There are a number of inaccuracies in the article. But from IW and most other rags I don't even let it start bothering me until they start making major impacts on the basic premise of the article.
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if you buy a unit that can boot into OS9 you can run just about everything Apple has ever made
I dunno. I had a Tandy Color Computer booting OS9 back in the 80's, and it couldn't run any Apple ][ software. Maybe I should have held on to it?
Your hard drive wouldn't connect without an adaptor; you'd have to find an ISA->IDE interface. You would only be able to access the first 512M, and probably not even that since sector mapping wasn't in place in the BIOS, unless you had a BIOS on the controller that dealt with it.
286's native IDE was ST506 based with the dual cables; a 34? pin control cable to step the heads in/out, select head, detect track zero, etc, and a 20 pin data cable for data I/O. They had a separate controller cable.
There was another format that used the same connectors but wasn't compatible; it was for high speed/capacity drives, started with "E" but I can't remember the name.
There are cards made by other manufacturers, but they're still paying royalties to Sony. The great thing about CF is that it's not patent burdened, and the standard went to 2GB at least. SmartMedia has had to be redesigned I think 4 times now, at first the limit was 8M, then 16, then 32, now I think it's 128M. At each step, prior cameras were made obsolete.
The only problem I've ever heard of with a CF camera with handling more memory is that some of them couldn't handle more than 999 pictures on one card, though they would still take 999 pictures. Of course, many also couldn't use the SmartDrive properly, but that's kind of an aberration.
Either his camera or his card are bad. Try another card. I've had several cameras; Kodak 280, Canon S100, Pro90 and S30, all took CF, and I never saw this problem. I've used about a dozen different cards, up to now I have a 512M that I just bought for $99 (!) at CompUSA last week. With a 600 shot capacity and a couple of other cards in my pocket, I can finally leave the laptop at home on vacation.
It comes bundled with a CF reader so it can do just that. It also has a built in color screen and video output so it can be used to show a slide show, and it plays DivX/XviD movies, in addition to being an MP3 player.
I have to agree with you. I've got 4 Maxtor drives running currently (2x40's, 80, 120). I don't think I've ever had one fail since the modern era (which I consider the "over 4 GB" era of HDs). I have had 2 Seagates fail.
If you go back far enough, every manufacturer has had times in their history where they made crap. I've seen Seagate, Maxtor, WD, and others all have specific models that had > 5% 1st year failure rates, which is way, way too high. But they're all pretty good now.
A honeypot is for attracting crackers, making them think it's running a bunch of vulnerable software but in reality it's just a dummy machine with nothing interesting on it.
Simply put, what they're doing is legal. Unethical, yes, immoral, probably, consumer-unfriendly, sure, but legal nonetheless. They have a right to do this, just like you have the right to tell them where to shove their products.
Depends. Almost any salesperson will tell you that using aftermarket or refilled carts will "void your warranty." I understand that this is not true (just sales FUD), automatically voiding the warranty would be considered product bundling, which is an illegal monopolistic practice. You can't use legal means (such as voiding a warranty, which is a contract) to force people to buy product addins such as cartridges.
You can use economic means, such as making the carts cheaper than the competition, and so far you can use technological means, such as putting in a chip so nobody else can figure out how to make a cart that works in your printer, but you can't punish the consumer in any way for choosing to use another product.
The mfg's only recourse is if they can PROVE that an aftermarket product did actually cause harm to the product, then they are OK in voiding the warranty. But I think they may have to do that on a case-by-case basis.
You need to go to another store. I've gotten bad carts twice (unfixable missing ink jet causing striping) and the store (Office Max) has replaced the carts both times.
This is still a problem though for those of us that build multimedia boxes. You want them to run very quiet; a good way to do this is to underclock and run without a fan, or with a very slow fan. I'd rather have my CPU running at a nice low temperature rather than have it running so damn hot that it's slowing itself down; that can't be good for the chip lifetime. Running something like a 1.2 Celeron underclocked to about 600->800 MHz gives you a nice cool CPU.
Nope. I have bought software at Office Max (Encarta DVD version, they were the only ones in town that had it in stock).
Office Depot's selection sucks and their salespeople are clueless. OK, most sales people are clueless, so that's probably not it. I dunno, their stores are just weird somehow, sort of like Home Depot; don't know why but they just don't excite me; I'd rather just go somewhere else.
No. The purpose of the study was to find out which OS's Linux was taking market share away from in the developer space.
They were only interested in people or companies that were known to be using Linux. This was not a study to find out what percentage of developers are using Linux.
I was part owner of a clone building place once. We used to have informal contests to see who could build the neatest PC (using stock case/etc). We would clamp up custom flat cables (this was years ago, before the era of round cables), making them so that each connector was in exactly the right place, and facing the right way. We had what I thought was an innovative little feature; at the time it was almost standard to put in both 3.5 and 5.25" drives; so we put TWO controller connectors in, 1 inch apart, with a twist in between them; if you plugged on in, the 3.5" was A:, if you plugged the other in, the 5.25" was A:. We also clamped on an aux socket for the (then popular) floppy tape backup drive.
We also did a lot of folding to make things lie flat (we called this "cablegami").
If a setup had elements that proved easy enough to do, we incorporated them into our standard build. We got to the point where we were making custom cables for most one-off machines (the university's extremely-tightly-bid, low-low margin, 50-identical machines got stock cables).
Even with the tech of the time, we got it pretty clean and hid a lot of the wires. Of course, we did this partially by running cables UNDER the mainboard. Also there were a lot of cable ties involved. The machines were super clean looking inside, but they were a bitch to upgrade.
Also, obviously that was something that only worked because we were just 3 guys making machines in a small building; if we had to make 200 machines a day all that innovation never would have happened; we'd have been too busy to screw around with it.
You have to admit, Dvorak has a pretty sweet gig. Somehow he's figured out a way to get paid to be an uninformed, foaming nutwad. Even years on, when his predictions have turned out to be no better than (if not worse than) random guessing, he's still making it work for him.
I have a friend who used to (years ago) be an accountant in the record industry. Their books were set up to NEVER show a profit. It wasn't illegal, and if you didn't know about it and agreed to a percentage of profit, you were just screwed.
Unless they're very careful with wording on this, companies will just set things up so that the threshold is never reached.
If they ARE careful enough that no legal loophole is available, I suspect that companies will consider this a time bomb and avoid it anyway.
My Dell laptop has heat pipes to move heat from the CPU out to a radiator in the back. Maybe this is more efficient than the ones we already have? I couldn't tell from the article.
no one really feels good about buying porn, no ones going to be like "hey this porn is good, let me go pay the creator of this"
Um, wrong. I have no problem paying for porn. I have more respect for the adult industry than I have for a lot of "legitimate" industries.
However, if you're talking strictly about kiddie porn here, you're still wrong. I don't think there's any place for kiddie porn anywhere. It shouldn't be condoned in any manner, whether it's being produced or consumed. People who are getting kiddie porn maybe shouldn't be prosecuted the same way as those creating it, but neither should they be totally ignored. If anything, someone who specifically needs kiddie porn instead of adult porn probably needs professional help.
I have to agree. I liked Bloom County at the time, but though I have all the books, I never read them anymore. I do pick up and read old Calvin & Hobbes, Dilbert, Foxtrot, etc books, often cover to cover in a sitting, but every time I pick a Bloom County book off the shelf, I read 5 or 10 random pages and put it back. For some reason it doesn't do anything for me anymore.
They didn't cancel it. Breathed stopped. I respect people who can stop when they feel their creation has run out of steam. Too many comic strips and other stuff (xanth books, for example) just keep coming as long as the money is flowing, and they turn into sad, embarassing crap.
I've been pulling them using a cron'd perl script since they started, so they have all been available at one time. Whether they all are now or not, I don't know.
Reviews are not supposed to be just to point out what's good so you can also enjoy, they're also to point out the bad so you can save your time and money. Do you feel that everyone should have to read every book on a subject to find the few gems? Personally if I want a book on a subject, I ask around to see what is good and what's bad. What's bad is at least as important; I hate to spend $30+ on a book and find out it doesn't even make a good doorstop.
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There are a number of inaccuracies in the article. But from IW and most other rags I don't even let it start bothering me until they start making major impacts on the basic premise of the article.
if you buy a unit that can boot into OS9 you can run just about everything Apple has ever made
I dunno. I had a Tandy Color Computer booting OS9 back in the 80's, and it couldn't run any Apple ][ software. Maybe I should have held on to it?
Your hard drive wouldn't connect without an adaptor; you'd have to find an ISA->IDE interface. You would only be able to access the first 512M, and probably not even that since sector mapping wasn't in place in the BIOS, unless you had a BIOS on the controller that dealt with it.
286's native IDE was ST506 based with the dual cables; a 34? pin control cable to step the heads in/out, select head, detect track zero, etc, and a 20 pin data cable for data I/O. They had a separate controller cable.
There was another format that used the same connectors but wasn't compatible; it was for high speed/capacity drives, started with "E" but I can't remember the name.
Remember EISA?
There are cards made by other manufacturers, but they're still paying royalties to Sony. The great thing about CF is that it's not patent burdened, and the standard went to 2GB at least. SmartMedia has had to be redesigned I think 4 times now, at first the limit was 8M, then 16, then 32, now I think it's 128M. At each step, prior cameras were made obsolete.
The only problem I've ever heard of with a CF camera with handling more memory is that some of them couldn't handle more than 999 pictures on one card, though they would still take 999 pictures. Of course, many also couldn't use the SmartDrive properly, but that's kind of an aberration.
Either his camera or his card are bad. Try another card.
I've had several cameras; Kodak 280, Canon S100, Pro90 and S30, all took CF, and I never saw this problem. I've used about a dozen different cards, up to now I have a 512M that I just bought for $99 (!) at CompUSA last week. With a 600 shot capacity and a couple of other cards in my pocket, I can finally leave the laptop at home on vacation.
It comes bundled with a CF reader so it can do just that. It also has a built in color screen and video output so it can be used to show a slide show, and it plays DivX/XviD movies, in addition to being an MP3 player.
I have to agree with you. I've got 4 Maxtor drives running currently (2x40's, 80, 120). I don't think I've ever had one fail since the modern era (which I consider the "over 4 GB" era of HDs). I have had 2 Seagates fail.
If you go back far enough, every manufacturer has had times in their history where they made crap. I've seen Seagate, Maxtor, WD, and others all have specific models that had > 5% 1st year failure rates, which is way, way too high. But they're all pretty good now.
A honeypot is for attracting crackers, making them think it's running a bunch of vulnerable software but in reality it's just a dummy machine with nothing interesting on it.
What you're talking about is a tarpit.
Simply put, what they're doing is legal. Unethical, yes, immoral, probably, consumer-unfriendly, sure, but legal nonetheless. They have a right to do this, just like you have the right to tell them where to shove their products.
Depends. Almost any salesperson will tell you that using aftermarket or refilled carts will "void your warranty." I understand that this is not true (just sales FUD), automatically voiding the warranty would be considered product bundling, which is an illegal monopolistic practice. You can't use legal means (such as voiding a warranty, which is a contract) to force people to buy product addins such as cartridges.
You can use economic means, such as making the carts cheaper than the competition, and so far you can use technological means, such as putting in a chip so nobody else can figure out how to make a cart that works in your printer, but you can't punish the consumer in any way for choosing to use another product.
The mfg's only recourse is if they can PROVE that an aftermarket product did actually cause harm to the product, then they are OK in voiding the warranty. But I think they may have to do that on a case-by-case basis.
You need to go to another store. I've gotten bad carts twice (unfixable missing ink jet causing striping) and the store (Office Max) has replaced the carts both times.
This is still a problem though for those of us that build multimedia boxes. You want them to run very quiet; a good way to do this is to underclock and run without a fan, or with a very slow fan. I'd rather have my CPU running at a nice low temperature rather than have it running so damn hot that it's slowing itself down; that can't be good for the chip lifetime.
Running something like a 1.2 Celeron underclocked to about 600->800 MHz gives you a nice cool CPU.
Nope. I have bought software at Office Max (Encarta DVD version, they were the only ones in town that had it in stock).
Office Depot's selection sucks and their salespeople are clueless. OK, most sales people are clueless, so that's probably not it. I dunno, their stores are just weird somehow, sort of like Home Depot; don't know why but they just don't excite me; I'd rather just go somewhere else.
No. The purpose of the study was to find out which OS's Linux was taking market share away from in the developer space.
They were only interested in people or companies that were known to be using Linux. This was not a study to find out what percentage of developers are using Linux.
I was part owner of a clone building place once. We used to have informal contests to see who could build the neatest PC (using stock case/etc). We would clamp up custom flat cables (this was years ago, before the era of round cables), making them so that each connector was in exactly the right place, and facing the right way. We had what I thought was an innovative little feature; at the time it was almost standard to put in both 3.5 and 5.25" drives; so we put TWO controller connectors in, 1 inch apart, with a twist in between them; if you plugged on in, the 3.5" was A:, if you plugged the other in, the 5.25" was A:. We also clamped on an aux socket for the (then popular) floppy tape backup drive.
We also did a lot of folding to make things lie flat (we called this "cablegami").
If a setup had elements that proved easy enough to do, we incorporated them into our standard build. We got to the point where we were making custom cables for most one-off machines (the university's extremely-tightly-bid, low-low margin, 50-identical machines got stock cables).
Even with the tech of the time, we got it pretty clean and hid a lot of the wires. Of course, we did this partially by running cables UNDER the mainboard. Also there were a lot of cable ties involved. The machines were super clean looking inside, but they were a bitch to upgrade.
Also, obviously that was something that only worked because we were just 3 guys making machines in a small building; if we had to make 200 machines a day all that innovation never would have happened; we'd have been too busy to screw around with it.
Yes, manufacturers should stop coming out with new stuff, it only makes people who bought stuff last week feel bad.
Either that, or they should provide a roadmap of all technologies they plan on releasing for the next 10 years, with a timetable.
Oh yeah, and be sure to include that schedule for unscheduled downtime and natural disasters. CNN might want a copy.
You have to admit, Dvorak has a pretty sweet gig. Somehow he's figured out a way to get paid to be an uninformed, foaming nutwad. Even years on, when his predictions have turned out to be no better than (if not worse than) random guessing, he's still making it work for him.
I have a friend who used to (years ago) be an accountant in the record industry. Their books were set up to NEVER show a profit. It wasn't illegal, and if you didn't know about it and agreed to a percentage of profit, you were just screwed.
Unless they're very careful with wording on this, companies will just set things up so that the threshold is never reached.
If they ARE careful enough that no legal loophole is available, I suspect that companies will consider this a time bomb and avoid it anyway.
My Dell laptop has heat pipes to move heat from the CPU out to a radiator in the back. Maybe this is more efficient than the ones we already have? I couldn't tell from the article.
no one really feels good about buying porn, no ones going to be like "hey this porn is good, let me go pay the creator of this"
Um, wrong. I have no problem paying for porn. I have more respect for the adult industry than I have for a lot of "legitimate" industries.
However, if you're talking strictly about kiddie porn here, you're still wrong. I don't think there's any place for kiddie porn anywhere. It shouldn't be condoned in any manner, whether it's being produced or consumed. People who are getting kiddie porn maybe shouldn't be prosecuted the same way as those creating it, but neither should they be totally ignored. If anything, someone who specifically needs kiddie porn instead of adult porn probably needs professional help.
I'd rather have Futurama continue than the Simpsons, if I had to choose one, but I'm not "the market" I guess.
the road to blipverts.
I have to agree. I liked Bloom County at the time, but though I have all the books, I never read them anymore. I do pick up and read old Calvin & Hobbes, Dilbert, Foxtrot, etc books, often cover to cover in a sitting, but every time I pick a Bloom County book off the shelf, I read 5 or 10 random pages and put it back. For some reason it doesn't do anything for me anymore.
They didn't cancel it. Breathed stopped. I respect people who can stop when they feel their creation has run out of steam. Too many comic strips and other stuff (xanth books, for example) just keep coming as long as the money is flowing, and they turn into sad, embarassing crap.
I've been pulling them using a cron'd perl script since they started, so they have all been available at one time. Whether they all are now or not, I don't know.
Reviews are not supposed to be just to point out what's good so you can also enjoy, they're also to point out the bad so you can save your time and money. Do you feel that everyone should have to read every book on a subject to find the few gems? Personally if I want a book on a subject, I ask around to see what is good and what's bad. What's bad is at least as important; I hate to spend $30+ on a book and find out it doesn't even make a good doorstop.