Having membership of the BCS gives you nothing when it comes to getting a job. A CV glowing with past achievements; actually doing things, delivering things and demonstrating that you have the cuts and weals from real-world engagements is worth much more than being a fellow of a society. I'd have to explain to potential employers who the BCS are and what they do.
I would have some sympathy with your comment, if the Apple web page didn't pop up a box telling you to download Safari. (on this GNU/Linux machine, not something I am going to do).
I've already removed the Times as a news RSS feed, switching to the Guardian instead. Until all of the quality feeds follow Murdoch down this particular rabbit hole, he is going to lose out. How long does he have before he sees that he is charging off by himself "Yup, go for it Rupie, we're right behind you" (tee hee)
I would feel slightly more sympathy if I wasn't already paying a Sky subscription, so I feel that I already have a licence for the IP.
Great synopsis, and as a long-term LibDem voter, always being able to say from the sidelines that I didn't vote for the party in power, I probably agree with you.
I have a real problem with a Lib-Con pact. They are too far apart idealogically for a coalition to make sense. I'd rather we saw out the recovery for another year or so with Lib-Lab+associated smaller parties, and then go to the country again - with a reformed electoral system for preference. Of course if the system were reformed to something closer to PR, I would probably vote Green.
PS/2 introduced VGA. That was one of the most persistent standards of desktop computing.
Micro Channel was not a bad architecture, but PS/2 was a bad implementation. RS6000 was a much better implementation. It's no coincidence that PCI borrowed the physical connector later...
Attempts to control the market through licensing of key technologies, like the BIOS and Micro Channel were attempts at bolting stable doors far too late. I blame that on key developers being blinded by the dust of departing horses.
There were lots of good people in IBM Boca who could see that IBM attempts to keep 386 technology away from the AT bus were misguided, and a 386 super-AT would be much more successful. Indeed, it was in development, was built and worked - they code-named it Nova, if I recall.
And I still have my original 84-key AT keyboard, with the 10 function keys down the left hand side where &deity. meant them to be.
Yes, yes! You can smell a capacitor blown, which means a power supply is not long for this world.. ATLs with a stuck tape smell of phenol.. and you can smell 'warm'.. when some piece of equipment is beginning to overheat, it emits an odour which I can't describe otherwise. Transformers burning generate a nasty brown smell as well.
I just noticed that I also suffer from synasthesia.
If I did want to insert an emoticon, or add some emphasis or show surprise, delight, sadness, anger in my voice, how would I do it? Exaggerated theatrical facial expression observed by the software? camera captures arm-waving as well?
Surely a more effective way of carrying out a conversation without speaking? Tried, tested, works very well, does store and forward, can insert emoticons to substitute for inflections in speech, can't be read by someone else across a train carriage etc etc etc
Sooooooooo many people are stuck in Dr Ian Malcolm's paradigm of "Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Not so different from so-called cafeteria systems of the 60s and 70s, when we poor students used to submit our deck of punch cards at the Ops counter in the machine room, and pick the deck up and associated printout from our pigeon hole the following morning. Even after terminals arrived, we still picked up printout from Ops well into the 80s. When IBM started cost reducing in the UK, more remote locations didn't have a laser printer, so anything printed nicely was delivered in the mail.
Compilers for cafeteria systems often had a quick first pass phase that threw out jobs with syntax errors; most student programs failed that step, so it saved on CPU time when it was precious.
When submitting inventions in IBM, there used to be three possible outcomes. One was it got trashed. Another was it got filed. The third was that it would be published in the IBM Journal of Research and Development. This would protect IBM in the event of some other company filing some spurious patent, by clearly demonstrating prior art. Since I am now an ex-IBMerI don't know if this still happens these days.
Would "publish" not be more appropriate for such a trivial "invention" as a look-up table, which should fail any test of obviousness?
God says "I refuse to prove that I exist, since prove denies faith, and without faith I am nothing"
Ah, says Man "But the Higgs boson is a dead giveaway, isn't it? We found it with our new-fangled LHC and It proves you exist, and therefore you don't. QED!" (waits for puff of smoke, quickly attempts to knock up proof that black is white, identifies location of nearest pedestrian crosswalk)
re: limited life of white LEDs: Is this because white LEDs use phosphor - the lifetime of the phosphor limits the light output life of a white LED?
I've used superflux LEDs to light rooms, and it does need a lot - 150 30mW LEDs for a bathroom to be lit quite well. I use LEDs for under cabinet lighting in the kitchen - 56 per cabinet, and that is really great - works well with architectural lighting controllers.
Superflux LEDs have a much wider angle of light dispersion - 110 degrees or so.
There are some cracking findings in there.. what amazes me is the complete switch in perception. Diane Abbott is almost a paragon of virtue because the only thing she does is to take the maximum allowance of £250 a month for her "petty cash". I had a look at Tim Yeo, wondered how anyone could spend £1200 in a month on a mobile phone bill on a regular basis. But then, he did spend £3000 on some shelving for his office, so maybe he has expensive tastes (at our expense). I looked at the MP for Gosport, failed to find reference to Duck Island, instead found he (sorry, we taxpayers) had paid for the local conservative association to refurbish the offices that he subsequently rented from them. And it costs him £19,000 a year to maintain their garden, to which we contribute.
Whatever the technologies that are available, we shouldn't as a society use them to be wasteful. If we could still efficiently cool a power-hungry, inefficient processor complex using a liquid rather than air, it doesn't make it a good idea. It would be better to design a data center that didn't require such amounts of energy in the first place.
This reminds me of recycling schemes that make people think it is OK to overpackage goods in the first place.
If there are so many losses of data that wend their way to the Press, how many losses are there that find their way to criminal hands? I assume that if one were connected to the underworld, it would be more lucrative?
The BBC fund their creative output by enforcing the payment of a licence fee from everyone in the country with something that looks or behaves a bit like a TV - or a radio.
Perhaps they could extend their licencing arrangement to licence the storing of MP3s on anything that looks or behaves a bit like a computer with a sound card. They could then share royalties with musicians..
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Having membership of the BCS gives you nothing when it comes to getting a job. A CV glowing with past achievements; actually doing things, delivering things and demonstrating that you have the cuts and weals from real-world engagements is worth much more than being a fellow of a society. I'd have to explain to potential employers who the BCS are and what they do.
I would have some sympathy with your comment, if the Apple web page didn't pop up a box telling you to download Safari. (on this GNU/Linux machine, not something I am going to do).
I've already removed the Times as a news RSS feed, switching to the Guardian instead. Until all of the quality feeds follow Murdoch down this particular rabbit hole, he is going to lose out. How long does he have before he sees that he is charging off by himself "Yup, go for it Rupie, we're right behind you" (tee hee)
I would feel slightly more sympathy if I wasn't already paying a Sky subscription, so I feel that I already have a licence for the IP.
Great synopsis, and as a long-term LibDem voter, always being able to say from the sidelines that I didn't vote for the party in power, I probably agree with you.
I have a real problem with a Lib-Con pact. They are too far apart idealogically for a coalition to make sense. I'd rather we saw out the recovery for another year or so with Lib-Lab+associated smaller parties, and then go to the country again - with a reformed electoral system for preference. Of course if the system were reformed to something closer to PR, I would probably vote Green.
PS/2 introduced VGA. That was one of the most persistent standards of desktop computing.
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Micro Channel was not a bad architecture, but PS/2 was a bad implementation. RS6000 was a much better implementation. It's no coincidence that PCI borrowed the physical connector later
Attempts to control the market through licensing of key technologies, like the BIOS and Micro Channel were attempts at bolting stable doors far too late. I blame that on key developers being blinded by the dust of departing horses.
There were lots of good people in IBM Boca who could see that IBM attempts to keep 386 technology away from the AT bus were misguided, and a 386 super-AT would be much more successful. Indeed, it was in development, was built and worked - they code-named it Nova, if I recall.
And I still have my original 84-key AT keyboard, with the 10 function keys down the left hand side where &deity. meant them to be.
Didn't archaelogists in Egypt use local slaves to hold tin mirrors to bounce sunlight into the dark recesses of a dig?
from the Times to The Guardian for my non-BBC value added news source of the morning. Bye, Times.
I just noticed that I also suffer from synasthesia.
If I did want to insert an emoticon, or add some emphasis or show surprise, delight, sadness, anger in my voice, how would I do it? Exaggerated theatrical facial expression observed by the software? camera captures arm-waving as well?
Sooooooooo many people are stuck in Dr Ian Malcolm's paradigm of "Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Or in this case, should bother.
Compilers for cafeteria systems often had a quick first pass phase that threw out jobs with syntax errors; most student programs failed that step, so it saved on CPU time when it was precious.
I accept your point, though. Clearly Steve wasn't being sentimental when he cut PowerPC out of Apple's future.
Those who do nothing in the face of moral crisis deserve their special place in Wintel hell.
they ship a Mac version that runs on PowerPC ..
When submitting inventions in IBM, there used to be three possible outcomes. One was it got trashed. Another was it got filed. The third was that it would be published in the IBM Journal of Research and Development. This would protect IBM in the event of some other company filing some spurious patent, by clearly demonstrating prior art. Since I am now an ex-IBMerI don't know if this still happens these days. Would "publish" not be more appropriate for such a trivial "invention" as a look-up table, which should fail any test of obviousness?
Ah, says Man "But the Higgs boson is a dead giveaway, isn't it? We found it with our new-fangled LHC and It proves you exist, and therefore you don't. QED!" (waits for puff of smoke, quickly attempts to knock up proof that black is white, identifies location of nearest pedestrian crosswalk)
"What Higgs boson? What LHC?" says God, winking.
I prefer using monochromatic LEDs in arrays. Chances are you will need a bunch of LEDs to do anything meaningful anyway.
I've used superflux LEDs to light rooms, and it does need a lot - 150 30mW LEDs for a bathroom to be lit quite well. I use LEDs for under cabinet lighting in the kitchen - 56 per cabinet, and that is really great - works well with architectural lighting controllers.
Superflux LEDs have a much wider angle of light dispersion - 110 degrees or so.
There are some cracking findings in there .. what amazes me is the complete switch in perception. Diane Abbott is almost a paragon of virtue because the only thing she does is to take the maximum allowance of £250 a month for her "petty cash". I had a look at Tim Yeo, wondered how anyone could spend £1200 in a month on a mobile phone bill on a regular basis. But then, he did spend £3000 on some shelving for his office, so maybe he has expensive tastes (at our expense). I looked at the MP for Gosport, failed to find reference to Duck Island, instead found he (sorry, we taxpayers) had paid for the local conservative association to refurbish the offices that he subsequently rented from them. And it costs him £19,000 a year to maintain their garden, to which we contribute.
This reminds me of recycling schemes that make people think it is OK to overpackage goods in the first place.
Will we get SMIT on Solaris now?
That's their off-site backup!
If there are so many losses of data that wend their way to the Press, how many losses are there that find their way to criminal hands? I assume that if one were connected to the underworld, it would be more lucrative?
Perhaps they could extend their licencing arrangement to licence the storing of MP3s on anything that looks or behaves a bit like a computer with a sound card. They could then share royalties with musicians ..
I got caught out by sticking with a smaller ISP - PlusNET - who then got bought out by BT!