Think of HFS+ as the equivalent of FAT32 for Macs. Its basically the old file system with support for larger drives and files. Apple latter tacked on journaling in OS X 10.3. I'm surprised Apple didn't push for a replacement file system after the switchover to Intel CPUs.
Back in the 68k days, there were tools to strip the un-needed binaries from FAT applications depending on the machine you had. The forked files used by classic Mac OS were an advantage, you could store the common resources in the resource fork of the file for both PPC and 68k.
The problem with the A-10 is that its already built and flying. That doesn't generate tons of money for defense contractors and politicians like developing a new aircraft does. The F-35 has the same compromise that every "one size fits all" design has. It does everything "OK", but not as well as a purpose built aircraft could and costs a ton of money to achieve it.
Sold listings on ebay point to an average selling price of $125-150 for the Q9550S, some of which came with motherboards. The 45nm Yorkfield chips didn't seem to be very popular and were released quite late. Most folks went with Nehalem CPUs, so the low number of C2Qs from that era likely keep the prices high. The 65nm Q6600 was far more popular, easy to overclock, and can be had for cheap. I have a X38 based system I would like to upgrade myself, but with the high cost of CPUs and DDR2 memory, its likely to get replaced completely at this point.
The Start Menu has a bit of research backing it. Windows 95 was likely the last time Microsoft devoted quite a bit of money towards UI research and design.
Objective-C is freely available in gcc, hopefully Apple doesn't make this one OS X/iOS specific. Open languages have a shot at being cross platform friendly.
If one looks at the past year or so of XP updates, only one part of the OS constantly received updates month-to-month. That same OS component is included with POSReady 2009..... Internet Explorer. By default it comes with IE7 installed, but it can be updated to IE8. Most of Windows XP is there, some of the stuff totally removed is the games (we all know Solitaire has a long list of exploits!) and fluff like Windows Movie Maker. They added some stuff like.NET Runtime for Embedded in its place. DirectX is still intact and working. It can be updated to 9.0c with the latest redistributable. You really can't chop out much of "Windows" without breaking binary compatibility. Most of the applications POSReady 2009 is supposed to run were designed for retail XP initially.
I ran a 1980s car with Bosch mechanical fuel injection on the E10 crap (that is mandated here in NJ) without a problem. No leaking seals and always started with a flick of the ignition. Part of the problem isn't the alcohol, but the water it attracts (ethanol is hygroscopic).
ULSD usually damages fuel pumps due to the lack of lubrication. Ironically the most common way to increase the lubricating properties of ULSD is to blend in some biodiesel.
Office for Mac always had differences from the Windows versions.The dates functions in Excel were always a problem since the epoch on Windows was different from the one on Mac OS. http://support.microsoft.com/k...
The only real push Microsoft made was to unify the file formats, which happened with Office for Mac 4.2. The Mac version also lacked a proper Outlook client between Office 2001 and Office 2011, you got that Entourage program for mail and contacts instead.
The history of the past 30 years has been that all productivity gains from people working harder, etc. have gone to the corporate owners, not to employees. It's not in their interest to work harder or longer because they won't get paid any more.
Slackers unite!
Wasn't getting a larger piece of the gains the point of unions/collective bargaining?
Not one VCR is best for all tapes. For SP speed tapes like home movies, the JVC SVHS and DVHS decks equipped with JVC's "Digipure" TBC/noise reduction from the late 90s-early 00s have some of the best picture quality out there. The Mitsubishi HS-HD2000U DVHS deck is another recommended model. Expect to pay upwards of $200 for a working deck on ebay. The list of model numbers can be found here: http://www.digitalfaq.com/foru...
The Panasonic AG-1980P is best for EP/SLP tapes and is also better behaved with VHS-C tapes in the motorized adapter. The JVCs tend to have problems with the VHS-C adapters. The downside of the AG-1980 is that it is VERY prone to electrical problems. Almost all of them need to have full capacitor replacement, otherwise they have problems with herringbone noise, loss of color output, and "barber pole" patterns on the video output. Sometimes the deck even stops accepting tapes. Repair involves replacing close to 100 surface mount capacitors.
For capture, find an old Pentium 4 with an AGP slot running Windows XP and an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder with the Rage Theater 100/200chip. They have excellent analog capture quality and the ADC doesn't do any sharpening or muck up the video with AGC. Both of which are common problems on modern capture cards, including ATI's own PCI "TV Wonder" cards.
To avoid frame dropping, you need an external TBC (different from the TBC in the VCR) acting as a frame sync. They also tend to strip Macrovision off of tapes *wink* *wink*. More info here: http://www.digitalfaq.com/foru...
Apple wasn't going to turn off the money maker that was the Apple II line right away. After all, the Mac could have failed. The Apple IIe was sold until 1993, the IIgs lasted until 1991. They had new products for the machines in the pipeline as late as 1993 such as an Ethernet card.
There is, it's why you have to pay a $150 service charge to replace the battery. The planned obsolescence is the lifespan of the battery. Which should be around 2 - 3 years.
There is a market for that service and it usually costs less than Apple charges. Considering that the product is out of warranty by the time the battery goes flat, having it serviced by a 3rd party or DIYing it usually isn't a problem.
Despite not having nearly as many expansion cards as in the past, I seem to have no problem filling up most of the back plates on full ATX cases with breakout connectors.
Its very likely a patch will be made for Windows Embedded POSReady 2009. We'll see what pops up on Windows Update next month. Since its basically XP SP3, its likely someone will "crossport" the patch to retail XP.
Wow, this one works with millivolt systems, nice. The Nest doesn't, even though I have the required 24VAC supply already wired but disused (a very old t-stat used it, current unit is battery powered). The only way I could do it with a Nest is clobber some sort of relay system to drive the boiler. The only downside is that the Cyberstat doesn't appear to have a battery backup. Millivolt systems have the advantage of providing heat without needing external utility power.
After a several year hiatus away from computer stuff I agree completely. I gradated CS in 2002. There was much more priority given to imperative programming and arrays for everything than there should have been. Most of the lecturers were brainwashed by terms like "object oriented is the future", "extreme programming" and other such nonsense because it's "kewl". We did some Prolog but not nearly enough.
Of that list, maybe object oriented programming is important to "know". Otherwise computer science courses should be treated as language and platform agnostic, and only focus on stuff like data structures, arrays, etc. Basic theory that is applicable to any language.
It wasn't emphasized. We did no lisp! or Scheme.. It's sad that I'm more mature than many of those guys despite being younger.
I never did any LISP programming in school either. Oddly enough the language that always fascinated me was Postscript. Its amazing what a printer page description language is capable of.
Personally, I bought the Surface 2 (not pro) last Christmas, and I like it a lot more than my wife's iPad. The expandable storage, plus again, not having to buy apps for things that should be standard, like playing videos from a network share, make it a good choice. I also like the UI a lot better than iPad or Android, and like the fact that I can open a command prompt or run a powershell script if I want to. The lack of apps is probably the only downfall, but I find that I'm still able to do everything I want to do on a tablet. There are many games I can't play, but there's enough games to keep me entertained.
The lack of playing files from a network share out of the box is likely Apple ecosystem lock-in. They want you to use iCloud. Meanwhile every cheapo Android device usually has support for DLNA.
The Windows RT tablet's days are likely numbered with the crop of new Atom based Windows 8.1 tablets that are coming out. Being able to run off the shelf Win32 stuff helps their case. A full 8.1 tablet has no problems connecting to VPNs for example.
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Think of HFS+ as the equivalent of FAT32 for Macs. Its basically the old file system with support for larger drives and files. Apple latter tacked on journaling in OS X 10.3. I'm surprised Apple didn't push for a replacement file system after the switchover to Intel CPUs.
Or call them an "applet". Hmm, sounds a bit like Java.
Back in the 68k days, there were tools to strip the un-needed binaries from FAT applications depending on the machine you had. The forked files used by classic Mac OS were an advantage, you could store the common resources in the resource fork of the file for both PPC and 68k.
The problem with the A-10 is that its already built and flying. That doesn't generate tons of money for defense contractors and politicians like developing a new aircraft does. The F-35 has the same compromise that every "one size fits all" design has. It does everything "OK", but not as well as a purpose built aircraft could and costs a ton of money to achieve it.
Sold listings on ebay point to an average selling price of $125-150 for the Q9550S, some of which came with motherboards. The 45nm Yorkfield chips didn't seem to be very popular and were released quite late. Most folks went with Nehalem CPUs, so the low number of C2Qs from that era likely keep the prices high. The 65nm Q6600 was far more popular, easy to overclock, and can be had for cheap. I have a X38 based system I would like to upgrade myself, but with the high cost of CPUs and DDR2 memory, its likely to get replaced completely at this point.
The Start Menu has a bit of research backing it. Windows 95 was likely the last time Microsoft devoted quite a bit of money towards UI research and design.
I'm waiting for Swift.NET *ducks*
Objective-C is freely available in gcc, hopefully Apple doesn't make this one OS X/iOS specific. Open languages have a shot at being cross platform friendly.
If one looks at the past year or so of XP updates, only one part of the OS constantly received updates month-to-month. That same OS component is included with POSReady 2009..... Internet Explorer. By default it comes with IE7 installed, but it can be updated to IE8. Most of Windows XP is there, some of the stuff totally removed is the games (we all know Solitaire has a long list of exploits!) and fluff like Windows Movie Maker. They added some stuff like .NET Runtime for Embedded in its place. DirectX is still intact and working. It can be updated to 9.0c with the latest redistributable. You really can't chop out much of "Windows" without breaking binary compatibility. Most of the applications POSReady 2009 is supposed to run were designed for retail XP initially.
I ran a 1980s car with Bosch mechanical fuel injection on the E10 crap (that is mandated here in NJ) without a problem. No leaking seals and always started with a flick of the ignition. Part of the problem isn't the alcohol, but the water it attracts (ethanol is hygroscopic).
ULSD usually damages fuel pumps due to the lack of lubrication. Ironically the most common way to increase the lubricating properties of ULSD is to blend in some biodiesel.
Office for Mac always had differences from the Windows versions.The dates functions in Excel were always a problem since the epoch on Windows was different from the one on Mac OS. http://support.microsoft.com/k...
The only real push Microsoft made was to unify the file formats, which happened with Office for Mac 4.2. The Mac version also lacked a proper Outlook client between Office 2001 and Office 2011, you got that Entourage program for mail and contacts instead.
The history of the past 30 years has been that all productivity gains from people working harder, etc. have gone to the corporate owners, not to employees. It's not in their interest to work harder or longer because they won't get paid any more. Slackers unite!
Wasn't getting a larger piece of the gains the point of unions/collective bargaining?
Not one VCR is best for all tapes. For SP speed tapes like home movies, the JVC SVHS and DVHS decks equipped with JVC's "Digipure" TBC/noise reduction from the late 90s-early 00s have some of the best picture quality out there. The Mitsubishi HS-HD2000U DVHS deck is another recommended model. Expect to pay upwards of $200 for a working deck on ebay. The list of model numbers can be found here: http://www.digitalfaq.com/foru...
The Panasonic AG-1980P is best for EP/SLP tapes and is also better behaved with VHS-C tapes in the motorized adapter. The JVCs tend to have problems with the VHS-C adapters. The downside of the AG-1980 is that it is VERY prone to electrical problems. Almost all of them need to have full capacitor replacement, otherwise they have problems with herringbone noise, loss of color output, and "barber pole" patterns on the video output. Sometimes the deck even stops accepting tapes. Repair involves replacing close to 100 surface mount capacitors.
For capture, find an old Pentium 4 with an AGP slot running Windows XP and an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder with the Rage Theater 100/200chip. They have excellent analog capture quality and the ADC doesn't do any sharpening or muck up the video with AGC. Both of which are common problems on modern capture cards, including ATI's own PCI "TV Wonder" cards.
To avoid frame dropping, you need an external TBC (different from the TBC in the VCR) acting as a frame sync. They also tend to strip Macrovision off of tapes *wink* *wink*. More info here: http://www.digitalfaq.com/foru...
Apple wasn't going to turn off the money maker that was the Apple II line right away. After all, the Mac could have failed. The Apple IIe was sold until 1993, the IIgs lasted until 1991. They had new products for the machines in the pipeline as late as 1993 such as an Ethernet card.
There is, it's why you have to pay a $150 service charge to replace the battery. The planned obsolescence is the lifespan of the battery. Which should be around 2 - 3 years.
There is a market for that service and it usually costs less than Apple charges. Considering that the product is out of warranty by the time the battery goes flat, having it serviced by a 3rd party or DIYing it usually isn't a problem.
Intel sells that Next Unit of Computing box.
Despite not having nearly as many expansion cards as in the past, I seem to have no problem filling up most of the back plates on full ATX cases with breakout connectors.
The War Against Menus continues. It is quite clear that nobody does user interface testing anymore.
I guess the TRS-80 Model II + fully populated expansion chassis I had (4x 8" drives!) would have been a nice source of spare parts.
After that, they tacked a word processor onto it and called it LOGOWriter to somehow integrate it into other fields of learning.
Its very likely a patch will be made for Windows Embedded POSReady 2009. We'll see what pops up on Windows Update next month. Since its basically XP SP3, its likely someone will "crossport" the patch to retail XP.
Wow, this one works with millivolt systems, nice. The Nest doesn't, even though I have the required 24VAC supply already wired but disused (a very old t-stat used it, current unit is battery powered). The only way I could do it with a Nest is clobber some sort of relay system to drive the boiler. The only downside is that the Cyberstat doesn't appear to have a battery backup. Millivolt systems have the advantage of providing heat without needing external utility power.
After a several year hiatus away from computer stuff I agree completely. I gradated CS in 2002. There was much more priority given to imperative programming and arrays for everything than there should have been. Most of the lecturers were brainwashed by terms like "object oriented is the future", "extreme programming" and other such nonsense because it's "kewl". We did some Prolog but not nearly enough.
Of that list, maybe object oriented programming is important to "know". Otherwise computer science courses should be treated as language and platform agnostic, and only focus on stuff like data structures, arrays, etc. Basic theory that is applicable to any language.
It wasn't emphasized. We did no lisp! or Scheme.. It's sad that I'm more mature than many of those guys despite being younger.
I never did any LISP programming in school either. Oddly enough the language that always fascinated me was Postscript. Its amazing what a printer page description language is capable of.
Personally, I bought the Surface 2 (not pro) last Christmas, and I like it a lot more than my wife's iPad. The expandable storage, plus again, not having to buy apps for things that should be standard, like playing videos from a network share, make it a good choice. I also like the UI a lot better than iPad or Android, and like the fact that I can open a command prompt or run a powershell script if I want to. The lack of apps is probably the only downfall, but I find that I'm still able to do everything I want to do on a tablet. There are many games I can't play, but there's enough games to keep me entertained.
The lack of playing files from a network share out of the box is likely Apple ecosystem lock-in. They want you to use iCloud. Meanwhile every cheapo Android device usually has support for DLNA.
The Windows RT tablet's days are likely numbered with the crop of new Atom based Windows 8.1 tablets that are coming out. Being able to run off the shelf Win32 stuff helps their case. A full 8.1 tablet has no problems connecting to VPNs for example.