Actually, if you want to prevent excesses like this, start demanding fricking tort reform, like some of the rest of us. We need an 'Unemploy the Lawyers Act of 2009' and we need it fast.
8253 timer 8237 DMA controller 8259 Interrupt Controller or even the 8255.
EPROM and ROM technology was all, and still is, 8-bit data paths.
The '16 bit' 8086 machines like the AT&T 6300 were awkward kludges that mostly existed so there could be a '16 bit bus' bullet on the sales brochure.
I still own an ALTOS 586 machine. It's a five user UNIX box that runs Microsoft Xenix. It has an 8086 in it, but is fundamentally and completely different than the PC Architecture.
Hey. It's okay to joke around about it a little bit. But don't be picking on people's obsessions with plaster of paris and deathmasks. It's just a hobby.
What I remember about it was you could buy a 'grown up' computer for big bucks at a computer store. Or you could do as I did, and buy an 8088 motherboard at a swapmeet, used memory chips that had been sweated out in a solder pot, disk drives, a power supply that didn't match the case I also bought, a used keyboard with no enclosure and solder on my own cable, an open-frame CRT display salvaged out of a dumb terminal whose signal lines (horizontal, vertical, video, gnd) were figured out with some reverse engineering....
Or you could go to the toy department of big box stores and buy a plastic cased Commodore or Atari.
The Space Shuttle was designed (badly) as a low cost re-launchable vehicle. However, when it was discovered that it would need to be stripped down to the bare airframe and totally rebuilt for each relaunch that idea sort of fizzled. Then it simply became a funding mechanism for the aerospace industry, which it remained for the remainder of it's use life. Thank goodness most of the airframes are ash now, so we don't have to continue that particular bit of 'earmark' funding any longer.
They didn't 'max out their credit card' to design the Apple 1. They resold stolen long distance time from the phone company.
The early PC clones used the 8088 chip. The 8080 chip was what grown up hardware enthusiasts were using in their S-100 computers. The kiddies had the weaker, cheaper 6502 parts.
I've thought about practices such as that myself. I worry, though, that the kind of person who will stay engrossed in a phone call while driving is the kind of person who would flip out when disconnected and engage in even MORE dangerous behavior when it happened. They'd try to reconnect, etc., putting everybody on the road at an even greater risk.
This is stored in hardware.slashdot.org, not apple.slashdot.org. So the very idea that this would be the first major step in forcing computer science to adopt the more awkward binary prefixes is just silly. This isn't the little corner of Slashdot for the Apple enthusiasts. This is the big part.
It's a big issue for nerds, almost a variant on metric system trolling. But I wonder how it wandered out into the hardware section of Slashdot.... Seems almost like a topic inspired by yet another variant of MacOS. shrug.
(for those tempted to rise up in fury and mark this Troll--- this isn't apple.slashdot.org. Go there if you want to feel safe with your mac.)
The 'plastic' waste modern man produced could be seen as a resource storage.
We're burning up a lot of the petroleum resources. Which means it goes away. Gone, not available in the future.
The portion of the petroleum that we're turning into plastic is being preserved in that form. A century from now people might be saying 'thank goodness they saved SOME of the petroleum in the form of all that plastic in the landfills and floating in that big mass on the ocean.' And then they may go on to curse the 'environmentalists' who forced industry to stop using plastic bags and containers. All the 'biodegradable' packaging just crumbled away.
Not saying this is a completely thought out notion, but it makes some sense.
I bought a Sun box one time at a University Auction. It had a full install of Solaris on it, and the root password was blank. It also had a Professor's account on it with all his data and files.
Another time at the same University Auction, I bought an old Mac laptop. It had a full compliment of scientific software on it and children's medical data from research that had been conducted.
Said 'University Auction' is at a place with modern brain-dead IT people. I am not sure they know how to 'wipe' the drives on any machine that doesn't have Billyware* on it.
(*aka Gatesware)
Another time, I bought a used laptop at that auction. Not only did it NOT have the hard drive removed, something they claimed was the case on all computers at that auction... it also had a Windows Install CD in the CD drive.
It's a fun auction, you never know what you'll find. I got a 40mW laser there once too.
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Don't blame Henry. He was part of the deal, but he was just doing what that fascist Taylor said to do. Taylorism needs to be obliterated.
Proper exercise techniques and written tests should be covered in health class (you know, where they used to teach sex-ed), not gym.
When I was in school, the Health class was taught by.... a phy. ed teacher.
Yes. I do confess. My Sex Ed class was taught by the assistant wrestling coach.
You've got a wild and creative imagination. Have you thought about becoming a comic book writer?
1.4 per 100,000 is one HECK of a lot lower than a 1% chance.
A 1% chance would mean a school of 400 pupils would see 4 deaths a year.
There is, though, a big stupid bird with two flapping wings. A left wing and a right wing. It's name is politics.
And we should simply cut off it's food supply.
I say, let them seceed and the rest of us can watch them...
I presume you'll be importing your food from China, then?
But the libertarian presumption is that free markets with full information work better for everyone involved.
Now, where did that 'full information' bit get pasted in from? I've never seen 'mandatory information disclosure' anywhere in a libertarian's program.
You seem to be the one with a presumption.
Actually, if you want to prevent excesses like this, start demanding fricking tort reform, like some of the rest of us. We need an 'Unemploy the Lawyers Act of 2009' and we need it fast.
Actually, PHP is written in C, too...
I have a Sun 386i too.
However, at the time, Sun didn't have the Sparc yet, and were looking for the migration path forward from the 68000.
Now, I can run DOS on my Macintosh SE/30 (bochs on NetBSD) and have.
Maybe he's a marketing dude for Adobe.
The 16-bit components simply didn't exist.
There is no 16-bit equivalent to:
8253 timer
8237 DMA controller
8259 Interrupt Controller
or even the 8255.
EPROM and ROM technology was all, and still is, 8-bit data paths.
The '16 bit' 8086 machines like the AT&T 6300 were awkward kludges that mostly existed so there could be a '16 bit bus' bullet on the sales brochure.
I still own an ALTOS 586 machine. It's a five user UNIX box that runs Microsoft Xenix. It has an 8086 in it, but is fundamentally and completely different than the PC Architecture.
What we really need, and will soon get, is a space race with the Chinese.
They'll of course, use the interest payments from the Obamabonanza Loans to pay for their program. The US will be funding both sides of the 'race.'
Hey. It's okay to joke around about it a little bit. But don't be picking on people's obsessions with plaster of paris and deathmasks. It's just a hobby.
That's better than 'placing a lot of faith' in a low-cost re-launchable vehicle called the Space Shuttle. And I doubt it could turn out a worse deal.
What I remember about it was you could buy a 'grown up' computer for big bucks at a computer store. Or you could do as I did, and buy an 8088 motherboard at a swapmeet, used memory chips that had been sweated out in a solder pot, disk drives, a power supply that didn't match the case I also bought, a used keyboard with no enclosure and solder on my own cable, an open-frame CRT display salvaged out of a dumb terminal whose signal lines (horizontal, vertical, video, gnd) were figured out with some reverse engineering....
Or you could go to the toy department of big box stores and buy a plastic cased Commodore or Atari.
The cool part about the story is that Steve Jobs wasn't flying kilos of coke around in the plane at the time.
He was such a nice boy.
The Space Shuttle was designed (badly) as a low cost re-launchable vehicle. However, when it was discovered that it would need to be stripped down to the bare airframe and totally rebuilt for each relaunch that idea sort of fizzled. Then it simply became a funding mechanism for the aerospace industry, which it remained for the remainder of it's use life. Thank goodness most of the airframes are ash now, so we don't have to continue that particular bit of 'earmark' funding any longer.
They didn't 'max out their credit card' to design the Apple 1. They resold stolen long distance time from the phone company.
The early PC clones used the 8088 chip. The 8080 chip was what grown up hardware enthusiasts were using in their S-100 computers. The kiddies had the weaker, cheaper 6502 parts.
I've thought about practices such as that myself. I worry, though, that the kind of person who will stay engrossed in a phone call while driving is the kind of person who would flip out when disconnected and engage in even MORE dangerous behavior when it happened. They'd try to reconnect, etc., putting everybody on the road at an even greater risk.
This is stored in hardware.slashdot.org, not apple.slashdot.org. So the very idea that this would be the first major step in forcing computer science to adopt the more awkward binary prefixes is just silly. This isn't the little corner of Slashdot for the Apple enthusiasts. This is the big part.
It's a big issue for nerds, almost a variant on metric system trolling. But I wonder how it wandered out into the hardware section of Slashdot.... Seems almost like a topic inspired by yet another variant of MacOS. shrug.
(for those tempted to rise up in fury and mark this Troll--- this isn't apple.slashdot.org. Go there if you want to feel safe with your mac.)
The 'plastic' waste modern man produced could be seen as a resource storage.
We're burning up a lot of the petroleum resources. Which means it goes away. Gone, not available in the future.
The portion of the petroleum that we're turning into plastic is being preserved in that form. A century from now people might be saying 'thank goodness they saved SOME of the petroleum in the form of all that plastic in the landfills and floating in that big mass on the ocean.' And then they may go on to curse the 'environmentalists' who forced industry to stop using plastic bags and containers. All the 'biodegradable' packaging just crumbled away.
Not saying this is a completely thought out notion, but it makes some sense.
Tear into it if it conflicts with your religion.
Slime attacks are supposed to seem disturbing.
I bought a Sun box one time at a University Auction. It had a full install of Solaris on it, and the root password was blank. It also had a Professor's account on it with all his data and files.
Another time at the same University Auction, I bought an old Mac laptop. It had a full compliment of scientific software on it and children's medical data from research that had been conducted.
Said 'University Auction' is at a place with modern brain-dead IT people. I am not sure they know how to 'wipe' the drives on any machine that doesn't have Billyware* on it.
(*aka Gatesware)
Another time, I bought a used laptop at that auction. Not only did it NOT have the hard drive removed, something they claimed was the case on all computers at that auction... it also had a Windows Install CD in the CD drive.
It's a fun auction, you never know what you'll find. I got a 40mW laser there once too.
Actually, a lot of things say cancer much more loudly. A pack of cigarettes, for example.
A quart can of benzine.
Gasoline fumes at the filling station may work for you.