- Apr 2024
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archive.org archive.org
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[Narrator]: The Cluttered Desk, Index Card,file folders, the in-out basket, the calculator.These are the tools of the office professional's past.Since the dawn of the computer age, better machines have always meant bigger and more powerful.But the software could not accommodate the needs of office professionals who are responsiblefor the look, shape and feel of tomorrow.
In 1983, at the dawn of the personal computer age, Apple Inc. in promotional film entitled "Lisa Soul Of A New Machine" touted their new computer, a 16-bit dual disk drive "personal office system", as something that would do away with "the cluttered desk, index cards, file folders, the in-out basket, [and] the calculator." (00:01)
Some of these things moved to the realm of the computer including the messy desk(top) now giving people two messy desks, a real one and a virtual one. The database-like structure of the card index also moved over, but the subjective index and its search power were substituted for a lower level concordance search.
30 years on, for most people, the value of the database idea behind the humble "index card" has long since disappeared and so it seems here as if it's "just" another piece of cluttery paper.
Appreciate the rosy framing of the juxtaposition of "past" and "future" jumping over the idea of the here and now which includes the thing they're selling, the Lisa computer. They're selling the idealized and unclear future even though it's really just today.
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- Jul 2021
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www.juduo.cc www.juduo.cc
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中低端3.0顯示卡插到 2.0主機板上 沒什麼問題！PCI-E是一個序列介面標準，分1.0，2.0，3.0每個版本之間的區別只是頻寬不同，也就是速度差異，他們向下相容，也就是3.0相容2.0相容1.0後面的X16的意思是16個通道，因為他是序列匯流排，所以顯示的就是多少倍。現行的有X1 X4 X8 X16比較常見，從效能影響來說，如果你的是PCI-E 2.0 X16的介面那麼頻寬已經足以滿足現在的顯示卡使用了，所以基本沒有效能損失，如果是中低端的顯示卡PCI-E 1.0 X16都不會有任何效能損失。最新的主機板都是PCI-E 3.0的了，但是其實根本用不上，除非發燒級雙核心顯示卡才會用到如此高的頻寬。現在PCI-E 3.0 / 2.0的顯示卡 插到主機板的 PCI-E 3.0 X16 或 PCI-E 2.0 X16插槽上， 基本上看不出有什麼影響，效能影響微乎其微，除了那些最頂級的顯示卡以外。反倒是假如 把顯示卡插入了主機板的 PCI-E 2.0 X4 插槽的話，顯示卡效能會降低20%左右。所以顯示卡是2.0 還是3.0 這個無所謂，關鍵還是主機板是 X16倍速、還是X4倍速。
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- Sep 2020
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macwright.com macwright.com
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There was a time when we could install applications, give some sort of explicit agreement that something would run on our computers and use our hardware. That time is ending,
The end seems perilously close at hand for personal computing, but, imo, as much as anything that is because users now expect to compute to have impact & effect far beyond the beige box.
Open source has many amazing things, but in terms of ways to get user's digital stuff online & available & circulating, there have been precious few compelling attempts. I'd call out in particular RemoteStorage spec, & the newer SOLID specs from MIT & TBL.
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