Forgot PDC, which started/stopped the VCR when you wanted something recorded, even keeping up with schedule changes. There was even a system that allowed you to select programs off of an EPG and the VCR would record them for you.
Yeah I hate it when they do that. Not only was it digital, it was interactive as well.
Fast-text (the coloured buttons) even gave you hyper links.
Hell, you could download software to your home computer over it!
There were digital publications (Digitizer!! 8D)
There were interactive games (Bamboozle!)
There was even at one point a chat room (You had to phone up and type in your message using, I think, SMS style text input)
Finally, I remember voice controlled teletext. You phoned up, set it up, browsed to one of the sub pages, spoke into the phone and the right page turned up on the screen.
Unlikely, none of the manufacturers have done that for plasma TVs, they just hobble the screens for the EU. Bring back PowerVR and the Kyro III and TBDR I say. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Technology
Some areas of programming are still interesting, I did a lot of WindowsCE programming and it such a limited environment that you still have to think about how you're coding. The interesting part of my job these days is working out how to get 8 programmers to all work on the same project in an efficient manner. I spend more time in xmlspy and word than visual studio these days!
Apparently it's partially because our railways weren't totally destroyed in the war so they are only now replacing the Victorian lines. Which we're paying for, through the nose. APPARENTLY we'll see returns on this investment. But do we really think the private railway companies are going to reduce their fares by 90 odd percent when all the track is replaced? Maybe they'll nationalize it again! 8D Then we wouldn't have umpty billion different rail providers for a country the size of a postage stamp.
Agreed, but I think "rev-blooded dickhead" would have been funnier. In other news, I really can't wait for the day that I can sit there and read slashdot instead of having to drive when going to work/on holiday. New car designs where everybody sits around a central table and plays boardgames or something. And it won't cost 10 bajillion pounds like the train (Going 136 miles on Saturday, that's £117 for 2 adult returns coming back a week later) Roll on self driving pods.
We had this conversation the other day. The Xbox GPU is around the ATI X1800 mark, and if you look at games released on the PC in that year they look... poop.
Having a static development target means x360 and ps3 games look better then their equiv gen pc cousins ever can/could.
I would say that it's now a browser world and OS's are on the long road to becoming irrelevant/transparent.
Windows applications? At work the only windows application I use that hasn't been replaced by a browser app in the real world in visual studio and sql server management studio.
Even though the browser is currently a daft fit for applications (proper primitive shoehorn stuff) give it 10 years.
I am also a developer. I have to monitors. Each has one desktop. One on screen, I have the code. On the other, facebook.
What the hell are you doing? o.O
(Actually I also have an Xml/Xsd editor, email, database and word processor windows, but I only use one at a time and when I want to switch I just, you know, click on it's icon)
What would be really cool is if they integrated one of these linux accelerator technologies into one of the android community roms.
That way, instead of choosing whether you have your dalvik cache or data folders on fast but small internal memory or slow but big microSD cards you could just use the small fast internal memory as an accelerator cache for the microSSD card.
Any time one of the following occurs, downgrade your GPU immediately and set the screen res to VGA 16bpp.
...when you can see back in time ...when the game looks back at you ...when the game looks back at you in soviet russia ...when you see the back of your own head ...42 ...??? ...profit!
Because C#, Linq, the.NET Framework, Visual Studio and the surrounding ecosystem of developer tools (RedGate, Altova, Devart) is better than everything else.
Agreed, please everyone STFU now. Here is the one and only thing that will enable your (our) fabled Year Of Teh Linux Desktop (money!!!) and you're all moaning. Shock horror, a company puts draconian DRM on it's software. Know why? Because when they don't, nobody buys it they just steal it. And yes, DRM doesn't mean they will buy it. They probably won't. Most people I know won't pay 99p for an Android app. I saw somebody not pay 30p for an app because "I don't pay for anything on Android" I would put DRM on my stuff. Because even if that person won't come to me tomorrow to buy my stuff, I still don't want them stealing it today.
Valid argument? Probably not, don't care. Ultimately it means the end to Windows domination, which means one day I might not have to program for/work with their garbage. Except Visual Studio, which is great. Oh and the solid.net FCL and the documentation that goes with it. Also great. I quite like Word too, just a bit more polished and coherent than OO. And I love my XBox too (THAT's the reason I was able to ditch Windows at home, no more gaming windows requirement).
Ultimately, Valve are bringing stuff to Linux to make money. Probably by making the minimum cost to buying there stuff less. Also, gateway to selling on Android/Mac/iOS (larger market, cheaper entry for users into that market) A fire breathing win7 gaming rig isn't exactly cheap, it's the reason I bought the xbox. I remember having to upgrade my GPU every time a game I wanted to play came around! Also, you spent more time in ini files and registry hives trying to get it to work.
I think it makes it harder because there won't be a cap on the other countries. Now, instead of 7% reserved for the UK, there's 0% reserved for the UK. Or something like that. One more nail in the coffin of wanting to go work somewhere else one day. All *I* want to do is just go work somewhere else for a bit. I mean, who wants to only see snapshots of other countries on a 2 week holiday each year? I dream of tech-job-circum-navigating the world on medium term visas, but the US is a big barrier to heading west. Apparently it's much easier to go work in Canada.
I don't want a green card, I just want to come visit for 3 years!:(
I use Unity, on 12.04. I've been dabbling with Linux desktops since about 2000, and they always got removed shortly after. I just didn't like the kitchen sink approach, designed by techies for techies. And I'm a techie.
I've been happily using Ubuntu since 6.06 (dapper) and gleefully watching it improve in leaps and bounds with every release. I love Unity, it just works. Press Super. Type name. Click Icon. Use application. I've even started using it for software development.
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Forgot PDC, which started/stopped the VCR when you wanted something recorded, even keeping up with schedule changes.
There was even a system that allowed you to select programs off of an EPG and the VCR would record them for you.
So we had Tivo too.
Yeah I hate it when they do that. Not only was it digital, it was interactive as well.
Fast-text (the coloured buttons) even gave you hyper links.
Hell, you could download software to your home computer over it!
There were digital publications (Digitizer!! 8D)
There were interactive games (Bamboozle!)
There was even at one point a chat room (You had to phone up and type in your message using, I think, SMS style text input)
Finally, I remember voice controlled teletext. You phoned up, set it up, browsed to one of the sub pages, spoke into the phone and the right page turned up on the screen.
All that by the early 90s.
Unlikely, none of the manufacturers have done that for plasma TVs, they just hobble the screens for the EU.
Bring back PowerVR and the Kyro III and TBDR I say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Technology
Some areas of programming are still interesting, I did a lot of WindowsCE programming and it such a limited environment that you still have to think about how you're coding.
The interesting part of my job these days is working out how to get 8 programmers to all work on the same project in an efficient manner.
I spend more time in xmlspy and word than visual studio these days!
You mean like the sandwich van? :/
Apparently it's partially because our railways weren't totally destroyed in the war so they are only now replacing the Victorian lines.
Which we're paying for, through the nose.
APPARENTLY we'll see returns on this investment. But do we really think the private railway companies are going to reduce their fares by 90 odd percent when all the track is replaced?
Maybe they'll nationalize it again! 8D
Then we wouldn't have umpty billion different rail providers for a country the size of a postage stamp.
Agreed, but I think "rev-blooded dickhead" would have been funnier.
In other news, I really can't wait for the day that I can sit there and read slashdot instead of having to drive when going to work/on holiday.
New car designs where everybody sits around a central table and plays boardgames or something.
And it won't cost 10 bajillion pounds like the train (Going 136 miles on Saturday, that's £117 for 2 adult returns coming back a week later)
Roll on self driving pods.
We had this conversation the other day. The Xbox GPU is around the ATI X1800 mark, and if you look at games released on the PC in that year they look... poop.
Having a static development target means x360 and ps3 games look better then their equiv gen pc cousins ever can/could.
I would say that it's now a browser world and OS's are on the long road to becoming irrelevant/transparent.
Windows applications? At work the only windows application I use that hasn't been replaced by a browser app in the real world in visual studio and sql server management studio.
Even though the browser is currently a daft fit for applications (proper primitive shoehorn stuff) give it 10 years.
Argh, TWO monitors. .;
I am also a developer. I have to monitors. Each has one desktop. One on screen, I have the code. On the other, facebook.
What the hell are you doing? o.O
(Actually I also have an Xml/Xsd editor, email, database and word processor windows, but I only use one at a time and when I want to switch I just, you know, click on it's icon)
Agree on a standard fuel rod spec?
Yeah, you could get backup solutions based on that.
Stoopid young people. I know about wax cylinders and core rope memory, so should they.
That...
Is..
AWESOME!!!!! *8D
FETCH ME MY BBC!!!
And a FLAC equipped MP3 player.
That it also a gloriously decadent method of storage. 700MB to store about 700K. It's the Roman Empire of storage mediums.
"For data storage it used—I kid you not—a cassette tape player."
Do people not know that personal computers used audio cassettes to store data any more?
09
0A
0B
DATA!
BLOCK!
Please Rewind Tape!
What would be really cool is if they integrated one of these linux accelerator technologies into one of the android community roms.
That way, instead of choosing whether you have your dalvik cache or data folders on fast but small internal memory or slow but big microSD cards you could just use the small fast internal memory as an accelerator cache for the microSSD card.
Any time one of the following occurs, downgrade your GPU immediately and set the screen res to VGA 16bpp.
Because C#, Linq, the .NET Framework, Visual Studio and the surrounding ecosystem of developer tools (RedGate, Altova, Devart) is better than everything else.
What, all of them?! o_O
Agreed, please everyone STFU now.
Here is the one and only thing that will enable your (our) fabled Year Of Teh Linux Desktop (money!!!) and you're all moaning.
Shock horror, a company puts draconian DRM on it's software. Know why? Because when they don't, nobody buys it they just steal it.
And yes, DRM doesn't mean they will buy it. They probably won't. Most people I know won't pay 99p for an Android app. I saw somebody not pay 30p for an app because "I don't pay for anything on Android"
I would put DRM on my stuff.
Because even if that person won't come to me tomorrow to buy my stuff, I still don't want them stealing it today.
Valid argument? Probably not, don't care. .net FCL and the documentation that goes with it. Also great.
Ultimately it means the end to Windows domination, which means one day I might not have to program for/work with their garbage.
Except Visual Studio, which is great. Oh and the solid
I quite like Word too, just a bit more polished and coherent than OO.
And I love my XBox too (THAT's the reason I was able to ditch Windows at home, no more gaming windows requirement).
Ultimately, Valve are bringing stuff to Linux to make money. Probably by making the minimum cost to buying there stuff less.
Also, gateway to selling on Android/Mac/iOS (larger market, cheaper entry for users into that market)
A fire breathing win7 gaming rig isn't exactly cheap, it's the reason I bought the xbox. I remember having to upgrade my GPU every time a game I wanted to play came around!
Also, you spent more time in ini files and registry hives trying to get it to work.
Wait! Er.... What was my point again?
Excellent idea Ayn, I believe some sort of underwater utopia is in order? :)
Yes! Bluetooth? Maybe not so much. :'(
Actually I'm just bitter because A2DP is lousy on CM7 with HTC Desire.
I think it makes it harder because there won't be a cap on the other countries.
Now, instead of 7% reserved for the UK, there's 0% reserved for the UK.
Or something like that.
One more nail in the coffin of wanting to go work somewhere else one day.
All *I* want to do is just go work somewhere else for a bit.
I mean, who wants to only see snapshots of other countries on a 2 week holiday each year?
I dream of tech-job-circum-navigating the world on medium term visas, but the US is a big barrier to heading west.
Apparently it's much easier to go work in Canada.
I don't want a green card, I just want to come visit for 3 years! :(
I use Unity, on 12.04.
I've been dabbling with Linux desktops since about 2000, and they always got removed shortly after.
I just didn't like the kitchen sink approach, designed by techies for techies. And I'm a techie.
I've been happily using Ubuntu since 6.06 (dapper) and gleefully watching it improve in leaps and bounds with every release.
I love Unity, it just works. Press Super. Type name. Click Icon. Use application.
I've even started using it for software development.