Food for thought: The original TI/99-4A could be expanded to 256K of RAM with a box the size of a small bookcase. Today's inch-high laptops can store 256 megs of RAM. That's an increase of 1000-fold. Pretty amazing stuff.
Ahh the good 'ol TI-994/A. The secret to expanding it was to buy the ungodly expensive and heavy PEB(perihperal expansion box). most people didn't.
I wish I could get one now. I'd gut that baby out and make it a retro '80s case! Either that or a case made to look like a Pac Man arcade cabinet.
They should have named it Vitesse or Herald. That way, along with the Spitfire, their processor(along with the K5-7) names would be consistent with Triumph car names.
I have a Vectrex sitting at home, which is a black system, vertically shaped with a built-in vector monitor. The game controller is wide, and it all looks suspciously like a macintosh(but infinitely cooler). Of course, this came out in 1982.
I think GCE(Milton Bradley) should sue Apple for copying their Vectrex look.
If Lord Linus died tomorrow, who would care but us? Meanwhile, David Hasselhoff would make front page. What a media-obsessed culture.
Oh come on. I could say the opposite for all the linux hype on slashdot.
"If Lord David Hasselhoff died tomorrow, who would care but us?. Meanwhile, Linus Torvalds would make one HUGE Slashdot article. What an http obsessed geek culture."
We have one of these at work. I was surprised by the crystal-clear quality of the pictures. No funky artifacts, good color saturation, etc. The only downside is the funky European GUI and that there's no viewfinder.
THe DC-215's an incredible value. Besides getting Kodak quality(I used plenty of higher up Kodak models at work), you can actually zoom in and out with it! This is something I've only noticed on much more expensive cameras. The CF reader(in the mill. edition) very much saves on battery life and it's less of a hassle to use.
If you have all the money in the world, get the AGFA 1680. This takes INCREDIBLE pictures.
Avoid the Polaroid PDC 700 at all costs. I returned mine. Picture quality was horrible.
If i recall correctly from my ancient(and preserved) video game texts and scriptures, it was for the game "KC Munchkin" for the god awful Odyssey video game system.
I would like to see how Mirimax is going to implement this idea. I only ONCE managed to watch some music video from launch.com at the 300K level stream(where you get REAL sound quality, and the images don't look heavily compressed). I can't imagine paying for a movie where you'd get lag during the show, or "can't connect to server" or some dumb error message saying the plugin cannot be insatalled, OS crash,etc. pay per view on cable never had these problems.
I can concur with the Yahoo section. I managed to get the VERY first hit when someone searches "coffee shops" on Yahoo.com(it's a page of coffee shop reviews), and it gets plenty of traffic.
Other ideas:
* stick your website on your user info on here. I've gotten a few hits * stick your website name on your newsgroup.SIGs * business cards * word of mouth(telling friends, etc) * irc/WHOIS info(IRCNAME) *.plan * bumper sticker on your car(recieved one hit. Doubt too many people are surfing and driving at the same time, and that would be especially bad since my car would be in front of him/her, but you get the point). * email.signature files. Each person you email about his/her website might check out yours out of courtesy(lots of hits from this) * go constructively nuts with the meta tags. You can see what results you get with them on Apache web logs.
Funny you mention US West for their telemarkter thing. For the years I've had my unlisted/published number, most of the telemarkterc calls I recieved are from US West trying to shove their CustomChoice plan down my throat.
When I saw being john Malkovich on the resturaunt scene, I was immedeately reminded of good 'ol Slashdot, but with every word being "Malkovich", and everyone resembling RMS, including the lonuge singer.
Ahh, this is my kind of Slasdot article(good 'ol mechanical engineering - my dream career that never came to be).
I say just retrofit classic cars with these new engines. I'd love to drive a Mini Cooper with an electronic engine, or fuel cell or hybrid. Style and modern tech into 1.
Lessee here. I use Paint Shop Pro for all my art, etc, and if I didn't like that, I could use good 'ol Photoshop. Where are those 2 apps for Linux? I wasn't impressed at all with the GIMP, or perhaps I just wasn't used to it.
Which anime show(shown in the US) used Atari 8-bit lettering for the episode title at the beginning of the show? That quesiton's been racking me for years. Remember seing it on KXLI channel 41 in St. Cloud.
Coffee shops would love to have this. Buy this with DSL, and charge your customers X dolalrs per hour, and the Iopeners would pay for themselves. if they break, fine, fix it or just buy a new one.
They have totally beat the Borg sect of the show to death. You'd think when they are so close to home, that they'd be out of the Borg threat forever, but oops, another conduit, and they keep getting easier and easier to destroy. Oh well, better than the kazon at least.
Hmm, without IRC servers being up, nobody will be able to idle for years at a time(read: no conversations) or have 2000 bots on a single channel for no reason. I'd say go through with it. Maybe people will go outside and fly a kite, or hang out with their friends in meatspace.
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Food for thought: The original TI/99-4A could be expanded to 256K of RAM with a box the size of a small bookcase. Today's inch-high laptops can store 256 megs of RAM. That's an increase of 1000-fold. Pretty amazing stuff.
Ahh the good 'ol TI-994/A. The secret to expanding it was to buy the ungodly expensive and heavy PEB(perihperal expansion box). most people didn't.
I wish I could get one now. I'd gut that baby out and make it a retro '80s case! Either that or a case made to look like a Pac Man arcade cabinet.
They should have named it Vitesse or Herald. That way, along with the Spitfire, their processor(along with the K5-7) names would be consistent with Triumph car names.
Don't all these pictures remind you of that Battlezone(the remake, not the original) game by Activision?
I have a Vectrex sitting at home, which is a black system, vertically shaped with a built-in vector monitor. The game controller is wide, and it all looks suspciously like a macintosh(but infinitely cooler). Of course, this came out in 1982.
I think GCE(Milton Bradley) should sue Apple for copying their Vectrex look.
I loved that show. What surprised me was to see monsters from Fiend Folio featured on the show(which were some of the most bizarre monsters ever).
Now only if they would rebroadcast OrBots.
Funny you mention that. Atari had an unreleased prototype where you could try to control a Breakout like game with your "mind".
If Lord Linus died tomorrow, who would care but us? Meanwhile, David Hasselhoff would make front page. What a media-obsessed culture.
Oh come on. I could say the opposite for all the linux hype on slashdot.
"If Lord David Hasselhoff died tomorrow, who would care but us?. Meanwhile, Linus Torvalds would make one HUGE Slashdot article. What an http obsessed geek culture."
We have one of these at work. I was surprised by the crystal-clear quality of the pictures. No funky artifacts, good color saturation, etc. The only downside is the funky European GUI and that there's no viewfinder.
THe DC-215's an incredible value. Besides getting Kodak quality(I used plenty of higher up Kodak models at work), you can actually zoom in and out with it! This is something I've only noticed on much more expensive cameras. The CF reader(in the mill. edition) very much saves on battery life and it's less of a hassle to use.
If you have all the money in the world, get the AGFA 1680. This takes INCREDIBLE pictures.
Avoid the Polaroid PDC 700 at all costs. I returned mine. Picture quality was horrible.
If i recall correctly from my ancient(and preserved) video game texts and scriptures, it was for the game "KC Munchkin" for the god awful Odyssey video game system.
I would like to see how Mirimax is going to implement this idea. I only ONCE managed to watch some music video from launch.com at the 300K level stream(where you get REAL sound quality, and the images don't look heavily compressed). I can't imagine paying for a movie where you'd get lag during the show, or "can't connect to server" or some dumb error message saying the plugin cannot be insatalled, OS crash,etc. pay per view on cable never had these problems.
I can concur with the Yahoo section. I managed to get the VERY first hit when someone searches "coffee shops" on Yahoo.com(it's a page of coffee shop reviews), and it gets plenty of traffic.
.SIGs /WHOIS info(IRCNAME) .plan .signature files. Each person you email about his/her website might check out yours out of courtesy(lots of hits from this)
Other ideas:
* stick your website on your user info on here. I've gotten a few hits
* stick your website name on your newsgroup
* business cards
* word of mouth(telling friends, etc)
* irc
*
* bumper sticker on your car(recieved one hit. Doubt too many people are surfing and driving at the same time, and that would be especially bad since my car would be in front of him/her, but you get the point).
* email
* go constructively nuts with the meta tags. You can see what results you get with them on Apache web logs.
Funny you mention US West for their telemarkter thing. For the years I've had my unlisted/published number, most of the telemarkterc calls I recieved are from US West trying to shove their CustomChoice plan down my throat.
It won't be too long before we see college students make a combination bong/processor coolant system. Kids will be taking Athlon hits.
ANyone have a mirror for the mech site? I can't download any of the pictures. It just hangs until infiniy
Yes, and that made it a great movie.
When I saw being john Malkovich on the resturaunt scene, I was immedeately reminded of good 'ol Slashdot, but with every word being "Malkovich", and everyone resembling RMS, including the lonuge singer.
How old would it make me if I remembered playing Tetris on a TI-994/A(that's right, the home computer, not the calc) in 1989? Heh.
Ahh, this is my kind of Slasdot article(good 'ol mechanical engineering - my dream career that never came to be).
I say just retrofit classic cars with these new engines. I'd love to drive a Mini Cooper with an electronic engine, or fuel cell or hybrid. Style and modern tech into 1.
Oh the zealotry...
Lessee here. I use Paint Shop Pro for all my art, etc, and if I didn't like that, I could use good 'ol Photoshop. Where are those 2 apps for Linux? I wasn't impressed at all with the GIMP, or perhaps I just wasn't used to it.
Which anime show(shown in the US) used Atari 8-bit lettering for the episode title at the beginning of the show? That quesiton's been racking me for years. Remember seing it on KXLI channel 41 in St. Cloud.
Coffee shops would love to have this. Buy this with DSL, and charge your customers X dolalrs per hour, and the Iopeners would pay for themselves. if they break, fine, fix it or just buy a new one.
They have totally beat the Borg sect of the show to death. You'd think when they are so close to home, that they'd be out of the Borg threat forever, but oops, another conduit, and they keep getting easier and easier to destroy. Oh well, better than the kazon at least.
They should have Cathryn Zeta Jones as Lara Croft instead. she looks like her, and has the British accent to boot
Just think had that lawsuit gone through, there would of been a massacre of JohnKatz articles and Slashdot "update" articles.
Hmm, without IRC servers being up, nobody will be able to idle for years at a time(read: no conversations) or have 2000 bots on a single channel for no reason. I'd say go through with it. Maybe people will go outside and fly a kite, or hang out with their friends in meatspace.