I use two cloud services-- Apple's and Amazon's-- strictly for the purpose of syncing my computer, my kindle, my tablet and so on. It is very convenient to use the device best suited for my purposes at the time, and not worry about getting the data onto the device, and off it.
But even though they are often on the same LAN, exchanging a piece of data, no matter how trivial, somehow involves a sever half way across the continent, recording data for the NSA's pleasure, or rechecking a license, Why? Wouldn't it be a lot simpler if everyone could run their own server, dispensing documents as they pleased?
It's a fairly recent chip. The Xeon E5 is faster-- and if the balanced system law is to be believed, would require even faster I/O than the 3270M. CPUs have been getting faster and faster, while I/O has seemingly languished.
The 1394 digital link standard was conceived in 1986 by technologists at Apple Computer, who chose the trademark 'FireWire', in reference to its speeds of operation. The first specification for this link was completed in 1987. It was adopted in 1995 as the IEEE 1394 standard. A number of IEEE 1394 products are now available including digital camcorders with the IEEE 1394 link, IEEE 1394 digital video editing equipment, digital VCRs, digital cameras, digital audio players, 1394 IC's and a wealth of other infrastructure products such as connectors, cables, test equipment, software toolkits, and emulation models.
One of those pat answers that only leads to more questions. But it's possible that Firewire was conceived as the successor to AppleTalk.
iMac: no firewire iMac (5 flavors): no firewire iMac (slot loading): firewire on 400 MHz model only iMac Summer 2000: firewire on 400 MHz, 450 MHz and 500 MHz models only iMac Early 2001: firewire on all models
The raw maximum transfer rate of 3 12-inch HD floppy drives and interfaces, disregarding overheads, is as much as 1000 kilobits/s, or approximately 83% that of single-speed CDROM (71% of audio CD). This represents the speed of raw data bits moving under the read head; however, because of the very high amount of overhead in the system (use of soft sectors with headers, sync issues preventing sequential reads of an entire 18-sector track in a single rotation, etc.), the actual user data read/write speed is much lower
so, usb 1.1 would appear to be an improvement.
Nevertheless, it's quite slow compared to the rest of the computer.
The first few iMacs didn't come with firewire. Gradually, Apple introduced it as a premium DV feature--so users might plug in their camcorders. It wasn't until 2001 that firewire was standard on every iMac. At that time, the CDRom was read only, so a lot of people fretted about not being able to backup their stuff.
The national socialists were centrists. They promised that they would replace the destructive cycle of class warfare with a new spirit of cooperation against the "real" enemies of Germany...
I have to admit-- I did try to find out whether peppermint was a standard wine aroma, and instead came across this choice tidbit on wikipedia
The German Wine Institute has created a special German language version of the Aroma Wheel meant to be specially adapted to German wines, with one wheel for white wines and one wheel for red wines.[4] However, in the translation they removed the petroleum smell (and the entire "chemical" category) from the white wine wheel, despite the fact that mature Riesling wines - Germany's signature grape variety - are the best-known examples of wines that show this aroma. It seems that the motive for omitting the reference to petroleum was that many consumers perceive it as a "negative" aroma. The Institute's move has been criticized by foreign experts on German wines.[5]
I've had some spectacular wines. No, no, not the wines that cost hundreds of euros per bottle. but wines that could be described as "WOW. I didn't know wine could do that". It would be nice to have an app that would suggest similar wines, based on a chemical spectrum instead of "that estate had a truly extraordinary summer, and more recent vintages have not faired as well."
If a particular chemical is playing around with my brain,I want to know about it and be able to invite it around again sometime.
Black Stump Bourdeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavored burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.
A blu-ray is 50 gigabytes, and has a maximum av bitrate of, iirc, 45 Mbs. Some mastering engineers actually use the full rate, or close to it-- there's no particular incentive to save bits. The Darjeeling Limited, of all films, devotes 35 Mbs to video, and 3.5 Mbs to audio. I'm sure that a streaming version uses less-- 50 Mbs broadband isn't very common, and some network providers fret over caps and quotas. But if you build it, I'm sure you could find a use for it.
... the order appears to be a routine renewal of a similar order first issued by the same court in 2006. The expert, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive issues, said that the order is reissued routinely every 90 days and that it is not related to any particular investigation by the FBI or any other agency.
This particular order was classified as Top Secret/NoForn/SI. The routine nature of the order was likewise highly classified.
Ordinary people-- those not initiated into the orders of nobility associated with "clearances"-- cannot select their government based on real, verifiable information. They have no means to judge the effectiveness, or lack of effectiveness of their political candidates. Instead, they must have faith that their government is either incompetent, or competent.
Do you believe that your government is doing its best to protect you? Surely its effectiveness would be diminished if carefully guarded secrets like this got out, and were use by enemies of the nation and of the state?
Do you believe that the government is doing its best to cynically exploit the security apparatus for its own political benefit? Surely this is but the tip of the iceberg. Were it not for classification, the entire enterprise would be exposed as a cesspool of corruption and criminality.
But in the absence of good solid, reliable data, both of these viewpoints can be freely adopted by any voter who chooses to have an opinion on the matter. Instead of a mass of peoples carefully using their judgements to select the good leaders over the bad, the entire electorate, kept in ignorance, has been reduced to flipping coins.
Government, it seems, is to important to be left to the governed.
But you'd still have to buy the external battery pack. Which would you rather have, a lightweight computer that lasts for 10 hours because you replaced the main battery, or a somewhat heavier computer that lasts for 10 hours because you've successfully run both batteries halfway into the ground? The cost is the same.
Normally, governments don't reveal TOP SECRET/SI/NOFORN material to just anybody. That's reserved for the nobility^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H those with security clearances..
Nothing in the ad copy suggests that the battery is glued in. If battery life beyond your threshold is compelling, you'll replace it. If it's not, you won't.
Imagine if automakers got together and started measuring the gas mileage of new cars with a cool test of their own making—one in which the cars were rolling downhill with their engines idling. Suddenly you'd have some pretty amazing claims: Why, that three-ton SUV gets 300 miles per gallon! This subcompact gets 500! In tiny print at the bottom of the window sticker you'd find a disclaimer saying that, well, um, you know, your mileage may vary.
Crazy, right? Yet that's more or less what's happening with laptop computers and their battery lives. Right now, I'm looking at a Best Buy flier touting a $599 Dell laptop that gets "up to 5 hours and 40 minutes of battery life." Down in the fine print comes a disclaimer explaining that "battery life will vary" based on a bunch of factors. Translation: you ain't gonna get five hours and 40 minutes, bub. Not ever. Not even close.
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The cloud may be an end run around DRM issues.
I use two cloud services-- Apple's and Amazon's-- strictly for the purpose of syncing my computer, my kindle, my tablet and so on. It is very convenient to use the device best suited for my purposes at the time, and not worry about getting the data onto the device, and off it.
But even though they are often on the same LAN, exchanging a piece of data, no matter how trivial, somehow involves a sever half way across the continent, recording data for the NSA's pleasure, or rechecking a license, Why? Wouldn't it be a lot simpler if everyone could run their own server, dispensing documents as they pleased?
It's a fairly recent chip. The Xeon E5 is faster-- and if the balanced system law is to be believed, would require even faster I/O than the 3270M. CPUs have been getting faster and faster, while I/O has seemingly languished.
Sure. If you what you want to process is already in memory, then disk i/o doesn't matter so much. But it isn't, so it does.
The 1394 trade association says
One of those pat answers that only leads to more questions. But it's possible that Firewire was conceived as the successor to AppleTalk.
OK. So wikipedia has faults.
MacVersion says
iMac: no firewire
iMac (5 flavors): no firewire
iMac (slot loading): firewire on 400 MHz model only
iMac Summer 2000: firewire on 400 MHz, 450 MHz and 500 MHz models only
iMac Early 2001: firewire on all models
Ahmdahl's law: A system needs a bit of IO per second per instruction per second.
Given that the i7-3720QM is capable of 20,333 "MIPS" source,
we will need 20 billion bits of IO per second.
We're close, but not quite there.
wikipedia claims
so, usb 1.1 would appear to be an improvement.
Nevertheless, it's quite slow compared to the rest of the computer.
The first few iMacs didn't come with firewire. Gradually, Apple introduced it as a premium DV feature--so users might plug in their camcorders. It wasn't until 2001 that firewire was standard on every iMac. At that time, the CDRom was read only, so a lot of people fretted about not being able to backup their stuff.
I'm waisting for the tessERacT
The national socialists were centrists. They promised that they would replace the destructive cycle of class warfare with a new spirit of cooperation against the "real" enemies of Germany...
I have to admit-- I did try to find out whether peppermint was a standard wine aroma, and instead came across this choice tidbit on wikipedia
Shiraz is sometimes described as peppery.
Drinking wine is a subjective experience.
I've had some spectacular wines. No, no, not the wines that cost hundreds of euros per bottle. but wines that could be described as "WOW. I didn't know wine could do that". It would be nice to have an app that would suggest similar wines, based on a chemical spectrum instead of "that estate had a truly extraordinary summer, and more recent vintages have not faired as well."
If a particular chemical is playing around with my brain,I want to know about it and be able to invite it around again sometime.
"Peppermint flavored" my ass. How do you get that from grapes and yeast?
I pour myself a nice claret and put in a Monty Python DVD.
Black Stump Bourdeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavored burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.
A blu-ray is 50 gigabytes, and has a maximum av bitrate of, iirc, 45 Mbs. Some mastering engineers actually use the full rate, or close to it-- there's no particular incentive to save bits.
The Darjeeling Limited, of all films, devotes 35 Mbs to video, and 3.5 Mbs to audio.
I'm sure that a streaming version uses less-- 50 Mbs broadband isn't very common, and some network providers fret over caps and quotas.
But if you build it, I'm sure you could find a use for it.
Some news sources have speculated that this program was related to the Boston Marathon Bombing. However The Washington Post sys that
... the order appears to be a routine renewal of a similar order first issued by the same court in 2006. The expert, who spoke on the condition
of anonymity to discuss sensitive issues, said that the order is reissued routinely every 90 days and that it is not related to any particular investigation by the FBI or any other agency.
This particular order was classified as Top Secret/NoForn/SI. The routine nature of the order was likewise highly classified.
Ordinary people-- those not initiated into the orders of nobility associated with "clearances"-- cannot select their government based on real, verifiable information. They have no means to judge the effectiveness, or lack of effectiveness of their political candidates. Instead, they must have faith that their government is either incompetent, or competent.
Do you believe that your government is doing its best to protect you? Surely its effectiveness would be diminished if carefully guarded secrets like this got out, and were use by enemies of the nation and of the state?
Do you believe that the government is doing its best to cynically exploit the security apparatus for its own political benefit? Surely this is but the tip of the iceberg. Were it not for classification, the entire enterprise would be exposed as a cesspool of corruption and criminality.
But in the absence of good solid, reliable data, both of these viewpoints can be freely adopted by any voter who chooses to have an opinion on the matter. Instead of a mass of peoples carefully using their judgements to select the good leaders over the bad, the entire electorate, kept in ignorance, has been reduced to flipping coins.
Government, it seems, is to important to be left to the governed.
But you'd still have to buy the external battery pack. Which would you rather have, a lightweight computer that lasts for 10 hours because you replaced the main battery, or a somewhat heavier computer that lasts for 10 hours because you've successfully run both batteries halfway into the ground? The cost is the same.
possibly associated with the April 15 Boston Bombing.
Normally, governments don't reveal TOP SECRET/SI/NOFORN material to just anybody. That's reserved for the nobility^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H those with security clearances..
Probably leaked by the judge himself (ROGER VINSON), who retired in May 2013. Sort of a last hurrah.
Nothing in the ad copy suggests that the battery is glued in. If battery life beyond your threshold is compelling, you'll replace it. If it's not, you won't.
It's MobileMark2007, not BatteryMark.
The sheet battery weighs only 290 g,
Imagine if automakers got together and started measuring the gas mileage of new cars with a cool test of their own making—one in which the cars were rolling downhill with their engines idling. Suddenly you'd have some pretty amazing claims: Why, that three-ton SUV gets 300 miles per gallon! This subcompact gets 500! In tiny print at the bottom of the window sticker you'd find a disclaimer saying that, well, um, you know, your mileage may vary.
Crazy, right? Yet that's more or less what's happening with laptop computers and their battery lives. Right now, I'm looking at a Best Buy flier touting a $599 Dell laptop that gets "up to 5 hours and 40 minutes of battery life." Down in the fine print comes a disclaimer explaining that "battery life will vary" based on a bunch of factors. Translation: you ain't gonna get five hours and 40 minutes, bub. Not ever. Not even close.
From a 2009 article excoriating the practice.
A computer that can function for ten hours is quite useful, but a twenty-five hour battery life is only marginally more so.