Why does every OS screenshot (not from a big company) always have to have a few pictures of women in it? It's ridiculously unprofessional in my book.
> Why does every OS screenshot (not from a big company) always have to have a few pictures of women in it?
> It's ridiculously unprofessional in my book.
If it were pictures of men, people would complain that there are no women included in the pictures people (i.e. women are discriminated against). You can't be everybody's darling.
Symbos is pretty cool but it's a crying shame that it's closed source. A lot of people in the z80 community don't understand the value of open source, but will give away binaries for free.
Indeed, and it makes it harder for me to port to a Kaypro II
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Actually none of the supported platforms have less than 128KB of RAM, so it might not run on that.
The Z80 will always have a place in my heart. Mostly because we used it in college to build a computer from scratch on a wire board. That was an awesome project, and one of the classes that I remember fondly from nearly 18 years ago.
You would rather only have men? I’m not sure what kind of anti you are.
If you need to have pictures, take landscapes.
Is this really where we are at now? Don't demonstrate any software using pictures of people, even in a niche hobbyist OS for a retro CPU architecture, just in case someone gets offended.
I still don’t get it - there are pictures of men and women in that screenshot.
There are not. Only women, unless you're looking at a different screenshot.
I thought the two on the left were women and the one on the right was a hair band rocker (man).
I think if anything this is confirming your individual biases about what men and women should look like, which is part of the problem with our tech community. Even if I'm wrong about the rocker (likely), the problem isn't the picture - it's all of us.
Why does every OS screenshot (not from a big company) always have to have a few pictures of women in it? It's ridiculously unprofessional in my book.
I find it terribly stereotypical and prejudicial of you to determine their sexes based on their exterior appearances. Why does every comment about there being only women in OS screenshots stereotype bodies? P.S This is a joke. Serious people who care about other people don't really care about this type of gender thing at all.
While it would be more accurate to say that it contains “only figures that conform to female body stereotypes” rather than “only women”, to the extent the latter is an issue of any kind, the former is an issue of the same general class (in fact, I don't think the people complaining about the former would actually be concerned at all if it was the former but not the latter); further, in the case of images where he individuals aren't known to the speaker, the only way the latter can sensibly be interpreted is as a reference to the former, so the objection itself seems to me to be rather context-blind pointless pedantic distraction from any substance.
(Sorry, I can’t resist) ... Is it vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre?
Sadly, no. No memory protection, you see.
Which also meant you could do a lot of optimisations - like moving the stack pointer to point to the display memory area and using 'push' to blit a chunk of image data to screen which was quicker than using an 'ld' loop.
Also having polymorphic functions where you could write over a couple of bytes to make the function behave differently at runtime - saving code memory space - and learning the hex for most of the common opcodes at same time.