OS/2 was great. I was always amazed at how it could run windows programs faster than Windows!
The other thing I always remember is that if you sorted the config.sys file (which, IIRC, was something like 60+ lines long) so the drivers loaded in alphabetical order, you could literally shave minutes off of your boot time.
One of my earliest Internet experiences, post-BBSes, was on Delphi using some OS/2 software called ODN--Offline Delphi Newsreader.
Good memories!
Sorting config.sys was not alphabetical, and also was one of the things that become obsolete with win95. You sorted it by memory consumption so you never had programs using more than 640kbytes of memory at any time. The simplest algorithms just sorted it so they started the largest first so they were also over first, but there were more complicated programs for automatically sorting and packaging config.sys.
Since it was part of the DOS operating system, it was rendered obsolete by win95 which hads it own drivers so you could just remove everything except what was needed to launch windows from config.sys.
The six is closest to the right hand when resting on the home row. It's in line with the rest of the keys that the right hand press like y h and n. Why would you press it with the left?
It is closer to the left hand side. If in doubt and you can't see it with the naked eye, read the article, it has nice pictures.
This is insane! What's next? Being sued by an architect for a photo of a building?
That is already the case. Though if the building is on public display (and buildings often are), then non commercial photos are allowed, but they may restrict licensing rights for post-cards, t-shirts and all the other tourist crap.
With the exception of outdated drivers and little to no support from Apple fixing them and forcing WIndows 8 on newer macs.
If the drivers are so outdated and horrible, then why does review after review claim that Windows performance (pick your version) is stellar on Macs?
Because you read Apple fanboy sites? Anyway it is not hard to have stellar performance when you have SSDs. Most laptop over average price are "stellar" and outside benchmarks hard to tell apart in performance.
That's in the US. Denmark is a separate country, with an entirely separate legal system. It may be wise to tell them "yes I did those things you are alleging, and if your interpretation of the law is correct I am guilty," and then fight the interpretation of the law.
For a really prominent example of the Bad Things that happen when you try to apply American rights in a non-American legal system look at Amanda Knox. In the US claiming a confession is coerced is a no-brainer. It's pretty much the only way to get a confession thrown out. In Italy it got her convicted of (and sentenced to a few years in jail for) slander.
Because coercion of a confession is normal and expected in the US, and it is only the degree of coercion that make it illegal (not unlike torture in the mid 200x), so it worth discussing, and not considered an unusal or extreme charge to bring up casually. In the rest of the world, coercion is illegal, period! It is like accusing the presecusion of beating their wives or the judge of taking bribes. Even in legally dubious countries like Italy that is just crazy.
It has to do with the lack of right in America, and assuming the same lack of rights in other countries.
Gee, an Apple product did this in the 90's, compressing memory segments assigned to processes not currently executing.
So did a Microsoft product called DoubleMem. This is really old tech, and Microsoft has even done it before. They even got in legal trouble over it, since they stole the code from the original creators (no, not Apple) Stacker.
Anything more intensive than gaming would no longer be in the sphere of simple desktop computing and move into the workstation space.
Yes, it would. Games are usually 32bit, desktop applications are not. Games need to run on old or crappy consoles with little memory or CPU, desktop applications do not.
Slap in a 1tb SSD and it really makes a difference I run 2 VM's daily on 16gb on a late 2011 MBP and the SSD make it faster than any brand new dell I have seen come in the office.
Try spending a quarter as much on the dell next time you compare.
Suspend is such a complicated feature that touches every part of the stack. I've found it works about 50/50. Every now and then I try it and it works for a while until a kernel update breaks it, eventually I try again in a few months and it's working again. I wouldn't support it if I wanted to remain sane.
Suspend? No, suspend is easy. Hibernate is complicated, but I have never had issues with suspend. It is so simple, just freeze the machine in its current state and then resume later without changing any state. The only applications that gets surprised by suspend and ones that rely on real clock and get surprised by large time differences.
That was fifty years ago. To put it in perspective, fifty years before the F-4 people were still using biplanes and the synchronized machine gun was the latest killer technology.
Things have changed. There's no reason to include a gun any more - it's a waste of space and weight.
There is no need for knives in modern combat either, so why do we have bayonets? Because sometimes, and very often in war, things go FUBAR and you need backup weapons better suited for close combat.
That may be, but this is specifically a fighter plane. A plane designed to dogfight. That is the metric upon which it is being judged here.
Not really, no. That would be the F-22. The F-35 is a multirole fighter - if history is any guide its primarily use will be for bombing.
And self-escort. Multi-purpose plains has the primary role as unescorted precision bombers. They can throw a few bombs, that therefore needs to be very well targeted and they can defend themselves if need be.
It will cost 3 million dollars and no one over 40 will be able to figure out how to open the door.
Nah, the prices will start from a competetive $50k for a model that can only go 5 miles to destinations preapproved by Apple, and up to 3 million for the model that is actually useful.
But that is stupid. If there is a market for battery-cases there is market for thicker phones with more battery, and they would be a lot smaller if it was only integrated.
Google is the same today. Almost everyone is either on a chromebook or a macbook pro.
Nobody with a sound mind runs dell, HP, or lenovo.
No one with a sound mind uses an Apple device or _can_ use a chromebook. The news on for instance Ars today is that they want PCs to adopt the same persistenting software Apple devices have where they reinstall OS X even after you wiped it completely from the system. This story is almost deja vu.
Lol passcode ? thats it?... just try them all geeeeeeez...............
Yes, unless he has used an usually long and mixed one, it should only take a few hours, otherwise you might have to wait a week or so, but still no time at all in the scale of criminal investigations.
Why was it made illegal again? To protect the taxi industry.
Have you heard of a thing called taxes? It is something you pay when you earn an income as opposed to when you give things away for free. Stop shilling for Ûber
Does this software do something that the Blender devs currently can't do (and aren't making good progress on)? Will Blender celebrate this release?
(Note: Renderman is still proprietary, it just costs nothing for a non-commercial licence. Not free software at all.)
(Note #2: The announcement is their "intent" to release it as open source by summer 2016. Currently no code has been released and no licence can be read.)
Not if it is has the same license as Renderman, which means it is only free if you don't actually use it, and don't mind signing off your soul to Pixar.
You could always run if you are in a hurry. That goes up to 20kmh, and I will bet a runner is a lesser nuisence than a motorized vehicle on the sidewalk.
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OS/2 was great. I was always amazed at how it could run windows programs faster than Windows!
The other thing I always remember is that if you sorted the config.sys file (which, IIRC, was something like 60+ lines long) so the drivers loaded in alphabetical order, you could literally shave minutes off of your boot time.
One of my earliest Internet experiences, post-BBSes, was on Delphi using some OS/2 software called ODN--Offline Delphi Newsreader.
Good memories!
Sorting config.sys was not alphabetical, and also was one of the things that become obsolete with win95. You sorted it by memory consumption so you never had programs using more than 640kbytes of memory at any time. The simplest algorithms just sorted it so they started the largest first so they were also over first, but there were more complicated programs for automatically sorting and packaging config.sys.
Since it was part of the DOS operating system, it was rendered obsolete by win95 which hads it own drivers so you could just remove everything except what was needed to launch windows from config.sys.
The six is closest to the right hand when resting on the home row. It's in line with the rest of the keys that the right hand press like y h and n. Why would you press it with the left?
It is closer to the left hand side. If in doubt and you can't see it with the naked eye, read the article, it has nice pictures.
So are shops, being private property does not stop something from being public space.
This is insane! What's next? Being sued by an architect for a photo of a building?
That is already the case. Though if the building is on public display (and buildings often are), then non commercial photos are allowed, but they may restrict licensing rights for post-cards, t-shirts and all the other tourist crap.
No I think this was using Thunderbolt
With the exception of outdated drivers and little to no support from Apple fixing them and forcing WIndows 8 on newer macs.
If the drivers are so outdated and horrible, then why does review after review claim that Windows performance (pick your version) is stellar on Macs?
Because you read Apple fanboy sites? Anyway it is not hard to have stellar performance when you have SSDs. Most laptop over average price are "stellar" and outside benchmarks hard to tell apart in performance.
Dude,
That's in the US. Denmark is a separate country, with an entirely separate legal system. It may be wise to tell them "yes I did those things you are alleging, and if your interpretation of the law is correct I am guilty," and then fight the interpretation of the law.
For a really prominent example of the Bad Things that happen when you try to apply American rights in a non-American legal system look at Amanda Knox. In the US claiming a confession is coerced is a no-brainer. It's pretty much the only way to get a confession thrown out. In Italy it got her convicted of (and sentenced to a few years in jail for) slander.
Because coercion of a confession is normal and expected in the US, and it is only the degree of coercion that make it illegal (not unlike torture in the mid 200x), so it worth discussing, and not considered an unusal or extreme charge to bring up casually. In the rest of the world, coercion is illegal, period! It is like accusing the presecusion of beating their wives or the judge of taking bribes. Even in legally dubious countries like Italy that is just crazy.
It has to do with the lack of right in America, and assuming the same lack of rights in other countries.
Oh please... Apple has stolen plenty of ideas from others over the years... Just ask Xerox/Palo Alto..
You think preemptive multi-tasking started with Apple? HA!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Why would anyone think that?? Even Microsoft Windows had preemptive multitasking half a decade before Apple.
Gee, an Apple product did this in the 90's, compressing memory segments assigned to processes not currently executing.
So did a Microsoft product called DoubleMem. This is really old tech, and Microsoft has even done it before. They even got in legal trouble over it, since they stole the code from the original creators (no, not Apple) Stacker.
Anything more intensive than gaming would no longer be in the sphere of simple desktop computing and move into the workstation space.
Yes, it would. Games are usually 32bit, desktop applications are not. Games need to run on old or crappy consoles with little memory or CPU, desktop applications do not.
Slap in a 1tb SSD and it really makes a difference I run 2 VM's daily on 16gb on a late 2011 MBP and the SSD make it faster than any brand new dell I have seen come in the office.
Try spending a quarter as much on the dell next time you compare.
Suspend is such a complicated feature that touches every part of the stack. I've found it works about 50/50. Every now and then I try it and it works for a while until a kernel update breaks it, eventually I try again in a few months and it's working again. I wouldn't support it if I wanted to remain sane.
Suspend? No, suspend is easy. Hibernate is complicated, but I have never had issues with suspend. It is so simple, just freeze the machine in its current state and then resume later without changing any state. The only applications that gets surprised by suspend and ones that rely on real clock and get surprised by large time differences.
That was fifty years ago. To put it in perspective, fifty years before the F-4 people were still using biplanes and the synchronized machine gun was the latest killer technology.
Things have changed. There's no reason to include a gun any more - it's a waste of space and weight.
There is no need for knives in modern combat either, so why do we have bayonets? Because sometimes, and very often in war, things go FUBAR and you need backup weapons better suited for close combat.
Not really, no. That would be the F-22. The F-35 is a multirole fighter - if history is any guide its primarily use will be for bombing.
And self-escort. Multi-purpose plains has the primary role as unescorted precision bombers. They can throw a few bombs, that therefore needs to be very well targeted and they can defend themselves if need be.
It will cost 3 million dollars and no one over 40 will be able to figure out how to open the door.
Nah, the prices will start from a competetive $50k for a model that can only go 5 miles to destinations preapproved by Apple, and up to 3 million for the model that is actually useful.
After 200 years of waiting, we can revenge the battle of the nest, and Copenhagenize London!
But that is stupid. If there is a market for battery-cases there is market for thicker phones with more battery, and they would be a lot smaller if it was only integrated.
Google is the same today. Almost everyone is either on a chromebook or a macbook pro.
Nobody with a sound mind runs dell, HP, or lenovo.
No one with a sound mind uses an Apple device or _can_ use a chromebook. The news on for instance Ars today is that they want PCs to adopt the same persistenting software Apple devices have where they reinstall OS X even after you wiped it completely from the system. This story is almost deja vu.
Sony begs to differ.
And Microsoft
And Apple
And Google is trying
Wait, are there good companies in IT?
Lol passcode ? thats it?... just try them all geeeeeeez...............
Yes, unless he has used an usually long and mixed one, it should only take a few hours, otherwise you might have to wait a week or so, but still no time at all in the scale of criminal investigations.
blatantly illegal activities any less illegal.
Why was it made illegal again? To protect the taxi industry.
Have you heard of a thing called taxes? It is something you pay when you earn an income as opposed to when you give things away for free. Stop shilling for Ûber
Trolling. Somebody is pushing the story as either clickbait or fud.
Does this software do something that the Blender devs currently can't do (and aren't making good progress on)? Will Blender celebrate this release?
(Note: Renderman is still proprietary, it just costs nothing for a non-commercial licence. Not free software at all.)
(Note #2: The announcement is their "intent" to release it as open source by summer 2016. Currently no code has been released and no licence can be read.)
Not if it is has the same license as Renderman, which means it is only free if you don't actually use it, and don't mind signing off your soul to Pixar.
You could always run if you are in a hurry. That goes up to 20kmh, and I will bet a runner is a lesser nuisence than a motorized vehicle on the sidewalk.