Well, Frenchie La Frencherson, last time I checked (right now as a matter of fact), Switzerland was located smack in the damn middle of Europe and the EU. How dumb do you think us americans are?
Wow. You managed to hit an all time Slashdot low. The previous worst attempt at a witty remark was:
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
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will accellerate until it destroys itself
Who's spouting scare stories?:)
I've driven diesel trucks (big 18 ton trucks) for my last two summer jobs. Guess they differ a bit from family diesel cars, but they work exactly like the original post stated.
You turn the key to the off position, and nothing happens. The engine will keep running effortlessly. No accelleration, no destroying itself. I've had trucks running in this position for hours (for running things which rely on exhaust pressure, but not on battery power).
To stop it you have to stall it, as you say. You use the engine break, which throttles the exhaust and thus slows down the engine itself.
In some older trucks that I have driven, the engine break was worn down (you use it all the time when going downhill, to avoid overheating the breaks) to the point where you couldn't stop the engine with it. The only way to stop the engines in these trucks was to put them in a high gear and release the clutch.
Lan party? It used to bed a demoscene event
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Lamers!
Greetings go to (in no particular order) Spaceballs, Virtual Dreams of Fairlight, CNCD, Complex, Silents DK, Lemon., Melon Dezign, Sanity, TRSI, Kangaroo, Bomb!, Andromeda, Rebels, Scoopex, Crionics, Stellar, Phenomena, Abyss, Cryptoburners, Mahoney & Kaktus, Pygmy Project, Artwork, Contraz, The Black Lotus, Potion and all we have forgotten
This is a US based messageboard. You are preaching to the brainwashed.
There are few people in the US who even wants to consider any scenarios other than that they were taught in school. "The Japanese were fanatic, wouldn't surrender, not even after the first bomb, our only alternative was to bomb and kill a lot of civillians."
I bet they aren't taught that Truman claimed that Hiroshima was a military installation, or that he initially thought they were going to save thousands of lives, not millions. That's something his bad conscience made up in the fifties.
I suspect the reason that manufacturers use dos tools are that they are avoiding any kind of race condition and that there really aren't a lot of things that can go wrong when you run a dos program.
is made by bPlan which used to be Phase5, a german hardware manufacturer. They made accelerator cards for both the Mac and the Amiga, and were the ones who brought PowerPC to the Amiga.
Seems like they have teamed up with french Thendic, who are making the hardware now.
MorphOS is supposed to be able to run legacy Amiga software through emulation.
That's one cool radio station. I hadn't heard of this one before, but they use music by Monotonik (used to be Mono, with guys like Supernao and Mortimer Twang on the Amiga). Excellent 'electronic' music. The spam voiceover makes it very unreal.
"To boost the economy, in an effort, the state of Idaho were investing in broadband Internet infrastructure. [They] legislated tax credits for companies which [explicitive-deleted]."
Bleh. While this excursion was interesting--and it's true that it's funny that a geek went outside--but I myself think that [anything] is a worthwhile project.
Look at it. While it doesn't involve computers it does involve a little bit of a [anything else], and there is a bit of science to it. In fact there are multiple types of [anything]. I found a good site (below) that lists through them.
http://www.everything2.com
I especially like the picture for Goatse (eew worms.)
> Is the quality of this cocaine satisfactory, > Mr. Delorian? Good as gold.
Hehe. I just saw the Discovery program on Delorean. That hidden cam scene was so funny.
The law enforcement guys just strolled in at low pace saying "duh, dude. we're from the fbi. and you're like busted. dude". And Delorean was like "oh man, I've got like ten kilograms of high quality cocaine on the table, and no time to pull a scarface".
Not that it's fun to lose a lot of cocaine or anything. Just that scene.
todays "geeks" are nothing but hot-rodders. "Modding" their computers to look shiny or overclock them for the sake of being "best" on the block. Pure mechanics. Racing for pink slips. Who cares.
People who are genuinly interested in computing do something else with their time. Sorry.
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Here are some of the features from the original AmigaOS (now nearly 20 years old) that I still miss in operating systems today:
The device system. Need to pipe something over TCP/IP? Just use TCP:. Need to open a console for whatever reason. Just use CON:. Etc. etc.
Full localization of all programs through a library (it still amazes me that programs for Windows are released in different language versions).
Dynamic size RAM disk, always present. Just copy something to RAM:, and there it is. No more temp files all over the place.
Revocerable ram disk (RAD). A ram disk that survives booting, and can even be booted from.
Datatypes. A kind of codec architecture for every kind of file. Programs didn't need to know what a gif file, a jpeg file or a text file was or how to show them on screen. The os could handle that.
Long filenames from the start. A jpeg picture was always picture.jpeg.
Fully user patchable. Any os function could be patched with SetPatch. The only reason people have been able to use it up until now (and also a virus writers dream in the old days).
System wide scripting/IPC with Rexx (ARexx really). All serious programs were fully scriptable with ARexx. Extremely powerful concept.
Screens. Think of them like virtual desktops. But every program could have one if you wanted. Flipping screens were instantenous and if you dragged them, you could even have split-screen resolutions (although this was more thanks to the hardware).
A powerfull shell, aswell as a nice intuitive (but not overly, like the Mac) graphic environment. Linux got this. Windows still doesn't.
These were just some of the features that made AmigaOS a tinkerers dream. Sheer elegance all the way. It saddens me that Linux, with it's monolithic and archaic approach, is the best viable os alternative at the moment. People growing up with computers nowaday have really missed out on something special.
I was just about to post that myself. Hugh Laurie is an excellent comedian and actor, and he's got the 'Arthur Dent-look'. Slightly bewildered all the time.
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Well, Frenchie La Frencherson, last time I checked (right now as a matter of fact), Switzerland was located smack in the damn middle of Europe and the EU. How dumb do you think us americans are?
the consumers should stick it to the man
Wow. You managed to hit an all time Slashdot low. The previous worst attempt at a witty remark was:
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
will accellerate until it destroys itself
:)
Who's spouting scare stories?
I've driven diesel trucks (big 18 ton trucks) for my last two summer jobs. Guess they differ a bit from family diesel cars, but they work exactly like the original post stated.
You turn the key to the off position, and nothing happens. The engine will keep running effortlessly. No accelleration, no destroying itself. I've had trucks running in this position for hours (for running things which rely on exhaust pressure, but not on battery power).
To stop it you have to stall it, as you say. You use the engine break, which throttles the exhaust and thus slows down the engine itself.
In some older trucks that I have driven, the engine break was worn down (you use it all the time when going downhill, to avoid overheating the breaks) to the point where you couldn't stop the engine with it. The only way to stop the engines in these trucks was to put them in a high gear and release the clutch.
check out Slengpung.
Lot's of handsome geeks.
Lamers!
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This is a US based messageboard. You are preaching to the brainwashed.
There are few people in the US who even wants to consider any scenarios other than that they were taught in school. "The Japanese were fanatic, wouldn't surrender, not even after the first bomb, our only alternative was to bomb and kill a lot of civillians."
I bet they aren't taught that Truman claimed that Hiroshima was a military installation, or that he initially thought they were going to save thousands of lives, not millions. That's something his bad conscience made up in the fifties.
I suspect the reason that manufacturers use dos tools are that they are avoiding any kind of race condition and that there really aren't a lot of things that can go wrong when you run a dos program.
It seems to be missing from the article.
http://www.morphos.de/
is made by bPlan which used to be Phase5, a german hardware manufacturer. They made accelerator cards for both the Mac and the Amiga, and were the ones who brought PowerPC to the
Amiga.
Seems like they have teamed up with french Thendic, who are making the hardware now.
MorphOS is supposed to be able to run legacy Amiga software through emulation.
Here we got 2mbit/640kbit, no monthly limit, for about $55 pr. month. Anybody better?
That's one cool radio station. I hadn't heard of this one before, but they use music by Monotonik (used to be Mono, with guys like Supernao and Mortimer Twang on the Amiga). Excellent 'electronic' music. The spam voiceover makes it very unreal.
"To boost the economy, in an effort, the state of Idaho were investing in broadband Internet infrastructure. [They] legislated tax credits for companies which [explicitive-deleted]."
Bleh. While this excursion was interesting--and it's true that it's funny that a geek went outside--but I myself think that [anything] is a worthwhile project.
Look at it. While it doesn't involve computers it does involve a little bit of a [anything else], and there is a bit of science to it. In fact there are multiple types of [anything]. I found a good site (below) that lists through them.
http://www.everything2.com
I especially like the picture for Goatse (eew worms.)
> Is the quality of this cocaine satisfactory,
> Mr. Delorian? Good as gold.
Hehe. I just saw the Discovery program on Delorean. That hidden cam scene was so funny.
The law enforcement guys just strolled in at low pace saying "duh, dude. we're from the fbi. and you're like busted. dude". And Delorean was like "oh man, I've got like ten kilograms of high quality cocaine on the table, and no time to pull a scarface".
Not that it's fun to lose a lot of cocaine or anything. Just that scene.
Now kill a commie for mommie
todays "geeks" are nothing but hot-rodders. "Modding" their computers to look shiny or overclock them for the sake of being "best" on the block. Pure mechanics. Racing for pink slips. Who cares.
People who are genuinly interested in computing do something else with their time. Sorry.
Here are some of the features from the original AmigaOS (now nearly 20 years old) that I still miss in operating systems today:
The device system. Need to pipe something over TCP/IP? Just use TCP:. Need to open a console for whatever reason. Just use CON:. Etc. etc.
Full localization of all programs through a library (it still amazes me that programs for Windows are released in different language versions).
Dynamic size RAM disk, always present. Just copy something to RAM:, and there it is. No more temp files all over the place.
Revocerable ram disk (RAD). A ram disk that survives booting, and can even be booted from.
Datatypes. A kind of codec architecture for every kind of file. Programs didn't need to know what a gif file, a jpeg file or a text file was or how to show them on screen. The os could handle that.
Long filenames from the start. A jpeg picture was always picture.jpeg.
Fully user patchable. Any os function could be patched with SetPatch. The only reason people have been able to use it up until now (and also a virus writers dream in the old days).
System wide scripting/IPC with Rexx (ARexx really). All serious programs were fully scriptable with ARexx. Extremely powerful concept.
Screens. Think of them like virtual desktops. But every program could have one if you wanted. Flipping screens were instantenous and if you dragged them, you could even have split-screen resolutions (although this was more thanks to the hardware).
A powerfull shell, aswell as a nice intuitive (but not overly, like the Mac) graphic environment. Linux got this. Windows still doesn't.
These were just some of the features that made AmigaOS a tinkerers dream. Sheer elegance all the way. It saddens me that Linux, with it's monolithic and archaic approach, is the best viable os alternative at the moment. People growing up with computers nowaday have really missed out on something special.
before I believe it. Even then, how can I be sure.
But this has no bearing on my day to day life, so why bother.
If you're going to make big changes in your life based on wether the US have been to the moon or not, then maybe it's is interesting.
I was just about to post that myself.
Hugh Laurie is an excellent comedian and actor, and he's got the 'Arthur Dent-look'. Slightly bewildered all the time.
He would be the perfect Arthur Dent.
Stephen Fry would be a candidate for a role too.
Yes. Thank you. The FREE registration was giving me a lot of problems.
There is no free lunch. Grow up.
Seems that Exotica actually mirrors the High Voltage Collection. It's here.
Download and check out music by old legends like Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, Jeroen Tel, David Whittaker, etc.
then check out these:
High Voltage SID Collection which contains about 20.000 sid tunes, downloadable as a 32 mb file (seems to be down right now)
Exotica, lots and lots of vintage Amiga game music and suitable players for download (and check that lovely Team17 logo on their frontpage).
Coagula
It does exactly this, and it's excellent fun to play around with.