The problem is that Intel has screwed up everything "better" than the 8086 line. Both the i432 and i860 were beautiful designs that didn't work in practice. The i860 never had a chance, and the Itanium is running the risk of joining the i432 and i860 lines as neat-but-dumb ideas.
The biggest problem is that working around all of these things only needs to be done twice. Once for Windows, once for Linux, and everybody's happy. With mass-market chipsets the way they are, they've been copy-and-pasting the VHDL for the A20 gate and whatnot from one chipset into another.
The hard lesson for Apple and others is that good design only matters so much. Crufty A20 gates, merely acceptable DMA controllers, baroque standards, etc. especially when the user doesn't see them (Taking the bluetooth/USB/ADB/etc. plunge doesn't count here) won't make the product more attractive to your buyers and may not even make your product any cheaper.
In Australia in the past year or two, some folks dressed up as maintenence workers and drove off with an allegedly important government server.
So it does happen.
I still have to test every 5-pin simplex lock for important rooms to make sure that it's not a simple combination, because when I had access to a datacenter, it was a damn simple lock.
I'd bet that a few bright folks with appropriate generalized tools, medical supplies, food, water, and air, where they got a supply craft every 22 months would be able to build quite a lot in a matter of years on Mars. They've actually got pretty good systems for keeping humans going where the only major inputs are nitrogen, food, and water. Well, that, and repair parts.
There *is* water there. It's just a question as to where it is. There's iron in the soil, which you can smelt in a solar-powered smelter. There's silicon dioxide in the soil and enough salts to make glass. Once we have a better idea about what the soil is composed of, we'd probably be able to formulate concrete. Worst case scenerio, you end up using stone tools on occasion.
I think you are underestimating the power of the cream of the crop of generalized intelligent human beings. I'm not egocentric enough to classify myself in that order, but I can see how it could work.
The market for D-VHS is that the technology was there to record HDTV off the airwaves before any of this HD DVD or Blu Ray DVD stuff was available.
Well, that, and the Laserdisk audience...
However, it looks like VHS in general is going to go, including D-VHS. HD camcorders look to be going towards DV-like formats and VHS seems to have been replaced by the PVR.
Sun-branded Trinitron I picked up off the roadside in Mountain View CA.
My ancient 15 inch Trinitron (the last monitor I actually purchased, some 8 years ago) is currently suffering from a near-failure cable that my ex-roomate in college pushed over the edge. I have 2 17 inch trinitrons scavenged from work, one's old and one has a screen that was windexed.
Try weirdly deformed premies and a lot of miscarrages.
Or, even better (and this is what they are really afraid of) subtle stuff that shows up down the road and makes the parents want to throttle themselves.
http://www.bway.net/~rjnoonan/humans_in_space/se x. html
Dude, JFK made the effort because the US wasn't looking so good in the world community and he needed something to spice things up. After he exceeded the US Recomended Daily Allowance of lead, nodoby would have the heart to can the project.;)
The only two things that would get my undies in a bunch would be JWST and Pluto. JWST because having a distortion-free space telescope is just damn useful and the Pluto probe because it is a once-every-few-centuries opportunity to research.
And, of course, the NSF can always get involved in the JWST so the budget item appears elsewhere.
It's also the case that everybody's going to be pushing their mission on man-to-mars grounds. I'm betting that they will be launching at least one robotic VASMIR or Ion propelled mission with a large nuclear reactor core still.
Here's the unsaid bonus for Bush... Earth monitoring will probably get the boot, which means that he's cutting off money to his favorite foes, the environmentalists.;)
By the 2010, the Europeans, who are midly more reliable and definately better funded than the Russians, will have their ATV craft, which can stand-in for the Progress.
Also, before then, a flying prototype for the CEV will have flown, which will make any cancelation of the CEV very much a false economy.
Consider the Galileo probe, which lasted for 3 times as long as it was designed for, taking several times as much radiation as it was designed to and was built with 1980s technology and was only crashed because they didn't want to chance it crashing into a potentially-inhabited moon. Or Magellan, which was also built with similar technology, used aerobraking (which it wasn't designed for), similarly had an extended mission using 1980s technology. Or Mars Global Surveyor, which was built with 1990s technology and has similarly been doing research beyond its design lifespan.
They do, in fact, build them just as good, if not better, than they did in the 1960s. The shuttle's problems are design and engineering issues, not anything to do with what generation of technology they are.
In fact, overall, the whole "they don't build them like they used to" is just a case of survivor bias. Everything from the 1940s that still works is on the mutant end of the MTBF curve and everything that didn't has been junked.
This just means that whoever is providing you with an email address will have to also provide an authenticated STMP server for you to send from (i.e. POP-before-SMTP or SASL AUTH) when you aren't connected to their local network so that you can still be authenticated.
They can't drop it. If they drop it, their business will most certainly implode from the bad-will generated, false advertising, and probably a shareholder lawsuit. If they keep going, they might wear down somebody enough to make for a settlement or a partial court victory or something other than imploding.
If this was somebody complaining about having 100 gb/day transfer and getting a letter for going over that, that would be bad SlashdotGroupThink in action.
The problem is, most of these places are not selling cap-free service, nor are they telling you what your cap is, or letting you monitor your progress with respect to the cap. If somebody says that you have 1 gb or 100 gb or 500 mb per day, a savy user will make sure to obey this.
I view this more as a far example of bad business practices.
For at least 95% of all amps, that does not include a speaker simulator, which doesn't get you much more than plugging the guitar straight in.
Of course an Echo Labs sound card would sound better. The point is that the best sound for your average person screwing around with their guitar who doesn't want to spend money on studio gear is probably guitar into the sound card or guitar through amp into the sound card and then a speaker simulator on the PC.
The main feature is that it looks to have a speaker simulator. So you can just plug guitar into mac without needing to buy anything extra or be bothered with properly learning how to mic an amp.
Set the alarm for the latest possible moment. Don't set it 15 minutes early and figure that you will be snoozing for 15 minutes. If you need 30 minutes to get ready and need to be out the door by 8, set the alarm for 7:30.
Their best stuff that Korbel makes is the stuff that's not sold all over the place for standard "American" tastes. In fact, the best stuff that comes out of California and is, at the same time, economical, isn't given wide distribution. They can't change Korbel Brut too much for the same reason why Coke failed at New Coke, which tasted "better" but wasn't what people were used to.
The synonym for Methode Champenoise is "Naturally fermented in this bottle". Methode Champenoise is the only way you can make "Champagne" Champagne.
The other sparkling wines are "Naturally fermented/carbonated in a bottle" or "Bottle fermented", which means that a large vessel and generally means large bubbles or suffer various other indignities to the way that God intended it to be made, as given to the good Dom. And then there's just plain old carbonated, like soda.
The thing is, to do the Methode Champenoise takes extra time, care, and money, so only people who are serious about making good stuff bother to do it -- although if the Methode Champenoise becomes a snob point, I'm sure the cheap houses will make some wretched Methode Champenoise sparklers themselves.
But I've never seen an Methode Champenoise wine that didn't, at the very least, have lots of tiny bubbles.
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The problem is that Intel has screwed up everything "better" than the 8086 line. Both the i432 and i860 were beautiful designs that didn't work in practice. The i860 never had a chance, and the Itanium is running the risk of joining the i432 and i860 lines as neat-but-dumb ideas.
The biggest problem is that working around all of these things only needs to be done twice. Once for Windows, once for Linux, and everybody's happy. With mass-market chipsets the way they are, they've been copy-and-pasting the VHDL for the A20 gate and whatnot from one chipset into another.
The hard lesson for Apple and others is that good design only matters so much. Crufty A20 gates, merely acceptable DMA controllers, baroque standards, etc. especially when the user doesn't see them (Taking the bluetooth/USB/ADB/etc. plunge doesn't count here) won't make the product more attractive to your buyers and may not even make your product any cheaper.
Not sure.
In Australia in the past year or two, some folks dressed up as maintenence workers and drove off with an allegedly important government server.
So it does happen.
I still have to test every 5-pin simplex lock for important rooms to make sure that it's not a simple combination, because when I had access to a datacenter, it was a damn simple lock.
I'd bet that a few bright folks with appropriate generalized tools, medical supplies, food, water, and air, where they got a supply craft every 22 months would be able to build quite a lot in a matter of years on Mars. They've actually got pretty good systems for keeping humans going where the only major inputs are nitrogen, food, and water. Well, that, and repair parts.
There *is* water there. It's just a question as to where it is. There's iron in the soil, which you can smelt in a solar-powered smelter. There's silicon dioxide in the soil and enough salts to make glass. Once we have a better idea about what the soil is composed of, we'd probably be able to formulate concrete. Worst case scenerio, you end up using stone tools on occasion.
I think you are underestimating the power of the cream of the crop of generalized intelligent human beings. I'm not egocentric enough to classify myself in that order, but I can see how it could work.
The market for D-VHS is that the technology was there to record HDTV off the airwaves before any of this HD DVD or Blu Ray DVD stuff was available.
Well, that, and the Laserdisk audience...
However, it looks like VHS in general is going to go, including D-VHS. HD camcorders look to be going towards DV-like formats and VHS seems to have been replaced by the PVR.
Windex and a large category of other cleaning solutions for monitors are counterindicated.
First, they may attack the anti-glare coatings of the screen, which is what happened to one of my monitors before I acquired it.
Second, they may set your monitor on fire if they produce any flamable vapors. This happened more than once in the eighties.
Third, a damp cloth does a perfectly good job of cleaning monitors, with perhaps a little bit of dish soap.
Sun-branded Trinitron I picked up off the roadside in Mountain View CA.
My ancient 15 inch Trinitron (the last monitor I actually purchased, some 8 years ago) is currently suffering from a near-failure cable that my ex-roomate in college pushed over the edge. I have 2 17 inch trinitrons scavenged from work, one's old and one has a screen that was windexed.
Oddly enough, my ADD makes it hard to watch TV.
You wish.
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Try weirdly deformed premies and a lot of miscarrages.
Or, even better (and this is what they are really afraid of) subtle stuff that shows up down the road and makes the parents want to throttle themselves.
http://www.bway.net/~rjnoonan/humans_in_space/s
Dude, JFK made the effort because the US wasn't looking so good in the world community and he needed something to spice things up. After he exceeded the US Recomended Daily Allowance of lead, nodoby would have the heart to can the project. ;)
Reproduction (the conception and development part) doesn't quite work right in space, so that may not be an entirely good idea.
Well, that, and the currently elevated radiation environment of the ISS...
The only two things that would get my undies in a bunch would be JWST and Pluto. JWST because having a distortion-free space telescope is just damn useful and the Pluto probe because it is a once-every-few-centuries opportunity to research.
;)
And, of course, the NSF can always get involved in the JWST so the budget item appears elsewhere.
It's also the case that everybody's going to be pushing their mission on man-to-mars grounds. I'm betting that they will be launching at least one robotic VASMIR or Ion propelled mission with a large nuclear reactor core still.
Here's the unsaid bonus for Bush... Earth monitoring will probably get the boot, which means that he's cutting off money to his favorite foes, the environmentalists.
By the 2010, the Europeans, who are midly more reliable and definately better funded than the Russians, will have their ATV craft, which can stand-in for the Progress.
Also, before then, a flying prototype for the CEV will have flown, which will make any cancelation of the CEV very much a false economy.
Consider the Galileo probe, which lasted for 3 times as long as it was designed for, taking several times as much radiation as it was designed to and was built with 1980s technology and was only crashed because they didn't want to chance it crashing into a potentially-inhabited moon. Or Magellan, which was also built with similar technology, used aerobraking (which it wasn't designed for), similarly had an extended mission using 1980s technology. Or Mars Global Surveyor, which was built with 1990s technology and has similarly been doing research beyond its design lifespan.
They do, in fact, build them just as good, if not better, than they did in the 1960s. The shuttle's problems are design and engineering issues, not anything to do with what generation of technology they are.
In fact, overall, the whole "they don't build them like they used to" is just a case of survivor bias. Everything from the 1940s that still works is on the mutant end of the MTBF curve and everything that didn't has been junked.
Not necessarily..
This just means that whoever is providing you with an email address will have to also provide an authenticated STMP server for you to send from (i.e. POP-before-SMTP or SASL AUTH) when you aren't connected to their local network so that you can still be authenticated.
They can't drop it. If they drop it, their business will most certainly implode from the bad-will generated, false advertising, and probably a shareholder lawsuit. If they keep going, they might wear down somebody enough to make for a settlement or a partial court victory or something other than imploding.
If this was somebody complaining about having 100 gb/day transfer and getting a letter for going over that, that would be bad SlashdotGroupThink in action.
The problem is, most of these places are not selling cap-free service, nor are they telling you what your cap is, or letting you monitor your progress with respect to the cap. If somebody says that you have 1 gb or 100 gb or 500 mb per day, a savy user will make sure to obey this.
I view this more as a far example of bad business practices.
Right, except that this is my work laptop and the product I work on is built for Windows.
Damn you, beating me to the punch.
On the same veign, Motorola doesn't use Macs, they generally use PCs even though they have made the Mac processor for ages.
For at least 95% of all amps, that does not include a speaker simulator, which doesn't get you much more than plugging the guitar straight in.
Of course an Echo Labs sound card would sound better. The point is that the best sound for your average person screwing around with their guitar who doesn't want to spend money on studio gear is probably guitar into the sound card or guitar through amp into the sound card and then a speaker simulator on the PC.
The main feature is that it looks to have a speaker simulator. So you can just plug guitar into mac without needing to buy anything extra or be bothered with properly learning how to mic an amp.
One additional pointer along this veign..
Set the alarm for the latest possible moment. Don't set it 15 minutes early and figure that you will be snoozing for 15 minutes. If you need 30 minutes to get ready and need to be out the door by 8, set the alarm for 7:30.
Pew, that study *stinks* of bias! ;)
Actually, I'd have to defend Korbel a little.
Their best stuff that Korbel makes is the stuff that's not sold all over the place for standard "American" tastes. In fact, the best stuff that comes out of California and is, at the same time, economical, isn't given wide distribution. They can't change Korbel Brut too much for the same reason why Coke failed at New Coke, which tasted "better" but wasn't what people were used to.
The synonym for Methode Champenoise is "Naturally fermented in this bottle". Methode Champenoise is the only way you can make "Champagne" Champagne.
The other sparkling wines are "Naturally fermented/carbonated in a bottle" or "Bottle fermented", which means that a large vessel and generally means large bubbles or suffer various other indignities to the way that God intended it to be made, as given to the good Dom. And then there's just plain old carbonated, like soda.
The thing is, to do the Methode Champenoise takes extra time, care, and money, so only people who are serious about making good stuff bother to do it -- although if the Methode Champenoise becomes a snob point, I'm sure the cheap houses will make some wretched Methode Champenoise sparklers themselves.
But I've never seen an Methode Champenoise wine that didn't, at the very least, have lots of tiny bubbles.