And that was when white LEDs almost immediately followed, as a white LED is basically a red, a green and a blue LED in one package.
Actually, most white LEDs are a blue LED with yellow phosphor on top. An R+G+B LED can become almost any color, which is great for signs and mood lighting, but is really pretty crappy for general lighting because of the monochromatic nature of LEDs.
The Byte of the '90s was not the Byte of the early days. In '87 because of a change in tax laws, they offered a 6 years for $99 subscription renewal. After those six years were over, I felt no reason to renew again. At that point it was about little more than the latest version of Windows, or the latest x86 CPU, or the latest business software. Only Pournelle's column was still interesting.
What's new? The number! You see, most blokes will still be using 9. You’re on 9, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, is if we need that extra push over the cliff...Ten. One louder.
Byte is kind of the journal of note of the microcomputer era from 1975 to the early '90s (when it became just a bunch of boring reviews). I'm sure anyone who wanted a list of influential software from the past could spend a couple of weeks digging through them. You can find most of the early years as scanned.PDF files if you know where to look.
And don't forget to cover some of the important failures too, like The One[tm], Visi-On, and Lotus Jazz. And the important semi-failures like Smalltalk and OS/2.
I remember when I worked in New Braunfels, TX in the late '90s. (So SBC, not Bell System.) One day the central office switch went down for a few hours. I don't remember too many details, but I got the idea that some people were really scrambling about it.
I'm wondering how they can get away with that kind of an outage for the voice service. As in, you know, not even being able to dial 911?
They built out the node about 500 feet from my house two years before even starting to offer U-verse. At that range, VDSL2+ can reach 50Mb/sec or more. I thought that could be nice. Once I saw that they seemed to care more about selling cable TV (I watch plenty with an antenna these days) and voice service (I'll stick with my reliable POTS line, TYVM), I was less interested. When I found out that they put some kind of digital certificate inside the modem where you can't just drop in another modem when yours flakes out (which I have done plenty of times with DSL), I was even less interested. (Though I will admit it may have something to do with preventing you from usurping someone else's voice connection with stored credentials.)
I've got old-school 6Mbit bridged-Ethernet DSL with fixed IP through them, and although I would like something faster and cheaper, it's solid. The only time in over 10 years that it went out was when they apparently (my best guess) bricked the remote terminal node in a botched firmware update and had to get a replacement shipped in. Every other problem lasting more than 15 minutes or so has been due to the CPE modem, and I can get replacements for $5 or so at thrift stores.
In other words, the SBC and Bell South states. (The current lowercase "at&t" is SBC renamed after buying out what was left of the original uppercase "AT&T".) On the other hand, I've got the impression that those are most of the states in which U-verse is even offered.
Why stop there? I just had a vision of a kiss-based interface... after all, if five fingers are easier than ten fingers, two lips have to be even easier yet! Hooray for the KISS principle! And just think of where the porn industry could go from there!
Holy crap. I was expecting something that looked somewhat like a steno keyboard, not a freaking Bop It game. It looks painfully ergo-not-ic. Also, expect Google Chrome to require it soon after Windows 8, followed by Firefox chasing right behind.
I've got an embedded system using a commercial cross-compiler. I've tried setting the clock to around 2038 to see what happens. The date/time functions in the C library start to fail before the roll-over. (You can disable them in favor of your own, but it seems to be a pain in the ass.) I seem to recall it starts to have problems in 2036. This system controls lighting in small commercial buildings, so I hope they'll get to upgrade in 20 years or so. In any case, I felt it was safe to only use 2 digits in the clock setting screen as they'll probably be long gone by 2099.
It's only "the same thing" if you have to first convince them that your recipe is worth looking at before you're even told how to write a recipe in their unique format. Or even what pots and pans you'll be allowed to use.
Aside from this thing already using a MIPS, that's kind of a tall order. The PS2's graphics chips are a pain in the butt to emulate. PCSX2 wants 512M RAM minimum (1-2GB preferred), SSE2, a decent GPU, and a dual-core CPU of at least 2.8 GHz. Sure, some of that is getting the PC to emulate MIPS, but most of it is about emulating the EE/GS.
tl;dr: you're not getting PS2 emulation in a portable without either 1) an ASIC clone of EE/GS or 2) a super fast battery eater of a CPU.
My initial impression upon reading the specs in TFS is that 320x240 is really a bit too low-res. I work with an embedded platform that uses a cheap 320x240 2.75" screen, and it's pretty limiting, but at 2-3 feet you can barely read 8x8 text with that size screen anyhow. (I use a 16x24 font on it for readability.) But it's cheap, like $8 in quantity. I would much rather see 640x480 on the larger 3.5" screen.
But what is the point? Learning? Because the thing won't sell, like the previous models didn't do. You can have the best hardware, but if you don't have games for the device it doesn't matter.
And that's the real reason I won't bother with it. If it's just to write code for fun, I've already got two hacked PSP-1000s, and a 16GB memory card for one of them. I also have a Wii that hasn't even been turned on since before they patched the Twilight Hack, waiting for me to get around to jailbreak it.
I've had many times where I was able to get a bunch of Scrabble tiles cheaply, so I have a couple of big bags full. (Hey, they're small.) X is normally 8 points, but I have found at least one 10 point X tile. (The X-10 might have come from a foreign language set, probably French.)
The obvious thing to do with a few thousand tiles is to play a "random tiles" variation where 100 tiles are randomly picked out of a big bag. (That should be easy enough to mechanize.) It would be the Scrabble equivalent of Las Vegas using multiple decks for blackjack (and reshuffling after half of them are played) to make it harder for card counters.
Expanding on your idea, if there were more letter tiles that you could trade, and maybe board sections with different double/triple letter/word store squares, that could be interesting. Look, it's a Vowel-Only Blank!
Slashdot Mirror
And that was when white LEDs almost immediately followed, as a white LED is basically a red, a green and a blue LED in one package.
Actually, most white LEDs are a blue LED with yellow phosphor on top. An R+G+B LED can become almost any color, which is great for signs and mood lighting, but is really pretty crappy for general lighting because of the monochromatic nature of LEDs.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/31/ubuntu_uefi_bricking_samsung_laptops/
usually leading to his termination
Yep, just like what happened to him in real life.
The Byte of the '90s was not the Byte of the early days. In '87 because of a change in tax laws, they offered a 6 years for $99 subscription renewal. After those six years were over, I felt no reason to renew again. At that point it was about little more than the latest version of Windows, or the latest x86 CPU, or the latest business software. Only Pournelle's column was still interesting.
What's new? The number! You see, most blokes will still be using 9. You’re on 9, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, is if we need that extra push over the cliff...Ten. One louder.
Byte is kind of the journal of note of the microcomputer era from 1975 to the early '90s (when it became just a bunch of boring reviews). I'm sure anyone who wanted a list of influential software from the past could spend a couple of weeks digging through them. You can find most of the early years as scanned .PDF files if you know where to look.
And don't forget to cover some of the important failures too, like The One[tm], Visi-On, and Lotus Jazz. And the important semi-failures like Smalltalk and OS/2.
I see more of a yo dawg story than an underdog story in this.
Good thing twimg.com is blocked by the filter where I work! The last thing I need to see is pseudo-videos from a bunch of twits.
Cisco sells Linksys
Yay!
...to Belkin
What in the actual fuck?
I remember when I worked in New Braunfels, TX in the late '90s. (So SBC, not Bell System.) One day the central office switch went down for a few hours. I don't remember too many details, but I got the idea that some people were really scrambling about it.
I'm wondering how they can get away with that kind of an outage for the voice service. As in, you know, not even being able to dial 911?
They built out the node about 500 feet from my house two years before even starting to offer U-verse. At that range, VDSL2+ can reach 50Mb/sec or more. I thought that could be nice. Once I saw that they seemed to care more about selling cable TV (I watch plenty with an antenna these days) and voice service (I'll stick with my reliable POTS line, TYVM), I was less interested. When I found out that they put some kind of digital certificate inside the modem where you can't just drop in another modem when yours flakes out (which I have done plenty of times with DSL), I was even less interested. (Though I will admit it may have something to do with preventing you from usurping someone else's voice connection with stored credentials.)
I've got old-school 6Mbit bridged-Ethernet DSL with fixed IP through them, and although I would like something faster and cheaper, it's solid. The only time in over 10 years that it went out was when they apparently (my best guess) bricked the remote terminal node in a botched firmware update and had to get a replacement shipped in. Every other problem lasting more than 15 minutes or so has been due to the CPE modem, and I can get replacements for $5 or so at thrift stores.
In other words, the SBC and Bell South states. (The current lowercase "at&t" is SBC renamed after buying out what was left of the original uppercase "AT&T".) On the other hand, I've got the impression that those are most of the states in which U-verse is even offered.
Why stop there? I just had a vision of a kiss-based interface... after all, if five fingers are easier than ten fingers, two lips have to be even easier yet! Hooray for the KISS principle! And just think of where the porn industry could go from there!
Holy crap. I was expecting something that looked somewhat like a steno keyboard, not a freaking Bop It game. It looks painfully ergo-not-ic. Also, expect Google Chrome to require it soon after Windows 8, followed by Firefox chasing right behind.
I've got an embedded system using a commercial cross-compiler. I've tried setting the clock to around 2038 to see what happens. The date/time functions in the C library start to fail before the roll-over. (You can disable them in favor of your own, but it seems to be a pain in the ass.) I seem to recall it starts to have problems in 2036. This system controls lighting in small commercial buildings, so I hope they'll get to upgrade in 20 years or so. In any case, I felt it was safe to only use 2 digits in the clock setting screen as they'll probably be long gone by 2099.
Betteridge's law of headlines
The best part is that Forbes (apparently) pulled the article because (apparently) it was just too much wild speculation.
Looks like Cuba's trying it.
It's only "the same thing" if you have to first convince them that your recipe is worth looking at before you're even told how to write a recipe in their unique format. Or even what pots and pans you'll be allowed to use.
Because when your operating system doesn't come from Microsoft, you can "See Pound Salt" when trying to run C# code.
PS2 capability
Aside from this thing already using a MIPS, that's kind of a tall order. The PS2's graphics chips are a pain in the butt to emulate. PCSX2 wants 512M RAM minimum (1-2GB preferred), SSE2, a decent GPU, and a dual-core CPU of at least 2.8 GHz. Sure, some of that is getting the PC to emulate MIPS, but most of it is about emulating the EE/GS.
tl;dr: you're not getting PS2 emulation in a portable without either 1) an ASIC clone of EE/GS or 2) a super fast battery eater of a CPU.
My initial impression upon reading the specs in TFS is that 320x240 is really a bit too low-res. I work with an embedded platform that uses a cheap 320x240 2.75" screen, and it's pretty limiting, but at 2-3 feet you can barely read 8x8 text with that size screen anyhow. (I use a 16x24 font on it for readability.) But it's cheap, like $8 in quantity. I would much rather see 640x480 on the larger 3.5" screen.
But what is the point? Learning? Because the thing won't sell, like the previous models didn't do. You can have the best hardware, but if you don't have games for the device it doesn't matter.
And that's the real reason I won't bother with it. If it's just to write code for fun, I've already got two hacked PSP-1000s, and a 16GB memory card for one of them. I also have a Wii that hasn't even been turned on since before they patched the Twilight Hack, waiting for me to get around to jailbreak it.
Yes. I think the Arabic set is probably the most mind-blowing of them all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions
I've had many times where I was able to get a bunch of Scrabble tiles cheaply, so I have a couple of big bags full. (Hey, they're small.) X is normally 8 points, but I have found at least one 10 point X tile. (The X-10 might have come from a foreign language set, probably French.)
The obvious thing to do with a few thousand tiles is to play a "random tiles" variation where 100 tiles are randomly picked out of a big bag. (That should be easy enough to mechanize.) It would be the Scrabble equivalent of Las Vegas using multiple decks for blackjack (and reshuffling after half of them are played) to make it harder for card counters.
Expanding on your idea, if there were more letter tiles that you could trade, and maybe board sections with different double/triple letter/word store squares, that could be interesting. Look, it's a Vowel-Only Blank!
He's being haunted by the ghost of a grandmaster chess player!
...the creeper blew up my homework!