Our Technological Age

such a loaded question considering those programs have very specific minimum hardware requirements and most off the shelf PC's can't handle them properly.
In order to get the maximum performance out of them, you need a very high end video solution such as Matrox or nVidia Quadro line which have very specific architecture to handle the geometry, and you knew that before you typed the question.

so in essence your question is just plain silly.

 

every time I play an SNES game I am astounded by the quality of games they could produce back then with such limited hardware! Silicon was a lot more expensive back then so they had to squeeze as much performance as they could out of what they had to work with and did an excellent job. The CPU in the super nintendo was slow even for back then (only 3.78??MHz) and 128kB of memory. The system executed code directly from the ROM in the cartridges w/o being copied to RAM first, so very little RAM was needed and only really used as a sort of "scratchpad" for things like state data that couldn't be kept in the processor registers. The ROM images were also limited to a couple-few MB at the most, mostly because of the cost. Zelda: A link to the past is possibly the best game i've ever played.

:2thumbsup: to the guys at Nintendo® that really knew how to program back then!

 

i generally love any kind of technologies i can create with.

there are some things though, that are annoying when they work precisely as intended.
cars, guns, cell phones, credit cards. sometimes its not so much the things themselves, but what people have come to expect because of their existence.

 

One thing a PC can do that phones can't

allow people to friggin' type properly and spellcheck their posts and they don't put those annoying advertising tag lines at the end of each post;
"sent from my blah, blah, blah".

 

I hate autocorrect. People can still understand what was supposed to be meant if a letter is omitted from a word or something like that, but autocorrect will "correct" that to some word that doesn't make any sense at all in the context it's used.

I remember having a phone once that would correct my curse words to non curse words that didn't make sense .. the f word would become "duck" .. what the duck? lol

 

A couple of points:

1. Landlines? Really?, so last decade

2. AT & T really?

3. Just use your phone as the wifi and get yourself one of those tablet notebook combos, they are awesome. I'm surprised a sun loving beach going guy like Shale isnt doing this already instead of kooked up at home

 

I am at my sister's house working in Microsoft Office 2007 (the one I uninstalled and replaced with Office 2003) Word is a pain in the butt. It seems to have all the features of the earlier version but they made the layout different so I waste time searching for the common tools that I use.

It would be like getting into a car where the gas and brake pedals were in different positions. Sure you will eventually learn how to use your left foot, but why would they do that?

I was updating some family history essays I brot on a USB drive and saved it on the thumb drive then on her desktop. Went back to correct a minor typo in both copies but the one on her desktop was now "read only." I did not choose to make it read only, the computer decided that. I finally managed to delete the one on the desktop and replaced with the thumbdrive doc that I had to open again. These are the little annoyances that the "new & improved" versions cause me.

 

Don't talk shit about AT&T, they have a lot of involvement in the history of the phone system, as well as the C programming language and technology in general.

 

During hurricane Wilma in 2005, the electric went out in two counties, which included cell towers. No one could use their cell fones. I was able to talk to other ppl who had landlines plugged into the wall. Low tech is sometimes more stable than the new stuff.

I touch type. I got big fingers that have their own memory (no, I do not know where the letters are on a keyboard but my fingers do.) So, I would have to find a way to put a standard keyboard onto my tablet notebook combo, which kinda defeats the purpose. Might as well keep the tower.

I only spend a couple hours at a time on the beach - I actually do spend time in my man cave writing or editing fotos.

 

I'm pretty sure they changed the layout of the program again in Office 2010. Used to when you purchased some software like MS office you would buy the physical CD that would have a serial number that you activate it with. Physical media is becoming replaced, and obsolete with the availability of extremely high internet connection speeds becoming common. Time Warner cable will be offering a 300Mbps service level soon in NYC, Los Angeles, and Austin. The movie rental store is also becoming obsolete, being replaced by cloud services like VUDU, and with these theres no need to own a physical copy of the movie, you purchase it and can stream the video directly from the cloud and the quality is excellent. For anyone who doesn't know why the cloud is called "the cloud" ... a long time ago when people began drawing diagrams of computer networks, the local network depicted would be drawn out and described, and at the point where the network was connected to the "outside world", the larger external network (which is basically the internet today) was abstracted and simply drawn as a cloud shape since the actual network hierarchy and structure was basically unimportant and didn't need to be known in order to describe the workings of the local network, only the point(s) of connection to an external network was depicted.

With cloud services, you don't have to be concerned with storing a large number of movie titles, or about physical damage to media. But you do have to place some faith in the company offering the service, and that their service will remain available many years from now if you have purchased a very large number of titles.

 

This is how it went for me over the last about 3 years, once data speeds and plan costs (here anyway) were high/low enough to make it worthwhile:

Bought the bigass tablet cos they were cool, but was too big and awkward to carry around.

Then bought 7" tablet, which is the perfect size for a tablet, but then got frustrated cos anytime you have to do anything serious and accidently brush the screen it goes off to another page or something.

So then bought the bigass 5" phone and a notebook, but phones too big to carry around all the time, then non touch screen notebook gets annoying when you just want to flick through stuff.

So now im back to tiny ass cheap phone, same size and functionality as those good ole Nokia 110s had like a decade ago, and one of those transformer tablet/notebook things, which are the best of both worlds IMO


So about 1/2 dozen gadgets or so in the last 3 years, that I didnt really use for long, a bit of a waste, but the total cost of them would still come out less than what I would have paid for one PC 20 years ago with the bigass CRT monitor the size of a bar fridge

 

I cant really stand staying put at home, especially after spending most of the 50 hours a week at work in an office. Once I got to that point where mobile data was reliable and I could just grab my notebook and take off, it was like hallelujah

 

Something happened to my dogecoin wallet software. Wallet file is backed up, so I should be able to just reinstall the program. Hopefully I don't have to download the whole blockchain again, i'm sure it's a lot bigger now than it was. I need to make a new wallet, and transfer my doges to the new one.

 

which is exactly why I'm not very confident in them nor do I like the shift to that format for delivering software.
I'm old school, I like to have the product in my hand and in my control.
I think the MS Office being offered as a cloud service is ok for the occasional user or maybe student, but for business the risks are not worth it.
My friend whom I help out from time to time if he has big installs always discourages his clients from using such services because you do essentially relinquish control of the software to someone else.
And cloud storage of personal files........the thought makes me shudder.