It looks like they're using antistatic mats on their quality control stations. I would have thought they'd want to limit the conductive surfaces, given the voltages they're using.
Since the collapse of the state vector is an illusion caused by the entanglement of the experimenter with the experiment, whereupon the experimenter (now in a superposition of states) can only measure one outcome, this recless creation of macromolecular superpositions will deplete the multiverse's supply of world-lines and immanentize the eschaton. We'll have doppelgangers racing madly through the streets, and it will all end in tears.
We were using X Windows and these fancy BARCO display servers that virtualized a single X-windows display over multiple video cards (everything was host:0, not host:0.1, host:0.2, etc...). This wasn't gamer performance, of course, and CERTAINLY not gamer prices, but we were building energy management control centers for electric utilities... our performance requirements and budget were quite different.
How do I turn off all the "security" features of Vista? At work I use two computers with Synergy to share keyboard/mouse, and since I switched to Vista x64 (to use extra memory for running virtual machines) I can't log in using Synergy and, worse, every time I hit a security dialog Synergy gets locked out. I might have to dig up 64-bit XP, or even something like Windows 2003 server, to get my damn desktop back.
For corporate types wanting to customise things (and even more, want to be able to embed their spreadsheets directly into a web page, via OLE) IE is the only way to fly.
We have people doing that, with sharepoint and everything, but most of the actual data transfer involves people emailing spreadsheets around and there are "rogue" wikis everywhere.
An ambitious project was unveiled in Germany on Wednesday to install mini gas-fired power plants in people's basements and produce as much electricity as two nuclear reactors within a year.
A misleading summary on slashdot? That never happens!
Remote controlled power strips, remote consoles (like RealWeasel or HP iLO), and so on mean remote PC management is almost as convenient as remote server management. It's not serial consoles, but it's workable.
Well, ARM is the usual platform for Windows CE/Mobile/Pocket PC/whatever they call it this week. They had Windows CE notebooks at one point, they could ship them again, and maybe even give the Windows Powered smartphones a boost.
To me it sounds like you just don't like it because you're bad at it.
Yeh, I'm not good at playing a stripped down version of Star Trek and a twitch-based video game at the same time.
I'd rather do one at a time, especially back in the early '80s when there were some really awesome turn-based strategy- and tactical- level space war games on the ARPAnet.
If you imagine yourself piloting a space fighter [...]
I imagine I'd get blown out of vacuum on day one of that too.
[An AI might] realize the impermanence of everything, calculate that the sun will burn out in a few billion years, and decide to play video games for the remainder of its existence.
Sounds like a very human response to the universe. I mean, surely you know people like that.
My experience playing Star Raiders was pretty poor. I'd sit there pecking at the controls for a few minutes, then something mysterious would happen and I'd get blown out of the water.... uh, vacuum. It seemed more like a technology demo than an actual game.
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It looks like they're using antistatic mats on their quality control stations. I would have thought they'd want to limit the conductive surfaces, given the voltages they're using.
What happens when you create a quantum superposition of levitating mice?
Sorry, I can't make fun of White Zombie, I don't understand it.
If you want to make fun of quantum mechanics, it helps if you understand it first.
So, basically, Coca Cola is the unified field underneath reality?
Since the collapse of the state vector is an illusion caused by the entanglement of the experimenter with the experiment, whereupon the experimenter (now in a superposition of states) can only measure one outcome, this recless creation of macromolecular superpositions will deplete the multiverse's supply of world-lines and immanentize the eschaton. We'll have doppelgangers racing madly through the streets, and it will all end in tears.
If enough people picked the $2500 solution we'd get out of the economic slump quicker. :)
You could put 6 video cards into a Mac II (Nubus) and run 6 displays as one giant desktop.
Given how long it took the Mac II to update a SINGLE display, I suspect that wasn't entirely practical for more than a demo. o_O
Oh by all means, I don't mean to imply this started in the '90s, that's just when I started dealing with those big BARCO systems.
We were using X Windows and these fancy BARCO display servers that virtualized a single X-windows display over multiple video cards (everything was host:0, not host:0.1, host:0.2, etc...). This wasn't gamer performance, of course, and CERTAINLY not gamer prices, but we were building energy management control centers for electric utilities... our performance requirements and budget were quite different.
Two words: Peripheral Vision.
How do I turn off all the "security" features of Vista? At work I use two computers with Synergy to share keyboard/mouse, and since I switched to Vista x64 (to use extra memory for running virtual machines) I can't log in using Synergy and, worse, every time I hit a security dialog Synergy gets locked out. I might have to dig up 64-bit XP, or even something like Windows 2003 server, to get my damn desktop back.
For corporate types wanting to customise things (and even more, want to be able to embed their spreadsheets directly into a web page, via OLE) IE is the only way to fly.
We have people doing that, with sharepoint and everything, but most of the actual data transfer involves people emailing spreadsheets around and there are "rogue" wikis everywhere.
Actual text in the article:
An ambitious project was unveiled in Germany on Wednesday to install mini gas-fired power plants in people's basements and produce as much electricity as two nuclear reactors within a year.
A misleading summary on slashdot? That never happens!
There's two critical ways they differ from the Apple main site:
1. They don't have the Apple toolbar across the top.
2. You can actually find useful information on them in a couple of clicks without plowing through advertising.
Look at http://developer.apple.com/ or http://opensource.apple.com/ and you'll find completely separate websites run by different groups, with different styles and goals.
But... Windows CE will have more hardware and software support than Windows NT on the ARM.
Remote controlled power strips, remote consoles (like RealWeasel or HP iLO), and so on mean remote PC management is almost as convenient as remote server management. It's not serial consoles, but it's workable.
Well, ARM is the usual platform for Windows CE/Mobile/Pocket PC/whatever they call it this week. They had Windows CE notebooks at one point, they could ship them again, and maybe even give the Windows Powered smartphones a boost.
To me it sounds like you just don't like it because you're bad at it.
Yeh, I'm not good at playing a stripped down version of Star Trek and a twitch-based video game at the same time.
I'd rather do one at a time, especially back in the early '80s when there were some really awesome turn-based strategy- and tactical- level space war games on the ARPAnet.
If you imagine yourself piloting a space fighter [...]
I imagine I'd get blown out of vacuum on day one of that too.
Oh god, I bought one helicopter simulator for the Amiga and after a weekend in which I managed to take off *once* I took it back.
I don't know what other real-time game you could even compare it to.
That kind of thing made more sense to me in turn-based text games like the super-enhanced Star Trek game on the DECsystem-20.
[An AI might] realize the impermanence of everything, calculate that the sun will burn out in a few billion years, and decide to play video games for the remainder of its existence.
Sounds like a very human response to the universe. I mean, surely you know people like that.
By the time it came out I'd already written a "mainframe star trek" style game on the 11/70 at Berkeley.
Combining that with a "trigger twitcher", as you put it, was just a plain bad idea.
My experience playing Star Raiders was pretty poor. I'd sit there pecking at the controls for a few minutes, then something mysterious would happen and I'd get blown out of the water.... uh, vacuum. It seemed more like a technology demo than an actual game.