And c'mon who knows if there will be PowerPC support or not? All we know is that the current developer version requires Intel.. Hell, it's probably running (as buggy as any developer version ever is) on the PPC and they may not even have decided whether to ship it or not. They may have decided to support the PPC but will change their mind before release. They may have decided not to support it but will change their mind before release.
Smaller binaries could be provided by changing the installer. Or perhaps the binaries are smaller because Snow Leopard will only support new machines built around Thumb processors.
People should stop getting their panties all bunched up. All we know is that the current developer version requires Intel..
Then I read posts about "well what about NTFS...". Yeah, these requests are off-base for two reasons. One you stated. But the other is more profound: Nobody needs NTFS support in Mac OS any more. I'm not saying that people don't have NT-formatted filesystems that they need access to from their Macs. But you already have two strong ways to get access:
Plug the drive into a Windows machine and access it over the net
Plug the drive into a mac via USB, run Windows in a VM, export / expose the filesystem from the VM to the host machine.
.Given those two options it would be insane for Apple to spend any resources on NTFS. And I don't mean insanely...great.
Okaaaaaayyyy.... So tell us who was 'terrified', and what was it that 'terrified' them? Oh come now, it's obvious: Comcast execs were terrified that profits would go into the toilet and they'd have no way of stopping it.
Yes, I can verify that your story is close to correct.
The command interpreter ("shell") for ITS was the debugger(!). You could give it commands either as shortcuts (control characters) or in long form, with a colon and the command name. So you could log in as GUMBYU (altmode was a special character -- if you only had an ASCII terminal you could use escape) or via:LOGIN GUMBY. Mainly it just set your homedir since there wasn't much difference between being logged in and not being logged in. You could type the command:PASS (or was it:PASSWORD -- I no longer remember) and send a password, but some wag added that command and the response "You're sending a password HERE?" That was probably Guy Steele). So that was ITS. Oh yea you could read anybody's mail by doing:PRMAIL GUMBY (or:PRMAIL RMS), or I think it was GUMBY^R.
Now if you came in from a remote machine not in the lab you did have to log in, but that was only because the server you talked to implemented that. It looked a lot like DDT, the "shell" but really wasn't -- it only implemented a few commands, one of which was a login command that required a password. If you authenticated then you were given a DDT with the homedir already set. By the time I started using the system in late 1979/early 1980 that authenticating server already existed.
Note this is all before the arpanet switched over to TCP in 1984. We used an older protocol called NCP.
This is the purpose of nested functions, a common feature of modern lisps and their cousins like scheme. Gnu C used to support them but due to constraints of C calling conventions of various processors (meaning you had to call code that lived on the stack) and because of you assign one to a function pointer you have to create a closure, they have been flushed.
A shame because they're semantically an excellent modularity tool. It's especially galling since implementation constraints led to their demise.
Someone should make a Richard Lolman pic, "I'm in yer ARPAnet, begging for dates." Nobody would recognize him. He had very short hair. He didn't start growing the beard/long hair until '84 or '85 and I must say it still looks out of place to me.
In those days he used to wear an "Impeach God" button to parties. I don't know if it helped attract dates. But given his current stature that would surely be...bizarre. Or should I say, "bizarrer".
They assume that just because it's called "radiation", it's the same as the ionizing radiation... from those evil nucular power stations!
That "nucular" was killer, dude, I missed it the first time.
ObvStory: back when microwave overs were relatively new I went out to lunch. When the waiter took our order my lunch companion specifically asked if her order would involve microwave cooking as if so she'd like to change it. After he left she confided that "microwaves use radiation".I t seemed this was a well-known scientific fact that the mainstream press seemed unwilling to publish.
And no, despite the marvelously weird statement (how could a wave "use" something, especially a definitional property it exhibits?) there was not a second date. In fact I gobbled my lunch remarkably rapidly.
If I can remember that far back I don't think she would have been the type to ever have gone for the weed. She seemed pretty serious about her intellectual endeavors.
Very good. The other major issues are interference (e.g. capacitive interaction between lines etc) and the sheer bandwidth -- you can modulate your carrier with plenty of other frequencies (referred to as wavelength in the optical domain and frequency in the audio/radio domain -- go figure).
Jeez, just open the case and unplug the light. Or, if you're afraid of someone coming by and "helping" you by repairing it (depends what kind of household you live in, I suppose), get out the trusty diagonal cutters. I keep a pair in my pen cup on my desk for just this kind of thing.
Looks better on the outside than an ugly black mark too.
(As for a historical note: the Interlip-D implementation for the Xerox D machines put a little bar in the mouse pointer when there was disk activity. Worked quite well, for those who liked that sort of thing. Symbolics workstations used a similar bar, but at the bottom of the CRT. Since we all have bitmapped displays these days, this is easy to do).
So how come anything at the microscale "might lead to advances in quantum encryption" just like any nanoscale work "might lead to new sources of energy", any genomic work "might lead to a cure for cancer" etc? After all, nobody said in in the 1940s, "this invention of the 'transistor' could lead to kids posting videos of their pranks for everyone world wide to view?"
How about just doing pure science for science's sake? Especially on a News for Nerds site?
If they need funding they should indicate that these microvacuums make a good alternative to waterboarding for child terrorists and pornographers.
"Date?" In that case the real criterion is: "are they hot?"
Now if the question had been "marry"... OK, I don't think anyone can answer that one for anyone else. But if the couple is too far apart the relationship is unlikely to last. But who cares for a few dates / whatevers?
Dude, stop thinking of the battery as a consumable and start thinking of the whole the mac book air is a disposable item, like a disposable razor. When the battery is fried, just toss the MBA in the trash at the airport and buy another one from the vending machine just past gate 5 next to the first class lounge.
Look, you heard it from the guy from Fox: "we always wanted rental movies online and consumers did too." You aren't a user any more, you're a "consumer" so start consuming!
Replacable battery jeez. Get with the modern world! Next you'll want to install your own apps!
-g
(I love that it's called an "MBA" -- that's the target market!)
I heard comments like this 20 years ago when distributing software sources. "Software is a difficult discipline." "Only a trained elite can do it." etc. In fact they were correct -- but the development of more sophisticated tools reduced some of the difficulty and, more importantly, the widespread access to computers with available source made it much easier to join the "trained elite" and removed many of the gatekeepers who had previously controlled access to that "elite".
This is no different on the hardware side, except that it's even more recent that hardware really became closed.
Slashdot has a higher proportion of software hackers than hardware hackers , but that doesn't mean hardware hacking isn't widespread. I just happened to read a good example for you yesterday. This guy unpacked the kindle (a closed-source piece of hardware you might have heard of) and discovered...not a huge amount yet. But what he did was mostly software so the example might feel more accessible to you. Note that he pulled his hardware apart using stuff lying around his house (an MP3-player dock + phone cable???) and didn't need to resort to anything even slightly "exotic" (e.g. not everyone has a JTAG twiddler at home). He didn't even need an oscilloscope. This fellow is representative of a huge number of people, they're just less mainstream than you're used to.
Setup: Dave Winer is a pretty smart and generally clued-in guy, so if this really happened to him, his bad. (If it happened to me it would be my fault; if it happened to my mum who's smart but thinks about other things, it wouldn't be so much her fault). I'm pretty sure he knows that an posting like this one ought to generate plenty of page views...a nice year-end gift from his advertisers!
The punch line: since slashdot readers never RTFA he won't get the page views after all!
Hey, I ain't arguing that one can measure the computational needs of any[*] program in principle, only that so many other factors apply to this question in the real world (someone's computer load, CPU horsepower, nearness of printer to person spooling the print job, phase of moon etc) that probably in any likely real-world case anticipated by those who drafted this legislation the distinction is not going to come up.
But then again in true/. style we're basically in violent agreement I suppose.
-g
[*]Offer not valid in cases of uncomputable, non-halting, non-P problems, human languages with more than a countable infinity of symbols, or O(n) problems over datasets larger than the number of particles in the universe in which said computation is to be performed. Void where prohibited by law, natural or otherwise.
"Lighter to render" is hard to calculate, and also pretty much irrelevent. PS files will often contain much more character info than is (IMHO -- YMMV) 100% needed while a PDF file will contain strings of characters which can take less time to send to your printer and less space in printer buffer. Also PDF files are computationally simpler to scale down for a small screen (perhaps not in principle but certainly in practice).
More importantly: PDF files are more likely to contain words and e searchable, while PS files rarely contain whole words these days.
(Plus I hate 'em all -- let's stick to extended ASCII!)
OK, you're old-fashioned, if it makes you feel any better, but I don't think you are.
There are two reasons for a mega-laptop:
because most laptop use is in the office (e.g. between desk and conference room) and so size is less of an issue than manoeuvrability.
some people who actually use the power of a computer really do need a "desktop replacement" -- auditors, some field engineers, some graphics folks and nerds who want to have only one "primary" computer rather than a desktop and a satellite machine.
Oh and the third reason some other./ers mentioned: some people just think "bigger == better" even though they only use IE and perhaps occasionally Word.
Face it, computers are consumer devices and though most people don't need the power many want it -- just as most people could do just fine with a Toyota Camry.
I would love a tiny machine but I schlep all sorts of bits around and need a big screen when not at my desk. I'm just glad enough others want such a machine (for whatever reason) that it's on the market! I don't care if I look stupid or suave because I'm carrying it, I just curse the weight.
I do wish I could have, as the famous Dilbert cartoon says, a 40-inch screen in a device that fits in my pocket.
his has one revolutionary part, that is not available anywhere else (to my knowledge) that is the display.
Sorry, the e-paper vendors sell those to anyone who is willing to pay, and just for example, both Sony and Philips offer book readers using the same technology. Some motorola phones too, though I'm to lazey to look up those links.
Those products are quite difficult to find in the USA, but, as with phones, there's a whole range of advanced technologies available outside the Homeland. Even when they use display technology from the States.
I already have a bunch of cool USB-powered doohickies. Now I can get USB 3-powered doohickies. Lesse,..USB ports are supposed to put out 500 mA at 5V...hmm, cool, that' about 400x what a laser pointer is allowed to produce.
Yep, I can't wait: a hub of these things...and some USB 2-controlled mirrors...
Slashdot Mirror
And c'mon who knows if there will be PowerPC support or not? All we know is that the current developer version requires Intel.. Hell, it's probably running (as buggy as any developer version ever is) on the PPC and they may not even have decided whether to ship it or not. They may have decided to support the PPC but will change their mind before release. They may have decided not to support it but will change their mind before release.
Smaller binaries could be provided by changing the installer. Or perhaps the binaries are smaller because Snow Leopard will only support new machines built around Thumb processors.
People should stop getting their panties all bunched up. All we know is that the current developer version requires Intel..
- Plug the drive into a Windows machine and access it over the net
- Plug the drive into a mac via USB, run Windows in a VM, export / expose the filesystem from the VM to the host machine.
.Given those two options it would be insane for Apple to spend any resources on NTFS. And I don't mean insanely...great.Yes, I can verify that your story is close to correct.
:LOGIN GUMBY. Mainly it just set your homedir since there wasn't much difference between being logged in and not being logged in. You could type the command :PASS (or was it :PASSWORD -- I no longer remember) and send a password, but some wag added that command and the response "You're sending a password HERE?" That was probably Guy Steele). So that was ITS. Oh yea you could read anybody's mail by doing :PRMAIL GUMBY (or :PRMAIL RMS), or I think it was GUMBY^R.
The command interpreter ("shell") for ITS was the debugger(!). You could give it commands either as shortcuts (control characters) or in long form, with a colon and the command name. So you could log in as GUMBYU (altmode was a special character -- if you only had an ASCII terminal you could use escape) or via
Now if you came in from a remote machine not in the lab you did have to log in, but that was only because the server you talked to implemented that. It looked a lot like DDT, the "shell" but really wasn't -- it only implemented a few commands, one of which was a login command that required a password. If you authenticated then you were given a DDT with the homedir already set. By the time I started using the system in late 1979/early 1980 that authenticating server already existed.
Note this is all before the arpanet switched over to TCP in 1984. We used an older protocol called NCP.
This is the purpose of nested functions, a common feature of modern lisps and their cousins like scheme. Gnu C used to support them but due to constraints of C calling conventions of various processors (meaning you had to call code that lived on the stack) and because of you assign one to a function pointer you have to create a closure, they have been flushed.
A shame because they're semantically an excellent modularity tool. It's especially galling since implementation constraints led to their demise.
Emulation only available for the models inclosed in transparent aluminium.
In those days he used to wear an "Impeach God" button to parties. I don't know if it helped attract dates. But given his current stature that would surely be...bizarre. Or should I say, "bizarrer".
Or perhaps the headline should be, "News Flash: marketing group makes inflammatory statement to remind people they still exist."
In other words....nothing to see here, please move along.
ObvStory: back when microwave overs were relatively new I went out to lunch. When the waiter took our order my lunch companion specifically asked if her order would involve microwave cooking as if so she'd like to change it. After he left she confided that "microwaves use radiation".I t seemed this was a well-known scientific fact that the mainstream press seemed unwilling to publish.
And no, despite the marvelously weird statement (how could a wave "use" something, especially a definitional property it exhibits?) there was not a second date. In fact I gobbled my lunch remarkably rapidly.
If I can remember that far back I don't think she would have been the type to ever have gone for the weed. She seemed pretty serious about her intellectual endeavors.
Very good. The other major issues are interference (e.g. capacitive interaction between lines etc) and the sheer bandwidth -- you can modulate your carrier with plenty of other frequencies (referred to as wavelength in the optical domain and frequency in the audio/radio domain -- go figure).
Jeez, just open the case and unplug the light. Or, if you're afraid of someone coming by and "helping" you by repairing it (depends what kind of household you live in, I suppose), get out the trusty diagonal cutters. I keep a pair in my pen cup on my desk for just this kind of thing.
Looks better on the outside than an ugly black mark too.
(As for a historical note: the Interlip-D implementation for the Xerox D machines put a little bar in the mouse pointer when there was disk activity. Worked quite well, for those who liked that sort of thing. Symbolics workstations used a similar bar, but at the bottom of the CRT. Since we all have bitmapped displays these days, this is easy to do).
So how come anything at the microscale "might lead to advances in quantum encryption" just like any nanoscale work "might lead to new sources of energy", any genomic work "might lead to a cure for cancer" etc? After all, nobody said in in the 1940s, "this invention of the 'transistor' could lead to kids posting videos of their pranks for everyone world wide to view?"
How about just doing pure science for science's sake? Especially on a News for Nerds site?
If they need funding they should indicate that these microvacuums make a good alternative to waterboarding for child terrorists and pornographers.
"Date?" In that case the real criterion is: "are they hot?"
Now if the question had been "marry"... OK, I don't think anyone can answer that one for anyone else. But if the couple is too far apart the relationship is unlikely to last. But who cares for a few dates / whatevers?
They can take away my current laptop bag when they pry it from my cold.... oh yeah, I guess that's the plan.
Actually, using for layout (as opposed to using HTML for mark-up) is exactly equivalent to Hollerith fields, sad to say.
Dude, stop thinking of the battery as a consumable and start thinking of the whole the mac book air is a disposable item, like a disposable razor. When the battery is fried, just toss the MBA in the trash at the airport and buy another one from the vending machine just past gate 5 next to the first class lounge.
Look, you heard it from the guy from Fox: "we always wanted rental movies online and consumers did too." You aren't a user any more, you're a "consumer" so start consuming!
Replacable battery jeez. Get with the modern world! Next you'll want to install your own apps!
-g
(I love that it's called an "MBA" -- that's the target market!)
I heard comments like this 20 years ago when distributing software sources. "Software is a difficult discipline." "Only a trained elite can do it." etc. In fact they were correct -- but the development of more sophisticated tools reduced some of the difficulty and, more importantly, the widespread access to computers with available source made it much easier to join the "trained elite" and removed many of the gatekeepers who had previously controlled access to that "elite".
This is no different on the hardware side, except that it's even more recent that hardware really became closed.
Slashdot has a higher proportion of software hackers than hardware hackers , but that doesn't mean hardware hacking isn't widespread. I just happened to read a good example for you yesterday. This guy unpacked the kindle (a closed-source piece of hardware you might have heard of) and discovered...not a huge amount yet. But what he did was mostly software so the example might feel more accessible to you. Note that he pulled his hardware apart using stuff lying around his house (an MP3-player dock + phone cable???) and didn't need to resort to anything even slightly "exotic" (e.g. not everyone has a JTAG twiddler at home). He didn't even need an oscilloscope. This fellow is representative of a huge number of people, they're just less mainstream than you're used to.
So here's the joke.
Setup: Dave Winer is a pretty smart and generally clued-in guy, so if this really happened to him, his bad. (If it happened to me it would be my fault; if it happened to my mum who's smart but thinks about other things, it wouldn't be so much her fault). I'm pretty sure he knows that an posting like this one ought to generate plenty of page views...a nice year-end gift from his advertisers!
The punch line: since slashdot readers never RTFA he won't get the page views after all!
muahahah!
Hey, I ain't arguing that one can measure the computational needs of any[*] program in principle, only that so many other factors apply to this question in the real world (someone's computer load, CPU horsepower, nearness of printer to person spooling the print job, phase of moon etc) that probably in any likely real-world case anticipated by those who drafted this legislation the distinction is not going to come up.
/. style we're basically in violent agreement I suppose.
But then again in true
-g
[*]Offer not valid in cases of uncomputable, non-halting, non-P problems, human languages with more than a countable infinity of symbols, or O(n) problems over datasets larger than the number of particles in the universe in which said computation is to be performed. Void where prohibited by law, natural or otherwise.
"Lighter to render" is hard to calculate, and also pretty much irrelevent. PS files will often contain much more character info than is (IMHO -- YMMV) 100% needed while a PDF file will contain strings of characters which can take less time to send to your printer and less space in printer buffer. Also PDF files are computationally simpler to scale down for a small screen (perhaps not in principle but certainly in practice).
More importantly: PDF files are more likely to contain words and e searchable, while PS files rarely contain whole words these days.
(Plus I hate 'em all -- let's stick to extended ASCII!)
Would it be 60% without the ocular sweetums?
There are two reasons for a mega-laptop:
- because most laptop use is in the office (e.g. between desk and conference room) and so size is less of an issue than manoeuvrability.
- some people who actually use the power of a computer really do need a "desktop replacement" -- auditors, some field engineers, some graphics folks and nerds who want to have only one "primary" computer rather than a desktop and a satellite machine.
Oh and the third reason some otherFace it, computers are consumer devices and though most people don't need the power many want it -- just as most people could do just fine with a Toyota Camry.
I would love a tiny machine but I schlep all sorts of bits around and need a big screen when not at my desk. I'm just glad enough others want such a machine (for whatever reason) that it's on the market! I don't care if I look stupid or suave because I'm carrying it, I just curse the weight.
I do wish I could have, as the famous Dilbert cartoon says, a 40-inch screen in a device that fits in my pocket.
Those products are quite difficult to find in the USA, but, as with phones, there's a whole range of advanced technologies available outside the Homeland. Even when they use display technology from the States.
I already have a bunch of cool USB-powered doohickies. Now I can get USB 3-powered doohickies. Lesse,..USB ports are supposed to put out 500 mA at 5V...hmm, cool, that' about 400x what a laser pointer is allowed to produce.
Yep, I can't wait: a hub of these things...and some USB 2-controlled mirrors...
I thought this site was news for nerds. It shouldn't be news that the beach is high-tech. Hell, the whole thing is just blanketed in silicon!