Considering that EA has turned out some great games over the years, including Wing Commander...
Maybe I recall incorrectly, but I have this distinct memory of Wing Commander being originally published independently by Origin Systems before being bought out by Electronic Arts. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.
If my guess is right, the shared-with-Microsoft code lies mostly within the kernel, the core libraries, and the Presentation Manager. I've always wondered, though, how much MS code do the Workplace Shell and SOM contain, specially since those are the parts that really distinguish OS/2 2.x+ from the earlier releases. Does anyone here know anything about it in this context?
A similar situation occured here in Philadelphia. The movie was showing at only two locations, the Ritz in Centre City (another dinky little place, although known to carry a lot of good non-mainstream movies) and the AMC 24 at the Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem. I got to see it at the AMC theatre; only about 10 people were present at the time, myself included.
E.g., the one time I was browsing around the nearest Radio Shack to see if they had Memory Stick cards for my Clié. The guy looked at me, stalled for a second, and said "uhhh... whazzat?"
The only things the guy really knew about were the ZipZap cars, and then only so much.
Yes, that's how it went. IIRC., it was IBM that introduced the notion that one byte is exactly eight bits, and the meaning has stuck since then. Along with that, PCs introduced the notion that one word is two bytes (16 bits), causing lots of confusion and the use of the term "machine word" to avoid ambiguity.
Back then, the size of core memory was generally measured in machine words, thus in the case of a 12-bit machine like the PDP/8 with 32 k-words, the core would be: 32 x 12 bits == 384 k-bits, or 48 k-bytes.
In the beginning was the plan,
and then the specification;
And the plan was without form,
and the specification was void.
And darkness
was on the faces of the implementors thereof;
And they spake unto their leader,
saying:
"It is a crock of shit,
and smells as of a sewer."
And the leader took pity on them,
and spoke to the project leader:
"It is a crock of excrement,
and none may abide the odor thereof."
And the project leader
spake unto his section head, saying:
"It is a container of excrement,
and it is very strong, such that none may abide it."
The section head then hurried to his department manager,
and informed him thus:
"It is a vessel of fertilizer,
and none may abide its strength."
The department manager carried these words
to his general manager,
and spoke unto him
saying:
"It containeth that which aideth the growth of plants,
and it is very strong."
And so it was that the general manager rejoiced
and delivered the good news unto the Vice President.
"It promoteth growth,
and it is very powerful."
The Vice President rushed to the President's side,
and joyously exclaimed:
"This powerful new software product
will promote the growth of the company!"
And the President looked upon the product,
and saw that it was very good.
Heh. That reminds me of a story I read some time ago (here on Slashdot? I can't remember where). Some organisation had acquired a Cray Y-MP or some other air-cooled Cray computer, and instead of hooking it up to an independent A/C system, they simply had it piped to the building's heating system. Apparently, they saved a whole lot of dosh having the Cray perform double duty.
Going OT here, but... Book-a Rah-tone? What kind of Floridian yuppie came up with that one? Sure, it doesn't mean "mouth of the rat" (that'd be "boca de la rata"); if anything, it means "Mouse Harbor", "Ratón" being a proper noun, just like saying "Potomac River", but such a gross mispronunciation is laughable at best. It helps to keep in mind that Florida was originally a Spanish colony.
Take a look at the mounting brackets included with your kit, if any, along with the screwholes on the sides of the case. Sometimes, 1U-size devices are designed so that all you have to do is change where you place the brackets relative to the enclosure. E.g., Cisco 1U-size routers like the 2500 and 2600 series include mounting brackets that can also be used as wall-mounting straps, and is well documented in the installation manuals. Also, as noted above, you should note the ventilation characteristics of your hardware; if it has a fan, make sure that the exhaust points up (also noted in Cisco's documentation).
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For those who'd rather have a FireWire device, there's the Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge, which I've been wanting to buy for some time now. The DV Bridge, however, is bidirectional (D->A and A->D), has S-Video and Firewire ports, doesn't have a TV Tuner, and goes for about $100 more, making it more geared towards video editing than just video recording á la TiVo.
One could argue that this "time dimension" in the filesystem is directly or indirectly related to the filesystem's ability to manage multiple versions of every file, and keep track of changes made to them over time. In that sense, VMS has had something similar to this built in for a long time now. The way it works is by saving multiple versions of the same file separately and tagging each with a different version number. Anything more complex would only be building upon this, and could hardly be considered revolutionary.
Whoa, there. Was this guy watching Johnny Mnemonic while drugged up beyond belief? His drivel about being able to "see a stream of 3D documents" reminds me of the virtual surreality user interfaces in that movie. I wouldn't be surprised if he started spouting off unintelligible mutterings about "hacking the Gibson" and "finding the garbage file", too.
Q: How many Microsoft Customers does it take to replace a light bulb?
A: None. They all were audited by Microsoft and forced to pay out of their noses for upgrades to Microsoft Light Bulb, so it has already been replaced.
Tadpole once made a pretty spiffy Intel-based laptop computer, circa 1995 or thereabouts. Other than the processor (it had a 120- or 133-MHz Pentium), it had everything their SPARC-based laptops had at the time, including built-in SCSI (the internal HDD was also SCSI) and a 3-button Trackpoint-like stick. I believe that was their only Intel-based laptop, though; most people don't seem to appreciate over-engineered products like theirs.
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Considering that EA has turned out some great games over the years, including Wing Commander...
Maybe I recall incorrectly, but I have this distinct memory of Wing Commander being originally published independently by Origin Systems before being bought out by Electronic Arts. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.
If my guess is right, the shared-with-Microsoft code lies mostly within the kernel, the core libraries, and the Presentation Manager. I've always wondered, though, how much MS code do the Workplace Shell and SOM contain, specially since those are the parts that really distinguish OS/2 2.x+ from the earlier releases. Does anyone here know anything about it in this context?
Just to clear up:
'recode' can take care of converting between these and other formats, along with converting between character encodings.
From the linked BBC article:
BBC Micro was a popular computer in the 1980s (emphasis mine)
So which one is it?
I wish I could tag articles based on content. If this were Fark, it'd have been tagged "Obvious" yesterday.
Uh... well, I don't know where Michael Jackson got his face from, but the nose is obviously from another planet.
A similar situation occured here in Philadelphia. The movie was showing at only two locations, the Ritz in Centre City (another dinky little place, although known to carry a lot of good non-mainstream movies) and the AMC 24 at the Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem. I got to see it at the AMC theatre; only about 10 people were present at the time, myself included.
"You've got questions...we've got blank stares."
E.g., the one time I was browsing around the nearest Radio Shack to see if they had Memory Stick cards for my Clié. The guy looked at me, stalled for a second, and said "uhhh... whazzat?"
The only things the guy really knew about were the ZipZap cars, and then only so much.
Yes, that's how it went. IIRC., it was IBM that introduced the notion that one byte is exactly eight bits, and the meaning has stuck since then. Along with that, PCs introduced the notion that one word is two bytes (16 bits), causing lots of confusion and the use of the term "machine word" to avoid ambiguity.
I remember when we played that game we felt like we had godlike control over a mysterious and powerful machine.
That must've been a nice feeling, I bet. In these days, the mysterious and powerful machine has god-like control over you!
Back then, the size of core memory was generally measured in machine words, thus in the case of a 12-bit machine like the PDP/8 with 32 k-words, the core would be: 32 x 12 bits == 384 k-bits, or 48 k-bytes.
Ugh... the Submit button needs to be placed farther away from the Preview button (*covers head with brown paper bag*).
Most big corporations have intelligent technicians. However, the message gets lost somewhere between tech and management.
This, of course, is the basis for the SNAFU principle:
In the beginning was the plan, and then the specification; And the plan was without form, and the specification was void. And darkness was on the faces of the implementors thereof; And they spake unto their leader, saying: "It is a crock of shit, and smells as of a sewer." And the leader took pity on them, and spoke to the project leader: "It is a crock of excrement, and none may abide the odor thereof." And the project leader spake unto his section head, saying: "It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide it." The section head then hurried to his department manager, and informed him thus: "It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide its strength." The department manager carried these words to his general manager, and spoke unto him saying: "It containeth that which aideth the growth of plants, and it is very strong." And so it was that the general manager rejoiced and delivered the good news unto the Vice President. "It promoteth growth, and it is very powerful." The Vice President rushed to the President's side, and joyously exclaimed: "This powerful new software product will promote the growth of the company!" And the President looked upon the product, and saw that it was very good.Heh. That reminds me of a story I read some time ago (here on Slashdot? I can't remember where). Some organisation had acquired a Cray Y-MP or some other air-cooled Cray computer, and instead of hooking it up to an independent A/C system, they simply had it piped to the building's heating system. Apparently, they saved a whole lot of dosh having the Cray perform double duty.
(Sorry... I just can't stand people mangling a monosyllabic word like that.)
And that's just one of the reasons I give for when people 'ax' me why I don't always like to go to downtown Philadelphia.
The name is Axim, as in "Axe him", not "Axmin" as in "Axe the admin"... uhm... OK, so there's little difference between the two. Fine.
Going OT here, but... Book-a Rah-tone? What kind of Floridian yuppie came up with that one? Sure, it doesn't mean "mouth of the rat" (that'd be "boca de la rata"); if anything, it means "Mouse Harbor", "Ratón" being a proper noun, just like saying "Potomac River", but such a gross mispronunciation is laughable at best. It helps to keep in mind that Florida was originally a Spanish colony.
Take a look at the mounting brackets included with your kit, if any, along with the screwholes on the sides of the case. Sometimes, 1U-size devices are designed so that all you have to do is change where you place the brackets relative to the enclosure. E.g., Cisco 1U-size routers like the 2500 and 2600 series include mounting brackets that can also be used as wall-mounting straps, and is well documented in the installation manuals. Also, as noted above, you should note the ventilation characteristics of your hardware; if it has a fan, make sure that the exhaust points up (also noted in Cisco's documentation).
This might help.
For those who'd rather have a FireWire device, there's the Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge, which I've been wanting to buy for some time now. The DV Bridge, however, is bidirectional (D->A and A->D), has S-Video and Firewire ports, doesn't have a TV Tuner, and goes for about $100 more, making it more geared towards video editing than just video recording á la TiVo.
One could argue that this "time dimension" in the filesystem is directly or indirectly related to the filesystem's ability to manage multiple versions of every file, and keep track of changes made to them over time. In that sense, VMS has had something similar to this built in for a long time now. The way it works is by saving multiple versions of the same file separately and tagging each with a different version number. Anything more complex would only be building upon this, and could hardly be considered revolutionary.
Whoa, there. Was this guy watching Johnny Mnemonic while drugged up beyond belief? His drivel about being able to "see a stream of 3D documents" reminds me of the virtual surreality user interfaces in that movie. I wouldn't be surprised if he started spouting off unintelligible mutterings about "hacking the Gibson" and "finding the garbage file", too.
Q: How many Microsoft Customers does it take to replace a light bulb?
A: None. They all were audited by Microsoft and forced to pay out of their noses for upgrades to Microsoft Light Bulb, so it has already been replaced.
What? Badtz Maru is a ship?? I thought it was that little penguin-like critter from Sanrio.
Tadpole once made a pretty spiffy Intel-based laptop computer, circa 1995 or thereabouts. Other than the processor (it had a 120- or 133-MHz Pentium), it had everything their SPARC-based laptops had at the time, including built-in SCSI (the internal HDD was also SCSI) and a 3-button Trackpoint-like stick. I believe that was their only Intel-based laptop, though; most people don't seem to appreciate over-engineered products like theirs.
Whoa. Interesting. Just think of the advertisements for consumer products based on this:
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