How would it work? Yahoo is just a default search setting (if it's like yahoo when you sometimes see it as default in firefox), Ask.com I believe that's malware that hijacks the search setting no matter if you try to change it back. In layperson's words we might as well call it a virus or in old fashioned computer speak, a trojan.
The Ask.com trojan would run and set "Ask" as the search provider, thus pushing Yahoo search out of the way. It would be a rather lousy deal for Yahoo.
I believe it's Seagate that owns Samsung's HDD storage. There's also Toshiba, only doing 3.5" drives I believe, under some arrangement I don't remember exactly. So "two and a half" makers.
I wanted to use it so I can have a shell and grep, less, tail etc. (nothing fancy just desktop use) but I was dismayed that the Windows 7 pro I had installed did not have it. I could have gone over and reinstalled a warez Windows enterprise or ultimate but I did not bother, and switched to full-time linux instead. Well done Microsoft.
At least if you do it you're pampered and it's safe, unless you act out (say run to one particular statue and piss on it, or grope a female soldier)
I wouldn't want to travel to Myanmar, Yemen or Erythrea. I don't know if these places are better for their inhabitants but I also don't know exactly what kind of shit I would be risking going there. In comparison going to North Korea sounds like attending religious service as a gay atheist, or visiting a mosque.
Not sure how well BIOS emulation under UEFI is working, but if it does it should be very easy to run DOS. Requirements aren't big ; even USB storage can be used seamlessly if it was present as boot, as well as USB keyboard. To be on the safe side, use an USB stick, SD card, HDD or SSD that's less than 2 TiB. Using iPXE, you can even boot from an iSCSI volume and use that. Have a motherboard with on-board COM and LPT (one COM or one LPT are exceedingly common, one COM + one LPT common enough, two COM + LPT may be found in some consumer hardware) : they're wired to a legacy bus, ISA compatible.
Doom 3 was modable but creating maps was too complex and time consuming. With AAA games you tend to need AAA artists doing an AAA amount of work to create levels that look remotely on the level of the original ones. In a decade the tools must have gotten much better but the issue remains. So, they must have made some simplified map creation tool where you paste pre-configured, tweakable rooms together, fill them pseudo-randomly etc.
Try this from France : go to google.us or google.com, and you end up redirected to Google France anyway. So they don't want you to do unlocalized searches, or perhaps you have to dig deeper and learn syntax or go into "advanced research". On duckduckgo they seem to have anticipated I wanted to do that and there's simply a clickable toggle!
"Only" $200 to double the RAM. So, for $825 you get a low end computer. It would be much better to get the 1.4GHz processor and 8GB RAM if you want it to be long lived.. But that's +$100 over the default. +$100 to get +4GB RAM : that's a lot of money for an upgrade. Welcome back to the 90s, when the OEMs pretended only their branded memory would work. But this time it's soldered, on a desktop computer.
What about a room with low power, silent, diskless linux workstations. Each with an Intel or AMD APU (such as 15 watt AMD Carrizo or next-gen Atom, both are SoC on a simplified motherboard). One cheap file server/master server with an SSD, a couple fanless switches. You go there and use the workstations / game stations rather than own, configure and operate your own. Seems the running costs would be rather low. You do need a fiber optics connection to the internet for competitive low latency and concurrent use of upload though.
I doubt you can play an FPS at top level with only a refresh rate of 60Hz. Back in early 00s you played CS at 85 or 100Hz and Quake 3 at 100 or 120Hz (regardless of whether you can hit those framerates consisently, the higher refresh still is useful)
Perhaps a 300 euro desktop will play CS:GO adequately (choose hardware adequately) but a 120Hz or 144Hz is another 300 euros. Back to double the cost of the laptop with Intel integrated graphics.
I'd like to see a word processor that uses forum code (BBCode) Page length should be infinite, or quite a good length by default. There'd be an optional hypertext feature that works as well as Microsoft QBASIC's help (or raw html). Export to epub or html with some easy pretty-printing function (layout, backgrounds) you don't have to care about.
Really, why should every text program always have WYSIWYG on A4 pages with rulers, 40 default buttons and a hundred menus? It's always either that or a raw text editor (vi, gedit etc. etc.) I don't feel like writing anything in Word, Libre Office etc. : they feel like one should be paid to use them.
Universality is a word that often comes back in the article, but this sort of thing is only going to work on a recent Windows PC, or perhaps some high end ($500+) Android cell phones. Not only you're likely requiring a fast CPU, but you need/want a strong enough and recent GPU, with strong drivers. There's tremendous variability in what GPU hardware and drivers people are running, capabilities from Shaders 2.0 to Shaders 5.0 (and some earlier or limited stuff still), not much incentive to add a new $50 graphics card to an eight year old PC. Afterall, web browsing is where you don't really need a GPU, ditto for watching a movie (you don't need a movie to be 10GB 1080p) or listening to music.
Want your GPU to be adequately supported, you need it to be no earlier than about 2011 or 2010 (say Intel Sandy Bridge graphics, Radeon 5450/6450 and geforce GT 4xx/5xx/6xx as a basis) If you use it all the time you might suffer heat/noise or premature death sometimes (old laptops are bad enough with only the CPU heating ; a couple generations and a half of nvidia GPUs suffer from industrial problems - G7x to G9x)
I know, no one will likely put a VR headset on an old PC but web devs who do make VR content for 0.1% of users will perhaps make the same 3D content available for what they'll perceive as the other 99.9%, and that will glitch. In fact if you want to do 3D shit in the browser, why not try software rendering first. At least it can only peg one CPU at 100%, not crash the browser or whole computer. If you can get 90s level graphics running that way, even at 30fps and pixel doubled, then I'll know games or 3D in the browser can be somewhat viable.
I reject even the notion of "sides", because bloggers don't do science. Not all investigations are like "pro side vs anti side" journalistic reporting or a US criminal trial determined by a battle between two lawyers. In many countries there's civil law/roman law for that matter and trials work a fair bit differently. (but may be decided by a jury at the end just as in the US). Rarely, there's investigative journalism i.e. journalists trying to actually find out about things and not just talking head from side A vs talking head from side B. They may show e.g. $corrupt_official saying bullshit but then say such things as "in reality, these were not adult barmaids as they pretended but underage babes from fuckistanavia abducted and brought here by a child prostitution network" and then document the prostitution network. So it's one-sided reporting.
Re 1., Climategate was about scientists correcting bad data from tree samples and they were "caught" after an occult team of hackers stole private email (which is called "computer crime"). Bloggers (or editorialists) say as they please though : 10/15 years ago they were saying "it's volcanoes", which was childish bullshit, then they accused scientists of using uncorrected data (urban heat islands), then they accused them of using corrected data. They can say anything and parrot and quote each other and don't face consequences, whereas scientists do have their jobs on the line, for sure.. but their first problem is that if they're caught doing fraud or a really half-assed job then they lose their whole carreer. Re 3. funding is anonymized and distributed by financial engineering. kind of like rich corporations and individuals funnel billions in the same places drug lords do.
Yet the trolls used to say that scientists fail to correct data for urban island effect. Don't forget who is incompetent or who is funded to instill anti-science propaganda. You shouldn't have to be ashamed to support real science.
Worse, they might do some WebGL stuff. Depending on your graphics card or driver this causes various levels of lock ups, from browser freeze (complete or in a favorable case corrupt rendering and you can close the page), X11 session freeze that you can kill by ctrl-alt-backspace or ctrl-alt-f1, or X11 server locked up so bad it doesn't take keyboard input anymore and you have to hit the reset button.
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How would it work?
Yahoo is just a default search setting (if it's like yahoo when you sometimes see it as default in firefox), Ask.com I believe that's malware that hijacks the search setting no matter if you try to change it back. In layperson's words we might as well call it a virus or in old fashioned computer speak, a trojan.
The Ask.com trojan would run and set "Ask" as the search provider, thus pushing Yahoo search out of the way. It would be a rather lousy deal for Yahoo.
There's no 75% tax rate and liberals means "right wing" here (including the current government)
A DVD is really 4.7 decimal GB, so a bit over 4.375 real GB. You should know that if you're going all nitpicky on sizes.
One oil change a year would be more realistic.
I believe it's Seagate that owns Samsung's HDD storage.
There's also Toshiba, only doing 3.5" drives I believe, under some arrangement I don't remember exactly. So "two and a half" makers.
I wanted to use it so I can have a shell and grep, less, tail etc. (nothing fancy just desktop use) but I was dismayed that the Windows 7 pro I had installed did not have it. I could have gone over and reinstalled a warez Windows enterprise or ultimate but I did not bother, and switched to full-time linux instead. Well done Microsoft.
At least if you do it you're pampered and it's safe, unless you act out (say run to one particular statue and piss on it, or grope a female soldier)
I wouldn't want to travel to Myanmar, Yemen or Erythrea. I don't know if these places are better for their inhabitants but I also don't know exactly what kind of shit I would be risking going there.
In comparison going to North Korea sounds like attending religious service as a gay atheist, or visiting a mosque.
Not sure how well BIOS emulation under UEFI is working, but if it does it should be very easy to run DOS. Requirements aren't big ; even USB storage can be used seamlessly if it was present as boot, as well as USB keyboard. To be on the safe side, use an USB stick, SD card, HDD or SSD that's less than 2 TiB. Using iPXE, you can even boot from an iSCSI volume and use that.
Have a motherboard with on-board COM and LPT (one COM or one LPT are exceedingly common, one COM + one LPT common enough, two COM + LPT may be found in some consumer hardware) : they're wired to a legacy bus, ISA compatible.
Doom 3 was modable but creating maps was too complex and time consuming. With AAA games you tend to need AAA artists doing an AAA amount of work to create levels that look remotely on the level of the original ones. In a decade the tools must have gotten much better but the issue remains.
So, they must have made some simplified map creation tool where you paste pre-configured, tweakable rooms together, fill them pseudo-randomly etc.
Try this from France : go to google.us or google.com, and you end up redirected to Google France anyway. So they don't want you to do unlocalized searches, or perhaps you have to dig deeper and learn syntax or go into "advanced research".
On duckduckgo they seem to have anticipated I wanted to do that and there's simply a clickable toggle!
"Only" $200 to double the RAM. So, for $825 you get a low end computer. It would be much better to get the 1.4GHz processor and 8GB RAM if you want it to be long lived.. But that's +$100 over the default. +$100 to get +4GB RAM : that's a lot of money for an upgrade. Welcome back to the 90s, when the OEMs pretended only their branded memory would work. But this time it's soldered, on a desktop computer.
What about a room with low power, silent, diskless linux workstations. Each with an Intel or AMD APU (such as 15 watt AMD Carrizo or next-gen Atom, both are SoC on a simplified motherboard). One cheap file server/master server with an SSD, a couple fanless switches. You go there and use the workstations / game stations rather than own, configure and operate your own. Seems the running costs would be rather low. You do need a fiber optics connection to the internet for competitive low latency and concurrent use of upload though.
I doubt you can play an FPS at top level with only a refresh rate of 60Hz. Back in early 00s you played CS at 85 or 100Hz and Quake 3 at 100 or 120Hz (regardless of whether you can hit those framerates consisently, the higher refresh still is useful)
Perhaps a 300 euro desktop will play CS:GO adequately (choose hardware adequately) but a 120Hz or 144Hz is another 300 euros. Back to double the cost of the laptop with Intel integrated graphics.
And it is also the case that a 5-6 year old machine can now be faster or better than a new, low end one.
I installed the Nuke Anything firefox extension specifically to (semi-manually) remove huge bars, though that may take a bit many clicks.
Remove execution permission for the Chrome executables and throw the icon into the garbage bin?
In fact, the Grid K2 has slow double precision as well, and less computing features because it's older.
I'd like to see a word processor that uses forum code (BBCode)
Page length should be infinite, or quite a good length by default.
There'd be an optional hypertext feature that works as well as Microsoft QBASIC's help (or raw html).
Export to epub or html with some easy pretty-printing function (layout, backgrounds) you don't have to care about.
Really, why should every text program always have WYSIWYG on A4 pages with rulers, 40 default buttons and a hundred menus? It's always either that or a raw text editor (vi, gedit etc. etc.)
I don't feel like writing anything in Word, Libre Office etc. : they feel like one should be paid to use them.
Universality is a word that often comes back in the article, but this sort of thing is only going to work on a recent Windows PC, or perhaps some high end ($500+) Android cell phones.
Not only you're likely requiring a fast CPU, but you need/want a strong enough and recent GPU, with strong drivers. There's tremendous variability in what GPU hardware and drivers people are running, capabilities from Shaders 2.0 to Shaders 5.0 (and some earlier or limited stuff still), not much incentive to add a new $50 graphics card to an eight year old PC. Afterall, web browsing is where you don't really need a GPU, ditto for watching a movie (you don't need a movie to be 10GB 1080p) or listening to music.
Want your GPU to be adequately supported, you need it to be no earlier than about 2011 or 2010 (say Intel Sandy Bridge graphics, Radeon 5450/6450 and geforce GT 4xx/5xx/6xx as a basis)
If you use it all the time you might suffer heat/noise or premature death sometimes (old laptops are bad enough with only the CPU heating ; a couple generations and a half of nvidia GPUs suffer from industrial problems - G7x to G9x)
I know, no one will likely put a VR headset on an old PC but web devs who do make VR content for 0.1% of users will perhaps make the same 3D content available for what they'll perceive as the other 99.9%, and that will glitch.
In fact if you want to do 3D shit in the browser, why not try software rendering first. At least it can only peg one CPU at 100%, not crash the browser or whole computer. If you can get 90s level graphics running that way, even at 30fps and pixel doubled, then I'll know games or 3D in the browser can be somewhat viable.
Indeed. It's like a milder form of what you get from dropped audio in digital over-the-air TV. Thanks for identifying the problem.
Try languages in the ML family : it's strong, statical typing with inference. Doesn't let you add ints and floats like in C.
I reject even the notion of "sides", because bloggers don't do science. Not all investigations are like "pro side vs anti side" journalistic reporting or a US criminal trial determined by a battle between two lawyers. In many countries there's civil law/roman law for that matter and trials work a fair bit differently. (but may be decided by a jury at the end just as in the US).
Rarely, there's investigative journalism i.e. journalists trying to actually find out about things and not just talking head from side A vs talking head from side B. They may show e.g. $corrupt_official saying bullshit but then say such things as "in reality, these were not adult barmaids as they pretended but underage babes from fuckistanavia abducted and brought here by a child prostitution network" and then document the prostitution network. So it's one-sided reporting.
Re 1., Climategate was about scientists correcting bad data from tree samples and they were "caught" after an occult team of hackers stole private email (which is called "computer crime"). Bloggers (or editorialists) say as they please though : 10/15 years ago they were saying "it's volcanoes", which was childish bullshit, then they accused scientists of using uncorrected data (urban heat islands), then they accused them of using corrected data. They can say anything and parrot and quote each other and don't face consequences, whereas scientists do have their jobs on the line, for sure.. but their first problem is that if they're caught doing fraud or a really half-assed job then they lose their whole carreer.
Re 3. funding is anonymized and distributed by financial engineering. kind of like rich corporations and individuals funnel billions in the same places drug lords do.
Yet the trolls used to say that scientists fail to correct data for urban island effect.
Don't forget who is incompetent or who is funded to instill anti-science propaganda. You shouldn't have to be ashamed to support real science.
Worse, they might do some WebGL stuff. Depending on your graphics card or driver this causes various levels of lock ups, from browser freeze (complete or in a favorable case corrupt rendering and you can close the page), X11 session freeze that you can kill by ctrl-alt-backspace or ctrl-alt-f1, or X11 server locked up so bad it doesn't take keyboard input anymore and you have to hit the reset button.
That's a requirement since Vista x86-64 edition IIRC, though the part about hypervisor may be newer.