Most people do not have the keyboard for the Dreamcast, *nix won't be very useful on this.
Most people don't have the keyboard, true.. however, you can find them at Babbages or online relatively easy. Even the once-difficult-to-find mouse is easy to come across.
I guess it just took the warehouses to start clearing out their inventory for these things to become readily available.
it wasnt Amiga, it was Commedore Amiga: always was. It was a machine that was _way_ ahead of it's time: 16-bit audio, 64k colors, all for $1000 USD, in 1985. The mentality of the commedore project leaders should be commended; they are the ones that did something no one though was possible.
Just to correct the specs, the Commodore Amiga 1000 had 8-bit audio (4 channels; two on left, two on right) and 4096 12-bit color. It could display anywhere from 2 to 32 colors on a screen at a time (without using copper tricks), and had a special HAM mode that could display all 4096 at once (though this mode wasn't in the original A1000 revision).
As I've been carefully watching my 200 shares of Sun Microsystems go down the toilet over the last several months, I've been trying to think how could this great company increase its value? With Linux and cheap commodity x86 hardware becoming more popular in this lousy economy, high-end SPARC systems from Sun just aren't getting purchased as much.
These people have made the Sun look cooler than the IBM x86 rack, and maybe it'll make the IT managers buy more Sun! Raise my stock value! Make me more money! Woo-hoo!
Ming the Merciless sending fire and brimstone on the earth.. sitting back and watching it all.. Klytus says, laughingly, "Most effective, your majesty! Shall we destroy this.. Earth?"
Ming the Merciless (played by Max Von Sydow) comments "Later.. I like to play with things a while".
I guess someone out there has us in the palm of his/her/its hand?
Ok, too much sci-fi for me this morning. back to work..
Anyone get the feeling that they're doing this just so that they can hold this as an antitrust issue in the courts? I'd bet money that Microsoft won't let Liberty Alliance users into their sites, and thus when all this comes to a big climax in the courts, Microsoft looks like the bad guys.
"Hey, we let your guys in, why won't you let ours in? MONOPOLISTS!"
Not that I don't think that this should work, but still.. I think it is just a tactic here.
You could probably ask a free-form listener supported radio station (like www.WFMU.org) which certainly knows about the dealings with the FCC, local governments, etc. I don't know if you're going sponsor or listener supported, but I'm sure if you offered to donate $100 to their station (tax deductible), they'd be happy to answer some questions for you.
They're no fly-by-night tiny radio station. They have been around for years in the NYC area, and are quite popular among listeners of non-commercial music.
Well, I hope that if they are going to "fill in the gaps" as it were, that it doesn't become victim of the same fate as the last Pink Panther movie. The idea is that Peter Sellers died during the filming of the second-to-last Pink Panther movie, and they filled in the gap by totally convoluting the story. Awful. I won't even mention the sequel which was horrendous.
Of course, Peter wasn't the author of the story, but the idea is that when someone else tries to fill in a missing piece of a story, it can have some horrible consequences. Let us hope this doesn't happen here.
Yes, fine. Zahi Hawass, just open the door, let us see it, and if there really is something special behind the door, I hope you (and/or your government) doesn't censor or hide from us what is back there.
I really get into watching this kind of stuff, just because it is so interesting and some of the oldest history on the planet (that we can identify). Just when I've watched some of these shows in the past, I feel that we're only seeing what someone wanted us to see, not "the whole story".
Anyway, it could only be better than 15 years ago watching Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's vault. Interesting as heck watching the show, if anything.
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I love Cringely's tech reporting, and this show can only be enjoyable to me. The fact that you can also get the raw takes is perfect for someone trying out Adobe Premiere, iMovie or Windows Movie Maker for the first time; you can splice together your own show.
My first hard drive was a Sider 20MB drive for my Apple ][ computer. Cost nearly $600 back in 1986. I had worked with hard drives before, naturally, but this was my first personal drive.
Dumb thing was that due to the limitations of the ROM on the Sider card, and the limitations of Apple ][ ProDOS, the largest slice I could have was only a 16MB partition. The rest was made into something like 2MB ProDOS, 1MB of DOS 3.3 volumes and a volume or two for UCSD Pascal.
Eventually a 3rd party sold replacement ROM chips so that you could create a single 20MB partition, but I was never quite sure how that worked.
The interface was SASI, supposedly a predecesor to SCSI, and I believe the controller hardware was really made by Xebec. Probably just a Seagate ST225 inside.
IBM is leaving the consumer business, i.e. their infamous GXP (?) series, but they have not abandoned the enterprise business.
I thought this, too, however, I had an IBM representative team (tech guy and sales guy) in last week and made a stab about the 70GXP. They told me that they were still 100% with server class hard drives.
Despite being a user of the latest operating systems, web browsers, technologies, etc.. I'm still stuck using my old NS4.7x for email. I'd love to upgrade to something else (and not have to run email off of my aging laptop since I don't want to install the software on another platform), but NS4.x mail just works, and it stores the data in a non-proprietary way (read: not an encoded database, but a flat text file).
I'm just waiting for Mozilla mail to be on-par or superior; but from what I've read, it just doesn't seem there yet.
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It was the first FPS that I got into, besides Descent. I never really played Doom (I think I hear people crying "Heathen!!!").
But... when I first got turned onto Descent, I used to play it on my roomate's Pentium 60 (woah!) with all the lights in the room turned off, the music level set to low, and the sound effects cranked.. face and eyes close to screen.. searching.. exploring... SCREEEECHH! SOMETHING POPS OUT AND STARTS FIRING AT ME! jump out of seat, scream, start firing madly, etc.. THAT was good playing...
First: Nokia are toy phones. I wouldn't want to be catched with one alive. I'm a Siemens fan, plain (not "uber-cool") phones with a clean interfaces and no fancy-schmancy stuff.
Nokia might be toy phones, but they seem to have a much more intuitive menu interface than any other phone I have used. I'm using an LG TG-510 these days, and despite its solid construction and nice shape, my old Nokia was much easier to use and a little less "brain dead".
As far as Siemens goes, I like the company, but I didn't have much luck with their Gigaset 2.4GHz cordless phone at home. (specifically, why can't I pick up the phone line while the answering machine is running?)
On the other side of the coin, this makes me think about how Steve Wozniak used to create television jammers to pull pranks on people. I'm sure someone would come up with some device like this to annoy cell phone owners. I'd buy one for $10!
Well, the only thing I would be worried about is the freakin' idiots that could get their hands on the original documents and vandalize them in some fashion. I've got some original print Peanuts (Charlie Brown / Snoopy, for those who can't make the connection) from the 50's, and they've survived all these years just fine. However, I wouldn't dare let any family member below the age of 13 touch them in fear that their brown pages might get harmed.
Interesting mention in the article.. I didn't notice that WinXP dropped support for formatting 720k 3.5" disks. Fine, but the question is WHY?
Apple dropped support in MacOS 8.x for 800k disks. Sure, you could add a driver later to make them work, but one of the real issues was that the older format was GCR encoded, which used a variable speed based on the track being accessed. IBM formatted disks, however, have always been MFM, which is a constant speed regardless of the track being accessed. Thus, my question why Microsoft would drop support.
Hey, XP is large enough, I'd rather spend the extra 500k (being generous) of driver support to allow 720k disks to be formatted than to have it removed because someone wanted to "move forward".
I guess the "fetch me a beer" voice command could be aliased to "R2D2, Where Are You?"
Somehow always had that phrase in my head since my childhood - friend around the block had a transport vehicle with multiple sound clips in it (one of those "press this plastic spring button, and it'll play one of those plastic records" type deals.)
IBM already has an unbelievably moronic patent for things as trivial as "putting a cursor on the screen using XOR" (yes, and back in the 80's Commodore got bitten with this one in AmigaDOS).
Yes, this is off topic.. Wasn't that patent held by WANG?
Doesn't matter, I'll still use JPEG until there is an alternative that doesn't piss people off. I still use GIF for some strange reason, though; should probably start running PNG, just I don't want to go through the conversion process.
I remember when Hardy Workin' first came out, I was trying to explain to a co-worker why this was so cool. It wasn't that the graphics were rendered completely in graphics hardware, it wasn't that the file size for a 16 minute movie was only a handful of megabytes (most being reusable textures and audio samples) compared to a comparable MPEG that could be played CLEAN at 1280x1024, it was that someone is doing a Pixar on their home computer.
Think about it. You spend the time creating the backgrounds and characters (basically "cells" for animation, in a sense), and then you direct their movements and so-forth. Sure, there have been home animators for years making their own cartoons, but aren't most cartoons done on computers these days? I just think it is great that someone is making the computer one more way to express themselves. Last wave was the home musicians, now movie makers. What next?
I had Gamemaker and The Arcade Machine, two titles that I pursuaded my father to purchase for me under the guise of "I'll save you money by making my own games".. or something like that.
The Arcade Machine (Br0derbund) was a cool program, fairly easy to use, that you could make Galaxian type games and other shoot-em-up's. Gamemaker (Activision), however, was a much more powerful system where you could design much more than the shoot-em-up of TAM. I still have my disks lying around for this somewhere in a dusty closet.
I have partial belief in this statement, but of course there are exceptions to every rule.
An interesting story to support the statement "Those who can do, those who can't teach" is that a good friend of mine once took a finance course at a local university. The course material was how to manage and invest in such a way that you can make your money work for you, maximizing earnings and growth. What he discovered was that this teacher who seemed to have it all figured out, was driving a beat up old jalopy of a car. Always made him wonder how good this guy really was.
That was, at least, the first time I ever heard the statement.
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The speed is for Clippy, not YOU... he now is 3D ray-traced and has more artificial intelligence built in!
If it wasn't for the idea of WYSIWYG and fonts, I'd still be doing my word processing on AppleWorks for the Apple ][.
Most people don't have the keyboard, true.. however, you can find them at Babbages or online relatively easy. Even the once-difficult-to-find mouse is easy to come across.
I guess it just took the warehouses to start clearing out their inventory for these things to become readily available.
Now the broadband adapter is a different story..
I'm not sure which list to put this on; the good or bad list. I can add:
7. Microsoft succeeded in releasing AmigaBASIC, but never updated it to work on a CPU later than the 68000.
Just to correct the specs, the Commodore Amiga 1000 had 8-bit audio (4 channels; two on left, two on right) and 4096 12-bit color. It could display anywhere from 2 to 32 colors on a screen at a time (without using copper tricks), and had a special HAM mode that could display all 4096 at once (though this mode wasn't in the original A1000 revision).
These people have made the Sun look cooler than the IBM x86 rack, and maybe it'll make the IT managers buy more Sun! Raise my stock value! Make me more money! Woo-hoo!
Sorry.. had to say it..
Ming the Merciless sending fire and brimstone on the earth.. sitting back and watching it all.. Klytus says, laughingly, "Most effective, your majesty! Shall we destroy this.. Earth?"
Ming the Merciless (played by Max Von Sydow) comments "Later.. I like to play with things a while".
I guess someone out there has us in the palm of his/her/its hand?
Ok, too much sci-fi for me this morning. back to work..
"Hey, we let your guys in, why won't you let ours in? MONOPOLISTS!"
Not that I don't think that this should work, but still.. I think it is just a tactic here.
They're no fly-by-night tiny radio station. They have been around for years in the NYC area, and are quite popular among listeners of non-commercial music.
Of course, Peter wasn't the author of the story, but the idea is that when someone else tries to fill in a missing piece of a story, it can have some horrible consequences. Let us hope this doesn't happen here.
I really get into watching this kind of stuff, just because it is so interesting and some of the oldest history on the planet (that we can identify). Just when I've watched some of these shows in the past, I feel that we're only seeing what someone wanted us to see, not "the whole story".
Anyway, it could only be better than 15 years ago watching Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's vault. Interesting as heck watching the show, if anything.
I can't wait to see this.
My first hard drive was a Sider 20MB drive for my Apple ][ computer. Cost nearly $600 back in 1986. I had worked with hard drives before, naturally, but this was my first personal drive.
Dumb thing was that due to the limitations of the ROM on the Sider card, and the limitations of Apple ][ ProDOS, the largest slice I could have was only a 16MB partition. The rest was made into something like 2MB ProDOS, 1MB of DOS 3.3 volumes and a volume or two for UCSD Pascal.
Eventually a 3rd party sold replacement ROM chips so that you could create a single 20MB partition, but I was never quite sure how that worked.
The interface was SASI, supposedly a predecesor to SCSI, and I believe the controller hardware was really made by Xebec. Probably just a Seagate ST225 inside.
I thought this, too, however, I had an IBM representative team (tech guy and sales guy) in last week and made a stab about the 70GXP. They told me that they were still 100% with server class hard drives.
Despite being a user of the latest operating systems, web browsers, technologies, etc.. I'm still stuck using my old NS4.7x for email. I'd love to upgrade to something else (and not have to run email off of my aging laptop since I don't want to install the software on another platform), but NS4.x mail just works, and it stores the data in a non-proprietary way (read: not an encoded database, but a flat text file).
I'm just waiting for Mozilla mail to be on-par or superior; but from what I've read, it just doesn't seem there yet.
But... when I first got turned onto Descent, I used to play it on my roomate's Pentium 60 (woah!) with all the lights in the room turned off, the music level set to low, and the sound effects cranked.. face and eyes close to screen.. searching.. exploring... SCREEEECHH! SOMETHING POPS OUT AND STARTS FIRING AT ME! jump out of seat, scream, start firing madly, etc.. THAT was good playing...
Nokia might be toy phones, but they seem to have a much more intuitive menu interface than any other phone I have used. I'm using an LG TG-510 these days, and despite its solid construction and nice shape, my old Nokia was much easier to use and a little less "brain dead".
As far as Siemens goes, I like the company, but I didn't have much luck with their Gigaset 2.4GHz cordless phone at home. (specifically, why can't I pick up the phone line while the answering machine is running?)
On the other side of the coin, this makes me think about how Steve Wozniak used to create television jammers to pull pranks on people. I'm sure someone would come up with some device like this to annoy cell phone owners. I'd buy one for $10!
Well, the only thing I would be worried about is the freakin' idiots that could get their hands on the original documents and vandalize them in some fashion. I've got some original print Peanuts (Charlie Brown / Snoopy, for those who can't make the connection) from the 50's, and they've survived all these years just fine. However, I wouldn't dare let any family member below the age of 13 touch them in fear that their brown pages might get harmed.
Apple dropped support in MacOS 8.x for 800k disks. Sure, you could add a driver later to make them work, but one of the real issues was that the older format was GCR encoded, which used a variable speed based on the track being accessed. IBM formatted disks, however, have always been MFM, which is a constant speed regardless of the track being accessed. Thus, my question why Microsoft would drop support.
Hey, XP is large enough, I'd rather spend the extra 500k (being generous) of driver support to allow 720k disks to be formatted than to have it removed because someone wanted to "move forward".
Somehow always had that phrase in my head since my childhood - friend around the block had a transport vehicle with multiple sound clips in it (one of those "press this plastic spring button, and it'll play one of those plastic records" type deals.)
Yes, this is off topic.. Wasn't that patent held by WANG?
Doesn't matter, I'll still use JPEG until there is an alternative that doesn't piss people off. I still use GIF for some strange reason, though; should probably start running PNG, just I don't want to go through the conversion process.
And you thought you were going to get away without paying for your pr0n...
Think about it. You spend the time creating the backgrounds and characters (basically "cells" for animation, in a sense), and then you direct their movements and so-forth. Sure, there have been home animators for years making their own cartoons, but aren't most cartoons done on computers these days? I just think it is great that someone is making the computer one more way to express themselves. Last wave was the home musicians, now movie makers. What next?
The Arcade Machine (Br0derbund) was a cool program, fairly easy to use, that you could make Galaxian type games and other shoot-em-up's. Gamemaker (Activision), however, was a much more powerful system where you could design much more than the shoot-em-up of TAM. I still have my disks lying around for this somewhere in a dusty closet.
Ahh, those were the days..
An interesting story to support the statement "Those who can do, those who can't teach" is that a good friend of mine once took a finance course at a local university. The course material was how to manage and invest in such a way that you can make your money work for you, maximizing earnings and growth. What he discovered was that this teacher who seemed to have it all figured out, was driving a beat up old jalopy of a car. Always made him wonder how good this guy really was.
That was, at least, the first time I ever heard the statement.