On top of that, current consoles don't even have that advantage anymore that there is no OS to get in the way, they ALL do have an OS by now. And usually one that sucks donkey balls at being an OS.
FreeBSD laughs at your PUNY Windows.
you had nearly TOTAL control over the CPU in such a console. That hasn't been the case for well over a decade now.
While that is true, console centric developers do usually program closer to the metal than PC centric devs do.
Not usually that high, but it would depend on the brand and model. You could get a 21“ rca XL 100 from the lowest feature trim-line for about $450 - $500 in 72 -73. You'd get AFT and ACC for that price but no remote control. Aloso it would be a stand style tv not one of those wood cabinet models.
Yeah, just ignore the Zionist terror that lead to many of the problems existing today. Both British and native Arabs were targets (also Jews that was seen as too liberal). Several terror groups had an ideology close to Nazism.
I'm aware of that. Hell...I consider Menachem Begin and Dr. Ruth Westheimer to be Terrorists! And you didn't see pressure groups telling Carter not to deal with Begin because he was a terrorist or pressure groups saying Ruth Westheimer shouldn't be on TV because....Terrorist.
Which is why I consider Netanyahu to be basically the Israeli version of an apartheid era South African leader. Which makes sense since Israel and South Africa thought of themselves in similar ways, God/G*d's Chosen People surrounded by "kaffirs" and Arabs. He uses the SAME kind of rhetoric and same kind of military/police/governmantal tactics they did. And he comes pretty darn close to calling Palestinians, "untermenschen". And the Orthodox/Haredi/Hasidic militias in the settlements are basically Brownshirts.
Think the existing Jewish Palestinians have a good life, not so much, they look entirely too Arab to ever be really accepted by the European immigrants pretending to adhere to a religion
is basically commenting about the discrimination the Mizrahi receive in Israel, which is a known thing.
As for the rest of your suggestion for the Jews, my family came from Iraq. The family left there after the Iraqi government pushed the Jews out by confiscating their property. What exactly is your helpful suggestion to me?
Secularize the middle east? As long as the region is plagued with theocrats and wannabe theocrats, there are going to be problems. The very CONCEPT of a "state" favoring a religous group where everyone else is second class (or worse) is faulty.
No, they're not. They're just engaging in Aggresive apartheid.
And the Palestinians are too STUPID and full of ANGER to try passive resistance, which plays right into the Theocrats and near fascists of Likud's hands
That's right Palestians, every time you blow up a bus or whatever you let the Israels pull the Holocaust Martyr card. And the West, for good reason, still feels guilty about that.
including immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe who came to Israel for economic opportunity, not religion.
And almost all those russian and Eastern European jews were Hasidic/Haredi/Orthodox, who swelled the numbers of Likud, who then sabotaged the peace process by doing everything they could do undermine Fatah.
Then they could point to Hamas taking over as "see? All the Palestinians are terrorists who want to obliterate Israel, they elected Hamas!"
Their whois leads to domainsbyproxy so we can't find out what group is bankrolling the site. I can tell that it is not a US based organization since their PDF's use A4 page sizing.
There was never palestinian arab identity and it was manufactured and nurtured with the express intent of eradicating Israel.
Sure there was....Before WW2. Remember, the area we now call Israel was majority Palestinian before WW2. Then the brits basically just handed the region over to the remaining Jews of EUROPE...and ignored the Palestinian locals
Yeah sure, the Brits and everyone else felt guilty about the Holocaust, but that was no excuse for the stupidity that has caused endless sorrow. The whole word would have been better off if the jews of Europe had been handed a piece of Arizona or Alaska and told to either shut the fuck up about Palestine or go back to post-war Europe where they were FROM.
America has become diminished, less, in the eyes of the world and in itself in the past 8 years.
Says who? You? Why? You're talking about the nation that with a few allies pretty much runs the ENTIRE PLANET. A Cultural, Technological and Information Hegemony like you wouldn't believe. Even in nations that supposedly "hate" us, they consume our media!
Do you actually think a few terrorists attacks diminished us? There are over 300 MILLION people in the US. They're like the buzzing of flies, no real threat.
I want the constitution interpreted as close as possible to the founding fathers' intentions.
Really? The aristocratic elitist plutocrats that basically started a revolution because they were greedy and were afraid of slavery being banned? Sure maybe the Yankees among them like Franklin really believed in democracy and representative government, but the Southerners like Jefferson and Washington?
These were the fellows who crowed about freedom from tyrranny, but didn't eliminate slavery from the first even when they KNEW it was wrong. These were the guys who INTENTIONALLY had senators elected by state legislators to make sure that the Senate was composed of "the upper class" to serve as a sort of "house of lords" to limit the influence of what they called the rabble (basically everyone who wasn't a wealthy landowner) living in towns and cities.
And they INTENTIONALLY set up government to favor large rural wealthy landowners.
And you want the consitituion interpreted accordind to THEM?
Your viewpoint on what is or isn't "collectivism" is so skewed you think EVERYTHING that makes modern societies work is collectivism.
No man is an island, not even you. YOU benefit from the government you hate so much, in fact as a business owner, you probably benefit MORE than others.
Personally I think the naming and numbering nomenclature is INTENIONALLY designed to confuse customers.
I had to upgrade the router last year, the ol WRT54 (a sucky v8, not a GL) couldn't keep up with a 50/5 connection. The router I wanted was a WRT1900, which is properly BLUE and has the proper form factor, but it is srsly expensive. I wanted an AC dual band router with a USB port to plug storage in.
I had to settle for an Linksys EA6500 v2, most other routers with the features I wanted were overpriced (due the the price inflation you mention) compared to the classic WRT54. After all in the glory days of the WRT54 you could buy one for $60!
The EA6500 has the same amount of flash and RAM as a early model WRT1900, but has a slower CPU. It can do SMB/CIFS, FTP, and DLNA.
The "Smart Wifi" Linksys-Cisco era UI sucks donkey balls and it has a horrible form factor, but otherwise works well.
It is paired with various wireless devices and two WUMC710's for the non mobile devices.
I can confirm, WRT54's are pretty much limited to 20mbps. If your connection is faster, a WRT54 won't be able to keep up. Found that out when we got a 50/5 connection (for the higher cap).
Dude I'm 49. What you're thinking of are the very early incarnations of channels like AMC or Bravo, which saw themselves as being more akin to premium cable. In fact AMC WAS originally a premium channel. That didn't last. And if youd been paying attention you would have noticed the commercials on TBS, USA, MTV, etc. I most certainly saw commercials on cable in 1972. Cable's selling point wasn't zero commercials, it was having more than 3 or 4 channels
There was a time when cable TV had no ads because viewers paid for the content through their cable subscription.
You are confusing cable Tv with PREMIUM channels on cable TV.
Before Premium channels existed, Cable TV basically re-transmitted Over the Air channels from further away than than a "normal" house mast antenna could receive over a wire...and that was it. And since those were OTA channels they had ads.
Returning to Heinlein's books as I have aged has been a disappointment
Yep. But just remember that TVTropes Will Ruin Your Life.
Just turns out I was incapable of detecting trite and stale male characterizations.
I remember when I first read The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and thinking how the characters reminded me of other Heinlein characters and how much Author Mouthpiece Colin Campbell reminded me of Lazarus Long....and it turns out he's Lazarus's son.
Dude the only people likely to enable dev mode are those for whom their Chromebook is solely for their own use.
Let alone the fact that people shouldn't touch others personal technology.
You are way too obsessed with ranting about walled gardens that only let you run javascrpt or that don't hand everyone and their dog a devkit. You have to deal with how things are, walled gardens exist, and they have reasons for doing so. You can code for OTHER platforms. Of course nobody is that much interested in same screen multi games with NES graphics on those platforms. Even the retro indie games fans on PC want network play.
You seem to have confused freeform multiwindow with split-screen multitasking or else have some faulty information.
It is the latter. Tepples likes to grind his axes against “walled gardens“ like consoles and Chromebooks and is very rigid in mindset. In my opinion he intentionally goes out of his way to refuse to check to see if the information he uses to support his axes and rants is outdated
No what you should take away is this:. One Chromebook, one user.
Computers and devices are becoming more and more personal in that sense. Instead of sharing machines, people have their own. In part that's why PC's have been called PC's ever since the days of the Apple II, Commodore PET, and TRS-80 Model 1.
Apple II? Just how many years ago was this? Need I remind you how much has changed since the days of Print Shop on the Apple II?
Part of the blame goes to you for letting an untrained user use your machine.
Part of the blame goes to Apple for using “ nerd words“ like “initialize“ instead of “erase“.
This is why users having their machines truly be personal is a good thing and why that is becoming ever more the norm. Except for edge cases like yourself it seems.
As an aside if you link to someone's Slashdot post in one of your rants on limelight, you should probably tell them so they can explain further or counter a misinterpretation on your part. You are so literal you often misinterpret what you read.
Slashdot Mirror
Céline Dion
That's unforgivable.
You forgot:
Blue Ã-yster Cult
MotÃrhead
QueensrÃche
On top of that, current consoles don't even have that advantage anymore that there is no OS to get in the way, they ALL do have an OS by now. And usually one that sucks donkey balls at being an OS.
FreeBSD laughs at your PUNY Windows.
you had nearly TOTAL control over the CPU in such a console. That hasn't been the case for well over a decade now.
While that is true, console centric developers do usually program closer to the metal than PC centric devs do.
Not usually that high, but it would depend on the brand and model. You could get a 21“ rca XL 100 from the lowest feature trim-line for about $450 - $500 in 72 -73. You'd get AFT and ACC for that price but no remote control. Aloso it would be a stand style tv not one of those wood cabinet models.
What is sad is that you're basically saying we're condemned to a cycle of death and hate forever.
Yeah, just ignore the Zionist terror that lead to many of the problems existing today. Both British and native Arabs were targets (also Jews that was seen as too liberal). Several terror groups had an ideology close to Nazism.
I'm aware of that. Hell...I consider Menachem Begin and Dr. Ruth Westheimer to be Terrorists! And you didn't see pressure groups telling Carter not to deal with Begin because he was a terrorist or pressure groups saying Ruth Westheimer shouldn't be on TV because....Terrorist.
Which is why I consider Netanyahu to be basically the Israeli version of an apartheid era South African leader. Which makes sense since Israel and South Africa thought of themselves in similar ways, God/G*d's Chosen People surrounded by "kaffirs" and Arabs. He uses the SAME kind of rhetoric and same kind of military/police/governmantal tactics they did. And he comes pretty darn close to calling Palestinians, "untermenschen". And the Orthodox/Haredi/Hasidic militias in the settlements are basically Brownshirts.
and not a single true fact.
I don't know about that, I think this bit:
Think the existing Jewish Palestinians have a good life, not so much, they look entirely too Arab to ever be really accepted by the European immigrants pretending to adhere to a religion
is basically commenting about the discrimination the Mizrahi receive in Israel, which is a known thing.
As for the rest of your suggestion for the Jews, my family came from Iraq. The family left there after the Iraqi government pushed the Jews out by confiscating their property. What exactly is your helpful suggestion to me?
Secularize the middle east? As long as the region is plagued with theocrats and wannabe theocrats, there are going to be problems. The very CONCEPT of a "state" favoring a religous group where everyone else is second class (or worse) is faulty.
No, they're not. They're just engaging in Aggresive apartheid.
And the Palestinians are too STUPID and full of ANGER to try passive resistance, which plays right into the Theocrats and near fascists of Likud's hands
That's right Palestians, every time you blow up a bus or whatever you let the Israels pull the Holocaust Martyr card. And the West, for good reason, still feels guilty about that.
including immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe who came to Israel for economic opportunity, not religion.
And almost all those russian and Eastern European jews were Hasidic/Haredi/Orthodox, who swelled the numbers of Likud, who then sabotaged the peace process by doing everything they could do undermine Fatah.
Then they could point to Hamas taking over as "see? All the Palestinians are terrorists who want to obliterate Israel, they elected Hamas!"
Their whois leads to domainsbyproxy so we can't find out what group is bankrolling the site. I can tell that it is not a US based organization since their PDF's use A4 page sizing.
There was never palestinian arab identity and it was manufactured and nurtured with the express intent of eradicating Israel.
Sure there was....Before WW2. Remember, the area we now call Israel was majority Palestinian before WW2. Then the brits basically just handed the region over to the remaining Jews of EUROPE...and ignored the Palestinian locals
Yeah sure, the Brits and everyone else felt guilty about the Holocaust, but that was no excuse for the stupidity that has caused endless sorrow. The whole word would have been better off if the jews of Europe had been handed a piece of Arizona or Alaska and told to either shut the fuck up about Palestine or go back to post-war Europe where they were FROM.
America has become diminished, less, in the eyes of the world and in itself in the past 8 years.
Says who? You? Why? You're talking about the nation that with a few allies pretty much runs the ENTIRE PLANET. A Cultural, Technological and Information Hegemony like you wouldn't believe. Even in nations that supposedly "hate" us, they consume our media!
Do you actually think a few terrorists attacks diminished us? There are over 300 MILLION people in the US. They're like the buzzing of flies, no real threat.
I want the constitution interpreted as close as possible to the founding fathers' intentions.
Really? The aristocratic elitist plutocrats that basically started a revolution because they were greedy and were afraid of slavery being banned? Sure maybe the Yankees among them like Franklin really believed in democracy and representative government, but the Southerners like Jefferson and Washington?
These were the fellows who crowed about freedom from tyrranny, but didn't eliminate slavery from the first even when they KNEW it was wrong. These were the guys who INTENTIONALLY had senators elected by state legislators to make sure that the Senate was composed of "the upper class" to serve as a sort of "house of lords" to limit the influence of what they called the rabble (basically everyone who wasn't a wealthy landowner) living in towns and cities.
And they INTENTIONALLY set up government to favor large rural wealthy landowners.
And you want the consitituion interpreted accordind to THEM?
Your viewpoint on what is or isn't "collectivism" is so skewed you think EVERYTHING that makes modern societies work is collectivism.
No man is an island, not even you. YOU benefit from the government you hate so much, in fact as a business owner, you probably benefit MORE than others.
No, just Gnome 3. Desktop users aren't complaining about systemd, the init system change has little effect on desktop users.
Personally I think the naming and numbering nomenclature is INTENIONALLY designed to confuse customers.
I had to upgrade the router last year, the ol WRT54 (a sucky v8, not a GL) couldn't keep up with a 50/5 connection. The router I wanted was a WRT1900, which is properly BLUE and has the proper form factor, but it is srsly expensive. I wanted an AC dual band router with a USB port to plug storage in.
I had to settle for an Linksys EA6500 v2, most other routers with the features I wanted were overpriced (due the the price inflation you mention) compared to the classic WRT54. After all in the glory days of the WRT54 you could buy one for $60!
The EA6500 has the same amount of flash and RAM as a early model WRT1900, but has a slower CPU. It can do SMB/CIFS, FTP, and DLNA.
The "Smart Wifi" Linksys-Cisco era UI sucks donkey balls and it has a horrible form factor, but otherwise works well.
It is paired with various wireless devices and two WUMC710's for the non mobile devices.
I can confirm, WRT54's are pretty much limited to 20mbps. If your connection is faster, a WRT54 won't be able to keep up. Found that out when we got a 50/5 connection (for the higher cap).
Dude I'm 49. What you're thinking of are the very early incarnations of channels like AMC or Bravo, which saw themselves as being more akin to premium cable. In fact AMC WAS originally a premium channel. That didn't last. And if youd been paying attention you would have noticed the commercials on TBS, USA, MTV, etc. I most certainly saw commercials on cable in 1972. Cable's selling point wasn't zero commercials, it was having more than 3 or 4 channels
There was a time when cable TV had no ads because viewers paid for the content through their cable subscription.
You are confusing cable Tv with PREMIUM channels on cable TV.
Before Premium channels existed, Cable TV basically re-transmitted Over the Air channels from further away than than a "normal" house mast antenna could receive over a wire...and that was it. And since those were OTA channels they had ads.
Returning to Heinlein's books as I have aged has been a disappointment
Yep. But just remember that TVTropes Will Ruin Your Life.
Just turns out I was incapable of detecting trite and stale male characterizations.
I remember when I first read The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and thinking how the characters reminded me of other Heinlein characters and how much Author Mouthpiece Colin Campbell reminded me of Lazarus Long....and it turns out he's Lazarus's son.
Easy for Author Mouthpiece Lazarus Long to say, since he's a Marty Stu with Immortality.
Dude the only people likely to enable dev mode are those for whom their Chromebook is solely for their own use.
Let alone the fact that people shouldn't touch others personal technology.
You are way too obsessed with ranting about walled gardens that only let you run javascrpt or that don't hand everyone and their dog a devkit. You have to deal with how things are, walled gardens exist, and they have reasons for doing so. You can code for OTHER platforms. Of course nobody is that much interested in same screen multi games with NES graphics on those platforms. Even the retro indie games fans on PC want network play.
You seem to have confused freeform multiwindow with split-screen multitasking or else have some faulty information.
It is the latter. Tepples likes to grind his axes against “walled gardens“ like consoles and Chromebooks and is very rigid in mindset. In my opinion he intentionally goes out of his way to refuse to check to see if the information he uses to support his axes and rants is outdated
No what you should take away is this:. One Chromebook, one user.
Computers and devices are becoming more and more personal in that sense. Instead of sharing machines, people have their own. In part that's why PC's have been called PC's ever since the days of the Apple II, Commodore PET, and TRS-80 Model 1.
Apple II? Just how many years ago was this? Need I remind you how much has changed since the days of Print Shop on the Apple II?
Part of the blame goes to you for letting an untrained user use your machine.
Part of the blame goes to Apple for using “ nerd words“ like “initialize“ instead of “erase“.
This is why users having their machines truly be personal is a good thing and why that is becoming ever more the norm. Except for edge cases like yourself it seems.
As an aside if you link to someone's Slashdot post in one of your rants on limelight, you should probably tell them so they can explain further or counter a misinterpretation on your part. You are so literal you often misinterpret what you read.