Look at the technology and effort that went into Daikatana.... without anybody ever playing the game to see if it was fun.
Ah, but that implies that there was actually *effort* put into it. Far more effort was made marketing the game than making the game...Suffice it to say that anyone who shelled out $50 on launch day for that game was certainly made John Romero's bitch.
I'm kinda curious about the performance differences on legacy apps running on StrongARM hardware. Since the Tungsten uses an OMAP 1510, how efficiently does the emulation layer run older apps?
Any compatibility issues? Does HackMaster still work, or is it too hardware-specific?
Any performance comparisons between a tiny natively-compiled app and an equivalently-designed legacy app? Does PalmOS 5 still work on MIPS, or is it now ARM-only? In other words, is there opportunity for some decent performance benchmarking on the platform?
Ha...I've never seen that site before. Out of curiosity, I went hunting for the WHOIS records...
[whois.opensrs.net]
Registrant:
j0n katz
1313 Mockingbird Lane
Collierville, TN 38017
US
Domain Name: BASHDOT.ORG
Administrative Contact:
katz, j0n j0nkatz@hotmail.com
1313 Mockingbird Lane
Collierville, TN 38017
US
+1.5555555
Technical Contact:
Domain, Direct dnstech@domaindirect.com
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, ON M6K 3M1
CA
+1.4165350123
Fax: +1.4165312516 ------------------ Someone obviously has a sense of humor around here...:)
As a note to all the people suggesting alternative forms of transportation...
In my area, there are none. The only Greyhound route that goes remotely close to where we live (which is a rather populated and rapidly growing area I might add) terminates an hour east of where we're from. It's also $120 per person for all of five hours of travel.
Similarly, the Amtrak routes are prohibitive. We'd have to drive 90 minutes to get to either of the train stations, and even then the train stops more than an hour away. The timings don't match up in a way such that we can jump trains to catch one that goes across the coast where we live (The evening train runs too late). And it's still around $100 per person round-trip. Also, this is Amtrak we're talking about. The last time I took the train was two years ago when my car got stolen. They may not even be running that route anymore, given their incredible funds shortage.
I live in a college town with an average enrollment of 17,000 students. There's another college less than half an hour from here with another 2500 students, giving us a college population in this area of nearly 20,000. Also, the population of the towns and cities in this area is collectively over 75,000, not counting the transient college population. There's little reason for us to have virtually no long-distance transportation to/from this area...but hey. There it is.
Legislation banning the use of mobile phones in cars is spurring car manufactures to look for alternatives such as Bluetooth.
Gee...it's too bad their vision is sp clouded by dollar signs that they can't see what the customer *really* wants.
Why do people talk on cellphones? Because they want to be more productive...whether it's just chatting with a friend about whatever, or talking to the spouse about what to pick up at the store, or getting your ass chewed by the boss for missing a deadline...Cellphones are useful because they allow us to be productive during time when life is otherwise wasted.
Hold your screams for a minute.
I attend college around five hours from my hometown. Whenever me and my girlfriend decide we want to go home for the weekend, that 48 hour weekend is chopped down to 38 hours, since we lose 10 hours in travel time. That's time that I can't do anything useful with...study, read, play a game, nothing.
Perhaps automobile manufacturers should get past the marketing hype and actually market a feature that customers want and have been sociologically clamoring for the last decade - Self-driving cars. I would easily pay double the price of a current car model to get a car that drives without my assistance or attention. Think about how much time you lose in a year to driving. You could be working in the car on the way to the office and counting it as your work time. You could be spending time with your family while you're on the way to see the parents. You could be watching a movie while you're in the middle of a boring ten-hour drive to San Antonio or whatever.
This is a really stupid move on the part of car manufacturers, as it shows them trying to solve customer needs on the path of least resistance. I think they're approaching the problem from the wrong end, though. We have the technology to solve the problem...and with economies 'round the world in the crapper, this would be an *ideal* way to jumpstart the manufacturing sector. Self-driving cars would reduce insurance premiums, make roadways safer, and increase quality of life. How many people do you know that would instantly go out and buy a new car to get this wasted time back? I know I would...
What the hell...it's only karma...
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Mark me as troll if you want. I don't give a shit.
90% of the posts in this thread are all "Holier Than Thou"-type Slashdot posts from fellow geeks that obviously feel some sort of insecurity about their own lives and are thus insulting those that use weblogs.
I don't use a weblog to achieve an inflated sense of importance or to boost my ego. I use it to keep track of what my friends and I are doing. A year from now, we'll have all graduated college, and it's nice to be able to keep tabs on everyone's day-to-day events...and to continue to do so even when we've gone our separate ways.
Just because you *think* the Internet is full of 12-year-old girlie bloggers discussing the drab details of their lives doesn't mean it's the truth. And even if it was, who appointed you "critic of all those lowly masses"? Get a life of your own, man...
My girlfriend's Kyocera QCP-6035 has software available as part of its SDK that lets you convert 8-bit mono.WAVs to ringtones. I recorded the Chocobo music from Final Fantasy IV and made that a ringtone for her. Just record your.WAV, run the software on it (It's CLI), put the new.PDB in your sync folder, and sync. Just watch out for the filesizes, though, as they tend to be on the hefty size.
Then again, this was about a 30-second clip I made...so a regular sound clip would probably take less than 100K.
I'm not too familiar with the Linux community, but seeing as how I develop 3rd-party software for Microsoft products (which will be open-sourced upon completion), and I'm 22, is it true that most Linux developers are really 13? Linus Torvalds looks *so* much older than that!
And that poor, poor Ricky Stallman...He's way too young to have facial hair like that...
Not to replace one monopoly with another, but there is something to be said about having tight restrictions on the hardware platform...
That said...now that OS X is running on the Mach/BSD/whatever kernel, let's hope that better hardware abstraction starts coming into play, such that Mac hardware compatibility becomes less of an issue...
Yeah...I'll give you that. They already take this for granted in cellphone (and landline) logs that if your cellphone was used to call a particular number, it was likely you doing the calling (or receiving, as the case may be).
Heh...I'm a troll for that comment...Someone in moderator-land is having a bad day...
This can, and has been used by the police to, for example, prove that a certain person has been at a certain location at a certain time.
Incorrect. This cannot prove that a certain person has been at a certain location at a certain time. It can only prove that a certain cellphone has been at a certain location at a certain time.
The yahoo article had some quote from AOL saying somehting about its copyrights on "Gone with the WInd" and "The Wizard of Oz" would be "threatened". as if thats a bad bad thing. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT for crying out loud.
Its insane. Absolutly insane that these people have zero regard for anything but themselves, I have to admitt, it disgusts me sometimes that I live in this society.
Boy, did you ever hit the nail on the head. That quote was by Jack Valenti.:D
Electronic shopping lists could be a real blessing for parents, specially those of young kids. Imagine putting your shopping list into your palm, then either syncing it with the grocery stores website or walking into the grocery store and beaming the shopping list to the store's computer. You can then sit at the coffee shop (more business for the store!) while someone packs your groceries for you and brings them over.
Probably won't happen, for the same reason that a lot of good things don't happen - money.
If I program my list into my PDA and sync it to the grocery store, I probably about brands enough to also record which brand of something I want. That leaves it open to interpretation. Imagine the nightmare of having to resolve vaguely shopping items with a database of similar matches...50 times (an assumed average number of items for a shopping trip).
This means that, ultimately, certain brands would likely get weeded out, as they'd lose their shelf visibility, and thus their marketability. Price would soon be the only attracting option for those purchases...and you'd probably be a lot less inclined to invest in the purchase since you probably don't know the brand name (since you were never in the store to see it).
Also, stores don't just put on sales to attract customers to shop there. Sometimes it's a calculated risk. Let's say (fake numbers) that I have a $0.20 margin on a gallon of milk. If I lower the price by $0.10, and it sells three times as much, I've still made money. Most of us have been in college before...What happens when you see "8 for a dollar" ramen noodles? You stock up, right? If you don't ever go in the store to see the prices, you'll likely be a lot less inclined toward impulse purchasing of stuff like that. Also in the impulse-purchasing category, you wouldn't see some other things in the store that you would consider purchasing, only to let it sit in your pantry or fridge.
It's unfortunate that all this is the case, of course. It's rather likely that all these boosted sales would be outweighed by the cost-savings of implementing a fully-electronic store. Logistics would be a one-time expense...you'd need fewer staff...and costs would go down. Naturally, though, the corps only see things in terms of profit and growth...
Could NCSX be next? They don't sell modchips, but they do sell pre-modded systems for playing multi-region games. Far from hurting Microsoft, yes...but we know how nasty those lawyers get when they haven't had anything to do in a while...
"This is a landmark settlement to address years of illegal price-fixing," Spitzer said in a statement. "Our agreement will provide consumers with substantial refunds
No it won't! The suit was filed two years ago. $67.4M divided over all the CDs distributed by the labels ends up being fewer than pennies per consumer. At best, I'd expect little more than a $5 coupon off my next overpriced music purchase. The settlement also doesn't do anything to address future infringement.
and result in the distribution of a wide variety of recordings for use in our schools and communities."
You've apparently never done any development work with FS2K. I'm working on a research project where we're forcing pilots to fly pre-configured IFR flight scripts, and it's a nightmare. We *cannot* make the plane situation files start a plane in straight and level flight, no matter what. It's not an isolated problem either.
I've set a plane into a ten-minute straight-and-level flight, saved the flight situation file, immediately reloaded it, and the plane would dip down as if it were starting at a slower speed and was trying to catch up.
I'll grant that Flight Simulator is a good product, but it's far from perfect. Unfortunately, like many other products, its presence on the market hinders the availability and viability of other unique and competitive products like Flight Unlimited.
I haven't read the article, but something I'm sure that's being overlooked here:
Let's say that 90% of the people in the country are eligible to get broadband. What does that mean? Does that mean they live in a city where it's provided? Does it mean that they live in a "bubble" radius from a DSLAM-equipped CO? Or does it mean that n telephone circuits have been checked to be eligible and capable of DSL?
Quite a lot of people that I predict are "eligible" are actually living in homes where they aren't allowed to conduct maintenance. In other words, if I live in a condo with telephone wiring from the 60's or 70's, it could very well be incapable of handling DSL. Do you think my landlord is going to fork over the money to have all the wiring redone with new cable so that one or a few whiny tenants can get broadband? Same goes with cable. I've got a friend in an apartment who loses his sync at least once an hour or so because the coax run through the building is in pretty sorry shape, and many of his friends are in the same boat. Nobody wants to replace the wiring because it's too troublesome and expensive for the few squeaky wheels that want it...let alone the masses that don't realize the benefits of it. Forget the last-mile problem...now we're dealing with the last-six-inches problem.
They're just trying to draw out a superhero, like in Unbreakable! I mean, come on! Dropping a bus full of tourists from a plane at 15,000 feet? Why don't they also get a second plane, fill it full of young women that have relationships with teenage/20-something men, and drop them all at the same time?
Instant superhero's dilemma!
You're bound to get a Superman or Spiderman from that!
That "kid" would be me.:)...Formerly of SLCentral.com, which is where the article is (currently) hosted. I'm going to be migrating it to private hosting shortly, though.
Oh...and naturally, Kyle and Duckman offered no credit to those who had tread the path before.
I wasn't the first, but I honestly thought I was at the time, and I credited the places where I got info from to help with the conversion. Kyle's seen my system before, as he linked to our article.
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Look at the technology and effort that went into Daikatana.... without anybody ever playing the game to see if it was fun.
Ah, but that implies that there was actually *effort* put into it. Far more effort was made marketing the game than making the game...Suffice it to say that anyone who shelled out $50 on launch day for that game was certainly made John Romero's bitch.
I'm kinda curious about the performance differences on legacy apps running on StrongARM hardware. Since the Tungsten uses an OMAP 1510, how efficiently does the emulation layer run older apps?
Any compatibility issues? Does HackMaster still work, or is it too hardware-specific?
Any performance comparisons between a tiny natively-compiled app and an equivalently-designed legacy app? Does PalmOS 5 still work on MIPS, or is it now ARM-only? In other words, is there opportunity for some decent performance benchmarking on the platform?
Ha...I've never seen that site before. Out of curiosity, I went hunting for the WHOIS records...
:)
[whois.opensrs.net] Registrant: j0n katz 1313 Mockingbird Lane Collierville, TN 38017 US Domain Name: BASHDOT.ORG Administrative Contact: katz, j0n j0nkatz@hotmail.com 1313 Mockingbird Lane Collierville, TN 38017 US +1.5555555 Technical Contact: Domain, Direct dnstech@domaindirect.com 96 Mowat Avenue Toronto, ON M6K 3M1 CA +1.4165350123 Fax: +1.4165312516
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Someone obviously has a sense of humor around here...
Dude! You're getting a...
Oh, never mind...this joke's getting old...
As a note to all the people suggesting alternative forms of transportation...
In my area, there are none. The only Greyhound route that goes remotely close to where we live (which is a rather populated and rapidly growing area I might add) terminates an hour east of where we're from. It's also $120 per person for all of five hours of travel.
Similarly, the Amtrak routes are prohibitive. We'd have to drive 90 minutes to get to either of the train stations, and even then the train stops more than an hour away. The timings don't match up in a way such that we can jump trains to catch one that goes across the coast where we live (The evening train runs too late). And it's still around $100 per person round-trip. Also, this is Amtrak we're talking about. The last time I took the train was two years ago when my car got stolen. They may not even be running that route anymore, given their incredible funds shortage.
I live in a college town with an average enrollment of 17,000 students. There's another college less than half an hour from here with another 2500 students, giving us a college population in this area of nearly 20,000. Also, the population of the towns and cities in this area is collectively over 75,000, not counting the transient college population. There's little reason for us to have virtually no long-distance transportation to/from this area...but hey. There it is.
Legislation banning the use of mobile phones in cars is spurring car manufactures to look for alternatives such as Bluetooth.
Gee...it's too bad their vision is sp clouded by dollar signs that they can't see what the customer *really* wants.
Why do people talk on cellphones? Because they want to be more productive...whether it's just chatting with a friend about whatever, or talking to the spouse about what to pick up at the store, or getting your ass chewed by the boss for missing a deadline...Cellphones are useful because they allow us to be productive during time when life is otherwise wasted.
Hold your screams for a minute.
I attend college around five hours from my hometown. Whenever me and my girlfriend decide we want to go home for the weekend, that 48 hour weekend is chopped down to 38 hours, since we lose 10 hours in travel time. That's time that I can't do anything useful with...study, read, play a game, nothing.
Perhaps automobile manufacturers should get past the marketing hype and actually market a feature that customers want and have been sociologically clamoring for the last decade - Self-driving cars. I would easily pay double the price of a current car model to get a car that drives without my assistance or attention. Think about how much time you lose in a year to driving. You could be working in the car on the way to the office and counting it as your work time. You could be spending time with your family while you're on the way to see the parents. You could be watching a movie while you're in the middle of a boring ten-hour drive to San Antonio or whatever.
This is a really stupid move on the part of car manufacturers, as it shows them trying to solve customer needs on the path of least resistance. I think they're approaching the problem from the wrong end, though. We have the technology to solve the problem...and with economies 'round the world in the crapper, this would be an *ideal* way to jumpstart the manufacturing sector. Self-driving cars would reduce insurance premiums, make roadways safer, and increase quality of life. How many people do you know that would instantly go out and buy a new car to get this wasted time back? I know I would...
Mark me as troll if you want. I don't give a shit.
90% of the posts in this thread are all "Holier Than Thou"-type Slashdot posts from fellow geeks that obviously feel some sort of insecurity about their own lives and are thus insulting those that use weblogs.
I don't use a weblog to achieve an inflated sense of importance or to boost my ego. I use it to keep track of what my friends and I are doing. A year from now, we'll have all graduated college, and it's nice to be able to keep tabs on everyone's day-to-day events...and to continue to do so even when we've gone our separate ways.
Just because you *think* the Internet is full of 12-year-old girlie bloggers discussing the drab details of their lives doesn't mean it's the truth. And even if it was, who appointed you "critic of all those lowly masses"? Get a life of your own, man...
It wouldn't be the first time Microsoft has blamed others for their own mistakes in marketing...
My girlfriend's Kyocera QCP-6035 has software available as part of its SDK that lets you convert 8-bit mono .WAVs to ringtones. I recorded the Chocobo music from Final Fantasy IV and made that a ringtone for her. Just record your .WAV, run the software on it (It's CLI), put the new .PDB in your sync folder, and sync. Just watch out for the filesizes, though, as they tend to be on the hefty size.
Then again, this was about a 30-second clip I made...so a regular sound clip would probably take less than 100K.
I'm not too familiar with the Linux community, but seeing as how I develop 3rd-party software for Microsoft products (which will be open-sourced upon completion), and I'm 22, is it true that most Linux developers are really 13? Linus Torvalds looks *so* much older than that!
And that poor, poor Ricky Stallman...He's way too young to have facial hair like that...
More Hardware Options, for Less Dough
I think it'd be more accurate to say:
More Hardware Options, for More "D'oh!"
Not to replace one monopoly with another, but there is something to be said about having tight restrictions on the hardware platform...
That said...now that OS X is running on the Mach/BSD/whatever kernel, let's hope that better hardware abstraction starts coming into play, such that Mac hardware compatibility becomes less of an issue...
Yeah...I'll give you that. They already take this for granted in cellphone (and landline) logs that if your cellphone was used to call a particular number, it was likely you doing the calling (or receiving, as the case may be).
Heh...I'm a troll for that comment...Someone in moderator-land is having a bad day...
This can, and has been used by the police to, for example, prove that a certain person has been at a certain location at a certain time.
Incorrect. This cannot prove that a certain person has been at a certain location at a certain time. It can only prove that a certain cellphone has been at a certain location at a certain time.
The yahoo article had some quote from AOL saying somehting about its copyrights on "Gone with the WInd" and "The Wizard of Oz" would be "threatened". as if thats a bad bad thing. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT for crying out loud.
:D
Its insane. Absolutly insane that these people have zero regard for anything but themselves, I have to admitt, it disgusts me sometimes that I live in this society.
Boy, did you ever hit the nail on the head. That quote was by Jack Valenti.
Electronic shopping lists could be a real blessing for parents, specially those of young kids. Imagine putting your shopping list into your palm, then either syncing it with the grocery stores website or walking into the grocery store and beaming the shopping list to the store's computer. You can then sit at the coffee shop (more business for the store!) while someone packs your groceries for you and brings them over.
Probably won't happen, for the same reason that a lot of good things don't happen - money.
If I program my list into my PDA and sync it to the grocery store, I probably about brands enough to also record which brand of something I want. That leaves it open to interpretation. Imagine the nightmare of having to resolve vaguely shopping items with a database of similar matches...50 times (an assumed average number of items for a shopping trip).
This means that, ultimately, certain brands would likely get weeded out, as they'd lose their shelf visibility, and thus their marketability. Price would soon be the only attracting option for those purchases...and you'd probably be a lot less inclined to invest in the purchase since you probably don't know the brand name (since you were never in the store to see it).
Also, stores don't just put on sales to attract customers to shop there. Sometimes it's a calculated risk. Let's say (fake numbers) that I have a $0.20 margin on a gallon of milk. If I lower the price by $0.10, and it sells three times as much, I've still made money. Most of us have been in college before...What happens when you see "8 for a dollar" ramen noodles? You stock up, right? If you don't ever go in the store to see the prices, you'll likely be a lot less inclined toward impulse purchasing of stuff like that. Also in the impulse-purchasing category, you wouldn't see some other things in the store that you would consider purchasing, only to let it sit in your pantry or fridge.
It's unfortunate that all this is the case, of course. It's rather likely that all these boosted sales would be outweighed by the cost-savings of implementing a fully-electronic store. Logistics would be a one-time expense...you'd need fewer staff...and costs would go down. Naturally, though, the corps only see things in terms of profit and growth...
So...erm...how many of these hosts have their interfaces set to "Promiscuous"?
Could NCSX be next? They don't sell modchips, but they do sell pre-modded systems for playing multi-region games. Far from hurting Microsoft, yes...but we know how nasty those lawyers get when they haven't had anything to do in a while...
I must ask a few things. First how do you pronounce 'Fukuoka'? The first 4 letters seem to stick out..
FU KEW OH KA
I think that, for a lot of people, that pronunciation would be unclear as well.
FOO KOO OH KA..To get the vowel sounds right, try saying You Two Go Blah. Don't elongate the vowel sounds, though - They're meant to be short.
"This is a landmark settlement to address years of illegal price-fixing," Spitzer said in a statement. "Our agreement will provide consumers with substantial refunds
No it won't! The suit was filed two years ago. $67.4M divided over all the CDs distributed by the labels ends up being fewer than pennies per consumer. At best, I'd expect little more than a $5 coupon off my next overpriced music purchase. The settlement also doesn't do anything to address future infringement.
and result in the distribution of a wide variety of recordings for use in our schools and communities."
Not under today's Fair Use laws...
You've apparently never done any development work with FS2K. I'm working on a research project where we're forcing pilots to fly pre-configured IFR flight scripts, and it's a nightmare. We *cannot* make the plane situation files start a plane in straight and level flight, no matter what. It's not an isolated problem either.
I've set a plane into a ten-minute straight-and-level flight, saved the flight situation file, immediately reloaded it, and the plane would dip down as if it were starting at a slower speed and was trying to catch up.
I'll grant that Flight Simulator is a good product, but it's far from perfect. Unfortunately, like many other products, its presence on the market hinders the availability and viability of other unique and competitive products like Flight Unlimited.
Well, the site is running IIS, so the five pro-MS people here could've overloaded it...
I haven't read the article, but something I'm sure that's being overlooked here:
Let's say that 90% of the people in the country are eligible to get broadband. What does that mean? Does that mean they live in a city where it's provided? Does it mean that they live in a "bubble" radius from a DSLAM-equipped CO? Or does it mean that n telephone circuits have been checked to be eligible and capable of DSL?
Quite a lot of people that I predict are "eligible" are actually living in homes where they aren't allowed to conduct maintenance. In other words, if I live in a condo with telephone wiring from the 60's or 70's, it could very well be incapable of handling DSL. Do you think my landlord is going to fork over the money to have all the wiring redone with new cable so that one or a few whiny tenants can get broadband? Same goes with cable. I've got a friend in an apartment who loses his sync at least once an hour or so because the coax run through the building is in pretty sorry shape, and many of his friends are in the same boat. Nobody wants to replace the wiring because it's too troublesome and expensive for the few squeaky wheels that want it...let alone the masses that don't realize the benefits of it. Forget the last-mile problem...now we're dealing with the last-six-inches problem.
They're just trying to draw out a superhero, like in Unbreakable! I mean, come on! Dropping a bus full of tourists from a plane at 15,000 feet? Why don't they also get a second plane, fill it full of young women that have relationships with teenage/20-something men, and drop them all at the same time?
Instant superhero's dilemma!
You're bound to get a Superman or Spiderman from that!
Does it explode discs at high-speed writing sessions? :D
That "kid" would be me. :) ...Formerly of SLCentral.com, which is where the article is (currently) hosted. I'm going to be migrating it to private hosting shortly, though.
Oh...and naturally, Kyle and Duckman offered no credit to those who had tread the path before.
I wasn't the first, but I honestly thought I was at the time, and I credited the places where I got info from to help with the conversion. Kyle's seen my system before, as he linked to our article.
Here's the URL if you're interested in reading it again. http://www.slcentral.com/articles/01/8/g4pc