What I like about Gentoo though is that it makes it easy to mix stable and unstable packages. For instance if I absolutely must have the latest version of something, I can type "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge blah" and automatically get the bleeding-edge version of blah, without affecting the rest of my system (unless something else compiles against blah).
Also Gentoo "stable" is a little different from Debian "stable" and RedHat-release-"stable". Gentoo "stable" still updates to recent versions of stuff, but only ones that have been tested heavily already to work properly in the Gentoo environment and be relatively bug-free. In other words on a Gentoo stable system if I do a global update, it will grab new versions of things, just not the bleeding-edge versions.
I use Gentoo on a number of production-environment systems, including systems used for training as well as my network's firewall system. Gentoo is EXTREMELY fast and stable and works very well.
My only caveat about Gentoo is that it lacks the clear security backport update system that Red Hat and Debian do. Some backports are made available in Gentoo but some aren't -- instead you just upgrade to a fixed version. If you are absolutely adamant about keeping your software at the same version, Gentoo may not be for you.
I considered using Debian for the firewall, but because of the heavy CPU loads it has to undergo, I picked Gentoo instead for its optimized compiles. It has performed like a good little soldier ever since.
Unfortunately the parent poster here clearly doesn't understand the danger inherent in assuming a CD-R is good if it simply reads correctly.
When you burn a MODE-1 ISO-9660 data CD-R, it's not simply writing your data out directly to the disc -- it's being encoded through no less than three sequential error detection and correction systems. Audio discs and discs that use MODE-2 without ISO-9660 error correction still go through the two sequential error correction and detection encodings inherent in the CD design.
The actual data on the disc is always riddled with errors -- the pits/lands (or in the case of a CD-R, the stained areas of dye) are simply too tiny and numerous to not have them obscured or distorted by microscopic scratches, bits of dust, tiny bad patches of dye, cosmic rays, etc. When you read a CD your CD-ROM drive is constantly correcting errors on its base level (C1), and if there is even a tiny visible scratch on the disc it's probably having to rely on its secondary error correction system (C2) to read the disc properly.
In normal operation your drive doesn't even TELL you about these errors -- the only way to know about them is to use special equipment or use a few special brands of drives that support reporting this information (C2 errors are reported by a number of drives, but C1 errors are only reported by a few drives (Plextor Premium, and recent Lite-On drives come to mind) and not in a standard way).
ISO-9660 MODE 1 (and MODE 2 with correction) adds a third layer of error correction to protect your data if all else fails, that's why a somewhat scratched disc still works.
What I'm trying to say here is that simply comparing the md5 sum of your cooked (i.e. ISO-9660 error corrected) data track is not a way to judge the quality of a burn. Your disc might read fine today but die tomorrow.
dd doesn't know the difference between a well burned disc with only a few C1 errors and no C2 errors, versus a badly mismanufactured disc that might've been exposed to the sun at some point that is riddled with errors that only your ISO-9660 third-level error correction is managing to fix. The first disc will probably last quite a while, while the second disc is already on its last legs and will probably not be readable in a month.
Analyzing these "hidden" errors is key to getting a good burn and making trusted archival copies.
(Unfortunately it seems that CD-Rs are nowhere near as durable as they are supposed to be. Many cheap brands of discs burned only 6-7 years ago are becoming unreadable now! So far my Metal Azo Verbatim Datalife Plus discs are holding on like troopers though -- knock on wood -- but even on those I can see C1 error counts creeping up over time).
That prize amount is pretty big, considering that it is larger than
the total profits from selling Amiga computers for the past 10 years.
Erm, not really. Commodore didn't go bankrupt until 1994, and sold quite a few Amigas in the year before (Just not enough to pay the exorbitant salaries of the management). Escom, which bought Commodore's assets in 1995, also produced and sold Amigas for a few years afterwards (The A1200 and A4000T specifically). Plus a number of AmigaOnes have been sold just this year.:-) So I don't think it's really fair to say that, even if you're just doing it to try to get (+5 Funny):-P
Actually, as funny as this post is, there really *IS* a semi-superior analog alternative to DVD -- Laserdisc. Laserdisc has twice the vertical chromatic spatial resolution and has no spatial quantization artifacts...
The downsides are Laserdisc has Y/C crosstalk (which can mostly be eliminated by an adaptive interframe comb filter) and it has poorer chromatic dynamic resolution at extreme red and blue...
The end result is that programming that's mastered for NTSC (i.e. television shows, straight-to-video stuff, or stuff that simply doesn't have a film print still in existence) looks better on Laserdisc... and for 24fps progressive source, stuff looks even better on PAL laserdisc (albeit sped up to 25fps so you need a tuned system to slow it back down to 24 to make the voices pitched down a bit and the time to come out right).
DVD only wins out on widescreen stuff thanks to anamorphic support (there were a few anamorphic LDs made but not many were made because they wouldn't work right on non 16:9 TVs since autoscaling was not a feature of LD players). The other big advantage of DVD is that a relatively cheap DVD player ($50 now, unbelieveable!) can produce video that's not too far off from expensive decks, while with LD to get great results you needed a deck that cost at least $500.
Still, I love my laserdiscs. They have great quality, and are still the only way to watch the original Star Wars trilogy in high quality video. (Any DVDs of the original trilogy you might've seen are bootlegs made in SE Asia, mastered from the LDs, so they have all the flaws of LD with all the flaws of DVD put on top of it and are therefore inferior).
It should be pointed out to all the people complaining about the Dreamcast being "dead" that it's still actively in commercial development, even if no more physical consoles are being made. There's actually still about a dozen games left to be released this year, as shown here.
To follow up on what someone earlier said, make SURE you run the output from your VCR through a good professional (or at least semi-pro) external time base corrector.
If you have a high end consumer video deck, it may have a built-in TBC -- disable it. These consumer TBCs work great on good-quality tapes but can actually mess up your image pretty badly on degraded tapes. Use a real, adjustable professional TBC.
Not only will it give you a stable signal for capture (preferably with a pro capture card rather than a consumer one), but it will actually make your videos look better when you view them!
Oops watch the posts pile up that can lead to misunderstaning. By "Mike" I mean Mike Bouma, not Simms.:-) Mike Bouma is an enthusiastic supporter, and it's cool that he thinks so highly of Hyperion, but LGP has a few more Linux releases under its belt, so they would probably qualify as the "most important", at least among the third-party developers.
I enthusiastically await Disciples 2. ^_^
(Incidentally, did people complain about Candy Cruncher because it wasn't some epic RPG or million-dollar budget FPS?:-)
(Again, I should mention that anything I say here is my own opinion, not Hyperion's.)
I think Mike's just being enthusiastic.:-) LGP certainly has a stronger commitment to Linux than Hyperion does, so "most important" probably isn't exactly correct.
Plus, that doesn't take into account first-party developers who do Linux ports like Bioware. It's very important for Linux gaming that developers continue to want to do ports of their games.
That said, there's not exactly a lot of third-party publishers left. It's not too hard to be the most important, or the second-most important.:-/
Anyway, all game-related stuff aside, I have to bow in respect to Svartalf, who has a much lower/cooler Slashdot ID number than I do.:-)
(I should note here that all of this is just my personal opinion, and has nothing to do with Hyperion's position on anything.)
Unfortunately I think that the days of people like Loki (and us for that matter) shelling out massive amounts of money to license absolute-top-tier games for Linux are over for the forseeable future. Loki did this and crashed and burned. We were burned hard by the Linux market as well. I think it says something when Amiga games outsell Linux ones.
What you see here is Hyperion trying a different tack. IncaGold targets the "casual gaming" market. They don't produce epic RPGs or multi-million-dollar budget extravaganzas. Interestingly enough, these "casual" games in fact do quite well, at least in the 'doze market. Now I know the Linux market is different, but certainly Midnight Racing is a nice alternative to TuxRacer (which is not to say that I don't enjoy TuxRacer -- my favorite course is "Who Says Penguins Can't Fly?":-).
The only way I think you will see break-the-bank games released on Linux now are when the originating company produces its own port. Look at NWN, Doom 3, etc... These games are simply too expensive for license by a third party porting house like Loki (R.I.P.) or Hyperion.
Look at it this way, now you have some fun, casual games you can use to play while you're bored.:-) And c'mon, doesn't "Paintball Heroes" sound fun to you?
Seriously, I was just trying for something that sounded cute and funny. Of course, nothing shows up my nickname for being as stale as it is like the best nickname on Slashdot.:-)
Jeez, I DON'T recommend Gentoo to Joe Sixpack. Actually, when a total newbie asks me about Linux, what I've done lately is hand him a Knoppix CD. Knoppix is easy-peasy to use since it requires no installation, and as long as the user has enough RAM (pref 256 megs or better) it runs decently.
Later on I point them to Red Hat or Mandrak or SUSE or some other easy-to-use distro.
Gentoo is what I run on my personal machines. For a user who wants all the latest stuff running at its optimum speeds on a custom system, Gentoo is simply the bee's knees. It's also incredibly easy to maintain, despite its relatively involved installation process. I love Gentoo.
That said, this evangelizing is kind of off-topic, but I felt the need to explain myself.:-P
Hyperion just completed an agreement with IncaGold to bring their games to Amiga, MacOS, and Linux, the first title being Midnight Racing. Here's to giving Linux another shot.::raises glass::
If no Presidential candidate gets a majority of the Electoral College votes, the Senate decides who is president.
Voting for a third party has a huge disincentive in that it empowers whichever major two-party candidate you like the least since you could've voted for the one you DISliked the least. Winner-take-all single-vote systems encourage two-party voting. There is no way around it. This is not rhetoric or partisanism here, this is game theory backed by real mathematics.
There are other winnter-take-all voting systems that at least allow other candidates to have a chance. My favorite is "pairwise comparisons", but there are others like Borda Count and Instant Runoff that also work (although not as well as Pairwise Comparisons IMHO).
I was referring to the added dongle code in the firmware (not part of U-Boot, but still part of the overall firmware of the system). Whether or not you like it is not important, it's part of the license agreement for AmigaOS. If you want to change it, the best way to do it would be to put up the money to purchase the rights. Amiga Inc. paid millions of dollars for them, and they set the terms. Your petition is another way to try to get totally open hardware support, but it will have to be backed up by something more than just signatures I think.
If you really want the petition to have weight, you could set up an escrow account, which each person who signs the petition puts say, $100 into towards the purchase of standalone copies of AmigaOS4 which would only be released for purchase if they opened the hardware (or be released back to the petitioners if Amiga didn't comply in a certain amount of time.) If the money reached a certain level, it would show that Amiga stood to make more money by opening up than by not opening up, and you would be victorious. The temptation would be too great and they would cave.
The question is simply how many extra sales of AmigaOS4 licenses would open hardware support generate vs. lost sales from people not buying the licenses. It will take real cold, hard cash to convince Amiga of that.
Regarding the hardware issue, you have some valid points. It's well known that there were some issues with Mai's northbridge, for which there are various hardware and software workarounds. These are being addressed. The AmigaOneG3-SE however is not a non-working product as you seem to indicate it is. I know people who own them who are quite happy with them. It's fair to say that there were problems, but please don't spread FUD just to be negative.
(And finally, yes I do some work for Hyperion (not so much lately as it was more to do with games licenses and OS4 is now the primary project), and identify with them, so I'm not unbiased. Everything I'm saying here though are my personal views, and not those of anyone else affiliated with Hyperion, or any official view of the company as it were.)
Thankfully Damien at least went back and clarified a bit in this post. He's mostly right there. It's a little misleading as AmigaOnes have already shipped, so it's not all "pre-sales", but it at least doesn't claim Genesi as the only supplier.
Uh, you can still buy an AmigaOne from Eyetech . (The AmigaOne uses the exact same reference design as the Teron, and is more or less the same thing, although the firmware chip has some different stuff on it for running AmigaOS).
There are also variousresellers who will sell you one if you do a little searching.
Supplies are a little bumpy (shipment stopped for a little while while waiting for a newer board revision that fixed some issues with the northbridge), but I know people who have AmigaOnes already. (Regular people, not just people in developers like Hyperion (us))
You mean they are still in business? I can remember having an action replay cartridge for my C64...
Uh yeah, you know that thing called a "Gameshark" in the U.S.? That's an Action Replay, made by Datel, then resold by Interact who licensed it from Datel and gave it a silly name.
Recently Datel decided to terminate Interact's contract and do direct sales in the U.S. market, so it looks like the Action Replay is now being sold under that name again over here.
In the rest of the world it's always been a Datel "Action Replay".
Personally I was getting tired of Interact acting like they'd invented the thing.
No one is going to force them at gunpoint to use the system that the U.S. is going to install.
Er, no, we are forcing them at gunpoint. That's what war is!
Admittedly on the whole I think they are going to be better off......but it looks like this war is shaping up to be more corporate welfare for American companies in the guise of humanitarianism than any sort of higher calling.
Dear god, do you know HOW MUCH of the moon we'd have to move in order for it to have any effect? All the mining ever done in all of human history on Earth does not even equal 1/10000000th the mass of the Moon. The Moon is *BIG*!
There is absolutely no way we could ever in ten thousand years move enough of the moon around to make a difference in tides.
It's like worrying about if ants will build an anthill large enough to cause the tectonic plates the United States sits on to tilt, making rivers flow backwards.
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It's a contraction of "Costume Play". It basically just means having fun dressing up as your favorite character/archtype/profession/whatever.
It doesn't necessarily mean you have a "fetish" (depending on what you mean with that term) but people who practice cosplay do enjoy costumes.
True, there are quite a few instructional manga. What I meant by "scholarly" was more along the lines of research journals and such. To play off a previous poster's example, a researcher doing a paper on the result of his quantum physics reasearch:-)
Although that person seems to misunderstand -- he's applying a "fight of the week with magical martial arts" type paradigm to it. Again that's part of a small subset of manga that makes it to these shores. (although he says "episodes" so he's probably referring to an anime based on a manga rather than a manga). If anyone does make a quantum physics textbook manga it will.... read like a textbook only with the text contained within pictures that visualize everything...:-)
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What I like about Gentoo though is that it makes it easy to mix stable and unstable packages. For instance if I absolutely must have the latest version of something, I can type "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge blah" and automatically get the bleeding-edge version of blah, without affecting the rest of my system (unless something else compiles against blah).
Also Gentoo "stable" is a little different from Debian "stable" and RedHat-release-"stable". Gentoo "stable" still updates to recent versions of stuff, but only ones that have been tested heavily already to work properly in the Gentoo environment and be relatively bug-free. In other words on a Gentoo stable system if I do a global update, it will grab new versions of things, just not the bleeding-edge versions.
I use Gentoo on a number of production-environment systems, including systems used for training as well as my network's firewall system. Gentoo is EXTREMELY fast and stable and works very well.
My only caveat about Gentoo is that it lacks the clear security backport update system that Red Hat and Debian do. Some backports are made available in Gentoo but some aren't -- instead you just upgrade to a fixed version. If you are absolutely adamant about keeping your software at the same version, Gentoo may not be for you.
I considered using Debian for the firewall, but because of the heavy CPU loads it has to undergo, I picked Gentoo instead for its optimized compiles. It has performed like a good little soldier ever since.
Unfortunately the parent poster here clearly doesn't understand the danger inherent in assuming a CD-R is good if it simply reads correctly.
When you burn a MODE-1 ISO-9660 data CD-R, it's not simply writing your data out directly to the disc -- it's being encoded through no less than three sequential error detection and correction systems. Audio discs and discs that use MODE-2 without ISO-9660 error correction still go through the two sequential error correction and detection encodings inherent in the CD design.
The actual data on the disc is always riddled with errors -- the pits/lands (or in the case of a CD-R, the stained areas of dye) are simply too tiny and numerous to not have them obscured or distorted by microscopic scratches, bits of dust, tiny bad patches of dye, cosmic rays, etc. When you read a CD your CD-ROM drive is constantly correcting errors on its base level (C1), and if there is even a tiny visible scratch on the disc it's probably having to rely on its secondary error correction system (C2) to read the disc properly.
In normal operation your drive doesn't even TELL you about these errors -- the only way to know about them is to use special equipment or use a few special brands of drives that support reporting this information (C2 errors are reported by a number of drives, but C1 errors are only reported by a few drives (Plextor Premium, and recent Lite-On drives come to mind) and not in a standard way).
ISO-9660 MODE 1 (and MODE 2 with correction) adds a third layer of error correction to protect your data if all else fails, that's why a somewhat scratched disc still works.
What I'm trying to say here is that simply comparing the md5 sum of your cooked (i.e. ISO-9660 error corrected) data track is not a way to judge the quality of a burn. Your disc might read fine today but die tomorrow.
dd doesn't know the difference between a well burned disc with only a few C1 errors and no C2 errors, versus a badly mismanufactured disc that might've been exposed to the sun at some point that is riddled with errors that only your ISO-9660 third-level error correction is managing to fix. The first disc will probably last quite a while, while the second disc is already on its last legs and will probably not be readable in a month.
Analyzing these "hidden" errors is key to getting a good burn and making trusted archival copies.
(Unfortunately it seems that CD-Rs are nowhere near as durable as they are supposed to be. Many cheap brands of discs burned only 6-7 years ago are becoming unreadable now! So far my Metal Azo Verbatim Datalife Plus discs are holding on like troopers though -- knock on wood -- but even on those I can see C1 error counts creeping up over time).
Erm, not really. Commodore didn't go bankrupt until 1994, and sold quite a few Amigas in the year before (Just not enough to pay the exorbitant salaries of the management). Escom, which bought Commodore's assets in 1995, also produced and sold Amigas for a few years afterwards (The A1200 and A4000T specifically).
Plus a number of AmigaOnes have been sold just this year.
So I don't think it's really fair to say that, even if you're just doing it to try to get (+5 Funny)
Actually, as funny as this post is, there really *IS* a semi-superior analog alternative to DVD -- Laserdisc. Laserdisc has twice the vertical chromatic spatial resolution and has no spatial quantization artifacts...
The downsides are Laserdisc has Y/C crosstalk (which can mostly be eliminated by an adaptive interframe comb filter) and it has poorer chromatic dynamic resolution at extreme red and blue...
The end result is that programming that's mastered for NTSC (i.e. television shows, straight-to-video stuff, or stuff that simply doesn't have a film print still in existence) looks better on Laserdisc... and for 24fps progressive source, stuff looks even better on PAL laserdisc (albeit sped up to 25fps so you need a tuned system to slow it back down to 24 to make the voices pitched down a bit and the time to come out right).
DVD only wins out on widescreen stuff thanks to anamorphic support (there were a few anamorphic LDs made but not many were made because they wouldn't work right on non 16:9 TVs since autoscaling was not a feature of LD players). The other big advantage of DVD is that a relatively cheap DVD player ($50 now, unbelieveable!) can produce video that's not too far off from expensive decks, while with LD to get great results you needed a deck that cost at least $500.
Still, I love my laserdiscs. They have great quality, and are still the only way to watch the original Star Wars trilogy in high quality video. (Any DVDs of the original trilogy you might've seen are bootlegs made in SE Asia, mastered from the LDs, so they have all the flaws of LD with all the flaws of DVD put on top of it and are therefore inferior).
It should be pointed out to all the people complaining about the Dreamcast being "dead" that it's still actively in commercial development, even if no more physical consoles are being made. There's actually still about a dozen games left to be released this year, as shown here.
So it's ALMOST dead but not quite. ^_^
Obviously nobody with mod points got the joke in the parent. :-P It deserves it. (Wish I had points right now)
Mod parent up +5 funny.
To follow up on what someone earlier said, make SURE you run the output from your VCR through a good professional (or at least semi-pro) external time base corrector.
If you have a high end consumer video deck, it may have a built-in TBC -- disable it. These consumer TBCs work great on good-quality tapes but can actually mess up your image pretty badly on degraded tapes. Use a real, adjustable professional TBC.
Not only will it give you a stable signal for capture (preferably with a pro capture card rather than a consumer one), but it will actually make your videos look better when you view them!
Oops watch the posts pile up that can lead to misunderstaning. By "Mike" I mean Mike Bouma, not Simms. :-) Mike Bouma is an enthusiastic supporter, and it's cool that he thinks so highly of Hyperion, but LGP has a few more Linux releases under its belt, so they would probably qualify as the "most important", at least among the third-party developers.
:-)
I enthusiastically await Disciples 2. ^_^
(Incidentally, did people complain about Candy Cruncher because it wasn't some epic RPG or million-dollar budget FPS?
(Again, I should mention that anything I say here is my own opinion, not Hyperion's.)
:-) LGP certainly has a stronger commitment to Linux than Hyperion does, so "most important" probably isn't exactly correct.
:-/
:-)
I think Mike's just being enthusiastic.
Plus, that doesn't take into account first-party developers who do Linux ports like Bioware. It's very important for Linux gaming that developers continue to want to do ports of their games.
That said, there's not exactly a lot of third-party publishers left. It's not too hard to be the most important, or the second-most important.
Anyway, all game-related stuff aside, I have to bow in respect to Svartalf, who has a much lower/cooler Slashdot ID number than I do.
(I should note here that all of this is just my personal opinion, and has nothing to do with Hyperion's position on anything.)
:-).
:-) And c'mon, doesn't "Paintball Heroes" sound fun to you?
Unfortunately I think that the days of people like Loki (and us for that matter) shelling out massive amounts of money to license absolute-top-tier games for Linux are over for the forseeable future. Loki did this and crashed and burned. We were burned hard by the Linux market as well. I think it says something when Amiga games outsell Linux ones.
What you see here is Hyperion trying a different tack. IncaGold targets the "casual gaming" market. They don't produce epic RPGs or multi-million-dollar budget extravaganzas. Interestingly enough, these "casual" games in fact do quite well, at least in the 'doze market. Now I know the Linux market is different, but certainly Midnight Racing is a nice alternative to TuxRacer (which is not to say that I don't enjoy TuxRacer -- my favorite course is "Who Says Penguins Can't Fly?"
The only way I think you will see break-the-bank games released on Linux now are when the originating company produces its own port. Look at NWN, Doom 3, etc... These games are simply too expensive for license by a third party porting house like Loki (R.I.P.) or Hyperion.
Look at it this way, now you have some fun, casual games you can use to play while you're bored.
Only caffeine and sugar...
:-)
Seriously, I was just trying for something that sounded cute and funny. Of course, nothing shows up my nickname for being as stale as it is like the best nickname on Slashdot.
Jeez, I DON'T recommend Gentoo to Joe Sixpack. Actually, when a total newbie asks me about Linux, what I've done lately is hand him a Knoppix CD. Knoppix is easy-peasy to use since it requires no installation, and as long as the user has enough RAM (pref 256 megs or better) it runs decently.
:-P
Later on I point them to Red Hat or Mandrak or SUSE or some other easy-to-use distro.
Gentoo is what I run on my personal machines. For a user who wants all the latest stuff running at its optimum speeds on a custom system, Gentoo is simply the bee's knees. It's also incredibly easy to maintain, despite its relatively involved installation process. I love Gentoo.
That said, this evangelizing is kind of off-topic, but I felt the need to explain myself.
Hyperion just completed an agreement with IncaGold to bring their games to Amiga, MacOS, and Linux, the first title being Midnight Racing. Here's to giving Linux another shot. ::raises glass::
Ah yes, you are correct. ::embarrasment::
:-)
Please mod the parent up.
...except there is no run-off.
If no Presidential candidate gets a majority of the Electoral College votes, the Senate decides who is president.
Voting for a third party has a huge disincentive in that it empowers whichever major two-party candidate you like the least since you could've voted for the one you DISliked the least. Winner-take-all single-vote systems encourage two-party voting. There is no way around it. This is not rhetoric or partisanism here, this is game theory backed by real mathematics.
There are other winnter-take-all voting systems that at least allow other candidates to have a chance. My favorite is "pairwise comparisons", but there are others like Borda Count and Instant Runoff that also work (although not as well as Pairwise Comparisons IMHO).
I was referring to the added dongle code in the firmware (not part of U-Boot, but still part of the overall firmware of the system). Whether or not you like it is not important, it's part of the license agreement for AmigaOS. If you want to change it, the best way to do it would be to put up the money to purchase the rights. Amiga Inc. paid millions of dollars for them, and they set the terms. Your petition is another way to try to get totally open hardware support, but it will have to be backed up by something more than just signatures I think.
If you really want the petition to have weight, you could set up an escrow account, which each person who signs the petition puts say, $100 into towards the purchase of standalone copies of AmigaOS4 which would only be released for purchase if they opened the hardware (or be released back to the petitioners if Amiga didn't comply in a certain amount of time.) If the money reached a certain level, it would show that Amiga stood to make more money by opening up than by not opening up, and you would be victorious. The temptation would be too great and they would cave.
The question is simply how many extra sales of AmigaOS4 licenses would open hardware support generate vs. lost sales from people not buying the licenses. It will take real cold, hard cash to convince Amiga of that.
Regarding the hardware issue, you have some valid points. It's well known that there were some issues with Mai's northbridge, for which there are various hardware and software workarounds. These are being addressed. The AmigaOneG3-SE however is not a non-working product as you seem to indicate it is. I know people who own them who are quite happy with them. It's fair to say that there were problems, but please don't spread FUD just to be negative.
(And finally, yes I do some work for Hyperion (not so much lately as it was more to do with games licenses and OS4 is now the primary project), and identify with them, so I'm not unbiased. Everything I'm saying here though are my personal views, and not those of anyone else affiliated with Hyperion, or any official view of the company as it were.)
Thankfully Damien at least went back and clarified a bit in this post. He's mostly right there. It's a little misleading as AmigaOnes have already shipped, so it's not all "pre-sales", but it at least doesn't claim Genesi as the only supplier.
A quick Google search would give some indication as to why the submitter would want people to think of Genesi as the only option.
Now I'll be the first to admit that I'm not unbiased -- Google is a double-edged sword, but the original submission is pretty clear and blatant FUD.
Uh, you can still buy an AmigaOne from Eyetech . (The AmigaOne uses the exact same reference design as the Teron, and is more or less the same thing, although the firmware chip has some different stuff on it for running AmigaOS).
There are also various resellers who will sell you one if you do a little searching.
Supplies are a little bumpy (shipment stopped for a little while while waiting for a newer board revision that fixed some issues with the northbridge), but I know people who have AmigaOnes already. (Regular people, not just people in developers like Hyperion (us))
Uh yeah, you know that thing called a "Gameshark" in the U.S.? That's an Action Replay, made by Datel, then resold by Interact who licensed it from Datel and gave it a silly name.
Recently Datel decided to terminate Interact's contract and do direct sales in the U.S. market, so it looks like the Action Replay is now being sold under that name again over here.
In the rest of the world it's always been a Datel "Action Replay".
Personally I was getting tired of Interact acting like they'd invented the thing.
Er, no, we are forcing them at gunpoint. That's what war is!
Admittedly on the whole I think they are going to be better off...
Dear god, do you know HOW MUCH of the moon we'd have to move in order for it to have any effect? All the mining ever done in all of human history on Earth does not even equal 1/10000000th the mass of the Moon. The Moon is *BIG*!
There is absolutely no way we could ever in ten thousand years move enough of the moon around to make a difference in tides.
It's like worrying about if ants will build an anthill large enough to cause the tectonic plates the United States sits on to tilt, making rivers flow backwards.
It's a contraction of "Costume Play". It basically just means having fun dressing up as your favorite character/archtype/profession/whatever.
It doesn't necessarily mean you have a "fetish" (depending on what you mean with that term) but people who practice cosplay do enjoy costumes.
True, there are quite a few instructional manga. What I meant by "scholarly" was more along the lines of research journals and such. To play off a previous poster's example, a researcher doing a paper on the result of his quantum physics reasearch :-)
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Although that person seems to misunderstand -- he's applying a "fight of the week with magical martial arts" type paradigm to it. Again that's part of a small subset of manga that makes it to these shores. (although he says "episodes" so he's probably referring to an anime based on a manga rather than a manga). If anyone does make a quantum physics textbook manga it will.... read like a textbook only with the text contained within pictures that visualize everything...