Maybe true, but if there's anything better than being remembered for a catchphrase, it's being remembered for a catchphrase that you didn't even have to say!
On the other hand, he did write: "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers."
From "The Road Ahead"
Region coding that is difficult to change means that the manufactuer effectively has multiple production and distribution lines. (one for each region). In an ideal world, the sales in each area will be constant, but, as Apple found with the multi-coloured iMacs, Joe Public preferred some colours over others.
The same applies with the players. If, say, Europe has a sudden surge, at the expense of Japan, then all the players made for Japan sit on the warehouse shelves.
With margins for players really low (I could pick one up here in the UK for under £30), a manufacturer needs to be able to sell all the players they make, so increasingly, the "box shifter" manufacturers (as opposed to the big names like Sony), are increasingly relying on really easy to change region coding, to maximise their sales.
So, the consumers don't like it, the manufacturers don't like it...
before that they were using city names "Chicago," "Detroit," "Memphis"
The one before "Memphis" was "Cairo". The link being that Memphis is also in Egypt. Of course, somewhere along the way, it seems to have been mistaken for the one in TN, so the next cities were all US.
In French speaking markets, it then became the "MR". And to think that Toyota engineers thought that "mid-engined runabout, 2 seater" was worth shortening to "MR2"
Back in the days, the upgrade from Win 3.1 to Win 3.11 cmae out, and a number of apps had compatibility problems. At the top of the list, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint.
Once again, MS bring out a new version, and, once again, among the apps that don't work properly, are ones made by themselves!
Isn't it about time that they started having meetings between the OS division and the Applications division?
(OK, real Whovians will probably point out all my errors, but here goes..)
When the BBC were making "The Five Doctors", Tom Baker was unavailable due to other acting committments. Since that would have ruined the main plot device, they rummaged round and used a few scenes from "Shada", which was made but never broadcast at the time due to a strike.
So yes, Baker wasn't really in it, and yes, it was stock footage (albeit footage that hadn't been broadcast before)
Apple, on the other hand, only broke the API once, with the transition from Classic to Cocoa (the MacOSX API), and even then, they did their best to maintain compatibility, with Carbon.
Mostly true, but the original Carbon API (IIRC) chopped around a quarter of the cruft that had built up between System 1 and OS 8. There are some apps that don't work well with Carbon (Excel 5, but not Word 6, for example), presumably because they used some of the deprecated API calls.
So in effect, they chipped away at the API by making Carbon, and then made a new one for Cocoa.
Meanwhile, in the real world, IIRC, the International Standard Atmosphere is: (big breath)
+15C, 1013.2mb* pressure, with the tempaerature decreasing by 1.98C per 1000ft until 36,090ft, where the temperature is assumed constant at -56.5C
And then there's speed in knots (nautical miles per hour), which is yet another measurement system, being based on degrees of longitude at the equator.
Oops! Must remember to format properly! I'll try again.
Perhaps they realised that with Trusted hardware, that would only allow Trusted code to run, it would not be too hard for the hardware vendors to hold MS to ransom.
"Gee, Mr Gates, that sure is a nice OS you have there. Would be a real shame if my hardware revoked the Trusted status from your code."
No doubt in the early days, MS only thought of locking out (third party) applications.
Perhaps they realised that with Trusted hardware, that would only allow Trusted code to run, it would not be too hard for the hardware vendors to hold MS to ransom.
"Gee, Mr Gates, that sure is a nice OS you have there. Would be a real shame if my hardware revoked the Trusted status from your code."
No doubt in the early days, MS only thought of locking out (third party) applications.
Time to dust down the OSI 7 layer model.
I think what the OP means is that Boeing started out (with what turned out to be FUD) saying that "Fly by wire is unsafe", and then built the Fly by Wire 777. That's the hypocrisy.
It is an incidental that the certification changed from a "prove it's safe" to a "prove it's not unsafe". If Boeing had kept to the same line, then they could probably also have got the FAA to apply the same rules, and hence it would have been impossible to certify the 777. But no commercial firm has the money to build something just to prove that it couldn't be done (even if some things end up that way).
The difference was (is?) that Apple, IBM & Motorola sat down together to form the AIM alliance, deliberatley to ensure that the standards were, just that, standard.
At the time, IBM brought in part of their Power chip (I forget which version), Moto, who hadn't imploded then, brought in the mass production facilities, while Apple brought in what would be good instructions to implement for a hardware manufacturer to use. Or somrthing similar.
I know this is getting OT, but it seems an interesting idea. It has long been stated that Apple provides "insanely great" software to drive its hardware sales, but if people want just the hardware, then maybe provide it (at just small enough a discount that Mac + OSX + iLife + other extras costs more than buying them all at once)
Some local train services and the London Underground use a third rail to carry power while the Intercity system and some other local train services use overhead cables, as do most (all?) of the tram type systems.
Just to clarify:
South of the River Thames (and near Liverpool), 750v (or sometimes 630v) DC is used from a third rail. Elsewhere, rail electrification is 25kv AC overhead lines. The London Underground is 660v DC using a third rail for current and a fourth rail for return. Light rail systems typically use 1500v DC on the overhead, except for the Docklands Light Railway, which is 750v DC from an upside down 3rd rail (the collector is underneath, rather than on top)
All clear?
I thought not.
Still, at Stratford, east London, there is 2-rail (25kv), 2 lots of 3-rail (750v and DLR), 2 lots of 4 rail (Central and Jubilee lines), so you can see for yourself. If you want. Maybe. Possibly.
True, digital storage is cheap, but I think the point being made was that if/when (depending on paranoia) the server is blitzed by a degaussing field (or whatever), then it is gone for good, whereas even your slowly rotting real photos can still potentially last longer than any computer system in existence.
Think how many photgraphs from 50 years ago or older there are, compared with how much digital storage from even 1986 is still viewable without a great deal of effort
If it were set up to automatically upload all images to a service all the time...If something newworthy happens near you, and you catch it, I am sure the news channels would bid for your images
A similar premise was used in David Brin's Earth, where people would wear their Tru-view glasses to record suspicious activity. A bit like the "curtain twitchers", only they could be anywhere.
recording a song non-digitally (analoge) isn't really good for the song's quality.
True enough, but it didn't stop generations of people copying vinyl LPs onto tape. The quality doesn't have to be "perfect", just "good enough" for Joe Schmo. It's only those intent on piracy who will be peturbed about the degradation in quality.
Not only was it done years ago (Mach 6.72, for the pedants out there), but the B-52 that was used to drop the X-15s is the same one used for the X-43. In fact, there was a piece about it here, in 1995 when the aircraft was only 40.
The NASA press conference about the X-43 was full of "100 years ago" type stuff, which is all well and good, but didn't say "49 years ago, the mother ship for today's flight was built", let alone "37 years ago, the X-15 went this fast with a guy on board"
I think what it really shows is that 100 years ago, the Wright brothers achieved powered and controlled flight, but most of the real "envelope pushing" advances were made over 40 years ago.
In many cases, the "simpler" theory can only be determined in retrospect. for example, it was once thought that the heat released in drilling was the fluid (caloric) being released.
Seemed simple enough, until it was determined that, just as rubbing your hands together produces heat, so the two surfaces rubbing together produce heat as a result of the friction between the two.
So, for now, until someone can find that elusive "simpler" theory, we have what we have.
I often wonder how much $tronger the company would be today if they would have nailed every introduction with enough supply to meet the demand.
I think that this was an over-compensation for overstocking in the late 1980s/ early 90s - to make space for the first PowerMacs in 1996, they cleared out entire warehouses full of really old (but not previously sold) kit, like 1991 PB100*, or 1987 Mac II. IIRC, what they couldn't sell dirt cheap went into landfill.
It was one of the things that Steve Jobs was meant to get a handle on - how to reduce the inventory from 3-6 months down to a few weeks. It looks like it may have gone to far (again!)
* original price GBP1250 - I bought one of these "warehouse specials" for GBP300. Brand new, boxed, but made 5 years before.
Looks like Microsoft is focusing on video rather than music
The picture suggests that it is Creative making the hardware (but taking the "easy" option of WMV rather than, say MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 (or [insert fave video format here])
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Maybe true, but if there's anything better than being remembered for a catchphrase, it's being remembered for a catchphrase that you didn't even have to say!
On the other hand, he did write:
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers."
From "The Road Ahead"
thought they weren't allowed to restrict trade within Europe due to EU law
probably because there isn't one music body that encompasses all of the EU; distribution rights are still country based.
So, it's the music companies that are restricting trade by setting different rules in different countries within the EU
It also doesn't help equipment manufactuers.
Region coding that is difficult to change means that the manufactuer effectively has multiple production and distribution lines. (one for each region).
In an ideal world, the sales in each area will be constant, but, as Apple found with the multi-coloured iMacs, Joe Public preferred some colours over others.
The same applies with the players. If, say, Europe has a sudden surge, at the expense of Japan, then all the players made for Japan sit on the warehouse shelves.
With margins for players really low (I could pick one up here in the UK for under £30), a manufacturer needs to be able to sell all the players they make, so increasingly, the "box shifter" manufacturers (as opposed to the big names like Sony), are increasingly relying on really easy to change region coding, to maximise their sales.
So, the consumers don't like it, the manufacturers don't like it...
before that they were using city names "Chicago," "Detroit," "Memphis"
The one before "Memphis" was "Cairo". The link being that Memphis is also in Egypt. Of course, somewhere along the way, it seems to have been mistaken for the one in TN, so the next cities were all US.
I may have missed that one.
So, after asking for "tea", the machine analysed his tastes, and came up with something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
share and enjoy!
In French speaking markets, it then became the "MR". And to think that Toyota engineers thought that "mid-engined runabout, 2 seater" was worth shortening to "MR2"
Back in the days, the upgrade from Win 3.1 to Win 3.11 cmae out, and a number of apps had compatibility problems. At the top of the list, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint.
Once again, MS bring out a new version, and, once again, among the apps that don't work properly, are ones made by themselves!
Isn't it about time that they started having meetings between the OS division and the Applications division?
(OK, real Whovians will probably point out all my errors, but here goes..)
When the BBC were making "The Five Doctors", Tom Baker was unavailable due to other acting committments. Since that would have ruined the main plot device, they rummaged round and used a few scenes from "Shada", which was made but never broadcast at the time due to a strike.
So yes, Baker wasn't really in it, and yes, it was stock footage (albeit footage that hadn't been broadcast before)
All joking aside, isn't this the fear that people have of MicroSoft?t s.htm
I think it was "the Onion" that made the biggest joke about it http://home.att.net/~jbcole/humor/Microsoft_paten
Kinda scary SCO is trying this for real.
Or maybe just kinda desperate.
Apple, on the other hand, only broke the API once, with the transition from Classic to Cocoa (the MacOSX API), and even then, they did their best to maintain compatibility, with Carbon.
Mostly true, but the original Carbon API (IIRC) chopped around a quarter of the cruft that had built up between System 1 and OS 8. There are some apps that don't work well with Carbon (Excel 5, but not Word 6, for example), presumably because they used some of the deprecated API calls.
So in effect, they chipped away at the API by making Carbon, and then made a new one for Cocoa.
but metric paper makes much better airplanes
Meanwhile, in the real world, IIRC, the International Standard Atmosphere is: (big breath)
+15C, 1013.2mb* pressure, with the tempaerature decreasing by 1.98C per 1000ft until 36,090ft, where the temperature is assumed constant at -56.5C
And then there's speed in knots (nautical miles per hour), which is yet another measurement system, being based on degrees of longitude at the equator.
* which I think was chosen as it is 29.92 in Hg
Oops! Must remember to format properly! I'll try again.
Perhaps they realised that with Trusted hardware, that would only allow Trusted code to run, it would not be too hard for the hardware vendors to hold MS to ransom.
"Gee, Mr Gates, that sure is a nice OS you have there. Would be a real shame if my hardware revoked the Trusted status from your code."
No doubt in the early days, MS only thought of locking out (third party) applications.
Time to dust down the OSI 7 layer model.
Perhaps they realised that with Trusted hardware, that would only allow Trusted code to run, it would not be too hard for the hardware vendors to hold MS to ransom. "Gee, Mr Gates, that sure is a nice OS you have there. Would be a real shame if my hardware revoked the Trusted status from your code." No doubt in the early days, MS only thought of locking out (third party) applications. Time to dust down the OSI 7 layer model.
I think what the OP means is that Boeing started out (with what turned out to be FUD) saying that "Fly by wire is unsafe", and then built the Fly by Wire 777. That's the hypocrisy.
It is an incidental that the certification changed from a "prove it's safe" to a "prove it's not unsafe". If Boeing had kept to the same line, then they could probably also have got the FAA to apply the same rules, and hence it would have been impossible to certify the 777. But no commercial firm has the money to build something just to prove that it couldn't be done (even if some things end up that way).
Motorola & IBM both had PowerPC standards
The difference was (is?) that Apple, IBM & Motorola sat down together to form the AIM alliance, deliberatley to ensure that the standards were, just that, standard.
At the time, IBM brought in part of their Power chip (I forget which version), Moto, who hadn't imploded then, brought in the mass production facilities, while Apple brought in what would be good instructions to implement for a hardware manufacturer to use. Or somrthing similar.
I know this is getting OT, but it seems an interesting idea. It has long been stated that Apple provides "insanely great" software to drive its hardware sales, but if people want just the hardware, then maybe provide it (at just small enough a discount that Mac + OSX + iLife + other extras costs more than buying them all at once)
Some local train services and the London Underground use a third rail to carry power while the Intercity system and some other local train services use overhead cables, as do most (all?) of the tram type systems.
Just to clarify:
South of the River Thames (and near Liverpool), 750v (or sometimes 630v) DC is used from a third rail. Elsewhere, rail electrification is 25kv AC overhead lines. The London Underground is 660v DC using a third rail for current and a fourth rail for return. Light rail systems typically use 1500v DC on the overhead, except for the Docklands Light Railway, which is 750v DC from an upside down 3rd rail (the collector is underneath, rather than on top)
All clear?
I thought not.
Still, at Stratford, east London, there is 2-rail (25kv), 2 lots of 3-rail (750v and DLR), 2 lots of 4 rail (Central and Jubilee lines), so you can see for yourself. If you want. Maybe. Possibly.
True, digital storage is cheap, but I think the point being made was that if/when (depending on paranoia) the server is blitzed by a degaussing field (or whatever), then it is gone for good, whereas even your slowly rotting real photos can still potentially last longer than any computer system in existence.
Think how many photgraphs from 50 years ago or older there are, compared with how much digital storage from even 1986 is still viewable without a great deal of effort
If it were set up to automatically upload all images to a service all the time...If something newworthy happens near you, and you catch it, I am sure the news channels would bid for your images
A similar premise was used in David Brin's Earth , where people would wear their Tru-view glasses to record suspicious activity. A bit like the "curtain twitchers", only they could be anywhere.
recording a song non-digitally (analoge) isn't really good for the song's quality.
True enough, but it didn't stop generations of people copying vinyl LPs onto tape. The quality doesn't have to be "perfect", just "good enough" for Joe Schmo. It's only those intent on piracy who will be peturbed about the degradation in quality.
Not only was it done years ago (Mach 6.72, for the pedants out there), but the B-52 that was used to drop the X-15s is the same one used for the X-43. In fact, there was a piece about it here, in 1995 when the aircraft was only 40.
The NASA press conference about the X-43 was full of "100 years ago" type stuff, which is all well and good, but didn't say "49 years ago, the mother ship for today's flight was built", let alone "37 years ago, the X-15 went this fast with a guy on board"
I think what it really shows is that 100 years ago, the Wright brothers achieved powered and controlled flight, but most of the real "envelope pushing" advances were made over 40 years ago.
In many cases, the "simpler" theory can only be determined in retrospect. for example, it was once thought that the heat released in drilling was the fluid (caloric) being released.
Seemed simple enough, until it was determined that, just as rubbing your hands together produces heat, so the two surfaces rubbing together produce heat as a result of the friction between the two.
So, for now, until someone can find that elusive "simpler" theory, we have what we have.
I often wonder how much $tronger the company would be today if they would have nailed every introduction with enough supply to meet the demand.
I think that this was an over-compensation for overstocking in the late 1980s/ early 90s - to make space for the first PowerMacs in 1996, they cleared out entire warehouses full of really old (but not previously sold) kit, like 1991 PB100*, or 1987 Mac II. IIRC, what they couldn't sell dirt cheap went into landfill. It was one of the things that Steve Jobs was meant to get a handle on - how to reduce the inventory from 3-6 months down to a few weeks. It looks like it may have gone to far (again!)
* original price GBP1250 - I bought one of these "warehouse specials" for GBP300. Brand new, boxed, but made 5 years before.
Since the Classic wasn't introduced until around 1990, it couldn't have been. However, according to this, it was a Mac Plus
Right idea, wrong model [pedant mode = off]
Looks like Microsoft is focusing on video rather than music
The picture suggests that it is Creative making the hardware (but taking the "easy" option of WMV rather than, say MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 (or [insert fave video format here])