Nah! Get him a doll from realdoll.com. One modelled on a "typical computer user". Then he can do what comes naturally, and... well basically continue what he's been doing all along to the typical computer user.
That was my first thought too. I'd heard that it was a scientific urban myth so many times that I had to start believing it. It seems it's an urban myth that it's an urban myth.
The naming scheme was arbitrary but it became a common colloquialism to refer to that class of machine as 16 bit. The press for example, refered to the Amiga, the ST and the Megadrive as 16 bit. I sometimes wonder if it's a bit of a UK/Europism though as US people often make that correction. Google for "16 bit era" to see how widespread the naming convention was.
The 68000 had 32 bit data registers, a 26 bit addressing range and 16 bit data bus.
Most people would refer to a machines like the C64 or the ZX Spectrum as "8 bit" machines for the same reason. Both of these machines had a 16 bit data register, the accumulator.
Sounds a bit like The Ice Schooner by Michael Moorcock. At about the half way point I began to release that there was no way that MM was going to be able to finish the story within the length of the book. Good idea if you're an author - just summarise the final few chapters over a few pages.
I don't have mod points. But absolutely. I don't think that anyone ever claimed that movie piracy was set effect box office takings. Still/. keeps rolling this sort of thing out as "proof".
To look at it another way, if takings were down because the content was rubbish, why is it that profits for the thing that can't be pirated have increased and the profits for the thing that can be pirated are down?
"However, I got tired of seeing fiction that tried to make me believe things that could not be true due to the laws of physics, or due to other aspects of reality."
What they should have done is hacked into a remote camera to get a picture of the scripts that the writers were working on. All they would need is a blurry image of a printed script that was laying around the writer's apartment. Then they could have "enhanced the image" so that the text could be read like they do all time on X Files and 24.
"1. (100 points): If you had a wig, pepper spray, an adult diaper, a new steel mallet, a knife, rubber tubing, and a large garbage bag, what would you do with them?"
Apply my years of experience with Lucas Arts point and click adventure games by making use of a literal pun.
I would still argue that a project to reimplement the WPS wouldn't benefit from a source release. The WPS design is neat in some respects, but the algorithms behind it are obvious.
"Whenever the matter of reviving OS/2 is brought up, I find myself asking - why? It is difficult to see which of the technologies that existed in OS/2 and could be brought back to life within a modern implementation. Many of the features, such as industry-leading DOS support, which gave OS/2 its edge, are simply no longer relevant. "
"However, the very features which made OS/2 the OS of choice for so many have faded in importance. It is with a heavy heart that many of OS/2 former users (myself included) have to admit that they don't really want to go back to OS/2 anymore than they would trade in their broadband Internet connection for dial-up ANSI BBS access and 320x200 VGA games with ad-lib music. Perhaps IBM could have kept OS/2 relevant but they didn't make any serious efforts to develop it beyond about 1996.
What features, for example, does the kernel offer that modern operating systems do not? For that matter, does anyone really want to use an OS that uses drive letters?
In conclusion, in my opinion, recreating OS/2 would be more work than starting an OS from scratch, considerably more work than improving another OS and ultimately, produce a less useful result than either. "
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Nah! Get him a doll from realdoll.com. One modelled on a "typical computer user". Then he can do what comes naturally, and... well basically continue what he's been doing all along to the typical computer user.
Reading down, it seems that I was taken in. It's an urban myth that it's an urban myth that it's an urban myth.
That was my first thought too. I'd heard that it was a scientific urban myth so many times that I had to start believing it. It seems it's an urban myth that it's an urban myth.
The naming scheme was arbitrary but it became a common colloquialism to refer to that class of machine as 16 bit. The press for example, refered to the Amiga, the ST and the Megadrive as 16 bit. I sometimes wonder if it's a bit of a UK/Europism though as US people often make that correction. Google for "16 bit era" to see how widespread the naming convention was. The 68000 had 32 bit data registers, a 26 bit addressing range and 16 bit data bus. Most people would refer to a machines like the C64 or the ZX Spectrum as "8 bit" machines for the same reason. Both of these machines had a 16 bit data register, the accumulator.
Hey! It's called Starbug and it's nothing to be ashamed of.
Or just wait a couple or three years for it to hit the bargain shelf and then play the SP game with all settings on max and the final patch installed.
In Soviet Russia, SERLA.
They'll probably say, "I can't believe that they believe in [their god]. Obviously, [our god] is the real one!"
Spot on. He's pretty much doomed his own project by his reluctance to let anyone who wanted one buy one.
Woah, you're saying the women who work in IT have members of the opposite sex trying to ask them out all the time? That must be awful...
Obscure Deus Ex reference?
How do you maintain good performance for your masked sprite routines on your Commodore 64?
Sounds a bit like The Ice Schooner by Michael Moorcock. At about the half way point I began to release that there was no way that MM was going to be able to finish the story within the length of the book. Good idea if you're an author - just summarise the final few chapters over a few pages.
So, who's on first base?
Why does anyone pirate it if it's not worth listening to?
None of the sources that you quote make any statement about camcorder copies hurting ticket sales. It is claimed that they are hurting DVD sales.
I don't have mod points. But absolutely. I don't think that anyone ever claimed that movie piracy was set effect box office takings. Still /. keeps rolling this sort of thing out as "proof".
To look at it another way, if takings were down because the content was rubbish, why is it that profits for the thing that can't be pirated have increased and the profits for the thing that can be pirated are down?
"However, I got tired of seeing fiction that tried to make me believe things that could not be true due to the laws of physics, or due to other aspects of reality."
What they should have done is hacked into a remote camera to get a picture of the scripts that the writers were working on. All they would need is a blurry image of a printed script that was laying around the writer's apartment. Then they could have "enhanced the image" so that the text could be read like they do all time on X Files and 24.
"1. (100 points): If you had a wig, pepper spray, an adult diaper, a new steel mallet, a knife, rubber tubing, and a large garbage bag, what would you do with them?"
Apply my years of experience with Lucas Arts point and click adventure games by making use of a literal pun.
I would still argue that a project to reimplement the WPS wouldn't benefit from a source release. The WPS design is neat in some respects, but the algorithms behind it are obvious.
"Nonsense. If IBM didn't own OS/2 they couldn't have sold it to Serenity Systems."
The didn't sell it, they licensed it. I presume that they have to pay Microsoft for the privilege.
From an article I wrote in 2006
http://www.osnews.com/story/16543/A_Very_Critical_Look_at_OS_Re-creation_Projects/page3/
"Whenever the matter of reviving OS/2 is brought up, I find myself asking - why? It is difficult to see which of the technologies that existed in OS/2 and could be brought back to life within a modern implementation. Many of the features, such as industry-leading DOS support, which gave OS/2 its edge, are simply no longer relevant.
"
"However, the very features which made OS/2 the OS of choice for so many have faded in importance. It is with a heavy heart that many of OS/2 former users (myself included) have to admit that they don't really want to go back to OS/2 anymore than they would trade in their broadband Internet connection for dial-up ANSI BBS access and 320x200 VGA games with ad-lib music. Perhaps IBM could have kept OS/2 relevant but they didn't make any serious efforts to develop it beyond about 1996.
What features, for example, does the kernel offer that modern operating systems do not? For that matter, does anyone really want to use an OS that uses drive letters?
In conclusion, in my opinion, recreating OS/2 would be more work than starting an OS from scratch, considerably more work than improving another OS and ultimately, produce a less useful result than either. "
If recorded music isn't worth anything, why do you want to download it?
"Christie's spokesman, a Ferengi trader of rare and unusual items..."
I might have known!
Thanks for that (serious). I had presumed that they were the Knights That Say NIH (not so serious).