If I come across a large sum of money, I'll just hire my own chamber musicians, and ban all speakers and electronic reproduction devices from my presences, thank-you-very-much.
Yamaha makes a fairly decent piano, and their strings and woodwinds are pretty good, too.
Go with amplifiers, not 'receivers.' You can buy a separate tuner component. And that way when you add more speakers and want more power, you don't have a bunch of lame 'receivers' all over the setup with an unused tuning dial on them. A tuner is a radically different electronic device than a power amplifier, and they should be in seperate enclosures.
Jordan K. Hubbard was recently interviewed and commented how sublimed it was to see GNU Emacs running on a Mac.
GNU Emacs has run on the Macintosh OS for years. I ran it on an SE/30 awhile back. Of course that SE/30 has now had an OS upgrade and runs NetBSD, so obviously it now runs GNU Emacs even better.
Installing Emacs on a classic Mac even gives you a access to A rudimentary command line. -X-shell opens up a command prompt shell in an emacs window, and gives you a few built in commands to traverse around the directories on a classic Mac hard drive (ls, cd, etc.).
Are you sure you're on the right site? There are lots of Unix people here. My understanding is that the X Window System provides for three mouse buttons as the default. Various programs, such as xfig, rely on the third mouse button for some of their drawing functions. If you only have a two button mouse you configure X to do chording.
What are you rambling on about Microsoft and two button mice for?
We're now entering a period of (at least) four years of active government deregulation and rollback. Reagan gave us massive deregulation of the FCC, and it's likely Bush will follow suit.
I started out and still prefer to work in Assembly Language. I just don't deal as well with abstraction, and anything but Assembly Language (and Assembly language itself, to people who program in machine code) is pumped full of abstractions.
When I need a high level math routine I'll code it in C and have a C compiler spit it out in Assembly language I can get my hooks into.
Not a lot of my code runs in an 'Operating System' however. And almost none of it runs on anything bigger than an 8 bit processor. I spent years coding for NEC 4-bit processors for which there isn't a C compiler. Just a plain vanilla Assembler at first, then eventually a Macro preprocesor.
People who code in high level languages flounder about in embedded projects, if they don't start with a pre-packaged 'framework' of some sort. I've seen C coders forget to initialize ANYTHING in the system (timers, RAM, stack, etc.).
Big deal. I couldn't record on CD for the longest time either
I think you're forgetting that what CD-audio replaced in the market was vinyl-LP. Everybody was used to the idea that they could buy pre-recorded music on albums, so it wasn't any loss to shift to CD-audio.
People like the fact that their VCRs can record programs. The consumer is used to that and won't give it up. A shift from recordable to non-recordable video media is different from the Vinyl LP to CD market shift.
The government can only go so far in mandating what manufacturers can sell. If consumers continue to want to purchase television technology that isn't HDTV-lockstep, they pretty much will be able to do so.
We don't have the same sort of dictatorial standards bodies here in the US as are common in many other parts of the world. This leads to a more chaotic environment (i.e. one in which the Posix committee doesn't control all Operating System development) but a more innovative (yeah, I know, Microsoft buzzword, but they don't own the term..) world.
HDTV and digital television in general is on a slipping schedule, and will continue to slip.
In other words, for every one of these that is manufactured, another Commodore 64 must be destroyed. In fact, this company is making money out of destroying as many Commodore 64s as they can and will go out of business when they don't have any more to destroy.
Doesn't sound like anything a Commodore enthusiast would find very appealing.
Can't they design an inexpensive ASIC to do the same thing as the SID chip, or are they truly just chop artists?
The Underwriters Laboratory is an example of a 'Free Market' entity which self-regulates (for profit, no less! *shudder*) an industry and assures safety.
I'd say it serves as a good example of the free market self regulating an industry.
Another good example is Consumer's Report magazine.
Consider how they wrap or otherwise sterilize everything that comes into contact with you (tounge depressors, ear lookers, etc).
Yes, everything that comes into contact with the patient. The PDA will not come into contact with the patient. In cases where a transducer connected to the device comes into contact, it will be disposable or sterilizable.
The data makes it's way into a centralized database because the Palm devices are hotsynched on a regular basis. Originally, the whole point in PalmOS technology is to serve as a remote data collection/viewing terminal. The Palm devices aren't (usually) meant to be the final repository for anything.
How can you read an article about devices like this growing in popularity, then see comments from numerous people explaining the projects they have worked on developing stuff like this, and then lead off your comment with 'The reason they won't allow devices like this in the hospital....'??
The devices which are restricted in the hospital are cell phones and other devices which emit a lot of RF. Further, there are probably some hospitals where patient/public-carried electronic gadgets in general are discouraged if they might be a distraction to the patients/staff.
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The Blue Screen of Death is a Windows NT phenomenon.
It happens when the Kernel crashes, and (surprise, surprise, to all the zealots) it actually has useful post-mortem data on it about why the machine crashed.
So there by definition was no 'Blue Screen of Death' in 1988 at a computer convention. There may have been a system crash that resulted in a frozen screen display of some kind, and it may have even had a blue background. But it definitely was NOT a BSOD. Windows NT didn't exist in 1988.
The PalmOS machines are getting better all the time, though. More memory and expandability mean more OEM possiblities for these devices as a prebuilt User Interface. Visor is putting a lot of effort into promoting the expansion slot in their PDAs for all sorts of purposes. The people I know in the Medical Device community are looking into this quite a bit.
They're going to put a state machine in all the flash chips so if I try to write an unapproved pattern to, say address 0x01FFF in Block 3, it refuses to accept it?
I think you must mean 'Modules which are made out of flash chips' or something. Flash chips have data busses, address busses, and control lines.
I had fun several years ago when the high-speed (greater than 4x) CD-ROM drives came out. I had one in my new machine at work that almost make the CPU case shake with some disks. I got to thinking 'hmmm, disk out of balance...' so I started fooling with the drive, putting progressively more scotch tape on a disk to see how loud it would get. Then I taped a small metal washer onto a disk. Big mistake. The CD-ROM drive made so much noise (I was in my cubicle) that I had to shut off the whole machine to keep people from wondering what the hell I was doing (embarassing questions would have been asked, I suspect). The faster, ever-faster CDROM drives definitely result in reduced reliability over time. CD media isn't always perfect balanced. At my new company they even put 'taped labels' that throw off the whole balance of the disk on official CD releases (internal master copies) which I immediately recognized as a bad idea.
CD-RW compatability isn't that obscure or esoteric. The vendors will be forced to provide it as another check-off item on drives and players that they want to call 'premium.'
Even my set-top DVD player (a Phillips dual-laser model) will play Video CDs made with CD-RW media. I only use the RW disks for experimenting with VCD menuing, though.
I have this sneaking suspicion (but got here too late to post it as a top-level comment) that the whole 'new improved CD-ROM' movement is really an attempt by certain forces to kill CD-ROM as it exists today. It's a really bad thing for certain interests that CDR media can be played in most any audio CD player. I can remember the earlier CDROM drives which often had firmware that refused to 'rip' CD-Audio (I think the market forced the vendors to get rid of that- who would be a CDROM drive today that wouldn't rip audio??), and (of course) the day when CDR media was expensive enough that it was cheaper to buy the real CD Music album. Those days are gone, and 'pretty good quality' video, in the form of CDR-based VCD, is now taking hold.
The industry needs to put out a new-format CDAudio/CD-ROM, which (surprise, surprise) will have draconian copy protection embedded into it.
It's almost exactly the same as the efforts to shoehorn copy protection into the little MP3 players.
Is the court's action meant to be a 'corrective action' to even the playing field, or a 'punishment'?
If Microsoft's.NET initiative corrects the things the court is pursuing to the point where it nullifies the court's action, haven't they taken the 'corrective action' themselves?
Or are we hellbent on 'punishing' Microsoft?
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not like the larger atx forms found in x86's and most other computers.
Oh, come on. There are plenty of small-footprint x86 solutions out there. PC-104 systems are commodity stuff these days.
This whole scheme just reeks of madness and a complete ignorance of the embeddable hardware on the market.
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If I come across a large sum of money, I'll just hire my own chamber musicians, and ban all speakers and electronic reproduction devices from my presences, thank-you-very-much.
Yamaha makes a fairly decent piano, and their strings and woodwinds are pretty good, too.
Go with amplifiers, not 'receivers.' You can buy a separate tuner component. And that way when you add more speakers and want more power, you don't have a bunch of lame 'receivers' all over the setup with an unused tuning dial on them. A tuner is a radically different electronic device than a power amplifier, and they should be in seperate enclosures.
the above should read (esc)-X-shell
Jordan K. Hubbard was recently interviewed and commented how sublimed it was to see GNU Emacs running on a Mac.
GNU Emacs has run on the Macintosh OS for years. I ran it on an SE/30 awhile back. Of course that SE/30 has now had an OS upgrade and runs NetBSD, so obviously it now runs GNU Emacs even better.
Installing Emacs on a classic Mac even gives you a access to A rudimentary command line. -X-shell opens up a command prompt shell in an emacs window, and gives you a few built in commands to traverse around the directories on a classic Mac hard drive (ls, cd, etc.).
Ummm, how do I 'chord' one mouse button?
If I'm going to pay Apple prices, why wouldn't I buy a Sparc or an Alpha instead?
Are you sure you're on the right site? There are lots of Unix people here. My understanding is that the X Window System provides for three mouse buttons as the default. Various programs, such as xfig, rely on the third mouse button for some of their drawing functions. If you only have a two button mouse you configure X to do chording.
What are you rambling on about Microsoft and two button mice for?
We're now entering a period of (at least) four years of active government deregulation and rollback. Reagan gave us massive deregulation of the FCC, and it's likely Bush will follow suit.
I think I can understand what you're getting at.
I started out and still prefer to work in Assembly Language. I just don't deal as well with abstraction, and anything but Assembly Language (and Assembly language itself, to people who program in machine code) is pumped full of abstractions.
When I need a high level math routine I'll code it in C and have a C compiler spit it out in Assembly language I can get my hooks into.
Not a lot of my code runs in an 'Operating System' however. And almost none of it runs on anything bigger than an 8 bit processor. I spent years coding for NEC 4-bit processors for which there isn't a C compiler. Just a plain vanilla Assembler at first, then eventually a Macro preprocesor.
People who code in high level languages flounder about in embedded projects, if they don't start with a pre-packaged 'framework' of some sort. I've seen C coders forget to initialize ANYTHING in the system (timers, RAM, stack, etc.).
Big deal. I couldn't record on CD for the longest time either
I think you're forgetting that what CD-audio replaced in the market was vinyl-LP. Everybody was used to the idea that they could buy pre-recorded music on albums, so it wasn't any loss to shift to CD-audio.
People like the fact that their VCRs can record programs. The consumer is used to that and won't give it up. A shift from recordable to non-recordable video media is different from the Vinyl LP to CD market shift.
Guess what?
The government can only go so far in mandating what manufacturers can sell. If consumers continue to want to purchase television technology that isn't HDTV-lockstep, they pretty much will be able to do so.
We don't have the same sort of dictatorial standards bodies here in the US as are common in many other parts of the world. This leads to a more chaotic environment (i.e. one in which the Posix committee doesn't control all Operating System development) but a more innovative (yeah, I know, Microsoft buzzword, but they don't own the term..) world.
HDTV and digital television in general is on a slipping schedule, and will continue to slip.
In other words, for every one of these that is manufactured, another Commodore 64 must be destroyed. In fact, this company is making money out of destroying as many Commodore 64s as they can and will go out of business when they don't have any more to destroy.
Doesn't sound like anything a Commodore enthusiast would find very appealing.
Can't they design an inexpensive ASIC to do the same thing as the SID chip, or are they truly just chop artists?
The Underwriters Laboratory is an example of a 'Free Market' entity which self-regulates (for profit, no less! *shudder*) an industry and assures safety.
I'd say it serves as a good example of the free market self regulating an industry.
Another good example is Consumer's Report magazine.
Consider how they wrap or otherwise sterilize everything that comes into contact with you (tounge depressors, ear lookers, etc).
Yes, everything that comes into contact with the patient. The PDA will not come into contact with the patient. In cases where a transducer connected to the device comes into contact, it will be disposable or sterilizable.
Nothing new, no new issues at all.
The data makes it's way into a centralized database because the Palm devices are hotsynched on a regular basis. Originally, the whole point in PalmOS technology is to serve as a remote data collection/viewing terminal. The Palm devices aren't (usually) meant to be the final repository for anything.
How can you read an article about devices like this growing in popularity, then see comments from numerous people explaining the projects they have worked on developing stuff like this, and then lead off your comment with 'The reason they won't allow devices like this in the hospital....'??
The devices which are restricted in the hospital are cell phones and other devices which emit a lot of RF. Further, there are probably some hospitals where patient/public-carried electronic gadgets in general are discouraged if they might be a distraction to the patients/staff.
The Blue Screen of Death is a Windows NT phenomenon.
It happens when the Kernel crashes, and (surprise, surprise, to all the zealots) it actually has useful post-mortem data on it about why the machine crashed.
So there by definition was no 'Blue Screen of Death' in 1988 at a computer convention. There may have been a system crash that resulted in a frozen screen display of some kind, and it may have even had a blue background. But it definitely was NOT a BSOD. Windows NT didn't exist in 1988.
The PalmOS machines are getting better all the time, though. More memory and expandability mean more OEM possiblities for these devices as a prebuilt User Interface. Visor is putting a lot of effort into promoting the expansion slot in their PDAs for all sorts of purposes. The people I know in the Medical Device community are looking into this quite a bit.
Flash chips?
They're going to put a state machine in all the flash chips so if I try to write an unapproved pattern to, say address 0x01FFF in Block 3, it refuses to accept it?
I think you must mean 'Modules which are made out of flash chips' or something. Flash chips have data busses, address busses, and control lines.
He means 'free as in speech.'
Did that sail right over your head??
I had fun several years ago when the high-speed (greater than 4x) CD-ROM drives came out. I had one in my new machine at work that almost make the CPU case shake with some disks. I got to thinking 'hmmm, disk out of balance...' so I started fooling with the drive, putting progressively more scotch tape on a disk to see how loud it would get. Then I taped a small metal washer onto a disk. Big mistake. The CD-ROM drive made so much noise (I was in my cubicle) that I had to shut off the whole machine to keep people from wondering what the hell I was doing (embarassing questions would have been asked, I suspect). The faster, ever-faster CDROM drives definitely result in reduced reliability over time. CD media isn't always perfect balanced. At my new company they even put 'taped labels' that throw off the whole balance of the disk on official CD releases (internal master copies) which I immediately recognized as a bad idea.
CD-RW compatability isn't that obscure or esoteric. The vendors will be forced to provide it as another check-off item on drives and players that they want to call 'premium.'
Even my set-top DVD player (a Phillips dual-laser model) will play Video CDs made with CD-RW media. I only use the RW disks for experimenting with VCD menuing, though.
I have this sneaking suspicion (but got here too late to post it as a top-level comment) that the whole 'new improved CD-ROM' movement is really an attempt by certain forces to kill CD-ROM as it exists today. It's a really bad thing for certain interests that CDR media can be played in most any audio CD player. I can remember the earlier CDROM drives which often had firmware that refused to 'rip' CD-Audio (I think the market forced the vendors to get rid of that- who would be a CDROM drive today that wouldn't rip audio??), and (of course) the day when CDR media was expensive enough that it was cheaper to buy the real CD Music album. Those days are gone, and 'pretty good quality' video, in the form of CDR-based VCD, is now taking hold.
The industry needs to put out a new-format CDAudio/CD-ROM, which (surprise, surprise) will have draconian copy protection embedded into it.
It's almost exactly the same as the efforts to shoehorn copy protection into the little MP3 players.
Is the court's action meant to be a 'corrective action' to even the playing field, or a 'punishment'?
.NET initiative corrects the things the court is pursuing to the point where it nullifies the court's action, haven't they taken the 'corrective action' themselves?
If Microsoft's
Or are we hellbent on 'punishing' Microsoft?
not like the larger atx forms found in x86's and most other computers.
Oh, come on. There are plenty of small-footprint x86 solutions out there. PC-104 systems are commodity stuff these days.
This whole scheme just reeks of madness and a complete ignorance of the embeddable hardware on the market.