Dear Take Two,
If you want to port GTA3 and VC to mobile then I would recommend looking at the re3/revc project. Fans have already put lots of effort into making the games work on modern systems, patching many bugs and making things more portable. Last I checked there already was a Nintendo Switch port.
Oh wait.
Corrected, thankyou. I blindly took the page title.
Do geo storms affect up into the GHz where wifi sits? I can only find material talking about the ionisphere and frequencies up to HF :|
Balanced will reduce noise (in terms of RF noise, of course) significantly better than unbalanced,
In this situation I don't think it will at all.
I don't think that balanced vs unbalanced is actually electromagnetically that different in this particular configuration (see my edit at the end of above). Things like where the wire is sitting on your body and what pose you are in will probably affect RF noise pickup levels on the headphone wires much more than changing between bal & unbal signalling.
but the source of noise does need to be far enough away from the capturing device to not affect it directly and, therefore, be able to be negated by the balanced cable.
I didn't get into near-field and far-field effects. I'm not sure that it really matters here, but I might be wrong.
I don’t like adaptors, as they almost always noticeably reduce audio quality.
Huh? 3.5mm to 6.35mm adapters, the small bits of metal and plastic, or are you talking about something else?
Lethal company, I've been joining random people online and seeing how it goes. I got some good tea advice from a random New Zealand tweenager, that has turned out to be worth the price of the game alone (continues sipping rooibos).
I was playing SWAT 4 until recently, but I don't feel a need to finish it as the gameplay didn't seem evolve or change much after about halfway through. Voice acting is great, team AI is great, but once you discover non-lethal weapons the challenge disappears (and higher difficulties are impossible if you give your teammates lethal weapons). The popular Elite Force mod makes some nice changes, but sadly everyone overall now feels even easier and more repetitive.
Todo:
A good search term is "SSD over-provisioning"
The file size discrepancy is usually due to 1000 vs 1024
No, that's something else entirely. It doesn't matter what measurement system you use, the drive juggles more sectors than your OS can see.
but filling the drive with random data until its full should wipe the drive.
Only if you assume people can't access the reserved/unallocated/over-provisioned sectors. If you are only worried about small thieves then this might not be an issue. If you're handling sensitive data (like medical records for other people or anything with sensitive passwords) then it's completely inadequate to leave any form of data anywhere on the disk.
25/10 for 65AUD/m (43USD/m). Australia, NBN (monopoly across entire country, technically government owned but run like a private corp because of politics). It's the lowest speed now available, but it's already overpriced. $780/year is far more than all of my wifi capable equipment is worth together, including laptops.
SFF = Small Form Factor. It's smaller than traditional ATX computers but can still take the same RAM, processors and disks. Motherboards and power supplies tend to be nonstandard however. Idle power consumptions are usually very good.
USFF = Ultra Small Form Factor. Typically a laptop chipset + CPU in a small box with an external power supply. Somewhat comparable with SBCs like Raspberry Pis. Very good idle power consumption, but less powerful than SFF (and/or louder due to smaller cooler) and often don't have space for standard disks.
SBC = Single Board Computer.
Thanks Mountaineer.
The doublespeak of EULAs and business PR statements terrifies me, it's like a legal language but it's intentionally designed to misinform the average Joe. I'm a bit sad that I didn't get to use all of these examples here.
When a company says they "respect" their users then it means "we really want to retain them but we're scared they might realise we're evil, so lets play the opposite character". I think Optus recently said that giving free data would be more respectful than other options -- it also turns out to be basically free for them to do so (their mobile broadband service will be a bit lower quality due to the higher load and maybe they'll have to pay a little bit more for transit, but I doubt it's much).
"We may share your data with third parties" means "we will share your data with third parties (constantly, because selling your information is our main business model)". It's dishonest but they love using it because at a casual glance the "may" makes this sentence seem unimportant. Just like how a computer repair guy "may see" your data whilst doing their job, but they are a professional and won't mention or share anything.
"User security" is often stated as the motivation for some unpopular move, but what they really mean is "our financial security". Just mentally substitute those words in every time a big company talks about security. It's never about the users.
And finally: "meet the specific needs of our individual customers" means "trick the customer into thinking they don't need something, so later we can rort them for it (or not have to provide it) when they realise they do need it". Insurance companies that let you play roulette with "only pay for the services you need". Man I better plan ahead for that bung leg in 2025.
N.B. Notepad3 (originally Flo's notepad2) is a great drop-in replacement for notepad.exe (and even has an install option to do exactly that, so everything opens with it even if other programs call it). I install it on every Win system I have to manage. Not as big as Notepad++, but has syntax highlighting, line numbers and supports LF file endings.
EDIT: Disappointingly no screenshots on either site >:| It looks similar to vanilla notepad.exe
Something weird https://ace-ev.com.au/
Perhaps imported and then assembled in Australia?