Encryption does sound a bit like overkill, but having a specific remote tied to a specific device (i.e. some kind of authentication) would be handy. Maybe we could stop using IR while we're at it, and switch to bluetooth or something similar.
Of course the processing would have to be pushed onto the cloud as well. Using outsourced datacenters as some kind of glorified network drive would be pointless and expensive, as you point out.
Most worms/viruses in the wild are based on reverse-engineered security updates, so keeping your computer up to date is a Good Idea. I have no idea how well anti-virus scanners work, but since XP came out I have relied exclusively on security updates, a hardware firewall, avoiding IE and suspicious software without any problems. OTOH the contents of my computer are expendable, so I'd rather wipe everything and reinstall than spend a large portion of my computing resources on real-time anti-virus software. Hell, as long as a virus uses up less resources than an virus scanner I might even let it live, I'd still be ahead.
You can use your sword in every battle, only doing counter-attacks and the combat then sucks. However, you can force yourself to swap weapons in the middle of the fight to fight a different style, and it becomes fun.
I firmly believe that it is the developers job to create a compelling and entertaining game. Claiming that the player is playing it wrong if he isn't enjoying the game is disingenuous.
I think games becoming this short is a recent phenomena. I remember that games like Duke3D, Quake2, Half-life etc took very long to complete. The HL1 demo was over an hour, that's an eight of a modern game! Compare that to new games like Crysis, which not only feels incredibly short, but is in fact only the first episode of a three-parter. I'm okay with episodic games, but charging full price for one episode? Woah.
I blame it on the increase in the cost of developing games. No one can afford to make lots of levels with huge amounts of art assets anymore, yet everyone tries to one-up each other by having "The Latest Lens Flare Effect®"! Lets hope that procedural content generation comes to the rescue, and fast.
Just how long is the US military planning on staying in Iraq? Or are these new technologies meant for use in Iran or some other Middle Eastern country?
What the GP meant was that using a BSD style license it would be easier for him to take others work and sell it as a part of his own. There is no point in creating a program from scratch and licensing it under an open source license if you're not planning on distributing the source.
They want to stay in power, and keeping to people from starving is necessary to do that. Everything they do for their people is to keep them from rebellion.
I hope you do realize that applies to every government of every country on Earth, democratic or otherwise.
Maybe the Space Station will get equipped with a huge solar array to send renewable energy down to Earth, eh?
I have a feeling that it would be a lot cheaper to just build a new satellite instead of trying to retrofit the space station for yet another purpose. Let the international porkstation rest in peace.
If you live in a democracy, as this poster (though not TFA) is referring to, and you don't like the people in charge, you VOTE FOR THE OTHER GUY in the next election.
So what do you do when the other guy is just as bad?
Why is it utterly silly that aliens would want to conquer Earth and it's resources but not utterly silly that they would want to wipe us out (presumably to prevent us from conquering their planet and it's resources)?
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They also seem to have increased the drop rates on quest items, and decreased the amount of mobs you have to kill in some quests.
OTOH, you probably would be able to patent it. Sigh.
Encryption does sound a bit like overkill, but having a specific remote tied to a specific device (i.e. some kind of authentication) would be handy. Maybe we could stop using IR while we're at it, and switch to bluetooth or something similar.
Of course the processing would have to be pushed onto the cloud as well. Using outsourced datacenters as some kind of glorified network drive would be pointless and expensive, as you point out.
Most worms/viruses in the wild are based on reverse-engineered security updates, so keeping your computer up to date is a Good Idea. I have no idea how well anti-virus scanners work, but since XP came out I have relied exclusively on security updates, a hardware firewall, avoiding IE and suspicious software without any problems. OTOH the contents of my computer are expendable, so I'd rather wipe everything and reinstall than spend a large portion of my computing resources on real-time anti-virus software. Hell, as long as a virus uses up less resources than an virus scanner I might even let it live, I'd still be ahead.
SSDs don't have moving parts, so they don't fail in normal usage like HDDs do.
I thought those were enabled as default in XP as well?
This. Is. JACK THOMPSON!
I think games becoming this short is a recent phenomena. I remember that games like Duke3D, Quake2, Half-life etc took very long to complete. The HL1 demo was over an hour, that's an eight of a modern game! Compare that to new games like Crysis, which not only feels incredibly short, but is in fact only the first episode of a three-parter. I'm okay with episodic games, but charging full price for one episode? Woah.
I blame it on the increase in the cost of developing games. No one can afford to make lots of levels with huge amounts of art assets anymore, yet everyone tries to one-up each other by having "The Latest Lens Flare Effect®"! Lets hope that procedural content generation comes to the rescue, and fast.
((64 GB) / (80 MB)) * seconds * 1 000 000 = 25.959436 years
Just how long is the US military planning on staying in Iraq? Or are these new technologies meant for use in Iran or some other Middle Eastern country?
Or are they planning on using these in the US?
What the GP meant was that using a BSD style license it would be easier for him to take others work and sell it as a part of his own. There is no point in creating a program from scratch and licensing it under an open source license if you're not planning on distributing the source.
Why is it utterly silly that aliens would want to conquer Earth and it's resources but not utterly silly that they would want to wipe us out (presumably to prevent us from conquering their planet and it's resources)?
Let me rephrase it:
If someone believes that Firefly documents events that take place in our physical reality, then they would not make good rocket scientists.
Went the joke over the moderator's heads.
"Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these!"
Years?
You'll be lucky if you get a patch within a decade, and that's assuming the flux capacitors hold.
Damn that recipe is hard to get. Good thing crow meat has a high drop rate.