I'm not suggesting replacing bash with a command.com replicant. MS-DOS 6 had a very user friendly list of commands that it came with. Each one had a small page that described what it did and how it could be used. The main page looked like an ncurses app.
For a DOS app it was very polished and very useful for a beginner to DOS.
What Linux needs is a MS-DOS 6 style help command. When you type help it pops up a nice ncurses screen of all the different commands available on linux systems, briefly what they do and a link that can take them to a simplified, easy to read page of advanced things to do with the command.
That leaves all the waste that would be generated from the plants, and nobody wants in their backyard.
I live in Australia. Sadly, the people in my state (Western Australia) are dipshit loonies that have little idea how nuclear waste and radiation actually work.
If we could somehow overcome these loonies I will invite your country personally to dump their radioactive waste in the middle of a desert 500m underground in the middle of nowhere 500km from another human being.
However, I will charge a handsome sum for the service.
10MB? Maybe if you're playing a standard level or one of those shit levels derived from DE's standard texture set.
Most of my good 3rd party maps either have a ton of textures and static meshes or are absolutely huge. A quick look in my maps directory and over a third of my maps are over 10 megs. The biggest I've seen is DM-Nirvana][ which weighs in at a cool 62.1 megs.
But now I see how easy and cheap USB webcams are and the quality of them it absolutely amazes me. That and the fact all my friends have DSL connections so we can have decent video conversations. However, I have had perfectly usable videoconferencing over 56K dialup but that was only one way.
When I say codec I've used it in two different contexts.
Fraunhoffer provide an MP3 codec to Microsoft that can be implemented system wide. The same thing Sorenson does for Apple and Quicktime components.
Xiph on the other hand give the codec to you in more raw terms. Its like getting Iron Ore and trying to make a car out of it.
If Xiph wants to make Ogg truly accessible it needs to stop pussy footing around and popping the champagne because yet another developer decides it was worth supporting. Make an official Directshow filter, make it easy and make it worth having and you'll see an increase in adoption.
Winamp is bundling Vorbis support but you miss the point. If you want to pack up and leave Winamp should you have to leave behind Ogg support? Should you have to select a player based purely upon its support of Ogg rather than other more important features. Making an official Directshow filter would remove application dependent support because almost every media player out there in Windows land supports Directshow in some way, shape or form.
Ogg won't be popular until the developers get off their asses and put a big link on their front page that says "Install Ogg for Windows!".
At the moment they just give out the codec and say "you do what you want with it". Doing something useful with it? Well... ummmm... here's a bunch of third parties that can maybe do something useful with it.
If Xiph want Ogg to be popular they're going to have to break down and make actual usable technology with instant gratification for Win32 users. They don't want to have to know that a DirectShow fiter is what lets you play Oggs in Windows Media Player. They want to double click an installer and have their OS Ogg enabled.
I'll even point this out to you using references avaialable on the plain old intarweb. See Divx. Theres a "New To Divx" section! Fancy that! There used to be a direct "download Divx whatever version" link but it seems the webmaster woke up stupid this month. Then you download a file and you double click on it once it's finished and it gives you Divx! You can double click on a Divx AVI file and it opens in WMP and plays with all the Divxy goodness.
Xiph needs that for Ogg. They don't need a third party to fill the gaps. They don't need a billion programs nobody cares about with Ogg support. They need a standard installer package with instant fucking gratification and until Xiph get that through their heads people will either switch to WMA or download iTunes and switch to AAC.
A K6-2 will struggle under XP, but will fly under 2K.
As someone who's actually run Windows XP on a K6-2 300 I can tell you that memory is way more important than CPU power.
So long as I turned off the memory hungry features (Fast User Switching) it was pretty snappy even with themes on. I love the Silver theme. It doesn't have a stupid Fisher Price look like Luna.
If he's constantly fiddling with the controls wouldn't that mean that said coworker has noticed something is up and is wondering why the hell the temperature isn't changing?
it's just a perpetuation of the same tired "selling discrete amounts of music for a defined price" model, and the artists are really no better off than under the current system.
If your record label is an evil megacorp intent on draining every ounce of creativity from your body for profit then you're going to get screwed no matter what format the music is on.
Apple has a bunch of indie labels able to submit to iTunes. What's stopping a band from fronting up the cash for the recording studio and then passing the master tapes onto an indie label that's going to give them a much bigger slice of the pie?
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The only game I know of that used an add-on chip with the Genesis was Virtua Racing with the Sega Virtual Processor. That was one hefty chip.
If I could post mod points I would give you one.
Thanks for that.
NeoRageX lets you overclock the 68K in the .ini file. Set it to 24MHz and no more Metal Slug slowdown! :D
I'm suprised games didn't start running twice as fast. Most developers back then would have still been counting clocks.
For anyone wondering what the hell I'm talking about you can find a web based facsimile of the DOS help application here.
I'm not suggesting replacing bash with a command.com replicant. MS-DOS 6 had a very user friendly list of commands that it came with. Each one had a small page that described what it did and how it could be used. The main page looked like an ncurses app.
For a DOS app it was very polished and very useful for a beginner to DOS.
Like you said, theres a certain set of commands available and most distros just default to bash anyway.
Can't be too hard for a bunch of geeks to sit down and work out a short list of 15-20 commands that you really *HAVE* to know for the CLI.
Nope. Sorry. man is crap for a newbie.
What Linux needs is a MS-DOS 6 style help command. When you type help it pops up a nice ncurses screen of all the different commands available on linux systems, briefly what they do and a link that can take them to a simplified, easy to read page of advanced things to do with the command.
That leaves all the waste that would be generated from the plants, and nobody wants in their backyard.
I live in Australia. Sadly, the people in my state (Western Australia) are dipshit loonies that have little idea how nuclear waste and radiation actually work.
If we could somehow overcome these loonies I will invite your country personally to dump their radioactive waste in the middle of a desert 500m underground in the middle of nowhere 500km from another human being.
However, I will charge a handsome sum for the service.
If so, sorry I missed that one, but it seems like a HUGE selling point for the iPod and mini iPod is fashion.
Like my girlfriend. She loves the look of the iPod mini because they're so tiny, look fantastic and they come in pink and green.
10MB? Maybe if you're playing a standard level or one of those shit levels derived from DE's standard texture set.
Most of my good 3rd party maps either have a ton of textures and static meshes or are absolutely huge. A quick look in my maps directory and over a third of my maps are over 10 megs. The biggest I've seen is DM-Nirvana][ which weighs in at a cool 62.1 megs.
Yeah. It kinda skipped by me too.
But now I see how easy and cheap USB webcams are and the quality of them it absolutely amazes me. That and the fact all my friends have DSL connections so we can have decent video conversations. However, I have had perfectly usable videoconferencing over 56K dialup but that was only one way.
I did. I moved away because Winamp 2.9 started crashing every time I started it and I couldn't make it stop.
I'm sorry. My language isn't clear.
When I say codec I've used it in two different contexts.
Fraunhoffer provide an MP3 codec to Microsoft that can be implemented system wide. The same thing Sorenson does for Apple and Quicktime components.
Xiph on the other hand give the codec to you in more raw terms. Its like getting Iron Ore and trying to make a car out of it.
If Xiph wants to make Ogg truly accessible it needs to stop pussy footing around and popping the champagne because yet another developer decides it was worth supporting. Make an official Directshow filter, make it easy and make it worth having and you'll see an increase in adoption.
Winamp is bundling Vorbis support but you miss the point. If you want to pack up and leave Winamp should you have to leave behind Ogg support? Should you have to select a player based purely upon its support of Ogg rather than other more important features. Making an official Directshow filter would remove application dependent support because almost every media player out there in Windows land supports Directshow in some way, shape or form.
We'd all be drinking Vodka and making "In Democratic Europe" jokes?
You're smoking crack.
Ogg won't be popular until the developers get off their asses and put a big link on their front page that says "Install Ogg for Windows!".
At the moment they just give out the codec and say "you do what you want with it". Doing something useful with it? Well... ummmm... here's a bunch of third parties that can maybe do something useful with it.
If Xiph want Ogg to be popular they're going to have to break down and make actual usable technology with instant gratification for Win32 users. They don't want to have to know that a DirectShow fiter is what lets you play Oggs in Windows Media Player. They want to double click an installer and have their OS Ogg enabled.
I'll even point this out to you using references avaialable on the plain old intarweb. See Divx. Theres a "New To Divx" section! Fancy that! There used to be a direct "download Divx whatever version" link but it seems the webmaster woke up stupid this month. Then you download a file and you double click on it once it's finished and it gives you Divx! You can double click on a Divx AVI file and it opens in WMP and plays with all the Divxy goodness.
Xiph needs that for Ogg. They don't need a third party to fill the gaps. They don't need a billion programs nobody cares about with Ogg support. They need a standard installer package with instant fucking gratification and until Xiph get that through their heads people will either switch to WMA or download iTunes and switch to AAC.
Are the people who manage this information not employed?
Two sayings apply here.
1) Pissing in the ocean.
2) Looking on the bright side of a train wreck.
A K6-2 will struggle under XP, but will fly under 2K.
As someone who's actually run Windows XP on a K6-2 300 I can tell you that memory is way more important than CPU power.
So long as I turned off the memory hungry features (Fast User Switching) it was pretty snappy even with themes on. I love the Silver theme. It doesn't have a stupid Fisher Price look like Luna.
If he's constantly fiddling with the controls wouldn't that mean that said coworker has noticed something is up and is wondering why the hell the temperature isn't changing?
What? They don't offer 93 gas?
Over here (Perth, Western Australia) the standard unleaded is RON 91 and the premium is at least RON 96 with BP Ultimate having a RON of 98.
And almost every gas station in our state has premium. You can get BP Ultimate from *ANY* BP gas station.
Don't we already have 3 major ways of managing installed software?!?
Pardon my french but what the fuck do we need another for?
it's just a perpetuation of the same tired "selling discrete amounts of music for a defined price" model, and the artists are really no better off than under the current system.
If your record label is an evil megacorp intent on draining every ounce of creativity from your body for profit then you're going to get screwed no matter what format the music is on.
Apple has a bunch of indie labels able to submit to iTunes. What's stopping a band from fronting up the cash for the recording studio and then passing the master tapes onto an indie label that's going to give them a much bigger slice of the pie?
The battery replacement service was released 2 weeks before that stupid ipod's dirty little secret thing's domain was even registered.
And people repeat year after year "This is the year for Linux on the desktop!" and it fails to materialize...
Must just be a coninkidink.
No thanks.
I've had bad experiences with wireless. I'll be sticking to wired devices for years to come yet.