They didn't do that last time I looked. You can only trade in your perpetual license for a discounted 'upgrade' to the subscription version.

Like all software companies that go down the subscription hole, they do their best to hide it. You literally have to login and click on a bunch of things to get to that point.

And I'm sure this will all change when the new vulture capital fund that snaps it up tries to extract every last microcent of "value" from the brand.

I should also note I jumped ship to DxO as soon as C1 started going down the subscription hole. And frankly, I'm kind of glad they're struggling. I guess they thought they were going to replicate Adobe's "success" with subscriptions without first being a near-monopoly.

I'd be disappointed if it didn't. My Bosch is running for about 13 years right now and just as well as when I bought it. Maybe it helps I'm in the EU and there's a law stating you have right of compensation if it dies within a decade...

Test Drive 2 (and 1) used a pseudo-3D renderer with scaled sprites (see https://www.mobygames.com/game/2107/the-duel-test-drive-ii/s...) TD3 used a 'real' 3D engine, but as a result it needed a beefy machine for the day. Driving felt a lot slower too, I never found it as much fun as TD2.

Consequence of the 'if it works, why mess with it?' mindset. It will become a problem when those boards give out and spares are gone.

I wonder how many of those are actually still out there. According to Wikipedia, Intel kept making replacement parts (386 and 486) until September 2007, but personally, I have never come across one in actual use. My own career in this field began with an internship in 2008. My day job includes working on a PLC runtime with a code base older than myself, originally written for DOS, but every industrial PC (or other x86 based embedded device) I have ever got to play around with had at the very least a Pentium class CPU in it.

As for the Windows 3.x based industrial equipment: Some industrial devices I have worked on in the past turned out to actually be ARM based, running Linux, but the software went a long way to convincingly fake old Windows style UI or emulate a DOS prompt. I was once tasked to extend such a UI library to faithfully reproduce Windows 98 style color gradient borders.

Only once have I seen an actual embedded 486SX with my own eyes, but not in active use anymore. Last year, someone dragged a dusty, old, weirdo Siemens telephony box to the the local Hackerspace. The box itself had a design language that screamed "Star Trek: Voyager". I found a UART, it was running "On Time RTOS-32" which, according to the German Wikipedia, was an RTOS with a Windows API compatible userspace, developed by a German company in 1996 and discontinued in 2023.

> Some industrial devices I have worked on in the past turned out to actually be ARM based, running Linux, but the software went a long way to convincingly fake old Windows style UI or emulate a DOS prompt. I was once tasked to extend such a UI library to faithfully reproduce Windows 98 style color gradient borders.

IBM mainframes have an embedded PC (the "Support Element") used to manage the hardware configuration and diagnostics. Originally, it ran OS/2. In 2005, IBM replaced it with Linux–running a UI which looked like OS/2. (At some point more recently, they refreshed the visual look so it doesn't look like OS/2 any more, although I'm not sure when they did that.)

Seems like a needed rehash of Eco's article about "ur-fascism" https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

Also, don't get the [flagged]. For what it's worth: Rutger Bregman is a historian and best-selling writer from the Netherlands. While you don't have to agree with everything he says most is thought provoking at least.

I've played BotW on Switch 1 and the Switch 2 upgraded edition. While some scenes are a bit choppy on Switch 1 it's never in the way of gameplay and even on Switch 1 one of the best video games of the last decade.

Of course Switch 2 is faster and the better console (it should be), but if you're focussing on raw performance you're in the wrong crowd.

Even on PS5 you have load times and performance tradeoffs. There will be a time when we're wondering how we put up with the 'impossibly slow' current generation of consoles like we're doing with the 8-bits machines now.

> but if you're focussing on raw performance you're in the wrong crowd.

I read it as "I enjoy the Switch 1 games, but I want to enjoy them even more with faster load times and better frame rates"

> While some scenes are a bit choppy on Switch 1 it's never in the way of gameplay

BOTW had issues with framerate (30fps was the baseline which isn't good to start with), and often dropped to below that in open world scenarios. TOTK has major performance issues on the Switch 1 though IME.

Yeah, and still it's quite an enjoyable experience. I didn't lose a single fight because the rendering couldn't keep up.

I don't subscribe to the opinion games have to run a stable 60fps to be enjoyable.

It was a hype in the Linux community at the time. Around that time I moved from study to job and had a bit of cash to spare. Couldn't resist a good deal for a second hand SL-5500, but I think it was ahead of its time and the potential not fully realized. It was also not really open source. You could compile your own distro, but nothing ever produced by the Zaurus community would ever offer as much functionality as the proprietary Linux desktop from Sharp on the 5500 at least.

2003 called and wants its arguments against Java back.

Modern Java can be OOP, functional or procedural where useful. GoF patterns were never enforced by the language.

I'd say GoF patterns were pretty enforced by the language if you include the standard libraries.

Or maybe that's even a bit rude to GoF. Some OO patterns - pretty questionable ones - were pushed pretty hard especially in Java EE.

Java EE practically reinvented itself over the last 20 years using the more popular frameworks as inspiration for better or worse.

Even then, you were never forced to use Java EE if you didn't need it.

Java EE is pretty darn retro right now, and it was never core Java

Does the name of the class inside the file still break the wall and force what the name of the file needs to be?

There is an argument for that being an opinionated part of the Java language, and as i hear it, opinionated programming languages are all the rage.

Fwiw, I like that class names and file names must match. In python codebases I have had annoyances with this when I adopted others work.

A lot of de Java standard library is actually quite nice to program with. Of course there are less good parts, but Java is committed to compatibility so you can choose between dealing with an old design versus continually refactoring code to the standard of the day. I prefer having a choice.

As far as Java use in companies is an indicator, the horse is still running.

It's a Wordpress site, probably hacked. Some Wordpress exploits only try to target 'high value' user agents like iPhones.

Pulseaudio came with an ALSA plugin which meant applications written for the ALSA API could output to PA so it was compatible.