The server seems to be overloaded, lots of HTTP requests for graphical resources (PNG files) fail. Check the Javascript console for errors. If loading resources has failed, the game is rendered with incomplete graphics.
It's fairly GPU intensive, and if Windows Vista/7 don't get a response from the GPU after a short period of time, it'll restart the drivers. Happens every once in a while even on newer GPUs, unfortunately.
Ah. So your interpretation is not that the driver actually crashed, but that it simply was overwhelmed by the workload, and didn't respond properly within the timeout limit as set by the OS?
Earlier this year, Spotify put more restrictions on the services they offer to their non-paying users: http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2011/04/14/upcoming-cha... . For example, there is no more unlimited listening: each track can now be listened to only five times for free.
It might be that this tightening of free content was only a preparation for the U.S launch, i.e. the record labels would not let Spotify in to the U.S. market without Spotify changing its services to something more restricted.
I believe Spotify paid the labels for each and every track played. So their burn rate was something like £20million per year. They needed to convert free users to paying users.
Is this really the case the IP blocks can be sold onwards?
I always thought that IP address allocations were assigned by IANA (through the local regional registries like ARIN and RIPE), and as such were not any property of the assignee to be sold. If an address range was not needed anymore and the assignee surrendered control of them, they would return to the free IP address pool at the regional registry.
You can now perform a "specified transfer" to another entity, and if some money flows in the reverse direction, ARIN says they don't care. There's even "Craigslist for IP addresses": https://www.arin.net/resources/request/stls.html
Guess how well this article encouraged the readers to go out there and do something.
When you think about the huge number of patents the big companies sit on, it's pretty much Russian roulette to try and to something new. At good chance to shoot yourself in the foot and waste a couple of years even if the idea works.
From there we can see the download details for all "Windows 7 with Service Pack 1" ISO files (all Windows 7 editions, all processor architectures and all languages).
From there we can for example see the following information for the English Professional x64 version:
File Name: en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_621750.iso
Date Published (UTC): 2/16/2011 8:49:08 AM Last Updated (UTC): 2/16/2011 8:49:08 AM
SHA1: 5ED2584110E03F498DB4458BA9FAFD5A7EF602ED ISO/CRC: 74F3CB73
With this information, I can be confident in downloading an ISO from a peer-to-peer torrent. When the hash matches, I can be assured that the file is legit and not backdoored.
You probably mean "clerical"?