My theory is that Itanium was secretly never created to replace x86; rather, it was designed to kill of all competitors to x86. Think about it: Intel managed to convince the vendors of several architectures (PA-RISC, Alpha come to mind) that IA-64 was the future. They proceeded to jump on Itanium and abandon the others. When Itanium failed, those companies (along with the hope of reviving the other arch's) went with it, or jumped to x86 to stay in business. Ta-da! x86 is alone and dominant in the very places IA-64 was designed for. Intel 1, CPU tech 0.
I seem to remember that when Jobs launched the iPhone, he said he wanted 10 million sold by the end of 2008. He didn't say all in 2008 - he was including the ones sold in 2007. At that rate, they're past halfway there.
FAT32 uses a VERY large (64kb) cluster size over 32GB. This is why MS discouraged making such large partitions. Even when I made my Win2k partition FAT32 a few years ago (I've moved past Windows since), I made it 31.9GB to prevent this. 32k clusters are large enough as it is. By comparision, NTFS uses 4kb clusters even on big drives.
Windows 3.0 was on four floppies. I used my copy on a second-hand 386 laptop a few years ago; Tetris was there and played fine...and took up the entire 640x480 screen.:) However, I'm not quite sure where my disks are right now (nor do I have the means to transfer them to my modern computers). There's bound to be torrents of it or something somewhere.
The basic reason ISP's are targeting bittorrent is simple. 90 to 95% of the traffic is copyright violation.
That's not really the ISP's problem (or at least it shouldn't be). It's the business of the downloader and the **AA or whoever governs the copyrights. At most, the ISP should disconnect the user after a C&D letter.
I'm sure Usenet is their next target.
Considering that most Usenet servers are run by ISPs - or can be easily and centrally shut down - they would have dispatched of it ages ago.
So they reversed what they did before, he got married and its a happy ending.
He commit suicide a few years ago, so, not really a happy ending.
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I can't say anything for sure, but...in 1983 the designers tried to sneak an expansion port into the original Mac, calling it a "diagnostic" port. Jobs caught on and canned it. The mezzanine slot might be the same thing, but they got it in the final design.
Those RAR combo torrents are just direct transfers from the Usenet bundles. Apparently it's too much work (or takes up too much hard drive space) to make the torrent from the video files themselves. Sigh.
The Olympic and the Titanic were built largely at the same time. The Olympic was done first, but by that time, most of Titanic's rivets should have been in place.
I've got a 386 laptop from 1992 with a dying screen that otherwise works perfectly, as well as a desktop containing parts dating from 1994 (power supply) to 1997 (motherboard, cpu, video, sound). I haven't turned it on in a while, but I would be truly shocked if it did not come on. From my experience, x86 machines from the 20th century will probably last a long time, but many of the machines from the past couple years are pretty much junk - which doesn't surprise me, considering the huge price (and weight!) drops of PCs.
I think the GP just meant outtakes and alternates. For example, they recorded ~20 takes of "Helter Skelter." Not sure if they kept them, but if they did....
It works like this:
Step 1: Confiscate items.
Step 2: Present passengers with in-airport shops that sell said items.
Step 3: Profit!
It was never about security. It's about money.
The T60 was made under Lenovo. Yes, it says "IBM Thinkpad," but they all say that, including my dad's Z61m. Lenovo has the rights to the logo for a few more years. The Lenovo logo wasn't added until the 61's. The T60 has a Windows key, which IBM wouldn't put on themselves.
Some IT consulting firm in the Naples/Ft. Myers, FL area was airing TV commercials a while back, and the guy used the word "Macintoshes." Quite weird indeed.
The battery is actually fairly easy to replace. You just unscrew the back, take one screw off the battery, and pull out the connector. You won't have to ship it in.
The fact that these tools are used for destroying recordings these days is rather disturbing though. I recently got Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Stadium Arcadium" album, and I simply cannot stand listening to it because of the clipping and lack of dynamic range. It's rather sad, because the songs themselves are composed nicely, but are harmed by the doings of a producer. It all sounds lifeless and dull, simply lacking the finesse of a proper instrument recording.
It's scary, because I find SA to be among their better sounding albums. Californication sounds much worse to me. Supposedly, the LP version of SA (four records!) was mastered by someone else and has more dynamic range, but I've never heard it.
I've got a Deskjet 500C from 1991 (dad says it was $500). The damn thing still works, although I don't have any ink for it, and only have one computer (to myself) with a parallel port, and it stays at home while I live in a dorm. It's a bit dirty (cleaned it out a year ago...filthy) and the paper feeder is picky, but I can fire it up and run the 3-page self test without any trouble. I use a Lexmark Z52 otherwise...that printer might last a while, but I'm skeptical of it going as long as the 500C. I wonder if any of those parallel-to-USB adapters work with Mac OS X....
I wonder how his tombstone reads. If I had been in his situation I'd have 8 or 10 of them right next to each other along my grave. But then, that's just my sense of humor.
I know it's a joke, but...I've seen his tombstone. It's just a little in-the-ground thing that says "James O. Rigney 1948 - 2007". Just for the record.;)
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My theory is that Itanium was secretly never created to replace x86; rather, it was designed to kill of all competitors to x86. Think about it: Intel managed to convince the vendors of several architectures (PA-RISC, Alpha come to mind) that IA-64 was the future. They proceeded to jump on Itanium and abandon the others. When Itanium failed, those companies (along with the hope of reviving the other arch's) went with it, or jumped to x86 to stay in business. Ta-da! x86 is alone and dominant in the very places IA-64 was designed for. Intel 1, CPU tech 0.
I seem to remember that when Jobs launched the iPhone, he said he wanted 10 million sold by the end of 2008. He didn't say all in 2008 - he was including the ones sold in 2007. At that rate, they're past halfway there.
John Gilmore. :p
Did anyone read that as "Paypal Founder Peter Thief...."?
Would have been oddly suiting....
FAT32 uses a VERY large (64kb) cluster size over 32GB. This is why MS discouraged making such large partitions. Even when I made my Win2k partition FAT32 a few years ago (I've moved past Windows since), I made it 31.9GB to prevent this. 32k clusters are large enough as it is. By comparision, NTFS uses 4kb clusters even on big drives.
Windows 3.0 was on four floppies. I used my copy on a second-hand 386 laptop a few years ago; Tetris was there and played fine...and took up the entire 640x480 screen. :) However, I'm not quite sure where my disks are right now (nor do I have the means to transfer them to my modern computers). There's bound to be torrents of it or something somewhere.
That's not really the ISP's problem (or at least it shouldn't be). It's the business of the downloader and the **AA or whoever governs the copyrights. At most, the ISP should disconnect the user after a C&D letter.
Considering that most Usenet servers are run by ISPs - or can be easily and centrally shut down - they would have dispatched of it ages ago.
He commit suicide a few years ago, so, not really a happy ending.
I can't say anything for sure, but...in 1983 the designers tried to sneak an expansion port into the original Mac, calling it a "diagnostic" port. Jobs caught on and canned it. The mezzanine slot might be the same thing, but they got it in the final design.
Those RAR combo torrents are just direct transfers from the Usenet bundles. Apparently it's too much work (or takes up too much hard drive space) to make the torrent from the video files themselves. Sigh.
Yes, but only if that doom is coming from another country.
The Olympic and the Titanic were built largely at the same time. The Olympic was done first, but by that time, most of Titanic's rivets should have been in place.
I've got a 386 laptop from 1992 with a dying screen that otherwise works perfectly, as well as a desktop containing parts dating from 1994 (power supply) to 1997 (motherboard, cpu, video, sound). I haven't turned it on in a while, but I would be truly shocked if it did not come on. From my experience, x86 machines from the 20th century will probably last a long time, but many of the machines from the past couple years are pretty much junk - which doesn't surprise me, considering the huge price (and weight!) drops of PCs.
I think the GP just meant outtakes and alternates. For example, they recorded ~20 takes of "Helter Skelter." Not sure if they kept them, but if they did....
I don't have the Beatles on CD, nor does my dad, who still has his records (not that he listens to them much).
The Beatles CDs don't sound too great anyway.
It works like this:
Step 1: Confiscate items.
Step 2: Present passengers with in-airport shops that sell said items.
Step 3: Profit!
It was never about security. It's about money.
The T60 was made under Lenovo. Yes, it says "IBM Thinkpad," but they all say that, including my dad's Z61m. Lenovo has the rights to the logo for a few more years. The Lenovo logo wasn't added until the 61's. The T60 has a Windows key, which IBM wouldn't put on themselves.
Some IT consulting firm in the Naples/Ft. Myers, FL area was airing TV commercials a while back, and the guy used the word "Macintoshes." Quite weird indeed.
The battery is actually fairly easy to replace. You just unscrew the back, take one screw off the battery, and pull out the connector. You won't have to ship it in.
You still pay $18.99 for a CD? Shame. Most new CDs at Best/Worst Buy are $14.99, and many others can be had for $12.99 or even $9.99.
OWC is selling a 32GB RAM kit for the Mac Pro now, so it must support that much, even though Apple doesn't offer it out-of-box.
It's scary, because I find SA to be among their better sounding albums. Californication sounds much worse to me. Supposedly, the LP version of SA (four records!) was mastered by someone else and has more dynamic range, but I've never heard it.
I've got a Deskjet 500C from 1991 (dad says it was $500). The damn thing still works, although I don't have any ink for it, and only have one computer (to myself) with a parallel port, and it stays at home while I live in a dorm. It's a bit dirty (cleaned it out a year ago...filthy) and the paper feeder is picky, but I can fire it up and run the 3-page self test without any trouble. I use a Lexmark Z52 otherwise...that printer might last a while, but I'm skeptical of it going as long as the 500C. I wonder if any of those parallel-to-USB adapters work with Mac OS X....
I know it's a joke, but...I've seen his tombstone. It's just a little in-the-ground thing that says "James O. Rigney 1948 - 2007". Just for the record.
No, it was three books (conception), then four (publication of GoT), THEN six. Then seven. :/