That's the other kind of virtual machine, a software VM, more akin to what is commonly called an emulator, and which I think postdates hardware virtual machines (VM/CMS, VMware, etc.)
The difference is that India and Pakistan are next door neighbors. Wars with adjacent countries (for instance Israel and Lebanon) are a much bigger problem for commerce. We don't have any problems with either Mexico or Canada that are likely to start a war any time soon. (the so-called "war on drugs" doesn't count)
If hammer space is an overflow of space, does that make hammer time an overflow of time? Is the reason that we had to stop for hammer time so that those of us caught in it didn't get out of sync with the rest of the world?
In tabletop gaming, this is normally called a "free action". It would seem that "hammer time" is a much more general explanation of the phenomenon whereby a magical girl can take 90 seconds to do a transformation, yet not be attacked by the monster of the week during that time.
How about just making sure your damn screen saver shuts off your monitor? There are at least two or three monitors (hooked up to computers running Linux, of course) just in my general area of the office at work where the screen saver blanks the screen, but doesn't blank the sync, so the screen gives off a pale dark-yellowish glow all night and all weekend.
And what, exactly, makes people think that India is going to be more subject to future terrorist attacks than... well, you fill in that sentence any way you please.
Oh, I don't know... maybe it's that little feud they've got going on with their next-door neighbor Pakistan, AND both of them have nukes?
You have to go out of your way to make sure it doesn't work, unless you're dealing with binary files on a disk that you didn't write, you have no guarantee that they are of the same endianness as the CPU you are running on at the moment. (this is a valid issue for cache files, etc. when creating multi-CPU binaries for OS X) Actually this is the other way around, as you know the NTFS file system is always little-endian, but now you have to do extra work to read it.
I suppose if you wanted to create a new NTFS file system and didn't care if it worked on any other computer, you could go ahead and let it create a big-endian NTFS, but that would be rather pointless.
I've been meaning to get it for the past week since getting a brand new MacBook Pro. Reading TFA got me to get off my ass and get a copy before the price went up.
I just installed Windows 2000 and the only problem I had (aside from minor problems like having to find out that they hid the registration process in the freaking Help menu) was that the device detect either locked up or was taking a long time. Two restarts later it finally skipped whatever it was stuck on and finished installing.
For those of you who didn't RTFA, really the only problems with it are:
Not suitable for games or complex 3-D modeling applications
Limited USB hardware support
No option to use more than a single CPU core
Can't burn DVDs and CDs within VMs
Improved mouse movement driver for Windows VMs only
...and also that a deleted/moved VM still shows up in the VM list. Not mentioned in the article, and which will probably be one of the first things a new user notices, is that the right mouse button is shift-ctrl-click rather than just ctrl-click. This may take a bit of getting used to, since by now you've been trained to just use ctrl-click.
It should probably be pointed out that PSP is only one of the many systems that can be homebrewed for. There are many other systems, such as the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, ColecoVision, with a pretty strong homebrew community, and within the next year or three, the NES and Sega Genesis will probably see a rise in homebrew programming.
UK video gaming stalwart Jeff Minter has criticised Sony for being "smug" about its PlayStation 3 console.
Smug? Right now, Sony have more smug than a batallion of Priuses, driven by OS X users, all playing iPods and using Netwons!
There are two big reasons that account for much of why OS X is safer than Windows:
1. Internet Explorer
2. Outlook Express
These are far from the only reasons (all the remotely exploitable holes in Windows and IIS are just as big), but these are the biggies, since they are installed by default, and so full of holes that it is painfully easy to get infected with normal email/web usage. Also important are ActiveX and Windows Scripting Host, allowing easy ways for strangers to get your computer to run naughty code, but it's the eagerness with which IE and OE will pass code on to be executed that is the real problem there.
The VW's actually were pretty cool at the start. (l33t? Bah. Humbug. Not many 14-year-olds are likely to be driving, and anyone older should have outgrown such talk.)
Apparently my attempt at sarcasm went right over your head.
Well, you've just shot your argument down right there with the first two words. Recruiting new members to sell stuff is not part of PowerSelling. The invitation only comes after you've already sold stuff on your own, with nobody else in the program making money off of you on your way there.
Do you remember when SACD hit the market? DVD-Audio? Yep, they totally buried that 20 year old ancient CD format, because it got to a point where you did not have a choice but to buy SACD or DVD-Audio because nothing was released on CD.
Neither Blu-Ray nor HD-DVD will make a dent against the "good enough" juggernaut that is DVD. They'll make Apple's computer market share look good.
Imagine going to the gas pumps, and having to pay more for gas, because you're a pizza delivery guy, and you're making money off of that gas. Or because you're Walmart, and you make gobs of money, we're going to charge you 10x the amount we'd charge a regular person for gas.
You forgot the bit where Wal-Mart has their own pizza delivery service. I think it's more like Pizza Hut owning all the gas stations in the area and selectively charging more for gas to Domino's, Papa John's, the local Mom and Pop pizzaria, UPS, FedEx, and whoever else they think is making too much money off of it.
Yes, but at least we have meta-moderation to help figure out whether the moderators are doing a reasonably good job. Imagine what the voter pool would be like if we had meta-moderation of voters available.
Maybe that's the guys who fly planes into buildings? If so, it's a pretty broken metamod system. Maybe we should be using the digg model for senators. This clown and Orrin Hatch would get a lot of down-diggs for cluelessness and for being a sockpuppet of the **AA respectively.
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That's the other kind of virtual machine, a software VM, more akin to what is commonly called an emulator, and which I think postdates hardware virtual machines (VM/CMS, VMware, etc.)
The difference is that India and Pakistan are next door neighbors. Wars with adjacent countries (for instance Israel and Lebanon) are a much bigger problem for commerce. We don't have any problems with either Mexico or Canada that are likely to start a war any time soon. (the so-called "war on drugs" doesn't count)
If hammer space is an overflow of space, does that make hammer time an overflow of time? Is the reason that we had to stop for hammer time so that those of us caught in it didn't get out of sync with the rest of the world?
In tabletop gaming, this is normally called a "free action". It would seem that "hammer time" is a much more general explanation of the phenomenon whereby a magical girl can take 90 seconds to do a transformation, yet not be attacked by the monster of the week during that time.
thought that the XBox division lose a billion dollars every year, and always have?
Yeah, but they make it up in volume.
As long as he can find a cardboard box to hide under, I don't have any problem with Solid Snake being on a plane.
How about just making sure your damn screen saver shuts off your monitor? There are at least two or three monitors (hooked up to computers running Linux, of course) just in my general area of the office at work where the screen saver blanks the screen, but doesn't blank the sync, so the screen gives off a pale dark-yellowish glow all night and all weekend.
She pulls them out of hammerspace, duuuhhh.
Uh, K&R is slightly older than Java or C#... there was no such thing as memory management or virtual machines (as we know them today) back then.
Actually, there were virtual machines back then, just not on micros or minis.
And as far as this high-level/low-level thing goes, I'd call C a "mid-level" language.
And what, exactly, makes people think that India is going to be more subject to future terrorist attacks than... well, you fill in that sentence any way you please.
Oh, I don't know... maybe it's that little feud they've got going on with their next-door neighbor Pakistan, AND both of them have nukes?
You have to go out of your way to make sure it doesn't work, unless you're dealing with binary files on a disk that you didn't write, you have no guarantee that they are of the same endianness as the CPU you are running on at the moment. (this is a valid issue for cache files, etc. when creating multi-CPU binaries for OS X) Actually this is the other way around, as you know the NTFS file system is always little-endian, but now you have to do extra work to read it.
I suppose if you wanted to create a new NTFS file system and didn't care if it worked on any other computer, you could go ahead and let it create a big-endian NTFS, but that would be rather pointless.
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First parsed as "NINJA PLEASE". Ha ha.
I just installed Windows 2000 and the only problem I had (aside from minor problems like having to find out that they hid the registration process in the freaking Help menu) was that the device detect either locked up or was taking a long time. Two restarts later it finally skipped whatever it was stuck on and finished installing.
For those of you who didn't RTFA, really the only problems with it are:
...and also that a deleted/moved VM still shows up in the VM list. Not mentioned in the article, and which will probably be one of the first things a new user notices, is that the right mouse button is shift-ctrl-click rather than just ctrl-click. This may take a bit of getting used to, since by now you've been trained to just use ctrl-click.
So Taco, when did Harry Knowles join the editorial staff?
What part of "from the article" did you not understand?
Looks like Harry has actually joined Ars Technica.
It should probably be pointed out that PSP is only one of the many systems that can be homebrewed for. There are many other systems, such as the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, ColecoVision, with a pretty strong homebrew community, and within the next year or three, the NES and Sega Genesis will probably see a rise in homebrew programming.
UK video gaming stalwart Jeff Minter has criticised Sony for being "smug" about its PlayStation 3 console. Smug? Right now, Sony have more smug than a batallion of Priuses, driven by OS X users, all playing iPods and using Netwons!
Go, Yak, go!
Except if you bothered to RYFL, AOL gave up newsgroups a year and a half ago. September 1993 won't be over until you can't post from Google Groups.
I'm betting it's just the 64MB limitation of the smallest 360 memory card on a 360 Core system.
There are two big reasons that account for much of why OS X is safer than Windows:
1. Internet Explorer
2. Outlook Express
These are far from the only reasons (all the remotely exploitable holes in Windows and IIS are just as big), but these are the biggies, since they are installed by default, and so full of holes that it is painfully easy to get infected with normal email/web usage. Also important are ActiveX and Windows Scripting Host, allowing easy ways for strangers to get your computer to run naughty code, but it's the eagerness with which IE and OE will pass code on to be executed that is the real problem there.
Down here in Texas we like to joke with furriners (non-Texans) by showing them crane flies and saying that those are Texas mosquitoes.
The VW's actually were pretty cool at the start. (l33t? Bah. Humbug. Not many 14-year-olds are likely to be driving, and anyone older should have outgrown such talk.)
Apparently my attempt at sarcasm went right over your head.
Tiered sales ....
Well, you've just shot your argument down right there with the first two words. Recruiting new members to sell stuff is not part of PowerSelling. The invitation only comes after you've already sold stuff on your own, with nobody else in the program making money off of you on your way there.
do you remember when dvd hit the market?
Do you remember when SACD hit the market? DVD-Audio? Yep, they totally buried that 20 year old ancient CD format, because it got to a point where you did not have a choice but to buy SACD or DVD-Audio because nothing was released on CD.
Neither Blu-Ray nor HD-DVD will make a dent against the "good enough" juggernaut that is DVD. They'll make Apple's computer market share look good.
Imagine going to the gas pumps, and having to pay more for gas, because you're a pizza delivery guy, and you're making money off of that gas. Or because you're Walmart, and you make gobs of money, we're going to charge you 10x the amount we'd charge a regular person for gas.
You forgot the bit where Wal-Mart has their own pizza delivery service. I think it's more like Pizza Hut owning all the gas stations in the area and selectively charging more for gas to Domino's, Papa John's, the local Mom and Pop pizzaria, UPS, FedEx, and whoever else they think is making too much money off of it.
Yes, but at least we have meta-moderation to help figure out whether the moderators are doing a reasonably good job. Imagine what the voter pool would be like if we had meta-moderation of voters available.
Maybe that's the guys who fly planes into buildings? If so, it's a pretty broken metamod system. Maybe we should be using the digg model for senators. This clown and Orrin Hatch would get a lot of down-diggs for cluelessness and for being a sockpuppet of the **AA respectively.