I sympathize. My PowerBook from 2001 still work fine and my Dual G5 Power Mac works great. My 23" Cinema Display has an ADC connector but seems bright as ever.
However, the 8 core Intel Mac I have at work is so much faster I get impatient developing at home on the G5. If you make your money doing video, it is going to be well worth the $3,500 for you to get a new one. And it being Intel it might last for 8 years.
If I had an Air, I might not want the pad either. And I have an original iPhone, so it is feeling a bit slow these days. I have not pre-ordered, I want to touch one first, but will likely get a 3G one, mostly for reading and drawing I imagine.
This is what I found: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-01/0702.shtml
I was assuming McAfee cause it has been so painful in other areas - 3.5 hours to copy 10Gig (100,000 files) from one drive to another. But maybe that is also partly NTFS. Same copy was 15 minutes on my mac. But, I have the option to move a bunch of my devs to Linux, and will do so asap.
I bought my teen a Mac because it takes less of my time to admin, probably a good 12 hours a year less. I use a Mac at work because McAfee is mandated on the Windows machine; a 3 minute svn co on the Mac takes 50 minutes on the Windows machine.
I'm thinking that the circuits will probably behave according to Maxwell. The statement
It responds to a magnetic field, so it'll effect the inductive characteristics of the circuit. This would seriously mess up any high-frequency circuit.
seems rather stronger than your "who knows". So again - bring some physics, or other qualitative argument.
And I am saying I would be surprised if there was any important difference. We are talking about the interconnects between stacked chips; maybe 2mm in length. The conductor is a straight line - the lowest inductance geometry you could hope for. Please give me any qualitative argument to support the claim that there would be a relevant change in inductance.
Not likely. I assume the iron is heated by induction, which would be through a strongish time varying magnetic field. The field induces eddy currents in the iron, which has some resistance. The magnetic field that does this, will not be created be the current running through the solder joint, hence no heating, so the solder will not melt. Like wise, no reason to think the inductance will be anything other than that of a short straight wire.
No. First, iron and ferrite are not always the same thing, so it might just be iron in the solder. Second, the geometry matters, and the spheres are not beads.
The reason for the app store has nothing to do with security and everything about Apple wringing every last penny out of developers by taking an arbitrary cut of their sales and providing only limited QC and indexing that could easily be provided by any other site or service.
Apple takes 30% and covers all the issues with deployment and sales. Please show me the better deal. I wrote my first video game in 1982 and took 33% of gross profit. Cost to retail was $20, cost to consumer $40. Cost to manufacture and ship $10. So I got $3.33 on a $40 retail sale and that was by far the best cut I ever took on a physical product. On the App Store I get 70c for a product that costs the customer a buck. So there may be some valid complaints about the closed platform, but I see no reason to complain about 70% cut of retail sale cost.
So I dug up the answer - at 9 pt, which was common on 640x480 screens these charachters were not distinct.
MPW’s default font used to be Monaco 9. This font is also required by the System Software, and is therefore installed on every machine. In addition to the 9-point bitmap font, System Software also supplies a TrueType version of the font. There are a couple of problems with this setup.
First of all, the 9-point bitmap characters are not the same as those supplied by the TrueType version. So, when you print, the print driver normally uses the TrueType font to define the characters, which means it’s WYSINWYG (What you see is not what you get). Print your worksheet with Font Substitution turned off, examine the output closely, and you’ll see what I mean. (1998 update: As of Mac OS 8.5, this is no longer true. The bitmap and TrueType versions of Monaco have been synchronized. For some reason, though, it was synchronized on the “new” definition, instead of the traditional version of Monaco.)
The second problem is that the characters in the 9-point bitmap version of Monaco are not always distinct. The “I” (eye), “l” (ell), and “1” (one) characters are very similar, as are “O” (oh) and “0” (zero). Some of the punctuation characters are only a single pixel in size, and some of the high-numbered ASCII characters are missing altogether. This makes it very unfriendly as a programmer’s font, where a single incorrect character can mean the difference between a successful build and hours-long debugging sessions.
I don't have anything left that I can fire up Think C on System 6, but I know I spent time looking for a good font, and ProFont was awesome. It came with some editor extensions package for Think C that was also super nice.
This was my favorite for a long time. No question about 1 and l, or 0 and O; which may have been identical in the default Monaco. Also:,;, and , where slightly bold so one could easily see statement ends.
But for whatever reason, big screens, better fonts, syntax highlighting. ProFont was quite readable in 9pt; important on small screens.
I might try to put ProFont in Eclipse tomorrow.
ProFont can be found here:
http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/index.html
How large was the FS you were backing up? I think rsync has to scan the whole file system looking for changes. In the case of Time Machine, the file system keeps a log of changes as they happen and so no scanning is done. As I said, it takes less than 20 seconds on a drive that has about 500 Gig of stuff. Incremental backups on the 500 Gig used to take something like 20 minutes to scan, likewise thanks to the fact that you can change a file modified time, if you want to be sure you have to check sum the files. So, before Time Machine I was only realistically able to do nightly backups, not hourly. With hourly backups - worst case I loose an hour of work, not a whole day.
Apple did more than put a good UI on Time Machine. The AFS knows what files have been changed in a way that would be hard for 3rd party software. I have a 1TB main drive and hourly backups from Time machine take 20 seconds running in the background if I have only a few meg of changed files. Hourly, daily, weekly etc and then prunes in a reasonable way. Time Machine make backups nearly automatic and invisible.
A fair reading of the e-mails reveals nothing to support the denialists' conspiracy theories. In one of the more controversial exchanges, UEA scientists sharply criticized the quality of two papers that question the uniqueness of recent global warming (S. McIntyre and R. McKitrick Energy Environ. 14, 751–771; 2003 and W. Soon and S. Baliunas Clim. Res. 23, 89–110; 2003) and vowed to keep at least the first paper out of the upcoming Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Whatever the e-mail authors may have said to one another in (supposed) privacy, however, what matters is how they acted. And the fact is that, in the end, neither they nor the IPCC suppressed anything: when the assessment report was published in 2007 it referenced and discussed both papers.
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I read the summary as saying Sith Green was involved, and just thought there was yet another character I can t place. Must be getting old and blind.
I sympathize. My PowerBook from 2001 still work fine and my Dual G5 Power Mac works great. My 23" Cinema Display has an ADC connector but seems bright as ever.
However, the 8 core Intel Mac I have at work is so much faster I get impatient developing at home on the G5.
If you make your money doing video, it is going to be well worth the $3,500 for you to get a new one. And it being Intel it might last for 8 years.
If I had an Air, I might not want the pad either. And I have an original iPhone, so it is feeling a bit slow these days. I have not pre-ordered, I want to touch one first, but will likely get a 3G one, mostly for reading and drawing I imagine.
iPhone uses 'shake' as an undo. I can imagine that the undo might be done similar to the claim. Might have to re-write it.
This is what I found: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-01/0702.shtml I was assuming McAfee cause it has been so painful in other areas - 3.5 hours to copy 10Gig (100,000 files) from one drive to another. But maybe that is also partly NTFS. Same copy was 15 minutes on my mac. But, I have the option to move a bunch of my devs to Linux, and will do so asap.
Thanks! Will Google it - a factor of 15 seems pretty awful though.
I bought my teen a Mac because it takes less of my time to admin, probably a good 12 hours a year less. I use a Mac at work because McAfee is mandated on the Windows machine; a 3 minute svn co on the Mac takes 50 minutes on the Windows machine.
It responds to a magnetic field, so it'll effect the inductive characteristics of the circuit. This would seriously mess up any high-frequency circuit.
seems rather stronger than your "who knows".
So again - bring some physics, or other qualitative argument.
And I am saying I would be surprised if there was any important difference. We are talking about the interconnects between stacked chips; maybe 2mm in length. The conductor is a straight line - the lowest inductance geometry you could hope for.
Please give me any qualitative argument to support the claim that there would be a relevant change in inductance.
Not likely. I assume the iron is heated by induction, which would be through a strongish time varying magnetic field. The field induces eddy currents in the iron, which has some resistance. The magnetic field that does this, will not be created be the current running through the solder joint, hence no heating, so the solder will not melt. Like wise, no reason to think the inductance will be anything other than that of a short straight wire.
A bead is a doughnut. A sphere is not. On this point the sets are disjoint.
No. First, iron and ferrite are not always the same thing, so it might just be iron in the solder. Second, the geometry matters, and the spheres are not beads.
Everyone knows the only Bachelor of Bullshit worth it's salt comes from Cal Tech. He picked the wrong Uni.
I couldn't agree more, but even the math majors know to spell it Caltech.
The reason for the app store has nothing to do with security and everything about Apple wringing every last penny out of developers by taking an arbitrary cut of their sales and providing only limited QC and indexing that could easily be provided by any other site or service.
Apple takes 30% and covers all the issues with deployment and sales. Please show me the better deal. I wrote my first video game in 1982 and took 33% of gross profit. Cost to retail was $20, cost to consumer $40. Cost to manufacture and ship $10. So I got $3.33 on a $40 retail sale and that was by far the best cut I ever took on a physical product. On the App Store I get 70c for a product that costs the customer a buck.
So there may be some valid complaints about the closed platform, but I see no reason to complain about 70% cut of retail sale cost.
If the resolution it high is there still a problem with LCD vs e-ink? Ambient light issues?
MPW’s default font used to be Monaco 9. This font is also required by the System Software, and is therefore installed on every machine. In addition to the 9-point bitmap font, System Software also supplies a TrueType version of the font. There are a couple of problems with this setup. First of all, the 9-point bitmap characters are not the same as those supplied by the TrueType version. So, when you print, the print driver normally uses the TrueType font to define the characters, which means it’s WYSINWYG (What you see is not what you get). Print your worksheet with Font Substitution turned off, examine the output closely, and you’ll see what I mean. (1998 update: As of Mac OS 8.5, this is no longer true. The bitmap and TrueType versions of Monaco have been synchronized. For some reason, though, it was synchronized on the “new” definition, instead of the traditional version of Monaco.) The second problem is that the characters in the 9-point bitmap version of Monaco are not always distinct. The “I” (eye), “l” (ell), and “1” (one) characters are very similar, as are “O” (oh) and “0” (zero). Some of the punctuation characters are only a single pixel in size, and some of the high-numbered ASCII characters are missing altogether. This makes it very unfriendly as a programmer’s font, where a single incorrect character can mean the difference between a successful build and hours-long debugging sessions.
I don't have anything left that I can fire up Think C on System 6, but I know I spent time looking for a good font, and ProFont was awesome. It came with some editor extensions package for Think C that was also super nice.
OK, I'll bite. Why? He messed with Tsutomu, and I think he broke a few laws. What did NYT do to him, seriously. And I'm no NYT since Judy Miller.
This was my favorite for a long time. No question about 1 and l, or 0 and O; which may have been identical in the default Monaco. Also :,;, and , where slightly bold so one could easily see statement ends.
But for whatever reason, big screens, better fonts, syntax highlighting. ProFont was quite readable in 9pt; important on small screens. I might try to put ProFont in Eclipse tomorrow. ProFont can be found here: http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/index.html
And I thought it was Superman 1978.
How large was the FS you were backing up?
I think rsync has to scan the whole file system looking for changes. In the case of Time Machine, the file system keeps a log of changes as they happen and so no scanning is done. As I said, it takes less than 20 seconds on a drive that has about 500 Gig of stuff. Incremental backups on the 500 Gig used to take something like 20 minutes to scan, likewise thanks to the fact that you can change a file modified time, if you want to be sure you have to check sum the files.
So, before Time Machine I was only realistically able to do nightly backups, not hourly. With hourly backups - worst case I loose an hour of work, not a whole day.
Apple did more than put a good UI on Time Machine. The AFS knows what files have been changed in a way that would be hard for 3rd party software. I have a 1TB main drive and hourly backups from Time machine take 20 seconds running in the background if I have only a few meg of changed files. Hourly, daily, weekly etc and then prunes in a reasonable way. Time Machine make backups nearly automatic and invisible.
Other than Mathmatica? WHO/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SINCGARS SINCGARS uses 25 kHz channels Seems a bit low bandwith for good video.
From an editorial in Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/462545a.html
A fair reading of the e-mails reveals nothing to support the denialists' conspiracy theories. In one of the more controversial exchanges, UEA scientists sharply criticized the quality of two papers that question the uniqueness of recent global warming (S. McIntyre and R. McKitrick Energy Environ. 14, 751–771; 2003 and W. Soon and S. Baliunas Clim. Res. 23, 89–110; 2003) and vowed to keep at least the first paper out of the upcoming Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Whatever the e-mail authors may have said to one another in (supposed) privacy, however, what matters is how they acted. And the fact is that, in the end, neither they nor the IPCC suppressed anything: when the assessment report was published in 2007 it referenced and discussed both papers.