Thank you. I'm so tired of people blindly hating on Microsoft.
On the contrary, many of us can see back many years, far into the past, to find reasons to hate Microsoft.
It's ludicrous that you bring up one facet of one reason why some people might hate Microsoft, and try to brand it as THE reason.
And to your point: I don't think anybody has an issue with being charged for XP on the machine. It's the usual marking-scum-designed trap from Microsoft that has people upset. Same as it ever was.
I think he's implying, actually, that the kite will be made of seaweed and other natural materials. It will pull energy out of wind currents, but do it without interfering with wind patterns. And all this, without encouraging people to use ever more energy for people to use, which y the laws of physics ultimately ends up as waste heat*.
(*If we had an infinite amount of energy from a large quantity of entirely 'clean' nuclear power plants, the end product of the immense energy consumption would be waste heat, which is the ultimate end-point pollution, and a very bad thing)
In schemes like this, the Commodore itself is just a thin layer of the user interface. There is definitely a more powerful processor than the 6502 on the Ethernet Card. Most of the processor intensive networking layers are 'contained' on the Ethernet Card, just as is/was the case with primitive processors like the 8088 communicating via Ethernet.
Almost any 'expansion' of the Commodore involves adding a 'peripheral' containing a co-processor at least, and sometimes significantly more powerful than the 6502 in the Commodore. The 1541 disk drive has a 6502 processor in it. A Commodore 'Hard Drive' has a processor more powerful than the C64 it attaches to. So, really, this is no different than attaching a dumb terminal to a proprietary PC and claiming it's 'A Twitter Client for a Dumb Terminal.'
Heck, I could attach a largish 44780-based LCD display and a P2/2 keyboard to one of the smaller PIC controllers and hang it off a linux box as a terminal and do about the same thing. Or, better yet, just attach a TDD terminal to the linux box. Wow! A Twitter Client for the TDD! Maybe I can get funding for 'facilitating' something to aid the handicapped!
True, but it was still a troll, since it constituting picking on Apple.
It was a subtle way of reminding people that Apple doesn't have a design team competent to do a case design that incorporates a removable battery. Sealed-unit case design is a snap. Designing a case with a robust openable battery department is beyond Apple's capabilities. All I need to do is look at previous designs. My Newton has a terrible battery compartment, and scotch tape has been needed to seal it for a long time, now.
This is mobile.slashdot.org though, so we should really be allowed to say critical things. I think apple.slashdot.org is just a redirect to an Apple-owned server. There, critical comments are just unacceptable.
Virtually none of the 'alternative power' schemes work in a way that results in a net benefit to society. Hopefully this won't always be the case but right now the main way for an individual to profit is by collecting the subsidies or tax breaks.
The subsidies act to pay off various political players and reward sectors of the voting population. And except for in the minds of the most idealistic advocates, that's what they're intended to do.
Static non-moving cables carrying small signals along the ocean floor are an entirely different undertaking than high-energy cables that tether a bobbing, floating vessel to the shore. You may as well have said 'If we can send a man to the moon...' in your sentence, it has similar relevance.
Silverlight is a terrible marking choice for a name. I automatically think 'silverfish' when I see the word in print, and find myself substituting that word when I say 'silverlight' or sound it out in my head.
Silverfish, as far as I know, are a small bug that scuttles down further into your mattress when you pull up the covers.
Work on it a little in your head:
Silverlight,,, Silverfish
Silverlight... Silverfish
I think you, too will start to associate silverfish... er..light, with a scourge.
USB isn't really 'a serial interface.' It's an abomination. A big trap to block access to the PC, foisted on us all by Bill Gates and his cohorts.
Anybody with a reasonable understanding of port-based I/O can code a 16550 chip to talk to the world, and to a 'legacy' PC. And 'software UARTS' are a staple of embedded programming. The USB is a large overly-complex blot whose design is to make sure nobody connects anything to a PC anymore without paying a stiff entry fee. It poses neat PIC microcontroller based peripherals with the reality that a $30 USB dongle* (a USB to RS-232C adapter) will act as a barrier to adoption.
You don't even need any hardware to do a simple serial interface on an embedded controller. For USB you need to slap on a whole expensive dedicated chip.
(*the fucks who work at marketing jobs at the big box stores will SNEER at you if you ask after one. "Isn't that obsoolete?")
Books for primary and secondary education do not go 'out of date' in two years. It might seem that way because the publishers have figured out superficial ways of introducing planned-obsolescence into their product, but an algebra textbook from 35 years ago is perfectly suitable for use today. Even science textbooks are adequate, because the science taught in primary and secondary education is basic science. 'Leading edge' science can be introduced with supplementary materials.
Really, the 'textbooks are obsolete' deal is a swindle by the publishers.
My Newton could be capable of more, but due to Apple's policies, it's primarily only calibrated for use as a paperweight. They seem to have a whole team of people at Apple involved in the paperweight design effort.
In the United States, government does NOT grant rights. Rights are inherent, and the structure of government is such that government has limited powers. Basically, by default everything is permitted. The only way things are prohibited is if they're specifically restricted. It's the complete opposite of many other governmental structures where 'rights' are granted by a traditional monarchy or other hierarchy.
You must not be an American. Which is okay, but you're talking outside your area of expertise.
If I had $150 to blow, I could think of a lot of better places to send it that fricking Microsoft.
I have two retail-box Windows 2000 licenses and expect I'll still be using them on my only Windows boxes for some time yet. When they become unsafe/incompatible on the net, they'll be firewalled into safety on the intranet at home. Offline update tools are your friend. I'll be able to patch my W2K boxes to the EOL final updates forever.
It's actually okay for her to be seated, IMHO. Because, to be frank, she doesn't seem that bright. She has made foolish off-the-cuff remarks easily interpreted as racist. She appears to be someone who thinks you win an argument by being loud and verbally dominant. She seems to personally be a beneficiary of Affirmative Action: translation- someone fairly mediocre compared to her judicial peers.
That makes her a safe place-holder. Now, I'd be pissed if I wanted a real, effective, judicial activist, liberal judge. Because she's going to be feeble and easily cut down in argument.
Funny as it might seem, apparently it wasn't flamebait. The only person you've succeeded in trolling is yourself. That's why you've replied three times in your own little mini-thread to your own comment, right??
Why spend R&D money on improving obsolete technology when we haven't even begun to explore what is possible with new things?
You know, you're right. And I bet you'd be an excellent candidate to be the person who decides what is 'obsolete' and deserving of no further investigation, and what all our resources should be poured into. You, or some other guy. Definitely we need to get on this right away.
Yes, you're very much 'system thinking.' You're thinking wistfully of a gargantuan hierarchical structure, such as would be needed to make sure all the CFL are disposed of properly. With enforcement, and layer upon layer of bureaucracy. The disposal problem is just the tip of the iceberg, though. The Total Control Regime is bright and shining in our future.
I see a bright future ahead for all kinds of social parasites in this growth industry.
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You're correct. That's why limited small government is so important.
you can always use your gun to take someone else's gold if you wanna bother lugging that around.
I believe you've struck on the alchemists' secret: transmuting lead into gold.
Thank you. I'm so tired of people blindly hating on Microsoft.
On the contrary, many of us can see back many years, far into the past, to find reasons to hate Microsoft.
It's ludicrous that you bring up one facet of one reason why some people might hate Microsoft, and try to brand it as THE reason.
And to your point: I don't think anybody has an issue with being charged for XP on the machine. It's the usual marking-scum-designed trap from Microsoft that has people upset. Same as it ever was.
I think he's implying, actually, that the kite will be made of seaweed and other natural materials. It will pull energy out of wind currents, but do it without interfering with wind patterns. And all this, without encouraging people to use ever more energy for people to use, which y the laws of physics ultimately ends up as waste heat*.
(*If we had an infinite amount of energy from a large quantity of entirely 'clean' nuclear power plants, the end product of the immense energy consumption would be waste heat, which is the ultimate end-point pollution, and a very bad thing)
presumably, there'll be a no fly zone around the plant.
You dropped an 'e' there in 'planet.'
In schemes like this, the Commodore itself is just a thin layer of the user interface. There is definitely a more powerful processor than the 6502 on the Ethernet Card. Most of the processor intensive networking layers are 'contained' on the Ethernet Card, just as is/was the case with primitive processors like the 8088 communicating via Ethernet.
Almost any 'expansion' of the Commodore involves adding a 'peripheral' containing a co-processor at least, and sometimes significantly more powerful than the 6502 in the Commodore. The 1541 disk drive has a 6502 processor in it. A Commodore 'Hard Drive' has a processor more powerful than the C64 it attaches to. So, really, this is no different than attaching a dumb terminal to a proprietary PC and claiming it's 'A Twitter Client for a Dumb Terminal.'
Heck, I could attach a largish 44780-based LCD display and a P2/2 keyboard to one of the smaller PIC controllers and hang it off a linux box as a terminal and do about the same thing. Or, better yet, just attach a TDD terminal to the linux box. Wow! A Twitter Client for the TDD! Maybe I can get funding for 'facilitating' something to aid the handicapped!
True, but it was still a troll, since it constituting picking on Apple.
It was a subtle way of reminding people that Apple doesn't have a design team competent to do a case design that incorporates a removable battery. Sealed-unit case design is a snap. Designing a case with a robust openable battery department is beyond Apple's capabilities. All I need to do is look at previous designs. My Newton has a terrible battery compartment, and scotch tape has been needed to seal it for a long time, now.
This is mobile.slashdot.org though, so we should really be allowed to say critical things. I think apple.slashdot.org is just a redirect to an Apple-owned server. There, critical comments are just unacceptable.
Virtually none of the 'alternative power' schemes work in a way that results in a net benefit to society. Hopefully this won't always be the case but right now the main way for an individual to profit is by collecting the subsidies or tax breaks.
The subsidies act to pay off various political players and reward sectors of the voting population. And except for in the minds of the most idealistic advocates, that's what they're intended to do.
Static non-moving cables carrying small signals along the ocean floor are an entirely different undertaking than high-energy cables that tether a bobbing, floating vessel to the shore. You may as well have said 'If we can send a man to the moon...' in your sentence, it has similar relevance.
Silverlight is a terrible marking choice for a name. I automatically think 'silverfish' when I see the word in print, and find myself substituting that word when I say 'silverlight' or sound it out in my head.
Silverfish, as far as I know, are a small bug that scuttles down further into your mattress when you pull up the covers.
Work on it a little in your head:
Silverlight ,,, Silverfish
Silverlight ... Silverfish
I think you, too will start to associate silverfish... er ..light, with a scourge.
USB isn't really 'a serial interface.' It's an abomination. A big trap to block access to the PC, foisted on us all by Bill Gates and his cohorts.
Anybody with a reasonable understanding of port-based I/O can code a 16550 chip to talk to the world, and to a 'legacy' PC. And 'software UARTS' are a staple of embedded programming. The USB is a large overly-complex blot whose design is to make sure nobody connects anything to a PC anymore without paying a stiff entry fee. It poses neat PIC microcontroller based peripherals with the reality that a $30 USB dongle* (a USB to RS-232C adapter) will act as a barrier to adoption.
You don't even need any hardware to do a simple serial interface on an embedded controller. For USB you need to slap on a whole expensive dedicated chip.
(*the fucks who work at marketing jobs at the big box stores will SNEER at you if you ask after one. "Isn't that obsoolete?")
I could engage in some huge diatribe about how you're objectifying women
Yes, but talk like that will just make you popular with the lesbians.
Which is perfectly alright. But if you're straight it's a lonely existence.
Books for primary and secondary education do not go 'out of date' in two years. It might seem that way because the publishers have figured out superficial ways of introducing planned-obsolescence into their product, but an algebra textbook from 35 years ago is perfectly suitable for use today. Even science textbooks are adequate, because the science taught in primary and secondary education is basic science. 'Leading edge' science can be introduced with supplementary materials.
Really, the 'textbooks are obsolete' deal is a swindle by the publishers.
My Newton could be capable of more, but due to Apple's policies, it's primarily only calibrated for use as a paperweight. They seem to have a whole team of people at Apple involved in the paperweight design effort.
In the United States, government does NOT grant rights. Rights are inherent, and the structure of government is such that government has limited powers. Basically, by default everything is permitted. The only way things are prohibited is if they're specifically restricted. It's the complete opposite of many other governmental structures where 'rights' are granted by a traditional monarchy or other hierarchy.
You must not be an American. Which is okay, but you're talking outside your area of expertise.
but only if every closed loophole is not portrayed as a tax increase.
You misspelled 'parlayed.'
Yes, but he could run Debian on a cheap P4 box from a surplus auction for $30 or less. The point was the cheapest hardware to run Mac OS10.
Anybody who's been to an Asian country will recognize how authoritarian said countries are by the total lack of graffiti.
Just sayin'.
So essentially, mankind is only allowed to land in 100km 'grids' and as a result there will eventually be no spots left to land on. Hmmm.
Get it *right*? I'm glad you put those stars around the word so we'd know you were using it as a Proper Noun.
The majority of people in this discussion, in fact the most vocal majority, are IT people. It doesn't 'cost' them money, it 'makes' them money.
And that's how management will see it.
If I had $150 to blow, I could think of a lot of better places to send it that fricking Microsoft.
I have two retail-box Windows 2000 licenses and expect I'll still be using them on my only Windows boxes for some time yet. When they become unsafe/incompatible on the net, they'll be firewalled into safety on the intranet at home. Offline update tools are your friend. I'll be able to patch my W2K boxes to the EOL final updates forever.
It's actually okay for her to be seated, IMHO. Because, to be frank, she doesn't seem that bright. She has made foolish off-the-cuff remarks easily interpreted as racist. She appears to be someone who thinks you win an argument by being loud and verbally dominant. She seems to personally be a beneficiary of Affirmative Action: translation- someone fairly mediocre compared to her judicial peers.
That makes her a safe place-holder. Now, I'd be pissed if I wanted a real, effective, judicial activist, liberal judge. Because she's going to be feeble and easily cut down in argument.
Funny as it might seem, apparently it wasn't flamebait. The only person you've succeeded in trolling is yourself. That's why you've replied three times in your own little mini-thread to your own comment, right??
Why spend R&D money on improving obsolete technology when we haven't even begun to explore what is possible with new things?
You know, you're right. And I bet you'd be an excellent candidate to be the person who decides what is 'obsolete' and deserving of no further investigation, and what all our resources should be poured into. You, or some other guy. Definitely we need to get on this right away.
Yes, you're very much 'system thinking.' You're thinking wistfully of a gargantuan hierarchical structure, such as would be needed to make sure all the CFL are disposed of properly. With enforcement, and layer upon layer of bureaucracy. The disposal problem is just the tip of the iceberg, though. The Total Control Regime is bright and shining in our future.
I see a bright future ahead for all kinds of social parasites in this growth industry.