It worked fine in the French revolution.

My (EU) ISP still ships cable modems that are not IPv6-compatible...

Executing arbitrary code is how the jailbreaks work. They exploit some weakness to patch the system, removing a few safeguards in the process (that's why there are some viruses out there that only affect jailbroken iOS devices).

I guess you're not a programmer? When programming, you develop mind models of the code. This means that you can see behind the structures and write complicated stuff very quickly. After a while of not working on the code, you forget that model, and small changes are very dangerous, since they might result in side effects in other parts of the code you didn't consider.

That means that when you're constantly working on the same codebase and add features quickly, you get better code and less bugs. Note that this only stands true without a deadline looming ahead (which I don't think the OpenBSD devs have), since then you tend to make dangerous shortcuts and litter the code with "FIXME"s you tend to forget about.

That's also how hackathons work. I've been able to create full products in a weekend that otherwise would have taken months.

While I agree, there are also specific cases where a human cannot reasonably do an optimisation a compiler has no troubles with. For example, a CPU can parallelize subsequent operations that are distinct, like talking to different units (floating point math, integer math, memory access) and not using the same registers. A human usually thinks in sequences, which require using the result of an operation as the input for the next operation. Everything else would be unreadable source.

Finding distinct operations and re-ordering commands is easy in compilers, and the optimized result has no requirement of being readable.

C tries to find a middle ground there, where the user still has a lot of possibilities to control the outcome, but the compiler knows enough about the code to do some optimizations. The question is where the correct balance lies.

Yes, and this is how the world is ruled at the moment...

No, it has been unsafe for at least a few years already. Windows XP does not support any encryption that's still considered secure.

Well, this sucks, but it might actually be legally correct: When you friend signed away his soul to the record company, he gave them every right to act this way. As such, your company would have had to make a contract with the soul owner, not with the poor remains.

Many musicians seem to be very naive and don't realize this when they sign up with a publisher, not even years later. Many don't even seem to think it necessary to point this out when they're doing contract work, like for indie games, even though it's very relevant. YouTube casters (which are the main PR for indie games) are not allowed to review games that come with this kind of tainted music. They are not even allowed to show trailers of the game. The casters not getting paid for their work is the mildest of results from violating this law.

I've even seen musicians that tried to argue with their masters about that they would like them to allow game reviews, but it's a very sorry sight.

It's probably all about who drives a hard bargain at the acquisition talks.

Due to smartphones, the technology is now available to provide proper screens for HMDs. This is the critical piece that was missing previously. Also, what Palmer pioneered was using only a single lens to enhance the field of view, and doing the distortion correction in software, which wasn't possible until a few years ago (you basically need a fullscreen fragment shader while causing virtually no additional lag).

Also, to avoid nausea VR needs at least 60Hz (better 90Hz) display update rate, and you need very low latency for the head tracking (below 10ms). This wasn't possible until very recently either. For example, even the PS4 cannot do that in an acceptable resolution, you need a higher class PC for that.

It reminded me more of OASIS in Ready Player One.

No, the people didn't pledge to get dev kits, they pledged to get the chance to be among the first to develop their games for the consumer version of the Oculus Rift. Now the environment for that has changed drastically, and unlike in the previous mission statement, gaming takes a backseat.

But it won't have the same accuracy without the yellow trim! That's why the MM were made that way in the first place.

I think most people just turn off the 3D feature of the 3DS. Unlike a head-mounted display, it's a gimmick, not a completely new medium.

I agree on the horsepower-part, though. If people like playing Minecraft on the Rift, the PS4 shouldn't have any troubles from a technological point of view.

Don't forget Unity3D developers, they care much about C#. Although Unity3D uses an ancient version of the mono runtime...