Well, there's already a native port of FreeCIV to WIN32. Since Windows CE is WIN32 with a few adaptation, it ought to be possible to make a port from this... while keeping all the feature (esp. Network code : with a modem card one could make multiplayer CIV games on the road - droool 8).
As for the screen, the original CIV was running at 320x200 256 colors, so the 320x240 4096 colors of the modern PocketPC should be more than enough.
For one, arcade games are short lived (you get bored quickly). For two, they need real-time capabilities.
What we need is STRATEGY games on PDA : sim city, civilisation, etc... they are easier to adapt (hell, you even have Visual Basic on Windows CE, and now it is given away for free by MS). They give a lot more game life (imagine Civilisation : now you can play a long looooonnng time on this thingy). Anyone feels like porting FreeCiv to WindowsCE ? (www.freeciv.org:)
Humm - maybe we need a meta-tag saying "this is made for resolution x" or "this is resolution-independant" etc...
but Unix doesn't handle all hardware...
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at least the graphic subsystem is not correctly supported by Unix... if an OS is what makes the software able to control the hardware in a unified, somewhat abstract way, then Unix isn't an OS. Try to control the 2D or 3D engine on your graphic cards with JUST Unix - no X-Windows or OpenGL allowed ! So Unix+X-Windows+OpenGL could be called an OS (I'd rather call that "a bunch of API thrown on top of what was an OS decades ago"), but Unix alone certainly lacks some stuff to make it a fully featured stand-alone OS.
I wonder if this is possible to run it on a Cassiopeia E100/E105/E115. They say they have binaries for MIPS so it should be possible, but then will it support the Cassiopeia I/O ? (screen/sound/IO ports).
Also you need to have Linux on your PC to install this on your PDA - which basically sucks. I want a simple group of binary files that I can upload to my PDA with just any upload utils and that's it...
And in some countries like Japan or France, most of electricity is made out of nuclear power plants, which might make very toxic pollution, but in a very small and controlable quantity. It's way easier to get rid of a bunch of radioactive containers than of tons and tons of CO released in the atmosphere...
plus, there are projects like the French Phoenix or another Japanese plant, who make energy out of nuclear waste:)
Excuse my ignorance (my physics courses are far far away), but since heat is basically the free agitation of molecules, why coulnd't a device get energy from this agitation by slowing down molecules and getting the excess energy somewhere else ?
Nope - you still need handwriting recognition software if your device is pen-based, which you'll have to pay for because as far as I know there's no readily available free package that does that correctly.
READ what you cut/paste for. This kit is for BUILDING a Windows CE device. Unless your name is HP, Compaq or Casio, you probably don't need this. The kit for developping software for Windows CE is sold only for the price of shipping by MS - and that includes full Embedded Visual Basic and Visual C++, SDK and cross compilers.
Maybe you should transpose your ideas to another place and another time : the 19th century USA.
So what, the natives like alcohol, and its destroying their culture and way of life, why should they make it illegual ? Let each native people decide for him/herself what he/she likes.
Fast forward, 150 years later : look at what is left of their culture now... sometimes, you HAVE to inforce cultural protections by law.
As a heavily-armed American, I assure you the government will take no more rights from me.
When they'll send a whole squad of SWAT to your house, they might not take away any of your rights, but since you'll be dead it probably won't matter that much anymore.
Cultural discrimination ? I don't think there's anything like this in French universities. They are used to get students from everywhere, from Europe, Africa or North-America especially.
I think you are under the stereotypes that was made by some American tourists who come to France, insist on speaking English with everybody, eat at McDonald and behave themselves like the whole country is a big huge Disneyland and French people are paid staff whose only concern is tourists well being, and then complain that French are "unfriendly" (duh !).
What is so surprising is that the ICANN made a free market court system for dispute resolution. This is such a broken idea that it should have been obvious... Of course, they probably did it ON PURPOSE since the ICANN is itself sold to big corporations.
Sure - but you still have to wonder, are those "son's of" being candidate because they have a vision, ideas and talents, or because they want to be like dady ? And didn't they got to be their party official candidate because dady has power, putting aside other more talented people that lack the backing of an important parent ?
And lastly, don't you feel they are insulting your intelligence by pretending Bush Jr is the best candidate for the republicans - and that the fact his father was ALSO a US president is mere coincidence ? These elections looks to me like two mafioso families strungling to take control of the city. They don't care about the electors, whoever wins will bring power to his familly and abuse the population at its best.
It seems to me issue is that Bush backs the christian coalition ("hello to censorship" !) and oppose the anti-trust suit against Microsoft. Those 2 things alone makes me puke.
Duh - neither Gore or Bush ever said anything honestly. Those two guys would sell their mothers if this could buy themselves more votes... they are ready to say anything and its opposite to please any kind of minorities. It is just not possible to be honest when you want the votes from the ultra-religious conservatist zealots and the center-leftish blacks and hispanics.
IMHO one thing is worse with Bush : he is the son of his father (!). Having Bush Jr as president would probably start the first USA monarchy (what are you going to call him ? Bush II ? Then elect his son, Bush III ?
In fact there's somewhere on the MS IE developper site an example of Dynamic HTML that lets you play Asteroid - all done with only HTML, CSS and Javascript ! Works only in IE 4 or better, but still impressive...
Duh ? That was invented in Europe, and well over 200 centuries ago. Of course guys like Edison were very good at STEALING others idea. In a way Edison was like modern America : not good at inventing or research, but very good at making money out of others research (look at recent US Nobel prices, and then count how many were born and raised in ANOTHER country).
innovative networks are springing up. What we need in America is far less socialism and government interference and more freedom.
You, "innovative" like "a copy of what Japan and Europe has been doing for a while, but with incompatible standards" ? Yeah, great...
The rest of the world can follow socialist utopianism for all I care, but America should remain the last bastion of freedom in the world.
Yes - a free nation where you learn creationism in school, where the RIAA and MPAA decide for you what you should watch and listen, where you can't go anywhere whithout being assaulted by commercials and advertisement, where everyone is free to carry a gun but many still can't afford a doctor. Where the CIA store all your personnal emails and the FBI pretends to be underage minor on chat rooms, etc...
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-post to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door !" by Emma Lazarus, New York City, 1883
Why did they come? Freedom
Most of them came in hope of getting a few dollars out of a shitty job, and then use the vast monetary difference with their country to turn what is a shitty salary here into a honest salary in their home country. Most people who travel a lot will tell you US is certainly not a free country. If there's really a free country, it is probably something more like Holland.
No, they earn more money because the illegal Mexican workers who make their hamburgers, clean their offices or wash their cars get shitty salaries, no health care of unemployement insurance or state subsidized housing. You are only rich compared to other people...
The laissez-faire capitalism has given the U.S. unpressidented economic growth for the past 100 years. In 1900, the largest economy in the world was Argentina(sp?).
As pointed by another posters, this is nonsense. Argentina has never been at the top of the biggest economies.
In Europe, while they might have one standard for such things as mobile phones(thanks to the government), they also have 10%+ unemployment(also thanks to the government). I know France is hovering around 11% right now.
No, it is dropping below 10% now, thanks to 2 things :
- economic growth
- work now limited to 35 hours a week
YES ! The work limitation that made all US laugh a year ago, calling France "backward" etc... is indeed working. People get paid the same, they have more free time for themselves AND the economy is getting better and the unemployement dropping. So much for the "backward communist" critics...
I'd rather have a job an fight with standards than be unemployed and know that my cellular phone network is "standard"
I'd rather not have a job in Europe than work in the US on a shitty job at McDonald, not even earning enough money to buy myself an health insurance.
--a mind is like a parachute, it only functions when open.
Well, your's not open enough I think, go live abroad for a while, then you will be allowed to comment on other countries politics.
Yeah - but the idea of Cleveland existence doesn't goes against logic. After all there are thausands of cities like Cleveland, and you've probably seen several dozens in your life, so another one doesn't goes against plausibility. But a thinking entity that is omniscient and omnipotent is quite non-probable. How many such entities have you interacted with in the past ? (ie praying is NOT interaction, it's a one way communication, unless of course Gods talks to you in your head, in which case you might want to look for help;)
Humm - I wonder if it wouldn't be worth switching my sites from MySQL to Interbase. I could certainly use the transactions, row level locking, constraints, etc... anyone knows how slow/fast Interbase is ?
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Well, there's already a native port of FreeCIV to WIN32. Since Windows CE is WIN32 with a few adaptation, it ought to be possible to make a port from this... while keeping all the feature (esp. Network code : with a modem card one could make multiplayer CIV games on the road - droool 8).
As for the screen, the original CIV was running at 320x200 256 colors, so the 320x240 4096 colors of the modern PocketPC should be more than enough.
For one, arcade games are short lived (you get bored quickly). For two, they need real-time capabilities.
:)
What we need is STRATEGY games on PDA : sim city, civilisation, etc... they are easier to adapt (hell, you even have Visual Basic on Windows CE, and now it is given away for free by MS). They give a lot more game life (imagine Civilisation : now you can play a long looooonnng time on this thingy). Anyone feels like porting FreeCiv to WindowsCE ? (www.freeciv.org
Humm - maybe we need a meta-tag saying "this is made for resolution x" or "this is resolution-independant" etc...
at least the graphic subsystem is not correctly supported by Unix... if an OS is what makes the software able to control the hardware in a unified, somewhat abstract way, then Unix isn't an OS. Try to control the 2D or 3D engine on your graphic cards with JUST Unix - no X-Windows or OpenGL allowed ! So Unix+X-Windows+OpenGL could be called an OS (I'd rather call that "a bunch of API thrown on top of what was an OS decades ago"), but Unix alone certainly lacks some stuff to make it a fully featured stand-alone OS.
I wonder if this is possible to run it on a Cassiopeia E100/E105/E115. They say they have binaries for MIPS so it should be possible, but then will it support the Cassiopeia I/O ? (screen/sound/IO ports).
Also you need to have Linux on your PC to install this on your PDA - which basically sucks. I want a simple group of binary files that I can upload to my PDA with just any upload utils and that's it...
And in some countries like Japan or France, most of electricity is made out of nuclear power plants, which might make very toxic pollution, but in a very small and controlable quantity. It's way easier to get rid of a bunch of radioactive containers than of tons and tons of CO released in the atmosphere...
:)
plus, there are projects like the French Phoenix or another Japanese plant, who make energy out of nuclear waste
Excuse my ignorance (my physics courses are far far away), but since heat is basically the free agitation of molecules, why coulnd't a device get energy from this agitation by slowing down molecules and getting the excess energy somewhere else ?
Well, considering Bush oppose the anti-trust trial against MS, are you really surprised about his site using NT+IIS ? Coincidence.... ? ;)
Nope - you still need handwriting recognition software if your device is pen-based, which you'll have to pay for because as far as I know there's no readily available free package that does that correctly.
READ what you cut/paste for. This kit is for BUILDING a Windows CE device. Unless your name is HP, Compaq or Casio, you probably don't need this. The kit for developping software for Windows CE is sold only for the price of shipping by MS - and that includes full Embedded Visual Basic and Visual C++, SDK and cross compilers.
Maybe you should transpose your ideas to another place and another time : the 19th century USA.
So what, the natives like alcohol, and its destroying their culture and way of life, why should they make it illegual ? Let each native people decide for him/herself what he/she likes.
Fast forward, 150 years later : look at what is left of their culture now... sometimes, you HAVE to inforce cultural protections by law.
As a heavily-armed American, I assure you the government will take no more rights from me.
When they'll send a whole squad of SWAT to your house, they might not take away any of your rights, but since you'll be dead it probably won't matter that much anymore.
Cultural discrimination ? I don't think there's anything like this in French universities. They are used to get students from everywhere, from Europe, Africa or North-America especially.
I think you are under the stereotypes that was made by some American tourists who come to France, insist on speaking English with everybody, eat at McDonald and behave themselves like the whole country is a big huge Disneyland and French people are paid staff whose only concern is tourists well being, and then complain that French are "unfriendly" (duh !).
What is so surprising is that the ICANN made a free market court system for dispute resolution. This is such a broken idea that it should have been obvious... Of course, they probably did it ON PURPOSE since the ICANN is itself sold to big corporations.
Sure - but you still have to wonder, are those "son's of" being candidate because they have a vision, ideas and talents, or because they want to be like dady ? And didn't they got to be their party official candidate because dady has power, putting aside other more talented people that lack the backing of an important parent ?
And lastly, don't you feel they are insulting your intelligence by pretending Bush Jr is the best candidate for the republicans - and that the fact his father was ALSO a US president is mere coincidence ? These elections looks to me like two mafioso families strungling to take control of the city. They don't care about the electors, whoever wins will bring power to his familly and abuse the population at its best.
It seems to me issue is that Bush backs the christian coalition ("hello to censorship" !) and oppose the anti-trust suit against Microsoft. Those 2 things alone makes me puke.
Duh - neither Gore or Bush ever said anything honestly. Those two guys would sell their mothers if this could buy themselves more votes... they are ready to say anything and its opposite to please any kind of minorities. It is just not possible to be honest when you want the votes from the ultra-religious conservatist zealots and the center-leftish blacks and hispanics.
IMHO one thing is worse with Bush : he is the son of his father (!). Having Bush Jr as president would probably start the first USA monarchy (what are you going to call him ? Bush II ? Then elect his son, Bush III ?
In fact there's somewhere on the MS IE developper site an example of Dynamic HTML that lets you play Asteroid - all done with only HTML, CSS and Javascript ! Works only in IE 4 or better, but still impressive...
Since the OS will probably be in ROM, 64 MB of RAM is a lot compared to other consoles.
electricity
Duh ? That was invented in Europe, and well over 200 centuries ago. Of course guys like Edison were very good at STEALING others idea. In a way Edison was like modern America : not good at inventing or research, but very good at making money out of others research (look at recent US Nobel prices, and then count how many were born and raised in ANOTHER country).
innovative networks are springing up. What we need in America is far less socialism and government interference and more freedom.
You, "innovative" like "a copy of what Japan and Europe has been doing for a while, but with incompatible standards" ? Yeah, great...
The rest of the world can follow socialist utopianism for all I care, but America should remain the last bastion of freedom in the world.
Yes - a free nation where you learn creationism in school, where the RIAA and MPAA decide for you what you should watch and listen, where you can't go anywhere whithout being assaulted by commercials and advertisement, where everyone is free to carry a gun but many still can't afford a doctor. Where the CIA store all your personnal emails and the FBI pretends to be underage minor on chat rooms, etc...
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-post to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door !" by Emma Lazarus, New York City, 1883
Why did they come? Freedom
Most of them came in hope of getting a few dollars out of a shitty job, and then use the vast monetary difference with their country to turn what is a shitty salary here into a honest salary in their home country. Most people who travel a lot will tell you US is certainly not a free country. If there's really a free country, it is probably something more like Holland.
No, they earn more money because the illegal Mexican workers who make their hamburgers, clean their offices or wash their cars get shitty salaries, no health care of unemployement insurance or state subsidized housing. You are only rich compared to other people...
The laissez-faire capitalism has given the U.S. unpressidented economic growth for the past 100 years. In 1900, the largest economy in the world was Argentina(sp?).
As pointed by another posters, this is nonsense. Argentina has never been at the top of the biggest economies.
In Europe, while they might have one standard for such things as mobile phones(thanks to the government), they also have 10%+ unemployment(also thanks to the government). I know France is hovering around 11% right now.
No, it is dropping below 10% now, thanks to 2 things :
- economic growth
- work now limited to 35 hours a week
YES ! The work limitation that made all US laugh a year ago, calling France "backward" etc... is indeed working. People get paid the same, they have more free time for themselves AND the economy is getting better and the unemployement dropping. So much for the "backward communist" critics...
I'd rather have a job an fight with standards than be unemployed and know that my cellular phone network is "standard"
I'd rather not have a job in Europe than work in the US on a shitty job at McDonald, not even earning enough money to buy myself an health insurance.
--a mind is like a parachute, it only functions when open.
Well, your's not open enough I think, go live abroad for a while, then you will be allowed to comment on other countries politics.
"Only the winners get to decide what are war-crimes"
(to quote someone I don't remember the name of)
Yeah - but the idea of Cleveland existence doesn't goes against logic. After all there are thausands of cities like Cleveland, and you've probably seen several dozens in your life, so another one doesn't goes against plausibility. But a thinking entity that is omniscient and omnipotent is quite non-probable. How many such entities have you interacted with in the past ? (ie praying is NOT interaction, it's a one way communication, unless of course Gods talks to you in your head, in which case you might want to look for help ;)
Humm - I wonder if it wouldn't be worth switching my sites from MySQL to Interbase. I could certainly use the transactions, row level locking, constraints, etc... anyone knows how slow/fast Interbase is ?