Then perhaps a login shell should display a message after signing on: "To learn how to use the command prompt, type cli-tutor and press Enter." This would guide a new user through less, basic Bash built-ins, man, and apropos, after which the interested user would have enough information to continue learning.
Personally, [to learn what shell command to use for a particular task,] I use this new "search engine" called Google.
If you try that on your MacBook, iPad Wi-Fi, or iPod touch while riding the bus, you'll end up seeing a Safari error message to the same effect as this error message from Firefox:
Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at www.google.com.
Check the address for typing errors such as ww.example.com instead of www.example.com
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
The workaround for that nowadays is to pay the recurring fee for an unlimited mobile data plan, if that's even offered in your area.
I suppose I'm in an ideal situation because I have unlimited data and subscribe to Apple Music
Then perhaps it might be useful to quantify the cost of entering such "an ideal situation". Start with a flip phone on a $100 per year plan and an iPod touch. How much does it cost over the three-year expected service life of a device to upgrade from an iPod touch to an iPhone, from occasional voice-only service to a plan with unlimited data, and from your existing collection to an Apple Music subscription?
Unless you've done it yourself there's always room for a conspiracy theory like the NWO controlling both the US and German governments and then some to suppress the truth.
the Super Famicom is backward compatible with Famicom games with a cartridge adapter.
Are you referring to something like the Super 8 famiclone? That's no more "backward compatibility" than a ColecoVision Expansion Module No. 1, Super Game Boy, or Game Boy Player accessory because all the NES processing hardware is in the Super 8 adapter. It just uses the Super NES for power and controllers. It's not like the Power Base Converter, which just mapped Master System cartridge pinout to Genesis. Or was there another adapter I'm missing?
I haven't had any problems emulating an SNES with add-on stuff like SuperFX and Mode 7 graphics since, oh.. 450MHz PII-based Celeron using ZSNES.
ZSNES is fine if it runs the particular game you are trying to play. But it's not so fine for more obscure uses, such as compatibility with controller logs for console-verifiable speedruns, development of game mods and original games that work on the original console, and even a few games. From ZSNES Readme:
The following features are missing: Pseudo 512 SNES horizontal resolution (no games are known to use this)
Jurassic Park and Kirby's Dream Land 3 use this feature for tinted transparency.
Perhaps if the developer chose x86 ASM instead of C++
Then it would require megabytes upon megabytes of:i386 libraries to run on an x86-64 operating system, and the emulator would itself have to be run in an emulator on ARM or any other non-x86 platform.
Why hasn't the PC had a similar "death spiral into shovelware" despite being designed from the ground up for Other OS (with the exception of very few recent models with locked-down Secure Boot)? It has shovelware, as it is the first line platform for amateur productions, but why hasn't this caused "a death spiral"?
Most things with CD tried to be backwards compatibility, most things with cartridges not so much.
Except anything in the Game Boy or Nintendo DS line, which support at least one generation of back-compat: GBA and GBA SP can run Game Boy and GBC games, DS and DS Lite can run GBA games, and 3DS, 2DS, and New Nintendo 3DS can run DS games.
I'm pretty sure I know people who have several game consoles spanning a very long time.. like back to their Super Nintento.
That and there are still third-party games coming out for the original Nintendo Entertainment System, three decades after the console's launch.
if it still works and there are games you still like.. why just throw it away?
Presumably to save recurring rent/property tax money by moving to a smaller home.
I can't remember if it was PS->PS2, or PS2->PS3... but essentially they achieved backwards compatibility by making the CPU for the previous generation the front-end processor for the new generation.
There have been several consoles like that. Sega Genesis included the Sega Master System CPU as a coprocessor mostly used for audio and a VDP that can fall back to Master System video modes. PlayStation 2 included the original PlayStation's CPU as the I/O coprocessor. Nintendo DS included the GBA's ARM7 as the I/O coprocessor.
There are a few other approaches to backward compatibility. One is to overclock the same CPU (Game Boy Color, Wii), possibly with more identical cores (Wii U). Another is to disable the previous CPU entirely when running new games (Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 3 with SACD logo).
I'm sure a PS2 emulator has novelty value but I'm not sure many people will really be that interested.
It's the same logic as the Virtual Console section of Nintendo's Wii Shop Channel. Only a PlayStation 2 emulator can play PlayStation 2 exclusive games. A heck of a lot of those were produced for a console that clearly outsold the contemporary Xbox and GameCube consoles. Emulating the PlayStation 2 allows SCE and participating game publishers to produce revenue from these games.
Or is the PS4 simply not powerful enough to do it?
I suspect that to be the case. PlayStation 4's processor (a 64-bit Jaguar, DO THE MATH) is reportedly clocked lower than PlayStation 3's Cell Broadband Engine.
They should take the ARM model and simply license their AMD64 core (i.e. instruction set and everything) to top of the line fabs aside from Intel
AMD has a cross-license with Intel to cover patented parts of x86 and x86-64 instruction sets. I'm not entirely certain to what extent this license extends to licensing AMD64 cores to SoC makers beyond what AMD is already doing with the APUs in Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
There's a big difference between an ad saying "ask your doctor about rosacea" and one saying "ask your doctor about ORACEA® (doxycycline)." Otherwise, without any advertising, how are patients supposed to learn that a particular condition is not just a normal part of life that everybody suffers through but is instead treatable?
Why doesn't AMD just shut down and leave all the work to Intel?
Because AMD is the only way we have to keep Intel from going full monopolist. The qualitative effect on the market from the difference between one and two makers of a particular product, such as CPUs that run a particular instruction set, is far greater than that between two and three.
Doctors are expected to live near enough to a library that has a subscription
I thought doctors were expected to live near their patients, even if those patients live far from a library. Or do I misunderstand the meaning of the name Doctors Without Borders?
I was on the beta test and even then it was filled with bunny hopping 13 year olds making it annoying.
Is there a playable species that looks like a rabbit, like Lepi? I ask because if done right, "bunny hopping" could be a way to bring in the furry fandom.
Only for about a month while you are switching to only an online bank.
many banks reimburse for ATM fees. Or you can get cash back with a purchase at any retailer that takes EFTPOS cards.
My bank charges me extra for ATM fees.
Dump it and switch to an online bank that charges no out-of-network fees and reimburses ATM operators' fees, like Ally or Schwab. Or get cash back at Walmart or wherever.
a real-time chat application or collaborative whiteboard
You're talking about things that are either more suited to an intranet
Not always. Public chat includes tech support on vendors' web sites and web IRC gateways, which need AJAX in order to poll for new messages. Public whiteboard-type things include oekaki sites, which need JavaScript canvas to function. Anti-JavaScript hardliners believe that such applications ought to be native.
or Web games, both of which require javascript to work.
Anti-JavaScript hardliners believe that games ought to be native applications. But not all developers have the resources to maintain a native app strategy across fourteen different platforms.
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Then what cues are "kids that don't have the preconceptions we have" using to distinguish an inactive label from an active control?
Then perhaps a login shell should display a message after signing on: "To learn how to use the command prompt, type cli-tutor and press Enter." This would guide a new user through less, basic Bash built-ins, man, and apropos, after which the interested user would have enough information to continue learning.
Personally, [to learn what shell command to use for a particular task,] I use this new "search engine" called Google.
If you try that on your MacBook, iPad Wi-Fi, or iPod touch while riding the bus, you'll end up seeing a Safari error message to the same effect as this error message from Firefox:
The workaround for that nowadays is to pay the recurring fee for an unlimited mobile data plan, if that's even offered in your area.
Besides, how was it done before BackRub existed?
I suppose I'm in an ideal situation because I have unlimited data and subscribe to Apple Music
Then perhaps it might be useful to quantify the cost of entering such "an ideal situation". Start with a flip phone on a $100 per year plan and an iPod touch. How much does it cost over the three-year expected service life of a device to upgrade from an iPod touch to an iPhone, from occasional voice-only service to a plan with unlimited data, and from your existing collection to an Apple Music subscription?
Unless you've done it yourself there's always room for a conspiracy theory like the NWO controlling both the US and German governments and then some to suppress the truth.
s/W/AT/ and it becomes more plausible.
the Super Famicom is backward compatible with Famicom games with a cartridge adapter.
Are you referring to something like the Super 8 famiclone? That's no more "backward compatibility" than a ColecoVision Expansion Module No. 1, Super Game Boy, or Game Boy Player accessory because all the NES processing hardware is in the Super 8 adapter. It just uses the Super NES for power and controllers. It's not like the Power Base Converter, which just mapped Master System cartridge pinout to Genesis. Or was there another adapter I'm missing?
The idea was that when you reduce the area of your home by 30 percent, old consoles are among the first to go.
I haven't had any problems emulating an SNES with add-on stuff like SuperFX and Mode 7 graphics since, oh.. 450MHz PII-based Celeron using ZSNES.
ZSNES is fine if it runs the particular game you are trying to play. But it's not so fine for more obscure uses, such as compatibility with controller logs for console-verifiable speedruns, development of game mods and original games that work on the original console, and even a few games. From ZSNES Readme:
Jurassic Park and Kirby's Dream Land 3 use this feature for tinted transparency.
Perhaps if the developer chose x86 ASM instead of C++
Then it would require megabytes upon megabytes of :i386 libraries to run on an x86-64 operating system, and the emulator would itself have to be run in an emulator on ARM or any other non-x86 platform.
Why hasn't the PC had a similar "death spiral into shovelware" despite being designed from the ground up for Other OS (with the exception of very few recent models with locked-down Secure Boot)? It has shovelware, as it is the first line platform for amateur productions, but why hasn't this caused "a death spiral"?
Most things with CD tried to be backwards compatibility, most things with cartridges not so much.
Except anything in the Game Boy or Nintendo DS line, which support at least one generation of back-compat: GBA and GBA SP can run Game Boy and GBC games, DS and DS Lite can run GBA games, and 3DS, 2DS, and New Nintendo 3DS can run DS games.
I'm pretty sure I know people who have several game consoles spanning a very long time .. like back to their Super Nintento.
That and there are still third-party games coming out for the original Nintendo Entertainment System, three decades after the console's launch.
if it still works and there are games you still like .. why just throw it away?
Presumably to save recurring rent/property tax money by moving to a smaller home.
I can't remember if it was PS->PS2, or PS2->PS3 ... but essentially they achieved backwards compatibility by making the CPU for the previous generation the front-end processor for the new generation.
There have been several consoles like that. Sega Genesis included the Sega Master System CPU as a coprocessor mostly used for audio and a VDP that can fall back to Master System video modes. PlayStation 2 included the original PlayStation's CPU as the I/O coprocessor. Nintendo DS included the GBA's ARM7 as the I/O coprocessor.
There are a few other approaches to backward compatibility. One is to overclock the same CPU (Game Boy Color, Wii), possibly with more identical cores (Wii U). Another is to disable the previous CPU entirely when running new games (Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 3 with SACD logo).
I'm sure a PS2 emulator has novelty value but I'm not sure many people will really be that interested.
It's the same logic as the Virtual Console section of Nintendo's Wii Shop Channel. Only a PlayStation 2 emulator can play PlayStation 2 exclusive games. A heck of a lot of those were produced for a console that clearly outsold the contemporary Xbox and GameCube consoles. Emulating the PlayStation 2 allows SCE and participating game publishers to produce revenue from these games.
Or is the PS4 simply not powerful enough to do it?
I suspect that to be the case. PlayStation 4's processor (a 64-bit Jaguar, DO THE MATH) is reportedly clocked lower than PlayStation 3's Cell Broadband Engine.
What kind of rebel SCUMM would be responsible for that thought?
They should take the ARM model and simply license their AMD64 core (i.e. instruction set and everything) to top of the line fabs aside from Intel
AMD has a cross-license with Intel to cover patented parts of x86 and x86-64 instruction sets. I'm not entirely certain to what extent this license extends to licensing AMD64 cores to SoC makers beyond what AMD is already doing with the APUs in Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
There's a big difference between an ad saying "ask your doctor about rosacea" and one saying "ask your doctor about ORACEA® (doxycycline)." Otherwise, without any advertising, how are patients supposed to learn that a particular condition is not just a normal part of life that everybody suffers through but is instead treatable?
Why doesn't AMD just shut down and leave all the work to Intel?
Because AMD is the only way we have to keep Intel from going full monopolist. The qualitative effect on the market from the difference between one and two makers of a particular product, such as CPUs that run a particular instruction set, is far greater than that between two and three.
silly closed MOOXML
OOXML is described in ECMA-376 and ISO/IEC 29500. How exactly is it "closed"?
Doctors are expected to live near enough to a library that has a subscription
I thought doctors were expected to live near their patients, even if those patients live far from a library. Or do I misunderstand the meaning of the name Doctors Without Borders?
Peer reviewed scientific journals.
In other words, doctors would have to pay for an expensive subscription to look at ads.
I was on the beta test and even then it was filled with bunny hopping 13 year olds making it annoying.
Is there a playable species that looks like a rabbit, like Lepi? I ask because if done right, "bunny hopping" could be a way to bring in the furry fandom.
Without any advertising, how are even doctors supposed to learn of new treatments that work where existing treatments fail?
It's probably something like Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR).
So you recommend using two banks?
Only for about a month while you are switching to only an online bank.
many banks reimburse for ATM fees. Or you can get cash back with a purchase at any retailer that takes EFTPOS cards.
My bank charges me extra for ATM fees.
Dump it and switch to an online bank that charges no out-of-network fees and reimburses ATM operators' fees, like Ally or Schwab. Or get cash back at Walmart or wherever.
But then that "central place" would be blocked by privacy advocates as "tracking the user".
a real-time chat application or collaborative whiteboard
You're talking about things that are either more suited to an intranet
Not always. Public chat includes tech support on vendors' web sites and web IRC gateways, which need AJAX in order to poll for new messages. Public whiteboard-type things include oekaki sites, which need JavaScript canvas to function. Anti-JavaScript hardliners believe that such applications ought to be native.
or Web games, both of which require javascript to work.
Anti-JavaScript hardliners believe that games ought to be native applications. But not all developers have the resources to maintain a native app strategy across fourteen different platforms.