North Korea is an... odd country. It's mostly a developing nation, with people still struggling to get reliable electricity, and a good chunk of the food is imported since the state-run agriculture is... about as bad as every prior state-run agriculture. But then you've got some parts where it's about equal to the US in the fifties. Namely, anything military, and anything the "Glorious Leader" thinks will make his country seem less backwards. Thus, animation studios, even some video-game studios. And, of course, nuclear weapons.
The article did mention iOS, so while you could have overlooked it, it did technically say what it was running on, and thus that it was Apple's App Store.
It's going to be the same thing that happened with server Unix systems: Linux takes over, and then everyone bickers about which distro to use. Now, Android is taking over mobiles, and people are already bickering about versions and upgrades. There will always be options, it's just that now there's a common basis between the options.
Sure - on their home turf. But they'd probably find oxygen toxic, or start overheating at -40 degrees, or something else. That's part of evolution - you can't evolve resistance or tolerance to something you are never exposed to (thus explaining why plutonium is highly toxic to humans even disregarding the radiation issues). So no need to worry about an alien invasion yet - they'd need as much equipment to survive on Earth as we would to survive on Titan.
Actually, most of that space goes to games, all of which, surprisingly, are legally owned. Hell, Oblivion alone is 30+ GB with all the mods I use. My main issue is cost - I'm on an extremely tight budget right now, and the only things remotely in my price range are only a few dozen GB at best. You can barely fit Windows on some of them.
SSDs just don't have the capacity I need at a price I can afford. My laptop's using a 250GB disc, usually with another external 250GB disc attached, and I'm still constantly running low on space. Until SSDs can match (or preferably beat) $0.25 per gig, I'm not going to switch over.
Hell, the crappy Intel integrated GPUs can handle video pretty well. Even a low-end card can do 1080p.
As for low-power, if recent experience is any judge, the power usage will be low only in comparison to quadruple Pentium IVs. Some cards last gen were 300+ watts TDP.
Giving the consumer less, but also charging them less. Since very, very few people actually needed the top-of-the-line model of recent cards, it makes some amount of sense.
Unfortunately, Linux isn't the best OS for everything. It works great for servers - I use it for that with very few problems. It works as a desktop, if all you need is OpenOffice and a web browser, and aren't a complete newb. However, gaming performance on Linux is terrible and complex, and as a gamer I find it best to use Windows for gaming (and as a normal office PC as well, simply because it's there).
Linux is a tool - it works well for what it's designed for, but trying to use it for something it isn't designed for is like using a hammer to remove screws - it may work eventually, but it's a lot quicker and a lot easier to just use a screwdriver.
Actually, I side with XKCD on this one. Sure, they aren't very rigorous, but the principle of "ideas are tested by experiment" is one that seriously needs to be spread. I was merely joking about the "Jamie want big boom" part that brings in the viewers.
I'm still in the process of repairing my Windows system after a Java-transmitted virus. A hacked website was sending out malware to visitors via Java applet, and the only solution I found was a format/reinstall. Since then, I've disabled Java on all my machines; the only things I've seen it used for are crappy browser games and malware.
Your argument's flaw is in assuming that Big Media *can* tell that it isn't the 90s. Paywalls, poor comment systems... I half-expect to see a fresh stab at walled gardens sometime soon.
Joseph Kittinger? Project Excelsior? 1960? Jumping from 102,000 feet? Pretty sure that gives the USAF the patent on "jumping from ludicrously high altitudes".
Real men use butterflies. They open their hands and let the delicate wings flap once. The upward disturbance ripples outward, changing the flow of eddy currents in the upper atmosphere. These cause momentary pockets of higher-pressure air to form, which act as lenses that deflect incoming cosmic rays, focusing them to strike the drive platter and flip the desired bit.
There are recordings that have fallen into the public domain. And the US military bands play quite a bit of classical music, and (as it is a work of a US federal government employee working on government time) any recordings of those are public domain as well. I have a great recording of the 1812 Overture played by the Marine Corp band, with live artillery. Check musopen.com for a bunch of public domain music.
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North Korea is an... odd country. It's mostly a developing nation, with people still struggling to get reliable electricity, and a good chunk of the food is imported since the state-run agriculture is... about as bad as every prior state-run agriculture. But then you've got some parts where it's about equal to the US in the fifties. Namely, anything military, and anything the "Glorious Leader" thinks will make his country seem less backwards. Thus, animation studios, even some video-game studios. And, of course, nuclear weapons.
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I've seen many statistics on server market share. It tends to be about 60/40 or 50/50, with either Linux or Windows leading.
The article did mention iOS, so while you could have overlooked it, it did technically say what it was running on, and thus that it was Apple's App Store.
So why did it get approved in the first place?
It's going to be the same thing that happened with server Unix systems: Linux takes over, and then everyone bickers about which distro to use. Now, Android is taking over mobiles, and people are already bickering about versions and upgrades. There will always be options, it's just that now there's a common basis between the options.
Sure - on their home turf. But they'd probably find oxygen toxic, or start overheating at -40 degrees, or something else. That's part of evolution - you can't evolve resistance or tolerance to something you are never exposed to (thus explaining why plutonium is highly toxic to humans even disregarding the radiation issues). So no need to worry about an alien invasion yet - they'd need as much equipment to survive on Earth as we would to survive on Titan.
Actually, most of that space goes to games, all of which, surprisingly, are legally owned. Hell, Oblivion alone is 30+ GB with all the mods I use. My main issue is cost - I'm on an extremely tight budget right now, and the only things remotely in my price range are only a few dozen GB at best. You can barely fit Windows on some of them.
SSDs just don't have the capacity I need at a price I can afford. My laptop's using a 250GB disc, usually with another external 250GB disc attached, and I'm still constantly running low on space. Until SSDs can match (or preferably beat) $0.25 per gig, I'm not going to switch over.
4chan is Chaotic Neutral. They're not in it for good OR evil, they're just in it "for teh lulz".
Hell, the crappy Intel integrated GPUs can handle video pretty well. Even a low-end card can do 1080p.
As for low-power, if recent experience is any judge, the power usage will be low only in comparison to quadruple Pentium IVs. Some cards last gen were 300+ watts TDP.
Giving the consumer less, but also charging them less. Since very, very few people actually needed the top-of-the-line model of recent cards, it makes some amount of sense.
Shouting louder isn't a legitimate way to win an argument.
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Ian
YES IT IS!
Still doesn't catch everything. The one I had, for instance, went undetected by AVG, Microsoft Defender, and MalwareBytes.
But it can't hide from fdisk.
Unfortunately, Linux isn't the best OS for everything. It works great for servers - I use it for that with very few problems. It works as a desktop, if all you need is OpenOffice and a web browser, and aren't a complete newb. However, gaming performance on Linux is terrible and complex, and as a gamer I find it best to use Windows for gaming (and as a normal office PC as well, simply because it's there).
Linux is a tool - it works well for what it's designed for, but trying to use it for something it isn't designed for is like using a hammer to remove screws - it may work eventually, but it's a lot quicker and a lot easier to just use a screwdriver.
Actually, I side with XKCD on this one. Sure, they aren't very rigorous, but the principle of "ideas are tested by experiment" is one that seriously needs to be spread. I was merely joking about the "Jamie want big boom" part that brings in the viewers.
I'm still in the process of repairing my Windows system after a Java-transmitted virus. A hacked website was sending out malware to visitors via Java applet, and the only solution I found was a format/reinstall. Since then, I've disabled Java on all my machines; the only things I've seen it used for are crappy browser games and malware.
Yeah, there wasn't a single explosion.
Your argument's flaw is in assuming that Big Media *can* tell that it isn't the 90s. Paywalls, poor comment systems... I half-expect to see a fresh stab at walled gardens sometime soon.
Joseph Kittinger? Project Excelsior? 1960? Jumping from 102,000 feet? Pretty sure that gives the USAF the patent on "jumping from ludicrously high altitudes".
The hero gets The Girl. The villain gets the wenches. As in females, plural. Do the math.
He won. That doesn't make him right.
Obvious, really. Nothing makes people happier, in my experience, than letting them annoy others.
Real men use butterflies. They open their hands and let the delicate wings flap once. The upward disturbance ripples outward, changing the flow of eddy currents in the upper atmosphere. These cause momentary pockets of higher-pressure air to form, which act as lenses that deflect incoming cosmic rays, focusing them to strike the drive platter and flip the desired bit.
Of course, I just use C-x M-c M-butterfly.
It was stock footage for explaining what "orbit" is.
There are recordings that have fallen into the public domain. And the US military bands play quite a bit of classical music, and (as it is a work of a US federal government employee working on government time) any recordings of those are public domain as well. I have a great recording of the 1812 Overture played by the Marine Corp band, with live artillery. Check musopen.com for a bunch of public domain music.