Commodore 64 had at least three different versions of its underlying ROM, and upgrades were a thing. It was a whole different ball of wax back then, but they existed.
I guess it just goes to show preferences - I prefer smaller phones and tablets so these sizes would be about perfect for me. But there's no way in hell I'm paying $2000 for it. It's an interesting first try though.
Yeah, don't care. They're wasting my time. I'm not in a position or a place where anyone has any legitimate reason to be trying to sell me anything. There is nothing anyone would be cold calling me about that I'm interested in, and so far literally every call I've gotten has been some kind of dubious deal at best and outright scam/thieves at worst. I'm not going to feel bad about wasting their time or causing them some trouble. I do have some limits - I'm not going to make rape jokes at a woman caller, for example - but if I'm bored and have some time and string some scammer along for ten or 15 minutes before I get bored and make weird noises at them or something I'm not going to feel bad.
I had to look it up to be sure, but I can't find anywhere saying that the merging vehicle has the ROW. Everywhere I've looked says that at least in the USA the car already on the highway has the right of way and merging vehicles must only proceed when safe.
The short version is - a company makes 20 million of something. If they can save four cents on each unit, they've still saved over $2 million. Every bit they can shave off of a large volume item makes a difference.
Even on Chrome 69 on my multi-DPI work setup I have to turn on the DPI scaling compatibility mode/override to not get huge dialog boxes and widgets. It's a bit frustrating to me that a currently supported, modern app would still have problems with that.
I'm not sure if by DOS-based you mean literally just DOS or Win9x/ME, but Windows 95 supports long file names. It was one of the big new features for it, although it did (as Windows still does by default) autogenerate a short file name such as the infamous c:\Progra~1.
In a properly-running Windows 95, DOS was hardly used at all. There's a blog post that was even on Slashdot awhile back talking about it. It didn't really do any "heavy lifting" unless there was a legacy driver installed.
Windows 95 also supported APM just fine. I believe Win95C supported ACPI, but I'd have to double check that - but Windows 98 did support ACPI just fine. I had a couple Win95 laptops back in the day that did PC Card hot swapping just fine, although I didn't use it super extensively. So anecdotal there.
That's a bit like saying you've never seen a bicycle blow a head gasket whereas cars do. On a stock DOS install there was very little there to crash. You didn't have layers of drivers constantly in use, dozens of background processes, constant drive and network accesses, etc etc. You might have a sound driver that spent most of its time idle, maybe a mouse driver, and if you were super-fancy a network driver, but that was about it. Once you started adding TSRs and stuff like software VESA drivers, DOS did get a bit more unstable.
I have an Echo and use it for lots of random things, but shopping is objectively worse for most products. If I know exactly what I want, like I want to rebuy something consumable like the article talks about, I've used it a time or two. But for browsing or comparing products it's objectively worse than using a computer or even my phone where I can see all the specs/details right there and side by side, tab by tab, or whatever. I don't see myself ever really wanting to use it for more.
Last version of Firefox that runs on Win98 is in the 2.x series, without some third party hack like KernelEx, which these people aren't likely to be running. So yeah, a little over a decade.
As long as they're behind NAT they're probably safe from a lot of the immediate remote exploits. XP was kind of a mess because it was still in an era when people connected to the internet directly with public IPs on individual computers with no firewalling at all, whereas these days most people are at least behind some kind of NAT. From my messings-around with FF2 I'd be surprised if they were actually able to accomplish enough on the www with it to get infected with anything. Plenty of stuff still kinda works, but mostly it'd be completely broken. Windows 2000 will run at least Firefox 12 officially, and a few later versions with a little bit of tweaking, but still old enough to not run especially well on the modern web.
I'd be kind of interested to see how a keyboard that looks like a membrane keyboard a la an Atari 400, but with modern haptic feedback and low-pressure-sensitivity, would work. I'm not a big fan of the current Macbook keyboards (but admittedly haven't really used them beyond futzing with my coworkers' computers) but I've never really been one to reject something new out of hand.
I work in midtown Atlanta and run into the same people constantly. I work with people now, four companies later, that I was working with in 1999. I probably know at least a person or two at most tech companies with at least a few employees. The community here is surprisingly small and you never know who you'll run into.
It'd probably be a targeted attack - someone you're acquainted with who wants something you own. If you have a Z-Wave enabled house with z-wave locks and security and junk, you could theoretically use this to gain access with limited notice and no obvious breaking and entering. I doubt this is the kind of thing a rando criminal would use on some random person's house. Takes too much setup and work, and assumption that a pairing event happens frequently. Once I got my (limited to lights and AC) setup going, I haven't paired things for months and really have no reason to.
I set up a Lenny bot on my home Asterisk system and have been enjoying getting scammers into it. I haven't got around to posting any of my own recordings, but https://www.reddit.com/r/itsle... is pretty hilarious.
I haven't gotten any of my own recordings up yet, but I've had a great time working on getting scammers to a Lenny bot I run at home, as on https://www.reddit.com/r/itsle...
Not arguing for or against the point at hand here, but that's basically what virtually any political argument boils down to. Whether it's guns, abortion, healthcare, tax reform, immigration reform, term limits, segregation/affirmative action, whatever, people are wanting to tweak the balance of rights. Whether it's hardcore left folks who want to ban guns (but not other rights), hardcore religious folks who want to ban speech they consider blasphemy or establish state religions, basically any political argument boils down to people wanting to change certain rights but not others.
I don't disagree, but at that pricepoint I'd be a lot more willing to see all kinds of movies that I wouldn't otherwise pony up for. Basically zero risk at that point - if I'm not enjoying a movie I can get up and leave without feeling like I've thrown away a lot of money.
My city has a somewhat questionable bus system in-town, as well as some express buses that run out to several of the suburbs to bring people in and out of the city. It had some logistical challenges, but it worked. Compared to driving myself at about 40-50 minutes, it took maybe 15 minutes longer per trip, so maybe 30 minutes longer overall per day. This was a bit annoying but worth the tradeoff of not having to drive myself.
They then implemented a per-bus GPS system and live tracking, which had one unexpected tradeoff - if a bus was running late for a route, they were able to grab any available bus and reroute it or use it. In addition, the drivers occasionally had little tricks to get around traffic quirks, and if nobody needed off at a particular stop they might cut the corner off the route entirely. This kept delays to a minimum. With the new system, buses were required to stick specifically to their routes and tracks. Delays increased exponentially - it was now taking as much as 35-45 minutes longer per route. There'd be two or three buses sitting idle at the transfer station while my bus was getting later and later because whatever. So now I'm losing over an hour per day for the bus, sometimes more.
So yeah, it's great to be able to see where the buses are and how late they are, but it does me no good if the logistics and planning has been done so poorly that you can't rely on them or use them reasonably. It's still poorly executed at least here even if I can now see just how poorly executed they are. Granted I only gave it about three months from the new system being implemented, so maybe they got the growing pains worked out. I still have some credit on my card I should use up.
Laws are pretty picky about destroying property. That would be a bad thing.
The main options would be: 1. Release a "New Switch" that all future games require. This would shut out a huge number of legitimate existing purchasers who have no interest in the hacking though, and Nintendo probably wouldn't want to institute a voluntary recall program. That'd be a mess. 2. Release firmwares and games that don't necessarily prevent this, but detect/undo/refuse to run on modified systems. This would be a cat and mouse game, much as it was on the Wii with various attempts to remove Homebrew channel. 3. Do little to nothing, knowing that the number of people who actually do this are going to be small.
It'll mostly depend on the difficulty and danger of doing it. The 3DS mods are pretty tricky for a lot of the average users, and while it's easier and safer now for most of the system's life it took very specific firmware versions and a lot of tricky steps to do to enable piracy. Wii was fairly easy on the whole bit still took a few steps. On the other hand, Dreamcast piracy just took a cheap burned disc and was a much bigger problem. We'll just have to see how it goes.
I called it "a bit of a pain", nothing about "bastard stepchild". Not sure how you made that leap. There's rather a couple orders of magnitude of difference between what I said and you said.
Re-rerunning (and often having to redownload a newer version) and running through the installer again is not as convenient or straightforward as most Linux distros. It's a bit of a pain.
Most of the other failures I've have had been around cygwin DLLs getting lost, or some other application bringing along its own cygwin dlls that make a mess. Nothing too hard to fix, but it's a bit of a pain when something fails unexpectedly.
Yeah, it's a weird situation I've never been able to really puzzle out over the years. The dev asks for donation/licensing for the downloads from the website, but provides MIT/"Public Domain" downloads on sf still. It gets the job done at any rate.
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Commodore 64 had at least three different versions of its underlying ROM, and upgrades were a thing. It was a whole different ball of wax back then, but they existed.
I guess it just goes to show preferences - I prefer smaller phones and tablets so these sizes would be about perfect for me. But there's no way in hell I'm paying $2000 for it. It's an interesting first try though.
It's probably a reference to this old joke
Yeah, don't care. They're wasting my time. I'm not in a position or a place where anyone has any legitimate reason to be trying to sell me anything. There is nothing anyone would be cold calling me about that I'm interested in, and so far literally every call I've gotten has been some kind of dubious deal at best and outright scam/thieves at worst. I'm not going to feel bad about wasting their time or causing them some trouble. I do have some limits - I'm not going to make rape jokes at a woman caller, for example - but if I'm bored and have some time and string some scammer along for ten or 15 minutes before I get bored and make weird noises at them or something I'm not going to feel bad.
I had to look it up to be sure, but I can't find anywhere saying that the merging vehicle has the ROW. Everywhere I've looked says that at least in the USA the car already on the highway has the right of way and merging vehicles must only proceed when safe.
The short version is - a company makes 20 million of something. If they can save four cents on each unit, they've still saved over $2 million. Every bit they can shave off of a large volume item makes a difference.
Even on Chrome 69 on my multi-DPI work setup I have to turn on the DPI scaling compatibility mode/override to not get huge dialog boxes and widgets. It's a bit frustrating to me that a currently supported, modern app would still have problems with that.
I'm not sure if by DOS-based you mean literally just DOS or Win9x/ME, but Windows 95 supports long file names. It was one of the big new features for it, although it did (as Windows still does by default) autogenerate a short file name such as the infamous c:\Progra~1.
In a properly-running Windows 95, DOS was hardly used at all. There's a blog post that was even on Slashdot awhile back talking about it. It didn't really do any "heavy lifting" unless there was a legacy driver installed.
Windows 95 also supported APM just fine. I believe Win95C supported ACPI, but I'd have to double check that - but Windows 98 did support ACPI just fine. I had a couple Win95 laptops back in the day that did PC Card hot swapping just fine, although I didn't use it super extensively. So anecdotal there.
That's a bit like saying you've never seen a bicycle blow a head gasket whereas cars do. On a stock DOS install there was very little there to crash. You didn't have layers of drivers constantly in use, dozens of background processes, constant drive and network accesses, etc etc. You might have a sound driver that spent most of its time idle, maybe a mouse driver, and if you were super-fancy a network driver, but that was about it. Once you started adding TSRs and stuff like software VESA drivers, DOS did get a bit more unstable.
I have an Echo and use it for lots of random things, but shopping is objectively worse for most products. If I know exactly what I want, like I want to rebuy something consumable like the article talks about, I've used it a time or two. But for browsing or comparing products it's objectively worse than using a computer or even my phone where I can see all the specs/details right there and side by side, tab by tab, or whatever. I don't see myself ever really wanting to use it for more.
Last version of Firefox that runs on Win98 is in the 2.x series, without some third party hack like KernelEx, which these people aren't likely to be running. So yeah, a little over a decade.
As long as they're behind NAT they're probably safe from a lot of the immediate remote exploits. XP was kind of a mess because it was still in an era when people connected to the internet directly with public IPs on individual computers with no firewalling at all, whereas these days most people are at least behind some kind of NAT. From my messings-around with FF2 I'd be surprised if they were actually able to accomplish enough on the www with it to get infected with anything. Plenty of stuff still kinda works, but mostly it'd be completely broken. Windows 2000 will run at least Firefox 12 officially, and a few later versions with a little bit of tweaking, but still old enough to not run especially well on the modern web.
I'd be kind of interested to see how a keyboard that looks like a membrane keyboard a la an Atari 400, but with modern haptic feedback and low-pressure-sensitivity, would work. I'm not a big fan of the current Macbook keyboards (but admittedly haven't really used them beyond futzing with my coworkers' computers) but I've never really been one to reject something new out of hand.
I work in midtown Atlanta and run into the same people constantly. I work with people now, four companies later, that I was working with in 1999. I probably know at least a person or two at most tech companies with at least a few employees. The community here is surprisingly small and you never know who you'll run into.
It'd probably be a targeted attack - someone you're acquainted with who wants something you own. If you have a Z-Wave enabled house with z-wave locks and security and junk, you could theoretically use this to gain access with limited notice and no obvious breaking and entering. I doubt this is the kind of thing a rando criminal would use on some random person's house. Takes too much setup and work, and assumption that a pairing event happens frequently. Once I got my (limited to lights and AC) setup going, I haven't paired things for months and really have no reason to.
I set up a Lenny bot on my home Asterisk system and have been enjoying getting scammers into it. I haven't got around to posting any of my own recordings, but https://www.reddit.com/r/itsle... is pretty hilarious.
I haven't gotten any of my own recordings up yet, but I've had a great time working on getting scammers to a Lenny bot I run at home, as on https://www.reddit.com/r/itsle...
Not arguing for or against the point at hand here, but that's basically what virtually any political argument boils down to. Whether it's guns, abortion, healthcare, tax reform, immigration reform, term limits, segregation/affirmative action, whatever, people are wanting to tweak the balance of rights. Whether it's hardcore left folks who want to ban guns (but not other rights), hardcore religious folks who want to ban speech they consider blasphemy or establish state religions, basically any political argument boils down to people wanting to change certain rights but not others.
I don't disagree, but at that pricepoint I'd be a lot more willing to see all kinds of movies that I wouldn't otherwise pony up for. Basically zero risk at that point - if I'm not enjoying a movie I can get up and leave without feeling like I've thrown away a lot of money.
My city has a somewhat questionable bus system in-town, as well as some express buses that run out to several of the suburbs to bring people in and out of the city. It had some logistical challenges, but it worked. Compared to driving myself at about 40-50 minutes, it took maybe 15 minutes longer per trip, so maybe 30 minutes longer overall per day. This was a bit annoying but worth the tradeoff of not having to drive myself.
They then implemented a per-bus GPS system and live tracking, which had one unexpected tradeoff - if a bus was running late for a route, they were able to grab any available bus and reroute it or use it. In addition, the drivers occasionally had little tricks to get around traffic quirks, and if nobody needed off at a particular stop they might cut the corner off the route entirely. This kept delays to a minimum. With the new system, buses were required to stick specifically to their routes and tracks. Delays increased exponentially - it was now taking as much as 35-45 minutes longer per route. There'd be two or three buses sitting idle at the transfer station while my bus was getting later and later because whatever. So now I'm losing over an hour per day for the bus, sometimes more.
So yeah, it's great to be able to see where the buses are and how late they are, but it does me no good if the logistics and planning has been done so poorly that you can't rely on them or use them reasonably. It's still poorly executed at least here even if I can now see just how poorly executed they are. Granted I only gave it about three months from the new system being implemented, so maybe they got the growing pains worked out. I still have some credit on my card I should use up.
Most phones I've handled for the last ~6 years at least have (or can have) camera app shortcuts right on the lockscreen for taking quick pictures.
Laws are pretty picky about destroying property. That would be a bad thing.
The main options would be:
1. Release a "New Switch" that all future games require. This would shut out a huge number of legitimate existing purchasers who have no interest in the hacking though, and Nintendo probably wouldn't want to institute a voluntary recall program. That'd be a mess.
2. Release firmwares and games that don't necessarily prevent this, but detect/undo/refuse to run on modified systems. This would be a cat and mouse game, much as it was on the Wii with various attempts to remove Homebrew channel.
3. Do little to nothing, knowing that the number of people who actually do this are going to be small.
It'll mostly depend on the difficulty and danger of doing it. The 3DS mods are pretty tricky for a lot of the average users, and while it's easier and safer now for most of the system's life it took very specific firmware versions and a lot of tricky steps to do to enable piracy. Wii was fairly easy on the whole bit still took a few steps. On the other hand, Dreamcast piracy just took a cheap burned disc and was a much bigger problem. We'll just have to see how it goes.
I called it "a bit of a pain", nothing about "bastard stepchild". Not sure how you made that leap. There's rather a couple orders of magnitude of difference between what I said and you said.
Re-rerunning (and often having to redownload a newer version) and running through the installer again is not as convenient or straightforward as most Linux distros. It's a bit of a pain.
Most of the other failures I've have had been around cygwin DLLs getting lost, or some other application bringing along its own cygwin dlls that make a mess. Nothing too hard to fix, but it's a bit of a pain when something fails unexpectedly.
Yeah, it's a weird situation I've never been able to really puzzle out over the years. The dev asks for donation/licensing for the downloads from the website, but provides MIT/"Public Domain" downloads on sf still. It gets the job done at any rate.
Xming was last updated in 2016, and I use it fairly often just fine even in Windows 10. Works with the Linux subsystem fine.