While processing speeds are certainly linked to Moore's law, it is really only about the bi-yearly doubling of the transistor count while keeping prices roughly the same. Increasing the amount of cores and adding more on-die memory are easy ways to keep Moore's law going.
...well, easier than decreasing the half-pitch below 12nm.
By the way, Moore's law applies to memory density and CCD properties as well, neither of which appear to be close to their limits.
The titles you see appearing in places like GOG and Steam are almost all well-known big titles by companies that still exist. This is only a very small part of what most abandonware websites offer. There's a huge number of great games that never gained any real following due to various reasons, or are owned by companies which no longer exist now.
In short, the real meaning of "abandonware" is exactly what its name implies: software which can be considered abandoned, preferably because there is no (clear) copyright holder anymore.
Then again, I can probably be considered biased, since I am webmaster of an abandonware site myself:)
IMO this is another one of those articles that go "The does X, and ZOMG the iphone is affected because it sucks!!!one!".
Requiring replaceable batteries in every device is going to hit a lot more manufacturers than just Apple. Whether or not it's a justified regulation is a discussion I won't get involved with, but this is just needlessly criticizing Apple products.
I'm no Apple fan myself, but I just think this article is really missing the point.
The researchers hope to power the whole system using a combination of radio-frequency power and solar cells placed on the lens, Parviz said.
"Please stare into laser with remaining eye to recharge lens."
IMHO, the time it takes for your OS to boot is a bit of a non-issue. As long as you've got working suspend to ram/disk, why bother with this? You lose all open apps/files with a (re)boot, whereas suspending maintains the state of your system.
Bootup speeds have always seemed like a bit of a pissing contest to me. Maybe I'm not part of the target audience...
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While processing speeds are certainly linked to Moore's law, it is really only about the bi-yearly doubling of the transistor count while keeping prices roughly the same. Increasing the amount of cores and adding more on-die memory are easy ways to keep Moore's law going.
By the way, Moore's law applies to memory density and CCD properties as well, neither of which appear to be close to their limits.
Unlikely...
:)
The titles you see appearing in places like GOG and Steam are almost all well-known big titles by companies that still exist. This is only a very small part of what most abandonware websites offer. There's a huge number of great games that never gained any real following due to various reasons, or are owned by companies which no longer exist now.
In short, the real meaning of "abandonware" is exactly what its name implies: software which can be considered abandoned, preferably because there is no (clear) copyright holder anymore.
Then again, I can probably be considered biased, since I am webmaster of an abandonware site myself
What about 'rm -- -helloworld' ?
IMO this is another one of those articles that go "The does X, and ZOMG the iphone is affected because it sucks!!!one!".
Requiring replaceable batteries in every device is going to hit a lot more manufacturers than just Apple. Whether or not it's a justified regulation is a discussion I won't get involved with, but this is just needlessly criticizing Apple products.
I'm no Apple fan myself, but I just think this article is really missing the point.
Good question actually. I wonder whether we'll see a slight increase in FOSS usage now that most budgets are a bit tighter than they used to be.
W-SUE sounds slightly better IMHO.
Can they be used to power hovercrafts?
...like a quack?
So this means you're a housefather who folds the laundry himself?
It ran GNU/Calf.
Hofstadter, for one, does _not_ welcome our new AI overlords.
No, that's me you're referring to.
I don't usually complain about badly written summaries, but this one made my head explode.
Argh, modded down because of stupid pull-down automodding.
:)
Fixed now
I'm not sure if it's funny or just sad to see this post modded informative and insightful.
...does it run java?
They'll sell one of the clicks, after which it will be renamed SingleClick. They might get Amazon on the phone for that, though...
...a moonshot?
*woosh*
April Fools sure is early this year :/
"Please stare into laser with remaining eye to recharge lens."
Huh? I didn't repost correct links, even though I probably should have. Or is that sarcasm there?
You're probably thinking of this article.
:)
Apparently, Device VM hadn't officially announced their technology yet, but now they have. More than enough reason for a dupe
IMHO, the time it takes for your OS to boot is a bit of a non-issue. As long as you've got working suspend to ram/disk, why bother with this? You lose all open apps/files with a (re)boot, whereas suspending maintains the state of your system.
Bootup speeds have always seemed like a bit of a pissing contest to me. Maybe I'm not part of the target audience...
404 "Object not found!"
Does that mean he didn't find any yet?