At least they didn't load them with bio-weapons
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The Japanese had created an interesting bio-weapon during WWII, though they only "tested" it on the Chinese. They figured out a way to create a bomb that would explode scattering plague infested fleas everywhere. It was quite an engineering marvel, even if the results were sickening(to this day, parts of rural China will still periodically get outbreaks of the plague because of these weapons labs), they figured out how to make a bomb explode without killing the fleas. However they never really used it against the Americans, maybe in fear of what the retribution would be.
As the case with Nazi scientists, the head Japanese scientists who worked on Japan's bioweapons during the war avoided war crimes prosecutions by coming over to the US after the war to help in the new "war" against the Soviets.
Karma be damned.
If you hate slashdot so much, why exactly do you waste your time explaining why you hate slashdot so much. The source code is available, start your own site. Where you can be the boss, and you will so cool!
Or just stop wasting your time.
This will be banned(well, through official channels anyway) in China. They flipped when a game told an accurate history that wasn't very flattering to China(namely that Tibet was independent and the Japanese controlled Taiwan) imagine when they get a load of this game. The Chinese republic fighting the PLA. They will flip!
From the article, Redmond, Washington-based acquired anti-virus technology from GeCAD Software Srl., a Romanian software company, last year to develop its own software.
Noticing a trend?
Microsoft actually made an anti-virus programs back in the days of DOS/Win 3.11. My first computer came bundled with it. However, the only virus I ever got back then(Doom2 death), it couldn't remove. Though it did alert me to the fact that the files grew by 666 bytes(they don't write 'em like they used to, do they). It also had this nice little 16 color doctor you could watch as your files were being scanned.
Yeah, the Japanese setup console was fun too(esp. since I lost my instruction manual, so had to go on the web to get the documentation). Though it is pretty simple to set up once you can read it, though I don't know much about other routers. The router strong too. My employer in Japan(who provided the apartment for the 6 months while I was there) wouldn't allow me to set up my internet connection, but my friend from Sweden who lived on the third floor of the building(opposite side) set up the router in his room, and I got full signal strength. I never did any distance testing for it though:P
Unfortunately, although you can give the network a kanji name in the console, it doesn't display right in my list of available networks. So I had to settle for a French obsenity for my network name.
yeah, my friends have had the same problem with the lynksys wireless routers, they will get kicked off the internet, although the signal is strong. You aren't alone.
Hmmm...I have never gotten kicked off using my aiport router(little info here, I bought my router in Japan, where iodata makes routers/access cards called airport, and Apple's cards/base stations are called AirMac) nor in any of the public terminals I have been in, maybe I'm just lucky, who knows.
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They actually used to sell something like that at Zophar's domain(well, they sold an adaptor, you had to provide the controller), but it seems the store has closed down.
As an interesting aside, I just went there and for the first time in my life, I saw a banner ad for toilet paper. Maybe/. should consider that instead of advertising Microsoft, it would make the trolls happy!(I personally don't care if there are Microsoft ads on/., but a lot of AC trolls do it seems)
Dude, this guy's happiness has been soooo alienated that something just burst out of his chest and it's now clattering around in the freakin' air ducts!
Yeah, it's a lot like Alien here in my apartment, only without Sigourney Weaver. So yeah, it pretty much sucks
Well, final fantasy has been re-released on the ps2(and in Japan on the wonderswan color and now IIRC gameboy advance). I really think the companies should embrace roms, ie sell them for a few bucks a pop. Almost no overhead, pure profit, and I would gladly agree to pay $2 a piece or so if it was possible(also makes it a lot more conveint). Just look at iTunes.
Hell, while they are at its, they should release an SDK for some of these older machines that will allow you to use it for free for non-commecial games, and maybe a potion of the proceeds if you want to release a commercial game through their service.
But instead they decide to go after used video game stores because they say selling used games hurts their profits...geez.
as being "burdened"? There were a lot of fun games way back in the day that are now abandonware, but since they are copyrighted you really can't do much about them. Either you can't find them anymore, or if you can find them(and pay an arm and a leg for them on eBay) you usually have to keep old hardware laying around to play them.
As far as MacOS goes -- hope that the IBM compilers eventually become the defaults, or that the g++ maintainers eventually admit that their optimization blows and then fix things. The former is probably more likely than the latter.
It is theoretically possible for Apple to contribute some more g5 optimazations to the g++ project(making it open source could only help them, as they really don't have any major pc competitors that run the same architecture) but it might just be easier/cheaper in the long run just to start from scratch.
this just goes to show information is unstoppable, whether it's open source, comic books, or anything else. people want to share.
You mean people want to share what other people have created? I think that your little phrase is just an excuse for piracy. I think that open-source is great, and if people want to share it, they created it so they can do that.
But some people prefere other models. I think that someone should have control over how their own creation is distributed.
The mustang can accelerate faster, but the speed-limits of highways prohibit it from traveling faster than the toyota could travel.. The fact that the honda gets better gas mileage and thus requires fewer pit-stops gives the toyota an ironic "average speed advantage" over the mustang in a cross-country race.
I think the highliting speaks for itself:P Most people don't change cars in the middle of a comparison either:P
Off-topic, but it has to be said:
You are right, GCC(while it's open source and great for most purposes) isn't a workhorse, and if Apple really wants to compete, they are going to have to stop using the GCC.(I know, IBM writes a compiler for their chips, but it doesn't really take advantage of the g5 platform in total) Apple has complete control over the platform, why haven't they written their own compiler for it yet? (Or at least made major contributions to gcc) Hopefully Steve will wow us at all the WWDC when he reveals a new compiler that is shipped free w/ Tiger...
Now I'm off topic and a mac zealot, negative mods rain down on me!
However, IBM did write a Java VM (as I recall) in Java. And it was fast, although I don't recall how they ran it. I guess they compiled it to native code some how.
The standard Java compiler will allow you to compile your code into a binary for the platform you are on. However, this ruins the Write-Once-Run-Anywhere property, which Sun was really going for, so they don't really advertise the fact that it's there.
This device will *have* to be incoporated into Leisure Suit Larry, or a new Porky's movie. Think of the comedic possibilities, until one pulls down their invisible cloak.
Floating genitalia would be very creepy.
Just when I thought I had saved up enough money between upgrades to splurge on those fancy ramen noodles, you know, the one with the dried peas, this comes along.
Hey, Wal-Mart brand noodles are only 8 cents!
IBM announced them a copule months ago and already ships them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that IBM sold most of it's hard drive business to Hitachi(IBM still holds 30% IIRC) and that the drives that are shipping from IBM's former hd unit are now all labeled under the hitachi name?
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The Japanese had created an interesting bio-weapon during WWII, though they only "tested" it on the Chinese. They figured out a way to create a bomb that would explode scattering plague infested fleas everywhere. It was quite an engineering marvel, even if the results were sickening(to this day, parts of rural China will still periodically get outbreaks of the plague because of these weapons labs), they figured out how to make a bomb explode without killing the fleas. However they never really used it against the Americans, maybe in fear of what the retribution would be.
As the case with Nazi scientists, the head Japanese scientists who worked on Japan's bioweapons during the war avoided war crimes prosecutions by coming over to the US after the war to help in the new "war" against the Soviets.
Karma be damned.
If you hate slashdot so much, why exactly do you waste your time explaining why you hate slashdot so much. The source code is available, start your own site. Where you can be the boss, and you will so cool!
Or just stop wasting your time.
This will be banned(well, through official channels anyway) in China. They flipped when a game told an accurate history that wasn't very flattering to China(namely that Tibet was independent and the Japanese controlled Taiwan) imagine when they get a load of this game. The Chinese republic fighting the PLA. They will flip!
This is still an open thread
From the article, Redmond, Washington-based acquired anti-virus technology from GeCAD Software Srl., a Romanian software company, last year to develop its own software.
Noticing a trend?
got modded down for this, but I'll risk it again.
w00t!
Microsoft actually made an anti-virus programs back in the days of DOS/Win 3.11. My first computer came bundled with it. However, the only virus I ever got back then(Doom2 death), it couldn't remove. Though it did alert me to the fact that the files grew by 666 bytes(they don't write 'em like they used to, do they). It also had this nice little 16 color doctor you could watch as your files were being scanned.
Yeah, the Japanese setup console was fun too(esp. since I lost my instruction manual, so had to go on the web to get the documentation). Though it is pretty simple to set up once you can read it, though I don't know much about other routers. The router strong too. My employer in Japan(who provided the apartment for the 6 months while I was there) wouldn't allow me to set up my internet connection, but my friend from Sweden who lived on the third floor of the building(opposite side) set up the router in his room, and I got full signal strength. I never did any distance testing for it though :P
Unfortunately, although you can give the network a kanji name in the console, it doesn't display right in my list of available networks. So I had to settle for a French obsenity for my network name.
yeah, my friends have had the same problem with the lynksys wireless routers, they will get kicked off the internet, although the signal is strong. You aren't alone.
Hmmm...I have never gotten kicked off using my aiport router(little info here, I bought my router in Japan, where iodata makes routers/access cards called airport, and Apple's cards/base stations are called AirMac) nor in any of the public terminals I have been in, maybe I'm just lucky, who knows.
Get an airport(or as I have, an AirMac) card!
/ducks!
Nobody is forcing them to code for Microsoft, they don't like the terms, they can quit anytime they want.
They actually used to sell something like that at Zophar's domain(well, they sold an adaptor, you had to provide the controller), but it seems the store has closed down. /. should consider that instead of advertising Microsoft, it would make the trolls happy!(I personally don't care if there are Microsoft ads on /., but a lot of AC trolls do it seems)
As an interesting aside, I just went there and for the first time in my life, I saw a banner ad for toilet paper. Maybe
Dude, this guy's happiness has been soooo alienated that something just burst out of his chest and it's now clattering around in the freakin' air ducts!
Yeah, it's a lot like Alien here in my apartment, only without Sigourney Weaver. So yeah, it pretty much sucks
Well, final fantasy has been re-released on the ps2(and in Japan on the wonderswan color and now IIRC gameboy advance). I really think the companies should embrace roms, ie sell them for a few bucks a pop. Almost no overhead, pure profit, and I would gladly agree to pay $2 a piece or so if it was possible(also makes it a lot more conveint). Just look at iTunes.
Hell, while they are at its, they should release an SDK for some of these older machines that will allow you to use it for free for non-commecial games, and maybe a potion of the proceeds if you want to release a commercial game through their service.
But instead they decide to go after used video game stores because they say selling used games hurts their profits...geez.
This is a test w00t, had this been a real w00t I would have ran out the door screaming.
w00t!
as being "burdened"? There were a lot of fun games way back in the day that are now abandonware, but since they are copyrighted you really can't do much about them. Either you can't find them anymore, or if you can find them(and pay an arm and a leg for them on eBay) you usually have to keep old hardware laying around to play them.
As far as MacOS goes -- hope that the IBM compilers eventually become the defaults, or that the g++ maintainers eventually admit that their optimization blows and then fix things. The former is probably more likely than the latter.
It is theoretically possible for Apple to contribute some more g5 optimazations to the g++ project(making it open source could only help them, as they really don't have any major pc competitors that run the same architecture) but it might just be easier/cheaper in the long run just to start from scratch.
this just goes to show information is unstoppable, whether it's open source, comic books, or anything else. people want to share.
You mean people want to share what other people have created? I think that your little phrase is just an excuse for piracy. I think that open-source is great, and if people want to share it, they created it so they can do that.
But some people prefere other models. I think that someone should have control over how their own creation is distributed.
The mustang can accelerate faster, but the speed-limits of highways prohibit it from traveling faster than the toyota could travel.. The fact that the honda gets better gas mileage and thus requires fewer pit-stops gives the toyota an ironic "average speed advantage" over the mustang in a cross-country race. :P Most people don't change cars in the middle of a comparison either :P
I think the highliting speaks for itself
Off-topic, but it has to be said:
You are right, GCC(while it's open source and great for most purposes) isn't a workhorse, and if Apple really wants to compete, they are going to have to stop using the GCC.(I know, IBM writes a compiler for their chips, but it doesn't really take advantage of the g5 platform in total) Apple has complete control over the platform, why haven't they written their own compiler for it yet? (Or at least made major contributions to gcc) Hopefully Steve will wow us at all the WWDC when he reveals a new compiler that is shipped free w/ Tiger...
Now I'm off topic and a mac zealot, negative mods rain down on me!
However, IBM did write a Java VM (as I recall) in Java. And it was fast, although I don't recall how they ran it. I guess they compiled it to native code some how.
The standard Java compiler will allow you to compile your code into a binary for the platform you are on. However, this ruins the Write-Once-Run-Anywhere property, which Sun was really going for, so they don't really advertise the fact that it's there.
This device will *have* to be incoporated into Leisure Suit Larry, or a new Porky's movie. Think of the comedic possibilities, until one pulls down their invisible cloak.
Floating genitalia would be very creepy.
Just when I thought I had saved up enough money between upgrades to splurge on those fancy ramen noodles, you know, the one with the dried peas, this comes along.
Hey, Wal-Mart brand noodles are only 8 cents!
IBM announced them a copule months ago and already ships them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that IBM sold most of it's hard drive business to Hitachi(IBM still holds 30% IIRC) and that the drives that are shipping from IBM's former hd unit are now all labeled under the hitachi name?