I'll be hanging on to my retina mb pro for the foreseeable future [however short that is]. I like having the built in HDMI and SD card slots, along with the possibility of upgrading the internal storage.
For a tru 'pro' Macbook, I would like to see Apple revive the old 2012 form factor, with single mini display port / thunderbolt 2 replacing the firewire port, 1 USB A & 2 USB C/thunderbolt 3 ports - and if possible both magsafe & hdmi ports. The old design's optical bay could hold either an optical drive, or extra battery, or extra storage - all user serviceable. The user should also be able to upgrade the RAM - up to 32 Gig.
An amusing CableCard/Tru2Way anecdote was when the dev lab at my employer [a cable company] attempted to get a pair of compatible test TVs, the distributor balked as 'your local cable tv provider does not support CableCard'.
The special enclosures and controllers in server class hardware supported hot swap [e.g. rebuilding a RAID after disk failure]. The segments of a RAID array comprising a Volume could be on more than one disk controller. Really fancy systems had cold spare drives that would be spun up only when needed to rebuild the array.
Only volume sys: needs to be mounted at all times, other volumes could be mounted and dismounted by console commands. [And again server class hardware supported physically swapping the dismounted volume]
DEC TOPS-10, ASR-33 Teletype, Acoustic coupler for the modem [and a rotary dial phone to stick into the coupler].
Available languages were a BASIC interpreter, and PDP8 and 10 assemblers. You could call the operator to have your DEC tape mounted - but paper tape was more commonly used.
[disclaimer]I work for a cable provider but not Comcast[/disclaimer]
Last year, to support CableCard / mCard / Tru2Way [the technology has been renamed several times] deployment, we tried to get a Panasonic Tru2Way television for our development lab.
The distributor refused, as the local Cable company [that would be us] did not support Tru2Way
In the movie, Juror number 8 demonstrates that one piece of the People's evidence [a distinctive switchblade knife] was not unique, by purchasing a copy of it while on a break.
The electronic equivalent would probably be finding a picture [Amazon, ebay] and passing it around. This is much less dramatic than jabbing the duplicate into the table.
The old CableCard standard was one way only. The newer 'MCard' and the OCAP / Tru2Way boxes are much more capable, and [speaking from the inside of the cable industry] a bit puzzling to deal with.
We are looking at revamping our entire provisioning infrastructure to permit the new generation boxes to function, but that has run into some comical snags. For example, we can't get a Pannasonic Tru2Way set delivered to our lab, because the distributor will only ship to areas served by a Tru2Way compatible cable provider. We're working on it, but we're not fully compatible.
Ant then the ship was decommissioned, stricken from the Navy's list of ships and sunk as a missile test target.
So, formatting and a fresh re-install is the only way to deal with problems with 'Windows for Warships'
Jerry Pournelle is not a fan [mild understatement] of the current NASA process. Rather than having the federal government in charge of the process, and be the biggest customer, the government should pay only for success.
The prizes would be graduated, with a goal of creating a sustainable infrastructure [but it is possible that a given prize could entice a 'one shot' effort like Lindbergh's ocean crossing.
The prize list [and discussion] was posted at Getting to Space:Prizes
I can solve the space access problem with a few sentences.
Be it enacted by the Congress of the United States:
The Treasurer of the United States is directed to pay to the first American owned company (if corporate at least 60% of the shares must be held by American citizens) the following sums for the following accomplishments. No monies shall be paid until the goals specified are accomplished and certified by suitable experts from the National Science Foundation or the National Academy of Science:
1. The sum of $2 billion to be paid for construction of 3 operational spacecraft which have achieved low earth orbit, returned to earth, and flown to orbit again three times in a period of three weeks.
2. The sum of $5 billion to be paid for construction and maintenance of a space station which has been continuously in orbit with at least 5 Americans aboard for a period of not less than three years and one day. The crew need not be the same persons for the entire time, but at no time shall the station be unoccupied.
3. The sum of $12 billion to be paid for construction and maintenance of a Lunar base in which no fewer than 31 Americans have continuously resided for a period of not less than four years and one day.
4. The sum of $10 billion to be paid for construction and maintenance of a solar power satellite system which delivers at least 800 megaWatts of electric power to a receiving station or stations in the United States for a period of at least two years and one day.
5. The payments made shall be exempt from all US taxes.
That would do it. Not one cent to be paid until the goals are accomplished. Not a bit of risk, and if it can't be done for those sums, well, no harm done to the treasury.
I had Newt Gingrich persuaded to do this before he found he couldn't keep the office of Speaker. I haven't had any audiences with his successors.
Henry Vanderbilt points out that having a prize, say $1 billion, for the second firm to achieve point (1) above will get more into the competition, and produce better results. I agree.
Also relevant is another paper from 1995 called Why Have NASA
Encourage true 'energy independence'. For baseload, replace coal and oil fired steam plants with nuclear power plants. For peaking loads, continue with best available combustion technology [Gas turbine]. For high energy density fuels [hydrocarbons] allow enhanced exploration [gulf and atlantic coasts], and waste to oil processes [thermal reformation, depolymerization]. High density fuels are needed for transportation [aircraft, ship, automobile] and for locations without sufficient infrastructure
Institute Pournelle's series of prizes to award space travel and settlement milestones. This would encourage reusable orbital transport, power satellites, lunar settlement and other long term goals
Eliminate the Departments of Education and Homeland Security. Many other departments and agencies should be reduced drastically. It would also be nice if the State department occasionally considered acting to the benefit of US Citizens.
Invest in long term basic research, including providing tax incentives for long term research. Perhaps this will spawn 21st century 'Skonk Works' and Bell labs equivalents.
Fix immigration. Streamline the process for legal immigration. Provide physical barriers where needed [the border fence]. Provide severe dis-incentives to discourage employment of illegal aliens.
Word processing documents, scattered seemingly at random on a shared disk drive.
The organization has Lotus Notes - but does not use it [I'm thinking of the Team Room template - its sort of like the Confluence Wiki in capability]. The corporate culture is allergic to any non M$ documentation solution - even for a new flagship project that has been in progress for just over a year.
Like many pieces of Microsoft Software, IE was purchased, rather than produced internally. [By now, I would expect that little or none of the original Mosaic/Spyglass code survives]
Since Microsoft gave it away, it's developers [Spyglass] never received any of the promised royalties.
NetWare 4.x had Novell's NDS [now eDirectory] available and working for years before the initial release of Active Directory. I've implemented software that was NDS aware, shifting the actions permitted a user depending on their current effective roles and rights.
And 5 1/4 inch, single side floppies were state of the art, one of our sales reps was installing a software upgrade onto a customer's machine [A Zenith Z89 PC, with an external SASI connected hard disk].
He was prompted to 'insert disk 2' after disk 1 finished, then 'insert disk 3', but couldn't make it fit. Disk's 1 and 2 were all that could fit in the drive and still close the door.
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Mine ended up at the "Cradle of Aviation" museum, inside Grumman's mock up Lunar Rover
I'll be hanging on to my retina mb pro for the foreseeable future [however short that is]. I like having the built in HDMI and SD card slots, along with the possibility of upgrading the internal storage. For a tru 'pro' Macbook, I would like to see Apple revive the old 2012 form factor, with single mini display port / thunderbolt 2 replacing the firewire port, 1 USB A & 2 USB C/thunderbolt 3 ports - and if possible both magsafe & hdmi ports. The old design's optical bay could hold either an optical drive, or extra battery, or extra storage - all user serviceable. The user should also be able to upgrade the RAM - up to 32 Gig.
An amusing CableCard/Tru2Way anecdote was when the dev lab at my employer [a cable company] attempted to get a pair of compatible test TVs, the distributor balked as 'your local cable tv provider does not support CableCard'.
The special enclosures and controllers in server class hardware supported hot swap [e.g. rebuilding a RAID after disk failure]. The segments of a RAID array comprising a Volume could be on more than one disk controller. Really fancy systems had cold spare drives that would be spun up only when needed to rebuild the array.
Only volume sys: needs to be mounted at all times, other volumes could be mounted and dismounted by console commands. [And again server class hardware supported physically swapping the dismounted volume]
Astroturf == Fake Grass
astroturf movement == fake 'grass roots' movement
DEC TOPS-10, ASR-33 Teletype, Acoustic coupler for the modem [and a rotary dial phone to stick into the coupler]. Available languages were a BASIC interpreter, and PDP8 and 10 assemblers. You could call the operator to have your DEC tape mounted - but paper tape was more commonly used.
The 'Music' CD-R's theoretically pay a portion of the purchase price into a pool to 'compensate' artists. I somehow doubt that this actually happens.
unintentionally blank
Last year, to support CableCard / mCard / Tru2Way [the technology has been renamed several times] deployment, we tried to get a Panasonic Tru2Way television for our development lab.
The distributor refused, as the local Cable company [that would be us] did not support Tru2Way
And how many of you OS9/Classic Mac apps ran on your Vista box?
In the movie, Juror number 8 demonstrates that one piece of the People's evidence [a distinctive switchblade knife] was not unique, by purchasing a copy of it while on a break. The electronic equivalent would probably be finding a picture [Amazon, ebay] and passing it around. This is much less dramatic than jabbing the duplicate into the table.
The old CableCard standard was one way only. The newer 'MCard' and the OCAP / Tru2Way boxes are much more capable, and [speaking from the inside of the cable industry] a bit puzzling to deal with.
We are looking at revamping our entire provisioning infrastructure to permit the new generation boxes to function, but that has run into some comical snags. For example, we can't get a Pannasonic Tru2Way set delivered to our lab, because the distributor will only ship to areas served by a Tru2Way compatible cable provider. We're working on it, but we're not fully compatible.
Back in October, JetBrains announced that they were making Idea 'Community Edition' open source, covered by the Apache 2.0 license.
It's an odd and archaic usage, except for phases of the moon
waxing==growing
waning==shrinking
Used to hang out on Will Zachman's Canopus forum, using an off line CI$ agent called 'Golden Compass'
Apollo 18's Saturn V was used for Skylab, and the last one ended up as a lawn ornament
Ant then the ship was decommissioned, stricken from the Navy's list of ships and sunk as a missile test target. So, formatting and a fresh re-install is the only way to deal with problems with 'Windows for Warships'
The prizes would be graduated, with a goal of creating a sustainable infrastructure [but it is possible that a given prize could entice a 'one shot' effort like Lindbergh's ocean crossing. The prize list [and discussion] was posted at Getting to Space:Prizes
Also relevant is another paper from 1995 called Why Have NASA
The Russian equivalent had the NATO code name 'Backfire'
Air Combat Maneuvering - dogfighting or missile evasion.
Well, solution is too strong a word.
Word processing documents, scattered seemingly at random on a shared disk drive.
The organization has Lotus Notes - but does not use it [I'm thinking of the Team Room template - its sort of like the Confluence Wiki in capability]. The corporate culture is allergic to any non M$ documentation solution - even for a new flagship project that has been in progress for just over a year.
Like many pieces of Microsoft Software, IE was purchased, rather than produced internally. [By now, I would expect that little or none of the original Mosaic/Spyglass code survives]
Since Microsoft gave it away, it's developers [Spyglass] never received any of the promised royalties.
NetWare 4.x had Novell's NDS [now eDirectory] available and working for years before the initial release of Active Directory. I've implemented software that was NDS aware, shifting the actions permitted a user depending on their current effective roles and rights.
AD is at best a copy of a subset of NDS.
And 5 1/4 inch, single side floppies were state of the art, one of our sales reps was installing a software upgrade onto a customer's machine [A Zenith Z89 PC, with an external SASI connected hard disk].
He was prompted to 'insert disk 2' after disk 1 finished, then 'insert disk 3', but couldn't make it fit. Disk's 1 and 2 were all that could fit in the drive and still close the door.