Ok, nice.
But what are are we going to do with that?
Don't take me wrong, I do belive this Amiga OS 4 is technically fine etc. Myself, few years ago, I was a enthusiastic developer of Amiga OS apps. God knows how much I loved that platform and its OS.
But now... C'mon, I'm running Un*x applications (Linux OS) and I don't want to give up on what I have currently.
Who's gonna develop apps for that Amiga OS 4? -- I'm talking about real apps (GIMP, OpenOffice, etc alike). Or are we simply going to recompile them using ixemul.library (Posix layer) with things like gtk.library and qt.library? It would be pointless then.
Sorry, it hurts me to say too, but Amiga OS nowadays feels like a 32-bit CP/M arriving in 1990. -- Interesting but pointless.
If someone comes with some _decent_ GPL Linux kernel replacement (gosh, Linux kernel feels like a deformed child who just happens to do its work well now)... THEN you would get a friend.
During the last years people went to universities like crazy... Yeah, everyone wanted to be "important" ("uh... WHO would want to be a plumber?") and make good money. Too bad that _everyone_ did that.
But such "low" jobs are necessary, and people must be paid accordingly (no more "sub-job" talk) and such professionals deserve respect aswell (no, plumber/anything is not a retarded).
If everyone turn into rocket scientists... Well, the World would no longer function.
plus i don't know any "winamp-like osciloscope" that stabilizes the waveform.. so what you see is not a pretty standing waveform but something chaotic and not really useful.
not mentioning that you don't have the V measurement (ok.. i guess you can write in the monitor using a soft pen;)
since the guy is mentioning software i assume he doesn't feel (or is not able to) write one himself, so the soundcard option is not a good option for him.
Let's say you buy product X, advertised as something that does A, B and C.
And, indeed, product X *does* A, B and C.
Now, they offer a firmware upgrade to add a "D" functionality, or even a bugfix (for a bug you didn't even notice) for the "B"; feature.
Well, you upgrade it if you want.
For a never-upgraded-before device, as long as you have A, B and C as promised, soooorry, but you cannot complain. That's fair.
Even with no embargo, software piracy is rampant in the third world. I live in Mexico and
If you folks in Mexico like to consider themselves inferior, I really do not care.
But better refraining the usage of this "third world" Cold War-era derrogative expression. It's an illusion to think there's a '100% developed' country and a '0% developed' one.
I do not think someone from Iran would like to have his/her country called like that, neither any self-respecting people.
If Intel releases a AMD-x86-64 compatible processor (i'm quite sure it is), say a permanent bye-bye to the possibility of mainstream CPU diversity we could have, had the x86 died as it should.
Binary compatibility... It sounds like a voice from the 70s.
Such thing is only convenient for Microsoft and its Windows.
Well, locked back to never-gonna-die-x86 (oh, please save me from those super-RISC core arguments and blahblahs alike)... Thank you AMD.
When a bad decision is made by the US government, I look to the rest of the world to show them the light... but what happens? They say "great job! we'll do the same stupid thing".
The problem is that the USA are a superpower.
If a country XYZ doesn't want to do as the US want, that country will be isolated to starvation.
> 100% of the spam I get comes from America
How do you know?
Well, that's easy... See: in compliance with FDA regulations (who cares about FDA but US citizens) Right now in Canada they use almost ALL generic drugs to(...) (who cares so much specifically on Canada but US citizens) To Unsubscribe via U.S. Mail please send all inquiries to: xxxx BROADWAY(...) (yeah, obvious) Electronic dissemination provided by : xxxxxxx Consultants
PO Box xxxx Plaza Del Lago Airport xxxx xxxx Bay, St. Maarten (no country specified... from US for sure) For more information about our services. Call us at 618-xxx-xxxx (typical US phone format)
And many, many many-many-many other examples.
100% SPAM coming from US might be exageration though... I would say only 99,97%.
Several months ago I bought Sony Clie SJ-22 (Palm OS 4), and just after I got an iPaq 3650 (Pocket PC) as gift (cool but uninformed gift, as I already had the Clie).
Well... The Pocket PC is now collecting dust, while I use the Clie everyday.
The iPaq has an interesting hardware (206MHz ARM compared to the Clie's 33MHz 68k) and runs 'desktop-like' applications (yet I'm not sure it's really a useful thing on a palm-sized device).
For things that matter (phone numbers, memo, appointments etc) the Clie does it better and faster than the iPaq. Palm OS simply has a better interface for fast portable use.
I don't have to worry on the Clie's battery as a paranoid, compared to the short-lived charge in the iPaq.
The Clie is small, light and has a 320x320 _good_ TFT display. --- The iPaq is a _brick_ and, compared to Clie's its 240x320 TFT display is low quality (contrast-wise).
But the iPaq plays MP3 and Doom while the Clie doesn't.
So, yes, if you want a _toy_, PocketPC is great as there are lot of games, emulators and media players for it.
If you want a device to help you with day-by-day work, then a Palm OS-based is the one.
That's not the point. This point is that Indian workers have the option of coming here and working. By law, it is illegal for Americans to get work visas related to IT in India.
This is a bogus excuse... What matters if it's theorically possible to get a work visa in the US when it's almost impossible to get one, because the US gov't doesn't want to give them in first place.
Still, the US don't want to burn their self-image of land of freedom/oportunities/etc. At least India is not hypocrite.
MIDI is to music what ASCII is to art.
MOD is to music what a jigsaw puzzle is to painting.
Well, well... obviously it means an academic do-re-mi partiture written in cotton paper with gold ink is far superior than those geekish music formats. Oh, dear!
May the Lord allow those proletary noise formats die into oblivion!
I've got a Novus calculator (from early 70s I guess, it was my mother's), it has a display which looks like several small dots of red leds.
It's scientific and operates in RPN, rechargeable battery and, yes, the display turns crazy while calculating (nice effect though).
Hmm... I've never tried dividing by zero.
If at least I could remember where did i dump that piece of tra... uh... historic technology.
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Conectiva Linux 9 is already rather old...
The 10th release is arriving soon.
Ok, nice.
But what are are we going to do with that?
Don't take me wrong, I do belive this Amiga OS 4 is technically fine etc. Myself, few years ago, I was a enthusiastic developer of Amiga OS apps. God knows how much I loved that platform and its OS.
But now... C'mon, I'm running Un*x applications (Linux OS) and I don't want to give up on what I have currently.
Who's gonna develop apps for that Amiga OS 4? -- I'm talking about real apps (GIMP, OpenOffice, etc alike). Or are we simply going to recompile them using ixemul.library (Posix layer) with things like gtk.library and qt.library? It would be pointless then.
Sorry, it hurts me to say too, but Amiga OS nowadays feels like a 32-bit CP/M arriving in 1990. -- Interesting but pointless.
If someone comes with some _decent_ GPL Linux kernel replacement (gosh, Linux kernel feels like a deformed child who just happens to do its work well now)... THEN you would get a friend.
Please guys... Let Amiga die with some dignity.
I guess your request for a PDA design would be much like Homer Simpson's car designed by himself (from an old Simpsons' episode).
once you are in, you may walk from a country to another without any kind of border control.
the country to pioneer such an operation (ie: USA)
Hmm... By the time there's technology for such a mission I don't think that USA will exist as we know today.
During the last years people went to universities like crazy... Yeah, everyone wanted to be "important" ("uh... WHO would want to be a plumber?") and make good money. Too bad that _everyone_ did that.
But such "low" jobs are necessary, and people must be paid accordingly (no more "sub-job" talk) and such professionals deserve respect aswell (no, plumber/anything is not a retarded).
If everyone turn into rocket scientists... Well, the World would no longer function.
plus i don't know any "winamp-like osciloscope" that stabilizes the waveform.. so what you see is not a pretty standing waveform but something chaotic and not really useful.
;)
not mentioning that you don't have the V measurement (ok.. i guess you can write in the monitor using a soft pen
since the guy is mentioning software i assume he doesn't feel (or is not able to) write one himself, so the soundcard option is not a good option for him.
Let's say you buy product X, advertised as something that does A, B and C.
And, indeed, product X *does* A, B and C.
Now, they offer a firmware upgrade to add a "D" functionality, or even a bugfix (for a bug you didn't even notice) for the "B"; feature.
Well, you upgrade it if you want.
For a never-upgraded-before device, as long as you have A, B and C as promised, soooorry, but you cannot complain. That's fair.
Even with no embargo, software piracy is rampant in the third world. I live in Mexico and
If you folks in Mexico like to consider themselves inferior, I really do not care.
But better refraining the usage of this "third world" Cold War-era derrogative expression. It's an illusion to think there's a '100% developed' country and a '0% developed' one.
I do not think someone from Iran would like to have his/her country called like that, neither any self-respecting people.
If Intel releases a AMD-x86-64 compatible processor (i'm quite sure it is), say a permanent bye-bye to the possibility of mainstream CPU diversity we could have, had the x86 died as it should.
Binary compatibility... It sounds like a voice from the 70s.
Such thing is only convenient for Microsoft and its Windows.
Well, locked back to never-gonna-die-x86 (oh, please save me from those super-RISC core arguments and blahblahs alike)... Thank you AMD.
Well... I don't know about Carats neither Pounds...
Next time, please, specify using in Kilograms.
When a bad decision is made by the US government, I look to the rest of the world to show them the light... but what happens? They say "great job! we'll do the same stupid thing".
The problem is that the USA are a superpower.
If a country XYZ doesn't want to do as the US want, that country will be isolated to starvation.
...turns into something with a simple-fast-and-friendly UI as Palm OS, I will take that OS seriously as an option to PDAs.
At the present time, Linux in my desktop computer, only.
> 100% of the spam I get comes from America
How do you know?
Well, that's easy... See:
in compliance with FDA regulations (who cares about FDA but US citizens)
Right now in Canada they use almost ALL generic drugs to(...) (who cares so much specifically on Canada but US citizens)
To Unsubscribe via U.S. Mail please send all inquiries to: xxxx BROADWAY(...) (yeah, obvious)
Electronic dissemination provided by : xxxxxxx Consultants PO Box xxxx Plaza Del Lago Airport xxxx xxxx Bay, St. Maarten (no country specified... from US for sure)
For more information about our services. Call us at 618-xxx-xxxx (typical US phone format)
And many, many many-many-many other examples.
100% SPAM coming from US might be exageration though... I would say only 99,97%.
Several months ago I bought Sony Clie SJ-22 (Palm OS 4), and just after I got an iPaq 3650 (Pocket PC) as gift (cool but uninformed gift, as I already had the Clie).
Well... The Pocket PC is now collecting dust, while I use the Clie everyday.
The iPaq has an interesting hardware (206MHz ARM compared to the Clie's 33MHz 68k) and runs 'desktop-like' applications (yet I'm not sure it's really a useful thing on a palm-sized device).
For things that matter (phone numbers, memo, appointments etc) the Clie does it better and faster than the iPaq. Palm OS simply has a better interface for fast portable use.
I don't have to worry on the Clie's battery as a paranoid, compared to the short-lived charge in the iPaq.
The Clie is small, light and has a 320x320 _good_ TFT display. --- The iPaq is a _brick_ and, compared to Clie's its 240x320 TFT display is low quality (contrast-wise).
But the iPaq plays MP3 and Doom while the Clie doesn't.
So, yes, if you want a _toy_, PocketPC is great as there are lot of games, emulators and media players for it.
If you want a device to help you with day-by-day work, then a Palm OS-based is the one.
Voice your support for the Death Penalty for spamers!
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion. - Jed Babbin
Another US chauvinist framebait modded as Funny here.
It's hopeless.
Fact: *Santa Cruz Operations is dying.
Ironically "Santa Cruz" stands for "Holy Cross" in Spanish.
Fact: *Santa Cruz Operations is dying.
and having to throw it in the trash bin just feels wrong
Yeah... Me too, I wish the condoms were washable.
Is that understandable to a native speaker of English?
That's not the point. This point is that Indian workers have the option of coming here and working. By law, it is illegal for Americans to get work visas related to IT in India.
This is a bogus excuse... What matters if it's theorically possible to get a work visa in the US when it's almost impossible to get one, because the US gov't doesn't want to give them in first place.
Still, the US don't want to burn their self-image of land of freedom/oportunities/etc. At least India is not hypocrite.
MIDI is to music what ASCII is to art.
MOD is to music what a jigsaw puzzle is to painting.
Well, well... obviously it means an academic do-re-mi partiture written in cotton paper with gold ink is far superior than those geekish music formats. Oh, dear!
May the Lord allow those proletary noise formats die into oblivion!
Is that guy related (perhaps a lover) to some Slashdot admin?
That Mac-case modding is hideous, the devil himself would run from it.
That's why there's the "sleep" mode.
I've got a Novus calculator (from early 70s I guess, it was my mother's), it has a display which looks like several small dots of red leds.
It's scientific and operates in RPN, rechargeable battery and, yes, the display turns crazy while calculating (nice effect though).
Hmm... I've never tried dividing by zero.
If at least I could remember where did i dump that piece of tra... uh... historic technology.