Pique comes from French. And there *is* a match between pronunciation and spelling; remember that pique is a French word and observe that it should be pronounced as 'peek'. Now the 'ough' laws are illogical...
All that does is move the user's faith away from the code itself and onto the security and sanctity of the signing key. Now, unless you can meet the committer in real life, verify their ID and then compare notes on the supposed value of their key, then you're still putting trust into the network. And that situation is pretty unlikely for most people.
On the downside, that means that anyone who can pose as the update server gets to insert arbitrary code into your Mozilla install without your knowledge - now that's trojanning!
The primary reason that Gopher's contents are so interesting is because it never caught on as a commercialisable medium - i.e. there are no ads, pop-ups etc. Unfortunately there is no Mother Gopher any more, nor is there a reliable VERONICA either, which means that you need to know where in gopherspace something is before you can look at it. [For instance: a NeXTSTEP gopherspace at sdf-eu.]
Indeed, the original story in appleinsider stated that this was an elevator at Paris Charles de Gaulle, where the photographer (a handler) had intercepted the package. Well, that screamed "hoax" at me; Apple don't tend to bundle top-secret prerelease hardware to their expos in the retail packaging. clickety - original story
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Conversely, a number of the companies in California (some of them quite big) have also had moments where they benefitted from interactions with Microsoft. For instance, Apple gained a lot of Apple ][ sales through the bundling of MS BASIC, which was more capable than Wozniak's Integer BASIC [the original in-ROM language]. The Macintosh did rather better than it might have otherwise, because of the existence of graphical versions of Microsoft's apps. The Apple/// only sold at all because of the availability of MS software, a market that gave MS enough money to expend into the international market. Latterly, Microsoft's cash injection through the purchase of $150M in non-voting stock assisted Apple, along with their five-year mission to continue supporting Office:Mac.
And yes, there have been many occasions when Apple have been hurt by MS, not least through userinterface licensing issues. However it's not as black-and-white as sometimes suggested.
I disagree; since MS bought Mapinfo they've had some good GIS applications. Since they bought Connectix they've had a good x86 virtual machine. While Word has been a good WP, I agree with the JCD article in that it's become unwieldy. Modern versions of Word are huge, and are packed with unused code. Many people use less than 10% of the features more than 99% of the time, and those features are the ones that have been around since Microsoft were writing Apple/// applications.
The version I heard for "this doesn't work" is that the code did something that, back when 32-bit PPC was all there was, worked and no-one assumed that this would change, then it did change for the 64-bit PPC which kindof scuppered the plan. One or more of us may be wrong, and I expect it's at least me.
The 6809E was more of a 16 bit CPU than the 8088 was.
I find that to be true of a few of the supposed "8-bit" processors from the micro days. For instance, as well as the 6809E, the Z80 from Zilog had a couple of 16-bit registers and a 16-bit ALU, but was an 8-bit processor? Then of course the MC68k was called a "16-bit" processor by some people, despite its 32-bit registers and 32-bit ALU. The data bus was 16 bits wide, but that doesn't make the processor; consider the MC68008:-)
I want a 68K based Sun box but haven't chased one down yet.
I occasionally see them on eBay but not for sensible moneys...the oldest SUNW box I have is a MicroSPARC:-(. Just have to make do with the NeXT slabs for the time being I suppose!
It's still the CPU to teach machine language or assembler on, and I even know people who are still using old SUN or similar-vintage workstations based on the m68k. The MC6809E CPUs also make good washing machine controllers, alledgedly.
Erm, they kindof do emulate IA32... and there are plenty of architectures that don't have x86 emulators (of note, anyway) and get along fine. None of the SPARC or PowerPC boxen where I work have so much as a SunPCI, let alone any emulated x86. IA-32 isn't the "norm" in a number of environments.
Now if you take the 'other things' into consideration, you notice that the ambient temperature of a room with a window in it is dictated more by the conduction and convection of heat between the window and the air than it is by the infra-red heat communication. The IR effects mainly dictate the temperature of the wall in places that have a line-of-sight connection with the Sun. If you'd ever owned one of those electric bar heaters, you'd notice how the temperature of the air in the room with the heater doesn't increase much, and indeed the room stays cold to the sides of the heater. Stand in front of it and you could toast bread.
Think about it for a half second or so. You want to heat up the ~10m of air in a room by having it absorb IR, so you place your source in a position such that it is separated from the target by ~20km of air. I think you may notice that any radiation that the air can absorb has been absorbed by the time it gets down there, so you only end up with absorption at the surfaces. And not enough to be the main contribution to the temperature change, when the room is in thermal contact with a planet+atmosphere-sized heat bath that it can exchange energy with via conduction.
Consider why people go to the expense of creating vacuum flasks, when if air was such a poor conductor and radiative transfer the most important factor in heat transmission, Dewar could have just covered his flask in tin foil and kept the coffee warm. No, this IR-blocking glass is going to be most useful in low-pressure situations such as PMTs and CCDs in vacuo.
Most of the heat that comes into your house will do so by conduction from the air by the window to the glass to the air by the window, then get carried around by convection. It won't get in by radiation, so IR-proof glass will have only a small effect. If you have double glazing then you have a hefty heat buffer between your house and your environment anyway, and the buffering effect is large enough to render any conduction heat exchange negligible. What it *might* do, however, is stop your neighbours from changing the channel on your TV.
In the cases that there are a small number of inputs and an expected range of outputs, then yes. For instance, think of something like tee. For every octet on input, there should appear the same octet on output. There are 256 different octets, so it wouldn't take long to test tee completely.
They needed the thing - the first Apple knew about it was when one of their online store employees phoned up VT to check whether they'd made a typo on their request for 1100 dual G5 machines.
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OPENSTEP-based...NeXTSTEP was an earlier OS that had a very different object library, BSD base etc.
Pique comes from French. And there *is* a match between pronunciation and spelling; remember that pique is a French word and observe that it should be pronounced as 'peek'. Now the 'ough' laws are illogical...
...doesn't the '#!/bin/sh' line in /etc/rc show that prior art has existed for decades? Is Kodak's patent going to be watertight here?
All that does is move the user's faith away from the code itself and onto the security and sanctity of the signing key. Now, unless you can meet the committer in real life, verify their ID and then compare notes on the supposed value of their key, then you're still putting trust into the network. And that situation is pretty unlikely for most people.
On the downside, that means that anyone who can pose as the update server gets to insert arbitrary code into your Mozilla install without your knowledge - now that's trojanning!
The primary reason that Gopher's contents are so interesting is because it never caught on as a commercialisable medium - i.e. there are no ads, pop-ups etc. Unfortunately there is no Mother Gopher any more, nor is there a reliable VERONICA either, which means that you need to know where in gopherspace something is before you can look at it. [For instance: a NeXTSTEP gopherspace at sdf-eu.]
Indeed, it doesn't look like that at all.
Indeed, the original story in appleinsider stated that this was an elevator at Paris Charles de Gaulle, where the photographer (a handler) had intercepted the package. Well, that screamed "hoax" at me; Apple don't tend to bundle top-secret prerelease hardware to their expos in the retail packaging. clickety - original story
You forgot Darwin/BSD among that lot.
Conversely, a number of the companies in California (some of them quite big) have also had moments where they benefitted from interactions with Microsoft. For instance, Apple gained a lot of Apple ][ sales through the bundling of MS BASIC, which was more capable than Wozniak's Integer BASIC [the original in-ROM language]. The Macintosh did rather better than it might have otherwise, because of the existence of graphical versions of Microsoft's apps. The Apple /// only sold at all because of the availability of MS software, a market that gave MS enough money to expend into the international market. Latterly, Microsoft's cash injection through the purchase of $150M in non-voting stock assisted Apple, along with their five-year mission to continue supporting Office:Mac.
And yes, there have been many occasions when Apple have been hurt by MS, not least through user interface licensing issues. However it's not as black-and-white as sometimes suggested.
I disagree; since MS bought Mapinfo they've had some good GIS applications. Since they bought Connectix they've had a good x86 virtual machine. While Word has been a good WP, I agree with the JCD article in that it's become unwieldy. Modern versions of Word are huge, and are packed with unused code. Many people use less than 10% of the features more than 99% of the time, and those features are the ones that have been around since Microsoft were writing Apple /// applications.
The version I heard for "this doesn't work" is that the code did something that, back when 32-bit PPC was all there was, worked and no-one assumed that this would change, then it did change for the 64-bit PPC which kindof scuppered the plan. One or more of us may be wrong, and I expect it's at least me.
I find that to be true of a few of the supposed "8-bit" processors from the micro days. For instance, as well as the 6809E, the Z80 from Zilog had a couple of 16-bit registers and a 16-bit ALU, but was an 8-bit processor? Then of course the MC68k was called a "16-bit" processor by some people, despite its 32-bit registers and 32-bit ALU. The data bus was 16 bits wide, but that doesn't make the processor; consider the MC68008 :-)
I occasionally see them on eBay but not for sensible moneys...the oldest SUNW box I have is a MicroSPARC :-(. Just have to make do with the NeXT slabs for the time being I suppose!
It's still the CPU to teach machine language or assembler on, and I even know people who are still using old SUN or similar-vintage workstations based on the m68k. The MC6809E CPUs also make good washing machine controllers, alledgedly.
Erm, they kindof do emulate IA32... and there are plenty of architectures that don't have x86 emulators (of note, anyway) and get along fine. None of the SPARC or PowerPC boxen where I work have so much as a SunPCI, let alone any emulated x86. IA-32 isn't the "norm" in a number of environments.
Now if you take the 'other things' into consideration, you notice that the ambient temperature of a room with a window in it is dictated more by the conduction and convection of heat between the window and the air than it is by the infra-red heat communication. The IR effects mainly dictate the temperature of the wall in places that have a line-of-sight connection with the Sun. If you'd ever owned one of those electric bar heaters, you'd notice how the temperature of the air in the room with the heater doesn't increase much, and indeed the room stays cold to the sides of the heater. Stand in front of it and you could toast bread.
Think about it for a half second or so. You want to heat up the ~10m of air in a room by having it absorb IR, so you place your source in a position such that it is separated from the target by ~20km of air. I think you may notice that any radiation that the air can absorb has been absorbed by the time it gets down there, so you only end up with absorption at the surfaces. And not enough to be the main contribution to the temperature change, when the room is in thermal contact with a planet+atmosphere-sized heat bath that it can exchange energy with via conduction.
Consider why people go to the expense of creating vacuum flasks, when if air was such a poor conductor and radiative transfer the most important factor in heat transmission, Dewar could have just covered his flask in tin foil and kept the coffee warm. No, this IR-blocking glass is going to be most useful in low-pressure situations such as PMTs and CCDs in vacuo.
The glass is the conductor, the air the heat buffer.
Most of the heat that comes into your house will do so by conduction from the air by the window to the glass to the air by the window, then get carried around by convection. It won't get in by radiation, so IR-proof glass will have only a small effect. If you have double glazing then you have a hefty heat buffer between your house and your environment anyway, and the buffering effect is large enough to render any conduction heat exchange negligible. What it *might* do, however, is stop your neighbours from changing the channel on your TV.
Yeah; it surprised me when Apple switched *from* tcsh to bash. I mean, yeah the version of tcsh they used wasn't great, but still...
In the cases that there are a small number of inputs and an expected range of outputs, then yes. For instance, think of something like tee. For every octet on input, there should appear the same octet on output. There are 256 different octets, so it wouldn't take long to test tee completely.
Yes, we do. I'm registered to an NHS dentist. Alas I only get subsidised treatment not free treatment - but it was free up until I was 18.
Because you don't live in a country with a state-funded dental care system, for instance the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
They needed the thing - the first Apple knew about it was when one of their online store employees phoned up VT to check whether they'd made a typo on their request for 1100 dual G5 machines.