Developer support will come in the form of programmers who already have a vested experience in programming x86 hardware, possibly PC game developers who are interested in developing a console port simultaneously.
This was the purpose of including WinCE as an optional API layer on the Dreamcast. It was supposed to facilitate Pc to dreamcast ports.
The danger posed by the nuclear meltdown comes in three forms: Gamma Beta Alpha.
Washing is extremely effective against Alpha radiation, which are just large enough that they can't penetrate your skin. In fact, you get alpha radiation poison either by inhaling the stuff or eating it down.
Beta is easily stopped by object, it's just a bunch of flimsy electrons anyways.
Gamma, well, IIRC, uranium based reactors don't create a lot of this stuff, it's them plutonium based reactors that make this stuff in droves...
Let's say if you can see your outline burned in the ground from gamma radiation, you're screwed.:)
Yes, you do make a valid point, but consider this proposition.
Most people break into systems with the intent of using that system as a gateway into the other machines on the network.
So people can hack into a unix box, hide the traces of their break in, install a nice packet sniffer and such, and otherwise, use the machine to scope out the network, figure out the topology etc. etc.
A mac isn't so great at TCP/ip. In fact, the mac doesn't have a means of running a program remotely, so therefore, the worst that a scriptkiddie cracker can do is dump the harddrive. (Which can easily be remedied by backups, disk images and such) Of course, you could give me a counterargument by saying the said cracker could construct a buffer overflow such that he can write a sniffer program into the buffer, but such a cracker would have to know the inards of the MacOS inside and out, and write really, really compact code, which is pretty hard with Risc Cpu's.:)
And I've actually seen footage where they did a full head transplant on a poor chimp, kinda like the one on that damned tv show Friends. It was research footage from one of those weird University projects, like the one where the professor was in it just for the funding. Anyhow, in the end, the head transplant was very possible, with the problem that the technology to reattach spinal nerves really isn't up to par... ie, after such surgery, you're paralysed from the neck down.
Dell Raid controllers use the AMI MegaRaid Chipset which is supported by linux (2.2 kernels). I have a machine at work that also uses a MegaRaid-based raid card and it works fine. This fact is stated on a support page hidden in the site somewhere.
It's a fact of life, especially in a capitalist economy.
Justin Frankel left college to further develop WinAMP, out of interest and the fact that he felt that he could earn enough money making useful software. Of course, with the US government and State government easily taking a third off of what he makes off WinAMP, one must take a step back and take an over all look at the situation.
He never sold out, simply the millions of people who downloaded WinAMP, and used it for such a long time never bothered to support this hard working person who spent time and effort to creating a decent, useful piece of software that is relatively inexpensive. (Ten fucking dollars. If you can't cough up $10 to pay for software that you actually use, then you have issues)
He never made Winamp crippled, like countless shareware programs. In fact, in my opinion, Winamp was never shareware, for the single reason that there is no distinction between registered and unregistered versions, thus making the registration fee more like a DONATION.
Technically, patents DO not keep your trade secrets, well, secrets. You must document your secrets clearly and present that to the Patent Office in order to receive a patents.
this is why companies like Coca-Cola don't bother patenting their formula's. They rather keep it a secret, and pray that some other company doesn't stumble across their formula.
And Patents do eventually run out... Secrets can only be found.
Unfortunately, until everyone gets cable modems or DSL or whatever companies are promising to bring, mp3's will still take quite a bit of time to download.
And even if everyone had cable modems, think of problems associated with cutting into the Internet bandwidth. Man, it'll still be slow.
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I was under the impression that they created termcap so they could ensure that their games, like trek, would run on all terminals :)
Developer support will come in the form of programmers who already have a vested experience in programming x86 hardware, possibly PC game developers who are interested in developing a console port simultaneously.
This was the purpose of including WinCE as an optional API layer on the Dreamcast. It was supposed to facilitate Pc to dreamcast ports.
The danger posed by the nuclear meltdown comes in three forms:
:)
Gamma
Beta
Alpha.
Washing is extremely effective against Alpha radiation, which are just large enough that they can't penetrate your skin. In fact, you get alpha radiation poison either by inhaling the stuff or eating it down.
Beta is easily stopped by object, it's just a bunch of flimsy electrons anyways.
Gamma, well, IIRC, uranium based reactors don't create a lot of this stuff, it's them plutonium based reactors that make this stuff in droves...
Let's say if you can see your outline burned in the ground from gamma radiation, you're screwed.
Yes, you do make a valid point, but consider this proposition.
:)
Most people break into systems with the intent of using that system as a gateway into the other machines on the network.
So people can hack into a unix box, hide the traces of their break in, install a nice packet sniffer and such, and otherwise, use the machine to scope out the network, figure out the topology etc. etc.
A mac isn't so great at TCP/ip. In fact, the mac doesn't have a means of running a program remotely, so therefore, the worst that a scriptkiddie cracker can do is dump the harddrive. (Which can easily be remedied by backups, disk images and such) Of course, you could give me a counterargument by saying the said cracker could construct a buffer overflow such that he can write a sniffer program into the buffer, but such a cracker would have to know the inards of the MacOS inside and out, and write really, really compact code, which is pretty hard with Risc Cpu's.
And I've actually seen footage where they did a full head transplant on a poor chimp, kinda like the one on that damned tv show Friends. It was research footage from one of those weird University projects, like the one where the professor was in it just for the funding. Anyhow, in the end, the head transplant was very possible, with the problem that the technology to reattach spinal nerves really isn't up to par... ie, after such surgery, you're paralysed from the neck down.
Dell Raid controllers use the AMI MegaRaid Chipset which is supported by linux (2.2 kernels). I have a machine at work that also uses a MegaRaid-based raid card and it works fine. This fact is stated on a support page hidden in the site somewhere.
You're paying for 30 days of TELEPHONE support, which didn't exist before.
Get RedHat 6.0 Core if you don't need the support. It's $40. (Probably can get for less in some retail stores.)
It's a fact of life, especially in a capitalist economy.
Justin Frankel left college to further develop WinAMP, out of interest and the fact that he felt that he could earn enough money making useful software. Of course, with the US government and State government easily taking a third off of what he makes off WinAMP, one must take a step back and take an over all look at the situation.
He never sold out, simply the millions of people who downloaded WinAMP, and used it for such a long time never bothered to support this hard working person who spent time and effort to creating a decent, useful piece of software that is relatively inexpensive. (Ten fucking dollars. If you can't cough up $10 to pay for software that you actually use, then you have issues)
He never made Winamp crippled, like countless shareware programs. In fact, in my opinion, Winamp was never shareware, for the single reason that there is no distinction between registered and unregistered versions, thus making the registration fee more like a DONATION.
To call this a sellout is an insult.
Technically, patents DO not keep your trade secrets, well, secrets. You must document your secrets clearly and present that to the Patent Office in order to receive a patents.
this is why companies like Coca-Cola don't bother patenting their formula's. They rather keep it a secret, and pray that some other company doesn't stumble across their formula.
And Patents do eventually run out... Secrets can only be found.
But bandwidth isn't cheap.
Unfortunately, until everyone gets cable modems or DSL or whatever companies are promising to bring, mp3's will still take quite a bit of time to download.
And even if everyone had cable modems, think of problems associated with cutting into the Internet bandwidth. Man, it'll still be slow.