Probably because that i7 with "8 cores" is really a 4 core chip with some sort of obfuscation to make the hyper threaded cores look like real cores.
Even if it ain't true, one has to wonder how long till this kind of BS enters the market? Who would know after all unless you delid your CPU and examine the die under a microscope?
Simple enough - run a multi-threaded test. A hyper threaded core will be at best something like 30% faster than a comparative single threads, while true single threaded cores will run nearly 100% faster.
If a core race starts you can bet someone will turn to this kind of slimy BS.
A core race will probably be the next step since actual Mhz hasn't increased much over the years, I have 3ghz core 2 quad core chips in a small home esxi lab that are probably nearly a decade old today and common desktop chips are still hovering around the 3ghz point these days
But I am also a realist who understands that everyone has to sleep sometime, and any one person is easily outnumbered by any other person who has at least one friend.
That's why god made claymore mines.
Your god is not one I'd like. Have you seen the results of a claymore?
Would you be more likely to trust this criticism if it came from someone who has had nothing good to say about it or from someone who was a major proponent of it? Hopefully you can understand why people might take the comments from the latter person more seriously given no other information.
Well, we have Rick Gates listing off reams of criminal activities involving Ukrainians and Russians. I guess we should blindly believe everything he says?
Here's a hint - I would tend to believe critics that have backing evidence for their statements with higher belief factors applied to those that explicitly quote and/or provide video of said person lying over those attempting to use truth by blatant assertions (That would be 99% of Trump apologists btw) In fact, the skew towards believing critics is as large as it is primarily because of the utter lack of evidence on the Trump side.
If this were not the case you would understand why a source pointing out all of the things that Trump has lied about or misrepresented is not sufficient proof of your claim. You need to compare it to other politicians and I am not convinced that Trump is significantly worse.
Actually, this is wrong. The statement was Trump's in a class by himself on lying. There's ample evidence available as listed by tabbanist which I'm sure they got with a simple top 10 google returns on "Trump lies worst president" or something similar. You could have disputed these by simply providing proof that the claim was wrong. The fact that you didn't (and actually can't) should perhaps clarify that your position is indefensible. That leaves you two choices: change your stance (unlikely in my experience for people with your beliefs) or double down on "but they're lying!! FAKE NEWS!!!!" which is highly likely, based on previous evidence of Trump supporters. Hell, Trump supporters would vote for an accused pedophile rather than a right of center "Democrat".
People like me who view Trump as someone they'd steer clear from and avoid at all costs because he's just that unpleasant, untrustworthy, slimy, and of a generally revolting personality (and no, that opinion is not recent, it was formed decades ago even before he was a supporter of Hillary in 2000....) He's not ever changed his stripes, just who he's using to fuel his narcissistic needs of the day. He's always been self-centered and egomaniacal to the point that he can be said to be a megalomaniac. To be perfectly clear is to say he's mentally ill. For proof, just view all his tweets and statements where everything he does or proposes is "the greatest/biggest/grandest ever" or his insistence that things related to him are bigger/greater, e.g., his inauguration crowd size, for example. It's a text-book clinical case and any rational Congress would act immediately to remove such a danger from our government.
Oh dear, here's another totally different selection bias: no one I know uses whatsapp either. Snapchat, yes, but that seems to be on the wane. No one is on FB anymore, except boomers/grandparents, so what's this "Messenger" you're talking about?:) SMS? Still get those on a regular basis. iMessage? All the time, because just about everyone I know owns an iPhone and its just there and integrated. Plus, it allows for seamless SMS with the few remaining Android holdouts. It also allows for communicating with macs, which just about everyone I deal with now owns. Microsoft doesn't even exist in this world, which is just fine.
And people I really want to talk with still use jabber with OTR. Which always was a much better solution and as a bonus wasn't tied to any vendor and uses point to point encryption between clients. Any servers in between don't see anything other than an encrypted blob.
Yeah, but that's correct through inaction. This was surprisingly correct and due to unexpected action taken.
I think the correct phrase should have been "broken clock". The broken FCC was shockingly correct in this one decision. I'm suspicious as to why, as this is so uncharacteristic of Pai's FCC. The answer likely lies in whose pockets stand to gain lots of cash. Pai is assumed to be in front, of course.
This one activist action by Pai also displays the Pai's hypocrisy. You can't claim overreaching activism from the previous FCC when you engage in it yourself.
They all show that schools even under the best circumstances wind up subsidizing their sports programs with student fees and outside funds. The total number that are truly self-sufficient number in the low single digits. If you got anything else out of those cites, please quote and show how, when you also have to consider the mostly unreported or, generously, overlooked costs detailed in the last cite.
And finally, just to blow the entire set of "profitability" out the window, note that most universities don't include a whole host of associated costs into the calculation of whether their programs are profitable. That last one basically calls into question any previous studies that do not explicitly account for a host of expenses that should be rolled into any sports program. Essentially regular students/parents/loans are paying for the sports programs at all universities with the potential exception of less than a literal handful.
It sounds like you're talking about something different than I am. I'm curious to know which dialog this is, so I can take a look.
If I could recall, I would have posted it. I rarely start windows anymore. It's unimportant in the general scope of things in my set of specialties.
Huh... You know, I ran a 13" CRT at 1280x1024 for years with no issues, so I'm not sure I agree with you on that. It didn't really become an issue for most people until inappropriately-sized >2K displays became widely available (even if still not common at the time) and people actually started trying to use the scaling options, only to find that they didn't work as expected. I wouldn't say it took them 20 years to fix it, either; people didn't care until 5 years ago or so, so they had no reason to even consider fixing it until then.
I ran a 21" monitor as far back as 91, and a 17" 1600x1200 in 96. Both NEC monitors IIRC and cost more than most computers. I did a quick scan to see if I could get model numbers and specs, but that stuff is far too old for a quick google. Let's just say those particular dialogs were a major eyesore all the way back in 91. Yes, that means in the days of NT 3.5. It was a known problem then, so yes, it is a 20+ year old problem. I just dated it from when these monitors became more common in the late 90s.
Also, are you saying you've never had scaling issues on a Mac? Trust me, they're a thing. Not as prevalent as on Windows, I'll grant, but that's all the more reason to believe that Apple will never fix them, while Microsoft is actually being responsive to their users now.
I'd like to see where there is a scaling issue on the mac. I have yet to run across one, at least in anything modern that I've run in the last 10 years. Certainly no system software or dialogs. But, perhaps there's one in there, I can't say such a thing doesn't exist.
I'm not sure that you even can run OpenGL on Windows without installing extra drivers these days.
Okay, so you admit you have no clue what you're talking about, then?
Nice dig.... I can't say if that still exists on Win10 creators edition, or even Win10, as I haven't run OpenGL on Windows since... Hmm, it might be XP.:)
the actual win32 API has been more or less stable over the years. It was a design goal and they've don a damn good job of sticking to it.
The win32 API has been relatively stable regarding general app calls. For system calls, ie, calls into the OS to interact with various system components, such as security tokens, has been broken at least 2 times that I'm aware of.
and [OSX GUI is] much more consistent in overall experience as compared to Windows
Here's where we disagree. Windows has consistently been shit since 1995, while Mac OS only started its decline about 7 years ago.;)
If you're referring to 10.6 as the last good version of OSX, it certainly was the last most stable version. But, I get why GCD was added in 10.7, and moving an entire OS to a message passing paradigm, even when it was built on top of a language that fundamentally supports the concept, is not a minor undertaking. 10.10 was relatively stable, and 10.12 is as well. In fact, I've had both running for upwards of 4 months before an update I wanted forced a reboot.
which last time I looked still had NT 3.1/3.5 and 4.0 based fixed size non-scaleable dialogs for some of its system controls
There's really nothing wrong with that, provided the whole thing fits on the screen. Since you mention both "fixed size" and "non-scaleable", I'm not sure if you're meaning to say the same thing two different ways, or you're referring to the lack of DPI scaling for hi-res displays (as you then go on to talk about that), but you might want to look again. I don't know when they added it, as I was without access to my Windows PC for a couple of months, but there is now an option to force scaling of non-DPI-aware apps, windows, and controls.
There are differences in the two - fixed size means specifically not being able to resize the window to contain the contents. Note that these are system provided details, and the original windows appear to be scaled for 640x400 screens. Data held since then means you now have this window that shows maybe half the data you're looking for, and requires you to scroll, if possible. I don't recall which specific window it was, but at least one required a copy and paste to read the contents.
The second, non-scaleable, refers as you correctly surmised to the inability of the window to scale with resolution. This was a problem with even 1280x800 screens, much less 2K or 4K screens. Here's this huge piece of real estate, and you can only use 3% of it for this dialog and the font is 4pt, because that can't be changed either (well, it can in most cases, but then you run into the previous issue even more quickly)
If they finally fixed at least #2, then that would be a major improvement. It only took 20 years.
We sort of had this system in place previously, except charity funded, much like our current health care system ("wealthy" get coverage, the masses get charity provided care) It didn't work out so well and public schools were founded. Healthcare still has a way to go.
You are definitely encouraged to upload your data, and many applications don't even support local data (because they're websites!) But even that'll change as Crostini matures and becomes mainstream.
Oh, you mean like Windows has done for DECADES with DirectX?
No, nothing at all like that, actually. Windows has always given you a choice of graphics APIs, for as long as multiple APIs have existed on the platform. If you chose DirectX and vendor lock-in, that was entirely your choice; OpenGL has always been an option for as long as it's existed and, because MS is obsessed with backward compatibility[1], it's all but guaranteed to remain a choice for as long as Windows exists.
OpenGL hasn't been a choice on Windows for anything with performance needs since NT 4.0. XP came with DirectX 8 IIRC, which was the end of OpenGL gaming on Windows. I'm not sure that you even can run OpenGL on Windows without installing extra drivers these days. A quick search and it appears Windows 10 had some issues with OpenGL. Then again, Windows 10 had all sorts of issues, OpenGL support would be far far down the list.
Lazy Developers, that don't know how to code using a standard Model-View-Controller method, are the ones that will continue to have "porting" problems, you mean...
Really? That's the argument you're going to make with regard to a very performance-oriented segment of the industry?
I wouldn't use "standard" MVC for games either. Too much lag just typing that in.
[1] Yes, you'll find examples where they've broken things in the past. It's literally impossible for them to not have broken something while making sweeping API changes, but they've historically put in the effort to break as little as possible while still progressing. Now, I praise MS about as often as I praise Apple, they're both fuck-ups after all, but MS has done a damn good job with backward compatibility.
I'd respectfully disagree on backwards compatibility - they promoted an entire set of programming practices using sets of frameworks that are all unsupported or gone, at this point. I also have a collection of software for Win95 and XP that won't run on W7 even. And then there's also the question of an entire set of APIs they purposefully broke, under the guise of adding security. The effect was exactly the opposite - less security. I agree MS is the poster boy for fuck ups in software architecture. Backwards compatibility? Not so much.
But besides OpenGL support, Apple still has the best overall GUI of any *nix I've seen. and it's much more consistent in overall experience as compared to Windows, which last time I looked still had NT 3.1/3.5 and 4.0 based fixed size non-scaleable dialogs for some of its system controls. You can tell the differences between OS versions by how horrifically ugly they look on a 4K screen. Speaking of 4K screens, at least as of the pre-Creators release of Win10, the damn thing still wouldn't scale various artificats properly for hi-res monitors.
In Andy Weir's Artemis there was a space suit called the "hamster ball", it allowed tourists to walk around on the moon relatively untrained. Not useful if you want to do any actual work, however.
It would be most humorous to view an untrained average tourist attempting to walk on the moon in 1/6th gravity, no matter what enabled them to do so. The reels would make AFV's current offerings look like amateur hour. Not to mention finally removing the baby/kid video as the automatic winner.
The really humorous thing about this is if it was contracted to SpaceX, you'd likely end up with 1 suit with 2 sets of add-ons. So you only have to test 1 time and all use cases are met.
True, but - a lot of "modern" solutions are basically built to work like that. I'm doing some hobby stuff in a Javascript framework right now
It's extremely frustrating. It's not a matter of laziness, but rather incompetence.
It's both. Even if you're copying pasting from somewhere, you should understand what that code does. Personally, I've never been able to just copy/paste, I usually need to modify what's there, often significantly. If all you're doing is copying/pasting, odds are you're not creating anything new.
One of my statements in this thread is that with OLED screens and processor power increases diminishing year over year, in the near future I can easily see a 4 year or more cycle to phone replacements. Battery longevity will come into play at that point. For now, 4 years is good enough for me, and you as well. I fully expect to have my current phone at least another 2 years, and it's almost been a year already. My next phone will have an OLED screen or the next technology.
If you're looking for a sub $100 phone, well, you're not really the target of either phone maker, but you are a product for B's main business.
The only functional difference between the fancy-pantsiest iPhone and a $100 Moto E4 (which, yes, has a fingerprint reader for some reason) is being able to say you spent too much on it.
You really have a dipped in steel opinion that nothing will change. You are aware you can get a $130 (last I checked) iphone SE, brand spanking new? It's not the latest gee-whiz item, but it beats the E4 in processor, camera, storage, battery life, not to mention that the E4 comes with Nougat (2 years old!!!) even today straight from Motorolla at $130? I don't know about you, but that really doesn't seem to support your statements.
Apple by definition is taking advantage of people who buy status symbols just for the status. But if you want people to know how much money you're willing to waste on a phone, you have to not put a case on it. Then when you drop it, you break it. Then when you break it, you spent so much, you can't afford to replace it.
One thing Apple ain't is stupid. Of course, right now, they are rudderless, but they can clearly keep going where the current takes them for some years.
I don't think the moto is much better on dropping. Nor is an LG V10/V20, without a case (I own the latter two) You see, I like dealing in facts and forming opinions from those facts. So far, I've only taken apart 3 5S's to fix a battery and replace a screen. Note that the battery replacement was after 4 years. It is possible. Is it easy? No. In general, after 4 years, phones are ready to be replaced, IMHO. That opinion may change in the near future as improvements plateau and there's not much to drive new phone purchases. OLED screens and a reduced return in processing power will slow down upgrades, much like they have in laptops and desktops. I think the latest MBP upgrades were finally driven by Intel producing a reasonably powerful new chip. They've pretty much produced crap in upgrades for the past 6 years.
Let's see, I can buy item A which will run for 3-5 years with no other expense, or item B, which costs roughly 90% of A, which is user fixable but with a maximum average lifespan of 3 years and will require additional expenditures on battery replacements, etc. Rational markets would choose A given those stats. Add in that B spies on you and is less secure, rational markets would double down on A.
Now, if you don't want the level of tech provided by A, then you can start making a rational argument for B, but even there it breaks down as phones for $130-150 can be had from both major providers. If you're looking for a sub $100 phone, well, you're not really the target of either phone maker, but you are a product for B's main business.
There is already a way to do that . It is called self-control.
Self-control over one's body in its ultimate sense is regulating what grows in it. Seems we have that covered, just a bunch of imaginary boss followers think otherwise. There's no rational argument against it.
Well, considering we had high pressure constituents being sprayed up and ignited, we certainly had vapor byproducts. There's also the question of the material around the thermite, although in my particular use cases it appears that the burn didn't affect those. Also, in no chemical reaction do you get 100% conversion, and with thermite heating the mixture in the 2500C range with a continuous feed sources, we had vaporization of some of the sources as well. Needless to say, there were nice clouds of smoke above the very bright burning sources.
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Probably because that i7 with "8 cores" is really a 4 core chip with some sort of obfuscation to make the hyper threaded cores look like real cores.
Even if it ain't true, one has to wonder how long till this kind of BS enters the market? Who would know after all unless you delid your CPU and examine the die under a microscope?
Simple enough - run a multi-threaded test. A hyper threaded core will be at best something like 30% faster than a comparative single threads, while true single threaded cores will run nearly 100% faster.
If a core race starts you can bet someone will turn to this kind of slimy BS.
A core race will probably be the next step since actual Mhz hasn't increased much over the years, I have 3ghz core 2 quad core chips in a small home esxi lab that are probably nearly a decade old today and common desktop chips are still hovering around the 3ghz point these days
core races have already started.
"What kind function that are you looking for and is missing from 10Pro?"
The ability to disable Microsoft spyware
You mean the ability to disable Microsoft.
That I already have: Linux works fine for most things.
But I am also a realist who understands that everyone has to sleep sometime, and any one person is easily outnumbered by any other person who has at least one friend.
That's why god made claymore mines.
Your god is not one I'd like. Have you seen the results of a claymore?
Would you be more likely to trust this criticism if it came from someone who has had nothing good to say about it or from someone who was a major proponent of it? Hopefully you can understand why people might take the comments from the latter person more seriously given no other information.
Well, we have Rick Gates listing off reams of criminal activities involving Ukrainians and Russians. I guess we should blindly believe everything he says?
Here's a hint - I would tend to believe critics that have backing evidence for their statements with higher belief factors applied to those that explicitly quote and/or provide video of said person lying over those attempting to use truth by blatant assertions (That would be 99% of Trump apologists btw) In fact, the skew towards believing critics is as large as it is primarily because of the utter lack of evidence on the Trump side.
If this were not the case you would understand why a source pointing out all of the things that Trump has lied about or misrepresented is not sufficient proof of your claim. You need to compare it to other politicians and I am not convinced that Trump is significantly worse.
Actually, this is wrong. The statement was Trump's in a class by himself on lying. There's ample evidence available as listed by tabbanist which I'm sure they got with a simple top 10 google returns on "Trump lies worst president" or something similar. You could have disputed these by simply providing proof that the claim was wrong. The fact that you didn't (and actually can't) should perhaps clarify that your position is indefensible. That leaves you two choices: change your stance (unlikely in my experience for people with your beliefs) or double down on "but they're lying!! FAKE NEWS!!!!" which is highly likely, based on previous evidence of Trump supporters. Hell, Trump supporters would vote for an accused pedophile rather than a right of center "Democrat".
People like me who view Trump as someone they'd steer clear from and avoid at all costs because he's just that unpleasant, untrustworthy, slimy, and of a generally revolting personality (and no, that opinion is not recent, it was formed decades ago even before he was a supporter of Hillary in 2000....) He's not ever changed his stripes, just who he's using to fuel his narcissistic needs of the day. He's always been self-centered and egomaniacal to the point that he can be said to be a megalomaniac. To be perfectly clear is to say he's mentally ill. For proof, just view all his tweets and statements where everything he does or proposes is "the greatest/biggest/grandest ever" or his insistence that things related to him are bigger/greater, e.g., his inauguration crowd size, for example. It's a text-book clinical case and any rational Congress would act immediately to remove such a danger from our government.
Then Elizabeth Warren has an orgasm
Oh dear, here's another totally different selection bias: no one I know uses whatsapp either. Snapchat, yes, but that seems to be on the wane. No one is on FB anymore, except boomers/grandparents, so what's this "Messenger" you're talking about? :) SMS? Still get those on a regular basis. iMessage? All the time, because just about everyone I know owns an iPhone and its just there and integrated. Plus, it allows for seamless SMS with the few remaining Android holdouts. It also allows for communicating with macs, which just about everyone I deal with now owns. Microsoft doesn't even exist in this world, which is just fine.
And people I really want to talk with still use jabber with OTR. Which always was a much better solution and as a bonus wasn't tied to any vendor and uses point to point encryption between clients. Any servers in between don't see anything other than an encrypted blob.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Yeah, but that's correct through inaction. This was surprisingly correct and due to unexpected action taken.
I think the correct phrase should have been "broken clock". The broken FCC was shockingly correct in this one decision. I'm suspicious as to why, as this is so uncharacteristic of Pai's FCC. The answer likely lies in whose pockets stand to gain lots of cash. Pai is assumed to be in front, of course.
This one activist action by Pai also displays the Pai's hypocrisy. You can't claim overreaching activism from the previous FCC when you engage in it yourself.
They all show that schools even under the best circumstances wind up subsidizing their sports programs with student fees and outside funds. The total number that are truly self-sufficient number in the low single digits. If you got anything else out of those cites, please quote and show how, when you also have to consider the mostly unreported or, generously, overlooked costs detailed in the last cite.
Football/basketball pays for the rest of the sport programs.
I do hope you're kidding:
28 Top tier Div1 teams spending more than they make
Schools prop up their football programs with student fees
Only 8 schools broke even or better in a 5 year period
Schools play loose with numbers to show athletics programs as more profitable to the university when those "profits" are really earmarked for athletics scholarships
And finally, just to blow the entire set of "profitability" out the window, note that most universities don't include a whole host of associated costs into the calculation of whether their programs are profitable. That last one basically calls into question any previous studies that do not explicitly account for a host of expenses that should be rolled into any sports program. Essentially regular students/parents/loans are paying for the sports programs at all universities with the potential exception of less than a literal handful.
It sounds like you're talking about something different than I am. I'm curious to know which dialog this is, so I can take a look.
If I could recall, I would have posted it. I rarely start windows anymore. It's unimportant in the general scope of things in my set of specialties.
Huh... You know, I ran a 13" CRT at 1280x1024 for years with no issues, so I'm not sure I agree with you on that. It didn't really become an issue for most people until inappropriately-sized >2K displays became widely available (even if still not common at the time) and people actually started trying to use the scaling options, only to find that they didn't work as expected. I wouldn't say it took them 20 years to fix it, either; people didn't care until 5 years ago or so, so they had no reason to even consider fixing it until then.
I ran a 21" monitor as far back as 91, and a 17" 1600x1200 in 96. Both NEC monitors IIRC and cost more than most computers. I did a quick scan to see if I could get model numbers and specs, but that stuff is far too old for a quick google. Let's just say those particular dialogs were a major eyesore all the way back in 91. Yes, that means in the days of NT 3.5. It was a known problem then, so yes, it is a 20+ year old problem. I just dated it from when these monitors became more common in the late 90s.
Also, are you saying you've never had scaling issues on a Mac? Trust me, they're a thing. Not as prevalent as on Windows, I'll grant, but that's all the more reason to believe that Apple will never fix them, while Microsoft is actually being responsive to their users now.
I'd like to see where there is a scaling issue on the mac. I have yet to run across one, at least in anything modern that I've run in the last 10 years. Certainly no system software or dialogs. But, perhaps there's one in there, I can't say such a thing doesn't exist.
I'm not sure that you even can run OpenGL on Windows without installing extra drivers these days.
Okay, so you admit you have no clue what you're talking about, then?
Nice dig.... I can't say if that still exists on Win10 creators edition, or even Win10, as I haven't run OpenGL on Windows since... Hmm, it might be XP. :)
the actual win32 API has been more or less stable over the years. It was a design goal and they've don a damn good job of sticking to it.
The win32 API has been relatively stable regarding general app calls. For system calls, ie, calls into the OS to interact with various system components, such as security tokens, has been broken at least 2 times that I'm aware of.
and [OSX GUI is] much more consistent in overall experience as compared to Windows
Here's where we disagree. Windows has consistently been shit since 1995, while Mac OS only started its decline about 7 years ago. ;)
If you're referring to 10.6 as the last good version of OSX, it certainly was the last most stable version. But, I get why GCD was added in 10.7, and moving an entire OS to a message passing paradigm, even when it was built on top of a language that fundamentally supports the concept, is not a minor undertaking. 10.10 was relatively stable, and 10.12 is as well. In fact, I've had both running for upwards of 4 months before an update I wanted forced a reboot.
which last time I looked still had NT 3.1/3.5 and 4.0 based fixed size non-scaleable dialogs for some of its system controls
There's really nothing wrong with that, provided the whole thing fits on the screen. Since you mention both "fixed size" and "non-scaleable", I'm not sure if you're meaning to say the same thing two different ways, or you're referring to the lack of DPI scaling for hi-res displays (as you then go on to talk about that), but you might want to look again. I don't know when they added it, as I was without access to my Windows PC for a couple of months, but there is now an option to force scaling of non-DPI-aware apps, windows, and controls.
There are differences in the two - fixed size means specifically not being able to resize the window to contain the contents. Note that these are system provided details, and the original windows appear to be scaled for 640x400 screens. Data held since then means you now have this window that shows maybe half the data you're looking for, and requires you to scroll, if possible. I don't recall which specific window it was, but at least one required a copy and paste to read the contents.
The second, non-scaleable, refers as you correctly surmised to the inability of the window to scale with resolution. This was a problem with even 1280x800 screens, much less 2K or 4K screens. Here's this huge piece of real estate, and you can only use 3% of it for this dialog and the font is 4pt, because that can't be changed either (well, it can in most cases, but then you run into the previous issue even more quickly)
If they finally fixed at least #2, then that would be a major improvement. It only took 20 years.
We sort of had this system in place previously, except charity funded, much like our current health care system ("wealthy" get coverage, the masses get charity provided care) It didn't work out so well and public schools were founded. Healthcare still has a way to go.
You are definitely encouraged to upload your data, and many applications don't even support local data (because they're websites!) But even that'll change as Crostini matures and becomes mainstream.
Just like a leopard grows up into a Boeing 787.
Oh, you mean like Windows has done for DECADES with DirectX?
No, nothing at all like that, actually. Windows has always given you a choice of graphics APIs, for as long as multiple APIs have existed on the platform. If you chose DirectX and vendor lock-in, that was entirely your choice; OpenGL has always been an option for as long as it's existed and, because MS is obsessed with backward compatibility[1], it's all but guaranteed to remain a choice for as long as Windows exists.
OpenGL hasn't been a choice on Windows for anything with performance needs since NT 4.0. XP came with DirectX 8 IIRC, which was the end of OpenGL gaming on Windows. I'm not sure that you even can run OpenGL on Windows without installing extra drivers these days. A quick search and it appears Windows 10 had some issues with OpenGL. Then again, Windows 10 had all sorts of issues, OpenGL support would be far far down the list.
Lazy Developers, that don't know how to code using a standard Model-View-Controller method, are the ones that will continue to have "porting" problems, you mean...
Really? That's the argument you're going to make with regard to a very performance-oriented segment of the industry?
I wouldn't use "standard" MVC for games either. Too much lag just typing that in.
[1] Yes, you'll find examples where they've broken things in the past. It's literally impossible for them to not have broken something while making sweeping API changes, but they've historically put in the effort to break as little as possible while still progressing. Now, I praise MS about as often as I praise Apple, they're both fuck-ups after all, but MS has done a damn good job with backward compatibility.
I'd respectfully disagree on backwards compatibility - they promoted an entire set of programming practices using sets of frameworks that are all unsupported or gone, at this point. I also have a collection of software for Win95 and XP that won't run on W7 even. And then there's also the question of an entire set of APIs they purposefully broke, under the guise of adding security. The effect was exactly the opposite - less security. I agree MS is the poster boy for fuck ups in software architecture. Backwards compatibility? Not so much.
[2] Which really isn't impending when we're talking about Apple, as they're stuck on v2.1, which was released 12 years ago. OpenGL 3.0 has been with us for a decade, now.
You do realize that OSX 10.7 supports 3.1, and 10.9 supports 4.1? Just asking.
But besides OpenGL support, Apple still has the best overall GUI of any *nix I've seen. and it's much more consistent in overall experience as compared to Windows, which last time I looked still had NT 3.1/3.5 and 4.0 based fixed size non-scaleable dialogs for some of its system controls. You can tell the differences between OS versions by how horrifically ugly they look on a 4K screen. Speaking of 4K screens, at least as of the pre-Creators release of Win10, the damn thing still wouldn't scale various artificats properly for hi-res monitors.
In Andy Weir's Artemis there was a space suit called the "hamster ball", it allowed tourists to walk around on the moon relatively untrained. Not useful if you want to do any actual work, however.
It would be most humorous to view an untrained average tourist attempting to walk on the moon in 1/6th gravity, no matter what enabled them to do so. The reels would make AFV's current offerings look like amateur hour. Not to mention finally removing the baby/kid video as the automatic winner.
The really humorous thing about this is if it was contracted to SpaceX, you'd likely end up with 1 suit with 2 sets of add-ons. So you only have to test 1 time and all use cases are met.
True, but - a lot of "modern" solutions are basically built to work like that. I'm doing some hobby stuff in a Javascript framework right now
It's extremely frustrating. It's not a matter of laziness, but rather incompetence.
It's both. Even if you're copying pasting from somewhere, you should understand what that code does. Personally, I've never been able to just copy/paste, I usually need to modify what's there, often significantly. If all you're doing is copying/pasting, odds are you're not creating anything new.
One of my statements in this thread is that with OLED screens and processor power increases diminishing year over year, in the near future I can easily see a 4 year or more cycle to phone replacements. Battery longevity will come into play at that point. For now, 4 years is good enough for me, and you as well. I fully expect to have my current phone at least another 2 years, and it's almost been a year already. My next phone will have an OLED screen or the next technology.
If you're looking for a sub $100 phone, well, you're not really the target of either phone maker, but you are a product for B's main business.
The only functional difference between the fancy-pantsiest iPhone and a $100 Moto E4 (which, yes, has a fingerprint reader for some reason) is being able to say you spent too much on it.
You really have a dipped in steel opinion that nothing will change. You are aware you can get a $130 (last I checked) iphone SE, brand spanking new? It's not the latest gee-whiz item, but it beats the E4 in processor, camera, storage, battery life, not to mention that the E4 comes with Nougat (2 years old!!!) even today straight from Motorolla at $130? I don't know about you, but that really doesn't seem to support your statements.
Apple by definition is taking advantage of people who buy status symbols just for the status. But if you want people to know how much money you're willing to waste on a phone, you have to not put a case on it. Then when you drop it, you break it. Then when you break it, you spent so much, you can't afford to replace it.
One thing Apple ain't is stupid. Of course, right now, they are rudderless, but they can clearly keep going where the current takes them for some years.
I don't think the moto is much better on dropping. Nor is an LG V10/V20, without a case (I own the latter two) You see, I like dealing in facts and forming opinions from those facts. So far, I've only taken apart 3 5S's to fix a battery and replace a screen. Note that the battery replacement was after 4 years. It is possible. Is it easy? No. In general, after 4 years, phones are ready to be replaced, IMHO. That opinion may change in the near future as improvements plateau and there's not much to drive new phone purchases. OLED screens and a reduced return in processing power will slow down upgrades, much like they have in laptops and desktops. I think the latest MBP upgrades were finally driven by Intel producing a reasonably powerful new chip. They've pretty much produced crap in upgrades for the past 6 years.
Let's see, I can buy item A which will run for 3-5 years with no other expense, or item B, which costs roughly 90% of A, which is user fixable but with a maximum average lifespan of 3 years and will require additional expenditures on battery replacements, etc. Rational markets would choose A given those stats. Add in that B spies on you and is less secure, rational markets would double down on A.
Now, if you don't want the level of tech provided by A, then you can start making a rational argument for B, but even there it breaks down as phones for $130-150 can be had from both major providers. If you're looking for a sub $100 phone, well, you're not really the target of either phone maker, but you are a product for B's main business.
And complete with China Gov sanctioned backdoors? No thanks.
There is already a way to do that . It is called self-control.
Self-control over one's body in its ultimate sense is regulating what grows in it. Seems we have that covered, just a bunch of imaginary boss followers think otherwise. There's no rational argument against it.
Well, considering we had high pressure constituents being sprayed up and ignited, we certainly had vapor byproducts. There's also the question of the material around the thermite, although in my particular use cases it appears that the burn didn't affect those. Also, in no chemical reaction do you get 100% conversion, and with thermite heating the mixture in the 2500C range with a continuous feed sources, we had vaporization of some of the sources as well. Needless to say, there were nice clouds of smoke above the very bright burning sources.
Yes I have.... :)