Try running Office, or Photoshop, or any DVD authoring tool, or Logic Audio, or WebObjects or any of a dozen other major apps I can name on Debian PPC.
Linux x86 is almost there, Linux-anyotherplatform isn't even in the running.
Nope, NuBus was rolled out on the Mac in 1987, around the same time as MCA,but it predates it by a few years. The spec was actually developped at MIT as an open bus spec. Apple was the only real implementer.
Actually, they never stopped making the old iMac, it's just being sold to Education only now. There's a 17" version with a G4 CPU called an eMac.
The iMac form factor lasted 4 years as the primary form factor for Apple's consumer boxes. The Current iMac form factor will likely last nearly as long, with some changes (Colour, internals, screen size)
Apple's got a patent for PC's that can change their colour, that will show up in the iMac line (If it ever becomes reality), and that's a remote possibility for MacWorld San Fransisco in two weeks.
Likely the only actual changes will be a speed bump, possibly a new system board with DDR Ram like the PowerMac and a switchover from 15" to 17" as the rpimary form factor (With the 15" LCD living on in the budget config).
A new GPU is also likely, either a Geforce4MX or a Radeon 9000.
Then why does the 3 companies mentioned all use ideas and hardware pioneered by Apple?
USB(And serial busses in general,forex: ADB), the mouse, windowing consumer OS, Intelligent bus (NuBus, PCI was just a better implemented versionof the same basic idea), WYSIWYG, colour high-res displays on consumer hardware, multitasking consumer OS (Yeah, Amiga did that right first, I know, but Apple was the first comercially successful version)
Dell is certainly not influential, they've never had a new idea (Apart from their busness model). HP/Compaq hasn't done anything significant in 10 years,
IBM, now they're influential, but not really in the PC business, but in the Server and laptop space they certainly are.
What they've done is likely stopped producing the current models and are going to start shortly on the new, faster ones. Likely also the 15" is going away except for the base model of the Flat Panel iMac.
The 15" CRT iMac may also finally die a much deserved death, in favour of a lower-cost eMac (With the current eMac pricepoint getting the same speed boost as the iMac.)
Likely what will happen is that the 17" will become standard and the 15" flat panel will only be available on the bottom end iMac.
Apple knows it's hurting for low-end boxes. That's why the eMac is now a Retail product. They are trying to kill off the old 15" CRT iMac (With good reason).
The 17" iMac being discontinued? Not Bloody likely.
The 386sx could not be plugged into a 286 board. While they shared a bus design, the packaging was different, and therefore needed changes to the Motehrboard design. It also shared the 24 bit address bus of the 80286.
The 386DX had both a 32bit Data bus and a 32bit address bus.
The 486SX was a 486DX with the FPU disabled (This is not urban myth, comparisons of the die confirmed this), nobody knows why the FPU was disabled, apart from the fact it was.
Ogg is pretty much dead in the water, as is ogm. Simply put, Joe Average ain't going to use it because MPEG-4, AVI and MP3 are already here and work fine. To get people to change you need a killer app that's not possible oehrwise, not a better mousetrap, especially when the better mousetrap is 5 years late.
People like you may not be supporting MP3, but there's a lot more people like me who are, and we aren't going Ogg anytime soon. We're also the target market, not the Open Source fanatics who use Ogg.
Well, considering that most hardware upgrades for Consoles sell to less than 10% of that consoles owners, while software packs have much higher penetration, I'd say MS did it right and Sony and Nintendo screwed up.
Then again, MS is relying much more on Online Gaming as part of their strategy.
As to it increasing the price of the console, WTF??? The X-Box is effectively Cheaper than the PS2 (Same price, with 2 games and you don't need a memory card, for a rather large savings after the fact), and since just about everything other than Office & Windows lost MS money last quarter, who cares that X-Box did. PSX lost Sony money for the first couple of years.
The fact is that Live is slick, stable, fast and one hell of a lot of fun.
And yes, I own a PS2, because I'm a raving Squaresoft and Capcom fanboy. but online gaming on the PS2 is nowhere near as good as it is on XBox.
That's the Darwin Project, they use the BSD License.
GNU-Darwin is a GNU-Based ports clone, similar to the much supeprior (It's usable) Fink. This one is known to massively break your system (It replaced BSD binaries with GNU binaries, doesn't do any kind of check to see if the binaries are legit, copies the old ones to/tmp where they will be deleted after 7 days, and breaks gcc's Cocoa and Objective-C compatibility.
These guys are idiots and fanatics and not even any good at what they're doing (See Fink, which actually doesn't break your system when it installs)
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Even some of the So-Called Hack's aren't, at least not always.
David Drake's Northworld is a re-telling of Norse Saga's,and Cross the Stars is the Odyssey, He's currently doing O'Brian in Space. Drake does his own translations and is something of a roman scholar (Although not to Turtledove's Level).
Weber & Ringo's March To Series is Xenophon's Anabasis (Well, the first 3 books are), Ringo's Alldenata series owes much to Starship Troopers, and of course, the first 6 or so Honor Harringtons are ode's to Hornblower. Weber is of course a Naval Historian.
Remember, they're writing to the same Audience that E.E. Smith, Robert A. Heinlein, Jules Verne, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens did. All wrote rousing stories that have stood the test of time, and likely more SF will than most modern literature. Remember what 50's and 60's Sf is still in print. Dick, Asimov, Pournelle, Herbert & Heinlein are pretty much it, and they were called hacks in their day.
You can get voltage drop to change, but not voltage. Whatever DC voltage is applied to the circuit is equal to the voltage drop accross all sreies components in the circuit. In order to boost the DC voltage, you need a voltage multiplier circuit, which is doable, but non-trivial unless you have some training in the field, as it requires a fair bit of silicon.
Boosting AC is trivial, only requires a step-up transformer.
While a neat hack, the technical ability involved is less than that necessary to wire a cab control layout with blocks. He simply spliced wires to reconfigure the camera's guts to fit in the Vistadome car.
Now for a real neat project, build yourself the CTC-16 command Control System described in the Dec 1979-April 1980 Model Railroaders. Bonus points if you can get the receiver units down to a size that will fit in most HO scale Locomotives (The projects decoders need their own dummy unit due to size).
You do realize that Stranger was mostly written before Starship Troopers?
Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress are Heinlein at his best. They are also his two most political novels, exploring the concepts of personal responsibility and the application of that to government. One deals with a Libertarian type society, and the necessary preconditions (An environment that selects very heavily for self-reliance and personal responsibility) and the other a limited franchise democracy, remember, Juan ' Johnny' Rico was a rich Filipino kid from a priviledged background who discovers the concept of personal responsibility in the military. The movie was obviously written by someone who simply didn't understand the book, considering how the movie turned a Spartan Democracy into a fascist state, in the book one could serve in a capacity other than military, and most didn't serve in the military, it was the willingness to serve and successful completion of the service that granted franchise. In fact the only benefits of service were the ability to participate in politics and the ability to teach the History course Col. DuBois taught, otherwise no special priviledges were granted to veterans. The vote was available to anyone willing to sacrifice 2 or more years of their life in service to their people and who was capable of completing it, the point was made that they would take _ANYONE_ willing to serve and find a way for them to serve.
There is no fascism in Starship Troopers. The misbegotten movie is rife with it however.
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Got a few,
Mac II
Mac IIsi
Centris 660AV
Powerbook 170
Powerbook 140
Powerbook 165
IBM PS/2 Model 70/386
NeXT Monostation
And a Max 4004 kicking around, but that ain't classic hardware.
Do need to pick up an Amiga or two.
Baen Books does something similar, but for Fiction.
http://www.webscriptions.net
Try running Office, or Photoshop, or any DVD authoring tool, or Logic Audio, or WebObjects or any of a dozen other major apps I can name on Debian PPC.
Linux x86 is almost there, Linux-anyotherplatform isn't even in the running.
Never seen a pic of Denis Ritchie, Alan Cox or Richard Stallman(Love him or Hate him, he's written some good code) have you?
The only good coder who wears Yuppie Suits I can recall is Linus.
Never seen a Sun's Happy Meal Ethernet adaptor (hme0) have you?
Yeah,
You need 50 Excel Licenses, but only 20 Terminal Server/Citrix Licenses (Which cost more).
Problem with that was it didn't always work.
Early SX's especially had flaky FPU's (Intel did have a lot of trouble with the on-die FPU in the early 486's).
Nope, NuBus was rolled out on the Mac in 1987, around the same time as MCA,but it predates it by a few years. The spec was actually developped at MIT as an open bus spec. Apple was the only real implementer.
Actually, they never stopped making the old iMac, it's just being sold to Education only now. There's a 17" version with a G4 CPU called an eMac.
The iMac form factor lasted 4 years as the primary form factor for Apple's consumer boxes. The Current iMac form factor will likely last nearly as long, with some changes (Colour, internals, screen size)
Apple's got a patent for PC's that can change their colour, that will show up in the iMac line (If it ever becomes reality), and that's a remote possibility for MacWorld San Fransisco in two weeks.
Likely the only actual changes will be a speed bump, possibly a new system board with DDR Ram like the PowerMac and a switchover from 15" to 17" as the rpimary form factor (With the 15" LCD living on in the budget config).
A new GPU is also likely, either a Geforce4MX or a Radeon 9000.
Then why does the 3 companies mentioned all use ideas and hardware pioneered by Apple?
USB(And serial busses in general,forex: ADB), the mouse, windowing consumer OS, Intelligent bus (NuBus, PCI was just a better implemented versionof the same basic idea), WYSIWYG, colour high-res displays on consumer hardware, multitasking consumer OS (Yeah, Amiga did that right first, I know, but Apple was the first comercially successful version)
Dell is certainly not influential, they've never had a new idea (Apart from their busness model). HP/Compaq hasn't done anything significant in 10 years,
IBM, now they're influential, but not really in the PC business, but in the Server and laptop space they certainly are.
It's 2 weeks before MAcWorld Expo.
The iMac is due for a Speed bump up to ~1GHz.
What they've done is likely stopped producing the current models and are going to start shortly on the new, faster ones. Likely also the 15" is going away except for the base model of the Flat Panel iMac.
The 15" CRT iMac may also finally die a much deserved death, in favour of a lower-cost eMac (With the current eMac pricepoint getting the same speed boost as the iMac.)
The 15" iMacs have not been discontinued yet.
Likely what will happen is that the 17" will become standard and the 15" flat panel will only be available on the bottom end iMac.
Apple knows it's hurting for low-end boxes. That's why the eMac is now a Retail product. They are trying to kill off the old 15" CRT iMac (With good reason).
The 17" iMac being discontinued? Not Bloody likely.
S3 bough Diamond and became SonicBlue. They're out of the Video business, but Via licenses the old Savage core for it's chipsets.
Hercules got bought out by Guillermot, a French company that also bought Thrustmaster. You can still get Hercules branded stuff.
The 386sx could not be plugged into a 286 board. While they shared a bus design, the packaging was different, and therefore needed changes to the Motehrboard design. It also shared the 24 bit address bus of the 80286.
The 386DX had both a 32bit Data bus and a 32bit address bus.
The 486SX was a 486DX with the FPU disabled (This is not urban myth, comparisons of the die confirmed this), nobody knows why the FPU was disabled, apart from the fact it was.
Keep Dreamin'.
Ogg is pretty much dead in the water, as is ogm. Simply put, Joe Average ain't going to use it because MPEG-4, AVI and MP3 are already here and work fine. To get people to change you need a killer app that's not possible oehrwise, not a better mousetrap, especially when the better mousetrap is 5 years late.
People like you may not be supporting MP3, but there's a lot more people like me who are, and we aren't going Ogg anytime soon. We're also the target market, not the Open Source fanatics who use Ogg.
Well, considering that most hardware upgrades for Consoles sell to less than 10% of that consoles owners, while software packs have much higher penetration, I'd say MS did it right and Sony and Nintendo screwed up.
Then again, MS is relying much more on Online Gaming as part of their strategy.
As to it increasing the price of the console, WTF??? The X-Box is effectively Cheaper than the PS2 (Same price, with 2 games and you don't need a memory card, for a rather large savings after the fact), and since just about everything other than Office & Windows lost MS money last quarter, who cares that X-Box did. PSX lost Sony money for the first couple of years.
The fact is that Live is slick, stable, fast and one hell of a lot of fun.
And yes, I own a PS2, because I'm a raving Squaresoft and Capcom fanboy. but online gaming on the PS2 is nowhere near as good as it is on XBox.
Check Battle of the Planets out on Kazaa, that's the title that the DVD releases are under.
That's the Darwin Project, they use the BSD License.
/tmp where they will be deleted after 7 days, and breaks gcc's Cocoa and Objective-C compatibility.
GNU-Darwin is a GNU-Based ports clone, similar to the much supeprior (It's usable) Fink. This one is known to massively break your system (It replaced BSD binaries with GNU binaries, doesn't do any kind of check to see if the binaries are legit, copies the old ones to
These guys are idiots and fanatics and not even any good at what they're doing (See Fink, which actually doesn't break your system when it installs)
Even some of the So-Called Hack's aren't, at least not always.
David Drake's Northworld is a re-telling of Norse Saga's,and Cross the Stars is the Odyssey, He's currently doing O'Brian in Space. Drake does his own translations and is something of a roman scholar (Although not to Turtledove's Level).
Weber & Ringo's March To Series is Xenophon's Anabasis (Well, the first 3 books are), Ringo's Alldenata series owes much to Starship Troopers, and of course, the first 6 or so Honor Harringtons are ode's to Hornblower. Weber is of course a Naval Historian.
Remember, they're writing to the same Audience that E.E. Smith, Robert A. Heinlein, Jules Verne, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens did. All wrote rousing stories that have stood the test of time, and likely more SF will than most modern literature. Remember what 50's and 60's Sf is still in print. Dick, Asimov, Pournelle, Herbert & Heinlein are pretty much it, and they were called hacks in their day.
The Crazy Finn
Likely a Mobile P3, much cooler running.
You can get voltage drop to change, but not voltage. Whatever DC voltage is applied to the circuit is equal to the voltage drop accross all sreies components in the circuit. In order to boost the DC voltage, you need a voltage multiplier circuit, which is doable, but non-trivial unless you have some training in the field, as it requires a fair bit of silicon.
Boosting AC is trivial, only requires a step-up transformer.
While a neat hack, the technical ability involved is less than that necessary to wire a cab control layout with blocks. He simply spliced wires to reconfigure the camera's guts to fit in the Vistadome car.
Now for a real neat project, build yourself the CTC-16 command Control System described in the Dec 1979-April 1980 Model Railroaders. Bonus points if you can get the receiver units down to a size that will fit in most HO scale Locomotives (The projects decoders need their own dummy unit due to size).
And how am I supposed to get USB on a 386??
I've got a PS/2, from IBM
You've got a PS2, from Sony
There is a major difference
You do realize that Stranger was mostly written before Starship Troopers?
Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress are Heinlein at his best. They are also his two most political novels, exploring the concepts of personal responsibility and the application of that to government. One deals with a Libertarian type society, and the necessary preconditions (An environment that selects very heavily for self-reliance and personal responsibility) and the other a limited franchise democracy, remember, Juan ' Johnny' Rico was a rich Filipino kid from a priviledged background who discovers the concept of personal responsibility in the military. The movie was obviously written by someone who simply didn't understand the book, considering how the movie turned a Spartan Democracy into a fascist state, in the book one could serve in a capacity other than military, and most didn't serve in the military, it was the willingness to serve and successful completion of the service that granted franchise. In fact the only benefits of service were the ability to participate in politics and the ability to teach the History course Col. DuBois taught, otherwise no special priviledges were granted to veterans. The vote was available to anyone willing to sacrifice 2 or more years of their life in service to their people and who was capable of completing it, the point was made that they would take _ANYONE_ willing to serve and find a way for them to serve.
There is no fascism in Starship Troopers. The misbegotten movie is rife with it however.