I think he should have said 'an industry standard motherboard/processor combo that will fit into a third party off-the-shelf case. I suspect that's what he meant.
It's an unfair judgement to make, though, as a similar problem exists with other fine processors such as the Sparc and MIPS processors.
the whole thing was finished in that wrinkling paint
I have a pair of WWII 'Observational Standard' pieces of sheet steel with that 'crackle paint' finish on them. On the other side is all the info about the standard number, signatures, etc. One is marked Property of United States Navy and the other as Property of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Dated 1943, with a 1947 'expiration date.'
Really, they're too valuable as 'geek collector items' to ever consider giving them away to anybody, so they'll never been 'weird presents.' But Crackle Finish painted cabinets rule.
My first computer was a plastic DigiComp 1 that I had back in about 1968. All mechanical.
It was a few years later that I read about the first 'electronic' computer that I lusted after. It was actually just a binary up/down counter made out of discrete transistors with a telephone dial and a toggle switch as the input device. I read about it in an 'electronic project' book in the school library. For some reason it was designed to use big 2N3055 power transistors for the flip flop elements, which made it damned expensive. These days if I wanted to build such a machine, I'd use small inexpensive transistors. Maybe some 2N2222s.
I remember seeing systems called the IBM XT/286 that were in the standard IBM PC-XT case. I don't know if they came out before the PC-AT though.
My IBM PC-AT sits in the storage room. I don't have an IBM EGA Monitor on hand, so I can't even turn it on. It would be blasphemous to take out that authentic IBM EGA card and replace it with a clone VGA card, as at this time it's all original equipment.
Actually, the fact that people are easily confused and 'don't use Word in complex ways' just lends itself even more to the value of built-in scripting.
One or two experts write the scripts to make it easy for the average person to create the needed documents and forms. Everybody else can remain confused about 'paragraph formation' and 'proper headers, titles, etc.' and can productively spend their time doing what they are good at.
If this were true, it would beg the question 'what the heck are the battery vendors putting in those cylinders, then?'
Of course, this is merely a hypothetical question, though I'm sure conspiracy theories will be spawned by my mere mention here of the notion.
If the assertion were true, there'd be battery vendors producing big cylindrical batteries with almost infinite life, since they could cram in more of the 'good' whatever that's supposedly only in the tiny little expensive batteries sanctioned by Apple.
Syphilis is also 'natural' along with quite a few other things sex-related. Babies come to mind.
Do some research on 'Orgy Porgy' as a theme in Huxley's 'Brave New World' and come back when you've figured out that your infantile 'banging the women' mentality isn't really that sophisiticated.
You're following Chairman Mao's theory of Three Worlds, where the First World is the US, the Second world is the Soviet Union, and the Third world is the poor former colonies.
Hadn't you heard? Maoism is dead.
Here we're referring to the other 'three words theory,' the one that most non-Maoists follow: The 'First World- industrial powers, Second World- up and coming, Third World- dirt poor' model.
Unless you murmur about 'Soviet Social-Imperialism' in rant sessions at your local political bookstore, you should subscribe to the second model.
I just 'rediscovered' that 386sx memory limit this very afternoon. I reconditioned an ancient NEC 386sx box that I have here and now have Minix 2.0 running on it. It has 6 30 pin SIMM sockets, so I pulled six 4 meg SIMMs out of the hoard to fully populate it (the machine had 4 256K SIMMs in it prior to this upgrade). I quickly discovered that the machine only finds 16 MB of the memory so I yanked the fifth and sixth SIMMs. I suppose back in the days of memory-scarcity someone would have stuck 6 256K SIMMs or 6 1M SIMMs in that box.
The machine is up now, happily running Minix and I have all the (limited) networking services running.
Hooray.
And I'm glad to be able to post this ramble on a thread (supposedly) about the screaming fast Athlon parts.
I'd say individual users are no more or less able to 'own' a Microsoft product than any other software product produced by any other organization.
If you want to 'own' the software you use, you'd best get started writing your own software. Otherwise you're just granted a license to use somebody else's software.
Until the alternative word processors offer the full 'macro' capabilities of Word, i.e. embedded scripting in a.doc file 'just works' the way businesses need it to for their existing documentation base, they're not going to switch.
I agree, for light writing and word processing purposes (what most of us use a W.P. for) the alternative word processors are quite capable and useful.
But the kind of 'seamless' compatibility I described above just isn't going to be there, ever. That's like demanding alternative editors with the full capability of Emacs but derived from a completely separate code base.
Slashdot Mirror
I can't think of a single instance where I or anybody I know saw something first on Television and decided to later go out and watch it in a theatre.
I think he should have said 'an industry standard motherboard/processor combo that will fit into a third party off-the-shelf case. I suspect that's what he meant.
It's an unfair judgement to make, though, as a similar problem exists with other fine processors such as the Sparc and MIPS processors.
The day when it matter if Microsoft Research 'proves itself' to some Penguin-named pundit on Slashdot will never come.
As a public good, research is arguably best financed by a monopoly designed for supporting public goods
What a crock. Any evidence, even anecdotal, to back this up?
the whole thing was finished in that wrinkling paint
I have a pair of WWII 'Observational Standard' pieces of sheet steel with that 'crackle paint' finish on them. On the other side is all the info about the standard number, signatures, etc. One is marked Property of United States Navy and the other as Property of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Dated 1943, with a 1947 'expiration date.'
Really, they're too valuable as 'geek collector items' to ever consider giving them away to anybody, so they'll never been 'weird presents.' But Crackle Finish painted cabinets rule.
Welcome to mordor.
I disagree. We'd just have to find the Claw Viper temple.
My first computer was a plastic DigiComp 1 that I had back in about 1968. All mechanical.
It was a few years later that I read about the first 'electronic' computer that I lusted after. It was actually just a binary up/down counter made out of discrete transistors with a telephone dial and a toggle switch as the input device. I read about it in an 'electronic project' book in the school library. For some reason it was designed to use big 2N3055 power transistors for the flip flop elements, which made it damned expensive. These days if I wanted to build such a machine, I'd use small inexpensive transistors. Maybe some 2N2222s.
I remember seeing systems called the IBM XT/286 that were in the standard IBM PC-XT case. I don't know if they came out before the PC-AT though.
My IBM PC-AT sits in the storage room. I don't have an IBM EGA Monitor on hand, so I can't even turn it on. It would be blasphemous to take out that authentic IBM EGA card and replace it with a clone VGA card, as at this time it's all original equipment.
Pentium II 100?
Are you underclocking? Intel never made a 100 MHz in the Pentium II generation.
Maybe the underclocking is so that it can run on a lighter motorcycle battery?
Actually, the fact that people are easily confused and 'don't use Word in complex ways' just lends itself even more to the value of built-in scripting.
One or two experts write the scripts to make it easy for the average person to create the needed documents and forms. Everybody else can remain confused about 'paragraph formation' and 'proper headers, titles, etc.' and can productively spend their time doing what they are good at.
Here Ya Go. (direct from the People's Republic)
Wow. Somebody who considers Huxley's book 'irrelevant science fiction.'
'a gram instead of a damn' eh? All stupid and happy. You feel every hair of the bearskin during the synth-pop orgy.
It takes all kinds, I guess.
Cylinder cells hold little charge and are huge.
If this were true, it would beg the question 'what the heck are the battery vendors putting in those cylinders, then?'
Of course, this is merely a hypothetical question, though I'm sure conspiracy theories will be spawned by my mere mention here of the notion.
If the assertion were true, there'd be battery vendors producing big cylindrical batteries with almost infinite life, since they could cram in more of the 'good' whatever that's supposedly only in the tiny little expensive batteries sanctioned by Apple.
i think any more of you than what you are:
Wow. My case is made.
What a card.
Entire User Interface designs are based around broken engineering decisions.
Why shouldn't the tradition continue?
Attention has been drawn to the fact that their current model does not have a replacable battery.
The priesthood at Apple has explained why it is a good thing that it is not replacable.
The idea for a replacable battery did not come from within Apple (the Apple NIHNI* tradition) ((* Not Invented Here, Not Interested!)
An illustration of this sort of entrenched design decision, look to Apples single-button-mouse tradition.
I'm not sure what is more ridiculous.
Is it the way you dole out labels to your opponents rather than address their points?
Or is it the irony of you calling somebody a 'backwoods hick' while getting trolled by AC's on Slashdot?
Oh, BTW, your 'backwoods' comment seemed pretty fricking racist, dude.
Syphilis is also 'natural' along with quite a few other things sex-related. Babies come to mind.
Do some research on 'Orgy Porgy' as a theme in Huxley's 'Brave New World' and come back when you've figured out that your infantile 'banging the women' mentality isn't really that sophisiticated.
You're following Chairman Mao's theory of Three Worlds, where the First World is the US, the Second world is the Soviet Union, and the Third world is the poor former colonies.
Hadn't you heard? Maoism is dead.
Here we're referring to the other 'three words theory,' the one that most non-Maoists follow: The 'First World- industrial powers, Second World- up and coming, Third World- dirt poor' model.
Unless you murmur about 'Soviet Social-Imperialism' in rant sessions at your local political bookstore, you should subscribe to the second model.
I just 'rediscovered' that 386sx memory limit this very afternoon. I reconditioned an ancient NEC 386sx box that I have here and now have Minix 2.0 running on it. It has 6 30 pin SIMM sockets, so I pulled six 4 meg SIMMs out of the hoard to fully populate it (the machine had 4 256K SIMMs in it prior to this upgrade). I quickly discovered that the machine only finds 16 MB of the memory so I yanked the fifth and sixth SIMMs. I suppose back in the days of memory-scarcity someone would have stuck 6 256K SIMMs or 6 1M SIMMs in that box.
The machine is up now, happily running Minix and I have all the (limited) networking services running.
Hooray.
And I'm glad to be able to post this ramble on a thread (supposedly) about the screaming fast Athlon parts.
I'd say individual users are no more or less able to 'own' a Microsoft product than any other software product produced by any other organization.
If you want to 'own' the software you use, you'd best get started writing your own software. Otherwise you're just granted a license to use somebody else's software.
Perhaps they have little or no interest in soliciting information from the kind of noob who'd run Mozilla but not know how to enable/disable cookies.
Who would that be in the first place?
1. I expect to own software I pay for
Who said anything about you 'owning' Linux?
Until the alternative word processors offer the full 'macro' capabilities of Word, i.e. embedded scripting in a .doc file 'just works' the way businesses need it to for their existing documentation base, they're not going to switch.
I agree, for light writing and word processing purposes (what most of us use a W.P. for) the alternative word processors are quite capable and useful.
But the kind of 'seamless' compatibility I described above just isn't going to be there, ever. That's like demanding alternative editors with the full capability of Emacs but derived from a completely separate code base.
They're probably 'good friends' in the same way that rival 'beauty queens' can be 'good friends' at a pagent.
I wonder if Ellison buys coke from Jobs?
Goodness gracious.
We don't have to pick and choose between Bill Gates and Larry Ellision.
They can both be scum and the world doesn't explode into loose fragments of self-contradiction.
Hell, people can even admire Gates and revile Ellision if they like. Gates is certainly a nicer person to work for and with.