I loved WriteNow, although it had idiosyncratic headers (all headers were the same depth as the largest one), and not-quite wysiwyg multi-column view (although T/Maker did explain that they sacrificed wysiwyg columns for speed and low memory footprint). Unfortunately, by the time WriteNow 3.0 came out (which was 32-bit clean), ClarisWorks 2.0 was around, so I actually bought it. I did (temporalily) go back to WN when I got a PB100, as it was a pain trying to run CW in 2Mb RAM, but once I upgraded it to 4Mb, it was bye bye WriteNow, and hello (on the other machine) ClarisWorks
SuperPaint was also brilliant, in the way it could mix paint and draw layers (and trace from one to the other), but it didn't want to play when I went from a 68000 Classic to a 68040 Centris. Hence ClarisWorks.
I also remember when ClarisWorks 1.0 for Windows was given away on a magazine cover disk - it made for an ultra-cheap setup for people to type in odds and ends during a convention (no big budgets then). A friend summed it up "ClarisWorks just got it right first time!" Version 2 more so.
Now, if only I could have got footnotes to work from text frames...
The last I saw (on BBC News 24), it was the US people that had donated $70m, while the US government was lagging behind that. Yeh, the people. Boo the government.
Which I think says a lot - there is a big difference between Americans as individuals, and America as a nation state.
If you had points, you wouldn't be telling us what you would do if you had points
At least, not in this thread...
But I take your point. When the option is to read 2 sides of 6 closely spaced text, or open the packet, then human nature will go for the easy option*
* cue the Douglas Adams-esque response about the planet zarg IV, where the inhabitants have magnifying eyes and only vestigial limbs, so find reading EULAs easier than opening the box
change the word decribing unsolicited bulk email to be something like, "garwitz", rather than "spam". Hence, there is no more spam! Hence problem solved.
Of course, there still is the tricky problem of all the garwitz...
While another firm may buy the PC business off IBM, unless the deal is pretty amazing, then they won't be able to sell them as "IBM", whuch is what some customers are looking for (not quite the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", but more a recognition that they still tended to be higher build quality than the no-name brands, and hence were worth the extra expense).
However, they will presumably acquire the IBM build quality, so the trick is to be able to market the "we use the bits from the people who brought you the PC", and hope that customers adopt them.
he script kiddies won't target Linux, since they don't have a clue about it.
For now. I am reminded of Ken Macleod's "Cassini Divsion", where all electronic computer systems have been compromised by the "fast folk". An initial attempt to fight them, using a ship controlled by a different electronic system, succeeds for a bit, but is quickly also taken over, as the viruses mutate enough that even a different operating system is not effective protection.* So, for the sytstem used by the "fast folk" read Windows (all varieties), and for the "other" system read Linux / OS X (IIRC they thought they were safe because the hardware was different)
*They succeeded by using mechanical computers, akin to those in Gibson's "The Difference Engine" (a novel that assumed that Babbage's difference engine was not only built, but mass produced)
Uhh, guys. Um, real sorry... I went on a tour round ESA's labs, and like, I really needed some time horizontal. You know how it is...
so anyway, I saw this thing they were working on, climbed inside, and shut the door. Oh, man, was that a mistake! Turned out it was the Ion drive craft. Only just got back from the moon. Of course, it was dark, so I didn't see anything. didn't even have a window there. Guess they didn't expect anyone to be on board... Real sorry guys... did I say that already? Oh man!
Interestingly, it looks as though IBM has taken the line "Hardware is what you have (and if we're lucky, you'll pay us loads for it), Software is what you use (you can pay for it, or we'll let have Linux), but Services is what you need (Confused? We'll put it all together for you, and make it work. At a price)
So maybe in time people will regard Microsoft as "just a software company"
Sure, each version contradicted a bit with the others (like, for example, Lintilla and the clones being missed out of the books / TV series / game (OK, so the game ends on the surface of Magrathea, so that doesn't count).
But, there were still general consistencies - the earth is destroyed, 42 is the answer, Marvin has a pain in the diodes down one side, Zaphod has three arms (even if it was a throwaway line from the radio series that then had to be included...), and the Heart of Gold is sleek like a running shoe.
Even if, at the time, they were a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney, it would never be called a "Disney" film. Disney had the different production company names for a reason.
Actually, it failed because the design authority announced that they were withdrawing support. With no support from the DA, there can be no Certificate of Airworthiness, and hence no flights.
Once the UK and French governments had written off all the development costs, British Airways was able to make an operating profit from it. With only 14 functional airframes, it never needed that big a market.
the early exit polls pointed to a Kerry victory, the republicans were depressed, the democrats estatic. Then when the real results started coming in the situation was reversed.
While it may be a wrinke, it could also be a repeat of the 1992 UK election - the exit polls all gave Labour a narrow victory, but it was actually the Conservatives that won. It was later reckoned that people were ashamed to admit to voting Conservative, so lied about it.(All subsequent UK opinion polling models had to factor this effect in)
It is possible that some were ashamed to admit to voting for the GOP
On the other hand, seeing the graphs and putting on the tinfoil hat, it looks as though the worst already happened.
Fax output (and yes, people still use them, alongside email), is IIRC 150dpi, and all the OCR vendors make capital of being able to scan a fax (yes, really), and being able to OCR that. So your 176dpi should be good enough for some industrial espionage.
The only reason I can think of at the moment is space. While your solution is likely to be lower cost, probably just as fast and so on, if you have the money to spend on one of these, then it may be that you want to have sufficient space inside the box to add a few more later, without them all being smaller individual ATA/SATA, or having an external enclosure.
Of course, it maybe is just catering for the gold-plated optical cable set
It seems odd that no one has come out with a standard cache expansion kit.
What about a cache expansion kit that is a small daughterboard that can take multiple RAM type designs (SIMM / DIMM / SO-DIMM etc), and which then plugs into the drive's cache socket. This would mean that all the old RAM that you had to remove to upgrade your machine could be put to good use. Even though it would not be as fast as the RAM in main use, it would still be around 1000 times faster than the HD itself. OK, so trying to integrate 30-pin SIMMs would probably be a bit silly (especially with a limit of something like 8Mb), but anything from about 168-pin would do.
Ah, the days. My friend had a Video Genie (compatible with the TRS-80, but cheaper), and had Asylum, which he couldn't solve in time to claim the prize. Still, there was always Olympic Decathlon*, from a small company called MicroSoft, which later evolved in to the arcade Track and Field
*sorry about the link - it was the best I could find with pictures, even if it doesn't mention the TRS-80
Close (or "mostly true", depending on your point of view). A true class 1 laser will not damage eyes, but a stronger one may be rated as class 1 provided there is an interlock (such as in a laser printer). More info here
India's political commitment to free software is second only to Brazil's
Well, it stands to reason. In the Indain sub-continent (which includes Pakistan and Banglsdesh) where they have railed against high software prices for decades (and incidentally Pakistan produced the first virus - apparently aimed deliberately at foreigners who could afford to fly in to buy cheap copies of pirate software), then "Free and legal" is better than "Free, 'cos it's pirated"
We could potentially detect it. Consider the types of computers we use in this universe. A cosmic ray or other energetic particle is capable of flipping a bit in RAM. If we are actually a simulation in a similar kind of computer, we should start looking for inconsistencies of the type that could be explained by memory corruption.
Flipping one bit in an 8-bit number, and you might see a change; A becomes B, for example. Flip one bit in a 24-bit number, and it might be hard to tell that R255 G242 B155 has now become R254 G242 B155.
So, how do you know that such changes haven't happened?
Of course, if that was the case, then cosmic rays could actually be like a gigantic DIP switch to change one bit deliberately, to keep the universe "on track" (Asimov's Second Foundation springs to mind)
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I still miss WriteNow and SuperPaint
I loved WriteNow, although it had idiosyncratic headers (all headers were the same depth as the largest one), and not-quite wysiwyg multi-column view (although T/Maker did explain that they sacrificed wysiwyg columns for speed and low memory footprint). Unfortunately, by the time WriteNow 3.0 came out (which was 32-bit clean), ClarisWorks 2.0 was around, so I actually bought it. I did (temporalily) go back to WN when I got a PB100, as it was a pain trying to run CW in 2Mb RAM, but once I upgraded it to 4Mb, it was bye bye WriteNow, and hello (on the other machine) ClarisWorks
SuperPaint was also brilliant, in the way it could mix paint and draw layers (and trace from one to the other), but it didn't want to play when I went from a 68000 Classic to a 68040 Centris. Hence ClarisWorks.
I also remember when ClarisWorks 1.0 for Windows was given away on a magazine cover disk - it made for an ultra-cheap setup for people to type in odds and ends during a convention (no big budgets then). A friend summed it up "ClarisWorks just got it right first time!" Version 2 more so.
Now, if only I could have got footnotes to work from text frames...
The last I saw (on BBC News 24), it was the US people that had donated $70m, while the US government was lagging behind that. Yeh, the people. Boo the government.
Which I think says a lot - there is a big difference between Americans as individuals, and America as a nation state.
If you had points, you wouldn't be telling us what you would do if you had points
At least, not in this thread...
But I take your point. When the option is to read 2 sides of 6 closely spaced text, or open the packet, then human nature will go for the easy option*
* cue the Douglas Adams-esque response about the planet zarg IV, where the inhabitants have magnifying eyes and only vestigial limbs, so find reading EULAs easier than opening the box
If Apple ... and Sony would ... team up
Apple actually got Sony to build the first Powerbook (third the weight of the Mac Portable; not matched for size by Apple for 10 years).
With the PowerPC being used in the Xbox 2, it's more likely to see IBM, Apple and, er, Microsoft join up for gaming.
But there is a FUSSP -
change the word decribing unsolicited bulk email to be something like, "garwitz", rather than "spam". Hence, there is no more spam! Hence problem solved.
Of course, there still is the tricky problem of all the garwitz...
While another firm may buy the PC business off IBM, unless the deal is pretty amazing, then they won't be able to sell them as "IBM", whuch is what some customers are looking for (not quite the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", but more a recognition that they still tended to be higher build quality than the no-name brands, and hence were worth the extra expense).
However, they will presumably acquire the IBM build quality, so the trick is to be able to market the "we use the bits from the people who brought you the PC", and hope that customers adopt them.
Using the biological analogy from a few posts up, that is akin to:
Buy only branded drugs. Refuse to buy generic drugs. Don't buy brands from other countries.
he script kiddies won't target Linux, since they don't have a clue about it.
For now. I am reminded of Ken Macleod's "Cassini Divsion", where all electronic computer systems have been compromised by the "fast folk". An initial attempt to fight them, using a ship controlled by a different electronic system, succeeds for a bit, but is quickly also taken over, as the viruses mutate enough that even a different operating system is not effective protection.* So, for the sytstem used by the "fast folk" read Windows (all varieties), and for the "other" system read Linux / OS X (IIRC they thought they were safe because the hardware was different)
*They succeeded by using mechanical computers, akin to those in Gibson's "The Difference Engine" (a novel that assumed that Babbage's difference engine was not only built, but mass produced)
Uhh, guys. Um, real sorry... I went on a tour round ESA's labs, and like, I really needed some time horizontal. You know how it is...
so anyway, I saw this thing they were working on, climbed inside, and shut the door. Oh, man, was that a mistake! Turned out it was the Ion drive craft. Only just got back from the moon. Of course, it was dark, so I didn't see anything. didn't even have a window there. Guess they didn't expect anyone to be on board...
Real sorry guys... did I say that already? Oh man!
Interestingly, it looks as though IBM has taken the line "Hardware is what you have (and if we're lucky, you'll pay us loads for it), Software is what you use (you can pay for it, or we'll let have Linux), but Services is what you need (Confused? We'll put it all together for you, and make it work. At a price)
So maybe in time people will regard Microsoft as "just a software company"
In other words, to quote Bill Gates in TFA:
I think Apple will do things the Apple way, and Microsoft will do things the Microsoft way. I'd say the long-term factors all favor our approach
Anti-competitive practices still seem to be far more of the Microsoft way
Sure, each version contradicted a bit with the others (like, for example, Lintilla and the clones being missed out of the books / TV series / game (OK, so the game ends on the surface of Magrathea, so that doesn't count).
But, there were still general consistencies - the earth is destroyed, 42 is the answer, Marvin has a pain in the diodes down one side, Zaphod has three arms (even if it was a throwaway line from the radio series that then had to be included...), and the Heart of Gold is sleek like a running shoe.
No, as far as I can tell, Miramax made it.
Even if, at the time, they were a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney, it would never be called a "Disney" film. Disney had the different production company names for a reason.
Actually, it failed because the design authority announced that they were withdrawing support. With no support from the DA, there can be no Certificate of Airworthiness, and hence no flights.
Once the UK and French governments had written off all the development costs, British Airways was able to make an operating profit from it. With only 14 functional airframes, it never needed that big a market.
Oops! bang goes my mod points!
the early exit polls pointed to a Kerry victory, the republicans were depressed, the democrats estatic. Then when the real results started coming in the situation was reversed.
While it may be a wrinke, it could also be a repeat of the 1992 UK election - the exit polls all gave Labour a narrow victory, but it was actually the Conservatives that won. It was later reckoned that people were ashamed to admit to voting Conservative, so lied about it.(All subsequent UK opinion polling models had to factor this effect in)
It is possible that some were ashamed to admit to voting for the GOP
On the other hand, seeing the graphs and putting on the tinfoil hat, it looks as though the worst already happened.
Fax output (and yes, people still use them, alongside email), is IIRC 150dpi, and all the OCR vendors make capital of being able to scan a fax (yes, really), and being able to OCR that. So your 176dpi should be good enough for some industrial espionage.
The only reason I can think of at the moment is space. While your solution is likely to be lower cost, probably just as fast and so on, if you have the money to spend on one of these, then it may be that you want to have sufficient space inside the box to add a few more later, without them all being smaller individual ATA/SATA, or having an external enclosure.
Of course, it maybe is just catering for the gold-plated optical cable set
The more serious response...
It seems odd that no one has come out with a standard cache expansion kit.
What about a cache expansion kit that is a small daughterboard that can take multiple RAM type designs (SIMM / DIMM / SO-DIMM etc), and which then plugs into the drive's cache socket. This would mean that all the old RAM that you had to remove to upgrade your machine could be put to good use. Even though it would not be as fast as the RAM in main use, it would still be around 1000 times faster than the HD itself. OK, so trying to integrate 30-pin SIMMs would probably be a bit silly (especially with a limit of something like 8Mb), but anything from about 168-pin would do.
A machine left on for a while would start to smoke.
:)
Yeah, I had a machine like that once. I think dust was blocking the air vents
Ah, the days. My friend had a Video Genie (compatible with the TRS-80, but cheaper), and had Asylum, which he couldn't solve in time to claim the prize. Still, there was always Olympic Decathlon*, from a small company called MicroSoft, which later evolved in to the arcade Track and Field
*sorry about the link - it was the best I could find with pictures, even if it doesn't mention the TRS-80
it only spends 1/1000000 of it's time on that area of the retina. This means it delivers 1/1000000 of its power to that area.
No, it delivers 1/1000000 of its energy to that area. It delivers all of its power to each pixel, but in turn.
Energy = Power x time
Close (or "mostly true", depending on your point of view). A true class 1 laser will not damage eyes, but a stronger one may be rated as class 1 provided there is an interlock (such as in a laser printer). More info here
Hmm, sounds like how to implement Peril Sensitive Sunglasses
India's political commitment to free software is second only to Brazil's
Well, it stands to reason. In the Indain sub-continent (which includes Pakistan and Banglsdesh) where they have railed against high software prices for decades (and incidentally Pakistan produced the first virus - apparently aimed deliberately at foreigners who could afford to fly in to buy cheap copies of pirate software), then "Free and legal" is better than "Free, 'cos it's pirated"
We could potentially detect it. Consider the types of computers we use in this universe. A cosmic ray or other energetic particle is capable of flipping a bit in RAM. If we are actually a simulation in a similar kind of computer, we should start looking for inconsistencies of the type that could be explained by memory corruption.
Flipping one bit in an 8-bit number, and you might see a change; A becomes B, for example. Flip one bit in a 24-bit number, and it might be hard to tell that R255 G242 B155 has now become R254 G242 B155.
So, how do you know that such changes haven't happened?
Of course, if that was the case, then cosmic rays could actually be like a gigantic DIP switch to change one bit deliberately, to keep the universe "on track" (Asimov's Second Foundation springs to mind)