Commodore was a company that produced mass-market home computers in plastic cases to be sold in department stores to the public. They didn't embrace any of the common standards that were emerging. So they were a high volume operation, but only ankle deep in the technology. And to the degree the Amiga design was 'deep' it was deeply specialized.
The real downfall of Commodore was the Megahertz Wars of the PC clones. The Amiga was built around a cluster of specially designed ASIC components (named after 'girls' in the documentation). So as technology evolved so that processor speeds could ramp up, the 680x0 chip in the Amiga could be be sped up, but the associated ASIC parts were bound at a restricted speed.
The Amiga design was quaint and very successful for a fixed span of time. It couldn't scale going forward and the hardware ultimately was left in the dust.
Just at a much slower rate when it's dribbling out on a video.
I am serious. It's really fucking disgusting these days when you're searching online about how to do some specific thing on the computer, and the only thing you can find are narrated 'captures' of some rambling idiot clicking GUI buttons on a video on Youtube. For operations that could be summarized in several paragraphs.
It's called illiteracy. Literacy is a two-way thing. If you can't write coherently, you are BARELY LITERATE AT ALL.
There is literally (once again), no reason to make this thing a video other than for people too stupid to read.
There could be benefit. The Narrator could happen to be noticed by somebody at advertising at Google or one of the other Ad companies. They could end up with a nice job narrating commercials for breakfast cereal...
WordPerfect prior to Windows only succeeded because it's arcane user interface resulted in a culture of guru-experts. Every office had that woman who was a 'wiz' at WordPerfect because she knew all the secret key sequences. Said woman evangelized WordPerfect and kept her flock of users happy using it. The company that produced WordPerfect had exceptionally good customer support to teach and foster the development of their cadre-users out in the world.
Everybody else seems to be content watching the weekly Sports Broadcasts on Saturday. Those nerds are messing around with wires and poking in parts of the computer they're not supposed to be in.
There could never be any plausible malicious intent by people in Cuba against U.S. Embassy personnel. There's just no precedent and no motive.
The Cuban people were NOT indoctrinated for years to view U.S. Government entities as their enemy. There is NO possibility that rogue elements within Cuban society might be doing this 'For Fidel' out of ideological zeal.
So, if you don't mind losing the parts of the current land area that are near the ocean,
For the record, I don't mind. There will be unpleasant side-effects, of course, but as the people who don't mind decimating the economy of towns in the coal producing region must often rationalize "I don't live there."
If AGW is inevitable, we may as well look at the positive side effects. Flush out all that urban decay and blight on the east and west coasts. Flood those parasitic people off the Florida peninsula and let the native flora and fauna thrive again.
It's unfashionable to think this way, unless it's the right people being forced to change. Right?
I've read this twice, but I still cannot understand what it is you are trying to say. Long day, was it?
They are trying to say a lack of education is the problem. They have this idea that if we set up huge re-education camps and force people to move into them.....
Noooo! That would mean they would quit producing legal size memo pads. We need the extra paper on each page for our 'limited to one page per campaign' pen-and-paper roleplaying adventures!
Your need seems to be keeping up on your mortgage payments. Say hi to your boss Musk, dude. You're the most slavish defender of anything Elon on Slashdot.
So it's virtual reality, but we'll need to log on with our real names?
Why would Zuckerberg ever want us to log out of Facebook to enter a 'virtual reality?'
It sounds a lot more like it would be 'Augmented Reality' with Facebook in charge of the augmenting. Which is kinda chilling, if you think about it very long.
The truth is, though, Brunner in The Shockwave Rider predicted the Internet in 1975. Gibson is sort of an also-ran.
The big difference, though, is that Brunner was pre-Star Wars whereas Gibson was post-Star Wars. The unwashed masses were all wrapped up in 'Science Fiction' of the sort that existed after Lucas damaged the genere, and Gibson gets a lot more attention for that reason.
Brunner was a traditional in-the-trenches SF writer with a long history in the field. Gibson is sort of a twink by comparison.
I would much, much prefer John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider if I wanted to cite a novel that preshadows.
And Brunner is a real full-time Science Fiction writer who anybody who reads SF would recognize. Not an 'honorable mention' type who people say writes 'literature' like Gibson.
If you haven't' read The Shockwave Rider, what are you waiting for? Go out and find a copy.
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Commodore was a company that produced mass-market home computers in plastic cases to be sold in department stores to the public. They didn't embrace any of the common standards that were emerging. So they were a high volume operation, but only ankle deep in the technology. And to the degree the Amiga design was 'deep' it was deeply specialized.
The real downfall of Commodore was the Megahertz Wars of the PC clones. The Amiga was built around a cluster of specially designed ASIC components (named after 'girls' in the documentation). So as technology evolved so that processor speeds could ramp up, the 680x0 chip in the Amiga could be be sped up, but the associated ASIC parts were bound at a restricted speed.
The Amiga design was quaint and very successful for a fixed span of time. It couldn't scale going forward and the hardware ultimately was left in the dust.
Just at a much slower rate when it's dribbling out on a video.
I am serious. It's really fucking disgusting these days when you're searching online about how to do some specific thing on the computer, and the only thing you can find are narrated 'captures' of some rambling idiot clicking GUI buttons on a video on Youtube. For operations that could be summarized in several paragraphs.
It's called illiteracy. Literacy is a two-way thing. If you can't write coherently, you are BARELY LITERATE AT ALL.
There is literally (once again), no reason to make this thing a video other than for people too stupid to read.
There could be benefit. The Narrator could happen to be noticed by somebody at advertising at Google or one of the other Ad companies. They could end up with a nice job narrating commercials for breakfast cereal...
WordPerfect prior to Windows only succeeded because it's arcane user interface resulted in a culture of guru-experts. Every office had that woman who was a 'wiz' at WordPerfect because she knew all the secret key sequences. Said woman evangelized WordPerfect and kept her flock of users happy using it. The company that produced WordPerfect had exceptionally good customer support to teach and foster the development of their cadre-users out in the world.
Yes, and if you double down on the criticism, clearly the Macintosh was FAR WORSE than anything Microsoft produced at the time.
So lets be clear; Microsoft was by no measure the worst offender in that era.
It's time to round up the nerds.
Everybody else seems to be content watching the weekly Sports Broadcasts on Saturday. Those nerds are messing around with wires and poking in parts of the computer they're not supposed to be in.
There could never be any plausible malicious intent by people in Cuba against U.S. Embassy personnel. There's just no precedent and no motive.
The Cuban people were NOT indoctrinated for years to view U.S. Government entities as their enemy. There is NO possibility that rogue elements within Cuban society might be doing this 'For Fidel' out of ideological zeal.
Nope. None of that should even be considered.
You only need to read a file, in such a fashion that you can monitor and record low level artifacts of the file reading process.
Wow. I bet there's a driver for that built right into the Linux kernel. One that requires no privilege escalation to access.
Geez, get a clue. Junk science wants it's junk back.
do you ever actually think for yourself, or do you just repeat what you're told?
Ah yes, you are one of the few smart ones. Everbody else is just parroting what Johnny Rich Boy and Jack Corporate have trained them to say.
Your bumper sticker science doesn't cut it, brother.
So, if you don't mind losing the parts of the current land area that are near the ocean,
For the record, I don't mind. There will be unpleasant side-effects, of course, but as the people who don't mind decimating the economy of towns in the coal producing region must often rationalize "I don't live there."
If AGW is inevitable, we may as well look at the positive side effects. Flush out all that urban decay and blight on the east and west coasts. Flood those parasitic people off the Florida peninsula and let the native flora and fauna thrive again.
It's unfashionable to think this way, unless it's the right people being forced to change. Right?
'Big Oil'
'Big Coal'
'Big Finance'
'Big Pharma'
but never, oh, never, 'Big Government.'
Also known as a tree.
Didn't any of these people learn in grade school about how trees convert carbon dioxide back into oxygen?
No, there's a meta at play. GP poster is the most slavish Tesla fan on Slashdot, now here defending his dear Elon on a different topic.
It was not intended as a rebuttal. You couldn't seriously have thought that's what it was intended as.
I've read this twice, but I still cannot understand what it is you are trying to say. Long day, was it?
They are trying to say a lack of education is the problem. They have this idea that if we set up huge re-education camps and force people to move into them.....
Well, we can start by killing all the lawyers.
Noooo! That would mean they would quit producing legal size memo pads. We need the extra paper on each page for our 'limited to one page per campaign' pen-and-paper roleplaying adventures!
An Anonymous Coward asking another Anonymous Coward to back up what they say.
The Cowardice around here is just awesome.
Your need seems to be keeping up on your mortgage payments. Say hi to your boss Musk, dude. You're the most slavish defender of anything Elon on Slashdot.
Don't be dumb. Augmented Reality concerns transcend 'privacy concerns.'
We're talking about the lens people view reality through, not worrying that your Aunt discover you went out to lunch with your Uncle and ordered beer.
So it's virtual reality, but we'll need to log on with our real names?
Why would Zuckerberg ever want us to log out of Facebook to enter a 'virtual reality?'
It sounds a lot more like it would be 'Augmented Reality' with Facebook in charge of the augmenting. Which is kinda chilling, if you think about it very long.
The truth is, though, Brunner in The Shockwave Rider predicted the Internet in 1975. Gibson is sort of an also-ran.
The big difference, though, is that Brunner was pre-Star Wars whereas Gibson was post-Star Wars. The unwashed masses were all wrapped up in 'Science Fiction' of the sort that existed after Lucas damaged the genere, and Gibson gets a lot more attention for that reason.
Brunner was a traditional in-the-trenches SF writer with a long history in the field. Gibson is sort of a twink by comparison.
sometimes I just want to shoot lots of evil aliens so i go for a John Ringo or Robert Heinlein
Be very very careful. There are people, even some who frequent this forum, who take Heinlein very very seriously.
In general, I am a SF fan. And I don't like Gibson's influence on the genere, but at least it's not as bad as George Lucases influence.
I would much, much prefer John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider if I wanted to cite a novel that preshadows.
And Brunner is a real full-time Science Fiction writer who anybody who reads SF would recognize. Not an 'honorable mention' type who people say writes 'literature' like Gibson.
If you haven't' read The Shockwave Rider, what are you waiting for? Go out and find a copy.
Orwell and Solzhenitsyn are both overrated. Especially Orwell.
Wow. You and Josef Stalin think very much alike.
If H. Clinton had fought it the way Algore did, we might now be in the middle of a Civil War.