There was also a version of Visual Basic for MS-DOS, scary as that seems now. It lets you form-draw and create code behind the forms on plain vanilla MS-DOS. The graphical elements (buttons, boxes, etc.) are rendered in the 'graphical box' characters in the plain vanilla (non-graphical) charcacter set on an IBM MDA card. I have the full Professional version in my collection.
There are apocryphal stories from back in the time that Microsoft was selling applications for both the Mac and the IBM-PC about the application developers needing to hide the Macs when the guys from IBM showed up and hide the PCs when the guys from Apple showed up. It's mentioned in 'The Making of Microsoft' by Daniel Ichbiah published in 1993. It's quite an interesting read, copies for under $5 including shipping can be bought here. (not an affiliate link, I get NOTHING if you buy from one of these booksellers.)
It is illegal for anybody except for the Federal Government to issue or coin a currency. If it's just tulip bulbs or some other item for speculation like the misnamed 'cryptocurrencies' it is not against that law, as we see in the current circumstances. Buy and sell your beanie babies, charizard cards, and cryptocurrencies as you like, as speculative items. Local and regional jurisdictions that have tried to introduce currencies have been shut down. There is plenty of legal precedent.
So, the consensus it that bitcoin is not a currency (currencies maintain a stable value) but instead is a vehicle for speculation? Good to clear that up.
Silocon Valley is only 'one of our most important economies' if you value social networking and data mining as more than real physical goods. When the place sloughs off into the ocean we will all be better off. The real stuff you can order from Digi-key who are based out of northern Minnesota, and Digi-key gets it from Asia.
West coast fuckers can die and dry and blow into the desert. After their water runs out.
Local people who care about their communities should just burn the unoccupied 'investment housing' to the ground. It would even be good for the local building tradesmen.
Hey, when the $1000 Applephone fails at 12-1/2 months, the eager Apple Customer will show up at the Apple Store to get another. They'll of course 'recycle' their worthless broken old Applephone, which Apple will of course put the $6 replacement part into to resell it as a reconditioned phone for $700. Eager customer goes home with their new phone that they owe another $1000 on.
It's just the cost of being an Apple customer. Many are proud to pay the price.
Companies employ what are called 'continuation engineers' or 'cost reduction engineers.' Sometimes these engineers don't even work for the product development department, they answer more to the purchasing and finance management.
Their job is to reduce the cost of materials so as to increase the profit for selling the company's products. This often involves using the lowest possible quality of components and material that will last the company's product through the warranty period.
These critters have to maintain a balance, of course, because there is also the marketing department involved, who want to maintain the good name of the company's brand.
The bottom line is that the Maytag Repairman was a good marketing stunt, but a total disaster to the Maytag company, who wanted to sell a higher volume of white goods. So they (as Whirlpool now) employ big teams of 'continuation engineers.'
People bought high quality sport performance german cars like BMW (the Apple of the car world)
Not hardly. Not at all. Apple products are the Buick equivalent in the car market. Overpriced Chevys that seemingly entitle their owners to act like pricks.
The consumer can have their devices fixed by third parties in this case.
The problem with this is that Apple actively and vigorously works to insure that third party repair services cannot get replacement parts or information on how to service their products.
Some people are looking at the content, other people are fussing about the format it is presented in. If you have a rather poor aesthetic sense, it is completely reasonable to compensate for it by focusing instead on the resolution.
The copy of "Les Enfants Du Paradis (children Of Paradise) Marcel Carne (1945)" that I have is slightly less than VGA quality. It's still a masterpiece and worth watching.
The word 'bitcoin' is in it, so no matter what, it needs to be spun up on Slashdot, because any mention of cryptocurrency on Slashdot brings attention, which is always mostly positive for the cryptocurrency.
Any mention of cryptocurrency or bitcoin on Slashdot is, thus, spam all the way down.
I had some morse code tapes and wanted to upgrade my ham license by passing the test for cw operation. After just a few minutes playing the tape while driving I determined that paying attention to the tape was NOT going to work for me while driving. So I just stopped listening to it and drove instead.
So the answer is because of a gross misunderstanding of the significant difference, excaberated by the incorrect use of the term by Tesla. It's good we can agree on that.
If the software was so much in control as some here claim it should have been, at some time between the first and the final warning, the software should have manouvred the car to thevside of the road and halted it until the driver began paying attention.
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There was also a version of Visual Basic for MS-DOS, scary as that seems now. It lets you form-draw and create code behind the forms on plain vanilla MS-DOS. The graphical elements (buttons, boxes, etc.) are rendered in the 'graphical box' characters in the plain vanilla (non-graphical) charcacter set on an IBM MDA card. I have the full Professional version in my collection.
There are apocryphal stories from back in the time that Microsoft was selling applications for both the Mac and the IBM-PC about the application developers needing to hide the Macs when the guys from IBM showed up and hide the PCs when the guys from Apple showed up. It's mentioned in 'The Making of Microsoft' by Daniel Ichbiah published in 1993. It's quite an interesting read, copies for under $5 including shipping can be bought here. (not an affiliate link, I get NOTHING if you buy from one of these booksellers.)
It is illegal for anybody except for the Federal Government to issue or coin a currency. If it's just tulip bulbs or some other item for speculation like the misnamed 'cryptocurrencies' it is not against that law, as we see in the current circumstances. Buy and sell your beanie babies, charizard cards, and cryptocurrencies as you like, as speculative items. Local and regional jurisdictions that have tried to introduce currencies have been shut down. There is plenty of legal precedent.
So, the consensus it that bitcoin is not a currency (currencies maintain a stable value) but instead is a vehicle for speculation? Good to clear that up.
Silocon Valley is only 'one of our most important economies' if you value social networking and data mining as more than real physical goods. When the place sloughs off into the ocean we will all be better off. The real stuff you can order from Digi-key who are based out of northern Minnesota, and Digi-key gets it from Asia.
West coast fuckers can die and dry and blow into the desert. After their water runs out.
You mean, another article about whatever Musk is doing now with his PayPal money??
I prefer the stable property values you can insure by keeping a realtor's body hanging on the neighborhood gibbet.
Local people who care about their communities should just burn the unoccupied 'investment housing' to the ground. It would even be good for the local building tradesmen.
you have more physical face time with the bigwigs
The bigwigs telecommute, too. You have the most facetime with the cleaning staff and the IT losers.
You should instead extend your apology to the sheep.
Hey, when the $1000 Applephone fails at 12-1/2 months, the eager Apple Customer will show up at the Apple Store to get another. They'll of course 'recycle' their worthless broken old Applephone, which Apple will of course put the $6 replacement part into to resell it as a reconditioned phone for $700. Eager customer goes home with their new phone that they owe another $1000 on.
It's just the cost of being an Apple customer. Many are proud to pay the price.
Companies employ what are called 'continuation engineers' or 'cost reduction engineers.' Sometimes these engineers don't even work for the product development department, they answer more to the purchasing and finance management.
Their job is to reduce the cost of materials so as to increase the profit for selling the company's products. This often involves using the lowest possible quality of components and material that will last the company's product through the warranty period.
These critters have to maintain a balance, of course, because there is also the marketing department involved, who want to maintain the good name of the company's brand.
The bottom line is that the Maytag Repairman was a good marketing stunt, but a total disaster to the Maytag company, who wanted to sell a higher volume of white goods. So they (as Whirlpool now) employ big teams of 'continuation engineers.'
People bought high quality sport performance german cars like BMW (the Apple of the car world)
Not hardly. Not at all. Apple products are the Buick equivalent in the car market. Overpriced Chevys that seemingly entitle their owners to act like pricks.
The consumer can have their devices fixed by third parties in this case.
The problem with this is that Apple actively and vigorously works to insure that third party repair services cannot get replacement parts or information on how to service their products.
How much extra did you spend on the 'case' that you keep it in? About half as much as a year's warranty?
Some people are looking at the content, other people are fussing about the format it is presented in. If you have a rather poor aesthetic sense, it is completely reasonable to compensate for it by focusing instead on the resolution.
The copy of "Les Enfants Du Paradis (children Of Paradise) Marcel Carne (1945)" that I have is slightly less than VGA quality. It's still a masterpiece and worth watching.
Why do you think the price they charge entitles you to do anything but choose to pay the price or not view the content?
They can charge $199 to view their films, and it still doesn't justify you in stealing the content without paying.
The word 'bitcoin' is in it, so no matter what, it needs to be spun up on Slashdot, because any mention of cryptocurrency on Slashdot brings attention, which is always mostly positive for the cryptocurrency.
Any mention of cryptocurrency or bitcoin on Slashdot is, thus, spam all the way down.
If something becomes explicitly illegal, there is no body of 'legal use' for people making illicit use of it to hide within.
That is just common sense, although cryptocurrencies are a 'new paradigm' form of hype where common sense is ignored.
People still use gpg?
People do a lot of things, regardless of your scorn and derision. Good reasons for using gpg could be listed, but fuck you.
And iOS 'apps' come only from the walled garden and thust are far more scrutinized and built along far more rigid guidelines.
A 99% rate means a crash on every 100th trip taken. That is an extremely high accident rate.
Order quickly, while we can still claim you will be eligible for a government subsidy after your purchase.
I had some morse code tapes and wanted to upgrade my ham license by passing the test for cw operation. After just a few minutes playing the tape while driving I determined that paying attention to the tape was NOT going to work for me while driving. So I just stopped listening to it and drove instead.
So the answer is because of a gross misunderstanding of the significant difference, excaberated by the incorrect use of the term by Tesla. It's good we can agree on that.
If the software was so much in control as some here claim it should have been, at some time between the first and the final warning, the software should have manouvred the car to thevside of the road and halted it until the driver began paying attention.