It's not as straightforward of a choice as it may seem. In theory Linux would be a better choice but there simply isn't the infrastructure or IT staffing in place to manage millions and millions of Linux desktops. I'm not saying it can't be done but for various reasons it hasn't been done and that's a major practical roadblock. Just from a staffing perspective alone if you hand millions of Linux desktops to life long Microsoftsies you're begging for disaster.
For sure, no question! There's a reason people choose Microsoft. My question was narrower, just the question on reliability (hence "all else being equal"). I don't think you can say that, leaving aside issues like this, that Windows is as or more reliable than Linux.
For instance, if you had to make deploy a mission critical server, assuming cost and other software was the same, would you choose Linux or Windows for reliability? Of course you would choose Linux.
I stopped going to StarBucks when all the employees started looking like the carnival freak show was in town. I just don't trust people who look that way to handle buy food and beverages.
As corny as they seem now the early FMV CD-ROM games felt like a gigantic leap forward at the time. Being able to interact with a photorealistic environment was a completely new experience. Being too ignorant at the time to understood how they worked it seemed like pure magic. Of course they were nothing but a novelty in retrospect but the illusion was very real at the time.
How about Weezer's "Buddy Holly" music video on the Windows 95 CD? Sometimes when I see articles about viral videos and views I wonder where that video would rank if we had the capability to track its plays.
Recently I had a flashback to a similar video on one of the MSDN CDs called "Studs from Microsoft". Studs, for those who weren't in the USA at the time, was a sort of dating game show in which two improbably attractive men each dated the same three improbably attractive women. The men are then quizzed on what the women thought of their dates and of the men, with the potential grand prize being a dream date with your preferred girl of the three. But that wasn't the point, the real entertainment value was all the ribald sexual talk in the questions and answers.
Studs from Microsoft was a parody of this format, with the "studs" replaced by Microsoft programming nerds, from Seattle area sketch comedy show Almost Live!. It is also notable for featuring a pre-Science-Guy Bill Nye.
The entire album "Songs of Innocence" was forced onto everyone's iPhone, whether they wanted it or not. Apple thought they were doing everyone a favor. When some people deleted it from their iPhones, it came back on its own.
"You're going to listen to this U2 album, and you're going to like it!" -- Tim Apple
Ha, I was going to say that. I think it was like 1992 and we got a packard bell for Christmas and it came with a stack of shareware CDs. 2mhz and 2MB of ram I believe. There was some kind of Sherlock Holmes CD-ROM point 'n click type game that had a bunch of FMVs. The whole family would gather around (sometimes the neighbors included) and we'd all oodle over the "graphics".
I'm assuming it's Sherlock Holmes and the case of the rose tattoo! What a brilliant game.
Believe it or not, thanks to ScummVM being in the iOS/iPad OS App Store now, I have actually played that game on my iPad. You'd be amazed at how well it's held up. It looks really good on an iPad, and the point and click nature of it fits touchscreens perfectly.
When I was a kid, I remember being super fascinated by the Power Rangers game on Sega CD and played what little of it I could on the demo consoles at Blockbuster and other places.
I had all the other major consoles at the time except the Sega CD so I never got to own it at home, but the idea of playing through an actual episode of Power Rangers while pressing buttons that correspond to the actions taken by the actual characters just felt so cool. All the other Power Rangers games were either fighting games or belt-scroll beat-'em-ups, but this one let me play through an actual episode!
...and then I emulated it as an adult and realized it was just a pile of QTEs with no real game and that the video quality was abject dogshit. But the beat-'em-ups still hold up, to the point where they're making a new one now.
I scored a cheap 7-disc changer at university surplus, specifically for that game. It was only a 2x drive behind the changer, and I needed to source a SCSI controller card and cable, but I got it all going and suddenly I had LUNs galore!
The game was kind enough to let you specify different drives for the discs rather than assuming a single swapping situation, though it would check them all at launch time, which was quite a slow affair. But once it was going, it was great; as you moved between regions in the game, the drive would simply change discs and spin up the new one and away you went.
ISTR they did a certain amount of duplication, some overlap between regions would be on both discs, so it wouldn't require swapping constantly if you were right on a border. But at some points it would flip back and forth, and the changer made all the difference.
I think you're right that some of the data was duplicated. I can't remember if any other multi-cd games allowed assigning different drive letters to different discs. Also works with DOSbox
I'm going to guess the poster was banned for something a while back. When you're banned on HN, you aren't locked out of posting, but everything you post appears as dead by default and requires someone to vouch it.
dang has talked about this before, but there are a number of users who were rightfully banned, go on to post nothing but healthy, constructive comments that almost always get vouched, and then immediately turn abusive again when they're unbanned. So the current moderation philosophy is to leave them banned and let users vouch their comments, which works out better for everyone.
Here's one of the most simple practical examples that proves to me cats are conscious. When my cat sleeps in my bed occasionally I accidetanlly kick or bump into her in the dark. Instead of fleeing, hissing or attacking me she lets out a very unique earnest meow that clearly means 'hey I'm here' and she goes back to sleep like nothing happened. She clearly understands my motivation wasn't to harm her. She clearly understands we share a common motivation of sleeping in the comfy bed. She clearly understands a concept of the future where she lets me know her position and expects me not to accidentally bother her again. If I continue to bother he she will simply get up and move just far enough away to avoid further trouble.
Cats are definitely conscious in my mind, but when I kick my cat at night she gets up and looks at me like I just beat her on purpose, then usually attacks my foot. I guess my cat is an asshole at night! Thankfully she’s cuddly and nice when I’m not disturbing her cat naps.
To put this into perspective it's a small enough amount of memory that merely running a web browser with a dozen tabs open is often a choppy laggy experience.
This is false for me on my launch month m1 Mac mini. I use edge all day and parsec and discord. I watch multiple twitch streams or plow through YouTube videos all day on this computer hooked up to my 4k TV. Sometimes I'll watch 4k HDR AV1 or x265 rips of videos. This computer handles everything with no choppy or laggy going on.
launch month M1 MBP w/ 16GB - I constantly have to close discord and browsers to keep enough RAM to keep browsing without huge slowdowns from paging memory.
Strange! Are you on the latest beta of macOS? Do you have the whatever the heck it's called search indexing thing that Mac OS has disabled? Those are the only two things that I'm doing with my system that I can think of offhand. I like never have situations where I'm out of RAM and swapping and if I do it's never to the point where it's making my computer unusable. I even use VS code with a whole bunch of really complicated extensions installed for different workspaces and it's no issue.
Edit: are you closing things or are you quitting things?
Not on beta. Haven't disabled search index manually. Closing certain tabs (especially reddit or other adware garbage sites) helps a lot, as does quitting. Discord is just a huge hog for me, but I'm on a lot of servers there.
I appreciate the search index tip!
I also have a work-issued M2 MBP with 32GB which has none of the slow-down issues I see on my personal M1 no matter what I do. Though sometimes the FireEye anti-malware process 'xagt' gets stuck using a shitload of CPU non-stop and murders the battery - killing that it immediately starts cooling down the outer case temperature noticeably within a few seconds, which is crazy. It starts up again shortly but doesn't continue using CPU like crazy ... I really need to write a daemon to do that automatically for me rather than just when I notice battery going way too fast.
Just to really stress how misinformed you are, I too have a launch M1 MacBook Pro w/ 8GB RAM and have only ever had problems with websites that contain a lot of UHD video content or similar.
Not really. I run a lot of thing even chrome, docker, Xcode, WhatsApp, messenger, … all and it still ok. I do get a 512 to last longer the wear and tears of swap.
> I run a lot of thing even chrome, docker, Xcode, WhatsApp, messenger
All at the same time? Because that’s hardly believable. Docker + any IDE already starts lagging with just 8GB. If you try connecting it to an external display it becomes virtually unusable.
Winamp was doomed to be a relic of a simpler time. Even if you take the iPod and iTunes Store out of the equation Winamp's file-centric approach was a limitation as people's music libraries increased in size and complexity. All their attempts to add more modern features just made Winamp worse for the people who did like its simplicity and file-centric design.
Sad truth, honestly. I still have a fairly sizeable mp3 library primarily from CD purchases decades ago, and later from Amazon music downloads.
I don't listen to it. I stream from YT Music these days. It's just easier and more convenient. Plus my musical tastes and preferences are really, really, really strange. Streaming ticks all the right boxes.
I fought going this route for the longest time, mostly on principle. I lost that fight.
As a casual observer it seems to me they were simply too late to the party and probably didn't have anything that fantastic or high margin justifying to bring to the table. It's like if back in 2005/2006 there were lots of 'almost as good as the 2007 iPhone' phones on the market they may never have entered that market either.
I'm not sure I ever actually bought a box of blank floppy disks. Instead I would call up software companies and ask for free demos instead. I did it so often the postal service warned may parents they would stop delivering mail to the house.
As far as adaptions for the illiterate masses go I thought the series was pretty good. I couldn't personally get past the stink of soap opera SciFi Channel quality acting and writing myself but if you have no plans to ever read the books it's better than nothing. One positive thing I can say is the art design was pretty good especially the computers and their interfaces.
There was a time when the Atari ST was the perfect home computer. It was cheap, easy to use like the Mac, and offered a 'next gen' 16bit gaming experience before any of my friends had a Sega Genesis. I continued to be a diehard ST fan until the exact second I first saw Doom running on a PC.
