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Excellent work! Works good on my PC when running live! but Qemu no likey it stops at the Vesa 2.0
detection! But it is just an emulator the good thing is that it works on real hardware
Coddy wrote:Excellent work! Works good on my PC when running live! but Qemu no likey it stops at the Vesa 2.0
detection! But it is just an emulator the good thing is that it works on real hardware
Add the -vga std parameter to QEmu and it will work as well.
Coddy wrote:Excellent work! Works good on my PC when running live! but Qemu no likey it stops at the Vesa 2.0
detection! But it is just an emulator the good thing is that it works on real hardware
that is a very bad thing to think...
too many people assume this, but its not true -- the problem is, each and every computer is different, and just because it works on 40million computers doesnt mean it will work on all computers
for the most part, if it doesnt work on an emulator, you can be quite certain that there will be some real machines that it wont work on also (even if it will work on most) -- basically, if it doesnt work on an emulator, then there is either something wrong with your code, or your making assumptions about things, that just happen to be true or irrelevant on the real machines you tested on, but there will be real machines which fail for those same reasons
Looking very nice. The only thing I might add is that you might want to be careful with the "iView" name (if it's built-in or shipped or anything). I read something a while ago about Apple having the rights on the whole name thing with the lowercase "i" in it, but I'm not sure if it's actually true or still valid.
When the chance of succeeding is 99%, there is still a 50% chance of that success happening.
If we can trademark entire classes of names... I claim all trademarks matching ".+"! Once the government figures out what regular expressions are, it'll be too late.
Seriously, I doubt you can trademark anything but a specific logo/name, even if you're Apple. I've seen many things that start with "i", including things that are clearly not licensed by Apple but are also clearly Apple knockoffs.
NickJohnson wrote:If we can trademark entire classes of names... I claim all trademarks matching ".+"! Once the government figures out what regular expressions are, it'll be too late.
Seriously, I doubt you can trademark anything but a specific logo/name, even if you're Apple. I've seen many things that start with "i", including things that are clearly not licensed by Apple but are also clearly Apple knockoffs.
Gigasoft wrote:Is it really possible to trademark a single letter? What about Intel's logo, that also begins with a lowercase I, and so does i386, for example.
You both have good points and it does seem ridiculous to trademark a single letter. I can't really remember where I read it either, AFAIK it was something about Apple's request not being accepted in Australia regarding the "i", but that's all I remember.
On-topic: Did you create all the icons and graphics yourself? They look really nice.
When the chance of succeeding is 99%, there is still a 50% chance of that success happening.
one thing about trademarks... it includes anything similar
basically, if you are using a name or symbol which may look familiar to someone acquainted with another company/product in the same market, then it is a violation of trademark
you cant trademark a single letter or a number... but any name or symbol you use, is automatically trademarked, and anything similar to it, is a violation of that trademark -- it doesnt have to be exactly the same, only similar, and used in the same territory, and in the same/similar market
