The "dumb" electronic billboards already are changing fast enough that imo, the message is missed. A second look at one and it's already changed, for better or worse.
Your mistake was clicking the links on Drudge to infowars.com. Alex Jones isn't worth paying any attention to. I finally fixed that problem by blocking infowars.com at my router, because I was tired of looking up from the nuttiness of the text body to the top of the browser window and seeing I was at *that* site again.
I would prefer an Intersil 6100, though, or a 6120. That was a 12 bit processor that implemented the PDP-8 instruction set. And it was a static CMOS chip, not one with dynamic registers. It can be underclocked down to 0.5 hertz if you want to single step it to debug (you need to then use it with static ram, of course.)
It's not just the marketers. Programmer ego is also part of it. And programmer sloth. Who wants to read and figure out somebody elses code? Just tear it out and insert your code in place of it. It's visible even in a lot of open source code. Sadly, code bases could converge and become continually improved but instead the next generation of young dudes needs to 'leave their mark'.
Actually the lead pipes in Flint Michigan didn't become a serious problem until highly polluted water was run through them. Lead pipes develop a patina that shields the water running through it. The switch to nasty contaminated river water corroded the pipes and introduced the large amount of lead that is the problem now.
An AT&T 6300 (made by Olivetti)? That's the only 8086 based PC clone I can think of off-the-cuff. There were relatively few PC clones made that used the 8086 instead of the 8088. Having to incorporate the BIOS rom in a 16 bit wide data path, for one thing, was more costly than it was worth. 16 bit ROMs are exotic and expensive; two 8 bit ROMs was also expensive. It just wasn't worth it for the slight benefit of the 16 bit data bus at the time, and the first gen ISA bus meant there was no advantage for add on cards.
Not everybody is the AV nerd who made it good. We know, we know. You were really good at operating that 16mm projector. But while you were finessing the operation of the equipment, the rest of us were enjoying the movie. Do some research about aesthetic distance as your homework assignment.
Downloadable virtual worlds to portray a storyline in. Sort of like the World of Warcraft, though with a lot of different settings availabe, and no fucking endgamers barging through the set when you're starting to enjoy it.
Possibly there were a few places in history, like Shanghai for a half decade or so, where a business would have used an abacus and the telegraph concurrently. It would be a historical abberation, however.
I bought a hard drive once and it was shipped in a box exactly the size of the drive with no packing.
There are really stupid people who sell stuff online. You want to find people stupid in the low price they sell it for, but not sack-of-rocks stupid about shipping.
The plans for the first computer I wanted to build used 2N3055 transistors for the flip-flops. Yes. Big power transistors. No way in hell could I afford enough of those in the early 70s. If the author of the book in question had a clue, they would have used 2N2907s, I might have been able to make the thing. With a telephone dial as the input device and everything else.
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The "dumb" electronic billboards already are changing fast enough that imo, the message is missed. A second look at one and it's already changed, for better or worse.
Your 2000" tv does 0.5 fps.
It really is transistors, all the way down. Unless you switch Vdd and Vss inadvertantly, and then it's all carbon.
Speaking of which, plug it in backwards and you, too, can have a Light Emitting EPROM.
Your mistake was clicking the links on Drudge to infowars.com. Alex Jones isn't worth paying any attention to. I finally fixed that problem by blocking infowars.com at my router, because I was tired of looking up from the nuttiness of the text body to the top of the browser window and seeing I was at *that* site again.
There were second source clone 6800s, too.
I would prefer an Intersil 6100, though, or a 6120. That was a 12 bit processor that implemented the PDP-8 instruction set. And it was a static CMOS chip, not one with dynamic registers. It can be underclocked down to 0.5 hertz if you want to single step it to debug (you need to then use it with static ram, of course.)
It's not just the marketers. Programmer ego is also part of it. And programmer sloth. Who wants to read and figure out somebody elses code? Just tear it out and insert your code in place of it. It's visible even in a lot of open source code. Sadly, code bases could converge and become continually improved but instead the next generation of young dudes needs to 'leave their mark'.
Actually the lead pipes in Flint Michigan didn't become a serious problem until highly polluted water was run through them. Lead pipes develop a patina that shields the water running through it. The switch to nasty contaminated river water corroded the pipes and introduced the large amount of lead that is the problem now.
An AT&T 6300 (made by Olivetti)? That's the only 8086 based PC clone I can think of off-the-cuff. There were relatively few PC clones made that used the 8086 instead of the 8088. Having to incorporate the BIOS rom in a 16 bit wide data path, for one thing, was more costly than it was worth. 16 bit ROMs are exotic and expensive; two 8 bit ROMs was also expensive. It just wasn't worth it for the slight benefit of the 16 bit data bus at the time, and the first gen ISA bus meant there was no advantage for add on cards.
Not everybody is the AV nerd who made it good. We know, we know. You were really good at operating that 16mm projector. But while you were finessing the operation of the equipment, the rest of us were enjoying the movie. Do some research about aesthetic distance as your homework assignment.
Downloadable virtual worlds to portray a storyline in. Sort of like the World of Warcraft, though with a lot of different settings availabe, and no fucking endgamers barging through the set when you're starting to enjoy it.
We recently rented the new Ghostbusters from Redbox. It was funny! Not in any way highbrow... but it was Ghostbusters, for goodness sake!
Possibly there were a few places in history, like Shanghai for a half decade or so, where a business would have used an abacus and the telegraph concurrently. It would be a historical abberation, however.
I bought a hard drive once and it was shipped in a box exactly the size of the drive with no packing.
There are really stupid people who sell stuff online. You want to find people stupid in the low price they sell it for, but not sack-of-rocks stupid about shipping.
Tell us what makes you so angry.
Why did what he said make you so angry?
I think the first motherboard I ever owned had an AMD 8088 processor chip on it. TURBO! It was 8 Mhz, not one of those slow Intel 4.77 Mhz jobbies.
Steve Jobs invented "parking in the handicap spot because you are the boss." Sadly, he is never given the proper credit for what he really invented.
Possibly I will choose employment at a job where I don't need to communicate with a 'boss' when I am not at work.
By "normal sexual progression" you mean the way dogs and bitches get together to produce puppies, correct?
Meanwhile the guy who sells Lego blocks can afford to make another payment on his mortgage.
The plans for the first computer I wanted to build used 2N3055 transistors for the flip-flops. Yes. Big power transistors. No way in hell could I afford enough of those in the early 70s. If the author of the book in question had a clue, they would have used 2N2907s, I might have been able to make the thing. With a telephone dial as the input device and everything else.
Screw 3DFX. Motorola came out with the 6845 to offload video from the processor and boost video performance.
Brian Jones died for our sins.
Some are beefy bull-wannas whose measure of self worth is boner size.
It was a 15 hour video.