Yeah, 1 bullet isn't a risk to a ship.

Start cooking several thousand rounds of ammunition and you got a real problem. After a point those explosions are gonna add up to something big.

Because new specs come out for the cables. There was cat 3, and cat 5, and cat 5e, and now cat 6 is out. They are all rated for increasing amounts of bandwidth.

I haven't yet come into a situation where this has been an issue though. I run gigabit over cat 5 constantly (despite claim that cat 5 is not rated for it), and have never had an increase in errors or interruptions. Which is what I think the OP was asking about.. are the new specifications really necessary?

In my experience, the answer is no.

I'm going to guess whatever script he ran to scrub the database for achievements had some errors, and is improperly awarding them.

Which also means some people are missing achievements they should have.

Which says to me the whole thing is a big joke and will be gone tomorrow.

I think that's another concern. Who gets to decide whether a piece of software is an "application" or not? Of course it's gonna be Microsoft. What it says to me is you gotta pay Microsoft to get your software on their whitelist, which basically kills any "power user" tools for whoever this is sold to.

I could also see something happen where Firefox is considered an application.. but IE is not. And google chrome, with every tab being a new process? Congratulations on only being able to open three tabs.

I suspect this version will go unnoticed, like the Vista starter version did. Anyone who would buy it will just pirate the ultimate edition.

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Perhaps the best part is the top link in 2001 was arguing why the linux desktop is a good option.. and the top link today is why it has failed.