That was just an example. Even with more realism, more colors and better graphics it doesn't explain why the same kind of game needs 4-5 GB today (except for bloated coding).
Well, mostly it's textures and audio. Look at any AAA game and that's where the bulk of the install comes from.
Meanwhile back in the '80s a C64 or Apple][+ could run a combat flight simulator in about 40K of RAM and 1 *MHZ* Cpu.
I wonder what Chuck Yeager thought about 4-color graphics.
News flash - atheists get married too. It's only a religious construct for those who want to believe it is (such as religions that don't want to see same-sex marriage for "religious reasons").
Restricting it to specific peoples or groups of peoples is a religious construct. Religion as we know it in the west is rooted in Judeo-Christian ceremonies intended primarily to account for the disposition of wealth and the care of children in the case of the death of one spouse.
Pretty much everything in their Ultra PCI range was simply uncompetitive with Linux PCs.
That depends on the era you're thinking about. Up through about the UltraSparc 10, they still had more power than any PC. Around then, PC processors caught up to UltraSparc and the writing went up on the wall. PCs and UltraSparc "workstations" were literally being built out of the same chips (the disk controllers and whatnot) and the specialness faded quickly.
In current context, yes, SJW is a bad thing. Their focus is not on justice at all but persecution.
That's how everybody is most of the time, or most people are all of the time, whichever you prefer.
I'd rather have as much functionality as I can from the developer of the browser itself. Extensions are helpful (particularly for obscure features that no browser developer would bother writing because the user base would be too small) but all to often they break more than they fix.
The obvious rebuttal is that features should be moved into official extensions. There is NO REASON WHATOSEVER why default Firefox should have debugging tools. The whole goddamn point of Firefox is that it is a platform, there should be no benefit to building any functionality in as opposed to adding it as an extension.
Could enough coolant be pumped through a laminated plate armor to dissipate kW per square inch of localized heating?
The only thing that might kind of work is clouds of steam and/or smoke. But a liquid isn't going to help you, this thing can turn solid engine block into vapor, what do you think it's going to do to your magic liquid?
What can the average person do if some whackjob starts running around the city or a shopping mall with one of these things targeting innocent people?
Absolutely nothing. That guy is a goddamned superman, and he could crush you into a thin paste with his bare hands. Make peace with your maker, you're coming to meet him.
Paint it white (specifically, something with high albedo in whatever frequency range the attacker favors) and you can probably increase that time by
Basically nothing.
Paint it with that retroreflective paint that they make street markings out of and
Basically nothing special will happen.
...is that they're basically taking an issue that most people either didn't really know about or didn't really care about too strongly, and are shoving it into everyone else's faces, so that they now have a reason to take a stance against it?
Curse you, Mapplethorpe!
Sun produced a lot more innovation than ZFS and Zones. There's DTrace, NFS, the Solaris Kernel (too many aspects to list here),
If only you could read, you could see I was talking about Solaris. Specifically, SunOS 5.x, although technically speaking due to retcon SunOS 4.1.4 is also Solaris 1.x.
If it's transparent, I want it on my windshield. Even if it wears off after a year, this is still a major win.
You can use Rain-X and have it wear off after a week, or one of the many various hydrophobic coatings-in-a-can and have it last maybe a month, right now.
If I rode a motorcycle I'd put it on the visor, that actually seems practical.
I've been using miniget, but it has no features other than being small and downloading torrents. It is really small, though.
even those that are hooked on the extensions going to one of the alternate like PaleMoon,Waterfox, IceDragon,etc.
This is only one step off the reservation. If Firefox gets decrapified and released as 64 bit then I'll step right back across the line. I'm running Pale Moon now, but the whole point of doing so is that it's still Firefox.
The problem with Firefox is that it's not much better than IE and is following the exact same trajectory of constantly getting crappier.
Wait, IE has gotten less crappy with each release, but Microsoft has decided that it's reached its lea of crap, and so they're delivering a new browser with their new Windows. That seems like IE just fell off the opposite trajectory.
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
