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I know someone who will not upgrade to Windows 10 or 11, so is now install Linux, so he can play some DirectX 12 game (though Wine / proton) that will not work on Windows 7 but only on Windows 10 / 11 (maybe Wine / Proton). He's going to keep both Windows 7 and Linux on the same computer. I hoping gaming on Linux will get better soon.

I was not thinking of games on the blockchain but more use of blockchain in the games for example (in MORPG user transaction, game errors, leaderboard, DRM). There a some user case that I can think of but I do not use blockchain for any of them.

Blockchains are not a database nowhere near if you try to use it a database it is very poor one, It is more of a distributed logging system. Blockchains are nothing more than a logging system. There are some use of blockchains for games, but nothing to do with the gameplay itself (that be a terrible idea). The area that I can see is (log errors, database transaction log for easy validation, log of sales, DRM, log of resell, log of hardware it's running on (part of DRM)) but most of this can be done with the use of blockchains. Bitcoin and other like NFT just use blockchains as a logging system to log the transaction and validation it nothing more. The idea is that more them one person would have a copy of the blockchains and there could validation them if different something is wrong. There are smart contract that run on top of the blockchains but them are awful idea (e.g. slow, cannot be changed, error prone, hard to debug) the fact you cannot change it (e,g, to fix bugs) make it unless and awful for game and anything else. Just think how many bugs a game have when it first comes out but them get fix with smart contract you cannot fix them at all.

I cannot see ARM take over from X86 at all, ARM is not a new thing it has been out for over 20+ years. Apple is not a new "IBM PC" in any way, it more like a BeBox, a closed system, hardware and software. Where IBM PC was more open. Android can work on both x86, ARM and maybe more CPU types, it only a type of Linux after all. Windows is a static is a joke, if you look up more into what going on with Windows you find some big change like allowed Linux run inside Windows, Android apps and changed to the windows thread and (windows thread and process scheduler to work with big.little CPU architecture.

I was not happy with the review, as I have seen it total unfair, I want to see how good the Intel vs AMD, not how good is DDR5. There should use the same hardware where possible e.g. use DDR 4 for both and maybe show one with DDR 5 as well. I want to see intel vs AMD (both with DDR 4) and intel vs AMD (with intel DDR 5). Intel CPU look good so far, I cannot wait until seeing the new AMD CPU with DDR 5 and we can have some fair benchmark. Also, it is sad that Windows 11 could cause problems as well. Maybe we get better and fair benchmark later on.

You find new games still use a lot of RAM sometime more them 8GB, so page file is still use a lot. The key to lower the slow-down is to keep the page file (virtual memory) on the fast drive, it does not have to be the same one as the OS, (e.g. OS on HDD, game and page file on SSD). I like the OS to be fast so keep the OS with page files on the fast drive, then the games on slower. (game may load slow but one loaded there no problems).

If you read more, the government did win with ordered Microsoft to breakup of Microsoft but in the appeal the government change it mind on breakup of Microsoft and allow Microsoft to have a deal to allow for closed API to be open to third parties. (still a Win) Why it changes it mind on breakup of Microsoft could be many reasons from changed in government or who running the cases. Completely different sectors on oil make no different, it is the same law on all sectors, Completely different situation? I would say apple is worse.

There loads of precedent for this (e.g. United States v. Microsoft Corp (2001), Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States (1911) ..) with the Standard Oil Co the company had to break up. If US government want to brought charges against Apple for monopolistic behaviour or antitrust violations there could but it all political, Also have the power to break up them as well.

This is not all true, I did not do any Calculus when doing a BSc or on the MSc. We did do some maths much of it was base on logic.

This want I did, I love computer when I was kid and still do, but did not really know what to do in it. So I start a computer science degree that more or less the same in the first year but you can pick a route after first year, It give you a should an idea what area in computing you really into. The degree had two routes one was network / server and the other was software developer. I found network really boring in year one but love software developer, so want that rote for next two years. There a lot in computing more than just programming or network / server, a computer science degree show you a lot more and help you more them people who did not do one.

If you want to be super space you could pick multi region, so a copy is safe in more than one region, but it cost more as you pay for each copy. I like say look at Azure as well, it good and you can keep more on one copy around the world not just one region (USA), it maybe cheap not sure.

It transfers fees out only (not data going in) and per MB not files or objects (e.g. $0.23 per MB but there some free amounts per month)., both also have Operations instructions cost as well, but there are very small. Also look up Azure as well.

Yes and no, that is the cost, but it cost less as it is very slow to read from, (could be tapes drives) and made for someone who only access file once a year or longer (e.g. backups). Note that data transfer going in to google cloud is free but outgoing you would have to pay, also Operations (insert,get...) cost is on top. This could be really cheap if you want to keep data that not going be use for years. There could be other cost like backup (more than one copy in different area of the world). It would be way cheaper than front line data store like AWS S3 Glacier:or Google cloud Standard Storage.

EEC memory have nothing to do with memory leaks, so you can test this out.EEC memory old deal with error when data go to and from RAM (e.g. a bit is in the wrong flop). Aslo EEC memory cannot not stop a memory leaks, What memory leaks is when a program allocations an object in memory but forgot to released when no longer needed. A good example of this could be a game that keep make a new object in game then remove the object but forgot to release the memory that the object was allocations, so when a new object is made it take up new area of memory and not the old object memory area as it was not released. When it keep happen e.g. maybe over a longer time the RAM that the program get allocations or available will get full up and the program will crash. So it a bug in the game engines that make the memory leaks.

it is excellent. I would say as Windows 1 - Windows 3.1x are only really GUI on top of MS-DOS, that I would added MS-DOS version to the list as well, Also Windows 95 - Windows ME both come high integrate with MS-DOS. So added MS-DOS versions from the day of Windows 1 to Windows ME would make a more full list.