Actually between the time I ordered it, and the time it arrived, the line was killed. It was not the 'low-end' at the time, so I had no reason to expect it. When it went, it went so completely that you could not get stock of anything anywhere. Typically, EOLed products hangs around for at least a while. Also, at the time suppliers had it marked up as out of stock for some time before finding out that in fact there would be no more. It wasn't a graceful obsolescence. At the time it was the start of a chain of related events that made me think that I really didn't want to make any long-term plans that involved Intel, since they certainly didn't make them with me (as customer) in mind.
I'm sure most television viewers out there can associate shows to networks, these days.
I can think of at least 5 shows off the top of my head that appear on at least 2 stations currently, even with my limited (UK Digital Terrestrial) range of channels.
Admittedly they are mostly US syndicated shows, but not all. A lot of BBC shows are ending up on UK Gold, UK Living, Granada+ and so on. The rest are things like Frasier, Friends, The Simpsons, Futurama, Buffy, Seinfeld and similar 'big' shows, where a subscription channel (Sky One, Paramount) usually has a newer season of the same show being shown on a free-to-air station (BBC 2, C4).
I think there is less and less association of shows with networks.
Hehe - in fact it was a GA6BXD (the non-SCSI one). It's possible to get the clock up to 900Mhz or so (not documented), and now possible to use coppermine, but at the time it wasn't, IIRC. Since then, E-Bay has provided me with a second P3-500 to make a nice second system though, and a use for the soundcard that didn't get on with the KT7A-RAID board I upgraded to.
I don't have any great love of AMD, although my current desktop is an Athlon 1Ghz. After the shitty behavious of Intel during a round of purchasing a couple of years ago I decided to avoid buying Intel as much as I could. Since the other credible alternatives for x86 are Cyrix (low-end, iffy compatibility) and Transmeta (slower, never seen a desktop system), AMD is an obvious choice.
The events in question were Intel canning a processor range just after I bought one processor for a dual processor system when they were not 'bottom-of-the-range' chips (the PIII 500 Katmai), but because they were marketing a new range of forced upgrades which required different chipsets (the 500E Coppermine). The other one was a load of grief with i810 and i810e boards, AGP video, 500E CPUs and a crappy vendor. Intel are not friendly people, and that's before you even look at their internal problems with staff treatment.
Geez... since it appears to be a brainless Hollywood action movie(*), I suspect you can probably see the ending coming from at least 30 minutes away.
(*) I haven't seen it either, although it looks like fun, in that mindless way. Nothing wrong with brainless action, but don't expect to be stimulated mentally by it.
XML allows data to be stored with context. For example if you have the data element "CmdrTaco", that doesn't mean much. But with xml, you can store this bit of information with context:
[snip]
Isn't that more informative?
When was the last time you looked at the data files of your database system? I don't think I've ever looked at the actual on-disk data of MSSQL or MySQL in quite some years. Who gives a rats arse whether that data is readable? The output from the database perhaps, but thats a formatting issue, not an architectural one.
Not really, they just wouldn't be able to write 'XYZ for Fuckwits' or (possibly) 'XYZ for ignoramuses', by using the thesaursus to avoid lawsuits from IDG's rabid legal department. I think Microsoft probably still allow you to know the words yourself, however inconvenient that is.
I only mentioned linux since your post suggested that you are currently running on x86 boxes and OSX seemed an even bigger step - I wouldn't (and don't) use linux as a desktop OS right now. I suspect I might with StarOffice 6 - it's mostly UI things that put me off SO5.
I'm a cynical brit, rather than a cynical American, but I have to be honest and say I didn't know how the BBC's funding is actually done. I agree that it's a damn sight better than PBS as an example of independent TV though.
We're an almost all MS school, but I'm pushing OSX hard
So rather than merely moving OS to (say) Linux, junk all the hardware as well? Apple's school discounts must be fantastic to make that even slightly appealing.
In my limited experience doing this for the Dreamcast, the exact same methods for building a cross-GCC worked for FreeBSD and cygwin (and presumably linux). The only slight issue was to do with NLS support in cygwin and binutils, but it wasn't hard to fix.
Right, like that no-hoper C64 and Atari ST. Backwater hardware. OK, so the Jaguar and more recent stuff is a bit fringey.
(still play Iridis Alpha from time to time when I dust off my C64, and Llamatron on my ST)
You need to check your keyboard setup, by the way - your exclamation point has a twitchy auto-repeat, and your question mark is mapped to exclamation point, too;-)
Since it only runs on OS X, I doubt they care that much. It isn't emulating the Aqua look & feel, it is the Aqua look & feel: "OroborOSX is a Carbon-based application for Mac OS X.". It requires the Apple Developer Tools to build.
I wish it said that more clearly on the site though, so I didn't have to download it and decipher the RTF (!) format readme to find out for sure.
The part about the CueCat that amused me was that in thepack you got from Radio Shack (sent to me in the UK by a friend - hi Bob!), there was a subscription offer for Forbes, and some other magazine I don't remember. To get the offer, you go to a website, and type in a 10 digit number - you don't do it by scanning a barcode. If you do use your Great New Idea, then who the hell else is going to?
This has puzzled me for a little while... When OS X was first announced, I read it as the letter X, like Rally X. Apparently it's really pronounced "O S Ten", because that's what it is.
If that's so, then what's OS X 10.1? "O S Ten Ten Point One"? Surely it should be OS 10.1 (which is what it is) with no X, or OS X 1.1 or R2 or similar (if it's a whole 'different product')?
And with even less disguising, the NeoGeo of course (although some would argue that the console is an SNK arcade machine rather than the other way around), and the Nintendo Quartet(IIRC?)- a SNES.
Try reading viahardware sometime - no end of people with problems with KT133A systems, on Windows too!
My own KT7A-RAID was extremely flaky with more than one IDE device in it until I tweaked it a lot - new BIOS, different soundcard, new 4-in-1 drivers, PCI bus settings... all sorts of things.
It now runs Win2k and SuSE 7.2 with no trouble at all.
There are phones that do that - Sony
CMD-MZ5 and CMD-J6 do it if you don't mind lining Sony's pockets (I try to avoid it - especially where the MemoryStick is involved).
I like the idea of a real ring from such a tiny phone though. I always fancied a Slayer riff as a completely-non-jingly ringtone.
[It took me a stupidly long time to find that link - Sony's website is almost as bad as 3Com's.]
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Actually between the time I ordered it, and the time it arrived, the line was killed. It was not the 'low-end' at the time, so I had no reason to expect it. When it went, it went so completely that you could not get stock of anything anywhere. Typically, EOLed products hangs around for at least a while. Also, at the time suppliers had it marked up as out of stock for some time before finding out that in fact there would be no more. It wasn't a graceful obsolescence. At the time it was the start of a chain of related events that made me think that I really didn't want to make any long-term plans that involved Intel, since they certainly didn't make them with me (as customer) in mind.
I'm sure most television viewers out there can associate shows to networks, these days.
I can think of at least 5 shows off the top of my head that appear on at least 2 stations currently, even with my limited (UK Digital Terrestrial) range of channels.
Admittedly they are mostly US syndicated shows, but not all. A lot of BBC shows are ending up on UK Gold, UK Living, Granada+ and so on. The rest are things like Frasier, Friends, The Simpsons, Futurama, Buffy, Seinfeld and similar 'big' shows, where a subscription channel (Sky One, Paramount) usually has a newer season of the same show being shown on a free-to-air station (BBC 2, C4).
I think there is less and less association of shows with networks.
Hehe - in fact it was a GA6BXD (the non-SCSI one). It's possible to get the clock up to 900Mhz or so (not documented), and now possible to use coppermine, but at the time it wasn't, IIRC. Since then, E-Bay has provided me with a second P3-500 to make a nice second system though, and a use for the soundcard that didn't get on with the KT7A-RAID board I upgraded to.
The events in question were Intel canning a processor range just after I bought one processor for a dual processor system when they were not 'bottom-of-the-range' chips (the PIII 500 Katmai), but because they were marketing a new range of forced upgrades which required different chipsets (the 500E Coppermine). The other one was a load of grief with i810 and i810e boards, AGP video, 500E CPUs and a crappy vendor. Intel are not friendly people, and that's before you even look at their internal problems with staff treatment.
(*) I haven't seen it either, although it looks like fun, in that mindless way. Nothing wrong with brainless action, but don't expect to be stimulated mentally by it.
Off the top of my head: BB King, Glenn Miller, Muddy Waters, Billie Holiday. My 'older music' interest is rather blues-slanted, but even so...
Indeed - Permutation City and Quarantine both made a big impression on me.
[snip]
Isn't that more informative?
When was the last time you looked at the data files of your database system? I don't think I've ever looked at the actual on-disk data of MSSQL or MySQL in quite some years. Who gives a rats arse whether that data is readable? The output from the database perhaps, but thats a formatting issue, not an architectural one.
Not really, they just wouldn't be able to write 'XYZ for Fuckwits' or (possibly) 'XYZ for ignoramuses', by using the thesaursus to avoid lawsuits from IDG's rabid legal department. I think Microsoft probably still allow you to know the words yourself, however inconvenient that is.
I only mentioned linux since your post suggested that you are currently running on x86 boxes and OSX seemed an even bigger step - I wouldn't (and don't) use linux as a desktop OS right now. I suspect I might with StarOffice 6 - it's mostly UI things that put me off SO5.
I'm a cynical brit, rather than a cynical American, but I have to be honest and say I didn't know how the BBC's funding is actually done. I agree that it's a damn sight better than PBS as an example of independent TV though.
The BBC is one of the few (or perhaps the only?) news organisations in the world with a legal obligation to be unbiased.
Really? I can see that in UK politics, since they are government-funded, but everything?
Win95 was Chicago (it's still mentioned in the driver .inf files in places)
Cairo was originally (IIRC) the all-new-better-than-ever NT when 3.1 was around, which didn't really happen, and became NT 4.
We're an almost all MS school, but I'm pushing OSX hard
So rather than merely moving OS to (say) Linux, junk all the hardware as well? Apple's school discounts must be fantastic to make that even slightly appealing.
In my limited experience doing this for the Dreamcast, the exact same methods for building a cross-GCC worked for FreeBSD and cygwin (and presumably linux). The only slight issue was to do with NLS support in cygwin and binutils, but it wasn't hard to fix.
Though only .41 inches thick, it has a Jog Dial and a Memory Stick slot
Never mind, at least it's still 0.41 inches thick. It's not all bad.
Right, like that no-hoper C64 and Atari ST. Backwater hardware. OK, so the Jaguar and more recent stuff is a bit fringey.
;-)
(still play Iridis Alpha from time to time when I dust off my C64, and Llamatron on my ST)
You need to check your keyboard setup, by the way - your exclamation point has a twitchy auto-repeat, and your question mark is mapped to exclamation point, too
Since it only runs on OS X, I doubt they care that much. It isn't emulating the Aqua look & feel, it is the Aqua look & feel: "OroborOSX is a Carbon-based application for Mac OS X.". It requires the Apple Developer Tools to build.
I wish it said that more clearly on the site though, so I didn't have to download it and decipher the RTF (!) format readme to find out for sure.
If you don't like divergent opinions, maybe move to Central Afghanistan?
Right, because that is a country where the citizens are all completely in agreement.
The part about the CueCat that amused me was that in thepack you got from Radio Shack (sent to me in the UK by a friend - hi Bob!), there was a subscription offer for Forbes, and some other magazine I don't remember. To get the offer, you go to a website, and type in a 10 digit number - you don't do it by scanning a barcode. If you do use your Great New Idea, then who the hell else is going to?
This has puzzled me for a little while... When OS X was first announced, I read it as the letter X, like Rally X. Apparently it's really pronounced "O S Ten", because that's what it is.
If that's so, then what's OS X 10.1? "O S Ten Ten Point One"? Surely it should be OS 10.1 (which is what it is) with no X, or OS X 1.1 or R2 or similar (if it's a whole 'different product')?
And with even less disguising, the NeoGeo of course (although some would argue that the console is an SNK arcade machine rather than the other way around), and the Nintendo Quartet(IIRC?)- a SNES.
Windows has no trouble with them
Try reading viahardware sometime - no end of people with problems with KT133A systems, on Windows too!
My own KT7A-RAID was extremely flaky with more than one IDE device in it until I tweaked it a lot - new BIOS, different soundcard, new 4-in-1 drivers, PCI bus settings... all sorts of things.
It now runs Win2k and SuSE 7.2 with no trouble at all.
, the hunt for evidence to link a state to these acts
You'd like to think they're finished doing that now since they're actually bombing people.
There are phones that do that - Sony
CMD-MZ5 and CMD-J6 do it if you don't mind lining Sony's pockets (I try to avoid it - especially where the MemoryStick is involved).
I like the idea of a real ring from such a tiny phone though. I always fancied a Slayer riff as a completely-non-jingly ringtone.
[It took me a stupidly long time to find that link - Sony's website is almost as bad as 3Com's.]