In college, not a single person used MySpace, yet everyone was in Facebook -- if Facebook was open to the public (not just people in school), it would likely kick MySpace's ass around the block.
I believe it is open now.
Do you really want the people on MySpace taking over Facebook?
Horrible. Horrible. The controllers were hardwired to the console circuit board in the first model. The games all stunk and used the same generic character sprites. Almost all the games were written by one guy.
Atari 7800
Backwards compatible with the Atari 2600 but it came out around the same time as the NES which outclassed it.
Atari 5200
Horrible joysticks. This thing had potential but Atari didn't know what the hell was going on.
I simply don't see that CPU horsepower increasing in the steps like it used to. Yes, I understand multicore, more-cache, hyperthreaded CPUs are going to offer performance not indicated by something as simple as CPU speed, but is it THAT much?
Compare the early P4's to the speeds of the latest chips from intel. You'll be impressed.
Even at the same MHz, a new Core Duo 2 can be 3 times faster than an old P4, depending on application.
More than rent is higher, look at something as simple as car insurance. It might cost $50 a month if you live in Arkansas, but it could be $350 a month if you live in Boston or Los Angeles. Let's compare utilities as well.
Back when John Carmack and Will Wright gained fame, a single programmer/designer/whatever could almost singlehandedly be responsible for a game, or at least a huge part of it.
Not sure about Will Wright and Sim City, but there were quite a few guys working on Wolf3D and Commander Keen.
Tom Hall, Adrian Carmack, John Carmack, John Romero for Keen
It happens here with our Nikon cameras. We plug them in to the USB port, and they show up as a removable drive. But F: is taken up by our networked drives (Windows XP network), and all of a sudden the camera quits showing up right.
2700MB of text is a ton. I doubt anyone has anywhere near that in their gmail account. Movies, pictures, MP3's, and Word documents on the other hand...
Absolute bollocks. The extreme majority of cell phones are running closed operating systems, and the only exposed APIs are Java (Java ME, MIDP). They are a lot MORE secure than anything else we're currently using - even on our PCs.
They're also not very complex, relatively speaking. A cell phone might have 150,000 lines of code as opposed to 20-50 million that Windows might have
A lot of bars put those ATM kiosks in, instead of taking credit cards. They make $2.00 for the transaction, and you can only take out $40 at a time. I'm sure the bar owners make a decent chunk of change off those things.
If Apple wants a new campus they can buy them almost new for cheap from SGI. Give the rest of us sub-$200K housing to start putting us on parity with the rest of the country for a change.
"Hey so-and-so, can you download the pictures from this digital camera (20MB worth) and email them to me? Cool!"
"Hey, I'm going to email you those photos once so-and-so gets them to me!"
Let's not forget there's a network drive this could all be stored on, one time.
Too many people use their Inbox as a storage drive. And you can't get anyone to stop. Forget it, it just won't happen. We started with 250MB mailbox limits, we're up to 1GB now. Stupid.
The worst part is, they lose value so quickly. I've paid $59.99 for a book, and I couldn't give it away after a year or two. I've got a box of books in my basement that I'll never read again. Old versions of DirectX, old versions of Visual C++, books on DOS programming...
We were working with images 5 times that size with our old Macintosh computers. Actually we set up a 486/50 at one time for the sole purpose of scanning film slides, which were about 20MB a peice. Worked very well, SANE/Redhat
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In college, not a single person used MySpace, yet everyone was in Facebook -- if Facebook was open to the public (not just people in school), it would likely kick MySpace's ass around the block.
I believe it is open now.
Do you really want the people on MySpace taking over Facebook?
Try a Coleco, Atari 5200, Odyssey^2, something like that.
Kids, a NES isn't 'vintage'.
Vintage computers? Get some old portables, or some of the oddball computers with integrated printers, etc.
Did Codewarrior ever come out with a Linux IDE? What about Borland/Inprise?
Replace them with:
Maganavox Odyssey^2
Horrible. Horrible. The controllers were hardwired to the console circuit board in the first model. The games all stunk and used the same generic character sprites. Almost all the games were written by one guy.
Atari 7800
Backwards compatible with the Atari 2600 but it came out around the same time as the NES which outclassed it.
Atari 5200
Horrible joysticks. This thing had potential but Atari didn't know what the hell was going on.
As Marilyn Monroe once said, "A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."
You've obviously never slept on the floor in a server room.
I simply don't see that CPU horsepower increasing in the steps like it used to. Yes, I understand multicore, more-cache, hyperthreaded CPUs are going to offer performance not indicated by something as simple as CPU speed, but is it THAT much?
Compare the early P4's to the speeds of the latest chips from intel. You'll be impressed.
Even at the same MHz, a new Core Duo 2 can be 3 times faster than an old P4, depending on application.
More than rent is higher, look at something as simple as car insurance. It might cost $50 a month if you live in Arkansas, but it could be $350 a month if you live in Boston or Los Angeles. Let's compare utilities as well.
I think they last 5.25" HD in wide production was the Quantum Bigfoot. Slower than molasses.
Nothing like seeing a kid not be able to get past a level, and breaking into tears.
Hell, it happens with adults too. If you've played Battletoads or Ghost and Goblins you know what I mean.
Back when John Carmack and Will Wright gained fame, a single programmer/designer/whatever could almost singlehandedly be responsible for a game, or at least a huge part of it.
Not sure about Will Wright and Sim City, but there were quite a few guys working on Wolf3D and Commander Keen.
Tom Hall, Adrian Carmack, John Carmack, John Romero for Keen
It happens here with our Nikon cameras. We plug them in to the USB port, and they show up as a removable drive. But F: is taken up by our networked drives (Windows XP network), and all of a sudden the camera quits showing up right.
At least they didn't do a photo shoot with Linus, like they did with Bill Gates...
When I bought my 386 it was way more than 2x the speed of my 286.
:(
Depends on your software and your hardware.
Did you have a 386DX40 or a 386SX16? I had a 386SX and my friend had a 286, Wolf3D.EXE was the same speed on both computers
2700MB of text is a ton. I doubt anyone has anywhere near that in their gmail account. Movies, pictures, MP3's, and Word documents on the other hand...
Have you ever used a mouse with a scroll wheel? How about how the revolutionized online console game playing?
SpamBayes is a python script that proxies pop3 connections. Works great, runs on Linux or Windows.
Absolute bollocks. The extreme majority of cell phones are running closed operating systems, and the only exposed APIs are Java (Java ME, MIDP). They are a lot MORE secure than anything else we're currently using - even on our PCs.
They're also not very complex, relatively speaking. A cell phone might have 150,000 lines of code as opposed to 20-50 million that Windows might have
A lot of bars put those ATM kiosks in, instead of taking credit cards. They make $2.00 for the transaction, and you can only take out $40 at a time. I'm sure the bar owners make a decent chunk of change off those things.
You get better quality and faster printing from the gold cable.
They just need to figure out why movie games suck.
If Apple wants a new campus they can buy them almost new for cheap from SGI. Give the rest of us sub-$200K housing to start putting us on parity with the rest of the country for a change.
I thought Google moved into the old SGI building?
1) His (windows) desktop uses the default XP background. Odd that the world's richest man doesn't change his background picture.
He's probably far too busy making $300 a second or something insane like that.
Here's what drives me nuts about email.
"Hey so-and-so, can you download the pictures from this digital camera (20MB worth) and email them to me? Cool!"
"Hey, I'm going to email you those photos once so-and-so gets them to me!"
Let's not forget there's a network drive this could all be stored on, one time.
Too many people use their Inbox as a storage drive. And you can't get anyone to stop. Forget it, it just won't happen. We started with 250MB mailbox limits, we're up to 1GB now. Stupid.
The worst part is, they lose value so quickly. I've paid $59.99 for a book, and I couldn't give it away after a year or two. I've got a box of books in my basement that I'll never read again. Old versions of DirectX, old versions of Visual C++, books on DOS programming...
We were working with images 5 times that size with our old Macintosh computers. Actually we set up a 486/50 at one time for the sole purpose of scanning film slides, which were about 20MB a peice. Worked very well, SANE/Redhat