If you had read the article instead of just summarizing it, you would have known that the EMI pulse is only tangentally related to unreliable media. If Coleco had put in a real floppy drive, the EMI pulse would still have erased disks. Sure, the Adam's (oops, I'm bringing in material you neglected to summarize) tape drives had many problems besides the EMI pulse, but it was an electrical engineering problem, not a media problem.
The PowerMac 6100 had front panel power button. What's more, the machine lacked Soft Power, so users couldn't turn it on with the leyboard, and turn it off with the Shutdown Menu Item. In many respects, despite the fast hardware, it was a decidedly non-elegant machine.
My Apple//e required caps lock for DOS 3.3. IIRC, ProDos didn't. Incidentally, the control key on that machine was in the proper position--immediately above the shift key.
I'm not sure which company first moved the control key out of place. A silly attempt to mimic typewriters. It doesn't much matter now, I suppose--the only thing I use control for is emacs.
I did not know that the special features of the Apple/// were unavailable in Apple ][+ mode. Perhaps it was an attempt to get developers focused on the new machine.
40 column mode is silly. Did it even have lower case glyphs? I remember using UCSD Pascal on a 40 column machine. Maddening-- since half the lines spanned two screens.
She could do what millions of American have done and bought an atsc tuner. Some models have an ntsc passthrough, so that any non digital Canadian stations will still get through.
mhz went all digital a couple of years ago. Since they broadcast four SD subchannels, each with its own content, it made more sense than wasting money on a analog transmitter. The mHz stations in my area have ganged up, so I can choose from eight different foreign language programs.
From what I hear, data centers are horrible place to work-- icy cold in some areas, oppressively hot in others, and very noisy. Messes of cables, besides interfering with ventilation, and thwarting the entire purpose of designing a building around cooling needs, require an unlucky tech to periodically waste hours figuring out the wires before attempting routine maintenance.
Let me give you an example. 10.2 introduced Quartz Extreme, which offloaded certain 2D graphics operations from the CPU onto the graphics card. If you had a graphics card capable of supporting non-powers-of-two textures, it was snappy.
OSX 10.3 introduced Expose, a method of manipulating windows that leveraged Quartz Extreme. Flashy, but it also made skilled users more productive. It is dog slow on any mac with non-QE graphics card. It imposed a somewhat minimal load on any modern mac. 10.3 feels faster than 10.2, even though there's more going on in the background.
As for memory, memory's cheap. I recall someone defining supercomputing as "buying processing power with increased memory usage..."
10.5 puts a bit of a load on older machines. Time Machine, though very useful, occasionally bogs down my 1.25 PMG4. On a modern mac, it's just an extra thread.
HDMI is inferior at moving sound when compared to a pair of old RCA cables.
For a turntable, maybe. But bluray supports 7.1 channels. The more expensive players have 8 analog output jacks. The cheaper ones just use HDMI.
The problem, however is that a set of 8 jacks takes up a lot of space on a chassis. So most receivers only have one set of multichannel input jacks. What if you want to connect a computer as well? An SACD player? A Playstation 3?
But plenty of receivers have three or four hdmi inputs, and most of the goodones can decode the hdmi audio signal.
In addition, many receivers have digital filters for room correction, delay, and levels. The conversions between analog and digital add noise. If the audio is converted to analog only once, the noise is reduced.
Oh wait. The wireless HDMI spec is already here. Can anyone say Wireless USB 3?
Please. HDMI 1.3 (single link) is 10.2 Gb/s.
USB 2.0 and Wireless USB 1.0 offer just 480 Mb/s. Wireless USB 1.1 expands this to 1 Gb/s. USB 3.0 is slightly faster at 4.8 Gb/s, but then, it uses fiber optics.
NO HYPER EXPENSIVE CABLES. So that has to help the bottom line.
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I wonder how many of those studies take into account MacOSX's singular menu bar.
Second, the worst design decision ever is not hardware, its software: the path editing text box found on all windows systems.
software is easily replaceable. Switch to unix.
If you had read the article instead of just summarizing it, you would have known that the EMI pulse is only tangentally related to unreliable media. If Coleco had put in a real floppy drive, the EMI pulse would still have erased disks. Sure, the Adam's (oops, I'm bringing in material you neglected to summarize) tape drives had many problems besides the EMI pulse, but it was an electrical engineering problem, not a media problem.
Karma Whore. Your summary hardly substitutes for the original article.
The PowerMac 6100 had front panel power button. What's more, the machine lacked Soft Power, so users couldn't turn it on with the leyboard, and turn it off with the Shutdown Menu Item. In many respects, despite the fast hardware, it was a decidedly non-elegant machine.
My Apple //e required caps lock for DOS 3.3. IIRC, ProDos didn't. Incidentally, the control key on that machine was in the proper position--immediately above the shift key.
I'm not sure which company first moved the control key out of place. A silly attempt to mimic typewriters. It doesn't much matter now, I suppose--the only thing I use control for is emacs.
I did not know that the special features of the Apple /// were unavailable in Apple ][+ mode. Perhaps it was an attempt to get developers focused on the new machine.
40 column mode is silly. Did it even have lower case glyphs? I remember using UCSD Pascal on a 40 column machine. Maddening-- since half the lines spanned two screens.
If you want to use dual link DVI to power a 30" monitor
DVI doesn't power monitors. You must be thinking of ADC, which incorporates two 25V pins.
Maximize Window? Why would you want a Maximized Window? Has Windows gotten rid of its Multiple Document Interface yet?
The "transition" is more of a deadline. I've been using atsc for several years. In all probability, Canadian stations are simulcasting atsc right now.
She could do what millions of American have done and bought an atsc tuner. Some models have an ntsc passthrough, so that any non digital Canadian stations will still get through.
mhz went all digital a couple of years ago. Since they broadcast four SD subchannels, each with its own content, it made more sense than wasting money on a analog transmitter. The mHz stations in my area have ganged up, so I can choose from eight different foreign language programs.
MythTV has it.
Ubuntu has it. BUT NO! He has to bash Microsoft.
Has what? A DTV transition bug?
We're trying to desensitize the porn sensors. In a few years, you'll won't have to worry about machine generated nsfw tags.
From what I hear, data centers are horrible place to work-- icy cold in some areas, oppressively hot in others, and very noisy. Messes of cables, besides interfering with ventilation, and thwarting the entire purpose of designing a building around cooling needs, require an unlucky tech to periodically waste hours figuring out the wires before attempting routine maintenance.
Have you ever been tempted to press the Jolly candy-like button?
There's a time and a place for "waxing loquacious": Academic papers of predefined arbitrary lengths.
That's absurd. With a large enough vocabulary, a writer can express thoughts precisely, and with fewer words.
You'll need to replace the brake assembly and and possibly the blade It's mildly expensive, but it you have a spare assembly, it can be replaced in five minutes.
5 seconds per frame? My first modem was 2400 baud-- 240 characters a second, or about 0.12 fps on a standard 80*24 terminal.
Is that the 40 core version of Xeon 5500?
A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems.
-- Ken Batcher
Let me give you an example. 10.2 introduced Quartz Extreme, which offloaded certain 2D graphics operations from the CPU onto the graphics card. If you had a graphics card capable of supporting non-powers-of-two textures, it was snappy.
OSX 10.3 introduced Expose, a method of manipulating windows that leveraged Quartz Extreme. Flashy, but it also made skilled users more productive. It is dog slow on any mac with non-QE graphics card. It imposed a somewhat minimal load on any modern mac. 10.3 feels faster than 10.2, even though there's more going on in the background.
As for memory, memory's cheap. I recall someone defining supercomputing as "buying processing power with increased memory usage..."
10.5 puts a bit of a load on older machines. Time Machine, though very useful, occasionally bogs down my 1.25 PMG4. On a modern mac, it's just an extra thread.
So every time a new video codec comes out, I have to update my monitor's firmware or upgrade the processor?
HDMI is inferior at moving sound when compared to a pair of old RCA cables.
For a turntable, maybe. But bluray supports 7.1 channels. The more expensive players have 8 analog output jacks. The cheaper ones just use HDMI.
The problem, however is that a set of 8 jacks takes up a lot of space on a chassis. So most receivers only have one set of multichannel input jacks. What if you want to connect a computer as well? An SACD player? A Playstation 3?
But plenty of receivers have three or four hdmi inputs, and most of the goodones can decode the hdmi audio signal.
In addition, many receivers have digital filters for room correction, delay, and levels. The conversions between analog and digital add noise. If the audio is converted to analog only once, the noise is reduced.
Oh wait. The wireless HDMI spec is already here. Can anyone say Wireless USB 3?
Please. HDMI 1.3 (single link) is 10.2 Gb/s.
USB 2.0 and Wireless USB 1.0 offer just 480 Mb/s.
Wireless USB 1.1 expands this to 1 Gb/s.
USB 3.0 is slightly faster at 4.8 Gb/s, but then, it uses fiber optics.
NO HYPER EXPENSIVE CABLES. So that has to help the bottom line.
You don't have to buy from monster cable.