A friend who works in the game industry reckons that the fact it was on the Mac at all was a big part of its success. There were almost no mainstream/known games with semi-decent graphics on the Mac back then so on that platform at least, Myst sold a shedload.
This sounds awfully like the Last One, a British 'language' from 1981 that used lines of code to pull together pre written blocks then produce the executable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)
>SJ spent the decade he was gone designing an OS that would become OS X and iOS
No he didn't. Jobs wasn't a designer. What he did was assemble teams of people who did good design for him. Where he excelled, if anything was recognising good stuff when he sees it and pushing hard on mediocre stuff until it was good.
They were found by a 3rd party commercial firm who specialise in finding lost footage. The BBC would have had to pay them then cover the cost of restoration/remastering etc.
>You think a person having taped the episode, will have a high enough quality rendition for them to use? I doubt it.
They've done a lot of work on previous DVD releases repairing and restoring from multiple sources. One series was reconstructed using a B&W film copy for the detail with the colour from a betamax home recording. End result was pretty good.
I want a keyboard, a mouse and Windows 7. Anything GUI wise that belongs on a phone/tablet or involves me talking out loud or waving at my PC, well basically, sod off.
>As a non-journalist, what is the difference?
As an ex-journalist, I have no idea. I'd say it was the same thing. You could possibly argue if you actually quoted someone it would be under anonymity but if you just spoke to people and wrote your own thoughts/conclusions it's off the record.
I have a video which is apparantly MJPEG (according to gSPOT). It plays fine on an older version of VLC on my old PC. On my new PC and new VLC, it plays but colours are all wrong and it's super grainy with interlacing showing. I thought the point of VLC was it used internal CODECs so not sure what's happening here. Even on the old PC, I've not found anything else that could play it so this is a bit of a worry.
Moore's fiance (a Nurse) was killed in WW2 by a Nazi bomb so he was no fan of them. She's also the reason he never settled down with anyone else. His view was he'd found the one for him and no one else would do.
Plus Attenborough is more than just a presenter, for a while he had various jobs running bits of the BBC culminating in "Director of Programmes", making him responsible for the output of both BBC channels. He was offered the top job but decided to return to the other side of the camera.
and patients are being asked for permission to make their records available on the system
Maybe they had more people (like me) say no than they expected making it non viable? Given the govt's record on protecting data, there's no way they were putting my medical records on it.
>They are not spending any more money on a 12-year-old product which generates 0 revenue.
I bet it does make them some money. Where I work, we still had a lot of NT4 servers until about 2-3 years ago. MS wanted GBP 3m to support them (with patches) the current year, then 6m then 12m. Needless to say, that focussed people a bit and the systems were migrated/replaced.
>I was on Delphi in '85 using an Epson QX-10 and a Prometheus Promodem 1200
Yep. I was using my Atari 400 to access Compuserve via a 1200/75 modem. Also had access to a home banking system that was being trialed in 1985. System worked via a prestel/viewdata type interface and you could do pretty much everything current banking systems did - set up/edit/stop standing orders and direct debits, move money about etc. I don't think I got onto the proper Internet until maybe 1989/90 and that was on my Atari ST. Gopher, FTP, Usenet, email etc.
>When I think Atari, I think Atari 2600.
Yeah because the 800 was just so far behind the curve when it was released in 1979. It's hardware was so dated it was continued conceptually in the Amiga (same designer). Bot had sprites, hardware assisted scrolling, display interrupts, multi channel sound and stuff like display lists/copper lists.
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Yep. Only difference was back then a walkthrough was pure text or ascii graphics at best and got distributed via Usenet or FTP.
A friend who works in the game industry reckons that the fact it was on the Mac at all was a big part of its success. There were almost no mainstream/known games with semi-decent graphics on the Mac back then so on that platform at least, Myst sold a shedload.
Strange as it might seem, the correct answer to every computing related question isn't always Linux.
Thing is, ultimately, those GOTO's are still there, they're just hidden under a more acceptable paradigm.
This sounds awfully like the Last One, a British 'language' from 1981 that used lines of code to pull together pre written blocks then produce the executable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)
>SJ spent the decade he was gone designing an OS that would become OS X and iOS
No he didn't. Jobs wasn't a designer. What he did was assemble teams of people who did good design for him. Where he excelled, if anything was recognising good stuff when he sees it and pushing hard on mediocre stuff until it was good.
It's not compulsory to care. Really. Us Brits get a bit excited (at least those that grew up with this)
They were found by a 3rd party commercial firm who specialise in finding lost footage. The BBC would have had to pay them then cover the cost of restoration/remastering etc.
>You think a person having taped the episode, will have a high enough quality rendition for them to use? I doubt it.
They've done a lot of work on previous DVD releases repairing and restoring from multiple sources. One series was reconstructed using a B&W film copy for the detail with the colour from a betamax home recording. End result was pretty good.
I want a keyboard, a mouse and Windows 7. Anything GUI wise that belongs on a phone/tablet or involves me talking out loud or waving at my PC, well basically, sod off.
>As a non-journalist, what is the difference?
As an ex-journalist, I have no idea. I'd say it was the same thing. You could possibly argue if you actually quoted someone it would be under anonymity but if you just spoke to people and wrote your own thoughts/conclusions it's off the record.
>Does your newer PC have a slower hard drive?
No, quite the opposite, it's hugely faster all round. Interesting thought though.
I have a video which is apparantly MJPEG (according to gSPOT). It plays fine on an older version of VLC on my old PC. On my new PC and new VLC, it plays but colours are all wrong and it's super grainy with interlacing showing. I thought the point of VLC was it used internal CODECs so not sure what's happening here. Even on the old PC, I've not found anything else that could play it so this is a bit of a worry.
Moore's fiance (a Nurse) was killed in WW2 by a Nazi bomb so he was no fan of them. She's also the reason he never settled down with anyone else. His view was he'd found the one for him and no one else would do.
Plus Attenborough is more than just a presenter, for a while he had various jobs running bits of the BBC culminating in "Director of Programmes", making him responsible for the output of both BBC channels. He was offered the top job but decided to return to the other side of the camera.
What about Heather Couper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Couper/ ? She has form as a TV presenter and knows her stuff, to put it mildly.
Maybe they had more people (like me) say no than they expected making it non viable? Given the govt's record on protecting data, there's no way they were putting my medical records on it.
>* My name is in the kernel CHANGELOG exactly once.
"Fixed the bit Ray M broke"
>They are not spending any more money on a 12-year-old product which generates 0 revenue.
I bet it does make them some money. Where I work, we still had a lot of NT4 servers until about 2-3 years ago. MS wanted GBP 3m to support them (with patches) the current year, then 6m then 12m. Needless to say, that focussed people a bit and the systems were migrated/replaced.
>I was on Delphi in '85 using an Epson QX-10 and a Prometheus Promodem 1200
Yep. I was using my Atari 400 to access Compuserve via a 1200/75 modem. Also had access to a home banking system that was being trialed in 1985. System worked via a prestel/viewdata type interface and you could do pretty much everything current banking systems did - set up/edit/stop standing orders and direct debits, move money about etc. I don't think I got onto the proper Internet until maybe 1989/90 and that was on my Atari ST. Gopher, FTP, Usenet, email etc.
Unless you're an undertaker.
Sounds like some crooks watched the old 80's movie Prime Risk. Except they probably didn't use an Atari 800/810 combo for hacking.
Did you really just use the word effectuate?
The fact that you can get fired on the spot like that is pretty scary. Thank God for our 'commie' European protection laws and due process etc.
>When I think Atari, I think Atari 2600.
Yeah because the 800 was just so far behind the curve when it was released in 1979. It's hardware was so dated it was continued conceptually in the Amiga (same designer). Bot had sprites, hardware assisted scrolling, display interrupts, multi channel sound and stuff like display lists/copper lists.