The Nokia Game really just involved reading email and text messages, occasionally buying a paper or watching a TV advert, going to the specified web sites, and playing some buggy Shockwave games. For about the first 25 days it was really easy, then most people (including me) were eliminated by a game in which the best tactic was to go for maximum points by completely ignoring the instructions. It was fun in parts, but it could have been much better.
I played something like this as a member of the Oxford Guild of Assassins; they just call it the Assassination Game. I believe that some other variants are known as "Killer".
Such services are great. They are convenient, help us find info faster, and provide services. But if they ever grow too limited or hostile to certain segments of the internet, we are not bound by them.
Many portals are now offering online PIMs. For those that don't have their own PIM software, these applications may be pretty attractive. If they rely on a particular PIM, they're locked in - even more so than they would be with a PIM that runs on their own computer. On an individual computer, one application can offer to import information from another's files. On the web, an ASP (which is what the portals are apparently becoming) can block access by its competitors, making it much more difficult to switch.
Since the compiler (rather than the processor) takes a large responsibility for scheduling of IA64 instructions, programs will need to be recompiled for each new IA64 processor if they are not to perform extremely sub-optimally. This suggests that part of the compilation work should be done by a JIT compiler. Which is exactly what Microsoft's.NET does.
Many years ago, I was pondering the idea of the Amiga 500 as a skateboard deck. The most important trick to learn with this would be to flip it up and change the disk in the floppy drive before landing on it again. Not easy.
The author of the Gnome Panel, whose name I shall not attempt to spell, works for Eazel. I think it's fair to say that it's being developed by them even though it's not part of Nautilus.
GSM data calls do not use ISDN. A few ISPs and GSM operators have arrangements to make digital connections for data calls, which means they can be connected just as quickly as ISDN calls. Normally, though, a GSM data call requires the operator to use something like a modem as a bridge between its network and the PSTN, just as it does for fax calls (and just as it needs to decompress voice calls).
WAP is completely independent of GSM. WAP is a marketing-driven pseudo-standard that has been kluged to work with virtually any mobile phone system.
I have Motorola's L7089 tri-band phone. That and the later P7389 (with WAP) have been popular buys among my colleagues who travel between here and the US. Other options include the Ericsson I888 and at least one Nokia phone that can use the 900 and 1900 MHz bands.
I don't think "public credit" means much in terms of the public's buying decisions. Since B can copy whatever A does, B can obtain about as much economic benefit as A does from A's invention. So there is no incentive for A to innovate rather than to copy.
It doesn't belong there. But there's nothing to stop you using GNOME's virtual file system in an app that has a console-based user interface or just command-line options.
Even worse is to hear "speeds up to 700 mHz". The 700 mhz Pentium chip, or AMD's chips don't have the "up to" tag that consumers, over the years, have equated to 'pie in the sky bullshit' speak. They are 700 mhz, period.
Uh, no. The "SpeedStep technology" (spit) is all about under-clocking the processor whenever the computer is not docked.
Not only did the SNES have 256-colours as opposed to the Genesis's 64, but the graphics processor included a wonderful feature called H-DMA, that let you program memory/graphic register changed triggered by the scanline approaching a certain H/V position.
That sounds just like the Amiga's "copper". I think it's possible to do some very crude scaling with the copper, but nothing as good as "Mode 7".
I hope they succeed. Java-the-language managed to clear most of the worst nasty things of C++ without taking away much power.
I suspect you have an out of date idea of the C++ language. Java has nothing to match the power of C++ templates (generic programming). It doesn't even allow the definition of new type names, as even C does.
It makes certain acts that are illegal criminal, rather than civil, offences. This would mean that they could be investigated by the police, and punished by imprisonment.
But then you'll need specialised hardware to rip it, not software. It will be illegal to manufacture, own or trade in that hardware. Since it's hardware you won't be able to move it around or hide it as easily. The majority of music listeners will not have this option. I really hope it doesn't come to this.
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Isn't there a Windows audio driver that records to disk? There's been one for Linux for a while now. These will give you access to the raw audio data, no matter what the original format was, since it has to go through the audio driver to get to the speakers.
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The Nokia Game really just involved reading email and text messages, occasionally buying a paper or watching a TV advert, going to the specified web sites, and playing some buggy Shockwave games. For about the first 25 days it was really easy, then most people (including me) were eliminated by a game in which the best tactic was to go for maximum points by completely ignoring the instructions. It was fun in parts, but it could have been much better.
I played something like this as a member of the Oxford Guild of Assassins; they just call it the Assassination Game. I believe that some other variants are known as "Killer".
Many portals are now offering online PIMs. For those that don't have their own PIM software, these applications may be pretty attractive. If they rely on a particular PIM, they're locked in - even more so than they would be with a PIM that runs on their own computer. On an individual computer, one application can offer to import information from another's files. On the web, an ASP (which is what the portals are apparently becoming) can block access by its competitors, making it much more difficult to switch.
Since the compiler (rather than the processor) takes a large responsibility for scheduling of IA64 instructions, programs will need to be recompiled for each new IA64 processor if they are not to perform extremely sub-optimally. This suggests that part of the compilation work should be done by a JIT compiler. Which is exactly what Microsoft's .NET does.
Which takes so much time.
No, it's an operating system. i386 is a little-endian architecture, though.
Network byte order is big-endian. What are you talking about?
No it doesn't. hotmail.com is a popular forged domain for use in the From: header field.
The Hotmail interface is not exactly amenable to automated mass-mailing. This is all about blocking incoming spam to Hotmail users.
(Reposted with correct formatting. Didn't <PRE> use to work?)
You might see it at that address, but from the outside world:
nslookup www.sanpo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp[...]
Name: sanpo-gw.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Address: 133.11.74.27
Aliases: www.sanpo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
See RFC 1918 for an explanation.
You might see it at that address, but from the outside world:
nslookup www.sanpo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp [...] Name: sanpo-gw.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Address: 133.11.74.27 Aliases: www.sanpo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jpSee RFC 1918 for an explanation.
Many years ago, I was pondering the idea of the Amiga 500 as a skateboard deck. The most important trick to learn with this would be to flip it up and change the disk in the floppy drive before landing on it again. Not easy.
...is what the above link points to.
How about actually reading the article? The increase was from an average of 37 days to an average of 71 days.
Parliament can replace the monarch if he/she does not effectively rubber-stamp its decisions.
Um, no - those are guns in cell phone cases.
Claudia Schiffer appears to a be a shrewd businesswoman. I think we can assume she was fairly well organised even without a Palm.
The author of the Gnome Panel, whose name I shall not attempt to spell, works for Eazel. I think it's fair to say that it's being developed by them even though it's not part of Nautilus.
GSM data calls do not use ISDN. A few ISPs and GSM operators have arrangements to make digital connections for data calls, which means they can be connected just as quickly as ISDN calls. Normally, though, a GSM data call requires the operator to use something like a modem as a bridge between its network and the PSTN, just as it does for fax calls (and just as it needs to decompress voice calls).
WAP is completely independent of GSM. WAP is a marketing-driven pseudo-standard that has been kluged to work with virtually any mobile phone system.
I have Motorola's L7089 tri-band phone. That and the later P7389 (with WAP) have been popular buys among my colleagues who travel between here and the US. Other options include the Ericsson I888 and at least one Nokia phone that can use the 900 and 1900 MHz bands.
I don't think "public credit" means much in terms of the public's buying decisions. Since B can copy whatever A does, B can obtain about as much economic benefit as A does from A's invention. So there is no incentive for A to innovate rather than to copy.
It doesn't belong there. But there's nothing to stop you using GNOME's virtual file system in an app that has a console-based user interface or just command-line options.
Uh, no. The "SpeedStep technology" (spit) is all about under-clocking the processor whenever the computer is not docked.
That sounds just like the Amiga's "copper". I think it's possible to do some very crude scaling with the copper, but nothing as good as "Mode 7".
I suspect you have an out of date idea of the C++ language. Java has nothing to match the power of C++ templates (generic programming). It doesn't even allow the definition of new type names, as even C does.
It makes certain acts that are illegal criminal, rather than civil, offences. This would mean that they could be investigated by the police, and punished by imprisonment.
But then you'll need specialised hardware to rip it, not software. It will be illegal to manufacture, own or trade in that hardware. Since it's hardware you won't be able to move it around or hide it as easily. The majority of music listeners will not have this option. I really hope it doesn't come to this.
Isn't there a Windows audio driver that records to disk? There's been one for Linux for a while now. These will give you access to the raw audio data, no matter what the original format was, since it has to go through the audio driver to get to the speakers.