I started with Star Wars, but I don't think I'd say the universe is all that real. While I'm also a fan of Trek, I've never found that too... real. Just fun.:) I'll have to take a look at Ringworld after I finish the next 7 (!) books on my plate. Thanks for the reccomendation.
I'm pretty new to sci-fi myself, and hadn't heard of him. I've heard of the Ringworld series though. I just (within the last 1-2 years) started reading sci-fi, starting with Star Wars books, then Dune and others, and I just finished the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter Hamilton. (The Reality Dysfunction, the Neutronium Alchemist, and the Naked God) Incredible books which paint a world so real and awesome details.
I just started the Hyperion series, and after that, the Foundation trilogy. Would you put the Ringworld series in this kind of class of a whole universe unfolded for the reader? I'll need something to read after the Foundation books!:)
Heck, I don't even have 10.2.4 and ran into the problem we're talking about. Looking at the comments, it sounds like most people aren't running into 10.2.4 problems with their batteries.
Seems to me that your view of MS employees is a bit distorted. Yes, a lot of them have a lot of money, but I don't think money of them have millions upon millions of dollars, as you're asserting. ($1000 * 365 * 30 ~= 11 million)
Besides, rich or not, you'd still be a dirty old man without the social skills to realize that being a dirty old man isn't a good way to get geek chicks.
I had this happen to me over the course of about a year and a half. Went from 3.5-4 hours of battery life down to literally 10 minutes on a full "charge."
After asking around, reading up on the web, I found that not using your battery often, but leaving it in, can cause this. That is, most of the time, I use my iBook at my desk on AC and for a while, very rarely had it running on battery. I bought another battery and have been making sure to run the battery down and haven't run into the problem- but even if I were going to, I don't think it'd start for a few more months.
The PSOne itself isn't the semi-portable gaming device- it's a repackaged original PS1. A lot smaller and cheaper than the original. You can get an optional LCD for it though, but it's not part of the package. You can get those for the GC (with optional 3-hour battery!) and others i'm sure.:)
...unless you're primarily a console gamer, willing to try out GTA because you saw it on slashdot. (I for one don't get the fun in PC games, outside of the occasional FPS at a LAN party, or EV Nova, console games are much more fun to me!) GTA did the console thing too, so perhaps some gamecube nerd wants to try GTA out.
The idea is that with a PDA you can get both in one device. I bought a greyscale iPAQ with the intention of using it for a) a PDA b) a portable computer c) a coding platform and d) a means to play emulated games [NES, SNES, GameBoy]. Points A, B, and C panned out, but I ended up not playing too many games, and just wishing I could play the cooler GBA games. But I did play Dragon Warrior IV (for NES) and Pokemon Yello quite a bit. But these emulators suck battery. The greyscale iPAQ actually gets really good battery life compared to the color models, I imagine you get about a 30 minute battery life playing NES games on the iPAQ 36xx.
In the end, I just bought a GBA so I could play all those new and rad GBA games. I carry my PDA (a Newton 2100 or a Jornada 720 depending) with me most places I go, but not my GBA. I will take the GBA to work explicitly, but I don't like having too much junk on my person at a time.
For a lot of games, the iPAQ blows though. It cannot register two buttons at once- making it impossible to do the flying racoon thing in Mario 3- holding the D-pad and B. You can use your stylus to hold down B *and* press the D-pad, but that's a huge pain in the ass and not worth doing for me.
I totally agree, I think the PC scene generally has suckey games. Which is why I played tried and true classic console games.;)
A Winshit CE palmtop doesn't have the option of just recompiling desktop software.
Yes, it does. You can recompile a lot of apps that do simple Win32 stuff. You can do a pretty simple recompile of a good amount of Linux and Unix software using Rainer's celib cedialogs. You can Run Perl/Tk apps.
Sure, I can't run all of the stuff that would run on an iPAQ running Linux on my Jornada 720 running Windows CE, but unlike some folks, I continue to use WinCE on my PDA rather than Linux because it's a lot more practical. I'd much rather have a) real PIM/PDA apps and b) power management (wow, what a concept for a PDA!) on my Jornada rather than . I don't mind loosing the ability to run a couple extra pieces of software for which I have no need (other than to show all of my slashbuddies that 1 4m h4rdc0r3!!1) in exchange for a functional PDA.
A Jornada running WinCE sure ain't as nice and consistent the Newton, but it beats putting in the extra work just so that I can be able to say I run Linux on all of my machines.
Not sure what about OS 9 -> X would've caused tihs, but it seems the most likely. IIRC, My gf was running 8.6 at the time, which was the most recent. In those days, VPC did a lot of dirty tricks that didn't fit in with Apple's new vision (Carbon) of clean code that didn't access hardware directly. While accessing OpenGL/Glide from VPC is certainly quite doable, perhaps at the time they didn't think it was the most important thing to implement compared to just getting out an OS X version. But indeed, a shame to be sure.
I've not used VPC for a while. Perhaps with the move to OS X, VPC lost this ability?
VPC used to support Voodoo cards for sure, but I don't know what else. The only thing I've ever seen it done on was my girlfriend's rev B iMac (with a Voodoo2 in the mezzanine slot). Can't remember what the game was, but it was something we were trying under Glide just to see if it worked. (VPC used to advertise the ability)
Installing anything onto Bochs is pretty easy, once you have got a basic install (that boots the included FreeDOS) decently. I think there is an OS X dmg that is more or less ready to go. Yes, you do have to edit a config file.
However, unlike VPC, Bochs runs slower than molasses. Too slow to be useful, IMO. I can't remember how many minutes it took for startx to finally bring up TWM and an xterm on a simple Linux install, but it was a long time, on a dual G4/500. VPC has been very optimized (in general and for the G4) and runs at a usable speed. Hell, it can even utilize OpenGL and Glide cards directly, making some (older, but still) PC-only games run somewhat decently.
Yes, it'd be nice to have a purely open source emulator, but until Bochs is useful for more than testing (in my case), I won't be using it for anything but a toy.
You use the DB API, whatever it may be. Add it to a collection What is confusing about that? If it has no way of retrieving and storing data it's not very useful in the first place.
1. You can do queries in a real programming language. SQL isn't the only way to query a database.
what real project doesn't eventually need indices, transactions, or other features of a real database system?
2. I can't speak for this project (page is slashdotted, haven't read it), but plenty of OODBs which use the regular progrmaming language as a query language have these features. See GemStone/S for an example. Nothing about having transaction requires using SQL.
Um, it's called writing a script. A script in the language your company is using that pushes data from the old DB to the new. Use an object-rational mapping module, load in a table (= object) from the old DB, save it in the new. What is the big deal? I did a bunch of this a couple years ago, moving from DB2 to GemStone/S (an OODB which has been around forever).
Yes, but as Will said, Inkwell means little if there isn't a hardware platform to make good use of it. Yes, you can use a Wacom tablet, but that isn't what we are looking for. I've seen some people convert original iBooks into tablets, and that is slick, but most of us can't or won't hack apart our machines...
"Perhaps there's some fatal flaw or incompatibility in the newton?"
Yep. The batteries run out sometimes.
While I realize this was meant as sarcasm, there is some irony in it. The Newton is one of the few PDAs that has a backup battery. When the battery dies on the Newton, you don't loose everything, like you do on most WinCE and PalmOS PDAs. Which is absolutely retarded. At least the Jornada 720 has a backup battery- not all PDA manufacturers are absolutely stupid.
The Newton's stregnths lie in a lot more than it's UI. In fact, the UI is a pretty small part of what the Newton did that was innovative.
And there are/have been projects trying to recapture the Newton's spirit. There is Dynapad, my own project, aiming for a PDA system with similar strengths as the Newton. It is not a project trying to have the same UI appearance. However, that is something I'd like eventually. See my sig for info. Contrary to the page, active development is proceeding- it is hard to do too much working a lot and going to school. Email if you want to know where I am at, but haven't relesaed.
There was also an attempt at a NewtonScript system emulator that would look, feel and act like a regular Newton, but that hasn't been touched for years.
The Newton was a project of Scully, not Amerlio. Jobs replaced Amelio, but it was a project created by Scully. Scully was the man who kicked Jobs out of Apple- which is where the grudge originates. Apparently.
MS may have real products which use a pen interface- definately more than Apple is doing. However, MS has done nothing to further the state of the art in pen computing, just added the ability to draw in windows. woot.
Perhaps the model you had wasn't up to whatever you were throwing at it, but it seems pretty absurd to judge the entire Newton line solely on the 120 running NOS 1.3. I doubt the Palm Pro would've done any better, infact probably worse.
You can get "real" HWR ala the Newton on PocketPC. It is ParaGraph's CalliGrapher- which is the same software which powered the 1.x series of Newton HWR. The one everyone makes fun of out of ignorance that the Newton grew up. However, Calligrapher on a PocketPC isn't as bad as the 1.x Newtons. Not as nice as the HWR on a 2100, but quite usable. However, the real problem in the PPC equation is the pitiful screen size... Mostly useless for taking any real notes.
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I started with Star Wars, but I don't think I'd say the universe is all that real. While I'm also a fan of Trek, I've never found that too... real. Just fun. :) I'll have to take a look at Ringworld after I finish the next 7 (!) books on my plate. Thanks for the reccomendation.
I'm pretty new to sci-fi myself, and hadn't heard of him. I've heard of the Ringworld series though. I just (within the last 1-2 years) started reading sci-fi, starting with Star Wars books, then Dune and others, and I just finished the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter Hamilton. (The Reality Dysfunction, the Neutronium Alchemist, and the Naked God) Incredible books which paint a world so real and awesome details.
:)
I just started the Hyperion series, and after that, the Foundation trilogy. Would you put the Ringworld series in this kind of class of a whole universe unfolded for the reader? I'll need something to read after the Foundation books!
Being a millionaire is one thing. Having 11 million is another.
Heck, I don't even have 10.2.4 and ran into the problem we're talking about. Looking at the comments, it sounds like most people aren't running into 10.2.4 problems with their batteries.
Seems to me that your view of MS employees is a bit distorted. Yes, a lot of them have a lot of money, but I don't think money of them have millions upon millions of dollars, as you're asserting. ($1000 * 365 * 30 ~= 11 million)
Besides, rich or not, you'd still be a dirty old man without the social skills to realize that being a dirty old man isn't a good way to get geek chicks.
Heh. You're confusing MS developers with Java programmers.
I had this happen to me over the course of about a year and a half. Went from 3.5-4 hours of battery life down to literally 10 minutes on a full "charge."
After asking around, reading up on the web, I found that not using your battery often, but leaving it in, can cause this. That is, most of the time, I use my iBook at my desk on AC and for a while, very rarely had it running on battery. I bought another battery and have been making sure to run the battery down and haven't run into the problem- but even if I were going to, I don't think it'd start for a few more months.
The PSOne itself isn't the semi-portable gaming device- it's a repackaged original PS1. A lot smaller and cheaper than the original. You can get an optional LCD for it though, but it's not part of the package. You can get those for the GC (with optional 3-hour battery!) and others i'm sure. :)
...unless you're primarily a console gamer, willing to try out GTA because you saw it on slashdot. (I for one don't get the fun in PC games, outside of the occasional FPS at a LAN party, or EV Nova, console games are much more fun to me!) GTA did the console thing too, so perhaps some gamecube nerd wants to try GTA out.
The idea is that with a PDA you can get both in one device. I bought a greyscale iPAQ with the intention of using it for a) a PDA b) a portable computer c) a coding platform and d) a means to play emulated games [NES, SNES, GameBoy]. Points A, B, and C panned out, but I ended up not playing too many games, and just wishing I could play the cooler GBA games. But I did play Dragon Warrior IV (for NES) and Pokemon Yello quite a bit. But these emulators suck battery. The greyscale iPAQ actually gets really good battery life compared to the color models, I imagine you get about a 30 minute battery life playing NES games on the iPAQ 36xx.
;)
In the end, I just bought a GBA so I could play all those new and rad GBA games. I carry my PDA (a Newton 2100 or a Jornada 720 depending) with me most places I go, but not my GBA. I will take the GBA to work explicitly, but I don't like having too much junk on my person at a time.
For a lot of games, the iPAQ blows though. It cannot register two buttons at once- making it impossible to do the flying racoon thing in Mario 3- holding the D-pad and B. You can use your stylus to hold down B *and* press the D-pad, but that's a huge pain in the ass and not worth doing for me.
I totally agree, I think the PC scene generally has suckey games. Which is why I played tried and true classic console games.
A Winshit CE palmtop doesn't have the option of just recompiling desktop software.
Yes, it does. You can recompile a lot of apps that do simple Win32 stuff. You can do a pretty simple recompile of a good amount of Linux and Unix software using Rainer's celib cedialogs. You can Run Perl/Tk apps.
Sure, I can't run all of the stuff that would run on an iPAQ running Linux on my Jornada 720 running Windows CE, but unlike some folks, I continue to use WinCE on my PDA rather than Linux because it's a lot more practical. I'd much rather have a) real PIM/PDA apps and b) power management (wow, what a concept for a PDA!) on my Jornada rather than . I don't mind loosing the ability to run a couple extra pieces of software for which I have no need (other than to show all of my slashbuddies that 1 4m h4rdc0r3!!1) in exchange for a functional PDA.
A Jornada running WinCE sure ain't as nice and consistent the Newton, but it beats putting in the extra work just so that I can be able to say I run Linux on all of my machines.
Apple dropped support for QuickTime under Linux? When did they ever support it?
Not sure what about OS 9 -> X would've caused tihs, but it seems the most likely. IIRC, My gf was running 8.6 at the time, which was the most recent. In those days, VPC did a lot of dirty tricks that didn't fit in with Apple's new vision (Carbon) of clean code that didn't access hardware directly. While accessing OpenGL/Glide from VPC is certainly quite doable, perhaps at the time they didn't think it was the most important thing to implement compared to just getting out an OS X version. But indeed, a shame to be sure.
I've not used VPC for a while. Perhaps with the move to OS X, VPC lost this ability?
VPC used to support Voodoo cards for sure, but I don't know what else. The only thing I've ever seen it done on was my girlfriend's rev B iMac (with a Voodoo2 in the mezzanine slot). Can't remember what the game was, but it was something we were trying under Glide just to see if it worked. (VPC used to advertise the ability)
Installing anything onto Bochs is pretty easy, once you have got a basic install (that boots the included FreeDOS) decently. I think there is an OS X dmg that is more or less ready to go. Yes, you do have to edit a config file.
However, unlike VPC, Bochs runs slower than molasses. Too slow to be useful, IMO. I can't remember how many minutes it took for startx to finally bring up TWM and an xterm on a simple Linux install, but it was a long time, on a dual G4/500. VPC has been very optimized (in general and for the G4) and runs at a usable speed. Hell, it can even utilize OpenGL and Glide cards directly, making some (older, but still) PC-only games run somewhat decently.
Yes, it'd be nice to have a purely open source emulator, but until Bochs is useful for more than testing (in my case), I won't be using it for anything but a toy.
You use the DB API, whatever it may be. Add it to a collection What is confusing about that? If it has no way of retrieving and storing data it's not very useful in the first place.
1. You can do queries in a real programming language. SQL isn't the only way to query a database.
what real project doesn't eventually need indices, transactions, or other features of a real database system?
2. I can't speak for this project (page is slashdotted, haven't read it), but plenty of OODBs which use the regular progrmaming language as a query language have these features. See GemStone/S for an example. Nothing about having transaction requires using SQL.
Um, it's called writing a script. A script in the language your company is using that pushes data from the old DB to the new. Use an object-rational mapping module, load in a table (= object) from the old DB, save it in the new. What is the big deal? I did a bunch of this a couple years ago, moving from DB2 to GemStone/S (an OODB which has been around forever).
Yes, but as Will said, Inkwell means little if there isn't a hardware platform to make good use of it. Yes, you can use a Wacom tablet, but that isn't what we are looking for. I've seen some people convert original iBooks into tablets, and that is slick, but most of us can't or won't hack apart our machines...
"Perhaps there's some fatal flaw or incompatibility in the newton?"
Yep. The batteries run out sometimes.
While I realize this was meant as sarcasm, there is some irony in it. The Newton is one of the few PDAs that has a backup battery. When the battery dies on the Newton, you don't loose everything, like you do on most WinCE and PalmOS PDAs. Which is absolutely retarded. At least the Jornada 720 has a backup battery- not all PDA manufacturers are absolutely stupid.
The Newton's stregnths lie in a lot more than it's UI. In fact, the UI is a pretty small part of what the Newton did that was innovative.
And there are/have been projects trying to recapture the Newton's spirit. There is Dynapad, my own project, aiming for a PDA system with similar strengths as the Newton. It is not a project trying to have the same UI appearance. However, that is something I'd like eventually. See my sig for info. Contrary to the page, active development is proceeding- it is hard to do too much working a lot and going to school. Email if you want to know where I am at, but haven't relesaed.
There was also an attempt at a NewtonScript system emulator that would look, feel and act like a regular Newton, but that hasn't been touched for years.
The Newton was a project of Scully, not Amerlio. Jobs replaced Amelio, but it was a project created by Scully. Scully was the man who kicked Jobs out of Apple- which is where the grudge originates. Apparently.
MS may have real products which use a pen interface- definately more than Apple is doing. However, MS has done nothing to further the state of the art in pen computing, just added the ability to draw in windows. woot.
Perhaps the model you had wasn't up to whatever you were throwing at it, but it seems pretty absurd to judge the entire Newton line solely on the 120 running NOS 1.3. I doubt the Palm Pro would've done any better, infact probably worse.
You can get "real" HWR ala the Newton on PocketPC. It is ParaGraph's CalliGrapher- which is the same software which powered the 1.x series of Newton HWR. The one everyone makes fun of out of ignorance that the Newton grew up. However, Calligrapher on a PocketPC isn't as bad as the 1.x Newtons. Not as nice as the HWR on a 2100, but quite usable. However, the real problem in the PPC equation is the pitiful screen size... Mostly useless for taking any real notes.