"Artificial" voices in telephone calls have existed since 1971. That is when the Votrax speech synthesis device was first developed by a company known at the time as the Federal Screw Works. The engineering was done by…
"Every car with pump in the tank has filter located in the tank in front of that pump" In cars that use the older convention, this second "fuel filter" (always in the tank) is technically called a "strainer". My…
'Right to repair' is important and I hope a good law along these lines gets passed, but other tougher problems to solve are also emerging, for example: My understanding is many late model cars are moving the fuel filter…
This headline is also initially alarming for those interested in the most performant type of hypervisor.
To be explicit, the outrageousness of this GM policy is that it forces the customer to pay in advance for GM's marketing promotion costs and then some for product optional features they may have no interest in. An…
This high voltage hot chassis was clearly a dangerous design but at least there has been little use of it in the last fifty years. I find dangerous designs in current products fairly frequently. As an example I was…
Katherine is correct, shutting down public schools was sheer foolishness for COVID. This extreme safetyism is a recent development. No US schools were shutdown during the height of the Hong Kong flu in 1968-69. Not only…
My graduating class learned to type by producing thousands of punch cards on the IBM 026 punch card machine.
RT-11 (a real-time, largely foreground/background operating system for the PDP-11) I have heard that the RT-11 OS was a one man effort at DEC, which for many years was more popular than Unix on the PDP-11, but I don't…
The Schaum's book of most interest to the original poster (Abigail Rabieh)is the following: Schaum's 3000 Solved Problems in Linear Algebra by Seymour Lipschutz. Below is a precis: "Master linear algebra with…
The official settlement memo says that key information is all in Attachment A. However, Attachment A was not attached, and as far as I can tell, is nowhere to be found. If anyone should find Attachment A, please inform…
TUI already has a far more established technical meaning. From www.yourdictionary.com: TUI = (Telephone User Interface) The combination of Touch-tone input from the telephone keypad coupled with speech output from the…
Windows XP is reportedly the last version of Windows where Bill Gates played a key role in its creation and quality control – something he was very good at. In my view he should return to this job and stop listening to…
It should be noted that the technology to do this is quite old. The Williams X-Jet was operational about the time the first Intel x86 processor came off the assembly line. The Army evaluated the technology and decided…
Speaking of print-to-PDF, this is tremendously useful functionality, but fails on over half of the web pages out there. Is this due to some intentional action by the publisher, as a copy protection mechanism, or due to…
Could someone explain why the thin flatbread known as the tortilla seems to last much longer in a sealed bag? Ordinary bread molds on me in 4-5 days. I have kept a bag of tortillas around for a couple weeks without any…
Despite his wealth, Bill's father reportedly ran the slide projector for Bill's talk in the early days of Comdex. In those pre-powerpoint days a draftsman created a paper version of the "viewgraphs" which were…
Bob Swan, a non-technical bean-counter, is famous for running a social club rather than a serious Board of Directors at Intel. It is a big threat to national security if Intel goes totally fab-less, or hits some other…
My HP Scanjet IIcx scanner is about 30 years old and still works fine. SCSI interface. I did have to replace the scanner top with a white piece of solid plastic. The original top was very thin plastic veneer bonded onto…
This is indeed a strange decision for MIT. The conventional wisdom has long been that the SAT subject tests are MORE predictive of future success at MIT, because the influence of test prep, cramming, test coaches, etc.…
Pure Pascal is not really suitable as an operating system implementation language. The obvious design choices are to: 1. Transition to C completely. 2. Extend Pascal (like HP did - HP called their resulting language…
It seems odd today that as the article points out, Microsoft was so slow to support USB. Win NT4 never supported USB. USB2 was not supported on Win 2000 until the sp4 update. Does anyone else miss Comdex? It seemed to…
"Artificial" voices in telephone calls have existed since 1971. That is when the Votrax speech synthesis device was first developed by a company known at the time as the Federal Screw Works. The engineering was done by…
"Every car with pump in the tank has filter located in the tank in front of that pump" In cars that use the older convention, this second "fuel filter" (always in the tank) is technically called a "strainer". My…
'Right to repair' is important and I hope a good law along these lines gets passed, but other tougher problems to solve are also emerging, for example: My understanding is many late model cars are moving the fuel filter…
This headline is also initially alarming for those interested in the most performant type of hypervisor.
To be explicit, the outrageousness of this GM policy is that it forces the customer to pay in advance for GM's marketing promotion costs and then some for product optional features they may have no interest in. An…
This high voltage hot chassis was clearly a dangerous design but at least there has been little use of it in the last fifty years. I find dangerous designs in current products fairly frequently. As an example I was…
Katherine is correct, shutting down public schools was sheer foolishness for COVID. This extreme safetyism is a recent development. No US schools were shutdown during the height of the Hong Kong flu in 1968-69. Not only…
My graduating class learned to type by producing thousands of punch cards on the IBM 026 punch card machine.
RT-11 (a real-time, largely foreground/background operating system for the PDP-11) I have heard that the RT-11 OS was a one man effort at DEC, which for many years was more popular than Unix on the PDP-11, but I don't…
The Schaum's book of most interest to the original poster (Abigail Rabieh)is the following: Schaum's 3000 Solved Problems in Linear Algebra by Seymour Lipschutz. Below is a precis: "Master linear algebra with…
The official settlement memo says that key information is all in Attachment A. However, Attachment A was not attached, and as far as I can tell, is nowhere to be found. If anyone should find Attachment A, please inform…
The official settlement memo says that key information is all in Attachment A. However, Attachment A was not attached, and as far as I can tell, is nowhere to be found. If anyone should find Attachment A, please inform…
TUI already has a far more established technical meaning. From www.yourdictionary.com: TUI = (Telephone User Interface) The combination of Touch-tone input from the telephone keypad coupled with speech output from the…
Windows XP is reportedly the last version of Windows where Bill Gates played a key role in its creation and quality control – something he was very good at. In my view he should return to this job and stop listening to…
It should be noted that the technology to do this is quite old. The Williams X-Jet was operational about the time the first Intel x86 processor came off the assembly line. The Army evaluated the technology and decided…
Speaking of print-to-PDF, this is tremendously useful functionality, but fails on over half of the web pages out there. Is this due to some intentional action by the publisher, as a copy protection mechanism, or due to…
Could someone explain why the thin flatbread known as the tortilla seems to last much longer in a sealed bag? Ordinary bread molds on me in 4-5 days. I have kept a bag of tortillas around for a couple weeks without any…
Despite his wealth, Bill's father reportedly ran the slide projector for Bill's talk in the early days of Comdex. In those pre-powerpoint days a draftsman created a paper version of the "viewgraphs" which were…
Bob Swan, a non-technical bean-counter, is famous for running a social club rather than a serious Board of Directors at Intel. It is a big threat to national security if Intel goes totally fab-less, or hits some other…
My HP Scanjet IIcx scanner is about 30 years old and still works fine. SCSI interface. I did have to replace the scanner top with a white piece of solid plastic. The original top was very thin plastic veneer bonded onto…
This is indeed a strange decision for MIT. The conventional wisdom has long been that the SAT subject tests are MORE predictive of future success at MIT, because the influence of test prep, cramming, test coaches, etc.…
Pure Pascal is not really suitable as an operating system implementation language. The obvious design choices are to: 1. Transition to C completely. 2. Extend Pascal (like HP did - HP called their resulting language…
It seems odd today that as the article points out, Microsoft was so slow to support USB. Win NT4 never supported USB. USB2 was not supported on Win 2000 until the sp4 update. Does anyone else miss Comdex? It seemed to…