What Sony really needs is for Apple to buy up most of their consumer electronics/hardware divisions. Apple (Jobs) has a unified (sometimes a bubble of distorted reality) vision of delivering a product in hardware AND software, and keeping the unified architecture as it adds on and obsoletes your new fancy 6-months old hardware (as both do a lot of).
If anything, Apple IS Sony without the massive hardware clout nor resources, and without Sony's massive software integration blindspot. Just look at iTV; another obvious idea that Sony could've moved on in this PVR/HTPC/convergence age.
After all, if PS3 is supposed to be a computer, where's the OS? Almost as bad as HURD's OS before hardware, or even OS. Horse before buggy!
Conroe (VHS) gives you more for less than AMD(Beta)'s superior Hypertransport and on-cpu memory controller. Conroe entirely stole the thunder of AM2, and consequently AM3.
When you can get a Core 2 Duo E6600 and have it crush an FX-62 and at a fraction of a FX-62's price... It's the same formula as always, price to bang. You get more bang with 939, or go straight to Core 2 Duo.
You could always argue time. AMD folks are used to living a long time on a socket type. 939 was only around about a year before AM2 came, whereas 754 and the previous socket 7 were very, very long lived. In another couple years, maybe AM2/3 will pick up steam, but it's too early.
Surely MTV could've selected another company instead of the our favored rising star Harmonix to torture into practically WEB CODERS in MTV's black abyss of pointless Flash and content drivel. Oh despair!
It's not going to revive MTV back to how innovative it used to be in the beginning.
I thought it stretched into the GB, or GBA days when Nintendo was fully region free, and the only barriers were language and display? Or, this is the handheld experiment that finally bore fruit?
It starts out as just as something on a disk, you push it in, and it grows inside your HD as it was shipped.
Then, it's a-la-carte land where you get to select what apps you wanted, what options of the apps you don't want, what multiple versions of apps you want at the same time, flip around kernel options, and update it all from CVS at anytime while keeping your own modified sources of something.
Build and install without worrying about dependencies. No frozen precompiled distros, no fumbling around RPM hell, no keeping the apps in sync with the OS nor forced upgrades of the apps because the distro decided so, no tightly coupled interdependencies between the OS and the third party apps. It grows with you as you want it, the way you want it.
You know, Windows is great for this too. Some of the Linux out there (Red Hat/Fedora) needs to wake up.
And yet the Mac's 68000 had double to quadruple the amount of bus-wait states (for the 16-bit buses) whereas the 65816 on the GS had none. That effectively made the 65816 equivalent to a 4MHz 286 and the 8MHz 68000.
You obviously didn't write much 6502/65816 assembly to notice how simple and easy it is that it inspired the creation of the ARM, as well as continuing to live on in various Nintendo devices for a while. I give you the 68000 was the most beautiful and orthogonal 32-bit processor around at the time though.
The IIGS was underpowered, but in many cases equivalent to the Atari ST and Amiga of the day: o 3200 colors on screen (16 per line) and outdating EGA before it came out o GNO/ME: a SysV/BSD multitasking underlayer that predates yet operates much like your current command-line+X in FreeBSD/Linux o 8-bit dedicated wavetable 32-channels (15 for stereo) in '86 predating all wavetable sound on PCs by at least 5 years (and then of course the Beatles sued, and again, and again, up to the iTunes/iPod today)
By the time of '92, up to 16MHz cpu accelerator cars with 64K! of L2 cpu caching was available. Again, predating PCs.
So the IIGS was not too shabby, and could've been quite a contender if Apple didn't just give up on it.
It is the Apple IIGS desktop, the FIRST APPLE color desktop! with QuickDraw II (first color API), first usage of ADB, adb keyboard, adb mouse, etc etc. Not only that, it's a very old version of the GUI. Give these guy some credit!
What suffering was there for FreeBSD 5.x unless you were an early adoptor in the pre-5.3 days. Pre-5.3 days were alpha/beta days, so suffering was expected and self-inflicted.
Jobs always had a thing for a one-piece system since WELCOME TO 1984!! the original Macintosh and also fanless design. Then it was try try again with the Macintosh Classic, the iMac, the Cube... no matter how bad an idea it was nor how badly it crashed in the market.
It was the Macintosh II that started the 2-piece thing and color.
C++'s myThing.putzAbout("Bill", 28, "pepperoni and mushroom", "porter", "wingtip", 34) doesn't giving me a typing hernia like that Obj-C verbosity overload does.
You could do: [myThing putzAboutWithName:"Bill":28:"pepperoni and mushroom":"porter":"wingtip":34] but ObjC is still about too much typing. How many times do you have to abuse your poor pinky here vs C++?
What ever happened to simple short code? C coding wasn't about duplicating a GUI at your fingertips. None of the better dynamic languages such as Python/Ruby has these syntactical crutches either.
The oil industry such as Exxon recently made 9% after direct costs. Drug companies routinely range in the 25% after direct costs, and real estate has been in the 20% area after direct costs.
Who's making too much money again?
Meantime, the USA is all about wasting money. That's why we're fat, lazy, and quite frankly, taking the form of sheep; the loud baahing just won't stop though.:) We need a war on" stupidity and incompetent progress of the human race".
Meanwhile, what's the efficiency loss of going to hydrogen, then going to the battery, then serially driving it into propulsion? You would think it would be more efficient to directly charge the battery instead, or store it in something more energy dense than hydrogen, such as petro.
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My story is similiar to yours except the guy tried to assault me after he cut in line and couldn't fully move his car in because I wouldn't then back away to "let him" complete his 100 degree turn.
Cops handled it from there.
About the only time in my experience the cops were nice, but they still took a long time, and the dispatcher was still an ass.
You're the only person who's actually said it was ElectrOnic Arts. I distinctly said Electronic Arts.
Let's step over this again: "I remember was Electronic Arts was EOA..." It could've looked like EoA, same thing.
Did I say logo? did I say company name? No, so you assumed. Everybody who's been around immediately knows what era that is from without any misconception. I didn't have to draw any ascii text to represent what EOA looks like, and to immediately invoke my point.
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What Sony really needs is for Apple to buy up most of their consumer electronics/hardware divisions. Apple (Jobs) has a unified (sometimes a bubble of distorted reality) vision of delivering a product in hardware AND software, and keeping the unified architecture as it adds on and obsoletes your new fancy 6-months old hardware (as both do a lot of).
If anything, Apple IS Sony without the massive hardware clout nor resources, and without Sony's massive software integration blindspot. Just look at iTV; another obvious idea that Sony could've moved on in this PVR/HTPC/convergence age.
After all, if PS3 is supposed to be a computer, where's the OS? Almost as bad as HURD's OS before hardware, or even OS. Horse before buggy!
Conroe (VHS) gives you more for less than AMD(Beta)'s superior Hypertransport and on-cpu memory controller. Conroe entirely stole the thunder of AM2, and consequently AM3.
When you can get a Core 2 Duo E6600 and have it crush an FX-62 and at a fraction of a FX-62's price... It's the same formula as always, price to bang. You get more bang with 939, or go straight to Core 2 Duo.
You could always argue time. AMD folks are used to living a long time on a socket type. 939 was only around about a year before AM2 came, whereas 754 and the previous socket 7 were very, very long lived. In another couple years, maybe AM2/3 will pick up steam, but it's too early.
Surely MTV could've selected another company instead of the our favored rising star Harmonix to torture into practically WEB CODERS in MTV's black abyss of pointless Flash and content drivel. Oh despair!
It's not going to revive MTV back to how innovative it used to be in the beginning.
I thought it stretched into the GB, or GBA days when Nintendo was fully region free, and the only barriers were language and display? Or, this is the handheld experiment that finally bore fruit?
It starts out as just as something on a disk, you push it in, and it grows inside your HD as it was shipped.
Then, it's a-la-carte land where you get to select what apps you wanted, what options of the apps you don't want, what multiple versions of apps you want at the same time, flip around kernel options, and update it all from CVS at anytime while keeping your own modified sources of something.
Build and install without worrying about dependencies. No frozen precompiled distros, no fumbling around RPM hell, no keeping the apps in sync with the OS nor forced upgrades of the apps because the distro decided so, no tightly coupled interdependencies between the OS and the third party apps. It grows with you as you want it, the way you want it.
You know, Windows is great for this too. Some of the Linux out there (Red Hat/Fedora) needs to wake up.
unless it was on purpose, it's Crichton, or see-rich-ton, by your own link.
So what suffering? Answer the question. As said, 5.2.x && 5.3 was early adoption.
And yet the Mac's 68000 had double to quadruple the amount of bus-wait states (for the 16-bit buses) whereas the 65816 on the GS had none. That effectively made the 65816 equivalent to a 4MHz 286 and the 8MHz 68000.
You obviously didn't write much 6502/65816 assembly to notice how simple and easy it is that it inspired the creation of the ARM, as well as continuing to live on in various Nintendo devices for a while. I give you the 68000 was the most beautiful and orthogonal 32-bit processor around at the time though.
The IIGS was underpowered, but in many cases equivalent to the Atari ST and Amiga of the day:
o 3200 colors on screen (16 per line) and outdating EGA before it came out
o GNO/ME: a SysV/BSD multitasking underlayer that predates yet operates much like your current command-line+X in FreeBSD/Linux
o 8-bit dedicated wavetable 32-channels (15 for stereo) in '86 predating all wavetable sound on PCs by at least 5 years (and then of course the Beatles sued, and again, and again, up to the iTunes/iPod today)
By the time of '92, up to 16MHz cpu accelerator cars with 64K! of L2 cpu caching was available. Again, predating PCs.
So the IIGS was not too shabby, and could've been quite a contender if Apple didn't just give up on it.
It is the Apple IIGS desktop, the FIRST APPLE color desktop! with QuickDraw II (first color API), first usage of ADB, adb keyboard, adb mouse, etc etc. Not only that, it's a very old version of the GUI. Give these guy some credit!
This is a much better gallery of Apple GUIs.
GEM seems to be left out, as well as all the other "desktops" that predate MacOS, and were just as significant in contributions.
I do miss the multi-colored Apple menu as well as the a taking a byte out of the multi-colored Apple logo that made so much sense. Damn Beatles!
What suffering was there for FreeBSD 5.x unless you were an early adoptor in the pre-5.3 days. Pre-5.3 days were alpha/beta days, so suffering was expected and self-inflicted.
After 5.4 on, and 6.0 on are quite dandy.
The 16-bit descendant of ...
The best part for me was mapping the zero-page onto the framebuffer (it was in bank 1), and then using the stack as my blitter.
Compile sprites into asm code, and then push push push #immediate all day baby!
Jobs always had a thing for a one-piece system since WELCOME TO 1984!! the original Macintosh and also fanless design. Then it was try try again with the Macintosh Classic, the iMac, the Cube... no matter how bad an idea it was nor how badly it crashed in the market.
It was the Macintosh II that started the 2-piece thing and color.
Remember your history.
C++'s myThing.putzAbout("Bill", 28, "pepperoni and mushroom", "porter", "wingtip", 34) doesn't giving me a typing hernia like that Obj-C verbosity overload does.
:28 :"pepperoni and mushroom" :"porter" :"wingtip" :34] but ObjC is still about too much typing. How many times do you have to abuse your poor pinky here vs C++?
You could do: [myThing putzAboutWithName:"Bill"
What ever happened to simple short code? C coding wasn't about duplicating a GUI at your fingertips. None of the better dynamic languages such as Python/Ruby has these syntactical crutches either.
Windows is definitely not Vista ready yet. Did I read that right?
Same as being in "love" which can be blamed on Phenylethylamine and later endorphins. Not the same chemicals for other situations though.
Define HUGE profits.
:) We need a war on" stupidity and incompetent progress of the human race".
The oil industry such as Exxon recently made 9% after direct costs. Drug companies routinely range in the 25% after direct costs, and real estate has been in the 20% area after direct costs.
Who's making too much money again?
Meantime, the USA is all about wasting money. That's why we're fat, lazy, and quite frankly, taking the form of sheep; the loud baahing just won't stop though.
Meanwhile, what's the efficiency loss of going to hydrogen, then going to the battery, then serially driving it into propulsion? You would think it would be more efficient to directly charge the battery instead, or store it in something more energy dense than hydrogen, such as petro.
Already happened ...
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Yukon vs Accord head-on
Mustang side swipes an Explorer
And from the archives, the Gladwell article about SUVs: the psychology, history, and numbers:
http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_01_12_a_suv.htm
Personally, I'm glad people drive SUVs. It's like the stupid-tax they call the lottery, but here it's like watching Darwinism in high-chairs action.
You must have been watching, again, that South Park episode with the guys needing Cartman's big ass to sled down the snow hill faster.
My story is similiar to yours except the guy tried to assault me after he cut in line and couldn't fully move his car in because I wouldn't then back away to "let him" complete his 100 degree turn.
Cops handled it from there.
About the only time in my experience the cops were nice, but they still took a long time, and the dispatcher was still an ass.
They're public workers enforcing public laws. They better have cameras on them while on-duty.
something to do with Heisenberg's uncertain kitty not letting its naked singularity out of bag
the new WiFi networking model that can remember which security settings for which network
Intel wireless drivers (for Intel wireless chipsets) currently already do that in XP. Nothing special or useful except lazy XP programmers not caring.
Looks like *BSD such as OpenBSD, NetBSD, or FreeBSD are also on the downward slope with Redhat but not as badly:C +FreeBSD+%7C+NetBSD+%7C+DragonflyBSD%2C+fedora+%7C +fc5+%7C+fc4+%7C+fc3%2C+RHEL+%7C+redhat+%7C+red+ha t%2C++suse%2C+debian&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
http://www.google.com/trends?q=BSD+%7C+OpenBSD+%7
Now you understand the wisdom of Ports and pkgsrc. :)
You're the only person who's actually said it was ElectrOnic Arts. I distinctly said Electronic Arts.
..." It could've looked like EoA, same thing.
Let's step over this again: "I remember was Electronic Arts was EOA
Did I say logo? did I say company name? No, so you assumed. Everybody who's been around immediately knows what era that is from without any misconception. I didn't have to draw any ascii text to represent what EOA looks like, and to immediately invoke my point.