That doesn't make what you said any less incorrect.

Incorrect. Many android apps have arm binaries.

https://developer.android.com/...

Many do not, to be fair, but most games do at the very least.

It increases gain on the amplifier, which uses more power.

Listening costs power, and listening "harder" costs more power.

Honest question, I haven't tried, but do breakpoints work when you're running on the device itself?

(Eg does it have a remote deploy/debug over USB mode?)

He was likely doing CPU based mining. That would be expensive and inefficient compared to ASIC or even GPU mining.

Because in the US text messages are expensive for end users.

Here in Australia it doesn't make sense because any plan more than $20 a month has basically unlimited texts.

Because 99% of the time you care about an entire composited frame, not individual pixels changing.

Ignore 4k. That's a long ways off.

EVERY game on the ps4/xbone should have been REQUIRED to be 1080p/60fps.

If you can't achieve that, your game doesn't pass QC. If you can't achieve that, then you turn down some details.

Due to THAT I don't consider either a "nextgen" (eg 'current-gen') console.

For the same price I bought a PC (in Australia where we pay more for everything!) that can play titanfall at 1080p at 60fps with everything reasonable turned on. As well as every other game. No I don't run 16xFSAA, but I run 2-4x FXAA, 1080p/60 (without drops), 16xAF, and "most" settings turned on (games with silly options like "reflect your face in drops of dew on blades of grass" I turn off). All for $600 (same price as the xbone in AUS). I bought a few logitech wireless controllers and run steam in bigpicture mode on windows 8.1 And I also run xbmc for the full media thing.

I've owned every sony, nintendo, and MS (not that hard) console until "this" generation. My first console (bought with my own money) was an NES. My last consoles were the ps3/360/wii. I'm a HUGE console guy.

But for the next 2-4 years I think I'm "out". Maybe I'll return to the mother ship again :) I hope so!

I have no idea, and I don't pretend to. I was pointing out that the +5 rated comment I replied to was not insightful and was missing the point of the original article. It was talking to app developers, not framework/OS/etc developers.

They're saying that it doesn't matter to an app developer if you're using a middleware framework, as most developers do, because the eventual output on the display will be the same.

The reasons for introducing mir are performance, ability to run on low footprint devices, and cross device compatability.

So their point is that X11 vs wayland vs mir vs framebuffer vs blakjsrelhasifdj doesn't matter to a developer using the full QT stack. Their write their app to QT, and then developers on QT write the backend to talk to whatever the end user is using. It's more work for QT/other frameworks, but "should" be "no" more work for an app developer.

You can still play your games without using VAC.

You can still play your games ONLINE without using VAC.

You simply cannot play on VAC enabled servers (run by the community, not by valve) without using VAC.

Aftermarket HID bulbs that are just popped into the OEM housing and are not properly adjusted are NOT legal.

"Everything is computer controlled from acceleration to braking and cornering"

You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

None of that is computer controlled, unless you consider a completely normal car with an ECU (so any car from the 1990s onward) to be "computer controlled."

-There is no ABS/traction control/etc.

-The brakes are directly connected via hydraulic line, no computer involved

-the ECU does the same thing the ECU in your car does, tell the injectors how much fuel to squirt. It can enable fuel saving modes/high power modes when the driver selects them, but the power output by the engine must be directly proportional to the amount he's pressing the pedal.

-Computer controlled cornering? How the fuck would that even work? They're not allowed ANY sort of active suspension, and use simple direct input steering setups.

So these weren't in the cars? That's fucking pointless then, agreed.

In Australia they're in the patrol cars.

It depends on what you mean by "asp.net".

Over the last 3 years asp.net has evolved from "gui controls you compose on a page with TONS of overhead" to "a lightweight framework that looks a LOT like spring". What most people who have used asp.net in the last 10-12 years think of as asp.net is basically dead.

http://www.asp.net/web-api for example. Many people us this and knockoutjs for dotnet based web projects.