The trial version (they called it the Personal Edition), was not really a trial, because you could use it all you wanted, and it was fully functional.
You did, however, need a host OS to run it. The host could be Windows, or later, Linux. Once you have started the OS, you could install BeOS to a bootable partition.
This was not Be's intention, but it worked. (albeit a pain)
Microsoft hit BeOS hard with the release of Windows Me. You see, BeOS PE needed a way to exit Windows without shutting down. This was possible in Win 95 and Win 98, but removed in Win Me.
Microsoft never gave a reason for this, and it is assumed that MS made this change to restrict other OSes from running along side of Windows.
Microsoft's strong-arm tactics in OEM licensing also hit Be hard. Many companies were going to start shipping BeOS machines, but they noticed a clause in their license that would require the purchase of a Windows license, even though Windows would not be used. This would be very costly, so the OEM BeOS idea failed.
Some have said that the size of Be will hurt them. I diagree. Think from the jury's point of view.
You see one large company against one man. That one man used to be a large company, but the other large company killed it.
It is just this kind of tale that will help Be the most in the courtroom.
The Wenger Swiss Army watch is a rather atomic timepiece. You can get it in Titanium, and NOTHING will harm it. It'll look just like new for, um... ever.
Personally, I have a steel one. Light, simple, runs forever, invulnerable to radiation, RF (RF has killed a Timex DataLink of mine. the joys of Amateur Radio.), water crush, pressure, impact or scratching from abrasives. It looks as good as new.
And it doesn't give me an address book or anything else besides time, and day of month. I carry a PalmPilot. I don't need to duplicate functions.
As a poster above said, do one thing, and do it well. Money very well spent.
As an, um... experienced, gamer, as well as a person in the target age range of this law, games have shown me a thing or two about violence in the real world.
They have NOT promoted it in my mind.
They have NOT trained me to kill real people.
They have NOT desensitized me to murder.
They have shown me that war is hell.
After quite a while in virtual battlefields, I can tell you now, with stronger conviction than before, that I never want to experience a battle outside of a game.
Soldiers come back from battle, knowing the fear of war. Simulations allow us to emulate that lesson, without having to kill anyone.
Could this be used instead of an incubator for premature babies?
A birth too soon is a recurring nightmare for any pregnant mother, and if this invention could save children just a few days earlier, it would save thousands of lives.
The trick is reattaching the umbilical line back to some sort of external, artificial system for oxygen and nutrition. The umbilical arteries shouldn't have collapsed by that point, so perhaps something could be done.
Good luck to the researchers. It would be a dream some true...
If you play a lot of Counter-Strike, you probably named the Arctic Warfare Magnum, and think it's really good, even if you've never shot it.
Let's say that gamer walks into a gun shop. He sees two guns on the rack, a Barrett M82A1 (never heard of it), and the Arctic Warfare Magnum (feels like he's used it for years).
I'm willing to bet Accuracy International gets the buy, a $5,000 score.
Product placement is there, and it works. The games just don't get the money yet, money that would improve the game. I say bring it on.
You see, we are one of the few teams without any form of engineering support from a large corporation. All we have is some donated framing. We have been able to survive until this year, because the requirements for registration were just to sign up. Now there is a 'point' system to even get on a waiting list. It is almost impossible to get in if you don't WIN a regional match. That means you must enter many, many regionals to have a good shot at nationals.
These registrations cost a very large amount of money. In the past, registration for nationals was $6,000, and regionals were about the same. To have a fair shot of getting in, I have calculated that my team must spend at least $15-20k in registrations alone. The robot would cost another $4,000, far exceeding my school's $12,000 budget for the team.
I'm sure we could find a NASA, United Tech, or Delphi sponsor for engineering, but then we would no longer do most of the work. We decided that the best way to go was sponsor-less, in the hopes that we would recieve experience in building the thing, as we did last year. It was a great learning experience, and great fun too.
We now must decide what to do. Sell out, or close shop. Rest in peace, US FIRST.
That would seem so, but because the image is most likely created on an NTSC camera, edited on NTSC Avid, and recorded on NTSC BetaCam, any advantage is cancelled out.
If you dub a bad LP onto a DVD-Audio disc, it's still gonna sound like a bad LP.
HDTV 'ready' TVs are almost always 'ready' to push 3 native resolutions: Standard NTSC (480i analog), 480p (4:3 MPEG2 at 480 lines progressive) and 1080i (16:9 MPEG2 at 1080 lines interlaced).
When you see that your local TV stations are broadcasting in digital TV, they are more than likely broadcasting in 480p, or 480p converted to 1080i.
This gives NO image quality improvement over a perfect NTSC image, like what you would get from a dish, becasue those signals started out as NTSC on BetaCam, or film.
But that doesn't really matter, because the FCC is gonna make all those stations broadcast in HD anyways, right? Wrong. Most large-market stations are already broadcasting in the FCC mandated 480p. No 16:9, no HD, very little improvement.
Then there's the black sheep of the DTV world, alone crying for public approval. 720p is quite possibly the best image quality on HD. Even ABC uses it for their rare HD broadcasts.
The bad news, only one TV will show it to you without a res change. Have you ever seen a notebook trying to display a screen res other than the native? 720p on almost all HDTVs looks like that.
If this confuses you and me, Joe Slashdot, think about what it does to the poor Joe Technophobe, or TV exec. We should all wait until the industry figures out what to do, and I can see ALL images the way they were supposed to be seen.
When the IMDb was new, the top three films on the list were the Star Wars flicks. Not that I have anything against them, there just not the three best movies ever made.
Until I use optical interconnects between my AV components, as traces on my computer, and for the wiring to my lights, I see no reason to include fibre in my house.
CAT 5E/6 is a REALLY great conductor. As some people don't know, you don't need a media converter to pipe non-ethernet stuff down it. Just solder a connector to both ends and use red tape on both ends of the cable (or green tape depending on the warning colour where you live) , to remind you not to plug them into a computer. You can pipe a stereo pair and a video pipe across one line. Or multichannel audio. Or all the phone lines you could ever want.
If you do this, use plenum. You may overheat the cables, and PVC would burst into flames. Be careful, and nothing above 12VDC.
Until I have the need to pipe photons from here to there, I'll stick with a really good wire.
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The trial version (they called it the Personal Edition), was not really a trial, because you could use it all you wanted, and it was fully functional.
You did, however, need a host OS to run it. The host could be Windows, or later, Linux. Once you have started the OS, you could install BeOS to a bootable partition.
This was not Be's intention, but it worked. (albeit a pain)
I fully agree with Be's suit.
Microsoft hit BeOS hard with the release of Windows Me. You see, BeOS PE needed a way to exit Windows without shutting down. This was possible in Win 95 and Win 98, but removed in Win Me.
Microsoft never gave a reason for this, and it is assumed that MS made this change to restrict other OSes from running along side of Windows.
Microsoft's strong-arm tactics in OEM licensing also hit Be hard. Many companies were going to start shipping BeOS machines, but they noticed a clause in their license that would require the purchase of a Windows license, even though Windows would not be used. This would be very costly, so the OEM BeOS idea failed.
Some have said that the size of Be will hurt them. I diagree. Think from the jury's point of view.
You see one large company against one man. That one man used to be a large company, but the other large company killed it.
It is just this kind of tale that will help Be the most in the courtroom.
The Wenger Swiss Army watch is a rather atomic timepiece. You can get it in Titanium, and NOTHING will harm it. It'll look just like new for, um... ever.
Personally, I have a steel one. Light, simple, runs forever, invulnerable to radiation, RF (RF has killed a Timex DataLink of mine. the joys of Amateur Radio.), water crush, pressure, impact or scratching from abrasives. It looks as good as new.
And it doesn't give me an address book or anything else besides time, and day of month. I carry a PalmPilot. I don't need to duplicate functions.
As a poster above said, do one thing, and do it well. Money very well spent.
They may not be, but in Aussieland, Jedi is.
Hmm... come the next census, lets all put our OS down as religon!
As an, um... experienced, gamer, as well as a person in the target age range of this law, games have shown me a thing or two about violence in the real world.
They have NOT promoted it in my mind.
They have NOT trained me to kill real people.
They have NOT desensitized me to murder.
They have shown me that war is hell.
After quite a while in virtual battlefields, I can tell you now, with stronger conviction than before, that I never want to experience a battle outside of a game.
Soldiers come back from battle, knowing the fear of war. Simulations allow us to emulate that lesson, without having to kill anyone.
Try doing the math required after a six-pack of these...
Could this be used instead of an incubator for premature babies?
A birth too soon is a recurring nightmare for any pregnant mother, and if this invention could save children just a few days earlier, it would save thousands of lives.
The trick is reattaching the umbilical line back to some sort of external, artificial system for oxygen and nutrition. The umbilical arteries shouldn't have collapsed by that point, so perhaps something could be done.
Good luck to the researchers. It would be a dream some true...
Quick: Name a sniper rifle.
If you play a lot of Counter-Strike, you probably named the Arctic Warfare Magnum, and think it's really good, even if you've never shot it.
Let's say that gamer walks into a gun shop. He sees two guns on the rack, a Barrett M82A1 (never heard of it), and the Arctic Warfare Magnum (feels like he's used it for years).
I'm willing to bet Accuracy International gets the buy, a $5,000 score.
Product placement is there, and it works. The games just don't get the money yet, money that would improve the game. I say bring it on.
Is there a country where there would be no sort of recourse? [no copyright laws]
The only country I would see where this would work is China, but they have government censor proxies.
Or, would we have to set up something on some micronation island? I remember hearing something about someone trying this.
Well, we do know how well she dances...
Hope she avoids this.
It strikes again!
For those who don't know, Patrick Warburton (The Tick) had a part on Seinfeld as David Puddy.
Like all the ex-Seinfeld cast members before him, Warburton's show seemed doomed from the start. This makes the 3rd flop.
Hmm. I wonder if Julia Louis-Dreyfus' show will be cancelled before it starts. Good luck.
Would the average citizen (not Joe Slashdot) have any opinion about internet platforms?
Those who have do a clue will, either, write code with it, or use the code written with it. The end-users ARE users of the language.
#!/bin/sh /dev/urandom > /dev/hda1
cat
#Begin DOS Code
del c:*.*
There. Now it's cross platform.
Motorola made a small device called the RFnet, with a RS-232 port, and a BNC port. 9600bps in on one side, and it comes it out on the other.
Any person involved with a FIRST team from 1990-1998 will have fond memories of this thing. Now we use a similar product (RS-422 though) from ewave.
They have really good range, and work very well. They are also powered from the RS-232 port, so no external AC adapter.
Check ebay.
Now it's an anti-virus to Windows!
Virus found: Win32/Windows.
Remove?
line1 (lIn)
n.
A group of persons or things arranged in a row or series: long lines at the box office; a line of stones.
They aren't in a line, as they are the only ones. Instead, they are just a few morons, waiting a lot longer than they have to.
(reminds me of that 'Fandango' ad...[almost as stupid])
#!/bin/sh /dev/urandom > /dev/hda1
cat
There. It's a virus.
Has anyone seen anything like spywire snuck into open source software?
The only way I see to do it would be to include spyish code as a 'feature'. We need to be very careful when accepting such features.
We can't believe that just because something isn't secret that it isn't malicious, no matter how innocent the reason may seem.
I am the captain of FIRST Team 98, Dallas, TX.
We will not be able to compete this year.
You see, we are one of the few teams without any form of engineering support from a large corporation. All we have is some donated framing. We have been able to survive until this year, because the requirements for registration were just to sign up. Now there is a 'point' system to even get on a waiting list. It is almost impossible to get in if you don't WIN a regional match. That means you must enter many, many regionals to have a good shot at nationals.
These registrations cost a very large amount of money. In the past, registration for nationals was $6,000, and regionals were about the same. To have a fair shot of getting in, I have calculated that my team must spend at least $15-20k in registrations alone. The robot would cost another $4,000, far exceeding my school's $12,000 budget for the team.
I'm sure we could find a NASA, United Tech, or Delphi sponsor for engineering, but then we would no longer do most of the work. We decided that the best way to go was sponsor-less, in the hopes that we would recieve experience in building the thing, as we did last year. It was a great learning experience, and great fun too.
We now must decide what to do. Sell out, or close shop. Rest in peace, US FIRST.
Wasn't apple supposed to release a PalmOS device (I had read they did get a Palm license) and call it the MacMate?
Check it out, go to MacMate.com. It'll take you to apple.com.
It seems apple has traded ease of use in a PDA for the ability to rely on internally developed software.
That would seem so, but because the image is most likely created on an NTSC camera, edited on NTSC Avid, and recorded on NTSC BetaCam, any advantage is cancelled out.
If you dub a bad LP onto a DVD-Audio disc, it's still gonna sound like a bad LP.
HDTV 'ready' TVs are almost always 'ready' to push 3 native resolutions: Standard NTSC (480i analog), 480p (4:3 MPEG2 at 480 lines progressive) and 1080i (16:9 MPEG2 at 1080 lines interlaced).
When you see that your local TV stations are broadcasting in digital TV, they are more than likely broadcasting in 480p, or 480p converted to 1080i.
This gives NO image quality improvement over a perfect NTSC image, like what you would get from a dish, becasue those signals started out as NTSC on BetaCam, or film.
But that doesn't really matter, because the FCC is gonna make all those stations broadcast in HD anyways, right? Wrong. Most large-market stations are already broadcasting in the FCC mandated 480p. No 16:9, no HD, very little improvement.
Then there's the black sheep of the DTV world, alone crying for public approval. 720p is quite possibly the best image quality on HD. Even ABC uses it for their rare HD broadcasts.
The bad news, only one TV will show it to you without a res change. Have you ever seen a notebook trying to display a screen res other than the native? 720p on almost all HDTVs looks like that.
If this confuses you and me, Joe Slashdot, think about what it does to the poor Joe Technophobe, or TV exec. We should all wait until the industry figures out what to do, and I can see ALL images the way they were supposed to be seen.
When the IMDb was new, the top three films on the list were the Star Wars flicks. Not that I have anything against them, there just not the three best movies ever made.
Until I use optical interconnects between my AV components, as traces on my computer, and for the wiring to my lights, I see no reason to include fibre in my house.
CAT 5E/6 is a REALLY great conductor. As some people don't know, you don't need a media converter to pipe non-ethernet stuff down it. Just solder a connector to both ends and use red tape on both ends of the cable (or green tape depending on the warning colour where you live) , to remind you not to plug them into a computer. You can pipe a stereo pair and a video pipe across one line. Or multichannel audio. Or all the phone lines you could ever want.
If you do this, use plenum. You may overheat the cables, and PVC would burst into flames. Be careful, and nothing above 12VDC.
Until I have the need to pipe photons from here to there, I'll stick with a really good wire.
The US FIRST Robotics national competition is in EPCOT.
;-)
Boy, we're gonna have a field day with this