Sometimes the unavailability of one item limits the uptake of the other. When Pentiums first started shipping, there were relatively few motherboards available for them. (Compared to the 386 stuff.) I can't verify the statement, but something like 90% of the Pentium chips were going onto Intel boards.
Availability of mice had a similar limiting affect on uptake of Windows. Likely explains the Microsoft mouse.
If desktop boards are no longer strategic for Intel, I can see why they'd want to focus their energies elsewhere.
There were no tapes on the Enterprise. Most of the time they used something like a color coded compact flash. It appeared to be inductively connected though, as there were no features on it that looked like a connector.
I've been into Powells Technical book store about 5 times in the last year. And all 5 times, a book that the catalog indicated as (possibly) being on the shelf and in stock, wasn't.
Just about anywhere you go, the sales person will typically mumble something like "We can order that for you." Why reward a store that doesn't keep books in stock? I can order it myself on Amazon, and reward them (or the associate store actually selling the book) for keeping copies in stock.
After a while, it just gets easier to look to Amazon first.
I live in the US, and I can sometimes buy new (but advertised as used) technical books from Amazon out of places like India for less than I can buy them here. Because they're priced at what the Indian market will bear, even with the freight charge, they're still cheaper than here. Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum sells for Rs. 450.00 over there for example.
The Wizard of Oz and the sequels. The Mad Scientists Club by Bertrand R. Brinley (Some reprints available at Purple House Press.) Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem. Maybe Solaris. Stand on Zanzibar. The Sheep Look Up. Shockwave Rider. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Door into Summer. The Dragon Riders of Pern. The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. The Illuminati Trilogy. The Lord of the Rings, etc. Sten. (Yup, Bunch and Cole.) The Stainless Steel Rat. The Nomads of Gor. Dune. Old time radio SciFi. (Free podcast on iTunes.)
Hmm, sounds like the bullshit stories people told about Oak. A paradigm shift. You mean like digital compact cassette, minidisc, DivX, or HD-DVD? The NAS and block storage companies are not going to just roll over and concede their market to Sun.
On the flip side, Sun has deep coffers. They should be around for a while.
I've seen people playing with ZFS, but everyone I know who is using ZFS paid zero dollars for it. Sun is still sending me "please buy a copy" email.
FWIW: After reading the ZFS, Nexenta and Thumper whitepapers, I'm more interested in Hammer than ZFS.
I read this the same way you did. Document what appears to be wrong/broken, and don't raise the issue until the customers notice something is fubar on Monday morning.
When the issue comes up on Monday, say "Based on the docs and orientation we didn't get, we wouldn't determine whether the app was fubar, or just working as designed. We raised the issue on the weekend, and asked for an update at the App teams earliest convenience."
If this wasn't enough CYA, then just realize that sometimes you can't win, and take your lumps. Next time a new release rolls out, put some sweat equity into checking the App out on Friday, and raise any issues you see before you go home.
Last year on black Friday there were 2GB Memorex MP3 players that were only available at Target. I bought two for my kids. I was jazzed because they show up as flash drives, and it is trivially easy to copy music onto them. (They also had built in rechargable batteries.)
This year on black Friday, there were 4GB Memorex MP3 players that were only available at Target. I bought one, as they've updated the display so that it can play back (low res) MPEG4 video. The case design is the same, although they changed the case color form white to black.
But in the time between, (like most other non-Apple players I've seen) Memorex now requires lousy fucking WMP10. (I've installed WMP10 to use with a Philips player in the past, and it didnt' work well at all.)
So I picked up a third generation 8GB Nano at Costco, and the Memorex player is going back to Target.
I'm frustrated that ATSC capable TVs don't include any kind of signal strength or BER indicator. Having someone stand in the doorway and yell out the picture quality doesn't work well. The MPEG2 delay means that by the time you see a channel, you may have swept past the best heading.
I know just how you feel. I waited for the first Intel based MBP, wanting to avoid being stuck on 2nd tier platform like PowerPC. (I didn't want to be stuck running YDL if I hated OS X.)
Prior to the MBP, the last system I bought which was bundled with an OS was an Amiga 500. (The last Microsoft OS I bought was MS-DOS 4.0 to run on an add-in 8086 based card that ran in that A500.)
Overall I've enjoyed the MBP. Aside from running too hot, noisy fans, failing batteries, flimsy power supplies, and the marginal crap-pile called iTunes, its been a great machine.
I planned to buy a pair of (950$ each) refurbed MacBooks and get an upgrade for the MBP as a side effect. But it looks like I'll need to buy the 10$ upgrade and ask for a "right to copy" for the MacBooks. I'll also need to buy the 129$ upgrade for the MBP.
Wow, that isn't so exciting anymore. I guess I'll just wait for the day when refurbs include Leopard.
Apple has made sure I won't get a free Leopard upgrade, but theyr'e also losing a 1900$ sale. Keep sharpening that pencil Apple, and maybe the kids will get Dell 1420n laptops running Ubuntu for xmas this year.
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Which is just another way of saying that the onsite guy will get assigned more of the shit work. One more incentive to stop being the onsite guy.
The democrats had the internet turned down in the redneck states? Just to keep things quiet in for the inauguration?
Didn't fastixx notice a drop in ticket sales for monster truck races ?
Sometimes the unavailability of one item limits the uptake of the other. When Pentiums first started shipping, there were relatively few motherboards available for them. (Compared to the 386 stuff.) I can't verify the statement, but something like 90% of the Pentium chips were going onto Intel boards.
Availability of mice had a similar limiting affect on uptake of Windows. Likely explains the Microsoft mouse.
If desktop boards are no longer strategic for Intel, I can see why they'd want to focus their energies elsewhere.
You sure that wasn't 60MB? 20-ish years ago, 60GB would've been a pretty sweet capacity.
There were no tapes on the Enterprise. Most of the time they used something like a color coded compact flash. It appeared to be inductively connected though, as there were no features on it that looked like a connector.
I've been into Powells Technical book store about 5 times in the last year. And all 5 times, a book that the catalog indicated as (possibly) being on the shelf and in stock, wasn't.
Just about anywhere you go, the sales person will typically mumble something like "We can order that for you." Why reward a store that doesn't keep books in stock? I can order it myself on Amazon, and reward them (or the associate store actually selling the book) for keeping copies in stock.
After a while, it just gets easier to look to Amazon first.
I live in the US, and I can sometimes buy new (but advertised as used) technical books from Amazon out of places like India for less than I can buy them here. Because they're priced at what the Indian market will bear, even with the freight charge, they're still cheaper than here. Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum sells for Rs. 450.00 over there for example.
The Wizard of Oz and the sequels.
The Mad Scientists Club by Bertrand R. Brinley (Some reprints available at Purple House Press.)
Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem. Maybe Solaris.
Stand on Zanzibar.
The Sheep Look Up.
Shockwave Rider.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Door into Summer.
The Dragon Riders of Pern.
The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy.
The Illuminati Trilogy.
The Lord of the Rings, etc.
Sten. (Yup, Bunch and Cole.)
The Stainless Steel Rat.
The Nomads of Gor.
Dune.
Old time radio SciFi. (Free podcast on iTunes.)
Inode Reiser did it.
Hmm, sounds like the bullshit stories people told about Oak. A paradigm shift. You mean like digital compact cassette, minidisc, DivX, or HD-DVD? The NAS and block storage companies are not going to just roll over and concede their market to Sun.
On the flip side, Sun has deep coffers. They should be around for a while.
I've seen people playing with ZFS, but everyone I know who is using ZFS paid zero dollars for it. Sun is still sending me "please buy a copy" email.
FWIW: After reading the ZFS, Nexenta and Thumper whitepapers, I'm more interested in Hammer than ZFS.
I read this the same way you did. Document what appears to be wrong/broken, and don't raise the issue until the customers notice something is fubar on Monday morning.
When the issue comes up on Monday, say "Based on the docs and orientation we didn't get, we wouldn't determine whether the app was fubar, or just working as designed. We raised the issue on the weekend, and asked for an update at the App teams earliest convenience."
If this wasn't enough CYA, then just realize that sometimes you can't win, and take your lumps. Next time a new release rolls out, put some sweat equity into checking the App out on Friday, and raise any issues you see before you go home.
Last year on black Friday there were 2GB Memorex MP3 players that were only available at Target. I bought two for my kids. I was jazzed because they show up as flash drives, and it is trivially easy to copy music onto them. (They also had built in rechargable batteries.)
This year on black Friday, there were 4GB Memorex MP3 players that were only available at Target. I bought one, as they've updated the display so that it can play back (low res) MPEG4 video. The case design is the same, although they changed the case color form white to black.
But in the time between, (like most other non-Apple players I've seen) Memorex now requires lousy fucking WMP10. (I've installed WMP10 to use with a Philips player in the past, and it didnt' work well at all.)
So I picked up a third generation 8GB Nano at Costco, and the Memorex player is going back to Target.
I'm frustrated that ATSC capable TVs don't include any kind of signal strength or BER indicator. Having someone stand in the doorway and yell out the picture quality doesn't work well. The MPEG2 delay means that by the time you see a channel, you may have swept past the best heading.
I know just how you feel. I waited for the first Intel based MBP, wanting to avoid being stuck on 2nd tier platform like PowerPC. (I didn't want to be stuck running YDL if I hated OS X.)
Prior to the MBP, the last system I bought which was bundled with an OS was an Amiga 500. (The last Microsoft OS I bought was MS-DOS 4.0 to run on an add-in 8086 based card that ran in that A500.)
Overall I've enjoyed the MBP. Aside from running too hot, noisy fans, failing batteries, flimsy power supplies, and the marginal crap-pile called iTunes, its been a great machine.
I planned to buy a pair of (950$ each) refurbed MacBooks and get an upgrade for the MBP as a side effect. But it looks like I'll need to buy the 10$ upgrade and ask for a "right to copy" for the MacBooks. I'll also need to buy the 129$ upgrade for the MBP.
Wow, that isn't so exciting anymore. I guess I'll just wait for the day when refurbs include Leopard.
Apple has made sure I won't get a free Leopard upgrade, but theyr'e also losing a 1900$ sale. Keep sharpening that pencil Apple, and maybe the kids will get Dell 1420n laptops running Ubuntu for xmas this year.
The numbers work ok if you count ass kissing.
Urkel as Lando.
Robin Williams as Yoda.
Captain Sisko as Mace Windu.
Selma Hyack as Amidala.
Have Opie direct it.
Soundtrack by Jewel & Celine Dion.
You get the idea.
Barfffffffff.
Slap her some silicone, and she could pass for older.
If she plays opposite decapio, there has to be some adult action going on!
It would be nice to be able to filter out any article that requires a signup to read.
BN
FreeBSD is Alpha/Intel specific. NetBSD supports the motorola crap.
It is important that a system match the job it is tasked with.
If networking doen't cause too much latency, then often a network of single processor machines is easier than one multiprocessor machine.
Depends on the appliation.
BN
Form follows function.
Id graphics were created on SGI, pre-playing & testing the games on a PC with an OpenGL video card was a natural.
It wasn't a virtue of Id, just plain laziness.
BN
If digital sat is already in Mpeg2, should just be a matter of tapping the info as it goes by.
Most of the equipment gets its time from the networks.
Larger disks also expand more with heat. Thermal re-calibration is more necessary.
The data is already coming down as an MPEG-2 datastream. (on dish network anyway)
We need to capture the data as it comes of the dish, and save it to disk.
Mpeg-2 decoder cards are already around for DVD, why not use those?