Actually, XP x64 just used WS2K3 x64 drivers. So hardware you would find in and connected to servers and high-end workstations (network cards, RAID cards, office and enterprise grade printers and scanners, workstation video cards) tended to work just fine while consumer gear (cheap printers, scanners and multifunction devices, gaming video cards) tended to be quite hit-and-miss.

The situation improved when Microsoft started forcing hardware manufacturers to support 64-bit in order to get the "Made for Vista" branding, but only for devices where the driver interface didn't change significantly. I could install Vista x64 drivers for my scanner on XP x64 by modifying the INF file and forcing it to install. That wouldn't work so well for a video card.

I think some people here are missing the point.

I don't think anyone is saying that PS4/Xbox1 emulation will be easy. Just that it will be easier than PS3/XBox360 emulation.

Both generations will have a significant amount of hacking and reverse engineering involved and will be fraught with legal challenges. The current generation just has the advantage of being more or less based on hardware that's readily available at a reasonable price. The previous generation is not even remotely similar to anything you can buy easily or cheaply. (Other than the PS3 and XBox360, of course.)

And speed limits stop people from speeding.

(This is a post about enforcement. Laws that aren't be enforced may as well not exist.)

I actually do own a pocket watch that belonged to my grandfather. I need to take it to a watchsmith, though, since the spring is going bad and it won't stay... er... charged for more than a few hours.

Some things never change.

True. But I bet you never left your charger at home!

I guess the people who bought it realized that having a watch you have to charge every night isn't all that useful.

(Contrast with a regular watch which, at the very worst, you replace the battery twice a year. Or other smart watches that you can go a week between charging them.)

What they say: "This will reduce costs for most users! Only the top users will have to pay more."

What they mean: "We're going to keep our pricing structures exactly the same and continue increasing them by 10-20% every year. With usage caps, if you actually use the service for anything more than checking your email and updating facebook, you'll be assessed additional fees."

And if you think they're not all tooled up to implement caps already, I present you with this: https://pic.twitter.com/kbGNJiMIWU
(To see if your area has that, sign into your Comcast account, click "My Account" and then "My Services." It's in the sidebar under "Equipment.")

I've always wanted a device that I could use to tell me how many miles my car has gone. Maybe even a way to track individual trips by resetting it. Perhaps, since it's tied to the car's computer system, it can also track fuel usage and display my average fuel economy since the last time I reset it.

Seriously, though. I propose that states that want to implement use tax just read the odometer. For people who do a lot of out-of-state driving, they can buy/lease/rent a widget that plugs into whatever (probably OBDII) and use that in lieu of the odometer reading.

Every OCZ drive I've ever bought has not functioned properly out of the box. One of them worked after a firmware upgrade (and has been working for several years.) The other never worked and I returned it to the vendor.

I've never had to upgrade the firmware on a hard drive before. The first one I wrote off as "It's a new product, there are some bugs." After the second one, I was done. If I bought a car and had to load a special utility and buy a special cable to flash the ECU before the car would run reliably, I wouldn't have bought the car in the first place.

I've used vBulletin for years. While it's never had a particularly stellar security record, it has only gone down hill since Internet Brands bought Jelsoft.

The only remotely secure way to run vBulletin these days is to stick it in its own php-fpm pool with its own user account and insure that all files are 440 and all directories are 550. The upload directories (customavatar, attachment, etc) need to be 770 and then be excluded from PHP execution in your httpd config. Deleting "install/" goes without saying. (And we have it behind a Basic Auth, just in case someone forgets.)

Even today, with that fairly verbose nginx config and a fully patched and up to date vBulletin, I still find delightful files in my upload directories like "r00t.php" and "shell.php".

Oh? You're on shared hosting? Good luck with that...

Oracle: "We're buying Sun. Next step is to dismantle (MySQL,) close (Solaris, Java,) dissolve (OpenOffice) and generally disrupt all of Sun's open source properties that we can."

Community: "What? You can't do that!"

Oracle: "Watch us!"

Community: "Well, we'll just fork it."

Oracle: "S---! The forks (MariaDB, Percona, OpenIndiana, LibreOffice) and their pre-existing competitors (Linux, FreeBSD, Dalvik) are getting more popular than our versions! READY THE FUD CANNONS!"

... cars had buttons on their consoles? You know, actual buttons you could feel and press without looking at them? Not just widgets on a touch screen? When you didn't have to look at your radio to make sure it was on the "right screen" to do what you want?

Granted, I wouldn't mind having my Google/Apple/Bing/whatever maps integrated into my dash rather than awkwardly hanging my phone from the windsheild. But I also don't want to have to pull the car over, flip through 47 menus, wait through three system updates and reboot the car five times to turn on my air conditioning*.

* Yes, I know it's not really that bad. Yet. Just you wait.