3.1 was 3.0+True Type font support, Minesweeper, and some of the Windows Multimedia Pack extensions. Win32s was the Win32 API add-on, only did a sub-set of the API and single threaded apps. Real Mode got the axe as well. Still kinda amazing that Windows 3.0 ran in 640k of memory.
I had even managed to activate an "unlocked" Nokia phone on, get this, Verizon Wireless. Yes, it was a CDMA handset (6255i), but not a model Verizon offered, and not crippled in any way (full bluetooth, J2ME). They seem to have closed the activation loophole though.
Ironically, Nokia was one of the last companies to release quad band GSM phones. Now they are one of the first to release 5-band WCDMA phones, amazing what competition does.
I had a Nokia R-UIM handset here in the US. The card slot didn't do anything unless flashed with the appropriate firmware. Otherwise it acted like a standard CDMA phone with an ESN and MIN assignment (MDN is your actual phone number, they only differ if you ported).
This is part of the USB spec., but its obvious very few equipment makers follow it. The computer puts out a small amount of power until the device is fully enumerated and requests full charging power. Technically the device doesn't even need a full driver, just a dummy null driver and tells the computer, "hey send me 500mA".
The problem is in reality, there is no break in the median to drive through. Google's mapping went downhill when they decided that they should be cartographers. The base map data they sourced from (likely the old census TIGER maps) is outdated and filled with errors.
call me old, but I remember when Alta Vista started getting banner ads. Heck, I remember when it was still part of DEC. Google's pagerank worked great... before everyone gamed the system. On top of that, webpages suffered. Ever see a SEO optimized webpage? They repeat terms needlessly hoping Google notices.
My last job actually used LANtastic, we had the box for the kit sitting on the shelf. It was getting long in tooth in 1998 when we had to setup a new machine to run its DOS based server. At least we finally killed off the 10Base2 coax with that update. What was sad is that it was all NetBIOS, my boss could have used a Windows machine to fill the same role using the built-in peer to peer networking!
Likely because so few people actually bought it due to its high price. Prior to your site, nobody had really seen it in action, or could find a copy.
To this day, I still find it funny that hardly anyone tries running NT 3.1 to take some screen shots. They just clip the ones off your site that I sent you years ago.
Of course it also killed the DOS peer-to-peer networks, but that's another story...
Good riddance, all those drivers loaded left a machine with hardly any conventional memory. WfW 3.11 made life easier, plus they were protected mode.386 drivers to boot. I remember working on clients on a Banyan VINES network (remember those?), all those DOS drivers were pretty clunky.
According to my source an air attack destroyed a mental hospital. The book is "How to Lie with Maps" by Mark Monmonier, ISBN 0-226-53421-9. Well worth a read, although it could use an update covering today's mapping advances.
The real worrying thing is...why would ANY military agency even be looking at Google Maps in the first place. Then again this isn't the first time this has happened. The US military forces used tourist maps to plan the invasion of the island of Grenada in 1983. Granted, there was very little cartography of the island available... but to resort to tourist maps?
Its a shame the machine remains a rare footnote in history. They is no complete working emulator even to preserve it and technical documentation is scarce. At least parts of its advanced OS lived on to become ProDOS and GS/OS.
The computer they are using to control it to the right is an Apple/// with what appears to be a standard Roman layout keyboard. The floppy sleeve is covering the logo, heavens forbid they show they are using Western technology! I don't think the Russians would have bothered to clone that machine (which arguably was about as reliable as anything the Soviets made), they did clone the Apple II series though.
Action works just fine in stereoscopic view. Quick cuts and shaky cam not so much... which is the greatest reason I like it, even more than the effect itself. Nothing lazier than turning the screen into one gigantic 24 Hz clusterfuck of juddering unrecognisable crap to imply action. Anything that reduces shaky cam is okay in my book.
PS. Nolan's love of shaky cam is probably part of the reason for remaining 2D...
On a somewhat related note. How is the DVD format holding up to this wave of shaky cam cinema? MPEG-2 can only handle so much motion at DVD bitrates until it turns the picture into juddering unrecognizable crap.
What exactly does the "core" of IE comprise of? Licensing issues aside, I'm sure someone could clobber up a simple shell/run time using IE6 DLLs to render web pages.... or maybe its a good candidate for that WINE port onto Windows.
I'm sincere in asking this question since I've stuck with open standards and open technologies since the mid-1990's. I had a conversation about this subject here just a few days ago. I rely on server-side intelligence for most applications and use the browser merely as a display device. My limited understanding of this issue is that problematic IE6 applications use now-unsupported functionality on the browser.
Wasn't the whole point of web apps to enable applications to be more portable, since they work in any web browser? They were likely better off writing this program as a Win32 app... it would likely still work with Windows 7!
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As to sample rate conversion does SB still incorrectly do automatically upscale on incoming SPDIF?
The X-Fi (EMU20k based cards) no longer has the fixed 48khz sample clock the Live/Audigy (EMU10k) cards had.
Reflection was originally a WRQ product. Attachmate bought them out a few years past.
What happens when the "cloud" company goes belly up without notice and takes your data with it?
3.1 was 3.0+True Type font support, Minesweeper, and some of the Windows Multimedia Pack extensions. Win32s was the Win32 API add-on, only did a sub-set of the API and single threaded apps. Real Mode got the axe as well. Still kinda amazing that Windows 3.0 ran in 640k of memory.
Norway has less landmass to cover.
I had even managed to activate an "unlocked" Nokia phone on, get this, Verizon Wireless. Yes, it was a CDMA handset (6255i), but not a model Verizon offered, and not crippled in any way (full bluetooth, J2ME). They seem to have closed the activation loophole though.
T-Mobile is the odd one, they are the only ones using 1700Mhz (AWS) for WCDMA since they never had enough spectrum to implement 3G on 1900Mhz (PCS).
Ironically, Nokia was one of the last companies to release quad band GSM phones. Now they are one of the first to release 5-band WCDMA phones, amazing what competition does.
I had a Nokia R-UIM handset here in the US. The card slot didn't do anything unless flashed with the appropriate firmware. Otherwise it acted like a standard CDMA phone with an ESN and MIN assignment (MDN is your actual phone number, they only differ if you ported).
This is part of the USB spec., but its obvious very few equipment makers follow it. The computer puts out a small amount of power until the device is fully enumerated and requests full charging power. Technically the device doesn't even need a full driver, just a dummy null driver and tells the computer, "hey send me 500mA".
The problem is in reality, there is no break in the median to drive through. Google's mapping went downhill when they decided that they should be cartographers. The base map data they sourced from (likely the old census TIGER maps) is outdated and filled with errors.
call me old, but I remember when Alta Vista started getting banner ads. Heck, I remember when it was still part of DEC. Google's pagerank worked great... before everyone gamed the system. On top of that, webpages suffered. Ever see a SEO optimized webpage? They repeat terms needlessly hoping Google notices.
My last job actually used LANtastic, we had the box for the kit sitting on the shelf. It was getting long in tooth in 1998 when we had to setup a new machine to run its DOS based server. At least we finally killed off the 10Base2 coax with that update. What was sad is that it was all NetBIOS, my boss could have used a Windows machine to fill the same role using the built-in peer to peer networking!
Likely because so few people actually bought it due to its high price. Prior to your site, nobody had really seen it in action, or could find a copy.
To this day, I still find it funny that hardly anyone tries running NT 3.1 to take some screen shots. They just clip the ones off your site that I sent you years ago.
Of course it also killed the DOS peer-to-peer networks, but that's another story...
Good riddance, all those drivers loaded left a machine with hardly any conventional memory. WfW 3.11 made life easier, plus they were protected mode .386 drivers to boot. I remember working on clients on a Banyan VINES network (remember those?), all those DOS drivers were pretty clunky.
According to my source an air attack destroyed a mental hospital. The book is "How to Lie with Maps" by Mark Monmonier, ISBN 0-226-53421-9. Well worth a read, although it could use an update covering today's mapping advances.
Most tourist maps aren't even good at their intended purpose. They are almost never drawn to scale and lack any meaningful detail.
The real worrying thing is...why would ANY military agency even be looking at Google Maps in the first place. Then again this isn't the first time this has happened. The US military forces used tourist maps to plan the invasion of the island of Grenada in 1983. Granted, there was very little cartography of the island available... but to resort to tourist maps?
Its a shame the machine remains a rare footnote in history. They is no complete working emulator even to preserve it and technical documentation is scarce. At least parts of its advanced OS lived on to become ProDOS and GS/OS.
The computer they are using to control it to the right is an Apple /// with what appears to be a standard Roman layout keyboard. The floppy sleeve is covering the logo, heavens forbid they show they are using Western technology! I don't think the Russians would have bothered to clone that machine (which arguably was about as reliable as anything the Soviets made), they did clone the Apple II series though.
Action works just fine in stereoscopic view. Quick cuts and shaky cam not so much ... which is the greatest reason I like it, even more than the effect itself. Nothing lazier than turning the screen into one gigantic 24 Hz clusterfuck of juddering unrecognisable crap to imply action. Anything that reduces shaky cam is okay in my book.
PS. Nolan's love of shaky cam is probably part of the reason for remaining 2D ...
On a somewhat related note. How is the DVD format holding up to this wave of shaky cam cinema? MPEG-2 can only handle so much motion at DVD bitrates until it turns the picture into juddering unrecognizable crap.
Its also handy at loading malware which takes up even more of IT's resources.
What exactly does the "core" of IE comprise of? Licensing issues aside, I'm sure someone could clobber up a simple shell/run time using IE6 DLLs to render web pages.... or maybe its a good candidate for that WINE port onto Windows.
I'm sincere in asking this question since I've stuck with open standards and open technologies since the mid-1990's. I had a conversation about this subject here just a few days ago. I rely on server-side intelligence for most applications and use the browser merely as a display device. My limited understanding of this issue is that problematic IE6 applications use now-unsupported functionality on the browser.
Wasn't the whole point of web apps to enable applications to be more portable, since they work in any web browser? They were likely better off writing this program as a Win32 app... it would likely still work with Windows 7!
Windows 7 Pro, Enterprise, and Ultimate come with a solution at no extra cost..... its called Windows XP Mode.