Will this run GTA 6 and why not?
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I could swear I have seen it on some other device as well, many years later, but I don't remember what it was.
Slightly off-topic, but the only time I've ever used Windows 3.1 (beyond the odd virtualization experiment every once in a while) was on a laptop with a passive-matrix monochrome LCD, so seeing this OS in color always feels a bit wrong to me.
I think it was a Compaq LTE Lite, likely an early model. It was a relative's device (he's working in the insurance industry) and I was only toying around with it in the late '90s, when it was already obsolete.
Researching this laptop, I found a hilarious contemporary ad that is very full of itself and pulls no punches against the competitors:
These were very expensive, like all laptops at the time, so it's no surprise it's shown being used by executives. I'm impressed by how many now common features it already had. I think they aren't showing the cheapest variant with the passive-matrix display in this video, which looked very dim and unpleasant.
A floppy disk is 3.3mm in height, so without taking into account that a large stack would be rather compressed further down, the theoretical height of this stack would be about 300 meters, which is right in between the roof and the tip of the antenna of the Chrysler Building in NYC.
I know you're joking, but the opposite is likely the future of game graphics: First a conventional render, perhaps even with path-tracing (although that might not be necessary), then AI on top:
Garbage in, garbage out.
Before online DRM, we used to buy games once among friends, dividing the cost, and then share them. At first, everyone got the disc for a few days each, but then we figured out how to remove the copy protection...
No, not almost every other mod. Only small ones. Total conversions like Enderal are not possible:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/976620/EnderalForgottenStoriesSpecialEdition/
This mod is essentially a massive (50 hours just for the main story) free AAA RPG with its own world, story and mechanics. It even comes with professional voice acting in German and English.
I first streamed from PC to a portable device with my PSP way back when. It did not work very well, but it was a neat proof of concept.
That said, Playstation consoles have had this ability since the PS3 as well.
The hardware, yes. You can build a console-equivalent system for only a little bit more. It is far cheaper in the long run though. Games cost less, after all.
The scooter only served as transportation for the gun. You would remove it and the mount from the vehicle, assemble the gun in a hidden position and use it to ambush enemy tanks or strike strong points.
This was an alternative to schlepping a 103 lb (47 kg) gun and mount around on foot, which would be far less pleasant.
Agreed. There's volume discount, and then there is "Facebook data center with an energy consumption of a small country volume discount".
If I unintentionally offended you, I apologize. This was not meant as a zinger, but as a genuine offer.
The US would block the necessary UN resolution for this at the security council, because it's against one of their closest Allies. Since the late '60s and in earnest the early '70s, there has been a strong relationship between America and Israel. Shared values, shared enemies, shared economic interests. This support is bipartisan, with both Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly recognizing the strategic importance of Israel to the US.
This kind of resolution would also set a dangerous and illogical precedent, essentially signaling that it's illegal for countries to use their armed forces what they are ideally used for, destroying forces hostile to their home country that struck first or pose a serious threat of striking first, which in turn signals to terrorist groups like Hamas that they can attack and that whoever retaliates must fear UN intervention.
Then there's the whole business that absolutely nobody would want their troops to be fighting Hamas directly or play peace keeper in this hideous powder keg (remember the UN doesn't have its own army - blue helmets are just soldiers from member states), because this would potentially invite Hamas and other Islamist extremists from using this as an excuse for terrorist attacks against them. This isn't unfounded: See several Hamas plots that have been uncovered recently, like in Denmark and Brazil. Hamas is not just a threat to Israel and they are not acting alone, but have relationships with other Islamofascist organizations.
Absolutely nobody would want to risk an armed clash against Israel either (because I don't think they would just accept an international coalition, even with UN mandate, endangering their sovereignty): It has both formidable conventional capabilities and is nuclear armed, including with nuclear-armed submarines and ICBMs. This strong deterrent - only about a third of their armed forces are engaged in Gaza right now, the rest are guarding their borders - essentially gives them immunity against direct attacks and other hostile actions from state actors (everyone who tried in the past, when Israel was significantly less powerful, failed, even when they outnumbered and outgunned Israel, even when they had a technological edge, very much unlike now), which is why Iran in particular has to use proxies with a thin veneer of "plausible" deniability to engage this arch enemy of theirs or else risk anything from a painful retaliation to total annihilation.
There is also the economic factor: Israel is the Taiwan of the Middle East, with a high-tech economy that is extremely important to the world. Items like 10nm computer chips are vital to the global economy. An embargo against the small nation could have potentially devastating effects. Embargoes that only target arms don't make much sense either and would be toothless: Israel is a major producer of high-tech weaponry and several armed forces in the world partially depend on supplies and technology from them. They can produce almost everything locally, only using e.g. American-made bombs and interceptor missiles, because it's faster, cheaper (or free). The times when they had to smuggle in hunting rifles and scrapped tanks due to an American embargo against them (which existed until the Kennedy administration) are long over.
Israel is one of very few countries that has the ability to develop nearly every weapons system known to man and produce most of them locally, including small arms, armored vehicles (including tanks), drones of all kinds that make those used in the Ukraine war look like toys, multirole fighter jets (they have mothballed programs in the past in favor of buying American aircraft - but they are capable of reverting this decision), all sorts of defensive systems they invented, like Iron Dome and Trophy, naval vessels (co-designed or entirely in Israel and built elsewhere, but they could likely build them locally, at a great expense) and of course their dual-use space program, by which I mean that their ability to launch multistage rockets gives them both the ability to send satellites into orbit and hit any point on the planet with ICBMs. I don't remember where I read this, but they essentially have factories ready to go that can be activated within days if American and other currently existing international support was ever suddenly cut off and/or they needed a large amount of arms and ammunition very quickly, e.g. in case of a multi-front war. The reason for this is that in the past, vital arms supplies to them have been cut, e.g. when the British refused deliveries of tanks, which led to Israel developing and producing their own.
The gist of it is that they have friends in high places, are - even without those - simply too powerful on their own and that nobody else wants to touch Hamas with a ten-foot pole.
I hope this clears up why your idea is completely unrealistic. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.
Impossible for a very long list of reasons. I think you know that.
How do you enforce it?
A plausible suggestion I've seen is the cantonization of Gaza: Divide it into at least four clearly separated zones, each with a different civilian administration staffed by Palestinians, with an outside force (either Israel, which is most likely, or some external coalition, which is less likely) being responsible for security. This division makes control easier and would prevent a single group like Hamas from easily taking over the entire strip. Unlike what the the Biden administration is suggesting, I do not think that the PA is suited for this job. They are extremely unpopular among Palestinians, corrupt and incompetent, but they also stoke the flames of this conflict through, among other things, their martyr's fund, which is paying out hundreds of millions per year to terrorists and their families. The civilian administration - at least their leadership - should ideally be recruited from those who have already been critical of Hamas and violent action in the past. They will need to be protected by the IDF in order to be able to safely do their jobs, there is no way around this. This would be an occupation regime and most certainly not a gentle one, at least in the beginning.
That's the basic administrative part. The next step is critical: Reeducation, which means kicking out UNRWA for good, as it has become nothing but an internationally financed arm of Hamas. New school curricula that encourage peaceful coexistence and humanitarian values for kids (instead of having sixth graders calculate the trajectories of unguided rockets or learn about past terrorist "heroes"), combined with strict media control and censorship to limit the proliferation of Islamofascist ideology for everyone else. That's the stick and it will be extremely unpopular at first, both in Gaza itself and internationally, but I see no way around either. The Allied powers did the same in Nazi Germany after the war and without it, the democratic West German republic would not have been possible. I fear it would take many more years until there can be democratic elections in Gaza again however.
The carrot is investment and jobs as the strip is being rebuilt. Special economic zones with opportunities for foreign investors, initially most likely from the Arab world, would be one way of accomplishing it. We can not have the situation of huge numbers of unemployed young men again, which are always a source of trouble and instability in every poor part of the world. Gaza has this huge untapped and reasonably well educated labor pool. Give these people jobs and opportunities, starting with light industry and simple manufacturing, work your way up from there, if possible. Encourage the creation of locally-run and -owned suppliers through cheap loans and other measures so that Gazans can start forging their own economic success stories. We've seen this model work in a number of places already. The long term dream would be that at one point in the coming decades, there is so much stability and such a highly qualified labor pool that firms like Intel, who have a significant presence in Israel, would open a subsidiary there, forming the nucleus of a Gazan high-tech industry, further accelerating development through well-paying jobs that require higher education, which can be used to help create a strong civil society, which is always the bedrock democracies are built upon. Probably a pipe dream, but a man can dream.
Certain aspects from this could also be applied in the West Bank, but that's another far more complicated can of worms. For as horrible as the destruction in Gaza is, this "reset" can be an opportunity to build a lasting solution for peace in the region.
I do not think any of this can be achieved under the current far-right Israeli administration (whose days are numbered anyway, looking at any poll, given how spectacularly it has failed to protect Israel). Their only interest in Gaza at the moment is squashing Hamas. Nothing could be less important to them than building a future for the very people that overwhelmingly want Israel eradicated.
What needs to happen within Israel across the entire political spectrum is the realization that it is in Israel's best interest for Palestinians to live happy, safe and prosperous lives instead of being trapped between a rock (extremists like Hamas) and a hard place (IDF and settler violence). This was attempted with economic opportunities for Palestinians in the past (tens of thousands worked in Israel prior to October 7), but it failed, because radicals were allowed to govern Gaza and settlers were allowed to steal land. Israel, with its wealth, political stability and success in every area was more than happy with living next to Gaza and leaving it mostly alone. We need for Palestinians to feel the same about Israel. Only then can we even start to think about a two-state solution. It has to come as the last step after serious developments and changes, all of them starting in Gaza.
AIPAC is nowhere near as powerful as you are claiming. 21.6 million in contributions since 1990 and 58.5 million dollars in donations since 1998. That's absolute peanuts. From 1998 to 2023, about 74.8 billion dollars were spent by various interest groups on federal lobbying in the US. AIPAC constitutes a small fraction of a percent. That is far from unlimited. At most, one might argue that they are using their limited funds effectively.
The actual reason for why American politicians are overwhelmingly pro-Israel is that the two countries have strong economic, military, cultural and scientific ties. It's a symbiotic relationship that has flourished since the late '60s, after a somewhat rocky start in the 1940s, when on one hand, America was the first to recognize Israel's statehood, but on the other hand enforced an arms embargo against it (which the young nation had to find creative ways around). It's no coincidence that Intel's influential Israeli subsidiary for example was founded in 1974, as the US-Israeli relationship was deepening. Today, the American military is for example using missile defense systems invented in Israel, from the Iron Dome to Trophy.
These objective reasons are important across the political spectrum. The far-right also has an irrational obsession with Israel due to their belief that the end times will start there, but that's secondary.
Since when is "mostly factual" bad?
What were you trying to say?
You can still buy new MS-DOS computers, for use with legacy equipment and software, like industrial machinery. The most powerful CPU this company is offering is a Pentium D from 2006:
https://nixsys.com/legacy-computers/ms-dos-computers
For an extra $95, they'll pre-install MS-DOS 6.22 for you, but it will of course only use 64 MB of the 1 GB RAM the machine comes with. That's a luxurious amount already. I've never used more than 48 MB with MS DOS and it was already more than plenty.
Motherboards for the LGA 775 socket were among the last to support ISA cards, which are why companies buy these new legacy computers in the first place. There's machinery out there worth millions and running entire factories, complex scientific instruments or medical equipment that requires interfacing with ISA cards. I've seen this myself and fixed a few of these systems. It's fun to take a machine off the factory floor that has been quietly doing its job for many decades. You wouldn't believe how much of the world is running on truly ancient hardware.
While it would be theoretically possible to e.g. create a new hardware interface and compatible software, this would not only be prohibitively expensive on its own, but require costly and lengthy certification on top, which just isn't feasible most of the time. That's where PCs like these come in. They may seem outrageously expensive given the ancient hardware they consist of, but compared to the equipment they'll be used with, they might as well be free - and on top of that, they come with a warranty, support hotline, etc. - unlike cobbling something together from old parts found on ebay.