Having programed on computers with as little as 4k of ram, 8GB just seems insane. Nobody should need that unless they are running something like an enterprise database, doing atomic modeling of a nuclear explosion, or running an FPS that is more realistic than going outside and shooting people.
Well ignoring the fact that people do run database and do modelling of all sorts of things on PCS, just the last mentioned justifies the high hardware specifications on today's PCs.
Any games on a machine with 4k of RAM are going to be pretty much text only.
For the moment we've still got the BBC making decent programmes and ITV and Channel 4 have at least some quality control.
I'm someone else who hardly watches TV now, if it wasn't for kids' TV and my wife enjoying soap operas I don't think we'd bother having a TV except to watch films on.
I don't know where you live, but in the UK 3G is nowhere close to normal broadband speed (2Mbps if you're not in a city provided with fibre or something), and 4g is about 8-10 Mbps max, average about 2 or 3 Mbps last I checked.
Not quite sure what your point is. Mine is that airport radar is critical safety equipment that I don't want compromised so some teen can stream One Direction in HD.
Typical oldster, hey! leave us kids alone! no sense of fun yourselves, so you just don't want us to enjoy ourselves, it's not even fair, I'm going to marry Harry when I grow up, no one understands me...
I have precisely zero interest in software updates for a phone, as long as it keeps working the same as when I bought it. I know it's an appalling offence against geekdom, but phones are like fridges or hoovers to me, I really don't care what's under the hood.
As long as Gingerbread works with the hardware of the phone, who cares that it's "out of date"?
The only way to get an iphone 5 here is to buy a bootlegged one, for an astonishing 2500 US dollars.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to fly to the US and smuggle it back, if necessary (or as an added bonus depending on your point of view) by hiding it in your rectum?
Quattro is great. Audi's might have their warts but they're head and shoulders better than BMWs.
Except that most people who drive Audis are either pricks, wankers or cunts. If you don't mind people thinking you're probably a prick, wanker or cunt they're great cars.
At least with BMWs everyone just knows you're a twat, no complications.
Couldn't the touch screen have haptic and audio feedback, so that when you touched the heater button it could give you a lightning bolt through the fingers and say "are you sure you want to adjust the heater?"
If you work at the sort of place where you can whip out a harmonica and play it, I don't think you're exactly in a high stress environment to start with, so why not just have a nap or something?
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Having programed on computers with as little as 4k of ram, 8GB just seems insane. Nobody should need that unless they are running something like an enterprise database, doing atomic modeling of a nuclear explosion, or running an FPS that is more realistic than going outside and shooting people.
Well ignoring the fact that people do run database and do modelling of all sorts of things on PCS, just the last mentioned justifies the high hardware specifications on today's PCs.
Any games on a machine with 4k of RAM are going to be pretty much text only.
Were they doing CMYK back then?
If so, maybe the GIMP team could, um, borrow the code?
I'm someone else who hardly watches TV now, if it wasn't for kids' TV and my wife enjoying soap operas I don't think we'd bother having a TV except to watch films on.
Truly, we live in an age of wonders.
I don't know where you live, but in the UK 3G is nowhere close to normal broadband speed (2Mbps if you're not in a city provided with fibre or something), and 4g is about 8-10 Mbps max, average about 2 or 3 Mbps last I checked.
My G goes up to eleven.
Not quite sure what your point is. Mine is that airport radar is critical safety equipment that I don't want compromised so some teen can stream One Direction in HD.
Typical oldster, hey! leave us kids alone! no sense of fun yourselves, so you just don't want us to enjoy ourselves, it's not even fair, I'm going to marry Harry when I grow up, no one understands me...
Most of the UK doesn't even have 4g yet, and they're already worrying about 5g?
There are almost 200 countries in the world. Good luck coming up with a short, pronounceable product name that is original in all of them.
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As long as Gingerbread works with the hardware of the phone, who cares that it's "out of date"?
Opel/Vauxhall and in latin america: Chevrolet.
My mom had a Chevrolet Meriva, while someone from the UK had a Vauxhall Meriva, and someone from europe had an Opel Meriva.
The Vauxhall Meriva is the best one, and I say this objectively as a British citizen.
The only way to get an iphone 5 here is to buy a bootlegged one, for an astonishing 2500 US dollars.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to fly to the US and smuggle it back, if necessary (or as an added bonus depending on your point of view) by hiding it in your rectum?
Well, aren't YOU special ?
Stay the FUCK out of the fast lane with that ugly pile of shit, you trend-following sheep.
Oooh, you're so BUTCH.
I did wonder about all the knob references. I assume it's not a popular comedy term for a penis in the US?
Quattro is great. Audi's might have their warts but they're head and shoulders better than BMWs.
Except that most people who drive Audis are either pricks, wankers or cunts. If you don't mind people thinking you're probably a prick, wanker or cunt they're great cars.
At least with BMWs everyone just knows you're a twat, no complications.
Couldn't the touch screen have haptic and audio feedback, so that when you touched the heater button it could give you a lightning bolt through the fingers and say "are you sure you want to adjust the heater?"
"Isn't the whole point of medals to reward someone for putting their life on the line to protect their country?"
No. The point of medals is recognition for service. The military awards plenty of medals that have nothing to do with combat.
Are they like Girl Guide badges, you mean?
Somebody had to say it...
"The victim has been stabbed forty nine times. Which of you forty nine co-workers stabbed him?"
If you work at the sort of place where you can whip out a harmonica and play it, I don't think you're exactly in a high stress environment to start with, so why not just have a nap or something?
Juggling is great for short breaks.
But unless you work on your own, everyone will know you're a wanker.
Or if you need a short break, sort out your desk or stare out the window for 30 seconds.
Does anyone really work so hard that they have to think of 30 seconds as a break?
after a few weeks they stop looking at you weird
No they don't. They just get better at hiding their reaction.
Do you mean you just add made up roads? Seems a bit childish, but each ot his own.
This is probably only a good idea if you're working at home.