Absolutely no one edited music and video on a personal computer at that time, including the Amiga, nor was the Amiga designed for that purpose. By the time anyone even considered doing such a thing, the Amiga's NTSC output was completely inadequate for such tasks. That is nonsense. Amigas always were used in the video editing business and Ataris in the Sound/Midi/music business.
The Amiga never competed with the PC, it competed with the Mac...poorly. Wrong on both... Amiga tried to find its own niche. Actually had it. And compared with a Mac of early date, it had the far superior OS, there is no way it was intended to compete. Why would it? It cost less than a quarter than a Mac costed, with similar specs.
At that time computers makers did not really compete with each other. Unless you want the constrained resource called money call competition. Obviously poor sods could only buy one computer, and most of the time you only could use one at the time.
Anyway: if your friends had Ataris, you bought an Atari, especially to play network games like Midi Maze. If your friends had Amigas you bought Amigas. If you had the money and no friends (cauch caugh) you bought what the university had: Macs. If you were smart and connected, you bought either an Atari *or* an Amiga and ran the Mac emulator on it. But then again, playing War Lords II on a 23" 256 greyscale monitor... was only possible on a Mac. I don't recall the killer Amiga game's name, but I remember the endless sessions we made visiting each other and playing "on the other computer, the others computers games". In the end everyone was really happy with his own machine. But envied the other for his machine nevertheless:D
This comparing of what hardware this architecture or that company had: is just utter nonsense. However when Linux came out, around 1991... I used it from 1993 on, so I don't know the exact date, people realized: having a different OS on every computer is just bollocks.
Keep in mind: all computer architectures struggled. Where is SGI? Where is Apollo? Where is HP? Where is Alpha? Even SUN only exists as a subdivision of Oracle... or where is ARM? ARM as in Acorn... then again: don't forget the Sinclair Spectre, also an 68k machine, probably one of the earliest.
Computing started becoming a commodity... many people missed that point. Now fast forward into 2019: everything interesting is done in a cloud, somewhere... with a few exceptions on a "unix like" operation system.
"Unix Like" is dominating the mobile market with Android and various iOS versions. Linux is ported as Linux 68k to old Macs, Amigas and Ataris.
If Atari, Amiga and Acorn had not been so incompetent in the "PC" business their OSes might have lasted longer and had much more impact. E.g. the UI or "programability" of RISC OS (Acorn) was superb. The processor (ARM, especially the ARM3 later) and the video chip were a wonder. We all thought the next Apple architecture will be ARM, they even where involved in ARM Ltd. (and still are AFAIK). Obviously it was not, I think the Newton ran on an ARM, not sure though.
You desperately need to study actual history. He probably wanted to say: Europe combined has only half as many carriers as the US.
Or perhaps he meant: Europe has no subs to sink an US carrier.
Or perhaps he meant: an Exocet is late 1980s technology and wont sink an AEGIS cruiser...
Perhaps he only was daydreaming and talking in his dreams...
I could include some links to highlight his follies but that would spoil your fun in googling... hint: Gotland... or german subs (yeah, they are in disarray...)
resulting in far more dangeroys waste being created. You got it the wrong way, reprocessing produces more dangerous waste. Or more concentrated waste of the same danger... depending how you want to judge it.
An opened box transforms a new item into a used item? Hello?
If it was food I would perhaps agree, but who buys food on the internet anyway?
WTF, it will never cease me to shake my heads about you... scratch my head in wonders and flat my forehead with my palm... luckily I'm trained in martial arts and my head can take some beating...
Schsch....! ("The storage capacity of the German natural gas network is more than 200,000 GWh which is enough for several months of energy requirement.") That was a well kept secret!!! Now the Americans know we are not at the mercy of the Russians! You spoiled it, traitor!
That doesn't mean that long-distance, near-lossless power transmission wouldn't be a transformative technology. Transmission losses are in the range of 7% in your grid. So your $1 bill would be.... oh, here it gets complicated. How much do you pay for power? Lets say 100 cents? 20 cents are for infrastructure and staff, like the guy reading your meter, the guy writing the bill etc. (simplified, obviously) 40 cents are for the grid, 40 cents are for the power. So, you switch from "some losses" to zero losses, in the "power" department. So 7% of 40 cents is 2.8 cents. That means switching from a non super conducting grid to a super conducting grid saves you 2.8 cents per kWh from your bill or 2.8% from production costs of the power... in the grand scale a worth wise change, for your bill not so much.
Oh, I forgot, you have a $400 bill every month in the USA... while Europeans only pay about $100 per month (despite the 2 - 4 times higher price per kWh), so obviously you would save something around 30 cents per month.., my fault, that is a huge amount of money!
(basically just resistive losses) Wrong (HVDC has several advantages over HVAC transmission lines - namely in synchronization, lower impedance losses ) AC has lower resistance losses, that is the fucking reason why every majour grid is AC. However with the high amount of current we transport in our days, impedance and furthermore: radiation, is now the prime reason for loss.
but because she evaded sanctions on Iran, which is a pretty serious crime. No it isn't.
Well, it is. In the fact that the sanctions should be declared illegal, and the same with the sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela. Time that the west stops to kowtow to USA, actually that was time 20 years ago...
Immigration in your destination country kind of does, though. As a citizen of the country you "immigrate" to (is it really called immigrate if you fly home?), no. It is about one out of ten times that I have to show my passport when I fly "home" to europe.
The explantation is implicit: you assholes arrested one of us, we arrest one of yours.
China doesn't pretend to care even slightly about due process of law. They do care. But they don't pretend. When it is appropriated they really care. In this case it is not.
lies, and retaliation against innocents that can't defend themselves if you speak up. Hypocrite very much? The Chinese Lady in question is innocent, too. On what fucking legal base was she arrested? Oh, the Trumpet demanded it... that was the legal base.
The Chinese government is the largest terrorist and criminal racketeering organization the world has ever known. Really? I thought that was Nazi Germany and Stalin Russia... you must live behind the moon, or under a rock or under a rock on the backside of the moon.
In our days App to App communication we only have on Macs. And using Electron or similar to write an App does not restrict that.
But I feel with you regarding Amigas. they were nice machines. AppleScript is super mighty but without web sites to help you you simply can not write the simplest script beyond "put first word of last paragraph of text of application textedits first window into mail subject of application Mail first window" Every time you try something like that you get incomprehensible error messages (and I have lots of AppleScripts that randomly fail and I have to run a sell script to update a hidden internal database... WTF!) I mean: while it was a good idea it never was implemented properly.
Jet fuel aka Kerosine is basically the same as Diesel. You throw a burning match into it and it gets extinct (most of the time, with bad luck you have a thin burning layer on top of the oil).
They claim "current technology", but with current technology 900 kWh weigh about 9 tons (considering the battery pack). If you use batteries like in the current Teslas, it is roughly 4 tons... not 9.
While the big airports probably have limited landing slots there are usually unused airports around that could be reactivated. Berlin has about 6 airports. One converted into a park, no idea about the others and the new one under construction is not useable since years. I guess it would be easy to have one or two smaller airports reactivated and use for close range flights to Dresden, Warsa, or Helsinki.
Well, there are math teachers in the US that get payed to show up in TV commercials to tell parents that kids should never learn any math - tricks but only text book math like "in this book"... holding up a school book.
I saw videos about that but don't remember the details.
Asian countries are difficult to retire to, but yes you can. However as it is Japan, you won't come around learning to speak it. (not necessarily write it)
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Caught up with what we're talking about now?
Nope.
Chrome on Windows uses windows native widgets and Chrome on Mac Os uses Mac native widgets .... no clue about what you are talking.
No, ... but I mixed up its name. Sinclair QL.
I mean the Sinclair 68k machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Absolutely no one edited music and video on a personal computer at that time, including the Amiga, nor was the Amiga designed for that purpose. By the time anyone even considered doing such a thing, the Amiga's NTSC output was completely inadequate for such tasks.
That is nonsense.
Amigas always were used in the video editing business and Ataris in the Sound/Midi/music business.
The Amiga never competed with the PC, it competed with the Mac...poorly. ... Amiga tried to find its own niche. Actually had it. And compared with a Mac of early date, it had the far superior OS, there is no way it was intended to compete. Why would it? It cost less than a quarter than a Mac costed, with similar specs.
Wrong on both
At that time computers makers did not really compete with each other. Unless you want the constrained resource called money call competition. Obviously poor sods could only buy one computer, and most of the time you only could use one at the time.
Anyway: if your friends had Ataris, you bought an Atari, especially to play network games like Midi Maze. If your friends had Amigas you bought Amigas. If you had the money and no friends (cauch caugh) you bought what the university had: Macs. If you were smart and connected, you bought either an Atari *or* an Amiga and ran the Mac emulator on it. But then again, playing War Lords II on a 23" 256 greyscale monitor ... was only possible on a Mac. I don't recall the killer Amiga game's name, but I remember the endless sessions we made visiting each other and playing "on the other computer, the others computers games". In the end everyone was really happy with his own machine. But envied the other for his machine nevertheless :D
This comparing of what hardware this architecture or that company had: is just utter nonsense. However when Linux came out, around 1991 ... I used it from 1993 on, so I don't know the exact date, people realized: having a different OS on every computer is just bollocks.
Keep in mind: all computer architectures struggled. Where is SGI? Where is Apollo? Where is HP? Where is Alpha? Even SUN only exists as a subdivision of Oracle ... or where is ARM? ARM as in Acorn ... then again: don't forget the Sinclair Spectre, also an 68k machine, probably one of the earliest.
Computing started becoming a commodity ... many people missed that point. Now fast forward into 2019: everything interesting is done in a cloud, somewhere ... with a few exceptions on a "unix like" operation system.
"Unix Like" is dominating the mobile market with Android and various iOS versions. Linux is ported as Linux 68k to old Macs, Amigas and Ataris.
If Atari, Amiga and Acorn had not been so incompetent in the "PC" business their OSes might have lasted longer and had much more impact. E.g. the UI or "programability" of RISC OS (Acorn) was superb. The processor (ARM, especially the ARM3 later) and the video chip were a wonder. We all thought the next Apple architecture will be ARM, they even where involved in ARM Ltd. (and still are AFAIK). Obviously it was not, I think the Newton ran on an ARM, not sure though.
You desperately need to study actual history.
He probably wanted to say: Europe combined has only half as many carriers as the US.
Or perhaps he meant: Europe has no subs to sink an US carrier.
Or perhaps he meant: an Exocet is late 1980s technology and wont sink an AEGIS cruiser ...
Perhaps he only was daydreaming and talking in his dreams ...
I could include some links to highlight his follies but that would spoil your fun in googling ... hint: Gotland ... or german subs (yeah, they are in disarray ...)
resulting in far more dangeroys waste being created. ... depending how you want to judge it.
You got it the wrong way, reprocessing produces more dangerous waste. Or more concentrated waste of the same danger
I really wonder how retarded americans are.
An opened box transforms a new item into a used item? Hello?
If it was food I would perhaps agree, but who buys food on the internet anyway?
WTF, it will never cease me to shake my heads about you ... scratch my head in wonders and flat my forehead with my palm ... luckily I'm trained in martial arts and my head can take some beating ...
Schsch ....!
("The storage capacity of the German natural gas network is more than 200,000 GWh which is enough for several months of energy requirement.")
That was a well kept secret!!! Now the Americans know we are not at the mercy of the Russians! You spoiled it, traitor!
That doesn't mean that long-distance, near-lossless power transmission wouldn't be a transformative technology. .... oh, here it gets complicated. ... in the grand scale a worth wise change, for your bill not so much.
Transmission losses are in the range of 7% in your grid. So your $1 bill would be
How much do you pay for power? Lets say 100 cents? 20 cents are for infrastructure and staff, like the guy reading your meter, the guy writing the bill etc. (simplified, obviously) 40 cents are for the grid, 40 cents are for the power.
So, you switch from "some losses" to zero losses, in the "power" department. So 7% of 40 cents is 2.8 cents.
That means switching from a non super conducting grid to a super conducting grid saves you 2.8 cents per kWh from your bill or 2.8% from production costs of the power
Oh, I forgot, you have a $400 bill every month in the USA ... while Europeans only pay about $100 per month (despite the 2 - 4 times higher price per kWh), so obviously you would save something around 30 cents per month .., my fault, that is a huge amount of money!
(basically just resistive losses)
Wrong (HVDC has several advantages over HVAC transmission lines - namely in synchronization, lower impedance losses )
AC has lower resistance losses, that is the fucking reason why every majour grid is AC.
However with the high amount of current we transport in our days, impedance and furthermore: radiation, is now the prime reason for loss.
If he had met her, you would not see it ...
but because she evaded sanctions on Iran, which is a pretty serious crime.
No it isn't.
Well, it is. In the fact that the sanctions should be declared illegal, and the same with the sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela. Time that the west stops to kowtow to USA, actually that was time 20 years ago ...
Immigration in your destination country kind of does, though.
As a citizen of the country you "immigrate" to (is it really called immigrate if you fly home?), no.
It is about one out of ten times that I have to show my passport when I fly "home" to europe.
The explantation is implicit: you assholes arrested one of us, we arrest one of yours.
China doesn't pretend to care even slightly about due process of law.
They do care. But they don't pretend. When it is appropriated they really care. In this case it is not.
lies, and retaliation against innocents that can't defend themselves if you speak up. ... that was the legal base.
Hypocrite very much?
The Chinese Lady in question is innocent, too.
On what fucking legal base was she arrested? Oh, the Trumpet demanded it
The Chinese government is the largest terrorist and criminal racketeering organization the world has ever known. ... you must live behind the moon, or under a rock or under a rock on the backside of the moon.
Really? I thought that was Nazi Germany and Stalin Russia
Mexico is a free, democratic, reasonably friendly country.
It is not. It is run by several mafia clans. Which basically only exist because of the US.
Vietnam has labour laws ... no idea why you pretend otherwise, e.g. minimum wage laws: https://www.vietnam-briefing.c...
I have about 30 years to live. ;) ?
Perhaps moving to a country where average live expectance is increasing, helps
My $30K geothermal heat/cool system is saving me a pile of money!!!
Geothermal means accessing the heat of a vulcano or drilling a mile deep. Putting some pipes underground for a _heat pump_ is not "geothermal".
In our days App to App communication we only have on Macs.
And using Electron or similar to write an App does not restrict that.
But I feel with you regarding Amigas. they were nice machines. ... WTF!)
AppleScript is super mighty but without web sites to help you you simply can not write the simplest script beyond "put first word of last paragraph of text of application textedits first window into mail subject of application Mail first window"
Every time you try something like that you get incomprehensible error messages (and I have lots of AppleScripts that randomly fail and I have to run a sell script to update a hidden internal database
I mean: while it was a good idea it never was implemented properly.
Jet fuel aka Kerosine is basically the same as Diesel.
You throw a burning match into it and it gets extinct (most of the time, with bad luck you have a thin burning layer on top of the oil).
They claim "current technology", but with current technology 900 kWh weigh about 9 tons (considering the battery pack). ... not 9.
If you use batteries like in the current Teslas, it is roughly 4 tons
While the big airports probably have limited landing slots there are usually unused airports around that could be reactivated. Berlin has about 6 airports. One converted into a park, no idea about the others and the new one under construction is not useable since years. I guess it would be easy to have one or two smaller airports reactivated and use for close range flights to Dresden, Warsa, or Helsinki.
Well, there are math teachers in the US that get payed to show up in TV commercials to tell parents that kids should never learn any math - tricks but only text book math like "in this book" ... holding up a school book.
I saw videos about that but don't remember the details.
Bottom line teachers show up in advertisements to go against math tricks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
As if that would make the book they promote any better.
Asian countries are difficult to retire to, but yes you can.
However as it is Japan, you won't come around learning to speak it. (not necessarily write it)
Most UIs I worked on can not be described in UI editors. So you always have to interfere with the API of the toolkit.
I remember MFC ... shudder. I bought a Zapp license to not being forced to use MFC.