Street Fighter II came out on PC many christmases ago. It came with a Gravis Gamepad and ran great on my 486DX33. I remember Mortal Kombat being for sale at the same time.
Sega released Virtua Fighter, and GTE relased FX fighter that was a pretty neat game.
There really aren't many, the PC was never a good platform for 2 player simultaneous play (on the same machine) like a console or coin-op.
ClickStampOnline is an internet-based postage system. The page says Windows required but maybe it will work under Mac/*NIX. Maybe it's a browser thing, or maybe it's more complex than that.
GUI? The DM500 we have doesn't use much of a GUI at all on it's low-resolution LCD screen. It's more in the printing. You just pick a zip code, shipping method, then there's a scale that weighs your letters...
APPLEIIGS : Tells you where all the secret doors are; on the map, a secret door is labelled with a picture of your head BURGER : Full weapons, full ammo based on how much you can carry GROAN : Select a stage. IDDQD : Turn off ledoux. ILM : give you a life, all the keys, 100% health and 99 ammunition JESUS : Tells you where all the secret doors are; on the map, a secret door is labelled with a picture of your head LEDOUX : No damage to you, and no loss of ammo MCCALL : Advance one level PEACOCK : Regain full life SEGER : Gives you all the keys WOWZERS : Increase bullet capacity to 999 for bullets, and 99 for others XUSCNIELPPA : No damage to you, and refills weapons to maximum capacity
DOOM and, possibly to a lesser extent, Wing Commander really put the PC ahead of the consoles (at least for many genres) for a long while.
Correct. When my friends were playing the sorry excuses for FPS's on the PlayStation, I was very unimpressed, being from the land of Doom and Quake. Once 3DFX got in the mix....
He's not looking for a $349 inkjet/fax/copier combo from MegaOffice.
We use the Canon Imagerunner line.
As far as the machine being down, your local service reps can get the thing back up and running in a few hours. All fax and print jobs can be stored in memory, so when it is running again, they won't be lost.
After unpacking 22.8MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. kirk@pooh:~$
Which of the above packages would have any meaningful use outside of Emacs? What functionality would you lose by not having any of the above? Given that it's an optional package with almost no reverse dependencies, I call your bluff.
I don't know. Are you too chicken to hit 'Y' and find out?
Mike Gancarz's book The UNIX Philosophy (Digital Press, 1995) describes many of the ideas and conventions that have made unix a great sytem. It starts with a short run down of the history, quickly getting to the meat of things, discussion of the major ideas of Unixdom and illustrations of why they are such good ideas. While many of the ideas may seem relatively obvious to anyone who's worked with the system before, it makes an excellent introduction to the traditions of the Unix world, as well as an excelent bit of advocacy for why the Unix way is the Right Way.
Listed in the first chapter, the following nine points are the key tenets:
Small is beautiful Make each program do one thing Build a prototype as soon as possible Choose portability over efficiency Store numerical data in flat ASCII files Use software leverage to your advantage Use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability Avoid captive user interfaces Make every program a filter...and the ten lesser points: Allow the user to tailor the environment: Make operating system kernels small and lightweight: Use lower case and keep it short Save trees Silence is golden Think parallel The sum of the parts is greater than the whole Look for the 90 percent solution Worse is better Think hierarchiacally
Have you looked at the state of the economy lately? There are people out there who try to stay within budget. Buying the Apple machines help contribute to that.
Slashdot Mirror
BeOS isn't UNIX in any way.
Street Fighter II came out on PC many christmases ago. It came with a Gravis Gamepad and ran great on my 486DX33. I remember Mortal Kombat being for sale at the same time.
Sega released Virtua Fighter, and GTE relased FX fighter that was a pretty neat game.
There really aren't many, the PC was never a good platform for 2 player simultaneous play (on the same machine) like a console or coin-op.
ClickStampOnline is an internet-based postage system. The page says Windows required but maybe it will work under Mac/*NIX. Maybe it's a browser thing, or maybe it's more complex than that.
GUI? The DM500 we have doesn't use much of a GUI at all on it's low-resolution LCD screen. It's more in the printing. You just pick a zip code, shipping method, then there's a scale that weighs your letters...
Ever shop for BeBox's on eBay?
I'm ignorant about GPS's.
When someone comes out with a GPS wristwatch, or every laptop/palm etc has one, could this happen?
Mighty Mike
Is that Jay Leno?
ShadowWraith was a pretty fun Mac game. We played it on the Quadra in science class.
In high school science, I remember our skeletons being real. So do these kids.
Right click.
Display Properties.
Appearance.
Theme.
"Windows 2000 Classic"
Type one of the following codes:
APPLEIIGS : Tells you where all the secret doors are; on the map, a secret door is labelled with a picture of your head
BURGER : Full weapons, full ammo based on how much you can carry
GROAN : Select a stage.
IDDQD : Turn off ledoux.
ILM : give you a life, all the keys, 100% health and 99 ammunition
JESUS : Tells you where all the secret doors are; on the map, a secret door is labelled with a picture of your head
LEDOUX : No damage to you, and no loss of ammo
MCCALL : Advance one level
PEACOCK : Regain full life
SEGER : Gives you all the keys
WOWZERS : Increase bullet capacity to 999 for bullets, and 99 for others
XUSCNIELPPA : No damage to you, and refills weapons to maximum capacity
Type a code again to turn it off.
Commander Keen let PC users play a Nintendo-quality side scroller.
Wolfenstiend ran blazingly fast on a 286, 256 color graphics, great sound, and it was violent.
Doom upped the ante with much better graphics, monsters, network play. Plus you had the WAD files!
Quake included Internet play, true 3D levels, 3D accellerator support, and they licensed the engine and Valve made Half-Life. Add-on city!
DOOM and, possibly to a lesser extent, Wing Commander really put the PC ahead of the consoles (at least for many genres) for a long while.
Correct. When my friends were playing the sorry excuses for FPS's on the PlayStation, I was very unimpressed, being from the land of Doom and Quake. Once 3DFX got in the mix....
He's not looking for a $349 inkjet/fax/copier combo from MegaOffice.
We use the Canon Imagerunner line.
As far as the machine being down, your local service reps can get the thing back up and running in a few hours. All fax and print jobs can be stored in memory, so when it is running again, they won't be lost.
After unpacking 22.8MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
kirk@pooh:~$
Which of the above packages would have any meaningful use outside of Emacs? What functionality would you lose by not having any of the above? Given that it's an optional package with almost no reverse dependencies, I call your bluff.
I don't know. Are you too chicken to hit 'Y' and find out?
Just because it's USB or Firewire, doesn't make it portable.
Mike Gancarz's book The UNIX Philosophy (Digital Press, 1995) describes many of the ideas and conventions that have made unix a great sytem. It starts with a short run down of the history, quickly getting to the meat of things, discussion of the major ideas of Unixdom and illustrations of why they are such good ideas. While many of the ideas may seem relatively obvious to anyone who's worked with the system before, it makes an excellent introduction to the traditions of the Unix world, as well as an excelent bit of advocacy for why the Unix way is the Right Way.
...and the ten lesser points:
Listed in the first chapter, the following nine points are the key tenets:
Small is beautiful
Make each program do one thing
Build a prototype as soon as possible
Choose portability over efficiency
Store numerical data in flat ASCII files
Use software leverage to your advantage
Use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability
Avoid captive user interfaces
Make every program a filter
Allow the user to tailor the environment:
Make operating system kernels small and lightweight:
Use lower case and keep it short
Save trees
Silence is golden
Think parallel
The sum of the parts is greater than the whole
Look for the 90 percent solution
Worse is better
Think hierarchiacally
Ad revenues have nothing to do with the ratings....
All the good search engines end up corrupting themselves (by making money, which I guess is the point of anything...)
Have you looked at the state of the economy lately? There are people out there who try to stay within budget. Buying the Apple machines help contribute to that.
I never thought I'd hear that one...
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/briQ/
Briq's are smaller, but slower. Blades are even more dense.
LCD's are much easier on the eyes. If you set the display to portrait instead of landscape, you can almost curl up with a laptop like a book.
Nobody wanted to develop for it. No developers = no games which = no customers.
The dev kits were insanely expensive, and you had to write for a screwed-up dual CPU system. Not easy.
I've seen mice with two wheels, one for horiz and one for vert at Best Buy.
The next edition will be a 10. Or a 9.5
Sounds like my employee review.
"I'm only giving you an 85%. This way, I can give you an 88% next year, and since you're 'improving' you get a raise."
If at first you give something 100%, any other than 100% is BAD.
can we go back to 2.2 or something before 2.4...and just re-write the kernel from there?
RedHat's 'Legal Fund' can pay for the clean room+developers.
Yeah, Linux is real intuitive. Why should the GIMP be any different?
It's open source. Write an intuitive UI for it, and contribute!