I told the writer that apart from a few esoteric, high-end systems, Machrone's Law had outlived its usefulness.
Suddenly I was inundated by calls and e-mails from people begging to differ. No, they didn't beg; they said I was flat-out wrong. Systems, they said, are as expensive as ever, and the power you can get for 5 grand is what every red-blooded PC user really wants...
As for the G5, you should really look into getting some more memory-- a gig or two should get you started, though you'll probably be able to use a few more when Apple releases a 64 bit OS.. (The OS won't consume that much RAM, but it will make it easier to write programs that take advantage of it.)
Since Apple is offering $500 rebates to people who buy 23" displays with G5s, you should be able to afford 1-2 GB of memory. Not much, but it's a start. And that Radeon 9600-- better replace it with a current model. Remember, the 9800 will soon be ready for the scrapheap-- or the thrift store.
One of the features supposedly included in Apple's System 10.3 release was a video codec that required a 1 GHz G4 for proper playback. That requirement certainly exceeded the capabilities of older computers, but most, if not all of the current Apple lineup exceeds this requirement.
Am I pissed that my long in the tooth g3 ibook can't use this feature? No. It's just a video codec, and by the looks of things is rarely used. Besides, my newer computer is perfectly capable of such computations.
My guess is that in 2007, if you buy a new computer with MS's new OS, it will be able to run most all of the new features just fine. And it won't cost more than $1500.
Most people allocate their budgets based on what they think they need. These budget allocations become the basis for what they can afford.
Example:
Aaron has 50 thousand dollars in the bank. The IRS has recently sent him a bill for delinquent taxes. Aaron must then consider if he needs to stay out of Federal PMITA prison, if he needs a new automobile and if he needs a United States address before he decides how much of his tax bill he can afford to pay. These needs fluctuate over time--for instance, few people thought they needed a SUV before 1990 or so, but gosh darn it, what if a cape buffalo starts charging down I-95, and those safari-tested features come in handy? Ah, the malleable subconscious...
Additionally, there's the whole societal thing. Tax subsidies, the cost of the occasional invasion, the possibility of global warming, the public health effects of air pollution... But as a egoist, you probably discount those as ephemeral next to your ability to pay for for the latest and greatest in penis engorgement systems.
Ah, but if you had a Amiga or Atari ST, you couldn't install Linux on it, but you probably could install Minux.
The debate is obsolete, though. LInux has modules, so it's not quite as unwieldy on low end machines. Linux has been ported to many architectures, though the x86 arhitecture has sort of taken over, so portability isn't as desirable as it once was. And the technologies that Tannenbaum regarded as exotic are now commonplace.
Taiwanese servers use the tw code, cn is used by the Reds. It's not technically hard to disambiguate the two countries-- so the question then becomes-- did the authors of the study at some point take the "One China" myth seriously?
Minix ran on 8086 computers. 20 bit memory. No memory protection.
I still remember reading in Byte about the first 486 machine-- a rather expensive, bulky system, too exotic for personal use. After a few months, more economical systems were gradually introduced. It was a far cry from today's market, where the usual response to a new x86 incarnation is to benchmark it against "Serious Sam" and "Quake 3".
One reason that Minix did not "rise to the challenge" is that Tannenbaum wanted to keep his OS simple, for didactic reasons. Linux designed his OS to run on his new 386 computer, which had all sorts of nifty capabilities-- memory protection, a 32 bit address space, etc. Tannenbaum thought it was important to run run on on low end (student) hardware
Boring is right. Another day, anther vulnerability. There's not much you can do about it, either. Not unless you want to switch operating systems. For those of us who have taken such a step, such discussions are doubly boring, as invariably some yahoo will berate us for leaving before microsoft released NT, or 2001, or XR.
Most bad coffees use Robusta beans, which have far more caffeine than Arabica beans. In addition, the darker you roast, the less caffeine left in the bean, and incidentally, the more water weight you lose, so cheaper coffee is usually light roasted, resulting in more caffeine.
And despite this head start, somehow the cheap brands still manage to lose the caffeine race to gourmet varieties.
"But, Big Boss, we should move to Linux cos NTFS gets more fragmented than HFS." Given that most linux machines use ext2/3 or perhaps ReiserFS, that particular argument doesn't make much sense. HFS+ is primarily a MacOS system.
A. This license allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software, on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy the same household.
The single use license similarly restricts use and installation to one "Apple labeled" computer.
My guess is the real numbers are either ambiguous or show little long term change in prices. If that weren't the case, I expect the favored side of the debate would be publishing unbiased graphs. Instead, it seems both sides are cherry picking numbers.
Guess. If. Expect. Would be. Seems.
Perhaps you should visit a library, and resolve those daemons.
"Son, I hear you're in the European Parliament." "Well, I do dabble in politics on the side." "Good. Here's a list of bills I'd like you to introduce. If they pass, you'll get a little something extra in your Christmas bonus packet this year. If they don't, well, you know the consequences..." "Mandatory Overtime?" "You got it, kid."
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Note the differing effects of the caffeinated espresso vs. the taurine+caffeine *energy drink*.
Caffeinated espresso? Do you carry around a little vial of powdered caffeine, or do you ask your server to add a little something extra to your drink?
So, have you tried exporting a VLC display window over 10baseT?
As for the G5, you should really look into getting some more memory-- a gig or two should get you started, though you'll probably be able to use a few more when Apple releases a 64 bit OS.. (The OS won't consume that much RAM, but it will make it easier to write programs that take advantage of it.)
Since Apple is offering $500 rebates to people who buy 23" displays with G5s, you should be able to afford 1-2 GB of memory. Not much, but it's a start. And that Radeon 9600-- better replace it with a current model. Remember, the 9800 will soon be ready for the scrapheap-- or the thrift store.
One of the features supposedly included in Apple's System 10.3 release was a video codec that required a 1 GHz G4 for proper playback. That requirement certainly exceeded the capabilities of older computers, but most, if not all of the current Apple lineup exceeds this requirement.
Am I pissed that my long in the tooth g3 ibook can't use this feature? No. It's just a video codec, and by the looks of things is rarely used. Besides, my newer computer is perfectly capable of such computations.
My guess is that in 2007, if you buy a new computer with MS's new OS, it will be able to run most all of the new features just fine. And it won't cost more than $1500.
Remember, Longhorn isn't going to come out for another couple of years, so most of those standards were intended to staunch shortsightedness.
"Why would someone want to do X? It requires hundreds of gigabytes of disk space, and runs poorly on anything less than gigabit ethernet."
By 2007, most any new system will exceed those requirements-- so if a new user wants to perform task X, they will be able to.
The Microsoft CP/M softcard used a z80 processor,
1991: linux created
1992: linus and ast have the debate.
1994: m68k port of linux
1996: Linux 2.0 released
So, apparently tennebaum's dire predictions were disproved fairly quickly...
Most people allocate their budgets based on what they think they need. These budget allocations become the basis for what they can afford.
Example:
Aaron has 50 thousand dollars in the bank. The IRS has recently sent him a bill for delinquent taxes. Aaron must then consider if he needs to stay out of Federal PMITA prison, if he needs a new automobile and if he needs a United States address before he decides how much of his tax bill he can afford to pay. These needs fluctuate over time--for instance, few people thought they needed a SUV before 1990 or so, but gosh darn it, what if a cape buffalo starts charging down I-95, and those safari-tested features come in handy? Ah, the malleable subconscious...
Additionally, there's the whole societal thing. Tax subsidies, the cost of the occasional invasion, the possibility of global warming, the public health effects of air pollution... But as a egoist, you probably discount those as ephemeral next to your ability to pay for for the latest and greatest in penis engorgement systems.
Perhaps they were running Gentoo, and the computer was busy compiling.
Well, at my local campus, Dell laptops seem to be pretty common. Though perhaps the shear ugliness of the typical Dell design just jogs my memory.
Ah, but if you had a Amiga or Atari ST, you couldn't install Linux on it, but you probably could install Minux.
The debate is obsolete, though. LInux has modules, so it's not quite as unwieldy on low end machines. Linux has been ported to many architectures, though the x86 arhitecture has sort of taken over, so portability isn't as desirable as it once was. And the technologies that Tannenbaum regarded as exotic are now commonplace.
Rather reassuring, considering the context.
Taiwanese servers use the tw code, cn is used by the Reds. It's not technically hard to disambiguate the two countries-- so the question then becomes-- did the authors of the study at some point take the "One China" myth seriously?
Maybe he was trying to teach to clueless students. Perhaps he didn't have a clue.
Perhaps the european market was flooded with old 8086 clones.
Minix ran on 8086 computers. 20 bit memory. No memory protection.
I still remember reading in Byte about the first 486 machine-- a rather expensive, bulky system, too exotic for personal use. After a few months, more economical systems were gradually introduced. It was a far cry from today's market, where the usual response to a new x86 incarnation is to benchmark it against "Serious Sam" and "Quake 3".
One reason that Minix did not "rise to the challenge" is that Tannenbaum wanted to keep his OS simple, for didactic reasons. Linux designed his OS to run on his new 386 computer, which had all sorts of nifty capabilities-- memory protection, a 32 bit address space, etc. Tannenbaum thought it was important to run run on on low end (student) hardware
Boring is right. Another day, anther vulnerability. There's not much you can do about it, either. Not unless you want to switch operating systems.
For those of us who have taken such a step, such discussions are doubly boring, as invariably some yahoo will berate us for leaving before microsoft released NT, or 2001, or XR.
Most bad coffees use Robusta beans, which have far more caffeine than Arabica beans. In addition, the darker you roast, the less caffeine left in the bean, and incidentally, the more water weight you lose, so cheaper coffee is usually light roasted, resulting in more caffeine.
And despite this head start, somehow the cheap brands still manage to lose the caffeine race to gourmet varieties.
"But, Big Boss, we should move to Linux cos NTFS gets more fragmented than HFS."
Given that most linux machines use ext2/3 or perhaps ReiserFS, that particular argument doesn't make much sense. HFS+ is primarily a MacOS system.
It cost over $6 million that SHOULD have gone to scholarships.
Coach said he had enough scholarships for the third string squad.
A. This license allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software, on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy the same household.
The single use license similarly restricts use and installation to one "Apple labeled" computer.
My guess is the real numbers are either ambiguous or show little long term change in prices. If that weren't the case, I expect the favored side of the debate would be publishing unbiased graphs. Instead, it seems both sides are cherry picking numbers.
Guess. If. Expect. Would be. Seems.
Perhaps you should visit a library, and resolve those daemons.
Then perhaps these statistics will interest you. (Not that I have much stake in the whole gas price debate.)
"Son, I hear you're in the European Parliament."
"Well, I do dabble in politics on the side."
"Good. Here's a list of bills I'd like you to introduce. If they pass, you'll get a little something extra in your Christmas bonus packet this year. If they don't, well, you know the consequences..."
"Mandatory Overtime?"
"You got it, kid."
Ten years? Twenty-three years? Geologically speaking, it's all the same