The smell impending doom of the tech job market and flee to other fields.
You can tell, you know. You can tell because they don't have caved in foreheads from beating them on the wall everytime someone takes a techy for granted.
"hey, I know it's 10 minutes before 5 and it's a friday before christmas, but could you do this urgent pile of work while the rest of us bugger off to our last minute shopping and holiday parties? i knew i could count on you. there'll be a little something extra in your pay packet this month (a candy cane)"
I completed the game many times. Ultimately I still loved playing the game (and still do) and work towards improving best times. I've completed it a few times without one death and had some pretty decent times.
The copy I've played on C64 emulator doesn't work in the keyboard rooms very well. I follow the pattern but often get nothing. Maybe it's the legacy of a bad crack (this was actually a very easy game to crack, as I did it myself some time back in the 80's on my old C64.)
Memory
Writing programs in BASIC
Saving files to a tape drive
We were patient back then...
And you know what? We were actually happy, nay, ecstatic while fiddling around with these things.
Gawds, I spend a lot of time writing stuff on OSI, Apple, C64 and Amiga. Sure was a lot of fun. Now, I write stuff in Visual studio and cuss up a blue streak. Have things actually got better?
Everybody knows the best games came out on 8 bit systems. After that it's all copy-cat with an emphasis on graphics and sound and making sacks of money, over game play.
Windows NT has never been an OS that sits on top of DOS. That was the WFW 3.11, 95, 98, and ME line which is now completely unsupported.
NT borrowed heavily from DEC VMS, which if it were running on DOS would be like running VMS on top of RSTS. The problem at Microsoft was this inability to separate things. The kernel became everything, trying to run on a nearly infinite combinations of hardware and depending heavily on drivers (which most tech support didn't even understand and would just tell you to upgrade to the latest version. Leaving unspoken 'and cross your fingers')
For graphics and sound to work best, commonly used objects are stored in memory, ideally most rapidly accessible by the chipset which makes use of it. If you can pre-load a graphics card with most of your GUI toolkit you can do some amazingly fast rendering. Microsoft and admitedly Apple seem to have fallen in love with very large, processor intensive graphic affects, which look pretty, but ultimately may be dragging down your processor on any existing tasks.
My PC at home will lock up if I have anything Graphic intensive running and hit ctrl-alt-del as the sudden interrupt seems to break syncronization of something.
So this is like cell division. The bloat of Windows divides into the Kernel and UI pools.
Taking this article
into account, it seems
clear why the massive graphics card requirement. However, if this much is being pulled from the Kernel, then
why still such a massive
minimum RAM?
"if you hold down ctrl+shift+alt and tap the backspace you can watch a video of steve wrecking a chair"
an infinite number of monkeys is about as unlikey as an infinite number of monkeys rendering the same painting
Ok. A finite number of monkeys then. Just enough to get the job done.
I know, we tend to be lazy and throw around the infinite number of monkeys to duplicate just about anything when a finite number will do. Simply because we scientific sorts cannot be bothered to calculate the actual quantity of monkeys necessary. I do apologise.
Thank you science, for trying to take the mystery out of art. Not everything can be quantified. Some things just need to be appreciated and enjoyed for what they are.
Yeah, like, it's a painting. Some see a portrait of a lady. Some see choice of colours. Some see the setting. Some see technique. Some see lighting. Some see choice of wood rather than cardboard or cloth.
I'm sure an infinite number of monkeys with oils, brushes and canvas could render the same painting, but would it mean as much?
You may want to pick countries which have more than nominal notions of property rights. But I understand your overall point though. Where there's a will, there's a way.
The core idea is countries which are either hopelessly bureaucratic of less than likely to cooperate with the United States in it's efforts to shackle the world by it's way of thinking regarding IP.
In the future of the internet and technology, can't you see as hot prospect, countries which disregard such demands?
Come do business with us, we won't tell on you and you can do all your business free from sanctions!
Where there's a need, there's often someone entrepenureal enough to fill it.
I'll just set up a network in India, Venezuela, Iran, etc. where you press a button on a remote control, which speed dials a number to an operator (standing by, of course) who clicks on a hyperlink on their screen which pauses, changes channels, adjusts volume, etc. for you on your PVR/TV/Media Center/WhatHaveYou!
And I'll base the headquarters in Cuba where they couldn't give a rat's patoot about IP laws.
I can remember when you could measure a platform's popularity by the thickness of Computer Shopper.
Back in the early 80's it was with Apple ][ clones -- Peaches, Oranges and various other fruit. Slowed
a bit when Apple bit back on the people copying their ROMs so the cloners simply bought a bunch of
ROMs and kept going
In the late 80's and early 90's it was all PC's -- Once Columbia PC beat the blue giant
of IBM it was open season and they approached 2 inches in thickness.
Now it's all but gone, or may be as I haven't seen one in a while. The web pretty much killed
these publications, like Micro Times, a bay area staple for geeks until it vanished.
Thanks to new UK legislation that is threatening to allow product placement advertisers will be getting their crap pushed and 'content' creators will be getting their 20 pieces of silver no matter how you rebroadcast space cadets 97: the final farce... so why should they care?
eBay to insert subliminal messages into your skypecasting?
eBay: facilitating redistribution of the worlds junk since 1995
I'd like to arrange for their prompt and bloody assassination.
Latecomers.
See, you and I are old crusty curmudgeons who remember the good old days of NNTP, ftp, email before spam, telnet sessions, etc. It was a good time because pundits rarely got into our realm due to the technical barrier. Now, just about anyone can and they're all seeing things for the first time and giving out the stupid names, acronyms, etc. I think some of what I read in Doonesbury is about the most pathetic as Alex, Mike's daughter and Mike's wife hold these pseudo techie conversations which make no sense at all and I think he pulls the terms right out of his arse, expecting to get away with it or coin new terms.
Now I've got a damn cell phone I can record video on, so if I was inclined to hold it up at a football match and record a few minutes I could then send them or take them home and Bluetooth them to my PC and then share them. The FA goon squad will probably kick in my door any minute for suggesting it. What's to stop me from doing the same to TV?
While it isn't a PVR, it circumvents the regionally oriented programming that prevents the UK from watching our "Football" or us from getting Dr Who.
You can already get football from a variety of sites, at least one is hosted in China, no idea where the others are, you just have to put up with the commentary. Further, by
Fox Soccer Channel and PPV you have access to more matches than you do in the UK, where IIRC 4 matches are televised out of the EPL schedule each match day. If you're wishing to watch Everton v Sunderland, or some other low end of the table
match, you are out of luck.
It also raises yet another battlefront the content owners will need to contend with in the upcoming years.
Oh, yes. Expect all digital signals to have some encoded regionality which is intended to put the content
owner in command. The major problem with these methods is they effectively kill foreign markets, because there's
usually no distributor or the distributor asks too high a cost for content, which ultimately drives piracy.
Maybe some day they'll learn that you can maximize profit by maximizing access.
How do you tell the FAKE clones apart from the REAL clones? Dont they all look alike???
Silly AC, the Real Clones look like the Fake Clones, but the Fake Clones only look like Real Clones and the Originals only look like the Real Clones, but not the Fake Clones.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a Google Search Appliance TCO white paper to write, now that Steve's check has cleared.
and multiply by ten, but deduct for broken chairs...
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You can tell, you know. You can tell because they don't have caved in foreheads from beating them on the wall everytime someone takes a techy for granted.
"hey, I know it's 10 minutes before 5 and it's a friday before christmas, but could you do this urgent pile of work while the rest of us bugger off to our last minute shopping and holiday parties? i knew i could count on you. there'll be a little something extra in your pay packet this month (a candy cane)"
I completed the game many times. Ultimately I still loved playing the game (and still do) and work towards improving best times. I've completed it a few times without one death and had some pretty decent times.
The copy I've played on C64 emulator doesn't work in the keyboard rooms very well. I follow the pattern but often get nothing. Maybe it's the legacy of a bad crack (this was actually a very easy game to crack, as I did it myself some time back in the 80's on my old C64.)
Already got it, the emulator works OK, but is a great pain to work with.
You should sell them on eBay. Atari stock certificates go for a bundle.
This is why I got a pre-paid cell phone. All someone can steal is my minutes and I only top it up as needed. :)
Writing programs in BASIC
Saving files to a tape drive
We were patient back then...
And you know what? We were actually happy, nay, ecstatic while fiddling around with these things.
Gawds, I spend a lot of time writing stuff on OSI, Apple, C64 and Amiga. Sure was a lot of fun. Now, I write stuff in Visual studio and cuss up a blue streak. Have things actually got better?
Everybody knows the best games came out on 8 bit systems. After that it's all copy-cat with an emphasis on graphics and sound and making sacks of money, over game play.
Elma Sniddle will appreciate the return of her TV
another visitor. stay a while, STAY FOREVER!
NT borrowed heavily from DEC VMS, which if it were running on DOS would be like running VMS on top of RSTS. The problem at Microsoft was this inability to separate things. The kernel became everything, trying to run on a nearly infinite combinations of hardware and depending heavily on drivers (which most tech support didn't even understand and would just tell you to upgrade to the latest version. Leaving unspoken 'and cross your fingers')
For graphics and sound to work best, commonly used objects are stored in memory, ideally most rapidly accessible by the chipset which makes use of it. If you can pre-load a graphics card with most of your GUI toolkit you can do some amazingly fast rendering. Microsoft and admitedly Apple seem to have fallen in love with very large, processor intensive graphic affects, which look pretty, but ultimately may be dragging down your processor on any existing tasks.
My PC at home will lock up if I have anything Graphic intensive running and hit ctrl-alt-del as the sudden interrupt seems to break syncronization of something.
So this is like cell division. The bloat of Windows divides into the Kernel and UI pools.
Taking this article into account, it seems clear why the massive graphics card requirement. However, if this much is being pulled from the Kernel, then why still such a massive minimum RAM?
"if you hold down ctrl+shift+alt and tap the backspace you can watch a video of steve wrecking a chair"
Ok. A finite number of monkeys then. Just enough to get the job done.
I know, we tend to be lazy and throw around the infinite number of monkeys to duplicate just about anything when a finite number will do. Simply because we scientific sorts cannot be bothered to calculate the actual quantity of monkeys necessary. I do apologise.
To achieve fulfilment, a woman should strive for balance.
So ... on the back of her carriage, Mona Lisa La Giaconda should have had a brass plaque which said
Yeah, like, it's a painting. Some see a portrait of a lady. Some see choice of colours. Some see the setting. Some see technique. Some see lighting. Some see choice of wood rather than cardboard or cloth.
I'm sure an infinite number of monkeys with oils, brushes and canvas could render the same painting, but would it mean as much?
She did have gas.
The core idea is countries which are either hopelessly bureaucratic of less than likely to cooperate with the United States in it's efforts to shackle the world by it's way of thinking regarding IP.
In the future of the internet and technology, can't you see as hot prospect, countries which disregard such demands?
Where there's a need, there's often someone entrepenureal enough to fill it.
They win all the time, but it doesn't always seem the know how best to take advantage of such victories. It's like this:
I'll just set up a network in India, Venezuela, Iran, etc. where you press a button on a remote control, which speed dials a number to an operator (standing by, of course) who clicks on a hyperlink on their screen which pauses, changes channels, adjusts volume, etc. for you on your PVR/TV/Media Center/WhatHaveYou!
And I'll base the headquarters in Cuba where they couldn't give a rat's patoot about IP laws.
Problem solved.
I can remember when you could measure a platform's popularity by the thickness of Computer Shopper.
Back in the early 80's it was with Apple ][ clones -- Peaches, Oranges and various other fruit. Slowed a bit when Apple bit back on the people copying their ROMs so the cloners simply bought a bunch of ROMs and kept going
In the late 80's and early 90's it was all PC's -- Once Columbia PC beat the blue giant of IBM it was open season and they approached 2 inches in thickness.
Now it's all but gone, or may be as I haven't seen one in a while. The web pretty much killed these publications, like Micro Times, a bay area staple for geeks until it vanished.
Check the footy newsgroups, a few examples:
eBay to insert subliminal messages into your skypecasting?
eBay: facilitating redistribution of the worlds junk since 1995
Sod. Who would watch that when you have Chelsea at Arsenal this Sunday?
funny that american football is called that, the ball rarely makes contact with the foot.
Latecomers.
See, you and I are old crusty curmudgeons who remember the good old days of NNTP, ftp, email before spam, telnet sessions, etc. It was a good time because pundits rarely got into our realm due to the technical barrier. Now, just about anyone can and they're all seeing things for the first time and giving out the stupid names, acronyms, etc. I think some of what I read in Doonesbury is about the most pathetic as Alex, Mike's daughter and Mike's wife hold these pseudo techie conversations which make no sense at all and I think he pulls the terms right out of his arse, expecting to get away with it or coin new terms.
Now I've got a damn cell phone I can record video on, so if I was inclined to hold it up at a football match and record a few minutes I could then send them or take them home and Bluetooth them to my PC and then share them. The FA goon squad will probably kick in my door any minute for suggesting it. What's to stop me from doing the same to TV?
While it isn't a PVR, it circumvents the regionally oriented programming that prevents the UK from watching our "Football" or us from getting Dr Who.
You can already get football from a variety of sites, at least one is hosted in China, no idea where the others are, you just have to put up with the commentary. Further, by Fox Soccer Channel and PPV you have access to more matches than you do in the UK, where IIRC 4 matches are televised out of the EPL schedule each match day. If you're wishing to watch Everton v Sunderland, or some other low end of the table match, you are out of luck.
It also raises yet another battlefront the content owners will need to contend with in the upcoming years.
Oh, yes. Expect all digital signals to have some encoded regionality which is intended to put the content owner in command. The major problem with these methods is they effectively kill foreign markets, because there's usually no distributor or the distributor asks too high a cost for content, which ultimately drives piracy.
Maybe some day they'll learn that you can maximize profit by maximizing access.
The stock for Strongbad Industries, of Strongbadia (Pop: Tire), took a severe hit on the news.
like my good friend, Craig Barrett says, it is no good if our sales no asplode
BTW, how do you spell Barret(t?), even Intel seems to forget.
Silly AC, the Real Clones look like the Fake Clones, but the Fake Clones only look like Real Clones and the Originals only look like the Real Clones, but not the Fake Clones.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a Google Search Appliance TCO white paper to write, now that Steve's check has cleared.
and multiply by ten, but deduct for broken chairs...