I have seen in businesses CRT display in the year 2017.
So have I, in the local arcade. Light gun games don't work with an LCD, and a lot of traditional joystick- or footswitch-driven games haven't been retrofitted either.
For one thing, do you have a habit of writing all comments in text editors? For another, it also forgets which forms were opened in the first place because Slashdot opens comment forms with scripted manipulation of the DOM, and when restoring a previous session, Firefox reloads pages (possibly from cache) without replaying scripted manipulation of the DOM.
Only a minuscule percentage of the potential market actually does anything which requires a real PC. Of those people, the vast majority of home users will never edit a video, or compile a program
With AP Computer Science becoming more common in high schools, I expect more people to end up compiling a program sometime in their lives. What are CS students supposed to use if not a PC? A phone with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, an HDMI or Chromecast output to a TV, and an SSH connection to a rented server?
Windows Me (Millennium Edition) came out in late 2000, when PCs were shipping with Pentium III processors and 128 MB of PC133 RAM upgradable to 512 MB. The AMD64 spec was first published around that time, but the first 64-bit Opteron CPU didn't ship until August 2003.
Back in 1997, many computers still in use had single-digit megabytes of RAM
You're thinking the early 1990's. I had 32MB in 1997
Back in 1997, overall PC prices were higher, and people still used PCs from 1994-95 that had 8 MB of RAM. Some had been upgraded to 8 MB to run Windows 95. My first Windows PC, purchased in 1997, was a used IBM PS/ValuePoint from mid-1995 that came with 8 MB of RAM, Windows 3.1, and Tseng ET4000 integrated graphics.
then what is your plan with all the NIMBYs that cry over a cell tower in their backyard?
If there is public evidence that this person opposed construction of a tower, then post "(name of person) is responsible for cellular data throttling in (city), (state)," along with a link to this evidence.
The first round of netbooks, such as the Eee PC 900, were 9" laptops with a 32-bit Celeron processor. The second round of 9" and 10" netbooks used a 64-bit-capable Atom processor, but many shipped with 1 GB of RAM and can't be upgraded past 2 GB. At RAM sizes of 1 GB or less, pointer size increase becomes substantial, and "x32" (x86-64 with 32-bit pointers) never drew enough of a following to come close to displacing i386. (Xubuntu will still be around to support 1 GB PCs, and 64-bit Xubuntu appears to run OK on 2 GB.) A new netbook in 2017 won't be especially "tiny", as 11.6" appears to be the minimum screen size nowadays.
If Canonical wants to continue offering Wine, it'll need to maintain at least some i386 libraries in the main repository at least until Wine becomes a snap that hosts its own copy of the C runtime and X client libraries.
Back in 1997, many computers still in use had single-digit megabytes of RAM, and the doubling of pointer length would have increased data cache misses and RAM misses, causing more swapping. The only affordable 64-bit computer in 1997 was a Nintendo 64 game console, and that was locked down through a security microcontroller to run only Nintendo-approved software.
Here's what Mike Godwin himself had to say about the neo-Nazis at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville: "By all means, compare these shitheads to the Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you."
I'd call [the NSDAP and its successors] fascist-left
Though the platform of the NSDAP included workfare programs, the rest of its nationalist, anti-feminist, anti-gay, anti-Marxist ideology smells a lot like paleoconservatism, the ideology of the alt-right.
No, angel'o'sphere is butthurt at frustration with other people who can not see the parallels between this party and another "relatively new right wing radical party" in Germany in the 1930s.
Provided it's actually a TV. Many devices that are shaped like a TV and sold in the TV section, such as the Vizio E70-E3, are actually only monitors. They can display an HDMI signal or receive a Chromecast, and that's about it. The tuner is sold separately.
Good luck getting those apps to connect to their respective services without paying a recurring fee to Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or MVNOs that use their networks.
They could drop the limit entirely - and just become a rather strange blogging platform.
It already is that way. A properly formatted over-long Tweet contains a headline up to 115 characters and a link to the body on a pastebin service such as Twitlonger or on your traditional blog.
I figured that one out in seconds: "Despite the negative press covfefe" means "Despite the negative press coverage". Many messaging applications make the last word of a message exempt from autocorrect.
As long as it's visible, it should refresh every n seconds (30 seems a fine number[...]).
And if the refresh job finds that the user has temporarily lost Internet connection, a modal dialog "Reconnecting" should completely cover the (slightly outdated) information that the user is trying to read. <cough>Discordapp.com</cough>
Milk yes, burger no. Cows are sacred in part because they provide milk. In Hindu mythology, Vishnu in the form of Prithu milked Prithvi (Mother Earth) in cow form to fertilize the first cultivated crops. Ground beef is to them like killing the goose that lays golden eggs.
The misspelled word in that Tweet was obviously intended to be "coverage". But phones with a built-in physical keyboard have long since been discontinued in favor of phones with a flat sheet of glass as the only text input mechanism, and many apps don't autocorrect the last typed word in a message.
While simple can be harder than complex, it's usually just simplistic and stupid.
Exactly. The removal of physical keyboards has simplified the phone mechanically but increased a certain category of stupid data entry mistakes.
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I have seen in businesses CRT display in the year 2017.
So have I, in the local arcade. Light gun games don't work with an LCD, and a lot of traditional joystick- or footswitch-driven games haven't been retrofitted either.
Why would video messaging need a server in the middle?
Because WebRTC is HTTPS-only, and getting a free certificate from Let's Encrypt requires buying a domain. A free subdomain from a dynamic DNS provider isn't enough because of the limit of 20 Let's Encrypt certificates per domain per week, which the dynamic DNS provider's other users have already used up.
For one thing, do you have a habit of writing all comments in text editors? For another, it also forgets which forms were opened in the first place because Slashdot opens comment forms with scripted manipulation of the DOM, and when restoring a previous session, Firefox reloads pages (possibly from cache) without replaying scripted manipulation of the DOM.
SoylentNews was at least up during recent "offline mode" downtime of Slashdot.
A Commodore 64/128 computer won't run Linux, but it will run LUnix.
Only a minuscule percentage of the potential market actually does anything which requires a real PC. Of those people, the vast majority of home users will never edit a video, or compile a program
With AP Computer Science becoming more common in high schools, I expect more people to end up compiling a program sometime in their lives. What are CS students supposed to use if not a PC? A phone with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, an HDMI or Chromecast output to a TV, and an SSH connection to a rented server?
A Mac costs more than an entry-level Windows PC. I recommend a Mac mostly for users of Xcode or other exclusive applications.
Windows Me (Millennium Edition) came out in late 2000, when PCs were shipping with Pentium III processors and 128 MB of PC133 RAM upgradable to 512 MB. The AMD64 spec was first published around that time, but the first 64-bit Opteron CPU didn't ship until August 2003.
Back in 1997, many computers still in use had single-digit megabytes of RAM
You're thinking the early 1990's. I had 32MB in 1997
Back in 1997, overall PC prices were higher, and people still used PCs from 1994-95 that had 8 MB of RAM. Some had been upgraded to 8 MB to run Windows 95. My first Windows PC, purchased in 1997, was a used IBM PS/ValuePoint from mid-1995 that came with 8 MB of RAM, Windows 3.1, and Tseng ET4000 integrated graphics.
then what is your plan with all the NIMBYs that cry over a cell tower in their backyard?
If there is public evidence that this person opposed construction of a tower, then post "(name of person) is responsible for cellular data throttling in (city), (state)," along with a link to this evidence.
something tiny, modern, and 64bit
Sometimes modern isn't tiny.
The first round of netbooks, such as the Eee PC 900, were 9" laptops with a 32-bit Celeron processor. The second round of 9" and 10" netbooks used a 64-bit-capable Atom processor, but many shipped with 1 GB of RAM and can't be upgraded past 2 GB. At RAM sizes of 1 GB or less, pointer size increase becomes substantial, and "x32" (x86-64 with 32-bit pointers) never drew enough of a following to come close to displacing i386. (Xubuntu will still be around to support 1 GB PCs, and 64-bit Xubuntu appears to run OK on 2 GB.) A new netbook in 2017 won't be especially "tiny", as 11.6" appears to be the minimum screen size nowadays.
The problem is the main package repository
If Canonical wants to continue offering Wine, it'll need to maintain at least some i386 libraries in the main repository at least until Wine becomes a snap that hosts its own copy of the C runtime and X client libraries.
Back in 1997, many computers still in use had single-digit megabytes of RAM, and the doubling of pointer length would have increased data cache misses and RAM misses, causing more swapping. The only affordable 64-bit computer in 1997 was a Nintendo 64 game console, and that was locked down through a security microcontroller to run only Nintendo-approved software.
Ahem: Throwing the Godwin Flag.
Here's what Mike Godwin himself had to say about the neo-Nazis at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville: "By all means, compare these shitheads to the Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you."
I'd call [the NSDAP and its successors] fascist-left
Though the platform of the NSDAP included workfare programs, the rest of its nationalist, anti-feminist, anti-gay, anti-Marxist ideology smells a lot like paleoconservatism, the ideology of the alt-right.
No, angel'o'sphere is butthurt at frustration with other people who can not see the parallels between this party and another "relatively new right wing radical party" in Germany in the 1930s.
More towers mean the same spectrum can support more users.
You can just plug an antenna in any TV!
Provided it's actually a TV. Many devices that are shaped like a TV and sold in the TV section, such as the Vizio E70-E3, are actually only monitors. They can display an HDMI signal or receive a Chromecast, and that's about it. The tuner is sold separately.
Good luck getting those apps to connect to their respective services without paying a recurring fee to Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or MVNOs that use their networks.
Receiving an update means you have Internet access for an hour, not for a whole month.
They could drop the limit entirely - and just become a rather strange blogging platform.
It already is that way. A properly formatted over-long Tweet contains a headline up to 115 characters and a link to the body on a pastebin service such as Twitlonger or on your traditional blog.
I figured that one out in seconds: "Despite the negative press covfefe" means "Despite the negative press coverage". Many messaging applications make the last word of a message exempt from autocorrect.
A popular wrestling website even picked up on the results
I guess today I learned that there are popular websites for legit wrestling as opposed to scripted WWEstling.
As long as it's visible, it should refresh every n seconds (30 seems a fine number[...]).
And if the refresh job finds that the user has temporarily lost Internet connection, a modal dialog "Reconnecting" should completely cover the (slightly outdated) information that the user is trying to read. <cough>Discordapp.com</cough>
Milk yes, burger no. Cows are sacred in part because they provide milk. In Hindu mythology, Vishnu in the form of Prithu milked Prithvi (Mother Earth) in cow form to fertilize the first cultivated crops. Ground beef is to them like killing the goose that lays golden eggs.
"Despite the constant negative press covefefe"
The misspelled word in that Tweet was obviously intended to be "coverage". But phones with a built-in physical keyboard have long since been discontinued in favor of phones with a flat sheet of glass as the only text input mechanism, and many apps don't autocorrect the last typed word in a message.
While simple can be harder than complex, it's usually just simplistic and stupid.
Exactly. The removal of physical keyboards has simplified the phone mechanically but increased a certain category of stupid data entry mistakes.