supercomputer pronunciation key(spr-km-pytr) n. A mainframe computer that, as the result of birth on an alien planet, is impervious to bullets, is capable of flight, has x-ray vision, can run faster than a speeding train, etc.
"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's a Cray XM-P!" - Seymour Fights The Demon World, Action Comics, 1932
Source: The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright (C) 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
iTunes plays, rips and burns MP3s as well as AAC. AAC is employed for the DRM, making possible distribution deals with the major labels. The iPod plays both MP3s and AACs.
Microsoft is disconcerted because Apple is not using WMA.
Here's something you might find amusing (and droll):
IBM TO OFFER NEXTSTEP ON AIX WORKSTATIONS
NEW YORK, February 5, 1990 . . . IBM and NeXT, Inc. today announced that IBM plans to offer NextStep on AIX. IBM's NextStep offering will provide AIX users with a major new application environment for enhanced business and professional productivity.
NextStep is an application software development and user interface environment, created by NeXT and licensed to IBM in 1988. IBM will support the same applications programming interfaces (APIs) as NextStep, providing compatibility and consistency so that developers can offer applications on both machines, resulting in a larger market for their efforts.
NextStep will join OSF/Motif as graphical user interface offerings planned for the IBM PS/2 and RISC computers running AIX, IBM's open-standard UNIX operating system based on AT&T System V and BSD 4.3.
Specific product offerings and availability will be made at a future date.
"The innovative NextStep application environment will offer outstanding ease- of-use and development productivity," said Nick Donofrio, president of IBM's Advanced Workstation Division. "We're especially excited about the benefits of the NextStep Interface Builder and Application Kit, which bring significant value to our customers."
The UNIX operating system offers sophisticated features such as powerful networking and multitasking, but it may been considered, by some users, to be too complicated for those who are not UNIX experts. NextStep, which hides the complexity of the UNIX operating system under an object-oriented environment, will allow users to take advantage of the benefits of UNIX.
"We believe IBM's support of NextStep will have profound implications + over time," said Steven P. Jobs. "UNIX is destined to be a crucial operating system this decade. NextStep tames UNIX so business users can tap its power. NextStep offerings from both IBM and NeXT will be a dynamic combination."
ECC memory uses a set of extra bits - 7 bits to cover each 32 bits or 8 bits to cover each 64 bits. Each error-checking bit works like a parity bit for a different subsection of the memory it is correcting. By working out which subsections contain an error, the errant bit can be deduced and then corrected by simply flipping that bit.
ECC can also detect (but not correct) 2, 3 or 4-bit errors in each block, though that would be unusual.
Yes, but this has real battles and real soldiers. Not that stupid computer-generated stuff. They're real. You actually get real soldiers. Of course the downside is that you probably have to arrange their funerals, as the battles are also real.
"Captain! We're running low on breadcrumbs" "Dash it man, have you tried the mess?" "I found two loaves of bread, but they're wholegrain" "Ensign, you know this is a white bread mission" "Yes sir, sorry sir" "I suppose the universe really is open after all" "Slightly open, sir" "What?" "I think it might be slightly open, sir" "Yes, that's what I thought you said"
I really don't see the big deal. SVG is an exceptionally easy format to parse, not like trying to make sense of (presumably deliberately obfuscated) illustrator epsfs.
There were some other BBC sci-fi stereo and fancy-radiophonic efforts before H2G2. I remember Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy over 26 weeks or so on Radio 4. (It was pretty cool).
If you see a silver wide screen laptop with a little grey apple on the back, you know you're looking at a G4 powerbook. You can be almost certain it's running Mac OS X. You know what you're looking at - the hardware, the software, what the machine is good at.
I watched the Forbes Richest 500 thing on History channel the other day. One thing that surprised me was how ubiquitous the PowerBook G4 was - about the only person not using one was Michael Dell - and somehow I don't think the marginal price difference between Macs and PCs was an issue here.
Comparing the diamond trade to Microsoft is unfair; one is a product based on international thuggery, exploitation, corruption and price manipulation. The other is the diamond trade.
This quotation is at the top of my user bug report page:
"Just remember: you're not a "dummy," no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who, though technically expert, couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it." - Walter Mossberg
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supercomputer pronunciation key(spr-km-pytr)
n.
A mainframe computer that, as the result of birth on an alien planet, is impervious to bullets, is capable of flight, has x-ray vision, can run faster than a speeding train, etc.
"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's a Cray XM-P!"
- Seymour Fights The Demon World, Action Comics, 1932
Source: The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright (C) 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
hmm...
:: Gassee
:: Be :: BeOS :: BeOS x86 :: Zeta :: C++ :: Yellow :: POSIX :: Blinkenlights
Jobs
Next
NextStep
OpenStep
GnuStep
Objective C
Blue
Unix
Brushed Metal
Perhaps your thinking of Mike 'Diesel' Spindler, famous for hiding under his desk.
iTunes plays, rips and burns MP3s as well as AAC. AAC is employed for the DRM, making possible distribution deals with the major labels. The iPod plays both MP3s and AACs.
Microsoft is disconcerted because Apple is not using WMA.
Your quote isn't salient. They never called it a workstation, they called it a personal computer.
I am afraid you are mistaken. The PowerPC instruction set is a subset of the POWER instructions.
I'm still using a power cord from a 1984 vintage Mac 128K. I know it's from that cause there's an Apple embossed in the plug.
I knew there was some part of the Mac that hasn't been completely re-engineered over the past twenty years.
Here's something you might find amusing (and droll):
IBM TO OFFER NEXTSTEP ON AIX WORKSTATIONS
NEW YORK, February 5, 1990 . . . IBM and NeXT, Inc. today announced that IBM plans to offer NextStep on AIX. IBM's NextStep offering will provide AIX users with a major new application environment for enhanced business and professional productivity.
NextStep is an application software development and user interface environment, created by NeXT and licensed to IBM in 1988. IBM will support the same applications programming interfaces (APIs) as NextStep, providing compatibility and consistency so that developers can offer applications on both machines, resulting in a larger market for their efforts.
NextStep will join OSF/Motif as graphical user interface offerings planned for the IBM PS/2 and RISC computers running AIX, IBM's open-standard UNIX operating system based on AT&T System V and BSD 4.3.
Specific product offerings and availability will be made at a future date.
"The innovative NextStep application environment will offer outstanding ease- of-use and development productivity," said Nick Donofrio, president of IBM's Advanced Workstation Division. "We're especially excited about the benefits of the NextStep Interface Builder and Application Kit, which bring significant value to our customers."
The UNIX operating system offers sophisticated features such as powerful networking and multitasking, but it may been considered, by some users, to be too complicated for those who are not UNIX experts. NextStep, which hides the complexity of the UNIX operating system under an object-oriented environment, will allow users to take advantage of the benefits of UNIX.
"We believe IBM's support of NextStep will have profound implications + over time," said Steven P. Jobs. "UNIX is destined to be a crucial operating system this decade. NextStep tames UNIX so business users can tap its power. NextStep offerings from both IBM and NeXT will be a dynamic combination."
ECC memory uses a set of extra bits - 7 bits to cover each 32 bits or 8 bits to cover each 64 bits. Each error-checking bit works like a parity bit for a different subsection of the memory it is correcting. By working out which subsections contain an error, the errant bit can be deduced and then corrected by simply flipping that bit.
ECC can also detect (but not correct) 2, 3 or 4-bit errors in each block, though that would be unusual.
They do? Then how come nobody ever sees it? My linux setup does newer crash.
Either that's a typo or the most ironically appropriate ascii bit error in the history of computing.
Yes, but this has real battles and real soldiers. Not that stupid computer-generated stuff. They're real. You actually get real soldiers. Of course the downside is that you probably have to arrange their funerals, as the battles are also real.
"Captain! We're running low on breadcrumbs"
"Dash it man, have you tried the mess?"
"I found two loaves of bread, but they're wholegrain"
"Ensign, you know this is a white bread mission"
"Yes sir, sorry sir"
"I suppose the universe really is open after all"
"Slightly open, sir"
"What?"
"I think it might be slightly open, sir"
"Yes, that's what I thought you said"
I really don't see the big deal. SVG is an exceptionally easy format to parse, not like trying to make sense of (presumably deliberately obfuscated) illustrator epsfs.
There were some other BBC sci-fi stereo and fancy-radiophonic efforts before H2G2. I remember Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy over 26 weeks or so on Radio 4. (It was pretty cool).
No, in reality the vast majority of PC software has no Mac equivalent.
This is true. I tried to get "Windows XP Tutor" from the Video Professor guy who's on TV all the time and they don't have it for Mac.
I bet all their other super high-quality software is PC-only too.
If you see a silver wide screen laptop with a little grey apple on the back, you know you're looking at a G4 powerbook. You can be almost certain it's running Mac OS X. You know what you're looking at - the hardware, the software, what the machine is good at.
I watched the Forbes Richest 500 thing on History channel the other day. One thing that surprised me was how ubiquitous the PowerBook G4 was - about the only person not using one was Michael Dell - and somehow I don't think the marginal price difference between Macs and PCs was an issue here.
Comparing the diamond trade to Microsoft is unfair; one is a product based on international thuggery, exploitation, corruption and price manipulation. The other is the diamond trade.
you this understand if open_firmware easy is then
what? you've never used handles before?
a + b + c == d is a comparison.
a + b + c = d is an illegal assignment. your compiler would report an invalid lvalue.
the comparison makes more sense anyway.
This quotation is at the top of my user bug report page:
"Just remember: you're not a "dummy," no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who, though technically expert, couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it."
- Walter Mossberg
The GameCube has a 485MHz PowerPC 405 variant, dubbed "Gecko". It is a 32-bit processor with 64-bit floating point.
It's more like China's Soyuz, as that's pretty much what it's based on.
The thing with 3rd world country is, they value human lives less than their american counter parts.
I value trolls less than their human counterparts too.
I really like the hierarchical menus; they actually indicate where a complex selection begins and ends. Very nice detail.