I can't believe that Nike would force people to make their shoes at gunpoint! That's just sick and wrong, man! If they weren't being physically threatened to do such horrible work, they could get jobs at one of those much better paying local companies, right?
Heard of some of the recent factory fires in Asia where the workers were locked in and couldn't escape? Your shoe dollars at work. These countries do have set minimum wages (very low ones, admittedly), but companies like Nike pay maybe 10% of that to a worker.
If these ppl want a better life they need to make their country a better place to live by adopting a better form of goverment and by educating themselves.
Like Tiananmen Square, 1989? My money's on the side of the ones with the heavy artillery...
My best friend and I were successful in at least flipping Asteroids on the 2600, way back 1986 or so.
I recall flipping 2600 Defender over multiple times in a single playing session; the longest I could last was about 8 hours before pins & needles started to set in and I had to get up and walk around:) Much easier than the arcade version, though, so it was no great achievement...
Yes there are good PDF readers for the Amiga. Note that Amiga`s "Amiga World Magazines" has PDF and HTML versions.
I haven't turned my Amiga on for about 3 months:(. BTW, Amiga Inc. themselves couldn't care less about Classic Amiga users, except the money they can make from them -- OS 3.9 is all done by Haage & Partner, and their new 'OS' (Tao's stuff, etc) will either run natively, or hosted on other OSs (Win, Linux, etc.) I don't think they would care about Classic users when outputting their newsletter...
How does the AWeb browser perform? I saw some screenshots and was not impressed at all. Are you locked in 256 colours when using the Workbench or something?
AWeb performs well, I think; supports over 256 colours if you have an external graphics card. (16 or 24 bit graphics)
Also, does the QuickTime player support Sorenson (or any other CODEC introduced after QuickTime 2.x)?
I thought Apple had an exclusive license...
Does the Amiga have support for scalable fonts (Adobe Type1 or TrueType) in the GUI API or Toolkit (I don't mean bundled support with specific applications, like WP8 on Linux)?
As third party extensions to the OS, these both exist (transparent to programs expecting Agfa Compugraphic scalable fonts, which are what it ships with support for).
Well, the problem is that nobody has the balls to code for Xt. GTK+ might not be as bad as Motif, but it is pretty bad, compared to NT at least.
Doesn't it make sense for the people who know Xt well to spend their time implementing the fastest possible layer in between that and the user? i.e. working on things like GDK and thus GTK, Qt, etc.
You won't get the gains that you get with everyone coding raw Xt, but the improvements you get come with a whole lot less effort for 98% of programmers:)
I think you should ask David Lynch what he thinks of his movie Dune. He seemed embarrassed by it when I last saw him discussing it.
I heard that it has been the only movie that he didn't have creative control over (& the right to determine the final cut, etc.) The mish-mash that resulted mirrors the power structure(s) behind the creation of the film; there's an interesting book called "The Making of DUNE" which should be available in second-bookstores the world over, I know I've seen a few around:)
So if you had a Sparc -> Sparc binary translator you could make the thing run faster.
On the Amiga, with Motorola's 68000, 68020, 68030, 68040 and a few 68060, someone actually released a binary patcher that attempted to patch binaries compiled for lower processors to make them faster (use new instructions, avoid ones emulated on the newer chips and thus slower, etc.) It also attempted to patch some sub-optimal cases often produced by the main C compilers in the market.
Tended to work pretty well...
OK, completely irrelevant, but I thought you might be interested anyway:)
All too true -- but at least it increases shareholder value! If it makes them more money to deliver free mail slowly or not at all, who are we to argue:)
Hmmm... they'd need a spellbook of Mailman Summoning, hey and the Gnomish Mining Town could have a post office!
"Through rain, or snow..." Obviously the mailman would be well equipped with amulets of resistance:)
Worse yet, the game could treat your entire mailbox as an item (like a Bag of Holding), and if you happen to die or lose, it deletes the mail directory (if a nymph steal sit, the mail directory is moved ot a a random location until you get it back).
Ow, not cool. We were doing so well until that last bit...;)
Hey, what's the point in playing unless there's some danger?:)
I think we need to get this real-world integration thing happening:) Play an instrument -- out boom the MP3s! Scribble on a scroll -- show a random JPEG/PNG! Indeed, with massive bandwidth you could give these things to other players on a Network server -- forget Gnutella, forget Freenet, we want FreeNetHackella! It's the only model for filesharing -- we IPO in six months!:)
NetHack has a mailer daemon which comes up to you and delivers scrolls on which are written new emails which arrive while you play.
I haven't played NetHack for a while... but I have a suggestion for the next version: new item, the pre-stamped envelope of mail replying, that you can use to reply to a received mail, if you haven't been drenched/burnt etc and lost it:)
After early ISPs like Connect, Western Australia's Dialix and the now-defunct RUNX in Sydney set up, and browsers and the Web kicked in to keep bandwith use growing. Telstra eventually bought out the backbone in 1995, leaving AARNet with its original universities and CSIRO.
Huston, who is now Telstra's manger of data networks...
See, they did have something nefarious happen there:)
assuming you live on the east coast. i'm in adelaide, i have a foxtel cable socket in my wall, but there ain't no way they'll sell me net access through it.
why? because optus stopped their cable rollout when they ran out of money. stupid, stupid telstra... if this were a true competitive regime, i'd be able to get access over 33.6Kbps (I have a 56k modem that doesn't work, phone line is too bad).
Its amazing that such a fine example of fault-tolerent design can become so weak that a backhoe, anchor, or small localized earthquake can successfully disable so much capacity!
It cost big heap money to lay cables across big, deep oceans. Who's going to lay more than they can afford to?:)
Things were a bit slow for me on the night it happened, but this was probably Telstra's router problems as well. (This is an SA ISP using Telstra's backbone). It's been fine since then... of course, I'm unsure of whether my ISP has back-up supply arrangements, they do seem to go for the multiple degrees of redundancy, belt&suspenders type approach, which is nice:)
Telstra has several million enemies. Their marketing division try to spin things a bit tho' - they refer to them as customers.
Things haven't changed from the days of Telecom Australia, have they?:/
"Making it easy" for them to rip you off, is all they do -- and they drag their feet with all their anti-competitive acts (local loop access is the most recent example) -- and they get into bed with Rupert Murdoch (Foxtel) while still government-owned -- and I could go on...
Anyway, no real point, I just wanted to vent some at Telstra:)
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I don't *really* think the government has set out to screw the local IT sector.
Given the "living in the '50s" attitude of Mr. Howard, et. al., it wouldn't surprise me one bit.
I can't believe that Nike would force people to make their shoes at gunpoint! That's just sick and wrong, man! If they weren't being physically threatened to do such horrible work, they could get jobs at one of those much better paying local companies, right?
Heard of some of the recent factory fires in Asia where the workers were locked in and couldn't escape? Your shoe dollars at work. These countries do have set minimum wages (very low ones, admittedly), but companies like Nike pay maybe 10% of that to a worker.
If these ppl want a better life they need to make their country a better place to live by adopting a better form of goverment and by educating themselves.
Like Tiananmen Square, 1989? My money's on the side of the ones with the heavy artillery...
There were no witches in 'Hamlet', you're probably thinking of 'MacBeth'
:)
Shakespere didn't write 'Hamlet' or 'The Scottish Play', you're probably thinking of Shakespeare.
Aren't singular tags closed inside that tag in XHTML? Like this:
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<br
My best friend and I were successful in at least flipping Asteroids on the 2600, way back 1986 or so.
:) Much easier than the arcade version, though, so it was no great achievement...
I recall flipping 2600 Defender over multiple times in a single playing session; the longest I could last was about 8 hours before pins & needles started to set in and I had to get up and walk around
Yes there are good PDF readers for the Amiga. Note that Amiga`s "Amiga World Magazines" has PDF and HTML versions.
:(. BTW, Amiga Inc. themselves couldn't care less about Classic Amiga users, except the money they can make from them -- OS 3.9 is all done by Haage & Partner, and their new 'OS' (Tao's stuff, etc) will either run natively, or hosted on other OSs (Win, Linux, etc.) I don't think they would care about Classic users when outputting their newsletter...
I haven't turned my Amiga on for about 3 months
How does the AWeb browser perform? I saw some screenshots and was not impressed at all. Are you locked in 256 colours when using the Workbench or something?
:).
AWeb performs well, I think; supports over 256 colours if you have an external graphics card. (16 or 24 bit graphics)
Also, does the QuickTime player support Sorenson (or any other CODEC introduced after QuickTime 2.x)?
I thought Apple had an exclusive license...
Does the Amiga have support for scalable fonts (Adobe Type1 or TrueType) in the GUI API or Toolkit (I don't mean bundled support with specific applications, like WP8 on Linux)?
As third party extensions to the OS, these both exist (transparent to programs expecting Agfa Compugraphic scalable fonts, which are what it ships with support for).
Is there a good PDF reader for Amiga?
Dunno that one
Well, the problem is that nobody has the balls to code for Xt. GTK+ might not be as bad as Motif, but it is pretty bad, compared to NT at least.
:)
Doesn't it make sense for the people who know Xt well to spend their time implementing the fastest possible layer in between that and the user? i.e. working on things like GDK and thus GTK, Qt, etc.
You won't get the gains that you get with everyone coding raw Xt, but the improvements you get come with a whole lot less effort for 98% of programmers
I think you should ask David Lynch what he thinks of his movie Dune. He seemed embarrassed by it when I last saw him discussing it.
:)
I heard that it has been the only movie that he didn't have creative control over (& the right to determine the final cut, etc.) The mish-mash that resulted mirrors the power structure(s) behind the creation of the film; there's an interesting book called "The Making of DUNE" which should be available in second-bookstores the world over, I know I've seen a few around
00.002% Amiga
00.0002% OpenVMS
Woo Hoo! Still hanging on...
Yeah, but you know you're in trouble when there are 10 times as many *Amiga* users, for Gawd's sake...
When mozilla is as robust and _not broken_ as IE, maybe then will I feel there is room in this world for more than one browser.
... and maybe when they release a Linux version, I could start using it too. Or not.
So if you had a Sparc -> Sparc binary translator you could make the thing run faster.
:)
On the Amiga, with Motorola's 68000, 68020, 68030, 68040 and a few 68060, someone actually released a binary patcher that attempted to patch binaries compiled for lower processors to make them faster (use new instructions, avoid ones emulated on the newer chips and thus slower, etc.) It also attempted to patch some sub-optimal cases often produced by the main C compilers in the market.
Tended to work pretty well...
OK, completely irrelevant, but I thought you might be interested anyway
Well, we are talking about Yahoo here, so YMMV...
:)
All too true -- but at least it increases shareholder value! If it makes them more money to deliver free mail slowly or not at all, who are we to argue
smtp send mail between sites, kinda like a mail truck drivieing [sic] from ottawa to toronto.
I've heard that sometimes it's even a bit faster than that!
Umm... I'm no Christian, but wasn't that from the Sermon on the Mount?
:)
"Blessed are the meek: For they shall inherit the earth."
Probably rewritten by generations of churchmen since, and I presume Jesus spoke Aramaic or Hebrew, assuming he really existed, but anyway...
ObLifeOfBrian:
"I think it was 'blessed are the cheesemakers'."
BTW Einstein was no genius, but he had a great publicity machine (that's just me playing devil's advocate
Hmmm... they'd need a spellbook of Mailman Summoning, hey and the Gnomish Mining Town could have a post office!
:)
;)
:)
:) Play an instrument -- out boom the MP3s! Scribble on a scroll -- show a random JPEG/PNG! Indeed, with massive bandwidth you could give these things to other players on a Network server -- forget Gnutella, forget Freenet, we want FreeNetHackella! It's the only model for filesharing -- we IPO in six months! :)
"Through rain, or snow..." Obviously the mailman would be well equipped with amulets of resistance
Worse yet, the game could treat your entire mailbox as an item (like a Bag of Holding), and if you happen to die or lose, it deletes the mail directory (if a nymph steal sit, the mail directory is moved ot a a random location until you get it back).
Ow, not cool. We were doing so well until that last bit...
Hey, what's the point in playing unless there's some danger?
I think we need to get this real-world integration thing happening
NetHack has a mailer daemon which comes up to you and delivers scrolls on which are written new emails which arrive while you play.
:)
I haven't played NetHack for a while... but I have a suggestion for the next version: new item, the pre-stamped envelope of mail replying, that you can use to reply to a received mail, if you haven't been drenched/burnt etc and lost it
I've worked out why I thought so...
:)
( from http://www.aarnet.edu.a u/c orporate/history/sinclair.html )
Geoff Huston, the first manager of AARNet...
After early ISPs like Connect, Western Australia's Dialix and the now-defunct RUNX in Sydney set up, and browsers and the Web kicked in to keep bandwith use growing. Telstra eventually bought out the backbone in 1995, leaving AARNet with its original universities and CSIRO.
Huston, who is now Telstra's manger of data networks...
See, they did have something nefarious happen there
they will put connections into apartment blocks.
assuming you live on the east coast. i'm in adelaide, i have a foxtel cable socket in my wall, but there ain't no way they'll sell me net access through it.
why? because optus stopped their cable rollout when they ran out of money. stupid, stupid telstra... if this were a true competitive regime, i'd be able to get access over 33.6Kbps (I have a 56k modem that doesn't work, phone line is too bad).
Its amazing that such a fine example of fault-tolerent design can become so weak that a backhoe, anchor, or small localized earthquake can successfully disable so much capacity!
:)
It cost big heap money to lay cables across big, deep oceans. Who's going to lay more than they can afford to?
Anyone having this problem firsthand?
:)
Things were a bit slow for me on the night it happened, but this was probably Telstra's router problems as well. (This is an SA ISP using Telstra's backbone). It's been fine since then... of course, I'm unsure of whether my ISP has back-up supply arrangements, they do seem to go for the multiple degrees of redundancy, belt&suspenders type approach, which is nice
Most? Half at the most. And who'd use Telstra anyway, the company with almost monopolistic powers.
But a lot of ISPs probably buy bandwidth from Telstra or their resellers (if they can't get better deals elsewhere).
And don't Telstra administer AARNET? I seem to remember they took that over when connect.com.au went full-on commercial...
You buy underwate cable thats desigined to last underwater for 25 years, then you can forget about it for 25 years.
:)
Except when things like this happen, of course.
Telstra has several million enemies. Their marketing division try to spin things a bit tho' - they refer to them as customers.
:/
:)
Things haven't changed from the days of Telecom Australia, have they?
"Making it easy" for them to rip you off, is all they do -- and they drag their feet with all their anti-competitive acts (local loop access is the most recent example) -- and they get into bed with Rupert Murdoch (Foxtel) while still government-owned -- and I could go on...
Anyway, no real point, I just wanted to vent some at Telstra