I sold my A2000, stripped, for $300 way back when. I still have the card set (RAM, '030, 7-port serial, two SCSI adapters, 8088 bridge board, video sync; even the two SCSI hard drives still work). Maybe I should buy one and put it back together to support 32-bit Linux. I have the CD32 and A500 for the games, I s'pose. Tricky bit is converting the old output to VGA, much less HDMI.
First cards were for a homebrew ZorroII expansion I built for the A1000. 2 additional Megabytes of RAM and the Amiga's yet-to-be-equaled ramdisk gave me a really usable system.
I used the Internet, quite happily and successfully, for more than a decade, before HTTP (curse you, Tim Berners-Lee) began to intrude on the experience. I would be very happy to go back to those days. Throw in an IRC/FTP/RTP+RTSP "subscription" for content, and there's nothing I would miss.
The old adage about TV ("99 channels and nothing on") applies to the web, but with several orders more magnitude of noise to signal.
How stupid does ANYONE have to be to believe a positive (or, for that matter, negative) review online?
There's an ad on TV for a referral site for various services that claims that only "members" can post reviews. How many of the "members" are paid shills?
There's still the initial outlay to consider. You can buy quite a bit of expensive ZA power for the up-front cost of a new cluster (USD $25-30 million). Any work to create the facility is recoverable if/when they do choose a newer cluster. Additionally, there shouldn't be much in the way of "teething problems" if they can give it clean-enough power, so it becomes useful, almost on day 1.
Except, at least in the USA, the $1 your friend trasfers to you will be "discounted" by a bank transaction fee. How much does PayPal make on micro-transactions?
The Chinese economy would be as devastated as ours if we simply reneged on all the debt of ours they hold and nationalized all of their in-US assets. They're buying California real estate so fast the realtors can hardly keep up with the price rises.
This is why most discoveries are double-checked by someone else.
Whether it is table-top cold fusion, stem cells, planets, or the Higgs boson, you publish "we found X by doing Y". Someone else tries and does or doesn't succeed. If they do, it adds evidence to your discovery. If they don't, they go back through your "Y" and see where it doesn't add up for them. In this case, it was found that "Y" didn't take into account "Z" (rather like the "faster than light" neutrinos a few years back where the timing signal was slowed by a weak electical coupling).
Additionally, there's a lot of data coming from the space-based and, still, Earth-based, telescopes. A data item can show up after you've started your analysis that you didn't know at the time, for example, the stellar rotation period for which to account might not have been known.
On the plus side, this will require all of the to-be-published research to check for this factor, reducing that type of erroneous reporting.
Don't know about the god/animated characters' love lives, but get over the "Pluto is a planet" nonsense. Just because there are ossified grooves in your brain doesn't make it true.
There are still people around from BEFORE Pluto was discovered (named in 1930), and there was plenty of time when some of the larger asteroids, such as Ceres in the 1800s, were considered "planets", and if we have to end up counting all of the Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) as planets, why not comets (at least the ones with millenial scale stable orbits)? You STILL don't get nine. You either settle for the current eight, or you will, eventually, have hundreds, at least.
If you read the article, however, it would point out that astronomers use a skewed definition of "metal", as any element heavier than lithium.
At birth, stars contain little helium, but is is constantly generated by fusing hydrogen.
If you start with metals like sodium and potassium, plus what we normally call non-metals, like carbon and oxygen, then you won't get around to generating helium until you fuze something radioactive that emits an alpha particle.
Ran some tests back when CRTs commonly had >80FPS capability and we had enough computer power to run them. For most of the test subjects 85 was about all that they could readily discern. There were some, though, that could see the benefit at 100.
It's kind of like the IndyCar ad on NBCSN, where the passenger is mostly screaming and Mario Andretti (CART, F1 champ, Indianapolis 500, NASCAR winner, amoung the items on his resume) is observing the dandelions in the infield and the ladies in the stands, apparently in slow motion. Some just process visual data faster than others.
My LaserDiscs are getting old, and if I just "archive" them, I'll be accused of faking the footage, since the kids have generally only seen the bogus version.
Putting more than one transistor on a single die was an inevitable result of improvements in semiconductor process technology. There should NEVER have been a patent for that obvious step (or the single-chip microprocessor, or much of anything else in the 75 years).
They never were ecologically sound; get a Jetta TDI if you want that. They (the Prius, especially) were an "I'm so cool" fashion statement. Now that "everybody" has one, that is no longer true. Maybe those people are moving to the remote-polluting EVs.
The only really sound reason to get one was the CA carpool permit, and those are moving to the EVs also.
When the Panama Isthmus closed about three million years ago, changing the oceanic circulation patterns, the current galcial/interglacial climate began. Antartica has had ice for over two million years.
We were at the end of the last ice age thousands of years ago (Holocene Optimum). Rather than begin the next cooling cycle, we've been adding energy to the biospere at an almost-unprecented rate, other than mass extinction events such as the PermianTriassic Mass Extinction.
Given that we started burning forests for cropland at about the middle of the Holocene Optimum, it is not true to say that the natural state is hot. On occasion, in fact, the globe has been totally iced over. Since the closing of the Panama isthmus changed global ocean circulation patterns millions of years ago, the Earth has been in a constant glacial-interglacial cycle, which is now its "natural: state.
Usually (Yellowstone, Iceland,...) geothermal sources are present tens of thousands, if not tens of millions, of years before present. Unless this is a newly-formed hot spot, the ice sheet has survived millions of years of it. Only the OTHER (read: us) source of heat is now exposing the ice sheet to more heat than it can withstand.
So, basically, the device is doing something stupid (banging away hoping an AP will talk to it, when the USER has not indicated a need to do so), and Apple is just going to put on a fig leaf, of who knows how much transparency, rather than just stop doing the stupid thing? Are the few milliseconds it takes to connect to a network deliberately really going to ruin the the experience THAT much?
Almost no one is influenced by Jesus (Christ, Son of God and Mary,...). Christians are almost exclusively followers of Paul (Saul of Tarsus), even the Evangelicals who claim otherwise. Jesus had a very straightforward message according to all of the New Testament translations I have read: treat each other with compassion, and claim my death as absolution for your sins. Christians have been failing the the first part of that message for at least 1600 years. Paul, OTOH was a legalistic SOB that wrote a bunch of "rules", most of which had nothing to do with Jesus' message, and it's the rules that Christians follow, not Jesus' message.
What's wrong with a few SuperHornets? Extra survivability in case of an engine failure; both interception and ground attack (unlike the attack-only F35); easier to maintain; larger fuel capacity than the original Hornet; they actually FLY.
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I sold my A2000, stripped, for $300 way back when. I still have the card set (RAM, '030, 7-port serial, two SCSI adapters, 8088 bridge board, video sync; even the two SCSI hard drives still work). Maybe I should buy one and put it back together to support 32-bit Linux. I have the CD32 and A500 for the games, I s'pose. Tricky bit is converting the old output to VGA, much less HDMI.
First cards were for a homebrew ZorroII expansion I built for the A1000. 2 additional Megabytes of RAM and the Amiga's yet-to-be-equaled ramdisk gave me a really usable system.
IFF the methods I listed are supported. Comment system doesn't parse Internet News to build threaded responses.
I get my email through POP/SMTP, so don't need a browser for that.
Nav's built into the car, and I use hardcopy, so no maps needed.
Buy from stores, unless literally impossible, and place 'phone orders, otherwise, so no ecommerce.
Give me the others and I happily pull the browsers, on top of which, it would reduce my security exposure.
I used the Internet, quite happily and successfully, for more than a decade, before HTTP (curse you, Tim Berners-Lee) began to intrude on the experience. I would be very happy to go back to those days. Throw in an IRC/FTP/RTP+RTSP "subscription" for content, and there's nothing I would miss.
The old adage about TV ("99 channels and nothing on") applies to the web, but with several orders more magnitude of noise to signal.
How stupid does ANYONE have to be to believe a positive (or, for that matter, negative) review online?
There's an ad on TV for a referral site for various services that claims that only "members" can post reviews. How many of the "members" are paid shills?
There's still the initial outlay to consider. You can buy quite a bit of expensive ZA power for the up-front cost of a new cluster (USD $25-30 million). Any work to create the facility is recoverable if/when they do choose a newer cluster. Additionally, there shouldn't be much in the way of "teething problems" if they can give it clean-enough power, so it becomes useful, almost on day 1.
Except, at least in the USA, the $1 your friend trasfers to you will be "discounted" by a bank transaction fee. How much does PayPal make on micro-transactions?
We've bullied/bribed/... the Canadians into buying them.
How bad can they be?
never happen.
The Chinese economy would be as devastated as ours if we simply reneged on all the debt of ours they hold and nationalized all of their in-US assets. They're buying California real estate so fast the realtors can hardly keep up with the price rises.
This is why most discoveries are double-checked by someone else.
Whether it is table-top cold fusion, stem cells, planets, or the Higgs boson, you publish "we found X by doing Y". Someone else tries and does or doesn't succeed. If they do, it adds evidence to your discovery. If they don't, they go back through your "Y" and see where it doesn't add up for them. In this case, it was found that "Y" didn't take into account "Z" (rather like the "faster than light" neutrinos a few years back where the timing signal was slowed by a weak electical coupling).
Additionally, there's a lot of data coming from the space-based and, still, Earth-based, telescopes. A data item can show up after you've started your analysis that you didn't know at the time, for example, the stellar rotation period for which to account might not have been known.
On the plus side, this will require all of the to-be-published research to check for this factor, reducing that type of erroneous reporting.
Don't know about the god/animated characters' love lives, but get over the "Pluto is a planet" nonsense. Just because there are ossified grooves in your brain doesn't make it true.
There are still people around from BEFORE Pluto was discovered (named in 1930), and there was plenty of time when some of the larger asteroids, such as Ceres in the 1800s, were considered "planets", and if we have to end up counting all of the Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) as planets, why not comets (at least the ones with millenial scale stable orbits)? You STILL don't get nine. You either settle for the current eight, or you will, eventually, have hundreds, at least.
Helium is not!
If you read the article, however, it would point out that astronomers use a skewed definition of "metal", as any element heavier than lithium.
At birth, stars contain little helium, but is is constantly generated by fusing hydrogen.
If you start with metals like sodium and potassium, plus what we normally call non-metals, like carbon and oxygen, then you won't get around to generating helium until you fuze something radioactive that emits an alpha particle.
Ran some tests back when CRTs commonly had >80FPS capability and we had enough computer power to run them. For most of the test subjects 85 was about all that they could readily discern. There were some, though, that could see the benefit at 100.
It's kind of like the IndyCar ad on NBCSN, where the passenger is mostly screaming and Mario Andretti (CART, F1 champ, Indianapolis 500, NASCAR winner, amoung the items on his resume) is observing the dandelions in the infield and the ladies in the stands, apparently in slow motion. Some just process visual data faster than others.
Everything he wrote is blatantly false (see previous post).
Please.
My LaserDiscs are getting old, and if I just "archive" them, I'll be accused of faking the footage, since the kids have generally only seen the bogus version.
Putting more than one transistor on a single die was an inevitable result of improvements in semiconductor process technology. There should NEVER have been a patent for that obvious step (or the single-chip microprocessor, or much of anything else in the 75 years).
Again.
They never were ecologically sound; get a Jetta TDI if you want that. They (the Prius, especially) were an "I'm so cool" fashion statement. Now that "everybody" has one, that is no longer true. Maybe those people are moving to the remote-polluting EVs.
The only really sound reason to get one was the CA carpool permit, and those are moving to the EVs also.
When the Panama Isthmus closed about three million years ago, changing the oceanic circulation patterns, the current galcial/interglacial climate began. Antartica has had ice for over two million years.
We were at the end of the last ice age thousands of years ago (Holocene Optimum). Rather than begin the next cooling cycle, we've been adding energy to the biospere at an almost-unprecented rate, other than mass extinction events such as the PermianTriassic Mass Extinction.
Given that we started burning forests for cropland at about the middle of the Holocene Optimum, it is not true to say that the natural state is hot. On occasion, in fact, the globe has been totally iced over. Since the closing of the Panama isthmus changed global ocean circulation patterns millions of years ago, the Earth has been in a constant glacial-interglacial cycle, which is now its "natural: state.
Usually (Yellowstone, Iceland, ...) geothermal sources are present tens of thousands, if not tens of millions, of years before present. Unless this is a newly-formed hot spot, the ice sheet has survived millions of years of it. Only the OTHER (read: us) source of heat is now exposing the ice sheet to more heat than it can withstand.
no, that's just one of the reasons I don't have one (little utility traded for a lot of work maintaining and securing the thing).
So, basically, the device is doing something stupid (banging away hoping an AP will talk to it, when the USER has not indicated a need to do so), and Apple is just going to put on a fig leaf, of who knows how much transparency, rather than just stop doing the stupid thing? Are the few milliseconds it takes to connect to a network deliberately really going to ruin the the experience THAT much?
Once connected to a network, it will use the real MAC, making it utterly traceable.
Almost no one is influenced by Jesus (Christ, Son of God and Mary, ...). Christians are almost exclusively followers of Paul (Saul of Tarsus), even the Evangelicals who claim otherwise. Jesus had a very straightforward message according to all of the New Testament translations I have read: treat each other with compassion, and claim my death as absolution for your sins. Christians have been failing the the first part of that message for at least 1600 years. Paul, OTOH was a legalistic SOB that wrote a bunch of "rules", most of which had nothing to do with Jesus' message, and it's the rules that Christians follow, not Jesus' message.
What's wrong with a few SuperHornets? Extra survivability in case of an engine failure; both interception and ground attack (unlike the attack-only F35); easier to maintain; larger fuel capacity than the original Hornet; they actually FLY.