Ummm, to be able to get off AppleTalk and have a decent IP stack under the hood? Lord knows they need it, especially on switched networks.
Well, they switched some 4 years ago to OpenTransport.
Opentransport is based on the same Mentat streams stack which Digital, IBM (AIX), Sun (Solaris) and some other vendors are using.
Appletalk nowadays runs on top of IP.
This is called Appleshare IP.
And yes, it still works perfectly.
If you look at the network performance of an average Mac you'll see that it runs rounds around all that crap from Redmond.
Even the first iMac can completely saturate a 100baseT full-duplex link.
that Saddam Hussein can now have all the PS2's he wants?
Doesn't matter.
Those aren't made in the USA.
And Japan, Taiwan, Korea don't have those kind of import and export rules.
Again, the US is almost the only country which restricts the export and import of supercomputers.
So, they are as always make an arse of themself.
Japanese computer manufactorers found a way to sell US company's without the 100% import tax.
Sell them and run them from Japan.
No US import tax and US firms can buy supercomputers.
The only thing most US laws like the export limitation of strong encryption and supercomputers do is lowering the sales.
Very good for Asian and European company's.
But not so good for the US economy.
They could easily introduce some nifity features in IIS-x.x that work only with M$ IE x.x. Everyone wants/needs these features of course, forcing the web-server market to use M$ OS...:-(
IIS?
What's that?
O yeah, that webserver thingy from M$ with 19,5% marketshare compared with Apache's 60,5%.
The way things are going M$ is losing marketshare in this market really fast.
Every quarter another 0,5%.
Thing is, that M$ doesn't innovate.
They can go through their patent file and go for anything in Linux that looks remotely like some patent they have. Given the state of the US Patent system, I am sure there should be a few hits...
Which patents?
They don't have many.
Second, US law doesn't count outside the USA.
Contrast that with Windows NT, Linux 2.x, and OS-X which can run any program, including the operating system itself on any available processor - a much more effective and useful solution.
Ehh, Linux PPC supports more than one processor without much problems.
And BeOS.
And MacOS X server.
MacOS started out as a 16bit OS and later moved to 24bit in System 6.0.X. With the introduction of System 7.0 (1990?) they moved to full 32bit OS.
Alas, even the first MacOS was 32 bits.
What you are revering to is the addresslines.
Memory adressing on the first 68000 was limited to 24 bits.
The 68020 and later supported 32 memoryaddresslines.
The first MacOS which could adress more than 8 Mb of memory was MacOS 6.0.*.
The 68000 was only limited to an external 16 bits databus.
Internal the 68000 is a fully 32 bits processor.
This compared with the 8086 and 8088 which where 16 bits processors.
The 68020 was the first 680*0 processor with an external 32 bits databus.
MacOS is almost 20 years old now, about the same as DOS.
DOS is even older.
The first version, called CP/M was developed around 1974.
The Macintosh Operatingsystem is from 1982.
The difference is very large.
CP/M is originally a 8 bits OS.
The Macintosh operatingsystem is a true 32 bits OS.
So, there is a very large difference between DOS and MacOS.
...IIRC the compression rate is just a wee bit better with WMA than with MP3, while still keeping the same sound quality.
Well, according to a test in the German CT MP3 was still better.
The sound quality isn't near that of MP3.
They tested it with MP3's encoded at 128, 160 and 192 Kbit.
And yes, even with 128 Kbit MP3 sounded better.
Wow, Philips is not with them.
Philips is the inventor of the Compact Disc and they are selling a very nice portable MP3 player which plays normal CD's, CDr's and CDrw's.
No copyright protection at all.
Also, I believe the Netherlands effectively requires English, French, German, and Dutch to graduate from High School
Nope, at least one foreign language.But the first 2 years you get English, French and German.
In the third year you can drop French and/or German.
Most Dutch people speak at least 2 languages.
There is only one country where the average person speaks 3 languages and that's Luxembourg.
This is also the reasons why the Netherlands have so many international call centers.
It is very easy to find people who can speak Spanish, Italian, German, French, Polish, English,
etc..
GSM stands for Global System for Mobile communication.
This standard is used almost everywhere in the world. (except of course in the US because of the "not invented here" syndrom).
GSM started in 1989 in Finland and by 1992 every eastern- and western Europe country had a GSM-network (with the exception of the Netherlands and Bulgaria).
And it is now the defacto standard for mobile phones in Africa, Europe and Asia.
Some south-american country's are also switching to GSM because of the scale the prices for a GSM-network are lower than a wired telephone-system.
In some European country's you will find more GSM-phones than normal phonelines.
There are two GSM standards namely GSM 900 and GSM 1800.
On this site you can find some more information.
Ehh, the drive behind GSM was also the market.
And the sound quality is quiete good.
only problem is the link they use to connect a GSM transmitter to the phone network.
If they use shitty lines, the quality is also shitty.
Last week somebody called me from Italy with his GSM-phone.
I have ISDN at home.
The quality was quite good.
But the quality of phonesystem in the Netherlands is quite good.
Which isn't so special because all telephone switched are 100% digital.
Analogue lines are not so common any more.
ISDN is almost the common standard for telephone lines in the Netherlands.
And the price difference between an ISDN-line and an analogue telephone line is less dan $ 6 a month.
With ISDN you get two B-channels and four phonenumbers.
Voicestream and cingular (sbc, pb) already offer GSM, but on the wrong frequencies (900, instead of 1900Mhz.)
That's good.
That means that I can use my own 900/1800 GSM phone over there.
Instead of the non-standard 1900 GSM (but maybe I can borrow a triple band GSM 900/1800/1900 when I go to the US).
The thing is, that our company has offices all around the world.
So, somebody from our Amsterdam office can use his phone in Singapore or Hongkong without any problem.
But not in the US.
3G is third generation cell phone technology that promising substantially increased data bandwidth (current technologies around about 9.6 kbps) perhaps enough for streaming video.
Then UMTS seems better.
2 Mbit/sec wireless.
UMTS is going to be the succesor of GSM.
And yes, it will start in Europe again (like GSM).
Only problem is, don't expect that prices will be the same as GSM.
Due to the fact that the frequencies where sold fot too much money aroudn Europe.
Having lived in both North America and Europe, I can definitely say that in most terms NA is ahead in infrastructure.
Wrong.
The Netherlands is the country with the highest density in cabling.
All telephoneswitches are digital and 93% of all households have cable TV.
And with 5 GSM providers you have much choice.
Prices for GSM are dropping every day.
Average callprices are around $ 0,10 a minute.
And of course you don't pay for incoming calls.
O yeah, ISDN is almost the standard.
Analogue lines are phasing out.
Well, they actually recalled more than 50000 copies of Office 97 or Windows 98 (I don't know which it was) in Spain.
There was a nasty virus on the Spanish version.
Intel is the second largest CPU-manufactorer.
Guess who is the largest?
Motorola.
The have something like 53% procent marketshare against 25 % for Intel.
Only problem is, that only 7% of all CPU's are used in PC's.
The rest is used in ABS and onther systems....
Wait, the US Ceel Network still operates analog in some areas! Oh my God, thats almost so funny it's sad!
I thought the US was technologically advanced. From what i've read here so far, the entire US mobile phone market is a complete and utter farce. Pay for incoming calls? No pay-as-go or phone-in-a-box plans? Multiple phone standards? Analog networks? Ye Gods, it reads like the stone age of mobile technology.
Jep, you're correct.
In the Netherlands we have 5 GSM-providers with full coverage.
And of course I can call from almost everywhere in the world (with exception of the US and Canada).
GSM rules.
GSM is the most used mobile phone standard on the world.
I have a monthly subscription from BEN for Fl 30- (around $ 11,75).
I also get 100 minutes free (Fl 0,33 a minute).
Of course we only pay for outgoing call, not for incoming.
And it doesn't matter if you are calling somebody's else mobilephone or a normal telephone.
It doesn't even matter on which net the other phone is.
But well, the Netherlands was the last country where they introduced GSM.
Bulgary had a GSM half a year earlier (middle 1995).
Most eastern european country's have GSM.
So, when you're in Kharkov in the Ukrain you can use your GSM phone without any problem.
Intel inside, idiot outside.
And this sticker is not a trademark label but a warning sign
The heat problems are impossible to avoid. To make chips run faster, the circuits must be shorter and gates closer together. Tighter wiring, more heat.
Yep, that's why the new PPC 7450 only draws 6 to 7 watts at 700 Mhz..
If you compare on terms of price/processing power Intel makes the most expensive processors on the market.
Second problem is their high power usage.
If it were a "pure" Democracy, where all that mattered was the percentage of popular vote the election would be over.
Well, i'm glad that I live in the Netherlands.
It is almost impossilbe that one party leads the country.
They always have to form a coalition with other party's to rule.
But then again, we have not a two party state.
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Well, actually it is possible to generate enough energy for the whole world with solarpanels.
If you put 100 square km full of solarpanels in the sahara you can produce enough energy to replace all other forms of energy production.
One of the main ingredients where solarcells are made from is silicium.
Guess what?
There is very much sand also available in the sahara.
The enrgy to make the solarcells you can get from...
The solarcells themself.
The only problem is the transport of this energy.
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Ummm, to be able to get off AppleTalk and have a decent IP stack under the hood? Lord knows they need it, especially on switched networks.
Well, they switched some 4 years ago to OpenTransport.
Opentransport is based on the same Mentat streams stack which Digital, IBM (AIX), Sun (Solaris) and some other vendors are using.
Appletalk nowadays runs on top of IP.
This is called Appleshare IP.
And yes, it still works perfectly.
If you look at the network performance of an average Mac you'll see that it runs rounds around all that crap from Redmond.
Even the first iMac can completely saturate a 100baseT full-duplex link.
OSX is a fragged beta.
Ehh, it is always better than all those alpha versions M$ sells.
Like Windows 2000, Win95/98/ME.
Well, my Grundig GDV100 also doesn't plat CDr's.
But that is because this is a first generation player.
that Saddam Hussein can now have all the PS2's he wants?
Doesn't matter.
Those aren't made in the USA.
And Japan, Taiwan, Korea don't have those kind of import and export rules.
Again, the US is almost the only country which restricts the export and import of supercomputers.
So, they are as always make an arse of themself.
Japanese computer manufactorers found a way to sell US company's without the 100% import tax.
Sell them and run them from Japan.
No US import tax and US firms can buy supercomputers.
The only thing most US laws like the export limitation of strong encryption and supercomputers do is lowering the sales.
Very good for Asian and European company's.
But not so good for the US economy.
They could easily introduce some nifity features in IIS-x.x that work only with M$ IE x.x. Everyone wants/needs these features of course, forcing the web-server market to use M$ OS...:-(
IIS?
What's that?
O yeah, that webserver thingy from M$ with 19,5% marketshare compared with Apache's 60,5%.
The way things are going M$ is losing marketshare in this market really fast.
Every quarter another 0,5%.
Thing is, that M$ doesn't innovate.
They can go through their patent file and go for anything in Linux that looks remotely like some patent they have. Given the state of the US Patent system, I am sure there should be a few hits...
Which patents?
They don't have many.
Second, US law doesn't count outside the USA.
"Note: In compliance with the MPAA, DVD-R discs with CSS-encrypted video data cannot be read."
Just a question of aplying DeCSS.
So, after all it is possible to rip a DVD.
And what about New-Zealand?
Contrast that with Windows NT, Linux 2.x, and OS-X which can run any program, including the operating system itself on any available processor - a much more effective and useful solution.
Ehh, Linux PPC supports more than one processor without much problems.
And BeOS.
And MacOS X server.
MacOS started out as a 16bit OS and later moved to 24bit in System 6.0.X. With the introduction of System 7.0 (1990?) they moved to full 32bit OS.
Alas, even the first MacOS was 32 bits.
What you are revering to is the addresslines.
Memory adressing on the first 68000 was limited to 24 bits.
The 68020 and later supported 32 memoryaddresslines.
The first MacOS which could adress more than 8 Mb of memory was MacOS 6.0.*.
The 68000 was only limited to an external 16 bits databus.
Internal the 68000 is a fully 32 bits processor.
This compared with the 8086 and 8088 which where 16 bits processors.
The 68020 was the first 680*0 processor with an external 32 bits databus.
MacOS is almost 20 years old now, about the same as DOS.
DOS is even older.
The first version, called CP/M was developed around 1974.
The Macintosh Operatingsystem is from 1982.
The difference is very large.
CP/M is originally a 8 bits OS.
The Macintosh operatingsystem is a true 32 bits OS.
So, there is a very large difference between DOS and MacOS.
...IIRC the compression rate is just a wee bit better with WMA than with MP3, while still keeping the same sound quality.
Well, according to a test in the German CT MP3 was still better.
The sound quality isn't near that of MP3.
They tested it with MP3's encoded at 128, 160 and 192 Kbit.
And yes, even with 128 Kbit MP3 sounded better.
Wow, Philips is not with them.
Philips is the inventor of the Compact Disc and they are selling a very nice portable MP3 player which plays normal CD's, CDr's and CDrw's.
No copyright protection at all.
Also, I believe the Netherlands effectively requires English, French, German, and Dutch to graduate from High School
Nope, at least one foreign language.But the first 2 years you get English, French and German.
In the third year you can drop French and/or German.
Most Dutch people speak at least 2 languages.
There is only one country where the average person speaks 3 languages and that's Luxembourg.
This is also the reasons why the Netherlands have so many international call centers.
It is very easy to find people who can speak Spanish, Italian, German, French, Polish, English,
etc..
Sorry, forgot the URL
http://www.gsmworld.com
GSM stands for Global System for Mobile communication.
This standard is used almost everywhere in the world. (except of course in the US because of the "not invented here" syndrom).
GSM started in 1989 in Finland and by 1992 every eastern- and western Europe country had a GSM-network (with the exception of the Netherlands and Bulgaria).
And it is now the defacto standard for mobile phones in Africa, Europe and Asia.
Some south-american country's are also switching to GSM because of the scale the prices for a GSM-network are lower than a wired telephone-system.
In some European country's you will find more GSM-phones than normal phonelines.
There are two GSM standards namely GSM 900 and GSM 1800.
On this site you can find some more information.
Ehh, the drive behind GSM was also the market.
And the sound quality is quiete good.
only problem is the link they use to connect a GSM transmitter to the phone network.
If they use shitty lines, the quality is also shitty.
Last week somebody called me from Italy with his GSM-phone.
I have ISDN at home.
The quality was quite good.
But the quality of phonesystem in the Netherlands is quite good.
Which isn't so special because all telephone switched are 100% digital.
Analogue lines are not so common any more.
ISDN is almost the common standard for telephone lines in the Netherlands.
And the price difference between an ISDN-line and an analogue telephone line is less dan $ 6 a month.
With ISDN you get two B-channels and four phonenumbers.
Voicestream and cingular (sbc, pb) already offer GSM, but on the wrong frequencies (900, instead of 1900Mhz.)
That's good.
That means that I can use my own 900/1800 GSM phone over there.
Instead of the non-standard 1900 GSM (but maybe I can borrow a triple band GSM 900/1800/1900 when I go to the US).
The thing is, that our company has offices all around the world.
So, somebody from our Amsterdam office can use his phone in Singapore or Hongkong without any problem.
But not in the US.
3G is third generation cell phone technology that promising substantially increased data bandwidth (current technologies around about 9.6 kbps) perhaps enough for streaming video.
Then UMTS seems better.
2 Mbit/sec wireless.
UMTS is going to be the succesor of GSM.
And yes, it will start in Europe again (like GSM).
Only problem is, don't expect that prices will be the same as GSM.
Due to the fact that the frequencies where sold fot too much money aroudn Europe.
Having lived in both North America and Europe, I can definitely say that in most terms NA is ahead in infrastructure.
Wrong.
The Netherlands is the country with the highest density in cabling.
All telephoneswitches are digital and 93% of all households have cable TV.
And with 5 GSM providers you have much choice.
Prices for GSM are dropping every day.
Average callprices are around $ 0,10 a minute.
And of course you don't pay for incoming calls.
O yeah, ISDN is almost the standard.
Analogue lines are phasing out.
Well, they actually recalled more than 50000 copies of Office 97 or Windows 98 (I don't know which it was) in Spain.
There was a nasty virus on the Spanish version.
Intel is the second largest CPU-manufactorer.
Guess who is the largest?
Motorola.
The have something like 53% procent marketshare against 25 % for Intel.
Only problem is, that only 7% of all CPU's are used in PC's.
The rest is used in ABS and onther systems....
Wait, the US Ceel Network still operates analog in some areas! Oh my God, thats almost so funny it's sad!
I thought the US was technologically advanced. From what i've read here so far, the entire US mobile phone market is a complete and utter farce. Pay for incoming calls? No pay-as-go or phone-in-a-box plans? Multiple phone standards? Analog networks? Ye Gods, it reads like the stone age of mobile technology.
Jep, you're correct.
In the Netherlands we have 5 GSM-providers with full coverage.
And of course I can call from almost everywhere in the world (with exception of the US and Canada).
GSM rules.
GSM is the most used mobile phone standard on the world.
I have a monthly subscription from BEN for Fl 30- (around $ 11,75).
I also get 100 minutes free (Fl 0,33 a minute).
Of course we only pay for outgoing call, not for incoming.
And it doesn't matter if you are calling somebody's else mobilephone or a normal telephone.
It doesn't even matter on which net the other phone is.
But well, the Netherlands was the last country where they introduced GSM.
Bulgary had a GSM half a year earlier (middle 1995).
Most eastern european country's have GSM.
So, when you're in Kharkov in the Ukrain you can use your GSM phone without any problem.
For the stylish "Intel Inside" sticker.
Intel inside, idiot outside.
And this sticker is not a trademark label but a warning sign
The heat problems are impossible to avoid. To make chips run faster, the circuits must be shorter and gates closer together. Tighter wiring, more heat.
Yep, that's why the new PPC 7450 only draws 6 to 7 watts at 700 Mhz..
If you compare on terms of price/processing power Intel makes the most expensive processors on the market.
Second problem is their high power usage.
If it were a "pure" Democracy, where all that mattered was the percentage of popular vote the election would be over.
Well, i'm glad that I live in the Netherlands.
It is almost impossilbe that one party leads the country.
They always have to form a coalition with other party's to rule.
But then again, we have not a two party state.
Well, actually it is possible to generate enough energy for the whole world with solarpanels.
If you put 100 square km full of solarpanels in the sahara you can produce enough energy to replace all other forms of energy production.
One of the main ingredients where solarcells are made from is silicium.
Guess what?
There is very much sand also available in the sahara.
The enrgy to make the solarcells you can get from...
The solarcells themself.
The only problem is the transport of this energy.