Meat is on its way out. The planet will NOT survive if humans keep wastefully cultivating animals for food and letting their leaders steal the rightful elections belonging to others because of foreign interference.
Once this new 'meat' is perfected & mass produced, can we convert not just humans, but ALL animals to it - carnivorous & herbivorous - so that lions don't kill & eat gnus, zebras, gazelles, tigers don't hunt & kill deer, foxes don't eat hens & so on? Also, since plants too are living beings, make sure that deer, goats, cows, et al get w/ the program as well! So that onions & tomatoes don't risk getting plucked & slaughtered.
IIRC, 386SX never ran NT, much less XP. Those were among the first 386s out there, and for the bulk of their lifetime, the popular OS was Windows 3.1, maybe even 95 & 98. But when NT started, recommended starting x86 CPU was always a 486, preferably a Pentium. This application looks like it used the 386SX for embedded, so other OSs like QNX might have been usable here.
Reading about the R3000 CPU used in the New Horizons Spacecraft, wonder what OS it ran? Some Unix - like RISC/OS or Ultrix? Or Linux or NetBSD?
So what exactly is this based on? The original Amiga was a Mot 68k, then it was ported, iirc, to the PowerPC. So has it moved to ARM now, or x86? Also, is the OS still a 16-bit one, or is it now 64-bit? I read the PDF: what instruction set does the Altera cyclone follow? I do think it's neat that they've put this all on an FPGA: hopefully, that'll help make this device somewhat competitive.
In that era, I tried a number of Linux distros - Mandrake, Corel Linux, Storm Linux, Turbo Linux (before it went Japanese), Caldera. All of them had the same freaking problem - couldn't recognize my ethernet & so wouldn't connect to the internet. Otherwise, most of them were pretty good.
Today, I work on PC-BSD/TrueOS, which recognizes an RJ45 connection, but not WiFi. Hopefully, one day...
Apple deprecated the old VoIP interface one year ago. Absolutely obvious for anyone interested. But one year warning will obviously come as a surprise to some people.
VoIP required that your phone was turned on, your app was running, and regularly pulled requests. An absolute battery eater. The new feature allows your phone to be asleep, use no energy, and wake up immediately when a call arrives.
Thanks for explaining this. I was curious about how that would affect Vonage Extensions, a VOIP app that I use. If the app still uses the old API, whether it would stop working. Same question for WhatsApp. I know that FaceTime audio is an option, but wouldn't work w/ non iPhones.
It would make sense only if Intel has problems filling fab capacity, but I fail to see that happening. If they (re-)enter that market, they'll drive down the market prices of flash, making it a loss for everyone! They were in both the NOR flash business as well as the NAND flash business years ago as Numonyx, which they then sold to Micron, and then they formed a partnership w/ Micron on this.
If they do that, I'd conclude that things are really bad at Intel
Yeah, what exactly does 'layer' mean here? Are they trying to say 5 voltage levels, that would give 32 variables? Or do they actually mean 32 levels, which would be hairy to maintain? Somehow, I've never had much confidence in multi-level cell flash, where one needs more than 2 voltage levels to increase the 'bits/cell' and thereby the density. Spansion had an interesting idea in ORNAND, where they had reversible source-drains to store 2 bits in a cell, but from what I recall, that had performance issues due to lack of a real ground.
So how has the reliability story been on this, when compared to the first SSDs that we saw enter the market?
With KDE, I can see the value: aside from Plasma, there is a whole family of applications that is available for KDE - from myriad small applications like kmail to Calligra (formerly KOffice).
With GNOME, I just can't see it. Yeah, there are some fringe 'made for GNOME' appslications, like GNOME Web (Epiphany), but they're just unwieldy. GNOME 2.x - now MATE - was okay, but not great. GNOME 3.x is bizarre, at best.
If big desktops have such value, why doesn't Canonical wanna drive it any more? It's having their cake & eating it too. They should do what PC-BSD does on the FreeBSD side of things, provide all the environments, and just work on tools that make their environment useful. Maybe focus on Steam integration more, since that's potentially a big driver of their platform
"Ideally we're looking for people who are experienced in identifying (and fixing) theme issues, CSS experts and GNOME Shell / GTK themers."
So they're not specifically looking for input from actual users, the people who have to change all the idiotic defaults designers and themers chose in their endless wisdom? And all this is going to happen over the course of two days? I expect great things and will stick with Xubuntu.:-)
Which begs the question: why are they doing this? If Unity has failed, why not fall back to the existing and established sub-distros, like Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu (yeah, I know another organization now owns it), or just let users pick from miscellaneous distros, such as Trinity, Mate, Razor/qt, LX/QT, et al?
Also, no SD card? 32GB will be filled up in no time. With Nougat and an SD card slot, one could at least have put in a 128GB card and made that primary storage.
Using a product to lower parameters than what the spec says is not crippling a chip. If I have a DRAM that can read or write in 10 ns, and my circuit is designed to clock it every 20 ns - due to other parts of the system - I'm using the DRAM as specified. While some chipmakers may have different bins when spec'ing to handle fallout, those w/ 100% yields are better off w/ 1 bin for inventory control purposes.
Similarly, Apple, from a supply-chain POV, sources from both Intel & Qualcomm. The Qualcomm chips, aside from performance (or maybe b'cos of it), are also the only ones that can be used w/ CDMA carriers like Verizon & Sprint: Intel's can't be used there. So for the phones there for other GSM compatible carriers, Apple uses Intel modems as well. For that to happen, the 2 have to use the same spec.
One way Apple can get around this, and thumb its nose at Qualcomm - use Intel chips exclusively for their GSM compatible phones, and Qualcomm only for the CDMAs for Verizon, Sprint as well as the Japanese & Korean CDMA carriers. Qualcomm will get a good lesson once they see those orders fall.
I generally use Format Factory to transcode them, but the question is - which video format will iTunes accept, no questions asked? For audio, I know it's MP3.
Except that Tunisia is not the Sahara. The south end of the country starts to get there, but unlike Libya or Algeria, Tunisia as a whole ain't a desert country.
I just wish Google would provide an upgrade that would enable one to upgrade Android 5 and above to the latest. I could use something like it on my tablet.
That's there in a lot of cities, not just Atlanta, where the road is named something else after a major intersection or off-ramp. I once ran into a situation in Charlotte where my GPS directed me through a road that had a barricade. Theoretically, it was 'correct' - had I walked or had a bike, it would have worked, but I couldn't do that w/ the car. So had to get on the main road, do a couple of U turns before getting to another street that actually helped me get to my location.
It's easier when you have a road system arranged like a grid, like, say, in CA. It's completely different when roads are not just random, but wind all over the place, and when 2 streets intersect at 2 or more places. If you're driving, after enough bends, it's hard to keep track of where North is, and which way one is headed.
You'd have to rewind Christianity to the 1600s to get the Thirty Year War, when the Catholic Habsburgs had it it on the Protestant Germans & Swedes. Although there were exceptions - Catholic France fighting on the Protestant side (while persecuting the Hugenots) and Lutheran Denmark fighting on the Catholic side.
Anyway, Islam has been given plenty of chances over about half the globe - from Gambia to Brunei, and everywhere, it's been a bloody tale. Only place that's peaceful are the former Soviet 'stans', and that's b'cos first the Tsars, and then the Soviets, did a great job in suppressing Islam there. Uzbekistan though looks like a Tunisia, where if the regime there falls, they could get a Timuride government dedicated to resurrecting the Timuride empire at least in the stans. However, Russia still has a strong presence in those countries, since it wouldn't want Kazakhstan to become an Afghanistan
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Meat is on its way out. The planet will NOT survive if humans keep wastefully cultivating animals for food and letting their leaders steal the rightful elections belonging to others because of foreign interference.
Once this new 'meat' is perfected & mass produced, can we convert not just humans, but ALL animals to it - carnivorous & herbivorous - so that lions don't kill & eat gnus, zebras, gazelles, tigers don't hunt & kill deer, foxes don't eat hens & so on? Also, since plants too are living beings, make sure that deer, goats, cows, et al get w/ the program as well! So that onions & tomatoes don't risk getting plucked & slaughtered.
Would that have past internet features like Gopher, Archie, Veronica, et al?
IIRC, 386SX never ran NT, much less XP. Those were among the first 386s out there, and for the bulk of their lifetime, the popular OS was Windows 3.1, maybe even 95 & 98. But when NT started, recommended starting x86 CPU was always a 486, preferably a Pentium. This application looks like it used the 386SX for embedded, so other OSs like QNX might have been usable here.
Reading about the R3000 CPU used in the New Horizons Spacecraft, wonder what OS it ran? Some Unix - like RISC/OS or Ultrix? Or Linux or NetBSD?
Which OEMs? What exactly are you referring to here?
Is the OS moved from 16 to 32 or 64-bit?
Given the sizes, just port Minix there
So what exactly is this based on? The original Amiga was a Mot 68k, then it was ported, iirc, to the PowerPC. So has it moved to ARM now, or x86? Also, is the OS still a 16-bit one, or is it now 64-bit? I read the PDF: what instruction set does the Altera cyclone follow? I do think it's neat that they've put this all on an FPGA: hopefully, that'll help make this device somewhat competitive.
How is that different from Linux users?
In that era, I tried a number of Linux distros - Mandrake, Corel Linux, Storm Linux, Turbo Linux (before it went Japanese), Caldera. All of them had the same freaking problem - couldn't recognize my ethernet & so wouldn't connect to the internet. Otherwise, most of them were pretty good.
Today, I work on PC-BSD/TrueOS, which recognizes an RJ45 connection, but not WiFi. Hopefully, one day...
Apple deprecated the old VoIP interface one year ago. Absolutely obvious for anyone interested. But one year warning will obviously come as a surprise to some people. VoIP required that your phone was turned on, your app was running, and regularly pulled requests. An absolute battery eater. The new feature allows your phone to be asleep, use no energy, and wake up immediately when a call arrives.
Thanks for explaining this. I was curious about how that would affect Vonage Extensions, a VOIP app that I use. If the app still uses the old API, whether it would stop working. Same question for WhatsApp. I know that FaceTime audio is an option, but wouldn't work w/ non iPhones.
It would make sense only if Intel has problems filling fab capacity, but I fail to see that happening. If they (re-)enter that market, they'll drive down the market prices of flash, making it a loss for everyone! They were in both the NOR flash business as well as the NAND flash business years ago as Numonyx, which they then sold to Micron, and then they formed a partnership w/ Micron on this.
If they do that, I'd conclude that things are really bad at Intel
Yeah, what exactly does 'layer' mean here? Are they trying to say 5 voltage levels, that would give 32 variables? Or do they actually mean 32 levels, which would be hairy to maintain? Somehow, I've never had much confidence in multi-level cell flash, where one needs more than 2 voltage levels to increase the 'bits/cell' and thereby the density. Spansion had an interesting idea in ORNAND, where they had reversible source-drains to store 2 bits in a cell, but from what I recall, that had performance issues due to lack of a real ground.
So how has the reliability story been on this, when compared to the first SSDs that we saw enter the market?
With KDE, I can see the value: aside from Plasma, there is a whole family of applications that is available for KDE - from myriad small applications like kmail to Calligra (formerly KOffice).
With GNOME, I just can't see it. Yeah, there are some fringe 'made for GNOME' appslications, like GNOME Web (Epiphany), but they're just unwieldy. GNOME 2.x - now MATE - was okay, but not great. GNOME 3.x is bizarre, at best.
If big desktops have such value, why doesn't Canonical wanna drive it any more? It's having their cake & eating it too. They should do what PC-BSD does on the FreeBSD side of things, provide all the environments, and just work on tools that make their environment useful. Maybe focus on Steam integration more, since that's potentially a big driver of their platform
So they're not specifically looking for input from actual users, the people who have to change all the idiotic defaults designers and themers chose in their endless wisdom? And all this is going to happen over the course of two days? I expect great things and will stick with Xubuntu. :-)
Which begs the question: why are they doing this? If Unity has failed, why not fall back to the existing and established sub-distros, like Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu (yeah, I know another organization now owns it), or just let users pick from miscellaneous distros, such as Trinity, Mate, Razor/qt, LX/QT, et al?
Also, no SD card? 32GB will be filled up in no time. With Nougat and an SD card slot, one could at least have put in a 128GB card and made that primary storage.
Using a product to lower parameters than what the spec says is not crippling a chip. If I have a DRAM that can read or write in 10 ns, and my circuit is designed to clock it every 20 ns - due to other parts of the system - I'm using the DRAM as specified. While some chipmakers may have different bins when spec'ing to handle fallout, those w/ 100% yields are better off w/ 1 bin for inventory control purposes.
Similarly, Apple, from a supply-chain POV, sources from both Intel & Qualcomm. The Qualcomm chips, aside from performance (or maybe b'cos of it), are also the only ones that can be used w/ CDMA carriers like Verizon & Sprint: Intel's can't be used there. So for the phones there for other GSM compatible carriers, Apple uses Intel modems as well. For that to happen, the 2 have to use the same spec.
One way Apple can get around this, and thumb its nose at Qualcomm - use Intel chips exclusively for their GSM compatible phones, and Qualcomm only for the CDMAs for Verizon, Sprint as well as the Japanese & Korean CDMA carriers. Qualcomm will get a good lesson once they see those orders fall.
I generally use Format Factory to transcode them, but the question is - which video format will iTunes accept, no questions asked? For audio, I know it's MP3.
No, it's the southern quarter of the country, after the Atlas mountains
Except that Tunisia is not the Sahara. The south end of the country starts to get there, but unlike Libya or Algeria, Tunisia as a whole ain't a desert country.
I thought that under Marshmallow, one can re-designate the SD card as internal storage and the on board flash storage as external. No?
I just wish Google would provide an upgrade that would enable one to upgrade Android 5 and above to the latest. I could use something like it on my tablet.
That's there in a lot of cities, not just Atlanta, where the road is named something else after a major intersection or off-ramp. I once ran into a situation in Charlotte where my GPS directed me through a road that had a barricade. Theoretically, it was 'correct' - had I walked or had a bike, it would have worked, but I couldn't do that w/ the car. So had to get on the main road, do a couple of U turns before getting to another street that actually helped me get to my location.
On WhatsApp, I simply paste the link, and the embedded icon finds its way in.
It's easier when you have a road system arranged like a grid, like, say, in CA. It's completely different when roads are not just random, but wind all over the place, and when 2 streets intersect at 2 or more places. If you're driving, after enough bends, it's hard to keep track of where North is, and which way one is headed.
You'd have to rewind Christianity to the 1600s to get the Thirty Year War, when the Catholic Habsburgs had it it on the Protestant Germans & Swedes. Although there were exceptions - Catholic France fighting on the Protestant side (while persecuting the Hugenots) and Lutheran Denmark fighting on the Catholic side.
Anyway, Islam has been given plenty of chances over about half the globe - from Gambia to Brunei, and everywhere, it's been a bloody tale. Only place that's peaceful are the former Soviet 'stans', and that's b'cos first the Tsars, and then the Soviets, did a great job in suppressing Islam there. Uzbekistan though looks like a Tunisia, where if the regime there falls, they could get a Timuride government dedicated to resurrecting the Timuride empire at least in the stans. However, Russia still has a strong presence in those countries, since it wouldn't want Kazakhstan to become an Afghanistan