No sane person should dispute that Intel invented USB, but USB ports were on OEM boards for years without Dell or Gateway offering USB keyboards as even an option.
It's now seven years after the iMac's intro and I still see that PS/2, serial and parallel ports abound.
Market share has implications for profits, growth, etc., but Apple has been a design leader for decades (from that thing you call a mouse all the way to that thing you call an iPod).
In short, Chipzilla developed the tech and was able to force the inclusion of it on most motherboards but it took that little 2% company to get the consumer interested in it.
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You are correct with a teeny tiny addition. What happened with the iMac was that Steve steved serial (ADB & Geoport) and SCSI ports. Gone! Cold turkey (or in his case cold tofurkey).
This was the first wave of peripherals (think bondi blue colored anything!!) to hook old peripherals to USB.
Agreed. Works on the big three platforms (Macs are stuck with a command line app for now, but hey...), you can tune the priority of multiple projects and yes, there is a protein structure project running (but currently not accepting new accounts right now).
Now if only we could tie in P2P, distributed back-ups and money for CPU cycles, why this whole geography-based nation-state thing can be consigned to extinction.
According to the _article_, there are two CPU models : one requiring the "fansink" (oy!) and one without (800MHz).
What perfect timing! I had a Netgear modem gateway die on me and its metal case is small (7" x 10")and sturdy. However, it's a skosh too shallow to fit an Epia 800 because of the serial and parallel ports (stupid legacy ports!!!!).
Firstly, I must stress that I am not denying that technology will advance. I am saying that, for the next couple of hundred years at least, it will not affect our lives in any radical way. In one hundred years the lifestyles that people have will be much the same as what they have now.
"Next couple of hundred years"?! I'm virtually speechless. I could take the smart-assed route about barrowing your crystal ball, but . . . At best, you have an incredible lack of imagination.
They will still drive cars about . . .
That may be driving themselves with GPS and even moderate AI technologies. The 20th Century gave us planes and automobiles. Am I to only to expect cheaper versions for the next two hundred years!?
eat normal meals made in cookers and kept in fridges,
Genetically engineered to keep us thin, cancer-free and increase lifespan.
work doing much the same sort of jobs (although on a macroscopic scale there may be some new industries), go and watch films, sporting events, etc etc.
The Internet is changing entertainment and the workplace so much that I can't begin to start the list...
This is the way that people like to live, and this is not going to change beyond getting easier and cheaper - but again, we have the diminishing law of returns.
Technologically and socially, from the 1900's to the 1930's to the 1950's to the 1970's to the 1990's, change has leapt and accelerated forward. To make a sweeping statement for two centuries is just being extremely thick.
My above examples seem Utopic, I admit, but they're just an medium case example of change.
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It's now seven years after the iMac's intro and I still see that PS/2, serial and parallel ports abound.
Market share has implications for profits, growth, etc., but Apple has been a design leader for decades (from that thing you call a mouse all the way to that thing you call an iPod). In short, Chipzilla developed the tech and was able to force the inclusion of it on most motherboards but it took that little 2% company to get the consumer interested in it. Screed
You are correct with a teeny tiny addition. What happened with the iMac was that Steve steved serial (ADB & Geoport) and SCSI ports. Gone! Cold turkey (or in his case cold tofurkey).
This was the first wave of peripherals (think bondi blue colored anything!!) to hook old peripherals to USB.
Screed
Agreed. Works on the big three platforms (Macs are stuck with a command line app for now, but hey...), you can tune the priority of multiple projects and yes, there is a protein structure project running (but currently not accepting new accounts right now).
Now if only we could tie in P2P, distributed back-ups and money for CPU cycles, why this whole geography-based nation-state thing can be consigned to extinction.
Screed
According to the _article_, there are two CPU models : one requiring the "fansink" (oy!) and one without (800MHz).
What perfect timing! I had a Netgear modem gateway die on me and its metal case is small (7" x 10")and sturdy. However, it's a skosh too shallow to fit an Epia 800 because of the serial and parallel ports (stupid legacy ports!!!!).
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Mother God, make them stop!!!
Weren't recently trying to out-Google Google?
Good luck getting more than two of those chips, let alone a cluster of them.
Vacuum tubes still being used in production broadcasting... I did not know that...
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No that's in the Greek isles.
"Wi-Fi" is to Firewire
as
Bluetooth is to USB.
Hm, so what's copper and fiber Ethernet??
SCSI and Fibre Channel??
Hm....
My above examples seem Utopic, I admit, but they're just an medium case example of change.
(ROTFL)
Damn! And I justed was about to upgrade to mass
drivers!!! Damn, damn, damn!