But the only thing that keeps consoles locked to games is the cryptographic lockout.
I disagree. I think the main thing keeping them restricted to games is the lack of parent/child education that results in kids thinking consoles that are bought to play games are just as good as a computer that can let you research stars, talk around the world, create music, etc.
If you really knew what you were doing, you'd have, and use, a whole suite of these programs
That says a lot about your sense of usable software, and your sense of professional image editing too, when you consider how many of these programs are likely to correctly maintain colorspace information etc.
GIMP hasn't REALLY changed since it came out. In particular, a ton of users have been begging them to create an MDI interface, and they still haven't. It's in 2.7 apparently, but looks more like a big backdrop window with normal windows on top (not the docking toolbars that most people would expect).
GIMP is good enough, but don't pretend it's a perfect app, responsive to users' needs. It's just the best of a bad bunch.
What is the key point that makes a video game console not a PC?
Well, PC stands for Personal Computer. Consoles don't let you do anything personal -- just what was proscribed by the vendor. They don't compute much as far as a user can see; just play games and run other entertainment/apps, more like an arcade machine or household appliance. Finally, there are rarely input devices for complex data, like keyboards.
Dithering is an interesting way to look at it, but technically I think HAM is really just a lossy compression format. Amigas had a hardware-based decoder, and could handle the low bandwidth of the compressed version, so were able to display it. Result: lots of pretty colours.
Cool for its day, but only really useful for static images, and way overhyped. If they'd included a hardware encoder that allowed games to treat HAM as a simple bitmap, THAT would have been something more amazing. We might have actually had many 4096-colour games or apps back in the mid 80's:)
I'm not even sure Hombre would have cut it, by the time they'd got it out the door. It sounds a lot like the very basic 3D cards that were around for the PC at the same time, except that it still had a lot of crazy legacy stuff, like HAM modes.
I hadn't heard of this fame, but I'm glad it's not just me who thought they should have been spending a lot more (even if they had to borrow money to do it). They really should have saturated the PC/Mac business marketplace with A100/2000/A3000 advertising, especially in the UK where Amiga wasn't understood as a grown-up's machine at all.
That said, from what I've read of the last days of Commodore-Amiga, they really didn't have a huge operation. I think it was Dave Haynie who talked about that. From the description and pics, it seemed to be a fairly small scale, low-tech (read: humans soldering, not robots) operation.
USPS delivering email? No way. They're just not a skilled competitor in that space.
I think they do need to stick to physical goods, but streamline it a lot for the demands of rapid internet ordering and overnight (or faster) delivery. Why are there so few postal companies offering 2 hour delivery, for instance?
You're right that they've no future in delivering shoes, since desktop fabrication will kill that market in a few decades too. But even with desktop fab, people will still need raw materials.
Yeah, that's the smart thing to do when you encounter a new word, assume it means something that it sounds like.
For those of us who know common english word endings such as -er and -ing, the slang equivalents such as -o, and bother to learn words from other common languages like Latin and French... yes, it's a VERY good thing to do.
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It's a bit like watching scary women fight over who was married to some guy first on Ricky Lake.
Emergency Services: "Thank you for calling 9-1-1. What is the nature of the emergency? Car crash? Building on fire?"
Caller: "I'd like to speak with my lawyer!"
Emergency Services: "You'd LIKE to? Oh my god, this is serious!"
I'd be happy if humans could be humans right here. And I mean that on many levels.
I disagree. I think the main thing keeping them restricted to games is the lack of parent/child education that results in kids thinking consoles that are bought to play games are just as good as a computer that can let you research stars, talk around the world, create music, etc.
That's more worrying than the detention etc. But then ground-level grunts never did know the law well.
That says a lot about your sense of usable software, and your sense of professional image editing too, when you consider how many of these programs are likely to correctly maintain colorspace information etc.
GIMP hasn't REALLY changed since it came out. In particular, a ton of users have been begging them to create an MDI interface, and they still haven't. It's in 2.7 apparently, but looks more like a big backdrop window with normal windows on top (not the docking toolbars that most people would expect).
GIMP is good enough, but don't pretend it's a perfect app, responsive to users' needs. It's just the best of a bad bunch.
Prescribed, even :)
Well, PC stands for Personal Computer. Consoles don't let you do anything personal -- just what was proscribed by the vendor. They don't compute much as far as a user can see; just play games and run other entertainment/apps, more like an arcade machine or household appliance. Finally, there are rarely input devices for complex data, like keyboards.
No, because most tech people instinctually know that filesharing is ethically right, and the rest don't care for facts either way.
Yes, they are. They're not IBM-compatible PCs, but they ARE PCs.
Dithering is an interesting way to look at it, but technically I think HAM is really just a lossy compression format. Amigas had a hardware-based decoder, and could handle the low bandwidth of the compressed version, so were able to display it. Result: lots of pretty colours.
Cool for its day, but only really useful for static images, and way overhyped. If they'd included a hardware encoder that allowed games to treat HAM as a simple bitmap, THAT would have been something more amazing. We might have actually had many 4096-colour games or apps back in the mid 80's :)
No, wars punctuate peace.
I'm not even sure Hombre would have cut it, by the time they'd got it out the door. It sounds a lot like the very basic 3D cards that were around for the PC at the same time, except that it still had a lot of crazy legacy stuff, like HAM modes.
I hadn't heard of this fame, but I'm glad it's not just me who thought they should have been spending a lot more (even if they had to borrow money to do it). They really should have saturated the PC/Mac business marketplace with A100/2000/A3000 advertising, especially in the UK where Amiga wasn't understood as a grown-up's machine at all.
That said, from what I've read of the last days of Commodore-Amiga, they really didn't have a huge operation. I think it was Dave Haynie who talked about that. From the description and pics, it seemed to be a fairly small scale, low-tech (read: humans soldering, not robots) operation.
USPS delivering email? No way. They're just not a skilled competitor in that space.
I think they do need to stick to physical goods, but streamline it a lot for the demands of rapid internet ordering and overnight (or faster) delivery. Why are there so few postal companies offering 2 hour delivery, for instance?
You're right that they've no future in delivering shoes, since desktop fabrication will kill that market in a few decades too. But even with desktop fab, people will still need raw materials.
So what do you propose? Opening the curtains?
I think it would be better for harvesting solar power. Producing solar power in the Sahara could be little more destructive than hoped.
Yes, but that plant was indoors.
whoosh ;)
No, no, you have permission. Go ahead.
Because after unlink() you might want to create some new stuff?
For those of us who know common english word endings such as -er and -ing, the slang equivalents such as -o, and bother to learn words from other common languages like Latin and French... yes, it's a VERY good thing to do.
Speak for yourself.
The fact that everyone sat back and watched while they did it in Iraq?
"First they came for the jews, but I was not a jew...", you know?