runs Office 2000 suite just fine, scanning/printing/fax, and turbotax. Still has regular security patches from microsoft. amazing how many commercial apps run on 95/98/nt
I can one-up number five, Transforms Into A Talkie-Toaster:
TOASTER: Howdy doodly do! How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
LISTER: Look, I don't want any toast, and he doesn't want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. No toast! TOASTER: How 'bout a muffin? LISTER: Or muffins! Or muffins! We don't like muffins around here! We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes, and no hot cross buns, and definitely no smegging flapjacks! TOASTER: Ah, so you're a waffle man!
oh yes, I remember bubble memory & even core for that matter, what with my age > 40, and there's still other types of experimental magnetic RAM out there. I'm hoping one catches on, the seek times for data are slowing the whole IT world
1. permanent read/write random-access storage that doesn't spin 2. ubiquitous ten-megabit wireless networking coast to coast 3. direct computer to brain link 4. batteries with 10 times existing capacity, or fuel cell that runs on common cheap organic liquid such as wood alchohol. 5. common-sense AI knowledgebase/engine to check spreadsheets, documents, databases for obvious errors.
but the beatings are illegal here. There were trials, however badly that went, with ultimately two of the officers getting 30 months sentence. Footnote: Rodney was jacked up on PCP and attacked the officers, however undue and extreme their reaction. Let's also note that after his 3.8 MILLION DOLLAR settlement with the LAPD, he's currently bankrupt, committed several felonies since then and living in a drug rehab center.
MODERATION: -3 Obvious Racist Bigot Slurring Good Name of Great African American Hero Rockney King
certainly the beatings and censorship of ideas and religion will be an integral part of any Chinese "sustainable city", since the sustainability of the The People's Government is always of foremost consideration
heh, i'm having a bit of trouble with the internet access == tech boom, what with the dot-bomb bust and all. And am laughing at influx of "highly educated tech workers" phase too. More likely employment for Indian phone support people who read scripts to frustrated customers, and a decline in goods/services purchased from local business as large corporation get their foot in the door via internet.
see, after two generations those stories get so exaggerated they turn into legends and even worse world religions that cause wars that go on for millenia. thanks a gob!
more laughter for HP getting rid of three architectures which are primarily used for business computing (non-floating point, non-vector), thinking they could force the customers of nonstop-mips, hpux-parisc, and vms-alpha to go to pricey, unproven, largely unsupported by vendors and poorly performing itanic. The customers are staying away in droves.....
I solved that problem for less than $30 a month with a virtual host somewhere on the east coast (don't even know where it really is). That's my only machine that's always on & holds all my files/email/stuffs. I access it ssh tunnel from work or wherever. The key is to seperate what can be kept on a machine that gets turned off from what must always be available.
not my apps, standard Oracle diskless TPS benchmark is slower. I should be fair and say that the floating point and linear algebra benchmarks are smoking on Itanium2, but that's just not what usual business apps do, it's all bcd/integer, memory shuffle, and such which show no benefit
look at the "available" date, those systems don't ship yet! hahaha, vaporhardware! I have two 1.5GHz Itanium2 boxes at work, they run RedHat Enterprise Linux & Oracle about 15% slower than my home 1.5GHz Xeon box. Why someone would pay 2.5 times the money for same performance in most business/serving apps is beyond me.
it's very telling that Stroussap looks at much more well-designed languages and always says he can't see any advantage over C++. It's time to move on alright, much as I enjoy the challenge and fun of dealing with C/C++ code, it's the wrong solution for 80% of what it's commonly used for....let's leave it to kernel and graphics/GUI libraries, but for heavens sake let the rest die off.
most $300 are not made by children, you're assuming the exceptional cases the media hypes are the general ones. My sister-in-law in cambodia works sewing clothes that usually wind up with made-in-thailand on them for the major labels. they do take breaks and lunch. You understand in their culture people work 7 days a week for normal jobs, whether waiter or grocer or whatever. Only bankers, engineers, and government work 5 day week. wages are low by our standards, but few dollars a day will feed a family over there. Her husband makes $350 a month as manager at another textile place, he can afford car, his & her motorcycles, and home electronics at about 1/5 what we pay. My wife started work at age 15 selling cigarettes and umbrellas going from restaurant to restaurant (lots of girls do that) for $3 a day, she loved being able to buy jewelry and makeup and clothes for herself with adult-level wages, but I'm sure american media would have thrown a fit about exploiting child.
if the planet dies, the race IS dead, whether or not a few cosmonauts in a tin can or on the moon survive. this will be true for at least two hundred years.
they gave all their goodies to Linux! NUMA, opengl, STL, XFS (which totally blows away ext3 and reiserfs), failsafe storage, toolkits. They always focused on the high end for $$ except for a brief time in about 94-96, and that killed them.
SGI has put some of its best IRIX things into Linux, so we get the benefit, but poor SGI just never quite knew how to grow big market. Until last year I had Indigo 2, fantastic CADD/CAE machine in its day, but any PC can whip a MIPS chip at the same clock speed now. I could see the writing on the wall in the late 90's as CAD and database vendors dropped IRIX support. Funny thing about IRIX was total focus on high performance computing but absolutely no thought as to security. That Indigo actually went into the dumpster when I moved, wasn't even worth its shipping charge on eBay.
Here's neat link mentioning megatons of yield needed to deflect 1km asteroid by cm/s. here Repeated applications of the more usual 1-5 MT warheads seems more reasonable than the need to invent a 100MT monster. But if the dimensions of the asteroid are of the order of dozens of cubic km then we're probably screwed! 8D
Just to wax philosophical for a moment, I hear people talk about founding space stations so we "don't have all our eggs in one basket", but if the entire earth gets wiped out does it really matter if we have a couple dozen people in a space station or moon base? nah, who gives a crap at that point, certainly you or I won't....
the world has plenty of PPC chip uses besides filling Macs, from network appliances to video games to Unix & Linux servers and mainframes and supercomputers. Still, Apple chips are almost 1% of IBM's $99 billion revenue, that's a big chunk of money.
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runs Office 2000 suite just fine, scanning/printing/fax, and turbotax. Still has regular security patches from microsoft. amazing how many commercial apps run on 95/98/nt
I can one-up number five, Transforms Into A Talkie-Toaster:
TOASTER: Howdy doodly do! How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
LISTER: Look, I don't want any toast, and he doesn't want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. No toast!
TOASTER: How 'bout a muffin?
LISTER: Or muffins! Or muffins! We don't like muffins around here! We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes, and no hot cross buns, and definitely no smegging flapjacks!
TOASTER: Ah, so you're a waffle man!
oh yes, I remember bubble memory & even core for that matter, what with my age > 40, and there's still other types of experimental magnetic RAM out there. I'm hoping one catches on, the seek times for data are slowing the whole IT world
1. permanent read/write random-access storage that doesn't spin
2. ubiquitous ten-megabit wireless networking coast to coast
3. direct computer to brain link
4. batteries with 10 times existing capacity, or fuel cell that runs on common cheap organic liquid such as wood alchohol.
5. common-sense AI knowledgebase/engine to check spreadsheets, documents, databases for obvious errors.
but the beatings are illegal here. There were trials, however badly that went, with ultimately two of the officers getting 30 months sentence. Footnote: Rodney was jacked up on PCP and attacked the officers, however undue and extreme their reaction. Let's also note that after his 3.8 MILLION DOLLAR settlement with the LAPD, he's currently bankrupt, committed several felonies since then and living in a drug rehab center. MODERATION: -3 Obvious Racist Bigot Slurring Good Name of Great African American Hero Rockney King
certainly the beatings and censorship of ideas and religion will be an integral part of any Chinese "sustainable city", since the sustainability of the The People's Government is always of foremost consideration
heh, i'm having a bit of trouble with the internet access == tech boom, what with the dot-bomb bust and all. And am laughing at influx of "highly educated tech workers" phase too. More likely employment for Indian phone support people who read scripts to frustrated customers, and a decline in goods/services purchased from local business as large corporation get their foot in the door via internet.
only losers and the scum of the galaxy would want to live there
I bow before your superior usb keychain schlongitude.
see, after two generations those stories get so exaggerated they turn into legends and even worse world religions that cause wars that go on for millenia. thanks a gob!
512MB usb keychain stick: don't leave home without it!
more laughter for HP getting rid of three architectures which are primarily used for business computing (non-floating point, non-vector), thinking they could force the customers of nonstop-mips, hpux-parisc, and vms-alpha to go to pricey, unproven, largely unsupported by vendors and poorly performing itanic. The customers are staying away in droves.....
I solved that problem for less than $30 a month with a virtual host somewhere on the east coast (don't even know where it really is). That's my only machine that's always on & holds all my files/email/stuffs. I access it ssh tunnel from work or wherever. The key is to seperate what can be kept on a machine that gets turned off from what must always be available.
not my apps, standard Oracle diskless TPS benchmark is slower. I should be fair and say that the floating point and linear algebra benchmarks are smoking on Itanium2, but that's just not what usual business apps do, it's all bcd/integer, memory shuffle, and such which show no benefit
look at the "available" date, those systems don't ship yet! hahaha, vaporhardware! I have two 1.5GHz Itanium2 boxes at work, they run RedHat Enterprise Linux & Oracle about 15% slower than my home 1.5GHz Xeon box. Why someone would pay 2.5 times the money for same performance in most business/serving apps is beyond me.
so compute and get your answer in less than 1 second, sounds good to me
it's very telling that Stroussap looks at much more well-designed languages and always says he can't see any advantage over C++. It's time to move on alright, much as I enjoy the challenge and fun of dealing with C/C++ code, it's the wrong solution for 80% of what it's commonly used for....let's leave it to kernel and graphics/GUI libraries, but for heavens sake let the rest die off.
most $300 are not made by children, you're assuming the exceptional cases the media hypes are the general ones. My sister-in-law in cambodia works sewing clothes that usually wind up with made-in-thailand on them for the major labels. they do take breaks and lunch. You understand in their culture people work 7 days a week for normal jobs, whether waiter or grocer or whatever. Only bankers, engineers, and government work 5 day week. wages are low by our standards, but few dollars a day will feed a family over there. Her husband makes $350 a month as manager at another textile place, he can afford car, his & her motorcycles, and home electronics at about 1/5 what we pay. My wife started work at age 15 selling cigarettes and umbrellas going from restaurant to restaurant (lots of girls do that) for $3 a day, she loved being able to buy jewelry and makeup and clothes for herself with adult-level wages, but I'm sure american media would have thrown a fit about exploiting child.
if the planet dies, the race IS dead, whether or not a few cosmonauts in a tin can or on the moon survive. this will be true for at least two hundred years.
they gave all their goodies to Linux! NUMA, opengl, STL, XFS (which totally blows away ext3 and reiserfs), failsafe storage, toolkits. They always focused on the high end for $$ except for a brief time in about 94-96, and that killed them.
SGI has put some of its best IRIX things into Linux, so we get the benefit, but poor SGI just never quite knew how to grow big market. Until last year I had Indigo 2, fantastic CADD/CAE machine in its day, but any PC can whip a MIPS chip at the same clock speed now. I could see the writing on the wall in the late 90's as CAD and database vendors dropped IRIX support. Funny thing about IRIX was total focus on high performance computing but absolutely no thought as to security. That Indigo actually went into the dumpster when I moved, wasn't even worth its shipping charge on eBay.
Here's neat link mentioning megatons of yield needed to deflect 1km asteroid by cm/s. here Repeated applications of the more usual 1-5 MT warheads seems more reasonable than the need to invent a 100MT monster. But if the dimensions of the asteroid are of the order of dozens of cubic km then we're probably screwed! 8D
Just to wax philosophical for a moment, I hear people talk about founding space stations so we "don't have all our eggs in one basket", but if the entire earth gets wiped out does it really matter if we have a couple dozen people in a space station or moon base? nah, who gives a crap at that point, certainly you or I won't....
the world has plenty of PPC chip uses besides filling Macs, from network appliances to video games to Unix & Linux servers and mainframes and supercomputers. Still, Apple chips are almost 1% of IBM's $99 billion revenue, that's a big chunk of money.
hey, I have relatives from West Virginia and I find your comment very insulting and degrading to Neanderthals!
sad news for you, OSI is just a model, a reference framework that no real world networking model follows. TCP/IP is a four layer model