Assuming that circuit layouts are available for these old chips, it would be a piece of cake to emulate them in VHDL (a hardware description language) because they are comparatively simple to today's integrated circuits.
How much of what's in the system is really not currently available? They only mentioned 7400-series logic...variations (74LS, 74HCT, etc.) of that are readily available from companies such as DigiKey and Mouser, last time I checked. For what's not available, I'd think that old databooks would have functional descriptions and/or block diagrams from which VHDL could be written. While a transistor-level diagram would be nice, I'm not sure that it would be necessary--or even useful. (Example: if the 7400 wasn't still available, the databook would tell you that it was a quad 2-input NAND chip. That ought to be enough to duplicate its functionality.)
(Then again, I changed majors from computer engineering to computer science, so I could be all wet here.:-) )
...is that on most of them, the head is part of the printer and isn't easily replaceable. HP and Lexmark inkjets make the head part of the cartridge...the cartridge costs more, but you get a new head every time. Some Canon printers separate the ink and the heads, but even in these printers, the heads are in a cartridge of their own.
If the heads clog up on an HP or Lexmark, you buy new cartridges. If the heads clog up on a Canon, you buy new heads. If the heads clog up on an Epson, you end up sending the printer away for service. How convenient of them to do that.
(At home, I currently use a Lexmark Optra Color 40 and a Brother HL-630. The inkjet supports PostScript, while the laser printer supports PCL 3. I've used both with Linux with no problems...use Ghostscript with the Brother printer, send stuff straight to the Lexmark. Lexmark supplies are a little on the high side, but the HL-630 is one of the cheapest-to-operate printers on the planet...the drum and toner are separate, so a new 3000-page toner cartridge only costs about $30. I've not even bothered checking the refill price.)
It's actually at the root of the Start Menu and has been added to the left-hand nav of the Add/Remove Programs dialogue.
Win2K SP3 adds a similar feature...but I'd recommend against installing it. In addition to the issues previously noted WRT SP3, I've found it's great at destabilizing Win2K. Two of my machines started bluescreening whenever a DirectShow filter graph involving their webcams (Orange Micro iBots) was closed, and I just spent the past weekend in Phoenix reloading everything on my father's computer because SP3 hosed his MSN setup and caused printing to run at a glacial pace. Now that all of the affected machines have been put back to SP2, all is well with the world again.
Well, of course we all knew it, but it's nice to have test results to convince the sceptics.
Test results don't amount to a hill of beans if there's nothing on which to play the files. I'll be honest and say that I've never evaluated Ogg Vorbis. My DVD player and my portable CD player handle MP3, but they don't handle Ogg. It's pointless to consider a format that your hardware doesn't support. Once there's Ogg-compatible hardware (and recent events suggest that possibility in the not-too-distant future), I might go ahead and give it a shot. Until then, why bother?
Ping time'll be a real bitch, though (somewhere around 2600 ms)...and people thought satellite Internet service was bad. I'd also think it would be too easy for the Media Mafia to throw some jamming satellites into low-earth orbit that would interfere with "Havenco, Lunar Division."
There's no trademark infringement if the products or services involved are in unrelated fields. That's how you can end up with a modem, a truck, and a spacecraft that have the same name.
And what exactly is the differnce between specifing an embedded font and specifing system font if both can be overridden?
In the end, not much. If your page is set up such that it renders improperly (like if you had <br> after each line to force it to break in a certain place, and a font that renders in a larger size is substituted) if a different font is substituted, it's broken.
Speaking as a web developer, I'm a tad pissed at Netscape, because embedded fonts let you have more complete controll over the formatting of the web-page.
You're not supposed to have that kind of control over the formatting of a webpage...HTML wasn't intended for that purpose. As for CSS, yes, you could specify a particular font, but the user is free to set up his browser to substitute a different font (for legibility or for other reasons). Rather than fight the system in order to try to make a web page shiny, I'd think it would be better to work within the way HTML and CSS were intended to work. (After all, those server-supplied fonts will do bugger-all for someone using Lynx or a text-to-speech tool for browsing.)
Except N connectors are threaded, not bayonet. Here's another question... why is it called "bayonet", anyway?
FWIW, British lightbulbs use a bayonet base...instead of the familiar screw-in base used everywhere else in the world, theirs uses two contacts on the bottom and a couple of stubs on the side of the base that lock it into the socket. It's similar to the way a bayonet is attached to a riflepush it in, then twist to lock. (Go to this page and scroll down to the "B22 bayonet cap" entry...that's what they look like.)
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Stupid viddy won't play in Mozilla. I thought most everyone had come around.
You'll still need Windows Media Player (or something compatible), but the direct URL to the video is mms://vendariawm.fplive.net/vendaria/onair/obpOaDy qImLLKIKLvLluEN003501200160.asf. (I would've made it a link, but/. would've mangled it...as it is, you'll need to filter out the space in the middle.)
Why would a Carbon app need to be significantly modified to compile on an x86? Does an app for Solaris SPARC need heavy modification to run on Solaris X86? No, it doens't, it needs, well, no modification whatsoever, it just compiles.
It depends on the app...if you have any hand-optimized assembly language in your source code (which you will if you're using MMX, 3DNow!, or SSE...or (presumably) AltiVec, since we're talking about code originating on a PowerPC-based machine), you'll need to rewrite that section of the program.
Punch my name into Google and three of the first five links are to pages on my website. OTOH, it thinks I might've misspelled my name ("Did you mean:scott after"). Their spell checker needs some work.:-)
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Might as well wait for the Hammer.
The built in memory controller should to wonders for latency. Of course the 64 bit stuff will be a nice future feature to have.
I thought for a while that I'd do that, but I started getting tired of 12-hour SVCD encoding jobs (which is what you get with a 1.0-GHz Athlon when you use TMPGEnc at some of its highest-quality settings). Besides, a single-processor Hammer setup looked like it was going to be more expensive than the dual-processor Athlon MP that I just put together. With 12-hour jobs cut down to just 3 hours, life is good.:-)
(Whether a single Hammer would be faster than a dual Athlon MP is still an open question, especially with 32-bit apps. I've heard Hammer is supposed to be 10-25% faster at the same clock speed when running 32-bit apps, but one processor would still need to be damn fast (probably 3500+ or better) to keep up with a pair of Athlon MP 2100+s.)
Adobe's free PostScript printer driver to output to PS
With Win2K, you don't even need this...under the generic printer drivers that come with Win2K, "MS Publisher Color Printer" and "MS Publisher Imagesetter" are available. (No, I don't have Publisher installed on this machine. I don't have any parts of MS Office installed on this machine...for the few occasions where I need that kind of software at work, I've installed OpenOffice.) Those drivers will produce output which Ghostscript can read without any problems.
It'd be nice if GSview would work with the Cygwin version of Ghostscript as well as the native Win32 version, though...it'd mean I wouldn't need two copies of Ghostscript.
Call me when my Apex AD600A or my Rio Volt SP90 will start playing Ogg. Without hardware support, it'll go nowhere. (I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but it most definitely is not there yet.)
There is a lot of data out there to suggest that alcohol in moderation is good.
Bottle-conditioned beer (most homebrew and some microbrews/imports...Sierra Nevada and Chimay come to mind as commercial examples) even contains some vitamins, from the yeast that's used to carbonate the beer. If you happen to drink too much of the stuff, it's also not supposed to leave you with as bad a hangover. (I wouldn't know, as I don't drink to get wasted.) It's like getting some Marmite or Vegemite with your brew.:-)
I can understand the medical benefits of taking organs from pigs and putting them into people... but if we keep doing this... won't we eventually run out of politicians and CEOs?
Anyone else remember when they were Macintosh only?
IIRC, they never were. I have an AOHell client disk for the Apple II at home...never used it because I didn't like the idea of being locked into using whatever crummy software they provided. (I used ProTERM 3.0 to dial into GEnie, the CS department's terminal server (for Internet access), and local BBSes instead.) I think they introduced DOS and/or Win16 clients around the same time they dropped Apple II support.
Also, you have to consider that each CPU has different strengths and weaknesses - the Athlon is better at integer math, for example, while the Pentium 4 shines at floating-point.
My understanding was that the P4's x87 performance sucks eggs...that it's not only slower than the Athlon, but that it's even slower than the P!!! it was supposed to replace. Maybe they've improved things in more recent cores, but you'd think there would have been more mention of such an improvement if that had happened. (Yes, I know there's SSE2, but faster performance there does bugger-all for performance in most apps, since most apps use x87.)
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How much of what's in the system is really not currently available? They only mentioned 7400-series logic...variations (74LS, 74HCT, etc.) of that are readily available from companies such as DigiKey and Mouser, last time I checked. For what's not available, I'd think that old databooks would have functional descriptions and/or block diagrams from which VHDL could be written. While a transistor-level diagram would be nice, I'm not sure that it would be necessary--or even useful. (Example: if the 7400 wasn't still available, the databook would tell you that it was a quad 2-input NAND chip. That ought to be enough to duplicate its functionality.)
(Then again, I changed majors from computer engineering to computer science, so I could be all wet here. :-) )
I thought the "even's good, odd sucks" rule only applied to Star Trek movies...
If the heads clog up on an HP or Lexmark, you buy new cartridges. If the heads clog up on a Canon, you buy new heads. If the heads clog up on an Epson, you end up sending the printer away for service. How convenient of them to do that.
(At home, I currently use a Lexmark Optra Color 40 and a Brother HL-630. The inkjet supports PostScript, while the laser printer supports PCL 3. I've used both with Linux with no problems...use Ghostscript with the Brother printer, send stuff straight to the Lexmark. Lexmark supplies are a little on the high side, but the HL-630 is one of the cheapest-to-operate printers on the planet...the drum and toner are separate, so a new 3000-page toner cartridge only costs about $30. I've not even bothered checking the refill price.)
Win2K SP3 adds a similar feature...but I'd recommend against installing it. In addition to the issues previously noted WRT SP3, I've found it's great at destabilizing Win2K. Two of my machines started bluescreening whenever a DirectShow filter graph involving their webcams (Orange Micro iBots) was closed, and I just spent the past weekend in Phoenix reloading everything on my father's computer because SP3 hosed his MSN setup and caused printing to run at a glacial pace. Now that all of the affected machines have been put back to SP2, all is well with the world again.
Fsck 'em if they can't take a joke. :-)
Why use the fish when c't provides its own translation?
Test results don't amount to a hill of beans if there's nothing on which to play the files. I'll be honest and say that I've never evaluated Ogg Vorbis. My DVD player and my portable CD player handle MP3, but they don't handle Ogg. It's pointless to consider a format that your hardware doesn't support. Once there's Ogg-compatible hardware (and recent events suggest that possibility in the not-too-distant future), I might go ahead and give it a shot. Until then, why bother?
...given this announcement that people ought to get more fiber...
Ping time'll be a real bitch, though (somewhere around 2600 ms)...and people thought satellite Internet service was bad. I'd also think it would be too easy for the Media Mafia to throw some jamming satellites into low-earth orbit that would interfere with "Havenco, Lunar Division."
There's no trademark infringement if the products or services involved are in unrelated fields. That's how you can end up with a modem, a truck, and a spacecraft that have the same name.
In the end, not much. If your page is set up such that it renders improperly (like if you had <br> after each line to force it to break in a certain place, and a font that renders in a larger size is substituted) if a different font is substituted, it's broken.
You're not supposed to have that kind of control over the formatting of a webpage...HTML wasn't intended for that purpose. As for CSS, yes, you could specify a particular font, but the user is free to set up his browser to substitute a different font (for legibility or for other reasons). Rather than fight the system in order to try to make a web page shiny, I'd think it would be better to work within the way HTML and CSS were intended to work. (After all, those server-supplied fonts will do bugger-all for someone using Lynx or a text-to-speech tool for browsing.)
FWIW, British lightbulbs use a bayonet base...instead of the familiar screw-in base used everywhere else in the world, theirs uses two contacts on the bottom and a couple of stubs on the side of the base that lock it into the socket. It's similar to the way a bayonet is attached to a riflepush it in, then twist to lock. (Go to this page and scroll down to the "B22 bayonet cap" entry...that's what they look like.)
You'll still need Windows Media Player (or something compatible), but the direct URL to the video is mms://vendariawm.fplive.net/vendaria/onair/obpOaDy qImLLKIKLvLluEN003501200160.asf. (I would've made it a link, but /. would've mangled it...as it is, you'll need to filter out the space in the middle.)
It depends on the app...if you have any hand-optimized assembly language in your source code (which you will if you're using MMX, 3DNow!, or SSE...or (presumably) AltiVec, since we're talking about code originating on a PowerPC-based machine), you'll need to rewrite that section of the program.
Punch my name into Google and three of the first five links are to pages on my website. OTOH, it thinks I might've misspelled my name ("Did you mean:scott after"). Their spell checker needs some work. :-)
I thought for a while that I'd do that, but I started getting tired of 12-hour SVCD encoding jobs (which is what you get with a 1.0-GHz Athlon when you use TMPGEnc at some of its highest-quality settings). Besides, a single-processor Hammer setup looked like it was going to be more expensive than the dual-processor Athlon MP that I just put together. With 12-hour jobs cut down to just 3 hours, life is good. :-)
(Whether a single Hammer would be faster than a dual Athlon MP is still an open question, especially with 32-bit apps. I've heard Hammer is supposed to be 10-25% faster at the same clock speed when running 32-bit apps, but one processor would still need to be damn fast (probably 3500+ or better) to keep up with a pair of Athlon MP 2100+s.)
With Win2K, you don't even need this...under the generic printer drivers that come with Win2K, "MS Publisher Color Printer" and "MS Publisher Imagesetter" are available. (No, I don't have Publisher installed on this machine. I don't have any parts of MS Office installed on this machine...for the few occasions where I need that kind of software at work, I've installed OpenOffice.) Those drivers will produce output which Ghostscript can read without any problems.
It'd be nice if GSview would work with the Cygwin version of Ghostscript as well as the native Win32 version, though...it'd mean I wouldn't need two copies of Ghostscript.
If it's CD-RW, you can reuse it...and the price on those has fallen to a dollar or less.
An extra 700 megs of storage for my Rio is less than $1.00. Thanks for playing, though...
Call me when my Apex AD600A or my Rio Volt SP90 will start playing Ogg. Without hardware support, it'll go nowhere. (I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but it most definitely is not there yet.)
Bottle-conditioned beer (most homebrew and some microbrews/imports...Sierra Nevada and Chimay come to mind as commercial examples) even contains some vitamins, from the yeast that's used to carbonate the beer. If you happen to drink too much of the stuff, it's also not supposed to leave you with as bad a hangover. (I wouldn't know, as I don't drink to get wasted.) It's like getting some Marmite or Vegemite with your brew. :-)
You say that as if it would be a Bad Thing...
IIRC, they never were. I have an AOHell client disk for the Apple II at home...never used it because I didn't like the idea of being locked into using whatever crummy software they provided. (I used ProTERM 3.0 to dial into GEnie, the CS department's terminal server (for Internet access), and local BBSes instead.) I think they introduced DOS and/or Win16 clients around the same time they dropped Apple II support.
My understanding was that the P4's x87 performance sucks eggs...that it's not only slower than the Athlon, but that it's even slower than the P!!! it was supposed to replace. Maybe they've improved things in more recent cores, but you'd think there would have been more mention of such an improvement if that had happened. (Yes, I know there's SSE2, but faster performance there does bugger-all for performance in most apps, since most apps use x87.)