The Atom 330 is two Atom 230s duct-taped together.
The "modifying Intel's 945 chipset" was probably figuring out how Intel duct-taped two Atom 230 dies on one package hooked to an i945GC, and then doing the same thing to two separate N270 or whatever they used hooked to an i945GSE.
Well, spec series are about the driver's skill, which is pretty much what sports are about - the skill of the players.
However, it's much more fun to go out, get a cheap Miata, or if FWD is more your thing, a cheap Civic or Golf or something, and autocross it, than to sit around watching a spec series, IMO. Then, it's about honing your own skill, not watching others. (But, you can learn techniques from watching how they handle situations, so watching them can still be educational.)
Of course, the American Le Mans Series is ridiculously fun as a spectator series. Multiple classes of cars of varying power outputs, weights, visibility, handling, and (often) driver experience all out on the track at once, and the drivers and cars are surprisingly accessible. Oh, and it's about as far from a spec series as it gets - you can easily have a big heavy (ok, 900 kg/1980 lb, but still) V12 diesel car and a light (825 kg/1820 lb) 4-cylinder turbocharged gas car fighting for the lead of the entire race, the whole way, meanwhile weaving their way through traffic caused by big slow production-based cars.
Wow, you actually got Blazer to work well? I'm surprised.
Here's why Palm OS devices are being discontinued: The OS is a kludge on a kludge on an ugly hack on some duct tape that was OK for 1997.
Because Palm didn't bother to license the multitasking capability of the kernel they used (AMX 68000,) Palm OS "multitasking" is about as good as MS-DOS TSRs - very unstable.
The OS also isn't good about managing resources properly - it doesn't check to see if programs have released their resources after quitting (which, granted, is part of the reason the "multitasking" even works.) But, this means that applications can appear to exit fine, but fail to release a resource like bluetooth or the camera. You know what happens when a program fails to release bluetooth? You get 12 hour battery life until a power cycle. Happened to me.
Web browsing on Palm OS is very painful. Blazer is horribly outdated compared to everything else, and is horribly slow, and Opera Mini would be great if it weren't for the absolutely terrible J9 JVM, which is buggy as hell, and hangs a lot. I was rebooting my Centro almost DAILY thanks to that pile of crap.
Application development is odd due to the database file system, and the fact that... to run native ARM code, you first have to punch out of the 68000 emulation environment.
The UI was dated. Minor complaint, but still true.
And, I'm not even scratching the surface of Palm OS's problems.
Annoyingly, Skyfire renders in 320x240 mode even on a 640x480 device. Not only that, but there's nasty latency between any actions, thanks to the fact that it has to make a round trip to a server to do anything.
That said, I do use it for watching Flash content that I can't access using Opera or the YouTube app.
Well, moving violations should theoretically be either criminal, or the entire road system privatized (hey, it wouldn't be any worse than the special grade of government corruption plus private contractors providing maintenance) to separate moving violations from criminal violations properly.
Of course, you could argue for the reasons behind jury trials - the end results of a criminal trial can literally ruin your life. Let's say you lose your driver's license to multiple false moving violations - unlikely, but possible, and it probably has happened. Now, the only practical way to get to work for a lot of people is to illegally drive, which is an actual criminal offense, and you'd be guilty of it. So, your life gets ruined either way. That's an argument for moving violations to allow for jury involvement right there...
But, this article isn't about moving vs. criminal, it's about administrative vs. moving. You at least get to face a judge, only paying court costs if you lose, with the (theoretical) presumption of innocence, in a moving violation case. In an administrative violation case, you pay the fine up front, ADMIT GUILT, and THEN get to appeal to someone who isn't a judge. Granted, an administrative violation won't cause points on your license, but they can nickel and dime the hell out of you, it's harder (or impossible) to fight (and nonpayment is a criminal violation,) and administrative violations are rarely about safety, but rather revenue generation. Law enforcement should not be a profit center - if there are profits, fine, but those should not be relied on, put the funds from law enforcement profits into a rainy day fund, don't rely on them in your budget, and don't encourage profits (read: make the law difficult to not violate, and/or hard to fight.)
No, they'll just ignore it, and watch the timer, or complain that it got slower.
What you could do... have it initiate an automated PHONE CALL from Microsoft to the user, and pop up a dialog if the call isn't handled, saying that the program will not run until you answer the call and listen to the information. The phone call is a notification that the user may or may not ignore.
For better effect, randomize the numbers that you have to dial to select a keep or delete option.
Of course, looks like Smalltalk on the Alto pioneered that, with pop-up menus.
And, NeXTStep had the menu list, which could be brought to your pointer with a right click... and you could normally hide it, making it behave like RISC OS, as well.
SOS wasn't what was broken about the Apple III, though, and ProDOS is a fork of SOS. Granted, it didn't have all the features that SOS had until GS/OS came out.
Dancing bunnies affects nearly every platform, and no security will stop dancing bunnies if the user has the ability to get control of the machine.
The dancing bunnies problem describes a trojan horse that the user really wants to install, security be damned. For that matter, on most platforms with security, installing a legitimate app will throw a UAC prompt or a password prompt anyway. So, the user won't notice anything different.
On Linux, you just enter your root (or your own, depending on distro) password. Bam, dancing bunnies.
On Mac OS X, you just enter your own password. Bam, dancing bunnies.
On *BSD, you just enter your root password. Bam, dancing bunnies.
The only platform I can think of right now that is dancing bunnies resistant is the iPhone - and that's purely because Apple manually approves every app, and doesn't allow unapproved software to run. However, jailbreak the phone, and bam, dancing bunnies.
Obviously, if you don't have the root or admin password, and someone else administers the security on your machine, any platform is dancing bunnies resistant. But most people can't hire sysadmins for their personal machines.
Palm OS 3.5 (IIRC) allowed for applications to directly address a CF or SD card's FAT filesystem, and Palm OS 5.4 moved the native filesystem from databases in RAM to databases in a FAT (IIRC) filesystem on flash.
EPOC started in 1989, long before Palm OS. And, BeOS's first release was 1995, before Palm OS.
Palm OS came out in 1997.
But, even Palm OS doesn't really count... it's based on KADAK AMX, which dates back to 1980. BeOS may well be the most recent major ground-up OS. (Emphasis on major.)
OS/2 supports HPFS, though, which has LFN support - unless he's targetting an older 16-bit version of OS/2, I'm guessing DOS (there were DLLs on some DOS apps) or Win3.x.
The only way that VMS would make malware science fiction is if it were sold by Apple.
By the iPhone team.
As in, signed, individually approved applications.
Anything less restrictive than that (granted, there's a lot of room within that,) and you get the dancing bunnies problem - read: users are too stupid to protect themselves.
The funniest part is, XP actually has a reference from Bob quite prominently shown - hit Win-F, with the default search assistant enabled. Note that it's a 3D version of the same damn dog that was in Bob.;)
See, the trick to effective bullshitting is not taking it too far and, well, you just did. Back in the day I used to know a lot of fellow Warp users, and not even the most rabid of them would try to argue that a 4MB machine was anything more than the absolute minimum. Heck, it was even tight for a 2.11 install.
Not only that, but Firefox isn't usable on CPUs that are ten times the clock speed with significantly higher IPC.;)
Actually, it's only the installer of XP that requires 64 MiB RAM.
XP will gladly boot in 18. Now, you better have a good hard drive, because it'll be thrashing the HELL out of it swapping.
(That also reminds me, it's also been booted on a Pentium I underclocked to a 40 MHz FSB, and an 0.5x multiplier - 20 MHz. XP REQUIRES a Pentium, IIRC, the guy who originally discovered that it'd work in 18 had to use a Pentium Overdrive in a 486 mobo, and tried swapping back to a 486, and got a BSOD on boot.)
It's been a while since I've used classic Mac OS, but I recall that you couldn't even operate on windows that weren't in the current app that you had selected from the Finder dropdown.
(Last time I used it would've been System 7.1, though.)
Of course, RISC OS shoots a nice big hole in the OS X "you know where the menus are" menu philosophy, and the "individual window bars waste screen space, so a single menu bar is better."
In RISC OS, your menus are wherever your mouse pointer is. Middle-click in a window, you get the menu for that window, with (if an object is selected in it) context-sensitive options as well - RISC OS doesn't actually have context menus... or more appropriately, it doesn't have NON-context menus.
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The Atom 330 is two Atom 230s duct-taped together.
The "modifying Intel's 945 chipset" was probably figuring out how Intel duct-taped two Atom 230 dies on one package hooked to an i945GC, and then doing the same thing to two separate N270 or whatever they used hooked to an i945GSE.
That actually already kinda exists, especially #1. The chips do power up sooner than you'd like, but they're running idle until they're needed.
1 is an ARM9 running the baseband
2 and 3 is an ARM11, ARM Cortex-A8, or ARM Cortex-A9
3 and 4 is usually a PowerVR 3D graphics chip
You're not autocrossing with the right club, I can get 10-12 runs in one day with the club I run with.
Also, I used autocross specifically because you can go out with your daily driver, have fun, and then go home without much wear and tear on your car.
Track days, you pretty much have to be prepared to buy a replacement car, and even if you don't, buy new brakes and tires.
Karting could be cheap and fun if you rent a kart for a day, though.
Well, spec series are about the driver's skill, which is pretty much what sports are about - the skill of the players.
However, it's much more fun to go out, get a cheap Miata, or if FWD is more your thing, a cheap Civic or Golf or something, and autocross it, than to sit around watching a spec series, IMO. Then, it's about honing your own skill, not watching others. (But, you can learn techniques from watching how they handle situations, so watching them can still be educational.)
Of course, the American Le Mans Series is ridiculously fun as a spectator series. Multiple classes of cars of varying power outputs, weights, visibility, handling, and (often) driver experience all out on the track at once, and the drivers and cars are surprisingly accessible. Oh, and it's about as far from a spec series as it gets - you can easily have a big heavy (ok, 900 kg/1980 lb, but still) V12 diesel car and a light (825 kg/1820 lb) 4-cylinder turbocharged gas car fighting for the lead of the entire race, the whole way, meanwhile weaving their way through traffic caused by big slow production-based cars.
Wow, you actually got Blazer to work well? I'm surprised.
Here's why Palm OS devices are being discontinued: The OS is a kludge on a kludge on an ugly hack on some duct tape that was OK for 1997.
Because Palm didn't bother to license the multitasking capability of the kernel they used (AMX 68000,) Palm OS "multitasking" is about as good as MS-DOS TSRs - very unstable.
The OS also isn't good about managing resources properly - it doesn't check to see if programs have released their resources after quitting (which, granted, is part of the reason the "multitasking" even works.) But, this means that applications can appear to exit fine, but fail to release a resource like bluetooth or the camera. You know what happens when a program fails to release bluetooth? You get 12 hour battery life until a power cycle. Happened to me.
Web browsing on Palm OS is very painful. Blazer is horribly outdated compared to everything else, and is horribly slow, and Opera Mini would be great if it weren't for the absolutely terrible J9 JVM, which is buggy as hell, and hangs a lot. I was rebooting my Centro almost DAILY thanks to that pile of crap.
Application development is odd due to the database file system, and the fact that... to run native ARM code, you first have to punch out of the 68000 emulation environment.
The UI was dated. Minor complaint, but still true.
And, I'm not even scratching the surface of Palm OS's problems.
Annoyingly, Skyfire renders in 320x240 mode even on a 640x480 device. Not only that, but there's nasty latency between any actions, thanks to the fact that it has to make a round trip to a server to do anything.
That said, I do use it for watching Flash content that I can't access using Opera or the YouTube app.
The GP is talking about an HTC device, those usually ship with Opera Mobile 9.5.
Well, moving violations should theoretically be either criminal, or the entire road system privatized (hey, it wouldn't be any worse than the special grade of government corruption plus private contractors providing maintenance) to separate moving violations from criminal violations properly.
Of course, you could argue for the reasons behind jury trials - the end results of a criminal trial can literally ruin your life. Let's say you lose your driver's license to multiple false moving violations - unlikely, but possible, and it probably has happened. Now, the only practical way to get to work for a lot of people is to illegally drive, which is an actual criminal offense, and you'd be guilty of it. So, your life gets ruined either way. That's an argument for moving violations to allow for jury involvement right there...
But, this article isn't about moving vs. criminal, it's about administrative vs. moving. You at least get to face a judge, only paying court costs if you lose, with the (theoretical) presumption of innocence, in a moving violation case. In an administrative violation case, you pay the fine up front, ADMIT GUILT, and THEN get to appeal to someone who isn't a judge. Granted, an administrative violation won't cause points on your license, but they can nickel and dime the hell out of you, it's harder (or impossible) to fight (and nonpayment is a criminal violation,) and administrative violations are rarely about safety, but rather revenue generation. Law enforcement should not be a profit center - if there are profits, fine, but those should not be relied on, put the funds from law enforcement profits into a rainy day fund, don't rely on them in your budget, and don't encourage profits (read: make the law difficult to not violate, and/or hard to fight.)
Except WinMo is shared source... so you do have access to the source.
No, they'll just ignore it, and watch the timer, or complain that it got slower.
What you could do... have it initiate an automated PHONE CALL from Microsoft to the user, and pop up a dialog if the call isn't handled, saying that the program will not run until you answer the call and listen to the information. The phone call is a notification that the user may or may not ignore.
For better effect, randomize the numbers that you have to dial to select a keep or delete option.
Unless the malware encrypted your data with such an algorithm, to hold it ransom.
Although turbochargers are usually used on race cars other than drag cars, because they're more efficient. :)
Of course, looks like Smalltalk on the Alto pioneered that, with pop-up menus.
And, NeXTStep had the menu list, which could be brought to your pointer with a right click... and you could normally hide it, making it behave like RISC OS, as well.
SOS wasn't what was broken about the Apple III, though, and ProDOS is a fork of SOS. Granted, it didn't have all the features that SOS had until GS/OS came out.
Nope.
Dancing bunnies affects nearly every platform, and no security will stop dancing bunnies if the user has the ability to get control of the machine.
The dancing bunnies problem describes a trojan horse that the user really wants to install, security be damned. For that matter, on most platforms with security, installing a legitimate app will throw a UAC prompt or a password prompt anyway. So, the user won't notice anything different.
On Linux, you just enter your root (or your own, depending on distro) password. Bam, dancing bunnies.
On Mac OS X, you just enter your own password. Bam, dancing bunnies.
On *BSD, you just enter your root password. Bam, dancing bunnies.
The only platform I can think of right now that is dancing bunnies resistant is the iPhone - and that's purely because Apple manually approves every app, and doesn't allow unapproved software to run. However, jailbreak the phone, and bam, dancing bunnies.
Obviously, if you don't have the root or admin password, and someone else administers the security on your machine, any platform is dancing bunnies resistant. But most people can't hire sysadmins for their personal machines.
Palm OS 3.5 (IIRC) allowed for applications to directly address a CF or SD card's FAT filesystem, and Palm OS 5.4 moved the native filesystem from databases in RAM to databases in a FAT (IIRC) filesystem on flash.
EPOC started in 1989, long before Palm OS. And, BeOS's first release was 1995, before Palm OS.
Palm OS came out in 1997.
But, even Palm OS doesn't really count... it's based on KADAK AMX, which dates back to 1980. BeOS may well be the most recent major ground-up OS. (Emphasis on major.)
OS/2 supports HPFS, though, which has LFN support - unless he's targetting an older 16-bit version of OS/2, I'm guessing DOS (there were DLLs on some DOS apps) or Win3.x.
I'm aware that QNX isn't derived from Unix itself, but any guesses as to what QNX stands for?
(Hint: the original name for QNX was QUNIX.)
The only way that VMS would make malware science fiction is if it were sold by Apple.
By the iPhone team.
As in, signed, individually approved applications.
Anything less restrictive than that (granted, there's a lot of room within that,) and you get the dancing bunnies problem - read: users are too stupid to protect themselves.
The funniest part is, XP actually has a reference from Bob quite prominently shown - hit Win-F, with the default search assistant enabled. Note that it's a 3D version of the same damn dog that was in Bob. ;)
See, the trick to effective bullshitting is not taking it too far and, well, you just did. Back in the day I used to know a lot of fellow Warp users, and not even the most rabid of them would try to argue that a 4MB machine was anything more than the absolute minimum. Heck, it was even tight for a 2.11 install.
Not only that, but Firefox isn't usable on CPUs that are ten times the clock speed with significantly higher IPC. ;)
Actually, it's only the installer of XP that requires 64 MiB RAM.
XP will gladly boot in 18. Now, you better have a good hard drive, because it'll be thrashing the HELL out of it swapping.
(That also reminds me, it's also been booted on a Pentium I underclocked to a 40 MHz FSB, and an 0.5x multiplier - 20 MHz. XP REQUIRES a Pentium, IIRC, the guy who originally discovered that it'd work in 18 had to use a Pentium Overdrive in a 486 mobo, and tried swapping back to a 486, and got a BSOD on boot.)
It's been a while since I've used classic Mac OS, but I recall that you couldn't even operate on windows that weren't in the current app that you had selected from the Finder dropdown.
(Last time I used it would've been System 7.1, though.)
Of course, RISC OS shoots a nice big hole in the OS X "you know where the menus are" menu philosophy, and the "individual window bars waste screen space, so a single menu bar is better."
In RISC OS, your menus are wherever your mouse pointer is. Middle-click in a window, you get the menu for that window, with (if an object is selected in it) context-sensitive options as well - RISC OS doesn't actually have context menus... or more appropriately, it doesn't have NON-context menus.