This sounds like a good plan. Most people are going to want to be playing these systems on their TVs, not computer monitors, and there aren't a ton of TVs still being manufactured with VGA-in.
To quote Kreia from KoToR II: "Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clenched fist." Compassion towards those who only wish to dominate you and do you harm is not an advisable course of action.
I type Dvorak. I have the Typematrix keyboard (http://www.typematrix.com) for the very reason you mentioned; it has hardware-level layout switching and a very small form factor. That, and RDP sessions tend to flip to your system keyboard layout...which can be troublesome when your boss/client logs into your server with your admin credentials and subsequently calls you screaming "My keyboard is broke!!!"
I can type well enough on QWERTY if I look at the keys, so I don't sweat it most of the time.
Nah, it's been my experience that Linux has far better overall hardware support than Windows....
It's frequently the difference between an in-mainline, actively maintained driver shipped with the Linux kernel, and an old, unmaintained binary blob from five years ago that you have to download from an unreliable FTP server in Singapore, and which randomly locks up the hardware and/or the computer it's attached to.
Art is about creative self-expression. If someone feels that writing an assembler for a 25 year-old console and making it 'go bloop' expresses himself in ways that modern technology cannot, what's the harm in that? It's neat. He obviously isn't trying to get rich or serve any other practical purpose with this.
Maybe the best way to do this sort of thing would be to use a nightly build, then. This might close some vulns, open others, and leave others still alone. You wouldn't know until you started.
So this means that all homework is going away once paper books are gone, as the kids can't be trusted to take the devices home? I know a lot of kids that would be pretty excited to hear that...
Would you give a first-grader an iPad? I don't care if it's got a Kevlar cover and bulletproof glass; a first-grader can't be trusted to keep track of a lunchpail, let alone a $600 smart device. They'll lose it, trade it away or steal it from other students. Until at least the High School level, paper books are not going away anytime soon.
With the millions (billions?) of active VGA-based equipment in corporate offices, one of two things will happen when purchasing new VGA-less hardware.
1) Install VGA PCI card, which can be sourced new for as little as 15 dollars.
2) Use adapter.
The actual switchover, even if the assembly lines shut down today, won't happen for at least 10-15 years when the remaining VGA devices quit functioning.
I'm a single man in my late 20s and I have no college degree. I was hired as a software developer after a couple of years in the IT/hardware service industry. The reason? I work for the equivalent of programmer chump change and I'm happy doing so.
If you're over 50 years old, be prepared to take a significant pay cut if you want to do what you love. Assuming that you have a nice house, a wife at home and kids in school, this could be next to impossible. I don't envy your position. Maybe you could do something a little more at your maturity level; some sort of project management, for instance?
Ignoring the blatant trolling of your comment, I will tell you that I used a 33MHz processor in my first computer (a 386), and here's exactly what it couldn't do: Play video.
I could still get on the internet, play music, code, run Office, play some simpler games. Everything that's come since has just been a more complex refinement of the same stuff we've been doing since the beginning of GUI computing.
Yeah? Well that's why I use https://ssl.scroogle.org/ with POST. Your ISP can (or should be able to) at least log the URLs you've visited and can extrapolate your search terms from them. POST and Scroogle means neither Google nor your ISP has any clue what you're searching for...and furthermore, the encrypted connection prevents referrer headers from letting pages you landed on from logging your search terms, too.
And your wife is somehow jeopardizing the safety of your hard drive enough to drive you into a murderous rage? And furthermore, she can only be killed by a drill press?
My vision is something to the effect of filesharing P2P networks, only expanded to include hypertext front-ends with Diaspora-style independent connectivity and simple, effective redundancy. Integration with the existing web would be essential, which is both a plus and a minus.
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This sounds like a good plan. Most people are going to want to be playing these systems on their TVs, not computer monitors, and there aren't a ton of TVs still being manufactured with VGA-in.
To quote Kreia from KoToR II: "Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clenched fist." Compassion towards those who only wish to dominate you and do you harm is not an advisable course of action.
Newt Gingrich does not approve.
I type Dvorak. I have the Typematrix keyboard (http://www.typematrix.com) for the very reason you mentioned; it has hardware-level layout switching and a very small form factor. That, and RDP sessions tend to flip to your system keyboard layout...which can be troublesome when your boss/client logs into your server with your admin credentials and subsequently calls you screaming "My keyboard is broke!!!"
I can type well enough on QWERTY if I look at the keys, so I don't sweat it most of the time.
You mean like the Frogpad? http://www.frogpad.com/
I've been interested in this keyboard for years, but figured it'd be too hard to type on anything else afterwards.
Perhaps "Height-disadvantaged persons defecating above the long-lived?"
Nah, it's been my experience that Linux has far better overall hardware support than Windows....
It's frequently the difference between an in-mainline, actively maintained driver shipped with the Linux kernel, and an old, unmaintained binary blob from five years ago that you have to download from an unreliable FTP server in Singapore, and which randomly locks up the hardware and/or the computer it's attached to.
Usually "better" denotes quality.
Art is about creative self-expression. If someone feels that writing an assembler for a 25 year-old console and making it 'go bloop' expresses himself in ways that modern technology cannot, what's the harm in that? It's neat. He obviously isn't trying to get rich or serve any other practical purpose with this.
Isn't this functionality, to a large extent, provided with a decent RSS reader?
When an mp3 is sold, it is not being transferred from the provider's server to the buyer's computer...it is being copied.
Maybe the best way to do this sort of thing would be to use a nightly build, then. This might close some vulns, open others, and leave others still alone. You wouldn't know until you started.
So this means that all homework is going away once paper books are gone, as the kids can't be trusted to take the devices home? I know a lot of kids that would be pretty excited to hear that...
Would you give a first-grader an iPad? I don't care if it's got a Kevlar cover and bulletproof glass; a first-grader can't be trusted to keep track of a lunchpail, let alone a $600 smart device. They'll lose it, trade it away or steal it from other students. Until at least the High School level, paper books are not going away anytime soon.
With the millions (billions?) of active VGA-based equipment in corporate offices, one of two things will happen when purchasing new VGA-less hardware.
1) Install VGA PCI card, which can be sourced new for as little as 15 dollars.
2) Use adapter.
The actual switchover, even if the assembly lines shut down today, won't happen for at least 10-15 years when the remaining VGA devices quit functioning.
I'm a single man in my late 20s and I have no college degree. I was hired as a software developer after a couple of years in the IT/hardware service industry. The reason? I work for the equivalent of programmer chump change and I'm happy doing so.
If you're over 50 years old, be prepared to take a significant pay cut if you want to do what you love. Assuming that you have a nice house, a wife at home and kids in school, this could be next to impossible. I don't envy your position. Maybe you could do something a little more at your maturity level; some sort of project management, for instance?
Ignoring the blatant trolling of your comment, I will tell you that I used a 33MHz processor in my first computer (a 386), and here's exactly what it couldn't do: Play video.
I could still get on the internet, play music, code, run Office, play some simpler games. Everything that's come since has just been a more complex refinement of the same stuff we've been doing since the beginning of GUI computing.
Google any decent-sized software product with the words "SDK" or "API" and I guarantee you'll get at least some results.
That is why I use https://encrypted.google.com/
Yeah? Well that's why I use https://ssl.scroogle.org/ with POST. Your ISP can (or should be able to) at least log the URLs you've visited and can extrapolate your search terms from them. POST and Scroogle means neither Google nor your ISP has any clue what you're searching for...and furthermore, the encrypted connection prevents referrer headers from letting pages you landed on from logging your search terms, too.
I mean shit, the Ubuntu installer had it as an option, last I looked.
I wonder what the overlap is between wife murderers and Ubuntu users?
You know that hasn't become law yet, right? It passed the house, but never passed the Senate. It's been idle since last June.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h780/show
And your wife is somehow jeopardizing the safety of your hard drive enough to drive you into a murderous rage? And furthermore, she can only be killed by a drill press?
My head hurts now.
Better get one-day shipping, then.
Immediately take a drill press to every hard drive in your house.
My vision is something to the effect of filesharing P2P networks, only expanded to include hypertext front-ends with Diaspora-style independent connectivity and simple, effective redundancy. Integration with the existing web would be essential, which is both a plus and a minus.
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