Nintendo's hand held gaming dates back even further then that. Gameboy Color supported classic Gameboy games (yup, the GBC had an upgraded processor, not just color). The GBA fully supported any GB/GBC game. And then of course the DS supported all GBA titles.
I'd advise you to take a look at this then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Additionally, a nice little technique. Find out what the company uses to refer to their internal tiers of tech support. When calling up, just explain: "oh hey, sorry. I was chatting with Tier 3 tech support and got disconnected, can you direct me back to them please?" - Not sure about nowadays, but I know this used to work easily and consistently with Comcast.
This is a problem EVERYWHERE. I have a business cable line with a small local ISP. I went back and forth fighting with them for TWO WEEKS because they were blocking various TCP/UDP ports. This is normal practice for residential customers (blocking SMTP for example), but is supposed to be open for business subscribers.
What did I do? I documented everything. Forwarded it to the CEO of the company. I found his contact details via LinkedIn. Needless to say, I was invited in to talk with him and a few others in person, and things were fixed super quick at this point. The reason they invited me in was for a job interview. Only problem is that they were offering crap hours for crap pay doing types of work I didn't want to do. (I'm done being a field technician for customers, I'd rather manage a data center or small campus at this point)
Too much talking. Not enough YYYYEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! http://cow.org/csi/
The media is so fixated on these two companies that they're leaving out other competitors that don't come to mind in this exact same sector.
Facebook now has their own language: Hack. It runs on their own interpreter: HHVM.
This is similar in mind to the jump from C to C++, wherein existing PHP code mostly runs on HHVM unmodified, but switching to Hack adds a couple restrictions (fixing long standing issues with the PHP language), while adding countless new features (such as type safety and parallel I/O)
But Facebook is just "those other guys", right? They're not a tech company at all, they're just some web thingiemajigger.
Trust me, it is NO BETTER here in the States for either Business or Residential connections. I manage plenty of clients on several ISPs at both class levels, and I have yet to see any of them receive IPv6 support from an ISP. The only time I've had access natively is working directly within a co-location environment. For everything else, I've setup HE.net/TunnelBroker on countless sites, too. Funny enough, HE.net is also the main backbone for the current co-location I work with!
Just to add a very specific note on the Visual C++ compiler: it uses multi-threading to compile. That is, one thread per CPU core, each thread is parsing a separate C/C++ source file from the tree. In this scenario, there is zero guarantee that each thread completes in a consistent order on a single machine, let along across different machines with different thread counts and architectures.
+1 thanks for the tip! I've just been lazy all these years. Never bothered to look up the fix, but now I've got a project to do the next time I have a sunny weekend!
I live in a house over 100 years old with original heavy wood frame windows. The windows have rope that goes to counter-weight anchors inside of the window frame to balance the weight while the window is open. On one window, the rope broke...
I now open the window and place an old AT keyboard from the '80s on the side to prop the thing open.
A good read (something Microsoft should study)
The section "The Start Button: Up and Running in Seconds" is something in particular that is really important that just isn't explored in modern UX/UI design, sadly.
So their web browser finally caught up to their media player from the '90s? Good job, Microsoft!
Standard Library as in stdlib/stdio or iostream? BECAUSE FUCK IOSTREAM!
Am I the only one that seems to remember that GOOGLE ALREADY HAD THIS FEATURE years ago. Back in the earlier days of Buzz, your Buzz account could be connected to a Twitter account. Google would pull friend's tweets on a particular topic, and show them intermixed with search results. This was just another one of the brazzilion tweeks Google has added/removed/fuckedwith/whoknowswhatelse over the years, and I'm quite honestly surprised to see it make a comeback.
"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker
