It would also introduce drag which will slow the projectile down. How much of an effect it has comes down to its viscosity and the velocity of the projectile, so even the lightest oil will have a noticeable effect at the high velocities we're talking about...
I'm not sure, but I'd say the A1200 might be more popular these days. It's much easier to expand and more powerful, which means it can run a lot of games better. Also, you can add a CF card as an SSD for about €10 and slap all your games on that for instant retro goodness without having to deal with floppy disks or floppy emulators.
Another possibility is that the A1200s were white whereas the A500s were beige, so maybe the yellowing is worse for the A1200 and most A500 owners are happy enough with the less obvious yellowing. Or maybe the A1200s had cheaper plastic used in their cases since they were produced later, meaning they were more susceptible to yellowing.
I still use mine regularly, although mainly for Amiga-specific things. But from time to time I still use PersonalPaint for creating GIFs because it's just so good at handling palette mapped animation that it's often quicker and easier to shuttle the frames across the network, import and edit them, compile the GIF and send it back to my Linux machine. It's only a small thing and it's not every day, but it can still be perfectly capable for some things.
Not sure what the deal is here but it sounds like you have a personal problem with Individual Computers. They're not deliberately creating a lock-in, they're just saying that it's only guaranteed to work with their add-ons. You're more than welcome to add your own accelerator cards, and most of them should work, it's just that they don't want the hassle of people coming crying back with "I bought your new motherboard and it doesn't work with my 25 year old CPU daughterboard" sort of complaints. This is especially important since many A1200 accelerators exceeded the A1200 bus signal specifications, requiring modification of the motherboard to get them working. If I was Individual Computers I wouldn't touch those old cards with a barge pole.
And that piggy-backing method of attaching expansions is a method that was in use 15 or 20 years ago by many vendors, it's only that Individual Computers are one of the very few left that are still manufacturing add-ons like that. And given that they've been around for 20 years and new motherboards are only coming on the market now, I can't see any possibly way that it's a conspiracy to generate sales of new motherboards. Care to suggest an alternative way of extracting the digital video signals from the custom chips on the motherboard? Or the keyboard MPU signals? I build custom hardware myself and I use the same connection method. It's not ideal, no, but other than soldering directly to the chips, there's no other way of doing it. I even have some hardware (not from Individual computers) installed that way for 15 years without causing problems, and adaptors I've built myself working that way for 10 years.
Why not? Some people like using their Amigas for some retro gaming fun. I regularly have some Sensible Soccer tournaments for example. While my Amigas aren't that yellow and I'm not that bothered about their appearance, it would be nice for some people to be able to roll out their Amigas with a brand new case. Think of it like people buying new panels to replace battered or rusty ones on their old cars.
The national broadcaster in Ireland already does this on their internet streaming service. I wouldn't even mind so much except that I also have to listen to the advertising they broadcast, in addition to paying for the service via the Irish TV licence system.
I raised a ticket about the issue, haven't heard back...
Indeed, I know someone close to me who tends to leave her email logged in permanently on her computer. It's a computer I've had to fix in the past, and opening the email provider's main page brings you straight to her inbox. In there, she had emails from her registration on various sex sites (not on AM, mind you), but all there in plain view along with various personal mails arranging meetups and so on. She is married, and while I don't know whether her husband is in on this or not, I'm pretty sure she'd be devastated if that information ended up out in the open.
Most average users don't consider that they need to create a layer of anonymity for things like this. They presume things just work as expected and that there isn't any other possibility. Perhaps this being all over the mainstream news will start to awaken people to the risks and encourage an improvement in the control of their own personal data.
I only recently updated my PC from XP to Windows 7, because for the first time XP wasn't able to fulfil my needs. I wanted to play Elite: Dangerous, and while I could've messed around getting the latest DirectX and graphics drivers working under XP, I decided it was finally the time to move on... to 7. And I'll probably stay with 7 for many years to come, so long as it works for me.
Windows, to me, is just a tool to get things done, and so long as it does its job, I have precisely zero other interest in it. Linux is more or less the same too, I'm well over switching distros to see what they're like every month or two. Other operating systems are different though, and I will update my Amiga OS / MorphOS machines as soon as an update appears because they're far more interesting to me OS-wise.
That reminds me, I should really update my Haiku installation...
Totally different from my interpretation of that notice. I see that as meaning they're not for public use, so the public shouldn't use them. I don't see how there's room for interpretation there...
All depends on your perspective really. For me, having the freedom to walk into a gun store and buy a gun is frightening, and I wouldn't like to live in a country like that.
And don't forget that TFL probably pay far less for their electricity than the average consumer, given the bulk discount they must get for powering an entire city's rail network.
There are non-standard sockets they should have fitted instead then, so only company authorised equipment can be plugged in. Simple and pretty much 100% effective.
As for the cost, it was probably far less than 10p, especially considering the enormous bulk discounts someone like TFL will get when purchasing their electricity. Sometimes publicity about wasting electricity by leaving chargers plugged in or equipment on standby can make people believe these things guzzle power. Bottom line, it would be impossible to measure the difference in power usage between two train journeys that was caused by someone plugging in a charger.
BeOS is excellent in that respect, and similar to Amiga OS in that and many other ways too. It's something I still miss, being able to click a button and see it react, knowing that even though my computer's 100% busy doing something, it still has time to acknowledge my request. Another aspect I would keep from Amiga OS is the ability to still manipulate an application's windows, even when it has a requester (dialog box in Windows parlance) open. So if some application is looking for attention, I can move, resize, send to the back or minimise its window and requester to get on with other work until I'm ready to deal with the open requester. The concept of screens (as opposed to multiple desktops as is standard on Linux distros) from Amiga OS, and the REXX messaging and scripting system is something that no other OS has done so nicely or comprehensively.
"If you decide to manually enter your password on someone's Windows Phone instead of sharing access through WiFi Sense, make sure they can't see what you're typing when you enter it, then untick the Share network with my contacts checkbox before you tap Done to connect."
It means guest devices connected using your password will think your network is their network, and can share access with their contacts unless you untick the box.
Yep, usually you want a divide by zero to end up as either 0 or infinity, and you need to be able to decide between them so it makes sense to handle it manually. No OS is gonna look good telling you that there's 0 second(s) left on your download when your transfer stalls.
Another project of mine was based around an old Amiga 600. I fitted it with some relays, a small hard drive, and a general purpose parallel bus to which I could connect various I/O modules including light sensors, IR remote receivers and even a small alphanumeric LCD. It was set up for controlling all the lights in my room, the stereo, the TV, and even the blinds. I had it set to open the blinds and turn on the lights to get me up for school (and later college), turn off the lights when nobody was in the room (it had a PIR sensor on it), and it could also be controller over serial so running a little web server on another computer let me log into it remotely to turn things on and off. Was very proud of it (I was 16 when I built it and wrote the software) and it ran non-stop for 3 years until I moved out for Uni.
It should still be up in my parents' attic at home...
Many years ago while at University, I had a Nokia 3210. Great phone, but rubbish NiMH battery. Once it started to go flat during the day, it meant I had trouble getting my parents to pick me up from the train station and had to use a phone box (remember them?). So, I added a small power port to the side of the phone that allowed direct connection to the battery through a diode, and made a custom connector that would let me connect this port to the headphone remote port on my MiniDisc player. This gave out around 3.3V, which was enough after the diode drop to power up the phone and let me make a quick call.
I thought it was awesome as a cash-strapped student - all I had to carry around was this extra wire since I already had the MD player with me, and it was long before the availability of these USB power packs. Kids don't know how easy they have it these days;)
Why would the centre of gravity move just because the rover is on the moon? Is the heavy end of a hammer still heavier than the light end on the moon? Of course it is. The overall weight may have changed, but it hasn't changed shape and the matter hasn't somehow shifted around.
Yep, this year will be the year that Linux takes over the desktop. Just like last year. And the year before. And the year before. And you know the rest...
I use Linux on a number of machines and across platforms. Recently, all the systems I had Ubuntu installed on all had problems after updating. Cryptic/useless error messages, problems updating, problems with graphics drivers. All because some components were upgraded. There was quite a lot of messing about to sort them out, and in the end I switched two of them do a different distro to save all the hassle. But one of the machines was in my parents' house, so in this case it *was* a crappy experience for an average user, as well as the techy user (me) who had to go and reinstall it just so they could print something off. Of course the forums were full of "just enter this command" or "just remove these lines from a conf file", but that sort of thing is just not acceptable for the average user.
Well you're clearly way off the mark here. In what world of mathematics is 1 out of 1,750 equal to 0.5%? Even 2 out of 1,750 is far lower than 0.5%, and that's assuming that nobody gets both side-effects. It makes me wonder where those numbers came from in the first place. Anyway, given that it's vaccinating against a number of diseases that can be fatal (pertussis alone has a mortality rate somewhere above 4%, and that's just one component of the vaccine and not counting any other effects of the disease on survivors), it seems obvious that there's a far greater risk of harm to my child from not being vaccinated than from being vaccinated.
Indeed, I've prototyped some wireless controllers myself, not particularly difficult or expensive at that sort of level. Complicated software does quickly spiral out of control however, but wireless standards (including the hardware in the form of ICs or complete modules) exist and are cheap and easy to implement.
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It would also introduce drag which will slow the projectile down. How much of an effect it has comes down to its viscosity and the velocity of the projectile, so even the lightest oil will have a noticeable effect at the high velocities we're talking about...
I'm not sure, but I'd say the A1200 might be more popular these days. It's much easier to expand and more powerful, which means it can run a lot of games better. Also, you can add a CF card as an SSD for about €10 and slap all your games on that for instant retro goodness without having to deal with floppy disks or floppy emulators.
Another possibility is that the A1200s were white whereas the A500s were beige, so maybe the yellowing is worse for the A1200 and most A500 owners are happy enough with the less obvious yellowing. Or maybe the A1200s had cheaper plastic used in their cases since they were produced later, meaning they were more susceptible to yellowing.
I still use mine regularly, although mainly for Amiga-specific things. But from time to time I still use PersonalPaint for creating GIFs because it's just so good at handling palette mapped animation that it's often quicker and easier to shuttle the frames across the network, import and edit them, compile the GIF and send it back to my Linux machine. It's only a small thing and it's not every day, but it can still be perfectly capable for some things.
Not sure what the deal is here but it sounds like you have a personal problem with Individual Computers. They're not deliberately creating a lock-in, they're just saying that it's only guaranteed to work with their add-ons. You're more than welcome to add your own accelerator cards, and most of them should work, it's just that they don't want the hassle of people coming crying back with "I bought your new motherboard and it doesn't work with my 25 year old CPU daughterboard" sort of complaints. This is especially important since many A1200 accelerators exceeded the A1200 bus signal specifications, requiring modification of the motherboard to get them working. If I was Individual Computers I wouldn't touch those old cards with a barge pole.
And that piggy-backing method of attaching expansions is a method that was in use 15 or 20 years ago by many vendors, it's only that Individual Computers are one of the very few left that are still manufacturing add-ons like that. And given that they've been around for 20 years and new motherboards are only coming on the market now, I can't see any possibly way that it's a conspiracy to generate sales of new motherboards. Care to suggest an alternative way of extracting the digital video signals from the custom chips on the motherboard? Or the keyboard MPU signals? I build custom hardware myself and I use the same connection method. It's not ideal, no, but other than soldering directly to the chips, there's no other way of doing it. I even have some hardware (not from Individual computers) installed that way for 15 years without causing problems, and adaptors I've built myself working that way for 10 years.
Why not? Some people like using their Amigas for some retro gaming fun. I regularly have some Sensible Soccer tournaments for example. While my Amigas aren't that yellow and I'm not that bothered about their appearance, it would be nice for some people to be able to roll out their Amigas with a brand new case. Think of it like people buying new panels to replace battered or rusty ones on their old cars.
There was talk of another Kickstarter for new keyboards if the case turned out to be successful...
I haven't used RF video on any of my Amigas in about 20 years since it's pretty rubbish and far better options were available as standard.
As others have said though, this case also works for the Raspberry Pi and Pi 2.
The national broadcaster in Ireland already does this on their internet streaming service. I wouldn't even mind so much except that I also have to listen to the advertising they broadcast, in addition to paying for the service via the Irish TV licence system.
I raised a ticket about the issue, haven't heard back...
Indeed, I know someone close to me who tends to leave her email logged in permanently on her computer. It's a computer I've had to fix in the past, and opening the email provider's main page brings you straight to her inbox. In there, she had emails from her registration on various sex sites (not on AM, mind you), but all there in plain view along with various personal mails arranging meetups and so on. She is married, and while I don't know whether her husband is in on this or not, I'm pretty sure she'd be devastated if that information ended up out in the open.
Most average users don't consider that they need to create a layer of anonymity for things like this. They presume things just work as expected and that there isn't any other possibility. Perhaps this being all over the mainstream news will start to awaken people to the risks and encourage an improvement in the control of their own personal data.
I only recently updated my PC from XP to Windows 7, because for the first time XP wasn't able to fulfil my needs. I wanted to play Elite: Dangerous, and while I could've messed around getting the latest DirectX and graphics drivers working under XP, I decided it was finally the time to move on... to 7. And I'll probably stay with 7 for many years to come, so long as it works for me.
Windows, to me, is just a tool to get things done, and so long as it does its job, I have precisely zero other interest in it. Linux is more or less the same too, I'm well over switching distros to see what they're like every month or two. Other operating systems are different though, and I will update my Amiga OS / MorphOS machines as soon as an update appears because they're far more interesting to me OS-wise.
That reminds me, I should really update my Haiku installation...
Totally different from my interpretation of that notice. I see that as meaning they're not for public use, so the public shouldn't use them. I don't see how there's room for interpretation there...
All depends on your perspective really. For me, having the freedom to walk into a gun store and buy a gun is frightening, and I wouldn't like to live in a country like that.
And don't forget that TFL probably pay far less for their electricity than the average consumer, given the bulk discount they must get for powering an entire city's rail network.
There are non-standard sockets they should have fitted instead then, so only company authorised equipment can be plugged in. Simple and pretty much 100% effective.
As for the cost, it was probably far less than 10p, especially considering the enormous bulk discounts someone like TFL will get when purchasing their electricity. Sometimes publicity about wasting electricity by leaving chargers plugged in or equipment on standby can make people believe these things guzzle power. Bottom line, it would be impossible to measure the difference in power usage between two train journeys that was caused by someone plugging in a charger.
BeOS is excellent in that respect, and similar to Amiga OS in that and many other ways too. It's something I still miss, being able to click a button and see it react, knowing that even though my computer's 100% busy doing something, it still has time to acknowledge my request. Another aspect I would keep from Amiga OS is the ability to still manipulate an application's windows, even when it has a requester (dialog box in Windows parlance) open. So if some application is looking for attention, I can move, resize, send to the back or minimise its window and requester to get on with other work until I'm ready to deal with the open requester. The concept of screens (as opposed to multiple desktops as is standard on Linux distros) from Amiga OS, and the REXX messaging and scripting system is something that no other OS has done so nicely or comprehensively.
So, mostly Amiga OS things for my dream OS then ;)
From the FAQs:
"If you decide to manually enter your password on someone's Windows Phone instead of sharing access through WiFi Sense, make sure they can't see what you're typing when you enter it, then untick the Share network with my contacts checkbox before you tap Done to connect."
It means guest devices connected using your password will think your network is their network, and can share access with their contacts unless you untick the box.
No thanks.
Yep, usually you want a divide by zero to end up as either 0 or infinity, and you need to be able to decide between them so it makes sense to handle it manually. No OS is gonna look good telling you that there's 0 second(s) left on your download when your transfer stalls.
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Another project of mine was based around an old Amiga 600. I fitted it with some relays, a small hard drive, and a general purpose parallel bus to which I could connect various I/O modules including light sensors, IR remote receivers and even a small alphanumeric LCD. It was set up for controlling all the lights in my room, the stereo, the TV, and even the blinds. I had it set to open the blinds and turn on the lights to get me up for school (and later college), turn off the lights when nobody was in the room (it had a PIR sensor on it), and it could also be controller over serial so running a little web server on another computer let me log into it remotely to turn things on and off. Was very proud of it (I was 16 when I built it and wrote the software) and it ran non-stop for 3 years until I moved out for Uni.
It should still be up in my parents' attic at home...
Many years ago while at University, I had a Nokia 3210. Great phone, but rubbish NiMH battery. Once it started to go flat during the day, it meant I had trouble getting my parents to pick me up from the train station and had to use a phone box (remember them?). So, I added a small power port to the side of the phone that allowed direct connection to the battery through a diode, and made a custom connector that would let me connect this port to the headphone remote port on my MiniDisc player. This gave out around 3.3V, which was enough after the diode drop to power up the phone and let me make a quick call.
I thought it was awesome as a cash-strapped student - all I had to carry around was this extra wire since I already had the MD player with me, and it was long before the availability of these USB power packs. Kids don't know how easy they have it these days ;)
Why would the centre of gravity move just because the rover is on the moon? Is the heavy end of a hammer still heavier than the light end on the moon? Of course it is. The overall weight may have changed, but it hasn't changed shape and the matter hasn't somehow shifted around.
True, though it would take roughly a six times longer slide down a slope to build up the same amount of momentum as it would on Earth.
Yep, this year will be the year that Linux takes over the desktop. Just like last year. And the year before. And the year before. And you know the rest...
I use Linux on a number of machines and across platforms. Recently, all the systems I had Ubuntu installed on all had problems after updating. Cryptic/useless error messages, problems updating, problems with graphics drivers. All because some components were upgraded. There was quite a lot of messing about to sort them out, and in the end I switched two of them do a different distro to save all the hassle. But one of the machines was in my parents' house, so in this case it *was* a crappy experience for an average user, as well as the techy user (me) who had to go and reinstall it just so they could print something off. Of course the forums were full of "just enter this command" or "just remove these lines from a conf file", but that sort of thing is just not acceptable for the average user.
Well you're clearly way off the mark here. In what world of mathematics is 1 out of 1,750 equal to 0.5%? Even 2 out of 1,750 is far lower than 0.5%, and that's assuming that nobody gets both side-effects. It makes me wonder where those numbers came from in the first place. Anyway, given that it's vaccinating against a number of diseases that can be fatal (pertussis alone has a mortality rate somewhere above 4%, and that's just one component of the vaccine and not counting any other effects of the disease on survivors), it seems obvious that there's a far greater risk of harm to my child from not being vaccinated than from being vaccinated.
Indeed, I've prototyped some wireless controllers myself, not particularly difficult or expensive at that sort of level. Complicated software does quickly spiral out of control however, but wireless standards (including the hardware in the form of ICs or complete modules) exist and are cheap and easy to implement.