Re: I need to re-think my charging!
Ninite is a great thing and has saved me time in the past.
First thing you need to visit after installing your OS and sorting out the drivers.
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Turns out, an Olympic swimming pool contains a mammoth amount of data.
By my calculations, if you were to simply describe it as literally (H20×Number of molecules in the pool), you'd need 227800000000000000000 TiB (Tebibytes).
As for the individual molecules of the other trace elements in the pool, that becomes impractical and time wasting to estimate. Of course, describing water as simply "H20" doesn't describe all the properties, so it could be argued you'd need to include a longer description per molecule, vastly increasing the dataset required!
Thankfully, this dataset would be compressed insanely efficiently, so it's not as horrifying as it initially appears!
How on earth is a secret conversation aided by an unencrypted video feed?
No terrorist worth his salt would use a webcam. What purpose would showing yourself possibly serve in the context of a private conversation?
This was worthless data from day dot. Seriously, I'm surprised it wasn't higher than 11% nudity.
How is this legal or justified? We are being ruled by idiots, perverts and power hungry idiotic perverts. Also, those who follow them and just nod their head because PAEDOPHILES and TERRORISTS.
I don't think this will ever stop, because political will is as limp as a paedophile in an retirement home.
A game that played fine on a Dreamcast.
200MHz Hitachi SH-4, 16MiB RAM, 100MHz PowerVR2 8MiB VRAM. Optical disc.
Over 13 years ago.
Even had 4 player split screen.
Not exactly a monumental achievement for a supposedly far more powerful device
700MHz ARM11, 512MiB RAM, 250MHz Broadcom Videocore IV. NAND flash.
I thought the same. Daily Mail as a primary source? You should feel bad.
People have never looked down to read or write in all of human history?
In fact, with the advent of computers, we are looking straight ahead to retrieve data more often than ever - clearly reading paperwork would require a much more downward looking gaze.
The fall in BTC value, I mean. The fact remains, many other cryptocurrencies remain at higher prices compared to BTC.
So, the ratio between, say, LTC/BTC means if you're holding LTC, the value is going up in terms of the amount of Bitcoin you can buy with it.
"I'll concede one point: yes, "WII" and "WII U" are ridicule names, sure. But let's get over it."
Nah, I think it's actually very important - a lot of consumers think Wii U is some kind of tablet accessory for the Wii, a console they're already a bit tired of.
Whether the name is ugly or bad is personal opinion, but it's pretty clear it's a confusing name.
There are fun and innocent games on other platforms, but I do agree with one thing - the family living room - the key thing that I'm glad Nintendo is still doing is local multiplayer.
Other platforms cynically are going to online multiplayer, and Nintendo still provides good opportunities for split screen and so on. This is good. But that's Nintendo the game developer, not Nintendo the hardware producer.
There's no reason they couldn't make the same games with the same great local multiplayer for PS4, for example. Wii U infact makes the situation worse than the Wii - because not all players can have a touchscreen controller!
I hear this "Dreamcast" comparison, but I'm never sure where it comes from.
The Dreamcast was the first practical online console (first with a built in modem), it was the first with analogue triggers, it was the first with a screen on the controller, it was notably more powerful than other consoles at launch (launched before PS2, and even compared to PS2, all output was progressive so it holds up better today, supported hardware AA), and is fondly remembered with a quirky line up. It also has a far better name than "Wii U".
The Dreamcast and Wii U have completely different mindsets behind their design. The Dreamcast was from a powerful arcade manufacturer who wanted to cleanse the palette of the misguided 32X and Saturn, and get back to a solid gaming experience with a powerful machine (the arcade version, NAOMI, lived on for a very, very long time). Games were varied, and often as good looking as it was possible to make them (Shenmue for example).
The Wii U on the other hand is everything a cookie-cutter Wii sequel should be - gimmicky and underpowered. Thing is, it's not that interesting second time round (or arguably, the first time round).
The Wii U is innovative in what way, exactly? PlayStation has had remote play with the PSP and PS3 before the Wii U, and still has it now with PS4 and Vita. Motion controls were popularised with the Wii, but were around before that (Dreamcast fishing controller can be used like a crude Wiimote).
The only shame is that Nintendo won't develop or port their games for other platforms.
N64 dated at launch? What? Super Mario 64 is the most influential 3D platformer of all time, and OoT was one of the most epic and playable Zelda games.
Not to mention Goldeneye 007, which was basically the only game in town when you had 4 people around a screen, followed up by Perfect Dark. There were some key games on the N64 that made it stand out.
I think maybe you've posted this a little prematurely. I'd hope El Reg wouldn't be the place to find console fanboys, heaven forbid.
These days I prefer everything on the PC, although I tend to use a 360 controller with a lot of newer games.
Not just for the graphical quality, but for sheer convenience. PCs will also be "backwards compatible" for a lot longer than any console, so I can have a decent unbroken experience.
I have plenty of consoles myself: Xbox 360, PS2, Dreamcast (x6), GameCube (x2), N64 (x2) SNES, Xbox, of course a DS Lite for good measure. Had a Gameboy Advance SP, but no idea where it went.
PC is still the most versatile, and newer consoles lack the unique charm of the older machines. I know that all my old console games are frozen in time - as long as the hardware and disc works, I can play that game forever, as it is, with the same experience every time. Newer consoles, they may want to update, the virtual stores may die out, you'll get a system update which flips things around and tosses ads in your face.
I wish people would stop saying "Windows 8 is fine, you can totally avoid Metro".
The ENTIRE point of Windows 8 is to push Metro and their app store.
If you don't use that, you may as well be using Windows 7. Using Windows 8 gives Microsoft the wrong idea in stats. The idea that they pushed out a worthy update.
Sounded shite from the off - because you could clearly see the flaw in attempting to overlap everything - and it of course shows up in the form of abysmal write speeds.
I can't imagine it's a very reliable process either.
Helium filled drives, well, my hat goes off to HGST for trying something new.
Yeah, these things need to be way cheaper to be considered.
If you buy, say, the cheapest Dell server (yes, really! PowerEdge T20 starts at 219 ex VAT with no drives), then stack it with your own drives, you'll end up cheaper than this box...
.. But now you have a fully functional piece of kit, which you can run almost anything on.
Yeah, I don't use my actual Google account when I use YouTube, which is the only thing I need an account for (sodding Google merging accounts). I use one that has a fake, temporary email address.
It's very handy for keeping a subscription list and allowing adult content, or I'd do without the thing entirely.
No, really, Robocop had the HUD too with perp detection and so on...
... Not Terminator. He had it, but not for a strict crime prevention tool, more of a combat effectiveness and situational awareness tool. Cops shouldn't be comparing themselves to Terminator, who was, himself, a criminal.
In Windows PC terminology, the machine is only the same if it has the same motherboard, to prevent the confusion over whether a case counts as "the same machine".
If you replace the motherboard, Windows will want to re-activate, as it believes it is a different machine.
Total bollocks, basically..
I have a Vaio Z12, my girlfriend has a Vaio S13 Premium, show me other laptops that have full voltage CPUs and discrete graphics with a 13" 1600x900 screen, RAID0 SSDs AND an optical drive in a thin and light package.
You can't, and they're basically absolute gems of machines with no equal.
They are also not part of the current line up, and nor is any alternative. Which is kind of the point. They don't have any laptops right now I'd want. But in the recent past they've made machines that I'd still take over any currently available machine.
If they focused keenly on only these top end devices, and left the mainstream scraps to others, they'd have a smaller but premium brand reputation that could easily be well deserved.