Ditto. I remember burning ROM's for the CDTV-CR(the unreleased unit that only made it to proto) right after they go updated images for the color-cycled bitmaps that he had created.
He also did the artwork for the original Amiga version of "Defender of the Crown", plus he wrote what was one of the most pirated games for the C64(Saucer Attack!)
Nonsense. In 1988..90 I assisted on a spreadsheet that managed the transfer pricing for a multinational firm, 18 operating entities in 15 countries, that cumulatively had ~US$1.4B in Sales. A team of 12 in Corporate did the care and feeding of the beast. Re-Calc times were on the order of 40 minutes. In Engineering, we had dozen of large Spreadsheets: Theoretical MTBF calculations, Budgets for multi-million USD$ Departments & Projects, etc. Cumulatively 100's of people at this one business used many large/complex spreadsheets. By 1990 we even had pivot tables! We were nothing special--most of our competitors likely did the same or better.
Reamde: A Novel. {a.k.a.: Don't encrypt the hard drive of an Accountant managing the Russian MAFIA's pension fund.}
Ditto... I also performed this experiment, (using the 31" Cassegrain), as an Undergraduate in the mid-80's.
[Rosemary Hill Observatory, Bronson, FL, UF]
So, I expect that this has been a relatively common experiment in many Departments for at least the past half-century+!
Directory Opus. Five major releases on the Amiga; now at release 10.x on Windows.
If you have to use a PC running Microsoft Windows; it is at least nice to have the Linus blanket of a *working*, highly multi-threaded, File Manager written by a competent programmer!
I'm sorry, I realize that somebody spent a lot of effort and thought they were doing something really cool; however I have to give the mobile site a "fail".
Its page loading and scrolling performance is not acceptable in any of the Browsers on my dual-core phone: Opera, Dolphin, FireFox, Chrome--it feels high-latency: bloated and clunky. [...sort of like the type of user interaction expectations I would have from a Word Processor written in VisualAda.NET!]
Sigh,
New COKE, New Slashdot--back to "Classic".
Basically non-functional on either my phone or the Android Tablet I am current developing on:
Android 2.3 & 4.0 w/ current Opera for Android.
This is a rough crowd--would be nice if a "Mobile Site" would work with a pair of pretty vanilla "Mobile Devices".
Maybe Slashdot needs a QA department?
As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know its true name. -- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie
