Actually the screen was divided into 3 interlaced sections - this could be seen quite clearly when a game loaded a title screen - and it made addressing it directly less than straightforward; iirc I used to use a lookup table to write to the screen.
How can you compare something that looks like a cellphone and an mp3 player stuck together back to back with something as undeniably sleek and well-designed as the iPhone?
C'mon cell phone manufacturers, it's not that hard, hire some designers can actually design something that looks good and is functional - this is all that Apple does, it really is as simple as that; they've proven that people will pay extra for something that is beautiful and 'just works'
To paraphrase Ballmer: "Designers! Designers! Designers!"
I agree totally with the poster and I'd add that when I'm using a Mac, the machine (sw and hw) doesn't get in the way of what you're doing, it becomes more transparent if you like. One thing's a fact, since I switched to Macs about 5 years ago, I no longer scream at my laptop "WTF are you doing???" (when it hangs, pauses, bluescreens, etc, etc) and feel the barely repressable urge to throw it out of the window in frustration. And it's pretty: y'know it looks *nice* - and that's never a bad thing when you spend hours using something.
..then use fdisk to wipe the disk. Really, am I missing something here? (Other than a possible BIOS setting to force boot from internal HD in preference to CD/USB/Floppy/LAN, which can always be gotten around). Oh, I get it - it's just designed to recover stolen laptops from non-slashdot readers;o)
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Of course Babbage could have started off on a completely different tack, and succeeded.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006QMT7FA
The first sentence of this book confuses the Difference Engine with the Analytical Engine - not a great start.
with an interesting CV (resume).
He worked at Sinclair research in the 80's and later on at Konix and then Atari where he had a hand indeveloping the Panther and the Jaguar:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Martin_Brennan_(engineer)
That Obama chap keeps making some inspired decisions - we could do with someone like him over here (UK) to bring a bit of change.
No 'e'?
"national socialism: using the economy of a country and it's means of production to further national agendas and it's manifested destination."
This would also apply to the US, wouldn't it?
Actually the screen was divided into 3 interlaced sections - this could be seen quite clearly when a game loaded a title screen - and it made addressing it directly less than straightforward; iirc I used to use a lookup table to write to the screen.
Ugly.
How can you compare something that looks like a cellphone and an mp3 player stuck together back to back with something as undeniably sleek and well-designed as the iPhone?
C'mon cell phone manufacturers, it's not that hard, hire some designers can actually design something that looks good and is functional - this is all that Apple does, it really is as simple as that; they've proven that people will pay extra for something that is beautiful and 'just works'
To paraphrase Ballmer: "Designers! Designers! Designers!"
I agree totally with the poster and I'd add that when I'm using a Mac, the machine (sw and hw) doesn't get in the way of what you're doing, it becomes more transparent if you like. One thing's a fact, since I switched to Macs about 5 years ago, I no longer scream at my laptop "WTF are you doing???" (when it hangs, pauses, bluescreens, etc, etc) and feel the barely repressable urge to throw it out of the window in frustration. And it's pretty: y'know it looks *nice* - and that's never a bad thing when you spend hours using something.
..then use fdisk to wipe the disk. Really, am I missing something here? (Other than a possible BIOS setting to force boot from internal HD in preference to CD/USB/Floppy/LAN, which can always be gotten around). ;o)
Oh, I get it - it's just designed to recover stolen laptops from non-slashdot readers
A Doom port , A gnuboy port A remote control for Winamp? It runs Java, built in vga camera, infrared, bluetooth, free SDK download from Nokia, oh and it's also a phone ;o)