The original iPhone and the iPhone 2 had issues accessing video content due to switching between Wi-Fi and mobile networks while people were watching video content. Before Apple released HLS, most early smartphones usedQuicktime Streaming Serveras their media streaming standard. Quicktime was an impo...
This was back in the days before anyone knew what a video game system or company was supposed to be or would turn into, so a children’s toymaker like Mattel getting into video games probably seemed less odd then than it does to us now. Intellivision was the world’s first 16-bit vid...
For 2023, I wanted to doa retrospective on every game I managed to finish that year. That was frankly a mistake. Between its length and the fact I had taken on a full time job at the time, I didn’t get the retrospective fully written up until nearly four months into 2024. Still, ...
Although my employer is already benefiting from my work on this project I don't see any plans in the short term that will enable me to contribute in a sustainable way (due to the rather large backlog of work I have to fulfil), nor can I promise anything longer term. I am not 100%...
I likedVersus Tapeso much and the way he sang about them that I went and bought a Versus CD without ever hearing them. This was back in the day when you couldn’t just key up a song on any device you happened to have handy to see if you liked it or not. (Writing this post I...
I can confirm the bug there as well, that after switching focus from another application back to VSCode, it takes between 1-3s until VSCode becomes responsive again. I am happy to help debug, if need be. lorand-horvathmentioned this issueJun 2, 2022 ...
on the ABC sitcomWelcome Back, Kotter, a year beforeThe Boy in the Plastic Bubblepremiered on the same network. That same month,Carriewas released in theaters, featuring Travolta in a supporting (and evil) role. The next year, he achieved peerless fame withSaturday Night Feverand maintained ...
” the writer toldThe Ringerin 2018. “I was pretty fearless back then about talking to actors if I was certain it would help the end result. Life had not yet beaten me down enough to suggest that some fights aren’t worth fighting.” So he asked Shatner to “play it more serious,...
I don't know when it was exactly, but I saw Stephen King's Carrie on TV when I was a kid. I don't remember if I saw the whole thing, or just the end, but it definitely stuck with me. In particular the end. SPOILER FOR A MOVIE RELEASED IN 1976: The scene at the end, (...