Comment Re:Pedantic Nazi Alert (Score 1) 76
That question doesn't mean you are pedantic, it means you are incapable of using common sense.
That question doesn't mean you are pedantic, it means you are incapable of using common sense.
Isn't comparing a gaming laptop to a desktop kinda completely useless? Of course the laptop is going to cost more than the desktop, it always has and always will.
You could even have played Advanced Squad Leader back in 1985, which despite being a board game still has more lines of code in the rulebooks than most computer games.
ASL was one of the most amazing simulations of all time. The improvements it made over the Squad Leader system were incredible. I'm pretty sure I can still find my maps and counters in my garage of one of the closets if I looked hard enough. That might be a project for the upcoming weekend.
I tried using my hard drive as an soundcard once while encoding MP3s. That was a pain in the ass to recover. It did teach me to check the device in a commandline a couple times before hitting enter though.
We tested a system like this about 10 years ago or so for helicopter pilots to better alert them from which direction they were being shot at. It never made it past the 'test in our sim' stage.
One of the best uses aside from utter destruction (ever seen what a November does to anybody unlucky enough to be in the house it hits?) is deterrent. Bad guys don't want to go out when Apaches are in the air. There is a reason that Apaches have been in the air around Baghdad 24/7 for several years.
I'm not sure at this point that a PS3 is significantly more powerful than a cheap computer, although the BluRay, and a few other special features would be expensive to replicate.
Blu-Ray drive from Lite-On for $69.99 at Newegg. Blu-Ray got really cheap, even burners are only $150-$200.
And if Blizzard goes to digital distribution only, I will stop being a customer. I have every Blizzard game, but I'm considering not buying Starcraft 2 because you have to activate it online (meaning that Blizzard can take away your right to install the game at any time they choose).
I'd be way more leery of them selling three separate single player campaigns instead of one like SC was. That right there made me lose any interest I had in SC2 at all.
The only thing severely affected in this hypothetical situation would be microsoft's and other propriety software developers coffers and employees.
And the company doing the switching as they experience a period of lower productivity as they have to retrain the employees on using the new software.
Installing win7 from a usb stick on a medium computer took me 20mins or so maybe a little less. What is the point of bringing this up.
Installing Win7 is fast. Upgrading, specifically transferring the migration files, takes forever, even HDD -> SSD. It took over an hour to transfer about 80G or so stuff from a 10k RPM drive to a SSD on my machine. The article is about the time it takes to upgrade, not a clean install.
There is a difference between 'possible' and 'stupidly easy'.
The developers went to the PS2 and XBox because the Dreamcast was stupidly easy to pirate games for. If the developers weren't making money, why support the system?
Yes, but the problem with sats is that everyone knows when they go by. A fast plane is not predictable. Mach five with stealth, even minimal stealth, will be in and out before the enemy can do anything.
And miss most things of any tactical value in that time. There is a place for fast places, in strategic recon, which happens to be a lot harder to hide from satellites. We are going toward slower (I prefer the term lumbering) platforms with awesome endurance for tactical recon, staring is better than glimpsing in that case.
You have to be joking. Chrome is open-source. You can go and look through the source and VERIFY that it's not sending anything about you home.
Seriously, go look. We'll await your admission of being wrong.
According to the Chrome Wikipedia article, there are several tracking methods in Chrome, one is not optional, several are optional. The scary one is the RLZ Identifier.
The RLZ Identifier is non-optional, it can send back anything it wants in an encoded string, and it sends stuff back to Google 1) every 24 hours, 2) or on every Google search query, or 3) when a 'significant event' (no definition except 'such as a successful installation') occurs. Some of the stuff Google admits to being in there is the installion date, when the first time you used certain features and where you downloaded the install files from. The RLZ parameter is stored in the system registry (yay) and can be updated at any time Google wants. Another fun fact:
The code that makes this work is not included in the open source project (http://www.chromium.org) because it only applies to the version of the browser that Google distributes, Google Chrome.
From Google itself on the RLZ Parameter.
So tell me again how it isn't tracking you?
Somebody else gets it.
If you think the system is working, ask someone who's waiting for a prompt.
