You only really need an OS when it's your first computer.
Or if your old OS doesn't support your new hardware. Windows 95A does not support USB or large disks.
After that it should be like any other periferal device that you swap to the new machine.
For instance, I can't swap ISA cards into my new machine because it doesn't have any ISA slots. I can't swap my old non-USB joysticks into my new machine because my PCI sound card doesn't have a game port. And I can't swap old versions of DOS into my new machine because DOS can't handle hard disks bigger than 8 gigabytes.
I wanted one of those gorgeous new SXGA flat screens (and trust me, they are really the best screens I ever used), and only Dell offer them right know. Working in 1400x1050
Use a Unix based machine an unzip them (prevents that zip password crap).
Or, if your machine for some reason can't run Linux or a BSD, you can download a DOS version of the same unzipper (Info-ZIP UnZip) that is distributed with most Linux distros, and run it on FreeDOS.
English is SVO. Spanish, French, and Italian are SVO or SOV depending on whether the object is a noun or pronoun respectively. Japanese is SOV. Irish is VSO. Arabic and Hebrew used be VSO; now AFAIK they're SVO. Klingon is OVS. German is largely IvSOV (I = initial subject or adverb; v = auxiliary verb). Yodaisms are OSV. Lisp and Scheme are largely VSO. Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
I didn't read the whole blurb. I didn't recognize the "Babelfish" variant spelling of "Babel Fish".
OK, I thought of another one. There were stories in Contact magazine (used to be put out by the same people as Sesame Street magazine) about such a portable device. More to the point, this was an electronic device that operated when the user stuck his or her finger in it.
Fair Use derives from the Constitution... I don't think it's possible to sign away or agree to anything that conflicts with the Constitution.
<IANAL>
The United States Constitution, as amended, states that "Congress shall make no law" abridging freedom of speech (17 USC 107, the fair use section, makes most of copyright law constitutional), not that private individuals shall make no law (that is, contract). If this were true, non-disclosure agreements would be unconstitutional. A EULA for DVDs that pretty much amounts to an NDA would not be out of the question.
And yes, the contract is there; the offer is the EULA, the acceptance is removing the content from the package, and the consideration is the price paid for the content (in terms of dollars, square inches of ad space, or personal information) in exchange for the right to view the content.
</IANAL>
UltraHLE also backed out because it emulates high-level constructs (HLE == High-Level Emulator) created by the early C compilers for the MIPS processor in the N64. As the compilers used for newer games became more advanced (and optimized assembly subroutines became more common), the UltraHLE team could not keep up.
UltraHLE backed out because they felt threatened
...not by Nintendo, but by authors of other N64 emulators that provided more low-level functionality.
I'll be perfectly happy with my Coltranes & Tetrises & games written for Palm Pilots
If you like Tetris®, you might like a Tetris clone I wrote that simulates the effect of hallucinogens(no, Tetripz is that other one) called TOD. It runs on my 486 under DOS, my PII laptop under Wintendo 98, and my PIII tower under Linux.
The fair use agreement, which is something I use all the time as a journalist, gives me the right to use whatever tool I want
And any right can be waived in a contract, for example, one to which you agree by breaking the seal on the DVD. It only takes three words to destroy the first sale doctrine[?]: "licensed not sold." From there, they can take away any right you have. And because the sheeple[?] never read the fine print of the TOS or the EULA, they don't give a fsck.
"yourname.city.state.us". And "cybertron.podunk-city.co.us" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
If Colorado (.co.us), Nebraska (.ne.us), and Oregon (.or.us) would take the "city" field out of their domain patterns, they could get some business that would have otherwise gone to.com,.net, and.org, respectively. (Compare.co.uk and.org.uk.)
your bag over your shoulder and get on board with an alternate root.
OpenNIC, where D in DNS stands for "Democratic," is your alternate root. Its TLDs include.oss (free software) and.parody (self-explanatory). And it runs just fine alongside ICANN's root.
Or you could just use some BIND exploit to root the root nameserver:-)
Hey Brainchild, you can buy those products for Mac.
But by the time they're finally released on the Mac, many of the products are already passé; it's no longer "hip" to be good at them. For example, is being able to kick ass at Doom still a valuable skill? No, the game of the month is Quake III Team Arena for Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, and Microsoft Windows ME.
I'd like to see your grandma install Debian. There's currently a trade-off between ease of installation by GNU/Linux newbies (Debian is reported to be a bitch to install) and support for architectures (Red Hat and Mandrake, two relatively easy distros, do not support PPC AFAIK).
If I ever get into game programming, my mantra will be this: the bounding box is the tris, the tris is the bounding box.
But tris games are supposed to do their collisions with rectilinear bounding boxes; that's the shape of the blocks in Tetris pieces. Even in games such as Dr. Mario, pixel-perfect collision detection is overkill, as pieces move in tile-sized units anyway.
In many games, polygonal objects are stored at several levels of detail; objects close up are drawn with more complex models. If you always use the lowest LOD model for collision detection, people will notice how much better it is than a cubic bounding box but will probably not notice a couple cm difference in the detail silhouettes. Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Recent Mozilla supports CSS stylesheets, and it supports them well. Or are you trying to make a combination DVD player/set-top Web terminal? In that case, you'll need to get your CSS elsewhere.
or didnt fail because some piss poor coder forgot to close off a table
Not only is the HTML invalid in that case, it isn't even well-formed, and (once the stricter XHTML standard becomes widespread) most browsers will throw up an alert box for that. Note that even in Slashdot and Kuro5hin comments, I use a </p> for every <p> .
The version 6 is so freaking bloated
The release labeled as "Netscape Communicator 6.0" is bloated with AOL brand clutter. If you download a Mozilla brand milestone such as 0.7, it'll be almost as fast as the Netscape 4.5 you're currently using.
x86 PC doesn't mean a damned thing games wise unless it's x86 running a Win-32 derivative.
An x86-based machine can dual-boot between Wintendo (that's all it's good for) and a Real OS such as *BSD or GNU/Linux. PowerPC-based machines cannot dual-boot to Wintendo.
Linux people know the workarounds. Casual user does not.
By "casual user" do you mean the sheeple[?] who inhabit AOL? In that case, give them GNU/Linux, X, GNOME, an SNES emulator, and a pirated game library, and they'll be happy.
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You only really need an OS when it's your first computer.
Or if your old OS doesn't support your new hardware. Windows 95A does not support USB or large disks.
After that it should be like any other periferal device that you swap to the new machine.
For instance, I can't swap ISA cards into my new machine because it doesn't have any ISA slots. I can't swap my old non-USB joysticks into my new machine because my PCI sound card doesn't have a game port. And I can't swap old versions of DOS into my new machine because DOS can't handle hard disks bigger than 8 gigabytes.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
I wanted one of those gorgeous new SXGA flat screens (and trust me, they are really the best screens I ever used), and only Dell offer them right know. Working in 1400x1050
Ever try an Apple Cinema Display?
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Use a Unix based machine an unzip them (prevents that zip password crap).
Or, if your machine for some reason can't run Linux or a BSD, you can download a DOS version of the same unzipper (Info-ZIP UnZip) that is distributed with most Linux distros, and run it on FreeDOS.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Oui. Ja.
Christians say no to Ouija boards (or, as they were called in Nintendo Power, "Luigi boards").
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
English is SVO. Spanish, French, and Italian are SVO or SOV depending on whether the object is a noun or pronoun respectively. Japanese is SOV. Irish is VSO. Arabic and Hebrew used be VSO; now AFAIK they're SVO. Klingon is OVS. German is largely IvSOV (I = initial subject or adverb; v = auxiliary verb). Yodaisms are OSV. Lisp and Scheme are largely VSO.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
I didn't read the whole blurb. I didn't recognize the "Babelfish" variant spelling of "Babel Fish".
OK, I thought of another one. There were stories in Contact magazine (used to be put out by the same people as Sesame Street magazine) about such a portable device. More to the point, this was an electronic device that operated when the user stuck his or her finger in it.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Except Adams, in H2G2, called it a Babel Fish.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Fair Use derives from the Constitution ... I don't think it's possible to sign away or agree to anything that conflicts with the Constitution.
<IANAL>
The United States Constitution, as amended, states that "Congress shall make no law" abridging freedom of speech (17 USC 107, the fair use section, makes most of copyright law constitutional), not that private individuals shall make no law (that is, contract). If this were true, non-disclosure agreements would be unconstitutional. A EULA for DVDs that pretty much amounts to an NDA would not be out of the question.
And yes, the contract is there; the offer is the EULA, the acceptance is removing the content from the package, and the consideration is the price paid for the content (in terms of dollars, square inches of ad space, or personal information) in exchange for the right to view the content.
</IANAL>
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
UltraHLE also backed out because it emulates high-level constructs (HLE == High-Level Emulator) created by the early C compilers for the MIPS processor in the N64. As the compilers used for newer games became more advanced (and optimized assembly subroutines became more common), the UltraHLE team could not keep up.
UltraHLE backed out because they felt threatened
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
I'll be perfectly happy with my Coltranes & Tetrises & games written for Palm Pilots
If you like Tetris®, you might like a Tetris clone I wrote that simulates the effect of hallucinogens(no, Tetripz is that other one) called TOD. It runs on my 486 under DOS, my PII laptop under Wintendo 98, and my PIII tower under Linux.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
The fair use agreement, which is something I use all the time as a journalist, gives me the right to use whatever tool I want
And any right can be waived in a contract, for example, one to which you agree by breaking the seal on the DVD. It only takes three words to destroy the first sale doctrine[?]: "licensed not sold." From there, they can take away any right you have. And because the sheeple[?] never read the fine print of the TOS or the EULA, they don't give a fsck.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
"yourname.city.state.us". And "cybertron.podunk-city.co.us" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
If Colorado (.co.us), Nebraska (.ne.us), and Oregon (.or.us) would take the "city" field out of their domain patterns, they could get some business that would have otherwise gone to .com, .net, and .org, respectively. (Compare .co.uk and .org.uk.)
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
your bag over your shoulder and get on board with an alternate root.
OpenNIC, where D in DNS stands for "Democratic," is your alternate root. Its TLDs include .oss (free software) and .parody (self-explanatory). And it runs just fine alongside ICANN's root.
Or you could just use some BIND exploit to root the root nameserver :-)
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Hey Brainchild, you can buy those products for Mac.
But by the time they're finally released on the Mac, many of the products are already passé; it's no longer "hip" to be good at them. For example, is being able to kick ass at Doom still a valuable skill? No, the game of the month is Quake III Team Arena for Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, and Microsoft Windows ME.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Any why are we forgetting Debian?
I'd like to see your grandma install Debian. There's currently a trade-off between ease of installation by GNU/Linux newbies (Debian is reported to be a bitch to install) and support for architectures (Red Hat and Mandrake, two relatively easy distros, do not support PPC AFAIK).
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
If I ever get into game programming, my mantra will be this: the bounding box is the tris, the tris is the bounding box.
But tris games are supposed to do their collisions with rectilinear bounding boxes; that's the shape of the blocks in Tetris pieces. Even in games such as Dr. Mario, pixel-perfect collision detection is overkill, as pieces move in tile-sized units anyway.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
In many games, polygonal objects are stored at several levels of detail; objects close up are drawn with more complex models. If you always use the lowest LOD model for collision detection, people will notice how much better it is than a cubic bounding box but will probably not notice a couple cm difference in the detail silhouettes.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
But then with OSX, install Virtual PC ... Windows
I don't know about you, but I'd rather not play Q3A/UT/FPS of the month at 3 frames per second.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
- Photoshop => GIMP (except prepress)
- Office => OpenOffice
- Cakewalk => Jazzware
- 3D Studio =gt; Blender
I couldn't find SAW or ACID with the illegal Google search engine; care to enlighten me as to what these are?Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
release a version that could handle css better
Recent Mozilla supports CSS stylesheets, and it supports them well. Or are you trying to make a combination DVD player/set-top Web terminal? In that case, you'll need to get your CSS elsewhere.
or didnt fail because some piss poor coder forgot to close off a table
Not only is the HTML invalid in that case, it isn't even well-formed, and (once the stricter XHTML standard becomes widespread) most browsers will throw up an alert box for that. Note that even in Slashdot and Kuro5hin comments, I use a </p> for every <p> .
The version 6 is so freaking bloated
The release labeled as "Netscape Communicator 6.0" is bloated with AOL brand clutter. If you download a Mozilla brand milestone such as 0.7, it'll be almost as fast as the Netscape 4.5 you're currently using.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
x86 PC doesn't mean a damned thing games wise unless it's x86 running a Win-32 derivative.
An x86-based machine can dual-boot between Wintendo (that's all it's good for) and a Real OS such as *BSD or GNU/Linux. PowerPC-based machines cannot dual-boot to Wintendo.
Linux people know the workarounds. Casual user does not.
By "casual user" do you mean the sheeple[?] who inhabit AOL? In that case, give them GNU/Linux, X, GNOME, an SNES emulator, and a pirated game library, and they'll be happy.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Everything, which (it appears) GNUPedia is trying to copy, allows no outward hyperlinks; otherwise, it would degrade into yet another Yahoo!.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
GNUPedia looks a bit like Everything. Everything is a flexible web database run by the people who used to run Slashdot and written and edited by the world. (Ever wonder what those [?]s are on /. articles? That's E2.) Copyright doesn't stop people from adding song lyrics to the database.
All information generated outside of the free software community is under perpetual copyright anyway.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
The GNU System is a POSIX layer. It can run on Linux (producing GNU/Linux aka the Linux OS), HURD (still in development), or Win32 (producing Red Hat Cygwin).
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Any questions?
--Mac OS X: The Game (for Linux and DOS)
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