But they'll reach the level of irrelevance of AOL before much longer. Like you say, AOL isn't even dead yet. Facebook won't be, either.
But kids figure things out, and they don't want to be on Grandma's platform except for those rare occasions when they want to look at pictures of Grandma's new poodle.
So when are any of these SBC makers going to set up an educational foundation, and start supporting their stuff for use by educators and students in the 8-17 age bracket?
They're just tapping into the market of 18-60 year olds who buy shitty SBCs for embedded home projects? Raspberry Pi doesn't have anything to worry about. In fact, they can better focus on their project goals if crap-board vendors tap off and remove that secondary customer group from their product.
Most of these cheap SBC makers actually corrupt the goals of the Raspberry Pi creators. They take away the open Digital I/O pins, which is half of the equation with the RPi. That's fine for all of the abstractionists who wouldn't know what to do with bare hardware in the first place, and are probably even frightened because bare hardware is scary and unsafe.
By 'previously hidden bugs' you mean code that worked perfectly when run on the old Operating System? Why would developers only be allowed to write code that strictly follows Microsoft's API? Even Microsoft's Office developers aren't that slavish.
Toxic dump sites need to exist, so long as toxic waste is being produced. And lots of toxic waste has been and continues to be produced. It needs to be managed with oversight. In the case of Love Canal, the company that produced the waste site acted with due diligence, except for subsequently selling the site to a governmental organization (a school district) who passed the site along to other organizations who voided the site's containment. It was a case of miscommunication and local government incompetence.
It's not that hard to snip away the historical dross.
NetBSD was first, or rather second, as a fork of 386BSD. Everything else came from splitters. And it's not 4.3FreeBSD. Omit the 'Free' part and you're closer.
FreeBSD is a modern fork of BSD where they decided to not emphasize portability. It's historically an ugly x86-only kludge like Linux where they abandoned an open architecture, and only later bolted on 'cross platform' support.
The raspberry pi exposes school kids to an accessable higher level porogramming envuronment, with languages like Python, but also incorporates a set of general purpose i/o pins (GPIO) so they can interface real things to it. The design leverages a low cost processor really intended for a tablet or cellphone. It is obviously a compromise design, but has proven to be a successful compromise.
We could nitpick at it indefinitely, but it's thus far been a resounding success at what it was originally intended for.
In related news, recent findings show that a Basset Hound can dogfight. Not very effectively, and the dog seldom wins the fight. But evidence has been uncovered of basset hounds fighting other dogs.
So, why bother with this inkjet setup? it seems complicated compared to just using glue or what appears to be tape.
This is just conjecture, but maybe that trick doesn't work on anything but an Iphone? Possibly this more extreme method is needed for other brands of smartphone?
I looked at the article summary, and felt refreshed that it wasn't more spam about Apple's Iphone. Thanks for making sure to compensate for that down here in the comments.
The Mexicans will pay for Trump Wall because it will prove cheaper for them to have the wall, than to have to constantly be evicting the US citizens out of Mexico who will soon be going down there as illegal immigrants to get jobs in the factories.
(believe me, Mexico doesn't mess around, illegal immigrants are OUT when caught)
Very unlikely. The 'trailing edge' of Tubes in electronics was in RF power applications like large Radio Broadcast equipment. Mundane things like power supply rectifiers and regulators went all solid state by the early 60's for the most part.
The last tubes in consumer electronics were the high voltage rectifiers in TV sets and the CRT (obviously), and probably Guitar Amplifiers for aesthetic reasons (clipping on the output for classic rock guitar distortion)
You should pull and back up the battery backed up NVAM chips in those Sparcstations. There are documented methods to do that on the web. The MAC address of the SparcStation 5 in on the NVAM chips, which have a battery built in. There's a method you can use to 'shave' away plastic to expose contact spots on the NVAM chips and tack solder on an external battery. It's much easier if you do that before the battery is dead and you have to reprogram it (which if I am remembering right can be done in the FORTH-based setup environment of a Sparcstation)
Logic families did exist in the late 60's but I don't think the 7400 TTL logic family is that old. There were DTL families. Minicomputers were commonly made using gate-level logic gates on big wire-wrap panels earlier than the 74xx TTL family, I can't remember the numbering of the chip families but they were pre-TTL. The 7400 chip family brought medium-scale stuff like the 74181 Arithmetic Logic Unit and 8 bit latches and buffer parts like the 74373 parts (which continued to exist long in the late 80s- the 8-bit wide TTL gates are incorporated in the IBM-PC/XT and AT original motherboard designs.) Bit slice is somewhat newer than early TTL, I think it took off in the early 70's. Those AMD 8800 bit slice parts come to mind, I think I still have the datasheet manuals for them somewhere here, and probably a few chips.
The old discrete transistor stuff probably did end by the late 60's, I remember having cards scrapped from old IBM mainframes that dad brought home where the cards had a handful of transistors configured as flip-flops on them.
I have some tubes of 6100 processor chips. The 6100 is a Intersil/Harris CMOS 12 bit processor that runs the PDP-8 instruction set. They are static CMOS so can be clocked from about 1 Mhz down to DC if you like.
People make PDP-8 machines using these processors. They are standard 40 pin DIP package with early 1980s date codes. There is a popular design that uses the 6120 processor which is the next gen version of the 6100, and there are turnkey designs for a hobby single board computer with that processor. People run PDP-8 software, like the FOCAL time sharing interpreter on these boards.
Where I work we use about a half dozen old 486 boxes with MS-DOS in the test labs. The machines run test programs written in GW-BASIC to drive stepper motors and read switch outputs. If you buy a truck from a certain one of the big 3 automakers, the dashboard controls were design qualified with this setup. It isn't my "baby" but one of our hoary old test engineers clings to it. I can't even get them to update to Qbasic that came with the update of DOS 5.0, which at least uses a full screen editor.
Five or so years ago we finally retired some Commodore SX64 systems from testing, and I brought home 4 of them. About two years ago I hauled out about 7 IBM PC-XT systems that were being scrapped and hadn't been used in a few years.
The 486 boxes still in use weren't even originally lab machines. They were cast off office machines repurposed about 15 years ago. None of the CMOS setup batteries are still working so they are left on all the time and parameters like hard drive type have to be reentered any time they are powered off. Power supply fans failing is the most common issue.
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Of course, one way to preserve a caste system is to build data silos and restrict the lower castes from accessing anything not in said silos.
I think they mean like if movies and ads ONLY had an AOL logo as the only way to connect to them.
They might have been like that, of course. I wouldn't know.
Lately, I even see people posting here on Slashdot directly from their facebook logon credentials.
Certainly Facebook will not die out.
But they'll reach the level of irrelevance of AOL before much longer. Like you say, AOL isn't even dead yet. Facebook won't be, either.
But kids figure things out, and they don't want to be on Grandma's platform except for those rare occasions when they want to look at pictures of Grandma's new poodle.
So when are any of these SBC makers going to set up an educational foundation, and start supporting their stuff for use by educators and students in the 8-17 age bracket?
They're just tapping into the market of 18-60 year olds who buy shitty SBCs for embedded home projects? Raspberry Pi doesn't have anything to worry about. In fact, they can better focus on their project goals if crap-board vendors tap off and remove that secondary customer group from their product.
Most of these cheap SBC makers actually corrupt the goals of the Raspberry Pi creators. They take away the open Digital I/O pins, which is half of the equation with the RPi. That's fine for all of the abstractionists who wouldn't know what to do with bare hardware in the first place, and are probably even frightened because bare hardware is scary and unsafe.
Hey, Bitcoins are cool and trendy, man. Don't be dissing bitcoins.
I use them mainly to buy and sell Magic The Gathering cards.
By 'previously hidden bugs' you mean code that worked perfectly when run on the old Operating System? Why would developers only be allowed to write code that strictly follows Microsoft's API? Even Microsoft's Office developers aren't that slavish.
I have seen the Diablo II Battle Chest for $19.99 at WalMart as recently as less than a year ago.
Toxic dump sites need to exist, so long as toxic waste is being produced. And lots of toxic waste has been and continues to be produced. It needs to be managed with oversight. In the case of Love Canal, the company that produced the waste site acted with due diligence, except for subsequently selling the site to a governmental organization (a school district) who passed the site along to other organizations who voided the site's containment. It was a case of miscommunication and local government incompetence.
True about Kies. But I prefer to use Windows Explorer to transfer content onto and off of my phone.
That doesn't work at all with an Iphone.
It's not that hard to snip away the historical dross.
NetBSD was first, or rather second, as a fork of 386BSD. Everything else came from splitters. And it's not 4.3FreeBSD. Omit the 'Free' part and you're closer.
FreeBSD is a modern fork of BSD where they decided to not emphasize portability. It's historically an ugly x86-only kludge like Linux where they abandoned an open architecture, and only later bolted on 'cross platform' support.
Mae Ling Mak was 'naked and petrified' in the meme.
Newbies latched on to Portman for some reason. Possibly did Mae Ling sue somebody??
The raspberry pi exposes school kids to an accessable higher level porogramming envuronment, with languages like Python, but also incorporates a set of general purpose i/o pins (GPIO) so they can interface real things to it. The design leverages a low cost processor really intended for a tablet or cellphone. It is obviously a compromise design, but has proven to be a successful compromise.
We could nitpick at it indefinitely, but it's thus far been a resounding success at what it was originally intended for.
Yes. Tubes of, I think, 16 chips per tube.
It doesn't say that on the masthead anymore.
Cats, can't say, they are rather rare and can't I remember seeing any.
Possibly because cats are seen as competing predators, eating up all those tasty mice, rats, and spiders?
In related news, recent findings show that a Basset Hound can dogfight. Not very effectively, and the dog seldom wins the fight. But evidence has been uncovered of basset hounds fighting other dogs.
So, why bother with this inkjet setup? it seems complicated compared to just using glue or what appears to be tape.
This is just conjecture, but maybe that trick doesn't work on anything but an Iphone? Possibly this more extreme method is needed for other brands of smartphone?
I looked at the article summary, and felt refreshed that it wasn't more spam about Apple's Iphone. Thanks for making sure to compensate for that down here in the comments.
The Mexicans will pay for Trump Wall because it will prove cheaper for them to have the wall, than to have to constantly be evicting the US citizens out of Mexico who will soon be going down there as illegal immigrants to get jobs in the factories.
(believe me, Mexico doesn't mess around, illegal immigrants are OUT when caught)
Very unlikely. The 'trailing edge' of Tubes in electronics was in RF power applications like large Radio Broadcast equipment. Mundane things like power supply rectifiers and regulators went all solid state by the early 60's for the most part.
The last tubes in consumer electronics were the high voltage rectifiers in TV sets and the CRT (obviously), and probably Guitar Amplifiers for aesthetic reasons (clipping on the output for classic rock guitar distortion)
You should pull and back up the battery backed up NVAM chips in those Sparcstations. There are documented methods to do that on the web. The MAC address of the SparcStation 5 in on the NVAM chips, which have a battery built in. There's a method you can use to 'shave' away plastic to expose contact spots on the NVAM chips and tack solder on an external battery. It's much easier if you do that before the battery is dead and you have to reprogram it (which if I am remembering right can be done in the FORTH-based setup environment of a Sparcstation)
Logic families did exist in the late 60's but I don't think the 7400 TTL logic family is that old. There were DTL families. Minicomputers were commonly made using gate-level logic gates on big wire-wrap panels earlier than the 74xx TTL family, I can't remember the numbering of the chip families but they were pre-TTL. The 7400 chip family brought medium-scale stuff like the 74181 Arithmetic Logic Unit and 8 bit latches and buffer parts like the 74373 parts (which continued to exist long in the late 80s- the 8-bit wide TTL gates are incorporated in the IBM-PC/XT and AT original motherboard designs.) Bit slice is somewhat newer than early TTL, I think it took off in the early 70's. Those AMD 8800 bit slice parts come to mind, I think I still have the datasheet manuals for them somewhere here, and probably a few chips.
The old discrete transistor stuff probably did end by the late 60's, I remember having cards scrapped from old IBM mainframes that dad brought home where the cards had a handful of transistors configured as flip-flops on them.
I have some tubes of 6100 processor chips. The 6100 is a Intersil/Harris CMOS 12 bit processor that runs the PDP-8 instruction set. They are static CMOS so can be clocked from about 1 Mhz down to DC if you like.
People make PDP-8 machines using these processors. They are standard 40 pin DIP package with early 1980s date codes. There is a popular design that uses the 6120 processor which is the next gen version of the 6100, and there are turnkey designs for a hobby single board computer with that processor. People run PDP-8 software, like the FOCAL time sharing interpreter on these boards.
Where I work we use about a half dozen old 486 boxes with MS-DOS in the test labs. The machines run test programs written in GW-BASIC to drive stepper motors and read switch outputs. If you buy a truck from a certain one of the big 3 automakers, the dashboard controls were design qualified with this setup. It isn't my "baby" but one of our hoary old test engineers clings to it. I can't even get them to update to Qbasic that came with the update of DOS 5.0, which at least uses a full screen editor.
Five or so years ago we finally retired some Commodore SX64 systems from testing, and I brought home 4 of them. About two years ago I hauled out about 7 IBM PC-XT systems that were being scrapped and hadn't been used in a few years.
The 486 boxes still in use weren't even originally lab machines. They were cast off office machines repurposed about 15 years ago. None of the CMOS setup batteries are still working so they are left on all the time and parameters like hard drive type have to be reentered any time they are powered off. Power supply fans failing is the most common issue.