Excuse me, but AHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH AHA HAHAHA AHAHHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!*ahem* The US is one of the countries giving the LEAST in foreign aid in the WORLD (by percentage). Norway, I believe, has the highest percentage, and Japan the biggest gross aid.
I've seen DEVELOPING COUNTRIES give more in aid.
The US is polluting our air, killing innocents in "charity liberation wars"... And, yet, 80% of Americans (1989 poll) think that they're carrying the world on their shoulders... Get a grip, will you?
At least then maybe they've have a lottery to get some of us off of this rock since its only a matter of time before we get nuked because some country is pissed that we aren't giving them enough foreign aid.
Hey, you're the people with the nukes... You are the only country that has ever USED nukes. Countries aren't pissed off because you aren't giving them cash, they're pissed off because YOU'RE FUCKING BOMBING THEM!!
Do you even know how small an amount $15 billion is in comparison to your military budget?
If a person is named John, would John.com be eligible for a lawsuit from the company Johncom? What about World.com? Would they (well, if Worldcom had existed, anyway,) be eligible? May be a dumb question, but it struck my mind, anyway.
I'm in Norway, and the old Tandberg and Norsk Data keyboards were rock-solid. They would regularily be put in the washing machine, and washed at a low temperature, and come out perfectly. I still use the keyboards, with an adapter circuit. They can't be beat. The Opera head programmer uses one, I hear.
I'm in Norway, and the old Tandberg and Norsk Data keyboards were rock-solid. They would regularily be put in the washing machine, and washed at a low temperature, and come out perfectly. I still use the keyboards, with an adapter circuit. They can't be beat. The Opera head programmer uses one, I hear.<BR><BR>-tsb
Allright, I'm sorry, but that wasn't really what I was thinking when I wrote it (well, badly, anyway) - What I was going to ask, was, would there be a significant boost in power economy if a different, power-optimized architechture were to be made?
"And I don't mean the M-series, which just added variable clock and PM, but something like two different design philosophies."
Compare to your link.
"These components include the Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor, " - that isn't really buried deep down into the site.
Centrino is a power-efficient chipset, true, (and, BTW, kudos Intel for releasing OSS drivers!) but as I said, it's still basically a power-reduced Pentium X. What I was asking for, was something like a separate architechture, designed for power economy.
...a laptop with a dedicated "portable" architecture. I can definately see Intel saying "More transistors, more power, more clock, and it'll be okay" - which is questionable on the desktop but not at all adequate with laptops. Transmeta's departure from this is an interesting turn of events - Will we see two separate processor lines, one for the laptop, and one for the desktop? And I don't mean the M-series, which just added variable clock and PM, but something like two different design philosophies.
One of the problem with modern languages is, you can't write an operating system in them.
And that's a disaster? Poppycock. C is a brilliant middle-level language, but the world needs a language that is capable of doing stuff on a higher level.
Just because sh is symlinked to bash with Linux, doesn't mean that standard/bin/sh is completely gone. Solaris (which I hate) puts it in/usr/gnu/bash. Same with IRIX (which I don't like, but the hardware kicks your dog and slaps your donkey). Point is, in 90% of cases, it'll work, but you're better off doing it The Right Way.
Reminds me of...(cue wavy video and waybackwhen memories)
The IBM tape drives had an interesting evolution, from 100bpi in mid-50s, using the NRZI (Non-Return to Zero IBM) technology, and then the MFM system which gave them 1600bpi, and then in late 60s they reached 6250 with phase recording. Those tapes moved at 200 inches per second!
and I wonder if those in places like Barrow AK & North Norway actually appreciate the extra performance.
Why, yes, I do. I live in southern norway (albeit fourth floor in an appartment building) and I really loved the seek time saves. So much so that I switched rooms with my younger brother on the ground floor. I noticed dramatic increases in speed when installing IRIX on my Indy. And I doubt the R4K>R5K aftermarked job was why. It must be the move. -tsb
"get 400K out of a 360K 3.5" floppy (and 800 out of a 720K) - the Mac OS uses them by default." You have got to be kidding me. The Mac and the PC use completely different recording techniques, and they are not "tools", they are just a matter of floppy disk controller drivers. The Mac started using these floppies in 1984, way before they became availible for the PC. Therefore, the drives were still basically newborn, and densities still couldn't be securely raised above 500K. The Mac SE and further up, (the one with the SuperDrive, ring any bells? Their CDRW/DVD-drive was also named SuperDrive) could read both formats. The OS on those computers included a utility to read and write to the inferior FAT filesystem.
You can format a disk way above its capacity, but it's not completely secure. For example, the floppy disk is only "certified" up to 1.44MB. This due to grain size of the magnetic material. The controller and drive may have bugs in them, resulting in the head banging against corners (which could seriously f* up the old Commodore 1541 drives).
My old HP 150, which was the first commercial machine to use 3.22" drives commercially, had 270K and 380K drives, with manual latches for the protective metal! You'd latch the metal before inserting it into the drive, and then press a release which would slide it back on.
Microsoft did not develop those technologies, they just formatted the floppies differently. The technology is not "used by Linux", but, Linux natively supports formatting drives all the way up to 3MB if your FD controller/drive/disk all support it. But, you can easily do this in Windows too, with nonstandard programs (afaik, anyway)
Well, nVidia has a good reason - they use proprietary algorithms lisenced from companies who makes them for a living. Their lisence disallows them from releasing the source. Thus, it is not a stupid excuse. Their hands are really tied. Intel also had some completely valid concerns that an Open-Source driver would allow their chip to tune to frequencies out of the legal WLAN band, and at signal strengths way higher than the legal limit, to name a few.
Luckily, Intel (justly IMO) judged that the competitive advantages of Linux support outweighed those risks.
like 12 Monkeys, Outbreak, the Andromeda Strain, the Stand, etc..
Umm, Andromeda Strain was a 60's-70's Michael Chrichton (sp?) novel. I would guess late 60's, though, judging from the KSR-38 Teletype with the broken bell playing a central part in the plot.
Just my.00027777778 Norwegian Kroner's worth, anyway... -tsb
You did make it sound like the drive was defective. But it was my impression that these drives worked nicely after the patch?
I personally wouldn't be offended at all if IBM handled this well enough - everyone makes mistakes. But if they've pulled an FDIV, then that is indeed a problem.
The hockey puck wasn't hated because it only had one mouse button. It was hated because it wasn't easy to use. It will go down in history as the worst designed mouse ever.
You are talking to a retrogeek. And you are wrong. The DECStation puck was even worse. Imagine a puck, with two buttons, and a really really bad sensor.
I support open source, but come on guys, would you really want Linux supporting your nuclear arsonal?
Erm... Yeah. There was a huge accident in the 70s where two missiles armed and erected without anyone knowing what happened - turned out the backup system got confused when both lines went dead - started amping noise and interpreting random bits as commands - - and thus got the command. Was a scary scenario, though. An engineer discovered this, and posted this to his superiors - but they didn't take it much into account ('till later). Had this been open source, I'm sure the engineers would have fixed it themselves. Of course, I am confusing HW with SW, but this might as well have been a software error.
But really, I would prefer that we had no nuclear arsenal at all. -tsb No thanks, I don't smoke.
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After a few cups of coffee, I realize the futility in that hope, yes. Sorry.
Excuse me, but AHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH AHA HAHAHA AHAHHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!*ahem*
The US is one of the countries giving the LEAST in foreign aid in the WORLD (by percentage). Norway, I believe, has the highest percentage, and Japan the biggest gross aid.
I've seen DEVELOPING COUNTRIES give more in aid.
The US is polluting our air, killing innocents in "charity liberation wars"...
And, yet, 80% of Americans (1989 poll) think that they're carrying the world on their shoulders... Get a grip, will you?
At least then maybe they've have a lottery to get some of us off of this rock since its only a matter of time before we get nuked because some country is pissed that we aren't giving them enough foreign aid.
Hey, you're the people with the nukes... You are the only country that has ever USED nukes. Countries aren't pissed off because you aren't giving them cash, they're pissed off because YOU'RE FUCKING BOMBING THEM!!
Do you even know how small an amount $15 billion is in comparison to your military budget?
If a person is named John, would John.com be eligible for a lawsuit from the company Johncom? What about World.com? Would they (well, if Worldcom had existed, anyway,) be eligible? May be a dumb question, but it struck my mind, anyway.
Yes, we'll start a special task force to Blame Verisign. Let's call it... Pegasus! No, taken... Gemini! Drat... International Business Machines!
...snuff that matters?
...sorry...
Erhum--- I just made a little whoopsie there.
I'm in Norway, and the old Tandberg and Norsk Data keyboards were rock-solid. They would regularily be put in the washing machine, and washed at a low temperature, and come out perfectly. I still use the keyboards, with an adapter circuit. They can't be beat. The Opera head programmer uses one, I hear.
I'm in Norway, and the old Tandberg and Norsk Data keyboards were rock-solid. They would regularily be put in the washing machine, and washed at a low temperature, and come out perfectly. I still use the keyboards, with an adapter circuit. They can't be beat. The Opera head programmer uses one, I hear.<BR><BR>-tsb
Allright, I'm sorry, but that wasn't really what I was thinking when I wrote it (well, badly, anyway) - What I was going to ask, was, would there be a significant boost in power economy if a different, power-optimized architechture were to be made?
Huh?
Did you even read my post?
"And I don't mean the M-series, which just added variable clock and PM, but something like two different design philosophies."
Compare to your link.
"These components include the Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor, " - that isn't really buried deep down into the site.
Centrino is a power-efficient chipset, true, (and, BTW, kudos Intel for releasing OSS drivers!) but as I said, it's still basically a power-reduced Pentium X. What I was asking for, was something like a separate architechture, designed for power economy.
...a laptop with a dedicated "portable" architecture. I can definately see Intel saying "More transistors, more power, more clock, and it'll be okay" - which is questionable on the desktop but not at all adequate with laptops. Transmeta's departure from this is an interesting turn of events - Will we see two separate processor lines, one for the laptop, and one for the desktop? And I don't mean the M-series, which just added variable clock and PM, but something like two different design philosophies.
:)
And damn, that's a sexy laptop...
One of the problem with modern languages is, you can't write an operating system in them.
And that's a disaster? Poppycock. C is a brilliant middle-level language, but the world needs a language that is capable of doing stuff on a higher level.
Actually, that's
/bin/sh is completely gone. Solaris (which I hate) puts it in /usr/gnu/bash. Same with IRIX (which I don't like, but the hardware kicks your dog and slaps your donkey). Point is, in 90% of cases, it'll work, but you're better off doing it The Right Way.
bash -x scriptname
Just because sh is symlinked to bash with Linux, doesn't mean that standard
True, but the nVidia driver needs to be fast. Mainly because some magazines have started benchmarking using Linux.
Reminds me of...(cue wavy video and waybackwhen memories)
The IBM tape drives had an interesting evolution, from 100bpi in mid-50s, using the NRZI (Non-Return to Zero IBM) technology, and then the MFM system which gave them 1600bpi, and then in late 60s they reached 6250 with phase recording. Those tapes moved at 200 inches per second!
-tsb
and I wonder if those in places like Barrow AK & North Norway actually appreciate the extra performance.
Why, yes, I do. I live in southern norway (albeit fourth floor in an appartment building) and I really loved the seek time saves. So much so that I switched rooms with my younger brother on the ground floor. I noticed dramatic increases in speed when installing IRIX on my Indy. And I doubt the R4K>R5K aftermarked job was why. It must be the move.
-tsb
That's just a big chunk of "wrong".
"get 400K out of a 360K 3.5" floppy (and 800 out of a 720K) - the Mac OS uses them by default."
You have got to be kidding me. The Mac and the PC use completely different recording techniques, and they are not "tools", they are just a matter of floppy disk controller drivers. The Mac started using these floppies in 1984, way before they became availible for the PC. Therefore, the drives were still basically newborn, and densities still couldn't be securely raised above 500K. The Mac SE and further up, (the one with the SuperDrive, ring any bells? Their CDRW/DVD-drive was also named SuperDrive) could read both formats. The OS on those computers included a utility to read and write to the inferior FAT filesystem.
You can format a disk way above its capacity, but it's not completely secure. For example, the floppy disk is only "certified" up to 1.44MB. This due to grain size of the magnetic material. The controller and drive may have bugs in them, resulting in the head banging against corners (which could seriously f* up the old Commodore 1541 drives).
My old HP 150, which was the first commercial machine to use 3.22" drives commercially, had 270K and 380K drives, with manual latches for the protective metal! You'd latch the metal before inserting it into the drive, and then press a release which would slide it back on.
Microsoft did not develop those technologies, they just formatted the floppies differently. The technology is not "used by Linux", but, Linux natively supports formatting drives all the way up to 3MB if your FD controller/drive/disk all support it. But, you can easily do this in Windows too, with nonstandard programs (afaik, anyway)
-tsb
...this shames the NVidias and ...
Well, nVidia has a good reason - they use proprietary algorithms lisenced from companies who makes them for a living. Their lisence disallows them from releasing the source. Thus, it is not a stupid excuse. Their hands are really tied. Intel also had some completely valid concerns that an Open-Source driver would allow their chip to tune to frequencies out of the legal WLAN band, and at signal strengths way higher than the legal limit, to name a few.
Luckily, Intel (justly IMO) judged that the competitive advantages of Linux support outweighed those risks.
-tsb
That reminds me of a cute quote by the Director of the National Bank in 1898, regarding an early demonstration of the "Edison Telephone"...:
"It's a cute little toy, but what is it really good for?"
-tsb
Hmm, mod insightful, not funny.
-tsb
like 12 Monkeys, Outbreak, the Andromeda Strain, the Stand, etc..
.00027777778 Norwegian Kroner's worth, anyway...
Umm, Andromeda Strain was a 60's-70's Michael Chrichton (sp?) novel.
I would guess late 60's, though, judging from the KSR-38 Teletype with the broken bell playing a central part in the plot.
Just my
-tsb
Apologees.
You did make it sound like the drive was defective. But it was my impression that these drives worked nicely after the patch?
I personally wouldn't be offended at all if IBM handled this well enough - everyone makes mistakes. But if they've pulled an FDIV, then that is indeed a problem.
-tsb
The hockey puck wasn't hated because it only had one mouse button. It was hated because it wasn't easy to use. It will go down in history as the worst designed mouse ever.
You are talking to a retrogeek. And you are wrong. The DECStation puck was even worse. Imagine a puck, with two buttons, and a really really bad sensor.
-tsb
I sold one of the IBM drives on ebay to some poor sucker
I hope you told him it was broken? Not his fault you were too dumb to apply a SW patch...
I support open source, but come on guys, would you really want Linux supporting your nuclear arsonal?
Erm... Yeah.
There was a huge accident in the 70s where two missiles armed and erected without anyone knowing what happened - turned out the backup system got confused when both lines went dead - started amping noise and interpreting random bits as commands - - and thus got the command. Was a scary scenario, though. An engineer discovered this, and posted this to his superiors - but they didn't take it much into account ('till later). Had this been open source, I'm sure the engineers would have fixed it themselves. Of course, I am confusing HW with SW, but this might as well have been a software error.
But really, I would prefer that we had no nuclear arsenal at all.
-tsb
No thanks, I don't smoke.
I've driven it - The Lunokhod had far less lag than the Lada... 1 second lag? Luxury!
-tsb