Nope, that's the D70, which is the bottom-end Nikon DSLR. And it only buffers 12 shots, it can simply write large JPEG's to fast CF cards as fast as it takes them. It's a 6MP camera, and the 144 images comes from the fact that they tested with a 256MB card.
Now the D2H can do the same, except with 4MP images at 8FPS.
The D2H and D1x are Nikon's top pro models (D2H is for sports work, where FPS is key, while the D1x is for higher-res work)
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Never seen an early VAX, have you? While not Dinosaur-pen large, the things were pretty massive.
It was originally spec'd with Dell Dual Xeon boxes, but Dell couldn't meet the timelines or the price. So they went looking and Apple promised them the first 1,100 dual 2G G5's at standard edu pricing, which allowed them to meet the deadline for the Top 500 list (making that list would get them enough grant money to pay for the cluster and the upgrade).
Go somewhere with one of the new Fuji machines. They're pretty much universally excellent, as long as you specifically request they make NO adjustments (Many labs adjust to make Joe Sixpack's shitty exposures from his $50 POS look acceptable. My exposures are dead on, and if they aren't, I don't want them to be fucked with).
Go to a decent Photo shop, and request no adjustments and you'll get good prints. Especially if you are using good film (I'm fond of Fuji Superia, as the retail version is almost as good as the pro version and half the price).
Remind me which was the 3rd major PDA platform to market?
HP came in after 3Com/Palm had the market owned, and after Apple had dropped out, and made a real splash with the iPaq and Jornada (iPaq being the only really successful PocketPC, and Jornada being one of the two other break-evens [the other being Toshiba's]).
Well, except you're still going to need some kinda box in between.
A guitar doesn't use 1/8" minijacks or output line level signals. You need something like the Monster Instrument Adaptor that Apple is selling.
Now if only it supported the Line6 GuitarPort, which is a USB Guitar interface. I suspect Line6 (Who really want to ship Mac support for the GuitarPort) will support GarageBand ASAP, as it's an even better combination than their own software and the box.
NeXTStep is an OS, running on top of a Mach microkernel, heavily based on BSD. It does this by running 2 'personalities', a BSD one and a NeXT/OPENSTEP one, simultaneously. It's not just a set of libraries, although the NeXTSTEP environment could be (And ran under SunOS and IRIX). The fact that the OS and the application environment shared the same name can be confusing.
OS X is similar to NeXTSTEP, but with 3 personalities, Cocoa (NeXTStep descended), Carbon (Classic Mac descended) and BSD. It also has an emulation environment that runs a Classic Mac OS VM for legacy software which is not Carbon.
OS X does use both FreeBSD and NetBSD descended code, but each release moved it closer to a pure FreeBSD descended BSD subsystem.
Oh, and Linux doesn't need Mach, neither does BSD. Nor does Mach normally run BSD or Linux as a personality (it's most common setup is OS X today, but many OS's run on top of it, or its descendants)
The Meter is the only thing on the body that is ALWAYS worth paying for. It determines exposure, which determines whether or not the picture looks decent(Provided you can compose and it's in focus) and also depth of field if you're shooting in a non aperture-priority program mode. The shutter only needs to be over 1/2000 if you are shooting very fast action and AF isn't really a need.
It's also the reason to go for an older used semi-pro body over a new consumer or amateur body.
The Meter in my 20-year old FA (The first Matrix Meter ever, body is the equivalent of todays F100) noticably outperforms the meter in my F65 in challenging lighting conditions(especially backighting).
Canon did break compatibility, not with the introduction of DSLR's, but with AF. They have the EF mount (AF) and an MF mount (MF Bodies and lenses). Which sucks, because their EF comsumer-grade lenses are crap compared to their older MF lenses.
Better a Nikon FM2 or FM3 with a set of non-G AF lenses.
The Camera is pretty much the same as a K-1000, apart from the better build quality of the higher-end Nikons; but the lenses will be compatible with all post-1980 Nikon SLR's (including the Digitals).
The Pentax K-1000's are great, but there are better options (And yes, I know that KA2 mount Pentax AF bodies can use K mount MF lenses)
Linux uses one of: ext2, ext3, XFS, JFS or ReiserFS as it's root filesystem (All of which, apart from ext2 are roughly equivalent to NTFS features-wise). Linux has long supported read/write access on FAT32, but only read access to NTFS partitions. Linux can run on FAT32, but rarely does (UMSDOS installations are bloody rare)
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Nope, that's the D70, which is the bottom-end Nikon DSLR. And it only buffers 12 shots, it can simply write large JPEG's to fast CF cards as fast as it takes them. It's a 6MP camera, and the 144 images comes from the fact that they tested with a 256MB card.
Now the D2H can do the same, except with 4MP images at 8FPS.
The D2H and D1x are Nikon's top pro models (D2H is for sports work, where FPS is key, while the D1x is for higher-res work)
Never seen an early VAX, have you? While not Dinosaur-pen large, the things were pretty massive.
I guess you haven't read much on the cluster.
It was originally spec'd with Dell Dual Xeon boxes, but Dell couldn't meet the timelines or the price. So they went looking and Apple promised them the first 1,100 dual 2G G5's at standard edu pricing, which allowed them to meet the deadline for the Top 500 list (making that list would get them enough grant money to pay for the cluster and the upgrade).
There are guys out there with 15 years of OS X Experience.
Since it's really NextStep 6.x
And NextStep has been around since '88
He's good, but no ESR or Linus.
That would be Allen Mclelland or the late John Allen.
Jack would be one of the minor gods though.
Bruce Chubb's running a series in Model Railroader right now on computer controlled signalling and turnouts.
Bruce is the reigning king of computer control for Model Railroads.
Go somewhere with one of the new Fuji machines. They're pretty much universally excellent, as long as you specifically request they make NO adjustments (Many labs adjust to make Joe Sixpack's shitty exposures from his $50 POS look acceptable. My exposures are dead on, and if they aren't, I don't want them to be fucked with).
Go to a decent Photo shop, and request no adjustments and you'll get good prints. Especially if you are using good film (I'm fond of Fuji Superia, as the retail version is almost as good as the pro version and half the price).
Ironic considering that Tranny is considered to be one of the most rock-solid tranny's ever made.
GM continues to use the same basic design today (The 4L60E and 4T65e are almost identical mechanically to the old 700-R4).
GM's been using that design for more than 25 years.
You got a lemon (Likely due to the poor QC of that era).
Except an RV280 is simply an RV250 that supports AGP 8x.
Remind me which was the 3rd major PDA platform to market?
HP came in after 3Com/Palm had the market owned, and after Apple had dropped out, and made a real splash with the iPaq and Jornada (iPaq being the only really successful PocketPC, and Jornada being one of the two other break-evens [the other being Toshiba's]).
Umm, exactly how did they do that.
The base model iPod is still $299. Same price it's been since the 10 and 20GB 2G iPods were introduced.
Except now it's a 15GB model.
What they've done is introduced a lower priced miniature model that doesn't have nearly the bang for the buck of the $299 one.
Bad Value, but NOT higher cost.
Well, except you're still going to need some kinda box in between.
A guitar doesn't use 1/8" minijacks or output line level signals. You need something like the
Monster Instrument Adaptor that Apple is selling.
Now if only it supported the Line6 GuitarPort, which is a USB Guitar interface. I suspect Line6 (Who really want to ship Mac support for the GuitarPort) will support GarageBand ASAP, as it's an even better combination than their own software and the box.
iPod Mini.
It's flash based, not HDD based. You don't want to do serious exercise with an HDD or CD based player.
The iPod's are pretty tough all-round though.
Umm, how about some of the truly 'critically aclaimed' albums out there.
Like Warren Zevon's 'The Wind' or Johnny Cash's last album.
Or one of the surprise treats like Evanescence's Fallen.
or even some of the better pop albums (Like Dido's new disc)
rather than a list of the top10 crappy R&B albums, with a leavaning of the few over-rated art-rock albums of the year.
It actually predates Shiva.
It was developed by Infocrypt, which Shiva bought, and Shiva was in turn eaten by Intel.
SST is legacy, as LANRovers have had IPSEC support since at least version 6.7.
If your company doesn't use IPSec, it's probably going to get left behind when Intel finally dumps the old and crufty SST protocol.
But it is the 'First' game in the franchise.
Xenosaga 2 won't be eligible.
I'd have to say it was Xenosaga.
Previous to that would be Devil May Cry or Halo, although those aren't 2003 games.
It only builds on 25 years of D&D (including about 20 of Forgotten Realms.)
It;s no sequel to Baldurs Gate, but it is D&D (And thus disqualified by the poster's requirements)
Xenogears is episode 5, Xenosaga is episode one (And soon two) of the tale, which literally spans thousands of years.
It's supposed to be close, but not the same, when they get to Xenosaga Episode 5.
No.
NeXTStep is an OS, running on top of a Mach microkernel, heavily based on BSD. It does this by running 2 'personalities', a BSD one and a NeXT/OPENSTEP one, simultaneously. It's not just a set of libraries, although the NeXTSTEP environment could be (And ran under SunOS and IRIX). The fact that the OS and the application environment shared the same name can be confusing.
OS X is similar to NeXTSTEP, but with 3 personalities, Cocoa (NeXTStep descended), Carbon (Classic Mac descended) and BSD. It also has an emulation environment that runs a Classic Mac OS VM for legacy software which is not Carbon.
OS X does use both FreeBSD and NetBSD descended code, but each release moved it closer to a pure FreeBSD descended BSD subsystem.
Oh, and Linux doesn't need Mach, neither does BSD. Nor does Mach normally run BSD or Linux as a personality (it's most common setup is OS X today, but many OS's run on top of it, or its descendants)
Bad meter=bad pictures.
The Meter is the only thing on the body that is ALWAYS worth paying for. It determines exposure, which determines whether or not the picture looks decent(Provided you can compose and it's in focus) and also depth of field if you're shooting in a non aperture-priority program mode. The shutter only needs to be over 1/2000 if you are shooting very fast action and AF isn't really a need.
It's also the reason to go for an older used semi-pro body over a new consumer or amateur body.
The Meter in my 20-year old FA (The first Matrix Meter ever, body is the equivalent of todays F100) noticably outperforms the meter in my F65 in challenging lighting conditions(especially backighting).
Canon did break compatibility, not with the introduction of DSLR's, but with AF. They have the EF mount (AF) and an MF mount (MF Bodies and lenses). Which sucks, because their EF comsumer-grade lenses are crap compared to their older MF lenses.
Better a Nikon FM2 or FM3 with a set of non-G AF lenses.
The Camera is pretty much the same as a K-1000, apart from the better build quality of the higher-end Nikons; but the lenses will be compatible with all post-1980 Nikon SLR's (including the Digitals).
The Pentax K-1000's are great, but there are better options (And yes, I know that KA2 mount Pentax AF bodies can use K mount MF lenses)
Linux uses one of: ext2, ext3, XFS, JFS or ReiserFS as it's root filesystem (All of which, apart from ext2 are roughly equivalent to NTFS features-wise). Linux has long supported read/write access on FAT32, but only read access to NTFS partitions. Linux can run on FAT32, but rarely does (UMSDOS installations are bloody rare)
Except it's so locked down that you can't visit any non-local pages.
You have to turn on access to any non-local pages (And it bitches at you if you do)