Rat muscle is patented by God himself, meaning that any use of rat muscle in manmade devices may be defended against in court.
However, don't despair. For just $699 per cell, you, too, can harness the power of biology in your applications with GODX's BioRobot Liscence! Without such a liscence, you are violating God's intellectual property rights, and doesn't that just make you feel plain guilty? And if it doesn't, well, there's always litigation and, well, that eternal hellfire thing.
Why was conair using signed shorts to track their scheduling changes anyway? It seems to me that a company of that magnitude should expect to run into more than 32000 schedule changes within one month more than once.
I mean, I can understand that the counter was probably designed with space constraints in mind, but for christs sake, it would've only only been two extra bytes to fix this. That brings the total up to some 4 billion unsigned if I'm not mistaken. Technically, they could've used just three bytes, but then again, I wouldn't expect them to because how many languages have 24bit integers built in as primitives?
Of course like someone else said, I guess we can't blame this all on the programmers either. I wouldn't just consider it very comforting that such a system could become crippled just because the programmers didn't think to allocate enough memory to allow for enough flexibility in scheduling.
I can't imagine how much this sort of tech would cost, but considering the lowest response time I've seen on LCDs so far is 16ms, this might be worth it.
Assuming Mitsubishi is willing enough to at least liscence this sort of tech out to other companies (I wouldn't expect them to be, IMHO), this could seriously blur the fine line between the advantages of waiting for OLED displays to come out and getting an LCD within the next couple of years. If we can slightly broaden the viewing angle (not an easy task since the screen has to be polarized), I don't see very many advantages to getting an OLED screen.
But is the cycle-tradeoff worth it? How will this affect slower environments like remote sessions?
If the effect isn't too great, I say awesome. But if it is, I can think of a certain OS's UI that will require hardware acceleration.
It's important to remeber that universal censorship is virtually impossible on the internet. That's where it's strengths lie: there's anonymity if you want it, and you can really say what's on your mind.
Naturally, there's a sense that you're the only one out there that accompanies this. The moment you step out of the box of anonymity, you open yourself up to criticism by anyone. The idea behind this is that if you really don't want to do anything you'll be too ashamed of in public when you step outside that box.
At the same time, you also have to look at the bully's perspective. When you're anonymous, blogs and IM warfare seem to work out as a carthasis for pent up agression. If you have to tell somebody something incredibly nasty, and you're anonymous, then you get his or her viewpoint with seemingly less risk to the actual relationship.
So lets say your friend is fucking your girlfriend behind your back and you aren't too sure whether he is. You can use anonymity to discover about it yourself in some cases, confront him, and do something about it. Underhanded? Yes. Sometimes underhanded tactics are vital in this world.
For Linus so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten kernel, that whosever beleiveth should not have kernel panics, but shall live in eternal uptime.
Yes, that's true. But you have to pay for your PC too, does that mean that Linux isn't really free?
This point is moot because you can (usually) take the same distro of Linux, acquire new hardware, and run it without any liscencing problems as long as you're not using software that's liscenced for one computer only. Microsoft's current liscencing model for end users doesn't allow Windows users to refurbish old operating systems, and when their activation servers stop accepting XP activation requests, they will basically render XP inoperable.
Naturally, there's not many cases where free hardware exists. If you ask me, that's like saying free guitar lessons aren't really free because you've got to buy the guitar.
I don't know about distributing it - you just list Office among the requirements for the application. It's been a long time since I've seen a Windows PC without Word and Excel at least.
Actually I've seen plenty of modern OEM computers ship with other office suites, such as WordPerfect or that godforsaken Works suite by default. Office is way too expensive for companies to push out computers at the prices they tend to advertise at. The $450 you spend on the worthwhile version has too many other practical applications.
An emulator isn't always the best solution when you're trying to learn how to program on any system, espescially when its involving a system with very little public documentation about it. There are a few reasons NOT to use an emulator when you're programming in low-level languages like assembly:
The emulator may lack subtle "non-priority" features related to the hardware.
The author's personal additions to the emulator to make it easier to use.
Corners cut in various parts of the "hardware" for readable or easier programs, faster execution, etc.
An emulator also often means that the performance may be less than expected because of the actual instruction:result ratio. If you're doing programming for actual hardware, an emulator is nice but a physical machine is a good thing to have.
You're not just paying for the motherboard whenever you buy this package. You're buying an IDE, documentation explaining the hardware, plus an emulator designed by the same people designing the hardware. While it's true that there are free alternatives to almost every mainstream console out there, they're usually not officially by the manufacturer for obvious reasons and alot of them are works in progress.
Whether it's actually worth its weight in gold or not, the important thing is that you pay extra if you want the official development tools for your gamecube, your PS2, or your dreamcast. If Nintendo, Sony, or Sega did that, then who's gonna garuntee the big-label companies make as much money as they do? Would there be any point in spending millions in R&D for these companies?
Kudos to this man! It's about time we got back to mindnumbingly addictive games. I've been looking for something like this for quite some time and hope it's as awesome as some of our favorite 80s computers. It would kick even more ass if their sound chip is as versatile as the SID.
The only thing that really gets me on the thing is this price. Would it be cheaper to homebrew your own console? I mean you can still get 65C02s and memory in such small amounts shouldn't be that expensive, right?
Anyway this thing is off to the right start I think. It even has a demoscene, which to me shows how interested people are in this thing. I might get one of these in the near future and mess around with it.
I, too, find it hard to use email for many of the same reasons. However spam really isn't one of the big reasons. It's more of an issue of pragmatism; I find email inefficient because I have faster and more interactive solutions when I want to communicate with my friends. My email really just exists because it has to; it's such a widely accepted standard that you need it to sign up for the most trivial things.
Of course, if you've ever used ICQ or been in an AOL chatroom, you'd change your mind about there being no spam on it. It's too easy to get ahold of your UIN in ICQ and AOL chatrooms are lacking in assignment of permissions. The bad thing is AOL's attempts to stifle the spam just result in weirder bots.
Now as far as email spam goes, garbage in, garbage out. There's massive profit to be made in selling contact information and email addresses are no exception. The best way to avoid spam is to stay away from disreputable sources.
Why do we keep trying to bridge this "gap" between Linux and windows?
From a consumer standpoint, I want my operating system to be compatible with the software I buy. I want to retrain myself as little as possible, and I just want my computer to do what I tell it to do. Microsoft has a habit of breaking away from standards and creating their own, which is why this is easier said than done.
However, there are different distrobutions commited to different purposes. The big advantage to the FOSS movement is that that Linux has become quote versatile in its uses. Remeber, Windows used to run on top of DOS.
and there are not enough linux machines to make a hardcore evil-doer write a virus for it.
Perhaps most home based machines aren't Linux based, but remeber, there are several thousand servers out there that run Linux. Linux still easily act as a gateway for viruses. Concerning viruses and exploits, FOSS has always had the edge on Microsoft because Microsoft is secretive about its exploits. And even dating back to AT&T UNIX, before the FOSS movement ever existed, existing bugs were documented in man pages. When you have more than one team working on a problem and you have something like CVS in place, you get things done faster and in some cases, better.
Backwards compatibility is also a hold-back. I mean who wants to give up their present machine and lose with it all the other games and software which they came to love oh so much. WINE is good for a lot but there are still a lot of games that cannot keep up when in WINE. While there may be a lot of replacement programs available for users that isn't what they always want.
I agree that this is a holdback. Windows emulation exists on other platforms however (including commercial ones), and as with any emulated environment, it can't be perfect. WINE has things a bit better because all it does is emulate the API, not an entire system.
The problem I see with Microsoft is that with each new Windows release, they taunt their userbase more and more. If it's not through forced upgrades, then its through policies such as product activation and DRM. Linux keeps every kernel branch since 2.0 going, which should be more than enough if you're into having choices. If you don't like 2.6, by all means, revert to 2.4 and things should still run fine.
So I guess linux has a good way to go before it becomes capable of completely overcoming the desktop world, but it has standards that I feel should prevent alot of this mess again once Microsoft finally kicks the bucket (whenever that will be). UI standards are pretty up to par too; I think most distros will agree to start the user off with KDE/Gnome (which are close enough in function), bash, and tools such as ssh. The model is flexible enough to where you can adapt with tools that are written to standards open enough to properly create.
As far as the rest of the hobby OSes are concerned, I think they are a good idea. If you can't stand Windows and you find linux is too much for you, SkyOS looks like it's headed in the right direction.
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Rat muscle is patented by God himself, meaning that any use of rat muscle in manmade devices may be defended against in court. However, don't despair. For just $699 per cell, you, too, can harness the power of biology in your applications with GODX's BioRobot Liscence! Without such a liscence, you are violating God's intellectual property rights, and doesn't that just make you feel plain guilty? And if it doesn't, well, there's always litigation and, well, that eternal hellfire thing.
Why was conair using signed shorts to track their scheduling changes anyway? It seems to me that a company of that magnitude should expect to run into more than 32000 schedule changes within one month more than once. I mean, I can understand that the counter was probably designed with space constraints in mind, but for christs sake, it would've only only been two extra bytes to fix this. That brings the total up to some 4 billion unsigned if I'm not mistaken. Technically, they could've used just three bytes, but then again, I wouldn't expect them to because how many languages have 24bit integers built in as primitives? Of course like someone else said, I guess we can't blame this all on the programmers either. I wouldn't just consider it very comforting that such a system could become crippled just because the programmers didn't think to allocate enough memory to allow for enough flexibility in scheduling.
The fridge, stove, and toaster never died on me
I should be able to get online without a PhD
My phone doesn't take a week to bo- oh shit, it does.
Assuming Mitsubishi is willing enough to at least liscence this sort of tech out to other companies (I wouldn't expect them to be, IMHO), this could seriously blur the fine line between the advantages of waiting for OLED displays to come out and getting an LCD within the next couple of years. If we can slightly broaden the viewing angle (not an easy task since the screen has to be polarized), I don't see very many advantages to getting an OLED screen.
But is the cycle-tradeoff worth it? How will this affect slower environments like remote sessions? If the effect isn't too great, I say awesome. But if it is, I can think of a certain OS's UI that will require hardware acceleration.
Wow. That sounds just like the SX-64!
At the same time, you also have to look at the bully's perspective. When you're anonymous, blogs and IM warfare seem to work out as a carthasis for pent up agression. If you have to tell somebody something incredibly nasty, and you're anonymous, then you get his or her viewpoint with seemingly less risk to the actual relationship.
So lets say your friend is fucking your girlfriend behind your back and you aren't too sure whether he is. You can use anonymity to discover about it yourself in some cases, confront him, and do something about it. Underhanded? Yes. Sometimes underhanded tactics are vital in this world.
If we censor the bullies, we censor ourselves.
Naturally, there's not many cases where free hardware exists. If you ask me, that's like saying free guitar lessons aren't really free because you've got to buy the guitar.
Actually I've seen plenty of modern OEM computers ship with other office suites, such as WordPerfect or that godforsaken Works suite by default. Office is way too expensive for companies to push out computers at the prices they tend to advertise at. The $450 you spend on the worthwhile version has too many other practical applications.Woah, that's one bulky peice of work. Is it me or is there a trend towards consoles getting bigger?
An emulator also often means that the performance may be less than expected because of the actual instruction:result ratio. If you're doing programming for actual hardware, an emulator is nice but a physical machine is a good thing to have.
You're not just paying for the motherboard whenever you buy this package. You're buying an IDE, documentation explaining the hardware, plus an emulator designed by the same people designing the hardware. While it's true that there are free alternatives to almost every mainstream console out there, they're usually not officially by the manufacturer for obvious reasons and alot of them are works in progress.
Whether it's actually worth its weight in gold or not, the important thing is that you pay extra if you want the official development tools for your gamecube, your PS2, or your dreamcast. If Nintendo, Sony, or Sega did that, then who's gonna garuntee the big-label companies make as much money as they do? Would there be any point in spending millions in R&D for these companies?
The only thing that really gets me on the thing is this price. Would it be cheaper to homebrew your own console? I mean you can still get 65C02s and memory in such small amounts shouldn't be that expensive, right?
Anyway this thing is off to the right start I think. It even has a demoscene, which to me shows how interested people are in this thing. I might get one of these in the near future and mess around with it.
I, too, find it hard to use email for many of the same reasons. However spam really isn't one of the big reasons. It's more of an issue of pragmatism; I find email inefficient because I have faster and more interactive solutions when I want to communicate with my friends. My email really just exists because it has to; it's such a widely accepted standard that you need it to sign up for the most trivial things. Of course, if you've ever used ICQ or been in an AOL chatroom, you'd change your mind about there being no spam on it. It's too easy to get ahold of your UIN in ICQ and AOL chatrooms are lacking in assignment of permissions. The bad thing is AOL's attempts to stifle the spam just result in weirder bots. Now as far as email spam goes, garbage in, garbage out. There's massive profit to be made in selling contact information and email addresses are no exception. The best way to avoid spam is to stay away from disreputable sources.
The problem I see with Microsoft is that with each new Windows release, they taunt their userbase more and more. If it's not through forced upgrades, then its through policies such as product activation and DRM. Linux keeps every kernel branch since 2.0 going, which should be more than enough if you're into having choices. If you don't like 2.6, by all means, revert to 2.4 and things should still run fine.
So I guess linux has a good way to go before it becomes capable of completely overcoming the desktop world, but it has standards that I feel should prevent alot of this mess again once Microsoft finally kicks the bucket (whenever that will be). UI standards are pretty up to par too; I think most distros will agree to start the user off with KDE/Gnome (which are close enough in function), bash, and tools such as ssh. The model is flexible enough to where you can adapt with tools that are written to standards open enough to properly create.
As far as the rest of the hobby OSes are concerned, I think they are a good idea. If you can't stand Windows and you find linux is too much for you, SkyOS looks like it's headed in the right direction.