a plug for one of my favourite sci-fi stories :
We'll Return, After This Message.
Written in 1989 by John Walker, founder of Autodesk and
co-author of AutoCAD, it contains
stuff (like search engines) which was way ahead
of its time. the hero, art crane, tries to
develop an algorithm to filter out ads.
He likened the problem to protective
coloration. "If television is a medium that delivers entertainment at the price of advertising, then advertising and
entertainment will co-evolve to become indistinguishable in time."
I'd like to meet the guy who designed the ultra5 and beat him over the head with one. Onboard ATI card with a miserable 2 MB RAM and no way to add to it. And there are no 16bpp drivers either in sol 2.6 or 2.7 so you really can't do better than 640x480x24bpp. Luckily Linux/Xfree86 is much better. For all the money they charge you, and the fact that they market it as a desktop you'd think they'd put in an internal speaker which wasn't crappier than that of a PC.
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a plug for one of my favourite sci-fi stories : We'll Return, After This Message. Written in 1989 by John Walker, founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD, it contains stuff (like search engines) which was way ahead of its time. the hero, art crane, tries to develop an algorithm to filter out ads.
He likened the problem to protective coloration. "If television is a medium that delivers entertainment at the price of advertising, then advertising and entertainment will co-evolve to become indistinguishable in time."
I'd like to meet the guy who designed the ultra5 and beat him over the head with one. Onboard ATI card with a miserable 2 MB RAM and no way to add to it. And there are no 16bpp drivers either in sol 2.6 or 2.7 so you really can't do better than 640x480x24bpp. Luckily Linux/Xfree86 is much better.
For all the money they charge you, and the fact that they market it as a desktop you'd think they'd put in an internal speaker which wasn't crappier than that of a PC.