You can do the same with a Pi or some other mini-computer. You just have to set up the software once, then you can easily take it anywhere just the same.
Your comparison is incomple: 60 bucks for a handful of NES games versus a few hours setting up a device to run thousands of games from multiple consoles.
every old console/PC game let you start again from the beginning if you ran out of lives.
I recall there was a very old PC game that actually deleted characters as they died. Only way to get them back was a fresh reinstall.
And more recently, Undertale did some interesting things around that concept. For example, if you kill a certain character, but try to start a new game... there's another character who still knows what you did. Murderer.
Proprietary software cannot be trusted. It must always be treated as potential spyware. Only free-as-in-freedom software can be allowed for critical tasks.
The guy before her, who says "worst browser in history", is mistaken. IE5 for the Mac was not bad. It had its own rendering engine, Tasman, which was very W3C-standards-compliant. Unlike the infamous Trident engine of the Windows version. (Feels old, man.)
Other than that, everything you say is right. I miss that 90s interface style. Strong lines, good contrast, definition, physical volume! You knew where one thing ended and another began.
Let me give you an example of a disastrous modern interface: the current version of Windows Explorer. Look at it. See the separation between the file list and the preview pane? No? Well, look again, I swear it's there. A vertical line, just one pixel wide, in a very subtle light gray between two white areas. Depending on your monitor, it may be literally invisible.
This truly irks and baffles me. Not because one moron had a stupid idea. One lone indie coder makes a shitty interface, you can forgive him. But that's Microsoft, a massive company with thousands of employees, whole teams of highly trained developers. And somehow NO ONE had either the brain or the guts to point at that stupid near-invisible separator and say, "that's a bad design, it should be changed."
A good developer will obey each system's Human Interface Guidelines to the letter. If you use non-standard interface elements, you are likely a shit developer. Fuck Chrome, and fuck everyone who does non-standard interfaces.
As a Brazilian, I didn't even know Baidu had a presence here. I never heard of anyone using it at all. They're only known as a malware / scamware company that no sensible person would touch.
They're selling a luxury product, facing much more affordable alternatives, in a seriously poor country. And they still managed to move a few million units. Well duh, what's the complaint? The fact that it was not a complete flop should be seen as a victory.
A difference of microseconds doesn't matter if the program has a shitty user interface. Firefox is the only one of those three that has a proper interface -- after you restore the title and menu bars, that is. No, cramming the menu bar into a goddamn hamburger button is never acceptable for a desktop application.
Is this common for all android phones, or does it vary by the price range of the phone?
I believe it depends mostly on the manufacturer and the carrier. For example, Samsung has a reputation for bundling crap apps and messing with the interface, while Motorola keeps clean and close to "stock".
Google used to inform users of the size of each web page in the results. A search result that was 10K bytes might be a good hit, but a search result page that was 4MB was probably a spam page with a long list of random words.
Sadly, these days it's not too surprising for a page to actually be 4MB.
Be careful with "well regulated", that's a tricky expression. It does NOT mean "under control of government regulations". It means "kept in proper condition, ready to function as soon as needed." That's how it is used in the Second Amendment.
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But the result is a machine loaded with a fuckton of games, not a handful.
You can do the same with a Pi or some other mini-computer. You just have to set up the software once, then you can easily take it anywhere just the same.
Your comparison is incomple: 60 bucks for a handful of NES games versus a few hours setting up a device to run thousands of games from multiple consoles.
every old console/PC game let you start again from the beginning if you ran out of lives.
I recall there was a very old PC game that actually deleted characters as they died. Only way to get them back was a fresh reinstall.
And more recently, Undertale did some interesting things around that concept. For example, if you kill a certain character, but try to start a new game... there's another character who still knows what you did. Murderer.
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Psst... try The Pirate Bay.
Windows 10 looks like something that's hacked together, most DEs for Linux look far more polished and professional now.
let me know when they release The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for PC
Man, if only you could emulate it... oh wait.
No, that was Spyglass Mosaic. Different code actually.
Proprietary software cannot be trusted. It must always be treated as potential spyware. Only free-as-in-freedom software can be allowed for critical tasks.
The guy before her, who says "worst browser in history", is mistaken. IE5 for the Mac was not bad. It had its own rendering engine, Tasman, which was very W3C-standards-compliant. Unlike the infamous Trident engine of the Windows version. (Feels old, man.)
Other than that, everything you say is right. I miss that 90s interface style. Strong lines, good contrast, definition, physical volume! You knew where one thing ended and another began.
Let me give you an example of a disastrous modern interface: the current version of Windows Explorer. Look at it. See the separation between the file list and the preview pane? No? Well, look again, I swear it's there. A vertical line, just one pixel wide, in a very subtle light gray between two white areas. Depending on your monitor, it may be literally invisible.
This truly irks and baffles me. Not because one moron had a stupid idea. One lone indie coder makes a shitty interface, you can forgive him. But that's Microsoft, a massive company with thousands of employees, whole teams of highly trained developers. And somehow NO ONE had either the brain or the guts to point at that stupid near-invisible separator and say, "that's a bad design, it should be changed."
A good developer will obey each system's Human Interface Guidelines to the letter. If you use non-standard interface elements, you are likely a shit developer. Fuck Chrome, and fuck everyone who does non-standard interfaces.
As a Brazilian, I didn't even know Baidu had a presence here. I never heard of anyone using it at all. They're only known as a malware / scamware company that no sensible person would touch.
Don't look at the flagships only, Samsung offers some very modestly-priced models as well. Apple does not.
Look into Motorola, they're also good at sticking to near-pure Android with no bullshit.
They're selling a luxury product, facing much more affordable alternatives, in a seriously poor country. And they still managed to move a few million units. Well duh, what's the complaint? The fact that it was not a complete flop should be seen as a victory.
It's kind of pathetic that 1920x1080p is still standard when cell phones have better resolutions.
A difference of microseconds doesn't matter if the program has a shitty user interface. Firefox is the only one of those three that has a proper interface -- after you restore the title and menu bars, that is. No, cramming the menu bar into a goddamn hamburger button is never acceptable for a desktop application.
What for? High-end users no longer matter, Apple now is devoted to the more profitable and less demanding "takes fancy notebook to starbucks" market.
Is this common for all android phones, or does it vary by the price range of the phone?
I believe it depends mostly on the manufacturer and the carrier. For example, Samsung has a reputation for bundling crap apps and messing with the interface, while Motorola keeps clean and close to "stock".
Well, that claim was never about price, but ease of use. The Mac was for "the rest of us" who didn't want to deal with MS-DOS.
Google used to inform users of the size of each web page in the results. A search result that was 10K bytes might be a good hit, but a search result page that was 4MB was probably a spam page with a long list of random words.
Sadly, these days it's not too surprising for a page to actually be 4MB.
Be careful with "well regulated", that's a tricky expression. It does NOT mean "under control of government regulations". It means "kept in proper condition, ready to function as soon as needed." That's how it is used in the Second Amendment.
Designated shitting streams! ...oh wait, that'd be the Ganges.
Exceptional is also an euphemism for mentally retarded. So...
GP's link is bad, with a dot after the slash.
Slash... dot... hmm, that reminds me of something.