Except when your non-protected runtime doesn't crash and instead overwrites the stack, corrupts the malloc arena or writes to a dangling pointer causing corruption in a completely unrelated part of the program. Hours and hours of fun!

One of the most important thing that managed programming languages brought is the fact that other parts of the program can't corrupt the system enough to make things undebuggable and that an error in a module is self-contained enough that it can't trample other parts of the program due to a memory error.

I do agree though that C and other unmanaged languages should still be taught.

I didn't argue against new standards, as much as you seem to want to put words in my mouth, but rather at you saying that because we use some older standards because we need things to work instead of using the new whizbang technology we're just a "crowd of conservative oddballs and anal retentives, barking like old dogs refusing to learn how to sit, for keeping old standards, trying to justify it by reasons of pointless, smelly compatibility that is long past its expiry date."

There are other things than just the consumer market and some of us have specialized equipment for which older interfaces are needed because replacing the equipment for no reason other than "it uses the new connector/interface" is simply ridiculous.

Yeah, just like people using serial ports to program Cisco gear or people in EE using serial ports to program microcontrollers by plugging the RX and TX pins directly to a serial port. And what about those people presenting their research at conferences around the world wanting to use a display connector that's supported on every single projector around the world in all convention centres instead of carrying a suitcase of adapters. We all know those aren't the people who help drive the world forwards, right?

It's an actual access point, not an ad hoc network. My Android Dev Phone 1(which does not support connecting to ad hoc networks) can connect to it.

Like this one?

How so? I believe the way it works in Canada is that ballots are counted at each polling station and parties are free to have a representative oversee the election process. This ensures that we have an unofficial count a couple of hours after the polling stations close. (See The Electoral System of Canada, on page 34 of the PDF)

The official count comes, by law, up to seven days later, but it usually doesn't differ from the unofficial count.

No, wallhacks work because it is very expensive to perform thorough visibility checks on every single frame of the game(See Potentially visible set on Wikipedia). The idea is that a precalculated set of areas have information as to which other areas are potentially visible from that particular area. This means that an area spanning a corridor would have visibility into adjacent corridors, and thus, you could 'see' around corners with translucent walls.

Pushing more information towards the client is an optimization, in the same way that database denormalization is. In an ideal world, you wouldn't need either of those, but we're still bound by performance constraints.

There are limits to what server-side checking can do. When your MMO starts getting overrun by people with autoclickers, bots and other annoyances that can be done client-side, no amount of server-side checking can help you.

Why would they put copy protection on the game anyway, they make most of their money selling subscriptions, not retail boxes. Besides, even if someone copies the game and subscribes to WoW, they probably make more profit on one month of subscription fees than whatever trickles through the retail chain back to Blizzard.

The exclusion of pornographic content was a new, intentional policy.

Actually, it's been there for quite a while. I've been told by an Amazon employee a couple years ago that they do have it, it just doesn't appear in their catalog nor in recommendations. However, if you are to search for specific titles or names, you'll find what you are looking for, or so I've been told.

Indeed, it's a pretty dubious statistic. Anyway, what kind of business desperately needs to update in the first months of an OS release(excluding software development/testing)?

Besides, if your business relies on having some mission-critical piece of software that your vendor still hasn't managed to make work on Vista by now, you should seriously consider kicking that vendor to the curb for being incompetent twits and migrating away from them.

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You're doing something seriously wrong if you're doing mocap for a month.

Also, there already is a 3D model market, see TurboSquid for example. However, you're assuming that a game is only a patchwork of random disparate elements. It's not. It would pretty much break the fourth wall if you started to notice that you saw that particular soldier in another game, so you'd need people to retouch the models and assets anyway. Besides, you probably want all the models to have the same visual style, so it's probably less effort to just create the models from scratch instead of having to tweak something you bought.

Also, you failed to see that asset production is pretty much a pipelined process: a modeler makes a model, which is then sent to a texturer and an animator to complete. Also, a lot of the costs related to assets are mostly related to client demands. If someone at Disney or Warner doesn't like the look of character X from their license, well, you have to rework it, then send it for their approval again, hear them whine again, etc. Having asset libraries in that case doesn't help.