Don't know what your best option for an assembler/dev environment would be for the Tungsten: I haven't played with ARM code outside the Gameboy Advance and back in the days of Acorn, but these links might prove useful:
ARM Tutorial - Acorn-centric, but some of the basic stuff should still be relevant...
They use ARM code. Which is actually quite fun to write by hand, if that's ever required these days.
ARM started as a spin-off from UK computer company Acorn (ARM originally stood for Acorn RISC Machines, although as it was exploited away from its parent company it was renamed Advanced RISC Machines). The ARM2 processor was used in their Archimedes machines, which at the time were probably the most powerful thing on the market. As Acorn started spiralling out of the home computing market, ARM was spun off as an entirely separate company, licensing its processor designs to other companies and improving them in the process (StrongARM with Digital and XScale with Intel being the most obvious big-name successes).
(All from memory - apologies for any inaccuracies. You can probably find out more at the ARM website...)
The only Cyrillic I can see on the site right now translates as follows:
"Our apologies, but at the moment there are too many connections to the server. Try reloading the page."
From what I saw of it before the site went down, the whole thing is translated into English. If you see the Cyrillic version to start with, there should be a link to the English version up in the top left corner of the page. The translation's a little ropey in places, but the meaning's intact at least.
Not all P&P systems have these limitations, of course. MERPS has a vast range of tables for calculating the exact result of your attack. The Riddle Of Steel has a far more complex approach to combat in general rather than relying on the 'first I hit them, then they hit me' approach to combat that D&D espouses. Earthdawn allows you to cast spells as often as you like from your spell matrices (barring catastrophic failure) at no expense other than the time taken to weave the threads.
It would be nice if more computer RPGs borrowed from other systems than D&D (yes, I know there are some out there, but we could always do with more).
Speaking as a denizen of the UK, Froogle sucks and Kelkoo is the clear winner.
What I'd actually like to see is a search engine that can tell which companies will ship to my home country, and work out the actual price of the product based on shipping, currency conversion and possibly import duties payable. That would be a lot more useful than a single-country search system, particularly when I don't live in that country.
By allowing specific sites only to popup windows. Certainly possible with Firefox, probably with Mozilla. Not sure about Opera, though it makes sense that it would support it too.
It goes into EU general funds - the same as money paid in by member states. If we assume that it's divided in the same proportions as all EU spending, then the majority of it will likely go to agricultural subsidies.
Not relevant unless you're planning on fighting the law itself: the legal system does not recognise ignorance as a valid excuse. If you disagree with the laws that are being made, don't elect the government that makes them, or don't go to the places where they hold.
It's not exactly as if Microsoft can claim the existence of anti-monopoly laws is something that's entirely new and unexpected to them anyway, since they've already been found guilty of pretty much the same thing in their home country.
Whether they knew or not (and if they didn't, they should fire their legal department) is irrelevant. Ignorance of the law is not seen as a valid excuse for breaking it.
I wonder who'll be picking up their copy of the relevant code in 120 days to help with Linux coding efforts to provide Windows interoperability?:)
Nice to be paid up front for a service you may well not end up providing.
For the users, it's pretty much equivalent to being able to buy your domain name for all time, with no risk of it somehow falling to a domain squatter because you failed to renew. If you've got the money to throw at that sort of peace of mind, then why not?
You don't understand 'Alpha'? Ah, so you're a Windows developer.:)
Seriously, though, the title should make perfect sense to anyone who knows what Ogg Theora is, and the article text explains what it is for those who don't. How dumbed down would you like your article titles?
I think you're working from some misconceptions there. I don't believe even bad Java code with dependencies on slow and nasty code (like Swing) is going to make a computer from 10 years in the future run as slowly as the native equivalent written today.
I'm using a PC that's mildly obsolete by today's standards (PIII 600MHz, 256MB of memory), and I use big graphical Java applications on it all the time without much of a problem: memory is the only real issue, and that's as much a problem with non-Java applications. I'm using Eclipse as my primary development environment, SQuirreL to access the range of different databases I need to talk to from day to day, jEdit as an occasional text editor. And I'm not feeling bogged down by hideous speed loss.
That's largely down to the platform-independent UI code, though. Replace it with native widgets tied to Gnome and performance should be perfectly respectable.
If that's the way you feel, why not just grab the net install floppy and do the whole thing that way? It's what I've done for my last couple of installations, and has worked fine.
Not knowing how much a tsp is is pretty unforgivable in my book, though. One of the easiest measurements out there, and one of the few where you don't need one device to measure and another to apply.:)
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Don't know what your best option for an assembler/dev environment would be for the Tungsten: I haven't played with ARM code outside the Gameboy Advance and back in the days of Acorn, but these links might prove useful:
They use ARM code. Which is actually quite fun to write by hand, if that's ever required these days.
ARM started as a spin-off from UK computer company Acorn (ARM originally stood for Acorn RISC Machines, although as it was exploited away from its parent company it was renamed Advanced RISC Machines). The ARM2 processor was used in their Archimedes machines, which at the time were probably the most powerful thing on the market. As Acorn started spiralling out of the home computing market, ARM was spun off as an entirely separate company, licensing its processor designs to other companies and improving them in the process (StrongARM with Digital and XScale with Intel being the most obvious big-name successes).
(All from memory - apologies for any inaccuracies. You can probably find out more at the ARM website...)
No. ARM licenses their processor designs to other companies rather than manufacturing them themselves.
The only Cyrillic I can see on the site right now translates as follows:
"Our apologies, but at the moment there are too many connections to the server. Try reloading the page."
From what I saw of it before the site went down, the whole thing is translated into English. If you see the Cyrillic version to start with, there should be a link to the English version up in the top left corner of the page. The translation's a little ropey in places, but the meaning's intact at least.
The site's in English - did you have any Russian pages on it that you wanted translating in particular?
DTP
Simple answer: because then you'd have to pay the OS licensing fees to distribute it on the game disc, and I can't imagine that being overly cheap.
...is it being televised?
yes coz i never seen it yet but ngaeg qd is teh kewlest ggameboy suxx its for girls
Not all P&P systems have these limitations, of course. MERPS has a vast range of tables for calculating the exact result of your attack. The Riddle Of Steel has a far more complex approach to combat in general rather than relying on the 'first I hit them, then they hit me' approach to combat that D&D espouses. Earthdawn allows you to cast spells as often as you like from your spell matrices (barring catastrophic failure) at no expense other than the time taken to weave the threads.
It would be nice if more computer RPGs borrowed from other systems than D&D (yes, I know there are some out there, but we could always do with more).
You forgot to RTFA. He's facing away from the controls as he drives. From the text directly below the picture:
"As I'm coming into port, you'll see me standing here like this with my hand behind me on the joystick and driving"
Obviously you've never met J4n37. Love those 5318008...
Hopefully a description of Br4d, not J4ne7...
Speaking as a denizen of the UK, Froogle sucks and Kelkoo is the clear winner.
What I'd actually like to see is a search engine that can tell which companies will ship to my home country, and work out the actual price of the product based on shipping, currency conversion and possibly import duties payable. That would be a lot more useful than a single-country search system, particularly when I don't live in that country.
By allowing specific sites only to popup windows. Certainly possible with Firefox, probably with Mozilla. Not sure about Opera, though it makes sense that it would support it too.
It goes into EU general funds - the same as money paid in by member states. If we assume that it's divided in the same proportions as all EU spending, then the majority of it will likely go to agricultural subsidies.
Not relevant unless you're planning on fighting the law itself: the legal system does not recognise ignorance as a valid excuse. If you disagree with the laws that are being made, don't elect the government that makes them, or don't go to the places where they hold.
It's not exactly as if Microsoft can claim the existence of anti-monopoly laws is something that's entirely new and unexpected to them anyway, since they've already been found guilty of pretty much the same thing in their home country.
How could Microsoft help non-MS servers to reach 'full interoperability' with desktops running non-MS operating systems?
Whether they knew or not (and if they didn't, they should fire their legal department) is irrelevant. Ignorance of the law is not seen as a valid excuse for breaking it.
:)
I wonder who'll be picking up their copy of the relevant code in 120 days to help with Linux coding efforts to provide Windows interoperability?
Nice to be paid up front for a service you may well not end up providing.
For the users, it's pretty much equivalent to being able to buy your domain name for all time, with no risk of it somehow falling to a domain squatter because you failed to renew. If you've got the money to throw at that sort of peace of mind, then why not?
You don't understand 'Alpha'? Ah, so you're a Windows developer. :)
Seriously, though, the title should make perfect sense to anyone who knows what Ogg Theora is, and the article text explains what it is for those who don't. How dumbed down would you like your article titles?
I think you're working from some misconceptions there. I don't believe even bad Java code with dependencies on slow and nasty code (like Swing) is going to make a computer from 10 years in the future run as slowly as the native equivalent written today.
I'm using a PC that's mildly obsolete by today's standards (PIII 600MHz, 256MB of memory), and I use big graphical Java applications on it all the time without much of a problem: memory is the only real issue, and that's as much a problem with non-Java applications. I'm using Eclipse as my primary development environment, SQuirreL to access the range of different databases I need to talk to from day to day, jEdit as an occasional text editor. And I'm not feeling bogged down by hideous speed loss.
That's largely down to the platform-independent UI code, though. Replace it with native widgets tied to Gnome and performance should be perfectly respectable.
If that's the way you feel, why not just grab the net install floppy and do the whole thing that way? It's what I've done for my last couple of installations, and has worked fine.
As always, google is your friend. For example:
:)
6 oz in grams
Not knowing how much a tsp is is pretty unforgivable in my book, though. One of the easiest measurements out there, and one of the few where you don't need one device to measure and another to apply.