Not only don't you have as much time for entertainment, but there's loads of product competing for it. I've dumped games for DVDs and I'm trying to put more time into creating stuff than just consuming. All in all, I don't have time to master the latest batch of very samey games.
If your entire exposure to the N-Gage is a few minutes of Tomb Raider on a store model, please at least have the decency to post without your Karma bonus.
While I'm posting, sins 4 and 6 are crap. It might look like a taco, but that makes little or no difference when you use it, and the interface is one of the best available for a mobile phone.
The High Voltage SID Collection -- new stuff is added regularly. SID emulation doesn't do it justice, I use a real SID chip installed in my Catweasel MK3 and Acid64.
You can build a PC interface for an old C64 drive or you can, as I have, buy a Catweasel MK3 and install it and a 1.2MB floppy drive into a PC (or Amiga).
(Or if you've got an RR-Net cart and you're lucky enough to have the Web Downloader working, you can setup a local web server on your PC and transfer a.D64 disk image onto a disk that way.)
Anyone who's got a CatWeasel MK3 card in a Windows PC should visit Jens' site and get the skinny on Arjuna. I got it running last weekend and I've written a few C64 disks using a normal 1.2MB floppy drive. Should help get GEOS onto a real C64. Now I just need GEOS drivers and software for the RR-Net cart. Not that Contiki isn't good too, but it would be really nice if the extra RAM in the Retro Replay cart was used to improve the web browser.
It does make sense to be sending someone to jail for this.
Why? Vengance? Why not home detention or hefty fines? What possible reason other than spitefulness could the community have to go to the expense of jailing this individual? Was he violent, likely to attack video game publishers, firebomb an office?
I find it hard to justify jailtime for offences relating to videogames. Hefty fines, sure. Community service, why not. But jail should be reserved for people that are a physical threat to the community. How much more is this person going to cost society during those 50 months?
This is probably the sort of thing that should go on halfbaked, but why do we only see AA/AAA batteries with a circular cross section? I know it's the standard, but plenty of battery compartments have no guides or anything that protrudes into the area that would be used by a square cross section, at least for half of the battery. Let's say that a AA's cross section is -- warning, ASCII art -- (). We could have extended life AAs that are like (], or super extended life AAs that are like []. Sure, you couldn't put them in everything, but you should be able to squeeze some extra mAh from the extra volume in those devices that they would fit in.
I don't know about that. A couple of Gig of RAM and you could turn off the swap drive no problems. Up your drive cache and really bung a big delay on write. Boost your browser's RAM cache, but turn off hard drive cache (or just setup a RAM drive if you don't have the option). Setup your email folders on an USB flash device so that you can periodically replace it rather than the large CF card (or just use IMAP). I reckon you could reduce hard drive writes to almost zero.
Build this round a low power Mini-ITX board and you could use passive cooling on the board and a fanless power supply.
All of my future computing projects, after WiFi, will be solid state. I'm sick of the noise.
You can't make a difference if you're only ever a faceless minion. To really participate in democracy you have to be willing to stand up and be counted.
I'd probably feel different if I'd ever been threatened based on the way I voted, but since no party or politician I've ever voted for has got into power I don't think that's likely to happen.
This time round the coding standards include designing for Mozilla, and then adding any hacks needed to get things right in IE once we're done doing that.
That's how I do my pages. Fortunately I've vetoed any browser-detection code, so everything's fairly standard -- just every so often the other coders make a mistake that IE fixes and Mozilla doesn't.
I'm part of a team of people coding a corporate website. I use Mozilla, everyone else uses IE. As a consequence our site works very well in both browsers. Simple.
My American law is not the best, but I'm fairly sure that "freedom of speech", much like "censorship" are concepts that only apply to government actions, not the actions of private citizens.
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It should just be called L. "What OS do you use? L." "I'll just startup L." "Can you open up an Lterm for me?" "L: It's like Linux only simpler."
Path-e-tech? How about Linwods? Winix, Niwix, or just "L"? There's an X (windows), why not just call the OS "L"?
Not only don't you have as much time for entertainment, but there's loads of product competing for it. I've dumped games for DVDs and I'm trying to put more time into creating stuff than just consuming. All in all, I don't have time to master the latest batch of very samey games.
While I'm posting, sins 4 and 6 are crap. It might look like a taco, but that makes little or no difference when you use it, and the interface is one of the best available for a mobile phone.
Spam is spam is spam. If it's unsolicited and bulk, it gets reported using Spamcop. Don't care who it's from. Won't get all thingy about it.
Sorry, but CyKey is IR remote, not RF. It needs direct line of site and is therefore borderline useless.
I want to be atomised by that whooshy thing the stargate does when a wormhole forms. :)
Should I get in a car and keep driving straight until I crash through a few road closed signs?
The High Voltage SID Collection -- new stuff is added regularly. SID emulation doesn't do it justice, I use a real SID chip installed in my Catweasel MK3 and Acid64.
(Or if you've got an RR-Net cart and you're lucky enough to have the Web Downloader working, you can setup a local web server on your PC and transfer a .D64 disk image onto a disk that way.)
Anyone who's got a CatWeasel MK3 card in a Windows PC should visit Jens' site and get the skinny on Arjuna. I got it running last weekend and I've written a few C64 disks using a normal 1.2MB floppy drive. Should help get GEOS onto a real C64. Now I just need GEOS drivers and software for the RR-Net cart. Not that Contiki isn't good too, but it would be really nice if the extra RAM in the Retro Replay cart was used to improve the web browser.
Explain 9V batteries then. :)
Damn, I was going to make reference to Riker, but I should have known that another geek would beat me to it.
I find it hard to justify jailtime for offences relating to videogames. Hefty fines, sure. Community service, why not. But jail should be reserved for people that are a physical threat to the community. How much more is this person going to cost society during those 50 months?
This is probably the sort of thing that should go on halfbaked, but why do we only see AA/AAA batteries with a circular cross section? I know it's the standard, but plenty of battery compartments have no guides or anything that protrudes into the area that would be used by a square cross section, at least for half of the battery. Let's say that a AA's cross section is -- warning, ASCII art -- (). We could have extended life AAs that are like (], or super extended life AAs that are like []. Sure, you couldn't put them in everything, but you should be able to squeeze some extra mAh from the extra volume in those devices that they would fit in.
Build this round a low power Mini-ITX board and you could use passive cooling on the board and a fanless power supply.
All of my future computing projects, after WiFi, will be solid state. I'm sick of the noise.
I'd probably feel different if I'd ever been threatened based on the way I voted, but since no party or politician I've ever voted for has got into power I don't think that's likely to happen.
I'm part of a team of people coding a corporate website. I use Mozilla, everyone else uses IE. As a consequence our site works very well in both browsers. Simple.
My American law is not the best, but I'm fairly sure that "freedom of speech", much like "censorship" are concepts that only apply to government actions, not the actions of private citizens.