the relevant picture isn't all that complex. If you want a netbook, you get Atom, game over. If you want an ultralight, you get some cut-down ULV version of the core2. If you get a laptop or a normal desktop, you get a core2. If you get an enthusiast model or workstation, you get a quad core.
What was that you were saying about "not confusing"? Jeez.
Okay I have a Pentium 4. I want to upgrade. What's the modern-day equivalent of a Pentium 5? I see Atom notebooks for sale for $300 but those seem to have less power than what I have now, so do I get a Core2 CPU instead, or is that considered too old? Am I suppose to get an i7 processor? Or perhaps an i8? Maybe I should look at AMD instead?
This confusion reminds me of what happened with Apple with they had Performas, Quadras, and Centris Macintoshes. It was a mess of models that had no logical consistency, left the consumer confused, the company strung-out supporting too many brands, and almost drove Apple to bankruptcy in 1995 (as happened to Atari and Commodore the year before).
"Commodore Amiga is better!" "No Atari ST is better!" "No Amiga!" "No Atari!" "Amiga!" "Atari!"
Oh that's not the debate you were looking for? Sorry. Let me update that ancient debate for the modern world: "Apple Macintosh is better!" "No Microsoft PC is better!" "No Apple!" "No Microsoft!" "Apple!" "Microsoft!"
(and ancient debate... just as juvenile today as it was 20 years ago)
That's a pretty lousy emulator. Why does the first line and first character of text run off the screen? They need to adjust the overscan on that set so the border is visible.
>>>The Atari computers were released almost 3 years before the C64, but while this method of loading may have originally been a necessity due to BASIC not being included by default, it seems like (a) a simpler and (b) a "cleaner" way to do it, >>>
The only reason Atari computers don't have Microsoft's BASIC is because they contracted MS to do it, but MS produced code that was too big to fit inside the 4K ROM (typical Microsoft bloat).;-) Atari was forced to abandon the idea of including Basic inside the machine. Otherwise the Ataris were supposed to be just like every other 8-bit machine, with a built-in language for the users to write their own programs.
As for the iPhone Commodore emulator, most of them have dropdown menus to "mount and load" the disk image so maybe the lack of LOAD command is not an issue. Or maybe the LOAD command is included, and the programmers were able to convince Apple that "load" was part of the 1541 DOS commands, not basic. Who knows?
Technology has changed, therefore it's necessary for the Supreme Court to rethink some of its past decisions. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects..." should apply to ALL papers/data even if it's not in the citizen's immediate possession. The government should not be able to obtain your personal credit cards numbers from a 3rd party without first getting a warrant from a judge.
We all know that Sony will wiggle out of it. Just the same as when the U.S. sued the record-companies for "forming an illegal cartel" and price-fixing CDs from 1990 onward. Although the U.S. could have won that case, the record companies negotiated a deal where they simply returned ~$20 to everyone who asked for a refund. I bet Sony will also weasel a way such that it costs them virtually nothing.
Corporations have power to make the government decide in their favor. I'm about to drive to JCPenney and demand to know "why did I never receive the 50 dollar mail-in rebate promised when I bought this appliance?" I already know the answer I will receive is "too bad, there's nothing we can do about it," and I'll never see that 50 dollars. Technically that's called illegal advertising of the price (they advertise 150 in the newspaper but I paid 200) and a criminal offense.
In reality a call to the California AG won't get me anywhere because the AG is bought-and-paid-for by the corporate dollars who put him in office. JCPenney, Sony, et cetera get away with this stuff because THEY own the governments of New York, United States, Mexico, et cetera.
Sony will weasel its way out just like it always does.
???. Maryland does have a State University, and that was a branch of the overall system. I don't see the problem. It's no different than attending the Penn State University near tiny Uniontown PA. The branch is only 2 years long, but it's still divided into multiple colleges that are run from the central campus, and students join that main campus to finish years 3 and 4.
That's what happens when you rely upon a monopoly.
But in other cases like say, exploding Ford Pintos, it wouldn't matter if Ford was "put in jail" for a few months due to the deaths it caused. Other companies could pick-up the slack of providing cars or parts to customers.
This Iphone app emulates the world's most popular CPU - the Commodore/MOS 6502 (and other variants). This processor was the heart of machines like the VIC-20 (10 million sold), C=64 or 128 (40 million), Atari 400/800 computers, Apple I/II/IIc/IIe computers, BBC Micro, Atari VCS/2600 and 5200 game consoles (40 million), Colecovision (10 million), Nintendo Entertainment System (60 million), plus many other applications like store registers and handheld calculators. In total over 200 million 6502s sold.
The 16-bit version called the 65816 (with 6502 backwards compatibility) ran the Apple IIgs, the SuperCPU C=64, and the Super Nintendo, and then the design was retired.
>>>While the ][ fanbase moved on to the Mac, a good chunk of the 64 hacking fanbase held on.
That's not quite true. The Commodore 64 is the world's best-selling computer, but the second-best selling computer was the Amiga 500. Why? Because just as Apple users remained loyal to Apple, most of the Commodore users remained loyal and when they upgraded, they moved from one multimedia machine (the 64) to another (the Amiga).
At least that was the case with everyone I knew. I've never met a 64 owner who didn't also own an Amiga at some point.
Then Amiga died, and we moved to IBM PCs (wipes away a tear). So sad. Just like the ending of Braveheart. The man beat us down.
Good point. The crackers usually included a demo too prior to the game. They wrote some of the C=64's best graphic and sound effects. See the 700+ results:
I tried an Apple II emulator one time, but it gave me horrible flashbacks to my middle school years which is something no one should have to relive. Grades 6,7,and 8 (ages 12,13,14) were an awkward time for me. I have no problems using Apple Macs (reminds me of my college years), but those ancient IIc and IIe machines are tinged with bad memories of boring schoolwork, embarrassing encounters with girls, and scary teachers.
Ahhhh! (runs away)
In contrast my Commodore 64 was what I used at home, so it's mostly good memories about playing games, typing book reports, learning to program, and just generally goofing-off.
That would mean you would have to type "RUN" after you load the game, and in my experience very few games required that. Most games just auto-executed without any need to type RUN.
>>>I won't post the link to it. It takes very little to induce the slashdot effect on that hard
A wise man. But here's some other cool Commodore=64 stuff to check out. Remember this stuff all works on a machine with only a 0.001 gigahertz processor and 0.064 megabytes of RAM.
>>>>>isn't the C64 pretty much just a BASIC interpreter? I thought just about everything for the C64 was written in BASIC
Oh my. I will assume you are less than 30, and forgive your ignorance. Yes the C=64 came with BASIC but most everything was *not* written in that because it was too darn slow. Most programs ran directly on the hardware.
>>Obviosuly, you never knew about BASICS's 'peek' and 'poke', in order to get assembly.
Those commands, being part of the Microsoft Basic set, would not be included in this Iphone emulator. Usually when you run games, word processors, internet browsers, or other programs on a C64 you type LOAD "PROGRAM",8,1 which directs the external drive to load that code directly into memory - overwriting everything that's present including the MS-BASIC. The computer than executes instructions directly at the maximum speed possible (i.e. no interpeter to slow things down).
Using this trick, programs can occupy all of the computer's memory except about 5 kilobytes (the screen space, interrupt handlers, and so on).
(scours through Constitution). I can not lay my hand on any law that grants power to Congress to decide who can and cannot advertise their products. Now granted you might say "well those are corporations and corporations don't have rights," okay, but the People do still have rights. If I discover the sheep growing in my backyard produce a natural skin oil that is great for preventing wrinkles, why can't I advertise that to my neighbors via television?
On the contrary the Constitution states that the power to regulate ads, belongs not to the Congress, but to the 50 State governments.
That sill doesn't explain why placebos are now nearly twice as effective as ~1990, but this paragraph from the article might be a factor:
Potential trial volunteers in the US have been deluged with ads for prescription medications since 1997, when the FDA amended its policy on direct-to-consumer advertising. The secret of running an effective campaign, Saatchi & Saatchi's Jim Joseph told a trade journal last year, is associating a particular brand-name medication with other aspects of life that promote peace of mind: "Is it time with your children? Is it a good book curled up on the couch? Is it your favorite television show? Is it a little purple pill that helps you get rid of acid reflux?" By evoking such uplifting associations, researchers say, the ads set up the kind of expectations that induce a formidable placebo response.
The frequent ads from the companies are effectively brain-washing Americans to think, "All you need is a little purple pill to feel good," and so the mere act of swallowing that pill, even if it's just sugar, becomes twice as effective as previously.
"think" is entirely the wrong word to use when speaking of phobias.
They aren't thinking. I recall when I first saw a guy holding a tripod and it did look like he was aiming a gun, but the rational part of my mind kicked-in and said, "Nah it's probably just a piece of equipment." People with phobias lack that ability to do the latter; their thinking turns off.
Well Paypal tried to anticipate potential lawsuits when they wrote their User Agreement, but the U.S. court very quickly expelled those portions. The court said that people can Not sign-away legally protected rights or privileges.
Similarly a child or parent can not sign-away the children's right not to be monitored, regardless of what this software's EULA states.
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the relevant picture isn't all that complex. If you want a netbook, you get Atom, game over. If you want an ultralight, you get some cut-down ULV version of the core2. If you get a laptop or a normal desktop, you get a core2. If you get an enthusiast model or workstation, you get a quad core.
What was that you were saying about "not confusing"? Jeez.
Okay I have a Pentium 4. I want to upgrade. What's the modern-day equivalent of a Pentium 5? I see Atom notebooks for sale for $300 but those seem to have less power than what I have now, so do I get a Core2 CPU instead, or is that considered too old? Am I suppose to get an i7 processor? Or perhaps an i8? Maybe I should look at AMD instead?
This confusion reminds me of what happened with Apple with they had Performas, Quadras, and Centris Macintoshes. It was a mess of models that had no logical consistency, left the consumer confused, the company strung-out supporting too many brands, and almost drove Apple to bankruptcy in 1995 (as happened to Atari and Commodore the year before).
"Commodore Amiga is better!"
"No Atari ST is better!"
"No Amiga!"
"No Atari!"
"Amiga!"
"Atari!"
Oh that's not the debate you were looking for? Sorry. Let me update that ancient debate for the modern world:
"Apple Macintosh is better!"
"No Microsoft PC is better!"
"No Apple!"
"No Microsoft!"
"Apple!"
"Microsoft!"
(and ancient debate... just as juvenile today as it was 20 years ago)
- Shiny-new interface.
- No annoying "are you sure" popups every 30 seconds like Vista.
- Can run on a 1 gigabyte machine without slowing to a crawl.
It simply wasn't possible for Microsoft to make such a great perfect OS without including a flaw.
Nice way to provide a link to a website people can not view. Here's a better link: http://www.c64endings.freeolamail.com/endings/k/karateka/karateka.htm
That's a pretty lousy emulator. Why does the first line and first character of text run off the screen? They need to adjust the overscan on that set so the border is visible.
>>>The Atari computers were released almost 3 years before the C64, but while this method of loading may have originally been a necessity due to BASIC not being included by default, it seems like (a) a simpler and (b) a "cleaner" way to do it,
>>>
The only reason Atari computers don't have Microsoft's BASIC is because they contracted MS to do it, but MS produced code that was too big to fit inside the 4K ROM (typical Microsoft bloat). ;-) Atari was forced to abandon the idea of including Basic inside the machine. Otherwise the Ataris were supposed to be just like every other 8-bit machine, with a built-in language for the users to write their own programs.
As for the iPhone Commodore emulator, most of them have dropdown menus to "mount and load" the disk image so maybe the lack of LOAD command is not an issue. Or maybe the LOAD command is included, and the programmers were able to convince Apple that "load" was part of the 1541 DOS commands, not basic. Who knows?
Technology has changed, therefore it's necessary for the Supreme Court to rethink some of its past decisions. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects..." should apply to ALL papers/data even if it's not in the citizen's immediate possession. The government should not be able to obtain your personal credit cards numbers from a 3rd party without first getting a warrant from a judge.
Whatever.
We all know that Sony will wiggle out of it. Just the same as when the U.S. sued the record-companies for "forming an illegal cartel" and price-fixing CDs from 1990 onward. Although the U.S. could have won that case, the record companies negotiated a deal where they simply returned ~$20 to everyone who asked for a refund. I bet Sony will also weasel a way such that it costs them virtually nothing.
Corporations have power to make the government decide in their favor. I'm about to drive to JCPenney and demand to know "why did I never receive the 50 dollar mail-in rebate promised when I bought this appliance?" I already know the answer I will receive is "too bad, there's nothing we can do about it," and I'll never see that 50 dollars. Technically that's called illegal advertising of the price (they advertise 150 in the newspaper but I paid 200) and a criminal offense.
In reality a call to the California AG won't get me anywhere because the AG is bought-and-paid-for by the corporate dollars who put him in office. JCPenney, Sony, et cetera get away with this stuff because THEY own the governments of New York, United States, Mexico, et cetera.
Sony will weasel its way out just like it always does.
I already read that quote about "inaccurate metadata" and "1899 was a literary annus mirabilis" half an hour ago when the first article was posted.
???. Maryland does have a State University, and that was a branch of the overall system. I don't see the problem. It's no different than attending the Penn State University near tiny Uniontown PA. The branch is only 2 years long, but it's still divided into multiple colleges that are run from the central campus, and students join that main campus to finish years 3 and 4.
That's what happens when you rely upon a monopoly.
But in other cases like say, exploding Ford Pintos, it wouldn't matter if Ford was "put in jail" for a few months due to the deaths it caused. Other companies could pick-up the slack of providing cars or parts to customers.
More worthless trash-and-trivia:
This Iphone app emulates the world's most popular CPU - the Commodore/MOS 6502 (and other variants). This processor was the heart of machines like the VIC-20 (10 million sold), C=64 or 128 (40 million), Atari 400/800 computers, Apple I/II/IIc/IIe computers, BBC Micro, Atari VCS/2600 and 5200 game consoles (40 million), Colecovision (10 million), Nintendo Entertainment System (60 million), plus many other applications like store registers and handheld calculators. In total over 200 million 6502s sold.
The 16-bit version called the 65816 (with 6502 backwards compatibility) ran the Apple IIgs, the SuperCPU C=64, and the Super Nintendo, and then the design was retired.
>>>While the ][ fanbase moved on to the Mac, a good chunk of the 64 hacking fanbase held on.
That's not quite true. The Commodore 64 is the world's best-selling computer, but the second-best selling computer was the Amiga 500. Why? Because just as Apple users remained loyal to Apple, most of the Commodore users remained loyal and when they upgraded, they moved from one multimedia machine (the 64) to another (the Amiga).
At least that was the case with everyone I knew. I've never met a 64 owner who didn't also own an Amiga at some point.
Then Amiga died, and we moved to IBM PCs (wipes away a tear).
So sad. Just like the ending of Braveheart. The man beat us down.
LINK to Commodore 64 peripherals (tape drives, disk drives, et cetera): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64_peripherals
Good point. The crackers usually included a demo too prior to the game. They wrote some of the C=64's best graphic and sound effects. See the 700+ results:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=commodore+64+demo
>>>Apple II emulation
I tried an Apple II emulator one time, but it gave me horrible flashbacks to my middle school years which is something no one should have to relive. Grades 6,7,and 8 (ages 12,13,14) were an awkward time for me. I have no problems using Apple Macs (reminds me of my college years), but those ancient IIc and IIe machines are tinged with bad memories of boring schoolwork, embarrassing encounters with girls, and scary teachers.
Ahhhh! (runs away)
In contrast my Commodore 64 was what I used at home, so it's mostly good memories about playing games, typing book reports, learning to program, and just generally goofing-off.
>>>100 SYS 2100:REM [backspace][backspace][backspace]
That would mean you would have to type "RUN" after you load the game, and in my experience very few games required that. Most games just auto-executed without any need to type RUN.
Hey! The guy on the bottom left looks like me! - http://girls.c64.org/title_c64classbyitself.jpg I had that exact-same shirt. Man I was stylin'
>>>I won't post the link to it. It takes very little to induce the slashdot effect on that hard
A wise man. But here's some other cool Commodore=64 stuff to check out. Remember this stuff all works on a machine with only a 0.001 gigahertz processor and 0.064 megabytes of RAM.
- A web browser - http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/hl/ :-)
- A 1984 Mac-style OS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)
- A true multitasking OS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Contiki-C64.png
- A photo viewer for your porn... oops, JPEGs - http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/jpeg/
- Okay here you go (NSFW) - http://girls.c64.org/
>>>>>isn't the C64 pretty much just a BASIC interpreter? I thought just about everything for the C64 was written in BASIC
Oh my. I will assume you are less than 30, and forgive your ignorance. Yes the C=64 came with BASIC but most everything was *not* written in that because it was too darn slow. Most programs ran directly on the hardware.
>>Obviosuly, you never knew about BASICS's 'peek' and 'poke', in order to get assembly.
Those commands, being part of the Microsoft Basic set, would not be included in this Iphone emulator. Usually when you run games, word processors, internet browsers, or other programs on a C64 you type LOAD "PROGRAM",8,1 which directs the external drive to load that code directly into memory - overwriting everything that's present including the MS-BASIC. The computer than executes instructions directly at the maximum speed possible (i.e. no interpeter to slow things down).
Using this trick, programs can occupy all of the computer's memory except about 5 kilobytes (the screen space, interrupt handlers, and so on).
In some cases the bikinis are best left-on (this applies to both women and men).
Allowed???
(scours through Constitution). I can not lay my hand on any law that grants power to Congress to decide who can and cannot advertise their products. Now granted you might say "well those are corporations and corporations don't have rights," okay, but the People do still have rights. If I discover the sheep growing in my backyard produce a natural skin oil that is great for preventing wrinkles, why can't I advertise that to my neighbors via television?
On the contrary the Constitution states that the power to regulate ads, belongs not to the Congress, but to the 50 State governments.
That sill doesn't explain why placebos are now nearly twice as effective as ~1990, but this paragraph from the article might be a factor:
Potential trial volunteers in the US have been deluged with ads for prescription medications since 1997, when the FDA amended its policy on direct-to-consumer advertising. The secret of running an effective campaign, Saatchi & Saatchi's Jim Joseph told a trade journal last year, is associating a particular brand-name medication with other aspects of life that promote peace of mind: "Is it time with your children? Is it a good book curled up on the couch? Is it your favorite television show? Is it a little purple pill that helps you get rid of acid reflux?" By evoking such uplifting associations, researchers say, the ads set up the kind of expectations that induce a formidable placebo response.
The frequent ads from the companies are effectively brain-washing Americans to think, "All you need is a little purple pill to feel good," and so the mere act of swallowing that pill, even if it's just sugar, becomes twice as effective as previously.
"think" is entirely the wrong word to use when speaking of phobias.
They aren't thinking. I recall when I first saw a guy holding a tripod and it did look like he was aiming a gun, but the rational part of my mind kicked-in and said, "Nah it's probably just a piece of equipment." People with phobias lack that ability to do the latter; their thinking turns off.
Well Paypal tried to anticipate potential lawsuits when they wrote their User Agreement, but the U.S. court very quickly expelled those portions. The court said that people can Not sign-away legally protected rights or privileges.
Similarly a child or parent can not sign-away the children's right not to be monitored, regardless of what this software's EULA states.