That isn't the point though. The potential is immense, and largely ignored by the bulk of the gaming industry. My mother was born in the mid 30's and a church secretary for years. In the early 90's I showed her Jill of the Jungle and she ended up playing through the whole thing pretty fanatically.
My wife currently only plays Hay Day and some other games that would be called 'casual games.' She was even a Farmville fan for a year or so. But in the past she completely played through Diablo II many times, and I mean at the hardest settings, and with all the character classes. She used to grind for hours and hours.
And she's a mod on a pet-sim game. There are a lot of large and very profitable centers of gaming that are primarily female.
That problem has occured for decades now. The 'youth' focus of culture started mainly in the 50's and has progressed since. Before then, musical tastes centered on older people, i.e. adults. Since then a lot of culture has focused on the resistance to grow up and the tensions of the age of adolescence. People strive to remain young and it's not 'cool' to appreciate, for example, jazz or 'classical' music.
It's almost like the permanent infantilism depicted in Huxley's "Brave New World" has come into fruition. (no, Huxley's book was NOT primarily about 'test tube babies.' You had a bad teacher if that's all they emphasized when you were required to read it.)
It'd be good if culture could refocus on respecting the notion of growing up, wisdom, and respect for elders. (and get off my lawn, too)
My wife plays a lot of Hay Day. I don't see a lot of true, real life concerning issues there. I guess I don't smell the magic sauce that makes women playing games any different.
Linux started as a project to fill a need he had, a Desktop OS that he could afford as a student.
If Microsoft had been more evil at the time, they would have shipped Linus a shiny brand-new Sun 386i with SunOS on it as a gift and smothered Linux in the crib.
For old times sake, I played an MS-DOS game, Duke Nukem 3D, on DOSBox earlier this week. It has an install.exe program that you have to run to tell the main executable which hardware I/O port, Interrupt, and DMA interrupt the sound card uses. Then you run a little test within the program that plays a test sound, and it spits out a.cfg file when it exits.
DOXBox is actually built to emulate a PC, with DOS, and the appropriate drivers for the sound card installed, so the Duke Nukem game can simply blat out data to the I/O port and listen on the interrupts it's informed to use.
But on real PC hardware you'd need to have a reference like 'device=v:\sb16drv.sys 220,7,1' in your config.sys file.
Some of us still deal with this stuff to a certain degree. At my job I get to be the expert who can quickly change out a floppy drive in a box, or get the fan on the power supply spinning again. They still uses shitty old 486 boxes with ISA data acq. cards in them in the test lab. The test engineer maintains the test software, which is written in GWBasic. I've never been able to convince him to even try updating to QBasic (which would almost certainly 'just work') so that he could strip most of the line numbers out and use a full screen editor and have much more readable code. So he tweaks cycle counts, stepper motor steps, etc. using the crummy line editor in GWBasic. He's probably going to retire in the next few years.
The rest of us held onto 3.3 until they fixed the problem by coming out with 5.0. Oh, you could use 4.0.1 from some of the OEMs, but not many of us were stupid enough to want to.
PC-DOS 4.0 was even worse than Microsoft's MS-DOS 4.0.
Are you sure you used 4.0, and it was multitasking? What were you using, DesqView? Hopefully not TopView.
The corollary is, though, that if I don't use 'cheap peripherals' with unsigned drivers I won't have problems. I've never, ever had a BSOD incident on the machine I presently use. I haven't had one that I can recall in about a decade.
Which leads me to believe that it's not a problem because of the Windows ABI, but because of the cheap peripheral vendor who wrote the unsigned driver.
More likely so he would never have to buy a replacement battery when the one from the factory dies (which he never encounters, always buying 8 year old cars) It's important for there to be people with spirit like that in the world.
In my first job out of school I worked for a Reliability department at a Medical Device company. The Reliability department was specifically organized as a branch off of Operations, not Quality or Engineering. Our responsibilities included providing a totally separate audit and review process from Quality or Engineering.
Companies do not want to shovel out defective product at the lowest possible cost and go out of business every few years to shuck off another layer of litigous customers. Maybe in your Comic Book world the Richie Riches and Scrooges who own all the factories do, but this is the real world.
I think this is more along the lines of them wanting to avoid the time and expense, since every new model will have to be tested after every code change, I guess.
Ah, they want to skip most of the regression testing. It makes sense, given who they are.
The article topic is wrong, and Google doubtless lawyered it to be that way. They want to do less real-world testing, and devote more resources into testing via simulation.
They don't need to ask anybody permission to do more simulation. What they're trying to do is spend less money on real world testing so they can devote it to simulation testing.
Similarly, I would rather play Minecraft than have a job. Digging gold ore in minecraft is 'work' too, so why won't they let me do that instead of real work?
The Raspberry Pi is designed as a pedagagical, easy-to-access entry point for new programmers to get involved and learn about experimenting and adventuring on computers. It was never about being 'the ideal embedded platform' for slashbots to use for their Media Center computer. Sure it's vintage, but other successful and popular single-board systems are even 8-bitters, like the Arduino, and still very successful and valuable to have out there for people to use.
Moving targets are not 'friendly' to the general public, and the Pi gives everyone a stable starting point.
The code to brick the phones will be super secret. On the order of the encryption that protected DVDs.
The phone vendors don't mind, because when the waves of hooligans hit with mass cellphone-kill signals, we will all have to buy another. It's even easier than planned obsolescence in OS updates.
If and when you find yourself carrying said beacon, for petes sake turn it off until you can get to a secure place to transmit the phone's contents out. There, now it's not a beacon any longer.
Creating something new with no built in advantage for yourself, being totally honest about it, and then when its value soars not selling..... is pretty much the opposite of a pump and dump scheme.
Well, then. We're clear on the fact that when the pump-and-dump operators took over, Satoshi retreated from the scene.
That doesn't change what bitcoin became rather quickly, and what is is now.
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That isn't the point though. The potential is immense, and largely ignored by the bulk of the gaming industry. My mother was born in the mid 30's and a church secretary for years. In the early 90's I showed her Jill of the Jungle and she ended up playing through the whole thing pretty fanatically.
Well, to start with, only some percentage of above people are Headbangers.
My wife currently only plays Hay Day and some other games that would be called 'casual games.' She was even a Farmville fan for a year or so. But in the past she completely played through Diablo II many times, and I mean at the hardest settings, and with all the character classes. She used to grind for hours and hours.
And she's a mod on a pet-sim game. There are a lot of large and very profitable centers of gaming that are primarily female.
That problem has occured for decades now. The 'youth' focus of culture started mainly in the 50's and has progressed since. Before then, musical tastes centered on older people, i.e. adults. Since then a lot of culture has focused on the resistance to grow up and the tensions of the age of adolescence. People strive to remain young and it's not 'cool' to appreciate, for example, jazz or 'classical' music.
It's almost like the permanent infantilism depicted in Huxley's "Brave New World" has come into fruition. (no, Huxley's book was NOT primarily about 'test tube babies.' You had a bad teacher if that's all they emphasized when you were required to read it.)
It'd be good if culture could refocus on respecting the notion of growing up, wisdom, and respect for elders. (and get off my lawn, too)
My wife plays a lot of Hay Day. I don't see a lot of true, real life concerning issues there. I guess I don't smell the magic sauce that makes women playing games any different.
Don't you mean the groin of the tech world?
Windows is just a platform to read emails from your boss and check Outlook to see if there are any meetings today.
I did once see an oscilloscope (a Tektronix one!) that ran embedded Windows 98. It was creepy watching it boot up.
Linux started as a project to fill a need he had, a Desktop OS that he could afford as a student.
If Microsoft had been more evil at the time, they would have shipped Linus a shiny brand-new Sun 386i with SunOS on it as a gift and smothered Linux in the crib.
My bet is that 4K just isn't going to sell. But that's my wholesale position based more on geopolitical and economic terms than technically.
For old times sake, I played an MS-DOS game, Duke Nukem 3D, on DOSBox earlier this week. It has an install.exe program that you have to run to tell the main executable which hardware I/O port, Interrupt, and DMA interrupt the sound card uses. Then you run a little test within the program that plays a test sound, and it spits out a .cfg file when it exits.
DOXBox is actually built to emulate a PC, with DOS, and the appropriate drivers for the sound card installed, so the Duke Nukem game can simply blat out data to the I/O port and listen on the interrupts it's informed to use.
But on real PC hardware you'd need to have a reference like 'device=v:\sb16drv.sys 220,7,1' in your config.sys file.
Some of us still deal with this stuff to a certain degree. At my job I get to be the expert who can quickly change out a floppy drive in a box, or get the fan on the power supply spinning again. They still uses shitty old 486 boxes with ISA data acq. cards in them in the test lab. The test engineer maintains the test software, which is written in GWBasic. I've never been able to convince him to even try updating to QBasic (which would almost certainly 'just work') so that he could strip most of the line numbers out and use a full screen editor and have much more readable code. So he tweaks cycle counts, stepper motor steps, etc. using the crummy line editor in GWBasic. He's probably going to retire in the next few years.
OMG. You used DOS 4.0?
The rest of us held onto 3.3 until they fixed the problem by coming out with 5.0. Oh, you could use 4.0.1 from some of the OEMs, but not many of us were stupid enough to want to.
PC-DOS 4.0 was even worse than Microsoft's MS-DOS 4.0.
Are you sure you used 4.0, and it was multitasking? What were you using, DesqView? Hopefully not TopView.
The corollary is, though, that if I don't use 'cheap peripherals' with unsigned drivers I won't have problems. I've never, ever had a BSOD incident on the machine I presently use. I haven't had one that I can recall in about a decade.
Which leads me to believe that it's not a problem because of the Windows ABI, but because of the cheap peripheral vendor who wrote the unsigned driver.
Geesh, I feel like I am back in the .advocacy newsgroups of the mid 90's. Fun example.
I guess we want these fun-fest topics on Slashdot. For some reason.
This is Slashdot. They have to post topics like this once in awhile to make up for taking away the bill-borg icon. Or the nerds would revolt.
More likely so he would never have to buy a replacement battery when the one from the factory dies (which he never encounters, always buying 8 year old cars) It's important for there to be people with spirit like that in the world.
In my first job out of school I worked for a Reliability department at a Medical Device company. The Reliability department was specifically organized as a branch off of Operations, not Quality or Engineering. Our responsibilities included providing a totally separate audit and review process from Quality or Engineering.
Companies do not want to shovel out defective product at the lowest possible cost and go out of business every few years to shuck off another layer of litigous customers. Maybe in your Comic Book world the Richie Riches and Scrooges who own all the factories do, but this is the real world.
More people are likely to remember 2009-2012 when government regulators bumbled around and got in the way.
I think this is more along the lines of them wanting to avoid the time and expense, since every new model will have to be tested after every code change, I guess.
Ah, they want to skip most of the regression testing. It makes sense, given who they are.
The article topic is wrong, and Google doubtless lawyered it to be that way. They want to do less real-world testing, and devote more resources into testing via simulation.
They don't need to ask anybody permission to do more simulation. What they're trying to do is spend less money on real world testing so they can devote it to simulation testing.
Similarly, I would rather play Minecraft than have a job. Digging gold ore in minecraft is 'work' too, so why won't they let me do that instead of real work?
The Raspberry Pi is designed as a pedagagical, easy-to-access entry point for new programmers to get involved and learn about experimenting and adventuring on computers. It was never about being 'the ideal embedded platform' for slashbots to use for their Media Center computer. Sure it's vintage, but other successful and popular single-board systems are even 8-bitters, like the Arduino, and still very successful and valuable to have out there for people to use.
Moving targets are not 'friendly' to the general public, and the Pi gives everyone a stable starting point.
"Boy I bet the police in Ferguson would love to be able to disable people's phones right now."
Why? To squelch the 12 witnesses who favor the police officer's account?
The code to brick the phones will be super secret. On the order of the encryption that protected DVDs.
The phone vendors don't mind, because when the waves of hooligans hit with mass cellphone-kill signals, we will all have to buy another. It's even easier than planned obsolescence in OS updates.
If and when you find yourself carrying said beacon, for petes sake turn it off until you can get to a secure place to transmit the phone's contents out. There, now it's not a beacon any longer.
Creating something new with no built in advantage for yourself, being totally honest about it, and then when its value soars not selling ..... is pretty much the opposite of a pump and dump scheme.
Well, then. We're clear on the fact that when the pump-and-dump operators took over, Satoshi retreated from the scene.
That doesn't change what bitcoin became rather quickly, and what is is now.
You make your electricity with a generator that burns the case you produce in your biomass digester. You put the chicken and hog shit in the digester.