Sounds like someone is reinventing circuit switching. Reserving bandwidth in 64Kbps chunks. Even without it being rendered into telephone-quality sound.
Circuit switching is expensive. Making those guarentees takes effort, which has a cost. "Best Effort" and packet switching are cheap You're not sure that you'll have enough bandwidth for the session, but most are willing to accept the tradeoffs for low-cost, low-guarentee, high-performance networking.
It's quite interesting (to me, at least) that "Anti-Virus Scanning" is something that only Windows computers have to do right now. There is a fair amount of blather from the anti-virus software vendors that MacOS X, Linux, and BSD are not immute to viruses, but there is a real dearth of MacOS X, Linux, and BSD viruses actually infecting machines and spreading and being a nuisence.
I have an Oct 1999 iMac running MacOS 9 and a Linux box running Mandriva. GnuCash failed to import my Quicken (99) files, so I'm looking at a new Mac. I have a few old 68000 programs (that I paid for, back in the day). So a PowerPC Mac that can still run 68000 Classic apps has a certain appeal. $129 for MacOS X and $49 for iLife and $69 for AppleWorks is half the cost of a Mac Mini.
I am wary of buying a nice display bundled with the computer. In 4 or 5 years, the computer will seem dog slow and the display will still seem nice. So a $600 to $800 G5 Shoe Box would certainly tempt me to crowbar the wallet open.
Or is 64-bit computing all hype, and Alpha, SPARC, MIPS, and PPC all 64-bit dead ends, while Intel TM 32-bit ISA is the One True Future?
My grandfather had a stereoscopic film camera. Two lenses, side-by-side images on the film. A real "takes you there" experience when viewing the slides.
So a digital stereoscopic camera would have two lenses (linked, if they're zoom lenses), and two sensors.
Oh, I notice now that that isn't what you meant when you said "two lenses". Oh, well; I want to talk about my grandfather anyway. I miss him. (He died in 2002. No idea where the camera went, or the slides...)
There were simple phenomena that could not be explained by late-19th-century physics. Why the inside of the earth was still warm. Why the sun shone. Why some salts exposed photographic plates when simply placed near them. Why the night sky was dark.
OK, the nucleus of the atom doesn't have much to do with the answer to the fourth question, but I like it anyway.
Gandhi hated the idea of partitioning India. The religious violence that erupted with the partition more or less proved Gandhi correct. Whether or not he could have pulled off a democratic multi-ethnic state is a question for the historians and the political fiction writers to mull over. Was the Hindu-Muslim difference reconcilable?
So I bought a MoBo over the summer. Got a P IV hand-me-down from my brother-in-law (2.66 GHz, IIRC). Bought a 512 MB stick of RAM, and 80 GB disk, and a second-hand monitor. My brother helped install Mandriva Linux on it. It's a decent little machine, and will take over from my aging iMac shortly. It's never done Windows, so all that matters is Linux support.
It has PCI and AGP 4x-8x slots. Say I wanted to get TiVo-like capabilities, and maybe better frame-rate in TuxRacer;-) What graphic card would be good?
Schools are agents of the States, and the 14th Amendment made the other Amendments binding on the State governments as well.
So the First Amendment prohibits public schools from advocating for any particular religious belief. Teachers are not free to "mention... religion and the discussion there of". School Boards are not free to mandate specific mentions of religion in science classes.
Judge Jones saw through the claims that "ID was not Religion", and pointed out that the good Christians lied on the stand to avoid making that admission. (Which says something about good Christians.)
ID does not hold up under the light of science. ID is a political attempt to change what is science to allow all sorts of nutjobbery, including astrology, into science classes.
I live in Ohio, and in 2005 (but not, as I recall, in 2004) voted on a Diebold touch-screen machine that printed a paper summary of my vote. I don't know where the paper summary ended up, or whether it is of any use in a recount. It did leave me feeling a little better.
Then again, I live in one of those predominantly Republican areas that had plenty of machines and short queues.
My wife is getting an iPod for Christmas. I estimated the number of CDs in the house. Money is tight. 30GB? 60GB? Money is tight. Count the CDs. 60 GB. That will hold everything, plus a little bit left over if she gets hooked on the video.
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First, it deserves credit as the first of the truly wonderful cross-platform, virtual machine driven JIT compilation using languages.
You're forgetting UCSD P-System in general, and UCSD Pascal in particular. Many languages compiled to byte-code, that ran in VMs on the most popular platforms of the day. Of course, the day was 1979... The more things change, the more they stay the same.
After the 1984 breakup, there was AT&T for long distance. And AT&T's competitors, mainly MCI and Sprint. And the seven "Baby Bells": Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, NYNEX, Pacific Telesys, Southwestern Bell, and U S WEST. Southwestern Bell changed their name to SBC, and along the way bought up Pacific Telesys and Ameritech. Bell Atlantic bought NYNEX, and then merged with GTE (a non-Bell-System provider of local phone service, serving roughly as many customers as any of the baby bells, but geographically dispersed) to become Verizon. Qwest bought U S WEST. And SBC's offer to purchase the remains of AT&T were recently approved.
AT&T was broken up because you only had one choice for long distance: AT&T. After the breakup, long distance was a competitive market, and now you can get Long Distance for a tenth of the cost it was before... and that's without inflation.
CR buys their products at retail, does the review and writeup, and then prints the results in the magazine. That can takes months. The manufacturers have their reasons for changing the products so frequently that this kind of information gets stale quickly. Is that CR's fault or the manufacturer?
To help alleviate this, for the last several years, they indicate when models are replaced by substantially similar models.
Body Integrity is not part of the normal new car review; it shows up in the used car statistics. CR generates those statistics from what readers send in on the annual survey. Real-world data.
I don't think CR assumes anything. I think they do not have racers as drivers when they _measure_ the cars 0-60 time. I.e. it's more like how you drive on the street; tires from the factory left on for the break-in period, and the engine at idle when the light turns green and the clock starts. VS. engine at full power and the clutch and tranny taking the shock of the launch, and the slicks fully warmed up.
Which could fully account for the half-second difference between CR's measured times and the car guys measurements.
It has been a long time since there were few enough models that CR could evaluate reliability by model. There are too many models that come out too often for an annual survey (which looks back over the past year) to provide information on specific models.
I just started reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe with my 7 3/4 (the 3/4 are important to her) year-old daughter. We saw the film Saturday night. The opening bombings were mentioned in passing on page 1 in the book, but not described. The children were sent away because of the bombing. Going back for the picture? The invention of the script writer.
My daughter loved the movie. I thought it had the frequent problem of stuffing too many pages of a novel into too few minutes on screen. "Bullet Points" is a fitting judgement.
I noticed the shot of the kids up on the peak and the background screaming "green-screen" to my eyes. I thought the beavers looked fake, but the movement of the wolves was well done. For talking animals, the overall effect was quite a breakthrough.
I'm thinking that after we finish as many of the Narnia books as we care to, I'll read Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy for balance. She loved the Hobbit, but I don't think she's ready for The Lord of the Rings. We've read Harry Potter 1 and 2, and seen the first three movies together. The opening of Harry Potter 3 is too scary for her even though she's seen the film and understands who the big dog is. So those will have to wait.
I am surprised at how much I like reading to her. Although the Narnia books are the first that I will be reading to her that I haven't read myself.
And what is slashcode for an underline? I can see my English teacher's red circles around the book titles that ought to be underlined...
Finally as we know any Mac made since the original iMac has no trouble digitizing FireWire video via iMovie in realtime,
FireWire is already digital. You need an external analog-to-digital device (e.g. digital camcorder, converter box) to convert analog video to FireWire. The iMac just processes it.
And FireWire came with the iMac DV, in October, 1999. iMac rev. A-D do not have FireWire.
My wife's big problem with TiVo (which makes it my problem...) is that when the power goes out, the cable box turns off. When the power comes back on, the cable box is still off. TiVo tells the cable box to change channels, and the cable box stays off.
I thought I fixed this with a UPS for the home entertainment center (only the cable box and TiVo are on battery backup outlets; TV, dvd player, and vcr are on surge-protection only outlets. The receiver died:-). But we still go out for a night or a weekend away and come back and find that TiVo recorded a blank screen instead of shows, and my wife gets all upset. Telling her it's just TV and nothing to get upset over doesn't go over too well...
Anyway, I can't see Apple bundling all the gear into a supermini to make it a home entertainment hub. Right now, my cable goes to a set-top box and a cable modem. The cable modem connects to a wireless router. If the role of the supermini is to sit between the cable connection and the TV, it needs to be a (wireless) router, cable modem, and Cable-card ready DTV tuner in addition to being a computer. Plug in the cable and go.
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Sounds like someone is reinventing circuit switching. Reserving bandwidth in 64Kbps chunks. Even without it being rendered into telephone-quality sound.
Circuit switching is expensive. Making those guarentees takes effort, which has a cost. "Best Effort" and packet switching are cheap You're not sure that you'll have enough bandwidth for the session, but most are willing to accept the tradeoffs for low-cost, low-guarentee, high-performance networking.
It's quite interesting (to me, at least) that "Anti-Virus Scanning" is something that only Windows computers have to do right now. There is a fair amount of blather from the anti-virus software vendors that MacOS X, Linux, and BSD are not immute to viruses, but there is a real dearth of MacOS X, Linux, and BSD viruses actually infecting machines and spreading and being a nuisence.
A mini sounds enticing price-wise. But the slow disk and that it's only a G4 keep my wallet in my pocket.
Thanks for the pointers to Basilisk II.
I have an Oct 1999 iMac running MacOS 9 and a Linux box running Mandriva. GnuCash failed to import my Quicken (99) files, so I'm looking at a new Mac. I have a few old 68000 programs (that I paid for, back in the day). So a PowerPC Mac that can still run 68000 Classic apps has a certain appeal. $129 for MacOS X and $49 for iLife and $69 for AppleWorks is half the cost of a Mac Mini.
I am wary of buying a nice display bundled with the computer. In 4 or 5 years, the computer will seem dog slow and the display will still seem nice. So a $600 to $800 G5 Shoe Box would certainly tempt me to crowbar the wallet open.
Or is 64-bit computing all hype, and Alpha, SPARC, MIPS, and PPC all 64-bit dead ends, while Intel TM 32-bit ISA is the One True Future?
My grandfather had a stereoscopic film camera. Two lenses, side-by-side images on the film. A real "takes you there" experience when viewing the slides.
So a digital stereoscopic camera would have two lenses (linked, if they're zoom lenses), and two sensors.
Oh, I notice now that that isn't what you meant when you said "two lenses". Oh, well; I want to talk about my grandfather anyway. I miss him. (He died in 2002. No idea where the camera went, or the slides...)
There were simple phenomena that could not be explained by late-19th-century physics. Why the inside of the earth was still warm. Why the sun shone. Why some salts exposed photographic plates when simply placed near them. Why the night sky was dark.
OK, the nucleus of the atom doesn't have much to do with the answer to the fourth question, but I like it anyway.
Gandhi hated the idea of partitioning India. The religious violence that erupted with the partition more or less proved Gandhi correct. Whether or not he could have pulled off a democratic multi-ethnic state is a question for the historians and the political fiction writers to mull over. Was the Hindu-Muslim difference reconcilable?
So I bought a MoBo over the summer. Got a P IV hand-me-down from my brother-in-law (2.66 GHz, IIRC). Bought a 512 MB stick of RAM, and 80 GB disk, and a second-hand monitor. My brother helped install Mandriva Linux on it. It's a decent little machine, and will take over from my aging iMac shortly. It's never done Windows, so all that matters is Linux support.
;-) What graphic card would be good?
It has PCI and AGP 4x-8x slots. Say I wanted to get TiVo-like capabilities, and maybe better frame-rate in TuxRacer
Schools are agents of the States, and the 14th Amendment made the other Amendments binding on the State governments as well.
... religion and the discussion there of". School Boards are not free to mandate specific mentions of religion in science classes.
So the First Amendment prohibits public schools from advocating for any particular religious belief. Teachers are not free to "mention
Judge Jones saw through the claims that "ID was not Religion", and pointed out that the good Christians lied on the stand to avoid making that admission. (Which says something about good Christians.)
ID does not hold up under the light of science. ID is a political attempt to change what is science to allow all sorts of nutjobbery, including astrology, into science classes.
Or one could say "There is no evidence for God". No belief required at all.
Is it worship when one says "I believe I'll have another beer"?
It would be an even better replacement for my 400 MHz Lime Green iMac.
I live in Ohio, and in 2005 (but not, as I recall, in 2004) voted on a Diebold touch-screen machine that printed a paper summary of my vote. I don't know where the paper summary ended up, or whether it is of any use in a recount. It did leave me feeling a little better.
Then again, I live in one of those predominantly Republican areas that had plenty of machines and short queues.
My wife is getting an iPod for Christmas. I estimated the number of CDs in the house. Money is tight. 30GB? 60GB? Money is tight. Count the CDs. 60 GB. That will hold everything, plus a little bit left over if she gets hooked on the video.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
After the 1984 breakup, there was AT&T for long distance. And AT&T's competitors, mainly MCI and Sprint. And the seven "Baby Bells": Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, NYNEX, Pacific Telesys, Southwestern Bell, and U S WEST. Southwestern Bell changed their name to SBC, and along the way bought up Pacific Telesys and Ameritech. Bell Atlantic bought NYNEX, and then merged with GTE (a non-Bell-System provider of local phone service, serving roughly as many customers as any of the baby bells, but geographically dispersed) to become Verizon. Qwest bought U S WEST. And SBC's offer to purchase the remains of AT&T were recently approved.
AT&T was broken up because you only had one choice for long distance: AT&T. After the breakup, long distance was a competitive market, and now you can get Long Distance for a tenth of the cost it was before... and that's without inflation.
Right = Big Business
Left = Consumer.
Guess where a magazine titled "Consumer Reports" is going to find their allegiance?
CR buys their products at retail, does the review and writeup, and then prints the results in the magazine. That can takes months. The manufacturers have their reasons for changing the products so frequently that this kind of information gets stale quickly. Is that CR's fault or the manufacturer?
To help alleviate this, for the last several years, they indicate when models are replaced by substantially similar models.
Body Integrity is not part of the normal new car review; it shows up in the used car statistics. CR generates those statistics from what readers send in on the annual survey. Real-world data.
I don't think CR assumes anything. I think they do not have racers as drivers when they _measure_ the cars 0-60 time. I.e. it's more like how you drive on the street; tires from the factory left on for the break-in period, and the engine at idle when the light turns green and the clock starts. VS. engine at full power and the clutch and tranny taking the shock of the launch, and the slicks fully warmed up.
Which could fully account for the half-second difference between CR's measured times and the car guys measurements.
It has been a long time since there were few enough models that CR could evaluate reliability by model. There are too many models that come out too often for an annual survey (which looks back over the past year) to provide information on specific models.
I just started reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe with my 7 3/4 (the 3/4 are important to her) year-old daughter. We saw the film Saturday night. The opening bombings were mentioned in passing on page 1 in the book, but not described. The children were sent away because of the bombing. Going back for the picture? The invention of the script writer.
My daughter loved the movie. I thought it had the frequent problem of stuffing too many pages of a novel into too few minutes on screen. "Bullet Points" is a fitting judgement.
I noticed the shot of the kids up on the peak and the background screaming "green-screen" to my eyes. I thought the beavers looked fake, but the movement of the wolves was well done. For talking animals, the overall effect was quite a breakthrough.
I'm thinking that after we finish as many of the Narnia books as we care to, I'll read Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy for balance. She loved the Hobbit, but I don't think she's ready for The Lord of the Rings. We've read Harry Potter 1 and 2, and seen the first three movies together. The opening of Harry Potter 3 is too scary for her even though she's seen the film and understands who the big dog is. So those will have to wait.
I am surprised at how much I like reading to her. Although the Narnia books are the first that I will be reading to her that I haven't read myself.
And what is slashcode for an underline? I can see my English teacher's red circles around the book titles that ought to be underlined...
FireWire is already digital. You need an external analog-to-digital device (e.g. digital camcorder, converter box) to convert analog video to FireWire. The iMac just processes it.
And FireWire came with the iMac DV, in October, 1999. iMac rev. A-D do not have FireWire.
My wife's big problem with TiVo (which makes it my problem...) is that when the power goes out, the cable box turns off. When the power comes back on, the cable box is still off. TiVo tells the cable box to change channels, and the cable box stays off.
:-). But we still go out for a night or a weekend away and come back and find that TiVo recorded a blank screen instead of shows, and my wife gets all upset. Telling her it's just TV and nothing to get upset over doesn't go over too well...
I thought I fixed this with a UPS for the home entertainment center (only the cable box and TiVo are on battery backup outlets; TV, dvd player, and vcr are on surge-protection only outlets. The receiver died
Anyway, I can't see Apple bundling all the gear into a supermini to make it a home entertainment hub. Right now, my cable goes to a set-top box and a cable modem. The cable modem connects to a wireless router. If the role of the supermini is to sit between the cable connection and the TV, it needs to be a (wireless) router, cable modem, and Cable-card ready DTV tuner in addition to being a computer. Plug in the cable and go.
Let's see what comes out in January.
My wife is an unemployed Project Manager. :-(