This would put it at #343 on the Top 500 Supercomputers* - right below the University of Edinburgh's Cray and just ahead of the IBM cluster at Williams-Sonoma. Yes, Williams-Sonoma.
Of course I fully expect the employees of the West Hartford Apple store to ceremoniously run three doors down and moon the folks at Williams-Sonoma. Ah, Mall Life.
(*the whole lot of which just got its lunch eaten, dope slapped and girlfriend stolen by the new NEC cluster in Japan - 35,860 GFlops, Los Alamos is 2nd & 3rd at 7,727 with two of their HP server clusters.. sheesh.).
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...is if they drop it out of a 747.
IT'S A LUMP OF CLAY!
Editors - "it can do this, it can do that..." NO IT CAN'T - it's a CONCEPT!
"Chariots for Apollo" by Charles Pellegrino - you can't make this stuff up.
"How To Think About Weird Things" by Lewis Vaughn - see how most goofy thinking goes wrong. This book comes highly recommended by James Randi.
Fox could put on a special that would have half the population believing they have no nose. And if it were faked, there'd be no where near the number of excruciating details available. The bigger the lie, the fewer details you can afford to let out.
Sounds like they need some sense knocked into them. Where's a vagabond Saturn V third stage when you need one?
...runs at lower speed when I take it off the wall.
Unless I tell it not to by using the pretty well marked and detailed control panel.
Not the BIOS, the equivalent of the notice they told Arthur Dent he should have seen about knocking down his house.
Permissive and forgiving - really good parts of a good UI.
And some very good cars have been taught to cut the feed to some cylinders when they don't need the torque.
But again, research should have told you that.
Just like someone *should* have told users that to 'stop' you press 'start', that the delete key works in the future only, and - well, if we're going to start detailing common UI foibles that pretty much are wince-inducing 'features' - it's going to be a looonnnng night.
"The problem with this idea is that, today, the cost of using service parts would easily exceed the cost of a built system"
Geez - I got the same problem with my Dodge Neon - once I throw a front bumper with more lights, cold air intake, turbocharger, ground effect strips, altezza lights - gosh - I coulda bought a new neon for less!
Well, with my Garmin eMap and my iBook WiFi'd to a differential GPS server, I've gotten resolution down to 1.5 feet while walking around on campus. So the resolution can be good enough, though it may not be so in concrete canyons, etc. They could potentially set up a check, but I could then massage the GPS data (it's a very simple very public data stream) to send a spoofed location (kripes I could do this in HyperCard with cool 3-d NSEW slewing buttons! or better yet a cartoon "Feathers McGraw" driving a cartoon radio controlled "Wallace" into the building proper...).
Or they could just secure the thing with ACLs, secure transactions, etc. - in short everything else that can be done that doesn't involve a pair of sneakers. Sure beats jogging through the building every so many hours with a preciously configured laptop.
"The copyright holder has lost nothing, only the copies own (the store) has lost anything. Copyright law is completely irrelevant, the thief will be charged with good old fashioned shoplifting."
The lost sale backs lost royalties back up the chain... unless artists receive royalties on stolen property?
OK - I get superb cornering in my front wheel drive, four wheels on the ground Neon. So does the Skip Barber racing school. 8?
Why 8? You have to be adding all the inefficiencies of all the wheels when you add wheels. Granted some of us can't live without a dualie or full-time all-wheel drive, but we're also willing to live with the slight inefficiency.
Maybe it's still more efficient than an 8-wheel or maybe a 4-wheel IC engine and traditional transmission and transfer cases, but it can't be more efficient than a 4-wheel electric with a motor on two wheels, and I can't imagine steering all those wheels is a trivial problem for engineering the steering.
(Footnote - go read up on the transfer of Paul MacCready's electric car to GM ("We can't put a motor on each wheel. What if one fails? The thing'll do donuts!" Never mind that many IC motor mount failures will collapse the nearby wheel assembly to the same effect...)
Geez - the guys at Pep Boys battery & tire dept. will drool and throw a rod when they see this thing limping in once a year...
If the sharers are so savvy, they can no doubt move this info anywhere they want - why only cancel the local tests? Seems everyone who wants this stuff will have it in short order.
Unless the tests have regional forms in addition to the other multiple forms, this is either useless or a symbolic slap on the wrist.
all you'll get from us is a pile of yes and no votes, plus personal preferences which will want to make you tear your hair out - trackpoints, close boxes, true microkernels, silver vs black paint, raw mhz -
try it on a desktop which you can prolly shake loose faster than a spare tibook
try smalldog or similar for NOS or openbox or refurb tibooks if you must
I worked at Assumption College's AM over AC power and their LPFM station and was on the team that started St Anselm's LPFM. The steps are largely what is detailed - but forget royalties if you're LPFM and college radio.
it's a lot of hard work, but it's fun and rewarding.
LPFM went away for a while and is now back - but see the FCC about what's different.
You do have to do a frequency & call sign search, you have to do a power survey (an engineer divines where your signal will reach with a given effective radiated power) - this is a real cost by a pro. The great thing about both of these stations was that they were on hills in Worcester MA and Manchester NH - we carried pretty far on both - more than the mile you expect.
The "new" LPFM is 100 watts and 100 feet - 100 watts ERP at an antenna height of 100 feet. That should cover about 3 miles in most cases, YMMV.
You do have to have the school involved. It has to be official. The school will be the applicant to the FCC - we stared the NH one with board approval and in 1979-80 it cost roughly $80,000, though if we sweated a lot we figured we could have done it for $40,000, again from scratch.
You do have to wait for an application window - you can't just walk up and do this when you feel like it.
You need a studio, transmitter, and people to take care of these things. The engineer is a licensed person generally, though the LPFM regs are forgiving - we got a geek to be "it" and ran him thru the courses.
Many trips to the Boston FCC - whose offices at the time were in the top of the Customs House.
We lucked out in NH because we started with people who were geeks and band members - so they did a lot of the background work oin getting good stuff right the first time.
You will have to do a demographic survey of the area you'll be serving. I at one point knew exactly how many persons of each race were in Hillsborogh County NH - for some strange reason southern New Hampshire had a whole lof of Philipinos.
In this capacity, the FCC is not the draconian bunch many make them out to be - they will lead you by the nose to get these steps done, it's their job to promote this stuff.
Yep - me too - I read "'Microsoft Works' to find its place in OSX" Aiiiiiieeeee!!!!!!!
I know people who still use Mac MSWorks daily and swear by it. This is the hair shirt of integrated software.
The last copyright on this thing was 1994. Though they still bundle it with Windows (version whatever) - where it is even more obtuse than the Mac version - at least in the Mac version you have one app, several doc types - which integrate so badly that - well, they really don't . The Mac version boasts worse graphing capabilities than AppleWorks GS, is not WYSIWYG to paper, you can't remove column and row headers until you print...
Give me Claris/Appleworks any day. ThinnkFree Office is also very impressive for $50 and apparently it's a JAVA app - I take back everything I said about JAVA implementations. If I could only find some useful applet for my iButton Java ring...
Again, let's take a step back. If this kid can't go 48 hours in a new city, at a pretty intense tournament, without being jacked into a console, what's going to happen when he shows up on the East Overshoe campus of Mindless State U.? Can you say M-I-A? Do yourself a favor and take a brand new charge of all this. Offer him WHATEVER each tourney city offers, ride roller coasters, do something that requires locomotion. As for the he-can't-socialize-if-he's-not-gaming-between-bout s.... WHAT?! glued to a controller sitting next to many others glued to controllers is now considered a social activity?! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... At the VERY LEAST - MAKE HIM FIGURE ALL THIS OUT! HE'LL EITHER LEARN SOME ENGINEERING AND RESPONSIBILITY, OR HE'LL BUST THE SCREEN AND HAVE TO HEAD OUTSIDE FOR A BREAK! I gotta go...
2 + iBooks with Airport cards - stow the base station hardware and the inverter and drive for 6 hours a day MAYBE needing the lighter direct power adapter outside of that. Stay within a dozen car lengths.
I'm wondering what made them leave the 19" CRT at home...
*probably* not. Pen-based POS (point-of-sale) terminals simply capture signatures, though there was talk this past spring of some recognition schemes getting the green light for development, particularly in restaurants & hotels...
Plus, they'd never get mine - thanks to its style, and the same goes for most signatures - they are hightly stylized, and the recognizers rely on you using *fairly* standard block and cursive letters.
If that *is* an Inkwell pad on their POS mac, it's likely just for capturing. Associating the ascii on my credit card just once to a scrawl is pretty useless. Once trained, it might be of some use, but then you'd have to spread those trained signatures across the Apple retail system so they'd be of use in subsequent sales, and that gets unwieldy not to mention scary...
"Microsoft also warned today that the era of "open computing," the free exchange of digital information that has defined the personal computer industry, is ending." It isn't clear if Microsoft is talking about something happening beyond their control, or if they're boasting about ending it.
Nothing new. Bill Redux: I remember hearing of an episode from back when GEM and Windows were still battling it out - at a conference panel where Bill and Gary Kildall were members, and Gary was going on about OSs, and how there'd be plenty of ways to run your computer. Bill grabbed a microphone and interrupted, with a clarification to the effect that "No, there will be one way to operate your computers. One. (uncomforatble silence) You may continue."
The rock in the photo is hardly 2km diameter - and apparently causing quite a splash of water from... oh, anyway.
And the caption, "An asteroid could devastate the earth." is an unconnected hypothetical statement that was just as true when the BBC were first formed as it is today, tomorrow, or on Feb *2* 2019.
I'm suprised that the Mac OS X version has such a market share in such a short period of time."
A killer app comes out for a killer OS running on just about the sweetest hardware most people are willing to pay for.
What this really points out is how we've come to expect that mediocity sells and state-of-the-art often goes unnoticed. e.g., pop quiz: Palm or Danger?
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This would put it at #343 on the Top 500 Supercomputers* - right below the University of Edinburgh's Cray and just ahead of the IBM cluster at Williams-Sonoma. Yes, Williams-Sonoma.
Of course I fully expect the employees of the West Hartford Apple store to ceremoniously run three doors down and moon the folks at Williams-Sonoma. Ah, Mall Life.
(*the whole lot of which just got its lunch eaten, dope slapped and girlfriend stolen by the new NEC cluster in Japan - 35,860 GFlops, Los Alamos is 2nd & 3rd at 7,727 with two of their HP server clusters.. sheesh.).
...is if they drop it out of a 747.
IT'S A LUMP OF CLAY!
Editors - "it can do this, it can do that..." NO IT CAN'T - it's a CONCEPT!
"Chariots for Apollo" by Charles Pellegrino - you can't make this stuff up.
"How To Think About Weird Things" by Lewis Vaughn - see how most goofy thinking goes wrong. This book comes highly recommended by James Randi.
Fox could put on a special that would have half the population believing they have no nose.
And if it were faked, there'd be no where near the number of excruciating details available. The bigger the lie, the fewer details you can afford to let out.
Sounds like they need some sense knocked into them. Where's a vagabond Saturn V third stage when you need one?
...runs at lower speed when I take it off the wall.
Unless I tell it not to by using the pretty well marked and detailed control panel.
Not the BIOS, the equivalent of the notice they told Arthur Dent he should have seen about knocking down his house.
Permissive and forgiving - really good parts of a good UI.
And some very good cars have been taught to cut the feed to some cylinders when they don't need the torque.
But again, research should have told you that.
Just like someone *should* have told users that to 'stop' you press 'start', that the delete key works in the future only, and - well, if we're going to start detailing common UI foibles that pretty much are wince-inducing 'features' - it's going to be a looonnnng night.
"The problem with this idea is that, today, the cost of using service parts would easily exceed the cost of a built system"
;-)
Geez - I got the same problem with my Dodge Neon - once I throw a front bumper with more lights, cold air intake, turbocharger, ground effect strips, altezza lights - gosh - I coulda bought a new neon for less!
Only it just ain't the same...
... apparently includes a parallel port, the cable for which prolly outweighs the laptop.
Yeesh.
Well, with my Garmin eMap and my iBook WiFi'd to a differential GPS server, I've gotten resolution down to 1.5 feet while walking around on campus. So the resolution can be good enough, though it may not be so in concrete canyons, etc. They could potentially set up a check, but I could then massage the GPS data (it's a very simple very public data stream) to send a spoofed location (kripes I could do this in HyperCard with cool 3-d NSEW slewing buttons! or better yet a cartoon "Feathers McGraw" driving a cartoon radio controlled "Wallace" into the building proper...).
Or they could just secure the thing with ACLs, secure transactions, etc. - in short everything else that can be done that doesn't involve a pair of sneakers. Sure beats jogging through the building every so many hours with a preciously configured laptop.
"The copyright holder has lost nothing, only the copies own (the store) has lost anything. Copyright law is completely irrelevant, the thief will be charged with good old fashioned shoplifting."
The lost sale backs lost royalties back up the chain... unless artists receive royalties on stolen property?
"Three words, Sully - Eight Wheel Drive!"
OK - I get superb cornering in my front wheel drive, four wheels on the ground Neon. So does the Skip Barber racing school. 8?
Why 8? You have to be adding all the inefficiencies of all the wheels when you add wheels. Granted some of us can't live without a dualie or full-time all-wheel drive, but we're also willing to live with the slight inefficiency.
Maybe it's still more efficient than an 8-wheel or maybe a 4-wheel IC engine and traditional transmission and transfer cases, but it can't be more efficient than a 4-wheel electric with a motor on two wheels, and I can't imagine steering all those wheels is a trivial problem for engineering the steering.
(Footnote - go read up on the transfer of Paul MacCready's electric car to GM ("We can't put a motor on each wheel. What if one fails? The thing'll do donuts!" Never mind that many IC motor mount failures will collapse the nearby wheel assembly to the same effect...)
Geez - the guys at Pep Boys battery & tire dept. will drool and throw a rod when they see this thing limping in once a year...
If the sharers are so savvy, they can no doubt move this info anywhere they want - why only cancel the local tests? Seems everyone who wants this stuff will have it in short order.
Unless the tests have regional forms in addition to the other multiple forms, this is either useless or a symbolic slap on the wrist.
"...the world's first dedicated shortwave receiver on a PC card."
Don't force it, get a bigger hammer. Or an editor. (It's that way on their site too...)
charles haddad (dvorak, etc.) is in the business of getting people to flock to the bw site/mag.
he has no more interest in intel than i do in toads.
all you'll get from us is a pile of yes and no votes, plus personal preferences which will want to make you tear your hair out - trackpoints, close boxes, true microkernels, silver vs black paint, raw mhz -
try it on a desktop which you can prolly shake loose faster than a spare tibook
try smalldog or similar for NOS or openbox or refurb tibooks if you must
make sure it's jaguar and try it.
if it's as effective as the ban on junk faxes, then who cares?
I worked at Assumption College's AM over AC power and their LPFM station and was on the team that started St Anselm's LPFM. The steps are largely what is detailed - but forget royalties if you're LPFM and college radio.
it's a lot of hard work, but it's fun and rewarding.
LPFM went away for a while and is now back - but see the FCC about what's different.
You do have to do a frequency & call sign search, you have to do a power survey (an engineer divines where your signal will reach with a given effective radiated power) - this is a real cost by a pro. The great thing about both of these stations was that they were on hills in Worcester MA and Manchester NH - we carried pretty far on both - more than the mile you expect.
The "new" LPFM is 100 watts and 100 feet - 100 watts ERP at an antenna height of 100 feet. That should cover about 3 miles in most cases, YMMV.
You do have to have the school involved. It has to be official. The school will be the applicant to the FCC - we stared the NH one with board approval and in 1979-80 it cost roughly $80,000, though if we sweated a lot we figured we could have done it for $40,000, again from scratch.
You do have to wait for an application window - you can't just walk up and do this when you feel like it.
You need a studio, transmitter, and people to take care of these things. The engineer is a licensed person generally, though the LPFM regs are forgiving - we got a geek to be "it" and ran him thru the courses.
Many trips to the Boston FCC - whose offices at the time were in the top of the Customs House.
We lucked out in NH because we started with people who were geeks and band members - so they did a lot of the background work oin getting good stuff right the first time.
You will have to do a demographic survey of the area you'll be serving. I at one point knew exactly how many persons of each race were in Hillsborogh County NH - for some strange reason southern New Hampshire had a whole lof of Philipinos.
In this capacity, the FCC is not the draconian bunch many make them out to be - they will lead you by the nose to get these steps done, it's their job to promote this stuff.
A great movie of the launch from a head-down fuselage camera.
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A 3MB version is here - http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/movie/part10.html
The biggie is here - http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/photo/launchanim.htm
... it's all gonna run on Mindstorms bricks from right there in Billund! Don't think the tiny LEGO propellers will get them much, though...
Yep - me too - I read "'Microsoft Works' to find its place in OSX" Aiiiiiieeeee!!!!!!!
I know people who still use Mac MSWorks daily and swear by it. This is the hair shirt of integrated software.
The last copyright on this thing was 1994. Though they still bundle it with Windows (version whatever) - where it is even more obtuse than the Mac version - at least in the Mac version you have one app, several doc types - which integrate so badly that - well, they really don't . The Mac version boasts worse graphing capabilities than AppleWorks GS, is not WYSIWYG to paper, you can't remove column and row headers until you print...
Give me Claris/Appleworks any day. ThinnkFree Office is also very impressive for $50 and apparently it's a JAVA app - I take back everything I said about JAVA implementations. If I could only find some useful applet for my iButton Java ring...
Again, let's take a step back. If this kid can't go 48 hours in a new city, at a pretty intense tournament, without being jacked into a console, what's going to happen when he shows up on the East Overshoe campus of Mindless State U.? Can you say M-I-A? Do yourself a favor and take a brand new charge of all this. Offer him WHATEVER each tourney city offers, ride roller coasters, do something that requires locomotion. As for the he-can't-socialize-if-he's-not-gaming-between-bout s.... WHAT?! glued to a controller sitting next to many others glued to controllers is now considered a social activity?! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... At the VERY LEAST - MAKE HIM FIGURE ALL THIS OUT! HE'LL EITHER LEARN SOME ENGINEERING AND RESPONSIBILITY, OR HE'LL BUST THE SCREEN AND HAVE TO HEAD OUTSIDE FOR A BREAK!
I gotta go...
Create a holdable pen that can make the trackpad think it's my finger and I can use it in Inkwell next month...
What, you think I'm going to tote my iBook *AND* a graphire? Nope.
I won't even ask for credit for the idea - no way this is an original thought.
There's something to be said for elegance.
2 + iBooks with Airport cards - stow the base station hardware and the inverter and drive for 6 hours a day MAYBE needing the lighter direct power adapter outside of that. Stay within a dozen car lengths.
I'm wondering what made them leave the 19" CRT at home...
*probably* not. Pen-based POS (point-of-sale) terminals simply capture signatures, though there was talk this past spring of some recognition schemes getting the green light for development, particularly in restaurants & hotels...
Plus, they'd never get mine - thanks to its style, and the same goes for most signatures - they are hightly stylized, and the recognizers rely on you using *fairly* standard block and cursive letters.
If that *is* an Inkwell pad on their POS mac, it's likely just for capturing. Associating the ascii on my credit card just once to a scrawl is pretty useless. Once trained, it might be of some use, but then you'd have to spread those trained signatures across the Apple retail system so they'd be of use in subsequent sales, and that gets unwieldy not to mention scary...
"Microsoft also warned today that the era of "open computing," the free exchange of digital information that has defined the personal computer industry, is ending." It isn't clear if Microsoft is talking about something happening beyond their control, or if they're boasting about ending it.
Nothing new. Bill Redux: I remember hearing of an episode from back when GEM and Windows were still battling it out - at a conference panel where Bill and Gary Kildall were members, and Gary was going on about OSs, and how there'd be plenty of ways to run your computer. Bill grabbed a microphone and interrupted, with a clarification to the effect that "No, there will be one way to operate your computers. One. (uncomforatble silence) You may continue."
The rock in the photo is hardly 2km diameter - and apparently causing quite a splash of water from... oh, anyway.
And the caption, "An asteroid could devastate the earth." is an unconnected hypothetical statement that was just as true when the BBC were first formed as it is today, tomorrow, or on Feb *2* 2019.
I'm suprised that the Mac OS X version has such a market share in such a short period of time."
A killer app comes out for a killer OS running on just about the sweetest hardware most people are willing to pay for.
What this really points out is how we've come to expect that mediocity sells and state-of-the-art often goes unnoticed. e.g., pop quiz: Palm or Danger?