I ponder, what is worse? That these are so memorable that they have made their own top 10, or that I've owned, worked on, or had to repair every single entry on the list at one time or another?
Incidentally, I first began programming at the age of 5 with the 7th on that list, the TI99/4
My first program looked like this:
10 REM 20 PRINT "HELLO" 30 GOTO 20
Took my grandparents close to half of an hour to figure out that they needed to reboot it.
It depends on how you measure. Atari's main claim was because the memory system was 64-bit, as well as the math unit. Much like how GPU's were classified as 64-bit in that same time period. I'd classify the Atari as a first-step to a 64-bit platform, moreso than some other claims of 64-bit before and since.
You arguement might hold water, save one thing: Mickey Mouse is not copyright. It is Trademark. Two very different animals.
Steamboat Willie, that's Copyright. Individual movies with Mickey Mouse in it are copywritten. But the character of Mickey Mouse himself is trademarked, and that would continue to be the case even if this came to pass.
Hm, for audio work I'd be grabbing a dual G5 setup and skipping the whole AMD/Intel thing entirely. 35GFlops per G5 vs 40Gflops for a single quad core Xeon, and you can pick one up for less.
But is the recidivism from societal issues or personal ones? If you're being isolated from society, you'd start delving into the darker side of your psyche I'd imagine, look at Ed Gein. Are they being treated as having a psycholigical, psysiological or criminal condition? Saying high recidivism rates is telling us nothing without knowing why there are such rates. If a person is incapable of being acclimated to society due to a psychological issue, we treat that accordingly. Address the problem, which is not that pedophiles are released into society, but that we do not treat them, and then we isolate them from society which does nothing but make the problem more accute. Mental condition untreated + societal pressure == bad combo.
Nowadays,pedophiles are the new "untouchables" the new (insert derogitory racial or sexual orientation statement here). Neighbors fear their new "pedo" neighbors, are encouraged to spy on, report, or even injure said party. What is the difference between a cross burning and a door to door "warning" in the end? Both give the same message of hate.
Funny, I see whole pages dedicated to group showing of analog films, run every 2-3 hours, with tickets for sale from $6.50-$9.00..... and they'll even sell you popcorn to eat while watching it.
If Microsoft is so fearful of the merger, they should field their own service to counteract it, and use their quality of product to create a strong alternative....
By your logic, they should be rolling in the profits. Instead, they're turning in dissapointing returns, and DRM-free is on the rise. They have turned their customers into their enemies, and are paying a hefty price. Infact, I'd be bold enough to say that within 50 years, "Information wants to be free" will be the defacto standard, rather than just a mantra.
I work within the media field, I've seen what's been happening. I see that the US has become a lead covered eagle, unable to perform, and loosing it's technological edge. When you fear progress, you will be trampled by it.
If, in '98, the recording industry had worked with pioneers such as Napster, rather than trying to close pandoras box after everything had fled, this would be a very different story. Rather than utilizing the internet for promotion and a sales channel, using the net to drive forward disk sales and band tours, they opted to try and hammer it down. Fear of the unknown, and fear of lack of control remains their sole cause for this. I'd pity them, and their eventual extinction. It is evolve or die time, for the RIAA and soon the MPAA, and neither one looks willing to accept the evolution, baby.
Well, that "too complex" windowing capability is one of the reasons why the Niagra core can run 4 threads simultaneously. It has 4 windows, and swaps them automatically, enabling a deeper pipeline without breaking the ISA. So, the compiler sees ALU's rather than 1.
In addition, I rolled my own 32-bit SPARC once with only 2 register windows, with the compiler did not control. What you had was a "program" window and an "interrupt" window. So when interrupts happened, rather than having to save the register state before dealing with it, you immediately switched windows and bam, have a completely clean slate of registers to work with.
In my experience, in a single threaded task, an AMD or Intel of the same spec will blow it away. Crank up the threads, and something remarkable happens. The AMD/Intel stays running the same speed, this thing speeds up. Run 4 threads simultaneously, and this thing is running circles around similar spec'd AMD/Intel, and doing it in a lot less silicon, which means theoretically a lower price. Think of it as a marathon runner vs a sprinter. In short term races, the sprinter comes out on top. In a long distance (heavy load) race, the marathon runner comes out on top.
I prefer MIPS, but SPARC is a close second for favor, mostly due to the open source nature of the design. This is no less than the 4th major SPARC CPU in open source.
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Tell that to MIPS, Motorola, Zilog, MOS, Digital, Cyrix, Rockwell....
I ponder, what is worse? That these are so memorable that they have made their own top 10, or that I've owned, worked on, or had to repair every single entry on the list at one time or another?
Incidentally, I first began programming at the age of 5 with the 7th on that list, the TI99/4
My first program looked like this:
10 REM
20 PRINT "HELLO"
30 GOTO 20
Took my grandparents close to half of an hour to figure out that they needed to reboot it.
It depends on how you measure. Atari's main claim was because the memory system was 64-bit, as well as the math unit. Much like how GPU's were classified as 64-bit in that same time period. I'd classify the Atari as a first-step to a 64-bit platform, moreso than some other claims of 64-bit before and since.
What in the world is a Jaguar 32?
**pets his Jaguar 64**
The Atari 32-bit system was the Panther, get it right.
You arguement might hold water, save one thing: Mickey Mouse is not copyright. It is Trademark. Two very different animals.
Steamboat Willie, that's Copyright. Individual movies with Mickey Mouse in it are copywritten. But the character of Mickey Mouse himself is trademarked, and that would continue to be the case even if this came to pass.
Hm, for audio work I'd be grabbing a dual G5 setup and skipping the whole AMD/Intel thing entirely. 35GFlops per G5 vs 40Gflops for a single quad core Xeon, and you can pick one up for less.
Well, it wasn't OSS, it was "Linux and UNIX". Of this list here:
# Apple 4 GB iPod nano (3rd Generation)
Very stripped down OSX, hence a UNIX
# Nintendo Wii
Unconfirmed which OS it runs, but a persistant rumor remains that it is Linux based.
# Suunto T6 Wristop personal trainer with heart rate monitor
Likely TRON or similar embedded OS.
# Accutire MS-4350B programmable digital tire gauge
If you need an OS for a tire gauge you're doing something wrong.
# Garmin nüvi 350 3.5-inch portable GPS navigator
Proprietory OS, as all things Garmin
# Actron PocketScan diagnostic code reader
A simple code reader. Not much of an OS necessary, the Commodore 64 had more of an OS.
# Jakks EyeClops Bionic Eye
Same as above.
# Canon PowerShot A570IS 7.1MP digital camera
Canon uses their own proprietory system.
But is the recidivism from societal issues or personal ones? If you're being isolated from society, you'd start delving into the darker side of your psyche I'd imagine, look at Ed Gein. Are they being treated as having a psycholigical, psysiological or criminal condition? Saying high recidivism rates is telling us nothing without knowing why there are such rates. If a person is incapable of being acclimated to society due to a psychological issue, we treat that accordingly. Address the problem, which is not that pedophiles are released into society, but that we do not treat them, and then we isolate them from society which does nothing but make the problem more accute. Mental condition untreated + societal pressure == bad combo.
And here I am driving a Moped....
Nowadays,pedophiles are the new "untouchables" the new (insert derogitory racial or sexual orientation statement here). Neighbors fear their new "pedo" neighbors, are encouraged to spy on, report, or even injure said party. What is the difference between a cross burning and a door to door "warning" in the end? Both give the same message of hate.
It appears that yes, there is indeed a santa claus!
Really?
**looks in the newspaper**
Funny, I see whole pages dedicated to group showing of analog films, run every 2-3 hours, with tickets for sale from $6.50-$9.00..... and they'll even sell you popcorn to eat while watching it.
If Microsoft is so fearful of the merger, they should field their own service to counteract it, and use their quality of product to create a strong alternative....
Oh wait who am I kidding.
By your logic, they should be rolling in the profits. Instead, they're turning in dissapointing returns, and DRM-free is on the rise. They have turned their customers into their enemies, and are paying a hefty price. Infact, I'd be bold enough to say that within 50 years, "Information wants to be free" will be the defacto standard, rather than just a mantra.
I work within the media field, I've seen what's been happening. I see that the US has become a lead covered eagle, unable to perform, and loosing it's technological edge. When you fear progress, you will be trampled by it.
If, in '98, the recording industry had worked with pioneers such as Napster, rather than trying to close pandoras box after everything had fled, this would be a very different story. Rather than utilizing the internet for promotion and a sales channel, using the net to drive forward disk sales and band tours, they opted to try and hammer it down. Fear of the unknown, and fear of lack of control remains their sole cause for this. I'd pity them, and their eventual extinction. It is evolve or die time, for the RIAA and soon the MPAA, and neither one looks willing to accept the evolution, baby.
All of these actions have me wondering if the revolution is happening, and nobody in the public mind knows it?
Now now, we have to have the Mackie first!
Will they last, are they durable, is it flexible or rigid? Lot of questions left to answer on the solar front.
However, if I can shingle my roof with these things, all the better!
Acid came out in, what, 1997? Only taken them 10 years to do a simple css test! Bravo Microsoft...
Now how about that Win 98 memory leak?
Did he get some kind of wizard trick to summon the dead spirit of JRR Tolkein to write a new novel which to utilize as a sequel?
Why do I fear this "prequil" will suffer the same fate as the Lucas prequils, with Bilbo at the end screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOO"
When those pesky x-wings fly down and shoot the exhaust vent....
Well, that "too complex" windowing capability is one of the reasons why the Niagra core can run 4 threads simultaneously. It has 4 windows, and swaps them automatically, enabling a deeper pipeline without breaking the ISA. So, the compiler sees ALU's rather than 1.
In addition, I rolled my own 32-bit SPARC once with only 2 register windows, with the compiler did not control. What you had was a "program" window and an "interrupt" window. So when interrupts happened, rather than having to save the register state before dealing with it, you immediately switched windows and bam, have a completely clean slate of registers to work with.
In my experience, in a single threaded task, an AMD or Intel of the same spec will blow it away. Crank up the threads, and something remarkable happens. The AMD/Intel stays running the same speed, this thing speeds up. Run 4 threads simultaneously, and this thing is running circles around similar spec'd AMD/Intel, and doing it in a lot less silicon, which means theoretically a lower price. Think of it as a marathon runner vs a sprinter. In short term races, the sprinter comes out on top. In a long distance (heavy load) race, the marathon runner comes out on top.
I prefer MIPS, but SPARC is a close second for favor, mostly due to the open source nature of the design. This is no less than the 4th major SPARC CPU in open source.
Only if said company did not pay for the license. Incidentally, the basic SPARC license is $100.