An existing machine on the net might work, though, if you can get control over the hypervisor.
Run your own hypervisor, and then underneath that, Sony's runs. Sony can update whatever they want below your hypervisor - your hypervisor is still there, feeding incorrect data to Sony's hypervisor.
To expand on the point, System/38 was intended to be the real replacement for System/370, and this was when IBM was just getting their feet wet with RISC. They knew they wanted to change CPU architectures somewhere in the middle of the System/38 or a successor's run, so they went the TIMI route. They were working from a clean sheet, and this way they could make massive changes with minimal effort.
Between the antitrust stuff, the System/370 being so entrenched, and the System/38's performance being poor, though, IBM ended up staying on the S/370 path.
System/370 is essentially an extended System/360 with (on all but two models, IIRC) virtual memory, ESA/390 is a 31-bit System/370 (and 370/XA was also 31-bit, IIRC) with a new I/O system, and z/Architecture is a 64-bit ESA/390. It's still essentially the System/360 architecture that came out in 1964.
Keep in mind that Kodak was mainly a film (and film processing chemicals) company, though, not so much camera company. (Think like HP during the Carly era - almost every product they sold was to support sales of inkjet ink.)
Here's one sentence you posted:
There was no need to spare film, because the snapshots could be instantly deleted from the floppy, and there was no need to wait overnight, because there was no film to develop.
Now, let's rephrase that into what a Kodak PHB would hear:
There was no need to buy one of our two primary products, because the snapshots could be instantly deleted from the floppy, and there was no need to wait overnight, because there was no film to develop, so our other primary product wouldn't be used, either.
IIRC, FreeType with all the hinting turned on looks more like ClearType than Apple's renderer, and positioning is pixel perfect relative to ClearType - therefore, it's actually to make Mac Office look MORE like Windows Office, not less.
The video, at the res that it was embedded on the page, fit perfectly on my screen. And my browser window, Opera reports, is 1508x972 - so any 1050 pixel or taller laptop display should be able to view it.
(I was about to say, get a 2048x1536 screen in a 4 year old laptop, like I did, but then I realized my browser window isn't full screen, and you don't need anywhere near that.)
The amount of stuff you can cram on a single chip is smaller than the amount of stuff you can cram on two chips, and chips that are twice as big are twice as likely to have catastrophic production flaws.
At the consumer level, separate CPU and FPU will be the only way to make a buck, at least until someone reformulates both computing and floating point to be indistinguishable (what Intel was trying to do with 80486).
Actually, the comparison is more apt than it sounds, even - a GPU is basically a ridiculously parallel FPU. And Nvidia and ATI are both working on pushing that "ridiculously parallel FPU" part, reformulating computing and graphics to be indistinguishable.
If your iPad doesn't meet your needs how can you claim it makes other devices that DO meet your needs obsolete?
While I agree with you in this instance, there is such a thing as obsolete hardware that, the successors don't meet one's needs.
I don't think anybody would say that my ThinkPad isn't obsolete - it's got a 32-bit processor, the chipset only supports 32-bit addressing even with a 64-bit processor and OS, the graphics card is about the same speed as a freaking Ion 2, etc., etc.
However, with swapping in an LCD that was used in an even older ThinkPad model, I get 2048x1536.
I can't get that, or anything similar, on any laptop made from 2007 or later. (Well, I can put a T61p motherboard in my case, and get a faster GPU, 64-bit CPU, chipset capable of addressing 8 GiB RAM, etc., etc., but they're unreliable due to their GPU - see "bumpgate.")
Therefore, it's possible to have an obsolete machine that cannot be matched by modern machines.
As long as you define government as local. (City/village/township-level, rather than county, state, or federal level.)
Have the local government OWN the last mile infrastructure, and be required to sell service to any service provider that wishes to use it. Service providers will merely use the locally-owned last mile to deliver their service, much like businesses that deliver goods use the locally-owned roads to deliver them.
Service providers can then compete on equal ground, not having to add additional last mile infrastructure to enter a market. And, if the citizenship wishes for a more robust last mile infrastructure, they can bring it up with their city/village/township council, and it can be an election issue if need be.
Ideally, the service would be a profit center for the local government, as well.
I'll note that I'm somewhere between atheist and agnostic, and I agree 100% with this.
Of course, there already is a separation of the concepts of "legal marriage" and "religious marriage," I believe. So, just rename the legal marriage to "civil union," and you're done.
SuperMicro's options are 8 2.5" drives in 2 5.25" bays, 4 2.5" drives in 1 5.25" bay, 4 3.5" drives+ventilation in 3 5.25" bays, or 5 3.5" drives in 3 5.25" bays.
Let's go for maximum density in 3 bays.
So, your choices are 12 2.5" drives, or 5 3.5" drives.
$129.99 per drive, 1 TB, for a Samsung Spinpoint MT2, from Newegg. Total of 12 TB, $1559.88. That's the cheapest of the largest size 2.5" drive that Newegg sells.
$109.99 per drive, 2 TB, for a Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000, also from Newegg. Total of 10 TB, $549.95. That's the cheapest of the largest size 3.5" drive that Newegg sells.
So, yes, you are far cheaper per TB using desktop drives... but the first rule of circle packing is, the smaller the circles, the more circle surface area you get in. And hard drives are circles with some bits on the end to control them. And that's reflected in the maximum capacity.
There is a solution to that, but the Windows implementation that I've seen was downright dreadful. (Well, the one that works for third-party software...)
Have all applications register with an updater program that checks for updates when the machine is idle.
The problem is, there's two choices I've seen: Windows Update, which is really just for Microsoft software (but works fairly well for that,) and InstallShield Update Manager, which is great in theory... but in practice, it doesn't respect settings to not GET IN YOUR FACE with a window every week, and when you tell it not to update ANYTHING, and to never even ASK about updating... every week, the pile of crap comes up to say, "Please check for updates to the following products... InstallShield Update Manager"
My high school, being a small K-12 private school (specializing in behavioral handicaps, mental health, learning disabilities, etc.) took a completely different approach.
They weren't set up very well for any forms of advanced classes... so they outsourced any advanced students to the local technical college for most classes.
College classes counted for both high school and college credit, that way.
That way, they didn't need to have a CS program, and could actually offer any program that the college offered.
Now, upon getting my "Computer Programming Technology" degree a year after graduating high school, I decided programming wasn't for me, but that's another story. (Part of the reason it took so long was class scheduling - the college was set up more for working adults, not high school students, with their class scheduling. I was actually on track to get my Associate's degree at the same time as graduating high school, otherwise.) But, the fact remains that an option was offered that didn't require the high school to have any form of competence in computers internally, and provided other major benefits for the students that took that option.
(Ultimately, it became harder and harder to enroll in that program, and my school did decide to try a Fortran class one year. Fortran, because that's the one language that the teacher knew. Yeah, it didn't go well. The small class size could be justified at least (in fact, the class size was larger than many of that teacher's other classes,) but IIRC, the class didn't even make it to the end of the semester.)
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An existing machine on the net might work, though, if you can get control over the hypervisor.
Run your own hypervisor, and then underneath that, Sony's runs. Sony can update whatever they want below your hypervisor - your hypervisor is still there, feeding incorrect data to Sony's hypervisor.
However, Germany gets along fine with having varying speeds on some of their roads.
Maybe enforcement of "keep right except to pass" would solve the speed differential problem.
To expand on the point, System/38 was intended to be the real replacement for System/370, and this was when IBM was just getting their feet wet with RISC. They knew they wanted to change CPU architectures somewhere in the middle of the System/38 or a successor's run, so they went the TIMI route. They were working from a clean sheet, and this way they could make massive changes with minimal effort.
Between the antitrust stuff, the System/370 being so entrenched, and the System/38's performance being poor, though, IBM ended up staying on the S/370 path.
System/370 is essentially an extended System/360 with (on all but two models, IIRC) virtual memory, ESA/390 is a 31-bit System/370 (and 370/XA was also 31-bit, IIRC) with a new I/O system, and z/Architecture is a 64-bit ESA/390. It's still essentially the System/360 architecture that came out in 1964.
I wonder if that could be a way to reform the patent system.
Go after a company that has a lot of money, is universally agreed to suck, and does that.
Attack.
1/1000000000000000000th of a cent times infinity is still infinity.
Then, use your newly obtained funds to buy politicians to change the law.
As I understand, the US.
It's just impossible to enforce if you don't tell anyone.
No, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_ring]token ring[/url].
Nerdier than Tolkien ring, given that LoTR went all mainstream, and ethernet beat TR.
Keep in mind that Kodak was mainly a film (and film processing chemicals) company, though, not so much camera company. (Think like HP during the Carly era - almost every product they sold was to support sales of inkjet ink.)
Here's one sentence you posted:
Now, let's rephrase that into what a Kodak PHB would hear:
Now you see why Kodak was scared of digital?
IIRC, FreeType with all the hinting turned on looks more like ClearType than Apple's renderer, and positioning is pixel perfect relative to ClearType - therefore, it's actually to make Mac Office look MORE like Windows Office, not less.
Or just get a higher res one.
The video, at the res that it was embedded on the page, fit perfectly on my screen. And my browser window, Opera reports, is 1508x972 - so any 1050 pixel or taller laptop display should be able to view it.
(I was about to say, get a 2048x1536 screen in a 4 year old laptop, like I did, but then I realized my browser window isn't full screen, and you don't need anywhere near that.)
I was trolling, I think you should've replied to the parent to my post. ;)
Pot is illegal because blacks and Mexicans smoked it, and hemp was threatening the cotton and (wood) paper industries.
They want to allow forks and redistributors to use their code without patent issues.
No, it will always be true.
The amount of stuff you can cram on a single chip is smaller than the amount of stuff you can cram on two chips, and chips that are twice as big are twice as likely to have catastrophic production flaws.
At the consumer level, separate CPU and FPU will be the only way to make a buck, at least until someone reformulates both computing and floating point to be indistinguishable (what Intel was trying to do with 80486).
Actually, the comparison is more apt than it sounds, even - a GPU is basically a ridiculously parallel FPU. And Nvidia and ATI are both working on pushing that "ridiculously parallel FPU" part, reformulating computing and graphics to be indistinguishable.
If your iPad doesn't meet your needs how can you claim it makes other devices that DO meet your needs obsolete?
While I agree with you in this instance, there is such a thing as obsolete hardware that, the successors don't meet one's needs.
I don't think anybody would say that my ThinkPad isn't obsolete - it's got a 32-bit processor, the chipset only supports 32-bit addressing even with a 64-bit processor and OS, the graphics card is about the same speed as a freaking Ion 2, etc., etc.
However, with swapping in an LCD that was used in an even older ThinkPad model, I get 2048x1536.
I can't get that, or anything similar, on any laptop made from 2007 or later. (Well, I can put a T61p motherboard in my case, and get a faster GPU, 64-bit CPU, chipset capable of addressing 8 GiB RAM, etc., etc., but they're unreliable due to their GPU - see "bumpgate.")
Therefore, it's possible to have an obsolete machine that cannot be matched by modern machines.
Scientology?
The RIAA and MPAA?
I had a 1986 VW Golf diesel that had only two computers in it:
A digital one, as a microcontroller in the cheap radio
An analog mechanical one, in the fuel pump
And as late as a 1997 Canadian-spec Golf or Jetta diesel could be the same way, albeit with another computer in the instrument cluster.
I could, with only one registry key edit (granted, on the older ROMs,) tether.
To my stock smartphone. (Not stock any more, but hey.)
I could also tether to my previous stock smartphone, with the addition of one $30 program.
Oh, and I've got a smartphone that was even promoted as offering free tethering, out of the box, no additional software needed.
No monthly fee, no rooting/jailbreaking (because both already gave root) needed.
Want to know what the phones are?
An HTC Touch Pro (Windows Mobile 6.1,) a Palm Centro (Palm OS 5.4.9,) and a Kyocera QCP-6035 (Palm OS 3.5.2.)
As long as you define government as local. (City/village/township-level, rather than county, state, or federal level.)
Have the local government OWN the last mile infrastructure, and be required to sell service to any service provider that wishes to use it. Service providers will merely use the locally-owned last mile to deliver their service, much like businesses that deliver goods use the locally-owned roads to deliver them.
Service providers can then compete on equal ground, not having to add additional last mile infrastructure to enter a market. And, if the citizenship wishes for a more robust last mile infrastructure, they can bring it up with their city/village/township council, and it can be an election issue if need be.
Ideally, the service would be a profit center for the local government, as well.
I'll note that I'm somewhere between atheist and agnostic, and I agree 100% with this.
Of course, there already is a separation of the concepts of "legal marriage" and "religious marriage," I believe. So, just rename the legal marriage to "civil union," and you're done.
It sounds like you're voting against someone.
Vote for someone. If there's nobody you want to vote for, vote for nobody - you can choose to do that, and it gets recorded.
Except they did say it was software.
In fact, they said that the number of bars that were being displayed was wrong, and that was the cause of the death grip signal loss.
SuperMicro's options are 8 2.5" drives in 2 5.25" bays, 4 2.5" drives in 1 5.25" bay, 4 3.5" drives+ventilation in 3 5.25" bays, or 5 3.5" drives in 3 5.25" bays.
Let's go for maximum density in 3 bays.
So, your choices are 12 2.5" drives, or 5 3.5" drives.
$129.99 per drive, 1 TB, for a Samsung Spinpoint MT2, from Newegg. Total of 12 TB, $1559.88. That's the cheapest of the largest size 2.5" drive that Newegg sells.
$109.99 per drive, 2 TB, for a Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000, also from Newegg. Total of 10 TB, $549.95. That's the cheapest of the largest size 3.5" drive that Newegg sells.
So, yes, you are far cheaper per TB using desktop drives... but the first rule of circle packing is, the smaller the circles, the more circle surface area you get in. And hard drives are circles with some bits on the end to control them. And that's reflected in the maximum capacity.
There is a solution to that, but the Windows implementation that I've seen was downright dreadful. (Well, the one that works for third-party software...)
Have all applications register with an updater program that checks for updates when the machine is idle.
The problem is, there's two choices I've seen: Windows Update, which is really just for Microsoft software (but works fairly well for that,) and InstallShield Update Manager, which is great in theory... but in practice, it doesn't respect settings to not GET IN YOUR FACE with a window every week, and when you tell it not to update ANYTHING, and to never even ASK about updating... every week, the pile of crap comes up to say, "Please check for updates to the following products... InstallShield Update Manager"
My high school, being a small K-12 private school (specializing in behavioral handicaps, mental health, learning disabilities, etc.) took a completely different approach.
They weren't set up very well for any forms of advanced classes... so they outsourced any advanced students to the local technical college for most classes.
College classes counted for both high school and college credit, that way.
That way, they didn't need to have a CS program, and could actually offer any program that the college offered.
Now, upon getting my "Computer Programming Technology" degree a year after graduating high school, I decided programming wasn't for me, but that's another story. (Part of the reason it took so long was class scheduling - the college was set up more for working adults, not high school students, with their class scheduling. I was actually on track to get my Associate's degree at the same time as graduating high school, otherwise.) But, the fact remains that an option was offered that didn't require the high school to have any form of competence in computers internally, and provided other major benefits for the students that took that option.
(Ultimately, it became harder and harder to enroll in that program, and my school did decide to try a Fortran class one year. Fortran, because that's the one language that the teacher knew. Yeah, it didn't go well. The small class size could be justified at least (in fact, the class size was larger than many of that teacher's other classes,) but IIRC, the class didn't even make it to the end of the semester.)
Except it was economic growth with borrowed money, and no real business plan to pay that money back.
Of course the bubble was going to burst.