If GM sells you a car and throws in a year of free oil changes and tune ups, would you be a bit annoyed if during one of the oil changes they also installed a governor that prevented you from driving faster than 50 kph?
Of course that car will not need another oil change because it's going to be completely destroyed in a cataclysmic road rage accident.
"I'm a food expert, and I've seen what damage it can do... you don't want it."
Well, one of the biggest health risks in America is obesity. I guess he had to find something he could do better than us. Congrats on that I guess.
To me, Twitter seems more like a giant IRC channel except that it requires explicit
At least the Judge had enough understanding to draw a somewhat reasonable parallel though.
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I've run into nothing that ive thought it should be able to do that it can't, including removing in to servers at the office in a pinch.
That's some odd selective auto correct there. Then again, that is one of the things my iPhone seems to get wrong often.
b) 500GB of words is 55 metric arse-loads. What are you not telling us?
Maybe using PDFs and wants to backup Adobe Reader with it.
Yep, pretty much at least. I've found that even in video games the positional audio stuff tends to be so screwed up it is not even worth having.
I've switched to headphones (HD650) with a decent DAC / tube amp setup and now I can barely tolerate listening to anything at all on speakers. The amount of stuff you can hear with good headphones makes even a good speaker setup sound absolutely unacceptable.
I have considered even going "higher end" on audio gear, but the prices just start to get completely unreasonable beyond a certain point.
It was only a year ago Adobe decided a sandbox might help.
Of course with Adobe designing it the sandbox will also have a nice plentiful selection of its own exploits. Unless Adobe hires another company to design their sandbox for them then I wouldn't trust it for a minute.
Or at that point, just go all out and pick a BSD distro if spare hardware is on hand. Although beware that the OpenBSD version of pf has diverged slightly, so the syntax is going to be a little bit different going with anything past 4.6 IIRC. Supposedly NetBSD has the fastest IP stack of them all though, and should probably have the more classic pf.
And if anyone feels the need to chime in about iptables here, I don't care what extra useless features it has, pf is much easier to use.
Maybe Apple won't bring it back, but others have taken a shot at making similar products. For a while I used a tool called "Runtime Revolution" which as I understand it is very similar to what Hypercard was. Even has the same terminology like "cards" and "stacks". It was also cross platform for Win / Mac / Linux.
It looks like the company has transformed this product into something called LiveCode now.
The somewhat tricky part about programming with it is the thing is basically always running, no compile step involved, although there were buttons to halt message passing so it could basically be paused for when UI work required to UI to stop doing stuff.
ISPs will still throttle your ass to 55 Mbps
I'd be quite happy if I was only getting throttled down to 55 Mbps on downstream. For Comcast the 50 Mbps plan is almost the most extreme one you can get. Think I get throttled all the way down to something like 10/1.
I suspect that Carmack has had to fight considerably to make this happen.
Not really. Carmack has talked about how he didn't really have to fight for it, and was surprised the lawyers were even favorable about it, but expected that if patents became too big a deal he would probably be forced to stop. So apparently this one wasn't that big a deal, but there could be others lurking around that nobody is aware of yet.
still can't stand onboard motherboard audio after all these years
I can't stand it because it's too damn noisy. There's always a lot of noise on there, and that's even when using a card. Asus came up with some fancy high end card that looks like it has some shielding on it, but I've found the easiest way to get rid of that noise is to switch to an external box with either USB or FW interface. As soon as that signal is analogue it really needs to be away from the PC to have a fighting chance.
you have to already be online in order to set the client into offline mode
This is incorrect. Disabling (or unplugging) the network connection will allow the user to set offline while launching steam. Had to do this to play something when their servers were on the fritz a few weeks ago.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
