You are being a little naive if you think that there are no "super moderators" with unlimited mod points here on Slashdot, and I wouldn't be surprised if they have the ability to permanently give something a fixed score (Perma -1 or Perma- Funny+5)
Finally, I had to read thousands of posts just to find that hardly anyone had an Amstrad!
I got my CPC 464 in 1986, with green screen and built-in tape deck.
The taoe deck had azimuth problems throughout it's lifetime, constantly drifting and needing to be re-adjusted - I remember Gauntlet being very troublesome to load!
When I was 14 I bought a 286 Compaq Laptop with hard-earned paper delivery money, it had a lovely sharp B&W VGA screen, and pirated Windows 3.1, motivated by games like Midwinter 2 and Day of the Tentacle!
I also used Borland tools a lot on this machine, especially later when doing my Computing A-Level. Borland C++ and Borland Turbo Pascal are still valuable teaching tools today, even on this old old (sic) silicon.
I posted the comment you are all replying to without clicking "Preview", and I'm doing the same now. The only caveat is that Slashdot shows you your comment and says "If you see a mistake, you should have clicked Preview" or similar.
Requires Positive Karma, I reckon... (clicks Submit, to the right of Preview)
Exactly, and if you saw that, you also saw my post regarding real and imaginary threats...
Back on topic, the lunar lander didn't have,massive rockets, or a lot of fuel, so it's not as outlandish an idea as some people who claim to be experts in physics are claiming it is...
No, I doubt it. These people aren't necessarily suicidal, and often have perfect eyesight and hearing, but no motor control. This man just got hope for the first time since whatever happened to him, leaving him in this state.
This is a truly beautiful, and humane use for computing. Please don't be so negative, this is an outstanding achievement, on a par with the fact that ancient humans would pre-chew food for members of the tribe with no teeth. It shows we naturally care about each other, and support each other.
...well at least if the firmware bricks your router, the hole will be closes... and no further data can get off your LAN onto the WAN via the fixed router...
And what about spaceflies? They are already endangered by all those rogue traders flying around with spacefly collectors and using them to power their jump-drives!
Which will be prone to false positives when the Wi-Fi goes down - which is inevitable in today's crappy lowest-common-denominator computing environment!
There's a solution to the "not coming back after a switch" problem, but you have to use ALT-TAB. After the game (Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout etc. - this applies to all of these and maybe more!) switches out, ALT-TAB back to it - you'll get the black full screen or a black window with a title bar.
Let go of ALT-TAB, and then DO THE SAME AGAIN but make sure you are selecting Skyrim again and not another window. That's right, ALT-TAB back out and all the way round, and back into Skyrim a second time, without letting go of ALT until it's at the front again. Voila!! Working game, no lost progress. It's very easy to do once you get the hang of it!
There was a time when you could dismiss laptops for gaming and workstation use when compared to a grey-box custom build, mostly due to the limited power available for hefty graphics cards.
In recent years, 2006 onwards, laptops have been catching up with desktops and as a result, people can now play proper 3D games on them, and yes, use them as workstations. The die-hards are not yet aware of this, and are stuck in a loop assuming all laptops are trash versions of their desktop counterparts - no longer true.
Yes, you are correct, painful but nonetheless functional. An FTP client completes the suite; if you're good, you will write good code on any terminal, provided the tools and debugging capability are there.
Obviously it's not my terminal of choice, but I still think that my green-screen Amstrad taught me more as a child than consumer devices teach children today. Sometimes minimalism is more appropriate for learning than "wizards" and whizz-bang. The programmers who took GUI for granted in Visual Studio et al, are churning out self-service buggy insecure code now. Thanks, Microsoft.
Wait wait wait... mod me down... it made me sign up, then it made me fill more forms, then agree to alsorts of EULA's, THEN it demanded a university email address.... Sorry everyone. My download is stopped. And I just corrected the GP, wrongly. Sorry! (ducks and prepares to lose karma)
And the article notes (via a link) that Microsoft previously published the number of years in total that games have been played on Windows 10 to date, a more precise metric than uptime even - so of course they know! LOL @ anyone who upgraded to 8 or 10, and trusted the update mechanism at all! Sturdy firewall, sensible usage, physically protect the network. Simple.
"Windows CE didn't have that sort of penetration" - this is not actually accurate, companies just didn't Internetwork all of their rubbish embedded systems, leaving them unexposed
I'm still surprised every time I see a new example of a living installation of CE still in use in 2015.
Examples still in use today include:
- POS and cash registers (Fujitsu, others)
- ATMs (newer ones use a variant of 7 called Embedded, the successor to CE)
- devices with a display in a supermarket that can read barcodes, and check stock or prices (so called "guns", ASDA, Wal*Mart, Tesco)
- devices used to take signatures for postal delivery and parcel delivery (Royal Mail, UPS)
- devices to log utility meter readings in the field (G4S, British Gas)
- Police Airwave terminals of various descriptions (the Compaq iPaq with peripheral for fingerprint reader paired with a PCMCIA II Airwave modem, gives Greater Manchester Police an ID for a suspect in less than 30 seconds.)
And what about this Anonymous Coward fellow?? I've seen more tripe and shilling take place under that moniker than any other, the others seem to pale into insignificance when you consider the things that account posts!
It would almost lead one to believe that every paid shill and troll on the planet is sharing the username and password for that account, which amounts to abuse on a massive scale! We should ban this account, it seems that it would go a long way to restoring public decency here on/.!
Aww, poor little thing. It's a sad indictment of the state of humanity. And so is everything else that's going on, before the trolls come along and say "Gaza" or "ISIS" or "religion" (ugh)...
Wow, you shameful parasite! You fly in the face of science and facts, and "fart in the general direction" of everyone else, and you just don't care! This, ladies and gentlemen, is a psychopath. No shame.
I think you took my comment as sarcasm. I am well aware of the bandwidth-saving benefits of unformatted text, I'm also a big fan of, and I make use of, the fact it's cross-platform and when paired with interpreters and interfaces written for many platforms can be used and contributed to by anyone on an equal standing. Slashdot itself is a good example of this; I can actually still post using my Nokia 6230i running Opera Mini over GPRS. I would, in fact, despair somewhat if I couldn't!
The universal participation, from anywhere, with any device theme I refer to in my OP implicitly refers to low bandwidth, low-memory, 8-16 bit CPUs, tape decks as storage, etc.
Also, why would most technically-inclined people disagree with me about Dreamweaver, et al? I thought we'd got over the "difference between tools and lazy macro code generators" decades ago... A compiler is a tool. Dreamweaver is a lego set, with no real tools for creating new lego pieces. And the lego pieces it provides are almost always much more inefficient than raw HTML, CSS and PHP code written by any half-decent developer! So whilst the majority of *drones in the current IT hegemony" might disagree with me, an educated engineer learning to program, or one very experienced, would not at all!
Who the fuck are you? Go die in a fire, you disrespectful worthless turd.
Next you'll be shouting web developers down for not using an automated tool like Dreamweaver, or advocating driverless cars with no manual controls. Our forefathers and our freedom are closely connected, forget one, you may as well forget the other. Long live text only devices! Long live being able to connect from anywhere, with anything, and participate based on one's intellectual prowess rather than one's socio-economic status!
Comms Section. He's conjuring up a co-ordinated crapflood of said ASCII art and press releases in an article defined in the encrypted message you see.;-0
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You are being a little naive if you think that there are no "super moderators" with unlimited mod points here on Slashdot, and I wouldn't be surprised if they have the ability to permanently give something a fixed score (Perma -1 or Perma- Funny+5)
Finally, I had to read thousands of posts just to find that hardly anyone had an Amstrad!
I got my CPC 464 in 1986, with green screen and built-in tape deck.
The taoe deck had azimuth problems throughout it's lifetime, constantly drifting and needing to be re-adjusted - I remember Gauntlet being very troublesome to load!
When I was 14 I bought a 286 Compaq Laptop with hard-earned paper delivery money, it had a lovely sharp B&W VGA screen, and pirated Windows 3.1, motivated by games like Midwinter 2 and Day of the Tentacle!
I also used Borland tools a lot on this machine, especially later when doing my Computing A-Level. Borland C++ and Borland Turbo Pascal are still valuable teaching tools today, even on this old old (sic) silicon.
I posted the comment you are all replying to without clicking "Preview", and I'm doing the same now. The only caveat is that Slashdot shows you your comment and says "If you see a mistake, you should have clicked Preview" or similar.
Requires Positive Karma, I reckon... (clicks Submit, to the right of Preview)
Exactly, and if you saw that, you also saw my post regarding real and imaginary threats...
Back on topic, the lunar lander didn't have,massive rockets, or a lot of fuel, so it's not as outlandish an idea as some people who claim to be experts in physics are claiming it is...
No, I doubt it. These people aren't necessarily suicidal, and often have perfect eyesight and hearing, but no motor control. This man just got hope for the first time since whatever happened to him, leaving him in this state.
This is a truly beautiful, and humane use for computing. Please don't be so negative, this is an outstanding achievement, on a par with the fact that ancient humans would pre-chew food for members of the tribe with no teeth. It shows we naturally care about each other, and support each other.
...well at least if the firmware bricks your router, the hole will be closes... and no further data can get off your LAN onto the WAN via the fixed router...
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And what about spaceflies? They are already endangered by all those rogue traders flying around with spacefly collectors and using them to power their jump-drives!
Disliking Muslims is not racist, it's an ideology, and a disgusting, dishonest one at that.
"Taqiyya" - pretending you're the Religion of Peace whilst plotting to roll out slavery, Sharia Law, and cruelty to women once there's enough of you.
Do your research or stfu, all this knee jerking accusation of racism is allowing the to quite simply, take the piss out of us.
Which will be prone to false positives when the Wi-Fi goes down - which is inevitable in today's crappy lowest-common-denominator computing environment!
There's a solution to the "not coming back after a switch" problem, but you have to use ALT-TAB. After the game (Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout etc. - this applies to all of these and maybe more!) switches out, ALT-TAB back to it - you'll get the black full screen or a black window with a title bar.
Let go of ALT-TAB, and then DO THE SAME AGAIN but make sure you are selecting Skyrim again and not another window. That's right, ALT-TAB back out and all the way round, and back into Skyrim a second time, without letting go of ALT until it's at the front again. Voila!! Working game, no lost progress. It's very easy to do once you get the hang of it!
There was a time when you could dismiss laptops for gaming and workstation use when compared to a grey-box custom build, mostly due to the limited power available for hefty graphics cards.
In recent years, 2006 onwards, laptops have been catching up with desktops and as a result, people can now play proper 3D games on them, and yes, use them as workstations. The die-hards are not yet aware of this, and are stuck in a loop assuming all laptops are trash versions of their desktop counterparts - no longer true.
Surely you meant space-borne railgun? Not being pedantic, as not everybody know what a railgun is yet...
Yes, you are correct, painful but nonetheless functional. An FTP client completes the suite; if you're good, you will write good code on any terminal, provided the tools and debugging capability are there.
Obviously it's not my terminal of choice, but I still think that my green-screen Amstrad taught me more as a child than consumer devices teach children today. Sometimes minimalism is more appropriate for learning than "wizards" and whizz-bang. The programmers who took GUI for granted in Visual Studio et al, are churning out self-service buggy insecure code now. Thanks, Microsoft.
HTC Touch Pro 2 with custom Android ROM... (replacing WinMo, for the observant amongst you...)
Sliding hardware keyboard + Android + SELinux = Respectable workstation.
Wait wait wait... mod me down... it made me sign up, then it made me fill more forms, then agree to alsorts of EULA's, THEN it demanded a university email address.... Sorry everyone. My download is stopped. And I just corrected the GP, wrongly. Sorry! (ducks and prepares to lose karma)
Troll, incorrect. I'm downloading my first 423Mb chunk now. Requires Yahoo! account, which I just created.
Exactly.
And the article notes (via a link) that Microsoft previously published the number of years in total that games have been played on Windows 10 to date, a more precise metric than uptime even - so of course they know! LOL @ anyone who upgraded to 8 or 10, and trusted the update mechanism at all! Sturdy firewall, sensible usage, physically protect the network. Simple.
"Windows CE didn't have that sort of penetration" - this is not actually accurate, companies just didn't Internetwork all of their rubbish embedded systems, leaving them unexposed
I'm still surprised every time I see a new example of a living installation of CE still in use in 2015.
Examples still in use today include:
- POS and cash registers (Fujitsu, others)
- ATMs (newer ones use a variant of 7 called Embedded, the successor to CE)
- devices with a display in a supermarket that can read barcodes, and check stock or prices (so called "guns", ASDA, Wal*Mart, Tesco)
- devices used to take signatures for postal delivery and parcel delivery (Royal Mail, UPS)
- devices to log utility meter readings in the field (G4S, British Gas)
- Police Airwave terminals of various descriptions (the Compaq iPaq with peripheral for fingerprint reader paired with a PCMCIA II Airwave modem, gives Greater Manchester Police an ID for a suspect in less than 30 seconds.)
And what about this Anonymous Coward fellow?? I've seen more tripe and shilling take place under that moniker than any other, the others seem to pale into insignificance when you consider the things that account posts!
It would almost lead one to believe that every paid shill and troll on the planet is sharing the username and password for that account, which amounts to abuse on a massive scale! We should ban this account, it seems that it would go a long way to restoring public decency here on /.!
Aww, poor little thing. It's a sad indictment of the state of humanity. And so is everything else that's going on, before the trolls come along and say "Gaza" or "ISIS" or "religion" (ugh)...
Wow, you shameful parasite! You fly in the face of science and facts, and "fart in the general direction" of everyone else, and you just don't care! This, ladies and gentlemen, is a psychopath. No shame.
I think you took my comment as sarcasm. I am well aware of the bandwidth-saving benefits of unformatted text, I'm also a big fan of, and I make use of, the fact it's cross-platform and when paired with interpreters and interfaces written for many platforms can be used and contributed to by anyone on an equal standing. Slashdot itself is a good example of this; I can actually still post using my Nokia 6230i running Opera Mini over GPRS. I would, in fact, despair somewhat if I couldn't!
The universal participation, from anywhere, with any device theme I refer to in my OP implicitly refers to low bandwidth, low-memory, 8-16 bit CPUs, tape decks as storage, etc.
Also, why would most technically-inclined people disagree with me about Dreamweaver, et al? I thought we'd got over the "difference between tools and lazy macro code generators" decades ago... A compiler is a tool. Dreamweaver is a lego set, with no real tools for creating new lego pieces. And the lego pieces it provides are almost always much more inefficient than raw HTML, CSS and PHP code written by any half-decent developer! So whilst the majority of *drones in the current IT hegemony" might disagree with me, an educated engineer learning to program, or one very experienced, would not at all!
Who the fuck are you? Go die in a fire, you disrespectful worthless turd.
Next you'll be shouting web developers down for not using an automated tool like Dreamweaver, or advocating driverless cars with no manual controls. Our forefathers and our freedom are closely connected, forget one, you may as well forget the other. Long live text only devices! Long live being able to connect from anywhere, with anything, and participate based on one's intellectual prowess rather than one's socio-economic status!
Comms Section. He's conjuring up a co-ordinated crapflood of said ASCII art and press releases in an article defined in the encrypted message you see. ;-0