Well, there is the normal average-joe meaning of interesting and there is the understated-all-to-hell meaning of interesting.
An example of the latter: at the University of Texas at Austin Hans Mark - former Director or NASA Ames, Deputy Administrator of NASA, ect., ect. - used to teach a class in which the Airborne Laser system used to become a topic of conversation. When asked about its range (since he'd seen the classified testing documents), all he'd say was that it was effective at a 'militarily interesting distance'.
Now, that's a far cry from Tom's Hardware and the GeForce4, but maybe they're trying to get a little reflected glory rather than simply grossly underusing the language.
I can, since there's a 3270 terminal right behind this browser window. You're correct in thinking it's nothing like Unix. I can't tell you what I'd give for basic utilities that I completely took for granted when I worked in Unixland.
Perl, for instance. I know that there's an OS/390 port (same OS, different name) , but they look at me funny when I suggest installing it.
What I got from the article was that the voltmeter showed a 48.9V at load, then the machine ran for a while and was turned off, and then it showed 51.2V under the original load. But with more emphasis on description of what a layman saw than on explanation of what was going on, differing understandings are to be expected.
The thing about 3 100W bulbs pulling 4.5kW is obviously crap. I wonder if that's what the man said, or what the journalist thought he understood.
Oh well, if we never hear about it again, we'll know the answer.
That's the way advertising was in the days of radio dramas.
We bought my grandparents some tapes of George Burns and Gracie Allen's radio show - which was Friends huge in it's day - it was sponsored by Maxwell House coffee, and about 4 times a show Gracie'd say 'It's good to the last drop' and George would chime in 'and that drop's good too!'. They just wove it in and out, it became a running gag and anyone who was recording it would have left it in, because it wouldn't be Burns and Allen with out that bit.
It's not like this is unknown to the advertisers, I think what we really have here is a case of inertia.
Hopefully, someone will decide to broadcast in the clear and will be remarkably successful when the fans of their shows copy them and trade them around. They'll probably even leave the commercials in, because people who are treated like partners in an endeavor (in this case, the ongoing saga of the characters) will support that endeavor. Then they'll buy the DVDs for the extra scenes amd making-ofs, that's where the value is, and someone will see it and get really rich.
My father could easily be classified as Joe Sixpack in this context. (He has a ham radio licence and builds model airplanes, but never got into computers.)
If we'd had an unhackable computer-like device, my life would be really different, instead we had a Vic-20 and an Apple IIe.
On the one hand we have DRM tech being moved out of software and into hardware because software hacks can be easily distributed (download a script) but hardware hacks are difficult. You can distribute instructions, but it's still more than most people can manage to break out the soldering iron.
Now in a few years time we'll have downloadable hardware hacks. This is heavy duty shit. The implications are enormous. The ability to print out any circuit possible with 70's vintage tech could be nothing short of revolutionary -- we did some crazy shit in the 70's.
Imagine that instead of having to mail-order a Macrovision stripping box, or even a kit, from someone in the Loompanix catalog, your anarchy-minded non-hardware-guy could download the.cad from someone on Usenet and print it out, bend some connector pins into place and hook up the cables. Imagine what else we could do.
Even if the printers are expensive, they'll still get loose. University salvage, highly-paid bachelor geeks. Hell, when CD burners were $3000, I knew people who had them. My buddy Rog does design consulting, makes a killing, and spends it on cool hardware. He's had a smartcard writer for years, and he can download DirecTV access codes, and burn cards for himself and his friends. Imagine if he could print out ICs...
Really, this is going to be very interesting to watch.
The BeOS guys were always predicting Apple's demise.
It ain't gonna happen.
They survived 1996, which was an absolutely hellish year. If they can survive that (lost 1 billion in a quarter) they can survive anything. Apple makes money, their business is self-sustaining. If they sell the same number of macs every year from 2002 til doomsday, they can go on designing new machines and updating the OS. Hell, the place is run by NeXT guys, who were profitable before the buyout even though they had no real userbase.
In addition, they have a huge pile of cash in the bank. Apple will be around for years to come. They have a unique value to add to personal computers and won't ever have a problem finding someone to buy their product.
Now, if Steve leaves and another Michael Spindler takes the helm, all bets are off, but assuming current management practices, Apple will be just fine.
(They also made Apple build some machines with parity RAM, which Apple hated doing.)
Ah, yes, the IIci and the fucking parity and non-parity logic boards. They were almost completely indistinguishable to your average bench tech, except when they tried to boot it afterward.
You can't imagine the dance of joy that M. S. and the rest of service parts department did when Apple end-of-lifed that box.
It's not so much that W's family was in the oil business as the fact that Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton.
And for those who don't keep track of such things, oil prices are in the toilet because Russia is bringing new production online like they're Texas in the 20's, despite OPECs calls for a cut to raise prices. Russia now has the lowest cost-per-barrel and they know that they can win a price war with anyone, and be sitting very pretty when some other producers close up shop (especially ones with high costs-per-barrel like many places in the U.S.) and the price bounces back to $30.
There are few areas where there is enough clear land, available sunlight, and available seawater or fresh water to generate commercial quantites of H2.
If you have to pump or transport sea or other water any distance you lose more energy than you gain
If you haven't looked recently almost all waterfront, high insolation property is in high demand for residences.. And no one is going to build the bombs these plants will be in a populated area.
Haven't spent much time on the Texas coast between Freeport and Aransas Pass, have you? 100 miles of sparsely populated seacoast with a *lot* of available sunlight. Hell, they made an orbital launch from Matagorda Island, which lies along that stretch.
I think the problem is that the slashdot staff are not writers. I could hear Bruce making a joke, hence 'which everyone should buy'. It's funny that way, but it didn't come across readily.
If he were being an ass, he wouldn't have answered it at all.
That said, I think full transcriptions of a taped interview (both interviewer and interviewee) would be best in future non-email situations.
The best part of the Air Force Astronaut program was that only the Air Force X-15 pilots got the wings. The civilian test pilots didn't.
The Air Force guys felt bad for them, so they organized a party where they presented the civilians with cardboard wings bearing the title 'Asstronaut'.
You might want to write your senators, too. Kay Bailey Hutchison [senate.gov] and Phil Gramm. [senate.gov] Both Republicans, but Gramm and Hollings have a history of getting cozy, and Gramm has already annouced his retirement.
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Likewise, as business men and women endured dragging sowing machine size luggables around airports, the portable industry grew.
No doubt, once we got them smaller than a John Deere disc plow, the portable industry really took off.;)
NeXT had Avi Tevanian, who explained to Amelio in very clear terms why NeXT was better than Be.
Coding for Be is a bitch, coding for NeXT is a walk in the park. Apple needed apps. Once the legacy software issue was figured out (BlueBox), it was a no-brainer.
Of course, this comes from the OpenStep/WebObjects support guys who sat three cubes down from me at Apple, so take it how you will.
The BeBox was originally spec'ed to run on Hobbits, but the one that shipped was a dual-PPC 604 at (I think) 200Mhz.
When ported to the Macs, it flew. No doubt. But remember, the danger to Apple wasn't that Be was faster on Mac hardware, its that it could be faster on PowerComputing hardware.
BeOS+PowerTowerPro == some serious shit.
The port to Mac hardware was a no-brainer. The port to x86 was a gamble, and the decision to drop PPC support came suspiciously quickly on the heels of a fat wad of financing from Intel.
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The Z-80 bit was what broke my suspension of disbelief. Then it got funny real quick.
Well, there is the normal average-joe meaning of interesting and there is the understated-all-to-hell meaning of interesting.
An example of the latter: at the University of Texas at Austin Hans Mark - former Director or NASA Ames, Deputy Administrator of NASA, ect., ect. - used to teach a class in which the Airborne Laser system used to become a topic of conversation. When asked about its range (since he'd seen the classified testing documents), all he'd say was that it was effective at a 'militarily interesting distance'.
Now, that's a far cry from Tom's Hardware and the GeForce4, but maybe they're trying to get a little reflected glory rather than simply grossly underusing the language.
We can hope, right?
and she's cute too. Damn.
According to the article, they're replacing HP boxen, presumably PA-RISC running HP-UX.
Maybe Oracle and Sun aren't as snuggly as we all thought.
Also, it was encoded, not encrypted.
But what's a few letters among severe geeks.
can't speak for z/OS since I've never used it).
I can, since there's a 3270 terminal right behind this browser window. You're correct in thinking it's nothing like Unix. I can't tell you what I'd give for basic utilities that I completely took for granted when I worked in Unixland.
Perl, for instance. I know that there's an OS/390 port (same OS, different name) , but they look at me funny when I suggest installing it.
help turn out powerful computers that fit on the head of a pin with room to spare.
So they've hired angels?
I wonder what kind of deal they were able to cut with God.
And all this time I thought Carly was making deals with the Devil...
What I got from the article was that the voltmeter showed a 48.9V at load, then the machine ran for a while and was turned off, and then it showed 51.2V under the original load. But with more emphasis on description of what a layman saw than on explanation of what was going on, differing understandings are to be expected.
The thing about 3 100W bulbs pulling 4.5kW is obviously crap. I wonder if that's what the man said, or what the journalist thought he understood.
Oh well, if we never hear about it again, we'll know the answer.
No script-kiddie son of mine will be running Windows!
That's the way advertising was in the days of radio dramas.
We bought my grandparents some tapes of George Burns and Gracie Allen's radio show - which was Friends huge in it's day - it was sponsored by Maxwell House coffee, and about 4 times a show Gracie'd say 'It's good to the last drop' and George would chime in 'and that drop's good too!'. They just wove it in and out, it became a running gag and anyone who was recording it would have left it in, because it wouldn't be Burns and Allen with out that bit.
It's not like this is unknown to the advertisers, I think what we really have here is a case of inertia.
Hopefully, someone will decide to broadcast in the clear and will be remarkably successful when the fans of their shows copy them and trade them around. They'll probably even leave the commercials in, because people who are treated like partners in an endeavor (in this case, the ongoing saga of the characters) will support that endeavor. Then they'll buy the DVDs for the extra scenes amd making-ofs, that's where the value is, and someone will see it and get really rich.
I doubt that'll happen to Brandon; if it does, I'll invite him over for a long weekend and brainwash him.
And the problem with this is?...
My father could easily be classified as Joe Sixpack in this context. (He has a ham radio licence and builds model airplanes, but never got into computers.)
If we'd had an unhackable computer-like device, my life would be really different, instead we had a Vic-20 and an Apple IIe.
You laugh, but think about it for a minute.
.cad from someone on Usenet and print it out, bend some connector pins into place and hook up the cables. Imagine what else we could do.
On the one hand we have DRM tech being moved out of software and into hardware because software hacks can be easily distributed (download a script) but hardware hacks are difficult. You can distribute instructions, but it's still more than most people can manage to break out the soldering iron.
Now in a few years time we'll have downloadable hardware hacks. This is heavy duty shit. The implications are enormous. The ability to print out any circuit possible with 70's vintage tech could be nothing short of revolutionary -- we did some crazy shit in the 70's.
Imagine that instead of having to mail-order a Macrovision stripping box, or even a kit, from someone in the Loompanix catalog, your anarchy-minded non-hardware-guy could download the
Even if the printers are expensive, they'll still get loose. University salvage, highly-paid bachelor geeks. Hell, when CD burners were $3000, I knew people who had them. My buddy Rog does design consulting, makes a killing, and spends it on cool hardware. He's had a smartcard writer for years, and he can download DirecTV access codes, and burn cards for himself and his friends. Imagine if he could print out ICs...
Really, this is going to be very interesting to watch.
The BeOS guys were always predicting Apple's demise.
It ain't gonna happen.
They survived 1996, which was an absolutely hellish year. If they can survive that (lost 1 billion in a quarter) they can survive anything. Apple makes money, their business is self-sustaining. If they sell the same number of macs every year from 2002 til doomsday, they can go on designing new machines and updating the OS. Hell, the place is run by NeXT guys, who were profitable before the buyout even though they had no real userbase.
In addition, they have a huge pile of cash in the bank. Apple will be around for years to come. They have a unique value to add to personal computers and won't ever have a problem finding someone to buy their product.
Now, if Steve leaves and another Michael Spindler takes the helm, all bets are off, but assuming current management practices, Apple will be just fine.
Illustrator is made by Adobe, not M$.
Just saying's all...
(They also made Apple build some machines with parity RAM, which Apple hated doing.)
Ah, yes, the IIci and the fucking parity and non-parity logic boards. They were almost completely indistinguishable to your average bench tech, except when they tried to boot it afterward.
You can't imagine the dance of joy that M. S. and the rest of service parts department did when Apple end-of-lifed that box.
It's not so much that W's family was in the oil business as the fact that Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton.
And for those who don't keep track of such things, oil prices are in the toilet because Russia is bringing new production online like they're Texas in the 20's, despite OPECs calls for a cut to raise prices. Russia now has the lowest cost-per-barrel and they know that they can win a price war with anyone, and be sitting very pretty when some other producers close up shop (especially ones with high costs-per-barrel like many places in the U.S.) and the price bounces back to $30.
There are few areas where there is enough clear land, available sunlight, and available seawater or fresh water to generate commercial quantites of H2.
If you have to pump or transport sea or other water any distance you lose more energy than you gain
If you haven't looked recently almost all waterfront, high insolation property is in high demand for residences.. And no one is going to build the bombs these plants will be in a populated area.
Haven't spent much time on the Texas coast between Freeport and Aransas Pass, have you? 100 miles of sparsely populated seacoast with a *lot* of available sunlight. Hell, they made an orbital launch from Matagorda Island, which lies along that stretch.
Fits the bill perfectly.
I live in Austin and move in fairly big geek circles, and one day I fear that I'm going to run into Richard Garriot.
Why am I afraid? I'm afraid because I'm going to have to confess to him that about once a year I still have a dream set in Britania, circa Ultima 4.
I think the problem is that the slashdot staff are not writers. I could hear Bruce making a joke, hence 'which everyone should buy'. It's funny that way, but it didn't come across readily.
If he were being an ass, he wouldn't have answered it at all.
That said, I think full transcriptions of a taped interview (both interviewer and interviewee) would be best in future non-email situations.
The best part of the Air Force Astronaut program was that only the Air Force X-15 pilots got the wings. The civilian test pilots didn't.
The Air Force guys felt bad for them, so they organized a party where they presented the civilians with cardboard wings bearing the title 'Asstronaut'.
Lloyd Doggett [house.gov]
You might want to write your senators, too. Kay Bailey Hutchison [senate.gov] and Phil Gramm. [senate.gov] Both Republicans, but Gramm and Hollings have a history of getting cozy, and Gramm has already annouced his retirement.
Likewise, as business men and women endured dragging sowing machine size luggables around airports, the portable industry grew.
;)
No doubt, once we got them smaller than a John Deere disc plow, the portable industry really took off.
NeXT had Avi Tevanian, who explained to Amelio in very clear terms why NeXT was better than Be.
Coding for Be is a bitch, coding for NeXT is a walk in the park. Apple needed apps. Once the legacy software issue was figured out (BlueBox), it was a no-brainer.
Of course, this comes from the OpenStep/WebObjects support guys who sat three cubes down from me at Apple, so take it how you will.
The BeBox was originally spec'ed to run on Hobbits, but the one that shipped was a dual-PPC 604 at (I think) 200Mhz.
When ported to the Macs, it flew. No doubt. But remember, the danger to Apple wasn't that Be was faster on Mac hardware, its that it could be faster on PowerComputing hardware.
BeOS+PowerTowerPro == some serious shit.
The port to Mac hardware was a no-brainer. The port to x86 was a gamble, and the decision to drop PPC support came suspiciously quickly on the heels of a fat wad of financing from Intel.