>Moving to a high level language certainly >wouldn't slow your computer down to the speed of >a 486.
NES emulators written in Java take at least a pentium 450 to run, bare arse end minimum, while my old 486 can emulate the NES just fine with Nesticle (highly ASM optimized NES emulator).
Same goes for Sega Genesis emulation.
Hell, I've seen people fuck up terribly in writting tetris games in Java, yuck, heh. Of course there ARE good Tetris java games, but crud, the loader alone on them is larger then most of the older tetris games out there. . . .
The idea is to get not only some backwards compatibility, but to also make it dirt cheap. Of course the most expensive part of most PDAs these days is the touch screen itself, ah, I cannot wait until somebody finds a more efficent method of working with computers then Keyboards, Mice, and those damnable Pens. . . . ^_^
What about some company or another making some 486 CPUs with the latest.13micron technology, and making a highly integrated motherboard with 8 or so megs of ram on it plus another 4 or so megs of static ram for application storage purposes and calling it one kick ass integrated computer?
Thanks to using yee old technology along with the latest state of the art manufacturing proccesses, the entire system would be insanly small. Since the motherboard wouldn't have to control alot of various devices (IDE interface, more then just a few megs or am, ISA/PCI/AGP ports, etc) your overall system profile would be very tiny. Whats more, once a proper C compiler was made for the system, alot of older code could be ported over to it. Heck, alot of companies have some nifty old games back from the DOS days that totaly rock and are very small in size. Heck, I even still today play an old CGA volly ball game.
Of course it isn't going to happen, but it'd still be cool if it did, heh.
Heh, great idea, then this 1gigahertz CPU of mine will be able to run shit at the same speed as my old 486, woh, I just LOVE that idea, crap. As a posted above said, just cuz CPUs have gotten more powerful doesn't mean that programmers have to get ass end lazy.
Shit, look at what microsoft has done with WindowsXP, 1.5gigabytes in size, and it needs 128megabytes of RAM to run decently! Uh, the entire OS shouldn't be 128megs, heh, not to even mention its memory footprint!
Now then, imagin what could be done if you spend 2 or 3 megs of memory on the bare minimum required code, and the rest of features. Shit, give yourself 50 or so megs of RAM reserved for nothing else but OpenGL shit, and another few dozen megs just to store temporary user documents in, you know, so the user can write down quick little notes and not have to worry about starting up their text editing program, but instead just have it idleing in the background.
Hey, come to think of it, if things are done properly, make that 2 or 3 megs for your base code and then a few hundred KILOBYTES for your text editor + text. Hell, if you can't get a simple ASCII text jot pad in less then 300KB, heh, please shoot yourself.
heh, how amazing, yet another artificial stimulate has been found to have a negative effect upon the human body. Wow, who'd have ever thunk it, huh? Sheesh, talk about predictable, I have always maintaned that coffee was sooner or latter going to be found to have some sort of detremental effect on the human body, I guess that the effect was just discovered a bit eariler then I had guessed.
One or another of the offical @Home docs (whatever, something on their site someplace that I am too lazy to fetch) states that all ISPs ARE SUPPOSED to have an upload bandwidth cap of 15KBp/s. Some ISPs give their users more then that and are technicaly not supposed to do that, ah, oh well, hehe. I am stuck with the 15KBp/s (technicaly 128kilobit, but it gets knocked down to 120kilobit after overhead kicks in). Hehe, some people with Cable Modems get a grand high amount of 150KBp/s upstream! LOL! Must be extra sweet ^_^
Why are they losing money? I mean shit, everybody signs up for it the second that it comes into town. Mabye @Home should stop with the deployment or at least make local cable co' pay for it in the entirity (if @Home does not already do that) and just be happy with the revenue that they currently have coming in.
DAMNIT @HOME ROCKS!
What the FUCKING HELL is causing this major lose of money?
The damn NPC AI in Arcacium keeps attacking the monsters with the highest Hit Points, even when th two monster types are the same. Shit, monster A has 11% health, monter B has 100% health, NPC charecter is right next to both monsters, ATTACK THE DAMN ONE WITH 11%!!!!
I don't think that computers will be taking over the world anytime soon, hehe.
Besides
if they think REALLY fast, then they'd obviously realize that violence and enslavement is not the way to go, unlike humans computers are not driven by emotions (duh) and unless somebody REALLY REALLY REALLY fucks up on the AI thang, hopefuly AI won't have emotions either!
Yes folks, that is a \_GOOD_/ thing! No Emotions means no tendiences towards illogical violence. No massacres, no racism, no revenge seekers. Sounds nice and iddelic to me, shiat, and they'll do what we say to boot! (heh, that assuming we have speech recon down by then, hehe! Computer with an IQ of ten thousand and we'd still have to type things in, hehe)
Hehe, welcome to FUD city. Artists that are NO LONGER ACTIVE ON mp3.com have had their CD prices raised. The fact that ALL DAM CDs now cost TWICE what they used too should indicate something to you. in fact I have not seen a DAM CD in quite awhile for under 6 or 7 bucks.
A: Stops raising the damn prices of CDs!!!! They have been slowly yet steadily raising the price, ugh! It now costs the same to download a CD as it used to buy one, grrrr.
B: GIVE ME SOME HIGHER BANDWIDTH FEEDS! 196KBp/s would be nice, 256KBp/s would be better. Crud, if I like the artists I pay for the CD anyways, well, I would be paying MORE, but they keep on RAISING THE DAMN PRICES! (See above comment).
It is now cheaper to go to independent labels, ugh. MP3.com of course used to be one, but then they FUCKED UP and let people store their RIAA crap on the MP3.com servers, ick!
I saw dogma but I didn't know that the dude who did it did it as part of a series, nor did I pay any attention to who did do it. Just another nameless faceless Hollywood type to me (somebody said he lives in Jersy, oh well, not like I'd get that from the movie).
HTF are people supposed to know that it is part of a series?
>The Finder can be configured to display >the "Kind" column in list view, which more or >less provides a textual description of the >associated application and file type.
Or on a PC I can just, err, well, look at the bleeping file. Simple. I see the file, I see the information, not questions, no changes, it is there. Badda boom badda bing, tada, poof, tis magic or something, whatever. The information is avilable and given to me/up front/.
I paid for my computer, my computer didn't pay for me. I am too use it, it is not to use me.
And for those of us out there who skim through the file list (I actualy use the Detail view mode, much more convienent since I then just organize the files by size) by extension? It is quite nice to know what TYPE OF FILE I am dealing with just by looking at the end of the files name.
For that matter it makes life alot easier for newbies too. I still have yet to figure out how to tell on MacOS what files are executables and what files are data files. Not to mention that when I wish to mess with Data files how am I to know what type of Data files they are? With file type extensions I can just look at the file name and say 'Hey, that is a.ini file, it is most likely in Plain Text so I can go in there and play around with it!'. Something that a lack of file type extensions would not allow for me to do just by scanning the directorie's file listing.
This might not be such a bad thing, shoot, I got my 36 inch moniter off of Ebay ($400, w00ties!) and it absoluty r0x0rs for just three things:
Video watching (Anime, DVDs, etc)
FPSs (makes headshots SO easy:)
Emulation (NeoRageX Rocks!)
Oddly enough DVD on my computer is easier to get working then DVD on my stand alone player, less buttons need to be pushed on my computer to get the DVD movie playing, hehe.
Formost other people though, this is not an option, a 19 or even a 21 inch moniter is not enough to wach a movie on, on regular basis.
Isn't PPV dead anyways? Honestly, what type of people who are into computers enough to actualy be aware and capible of using this type of service (yah, streaming media just ALWAYS works so flawlessly. . ..) actualy watchs enough movies to support the industry???
Mabye if Excite@Home cut down on the craptacular content and piss poor 3rd party links that it has established (Oh yes, I just so desperatly want Pogo.com to say Welcome Com2Kid from @Home! Crud, same damn advertisements!!!!) then it would be able to cut costs some, eh?
Then again some idiotic morons have decided that people actualy LIKE portals. To bad that they have yet to realize that portals with nothing more then regurgitated news content are, well, heh, not portals at all but nothing more then sites with regurgitated news content. Woh, A = A, who'da thunk it?
Hmm, what was the name of that one major Windows 3.1 PC game. There was Myst, then ther ewas this other 3d adventure/puzzle game, you where an excevator or some type. . . . hmm, anyways it was really popular and really helped show that indeed windows could actualy support games, heh.
Yes well, when people protest against GOOD corporate actions (err, AIDS funding anyone. . . . Damnit I cannot believe people protested against that! Stupid dumb fucks. . . . ) then, heh, well. . . .
I'll just say that I don't believe in bitching for the sake of bitching, but rather I perfer to choose my fights with care:)
This is one topic that does seem to be nasty though, would read up on it more, but the site seems to have been/.'d. . . . LOL
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>Moving to a high level language certainly >wouldn't slow your computer down to the speed of >a 486.
NES emulators written in Java take at least a pentium 450 to run, bare arse end minimum, while my old 486 can emulate the NES just fine with Nesticle (highly ASM optimized NES emulator).
Same goes for Sega Genesis emulation.
Hell, I've seen people fuck up terribly in writting tetris games in Java, yuck, heh. Of course there ARE good Tetris java games, but crud, the loader alone on them is larger then most of the older tetris games out there. . . .
The idea is to get not only some backwards compatibility, but to also make it dirt cheap. Of course the most expensive part of most PDAs these days is the touch screen itself, ah, I cannot wait until somebody finds a more efficent method of working with computers then Keyboards, Mice, and those damnable Pens. . . . ^_^
What about some company or another making some 486 CPUs with the latest .13micron technology, and making a highly integrated motherboard with 8 or so megs of ram on it plus another 4 or so megs of static ram for application storage purposes and calling it one kick ass integrated computer?
Thanks to using yee old technology along with the latest state of the art manufacturing proccesses, the entire system would be insanly small. Since the motherboard wouldn't have to control alot of various devices (IDE interface, more then just a few megs or am, ISA/PCI/AGP ports, etc) your overall system profile would be very tiny. Whats more, once a proper C compiler was made for the system, alot of older code could be ported over to it. Heck, alot of companies have some nifty old games back from the DOS days that totaly rock and are very small in size. Heck, I even still today play an old CGA volly ball game.
Of course it isn't going to happen, but it'd still be cool if it did, heh.
Heh, great idea, then this 1gigahertz CPU of mine will be able to run shit at the same speed as my old 486, woh, I just LOVE that idea, crap. As a posted above said, just cuz CPUs have gotten more powerful doesn't mean that programmers have to get ass end lazy.
Shit, look at what microsoft has done with WindowsXP, 1.5gigabytes in size, and it needs 128megabytes of RAM to run decently! Uh, the entire OS shouldn't be 128megs, heh, not to even mention its memory footprint!
Now then, imagin what could be done if you spend 2 or 3 megs of memory on the bare minimum required code, and the rest of features. Shit, give yourself 50 or so megs of RAM reserved for nothing else but OpenGL shit, and another few dozen megs just to store temporary user documents in, you know, so the user can write down quick little notes and not have to worry about starting up their text editing program, but instead just have it idleing in the background.
Hey, come to think of it, if things are done properly, make that 2 or 3 megs for your base code and then a few hundred KILOBYTES for your text editor + text. Hell, if you can't get a simple ASCII text jot pad in less then 300KB, heh, please shoot yourself.
ASCII? Hah, your obviously not old enough! Try EBCDIC, and if that don't work try FIELDATA.
;)
Work hard young one!
heh, how amazing, yet another artificial stimulate has been found to have a negative effect upon the human body. Wow, who'd have ever thunk it, huh? Sheesh, talk about predictable, I have always maintaned that coffee was sooner or latter going to be found to have some sort of detremental effect on the human body, I guess that the effect was just discovered a bit eariler then I had guessed.
One or another of the offical @Home docs (whatever, something on their site someplace that I am too lazy to fetch) states that all ISPs ARE SUPPOSED to have an upload bandwidth cap of 15KBp/s. Some ISPs give their users more then that and are technicaly not supposed to do that, ah, oh well, hehe. I am stuck with the 15KBp/s (technicaly 128kilobit, but it gets knocked down to 120kilobit after overhead kicks in). Hehe, some people with Cable Modems get a grand high amount of 150KBp/s upstream! LOL! Must be extra sweet ^_^
I LOVE @HOME DAMNIT!!!!!
Why are they losing money? I mean shit, everybody signs up for it the second that it comes into town. Mabye @Home should stop with the deployment or at least make local cable co' pay for it in the entirity (if @Home does not already do that) and just be happy with the revenue that they currently have coming in.
DAMNIT @HOME ROCKS!
What the FUCKING HELL is causing this major lose of money?
The damn NPC AI in Arcacium keeps attacking the monsters with the highest Hit Points, even when th two monster types are the same. Shit, monster A has 11% health, monter B has 100% health, NPC charecter is right next to both monsters, ATTACK THE DAMN ONE WITH 11%!!!!
I don't think that computers will be taking over the world anytime soon, hehe.
Besides
if they think REALLY fast, then they'd obviously realize that violence and enslavement is not the way to go, unlike humans computers are not driven by emotions (duh) and unless somebody REALLY REALLY REALLY fucks up on the AI thang, hopefuly AI won't have emotions either!
Yes folks, that is a \_GOOD_/ thing! No Emotions means no tendiences towards illogical violence. No massacres, no racism, no revenge seekers. Sounds nice and iddelic to me, shiat, and they'll do what we say to boot! (heh, that assuming we have speech recon down by then, hehe! Computer with an IQ of ten thousand and we'd still have to type things in, hehe)
On my win2k workstation, if I look at the file I get no more information than if I just look at a file on a Mac.
Icons are standardized for file types, nothing new there though.
The file name itself, 88888888.333. Well, at least for those of us who are WAY to used to naming things according to that scheme (hmm. . . . heh).
The file extension shalt reveal all.
I sure as hell wouldn't buy micropayements.
:)
Why?
No money ^_^
Of course I do not listen to RIAA shit either. That is one reason that I like MP3.com so much, it has a good variety of celtic and medieval bands
>>Replace radio/DJ's with modern counterparts, ??>>and it makes you think, doesn't it?
Except that back then it wasn't possible to take the song you just heard off of the radio and convert it into a well mastered vinyle.
CD burners are cheap. A well encoded MP3 is equal to the cd version, or at least good enough to make the cheapskates not mind the difference.
Hehe, welcome to FUD city. Artists that are NO LONGER ACTIVE ON mp3.com have had their CD prices raised. The fact that ALL DAM CDs now cost TWICE what they used too should indicate something to you. in fact I have not seen a DAM CD in quite awhile for under 6 or 7 bucks.
I'll only start paying MP3.com when it:
A: Stops raising the damn prices of CDs!!!! They have been slowly yet steadily raising the price, ugh! It now costs the same to download a CD as it used to buy one, grrrr.
B: GIVE ME SOME HIGHER BANDWIDTH FEEDS! 196KBp/s would be nice, 256KBp/s would be better. Crud, if I like the artists I pay for the CD anyways, well, I would be paying MORE, but they keep on RAISING THE DAMN PRICES! (See above comment).
It is now cheaper to go to independent labels, ugh. MP3.com of course used to be one, but then they FUCKED UP and let people store their RIAA crap on the MP3.com servers, ick!
I saw dogma but I didn't know that the dude who did it did it as part of a series, nor did I pay any attention to who did do it. Just another nameless faceless Hollywood type to me (somebody said he lives in Jersy, oh well, not like I'd get that from the movie).
HTF are people supposed to know that it is part of a series?
>The Finder can be configured to display >the "Kind" column in list view, which more or >less provides a textual description of the >associated application and file type.
/up front/.
Or on a PC I can just, err, well, look at the bleeping file. Simple. I see the file, I see the information, not questions, no changes, it is there. Badda boom badda bing, tada, poof, tis magic or something, whatever. The information is avilable and given to me
I paid for my computer, my computer didn't pay for me. I am too use it, it is not to use me.
And for those of us out there who skim through the file list (I actualy use the Detail view mode, much more convienent since I then just organize the files by size) by extension? It is quite nice to know what TYPE OF FILE I am dealing with just by looking at the end of the files name.
.ini file, it is most likely in Plain Text so I can go in there and play around with it!'. Something that a lack of file type extensions would not allow for me to do just by scanning the directorie's file listing.
For that matter it makes life alot easier for newbies too. I still have yet to figure out how to tell on MacOS what files are executables and what files are data files. Not to mention that when I wish to mess with Data files how am I to know what type of Data files they are? With file type extensions I can just look at the file name and say 'Hey, that is a
This might not be such a bad thing, shoot, I got my 36 inch moniter off of Ebay ($400, w00ties!) and it absoluty r0x0rs for just three things:
:)
.) actualy watchs enough movies to support the industry???
Video watching (Anime, DVDs, etc)
FPSs (makes headshots SO easy
Emulation (NeoRageX Rocks!)
Oddly enough DVD on my computer is easier to get working then DVD on my stand alone player, less buttons need to be pushed on my computer to get the DVD movie playing, hehe.
Formost other people though, this is not an option, a 19 or even a 21 inch moniter is not enough to wach a movie on, on regular basis.
Isn't PPV dead anyways? Honestly, what type of people who are into computers enough to actualy be aware and capible of using this type of service (yah, streaming media just ALWAYS works so flawlessly. . .
Mabye if Excite@Home cut down on the craptacular content and piss poor 3rd party links that it has established (Oh yes, I just so desperatly want Pogo.com to say Welcome Com2Kid from @Home! Crud, same damn advertisements!!!!) then it would be able to cut costs some, eh?
Then again some idiotic morons have decided that people actualy LIKE portals. To bad that they have yet to realize that portals with nothing more then regurgitated news content are, well, heh, not portals at all but nothing more then sites with regurgitated news content. Woh, A = A, who'da thunk it?
Hmm, what was the name of that one major Windows 3.1 PC game. There was Myst, then ther ewas this other 3d adventure/puzzle game, you where an excevator or some type. . . . hmm, anyways it was really popular and really helped show that indeed windows could actualy support games, heh.
Yes well, when people protest against GOOD corporate actions (err, AIDS funding anyone. . . . Damnit I cannot believe people protested against that! Stupid dumb fucks. . . . ) then, heh, well. . . .
:)
/.'d. . . . LOL
I'll just say that I don't believe in bitching for the sake of bitching, but rather I perfer to choose my fights with care
This is one topic that does seem to be nasty though, would read up on it more, but the site seems to have been
either a troll or a great humorious piece, I've spent so much time on slashdot the difference is becoming blurry. . . . :)
Performance one again gets fucked in the arse by the thug known as popularity.
Hot damn your behind, I get stuff off the internet a week BEFORE ITS MADE!
Hehe
Well it sure as hell that way at times!
Oh great, how lovely, an almost compleatly useless set of additional integer CPU instructions, and another product made to be AOLs biatch.