Some devices you name may require drivers, and if those drivers are supplied then these devices will "just work." As always, buyers should check whether Mac OS X support is available for a given device before spending the money.
Apple has done a lot of the work of building the underlying subsystems that make writing new drivers much simpler. Check out the various "driver families" supplied in IOKit.
And frankly there are many many devices that work on OSX without requiring a third-party driver. For example, most cameras require no add-on driver for full functionality in iPhoto / iMovie.
Check out http://emulation.net/ which provides a one-stop resource for emulation on Mac OS and Mac OS X. They list 35 different computer systems for which you can get emulators. Most of them appear to be free.
Acorn Atom, Acorn BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple I, Apple II, Apple///, Atari 800, Atari ST, Baby (SSEM), Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, CP/M, Edsac, IBM Series/1, Macintosh 68000, Memotech MTX512, MIPS R2000, MO5, MSX, Oric, PC-9801, PDP-8/E, SAM Coupé, Sinclair QL, Sinclair ZX81, Sinclair ZX-Spectrum, TI/99, TO8, TRS-80, TRS-80 Color Computer, VAX, Windows PC, X68000
If you prefer game consoles you have 13 to choose from. ROMs are hard to come by but if you look hard enough you can find them. And there is a huge selection available.
Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Colecovision, Intellivision, Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Odyssey^2, PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sony Playstation, Super Nintendo, Virtual Boy
If handheld units are more your speed, there are Mac-based emulators for 11 different varieties. I haven't tried any of these, but if MacMAME and the other console emulators are any guide, these should run at full speed and beyond.
Atari Lynx, Dreamcast VMU, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, HP-48 Calculator, Magic Cap, Neo Geo Pocket, Palm, Sega Game Gear, TI Calculator, Wonderswan
It currently appears to be little more than a gleam in one activist-programmer's eye. But this project - or one like it - should be pursued at all cost. There is nothing at all precluding an open source voting machine from superseding Diebold's pathetic offering. I'm sure progressive cities like Portland, OR would be open to such an offering, at least at the grass-roots. We are learning a lot about the value of OSS from organizations like Free Geek.
I kept my Airport Base Station beneath a planter in my living room. One day I watered the plant and dripped some water on the base station. Fried immediately, the lovely smell of magic blue smoke - or so I thought.
I opened it and noticed the two main capacitors had bulging tops. Turns out the original Airport Base Station had poorly rated capacitors, and they were prone to dying. The bulging top is a clear sign of failure. A website explained which capacitors make appropriate replacements. For the 5 dollars it would cost I figured it was worth a try.
Turned out it was a good gamble. After soldering in the new capacitors the bloody thing worked again.
There are probably a few busted Airport Base Stations floating around out there - and well worth recovering. The older graphite model is the one with the poorly rated capacitors. Even if the base station itself can't be fixed it contains a Lucent wireless PCMCIA card which may be perfectly usable.
Dump Microsoft and be done with it. Linux, Unix, and Mac are all viable now, and far more modern than anything Microsoft has going. There is no compelling reason to stick with MS for any reason any more. Seriously, they're really stuck, and they have only themselves to blame.
Don't get me wrong. I like the drama of a vulnerable platform as much as anyone. But I prefer to enjoy it from afar. That's why I stick with Mac and Unix.
On the other hand, there is the cynical satisfaction of watching stupid people buy MS with a smile on their face, thinking they're gaining a source of pride and joy. Little do they know, only weeks from now they'll be paying me dozens of bucks per hour to run AdAware and reinstall their system.
Thank you MS! Your dedication to backwards compatibility for abandonware ensures me and my MCSE-toting buddies years of capitalizing on the inherent flaw of your approach. I would bow before you if you didn't so resemble a dung beetle.
But look again. Even though there aren't many signs of Human settlement you can see the influence of Humans in most of the images in the temperate zones. Particularly in the number of open agricultural fields.
Seriously, though. We do care. If we get a reputation for being sloppy or negligent, how long do you think we'll be buying servers for *anybody*? Security is the number one priority in many organizations, and there *are* IT people who take it seriously - as a matter of survival and general responsibility.
... the rest of the process involves storing the differences between each successively simplified model and the detail level above it. I suppose a wave-interference - or turbulence - method would work well.
Another key aspect of this approach is the amount of data required to send across the bus and to store on the card decreases dramatically, so you can attain far more complex animations than previously possible. By varying a few key points of the representation you could do fairly complex deformations at any detail level in real time without losing the coherence of the model.
Practice meditation. Don't become an Idealogue. Know the difference between knowledge and experience. Feed your heart and mind. Travel. Get to know people. Be generous. Remember, we are energy converters. Devote your energy to being yourself, spontaneous, unencumbered by fears. Never succumb to paranois. Intelligent people are most often emotionally sensitive. When you feel slighted, forgive and grow beyond it. Live simply. Take on as much as you can.
We're counting on people like you to make Star Trek a reality.
Last week I got my check from the IRS and decided to get a Dual 2GHz G5. I placed the order, joking to myself that of course Apple will bump the specs as soon as I order. As usual, the joke was on me. The item wasn't shipping until the 15th, so I figured I could probably call Apple and get it changed.
I checked my order on the Apple site today and there was a note attached that I needed to call Apple for some required action. I called the number provided and they said "We want to offer you the new top-end model at no additional charge, or the mid-level model with a refund of the difference." I took the top-end model of course! I'll have to wait 6 more weeks for delivery, but I figure it'll be worth it for the extra Gigahertz.
...is probably not original, so maybe you can point me to something that conceives it exactly as I do.
I see each prime number as the first integer in an infinite series of its multiples. I envision a line of infinite length, where each point on the line represents a number from 1 to infinity. For each prime number (beginning with 2) you place an X on the line where every multiple of that prime number falls. So for 2, you mark off every even number from 2 to infinity. Then for 3, every multiple of 3, and so on. Following this procedure in order, all you have to do to find any prime number is just locate the first unmarked integer on the line.
If only it were possible to represent this abstract line inside a computer, all primes could be instantly located. Of course the marking-off part would take forever. And besides, prime-factoring accomplishes the same thing in a much shorter way. But somehow I think my conception is qualitatively different.
I also consider a "straight line" to be the perimeter of a circle whose radius is infinity.
I haven't use my French Press at all since I started using an espresso maker at home. The cleanup is easier and the coffee is ready quicker. And I can steam up my own milk, soy milk, rice milk.... and make flavored milk steamers for the kids before bed. Hmm, think I'll make a quick latté!
This quote demonstrates to me that MS was focused on their sales, and not on their customers. They were right that their customers didn't care about quality, having nothing else to compare to. But the long-term effect of MS's neglect of design - especially when you add all the parts of a system together - results in a confusing mess and lots of redundancy. They've been cleaning up after this mess ever since.
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Some devices you name may require drivers, and if those drivers are supplied then these devices will "just work." As always, buyers should check whether Mac OS X support is available for a given device before spending the money.
Apple has done a lot of the work of building the underlying subsystems that make writing new drivers much simpler. Check out the various "driver families" supplied in IOKit.
And frankly there are many many devices that work on OSX without requiring a third-party driver. For example, most cameras require no add-on driver for full functionality in iPhoto / iMovie.
Check out http://emulation.net/ which provides a one-stop resource for emulation on Mac OS and Mac OS X. They list 35 different computer systems for which you can get emulators. Most of them appear to be free.
///, Atari 800, Atari ST, Baby (SSEM), Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, CP/M, Edsac, IBM Series/1, Macintosh 68000, Memotech MTX512, MIPS R2000, MO5, MSX, Oric, PC-9801, PDP-8/E, SAM Coupé, Sinclair QL, Sinclair ZX81, Sinclair ZX-Spectrum, TI/99, TO8, TRS-80, TRS-80 Color Computer, VAX, Windows PC, X68000
Acorn Atom, Acorn BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple I, Apple II, Apple
If you prefer game consoles you have 13 to choose from. ROMs are hard to come by but if you look hard enough you can find them. And there is a huge selection available.
Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Colecovision, Intellivision, Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Odyssey^2, PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sony Playstation, Super Nintendo, Virtual Boy
If handheld units are more your speed, there are Mac-based emulators for 11 different varieties. I haven't tried any of these, but if MacMAME and the other console emulators are any guide, these should run at full speed and beyond.
Atari Lynx, Dreamcast VMU, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, HP-48 Calculator, Magic Cap, Neo Geo Pocket, Palm, Sega Game Gear, TI Calculator, Wonderswan
http://sourceforge.net/projects/votehelp/
It currently appears to be little more than a gleam in one activist-programmer's eye. But this project - or one like it - should be pursued at all cost. There is nothing at all precluding an open source voting machine from superseding Diebold's pathetic offering. I'm sure progressive cities like Portland, OR would be open to such an offering, at least at the grass-roots. We are learning a lot about the value of OSS from organizations like Free Geek.
Why do that when all they have to do is add more coverage to their own site, effectively pushing listings from other sites downward?
I kept my Airport Base Station beneath a planter in my living room. One day I watered the plant and dripped some water on the base station. Fried immediately, the lovely smell of magic blue smoke - or so I thought.
I opened it and noticed the two main capacitors had bulging tops. Turns out the original Airport Base Station had poorly rated capacitors, and they were prone to dying. The bulging top is a clear sign of failure. A website explained which capacitors make appropriate replacements. For the 5 dollars it would cost I figured it was worth a try.
Turned out it was a good gamble. After soldering in the new capacitors the bloody thing worked again.
There are probably a few busted Airport Base Stations floating around out there - and well worth recovering. The older graphite model is the one with the poorly rated capacitors. Even if the base station itself can't be fixed it contains a Lucent wireless PCMCIA card which may be perfectly usable.
Dump Microsoft and be done with it. Linux, Unix, and Mac are all viable now, and far more modern than anything Microsoft has going. There is no compelling reason to stick with MS for any reason any more. Seriously, they're really stuck, and they have only themselves to blame.
Don't get me wrong. I like the drama of a vulnerable platform as much as anyone. But I prefer to enjoy it from afar. That's why
I stick with Mac and Unix.
On the other hand, there is the cynical satisfaction of watching stupid people buy MS with a smile on their face, thinking they're gaining a source of pride and joy. Little do they know, only weeks from now they'll be paying me dozens of bucks per hour to run AdAware and reinstall their system.
Thank you MS! Your dedication to backwards compatibility for abandonware ensures me and my MCSE-toting buddies years of capitalizing on the inherent flaw of your approach. I would bow before you if you didn't so resemble a dung beetle.
But look again. Even though there aren't many signs of Human settlement you can see the influence of Humans in most of the images in the temperate zones. Particularly in the number of open agricultural fields.
When you can explain MAMMALS!
"Hitler was elected." ... right, and Hitler burned the Reichstag *before* he was elected.
...are "see" and "recognized."
It sounds like you've been watching Fantastic Planet!
Microsoft insists there is a sanity clause while the Japanese assert that no sanity clause exists.
"Cynical yes, but I like it too..."
Seriously, though. We do care. If we get a reputation for being sloppy or negligent, how long do you think we'll be buying servers for *anybody*? Security is the number one priority in many organizations, and there *are* IT people who take it seriously - as a matter of survival and general responsibility.
Double or nothing it goes over 2500!
... the rest of the process involves storing the differences between each successively simplified model and the detail level above it. I suppose a wave-interference - or turbulence - method would work well.
Another key aspect of this approach is the amount of data required to send across the bus and to store on the card decreases dramatically, so you can attain far more complex animations than previously possible. By varying a few key points of the representation you could do fairly complex deformations at any detail level in real time without losing the coherence of the model.
I can't wait to see this new approach applied.
Yes, and exactly what Tackhead said. They both apply.
Practice meditation. Don't become an Idealogue. Know the difference between knowledge and experience. Feed your heart and mind. Travel. Get to know people. Be generous. Remember, we are energy converters. Devote your energy to being yourself, spontaneous, unencumbered by fears. Never succumb to paranois. Intelligent people are most often emotionally sensitive. When you feel slighted, forgive and grow beyond it. Live simply. Take on as much as you can.
We're counting on people like you to make Star Trek a reality.
Last week I got my check from the IRS and decided to get a Dual 2GHz G5. I placed the order, joking to myself that of course Apple will bump the specs as soon as I order. As usual, the joke was on me. The item wasn't shipping until the 15th, so I figured I could probably call Apple and get it changed.
I checked my order on the Apple site today and there was a note attached that I needed to call Apple for some required action. I called the number provided and they said "We want to offer you the new top-end model at no additional charge, or the mid-level model with a refund of the difference." I took the top-end model of course! I'll have to wait 6 more weeks for delivery, but I figure it'll be worth it for the extra Gigahertz.
Whew! That was a close one!
I just ordered a Dual 2GHz G5 last week!
This always happens....
"So what are we, chopped livre?!"
No matter how powerful computers of the future become, your hyperlinks should still be blue and underlined.
No matter how many hours you spend adding detail and nuance to your A.I. avatars users will still only skim them looking for blue underlined links.
...is probably not original, so maybe you can point me to something that conceives it exactly as I do.
I see each prime number as the first integer in an infinite series of its multiples. I envision a line of infinite length, where each point on the line represents a number from 1 to infinity. For each prime number (beginning with 2) you place an X on the line where every multiple of that prime number falls. So for 2, you mark off every even number from 2 to infinity. Then for 3, every multiple of 3, and so on. Following this procedure in order, all you have to do to find any prime number is just locate the first unmarked integer on the line.
If only it were possible to represent this abstract line inside a computer, all primes could be instantly located. Of course the marking-off part would take forever. And besides, prime-factoring accomplishes the same thing in a much shorter way. But somehow I think my conception is qualitatively different.
I also consider a "straight line" to be the perimeter of a circle whose radius is infinity.
I must be out of my mind.
Again!
I haven't use my French Press at all since I started using an espresso maker at home. The cleanup is easier and the coffee is ready quicker. And I can steam up my own milk, soy milk, rice milk.... and make flavored milk steamers for the kids before bed. Hmm, think I'll make a quick latté!
This quote demonstrates to me that MS was focused on their sales, and not on their customers. They were right that their customers didn't care about quality, having nothing else to compare to. But the long-term effect of MS's neglect of design - especially when you add all the parts of a system together - results in a confusing mess and lots of redundancy. They've been cleaning up after this mess ever since.