It's almost entirely unrelated to virtualization. This is more like highlighting the fact that you can switch browsers by hitting alt+tab, only they built the alt+tab button into the hardware.

It's more complex than that (because every one of those will have a different libc, and android doesn't use the same libc, never mind the rest of the libraries), but functionally that's what userspace switching is. The same kernel (OS) keeps running...

> All OS are running on the 2.6.32 Linux kernel, and got several optimizations to take benefits of the advanced instructions available in the chipset.
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> Note that you will not be able to install Windows OS or Mac OS on the Touch Book or the Smart Book.

Yes, you can do some cool things with linux. Including switching out the userspace pretty quickly. That's all that this looks like. The kernel isn't changing, from the looks of it.

Except that as you noted, this prompts for activation. That's the purpose of sysprep -reseal, and I hope that it doesn't present any problems. What you are functionally doing with this is reinstalling the non-core OS components, which is... somewhat higher risk than otherwise. ...

Use at your own discretion.

http://notionink.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/more-in-portrait/

Definitely an option. So yes, you can.

"When it works" isn't what bothers me. What bothers me is this disclaimer at the bottom of the steam page:

> A PERMANENT HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION AND CREATION OF A UBISOFT ACCOUNT ARE REQUIRED TO PLAY THIS VIDEO GAME AT ALL TIMES AND TO UNLOCK EXCLUSIVE CONTENT. SUCH CONTENT MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED ONE SINGLE TIME WITH A UNIQUE KEY. YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 13 TO CREATE A UBISOFT ACCOUNT WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT. UBISOFT MAY CANCEL ACCESS TO ONLINE FEATURES UPON A 30-DAY PRIOR NOTICE PUBLISHED AT http://assassinscreed.com/ ... which to me says, "we can nuke your access to the game at any point in time, provided we give you 30 days notice on a website you're never going to check."

I own AC1, but I don't own AC2 or HAWX 2 for this very reason.

DRM is likely here to stay, at least to some degree, but this frightens the ever living crap out of me. Why would I throw money at a game where they can cut off access to it at any point in time for ALL of their customers, just because they don't want to pay the bill on those servers anymore?

I voted never not because I think the things you listed won't happen, but rather, that they could be put the more effective uses on things other than multiple-ton flying hunks of metal.

What is a car? A large, heavy, hunk of metal with some number of wheels and a navigation method, that navigates the world.

So what happens when you have a small, lightweight object with no wheels that gets you from point A to point B? Is it still a car?

And second, we don't really need it to fly... it serves no purpose other than looking neat.

Just like WoW, with a net benefit in terms of latency. I don't want to hit the ladder button and get get a minimum of 400ms+ of latency (but I would like to be able to at least join a custom game with them).

Given the SC2 playerbase, there are more people who have a facebook account than otherwise. I hate it personally, but generally speaking, it wasn't a stupid decision on their part.

All of which are coming in a future patch..

While I do wish they had an option to reset your account and generate a new name, I really only see this as a positive change. A massive cut down on trolling, and bans meaning something.

Sure there are indeed maphacks already, but calling their usage rampant is a bit of a stretch. Blizzard has never instantly banned people for "hacking." It comes in waves, like you know, these banning sprees of 7,700, 350,000, and then 320,000.




Just to reiterate:

Click the link, read the company name. "Activision" is no longer a company, "Blizzard" is no longer a company, but "Activision Blizzard" is.

When Activision and Blizzard merged, because Activision was a public company, Blizzard effectively went public.

Activision is not a private company.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=activision

Oh they cared before. Remember BnetD?

That was WAY before Activision. They report their income on different balance sheets; the only effective change in Blizzard mindset was the part where they went public.

Activision has nothing to do with anything they've done recently, and anyone who says otherwise is blaming something they don't like on a company of convinence.

Sorry to reply to myself, but I thought I linked this.

http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/03/verizon-wireless-when-we-say-unlimited-data-we-mean-5gb-worth-of-unlimited-data.html

While that article is just as good at trolling a subject line as the OP is, the part we care about is this:

It remains functionally unlimited, and the same type of cap pre-5GB applies: connection speed. Just a different speed.

It isn't a 5GB cap. You're free to transfer as much as you please.

Anything over 5GB gets rate limited to 56k speeds, though.

They're giving you unlimited data, and past 5GB, you still have unlimited data. It just isn't fast, and nothing in their terms of use prohibits this. You can't really drop a class-action lawsuit against them doing that either.

You're not fined for going over 5GB, just throttled.

Because it does.

That doesn't mean they won't sell minutes and bill by the meg.

Taking away my freedom to even allow someone else to use my work in their work in a manner that they would like isn't my cup of tea, personally.

This is a cyclical argument.