The OS and assorted applications for the 1952 IBM 701 are still available from the Share foundation. I assume that this is for the vacuum tube computer enthusiasts.
The IBM 701 OS was updated for the IBM 704 in 1954. Some code from this OS was used in the IBM 7090 and S/370 and persist in IBM mainframes today.
However, FORTRAN and LISP were developed for the 704 in late 1953.
The flight control and avionics networks as well as the hardware are separate from the passenger network. The concern is that a separate network of maintenance and some limited flight information data share the same up/down links as the passenger network. The FAA notice is to demonstrate to the FAA that there can be no interference between the maintenance and flight information data and the passenger network. Even if the maintenance and flight information data were compromised, at worst this would mean that the operating history of the aircraft is not accurate. This is a big deal but not something that will lead to in flight failure. An additional requirement of the FAA notice is to prohibit future passenger services without testing for interference and security.
Ask all 20 people the following four questions: What is the value of the projects that flow through your computer system? What is the cost of replacing all of your data, while on deadline for a project? What could a total system failure cost the company, if it happened at the worst possible moment? Based on your answers to the first three questions, would you mind if we spend 4% of the potential losses on a reliable computer system?
Wouldn't it be cheaper and faster to reduce auto emissions by putting people into the empty seats of the cars we have already?
A quick way to do this would be a system to match people who need to get somewhere with cars going there anyway. An ad hoc cab system. A feedback system should get rid of the creeps that made it though some sort of screening process.
Cheap, fast, technically possible, low impact and large results. It's impossible, of course. It would involve the cooperation of citizens.
A low voltage Itanium 2 is coming at the end of the year in production quantities. The support chipset for the Itanium is also quite impressive. The Itanium roadmap shows support for up to 8 Itanium dual cores.
I understand that the proposed Apple / Motorola/Freescale settlement involves an unlimited Altavec X86/Itanium license. I also understand that IBM is to make a significantly improved proposal to Apple about PPC supply and development within two weeks.
If much of this is true, Apple would have interesting options.
Based on my experience with NeXT, there is no reason why OSX on Intel wouldn't work. While AltaVec is not available for Intel, this is not necessarily a show stopper. Apple owns AltaVec. It could be ported.
If the report that Intel would start at the bottom is true, one could speculate on an OSX solution that could run most important Windows applications natively but without the maintenance cost, security and virus issues of the Windows OS.
A $400 Mac Mini that runs Windows applications natively, would not have Microsoft seat license, maintenance costs and security concerns. This would be a very big deal in corporate IT. This would allow seamless migration to a far superior system today for a fraction of the cost of an XP seat.
This would give IT a solution to security, their most pressing problem. Now. Not in two years. It would do so for a fraction of the cost and do so with the performance of Longhorn. Now. Not in two years.
I developed the first effective lung cleaner device. It should take lung disease out of the top 10 causes of death. www.medicalacoustics.com
It generates low frequency sound using airflow turbulence and a reed / flapping flag hybrid. It took 18 years.The FDA trials are almost done. I'm 57. Shrug.
Most people coming into a retail store are not ubergeeks. To a basic user, packaging sells stuff. Once they buy something, it has to be easy to use and install.
To expand Linux into this market, everything needs to pass the grandmother test. If she doesn't read a manual, san she install it and make it work with less than 15 minutes of phone support?
As experienced users, we often forget that most people have much better things to do with their time than learn how to make a user hostile computer work.
The Republican Party is now telling voters in areas with electronic voting machines to vote using a paper absentee ballot. All voters would do well to follow this advice. You _are_ voting, aren't you?
MOMA bought a Macintosh Cube and other Macintosh items for their permanent art collection. The Cube came with a Macintosh mouse but MOMA bought some additional Macintosh mice to display separate from the complete Cube.
Why would an advanced technology use a method limited to the speed of light to communicate across the galaxy?
SETI brings to mind a picture of some remote tribe looking for smoke signals as a sign of intelligent communication while standing next to a satellite dish.
With sophisticated design, there is little difference between solid state and tube amps. This assumes that you do not clip the amp. Most audible differences between amps are due to overload recovery artifacts. Class A tube amps overload better than class A/B solid state amps.
Tube systems are popular because they are somewhat easier to design and can be sold for more profit to fashionable audiophiles.
One good solution to overload is to buy a bigger solid state amp. Professional audio systems require a 24dB overload margin. This ensures that essentially any musical waveform will not clip the amp.
If your speaker requires 1 watt for 90dB of output, for a 24 dB overload margin at 90dB output you should use an amp that will not clip with a 250 watt transient. Class A tube systems will clip gracefully and you can get away with a 100 watt amp under the same conditions.
This is a high performance, high stress ribbon This application has little room for error. Obviously.
Wear on carbon nanotube ribbons may be significant. Carbon nanotube ribbons may be susceptible to significant deterioration from cosmic rays. Micrometeor impacts may also be a problem.
If the ribbon fails, what do we do with 62,000 miles of ribbon? Oh wait, we build a Beowulf cluster of Christmas wrapping stores.
The Longhorn DRM / security security system places unusual demands on the hardware. The DRM / security system uses dynamic encryption / decryption of every file. It also needs to generate new keys constantly for all files
Oddly enough, a single error in the file description of any file can cause encryption / decryption failure as well as loss of all security keys. This problem would extend to file backups. Items producing this error include user set flags in commonly downloaded file types.
Note well that the proposed hardware system requirement is for middle range users. The Longhorn / proposed hardware system may be no faster than current middle range XP / hardware combinations.
The BBC Library still uses vinyl records for long term audio storage. For some items they cut a lacquer master, plate the metal stampers on the lacquer and leave the metal stampers attached to the lacquer.
They believe that this will preserve the audio for about 300 years and they say that vinyl is the only storage medium with a real and predictable life span.
The future of Open Source may depend on positively answering the question: Oddly enough, the future of commercial software also depends on this question.
Can your grandmother make it work, use it and maintain it herself?
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The OS and assorted applications for the 1952 IBM 701 are still available from the Share foundation.
I assume that this is for the vacuum tube computer enthusiasts.
The IBM 701 OS was updated for the IBM 704 in 1954.
Some code from this OS was used in the IBM 7090 and S/370 and persist in IBM mainframes today.
However, FORTRAN and LISP were developed for the 704 in late 1953.
The flight control and avionics networks as well as the hardware are separate from the passenger network.
The concern is that a separate network of maintenance and some limited flight information data share the same up/down links as the passenger network. The FAA notice is to demonstrate to the FAA that there can be no interference between the maintenance and flight information data and the passenger network.
Even if the maintenance and flight information data were compromised, at worst this would mean that the operating history of the aircraft is not accurate. This is a big deal but not something that will lead to in flight failure.
An additional requirement of the FAA notice is to prohibit future passenger services without testing for interference and security.
Taken to a logical conclusion, this means that remembering a song is a copyright violation.
He just took a job at Apple with the kernel team. Heh.
He also interviewed with Microsoft and Google.
IIRC, there was a NeXT port to some version of ARM about 1994. Never released but there were hooks to it in NS3.2 and on.
Most girls and women will only buy iPods.
It's a symbol for them of coolness.
It is total brand identification with their music.
My Music is My iPod.
If you are a guy and don't have an iPod, you are not cool.
You are going home alone.
This leaves the remaining portable music market to guys who aren't going to get laid.
Microsoft can service that market.
That would be bad.
On the bright side, Linux and OSX operating system market shares would skyrocket.
Ask all 20 people the following four questions:
What is the value of the projects that flow through your computer system?
What is the cost of replacing all of your data, while on deadline for a project?
What could a total system failure cost the company, if it happened at the worst possible moment?
Based on your answers to the first three questions, would you mind if we spend 4% of the potential losses on a reliable computer system?
Wouldn't it be cheaper and faster to reduce auto emissions by putting people into the empty seats of the cars we have already?
A quick way to do this would be a system to match people who need to get somewhere with cars going there anyway. An ad hoc cab system. A feedback system should get rid of the creeps that made it though some sort of screening process.
Cheap, fast, technically possible, low impact and large results. It's impossible, of course. It would involve the cooperation of citizens.
A low voltage Itanium 2 is coming at the end of the year in production quantities.
The support chipset for the Itanium is also quite impressive.
The Itanium roadmap shows support for up to 8 Itanium dual cores.
I understand that the proposed Apple / Motorola/Freescale settlement involves an unlimited Altavec X86/Itanium license.
I also understand that IBM is to make a significantly improved proposal to Apple about PPC supply and development within two weeks.
If much of this is true, Apple would have interesting options.
Based on my experience with NeXT, there is no reason why OSX on Intel wouldn't work. While AltaVec is not available for Intel, this is not necessarily a show stopper. Apple owns AltaVec. It could be ported.
If the report that Intel would start at the bottom is true, one could speculate on an OSX solution that could run most important Windows applications natively but without the maintenance cost, security and virus issues of the Windows OS.
A $400 Mac Mini that runs Windows applications natively, would not have Microsoft seat license, maintenance costs and security concerns. This would be a very big deal in corporate IT. This would allow seamless migration to a far superior system today for a fraction of the cost of an XP seat.
This would give IT a solution to security, their most pressing problem. Now. Not in two years. It would do so for a fraction of the cost and do so with the performance of Longhorn. Now. Not in two years.
I developed the first effective lung cleaner device. It should take lung disease out of the top 10 causes of death.
www.medicalacoustics.com
It generates low frequency sound using airflow turbulence and a reed / flapping flag hybrid. It took 18 years.The FDA trials are almost done.
I'm 57.
Shrug.
Most people coming into a retail store are not ubergeeks. To a basic user, packaging sells stuff. Once they buy something, it has to be easy to use and install.
To expand Linux into this market, everything needs to pass the grandmother test. If she doesn't read a manual, san she install it and make it work with less than 15 minutes of phone support?
As experienced users, we often forget that most people have much better things to do with their time than learn how to make a user hostile computer work.
For $400 this computer goes directly to a level of worthlessness equal to the BSOD without any annoying intermediate steps.
This is genius.
Latest NASA update shows limited chance of impact.
1 in 56,000.
Aircraft parts fall off.
Aircraft toilets malfunction.
Has the light pole been checked for bacteria?
Most of the vital parts on an aircraft are built by the lowest bidder.
Perhaps this rumors might be based on what new products Apple has shown IBM.
If Apple has a killer home video delivery system about to ship...
The Republican Party is now telling voters in areas with electronic voting machines to vote using a paper absentee ballot. All voters would do well to follow this advice.
You _are_ voting, aren't you?
MOMA bought a Macintosh Cube and other Macintosh items for their permanent art collection. The Cube came with a Macintosh mouse but MOMA bought some additional Macintosh mice to display separate from the complete Cube.
Why would an advanced technology use a method limited to the speed of light to communicate across the galaxy?
SETI brings to mind a picture of some remote tribe looking for smoke signals as a sign of intelligent communication while standing next to a satellite dish.
With sophisticated design, there is little difference between solid state and tube amps.
This assumes that you do not clip the amp.
Most audible differences between amps are due to overload recovery artifacts.
Class A tube amps overload better than class A/B solid state amps.
Tube systems are popular because they are somewhat easier to design and can be sold for more profit to fashionable audiophiles.
One good solution to overload is to buy a bigger solid state amp.
Professional audio systems require a 24dB overload margin.
This ensures that essentially any musical waveform will not clip the amp.
If your speaker requires 1 watt for 90dB of output, for a 24 dB overload margin at 90dB output you should use an amp that will not clip with a 250 watt transient.
Class A tube systems will clip gracefully and you can get away with a 100 watt amp under the same conditions.
This is a high performance, high stress ribbon
This application has little room for error. Obviously.
Wear on carbon nanotube ribbons may be significant.
Carbon nanotube ribbons may be susceptible to significant deterioration from cosmic rays.
Micrometeor impacts may also be a problem.
If the ribbon fails, what do we do with 62,000 miles of ribbon?
Oh wait, we build a Beowulf cluster of Christmas wrapping stores.
And then there is the cost estimate.
Low.
The Longhorn DRM / security security system places unusual demands on the hardware. The DRM / security system uses dynamic encryption / decryption of every file. It also needs to generate new keys constantly for all files
Oddly enough, a single error in the file description of any file can cause encryption / decryption failure as well as loss of all security keys. This problem would extend to file backups. Items producing this error include user set flags in commonly downloaded file types.
Note well that the proposed hardware system requirement is for middle range users. The Longhorn / proposed hardware system may be no faster than current middle range XP / hardware combinations.
The BBC Library still uses vinyl records for long term audio storage. For some items they cut a lacquer master, plate the metal stampers on the lacquer and leave the metal stampers attached to the lacquer.
They believe that this will preserve the audio for about 300 years and they say that vinyl is the only storage medium with a real and predictable life span.
The future of Open Source may depend on positively answering the question:
Oddly enough, the future of commercial software also depends on this question.
Can your grandmother make it work, use it and maintain it herself?