The Nook Simple Touch uses zForce Infrared, which is pretty much which this describes. Reviews at the time mentioned it, which links to here to describe it. I have NST too and it works fairly well, most of the time.
I've read articles (about spam, but this is similiar) that talk about how they don't *want* it to be especially believable. It's harder for them to try to be believable and have smart people drop out as soon as they realize it's a scam. On the other hand, if they're blatantly obvious, the people they manage to net will likely be the most gullible and most likely to actually follow through with a scam.
This. I work at a telecom company, and we just got a new area code allocated in my area recently. People are getting virgin phone numbers that have never been used, and we've already had them calling asking for new numbers because they're getting so many scam and junk calls.
I'd guess the intersection between users who require 64-bit Windows on a processor that supports VT-x and users who require the use of 16-bit programs that won't work in a virtualized environment is pretty small. Plus I suspect Microsoft likes the reduction in attack surface in removing all the old cruft, even if it could technically be reworked to run.
I am not a Windows developer, but I have been a long-time tinkerer and user. The 32-bit versions of Windows, even up to and including the previews of Windows 10, still include the same old NTVDM that provides support for 16-bit DOS and Windows programs. I've personally played around with running completely unmodified copies of MS-DOS Executive from Windows 2.x and 3.0, Program Manager, and various other ancient things with absolutely no trouble. This likely includes some very old code to allow this old stuff to run unmodified. There's been a bug or two in NTVDM that date back to the first versions of NT.
As for early Win32, modern versions of Windows, including 64-bit versions, will still run the early Win32 demos that came with some of the earliest Windows NT 3.1 betas and pre-releases (once the executable format stabilized).
Now whether this means there's actual literal old code still floating around, or just reimplementation of old libraries and APIs is anybody's guess. Based on some of the security flaws that have cropped up that date back to the earliest versions of Windows NT it certainly seems possible that there's some very old code floating around still. As a closed-source project, we'll likely never know. Though it'd be interesting to poke around in the leaked NT4/Win2k source from several years back and see if there's any clues. In general, rewriting tested, vetted code is a bad idea unless there's a good reason to rewrite it, so I'd bet there's plenty of old code kicking around in Windows in driver handling, kernel memory management, etc.
OS X is somewhat different since it was more or less reimplemented from the ground up rather than evolutionary from existing Mac OSes - though it'd be interesting to see what might be left over from NeXT or BSD. I believe Carbon is still part of the OS, even if its deprecated; I'm even less of a Mac dev guy than I am a Windows dev, so I can't speak to the existence of old code in that.
I used to keep several fingers at several options, although mostly it was to avoid having to go back through the early options over and over. Some of those books packed at least 20 endings into it. Sometimes I'd end up struggling to actually read it trying to keep all the places marked. Good times.
They do allow outbound transfers (it's a requirement of being an accredited registrar) but it's a giant pain in the ass. I used to do customer domain management for my company and getting the auth code and domain unlocked from these guys was an exercise in frustration. Took several calls and emails to "authorize". This was several years ago; maybe they have an online portal now.
My wife's 2003 Grand Am has two levels - light on solid means you can keep driving until you get it looked at, flashing means pull over immediately. I've only seen it flashing once - when the engine stripped a rocker arm and started flailing bits around in the head. This is an OBD II standard across all cars with the system.
Incidentally, they sell a cheap ($20, and often $15) bluetooth- or wifi-enabled plug that links up to a cell phone app to read codes and other OBD II info. It's been a godsend when I was trying to diagnose a couple issues with that car.
Microsoft released Windows for Pen Computing somewhere around Windows 3.1 (1991ish?). The Pen addons continued through the 9x releases. Granted it's not really a tablet initiative by Microsoft personally, but they dabbled in it. It worked reasonably well, and was a full real copy of Windows. They pretty much suffered the same limitations as later Tablet PCs (and today's tablets), though. Mousing was great, any sort of data input was a giant pain and pretty much required an addon keyboard.
with the full processing power, heat, noise, etc of the laptops of the day.
This was where they failed for me. I had a couple different Fujitsu Stylistics, and overall I loved it. OneNote was great for notes, and had pretty decent handwriting recognition. I could run any Windows application, and overall it did great. I could sync notes across devices and access them anywhere. It was pretty impressive stuff for ~2000. But the big downfall was the jet engine fan and battery life. I'd be in a quiet classroom or office meeting, and the fan would kick on. I'd get That Look from people and it got old. I also usually only managed to get 2-3 hours out of it, although I did have a spare battery I'd carry around for it. I usually had enough juice to last a whole day of college classes, but sometimes not.
It'd also get pretty darn hot when I was doing anything that ran it very hard, but note-taking didn't usually do that.
My wife and I just last week did a marathon watching of all six. She hasn't historically been a Sci Fi fan, and she thinks she saw ANH as a child but didn't really remember it. Overall, she enjoyed all six fine. She recognized some of the stilted handling of the romance and such, but in general she liked it fine. She had no preconceived notions or expectations going in.
She'll admit the original trilogy are better movies, but she liked them all fine. As a lifelong Star Trek/Star Wars fan myself, it's interesting seeing her perspective on it all since for her, they're just more movies. She doesn't have a lifetime of expectations or fandom or anything.
The reviews on the Play store are showing a fairly high possibility of a bootloop. While I'm all for open source and public patches where appropriate, I expect I'll be passing on this one for now.
Loss of an arm? DF models it down to individual fingers and toes, and fingernails and toenails. It's quite possibly one of the most painfully accurate anatomy simulation available in an RPG.
And it's probably why I've never been able to play more than about 15 minutes minutes of it before giving up in frustration and going back to something less tedious, like Hydlide or Battletoads.
If you haven't seen any of his videos, especially the original unemployed ones, it won't make much sense. He has a certain... style of talking/writing.
I wish the designer of my company's setup had read that. I called an analyst from India who moved here Fnu for about a year before someone finally gold me that was an acronym for "First name unknown" and her real name was her "Last" name.
Very much This. Keep in mind as well that the encryption was for *his* protection, not the users'. He wanted to be able to claim that he had no way of knowing what was uploaded or what its content was. That he's still getting copyright takedown notices should come as no surprise at all to anyone. The difference is he can at least try to claim that he had no idea it was copyrighted material. It'll be interesting arguments if it ever ends up in court or similar.
You're thinking of what was called an "active digitizer". It seems to have mostly been used by older Wacom tablets and Kurta. It was used by a lot of the older tablet PCs, such as the Fujitsu Stylistic and Toshiba Dynapad lines. The pen would have a battery (AAAA usually) and it'd work through some kind of electromagnetic thing. Was much nicer than the "passive digitizer" used by resistive touchscreens as it was a lot more accurate and allowed multiple buttons easily, pressure sensitivity, etc.
It's rather different but might still count enough for prior art.
The funny thing is I still take a lot of my work meeting notes on a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 that was given to me last year. I constantly get people asking me what it is, where to get one, etc. Its keyboard isn't amazing, but it beats a lot of the add-on keyboards people are using (or trying to use) with their tablets, plus it's a lot more durable. It's also running a full Linux setup which I've used for some light development, writing sd cards for a couple embedded projects, and had no trouble with a lot of USB peripherals.
It may not be as cool as a lot of new tablets, and its battery life may not be up to what it was when it was new, but it's been a great thing for me. I have a 7" Android tablet too and haven't found a decent keyboard for it yet that isn't more than I want to pay. But the tablet does do media a lot better, Youtube and Netflix and such. So I tend to keep the netbook for work and the tablet for lying in bed watching something on Netflix./csb
I've always felt that Apple's problem is they hit on a successful, good formula, and then ride it into the ground and well past its sell-by date. Original Macintosh was something new and interesting, but they were still making the Mac Classic into the early 90s which was fundamentally similar and did poorly outside education (trying to sell a non-color 8mhz computer when PCs were at 33 and 66mhz? Really?). The early color Macs were interesting, but they got bogged down in the confusing product lines and corner-cutting such as the 5200/5300/6200/6300 models. The classic Mac OS was great for 1984, but it was already out of date by the early 90s much less Mac OS 9 running into the early 2000s.
If they were better able to recognize when a market was done and when they needed to bring out new products, they'd probably do well swinging back and forth. They've been on a big upswing since the iProducts and Mac OS X were introduced, but it can't last forever. Granted it's anecdotal and hardly indicative of anything but I have several Apple fan friends who bought Galaxy S3s because they were unhappy with the iPhone 5. It's probably still got several years left but it'll be interesting to see if Apple leverages their iOS lead and fandom into a new world, or we end up in a world of Performas and Centrises again.
Not that I care personally, I'll keep my Android and Linux thanks. More an academic interest as a computer guy.
30 pin SIMMS are readily available at least up to 16MB a stick, they're used frequently in the vintage Mac world to get the likes of SE/30s and IIcis up to 128 MB of RAM. I can't say they're the biggest but it's the biggest I've seen.
They're really surprisingly affordable for what they are. I suspect they'd work fine in the majority of 386 boards (and I've seen 386 boards with 8 SIMM slots)
Like many electronics, you have the choice of going cheap/basic or expensive/fancy. Some mobo makers are better about providing lots of overclock options, sometimes down to the single MHz on the bus/etc. Not to mention various choices in onboard peripherals - some people don't mind onboard NICs and sound, or even video, while others want absolutely minimum on the board at all and go for high-power enthusiast options.
Don't feel bad, I've been using Windows since the 3.1 days and had to google on how to shut down as well. I can only assume it's further design of the tablet-intended nature of the OS where you generally don't fully shut down.
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The Nook Simple Touch uses zForce Infrared, which is pretty much which this describes. Reviews at the time mentioned it, which links to here to describe it. I have NST too and it works fairly well, most of the time.
I've read articles (about spam, but this is similiar) that talk about how they don't *want* it to be especially believable. It's harder for them to try to be believable and have smart people drop out as soon as they realize it's a scam. On the other hand, if they're blatantly obvious, the people they manage to net will likely be the most gullible and most likely to actually follow through with a scam.
This. I work at a telecom company, and we just got a new area code allocated in my area recently. People are getting virgin phone numbers that have never been used, and we've already had them calling asking for new numbers because they're getting so many scam and junk calls.
I'd guess the intersection between users who require 64-bit Windows on a processor that supports VT-x and users who require the use of 16-bit programs that won't work in a virtualized environment is pretty small. Plus I suspect Microsoft likes the reduction in attack surface in removing all the old cruft, even if it could technically be reworked to run.
I am not a Windows developer, but I have been a long-time tinkerer and user. The 32-bit versions of Windows, even up to and including the previews of Windows 10, still include the same old NTVDM that provides support for 16-bit DOS and Windows programs. I've personally played around with running completely unmodified copies of MS-DOS Executive from Windows 2.x and 3.0, Program Manager, and various other ancient things with absolutely no trouble. This likely includes some very old code to allow this old stuff to run unmodified. There's been a bug or two in NTVDM that date back to the first versions of NT.
As for early Win32, modern versions of Windows, including 64-bit versions, will still run the early Win32 demos that came with some of the earliest Windows NT 3.1 betas and pre-releases (once the executable format stabilized).
Now whether this means there's actual literal old code still floating around, or just reimplementation of old libraries and APIs is anybody's guess. Based on some of the security flaws that have cropped up that date back to the earliest versions of Windows NT it certainly seems possible that there's some very old code floating around still. As a closed-source project, we'll likely never know. Though it'd be interesting to poke around in the leaked NT4/Win2k source from several years back and see if there's any clues. In general, rewriting tested, vetted code is a bad idea unless there's a good reason to rewrite it, so I'd bet there's plenty of old code kicking around in Windows in driver handling, kernel memory management, etc.
OS X is somewhat different since it was more or less reimplemented from the ground up rather than evolutionary from existing Mac OSes - though it'd be interesting to see what might be left over from NeXT or BSD. I believe Carbon is still part of the OS, even if its deprecated; I'm even less of a Mac dev guy than I am a Windows dev, so I can't speak to the existence of old code in that.
I used to keep several fingers at several options, although mostly it was to avoid having to go back through the early options over and over. Some of those books packed at least 20 endings into it. Sometimes I'd end up struggling to actually read it trying to keep all the places marked. Good times.
They do allow outbound transfers (it's a requirement of being an accredited registrar) but it's a giant pain in the ass. I used to do customer domain management for my company and getting the auth code and domain unlocked from these guys was an exercise in frustration. Took several calls and emails to "authorize". This was several years ago; maybe they have an online portal now.
I love that Dogecoin is apparently a big enough thing now to be mentioned in the same breath as Bitcoin and Litecoin.
My wife's 2003 Grand Am has two levels - light on solid means you can keep driving until you get it looked at, flashing means pull over immediately. I've only seen it flashing once - when the engine stripped a rocker arm and started flailing bits around in the head. This is an OBD II standard across all cars with the system.
Incidentally, they sell a cheap ($20, and often $15) bluetooth- or wifi-enabled plug that links up to a cell phone app to read codes and other OBD II info. It's been a godsend when I was trying to diagnose a couple issues with that car.
Microsoft released Windows for Pen Computing somewhere around Windows 3.1 (1991ish?). The Pen addons continued through the 9x releases. Granted it's not really a tablet initiative by Microsoft personally, but they dabbled in it. It worked reasonably well, and was a full real copy of Windows. They pretty much suffered the same limitations as later Tablet PCs (and today's tablets), though. Mousing was great, any sort of data input was a giant pain and pretty much required an addon keyboard.
with the full processing power, heat, noise, etc of the laptops of the day.
This was where they failed for me. I had a couple different Fujitsu Stylistics, and overall I loved it. OneNote was great for notes, and had pretty decent handwriting recognition. I could run any Windows application, and overall it did great. I could sync notes across devices and access them anywhere. It was pretty impressive stuff for ~2000. But the big downfall was the jet engine fan and battery life. I'd be in a quiet classroom or office meeting, and the fan would kick on. I'd get That Look from people and it got old. I also usually only managed to get 2-3 hours out of it, although I did have a spare battery I'd carry around for it. I usually had enough juice to last a whole day of college classes, but sometimes not.
It'd also get pretty darn hot when I was doing anything that ran it very hard, but note-taking didn't usually do that.
My wife and I just last week did a marathon watching of all six. She hasn't historically been a Sci Fi fan, and she thinks she saw ANH as a child but didn't really remember it. Overall, she enjoyed all six fine. She recognized some of the stilted handling of the romance and such, but in general she liked it fine. She had no preconceived notions or expectations going in.
She'll admit the original trilogy are better movies, but she liked them all fine. As a lifelong Star Trek/Star Wars fan myself, it's interesting seeing her perspective on it all since for her, they're just more movies. She doesn't have a lifetime of expectations or fandom or anything.
The reviews on the Play store are showing a fairly high possibility of a bootloop. While I'm all for open source and public patches where appropriate, I expect I'll be passing on this one for now.
The four major carriers this year got a common database for stolen phones. As far as how a phone gets onto it in the first place, I have no idea.
They'd probably rather sell you a new car with fancy new technology than let you upgrade your existing technology.
Loss of an arm? DF models it down to individual fingers and toes, and fingernails and toenails. It's quite possibly one of the most painfully accurate anatomy simulation available in an RPG.
And it's probably why I've never been able to play more than about 15 minutes minutes of it before giving up in frustration and going back to something less tedious, like Hydlide or Battletoads.
If you haven't seen any of his videos, especially the original unemployed ones, it won't make much sense. He has a certain... style of talking/writing.
I wish the designer of my company's setup had read that. I called an analyst from India who moved here Fnu for about a year before someone finally gold me that was an acronym for "First name unknown" and her real name was her "Last" name.
Very much This. Keep in mind as well that the encryption was for *his* protection, not the users'. He wanted to be able to claim that he had no way of knowing what was uploaded or what its content was. That he's still getting copyright takedown notices should come as no surprise at all to anyone. The difference is he can at least try to claim that he had no idea it was copyrighted material. It'll be interesting arguments if it ever ends up in court or similar.
You're thinking of what was called an "active digitizer". It seems to have mostly been used by older Wacom tablets and Kurta. It was used by a lot of the older tablet PCs, such as the Fujitsu Stylistic and Toshiba Dynapad lines. The pen would have a battery (AAAA usually) and it'd work through some kind of electromagnetic thing. Was much nicer than the "passive digitizer" used by resistive touchscreens as it was a lot more accurate and allowed multiple buttons easily, pressure sensitivity, etc.
It's rather different but might still count enough for prior art.
The funny thing is I still take a lot of my work meeting notes on a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 that was given to me last year. I constantly get people asking me what it is, where to get one, etc. Its keyboard isn't amazing, but it beats a lot of the add-on keyboards people are using (or trying to use) with their tablets, plus it's a lot more durable. It's also running a full Linux setup which I've used for some light development, writing sd cards for a couple embedded projects, and had no trouble with a lot of USB peripherals.
It may not be as cool as a lot of new tablets, and its battery life may not be up to what it was when it was new, but it's been a great thing for me. I have a 7" Android tablet too and haven't found a decent keyboard for it yet that isn't more than I want to pay. But the tablet does do media a lot better, Youtube and Netflix and such. So I tend to keep the netbook for work and the tablet for lying in bed watching something on Netflix. /csb
I've always felt that Apple's problem is they hit on a successful, good formula, and then ride it into the ground and well past its sell-by date. Original Macintosh was something new and interesting, but they were still making the Mac Classic into the early 90s which was fundamentally similar and did poorly outside education (trying to sell a non-color 8mhz computer when PCs were at 33 and 66mhz? Really?). The early color Macs were interesting, but they got bogged down in the confusing product lines and corner-cutting such as the 5200/5300/6200/6300 models. The classic Mac OS was great for 1984, but it was already out of date by the early 90s much less Mac OS 9 running into the early 2000s.
If they were better able to recognize when a market was done and when they needed to bring out new products, they'd probably do well swinging back and forth. They've been on a big upswing since the iProducts and Mac OS X were introduced, but it can't last forever. Granted it's anecdotal and hardly indicative of anything but I have several Apple fan friends who bought Galaxy S3s because they were unhappy with the iPhone 5. It's probably still got several years left but it'll be interesting to see if Apple leverages their iOS lead and fandom into a new world, or we end up in a world of Performas and Centrises again.
Not that I care personally, I'll keep my Android and Linux thanks. More an academic interest as a computer guy.
30 pin SIMMS are readily available at least up to 16MB a stick, they're used frequently in the vintage Mac world to get the likes of SE/30s and IIcis up to 128 MB of RAM. I can't say they're the biggest but it's the biggest I've seen.
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They're really surprisingly affordable for what they are. I suspect they'd work fine in the majority of 386 boards (and I've seen 386 boards with 8 SIMM slots)
Like many electronics, you have the choice of going cheap/basic or expensive/fancy. Some mobo makers are better about providing lots of overclock options, sometimes down to the single MHz on the bus/etc. Not to mention various choices in onboard peripherals - some people don't mind onboard NICs and sound, or even video, while others want absolutely minimum on the board at all and go for high-power enthusiast options.
Don't feel bad, I've been using Windows since the 3.1 days and had to google on how to shut down as well. I can only assume it's further design of the tablet-intended nature of the OS where you generally don't fully shut down.