This looks to me like a "Mac is better than PC" argument, which is not contributing to the topic at all. Thing is we are talking about hardware specs and not software. You can have a 64-bit Windows 8 running in a 32-bit Windows 2000 environment, as long as your computer supports Intel VT-x, which it will support if it is fairly recent.

And even in terms of hardware it is not as simple. You CAN have a virtual machine with more disk space and RAM than the host. Of course you have to swap part of the memory to the hard drive (Swap file) and you need to use a non-preallocated disk space, but it is possible. However this comes at the expense of execution speed.

But as a rule of thumb, yes, your host your should have better hardware specs than your guest.

(This being said, I am going to install Win2k on a computer and install Win8 with more RAM and Disk Space than the host, just to see the drop in performance this would do)

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
(Video on page does not work. Click the download link at the bottom of the page and watch it in your favorite media player)

This is the result of all of those developers trying to reach the [xkcd=323]Ballmer Peak[/xkcd].

It is not easy to port game to the TI-84+CSE. First, because programs on the TI-84 are not optimized for this model. Second, because the CSE is not graphically optimal.

The CSE has too few RAM and CPU speed to run smooth games like the non-CSE model did. It is a limitation because even if the programmers keep the sprites in B/W, the CSE still has to render them like color sprites, therefore making games slower than they could run on their original hardware.

That limits the applications that can be ported to the CSE for now. It is not impossible for TI to release a better CSE in the future, but for now games like Portal Prelude or F-Zero probably won't be ported.

As for how to port games, it is the process of re-writing the source code with the new hardware in mind. Luckily, the B/W and CSE models use the same processor architecture (no need to use a new ASM language), but a few things might have changed, like the location of interrupts, system calls and most obvious of all, display functions.

In this perspective, I wonder if a how-to guide for porting game from the B/W models to the CSE is possible. A reference document where the changes between these and how they affect the code are documented. Maybe a post here on Omni like the Axe Parser threads.

I don't know, it have a weird feeling about this. Sure, I like both MLP and Weird Al, but WA looks like a bad OC (and we already had Sparkly Fedora in Rarity Takes Manehatten) and it looks to me like 2 styles that will clash, even if both are known to be light-hearted and comedic.

But ultimately I have not seen the episode, and we had way more serious threats in the past that turned out to be fine (EQG anyone?)

I also have lots of stories about stupid customers. I intend to post a few of them (on behalf of NewLunarFire however) if I get low on questions to answer, to keep the blog from sinking.

This shouldn't be a good idea since it came out of the mind of a drunk Lunar Fire, but I still went through with it. I started a new satirical ask blog on Tumblr that will be about bad tech support. I called it simply Ask a Shitty Support Technician (http://ask-shitty-technician.tumblr.com/)

The basic idea is that you send your technology related questions or issues through the ask box (I got a virus, my hard drive is full, etc.) and I will answer the most bs thing I can think of. And I have seen some pretty f'd-up things in my time as a technical analyst. Maybe not as much as some who made a career out of it, but those guys didn't have the idea to start an ask blog on it.

So I thought that you Omnimagians, who are technology-inclined people, would have lots of ideas of things to ask me on this tumblr. So go ahead, do it. You don't even need a Tumblr account to ask, you can do it anonymously. Or post it in this topic and I will send it anonymously to my own ask blog (and maybe even answer it).

And I want to know what you think of think of this crazy idea straight out of my mind. Do you think it should have stayed in my mind, or are you happy that I decided to go through with it?

Also, I'm open to any suggestions to improve on this idea, so do not hesitate to post them here.

P.S. Does posting this here add up to my post counter? It would feel wrong for me to increment my post counter with self-promotion.

let's date Rainbow Dash
http://www.philome.la/nomdepony/iwtcird/play

I got to the good ending, but that thing sure was, hum... weird.

You did it. You came inside Rainbow Dash.

Wut

I think it depends on the type of redirection you do with the www and non-www subdomain. If you make both of them point to the same IP and nameservers your browser will not see the difference between www and non-www, just like I did on my domain. For example, you can access the BrainPuff interpreter by entering either http://www.lunarfire.info/brainpuff/ or http://lunarfire.info/brainpuff/. Both lead to the exact same page, but your browser will think those two adresses as being different. After all, I could make www.lunarfire.info point to www.omnimaga.org and lunarfire.info point to my webhost, and there would be no problem at all.

What you would need to do on Omnimaga is a either an HTTP or HTML redirection. The first works by adding a redirection header to replies on requests sent to the non-www domain, and the second would be to add a meta redirection tag in the code of the non-www subdomain. I personally recommend HTTP redirections, as the redirection will be un-noticeable to visitors (versus the HTML redirection where you would see it a second or two).