And several "SyQuest" drives before that. Those 44MB/88MB cartridges were industry standard back in the day.
I even had a SyQuest EZ135, which was an attempt to compete with Zip. It had better performance than the Zip, but there was no way they could make those platters cheaper than a Zip disk.
One problem was the reliability/durability implications of people treating spinning platters the same way they treat tape. The other was the inability to keep up with the densities possible in fixed-spindle drives when they have to account for the mechanical tolerances of removability.
It's weirder than that. In the US, people buying "a pound" of beef in Boulder would be getting more beef than people buying "a pound" of beef in Seattle. I don't know if this difference is greater/less than the difference between Anchorage and Honolulu.
On second thought, that would be slightly more honest than if it were sold by the gram, unless the scales were properly calibrated for gravitational conditions at each location.
In Japanese, the "with" meaning "using this tool" would be the particle "de". "with" meaning "together" would be the particle "to", but without further elaboration, there's still ambiguity between "eat two ingredients together" and "two participants eat together" depending on how the sentence got constructed. Who knows an actual language people use that makes this completely unambiguous?
Crude language aside, I do see a point there. My last few computers were Apple branded, but they haven't made anything I want to upgrade to in 3~4 years. Even the last one I got was a bit of a compromise, but I was willing to make it to buy myself time to transition to something else. They certainly are driving me away. Unless they fix those issues you mentioned (soldered in components, lack of ports), my next machine will likely not be an Apple. System76 is looking pretty good lately.
I also read something about them deprecating OpenGL? There's probably no one left there who remembers QuickDraw3D and what success that was.
They're doing everything they can to drive away high end users. Oh well.
but we're talking about right triangles. How many RIGHT triangles can you think of off the top of your head where all 3 sides are integral in any unit of measure? 3:4:5 is the most oft cited and easy to remember. 12:5:13 is the other easy one. I can't think of any others at the moment, but I thought there was one more without going into triple digits. (obviously, since the unit of measure is arbitrary, when we talk about triangle x:y:z, we are talking about all triangles that are geometrically "similar" to x:y:z).
Almost ditto here. Apple is headed in the wrong direction, and I'm slowly planning my Linux migration, hopefully complete by the time my current MBP dies. I guess I'm still silently hoping Apple makes good hardware again.
In terms of expandability, the Pismo PBG3 was probably the best. Two expansion bays (maybe one was battery only), cardbus slot, 2xfirewire, Infrared, upgradable RAM, CPU, and HD. The generation before that was OK if you had older peripherals.
Back when I was writing papers, I also found it handy to do a search-and-replace on the ends of sentences to break a paragraph up into a list so that I can rearrange/re-organize my thoughts. I can't do that with single spaces after periods (since then there's no other good way to distinguish sentence endings with things like Mr. or P.E.)
Also, I sometimes just wanted a sentence count, and counting "." and "." gets a pretty accurate count when working on plain text (no word processor feature).
I think you got the terms mixed up with "volatile" and "nonvolatile" memory.
DRAM = capacitors store bits. SRAM = logic gates store bits. They are both volatile (i.e. bits are lost when power is off.)
SRAM typically has no wearout mechanism. There are "nonvolatile" SRAMs that have an EEPROM component to it that will have the normal EEPROM wearout mechanism. Aside from such corner cases they're not much different from the logic gates that implement the rest of the chips in the system.
Flash is a refinement on the EEPROM technology which is a refinement on the EPROM technology. If I recall correctly, the only difference between a PROM and EPROM is the quartz window on top. Flash/EPROM = trapped electrons store bits. They are (supposed to be) nonvolatile. (at least in the order of years/decades.)
That's why that "Contract With America" thing that the Republicans were touting a few years ago made me chuckle. The gist I got from their flyer was "We'll cut taxes and balance the budget by cutting waste, but oh no, we won't touch the elderly and our men in uniform.".
The reasonable Republicans were probably shaking their heads. The dumb ones probably bought it hook, line and sinker.
Agreed. It's the "holy grail" to have real-time Google Earth style data fed into a flight sim so that you'll see real buildings and real scenery. Tie that in with real-time weather and air traffic data (yes, that A300 really IS flying THERE right NOW), and I'm sold!
The other angle is that it would eliminate the need to install 10+ DVDs of scenery, as long as you've got an internet connection.
There are hacks to tie Xplane to Google Earth, but it' would be great if it's IN the game.
Option available on some ancient mac programs in the System 6-9 era. You can force quit the Finder (vague analogous to Windows Explorer, the standard built-in file browser) so that you can run those programs that need just a little bit more memory and processor time.
Genuinely curious on how to do this without frying the chip/board. Even when I have things sent out for (allegedly) professional rework, they still occasionally screw it up (cold solder, solder bridge). Do you have a thermometer to monitor the component, or do you just "gut feel" it? With a heat gun, it feels like you'll get some pretty uneven heating, so to make sure everything melts, you might get some hot spots that exceed the max reflow T of the component. OTOH, if you've shortened the life of a GPU from 20yrs to 15yrs, you'd still probably never know/care. I've been afraid to try this myself due to all of the above.
A joke, for sure, since System 9 and lower only had partial/half-assed memory protection (if you could call it that, and only for PowerPC code. 68k systems had none, IIRC). However, it would be an interesting academic exercise to see whether PowerPC 603/604/750 have the same issues and to what extent.
I initially stayed with OpenOffice, mainly due to inertia, and also to wait and see how it all turns out.
Unfortunately, at the time, OpenOffice didn't support the new MS formats (.xlsx,.docx, etc.) and so I had to export them back in the old formats to be able to open them in Openoffice (.xls,.doc). LibreOffice was able to open them, so I switched over. There was also an annoying display bug in the Base module (MacOS version) where scrolling will result in a screenful of the same record.
As you say, I'll consider going back to LibreOffice if it sucks less.
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And several "SyQuest" drives before that. Those 44MB/88MB cartridges were industry standard back in the day.
I even had a SyQuest EZ135, which was an attempt to compete with Zip. It had better performance than the Zip, but there was no way they could make those platters cheaper than a Zip disk.
One problem was the reliability/durability implications of people treating spinning platters the same way they treat tape. The other was the inability to keep up with the densities possible in fixed-spindle drives when they have to account for the mechanical tolerances of removability.
A reasonable reading of that is that they have approximately 10 warehouses to automate.
replying to myself...
There's a Japanese guy that did something similar:
http://www.ze.em-net.ne.jp/~ke...
His English page which talks about the video game aspect of his device:
http://www.ze.em-net.ne.jp/~ke...
This is cool:
http://geoffg.net/maximite.htm...
I think he was talking about this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's weirder than that. In the US, people buying "a pound" of beef in Boulder would be getting more beef than people buying "a pound" of beef in Seattle. I don't know if this difference is greater/less than the difference between Anchorage and Honolulu.
On second thought, that would be slightly more honest than if it were sold by the gram, unless the scales were properly calibrated for gravitational conditions at each location.
In Japanese, the "with" meaning "using this tool" would be the particle "de". "with" meaning "together" would be the particle "to", but without further elaboration, there's still ambiguity between "eat two ingredients together" and "two participants eat together" depending on how the sentence got constructed. Who knows an actual language people use that makes this completely unambiguous?
Crude language aside, I do see a point there. My last few computers were Apple branded, but they haven't made anything I want to upgrade to in 3~4 years. Even the last one I got was a bit of a compromise, but I was willing to make it to buy myself time to transition to something else. They certainly are driving me away. Unless they fix those issues you mentioned (soldered in components, lack of ports), my next machine will likely not be an Apple. System76 is looking pretty good lately.
I also read something about them deprecating OpenGL? There's probably no one left there who remembers QuickDraw3D and what success that was.
They're doing everything they can to drive away high end users. Oh well.
but we're talking about right triangles. How many RIGHT triangles can you think of off the top of your head where all 3 sides are integral in any unit of measure? 3:4:5 is the most oft cited and easy to remember. 12:5:13 is the other easy one. I can't think of any others at the moment, but I thought there was one more without going into triple digits. (obviously, since the unit of measure is arbitrary, when we talk about triangle x:y:z, we are talking about all triangles that are geometrically "similar" to x:y:z).
>released along with OSX 10.5 Leopard, and Leopard was released in October 2017. I wouldn't call that a *recent* >macOS version.
I'm guessing you meant 2007.
I don't know the exact date but that sounds about right.
Almost ditto here. Apple is headed in the wrong direction, and I'm slowly planning my Linux migration, hopefully complete by the time my current MBP dies. I guess I'm still silently hoping Apple makes good hardware again.
In terms of expandability, the Pismo PBG3 was probably the best. Two expansion bays (maybe one was battery only), cardbus slot, 2xfirewire, Infrared, upgradable RAM, CPU, and HD. The generation before that was OK if you had older peripherals.
Those were the days.
Back when I was writing papers, I also found it handy to do a search-and-replace on the ends of sentences to break a paragraph up into a list so that I can rearrange/re-organize my thoughts. I can't do that with single spaces after periods (since then there's no other good way to distinguish sentence endings with things like Mr. or P.E.)
Also, I sometimes just wanted a sentence count, and counting "." and "." gets a pretty accurate count when working on plain text (no word processor feature).
I think you got the terms mixed up with "volatile" and "nonvolatile" memory.
DRAM = capacitors store bits.
SRAM = logic gates store bits.
They are both volatile (i.e. bits are lost when power is off.)
SRAM typically has no wearout mechanism. There are "nonvolatile" SRAMs that have an EEPROM component to it that will have the normal EEPROM wearout mechanism. Aside from such corner cases they're not much different from the logic gates that implement the rest of the chips in the system.
Flash is a refinement on the EEPROM technology which is a refinement on the EPROM technology. If I recall correctly, the only difference between a PROM and EPROM is the quartz window on top.
Flash/EPROM = trapped electrons store bits.
They are (supposed to be) nonvolatile. (at least in the order of years/decades.)
That's why that "Contract With America" thing that the Republicans were touting a few years ago made me chuckle. The gist I got from their flyer was "We'll cut taxes and balance the budget by cutting waste, but oh no, we won't touch the elderly and our men in uniform.".
The reasonable Republicans were probably shaking their heads. The dumb ones probably bought it hook, line and sinker.
> the claim that CERN's Large Hadron Collider had opened a portal to another world that an unfortunate employee then vanished in.
Was his name, per chance, Gordon Freeman?
Agreed. It's the "holy grail" to have real-time Google Earth style data fed into a flight sim so that you'll see real buildings and real scenery. Tie that in with real-time weather and air traffic data (yes, that A300 really IS flying THERE right NOW), and I'm sold!
The other angle is that it would eliminate the need to install 10+ DVDs of scenery, as long as you've got an internet connection.
There are hacks to tie Xplane to Google Earth, but it' would be great if it's IN the game.
Option available on some ancient mac programs in the System 6-9 era. You can force quit the Finder (vague analogous to Windows Explorer, the standard built-in file browser) so that you can run those programs that need just a little bit more memory and processor time.
This reminds me of that.
Cool beans. I always thought one of those IR thermometers would be cool to have. It's perpetually on the list of "would like to have some day".
A major AI is scary enough.
Genuinely curious on how to do this without frying the chip/board. Even when I have things sent out for (allegedly) professional rework, they still occasionally screw it up (cold solder, solder bridge). Do you have a thermometer to monitor the component, or do you just "gut feel" it? With a heat gun, it feels like you'll get some pretty uneven heating, so to make sure everything melts, you might get some hot spots that exceed the max reflow T of the component. OTOH, if you've shortened the life of a GPU from 20yrs to 15yrs, you'd still probably never know/care. I've been afraid to try this myself due to all of the above.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...
I got my HP48GX from a BEST store. I wondered what happened to them, and now I know.
Yeah, but who can cast a 3rd level spell these days? You'd be lucky to get cantrips to work.
A joke, for sure, since System 9 and lower only had partial/half-assed memory protection (if you could call it that, and only for PowerPC code. 68k systems had none, IIRC).
However, it would be an interesting academic exercise to see whether PowerPC 603/604/750 have the same issues and to what extent.
I initially stayed with OpenOffice, mainly due to inertia, and also to wait and see how it all turns out.
Unfortunately, at the time, OpenOffice didn't support the new MS formats (.xlsx, .docx, etc.) and so I had to export them back in the old formats to be able to open them in Openoffice (.xls, .doc). LibreOffice was able to open them, so I switched over. There was also an annoying display bug in the Base module (MacOS version) where scrolling will result in a screenful of the same record.
As you say, I'll consider going back to LibreOffice if it sucks less.