Wii really is a Gamecube if you look at it closely. Same hardware with more RAM, but all new controller, design, name etc.
It's the one successful upgraded console out there, but it wasn't marketed as an upgraded console and the specs weren't pushed as a selling point either. The Game Cube controller ports are even hidden so that I didn't know they were there till I saw someone use them.
There are upgraded consoles in the handheld market, further blurred by backwards compatiblity. Have been since the Game Boy Color. For some reasons it isn't such a big deal there.
That's chinese ebay kind of price (found there's chinese Amazon, too). It's an option but it's cumbersome to order such small stuff from China and wait, plus tiny items like that may be more likely to get "lost". Was ripped off for another kind of dongle.
In my country a Bluetooth 4.0 dongle sells for 12 euros. I also have more free internal slots than USB ports. Yes there are USB controller cards, use of internal USB (one more tiny piece of hardware from chinese ebay. Fuck)
Also, when PCs are accessible to the public you'd sometimes rather have the hardware internal than external. Also, for the intended application (get sound from a mobile phone to big speakers) I might as well buy or make a long 3.5mm jack cable. Everything else you can get on cards and not as specialty hardware (sound, USB, serial, wifi) just bluetooth is missing.
I was peeved at the UI at first, then grew used to it. Clean window and then right-click / Properties to get stats, connected peers etc. and you can open multiple such windows, which are non modal.
The eMule-style UIs that look like defragmenter software were more useful in the days it took a week to download a movie.
In theory someone may target that older version and figure out some bad data to send it and trip it up? I'll agree it's good software that people depend on. I used Winamp 2.8x and 2.9x for what seemed like, forever.
I regret not moving to Windows XP x64 when it was still current. I went to Windows 7 and was very disappointed by the bloat, this led me to using Linux on the main computer instead.
uTorrent bundles crapware or spyware with updates, so it's to be considered to be actively user hostile. Contrary to the good old Windows 98/XP days we can't trust freeware for everything these days, so get an open source torrent client. The two I know best are Transmission and Deluge.
Transmission was already available as unofficial transmission-qt build
It was a stupid mind game that DOS let you play when you were stuck because of bad sectors on a floppy. In retrospect, that was a rather bad and unfunny Easter egg!
Even then if you are exercising a lot you can simply eat big portions and fatty foods. Goes well with a typical diet that has too much starch/bread/pasta/rice/potato.
Where I love the equivalent to your Gatorade is when you're ill, most notably with gastroenteritis. Can't eat anything. but the sugar, electrolytes and water == good, good, good! Perhaps it is especially stupid to be afraid of your food, and if your soda makes you feel better go for it. Daily intake and soda at the meal's table is where I think it's stupid. It's fairly similar to drinking alcohol at same quantities and frequency (which is something I did while acting smug about no drinking sugary)
Eating doesn't stop in the stomach, what happens after the stomach is likely very important i.e. absorbing the stuff. It's possible that nutrients like vitamins and stuff are easily more absorbed if there's fiber and stuff to slow them down, else your body could opportunistically absorb the sugar and let the rest go down the crapper. Although it should be very unlikely that you're deficient in vitamins (or proteins)
Apple juice? I can't stop at one glass, if I have apple juice I'll likely drink half a liter:) Easy to stop at one apple, and one glass of water.
Why bitch about simple statements of facts? The study finds that 90% of added sugars come from so-called heavily or ultra processed foods, which is enormous and something sgnificant to know. Just stating it does not make it a conspiracy from Nanny State, advertisers and "health nuts" to talk you down as if you're a little child. I'll allow myself to tell you that's ridiculous. You're trying to fit facts around preconceived notions that they must come from that PETA bitch, the teacher assistants, the pale-skinned vegan and all sorts of such people that are out there to piss you off.
I ended up reading the defintions used for "processed" and "ultra-processed" foods (bmj.com). Says sugar is allowed in "merely processed" foods.
This classification includes four groups: ‘unprocessed or minimally processed foods’ (such as fresh, dry or frozen fruits or vegetables, grains, legumes, meat, fish and milk); ‘processed culinary ingredients’ (including table sugar, oils, fats, salt, and other substances extracted from foods or from nature, and used in kitchens to make culinary preparations); ‘processed foods’ (foods manufactured with the addition of salt or sugar or other substances of culinary use to unprocessed or minimally processed foods, such as canned food and simple breads and cheese) and ‘ultra-processed foods’ (formulations of several ingredients which, besides salt, sugar, oils and fats, include food substances not used in culinary preparations, in particular, flavours, colours, sweeteners, emulsifiers and other additives used to imitate sensorial qualities of unprocessed or minimally processed foods and their culinary preparations or to disguise undesirable qualities of the final product).
By that measure I've often consumed ultra-processed food that has no added sugar in it (or perhap very little, depending) : industrial pizzas (but that's in France, where e.g. bread with no sugar is a lot more common) But think of the BBQ sauce, ketchup, drinks (any), chocolate milk, crap like cupcakes and so on, waffles, even sauces. It's very easy to eat a monthly dose worth of sugar in a single day.
What about mayonnaise instead, peanut butter, whatever? Snacking on an egg sandwich. That seems M'URRICAN !! isn't it? I'd love to have a stay in the US of A and have a try at the meat pie, chicago pizza, chili, egg sandwiches and whatever - likely some heart-attack dudebro cooking with layers of bacon and cheese, that sounds a lot of fun. I wouldn't be there for the doritos and oreos.
No : stop obeying your moms, called Kraft Foods, Pepsi, Coca etc. If enough people do that, then the co-pay on your healthcare could be eliminated, for example (in theory).
This is not so much a study about basic physiology, I see it more as a study about demographics (esp. the one on BMJ.com)
Also, common sense is something that can get lost, along with popular culture or folk culture and little know-how like sewing and such. One example : nowadays, you can find yourself learning how to handwash a few clothes or how to polish shoes for the first time ever in your life, at 30-year-old. Did you know how to polish shoes at 10-year-old in the 60s? Sure, I guess. Now it depends on a "lifestyle choice". What's the month oranges are most grown? I don't know.
My first thought was that the language (be it Javascript or PHP) is too dynamic or weakly typed and converts a "NULL" string to a NULL type or value. But I tested for that : $a=("NULL" == NULL); and thanksfully that's false. Interestingly, in PHP the NULL is case insensitive! http://php.net/manual/en/langu...
And guess what : in some countries it might be customary to enter the family name in all caps (in France on written forms at least). So, even if your parser or data entry doesn't uppercase the string it would be perfectly normal or even expected to have to deal with Jennifer NULL.
Is it possible to know how many Chinese characters exist?, then work out those that are actually worth including. You could scrub thousands upon thousands of antique texts and include hundreds of new characters in the Unicode definitions, but most of them may be useless (e.g. truly unused in the last 500 years) or even errors.
Are there characters used by maybe 50 people in rural China lurking somewhere? I suppose that instead of trying to solve this once and for all, we might only be able to discover those characters year after year and add them after the fact.
The one that buggers me : almost no desktop PC has bluetooth on-board, so why can't I buy a $10 bluetooth PCI card? Why were FM tuners for the desktop PC a thing in the 90s but not today? (ok you can order a do-it-all tuner USB dongle instead. From abroad, on ebay) Cheap ass phones have both, whether you use the features or not.
Why not a USB AM tuner? (It was fun to listen to radio broadcast from the other side of a damn sea, on old hardware - not newer stuff that only receives a handful nearby ones at best)
Why not an ISA slot on the bottom of the motherboard? Now that is getting even harder to justify, but with the "makers" buzzword thing you'd think being able to make your own card would appeal to someone.
Washing machines always have a dozen programs, and it's dealt with by only ever using 40C, color or mixed white/color.
TVs are little computers, even those of the 90s. You "program" them by hitting 1 to get channel 1, volume up button to get the volume up, etc. By definition, seems everyone is a coder. We can train a rat to turn on/off the lights and say the rat is a coder versed in simple state machines.
I used to have the virtual consoles (ctrl-alt-f1 etc.) show as blank, depending on the video driver and the configuration. I even used the console while "blind" on at least one occasion (and could do what I needed such as killing something or restarting Xorg) That was pretty specific though (specific to Xorg version and Ubuntu/Mint version and the graphics card)
Also, often times the console technically works perfectly but text at 2048x1536 is not fun to read (that's the fun little habit of running at highest resolution possible it has)
The situation of GP was likely salvageable but how to do it ought to not be a desktop user's business. Still, for quite some time Linux Mint's Release Notes have instructed how to boot with "nomodeset", a common workaround to make the video driver at least work (if only so you can upgrade/downgrade/change it), features be damned.
We would rather do without such problems but there are a handful errata / little things like that, if they can be kept to a very small handful it's not entirely terrible. One other example would be very recent wifi (USB dongle) doesn't work. If Ubuntu 14.04 or other is a pile of shit for that, then you could say Windows 7 is a pile of shit because after installation it's stuck at 800x600 (or 1024x768 if you're lucky) on some old laptop.
I'm referring to the specific caveat that 32bit UEFI only accepts 32bit bootloaders (and 64bit UEFI only accepts 64bit bootloaders). The processor now is invariably 64bit (on x86 consumer hardware) but the issue stands. If some 32bit bootloader that loads a 64bit linux kernel is hacked up, that's okay, job is done. The pressing problem is of early booting. It's the only reason to bring that up.
In fact from what I gather, some people have got 64bit linux (Ubuntu daily build) to run on some 32bit UEFI system, while the 32bit version of the distro doesn't run (perhaps lacks some GPT support). Also.. to maximize CPU performance, 64bit version is better. To minimize RAM use and even save a bit of storage (due to no need for:i386 libraries installed for some apps) 32bit version can be prefered, and it's low RAM / low storage machines here.
Might be good on the smallest configuration of rented VM you can get - I refrain from saying the cheapest host you can get, since not being blocked by anti-spam will be a concern too.
I'm more and more wary of email, because your free provider can simply read your email, or allow the US government or your national government to read it. Is the metadata sold to the highest bidder too? I don't know.
So, don't get your mail from an internet giant. But then you have to be able to pay for it. For those that would be able to pay, they have to be willing. For those who would be willing, they have to even be aware that paid-for email exists.
What can we do? A friend has free community email service. They stopped accepting new accounts about 15 years ago. Also, the internet giant mail provider has replaced their slow Web GUI with an even slower Web GUI. Have some other, cleaner free mail elsewhere too but I don't trust it respecting privacy either. Or perhaps they sell data to the US government, but not to companies. Email seems old and busted anyway. Should it go the way of the dodo like USENET and FTP did? Where's the free replacement?
This gonna be a rather big issue. Netbooks are the cheapest laptops around again, this time they are ultra-flat. They feature tablet-like hardware (2GB RAM soldered to the motherboard, eMMC) and come with Windows 10 32bit. An example is Asus with Atom Z3735F
Want a Windows 10 killer? The 32bit bootloader support ought to be there for final or even beta.
Perhaps there is something specifically wrong with your laptop but what usually happen with them is overheating and most of it is the thermal paste. Cost is negligible (i.e. for $2 you get enough paste to use a couple dozen times), only the CPU heatsink is buried somwhat in the laptop. So, junking such a laptop is like junking a whole bicycle or car where replacing a cheap wire would fix it!
The laptop may be so recent and modern that it severely throttles down instead of turning off like a laptop a couple years older would.
By that measure at least 95% of software is unsupported.
I really don't understand your rant, Ubuntu (and Mint) is where there is the most software and hardware support, and the five years of updates is nothing to sneeze at either. It always was a version of debian with more software in the repos and a bit more chance of working drivers, so we can use it whether or not we have to care about your "official vision" and official graphical how-to for noobs, which are probably irrelevant : noobs won't be able to find those how-to anyway.
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Wii really is a Gamecube if you look at it closely. Same hardware with more RAM, but all new controller, design, name etc.
It's the one successful upgraded console out there, but it wasn't marketed as an upgraded console and the specs weren't pushed as a selling point either. The Game Cube controller ports are even hidden so that I didn't know they were there till I saw someone use them.
There are upgraded consoles in the handheld market, further blurred by backwards compatiblity. Have been since the Game Boy Color. For some reasons it isn't such a big deal there.
Video games can be upscaled to 4K. Expect 900p games upscaled to 2160p instead of 1080p.
That's chinese ebay kind of price (found there's chinese Amazon, too). It's an option but it's cumbersome to order such small stuff from China and wait, plus tiny items like that may be more likely to get "lost". Was ripped off for another kind of dongle.
In my country a Bluetooth 4.0 dongle sells for 12 euros.
I also have more free internal slots than USB ports. Yes there are USB controller cards, use of internal USB (one more tiny piece of hardware from chinese ebay. Fuck)
Also, when PCs are accessible to the public you'd sometimes rather have the hardware internal than external.
Also, for the intended application (get sound from a mobile phone to big speakers) I might as well buy or make a long 3.5mm jack cable.
Everything else you can get on cards and not as specialty hardware (sound, USB, serial, wifi) just bluetooth is missing.
I was peeved at the UI at first, then grew used to it.
Clean window and then right-click / Properties to get stats, connected peers etc. and you can open multiple such windows, which are non modal.
The eMule-style UIs that look like defragmenter software were more useful in the days it took a week to download a movie.
In theory someone may target that older version and figure out some bad data to send it and trip it up?
I'll agree it's good software that people depend on.
I used Winamp 2.8x and 2.9x for what seemed like, forever.
I regret not moving to Windows XP x64 when it was still current. I went to Windows 7 and was very disappointed by the bloat, this led me to using Linux on the main computer instead.
uTorrent bundles crapware or spyware with updates, so it's to be considered to be actively user hostile.
Contrary to the good old Windows 98/XP days we can't trust freeware for everything these days, so get an open source torrent client.
The two I know best are Transmission and Deluge.
Transmission was already available as unofficial transmission-qt build
It was a stupid mind game that DOS let you play when you were stuck because of bad sectors on a floppy. In retrospect, that was a rather bad and unfunny Easter egg!
Even then if you are exercising a lot you can simply eat big portions and fatty foods. Goes well with a typical diet that has too much starch/bread/pasta/rice/potato.
Where I love the equivalent to your Gatorade is when you're ill, most notably with gastroenteritis. Can't eat anything. but the sugar, electrolytes and water == good, good, good!
Perhaps it is especially stupid to be afraid of your food, and if your soda makes you feel better go for it. Daily intake and soda at the meal's table is where I think it's stupid. It's fairly similar to drinking alcohol at same quantities and frequency (which is something I did while acting smug about no drinking sugary)
Eating doesn't stop in the stomach, what happens after the stomach is likely very important i.e. absorbing the stuff.
It's possible that nutrients like vitamins and stuff are easily more absorbed if there's fiber and stuff to slow them down, else your body could opportunistically absorb the sugar and let the rest go down the crapper. Although it should be very unlikely that you're deficient in vitamins (or proteins)
Apple juice? I can't stop at one glass, if I have apple juice I'll likely drink half a liter :)
Easy to stop at one apple, and one glass of water.
Why bitch about simple statements of facts? The study finds that 90% of added sugars come from so-called heavily or ultra processed foods, which is enormous and something sgnificant to know.
Just stating it does not make it a conspiracy from Nanny State, advertisers and "health nuts" to talk you down as if you're a little child. I'll allow myself to tell you that's ridiculous.
You're trying to fit facts around preconceived notions that they must come from that PETA bitch, the teacher assistants, the pale-skinned vegan and all sorts of such people that are out there to piss you off.
I ended up reading the defintions used for "processed" and "ultra-processed" foods (bmj.com). Says sugar is allowed in "merely processed" foods.
This classification includes four groups: ‘unprocessed or minimally processed foods’ (such as fresh, dry or frozen fruits or vegetables, grains, legumes, meat, fish and milk); ‘processed culinary ingredients’ (including table sugar, oils, fats, salt, and other substances extracted from foods or from nature, and used in kitchens to make culinary preparations); ‘processed foods’ (foods manufactured with the addition of salt or sugar or other substances of culinary use to unprocessed or minimally processed foods, such as canned food and simple breads and cheese) and ‘ultra-processed foods’ (formulations of several ingredients which, besides salt, sugar, oils and fats, include food substances not used in culinary preparations, in particular, flavours, colours, sweeteners, emulsifiers and other additives used to imitate sensorial qualities of unprocessed or minimally processed foods and their culinary preparations or to disguise undesirable qualities of the final product).
By that measure I've often consumed ultra-processed food that has no added sugar in it (or perhap very little, depending) : industrial pizzas (but that's in France, where e.g. bread with no sugar is a lot more common)
But think of the BBQ sauce, ketchup, drinks (any), chocolate milk, crap like cupcakes and so on, waffles, even sauces. It's very easy to eat a monthly dose worth of sugar in a single day.
What about mayonnaise instead, peanut butter, whatever?
Snacking on an egg sandwich. That seems M'URRICAN !! isn't it? I'd love to have a stay in the US of A and have a try at the meat pie, chicago pizza, chili, egg sandwiches and whatever - likely some heart-attack dudebro cooking with layers of bacon and cheese, that sounds a lot of fun. I wouldn't be there for the doritos and oreos.
No : stop obeying your moms, called Kraft Foods, Pepsi, Coca etc.
If enough people do that, then the co-pay on your healthcare could be eliminated, for example (in theory).
This is not so much a study about basic physiology, I see it more as a study about demographics (esp. the one on BMJ.com)
Also, common sense is something that can get lost, along with popular culture or folk culture and little know-how like sewing and such.
One example : nowadays, you can find yourself learning how to handwash a few clothes or how to polish shoes for the first time ever in your life, at 30-year-old. Did you know how to polish shoes at 10-year-old in the 60s? Sure, I guess. Now it depends on a "lifestyle choice".
What's the month oranges are most grown? I don't know.
My first thought was that the language (be it Javascript or PHP) is too dynamic or weakly typed and converts a "NULL" string to a NULL type or value. But I tested for that : $a=("NULL" == NULL); and thanksfully that's false.
Interestingly, in PHP the NULL is case insensitive! http://php.net/manual/en/langu...
And guess what : in some countries it might be customary to enter the family name in all caps (in France on written forms at least).
So, even if your parser or data entry doesn't uppercase the string it would be perfectly normal or even expected to have to deal with Jennifer NULL.
Is it possible to know how many Chinese characters exist?, then work out those that are actually worth including.
You could scrub thousands upon thousands of antique texts and include hundreds of new characters in the Unicode definitions, but most of them may be useless (e.g. truly unused in the last 500 years) or even errors.
Are there characters used by maybe 50 people in rural China lurking somewhere? I suppose that instead of trying to solve this once and for all, we might only be able to discover those characters year after year and add them after the fact.
The one that buggers me : almost no desktop PC has bluetooth on-board, so why can't I buy a $10 bluetooth PCI card?
Why were FM tuners for the desktop PC a thing in the 90s but not today? (ok you can order a do-it-all tuner USB dongle instead. From abroad, on ebay)
Cheap ass phones have both, whether you use the features or not.
Why not a USB AM tuner? (It was fun to listen to radio broadcast from the other side of a damn sea, on old hardware - not newer stuff that only receives a handful nearby ones at best)
Why not an ISA slot on the bottom of the motherboard? Now that is getting even harder to justify, but with the "makers" buzzword thing you'd think being able to make your own card would appeal to someone.
Washing machines always have a dozen programs, and it's dealt with by only ever using 40C, color or mixed white/color.
TVs are little computers, even those of the 90s. You "program" them by hitting 1 to get channel 1, volume up button to get the volume up, etc.
By definition, seems everyone is a coder. We can train a rat to turn on/off the lights and say the rat is a coder versed in simple state machines.
I hope you have worked out that part about detecting when someone has dropped a gun, by now.
I used to have the virtual consoles (ctrl-alt-f1 etc.) show as blank, depending on the video driver and the configuration. I even used the console while "blind" on at least one occasion (and could do what I needed such as killing something or restarting Xorg)
That was pretty specific though (specific to Xorg version and Ubuntu/Mint version and the graphics card)
Also, often times the console technically works perfectly but text at 2048x1536 is not fun to read (that's the fun little habit of running at highest resolution possible it has)
The situation of GP was likely salvageable but how to do it ought to not be a desktop user's business.
Still, for quite some time Linux Mint's Release Notes have instructed how to boot with "nomodeset", a common workaround to make the video driver at least work (if only so you can upgrade/downgrade/change it), features be damned.
We would rather do without such problems but there are a handful errata / little things like that, if they can be kept to a very small handful it's not entirely terrible. One other example would be very recent wifi (USB dongle) doesn't work.
If Ubuntu 14.04 or other is a pile of shit for that, then you could say Windows 7 is a pile of shit because after installation it's stuck at 800x600 (or 1024x768 if you're lucky) on some old laptop.
I'm referring to the specific caveat that 32bit UEFI only accepts 32bit bootloaders (and 64bit UEFI only accepts 64bit bootloaders).
The processor now is invariably 64bit (on x86 consumer hardware) but the issue stands.
If some 32bit bootloader that loads a 64bit linux kernel is hacked up, that's okay, job is done. The pressing problem is of early booting. It's the only reason to bring that up.
In fact from what I gather, some people have got 64bit linux (Ubuntu daily build) to run on some 32bit UEFI system, while the 32bit version of the distro doesn't run (perhaps lacks some GPT support). :i386 libraries installed for some apps) 32bit version can be prefered, and it's low RAM / low storage machines here.
Also.. to maximize CPU performance, 64bit version is better. To minimize RAM use and even save a bit of storage (due to no need for
Might be good on the smallest configuration of rented VM you can get - I refrain from saying the cheapest host you can get, since not being blocked by anti-spam will be a concern too.
I'm more and more wary of email, because your free provider can simply read your email, or allow the US government or your national government to read it. Is the metadata sold to the highest bidder too? I don't know.
So, don't get your mail from an internet giant. But then you have to be able to pay for it. For those that would be able to pay, they have to be willing. For those who would be willing, they have to even be aware that paid-for email exists.
What can we do?
A friend has free community email service. They stopped accepting new accounts about 15 years ago.
Also, the internet giant mail provider has replaced their slow Web GUI with an even slower Web GUI. Have some other, cleaner free mail elsewhere too but I don't trust it respecting privacy either. Or perhaps they sell data to the US government, but not to companies.
Email seems old and busted anyway. Should it go the way of the dodo like USENET and FTP did? Where's the free replacement?
This gonna be a rather big issue. Netbooks are the cheapest laptops around again, this time they are ultra-flat. They feature tablet-like hardware (2GB RAM soldered to the motherboard, eMMC) and come with Windows 10 32bit.
An example is Asus with Atom Z3735F
Want a Windows 10 killer? The 32bit bootloader support ought to be there for final or even beta.
I like the text links, you can see what they are and to open them it's click three time, right click and select "open in new tab".
Perhaps there is something specifically wrong with your laptop but what usually happen with them is overheating and most of it is the thermal paste. Cost is negligible (i.e. for $2 you get enough paste to use a couple dozen times), only the CPU heatsink is buried somwhat in the laptop. So, junking such a laptop is like junking a whole bicycle or car where replacing a cheap wire would fix it!
The laptop may be so recent and modern that it severely throttles down instead of turning off like a laptop a couple years older would.
By that measure at least 95% of software is unsupported.
I really don't understand your rant, Ubuntu (and Mint) is where there is the most software and hardware support, and the five years of updates is nothing to sneeze at either. It always was a version of debian with more software in the repos and a bit more chance of working drivers, so we can use it whether or not we have to care about your "official vision" and official graphical how-to for noobs, which are probably irrelevant : noobs won't be able to find those how-to anyway.