Personal computing discussed
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Rand wrote:nanoflower wrote:I do. I used to have some old benchmark programs from back in the early DX9 days that I would run when I got a new video card. It made for interesting study to realize where the companies were spending their time. I recall noticing that it seemed the 2D performance was dropping over the years. Unfortunately I lost the programs and all of my stored data during a hard drive crash.
Still might see if I can find some of those programs again one day.I still run an oooollld benchmark called 'Final Reality' everytime I upgrade, it's good for amusements sake. I think it might have been made my Futuremark or whatever the 3DMark creators are calling themselves these days.
Every single GPU upgrade since the Voodoo 3 3000 my score on it has gotten progressively worse.
shaq_mobile wrote:Am I the only person that misses the old, fun DRM? DRM that involved you breaking codes with the provided booklet, filling in blanks to phrases in the manual, referencing game compendiums or just looking at the tables and answering what was in certain cells. Nothing said "please don't steal" like "please don't steal" written on the floppy or a half hearted DRM attempt. Don't treat us like a criminal, regardless of whether we purchase it or not.
mdk77777 wrote:However, My HP 15 C still runs great.
Glorious wrote:Your recollection is almost certainly correct. Between GDI+ and the WDDM a lot of those tasks were no longer hardware accelerated, but even before that it became less and less of a priority for driver writers.
mdk77777 wrote:Wish more stuff was made to last. Willing to pay the premium not to have disposable crap
mdk77777 wrote:Willing to pay the premium not to have disposable crap.
and a lot of toxic stuff that made them hard to recycle.
mdk77777 wrote:And you think those IPADS, and $300 laptops, and throwaway I-phones have less toxic crap?
You think have any recycle value?
If something lasts 30 instead of 3 years, haven't we "saved the environment" by a factor of 10x ????
I hope so. Wasn't that a goal of measures like RoHS and EPEAT?
the battery are generally designed to be readily disassembled for recycling.
then no -- extra material resources and energy were expended in manufacturing to overbuild the device for a use it will never see.
he glass face, the metal and plastic elements of the frame, and the battery are generally designed to be readily disassembled for recycling.
peartart wrote:shaq_mobile wrote:Am I the only person that misses the old, fun DRM? DRM that involved you breaking codes with the provided booklet, filling in blanks to phrases in the manual, referencing game compendiums or just looking at the tables and answering what was in certain cells. Nothing said "please don't steal" like "please don't steal" written on the floppy or a half hearted DRM attempt. Don't treat us like a criminal, regardless of whether we purchase it or not.
I played Master of Orion so much that I can still name most of the ship designs without using the manual.
MadManOriginal wrote:2000 tons of bio-waste? pfft, I pass that under 6 months into the year
mdk77777 wrote:he glass face, the metal and plastic elements of the frame, and the battery are generally designed to be readily disassembled for recycling.
PS, you obviously don't spend much time in the materials/recycling industry.
Very little glass is recycled. It takes less energy to make from pure raw materials than the energy to transport and subsequently sort and refine contaminated recycled glass.
This is especially true of highly engineered glass like "gorilla" glass. I would be willing to bet the amount recycled back into the original application is exactly 0.
Same with plastics. Most are one use non-reversible heat set. Not going to be "recycled" .
People love the sound of RECYCLING until they come up against the logistical and energy consumption realities.
PSS.
Just FYI, I ship 2000 tons per year of a bio-waste, that actually is used in the world's most recycled material-STEEL.
It is still 100x better to keep using something than to delude yourself into thinking that recycling is an excuse for throw-away design.
just brew it! wrote:I've heard that aluminum is one of the more profitable items to recycle, mainly because refining "virgin" aluminum from raw ore is so energy-intensive.