No large-scale database runs Windows on the server side (except possibly for a few isolated MS SQL data centers), but most commercial database management systems have a Windows front end available, and a DBA may be listening to MP3s on the same machine he administers the database from.
No militaty flight simulator run Windows.
No "military" or no "United States military"? Rumors have gone around that the terrorists who performed the kamikaze attack on the World Trade Center had practiced the attack using Microsoft Flight Simulator. Who knows what other countries' air forces train on?
No bank runs it's federal transations on Windows.
But a lot of banks run the client side of the online banking applications on Windows. "IE only" anyone? Account holders buy records.
Sure, MS has most the desktop video-game market, most of the simple spread-sheet market and simple document creation market to itself - but nothing really of importance.
Importance? We're talking a band here. A band's job in the market is to produce recordings that a label publishes. The people who buy records are the people who play desktop video games, write spreadsheets, and create simple documents.
Enough, that they should have a.tar.
And rent twice the server space, when almost everybody who has GNU tar probably also has a copy of Info-ZIP's UnZip lying around?
Re-read that again.... he said modern computing platform
In that case, if you claim that the operating system in use on 95+ percent of the audience's computers is not a "modern computing platform", then whether or not tar is bundled with a "modern computing platform" is not all that relevant now, is it?
Not legacy crap with 16-bit thunking code, self-corupting filesystems
You're talking about Windows Millennium Edition. Microsoft has since released Windows XP Home Edition based on the NT kernel, which has fixed many of these issues. It is bundled with a zip utility but apparently not with a tar utility.
and NetBIOS over TCP/IP for file-sharing.
More like KaZaA over TCP/IP for file-sharing.
Evry decent OS has tar
What percent of the band's audience uses a "decent OS" by your definition?
I have used a computer with a stock installation of Microsoft Windows ME, and it came with "Microsoft Compressed Folders" integrated into the shell.
I have used a computer with a stock installation of Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, and it also came with "Microsoft Compressed Folders" integrated into the shell.
Granted, Windows 98 and Windows 2000 don't come with those tools, but virtually all x86 computers sold today through major channels to home users come with Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition operating system software.
Are you sure that the utility built into Windows ME and Windows XP can extract.tar files in addition to.zip files? Or are you talking about those WinZip/WinRAR/WinACE programs that cost $30?
Have a developer do the 'hard' work of compiling the program and resolving dependencies, shipping it out as a binary package
For a small operation, renting HTTP[1] server space to hold binaries for 20 different platforms can be prohibitively expensive unless the application is designed to run only on Microsoft Windows operating systems on x86 computers.
Even if 90 percent of users will see nothing but an error message? "Click the program you want to use to open 'foo.tar'. If the program is not listed, click Other."
if someone puts a patent in my face I just laugh and code around it
Then do you think you can implement an LZW encoder by the end of May (i.e. before the U.S. patent runs out on June 21), without infringing U.S. Patent 4,558,302? What about an MP3 encoder that doesn't infringe any of these?
Then why would they sell video games and CDs that have R- or even X-rated content?
Wal-Mart's censorship standards seem stricter than the MPAA's "PG-13" standards or the ESRB's "T" standards. A single "shit" won't make a PG-13 movie into an R movie or a T game into an M game, but Wal-Mart has demanded that "shit" be edited out of recorded music. I understand that BMX XXX is a little too much T&A to sell to kids, but Wal-Mart goes too far to get my business.
Of course, Wal-Mart's censorship could be leveraged into a tool to sell more copies to collectors, by calling the edited version the "WAL*MART® Special Edition Remix" or something.
Fast Actively managed Scalable TCP
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8.6 GB Internet?
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Since when does TCP/IP overhead have any effect on completely different protocols?
The protocol mentioned in the article is a modification of TCP, and like TCP, it has some protocol overhead to it.
Yes. VisualBoyAdvance runs on a PC with a 500 MHz PIII or faster x86 processor (ports to other architectures are in progress), and virtually all laptops of that spec have internally lit LCD panels.
Nintendo could do so much more with this platform and do full 3D gaming in a pocket device.
There are already a few software 3D engines on the GBA. Sure they only run at 120x80 pixels or so at 20 fps, but you're not going to get much better than that without draining lightweight batteries faster than 10-15 hours per charge.
Not all of that is data. Some is packet headers. Some is error correction. That's why you can't push 6 KB per second over a v.90 dial-up connection at 48 kbps.
10 bits in a data transmission byte
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8.6 GB Internet?
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since when was a byte more than 8 bits?
Since TCP/IP overhead. Since error correction. The more accurate figure is 10 bits in a byte.
still the game quality doesn't pass on what TurboGrafix was doing in 1991.
I know the GBA is as full of stinkers as the PS1 was (because the "Mario Club" gameplay quality control service is no longer required), but did the TG16 have Bonk Kart? No. The TG16 couldn't do racing games because it didn't have a hardware rotozoomer.
I still have an 'old' TurboGrafix Express with lighted screen, TV Tuner
And how long did the TurboExpress last on one charge of AA batteries? (Compare to 10 hours lit and 18 hours unlit for GBA SP.) And how many systems could you buy for $300? (You can get enough GBA SP systems for three players for that price.) Did it even support multiplayer at all? (Many GBA games load themselves into the system's 384 KB of RAM and can run four players off one cartridge.)
WindowsXP Embedded on a 640x480 screen and call it Pocket XBOX.
but I can go 20 miles and see all of those other stores.
That's seven hours of walking each way! Most minors who play video games do not know how to drive. How good is the bus service between cities in your part of the country?
executing people at random until the content met their specifications.
In many areas, Wal-Mart has a geographic monopoly on trading factory-wrapped video games for cash (no Gamestop/Babbage's, no Best Buy, no Circuit City, no Meijer, no Kmart, etc). Thus, if publishers can't sell at Wal-Mart, they can't sell at all. And if the publishers don't sell, the developers dont eat. And if the developers don't eat, they die.
Except that early is more expensive. Lik Sang was selling imported units for about $130, as opposed to $100 from Wal-Mart and Best Buy this week. Add shipping, and you're looking at a big incentive to wait unless you're a rich early adopter.
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After all why would they otherwise use Windows?
Because they can't just walk into the local electronics store and walk out with a Linux machine perhaps?
You'll at least have the slowdown associated with alignment penalties for anything that's only 4-byte aligned.
Of course, such slowdown will affect only 64-bit move instructions, not 32-bit move instructions.
No super-computer runs Windows.
Actually, some personal supercomputers do run emulated Windows.
No large-scale database runs Windows.
No large-scale database runs Windows on the server side (except possibly for a few isolated MS SQL data centers), but most commercial database management systems have a Windows front end available, and a DBA may be listening to MP3s on the same machine he administers the database from.
No militaty flight simulator run Windows.
No "military" or no "United States military"? Rumors have gone around that the terrorists who performed the kamikaze attack on the World Trade Center had practiced the attack using Microsoft Flight Simulator. Who knows what other countries' air forces train on?
No bank runs it's federal transations on Windows.
But a lot of banks run the client side of the online banking applications on Windows. "IE only" anyone? Account holders buy records.
Sure, MS has most the desktop video-game market, most of the simple spread-sheet market and simple document creation market to itself - but nothing really of importance.
Importance? We're talking a band here. A band's job in the market is to produce recordings that a label publishes. The people who buy records are the people who play desktop video games, write spreadsheets, and create simple documents.
Enough, that they should have a .tar .
And rent twice the server space, when almost everybody who has GNU tar probably also has a copy of Info-ZIP's UnZip lying around?
So you owe them.
Really? With all the lobbying DisneyCo did to get the Bono Act passed?
Re-read that again.... he said modern computing platform
In that case, if you claim that the operating system in use on 95+ percent of the audience's computers is not a "modern computing platform", then whether or not tar is bundled with a "modern computing platform" is not all that relevant now, is it?
Not legacy crap with 16-bit thunking code, self-corupting filesystems
You're talking about Windows Millennium Edition. Microsoft has since released Windows XP Home Edition based on the NT kernel, which has fixed many of these issues. It is bundled with a zip utility but apparently not with a tar utility.
and NetBIOS over TCP/IP for file-sharing.
More like KaZaA over TCP/IP for file-sharing.
Evry decent OS has tar
What percent of the band's audience uses a "decent OS" by your definition?
I don't believe windows come with a zip utility.
I have used a computer with a stock installation of Microsoft Windows ME, and it came with "Microsoft Compressed Folders" integrated into the shell.
I have used a computer with a stock installation of Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, and it also came with "Microsoft Compressed Folders" integrated into the shell.
Granted, Windows 98 and Windows 2000 don't come with those tools, but virtually all x86 computers sold today through major channels to home users come with Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition operating system software.
Windows utils can extract tars as well.
Are you sure that the utility built into Windows ME and Windows XP can extract .tar files in addition to .zip files? Or are you talking about those WinZip/WinRAR/WinACE programs that cost $30?
Then how do you respond to support requests containing
(I Did Not Understand The Intercourse-having Manual)?
Any problems after you install without referring to the stuff that comes with says one of two things:
So how do you handle those people who do read the READMEs, FAQs, and HOWTOs but fail miserably to understand them?
Have a developer do the 'hard' work of compiling the program and resolving dependencies, shipping it out as a binary package
For a small operation, renting HTTP[1] server space to hold binaries for 20 different platforms can be prohibitively expensive unless the application is designed to run only on Microsoft Windows operating systems on x86 computers.
tar is far better for that kind of thing than zip
Even if 90 percent of users will see nothing but an error message? "Click the program you want to use to open 'foo.tar'. If the program is not listed, click Other."
Tar is available on every modern computing platform
Unlike zip, tar is not bundled with Microsoft Windows ME and Microsoft Windows XP operating systems.
and doesn't waste time trying to compress uncompressible files.
Neither does zip -0.
Sometimes it's easy to forget there's more to packaging utilities than ZIP.
What other packaging format is supported by a program that comes bundled with the standard distribution of Microsoft Windows operating systems?
if someone puts a patent in my face I just laugh and code around it
Then do you think you can implement an LZW encoder by the end of May (i.e. before the U.S. patent runs out on June 21), without infringing U.S. Patent 4,558,302? What about an MP3 encoder that doesn't infringe any of these?
Then why would they sell video games and CDs that have R- or even X-rated content?
Wal-Mart's censorship standards seem stricter than the MPAA's "PG-13" standards or the ESRB's "T" standards. A single "shit" won't make a PG-13 movie into an R movie or a T game into an M game, but Wal-Mart has demanded that "shit" be edited out of recorded music. I understand that BMX XXX is a little too much T&A to sell to kids, but Wal-Mart goes too far to get my business.
Of course, Wal-Mart's censorship could be leveraged into a tool to sell more copies to collectors, by calling the edited version the "WAL*MART® Special Edition Remix" or something.
Since when does TCP/IP overhead have any effect on completely different protocols?
The protocol mentioned in the article is a modification of TCP, and like TCP, it has some protocol overhead to it.
If something wears the wrong way or is defective from factory, you get a little more volume than you bargained for.
Ever heard of an isolating transformer, fuse, or circuit breaker? You can find safety devices like those in e.g. USB sound cards.
But does it have a light?
Yes. VisualBoyAdvance runs on a PC with a 500 MHz PIII or faster x86 processor (ports to other architectures are in progress), and virtually all laptops of that spec have internally lit LCD panels.
Nintendo could do so much more with this platform and do full 3D gaming in a pocket device.
There are already a few software 3D engines on the GBA. Sure they only run at 120x80 pixels or so at 20 fps, but you're not going to get much better than that without draining lightweight batteries faster than 10-15 hours per charge.
It is just over a gig a second.
Not all of that is data. Some is packet headers. Some is error correction. That's why you can't push 6 KB per second over a v.90 dial-up connection at 48 kbps.
since when was a byte more than 8 bits?
Since TCP/IP overhead. Since error correction. The more accurate figure is 10 bits in a byte.
Not only can a high-end storage array handle that sort of throughput, but it can do it without any bugs.
still the game quality doesn't pass on what TurboGrafix was doing in 1991.
I know the GBA is as full of stinkers as the PS1 was (because the "Mario Club" gameplay quality control service is no longer required), but did the TG16 have Bonk Kart? No. The TG16 couldn't do racing games because it didn't have a hardware rotozoomer.
I still have an 'old' TurboGrafix Express with lighted screen, TV Tuner
And how long did the TurboExpress last on one charge of AA batteries? (Compare to 10 hours lit and 18 hours unlit for GBA SP.) And how many systems could you buy for $300? (You can get enough GBA SP systems for three players for that price.) Did it even support multiplayer at all? (Many GBA games load themselves into the system's 384 KB of RAM and can run four players off one cartridge.)
WindowsXP Embedded on a 640x480 screen and call it Pocket XBOX.
That's been rumored.
but I can go 20 miles and see all of those other stores.
That's seven hours of walking each way! Most minors who play video games do not know how to drive. How good is the bus service between cities in your part of the country?
executing people at random until the content met their specifications.
In many areas, Wal-Mart has a geographic monopoly on trading factory-wrapped video games for cash (no Gamestop/Babbage's, no Best Buy, no Circuit City, no Meijer, no Kmart, etc). Thus, if publishers can't sell at Wal-Mart, they can't sell at all. And if the publishers don't sell, the developers dont eat. And if the developers don't eat, they die.
No reason not to buy early.
Except that early is more expensive. Lik Sang was selling imported units for about $130, as opposed to $100 from Wal-Mart and Best Buy this week. Add shipping, and you're looking at a big incentive to wait unless you're a rich early adopter.