Drug stores also sold light bulbs & let you pay the electric bill.
Radio Shack had those tube testers into the 1970's. A knob on the side turned a roll of paper in the top of the machine which had rows of tube numbers and the tester knob settings to use. There was also a wire with clip for those tubes that had a contact on the top. A couple meters registered bad, marginal or good. Some of the replacement tubes Radio Shack sold had gold-plated elements and a "lifetime warranty". The good news is if you need vacuum tubes they are now very, very cheap, and we have enough to last the next 1,500 years with current demand.
yes, specifically it looks like a system 360 model 65 , which first shipped November of 1965. The oldest machine I myself have worked on was a Cyber 175
in a world where things can be (almost) freely copied, you're saying even though EVERYONE and ANYONE could make a free copy of a can of coca-cola, that no, we must all use A's very limited supply and pay money for it? People should starve to death rather than making free copies of food?
you can derive special relativity from Maxwell's equations too. I had a professor once show quantizing the EM field in M.E. to produce most of electroweak theory, but maybe he was pulling a fast one, that was a little beyond me.
So-called "Unix" servers will be a $20 billion dollar market in 2 years, and Linux will grow to a $7 billion one by then. Total POSIX compliance of the Linux kernel API alone (let alone of the usual OS utilities) is somewhat out of IBM's hands.....
Consider a typical EER for a peltier air conditioner of 0.33 compared to 9.5 to 13 for a freon one. It's an interesting physical phenomenon, but a huge waste of energy.
clock speed isn't the only way to do more work in less time, and get better balance with the current bottlenecks getting to memory & i/o -- time for some new architectures, instead of the same old stuff with smaller transistors and higher clock speeds
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yeah, my 1990 NeXTStation ran with 8MB of RAM, and the OS plus Mathematica & the usual NeXT apps fit on a 200MB disk. The UI had very crisp response, not the mushie feel of X11 derived stuff
more to the point, a x-bit processor doesn't have to hold a date as +/-2^(x-1) bits from an epoch date. You can do a 64 bit date, or 128 byte arithmetic, on a 4 bit processor, for example...but many, many instruction cycles might be used to shift, multiply and add intermediate results. But hey, forced obsolescence from poorly thought out data structures and bad standards helps move the economy
any part of the original expansion faster than the speed of light would be forever inaccessible to us - couldn't see it or reach it, by current theory.
Companies like DuPont made billions from "ozone-layer friendly" coolants, so let's just all be happy for them and all the enviro-hippies who were their unwitting marketing tools. Never mind that the Sun drives the earth's climate, let's make everyone think man does, and that we need to upgrade our toys to save mother earth!
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Thousands of slashdotters like me are still using a vacuum tube with phosphor dots on one end because we can't afford an LCD screen right now.
Drug stores also sold light bulbs & let you pay the electric bill.
Radio Shack had those tube testers into the 1970's. A knob on the side turned a roll of paper in the top of the machine which had rows of tube numbers and the tester knob settings to use. There was also a wire with clip for those tubes that had a contact on the top. A couple meters registered bad, marginal or good. Some of the replacement tubes Radio Shack sold had gold-plated elements and a "lifetime warranty". The good news is if you need vacuum tubes they are now very, very cheap, and we have enough to last the next 1,500 years with current demand.
yes, specifically it looks like a system 360 model 65 , which first shipped November of 1965. The oldest machine I myself have worked on was a Cyber 175
Zen? I hated that starship computer. Orac was alot cooler
yup, slackware is for people with lots of time to kill: slackers! 8D
heh, neither Britney nor the RIAA starves when kid rips her music: they still remain quite filthy rich anyway.
in a world where things can be (almost) freely copied, you're saying even though EVERYONE and ANYONE could make a free copy of a can of coca-cola, that no, we must all use A's very limited supply and pay money for it? People should starve to death rather than making free copies of food?
ah, and if I cut a hole in the wall I can get > 100W of heat from my neighbor with 0W of my electricity used - infinite efficiency for me!
That's one of the four equations of the Slashdot Unified System.
The Existence of the Inevitable Dupe:
yesterday's story == tomorrow's story
Resonance of the Herd Mentality:
as opinion(user) approaches opinion(mob), karma of user increases
The Jakov Smirnov Obverse Transform:
For any operation U on X which yields Y, in Soviet Russia, operation Y yields X on U!
not sure what what you mean by > 100% efficiency , but certainly you can turn 100W of power into nearly 100W of heat just by using a resistive wire.
you can derive special relativity from Maxwell's equations too. I had a professor once show quantizing the EM field in M.E. to produce most of electroweak theory, but maybe he was pulling a fast one, that was a little beyond me.
So-called "Unix" servers will be a $20 billion dollar market in 2 years, and Linux will grow to a $7 billion one by then. Total POSIX compliance of the Linux kernel API alone (let alone of the usual OS utilities) is somewhat out of IBM's hands.....
and it's MUCH easier for a native english speaker to learn Portugese than Hindi, too
Consider a typical EER for a peltier air conditioner of 0.33 compared to 9.5 to 13 for a freon one. It's an interesting physical phenomenon, but a huge waste of energy.
clock speed isn't the only way to do more work in less time, and get better balance with the current bottlenecks getting to memory & i/o -- time for some new architectures, instead of the same old stuff with smaller transistors and higher clock speeds
yeah, my 1990 NeXTStation ran with 8MB of RAM, and the OS plus Mathematica & the usual NeXT apps fit on a 200MB disk. The UI had very crisp response, not the mushie feel of X11 derived stuff
psst, use this code I ripped from PearOS and you'll be cool: #define SPIRO_MULTIMAX_3000 i
more to the point, a x-bit processor doesn't have to hold a date as +/-2^(x-1) bits from an epoch date. You can do a 64 bit date, or 128 byte arithmetic, on a 4 bit processor, for example...but many, many instruction cycles might be used to shift, multiply and add intermediate results. But hey, forced obsolescence from poorly thought out data structures and bad standards helps move the economy
oh? After programming with Ruby for 3 years, I find mixins & duck typing alot more fun than I & P, which I hardly use anymore
any part of the original expansion faster than the speed of light would be forever inaccessible to us - couldn't see it or reach it, by current theory.
No, it shows how the evil objectivist capitalist white dwarf exploited the poor downtrodden proletariat worker-class star
you'd be amazed at the number of people who drive automatic transmission cars who have no idea what the N, 1, 2 positions are for...
also, keeps data safe from the owner should he forget the passwords. The snipping & soldering in that case is scary....
Companies like DuPont made billions from "ozone-layer friendly" coolants, so let's just all be happy for them and all the enviro-hippies who were their unwitting marketing tools. Never mind that the Sun drives the earth's climate, let's make everyone think man does, and that we need to upgrade our toys to save mother earth!
shizzle, de ho' busta cap in yo homboi azz you be spittin game like dat