Thus, to get an increasing hardware base for AmigaOS, the compulsory nature of the licencing scheme must be taken out behind the barn and shot.
I really have to question your logic here. The only way sales would increase significantly, after "shooting" the OEM licensing plan, would be if there was a large existing target platform that people could magically purchase AmigaOS4 for and run on computers they did not buy exclusivley to run AmigaOS4.
We both know that due to extreme politics, arrogance, and shady business practice on both the red/blue sides that the Pegasos is simply not an option. So the only other big PPC platform that has existing users that you could be thinking of is Apple PPC hardware.
And I'm not so sure that would be as straight-forward as you seem to imply. Perhaps if AmigaOS selected just one model of Mac, and tried to just support that alone?....
Both AInc's illogical and transparent "anti piracy" and "support" excuses for a compulsory hardware licensing/bundling/dongling scheme are pure nonsense.
And I would tend to agree with you. But you really seem to think AInc or Hyperion are secretly gaining from forcing a dongle-ROM requirement on motherboards, in some way other than an anti-piracy attempt!! How on earth is the dongle-ROM thing anything BUT an anti-piracy measure?
So it is this basic fact, that I think we disagree. You think they have something to gain other than ant-piracy with the dongle-ROM, and you think whatever gain that is, is being made in bad faith. Who exactly is the one that would suddenly stop making the "big bucks" other than Eyetech, who has no say over the donglised AmigaOS issue, and is certainly not the only possible exclusive teron distributor for the OEM licensing program?!
You also make Eyetech out to be some evil, bad, incompetent deceptive company, but you forget all the effort that went into the original AmigaOne that was going to be entirely made from a design from one of the Escena guys? Eyetech aren't entirely the oppurtunistic vultures you make them out to be. How much money do you think they lost in that design? When the Teron came out with the Articia chipset, THEY were the ones who took the initiative to try and go PPC only in the first place; and THEY were the ones who were able to bite the bullet, write off all the expenses incurred with the escena board, and change track to use the Teron. Do you think Eyetech has had ZERO impact on the fact we now have a new AmigaOS?
I probably sound like a fan-boy here (I'm not, I have yet to buy an A1), but I think you give Eyetech too little credit.
No. Perpetuating that ridiculous claim used to be the job of Eyetech, but not even they are trying to make people believe this any longer. I suggest you don't start doing it instead.
You did not provide a reference, and I could not find ANY sources of a cheaper Teron CX board on Google or Froogle. In fact, all I found were mentions of "hey the AmigaONE works out cheaper than a CX!". But I did find one thread on Amiga.org that mentioned that terrasoft solutions briefly advised via email that they were selling a board for $500, but it wasn't a CX and the price was never confirmed? I can't find any Teron products on their page. Can you point me to somewhere where I can buy a Teron CX for $500?
I know you don't like the "exclusive hardware" concept and that is fair enough, but you've told a few lies in this post that counts as going so far as trolling.
1. Only Eyetech have been granted such a license
Eyetech is the only one who applied for a license. It's a support and anti-piracy measure; if you don't like that, then fine. Hyperion/Amiga, Inc. have stated repeatedly that there is no reason why a 3rd party PPC mfg. cannot apply for an OEM AmigaOS4 license. Some have said that piracy killed the Amiga (I at least think it contributed significantly), do you not think a small developer like Hyperion can justly ask for some restrictions on the use of their software which they can only hope in their wildest dreams to at least break even on non-labour costs?
2. and are now (well, since two(?) years) selling the Teron boards mentioned above with an extra 60% on the price as "AmigaOne SE",
The AmigaOne SE is no longer available from eyetech.
3. "AmigaOne PX"
There is no such thing, perhaps you mean the AmigaOne XE, a G4 PPC based motherboard that sells for $829 USD at the American store I just linked?
This is a lot cheaper than the $3,900 quoted on mai's Teron CX page, isn't it? How do you get "60% more" out of that! An AmigaOne is 80% cheaper than a Teron CX evaluation board!!!
4. "Micro AmigaOne", respectively.
Show me where these are available to the public... these are targeted at embedded markets? and are not available to the public
5. Thereby suitable Macs (otherwise a pretty damn obvious target for a PPC "consumer" OS), Terons sold by anybody else regardless of trademarks, Pegasoses, and whatever you could possibly think of in the future, are all out of the question by default. No licence/licencee, no new hardware base for AmigaOS.
Yeah, right. You know very well the complicated politics behind the Pegasos support. You know very well that Bill Buck (Genesi/Thendic "relations") is not the easiest person in the world to do business with, especially when he doesn't like the idea of going to effort to license an OS on his own platform that competes with his own baby?
And about the macs, that IS debatable, but I think you have over-simplified the situation there too.
My local QLD police stn dumped all their 68k and 200MHz PPC macs (someone I know asked if I wanted any) two years ago. They kept some of the faster iMacs, but have been steadily replaced with PCs (I know a cop there).
Of course, this is just one police station and in no way representative of the whole state.
Hmm, perhaps "fossil fuels" means power used at the power station? Eg. coal, gas. I'm sure the petroleum based chemicals etc. aren't derived from fuel pumped at the bowser;-)
Yeah sure, I should have worded that differently.
I was just pointing out that the computing power/kwh needs to be balanced with cost of manufacture of a replacement PC.
In other words, if it can stay in service, keep it.
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Working as tech in a PC shop that sells LCDs, I have to say I've only seen three LCDs returned in the last 12 months. One developed a faulty PSU (repaired) and the other two were for pixel defects, shortly after original sale.
And these LCDs aren't exactly Llyama or Sony displays either - try cheap Acer/BenQ/LGe.
Then again, I'm not on the sales/warranty returns and LCD sales have only picked up in the last 18 months in my area so I may have yet to see all the caveats.
As far as developing faults are concerned, LCDs seem to either work fine or not work at all.
Cheap CRTs, on the other hand, especially large ones, love to get cracked PCBs or imploded tubes when moving house. Also, they run hotter with higher voltages, and the repairs seem to be more involved; HV circuitry collapses, power supplies die, OSDs go crazy, HO transistor dies, caps dry up, diodes go open circuit, dry joints cause intermittent faults, temperature related problems, picture becomes distorted/washed out/unfocused...
Cheap LCDs are a lot nicer to pack up and send back for repair. Packing up a cheap 19" CRT is quite costly compared to sending back a LCD, or motherboard or HDD...
As far as useability is concerned, it seems most offices we're fitting out would disagree with you. A cheap LCD is much better on the eyes IMHO than a cheap CRT. Cheap, nasty, half-working CRTs that some employess put up with are particulary worse than any LCD.
reuse the old one as an MP3 server on your home network.
Keeping old machines in service is fine, but I'm not so sure about finding new uses for them for the sake of not switching them off..
On a similar note, new PC purchases. The library at my Uni has got a whole bunch of new Pentium 4s with WinXP in the library, for running a web client for searching through book records... nearby, the bank of ~20 monocrhome Wyse text-mode dumb terminals are still ticking away after something like 15 years? Meanwhile I'm running simulations on sub-800MHz PIIIs in the labs!
I've never really studied this incident, so here are my questions probably already answered out there..
Not trying to blame the operator or anything - but what level of understanding/theory did they have?
Were they aware that it was possible for the water level indicator to give incorrect readings?
Was there any "manual" way for an operator to casually check (sanity check) proper functioning if they suspected a fault, or would that have required additional personell/procedures?
I guess being in the 1970s, there would not be anywhere near the number of sensors possible these days.. but surely these valves would have been wired up to the monitoring station?
Try gnumeric (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/), xmgrace (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/), gnuplot (http://www.gnuplot.info/) or scigraphica (http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net/).
Office Suite spreadsheets just don't cut it for doing complex graphs.
I've used all of the above tools and I've found: . gnumeric isn't much better than excel but may be better than scalc . gnuplot is quite powerful but is command-line/script driven . xmgrace is nifty - does most things I need, with instant results . scigraphica had potential, but development has stagnated and has terrible instability/bugs.
As for project, there is MrProject (http://mrproject.codefactory.se/) [aka "planner", according to my Gnome applications menu] which despite being awkward/unintuitive does everything I could ask from it.
For databases, OpenOffice can apparently do it for you if you can wire up ODBC properly. Also, you could use Borland Kylix under linux but that's proprietry; I understand there is a MS Access-style FOSS project for creating database apps there somewhere as well.
An improvment the C string libraries could make is using Pascal-style strings.
Pascal strings have the length of the string coded in the first few bytes of the "string data".
So all the string functions know exactly how long the string is, since this is encoded at the beginning, which is often handy. In fact, I vaguely remember that you can access element zero of a pascal string as if it were an array, ie:
string[0]
- would hold the length of the string. Since, IIRC, arrays in Pascal can start/end at any limit (ie. non-zero) but default to starting at one, and so an index > 0 would give you the char value just like in C (I could be wrong - its been years!).
I was responding to the idea that C would be phased-out somehow, nothing to do with C for.NET. I guess I was being OT...
Just because you use C doesn't mean you HAVE to talk to the hardware.
I'm sure C for.NET will have its uses, it's just that I'm more of a hardware guy so that's why I'm trying to imagine a world without native C.
Other than re-using legacy C code as you've suggested, I would feel that the advantage of using a bytecode environment like.NET would be in using the new languages and features they offer, instead of writing even MORE C with functions that leak and void pointer arithmatic:-)
Re-using C code for use from a different language is a good idea though.
Saying C will die out is like saying that assembler will die out.
There will _ALWAYS_ be parts of an Operating System, hardware-oriented realtime or embedded app that _needs_ to be close to the metal. C/ASM is predictable, consistent, flexible and fine-grained in the things you can do with it. You certainly don't want a time critical interrupt handler routine that is supposed to be done in 5ms to suddenly decide that it needs to do some garbage collection or page in some hashing function to access an array of some sort.
Plus, C is great because it isn't assembly.
Even then, sometimes you just gotta write some ASM.
Sure, someone might make a "better" C that has similar goals (structured around ASM-style thinking rather than human-style thinking), but if they did it surely would be some incarnation of C. Compare traditional K&R C with the current features of GNU C (hooray for structure member tags!) or even the ANSI C99 specification.
Even though there has been no great change in the approach to programming itself (compare to LISP, haskell or Perl), C has nonetheless had continuous improvments along the way, from language and data structure standards to libraries, compilers, debugging tools, code profiling, and so on.
I find it hard to believe that we're going to have OS-level DMA transaction code written in Java or C#.
I once read in a visual basic for dummies manual (or was it Delphi?): "Trying to write an Operating System in Basic is like trying to fly to the moon in a hot air balloon".
At some point, you've _GOT_ to talk to the hardware.
Exactly WHAT about MIDI makes it deserving to die?
Have you read the MIDI 2 specs? It can carry raw audio, video, whatever media you want.
Would you rather thousands of dollars worth of drum synths, keyboards, controllers, etc. were all using 8 different incompatible protocols, requiring 8 different programs that don't integrate?
Do you want new equipment to SUDDENLY BECOME INCOMPATIBLE WITH YOUR ATARI ST?!/abandon ship
I work in a PC work/shop. Sometimes after "major" hardware changes (like simply removing a DVD drive) XP needs to be reactivated via phone.
I don't know what call centre you're calling, but in Australia I've usually got the thing re-activated in 5 minutes.
NB: At home I don't have any Microsoft OSes on my computers...
you have the right to everything under your property (minerals, groundwater, etc), extending down to the core of the Earth; and everything over it,
Actually, I learnt in legal studies (Queensland) in highschool that the government still specifically has ultimate control over any minerals, groundwater etc. unless the deed specifically includes it. Otherwise you still need to purchase an extraction license, whether for minerals or even coloured stone. Just recently, laws were passed that made it hard to even cut down a damn tree. Which of course, resulted in a lot of farmers clearing a lotta trees right before the legislation was enacted.
As for how far above your property you own, there are two case studies (precedence) in civil law that sorta set boundaries; not really a legal person so I can't recall the case titles. The lower limit was set by an old woman who sued a construction company for tresspass when they kept parking their crane boom at like 40m abover her house. The upper limit was sorta set by some owner of a castle in Victoria who tried to sue under tresspass tort, some guy in a plane flying at like 300m above taking photos of his estate and later selling them as postcards.
Of course, IANAL, my memory could be bad and my text books could have been wrong etc., but IIRC a deed to property doesn't give you absolute unlimited rights.
In Australia at least, the Unis have to compete with the tech schools for more and more students, since the Unis are getting less and less funding.
Fact: Unis need funding. That means students. That means relevant, useful courses.
Universities are educational institutions. That doesn't mean they can't be relevant. I'm doing a Micro-EE degree, and whilst there is a fair amount of "fairy" theory stuff I doubt I'll use every day (EG. Control systems theory, Finite Element/Difference Method modeling algorithms), the degree I'm doing is considered the most "practical" and useful in the state. In fact, next semester I'm starting a semester of "industry placement" where we do the equivilent of our final year project/thesis at an actual company who gives us the design task.
As an undergrad with one more year of my 4 year EE degree, it would appear to me that the Job market wants experience. With the electronics industry in Australia going backwards at an alarming rate (there's what, 4 export quality PCB fabs left?) the job oppurtunities for a graduate with no practical design skills looks pretty grim.
Among other things I used to run up new machines at a computer shop in Queensland, Australia. The Acer http://www.acercm.com.au/ desktops and some of the non-Optima (BBF) Leading Edge http://www.leadingedgecomputers.com.au/ machines have Ability Office packaged with them.
Seems OK, haven't used it for anything more than a test though. And if anyone hasn't heard of Leading Edge, they are a chain that has been selling more PCs in Australia than Harvey Norman for quite a while now.
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Thus, to get an increasing hardware base for AmigaOS, the compulsory nature of the licencing scheme must be taken out behind the barn and shot.
I really have to question your logic here. The only way sales would increase significantly, after "shooting" the OEM licensing plan, would be if there was a large existing target platform that people could magically purchase AmigaOS4 for and run on computers they did not buy exclusivley to run AmigaOS4.
We both know that due to extreme politics, arrogance, and shady business practice on both the red/blue sides that the Pegasos is simply not an option. So the only other big PPC platform that has existing users that you could be thinking of is Apple PPC hardware.
And I'm not so sure that would be as straight-forward as you seem to imply. Perhaps if AmigaOS selected just one model of Mac, and tried to just support that alone?....
- Paul
Both AInc's illogical and transparent "anti piracy" and "support" excuses for a compulsory hardware licensing/bundling/dongling scheme are pure nonsense.
And I would tend to agree with you. But you really seem to think AInc or Hyperion are secretly gaining from forcing a dongle-ROM requirement on motherboards, in some way other than an anti-piracy attempt!! How on earth is the dongle-ROM thing anything BUT an anti-piracy measure?
So it is this basic fact, that I think we disagree. You think they have something to gain other than ant-piracy with the dongle-ROM, and you think whatever gain that is, is being made in bad faith. Who exactly is the one that would suddenly stop making the "big bucks" other than Eyetech, who has no say over the donglised AmigaOS issue, and is certainly not the only possible exclusive teron distributor for the OEM licensing program?!
You also make Eyetech out to be some evil, bad, incompetent deceptive company, but you forget all the effort that went into the original AmigaOne that was going to be entirely made from a design from one of the Escena guys? Eyetech aren't entirely the oppurtunistic vultures you make them out to be. How much money do you think they lost in that design? When the Teron came out with the Articia chipset, THEY were the ones who took the initiative to try and go PPC only in the first place; and THEY were the ones who were able to bite the bullet, write off all the expenses incurred with the escena board, and change track to use the Teron. Do you think Eyetech has had ZERO impact on the fact we now have a new AmigaOS?
I probably sound like a fan-boy here (I'm not, I have yet to buy an A1), but I think you give Eyetech too little credit.
No. Perpetuating that ridiculous claim used to be the job of Eyetech, but not even they are trying to make people believe this any longer. I suggest you don't start doing it instead.
You did not provide a reference, and I could not find ANY sources of a cheaper Teron CX board on Google or Froogle. In fact, all I found were mentions of "hey the AmigaONE works out cheaper than a CX!". But I did find one thread on Amiga.org that mentioned that terrasoft solutions briefly advised via email that they were selling a board for $500, but it wasn't a CX and the price was never confirmed? I can't find any Teron products on their page. Can you point me to somewhere where I can buy a Teron CX for $500?
- Paul
I know you don't like the "exclusive hardware" concept and that is fair enough, but you've told a few lies in this post that counts as going so far as trolling.
1. Only Eyetech have been granted such a license
Eyetech is the only one who applied for a license. It's a support and anti-piracy measure; if you don't like that, then fine. Hyperion/Amiga, Inc. have stated repeatedly that there is no reason why a 3rd party PPC mfg. cannot apply for an OEM AmigaOS4 license. Some have said that piracy killed the Amiga (I at least think it contributed significantly), do you not think a small developer like Hyperion can justly ask for some restrictions on the use of their software which they can only hope in their wildest dreams to at least break even on non-labour costs?
2. and are now (well, since two(?) years) selling the Teron boards mentioned above with an extra 60% on the price as "AmigaOne SE",
The AmigaOne SE is no longer available from eyetech.
3. "AmigaOne PX"
There is no such thing, perhaps you mean the AmigaOne XE, a G4 PPC based motherboard that sells for $829 USD at the American store I just linked?
This is a lot cheaper than the $3,900 quoted on mai's Teron CX page, isn't it? How do you get "60% more" out of that! An AmigaOne is 80% cheaper than a Teron CX evaluation board!!!
4. "Micro AmigaOne", respectively.
Show me where these are available to the public... these are targeted at embedded markets? and are not available to the public
5. Thereby suitable Macs (otherwise a pretty damn obvious target for a PPC "consumer" OS), Terons sold by anybody else regardless of trademarks, Pegasoses, and whatever you could possibly think of in the future, are all out of the question by default. No licence/licencee, no new hardware base for AmigaOS.
Yeah, right. You know very well the complicated politics behind the Pegasos support. You know very well that Bill Buck (Genesi/Thendic "relations") is not the easiest person in the world to do business with, especially when he doesn't like the idea of going to effort to license an OS on his own platform that competes with his own baby?
And about the macs, that IS debatable, but I think you have over-simplified the situation there too.
My local QLD police stn dumped all their 68k and 200MHz PPC macs (someone I know asked if I wanted any) two years ago. They kept some of the faster iMacs, but have been steadily replaced with PCs (I know a cop there).
Of course, this is just one police station and in no way representative of the whole state.
Hmm, perhaps "fossil fuels" means power used at the power station? Eg. coal, gas. I'm sure the petroleum based chemicals etc. aren't derived from fuel pumped at the bowser ;-)
- Paul
Yeah sure, I should have worded that differently. I was just pointing out that the computing power/kwh needs to be balanced with cost of manufacture of a replacement PC. In other words, if it can stay in service, keep it.
And these LCDs aren't exactly Llyama or Sony displays either - try cheap Acer/BenQ/LGe.
Then again, I'm not on the sales/warranty returns and LCD sales have only picked up in the last 18 months in my area so I may have yet to see all the caveats.
As far as developing faults are concerned, LCDs seem to either work fine or not work at all.
Cheap CRTs, on the other hand, especially large ones, love to get cracked PCBs or imploded tubes when moving house. Also, they run hotter with higher voltages, and the repairs seem to be more involved; HV circuitry collapses, power supplies die, OSDs go crazy, HO transistor dies, caps dry up, diodes go open circuit, dry joints cause intermittent faults, temperature related problems, picture becomes distorted/washed out/unfocused...
Cheap LCDs are a lot nicer to pack up and send back for repair. Packing up a cheap 19" CRT is quite costly compared to sending back a LCD, or motherboard or HDD...
As far as useability is concerned, it seems most offices we're fitting out would disagree with you. A cheap LCD is much better on the eyes IMHO than a cheap CRT. Cheap, nasty, half-working CRTs that some employess put up with are particulary worse than any LCD.
- Paul
- Paul
Keeping old machines in service is fine, but I'm not so sure about finding new uses for them for the sake of not switching them off..
On a similar note, new PC purchases. The library at my Uni has got a whole bunch of new Pentium 4s with WinXP in the library, for running a web client for searching through book records... nearby, the bank of ~20 monocrhome Wyse text-mode dumb terminals are still ticking away after something like 15 years? Meanwhile I'm running simulations on sub-800MHz PIIIs in the labs!
Ahh bureaucracy...
- Paul
I've never really studied this incident, so here are my questions probably already answered out there..
Not trying to blame the operator or anything - but what level of understanding/theory did they have?
Were they aware that it was possible for the water level indicator to give incorrect readings?
Was there any "manual" way for an operator to casually check (sanity check) proper functioning if they suspected a fault, or would that have required additional personell/procedures?
I guess being in the 1970s, there would not be anywhere near the number of sensors possible these days.. but surely these valves would have been wired up to the monitoring station?
- Paul
Try gnumeric (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/), xmgrace (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/), gnuplot (http://www.gnuplot.info/) or scigraphica (http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net/).
Office Suite spreadsheets just don't cut it for doing complex graphs.
I've used all of the above tools and I've found:
. gnumeric isn't much better than excel but may be better than scalc
. gnuplot is quite powerful but is command-line/script driven
. xmgrace is nifty - does most things I need, with instant results
. scigraphica had potential, but development has stagnated and has terrible instability/bugs.
As for project, there is MrProject (http://mrproject.codefactory.se/) [aka "planner", according to my Gnome applications menu] which despite being awkward/unintuitive does everything I could ask from it.
For databases, OpenOffice can apparently do it for you if you can wire up ODBC properly. Also, you could use Borland Kylix under linux but that's proprietry; I understand there is a MS Access-style FOSS project for creating database apps there somewhere as well.
- Paul
Apple could've thrown in an accessory emulator card to coax Apple II diehards to move up to the Mac, but they didn't.
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Macintosh LC Apple II emulator card:
http://apple2history.org/museum/screenshots/lc2
We had one in one of the macs at primary school, since the admin needed to access old archives which were in some proprietry apple ii program.
- Paul
An improvment the C string libraries could make is using Pascal-style strings.
Pascal strings have the length of the string coded in the first few bytes of the "string data".
So all the string functions know exactly how long the string is, since this is encoded at the beginning, which is often handy. In fact, I vaguely remember that you can access element zero of a pascal string as if it were an array, ie:
string[0]
- would hold the length of the string. Since, IIRC, arrays in Pascal can start/end at any limit (ie. non-zero) but default to starting at one, and so an index > 0 would give you the char value just like in C (I could be wrong - its been years!).
- Paul
I was responding to the idea that C would be phased-out somehow, nothing to do with C for .NET. I guess I was being OT...
.NET will have its uses, it's just that I'm more of a hardware guy so that's why I'm trying to imagine a world without native C.
.NET would be in using the new languages and features they offer, instead of writing even MORE C with functions that leak and void pointer arithmatic :-)
Just because you use C doesn't mean you HAVE to talk to the hardware.
I'm sure C for
Other than re-using legacy C code as you've suggested, I would feel that the advantage of using a bytecode environment like
Re-using C code for use from a different language is a good idea though.
Saying C will die out is like saying that assembler will die out.
There will _ALWAYS_ be parts of an Operating System, hardware-oriented realtime or embedded app that _needs_ to be close to the metal. C/ASM is predictable, consistent, flexible and fine-grained in the things you can do with it. You certainly don't want a time critical interrupt handler routine that is supposed to be done in 5ms to suddenly decide that it needs to do some garbage collection or page in some hashing function to access an array of some sort.
Plus, C is great because it isn't assembly.
Even then, sometimes you just gotta write some ASM.
Sure, someone might make a "better" C that has similar goals (structured around ASM-style thinking rather than human-style thinking), but if they did it surely would be some incarnation of C. Compare traditional K&R C with the current features of GNU C (hooray for structure member tags!) or even the ANSI C99 specification.
Even though there has been no great change in the approach to programming itself (compare to LISP, haskell or Perl), C has nonetheless had continuous improvments along the way, from language and data structure standards to libraries, compilers, debugging tools, code profiling, and so on.
I find it hard to believe that we're going to have OS-level DMA transaction code written in Java or C#.
I once read in a visual basic for dummies manual (or was it Delphi?): "Trying to write an Operating System in Basic is like trying to fly to the moon in a hot air balloon".
At some point, you've _GOT_ to talk to the hardware.
- Paul
Inferior in what context?
.NET on an 8MHz MCU target with 4KiB SRAM, 32KiB FLASH ROM.
For me, I use C so I don't have to write (as much) ASM.
I'd hate to be writing in Java or
On the other hand GCC compiles C++ for the HC12, I wonder if does so for Hitachi and AVR targets as well.
- Paul
I have mod points and I can't mod that comment away from offtopic... "already moderated", what gives?
Exactly WHAT about MIDI makes it deserving to die?
/abandon ship
Have you read the MIDI 2 specs? It can carry raw audio, video, whatever media you want.
Would you rather thousands of dollars worth of drum synths, keyboards, controllers, etc. were all using 8 different incompatible protocols, requiring 8 different programs that don't integrate?
Do you want new equipment to SUDDENLY BECOME INCOMPATIBLE WITH YOUR ATARI ST?!
I work in a PC work/shop. Sometimes after "major" hardware changes (like simply removing a DVD drive) XP needs to be reactivated via phone. I don't know what call centre you're calling, but in Australia I've usually got the thing re-activated in 5 minutes. NB: At home I don't have any Microsoft OSes on my computers...
I find it hilarious that you can speculate the quality of the Beagle or any other mission based entirely on money spent.
you have the right to everything under your property (minerals, groundwater, etc), extending down to the core of the Earth; and everything over it,
Actually, I learnt in legal studies (Queensland) in highschool that the government still specifically has ultimate control over any minerals, groundwater etc. unless the deed specifically includes it. Otherwise you still need to purchase an extraction license, whether for minerals or even coloured stone. Just recently, laws were passed that made it hard to even cut down a damn tree. Which of course, resulted in a lot of farmers clearing a lotta trees right before the legislation was enacted.
As for how far above your property you own, there are two case studies (precedence) in civil law that sorta set boundaries; not really a legal person so I can't recall the case titles. The lower limit was set by an old woman who sued a construction company for tresspass when they kept parking their crane boom at like 40m abover her house. The upper limit was sorta set by some owner of a castle in Victoria who tried to sue under tresspass tort, some guy in a plane flying at like 300m above taking photos of his estate and later selling them as postcards.
Of course, IANAL, my memory could be bad and my text books could have been wrong etc., but IIRC a deed to property doesn't give you absolute unlimited rights.
Actually, IIRC, they distribute the spam on behalf of their clients, so only Y! has you address.
If your farmers are so productive and efficient, why the hell the outragous subsidies.
I highly doubt even half of your farmers would survive without subsidies.
In Australia at least, the Unis have to compete with the tech schools for more and more students, since the Unis are getting less and less funding.
Fact: Unis need funding. That means students. That means relevant, useful courses.
Universities are educational institutions. That doesn't mean they can't be relevant. I'm doing a Micro-EE degree, and whilst there is a fair amount of "fairy" theory stuff I doubt I'll use every day (EG. Control systems theory, Finite Element/Difference Method modeling algorithms), the degree I'm doing is considered the most "practical" and useful in the state. In fact, next semester I'm starting a semester of "industry placement" where we do the equivilent of our final year project/thesis at an actual company who gives us the design task.
As an undergrad with one more year of my 4 year EE degree, it would appear to me that the Job market wants experience. With the electronics industry in Australia going backwards at an alarming rate (there's what, 4 export quality PCB fabs left?) the job oppurtunities for a graduate with no practical design skills looks pretty grim.
- Paul
Seems OK, haven't used it for anything more than a test though. And if anyone hasn't heard of Leading Edge, they are a chain that has been selling more PCs in Australia than Harvey Norman for quite a while now.
- Paul