OS/2 is just like Linux? Perhaps in functionality/reliability for apps that couldn't afford to freeze up like Windoze....
I do remember seeing the OS/2 boot up on a number of bank machines being rebooted by security guards when they refill and take away deposits.
Gates pointing out that the IBM army was behind OS/2 is a load of horse puckey.
The one big thing that made me regret my $200 purchase of Warp was the fact that it took 8 months to get a beta OS/2 Warp sound card driver from IBM for my "Options By IBM" branded Media Magic sound card.
A number of recent articles looking at OS/2 in retrospect made me think of the example given of problems with post-brain opreation epileptics. One hand is pulling the trousers up while the other is pulling them down.
We use lots of FreeBSD for servers and Linux for desktops. The support for both is phenomenol and the reliability far outweighs
what M$ has to offer.
Unlike OS/2 whose beleagured IBM 1-800 numbers were the only means of support at the time, The free IX's are widely supported online and will be here to stay for the long while.
It is the job of science, not pseudoscience, to solve those puzzles with natural, rather than supernatural, explanations.
I recall hearing about another experiment they started a few years ago. They put little notes up on the ceiling of an OR. Only legible if you were right up close to them.
The eventual goal was to meet up with people who have NDEs and float out of body to see if they had read the notes.
I have no idea of the outcome of that but if someone thought to study it, there must be some validity to it.
Fanatics both in the form of skeptic self appointed scientists hell bent on disproving the supernatural and the extreme New Age Hippies who hungrily and readily believe anything really make my head spin.
But, I guess extremes of everything balances each other out and makes the world go 'round.... (figuratively speaking, that is...)
If memory serves, the Icon was to the computer industry much like what Bob and Doug Mackenzie was to SCTV. The Canadian government in all its paranoia wanted "Canadian content" and exposure.
Hence the Unisys Icon which was supposed to permeate schools around and eventually industry...
One network server box and dumb terminals with a built in track ball with two "Action" buttons. All attached via 10-Base-T.
It was 1986 and I was 13 when I came across my first so I only got to play with the educational software. The only one that comes to mind is something having to do with a pioneer family by the name of Bartlet.
Anyhow, a bunch of lights turned on when a decade later, my boss commented that QNX ran on those Icons.
I guess the logic was that the gov't would sponsor the Icon by putting them in schools everywhere, get the next generation students familiar with it and when they grew up, they would be so familiar that it would become industry standard.
Little did they realize that by not pushing it on the home front, Wintel would eventually win out.
RIAA guy Openheimer says that the DMCA and all forms of copyright laws protects and promotes art and creativity?
The almighty dollar is indeed the true goal!
If the promotion of creativity is really the main activity here, why then do we have...
1) Filtering and editing to hell of voices to the point that they sound unlike themselves. Friends who work in the sound booths of concerts tell me that the majority of pop artists get filtered or lip sync. (Britney Spears Pepsi riff at the end of the commercials come to mind).
2) Movies that go through test/screening audiences before they're released to the general public. During this process, scenes are tweaked, added or dumped based on reactions which ultimately translates to how many people will recommend the film to others and how much the studio tends to make.
Creativity? Maybe in a cookie cutter sorta way.
If I want to hear and see the same thing over and over again I'll go on down to the local porno rental place and get myself something.
No pretences... it's going to always be the same plot (cough) re-hashed with different actors/actrices. However, I will get far more bang for my buck than I do getting confused over whether Britney or J.Lo sung that song this week... or {INSERT MOVIE TITLE} version 1, 2, 3...100).
What in the world was Chris Roberts thinking of when he merely took the names of elements from the game and paired them up with visuals and characters that were nothing like the game was?
The only thing he kept consistent was the Wing Commander space physics... which was most painfully aparent when a tractor pushed a crashed fighter off the landing deck and it just fell down away from the edge... in space!
He really should have just taken all the clips from the games, wrote a story around it, filmed more scenes and released it as such.
Although piracy hurts software manufacturers like small game companies who wait to reap the rewards of their work, software game companies hurt their own general bottom line by not providing adequate support for their products, ignoring bugs and curtailing key features that their audiences looked forward to.
What if programming enthusiasts of the game put a little bit of time to patch and improve the game and release the patches along with the entire game onto the world? Rockstar would definitely raise an eyebrow at this and maybe take it as a kick in the ass.
Indeed, I can imagine... and what's the point? Most of the cool casemods take up power. With neon tubes everywhere, you would probably cut your battery life by a factor of two or three, which would defeat most of the point of getting a laptop.
Not if they get that methane/butane/gas whatchamacallit fuel cell power source out soon.
Running out of power? Just stick a canister at the end of your laptop like one of those refillable lighter/hair curlers and voila!.
Instant charge.
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During my high school years (late 80s early 90s) I carried bottles of the stuff from there to home in north Scarborough back down to school at Vic Park/Kingston. They came in little 250ml or 500ml bottles and made something like 10-20 litres of stop bath.
I poured it straight into a 15 year old stainless steel kettle full of mineral build up. It sizzled, bubbled, foamed and pretty quickly bits of mineral had detached themselves. It took an hour plus replacing the acid 2 or 3 times when the bubbling slowed down significantly before it worked.
I've touched the stuff with my bare hands and it dried out and crystalized long before it started irritating.
Actually, it was a good hour or so afterwards I'd noticed a slight itch where the stuff crystalized.
I chatted with the chemistry teacher (my darkroom teacher) and he guessed that with the exception of the indicator, the stuff ought to have been quite pure. We brought it down to 5% concentration. None of us were brave enough to try it but it sure did smell like plain old white vinegar.
I kinda recall that war map story but I didn't read it in any great detail.
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Go to a darkroom photo supply store. (Assuming Toronto... Just how many Torontonians and Canadians frequest/. anyhow?)
Basically east of Active to Queen/Jarvis area.
Look or ask for Kodak's liquid Stop Bath concentrate product without the indicator. It's glacial acetic acid. Dilute it down as much as you want or not.
2 weeks ago my Linksys 4 port router has the same plug as the access point's. But the dif was that there's an extra 4 volts coming from it.
I saw "Linksys" on the adapter but sleepily plugged it into the AP. It worked for a few seconds and then lights out. The smell of burnt electronics came from it.
Looking at the PCB, two black surface mount squares had cracks on them and stunk horribly. I took a couple of analog electronics class in the 80s and worked with far more easily identifieable components.
I paid $100 on ebay for it and now it was gone. It'd be another $100 or so to replace it. Fortunately, a friend in the know who I described my problem to and did some magnified photos told me they were capacitors of the 47uF variety. But there was a likeliehood that where things blew, other things would've went out too.
But for $0.20 worth of parts from the local electronics shop and a soldering iron, I can probably replace them.
I did just that and it works perfectly again!
Phew.....
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OS/2 is just like Linux? Perhaps in functionality/reliability for apps that couldn't afford to freeze up like Windoze....
I do remember seeing the OS/2 boot up on a number of bank machines being rebooted by security guards when they refill and take away deposits.
Gates pointing out that the IBM army was behind OS/2 is a load of horse puckey.
The one big thing that made me regret my $200 purchase of Warp was the fact that it took 8 months to get a beta OS/2 Warp sound card driver from IBM for my "Options By IBM" branded Media Magic sound card.
A number of recent articles looking at OS/2 in retrospect made me think of the example given of problems with post-brain opreation epileptics. One hand is pulling the trousers up while the other is pulling them down.
We use lots of FreeBSD for servers and Linux for desktops. The support for both is phenomenol and the reliability far outweighs what M$ has to offer.
Unlike OS/2 whose beleagured IBM 1-800 numbers were the only means of support at the time, The free IX's are widely supported online and will be here to stay for the long while.
OSS forever!
From the "other recent research" link...
It is the job of science, not pseudoscience, to solve those puzzles with natural, rather than supernatural, explanations.
I recall hearing about another experiment they started a few years ago. They put little notes up on the ceiling of an OR. Only legible if you were right up close to them.
The eventual goal was to meet up with people who have NDEs and float out of body to see if they had read the notes.
I have no idea of the outcome of that but if someone thought to study it, there must be some validity to it.
Fanatics both in the form of skeptic self appointed scientists hell bent on disproving the supernatural and the extreme New Age Hippies who hungrily and readily believe anything really make my head spin.
But, I guess extremes of everything balances each other out and makes the world go 'round.... (figuratively speaking, that is...)
Unisys Icon computers.
Pretty expensive buggers at the time (mid 80s).
If memory serves, the Icon was to the computer industry much like what Bob and Doug Mackenzie was to SCTV. The Canadian government in all its paranoia wanted "Canadian content" and exposure.
Hence the Unisys Icon which was supposed to permeate schools around and eventually industry...
One network server box and dumb terminals with a built in track ball with two "Action" buttons. All attached via 10-Base-T.
It was 1986 and I was 13 when I came across my first so I only got to play with the educational software. The only one that comes to mind is something having to do with a pioneer family by the name of Bartlet.
Anyhow, a bunch of lights turned on when a decade later, my boss commented that QNX ran on those Icons.
I guess the logic was that the gov't would sponsor the Icon by putting them in schools everywhere, get the next generation students familiar with it and when they grew up, they would be so familiar that it would become industry standard.
Little did they realize that by not pushing it on the home front, Wintel would eventually win out.
RIAA guy Openheimer says that the DMCA and all forms of copyright laws protects and promotes art and creativity?
The almighty dollar is indeed the true goal!
If the promotion of creativity is really the main activity here, why then do we have...
1) Filtering and editing to hell of voices to the point that they sound unlike themselves. Friends who work in the sound booths of concerts tell me that the majority of pop artists get filtered or lip sync. (Britney Spears Pepsi riff at the end of the commercials come to mind).
2) Movies that go through test/screening audiences before they're released to the general public. During this process, scenes are tweaked, added or dumped based on reactions which ultimately translates to how many people will recommend the film to others and how much the studio tends to make.
Creativity? Maybe in a cookie cutter sorta way.
If I want to hear and see the same thing over and over again I'll go on down to the local porno rental place and get myself something.
No pretences... it's going to always be the same plot (cough) re-hashed with different actors/actrices. However, I will get far more bang for my buck than I do getting confused over whether Britney or J.Lo sung that song this week... or {INSERT MOVIE TITLE} version 1, 2, 3...100).
An even better trek story!
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Since we're talking about it, why not run a poll?
IMHO, this award has to go to Wing Commander.
What in the world was Chris Roberts thinking of when he merely took the names of elements from the game and paired them up with visuals and characters that were nothing like the game was?
The only thing he kept consistent was the Wing Commander space physics... which was most painfully aparent when a tractor pushed a crashed fighter off the landing deck and it just fell down away from the edge... in space!
He really should have just taken all the clips from the games, wrote a story around it, filmed more scenes and released it as such.
Here's a novel thought.
Although piracy hurts software manufacturers like small game companies who wait to reap the rewards of their work, software game companies hurt their own general bottom line by not providing adequate support for their products, ignoring bugs and curtailing key features that their audiences looked forward to.
What if programming enthusiasts of the game put a little bit of time to patch and improve the game and release the patches along with the entire game onto the world? Rockstar would definitely raise an eyebrow at this and maybe take it as a kick in the ass.
Not quite. But check out Xcade.
http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/gp32.html
It's not MAME but it's a start.
The lighting is alright. It could be better (IMO). Controls are pretty decent.
A friend of mine who wrote Xcade for Palm has ported it to the Game Park.
Of course, standard disclaimer is that you have to have obtained your arcade ROMs legally...etc...
http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/gp32.html
It's alright
Not really the best.
But it does play well in daylight.
Indeed, I can imagine ... and what's the point? Most of the cool casemods take up power. With neon tubes everywhere, you would probably cut your battery life by a factor of two or three, which would defeat most of the point of getting a laptop.
Not if they get that methane/butane/gas whatchamacallit fuel cell power source out soon.
Running out of power? Just stick a canister at the end of your laptop like one of those refillable lighter/hair curlers and voila!.
Instant charge.
During my high school years (late 80s early 90s) I carried bottles of the stuff from there to home in north Scarborough back down to school at Vic Park/Kingston. They came in little 250ml or 500ml bottles and made something like 10-20 litres of stop bath.
I poured it straight into a 15 year old stainless steel kettle full of mineral build up. It sizzled, bubbled, foamed and pretty quickly bits of mineral had detached themselves. It took an hour plus replacing the acid 2 or 3 times when the bubbling slowed down significantly before it worked.
I've touched the stuff with my bare hands and it dried out and crystalized long before it started irritating.
Actually, it was a good hour or so afterwards I'd noticed a slight itch where the stuff crystalized.
I chatted with the chemistry teacher (my darkroom teacher) and he guessed that with the exception of the indicator, the stuff ought to have been quite pure. We brought it down to 5% concentration. None of us were brave enough to try it but it sure did smell like plain old white vinegar.
I kinda recall that war map story but I didn't read it in any great detail.
Go to a darkroom photo supply store. (Assuming Toronto... Just how many Torontonians and Canadians frequest /. anyhow?)
Basically east of Active to Queen/Jarvis area.
Look or ask for Kodak's liquid Stop Bath concentrate product without the indicator. It's glacial acetic acid. Dilute it down as much as you want or not.
2 weeks ago my Linksys 4 port router has the same plug as the access point's. But the dif was that there's an extra 4 volts coming from it. I saw "Linksys" on the adapter but sleepily plugged it into the AP. It worked for a few seconds and then lights out. The smell of burnt electronics came from it. Looking at the PCB, two black surface mount squares had cracks on them and stunk horribly. I took a couple of analog electronics class in the 80s and worked with far more easily identifieable components. I paid $100 on ebay for it and now it was gone. It'd be another $100 or so to replace it. Fortunately, a friend in the know who I described my problem to and did some magnified photos told me they were capacitors of the 47uF variety. But there was a likeliehood that where things blew, other things would've went out too. But for $0.20 worth of parts from the local electronics shop and a soldering iron, I can probably replace them. I did just that and it works perfectly again! Phew.....