I don't really want to be seen as some sort of anti-Apple-troll. My current main is a macbook, that I'm quite attached too -- though I admit I'm getting tired of telling them to fix new cracks in the casing. I just believe that the age we are discussing was a dark time for Apple in which they were quickly falling behind. Luckily they were able to pull their asses out of the grinder and were able to move on to producing quality and up-to-date products once again.
I'd have to disagree with your evaluation of AIX. Apple did also, seeing as how they dumped A/UX in favor of AIX. All I'm saying is, NT A/UX is not an appropriate comparison. A/UX was very much the same "bastardized UNIX with a poor app lineup" since it was just another System V / BSD derivative. A/UX did have a unique compatibility layer, similar in function to the many other compatibility layers that other "bastardized" BSD systems ran (but with different target platforms), that allowed the use of System 7 apps, but I'm not sure as to how this improved the otherwise "poor app lineup." System 7 applications weren't particularly relevant to the uses most people put A/UX systems too. Once again, there is a reason that Apple switched to AIX.
System 6 and 7 had only cooperative multitasking. System 7.5 was pretty legendary in its instability from what I understand. While I would never put 95/98 on a pedestal, there is a reason people thought Apple was going to go out of business during this time period and it wasn't just competition from MS that was doing it.
Actually jailbreak is about breaking free of the restrictions of any locked down system. The term "jail" is an old one that has been used in Unix-like operating systems for a long time. The iPhone, to my understanding uses a unix-like directory tree and limits your access to that tree by making a jail not terribly dissimilar to those in other unix-like operating systems.. therefore the usage of the term "jail" and "jailbreaking."
What are you arguing? His submission fits with the OP. Marathon came out on Macs in the mid-90's which he is putting forth as a failed/awful system. Just as many games in the OP have been ported, so has Marathon. Doesn't really change his point. Good game/awful system.
Maybe not Mac computers in general, but Mac in the mid-90's? System 6 and 7 were fail-tacular. Apple in general was seen as a failing company during this time.
Yeah, it wasn't awful, but contrary to the title the author seems to be talking about flops more than anything else. For instance, I believe the Jaguar hardware wise, for its generation, was in no way awful. On the other hand the Jaguar was most definitely a flop, as was the Saturn.
Most likely its downscaling, it says Full HD (1080p) Video Player.. so it seems to be technically referring to the software's ability to play 1080p, not the LCD screen. Pretty misleading.
Supposedly the first chapter was released today, and thus far it appears completely web based and pretty uneventful. Honestly the thing seems hardly set up right now, so I don't really understand why they made an announcement.. in its current condition its going to scare off a lot of people.
NoSQL has a lot to do with scalability. Sure there's other reasons, but not enough to recommend them over hash databases. Hash databases have been around for decades which do what you propose and a lot more, their main con is the lack of scalability -- hence NoSQL. BerkeleyDB is an example, but it's a list to huge to continue..
Since when does Google use a traditional SQL database? Last I checked they used their BigTable, which is anything but traditional.
Besides, supporting reads on a scalable system has never been a problem, the problem is supporting scaleable, ACID compliant writes in a reasonably quick and efficient manner. Most systems end up having to have a single authoritative master because there is no way to insure that the data is updated both quickly and consistently over a range of "masters."
Debates about the contrast aside, an LCD screen bothers my eyes far more and because of kerotaconus it's hard for me to read any paper back book no matter how white the page is -- with the adjustable size of fonts alone I'm pretty skeptical of people telling me the kindle is hard on their eyes simply because I can't read anything else easily without contacts. Your mileage of course, may vary.
It's all a big cycle. In the 80's and early 90's it seemed like Science Fiction was the thing, now it's Fantasy. It'll all come back around again when people get bored.
Assuming it's web-based, which seems a far bet at this point, file size will not be a consideration. Maybe the text of the serial chapters/installments will be downloadable, though at this point there is no real indication of that, but the actual multimedia/social component will very likely be solely over the web.
Depends how you define rich media then I guess, the only thing the kindle can't do is video. The contrast complaints are much overhyped, its no worse than a newspaper. Some newsprint is perhaps slightly lighter, but the Kindle's darker fonts make the comparison pretty valid. My experience is only with the 2nd generation Kindle of course, the others are supposed to be improved.
Ultra-640 seems to be parallel SCSI's limit and it has a few disadvantages, so it's not nearly as popular as SAS. Ultra-320 on the other hand is still gloriously parallel and has all of SCSI's standard advantages.
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Maybe .. but it was worth every minute.
I don't really want to be seen as some sort of anti-Apple-troll. My current main is a macbook, that I'm quite attached too -- though I admit I'm getting tired of telling them to fix new cracks in the casing. I just believe that the age we are discussing was a dark time for Apple in which they were quickly falling behind. Luckily they were able to pull their asses out of the grinder and were able to move on to producing quality and up-to-date products once again.
Heh, I think at that point in time I was still faithfully using my Apple IIgs.
I'd have to disagree with your evaluation of AIX. Apple did also, seeing as how they dumped A/UX in favor of AIX. All I'm saying is, NT A/UX is not an appropriate comparison. A/UX was very much the same "bastardized UNIX with a poor app lineup" since it was just another System V / BSD derivative. A/UX did have a unique compatibility layer, similar in function to the many other compatibility layers that other "bastardized" BSD systems ran (but with different target platforms), that allowed the use of System 7 apps, but I'm not sure as to how this improved the otherwise "poor app lineup." System 7 applications weren't particularly relevant to the uses most people put A/UX systems too. Once again, there is a reason that Apple switched to AIX.
No, not many people have anything bad to say about them, but I'm not sure many people would want to admit they spent 10k on a computer they hated :P.
Comparing NT to A/UX is unfair to say the least. Something like IBM's AIX would be much more appropriate.
System 6 and 7 had only cooperative multitasking. System 7.5 was pretty legendary in its instability from what I understand. While I would never put 95/98 on a pedestal, there is a reason people thought Apple was going to go out of business during this time period and it wasn't just competition from MS that was doing it.
Actually jailbreak is about breaking free of the restrictions of any locked down system. The term "jail" is an old one that has been used in Unix-like operating systems for a long time. The iPhone, to my understanding uses a unix-like directory tree and limits your access to that tree by making a jail not terribly dissimilar to those in other unix-like operating systems.. therefore the usage of the term "jail" and "jailbreaking."
What are you arguing? His submission fits with the OP. Marathon came out on Macs in the mid-90's which he is putting forth as a failed/awful system. Just as many games in the OP have been ported, so has Marathon. Doesn't really change his point. Good game/awful system.
Maybe not Mac computers in general, but Mac in the mid-90's? System 6 and 7 were fail-tacular. Apple in general was seen as a failing company during this time.
It was awful in that it did awful in the market. The Saturn was the beginning of the fall for Sega consoles, with the Dreamcast sealing its fate.
Yeah, it wasn't awful, but contrary to the title the author seems to be talking about flops more than anything else. For instance, I believe the Jaguar hardware wise, for its generation, was in no way awful. On the other hand the Jaguar was most definitely a flop, as was the Saturn.
Most likely its downscaling, it says Full HD (1080p) Video Player.. so it seems to be technically referring to the software's ability to play 1080p, not the LCD screen. Pretty misleading.
You can have up to 96 cores with the z196 processor.. not sure how a quad core 3.1ghz would hope to even compare with that.
Supposedly the first chapter was released today, and thus far it appears completely web based and pretty uneventful. Honestly the thing seems hardly set up right now, so I don't really understand why they made an announcement.. in its current condition its going to scare off a lot of people.
NoSQL has a lot to do with scalability. Sure there's other reasons, but not enough to recommend them over hash databases. Hash databases have been around for decades which do what you propose and a lot more, their main con is the lack of scalability -- hence NoSQL. BerkeleyDB is an example, but it's a list to huge to continue..
Since when does Google use a traditional SQL database? Last I checked they used their BigTable, which is anything but traditional.
Besides, supporting reads on a scalable system has never been a problem, the problem is supporting scaleable, ACID compliant writes in a reasonably quick and efficient manner. Most systems end up having to have a single authoritative master because there is no way to insure that the data is updated both quickly and consistently over a range of "masters."
Debates about the contrast aside, an LCD screen bothers my eyes far more and because of kerotaconus it's hard for me to read any paper back book no matter how white the page is -- with the adjustable size of fonts alone I'm pretty skeptical of people telling me the kindle is hard on their eyes simply because I can't read anything else easily without contacts. Your mileage of course, may vary.
It's all a big cycle. In the 80's and early 90's it seemed like Science Fiction was the thing, now it's Fantasy. It'll all come back around again when people get bored.
Hellgate London had a similar "extra content" model and look what happened to Flagship.
Assuming it's web-based, which seems a far bet at this point, file size will not be a consideration. Maybe the text of the serial chapters/installments will be downloadable, though at this point there is no real indication of that, but the actual multimedia/social component will very likely be solely over the web.
Depends how you define rich media then I guess, the only thing the kindle can't do is video. The contrast complaints are much overhyped, its no worse than a newspaper. Some newsprint is perhaps slightly lighter, but the Kindle's darker fonts make the comparison pretty valid. My experience is only with the 2nd generation Kindle of course, the others are supposed to be improved.
It advertises 265 MB/s when using SATA II mode, but close enough to the 286MB/s max, so I stand corrected.
Ultra-640 seems to be parallel SCSI's limit and it has a few disadvantages, so it's not nearly as popular as SAS. Ultra-320 on the other hand is still gloriously parallel and has all of SCSI's standard advantages.
Yeah, I'm referring to parallel SCSI also. Check out the Ultra-320 and Ultra-640 standards.