Big drawback to not have USB at the same time, where can you put 100BaseT, hard drive, keyb/mouse and such? Yes that reads like a late 90s laundry list but doing everything through wifi and bluetooth brings more cost and less performance/more lag/wireless spectrum issues. Hard drive is cheaper than a NAS, one cable is cheaper than a 5GHz router, and so on.
But : I suppose they use USB-C, and this makes things somewhat easy. USB-C, like old ipod cables are something of a mash up cable, to keep things dumb it has power (enough power), low speed wires and high speed wires. The high speed wires can be used for USB 3, HDMI, Displayport or other things. Low speed wires are for USB 2.0. So I think, at worst you're using up the high speed wires for display (be it HDMI, Displayport, or using a cheap enough adapter from either of these to single link DVI or VGA) but you get to keep one USB 2.0 for everything else.
You do have a few choices too : such as use USB 2.0 for networking, or use 5GHz wifi instead, or plain old 2.4GHz wifi. Use 5GHz wifi for display (a "cast", ideally on H265 codec) if that's supported, be able to use USB 3 for networking (gigabit ethernet) and/or storage.
Thunderbolt 3.0 is the best you can achieve : this uses the high speed wires on USB-C to mux display and PCIe that can be used for anything, but I very much doubt we'll see this on smartphone anytime soon. Displayport on the high speed wires might carry one USB 2.0? Or HDMI might carry ethernet, as the spec allows. But I've left that crap for the last paragraph as it just complicates things. It will be hard to know what a USB-C connector on a random phone supports. Easier might be to get a "dock for Samsung S8".
Sure, you may be technically right but remember Windows XP? It came out in 2001 and in 2003, you would still get support for it. In fact, main support phase was till 2009, and after end of extended support in 2014 you still were able to reinstall the OS if you wanted to. If we find this to be a good support schedule - support for the OS that came with a computer you bought, and if we assume the LG TV first came out in 2012 (could be earlier but no earlier than 2010) then there should be *some* level of phone support for the OS till year 2020, not such an idiotic situation where the TV is "too old" after only a couple years so there aren't even flowchart answers in the call center back end anymore. After that, tell people they're on their own but provide enough instructions on the web site till year 2025 - even then, it's a bit silly that we should expect a TV to only last 13 years or 11-12 years when bought on the last day it was sold, but that's the cut off year I made up. (Hell, even a desktop PC from 2001 may be rather decently useful today but that's another issue). After that, it'd be nice courtesy to still leave the instructions hosted on the official web site ; whether they disappear or not from there, promise to not sue third parties who would host a mirror or copy of the instructions.
The above is a mere wish, but in some countries consumer laws have some notion about a reasonable expected lifetime of a product so they may be close to theoretically requiring such minimal support (think of spare parts for cars, even in the US I believe they're available for more than two or three years)
Real 120Hz is an impressive feature, I was disappointed that PC monitors didn't adopt it en masse (likely, 60Hz or at best 75Hz 1080p works on VGA, single link DVI and old-style HDMI 1.0 or 1.1 operation, so why bother adding cost, so must they think) I guess only 4K TVs support 1080p 120Hz though, mostly?
Indeed it's likely some silly "Enterprise" thing, another example is the huge mark up on desktop touch screen monitors or worse, TV sized touch screens. Albeit, some "commercial displays" are special ones with extra brightness making them suitable for outdoor use. They cost as much as a motorcycle but there's a significant feature at least.
Now if you don't care about a giant dumb screen, there's a large market for PC monitors and this one is cheap for instance : http://www.ebuyer.com/744722-b...
From a cursory look, there are even 32" 1080p PC monitors at low TV-like prices. I wasn't expecting them! Biggest 16:9 are a couple 43" 4k (might be using the same panel) and a couple 40" ones.
tl;dr Check the consumer PC monitor market scaling up in size.
3D accelerated games existed under DOS. No drivers : they programmed the graphics card's registers directly. So, for instance there were a couple demos, Descent 2 and Terminal Velocity, shipped on a CD-ROM with a particular S3 Virge. These were the only games to look good and run well on that S3 Virge, but too short as they were demos. They didn't run on S3 Virge DX, a minor update of the same chip. Oops!
Although, Glide under DOS is a thing, for a short list of games that run on Voodoo1, Voodoo Rush, Voodoo2. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopi...
Nope, it's not only x86 but requires an IBM PC/XT/AT compatible BIOS, so I don't think it could even run on non-PC compatible x86 systems such as the original Xbox or the current one. You can likely make a 64bit DOS, or a flat-memory 32bit native one - at least one such one exists, it's just that no existing software will run. On random ARM and non ARM systems? I believe you're going to recreate a "DOS" and applications from scratch every time, for every different combination of hardware i.e. for every single different SoC. It would be worse than with CP/M? where you had to port for every machine, but at least you targeted a single CPU, Intel 8080 (or Zilog Z80).
Powershell? That's a tall order. You have to port or recreate a goddamn.NET runtime. It might be impossible or by that point you're creating a whole OS on top of your DOS, like Windows 3.1 and 9x. Meanwhile, you can run Powershell on linux so the boring anwser to that is to use the smallest linux distro or build with enough components to run.NET and Powershell.
The closest thing to a universal DOS might be running code in a UEFI environment, which none of what you quoted supports but it does exist in ARM land, perhaps only on servers. The best bet to run FreeDOS on a tiny system is to shop for a 486-compatible SoC, where you will get GPIO, PWM and some other features. If it's compatible with DOS but does not have video output you may be able to use a serial console in place of keyboard/monitor (which will likely work fine with the command prompt and e.g. text adventure games, but text mode stuff assuming you have CGA/VGA might fail. Although a TSR might be able to emulate text mode on vid cards?)
We do have another example of an end user phone, embedded OS that probably runs on x86, ARM and MIPS, it was Firefox OS and it dropped dead like a flying brick.
I wonder if the same will happen, or maybe the list of compatible hardware will be even more and more restricted till a handful of Samsung and Nexus are left standing, and slowly dying.
PPS : that recent "Raspberry Pi desktop's x86 edition" in the news is pretty much debian and lxde, with a fun skin / icon theme. Might be a useful, hopefully good Windows XP replacement for those interested.
Sorry for the.. bad wording in one of my sentences above. I don't know if it's from reading at -1, or if uncivil words have gotten widespread much, you had my blood boil a bit by suggesting a conspiracy from "marketing folks selling products" but otherwise I wish you the best. I remember when Windows was somewhat polite and well meaning : "You can now safely turn your computer off".
A single core is enough to run a modern OS, it's the RAM and hard drive or SSD that count more. Although yes, Windows 7 is a dog, and so are Gnome 3, Cinnamon, KDE.
Oh damn, you can easily use and install debian+lxde by getting the file named "debian-live-8.6.0-i386-lxde-desktop.iso" here : http://cdimage.debian.org/debi... It won't win a beauty contest and you will lose the ability to play almost any video game, but everything will be up to date. The requirements are similar to Windows XP without malware, and lower than Windows XP with malware.
..as no one can prove that XP is less safe..
nor can I prove or disprove anything myself, but fuck you, you're unqualified. It's not so much your opinion is wrong, but that you're not entitled to waiving it around and ask for it to be taken seriously, because you know nothing about the subject matter. How can you prove your machine is not infected? Likely, your PC is so much powerful (can do a billions shits per second) that you won't notice slow down from small enough, modern, mostly dormant malware.
I don't mind it so much, it's more "stable" in the meaning of not crashing. There hasn't been almost any new GUI feature since Australis in Firefox 29. Also, when using linux, people were stuck with Firefox 3.0 when 3.6 was out.
Oh yes they did. I'm quoting this about upgrades in 1986, from wikipedia's article on the Macintosh 512K.
The stock [Macintosh] 512K could also use an 800 kB floppy disk drive as well as the Hard Disk 20, the first hard disk manufactured by Apple exclusively for use with the 512K, but required a special system file (not required by the 512Ke) that loaded the improved ROM code into RAM, thus reducing the available RAM for other uses. Apple offered an upgrade kit which replaced the floppy disk drive and ROMs essentially turning it into a 512Ke. One further OEM upgrade replaced the logicboard and the rear case entirely with that of the Macintosh Plus.
That's not unreasonable since they have Chrome OS in the same broad category of product or service : software, and in the same specific category, operating systems. A few ages ago there was another dist. named 'Lindows' that ended up dropping that name. Kind of like naming your sugar beverage Bepsi or Cauke.
Haven't you a free slot (PCIe 1x or 16x) for a dirt cheap PCIe 1x controller board to add two more SATA ports? Also, funnily, perhaps you can add more virtual CPUs to your VMs. Overallocate, and let the schedulers sort them out.
I will point out that "admit" is a short word that is easier to fit in a headline. There are stupider choices of words and phrases, and there's even a term, "headlinese" to describe such shortening or corrupting of language. E.g. a follow up headline might read "Uber cans self-driving feature..." or "Uber nixes self-driving feature...", if that were to happen. That'd be poor but concise writing. I can hear some likely effects of this on radio or TV, in French and from journalists and politicians, where grammatically important tiny words or locutions in the likes of "of", "of the", "about" or "about the" are omitted. In English that's OK, you can say "a car problem" without a glue word or two between the nouns, the feature is built-in to the language. In French that sounds like baby talk (to me) that wasn't allowed a decade ago.
I do believe "admits" is fairly benign or neutral, or that it's not out of place as the news is negative no matter what. "acknowledges" would work well. "recognizes" : this would be a fine neutral word if it wasn't only for extremely formal stuff like state sovereignty, legal rights and stuff. Too bad lol. In French you can use "reconnaît" for both that and Uber's car problem.
What, Amiga was a big success as a game machine, although when the Amiga 1200 came out games just ignored (mostly) the newer abilities as with all upgraded consoles/home computers, and still targeted Amiga 500 features. They fucked up the Amiga 600 perhaps, that's too bad. But I was trying to say, Commodore wasted a lot resources by trying to sell their higher end ones as serious business computers and well no, Windows 3.0 and 3.1 sucked for multimedia, with unaccelerated 640x480 and unaccelerated everything on the PC, but it had memory protection and ran on VGA or Super VGA monitors. People declined to spend serious money to run word processor and accounting etc. on a clunky GUI with kiddy colors, composite interlaced monitor (well I guess there was RGB but not mandatory) and an environment where any little app can blow up everything.
Cue other wastes like falling for the "interactive CD-ROM multimedia appliance" bullshit - the CDTV, or earlier the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 that were entirely useless. Now, they could have kept doing video toys and game toys and perhaps would have survived, but the CD32 console's demise killed them definitively and that's an awful, awful tragedy. Killed by one inane patent trolling case which changed the face of computing or video games on its own compared to what it would have been. It would have sold millions and was cross compatible with the computer lines.
I think of the PC CD-ROM era, when all you had was VGA (on VLB or PCI bus), Sound Blaster, 2x CDROM. There were immersive stories with that, esp. when there was full voice acting, and the sound was still uncompressed because that's all you could afford (but a lot of 8bit 11KHz, just with no mp3/ogg/aac artifacts) For the time though, those were fancy graphics!
But with those supposedly low specs ($1000/$2000 of desktop computer hardware) you had e.g. high value hand drawn graphics, professional voice acting and so on. High budget but not one hundred million dollars either more like a million or more, and taking it seriously. Nowadays, it's easy to make crisp HD graphics, lighting effects, as many 3D-accelerated UI elements as you like etc. and call that an indie game although it's effectively just a glorified, low value shareware or flash game. Whereas, the high budget stuff all looks like Call of Duty/Uncharted/GTA/Superhero movies. I just want the cursor to be set somewhere in the middle, and I also hope there was less fast-moving eye-catching dumbed down look-at-me designed to hurt the eye flashy bullcrap like all the titles and graphics that fly and whoosh around on US corporate TV! I hope y'all got what I mean?
PS : games of the 90s were very much about the graphics most times.
The mutant Ninja Turtles had a mobile phone of sorts with video calls, and April O'Neill had one too, so that means we can have four anthromorphic turtle and a similar, sentient and talking wise rat?
One solution is to make SIM locking of phones illegal, another is to buy your own damn phone, not get it from a carrier. Also, couldn't I easily steal your numbers, or would you lose access to them? locked out of gmail because an algorithm says you're too far from home, account stolen, no internet access because you need the numbers to access the internet, malware fucks up your phone steals your numbers and deletes them allowing bad guys to use your access in the mean time.
Remember Windows Metafile? That was a picture format that consisted of executable code (poor man's pdf or ps for Windows 3.0) and ended up being abused. Here, a whole frigging computer is emulated and the SPC file is just raw machine code for its CPU, so that you can e.g. listen to Street Fighter II music in your winamp clone. Depending on your player perhaps, you even get a track of infinite/unknown length and the music loops indefinitely. I find it funny and it reminds me more about the entirely banal stories of "malware escapes Java/Flash/VM/jail/container/sandbox".
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Big drawback to not have USB at the same time, where can you put 100BaseT, hard drive, keyb/mouse and such? Yes that reads like a late 90s laundry list but doing everything through wifi and bluetooth brings more cost and less performance/more lag/wireless spectrum issues. Hard drive is cheaper than a NAS, one cable is cheaper than a 5GHz router, and so on.
But : I suppose they use USB-C, and this makes things somewhat easy. USB-C, like old ipod cables are something of a mash up cable, to keep things dumb it has power (enough power), low speed wires and high speed wires. The high speed wires can be used for USB 3, HDMI, Displayport or other things. Low speed wires are for USB 2.0. So I think, at worst you're using up the high speed wires for display (be it HDMI, Displayport, or using a cheap enough adapter from either of these to single link DVI or VGA) but you get to keep one USB 2.0 for everything else.
You do have a few choices too : such as use USB 2.0 for networking, or use 5GHz wifi instead, or plain old 2.4GHz wifi. Use 5GHz wifi for display (a "cast", ideally on H265 codec) if that's supported, be able to use USB 3 for networking (gigabit ethernet) and/or storage.
Thunderbolt 3.0 is the best you can achieve : this uses the high speed wires on USB-C to mux display and PCIe that can be used for anything, but I very much doubt we'll see this on smartphone anytime soon. Displayport on the high speed wires might carry one USB 2.0? Or HDMI might carry ethernet, as the spec allows. But I've left that crap for the last paragraph as it just complicates things. It will be hard to know what a USB-C connector on a random phone supports. Easier might be to get a "dock for Samsung S8".
Not necessarily. There might have been Sanders vs Trump on the second voting round.
Sure, you may be technically right but remember Windows XP?
It came out in 2001 and in 2003, you would still get support for it. In fact, main support phase was till 2009, and after end of extended support in 2014 you still were able to reinstall the OS if you wanted to.
If we find this to be a good support schedule - support for the OS that came with a computer you bought, and if we assume the LG TV first came out in 2012 (could be earlier but no earlier than 2010) then there should be *some* level of phone support for the OS till year 2020, not such an idiotic situation where the TV is "too old" after only a couple years so there aren't even flowchart answers in the call center back end anymore. After that, tell people they're on their own but provide enough instructions on the web site till year 2025 - even then, it's a bit silly that we should expect a TV to only last 13 years or 11-12 years when bought on the last day it was sold, but that's the cut off year I made up. (Hell, even a desktop PC from 2001 may be rather decently useful today but that's another issue). After that, it'd be nice courtesy to still leave the instructions hosted on the official web site ; whether they disappear or not from there, promise to not sue third parties who would host a mirror or copy of the instructions.
The above is a mere wish, but in some countries consumer laws have some notion about a reasonable expected lifetime of a product so they may be close to theoretically requiring such minimal support (think of spare parts for cars, even in the US I believe they're available for more than two or three years)
Real 120Hz is an impressive feature, I was disappointed that PC monitors didn't adopt it en masse (likely, 60Hz or at best 75Hz 1080p works on VGA, single link DVI and old-style HDMI 1.0 or 1.1 operation, so why bother adding cost, so must they think)
I guess only 4K TVs support 1080p 120Hz though, mostly?
Indeed it's likely some silly "Enterprise" thing, another example is the huge mark up on desktop touch screen monitors or worse, TV sized touch screens. Albeit, some "commercial displays" are special ones with extra brightness making them suitable for outdoor use. They cost as much as a motorcycle but there's a significant feature at least.
Now if you don't care about a giant dumb screen, there's a large market for PC monitors and this one is cheap for instance :
http://www.ebuyer.com/744722-b...
From a cursory look, there are even 32" 1080p PC monitors at low TV-like prices. I wasn't expecting them! Biggest 16:9 are a couple 43" 4k (might be using the same panel) and a couple 40" ones.
tl;dr Check the consumer PC monitor market scaling up in size.
Chromecast has been out for a while? Let's search for support packages in Ubuntu 16.04 repositories.
$ apt-cache search chromecast
$
Oops.
3D accelerated games existed under DOS. No drivers : they programmed the graphics card's registers directly.
So, for instance there were a couple demos, Descent 2 and Terminal Velocity, shipped on a CD-ROM with a particular S3 Virge. These were the only games to look good and run well on that S3 Virge, but too short as they were demos. They didn't run on S3 Virge DX, a minor update of the same chip. Oops!
Although, Glide under DOS is a thing, for a short list of games that run on Voodoo1, Voodoo Rush, Voodoo2.
http://www.vogons.org/viewtopi...
I believe Wine on 64bit linux is able to run 16bit Windows apps, including those for Windows 1.0 and 2.0. I don't know how.
Nope, it's not only x86 but requires an IBM PC/XT/AT compatible BIOS, so I don't think it could even run on non-PC compatible x86 systems such as the original Xbox or the current one.
You can likely make a 64bit DOS, or a flat-memory 32bit native one - at least one such one exists, it's just that no existing software will run.
On random ARM and non ARM systems? I believe you're going to recreate a "DOS" and applications from scratch every time, for every different combination of hardware i.e. for every single different SoC. It would be worse than with CP/M? where you had to port for every machine, but at least you targeted a single CPU, Intel 8080 (or Zilog Z80).
Powershell? That's a tall order. You have to port or recreate a goddamn .NET runtime. It might be impossible or by that point you're creating a whole OS on top of your DOS, like Windows 3.1 and 9x. Meanwhile, you can run Powershell on linux so the boring anwser to that is to use the smallest linux distro or build with enough components to run .NET and Powershell.
The closest thing to a universal DOS might be running code in a UEFI environment, which none of what you quoted supports but it does exist in ARM land, perhaps only on servers.
The best bet to run FreeDOS on a tiny system is to shop for a 486-compatible SoC, where you will get GPIO, PWM and some other features. If it's compatible with DOS but does not have video output you may be able to use a serial console in place of keyboard/monitor (which will likely work fine with the command prompt and e.g. text adventure games, but text mode stuff assuming you have CGA/VGA might fail. Although a TSR might be able to emulate text mode on vid cards?)
We do have another example of an end user phone, embedded OS that probably runs on x86, ARM and MIPS, it was Firefox OS and it dropped dead like a flying brick.
I wonder if the same will happen, or maybe the list of compatible hardware will be even more and more restricted till a handful of Samsung and Nexus are left standing, and slowly dying.
PPS : that recent "Raspberry Pi desktop's x86 edition" in the news is pretty much debian and lxde, with a fun skin / icon theme. Might be a useful, hopefully good Windows XP replacement for those interested.
Sorry for the.. bad wording in one of my sentences above. I don't know if it's from reading at -1, or if uncivil words have gotten widespread much, you had my blood boil a bit by suggesting a conspiracy from "marketing folks selling products" but otherwise I wish you the best.
I remember when Windows was somewhat polite and well meaning : "You can now safely turn your computer off".
A single core is enough to run a modern OS, it's the RAM and hard drive or SSD that count more.
Although yes, Windows 7 is a dog, and so are Gnome 3, Cinnamon, KDE.
Oh damn, you can easily use and install debian+lxde by getting the file named "debian-live-8.6.0-i386-lxde-desktop.iso" here : http://cdimage.debian.org/debi...
It won't win a beauty contest and you will lose the ability to play almost any video game, but everything will be up to date. The requirements are similar to Windows XP without malware, and lower than Windows XP with malware.
..as no one can prove that XP is less safe..
nor can I prove or disprove anything myself, but fuck you, you're unqualified. It's not so much your opinion is wrong, but that you're not entitled to waiving it around and ask for it to be taken seriously, because you know nothing about the subject matter.
How can you prove your machine is not infected? Likely, your PC is so much powerful (can do a billions shits per second) that you won't notice slow down from small enough, modern, mostly dormant malware.
I doubt so, that would be going too far.
I don't mind it so much, it's more "stable" in the meaning of not crashing.
There hasn't been almost any new GUI feature since Australis in Firefox 29.
Also, when using linux, people were stuck with Firefox 3.0 when 3.6 was out.
Oh yes they did. I'm quoting this about upgrades in 1986, from wikipedia's article on the Macintosh 512K.
The stock [Macintosh] 512K could also use an 800 kB floppy disk drive as well as the Hard Disk 20, the first hard disk manufactured by Apple exclusively for use with the 512K, but required a special system file (not required by the 512Ke) that loaded the improved ROM code into RAM, thus reducing the available RAM for other uses. Apple offered an upgrade kit which replaced the floppy disk drive and ROMs essentially turning it into a 512Ke. One further OEM upgrade replaced the logicboard and the rear case entirely with that of the Macintosh Plus.
That's not unreasonable since they have Chrome OS in the same broad category of product or service : software, and in the same specific category, operating systems.
A few ages ago there was another dist. named 'Lindows' that ended up dropping that name. Kind of like naming your sugar beverage Bepsi or Cauke.
Haven't you a free slot (PCIe 1x or 16x) for a dirt cheap PCIe 1x controller board to add two more SATA ports?
Also, funnily, perhaps you can add more virtual CPUs to your VMs. Overallocate, and let the schedulers sort them out.
I will point out that "admit" is a short word that is easier to fit in a headline. There are stupider choices of words and phrases, and there's even a term, "headlinese" to describe such shortening or corrupting of language. E.g. a follow up headline might read "Uber cans self-driving feature..." or "Uber nixes self-driving feature...", if that were to happen. That'd be poor but concise writing.
I can hear some likely effects of this on radio or TV, in French and from journalists and politicians, where grammatically important tiny words or locutions in the likes of "of", "of the", "about" or "about the" are omitted. In English that's OK, you can say "a car problem" without a glue word or two between the nouns, the feature is built-in to the language. In French that sounds like baby talk (to me) that wasn't allowed a decade ago.
I do believe "admits" is fairly benign or neutral, or that it's not out of place as the news is negative no matter what.
"acknowledges" would work well.
"recognizes" : this would be a fine neutral word if it wasn't only for extremely formal stuff like state sovereignty, legal rights and stuff. Too bad lol. In French you can use "reconnaît" for both that and Uber's car problem.
What, Amiga was a big success as a game machine, although when the Amiga 1200 came out games just ignored (mostly) the newer abilities as with all upgraded consoles/home computers, and still targeted Amiga 500 features. They fucked up the Amiga 600 perhaps, that's too bad. But I was trying to say, Commodore wasted a lot resources by trying to sell their higher end ones as serious business computers and well no, Windows 3.0 and 3.1 sucked for multimedia, with unaccelerated 640x480 and unaccelerated everything on the PC, but it had memory protection and ran on VGA or Super VGA monitors. People declined to spend serious money to run word processor and accounting etc. on a clunky GUI with kiddy colors, composite interlaced monitor (well I guess there was RGB but not mandatory) and an environment where any little app can blow up everything.
Cue other wastes like falling for the "interactive CD-ROM multimedia appliance" bullshit - the CDTV, or earlier the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 that were entirely useless. Now, they could have kept doing video toys and game toys and perhaps would have survived, but the CD32 console's demise killed them definitively and that's an awful, awful tragedy. Killed by one inane patent trolling case which changed the face of computing or video games on its own compared to what it would have been. It would have sold millions and was cross compatible with the computer lines.
I think of the PC CD-ROM era, when all you had was VGA (on VLB or PCI bus), Sound Blaster, 2x CDROM. There were immersive stories with that, esp. when there was full voice acting, and the sound was still uncompressed because that's all you could afford (but a lot of 8bit 11KHz, just with no mp3/ogg/aac artifacts)
For the time though, those were fancy graphics!
But with those supposedly low specs ($1000/$2000 of desktop computer hardware) you had e.g. high value hand drawn graphics, professional voice acting and so on. High budget but not one hundred million dollars either more like a million or more, and taking it seriously.
Nowadays, it's easy to make crisp HD graphics, lighting effects, as many 3D-accelerated UI elements as you like etc. and call that an indie game although it's effectively just a glorified, low value shareware or flash game. Whereas, the high budget stuff all looks like Call of Duty/Uncharted/GTA/Superhero movies. I just want the cursor to be set somewhere in the middle, and I also hope there was less fast-moving eye-catching dumbed down look-at-me designed to hurt the eye flashy bullcrap like all the titles and graphics that fly and whoosh around on US corporate TV!
I hope y'all got what I mean?
PS : games of the 90s were very much about the graphics most times.
I want to feel at Home, and be satisfied till the End.
The mutant Ninja Turtles had a mobile phone of sorts with video calls, and April O'Neill had one too, so that means we can have four anthromorphic turtle and a similar, sentient and talking wise rat?
One solution is to make SIM locking of phones illegal, another is to buy your own damn phone, not get it from a carrier.
Also, couldn't I easily steal your numbers, or would you lose access to them? locked out of gmail because an algorithm says you're too far from home, account stolen, no internet access because you need the numbers to access the internet, malware fucks up your phone steals your numbers and deletes them allowing bad guys to use your access in the mean time.
Remember Windows Metafile? That was a picture format that consisted of executable code (poor man's pdf or ps for Windows 3.0) and ended up being abused.
Here, a whole frigging computer is emulated and the SPC file is just raw machine code for its CPU, so that you can e.g. listen to Street Fighter II music in your winamp clone. Depending on your player perhaps, you even get a track of infinite/unknown length and the music loops indefinitely.
I find it funny and it reminds me more about the entirely banal stories of "malware escapes Java/Flash/VM/jail/container/sandbox".