Comment Re:shouldn't be legal (Score 1) 637
Could this have to do with the fact that there are far less crackheads than occasional drunks in ?
Comment Re:shouldn't be legal (Score 1) 637
The source code was way too incomplete to be compiled, but the complete E3 alpha was released later, and was playable in itself.
However, a competing game company, for example, could've used some of the code as a basis for their engine, and nobody would know.. It's Valve's property, in which they've probably invested a good deal of money in the form of man-hours, so understandably they don't want other companies profiting from the code (modified or not) for free.
The source code was also used to write the first game resource decompilers, which in itself have been valuable tools to the modding community, so that's kind of a two-sided axe.
However, a competing game company, for example, could've used some of the code as a basis for their engine, and nobody would know.. It's Valve's property, in which they've probably invested a good deal of money in the form of man-hours, so understandably they don't want other companies profiting from the code (modified or not) for free.
The source code was also used to write the first game resource decompilers, which in itself have been valuable tools to the modding community, so that's kind of a two-sided axe.
Boot Windows Vista In Four Seconds 326
arcticstoat writes "Asus' budget motherboard wing, ASRock, claims that it's found a way to load a clean boot of Windows from a full shut down in just four seconds, using its new Instant Boot technology. The technology takes advantage of the S3 and S4 features of ACPI, which normally enable the Sleep/Standby and Hibernation modes in Windows respectively. However, by calling them at different times in the boot-up and shutdown process, Instant Boot enables you to boot up to your Windows desktop in three to four seconds, even after a proper shut down. Two modes are available; Fast mode, which uses S3 and boots up in around four seconds, and Regular Mode, which uses S4 and apparently takes between 20 and 22 seconds to boot. The advantage of Instant Boot when compared with normal Sleep and Hibernation modes is that you get the advantage of a clean boot of Windows, without what ASRock calls 'accumulated garbage data,' and you also get the security of knowing that you won't lose any data if there's a power cut and you lose AC power. There's also a video of it in action at the link above."
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