Interplay created their own custom sound system for the SNES. I had an issue of Nintendo Power where they talked about it, in relation to the Clay Fighter game.
Anyone have some back issues and want to scan the article?
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In the early days, Delphi was not just a 'Pascal for Windows', but a much-faster-executing alternative to the other RAD system out there - Visual Basic. Remember how slow VB was until version 5 or 6, when it actually became compiled?
Another reason why it's so popular, is it's based on Pascal. Which is much easier for many people to program than C/C++
Borland's early C/C++ products for Windows were much faster than Microsofts as well. They did make many mistakes however (remember OWL?)
Go to http://groups.google.com/ and look for old newsgroup discussions of Visual Basic vs Delphi. Fun reading.
Sure, you can't build a $1500 Itanium box, but at the same time, the second fastest computer in the world is powered by Itanium processors. So is the fifth. AMD Opterons power #17.
You'd figure the GameGear/Lynx came out what, 15 years ago...they'd have figured out how to get 10-20 hours of out of the damn things by now.
Anyone use a laptop back in 1990?
$3,000. 2MB RAM. 386 processor. 40MB HD. 640x400 CGA screen. 2 inches thick, 10lbs, and you'd be lucky to get anywhere near 2 hours battery life out of the thing.
What are todays laptops like?
Half the cost. half a gig of ram. 1.5ghz processor. 60GB HD. 1200x800 screen. 1 inch thick. 4 lbs. 5 hours battery life. Integrated sound, DVD drives, wireless networking...
You'd figure we'd have some pretty decent handhelds by now. We're better off emulating SNES games on our PocketPCs.
I'd say the majority of people in most offices need very few things:
Email/Groupware (Outlook/Notes etc) Web Browser Terminal program to access AS/400 or other legacy device Word processor and spreadsheet
Mozilla is great except for the sites that 'require IE' Terminal emulationo under Linux is great. Word and Excel clones are bountiful for Linux.
This would also cut down on the number of viruses/spyware/adware, and you could even run thin clients. Computer acting up? Reboot it and start clean. Plus, your users can't install every WeatherBug/WebShots/Smileys program they find.
We can't do this where I work, however. Well, at least not for everyone. Our accounting software is Windows-only, and just moved over to.NET for no reason that I can see. Now it's a 250MB install that takes nearly an hour. Also, our Contract Document Software is tightly integrated to Microsoft Word in it's new version, and although it appears to be a Java application of some sort, it's Windows-only. They had their own PDF-related format, I'm not sure why they switched.
Also, our marketing department uses Quark and Adobe products. These people can't manage to understand why you can't scan a logo off a business card and use it on a t-shirt, so I'm thinking teaching them Gimp is going to be a lost cause.
We've had a Targus CUN1 for a few years. Carries our (not very small) Compaq Prolinea and Dell 8000. Also carries a Canon bubblejet printer and a ton of other crap. And it's a pretty small, tough bag.
We had the Time Life series of computer books at a local library. They came out sometime in the 80's, they were silver in color, I think there were 20 volumes. They're funny to read if you get a chance.
1. Windows Network Neighborhood visibility and UNIX/Linux visibility in the same panel. 2. Active Directory password management which includes single sign-on and password expiration policies. 3. Interoperability with Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000. 4. Font compatibility with Microsoft Office and Openoffice.org and/or StarOffice. 5. Windows Terminal Server clients using RDP out of the box for home grown applications and special Windows applications. 6. Ability to click on a file in a Windows or Samba share and initiate the associated application. 7. Device management for hardware compatibility. 8. Compatible Windows Media player Codecs.
WASHINGTON - Darlene Salerno considers herself a loyal customer of the Express clothing chain, shelling out about $2,000 for its trendy outfits each year for the past decade. On a recent shopping trip, she bought a tank top, a button-down shirt and some khaki pants, but realized when she got home that she had similar items in her closet. So a few days later, she took them back to the store. She presented the items, the receipt and waited for her money.
Instead, the saleswoman handed her a slip of paper that said "RETURN DECLINED" and told her to call the toll-free number at the bottom for more information. She phoned and was informed her account showed "excessive" returns.
As the holiday shopping season gets into full swing, a number of major retailers are rolling out electronic systems that weigh the number of returns and exchanges a person has made, the dollar value of the items and the dates of the transactions to decide whether a consumer should be granted another. The systems are designed to catch shoplifters and those who "wardrobe," wearing clothes and then returning them for a refund.
I only use it for downloading Linux ISO's. It really is the best way to get them. The old way of FTP sites sucked, especially when a new distribution was released.
Apparently, someone at my ISP does as well. Since it's the only P2P program that they allow traffic from.
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Interplay created their own custom sound system for the SNES. I had an issue of Nintendo Power where they talked about it, in relation to the Clay Fighter game.
Anyone have some back issues and want to scan the article?
In the early days, Delphi was not just a 'Pascal for Windows', but a much-faster-executing alternative to the other RAD system out there - Visual Basic. Remember how slow VB was until version 5 or 6, when it actually became compiled?
Another reason why it's so popular, is it's based on Pascal. Which is much easier for many people to program than C/C++
Borland's early C/C++ products for Windows were much faster than Microsofts as well. They did make many mistakes however (remember OWL?)
Go to http://groups.google.com/ and look for old newsgroup discussions of Visual Basic vs Delphi. Fun reading.
Look at how long it took between when 32-bit CPU's came out (386) and when people started actually using 32-bit software.
Sure, you can't build a $1500 Itanium box, but at the same time, the second fastest computer in the world is powered by Itanium processors. So is the fifth. AMD Opterons power #17.
We always end up spending just as much in software licenses as we do on the hardware when we buy a server.
Dual webservers. Would have delayed the Slashdotting.
Anyone hosting a torrent of this?
Apparently not.
In case anyone at Progeny is listening...
No torrent = no download = no users.
My sim just graduated Harvard with a double major!
I, on the other hand, just dropped out of community college. Just couldn't find the time to go to school in my busy life.
You can't build a house in a week no matter how many men you throw on it. After a point, your returns diminish.
Have you ever seen Habit for Humanity build them in one day?
The only thing you have to wait on is the cement and paint to dry.
You'd figure the GameGear/Lynx came out what, 15 years ago...they'd have figured out how to get 10-20 hours of out of the damn things by now.
Anyone use a laptop back in 1990?
$3,000. 2MB RAM. 386 processor. 40MB HD. 640x400 CGA screen. 2 inches thick, 10lbs, and you'd be lucky to get anywhere near 2 hours battery life out of the thing.
What are todays laptops like?
Half the cost. half a gig of ram. 1.5ghz processor. 60GB HD. 1200x800 screen. 1 inch thick. 4 lbs. 5 hours battery life. Integrated sound, DVD drives, wireless networking...
You'd figure we'd have some pretty decent handhelds by now. We're better off emulating SNES games on our PocketPCs.
It's all about battery life. No handheld has ever came close to the Gameboy.
You'd figure the GameGear/Lynx came out what, 15 years ago...they'd have figured out how to get 10-20 hours of out of the damn things by now.
Maybe Duracell/Energizer should give these away, and then make the profit on the battery sales.
1.44MB. Web browser, modem/network support, blah blah.
Pretty neat at the time. Heck, it's still neat.
http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
That was the one and only time I ever used it.
I remember reading that Dan Hildebrand, the man behind that disk, passed away a few years back.
http://www.openqnx.com/modules.php?op=modload&nam
Good point.
I'd say the majority of people in most offices need very few things:
Email/Groupware (Outlook/Notes etc)
Web Browser
Terminal program to access AS/400 or other legacy device
Word processor and spreadsheet
Mozilla is great except for the sites that 'require IE'
Terminal emulationo under Linux is great.
Word and Excel clones are bountiful for Linux.
This would also cut down on the number of viruses/spyware/adware, and you could even run thin clients. Computer acting up? Reboot it and start clean. Plus, your users can't install every WeatherBug/WebShots/Smileys program they find.
We can't do this where I work, however. Well, at least not for everyone. Our accounting software is Windows-only, and just moved over to
Also, our marketing department uses Quark and Adobe products. These people can't manage to understand why you can't scan a logo off a business card and use it on a t-shirt, so I'm thinking teaching them Gimp is going to be a lost cause.
Screw it, we'll just stick with Windows.
We've had a Targus CUN1 for a few years. Carries our (not very small) Compaq Prolinea and Dell 8000. Also carries a Canon bubblejet printer and a ton of other crap. And it's a pretty small, tough bag.
Dey took ar jobs!!
I've seen them on ebay but they're not that cheap. Example
We got a Simpson-themed one from somewhere not to long ago...
We had the Time Life series of computer books at a local library. They came out sometime in the 80's, they were silver in color, I think there were 20 volumes. They're funny to read if you get a chance.
I'm still using the latest 2.x version, stable as hell, lightweight, does exactly what it's supposed to.
As do I
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=winamp
Coming soon to ESPN2: Extreme Wasp Fighting!
I would gladly watch that instead of 'Celebrity Poker'
If you drop and scratch a DVD, you could lose ten thousand photos.
If you drop a photo album, you'll scratch a picture or two.
For anything I want to keep, I'll stick to a 35mm camera. For ebay or computer stuff, I'll use a digital camera.
Here's a not-so-great review of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
1. Windows Network Neighborhood visibility and UNIX/Linux visibility in the same panel.
2. Active Directory password management which includes single sign-on and password expiration policies.
3. Interoperability with Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000.
4. Font compatibility with Microsoft Office and Openoffice.org and/or StarOffice.
5. Windows Terminal Server clients using RDP out of the box for home grown applications and special Windows applications.
6. Ability to click on a file in a Windows or Samba share and initiate the associated application.
7. Device management for hardware compatibility.
8. Compatible Windows Media player Codecs.
What's the point of using Linux, 'just because'?
Shoppers aren't getting away with this anymore:
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/
WASHINGTON - Darlene Salerno considers herself a loyal customer of the Express clothing chain, shelling out about $2,000 for its trendy outfits each year for the past decade. On a recent shopping trip, she bought a tank top, a button-down shirt and some khaki pants, but realized when she got home that she had similar items in her closet. So a few days later, she took them back to the store. She presented the items, the receipt and waited for her money.
Instead, the saleswoman handed her a slip of paper that said "RETURN DECLINED" and told her to call the toll-free number at the bottom for more information. She phoned and was informed her account showed "excessive" returns.
As the holiday shopping season gets into full swing, a number of major retailers are rolling out electronic systems that weigh the number of returns and exchanges a person has made, the dollar value of the items and the dates of the transactions to decide whether a consumer should be granted another. The systems are designed to catch shoplifters and those who "wardrobe," wearing clothes and then returning them for a refund.
Actually, I had to use PFS:FirstChoice
Although, I really liked Appleworks.
I only use it for downloading Linux ISO's. It really is the best way to get them. The old way of FTP sites sucked, especially when a new distribution was released.
Apparently, someone at my ISP does as well. Since it's the only P2P program that they allow traffic from.