If you want a similar too that doesn't cost $40 USD, I'd suggest checking out nLite. While it doesn't allow you to add or remove components from an existing Windows installation, it does allow you to remove them before you install Windows. How's a 180mb Windows XP Pro CD sound?:) It's also freeware.
FileShack is one of the few places that I wouldn't ripoff/abuse. I've had a paid account for the last year now, and I've loved it. Great servers, decent selection of files, and they don't sell my email address.
This might have an obvious answer or something, but I just don't see it. I was under the impression that once you submit your code to an open source project, you're submitting it under the current lisence of the project. When a project changes it's lisence, do they need to contact everyone who has submitted code to the project and get permission to release under the new lisence? That doesn't sound like an easy task for some large projects, so I'm guessing that's not how it's done. Can someone clarify this for me?
Isn't the whole idea of a reboot to unload and reload all operating system components? Thus resetting the system state from a crash or updating configuration or executable files that were in use. If magnetic RAM saves the state when it's off, how will that help Windows users or any computer user with a reboot? The only real benefit I can see here is power saving. If a program crashes the entire operating system, you'll most likely need to reload all the operating system components. Reloading a copy of the memory that's already crashed would be pointless.
Then again, I'm probably missing something. I didn't rtfa, of course.
After RTFA, I thought of a decent question. Are there Chinese developed formats better then the current US/Japanese formats out there right now? They mentioned the Chinese WIFI encryption; WAPI. Is it better then WAP? Worse?
To be honest, I could see why they would want thier own formats. They have a country of over a billion people, and even if only a fraction of them buy eqiupment based on foreign patents; that's a lot of money.
While there were many, many good games for the Dreamcast, the one that stands out in my opinion is Ikaruga. In my opinion, it's one of the best verticle shooter games ever created.
1. LiteStep - Because the default shell included with Windows is horribly inefficiant. 2. Metapad - Slightly enhanced version of Notepad, it has a few features I've grown to love. And it's only 90k! 3. Miranda-IM - I used to use Trillian, but it's gotten way to bloated lately. 4. Mozilla Firefox - Because anything less is uncivilized. 5. Mozilla Thunderbird - No more worrying about catching a virus while downloading email. 6. PuTTy - I've yet to find a better SSH client on Windows. 7. Foobar2000 - More features then you can shake a stick at, and the simple default UI is great. 8. Daemon-Tools - The only time I ever put a CD in a CD-ROM drive is when I make an image of it. 9. Azureus - My favorite Bittorrent client. 10. FileZilla - Nice and simple UI, loads fast, supports SFTP, and it's open source! What more could I ask for? 11. 7-zip - Nice small archive program that supports a boat load of compression formats. 12. XnView - Image viewer that supports a boat load of image formats.:)
I believe the main reason that your P166 with MMX can run SNES games full speed while my 400MHz PDA can't is because the lack of a floating point unit. As far as I know, the GBA doesn't have one either.
I hate to be pessimistic, but full speed SNES with sound support probably won't happen on the GBA anytime soon, even with overclocking. My PDA, which has a 400MHz Intel Xscale processor overclocked to 472MHz can only run maybe 5 or 6 SNES games with low quality sound at full speed, everything else skips. Without sound, almost every game will play full speed.
If an almost 500MHz ARM processor can't do it, I highly doubt that a 16MHz ARM or whatever powers the GBA can do it either; even overclocked. I know the GBA is a non-moving target in reguards to software development, and developers can highly optimize thier software for it as well, but so is the Dreamcast; and they (the Dreamcast emulation community) still don't have full SNES emulation with sound.
Hopefully these guys will prove me wrong and succeed, I really wouldn't mind playing some of my favorites that haven't been ported yet.
There's almost no pricing difference, unless you're buying a SATA cable over 18 inches; but $4 USD for a 36 inch SATA cable doesn't sound too bad, considering you can't even do that length with IDE.
Don't hold your breath. If I remember right, Microsoft made thier own special 32bit version of the BMP format for thier XP skins, instead of using an existing image format with 32bit support. Chances are they'd support 32bit PNG is some weird way, like the way Internet Explorer currently supports it, via DirectX filters.
I know this is the source for a Windows Installer program, and as such really isn't useful on any other platforms; but does the lisence allow for development on other platforms? From what I've read, it seems similar to the BSD lisence - does this mean a 3rd party company could come along (the developers of InstallShield, perhaps?) and use this code for thier own products?
You're forgetting the Nintendo Gameboy, which is arguably the most successful 'console' in history. The latest Gameboy's still play the old games from way back in 1988/89.
Playing games at a lan party isn't a public showing, unless you're providing both the games and the computers. If the participants are providing thier own machines and thier own copies of the game, then you need no such permission. If you want to play it on the safe side though, just call a few of the games' publishers and ask permission, or ask what you need to do to go about getting permission. My money's on the fact that not one of them will say 'no, you may not play our game at your lan party', and some might even provide cheap door prizes.
I've been running a LAN party with some friends for the last few years btw, so I'm not completely talking out of my ass.:)
If you're interested in playing multiplayer X-Com UFO Defense, using a remake of the original engine using the original graphics/sounds/animations, I suggest you check out UFO2000 (ufo2000.sf.net). It has a built in internet lobby type system where you can matchup against other players, you can customize your squad using most of the weapons from the original game, and you can fight on randomly generated maps from all the terrains of the original game, including the Xcom bases and Alien bases.
I guess you've never seen a Rio Karma. Cheaper and better looking then both models, a control interface as good as the iPod's, 16-18 hour battery life, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC support. Oh yeah, it's cheap as hell to. I've found 'em as low as $250, and that's before mail in rebate.
Because if they're willing to take away some of the rights we've been given using the Patriot Act, what's to stop 'em from taking the rest of 'em away in the America Act or some other similarly stupidly named set of laws..
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If you want a similar too that doesn't cost $40 USD, I'd suggest checking out nLite. While it doesn't allow you to add or remove components from an existing Windows installation, it does allow you to remove them before you install Windows. How's a 180mb Windows XP Pro CD sound? :) It's also freeware.
FileShack is one of the few places that I wouldn't ripoff/abuse. I've had a paid account for the last year now, and I've loved it. Great servers, decent selection of files, and they don't sell my email address.
This might have an obvious answer or something, but I just don't see it. I was under the impression that once you submit your code to an open source project, you're submitting it under the current lisence of the project. When a project changes it's lisence, do they need to contact everyone who has submitted code to the project and get permission to release under the new lisence? That doesn't sound like an easy task for some large projects, so I'm guessing that's not how it's done. Can someone clarify this for me?
Isn't the whole idea of a reboot to unload and reload all operating system components? Thus resetting the system state from a crash or updating configuration or executable files that were in use. If magnetic RAM saves the state when it's off, how will that help Windows users or any computer user with a reboot? The only real benefit I can see here is power saving. If a program crashes the entire operating system, you'll most likely need to reload all the operating system components. Reloading a copy of the memory that's already crashed would be pointless.
Then again, I'm probably missing something. I didn't rtfa, of course.
Why lose millions... ..when you could lose billions!
75? I only wish we were so lucky in Illinois. 55mph top speed limit on highways. The flow of traffic is usually around 80mph, but still. :|
After RTFA, I thought of a decent question. Are there Chinese developed formats better then the current US/Japanese formats out there right now? They mentioned the Chinese WIFI encryption; WAPI. Is it better then WAP? Worse?
To be honest, I could see why they would want thier own formats. They have a country of over a billion people, and even if only a fraction of them buy eqiupment based on foreign patents; that's a lot of money.
While there were many, many good games for the Dreamcast, the one that stands out in my opinion is Ikaruga. In my opinion, it's one of the best verticle shooter games ever created.
Here's mine:
:)
1. LiteStep - Because the default shell included with Windows is horribly inefficiant.
2. Metapad - Slightly enhanced version of Notepad, it has a few features I've grown to love. And it's only 90k!
3. Miranda-IM - I used to use Trillian, but it's gotten way to bloated lately.
4. Mozilla Firefox - Because anything less is uncivilized.
5. Mozilla Thunderbird - No more worrying about catching a virus while downloading email.
6. PuTTy - I've yet to find a better SSH client on Windows.
7. Foobar2000 - More features then you can shake a stick at, and the simple default UI is great.
8. Daemon-Tools - The only time I ever put a CD in a CD-ROM drive is when I make an image of it.
9. Azureus - My favorite Bittorrent client.
10. FileZilla - Nice and simple UI, loads fast, supports SFTP, and it's open source! What more could I ask for?
11. 7-zip - Nice small archive program that supports a boat load of compression formats.
12. XnView - Image viewer that supports a boat load of image formats.
I believe the main reason that your P166 with MMX can run SNES games full speed while my 400MHz PDA can't is because the lack of a floating point unit. As far as I know, the GBA doesn't have one either.
I hate to be pessimistic, but full speed SNES with sound support probably won't happen on the GBA anytime soon, even with overclocking. My PDA, which has a 400MHz Intel Xscale processor overclocked to 472MHz can only run maybe 5 or 6 SNES games with low quality sound at full speed, everything else skips. Without sound, almost every game will play full speed.
If an almost 500MHz ARM processor can't do it, I highly doubt that a 16MHz ARM or whatever powers the GBA can do it either; even overclocked. I know the GBA is a non-moving target in reguards to software development, and developers can highly optimize thier software for it as well, but so is the Dreamcast; and they (the Dreamcast emulation community) still don't have full SNES emulation with sound.
Hopefully these guys will prove me wrong and succeed, I really wouldn't mind playing some of my favorites that haven't been ported yet.
Last I checked, rounded IDE cables were still half the price of SATA cables.
Apparently you haven't been shopping around for IDE/SATA cables lately. Here's a quick search from Newegg for both IDE and SATA cables:
Rounded IDE Cables
SATA Cables
There's almost no pricing difference, unless you're buying a SATA cable over 18 inches; but $4 USD for a 36 inch SATA cable doesn't sound too bad, considering you can't even do that length with IDE.
Don't hold your breath. If I remember right, Microsoft made thier own special 32bit version of the BMP format for thier XP skins, instead of using an existing image format with 32bit support. Chances are they'd support 32bit PNG is some weird way, like the way Internet Explorer currently supports it, via DirectX filters.
I know this is the source for a Windows Installer program, and as such really isn't useful on any other platforms; but does the lisence allow for development on other platforms? From what I've read, it seems similar to the BSD lisence - does this mean a 3rd party company could come along (the developers of InstallShield, perhaps?) and use this code for thier own products?
It looks like a Guard Turtle to me. *shrug*
You're forgetting the Nintendo Gameboy, which is arguably the most successful 'console' in history. The latest Gameboy's still play the old games from way back in 1988/89.
Playing games at a lan party isn't a public showing, unless you're providing both the games and the computers. If the participants are providing thier own machines and thier own copies of the game, then you need no such permission. If you want to play it on the safe side though, just call a few of the games' publishers and ask permission, or ask what you need to do to go about getting permission. My money's on the fact that not one of them will say 'no, you may not play our game at your lan party', and some might even provide cheap door prizes.
:)
I've been running a LAN party with some friends for the last few years btw, so I'm not completely talking out of my ass.
If you're interested in playing multiplayer X-Com UFO Defense, using a remake of the original engine using the original graphics/sounds/animations, I suggest you check out UFO2000 (ufo2000.sf.net). It has a built in internet lobby type system where you can matchup against other players, you can customize your squad using most of the weapons from the original game, and you can fight on randomly generated maps from all the terrains of the original game, including the Xcom bases and Alien bases.
Um yeah.. Trillian is also closed-source, and quite bloated.
Give me Miranda-IM any day....
I find that it's much easier to control and fly the helicopters with the mouse/keyboard. It just seems as though my control is more precise.
They already announce that a fix, along with a slew of optimizations, would be released tomorrow (Friday, Feb 6th).
I guess you've never seen a Rio Karma. Cheaper and better looking then both models, a control interface as good as the iPod's, 16-18 hour battery life, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC support. Oh yeah, it's cheap as hell to. I've found 'em as low as $250, and that's before mail in rebate.
Wow, if that's true, this makes me want a Centrino laptop even more now. :)
Because if they're willing to take away some of the rights we've been given using the Patriot Act, what's to stop 'em from taking the rest of 'em away in the America Act or some other similarly stupidly named set of laws..