The problem with a "lite" version is what do you take out? Two different people might both want a cut down version (especially if it cost less), but person A might want to retain a certain feature that person B thought was not required.
An alternative would be a "what do you not want / need" installer which would run when the machine was first powered up. It would have to include a short sentence or two to explain why you might want to throw out feature X.
At present, an OS X custom install has a few options (like foreign languages, printer drivers, X windows, BSD subsystem and so on), but nothing as radical as "don't need this - remove"
I find it interesting that Banksie can get away with writing novels that have themes that could be called SF, without them being actually being called "SF". The setting of The Bridge, for example (a giant city built around a structure like the Forth Bridge, only longer), could easily be counted as SF, and yet isn't, at least according to the publisher's classification.
The only other author I can think of off the top of my head who can avoid the "Sci-Fi stigma" by writing about alternative realities is Kim Stanley Robinson. But I'm sure there are others.
A few decades ago, people thought Bill Gates was wrong when he reckoned there would soon be a time when there was a computer in every home.
Now, a supercomputer fills an entire room. So how long before someone reckons that there will come a time when there will be a supercomputer in every home?
I was initially going to add a bit about how the stocks ("purely for research / defensive purposes") were probably being kept fresh (or re-manufactured), but felt it was a bit too tin-foil hattish.
I lost interest in Minesweeper when I did the smallest custom board size, with the maximum number of mines.
10 x 10 grid. 99 mines. I fluked it, and the very first game I played, I hit the only free square. Since there would be no way I could ever top that, I didn't. (and no, I didn't have the xyzzy cheat on).
I always that thought that it was "not producing any more bio weapons. According to this table, US (and UK, for that matter) are both declared as the "former programme" status. Which means that they could still have some around.
2: "If you're not with us, then you're against us" "But I've never heard of you before!" "Ah, so you're not with us. Therefore you are a target"
OK, slightly jaded views. But I think that most Bio weapons were conceived as "against the bad guys", forgetting that "the bad guys" can change between development and deployment
Doesn't work for Safari either, so I sent them a note pointing out that they shouldn't turn away 10% of their potential customer base. (and also that other sites, such as my bank, work securely)
IIRC, the original order was Cairo (which got pushed back and back), so Memphis was introduced as being "on the road to Cairo". Some time later, a different MS employee didn't realise that Memphis is in Egypt, and went for the US version, so the next was called Chicago.
Of course, I could be dead wrong, and that wasn't the reason.
So, getting back OT, since they were built out of telephone exchange parts, they would be almost possible to encode very low quality mp3 (or AAC). With a 1000 characters per second speed, that's about 8kbps encoding. Hmmm, dig that crackle, man.
Further, large numbers can easily be displayed on 7-element displays by splitting up the nybbles and sending each to a different character (the individual characters often have the wiring to display the correct figures). The BIOS in PCs usually keeps the date and time in BCD format, probably for historical reasons (it avoided the need for binary to ASCII conversion).
Also used in IBM mainframes and AS/400 (or rather, EBCDIC is: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Instruction Code).
Sure they could. But they don't. After the Sudan 1 scare here in the UK, I tried fsa.gov.uk, only to find it was the wrong one (should have gone to "food.gov.uk").
The point I was (half) making was that sometimes it's hard to spot any intelligence in government, when two arms both go for the same abbreviation at around the same time.
OK, so if the original owner of itunes.co.uk had their site doing something music related but different from Apple's offering, then it would probably be Apple that had slipped up.
If it's not cybersquatting, then it is, at the very least, trading on the reputation of another organisation.
Still, it could be worse. The Food Standards Agancy and Financial Services Authority are both UK government run, but only one gets the http://www.fsa.gov.uk/
Still using it? You're lucky. I remember at work some colleagues had one, (being used as a second monitor beside one of the monster 21" displays), and it was very cool to watch (it was also very cool to watch bouncing ball screensavers adjust to the different screen dimensions). They had to leave it alone after a few months, as it made worrying buzzing moises when tilted one way. I think they had played with it so much that they were close to breaking the mercury switch that triggered the mode change.
But were you ever cleared to have two aircraft landing on the same runway at the same time (and not in formation, either)?
Machrihanish airfield, in Scotland, has a 10,000+ ft runway. I was cleared to land (based on the "normal" threshold), while one of my colleagues, who was practising precision landings, was cleared to land using the control tower (about two thirds of the way up) as a touch down point
A VAIO (or similar) with built in camera, running Skype over WiFi (etc, etc) would be an all-in-one. Would you be happy with just the one? Of course not!
Therefore, the number of all-in-one devices is "as many as they can persuade you to buy" - Camera with extras, Phone with extras, MP3 player with extras, PDA with extras...
From TFA: The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has created a chip containing eight continuous Raman lasers by using fairly standard silicon processes rather than the somewhat expensive materials and processes required for making lasers today.
OK, so I'm probably missing some major point here, but, define "expensive" for making lasers, given that there is a laser in every cheap £20 CD player, cheap £30 DVD player, cheap £5 laser pointer... Can't be that expensive, surely?
Totally OT, I know, but there really were rats the size of cats (see about half way down), although the interviewee may have been turning Bowie's lyrics into fact. Or something.
Getting slightly back OT, the answer to the question "Is there life on Mars?" would seem to be a "definite maybe"
Well, Mr Bowie, we nearly like your new song, but I'm not too sure about that second line. Now I'm only a record executive, and no nothing of rhyme and rhythm, but I think that it would scan better with an extra word tagged on the end.
But it's only a cheat if you disallow the Waterloo & City line because it wasn't always run by LT. Or if you allow Moorgate to Finsbury Park because it used to be.
Unless you stipulated that 1975 or earlier maps should be used.
OT, I know, but your dig caught my eye. Win95 came on 15 floppy disks. By the time of Win95 OSR2, it was CD-ROM only. Also, Win3.11 still needed DOS to be installed first. DOS 5.0 came on 3 disks (they'd added another disk or 2 by the time of DOS 6.22
For comparison, Mac System 7.1 (with a machine) came on 10 disks - an installer for the machine, 2 "install" disks, 2 disks of utilities, one for printer drivers, one for Truetype fonts, one for CD drivers, one for QuickTime and one with intro files. Just like with DOS, though you could still have a cut down minimal system on one bootable floppy disk.
So by the same token, Win RME would be one less CD. Maybe. (Or more likely, unchecked as a default option, and hence not on OEM disk images, but still with WMP on the disk.)
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The problem with a "lite" version is what do you take out? Two different people might both want a cut down version (especially if it cost less), but person A might want to retain a certain feature that person B thought was not required.
An alternative would be a "what do you not want / need" installer which would run when the machine was first powered up. It would have to include a short sentence or two to explain why you might want to throw out feature X.
At present, an OS X custom install has a few options (like foreign languages, printer drivers, X windows, BSD subsystem and so on), but nothing as radical as "don't need this - remove"
I find it interesting that Banksie can get away with writing novels that have themes that could be called SF, without them being actually being called "SF". The setting of The Bridge, for example (a giant city built around a structure like the Forth Bridge, only longer), could easily be counted as SF, and yet isn't, at least according to the publisher's classification.
The only other author I can think of off the top of my head who can avoid the "Sci-Fi stigma" by writing about alternative realities is Kim Stanley Robinson. But I'm sure there are others.
Several decades ago, a computer filled an entire room, and "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"
A few decades ago, people thought Bill Gates was wrong when he reckoned there would soon be a time when there was a computer in every home.
Now, a supercomputer fills an entire room. So how long before someone reckons that there will come a time when there will be a supercomputer in every home?
I was initially going to add a bit about how the stocks ("purely for research / defensive purposes") were probably being kept fresh (or re-manufactured), but felt it was a bit too tin-foil hattish.
I lost interest in Minesweeper when I did the smallest custom board size, with the maximum number of mines.
10 x 10 grid. 99 mines. I fluked it, and the very first game I played, I hit the only free square. Since there would be no way I could ever top that, I didn't. (and no, I didn't have the xyzzy cheat on).
I always that thought that it was "not producing any more bio weapons. According to this table, US (and UK, for that matter) are both declared as the "former programme" status. Which means that they could still have some around.
Target:
1: whatever you hit, that's the target
2: "If you're not with us, then you're against us" "But I've never heard of you before!" "Ah, so you're not with us. Therefore you are a target"
OK, slightly jaded views. But I think that most Bio weapons were conceived as "against the bad guys", forgetting that "the bad guys" can change between development and deployment
Doesn't work for Safari either, so I sent them a note pointing out that they shouldn't turn away 10% of their potential customer base. (and also that other sites, such as my bank, work securely)
Umm,
so which mountain is "Cairo", or "Memphis"?
IIRC, the original order was Cairo (which got pushed back and back), so Memphis was introduced as being "on the road to Cairo". Some time later, a different MS employee didn't realise that Memphis is in Egypt, and went for the US version, so the next was called Chicago.
Of course, I could be dead wrong, and that wasn't the reason.
Churchill was also a Luddite, as he demanded the destruction of the first programmable, digital electronic computers
So, getting back OT, since they were built out of telephone exchange parts, they would be almost possible to encode very low quality mp3 (or AAC). With a 1000 characters per second speed, that's about 8kbps encoding. Hmmm, dig that crackle, man.
From the Wikipedia entry for BCD:
Further, large numbers can easily be displayed on 7-element displays by splitting up the nybbles and sending each to a different character (the individual characters often have the wiring to display the correct figures). The BIOS in PCs usually keeps the date and time in BCD format, probably for historical reasons (it avoided the need for binary to ASCII conversion).
Also used in IBM mainframes and AS/400 (or rather, EBCDIC is: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Instruction Code).
Self-publicity, it's true, but only outside of programmes
Sure they could. But they don't. After the Sudan 1 scare here in the UK, I tried fsa.gov.uk, only to find it was the wrong one (should have gone to "food.gov.uk").
The point I was (half) making was that sometimes it's hard to spot any intelligence in government, when two arms both go for the same abbreviation at around the same time.
I'll get me coat.
OK, so if the original owner of itunes.co.uk had their site doing something music related but different from Apple's offering, then it would probably be Apple that had slipped up.
However, a quick look at the site www.itunes.co.uk shows not one, but two redirects,
from http://www.cyberbritain.com/itunes
to iGetGifts.com earn Points for making purchases online: Get paid to use free stuff. Quick Quid: Go shopping with iGetGifts.com today. Earn at book shops (books), bet, betting, fashion, food, cds, music, dvds, film, games, electrical, entertainment, insurance, finance, travel and various other online retailers
If it's not cybersquatting, then it is, at the very least, trading on the reputation of another organisation.
Still, it could be worse. The Food Standards Agancy and Financial Services Authority are both UK government run, but only one gets the http://www.fsa.gov.uk/
Still using it? You're lucky. I remember at work some colleagues had one, (being used as a second monitor beside one of the monster 21" displays), and it was very cool to watch (it was also very cool to watch bouncing ball screensavers adjust to the different screen dimensions). They had to leave it alone after a few months, as it made worrying buzzing moises when tilted one way. I think they had played with it so much that they were close to breaking the mercury switch that triggered the mode change.
Oh come on Art Hur!
He's "a jerk, a complete asshole."
Oh wait. That's what wowbagger said to Arthur.
But were you ever cleared to have two aircraft landing on the same runway at the same time (and not in formation, either)?
Machrihanish airfield, in Scotland, has a 10,000+ ft runway. I was cleared to land (based on the "normal" threshold), while one of my colleagues, who was practising precision landings, was cleared to land using the control tower (about two thirds of the way up) as a touch down point
Think of it this way...
A VAIO (or similar) with built in camera, running Skype over WiFi (etc, etc) would be an all-in-one. Would you be happy with just the one? Of course not!
Therefore, the number of all-in-one devices is "as many as they can persuade you to buy" - Camera with extras, Phone with extras, MP3 player with extras, PDA with extras...
...and the pilot is only there to feed the dog!
From TFA: The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has created a chip containing eight continuous Raman lasers by using fairly standard silicon processes rather than the somewhat expensive materials and processes required for making lasers today.
OK, so I'm probably missing some major point here, but, define "expensive" for making lasers, given that there is a laser in every cheap £20 CD player, cheap £30 DVD player, cheap £5 laser pointer... Can't be that expensive, surely?
Totally OT, I know, but there really were rats the size of cats (see about half way down), although the interviewee may have been turning Bowie's lyrics into fact. Or something.
Getting slightly back OT, the answer to the question "Is there life on Mars?" would seem to be a "definite maybe"
Well, Mr Bowie, we nearly like your new song, but I'm not too sure about that second line. Now I'm only a record executive, and no nothing of rhyme and rhythm, but I think that it would scan better with an extra word tagged on the end.
How about the word "hair" ?
But it's only a cheat if you disallow the Waterloo & City line because it wasn't always run by LT. Or if you allow Moorgate to Finsbury Park because it used to be.
Unless you stipulated that 1975 or earlier maps should be used.
while it confers more genetic variety, it also allows more genetic damage to collect
High risk. High gain (potentially).
Also, the genetic mixing should help to find the non-viable versions faster, which is good for a population, but not for individuals
OT, I know, but your dig caught my eye. Win95 came on 15 floppy disks. By the time of Win95 OSR2, it was CD-ROM only. Also, Win3.11 still needed DOS to be installed first. DOS 5.0 came on 3 disks (they'd added another disk or 2 by the time of DOS 6.22
For comparison, Mac System 7.1 (with a machine) came on 10 disks - an installer for the machine, 2 "install" disks, 2 disks of utilities, one for printer drivers, one for Truetype fonts, one for CD drivers, one for QuickTime and one with intro files. Just like with DOS, though you could still have a cut down minimal system on one bootable floppy disk.
So by the same token, Win RME would be one less CD. Maybe. (Or more likely, unchecked as a default option, and hence not on OEM disk images, but still with WMP on the disk.)