If YOU got a raise, would you blow the money on cocaine and hookers? Afterall if you had more and stable recurring money you would be free to spend more money on cocaine (or other), leading to more crime and death.
Well that's a bit nuts. By replacing welfare with neverending free money though, you end the requirement of being a "welfare person" and the poor may be likely to spend more money at the laundry machine or on haircuts, say.
North Korea was in negociations in the 90s to stall their nuclear program, although they didn't seem very trustworthy or their regime defendable at all. Then George W. Bush threatened them with war and the North Koreans resumed their program and made their fucking bomb. What a dumbfuck. I'm referring to the mere "axis of evil" speech which is quite an indirect war threat but North Korea responds very differently to war threats than Iran does.
The laptop stuff from MSI, Gigabyte etc. looks (at least looks) good. They are motherboard vendors, and graphics card vendors too so I trust them more than HP/Dell/Packard Bell etc. at making hardware, and it's not littered with stickers.
Well 25 years ago you might have run some ultraportable with a variant of MS-DOS in ROM and a five year old home computer that doesn't run an OS at all, with the option of running CP/M.
Only in the 90s the DOS/Windows computer with hard drive became the almost universal standard so everyone could read the same floppies and you could upgrade or change OS.
The computer itself may introduce some English, even if it's just begin, end, start, stop, run, open file, close file, edit, quit, save (or continue, game over, score, high scores)
If you're using e.g. a program that combines an editor and BASIC interpreter you can learn both at the same time. Think of 8/16bit home computers and game consoles : most everything was in English world-wide, although there were many other major languages like Spanish, French, Deutsch etc.
When watching people talking in a studio and not sitting at the desk either even lower than SD video may be fine! And one hour viewing time is obviously faster than four hours download + one hour viewing.
In fact the most common problem is multi-generational audio encoding and audio bitrate too low, sometimes combined with upstream audio capture and editing/encoding garbage when not done by real professionals. In many cases there's high quality video (meaning SD or 720p) and cell phone quality audio. I would rather have good enough 288p or 360p and 192K to 256K audio (almost CD quality). Let me select the best audio and the lowest or second lowest video! In the 90s we all watched analog TV or listed to FM radio and the sound was always good. If you like 1080p video and compression artifacts in people's voices (even 128K AAC is not good enough) recorded with an insufficient microphone, good for you. If you want everyone to waste time and money on that, no to mention having to quit current housing to get better internet, get lost!
"2b) Digital books can be "higlighted", notes taken, etc"
It's even easier with a handwritten lesson the pupil was forced to write. Are you going to edit the pdf, html or epub (or docbook or latex)?, add some overlaid text or images that are stored separately?, there's a thousand way to do it and that's a problem. Data can be lost.
"2c) Digital books are more sanitary, as print books might be harboring infectious diseases."
That's only a concern for a subset of disabled children, in which case they need universal healthcare and hospital or home schooling.
Yes preloading exists, I remember it on Steam some many years ago.
Longer ago still, I remember playing games from a 10Mbps Windows file share, and we had fun. Software obsolescence and internet/computer security ruined gaming for me, it was fun when we all ran 98 and XP.
Who is going to watch bluray movies sitting at the desk? There's no point and a DVD movie is even on the higher end of quality of video watched on PC, even though the resolution is lowish. If you're going to watch a movie displayed on a 21.5" inch monitor from a couch, internet HD video is somewhat worse than DVD. 90% of people that choose to put an optical drive on a new PC spec out a DVD drive, because it's $20. With bluray what are you going to do, burn data discs that no one else can read?
Besides that it makes no sense that games are not on bluray.
It's a by-product of making plutonium for nuclear weapons, so it's probable they have some even if just enough for a couple high profile space missions. No idea about their program but they did set off plutonium bombs in 1998 (one thermonuclear) so they might have made some in the 90s or 00s.
I think they tap energy from an unsuspecting universe and it is depleted when said universe is destroyed. As for the Star Gates themselves, I'm not sure if people that go through it survive or they die every single time. Then most plots revolve around committing genocide against entire species (genocidal but woken up/unleashed/discovered by the humans)
See the worst racing game ever too, examplifying problems with the console. It has horrifying controls/physics and collision detection, so that was a game rushed out or with no attention to quality. That's a tech demo not a game - though there is nifty car painting and so on. It's slow. Looking like everything done on CPU and sent to a dumb framebuffer. Feels like a 486 DX/2 66 and a dumb graphics card. The whole competition had custom graphics hardware of course. Maybe with a faster CPU (with on-board L2 cache!) and in competent hands that would have worked somewhat. The dumbest thing is the Philips CDI had already shown how well an overpriced "multimedia CD-ROM" console fared on the market:).
I believe a low end console could work, with two controllers shipped in the box - maximize value for the customer. Two major launch titles (I don't know, something in the Contra, Castlevania series, Street Fighter, whatever?) Perhaps an 8cm bluray drive (without licensing/codecs) and physical presence in the stores of games sold in small boxes. Graphics API, use Vulkan. I would like to say, fuck networking : the best consoles did not have a network interface (the Dreamcast had a dial-up modem that never got used except perhaps for some rich kids). But well. What happened to insert disc, turn console on, play? Is that asking too much?
I don't doubt many people will use it for streaming movies or TV content, or just Itunes music but it gets silly how many devices are made to do such a job. Imagine you're running a smart TV with a {DSL box or cable box}, a game console and perhaps a bluray player : you have four computer devices that claim you want to use them to stream stuff with! Or play media from your own hard drive or network.
Had the same happen in the early 00s. Epson Stylus Color 600 I believe, or was it the replacement (C52) bought because the heads in the first one were clogged. Mom rushed out to buy a 42 euro black cartridge because we had one page of "very important" print to do, but the printer actually wouldn't print because of lack of yellow. In retrospect I wished we had sued Epson for fraud. Some high-level executives should be jailed for this, though getting a refund would have been fine.
Bonus point if you lose the position in an article or in a very long page, or worse if you're losing the portion of "infinite comments" that you loaded piecemeal for several minutes, and loud autoplaying video starts playing again. It's making me laugh currently.
If you like stuff hanging out, sure. IMO it makes more sense to put the new 2000GB disk in the console and have the original, less precious 500GB one as external. That may a be a small detail though.
By now I believe even non technical people are realizing the phones are computers. Some PC computers became very tabletish (the ultrathin with rotating stand and keyboard, the outright tablets) and the phones computer-like, even the old and bad ones : it gets common to use external speakers on them, and perhaps known by some people that you can use an external monitor (usually TV).
But what I want to point out is they're becoming somewhat mature, and the specs are plateauing (display res maxed out, need to wait 3 years between semiconductor process shrinks). Smartphone life will probably increase : there was a time were desktop PC were worthless after two years, but that climbed to three, five and easily ten years or even more if you know what you're doing. (Funnily you kept a 8/16 bit home computer or an XT longer than a mid 90s PC, as you at least had any kind of computer at all. Similar to keeping a dumbphone or feature phone for five years) Android 5.1.x is perhaps a decent OS, Google even weakly hinted at support for third-world mobile phones (promised upgrade to Android 6.0, but maybe that doesn't mean much if that's a version around the corner). iOS has the better "long term" hardware support. There are less excuses to drop support, because hardware used to become actually obsolete (128MB or 256MB RAM or less, tiny flash, OpenGL ES 1.x). Now 1GB is slowly becoming the minimum, etc. Even Windows 10 supports 1GB RAM, although that was a low amount to run Vista or 7.
Carbon per $ GDP isn't everything, if country with $10 trillion GDP has three times the efficiency of country with $10 billion GDP, the former still is putting out over 300 times the amount of the latter. Also the GDP metric is muddied : former country likely has a lot of janitors, cooks, waiters etc. so that a lot of everyday tasks get in the GDP whereas the latter one has black market / undeclared work and people sewing their own clothes, making toys for their own children etc., not in GDP.
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If YOU got a raise, would you blow the money on cocaine and hookers?
Afterall if you had more and stable recurring money you would be free to spend more money on cocaine (or other), leading to more crime and death.
Well that's a bit nuts.
By replacing welfare with neverending free money though, you end the requirement of being a "welfare person" and the poor may be likely to spend more money at the laundry machine or on haircuts, say.
North Korea was in negociations in the 90s to stall their nuclear program, although they didn't seem very trustworthy or their regime defendable at all. Then George W. Bush threatened them with war and the North Koreans resumed their program and made their fucking bomb. What a dumbfuck.
I'm referring to the mere "axis of evil" speech which is quite an indirect war threat but North Korea responds very differently to war threats than Iran does.
The laptop stuff from MSI, Gigabyte etc. looks (at least looks) good. They are motherboard vendors, and graphics card vendors too so I trust them more than HP/Dell/Packard Bell etc. at making hardware, and it's not littered with stickers.
Well 25 years ago you might have run some ultraportable with a variant of MS-DOS in ROM and a five year old home computer that doesn't run an OS at all, with the option of running CP/M.
Only in the 90s the DOS/Windows computer with hard drive became the almost universal standard so everyone could read the same floppies and you could upgrade or change OS.
Chrome itself is a Potentially Unwanted Program.
The computer itself may introduce some English, even if it's just begin, end, start, stop, run, open file, close file, edit, quit, save (or continue, game over, score, high scores)
If you're using e.g. a program that combines an editor and BASIC interpreter you can learn both at the same time. Think of 8/16bit home computers and game consoles : most everything was in English world-wide, although there were many other major languages like Spanish, French, Deutsch etc.
By hitting keys on a physical or virtual keyboard?
Here in the first world, homeless people may shit between two cars but they have debit cards and cell phones.
When watching people talking in a studio and not sitting at the desk either even lower than SD video may be fine! And one hour viewing time is obviously faster than four hours download + one hour viewing.
In fact the most common problem is multi-generational audio encoding and audio bitrate too low, sometimes combined with upstream audio capture and editing/encoding garbage when not done by real professionals. In many cases there's high quality video (meaning SD or 720p) and cell phone quality audio. I would rather have good enough 288p or 360p and 192K to 256K audio (almost CD quality). Let me select the best audio and the lowest or second lowest video!
In the 90s we all watched analog TV or listed to FM radio and the sound was always good. If you like 1080p video and compression artifacts in people's voices (even 128K AAC is not good enough) recorded with an insufficient microphone, good for you. If you want everyone to waste time and money on that, no to mention having to quit current housing to get better internet, get lost!
I would have given you a B, but your grade will be C- because of that character font!
I didn't know that meaning, it would sure be nice. There are places you are lucky if you get an appartment with windows on both sides.
"2b) Digital books can be "higlighted", notes taken, etc"
It's even easier with a handwritten lesson the pupil was forced to write.
Are you going to edit the pdf, html or epub (or docbook or latex)?, add some overlaid text or images that are stored separately?, there's a thousand way to do it and that's a problem. Data can be lost.
"2c) Digital books are more sanitary, as print books might be harboring infectious diseases."
That's only a concern for a subset of disabled children, in which case they need universal healthcare and hospital or home schooling.
Yes preloading exists, I remember it on Steam some many years ago.
Longer ago still, I remember playing games from a 10Mbps Windows file share, and we had fun.
Software obsolescence and internet/computer security ruined gaming for me, it was fun when we all ran 98 and XP.
Who is going to watch bluray movies sitting at the desk? There's no point and a DVD movie is even on the higher end of quality of video watched on PC, even though the resolution is lowish. If you're going to watch a movie displayed on a 21.5" inch monitor from a couch, internet HD video is somewhat worse than DVD.
90% of people that choose to put an optical drive on a new PC spec out a DVD drive, because it's $20. With bluray what are you going to do, burn data discs that no one else can read?
Besides that it makes no sense that games are not on bluray.
It's a by-product of making plutonium for nuclear weapons, so it's probable they have some even if just enough for a couple high profile space missions.
No idea about their program but they did set off plutonium bombs in 1998 (one thermonuclear) so they might have made some in the 90s or 00s.
I think they tap energy from an unsuspecting universe and it is depleted when said universe is destroyed.
As for the Star Gates themselves, I'm not sure if people that go through it survive or they die every single time. Then most plots revolve around committing genocide against entire species (genocidal but woken up/unleashed/discovered by the humans)
See the worst racing game ever too, examplifying problems with the console. It has horrifying controls/physics and collision detection, so that was a game rushed out or with no attention to quality. That's a tech demo not a game - though there is nifty car painting and so on. :).
It's slow. Looking like everything done on CPU and sent to a dumb framebuffer. Feels like a 486 DX/2 66 and a dumb graphics card. The whole competition had custom graphics hardware of course. Maybe with a faster CPU (with on-board L2 cache!) and in competent hands that would have worked somewhat.
The dumbest thing is the Philips CDI had already shown how well an overpriced "multimedia CD-ROM" console fared on the market
I believe a low end console could work, with two controllers shipped in the box - maximize value for the customer. Two major launch titles (I don't know, something in the Contra, Castlevania series, Street Fighter, whatever?)
Perhaps an 8cm bluray drive (without licensing/codecs) and physical presence in the stores of games sold in small boxes. Graphics API, use Vulkan.
I would like to say, fuck networking : the best consoles did not have a network interface (the Dreamcast had a dial-up modem that never got used except perhaps for some rich kids). But well.
What happened to insert disc, turn console on, play? Is that asking too much?
I don't doubt many people will use it for streaming movies or TV content, or just Itunes music but it gets silly how many devices are made to do such a job. Imagine you're running a smart TV with a {DSL box or cable box}, a game console and perhaps a bluray player : you have four computer devices that claim you want to use them to stream stuff with!
Or play media from your own hard drive or network.
If you "couldn't care less" about something, why would you even write about it?
Had the same happen in the early 00s. Epson Stylus Color 600 I believe, or was it the replacement (C52) bought because the heads in the first one were clogged.
Mom rushed out to buy a 42 euro black cartridge because we had one page of "very important" print to do, but the printer actually wouldn't print because of lack of yellow. In retrospect I wished we had sued Epson for fraud. Some high-level executives should be jailed for this, though getting a refund would have been fine.
Bonus point if you lose the position in an article or in a very long page, or worse if you're losing the portion of "infinite comments" that you loaded piecemeal for several minutes, and loud autoplaying video starts playing again. It's making me laugh currently.
I bet there a good market for DVRs (or components like tuner cards) and cybercafés there
If you like stuff hanging out, sure. IMO it makes more sense to put the new 2000GB disk in the console and have the original, less precious 500GB one as external. That may a be a small detail though.
By now I believe even non technical people are realizing the phones are computers. Some PC computers became very tabletish (the ultrathin with rotating stand and keyboard, the outright tablets) and the phones computer-like, even the old and bad ones : it gets common to use external speakers on them, and perhaps known by some people that you can use an external monitor (usually TV).
But what I want to point out is they're becoming somewhat mature, and the specs are plateauing (display res maxed out, need to wait 3 years between semiconductor process shrinks). Smartphone life will probably increase : there was a time were desktop PC were worthless after two years, but that climbed to three, five and easily ten years or even more if you know what you're doing.
(Funnily you kept a 8/16 bit home computer or an XT longer than a mid 90s PC, as you at least had any kind of computer at all. Similar to keeping a dumbphone or feature phone for five years)
Android 5.1.x is perhaps a decent OS, Google even weakly hinted at support for third-world mobile phones (promised upgrade to Android 6.0, but maybe that doesn't mean much if that's a version around the corner).
iOS has the better "long term" hardware support.
There are less excuses to drop support, because hardware used to become actually obsolete (128MB or 256MB RAM or less, tiny flash, OpenGL ES 1.x). Now 1GB is slowly becoming the minimum, etc. Even Windows 10 supports 1GB RAM, although that was a low amount to run Vista or 7.
Carbon per $ GDP isn't everything, if country with $10 trillion GDP has three times the efficiency of country with $10 billion GDP, the former still is putting out over 300 times the amount of the latter.
Also the GDP metric is muddied : former country likely has a lot of janitors, cooks, waiters etc. so that a lot of everyday tasks get in the GDP whereas the latter one has black market / undeclared work and people sewing their own clothes, making toys for their own children etc., not in GDP.