Cheeseplant's House was the first talker I was aware of, in 1990. Might be the first ever too. Used to hang out in Cheeseplant's House waiting for MIST to open - fantastic, and rather player v player bloodthirsty game before all the Diku and Tickle muds started taking over.
Great days. I was playing MIST one day in the spanking new University X Term labs, very expensive, when a bunch of six formers came in to look the wonders of higher education. I did a 'shout' on the game - "oh god, hordes of potential first years staring at me and I'm playing a game". Got back loads of shouts "Greetings from the Netherlands", "Hello from Germany"....etc. Bet you I did more for recruitment that day than the entire rest of the tour.
An infallible scapegoat. If it says no and you proceed, your judgement on the line. If it says yes and you proceed but it fails...well, you did all your diligence, right? Not your fault...
Someone I used to know worked in a warranty repair centre in the UK, for televisions. He said that the BOSE televisions were Panasonics, as in if you removed the BOSE bezel the original Panasonic bezel was still there underneath.
This would be six-eight years ago and I'm passing on anecdote rather than having hard proof, but yeah - badge-engineering has long been a thing. Car industry is notorious for it.
Displaying the full price with tax seems correct, but it is interesting to see a break down. It allows you to put pressure on those taking them.
Random example - petrol tax in the UK. Petrol is taxed at £0.5795 per litre fuel duty plus a further 20% VAT, and the price per litre at the moment is around £1.281. That means a majority of the price of a litre of petrol is tax. Whether this is right or wrong is not the point of this comment - there are arguments either way. It is, however, quite illuminating to actually see it so starkly.
Headline price should always be the all-in price. That's what you should advertise, and what I should see. But it's interesting to provide further information about the makeup of that fee too.
Macs don't use ARM. The question is whether you want to compare this Surface to an iPad or to, say, the MacBook 12". Assuming you pick macOS rather an iOS as the comparison, even then it's not clear cut - the Surface is thicker and heavier, with a lower processor than the Core M. Both machines would run desktop OSs, but the Surface can act as a tablet with touchscreen too which the MacBook can't.
It's really not that clear cut as to which is better or worse. For myself I stick with the MacBook for various reasons. If someone got one of these though, I certainly wouldn't be criticising - looks like. a nice machine.
Or it might be metaphorical or even just surreal. I'm a massive fan of the 1967 series, The Prisoner. Some episodes are relatively straight forward. Others...well, if you can definitively tell me what the ending episode was about, line for line, then congratulations. It was an exercise in the surreal, but with definite themes within it. So too was 2001.
It seems to me that Interstellar has a number of similarities with 2001. TARS could quite easily be seen as the Monolith in active form, and the ending of Interstellar was very much these "god-like beings" trying to operate within the confines of a human frame of reference.
The bit Interstellar seems to add is that the beings are us, evolved from the future. I seem to recall that being explicit in the film but haven't seen in a while so could be misremembering. That's definitely the impression I got though. I always thought about 2001's ending in the manner Kubrick described, in part because I read the book but mostly because I thought it seemed clear the direction it was guided in - am surprised it was considered an unknown and matter for debate.
All you said is true, but they're problems for the *business* owner, not the consumer. At the end of it, I want my £7.99 to give me access to the things I want to see. At the beginning of subscription, it pretty much did. These days, unless I'm interested in Netflix originals, it pretty much doesn't.
Now as it happens I *am* interested in a couple of Netflix originals - Stranger Things, A Series Of Unfortunate Events. So I keep subscribing right now. It's getting more tenuous to justify though.
Hey, I like it. My kids know that they can get those skins, if they do extra work around the house. My lawns are mowed, a lesson in responsibility and reward is taught, and fun is had by the kids at the other end of it. Works for me/us.
There was a really big turning point with MCA vs PCI as well. That's when it became plain that it was no longer "the IBM compatible".
When IBM couldn't force MCA as the standard it became plain that it had lost control over the direction of the design, and that we were now in a commodity hardware multivendor world.
I still say it's Compaq, not MS, that deserves the credit here. Compaq created the PC compatible. Microsoft did have the foresight to make sure its software worked too, but at the time the money was in hardware and you more or less expected incompatibilities between generations of the machine. The idea of cross-vendor compatibility in the micro market was Compaq's, for sure.
Not really sure that's true with the Switch. It's much newer so has had less time to embed, plus arguably operates in a different segment to the PS4.and XBox. Am not really sure a direct comparison is there to be made.
top hasn't been good way to measure RAM for -years-. Not on Linux either. If your "sitting here on HS with a couple of windows using 13Gb" was correct, then none of the 8Gb machines would even boot.
Measuring RAM usage these days, on any OS, has been trickier for quite a while. Buffering, wired etc.. I remember when one of the versions came out, think Lion but might be wrong, and it reported itself as using all the RAM people went mad. Windows shortly changed to do something similar as well, if I recall, and Linux has definitely been doing this for quite some time.
Even after all the measuring is done you have to ask another question - what did you buy the RAM for? To sit there being pristine and clean and free? No, to be used. Your oS has detected the resources currently available to it and is making good use of them. If it had less, it would behave differently.
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The future is the OpenJDK. People will abandon the now-commercial one quite quickly.
Cheeseplant's House was the first talker I was aware of, in 1990. Might be the first ever too. Used to hang out in Cheeseplant's House waiting for MIST to open - fantastic, and rather player v player bloodthirsty game before all the Diku and Tickle muds started taking over.
Great days. I was playing MIST one day in the spanking new University X Term labs, very expensive, when a bunch of six formers came in to look the wonders of higher education. I did a 'shout' on the game - "oh god, hordes of potential first years staring at me and I'm playing a game". Got back loads of shouts "Greetings from the Netherlands", "Hello from Germany"....etc. Bet you I did more for recruitment that day than the entire rest of the tour.
An infallible scapegoat. If it says no and you proceed, your judgement on the line. If it says yes and you proceed but it fails...well, you did all your diligence, right? Not your fault...
Someone I used to know worked in a warranty repair centre in the UK, for televisions. He said that the BOSE televisions were Panasonics, as in if you removed the BOSE bezel the original Panasonic bezel was still there underneath.
This would be six-eight years ago and I'm passing on anecdote rather than having hard proof, but yeah - badge-engineering has long been a thing. Car industry is notorious for it.
Totally agreed. It's interesting background information, but it shouldn't be the thing you see first.
Displaying the full price with tax seems correct, but it is interesting to see a break down. It allows you to put pressure on those taking them.
Random example - petrol tax in the UK. Petrol is taxed at £0.5795 per litre fuel duty plus a further 20% VAT, and the price per litre at the moment is around £1.281. That means a majority of the price of a litre of petrol is tax. Whether this is right or wrong is not the point of this comment - there are arguments either way. It is, however, quite illuminating to actually see it so starkly.
Headline price should always be the all-in price. That's what you should advertise, and what I should see. But it's interesting to provide further information about the makeup of that fee too.
Corporate VDI. A lot of the larger corporates are moving away from physical desktops towards having virtual desktops and thin clients.
Macs don't use ARM. The question is whether you want to compare this Surface to an iPad or to, say, the MacBook 12". Assuming you pick macOS rather an iOS as the comparison, even then it's not clear cut - the Surface is thicker and heavier, with a lower processor than the Core M. Both machines would run desktop OSs, but the Surface can act as a tablet with touchscreen too which the MacBook can't.
It's really not that clear cut as to which is better or worse. For myself I stick with the MacBook for various reasons. If someone got one of these though, I certainly wouldn't be criticising - looks like. a nice machine.
From the article: "The research also suggests that owning an Android phone or using Verizon are a strong indicators of being high-income as well. ".
So there you go. If you own an iPhone or Android, you could be high income. Useful.
That is....damned accurate.
Yes - if you were to take away the elements of the movie that helped realise its vision then it would be a worse movie. See also: tautology.
Or it might be metaphorical or even just surreal. I'm a massive fan of the 1967 series, The Prisoner. Some episodes are relatively straight forward. Others...well, if you can definitively tell me what the ending episode was about, line for line, then congratulations. It was an exercise in the surreal, but with definite themes within it. So too was 2001.
It seems to me that Interstellar has a number of similarities with 2001. TARS could quite easily be seen as the Monolith in active form, and the ending of Interstellar was very much these "god-like beings" trying to operate within the confines of a human frame of reference.
The bit Interstellar seems to add is that the beings are us, evolved from the future. I seem to recall that being explicit in the film but haven't seen in a while so could be misremembering. That's definitely the impression I got though. I always thought about 2001's ending in the manner Kubrick described, in part because I read the book but mostly because I thought it seemed clear the direction it was guided in - am surprised it was considered an unknown and matter for debate.
All you said is true, but they're problems for the *business* owner, not the consumer. At the end of it, I want my £7.99 to give me access to the things I want to see. At the beginning of subscription, it pretty much did. These days, unless I'm interested in Netflix originals, it pretty much doesn't. Now as it happens I *am* interested in a couple of Netflix originals - Stranger Things, A Series Of Unfortunate Events. So I keep subscribing right now. It's getting more tenuous to justify though.
No, they literally integrated it. They took the BSD code and interfaced it with Windows.
They didn't rewrite it. They integrated the BSD stack.
Hey, I like it. My kids know that they can get those skins, if they do extra work around the house. My lawns are mowed, a lesson in responsibility and reward is taught, and fun is had by the kids at the other end of it. Works for me/us.
There was a really big turning point with MCA vs PCI as well. That's when it became plain that it was no longer "the IBM compatible".
When IBM couldn't force MCA as the standard it became plain that it had lost control over the direction of the design, and that we were now in a commodity hardware multivendor world.
I still say it's Compaq, not MS, that deserves the credit here. Compaq created the PC compatible. Microsoft did have the foresight to make sure its software worked too, but at the time the money was in hardware and you more or less expected incompatibilities between generations of the machine. The idea of cross-vendor compatibility in the micro market was Compaq's, for sure.
Not really sure that's true with the Switch. It's much newer so has had less time to embed, plus arguably operates in a different segment to the PS4.and XBox. Am not really sure a direct comparison is there to be made.
Yeah, targeting the one demographic that's always on their phones sounds like a really bad idea...
Naah - this is retconning. It was always called hacking. Cracking was breaking the copy protection on games etc..
You can still compile and run cryptocurrency stuff yourself if you want.
Hmm - I did type that out in paragraphs but forget I'd set HTML-formatting. Apologies.
top hasn't been good way to measure RAM for -years-. Not on Linux either. If your "sitting here on HS with a couple of windows using 13Gb" was correct, then none of the 8Gb machines would even boot. Measuring RAM usage these days, on any OS, has been trickier for quite a while. Buffering, wired etc.. I remember when one of the versions came out, think Lion but might be wrong, and it reported itself as using all the RAM people went mad. Windows shortly changed to do something similar as well, if I recall, and Linux has definitely been doing this for quite some time. Even after all the measuring is done you have to ask another question - what did you buy the RAM for? To sit there being pristine and clean and free? No, to be used. Your oS has detected the resources currently available to it and is making good use of them. If it had less, it would behave differently.