There's simply no value to spending time making these systems good.
Apparently someone still sees value in spending a lot of time making all the overly complex multi-page forms and user account systems for the current systems.
DRM? You could call as well a whole CPU to be DRM'd, as apart from the interface documentation (commands and their expected outcomes) a chip is a black box.
Well goddammit, you whiners. At least this company apologized and fixed the problem properly. How often these days we just get "[company name] declined to comment on the issue" and then we never hear from them again. Xiaomi's reaction in this case was much better.
When it came out it was the most secure and stable version of windows at that point in time. At this point in time it is the most buggy/virus waiting to happen version.
Let's not forget that it also created a massive wild west for all sorts of malware before Service Pack 2.
Everybody went in for Windows as their favoutte desktop operating system a couple decades back. After XP, there is little to be gained from Microsoft's latter offerings in operating systems. So now we are seeing large migrations to Linux and larger numbers still sticking on with XP.
I actually think that the operating systems after XP (read: NT 6.x) are precisely the ones that work really well and are nice to use. Of course the Windows 8 UI presents a problem, but the core is still robust and constantly improving.
Back in the day I liked Windows 2000 a lot, but skipped XP completely as it mostly was a bloated an unsecure version of 2000. I can't believe how sentimental people were towards a junkpile like XP when the support was ended.
With closed source, you have to either reverse-engineer another program which does what you want or you have to hope that someone has documented what you know about, and they probably haven't if we're talking about Windows.
Interfaces are very well documented in Windows world. Sure, you can't hack the core OS, but if you want to create anything on top of it (drivers, applications) it's actually a very hackable environment.
Indeed. Throwing away the 12ms average seek time of an HDD is the main attraction for getting an SSD. Almost all users would be happy even with an older 100MB/s SSD, provided that it had enough capacity.
GoldSrc was the "heavily modded Q1". Sure, Source builds even on top of that, but it's a bit unfair to say that it reminisces the Q1 engine in any meaningful way.
News and rumors about Valve's upcoming Source 2 engine have been buzzing for months, but a recent update to DOTA 2 contains the most persuasive evidence yet that a major engine is in the works.
What? It has already been confirmed two years ago.
It's not that trivial. You cannot change the hardware description on the fly, you need a cable to do that. Additionally, a private key is stored in the FPGA and the contents of the external Flash chip containing the hardware description has the data encrypted with the public key. Xilinx has a document with more info about tamper resistant designs.
Actually the AND gates come first, and are followed by OR gates. Then we can have some loopback connections to the same array. But that describes only one macrocell. The algorithms to create efficient (good performance and efficient use of cells) routing between the areas is part of the secret spice.
What is this garbage? Make all games 1920x1080, 60 fps, low latency. The hardware is powerful enough to make even good-looking games with these specs if you want to.
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As an interesting background fact, I heard that Google has an advanced Al doing all this stuff completely autonomously.
His real name is Albert, by the way.
In some countries I would be entitled to get the product that was advertised or get a refund.
You probably didn't even know about the TSX instruction set before reading this article.
There's simply no value to spending time making these systems good.
Apparently someone still sees value in spending a lot of time making all the overly complex multi-page forms and user account systems for the current systems.
DRM? You could call as well a whole CPU to be DRM'd, as apart from the interface documentation (commands and their expected outcomes) a chip is a black box.
Well goddammit, you whiners. At least this company apologized and fixed the problem properly. How often these days we just get "[company name] declined to comment on the issue" and then we never hear from them again. Xiaomi's reaction in this case was much better.
Looks like a typical XFCE desktop to me. I would more call that "utilitarian" than "beautiful". It looks good, but nothing stunning.
When it came out it was the most secure and stable version of windows at that point in time. At this point in time it is the most buggy/virus waiting to happen version.
Let's not forget that it also created a massive wild west for all sorts of malware before Service Pack 2.
Decades? Really now?
The Stylistic lineup is quite old.
Everybody went in for Windows as their favoutte desktop operating system a couple decades back. After XP, there is little to be gained from Microsoft's latter offerings in operating systems. So now we are seeing large migrations to Linux and larger numbers still sticking on with XP.
I actually think that the operating systems after XP (read: NT 6.x) are precisely the ones that work really well and are nice to use. Of course the Windows 8 UI presents a problem, but the core is still robust and constantly improving.
Back in the day I liked Windows 2000 a lot, but skipped XP completely as it mostly was a bloated an unsecure version of 2000. I can't believe how sentimental people were towards a junkpile like XP when the support was ended.
With closed source, you have to either reverse-engineer another program which does what you want or you have to hope that someone has documented what you know about, and they probably haven't if we're talking about Windows.
Interfaces are very well documented in Windows world. Sure, you can't hack the core OS, but if you want to create anything on top of it (drivers, applications) it's actually a very hackable environment.
Indeed. :D
No one loses anything if you make a copy!
If games actually load that much data at once, I obviously have to cancel my comment.
Indeed. Throwing away the 12ms average seek time of an HDD is the main attraction for getting an SSD. Almost all users would be happy even with an older 100MB/s SSD, provided that it had enough capacity.
I agree. While Windows generally works better than Linux on desktop these days, the update system in Windows is fucking flaky.
GoldSrc was the "heavily modded Q1". Sure, Source builds even on top of that, but it's a bit unfair to say that it reminisces the Q1 engine in any meaningful way.
News and rumors about Valve's upcoming Source 2 engine have been buzzing for months, but a recent update to DOTA 2 contains the most persuasive evidence yet that a major engine is in the works.
What? It has already been confirmed two years ago.
Slashdot 2012-11-12: Gabe Newell Confirms Source 2 Engine
Slashdot ran Source 2 news this spring too.
Slashdot 2014-03-05: Valve Prepping Source 2 Engine For VR
The DE0-Nano is a barebone board and the DE2-115 is populated with various common I/O ports.
It's not that trivial. You cannot change the hardware description on the fly, you need a cable to do that. Additionally, a private key is stored in the FPGA and the contents of the external Flash chip containing the hardware description has the data encrypted with the public key. Xilinx has a document with more info about tamper resistant designs.
Looking at the source code (dismissing blank and comment lines) it seems to be only about 800 lines of Verilog.
Video games are also an adults' hobby these days.
Something simple like a killswitch would still be possible.
Actually the AND gates come first, and are followed by OR gates. Then we can have some loopback connections to the same array. But that describes only one macrocell. The algorithms to create efficient (good performance and efficient use of cells) routing between the areas is part of the secret spice.
I'm sure one of the requirements would be an open source napkin.
Isn't it unfair to rank content based on encryption rather than relevance? What do you say?
I myself would promote HTTPS sites with a golden lock symbol and a text "This site transmits your data confidentially".
What is this garbage? Make all games 1920x1080, 60 fps, low latency. The hardware is powerful enough to make even good-looking games with these specs if you want to.