Instead of trying to do everything, like the Newton, the Palm picks out some specific portable applications and makes them work on a system that you can carry around all day without recharging.
OMGWTFBBQ, dude! Apple cancelled the Newton 6 years ago, but you're still steaming about how Palm is better. Your favorite platform won, okay? Let it go!;);););)
That being said, I totally agree with your assessment that Apple did market the Newton to be able to do seemingly everything (I still don't know the name of that mapping application that was shown on the front of the 2000 box or if it even existed). The 2000 came with a word processor, a keyboard, and two PCMCIA slots. Farallon even made an ethernet adapter for it. Incidentally, there were a few interesting things you could do with this setup.
I think that later Palm and WinCE PDAs fell into this trap as well. As soon as they started putting spreadsheets and cameras into PDAs things started to get out of the realm of "do one thing well". The exception to this seems to be the Blackberry, which has an amazingly well integrated email and phone (of course, that seems to be their focus, so you'd expect that).
Even with all the neat applications out there for Palm, I still primarily use my Palm for three things: an address book, a scheduler, and an alarm clock.
Comparing Unix to nuklar powerplants and navigating oil tankers is unfair. Unix is far simpler by several orders of magnitudes. First of all, if you make a mistake, you're not irradiating the countryside or dumping oil all over the coastline.
I'd say it is entirely a programmer problem. C++ programmers who write C programs (for whatever reason) tend to organize things just as they would a C++ program.
Yeah, I just *hate* it when they define things in.hh files and put the implementation in.cc files.
Those are the wrong file extensions, you rat bastards!
In the past couple of weeks it has been discovered that Sony has shipped a rootkit, which is worse than the common spyware or virus, so I ask you, where are the law suits? Is anyone planning criminal/civil action at all?
Really. Have a specific example? I've never had any problem at all making two boxen that are both behind seperate NAT boxes talk to each other.
IPSec, SIP, CORBA, RMI, and pretty much anything that can embed an address in the packet. Either your NAT boxes have to understand the protocol, your application servers need to be configured to arrange the packets correctly, or you need to have an application level gateway. Anyway you slice it, it's not as simple as plug and play.
In other words, you can't just plug two dumb NAT boxes together and expect all protocols to work.
I found out through a mutual friend that she was, imagine that, a bisexual male.
Realistically it wasn't a huge deal, but it does leave a sour taste in your mouth.
there are no other 'solutions' for PCs that merge amd's HT technology with powerpc chips...
Well, to be fair, there aren't that many PowerPC based PCs.
In the server and embedded market there are quite a few PPC based machines, though.
In this market, you can definitely find PPC machines with HT. For instance, Momentum boards have HT.
why? because apple engineered and designed the silicon, had the boards fabed for them
Apple designed an ASIC for their own use, but they could have also used IBM chips.
ibm has shifted over to being a video game console cpu maker
Yes, they do make the Cell, Xenon, and Broadway processors, but saying that they have shifted their core business is a bit disingenuous. One of the things IBM does is make custom chipsets for whoever is willing to pay for it. Furthermore, IBM makes a lot of chips for many different applications, and both Apple and the video game market are a small fraction of their output. I'll give you another example: Hitachi also makes custom CPUs for video game consoles, but no one is claiming that Hitachi's core business is video game consoles.
they hardly care about apple's business, and as such aren't focusing on the design work apple needs done to stay in the game. intel was willing to make a sweet deal, and amd would have had the same production volume issues that ibm was having. since intel has the fab capacity
Ars Technica has a good article on pretty much exactly what you said.
My wife and I are looking into purchasing a game based learning console for our 4 year old boy this Christmas. The two front runners are the VSmile from VTech and the Leapster from Leapfrog.
Well, I sure as hell wouldn't buy my kid something called a VSmile.
You probably piss yourself at slap-stick humour, somebody falling down stairs or getting a pie in the face, but I don't understand it and I don't find it funny at all.
Speaking of which, the best slapstick routine I ever saw was The Custard Pies sketch by Monty Python.
Have you ever tried using 'ps' on a Solaris box? It's a massive pain -- I have to do 'ps -auxwww' rather than my default 'ps -ef' to get a decent printout of the processes.
Does that mean he's not particularly tough in terms of actual health,
He's not very tough physically. I dispatched him with a single shot to the back of the head with a pistol once I had located him and snuck up behind him.
He is also geriatric. You can literally wait for him to die of old age (just save and turn the PS2 off for a week).
or that the fight itself wasn't as challenging as one might have expected?
The fight is easily the most challenging in the game, or at least I thought so.
If you enjoyed the fight, then I'm sure you'll love Sniper Elite.
Thanks, that does look like something that I'd enjoy. I'll add that to the watch list to see how it gets reviewed.
I see no reason why states should have equal representation. Citizens should have equal representation. By equalizing state representation, representation of citizens is made unequal. In some cases, grossly unequal.
...but what I'd really like to do is run something like hotels do, where you enter a password and activate your MAC address for a certain amount of time...
I run OSS in my Linksys WRT-54G router at home (from Sveasoft)...
The firmware you are using has the ability to make a captive portal.
Personally, I was scared when I first fought The End (MGS3).
No kidding. It was creepy when you're trying to find him with your scope, and catch the glint off of his scope. It also freaked me out when I realized that the cut scene showing Snake through The End's scope wasn't a cut scene - you still had to control Snake! It wasn't too hard to actually kill the guy, but it was a very strange boss battle. Next time I'm going to snipe him on the dock so I don't have to go through that again, though. THE EYE! THE EYE!
The Sorrow was probably supposed to be the scariest boss battle, but it ended up being the funniest.
The other battle that creeped me out was the one with The Fury. Somehow a guy in a spacesuit with a flamethrower and a rocket pack in a narrow, dark hallway is bit unnerving, especially when you're trying to knock him out instead of kill him.
I'm looking forward to the remix in MGS3:Subsistence (original MGS3 with first person + network play + the original Metal Gear 1 and 2 + a movie of the cut scenes).
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OMGWTFBBQ, dude! Apple cancelled the Newton 6 years ago, but you're still steaming about how Palm is better. Your favorite platform won, okay? Let it go! ;) ;) ;) ;)
That being said, I totally agree with your assessment that Apple did market the Newton to be able to do seemingly everything (I still don't know the name of that mapping application that was shown on the front of the 2000 box or if it even existed). The 2000 came with a word processor, a keyboard, and two PCMCIA slots. Farallon even made an ethernet adapter for it. Incidentally, there were a few interesting things you could do with this setup.
I think that later Palm and WinCE PDAs fell into this trap as well. As soon as they started putting spreadsheets and cameras into PDAs things started to get out of the realm of "do one thing well". The exception to this seems to be the Blackberry, which has an amazingly well integrated email and phone (of course, that seems to be their focus, so you'd expect that).
Even with all the neat applications out there for Palm, I still primarily use my Palm for three things: an address book, a scheduler, and an alarm clock.
But with the power of UNIX, I can.
And seriously what did you geeks expect?
Wait, does this mean that that entry is automatic or that the entry is incompatible with type 'finger'?
Yeah, I just *hate* it when they define things in .hh files and put the implementation in .cc files.
Those are the wrong file extensions, you rat bastards!
It's for LAN parties.
This should help with Windows networks.
Where have you been lately?
Don't touch it!!! You don't know where it's been!
No, it doesn't. Just start the CD on the MGM lion's third roar.
IPSec, SIP, CORBA, RMI, and pretty much anything that can embed an address in the packet. Either your NAT boxes have to understand the protocol, your application servers need to be configured to arrange the packets correctly, or you need to have an application level gateway. Anyway you slice it, it's not as simple as plug and play.
In other words, you can't just plug two dumb NAT boxes together and expect all protocols to work.
132! *screech* *crash*
If you don't want to wire one up, you can get an Ethernet Loopback Jack from ThinkGeek.
They also offer an Ethernet Crossover Adapter in case you don't like making crossover cables.
Realistically it wasn't a huge deal, but it does leave a sour taste in your mouth.
O_o
Well, to be fair, there aren't that many PowerPC based PCs. In the server and embedded market there are quite a few PPC based machines, though. In this market, you can definitely find PPC machines with HT. For instance, Momentum boards have HT.
why? because apple engineered and designed the silicon, had the boards fabed for them
Apple designed an ASIC for their own use, but they could have also used IBM chips.
ibm has shifted over to being a video game console cpu maker
Yes, they do make the Cell, Xenon, and Broadway processors, but saying that they have shifted their core business is a bit disingenuous. One of the things IBM does is make custom chipsets for whoever is willing to pay for it. Furthermore, IBM makes a lot of chips for many different applications, and both Apple and the video game market are a small fraction of their output. I'll give you another example: Hitachi also makes custom CPUs for video game consoles, but no one is claiming that Hitachi's core business is video game consoles.
they hardly care about apple's business, and as such aren't focusing on the design work apple needs done to stay in the game. intel was willing to make a sweet deal, and amd would have had the same production volume issues that ibm was having. since intel has the fab capacity
Ars Technica has a good article on pretty much exactly what you said.
Well, I sure as hell wouldn't buy my kid something called a VSmile.
Speaking of which, the best slapstick routine I ever saw was The Custard Pies sketch by Monty Python.
I don't know whether they still do, but Raytheon was using Solaris in their air traffic control systems in the '90s.
Yes, I have, and ps supports -ef just fine.
Check your path. Solaris also has BSD tools for people who prefer a different version of ps.
That's perfectly cromulent in ANSI C99.
He's not very tough physically. I dispatched him with a single shot to the back of the head with a pistol once I had located him and snuck up behind him.
He is also geriatric. You can literally wait for him to die of old age (just save and turn the PS2 off for a week).
or that the fight itself wasn't as challenging as one might have expected?
The fight is easily the most challenging in the game, or at least I thought so.
If you enjoyed the fight, then I'm sure you'll love Sniper Elite.
Thanks, that does look like something that I'd enjoy. I'll add that to the watch list to see how it gets reviewed.
No problem...
I run OSS in my Linksys WRT-54G router at home (from Sveasoft)...
The firmware you are using has the ability to make a captive portal.
It's a new MMORPG - "Chronically III".
I didn't like the first two, but the third is supposed to be really good.
Where do you drive? In the northeast the speed limits are usually between 55 and 65 mph on the interstate and between 45 and 55 mph through cities.
No kidding. It was creepy when you're trying to find him with your scope, and catch the glint off of his scope. It also freaked me out when I realized that the cut scene showing Snake through The End's scope wasn't a cut scene - you still had to control Snake! It wasn't too hard to actually kill the guy, but it was a very strange boss battle. Next time I'm going to snipe him on the dock so I don't have to go through that again, though. THE EYE! THE EYE!
The Sorrow was probably supposed to be the scariest boss battle, but it ended up being the funniest.
The other battle that creeped me out was the one with The Fury. Somehow a guy in a spacesuit with a flamethrower and a rocket pack in a narrow, dark hallway is bit unnerving, especially when you're trying to knock him out instead of kill him.
I'm looking forward to the remix in MGS3:Subsistence (original MGS3 with first person + network play + the original Metal Gear 1 and 2 + a movie of the cut scenes).