Hard drive buffers and caches are large enough nowadays to handle a thermal recalibration in the middle of a capture, and HD transfer rates are now higher than DV data rates, which obviates the need for AV drives.
Mod me down for nitpicking, but when you mention the word literate in your comment (albeit in a technical sense), your following sentence mistakes 'there' for 'their'.
Unlike the x86 ISA, the PowerPC architecture has already been defined (since PowerPC's inception) with 64-bit goodness, it just hasn't been implemented on the chips yet.
I can't wait for the IP toilet to come out. That way I check if I flushed that sucker in the morning after I get to work. The side benefit is a free pee-cam in case I need to get into pr0n.
Actually, this is like the Apple of old. Way back before Apple even charged for system updates, you just went down to your Apple dealer with some floppies and they'd let you get any version of the System software that you wanted. That all changed with System 7...but 7.1 update was free.
Of course, certain series of powerbooks wind up at dead ends. You can't expect a powerbook from 1991 to be able to take a processor from 2001. The party's over at some point for each chassis type, some sooner than others.
While you can say that none of the 1x0 powerbooks are upgradable to PPC, you can logic board swap and screen swap most of them up to the 180c as an end point. Thus a 25 MHz 030 passive matrix PB140 could be moved up to a 33MHz active colour PB180c.
The duo series is even more upgradable. All of them allowed you to swap in a 100MHz 603e logic board. That's quite a jump from a 25MHz 030. The 2300c can even take scsi or ide HDs.
The 190 (33MHz 040) could be logic board swapped for a 5300 series logic board (100 or 117MHz 603e).
The 3400 series could be logic board swap from a 180, 200, or 240 MHz 603e to an original powerbook G3 (250MHz 750).
The original poster also cited a possible forthcoming G4 upgrade for wallstreet and lombard, but those are only rumours without direct confirmation. They can, however, be upgraded to faster G3s currently.
Only the most recent of the powerbooks don't have an upgrade path at introduction of the new 'chassis' type.
Perhaps they will have an upgrade path at a later date, but Apple never says their computers are upgradable ever since they got sued for advertising that the LC/performa series could be upgraded to PowerPC (and priced it so sky high and delivered it late that people got massively pissed).
The most potentially upgradable powerbook is the much lamented 5x0 series. I think they came out in '95 or so, and featured two swappable bays, a CPU and RAM on a daughtercard, and on-board 10Mb ethernet (AUI). The only thing it missed was a big enough cavity for CD-ROM drives. In fact, the daughtercard could theoretically take G3 and G4 chips and more RAM than any of its closer descendants (no specified maximum other than physical size), but no upgrades are ever going to be made again as the connector (or controller?) for the daughtercards has been retired.
I doubt that you'd need a 24h/day 1g environment to prevent bone density loss, so why not just sleep in a small centrifuge compartment that puts them in a 1 - 1.2 g for 6 - 8 hours a day? The energy output would be minimal and the astronauts could take shifts in the centrifuge.
If MS wanted to kill Capcom by cloning streetfighter, they wouldn't be allowed to use the same characters. Instead, they'd be forced to use Ballmer the dog boy, Paper-clippy, Bill-borg and Code Reddy the IIS giant.
A G4 500MHz is not using the MPC7450. It's a MPC7400. Quite a different beast than the 7450, as the 7400 has a 5 stage pipeline, while the 7450 has a 7 stage pipe.
...is now all the weirdos and creeps on the internet can keep track of the kids they lure from chat rooms while they sit on park benches waiting for solitary joggers to go by...
I've got Shaw@home in Canada (Edmonton), and I've seen both sides of the bandwidth fence.
When I first got the cable modem two years ago, I think I was the first one on my block to get it. I got speeds up to 1.2MB/sec in real world transfers (Hotline). As more users got on, the speed dropped to a more reasonable 180k-220k/sec.
Then for a while the speed slowly degraded to a miserable 8k-10k/sec for about 3 weeks. Everyone must have complained hard because speeds jumped back up then to about 200k/sec.
From what I've seen here, cable is generally faster than aDSL but DSL speeds are more consistent.
So check with your neighbours and other customers of whoever you're getting the service from first. If there are tons of complaints on their forums I wouldn't take a chance with them. Of course, YMMV.
...of the technology. After all, it's just a bunch of standard projection units hooked together so the image spans neatly. It's actually a no brainer to do this stuff since the MacOS (for a decade now) and Windows (98? and up) support monitor spanning.
What they should focus on is the video card technology used to drive this display. Not too many video cards that I know of that can go up to 5120 x 4096.
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Because they're working on those big black dot patches that will teleport them into another spot.
The only problem with the dot patches is that they keep exitting onto roads and train tracks. ACME space research is looking into it...
I think there is a difference between the mediums. When one is browsing on the web, it is an active task, ie. focussed and directional. Advertising in a pop-up is perceived as an interruption to the task, which is highly annoying.
Radio and television are more passive tasks, as well as pre-programmed. People are not as peeved when advertising appears on television because they know or expect when the advert will appear, ie. after the introduction and before the climax, etc. This allows them to tune out any advertising or gives them an opportunity to go to the washroom or kitchen.
None of this is based on any proof or evidence, but it's just the way I've seen things.
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Hard drive buffers and caches are large enough nowadays to handle a thermal recalibration in the middle of a capture, and HD transfer rates are now higher than DV data rates, which obviates the need for AV drives.
Mod me down for nitpicking, but when you mention the word literate in your comment (albeit in a technical sense), your following sentence mistakes 'there' for 'their'.
I just found it ironically amusing.
Unlike the x86 ISA, the PowerPC architecture has already been defined (since PowerPC's inception) with 64-bit goodness, it just hasn't been implemented on the chips yet.
I can't wait for the IP toilet to come out. That way I check if I flushed that sucker in the morning after I get to work. The side benefit is a free pee-cam in case I need to get into pr0n.
I think you should fill out that U.K. census along with the Jedi Knights. :)
Apparently you're not using it enough :)
I've already got 480 of the DTMF tones from Limewire and gearing up for the rest of them!
Actually, this is like the Apple of old. Way back before Apple even charged for system updates, you just went down to your Apple dealer with some floppies and they'd let you get any version of the System software that you wanted. That all changed with System 7...but 7.1 update was free.
i mean vulgar of course... :)
so much for the funny
This almost sounds too easy....ah...fuggetaboutit.
Of course, certain series of powerbooks wind up at dead ends. You can't expect a powerbook from 1991 to be able to take a processor from 2001. The party's over at some point for each chassis type, some sooner than others.
While you can say that none of the 1x0 powerbooks are upgradable to PPC, you can logic board swap and screen swap most of them up to the 180c as an end point. Thus a 25 MHz 030 passive matrix PB140 could be moved up to a 33MHz active colour PB180c.
The duo series is even more upgradable. All of them allowed you to swap in a 100MHz 603e logic board. That's quite a jump from a 25MHz 030. The 2300c can even take scsi or ide HDs.
The 190 (33MHz 040) could be logic board swapped for a 5300 series logic board (100 or 117MHz 603e).
The 3400 series could be logic board swap from a 180, 200, or 240 MHz 603e to an original powerbook G3 (250MHz 750).
The original poster also cited a possible forthcoming G4 upgrade for wallstreet and lombard, but those are only rumours without direct confirmation. They can, however, be upgraded to faster G3s currently.
Only the most recent of the powerbooks don't have an upgrade path at introduction of the new 'chassis' type.
Perhaps they will have an upgrade path at a later date, but Apple never says their computers are upgradable ever since they got sued for advertising that the LC/performa series could be upgraded to PowerPC (and priced it so sky high and delivered it late that people got massively pissed).
The most potentially upgradable powerbook is the much lamented 5x0 series. I think they came out in '95 or so, and featured two swappable bays, a CPU and RAM on a daughtercard, and on-board 10Mb ethernet (AUI). The only thing it missed was a big enough cavity for CD-ROM drives. In fact, the daughtercard could theoretically take G3 and G4 chips and more RAM than any of its closer descendants (no specified maximum other than physical size), but no upgrades are ever going to be made again as the connector (or controller?) for the daughtercards has been retired.
The Dragonball processors are 680x0 based processors.
I doubt that you'd need a 24h/day 1g environment to prevent bone density loss, so why not just sleep in a small centrifuge compartment that puts them in a 1 - 1.2 g for 6 - 8 hours a day? The energy output would be minimal and the astronauts could take shifts in the centrifuge.
If MS wanted to kill Capcom by cloning streetfighter, they wouldn't be allowed to use the same characters. Instead, they'd be forced to use Ballmer the dog boy, Paper-clippy, Bill-borg and Code Reddy the IIS giant.
Yeah, surfing for Pr0n on the john unsecured gives me performance anxiety too...
A G4 500MHz is not using the MPC7450. It's a MPC7400. Quite a different beast than the 7450, as the 7400 has a 5 stage pipeline, while the 7450 has a 7 stage pipe.
...is now all the weirdos and creeps on the internet can keep track of the kids they lure from chat rooms while they sit on park benches waiting for solitary joggers to go by...
...hmm...maybe I should have posted anonymously.
I've got Shaw@home in Canada (Edmonton), and I've seen both sides of the bandwidth fence.
When I first got the cable modem two years ago, I think I was the first one on my block to get it. I got speeds up to 1.2MB/sec in real world transfers (Hotline). As more users got on, the speed dropped to a more reasonable 180k-220k/sec.
Then for a while the speed slowly degraded to a miserable 8k-10k/sec for about 3 weeks. Everyone must have complained hard because speeds jumped back up then to about 200k/sec.
From what I've seen here, cable is generally faster than aDSL but DSL speeds are more consistent.
So check with your neighbours and other customers of whoever you're getting the service from first. If there are tons of complaints on their forums I wouldn't take a chance with them. Of course, YMMV.
...of the technology. After all, it's just a bunch of standard projection units hooked together so the image spans neatly. It's actually a no brainer to do this stuff since the MacOS (for a decade now) and Windows (98? and up) support monitor spanning.
What they should focus on is the video card technology used to drive this display. Not too many video cards that I know of that can go up to 5120 x 4096.
Because they're working on those big black dot patches that will teleport them into another spot.
The only problem with the dot patches is that they keep exitting onto roads and train tracks. ACME space research is looking into it...
Mod this up!
That's a joke by the way...
I think there is a difference between the mediums. When one is browsing on the web, it is an active task, ie. focussed and directional. Advertising in a pop-up is perceived as an interruption to the task, which is highly annoying.
Radio and television are more passive tasks, as well as pre-programmed. People are not as peeved when advertising appears on television because they know or expect when the advert will appear, ie. after the introduction and before the climax, etc. This allows them to tune out any advertising or gives them an opportunity to go to the washroom or kitchen.
None of this is based on any proof or evidence, but it's just the way I've seen things.
...is a pissed off civilian holding a couple of shopping bags standing in front of the tank while the world is watching.
...FreeBSD!
ummm...I already give a sperm sample every time I see Britney Spears...