If today's phones had to put up with the web of eight years ago, that'd be one thing. But eight years ago, you didn't expect your desktop to render the CSS3, AJAX, and social widget filled monstrosities that are 2013 web sites. Eight years ago, webmasters expected some of their PC viewers to be on dial-up and their few (if any) phone users to be on something like WAP. This meant the average download size of all items on a web page was far smaller than it is today.

How many different compilers did you use? Did you try any cross-compilers, such as compilers on Linux/ARM that target Windows/x86 or vice versa?

See bunratty's comment.

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If you've compiled the compiler with competitors' compilers (try saying that ten times fast), you should be fairly safe from Trusting Trust.

Another cause of "walking pixel" is the dithering needed to get smooth gray ramps on a 6-bit TN LCD. Most panels will perform "temporal dithering", changing the dither pattern from frame to frame to make it less visible for still images.

Apart from the fact that support for fifth and sixth generation consoles (PlayStation, N64, PlayStation 2, GameCube) in MESS is preliminary to nonexistent, LCD + emulator doesn't work with light guns. You really need a CRT to get the most out of Zapper games like Duck Hunt, Operation Wolf, or Zap Ruder.

For people with photosensitive epilepsy, it might more more like "someone call the ambulance."

When I was in high school, I managed to expose a bunch of classmates to TI-83 graphing calculator programming when I showed them how to load programs that run the formulas seen in unit conversion problems, stoichiometry, and the like. Tie the programming assignments in to the rest of the curriculum and you'll get the point across that computers are tools to automate things.

Why can't Free Pascal be recompiled for the Raspberry Pi?

Some households have chosen to own only locked-down devices, such as iOS devices and video game consoles, whose business model runs counter to exposure to programming. A Raspberry Pi computer that goes home with the student would at least allow the student to complete homework assignments.

The cousin in question happens not to be able to. His last PC was an Acer Aspire One netbook that ran Windows XP Home Edition ULCPC until that would no longer turn on. Most of the time he uses either his Galaxy S3 or a PC running Windows 8 with Classic Shell owned by the head of household.

I'm not the fanboy. A relative is. I'm trying to save one more person from consoles, but he'll have to mow fewer lawns to afford a PS4 than to afford a PC that plays first-person shooters at comparable settings.

One thing you could try is make sure a Steam game is "controller friendly" before you buy it.

True on desktop, not nearly as much on mobile.

This time I'll use neither of those arguments. Instead: A PC to dedicate to your TV that's comparable in CPU and GPU power to an Xbox One or PlayStation 4 will probably cost more than even the 499 US dollars to buy an Xbox One. I asked in a comment to a previous story and got a bunch of $600 builds, some of which didn't even include an operating system.

If you allow users to log in at all but don't encrypt everything, an attacker who can see a user's packets can snoop the user's session cookie and issue requests as that user for several minutes to several hours. The "Firesheep" plug-in, which allowed cloning the Facebook sessions of other users connected to the same wireless network, was the first widely reported incident of this.

What sort of kernel-level "direct hardware access" does Flash Player perform? I wasn't aware that Flash Player was making disk writes at the sector level (not the file level) or writing to individual I/O ports or anything. What sort of indirect hardware access would you recommend instead?

Would this happen to be a bank that got bought by Chase?

What "era of increasing bandwidth"? ISPs have tended to switch home Internet plans from uncapped to capped. Satellite and cellular, for example, usually have a cap of 10 GB/mo or less.