Every prior 'alternate architecture' version of Windows supported running the previous-generation of Intel-CPU instructions via a translation layer.
x86-64 and IA64 include an x86 Win32 layer, the 32-bit Windows NT ports to PowerPC, Alpha, and MIPS all have 286-compatible Win16 layers. (AKA: I can run the Windows 3.1-compatible versions of Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer on my Windows NT PowerPC system just fine.)
This will be the first version of Windows that can't run prior-generation Intel-architecture binaries.
I wouldn't expect the ARM version to run 64-bit x86 binaries (and definitely not IA64, or even Win16,) but it SHOULD be able to run 32-bit x86 binaries.
I generally make a point of having the only electricity-using devices in the bedroom be the lights and the alarm clock. (And if my wife didn't require it be a radio alarm clock, I'd make do with an old fashioned wind-up 'hammer-between-two-bells' model.) My phone's charger is in the home office one room over. The phone rings loud enough that it will wake me up; but I don't leave it in the bedroom.
Only caveat - if I'm sick and stuck in bed. Then I'll use the phone in bed.
I occasionally read a book on my iPad in bed at night; but don't use it in the morning before getting out of bed.
Oh, and the open net uses OpenDNS with "Low" filtering on. (To at least make an attempt at blocking potential bad behavior - plus it's the network the Wii and my kids computers are connected to.)
I have a Closed network for my in-house computers, printers, etc; and an Open network for visiting friends, and older devices that don't support WPA (Nintendo DS, for example.)
The closed network is 802.11n 2.4/5 GHz, SSID hidden, WPA-2 protected, the open network is 802.11b-only.
Step 1: Mandate that NASA's mission is pure "research and exploration science" Step 2: Open up the floodgates for private use of space. Step 3: Remove *ALL* government mandates on NASA other than the four words articulated in step 1. Step 4: Let NASA do its thing.
End result (hopefully:) We see NASA do pure science, for science sake (robotic missions to planets, asteroids, etc,) we see NASA do supported-by-cheaper-commercially-viable-companies manned exploration. No more "this Senator says he has to have 20 jobs, so we subcontract this minor part out to an incompetent vendor, this Representative says she has to have the bragging rights of this subcomponent being in her district" and so-on and so-on.
Atlantis shouldn't be at KSC, Enterprise shouldn't be in NYC, and Endeavor shouldn't go to CSC. Those are all purely political decisions. Get politics out of NASA, it has caused decades of harm as it is.
That would be nice, to have one in orbit for a future in-space museum. But logistically too difficult. It would add a lot of dead weight to the Space Station, and there's no reasonable other choice for storage. (The 'dead weight' comes into play for the occasional orbit re-boosts the station has to do.)
Although it seems like it would be a bonus to slap Spacelab (the 'space station module' that sits in the Shuttle bay, was used fairly often before ISS was started,) in and use it as an extra module for the ISS. Probably wouldn't be too hard to reconfigure it (Spacelab) to power it from ISS instead of the Shuttle. Reconfiguring the SHUTTLE to accept ISS power, though, would probably be more work than it's worth.
While I can't speak to a 2008 Mac from personal experience, my 2003 PowerBook is still going strong as my daughter's laptop (still on its original battery with 306 charge/discharge cycles, still holds 65% of its original charge,) and my 2006 MacBook and MacBook Pro are still doing well for my wife and I. The MacBook Pro had some battery issues the first year, but has been working great for years.
Not sure how it's a myth, when Consumer Reports often declares Apples the most reliable (or at least among the top few.)
A 2008 MacBook, even non-Pro, is still a perfectly good Windows system for what you ask.
A computer can always do serviceably well exactly what it could do when it was new. Windows 7 should be decently good on it, Office 2010 (or OpenOffice/LibreOffice) perfectly fine. Yeah, it won't do gaming very well, but it'll do anything a new $500 Windows can do - and for only the cost of Windows itself.
That's pretty much what all of the current attempts at electric aircraft are - powered sailplanes with ultra-light batteries and an electric motor instead of the small gas engine common on powered sailplanes.
(Well, that and the ultra-ultra-light solar jobs...)
I keep business associates off Facebook. That's what LinkedIn is for.:-P
And I suppose the friend part is valid as well. But my point still holds, they are people that you are ALREADY friends with, and wish to continue to be friends with. It's still a case of using Facebook to further existing friendships, not to create new ones from random people. Too much info generally available with no prior vetting. That's what Twitter is for.:-D
I only friend people that I have met in real life, and with whom I wish to continue to have a friendship with.
I have de-friended many old high-school friends after deciding that I didn't want to bother 'restarting' a friendship after a decade. I have refused to 'friend' people I knew in college, even Fraternity brothers, because I simply didn't know them well enough to consider friends.
Finally, my Facebook account *DOES* have my birthday public, but the only 'contact' information on there at all is a 'throwaway' email address.
When I turn Bluetooth and WiFi off, and turn the brightness all the way down (only the main iOS brightness matters - iBooks brightness below that is just turning the contrast down, not actually saving any power with magical lower backlight-brightness settings,) I get 12-14 hours of reading time. (Yes, I got 12 hours in a single sitting.)
I'm fairly certain he did. I doubt he would have used Kermit - and as long as the UofH supported ZMODEM, I'm sure that's what he would have used. We were both BBSers, so we knew how to transfer files.
Intel video doesn't bother me as much; many reviews say it is roughly equal to the nVidia 320M that is in the current Mini and 13" MacBook Pro (and MacBook, and MacBook Air.) Yes, it would be nice to get better video, but for low-end machines, it's not that big a deal.
Wait, we were talking about a Pro machine? Okay, that sucks.
Honestly. I truly don't care on the 'consumer' machines as the stock video - yeah, the iMac should still have good video, but the Mini, Air, and just-plain MacBook are fine with HD3000. It supports the same feature set as 320M (Yes, even OpenCL, although part of it is implemented in the CPU hardware, it supports it, so who really cares HOW it supports it.)
But the "Pro" machines should all have higher-end graphics. To me, this is one of the main selling points. It used to be that in the light-pro category, the major selling point of Apple over competitors was the use of discrete video.
For the mini, I hope it has i3 standard, with quad-core i5/i7 as optional, on board video is fine, Light Peak (which can be a dual-use video port, although that would be odd having to choose BETWEEN Light Peak and video,) and no USB 3. Since I'm interested in the 'Server' version, I hope that it (at $999,) includes a quad-core by default, and what would *REALLY* kick ass is dual spinning hard drives (2.5" drives are up to 1 TB now,) PLUS the SSD-on-a-stick from the MBA. Even the 64 GB one would be sufficient for OS+Apps, with the dual 1 TB drives (although to hit the $999 mark, smaller spinning drives would be okay,) for mass storage.
I have a friend list titled "NoPost" that is excluded by default from all of my status updates, pictures, etc. I use it for things social games that demand high friend counts (although I don't actually play any of those games anymore, and have removed all of those friends...) I'd just go ahead and add the DA, but immediately add him to that friend list. He could see who my friends are, but not actually see anything useful.
It was one in the wide genre of "post apocalyptic" series, but in this one, a couple of the main characters are massively influence by LotR, with one (the evil one,) taking "the lidless eye" as his banner, and the other naming her group "The Dúnedain Rangers". Some of the other characters make fun of the flights of fancy of the two, and there are references to Tolkien throughout. (Although the author never directly refers to Tolkien by name, nor LotR by name - there ARE plenty of direct name uses, such as Dúnedain, Nazgûl, and Uruk-hai.)
It's the wording. I have no doubt that an SMS-based service would be possible, even on a "feature phone". But the wording in this article is just horrendous. I mean, honestly, "shrunk Facebook down"?.?.?
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Every prior 'alternate architecture' version of Windows supported running the previous-generation of Intel-CPU instructions via a translation layer.
x86-64 and IA64 include an x86 Win32 layer, the 32-bit Windows NT ports to PowerPC, Alpha, and MIPS all have 286-compatible Win16 layers. (AKA: I can run the Windows 3.1-compatible versions of Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer on my Windows NT PowerPC system just fine.)
This will be the first version of Windows that can't run prior-generation Intel-architecture binaries.
I wouldn't expect the ARM version to run 64-bit x86 binaries (and definitely not IA64, or even Win16,) but it SHOULD be able to run 32-bit x86 binaries.
I generally make a point of having the only electricity-using devices in the bedroom be the lights and the alarm clock. (And if my wife didn't require it be a radio alarm clock, I'd make do with an old fashioned wind-up 'hammer-between-two-bells' model.) My phone's charger is in the home office one room over. The phone rings loud enough that it will wake me up; but I don't leave it in the bedroom.
Only caveat - if I'm sick and stuck in bed. Then I'll use the phone in bed.
I occasionally read a book on my iPad in bed at night; but don't use it in the morning before getting out of bed.
It is moments like this that I am reminded of the words of the great writers/filmmakers Parker & Stone, "America! Fuck Yeah!"
Oh, and the open net uses OpenDNS with "Low" filtering on. (To at least make an attempt at blocking potential bad behavior - plus it's the network the Wii and my kids computers are connected to.)
I have a Closed network for my in-house computers, printers, etc; and an Open network for visiting friends, and older devices that don't support WPA (Nintendo DS, for example.)
The closed network is 802.11n 2.4/5 GHz, SSID hidden, WPA-2 protected, the open network is 802.11b-only.
Step 1: Mandate that NASA's mission is pure "research and exploration science"
Step 2: Open up the floodgates for private use of space.
Step 3: Remove *ALL* government mandates on NASA other than the four words articulated in step 1.
Step 4: Let NASA do its thing.
End result (hopefully:) We see NASA do pure science, for science sake (robotic missions to planets, asteroids, etc,) we see NASA do supported-by-cheaper-commercially-viable-companies manned exploration. No more "this Senator says he has to have 20 jobs, so we subcontract this minor part out to an incompetent vendor, this Representative says she has to have the bragging rights of this subcomponent being in her district" and so-on and so-on.
Atlantis shouldn't be at KSC, Enterprise shouldn't be in NYC, and Endeavor shouldn't go to CSC. Those are all purely political decisions. Get politics out of NASA, it has caused decades of harm as it is.
That would be nice, to have one in orbit for a future in-space museum. But logistically too difficult. It would add a lot of dead weight to the Space Station, and there's no reasonable other choice for storage. (The 'dead weight' comes into play for the occasional orbit re-boosts the station has to do.)
Although it seems like it would be a bonus to slap Spacelab (the 'space station module' that sits in the Shuttle bay, was used fairly often before ISS was started,) in and use it as an extra module for the ISS. Probably wouldn't be too hard to reconfigure it (Spacelab) to power it from ISS instead of the Shuttle. Reconfiguring the SHUTTLE to accept ISS power, though, would probably be more work than it's worth.
While I can't speak to a 2008 Mac from personal experience, my 2003 PowerBook is still going strong as my daughter's laptop (still on its original battery with 306 charge/discharge cycles, still holds 65% of its original charge,) and my 2006 MacBook and MacBook Pro are still doing well for my wife and I. The MacBook Pro had some battery issues the first year, but has been working great for years.
Not sure how it's a myth, when Consumer Reports often declares Apples the most reliable (or at least among the top few.)
+1 again.
A 2008 MacBook, even non-Pro, is still a perfectly good Windows system for what you ask.
A computer can always do serviceably well exactly what it could do when it was new. Windows 7 should be decently good on it, Office 2010 (or OpenOffice/LibreOffice) perfectly fine. Yeah, it won't do gaming very well, but it'll do anything a new $500 Windows can do - and for only the cost of Windows itself.
That's pretty much what all of the current attempts at electric aircraft are - powered sailplanes with ultra-light batteries and an electric motor instead of the small gas engine common on powered sailplanes.
(Well, that and the ultra-ultra-light solar jobs...)
There aren't any commercial avgas or Jet-A fueling stations at 30kft, either.
The only fueling stations at 30kft are by the military, and they could probably create an in-air charging system, too.
They didn't cripple, handcuff, or kneecap anything.
They just didn't UPGRADE the web-app-run Safari to the new Javascript engine.
web-app-run websites will run at the same speed as in 4.2, they just won't run FASTER, as a 'Safari-run' website would.
Still not great, but not what people are calling it out as.
I keep business associates off Facebook. That's what LinkedIn is for. :-P
And I suppose the friend part is valid as well. But my point still holds, they are people that you are ALREADY friends with, and wish to continue to be friends with. It's still a case of using Facebook to further existing friendships, not to create new ones from random people. Too much info generally available with no prior vetting. That's what Twitter is for. :-D
I only friend people that I have met in real life, and with whom I wish to continue to have a friendship with.
I have de-friended many old high-school friends after deciding that I didn't want to bother 'restarting' a friendship after a decade. I have refused to 'friend' people I knew in college, even Fraternity brothers, because I simply didn't know them well enough to consider friends.
Finally, my Facebook account *DOES* have my birthday public, but the only 'contact' information on there at all is a 'throwaway' email address.
When I turn Bluetooth and WiFi off, and turn the brightness all the way down (only the main iOS brightness matters - iBooks brightness below that is just turning the contrast down, not actually saving any power with magical lower backlight-brightness settings,) I get 12-14 hours of reading time. (Yes, I got 12 hours in a single sitting.)
Unless CmdrTaco replies to this thread, you win sir.
And... Mission accomplished. :-P
Says the n00b. :-P
70s? There was rock and roll in the 70s? Didn't it die in 1969?
I'm fairly certain he did. I doubt he would have used Kermit - and as long as the UofH supported ZMODEM, I'm sure that's what he would have used. We were both BBSers, so we knew how to transfer files.
...dialing into the University of Helsinki BBS line to download early Linux disk images. Horrendous international calling fees.
Intel video doesn't bother me as much; many reviews say it is roughly equal to the nVidia 320M that is in the current Mini and 13" MacBook Pro (and MacBook, and MacBook Air.) Yes, it would be nice to get better video, but for low-end machines, it's not that big a deal.
Wait, we were talking about a Pro machine? Okay, that sucks.
Honestly. I truly don't care on the 'consumer' machines as the stock video - yeah, the iMac should still have good video, but the Mini, Air, and just-plain MacBook are fine with HD3000. It supports the same feature set as 320M (Yes, even OpenCL, although part of it is implemented in the CPU hardware, it supports it, so who really cares HOW it supports it.)
But the "Pro" machines should all have higher-end graphics. To me, this is one of the main selling points. It used to be that in the light-pro category, the major selling point of Apple over competitors was the use of discrete video.
For the mini, I hope it has i3 standard, with quad-core i5/i7 as optional, on board video is fine, Light Peak (which can be a dual-use video port, although that would be odd having to choose BETWEEN Light Peak and video,) and no USB 3. Since I'm interested in the 'Server' version, I hope that it (at $999,) includes a quad-core by default, and what would *REALLY* kick ass is dual spinning hard drives (2.5" drives are up to 1 TB now,) PLUS the SSD-on-a-stick from the MBA. Even the 64 GB one would be sufficient for OS+Apps, with the dual 1 TB drives (although to hit the $999 mark, smaller spinning drives would be okay,) for mass storage.
See: iPod/iPhone dominance. It may not be 99%, but it certainly is an absolutely enormous number.
I have a friend list titled "NoPost" that is excluded by default from all of my status updates, pictures, etc. I use it for things social games that demand high friend counts (although I don't actually play any of those games anymore, and have removed all of those friends...) I'd just go ahead and add the DA, but immediately add him to that friend list. He could see who my friends are, but not actually see anything useful.
It was one in the wide genre of "post apocalyptic" series, but in this one, a couple of the main characters are massively influence by LotR, with one (the evil one,) taking "the lidless eye" as his banner, and the other naming her group "The Dúnedain Rangers". Some of the other characters make fun of the flights of fancy of the two, and there are references to Tolkien throughout. (Although the author never directly refers to Tolkien by name, nor LotR by name - there ARE plenty of direct name uses, such as Dúnedain, Nazgûl, and Uruk-hai.)
It's the wording. I have no doubt that an SMS-based service would be possible, even on a "feature phone". But the wording in this article is just horrendous. I mean, honestly, "shrunk Facebook down"?.?.?