For me (at least, raised in Blighty) it was Barker and Jenson. Both are great comedic actors. I also thought the series was well written. Not the most laugh-out-loud show I've ever seen, but I dug it. (as my mom would say a "gentle comedy." Then again, this is from a woman who loves "Last of the Summer Wine." YUCK!)
Other shows to add to the list: Chef! (well, every season of Chef! except the last one, that one was just blah) and Yes, [Prime] Minister.
This would have been good news any time during the first 5-6 seasons. If the last 7 or so years are anything to go by its just gonna blow./oblig. "the Simpsons haven't been funny in years" rant
Dad's Army rules. Brilliant show. In terms of older BBC/ITV shows I also loved Open all Hours (which by some miracle our local PBS station actually showed for a few weeks) and Porridge.
Must say, other than Father Ted (which was ok) I can't disagree with their top 5.
Yeah, I've gotten the DUN to work. Pairing can be a real pain in the ass (esp. with Macs for some reason) but after I took the unit in to a Sprint Store and had the firmware updated things worked a lot better.
Basically you're going to get speeds marginally quicker than dialup (at least that's been my experience so far) but it comes in handy when traveling with no other internet access.
Should have mentioned that there's scuttlebut floating around the various chat boards that Sprint will one day introduce OBEX support with a firmware upgrade, but if/when that shows up is a total guess.
This Sprint phone will do half of what you want: you can connect to the internet via SprintVision with ease (its not the quickest connection, but will do in a pinch) via Bluetooth. The downside is that the geniuses at LG/Sprint (each blames the other) have disabled OBEX support so as of yet you cannot sync addressbooks, etc.
It doesn't shock me too much that it only took 2 hours to port Mathematica. I mean, the API for OS X on Intel is probably exactly the same as for OS X on PPC. Probably only very, very small parts (if any at all) of Mathematica are written in assembly code. You fix those parts and anything that relies on specific processor behavior then do a recompile.
But it could also be that very, very large parts of Mathematica are written in assembly code. Considering that Mathematica has also been written for Windows and X86 Linux its not like they had to reinvent the wheel. That's why the "2 hours to port" sounds good but doesn't tell the whole story. A lot of that was probably cutting and pasting from the x86 specific codebase. I suspect that if you have a lot of hand-tuned code and don't already have a Win port available the porting may take a considerably longer period of time.
Having said that, I suspect 99% of the off the shelf apps should recompile with only a reasonably smallish amount of tweaking.
But MS aren't going to ditch Intel. They would be foolish to make windows AMD only. Intel are a very, very paranoid company (by their own admission) and this is just a hedge. If the Macintosh keeps or looses its marketshare, no biggie, Intel still has its WinTel business. If the Mac grows, well, Intel will have 100% of that market.
The biggest downside I see here is that MS has a hell of a lot more clout with Intel than Apple. IF (and its a big if) the Macintosh share starts to rise you can bet your bottom dollar that MS will start pressuring the hell out of Intel.
The more I think about this the more I think it may be a smart more short term / medium term for Apple (they get fast, really cheap chips and a shedload of Intel "marketing" chash), but if Intel stays in their technology slump and IBM really does wonderful things with the Power series Apple could be faced with ironically swtiching from one "lags behind the industry" technology to another, added to which their new chip partner will throw them under the bus the minute Microsoft decides it doesn't want Apple eating into any more of its marketshare.
And this dovetails nicely on why they would attack the low end first. Get all of the G3 class software (i.e. non Altivec dependent) ported first and slung on the low end. You then have another year to help migrate the high end, Altivec dependent software over to the X86/MMX design.
Technically not true. There was one machine back in the 90s that had an X86 daughterboard installed so you could run windows in a partition. Not sure if it was an Intel chip, but it was x86.
But Apple won't turn down cash. I posted elsewhere that if true I suspect this has much more to do with Intel throwing big wads of cash at Apple / selling chips dirt cheap (Dell dirt cheap). Frankly at its current size AMD just can't compete with that (see Dell).
You forget one thing: Intel has a tonne of cash. My pet theory (if the rumor is true): The whole thing was started by Intel, not Apple. IBM have been having some wins with the PPC arch, and been getting good press with the PPC/Cell chips. Same goes with AMD and the x64 arch. MS has been getting a little too cosy with both IBM and AMD. So Intel hedges themselves. While they may not have the technical "mindshare" lead right now, they still do have a SHEDLOAD of cash. So throw a crapload, and I mean a crapload, of cash at Apple to grease the skids. It puts MS on notice, gives them another exclusive tier one client and is a blow to IBM's chip division (cutting off a big revenue stream)
Not true. Some of the Jaguar's chips were indeed 64 bit. The GPU was 32 bit. It even had a 16 bit 68000 in it. A bit of a hodge podge to say the least, but the "Jag = 2*32 bit chips" is an old wives tale.
I have used the Handcom Office software maybe twice on my Zaurus, neither time for anything actually work related. Working on Word and Excel documents is pretty difficult on a PDA form factor, I have to imagine its downright useless on a phone screen.
Is anyone really doing last minute alterations to presentations on their phone?
No, but you can blame the lack of spares on them. They obviously have contractual / inventory problems. One of the reasons that the trains aren't going to come back into service any time soon is the Bombidere (sp?) doesn't have enough spare brakes on hand. This is something Amtrak should have been on top of contractually, stipulating that the supplier always have XX spares on hand at any one time or second sourced.
Obviously there would have to be a way to prevent people from just pocketing the cash for such a system to work. My suggestion probably would never work in practice but we need to do something...
Well obviously (so obvious, in fact, that no one knows what it is... but I digress). The problem is any system that has the power to determine who's in and who's out is going to be run by people. You know, those funny beings that have a way of working in their own self interest. Who is to say that my unconventional style of campaigning is bad?... and I'm just trying to get people thinking of ways to prevent the rampant corporatism that is sweeping the country.
I fear govenment power a hell of a lot more than I fear corperate power. Corporatism is a two way street. It exists because the gov't has such broad powers. Put the gov't in charge of funding elections and guess who's going to throw lots and lots of money and resources at making sure their allies are deemed worthy and their enemies not?
Wow. My ideas threaten you that much? Maybe there IS something to them!;-)
Nope, just violence and alcohol for the masses. They win votes every time.
I guess what I was suggesting would include the person running themselves. Basically what I meant was that they shouldn't be able to use ANY money except what was given to them for their campaign with each candidate being given the same amount.
So who decides what consitutes a valid candidate? Can I "run for office" simply to bag the cash and party on everyone else's dime for 6 months?
"Vote FatRatBastard. I promise a PBR in every hand and slow, painful death for anyone's whose/. id is 115903."
I live in DC, my job is in Maryland where, as you say, the payroll originates (legally). I pay no MD taxes. I pay DC taxes (and lots of them). Previous to living in DC I lived in Virginia while working at the same company. I paid VA taxes, not MD taxes. State income tax (or in my case District income taxes) are levied at your state of residence. There have been cases where jurisdictions have established commuter taxes (which are different animals than income taxes) to tax workers who don't reside in that jurisdiction, but they usually end up doing more economic damage that good. Philly comes to mind. DC's trying to do the same thing.
The same could be said about the theory of a flat earth. At some point 99.9% of the experts were pretty damn sure of that too. The problem is science isn't done by consensus. Its done by proving hypothesis.
The problem is nutters on the Green side equate people saying "you still haven't proven it" with people meaning "it doesn't exist." Is global warming real and a problem? Very well may be. As shown in the original posting, however, there is still a way to go before anyone can say its proven.
I did the same thing, buying a Zaurus when the 5500's were cheap on HSN. For the most part I was simply using it for solitare and the occasional web surfing / chatting if I was out (or the wife had pilfered the laptop).
Recently updated the PIM apps to Opie apps and lost the sync ability with my work machine (and never really got it to work with my OSX or Linux boxes correctly). I was pulling my hair out trying to update my contacts via the little keyboard when I decided to install a VNC server on it. It was then that I half-assed figured out how to actually make the thing productive: basically it is now my central repostory for task lists, phone numbers, calendars, etc. Whenever I'm in front of a computer (be it home or work) I fire up a VNC client and have it perched in the corner of my desktop, making it easy to access. When I leave anywhere I just shove it in my pocket and have everything handy for the road. Mail stays synced via imap.
This way I never actually have to sync the machine (I'm in front of 4 or 5 every day), entering data is a breeze and my brain-dead ass still gets reminded of meetings, etc.
Well if we're going to be totally off topic about gun control I'll throw my two cents worth in the ring:
I live in DC, where handguns are illegal and buying a rifle or a shotgun is a hassle and I can say that I live in the safest city in America. Its not home invasion, its called being neighborly and the redistribution of wealth. And I'm sure they built that bulletproof KFC two block from my house for purely aesthetic reasons. I mean, who doesn't love ordering food into a microphone in front of two inch thick tempered glass./snarky bastard who just finished his shotgun class with a 65 year old grandmother
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So why arent they protesting sellers of kitchenware?
Because they're idiots?
In fact, common courtesy dictates that you shut the hell up.
/. story wouldn't pass ten.
New to Slashdot are we? (what, are you borrowing your big brother's ID number)
I know, it's a shoker, but your opinion on slashdot changes NOTHING.
When has ANYONE'S opinion on slashdot changed a thing. Shit, apparently if you had your way the comment count on any given
Lighten up Francis.
For me (at least, raised in Blighty) it was Barker and Jenson. Both are great comedic actors. I also thought the series was well written. Not the most laugh-out-loud show I've ever seen, but I dug it. (as my mom would say a "gentle comedy." Then again, this is from a woman who loves "Last of the Summer Wine." YUCK!)
Other shows to add to the list: Chef! (well, every season of Chef! except the last one, that one was just blah) and Yes, [Prime] Minister.
This would have been good news any time during the first 5-6 seasons. If the last 7 or so years are anything to go by its just gonna blow. /oblig. "the Simpsons haven't been funny in years" rant
Dad's Army rules. Brilliant show. In terms of older BBC/ITV shows I also loved Open all Hours (which by some miracle our local PBS station actually showed for a few weeks) and Porridge.
Must say, other than Father Ted (which was ok) I can't disagree with their top 5.
Yeah, I've gotten the DUN to work. Pairing can be a real pain in the ass (esp. with Macs for some reason) but after I took the unit in to a Sprint Store and had the firmware updated things worked a lot better.
Basically you're going to get speeds marginally quicker than dialup (at least that's been my experience so far) but it comes in handy when traveling with no other internet access.
Should have mentioned that there's scuttlebut floating around the various chat boards that Sprint will one day introduce OBEX support with a firmware upgrade, but if/when that shows up is a total guess.
This Sprint phone will do half of what you want: you can connect to the internet via SprintVision with ease (its not the quickest connection, but will do in a pinch) via Bluetooth. The downside is that the geniuses at LG/Sprint (each blames the other) have disabled OBEX support so as of yet you cannot sync addressbooks, etc.
It doesn't shock me too much that it only took 2 hours to port Mathematica. I mean, the API for OS X on Intel is probably exactly the same as for OS X on PPC. Probably only very, very small parts (if any at all) of Mathematica are written in assembly code. You fix those parts and anything that relies on specific processor behavior then do a recompile.
But it could also be that very, very large parts of Mathematica are written in assembly code. Considering that Mathematica has also been written for Windows and X86 Linux its not like they had to reinvent the wheel. That's why the "2 hours to port" sounds good but doesn't tell the whole story. A lot of that was probably cutting and pasting from the x86 specific codebase. I suspect that if you have a lot of hand-tuned code and don't already have a Win port available the porting may take a considerably longer period of time.
Having said that, I suspect 99% of the off the shelf apps should recompile with only a reasonably smallish amount of tweaking.
But MS aren't going to ditch Intel. They would be foolish to make windows AMD only. Intel are a very, very paranoid company (by their own admission) and this is just a hedge. If the Macintosh keeps or looses its marketshare, no biggie, Intel still has its WinTel business. If the Mac grows, well, Intel will have 100% of that market.
The biggest downside I see here is that MS has a hell of a lot more clout with Intel than Apple. IF (and its a big if) the Macintosh share starts to rise you can bet your bottom dollar that MS will start pressuring the hell out of Intel.
The more I think about this the more I think it may be a smart more short term / medium term for Apple (they get fast, really cheap chips and a shedload of Intel "marketing" chash), but if Intel stays in their technology slump and IBM really does wonderful things with the Power series Apple could be faced with ironically swtiching from one "lags behind the industry" technology to another, added to which their new chip partner will throw them under the bus the minute Microsoft decides it doesn't want Apple eating into any more of its marketshare.
And this dovetails nicely on why they would attack the low end first. Get all of the G3 class software (i.e. non Altivec dependent) ported first and slung on the low end. You then have another year to help migrate the high end, Altivec dependent software over to the X86/MMX design.
Technically not true. There was one machine back in the 90s that had an X86 daughterboard installed so you could run windows in a partition. Not sure if it was an Intel chip, but it was x86.
But Apple won't turn down cash. I posted elsewhere that if true I suspect this has much more to do with Intel throwing big wads of cash at Apple / selling chips dirt cheap (Dell dirt cheap). Frankly at its current size AMD just can't compete with that (see Dell).
You forget one thing: Intel has a tonne of cash. My pet theory (if the rumor is true): The whole thing was started by Intel, not Apple. IBM have been having some wins with the PPC arch, and been getting good press with the PPC/Cell chips. Same goes with AMD and the x64 arch. MS has been getting a little too cosy with both IBM and AMD. So Intel hedges themselves. While they may not have the technical "mindshare" lead right now, they still do have a SHEDLOAD of cash. So throw a crapload, and I mean a crapload, of cash at Apple to grease the skids. It puts MS on notice, gives them another exclusive tier one client and is a blow to IBM's chip division (cutting off a big revenue stream)
Terry Wogan rules (I'm assuming he's still the commentator, I left blighty in 88).
Do they still do "It's a Knockout" there too? Wogan was brutally funny commenting on those shows too (especially the european finals).
Not true. Some of the Jaguar's chips were indeed 64 bit. The GPU was 32 bit. It even had a 16 bit 68000 in it. A bit of a hodge podge to say the least, but the "Jag = 2*32 bit chips" is an old wives tale.
h tm
http://www.retro-games.co.uk/atari/Jaguar/jaguar.
I have used the Handcom Office software maybe twice on my Zaurus, neither time for anything actually work related. Working on Word and Excel documents is pretty difficult on a PDA form factor, I have to imagine its downright useless on a phone screen.
Is anyone really doing last minute alterations to presentations on their phone?
No, but you can blame the lack of spares on them. They obviously have contractual / inventory problems. One of the reasons that the trains aren't going to come back into service any time soon is the Bombidere (sp?) doesn't have enough spare brakes on hand. This is something Amtrak should have been on top of contractually, stipulating that the supplier always have XX spares on hand at any one time or second sourced.
Obviously there would have to be a way to prevent people from just pocketing the cash for such a system to work. My suggestion probably would never work in practice but we need to do something...
... and I'm just trying to get people thinking of ways to prevent the rampant corporatism that is sweeping the country.
;-)
Well obviously (so obvious, in fact, that no one knows what it is... but I digress). The problem is any system that has the power to determine who's in and who's out is going to be run by people. You know, those funny beings that have a way of working in their own self interest. Who is to say that my unconventional style of campaigning is bad?
I fear govenment power a hell of a lot more than I fear corperate power. Corporatism is a two way street. It exists because the gov't has such broad powers. Put the gov't in charge of funding elections and guess who's going to throw lots and lots of money and resources at making sure their allies are deemed worthy and their enemies not?
Wow. My ideas threaten you that much? Maybe there IS something to them!
Nope, just violence and alcohol for the masses. They win votes every time.
I guess what I was suggesting would include the person running themselves. Basically what I meant was that they shouldn't be able to use ANY money except what was given to them for their campaign with each candidate being given the same amount.
/. id is 115903."
So who decides what consitutes a valid candidate? Can I "run for office" simply to bag the cash and party on everyone else's dime for 6 months?
"Vote FatRatBastard. I promise a PBR in every hand and slow, painful death for anyone's whose
Bunk!
I live in DC, my job is in Maryland where, as you say, the payroll originates (legally). I pay no MD taxes. I pay DC taxes (and lots of them). Previous to living in DC I lived in Virginia while working at the same company. I paid VA taxes, not MD taxes. State income tax (or in my case District income taxes) are levied at your state of residence. There have been cases where jurisdictions have established commuter taxes (which are different animals than income taxes) to tax workers who don't reside in that jurisdiction, but they usually end up doing more economic damage that good. Philly comes to mind. DC's trying to do the same thing.
The same could be said about the theory of a flat earth. At some point 99.9% of the experts were pretty damn sure of that too. The problem is science isn't done by consensus. Its done by proving hypothesis.
The problem is nutters on the Green side equate people saying "you still haven't proven it" with people meaning "it doesn't exist." Is global warming real and a problem? Very well may be. As shown in the original posting, however, there is still a way to go before anyone can say its proven.
I did the same thing, buying a Zaurus when the 5500's were cheap on HSN. For the most part I was simply using it for solitare and the occasional web surfing / chatting if I was out (or the wife had pilfered the laptop).
Recently updated the PIM apps to Opie apps and lost the sync ability with my work machine (and never really got it to work with my OSX or Linux boxes correctly). I was pulling my hair out trying to update my contacts via the little keyboard when I decided to install a VNC server on it. It was then that I half-assed figured out how to actually make the thing productive: basically it is now my central repostory for task lists, phone numbers, calendars, etc. Whenever I'm in front of a computer (be it home or work) I fire up a VNC client and have it perched in the corner of my desktop, making it easy to access. When I leave anywhere I just shove it in my pocket and have everything handy for the road. Mail stays synced via imap.
This way I never actually have to sync the machine (I'm in front of 4 or 5 every day), entering data is a breeze and my brain-dead ass still gets reminded of meetings, etc.
Someone sue Ford then since their website is promoting their products over the likes of GM, Toyota, etc.
Well if we're going to be totally off topic about gun control I'll throw my two cents worth in the ring:
/snarky bastard who just finished his shotgun class with a 65 year old grandmother
I live in DC, where handguns are illegal and buying a rifle or a shotgun is a hassle and I can say that I live in the safest city in America. Its not home invasion, its called being neighborly and the redistribution of wealth. And I'm sure they built that bulletproof KFC two block from my house for purely aesthetic reasons. I mean, who doesn't love ordering food into a microphone in front of two inch thick tempered glass.