this is how they're forcing everyone onto Beta. Make the standard interface so much shit they'll have two choices: bend over and take Beta or fuck off to Soylent Abortion.
eh?? I have an Asrock P4i65G Prescott P4 board next to me with an ECP parallel port on it. That's a 2006 vintage. (and blow me, it still works with the original processor I bought for it as well, a 2.66GHz P4)
This. Is why I don't throw my old gear just because some PHB says it's "obsolete". It's obsolete when smoke pours out of it and I can't get the fucking fans to spin.
laptops haven't had parallel ports since 2010. Serial ports went out around the same time. Firewire is hen's teeth as is PCMCIA/Cardbus, and finding something with an infrared port is like bottling unicorn farts.
Given the specified processor speed as 20MHz I'd say this is a 386SLC hence lacking a USB port.
Only suggestion I have is finding someone with a 2.5" IDE adapter, an IDE to USB adapter (comes with a PSU usually), a set of screwdrivers and the patience to tear down your Compaq. I could do it, but a: I charge a fortune for such service, b: I don't know where you are.
Doesn't work 100% on Linux. Doesn't work 100% on OSX. Ports for the above two platforms are not supported by Microsoft. For the simple reason that implementations (eg WineX and Cedega/whatever it's called this week) are 100% entirely guesswork ports on proprietery code.
If DirectX were open as in "we can do something useful with this on an ARM box", we'd *have* an XBox emulator for COTS x86-64.
As it is, we have to "make do" with such projects as Unity (Win64 API is still broken) which are built from the ground up to permit, nay encourage parallel development across platforms. This is why I can run Kerbal Space Program in OGL mode in a Knoppix VM.
All the VMs I've tried (well, actually a grand total of one - Virtualbox) don't correctly configure for Direct3D. A yardstick app I use is (conveniently) Homeworld, the original one from 1999 not the reboot which I couldn't run if I mashed all my hardware together. If that doesn't run, then I don't have the DirectX driver in right.
the second money changes hands it's a commercial operation. The private conveyance becomes in legal terms, a passenger carrying vehicle, and the driver assumes commercial liability.
if you're in an incident with a fare paying passenger and no PCV licence (hence PCV liability cover), then you're directly liable for any injury that person suffers in your vehicle. Fully comp private insurance does *not* cover PCVs. There is also no commercial cover since the driver is on a private licence (no PCV provision!) hence the driver is also fully liable for any commercial claim against him! Uber are not liable for shit, yet they're happy taking money from unlicensed, uninsured drivers who are in actual fact taking away from fully licensed and fully insured commercial drivers who, in the event of an incident that leaves you permanently quadriplegic can in fact cover your medical bills for the rest of your life without having to remortgage his own home. People should be fucking pissed off at Uber, and I'm not just talking about taxi drivers. What we need is a high profile claim against Uber for failing to provide commercial liability for their drivers. Even better if it's a claim by drivers who either have or haven't already been stung with the full weight of a damages claim.
plumbers are Guilded, as are painters and decorators, and electricians (who are also required to hold current proficiency certificates AND be up on current wiring code) as a legal requirement to be able to profess those trades. Doctors are registered at the GPA or central health authority (in England this would be the General Medical Council) as a legal requirement as the title is protected under Law. Nurses are either agency (as most private practitioners are these days) or registered (in England at the Royal College of Nursing, or RCN, for those who work in hospitals or residential units). Nannies and childminders are now required to be registered at the Children Services department of the Local Authority in which they operate, this also incurs an annual fee for a licence to operate. A "lawyer" is anybody who professes (practices) or studies Law. A "solicitor" is a member of the Law Society and professes "solicitor" and related services (ie legal, notary and probate) as their stock in trade. Only a member of the Law Society may use the title "solicitor" as it is protected under the Solicitors Act 1974.
None of it is about creating a false scarcity or protectionism, it's about ensuring proficiency in trade - although, in all cases examples of utter contempt for the trade in question can and is demonstrated on a regular basis. Cowboy builders, cowboy electricians, solicitors playing both sides (VHS Fletchers in Nottingham, for one. Go on, google them - they take instruction from parents on one hand (and lose their cases for them - first hand witness RIGHT HERE to two cases where they've done precisely that), and from the Local Authority on the other (Melanie Shaw case, among a great many others)), psychotic nannies and nurses (the nursery scandal which broke a few years ago with Angela Allen and whatsherface, and the Grantham Hospital one, then there's Stafford General (thousands of deaths with post mortem examinations BLOCKED, the Willow Simpson suicide ON WARD, UNDER SUICIDE WATCH, after being told that her newbord was to be adopted and "there was nothing she could do about it"), R(G) v Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust (unbelievable but completely true newborn abduction case by Nottingham City Council who commited it with fraudulent documents - and NOBODY went to jail!), Great Ormond Street, St. James', Alder Hey...).
before that was the London 1969 and 1961 expansions... and you got Liberty City, Chinatown Wars, Gay Tony, Lost And Damned... GTAV would, if you counted the expansions as full releases, actually be GTAXV.
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I said "laptops haven't had parallel ports since 2010", fucktard.
and when was the last time you saw an Alienware box with a Dockstation port?
the Toughbooks are built to military specification. I know, I have two of them. One of them has been under a Challenger tank and is still running.
this is how they're forcing everyone onto Beta. Make the standard interface so much shit they'll have two choices: bend over and take Beta or fuck off to Soylent Abortion.
meh, you just didn't know old laptops. I could take any working laptop, tear it down and put it back together working. Without a teardown guide.
(Hell, I wrote a teardown Bible for one of my clients, it's got TDGs for over a thousand different models)
this is FUD put out by an AC. Best ignored as he won't even put his name to it!
uh... IDE was the original name, later changed to ATA. It is the SAME THING.
good idea but irrelevant as the equipment as described would indicate a 2.5" IDE drive.
eh?? I have an Asrock P4i65G Prescott P4 board next to me with an ECP parallel port on it. That's a 2006 vintage. (and blow me, it still works with the original processor I bought for it as well, a 2.66GHz P4)
This. Is why I don't throw my old gear just because some PHB says it's "obsolete". It's obsolete when smoke pours out of it and I can't get the fucking fans to spin.
laptops haven't had parallel ports since 2010. Serial ports went out around the same time. Firewire is hen's teeth as is PCMCIA/Cardbus, and finding something with an infrared port is like bottling unicorn farts.
problem: the 3/20 doesn't have USB or a CDROM.
it's not, it's IDE.
the Compaq Aero 3/20 is stocked with a 40MB 2.5"x1/6" drive. The 160 is an upgrade.
Given the specified processor speed as 20MHz I'd say this is a 386SLC hence lacking a USB port.
Only suggestion I have is finding someone with a 2.5" IDE adapter, an IDE to USB adapter (comes with a PSU usually), a set of screwdrivers and the patience to tear down your Compaq. I could do it, but a: I charge a fortune for such service, b: I don't know where you are.
ignore the monotheistic thing on "Caprica", what an AI needs to believe in something that's not logical is the ability to understand illogic.
Never going to happen.
for some metric of "great".
Doesn't work 100% on Linux.
Doesn't work 100% on OSX.
Ports for the above two platforms are not supported by Microsoft. For the simple reason that implementations (eg WineX and Cedega/whatever it's called this week) are 100% entirely guesswork ports on proprietery code.
If DirectX were open as in "we can do something useful with this on an ARM box", we'd *have* an XBox emulator for COTS x86-64.
As it is, we have to "make do" with such projects as Unity (Win64 API is still broken) which are built from the ground up to permit, nay encourage parallel development across platforms. This is why I can run Kerbal Space Program in OGL mode in a Knoppix VM.
Tuxgames was a great site, it seems to have done abunk though and is now placeheld by some fucking slots portal.
1. what's doing the processing?
2. because input latency.
3. because network latency.
4. because bandwidth.
potential problem:
All the VMs I've tried (well, actually a grand total of one - Virtualbox) don't correctly configure for Direct3D. A yardstick app I use is (conveniently) Homeworld, the original one from 1999 not the reboot which I couldn't run if I mashed all my hardware together. If that doesn't run, then I don't have the DirectX driver in right.
the second money changes hands it's a commercial operation. The private conveyance becomes in legal terms, a passenger carrying vehicle, and the driver assumes commercial liability.
if you're in an incident with a fare paying passenger and no PCV licence (hence PCV liability cover), then you're directly liable for any injury that person suffers in your vehicle. Fully comp private insurance does *not* cover PCVs. There is also no commercial cover since the driver is on a private licence (no PCV provision!) hence the driver is also fully liable for any commercial claim against him! Uber are not liable for shit, yet they're happy taking money from unlicensed, uninsured drivers who are in actual fact taking away from fully licensed and fully insured commercial drivers who, in the event of an incident that leaves you permanently quadriplegic can in fact cover your medical bills for the rest of your life without having to remortgage his own home. People should be fucking pissed off at Uber, and I'm not just talking about taxi drivers. What we need is a high profile claim against Uber for failing to provide commercial liability for their drivers. Even better if it's a claim by drivers who either have or haven't already been stung with the full weight of a damages claim.
plumbers are Guilded, as are painters and decorators, and electricians (who are also required to hold current proficiency certificates AND be up on current wiring code) as a legal requirement to be able to profess those trades. Doctors are registered at the GPA or central health authority (in England this would be the General Medical Council) as a legal requirement as the title is protected under Law. Nurses are either agency (as most private practitioners are these days) or registered (in England at the Royal College of Nursing, or RCN, for those who work in hospitals or residential units). Nannies and childminders are now required to be registered at the Children Services department of the Local Authority in which they operate, this also incurs an annual fee for a licence to operate. A "lawyer" is anybody who professes (practices) or studies Law. A "solicitor" is a member of the Law Society and professes "solicitor" and related services (ie legal, notary and probate) as their stock in trade. Only a member of the Law Society may use the title "solicitor" as it is protected under the Solicitors Act 1974.
None of it is about creating a false scarcity or protectionism, it's about ensuring proficiency in trade - although, in all cases examples of utter contempt for the trade in question can and is demonstrated on a regular basis. Cowboy builders, cowboy electricians, solicitors playing both sides (VHS Fletchers in Nottingham, for one. Go on, google them - they take instruction from parents on one hand (and lose their cases for them - first hand witness RIGHT HERE to two cases where they've done precisely that), and from the Local Authority on the other (Melanie Shaw case, among a great many others)), psychotic nannies and nurses (the nursery scandal which broke a few years ago with Angela Allen and whatsherface, and the Grantham Hospital one, then there's Stafford General (thousands of deaths with post mortem examinations BLOCKED, the Willow Simpson suicide ON WARD, UNDER SUICIDE WATCH, after being told that her newbord was to be adopted and "there was nothing she could do about it"), R(G) v Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust (unbelievable but completely true newborn abduction case by Nottingham City Council who commited it with fraudulent documents - and NOBODY went to jail!), Great Ormond Street, St. James', Alder Hey...).
Just a few bits FYI. :)
before that was the London 1969 and 1961 expansions... and you got Liberty City, Chinatown Wars, Gay Tony, Lost And Damned... GTAV would, if you counted the expansions as full releases, actually be GTAXV.
player name: "suckmyrocket"?