I doubt they are just all of a sudden going after old Genesis ROM sites. This probably is due to the fact that their going after the many pirates trading Dreamcast games over the net. And I know some copyright (or is it patent?) laws say if you don't go after violators, you loose your rights. Maybe they would have trouble in court going after dreamcast pirates if they were not hunting down ALL pirates trading any of their games.
Alot of techno stuff doesn't use MIDI at all. Especially the older stuff. Alot of your older records were little more than some Roland x0x boxes synced up with some FX. MIDI became common on music equipment in the early-to-mid 80's while alot of the more desirable and sought after synths (especially in the techno/electronica world) were made before MIDI was around.
The new web browser for the DC _CAN_ play MP3's, and their releasing a traditional MP3 player (think Rio) that hooks up through the VMU port. There is also a DVD player coming out.
I followed the link from ZDnet and I think everyone is confused about what these Digital Dashboards are. They don't resemble a dockbar (or whatever you call them, u know what I mean;) at all. It looks more along the lines of giving you statistics of your company via gauges and other readouts in IE5 or Outlook 2000. The term dashboard seems to be from the readouts that give you readouts on statistical values about your company or what not.
Sony "Gets it" all right. Console manufacturers sell consoles at cost or (most often) at a loss. They make the real money off of the games themselves. By "opening" the Playstation2, Sony can help expand their market for games without having to take the loss associated with the console sales. And since console's aren't a profitable business in and of themselves, this will either mean high-priced playstation 2 clone's or that no manufacturer will bother making a clone.
Well I helped design this, never got around to doing much of the coding (Vastator was doing this... and quite well I might add.) I havn't talked to him in a while, and things came up for both of us, you may want to hang in #BeDEV on EF Net and find out what is up with it. As for me, I now use hardware sequencers, TRY TO GET ME TO USE A PC TO SEQUENCE WITH!!!!
This is definitely not true. A driver messing up is not the same as a part of the kernel failing. Maybe the driver had a bug that incorrectly set some setting on the hardware that requires a reboot, but I assure you that if the driver started writing to the wrong portions of memory or tried to do something else that generates a fatal error, it would crash the whole system. If there was a bug that caused khttpd to crash, it would bring down the kernel.
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Yes, this is all fine and well. But I believe the MINIMUM size that the configuration app allows is 1.5x RAM size, which gets you no where. This may have been changed for R5 (i havn't played with it much), but I've used R3-R4.5 and this was the case.
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Ahhh. BeOS by default makes a swapfile that is 1.5x the amount of memory you have. So if you have 512MB of RAM, there isn't enough filespace on the image your booting off of to create a swapfile. I *THINK* you can change this in the kernel configuration file, but I'm not sure, look in the config files and see if you see the setting (should have comments explaining everything).
Thats funny, I use an TNT video card and my performance under Win2k is actually BETTER than 98. (NT4 was even faster tho). Frame rates are only slightly better, but in 98 the intro videos skipped occasionally, in NT they don't.
Hmm, an open source Pro Tools wouldn't do much good considering that software is basically a GUI for their hardware. They use to give the software away for free on the mac, but to get the functionality which makes Pro Tools the standard DAW you need their DSP cards and audio i/o racks. Both VERY costly ($10,000+)
>>Applications released simultaneously on both platforms at the same level of quality (except ours would crash less)
This makes no sense what so ever, a buggy app will crash on Linux just as much as it will on Windows. Besides, if an application is crashing, that isn't really saying much about the OS, but the app itself.
You must not do any major 3d rendering tasks as Blender is FAR FAR from being in competition with the more prevalent 3d packages (such as 3D Studio MAX as you mention.) I use 3d Studio Max for simple titles for tv segments, and I tried blender... not comparable... maybe one day, but Kinetix isn't sitting still while open source development continues so while blender will improve, so will 3ds... and 3ds isn't even considered the best 3d package (it is the only commercial package I have used tho so I can't comment on any other ones)
There is a good reason why the post office charges as much as it does to send letters. UPS and Federal Express lobby congress to raise the post office's postage rates. The USPS isn't allowed to lobby congress. Therefore postal rates go up, and so do UPS and FedEx's rates.
It seems to me that what you want is a source of information that is dynamic. You state you want to make a book that other people can add to to keep it up-to-date. This is a good idea, but, maybe a "book" (you probably intend for this to be an online document) isn't the right format. It seems that a www site would be a perfect distribution method for the information you want to give away. Simply allow people to submit articles, updates, etc. such as Slashdot or many other news sites allow. You could have people (or yourself) organize the information that is recieved into a digest of sorts for people who are just now finding your site. And you could also have an updates section for people who frequently visit your site. This would also allow you to overview the additions to prevent totally offtopic ideas, or factually incorrect ideas from being included into your "book".
Actually, Windows 9x DO use pre-emptive multitasking. I also seem to remember MS and IBM cooperatively making OS/2, and then MS split off and turned what they had from OS/2 into NT. This isn't related to the person I replied to, but I've seen it posted in this thread about OS/2 being "true 32-bit" before NT was. I thought OS/2 STILL contains 16-bit code?
Hrmm, I havn't watched the show, but I do remember that Chameleon person from IRC many years ago. He had some gay group called InterCore and hanged on Microsoft's IRC server's of all places. I think he goes on Undernet in #InterCore occasionally, anyways, I don't think he was even a very good script kiddie, outside of php and phf exploits he never did anything else. He would also take code that other people wrote and ripped it off and claimed he wrote it. Of course all these programs were written in Visual Basic since he claimed that C/C++ had no advantages over VB (hah!). I also remember something about him running away from home among some other pathetic loser stuff, it may have went over that in the show, I dunno.
Well, if your using IE you can almost say your using Mosaic. IE is based on Mosaic, I even think version 1.0 was little more than Mosaic with MS's name and a windows logo in the upper right-hand portion of the window. Just look in the About Internet Explorer dialog box.
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I doubt they are just all of a sudden going after old Genesis ROM sites. This probably is due to the fact that their going after the many pirates trading Dreamcast games over the net. And I know some copyright (or is it patent?) laws say if you don't go after violators, you loose your rights. Maybe they would have trouble in court going after dreamcast pirates if they were not hunting down ALL pirates trading any of their games.
Hmm, portable DAT recorders have been a while for a long time.
In the latest issue of Official Dreamcast Magazine. http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/20232.html
Alot of techno stuff doesn't use MIDI at all. Especially the older stuff. Alot of your older records were little more than some Roland x0x boxes synced up with some FX. MIDI became common on music equipment in the early-to-mid 80's while alot of the more desirable and sought after synths (especially in the techno/electronica world) were made before MIDI was around.
The new web browser for the DC _CAN_ play MP3's, and their releasing a traditional MP3 player (think Rio) that hooks up through the VMU port. There is also a DVD player coming out.
I followed the link from ZDnet and I think everyone is confused about what these Digital Dashboards are. They don't resemble a dockbar (or whatever you call them, u know what I mean ;) at all. It looks more along the lines of giving you statistics of your company via gauges and other readouts in IE5 or Outlook 2000. The term dashboard seems to be from the readouts that give you readouts on statistical values about your company or what not.
Sony "Gets it" all right. Console manufacturers sell consoles at cost or (most often) at a loss. They make the real money off of the games themselves. By "opening" the Playstation2, Sony can help expand their market for games without having to take the loss associated with the console sales. And since console's aren't a profitable business in and of themselves, this will either mean high-priced playstation 2 clone's or that no manufacturer will bother making a clone.
http://resartus.norad.org/~vastator/qik.html
Well I helped design this, never got around to doing much of the coding (Vastator was doing this... and quite well I might add.) I havn't talked to him in a while, and things came up for both of us, you may want to hang in #BeDEV on EF Net and find out what is up with it. As for me, I now use hardware sequencers, TRY TO GET ME TO USE A PC TO SEQUENCE WITH!!!!
This is definitely not true. A driver messing up is not the same as a part of the kernel failing. Maybe the driver had a bug that incorrectly set some setting on the hardware that requires a reboot, but I assure you that if the driver started writing to the wrong portions of memory or tried to do something else that generates a fatal error, it would crash the whole system. If there was a bug that caused khttpd to crash, it would bring down the kernel.
Yes, this is all fine and well. But I believe the MINIMUM size that the configuration app allows is 1.5x RAM size, which gets you no where. This may have been changed for R5 (i havn't played with it much), but I've used R3-R4.5 and this was the case.
Ahhh. BeOS by default makes a swapfile that is 1.5x the amount of memory you have. So if you have 512MB of RAM, there isn't enough filespace on the image your booting off of to create a swapfile. I *THINK* you can change this in the kernel configuration file, but I'm not sure, look in the config files and see if you see the setting (should have comments explaining everything).
Thats funny, I use an TNT video card and my performance under Win2k is actually BETTER than 98. (NT4 was even faster tho). Frame rates are only slightly better, but in 98 the intro videos skipped occasionally, in NT they don't.
Hmm, an open source Pro Tools wouldn't do much good considering that software is basically a GUI for their hardware. They use to give the software away for free on the mac, but to get the functionality which makes Pro Tools the standard DAW you need their DSP cards and audio i/o racks. Both VERY costly ($10,000+)
>>Applications released simultaneously on both platforms at the same level of quality (except ours would crash less)
This makes no sense what so ever, a buggy app will crash on Linux just as much as it will on Windows. Besides, if an application is crashing, that isn't really saying much about the OS, but the app itself.
You must not do any major 3d rendering tasks as Blender is FAR FAR from being in competition with the more prevalent 3d packages (such as 3D Studio MAX as you mention.) I use 3d Studio Max for simple titles for tv segments, and I tried blender... not comparable... maybe one day, but Kinetix isn't sitting still while open source development continues so while blender will improve, so will 3ds... and 3ds isn't even considered the best 3d package (it is the only commercial package I have used tho so I can't comment on any other ones)
There is a good reason why the post office charges as much as it does to send letters. UPS and Federal Express lobby congress to raise the post office's postage rates. The USPS isn't allowed to lobby congress. Therefore postal rates go up, and so do UPS and FedEx's rates.
It seems to me that what you want is a source of information that is dynamic. You state you want to make a book that other people can add to to keep it up-to-date. This is a good idea, but, maybe a "book" (you probably intend for this to be an online document) isn't the right format. It seems that a www site would be a perfect distribution method for the information you want to give away. Simply allow people to submit articles, updates, etc. such as Slashdot or many other news sites allow. You could have people (or yourself) organize the information that is recieved into a digest of sorts for people who are just now finding your site. And you could also have an updates section for people who frequently visit your site. This would also allow you to overview the additions to prevent totally offtopic ideas, or factually incorrect ideas from being included into your "book".
Actually, Windows 9x DO use pre-emptive multitasking. I also seem to remember MS and IBM cooperatively making OS/2, and then MS split off and turned what they had from OS/2 into NT. This isn't related to the person I replied to, but I've seen it posted in this thread about OS/2 being "true 32-bit" before NT was. I thought OS/2 STILL contains 16-bit code?
Hrmm, I havn't watched the show, but I do remember that Chameleon person from IRC many years ago. He had some gay group called InterCore and hanged on Microsoft's IRC server's of all places. I think he goes on Undernet in #InterCore occasionally, anyways, I don't think he was even a very good script kiddie, outside of php and phf exploits he never did anything else. He would also take code that other people wrote and ripped it off and claimed he wrote it. Of course all these programs were written in Visual Basic since he claimed that C/C++ had no advantages over VB (hah!). I also remember something about him running away from home among some other pathetic loser stuff, it may have went over that in the show, I dunno.
Well, if your using IE you can almost say your using Mosaic. IE is based on Mosaic, I even think version 1.0 was little more than Mosaic with MS's name and a windows logo in the upper right-hand portion of the window. Just look in the About Internet Explorer dialog box.