I own an ABS Mayhem G1 [...] The BIOS chip falls out, the machine occasionally overheats and shuts down, the power brick smoked itself, and the case on top of where the hard drive is has the imprint of my palm burned into it because the drive isn't cooled right. Screws rattle about in the case. Battery life is a cool 72 minutes.
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The solution is to make cash.so.2.0.1 a softlink to cash.so.0.0.1; this fools the installation into thinking you have greater 'cash' than you actually do.
You'll run into compatibility problems when you start invoking the more advanced 'relationship' or 'marriage' functionality; the program will complain vociferously, but let's face it; most of us just want to play around with 'girl' for an evening or two, and then try something else. "cash.so.0.0.1" does fine, so long as you can pretend it's "cash.so.2.0.1".
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I'd ask my dad and say, "where can I get insert-highly-toxic-explosive-compound". He'd say, "Son, we live in a pussy age where you'd get arrested for just asking about that stuff."
I guess this is how we grow up today. Sterile, hairless wimps.
No, the reason you grew up as a sterile, hairless wimp is because all those highly-toxic-explosive-compounds your father and grandfather played around with had horrible effects on their genes and reproductive systems.
Oh yeah, and VCR tapes, despite being more expensive to manufacture, are cheaper (even if you factor in the cost of a blank DVD for me to encode it on).
For the kind of stuff that people will buy on VHS, perhaps. But there's a lot of 'complete season/series' DVD box-sets coming out now that are *way* cheaper than buying 2-3 episodes per separately-sold VHS worked out at.
I guess they figured that selling the complete set of DVDs at 1/3 - 1/2 the price of a complete set of VHSs would still result in people spending more, because previously they wouldn't have had the money, the space, nor the inclination to buy the complete series on VHS.
Of course, *now* they're selling off VHS tapes very cheap (dirt cheap in some cases). But they're still bulky (a problem for me) and still have VHS picture quality. And I'm *not* an audio-visual afficionado.
I'd almost forgotten about those VHS computer-backup devices.... considered buying one with my first PC in the late 90s.
But guess what? You can back up your computer to DVD too- stores 4 or 8GB on a single disk! Yes... simply connect the Danmere backup device to the video input of a DVD recorder.
Only reason I'd like to see Mac OS reach wide spread use would be to drive even more competition within the desktop market, making my beloved Windows even better. (My emphasis)
People may use Windows because they have to. They may use it because they consider it the best tool for the job. They may even consider it, by some metric, the "best" OS.
But I have never heard anyone describe Windows as "beloved" (or something similar) by themselves.
People may respect, or even like Windows, but does anyone really "love" it in the sense that many love Linux, BSD or MacOS?
'tis the last hurdle of true WYSIWYG. why isn't there white printer ink?
Because (a) There isn't really a market for it, and (b) Printer ink works on the subtractive model, and to produce an ink that can print white on non-white paper would violate this model, and thus (more importantly) the ink itself would have to be substantially different in nature to the standard CMYK inks.
Think about printing white on black; the ink would have to be dense enough to *cover* the black up (something like 'Tipp-Ex'/'Liquid Paper'), and I'd guess we'd require a lot more of it on the paper. (Bear in mind that 'cover up' is the word here; this is neither subtractive nor additive- for the latter case, we can't add light. It also implies that the only way to get certain colours on certain non-white papers is to cover them with white ink, then use the CMYK inks on top of *that*).
All this implies new print-nozzle technologies would be required, and these would have to be separate from the current CMYK ones (there's *no* way they could design a nozzle that can handle 'normal' ink and the white ink *and* retain decent performance *and* sell it at a reasonable price).
Yeah, I realise you were possibly joking, but if it were trivial, I bet we'd have seen white ink by now.
Don't hold your breath waiting for it. Oh, and while I'm here.... In order to pre-empt any "white ink" jokes:-
"Uh, I can get you some white ink. Just wait till I get my pr0n collection, huh huh."
After a quick trip to the shops to buy replacements and finding out that they were £40 for the colour one and £29 for the black one, I said "fck that" and and just went back to the shop where I bought the printer and bought another one as the printer itself (which came with a set of cartridges) was only £60.
You really put one over on The Man there... *cough*
Let's see; you bought a printer with overpriced cartridges. Rather than replace it with one that took more sensibly priced carts, you bought the exact same model again.
Assuming that the carts that came with the printer were full (which I wouldn't assume, because it's often not the case), you're still going to have to shell out £60 every time you want to replace the ink tanks.
If buying a replacement printer to get new ink is cheaper, it only emphasises how overpriced the ink was in the first place. You're only getting £60 "worth" of ink with the new printer because the ink is horrifically expensive.
On the other hand, if you'd bought (e.g.) one of the new Canons, you wouldn't get as much as £60 "worth" of free ink with the printer- because the Canon ink isn't as expensive. You could, however, replace the ink with reasonably priced originals or no-nonsense replacements that don't come with ******* stupid chips. It would work out *way* cheaper in the long run.
Now, before you point out that you eventually got a full set of replacements for £6, that wasn't what I was arguing with. Fact is, your first move (before you found out about the cheap replacements) was to get a new printer, which is symptomatic of the short-termist "logic" of 3/4 of printer-buying consumers (though _they_ usually go for Lexmark because they're "cheapest" *cough*cough*). And when that lot runs out, you're back to square one; horribly expensive in the long, medium, and arguably even short run.
And that's not even considering the level of waste this "solution" produces. I can't believe we're wasting this planet's resources and filling up landfill sites simply to support some ******* stupid printer market that deludes us into buying new printers to "save money". It's not even remotely convenient. What a load of ****.
Damn, I think the expletive-bleeping machine just wore out.
> Personally I side with Daniel completely (ok, here goes the karma), he's gotten
> himself in with a suceessful company hopefully with a career path, and he
> is still the founder of Gentoo.
If he really did "lose his shirt" founding Gentoo, then that sucks. Personally, I don't know all the details, and I know I wouldn't have been prepared to go that far.
But that having been said- I don't give a flying f*** for the guy if he wants to join Microsoft. I'm not going to equate working for MS with boiling babies, but anyone working for the company knows (or should know) what they are. As a random (and relatively unimportant) Slashdotter, I don't want to come across as a self-important embittered geek ranting away at someone (who is smarter and more talented than me) betraying the cause.
But really; the guy is smart, and he chose to work at MS knowing their modus operandi full well. Bearing that in mind, I'll just say that he's on his own, and (minor slack for Gentoo aside) I wouldn't consider him any more deserving of respect or prosperity than any other MS employee.
More generally, people don't "deserve" *anything* (as you say) simply because they're "extremely intelligent". This is arrogant geek-centric elitist-think at its worst. A person only "deserves" something if they use their talents to benefit people. If they choose to use those skills to benefit themselves, that's their choice, but they don't "deserve" anything beyond what the market agrees to pay for their services. Ditto leadership.
A sensible marketplace will pay for skills. This should *not* be confused with "deserving" anything.
Who has been smart enough to keep their enemies so close though, MS or Robbins?
I'd put the money on MS.
This is MS's way of life; they've been doing it for a generation. It would take an exceptionally devious person to outsmart MS at their own game. If Robbins had been that type of person, it's unlikely he'd have been the type of person to have started a Linux distro.
Unless he's exceptionally devious, and making people believe the above is part of his plan- and frankly, I don't believe *that* is very plausible.
what they are trying to do is to break up the opensource community by hiring all the top talent. If they hire the top leaders and put them in project s that never see the light of day, then they don't have to worry about them as competitors to MS. It is worth the million or two in salary to get a top guy.
Which can be summed up as
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"
I am far more interested in microsoft "playing nice" then I am hoping for their destruction.
Experience has taught us that Microsoft do not "play nice" (although it may benefit them on occasion to pretend that they do). They will not "play nice"; it is not in their corporate nature.
I had a good quote about Microsoft bookmarked somewhere (not on this system unfortunately). It was basically that Microsoft's mentality is that of a company at war and under attack from all sides; this is the mentality that got them where they are today.
Even if Open Source grows further, Microsoft will not die overnight. My personal belief is that unless they are put in a position where their existence/dominance is very seriously threatened, they will not change. When the situation *is* clear, MS will still take time to change their mindset. In short, the tiger will not change its stripes in the next 10 years.
Every large company is out to make profit. IBM aren't supporting Linux because it gives them a warm fuzzy feeling; but because they think it will benefit their business. They are "playing nice" because it suits them; but they are "playing nice" all the same.
Microsoft, on the other hand, I do not believe will ever "play nice"; they will only pretend to do so in order to get what they want.
the Wal-Mart books are sold for more like $6 to $11
Huh?! That's *way* more than I was expecting. There's a line of books in the UK under the name of 'Wordsworth' that sold out-of-copyright stuff for UKP 1.50 or less IIRC (haven't seen them recently, but I don't really buy that kind of stuff).
With WalMart's dirt-cheap reputation, I'd have expected paperbacks along the same line to sell for US $2.00 or something...
Anyway, my point about printing-on-demand rested on the assumption that the price would be comparable with existing books, including payment to the author/copyright-holder. (I assume the Kinko's system isn't aimed at that type of application/market; just because it *can* be used for that doesn't mean it should. The type of setup I'm thinking of isn't really in existence yet; it's a question of service pricing/economics and availability of content as much as it is of technology). There's no reason it couldn't be done for that price if the machines were standardised and reasonably automated (operable by your average bookshop assistant).
Translation: The price of a PC that people are willing to spend $1000 on has not come down in the past few years.
In other words, there will always be people willing to spend a lot of money on a computer, and get as much as they can for that money. It doesn't necessarily tell you anything.
Don't know how much Wal Mart charge (I don't live in the US), but I sure as heck *wouldn't* consider a free download to be preferable to a $2.50 paperback.
Should I read it onscreen? Bleh. Should I print it out and try to bind all those sheets of paper into something approaching readability? And how much ink would that require anyway?
Electronic copies are great for searchability, but they won't replace a dirt cheap hardcopy.
Personally, I reckon that the 'on-demand' machines will be far more useful for stuff that wouldn't be worth printing in the traditional way, but still have a large enough market to make them worth digitising (e.g. a book on 6502 Assembly won't sell in the shops, but I'd bet there are quite a few people out there who'd pay a standard fee to get it).
Are you sure that the ROM took up 24K of RAM? Why would it copy it over?
My guess is that, assuming the 6510 had the same 16-bit address bus as the 6502 in my Atari XL did, then it could only access 2^16 (i.e. 65536 or *64K*) memory locations in total. In the 64K Atari 800XL, this meant that some of the address space (moreso with Basic loaded) was assigned to the ROMs, and thus you couldn't access all the RAM without 'bank-switching' (i.e. swapping the ROM and the unused RAM between the same block of address space).
In fact, this is the same method the Atari 130XE (the 800XL's successor) used to access the full 128K memory, despite still having the 6502A processor's 64K limitation. Unfortunately, the damn thing swapped the extra blocks above 64K into the middle of the BASIC workspace, so you had to reduce the top-of-RAM pointer such that you only had 3K of BASIC program space left; albeit with large amounts of RAM you could freely POKE into.
Oh yeah, I realise that anime owes a lot to Disney and American animation in general.
Which brings me onto something curious; I like the "look" of Japanese cartoons (including non-'Manga' stuff like Hello Kitty, and those anthropomorphic household appliances in manuals for electronic applicances). Although my interest was pretty superficial, I wanted to use this as the basis for my own cartoon style. And....
My own drawings ended up looking *very* Max Fleischer-esque. Guess who was another big influence on the Japanese?
Although only for 10-15 years has it been *recognised* as Japanese. Before that, there was still quite a lot of Japanese animation on TV (admittedly, a lot of it flogging overpriced toys), but it wasn't recognised as such.
I remember watching 'Battle of the Planets' when it was shown in the UK in the early 1980s. It *never* struck me that it was 'different', let alone Japanese- it was just another cartoon (not my favourite- you can guess which one that was from my nickname- but still quite enjoyable).
Especially not 'Spirited Away'; although that film included some Japanese characteristics, it wasn't in-your-face stereotypical anime (I'd say it was Japanese at a deeper, and more interesting level).
In terms of visual style, it borrowed from 'Alice in Wonderland' as much as it did from anime. It's also notable that Chihiro wasn't drawn in stereotypical "big-eyes cute" fashion; in fact, she looked fairly ordinary, which I guess was all to the benefit of the film.
And yeah, the story was the thing. 'Spirited Away' was so good because it was multi-layered and had depth. OTOH I'm not sure it would appeal to (e.g.) children under 7- perhaps a bit scary, but also not simplistic enough.
That having been said "Kiki's Delivery Service" struck me as more of a (very good) competitor for Disney; although as a 29-year old guy I didn't enjoy it that much (didn't have the same broad appeal as 'Sprited Away'), I've no doubt that were I a 9-year old girl, I'd have loved it to bits...
I agree with you here. I'm sure Microsoft prefers people in developing countries to run pirated windows than Linux.
One fundamental difference; with Windows, there is nothing stopping people buying a legitimate copy of Windows. With Apple, there would be *no* way of running a legitimate copy of OS-X without replacing all your generic PC hardware.
Even if it's relatively trivial to get MacOSX to boot on generic hardware, doing this as a business means you'd be a nice fat target for Apple's lawyers under the DMCA.
Which probably means that, rather than paying Apple for their OS and running it on tweaked PC hardware, the OS will be illegally modified to run on totally generic PC hardware.
This approach is far simpler for Joe Six-Pack who owns a generic Wintel PC, and it doesn't involve the manufacture/modification of hardware; just an ordinary CD burner.
This has the 'advantage' that, unlike the hardware-based solution, its spread does not require an easily-watched (and sued) industry of sellers and middlemen; a moderately competent 10-year old could do it. Unfortunately for Apple, it also means the creation of a market where they get paid for neither the hardware nor the software. The tweaked hardware route at least promises Apple some OS sales; by contrast, the hacked OS is *only* available illegally. In short, Apple may inadvertantly be creating a market/culture where (rightly or wrongly) they get paid *nothing*.
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"BSD guys are a lot like Linux guys, except they have kissed girls."
The only reason the girls let the *BSD guys kiss them is that they felt sorry for them- apparently the *BSD guys are dying.
Netcraft confirms it.
I own an ABS Mayhem G1 [...] The BIOS chip falls out, the machine occasionally overheats and shuts down, the power brick smoked itself, and the case on top of where the hard drive is has the imprint of my palm burned into it because the drive isn't cooled right. Screws rattle about in the case. Battery life is a cool 72 minutes.
What did you expect with a name like that, then?! I bet you have 'Neverpay' motor insurance as well...
The solution is to make cash.so.2.0.1 a softlink to cash.so.0.0.1; this fools the installation into thinking you have greater 'cash' than you actually do.
You'll run into compatibility problems when you start invoking the more advanced 'relationship' or 'marriage' functionality; the program will complain vociferously, but let's face it; most of us just want to play around with 'girl' for an evening or two, and then try something else. "cash.so.0.0.1" does fine, so long as you can pretend it's "cash.so.2.0.1".
I'd ask my dad and say, "where can I get insert-highly-toxic-explosive-compound". He'd say, "Son, we live in a pussy age where you'd get arrested for just asking about that stuff." I guess this is how we grow up today. Sterile, hairless wimps.
No, the reason you grew up as a sterile, hairless wimp is because all those highly-toxic-explosive-compounds your father and grandfather played around with had horrible effects on their genes and reproductive systems.
Oh yeah, and VCR tapes, despite being more expensive to manufacture, are cheaper (even if you factor in the cost of a blank DVD for me to encode it on).
For the kind of stuff that people will buy on VHS, perhaps. But there's a lot of 'complete season/series' DVD box-sets coming out now that are *way* cheaper than buying 2-3 episodes per separately-sold VHS worked out at.
I guess they figured that selling the complete set of DVDs at 1/3 - 1/2 the price of a complete set of VHSs would still result in people spending more, because previously they wouldn't have had the money, the space, nor the inclination to buy the complete series on VHS.
Of course, *now* they're selling off VHS tapes very cheap (dirt cheap in some cases). But they're still bulky (a problem for me) and still have VHS picture quality. And I'm *not* an audio-visual afficionado.
I'd almost forgotten about those VHS computer-backup devices.... considered buying one with my first PC in the late 90s.
But guess what? You can back up your computer to DVD too- stores 4 or 8GB on a single disk! Yes... simply connect the Danmere backup device to the video input of a DVD recorder.
Hang on, that isn't right...
Only reason I'd like to see Mac OS reach wide spread use would be to drive even more competition within the desktop market, making my beloved Windows even better. (My emphasis)
People may use Windows because they have to. They may use it because they consider it the best tool for the job. They may even consider it, by some metric, the "best" OS.
But I have never heard anyone describe Windows as "beloved" (or something similar) by themselves.
People may respect, or even like Windows, but does anyone really "love" it in the sense that many love Linux, BSD or MacOS?
'tis the last hurdle of true WYSIWYG. why isn't there white printer ink?
Because (a) There isn't really a market for it, and (b) Printer ink works on the subtractive model, and to produce an ink that can print white on non-white paper would violate this model, and thus (more importantly) the ink itself would have to be substantially different in nature to the standard CMYK inks.
Think about printing white on black; the ink would have to be dense enough to *cover* the black up (something like 'Tipp-Ex'/'Liquid Paper'), and I'd guess we'd require a lot more of it on the paper. (Bear in mind that 'cover up' is the word here; this is neither subtractive nor additive- for the latter case, we can't add light. It also implies that the only way to get certain colours on certain non-white papers is to cover them with white ink, then use the CMYK inks on top of *that*).
All this implies new print-nozzle technologies would be required, and these would have to be separate from the current CMYK ones (there's *no* way they could design a nozzle that can handle 'normal' ink and the white ink *and* retain decent performance *and* sell it at a reasonable price).
Yeah, I realise you were possibly joking, but if it were trivial, I bet we'd have seen white ink by now.
Don't hold your breath waiting for it. Oh, and while I'm here.... In order to pre-empt any "white ink" jokes:-
"Uh, I can get you some white ink. Just wait till I get my pr0n collection, huh huh."
Pathetic. There goes the "insightful" mods...
After a quick trip to the shops to buy replacements and finding out that they were £40 for the colour one and £29 for the black one, I said "fck that" and and just went back to the shop where I bought the printer and bought another one as the printer itself (which came with a set of cartridges) was only £60.
You really put one over on The Man there... *cough*
Let's see; you bought a printer with overpriced cartridges. Rather than replace it with one that took more sensibly priced carts, you bought the exact same model again.
Assuming that the carts that came with the printer were full (which I wouldn't assume, because it's often not the case), you're still going to have to shell out £60 every time you want to replace the ink tanks.
If buying a replacement printer to get new ink is cheaper, it only emphasises how overpriced the ink was in the first place. You're only getting £60 "worth" of ink with the new printer because the ink is horrifically expensive.
On the other hand, if you'd bought (e.g.) one of the new Canons, you wouldn't get as much as £60 "worth" of free ink with the printer- because the Canon ink isn't as expensive. You could, however, replace the ink with reasonably priced originals or no-nonsense replacements that don't come with ******* stupid chips. It would work out *way* cheaper in the long run.
Now, before you point out that you eventually got a full set of replacements for £6, that wasn't what I was arguing with. Fact is, your first move (before you found out about the cheap replacements) was to get a new printer, which is symptomatic of the short-termist "logic" of 3/4 of printer-buying consumers (though _they_ usually go for Lexmark because they're "cheapest" *cough*cough*). And when that lot runs out, you're back to square one; horribly expensive in the long, medium, and arguably even short run.
And that's not even considering the level of waste this "solution" produces. I can't believe we're wasting this planet's resources and filling up landfill sites simply to support some ******* stupid printer market that deludes us into buying new printers to "save money". It's not even remotely convenient. What a load of ****.
Damn, I think the expletive-bleeping machine just wore out.
> Personally I side with Daniel completely (ok, here goes the karma), he's gotten
> himself in with a suceessful company hopefully with a career path, and he
> is still the founder of Gentoo.
If he really did "lose his shirt" founding Gentoo, then that sucks. Personally, I don't know all the details, and I know I wouldn't have been prepared to go that far.
But that having been said- I don't give a flying f*** for the guy if he wants to join Microsoft. I'm not going to equate working for MS with boiling babies, but anyone working for the company knows (or should know) what they are. As a random (and relatively unimportant) Slashdotter, I don't want to come across as a self-important embittered geek ranting away at someone (who is smarter and more talented than me) betraying the cause.
But really; the guy is smart, and he chose to work at MS knowing their modus operandi full well. Bearing that in mind, I'll just say that he's on his own, and (minor slack for Gentoo aside) I wouldn't consider him any more deserving of respect or prosperity than any other MS employee.
More generally, people don't "deserve" *anything* (as you say) simply because they're "extremely intelligent". This is arrogant geek-centric elitist-think at its worst. A person only "deserves" something if they use their talents to benefit people. If they choose to use those skills to benefit themselves, that's their choice, but they don't "deserve" anything beyond what the market agrees to pay for their services. Ditto leadership.
A sensible marketplace will pay for skills. This should *not* be confused with "deserving" anything.
Who has been smart enough to keep their enemies so close though, MS or Robbins?
I'd put the money on MS.
This is MS's way of life; they've been doing it for a generation. It would take an exceptionally devious person to outsmart MS at their own game. If Robbins had been that type of person, it's unlikely he'd have been the type of person to have started a Linux distro.
Unless he's exceptionally devious, and making people believe the above is part of his plan- and frankly, I don't believe *that* is very plausible.
what they are trying to do is to break up the opensource community by hiring all the top talent. If they hire the top leaders and put them in project s that never see the light of day, then they don't have to worry about them as competitors to MS. It is worth the million or two in salary to get a top guy.
Which can be summed up as
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"
Surprised no-one else quoted that one first....
Doctor Rose? "Doctor Whore", surely? (^_^)
I am far more interested in microsoft "playing nice" then I am hoping for their destruction.
Experience has taught us that Microsoft do not "play nice" (although it may benefit them on occasion to pretend that they do). They will not "play nice"; it is not in their corporate nature.
I had a good quote about Microsoft bookmarked somewhere (not on this system unfortunately). It was basically that Microsoft's mentality is that of a company at war and under attack from all sides; this is the mentality that got them where they are today.
Even if Open Source grows further, Microsoft will not die overnight. My personal belief is that unless they are put in a position where their existence/dominance is very seriously threatened, they will not change. When the situation *is* clear, MS will still take time to change their mindset. In short, the tiger will not change its stripes in the next 10 years.
Every large company is out to make profit. IBM aren't supporting Linux because it gives them a warm fuzzy feeling; but because they think it will benefit their business. They are "playing nice" because it suits them; but they are "playing nice" all the same.
Microsoft, on the other hand, I do not believe will ever "play nice"; they will only pretend to do so in order to get what they want.
the Wal-Mart books are sold for more like $6 to $11
Huh?! That's *way* more than I was expecting. There's a line of books in the UK under the name of 'Wordsworth' that sold out-of-copyright stuff for UKP 1.50 or less IIRC (haven't seen them recently, but I don't really buy that kind of stuff).
With WalMart's dirt-cheap reputation, I'd have expected paperbacks along the same line to sell for US $2.00 or something...
Anyway, my point about printing-on-demand rested on the assumption that the price would be comparable with existing books, including payment to the author/copyright-holder. (I assume the Kinko's system isn't aimed at that type of application/market; just because it *can* be used for that doesn't mean it should. The type of setup I'm thinking of isn't really in existence yet; it's a question of service pricing/economics and availability of content as much as it is of technology). There's no reason it couldn't be done for that price if the machines were standardised and reasonably automated (operable by your average bookshop assistant).
Translation: The price of a PC that people are willing to spend $1000 on has not come down in the past few years.
In other words, there will always be people willing to spend a lot of money on a computer, and get as much as they can for that money. It doesn't necessarily tell you anything.
Don't know how much Wal Mart charge (I don't live in the US), but I sure as heck *wouldn't* consider a free download to be preferable to a $2.50 paperback.
Should I read it onscreen? Bleh. Should I print it out and try to bind all those sheets of paper into something approaching readability? And how much ink would that require anyway?
Electronic copies are great for searchability, but they won't replace a dirt cheap hardcopy.
Personally, I reckon that the 'on-demand' machines will be far more useful for stuff that wouldn't be worth printing in the traditional way, but still have a large enough market to make them worth digitising (e.g. a book on 6502 Assembly won't sell in the shops, but I'd bet there are quite a few people out there who'd pay a standard fee to get it).
I still have my original $595 C64, the milk-chocolate model, which is missing the 2 and 4 keys (real Commodore owners will know why),
Because, being made of milk chocolate, your kid brother ate them?
Are you sure that the ROM took up 24K of RAM? Why would it copy it over?
My guess is that, assuming the 6510 had the same 16-bit address bus as the 6502 in my Atari XL did, then it could only access 2^16 (i.e. 65536 or *64K*) memory locations in total. In the 64K Atari 800XL, this meant that some of the address space (moreso with Basic loaded) was assigned to the ROMs, and thus you couldn't access all the RAM without 'bank-switching' (i.e. swapping the ROM and the unused RAM between the same block of address space).
In fact, this is the same method the Atari 130XE (the 800XL's successor) used to access the full 128K memory, despite still having the 6502A processor's 64K limitation. Unfortunately, the damn thing swapped the extra blocks above 64K into the middle of the BASIC workspace, so you had to reduce the top-of-RAM pointer such that you only had 3K of BASIC program space left; albeit with large amounts of RAM you could freely POKE into.
Oh yeah, I realise that anime owes a lot to Disney and American animation in general.
Which brings me onto something curious; I like the "look" of Japanese cartoons (including non-'Manga' stuff like Hello Kitty, and those anthropomorphic household appliances in manuals for electronic applicances). Although my interest was pretty superficial, I wanted to use this as the basis for my own cartoon style. And....
My own drawings ended up looking *very* Max Fleischer-esque. Guess who was another big influence on the Japanese?
20+ year old fad, in America alone.
Although only for 10-15 years has it been *recognised* as Japanese. Before that, there was still quite a lot of Japanese animation on TV (admittedly, a lot of it flogging overpriced toys), but it wasn't recognised as such.
I remember watching 'Battle of the Planets' when it was shown in the UK in the early 1980s. It *never* struck me that it was 'different', let alone Japanese- it was just another cartoon (not my favourite- you can guess which one that was from my nickname- but still quite enjoyable).
I'd hesitate to call any Miyazaki film "anime".
Especially not 'Spirited Away'; although that film included some Japanese characteristics, it wasn't in-your-face stereotypical anime (I'd say it was Japanese at a deeper, and more interesting level).
In terms of visual style, it borrowed from 'Alice in Wonderland' as much as it did from anime. It's also notable that Chihiro wasn't drawn in stereotypical "big-eyes cute" fashion; in fact, she looked fairly ordinary, which I guess was all to the benefit of the film.
And yeah, the story was the thing. 'Spirited Away' was so good because it was multi-layered and had depth. OTOH I'm not sure it would appeal to (e.g.) children under 7- perhaps a bit scary, but also not simplistic enough.
That having been said "Kiki's Delivery Service" struck me as more of a (very good) competitor for Disney; although as a 29-year old guy I didn't enjoy it that much (didn't have the same broad appeal as 'Sprited Away'), I've no doubt that were I a 9-year old girl, I'd have loved it to bits...
Disney is back where they were in the 70's. One bad family movie after another. One forgettable animated feature after another.
Does this mean we'll see 'Black Hole 2: Electric Boogaloo'?
I agree with you here. I'm sure Microsoft prefers people in developing countries to run pirated windows than Linux.
One fundamental difference; with Windows, there is nothing stopping people buying a legitimate copy of Windows. With Apple, there would be *no* way of running a legitimate copy of OS-X without replacing all your generic PC hardware.
Even if it's relatively trivial to get MacOSX to boot on generic hardware, doing this as a business means you'd be a nice fat target for Apple's lawyers under the DMCA.
Which probably means that, rather than paying Apple for their OS and running it on tweaked PC hardware, the OS will be illegally modified to run on totally generic PC hardware.
This approach is far simpler for Joe Six-Pack who owns a generic Wintel PC, and it doesn't involve the manufacture/modification of hardware; just an ordinary CD burner.
This has the 'advantage' that, unlike the hardware-based solution, its spread does not require an easily-watched (and sued) industry of sellers and middlemen; a moderately competent 10-year old could do it. Unfortunately for Apple, it also means the creation of a market where they get paid for neither the hardware nor the software. The tweaked hardware route at least promises Apple some OS sales; by contrast, the hacked OS is *only* available illegally. In short, Apple may inadvertantly be creating a market/culture where (rightly or wrongly) they get paid *nothing*.