New CPUs have new assembler op codes available, and ever since MMX, SIMD (useful for graphics-related processing for one) has been enhanced with each new CPU. Programs that can use SSE, for example, can take advantage of native op codes for SIMD rather than emulating it with a lot more code.
Big difference: they ban accounts for violating their terms of service. A ToS is actually enforceable because you are providing a service to someone, and in doing so you set the rules of how it can be used. When you give someone software, it's not a service anymore. The best you could do is stop providing updates (which could be considered a service) to those you don't want to, but that's it.
A Linux virus (if it were possible to make one) would be very useful due to all the Linux-based servers out there; you could do a hell of a lot more destruction if you could target Linux, AIX, HPUX, BSD, OpenVMS, Mac OS X, etc. The incentive is there, it's just not really possible to write a virus for a non-Windows platform.
A domain name can only contain [-a-z0-9]; a URI can include all the characters that you were describing. Domain names are split by full stops, so a FQDN would match something like ([-a-z0-9]+\.)*[-a-z0-9]+
You can at least keep your music in AAC without using iTunes due to OSS like faad and xine. It's not like iPhoto imports your pictures in JPEG2000 or something...
Now the metadata, on the other hand, is the problem with iTunes and iPhoto.
Because MSIE doesn't follow any standards but its own, and it took almost 10 years for them to fucking fix at least some of its thousands of problems. I'd say they fucked up the web, and it's going to take a while to fix it.
Sony is a Japanese company, and as far as I've read on Slashdot before, Japanese investors are infinitely more patient than American ones. If Sony was based in the US, they'd probably have tanked due to short-sighted shareholders by now given all their huge failures in the past and present.
Since Wii probably does native emulation of Gamecube games, it's probably a PPC architecture. It's fast enough to run all the older games from the virtual arcade thing in emulation, though.
... berating, criticizing and/or demanding of government (officials) without offering any solutions or compromises.
That's the whole fucking point of being a politician: to fix the problems. If we were the ones proposing solutions, we'd come to a point where politicians are unnecessary, and we'd be able to become an actual democracy rather than a representative democracy.
Dell has an OEM agreement which gets them discounted software. They could just as easily use normal copies, but it would cost them more. Your argument is flawed.
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Uh, there's a location bar in the Apple screenshot...
But in his mind, he finishes the quote, "but a delayed bad game just makes me sick."
I'm pretty sure the nesting in the trademarks is ((Microsoft)® Windows)® (at least in the US).
There are probably as many people on Slashdot as there are unique stories that actually understand the difference between "lose" and "loose".
New CPUs have new assembler op codes available, and ever since MMX, SIMD (useful for graphics-related processing for one) has been enhanced with each new CPU. Programs that can use SSE, for example, can take advantage of native op codes for SIMD rather than emulating it with a lot more code.
GPLv3 probably.
Big difference: they ban accounts for violating their terms of service. A ToS is actually enforceable because you are providing a service to someone, and in doing so you set the rules of how it can be used. When you give someone software, it's not a service anymore. The best you could do is stop providing updates (which could be considered a service) to those you don't want to, but that's it.
A Linux virus (if it were possible to make one) would be very useful due to all the Linux-based servers out there; you could do a hell of a lot more destruction if you could target Linux, AIX, HPUX, BSD, OpenVMS, Mac OS X, etc. The incentive is there, it's just not really possible to write a virus for a non-Windows platform.
A domain name can only contain [-a-z0-9]; a URI can include all the characters that you were describing. Domain names are split by full stops, so a FQDN would match something like ([-a-z0-9]+\.)*[-a-z0-9]+
They register sol-ote.com (or the other site registers solo-te.com instead). Ain't punctuation great?
You can at least keep your music in AAC without using iTunes due to OSS like faad and xine. It's not like iPhoto imports your pictures in JPEG2000 or something...
Now the metadata, on the other hand, is the problem with iTunes and iPhoto.
Because MSIE doesn't follow any standards but its own, and it took almost 10 years for them to fucking fix at least some of its thousands of problems. I'd say they fucked up the web, and it's going to take a while to fix it.
It's probably like the Xbox360's power button, but I don't have a Wii yet, so I don't know.
You don't need an account at the NY Times anymore for some reason, so this post is redundant.
Sony is a Japanese company, and as far as I've read on Slashdot before, Japanese investors are infinitely more patient than American ones. If Sony was based in the US, they'd probably have tanked due to short-sighted shareholders by now given all their huge failures in the past and present.
Since Wii probably does native emulation of Gamecube games, it's probably a PPC architecture. It's fast enough to run all the older games from the virtual arcade thing in emulation, though.
Bad for your microwave oven. Yeah, I know you were probably kidding.
Dell has an OEM agreement which gets them discounted software. They could just as easily use normal copies, but it would cost them more. Your argument is flawed.
Well, the dev kits cost more for Xbox360 and PS3 than the Wii SDK does.