Back in the day when our company was young, the CEO used the formula (my analysis x pi). That was also eerily accurate - but the thing was, I eventually learned that my estimate was how long will it take to _make the software_. Add considerations for spec reviews, testing, and general fuzz - stuff you need to build a deliverable product - and the times-pi gives a really good calendar time estimate.
Basically, this method cannot be used to transfer power, just power state changes. Which would be useful for instant communication, except that you have to communicate the change via traditional channels first for it to be observed in the spooky device - because the receiver needs to know what to measure in order to receive it.
Imagine the sending and receiving end having a database of matrices describing all the various known combinations that can be transmitted, and a light-speed channel of delivering a key identifying the matrix in question...
Well, my laptop is too thin to have anything as bulky as a VGA connector, so there is a mini displayport socket and a dongle to convert to VGA... works.
Wouldn't it be just hilarious if Apple _didn't_ announce a tablet at all? Maybe they're just having fun with all the fuzz and competitor R&D misdirection their speculated announcement is making:-)
Damn, if they announce iPhone 4G with an imaging display or some such non-tablety gizmo, I want a cookie.
AFAIK, "Nuh-uh" means something naughty with a polar bear, in Eskimo. I suspect there is common experience involved, otherwise there wouldn't be an expression for it.
So, (provided that he's an Eskimo) the AC wins. QED.
PS. I also maintain both *nux and *bsd environments, and I fully agree with the original statement. All my mission critical stuff runs bsd.
I would expect the cache configuration handling in osfmk/i386/cpuid.c be a bit simpler, but quite frankly, dropping Atom support is probably a trivial code change aimed to prevent users running 10.6 on underpowered machines...
Our Sawtooths got 1 GHz cpu upgrade kits a few years ago while their fans were maintenance'd, so 10.5 Server installed to them without hacks. I recall it requires G4@867 MHz + 1 GB.
No pitchfork, you are absolutely right. The 10-year-old powermacs in the server room are no longer supported by the latest Mac OS, 10.6, and I need to start to plan for new hardware now. Grr. 10.5 will fall out of support scope in a few years, so I need to react relatively quickly.
OTOH, the Sawtooths are getting a bit long in the, er, teeth. And crusty. Maybe I'll replace them with a stack of Minis...
My guess is that that PC is for the kids' games. There's stuff out there that won't run properly in Parallels.
We've got a Mac laptop for each parent and an imac for media center use, which makes us a 3-machine household with 100% mac penetration. But our 8-month-old loves this quirky peekaboo Flash game from fisher-price.com, and I'm thinking of getting a netbook for her... which would, I guess, be classified as a "gaming PC for the kids":)
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Back in the day when our company was young, the CEO used the formula (my analysis x pi). That was also eerily accurate - but the thing was, I eventually learned that my estimate was how long will it take to _make the software_. Add considerations for spec reviews, testing, and general fuzz - stuff you need to build a deliverable product - and the times-pi gives a really good calendar time estimate.
Admittedly quite surprisingly, mine thought it very romantic.
V2.0 is the VD plan ;)
Apply that weird surface to generate the weird behaviour, and use it to power a Stirling engine.
Basically, this method cannot be used to transfer power, just power state changes. Which would be useful for instant communication, except that you have to communicate the change via traditional channels first for it to be observed in the spooky device - because the receiver needs to know what to measure in order to receive it.
Basically, useless.
Imagine the sending and receiving end having a database of matrices describing all the various known combinations that can be transmitted, and a light-speed channel of delivering a key identifying the matrix in question...
I started to laugh, but then didn't.
At least this will force terrorists to shove C4 up their ass. I wonder what they'll do with the detonator cords.
Well, my laptop is too thin to have anything as bulky as a VGA connector, so there is a mini displayport socket and a dongle to convert to VGA... works.
Safety and predictability. Make things boring and people, in the average, are happy :)
Wouldn't it be just hilarious if Apple _didn't_ announce a tablet at all? Maybe they're just having fun with all the fuzz and competitor R&D misdirection their speculated announcement is making :-)
Damn, if they announce iPhone 4G with an imaging display or some such non-tablety gizmo, I want a cookie.
...switching to 64bit-only...if only to avoid the end of time.
This has to be the coolest reason for 64-bitness, ever!
MrHanky, ScrewMaster... ROFL
AFAIK, "Nuh-uh" means something naughty with a polar bear, in Eskimo. I suspect there is common experience involved, otherwise there wouldn't be an expression for it.
So, (provided that he's an Eskimo) the AC wins. QED.
PS. I also maintain both *nux and *bsd environments, and I fully agree with the original statement. All my mission critical stuff runs bsd.
'Number'. Not 'Numbers'.
Ooh! That's Aerosmith! Do I qualify - or did I flunk the marketing bit..?
27"? FFS, he has reason to be... I want one of those too :P
Of course. It's "sudo make me a sandwich".
Go look for yourself: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1456.1.26/
I would expect the cache configuration handling in osfmk/i386/cpuid.c be a bit simpler, but quite frankly, dropping Atom support is probably a trivial code change aimed to prevent users running 10.6 on underpowered machines...
As long as your firm keeps requiring NTLM, I know it will not get any respect in mine, and likely many others...
We'll gladly take your money, though.
Apple's iGadgets are ARM-based and run a variant of OS/X. Of course, ARM also has WinCE, so that kind of balances the karma.
I guess I did software development for some other Symbian, then, back in the '00s :)
It's a realtime microkernel with an event-driven userspace API, a full POSIX implementation.
You are actually quite right. In its own scary way, it's the pinnacle of best engineering effort of the 90s.
How's your full POSIX API handling e.g. non-blocking sockets, these days?
But if something's out of WAC, you're hosed.
Our Sawtooths got 1 GHz cpu upgrade kits a few years ago while their fans were maintenance'd, so 10.5 Server installed to them without hacks. I recall it requires G4@867 MHz + 1 GB.
No pitchfork, you are absolutely right. The 10-year-old powermacs in the server room are no longer supported by the latest Mac OS, 10.6, and I need to start to plan for new hardware now. Grr. 10.5 will fall out of support scope in a few years, so I need to react relatively quickly.
OTOH, the Sawtooths are getting a bit long in the, er, teeth. And crusty. Maybe I'll replace them with a stack of Minis...
My guess is that that PC is for the kids' games. There's stuff out there that won't run properly in Parallels.
We've got a Mac laptop for each parent and an imac for media center use, which makes us a 3-machine household with 100% mac penetration. But our 8-month-old loves this quirky peekaboo Flash game from fisher-price.com, and I'm thinking of getting a netbook for her... which would, I guess, be classified as a "gaming PC for the kids" :)