I attended the Device Driver session at Warpstock, presented by Oliver Stein of IBM Germany. Firewire support for hard drives is coming soon. Also an OS/2 port of ALSA - think SDD for Audio.
My short Warpstock Report is available in the OS/2 forum at IWETHEY, where later down in the thread is information on a wireless NIC with OS/2 drivers:-)
A lot of the slashdot crowd seems to be Linux or else. What few OS/2 articles I've seen tend to follow the normal windows media bias - ie the annual OS/2 is dead... really... we mean it this time article.
I'd have given you a list, but the slashdot search breaks OS/2 down to OS 2 and won't return any results because it's now only indexing words 4 characters or longer...
Not sure when it's due out, but a google search yeilds a list price of $1049. Not bad - that's what my SVHS deck ran me way back when(late 80s?).
It's going to hook up via firewire - which my set doesn't have. I've heard there will be a plug-in board for the set though which adds the firewire port(s).
I just purchased a 65" HDTV, a Mitsubishi WS65908. Time Warner cable in Houston currently carries 9 HD feeds, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, PBS, 2 HBOs and 2 Showtimes.
Pretty much all of the movies on HBO are in HD format. The quality is so good it's like being at a movie theater. Showtime is hit-or-mis on the movies. Both HBO and Showtime have their own series, such as The Sopranos and Leap Years, which are broadcast in high def. I just recently started watching The Sopranos(I didn't have the HBO package until I got my HDTV) and have become hooked - it's an excellent show.
Last night's Disney movie on ABC was Toy Story in HD. Next week will be Toy Story 2. A couple weeks ago they showed A Bugs Life.
PBS has been showing ONLY HD shows on their HD channel - shows on nature, travel, exporation. The travel shows through Europe have been really slick, the detail shown in HD of artwork and buildings is phenominal.
Non-letterboxed DVDs also look great on a HDTV. Any movie that's labeled Anamorphic or Enhanced for Widescreen has 33% more detail when shown on an HDTV. The movie is recorded on the DVD without the black bars. The DVD player will throw out every 4th scan line of the movie on a traditional set and add the letter box bars. See The Ultimate Guide to Anamorphic Widescreen DVD for some good info on anamorphic DVDs.
I recall hearing about people using the internet to let family and friends know they where fine after one of the earthquakes in California because the phone systems(cell and wire) were overwhelmed.
What music I've burned onto CD is music I already own. Being able to create a cd that contains the songs I like, using tracks from the CDs I already own, is not illegal.
I also use my burner to create CDs, for family & friends, that contain the digital photos I've taken over the course of the past year. I set up the photos to be shown using a web browser. This way viewing the photos is platform independent.
OS/2's problem was M$s restrictive practices with the OEMs. ie - Compaq felt strongly enough about running OS/2 on their systems that they published a white paper on why their's where The Premier OS/2 Platform, and yet they never offered it preloaded for fear of M$ retaliation.
Because of M$'s lock on the OEMs, you had to pay "the full price" for OS/2. The price for Windows is not immediatly obvious because it was rolled into the cost of the system. Sadly, those of us who chose OS/2 still had to pay Microsoft for Windows(via system purchase) as well as pay for OS/2. The Microsoft Tax was the driving force behind my learning to build my second(and later) systems. Even then, I still had to pay the M$ Tax when I bought a laptop - rather hard to build one of those from scratch.
I loved P4X, the 3rd episode of the 4th season of LEXX. Craig Charles and Hattie Hayridge, Lister and the female Holly of Red Dwarf, starred as a married couple who where the wardens of the prison that Xev was taken to.
Back in those days(General Sheridan's time), it was real easy to heat up(burn wood, coal, etc) so people could cope with the freezing months in the north.
Nowadays, we have Air Conditioning, which lets us southerners cope with the hot months.
Really not that different - instead of being stuck inside for 3 months in the winter, we're stuck inside for 3 months in the summer.
While I'd survive the initial round(born in 66, before immunization for Smallpox stopped in the early 80s), there's no telling what would happen afterwords - other diseases would probably run rampant due to the overwhelming effect of dealing with dead.
NTSC uses 6MHz of bandwidth per channel, as does the US implementation of HDTV.
The stations don't have more bandwidth, we're just using compression to utilize the bandwidth more efficiently.
See Cringley's PBS article, Bandwidth Squeeze, for more info - such as how Japanese's HDTV standard uses 20MHz of bandwidth because the signal is not compressed(at least as of 98, when the article was written)
that inform you of problems ahead. They'll suggest alternative routes. Here's how our system works.
Houston's Real Time Traffic Map puts [!] on the map wherever an incident has occurred. It opens up a pop-up window with info on traffic issues. Currently there's a "Car-B-Q" (car on fire) on 59 that's blocking a lane.
You can also view the traffic via the highway camera's
Both sets of my grandparents, as well as one of my aunts & uncles, are running Linux.
They were using the Netpliance iopener for email to inexpensively keep in contact with family and friends. Netpliance had some major financial problems and discontinued the 800 number support, which left my relatives high-and-dry after they became hooked on email.
I've modified their iopeners to run Linux. I set them up with Blackbox as the window manager because the iopener is rather underpowered. The iopener's function keys have iconic labels instead of F1-F12: a weather key with a cloud on it, a news key with a newspaper on it, etc, so I've configured bbkeys to run Netscape and pass the appropriate command line arguements to display the correct URL or email option. (I would have used Mozilla, but it's email support was too slow - 20 seconds to display an email vs 2 seconds in netscape).
Last year my mom traveled the country visiting relatives with her laptop and scanner and digitized all the family photos she could lay her hands on. So, as an added bonus, the iopener is also an electronic picture album and runs CHBG as a screensaver when the system is idle. The grandparents really love this feature.
Sure, I could have done this using Windows, but the non-upgrade price of Windows(since the iopener's originally ran QNX) would have been about twice the cost of the hardware I purchased to convert the iopeners.
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Sure you and I know how to go about finding out this information. However, your average web browsing user wouldn't have a clue about whois or what it means and would think Ford was responsible.
I stopped in at an Egghead in Houston looking for some OS/2 software. They had a couple shelves filled with OS/2, but no 3rd party software.
I asked the manager why they didn't have any and he said that Microsoft had threatened to raise their cost for Microsoft products if they where caught selling any OS/2 software - even special ordered.
I always thought that was odd that they still sold OS/2, until it hit me - by allowing Egghead to have OS/2 on the shelf w/out any other OS/2 software, Microsoft was able to create the impression that no 3rd party OS/2 software existed.
Haven't seen anything that handles the joystick plus the spinning directional controller well. Playing the tank/maze portion of the game is quite difficult due to poor aiming:(
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The specs for the PS2 list the screen resolution as variable from 256x244 to 1280x1024. A far cry from being limited to 480i.
I attended the Device Driver session at Warpstock, presented by Oliver Stein of IBM Germany. Firewire support for hard drives is coming soon. Also an OS/2 port of ALSA - think SDD for Audio.
:-)
My short Warpstock Report is available in the OS/2 forum at IWETHEY, where later down in the thread is information on a wireless NIC with OS/2 drivers
A lot of the slashdot crowd seems to be Linux or else. What few OS/2 articles I've seen tend to follow the normal windows media bias - ie the annual OS/2 is dead... really... we mean it this time article.
I'd have given you a list, but the slashdot search breaks OS/2 down to OS 2 and won't return any results because it's now only indexing words 4 characters or longer...
For Warpstock, the annual OS/2 user conference. Had a great time too. I've decided to attend Warpstock Europe next year as well.
Nobody really likes it all, but they have to use it
possibly because they don't get BSOD breaks?
or might it be because they can't install the latest windows "time waster" program?
Not sure when it's due out, but a google search yeilds a list price of $1049. Not bad - that's what my SVHS deck ran me way back when(late 80s?).
It's going to hook up via firewire - which my set doesn't have. I've heard there will be a plug-in board for the set though which adds the firewire port(s).
Pretty much all of the movies on HBO are in HD format. The quality is so good it's like being at a movie theater. Showtime is hit-or-mis on the movies. Both HBO and Showtime have their own series, such as The Sopranos and Leap Years, which are broadcast in high def. I just recently started watching The Sopranos(I didn't have the HBO package until I got my HDTV) and have become hooked - it's an excellent show.
Last night's Disney movie on ABC was Toy Story in HD. Next week will be Toy Story 2. A couple weeks ago they showed A Bugs Life.
PBS has been showing ONLY HD shows on their HD channel - shows on nature, travel, exporation. The travel shows through Europe have been really slick, the detail shown in HD of artwork and buildings is phenominal.
Non-letterboxed DVDs also look great on a HDTV. Any movie that's labeled Anamorphic or Enhanced for Widescreen has 33% more detail when shown on an HDTV. The movie is recorded on the DVD without the black bars. The DVD player will throw out every 4th scan line of the movie on a traditional set and add the letter box bars. See The Ultimate Guide to Anamorphic Widescreen DVD for some good info on anamorphic DVDs.
I recall hearing about people using the internet to let family and friends know they where fine after one of the earthquakes in California because the phone systems(cell and wire) were overwhelmed.
Lister and Holly(Craig Charles and Hattie Hayridge) where the husband and wife prison wardens in the episode P4X
I also use my burner to create CDs, for family & friends, that contain the digital photos I've taken over the course of the past year. I set up the photos to be shown using a web browser. This way viewing the photos is platform independent.
I'm impressed :-)
Because of M$'s lock on the OEMs, you had to pay "the full price" for OS/2. The price for Windows is not immediatly obvious because it was rolled into the cost of the system. Sadly, those of us who chose OS/2 still had to pay Microsoft for Windows(via system purchase) as well as pay for OS/2. The Microsoft Tax was the driving force behind my learning to build my second(and later) systems. Even then, I still had to pay the M$ Tax when I bought a laptop - rather hard to build one of those from scratch.
The Official Red Dwarf site has a good interview with them about staring on LEXX - Prison Wardens.
Nowadays, we have Air Conditioning, which lets us southerners cope with the hot months.
Really not that different - instead of being stuck inside for 3 months in the winter, we're stuck inside for 3 months in the summer.
While I'd survive the initial round(born in 66, before immunization for Smallpox stopped in the early 80s), there's no telling what would happen afterwords - other diseases would probably run rampant due to the overwhelming effect of dealing with dead.
This article is not yet in their top 10 list - only you can make it so :-)
His article just happened to be one of the first few results of the Google search on the keywords "HDTV bandwidth 6MHz"
The stations don't have more bandwidth, we're just using compression to utilize the bandwidth more efficiently.
See Cringley's PBS article, Bandwidth Squeeze, for more info - such as how Japanese's HDTV standard uses 20MHz of bandwidth because the signal is not compressed(at least as of 98, when the article was written)
We've had them for a while, so it's not distracting.
Houston's Real Time Traffic Map puts [!] on the map wherever an incident has occurred. It opens up a pop-up window with info on traffic issues. Currently there's a "Car-B-Q" (car on fire) on 59 that's blocking a lane. You can also view the traffic via the highway camera's
at Fry's Electronics here in Houston. However, that part of town was hard hit by last week's flood so they might not be in sellable condition.
They were using the Netpliance iopener for email to inexpensively keep in contact with family and friends. Netpliance had some major financial problems and discontinued the 800 number support, which left my relatives high-and-dry after they became hooked on email.
I've modified their iopeners to run Linux. I set them up with Blackbox as the window manager because the iopener is rather underpowered. The iopener's function keys have iconic labels instead of F1-F12: a weather key with a cloud on it, a news key with a newspaper on it, etc, so I've configured bbkeys to run Netscape and pass the appropriate command line arguements to display the correct URL or email option. (I would have used Mozilla, but it's email support was too slow - 20 seconds to display an email vs 2 seconds in netscape).
Last year my mom traveled the country visiting relatives with her laptop and scanner and digitized all the family photos she could lay her hands on. So, as an added bonus, the iopener is also an electronic picture album and runs CHBG as a screensaver when the system is idle. The grandparents really love this feature.
Sure, I could have done this using Windows, but the non-upgrade price of Windows(since the iopener's originally ran QNX) would have been about twice the cost of the hardware I purchased to convert the iopeners.
Sure you and I know how to go about finding out this information. However, your average web browsing user wouldn't have a clue about whois or what it means and would think Ford was responsible.
I asked the manager why they didn't have any and he said that Microsoft had threatened to raise their cost for Microsoft products if they where caught selling any OS/2 software - even special ordered.
I always thought that was odd that they still sold OS/2, until it hit me - by allowing Egghead to have OS/2 on the shelf w/out any other OS/2 software, Microsoft was able to create the impression that no 3rd party OS/2 software existed.
Haven't seen anything that handles the joystick plus the spinning directional controller well. Playing the tank/maze portion of the game is quite difficult due to poor aiming :(