Plus the cost of a regular graphics card. You also had to buy a sound card in addition to all the components you still need today. And I was 15 years old, so coughing up another ~$700 for two of the beefier cards would mean a whole lot more working during summer break.
Someone I knew had two 12MB Voodoo2 cards in SLI. I couldn’t believe anyone could shell out that much. My build was a single 8MB Voodoo2, which was already mind-blowing, especially since I never had 3D acceleration before that.
The Twin Towers were a known target for terrorists. There had been attempts before. Media portraying what would happen if the terrorists actually pull it off could hardly be called foreshadowing.
There are also lots of movies of hurricanes or earthquakes wreaking havoc as well. Are those also “foreshadowing” and part of a conspiracy?
You should be able to set up letterboxing using either xrandr or your window manager, although I got pretty unsatisfactory results when I searched for “xrandr letterboxing”.
What are you using to draw on the screen? That would determine how best to achieve this. I’d expect it to be doable regardless, but the path there would be different.
It was in 2005, these days people tend to recommend Mint to the beginners.
They know exactly what they’re doing and how people feel about it.
They haven’t made money on Windows in years. Nobody has been willing to pay for a new version of Windows since XP. What they do make money on is cloud services. So Windows is a loss leader.
Just like the cheap rotisserie chicken at Costco is there to make you walk past and look at everything else they’re selling, the modern role of Windows is to funnel people towards Microsoft cloud services, which is what makes them money. Step 1 of that process is to make sure you create a Microsoft account.
One of two things happened:
Or:
That doesn’t make it better.
The first thing a novice user learns is to slap sudo in the front if they don’t have access to do something.
I made a guess at their official reasoning for the policy. I made no comment about my own feelings or beliefs beyond that. And no, I don’t think that would stop anyone.
Do you have a better guess at why they’re doing this? Because I can’t think of another reason why they’d be sharing the patches but prohibiting disclosure of them.
They don’t want to disclose vulnerabilities, because they know most people are not going to upgrade their ancient phone?
Their award, they get to choose what to do with it.
You could also try live-booting Debian and see if it works out of the box.
There’s less and less reason to do it (and it’s never 5). On systems without floating point you might want to round it a bit, but only if the specific thing you’re doing allows it, and even then you’re more likely to do a fixed-point approach by using e.g. 314 and dividing by 100 later, or adjusting that value a bit so you can divide by 128 via bitshift if you’re on a chip where division is expensive. However, in 2025 you almost certainly should have picked a chip with an FPU if you’re doing trigonometry.
And while rounding pi to 3 or 4 is certainly just a meme, there are other approximations which are used, like small-angle approximations, where things like sin(x) can be simplified to just x for a sufficiently small x.
Soapy water! And a filled kiddie pool at the end of the runway to stop.
Yeah, if I met you I’d never know! It could be one of thousands others with the same hat!
We may have just gotten lucky. I also had a great time in Venice once by wandering off randomly and ending up somewhere I can only assume tourists don’t normally go. We bought some fruit off a boat which was both delicious and very affordable, so I assume the target demographic was not tourists. I’m pretty sure that’s not the universal experience of Venice either.
We were in the mood for a chill day, so it was nice to just chill in a park and walk through some random old neighborhoods until we stumbled across a restaurant. There’s nothing chill about Milan, though, at least not where a clueless tourist would find it.
As a European from elsewhere in Europe, I’m never going back to Milan. Maybe it’s fine if you’re into fashion, but if you’re not there’s not much to look at except a cathedral which resembles every other cathedral, and it’s impossible to get a photo of it without also having a friendship bracelet scammer in the frame, actively harassing you.
All tourist locations in Italy and France have people trying to scam you (and some non-scammers just trying to sell you cheap toys), but Milan is the only place I’ve been to where they’re straight up harassing you non-stop. Go to Pisa instead, it’s super relaxing there and you can marvel at their past mistakes in structural engineering. A far better deal.
It was inflicted on both groups by the school district.