I remember some friends describing a trip to the then USSR and saying that Moscow is very dull and gray but they couldnt put their finger on why. They eventually realised that there was no advertising. More recently when they saw some footage of some Moscow riots there were loads of adverts plastered all over the place they commented how much nicer the place looks with bright colours and lights.
Im sure we will have the same situation in the future where you go for a holiday in some poorer country and complain that the space just looks balck and boring.
The obveous game that hooked an entire generation. I remember my mother being really addicted to it. Although she didn't know how to do anything on the computer (turing the mouse like a steering wheel to go sideways etc.) she could still find and play tetris.
Or you could just change the fan. Even looking at the cheap and nasty products there are some very quiet ones and the same for power supplies. 10 on new cpu fan and 30 on new psu. reather than 200 on new system. (Hint. anything below 27dB is good enough).
You take advantage of the things that you do have. As a single person you do not have the buying power but you do have a much better reaction speed to waht the market wants. Make opteron machines, they are what people want but Dell etc haven't realised that yet. Make fully custom setups (PC/Linux based DVR's, Fileservers to sleep in the other roomand run P2P). Big companys take ages toreact to market forces. Look at IBM, they fell behind simply because they were huge.
This is nothing new. I have funded my drinking habbit for years by making people computers. There is no need to have a store to do it. Most people don't realise how easy it is and they usually want something special. This is how the Dell bloke goty started anyway. For the office I make all the machnes now, we wouldn't even consider buying machines ready made (unfortunately except for Sun machiness) The dragon CPU is not supported very well (or at all) currently and does not bring a huge advantage yet. Its hard enough to convince someone to use a non windows/x86 machine when you are a huge company nevermind when you are a singly guy knocking them out of your garage.
The first one I am nearly sure about is the swordfighting sound from civilization is the same as the black night scene from monty python and the holy grail. I keep hearing the same whoosh sound that is in Doom when you use the rocket launcher in movies and on TV. Is it a standard sound that people keep reusing or do they just sound simmilar.
It's all very well putting more peripherals onto processors but with the shrinking feature sizes and an increase in cross talk is placing a powerful 2.4GHz source on die really a good idea? You would have to shorten long lines and slow down the processor or suffer random errors. Doesn't inspire me with confidence.
The hardware can nowdays be emulated. Just mark the I/O area as protected and kick out to software emulation on all hardware accesses. It is probable that these new CPUs will use a second supervisor mode to allow the games to run their own "OS" but keep the system hardware hidden behing an machine kept API. (This would allow upgradebility and better sandboxing).
Microsoft want Xbox to be compatable and able to play the PS3 games? I don't think IBM have an exclusivity contract with Sony over their chipset. How far pushing the legal barriers would it be to make a console which is able to play competitors games?
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I remember some friends describing a trip to the then USSR and saying that Moscow is very dull and gray but they couldnt put their finger on why. They eventually realised that there was no advertising. More recently when they saw some footage of some Moscow riots there were loads of adverts plastered all over the place they commented how much nicer the place looks with bright colours and lights.
Im sure we will have the same situation in the future where you go for a holiday in some poorer country and complain that the space just looks balck and boring.
The shame with that system is that its expencive (250 for board + case) and it crashes a lot acording to other reviews.
BIOS.
But I do get your point.
Why hand power it when you can get mice to do it for you
The obveous game that hooked an entire generation.
I remember my mother being really addicted to it. Although she didn't know how to do anything on the computer (turing the mouse like a steering wheel to go sideways etc.) she could still find and play tetris.
You're right. The manufacturers will probably let the other formats die and just keep the money making one.
You can now get a cdrom for 10, cdrw for 20... The cost of developing a new product in order to sell it for 5 more is just not worth it.
Or you could just change the fan. Even looking at the cheap and nasty products there are some very quiet ones and the same for power supplies. 10 on new cpu fan and 30 on new psu. reather than 200 on new system. (Hint. anything below 27dB is good enough).
I only mentioned the opteron machines as they do have a large margin.
You take advantage of the things that you do have. As a single person you do not have the buying power but you do have a much better reaction speed to waht the market wants. Make opteron machines, they are what people want but Dell etc haven't realised that yet. Make fully custom setups (PC/Linux based DVR's, Fileservers to sleep in the other roomand run P2P). Big companys take ages toreact to market forces. Look at IBM, they fell behind simply because they were huge.
This is nothing new. I have funded my drinking habbit for years by making people computers. There is no need to have a store to do it. Most people don't realise how easy it is and they usually want something special. This is how the Dell bloke goty started anyway. For the office I make all the machnes now, we wouldn't even consider buying machines ready made (unfortunately except for Sun machiness)
The dragon CPU is not supported very well (or at all) currently and does not bring a huge advantage yet. Its hard enough to convince someone to use a non windows/x86 machine when you are a huge company nevermind when you are a singly guy knocking them out of your garage.
The first one I am nearly sure about is the swordfighting sound from civilization is the same as the black night scene from monty python and the holy grail.
I keep hearing the same whoosh sound that is in Doom when you use the rocket launcher in movies and on TV. Is it a standard sound that people keep reusing or do they just sound simmilar.
It's all very well putting more peripherals onto processors but with the shrinking feature sizes and an increase in cross talk is placing a powerful 2.4GHz source on die really a good idea? You would have to shorten long lines and slow down the processor or suffer random errors. Doesn't inspire me with confidence.
You could mirror it when you do.
BBC has a nice website about it too. (much more informative)
The hardware can nowdays be emulated. Just mark the I/O area as protected and kick out to software emulation on all hardware accesses.
It is probable that these new CPUs will use a second supervisor mode to allow the games to run their own "OS" but keep the system hardware hidden behing an machine kept API. (This would allow upgradebility and better sandboxing).
Microsoft want Xbox to be compatable and able to play the PS3 games?
I don't think IBM have an exclusivity contract with Sony over their chipset.
How far pushing the legal barriers would it be to make a console which is able to play competitors games?
sorry bout that. fixed now.
There is also
thunderbird linux i686
and
firebird windows
Mirror of firebird linux i686. If I can get the others I'll put them on the site too.
No probs
I had a rant about it the other day. I found lights, toothbrushes, heat blankets and hot drinks cups.
Unfortunately the heatblankets link is now broken
Just to put people into context, The Daily Telegraph is quite a homophobic right wing paper.
To be read with a pinch of salt.
There was a great story on slashdot about it the other day.
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Why do you think they had to modify it?
I wonder if someone complained over the fact they pressed the power "key".