Most folks with any real amount of data aren't given tape drives / robots for free.
Re:So let the flame wars begin!
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The Birth of vi
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HUH? You're writing as though the latter-day native ports of gnumacs to various window systems are inherent. There have been thousands of times when I've telneted into a machine and edited files. I'm guessing that you're pretty young and don't really understand the concept of a terminal and have never heard of curses. (Aside: you need to discover SSH too).
The original PDP-10 TECO emacs, at least, had plenty of optimizations for slower links if you were using a halfway decent terminal. If you use a Tektronix 4004 for text, well, pretty much anything is going to suck, but I recall agressive optimization on H/Z19's, CIT-101's, etc. Perkin-Elmer Foxes and VT52's weren't quite as capable though.
I'm a career sysadmin and it still amazes me when I see highly-paid professionals crippling their productivity with vi. At CMU I knew exactly one person who used vi. (Hi, Jay!)
Thank you. When I read that insanity wrt AUI I wondered if I was missing something in what the parent poster had written. Now, what was really insane was how IBM shipped a bizarre tweaked AUI connector on at least some RS/6000's and RT's with screw terminals that didn't mate with the standard slide-locks. I had to mangle a couple of drop cables to plug into them, with very little mechanical security.
Obligatory additional nightmares:
A certain regional/city-scale company had a machine room on the 10th floor of a building, with no UPS or redundant power feeds. The emergency plan was that a certain employee had a generator on a trailer in his garage, and if something happened, he'd drive it over and they'd toss an extension cord out the window.
The originator of a certain VAR programming language (*cough* *cough* *cough* objective-c *cough*) ran phone/modem lines over lamp cord.
Hello no. I've had a D145 and a PSC2510. Both were highly flaky. The latter would almost never work when connected via ethernet, so I had to revert to USB. The wireless didn't work at all. Rumor had it that this model was capable of doing Rendezvous / BonJour, but the documentation didn't discuss it and I was never able to get anywhere with it. I was also unable to get it to work at all from an MS-OS laptop -- HP's goofy software install apparently insists on talking directly to the printer, which doesn't work when trying to just spool over SMB.
The 2510 recently and for no apparent reason stopped depositing black ink, either with the existing cartridge or a new one, and the combined color cartridge scam is infuriating -- as if we weren't being gouged enough for ink.
I've had it with screwy HP's and bought a Canon MP960, which has been working well. The Brother units look decent too.
I find it odd that DLP and LCoS sets don't get much attention these days: they seemed to be all the rage in late 2005 when I bought my 61" Samsung DLP, and now I don't see much of them, perhaps because LCD and plasma sets at the smaller sizes have come down a bunch in price. I just don't see the appeal of a front-projector: you have to lay out big bucks to get one that does 1080p (if they are even available yet), and the ones I've seen tend to be short on features, eg. HDMI inputs, and you either end up with a nice HOT appliance sitting in the middle of your room with cables to trip over, or pay a fortune to have it custom-installed hanging from your ceiling, where cable length becomes an issue.
This is why the entire civilized world (rest of?) has done away with the death penalty
Cattle, chickens, goats, etc. would disagree that the "civilized" world has in fact done so.
I see VW's and especially Mercedes -- and of course any make of truck -- on the road all the time that GRINK GRINK GRINK more loudly than any gasoline car has for me. They always seem to spit a cloud of soot when they accelerate. With respect to electrical systems, I've owned a John Deere F1145 and a Satoh Buck. Battery charge was often an issue, especially if they weren't run full-out and frequently.
Diesel vs gasoline:
o Louder
o Smell worse
o Cough plumes of soot
These would need to be addressed in a real way before I'd want to drive one. I also wonder if diesel cars, unlike mowers and tractors, have a decent electrical system so the battery doesn't die every few months.
I've also yet to see a discussion of how the waste products from biodiesel conversion are dealt with.
"Solid-state" AFAIK was coined decades ago to distinguish spiffy new transistorized products from ones with vacuum tubes, so I think your use of that term here is misleading.
I can see the appeal of No-Moving-Parts hardware, but do note that a physically large CPU chip will be expensive because of decreased yield per wafer, and probably slower because of the timing constraints of longer signal paths.
I also suspect that unlike the original Mac ("clever venting") a successfully fanless machine could be had by substantially underclocking the CPU and other components, much like a light bulb's lifetime can be extended by driving it with reduced voltage.
Flash: number of writes foo. I've yet to be convinced that modern flash has a long enough lifetime for active filesystem use -- maybe it does, but the arguments I've seen don't seem to discuss the interaction of real filesystem behavior with the granularity of flash writes.
I'm skeptical that fancy buds/phones (which would likely suck current like crazy anyway and thus be impractical) will render such an environment so silent that a real difference could be heard between default 128kbps AAC and ALE at many times the size. My music isn't portable if I can't fit it onto the player!
The response curve of any speaker is so non-flat as to render hair-splitting like this moot, and a car or airplane -- where an iPod makes sense -- is about last the last place anyone is going to hear the difference.
The myth here is that with commercial software you can demand all you want, but the vendor knows that, by and large,
A) They already have your money and
B) You're more likely to stick it out with their crap than abandon your inve$tment and admit to your employer that you made a bad choice
There are some few exceptions - I've seen maybe two in the last 20 years. I've also seen freeware/OSS/whateveryoucallitthisweek leave users high and dry on occasion, but for the most part my experience has been that I stand a much better chance of something being fixed (faster, or at all) if it's freeware. I also have a much, much better chance of not having at least one of the platforms I use it on desupported because the vendor lost interest in compiling it there.
I've worked for several software companies and one system company who provided a *ix OS. I've never seen anything to indicate that code quality for popular freeware packages is any lower in quality than the commercial stuff. I've seen -- intimately -- commercial code that was so incredibly awful that I was ashamed to be associated with it and couldn't believe that anyone (including a certain verrrrry well-known company you know who bought into it in a big way) would buy it.
Re:Does anyone in the US care about Ultraman?
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40 Years of Ultraman
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I loved watching it as a kid, ~ 1975, probably on a Pittsburgh broadcast station. I've thought of the Science Patrol ever since each time I saw a Corvair that was actually running.
I just bought the originals on DVD after a long wait for them to come out. The later derivatives just aren't the same.
A Seattle retro diner-restaurant has a flying Ultraman hanging from their ceiling and was impressed that I knew what it was. No idea where it came from.
Google would seem to have taken over the search market via a catchy name and more intelligent ranking of results, and unless I'm missing something, both their search and gmail both did emerge in arenas with Lycos/Yahoo/AltaVista and Yahoo/Hotmail.
Google stuff works on just about every device I own? Hmmm, not having much luck searching on my printer.
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Most folks with any real amount of data aren't given tape drives / robots for free.
HUH? You're writing as though the latter-day native ports of gnumacs to various window systems are inherent. There have been thousands of times when I've telneted into a machine and edited files. I'm guessing that you're pretty young and don't really understand the concept of a terminal and have never heard of curses. (Aside: you need to discover SSH too). The original PDP-10 TECO emacs, at least, had plenty of optimizations for slower links if you were using a halfway decent terminal. If you use a Tektronix 4004 for text, well, pretty much anything is going to suck, but I recall agressive optimization on H/Z19's, CIT-101's, etc. Perkin-Elmer Foxes and VT52's weren't quite as capable though. I'm a career sysadmin and it still amazes me when I see highly-paid professionals crippling their productivity with vi. At CMU I knew exactly one person who used vi. (Hi, Jay!)
Thank you. When I read that insanity wrt AUI I wondered if I was missing something in what the parent poster had written. Now, what was really insane was how IBM shipped a bizarre tweaked AUI connector on at least some RS/6000's and RT's with screw terminals that didn't mate with the standard slide-locks. I had to mangle a couple of drop cables to plug into them, with very little mechanical security. Obligatory additional nightmares: A certain regional/city-scale company had a machine room on the 10th floor of a building, with no UPS or redundant power feeds. The emergency plan was that a certain employee had a generator on a trailer in his garage, and if something happened, he'd drive it over and they'd toss an extension cord out the window. The originator of a certain VAR programming language (*cough* *cough* *cough* objective-c *cough*) ran phone/modem lines over lamp cord.
The only way to win is not to play.
Go vegan!
Funny ... you don't look Druish!
Hello no. I've had a D145 and a PSC2510. Both were highly flaky. The latter would almost never work when connected via ethernet, so I had to revert to USB. The wireless didn't work at all. Rumor had it that this model was capable of doing Rendezvous / BonJour, but the documentation didn't discuss it and I was never able to get anywhere with it. I was also unable to get it to work at all from an MS-OS laptop -- HP's goofy software install apparently insists on talking directly to the printer, which doesn't work when trying to just spool over SMB. The 2510 recently and for no apparent reason stopped depositing black ink, either with the existing cartridge or a new one, and the combined color cartridge scam is infuriating -- as if we weren't being gouged enough for ink. I've had it with screwy HP's and bought a Canon MP960, which has been working well. The Brother units look decent too.
In the same way that HP printers almost always "just work" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that's a good one.
I find it odd that DLP and LCoS sets don't get much attention these days: they seemed to be all the rage in late 2005 when I bought my 61" Samsung DLP, and now I don't see much of them, perhaps because LCD and plasma sets at the smaller sizes have come down a bunch in price. I just don't see the appeal of a front-projector: you have to lay out big bucks to get one that does 1080p (if they are even available yet), and the ones I've seen tend to be short on features, eg. HDMI inputs, and you either end up with a nice HOT appliance sitting in the middle of your room with cables to trip over, or pay a fortune to have it custom-installed hanging from your ceiling, where cable length becomes an issue.
Given that iTunes is a free download, I would think that sales are exactly as expected: zero. iTunes != ITMS Learn the difference, son.
... if you can manage to get an F/B monitor genned. I gave up after several hours on an 11/04 with RX01's.
Agreed. I pretty much assume that any fossil coming out of China is at best altered, and outright fakes are common.
It's all been redundant since Speed Racer.
Diabetics can substantially improve their situation if they stop mistaking animals for food. A significant percentage can go off insulin entirely.
This is why the entire civilized world (rest of?) has done away with the death penalty Cattle, chickens, goats, etc. would disagree that the "civilized" world has in fact done so.
I see VW's and especially Mercedes -- and of course any make of truck -- on the road all the time that GRINK GRINK GRINK more loudly than any gasoline car has for me. They always seem to spit a cloud of soot when they accelerate. With respect to electrical systems, I've owned a John Deere F1145 and a Satoh Buck. Battery charge was often an issue, especially if they weren't run full-out and frequently.
Diesel vs gasoline: o Louder o Smell worse o Cough plumes of soot These would need to be addressed in a real way before I'd want to drive one. I also wonder if diesel cars, unlike mowers and tractors, have a decent electrical system so the battery doesn't die every few months. I've also yet to see a discussion of how the waste products from biodiesel conversion are dealt with.
"Solid-state" AFAIK was coined decades ago to distinguish spiffy new transistorized products from ones with vacuum tubes, so I think your use of that term here is misleading. I can see the appeal of No-Moving-Parts hardware, but do note that a physically large CPU chip will be expensive because of decreased yield per wafer, and probably slower because of the timing constraints of longer signal paths. I also suspect that unlike the original Mac ("clever venting") a successfully fanless machine could be had by substantially underclocking the CPU and other components, much like a light bulb's lifetime can be extended by driving it with reduced voltage. Flash: number of writes foo. I've yet to be convinced that modern flash has a long enough lifetime for active filesystem use -- maybe it does, but the arguments I've seen don't seem to discuss the interaction of real filesystem behavior with the granularity of flash writes.
I'm skeptical that fancy buds/phones (which would likely suck current like crazy anyway and thus be impractical) will render such an environment so silent that a real difference could be heard between default 128kbps AAC and ALE at many times the size. My music isn't portable if I can't fit it onto the player!
The response curve of any speaker is so non-flat as to render hair-splitting like this moot, and a car or airplane -- where an iPod makes sense -- is about last the last place anyone is going to hear the difference.
Snob.
My 1.6 GHz PM G5 is anything but "tight".
Rockin' name for a band!
The myth here is that with commercial software you can demand all you want, but the vendor knows that, by and large, A) They already have your money and B) You're more likely to stick it out with their crap than abandon your inve$tment and admit to your employer that you made a bad choice There are some few exceptions - I've seen maybe two in the last 20 years. I've also seen freeware/OSS/whateveryoucallitthisweek leave users high and dry on occasion, but for the most part my experience has been that I stand a much better chance of something being fixed (faster, or at all) if it's freeware. I also have a much, much better chance of not having at least one of the platforms I use it on desupported because the vendor lost interest in compiling it there. I've worked for several software companies and one system company who provided a *ix OS. I've never seen anything to indicate that code quality for popular freeware packages is any lower in quality than the commercial stuff. I've seen -- intimately -- commercial code that was so incredibly awful that I was ashamed to be associated with it and couldn't believe that anyone (including a certain verrrrry well-known company you know who bought into it in a big way) would buy it.
I loved watching it as a kid, ~ 1975, probably on a Pittsburgh broadcast station. I've thought of the Science Patrol ever since each time I saw a Corvair that was actually running. I just bought the originals on DVD after a long wait for them to come out. The later derivatives just aren't the same. A Seattle retro diner-restaurant has a flying Ultraman hanging from their ceiling and was impressed that I knew what it was. No idea where it came from.
Google would seem to have taken over the search market via a catchy name and more intelligent ranking of results, and unless I'm missing something, both their search and gmail both did emerge in arenas with Lycos/Yahoo/AltaVista and Yahoo/Hotmail. Google stuff works on just about every device I own? Hmmm, not having much luck searching on my printer.