As someone who's uncircumcised, I've had no problem using condoms, and they can be a lot of fun when used properly. I often need one to help me last longer because I'm too sensitive.
Personally, based on what I've heard and experienced, circumcision interferes with natural sexual function since the skin of the glans becomes calloused and hard. I have no doubt that adding a condom on top of that ruins sex entirely. Perhaps we should just get rid of circumcision.
Well, if you decide to carry cash, don't go to an airport or get stopped for a traffic ticket. Carrying cash is a sure sign of being a terrorist or a drug runner.
If I buy a Switch and some downloadable games for it, and it is destroyed, will I have to re-purchase all of those games, or can they be transferred to a new console easily?
I was under the impression that if you bought Nintendo download credits for your DS, they were not transferable to the Wii. If Nintendo's own faux money can't even be used universally on each of their consoles, I doubt their policy regarding the games will change any time soon!
Well, I'd like to agree, but I've been seeing a huge trend where all links in e-mails use tracking services, even for plain URLs. Things like, "click here to see our privacy policy", and instead of using a proper URL like "www.site.com/privacypolicy/2016/", they send you something like "tracking.3rdparty.com?link=7d0Hg1f2dhF8gNnb78r".
As long as legitimate companies refuse to use real URLs in their marketing messages, would we really expect end-users to spot phishing scams? This is not a problem that can be solved at the end-user level if companies have stupid security policies to begin with and insist on using tracking domains or outsourcing their statistics. New TLDs won't help.
Pretty soon it will be impossible to even reach a TLD without the use of a search engine. How helpful that all the major web browsers are adding Google(tm), Yahoo(tm), and Bing(tm) directly to the URL bar.
What difference does that make if you're relying on 3rd parties to validate for you? E-mail clients could already scan for fake PayPal links, but they don't because it's not their problem to maintain a database of brand names.
It was a major goof to reverse the order of domain levels in the first place. Adding or removing levels won't fix that.
Whoa, wait... was the entire entertainment system controlled by a single process or what? If that's just just globals, how can EMU software possibly be this large?
Fantastic write-up, BTW. People like you are why I still visit Slashdot.
Who gets to decide whether something is worth knowing? I've seen a lot of really valuable stuff disappear without a trace, and as long as the majority doesn't care, the minority just has to suck it up and live with that.
Interestingly enough, engineers, intellectuals, and deviants tend to be in the minority.
I always wondered why all the memory in a computer [outside the CPU die] tended to run at the same speed. Over a decade ago I was talking to a fellow CS student about different speeds of RAM, and asked him why we didn't use expensive RAM for programs and large amounts of cheap RAM for caching and virtual drives. He just looked at me with disdain and said, "There's no such thing as cheap RAM."
I'm still not convinced that the performance and utility differences of memory and storage will converge.
Just like all the other add-on components sold by vendors. Want more memory? Add $100. Better video card? Add $250.
My WTF moment was years ago while I was checking out prices on Apple's web site. $500 dollars extra to upgrade the base video card to a high-end card (on top of the price of the card you weren't getting). Meanwhile, the retail price of the PC version of that high-end card was under $300.
As much as these things are engineered to perfection, I highly doubt making an alternate tray 1mm deeper to accommodate a thicker battery is an engineering impossibility. Some makers produce phones that have completely different dimensions and screen sizes but otherwise have the same "guts". It's not hard.
These things sell in the millions. It's not a matter of "justifying development" or regularly retooling plastic injection molding and milling machines. The manufacturers have simply planned obsolescence and don't want the public to have certain features before the market is "ready."
They know damn well pre-ordering games makes no sense. That's why they engage in the scummy tactic of making DLC exclusively for pre-order copies. And by DLC, of course, I mean content that's already present on the physical copy.
The USPS is only losing money now because legislators want it to die, so they can wipe out one of the great socialized success stories. There was a time, for a LONG time, where the USPS was profitable and self-sustaining -- at least while I was working there a little over 10 years ago.
Indeed. I learned very quickly in the 90's that "The Internet never forgets" is pure BS.
Alas, one of my favorite YouTubers decided to protect all his videos, so my favorite video downloader no longer works. There's probably a way to rip protected videos, but I haven't looked yet.
Based on my experience, it seems the Win10 readiness tool only checks for CPU speed, memory, and free storage space. Every machine on which I ran the analyzer has told me it's compatible with Windows10, only to find out after the update, half the hardware on the machine doesn't work.
Oh, and the tool never tells you when programs are incompatible with Win10. I had a system where 11 applications were automatically uninstalled from the machine, with no prior warning, and I was informed that they were removed only after the OS upgrade had fully completed. Thanks for the heads-up, MS.
Thankfully, all these systems were owned by other people who wanted me to update them to Win10. I wouldn't dare do it to my own workstation, or even my gaming rig.
It doesn't have to be reliable. It only needs to be difficult enough so it's not worth the money/trouble to bypass. That works splendidly well in mass-market devices.
That's the point. If you're really a "pro", you won't have any trouble coughing up the extra dough for adapters and high-end wireless equipment. You don't want to be part of the race to the bottom, do you?
According to my tests with the built-in memory profiler, the pauses are apparently related to locking garbage collection and cycle collection, so it's all CPU bound. Stuffing more memory into the machine won't help. I'm already running Win64 with 16GB of memory.
One interesting thing is that this appears to be related to the Javascript engine, possibly the JIT/optimizer. If I close all but one window and point the last window to "about:blank", memory usage doesn't go down at all. I just hangs at, say, 2GB forever, all of it occupied by the Javascript heap. This might be why people blame memory leaks. It looks like it, but I think it's just really bad script cache management. Palemoon has none of these problems (I've had an instance of Palemoon open for two weeks with a ton of windows open, and it's still using ~700MB)
I've also tried torturing Firefox to test its memory limits. On 64-bit it seems to max out around 3GB memory usage, with no other side effects besides the frequent pauses. On 32-bit, it maxes out around 1.6 GB and then starts running into massive graphics corruption issues, but doesn't crash. Actually, one nice thing I can say about Firefox is that it never crashes on me. Ever. It's rock stable, but does have a lot of performance issues and they're mostly related to memory management.
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As someone who's uncircumcised, I've had no problem using condoms, and they can be a lot of fun when used properly. I often need one to help me last longer because I'm too sensitive.
Personally, based on what I've heard and experienced, circumcision interferes with natural sexual function since the skin of the glans becomes calloused and hard. I have no doubt that adding a condom on top of that ruins sex entirely. Perhaps we should just get rid of circumcision.
Well, if you decide to carry cash, don't go to an airport or get stopped for a traffic ticket. Carrying cash is a sure sign of being a terrorist or a drug runner.
It's bad enough we have Start Menus and "Ribbons" that automatically re-arrange themselves. Now we have keyboards that do it, too.
Fundamental design failure: an ongoing downward spiral across many devices and manufacturers for the last 10 years.
The 70's music was enough to do me in.
If I buy a Switch and some downloadable games for it, and it is destroyed, will I have to re-purchase all of those games, or can they be transferred to a new console easily?
I was under the impression that if you bought Nintendo download credits for your DS, they were not transferable to the Wii. If Nintendo's own faux money can't even be used universally on each of their consoles, I doubt their policy regarding the games will change any time soon!
Well, I'd like to agree, but I've been seeing a huge trend where all links in e-mails use tracking services, even for plain URLs. Things like, "click here to see our privacy policy", and instead of using a proper URL like "www.site.com/privacypolicy/2016/", they send you something like "tracking.3rdparty.com?link=7d0Hg1f2dhF8gNnb78r".
As long as legitimate companies refuse to use real URLs in their marketing messages, would we really expect end-users to spot phishing scams? This is not a problem that can be solved at the end-user level if companies have stupid security policies to begin with and insist on using tracking domains or outsourcing their statistics. New TLDs won't help.
I assume you're talking about the kernel and the userspace. The constantly fluid desktop environments are no better than Windows. At all.
Pretty soon it will be impossible to even reach a TLD without the use of a search engine. How helpful that all the major web browsers are adding Google(tm), Yahoo(tm), and Bing(tm) directly to the URL bar.
What difference does that make if you're relying on 3rd parties to validate for you? E-mail clients could already scan for fake PayPal links, but they don't because it's not their problem to maintain a database of brand names.
It was a major goof to reverse the order of domain levels in the first place. Adding or removing levels won't fix that.
Over 11,000 global variables
Whoa, wait... was the entire entertainment system controlled by a single process or what? If that's just just globals, how can EMU software possibly be this large?
Fantastic write-up, BTW. People like you are why I still visit Slashdot.
Who gets to decide whether something is worth knowing? I've seen a lot of really valuable stuff disappear without a trace, and as long as the majority doesn't care, the minority just has to suck it up and live with that.
Interestingly enough, engineers, intellectuals, and deviants tend to be in the minority.
I always wondered why all the memory in a computer [outside the CPU die] tended to run at the same speed. Over a decade ago I was talking to a fellow CS student about different speeds of RAM, and asked him why we didn't use expensive RAM for programs and large amounts of cheap RAM for caching and virtual drives. He just looked at me with disdain and said, "There's no such thing as cheap RAM."
I'm still not convinced that the performance and utility differences of memory and storage will converge.
Just like all the other add-on components sold by vendors. Want more memory? Add $100. Better video card? Add $250.
My WTF moment was years ago while I was checking out prices on Apple's web site. $500 dollars extra to upgrade the base video card to a high-end card (on top of the price of the card you weren't getting). Meanwhile, the retail price of the PC version of that high-end card was under $300.
I suppose there's always TeX.
I understand your point, but I seriously doubt that any monoculture makes things "easier", even from a developer's perspective.
As much as these things are engineered to perfection, I highly doubt making an alternate tray 1mm deeper to accommodate a thicker battery is an engineering impossibility. Some makers produce phones that have completely different dimensions and screen sizes but otherwise have the same "guts". It's not hard.
These things sell in the millions. It's not a matter of "justifying development" or regularly retooling plastic injection molding and milling machines. The manufacturers have simply planned obsolescence and don't want the public to have certain features before the market is "ready."
They know damn well pre-ordering games makes no sense. That's why they engage in the scummy tactic of making DLC exclusively for pre-order copies. And by DLC, of course, I mean content that's already present on the physical copy.
The USPS is only losing money now because legislators want it to die, so they can wipe out one of the great socialized success stories. There was a time, for a LONG time, where the USPS was profitable and self-sustaining -- at least while I was working there a little over 10 years ago.
Indeed. I learned very quickly in the 90's that "The Internet never forgets" is pure BS.
Alas, one of my favorite YouTubers decided to protect all his videos, so my favorite video downloader no longer works. There's probably a way to rip protected videos, but I haven't looked yet.
If this requires me to have a balance in a YouTube account or buy another damn faux currency, then forget it.
Based on my experience, it seems the Win10 readiness tool only checks for CPU speed, memory, and free storage space. Every machine on which I ran the analyzer has told me it's compatible with Windows10, only to find out after the update, half the hardware on the machine doesn't work.
Oh, and the tool never tells you when programs are incompatible with Win10. I had a system where 11 applications were automatically uninstalled from the machine, with no prior warning, and I was informed that they were removed only after the OS upgrade had fully completed. Thanks for the heads-up, MS.
Thankfully, all these systems were owned by other people who wanted me to update them to Win10. I wouldn't dare do it to my own workstation, or even my gaming rig.
Then it should be explained properly so there's no confusion.
Like it or not, "strong word" is pretty much synonymous with "politically correct", and, from a more timeless perspective, "annoys authority figures."
It doesn't have to be reliable. It only needs to be difficult enough so it's not worth the money/trouble to bypass. That works splendidly well in mass-market devices.
That's the point. If you're really a "pro", you won't have any trouble coughing up the extra dough for adapters and high-end wireless equipment. You don't want to be part of the race to the bottom, do you?
According to my tests with the built-in memory profiler, the pauses are apparently related to locking garbage collection and cycle collection, so it's all CPU bound. Stuffing more memory into the machine won't help. I'm already running Win64 with 16GB of memory.
One interesting thing is that this appears to be related to the Javascript engine, possibly the JIT/optimizer. If I close all but one window and point the last window to "about:blank", memory usage doesn't go down at all. I just hangs at, say, 2GB forever, all of it occupied by the Javascript heap. This might be why people blame memory leaks. It looks like it, but I think it's just really bad script cache management. Palemoon has none of these problems (I've had an instance of Palemoon open for two weeks with a ton of windows open, and it's still using ~700MB)
I've also tried torturing Firefox to test its memory limits. On 64-bit it seems to max out around 3GB memory usage, with no other side effects besides the frequent pauses. On 32-bit, it maxes out around 1.6 GB and then starts running into massive graphics corruption issues, but doesn't crash. Actually, one nice thing I can say about Firefox is that it never crashes on me. Ever. It's rock stable, but does have a lot of performance issues and they're mostly related to memory management.