I only know the way it's called in Czech - I don't know how it'd translate properly; English is not my mothertongue.

And I'm not surprised it was done in the Czech Republic. See, the plans of Jan Tleskac for a flying bicycle were the central mcguffin to the plot of several "Rapid Arrows" (Rychle Sipy in original) novels by Jaroslav Foglar, an exponent of Boy Scout movement back home in the late 40s - lot of kids remember his works which were even made into TV series , as well as the "caged hedgehog" puzzle.

At a guess, Firewire.

"Shortly after the announcement, Banks married his partner, Adele Hartley, and she survives him." (source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/09/iain-banks-dies-59-cancer )

(And yes - those sort of comments reminded me of the folks who sprayed the word "paedo" on a house belonging to a paediatrician.)

BASIC on the Spectrum for me as well. I think I was about 8-9 when I started. Did a bit of machine code (numbers, not assembler!) but didn't get into it. Got a BBC Micro, still programming in BASIC, IIRC I had some assembler routines to handle sprites taken from a magazine.

Things really took off when Dad got a PC around 1991. I started with GW BASIC, but then got my own machine and Borland C 2 a few years later. At that point I bit the bullet and started playing with assembler, and wrote my own graphics library for DOS.

For me, it was a matter of wanting to run DRDOS for its benefits and the occasional Windows program on top. See, the problem was that MSDOS was shit. DRDOS had a lot of polish to it, including a few things like the ability to undelete files (including the first letter) which Windows and even Linux cannot do to this day.

It gave you more memory, and for a command-line OS it was a heck of a lot friendlier than MSDOS, and a real boon for developers and gamers. Mostly it was a lot of little things, like the in-kernel command history. You didn't need DOSKEY or whatever, it did that automatically and unlike MSDOS, it would work inside applications. In DEU, for example, it would remember the command history on the DEU command-line as well as command.com. The CLI editor allowed you to delete words with CTRL-T which Windows 7 can't do. TYPE and virtually every other command could use /p to page the output. Oh, and DISKCOPY could copy two and from disk image files.

At the time, if you were doing DOS application development, it really had a lot going for it.

0% is stupid on its own, due to the glaring numbers of false positives that you get that way.

And in the words of L.D.Trockij, there's nothing to stop you from taking a stroll naked through Moscow in winter, if you ignore the cold and the police.
Farmers are in competition with one another, and companies like this exploit the fact shamelessly.

If this is what constitutes infringement, then fuck the law that makes it so with a rusty rake.
All Monsanto and its ilk is doing is raking in profits by holding people by the throats, and throttling progress in the process.

I don't know about the impressibe part - Have you seen *some* people?

Yes, but without plugins they're not going to be much use.

I'm not sure there's a future for that. Everyone is moving to a sandboxed model with no plugins and no IPC. That includes Windows, where Metro is so hobbled that even Microsoft can't do it - and that's where they want all new development to go. IIRC they are already referring to the desktop as 'legacy applications'. Sadly OSX seems to be moving in the same direction - iOS and Android are already there, of course.

There is no room for Photoshop, Sonar or Protools in the brave new world that Apple and Microsoft seem to be fashioning, so realistically you may end up with three choices: 1. Try and keep the old stuff going, 2. Hope it gets ported to Linux or some other system with a less draconian application model, or 3. Replace your VST stuff with hardware.

You mean, until X company decides it's no longer profitable and shuts down their DRM servers, leaving your media unplayable? It's happened several times already, with several companies.

Or what about those DVDs/Blu-rays with "DigitalCopy"... which the fine print says will only work until a certain date, usually a year or two out?

DRM might not have been designed to make things expire, but it does through unneeded obsolecence - I mean, a MP3, OGG or XVID/DIVX file will still work *many* years down the road, just as long as someone has ported the decoder to whatever new platform there is. If it's got DRM, though... not without breaking it.

 

That said, if I did that, I wouldn't EVER shake off the suspicion that I'm involved in drugs off my batshit family. I remember I had the envelope a cheapola chromatic harmonica was mailed to me in lying around, a family member misread the stuff as hormones, and suspected me of taking drugs or illicit supplements or shit. Needless to say, they couldn't understand why I felt utterly insulted by the assertion. Mind you, I was a legal adult at the time.

I think the problem is that the new director may be turning CSIRO into a patent troll...