Hmm, for some reason I had remembered T6x as still being IBM, but apparently lenovo had already taken over. I suppose it may have been in the design pipeline from IBM anyway, though.
Pretty sure they still had IBM logos on them, maybe that's why I was confused...
This argument shows up here all the time, and it's lame as hell.
When Ford was doing alright, why didn't GM and Chrysler just sell CKD fords? They'd have done better, in the short term at least.
When Apple came into the game, symbian was number one by a long long stretch. Why didn't they just paste an apple logo onto a Nokia phone?
If you go to android, you're just another commodity manufacturer. You can make money that way, sure, but when you hit it right, with your own design, the thing prints money.
That said, I still use an ancient nokia because I can't stand touch as primary input, and I like not having to charge my phone daily.
Hope you like the stink of dead rodents in your walls...
Poison is just a band-aid, fix however they are getting into the house.
I thought warfarin was still #1 for what it's worth... As far as I recall rodenticide has to be slow acting, else the neighbours will notice something is awry when the victim drops dead.
AMC was still independent then. Sourcing parts from other manufacturers isn't entirely foreign concept, it happens. I have no idea about the case the GP mentioned though.
It's kind of as if the computer engineering world had taken a look at the first integrated circuits (also "IC," by an interesting coincidence) and said, "we need to do this with vacuum tubes." No doubt we'd have all kinds of cool miniaturized vacuum tube technology we don't have today, but there's little doubt that computers would still be horribly bulky, slow, and expensive compared to what we actually got.
Well, the whole integrated circuit theory pre-dates transistors, it just wasn't terribly practical with hollow state. (in the later years, you could make the whole circuit contained in the above much smaller than the "integrated-tube", so... not so useful).
But regardless, since the 30's it was common to put two discrete tubes in a common package, and by the end of the road TVs used a lot of awesomely named 'compactrons' which had as many as four, tubes in one envelope. Which isn't really an IC, but more like some of the transistor arrays in a single DIP package, I suppose.
They also had... wtf were they called. A little ceramic sheet with several passives in it, that replace all the normally used discrete components for coupling two tubes. They were pretty plagued with problems though.
The old IBM stuff had tube plug in modules, flip flops, inverters and so on, the whole circuit was socketed. Then they did the same thing with transistors, smaller and more reliable. Then they integrated it at the die level instead of the card level, seems like logical progression.
Maybe I should have phrased it better. I know people want iphones, that's pretty obvious. I'm just doubting that 30 million of them want them badly enough to move to sprint.
Yeah, this goes back to the dawn of time. You can stack parallel interfaced SRAM and ROM because everything is common.../RD/WR and all the addr and data lines. You just had to separate off the chip select line... double the ram or rom instantly, assuming you had enough address space. I presume DRAM would be similarly packaged, plus the refresh lines, I've not personally stacked it though.
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Hmm, for some reason I had remembered T6x as still being IBM, but apparently lenovo had already taken over. I suppose it may have been in the design pipeline from IBM anyway, though.
Pretty sure they still had IBM logos on them, maybe that's why I was confused...
SD cards support SPI natively, speed is somewhat reduced over whatever mode they usually use, though, IIRC.
Second this, I've had pretty good luck with various T-series Thinkpads and Debian in the past.
I don't have much experience with the post-IBM models, though, so I can't claim things haven't changed.
I wonder if she is oblivious to that, or doesn't care. Either way it's painful.
This argument shows up here all the time, and it's lame as hell.
When Ford was doing alright, why didn't GM and Chrysler just sell CKD fords? They'd have done better, in the short term at least.
When Apple came into the game, symbian was number one by a long long stretch. Why didn't they just paste an apple logo onto a Nokia phone?
If you go to android, you're just another commodity manufacturer. You can make money that way, sure, but when you hit it right, with your own design, the thing prints money.
That said, I still use an ancient nokia because I can't stand touch as primary input, and I like not having to charge my phone daily.
Bingo, it's not like the idiot light on a normal car fires *after* it's empty. That sort of defeats the purpose...
Hope you like the stink of dead rodents in your walls...
Poison is just a band-aid, fix however they are getting into the house.
I thought warfarin was still #1 for what it's worth... As far as I recall rodenticide has to be slow acting, else the neighbours will notice something is awry when the victim drops dead.
AMC was still independent then. Sourcing parts from other manufacturers isn't entirely foreign concept, it happens. I have no idea about the case the GP mentioned though.
It's kind of as if the computer engineering world had taken a look at the first integrated circuits (also "IC," by an interesting coincidence) and said, "we need to do this with vacuum tubes." No doubt we'd have all kinds of cool miniaturized vacuum tube technology we don't have today, but there's little doubt that computers would still be horribly bulky, slow, and expensive compared to what we actually got.
Well, the whole integrated circuit theory pre-dates transistors, it just wasn't terribly practical with hollow state. (in the later years, you could make the whole circuit contained in the above much smaller than the "integrated-tube", so... not so useful).
But regardless, since the 30's it was common to put two discrete tubes in a common package, and by the end of the road TVs used a lot of awesomely named 'compactrons' which had as many as four, tubes in one envelope. Which isn't really an IC, but more like some of the transistor arrays in a single DIP package, I suppose.
They also had... wtf were they called. A little ceramic sheet with several passives in it, that replace all the normally used discrete components for coupling two tubes. They were pretty plagued with problems though.
The old IBM stuff had tube plug in modules, flip flops, inverters and so on, the whole circuit was socketed. Then they did the same thing with transistors, smaller and more reliable. Then they integrated it at the die level instead of the card level, seems like logical progression.
too much ramble...
Vankel doesn't even sound very close. He must lose it when he hears words like angina.
Wow, they're finally offering >1MBps upload for under $100. About fucking time.
You may disagree with his ideologies, but you have to admit that he changed the world we live in.
You can say that about a lot of people, and not in a good way.
Anyhow, so long Steve, thanks for all the rounded shiny.
You realise lenses that have multiple elements are cave-tech, yes?
NATO bombing Serbia ruined that, if you count NATO as a 'country'.
The last Russia-Georgia bit did also, if you don't count the first case.
Probably more, but I can't think of them.
Vote for [anti-privacy interests] this election!!
If you do not copy and paste this in your status you facebook account will be closed!!~!!~!
Europe has some pretty sweet wagons. Superior vehicle class for soccer moms vs. minivans and SUVs, I'd think.
Too bad the big 3 left a horrible fake wood-panelled taste in america's mouths.
Maybe I should have phrased it better. I know people want iphones, that's pretty obvious. I'm just doubting that 30 million of them want them badly enough to move to sprint.
Guess they're banking on the public loving apple, let's see how that bet holds out.
I think $20B is out to lunch though, I'd expect bulk rate if I ordered 30 MILLION widgets.
Nokia already has a 'Linux solution' with a 'huge app ecosystem'. They call it Maemo.
Best part is it's open, unlike android.
Now do it on an Ipad, which is more like what the GP was talking about.
The Soyuz rocket is based on the R-7, the first soviet ICBM.
IIRC a modified R7 launched Sputnik, and well, they still launch Soyuz.
I wonder if Brazilian truckers will figure out how to use this satellite.
Hmm... robotic drug mules. That should make things interesting.
That's truly a shame. Unless it's in addition to a keyboard, of course.
That looks terribly non-partisan.
I suppose that makes sense as both parties are for the lawyers, by the lawyers...
Yeah, this goes back to the dawn of time. You can stack parallel interfaced SRAM and ROM because everything is common ... /RD /WR and all the addr and data lines. You just had to separate off the chip select line... double the ram or rom instantly, assuming you had enough address space. I presume DRAM would be similarly packaged, plus the refresh lines, I've not personally stacked it though.