I believe you intended refer to xml specification (rather than xhtml, which was not used at all here, at least I wouldn't know about a prepares-for-ass-kicking tag in xhtml):
>...but it ultimately gave birth to Microsoft, which helped make PCs available to the masses.
Ah, *that* was the missing link! Finally I am enlightened on how this all happened. My own memory of these things was far messier, until now. I'm glad that history isn't that complicated after all.
Thank you Microsoft! Thank you Mr. Silverman for enlightening me!
Your second sentence doesn't justify the first one: What would YOU do if you don't have your GUI-based image manipulation program?
If there wasn't a 'convert' program, there would be a 'mogrify' command or whatever. And I can still use it in a *generic* way. You can't come up with a GUI which would do all the things I could do on the shell.
It has very much to do with GUI vs. CLI. It has to do with the very simple fact that GUIs can't anticipate every wish a user might have. On the shell, programs don't need to anticipate anything because the user can glue things together himself.
I think the point is that the command line is much more generic. Sure there might be a GUI which will just do this resizing thing automatically, but what if your requirement is slightly different, i.e. renaming the files at the same time according to the exif header? What if you don't find your exact 'do it!' button? Settle for less?
Does anyone know whether it is possible to burn a Dreamcast bootable CD on linux? All these DC rom images come in a format which (as far as I know) is only understandable by a Windows CD recording program. (I think the format is called 'cdi'.)
Well... here's something funny: In this article they even go as far as to claim that CGI-animated porn may turn the whole sex movie making industry into a victimless crime since nobody is going to be exploited by the process.
...should be a radio station that reads Windows binary hexcode.
That way they could prove that there are situations when there's no real difference between open source and closed source. It's both gibberish (as a radio show, that is).
PSO is not really a MMORPG. The actual game is for four player parties. The only place where you see more than three other non-NPCs is the lobby... which is more like a chat room.
No, the lawyers failed. That's why Microsoft lost the case. The last paragraph in the newsbytes article says it best:
"James had been acting real tough until now," said Robert Lande, a University of Baltimore professor of antitrust law who followed the case closely. "But when it comes down to it, Microsoft broke open the champagne when Bush was elected."
The really funny thing is that you think this is something special. Jeez! "Over a month and no reboot" and others go like "I had it crashing only 3 times in the past year".
Congratulations. Welcome to the world of *real* operating systems. What took you so long?
I would expect a console which comes out 2 years (probably more) after the PS2 to outperform it. I think that's not a great accomplishment for XBox.
I just feel that the incredible initial XBox-specs now miraculously drop, the more we come closer to the real thing. Nobody should be interested in how many plain triangles/second that thing can draw... but that's exactly the numbers you seem to be so fascinated with.
okay now for the really funky stuff. You know that whole thing were Microsoft has game developers who make games just for dream cast.
Im not aware of any Microsoft game developer who makes (or made) games for Dreamcast.
Okay now you got your story wrong its the best thing out there now but if you look at the stats the gamecube and the MS X-box kill it when you look at it.
Actually, not by that much. Here's an article where XBox suddenly doesn't look *that* impressive anymore.
The dreamcast operating system was developed by microsoft.
Wrong. The Dreamcast operating system was developed by Sega. WinCE is an option for developers to ease the porting of PC games. In such cases, WinCE is booted from the GD Rom. Practically nobody uses CE on the Dreamcast. On a side note, the only times my DC crashed was when I was playing one of those games.
In terms of what? Specs? Well, agreed, some of the numbers are higher. Great. If that's all that counts for you, then have fun with your benchmark optimizer 'XBox'.
What is more important for me is the less than impressive number of japanese developers. Yes, MS did list the Namco, Konami, Capcom... logos. But there is not much coming out by them. See this article about Konami for example.
As for me, the Dreamcast is the best console currently out.
Interesting question. However, I highly doubt that your PS2 will still run in 24 years. The lifespan of newer consoles is much shorter than for the old ones (because of more moving parts,...)
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I believe you intended refer to xml specification (rather than xhtml, which was not used at all here, at least I wouldn't know about a prepares-for-ass-kicking tag in xhtml):
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-starttags
(oh, and by the way: see 44, the white space is explicitly optional)
I believe you meant to write: :P
From the article: 5. MITS ALTAIR 8800
>...but it ultimately gave birth to Microsoft, which helped make PCs available to the masses.
Ah, *that* was the missing link! Finally I am enlightened on how this all happened. My own memory of these things was far messier, until now. I'm glad that history isn't that complicated after all.
Thank you Microsoft! Thank you Mr. Silverman for enlightening me!
Your second sentence doesn't justify the first one: What would YOU do if you don't have your GUI-based image manipulation program?
If there wasn't a 'convert' program, there would be a 'mogrify' command or whatever. And I can still use it in a *generic* way. You can't come up with a GUI which would do all the things I could do on the shell.
It has very much to do with GUI vs. CLI. It has to do with the very simple fact that GUIs can't anticipate every wish a user might have. On the shell, programs don't need to anticipate anything because the user can glue things together himself.
I think the point is that the command line is much more generic. Sure there might be a GUI which will just do this resizing thing automatically, but what if your requirement is slightly different, i.e. renaming the files at the same time according to the exif header?
What if you don't find your exact 'do it!' button? Settle for less?
From those who *really* invented the stuff?
Hum,
:)
[chicken]~> vagrind valgrind
seems to work ok. But valgrinding a valgrinded valgrind causes some ugly errors and asks for a bug report. Well, I know this isn't fair.
Anyways, this looks like a really sweet tool.
Does anyone know whether it is possible to burn a Dreamcast bootable CD on linux? All these DC rom images come in a format which (as far as I know) is only understandable by a Windows CD recording program. (I think the format is called 'cdi'.)
I'm surprised to learn that the xbox comes out of the box with your sysadmin features set up.
I claim that the North Atlantic has more bandwidth than your cable modem. The latency is another story though.
Just a side note, completely OT: Are you aware that your signature is ridiculous? 'IE Windows integration' has nothing to do with 'monopoly'.
Why is that? And wouldn't it be cheaper to turn an old 700 MHz PC into a sysadm tool? I'm serious, why the heck would an xbox be any good?
Hey, it's just a link. Not my opinion.
...should be a radio station that reads Windows binary hexcode.
That way they could prove that there are situations when there's no real difference between open source and closed source. It's both gibberish (as a radio show, that is).
Unfortunately this is not an option, I'd like people to know that I'm NOT using MSIE. I'd rather choose not to see the web site in such cases.
Hum... you forgot a 'h' here:
'...that is based on the Mach kernel.'
PSO is not really a MMORPG. The actual game is for four player parties. The only place where you see more than three other non-NPCs is the lobby... which is more like a chat room.
i++;
i--;
Let's keep on going. Maybe we can turn this into an operating system or a relational database. Or something.
No, the lawyers failed. That's why Microsoft lost the case. The last paragraph in the newsbytes article says it best:
"James had been acting real tough until now," said Robert Lande, a University of Baltimore professor of antitrust law who followed the case closely. "But when it comes down to it, Microsoft broke open the champagne when Bush was elected."
dogdoo.com. They might appreciate your business.
Congratulations. Welcome to the world of *real* operating systems. What took you so long?
I just feel that the incredible initial XBox-specs now miraculously drop, the more we come closer to the real thing. Nobody should be interested in how many plain triangles/second that thing can draw... but that's exactly the numbers you seem to be so fascinated with.
okay now for the really funky stuff. You know that whole thing were Microsoft has game developers who make games just for dream cast.
Im not aware of any Microsoft game developer who makes (or made) games for Dreamcast.
Actually, not by that much. Here's an article where XBox suddenly doesn't look *that* impressive anymore.
The dreamcast operating system was developed by microsoft.
Wrong. The Dreamcast operating system was developed by Sega. WinCE is an option for developers to ease the porting of PC games. In such cases, WinCE is booted from the GD Rom. Practically nobody uses CE on the Dreamcast. On a side note, the only times my DC crashed was when I was playing one of those games.
In terms of what? Specs? Well, agreed, some of the numbers are higher. Great. If that's all that counts for you, then have fun with your benchmark optimizer 'XBox'.
What is more important for me is the less than impressive number of japanese developers. Yes, MS did list the Namco, Konami, Capcom... logos. But there is not much coming out by them. See this article about Konami for example.
As for me, the Dreamcast is the best console currently out.
Interesting question. However, I highly doubt that your PS2 will still run in 24 years. The lifespan of newer consoles is much shorter than for the old ones (because of more moving parts,...)