Sure, right... Now please show me the analog HDTV over-the-air channels, satellite receivers, cable providers, or video disks (no, laser disk is analog but not HD).
The Japanese had an analog HDTV system called Muse, which could also be used to view HiVision LaserDiscs.
I was musing about getting a bt8xx card for my powermac, but I got the strong impression that attempts to write proper drivers quickly die. There used to be a bt8xx module in darwin. It dissapeared. There's been little activity associated with Xtelevison. And, near as I can figure out, development on iTV stopped at version 0.2. Does iTV work with a modern version of OSX? I can't tell.
What would be nice if someone wrote Mac drivers for that pchdtv card.
So some asshole comes up to you and starts questioning you about Al-Qaeda, but doesn't say he's FBI. Either its blindingly obvious that he is, or you tell him to fuck off.
The FBI already runs domestic undercover operations. The Department of Defense isn't supposed to. Theoretically, when the FBI arrests someone, the arrestee enjoys certain legal rights. But similar persons in the custody of the military (e.g Jose Padilla) are imprisoned at the pleasure of Mr Bush.
Right. Couple of Americans walked into a prison complex one day, and decided to abuse some prisoners. After which time, the MPs found them, and threw the interlopers out...
Perhaps you're forgetting that these interlopers were members of the Army, an outfit which pretends to care about discipline and chain of command and responsibility. Perhaps you're forgetting that some brilliant lawyers in the White House dreamt up legal strategies in defense of torture.
It's quite difficult to argue that the efforts of the White House and the Department of Defense are somehow not representative of American policy.
I just can't imagine using USB to power a lightbulb.
That's because your imagination is limited I think oyu can also purchase a USB powered fan. Six wire firewire delivers more power, though.
To be fair to the nytimes, the short article was devoted to devices that neglect the "serial" part of USB and use it merely for power distribution.
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Of course, we still need quality authoritative sources that produce just facts. Blogs need to co-evolve with unbiased, dry sources of information such as county records, meeting minutes or other dry sources of information.
Lotus sued Borland because the interface of Quatro Pro allegedly infringed on the look and feel of Lotus 123.
The Macintosh had a set of Human Interface guidelines that suggested a standardized interface, with the goal being that any Macintosh user could use a novel program without the bother of investigating which Function Key was bound to the "print" function. Apple's lawyers did, of course, try to ensure that if Mac users ever tried to leave the Macintosh, they would be condemned to relearn a new set of interfaces. This move is regarded with much scorn and derision, of course, but I do wonder what would have happened if various GUIs were not bound by a slavish adherence to what Apple thought was appropriate in the early eighties.
Linux does not have to look and feel like Windows, and it does not have to look like the Macintosh. But the usability of the system would improve if application designers were able to use a consistent, well designed set of human interface apis.
Unfortunately for linux users, certain human interface designers are quite taken with the "Steve Jobs" style of design -- "Take away those arrow keys-- people should learn to use the mouse properly" -- and fail to understand when their idealism should be tempered by a realistic understanding of how users use Linux.
Steve Jobs wants to sell you a spiffy new widescreen display. Personally, I much prefer the Next style browser to the old style icon view, but find them both superior to windows' tree view (or whatever MSHeads call it).
Sometimes cdrom set is more convenient than an.iso. But even then, it makes little sense to pay more than a pittance for a distro if you aren't planning on exploiting the support that comes bundled in with boxed versions.
What did you do that your CDs delaminated in three months? I have not had a SINGLE cd delaminate. I have a CD that my parents bought me when I was in second grade (I just finished my first year of college) of some Bach organ fuges, it still plays just fine. I got the disk in 1992.
That was the 80860's slogan, not the 80486's. The i860 incorporated a vector processing capability that was similar to that of a Cray's. Some of that technology was later stripped down and repackaged as MMX.
Actually, the i860 was a graphics chip. I guess that the original author intended to refer to the i960, a chip that was used in several communication systems that I worked on.
The i860 was intended for use as a general purpose CPU. The i960 added some features (context switching) and deleted some others (MMU support).
The i860, known as the "Cray on a Chip" was difficult to program. The 33 MHz chip was theoretically capable of 66 MIPS, whereas the 33 MHz 486 was only capable of 26 MIPS. But poor compiler support reduced this to about five to ten MIPS.
Word. As RAM and disk get cheaper and cheaper, the OSX method of just statically compiling apps and stickig them in their own folder makes more and more sense.
What the hell are you talking about? In MacOSX, most applications are compiled against shared libraries.
The Australians will only be able to view a partial transit. According to my New Scientist, Eurasia and Africa will be able to view the entire transit, Eastern North America, South America and Western Africa will find that Venus will already be in transit at Sunrise, and Australia, Japan, Alaska and Indonesia will find the transit interrupted by sunset. New Zealand, the Western US and southern Chile will be unable to view the transit.
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Sure, right... Now please show me the analog HDTV over-the-air channels, satellite receivers, cable providers, or video disks (no, laser disk is analog but not HD).
The Japanese had an analog HDTV system called Muse, which could also be used to view HiVision LaserDiscs.
I was musing about getting a bt8xx card for my powermac, but I got the strong impression that attempts to write proper drivers quickly die. There used to be a bt8xx module in darwin. It dissapeared. There's been little activity associated with Xtelevison. And, near as I can figure out, development on iTV stopped at version 0.2. Does iTV work with a modern version of OSX? I can't tell.
What would be nice if someone wrote Mac drivers for that pchdtv card.
Oh, wait. It seems that none of those bar graphs include an origin. Never mind.
So some asshole comes up to you and starts questioning you about Al-Qaeda, but doesn't say he's FBI. Either its blindingly obvious that he is, or you tell him to fuck off.
The FBI already runs domestic undercover operations. The Department of Defense isn't supposed to. Theoretically, when the FBI arrests someone, the arrestee enjoys certain legal rights. But similar persons in the custody of the military (e.g Jose Padilla) are imprisoned at the pleasure of Mr Bush.
Right. Couple of Americans walked into a prison complex one day, and decided to abuse some prisoners. After which time, the MPs found them, and threw the interlopers out...
Perhaps you're forgetting that these interlopers were members of the Army, an outfit which pretends to care about discipline and chain of command and responsibility. Perhaps you're forgetting that some brilliant lawyers in the White House dreamt up legal strategies in defense of torture.
It's quite difficult to argue that the efforts of the White House and the Department of Defense are somehow not representative of American policy.
He used an Ensoniq AudioPCI card-- another piece of obsolete hardware from the 1990s.
It says rival, not top or equal, you fucking assmunch. Noone cares about your shit gay computer. Get a fucking girlfriend
Rivalry implies a credible attempt to top or equal. Please procure yourself a vocabulary.
You still game at 640x480? Real gamers, judging by Tom's Hardware, are interested in 1600x1200.
You could install a PCI-X Firewire RAID controller.
Yes, if you want to experience the full panoply of Microsoft apps, you will have to install Windows. Funny, that.
(MSN Messenger has a mac client, though.)
I just can't imagine using USB to power a lightbulb.
That's because your imagination is limited I think oyu can also purchase a USB powered fan. Six wire firewire delivers more power, though.
To be fair to the nytimes, the short article was devoted to devices that neglect the "serial" part of USB and use it merely for power distribution.
Of course, we still need quality authoritative sources that produce just facts. Blogs need to co-evolve with unbiased, dry sources of information such as county records, meeting minutes or other dry sources of information.
That's why I get all my SCO news from PRNewsWire.
The Washington Times is owned by the Moonies. I'm not sure if the paper makes a profit, though.
Lotus sued Borland because the interface of Quatro Pro allegedly infringed on the look and feel of Lotus 123.
The Macintosh had a set of Human Interface guidelines that suggested a standardized interface, with the goal being that any Macintosh user could use a novel program without the bother of investigating which Function Key was bound to the "print" function. Apple's lawyers did, of course, try to ensure that if Mac users ever tried to leave the Macintosh, they would be condemned to relearn a new set of interfaces. This move is regarded with much scorn and derision, of course, but I do wonder what would have happened if various GUIs were not bound by a slavish adherence to what Apple thought was appropriate in the early eighties.
Linux does not have to look and feel like Windows, and it does not have to look like the Macintosh. But the usability of the system would improve if application designers were able to use a consistent, well designed set of human interface apis.
Unfortunately for linux users, certain human interface designers are quite taken with the "Steve Jobs" style of design -- "Take away those arrow keys-- people should learn to use the mouse properly" -- and fail to understand when their idealism should be tempered by a realistic understanding of how users use Linux.
Steve Jobs wants to sell you a spiffy new widescreen display. Personally, I much prefer the Next style browser to the old style icon view, but find them both superior to windows' tree view (or whatever MSHeads call it).
People are familiar with the interface of Lotus 123. We shouldn't try to change that fact and expect people to learn how to use a mouse.
Sometimes cdrom set is more convenient than an .iso. But even then, it makes little sense to pay more than a pittance for a distro if you aren't planning on exploiting the support that comes bundled in with boxed versions.
What did you do that your CDs delaminated in three months? I have not had a SINGLE cd delaminate. I have a CD that my parents bought me when I was in second grade (I just finished my first year of college) of some Bach organ fuges, it still plays just fine. I got the disk in 1992.
CDs have been around since 1982.
That was the 80860's slogan, not the 80486's. The i860 incorporated a vector processing capability that was similar to that of a Cray's. Some of that technology was later stripped down and repackaged as MMX.
Actually, the i860 was a graphics chip. I guess that the original author intended to refer to the i960, a chip that was used in several communication systems that I worked on.
The i860 was intended for use as a general purpose CPU. The i960 added some features (context switching) and deleted some others (MMU support).
The i860, known as the "Cray on a Chip" was difficult to program. The 33 MHz chip was theoretically capable of 66 MIPS, whereas the 33 MHz 486 was only capable of 26 MIPS. But poor compiler support reduced this to about five to ten MIPS.
There went the supposed advantage of the i860.
Word. As RAM and disk get cheaper and cheaper, the OSX method of just statically compiling apps and stickig them in their own folder makes more and more sense.
What the hell are you talking about? In MacOSX, most applications are compiled against shared libraries.
The big loss, of course, in using Assembler would be portability across different CPU's
Which is probably why Ritchie rewrote unix in C way back in 1973.
The system tray?
That's the part of the taskbar with all the 16x16 pixel illegible icons, correct?
The Australians will only be able to view a partial transit. According to my New Scientist, Eurasia and Africa will be able to view the entire transit, Eastern North America, South America and Western Africa will find that Venus will already be in transit at Sunrise, and Australia, Japan, Alaska and Indonesia will find the transit interrupted by sunset. New Zealand, the Western US and southern Chile will be unable to view the transit.
Have you upgraded that 9500? Did you need to "fool" the OSX installer into cooperating?