can you clarify what you mean by 'limited mode'?

as far as I can see from reviews, total system consumption for a modern card doing 2d is very low: as I was saying this is workable *if* all you do is (text) coding all day, of course if you plan to run some 3d stuff every now and then then this won't work. This said somebody else in the thread was also reporting you can drive 4k with the onboard intel GPU so that would of course work even if you bought a prebuilt PC.

the article was suggesting that 30Hz gives mouse lag, I mean, when I'm coding I am 99% on the keyboard anyways, but mouse lag is annoying enough that I'd rather spend more and get a 'real' monitor that will do 60Hz vs a TV that does 30Hz (or a low end 4k monitor, like the new cheap dell which does 30Hz max too)

have the business people forgot all about amortization plans and so on? it would definitely be interesting tooling a factory up thinking only about a yearly budget...

you don't need a beefy PSU just because you are doing 2d, modern graphic cards are very energy efficient and if you are not playing games they are not going to suck 300W. You also don't need a top of the line graphics card if you're not playing games, as far as I know you can drive 4k off a GT 640 which is only $100.

The article is about text editing / web development it seems, if it was about 3d or video then I would agree.

you're kidding right? a monitor will last you easily 6-7 years (my monitor at work is nearly 8 and it's still running just fine) and a large/high-res monitor will give you a noticeable increase in productivity, and you are angry about a $100/head/year expenditure? maybe you'd want his programmers not to have desks but just a sheet of plywood on some sawhorses since that'd be cheaper? stools instead of ergonomic chairs?

If anything, if I was an investor I'd be more angry about him cheaping out on a repurposed tv and not spending $2-3k for a 'proper' 60Hz 4k monitor (mouse lag would drive me nuts) but that's just me.

why would you not use virtualenvs? I would never touch/use/do anything to the system installed python, anything I do is in a specific virtualenv with whatever version of python and assorted packages is needed, same thing with the system perl and perlbrew

this, and I am not sure how whomever decided the string/unicode changes in 3.x with no 2.x backwards compatibility couldn't figure out that it would be very unlikely that people would port all their code right away. This blog post I read a few days ago sums up some issues pretty well

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/5/unicode-in-2-and-3/

not necessarily, in my experience one of the bigger issues is incompatible changes made in CPAN code: plenty of things change and it's not like you can say 'install from CPAN of 3 years ago'. If you write straight perl (i.e. no external modules) it's unusual for things to break badly, but if like most people you use CPAN modules you're at the mercy of each individual CPAN package mantainer

I disagree, this is a paradigm shift for consumer devices, if you get to the market with something that causes vertigo/nausea in 50% of your users (due to high latency, some people can adapt, some can't) you will have a LOT of bad word of mouth and significantly cut your sales. When it comes to VR now either you do it very very very well, or it's better to not do it at all: I am really glad to see that they are taking their time with this and are going for the lowest amount of latency before shipping.

my older core2quad PC should be able to run games still quite nicely at medium settings, but unfortunately the ASUS P5K mobo is not UEFI compliant so no dice, not sure why UEFI should matter really...

seems like car racing games would work great, most of the time you are staring straight ahead with small movements to check on the apex of the turns and see if anybody is on your side via your peripheral vision

you might want to look at what OTHER things measles can do to you besides death, or maybe you find deafness a "not very important thing to worry about"?

just because you were lucky doesn't mean that others are hypochondriacs: as somebody who is suffering lifelong health issues due to measles (when I got it there were no vaccines yet, it was a long time ago) anybody who doesn't vaccinate their kids for it deserve as much scorn as they get in my book, but unfortunately you can scorn all you want it will be their kids that pay the price of their parents' choice.

How would you like it if you had a kid, did not vaccinate them because of some mumbo jumbo you heard on daytime tv, they get measles and become deaf? what will you tell them when they grow up and figure out they have a lifetime of deafness to look forward to because of your choice? or maybe they get something even more fun like Meniere's (look it up) due to damages to the inner ear that happened due to the virus? or maybe simply they will die from it like a non insignificant number of kids do? what will you do then? or maybe you don't consider deafness, lifetime balance/vertigo and death "serious stuff"?