don't just pull "statistics" out of their ass, they are by and large sizable companies with good reputations doing honest work. The reason why studies seem to agree with the organization funding them is that often, the organization sets the parameters, creating a situation where things would look good for the company that funded the study. Looking at the numbers, I believe that Giga is right; in their subject pool, Windows was cheaper. The study should only be distrusted when the parameters used don't fit a situation you're trying to use it as proof in; for a company similar to the subject pool, this study would seem to be an accurate comparison.
The music doesn't just have no pawn shop value; it's completely useless. Sure, the iPod can play it, but without authorization(or someone figuring out how to crack FairPlay), it can't be used on a computer, another portable MP3 player, etc without exploiting analog, at which point it's probably not worth the effort. For as much as the SlashBots hate DRM, this is one of the benefits of such a system, even as leinient as FairPlay is.
According to News.com, the reason they scrubbed the iTunes auction was because he violated one of eBay's rules, which states that "eBay prohibits the listing of items or products to be delivered electronically through the Internet", aka the "You can't sell it if it doesn't physically exist" policy. Such as transfer may still be legal, but it looks like eBay isn't the place to do it.