Released in 1999, the PlayStation hit Ape Escape became the first game to explicitly require DualShock/Dual-Analog-type controllers, with its gameplay requiring the use of both analog sticks.
Why would you allow an optout? If your network isn't spewing garbage, it'll never get noticed.
But Comcast might consider downloading torrents garbage. Or even perhaps visiting Slashdot. What then? With their track record, I almost KNOW that this will be abused.
With AMD if it ain't a Sempron it has VT, or whatever AMD calls theirs, and the "bang for the buck" on the new duals and quads means I can give my customers more RAM and bigger HDDs, which I have found for a good 99.95% of the average folks out there matters more than having the fastest CPU out there.
Actually the latest Sempron, the 140 has AMD-V support.
Either by choice or otherwise, the big ISPs will soon have to stop giving each customer an IPv4 address of his or her own. Giving those customers just IPv6 is not an option, as the majority of the services are still IPv4-only and many IP-capable devices that don't run a full operating system (smartphones, VoIP phones, webcams) don't support IPv6. So that means stretching the existing IPv4 addresses in some way through "carrier grade NAT" (CGN).
Assuming the ISPs don't strip people of their current IPv4 address, Apple users may be in the best shape.
The computer is to the information industry roughly what the central power station is to the electrical industry. -- Peter Drucker
