It'll be like the Linux for PS2, and the original PlayStation Yaroze: A cheap kit (compared to the full official dev kit!) to let small and homebrew games designers have a chance to learn how to code for the thing and to put together prototypes when proposing to publishers.
Personally, I have never downloaded a MP3. This may have something to do with the lack of soundcards in my machines at home. On the other hand, I have written code for a MP3 player at work, as a demo for a test chip.
I had a huge old monitor until recently, when I moved into a third-floor flat in an old Victorian house. I gave the old monitor away to the first person who wanted it, and now have a flat panel display - a lot easier to carry up all those stairs. Were it not for the move, I would have continued to use the old monitor until it died.
I was unemployed for the first six months of 2003. Around the time that the war in Iraq started, the job market dried up _completely_. Agencies were blatantly inventing vague pseudo-vacancies just to have something to advertise. I knew it was really really _really_ bad when at one point I saw a job advertisement asking for an "experienced software engineer" to "valet monitors and keyboards for a couple of hours a week." Things did eventually start to pick up again, but I have friends in the industry who are still out of work, and others who have the threat of redundancy hanging over them.
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There are plenty of customers out there who want a Windows front end on their embedded device no matter how inappropriate. Which is why things like Intime exist - an RTOS kernel with Windows running as the lowest priority process.
The real-time bit does the real work, and occasionally hands a few spare CPU cycles to windows so it can update the screen. Even if the pretty front-end BSODs, the real-time part is still running in the background.
WinCE and Embedded XP on the other hand are useless for anything with even vaguely hard real-time requirements. PDAs and information kiosks are what they are aimed at.
(declaration of interest: I work for Locsoft Ltd, who distribute Intime in the UK.)
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MMR was only introduced into the UK in 1988, so people in their thirties who did not catch measles as a child are still vulnerable.
It'll be like the Linux for PS2, and the original PlayStation Yaroze:
A cheap kit (compared to the full official dev kit!) to let small and homebrew games designers have a chance to learn how to code for the thing and to put together prototypes when proposing to publishers.
Nothing whatsoever to do with the quality of programmes that are on the telly during primetime then.
How can broadband over powerlines be a solution for the 3rd world? Surely you need most people connected to mains power first!
"I am mildly amused by your toenails." /me hums the bomm-song
Snailus.
A lightcycles clone.
For the Apple II.
In basic.
By my dad.
Framerate (and general game speed) was about one frame per minute. Graphics: monochrome ASCII.
We took one look then went straight back to playing "Don't press the letter Q" on the Oric.
This might be a surprise to those here but sometimes us girls are just as interested in tech gadgets as guys.
I have a tendency to not so much buy new machines as rescue old servers from skips.
Personally, I have never downloaded a MP3. This may have something to do with the lack of soundcards in my machines at home.
On the other hand, I have written code for a MP3 player at work, as a demo for a test chip.
I had a huge old monitor until recently, when I moved into a third-floor flat in an old Victorian house.
I gave the old monitor away to the first person who wanted it, and now have a flat panel display - a lot easier to carry up all those stairs.
Were it not for the move, I would have continued to use the old monitor until it died.
I was unemployed for the first six months of 2003.
Around the time that the war in Iraq started, the job market dried up _completely_. Agencies were blatantly inventing vague pseudo-vacancies just to have something to advertise. I knew it was really really _really_ bad when at one point I saw a job advertisement asking for an "experienced software engineer" to "valet monitors and keyboards for a couple of hours a week."
Things did eventually start to pick up again, but I have friends in the industry who are still out of work, and others who have the threat of redundancy hanging over them.
There are plenty of customers out there who want a Windows front end on their embedded device no matter how inappropriate. Which is why things like Intime exist - an RTOS kernel with Windows running as the lowest priority process.
The real-time bit does the real work, and occasionally hands a few spare CPU cycles to windows so it can update the screen. Even if the pretty front-end BSODs, the real-time part is still running in the background.
WinCE and Embedded XP on the other hand are useless for anything with even vaguely hard real-time requirements. PDAs and information kiosks are what they are aimed at.
(declaration of interest: I work for Locsoft Ltd, who distribute Intime in the UK.)
Check out http://archives.e-insite.net/archives/ednmag/reg/1 997/091297/19df_01.htm for an article published in September 1997 comparing several real-time add-ins for Windows NT, doing things like sharing interrupts and running Windows as a low-priority task under an RTOS kernel.