Call me a bumbling idiot, but I like using "they" as a non-gendered singular pronoun, as well as using "their" when referring to a non-gendered singular "them". It's intuitively clear, and more concise than "he or she". If such a construct isn't an accepted part of the English language, it should be. In fact, at one time it was...
http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austheir.htm l
http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/s-pinker.htm l
http://www.english.vt.edu/~grammar/GrammarForWri te rs/forum/ForumTheir.html
I was disappointed that ATI doesn't appear to be willing to fund 8500 development through
Tungsten Graphics like they
did a few years ago (when TG was called Precision Insight).
I was just in the market to buy and new card, and as much as I wanted an ATI, I ended up buying a GeForce3. I don't like that NVidia's stuff is a closed binary implementation, but at least they take the Linux market seriously enough to support it.
I looked at the web site, but didn't find any hyperlinks under the graphic or NewFlash bit. Yes, I see it now, "PRODUCTS". And replace "head" with "head assembly".
I wrote an article in a programming journal in early 2000, and I was soon after approached by a publisher to write a book on embedded development. I seriously considered it, until I read Philip Greenspun's
book behind the book.
Favorite quote: Five percent of retail is fair if you abandon one erroneous assumption: that the publishing industry exists to compensate authors.
Same ideas as the linked article, just more in depth.
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I happen to be holding the wall wart from my Netwinder in my hand right now. There is nothing little about it. It literally weighs more than the Netwinder.
You're right, it is big as those things go. But it beats the 300watt brick in your typical PC.
I used mine for the same thing: NAT for my cable modem. It was perfect (except for the fan). Of course, I don't have a cable modem any more so it's a stylish paper weight.
I guess one other thing it might be useful for is testing IPAQ/Yopy/ programs, since they all run StrongARM binaries.
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The NetWinder was originally going to be a Java-based office desktop, running Corel's Java port of WordPerfect andother office-type apps. The Java ports were horribly slow and buggy as I recall, so it was re-cast as an web/file/internet-gateway server. The later rebel.com versions were based on the TransMeta chip, not the StrongARM.
Cool points:
1. The 275MHz StrongARM chip was fast (in 1998) and low power - the power supply for the unit is a little plug-in "wall wart". 2. Dual built-in ethernet, perfect for NAT setup. 3. Composite video in/out. 4. ARM binaries of sendmail/etc. immune to x86 script-kiddie stack-smashing attacks (might crash, but unlikely to get rooted).
Downsides:
1. Incredibly noisy fan, I mean it sounded like a hair dryer. I used to keep it hidden under my desk to mask the noise, and a few months ago I finally just took off the top half of the case and disabled the fan. An office full of these things? Forget it. 2. Too many apps had problems because they relied on x86 (lack-of) alignment. This could usually be worked around with -mshort-load-bytes and other GCC options, but after about 6 months of honestly trying to use the NetWinder as my main desktop, I gave up and went back to x86.
...
I saw the NetWinder at Linux Expo 1998, and I just had to have one. I still have it doing NAT/gateway for my cable internet hookup, running kernel 2.4.5 with an iptables script. The netwinder.org folks are still keeping the mailing lists alive and even working on a RH7.2 port.
It would be neat to see them base a new version on say a 1GHz XScale (I understand gcc ARM support has improved a lot since 1998), get the fan thing and other engineering nits right this time, and yes, don't over price it.
Hrm, if this is a Qt app, it should be easy to port to Windows, then you could have your Q2 character fire a rail slug through Clippy whenever he pops up!
pSOS is still popular in embedded applications like TV settop boxes, industrial control systems, and other applications where the OS doesn't have much visibility. I worked on a few projects in recent years that used pSOS. Good for "hard" real-time apps, and easy to strip down to a small size. Linux developers might not like it because the startup costs are rather high, and it is not "open-source". Driver sources come with a license purchase, but you cannot redistribute them, and the kernel is a blackbox of machine code that you probably can't reverse engineer legally.
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"The sad thing is that I can still hum some of the pieces of background music from that game."
There's lyrics, too, I recently learned...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Pek_JxmPonM#t=161s
From what I've seen, Armadillo definitely practices safe rocketry.
Call me a bumbling idiot, but I like using "they" as a non-gendered singular pronoun, as well as using "their" when referring to a non-gendered singular "them". It's intuitively clear, and more concise than "he or she". If such a construct isn't an accepted part of the English language, it should be. In fact, at one time it was...
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http://www.english.vt.edu/~grammar/GrammarForWr
I just remembered, it is possible to buy OpenGL support for the 8500, but the driver costs as much as my GeForce3 did. :P
I was disappointed that ATI doesn't appear to be willing to fund 8500 development through Tungsten Graphics like they did a few years ago (when TG was called Precision Insight).
I was just in the market to buy and new card, and as much as I wanted an ATI, I ended up buying a GeForce3. I don't like that NVidia's stuff is a closed binary implementation, but at least they take the Linux market seriously enough to support it.
I looked at the web site, but didn't find any hyperlinks under the graphic or NewFlash bit. Yes, I see it now, "PRODUCTS". And replace "head" with "head assembly".
What happens when a Flex-CD gets a little dent in it, and that little dent hits my CD drive read head at 40x ?
Favorite quote: Five percent of retail is fair if you abandon one erroneous assumption: that the publishing industry exists to compensate authors.
Same ideas as the linked article, just more in depth.
I happen to be holding the wall wart from my Netwinder in my hand right now. There is nothing little about it. It literally weighs more than the Netwinder.
You're right, it is big as those things go. But it beats the 300watt brick in your typical PC.
I used mine for the same thing: NAT for my cable modem. It was perfect (except for the fan). Of course, I don't have a cable modem any more so it's a stylish paper weight.
I guess one other thing it might be useful for is testing IPAQ/Yopy/ programs, since they all run StrongARM binaries.
The NetWinder was originally going to be a Java-based office desktop, running Corel's Java port of WordPerfect andother office-type apps. The Java ports were horribly slow and buggy as I recall, so it was re-cast as an web/file/internet-gateway server. The later rebel.com versions were based on the TransMeta chip, not the StrongARM.
Cool points:
1. The 275MHz StrongARM chip was fast (in 1998) and low power - the power supply for the unit is a little plug-in "wall wart".
2. Dual built-in ethernet, perfect for NAT setup.
3. Composite video in/out.
4. ARM binaries of sendmail/etc. immune to x86 script-kiddie stack-smashing attacks (might crash, but unlikely to get rooted).
Downsides:
1. Incredibly noisy fan, I mean it sounded like a hair dryer. I used to keep it hidden under my desk to mask the noise, and a few months ago I finally just took off the top half of the case and disabled the fan. An office full of these things? Forget it.
2. Too many apps had problems because they relied on x86 (lack-of) alignment. This could usually be worked around with -mshort-load-bytes and other GCC options, but after about 6 months of honestly trying to use the NetWinder as my main desktop, I gave up and went back to x86.
...
I saw the NetWinder at Linux Expo 1998, and I just had to have one. I still have it doing NAT/gateway for my cable internet hookup, running kernel 2.4.5 with an iptables script. The netwinder.org folks are still keeping the mailing lists alive and even working on a RH7.2 port.
It would be neat to see them base a new version on say a 1GHz XScale (I understand gcc ARM support has improved a lot since 1998), get the fan thing and other engineering nits right this time, and yes, don't over price it.
Hrm, if this is a Qt app, it should be easy to port to Windows, then you could have your Q2 character fire a rail slug through Clippy whenever he pops up!
-1 redundant (by 2 minutes :P)
What's this "Star Worlds" thing everyone keeps talking about?
Remember, Gimp was inspired by PhotoShop, and we all love the Gimp.
I was pretty impressed by Gnome's i18n when
I realized I could do things like,
$ LANG=es_ES gnome-help-browser
or even run my whole X session in another
language,
$ LANG=fr_FR startx
Not everything is translated, but its
still pretty impressive.
pSOS is still popular in embedded applications
like TV settop boxes, industrial control systems,
and other applications where the OS doesn't
have much visibility. I worked on a few projects
in recent years that used pSOS. Good for "hard"
real-time apps, and easy to strip down to a
small size. Linux developers might not like it
because the startup costs are rather high,
and it is not "open-source". Driver sources
come with a license purchase, but you cannot
redistribute them, and the kernel is a blackbox
of machine code that you probably can't reverse
engineer legally.
(Does anyone even read the 229th comment?)
I had some thoughts on software development models I put together
here
Not sure what FAQ this belongs in, but:
/usr/lib/Real
% setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH
% netscape &
(now try some Real Media links)