To be fair, they haven't hit 1.0 yet. IMHO, the developers should reasonably be expected to tinker with the protocols, and see what works best until they hit the "real release." Once they hit 1.0, however, it really should be stable, and have inbuilt provisions for expanding the protocol in the future without breaking anything. (Like how I can use HTTP 1.1 or 1.0, and not notice any difference as a user)
Interesting... I never was able to get mine to sync. Tungsten E, Debian. 2.4 kernel of some sort, IIRC. (I'm not at work, or I'd check.) The ttyUSB shows up, but I have never managed to get it to do anything but sit telling me that I should hit the hot sync button (Though that message would only appear after I hit it!)
Also, for double bonus points, does anybody know how to sync Groupwise with a Tungsten E under Linux?
Okay, so the world doesn't revolve around us. But, HTML is still evil. Seriously. I work with some blind people. When email has images and stuff, the screen reader can't do anything with it. If all you want is bold face, and text formatting, then there probably isn't much point to bothering with HTML. People checking email on blackberries and cell phones and palm pilots is becoming a more popular phenomenon. Many companies turn off HTML mail for their users. (The one we use at the office turns it off by default, thank goodness.)
If you want to use a 1x1 pixel web bug, then you are an ass hat. If you want to use javascript in email, you are an ass hat the size of a llama.
And, when I was your age, I had to walk uphill to get email, all three ways.
I, too, am fond of the old stuff. I have an original Macintosh, VAX, HP PA-RISC, Alphs, SPARC, SGI, PPC equipment from various points in the last 20 years. I also have an iBook, and an Athlon64, but those are just for useful stuff, not fun. (unless I am playing a video game, or something...)
I'd honestly be hard pressed to list all the architectures I have if I include the shed, and the garage. Eventually, I plan to work on heterogeneous distributed databases and automatic load balancing with my little cluster. For now, I just frighten children.
I think most of the existing "browncoats" are virgin viewers. How else do you explain people going to Fandango and trying every possible city to get tickets before the showing was announced. If they had girlfriends.... Well, they might have had better things to do.
There is an option to automatically restart on errors. Though, I agree with you, it would seem like MS would be jumping all over themselves to allow some customisations to high traffic BSODs. I know, if I was an MS Rep, I would offer airlines a customised OS that says "OS/2 has crashed again" whenever it would normall BSOD.
The impala is not recognised as a unit of measure. Please use Volkswagons, or ISO Standard Bathtubs.
I'm not sure where the exact cutoff is. I'd assume anything in the decivolkswagon range would simply be considered as flotsam unworthy of a name, unless somebody wants to try to catalogue everything in the rings! You'd need a lot of mountain dew.
So, have some water at the bottom of the tank, away from the components. If the water starts boiling, you have a problem. Have a plate at the oil-water interface so that steam is routed to the edges of the case, not near the fiddly bits. Voila, you have a bubbling, seething temperature alert indicator which likely won't fail.
Given that most people who do water cooling don't have a problem with boiling, I think this should be a non-issue in all but the most extreme circumstances. (But then, why are you using an 8 CPU mineral oil cooled system with no fans in the middle of the desert, at the center of a solar collector in mid day...?!)
With lots of expansive, detailed content, I would not be surprised at all if they could fill up a BluRay. Use procedural algorithms to make a stupidly detailed city, and make like the entire state that city is in. Then, store it in a stupidly verbose format similar to the following:
----------------// The following section declares a point that is part of the current triangle::// The following floating point value indicates the X axis value of a point: 1.0000000245// The following floating point value indicates the Y axis value of a point: 1.000000784// The following floating point value indicates the Z axis value of a point: 1.00000358// The following floating point value indicates the unused homogenous coordinate: 1.0000000000// This concludes the point. Points are very cool. The next section will have another point. ---------------------- Multiply by three to get a triangle, use a few billion triangles, and then you can advertise the fact that you used a whole BluRay when telling people to buy your game because it is so immersive!
Never underestimate the power of marketing to cause stupid things to occur!
I would use an iPod video with TV-out. I don't want to dedicate a computer to my TV, certainly not all my TV's. I don't want to make DVD's of all my Dr. Who, and all sorts of other video I have accumulated.
If I could put moderate quality 320x240 video on my iPod, and carry it with me at all times, 60 GB would hold a substantial collection, and I'd always have it with me when I want to plug into a TV.
Much more convenient than building a mythTV front end box, or something... So, a)what resolution will the iPod Photo output through the TV connector? b) How quickly could the ARM CPU decode something like low bit rate MPEG-1?
I got a PDA from work. It came with the Adobe Reader. Lately, I have been putting all sorts of books and papers on my PDA so I can read them over lunch. Not as nice as dead-tree for the actual reading, but much more portable, considering the ~20MB's of mostly plain text PDF's I carry around with me. Japanese, Objective C, Graphics Papers, Manuals, all sorts of stuff.
And, with the SD card I got, I can carry around two episodes of a TV show. So, I have got a Japanese reference text (several, actually), as well as at least one episode of some old PBS style Japanese TV program from the 80's, whenever I go to lunch.
I still spend a too large portion of my disposable income on dead trees, but the PDA is a huge benefit. I wish all my dead tree books came with PDF's of themselves.
One warning - a full speed fx5200 or r9200 may be sold without a fan, but if you are at high altitude, or a warm place, it will likely overheat.
(I had a fanless Geforce card that worked fine in Chicago, but when I moved to Denver, I learned that the lower air pressure is just barely enough to make the heat sink not quite efficient enough, and I got crazy things. Added a slot fan and the problem went away.)
You do realise it's possible to be incorporated in one state, and have a primary mailing address in another, right? Which is why one would specify both states distinctly...
Not that he isn't a Moran. He is, he just happened to get that one right.
Just to point this out... There isn't any requirement that the first played item actually be the menu. You can have the menu only appear if you hit the menu button, but otherwie go straight into the presentation.
My experience has been that if my users have insuffiecient privs to install a printer, I can do it, but when I authenticate as me, I have none of my networked drives, so I have to: as user - copy printer drivers from network authenticate as me install drivers remove local copy
Which seems to be at least twice as many steps as I ought to need!
Well, there shouldn't anything in PPC64 that is impossible in MIPS, or IA32, or any other architecture with an FPU. For those that don't have an FPU, then you would have to emulate FP in software.
So, yeah, it will just be a question of speed.
That said, PPC has twice the number of registers that AMD64 has, so it will be quite a bit more efficient if you need to have 17+ variables in play. Fewer loads and stores means a greater % of your instructions spent on the actual math. Combine that with the possibility that you might have an algorithm that makes heavy use of an instruction on PPC which would require 2-3 instructions on AMD64, and the ppc architecture may be much better suited for you algorithm.
In theory, it should be possible to find a way to port the exact same algorithm to an integer only MISC system with an accumulator (single register design) running FP emulation software. It'll be slow. If the MISC can make up for it with an overwhelming clock speed, it may execute the algorithm faster than the architecture which is better suited. The likelyhood that you could actually clock it high enough... Well, that's pretty slim.
As far as I know, analog cable will never be banned. It may die off, but it isn't using public broadcast spectrum, so there is no logical reason to get rid of it. It'll only free up more room on the wire. If the cable provider doesn't want to send anything else down the wire, no need to make more room.
The issue with banning analog TV broadcast is purely a matter of making efficient use of *public* broadcast spectrum for additional uses.
Well, given that the digital signal should be a bit cleaner, and it will also make room in the spectrum for things like wireless internet... Isn't this a good thing for many rural areas that are currently isolated from much technology?
I'm not sure what makes you think that... Even the web page that you linked in your post disagrees:
"NT runs on 64-bit Alpha hardware and offers 64-bit files and file systems but has yet to address the key 64-bit requirement to support large amounts of physical memory for enhancing database performance."
Running on a system capable of 64 bits does not mean the OS itself is 64 bits. The Win64 API didn't even exist when NT4 came out.
I am not aware of a 64 bit port to SPARC. I know they had 32 bit build for alpha, ppc, MIPS. I have heard from reliable sources that there was a 64 bit port of NT 5 beta (eventually named Win2k) to Alpha. Apparently, a lot of the code from that port was used to make the 64 bit Itanium port.
We use MS Office where I work, but we routinely send files to other people who don't have Office. They have used Office, they just don't have it on the home PC, or whatever. (Specifically, Excel.) I tell them to go to openoffice.org, and I just never mention the fact that it isn't MS Office. Everybody calls it "the place to download Excel."
So far, I have never once gotten a call about somebody who couldn't use OpenOffice because it was too different from MS Office. I have, however, gotten quite a few reports about people who needed a lot of over the phone hand holding to keep clicking "next" in the install program, to give you an idea of how computer literate these people are...
So, that's my experience with the transition from MS Office to OpenOffice for neophytes. I can only assume a kid who learns OpenOffice would have a similar learning curve to MS Office for 90% of tasks.
I use OpenOffice on my Linux box here at work, and I've never had any issues interoperating with the other people in the office. I also have it on my Mac at home, but I very very rarely need to do anything related to Office type stuff at home, so I almost never use it. At home, it's pretty much all Xcode and VLC...:)
Uhh, This is one of the hundred or so "me too posts." The Asker has no idea what he is doing.
That said... When I glanced at the headline, I assumed it was about somebody doing a custom 8 bit or 16 bit system, and was looking for some resources to make his tricked out Zilog box look more professional.
So, I'd love to hear from some experts about just what level of custom board would be doable for a hobbyist? How about a dual 8080, or maybe (joygasm) a dual 386 custom board? What free/cheap tools are available, and who does cheap low-volume PCB runs? Let's all pretend that a useful question was asked, and answer that!
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To be fair, they haven't hit 1.0 yet. IMHO, the developers should reasonably be expected to tinker with the protocols, and see what works best until they hit the "real release." Once they hit 1.0, however, it really should be stable, and have inbuilt provisions for expanding the protocol in the future without breaking anything. (Like how I can use HTTP 1.1 or 1.0, and not notice any difference as a user)
Interesting... I never was able to get mine to sync. Tungsten E, Debian. 2.4 kernel of some sort, IIRC. (I'm not at work, or I'd check.) The ttyUSB shows up, but I have never managed to get it to do anything but sit telling me that I should hit the hot sync button (Though that message would only appear after I hit it!)
Also, for double bonus points, does anybody know how to sync Groupwise with a Tungsten E under Linux?
Okay, so the world doesn't revolve around us. But, HTML is still evil. Seriously. I work with some blind people. When email has images and stuff, the screen reader can't do anything with it. If all you want is bold face, and text formatting, then there probably isn't much point to bothering with HTML. People checking email on blackberries and cell phones and palm pilots is becoming a more popular phenomenon. Many companies turn off HTML mail for their users. (The one we use at the office turns it off by default, thank goodness.)
If you want to use a 1x1 pixel web bug, then you are an ass hat. If you want to use javascript in email, you are an ass hat the size of a llama.
And, when I was your age, I had to walk uphill to get email, all three ways.
I, too, am fond of the old stuff. I have an original Macintosh, VAX, HP PA-RISC, Alphs, SPARC, SGI, PPC equipment from various points in the last 20 years. I also have an iBook, and an Athlon64, but those are just for useful stuff, not fun. (unless I am playing a video game, or something...)
I'd honestly be hard pressed to list all the architectures I have if I include the shed, and the garage. Eventually, I plan to work on heterogeneous distributed databases and automatic load balancing with my little cluster. For now, I just frighten children.
I think most of the existing "browncoats" are virgin viewers. How else do you explain people going to Fandango and trying every possible city to get tickets before the showing was announced. If they had girlfriends.... Well, they might have had better things to do.
Well, I got my ticket!
There is an option to automatically restart on errors. Though, I agree with you, it would seem like MS would be jumping all over themselves to allow some customisations to high traffic BSODs. I know, if I was an MS Rep, I would offer airlines a customised OS that says "OS/2 has crashed again" whenever it would normall BSOD.
The impala is not recognised as a unit of measure. Please use Volkswagons, or ISO Standard Bathtubs.
I'm not sure where the exact cutoff is. I'd assume anything in the decivolkswagon range would simply be considered as flotsam unworthy of a name, unless somebody wants to try to catalogue everything in the rings! You'd need a lot of mountain dew.
So, have some water at the bottom of the tank, away from the components. If the water starts boiling, you have a problem. Have a plate at the oil-water interface so that steam is routed to the edges of the case, not near the fiddly bits. Voila, you have a bubbling, seething temperature alert indicator which likely won't fail.
Given that most people who do water cooling don't have a problem with boiling, I think this should be a non-issue in all but the most extreme circumstances. (But then, why are you using an 8 CPU mineral oil cooled system with no fans in the middle of the desert, at the center of a solar collector in mid day...?!)
With lots of expansive, detailed content, I would not be surprised at all if they could fill up a BluRay. Use procedural algorithms to make a stupidly detailed city, and make like the entire state that city is in. Then, store it in a stupidly verbose format similar to the following:
// The following section declares a point that is part of the current triangle:: // The following floating point value indicates the X axis value of a point: // The following floating point value indicates the Y axis value of a point: // The following floating point value indicates the Z axis value of a point: // The following floating point value indicates the unused homogenous coordinate: // This concludes the point. Points are very cool. The next section will have another point.
----------------
1.0000000245
1.000000784
1.00000358
1.0000000000
----------------------
Multiply by three to get a triangle, use a few billion triangles, and then you can advertise the fact that you used a whole BluRay when telling people to buy your game because it is so immersive!
Never underestimate the power of marketing to cause stupid things to occur!
Well, this is for the GB port of Linux, naturally!
I would use an iPod video with TV-out. I don't want to dedicate a computer to my TV, certainly not all my TV's. I don't want to make DVD's of all my Dr. Who, and all sorts of other video I have accumulated.
If I could put moderate quality 320x240 video on my iPod, and carry it with me at all times, 60 GB would hold a substantial collection, and I'd always have it with me when I want to plug into a TV.
Much more convenient than building a mythTV front end box, or something... So, a)what resolution will the iPod Photo output through the TV connector? b) How quickly could the ARM CPU decode something like low bit rate MPEG-1?
I got a PDA from work. It came with the Adobe Reader. Lately, I have been putting all sorts of books and papers on my PDA so I can read them over lunch. Not as nice as dead-tree for the actual reading, but much more portable, considering the ~20MB's of mostly plain text PDF's I carry around with me. Japanese, Objective C, Graphics Papers, Manuals, all sorts of stuff.
And, with the SD card I got, I can carry around two episodes of a TV show. So, I have got a Japanese reference text (several, actually), as well as at least one episode of some old PBS style Japanese TV program from the 80's, whenever I go to lunch.
I still spend a too large portion of my disposable income on dead trees, but the PDA is a huge benefit. I wish all my dead tree books came with PDF's of themselves.
One warning - a full speed fx5200 or r9200 may be sold without a fan, but if you are at high altitude, or a warm place, it will likely overheat.
(I had a fanless Geforce card that worked fine in Chicago, but when I moved to Denver, I learned that the lower air pressure is just barely enough to make the heat sink not quite efficient enough, and I got crazy things. Added a slot fan and the problem went away.)
I've heard good things about frame buffers. I think my Cromemco box is highly upgradeable. Do you think one of these cards will be available in S-100?
You do realise it's possible to be incorporated in one state, and have a primary mailing address in another, right? Which is why one would specify both states distinctly...
Not that he isn't a Moran. He is, he just happened to get that one right.
Just to point this out... There isn't any requirement that the first played item actually be the menu. You can have the menu only appear if you hit the menu button, but otherwie go straight into the presentation.
My experience has been that if my users have insuffiecient privs to install a printer, I can do it, but when I authenticate as me, I have none of my networked drives, so I have to:
as user - copy printer drivers from network
authenticate as me
install drivers
remove local copy
Which seems to be at least twice as many steps as I ought to need!
Well, there shouldn't anything in PPC64 that is impossible in MIPS, or IA32, or any other architecture with an FPU. For those that don't have an FPU, then you would have to emulate FP in software.
So, yeah, it will just be a question of speed.
That said, PPC has twice the number of registers that AMD64 has, so it will be quite a bit more efficient if you need to have 17+ variables in play. Fewer loads and stores means a greater % of your instructions spent on the actual math. Combine that with the possibility that you might have an algorithm that makes heavy use of an instruction on PPC which would require 2-3 instructions on AMD64, and the ppc architecture may be much better suited for you algorithm.
In theory, it should be possible to find a way to port the exact same algorithm to an integer only MISC system with an accumulator (single register design) running FP emulation software. It'll be slow. If the MISC can make up for it with an overwhelming clock speed, it may execute the algorithm faster than the architecture which is better suited. The likelyhood that you could actually clock it high enough... Well, that's pretty slim.
They just don't have anything better to do... All that time they free up by not watching TV, and all...
As far as I know, analog cable will never be banned. It may die off, but it isn't using public broadcast spectrum, so there is no logical reason to get rid of it. It'll only free up more room on the wire. If the cable provider doesn't want to send anything else down the wire, no need to make more room.
The issue with banning analog TV broadcast is purely a matter of making efficient use of *public* broadcast spectrum for additional uses.
Well, given that the digital signal should be a bit cleaner, and it will also make room in the spectrum for things like wireless internet... Isn't this a good thing for many rural areas that are currently isolated from much technology?
I'm not sure what makes you think that... Even the web page that you linked in your post disagrees:
"NT runs on 64-bit Alpha hardware and offers 64-bit files and file systems but has yet to address the key 64-bit requirement to support large amounts of physical memory for enhancing database performance."
Running on a system capable of 64 bits does not mean the OS itself is 64 bits. The Win64 API didn't even exist when NT4 came out.
I am not aware of a 64 bit port to SPARC. I know they had 32 bit build for alpha, ppc, MIPS. I have heard from reliable sources that there was a 64 bit port of NT 5 beta (eventually named Win2k) to Alpha. Apparently, a lot of the code from that port was used to make the 64 bit Itanium port.
We use MS Office where I work, but we routinely send files to other people who don't have Office. They have used Office, they just don't have it on the home PC, or whatever. (Specifically, Excel.) I tell them to go to openoffice.org, and I just never mention the fact that it isn't MS Office. Everybody calls it "the place to download Excel."
:)
So far, I have never once gotten a call about somebody who couldn't use OpenOffice because it was too different from MS Office. I have, however, gotten quite a few reports about people who needed a lot of over the phone hand holding to keep clicking "next" in the install program, to give you an idea of how computer literate these people are...
So, that's my experience with the transition from MS Office to OpenOffice for neophytes. I can only assume a kid who learns OpenOffice would have a similar learning curve to MS Office for 90% of tasks.
I use OpenOffice on my Linux box here at work, and I've never had any issues interoperating with the other people in the office. I also have it on my Mac at home, but I very very rarely need to do anything related to Office type stuff at home, so I almost never use it. At home, it's pretty much all Xcode and VLC...
Uhh, This is one of the hundred or so "me too posts." The Asker has no idea what he is doing.
That said... When I glanced at the headline, I assumed it was about somebody doing a custom 8 bit or 16 bit system, and was looking for some resources to make his tricked out Zilog box look more professional.
So, I'd love to hear from some experts about just what level of custom board would be doable for a hobbyist? How about a dual 8080, or maybe (joygasm) a dual 386 custom board? What free/cheap tools are available, and who does cheap low-volume PCB runs? Let's all pretend that a useful question was asked, and answer that!