isn't it a shame that the term has been around since long before the comic book was ever thought of?
What trademark law cares about with respect to priority is the "first use in commerce", that is, whether the term has been used as the distinctive name of a product or service. Did the first use of "Batman" in commerce occur before May 1939, when Detective Comics #27 was first published?
What you are describing is stuff to go into log files.
In which case displaying the title of the current step becomes an option to expand or collapse a view of the tail of the log file inside the progress window. I've seen such a "show details"/"hide details" control in Nullsoft installers on Windows and in Update Manager on Ubuntu. Or are you talking about hiding the entire log file from the user's view until the entire process has completed or failed, so that the user has nothing to Google until it's too late?
Anyone know why he named it XBOX?
Because when you put your thumbs on a PlayStation controller, the right thumb covers buttons marked with an X and a square (that is, a box). Even 360 refers to a circle, which is also a PlayStation button.
Plus why should I pay $15 for a title on my xbox when I can get the same game cheaper on four other platforms for less?
Are these smartphone or tablet platforms? If so, then you probably didn't get a gamepad unless the platform was Android and the device was Xperia Play. Or are these console platforms? If so, then they lack anything like the $1, $3, and $5 games in the Indie Games section.
Open Firmware replaces BIOS and avoids legacy cruft, and doesn't seek to prevent people doing what they want with their computer.
Neither does UEFI.
UEFI is used in Windows RT devices with no ability to disable Secure Boot and no ability to enable custom mode.
maybe your linux box will have some awesome graphics to play games on
Yeah, like, Team Fortress 2, Counter strike Source, and MORE SHIT IS COMING.
Anything that isn't violent like the popular first-person shooters?
People don't really want to game on their TVs anymore, they want something personal.
Then what should people game on when they have friends visiting? Or would you recommend that they switch to non-electronic tabletop gaming? Or would you recommend that they should bring their own phone or tablet, and if they don't own one, it's too old, it's the wrong platform, or they don't own their own copy of a given game, tough dung?
Prototype 2 did it right; it loads your most recent save and starts playing it in the background under the menu. When you click 'continue,' the menu simply goes away and there you are.
Animal Crossing series does almost the same thing: its attract mode shows NPCs walking around in your campaign's town. But because it supports up to four characters in a campaign, it cuts away to the menu to select a character after you press Start.
Ditch your gaming fans and watch them flock to the PC.
The PC doesn't fill the role of "a box with multiple controllers that you can bring out when friends are over" the way a console does.
gee I wish I could play this with my friend
That's why the Xbox 360 console has multiple USB ports for connecting wired controllers and a built-in receiver for pairing multiple wireless controllers. PCs can technically do that too, but it's not traditionally done. The selection of games that support multiplayer on one machine is consoles' big advantage over PCs.
Then, all of the sudden, you grind to a halt when the cache fills. You won't see any progress, sometimes for minutes
Even if you can't predict the caching mechanism, you can control it in some cases. Issue a sync() call (or syncfs(fileno(fp)) if available) before the copy begins, before every change in top-level folder (e.g.
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