My flash cart has two buttons. They're supposed to be for "infinite reloads" or something of equally dubious value. If they're not too fixed in function, they could easily be the two spare buttons a SNES emulator needs.
After all, the big companies in IT at the moment got in their current position by other means. Google by sheer usefulness, IBM by overpowering all mainframe competition over time, Microsoft by succesfully ripping of good ideas, etc.
Just for the record, Microsoft did not grow big because of ripping off good ideas,
I think you'll find that MSDOS is a rip-off of CPM
Yeah, but that's irrelevant.
Sorry, nope. If MS hadn't copied CPM they wouldn't have had a usable OS in time for IBM to do anything with it. They repeated this action with (at least) Windows and Drivespace. I'm sure anyone that knows their products better will be able to list hundreds of other products they've copied or bought out.
I just (as in since this story was posted) bought a VisionDTV (TER) digital TV tuner card to try out Australia's digital TV offerings. No problems with lip-sync, but getting a clean signal on SBS was a bastard all afternoon. For some reason it's much better now the sun has set.
I work 8-5. I sleep 10-6. I would therefore get 7 hours a day for most of the week out of a 24 hour connection -- at most I'd get 60 hours a week out of 168 that (A)DSL offers. Sure, there's plenty of stuff that I might be interested in downloading that could take advantage of the times I'm not there, but very little of it is legal. Anyway, most broadband deals in Australia turn crappy about 18 months after you get them and I don't want to have to hop from operator to operator every year and a half.
Shiney. Now I can use the dual-head PCs I've been ordering to provide extra stations in times of peak load, or if a staff member's PC dies. Must try it.
Given that I mostly listen to my iPod at work, if I played just my Mike Oldfield stuff "in order" (whatever that means these days) I'd be listening to just his stuff for a day and a half. Vangelis, Jarre and Dead Can Dance would all be a full working day of eight hours. Now, I like this stuff, but at the end of a long day of programming I'm going to be a bit bored.
I'd love to switch to a solid-state hard drive, but the number of write cycles before it dies is way too small. I guess you might be able to get away with it if you had a few Gig of RAM so you didn't need swap and you had room for a RAMdisk-based temp/tmp folder, but just putting a Flash-drive in place of your system's hard drive will cause it to fail within a few months.
Actually it was to encourage creativity by allowing the creators (working with/through the publishers) to become rich. Why would someone spend large amounts of time creating something without guarentee that, if successful, would put food on their table and not someone elses?
Of course, no one ever created anything before copyright laws.
What I want is something I can use under Linux that'll produce movie files that RealOne on my N-Gage will play.
Helix. For the S60 player, start here, register if you have to. Once you're logged in the complete set of files includes everything you need to produce files on Linux, MacOS and Windows.
Syncing I can't help with because I don't properly use any computer-based PIM. Voice Dialing, I haven't gotten around to sorting out, but I'm guessing you need a Bluetooth headset for it to work. Love to be proved wrong though.
The parent is not insightful. The original N-Gage is a very nice peice of kit. For example: I notice nobody ever complained about how thick it is. Few, if any, people complained that the controls were worse for gaming than any other phone one the market.
Given that the new one is losing Tri-band (a must for international travellers) and the FM radio (also handy for travellers and others), I'm particularly content with mine. Meanwhile, if the updated model provokes a few more games releases, well that's great to.
Sorry, no it doesn't. I've designed a backup system that will scale to roughly 16 Gig with a normal DVD-RW, 32Gig when the new dual-layer discs arrive and basically 4x the size of whatever the spare space is you have on any given Firewire or USB2 hard drive. It's based around the assumption that you have spare space and CPU time on the main server and that you have the opportunity to run decent compression over the files you wish to backup before placing them on removable media. I've even been using the spare space on desktop PCs as a location for historical backups. As with many recent Iomega products, they're too little too late.
Screw that, my mobile plays the first 15 seconds of Your Attention by the Blue Man Group before diverting to voicemail. And it's not one of those polyphonic things, it's an MP3 from their latest album.
Oh, and IM on my mobile phone is one of the best things ever. When the person you want to chat with doesn't know if they'll be able to SMS, email or IM at any given moment, the one device that can handle all three at any time, any place is bloody brilliant.
Well, as it happens, it's an N-Gage but I don't play any of the MMC games on it, so it has battery life to burn. And I could run the program while the phone is plugged-in overnight.
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My flash cart has two buttons. They're supposed to be for "infinite reloads" or something of equally dubious value. If they're not too fixed in function, they could easily be the two spare buttons a SNES emulator needs.
I think you'll find that MSDOS is a rip-off of CPM.
I just (as in since this story was posted) bought a VisionDTV (TER) digital TV tuner card to try out Australia's digital TV offerings. No problems with lip-sync, but getting a clean signal on SBS was a bastard all afternoon. For some reason it's much better now the sun has set.
Well, for a start, no one's going in there to get it back.
Okay, so which is it? Is the bus too slow or is the DVI too fast?
Is there a D.Net client for my GeForce4 yet?
Hello? Digital out? You can plug it into something other than an LCD monitor.
I agree. Worst. Headline. Ever.
I work 8-5. I sleep 10-6. I would therefore get 7 hours a day for most of the week out of a 24 hour connection -- at most I'd get 60 hours a week out of 168 that (A)DSL offers. Sure, there's plenty of stuff that I might be interested in downloading that could take advantage of the times I'm not there, but very little of it is legal. Anyway, most broadband deals in Australia turn crappy about 18 months after you get them and I don't want to have to hop from operator to operator every year and a half.
Shiney. Now I can use the dual-head PCs I've been ordering to provide extra stations in times of peak load, or if a staff member's PC dies. Must try it.
OOo does a better job of reading the latest Word format than earlier versions of Word.
Given that I mostly listen to my iPod at work, if I played just my Mike Oldfield stuff "in order" (whatever that means these days) I'd be listening to just his stuff for a day and a half. Vangelis, Jarre and Dead Can Dance would all be a full working day of eight hours. Now, I like this stuff, but at the end of a long day of programming I'm going to be a bit bored.
I'd love to switch to a solid-state hard drive, but the number of write cycles before it dies is way too small. I guess you might be able to get away with it if you had a few Gig of RAM so you didn't need swap and you had room for a RAMdisk-based temp/tmp folder, but just putting a Flash-drive in place of your system's hard drive will cause it to fail within a few months.
No, I'm giving two example. Here's another; This post was made from my N-gage.
Syncing I can't help with because I don't properly use any computer-based PIM. Voice Dialing, I haven't gotten around to sorting out, but I'm guessing you need a Bluetooth headset for it to work. Love to be proved wrong though.
For MP3, just download the Helix player for the S60.
Given that the new one is losing Tri-band (a must for international travellers) and the FM radio (also handy for travellers and others), I'm particularly content with mine. Meanwhile, if the updated model provokes a few more games releases, well that's great to.
Sorry, no it doesn't. I've designed a backup system that will scale to roughly 16 Gig with a normal DVD-RW, 32Gig when the new dual-layer discs arrive and basically 4x the size of whatever the spare space is you have on any given Firewire or USB2 hard drive. It's based around the assumption that you have spare space and CPU time on the main server and that you have the opportunity to run decent compression over the files you wish to backup before placing them on removable media. I've even been using the spare space on desktop PCs as a location for historical backups. As with many recent Iomega products, they're too little too late.
104Mhz ARM processor 12-bit CPU. Apparently.
Or you could get an N-gage :)
Oh, and IM on my mobile phone is one of the best things ever. When the person you want to chat with doesn't know if they'll be able to SMS, email or IM at any given moment, the one device that can handle all three at any time, any place is bloody brilliant.
Well, as it happens, it's an N-Gage but I don't play any of the MMC games on it, so it has battery life to burn. And I could run the program while the phone is plugged-in overnight.
You're allowed to read the bits in the brackets, they're not secret.