They are stopping _online_ sales. The brick-and-mortar Apple Stores will presumably still have old iMac stock.
And, this is the first time [in my experience] that an old Apple product will run out of stock before a new Apple product is shipped, so I don't expect the typical rapidly falling prices of a must-clear-stock-sale. On the other hand, maybe people will just sit on their money and wait for the new iMac, and the price will fall because of low demand.
And when everything gets automated, the only things left to do are:
(1) Invent new things, as it has always been (2) Maintain the old things (3) Laze around leisurely doing nothing.
But with over 6 billion people in the world, and rising, I doubt the world will have enough resources to support even 1% trying to live their life in leisure, having nothing else to do...
But that's just idle speculation by me. What do you think will happen when humans have practically nothing else to do?
What would happen, if the microwave beam moved slightly out of alignment? From such a high altitude, even a fraction of a degree could move the endpoint of the beam a few tens of metres...
Even if the reciever could detect this, it would be a few seconds before the satellite could recieve the command and turn off the beam...
And what if, something flies into the path of the beam, whether or not it is misaligned? Birds, planes, lower orbit satellites...
The question is not just what would happen, but also how to prevent it.
-- someone who hopes for safe, clean, efficient power, be it microwave or fission or fusion
"Shipping" probably only applies to closed, static development models, where by a mysterious black box is expected to produce a working product by a certain deadline.
For open, dynamic, evolving development models, those rules apply better, though their goal would not be so much "shipping" as actually "developing".
Ladies and gentlemen, we are here today to determine the United States measurement challenge once and for all.
In the blue corner we have our current US champion for many years, weighing in at 220.4623 pounds, our hero: Igor Imperial.
In the red corner we have, weighing in at 100kg all the way from France, and currently storming the world wherever he goes, our challenger: Mean Mr Metric.
It will be a great fight today and one that may change the course of history. Can Mean Mr Metric defeat Igor Imperial and change US life forever, or will Igor outwit the classy opponent and maintain his place in history.
We are about to find out.
Gentlemen, I want a clean fight. Shake hands and come out fighting on the bell.
Round 1: "DONG"
They both approach each other and meet in the middle of the ring. Metric has trained well and opens with the first punch: How many feet in a mile?
Imperial answers after a moments hesitation with: 5280
"Good exchange there Bob, hasn't worried either of them."
"No Bill, it's still neck and neck, although Imperial took a fraction of a second to divert that question."
Imperial decides to attack with a similar strategy: How many metres in a kilometre?
Instantly, Metric flashes back with: 1000
"Wasn't that a great counter by Metric eh Bob - so quick. He's looking good tonight"
"Sure is Bill"
Imperial goes on the attack again with a curly one: How much does a litre of water weigh?
Metric comes back quickly with: 1 kilogram
"Great offense from Imperial there Bob. Combining both measurement of mass and volume - well thought out."......
I'd like to think that, money, and in general the neccessity need to trade items of equal value, is what I object to, rather than capitalism or communism or any particular economic model.
I find it sad that this exchange economy mentality that prevails... But (a) it obviously works (b) because it prevails over so many millenia of attempts at other systems.
Nonetheless, that's mostly in the world of physical things -- but the world of knowledge and thought is slowly succumbing to this mentality as well.
They can't think it is Java, because Sun will refuse to let Microsoft even say that J++ is based on Java. Such is the power of brandname control. And if Sun really doesn't like it, they will file trademark infringement lawsuit and demand that Microsoft remove every trace of the 'Java' name (even in the class libraries) and force them to rename J++.
Wait... it has already happened. And it's called C#.
Q is not merely a deus ex machina... He is a deus!
But otherwise, Q had a cheeky, childish personality before he was stripped (and reinstated). (That is to say, with the exception of Encounter at Farpoint) Following which, he became more serious and less inclined to do childish things. Then Q (Jr.) came along with the same personality. (And got it removed in one episode)
Q intervention is hazardous to continuity in Enterprise though. (That is to say, unless they avoid saying 'Q', ala Regeneration)
With RISC, you are supposed to reduce memory access by shoving your workset into registers as much as possible. Obviously, 32 x 128-bit (vector) registers is not enough to do some Photoshopping...
But, having to do (hardware) memory address translation to "physical" addresses in software is a pain. Maybe another strategy could be used? That is to say, reorganise the memory upon context switch, rather than translate each time? Then again, that sounds a lot slower too...
Having the register readily available is almost certainly much faster than renaming registers and then using them.
With 32 32-bit registers all available for _general_ use, in addition to 32 64-bit floating point registers, in addition to 32 128-bit vector registers, I seriously doubt that one can achieve reasonable emulation of a full G4 on a x86.
Concluding: Having a large file of registers: humbug. Having a large window of registers is much more useful. (Sun SPARCs have about 512 registers in their file with a 24 register window, plus 8 static registers)
Intel underclocks chips so that they can pass some QA tests. Then, they mark it at the frequency that it passed the QA test at.
Nothing underhanded here.
What you do mean is the 486sx/dx debacle. One edition had the FPU disabled (by some hardware, not software, IIRC). The design was virtually identical though.
*IX is pretty good. There aren't a whole lot of obvious changes I'd like to see.
Spelling creat with a "e":-)
And umount with an n... (Plan 9 has unmount. Don't know about create though. It also lacks the root of string overflows,/str[^n].*/.)
* I've always wondered why network interfaces (at least under Linux, not sure if this is the same under other OSes) are not files like almost everything else in the UNIX world.
In Plan 9... the whole network interface and system is done as files, not merely the channel. (For at least the TCP part)
1. Open/net/tcp/clone (Keep the file handle, call it f_ctl) You'll end up with/net/n/ctl when you open it. 2. Write 'connect 192.168.1.1 23' into f_ctl. 3. If there is no error from the write, then read from f_ctl a number. Call it tcp_n. 4. Open "/net/" + tcp_n + "/data". (Call the file handle f_data) 5. Use f_data like a socket/pipe.
Lo and behold, you have a telnet connection to 192.168.1.1:23. You can write a whole server in a shell script without needing a wrapper.
Plan 9 is designed for use in a mainframe-style network, true. However, many have successfully used it as a PC-OS. But it's true what they say, you don't "get" Plan 9 if you don't use it as a mainframe-style network.
Think of Plan 9 as the OS that makes a bunch of networked computers look like one mainframe.
Inferno is Plan 9 taken to various extremes (for commercial reasons) -- Portable/WORA, for one. Embedded/low memory, for another.
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They are stopping _online_ sales. The brick-and-mortar Apple Stores will presumably still have old iMac stock.
And, this is the first time [in my experience] that an old Apple product will run out of stock before a new Apple product is shipped, so I don't expect the typical rapidly falling prices of a must-clear-stock-sale. On the other hand, maybe people will just sit on their money and wait for the new iMac, and the price will fall because of low demand.
Who knows.
"Redmond, we have a problem."
"Introducing Longhorn."
"This should keep Redmond busy."
Just some of the posters for OS X Tiger at WWDC.
And when everything gets automated, the only things left to do are:
(1) Invent new things, as it has always been
(2) Maintain the old things
(3) Laze around leisurely doing nothing.
But with over 6 billion people in the world, and rising, I doubt the world will have enough resources to support even 1% trying to live their life in leisure, having nothing else to do...
But that's just idle speculation by me. What do you think will happen when humans have practically nothing else to do?
What would happen, if the microwave beam moved slightly out of alignment? From such a high altitude, even a fraction of a degree could move the endpoint of the beam a few tens of metres...
Even if the reciever could detect this, it would be a few seconds before the satellite could recieve the command and turn off the beam...
And what if, something flies into the path of the beam, whether or not it is misaligned? Birds, planes, lower orbit satellites...
The question is not just what would happen, but also how to prevent it.
-- someone who hopes for safe, clean, efficient power, be it microwave or fission or fusion
Yea, this is true. People can't be just standing around listening to elevator music for so long.
They should probably be seated, and treated to something like a view, or a meal, or a movie etc.
But the question is, when you're lifting a whole floor, what kind of new techniques do we have to develop for building and operating lifts?
"Shipping" probably only applies to closed, static development models, where by a mysterious black box is expected to produce a working product by a certain deadline.
For open, dynamic, evolving development models, those rules apply better, though their goal would not be so much "shipping" as actually "developing".
Even as AC, I believe that the moderation will be canceled, unless you're logged out.
I don't know about base 12, but I do know that base Phi (1.618...) is popular in nature, and that "natural" logarithms use a base e (2.718...).
Irrational numbers appear to dominate the ratios in nature...
I'd like to think that, money, and in general the neccessity need to trade items of equal value, is what I object to, rather than capitalism or communism or any particular economic model.
I find it sad that this exchange economy mentality that prevails... But (a) it obviously works (b) because it prevails over so many millenia of attempts at other systems.
Nonetheless, that's mostly in the world of physical things -- but the world of knowledge and thought is slowly succumbing to this mentality as well.
See "The gift economy and free software", an adequate essay that approximately parallels my opinion.
But you need not care. My opinion is but one among an ocean of millions, all different.
I just recieved a GMail invitation this afternoon... But I also have GMail on my whitelist. So I can't confirm or deny it.
I suppose, possibly, that they mean not-dialup. That is to say, ISDN is considered broadband, even if ISDN is only 64kbps down.
But the definition of fast varies from country to country and person to person. I'm beginning to find 512kbps down 128kbps up slow.
This patent specifically applies to automatically generated lists in an IDE.
They can't think it is Java, because Sun will refuse to let Microsoft even say that J++ is based on Java. Such is the power of brandname control. And if Sun really doesn't like it, they will file trademark infringement lawsuit and demand that Microsoft remove every trace of the 'Java' name (even in the class libraries) and force them to rename J++.
Wait... it has already happened. And it's called C#.
The standard joke is 640k, FYI.
However, 64k is the limit of addressable memory with 16 address lines. (Without brain-damaged crufty segmentation a la 286 (and some earlier x86))
And... How would this be Mac propaganda, as the author himself has worked at/in/with Microsoft for nearly a decade?
On the contrary, the parent post is reads more like Windows propaganda, and the parent poster reads as just as selectively.
Q is not merely a deus ex machina... He is a deus!
But otherwise, Q had a cheeky, childish personality before he was stripped (and reinstated). (That is to say, with the exception of Encounter at Farpoint) Following which, he became more serious and less inclined to do childish things. Then Q (Jr.) came along with the same personality. (And got it removed in one episode)
Q intervention is hazardous to continuity in Enterprise though. (That is to say, unless they avoid saying 'Q', ala Regeneration)
Tachyons have imaginary mass, I thought?
With RISC, you are supposed to reduce memory access by shoving your workset into registers as much as possible. Obviously, 32 x 128-bit (vector) registers is not enough to do some Photoshopping...
But, having to do (hardware) memory address translation to "physical" addresses in software is a pain. Maybe another strategy could be used? That is to say, reorganise the memory upon context switch, rather than translate each time? Then again, that sounds a lot slower too...
Having the register readily available is almost certainly much faster than renaming registers and then using them.
With 32 32-bit registers all available for _general_ use, in addition to 32 64-bit floating point registers, in addition to 32 128-bit vector registers, I seriously doubt that one can achieve reasonable emulation of a full G4 on a x86.
Concluding: Having a large file of registers: humbug. Having a large window of registers is much more useful. (Sun SPARCs have about 512 registers in their file with a 24 register window, plus 8 static registers)
The minds of men cannot go on strike, for there are none left to go on strike.
Intel underclocks chips so that they can pass some QA tests. Then, they mark it at the frequency that it passed the QA test at.
Nothing underhanded here.
What you do mean is the 486sx/dx debacle. One edition had the FPU disabled (by some hardware, not software, IIRC). The design was virtually identical though.
*IX is pretty good. There aren't a whole lot of obvious changes I'd like to see.
:-)
/str[^n].*/.)
/net/tcp/clone (Keep the file handle, call it f_ctl) You'll end up with /net/n/ctl when you open it.
Spelling creat with a "e"
And umount with an n... (Plan 9 has unmount. Don't know about create though. It also lacks the root of string overflows,
* I've always wondered why network interfaces (at least under Linux, not sure if this is the same under other OSes) are not files like almost everything else in the UNIX world.
In Plan 9... the whole network interface and system is done as files, not merely the channel. (For at least the TCP part)
1. Open
2. Write 'connect 192.168.1.1 23' into f_ctl.
3. If there is no error from the write, then read from f_ctl a number. Call it tcp_n.
4. Open "/net/" + tcp_n + "/data". (Call the file handle f_data)
5. Use f_data like a socket/pipe.
Lo and behold, you have a telnet connection to 192.168.1.1:23. You can write a whole server in a shell script without needing a wrapper.
Relevant man pages:
ether (3)
ip (3)
Anyway, when I have some free time, I will implement this. It should be quite easy to override the system calls using LD_PRELOAD.
Statically compiled binaries may not respect LD_PRELOAD and ignore your overrides, calling their static copy of libc directly.
Plan 9 is designed for use in a mainframe-style network, true. However, many have successfully used it as a PC-OS. But it's true what they say, you don't "get" Plan 9 if you don't use it as a mainframe-style network.
Think of Plan 9 as the OS that makes a bunch of networked computers look like one mainframe.
Inferno is Plan 9 taken to various extremes (for commercial reasons) -- Portable/WORA, for one. Embedded/low memory, for another.
There is still such a system being developed at Bell Labs. It's called Plan 9.