And there you have it. What more can you really do with HD effects when the gameplay cannot keep up with the game and with your imagination? I still fire up Rogue to while away the minutes waiting for compilations to complete (maybe I'll get a quad-core after I get another job...). I also run iRogue http://roguelike-palm.sourceforge.net/iRogue on my Palm when I am away from home. It's a bit quirky, but lots of fun and quite engrossing. You should see the looks I get from kids who've never seen a character-based game with real gameplay on a handheld. Woohoo!
I set up a web server and found my first customers. I designed their web sites, hosted them and realized that I preferred software engineering and the technical aspects to web design and hosting. I suppose that if I had had better resources I could've had a better time in the hosting parts.
Wow! It sounds like a real case to take to the ITO. Why not complain about something that is not condoned under international trade laws, other than quotas, government subsidies, etc.?
I find myself playing irogue and adventure. Now it's on my Tungsten, but it's still the old game with that great old gameplay.
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Fair enough. I think the entire section of law dealing with Intellectual Property needs to be overhauled. It's too unfair to we the people and overly generous to the corporations who crafted its latest incarnations.
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To quote from Wikipedia "A copyright is a form of intellectual property that grants its holder the sole legal right to copy their works of original expression, such as a literary work, movie, musical work or sound recording, painting, computer program, or industrial design, for a defined period of time."
Your use of a copyrighted thing has no connection with your intention to use it personally rather that to exploit it commercially. I think this subtle distinction is worth noting.
I know what you mean. After taking a weekend to rebuild my wife's machine I used the XP Power Toys tp make MSIE disappear. It's not on the desktop and it's not in the Start listing. Sure, it's lurking under the covers, but Firefox and Opera are right there on the desltop for her to use.
Not quite - When VMS was written there was no such thing as a "software patent." DEC owned the intellectul property that was visible to anyone who licensed a copy of VMS and got some of the VMS source with it.
I tried searching for "pentium" and got back a list of insurance-related results. I changed ZIP codes several times and the result set was similar each time. What gives? I also got back
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Why not choose a Transmeta powered port-a-box? What's the difference what's inside as long as you can run you necessary proggies? Does it really matter if AMD or Intel is inside? Does it really matter that it's Transmeta? How could you even tell, provided your software behaves as expected?
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The real answer is that I use a Dell 486 50MHz with a whopping 20 MB of memory and 400 odd MB of disk space. It still has original flavor Windows 95 on it and it's proved itself invaluable. I have used it too many times to bring our network back to life to chuck it. It can do TCP/IP, has a serial port for modems and consoles. The only thing I'd like to do is to nuke it to the bare metal and and install Linux.
I still own my DEC Robin with CP/M and ZCPR from around 1983. I haven't used it yet this century. I last used it in 1998 - it worked just fine.
I knew there was a good reason not to have a camera in my phone. Now I'll never want to get one.
Did you get one? Did you enter the contest? T-Moblie is encouraged you to buy one of these phone-cameras by sponsoring contests. How long before other more nefarious groups do the same? Who will be the first to send in a picture of a crime with a phone-camera? Who will catch a political candidate, a la Gary Hart, with a phone-camera, etc, etc?
My friend ran over his Palm III with a new Beetle. It fell out of his pocket as he got in and he didn't realize it until he backed out of the garage and reached for the Palm to get his grocery list.
He slapped it into its cradle and hotsynced his data out.
I have my original 120 MHz windoze 95 box with two hard drives that are attached only by the power and data cables. Suspended in air, they are. It's been running that way since 1998.
I use my obsolete Palm IIIx several times each day. I work for a small fabless chip maker and I notice that over 1/3 of us use a Palm OS PDA. No one uses (or at least admits to using) a Pocket PC PDA.
I use mine for schedule, contacts, e-books, and directions. I have also saved my marriage with it. My wife likes to hit the hay by 10:30 and I don't. I read all kinds of info from AvantGo to e-books after she turns off the lights.
We also use it to carry the Geocaching data points and letterboxing directions when we're off roving the countryside. The whole family gets in on that one.
My wife also is a dedicated Handspring PDA user. I helped wean her from her Franklin Planner and chuck all of the slips of useless paper she carried around with her. She is much happier with it and even has an up-to-date commuter rail schedule on her Visor.
I find that the quality of the video signal out of a KVM is often subpar. It doesn't even have to be in 1600 x 1200 resolution. At work my 1024 x 768 display which looked great when the monitor was driven directly looked fuzzy when it had to go through that extra bit of circuitry. Is there any way around that where I can still get multiple machines with one set of I/O devices?
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And there you have it. What more can you really do with HD effects when the gameplay cannot keep up with the game and with your imagination? I still fire up Rogue to while away the minutes waiting for compilations to complete (maybe I'll get a quad-core after I get another job...). I also run iRogue http://roguelike-palm.sourceforge.net/iRogue on my Palm when I am away from home. It's a bit quirky, but lots of fun and quite engrossing. You should see the looks I get from kids who've never seen a character-based game with real gameplay on a handheld. Woohoo!
I set up a web server and found my first customers. I designed their web sites, hosted them and realized that I preferred software engineering and the technical aspects to web design and hosting. I suppose that if I had had better resources I could've had a better time in the hosting parts.
Oh yeah, it was Slackware all the way on a 486.
Wow! It sounds like a real case to take to the ITO. Why not complain about something that is not condoned under international trade laws, other than quotas, government subsidies, etc.?
Has everyone else forgotten already? Here is a real-live e-ink product from Seiko
How about a spiffy shiny titanium one? Or even an armor-plated iPod?
I find myself playing irogue and adventure. Now it's on my Tungsten, but it's still the old game with that great old gameplay.
Fair enough. I think the entire section of law dealing with Intellectual Property needs to be overhauled. It's too unfair to we the people and overly generous to the corporations who crafted its latest incarnations.
To quote from Wikipedia "A copyright is a form of intellectual property that grants its holder the sole legal right to copy their works of original expression, such as a literary work, movie, musical work or sound recording, painting, computer program, or industrial design, for a defined period of time." Your use of a copyrighted thing has no connection with your intention to use it personally rather that to exploit it commercially. I think this subtle distinction is worth noting.
I know what you mean. After taking a weekend to rebuild my wife's machine I used the XP Power Toys tp make MSIE disappear. It's not on the desktop and it's not in the Start listing. Sure, it's lurking under the covers, but Firefox and Opera are right there on the desltop for her to use.
Not quite - When VMS was written there was no such thing as a "software patent." DEC owned the intellectul property that was visible to anyone who licensed a copy of VMS and got some of the VMS source with it.
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Seems like this experiment needs more work.
Why not choose a Transmeta powered port-a-box? What's the difference what's inside as long as you can run you necessary proggies? Does it really matter if AMD or Intel is inside? Does it really matter that it's Transmeta? How could you even tell, provided your software behaves as expected?
Please pass the sour cream!
The real answer is that I use a Dell 486 50MHz with a whopping 20 MB of memory and 400 odd MB of disk space. It still has original flavor Windows 95 on it and it's proved itself invaluable. I have used it too many times to bring our network back to life to chuck it. It can do TCP/IP, has a serial port for modems and consoles. The only thing I'd like to do is to nuke it to the bare metal and and install Linux.
I still own my DEC Robin with CP/M and ZCPR from around 1983. I haven't used it yet this century. I last used it in 1998 - it worked just fine.
You could always try approaching your advisor or some other trusted faculty member.
I knew there was a good reason not to have a camera in my phone. Now I'll never want to get one.
Did you get one? Did you enter the contest? T-Moblie is encouraged you to buy one of these phone-cameras by sponsoring contests. How long before other more nefarious groups do the same? Who will be the first to send in a picture of a crime with a phone-camera? Who will catch a political candidate, a la Gary Hart, with a phone-camera, etc, etc?
My friend ran over his Palm III with a new Beetle. It fell out of his pocket as he got in and he didn't realize it until he backed out of the garage and reached for the Palm to get his grocery list.
He slapped it into its cradle and hotsynced his data out.
I have my original 120 MHz windoze 95 box with two hard drives that are attached only by the power and data cables. Suspended in air, they are. It's been running that way since 1998.
I use mine for schedule, contacts, e-books, and directions. I have also saved my marriage with it. My wife likes to hit the hay by 10:30 and I don't. I read all kinds of info from AvantGo to e-books after she turns off the lights.
We also use it to carry the Geocaching data points and letterboxing directions when we're off roving the countryside. The whole family gets in on that one.
My wife also is a dedicated Handspring PDA user. I helped wean her from her Franklin Planner and chuck all of the slips of useless paper she carried around with her. She is much happier with it and even has an up-to-date commuter rail schedule on her Visor.
I find that the quality of the video signal out of a KVM is often subpar. It doesn't even have to be in 1600 x 1200 resolution. At work my 1024 x 768 display which looked great when the monitor was driven directly looked fuzzy when it had to go through that extra bit of circuitry. Is there any way around that where I can still get multiple machines with one set of I/O devices?