Being more po-faced with that comment than I should be, the 2CV was actually a brilliant design for its intended purpose. It's one of the more famous automotive design briefs - it needed to be capable of carrying a basket of eggs across a farmer's ploughed field without breaking. That's why you end up with the design they got, with very high ground clearance. More here - the 2CV is a very under-appreciated car when taken out of context, but in context it was superb.
Any of the Worms series. Tekken or Streetfighter, racing games from Sonic-style cartoon to truly serious sims (which still offer local player). Gang Beasts. There'll be a lot of others I'm missing too - that's just a smattering off the top of my head.
A bit, but not much, more advanced and you can get into emulating things like the Gamecube - I regularly have four player games of Monkeyball or Mario Kart Double Dash using original Gamecube controllers so it feels right. Same for Streetfighter II Turbo on the SNES, using an original SNES controller converted to USB.
Don't get me wrong - this isn't a "thou shalt have a PC only"-style rant. In fact I traded in a ton of old stuff and came out with both a second hand Xbox One S and a PS4 Slim this very weekend. Currently enjoying Horizon:Zero Dawn and I'll likely look at a few other console-only things too. But yeah - PC is actually *cheaper* now overall once the cost of games is factored in. I bought mine about 18 months ago I think - i5 3.2Ghz, RX480, Steam controller and various controller adapters for emulation. Spends it life hooked to the TV mostly playing Skyrim, but it's easy to crack out the multiplayer stuff on any platform I own - crucial, since I game with my three kids.
There is way too much starry-eyed magical thinking about tech in general at the moment. AI this and machine learning that...you would think people's day to day interactions with their phone assistants would get people to quickly understand things are still fledgling, but apparently not.
I'm in favour of developing the technology. And very, very much in favour of not overhyping it to destruction.
Regarding point 2 - I've never understood why the UK doesn't just make it mandatory on new vehicles sold in the UK. They have emissions standards, they have safety standards...why not other strategic standards?
If your gaming PC is hooked up to the TV, as mine is, the Steam Link app will be useful if the TV's in use for something else. I also have the hardware, and I used it in reverse for a while - 'PC' (actually a dual-booting iMac) was in the study, and the Steam Link hooked up to the TV downstairs. Also worked surprisingly well.
What seems to have happened is that the hack has managed to erase the client side. Either poison data/commands has erased the tablet they attach to the bike, or the tablet still has data but is now out of sync with their restored backup. That will be why they're talking about going round rebooting the tablets on the bikes - it's the client side that's wrong, ZFS-nothing - it simply wouldn't have helped.
This is geared at people working with mixed deployment systems on Azure. And it's great. Honestly, this has been my most wished for feature in Windows for a long, long time.
Drop the negativity - a good and useful thing has just happened. Thanks.
Follow through to the actual Microsoft post instead of the intermediate blog, and you can see what's happened.
They've taken the tool and made it its own app, so with its own software update cycles etc., showing up in alt-tab...a few things. Otherwise it's not much different, but that's fine - this does seem to be an improvement to me. I mean, it's not life changing but it does make things a bit more organised.
They also spammed email too. However I'd never encountered spam at the time, and was wondering why everyone else seemed to be getting this and not me. Was I not good enough, was I not wanted...?
Incredibly different times.
Oric were British too, and a direct (and later) competitor. But your search has given some true, but misleading results. They didn't "produce some computers", they essentially defined first half of the 80s. Between them and the BBC B, which cost a vast amount more, they set the scene for the home micro explosion. Their relative affordability was absolutely vital.
My first home computer was a ZX Spectrum 48k, bought for me by my parents. It has defined my entire professional life, getting me interested in programming, in gaming, in reading about the technologies underlying things...all of it. It was a supremely influential machine that completely defined British geekhood at that time. Yes the BBC could do more, but it cost more than three times the price. The Spectrum was where it was at.
This isn't a good move. I'll bet it looks like a good move from an ROI spreadsheet, but we're seeing daily that Tim Cook really isn't a 'product experience' person at all. He's losing what made things integrate and be special.
In ye olden days, the saucer Airport was a revelation. Apple could control the set up experience, and it showed. Other routers existed, but none were so simple to set up. You can argue a many have caught up with that now, and I will also totally agree that others have surpassed it in configurability and modern wifi standard support, but you're then left as a shop that sells somebody else's product. Your initial experience is no longer "go to the Apple Store, buy a MacBook Pro and an Airport, come home and have it all Just Work with lots of friendly Apple software and Apple videos etc. to help if necessary". You're back into the old computer land thing with a 100 choices to make before you've even bought the stuff. And if 'it' goes wrong...what's gone wrong? Your MBP's wifi, your router? Who do you call when Apple says it's the router and the router manufacturer says it's Apple?
As tech knowledgable people on this site (sic) that not only wouldn't bother us much but would likely be seen as an advantage. But as standard home user...nope, choosing between 20 router manufactures and then hoping it works well when you set it up is simply not a friendly experience.
Consistent whole experiences is what drew people to this simplicity. Losing it because the ROI on one bit isn't as high as the ROI on another is thinking the wrong way - you need to look at the full experience, the full ecosystem. Jobs knew that, seems to me that Cook doesn't.
Yeah, as a non-American I can't really contemplate an America without Crown Vics in them. Used to ride in the taxis all the time when I was over there. Go on, you owe it to yourselves....bring it back.
Aside - if you bring back those terrible wood panelled atrocities from the 80s, you could start making cool John Hughes-alike films again. 80s - terrible cars, great films.
You can't. I have no Facebook account, but it will have my data anyway from anyone who has ever put me in their contacts. I have no idea if I've been 'tagged' in photos and due to the closed nature I can't search to find out.
They do have a page to see what data they hold on you if you don't have an account, but to use it of course you need to....send them your data so they can check for matches. Catch 22.
I'm one of them, but mostly through inertia. On the whole it's getting worse, with next day slipping to two days, 'guaranteed next day' being delivered two days later, and items on sale with free Prime delivery, but mysteriously more expensive than the non-Prime version alone and magically equal to non-Prime + delivery fee.
It's kinda ok, and I enjoyed The Tick, but on the whole...meh.
Alone in the universe, I actually still quite fancy having a 3D one too. I missed out on that fad, still think it could have been good mostly for gaming rather than casual watching TV & films with friends and family.
Gran Turismo had a mode making use of 3D which actually showed different pictures to different polarisation. Meant you could do full screen two player, which each player seeing a different image. I suppose VR has taken this niche now, but VR is still damned expensive and seems to have wires everywhere.
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Being more po-faced with that comment than I should be, the 2CV was actually a brilliant design for its intended purpose. It's one of the more famous automotive design briefs - it needed to be capable of carrying a basket of eggs across a farmer's ploughed field without breaking. That's why you end up with the design they got, with very high ground clearance. More here - the 2CV is a very under-appreciated car when taken out of context, but in context it was superb.
(rounded obviously). Only 19 successful attempts per month is the average?
Due to APFS? What's desirable about keeping HFS+ as compared to APFS?
Oops - missed the formatting for paragraphs. Sorry.
Any of the Worms series. Tekken or Streetfighter, racing games from Sonic-style cartoon to truly serious sims (which still offer local player). Gang Beasts. There'll be a lot of others I'm missing too - that's just a smattering off the top of my head. A bit, but not much, more advanced and you can get into emulating things like the Gamecube - I regularly have four player games of Monkeyball or Mario Kart Double Dash using original Gamecube controllers so it feels right. Same for Streetfighter II Turbo on the SNES, using an original SNES controller converted to USB. Don't get me wrong - this isn't a "thou shalt have a PC only"-style rant. In fact I traded in a ton of old stuff and came out with both a second hand Xbox One S and a PS4 Slim this very weekend. Currently enjoying Horizon:Zero Dawn and I'll likely look at a few other console-only things too. But yeah - PC is actually *cheaper* now overall once the cost of games is factored in. I bought mine about 18 months ago I think - i5 3.2Ghz, RX480, Steam controller and various controller adapters for emulation. Spends it life hooked to the TV mostly playing Skyrim, but it's easy to crack out the multiplayer stuff on any platform I own - crucial, since I game with my three kids.
There is way too much starry-eyed magical thinking about tech in general at the moment. AI this and machine learning that...you would think people's day to day interactions with their phone assistants would get people to quickly understand things are still fledgling, but apparently not.
I'm in favour of developing the technology. And very, very much in favour of not overhyping it to destruction.
Regarding point 2 - I've never understood why the UK doesn't just make it mandatory on new vehicles sold in the UK. They have emissions standards, they have safety standards...why not other strategic standards?
If your gaming PC is hooked up to the TV, as mine is, the Steam Link app will be useful if the TV's in use for something else. I also have the hardware, and I used it in reverse for a while - 'PC' (actually a dual-booting iMac) was in the study, and the Steam Link hooked up to the TV downstairs. Also worked surprisingly well.
Thank you - will be very much appreciated.
I used to do this but it broke for me ages (years?) ago. Can you now get an RSS link again?
Hmm? Can that be ruled out? Or remote viewers watching their time travelling nanobot cameras broadcasting through the subetha....
Doesn't seem like they lost anything, the way you're describing it. Here's the initial announcement, and here's the update. Doesn't;'t seem like they lost anything in their database.
What seems to have happened is that the hack has managed to erase the client side. Either poison data/commands has erased the tablet they attach to the bike, or the tablet still has data but is now out of sync with their restored backup. That will be why they're talking about going round rebooting the tablets on the bikes - it's the client side that's wrong, ZFS-nothing - it simply wouldn't have helped.
Money. It's going to be tied to money. If it's delaying the annual report, I would guess its going to be some accounting concern.
Looked it up - yes, it is.. I don't know the state of things now - is anyone in Japan able to comment on Recruit's current reputation?
This is geared at people working with mixed deployment systems on Azure. And it's great. Honestly, this has been my most wished for feature in Windows for a long, long time.
Drop the negativity - a good and useful thing has just happened. Thanks.
Follow through to the actual Microsoft post instead of the intermediate blog, and you can see what's happened. They've taken the tool and made it its own app, so with its own software update cycles etc., showing up in alt-tab...a few things. Otherwise it's not much different, but that's fine - this does seem to be an improvement to me. I mean, it's not life changing but it does make things a bit more organised.
They also spammed email too. However I'd never encountered spam at the time, and was wondering why everyone else seemed to be getting this and not me. Was I not good enough, was I not wanted...? Incredibly different times.
Oric were British too, and a direct (and later) competitor. But your search has given some true, but misleading results. They didn't "produce some computers", they essentially defined first half of the 80s. Between them and the BBC B, which cost a vast amount more, they set the scene for the home micro explosion. Their relative affordability was absolutely vital.
My first home computer was a ZX Spectrum 48k, bought for me by my parents. It has defined my entire professional life, getting me interested in programming, in gaming, in reading about the technologies underlying things...all of it. It was a supremely influential machine that completely defined British geekhood at that time. Yes the BBC could do more, but it cost more than three times the price. The Spectrum was where it was at.
This isn't a good move. I'll bet it looks like a good move from an ROI spreadsheet, but we're seeing daily that Tim Cook really isn't a 'product experience' person at all. He's losing what made things integrate and be special.
In ye olden days, the saucer Airport was a revelation. Apple could control the set up experience, and it showed. Other routers existed, but none were so simple to set up. You can argue a many have caught up with that now, and I will also totally agree that others have surpassed it in configurability and modern wifi standard support, but you're then left as a shop that sells somebody else's product. Your initial experience is no longer "go to the Apple Store, buy a MacBook Pro and an Airport, come home and have it all Just Work with lots of friendly Apple software and Apple videos etc. to help if necessary". You're back into the old computer land thing with a 100 choices to make before you've even bought the stuff. And if 'it' goes wrong...what's gone wrong? Your MBP's wifi, your router? Who do you call when Apple says it's the router and the router manufacturer says it's Apple?
As tech knowledgable people on this site (sic) that not only wouldn't bother us much but would likely be seen as an advantage. But as standard home user...nope, choosing between 20 router manufactures and then hoping it works well when you set it up is simply not a friendly experience.
Consistent whole experiences is what drew people to this simplicity. Losing it because the ROI on one bit isn't as high as the ROI on another is thinking the wrong way - you need to look at the full experience, the full ecosystem. Jobs knew that, seems to me that Cook doesn't.
The Aston Martin way perhaps? Behold the Cygnet. Limited numbers. I always kind of wanted one of these for the sheer silliness of it all.
Yeah, as a non-American I can't really contemplate an America without Crown Vics in them. Used to ride in the taxis all the time when I was over there. Go on, you owe it to yourselves....bring it back.
Aside - if you bring back those terrible wood panelled atrocities from the 80s, you could start making cool John Hughes-alike films again. 80s - terrible cars, great films.
Sounds like another "let's force everything into TensorFlow's image prediction system" thing.
You can't. I have no Facebook account, but it will have my data anyway from anyone who has ever put me in their contacts. I have no idea if I've been 'tagged' in photos and due to the closed nature I can't search to find out.
They do have a page to see what data they hold on you if you don't have an account, but to use it of course you need to....send them your data so they can check for matches. Catch 22.
I'm one of them, but mostly through inertia. On the whole it's getting worse, with next day slipping to two days, 'guaranteed next day' being delivered two days later, and items on sale with free Prime delivery, but mysteriously more expensive than the non-Prime version alone and magically equal to non-Prime + delivery fee.
It's kinda ok, and I enjoyed The Tick, but on the whole...meh.
Alone in the universe, I actually still quite fancy having a 3D one too. I missed out on that fad, still think it could have been good mostly for gaming rather than casual watching TV & films with friends and family.
Gran Turismo had a mode making use of 3D which actually showed different pictures to different polarisation. Meant you could do full screen two player, which each player seeing a different image. I suppose VR has taken this niche now, but VR is still damned expensive and seems to have wires everywhere.