As long as people keep buying garbage, people will keep selling garbage. Can't really blame them.
Framerate aside, a good percentage of modern TVs have abysmal latency. I recently played the original Super Monkey Ball 2 on a gamecube hooked up to a CRT and was shook; that sort of precision would never fly on modern hardware.
Game mode helps, but only somewhat, it does not generally solve the issue.
For this reason, as far as tight gameplay goes, my money's on devices like the Switch.
Not all that glitters is gold. I had a horrible experience with Hollow Knight on the Switch and can't understand how anyone would enjoy that game on that console. I did a video recording and the lag playing on the console screen was easily in the 100ms (iirc; can't find it).
From what I read on Reddit, there are some people who don't notice any lag (even in the aforementioned HK), others notice it in most games. For me, even the Zelda titles have some lag (though these I play on the TV, so it's a bit unfair).
For my part, I'll stick to PC; even if it means crying a little bit on each upgrade. And that's coming from the guy who used to often game at 25fps as a kid; and still enjoys playing the odd couch game (with friends) via wired Steam inhome streaming.
If you (or others) are happy with their experience, that's fine of course ;)
The switch (especially the pre-OLED) does not have better input latency than a kinda modern OLED TV.
The problem is that we're compounding latencies that would be ok if it was just 1. Controllers? Bluetooth instead of a cable. Monitor? OLED instead of CRT. Audio? Maybe also wireless.
All together creates a sluggishness you can feel but can't pinpoint.
Libraries are specifically protected by US copyright law, according to one of the judges in the oral argument in this case:[0]
>Well you know there's a statutory carve-out for libraries, right? Congress made clear that there's an authorization for libraries to lend out the books. Is it totally obvious that if Congress didn't provide that carve-out that what libraries were doing, even if they scaled up, would fall under fair use?
I'm not sure what statute this is but it seems to be U.S. Code 17 § 109[1] based on later discussion in that oral argument:
>Can I ask a more basic question? So if Congress had not codified the first sale doctrine and didn't have Section 109 that authorizes libraries, and libraries only had to rely on the fair use doctrine Would it be obvious that you could do whatever you want with the physical book?
It's not clear if this applies only to libraries or if the judge means anything that is like what a library does (ie. lending). The IA lawyer says "Section 109 says anyone, a library or not, can lend out a physical object physically." I think the issue is with converting the format from print to digital, which is only allowed for specific cases, as outlined in section 108, based on the discussion in the oral argument.
Necessitating adapters and dongles or otherwise, new peripherals when the ones people already own and love work fine, is necessitating e-waste, and is effectively a declaration of war on the environment.
Once USB-C becomes as ubiquitous as USB-A, they'll do it again.
Minimum wage in 1980 could afford you about 6 big macs per hour; in 2022 that number fell to less than 1 big mac per hour; in the same timeframe, worker productivity has gone up multiple times over. We are being pillaged, and headlines like this seem to be a subtle justification that we should not worry about it too much.
The past is no place to live; when I see atrocity happening when and where I live, I am going to talk about it, and I am going to be thinking about ways we can improve or offset it.
Headline is in poor taste. Yes I fucking love science and all that but it is unproductive and insulting to all those in our current year struggling with inhumane living conditions and progressively decreasing opportunities.
The statutory US federal minimum wage does not reflect actual labor prices. A more useful measure of comparison would be changes in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc decile/quantile of annual and hourly wages.
Also, the US is so big and varied in terms of cost of living, that there would need to be an adjustment to account for that. Or just compare within specific metros over a time period.
Big macs were never that cheap. Minimum wage in the early 1980s was $3.35/hr and unlike today, McDonald's actually had people standing in line to apply for jobs at that wage. I was one of them.
A Big Mac at that time was around $1.00 although the "value combo" concept had emerged so most people didn't buy them individually.
McDonald's today pays $15/hr and has trouble hiring. They couldn't hire anyone if they just offered minimum wage. A Big Mac is around $5.00 so the ratio is broadly the same.
There are quite a few samsung pens, which can be but don't need to be charged.
That is, the writing works without charging but "air gestures" etc. additionally work via bluetooth or something and do need additional charging.
That said, due to the fact that it does have an eraser, I would still guess that it is EMR but probably with a softer tip (e.g., the galaxy folds had special pens; other emr pens are "compatible", but might damage the crease, so they are not officially compatible).
the problem is that while productivity has gone up multiple times over in the past few decades, the purchasing power of the median wage has gone DOWN. Where is all that excess productivity going?
No one wants to work anymore, which I suppose explains why we're seeing mass layoffs every few weeks?
The problems of the poor are caused by the mass demoralization campaign spearheaded by sociopath billionaires who will not be stopped, as they control not only our social power structure but the media that declares what the public sentiment on the matter is.
Extremely competent, well educated individuals have already attempted every "non-radical" solution to this problem, and it has only gotten worse. What are we to do?
And for anyone who wants to tell me "it's okay because now you can afford a supercomputer in your pocket that would have cost a billion dollars in the 90's!", I would like to make it crystal clear that I would prefer food and shelter to an iPhone.
Framerate aside, a good percentage of modern TVs have abysmal latency. I recently played the original Super Monkey Ball 2 on a gamecube hooked up to a CRT and was shook; that sort of precision would never fly on modern hardware.
Game mode helps, but only somewhat, it does not generally solve the issue.
For this reason, as far as tight gameplay goes, my money's on devices like the Switch.
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