My first computer I had access to was the Tandy Model II and a III at my High school.
Wrote my first computer games in basic on it, 32K of memory and the Z-80 processor. Built my first little microcomputer project based on the Z-80 cpu.
Then got my first computer a Tandy Color Computer II, 16K of memory. Upgraded the machine myself to 32K, then later to 64K. At first did not have a storage device and would type in sample programs and keep the computer on until I got tired of the program. First storage device was a tape player, then moved up to a floppy disk drive 320K storage! Then my first Hard drive was a 10 Meg Western digital drive, in access the hard drive I ran a OS call OS-9 from Microware. It was a UNIX based multitasking OS, learn to program with C on a style UNIX system.
Also started do custom hardware building for my computer, built a Laser light show system, Real time video digitizer.
Too bad slashdot did not think it was worth posting at the time.
But I had the same idea of using P2P as a under ground internet, with data being store in multiple locations in fragments each fragment would also be stored on multiple machines. This way could get around copyright with fare use, since no one machine had a complete data file.
Only when accessing the data would the file be pulled back together from the diffrent locations.
And if one site was shut down a redundent site would be used to download that data fragment.
Also would have random data check to compare fragments for corouption, sites that send out coroupted fragments would be rejected.
To help prevent corouption from outside sources, aka the government or other sources. If a site sends out too many coroupted data fragments, it would be black listed.
On my first computer(1984)I a 300 buad modem, I would connect with friends to chat over the modem and we would see what each other typed in real time. Later I started a BBS and could break in and chat in real time with who ever was on it and then let them go back to their BBS session.
If you read down past the red dot question on the suntimes movie answer man. You will see a story about a movie taht was ruined by the MPAA.
Here is the question and answer:
Q. I have heard that Fox Searchlight will release Berto-lucci's "The Dreamers" as an R-rated film, instead of unrated or NC-17. If Fox knows that the audience for the film will be adults, and that educated adults will not want to see a compromised version of a movie by a great director, then why are they releasing it as an R? Why not have it be like "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and release it as unrated?
Gary Rancier, Brooklyn, N.Y.
A. The NC-17 rating is unworkable, thanks to Blockbuster, which refuses to stock such films, and the MPAA, which refuses to create an A (for "adult") category that would stand between the R rating and actual pornography. The movie could and should go out unrated.
If Fox Searchlight does not want audiences to see the movie that Bertolucci made, then they should do the decent thing and give up distribution rights to a company prepared to stand behind its films. To buy a film and then cut it because of the MPAA rating amounts to vandalism.
Of course I read the article, see my tagline which applies to you tweek!
The article speak's of both WINE and Codeweavers. The point is that those who do not know would click on the WINE link, thinking they are going to the official wine web site, which is not the case!
They sould have provided a link to both, WINE and the Codeweaver site. This just gives confusion to people who would not know the diffrence between the two. Even though as you have stated they are related, they are two diffrent web-sites!!!
I have work in the home automation business, here are some features we have been able to offers for some years now.
1. Door camera's, when someone rings the door bell and the TV is on, you see the person on the picture in a picture display on your TV. Also can talk with them by picking up and phone with the in home intercom system.
2. TV remotes with script files, press power and the TV, DVD, Receiver turn ON. Press play on your remote and the lights in the room dim, blinds close.
3. Forget to turn down your heat/air or turn on the alarm, not problem dial on from you cell phone and set any of them. or in bed and don't want to get up to change the temp or turn on the alarm, just pick up your phone and set it form the comfort of your bed.
I am not against making car betters, but giving the fact you have to produce the power the charge these things. I don't think you will cut down on polution, just change where the polution is being generated. From the car's to all the power plants that will be needed to supply the power.
I think BASIC has to be the best simple to use and learn. Once they have got their feet wet, then they can move on to a higher language like C/C++, etc.
That is only your opinion, I found the Amiga's GUI easy to use. Program did not crash all the time vs my windows machine. The Amiga had some of the coolist and very creative programs years ahead of windows.
The Amiga died because everyone had IBM clones in schools and work, thus this is what people got for their homes.
Also the US Management at the time did not premote the computer system well.
There is the funny story about how Bill Gates was showing off his 95 multimedia computer, with the computer graphics for it being generated by an Amiga computer hid under a desk.
If company's like AOL sent out there software on CD-RW's then instead of just plan CD's. Think of all the waste that could be stopped, people would not just throw away the disk but recycle them by earseing the old data off them.
Now a CDR-ROM or a RW could also store software patchs for the software on the disk, instead of having to use a second CDR.
Look at how cell's phone compitition has change features and priceing of the cell phone. Which since the phone company does not have any real compitition it has been slow to introduce new features and better pricing.
They don't think that as soon as phone service can be provided through cable their days could be numbered.
Now for customer service, three day's after ordering my DSL line, the modem was on my door step and I was up and running. VS. the cable people after being put of for the install three times and a months time pass by. Hours on hold with customer service. That is why I went to DSL, in the first place.
Only problem has been with speed's of download's not as high as expected and at this point could be stuff on my end.
We have Bell South in the Area, they are currently offering DSL through them, also can get Earth Link DSL, there maybe some others venders who offer it, but the monthly price is the same for each ISP that I have checked on.
TWC(Time Warner Cable), is offering not only their road runner and AOL but also Earth link, and one other also I can not remember the name.
Out of all of the broadband services Bell South cost more because the charge a setup fee and to get a discount you have to add extra phone services.
With TWC, you get free installation, free modem vs. bell south who wants a $99 dollar installation fee and higher monthly price.
I guess that is why if the cable people show up this weekend will have Earth Link cable broad band.
Slashdot Mirror
Only 11,000 users killed the site?
Most be a slow slashdot day, should have been double that on a good day.
I know that I have wondered about making a large display with LED's.
My thought was to build it with a standard block sections, then you just use the number of blocks to create your screen size.
My first computer I had access to was the Tandy Model II and a III at my High school.
Wrote my first computer games in basic on it, 32K of memory and the Z-80 processor. Built my first little microcomputer project based on the Z-80 cpu.
Then got my first computer a Tandy Color Computer II, 16K of memory. Upgraded the machine myself to 32K, then later to 64K.
At first did not have a storage device and would type in sample programs and keep the computer on until I got tired of the program.
First storage device was a tape player, then moved up to a floppy disk drive 320K storage!
Then my first Hard drive was a 10 Meg Western digital drive, in access the hard drive I ran a OS call OS-9 from Microware. It was a UNIX based multitasking OS, learn to program with C on a style UNIX system.
Also started do custom hardware building for my computer, built a Laser light show system, Real time video digitizer.
"At least there's Return of the King this December"
They have a lot of holes to fill in a short time in ROTK.
Like in the first FOTR, the story ended like the book, with a what few changes that still left the main plot of the story.
In TTT I don't know why they did not let the Ents take care of the Orc's. or end with frodo in the hands of the spider and the ring out of his hands.
The have enought stuff to make two movies out of ROTK.....
If the call me while driving and cause me to have an accident.
Can I sue them for distracting me while driving?
Too bad slashdot did not think it was worth posting at the time.
But I had the same idea of using P2P as a under ground internet, with data being store in multiple locations in fragments each fragment would also be stored on multiple machines. This way could get around copyright with fare use, since no one machine had a complete data file.
Only when accessing the data would the file be pulled back together from the diffrent locations.
And if one site was shut down a redundent site would be used to download that data fragment.
Also would have random data check to compare fragments for corouption, sites that send out coroupted fragments would be rejected.
To help prevent corouption from outside sources, aka the government or other sources. If a site sends out too many coroupted data fragments, it would be black listed.
On my first computer(1984)I a 300 buad modem, I would connect with friends to chat over the modem and we would see what each other typed in real time. Later I started a BBS and could break in and chat in real time with who ever was on it and then let them go back to their BBS session.
If you read down past the red dot question on the suntimes movie answer man.
You will see a story about a movie taht was ruined by the MPAA.
Here is the question and answer:
Q. I have heard that Fox Searchlight will release Berto-lucci's "The Dreamers" as an R-rated film, instead of unrated or NC-17. If Fox knows that the audience for the film will be adults, and that educated adults will not want to see a compromised version of a movie by a great director, then why are they releasing it as an R? Why not have it be like "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and release it as unrated?
Gary Rancier, Brooklyn, N.Y.
A. The NC-17 rating is unworkable, thanks to Blockbuster, which refuses to stock such films, and the MPAA, which refuses to create an A (for "adult") category that would stand between the R rating and actual pornography. The movie could and should go out unrated.
If Fox Searchlight does not want audiences to see the movie that Bertolucci made, then they should do the decent thing and give up distribution rights to a company prepared to stand behind its films. To buy a film and then cut it because of the MPAA rating amounts to vandalism.
Just like the TV version, I expect it to flop.
I should not take long after it flop's that the theater for it to be release to DVD.
Then I will do down to the local Hollywood video and rent it!!!
Of course I read the article, see my tagline which applies to you tweek!
The article speak's of both WINE and Codeweavers.
The point is that those who do not know would click on the WINE link, thinking they are going to the official wine web site, which is not the case!
They sould have provided a link to both, WINE and the Codeweaver site. This just gives confusion to people who would not know the diffrence between the two. Even though as you have stated they are related, they are two diffrent web-sites!!!
Here is the correct link Wine
The link posted was marked Wine was really a link to codeweavers windows emulator.
Strange that when multimedia PC's first came out they had video and S-video output's.
They one day was at my local hardware store and noticed that the vidoe functions had be droped??
Was this a DMCA related or just cost???
According to reports, two other countries - Austria and Iceland - have also stopped sales of the iTrip because of problems with radio frequencies.
I remember building FM/AM transmitters as teen, cool to be my own DJ...America still home of the free!!!
I have work in the home automation business, here are some features we have been able to offers for some years now.
1. Door camera's, when someone rings the door bell and the TV is on, you see the person on the picture in a picture display on your TV. Also can talk with them by picking up and phone with the in home intercom system.
2. TV remotes with script files, press power and the TV, DVD, Receiver turn ON. Press play on your remote and the lights in the room dim, blinds close.
3. Forget to turn down your heat/air or turn on the alarm, not problem dial on from you cell phone and set any of them. or in bed and don't want to get up to change the temp or turn on the alarm, just pick up your phone and set it form the comfort of your bed.
I am not against making car betters, but giving the fact you have to produce the power the charge these things.
I don't think you will cut down on polution, just change where the polution is being generated.
From the car's to all the power plants that will be needed to supply the power.
Better yet, use a micro video camera with a RF transmiter to pre-view the image, and a digital camera to take the final image.
I don't think any serious person in their right mind would use QBASIC today.
So it has to be ment as a bit a programming humor!!!
I think BASIC has to be the best simple to use and learn.
Once they have got their feet wet, then they can move on to a higher language like C/C++, etc.
Just add window control commands?
OPENWINDOW
CLOSEWINDOW
OPENDIALOGBOX "HELLO"
OPENFILEDIALOGBOX OPTIONS, *.JPG
SETMENUITEMS
SETMENUBARITEMS
That is only your opinion, I found the Amiga's GUI easy to use.
Program did not crash all the time vs my windows machine.
The Amiga had some of the coolist and very creative programs years ahead of windows.
The Amiga died because everyone had IBM clones in schools and work, thus this is what people got for their homes.
Also the US Management at the time did not premote the computer system well.
There is the funny story about how Bill Gates was showing off his 95 multimedia computer, with the computer graphics for it being generated by an Amiga computer hid under a desk.
This project has been done before not really anything new.
First LED's don't pull a lot of current but relays do. Also relays are not cheap and wear out over time.
Transistors: very low power, long life, fine for turning on and off a LED. but in a parallel port limits you to 8 LED's.
Now using a few IC's, you can create an address system and have 16 or more LED displays hooked to your parellel port.
Google search on parellel port interface will give you everything you need to know on how to access it.
I had a old radio that would make noises based on what my processor was doing...
Hard processing on the CPU, made the most interference.
If company's like AOL sent out there software on CD-RW's then instead of just plan CD's.
Think of all the waste that could be stopped, people would not just throw away the disk but recycle them by earseing the old data off them.
Now a CDR-ROM or a RW could also store software patchs for the software on the disk, instead of having to use a second CDR.
Look at how cell's phone compitition has change features and priceing of the cell phone.
Which since the phone company does not have any real compitition it has been slow to introduce new features and better pricing.
They don't think that as soon as phone service can be provided through cable their days could be numbered.
Now for customer service, three day's after ordering my DSL line, the modem was on my door step and I was up and running. VS. the cable people after being put of for the install three times and a months time pass by. Hours on hold with customer service. That is why I went to DSL, in the first place.
Only problem has been with speed's of download's not as high as expected and at this point could be stuff on my end.
We have Bell South in the Area, they are currently offering DSL through them, also can get Earth Link DSL, there maybe some others venders who offer it, but the monthly price is the same for each ISP that I have checked on.
TWC(Time Warner Cable), is offering not only their road runner and AOL but also Earth link, and one other also I can not remember the name.
Out of all of the broadband services Bell South cost more because the charge a setup fee and to get a discount you have to add extra phone services.
With TWC, you get free installation, free modem vs. bell south who wants a $99 dollar installation fee and higher monthly price.
I guess that is why if the cable people show up this weekend will have Earth Link cable broad band.