Actually, being a ROM hack lends them MORE legitimacy, tho how much more is a subject of debate. (read: likely not much). If it was a windows executable, it would be filled with graphical assets from the game. As it stands, this essentially amounts of a fanfic with a bit of extra work, given that it would be released as a patch and that its copyright infringement would come down to *names* of the characters in the text. If the romhack uses the existing pointers for the character names, it doesn't even have that.

All things considered, there was probably a solid chance that they could've legally released this, save for a C&D which would scare anyone without a stable of lawyers.

Terabit, at the moment, is entirely for enterprise, where the amount of hard drives connected to the bigger machines lies in the triple to quadruple digits. However, 10G is at least useful for higher-end consumers.

8 hard drives in a RAID6 array managing full speed (approx. 20mbytes/sec. per drive?) hits 120 megabytes/sec., already reaching gigabit's limits. Add two more arrays and 10G becomes useful. While I personally can't see much of a use for that beyond, say, murdering load times in modern games (and maybe the scratch disk needed while editing a poster-sized image at 600dpi with several layers), I'm sure plenty of people can find plenty of good uses for such a setup, which is becoming cheaper daily.

It isn't about using up a terabit, it's about getting bottlenecked at the level below it and needing the breathing room.

That depends. If most of your duties revolve around desktop support, and there's more than one of you there, it's incredibly stupid. If you're the only one and you have other important work to do, no, it's not stupid.

On the latter, dumb users make your job more difficult and tedious. On the former, they're your bread 'n butter.

And mind you, this has been the case for ages. Starcraft's installer executable, for instance, is a 600 meg file, due to them packing everything into it.

I don't get all the anger. If you don't like it, use a different format. FLAC 'n OGG work fine for the Rockbox set, and ALAC/AAC are okay for Apple's users.

I see a LOT of use if they can convince the iPod/Portable Audio Device sync programs to play along. Your MP3HD files stay on the home fileserver, where a 200 gigabyte music collection isn't going to strain its capacity. Plug your mp3 player in, however, and it only sends the MP3 data over, leaving you a ton more space for

The market is folks who love to keep their music lossless, but need a smaller mp3-player-friendly copy. From the test shown (e.g. an 8MB MP3 + 14MB of lossless data (22 megs total) compared to a 20MB FLAC is a lot cheaper than a 20MB FLAC and an 8MB MP3 file), I'd be all over this if their "extra" format data also allowed for cover art (e.g. an ID4 or some such for extra info that MP3's don't embed well). iTunes integration would be nice too.

A good TV card won't create substantial lag (e.g. it'll be playable without a noticeable change), especially if you're getting a raw stream instead of an encoded one. However, that doesn't change the fact that the lag on this service (you know, what with the INTERNET CONNECTION between your buttons and the action) will be astronomically higher.

If a driver isn't out on day one, there's no way in hell this should be in a press release. I can only hope that it doesn't make it to any of the boxes.

Bullshit like that shouldn't be legal.

Well, that's not entirely accurate. They also take into account materials used to build them, extraction of those materials, etc.

However, the argument is silly when it comes down to it.

1. The only reason other fuel sources don't have this issue is because they have a constant consumable that is not going to last anywhere near as long as the sun.
2. It completely ignores the possibility of recycling solar panels.
3. It completely ignores the effect that a substantially increased demand for solar power will have on its manufacture. Does the stuff Nanosolar's putting together even HAVE the "takes more energy to make than you'll get from it" problem?!

Seriously, this is the only area where people will suddenly ignore the market. It's not about getting more energy than you put into it, engineers will fix that issue (which is far easier than mass-producing oil) eventually, it's about whether it will pay for itself in energy output compared to its purchase price compared to purchasing power the old fashioned way. If it does, then solar's a good idea. If not, then don't bother.