I think that Civilization is one of the most educative games ever (if you mean a game which makes you think!)
Sure there is the concept of "war, but sincerly I can't believe that someone can find any "violence" in the way it is represented.
Maybe, due to graphical evolution, Civ III "Call To Power" can be more appealing to younger people, which is important if you want they get involved in the game enough to appreciates its dynamics and strategies.
Ok, now let's start celebrating our "We Love Sid Meier Day"!
It's great to live in a free land. A man once said that hate transform you in the worst part of the thing you hate... maybe that's why US is slowly becoming totalitarian like a sovietic land... Your problem, anyway.
For what I know, still in the 80s many Personal/Home computers (but not only!) were not able to go higher than 1Mhz.
Maybe they have taken the wrong unit? 2.25Khz seems far more probable for 50s...
More than one year ago I had to build a database-driven internet site... I decided to use MySQL as the backend, but to quickly develop the data-entry frontend I tried Access97, in conjunction with MyODBC (MySQL ODBC drivers, downloadable
here).
No problem at all (apart from the obvious Access/win95 crashes:-)) when using minimal SQL... more problems when coming to more advanced features (BLOBs, uniqueID and so on).
I think it is still a good way to quickly set up a nice interface to a simple database... but frankly in my last works I've found Web Applications written in PHP a far better solution for both flexibility and stability.
QT/Embedded should work perfectly on Jornadas. The 32MB/SDRAM of Jornada 720, it should be more than enough to run many KDE apps... maybe some specifically written by HP.
That's why I think there is much more then a flashing cursor to expect from a Linux Handheld.
Exactly! When you have a REAL mission-critical task, it's far better to strive for semplicity and resistance than for features and speed.
Just to have another example... do you think that Voyagers and Pioneers would have survived more than 20 years if they were launched with something as complex as a PIII/WhateverModernOS system?
If the same problem cropped up on a new AMD cpu, do you think the article would be blaming AMD for it?
I just want to recall that the same thing HAS in fact happened with a new AMD cpu!
I still remember when I've not been able to install SuSE 6.4 on my brand new Athlon because of a stupid SMP optimization in that distro's default kernel.
That's why, despite Mozilla, we still need a good browser that is GPL'ed
Guess what... Konqueror, like all KDE apps, IS fully GPL'ed!:)
That's funny, if you think that what has been the preferred target for free-software fanatics is now the only free-like-in-speech modern browser.;)
But QT/Embedded doesn't rely on X!!! The embedded version uses in fact accesses directly the video framebuffer.
I cite from trolltech:
"Since Qt/Embedded is not based on X11 it has substantially lower memory requirements than X11. By picking and choosing features, the memory demands of Qt/Embedded can be tuned from 800 Kb to 3 Mb in ROM"
That's not what you're searching for... the Linux machine there has 8 CPUs while windoz one just has 2.
But look at the second quarter benchmarks. On two machines with the same configuration (2400/667 & 6400/700) Tux/Linux doubles IIS/windoz performance!!
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Under SuSE 7.2:
1. download all upgraded RPMs from ftp.suse.com.
2. rpm -U *.rpm
3. SuSEconfig
4. enjoy
Please don't blame KDE for your distribution's packaging errors.
> I think people used that arguement when cable TV was in its infancy.
:)))
And that's exactly why cable TV failed in 95% of the countries
Question that raises here is if you think that being "barely literate juvenile delinquents" is:
- a temporary situation that you will try to correct.
- a fact against which you will simply resign.
In the first case stimulate them with games that "forces" them to learn and think should be your way, altough a very hard one at start.
If you resign then you're probably the wrong man in the wrong place...
I think that Civilization is one of the most educative games ever (if you mean a game which makes you think!)
Sure there is the concept of "war, but sincerly I can't believe that someone can find any "violence" in the way it is represented.
Maybe, due to graphical evolution, Civ III "Call To Power" can be more appealing to younger people, which is important if you want they get involved in the game enough to appreciates its dynamics and strategies.
Ok, now let's start celebrating our "We Love Sid Meier Day"!
It's great to live in a free land.
A man once said that hate transform you in the worst part of the thing you hate... maybe that's why US is slowly becoming totalitarian like a sovietic land...
Your problem, anyway.
The Application with the worst UI ever on the OS with the worst UI ever.
A nightmare come true!
I really think that this limitation will move away more people from Microsoft platforms to "alternative" OSes than anything before.
Well done MS!!
Right but AFAIK in 1978 even maiframe didn't go very far from the 20Mhz.
It seems strange that in 27 (!!!) years clock speed increased only by a factor of ten.
For what I know, still in the 80s many Personal/Home computers (but not only!) were not able to go higher than 1Mhz.
Maybe they have taken the wrong unit? 2.25Khz seems far more probable for 50s...
No problem at all (apart from the obvious Access/win95 crashes
I think it is still a good way to quickly set up a nice interface to a simple database... but frankly in my last works I've found Web Applications written in PHP a far better solution for both flexibility and stability.
QT/Embedded should work perfectly on Jornadas. The 32MB/SDRAM of Jornada 720, it should be more than enough to run many KDE apps... maybe some specifically written by HP. That's why I think there is much more then a flashing cursor to expect from a Linux Handheld.
... because transparent cases and shiny interfaces' look and feel are the only innovation Apple made to the computer world in the last years.
Exactly! When you have a REAL mission-critical task, it's far better to strive for semplicity and resistance than for features and speed.
Just to have another example... do you think that Voyagers and Pioneers would have survived more than 20 years if they were launched with something as complex as a PIII/WhateverModernOS system?
If the same problem cropped up on a new AMD cpu, do you think the article would be blaming AMD for it?
I just want to recall that the same thing HAS in fact happened with a new AMD cpu!
I still remember when I've not been able to install SuSE 6.4 on my brand new Athlon because of a stupid SMP optimization in that distro's default kernel.
That's why, despite Mozilla, we still need a good browser that is GPL'ed
:) ;)
Guess what... Konqueror, like all KDE apps, IS fully GPL'ed!
That's funny, if you think that what has been the preferred target for free-software fanatics is now the only free-like-in-speech modern browser.
But QT/Embedded doesn't rely on X!!! The embedded version uses in fact accesses directly the video framebuffer.
I cite from trolltech:
"Since Qt/Embedded is not based on X11 it has substantially lower memory requirements than X11. By picking and choosing features, the memory demands of Qt/Embedded can be tuned from 800 Kb to 3 Mb in ROM"
BYE - Vajsvarana
That's not what you're searching for... the Linux machine there has 8 CPUs while windoz one just has 2. But look at the second quarter benchmarks. On two machines with the same configuration (2400/667 & 6400/700) Tux/Linux doubles IIS/windoz performance!!
Why porting from MFC for new software... if you plan a port for Linux, you'd better directly start using QT for both OSs instead of MFC/GTK.