Pray that the inventor of this technology never gets as far as innovating to the stage of making this thing talk using any advanced technology such as audio.
There is nothing difficult about leaving a hard disk blank. However, the HD is not the only piece of hardware to be concerned about. For example: Most if not all current stock linux distributions do not support the Diamond Viper 770 video card (One of Dell's options). You need to get the latest X Window System from xfree86.org. The average Joe, is not going to figure this out right away. How do you ship a system with no OS and still provide a warranty and Technical Support on a cost effective basis that would cover all Operating Systems? Hopefully, it will not be necessary to create a Dell Linux distribution only for Dell Machines.
Each key is clear plastic with an LCD display...Extrapolate... The Next Next Generation: A Full colour Flat Panel Touch Sensitive Display.. Extrapolate... Why did innovation stop at the 104 key barrier while the 640K barrier was still around.
If your government has deteriorated to the stage where citizens require guns so that they can have political power then I would suggest that you run for the nearest border. Up here in Canada we can VOTE a government out of office. We can also discuss political issues in private and compose election strategies without the current government having a legal right to the complete transcript of the conversation.
Next Stage US Law: No more than one person may enter an enclosed and possibly unmonitored space at a time. What will be next: FBI Operator: Can I help you. Horny Husband: Yess!! Please I would like to make love to my wife. FBI Operator: The soonest I can reserve a private monitored room is next Thursday. Shall I make a reservation for you.
I maintain several large legacy apps written in in M$ FoxPro 2.6a -- going back to FoxBase 2.11. M$ does not use the same definition of backward compatibility that Fox Software used before they were purchased. Moving any of these to VFP (Visual FoxPro) definitely requires a re-write. (Guess what software we will not be using to do that). There are probably others out there like me. If Inprise A.K.A. Borland has no major need to carry forward the dBase product then mabey if they were to release the dBase code under the GPL this could be developed into a new strain of the xBase Language. If such a thing could be developed then much code from old xbase applications could be salvaged for future use.
Preferably this new "strain" would be a middleware layer that would be capable of working with existing back end databases (i.e. Oracle, DB2,.....).
xBase was a great database programming language in its time. It's too bad M$ embraced extended and killed it.
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Pray that the inventor of this technology never gets as far as innovating to the stage of making this thing talk using any advanced technology such as audio.
The first personal computer link was a real good read. I Gotta get one of those 1966 kitchen computers with the built in cutting board.
Please post links to the evidence.
I wonder if it will be debugged by 1901.
There is nothing difficult about leaving a hard disk blank. However, the HD is not the only piece of hardware to be concerned about. For example: Most if not all current stock linux distributions do not support the Diamond Viper 770 video card (One of Dell's options). You need to get the latest X Window System from xfree86.org. The average Joe, is not going to figure this out right away. How do you ship a system with no OS and still provide a warranty and Technical Support on a cost effective basis that would cover all Operating Systems? Hopefully, it will not be necessary to create a Dell Linux distribution only for Dell Machines.
Also recommend that the customer sent a donation in the amount of their choice to Debian if they are happy with the installation.
O.K. so ship it with a 2$ Debian CD installed on top of the CPU case with duct tape.
A voice interface would be very usefull during a blue screen. I hope it will understand Say ve.
Each key is clear plastic with an LCD display...Extrapolate ... The Next Next Generation: A Full colour Flat Panel Touch Sensitive Display .. Extrapolate... Why did innovation stop at the 104 key barrier while the 640K barrier was still around.
If your government has deteriorated to the stage where citizens require guns so that they can have political power then I would suggest that you run for the nearest border. Up here in Canada we can VOTE a government out of office. We can also discuss political issues in private and compose election strategies without the current government having a legal right to the complete transcript of the conversation.
My mouse caused my offtopic post. Have you checked the loyalty of your mouse recently.
Bad mouse Bad Bad Bad mouse!!
Next Stage US Law: No more than one person may enter an enclosed and possibly unmonitored space at a time. What will be next: FBI Operator: Can I help you. Horny Husband: Yess!! Please I would like to make love to my wife. FBI Operator: The soonest I can reserve a private monitored room is next Thursday. Shall I make a reservation for you.
Your mower probably is not safe if the "pull here" root password is printed on it.
I hope the lights are software controlable. With their small size and enough money these could be the COOLEST!! Beowulf wall covering.
It would be interesting to see the technical specs.
Unfortunately my budget might get me a Commodore 64 wall covering. (I miss those things)
I wouldn't worry about QNX just don't let the thing have Windows
I maintain several large legacy apps written in in M$ FoxPro 2.6a -- going back to FoxBase 2.11. M$ does not use the same definition of backward compatibility that Fox Software used before they were purchased. Moving any of these to VFP (Visual FoxPro) definitely requires a re-write. (Guess what software we will not be using to do that). There are probably others out there like me.
If Inprise A.K.A. Borland has no major need to carry forward the dBase product then mabey if they were to release the dBase code under the GPL this could be developed into a new strain of the xBase Language. If such a thing could be developed then much code from old xbase applications could be salvaged for future use.
Preferably this new "strain" would be a middleware layer that would be capable of working with existing back end databases (i.e. Oracle, DB2,.....).
xBase was a great database programming language in its time. It's too bad M$ embraced extended and killed it.