It's called the command key, and it predates the windows key. IIRC, the original Mac didn't have a control key, it was added along with arrow keys to the Mac Plus keyboard.
FOLLOWING closely on the recent announcement of a new transit machine, the Burroughs Adding Machine Company have just issued the announcement that they have perfected a typewriter adding machine and will place it on the market about October 1.
It is a complete adding machine of the well-known Burroughs style with a typewriter mechanism combined in the same rase. All of the keys are at the same level and all the important features of both machines are preserved. The carriage of the machine operates automatically in both directions so that, once having set the stops, the operator need never lift his hand from the keyboard. The pressing of single tabulator-key locates the carriage in any desired position.
Typewriter keyboards often lacked discrete '1' keys-- the lowercase 'l' was thought sufficient. During the 1980's, several computer keyboards had large 'L' shaped return keys. Apple 2 keyboards had the control key in the right place. Commodore 64 keyboards used shift-2 for double quote.
I wonder if the author even remembers the twentieth century?
â Develop new technologies and execution models that do not require application programmers to explicitly manage system complexity, in terms of architectural attributes with respect to data locality and concurrency, to achieve their performance and time to solution goals - programmability.
Billion way parallelism is also mentioned. So. It has to be easy to program
You're missing the point-- Darpa feels that it is ill served by current commodity supercomputers, and wants something revolutionary. The deadline for delivery is in 2017, so it's unlikely that today's tech comes close.
Typical? Average? This entire discussion is full of shoddy statistics.
If Microsoft were to eliminate discs entirely, and distribute Windows 7 as a digital download, it would cut off millions of potential customers who use DSL. I know, I know, the average bandwidth "is" 1.9 Mb/s-- larger than the 256K/384K/512K/768K/1.5M DSL variants. But it doesn't mean that those customers don't exist-- if bandwidth was uniformly distributed, those slow lines would still comprise a substantial fraction of broadband connections.
It's probably not a uniform distribution. I suspect that FIOS, and 99 Mb/s cable brings the average up substantially. Here on slashdot, the average is probably a bit different--distorted by campus ethernet, perhaps. But the mean is irrelevant. The median and the mode are more important to Microsoft.
Film has a higher resolution, but only if the lens is clean, the film is perfectly focused, and the bulb is "up to spec". To save money, none of this actually happens.
The definition was so good that I could see the seperations around the actors and knew exactly when they were in front of a green screen and not on set.
Big deal. I could detect when Doctor Who used Color Separation Overlay, and i didn't need more than a partially snowy NTSC screen to do it.
With a bit more imagination, I think the story of tempation and rejection/falling could have been told in other ways without resorting to the base sexual lusts that they did.
They? What's this about "they?" Criticize Stanley Kubrick if you must, but ascribing artistic decisions to an anonymous Hollywood cabal is wrong.
Personally, I felt that the American cut missed the voyeuristic point, but then, I also like titties.
I wonder if these codes promote fanboyism. You've learnt the code, you know the lingo, you buy the card that you know. Accepting that the other side might just have something better this iteration would require turning in your secret decoder ring.
. Did we go around formatting disks in the early 80's. I don't think so. Most of the disks I bought were pre-formatted. That was the norm. I believe it was the norm from 8" to 3.5" disks. I do know that I did order some unformatted bulk disks in the mid 80's, at the bargain basement price of $2 each, in current dollars.
Yep. We did . Pre formatted disks came a bit later (and usually for non-niche machines, like the IBM PC). If they were incorrectly formatted, you could always format them for the correct machine, assuming that you didn't own a DEC Rainbow.
Hmm. I multitask all the time. My complains about multiple document interface stem from trying to get Metrowerks Codewarrior to work with a third party hex editor--I was working on binary I/O at the time.
The article focuses on classic computers. In the "classical age of computing", no one was quite sure what to do with the right mouse button.
Try using some classic X11 programs sometime-- pre KDE, pre Gnome, and probably pre Motif. No one programmer seemed to agree what the right mouse button was for. Apple's singular mouse button preempted user confusion.
Right mouse buttons took off when people standardized on the contextual menu. It seems an integral part of modern GUIs today, but it can lead to bad design.
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Mac-F4? What the hell does that do?
It's called the command key, and it predates the windows key. IIRC, the original Mac didn't have a control key, it was added along with arrow keys to the Mac Plus keyboard.
From a 1911 issue of The Banker's Magazine
FOLLOWING closely on the recent announcement of a new transit machine, the Burroughs Adding Machine Company have just issued the announcement that they have perfected a typewriter adding machine and will place it on the market about October 1.
It is a complete adding machine of the well-known Burroughs style with a typewriter mechanism combined in the same rase. All of the keys are at the same level and all the important features of both machines are preserved. The carriage of the machine operates automatically in both directions so that, once having set the stops, the operator need never lift his hand from the keyboard. The pressing of single tabulator-key locates the carriage in any desired position.
Typewriter keyboards often lacked discrete '1' keys-- the lowercase 'l' was thought sufficient. During the 1980's, several computer keyboards had large 'L' shaped return keys. Apple 2 keyboards had the control key in the right place. Commodore 64 keyboards used shift-2 for double quote.
I wonder if the author even remembers the twentieth century?
I think he's flying a simulator, and not risking an actual airplane.
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â Develop new technologies and execution models that do not require application programmers to explicitly manage system complexity, in terms of architectural attributes with respect to data locality and concurrency, to achieve their performance and time to solution goals - programmability.
Billion way parallelism is also mentioned. So. It has to be easy to program
You're missing the point-- Darpa feels that it is ill served by current commodity supercomputers, and wants something revolutionary. The deadline for delivery is in 2017, so it's unlikely that today's tech comes close.
Well, since Darpa also wants the operating system to be self aware, that's a start.
They used some kind of weird compression to stick 1.7 MB on each disk.
And even if they don't erase Win7, a virus will probably crawl onto it eventually
this site claims that you could get Office 97 on 45 disks.
Typical? Average? This entire discussion is full of shoddy statistics.
If Microsoft were to eliminate discs entirely, and distribute Windows 7 as a digital download, it would cut off millions of potential customers who use DSL. I know, I know, the average bandwidth "is" 1.9 Mb/s-- larger than the 256K/384K/512K/768K/1.5M DSL variants. But it doesn't mean that those customers don't exist-- if bandwidth was uniformly distributed, those slow lines would still comprise a substantial fraction of broadband connections.
It's probably not a uniform distribution. I suspect that FIOS, and 99 Mb/s cable brings the average up substantially. Here on slashdot, the average is probably a bit different--distorted by campus ethernet, perhaps. But the mean is irrelevant. The median and the mode are more important to Microsoft.
Really? The arithmetic mean can be surprisingly irrelevant.
The article to which you are referring is probably this one It's not quite clear how 1.9 Mbs is the average. Is it a mode, a median, or a mean?
The paper behind the article includes this gem.
There are 8 megabits in a megabyte, so a 100 megabit per second connection takes 8 seconds to transmit a 100
megabyte file.
It's GNU/Linux, damn it!
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For instance Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger
In this case, "?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all" was appended, though at times, other magic keys have been required.
Film has a higher resolution, but only if the lens is clean, the film is perfectly focused, and the bulb is "up to spec". To save money, none of this actually happens.
The definition was so good that I could see the seperations around the actors and knew exactly when they were in front of a green screen and not on set.
Big deal. I could detect when Doctor Who used Color Separation Overlay, and i didn't need more than a partially snowy NTSC screen to do it.
Interesting that MS has support for Maori... Can't see a good commercial reason for that, but good on them :-)
New Zealand is not that small a market, and if you want to sell to the New Zealand government, Maori may be a requirement.
Parental control? Does the state act in loco parentis?
With a bit more imagination, I think the story of tempation and rejection/falling could have been told in other ways without resorting to the base sexual lusts that they did.
They? What's this about "they?" Criticize Stanley Kubrick if you must, but ascribing artistic decisions to an anonymous Hollywood cabal is wrong.
Personally, I felt that the American cut missed the voyeuristic point, but then, I also like titties.
I wonder if these codes promote fanboyism. You've learnt the code, you know the lingo, you buy the card that you know. Accepting that the other side might just have something better this iteration would require turning in your secret decoder ring.
Of course, the Adam used tapes. Floppies were for spendthrifts.
Philosophy? I'll give you philosophy. Interfaces should be consistent.
. Did we go around formatting disks in the early 80's. I don't think so. Most of the disks I bought were pre-formatted. That was the norm. I believe it was the norm from 8" to 3.5" disks. I do know that I did order some unformatted bulk disks in the mid 80's, at the bargain basement price of $2 each, in current dollars.
Yep. We did . Pre formatted disks came a bit later (and usually for non-niche machines, like the IBM PC). If they were incorrectly formatted, you could always format them for the correct machine, assuming that you didn't own a DEC Rainbow.
Hmm. I multitask all the time. My complains about multiple document interface stem from trying to get Metrowerks Codewarrior to work with a third party hex editor--I was working on binary I/O at the time.
The article focuses on classic computers. In the "classical age of computing", no one was quite sure what to do with the right mouse button.
Try using some classic X11 programs sometime-- pre KDE, pre Gnome, and probably pre Motif. No one programmer seemed to agree what the right mouse button was for. Apple's singular mouse button preempted user confusion.
Right mouse buttons took off when people standardized on the contextual menu. It seems an integral part of modern GUIs today, but it can lead to bad design.