I can't imagine HP are just going to say "OK, all you engineers and technicians; you're out of work. And we will scrap all the tools, demolish the factories, salt the fields...."
They are probably going to create a seperate company, and give it a suitable name to deferentiate it from themselves. Hmm. Maybe even call it Compaq. Not sure they would choose DEC:)
Existing HP customers could then be shifted over to Compaq, without any significant change.
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Radio jamming in Libya is nothing new.
As a kid, I lived in Tripoli for a couple of years. We came home to the UK in 1977.
At the time, they were jamming an Egyptian radio station by transmitting from a radio ship in Tripoli harbour.
It was actually quite welcome for us expats, as what they were transmitting was the output from one of the pirate radio stations off the UK coast, so we got to hear the music from home:)
....as the Bill in question has only been passed by the House of Commons. It's got to go before the House of Lords yet. Many commentators think it is not going to do too well there.
This decline in computer magazine publishing is not at all surprising. The magazines have such a long lead time that they are pretty much out of date once they hit the newsagent shelves or the subscribers' doormats.
When Internet access in the UK was through metered 56K modem, reading the latest game news could be quite expensive. Downloading demos, patches, add-ons, drivers, etc, would also give your phone bill a nasty bump.
Now that most PC gamers have broadband access, they can read the latest news immediately, and download the latest 500Mb+ demos to their heart's content. Who needs magazine coverdisks any more?
Still, I do miss my monthly browsing of the Amiga magazines in WHSmiths to see which one had the more interesting stuff on the coverdisks - I still have the floppy disk from ST/Amiga Format Issue 1, though I doubt it's readable any more;-)
The point everyone is making is that a dot is the smallest possible 'shape' that a printer can print. Any other shape is going to have to be made of 2 or more dots. Unless they have developed some way of creating 1-dimensional shapes to stand upright on the paper, which can be printed onto the paper _and_ read by a scanner, there is no way of getting data more dense than dots.
I seem to recollect this was the idea behind Java bytecode. Doesn't matter what OS, or even hardware, it should work. But then everyone started adding to it....
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Ah! But they do! You have been remiss, and not read all his later books. IIRC, in Number of the Beast, various characters are 'saved' from their supposed grissly ends.
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I can't imagine HP are just going to say "OK, all you engineers and technicians; you're out of work. And we will scrap all the tools, demolish the factories, salt the fields...." They are probably going to create a seperate company, and give it a suitable name to deferentiate it from themselves. Hmm. Maybe even call it Compaq. Not sure they would choose DEC :)
Existing HP customers could then be shifted over to Compaq, without any significant change.
Cambo
Radio jamming in Libya is nothing new. As a kid, I lived in Tripoli for a couple of years. We came home to the UK in 1977. At the time, they were jamming an Egyptian radio station by transmitting from a radio ship in Tripoli harbour. It was actually quite welcome for us expats, as what they were transmitting was the output from one of the pirate radio stations off the UK coast, so we got to hear the music from home :)
Probably just sloppy BIOS programming :/
You've got 128Mb RAM, with 16Mb being used by the onboard video. 128 - 16 == 112
They may be referring to an unexpected hill that the cartographers missed.... :)
....as the Bill in question has only been passed by the House of Commons. It's got to go before the House of Lords yet. Many commentators think it is not going to do too well there.
This decline in computer magazine publishing is not at all surprising. The magazines have such a long lead time that they are pretty much out of date once they hit the newsagent shelves or the subscribers' doormats.
;-)
When Internet access in the UK was through metered 56K modem, reading the latest game news could be quite expensive. Downloading demos, patches, add-ons, drivers, etc, would also give your phone bill a nasty bump.
Now that most PC gamers have broadband access, they can read the latest news immediately, and download the latest 500Mb+ demos to their heart's content. Who needs magazine coverdisks any more?
Still, I do miss my monthly browsing of the Amiga magazines in WHSmiths to see which one had the more interesting stuff on the coverdisks - I still have the floppy disk from ST/Amiga Format Issue 1, though I doubt it's readable any more
Cambo
The point everyone is making is that a dot is the smallest possible 'shape' that a printer can print. Any other shape is going to have to be made of 2 or more dots. Unless they have developed some way of creating 1-dimensional shapes to stand upright on the paper, which can be printed onto the paper _and_ read by a scanner, there is no way of getting data more dense than dots.
Want it _really_ slow? Try running it on an Amiga! ;-)
I seem to recollect this was the idea behind Java bytecode. Doesn't matter what OS, or even hardware, it should work. But then everyone started adding to it....
> Ah! But they do! You have been remiss, and not read all his later books. IIRC, in Number of the Beast, various characters are 'saved' from their supposed grissly ends.