I'm still hoping someone will port uae to the palm. I see no reason why my clie, with a 200+ Mhz CPU and color display, can't emulate an Amiga, especialy considering that palms had 68k CPU's (coldfire) and I assume now have emulation for 68k already.
I dont know if its possible, but could you actualy use the metal in the walls as an antenna? Just expose a part and attach your AP directly to the metal in the wall?
> Incidentally, the whore worked at my company....
Sh!t, your company employs whores? Do they have a department for them or was it just the one whore? Were her services free to company employees?
That's one hell of a progressive company. I can only imagine how good morale would be at my work if they provided whores...
Oh, and I get maybe 1.5 to 2 hours on my Compaq 1216, no difference even after I upgraded the CPU from a Duron 900 to an Athlon XP 1400 and 10GB HD to 60GB 7200RPM Toshiba...
I have had sleeping problems for as long as I can remember. I have *never* been able to get up early (6-8am) and feel rested and make it through the day without nodding off. It was a problem all throughout my school days from elementary through college. I simply could not stay awake and alert before noon or so, no matter how much sleep I get the night before.
Of course there are the odd exceptions, like the "hell day" where I get only a few odd hours of sleep and then for some inconceivable reason I feel great the next day. But I can never repeat it.
Also, I cannot eat breakfast until a few hours after waking up early or I will get severe stomach problems (which require an unpleasant visit to the restroom, after which I am fine for the rest of the day).
Now, if I sleep till around 9 or 10 PM I am fine, pretty much no matter when I went to sleep (12pm to 5am). I also pretty much nod off around 5 pm no matter what, 30 to 60 minute nap does me fine here.
Unfortunately this type of scheduling is completely incompatible with having a family and a normal job...
Get a copy of codecharge studio, PHP and MySQL (or Perl or asp or java or whatever) and roll your own custom application. This program makes it really easy to create a web based database application. Depending on your application you may get away with not having to do any programming, at the very least you will do very little coding. Of course, you do still need to know a thing or two about good database design...
The point is, if one monkey is doing it, others may follow his lead. No, that's not evolution. But at this point, it may become such an advantage that future generations with slightly better bipedal walking ability will survive better. It could be the spark that changes the evolutionary path.
1. You are not as smart as you think you are. 2. You may be smarter than most people, but don't act like it. The hordes of dumb people don't like people who act smart (whether they are or not). 3. If you want to have friends, learn to like dumb people. 4. Find one thing you have a passion for, and excell at that. You may have to work a "day job" that you hate until your chance comes along to do what you like. 5. If you must have a "companion", find somebody either like yourself, or at least somebody that wont constrain you - you need your freedom and solitude to be creative. 6. Dont automaticaly dismiss the usefullness of certain substances. Caffeine can be very usefull, as can certain other things (ahem) in helping you both focus on your projects and other times clear you mind for rest. Remember, we're smart people, and we should know how to use things to our advantage...
I dont know about the durability. My five year old has worn out the catridge port which on inspection seems poorly designed. But, hacking it never occurred to me before. That would be interesting indeed...
All the Amiga people at one time said the same things that are being said here. UAE is too slow, it will never be fast enough, stable enough, etc.
The reason this thing is so slow is because its interpreting the PPC code. Its slow for the same reason that Java is slow (sans JIT). Once they get JIT on it, or some other kind of direct conversion to x86 code, it will get much much faster. Google for JIT, code morphing, check out this link: Dynamo.
Its entirely possible to create an emulator that would approach the speed of the real thing.
I think its only a matter of time before this type of technology gets good enough that CPU compatibility will be irrelevant (even though we could do it now with things like Java or Slim Binaries)...
1. Nerds like like video games 2. Any sufficiently well rounded nerd who wasnt born yesterday probably grew up with C64's, or at least played with their parent's antique discovered in a closet...
will it be possible to hack the unit to allow use of arbitrary c64 software? Would we be able to hook up a keyboard and such to make a mini portable C64?
Go to your local coffee shop and relax with a cup of java. Then do one of the following, depending on who you are:
1. Feel good about yourself as you observe the fact that you are not like the other complete losers who frequent coffee shops because they have no life, no job, and have nothing but superficial "friends" and juvenile dramas. Then go home and truly appreciate it.
2. Revel in the fact that all your friends are there and enjoy the sense of community and belongingness that comes from being just like everyone else while you enjoy your Starbucks coffee which you think is just the pinnacle of fine coffee enjoyment. Then go home and be patheticaly depressed.
I used silly putty to create "timers" for instance to turn off a light switch. By dragging a wire through a blob of silly putty, using gravity or a rubber band, you can trigger lots of things. Silly putty by its nature makes for a relatively constant rate of travel and you can pretty accurately time things.
There's a little card containing the 56k modem and I think the ethernet on my laptop; is this a miniPCI? Could I pop a wifi minipci card in there? Because that would be cool.
I may be a geek, and I may like the idea of a jacket with lots of pockets for my toys, but I dont really want to be a walking target that screams "I'm a first class dork".
Can't we have something like this but in the form of a leather trenchcoat? Hmm, maybe I will Mod my coat. Why not? People do case mods and such, why not "hack" and "mod" your clothing?
Unfortunately its not a complete commercial quality product, but I thought Denim would make an excelent program for kids to learn to make web pages. Its exceedingly simple and I think any child that can read could use it easily.
How about having some sort of elected body of people who look at the patents and decide based on their knowledge of the applicable field(s) whether it should be granted and for how long. Almost like the court system. These people would be knowledgeable in their fields and elected.
Unfortunately you'd probably end up with a group of people put in place by the microsofts of the world...
" The glass modules work like light bulbs in reverse"
Is this a stupid analogy or what? This can be said about any type of light detector. This is like saying a digital camera works like a light bulb in reverse... duh? So these "modules" are just simply really sensitive digital cameras networked together.
When I first read about these things I thought it had something to do with solid glass spheres that for some reason, in combination with the ice, had optical properties that allowed them to capture neutrinos. No, they're just cameras. Why make it sound more complex than it really is?
This just reminds me of an idea I once had. Considering that Sinclairs (like the TS1000) were so readily available at garage sales and swapmeets etc, and they have nice simple small square PCB's with a full expansion bus on one edge, I wanted to get a gang of them and make a backplane bus with some logic for communication (probably just some shared memory) and then create an expandable parallel processing 'super computer'. Just slot them in whenever you come across one for cheap...
(no, I understand the futility in really making practical use of them, but it would be interesting and nostalgic.)
just goes to show that people arent always irrationaly in support of the smaller guy just because they're the "underdog". If they are doing something screwball, they deserve to be blasted, small or large...
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I'm still hoping someone will port uae to the palm. I see no reason why my clie, with a 200+ Mhz CPU and color display, can't emulate an Amiga, especialy considering that palms had 68k CPU's (coldfire) and I assume now have emulation for 68k already.
I dont know if its possible, but could you actualy use the metal in the walls as an antenna? Just expose a part and attach your AP directly to the metal in the wall?
> Incidentally, the whore worked at my company....
Sh!t, your company employs whores? Do they have a department for them or was it just the one whore? Were her services free to company employees?
That's one hell of a progressive company. I can only imagine how good morale would be at my work if they provided whores...
Oh, and I get maybe 1.5 to 2 hours on my Compaq 1216, no difference even after I upgraded the CPU from a Duron 900 to an Athlon XP 1400 and 10GB HD to 60GB 7200RPM Toshiba...
I have had sleeping problems for as long as I can remember. I have *never* been able to get up early (6-8am) and feel rested and make it through the day without nodding off. It was a problem all throughout my school days from elementary through college. I simply could not stay awake and alert before noon or so, no matter how much sleep I get the night before.
Of course there are the odd exceptions, like the "hell day" where I get only a few odd hours of sleep and then for some inconceivable reason I feel great the next day. But I can never repeat it.
Also, I cannot eat breakfast until a few hours after waking up early or I will get severe stomach problems (which require an unpleasant visit to the restroom, after which I am fine for the rest of the day).
Now, if I sleep till around 9 or 10 PM I am fine, pretty much no matter when I went to sleep (12pm to 5am). I also pretty much nod off around 5 pm no matter what, 30 to 60 minute nap does me fine here.
Unfortunately this type of scheduling is completely incompatible with having a family and a normal job...
Get a copy of codecharge studio, PHP and MySQL (or Perl or asp or java or whatever) and roll your own custom application. This program makes it really easy to create a web based database application. Depending on your application you may get away with not having to do any programming, at the very least you will do very little coding. Of course, you do still need to know a thing or two about good database design...
The point is, if one monkey is doing it, others may follow his lead. No, that's not evolution. But at this point, it may become such an advantage that future generations with slightly better bipedal walking ability will survive better. It could be the spark that changes the evolutionary path.
1. You are not as smart as you think you are.
2. You may be smarter than most people, but don't act like it. The hordes of dumb people don't like people who act smart (whether they are or not).
3. If you want to have friends, learn to like dumb people.
4. Find one thing you have a passion for, and excell at that. You may have to work a "day job" that you hate until your chance comes along to do what you like.
5. If you must have a "companion", find somebody either like yourself, or at least somebody that wont constrain you - you need your freedom and solitude to be creative.
6. Dont automaticaly dismiss the usefullness of certain substances. Caffeine can be very usefull, as can certain other things (ahem) in helping you both focus on your projects and other times clear you mind for rest. Remember, we're smart people, and we should know how to use things to our advantage...
I dont know about the durability. My five year old has worn out the catridge port which on inspection seems poorly designed. But, hacking it never occurred to me before. That would be interesting indeed...
All the Amiga people at one time said the same things that are being said here. UAE is too slow, it will never be fast enough, stable enough, etc.
The reason this thing is so slow is because its interpreting the PPC code. Its slow for the same reason that Java is slow (sans JIT). Once they get JIT on it, or some other kind of direct conversion to x86 code, it will get much much faster. Google for JIT, code morphing, check out this link: Dynamo.
Its entirely possible to create an emulator that would approach the speed of the real thing.
I think its only a matter of time before this type of technology gets good enough that CPU compatibility will be irrelevant (even though we could do it now with things like Java or Slim Binaries)...
Thanks, man. That's the best laugh I've had in a long time.
Yahoogle. ha.
It gets funnier the more I think about it.
Feeling old eh? Yeah, me too.
When all the things we grew up with are now considered cool "retro" and "oldies", yeah, makes you feel old.
"Why when I was a kid, 64K ram was a luxury! And we wore garlic on our belts which was the style at the time..."
1. Nerds like like video games
2. Any sufficiently well rounded nerd who wasnt born yesterday probably grew up with C64's, or at least played with their parent's antique discovered in a closet...
will it be possible to hack the unit to allow use of arbitrary c64 software? Would we be able to hook up a keyboard and such to make a mini portable C64?
hmm.
Go to your local coffee shop and relax with a cup of java. Then do one of the following, depending on who you are:
1. Feel good about yourself as you observe the fact that you are not like the other complete losers who frequent coffee shops because they have no life, no job, and have nothing but superficial "friends" and juvenile dramas. Then go home and truly appreciate it.
2. Revel in the fact that all your friends are there and enjoy the sense of community and belongingness that comes from being just like everyone else while you enjoy your Starbucks coffee which you think is just the pinnacle of fine coffee enjoyment. Then go home and be patheticaly depressed.
Total recall was accurate!
I used silly putty to create "timers" for instance to turn off a light switch. By dragging a wire through a blob of silly putty, using gravity or a rubber band, you can trigger lots of things. Silly putty by its nature makes for a relatively constant rate of travel and you can pretty accurately time things.
There's a little card containing the 56k modem and I think the ethernet on my laptop; is this a miniPCI? Could I pop a wifi minipci card in there? Because that would be cool.
I may be a geek, and I may like the idea of a jacket with lots of pockets for my toys, but I dont really want to be a walking target that screams "I'm a first class dork".
Can't we have something like this but in the form of a leather trenchcoat? Hmm, maybe I will Mod my coat. Why not? People do case mods and such, why not "hack" and "mod" your clothing?
Unfortunately its not a complete commercial quality product, but I thought Denim would make an excelent program for kids to learn to make web pages. Its exceedingly simple and I think any child that can read could use it easily.
How about having some sort of elected body of people who look at the patents and decide based on their knowledge of the applicable field(s) whether it should be granted and for how long. Almost like the court system. These people would be knowledgeable in their fields and elected.
Unfortunately you'd probably end up with a group of people put in place by the microsofts of the world...
is there any kind of LCD or other material that can go from reflective to transparent?
I have an invention idea that requires such a thing.
It also would need to be able to switch pretty rapidly...
" The glass modules work like light bulbs in reverse"
Is this a stupid analogy or what? This can be said about any type of light detector. This is like saying a digital camera works like a light bulb in reverse... duh? So these "modules" are just simply really sensitive digital cameras networked together.
When I first read about these things I thought it had something to do with solid glass spheres that for some reason, in combination with the ice, had optical properties that allowed them to capture neutrinos. No, they're just cameras. Why make it sound more complex than it really is?
This just reminds me of an idea I once had. Considering that Sinclairs (like the TS1000) were so readily available at garage sales and swapmeets etc, and they have nice simple small square PCB's with a full expansion bus on one edge, I wanted to get a gang of them and make a backplane bus with some logic for communication (probably just some shared memory) and then create an expandable parallel processing 'super computer'. Just slot them in whenever you come across one for cheap...
(no, I understand the futility in really making practical use of them, but it would be interesting and nostalgic.)
just goes to show that people arent always irrationaly in support of the smaller guy just because they're the "underdog". If they are doing something screwball, they deserve to be blasted, small or large...
perhaps more importantly, how do you catalog what's on those disks? Is there some easy to use software for cataloging disks?