Vista sucked because they had to fix all the problems stemming from XP being designed as a single user, non networked OS. For example, they virtualized the filesystem for apps to prevent them dumping files all over it. That had an overhead.
Windows 7 benefited from the tools they built for profiling Xbox games. They were able to find and fix a lot of performance limiting code.
People used to criticise C for not having a strongly enforced type system. Now everyone thinks JavaScript is great.
We went from "let's make the language more secure and robust" to just kind of admitting defeat and accepting that most software will be so crap it has to be heavily sandboxed.
This seems to go deeper than just Billy Mitchell. Looking back now a few of his scores were accepted with only Twin Galaxies staff witnessing them. It really looks like there was corruption at the top of that organization.
Imagine finding out that Luke Skywalker used auto-aim to make that shot on the Death Star. Imagine discovering that Columbus used sat nav to reach America.
Okay, okay, but this is a big deal to people into these old games, because Mitchell has a lot of records. First person to get a perfect score on pacman, for example. But now any of them that were not done in public, which is most, are in doubt. Well, even the public ones... Did he modify the machines somehow?
Not only are they terrible CPUs, the ultra thin and light form factor places severe thermal limits on them, and they are about to get worse once they re-issue the Meltdown/Spectre patches.
It's kinda sad that you guys are still upset about that. She finished that series a couple of years ago now, and moved on to moaning about Star Trek Discovery.
It's also kinda frustrating that I need to remind you that disagreement isn't trolling.
Holy crap you are right! Their web site doesn't work on about 70% of due to lack of Flash support!
Flash is blocked in Chrome now, except for a whitelist of sites which iView is not part of. It doesn't work on any of the major mobile browsers either.
Interesting that he personally got the Lamest Vendor Response award rather than Red Hat though. You would think that they would make more effort to handle massive security flaws, given that they make an enterprise product.
In Europe the principal is that the buyer should not be out of pocket if the item is faulty, therefore the seller pays return postage. In practice on cheap items the seller usually says throw it away.
In the UK nuclear power is guaranteed approximately double the going rate for wind power. There were also many other huge incentives because no-one wants to build it any more. In the end they had to guarantee insane prices (£96/MWh) just to get a French/Chinese partnership to build it for us.
Also, there were no legal challenges in that case. The new plant was built next to the existing one, on land already owned and permission already obtained.
Again, if SMR really was so great and so cheap, why isn't it attracting huge investment? Even with only the standard level of free insurance subsidy investors should be all over it. Why didn't they cut the £37bn cost of the new reactor in the UK down to a small fraction using SMR? It doesn't make any sense.
Various professional football (soccer) bodies are looking at banning heading the ball for this reason. A lot of trainers don't allow younger players to do it already.
For example, a common issue with dispute resolution is return postage. PayPal makes it difficult to give a greater than 100% refund, as legally required when the product is faulty.
Another issue is that you can only ever open one dispute per transaction. So say the item is broken, they send you a new one and the dispute is automatically closed by the tracking number saying you have it. If breaks too or is fake or has any issue at all you can't start a new dispute. Thus the only option is to always request a full refund the first time, but you might not get it.
More over, the whole system is designed to prevent you involving any of PayPal's staff in the process. It's very hard to get things reviewed.
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UAC hell was deliberate. There was no other way to make developers behave without completely breaking their apps, which users would hate even more.
UAC trained developers to avoid doing things that triggered them as much as possible.
Vista sucked because they had to fix all the problems stemming from XP being designed as a single user, non networked OS. For example, they virtualized the filesystem for apps to prevent them dumping files all over it. That had an overhead.
Windows 7 benefited from the tools they built for profiling Xbox games. They were able to find and fix a lot of performance limiting code.
It's called getting old. Time filters out the crap from your youth and those times seem better than they were.
Most music was always bad, throwaway crap you wouldn't want to own. As you get older there is less and less good stuff to discover.
I'd assume he has ad blocking installed.
People used to criticise C for not having a strongly enforced type system. Now everyone thinks JavaScript is great.
We went from "let's make the language more secure and robust" to just kind of admitting defeat and accepting that most software will be so crap it has to be heavily sandboxed.
My friend wrote a little web app that lets him search for and queue up YouTube videos of songs and play them in a background tab of his browser.
This seems to go deeper than just Billy Mitchell. Looking back now a few of his scores were accepted with only Twin Galaxies staff witnessing them. It really looks like there was corruption at the top of that organization.
Imagine finding out that Luke Skywalker used auto-aim to make that shot on the Death Star. Imagine discovering that Columbus used sat nav to reach America.
Okay, okay, but this is a big deal to people into these old games, because Mitchell has a lot of records. First person to get a perfect score on pacman, for example. But now any of them that were not done in public, which is most, are in doubt. Well, even the public ones... Did he modify the machines somehow?
Strange, all the most popular YouTube channels are edgy tween bullshit, Luke Pew Die Pie and Logan Paul.
They don't seem to have done much about those really disturbing Elsagate videos either.
Can confirm 100% accurate.
Not only are they terrible CPUs, the ultra thin and light form factor places severe thermal limits on them, and they are about to get worse once they re-issue the Meltdown/Spectre patches.
It's kinda sad that you guys are still upset about that. She finished that series a couple of years ago now, and moved on to moaning about Star Trek Discovery.
It's also kinda frustrating that I need to remind you that disagreement isn't trolling.
She was probably thinking about Logan Paul posting that video of a suicide victim's body.
I kinda like the separation of work and home life. I also kinda hate the commute.
Fascinating theory, but why are you telling me all this?
Holy crap you are right! Their web site doesn't work on about 70% of due to lack of Flash support!
Flash is blocked in Chrome now, except for a whitelist of sites which iView is not part of. It doesn't work on any of the major mobile browsers either.
Better replace it with an ActiveX control ASAP.
Ah yes, my mistake.
Interesting that he personally got the Lamest Vendor Response award rather than Red Hat though. You would think that they would make more effort to handle massive security flaws, given that they make an enterprise product.
In Europe the principal is that the buyer should not be out of pocket if the item is faulty, therefore the seller pays return postage. In practice on cheap items the seller usually says throw it away.
In the UK nuclear power is guaranteed approximately double the going rate for wind power. There were also many other huge incentives because no-one wants to build it any more. In the end they had to guarantee insane prices (£96/MWh) just to get a French/Chinese partnership to build it for us.
Also, there were no legal challenges in that case. The new plant was built next to the existing one, on land already owned and permission already obtained.
Again, if SMR really was so great and so cheap, why isn't it attracting huge investment? Even with only the standard level of free insurance subsidy investors should be all over it. Why didn't they cut the £37bn cost of the new reactor in the UK down to a small fraction using SMR? It doesn't make any sense.
Here's hoping that Intel has to make similar pay-outs. New CPU+mobo+RAM+OS isn't cheap.
Various professional football (soccer) bodies are looking at banning heading the ball for this reason. A lot of trainers don't allow younger players to do it already.
Well, no, that was Pottering, but they did adopt it. Like pretty much everyone else except for Slackware and that Debian fork.
For example, a common issue with dispute resolution is return postage. PayPal makes it difficult to give a greater than 100% refund, as legally required when the product is faulty.
Another issue is that you can only ever open one dispute per transaction. So say the item is broken, they send you a new one and the dispute is automatically closed by the tracking number saying you have it. If breaks too or is fake or has any issue at all you can't start a new dispute. Thus the only option is to always request a full refund the first time, but you might not get it.
More over, the whole system is designed to prevent you involving any of PayPal's staff in the process. It's very hard to get things reviewed.
What about someone like Red Hat?