Boy, I can't wait 'till we have open hardware! That would be so cool. Maybe after that, we can move even further on, and have "Open Source" engineering. Wouldn't it be great to know that the bridge you're driving across of the skyscraper you work in weren't designed by professionals, but by the community during their spare time? Boy, that idea just excites me so much!
Hey, it could work. Just think how much easier it would be to spot bugs!
[Cell phone rings]
"Yea hi. I'm going over the Red Hat bridge right now..."
George W. Bush's budget plans for the next year have stripped funding from the patent office. Could somebody tell me if this is a good or a bad thing? With less money the patent system becomes more of a mess and people see that -- it may lead to new laws regulating patents. But without as much funding the patent office will be unable to sort through prior art as effectively.
I can't wait until cyborg gf's...no more flowers, no more jewelry, and you can turn them off when they get annoying;)
Or she could turn you off.
I can just see the average cyborg couple having a fight... rolling and wrestling around on the floor, each desperately trying to reach the other's "off" switch.
Who in their right minds thinks that a price cut will affect the sales of the P-4. True that Intel has a marketing monster, but when people are shown benchmarks, you realize that a bigger number after the P does not mean anything.
What's the main way that the common consumer gets information? Television, right? I don't know about you, but I haven't seen Intel's Blue Man Group(TM) dancing around with benchmark graphs lately.
I have never, ever, anywhere seen Ogg Vorbis content that I wanted to download. The only content so encoded that I even know about is Richard Stallman speaking, available at ftp.gnu.org.
There's some samples at the Vorbis website. But you could just rip some yourself. Help get the ball rolling. Upload them to Freenet or Gnutella.
Vorbis is up to Beta 4, but I'm not sure if there is any software that supports that standard yet.
That shouldn't be too hard. Just create a game that calls up x amount of variables and semi-randomly assigns them properties throughout the next game (location, value, etc.).
Er... You have played this game for hours on end at the expense of sleep, nutrition and sunlight, until your eyes were numb, your thumbs blistered and the controller terribly worn like the rest of us did, right?
If you're designing a second quest, I'd expect that you care enough about the game to mentally carve out a challenging and intriguing layout. Something to a quality that a computer in this age could never acomplish. Sure, you don't get infinite replay value but the experience is still *better*.
Take for example, Gannon's Revenge.
I'm sure it has more to do with snubbing Intel, than snubbing Linux.
Firewire was a technology invented by Apple Computer, right? And doesn't Microsoft own a *lot* of Apple stock? What kind of investment do they have in USB 2.0? It sounds more like it's in their own interest to starve USB, an act that a simple snub wouldn't be worth. I suspect that Bill Gates' long term plans are to merge with (read: engulf) Apple.
DNS allows only about 5 bits in its encoding. That is 26 letters in english, numerals and zero. The 16 bit unicode (UCS2) needs to be converted to these 5 bits to represent all languages of the world. There is already a schme published as Internet Draft (draft-duerst-dns-i18n-02) which describes this process, which is dated July 1998. There are other ways also to internationalize domain names (draft-skwan-utf8-dns-01, iDNS, to name a few. iDNS is functional for a few years now.
Games on the Dreamcast were about $10 more than the same port on competing systems. Personally, I think they're worth it, but the price probably had a big effect on who purchased the Dreamcast.
> Sega sales had been lagging for years, and then
> they just basically died after the ill-fated
> Saturn. Dreamcast was a great platform from
> what I understand, but Sega jst didn't have the
> capitol or instant brand loyalty of that
> Nintendo and Sony command nowadays
I can imagine that there were a lot of people who abandoned Sega after a poor experience with the 32X.
What about conventional computers that connect to small quantum computers to perform small but frequent tasks? Isn't this a little more realistic and concrete goal in the near future?
I looked at the specs a little while ago, and if I remember correctly while the screen is bigger, it's just due to a higher resolution. Each pixel is the same size as on the GBC. The size of the pixels of the game boy pocket is actually larger than the GBC.
Showing that 1.999... == 2 is not a "parlour trick." Indeed, the foundation on which such proofs lie is one of the basis for the set of real numbers. The real numbers allows for irrational numbers such as the square root of 2.
So is there any reason why ((the square root of 2) + 3) is so close to PI?
Maybe other numbers will spew out other source code, like Windows ME, or OSX (that's why it's taking so long:P) or even linux! Sorry tux, your a random length number
You're right. Every computer program can be represented as one really *big* number. Additionally, there are numbers that could represent all of Microsoft's programs with innumerable variations, such as the "Start" button being replaced with one reading "Crash!"
All of the information on your hard drive can be thought of as one large number.
Anyone who knows anyone with a Sega Dreamcast can tell you very quickly why Sega was brutalized on that system : Piracy
Or perhaps it could have been:
- The lack of advertising
- A sappy slogan
- Launching with some games that didn't work
- Bitter 32X owners
- Less high-profile 3rd party support
- No backward-compatability whatsoever
- Titles that cost about $10 more than the same ones on competing systems
- So few RPGs
- That many people didn't like the standard controller
- Windows CE phobia
- A blitz of false rumors about the system
- Being *completely* overshadowed by PS2 hype
Sega used a "GD-ROM" for it's games, did it not? If I remember correctly, they hold twice the data that regular CDs do. How well did piracy really work around this?
(I'll be getting my Dreamcast off of layaway next week.)
good god, granted some games are consideredd classics, but isnt there a time, say when the game is 10 years old that we all move on and grab the latest port of quake?
You might, but I won't. The original Legend of Zelda is a quality game that I will never outgrow. Now if you're so accustomed to eye candy that you can't stand anything below a resolution of 640 x 480, I consider you spoiled.
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Boy, I can't wait 'till we have open hardware! That would be so cool. Maybe after that, we can move even further on, and have "Open Source" engineering. Wouldn't it be great to know that the bridge you're driving across of the skyscraper you work in weren't designed by professionals, but by the community during their spare time? Boy, that idea just excites me so much!
Hey, it could work. Just think how much easier it would be to spot bugs!
[Cell phone rings]
"Yea hi. I'm going over the Red Hat bridge right now..."
*CREEEEK*
"Aw, crap."
George W. Bush's budget plans for the next year have stripped funding from the patent office. Could somebody tell me if this is a good or a bad thing? With less money the patent system becomes more of a mess and people see that -- it may lead to new laws regulating patents. But without as much funding the patent office will be unable to sort through prior art as effectively.
This is great! I'm going to email everybody I know and tell them to buy this book!
I can't wait until cyborg gf's...no more flowers, no more jewelry, and you can turn them off when they get annoying ;)
Or she could turn you off.
I can just see the average cyborg couple having a fight... rolling and wrestling around on the floor, each desperately trying to reach the other's "off" switch.
Who in their right minds thinks that a price cut will affect the sales of the P-4. True that Intel has a marketing monster, but when people are shown benchmarks, you realize that a bigger number after the P does not mean anything.
What's the main way that the common consumer gets information? Television, right? I don't know about you, but I haven't seen Intel's Blue Man Group(TM) dancing around with benchmark graphs lately.
Hey, I'm not thrilled about moving to digital either, but it will give us more channels... right?
I don't have a problem with digital. It's the 16:9 ratio (that movies use) that I hate.
Too wide! Howsabout 3:2?
I have never, ever, anywhere seen Ogg Vorbis content that I wanted to download. The only content so encoded that I even know about is Richard Stallman speaking, available at ftp.gnu.org.
There's some samples at the Vorbis website. But you could just rip some yourself. Help get the ball rolling. Upload them to Freenet or Gnutella.
Vorbis is up to Beta 4, but I'm not sure if there is any software that supports that standard yet.
That shouldn't be too hard. Just create a game that calls up x amount of variables and semi-randomly assigns them properties throughout the next game (location, value, etc.).
Er... You have played this game for hours on end at the expense of sleep, nutrition and sunlight, until your eyes were numb, your thumbs blistered and the controller terribly worn like the rest of us did, right?
If you're designing a second quest, I'd expect that you care enough about the game to mentally carve out a challenging and intriguing layout. Something to a quality that a computer in this age could never acomplish. Sure, you don't get infinite replay value but the experience is still *better*. Take for example, Gannon's Revenge.
I'm sure it has more to do with snubbing Intel, than snubbing Linux.
Firewire was a technology invented by Apple Computer, right? And doesn't Microsoft own a *lot* of Apple stock? What kind of investment do they have in USB 2.0? It sounds more like it's in their own interest to starve USB, an act that a simple snub wouldn't be worth. I suspect that Bill Gates' long term plans are to merge with (read: engulf) Apple.
If you're planning to buy a new hard drive, buy *NOW*. Before they're all built with control-ware.
DNS allows only about 5 bits in its encoding. That is 26 letters in english, numerals and zero. The 16 bit unicode (UCS2) needs to be converted to these 5 bits to represent all languages of the world. There is already a schme published as Internet Draft (draft-duerst-dns-i18n-02) which describes this process, which is dated July 1998. There are other ways also to internationalize domain names (draft-skwan-utf8-dns-01, iDNS, to name a few. iDNS is functional for a few years now.
So why not bump that up to 6 bits?
Games on the Dreamcast were about $10 more than the same port on competing systems. Personally, I think they're worth it, but the price probably had a big effect on who purchased the Dreamcast.
> Sega sales had been lagging for years, and then > they just basically died after the ill-fated > Saturn. Dreamcast was a great platform from > what I understand, but Sega jst didn't have the > capitol or instant brand loyalty of that > Nintendo and Sony command nowadays I can imagine that there were a lot of people who abandoned Sega after a poor experience with the 32X.
What about conventional computers that connect to small quantum computers to perform small but frequent tasks? Isn't this a little more realistic and concrete goal in the near future?
Or are they completely incompatible?
Sensorware works *wonders* to keep parents off of those nasty places on the web!
[One week after installation...]
"Hey, the computer won't let me get into Yahoo!. Will you fix it so I can?"
"I think you already know the answer to that, mom."
I looked at the specs a little while ago, and if I remember correctly while the screen is bigger, it's just due to a higher resolution. Each pixel is the same size as on the GBC. The size of the pixels of the game boy pocket is actually larger than the GBC.
There goes my chance to release my own hand-held system and thwomp Nintendo. ;)
Showing that 1.999... == 2 is not a "parlour trick." Indeed, the foundation on which such proofs lie is one of the basis for the set of real numbers. The real numbers allows for irrational numbers such as the square root of 2.
So is there any reason why ((the square root of 2) + 3) is so close to PI?
Maybe other numbers will spew out other source code, like Windows ME, or OSX (that's why it's taking so long :P) or even linux! Sorry tux, your a random length number
You're right. Every computer program can be represented as one really *big* number. Additionally, there are numbers that could represent all of Microsoft's programs with innumerable variations, such as the "Start" button being replaced with one reading "Crash!"
All of the information on your hard drive can be thought of as one large number.
So what are we looking to actually see with the Keck combo? Planets as small as Jupiter? Neptune?
Who owns the XOR-mouse patent, and when does it expire?
Heh. Top this.
Anyone who knows anyone with a Sega Dreamcast can tell you very quickly why Sega was brutalized on that system : Piracy
Or perhaps it could have been:
- The lack of advertising
- A sappy slogan
- Launching with some games that didn't work
- Bitter 32X owners
- Less high-profile 3rd party support
- No backward-compatability whatsoever
- Titles that cost about $10 more than the same ones on competing systems
- So few RPGs
- That many people didn't like the standard controller
- Windows CE phobia
- A blitz of false rumors about the system
- Being *completely* overshadowed by PS2 hype
Sega used a "GD-ROM" for it's games, did it not? If I remember correctly, they hold twice the data that regular CDs do. How well did piracy really work around this?
(I'll be getting my Dreamcast off of layaway next week.)
I'll bet Sega is wishing that they hadn't gone out of the Hardware business right about now...
good god, granted some games are consideredd classics, but isnt there a time, say when the game is 10 years old that we all move on and grab the latest port of quake?
You might, but I won't. The original Legend of Zelda is a quality game that I will never outgrow. Now if you're so accustomed to eye candy that you can't stand anything below a resolution of 640 x 480, I consider you spoiled.