As everyone who played Dune 2 knows, you can send a single infantry guy against a mobile rocket launcher and the rocket launcher vehicle will hopelessly fire rockets than land damn anywhere at their minimum range ; meanwhile the infantry guy slowly fires bullet after bullet until the vehicle is set on fire. It's dangerous still : the enemy supreme commander may order the rocket vehicle to move a bit, which crushes the infantry guy.
Clinton is the one with actual WWIII-starting credentials. Her legacy is the destruction of Libya, the rise of ISIS and the flight of many million people. She's right in Bush's steps already for the militarism, and in Obama's step for pandering to high finance / Wall Street interests. So as someone not residing in the US, seeing Hillary R. Clinton be elected (I almost wrote re-elected) would be a big enough (on-going) disaster that I hope you Americans have "fun" and choose the other guy instead. Hell, I would rather have an idiot that infuriates everyone on the world stage than an affably evil presidentess that's all well-spoken and presentable. The hairball guy might be less likely to start WW III as a result. And if the US gets a tiny little bit isolationist, the better. The trans-atlantic "partnership" or whatever it's called this month needs to fail, thanks.
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The other day I was thinking about how it would be awesome to get some new adventure games in the vein of Full Throttle, and that much of what we do on the web seems more demanding already (e.g. youtube). Having such a game web-based would be great, since you don't even have to worry whether this is a game for Windows, Linux, Android, console or other. Just run it from anywhere!
Getting people to pay for the content is what I think would be the hard part, especially if you'd want the game to be able to run off-line. Yet another god damn account? But at least, nearly every one with a computer should have a compatible browser.
Mid-90s were so nice, every one had DOS, VGA and Sound Blaster (or things directly compatible with them), I can't help but think things were easier lol.
I'd think javascript is fast enough for quite many a thing, but I only have to launch some simple Space Invaders clone or similar and here is it, it stutters every couple seconds. So e.g. a javascript mp3 decoder works fine, but something that looks like a primitive Windows 3.1 action game fails, although perhaps the game wasn't properly written.
2) Javascript does not support threads. This is one stated future goal for webassembly. This is useful when you want some work to happen in the background (again, procedural content generation).
Great, with that or other performance improvements maybe a smooth Space Invaders clone will be possible (ignoring WebGL there, as you need recent enough graphics hardware and assorted driver for it to run). I'm concerned about 100% or nearly 100% CPU use on all cores : many PC will overheat and shut down (even mine needs the CPU's thermal paste changed again, which is all there is to it really). The browser may need a setting, not buried down in about:config, for the max amount of hardware threads it's allowed to use or some way for it to not use over e.g. 75% of the whole CPU. Perhaps it shouldn't be your own concern if you're developing serious browser games, but if this ends up happening all over the regular web I can see it creeping up as a common issue.
I did have a few technical problems to browse at -1 : - on a mobile browser, the slider didn't appear to work, or I was failing to "drag" it with the touch screen. (I could have logged in instead but was not willing to) - on limited / special browsers especially those with no javascript whatsoever, it's hard to do set browsing at -1. - on same browsers, it may be hard or seemingly impossible to log in so as to benefit from the "-1" setting. (e.g. I don't really know how to log in from Dillo 3.0.3) - I was told about enabling the classic discussion system in account preferences but I don't want to toggle it on and off constantly. I'm thinking about creating a dummy account just for that and/or the -1 setting when reading from some mobile browser though I would rather not bother.
The only issue with Pocket is that I don't know what it does. "Saving a web page" to the cloud : is it a bookmark, or is it archiving that works the same as "File / Save"? What is saved exactly? Can I save a big bunch of pages on a desktop to take them offline on a smartphone/tablet?
I won't sign up for an account with who-know-are-these-guys to find out.
To be fair most laptop have quite some CPU grunt, the latest trend (with Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake) is you can get a fast 15-watt CPU in that laptop and when I say fast, I mean it (well it's enough to murder my older desktop).
People that are none the wiser may find that quite powerful for video and photo editing needs. I/O has historically been rather crap on a laptop but with an internal SSD and USB 3.x for HDD it's not quite as bad.
That said I wanted to defend desktops and there are reasons to use them whether or not you need high performance.
Because with the default configuration the web interface is available only from localhost I think, not the LAN. So I thought it woud be fun to ssh in and do it from the terminal, although I had other options. As for a browser for daily use (any uses) a buddy asked me what to do. My opinion was that a "lightweight browser" that is full-featured still (such as Midori or other) can't be an answer anymore, because the web itself is monstrously bloated. I left it at that, and he went with NoScript:)
Meanwhile Turkey is using artillery againt Syrian territory despite being uninvited to do so. Nothing makes fucking sense in that war. Anyway the war was started by the US five years ago, against an ally of Russia.
I did use elinks, I even found a good use for it : set up CUPS on a remote host (accessing the web interface from localhost). Some routers can be accessed but not all
There is SSL support (or let's say, some HTTPS support), some CSS support. Best of all the browser is actively developed, changelog for the upcoming/unreleased version has the kinds of improvements you wish for (well I don't know what CSS guessing is, but they mention things that have to do with 'width' and CSS)
If a few hundred people are to spend trillions (which they're entitled to.. how?) to go live on Mars while the masses starve, why can't they do that on Earth? North Korea shows how it can be done. Allow a very low standard of living to 99% of the population (i.e. no heating in the winter, no transportation, rice and eggs considered as fine foods), and a decent standard of living to 0.1% of the population. Use your space tech to threaten your neighbors with nuclear attacks.
If that requires you to run death camps, that's horrible, but running to Mars with your stolen trillions kind of sucks too.
I realized that my writing wasn't really an answer to something in particular you said, but it was sent and I otherwise stand by my rant.
humble bundle games
Time-limited sales that have ended by the time you heard of it. That's too weird for me (or perhaps they are torrented around, that would explain slashdot users that say "But you can run Game X from humble bundle")
Dillo is the crazy stupid fast browser, it's fast like running Lynx but is a real graphical browser. The biggest downside is you can't log in to anything, though that used to be possible a decade ago. (I wish the middle click scrolling worked more like firefox too)
Funnily Slashdot is the site that needs javascript the most out there in my experience. Most pages even dreadful ones are read top to bottom,/. need that javascript/ajax thing to load threaded comments else it's a pain.
I will be waiting for Windows 11 then. Vista/7 lost the ability to run DOS fullscreen, and DOS graphics (there are a few text mode DOS games, those will run)
So Windows is bad because of a monopolistic store, but Linux games are good because of a monopolistic store?(Steam)
I think Steam is a mild impediment, though it otherwise allowed linux gaming on its own. With security and privacy scandals happening daily or weekly, I'm wary of having to run a single platform that reports by the second what you're playing and when you're playing to the mothership, a US company, and it's unescapable and under your real identity. The thing is that it will go on for decades, too. We decry it when it's Windows 10, but Valve gets a free pass because they made a good game in the late 90s. It's as if you took note of every book and newspaper you read, how many pages you read and and the end of every single day you report it all to the government.
Under Windows you can run games outside that behemoth. Perhaps only some classic games or cracked games, but the option is there and that represents many thousand games. I hope we'll one day get some sort of software GPU (can use OpenCL/Cuda etc.) that runs under Virtualbox or KVM etc. with driver for Windows 98, XP, XP64 etc., then I'll be able to run some games again.
Most streamed video and much torrented video is worse quality than DVD. And don't forget about the sound quality either.
Also, use some random Pentium 3 desktop to play that DVD (or a damn Bluray player). W00t, progressive scan! Upscaling to HD! omgbbq. That said I hardly ever see DVDs but it's a fine format for legally acquired media.
I remember a somewhat similar question : why don't we do 5nm semi-conductors right now instead of wasting time with 28nm, 22nm, 14nm etc.?
Well I'm not sure what the answer is but I would say it is too hard, or even impossible. Even with $10 billion cash in hand, it's going to take many years to build that 5nm fab. Going from lab experiment to mass production of a "super battery" seems easier in comparison but will still take time, a ballpark figure given for industrialization of something is 5 years. Perhaps many of the battery breakthroughs end up impractical because of some detail, or because someone's not betting $100 million on it, or because more classical batteries improve a bit or drop in price in the mean time.
Where's bubble memory? It was once thought to be the greatest computer memory ever. Which "super battery" or "ultra cheap battery" to bet on? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... In all cases you can't expect commercial availability 1.5 year after some university paper.
But where to plug that electric car? The town has electricity, but I've not seen outlets for each and every space in underground parking lots yet. (not in US) It's those sorts of things where the car is only $20,000, that's nice. Oops, forgot to tell you, if you want to actually use it you'll need that $400,000 house, so that your can park your car inside your own property (or even in the house itself) and use your own charger. Cost of car + house : $420,000.
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As everyone who played Dune 2 knows, you can send a single infantry guy against a mobile rocket launcher and the rocket launcher vehicle will hopelessly fire rockets than land damn anywhere at their minimum range ; meanwhile the infantry guy slowly fires bullet after bullet until the vehicle is set on fire. It's dangerous still : the enemy supreme commander may order the rocket vehicle to move a bit, which crushes the infantry guy.
Clinton is the one with actual WWIII-starting credentials. Her legacy is the destruction of Libya, the rise of ISIS and the flight of many million people. She's right in Bush's steps already for the militarism, and in Obama's step for pandering to high finance / Wall Street interests.
So as someone not residing in the US, seeing Hillary R. Clinton be elected (I almost wrote re-elected) would be a big enough (on-going) disaster that I hope you Americans have "fun" and choose the other guy instead. Hell, I would rather have an idiot that infuriates everyone on the world stage than an affably evil presidentess that's all well-spoken and presentable. The hairball guy might be less likely to start WW III as a result.
And if the US gets a tiny little bit isolationist, the better. The trans-atlantic "partnership" or whatever it's called this month needs to fail, thanks.
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The other day I was thinking about how it would be awesome to get some new adventure games in the vein of Full Throttle, and that much of what we do on the web seems more demanding already (e.g. youtube).
Having such a game web-based would be great, since you don't even have to worry whether this is a game for Windows, Linux, Android, console or other. Just run it from anywhere!
Getting people to pay for the content is what I think would be the hard part, especially if you'd want the game to be able to run off-line.
Yet another god damn account?
But at least, nearly every one with a computer should have a compatible browser.
Mid-90s were so nice, every one had DOS, VGA and Sound Blaster (or things directly compatible with them), I can't help but think things were easier lol.
I'd think javascript is fast enough for quite many a thing, but I only have to launch some simple Space Invaders clone or similar and here is it, it stutters every couple seconds. So e.g. a javascript mp3 decoder works fine, but something that looks like a primitive Windows 3.1 action game fails, although perhaps the game wasn't properly written.
2) Javascript does not support threads. This is one stated future goal for webassembly. This is useful when you want some work to happen in the background (again, procedural content generation).
Great, with that or other performance improvements maybe a smooth Space Invaders clone will be possible (ignoring WebGL there, as you need recent enough graphics hardware and assorted driver for it to run).
I'm concerned about 100% or nearly 100% CPU use on all cores : many PC will overheat and shut down (even mine needs the CPU's thermal paste changed again, which is all there is to it really). The browser may need a setting, not buried down in about:config, for the max amount of hardware threads it's allowed to use or some way for it to not use over e.g. 75% of the whole CPU.
Perhaps it shouldn't be your own concern if you're developing serious browser games, but if this ends up happening all over the regular web I can see it creeping up as a common issue.
I did have a few technical problems to browse at -1 :
- on a mobile browser, the slider didn't appear to work, or I was failing to "drag" it with the touch screen. (I could have logged in instead but was not willing to)
- on limited / special browsers especially those with no javascript whatsoever, it's hard to do set browsing at -1.
- on same browsers, it may be hard or seemingly impossible to log in so as to benefit from the "-1" setting. (e.g. I don't really know how to log in from Dillo 3.0.3)
- I was told about enabling the classic discussion system in account preferences but I don't want to toggle it on and off constantly. I'm thinking about creating a dummy account just for that and/or the -1 setting when reading from some mobile browser though I would rather not bother.
The only issue with Pocket is that I don't know what it does. "Saving a web page" to the cloud : is it a bookmark, or is it archiving that works the same as "File / Save"? What is saved exactly? Can I save a big bunch of pages on a desktop to take them offline on a smartphone/tablet?
I won't sign up for an account with who-know-are-these-guys to find out.
To be fair most laptop have quite some CPU grunt, the latest trend (with Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake) is you can get a fast 15-watt CPU in that laptop and when I say fast, I mean it (well it's enough to murder my older desktop).
People that are none the wiser may find that quite powerful for video and photo editing needs.
I/O has historically been rather crap on a laptop but with an internal SSD and USB 3.x for HDD it's not quite as bad.
That said I wanted to defend desktops and there are reasons to use them whether or not you need high performance.
Because with the default configuration the web interface is available only from localhost I think, not the LAN. So I thought it woud be fun to ssh in and do it from the terminal, although I had other options. :)
As for a browser for daily use (any uses) a buddy asked me what to do. My opinion was that a "lightweight browser" that is full-featured still (such as Midori or other) can't be an answer anymore, because the web itself is monstrously bloated. I left it at that, and he went with NoScript
Meanwhile Turkey is using artillery againt Syrian territory despite being uninvited to do so.
Nothing makes fucking sense in that war. Anyway the war was started by the US five years ago, against an ally of Russia.
I did use elinks, I even found a good use for it : set up CUPS on a remote host (accessing the web interface from localhost).
Some routers can be accessed but not all
Or why not a NUC on the go.
There is SSL support (or let's say, some HTTPS support), some CSS support.
Best of all the browser is actively developed, changelog for the upcoming/unreleased version has the kinds of improvements you wish for (well I don't know what CSS guessing is, but they mention things that have to do with 'width' and CSS)
If a few hundred people are to spend trillions (which they're entitled to.. how?) to go live on Mars while the masses starve, why can't they do that on Earth?
North Korea shows how it can be done. Allow a very low standard of living to 99% of the population (i.e. no heating in the winter, no transportation, rice and eggs considered as fine foods), and a decent standard of living to 0.1% of the population. Use your space tech to threaten your neighbors with nuclear attacks.
If that requires you to run death camps, that's horrible, but running to Mars with your stolen trillions kind of sucks too.
I realized that my writing wasn't really an answer to something in particular you said, but it was sent and I otherwise stand by my rant.
humble bundle games
Time-limited sales that have ended by the time you heard of it. That's too weird for me (or perhaps they are torrented around, that would explain slashdot users that say "But you can run Game X from humble bundle")
Dillo is the crazy stupid fast browser, it's fast like running Lynx but is a real graphical browser.
The biggest downside is you can't log in to anything, though that used to be possible a decade ago. (I wish the middle click scrolling worked more like firefox too)
Funnily Slashdot is the site that needs javascript the most out there in my experience. Most pages even dreadful ones are read top to bottom, /. need that javascript/ajax thing to load threaded comments else it's a pain.
I will be waiting for Windows 11 then.
Vista/7 lost the ability to run DOS fullscreen, and DOS graphics (there are a few text mode DOS games, those will run)
So Windows is bad because of a monopolistic store, but Linux games are good because of a monopolistic store?(Steam)
I think Steam is a mild impediment, though it otherwise allowed linux gaming on its own.
With security and privacy scandals happening daily or weekly, I'm wary of having to run a single platform that reports by the second what you're playing and when you're playing to the mothership, a US company, and it's unescapable and under your real identity. The thing is that it will go on for decades, too. We decry it when it's Windows 10, but Valve gets a free pass because they made a good game in the late 90s. It's as if you took note of every book and newspaper you read, how many pages you read and and the end of every single day you report it all to the government.
Under Windows you can run games outside that behemoth. Perhaps only some classic games or cracked games, but the option is there and that represents many thousand games.
I hope we'll one day get some sort of software GPU (can use OpenCL/Cuda etc.) that runs under Virtualbox or KVM etc. with driver for Windows 98, XP, XP64 etc., then I'll be able to run some games again.
The US regime fell 8 years ago and was replaced with a new constitution? I didn't know that.
Mmm, yes?, Obama is responsible for attacking Libya?
And also Syria for that matter. I don't see why can't both Obama and Bush be the bad guy.
Most streamed video and much torrented video is worse quality than DVD. And don't forget about the sound quality either.
Also, use some random Pentium 3 desktop to play that DVD (or a damn Bluray player). W00t, progressive scan! Upscaling to HD! omgbbq.
That said I hardly ever see DVDs but it's a fine format for legally acquired media.
Our machines are faster but not 2^64 faster
I remember a somewhat similar question : why don't we do 5nm semi-conductors right now instead of wasting time with 28nm, 22nm, 14nm etc.?
Well I'm not sure what the answer is but I would say it is too hard, or even impossible.
Even with $10 billion cash in hand, it's going to take many years to build that 5nm fab.
Going from lab experiment to mass production of a "super battery" seems easier in comparison but will still take time, a ballpark figure given for industrialization of something is 5 years. Perhaps many of the battery breakthroughs end up impractical because of some detail, or because someone's not betting $100 million on it, or because more classical batteries improve a bit or drop in price in the mean time.
Where's bubble memory? It was once thought to be the greatest computer memory ever. Which "super battery" or "ultra cheap battery" to bet on?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In all cases you can't expect commercial availability 1.5 year after some university paper.
But where to plug that electric car? The town has electricity, but I've not seen outlets for each and every space in underground parking lots yet. (not in US)
It's those sorts of things where the car is only $20,000, that's nice. Oops, forgot to tell you, if you want to actually use it you'll need that $400,000 house, so that your can park your car inside your own property (or even in the house itself) and use your own charger.
Cost of car + house : $420,000.
I sort of expected your horror story ending with you coming home and finding all fish dead, I am glad it was not the case lol.
Bad batches of SD cards are a possibility, cheap flash is not the most reliable tech on Earth indeed.