I found a place last year (sadly, out of business now,) that sold SE/30 compatible 16MB SIMMs for $5 a piece. I bought a few dozen of 'em. Now my SE/30 and my IIci are maxed at 128MB.
She (dana, the doer of this deed,) stated she wants to try it on a Mac II (16MHz 68020,) but it's lack of MMU (or FPU) probably prevents that. For that matter, the SE/30's lack of FPU probably dooms it, as well. (Although that would rock. Now I'm tempted to try it, though. Better than the Mini-ITX PC in an SE/30 shell. http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/mac-itx/)
The 610 had a 25Mhz chip. And, yes, 8MB RAM and an 80MB HD were standard, but this beast could take up to 68MB of RAM (64 via SIMM, 4 on board) It will take any SCSI drive, as long as it has a 50-pin connector. (I have an even more ancient circa-1989 SE/30 with 128MB of RAM, and a 9GB (10,000 RPM, even,) drive in it running Debian.)
It's a governmentally run, NON-funded program. They use what they have. (There is a post just above yours from the guy that actually runs it, read it and you'll see all the limitations he has to work with. Not counting the whole 'lack of money' aspect.)
hehe.. I think all us PDX Slashdotters need to schedule a trip up there as a group to donate. I know I've got a computer or two I could donate, plus some money. Anyone else?
If you other Portlanders feel like taking a group trip, I'd be willing to do the planning.
After the announcement of the deal with Richard Branson (http://www.virgingalactic.com/,) Rutan said he would wait for the first flight of Virgin Galactic before he flies on it.
You forgot the $25 million that Richard Branson is paying to Paul Allen's company to license the tech, and the $15 million that he's paying to Rutan's company to build more spacecraft.
So assuming Allen funded the entire cost of SS1, at $25 million, then Allen will be making at least 10 million, and Rutan will be making at least $15 million.
Because Oregon only does vote-by-mail. It's all 'fill-in-the-bubble' optically read forms, mailed in to the elections office. There are *NO* traditional polling places in Oregon any more. Since all the ballots have to be mailed in (or, for those who want to save on postage, dropped off at the elections offices or at special 'drop boxes' placed around towns in the week leading up to election day,) there is obviously a paper trail. There is always the paper receipt of every vote.
This is the guy who published the "proof of concept" exploit, not the virus that is in the wild. He is as likely to be sued as "DVD Jon" would be sued for breaking CSS. Oh, wait.....
Nah, there are at least 22 astronauts that would still have their wings. (The 22 U.S. astronauts that went on the 8 lunar Apollo missions that left Earth orbit. (6 lunar landing missions, one aborted lunar landing that went around the moon, and one 'practice' lunar orbit mission. Two astronauts went on two separate missions each, for a total of 24 man-trips outside Earth orbit.)
Oregon has all elections done by mail. All ballots are due in the elections offices by 8 PM on election day. (So 'absentee' ballots must ARRIVE by election time, unlike in most states, where absentee ballots can pour in over the course of a couple weeks AFTER election day.)
In a recent primary, the position of Mayor of Portland was up. There were a ridiculous number of candidates, many serious, a lot more not. In the Portland mayoral race, if one candidate wins by enough of a margin at the primary, he automatically wins. One city council member was expected to win by a large enough margin to win outright. A relatively unknown (in the press) candidate won enough votes to force a two-man runoff in November. And now he challenger looks seriously like he might win. (Again, based on the same polls that showed him behind by a large margin, even on election day.)
I know that at least the last time I renewed my license in person (1998 or 1999,) the Oregon DMV's terminals ran on OS/2. The back-end computers ran on something proprietary, and were constantly causing problems, which made the news.
On a barely-related note, a local conservative talk show host had a show where he was talking about the evil of Microsoft, and, even though I agreed with him on this point, I called in to be the only dissenting voice. He argued that MS was a monopoly, and I pointed out Apple and IBM, and he asked me to name one major organization that used IBM. I mentioned the DMV, and he goes "Well, that's the DMV, what do they know?" Totally dismissing all of my arguments because I used the DMV as an example. Since then, I haven't been able to stand most 'extremist' talk show hosts (including the extremist liberal ones.)
My guess is that they would be reading ALL the games on EVERYONE's computer, and determining if it uses an OpenGL renderer, a DirectX renderer, 'software', or 'other'. Then how do they determine which renderer each piece of software uses? Do they have a massive database of every game ever written? What about games that offer both DX and OGL?
Most everything else is straight-forward, but I don't get HOW they measured this category. (Or WHAT they are really measuring.)
The article mentions that it's on Ainsworth street. This street runs through both rich and poor neighborhoods, so it's hard to gauge property cost. (Could be a $25,000 lot, could be a $250,000 lot.) It also mentions that it cost 15% more than an equivalent sized 'conventional' house. That is quite a chunk of change. (For example, 15% decided that my wife and I bought an 1800 sq. ft. 2 bedroom/1 bath rather than a 2300 sq. ft. 4 bedroom/2 bath.)
That said, I *did* pay about 15% extra to get a Hybrid over a 'conventional' car. (A 2004 Prius. As you mention, it was compelling enough to be worth it. The prior Prius was interesting, but not enough to warrant it over a cheapo Hyundai.)
Well, I know in California, they are required to not only pay you if it goes back into the grid; they're required to accept it into the grid if you generate it. So yes, your meter can go backwards. (I know someone with enough solar panels who consumes little enough electricity that their meter has been steadily going backwards over the course of a couple YEARS. Yes, they still pull power off the grid on evenings and during cold days in the winter (they don't have natural gas, so all heat is supplied by electricity,) but each year, they have a net negative. (Meaning they generate more power during sunny and summer times than they end up using all year long.)
The electric company isn't ALLOWED to put a diode on to block their generation. They HAVE to accept the excess power, and their meter actually runs backwards most of the time. (Which makes me wonder what will happen when the meter hits 0. Last time I asked, they had calculated that it would hit 0 in 2015, at current rates. But solar panels deteriorate, and they are trying to decrease their power usage even more, so who knows.)
It is inherently cheaper for them to just send the power to the grid, then take it back out of the grid when they need it, than it is to 'store' the excess power in batteries. This is because in California, the utility has to pay RETAIL for the power, not wholesale. This means that the power that is put into the grid can be 'traded' one-for-one later. (So if you generate 1kWh extra this month, and you need 1kWh more than you generate next month, your credit and debit will be the same. I know in some states, the utility only has to pay you the wholesale rate, but when you suck power from the grid, you have to pay retail; so you'd have to generate almost 10 times as much as you 'use' to come out ahead. In CA, it's easy to come out ahead.)
Oh, yeah, and my cousin also has one of those little 2-seater electric cars ("Smart Car" I think is the company,) and generates enough electricity from her solar panels to charge it when she needs. She does not consume any fossil fuels. (She's a bit nutty that way, she specifically avoids all products that contain petroleum, she grows most of her own food, etc. She's pretty close to off-the-grid as you can get while still maintaining a reasonably 'urban' lifestyle. (She lives in one of the outer SF suburbs, sorry, I don't remember which one.)
Yeah, which a diesel-hybrid would be able to do. Daimler-Chrysler is apparently investigating a 'plug-in' diesel-electric hybrid version of their 'Sprinter' cargo van (Think UPS truck,) that could get an astonishing 50 mpg in diesel/hybrid driving, and could drive up to 30 miles in electric-only mode. (You can CHOOSE to plug it in at night if you want, to get the extended range, or you can just let it work as a 'normal' hybrid, where it uses the diesel engine to recharge the hybrid battery pack.) The idea is that it could be used as a delivery truck in neighborhoods where delivery trucks are banned due to noise and pollution. It would drive in hybrid mode on the highway, then switch to electric mode in the neighborhoods.
Unfortunately, even the cleanest Diesels still emit more particulate matter and ozone than even 'mostly clean' gasoline cars. (ULEV) I can't find the link right now (Sorry, my Google-fu sucks) but a few months ago (before buying my Prius) I founds info on the EPA's website showing that the Diesels are about even with the Prius on 'greenouse gasses' (CO2,) but MUCH worse than even gasoline-powered SUVs in 'air pollution' measures (ozone, particulates) (Aha, found it!) The Jetta TDI scores a '4' for air pollution, and 7 or 8 (auto or manual) on greenhouse gasses. The Prius scores a 10 on both. By comparison, a Ford Explorer scores a 6 in the 'air pollution' category.
I'm not trying to knock Diesels, the Jetta TDI wagon was our second choice (partly knocked out of the running because I'm a big guy, and it had less room for me, although the larger cargo area would have been nice. In fact, we may get a Jetta TDI wagon to replace our aging Ford Explorer as a second vehicle.) Just trying to dispel myths.
Yes, if you try to download it, it downloads a PDF that basically says "email me if you want a copy". I did, and he sent it within 15 minutes. I'm in the process of putting it on my website right now: Here
(And as soon as I find an existing torrent for it, I'll join the stream.)
You can use a Matrox RTMac PCI card, and output it to whatever you want. But as has been mentioned elsewhere, you are really looking for something else, you just don't know it.
Actually, these are the exact same two displays the older G4 iMac had. The 17" screen is also the same used in the 17" PowerBook, and the 20" screen is the same as in the 20" Cinema Display.
Well, I remember reading that a 386 has more computing power than all five flight control computers on the space shuttle combined. (This was before the space shuttle upgrade in the mid '90s, though.)
So I'm pretty certain a Prius has more computing power than the Apollo capsule. (And yes, I can easily believe that a modern laptop has more power than all of NASA in 1969.)
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I found a place last year (sadly, out of business now,) that sold SE/30 compatible 16MB SIMMs for $5 a piece. I bought a few dozen of 'em. Now my SE/30 and my IIci are maxed at 128MB.
She (dana, the doer of this deed,) stated she wants to try it on a Mac II (16MHz 68020,) but it's lack of MMU (or FPU) probably prevents that. For that matter, the SE/30's lack of FPU probably dooms it, as well. (Although that would rock. Now I'm tempted to try it, though. Better than the Mini-ITX PC in an SE/30 shell. http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/mac-itx/)
He would, except he's a she. Ah, geek grrl of my dreams. Plays with Macs and Linux, and likes abusing old hardware. Too bad she's in Oz.
The 610 had a 25Mhz chip. And, yes, 8MB RAM and an 80MB HD were standard, but this beast could take up to 68MB of RAM (64 via SIMM, 4 on board) It will take any SCSI drive, as long as it has a 50-pin connector. (I have an even more ancient circa-1989 SE/30 with 128MB of RAM, and a 9GB (10,000 RPM, even,) drive in it running Debian.)
It's a governmentally run, NON-funded program. They use what they have. (There is a post just above yours from the guy that actually runs it, read it and you'll see all the limitations he has to work with. Not counting the whole 'lack of money' aspect.)
hehe.. I think all us PDX Slashdotters need to schedule a trip up there as a group to donate. I know I've got a computer or two I could donate, plus some money. Anyone else?
If you other Portlanders feel like taking a group trip, I'd be willing to do the planning.
After the announcement of the deal with Richard Branson (http://www.virgingalactic.com/,) Rutan said he would wait for the first flight of Virgin Galactic before he flies on it.
You forgot the $25 million that Richard Branson is paying to Paul Allen's company to license the tech, and the $15 million that he's paying to Rutan's company to build more spacecraft.
So assuming Allen funded the entire cost of SS1, at $25 million, then Allen will be making at least 10 million, and Rutan will be making at least $15 million.
Sounds like a good investment to me.
Because Oregon only does vote-by-mail. It's all 'fill-in-the-bubble' optically read forms, mailed in to the elections office. There are *NO* traditional polling places in Oregon any more. Since all the ballots have to be mailed in (or, for those who want to save on postage, dropped off at the elections offices or at special 'drop boxes' placed around towns in the week leading up to election day,) there is obviously a paper trail. There is always the paper receipt of every vote.
Ah, yes. That did it.
Well, Apple's Preview (as of 10.3.5 with all the latest updates as of 6:00 PM PDT, 9/27/04,) says it's not a supported file type.
Graphic Converter complains that "Some parts of the file may be missing."
Safari displays a blank page, with no errors.
In all cases, I can't find any file-system goofiness. (And the free-with-DotMac Virex doesn't detect it as a virus.)
(The offending "virus" is available as a linked-to zip file in the linked virus.txt page.)
This is the guy who published the "proof of concept" exploit, not the virus that is in the wild. He is as likely to be sued as "DVD Jon" would be sued for breaking CSS. Oh, wait.....
Nah, there are at least 22 astronauts that would still have their wings. (The 22 U.S. astronauts that went on the 8 lunar Apollo missions that left Earth orbit. (6 lunar landing missions, one aborted lunar landing that went around the moon, and one
'practice' lunar orbit mission. Two astronauts went on two separate missions each, for a total of 24 man-trips outside Earth orbit.)
Oregon has all elections done by mail. All ballots are due in the elections offices by 8 PM on election day. (So 'absentee' ballots must ARRIVE by election time, unlike in most states, where absentee ballots can pour in over the course of a couple weeks AFTER election day.)
In a recent primary, the position of Mayor of Portland was up. There were a ridiculous number of candidates, many serious, a lot more not. In the Portland mayoral race, if one candidate wins by enough of a margin at the primary, he automatically wins. One city council member was expected to win by a large enough margin to win outright. A relatively unknown (in the press) candidate won enough votes to force a two-man runoff in November. And now he challenger looks seriously like he might win. (Again, based on the same polls that showed him behind by a large margin, even on election day.)
I know that at least the last time I renewed my license in person (1998 or 1999,) the Oregon DMV's terminals ran on OS/2. The back-end computers ran on something proprietary, and were constantly causing problems, which made the news.
On a barely-related note, a local conservative talk show host had a show where he was talking about the evil of Microsoft, and, even though I agreed with him on this point, I called in to be the only dissenting voice. He argued that MS was a monopoly, and I pointed out Apple and IBM, and he asked me to name one major organization that used IBM. I mentioned the DMV, and he goes "Well, that's the DMV, what do they know?" Totally dismissing all of my arguments because I used the DMV as an example. Since then, I haven't been able to stand most 'extremist' talk show hosts (including the extremist liberal ones.)
Ah, thank you. I hadn't seen that explained anywhere else.
So it doesn't really show that OpenGL is better/more used, just that more Steam users selected it (or accepted it as default, as the case may be.)
How are they measuring this?
My guess is that they would be reading ALL the games on EVERYONE's computer, and determining if it uses an OpenGL renderer, a DirectX renderer, 'software', or 'other'. Then how do they determine which renderer each piece of software uses? Do they have a massive database of every game ever written? What about games that offer both DX and OGL?
Most everything else is straight-forward, but I don't get HOW they measured this category. (Or WHAT they are really measuring.)
The article mentions that it's on Ainsworth street. This street runs through both rich and poor neighborhoods, so it's hard to gauge property cost. (Could be a $25,000 lot, could be a $250,000 lot.) It also mentions that it cost 15% more than an equivalent sized 'conventional' house. That is quite a chunk of change. (For example, 15% decided that my wife and I bought an 1800 sq. ft. 2 bedroom/1 bath rather than a 2300 sq. ft. 4 bedroom/2 bath.)
That said, I *did* pay about 15% extra to get a Hybrid over a 'conventional' car. (A 2004 Prius. As you mention, it was compelling enough to be worth it. The prior Prius was interesting, but not enough to warrant it over a cheapo Hyundai.)
Well, I know in California, they are required to not only pay you if it goes back into the grid; they're required to accept it into the grid if you generate it. So yes, your meter can go backwards. (I know someone with enough solar panels who consumes little enough electricity that their meter has been steadily going backwards over the course of a couple YEARS. Yes, they still pull power off the grid on evenings and during cold days in the winter (they don't have natural gas, so all heat is supplied by electricity,) but each year, they have a net negative. (Meaning they generate more power during sunny and summer times than they end up using all year long.)
The electric company isn't ALLOWED to put a diode on to block their generation. They HAVE to accept the excess power, and their meter actually runs backwards most of the time. (Which makes me wonder what will happen when the meter hits 0. Last time I asked, they had calculated that it would hit 0 in 2015, at current rates. But solar panels deteriorate, and they are trying to decrease their power usage even more, so who knows.)
It is inherently cheaper for them to just send the power to the grid, then take it back out of the grid when they need it, than it is to 'store' the excess power in batteries. This is because in California, the utility has to pay RETAIL for the power, not wholesale. This means that the power that is put into the grid can be 'traded' one-for-one later. (So if you generate 1kWh extra this month, and you need 1kWh more than you generate next month, your credit and debit will be the same. I know in some states, the utility only has to pay you the wholesale rate, but when you suck power from the grid, you have to pay retail; so you'd have to generate almost 10 times as much as you 'use' to come out ahead. In CA, it's easy to come out ahead.)
Oh, yeah, and my cousin also has one of those little 2-seater electric cars ("Smart Car" I think is the company,) and generates enough electricity from her solar panels to charge it when she needs. She does not consume any fossil fuels. (She's a bit nutty that way, she specifically avoids all products that contain petroleum, she grows most of her own food, etc. She's pretty close to off-the-grid as you can get while still maintaining a reasonably 'urban' lifestyle. (She lives in one of the outer SF suburbs, sorry, I don't remember which one.)
Yeah, which a diesel-hybrid would be able to do. Daimler-Chrysler is apparently investigating a 'plug-in' diesel-electric hybrid version of their 'Sprinter' cargo van (Think UPS truck,) that could get an astonishing 50 mpg in diesel/hybrid driving, and could drive up to 30 miles in electric-only mode. (You can CHOOSE to plug it in at night if you want, to get the extended range, or you can just let it work as a 'normal' hybrid, where it uses the diesel engine to recharge the hybrid battery pack.) The idea is that it could be used as a delivery truck in neighborhoods where delivery trucks are banned due to noise and pollution. It would drive in hybrid mode on the highway, then switch to electric mode in the neighborhoods.
You can seen an article on it here.
Unfortunately, even the cleanest Diesels still emit more particulate matter and ozone than even 'mostly clean' gasoline cars. (ULEV) I can't find the link right now (Sorry, my Google-fu sucks) but a few months ago (before buying my Prius) I founds info on the EPA's website showing that the Diesels are about even with the Prius on 'greenouse gasses' (CO2,) but MUCH worse than even gasoline-powered SUVs in 'air pollution' measures (ozone, particulates) (Aha, found it!) The Jetta TDI scores a '4' for air pollution, and 7 or 8 (auto or manual) on greenhouse gasses. The Prius scores a 10 on both. By comparison, a Ford Explorer scores a 6 in the 'air pollution' category.
I'm not trying to knock Diesels, the Jetta TDI wagon was our second choice (partly knocked out of the running because I'm a big guy, and it had less room for me, although the larger cargo area would have been nice. In fact, we may get a Jetta TDI wagon to replace our aging Ford Explorer as a second vehicle.) Just trying to dispel myths.
Yes, if you try to download it, it downloads a PDF that basically says "email me if you want a copy". I did, and he sent it within 15 minutes. I'm in the process of putting it on my website right now: Here
(And as soon as I find an existing torrent for it, I'll join the stream.)
You can use a Matrox RTMac PCI card, and output it to whatever you want. But as has been mentioned elsewhere, you are really looking for something else, you just don't know it.
Actually, these are the exact same two displays the older G4 iMac had. The 17" screen is also the same used in the 17" PowerBook, and the 20" screen is the same as in the 20" Cinema Display.
Well, I remember reading that a 386 has more computing power than all five flight control computers on the space shuttle combined. (This was before the space shuttle upgrade in the mid '90s, though.)
So I'm pretty certain a Prius has more computing power than the Apollo capsule. (And yes, I can easily believe that a modern laptop has more power than all of NASA in 1969.)
Hrm. I don't see it in the specs, either. But there seems to be one just under the power cord in most of the photos.