It's even easier, I got my PC at dell and it plays games like Fallout 4 just fine. The "too hard" is for people who want the best PC which already has higher performance than any console would ever see anyway. If you only needed to match console performance then the PC is much more affordable. The difference between the PC you have for web browsing and taxes and whatnot and a mid range PC for games is less than the cost of a console.
I wish companies would also notify you when prices go down. I've been bit by that a few times. Ie, get a new smart phone and realize I'd been overpaying quite a lot by having a cheap voice plan to which was added the cheapest dataplan versus having the cheapest dataplan and adding unlimited voice.
They're breaking the rules too. See creating, approving, and encouraging building of settlements in occupied territory. A lot of Israelis are opoosed to this but they're not able to break up the majority coalition (ie, the ultra orthodox will happily side with the hardliners as long as they continue to be exempt from military service). Rationally it is obvious that building the settlements only disrupts the possibility of peace but politics and rationality don't cooperate with each other.
There just are not enough theaters for everyone either. Seriously, if it's showing on Broadway then it's only accessible to a tiny minority of the population; the 1% of the 1%. Even then, nobody goes to the theater every single week. If you've got the time and money then maybe once or twice a summer. That's not going to do anything to fix digital overload.
Real life perhaps. In the 50s psychiatrists thought they knew it almost everything about the brain and would know it all in very short order. They said as much in a conference. This was also the time when frontal lobotomies were routinely performed regularly, usually without patient permission, and there was even a nobel prize in 1949 related to it. Today we consider that a mostly barbaric and ignorant practice. Also people were allowed to be forcibly committed to an institution and made a guardian of the state on the advice of a psychiatrist. Which led over time to a backlash against psychiatry.
Basically the code and vars won't fit in the chip I have at the moment without finding weird ways to save space. So there are times when changing something in assembler can save a couple hundred bytes. There's also parts of the code even more constrained in size, like a bootloader that has to fit in 4k, so optimizing there is worth it.
We're selling millions each year, and it's amazing the sort of silly things they do to save 2 cents, like having a processor that's just a bit too small. Though for what we have and the price customers want, we almost never have enough memory to be able to compile w/o optimization while debugging.
And optimizers are sometimes stupid. Ie, you do the equivalent of rotate and such and it doesn't figure out to replace with a single instruction. Don't always need it, but is handy for optimizing crypto type stuff.
Then I assume you're paying a third party to supply libraries for you, operating systems, startup code, BSPs, etc. Which means those third parties are using the assembler even if you aren't. I do embedded for a living, and I have to do assembler - not everyone working on the software does but some people do.
Nut even on those devices you need assembler to do some basic stuff. Writing the C library, writing the OS, writing interrupt handlers, making use of system level machine options (there's no "C" operation to control caching for instance).
There's more than one reason to want optimization. There's optimizing for speed in a full algorithm, in which case assembler isn't that important. But optimizing for speed in localized locations can be very important. Ie, the faster your interrupt handlers are the better I/O throughput you can get, or faster context switches, etc. If you're programming on a DSP for instance, you almost always want the best speed and that often means assembler or assembler wrapped inside of macros or special directives. There's also optimization for size, and occasionally assembler helps there as well to cram in as much as you can in the limited space.
And of course you need to *know* assembler even if you don't write it. It's how you decode core dumps, figure out what your code is doing, and lets you treat the machine as more than a black box (I've seen people with efficient algorithms that weren't so fast because they didn't understand what was fast or slow under the hood).
I did a full image backup in 8.1. Turns out I can't restore from it now matter how I try. I think the upgrade from 8 to 8.1 removed some files needed to create a recovery disk, according to some online forums; I tried all the other workarounds to get it working but no luck. Can't use Windows 7 or 10 restore options etiher. Got an 8.1 restore disk made on a different computer which does actually run but it can't find my backup image even though the drive is attached and there's no option to browse for it on a local disk. I don't know why Microsoft makes this so difficult, they've always had the worst backup options of anyone out there.
You can upgrade now and then roll back. Then you have Windows 10 license "locked in". There's no authorization code anymore, instead it saves your machine identification in its database.
Make a backup first though. And make sure it actually works if you can. I screwed up and did a Windows 8.1 image backup. Then it turns out I can't recover from it because I don't have a recovery disk, and I can't make a recovery disk because of screwups along the way. Originally it was windows 7, then upgraded to windows 8, then upgraded to 8.1, and in that last step the update removed some files necessary to make the recovery disk, and you can't do the recovery disk from any other OS version than the one it was created for, and I made a recovery disk on someone else's 8.1 machine but it fails to find my image backup on my external drive... So I'm stuck with a lot of junk files left over from the temporary upgrade to Windows 10 which are difficult to delete. But at least it still works.
Also avoid all the stuff that asks you for a Microsoft Account or ID or whatever. Don't accept any "express" install options or defaults. Their optional default features are all useless or dangerous except for one (anti web site spoofing feature that most browsers have).
The upgrade is pretty damned slow. Slowest update I've seen yet, and it's the fastest computer I've ever done it on. When you're done it's a hell of a lot uglier than Windows 8.1, though maybe with a lot of work you can fix it back up. So roll back immediately until you have a few days to spend customizing it.
(ugh, delete a start menu item that you don't want, like a candycrush advertisement, and it leaves a hole rather than reshuffling other icons to fill it in)
No. 2018 is the end of "mainstream" updates. That means nothing. Because once there's a new Windows version then ALL previous versions stop getting useful non-security updates immediately. If there's a must-have feature it will never show up on older revisions. That's been the Microsoft way for a very long time now.
Note, "mainstream" support for Windows 7 has *already* passed! And yet people are still running Windows 7 and still being productive with it with no loss in security.
Security updates are what matters most. And extended support lasts until 2023 for Windows 8.1, and until 2020 for Windows 7.
Why? Windows 8 is supported until 2022. No need to jump the gun. Gamers probably will NOT need to upgrade. Until market share gets bigger there's no reason to require using DX12 in a new game. Right now even, no games requires DX11, there's no need to upgrade over stuff like that instead it's just for bragging rights to show how some of your pixels might look better if you squint just right.
People always dredge up "facts" that the victim wasn't saintly as an excuse to justify the killing, support the cops, or to just be contrarian.
Maybe there's some fear that causes this reaction, worries that if the police don't shoot the black people then who's going to protect decent citizens from the black people...
What legal basis to shoot him? Because the guy was struggling against an arrest? That gives no rights to kill someone. He had as much right to live as the police officer did.
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I'd use those. Occasionally I'd have to use an Imaginary screwdriver too when dealing with the fequency domain.
It's even easier, I got my PC at dell and it plays games like Fallout 4 just fine. The "too hard" is for people who want the best PC which already has higher performance than any console would ever see anyway. If you only needed to match console performance then the PC is much more affordable. The difference between the PC you have for web browsing and taxes and whatnot and a mid range PC for games is less than the cost of a console.
I wish companies would also notify you when prices go down. I've been bit by that a few times. Ie, get a new smart phone and realize I'd been overpaying quite a lot by having a cheap voice plan to which was added the cheapest dataplan versus having the cheapest dataplan and adding unlimited voice.
Maybe it's a test.
They're breaking the rules too. See creating, approving, and encouraging building of settlements in occupied territory. A lot of Israelis are opoosed to this but they're not able to break up the majority coalition (ie, the ultra orthodox will happily side with the hardliners as long as they continue to be exempt from military service). Rationally it is obvious that building the settlements only disrupts the possibility of peace but politics and rationality don't cooperate with each other.
There just are not enough theaters for everyone either. Seriously, if it's showing on Broadway then it's only accessible to a tiny minority of the population; the 1% of the 1%. Even then, nobody goes to the theater every single week. If you've got the time and money then maybe once or twice a summer. That's not going to do anything to fix digital overload.
Real life perhaps. In the 50s psychiatrists thought they knew it almost everything about the brain and would know it all in very short order. They said as much in a conference. This was also the time when frontal lobotomies were routinely performed regularly, usually without patient permission, and there was even a nobel prize in 1949 related to it. Today we consider that a mostly barbaric and ignorant practice. Also people were allowed to be forcibly committed to an institution and made a guardian of the state on the advice of a psychiatrist. Which led over time to a backlash against psychiatry.
Basically the code and vars won't fit in the chip I have at the moment without finding weird ways to save space. So there are times when changing something in assembler can save a couple hundred bytes. There's also parts of the code even more constrained in size, like a bootloader that has to fit in 4k, so optimizing there is worth it.
We're selling millions each year, and it's amazing the sort of silly things they do to save 2 cents, like having a processor that's just a bit too small. Though for what we have and the price customers want, we almost never have enough memory to be able to compile w/o optimization while debugging.
And optimizers are sometimes stupid. Ie, you do the equivalent of rotate and such and it doesn't figure out to replace with a single instruction. Don't always need it, but is handy for optimizing crypto type stuff.
Then I assume you're paying a third party to supply libraries for you, operating systems, startup code, BSPs, etc. Which means those third parties are using the assembler even if you aren't. I do embedded for a living, and I have to do assembler - not everyone working on the software does but some people do.
Nut even on those devices you need assembler to do some basic stuff. Writing the C library, writing the OS, writing interrupt handlers, making use of system level machine options (there's no "C" operation to control caching for instance).
There's more than one reason to want optimization. There's optimizing for speed in a full algorithm, in which case assembler isn't that important. But optimizing for speed in localized locations can be very important. Ie, the faster your interrupt handlers are the better I/O throughput you can get, or faster context switches, etc. If you're programming on a DSP for instance, you almost always want the best speed and that often means assembler or assembler wrapped inside of macros or special directives. There's also optimization for size, and occasionally assembler helps there as well to cram in as much as you can in the limited space.
And of course you need to *know* assembler even if you don't write it. It's how you decode core dumps, figure out what your code is doing, and lets you treat the machine as more than a black box (I've seen people with efficient algorithms that weren't so fast because they didn't understand what was fast or slow under the hood).
I did a full image backup in 8.1. Turns out I can't restore from it now matter how I try. I think the upgrade from 8 to 8.1 removed some files needed to create a recovery disk, according to some online forums; I tried all the other workarounds to get it working but no luck. Can't use Windows 7 or 10 restore options etiher. Got an 8.1 restore disk made on a different computer which does actually run but it can't find my backup image even though the drive is attached and there's no option to browse for it on a local disk. I don't know why Microsoft makes this so difficult, they've always had the worst backup options of anyone out there.
What about above-average users?
You can upgrade now and then roll back. Then you have Windows 10 license "locked in". There's no authorization code anymore, instead it saves your machine identification in its database.
Make a backup first though. And make sure it actually works if you can. I screwed up and did a Windows 8.1 image backup. Then it turns out I can't recover from it because I don't have a recovery disk, and I can't make a recovery disk because of screwups along the way. Originally it was windows 7, then upgraded to windows 8, then upgraded to 8.1, and in that last step the update removed some files necessary to make the recovery disk, and you can't do the recovery disk from any other OS version than the one it was created for, and I made a recovery disk on someone else's 8.1 machine but it fails to find my image backup on my external drive... So I'm stuck with a lot of junk files left over from the temporary upgrade to Windows 10 which are difficult to delete. But at least it still works.
Also avoid all the stuff that asks you for a Microsoft Account or ID or whatever. Don't accept any "express" install options or defaults. Their optional default features are all useless or dangerous except for one (anti web site spoofing feature that most browsers have).
The upgrade is pretty damned slow. Slowest update I've seen yet, and it's the fastest computer I've ever done it on. When you're done it's a hell of a lot uglier than Windows 8.1, though maybe with a lot of work you can fix it back up. So roll back immediately until you have a few days to spend customizing it.
(ugh, delete a start menu item that you don't want, like a candycrush advertisement, and it leaves a hole rather than reshuffling other icons to fill it in)
No. 2018 is the end of "mainstream" updates. That means nothing. Because once there's a new Windows version then ALL previous versions stop getting useful non-security updates immediately. If there's a must-have feature it will never show up on older revisions. That's been the Microsoft way for a very long time now.
Note, "mainstream" support for Windows 7 has *already* passed! And yet people are still running Windows 7 and still being productive with it with no loss in security.
Security updates are what matters most. And extended support lasts until 2023 for Windows 8.1, and until 2020 for Windows 7.
Why? Windows 8 is supported until 2022. No need to jump the gun.
Gamers probably will NOT need to upgrade. Until market share gets bigger there's no reason to require using DX12 in a new game. Right now even, no games requires DX11, there's no need to upgrade over stuff like that instead it's just for bragging rights to show how some of your pixels might look better if you squint just right.
Your leader is so dumb you can get change back when you give him a penny for his thoughts.
Retro is back in fashion.
This isn't new regulation. This is a part of enforcing regulations.
Server fell on him, I swear!
People always dredge up "facts" that the victim wasn't saintly as an excuse to justify the killing, support the cops, or to just be contrarian.
Maybe there's some fear that causes this reaction, worries that if the police don't shoot the black people then who's going to protect decent citizens from the black people...
What legal basis to shoot him? Because the guy was struggling against an arrest? That gives no rights to kill someone. He had as much right to live as the police officer did.
Wait, George Zimmerman was the unlawful attacker who instigated the fight.