The Apple IIgs had color in 1986, with a Mac like GUI Toolbox.
Compare the business model of the iPhone to the original Macintosh and iMac. Some things never change, with Jobs is was always about the closed box and total control. Early Mac developers were scared away because Jobs insisted on strict (to the point of facist) user interface guidelines that made writing most applications impossible. Its no different today with the iPhone SDK requiring Objective-C. God forbid anyone has some code they want to recycle from a desktop app.. Nope, gotta re-write it all in Obj-C because some CEO says so.
Now you know why the board kicked him out in the 80s. Shortly after that a color Macintosh with slots appeared.
In NY, there are areas where highways have 50mph speed limits... or even 45mph... despite a wide, straight (or nearly so) well-paved road.
NYC has a statutory 50mph maximum speed limit on expressways and parkways. It makes no sense on Staten Island, but thats the law. NY State in general is a mess with speed limits. Any changes are done on a per road basis legislatively... which as you know takes forever to do. Most states have a statutory maximum speed for various types of roadways and traffic studies determine what the speed limits should be set to on various sections of a highway.
Took out the hard drives... maybe... maybe... I'll mount them and extract them.
Took out the memory (???? who is going to use the old memory- why did I do that?)
A good Ask Slashdot... how does one quickly and securely wipe a pile of hard drives? As for the old memory, one can make money on it if their timing is right. Good old Rambus RAM sold for a pretty penny when the 5 people still using those machines wanted more RAM.
Linux is at a local maximum. You can't really make it much better at being a Unix-workalike general-purpose system in any hugely interesting ways, and if you want to do really interesting operating-systems work you have to go for a radical redesign that breaks with the Unix Way and abandons backwards compatibility.
I hear the GNU Herd project is looking for developeres.
Whats the deal with *nix and makefiles? Finding any decent documentation on how to build the code you wrote into an executable file is a chore, it only gets worse when you have library dependencies. GNU automake has terrible documentation, its almost like they don't want you to program for the platform.
Meanwhile, the one thing bloated IDEs get right is... well... building executable files, after all that is the point. You point it to the directories where your dependencies are stored and click "build". No fighting with makefiles, no wondering why the configure script broke, no hassles.
People talk alot of crap about Microsoft's shoddy products. The one thing they have always gotten right is their dev tools. They are polished, mature, competitive in features, and usually "just work".
Wow. Well..... you could move to somewhere like Delaware. Their average speed is almost 20 Mbit/s. In fact a lot of the Northeastern states have high rates well above 10 Mbps.
...which you would have to thank Verizon for since thats where they are deploying Fios.
Bob Yannes did more then contribute to the personal computer. He enabled a generation of musicians to create genres of song that no one could imagine. He was also one of the few people who contributed to both Apple and Commodore in their heydays. The C64 got the SID chip, while the Apple IIgs received the Ensoniq 5503DOC (also found in the Ensoniq Mirage, ESQ-1 and SQ080), both designed by Yannes. Both sound chips have a cult following to this day.
Company: javascript/java/flash/silverlight are good enough for now, since we want to sell the devices while we have time to develop a native sdk!
Except they already have one.... its called.NET Compact Framework. Yes so Windows Phone 7 will be a total rewrite. Wasn't the whole point of.NET to have the ability to write one application and have it run on any machine with a.NET CLI?
While it will break native apps that were written for the old WinCE libraries, they could just port.NET CF to 7. Someone could develop a runtime/VM for the older stuff if needed, kinda like StyleTap did for PalmOS apps.
It might be primitive, but using GLUT is always an option. Its cross platform and usually the examples run on all platforms without modification.
http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/
CFLs yellow plastics like their big brothers. That and they don't seem to last as long as they claim. Even on the "quality" brands, the ballasts are failing left and right and seem to last just as long as those dinosaur incandescents. Also there is still no CFLs ideal for extreme temperature applications. They certainly won't replace your oven light and they can be spotty outdoors in freezing weather.
Blame congress for this mess. They passed the 1992 Cable Act which gave the OTA stations the right to charge for retransmission rights. Prior to that, cable companies were free to retransmit the signals at no cost.
Back in 1991 the local cable company (Suburban Cablevision, now Comcast), played hardball with the networks. They were going to send free A-B switches too all their subscribers for free to switch between cable and their antennas to get the OTA stations for free (I'm guessing diplexers were too expensive for them). In the end they managed to come to an agreement with all the OTA stations for carry rights. One of the first if I recall was WABC.
I mean, how hard would it really be if every router shipped with a unique SSID and a default random password? And that creating a "guest" open network was limited only to the most expensive and corporate models that had multiple SSID and radio support (secure or nothing configuration)? If everyone's routers were secure, then the only people "stealing" broadband would be people you LET steal it...
2Wire does this with their DSL Modem+Routers..... the problem is the default security they have it set to is.... WEP.... sigh.
Crap, my wife's 1995 Saab 900SE has a mode where the ECU shuts down the fuel pump if the engine stops running, on the assumption that something is terribly wrong, and spewing gas to a stopped engine is pointless if not dangerous. How do I know this? Her car developed a habit of stalling at stops. The real cause was a defective vapor recovery canister, causing loss of vacuum and low RPMs, and the ECU saw that as a stopped engine and made sure it stopped.
The system was likely simpler then that. On most older cars the fuel pump relay relies on the pulse signal from the ignition coil (the same signal that drives the tachometer) to tell it to turn on. When that signal isn't present, the relay disengages.
Yeah, watch out for this one for any vendor. I've seen it happen where someone requires a 1-month advanced notice to cancel your contract or it auto-renews for a year. Then, when you try to cancel 2 months in advance, they tell you that they can't enter it into the system until you're closer to the cancellation date. Effectively this company had a window of a couple days where they'd let you cancel your account-- call too soon, they tell you to call back later; call too late, and you're auto-renewed for a year. I don't know if it was legal, but I'd generally prefer to stay away from a company that behaves this way.
Research the hosting company.
* Real legal entity for the company.
* Own their own data center (preferably date centers) or at the very least hosted in a respectable DC.
This one is extremely important. There are a ton of "hosting companies" that are nothing more then a few hacks who pooled their pocket change together to buy a server at a co-lo thats running cpanel. The other group are the ones who are simply resellers for larger providers like Godaddy or Yahoo.
Verizon Fios uses a standard called Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) for its VOD system. Best thing is they make stand alone bridges for it that can sometimes be found for cheap. Look on ebay for Motorola NIM-100 boxes. They convert Cat-5 ethernet to MoCA coax. Of course lets not forget an obvious solution to the problem. Why not just wire the house for Cat-5e/6? In the long run it will be more flexible and less headaches.
The first common example of this was likely Exxon. They wanted a distinctive name that could be thoroughly trademarked and previously didn't mean anything (no lawsuits claiming prior use).
Fax machines live on because of security concerns. E-mail still isn't viewed as a secure medium by many businesses and government offices. Also just about everyone has a fax number and machine that you know someone is going to monitor as opposed to a spam filtered and ignored "main" e-mail address.
Also do scanned and e-mailed signed documents carry the same legal weight as signed documents that were faxed? In theory they are exactly the same, but no one seems to view the e-mail method as legit.
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The Apple IIgs had color in 1986, with a Mac like GUI Toolbox.
Compare the business model of the iPhone to the original Macintosh and iMac. Some things never change, with Jobs is was always about the closed box and total control. Early Mac developers were scared away because Jobs insisted on strict (to the point of facist) user interface guidelines that made writing most applications impossible. Its no different today with the iPhone SDK requiring Objective-C. God forbid anyone has some code they want to recycle from a desktop app.. Nope, gotta re-write it all in Obj-C because some CEO says so.
Now you know why the board kicked him out in the 80s. Shortly after that a color Macintosh with slots appeared.
In NY, there are areas where highways have 50mph speed limits... or even 45mph... despite a wide, straight (or nearly so) well-paved road.
NYC has a statutory 50mph maximum speed limit on expressways and parkways. It makes no sense on Staten Island, but thats the law. NY State in general is a mess with speed limits. Any changes are done on a per road basis legislatively... which as you know takes forever to do. Most states have a statutory maximum speed for various types of roadways and traffic studies determine what the speed limits should be set to on various sections of a highway.
Funny this comes up, NJ is also competing for the title of "first US offshore wind farm". http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/preparation_for_first_us_wind.html
The MS-DOS 5 video is a promotional video Microsoft gave out to dealers. It was never aired on TV as a commercial. Still got the tape too.
Took out the hard drives... maybe... maybe... I'll mount them and extract them.
Took out the memory (???? who is going to use the old memory- why did I do that?)
A good Ask Slashdot... how does one quickly and securely wipe a pile of hard drives? As for the old memory, one can make money on it if their timing is right. Good old Rambus RAM sold for a pretty penny when the 5 people still using those machines wanted more RAM.
Linux is at a local maximum. You can't really make it much better at being a Unix-workalike general-purpose system in any hugely interesting ways, and if you want to do really interesting operating-systems work you have to go for a radical redesign that breaks with the Unix Way and abandons backwards compatibility.
I hear the GNU Herd project is looking for developeres.
Whats the deal with *nix and makefiles? Finding any decent documentation on how to build the code you wrote into an executable file is a chore, it only gets worse when you have library dependencies. GNU automake has terrible documentation, its almost like they don't want you to program for the platform.
Meanwhile, the one thing bloated IDEs get right is... well... building executable files, after all that is the point. You point it to the directories where your dependencies are stored and click "build". No fighting with makefiles, no wondering why the configure script broke, no hassles.
People talk alot of crap about Microsoft's shoddy products. The one thing they have always gotten right is their dev tools. They are polished, mature, competitive in features, and usually "just work".
Wow. Well..... you could move to somewhere like Delaware. Their average speed is almost 20 Mbit/s. In fact a lot of the Northeastern states have high rates well above 10 Mbps.
...which you would have to thank Verizon for since thats where they are deploying Fios.
Bob Yannes did more then contribute to the personal computer. He enabled a generation of musicians to create genres of song that no one could imagine. He was also one of the few people who contributed to both Apple and Commodore in their heydays. The C64 got the SID chip, while the Apple IIgs received the Ensoniq 5503DOC (also found in the Ensoniq Mirage, ESQ-1 and SQ080), both designed by Yannes. Both sound chips have a cult following to this day.
That's because it's intentional, and more like:
Company: javascript/java/flash/silverlight are good enough for now, since we want to sell the devices while we have time to develop a native sdk!
Except they already have one.... its called .NET Compact Framework. Yes so Windows Phone 7 will be a total rewrite. Wasn't the whole point of .NET to have the ability to write one application and have it run on any machine with a .NET CLI?
While it will break native apps that were written for the old WinCE libraries, they could just port .NET CF to 7. Someone could develop a runtime/VM for the older stuff if needed, kinda like StyleTap did for PalmOS apps.
It might be primitive, but using GLUT is always an option. Its cross platform and usually the examples run on all platforms without modification. http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/
I got one for you...
CFLs yellow plastics like their big brothers. That and they don't seem to last as long as they claim. Even on the "quality" brands, the ballasts are failing left and right and seem to last just as long as those dinosaur incandescents. Also there is still no CFLs ideal for extreme temperature applications. They certainly won't replace your oven light and they can be spotty outdoors in freezing weather.
You've never worked in a cubical then... when everyone had an IBM Model M keyboard.
Blame congress for this mess. They passed the 1992 Cable Act which gave the OTA stations the right to charge for retransmission rights. Prior to that, cable companies were free to retransmit the signals at no cost.
Back in 1991 the local cable company (Suburban Cablevision, now Comcast), played hardball with the networks. They were going to send free A-B switches too all their subscribers for free to switch between cable and their antennas to get the OTA stations for free (I'm guessing diplexers were too expensive for them). In the end they managed to come to an agreement with all the OTA stations for carry rights. One of the first if I recall was WABC.
The thing is, in Europe, wire payments seem to work quite well for this sort of thing.
It's just that here, domestic wire payments only make sense for transfers in the thousands of dollars.
I'm going to assume wire transfers are a bit cheaper in Europe too.
I mean, how hard would it really be if every router shipped with a unique SSID and a default random password? And that creating a "guest" open network was limited only to the most expensive and corporate models that had multiple SSID and radio support (secure or nothing configuration)? If everyone's routers were secure, then the only people "stealing" broadband would be people you LET steal it...
2Wire does this with their DSL Modem+Routers..... the problem is the default security they have it set to is.... WEP.... sigh.
Crap, my wife's 1995 Saab 900SE has a mode where the ECU shuts down the fuel pump if the engine stops running, on the assumption that something is terribly wrong, and spewing gas to a stopped engine is pointless if not dangerous. How do I know this? Her car developed a habit of stalling at stops. The real cause was a defective vapor recovery canister, causing loss of vacuum and low RPMs, and the ECU saw that as a stopped engine and made sure it stopped.
The system was likely simpler then that. On most older cars the fuel pump relay relies on the pulse signal from the ignition coil (the same signal that drives the tachometer) to tell it to turn on. When that signal isn't present, the relay disengages.
Do they offer SSH access? I don't seen anything on their site indicating they do on any of their accounts. For some that is a showstopper.
Yeah, watch out for this one for any vendor. I've seen it happen where someone requires a 1-month advanced notice to cancel your contract or it auto-renews for a year. Then, when you try to cancel 2 months in advance, they tell you that they can't enter it into the system until you're closer to the cancellation date. Effectively this company had a window of a couple days where they'd let you cancel your account-- call too soon, they tell you to call back later; call too late, and you're auto-renewed for a year. I don't know if it was legal, but I'd generally prefer to stay away from a company that behaves this way.
*cough* 1&1.
Research the hosting company. * Real legal entity for the company. * Own their own data center (preferably date centers) or at the very least hosted in a respectable DC.
This one is extremely important. There are a ton of "hosting companies" that are nothing more then a few hacks who pooled their pocket change together to buy a server at a co-lo thats running cpanel. The other group are the ones who are simply resellers for larger providers like Godaddy or Yahoo.
Verizon Fios uses a standard called Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) for its VOD system. Best thing is they make stand alone bridges for it that can sometimes be found for cheap. Look on ebay for Motorola NIM-100 boxes. They convert Cat-5 ethernet to MoCA coax. Of course lets not forget an obvious solution to the problem. Why not just wire the house for Cat-5e/6? In the long run it will be more flexible and less headaches.
ISP changes name or web portal changes name. No difference from a user perspective; their email address might change either way.
Buy a domain name and set up an e-mail address using that.
The first common example of this was likely Exxon. They wanted a distinctive name that could be thoroughly trademarked and previously didn't mean anything (no lawsuits claiming prior use).
Based on my experience with older computer hardware, Microscribe was by far the king of stiction.
Fax machines live on because of security concerns. E-mail still isn't viewed as a secure medium by many businesses and government offices. Also just about everyone has a fax number and machine that you know someone is going to monitor as opposed to a spam filtered and ignored "main" e-mail address.
Also do scanned and e-mailed signed documents carry the same legal weight as signed documents that were faxed? In theory they are exactly the same, but no one seems to view the e-mail method as legit.