Well, they've answered the age-old question of what would follow Pentium 4. It's not the Pentium Pentium. Instead they've gone to "Core." But is it just me, or does "Core Extreme" sound silly? Shouldn't they just have "Core" and "Hardcore"? Or is that a little too wannabe punk?
Personally I think they're crazy for using such a generic term for their CPU cores. In the embedded SoC world, we've been using the word "core" to refer to CPUs for quite awhile. What makes Intel think it can establish a trademark and brand for something so generic? And after the Apple-Intel switch, I can just imagine all the Apple/Core jokes... (as in "rotten to the...").
--Joe
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Not in homes, schools and libraries. Our labs filled with Apple ][es didn't evaporate once the Mac started selling. In fact, our high school didn't have any Macs available to students. A couple were available to teachers. But we had several dozen ][es. The only 3.5" floppy-using machines we had were a network of PS/2s that the business department bought. Those were only available to students taking business dept classes.
FWIW, the PC XT and PC AT both used 5.25" floppies primarily, and many small businesses that had adopted early were still using them. (For instance, my tax accountant neighbor that I did occasional tech support for, and my employer--the local independent Radio Shack franchise.) It wasn't until around 1992 or 93 that I started using 3.5" floppies more regularly than 5.25" floppies, after I graduated high school. I finally switched A: over to 3.5" sometime in 1994.
If you're talking start of the 80s, I'd say cassette was more popular than floppy, at least for home users.
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I don't know that it was the most popular, though it was certainly available. I left high-school with boxes upon boxes of 5.25" floppy disks, but not very many 3.5" floppies. Remember, two of the most widely deployed computer systems of the era (at least in the US), the Apple ][ and the Commodore 64, primarily used 5.25" floppies. Factoid: The Commodore 64 was the most widely produced single computer model ever.
The research paper was read in committee and it was determined to be in passive voice. Much irritation was had by all participants, whereupon it was advocated that papers soliticed in the future be written in a more active matter. Moreover, it was generally agreed that passive voice only lends an appearance of intelligence where it make actually be lacking. Such were the conclusions of this undertaking.
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Now I feel dirty. *scrub* *scrub* But it won't come off! ACK!
Seriously, though, passive voice can be very dangerous. I authored and maintained a set of specs for portions of a major SoC component at work. Despite all my training, I slipped into passive voice for large sections of text in the specs. Because I was specifying three modules that worked together to form a memory system, the division of labor and the interfaces between these modules is very important. I found myself slipping into passive voice in these areas though, because it was easier.
Why? Passive voice allowed me to dodge specifying the final division of labor among the modules. But, if you casually read the spec, you'd have this false sense that you knew how everything worked. We didn't realize just how vague and incomplete the specs were until we went to go try to build the machine. I ended up rewriting large portions of the text with fairly minor wording changes, but the result was a much crisper, clearer and in the end more complete spec.
The danger of writing in passive voice is that the writer eliminates the actor. In this case, I was specifying not only what needed to be done, but who does it. When I wrote in passive voice, I was only specifying what needed to be done, which led to some interesting problems.
And, at 320x200, it's just double the resolution of the original!
(Actually, I haven't found any links that say what Mirage's display can do, but I've seen a lot of people point out other products available today are 320x240.)
I think the point of the conditional plural is not that multiple people might pretend to be Michael Tzez, but rather whoever Michael Tzez is may be pretenting to be multiple other people as part of an astroturf campaign, or he could have a league of cohorts helping out.
Is it just me, or does the article just read like a thinly veiled advertisement for Coverity? It's reads like a generic commercial template: "Meet Bob. Bob thought everything was fine. But then he discovered he had Problem X. That's when Bob discovered Company Y with Solution Z." (etc. etc.).
It's worse than that. I get this huge interstitial ad page that's Flash-only. There is no Flash plugin so far as I can find for AMD64 on Linux, so I simply cannot view the site.
Personally, I'm going to be thinking of that Firefox "Whee!" commercial whenever I hear the name Wii. Maybe I'll just mush it up next to Nintendo, making it all "Nintendo-y".
I don't know if they ever fixed this in Outlook, but I remember getting a grumpy email back in college from one of the manager-types in Computing Services there. They were complaining because I was masking the "To" and "From" lines in my emails. I was perplexed initially.
Then it clicked. For fun, I was using Elm's ability to add arbitrary headers to each email. I figured anyone geeky enough to look at the headers might get a chuckle at some geek humor stashed there. Well, among the fun headers I added were "Apparently-To:" and "Apparently-From:". All the other email clients seem to ignore those if actual To: and From: lines are present. Outlook, on the other hand, gave the "Apparently-To" and "Apparently-From" precedence though.
That was 10 years ago, so by now it's probably fixed. Or maybe not...
Why do users not expect case to matter? Could it be that users learned based on the first OS they used? If case was required on the computer, users would have no problem with case sensitivity.
The first computers I learned on didn't really support lower-case well. (TI-99/4A, Apple ][, Commodore PET/VIC-20/C64. PETSCII anyone?) That's a different sort of case-sensitivity, though. So about "My first computers didn't handle lower-case well, you insensitive clod!";-)
At a minimum, I want my file system to preserve case. If there sare any ambiguous/locale-dependent toupper/tolower conversion for a given legal-in-a-filename character, then the file system should also be case sensitive. I know English's toupper/tolower is well defined (and pretty damned easy in ASCII), but what about other languages? After all, we could use Unicode filenames.
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I'm sorry, but I'd have called your bluff, saying that that's an extremely crappy excuse.
--JoeWell, they've answered the age-old question of what would follow Pentium 4. It's not the Pentium Pentium. Instead they've gone to "Core." But is it just me, or does "Core Extreme" sound silly? Shouldn't they just have "Core" and "Hardcore"? Or is that a little too wannabe punk?
Personally I think they're crazy for using such a generic term for their CPU cores. In the embedded SoC world, we've been using the word "core" to refer to CPUs for quite awhile. What makes Intel think it can establish a trademark and brand for something so generic? And after the Apple-Intel switch, I can just imagine all the Apple/Core jokes... (as in "rotten to the...").
--JoeNot in homes, schools and libraries. Our labs filled with Apple ][es didn't evaporate once the Mac started selling. In fact, our high school didn't have any Macs available to students. A couple were available to teachers. But we had several dozen ][es. The only 3.5" floppy-using machines we had were a network of PS/2s that the business department bought. Those were only available to students taking business dept classes.
FWIW, the PC XT and PC AT both used 5.25" floppies primarily, and many small businesses that had adopted early were still using them. (For instance, my tax accountant neighbor that I did occasional tech support for, and my employer--the local independent Radio Shack franchise.) It wasn't until around 1992 or 93 that I started using 3.5" floppies more regularly than 5.25" floppies, after I graduated high school. I finally switched A: over to 3.5" sometime in 1994.
If you're talking start of the 80s, I'd say cassette was more popular than floppy, at least for home users.
--JoeI don't know that it was the most popular, though it was certainly available. I left high-school with boxes upon boxes of 5.25" floppy disks, but not very many 3.5" floppies. Remember, two of the most widely deployed computer systems of the era (at least in the US), the Apple ][ and the Commodore 64, primarily used 5.25" floppies. Factoid: The Commodore 64 was the most widely produced single computer model ever.
And if you enjoyed that, you'll enjoy this also.
So, is it more of a rural, unenlightened hedonistic expression then?
lol u r right most ppl dont take the time to do it right
The research paper was read in committee and it was determined to be in passive voice. Much irritation was had by all participants, whereupon it was advocated that papers soliticed in the future be written in a more active matter. Moreover, it was generally agreed that passive voice only lends an appearance of intelligence where it make actually be lacking. Such were the conclusions of this undertaking.
</satire>
Now I feel dirty. *scrub* *scrub* But it won't come off! ACK!
Seriously, though, passive voice can be very dangerous. I authored and maintained a set of specs for portions of a major SoC component at work. Despite all my training, I slipped into passive voice for large sections of text in the specs. Because I was specifying three modules that worked together to form a memory system, the division of labor and the interfaces between these modules is very important. I found myself slipping into passive voice in these areas though, because it was easier.
Why? Passive voice allowed me to dodge specifying the final division of labor among the modules. But, if you casually read the spec, you'd have this false sense that you knew how everything worked. We didn't realize just how vague and incomplete the specs were until we went to go try to build the machine. I ended up rewriting large portions of the text with fairly minor wording changes, but the result was a much crisper, clearer and in the end more complete spec.
The danger of writing in passive voice is that the writer eliminates the actor. In this case, I was specifying not only what needed to be done, but who does it. When I wrote in passive voice, I was only specifying what needed to be done, which led to some interesting problems.
--JoeAnd, at 320x200, it's just double the resolution of the original!
(Actually, I haven't found any links that say what Mirage's display can do, but I've seen a lot of people point out other products available today are 320x240.)
Wow, you really ARE schizophrenic!
I think the point of the conditional plural is not that multiple people might pretend to be Michael Tzez, but rather whoever Michael Tzez is may be pretenting to be multiple other people as part of an astroturf campaign, or he could have a league of cohorts helping out.
--JoeIs it just me, or does the article just read like a thinly veiled advertisement for Coverity? It's reads like a generic commercial template: "Meet Bob. Bob thought everything was fine. But then he discovered he had Problem X. That's when Bob discovered Company Y with Solution Z." (etc. etc.).
It's worse than that. I get this huge interstitial ad page that's Flash-only. There is no Flash plugin so far as I can find for AMD64 on Linux, so I simply cannot view the site.
--JoeYou forgot to include the GamePube.
Personally, I'm going to be thinking of that Firefox "Whee!" commercial whenever I hear the name Wii. Maybe I'll just mush it up next to Nintendo, making it all "Nintendo-y".
--JoeYeah, no kidding! I did some Googling and found one reference from 2000 saying WebTV had shipped 1M units.
Did they do the Neutron Dance to celebrate?
There is a way to retract emails, but it isn't exactly ethical. What was that comment you made about security?
--JoeI don't know if they ever fixed this in Outlook, but I remember getting a grumpy email back in college from one of the manager-types in Computing Services there. They were complaining because I was masking the "To" and "From" lines in my emails. I was perplexed initially.
Then it clicked. For fun, I was using Elm's ability to add arbitrary headers to each email. I figured anyone geeky enough to look at the headers might get a chuckle at some geek humor stashed there. Well, among the fun headers I added were "Apparently-To:" and "Apparently-From:". All the other email clients seem to ignore those if actual To: and From: lines are present. Outlook, on the other hand, gave the "Apparently-To" and "Apparently-From" precedence though.
That was 10 years ago, so by now it's probably fixed. Or maybe not...
--JoeWell, that's why you use the spoon to keep them separate, of course!
The first computers I learned on didn't really support lower-case well. (TI-99/4A, Apple ][, Commodore PET/VIC-20/C64. PETSCII anyone?) That's a different sort of case-sensitivity, though. So about "My first computers didn't handle lower-case well, you insensitive clod!" ;-)
At a minimum, I want my file system to preserve case. If there sare any ambiguous/locale-dependent toupper/tolower conversion for a given legal-in-a-filename character, then the file system should also be case sensitive. I know English's toupper/tolower is well defined (and pretty damned easy in ASCII), but what about other languages? After all, we could use Unicode filenames.
--JoeHow else would you make a proper Black & Tan?
"That's the kind of combination an idiot would have on his luggage!"
Speaking of grain in the film... Anyone remember the ridiculous photo-blowup scene from Mel Brooks' High Anxiety? (I believe that's the film it's in.)
Or, they could be counting Gopher and Hypercard stacks in their definition of "web page."
--JoeWhat, you can't just keep clicking "Enhance?"
--Joe