For instance, the copy of Galaga I have doesn't include the sound when your ship blows up. One could argue that it's a pretty minor point, but if I'm paying cold, hard cash, I'd want a *perfect* copy.
If you can prove the dump is bad, you're entitled to your money back. But if emulator authors simply haven't written their ship explosion sound code correctly (likely the case, in this instance), you'll have to complain to the authors or download the appropriate sound samples.
I think that Apple released a second version of the//e that had a completely different keyboard, complete with numeric keypad, and "command" and "option" keys identical to the keyboard of a Macintosh or//c instead of the regular closed and open apple keys.
I don't think "Control-openapple-reset" appeared until the Apple//e in 1983. I don't recall the original Apple][s having the open and closed apple keys - or arrow keys, for that matter.
That was already obvious from the Two Towers movie. AN army of elves replaced the army of rangers that was supposed to arrive during the siege of Rohan.
I can only imagine that they decided that putting the information into the movies to explain who the Rangers are would just clutter things up. The movie audience already knows who the elves are, so just use them instead.
That makes sense. But it'll make the Paths of the Dead an odd scene, since the elves don't fear the dead. That means out of all of them, only Aragorn and Gimli will feel any particular fright while all the elves are indifferent. I can see it happening that way, though.
Is it just me or does it look like the movie won't have the rangers of the north? I am making this assumption because the part of the preview (on the Two Towers DVD) that obviously shows them about to enter the Path Of The Dead has Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas but no rangers (or the two elves that come with the rangers).
Not sure if the rangers will appear or not, but *somebody* has to accompany Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas through the Paths of the Dead. Those three alone can't possibly be enough to take the ships on the other side (even with a bit of oathbreaker assistance) nor provide any significant aid to the battle at Minas Tirith.
Sadly, most "common people" don't have the soldering skills required to install an Afterburner nor the patience to go through the eighteen steps required; they'd much rather buy an SP.
Re:What about supporting hardware?
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Athlon 64 Debuts
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If you take a closer look at the pictures in the article, you will see that they've attached a wire to each and every pin of the processor. It's all a loose mess of wires and duct tape. If you want an Athlon 64, you'll probably have to do the same yourself, because there aren't scheduled any motherboards for it before sometime after christmas.
This sure looks like a motherboard that supports the Athlon64, shipping same business day.
If you want a decent desktop OS and games you have to dual boot. Period. That's the god-awful truth and it's not changing any time in the next 5 years.
Too bad I can't get a decent desktop OS and lots of pretty shrink-wrapped games at the same time. So I'll just stick with Linux and use my Gamecube for gaming instead.
Just imagine for a moment what might happen if Sun released some version of the Solaris kernel under the GPL.
Solaris is far more scalable than Linux; Linux would begin bleeding enterprise market share, and would probably never recover. Solaris doesn't seem to scale down very well, so it is probable that Linux would retain its embedded systems market share.
Solaris scales very very well on Sparc hardware, for obvious reasons. But I haven't seen much evidence that it scales just as well on x86 hardware, where Linux has more experience. If the Solaris kernel and core OS suddenly embraces the GPL, it's much more likely that Linux will assimilate Solaris' advantages on Sparc hardware and usurp it rather than the other way around - simply because more people know Linux than Solaris.
I've never driven one so I don't know but every hybrid I see on the road is going under the speed limit.
Perhaps that says more about the driver than it does about the car.
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Back To SCO
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More diversity in the open source arena would be a good hedge against one company (ie SCO) mucking it up with its FUD.
This is more than about the Linux kernel's good reputation, though; this entire SCO debacle goes to the heart of the Linux development model. SCO is essentially saying "you guys are a bunch of irresponsible, un-accountable code thieves". Simply abandoning the Linux kernel not only affirms SCO's bullshit, but it hamstrings the entire process by which it was developed and makes the whole open source community look bad.
It's not about the kernel, it's about the process.
That's not how it works. The libraries have to install them, or they lose federal funding. Thanks, Sen. McCain.
But a lot of libraries aren't installing filters simply because the cost of installing them is more than the paltry amount of federal funding they receive.
I've never understood why fantasy and sci-fi are joined at the hip. Sure there are examples where someone crossed the lines a bit, but that's true of many genres. The fantasy genre has always struck me as the lazy man's path to fiction. I find it far more formulaic than sci-fi.
They're both genres about things that aren't, probably. I don't consider fantasy writing any easier than sci-fi writing, since it's just as easy to get it wrong and write something totally unresearched and unbelievable. As tons of bad novels will attest, it's just as easy to write bad fiction in any genre; the trappings themselves won't make a bad story any better.
However, a BSD license or a release into public domain would be better for this kind of thing than GPL. If you GPL the ROM code, it seems that everything that ended up running on the box would need to be GPL. Which would suck, IMO.
No, no, no. If your ROM code is released under the GPL license, anyone making a derivative work from that code (an upgraded ROM) would have to release their ROM code under the GPL. But simply using that code to run non-derived software doesn't require that software to be GPLed any more than the GPL requires software I write in emacs to be GPLed.
That's what we did at work on a constant basis. Until one day we moved a monitor and got confused when the password on it no longer worked on that machine. So, we had to change the password to match...
I seem to remember a while back reading about some college (don't remember which one) where they couldn't find a server. The server was up and running, they just couldn't locate it... Turned out that part of the server room had been walled off, and the server was completely enclosed in a room with no doors or windows. Apparently the wall had been put up some 4 years previously and nobody had had to touch the server in that time.
This is probably the article you're thinking of. It was posted on Slashdot at the time, though navigating/.'s search feature is a bit painful so I haven't found the original article.
Slashdot Mirror
If you can prove the dump is bad, you're entitled to your money back. But if emulator authors simply haven't written their ship explosion sound code correctly (likely the case, in this instance), you'll have to complain to the authors or download the appropriate sound samples.
That was the Apple //e Platinum.
That makes sense. But it'll make the Paths of the Dead an odd scene, since the elves don't fear the dead. That means out of all of them, only Aragorn and Gimli will feel any particular fright while all the elves are indifferent. I can see it happening that way, though.
Not sure if the rangers will appear or not, but *somebody* has to accompany Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas through the Paths of the Dead. Those three alone can't possibly be enough to take the ships on the other side (even with a bit of oathbreaker assistance) nor provide any significant aid to the battle at Minas Tirith.
Sadly, most "common people" don't have the soldering skills required to install an Afterburner nor the patience to go through the eighteen steps required; they'd much rather buy an SP.
I used this search on Froogle.
This sure looks like a motherboard that supports the Athlon64, shipping same business day.
The day is young. Perhaps SCO will put out another press release and reclaim the title.
Perhaps it's a machine that dispenses ATMs...
Failure as it was, the Dreamcast still managed 300,000 more subscribers than X-Box live.
Too bad I can't get a decent desktop OS and lots of pretty shrink-wrapped games at the same time. So I'll just stick with Linux and use my Gamecube for gaming instead.
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A big chunk of that $17b is in-house stuff, surely. "Expenditure" probably applies to government paid programmers also.
Perhaps that says more about the driver than it does about the car.
This is more than about the Linux kernel's good reputation, though; this entire SCO debacle goes to the heart of the Linux development model. SCO is essentially saying "you guys are a bunch of irresponsible, un-accountable code thieves". Simply abandoning the Linux kernel not only affirms SCO's bullshit, but it hamstrings the entire process by which it was developed and makes the whole open source community look bad.
It's not about the kernel, it's about the process.
But a lot of libraries aren't installing filters simply because the cost of installing them is more than the paltry amount of federal funding they receive.
Linux in an ammo case is clearly "embedded", much like american journalists.
They're both genres about things that aren't, probably. I don't consider fantasy writing any easier than sci-fi writing, since it's just as easy to get it wrong and write something totally unresearched and unbelievable. As tons of bad novels will attest, it's just as easy to write bad fiction in any genre; the trappings themselves won't make a bad story any better.
I'm pretty sure they already have. Perhaps a new one might sell better, but it'll be an uphill battle without the PalmOS's software base.
No, no, no. If your ROM code is released under the GPL license, anyone making a derivative work from that code (an upgraded ROM) would have to release their ROM code under the GPL. But simply using that code to run non-derived software doesn't require that software to be GPLed any more than the GPL requires software I write in emacs to be GPLed.
That's what we did at work on a constant basis. Until one day we moved a monitor and got confused when the password on it no longer worked on that machine. So, we had to change the password to match...
This is probably the article you're thinking of. It was posted on Slashdot at the time, though navigating /.'s search feature is a bit painful so I haven't found the original article.