I mean DOS is essentially just the frame work between the software and the BIOS/hardware. Once code is running the OS isn't doing too much. In that sense DOS programs run without any guard rails. Video memory is just a…
Oh dear here comes lazy barnacle man Grandpa Joe. Watch them ignore rules of the EULA agreement and they are sucked into the factory ventilation shaft holding the new iPhone Lighter-than-Air.
Brace yourself for Wozstock 26
Yep, if letting the stock market determine how the business is run, eventually it will be run in a way that will blow out the bottom of the bucket. There is a fine line that needs to be walked between innovation and…
While we are not at the same state in history, there is a reason why Usury was illegal in many societies. Interest on loans can end up crushing one part of society while enriching another that any feel didn't deserve…
Louis CK had this line that was far too close to me "Have you ever been so poor that the bank charges you for being poor?". If you have been there, you feel that one.
When Microsoft was first looking to do a remaster of Goldeneye from N64, even they couldn't manage the legal trouble of that one. Microsoft had the original development team, Nintendo had the software and Activision had…
I did discover a lot of great stuff like that. The funny thing is that there were a few titles that I discovered, absolutely loved and yet apparently were considered bad games. Oh well, I saw the good side of it. One…
I have said this for years. Starship will eventually go to orbit, it MIGHT go a few times to the Moon. It will lucky if it ever makes it to Mars. More than happy to be proven wrong. I mean they are still progressing but…
Once you have been doing computing for long enough, the best solution is a very well formatted text file. When on Windows I organise my entire work flow in Notepad.
Yeah easy to say that but that is because they are the elite. They have a newton, do you? I don't! Time for Newton 2, I mean they are doing iPod sock 2 so why not Newton 2.
I am sort of in your boat in seeing what may come. There are a few very rare conditions but the benefits seem to out weigh (ha, I will take the pun!) The down sides. While it might mean the incident rare of some things…
I see China is proposing a fair few missions to the outer system with Jutiper in a few years with Uranus and Neptune to follow. But they are just proposals still, but it is good to see they are at least considering it.
The resource thing always gets me. More ideas of things like dyson sphere's. Where does the material from them come from?
That is it. When you become very aware of just how amazingly far away everything else is, fighting over a speak of dust and the only home we have seems absolutely ridiculous. A great long form video on this is "Shouting…
Many see this as the answer to the Fermi paradox. Any society on the path to being advanced enough to potentially leave their system probably gains the ability to destroy themselves before getting to that point. Short…
In that sense the Mini M4 is targeted more at Desktop than gaming. Can do short bursts when needed but cannot run the marathon in terms of graphics. Nothing wrong with this, it is just a trade off.
Sometimes you have to walk with the devil to do good deeds.
This is the one area that Intel ARC absolutely excels at. If ARC doesn't survive long term, that might be its legacy in the same way Matrox pivoted to multi screen cards after the failure of Parhelia-512 GPU.
Very similar to the Australian system. We eliminated the 1 and 2 cent coins in 1992 without issue. Also has the polymer based colouful bank notes. Far easier to tell what you are handing over. Also given us some good…
A big thing here is that you can always buy another or build another PC that can run this stuff if you don't like the Steam Machine. You cannot build a PS5/Xbox to do the same.
Does this mean the 1981 IBM PC gets the same praise? I mean you could install whatever you wanted on that thing.
It was considered a fear but I don't know if there is much truth to it. The fans and capacitors would give out long before the silicon. Even if it say, halved the life span of the chips, that is still far longer than…
Yes, but how much do people want to pay to use this stuff? That is the real question. It might be that more than $30 a month is too much and people stop using it. However, I suspect it would end up a fair bit higher…
For all the issues with power use, I do grant it that a lot of materials and labor in needed at the same time. It isn't JUST burning up cash to make Sora videos. But by the same measure, the Great Egyptian pyramids…
I mean DOS is essentially just the frame work between the software and the BIOS/hardware. Once code is running the OS isn't doing too much. In that sense DOS programs run without any guard rails. Video memory is just a…
Oh dear here comes lazy barnacle man Grandpa Joe. Watch them ignore rules of the EULA agreement and they are sucked into the factory ventilation shaft holding the new iPhone Lighter-than-Air.
Brace yourself for Wozstock 26
Yep, if letting the stock market determine how the business is run, eventually it will be run in a way that will blow out the bottom of the bucket. There is a fine line that needs to be walked between innovation and…
While we are not at the same state in history, there is a reason why Usury was illegal in many societies. Interest on loans can end up crushing one part of society while enriching another that any feel didn't deserve…
Louis CK had this line that was far too close to me "Have you ever been so poor that the bank charges you for being poor?". If you have been there, you feel that one.
When Microsoft was first looking to do a remaster of Goldeneye from N64, even they couldn't manage the legal trouble of that one. Microsoft had the original development team, Nintendo had the software and Activision had…
I did discover a lot of great stuff like that. The funny thing is that there were a few titles that I discovered, absolutely loved and yet apparently were considered bad games. Oh well, I saw the good side of it. One…
I have said this for years. Starship will eventually go to orbit, it MIGHT go a few times to the Moon. It will lucky if it ever makes it to Mars. More than happy to be proven wrong. I mean they are still progressing but…
Once you have been doing computing for long enough, the best solution is a very well formatted text file. When on Windows I organise my entire work flow in Notepad.
Yeah easy to say that but that is because they are the elite. They have a newton, do you? I don't! Time for Newton 2, I mean they are doing iPod sock 2 so why not Newton 2.
I am sort of in your boat in seeing what may come. There are a few very rare conditions but the benefits seem to out weigh (ha, I will take the pun!) The down sides. While it might mean the incident rare of some things…
I see China is proposing a fair few missions to the outer system with Jutiper in a few years with Uranus and Neptune to follow. But they are just proposals still, but it is good to see they are at least considering it.
The resource thing always gets me. More ideas of things like dyson sphere's. Where does the material from them come from?
That is it. When you become very aware of just how amazingly far away everything else is, fighting over a speak of dust and the only home we have seems absolutely ridiculous. A great long form video on this is "Shouting…
Many see this as the answer to the Fermi paradox. Any society on the path to being advanced enough to potentially leave their system probably gains the ability to destroy themselves before getting to that point. Short…
In that sense the Mini M4 is targeted more at Desktop than gaming. Can do short bursts when needed but cannot run the marathon in terms of graphics. Nothing wrong with this, it is just a trade off.
Sometimes you have to walk with the devil to do good deeds.
This is the one area that Intel ARC absolutely excels at. If ARC doesn't survive long term, that might be its legacy in the same way Matrox pivoted to multi screen cards after the failure of Parhelia-512 GPU.
Very similar to the Australian system. We eliminated the 1 and 2 cent coins in 1992 without issue. Also has the polymer based colouful bank notes. Far easier to tell what you are handing over. Also given us some good…
A big thing here is that you can always buy another or build another PC that can run this stuff if you don't like the Steam Machine. You cannot build a PS5/Xbox to do the same.
Does this mean the 1981 IBM PC gets the same praise? I mean you could install whatever you wanted on that thing.
It was considered a fear but I don't know if there is much truth to it. The fans and capacitors would give out long before the silicon. Even if it say, halved the life span of the chips, that is still far longer than…
Yes, but how much do people want to pay to use this stuff? That is the real question. It might be that more than $30 a month is too much and people stop using it. However, I suspect it would end up a fair bit higher…
For all the issues with power use, I do grant it that a lot of materials and labor in needed at the same time. It isn't JUST burning up cash to make Sora videos. But by the same measure, the Great Egyptian pyramids…