plus, any real gameboy game isn't just a simple ROM chip, it is multiple chips with more memory and all kinds of stuff on it...
That's the irony: The GBC has only 32 kibytes of RAM, but the memory on the cartridges is up to 32 Mibytes (megabytes for you old-fashioned geeks) IIRC.
The Atari VCS/2600 cartridges also had more memory, to compensate for the 6 kibytes present...:-)
Basically, the GB won out for two reasons, despite being the only one with a monochrome screen. Battery life (The big plus of having a mono screen), and size.
Note that low battery consumption is also a feature of Gameboy Color, since the color LCD screen isn't backlit. This is IMHO a wise design choice, since people usually have other light sources around them, plus reflected light is easier on the eyes than directly emitted light (or so I've heard). If you need to play when there is no light (out in the woods at night, to take your mind off the wolves), there are accessories that provide light.
That page reads like a religious zealot's "These products are Evil, and these are Blessed" list. Not only should the believer not use the SCSL on their software, they should also avoid software that is published under it. I guess in the same fashion a "True Christian" avoids movies with Patric Duffy or Richard Gere, since they are evil, heathen buddhists.
I am quite thankful that I'm not associated with that cult that once upon a time actually had a point.
So are you saying that you would prefer the crustier, exclusive, countable-node Internet of pre-1994 to today's looser, accessible, and ever-expanding Net?
No. But there obviously are people who do. (The same holds for the spam-free, invitation-only Usenet 2.)
Despite geek wistfulness and a tenacity to history, it really should be called something else.
Why? It uses the same technology - protocols et al - which, if you read the RFCs, define Internet nodes. It's called "Internet 2" because it's a separate entity - don't just think that numbers mean sequels. This is not a movie.
'Course that's a few years, or even a few decades, in the making, as are PCs powerful and affordable enough to completely demolish the console market.
No. Wanna know why console machines will continue to sell? Someone who bought a PSX three years ago can play recent games like Dino Crisis and Wu-Tang Clan. Someone who bought a more expensive PC three years ago, and didn't "keep up" with hardware (no upgrading, as with the PSX owner) cannot play e.g. Ultima IX or Quake III.
What makes the Internet the Internet and not just another large WAN is the fact that anyone can jump on and become a part of it.
What you fail to understand is that that isn't how the Internet was back when it was academia-mostly. But it was still called the Internet then, too, while the rest of the world was subjected to IPX, SNA, OSI and all that.
oily marketing feel
How can something that is not "for sale" have a marketing feel?
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Does the word "heat" appear in your vocabulary? Try turning off the coling fan in a PIII machine and wait for the burning smell.
MHO, if you create a fictional character with a very similar name, and various hallmarks that clearly identify the original person, then you have a clear-cut case of misuse of that person's name, unless they've given permission. You can't get away with saying "any resemblance of real people, living or dead, is coincidental", if there is good reason to believe that that is so much bullshit.
So, like, why didn't he sue the makers of the Discworld II adventure game? There is a bloke in Djellibeibi with name and powers kinda like... Anyway, the Un Geller is one of 151+ Pokémon, there probably are other such "coincidences", without them lacking a sense of humour, unlike "Sue-i" Geller.
VHS tapes have at least two major encoding formats (PAL and NTSC). You cannot watch one in a set for the other, so you have the same type of limitation as DVD region encoding (the reason for this is totally different, of course, but the end result is identical).
Not at all. First of all, as others have pointed out, most modern VHS players are multi-format (NTCS, PAL, SECAM, PAL-2, whatever). Second of all, a region can span several video formats (e.g. Region 2 spans Europe, the Middle East (both PAL and SECAM), and Japan (NTSC)).
The region coding had a purpose: That studios could get movies to cinemas before it appeared on DVD. The system breaks down for old movies (which in theory should be Region 0, because there is no significant "cinema market"), but they aren't because distribution rights are distributed all over the place. So the only purpose which remains is the greed of the manufacturers.
The region-changing is part of the spec.. you can do it five times. And then you have to send your hardware back to the retailer and get them to reset it, which they can do five times. In theory, this is so you can transport your computer/player/card to a different region and still be able to take advantage of the local DVD selection.
Well, there is software - though not endorsed by the manufacturers - which lets you change zones without incrementing the counter on many drives and/or decoders. Apparently, this is done by "intercepting" the region code from the disk and instead telling the decoder that "yes, this is zone Foo".
I use RemoteSelector for my Creative Dxr2 setup, and have no problems so far.
If my site crashes, then, yeah, it's likely (though not necessarily) my fault. But we're not talking about crashes, Bruce. We're talking about voluntary shutdowns. While I agree that these shutdowns could be called "fearful", they're anything but "irrational".
Reality check: Will the customer trying to access the site care which? If they try to access the site and you shut it down, it's a 100% failure, and they will move to a less paranoid online store. If you keep it running, it's perhaps a 0.2% chance of failure, which means the customer is very likely to get access.
If your system totally dies if power goes away for a hort while, you are using the wrong hardware, software, whatever, and deserve to be subject to computer system darwinism (survival of the most crash-resistant).
BFD: It's still just an "event" for a numerical system though up by some geek hundreds (or in this case, thousands) of years ago in order to "measure" time cycles.
Nature, the Universe and just about anything that isn't human doesn't care.
The upgrade to 2K is MUCH smoother than a move to Linux will ever be for a company running 95/98/NT, and in absence of a compellign reason to move - they will upgrade right along.
Compelling Reasons, volume 1:
Direct up-front costs of purchase.
Secondary costs of retraining sysadmins and support.
The inevitable series of service packs, fixing and introducing bugs. Companies have learned from NT 4.0; "Fool me once", and all that.
IIRC, there was a report from Gartner or whomever that stated that companies would start thinking about migrating in 2001, when the first service packs should begin arriving. That's a year after; and Win 9x-users will have to wait for their next Big Thing, the allusive Windows Millennium.
Drawbacks (for some) are that to run servlets you need to be running Apache JServ, Sun's JavaWebServer (bad idea), or Netscape Commerce server. I don't think there are any others, but if somebody knows different, please enlighten me.
Um, all you need is something that listens on a port, parses arguments and invokes the right method in the right class.
For instance, if you have JBuilder Pro or Enterprise and use the "New Servlet" wizard, it will generate a mini-server for you, called ServletRunner or somesuch.
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That sounds like a Javascript error message. What on Earth - apart from four letters - does it have to do with Java?
Rent "Cable Guy" if you haven't already: Apart from a few lines at the very end, his portrayal of the title character is IMHO excellent, the movie's letdown being the wooden acting from "Bore"derick.
But, oh, these new bacteria... where the hell did they come from? Did they co-evolve with human beings and other creatures of the planet?
Yes. Read the bloody article. The bacteria is believed to be two billion years old, but wasn't classified until 1956. It has been resistant to radiation like, forever.
Can we even think of what will happen if a slight variance in the gene sequence of these modified bacteria caused them to, say, enjoy living in our intestines or in our lungs?
Get a grip. Are you also afraid that grazing cows should get a hunger for human flesh and start rending people to shreds? The chances are just as great. These bacteria apparently resist mutations - that's what keeps them alive in all the radiation.
Will their taste for petroleum-based wastes expand to other areas, such as some obscure chemical in the lining of our cell walls? If you can answer those questions, please tell me. I'd like to know.
Bacteria doesn't talk, otherwise they could phone up some of the Streptococcus variants that already eat flesh.
Read: Were agressively head-hunted by Microsoft (cfr. J++, made by a former Borlandie if memory serves). At least that were the reports around the time.
I for one would like to see and OSS Turbo Pascal for Unix. That thing had the fastest compiler I've ever seen! Add a nifty IDE and good online help, and you've got a winner. (Yeah, I know there's Free Pascal and GPC, but still...)
Apparently, Borland will port their Delphi IDE to Linux (probably not OSS, though), which is the environment around Object Pascal, which was what Turbo Pascal mutated into.
Turbo Pascal 1.0, 3.0 and 5.5 are available free from community.borland.com, and should run under any DOS emulation on Linux.:-)
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That's the irony: The GBC has only 32 kibytes of RAM, but the memory on the cartridges is up to 32 Mibytes (megabytes for you old-fashioned geeks) IIRC.
The Atari VCS/2600 cartridges also had more memory, to compensate for the 6 kibytes present... :-)
(NeoGeo had Pacman, but you get that for GBC too, now.)
Note that low battery consumption is also a feature of Gameboy Color, since the color LCD screen isn't backlit. This is IMHO a wise design choice, since people usually have other light sources around them, plus reflected light is easier on the eyes than directly emitted light (or so I've heard). If you need to play when there is no light (out in the woods at night, to take your mind off the wolves), there are accessories that provide light.
That page reads like a religious zealot's "These products are Evil, and these are Blessed" list. Not only should the believer not use the SCSL on their software, they should also avoid software that is published under it. I guess in the same fashion a "True Christian" avoids movies with Patric Duffy or Richard Gere, since they are evil, heathen buddhists.
I am quite thankful that I'm not associated with that cult that once upon a time actually had a point.
No. But there obviously are people who do. (The same holds for the spam-free, invitation-only Usenet 2.)
Despite geek wistfulness and a tenacity to history, it really should be called something else.
Why? It uses the same technology - protocols et al - which, if you read the RFCs, define Internet nodes. It's called "Internet 2" because it's a separate entity - don't just think that numbers mean sequels. This is not a movie.
I've seen it referred to as P2X - presumably to avoid confusion with IBM's expensive "let's-change-all-standard-hardware" PS/2 machines.
No. Wanna know why console machines will continue to sell? Someone who bought a PSX three years ago can play recent games like Dino Crisis and Wu-Tang Clan. Someone who bought a more expensive PC three years ago, and didn't "keep up" with hardware (no upgrading, as with the PSX owner) cannot play e.g. Ultima IX or Quake III.
Apparently, Sony's development "system" for it runs Linux - or a derivate.
BTW, first post!!
Yeah right, that was why I saw #66 in your article's "head". You need to refresh more often - didn't you see the User Friendly strip? :-)
What you fail to understand is that that isn't how the Internet was back when it was academia-mostly. But it was still called the Internet then, too, while the rest of the world was subjected to IPX, SNA, OSI and all that.
oily marketing feel
How can something that is not "for sale" have a marketing feel?
Does the word "heat" appear in your vocabulary? Try turning off the coling fan in a PIII machine and wait for the burning smell.
So, like, why didn't he sue the makers of the Discworld II adventure game? There is a bloke in Djellibeibi with name and powers kinda like... Anyway, the Un Geller is one of 151+ Pokémon, there probably are other such "coincidences", without them lacking a sense of humour, unlike "Sue-i" Geller.
Not at all. First of all, as others have pointed out, most modern VHS players are multi-format (NTCS, PAL, SECAM, PAL-2, whatever). Second of all, a region can span several video formats (e.g. Region 2 spans Europe, the Middle East (both PAL and SECAM), and Japan (NTSC)).
The region coding had a purpose: That studios could get movies to cinemas before it appeared on DVD. The system breaks down for old movies (which in theory should be Region 0, because there is no significant "cinema market"), but they aren't because distribution rights are distributed all over the place. So the only purpose which remains is the greed of the manufacturers.
Well, there is software - though not endorsed by the manufacturers - which lets you change zones without incrementing the counter on many drives and/or decoders. Apparently, this is done by "intercepting" the region code from the disk and instead telling the decoder that "yes, this is zone Foo".
I use RemoteSelector for my Creative Dxr2 setup, and have no problems so far.
Irrelevant: The passengers got to celebrate the new year twice. That's the important bit.
Known bug in NT SP 4 and unpatched Win95's MFC short date format. (Notice: For NT 4, the bug was introduced with that service pack, and fixed in SP 5.
Reality check: Will the customer trying to access the site care which? If they try to access the site and you shut it down, it's a 100% failure, and they will move to a less paranoid online store. If you keep it running, it's perhaps a 0.2% chance of failure, which means the customer is very likely to get access.
If your system totally dies if power goes away for a hort while, you are using the wrong hardware, software, whatever, and deserve to be subject to computer system darwinism (survival of the most crash-resistant).
Nature, the Universe and just about anything that isn't human doesn't care.
So? There are Javascript engines for the server side as well (Netscape's server products use them, for instance).
Aside: Win-Python also registers itself so that it can be used for ASP.
Compelling Reasons, volume 1:
IIRC, there was a report from Gartner or whomever that stated that companies would start thinking about migrating in 2001, when the first service packs should begin arriving. That's a year after; and Win 9x-users will have to wait for their next Big Thing, the allusive Windows Millennium.
Um, all you need is something that listens on a port, parses arguments and invokes the right method in the right class.
For instance, if you have JBuilder Pro or Enterprise and use the "New Servlet" wizard, it will generate a mini-server for you, called ServletRunner or somesuch.
That sounds like a Javascript error message. What on Earth - apart from four letters - does it have to do with Java?
Rent "Cable Guy" if you haven't already: Apart from a few lines at the very end, his portrayal of the title character is IMHO excellent, the movie's letdown being the wooden acting from "Bore"derick.
Yes. Read the bloody article. The bacteria is believed to be two billion years old, but wasn't classified until 1956. It has been resistant to radiation like, forever.
Can we even think of what will happen if a slight variance in the gene sequence of these modified bacteria caused them to, say, enjoy living in our intestines or in our lungs?
Get a grip. Are you also afraid that grazing cows should get a hunger for human flesh and start rending people to shreds? The chances are just as great. These bacteria apparently resist mutations - that's what keeps them alive in all the radiation.
Will their taste for petroleum-based wastes expand to other areas, such as some obscure chemical in the lining of our cell walls? If you can answer those questions, please tell me. I'd like to know.
Bacteria doesn't talk, otherwise they could phone up some of the Streptococcus variants that already eat flesh.
Some people need to worry about real problems.
Read: Were agressively head-hunted by Microsoft (cfr. J++, made by a former Borlandie if memory serves). At least that were the reports around the time.
Apparently, Borland will port their Delphi IDE to Linux (probably not OSS, though), which is the environment around Object Pascal, which was what Turbo Pascal mutated into.
Turbo Pascal 1.0, 3.0 and 5.5 are available free from community.borland.com, and should run under any DOS emulation on Linux. :-)