This is untrue. The hard drive does not interface through the USB port, but through the PCMCIA slot in the back. The drive is still external. The PCMCIA card is just an interface to a cable that runs to an external box containing the hard drive.
Note: The original PS2's in Japan had ordinary PCMCIA slots. For the US release and later Japanese releases, Sony switched to a proprietary connector. However, it is still most likely an ATA interface.
...in the excellent video adventure game,
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
Considered by many to be one of the best classic adventure games, Fate of Atlantis (FoA) followed Indiana's race against the Nazi's to discover the lost city of Atlantis and their lost technology.
The game also featured a female archaeologist who was much more akin to Indy than any of his female companions in the Indiana Jones movies. Her character, strong, willful, independant, was analogous to the new "Bond Girls" from the recent James Bond movies. She was also interesting, and quite sexy at times, especially for a 80x32 pixel hand-drawn 256-color character with limited animation and no voice except for text which would appear over her head.
Even before the LucasArts game "Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine", there was "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis". FoA was an excellent game with great story on par with the Mokney Island series. FoA came out around 1991, I believe.
I'm not sure why you would guess this. Linus jumped from 1.2.x to 2.0.0
for the "Linux 2.0" release. So I think that it is likely that we will see a "Linux 3.0" sooner rather than later.
pthreads is not an implementation, it is an API. There are user-space pthreads implementations which implement "threading" without using separate processes or OS-supported threads. These implementations suffer from the "one 'thread' blocks, they all block" situation, as a reasult.
In Linux, thread creation is implemented via the clone() system call. Threads look like any other process, they just happen to share a memory space with other processes. Anyway, if one thread does a blocking call to read() or write() or some other blocking call, it does not stop the other processes in Linux. It hasn't for a long time, at least not since before kernel 2.2.
Using the floppy drive to boot the system is pathetic. There are several other options, any one of these would be a better, more reliable boot system:
DiskOnChip (basically flash that looks like an IDE hard drive, usually used for embedded systems, hence the DIP package. Probably expensive.
A small (8MB or smaller is fine) CompactFlash card. CompactFlash presents itself to the system as an IDE drive interface. So all you have to do is load a bootable filesystem on it.
A network card that can boot from a LAN. 3Com cards (even the $30 ones) can do this. Many other cards can too. You'll need to figure out how to configure a BOOTP and TFTP servers on your Linux server to get this to work.
Possibly the cheapest option (if your motherboard permits it) is to use LinuxBIOS
to actually put a full Linux kernel into the flash memory already on your motherboard, replacing the BIOS. Presumably, you would build a kernel that supports your network card, so all you would have to do is pass the "root=/dev/nfs,nfsroot=serverip:/dir" option to the kernel at boot time.
Oh yeah, any of these would be faster than reading a kernel image from a floppy disk. Also the machine would be less vulnerable to tampering.
Well, according to
this article
at the world's most respected news source, The Onion, a work needs to be sacriligous and smeard with feces in order to be considered art. Since it is rather difficult to smear a computer generated work with feces, it is thus difficult to make computer generated art. Perhaps if you smeared your computer with feces and images of Jesus or Budda, then your work could be considered art. But as I am not an art expert, I cannot comment further without speculating.
CDJapan has them. They are both available in an inexpensive form on VHS tape. You might also be able to find the VHS versions at your local Japanese bookstore if you live in a large city (Kinokuniya perhaps).
If you want to order the LD's, you can get them from CDJapan. However, they will cost over $100 each, plus shipping.
These are both scheduled to be rereleased in Japan on DVD (Region 2). All of the Region 2 DVD Studio Ghlibli movies that have come out so far (Grave of the Fireflies, Tonari no Yamada-kun, Kiki's Delivery Service) have had English subtitles as an option. So waiting for the R2 DVD release might be a good idea (also it will be cheaper than buying the LD's).
There are region 2 DVD's of the Japanese version, "Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman" available from some Japanese stores like www.cdjapan.co.jp. They are non-subtitled, Japanese language only. However, they are awesome. I definately recommend picking up the first couple of them if you are longing for a nostalgia kick. The first DVD is especially good. Aparrantly after that, the series gets kind of boring and repetitive for a few dozen episodes until there are a couple of episodes about Owashi no Ken (Eagle Ken, the guy in white, I don't know his name in BotP/G-Force).
The HHKB is also good for Emacs and any other program where you use the Control key a lot. The Control key on the HHKB is to the left of the "A" key, above the left shift key instead of below it. This makes it a lot easier to reach with your left pinky finger than its usual location in the lower left corner. Less finger aerobics == happier hacking.
Also, the Backspace key is just above the Return/Enter key, making that easier to reach with your right pinky.
Oh, and Escape is just above the Tab key, making that one easier to reach too. Basically all the keys you need are closer to where you need them.
Most non-US keyboards aren't made for programmers.
If you want a good keyboard for writing code, order a US keyboard.
If you're using a Sun workstation, you might want to check out their "UNIX/C" keyboard.
Another option is the "Happy Hacking Keyboard" from PFU, Inc.
TiVo is losing money. For last year they posted a 100 million dollar loss. Their income was only 3 million dollars.
TiVo PAYS Sony and RCA to manufacture the boxes. Yes, that's right. It's not the other way around. TiVo actually has to subsidize the cost of manufacturing the boxes.
The ONLY way that TiVo makes money is through its subscription service.
Hopefully TiVo won't continue to make the boxes less and less functional, since they might soon be out of business.
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Ah, Nyquist's theorem. You are correct, that is what I was thinking of.
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Actually, Shannon's theorem states (if I recall correctly) that the maximum input signal can only be HALF of the sampling rate. (or that the sampling rate needs to be twice the maximum input signal).
So the input rate used needs to be only 24000Hz to be recognizable by the sound card without extra synchronization. 24000Hz (samples / second) * 16 bits / sample = 38400 bits / second.
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Along the years, I've had a couple of interesting things attached to the parallel port.
An interface to a Dreamcast VMU for uploading / download save files and mini-games.
A ribbon cable to a small board that looped back into the case to the front that provided a row of LED's to display CPU usage. (Actually, I used a dual parallel port add-in card to get 16 output lines for 16 mini green LED's).
An adapter to use Sony Playstation controllers for PC games.
Also, I guess this doesn't exactly count because it's not a standard parallel port card... but I used the Datel PC Comms Link card to talk to a Sony Playstation through a Pro Action Replay with modded firmware (Caetla).
It's not racist. Someone way back when wrote a filter program called JIBE. It was a simple lex program that would take English text and replace certain words with other words or phrases. The previous poster used this program to filter his text before posting.
It makes a lot of sense that high-speed fighter planes should be unmanned.
The planes are capable of higher speed maneuvers (higher G turns, etc) than the pilots are. So why not have the pilots be actually in a remote cockpit control room on a ship or somewhere else?
Since Palm owns POSE, they can (if they choose) relicence it to Sony
under whatever licence they want.
This all seems very similar to how ID Software released Quake 1 source under the GPL. However, they may still licence the source to other parties under closed licences, since they own the copyright.
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Note: The original PS2's in Japan had ordinary PCMCIA slots. For the US release and later Japanese releases, Sony switched to a proprietary connector. However, it is still most likely an ATA interface.
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The game also featured a female archaeologist who was much more akin to Indy than any of his female companions in the Indiana Jones movies. Her character, strong, willful, independant, was analogous to the new "Bond Girls" from the recent James Bond movies. She was also interesting, and quite sexy at times, especially for a 80x32 pixel hand-drawn 256-color character with limited animation and no voice except for text which would appear over her head.
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In Linux, thread creation is implemented via the clone() system call. Threads look like any other process, they just happen to share a memory space with other processes. Anyway, if one thread does a blocking call to read() or write() or some other blocking call, it does not stop the other processes in Linux. It hasn't for a long time, at least not since before kernel 2.2.
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Oh yeah, any of these would be faster than reading a kernel image from a floppy disk. Also the machine would be less vulnerable to tampering.
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If you want to order the LD's, you can get them from CDJapan. However, they will cost over $100 each, plus shipping.
These are both scheduled to be rereleased in Japan on DVD (Region 2). All of the Region 2 DVD Studio Ghlibli movies that have come out so far (Grave of the Fireflies, Tonari no Yamada-kun, Kiki's Delivery Service) have had English subtitles as an option. So waiting for the R2 DVD release might be a good idea (also it will be cheaper than buying the LD's).
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I have to agree with you on that one. Macek deserves the electric hair. :-P
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Also, the Backspace key is just above the Return/Enter key, making that easier to reach with your right pinky.
Oh, and Escape is just above the Tab key, making that one easier to reach too. Basically all the keys you need are closer to where you need them.
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Most non-US keyboards aren't made for programmers.
If you want a good keyboard for writing code, order a US keyboard.
If you're using a Sun workstation, you might want to check out their "UNIX/C" keyboard.
Another option is the "Happy Hacking Keyboard" from PFU, Inc.
- TiVo is losing money. For last year they posted a 100 million dollar loss. Their income was only 3 million dollars.
- TiVo PAYS Sony and RCA to manufacture the boxes. Yes, that's right. It's not the other way around. TiVo actually has to subsidize the cost of manufacturing the boxes.
- The ONLY way that TiVo makes money is through its subscription service.
Hopefully TiVo won't continue to make the boxes less and less functional, since they might soon be out of business.Cryptnotic
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This is the sampling rate/depth used for voice telephone lines by the telephone company.
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- An interface to a Dreamcast VMU for uploading / download save files and mini-games.
- A ribbon cable to a small board that looped back into the case to the front that provided a row of LED's to display CPU usage. (Actually, I used a dual parallel port add-in card to get 16 output lines for 16 mini green LED's).
- An adapter to use Sony Playstation controllers for PC games.
Also, I guess this doesn't exactly count because it's not a standard parallel port card... but I used the Datel PC Comms Link card to talk to a Sony Playstation through a Pro Action Replay with modded firmware (Caetla).Cryptnotic
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Making bits uncopyable is a much harder problem.
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Um, actually, PST is GMT-8.
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The planes are capable of higher speed maneuvers (higher G turns, etc) than the pilots are. So why not have the pilots be actually in a remote cockpit control room on a ship or somewhere else?
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This might not be a GPL violation.
Palm, Inc owns POSE (they bought copilot).
Palm chooses to release POSE under the GPL.
Since Palm owns POSE, they can (if they choose) relicence it to Sony under whatever licence they want.
This all seems very similar to how ID Software released Quake 1 source under the GPL. However, they may still licence the source to other parties under closed licences, since they own the copyright.
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