No, they are good enough even for gaming. It is true that i can't activate every little graphic options and set them to the max. But my 3 year old laptop is good enough to be able to play any recent game.
Now if you are one of these player that think that 160fps is not enough and they need mooooaaar power even if their screen can display only 50-60 fps. In that case, even your desktop should not be good enough.
You just don't need to remember 1 password, but 11 of them to log in... What an improvement !!!
If your data's are completely legitimate and show no wrongdoing from the company part, I don't think you should be afraid of him working for your company. A whist-blower is not someone who like to share your data, it is someone who can't bear all the wrongdoing you/your company are doing that he don't see other way to make you stop doing it than showing it to the world hoping that you will change. Generally they are people who have a high level of moral integrity.
I hope they have some signal with these GPS maps. I know a lot of people that buy a tomtom or use their smartphone because their integrated GPS maps are so outdated that it is not anymore useable and the cost of having another gadget on their windshield trump the cost of the integrated GPS update...
Say that to all these MOD developers who decompile Minecraft to be able to create and update their mods. They have still not understood that they can't do that !
Or the dice-o-matic
Why caring about facebook, we have some libraries, wikipedia, mediawiki and other interesting stuff to store. Now if we did have some kind of wikipedia where we can store how to build everything needed from using our 10 fingers to build all the tools and industrial processes to be able to build a computer, that could also be of value to save...
And my wife ask me why I don't like to pay with any plastic cards (credit and/or debit)... I always pay cash whenever i can. Even if all my transactions are legal, some could be frowned upon but not illegal (not yet), I don't like my bank or any other private corporation to know what I do and what i like.
If I sum the memory every USB stick, Smartphone, MP3 player, I got around 256GB. Now If I compare that to my 16TB of spinning storage, I can say that I don't use solid state storage.
That is so true. I have stopped counting the number of library/API I have not used because I was unable to put the pieces together due to bad documentation. I had to use other library with less functionalities but having all the documentation needed to start using them and explaining how they worked. For example, i have chosen to use Guile over Lua (At the time Lua would have been more easy to use for me than Guile) because at the time I made the choice, the Guile documentation was better over how to integrate it with your programs and i did found a list of do and don't explaining what you should do and you shouldn't do. This last point in itself was the best thing ever really saving me from lots of headaches.
En what? 9/11 barelly killed half of what diarrhea kill EVERY DAY. Fighting diarrhea is far less costly than fighting this so called terrorism. The real terrorists are these states instilling fear of terrorism in the population. And let me laught when they say that they have so good information about a next terrorist attack that they need to stengthen the security worldwide and not just where the next attack would be. This is probably an attempt to talk about something else than snowden and the surveillance state in the medias...
The problem is that Google get more an more app out of the play store (eg: GameCIH (memory editor), Rooting app...). Now it is hard to find these app, you need to go to shaddy places to sideload them. This is 'great' for security
Done the same during the algorithm course. On a turing machine you don't have such shiny operators like addition even less multiplication
I like Waze very much and use it from time to time but I find very frequently that Waze make you take really stupid roads sometime more slower than the one with the traffic jams
Else I use Google navigation with lot less problems but I get in the traffic jams each time when i need to go in town
Now Google navigation with the traffic jam avoidance of Waze could be really be good.
My first experience was with a SHARP PC1500A and a book full of games in BASIC to type and run.
Then wanting to change these games (more lives, more/less difficulty/speed...) I learned how these programs worked and the meaning of each instruction.
Later on a Sinclair ZX81 I followed this practice with another book with games in BASIC. Then an book on assembly for the ZX where you did have an example of assembly code equivalent for each BASIC instruction and an explanation for all the Z80 op-codes. From this I started learn assembly.
With the help of a reference book describing the hardware of the ZX and lot of magazines articles, I started to add memory (2K, 16K, then 128K with a 8K window like EMS for the PC), mechanical keyboard, sound generator, eeprom memory to store code/data between reset/shutdown, logical and analogical I/O, speech synthesizer...
Years later I received a PC (TANDY 1000 EX) with GW-BASIC, followed by a copy of TURBO PASCAL with its incredible online help and the SWAG archive. With the help of the reference 8086 documentation I began to learn x86 assembly to boost my pascal programs.
VISUAL BASIC let me create windows easily, but was quickly replaced by BORLAND PASCAL.
Way more later, at school, I learned C on a HP 9000, Fortran on HP 1000/RTE, 68000 assembly on a development board, IBM S/360 assembly on a VM of a S/390, SmallTalk, Prolog, Lisp (CLISP) and Smeci.
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