If China invaded Tiawan, where would we get our VIA SIS etc AMD mobo's from???? That would be a huge disruption in PC supplies, and, to the vendors delight, higher prices, thicker margins.
who get promoted to mgmt. Their work sucks, but they need a job, and so do a song and dance about how they're better with people than code anyway, play the office suckup politics game and next thing you know they're telling you what to do. Likewise, no company would take someone just making good product and promote them to mgmt, they need them to keep pounding away at the forge.
Yes. Also runs more effeciently on less hardware. We're technocrats and want to know these thinkgs, just like gearheads want to know all about the engine in their automobile - a lot of folks couldn't care less whether you have 1.6 or 2.4 liters, but some do.
I'll lose my job with the Gambino family if they bust up the mob! They can't do that, I own too much stock. I'm heavily invested in illicit drugs, prostitution and the numbers racket - I have a family to feed, they can break us up!! Here we work so hard defending our territory, you think clearing our turf of those Russian mobsters was easy? They nearly put me in a lumber jacket! All that work and what do we get? Harassment from the long arm of the law, that's what. I tell you there's no justice in this world, pfft.
You can see a video (Real format) of the Gatester cussing ("We f****d up!") and claiming something "Makes us look like greedy fools" here. It must be rather old as he mentions Netscape. Short, so plays well even over dialup.
Everything else is video game fluff. Batch processing forces you to THINK and get it right the first time. This realtime interactive crap is responsible for all the lousy 'trial-and-error' code we have to live with today.
a shame the CatWeasel doesn't claim to work for 8" drives - I know of a few people with disks from their ancient CPM boxes that they'd like to retrieve stuff from.
"Due to unforseen 'computers in education' expenses, we have to cancel the field trip to the amuzement park control room and the Box Factory this year..." Actually that IS quite educational - not only do they take several years experience with Msft products with them into the workplace, but also experience with what happens when your business doesn't track licenses properly. Just another line item in the TCO.
Well, they took the free crack, now they are addicted and have to pay the only local dope dealer..
Here's my view: silly academic resercher creates advance in computer science "for the benefit of humanity" - Msft takes it, clean room codes up a clone, copyrights, patents, markets and enforces the hell out of it, makes a bundle, and since in this US society wealth is the only sign of success and accomplishment, it is soon widely beleived that they created the idea in the first place.
Msft r&d is pushing the envelope beyond human/computer interaction to human subjugation to computer domination. In the not too distant future, most drone employees will have a pc for a supervisor, will take direction from one, will be instructed what to do, what to buy, who to pay, etc, while the programmer bosses will be freed from the drudgery of workforce mgmt for more creative lifestyles, like golf, boating, etc.
I don't know why it has to be a "global" flood - didn't they even imagine the earth as a globe back then? Or flat w/ Heaven above the clouds? Anyway, it is possible that, say, the black sea was once a landlocked area below sea level with some cities and settlements - you know, people didn't really travel much or communicat over vast distances then, so "the world" was pretty much your local town and outlying areas - so that once the ocean rose enough or eroded the barrier enough the below-sea-level area could have experienced a catastrophic flooding, possibly flooding out some towns. It's entirely possible that someone could have gotten advance word from a traveler that it was going to happen and built a boat and wrote a morality play about the wickedness of mankind into the whole geological event. We'll just have to collect more evidence.
Part of the problem is that canabis users have already committed a crime, so it's not a big transition to go onto heroin, altho I cannot see why a well informed person would voluntarily take up a physically addicting drug as opposed to a merely habit forming one. If canabis were legal or at least highly controlled like alcohol (no one under 21, available only at govt controlled stores) then there would be a barrier to going on to heroin, it's not only illegal but physically addicting. As it is, a relatively harmless recreational drug is mindlessly lumped in with dangerous behavior, so naturally many users will go on to the harder stuff. It's like the govt laws here in the US are telling us "Well, it you use pot, you might as well be shooting up!" which is blatently false.
But then people used to mistakenly think that tomatoes were dangerously poisonous too, so that, duh, nobody ever tried them to find out otherwise.
will probably be a 3.2Ghz uP, 1Gb memory and 120Gb disk - and that's just to boot up. More RAM recommended for actually running applications, altho there probably won't be anything left that's NOT already integrated into the "operating system" that comes pre-installed with your new PC.
if your into that sort of thing. Having cut my teeth on a real Altair/BASIC (haha) I enjoyed getting the Z80 emulator running (on linux), mounting a floppy disk (which I never could afford then) and running old Startrek type games. Then just last Jan. got into getting the ORIGINAL Colassal Cave adventure in genuine FORTRAN running on the PDP10 emulator running TOPS10. Guess who provides a prebuilt TOPS10 bootable system disk? Paul Allen. The hardest part was figuring out how DEC handled tape mounting, and finding a utility to convert files into a tape format to get them 'into' the emulator. Not only that, but once you have the PDP10 running, you can attach the terminal server to a port and have time share terminals accessable over the network, thru firewalls, etc. It was a great insight into how medium size businesses and a great many college campus computer centers were run in the late 60's to mid 70's. You can boot up Unix v5, 6, 7 - I could only get v5 running but there's a nifty chess game in/usr/games/;)
wouldn't it be better to install some PCs in homes like this, to let them use the web, email, ICQ, BBS,
I think a lot of currently retired folks lives are enriched by having ham radio contacts - radio being 'cutting edge techno' during their prime years in the 40s and 50s. They can meet old friends, check into clubs, report the local weather, all w/o haveing to leave the house. For the current generation, a well wired PC lab will be essential to the more desirable assisted care facilities.
They'll just bundle one in with every PC OS sold, the OS won't be able to function properly w/o one, and then it'll gradually take over everything, whether it's better or not, whether the consumer wants it or not. That worked with browsers, it's working with media, messaging and Internetworking; it'll work w/ consoles.
Meanwhile, on another planet, the antitrust case plods on thru uncharted, meaningless and irrelevant billable lawyer hours under Msft's direction.
The joys of closed source: you can commit any crime you want and they can't prove anything. WooHoo!!
Oh I don't know - when I worked in software testing it certainly seemed like the developers were just making random variations in the code base and we testers would weed out the broken ones and every once in a great while some random variation would be an actual improvement so we'd go with that, then start with the random variations on that code base.
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You can map a changing object onto a constant linear or circularly changing object (a clock) but but this is analogy only, albeit a deeply ingrained function of the brain ( I suspect for purposes of locomotion - in order to move 'intelligently', i.e., in persuit of food and other needs one has to have some idea of where one has been and where one is going in space/time). Because you can map a changing object onto a spacial displacement and gain insight into how it work (is it a one time event or a periodic event for instance) DOES NOT MEAN THE REVERSE APPLIED, that is, because you can freely move around in space does not necessarily mean you can freely move around in this abstract concept of 'time' - an abstraction using analogies of space in order to understand things that change. I can move from the kitchen to the bedroom because they both exist - I cannot move from the 'present' to the 'past' because the 'past' doesn't exist! It is not 'out there' accessible by any means of travel. This confusion is partly reinforced by Einstein with the idea of time as a fourth dimension. This may be convenient for theory and computation but you have to consider that one dimension has very different properties from the other three.
appearantly is the PCI-DAS4020/12 - that's what the alpha driver posted is for, specs cached here. Described as "low cost" (from a lab gear point of view) but is GBP 1200 or so.
I've always wondered what generic CPU's could do in the HF (3-30Mhz) radio spectrum since CPU speeds passed 120Mhz long ago.
It just goes on and on and on. It's like those people in the antitrust trial are lost in space, wasting vast amounts of time and effort dwelling over finer and finer points of legalese (which is exactly what Msft wants, splitting hairs indefinately) while the abuse of power goes on and on and on.
Berle was the 'killer app' of the early TV adoption years - he said himself that a lot of sets were sold because of him ("My uncle sold his set, my cousin sold her set," this one (not mine). I was playing with my restored 1950 RCA TC125 just last night, it still picks up the locals just fine! In fact, I've purchased a cheap TV transmitter in anticipation of 2006 (which will likely get pushed back).
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If China invaded Tiawan, where would we get our VIA SIS etc AMD mobo's from???? That would be a huge disruption in PC supplies, and, to the vendors delight, higher prices, thicker margins.
who get promoted to mgmt. Their work sucks, but they need a job, and so do a song and dance about how they're better with people than code anyway, play the office suckup politics game and next thing you know they're telling you what to do. Likewise, no company would take someone just making good product and promote them to mgmt, they need them to keep pounding away at the forge.
Does it make the device cheaper or more stable?
Yes. Also runs more effeciently on less hardware. We're technocrats and want to know these thinkgs, just like gearheads want to know all about the engine in their automobile - a lot of folks couldn't care less whether you have 1.6 or 2.4 liters, but some do.
I'll lose my job with the Gambino family if they bust up the mob! They can't do that, I own too much stock. I'm heavily invested in illicit drugs, prostitution and the numbers racket - I have a family to feed, they can break us up!! Here we work so hard defending our territory, you think clearing our turf of those Russian mobsters was easy? They nearly put me in a lumber jacket! All that work and what do we get? Harassment from the long arm of the law, that's what. I tell you there's no justice in this world, pfft.
You can see a video (Real format) of the Gatester cussing ("We f****d up!") and claiming something "Makes us look like greedy fools" here. It must be rather old as he mentions Netscape. Short, so plays well even over dialup.
Everything else is video game fluff. Batch processing forces you to THINK and get it right the first time. This realtime interactive crap is responsible for all the lousy 'trial-and-error' code we have to live with today.
a shame the CatWeasel doesn't claim to work for 8" drives - I know of a few people with disks from their ancient CPM boxes that they'd like to retrieve stuff from.
"Due to unforseen 'computers in education' expenses, we have to cancel the field trip to the amuzement park control room and the Box Factory this year..." Actually that IS quite educational - not only do they take several years experience with Msft products with them into the workplace, but also experience with what happens when your business doesn't track licenses properly. Just another line item in the TCO.
Well, they took the free crack, now they are addicted and have to pay the only local dope dealer..
Here's my view: silly academic resercher creates advance in computer science "for the benefit of humanity" - Msft takes it, clean room codes up a clone, copyrights, patents, markets and enforces the hell out of it, makes a bundle, and since in this US society wealth is the only sign of success and accomplishment, it is soon widely beleived that they created the idea in the first place.
Msft r&d is pushing the envelope beyond human/computer interaction to human subjugation to computer domination. In the not too distant future, most drone employees will have a pc for a supervisor, will take direction from one, will be instructed what to do, what to buy, who to pay, etc, while the programmer bosses will be freed from the drudgery of workforce mgmt for more creative lifestyles, like golf, boating, etc.
I don't know why it has to be a "global" flood - didn't they even imagine the earth as a globe back then? Or flat w/ Heaven above the clouds? Anyway, it is possible that, say, the black sea was once a landlocked area below sea level with some cities and settlements - you know, people didn't really travel much or communicat over vast distances then, so "the world" was pretty much your local town and outlying areas - so that once the ocean rose enough or eroded the barrier enough the below-sea-level area could have experienced a catastrophic flooding, possibly flooding out some towns. It's entirely possible that someone could have gotten advance word from a traveler that it was going to happen and built a boat and wrote a morality play about the wickedness of mankind into the whole geological event. We'll just have to collect more evidence.
That's what Pulsars are, basically a big galactic GPS / messaging system.
Part of the problem is that canabis users have already committed a crime, so it's not a big transition to go onto heroin, altho I cannot see why a well informed person would voluntarily take up a physically addicting drug as opposed to a merely habit forming one. If canabis were legal or at least highly controlled like alcohol (no one under 21, available only at govt controlled stores) then there would be a barrier to going on to heroin, it's not only illegal but physically addicting. As it is, a relatively harmless recreational drug is mindlessly lumped in with dangerous behavior, so naturally many users will go on to the harder stuff. It's like the govt laws here in the US are telling us "Well, it you use pot, you might as well be shooting up!" which is blatently false.
But then people used to mistakenly think that tomatoes were dangerously poisonous too, so that, duh, nobody ever tried them to find out otherwise.
will probably be a 3.2Ghz uP, 1Gb memory and 120Gb disk - and that's just to boot up. More RAM recommended for actually running applications, altho there probably won't be anything left that's NOT already integrated into the "operating system" that comes pre-installed with your new PC.
Tks - Will have to try that out - I 've a big stack of ST disks, tho the 520FM (upgraded to 2.5Mb) crapped out long ago.
Mine even ran mint and gnu stuff like ksh (altho very slowly!).
if your into that sort of thing. Having cut my teeth on a real Altair/BASIC (haha) I enjoyed getting the Z80 emulator running (on linux), mounting a floppy disk (which I never could afford then) and running old Startrek type games. Then just last Jan. got into getting the ORIGINAL Colassal Cave adventure in genuine FORTRAN running on the PDP10 emulator running TOPS10. Guess who provides a prebuilt TOPS10 bootable system disk? Paul Allen. The hardest part was figuring out how DEC handled tape mounting, and finding a utility to convert files into a tape format to get them 'into' the emulator. Not only that, but once you have the PDP10 running, you can attach the terminal server to a port and have time share terminals accessable over the network, thru firewalls, etc. It was a great insight into how medium size businesses and a great many college campus computer centers were run in the late 60's to mid 70's. You can boot up Unix v5, 6, 7 - I could only get v5 running but there's a nifty chess game in /usr/games/ ;)
wouldn't it be better to install some PCs in homes like this, to let them use the web, email, ICQ, BBS,
I think a lot of currently retired folks lives are enriched by having ham radio contacts - radio being 'cutting edge techno' during their prime years in the 40s and 50s. They can meet old friends, check into clubs, report the local weather, all w/o haveing to leave the house. For the current generation, a well wired PC lab will be essential to the more desirable assisted care facilities.
there's another professor who will never work in this country again.
I'm waiting for the DIY liquid nitrogen version...
They'll just bundle one in with every PC OS sold, the OS won't be able to function properly w/o one, and then it'll gradually take over everything, whether it's better or not, whether the consumer wants it or not. That worked with browsers, it's working with media, messaging and Internetworking; it'll work w/ consoles.
Meanwhile, on another planet, the antitrust case plods on thru uncharted, meaningless and irrelevant billable lawyer hours under Msft's direction.
The joys of closed source: you can commit any crime you want and they can't prove anything. WooHoo!!
Oh I don't know - when I worked in software testing it certainly seemed like the developers were just making random variations in the code base and we testers would weed out the broken ones and every once in a great while some random variation would be an actual improvement so we'd go with that, then start with the random variations on that code base.
You can map a changing object onto a constant linear or circularly changing object (a clock) but but this is analogy only, albeit a deeply ingrained function of the brain ( I suspect for purposes of locomotion - in order to move 'intelligently', i.e., in persuit of food and other needs one has to have some idea of where one has been and where one is going in space/time). Because you can map a changing object onto a spacial displacement and gain insight into how it work (is it a one time event or a periodic event for instance) DOES NOT MEAN THE REVERSE APPLIED, that is, because you can freely move around in space does not necessarily mean you can freely move around in this abstract concept of 'time' - an abstraction using analogies of space in order to understand things that change. I can move from the kitchen to the bedroom because they both exist - I cannot move from the 'present' to the 'past' because the 'past' doesn't exist! It is not 'out there' accessible by any means of travel. This confusion is partly reinforced by Einstein with the idea of time as a fourth dimension. This may be convenient for theory and computation but you have to consider that one dimension has very different properties from the other three.
appearantly is the PCI-DAS4020/12 - that's what the alpha driver posted is for, specs cached here. Described as "low cost" (from a lab gear point of view) but is GBP 1200 or so.
I've always wondered what generic CPU's could do in the HF (3-30Mhz) radio spectrum since CPU speeds passed 120Mhz long ago.
It just goes on and on and on. It's like those people in the antitrust trial are lost in space, wasting vast amounts of time and effort dwelling over finer and finer points of legalese (which is exactly what Msft wants, splitting hairs indefinately) while the abuse of power goes on and on and on.
Berle was the 'killer app' of the early TV adoption years - he said himself that a lot of sets were sold because of him ("My uncle sold his set, my cousin sold her set," this one (not mine). I was playing with my restored 1950 RCA TC125 just last night, it still picks up the locals just fine! In fact, I've purchased a cheap TV transmitter in anticipation of 2006 (which will likely get pushed back).