DDG is a reskinned Yandex with shortcuts to search particular sites. If you don't commonly use site: searches on Google, and you can't stand Yandex, you won't like DDG.

Which is why most resources don't need to be wrapped in a shared_ptr that owns them. But some do.

I have a 60 fps camcorder. If key travel took 3 frames to press a key, I'd be able to test that. Besides, I also own an Apple keyboard (from the "mighty" era), and Apple keys have hardly any travel.

Mouse is 50 ms better at the same test than keyboard. This means either the keyboard or the operating system's keyboard processing is at fault.

So what would regulators think of such a service that operates only during nights, Sundays, and holidays, when public transit isn't running anyway?

I'd guess that the CPU in the third and fourth generation iPad is more powerful than the CPUs in the CAD workstations of about a decade ago. What is the iPad fundamentally missing that would bar the development of CAD software?

First, let me reiterate: As a hobbyist game developer, I'm not the console fan, unless by console you mean OUYA. I'm presenting fan arguments to you because I'm trying to work with you to figure out the most effective way to convince PS4 fans that HTPCs are suitable for more than a tiny niche of geeks. Both console fans like him and HTPC fans like us have misconceptions, and I'm trying to correct them. Thank you for working with me so far.

Fair use is a defense only to copyright infringement. One can commit circumvention without infringing the copyright itself. Universal v. Reimerdes. I will confess to a crime right here: I have used VLC to rip CSS'd DVDs for private use and for inclusion of short clips in criticisms.

Is Windows 7/8's compatibility with Windows 95 games better than the PS1 emulator in the PS3 and PS4?

When you build a PC for someone who owns a copy of Pong for Atari 2600, how do you recommend that he copy his Atari 2600 cartridges into the PC?

You can't install Windows 7 OEM on a PC that you plan to use yourself; you have to get your PC builder to install it for you. This "Personal Use License" is another new feature in Windows 8.

Thank you. For each "nobody builds an HTPC" I can cite your "nobody cares about GDDR5 as main system memory".

Also true of PS3 and PS4. Even the maligned Xbox One will support external HDDs and SSDs that connect through SuperSpeed USB.

I thought that soon after Microsoft announced this originally planned antifeature of Xbox One, Sony announced that it would not implement this mechanism for disc games.

To afford to build a console-competitive HTPC for the price of a console. Too may people see the sticker price of the system and don't want to pay 21.9% interest to borrow the money to have a local PC builder build a brand new HTPC.

How should more than one object make use of the facilities offered by a different, uncopyable object? And as you pointed out in another comment, how should such objects do so without references?

Other than references, how should one represent a resource that multiple parts of an application share, such as a network connection, a database connection, a cached bitmap, or the like?

A server is probably running a lot more tasks at once than a desktop, and the amount of memory per task may in fact be less for a server than for a desktop. This is why an entry-level virtual private server has less RAM than even an entry-level desktop PC.

The desktop box in question was probably built a decade ago when 512 MB was a lot. It shipped with 128 MB and the motherboard had two PC133 slots that maxed out at 256 MB each.

Memory is cheap today. It wasn't cheap when your user bought his device.

In an event-driven environment, it does. Event-driven environments make it much harder to predict which object will be the last object to hold a reference to a given object.

How do you copy a non-memory resource such as a network connection? Why would you copy a resource as big as (example from article) a multi-megapixel photo unless you plan to modify one or both?

A program may need improving on users' machines even if it doesn't need improving on the developer's substantially more powerful, substantially cleaner machine.

The article states that users expect phones to run camera applications that quickly process effects on multi-megapixel photographic images. Most people who are not creative professionals tend not to run such applications as often on PCs, especially PCs manufactured when 1 GB was standard.