WOW... My mom had a gateway computer shipped to her house via UPS. The box only had very minor damage. All cards were in place, even the video card that wasn't screwed in place.
UPS doesn't want ot screw with a customer like Gateway. And they can easily see they are Gateway boxes.:-)
My guess is that anyone who brings the word "sophisticated" into the same sentence including the name "Space Ghost" is in serious need of professional help.
It wouldn't be horribly useful if the CPU was fixated on disk bound data. But for lazy programs with little concept of memory efficiency. Swap out, and if its needed again swap in.
Seeing as anyone can jam a pin into the grrove of a record and hear music (at the cost of the record perhaps).
I'd say that a record player doesn't have to do much interpreting. Nothing turing complete anyways (up the bass!). And therefore it cannot be considered software.
I'm guessing its best to compress the streams seperately and use a compression method that can take advantage of the generally static nature of the input (lack of panning, long periods of noone passing, etc).
Save the interleaving imagery to the guys who want to make books out of water.
Point is, some planets take longer to swing around their sun than other planets. Hence light will travel different distances within those different time frames and on one planet a light year will be a different distance than a light year on another.
Even despite the fact that a year is how long a planet take to swing around a star and that light speed is constant.
If you can mash the OS into a 64 meg area you can have one 256 meg stick of RAM and maybe pull some sort of portable thing off.
A.5 gig OS is silly on a harddriveless portable device. Has anyone tried making a useful Linux distro for a 185 meg mini-CD? You can't fit anything on a floppy any more...
I'm kinda unhappy about the C64 being axed too, it was quite flexible and probably should have had portable versions out by now.;-)
Problem is that those fugly Apples with their fugly "OS" and their fugly displays seem to have shoved out any consideration of the C64. God I hated those Apple things. It was next to impossible to find out how to program them too. Mainly they were ugly on all levels though.:-)
The 16 simultaneous colors is not a matter of total control, at the resolution you state you can only have TWO distinct colors per 8x8 character block. Thats pretty sad.
Feel free to point me to cool SID tunes that don't sound like they were rendered on a piezo element. As I recall it was all classical stuff. Greatest thing I remember was playing Daisy on my disk drive.
Oh, and my copy of GEOS magically broke one day. Those REL files are weird stuff.
Sorry, it was awfully painless. Amiga was a whole new architecture. Few people were grumbling about leaving 160x200 4 color graphics behind for 320x400 psudo-4096 color graphics. Heck, it blew 8 bit out of the water, 32-bit cpu! Actual wave-table synthesis, gave rise to the.mod scene. SID tunes are painful to hear most of the time.
Oh, and Amigas started to have harddrives put on them.
Saying Commodore 64 users grumbled when they moved to the Amiga is like saying residents of hell grumbled when Mr. Snowcone made his rounds.
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They have developed a CD/DVD addon and use the Gamecube's expansion ports to implement it.
:-)
Pretty quick if you ask me.
Actually took a while considering the number of parties interested in near-free games for it. Japan has had the GameCube for several weeks.
Considering how serious Nintendo was about halting piracy, its kinda scary how quickly they cut through the security. Still took them a few days.
Sorry, to simulate a room you need not simulate the known universe it lies in at the same time.
:-)
After a few light-centuries you can start cutting corners...
I've seen my mailer take 1.1G RAM. Granted it was trying to send out a 700 meg file. But my excess of RAM really helped!
Ship yourself in a box. Mark it "Fragile". See what happens. (Some guy did this in Ohio as a science project).
Did he get run through with a fork-lift?
WOW... My mom had a gateway computer shipped to her house via UPS. The box only had very minor damage. All cards were in place, even the video card that wasn't screwed in place.
:-)
UPS doesn't want ot screw with a customer like Gateway. And they can easily see they are Gateway boxes.
My guess is that anyone who brings the word "sophisticated" into the same sentence including the name "Space Ghost" is in serious need of professional help.
I am downloading as we speak all the DNS records in the planet into my /etc/hosts file
How much space would that take up?
Out of curiousity...
Ideally the Level Of Detail would scale to the capabilities of the host system.
Of course that says nothing about AI, game mechanics, etc.
Working set or rarely used bloat?
It wouldn't be horribly useful if the CPU was fixated on disk bound data. But for lazy programs with little concept of memory efficiency. Swap out, and if its needed again swap in.
All the more space for disk buffers.
Seeing as anyone can jam a pin into the grrove of a record and hear music (at the cost of the record perhaps).
:-)
I'd say that a record player doesn't have to do much interpreting. Nothing turing complete anyways (up the bass!). And therefore it cannot be considered software.
Now, about the game of life...
I'm not sure theyre booleans after that...
:-)
Should call them poneans or something.
I'm guessing its best to compress the streams seperately and use a compression method that can take advantage of the generally static nature of the input (lack of panning, long periods of noone passing, etc).
Save the interleaving imagery to the guys who want to make books out of water.
Suggest any framerate you want, but PLEASE do not comment on your view of what rates the eye can use/detect/benefit from.
:-)
Wars have started that way.
Point is, some planets take longer to swing around their sun than other planets. Hence light will travel different distances within those different time frames and on one planet a light year will be a different distance than a light year on another.
Even despite the fact that a year is how long a planet take to swing around a star and that light speed is constant.
Light years avoid the whole kilometer/mile issue.
Light travels the same speed no matter how big the measurement units are. The numbers will change accordingly, the speed is something of a constant.
If you can mash the OS into a 64 meg area you can have one 256 meg stick of RAM and maybe pull some sort of portable thing off.
.5 gig OS is silly on a harddriveless portable device. Has anyone tried making a useful Linux distro for a 185 meg mini-CD? You can't fit anything on a floppy any more...
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I'm kinda unhappy about the C64 being axed too, it was quite flexible and probably should have had portable versions out by now. ;-)
:-)
Problem is that those fugly Apples with their fugly "OS" and their fugly displays seem to have shoved out any consideration of the C64. God I hated those Apple things. It was next to impossible to find out how to program them too. Mainly they were ugly on all levels though.
Be nice if the user could config the color. I'd like to see the occasional orange screen of death...
i wonder what happens if you mix an explosive chemical with your gasoline
;-)
Like what? Gasoline?
Yes, combustion engines need combusty stuff to work...
Whelp, my bad, I thought it was a cool name for what the Amiga had.
Those 4 channels made up a pretty cool MOD standard.
If the core is 32 bit then its 32 bit. '020 and up were full 32 bitters also.
The 16 simultaneous colors is not a matter of total control, at the resolution you state you can only have TWO distinct colors per 8x8 character block. Thats pretty sad.
Feel free to point me to cool SID tunes that don't sound like they were rendered on a piezo element. As I recall it was all classical stuff. Greatest thing I remember was playing Daisy on my disk drive.
Oh, and my copy of GEOS magically broke one day. Those REL files are weird stuff.
and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive.
So they finally built an axe and a can of gasoline into the OS?
AmiNet still gets new submissions too. My comments stand.
Moving from C-64 to Amiga had people grumbling
.mod scene. SID tunes are painful to hear most of the time.
Sorry, it was awfully painless. Amiga was a whole new architecture. Few people were grumbling about leaving 160x200 4 color graphics behind for 320x400 psudo-4096 color graphics. Heck, it blew 8 bit out of the water, 32-bit cpu! Actual wave-table synthesis, gave rise to the
Oh, and Amigas started to have harddrives put on them.
Saying Commodore 64 users grumbled when they moved to the Amiga is like saying residents of hell grumbled when Mr. Snowcone made his rounds.
Oh come on... An operating system == AOL interface?
:-)
Why not? They could hack up Linux and put their client on it. BOOM! America On Linux