A contract like that that can work -- if they know that you can and will have a lawyer sue them if they violate the agreement. (You don't have to make threats, just let them know that you have the resources to do so, and your lawyer isn't Clippy. "I notice that you're trying to sue someone...")
It is going to involve contracts, copyrights, license agreements, software and computers. You not only have to talk to a lawyer, you have to talk to the right lawyer. Code escrow agreements aren't completely new, so someone here might be able to point in the right direction. (Hey, it could happen.)
And you just had to cancel your mod by posting. D'OH!:^) (BTDTGTT myself.)
Moderation points are mixed blessing. I've had to ponder if I wanted to cancel my moderations on a topic in order to make that one reply that I just had to make. Talk or moderate, tough call. Ah well, it was the thought that counts.
I've already posted this, but who says that they'll use actors? They could use CGI or animation. Animation could have more of the look'n'feel of the comic, but I tend to doubt that Spielberg would go for that.
don't alienate your potential customers but don't shove your ad down their left nostril either
I think you meant "and" rather than "but". I don't know about you, but having ads shoved down(?) my left nostril makes me either feel kind of alien or ancient Egyptian.
I don't block banner ads. TANSTAAFL. I do block doubleclick over privacy and spam issues. For the rest, I use the same thing as I use for TV ads: BrainBlocker. "Come on down to Dodge-Chev-Ford.. hisss..", commercial gone. Popups are another story. They get killed.
Okay, I'll have to remember that the next time I'm writing code for a 286.:^)
I'd like to think that any remaining 286 boxes have been shoveled (it's a Sabbat thing). However, I've seen requests here for 286 Unixish OSs in the last few weeks. Lordy, 486s were dumpster fodder years ago. *sigh*
No. Having the ZX-81 do a keyboard scan by using an IN instruction to output the contents of the A register on the A8-15 lines was cool. Processor haiku!
Having the keyboard processor reboot the 286 into 16 bit protected mode (it didn't really do 32 bit) was just a messy slow kludge. I could be wrong about the details. I skipped directly from the NEC V20 to the 386. It was a while ago.
Microsoft did have some kind of virtual memory swapper, but it was ugly. Really ugly. There were better linkers like RTLink, but the term "silk purse from a sow's ear" (Biblical for "When monkeys fly out my butt!") spring to mind. It was still really really ugly. (Sorry, bad memories from a Death March project at Delrina.)
And it wasn't part of the OS, it was a tack on. I wrote the beginings of a multi-user BBS in DOS, but that didn't make MSDOS a multi-user OS. Oh the joy when I installed Coherent! (Linux wasn't an option back then, I switched when networking was stablized.)
Yep, no virtual memory. And remember those tricks to make use of Extended/Expanded memory? Shudder! And the shell game with drivers to maximize the base memory? No multitasking either, unless you count background printing and TSRs. (All those chained keyboard interrupt handlers and the documented undocumented DOSIdle interrupt. Scarey stuff kids!)
MSDOS, it was fun. Bye-bye! (Come to think of it, I recently used an MSDOS install to bootstrap a Win98 install from a SBPro CDROM. Then I screamed and used that to bootstrap a Linux install. Maybe I'll keep those DOS disks handy just in case.:^)
Wristheld, no?:^) Been there, done that at Janna Systems before they were Seibelized. Outlook inhales deeply, but at least it has a nice automation interface. If you sync'ed contacts, scheduling would have been no biggy. (Give me 30 minutes alone with it and Delphi. It'll talk.)
Ahh... So it probably isn't covered in Greyhawk, Blackmoor or Eldrich Wizardry then. (I really should eBay those, The Strategic Reviews and issues of The Dragon.)
"This game requires D&D 3rd edition or better", so I used RuneQuest.
The ability to wave it in front of a computer that has your Enterprise CRM schedule for auto-updating would be nice. (Remember the Timex watch that did funky reading of bars on the monitor? How quaint!) Speaking of bars, I'm sure it would make a dandy universal remote control complete with a TV schedule. Flip the bar TV from WWF to the Space channel (CDN).
A few generations later, this could be interesting with the wireless displays in the pipe. Needs more ram, needs better I/O, probably needs more battery life.
Irony Alert: Gordon Moore just got an ant species named after him, Pheidole mooreorum. How long before Moore's Law enables a watch to be smarter than that ant? Ever? (Not a karma 'Ho. Capped long ago.)
The Dragonball CPU is basically a 68000 with add-ons right?
/me Looks at Atari ST (8MHz, 1M ram) in the corner on floor waiting for a good excuse to toss it.
Dried frog pills. LOTS of dried frog pills. Narrr...
My only.. complaint.. is that I'd probably have to wear it on my right wrist, oh dear. On the other hand (literally!:^), my Casio "Databank" watch has served me well for many years (100 phone#s and alarms!), and has a nice retro look these days. And it handles the bistromathic calculations at the end of the meal.
This thing is cute and powerful, but why do I need it? (I know, I'm not supposed to ask that question.) Other than playing nethack on the bus. I think I'll wait until an 8M version is out.
As for running Linux "out of the box", doubt it. The 2M ram is pretty light even for the RAM, and it's doubling as the hard drive. It's going to take a pretty tight install to pack it in with programs and data.
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Wouldn't Harcourt Fenton Mudd III have been a better match than James Kirk?
It can already be done by taking a Tamagotchi and relabeling the buttons: Feed = Overtime, Attention = Ego Stroke. Cleaning up the poop remains the same.
Length could have been the problem. If they'd had to cut other scenes to get it in, it might have been awkward.
As for John Cleese, he might be busy writing that alternate Superman comic "True Brit". What, you didn't know? Oh, that's right, my submission didn't make it in. I'll take pity, here's the link.:^)
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A contract like that that can work -- if they know that you can and will have a lawyer sue them if they violate the agreement. (You don't have to make threats, just let them know that you have the resources to do so, and your lawyer isn't Clippy. "I notice that you're trying to sue someone...")
1. New software.
2. Agreement.
3. ???
4. Lawyer profits!
(Sorry)
Don't download the video at 11! It's a trojan!!
Moderation points are mixed blessing. I've had to ponder if I wanted to cancel my moderations on a topic in order to make that one reply that I just had to make. Talk or moderate, tough call. Ah well, it was the thought that counts.
I've already posted this, but who says that they'll use actors? They could use CGI or animation. Animation could have more of the look'n'feel of the comic, but I tend to doubt that Spielberg would go for that.
Who says that they'll use actors? They could do it CGI or animation.
Nah, that's not the URL you want. Try this one. :^)
I think you meant "and" rather than "but". I don't know about you, but having ads shoved down(?) my left nostril makes me either feel kind of alien or ancient Egyptian.
I don't block banner ads. TANSTAAFL. I do block doubleclick over privacy and spam issues. For the rest, I use the same thing as I use for TV ads: BrainBlocker. "Come on down to Dodge-Chev-Ford .. hisss ..", commercial gone. Popups are another story. They get killed.
I'd like to think that any remaining 286 boxes have been shoveled (it's a Sabbat thing). However, I've seen requests here for 286 Unixish OSs in the last few weeks. Lordy, 486s were dumpster fodder years ago. *sigh*
They also spent at least a million$ to "buy" Anders Hejlsberg to develop C# and .NET stuff from Borland, plus whatever they settled with Borland.
You can do these things with a magical ingreediant, cash, lots of cash.
Having the keyboard processor reboot the 286 into 16 bit protected mode (it didn't really do 32 bit) was just a messy slow kludge. I could be wrong about the details. I skipped directly from the NEC V20 to the 386. It was a while ago.
And it wasn't part of the OS, it was a tack on. I wrote the beginings of a multi-user BBS in DOS, but that didn't make MSDOS a multi-user OS. Oh the joy when I installed Coherent! (Linux wasn't an option back then, I switched when networking was stablized.)
MSDOS, it was fun. Bye-bye! (Come to think of it, I recently used an MSDOS install to bootstrap a Win98 install from a SBPro CDROM. Then I screamed and used that to bootstrap a Linux install. Maybe I'll keep those DOS disks handy just in case. :^)
And this is changed in Windows how? :^)
Of course, I thought Uniflex was pretty neat on a 4MHz 6809 with 256k of ram and a 40M big HD in '83, so what do I know?
Wristheld, no? :^) Been there, done that at Janna Systems before they were Seibelized. Outlook inhales deeply, but at least it has a nice automation interface. If you sync'ed contacts, scheduling would have been no biggy. (Give me 30 minutes alone with it and Delphi. It'll talk.)
"This game requires D&D 3rd edition or better", so I used RuneQuest.
A few generations later, this could be interesting with the wireless displays in the pipe. Needs more ram, needs better I/O, probably needs more battery life.
Irony Alert: Gordon Moore just got an ant species named after him, Pheidole mooreorum. How long before Moore's Law enables a watch to be smarter than that ant? Ever? (Not a karma 'Ho. Capped long ago.)
Dried frog pills. LOTS of dried frog pills. Narrr...
My only .. complaint .. is that I'd probably have to wear it on my right wrist, oh dear. On the other hand (literally! :^), my Casio "Databank" watch has served me well for many years (100 phone#s and alarms!), and has a nice retro look these days. And it handles the bistromathic calculations at the end of the meal.
This thing is cute and powerful, but why do I need it? (I know, I'm not supposed to ask that question.) Other than playing nethack on the bus. I think I'll wait until an 8M version is out.
As for running Linux "out of the box", doubt it. The 2M ram is pretty light even for the RAM, and it's doubling as the hard drive. It's going to take a pretty tight install to pack it in with programs and data.
Wouldn't Harcourt Fenton Mudd III have been a better match than James Kirk?
I wonder what the longest period of time is that someone has gone before figuring out that "Landover Baptist" is a spoof?
If it dies, you're fired.
Harry Potter Lovecraft, now that would be scarey! Still, even if the series gets darker, I doubt that will ever go Cthulhu-Punk.
As for John Cleese, he might be busy writing that alternate Superman comic "True Brit". What, you didn't know? Oh, that's right, my submission didn't make it in. I'll take pity, here's the link. :^)
Don't let me stop you, it's got a programming interface here.