Only because they have incompetent programmers that can't understand code closer to hardware than four levels of abstraction away, and don't understand how to write their own graphical extensions, which OpenGL supports, and will always kick DirectX's ass on.
Lots of text editors are garbage. Notepad++ looks amateurish, or do you think that any professional program would name one of its tabs "MISC."? Sublime Text is not any better as it does not have proper configuration dialogues at all (a proper graphical program should have). Vim and Emacs have some cool features but the keybindings are unnecessarily unintuitive. If those two didn't have the hacker legacy and they were invented today, no one would use them. I surely am an angry man.:D
The electricity that goes in Bitcoin mining is essentially converted to 100% heat. So the problem can be avoided every time when the heat can be utilized somehow, for example to warm up a house. Which is, of course, almost never.;)
Why is the recommended RAM clock speed for AMD chips significantly higher than for Intel ones? A modern i3 is designed for 1333MHz, but performance will be hampered for an AMD APU if you don't go with 2400MHz.
researchers at the University of Houston's Graduate School of Social Work are building hyper-realistic virtual worlds
I'm not sure about "hyper-realistic".:) Sprite characters which say a pre-recorded line when you trigger them? Whoopy. Actually, looking at the video, it resembles a lot the game Under a Killing Moon from 1994.
Despite the slightly crusty appearance, I do not want to completely stomp the idea though.
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All the cool ones need a graphics card.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but you cannot write your own graphical extensions in OpenGL. There are only vendor-created extensions.
As a gamer, I appreciate the fact that XP is far more lightweight and consumes much less overhead than 7.
Not really. Windows 7 is essentially as lightweight as XP.
Only because they have incompetent programmers that can't understand code closer to hardware than four levels of abstraction away, and don't understand how to write their own graphical extensions, which OpenGL supports, and will always kick DirectX's ass on.
What do you mean with these graphical extensions?
1: REMOVE Metro. (not disable, not hide; DIE.)
As far I can see, your instructions only hide Modern UI. Wouldn't the Modern UI still keep running despite all Modern apps being removed?
Still, thanks for the recipe for removing all Modern apps. :)
Lots of text editors are garbage. Notepad++ looks amateurish, or do you think that any professional program would name one of its tabs "MISC."? Sublime Text is not any better as it does not have proper configuration dialogues at all (a proper graphical program should have). Vim and Emacs have some cool features but the keybindings are unnecessarily unintuitive. If those two didn't have the hacker legacy and they were invented today, no one would use them. I surely am an angry man. :D
What a colossal waste of power.
The electricity that goes in Bitcoin mining is essentially converted to 100% heat. So the problem can be avoided every time when the heat can be utilized somehow, for example to warm up a house. Which is, of course, almost never. ;)
The existence of Bitcoin still makes the world more interesting.
Are you aware of the scientific papers Folding has published?
Ah, of course!
Why is the recommended RAM clock speed for AMD chips significantly higher than for Intel ones? A modern i3 is designed for 1333MHz, but performance will be hampered for an AMD APU if you don't go with 2400MHz.
What lock-in?
Why?
researchers at the University of Houston's Graduate School of Social Work are building hyper-realistic virtual worlds
I'm not sure about "hyper-realistic". :) Sprite characters which say a pre-recorded line when you trigger them? Whoopy. Actually, looking at the video, it resembles a lot the game Under a Killing Moon from 1994.
Despite the slightly crusty appearance, I do not want to completely stomp the idea though.
Logitech is a Swiss company. :)
Almost any hardware component can be tampered with.
Even the single core of an i7 is 6x as fast as that P4.
Clock speed is pretty much everything.
Sure, pal. Except that even the ancient Pentium 4 was already available at 2.2GHz. In other words, clock speed is pretty much nothing.
I'm sure the engineers have taken care of that problem. As a matter of fact, I'm just testing the product and...oh shit, my shirt is on fire...
Damn...I already bought a car to start a music piracy business and now you say it's that easy!
Meeh. I think that also here the saying "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" works as the Occam's razor.
Well, as we are sailing on the seas of offtopic already, I might ask what's you favorite Pringles flavor? I'll go with the classic Paprika myself.
Sadly CompCert is not FOSS.
To me it looks like FOSS. The source code is available to download and it allows to choose between INRIA Non-Commercial License and GNU GPLv2.
Handing out TLDs is no more about being proper but giving tools for various fancy names and word plays. Remember to register your .fish domain today.
No, I don't forget them. I said that most laptops do not consume that much.