I lived in a block of flats in the 90s and we had two computer programmers in our flat, and a couple of older guys with PC in a flat above and below ours...solution...run coax out the windows of ours and up / down to the other flats with a terminator at each end. We left it hooked up permanently to power our Warcraft I/II sessions and the occasional Doom / Quake / HL matches.
But sure enough, every so often we'd be like "hey, where's the network" only to find a neighbour had closed with windows and uncapped their end of the net. Time to break out the spare BNC endpoints and terminate their arses!:D
I'm still using the Nokia N73 I bought in 2006. It lasts about a week on a charge, but then again I don't really use it that often. I did have to replace the battery about 2 years back, but 7 years on a single battery seems fair enough. The only reason I'd give it up is the text on the screen is tiny and it's getting hard for my old bastard eyes to read it now.
Maybe you should try getting a second hand handset of ebay?
You didn't need to put all the utilities on it, just command.com was enough IIRC. Then, you'd keep a full DOS disk on hand for when you needed to run any of those pesky external utilities. Real men had two disk drives, so they didn't even need to swap the disk back and forth!
I used to do almost exactly the same thing, except the computer I had (OSI C1P) had a mode to enter hex codes into sequential memory locations one at a time. I'd write the code, hand assemble it to opcode, work out the jumps (pray I didn't make a mistake), then punch it in and JMP to the start location.
Eventually I saw a magazine article that showed how to write an assembler in BASIC for a similar sort of machine . Some quick hacking later I had a pretty decent line editor (my own work) and an assembler that handler the opcodes and jump calculation for my machine. It was pure bliss!:D
I went to uni around the same time, coming from a house with parents who enjoyed mostly rock, with a little nod to metal (Sabbath), a bit of prog, and some electronica.
Once I hit uni my exposure to other music increased massively. I made new friends who were into metal / death metal, including ones in death metal bands. Others were getting further into electronica - meanwhile, the alternative scene was my main influence (goth, new romantics, etc). I still liked radio friendly rock to an extent too, but it started to take a sideline to the newer grunge that was coming out, and even a bit of rap / hip hop.
I'm always happy to try new music, new genres, new production styles. Once you stop growing, there's only one way to go from there...so keep on growing I say:D
In your teens and early 20's you're partying hard with friends, getting laid, and making lots of good memories. The music playing at that time is the soundtrack to the happiest time of your life. Twenty plus years later and you're weighed down with a mortgage, several kids, a shit job, and an impending divorce. Now the music you hear is the soundtrack to a less wonderful part of your life.
When you're young, you can't help but be exposed to new music. You have no control of the turntable at parties, or when visiting friends. You are challenged more often and learn to enjoy it. As an adult you just press the skip button when something doesn't immediately please you.
TLDR: It's not the music, that's pretty much a constant, it's the memories you have when you were listening to that music.
If you ask me, where we wrong was pushing for this ultra-realistic pixel art when we already had the truly engaging expression of ASCII art. It's still a struggle to make ASCII art work with modern screen sizes and non-standard (80 x 25) layouts...but we must persevere, lest the unwashed heathen masses that consume our art fail to understand it.
I suppose we could supply them with a README.TXT file to tell them what the art is trying to say to their monkey brains.
You can help the discussion by telling us the name of the engine you created, and the list of commercially released games that used it. We need some perspective.
It wasn't Moore's law that kicked us in the butt, it was the differential between the increases in the speed of CPU / GPU vs memory access speeds. As CPUs kept increasing at a decent pace, the memory lagged massively behind leading to new strategies for fast code.
This is pure rhetoric and chest thumping until you tell us exactly which engines you wrote and the products that used them. Making 11 shitty low grade projects that no-one cares about is a little different to making even a single AAA engine.
CRYENGINE has no royalty cost attached to it. Unlike the other engines, you can make and release a game without paying a single cent of royalties. The very minor cost of $10 / month is basically chicken feed to anyone able to afford a PC and is just to keep the lights on.
By contrast, you will be hit for massive amounts of cash the second you go over a set amount with Unreal. Unity hits you straight up and again in the rear.
How big were the meters they were using to measure the depth? Given that information we can know how deep 100 meters are. Alternatively, give us the depth in metres.
Which means it's now on the long slow slide into obsolescence. I figure it's good for software updates for maybe another 12 months, after that it's just a matter of time until some software I need / want requires an OS version the tablet can't support.
The tablet has an earlier version in 2012, and a refresh in 2013 which was a major update in terms of the hardware. It's basically being retired after only 2-3 years, which is a shame, since it's quite a decent little tablet - the 2013 refresh at least is.
I expect it will still give me a couple more years of happy service in any case, and since that meets my "five year lifetime" criteria for buying, I'm still relatively happy.
I'm not insisting any such thing. All I stated was the i7 line of processors is now 7 years old; people interpreted what they wanted to hear from there. I know full well the laptop will be using a modern version of a chip from that line.
The only thing this laptop has that's reasonably new and interesting is the 4k display, but that's completely wasted on the 15inch display. It would only be useful when hooked up to a large external 4K monitor where you can actually visually see the extra resolution it provides.
While 16GB RAM, and room for 2 hard drives is an ok feature, it's hardly anything worth talking about. Not in this decade, maybe in the last.
Haswell is well suited for use in laptops, so it's not really surprising that manufacturers are shipping devices using Haswell.
The model he mentioned does at least seem to have a nod in the right direction for video cards, instead of the usual garbage most laptops have installed - but then, for a starting price of $2355 I guess you'd expect something decent.
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I lived in a block of flats in the 90s and we had two computer programmers in our flat, and a couple of older guys with PC in a flat above and below ours...solution...run coax out the windows of ours and up / down to the other flats with a terminator at each end. We left it hooked up permanently to power our Warcraft I/II sessions and the occasional Doom / Quake / HL matches.
But sure enough, every so often we'd be like "hey, where's the network" only to find a neighbour had closed with windows and uncapped their end of the net. Time to break out the spare BNC endpoints and terminate their arses! :D
I'm still using the Nokia N73 I bought in 2006. It lasts about a week on a charge, but then again I don't really use it that often. I did have to replace the battery about 2 years back, but 7 years on a single battery seems fair enough. The only reason I'd give it up is the text on the screen is tiny and it's getting hard for my old bastard eyes to read it now.
Maybe you should try getting a second hand handset of ebay?
You didn't need to put all the utilities on it, just command.com was enough IIRC. Then, you'd keep a full DOS disk on hand for when you needed to run any of those pesky external utilities. Real men had two disk drives, so they didn't even need to swap the disk back and forth!
I used to do almost exactly the same thing, except the computer I had (OSI C1P) had a mode to enter hex codes into sequential memory locations one at a time. I'd write the code, hand assemble it to opcode, work out the jumps (pray I didn't make a mistake), then punch it in and JMP to the start location.
Eventually I saw a magazine article that showed how to write an assembler in BASIC for a similar sort of machine . Some quick hacking later I had a pretty decent line editor (my own work) and an assembler that handler the opcodes and jump calculation for my machine. It was pure bliss! :D
That's because most of the second year syllabus is written and examined in Yiddish!
I went to uni around the same time, coming from a house with parents who enjoyed mostly rock, with a little nod to metal (Sabbath), a bit of prog, and some electronica.
Once I hit uni my exposure to other music increased massively. I made new friends who were into metal / death metal, including ones in death metal bands. Others were getting further into electronica - meanwhile, the alternative scene was my main influence (goth, new romantics, etc). I still liked radio friendly rock to an extent too, but it started to take a sideline to the newer grunge that was coming out, and even a bit of rap / hip hop.
I'm always happy to try new music, new genres, new production styles. Once you stop growing, there's only one way to go from there...so keep on growing I say :D
Actually, I don't have a mortgage, I have no children, and my divorce is a decade in the past. My shit is sorted.
I think it's something else altogether.
In your teens and early 20's you're partying hard with friends, getting laid, and making lots of good memories. The music playing at that time is the soundtrack to the happiest time of your life. Twenty plus years later and you're weighed down with a mortgage, several kids, a shit job, and an impending divorce. Now the music you hear is the soundtrack to a less wonderful part of your life.
When you're young, you can't help but be exposed to new music. You have no control of the turntable at parties, or when visiting friends. You are challenged more often and learn to enjoy it. As an adult you just press the skip button when something doesn't immediately please you.
TLDR: It's not the music, that's pretty much a constant, it's the memories you have when you were listening to that music.
"What has it got in it's pocketsss...? " (Lars Ulrich)
If you ask me, where we wrong was pushing for this ultra-realistic pixel art when we already had the truly engaging expression of ASCII art. It's still a struggle to make ASCII art work with modern screen sizes and non-standard (80 x 25) layouts...but we must persevere, lest the unwashed heathen masses that consume our art fail to understand it.
I suppose we could supply them with a README.TXT file to tell them what the art is trying to say to their monkey brains.
Don't conflate gameplay quality with engine / grahics quality - they are orthogonal to each other.
You can help the discussion by telling us the name of the engine you created, and the list of commercially released games that used it. We need some perspective.
It wasn't Moore's law that kicked us in the butt, it was the differential between the increases in the speed of CPU / GPU vs memory access speeds. As CPUs kept increasing at a decent pace, the memory lagged massively behind leading to new strategies for fast code.
This is pure rhetoric and chest thumping until you tell us exactly which engines you wrote and the products that used them. Making 11 shitty low grade projects that no-one cares about is a little different to making even a single AAA engine.
CRYENGINE has no royalty cost attached to it. Unlike the other engines, you can make and release a game without paying a single cent of royalties. The very minor cost of $10 / month is basically chicken feed to anyone able to afford a PC and is just to keep the lights on.
By contrast, you will be hit for massive amounts of cash the second you go over a set amount with Unreal. Unity hits you straight up and again in the rear.
How big were the meters they were using to measure the depth? Given that information we can know how deep 100 meters are. Alternatively, give us the depth in metres.
Which means it's now on the long slow slide into obsolescence. I figure it's good for software updates for maybe another 12 months, after that it's just a matter of time until some software I need / want requires an OS version the tablet can't support.
The tablet has an earlier version in 2012, and a refresh in 2013 which was a major update in terms of the hardware. It's basically being retired after only 2-3 years, which is a shame, since it's quite a decent little tablet - the 2013 refresh at least is.
I expect it will still give me a couple more years of happy service in any case, and since that meets my "five year lifetime" criteria for buying, I'm still relatively happy.
It's working just fine on mine, though YMMV as they say.
In other words...motherfucking Google! Must you kill everything I love!
I'm not insisting any such thing. All I stated was the i7 line of processors is now 7 years old; people interpreted what they wanted to hear from there. I know full well the laptop will be using a modern version of a chip from that line.
The only thing this laptop has that's reasonably new and interesting is the 4k display, but that's completely wasted on the 15inch display. It would only be useful when hooked up to a large external 4K monitor where you can actually visually see the extra resolution it provides.
While 16GB RAM, and room for 2 hard drives is an ok feature, it's hardly anything worth talking about. Not in this decade, maybe in the last.
Haswell is well suited for use in laptops, so it's not really surprising that manufacturers are shipping devices using Haswell.
The model he mentioned does at least seem to have a nod in the right direction for video cards, instead of the usual garbage most laptops have installed - but then, for a starting price of $2355 I guess you'd expect something decent.
Still no.
You're still completely wrong.
That would be about the only reason I could imagine for two drives on a laptop.
I only state the i7 was available 7 years ago, in Nov 2008, according to Intel's own information.
Oh great, a technology that gimps your processor to prevent it heating up. Nice!
Apparently not.