Hey, DOS was awesome. You could concentrate well on one thing at a time and get stuff done. Hardware-accelerated text console at your fingertips. Direct fast hardware access. Very fast startup.
It's not a game on who has the highest clock rate anymore
Indeed. Also, when we look at normal CPUs, it's amazing how much more processing power we can get today from a 2GHz chip (e.g. an Intel Core) compared to a 2GHz chip a decade ago (e.g. a Pentium 4 chip). Same clock frequency.
It's interesting to watch the timeline in Internet Archive. The website has hosted various content over years. The latest snapshots seem to show some kind of tongue-in-the-cheek website with pictures of scenery in Europe where "internet" is being carried by boats and cable cars (the cables are lubricated using pork fat).
As much as I hate to admit it, for once Bill Gates is right. People who lack enough decent food or sanitation, and suffer from chronic diseases and lack of even the most rudimentary health care, have things they need more than the Internet.
They can both exist. Bill Gates can push the bare essentials and, Facebook and Google will try to get the folk connected.
I've yet to see ANYTHING produced by a "code free" coding environment that was worth a damn. Expect to see this unceremoniously shelved in the next six months.
Actually when you think about it, Microsoft has a whole slew of tools which enable creation of software and other things by people who have no idea what they are doing. And those tools seem to stick around for a long time.
Click N' Play was great -- heavy on the GUI with some very light scripting to tie more complex events together, and you could create a pretty wide variety of games so long as they were 2D.
"Klik & Play", actually. Anyway, I loved to screw around with that app as a kid. It even got a "sequel" called The Games Factory which included the ability to create scrolling platformers and things like that. Also I remember a DOS game creation tool called Pie 3D which allowed you to make first person shooters (engine was technologically something between Wolf3D and Doom). Add good ole Visual Basic to the top of the pile and we've got a healthy dose of all that silly stuff.;)
Are we sure he's talking about the updater? There's also the option "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed" at the bottom of the Settings page. I'm not sure what those apps are, but I've always unticked the checkbox to not leave any junk running.
If I'm not mistaken, in Windows Task Scheduler it can also be seen that the Google update service runs once per hour. Isn't that a bit too often methinks..?
The upcoming consoles, PS4 and XB1, seem quite exciting otherwise, but I think they totally failed at the enclosure design. Both of them have an ugly 80s VCR look...
Something is not what it seems. There is no way one computer can conduct such a scan all by itself, even if all the other devices were on and all had unlimited bandwidth. the response time to a simple ping from each device makes it impossible to scan the entire range in that time span.
No, this has to be a distributed network, and by accessing the software, you are probably agreeing to be part of their slave network.
I wouldn't trust it if my life depended on it.
"Slave network".:D Anyway, it works because you can scan multiple hosts in parallel. You don't have to wait for each one of them to respond (and many of them won't anyway). A simple ping is a small packet and you can fire out them quite fast with a gigabit pipe.
Though I don't blame windows 8 for being generally featureless piece of crap missing a command line and any useful IT utilities out of the box. Thats a windows problem in general.
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Speak for yourself. My processor will very happily go up to 4.1ghz without overclocking (Not bad for a mid-range processor).
I was only talking about performance per clock.
Of course, as you say, today chips can work at higher clock rates too, which also improves performance.
Hey, DOS was awesome. You could concentrate well on one thing at a time and get stuff done. Hardware-accelerated text console at your fingertips. Direct fast hardware access. Very fast startup.
Homer Simpson's head has them both.
It's not a game on who has the highest clock rate anymore
Indeed. Also, when we look at normal CPUs, it's amazing how much more processing power we can get today from a 2GHz chip (e.g. an Intel Core) compared to a 2GHz chip a decade ago (e.g. a Pentium 4 chip). Same clock frequency.
It's interesting to watch the timeline in Internet Archive. The website has hosted various content over years. The latest snapshots seem to show some kind of tongue-in-the-cheek website with pictures of scenery in Europe where "internet" is being carried by boats and cable cars (the cables are lubricated using pork fat).
As much as I hate to admit it, for once Bill Gates is right. People who lack enough decent food or sanitation, and suffer from chronic diseases and lack of even the most rudimentary health care, have things they need more than the Internet.
They can both exist. Bill Gates can push the bare essentials and, Facebook and Google will try to get the folk connected.
Interesting point.
I've yet to see ANYTHING produced by a "code free" coding environment that was worth a damn. Expect to see this unceremoniously shelved in the next six months.
Actually when you think about it, Microsoft has a whole slew of tools which enable creation of software and other things by people who have no idea what they are doing. And those tools seem to stick around for a long time.
Click N' Play was great -- heavy on the GUI with some very light scripting to tie more complex events together, and you could create a pretty wide variety of games so long as they were 2D.
"Klik & Play", actually. Anyway, I loved to screw around with that app as a kid. It even got a "sequel" called The Games Factory which included the ability to create scrolling platformers and things like that. Also I remember a DOS game creation tool called Pie 3D which allowed you to make first person shooters (engine was technologically something between Wolf3D and Doom). Add good ole Visual Basic to the top of the pile and we've got a healthy dose of all that silly stuff. ;)
I wonder when their HTML5 trial gets out of the "trial" phase. Before we know, we have gone through a full decade of that experiment.
Are we sure he's talking about the updater? There's also the option "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed" at the bottom of the Settings page. I'm not sure what those apps are, but I've always unticked the checkbox to not leave any junk running.
If I'm not mistaken, in Windows Task Scheduler it can also be seen that the Google update service runs once per hour. Isn't that a bit too often methinks..?
Free in gratis, but not free in libre.
Jacking off? Oh, wait...
The upcoming consoles, PS4 and XB1, seem quite exciting otherwise, but I think they totally failed at the enclosure design. Both of them have an ugly 80s VCR look...
But I couldn't find the address to which to send my comments, so maybe that was an oversight on their part.
You can find the comment form in the We Want to Hear from You article.
Use it.
If I were your supervisor and I heard you say...
If it were my job to handle bug reports and I didn't want to be hassled with work...
...I assure you, it would no longer be your job.
Read his post fully. He was exactly describing how someone would handle bug reports badly.
Something is not what it seems. There is no way one computer can conduct such a scan all by itself, even if all the other devices were on and all had unlimited bandwidth. the response time to a simple ping from each device makes it impossible to scan the entire range in that time span.
No, this has to be a distributed network, and by accessing the software, you are probably agreeing to be part of their slave network.
I wouldn't trust it if my life depended on it.
"Slave network". :D Anyway, it works because you can scan multiple hosts in parallel. You don't have to wait for each one of them to respond (and many of them won't anyway). A simple ping is a small packet and you can fire out them quite fast with a gigabit pipe.
I don't understand why so much of the focus on google glass is on the video camera. Lots of devices can record video, that's nothing new.
Because it enables constant video recording in a way which is much easier than using a separate video camera or a smartphone.
Please let me know where you got it. I'd like to order one myself.
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I see. Thanks for letting me know.
Citation?
Though I don't blame windows 8 for being generally featureless piece of crap missing a command line and any useful IT utilities out of the box. Thats a windows problem in general.
They call it PowerShell.
How is adding a mocking "Start" button that takes you to metro and sending your local searches over the internet less suck?
AFAIK Windows 8 does not send your local searches over the Internet. Did this change in 8.1?
I would probably give IE a chance, but I'll pass until they provide the source code under a free and open source license.
Why?