If we are using these sales figures to handicap the console horse race, then it's sales to consumers that matter, not sales to retailers. It's the sale to the consumer that generates the additional software purchases down the road, the word of mouth advertising, and the "installed base" figure to show to third party developers. Nintendo apparently has a lot more units in the channel being held by retailers, but that will only matter for them if they can sell more units to consumers.
Ah, no. The Windows GUI may have sucked really bad before Win95, but it was still dominant as of Windows 3.0, then 3.1 and 3.11. Most people did indeed give up the command line ten years ago. Or perhaps, since PC use by regular folks (as opposed to ownership of a useless toy) didn't become common until the Web + GUI era, it would be best to say that most people (users) never learned the command line in the first place.
I guess you need to read more Flash marketing literature. Since Flash plugins in various versions have shipped with the popular browsers on Windows and Mac for the last few years, Macromedia now prefers that Flash be thought of as a built in standard feature of web browsers. (Which happens to be proprietary to them.) Therefore people should just merrily build sites partly or all in Flash, content in the knowledge that it will be accessible to all (that matter).
Just check out flash overview for more info about how everyone already has Flash. (Flash plugin required, natch!)
On a less bitter note, at least the current (version 5) Flash can actually print. Who knows what cutting edge functionality they will incorporate next.
Esc is ctrl-[. Ctrl is on the caps lock. Hands never leave home row hitting escape, just play a pinkie chord. Happy vi user. I have never met anyone else who does this but I am personally ecstatic about it.
I won't recommend the DC games that are specifically child-targeted, because they all suck. I think any kid into video games could enjoy: Sword of the Berzerk, Gigawing 2, Daytona 2001, Gauntlet Legends, Jet Grind Radio, Twinkle Star Sprites, Ooga Booga. None of those is harder than Mario, which many a 5-year-old finished.
Genghis Troll, if you keep delivering direct hits like that, you might persuade me to start reading at -1 again.
Re:From inside an asbestos bunker...
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Didn't you read Hackers? The creation of Symbolics caused an exodus of hackers and a closing of code that destroyed RMS's AI lab. He would like to be working on an old Lisp Machines Inc. system instead.
One of the cool things about vim is that you can recall, and edit, previous command-line commands you typed in; so if you have a typo in a complicated search-and-replace, you can simply undo it, fix the typo, and run it again. Nice.
I'm also a vim fan. But for those times when one is on vanilla vi, it's good to know that this feature can be emulated. Instead of typing the command directly onto the : line, put it into your document. Copy it into a named buffer then execute the buffer. You can undo any single command, so undo will still work fine for you even for a command that affects many lines. Fix the command and repeat as necessary. For extra credit, put the copy-execute sequence into a different buffer to save typing as you refine the command.
If you realize in the middle of a : command that you want to do this, you should be using X or screen(1). With screen you can copy text from a terminal session even if you are not on X.
I was a happy Quantum-Link user on my Commodore 64 with my 300 baud modem. IIRC it was around $15 a month for basic service and offered message boards, shareware and info services. You could pay extra for other things. It was frustrating though when you could read much faster than the text came through the modem. Although I don't think any compression was in use, so maybe 300 baud could have been usable with compression. I think 1200-2400 bps is the sweet spot for human computer interaction. 9600 and up is only useful for bulk data transfer, media, multiuser and the like. The fact that the web is unusable at 56k is disgusting to me; what wasteful protocols and designs people use now.
Your HD is on an interface with a theoretical max throughput of 100MB/sec, & your network card has a theoretical max throughput of 100Mb/sec. That is very very different from saying there is an 8x difference in performance between them. In fact the only time you are going to achieve a throughput on that hard drive of greater than the network card's 10MB/sec limit is during a large sequential read or write, and even then it is going to top out at maybe 30-50MB/sec.
More typical workstation use will be far slower, perhaps on the order of 2MB/sec, well within 100baseT capability. This is because your hard drive can only seek 100-200 times a second and there is only so much data that is needed from each access.
This is not to contradict your report that you saw bad performance when running something over some network. I'm sure you did. But it was not due to the throughput limit of the network card in your machine. A 100baseT card is plenty fast enough to support storage over the network.
Get a VGA adapter for your Dreamcast and then tell me which console looks better. I use the Treamcast VGA box and I would never want to switch to PS2 on a TV.
In Vietnam, the US had a policy of limited escalating response. We did not set out to annihilate the enemy, but rather we used arms to send messages to the enemy leadership. By putting the enemy through limited combat, we gave them experience and an opportunity to improve their organizational capability. In effect we trained them and created a much more powerful adversary.
This kind of half-assed copy protection will have a similar, beneficial effect on piracy. There are a lot of people out there who are used to ripping with whatever program they were first able to find. Now that simple approach won't work. But I don't expect those casual pirates to surrender, as the bozo being interviewed does. Many of them will take that next step. They'll do a couple of hours of research and find the online communities and FAQs they need to circumvent this measure.
If you don't like my first analogy, here's another one: once a casual pirate taps into the piracy community, it's like sending a minor offender to prison. When the casual pirate comes out of that usenet group or Direct Connect chat, he'll know a lot more about his craft, and he'll be in a position to let other people know that it is possible to get around most any copy protection.
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These two, very different editors have some things in common:
Both are under current development in more than one version.
Both have active user communities on Usenet.
Both are available in versions that support scripting and extensions.
Both are powerful tools for editing code and other structured text in efficient ways.
Both are available for free on most any platform you might care to use, including versions that will run on slow or old computers.
Support for the command sets of both editors is included in the GNU Readline library, which means that you can learn either one and still have access to your editor commands in many shells and command line applications.
Both have thousands of features (in some versions), making a complete answer to your question a bit unwieldy.
vi doesn't use ex as a backend. Rather, vi is a mode of ex. In fact, "vi" is just the shortest acceptable abbreviation for the "visual" command in ex. So you can use vi by starting ex and entering "vi" as a command, or "visual" or "vis" or some other prefix. And as newbies have long accidentally discovered to their dismay, the vi command mode "Q" command switches to ex mode.
It's the same executable, and neither ex nor vi is subordinate to the other.
Google's home page normally has no updated content except for changing the picture. You would do better to save the home page to a local file and make that your browser homepage. Loads even faster.
To say that human genetic code is 700 MB large doesn't mean what you think it means! It means that there is a limit of 2 to the 8*700 million power, 2^5600000000 different possible genetic possibilities, if we were to just twiddle all the bits. Not that that would produce good results. But that is about 1x10^2800000000 different possibilities, which is a very healthy infinity for all practical purposes. Not 700 million possibilities or whatever you thought. 700 million bytes most certainly can describe human (genetic) uniqueness, etc.
Computers can be cheaper than books, cheaper than teachers, cheaper than a TV and VCR. I fully expect the original poster's prediction to materialize as the price of a networked computer media station continues to drop and reaches the levels that do make ubiquity feasible. New software will be needed, to be sure, but it's terribly shortsighted to think that computers will always be expensive. Digital watches and calculators used to be expensive, too.
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If we are using these sales figures to handicap the console horse race, then it's sales to consumers that matter, not sales to retailers. It's the sale to the consumer that generates the additional software purchases down the road, the word of mouth advertising, and the "installed base" figure to show to third party developers. Nintendo apparently has a lot more units in the channel being held by retailers, but that will only matter for them if they can sell more units to consumers.
Ah, no. The Windows GUI may have sucked really bad before Win95, but it was still dominant as of Windows 3.0, then 3.1 and 3.11. Most people did indeed give up the command line ten years ago. Or perhaps, since PC use by regular folks (as opposed to ownership of a useless toy) didn't become common until the Web + GUI era, it would be best to say that most people (users) never learned the command line in the first place.
I guess you need to read more Flash marketing literature. Since Flash plugins in various versions have shipped with the popular browsers on Windows and Mac for the last few years, Macromedia now prefers that Flash be thought of as a built in standard feature of web browsers. (Which happens to be proprietary to them.) Therefore people should just merrily build sites partly or all in Flash, content in the knowledge that it will be accessible to all (that matter).
Just check out flash overview for more info about how everyone already has Flash. (Flash plugin required, natch!)
On a less bitter note, at least the current (version 5) Flash can actually print. Who knows what cutting edge functionality they will incorporate next.
Try webwasher. Salon's site is blissfully ad-free for me. No $30 was involved either.
Sadly, any company that doesn't understand the internet, will also not understand TheInternet.
The comp.os.linux.advocacy discussion on the subject is here
Esc is ctrl-[. Ctrl is on the caps lock. Hands never leave home row hitting escape, just play a pinkie chord. Happy vi user. I have never met anyone else who does this but I am personally ecstatic about it.
It depends on the 5-year-old!
I won't recommend the DC games that are specifically child-targeted, because they all suck. I think any kid into video games could enjoy: Sword of the Berzerk, Gigawing 2, Daytona 2001, Gauntlet Legends, Jet Grind Radio, Twinkle Star Sprites, Ooga Booga. None of those is harder than Mario, which many a 5-year-old finished.
For in page search the magic word here is mirror.
Wow, PAN (pan.rebelbase.com) looks awesome.
Genghis Troll, if you keep delivering direct hits like that, you might persuade me to start reading at -1 again.
Didn't you read Hackers? The creation of Symbolics caused an exodus of hackers and a closing of code that destroyed RMS's AI lab. He would like to be working on an old Lisp Machines Inc. system instead.
One of the cool things about vim is that you can recall, and edit, previous command-line commands you typed in; so if you have a typo in a complicated search-and-replace, you can simply undo it, fix the typo, and run it again. Nice.
I'm also a vim fan. But for those times when one is on vanilla vi, it's good to know that this feature can be emulated. Instead of typing the command directly onto the : line, put it into your document. Copy it into a named buffer then execute the buffer. You can undo any single command, so undo will still work fine for you even for a command that affects many lines. Fix the command and repeat as necessary. For extra credit, put the copy-execute sequence into a different buffer to save typing as you refine the command.
If you realize in the middle of a : command that you want to do this, you should be using X or screen(1). With screen you can copy text from a terminal session even if you are not on X.
Railroad Tycoon II on Dreamcast locks up totally and reliably once your railroad empire gets large enough. I believe it's a WinCE based game.
Troll or funny... troll or funny...
I was a happy Quantum-Link user on my Commodore 64 with my 300 baud modem. IIRC it was around $15 a month for basic service and offered message boards, shareware and info services. You could pay extra for other things. It was frustrating though when you could read much faster than the text came through the modem. Although I don't think any compression was in use, so maybe 300 baud could have been usable with compression. I think 1200-2400 bps is the sweet spot for human computer interaction. 9600 and up is only useful for bulk data transfer, media, multiuser and the like. The fact that the web is unusable at 56k is disgusting to me; what wasteful protocols and designs people use now.
Your HD is on an interface with a theoretical max throughput of 100MB/sec, & your network card has a theoretical max throughput of 100Mb/sec. That is very very different from saying there is an 8x difference in performance between them. In fact the only time you are going to achieve a throughput on that hard drive of greater than the network card's 10MB/sec limit is during a large sequential read or write, and even then it is going to top out at maybe 30-50MB/sec.
More typical workstation use will be far slower, perhaps on the order of 2MB/sec, well within 100baseT capability. This is because your hard drive can only seek 100-200 times a second and there is only so much data that is needed from each access.
This is not to contradict your report that you saw bad performance when running something over some network. I'm sure you did. But it was not due to the throughput limit of the network card in your machine. A 100baseT card is plenty fast enough to support storage over the network.
Get a VGA adapter for your Dreamcast and then tell me which console looks better. I use the Treamcast VGA box and I would never want to switch to PS2 on a TV.
In Vietnam, the US had a policy of limited escalating response. We did not set out to annihilate the enemy, but rather we used arms to send messages to the enemy leadership. By putting the enemy through limited combat, we gave them experience and an opportunity to improve their organizational capability. In effect we trained them and created a much more powerful adversary.
This kind of half-assed copy protection will have a similar, beneficial effect on piracy. There are a lot of people out there who are used to ripping with whatever program they were first able to find. Now that simple approach won't work. But I don't expect those casual pirates to surrender, as the bozo being interviewed does. Many of them will take that next step. They'll do a couple of hours of research and find the online communities and FAQs they need to circumvent this measure.
If you don't like my first analogy, here's another one: once a casual pirate taps into the piracy community, it's like sending a minor offender to prison. When the casual pirate comes out of that usenet group or Direct Connect chat, he'll know a lot more about his craft, and he'll be in a position to let other people know that it is possible to get around most any copy protection.
vi doesn't use ex as a backend. Rather, vi is a mode of ex. In fact, "vi" is just the shortest acceptable abbreviation for the "visual" command in ex. So you can use vi by starting ex and entering "vi" as a command, or "visual" or "vis" or some other prefix. And as newbies have long accidentally discovered to their dismay, the vi command mode "Q" command switches to ex mode.
It's the same executable, and neither ex nor vi is subordinate to the other.
Google's home page normally has no updated content except for changing the picture. You would do better to save the home page to a local file and make that your browser homepage. Loads even faster.
To say that human genetic code is 700 MB large doesn't mean what you think it means! It means that there is a limit of 2 to the 8*700 million power, 2^5600000000 different possible genetic possibilities, if we were to just twiddle all the bits. Not that that would produce good results. But that is about 1x10^2800000000 different possibilities, which is a very healthy infinity for all practical purposes. Not 700 million possibilities or whatever you thought. 700 million bytes most certainly can describe human (genetic) uniqueness, etc.
Computers can be cheaper than books, cheaper than teachers, cheaper than a TV and VCR. I fully expect the original poster's prediction to materialize as the price of a networked computer media station continues to drop and reaches the levels that do make ubiquity feasible. New software will be needed, to be sure, but it's terribly shortsighted to think that computers will always be expensive. Digital watches and calculators used to be expensive, too.
Utopic vision? Check out alt.binaries.e-book and tell me whether it's utopic or already here.