Probably will end ep in the same place after the collision. Now I'm going to have to worry about being in a traffic jam and a couple of idiots come crashing down on top of me. Wonderful!!
You can go up 6 or 7 thousand feet and have a factor of one thousand? That's 6 or 7 feet for each level. I guess this means nobody over seven feet tall can use these. Even a factor of 100 would be a tight fit fit when you factor in operator error, wind drafts, etc.
If you play Gyromite you will notice that the second controller buttons take care of the red and blue columns. You were supposed to put the second controller in a holder on ROB. There was 2 gyros(tops) that spin up in a battery operated motor. You would have ROB spin up gyros and put them on the arm of the controller holder to activate the appropriate columns. It was fairly cumbersome but was pretty cool at time.
It's a matter of support. If you installed Office 2000 on the payroll computer you would have hosed up a $50,000 payroll package because it relies on Access97 and won't work with 2000. The couple hundred people who aren't getting paid are going to be furious. Of course they would get paid after the entire accounting department works a ton of overtime to do it manually. I would kick you butt but would have to do it quick because you would be fired in a hurry. We have a lot mission critical apps saving a lot of time here. If you hose up one of these apps then it could be done manually but it would throw off schedules across the organization and cost dept managers a lot of overtime into their budgets.
A lot of the things I do at work rely on paths and installations being the same. I have to make a lot of adjustments as it is with everything being the same. There wouldn't be a chance of keeping up if people were allowed to install their own apps/OS.
Qnx Neutrino supports Mips, PowerPC, x86 and I heard about Arm/StrongArm support but haven't seen much about it. Their latest releases are x86 only but I hope they don't completely drop the other architechtures for Qnx RTP and beyond.
Speaking of the old days, this would be perfect for game emulators. Write a basic front end to launch Arcade, SNES, NES, Atari, etc. You could have hundreds of games on a single CD.
You are on the right track, Windows games are usually what people want to play. Wine can play some of these games well but different games play well on different versions. Once you find the combination of libs, wine version, etc. just burn the thing to CD and not worry about breaking it until you upgrade that video card or whatever else.
Maybe we should consider using CDRWs for this. Another option could be to load drivers from a Zip/Jaz/Orb/LS120 so they could be updated. I suppose save games, updates, levels, etc could be loaded this way too. Just a bunch of stuff off the top of my head. Don't put to much stock in it.
This is more likely to convice some console gamers to check out PC hardware and possibly they would jump in so it could be helpful. How many converts are you going to get if it is difficult to play games on Linux anyway. The reason they are on Win?? is because it is easier. They are at least trying harder than console gamers (no offense to console gameers intended).
Good point. We should just go ahead and load a proprietary OS on Dreamcast/Playstation. They do have an OS so I don't really see your point. This way you can at least customize the OS do what you want.
It has run on Linux from the beginning. A lot of improvements have been made but that is the case with anything that isn't dead. I had it running on my Linux box for a long time now. It took a little while longer to get my main box running because of a MX300 sound card. I had the sound card on pre-order and bought RH5.2 while I was waiting. I might have bought a different sound card if I knew how much trouble Aureal was going to have.
The phone center where I used to work had T1s on copper and fiber for voice. They were close enough to the CO to get 6Mb DSL (for 25 people). I don't know if the distance is why we had fiber T1s or not.
Perhaps they wanted to release it on Friday the 13th to be a black day for Microsoft. You know, the day that Sun kicked our butt with Star Office. I wouldn't be surprised with Scott McNealy's attempts to take shots at Microsoft.
What about a popup BSD daemon option too? or the daemon whooping up on "clippy" with the pitchfork? Seriously, it would be good to see a BSD native port.
You probably should get out a little more. I really think you should keep the MS support. You would lose a lot of people if they had to dump all their documents and start over. The only way to get the majority of people to switch is to do everything MS can do and do it better(except maybe for the crashing, rebooting, etc.)
Full duplex?? Otherwise I need to learn some more math because my figures only say that a little over a terabyte is possible in a 24 hour period. Is my figure of 12.5MB/s wrong for for 100Mb NIC??
They could follow Apple's lead and make a non-OSS Unix based off a BSD core with plenty of proprietary features to make it incompatible with everything else on the market. Put the Win2k interface, DirectX and a few other MSisms on it and you could have WindowsX. It could even have a chance at being fairly stable(I said a chance).
We have a Unisys A14 mainframe here at the bank (only a 1/2 billion dollar bank). It is completely contained in a single rack. It doesn't seem like a lot of horsepower but it does process a lot of info and is rock solid. It already runs a Unix. There is an X terminal hooked up locally to it. I believe that it is running Unixware on top of MCP.
At least he didn't say Battlefield Earth. Good book but have no clue about the movie. I heard too much about the movie to go ruin the experience at the theatre.
I used to have my Apple IIgs setup with a ram disk. The standard back in '87 was to have 256k and a lot of people upgraded to 512k. I bought an Applied Engineering RAM disk board. You plug the AE board into the memory slot and plug you memory board into the slot on the AE board. Theere was also a connection to piggyback another memory board. I had a 1.5mb plus the 256k on the MB(which was later upgraded to a 512k MB). The RAM disk also had a power connector to plug into the wall and a sealed battery about the size of a motorcycle battery. You could go into the bios and boot to it if you wanted to. I used to load my most used programs into the RAM disk and boot off it. It used to come up nearly instantly. The only time I ever had to wait on my computer is I decided to play some games or save to the floppy drive. I later got into Paintworks Gold and it needed 1.25Mb to run it so I gradually stopped using the RAM disk.
I don't know if you have checked yet but there is a 44 pin header for laptop drives and a 40 pin for 3.5" drives (supply your your own 12 volt line externally if you go this route).
I agree that the issue is the RIAA/MPAA is trying to control everything they can. They have control a much larger percentage of the market than MS did in their area. How in the world are these not monopolies? They have too much power and have been abusing it to control the market and gouge the consumers. This has to be stopped.
They wrote the software so they aren't using GPL'd code. I have downloaded it and they are releasing it under GPL but the agreement you agree to to download it is conflicting. They own all the code are probably trying to make sure they can pull it if they want to in the future.
Mozilla runs on my BeOS 5PE box. Be careful how you judge an OS. If you judge by applications then you could pick an app that doesn't work/isn't available and diss any OS but maybe that is the point.
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A lot of the things I do at work rely on paths and installations being the same. I have to make a lot of adjustments as it is with everything being the same. There wouldn't be a chance of keeping up if people were allowed to install their own apps/OS.