I hate to say it but that's actually kinda cool in an AOL way...
It does all begin to add up, though, as a cool download thing (somehow) and a bunch of Windows components. And I'm very suspicious that he might be doing some funny cacheing.
They've claimed that a 16 year old student has written 780,000 lines of code. That it combines a browser accelerated way beyond what anyone else has ever claimed (and that could potentially run faster, just doesn't yet), multi-format media player (actually, I don't want to watch DVDs in a little side window while browsing the web, thanks...) a meta search engine and an avatar-based help system?
That's massive work _and_ a revolutionary breakthrough. If he's that good - and in a way that others hadn't thought of despite the efforts of several of the world's largest companies going into browser and network research - then this is remarkable. But without hard evidence (or even a mention on the competition's admittedly poor website) this just sounds way too much like a scam.
That's from a TV company and out of date. Worrying, too, because their commentator used to regularly point out the automatic shifting when doing their regular 'follow a car onboard for one lap to show you the track' feature.
F1 gearboxes are automated manuals with driver override, and have been permitted to be so since the Spanish GP in 2001.
http://www.fia.com/regle/REG_TEC/F1/F1-Reglement s- techniques-2002-a.pdf (minus the space as always) is the governing body's opinion on this and it's page 18, article 9.3 you want to see. Any automatic bar a CVT is permissible and well, if you want to try putting a CVT in a car with 800BHP then be my guest:-)
Dragsters put out truly massive torque. Unless you have a perfect differential and are driving across Black Rock desert after it's been smoothed and flattened some more, you _will_ get torque steer. It's apparently quite hard work to keep them straight.
I'm not actually a drag racing fan but it's a lot harder than you make it sound.
No, the British government is annoyed at the current situation where:
* Person is accused of a charge which could be convicted by a magistrate (cheap) * Person pleads innocent, and so must be sent to a crown court with a jury (expensive). * In the mean time, they must be held on remand (disruptive to the prison system, expensive) * When they arrive at the crown court, judge fished out and jury assembled, they plead guilty.
They get the same sentence as they would have got had they entered their plea right at the start but they've wasted the system's time and money due to their belief that remand is a softer regime than once they're convicted (and it counts for time against their eventual sentence). This is silly and stopping it makes sense, even if this isn't necessarily the way to do it. It's not about abuse of human rights but stopping an abuse of the current system that wastes time and money.
The reason the code was still running after launch at all was that it was related to rocket gyroscope calibration and took a long time to set up. By setting it to carry on after launch as opposed to shutting down bang on takeoff was that, if there was a late abort, there could also be a really quick restart because they didn't have to recalibrate. This was sensible and was used at least once.
What wasn't sensible was:
* Carrying over code from Ariane 4 to 5 without checking the spec for differences, as it overflowed unprotected due to a ground speed reading Ariane 4 couldn't have achieved
* Having a redundant backup that was identical on the assumption that they'd only need one for random hardware failure. With this as a software failure, the two went almost simultaneously.
Gun toting thugs in the UK regularly aren't actually toting guns but replicas. I mean, what's the point? A replica gets people just as scared but you won't get put away for so long if they catch you and it's almost impossible to kill someone. And there are so few guns in non-criminal hands (essentially because there's so few legal ways to hold them) that you aren't likely to be facing one so don't need one to win the arms race. When the popuplation are significantly likely to be armed then so must be the robbers, at which point it gets circular. Anyway, last I heard the person most likely to be shot by the robbery victim's gun was the robbery victim, or another member of their family.
Criminals will have guns, period. No way round that that doesn't totally destroy civil liberties. What I want to do is reduce the chance of them needing guns or of of non-criminals having incidental guns with tragic consequences.
FWIW, I'm still anti-guns for the simple, practical reason that if I fly into a murderous rage I haven't got a practical way to kill all that many without serious planning, whereas if guns were readily available I would have.
Yes, and that's the same sort of resolution as most keyboarded PDAs - which are much the best, after all
I have to say I agree with this idea, but you don't use the custom chips. You use the existing RTG standards and then put in whatever cheap GFX and sound controllers you can get. It worked for the Draco after all...
Yes, it won't run most AOS stuff out of the box but they're not really designed for a PDA anyway. The point is, it would be relatively cheap hardware with a clean, simple, easily extensible OS that's already well understood by developers. I strongly suspect it would have happened years ago if it wasn't for Amiga's various financial and ownership questions.
I really don't care about UID numbers either, or karma levels, just demonstrating that I'm not a newbie.
I just disagree with the Linux supporters, who I don't believe are actually grounded in reality here. I've heard the arguments, I've seen the progress, I just disagree with them.
UID 5k below you, at or around the kap since its introduction and well aware of Linux.
It's not up to the job for most people and part of that is that there's an awful lot of software that people need that can't just be moved across to Linux and doesn't have a direct equivalent.
Be honest, it can't just replace Windows across the board.
How much power do Sony have to force things down our throats, though?
If a new Sony TV comes with a feature that means it will only work with Sony DVD players, I just wouldn't buy it. If Sony's films require me to buy special 3D glasses to see the projection in an effort to stop people taking camcorders into cinemas, I probably wouldn't see them. If Sony's albums don't play on my computer I won't buy them.
If MS decide they want to do pretty much anything with Windows, I probably don't have a choice but to take it and live with it.
Sony may well have more money and influence in more areas - but they're an awful lot easier to replace than Microsoft. If Sony went under people would notice - if MS went under (yes, both are extremely fanciful) then we'd have serious economic problems.
Sales tax is regressionary: we all have to eat, live somewhere, by clothes etc etc etc.
Essentially, the poorer you are, the higher the percentage of your income that you have to spend to save is - which ought to be pretty obvious. So, if we remove income taxes but bump up sales taxes, we end up with a bunch more poor people - which causes all sorts of problems, but this isn't the place to discuss them.
So you didn't like the features. You're quite welcome to that opinion.
Fact is, I still seriously dislike Unix-family OSs from a user experience point of view. The Amiga was just really, really nice to work with. I could tinker for hours in almost complete safety, all sorts of things that you think ought to be possible were.
I used to characterise it as the best of MacOS' user experience combined with the best of DOS' power - but with extra cool bits. Unix doesn't do that for me, Windows most definitely doesn't so I want to see what they can do with new Amigas.
I've had this discussion many times on the various Amiga lists over the years. I started out with your position.
The problem, though, is that there's so many hardware companies out there making the new stuff that no independent custom solution could hope to compete.
The OS, on the other hand, still has heaps of cool features. That really nice shell, easily modifiable startup sequences. Twin state icons with proper information backing them up. Really nice handling of devices, libraries, fonts and so on. Datatypes. I could go on...
The hardware, done now, isn't a sensible dream. The OS is. So, for those who liked the OS, why not try that? If that doesn't appeal to you then no matter.
I'm a little worried about all these people who seem to only like 25% of most of their albums... Personally, I buy from good bands and probably like 60-70% of tracks on average. I've got albums way below that, sure, but if you buy from decent musicians the hit rate is normally well clear that.
As a music fan, though, it bothers me that this might become the standard. If it does, we'll hit two problems. Artists won't have an incentive to put out the really cool tracks because they don't get the radio airplay and so don't sell in this 'I can buy only the singles' business model. Yes, it's cool in some ways but it'll hurt in others because they lose any incentive to put out the non-radio friendly songs, which tend to be easily my favourites.
Two, I don't want all by albums to sound like the radio. I want an ablum that develops and has structure as a whole, rather than is just a series of songs. First example that springs to mind is Santana's 'Supernatural' - an album which builds beautifully. Stick the last track at the start and it'd sound daft. Or the first in the middle.
Album song order has a purpose and I don't want that incentive to go.
Surely as long as you know it's going to do that, you can peg your level at pretty close to what you've got at the moment with a constant supply of _any_ piece, alternating S and Zs included? You'll lose one line to the initial gaps but that's it.
Tetris can ultimately defeat you I suspect, but that doesn't seem to be the way.
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I hate to say it but that's actually kinda cool in an AOL way...
It does all begin to add up, though, as a cool download thing (somehow) and a bunch of Windows components. And I'm very suspicious that he might be doing some funny cacheing.
Speaking as a 56k user no, it can't make that much difference. I could agree with you about the windows components thingy.
It's the avatar that gets me, though. Just can't see how (or even why) it's there.
They've claimed that a 16 year old student has written 780,000 lines of code. That it combines a browser accelerated way beyond what anyone else has ever claimed (and that could potentially run faster, just doesn't yet), multi-format media player (actually, I don't want to watch DVDs in a little side window while browsing the web, thanks...) a meta search engine and an avatar-based help system?
That's massive work _and_ a revolutionary breakthrough. If he's that good - and in a way that others hadn't thought of despite the efforts of several of the world's largest companies going into browser and network research - then this is remarkable. But without hard evidence (or even a mention on the competition's admittedly poor website) this just sounds way too much like a scam.
E's not really a scripting language but I don't know it well so why not have a look at the author's web page over at http://wouter.fov120.com/e/
You'd never sell C.5 in the UK, though, because of Clive Sinclair's efforts. Have a look over at http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/vehicles/c5.htm
That's from a TV company and out of date. Worrying, too, because their commentator used to regularly point out the automatic shifting when doing their regular 'follow a car onboard for one lap to show you the track' feature.
t s- techniques-2002-a.pdf (minus the space as always) is the governing body's opinion on this and it's page 18, article 9.3 you want to see. Any automatic bar a CVT is permissible and well, if you want to try putting a CVT in a car with 800BHP then be my guest :-)
F1 gearboxes are automated manuals with driver override, and have been permitted to be so since the Spanish GP in 2001.
http://www.fia.com/regle/REG_TEC/F1/F1-Reglemen
No, they don't. They used to but modern F1 gearboxes are automatic. Programmable and with a driver override but they're autos.
Before anyone worries, no, they don't use torque converters... They're automated manuals.
Er, no.
Dragsters put out truly massive torque. Unless you have a perfect differential and are driving across Black Rock desert after it's been smoothed and flattened some more, you _will_ get torque steer. It's apparently quite hard work to keep them straight.
I'm not actually a drag racing fan but it's a lot harder than you make it sound.
Like Joey Tribbiani's famous 'smell the fart' acting?
Oh no...
No, the British government is annoyed at the current situation where:
* Person is accused of a charge which could be convicted by a magistrate (cheap)
* Person pleads innocent, and so must be sent to a crown court with a jury (expensive).
* In the mean time, they must be held on remand (disruptive to the prison system, expensive)
* When they arrive at the crown court, judge fished out and jury assembled, they plead guilty.
They get the same sentence as they would have got had they entered their plea right at the start but they've wasted the system's time and money due to their belief that remand is a softer regime than once they're convicted (and it counts for time against their eventual sentence). This is silly and stopping it makes sense, even if this isn't necessarily the way to do it. It's not about abuse of human rights but stopping an abuse of the current system that wastes time and money.
Yup, that's roughly it, data overflowed.
The reason the code was still running after launch at all was that it was related to rocket gyroscope calibration and took a long time to set up. By setting it to carry on after launch as opposed to shutting down bang on takeoff was that, if there was a late abort, there could also be a really quick restart because they didn't have to recalibrate. This was sensible and was used at least once.
What wasn't sensible was:
* Carrying over code from Ariane 4 to 5 without checking the spec for differences, as it overflowed unprotected due to a ground speed reading Ariane 4 couldn't have achieved
* Having a redundant backup that was identical on the assumption that they'd only need one for random hardware failure. With this as a software failure, the two went almost simultaneously.
Gun toting thugs in the UK regularly aren't actually toting guns but replicas. I mean, what's the point? A replica gets people just as scared but you won't get put away for so long if they catch you and it's almost impossible to kill someone. And there are so few guns in non-criminal hands (essentially because there's so few legal ways to hold them) that you aren't likely to be facing one so don't need one to win the arms race. When the popuplation are significantly likely to be armed then so must be the robbers, at which point it gets circular. Anyway, last I heard the person most likely to be shot by the robbery victim's gun was the robbery victim, or another member of their family.
Criminals will have guns, period. No way round that that doesn't totally destroy civil liberties. What I want to do is reduce the chance of them needing guns or of of non-criminals having incidental guns with tragic consequences.
FWIW, I'm still anti-guns for the simple, practical reason that if I fly into a murderous rage I haven't got a practical way to kill all that many without serious planning, whereas if guns were readily available I would have.
Yes, and that's the same sort of resolution as most keyboarded PDAs - which are much the best, after all
I have to say I agree with this idea, but you don't use the custom chips. You use the existing RTG standards and then put in whatever cheap GFX and sound controllers you can get. It worked for the Draco after all...
Yes, it won't run most AOS stuff out of the box but they're not really designed for a PDA anyway. The point is, it would be relatively cheap hardware with a clean, simple, easily extensible OS that's already well understood by developers. I strongly suspect it would have happened years ago if it wasn't for Amiga's various financial and ownership questions.
Because they tried to reach their own site and got a blocked message, concievably?
Who gave this a +1?
... whose council legendarily had the same problem with an e-mail filter application blocking everything :-)
(Can anyone confirm if that's true or not?)
I really don't care about UID numbers either, or karma levels, just demonstrating that I'm not a newbie.
I just disagree with the Linux supporters, who I don't believe are actually grounded in reality here. I've heard the arguments, I've seen the progress, I just disagree with them.
UID 5k below you, at or around the kap since its introduction and well aware of Linux.
It's not up to the job for most people and part of that is that there's an awful lot of software that people need that can't just be moved across to Linux and doesn't have a direct equivalent.
Be honest, it can't just replace Windows across the board.
How much power do Sony have to force things down our throats, though?
If a new Sony TV comes with a feature that means it will only work with Sony DVD players, I just wouldn't buy it. If Sony's films require me to buy special 3D glasses to see the projection in an effort to stop people taking camcorders into cinemas, I probably wouldn't see them. If Sony's albums don't play on my computer I won't buy them.
If MS decide they want to do pretty much anything with Windows, I probably don't have a choice but to take it and live with it.
Sony may well have more money and influence in more areas - but they're an awful lot easier to replace than Microsoft. If Sony went under people would notice - if MS went under (yes, both are extremely fanciful) then we'd have serious economic problems.
Buy clothes, sorry...
:-)
Spotted that as I pressed Submit. Typical
Sales tax is regressionary: we all have to eat, live somewhere, by clothes etc etc etc.
Essentially, the poorer you are, the higher the percentage of your income that you have to spend to save is - which ought to be pretty obvious. So, if we remove income taxes but bump up sales taxes, we end up with a bunch more poor people - which causes all sorts of problems, but this isn't the place to discuss them.
Anyway, I vote no and that's why.
So you didn't like the features. You're quite welcome to that opinion.
Fact is, I still seriously dislike Unix-family OSs from a user experience point of view. The Amiga was just really, really nice to work with. I could tinker for hours in almost complete safety, all sorts of things that you think ought to be possible were.
I used to characterise it as the best of MacOS' user experience combined with the best of DOS' power - but with extra cool bits. Unix doesn't do that for me, Windows most definitely doesn't so I want to see what they can do with new Amigas.
I've had this discussion many times on the various Amiga lists over the years. I started out with your position.
The problem, though, is that there's so many hardware companies out there making the new stuff that no independent custom solution could hope to compete.
The OS, on the other hand, still has heaps of cool features. That really nice shell, easily modifiable startup sequences. Twin state icons with proper information backing them up. Really nice handling of devices, libraries, fonts and so on. Datatypes. I could go on...
The hardware, done now, isn't a sensible dream. The OS is. So, for those who liked the OS, why not try that? If that doesn't appeal to you then no matter.
If we think about it, Chess is only requiring a lot of processing on the client side. It's a waste of CPU power but nothing more.
I remember being rather more impressed when a friend wrote a Tetris clone in JavaScript. Interactive, real-time processing in JavaScript? Well done.
I'm a little worried about all these people who seem to only like 25% of most of their albums... Personally, I buy from good bands and probably like 60-70% of tracks on average. I've got albums way below that, sure, but if you buy from decent musicians the hit rate is normally well clear that.
As a music fan, though, it bothers me that this might become the standard. If it does, we'll hit two problems. Artists won't have an incentive to put out the really cool tracks because they don't get the radio airplay and so don't sell in this 'I can buy only the singles' business model. Yes, it's cool in some ways but it'll hurt in others because they lose any incentive to put out the non-radio friendly songs, which tend to be easily my favourites.
Two, I don't want all by albums to sound like the radio. I want an ablum that develops and has structure as a whole, rather than is just a series of songs. First example that springs to mind is Santana's 'Supernatural' - an album which builds beautifully. Stick the last track at the start and it'd sound daft. Or the first in the middle.
Album song order has a purpose and I don't want that incentive to go.
Surely as long as you know it's going to do that, you can peg your level at pretty close to what you've got at the moment with a constant supply of _any_ piece, alternating S and Zs included? You'll lose one line to the initial gaps but that's it.
Tetris can ultimately defeat you I suspect, but that doesn't seem to be the way.
That sort of phenomenon is pretty common. There are apparently several Mount Mountains in the world.
One solid example I can think of is the River Avon in western England. Afon means river in the old local dialect...
Anyway, the story I'd heard is that it's a corruption of 'Caneda' or nothing there, which would seem rather appropriate...
(Aside - last proper holiday I took was to Canada. The country is beautiful, the people are friendly. But it's really pretty empty.)