Give the guy a break he's only a spindoctor, he probably does not know enough about Micorsoft's predatory business practices. Go on write to him, educate him on the 'Dark Ways of Microsoft'(TM) but don't start a flame war its so wastefull. Hmm, I wonder perhaps someone should let Ralph Reed know Windows contains Scientology code, if he has any real ethics he might change his mind go on its worth a try, after all he's supposed to be a Christian... "There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go" Bill Gates on Marketing
Probably the best Star Trek Series that never was. It had action, humour and most important of all it had Miss Piggy (Schwiiiing). Now that the muppets will be back in production soon anyone want to vote for 'Pigs in Space' Go on admit it, it was better than some of those rambling TNG episodes at least.
I bet they will not show the scene where the hobbits enter the now abandoned Tower of Orthanc and find barrels of Saruman's 'pipeweed' amongst the ruins. Well can you imagine stoned hobbits in the movie ? I can imagine the disclaimer now:- Beware watching LOTR can be addictive. Independent tests have proved that Tolkien is Hobbit forming.
Sometimes you can fry chips through mucky coding. Back in the days before the evil empire... I remember you could fry the Commodore Pet's CPU in early verisons by overloading it enough. Well someone at school managed to overheat one enough just by fluffing their code and hitting an endless loop.
This is NOT vapourware, give the guys a break This is the first time that Amiga has been owned by someone serious about developing a new amiga since Commodore went bankrupt. All the corporations that bought Amiga WERE ONLY interested in trading off the Amiga name and releasing Vapourware. The people behind Amiga now at least want to develop something in the spirit of Amiga. They have the developers and they have the backing (COREL, SONY, REDHAT etc). To actually get this far in 4 months is not bad going.
My worry is whether they have the funding to get this off the ground...
Whilst the developer machine will host Elate/Intent using the red hat Linux kernel on the developer box, the OS itself will be based around A kernel developed by Tao. For more links go to Czech Amiga news or Amiga Aktuell or Amiga News The new kernel is itself is contained in 25 KB, the complete OS with GUI and JAVA needs 3 MB RAM. Currently the Amiga kernel runs on x86, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM processors.
Other current Amiga rumours doing the rounds: 1)AMIGA is expected to become the general interface for Corel-Linux-applications. If anything its got to be more user friendly than using X. 2)Newtek are to release the source code of the Video Toaster and Flyer for free 3)Sony and JVC are also going to be Amiga partners
Load up Ultima V,VI and VII and find out...his games had a decent plot and narrative and most of all were involving. He made RPG's that weren't just hack'n'slash and you actually felt part of the story and were more involved than the other RPG's around at the time. I mean have you ever played Buldur's Gate...Great Graphics, faithfull to the AD&D rules, but somehow it just seems too Hack'n'Slash and you feel that the you are being driven too much towards predecided set pieces in the game. Go ahead try'em you won't be disappointed (well once you get round the usual dos out of memory problems anyway)
Its that curse again Sony bought into TAO ... TAO are involved in OS development for Amiga ... The Amiga has a well documented curse Hence all their troubles are really THE CURSE OF THE AMIGA.
This is just my paranoid theory, your mileage may vary... and remember just because you're not paranoid, doesn't mean their not out to get you.
Microsoft releases new propriety version of C++
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Heres another 'true story' doing the rounds, for more stories go to Unix Humour :
It's official: Microsoft SUCKs Microsoft announced today its decision to formally abandon Java in favour of its new Simple Unified C++ Kit (SUCK). The name of the project, previously codenamed COOL, was changed to reflect Microsoft's new corporate image. "We've decided to take a much more aggressive approach to software industry standards," said SUCK development spokesman Pout Tantrum. "In the past, Microsoft has been extremely gracious and supportive of open industry protocols and standards, even when it challenged our desktop monopoly. And what did we get for it? Lawsuits from Sun, the Department of Justice, and some tiny companies out in the boondocks that nobody's ever heard of. Well, that's going to change. SUCK is 100% Microsoft invented, owned, patented and controlled. It's our way of giving something back to the computing industry. A clear message saying, 'Up yours, Charlie, we're Microsoft.'" SUCK is slated to replace VBA, VBScript, J++, C++, CMD.EXE shell, and 8086 assembler as Microsoft's official systems integration language, and will debut with the long-awaited Windows 2000. In keeping with their new streamlined corporate philosophy, Microsoft will also launch a global saturation advertising campaign featuring the digitally-recreated likeness of J. Edgar Hoover wearing silk lingerie.
KFC hoax- At least it was believable
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Come on it sounded believable... The real conspiracy was whether it was a rumour started by KFC to get free publicity...it sounded real enough to convince people who don't normally fall for a hoax especially in these days of GM food etal...hands up how many people got the e-mail from a normally reliable source? It was funny how they managed to fuel the hoax by first denying it and then suddenly changing their adverts to mention chicken way to obviously. So all the conspiracy theorists come out of the woodwork and it spreads like wildfire, hence more free publicity for KFC and so on...so maybe more a publicity stunt than hoax ?
'The ZX81 powerfull enough to run a nuclear powerstation' From the they don't make adverts like'em anymore department.
So basically the Graphics Synthesiser on PS2 is like a blitter...and the Display List is like a Copper List. That sounds like ye olde Amiga Blitter and Copper List combination just 16 years later, and a damn site faster... I'd fancy that in a nice shiny G4 Amiga (Well we can all dream...)
One student fires a gun so that makes us all homicidal maniacs in their eyes. We play violent computer games ergo we must be violent. So if some is wrongly accussed which lets face is gonna happen if you allow anyonmous calling...what redress will they have ? Can someone be branded subversive without breaking any laws and forced into counselling ? I can imagine it now... Are you a student or have you ever listened to a Morrisey record Woah bedtide the student caught with a Leonard Cohen Cd, your obviously depressed off for counselling...
This is Yahoo's Online Auction site...so how can they claim that Yahoo "is fully aware of the illegal activity and has the resources and technological means to prevent it." How could they possibly be aware ? They don't even check whether the seller has a real product to sell let alone whether said product is real or counterfeit ? Sorry I don't understand this class action...are they really saying Yahoo should have physically inspected every product for sale on their site and by not doing so they are therefore allowing piracy it seems a pretty lame excuse for a class action.
IMHO a fair solution would be to open source both windows 9x and NT whilst allowing competitors to release their own Windows distributions compatible with the standard API calls etc. That way someone out there could release a version that had the same functionality but without the code bloat... 'Redhat Windows' anyone ? It would be fair and would introduce real competition in the market but I can't imagine Bill saying yes to this one...
There's one unsolved crime that has puzzled historians for far too long....plus solving it would once and for all stop all those conspirancy theories spiralling out of control DNA testing may help, but if you're talking crimes that far back unless someone has at least some firm idea of who really committed the crime will DNA testing really help ?
Amiga the definition of multimedia before Windoze screwed it up...but seriously no more vapourware Amiga we want some revolutionary again and fast! Failing that theres also Phoenix developing a new O/S in the spirit of Amiga based on the QNX RTOS. So there maybe some choice out there for all us Amigans...who knows ? Classic Amiga's may be stale but have you ever played Sensible World of Soccer on a miggie... the graphics may be tiny but what gameplay! ... 'the Amiga's not dead its merely resting'
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Heres a link to the file dvwssr.dll for those who still think its a belated April Fool
The business world is still waiting for service pack 1 before buying one.
like the top ten Baby Gates and Bill Gates similarities
so back to the top ten ten petty gripes microsoft has with the Justice Department
Give the guy a break he's only a spindoctor, he probably does not know enough about Micorsoft's predatory business practices.
Go on write to him, educate him on the 'Dark Ways of Microsoft'(TM) but don't start a flame war its so wastefull.
Hmm, I wonder perhaps someone should let Ralph Reed know Windows contains Scientology code, if he has any real ethics he might change his mind go on its worth a try, after all he's supposed to be a Christian...
"There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go"
Bill Gates on Marketing
Probably the best Star Trek Series that never was. It had action, humour and most important of all it had Miss Piggy (Schwiiiing).
Now that the muppets will be back in production soon anyone want to vote for 'Pigs in Space'
Go on admit it, it was better than some of those rambling TNG episodes at least.
I bet they will not show the scene where the hobbits enter the now abandoned Tower of Orthanc and find barrels of Saruman's 'pipeweed' amongst the ruins. :-
Well can you imagine stoned hobbits in the movie ?
I can imagine the disclaimer now
Beware watching LOTR can be addictive.
Independent tests have proved that Tolkien is Hobbit forming.
Sometimes you can fry chips through mucky coding.
Back in the days before the evil empire... I remember you could fry the Commodore Pet's CPU in early verisons by overloading it enough.
Well someone at school managed to overheat one enough just by fluffing their code and hitting an endless loop.
Theres an article today in The Register about the Amiga 2000 show. This one has a different slant and is dare I say it insightful!
This is NOT vapourware, give the guys a break
This is the first time that Amiga has been owned by someone serious about developing a new amiga since Commodore went bankrupt. All the corporations that bought Amiga WERE ONLY interested in trading off the Amiga name and releasing Vapourware.
The people behind Amiga now at least want to develop something in the spirit of Amiga. They have the developers and they have the backing (COREL, SONY, REDHAT etc). To actually get this far in 4 months is not bad going.
My worry is whether they have the funding to get this off the ground...
Whilst the developer machine will host Elate/Intent using the red hat Linux kernel on the developer box, the OS itself will be based around A kernel developed by Tao.
For more links go to Czech Amiga news or Amiga Aktuell or Amiga News
The new kernel is itself is contained in 25 KB, the complete OS with GUI and JAVA needs 3 MB RAM. Currently the Amiga kernel runs on x86, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM processors.
Other current Amiga rumours doing the rounds:
1)AMIGA is expected to become the general interface for Corel-Linux-applications. If anything its got to be more user friendly than using X.
2)Newtek are to release the source code of the Video Toaster and Flyer for free
3)Sony and JVC are also going to be Amiga partners
Ultima Underworld was 3D, well 3D as in DOOM kinda 3D anwyay and so by then origin had jumped on the 3D banwagon (kinda)
Load up Ultima V,VI and VII and find out...his games had a decent plot and narrative and most of all were involving.
He made RPG's that weren't just hack'n'slash and you actually felt part of the story and were more involved than the other RPG's around at the time.
I mean have you ever played Buldur's Gate...Great Graphics, faithfull to the AD&D rules, but somehow it just seems too Hack'n'Slash and you feel that the you are being driven too much towards predecided set pieces in the game.
Go ahead try'em you won't be disappointed (well once you get round the usual dos out of memory problems anyway)
Its that curse again ... ...
Sony bought into TAO
TAO are involved in OS development for Amiga
The Amiga has a well documented curse
Hence all their troubles are really THE CURSE OF THE AMIGA.
This is just my paranoid theory, your mileage may vary...
and remember just because you're not paranoid, doesn't mean their not out to get you.
Heres another 'true story' doing the rounds, for more stories go to Unix Humour :
It's official: Microsoft SUCKs
Microsoft announced today its decision to formally abandon Java in favour of its new Simple Unified C++ Kit (SUCK). The name of the project, previously codenamed COOL, was changed to reflect Microsoft's new corporate image.
"We've decided to take a much more aggressive approach to software industry standards," said SUCK development spokesman Pout Tantrum.
"In the past, Microsoft has been extremely gracious and supportive of open industry protocols and standards, even when it challenged our desktop monopoly. And what did we get for it?
Lawsuits from Sun, the Department of Justice, and some tiny companies out in the boondocks that nobody's ever heard of.
Well, that's going to change. SUCK is 100% Microsoft invented, owned, patented and controlled.
It's our way of giving something back to the computing industry. A clear message saying, 'Up yours, Charlie, we're Microsoft.'"
SUCK is slated to replace VBA, VBScript, J++, C++, CMD.EXE shell, and 8086 assembler as Microsoft's official systems integration language, and will debut with the long-awaited Windows 2000.
In keeping with their new streamlined corporate philosophy, Microsoft will also launch a global saturation advertising campaign featuring the digitally-recreated likeness of J. Edgar Hoover wearing silk lingerie.
Come on it sounded believable...
The real conspiracy was whether it was a rumour started by KFC to get free publicity...it sounded real enough to convince people who don't normally fall for a hoax especially in these days of GM food etal...hands up how many people got the e-mail from a normally reliable source?
It was funny how they managed to fuel the hoax by first denying it and then suddenly changing their adverts to mention chicken way to obviously.
So all the conspiracy theorists come out of the woodwork and it spreads like wildfire, hence more free publicity for KFC and so on...so maybe more a publicity stunt than hoax ?
'The ZX81 powerfull enough to run a nuclear powerstation'
From the they don't make adverts like'em anymore department.
For nostalgia lovers here's Everything about the Amiga Custom Chips
So basically the Graphics Synthesiser on PS2 is like a blitter...and the Display List is like a Copper List.
That sounds like ye olde Amiga Blitter and Copper List combination just 16 years later, and a damn site faster...
I'd fancy that in a nice shiny G4 Amiga (Well we can all dream...)
One student fires a gun so that makes us all homicidal maniacs in their eyes. We play violent computer games ergo we must be violent.
So if some is wrongly accussed which lets face is gonna happen if you allow anyonmous calling...what redress will they have ? Can someone be branded subversive without breaking any laws and forced into counselling ?
I can imagine it now... Are you a student or have you ever listened to a Morrisey record
Woah bedtide the student caught with a Leonard Cohen Cd, your obviously depressed off for counselling...
This is Yahoo's Online Auction site...so how can they claim that Yahoo "is fully aware of the illegal activity and has the resources and technological means to prevent it."
How could they possibly be aware ? They don't even check whether the seller has a real product to sell let alone whether said product is real or counterfeit ?
Sorry I don't understand this class action...are they really saying Yahoo should have physically inspected every product for sale on their site and by not doing so they are therefore allowing piracy it seems a pretty lame excuse for a class action.
where was THAT song ? Unforuntately I didn't see it on UK reports of the Oscars was it sung at the Oscars or am I missing something living hubwards...
IMHO a fair solution would be to open source both windows 9x and NT whilst allowing competitors to release their own Windows distributions compatible with the standard API calls etc.
That way someone out there could release a version that had the same functionality but without the code bloat... 'Redhat Windows' anyone ?
It would be fair and would introduce real competition in the market but I can't imagine Bill saying yes to this one...
There's one unsolved crime that has puzzled historians for far too long....plus solving it would once and for all stop all those conspirancy theories spiralling out of control
DNA testing may help, but if you're talking crimes that far back unless someone has at least some firm idea of who really committed the crime will DNA testing really help ?
Amiga the definition of multimedia before Windoze screwed it up...but seriously no more vapourware Amiga we want some revolutionary again and fast!
... 'the Amiga's not dead its merely resting'
Failing that theres also Phoenix developing a new O/S in the spirit of Amiga based on the QNX RTOS. So there maybe some choice out there for all us Amigans...who knows ?
Classic Amiga's may be stale but have you ever played Sensible World of Soccer on a miggie... the graphics may be tiny but what gameplay!
QNX is one to watch and did they mention it nooooo "A ZX81 with ram pack wobble is more reliable than windoze" - Clive Sinclair (Allegedly)
How long before the human brains becomes an obselete storage mechanism ? Human memory being unreliable really belongs in a museum like that...