I can assure you that the majority of people don't even know what 3G is, let alone that it's a "must have" feature
Possibly true for your average Joe but amongst the demographic the Phone is aimed at, they know. I'm sitting here at work surrounded by people talking about their latest phone and it's buzzword city - blah blah GPS blah blah 3G blah blah HSDPA blah quad band etc. Heck some of them are upgrading their 3G's to something with even more bells and whistles.
Whilst people will buy it as a fashion statement, it's going to struggle as it's previous generation in some ways. It's biggest problem is it doesn't support 3G which for many people is a must have feature.
Interesting, thanks. I knew the ST GEM was a fork but I don't think Atari were much up to updating it -look how long it took for colour icons to appear let alone anything clever. It barely changed between 1985 and 1990 bar patches to support newer hardware variants. Heck, even Multi-TOS was based on the free MiNT clone of TOS.
Elite never made it to the Atari 8bit which still annoys people today. It may be that by the time they started porting Elite (it sold BBCs initially so didn't get ported for some time) that the Atari 8bit market in Europe was too small to bother. There rumours of initial development work but nothing has ever turned up. You can get all versions of Elite from Ian Bell's site: http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/
Is that between 1975 and 1979 (just 4 short years) we went from the Altair kit and its switches and LEDs to the Atari 800 with multimode graphics, sprites, extensible OS and 4 channel sound. In the middle was the Apple II, affordable mass storage on floppies etc.
Interesting info here including several machines I'd never heard of: http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml
>Oh go on, admit it, the Atari operating system and GUI was crap.
The OS wasn't so bad - nice ot program in C and well documented. The GUI was pretty dire though but then they bought that in and then there was the Apple litigation over GEM that effectively killed it (not allowed to have overlapping windows ffs..)
>What the game designers of today would do with the 8Kb and 16 colors of Atari 2600
256 bytes of RAM actually and almost no video hardware - everything was done using a kernal loop and cycle counting to draw the screen.
I never had an Apple II or access to one but was told that the manual had a bit about the tapes and noted that if you could understand the noises they held when played on a normal HiFi deck 'you were a mutant and would go far in life'. True?
I have always been a dyed in the wool Atari nut. I started with an Atari 2600, then 400, 800, 130XE, 520STM, 1040STe, Mega STe then Falcon. Much as I loved the whole Atari thing, and with the ST I programmed them, wrote about them, played games, did my accounts, ran spreadsheets and all that good stuff, and despite waging many a 'My ST beats your Amiga' war, I can now come clean and say that actually, the ST was a bit crap. It was OK in hi-res with the laser printer and top notch monitor but in most other respects it really was a bit bland.
>Isn't the girl suffering enough from having a boy's name?
You mean you people call kids Chad? I thought Randy was bad enough and don't get me started on Randy Vanwarmer or whatever his name was (70's singer).
1. Does it run under Linux?
2. In Soviet Russia blah blah blahs you!
3. It's the left wing cheese eating surrender monkeys
4. It's the right wing religious nut jobs
4. Profit!
I've been writing for both print and online mags for 15+ years and have never been hassled by a supplier over a bad review or been offered anything for a good review (UK based). Most editors I've worked for have been very clear about working to a 'ad dept does not talk to editorial' policy.
I've often been told about how much US editorial is 'bought' but wasn't aware it was so endemic globally.
The closest I've ever come to any possibility of being bought is that some manufacturers let you keep the hardware/software and some insist on having it back after the review period. In recent years this has shifted to the latter in the UK due to changes in tax law that prevent review kit from being treated as tax deductible.
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Ah, give that man a banana. This is something I've started to recognise myself in recent years. Since forever I've hoarded stuff 'just in case'. Everytime I move house I drag along hundreds of VHS tapes, piles of CDs, mementos and other junk. My PC has old programs, emails, data files etc. often dating back 20+ years and most I never, ever look at. I kept telling myself it would be good to keep, maybe I'm the only person who kept a copy of that obscure documentary from 1985? That email would be fun from 1990 and so on.
Then my wife got medieval on me and made me throw out 99% of the tapes and started a rule that any CD that didn't get listened to for say a year got ebay'd or sent to the charity shop. And the data and emails? I pulled out the hard drives on the shelf, checked for anything *really* important (the resulting zip file from 7 hard drives was less than 100k), wiped them (properly, before anyone starts to warn me about that) and sold them. At each stage it felt like having a huge weight lifted from my soul.
The long and the short is, I now periodically just blitz my emails and if anything is that important, they'll come back to me. Now I have considerably less stress worrying about all the oustanding jobs I'm supposed to be doing.
I'm currently working on a project for a top 10 (global) bank that's being ported to 'new' infrastructure and it's being built using: AIX Korn Shell scripts C Cobol Oracle
>...that pirates are better than ninjas. You never get to read about ninja treasure found underwater !
That's because Ninja's are far better at hiding their underwater treasure troves.
>Tech Report had to upgrade their PC's PSU to 750W
Daddy? Why did all the energy get used up and the planet die?
Well son, we umm, liked to play a lot of games.
>maybe you are consistently rude
It's rude saying people shouldn't be self-obsessed with their looks?
Clearly we're on different wavelengths beacase the rest of your post struck me as just plain bizarre.
I've got a bald patch on top, a thin bit at the front and the usual back & sides stuff but it really doesn't bother me and I certainly don't feel a need to be in alliences c/o my hair cut.
This reminds me of a sketch on the (late 70's/early 80's) BBC comedy sketch show Not The Nine O'Clock News where Rowan Atkinson played a Judge. I can't remember it verbatim but when the phrase VCR came up the Judge stopped precedings and asked what it was. It was explained it was a device for recording TV programs on to tape 'Oh, what will they think of next!' he says before they continue. Then the same thing happens with the idea of computers - all explained to the crusty judge. Then the subject of blow up sex dolls come up at which point the excited judge jumps in 'I know what that one is! The deluxe model with realistic hair and 3 holes!'
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I'm sure they are - just this version isn't it which is kind of the point Mr stroppy.
Whilst people will buy it as a fashion statement, it's going to struggle as it's previous generation in some ways. It's biggest problem is it doesn't support 3G which for many people is a must have feature.
Interesting, thanks. I knew the ST GEM was a fork but I don't think Atari were much up to updating it -look how long it took for colour icons to appear let alone anything clever. It barely changed between 1985 and 1990 bar patches to support newer hardware variants. Heck, even Multi-TOS was based on the free MiNT clone of TOS.
Elite never made it to the Atari 8bit which still annoys people today. It may be that by the time they started porting Elite (it sold BBCs initially so didn't get ported for some time) that the Atari 8bit market in Europe was too small to bother. There rumours of initial development work but nothing has ever turned up. You can get all versions of Elite from Ian Bell's site:
http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/
Good potted history though
Is that between 1975 and 1979 (just 4 short years) we went from the Altair kit and its switches and LEDs to the Atari 800 with multimode graphics, sprites, extensible OS and 4 channel sound. In the middle was the Apple II, affordable mass storage on floppies etc.
Interesting info here including several machines I'd never heard of:
http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml
>Oh go on, admit it, the Atari operating system and GUI was crap.
The OS wasn't so bad - nice ot program in C and well documented. The GUI was pretty dire though but then they bought that in and then there was the Apple litigation over GEM that effectively killed it (not allowed to have overlapping windows ffs..)
>What the game designers of today would do with the 8Kb and 16 colors of Atari 2600
256 bytes of RAM actually and almost no video hardware - everything was done using a kernal loop and cycle counting to draw the screen.
>There has of course, been no reply.
I'm not surprised, it was a bit juvenile and inflamatory.
I never had an Apple II or access to one but was told that the manual had a bit about the tapes and noted that if you could understand the noises they held when played on a normal HiFi deck 'you were a mutant and would go far in life'. True?
I have always been a dyed in the wool Atari nut. I started with an Atari 2600, then 400, 800, 130XE, 520STM, 1040STe, Mega STe then Falcon. Much as I loved the whole Atari thing, and with the ST I programmed them, wrote about them, played games, did my accounts, ran spreadsheets and all that good stuff, and despite waging many a 'My ST beats your Amiga' war, I can now come clean and say that actually, the ST was a bit crap. It was OK in hi-res with the laser printer and top notch monitor but in most other respects it really was a bit bland.
>Isn't the girl suffering enough from having a boy's name?
You mean you people call kids Chad? I thought Randy was bad enough and don't get me started on Randy Vanwarmer or whatever his name was (70's singer).
You're right. And I can't count above 4 either. Dammit, a flippant and ill-conceived post if ever there was one.
1. Does it run under Linux?
2. In Soviet Russia blah blah blahs you!
3. It's the left wing cheese eating surrender monkeys
4. It's the right wing religious nut jobs
4. Profit!
Just to show some sites do print less than praising reviews (and live to see another day)/ transfermyvideo.htm e s/r-firewall.htm o n/photocoach.htm
http://www.practicalpc.co.uk/reviews/soft/leisure
http://www.practicalpc.co.uk/reviews/soft/utiliti
http://www.practicalpc.co.uk/reviews/soft/educati
I've been writing for both print and online mags for 15+ years and have never been hassled by a supplier over a bad review or been offered anything for a good review (UK based). Most editors I've worked for have been very clear about working to a 'ad dept does not talk to editorial' policy.
I've often been told about how much US editorial is 'bought' but wasn't aware it was so endemic globally.
The closest I've ever come to any possibility of being bought is that some manufacturers let you keep the hardware/software and some insist on having it back after the review period. In recent years this has shifted to the latter in the UK due to changes in tax law that prevent review kit from being treated as tax deductible.
Ah, give that man a banana. This is something I've started to recognise myself in recent years. Since forever I've hoarded stuff 'just in case'. Everytime I move house I drag along hundreds of VHS tapes, piles of CDs, mementos and other junk. My PC has old programs, emails, data files etc. often dating back 20+ years and most I never, ever look at. I kept telling myself it would be good to keep, maybe I'm the only person who kept a copy of that obscure documentary from 1985? That email would be fun from 1990 and so on.
Then my wife got medieval on me and made me throw out 99% of the tapes and started a rule that any CD that didn't get listened to for say a year got ebay'd or sent to the charity shop. And the data and emails? I pulled out the hard drives on the shelf, checked for anything *really* important (the resulting zip file from 7 hard drives was less than 100k), wiped them (properly, before anyone starts to warn me about that) and sold them. At each stage it felt like having a huge weight lifted from my soul.
The long and the short is, I now periodically just blitz my emails and if anything is that important, they'll come back to me. Now I have considerably less stress worrying about all the oustanding jobs I'm supposed to be doing.
I'm currently working on a project for a top 10 (global) bank that's being ported to 'new' infrastructure and it's being built using:
AIX
Korn Shell scripts
C
Cobol
Oracle
Dang, out of date before it starts.
I wish I had some mod points left, that was brilliant! Inspired! Good one :-)
(who marked this troll? sort out your humour dude)
>...that pirates are better than ninjas. You never get to read about ninja treasure found underwater !
That's because Ninja's are far better at hiding their underwater treasure troves.
>Tech Report had to upgrade their PC's PSU to 750W
Daddy? Why did all the energy get used up and the planet die?
Well son, we umm, liked to play a lot of games.
>maybe you are consistently rude
It's rude saying people shouldn't be self-obsessed with their looks?
Clearly we're on different wavelengths beacase the rest of your post struck me as just plain bizarre.
I've got a bald patch on top, a thin bit at the front and the usual back & sides stuff but it really doesn't bother me and I certainly don't feel a need to be in alliences c/o my hair cut.
This reminds me of a sketch on the (late 70's/early 80's) BBC comedy sketch show Not The Nine O'Clock News where Rowan Atkinson played a Judge. I can't remember it verbatim but when the phrase VCR came up the Judge stopped precedings and asked what it was. It was explained it was a device for recording TV programs on to tape 'Oh, what will they think of next!' he says before they continue. Then the same thing happens with the idea of computers - all explained to the crusty judge. Then the subject of blow up sex dolls come up at which point the excited judge jumps in 'I know what that one is! The deluxe model with realistic hair and 3 holes!'