Incredible to imagine it, because of her age?
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I guess the reason it's so hard to imagine Queen Elisabeth II browsing iTunes is her age. Because our civilization has this prejudice that old folks don't do youthy stuff. I had a relative, 15 or 20 years ago (he is now deceased) who was an octagenarian (80+ years) and was enthusiastically programming on his ZX Spectrum He developed a rather sophisticated geodesy program (he was a retired geodesist), which he even sold to a handful of companies. All this didn't look strange to me, as I was still a kid, void of preconceptions. It is only now, that I am grown up, that I see how extraordinary this was. It's the mentality of today's world that makes it sound so incredible. It's also the reason why many of us will have problems finding a job at 50+, in software or hardware development.
Only idiots expect to turn on a computer, slap in a card, run an automated driver install program and expect the thing to work.
Currently, that would be true. Most computers nowadays don't support hot-swapping of bus-attached cards.
I remember that NetWare 5.0 had support for hot-swap PCI, though. Basically, you could unbind the network stack (TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, DECNet etc.) from the card, replace the card and re-bind it, all the while the server is up, running and allowing access to files and services. It could be all done without the users noticing anything.
I don't know what happened later, with NW 6.0 and 6.5 (I switched to Solaris, HP-XU and Linux shortly after that). However, NetWare has always been a strictly network-centric OS, definitely not a desktop OS. Very limited soundcard support.
Under BeOS 5.0, with BOTH a Creative SB PCI and an ES1371 card I could play multiple stereo sounds at once. That was several MP3 and.wav files, a total of over a dozen players.
Cacophony? Yes. Did it work? Abso-fucking-lutely. No skipping, no setup, no problem.
I'm not saying you're bullshitting, but I think you subscribe to the "if it doesn't work under Linux, it's a hardware problem" dogma. Wake up.
I have some doubts whether this was a leak or a "leak". However, even if it was an unintended (by Apple) event, it could turn out to be the best things to happen to Apple, ever. A sudden boom in OS-X86 (you heard it here, first) could shake some cojones in Apple's executives' pants, and cause a paradigm shift in that company's strategy.
Basically, a shift from hardware towards software-based revenue.
Or not. Apple might utilize this event just to market OS-X86 to new users, users that would otherwise not have bought a Mac, and increase their future sales of Intel-based Macs. However, this strategy would work only on a fraction of those who tried OS-X86 for size, so the effect would be limited.
I say, Apple, have some balls and start selling OS-X86 and related applications! Stick it to Microsoft and cause a stir in the desktop OS marketplace.
Almost as cool as putting a PC motherboard into a Commodore SX-64. That was a great mod.
But I would suggest to the really ambitious modder to actually get hold of an Altair 8800, gut it, cut away those useless LEDs in the front and put a Pentium 4 inside! Now THAT would be worthy of bragging! Put up a "full how to" on the 'net so other budding modders can learn and imitate.
Don't forget to include a picture of yourself, and wear that had that reads "Tool", that would be truly fitting.
Yes, your description of the heritage that is common to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is, in my view, accurate.
However: one of the principles of the Baha'i faith is that all world religions have a common source (that is, God) and are, therefore, equal in truthfulness and value. They appeared at different points of time, when humanity needed a different "social program", but the moral teachings are, in all of them, identical. You can identify the ten comandements, in one form or another, in all religious teachings.
Baha'is therefore consider the Baha'i faith to have the same heritage as the other religions. Even more, since the Baha'i faith originated from within an Islamic philosophy and environment, you can even more clearly trace its heritage to the Judeo-Christian and then Islamic line.
The misconception that the Baha'i faith is an islamic sect, has caused great harm and many Baha'is have been and still are, killed, imprisoned and generally their lives are made miserable in islamic countries. Their condition is worst in Iran, where they have been subjected to the worst atrocities and tortures. They still are, but the world community (the UN, the media, the politicians) is turning a blind eye to this atrocity. It's part of being politically correct, I guess.
Okay, first of all apologies, and I got it wrong about you being a BBC viewer.
I have to say that I find the use of "surely2 and "very, very much" to be a sign of bad style, or even lack of style. In fact, when I realized how these are overused by BBC journalists (who, I guess, probably have a high opinion about their ways of expression), I made a conscious decision to remove unnecessary superlatives and such, from my English. My assertion is enough to get the message across, "surely.." and "... very, very much" and "... indeed" don't increase the truthfulness or accuracy of my statements.
English is not my mother tongue, however, my father is a (italian) writer and poet. Perhaps I got a half of that elusive literary gene. Not enough to help me create something new and sellable, unfortunately.
Well, in that sense the Torá has also not had any forks. And the same goes for the Bahaí writings in their original languages (Farsi and Arabic). There are translations, just like for the Qur'án and the Torá, but the writings in their original languages are kept faithful to the original. (I might have not used the best wording here - I am not an english speaker, sorry)
Don't be upset by my questin, I am just trying to verify something I noticed a while ago: you watch or/and listen to quite a bit of BBC news broadcasts, don't you?
I am guessing that from your frequent usage of "surely".
Not true: there are two known forks, sunni and shi'ite. These two versions are, unfortunately, incompatible and, if in proximity of each other, can cause the death of the users. Examples include Iraq and Pakistan.
" The other big drawback I see is that at depth the pressure of the water on your body is very great. That is why modern scuba uses pressure delivery systems. That is, they deliver air at a pressure that is near to the surrounding pressure. This makes it so you can actually draw in a breath of air given all the pressure on your chest (and hence the 3000 psi scuba tanks). I don't see how the contraption can both be small and deliver at a high pressure while operating off of one battery. Even at ~32 feet you are at 1 atmosphere extra pressure."
I am noi scuba diver, but I know a bit of physics: whatever method is used to extract the gases from the water at that depth, these gases WILL be at the pressure of the water at that depth. No need to pressurize it.
..purchase a mac mini. It would have been my first step into the Mac world. A silent, small computer that I could have used to watch and edit video...
Now... now I'll just wait and see. I wish Apple was more open about what this "Intel" computer might be. If they'd come out telling the straight story, then maybe. But with this veil of secrecy, hmmmmph, no.
The Transmeta CPUs do have outstanding virtues
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The Transmeta CPUs have the highest MIPS/Watt ratio of all, still. Laptops built around them have the longest battery life, and superclusters with Transmeta CPUs have some of the highest processing densities and lowest power consumption - characteristics that may not be an obvious advantage for customers in need of raw power, but that certainly lower the bill when you factor in the power needed to dissipate the extra heat, and the price of real-estate.
I will be the first to admit: I was sceptical when Transmeta started publicizing their ideas. I thought employing Linus was just clever PR. Yet, as time went on, I thought a Transmeta-based laptop would be a very desirable item. I hate it when laptops burn your lap, don't you?
I know this sounds almost like cussing, but could one obfuscate so efficiently a source code, to hide a trojan inside it?
That would be diabolic because it would give the false feeling of security (after all, it's "open" source, right?) and therefore be even more devastating to unsuspecting users.
I even use "grok" in my corporate correspondence... with select recipients. But really, it's a word that most people understand by now, and use rather frequently.
Was it maybe added to some "official" dicgtionary while I wasn't watching?
A bit like, why are recordings of classical music (sorry, that's my passion) becoming feats of engineering but not of interpretation/performing. What you have is a 5-minute track that is clobbed together from 100 takes. We are approaching the situation where single notes are separate takes.
As a result, you have a piece that seems to hav e been played perfectly (no errors), but without a single idea, a single motivating thought, behind it. Basically, void like computer-generated music. The trend is towards technical perfection and to hell the actual content comind from a human spirit behind that piano keyboard, or violin or director's stand. At times I think most people have been zombified and are only capable of noticing technical errors in musical interpretations.
That's also the reason I rarely go to concerts anymore: the odds of hearing a perfectly executed but otherwise tedious recital, is too high. I have better things to do with my life.
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I guess the reason it's so hard to imagine Queen Elisabeth II browsing iTunes is her age. Because our civilization has this prejudice that old folks don't do youthy stuff.
I had a relative, 15 or 20 years ago (he is now deceased) who was an octagenarian (80+ years) and was enthusiastically programming on his ZX Spectrum
He developed a rather sophisticated geodesy program (he was a retired geodesist), which he even sold to a handful of companies. All this didn't look strange to me, as I was still a kid, void of preconceptions. It is only now, that I am grown up, that I see how extraordinary this was. It's the mentality of today's world that makes it sound so incredible. It's also the reason why many of us will have problems finding a job at 50+, in software or hardware development.
..I picked up a Sega MD II and Zero Wing just to see for myself the real deal. Actually, it's not a bad game at all.
Then I bought Sonic and Sonic 2 - great fun. All in all, I am grateful to those Japanese developers, for their warped translation.
Only idiots expect to turn on a computer, slap in a card, run an automated driver install program and expect the thing to work.
Currently, that would be true. Most computers nowadays don't support hot-swapping of bus-attached cards.
I remember that NetWare 5.0 had support for hot-swap PCI, though. Basically, you could unbind the network stack (TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, DECNet etc.) from the card, replace the card and re-bind it, all the while the server is up, running and allowing access to files and services. It could be all done without the users noticing anything.
I don't know what happened later, with NW 6.0 and 6.5 (I switched to Solaris, HP-XU and Linux shortly after that). However, NetWare has always been a strictly network-centric OS, definitely not a desktop OS. Very limited soundcard support.
this post said it succintly enough.
You are wrong.
OK, interesting thinking. Basically, it would be akin of distributing a demo version AND market research at the same time? I see how that could work.
Under BeOS 5.0, with BOTH a Creative SB PCI and an ES1371 card I could play multiple stereo sounds at once. That was several MP3 and .wav files, a total of over a dozen players.
Cacophony? Yes. Did it work? Abso-fucking-lutely. No skipping, no setup, no problem.
I'm not saying you're bullshitting, but I think you subscribe to the "if it doesn't work under Linux, it's a hardware problem" dogma. Wake up.
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I have some doubts whether this was a leak or a "leak". However, even if it was an unintended (by Apple) event, it could turn out to be the best things to happen to Apple, ever. A sudden boom in OS-X86 (you heard it here, first) could shake some cojones in Apple's executives' pants, and cause a paradigm shift in that company's strategy.
Basically, a shift from hardware towards software-based revenue.
Or not. Apple might utilize this event just to market OS-X86 to new users, users that would otherwise not have bought a Mac, and increase their future sales of Intel-based Macs. However, this strategy would work only on a fraction of those who tried OS-X86 for size, so the effect would be limited.
I say, Apple, have some balls and start selling OS-X86 and related applications! Stick it to Microsoft and cause a stir in the desktop OS marketplace.
Doesn't this look like a totally arbitrary or random choice of category, for this story?
Intel didn't become the giant it is by doing stupid things like competing with their customers.
Not only that, but there is really very little synergy between Apple and Intel. All in all, this "prediction" is really easy to dismiss.
Almost as cool as putting a PC motherboard into a Commodore SX-64. That was a great mod.
But I would suggest to the really ambitious modder to actually get hold of an Altair 8800, gut it, cut away those useless LEDs in the front and put a Pentium 4 inside! Now THAT would be worthy of bragging! Put up a "full how to" on the 'net so other budding modders can learn and imitate.
Don't forget to include a picture of yourself, and wear that had that reads "Tool", that would be truly fitting.
Yes, your description of the heritage that is common to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is, in my view, accurate.
However: one of the principles of the Baha'i faith is that all world religions have a common source (that is, God) and are, therefore, equal in truthfulness and value. They appeared at different points of time, when humanity needed a different "social program", but the moral teachings are, in all of them, identical. You can identify the ten comandements, in one form or another, in all religious teachings.
Baha'is therefore consider the Baha'i faith to have the same heritage as the other religions. Even more, since the Baha'i faith originated from within an Islamic philosophy and environment, you can even more clearly trace its heritage to the Judeo-Christian and then Islamic line.
The misconception that the Baha'i faith is an islamic sect, has caused great harm and many Baha'is have been and still are, killed, imprisoned and generally their lives are made miserable in islamic countries. Their condition is worst in Iran, where they have been subjected to the worst atrocities and tortures. They still are, but the world community (the UN, the media, the politicians) is turning a blind eye to this atrocity. It's part of being politically correct, I guess.
Unitarian? Both ways? I don't know what you're talking about, and I think you don't, either.
For informations about the Baha'i faith, check this link.
Okay, first of all apologies, and I got it wrong about you being a BBC viewer.
.." and "... very, very much" and "... indeed" don't increase the truthfulness or accuracy of my statements.
I have to say that I find the use of "surely2 and "very, very much" to be a sign of bad style, or even lack of style. In fact, when I realized how these are overused by BBC journalists (who, I guess, probably have a high opinion about their ways of expression), I made a conscious decision to remove unnecessary superlatives and such, from my English. My assertion is enough to get the message across, "surely
English is not my mother tongue, however, my father is a (italian) writer and poet. Perhaps I got a half of that elusive literary gene. Not enough to help me create something new and sellable, unfortunately.
Well, in that sense the Torá has also not had any forks. And the same goes for the Bahaí writings in their original languages (Farsi and Arabic). There are translations, just like for the Qur'án and the Torá, but the writings in their original languages are kept faithful to the original. (I might have not used the best wording here - I am not an english speaker, sorry)
I didn't check the others, but Druze and Baha'i are not islamic sects or "forks".
Don't be upset by my questin, I am just trying to verify something I noticed a while ago: you watch or/and listen to quite a bit of BBC news broadcasts, don't you?
I am guessing that from your frequent usage of "surely".
Not true: there are two known forks, sunni and shi'ite. These two versions are, unfortunately, incompatible and, if in proximity of each other, can cause the death of the users. Examples include Iraq and Pakistan.
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The other big drawback I see is that at depth the pressure of the water on your body is very great. That is why modern scuba uses pressure delivery systems. That is, they deliver air at a pressure that is near to the surrounding pressure. This makes it so you can actually draw in a breath of air given all the pressure on your chest (and hence the 3000 psi scuba tanks). I don't see how the contraption can both be small and deliver at a high pressure while operating off of one battery. Even at ~32 feet you are at 1 atmosphere extra pressure."
I am noi scuba diver, but I know a bit of physics: whatever method is used to extract the gases from the water at that depth, these gases WILL be at the pressure of the water at that depth. No need to pressurize it.
..purchase a mac mini. It would have been my first step into the Mac world. A silent, small computer that I could have used to watch and edit video...
Now... now I'll just wait and see. I wish Apple was more open about what this "Intel" computer might be. If they'd come out telling the straight story, then maybe. But with this veil of secrecy, hmmmmph, no.
The Transmeta CPUs have the highest MIPS/Watt ratio of all, still. Laptops built around them have the longest battery life, and superclusters with Transmeta CPUs have some of the highest processing densities and lowest power consumption - characteristics that may not be an obvious advantage for customers in need of raw power, but that certainly lower the bill when you factor in the power needed to dissipate the extra heat, and the price of real-estate.
I will be the first to admit: I was sceptical when Transmeta started publicizing their ideas. I thought employing Linus was just clever PR. Yet, as time went on, I thought a Transmeta-based laptop would be a very desirable item. I hate it when laptops burn your lap, don't you?
I know this sounds almost like cussing, but could one obfuscate so efficiently a source code, to hide a trojan inside it?
That would be diabolic because it would give the false feeling of security (after all, it's "open" source, right?) and therefore be even more devastating to unsuspecting users.
I even use "grok" in my corporate correspondence... with select recipients. But really, it's a word that most people understand by now, and use rather frequently.
Was it maybe added to some "official" dicgtionary while I wasn't watching?
Good point.
A bit like, why are recordings of classical music (sorry, that's my passion) becoming feats of engineering but not of interpretation/performing. What you have is a 5-minute track that is clobbed together from 100 takes. We are approaching the situation where single notes are separate takes.
As a result, you have a piece that seems to hav e been played perfectly (no errors), but without a single idea, a single motivating thought, behind it. Basically, void like computer-generated music. The trend is towards technical perfection and to hell the actual content comind from a human spirit behind that piano keyboard, or violin or director's stand. At times I think most people have been zombified and are only capable of noticing technical errors in musical interpretations.
That's also the reason I rarely go to concerts anymore: the odds of hearing a perfectly executed but otherwise tedious recital, is too high. I have better things to do with my life.