There is a saying... Life must go on. Sadly people die, however the rest of us who is alive should continue. Now his death is a great loss as he probably didn't peak his acting career and his friends and family will miss him. Now if you don't like the Star Trek movies... Don't watch them. Enough Lower sales will either kill the series or cause a rework. You didn't like it. Then stop eating it and classify it as bad fan fiction done on a huge budget.
Most programmers don't know how to code for parallel processors. At best you may get multi-threaded apps but those are often made to handle large load of request not soling a single problem much quicker.
Normally when a new idea gets made it is often in the "safe" environment of a college of university. Where the students are really there for learning, and for the most part all their living needs are met. They are allowed to make mistakes, and for every one excellent idea product they are thousands of failures. But that isn't so bad, because if you failed then you still have the learning experience. However when you leave the college and need to face having to paying off college, car, housing. If you have a family then their needs need to be met too. You will be less risk averse, while it may be creative but it would be safe, where there is a high degree of being profitable. Sure you may miss the next big thing, but it won't be a full bomb either. Businesses have similar issues. When a startup gets in place, if they get their initial cash they are out to change everything, take risks (as they are not spending their cash, and the risk is on the venture capitalist) However after the company continues on and gets profitable, then it is there money they are risking on crazy ideas so they will fall back to more safe concepts (Core business model). Google while expanding, isn't creating the awe inspiring tool any more. I remember seeing google suggestion, gmail and google maps for the first time, which pushed the limit of what the browser could do at the time. This was really cool stuff. Then Google went public, and while they are still making new things, nothing that is really that impressive anymore, just working off the technology that they had developed.
Apple is mostly the exception to that rule as many of their most innovative concepts came after the company was well established. However before Apple was on the brink of disaster. They needed to reboot themselves back in the early 2000's, and acted more like a startup then a 20 year old company. And it worked... However now we are not really seeing anything amazing out of Apple. iPhone 7 to be released, the rumors are perhaps they are removing a button, but still it is the standard square glass block. The iPad is a larger square glass block, the Apple Watch is a smaller glass block. Now it isn't that the products are bad, but they are safe, Apple realized what worked so they kept with it. We don't see crazy attempts like the G4 iMac. The G4 cube, the Colored iMacs G3... While they had mixed reviews and some failures they were attempts to be creative. Now that apple found its groove they are going back to safe. Like they did back in the late 80's and 90's with standard Macintosh designs, even to the point while many of the newer models had full color display, iOS barely shown past black and white.
Population health is the current big thing. Where you health info is being sent to many institutions and shared. Most hospitals do not have the resources for such an undertaking so they may fall to venders who may use the cloud for their services. As far as the hospital is conserved if there is a breach, the fault will go to the vender who will pay the fines.
Why should you care? Well insurance companies already have your data. Every charge from the doctor your diagnosis and what procedure is given. The real issue is even if you are healthy if you happen to get sick how quick can you block the sending of info before it is too late. Say you get cancer, so your job can find a way to fire you before it becomes official. Or you get a perticular issue that is common for people of particular groups then you may get advertising based on the over generalization of the issue. Even if your current employer is trustworthy if you want to find an additional job they may block your resume just because of some odd diagnosis that may not be consider important. For example say you have rare migraines someone could see you as a risk because people who have severe migraines often loose a lot of work. If you health info has nothing to hide, then you have no real reason to store it.
I would except for those "McFact"s makes him sound like a Duche. Now I admit McDonalds was justly accused for wrong doing in this case. But I don't get the hatetrid of McDonald's as a company. They never say eat with us every day. They offer healthier options. Oh they advertise towards kids. It is up to the parents to know that eating out is a rare treat not a nutrition plan. They pay just as well if not better than Burger King, Wendies and Yumm food. Now if want some bad business behavior Burger King sell to Tim Horton to avoid taxes.
Umm no. You put Windows XP and hook it up to a private network and see what sort of internet requests it is trying to contact and what ports it has open on the system. The issue with a "Hidden CPU" in the CPU would be that it would be listening for a connection or communicating out. Being that software isn't written to interact with a "Hidden CPU" there isn't much software vulnerability going on unless there is a way to communicate out.
Place the PC in a faraday cage. Record any radio transmission that is large enough to cross distance. Have a PC (lets go with Non-Intel) hooked up and set up to be a point to point network connection. Monitor all traffic being sent from the PC. Put barebones (say really old version of Linux on it)
If something is unexpected then we have a theory to work on. Otherwise is is just some nut trying to get us to use AMD or something.
Before tools like Apt and even with early versions of RPM you had dependancy hell. You needed to find and install every freakin library that the software decided to use outside what was standard on distributions. Many of these libraries were only used for a rather small set of software so they weren't used on any other application on your computer. But there you have a good old shared library sitting there. Then you get issues where program A used one version of the shared library and program B used a different version. So you needed both installed because if you upgraded the older version the program could fail.
A static built executable has the ideal version of the library in the program so in theroy all you need is the executable code to run the program (that and configuration and data files if needed)
We never had good news before so what is the difference? Sure back in the 1950-1990 we had our "trusted" news on TV. However they tried to cover a Whole days of activity around the world in 1 hour. The first half covering Local and State News, the second half World and National News. So much of the coverage didn't spend more than a few minutes on the topic. The News Papers had much more depth to them. However during newspapers popularity there was a much lower literacy rate, so a good portion of the population couldn't fully read them, and just read what they could. So the headlines. Which is much shorter than a Twitter post. Political Bias, Corruption and special interests were just as part of the media in the past as it is now, it may be worse, however why would the media cover its own problems that will make you lose faith in it. For example look at the Electoral college results for presidential elections You see nearly solid political US results during during the time of TV News. Then with the internet and cable news you see the Maps becoming more diverse. While it may because of more polarization, but it is also because people are getting exposed to different ideas thus need to make their decisions from more data. The Media liked JFK, so his indiscretions were ignored. The Media didn't like Nixon so he was kicked out of office. TV News made it easy to push an agenda.
Now Social media had made politics very messy. And some good and bad has come out of it. People are less trustful of the establishment candidate and want someone more outside. Hence the Trump and Sanders supporters, who feel that they had been told what to do for so long that they are trying to get a new voice free of this is how it is done. But this also creates the Problems with the Trumps and Sandars who are focused on particular issues and not the general complexities of running a government. Because of the wide coverage they can just talk about what drive the person passions and gloss over the details and complexities, as social media being more end user driven will focus on the reasons why they are voting for or against a person. While the more formal News did try to keep the information more broad and civil.
In general it is good form to stick to an American brand if possible. But being the iPhones are made in China (Communist) vs South Korea(Democratic ) may propose less potential risk
So please enlighten us. Alienware/Dell Laptops suck, Apple Laptops suck, HP Laptops Suck, ASUS Laptops Suck, Lenovo Laptops Suck...
So what is the good laptop that doesn't suck. And you will need to explain this to us without trying to sell it to us.
News articles on product releases just as long as the coverage is unbiased or at least tries to be isn't advertisements, it may be fanboism. But not all news needs to be about serious stuff. Sometimes we are just looking for something to be fun.
I expect he may be working from home, saving 20k a year and living off of 75k a year. Living in a lower cost rural ish area Being that the guy wasn't too ambitious probably didn't do too much so he had enough to survive and he saved the rest. A small apartment, little driving, just buying food for yourself you can live quite well. Getting married having a family needing to compromise on what you should and shouldn't have. Makes it expensive.
That last part where he states he forgot how to code makes it sound bogus. In theory he could had had a job that was rather simple where he could had it automated, and meet the objective that how he is monitored and scored. I expect it may have been a work for home job where he can avoid casual contact. However 6 years isn't that long period of time to have your skills rot to an unproductive state. While a few new software trends that had picked up in 6 years NoSQL, Restful Web Services, angular.js, json, rust, and cloud api comes to my mind, as technology that was either very new, or not widely implemented 6 years ago. However most of the marketable jobs still have the standard 15+ year old skills. Programming isn't something that you just kinda forget over time. You may get out of practice but that usually just takes a couple of hello worlds get back in action again.
If this story about automating his job he is probably lying about forgetting to code as to collect government services trying to show how pitiful he is. also if true the Company has some major internal issues that needs resolution. $95k for a job that could be automated seems like they didn't have a good idea on what such a position requires. Computers don't make your job easier, computers do the easy work, leaving all the hard stuff up to the human to figure out.
Apple never really cared. At least with the Macintosh brand. Going to Unix was a business decision to use a Freely available OS and just tweak it with a New UI. Saving a lot of time programming the details of making an OS from scratch. Multi-Tasking, Memory management, Network Stack.... and many of the core system tools are already programmed and in tack. Allow Apple to mostly focus on building the UI.
Being that it had the Unix Guts just made it easy for Apple market it to Geeks. Because as the parent stated. Getting Linux to work well on a Laptop back in early 2000's while not impossible, did require a lot of extra legwork. And Windows 98-XP (Early SP) were very buggy and crashed a lot, as well that is when they had the first set of high profile attacks on the OS. Making OS/X the best choice.
Now 16 years later. They still have all the Unix behind it, however it needs to stay current. And that isn't easy with the Desktop and Laptop Brands going out of fashion. At least Apple didn't go the route that Microsoft went by making a hybrid tablet and desktop system, that handles both poorly.
Well at least we still have internal versions of 10.12. So we have some way to determine which version is newer and older over a period of Time.
Vs. say Windows NT 3.1, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10.
That 2000 - Vista can get confusing if you didn't happen to pay much attention during that time. Or for some people getting into the market now were only a kid when they had those versions.
Because you really want both. You want a smaller phone to carry around easier, but you want a bigger screen to see and interact with. What people want is like the Tony Stark Cell phone with a 3D projected display. However to make it truly useful and not just impressive for hollywood it will need to project back so it can block out what is behind it and only have it display for the people who wants to see it.
I expect much of that is due to the rise of Cheap and Free quality database systems.
Back in the 1990's during Perl's hay day. Database systems were really expensive Thousand of dollars for a bad one, Tens of thousands for a decent one and hundreds of thousands for a good one. Then they were mostly required to run on beefy hardware at the time. Filling up Gigs of storage and using hundred of megs of RAM. Using Perl to process your text/data files made it possible to make these data driven sites run well without such overhead.
Now 20 years later, A low end Computer has the power to run Databases, You can get a really good Database system for under $1k or even Free. Now your data be processed quicker and with more safeguards from data corruption.
Perl was designed for processing text. It did it well... Today we don't need so much of that.
RAM: the more you want the more power it uses. Every one of those bits in RAM being used or not needs that charge to keep its state. CPU/GPU: the faster the more power it uses. Every tick is a pulse of electricity Video: The higher the resolution the more RAM and CPU/GPU needed.
Now what happens to this power once the calculation is done. Most of it becomes heat. Excess heat from these devices can damage components in the table. As well damage your body as well.
Then we have battery life. Battery storage capacity has been improving linearly, while computing power has been growing exponentially. So while the computer components get smaller leaving more room for battery, however it will rarely allow doubling the power capability.
Your Desktop PC can have loads of performance as you can burn energy right off the grid, filled with big empty spaces for heat dissipation Your Laptop PC has less space and weight, however due to the space needed to type on a keyboard they are allowed much more room for battery power, as well some air pathways to keep the device cool. Tablets are self contained computing devices. with nearly 0 room to spare. So any components are often underpowered or under clocked to keep heat down and extend battery life.
Normally this is a good tradeoff as they are normally just browsing web pages, or running simple apps. or more complex apps off of the could.
The IBM CGA Display that was plugged into the TV over composite vs. RGB often offered better gaming experience making a 16 color pallet from 4 color display, As it allowed for more colors to be shown at the expense of Crispness. Also Later on when Playing an EGA game on a VGA monitor the pixels were more blocky on the VGA screen, vs, the Lower DPI on the EGA display, making the 16 Color EGA graphics look more realistic (cartoon like) as the pixels were more rounded. Even when you switch from the CRT to LCD screens when the Aspect Ratio changed there is aliasing involved to try to get images to fit on the screen.
I expect if you have 1080p games they will look better at 1080p vs 4k trying to emulate 1080p
Actually the issues that most students including minorities have is the increase freedom that college provides. From Kindergarten - High School your academic life is tightly controlled. If you are missing from class then they send the police to bring you to class. If your grade dip from not doing homework teachers will put you in detention after school to get you to do your work.
College if you don't show up, the professor normally won't care, however you will not learn the material and fail the test then your grades will suffer. A lot of the homework assignments that is given in college is not checked, but you don't get the practice from doing it, so you end up failing the tests.
A lot of decent smart students fail out of college because they couldn't get a handle of the freedom. Without a direct punishment for an action they get themselves into big trouble by where it is too late.
Minority students unfortunately have been conditioned that they will be in trouble for doing things, so when you get into a college environment where you get the increase freedom without getting in immediate trouble, sometimes leads to disaster.
The golden parachute makes sence for a failing company like Yahoo!. As a new leader to try to save a company is really hit or miss this isn't something most people would want to do. So the golden parashute covers the risk of failure and reputation. Sometimes company no matter how good the leadership will fail. I have more issues with the Golden Parashute gave when the company it up and growing.
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There is a saying... Life must go on. Sadly people die, however the rest of us who is alive should continue. Now his death is a great loss as he probably didn't peak his acting career and his friends and family will miss him.
Now if you don't like the Star Trek movies... Don't watch them. Enough Lower sales will either kill the series or cause a rework.
You didn't like it. Then stop eating it and classify it as bad fan fiction done on a huge budget.
Most programmers don't know how to code for parallel processors. At best you may get multi-threaded apps but those are often made to handle large load of request not soling a single problem much quicker.
Normally when a new idea gets made it is often in the "safe" environment of a college of university. Where the students are really there for learning, and for the most part all their living needs are met. They are allowed to make mistakes, and for every one excellent idea product they are thousands of failures. But that isn't so bad, because if you failed then you still have the learning experience.
However when you leave the college and need to face having to paying off college, car, housing. If you have a family then their needs need to be met too. You will be less risk averse, while it may be creative but it would be safe, where there is a high degree of being profitable. Sure you may miss the next big thing, but it won't be a full bomb either.
Businesses have similar issues. When a startup gets in place, if they get their initial cash they are out to change everything, take risks (as they are not spending their cash, and the risk is on the venture capitalist) However after the company continues on and gets profitable, then it is there money they are risking on crazy ideas so they will fall back to more safe concepts (Core business model).
Google while expanding, isn't creating the awe inspiring tool any more. I remember seeing google suggestion, gmail and google maps for the first time, which pushed the limit of what the browser could do at the time. This was really cool stuff. Then Google went public, and while they are still making new things, nothing that is really that impressive anymore, just working off the technology that they had developed.
Apple is mostly the exception to that rule as many of their most innovative concepts came after the company was well established. However before Apple was on the brink of disaster. They needed to reboot themselves back in the early 2000's, and acted more like a startup then a 20 year old company. And it worked... However now we are not really seeing anything amazing out of Apple. iPhone 7 to be released, the rumors are perhaps they are removing a button, but still it is the standard square glass block. The iPad is a larger square glass block, the Apple Watch is a smaller glass block. Now it isn't that the products are bad, but they are safe, Apple realized what worked so they kept with it. We don't see crazy attempts like the G4 iMac. The G4 cube, the Colored iMacs G3... While they had mixed reviews and some failures they were attempts to be creative. Now that apple found its groove they are going back to safe. Like they did back in the late 80's and 90's with standard Macintosh designs, even to the point while many of the newer models had full color display, iOS barely shown past black and white.
Population health is the current big thing. Where you health info is being sent to many institutions and shared. Most hospitals do not have the resources for such an undertaking so they may fall to venders who may use the cloud for their services. As far as the hospital is conserved if there is a breach, the fault will go to the vender who will pay the fines.
Why should you care? Well insurance companies already have your data. Every charge from the doctor your diagnosis and what procedure is given. The real issue is even if you are healthy if you happen to get sick how quick can you block the sending of info before it is too late. Say you get cancer, so your job can find a way to fire you before it becomes official. Or you get a perticular issue that is common for people of particular groups then you may get advertising based on the over generalization of the issue.
Even if your current employer is trustworthy if you want to find an additional job they may block your resume just because of some odd diagnosis that may not be consider important. For example say you have rare migraines someone could see you as a risk because people who have severe migraines often loose a lot of work.
If you health info has nothing to hide, then you have no real reason to store it.
I would except for those "McFact"s makes him sound like a Duche.
Now I admit McDonalds was justly accused for wrong doing in this case. But I don't get the hatetrid of McDonald's as a company.
They never say eat with us every day. They offer healthier options.
Oh they advertise towards kids. It is up to the parents to know that eating out is a rare treat not a nutrition plan.
They pay just as well if not better than Burger King, Wendies and Yumm food.
Now if want some bad business behavior Burger King sell to Tim Horton to avoid taxes.
Umm no.
You put Windows XP and hook it up to a private network and see what sort of internet requests it is trying to contact and what ports it has open on the system.
The issue with a "Hidden CPU" in the CPU would be that it would be listening for a connection or communicating out.
Being that software isn't written to interact with a "Hidden CPU" there isn't much software vulnerability going on unless there is a way to communicate out.
Place the PC in a faraday cage. Record any radio transmission that is large enough to cross distance.
Have a PC (lets go with Non-Intel) hooked up and set up to be a point to point network connection. Monitor all traffic being sent from the PC.
Put barebones (say really old version of Linux on it)
If something is unexpected then we have a theory to work on. Otherwise is is just some nut trying to get us to use AMD or something.
Before tools like Apt and even with early versions of RPM
you had dependancy hell. You needed to find and install every freakin library that the software decided to use outside what was standard on distributions. Many of these libraries were only used for a rather small set of software so they weren't used on any other application on your computer. But there you have a good old shared library sitting there. Then you get issues where program A used one version of the shared library and program B used a different version. So you needed both installed because if you upgraded the older version the program could fail.
A static built executable has the ideal version of the library in the program so in theroy all you need is the executable code to run the program (that and configuration and data files if needed)
We never had good news before so what is the difference?
Sure back in the 1950-1990 we had our "trusted" news on TV. However they tried to cover a Whole days of activity around the world in 1 hour. The first half covering Local and State News, the second half World and National News. So much of the coverage didn't spend more than a few minutes on the topic.
The News Papers had much more depth to them. However during newspapers popularity there was a much lower literacy rate, so a good portion of the population couldn't fully read them, and just read what they could. So the headlines. Which is much shorter than a Twitter post.
Political Bias, Corruption and special interests were just as part of the media in the past as it is now, it may be worse, however why would the media cover its own problems that will make you lose faith in it.
For example look at the Electoral college results for presidential elections You see nearly solid political US results during during the time of TV News. Then with the internet and cable news you see the Maps becoming more diverse.
While it may because of more polarization, but it is also because people are getting exposed to different ideas thus need to make their decisions from more data.
The Media liked JFK, so his indiscretions were ignored. The Media didn't like Nixon so he was kicked out of office. TV News made it easy to push an agenda.
Now Social media had made politics very messy. And some good and bad has come out of it. People are less trustful of the establishment candidate and want someone more outside. Hence the Trump and Sanders supporters, who feel that they had been told what to do for so long that they are trying to get a new voice free of this is how it is done. But this also creates the Problems with the Trumps and Sandars who are focused on particular issues and not the general complexities of running a government. Because of the wide coverage they can just talk about what drive the person passions and gloss over the details and complexities, as social media being more end user driven will focus on the reasons why they are voting for or against a person. While the more formal News did try to keep the information more broad and civil.
In general it is good form to stick to an American brand if possible.
But being the iPhones are made in China (Communist) vs South Korea(Democratic ) may propose less potential risk
I still prefer the idea of static build executable. Shared libries while a good idea doesn't work well for lesser known libraries.
So please enlighten us.
Alienware/Dell Laptops suck,
Apple Laptops suck,
HP Laptops Suck,
ASUS Laptops Suck,
Lenovo Laptops Suck...
So what is the good laptop that doesn't suck. And you will need to explain this to us without trying to sell it to us.
News articles on product releases just as long as the coverage is unbiased or at least tries to be isn't advertisements, it may be fanboism. But not all news needs to be about serious stuff. Sometimes we are just looking for something to be fun.
I expect he may be working from home, saving 20k a year and living off of 75k a year. Living in a lower cost rural ish area Being that the guy wasn't too ambitious probably didn't do too much so he had enough to survive and he saved the rest. A small apartment, little driving, just buying food for yourself you can live quite well. Getting married having a family needing to compromise on what you should and shouldn't have. Makes it expensive.
That last part where he states he forgot how to code makes it sound bogus.
In theory he could had had a job that was rather simple where he could had it automated, and meet the objective that how he is monitored and scored.
I expect it may have been a work for home job where he can avoid casual contact.
However 6 years isn't that long period of time to have your skills rot to an unproductive state.
While a few new software trends that had picked up in 6 years NoSQL, Restful Web Services, angular.js, json, rust, and cloud api comes to my mind, as technology that was either very new, or not widely implemented 6 years ago. However most of the marketable jobs still have the standard 15+ year old skills.
Programming isn't something that you just kinda forget over time. You may get out of practice but that usually just takes a couple of hello worlds get back in action again.
If this story about automating his job he is probably lying about forgetting to code as to collect government services trying to show how pitiful he is. also if true the Company has some major internal issues that needs resolution. $95k for a job that could be automated seems like they didn't have a good idea on what such a position requires. Computers don't make your job easier, computers do the easy work, leaving all the hard stuff up to the human to figure out.
Apple never really cared. At least with the Macintosh brand.
Going to Unix was a business decision to use a Freely available OS and just tweak it with a New UI. Saving a lot of time programming the details of making an OS from scratch. Multi-Tasking, Memory management, Network Stack.... and many of the core system tools are already programmed and in tack. Allow Apple to mostly focus on building the UI.
Being that it had the Unix Guts just made it easy for Apple market it to Geeks. Because as the parent stated. Getting Linux to work well on a Laptop back in early 2000's while not impossible, did require a lot of extra legwork. And Windows 98-XP (Early SP) were very buggy and crashed a lot, as well that is when they had the first set of high profile attacks on the OS. Making OS/X the best choice.
Now 16 years later. They still have all the Unix behind it, however it needs to stay current. And that isn't easy with the Desktop and Laptop Brands going out of fashion. At least Apple didn't go the route that Microsoft went by making a hybrid tablet and desktop system, that handles both poorly.
Well at least we still have internal versions of 10.12.
So we have some way to determine which version is newer and older over a period of Time.
Vs. say Windows NT 3.1, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10.
That 2000 - Vista can get confusing if you didn't happen to pay much attention during that time. Or for some people getting into the market now were only a kid when they had those versions.
Because you really want both.
You want a smaller phone to carry around easier, but you want a bigger screen to see and interact with.
What people want is like the Tony Stark Cell phone with a 3D projected display. However to make it truly useful and not just impressive for hollywood it will need to project back so it can block out what is behind it and only have it display for the people who wants to see it.
I expect much of that is due to the rise of Cheap and Free quality database systems.
Back in the 1990's during Perl's hay day. Database systems were really expensive Thousand of dollars for a bad one, Tens of thousands for a decent one and hundreds of thousands for a good one. Then they were mostly required to run on beefy hardware at the time. Filling up Gigs of storage and using hundred of megs of RAM. Using Perl to process your text/data files made it possible to make these data driven sites run well without such overhead.
Now 20 years later, A low end Computer has the power to run Databases, You can get a really good Database system for under $1k or even Free. Now your data be processed quicker and with more safeguards from data corruption.
Perl was designed for processing text. It did it well... Today we don't need so much of that.
RAM: the more you want the more power it uses. Every one of those bits in RAM being used or not needs that charge to keep its state.
CPU/GPU: the faster the more power it uses. Every tick is a pulse of electricity
Video: The higher the resolution the more RAM and CPU/GPU needed.
Now what happens to this power once the calculation is done. Most of it becomes heat. Excess heat from these devices can damage components in the table. As well damage your body as well.
Then we have battery life. Battery storage capacity has been improving linearly, while computing power has been growing exponentially. So while the computer components get smaller leaving more room for battery, however it will rarely allow doubling the power capability.
Your Desktop PC can have loads of performance as you can burn energy right off the grid, filled with big empty spaces for heat dissipation
Your Laptop PC has less space and weight, however due to the space needed to type on a keyboard they are allowed much more room for battery power, as well some air pathways to keep the device cool.
Tablets are self contained computing devices. with nearly 0 room to spare. So any components are often underpowered or under clocked to keep heat down and extend battery life.
Normally this is a good tradeoff as they are normally just browsing web pages, or running simple apps. or more complex apps off of the could.
Bankrupt doesn't mean going out of business. If the bankruptcy goes to plan, they can stay in business however now owe the victors a dime.
With Old School Gaming.
The IBM CGA Display that was plugged into the TV over composite vs. RGB often offered better gaming experience making a 16 color pallet from 4 color display, As it allowed for more colors to be shown at the expense of Crispness.
Also Later on when Playing an EGA game on a VGA monitor the pixels were more blocky on the VGA screen, vs, the Lower DPI on the EGA display, making the 16 Color EGA graphics look more realistic (cartoon like) as the pixels were more rounded.
Even when you switch from the CRT to LCD screens when the Aspect Ratio changed there is aliasing involved to try to get images to fit on the screen.
I expect if you have 1080p games they will look better at 1080p vs 4k trying to emulate 1080p
Where do you get the idea that freedom of speech means there are no consequences for what you say.
If you are going to mess with your public image with social media, then you will probably get screwed by it too.
Actually the issues that most students including minorities have is the increase freedom that college provides.
From Kindergarten - High School your academic life is tightly controlled. If you are missing from class then they send the police to bring you to class. If your grade dip from not doing homework teachers will put you in detention after school to get you to do your work.
College if you don't show up, the professor normally won't care, however you will not learn the material and fail the test then your grades will suffer. A lot of the homework assignments that is given in college is not checked, but you don't get the practice from doing it, so you end up failing the tests.
A lot of decent smart students fail out of college because they couldn't get a handle of the freedom. Without a direct punishment for an action they get themselves into big trouble by where it is too late.
Minority students unfortunately have been conditioned that they will be in trouble for doing things, so when you get into a college environment where you get the increase freedom without getting in immediate trouble, sometimes leads to disaster.
The golden parachute makes sence for a failing company like Yahoo!. As a new leader to try to save a company is really hit or miss this isn't something most people would want to do. So the golden parashute covers the risk of failure and reputation. Sometimes company no matter how good the leadership will fail.
I have more issues with the Golden Parashute gave when the company it up and growing.