Now that you mention it, an MP3 player built around a 5.25" floppy drive would get serious geek points.
It was done back in the early-mid 80s. Not MP3, obviously, but some company managed to fit roughly one and a half minutes of music onto a single-sided, single density disk.
Sorry I can't say more than that; all I saw was a short press release in either "Your Computer" or "Byte" over 20 years ago. I don't recall any other details, apart from laughing at the futility of spending a huge amount of money creating a format with only 1/60th the capacity of a cassette, with media 10 times the price and substantially reduced quality (though now I think of it, that sounds like a Sony product).
I wasn't suggesting it for Taco's benefit...more as a kind of "mob therapy" for those of us who suffer serious psychological trauma from an excess of pink. And ponies.
...I'd just say you're exactly right; my precise reaction was "WTF!".
More pink than you'd see in a Hustler pictorial of Barbra Cartland (and that's a lot of pink). And Babs nude would probably be prettier to look at...yes, it is that bad...
To be fair, OS 9 had a lot of failings, but well set up it could run rings around Windows for both stability and performance.
Of course, "well set up" meant creating multiple extension sets to eliminate conflicts (increasing system heap allocation where required) and various other hacks that weren't for the faint hearted.
The only difference here, is that by making street fighting legal, we no longer have to pay to INCARCERATE the participants. Obviously this SAVES us money.
Actually its more likely to cost us money, since it would leave those kind of people free to beat up anyone they please any time they like.
Look at it this way: if a thug feels the need to severely injure someone every night of the week (and lets face it, if a person wants to get into fights that often it isn't hard), that's seven people a week paying increased medical insurance premiums, missing time at work, possibly sustaining serious, permanently debilitating injuries (permanent medical care is far more expensive than incarceration). There's also property damage to consider.
By comparison, locking up people who can't behave in a civil manner is cheap.
Instable environments don't produce abnormal, life-forming events, they regularly produce events that are hostile to life.
But the earth is only 4600 years old, so there's nothing preventing an intelligent designer from popping by these unstable systems every so often and re-Genisising.
When Apple got around to the iMac, they were dead set on approaching the consumer market (whereas previously they were targeting a specialty niche market), which nessesitated lower costs on components.
The four-digit PPC line used IDE hard drives, the SCSI controller was usually for the optical drive and external bus. For that matter, my 1994 LC-630 (68040) has an IDE hard drive, so the change clearly has nothing to do with the iMac.
...mine came in the grey/blue case instead of the original tan case.
The O1 came in a couple of different cases; the first production run were aluminium, then they switched to plastic. The real way to tell was by the monitor and floppy drives: the 01 had a 5" green monitor, the Executive had a 6" amber monitor* and slim floppy drives.
They certainly were a taste of the future (well, more like an undigestable wad, really). Amazing for the time.
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Now that you mention it, an MP3 player built around a 5.25" floppy drive would get serious geek points.
It was done back in the early-mid 80s. Not MP3, obviously, but some company managed to fit roughly one and a half minutes of music onto a single-sided, single density disk.
Sorry I can't say more than that; all I saw was a short press release in either "Your Computer" or "Byte" over 20 years ago. I don't recall any other details, apart from laughing at the futility of spending a huge amount of money creating a format with only 1/60th the capacity of a cassette, with media 10 times the price and substantially reduced quality (though now I think of it, that sounds like a Sony product).
The stories were duped a mere 9 times instead of the usual 14.
I wasn't suggesting it for Taco's benefit...more as a kind of "mob therapy" for those of us who suffer serious psychological trauma from an excess of pink. And ponies.
Its been April 2nd for four hours here in sunny...uh, still dark Australia. And pink still isn't funny.
OK, I suggest everyone emails Cmdr Taco with a one word message:
"Subtlety!"
And if he doesn't get it, we should round up a posse to rivet a brass plaque with "Subtlety" engraved on it to his forehead.
But if stormtroopers are clones, wouldn't that particular appendage be an unnecessary distraction?
...I'd just say you're exactly right; my precise reaction was "WTF!".
More pink than you'd see in a Hustler pictorial of Barbra Cartland (and that's a lot of pink). And Babs nude would probably be prettier to look at...yes, it is that bad...
...they tried to rewrite the dungpile of spaghetticode in .Net technologies but failed to get any descent performance and stability
.Net always had "descent" performance: it was a huge let-down.
(Sorry, that spelling mistake was too good to pass up)
To be fair, OS 9 had a lot of failings, but well set up it could run rings around Windows for both stability and performance.
Of course, "well set up" meant creating multiple extension sets to eliminate conflicts (increasing system heap allocation where required) and various other hacks that weren't for the faint hearted.
Yes, OS X is a vast improvement.
Someone wasted a mod point. Cretin.
I'd teach him what mercy really meant.
If you're trying to teach him about "survival of the fittest", wouldn't offering mercy be missing the point of the lesson?
On the other hand, his depth perception would have been better if he hadn't worn the eye patch.
The only difference here, is that by making street fighting legal, we no longer have to pay to INCARCERATE the participants. Obviously this SAVES us money.
Actually its more likely to cost us money, since it would leave those kind of people free to beat up anyone they please any time they like.
Look at it this way: if a thug feels the need to severely injure someone every night of the week (and lets face it, if a person wants to get into fights that often it isn't hard), that's seven people a week paying increased medical insurance premiums, missing time at work, possibly sustaining serious, permanently debilitating injuries (permanent medical care is far more expensive than incarceration). There's also property damage to consider.
By comparison, locking up people who can't behave in a civil manner is cheap.
News...on paper...?
The AC owns IBM shares.
If I hadn't posted already I'd mod you up.
That's true, until you hit the breakdown voltage in the negative, in which case you overcome the natural resistance of the transistor.
I tried doing that, but it let the magic smoke out.
What's the point of founding your own nation? If your politics are at odds with the US, they'll just claim there are weapons of mass destruction...
Dude, if you think sucking people's blood and porn are related you should probably seek some professional help. Or at the very least a colour chart.
ew, may as well carry around a hankerchief.
Because nothing beats keeping a germ-encrusted rag in your pocket for staying healthy...
Why bother laying people off when there's a possibility they'll die instead? It would save a lot in severance pay...
Ooh, look, A vulnerability. Another example of why OS X is way behind Windows...
"I. Will. Not. Kill. Today."
Instable environments don't produce abnormal, life-forming events, they regularly produce events that are hostile to life.
But the earth is only 4600 years old, so there's nothing preventing an intelligent designer from popping by these unstable systems every so often and re-Genisising.
(Why yes, this is flamebait, thanks for asking!)
When Apple got around to the iMac, they were dead set on approaching the consumer market (whereas previously they were targeting a specialty niche market), which nessesitated lower costs on components.
The four-digit PPC line used IDE hard drives, the SCSI controller was usually for the optical drive and external bus. For that matter, my 1994 LC-630 (68040) has an IDE hard drive, so the change clearly has nothing to do with the iMac.
...mine came in the grey/blue case instead of the original tan case.
The O1 came in a couple of different cases; the first production run were aluminium, then they switched to plastic. The real way to tell was by the monitor and floppy drives: the 01 had a 5" green monitor, the Executive had a 6" amber monitor* and slim floppy drives.
They certainly were a taste of the future (well, more like an undigestable wad, really). Amazing for the time.
*I think it may have been an option.