I don't know how you inferred that I was talking about laptops specifically because I wasn't, but sure. Modern laptops are very capable gaming machines. My own gaming PC is in fact a laptop.
Even if they are only playing Solitaire or web-based games, they are still gaming.
I used to work with a hardware engineer who hot swapped ISA cards all of the time because the switch for his buffer card was hard to reach and he had to diagnose dozens of cards per day. There was never a problem.
The K6 came out in 1997 and competed with the Pentium II. Later the K6-2 (and 3) competed with the Pentium III. The AMD CPUs were about on par in integer performance, but got left in the dust when it came to floating point performance. AMD didn't pull ahead of Intel until the Athlon, which was partially due to Intel's poor design for the Pentium 4 but also because the Athlon was a great CPU itself.
One thing that helped AMD out in the late 90s was 3DNow!, which was introduced in the K6-2 and that quite a few games supported. It really made a noticeable difference if you had decent 3D hardware. At the time, I was running a K6-2 400MHz with dual Voodoo 2 cards in SLI, piped through a Matrox Millennium II. I could run Unreal at 1024x768 with maxed out settings. I remember my roommate and friends being quite envious, heh.
And of course PC RTS's have evolved into the "you have to micromanage every tiny unit clicky clicky fests on adderall" subgenre rather than the "lasso a bunch" genre they originally were.
Uh, no. Your own example of Herzog Zwei did not have multiple select and neither did Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty. The lasso a bunch crap came with the mainstreaming of RTS games around the time Command & Conquer and other poser games came out.
There is nothing illegal about using a custom ROM. Nor is there a problem choosing whether to install GApps or not. Personally, I don't use them and I haven't needed them.
I have no idea where you got the idea that it's somehow illegal.
I have no idea what it is that you are trying to say, but it sounds like a load of bad excuses.
My phone runs an Android variant that, by choice, contains no Google apps or ads or spyware. It can do anything that any other Android phone can do. What more do I need?
If Windows 10 were open source, I would give Microsoft a pass too. It, however, is not open source and therefore it is a completely different matter.
In science the burden of proof is on the one who posits a belief. Microsoft has come right out and said that their spyware is fully encrypted and contains no user identifying information. Where is their proof of this?
And using your computer requires you to turn it on first, just like turning on the browser, still no difference. They are both still doing ads in their own stuff, and it is avoidable. Whether you choose to do that is on you.
The act of turning on my own computer is not explicit consent to show me ads and spy on me. When I visit someone else's web site, that is an entirely different matter and the amount of data that they can actually collect from me is very limited.
Spying? Wasn't that the mantra almost 2 years ago? I guess you have some logs or some other information that the rest of the world hasn't found or seen yet?
The burden of proof isn't on me or any other user, it's on Microsoft.
Yeah, seeing Google ads requires you to explicitly visit their web site each time. Windows 10 is perpetually spying and popping ads at any time. I'm not sure how anyone can't see the difference unless they have a vested interest in Microsoft or something.
I could do that with my first smartphone years ago. It has a HDMI port built right in and bluetooth for peripherals. My next smartphone needed an MHL to HDMI adapter and my current smartphone needs a SlimPort to HDMI adapter, but can still operate in the same fashion.
How is the performance on NoRoot Firewall? I used to use DroidWall, which is a frontend for iptables, but it hasn't been updated in years and I'm not sure it works properly on newer versions of Android.
Yeah, Obama did so much that you can't name one legitimate thing that he did. Sorry but the man is a completely worthless blowhard.
Like Michael Moore said, getting Trump into office would be like giving the government a big "fuck you" and would be like throwing a molotov cocktail into their midst. The current US government needs to be destroyed and Trump might be the man to start cleaning house.
N64 had worse graphics than the original PlayStation. GameCube had worse graphics than the original Xbox. Wii, Wii U and now Switch have worse graphics than the respective Sony and MS consoles of their times.
Do you know what that kind of seller follow up reminds me of? Homer Simpson's everything is OK alarm. Instead of the normal and rational method of having the customer contact the seller in the event that there is a problem (normal alarm that sounds when something is wrong), the seller continuously harasses the customer to check if everything is OK (everything is OK alarm).
That's the problem and Google knows that there will be enough sane people signing up just to combat the SJW nutjobs. In the end, they get the work done for free by inciting conflict.
I keep my passport card in the RFID Safe transparent sleeve and my credit card is in the RFID blocking paper sleeve that the passport card came in, which in turn is in one of the card slots.
There is one awesome rail shooter FMV game that came out on the PC in 1994 called Novastorm.
Unlike most other FMV games, Novastorm's prerendered environment could actually damage your ship by scraping against it or crashing into it. The gameplay has some similarities with Gradius with the power up system. The visuals are really good for the time but the music is utterly fantastic and worth playing the game for. It's a shame that there isn't a CD quality version available because I'd pay for a clean, lossless copy of the soundtrack.
There was a later PlayStation version (maybe other systems too), but it had horrible music.
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I don't know how you inferred that I was talking about laptops specifically because I wasn't, but sure. Modern laptops are very capable gaming machines. My own gaming PC is in fact a laptop.
Even if they are only playing Solitaire or web-based games, they are still gaming.
Most users do not do rendering or video encoding, but they probably do play video games.
I used to work with a hardware engineer who hot swapped ISA cards all of the time because the switch for his buffer card was hard to reach and he had to diagnose dozens of cards per day. There was never a problem.
The K6 came out in 1997 and competed with the Pentium II. Later the K6-2 (and 3) competed with the Pentium III. The AMD CPUs were about on par in integer performance, but got left in the dust when it came to floating point performance. AMD didn't pull ahead of Intel until the Athlon, which was partially due to Intel's poor design for the Pentium 4 but also because the Athlon was a great CPU itself.
One thing that helped AMD out in the late 90s was 3DNow!, which was introduced in the K6-2 and that quite a few games supported. It really made a noticeable difference if you had decent 3D hardware. At the time, I was running a K6-2 400MHz with dual Voodoo 2 cards in SLI, piped through a Matrox Millennium II. I could run Unreal at 1024x768 with maxed out settings. I remember my roommate and friends being quite envious, heh.
My first x86 PC had an Intel 8086 that could turbo to 8MHz too.
And of course PC RTS's have evolved into the "you have to micromanage every tiny unit clicky clicky fests on adderall" subgenre rather than the "lasso a bunch" genre they originally were.
Uh, no. Your own example of Herzog Zwei did not have multiple select and neither did Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty. The lasso a bunch crap came with the mainstreaming of RTS games around the time Command & Conquer and other poser games came out.
There is nothing illegal about using a custom ROM. Nor is there a problem choosing whether to install GApps or not. Personally, I don't use them and I haven't needed them.
I have no idea where you got the idea that it's somehow illegal.
I have no idea what it is that you are trying to say, but it sounds like a load of bad excuses.
My phone runs an Android variant that, by choice, contains no Google apps or ads or spyware. It can do anything that any other Android phone can do. What more do I need?
If Windows 10 were open source, I would give Microsoft a pass too. It, however, is not open source and therefore it is a completely different matter.
In science the burden of proof is on the one who posits a belief. Microsoft has come right out and said that their spyware is fully encrypted and contains no user identifying information. Where is their proof of this?
I can give Google a pass because Android is open source and there are true alternatives. My phone runs Bliss ROM and has no ads or Google apps.
And using your computer requires you to turn it on first, just like turning on the browser, still no difference. They are both still doing ads in their own stuff, and it is avoidable. Whether you choose to do that is on you.
The act of turning on my own computer is not explicit consent to show me ads and spy on me. When I visit someone else's web site, that is an entirely different matter and the amount of data that they can actually collect from me is very limited.
Spying? Wasn't that the mantra almost 2 years ago? I guess you have some logs or some other information that the rest of the world hasn't found or seen yet?
The burden of proof isn't on me or any other user, it's on Microsoft.
Yeah, seeing Google ads requires you to explicitly visit their web site each time. Windows 10 is perpetually spying and popping ads at any time. I'm not sure how anyone can't see the difference unless they have a vested interest in Microsoft or something.
ZDNet and especially Ed Bott are Microsoft puppets. It's not surprising that they would try to handwave this sketchy behaviour.
Hah. I still play Unreal and Jedi Academy online from time to time.
I could do that with my first smartphone years ago. It has a HDMI port built right in and bluetooth for peripherals. My next smartphone needed an MHL to HDMI adapter and my current smartphone needs a SlimPort to HDMI adapter, but can still operate in the same fashion.
How is the performance on NoRoot Firewall? I used to use DroidWall, which is a frontend for iptables, but it hasn't been updated in years and I'm not sure it works properly on newer versions of Android.
Yeah, Obama did so much that you can't name one legitimate thing that he did. Sorry but the man is a completely worthless blowhard.
Like Michael Moore said, getting Trump into office would be like giving the government a big "fuck you" and would be like throwing a molotov cocktail into their midst. The current US government needs to be destroyed and Trump might be the man to start cleaning house.
Perhaps it was a prototype for a home unit? Encom was a video game company after all.
I used to have a 16K RAM expansion cartridge for it. I didn't even know they made a 3K expansion.
I did the same, except on a VIC-20. Ahh, magazine games and cassette tape drives...
N64 had worse graphics than the original PlayStation. GameCube had worse graphics than the original Xbox. Wii, Wii U and now Switch have worse graphics than the respective Sony and MS consoles of their times.
Do you know what that kind of seller follow up reminds me of? Homer Simpson's everything is OK alarm. Instead of the normal and rational method of having the customer contact the seller in the event that there is a problem (normal alarm that sounds when something is wrong), the seller continuously harasses the customer to check if everything is OK (everything is OK alarm).
That's the problem and Google knows that there will be enough sane people signing up just to combat the SJW nutjobs. In the end, they get the work done for free by inciting conflict.
I have one of these
I keep my passport card in the RFID Safe transparent sleeve and my credit card is in the RFID blocking paper sleeve that the passport card came in, which in turn is in one of the card slots.
There is one awesome rail shooter FMV game that came out on the PC in 1994 called Novastorm.
Unlike most other FMV games, Novastorm's prerendered environment could actually damage your ship by scraping against it or crashing into it. The gameplay has some similarities with Gradius with the power up system. The visuals are really good for the time but the music is utterly fantastic and worth playing the game for. It's a shame that there isn't a CD quality version available because I'd pay for a clean, lossless copy of the soundtrack.
There was a later PlayStation version (maybe other systems too), but it had horrible music.