I had schematics for the ][ and the entire annotated source code for that and Apple DOS 3.2/3.3. And these weren't pirate, Apple happily published them. Woz was a freaking genius with how much he did with so little hardware.
You wanted to add lower case? Just run this wire here. Optionally bypass the write protect for floppies? Just put a three pole switch here. You want to extend the BASIC? Sure, here's these hooks (and Beagle Brothers made insane use of that).
The Apple I was the prototype for that and I salute it. I never had one, though of course now I wish I did!
Also funny how it's utterly unlike the Apple of today. I remember when the first Mac came out, completely unexpandable, and The Steve declared that it would never have more than 128K of RAM because that was more than enough for anyone. Which was ridiculous, because my Apple ][ had 16x that much already.
I love my Android phone - I'd much rather have a good Android tablet than an iPad. But right now, Android on tablet sucks (3.1 please?) and the Android tablet gaming ecosystem is abysmal. One session of Infinity Blade and then browsing the iTunes App Store for iPad only apps is enough to confirm that unless you're stupidly partisan.
So if gaming is the primary use, there's no reason whatsoever for people to buy a XOOM over an iPad 2. Hell, I wouldn't either right now.
(Dup of what I said to Yaur, but you deserve a thank you as well.) You're right, Impulse always had the dire warning about 'this will delete everything under Stardock' so I left it alone, but I just backed it all up and uninstalled and Fences Pro is still breezing along. Thanks.
You're right, Impulse always had the dire warning about 'this will delete everything under Stardock' so I left it alone, but I just backed it all up and uninstalled and Fences Pro is still breezing along. Thanks.
I love Fences Pro. I bought it legit even though it requires Impulse to install and update, which is complete overkill.
I was always willing to risk Impulse going under. I didn't even conceive of fricking GAMESTOP buying it. That's not gonna stay on my computer, so now it looks like I need to pirate an app I legitimately bought. Thanks Digital Restriction Management.
The XOOM and Galaxy Tab are just not great tablets yet because the tablet version of the OS is unfinished. It's functional enough for me now, but it's not nearly polished enough for general consumer and the lack of tablet apps is appalling. The Tab's solution of just using the phone OS is even worse.
Now looking at how fast Android improved on phones it's promising, but no matter how good the hardware is you're going to need Android 3.1 before you're in the game of competing with the super-slick iPad.
UAC works fairly well for this in Win7/if/ you can get away with not giving them an admin account. Just like not giving root on the linux box. I've done this for two sane people, set up autoinstall of updates (including Windows defender), and so far no problems.
Of course you usually can't get away with that because users really really want to install that cool malware. And by users I mean family members.
I'd definitely go for more convergence too - though in my case I'd want a tablet that could do phone. Like the Galaxy Tab can, except all the US carriers stripped that function out... because they want you to need two devices. Bastards.
The iPad has been worth every penny so far. $50 a month (500+tax)/12 is less than my smartphone bill, and it's well worth not having to lug around the laptop most of the time. I've saved a ton of money on magazines and books which are now always available in one 'book'. And it's a great little gaming device so I've saved a lot of money I would have spent on much more expensive DS games instead.
Now I'd like to escape the Apple ecosystem, so a ~$500-600 10 inch tablet with Honeycomb would be extremely attractive. And certainly justifiable, especially with the sale of the iPad which is still worth quite a bit used.
The ones without any sense here are the people who can't even imagine the huge number of ways you can use a tablet to improve your life. Unless you're one of the people who really needs a full laptop with you constantly - then it's arguably too much for too little gain.
Seriously, the iPad has been great, but I'd love more control, real multitasking, and to flush iTunes back down to the depths of Hell it came from.
You've had a year to catch up and this is the best you can do? And don't say Galaxy Tab -maybe the Tab 2. I really hope this just turns out to be a normal Best Buy/Verizon 'Screw The Early Adopters' thing and it'll get saner as iPad 2 launch approaches.
Especially the WiFi activation: if true, good god, what foreskin up around his neck executive came up with that one?
My PS3 isn't getting an update till my Other OS option is safe. It's off the net entirely.
This makes buying games real easy:
1) PC Version 2) XBox 360 version 3) Wii Version 4) Okay, okay, PS3 version. But nothing that forces a mandatory update. Sorry GT5.
MS grubs for my money in all directions, but as long as we'll all in agreement that I will at times give them that money and they will not treat me, their customer, like s@#$, they're smarter or at least more reasonable than Sony and will get my money before Sony does. Opening Kinect (after that initial reflex foot in mouth) just clinched it. I would kind of like to play LBP2 but that's the way it goes, I will go drown my sorrows in Dead Space 2. Or dismember them.
1) I didn't think the US was sophisticated enough to help with something like this, much less keep its Facebook privacy settings. Maybe the US contribution was just 'click on google.ir?'
2) This is much, much preferable to Israel bombing (or even nuking) bits of Iran. Shutting down their nuclear bomb program this way is far better - of course it also lets the cat out of the bag.
I bought the first iPad ep of Wired for $5 just because, and then never bought another. It was 600 MB for something that was less convenient to read than the print version because of their stupid flow tricks (and had different content in landscape and portrait modes, so if you wanted to see everything you had to keep flipping it - how asinine can you get?). And it ate up an app icon back before app folders.
On the other hand, I love Zinio, and subscribe to NatGeo, The Economist, New Scientist among others on it. Wish they had more. When Kindle gets mag subscriptions I'll check that out as well. It's far more convenient on the iPad, there's no waste, it's the same price or cheaper as the discount print subs, and you get your issues up to a week before the physical issues reach mailboxes. As long as it's all in a single app.
The answer being, of course, that he was the Senior Developer and it was a bug in his system. Honestly, a single one of the other three could have found and fixed it in less time.
Speed typing isn't necessary, but when you're trying to debug something thorny and you're waiting for that one guy to stumble through commands.... hunting... pecking... typoing again and again while you have nothing better to do than resist the urge to rip the damn keyboard from his hands...
I've seen bad typing waste as much as 50% of the time of four rather well paid people.
Okay, so that's still better productivity than most meetings manage.
I always use testing (stable's too dull and experimental too exciting), so I'm currently on squeeze.
Just bought a new Core i3 server system, Asus Mini-ATX mobo, built in video, built in gigE for house side, added an old PCI 10/100 Eth card for cable modem side, Intel SSD for/, 1TB SATA for/data, 4 GB RAM. Cheap as hell, like $250 for the whole thing.
No hardware issues at all so far, everything just seems to work. It's firewalling, media serving, web serving, and all the other bits you'd expect it to do. But it's running headless now so not exercising video or audio.
Sorry, Sony fans, I don't think pointing out the unpleasant truth of what Sony does every time there's a PS3 security breach (force an upgrade that makes your PS3s worse) is really a troll, unless you think the reality is so unpleasant you just can't internalize it without dying.
I own one. My Day one 60GB PS3 is far more functional than any you can buy now.
If this is an internal flip flop (more likely this is the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing in a beast as big as Redmond), at least they flopped in the right direction. Okay, yeah, you've hacked it, you're doing cool stuff.... fine, keep doing cool stuff, maybe we'll even help. If this were Sony they'd already be pushing updates at you that would melt the peripheral into slag if possible.
I was admittedly very flippantly lumping all languages into procedural or functional. Coming from a C background I found PHP to be no problem at all conceptually.
Let me also apologize to anyone who was offended by my lumping Perl, Python, and Ruby together.
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I had schematics for the ][ and the entire annotated source code for that and Apple DOS 3.2/3.3. And these weren't pirate, Apple happily published them. Woz was a freaking genius with how much he did with so little hardware.
You wanted to add lower case? Just run this wire here. Optionally bypass the write protect for floppies? Just put a three pole switch here. You want to extend the BASIC? Sure, here's these hooks (and Beagle Brothers made insane use of that).
The Apple I was the prototype for that and I salute it. I never had one, though of course now I wish I did!
Also funny how it's utterly unlike the Apple of today. I remember when the first Mac came out, completely unexpandable, and The Steve declared that it would never have more than 128K of RAM because that was more than enough for anyone. Which was ridiculous, because my Apple ][ had 16x that much already.
Yes I'm old.
After the Geohot site visitor account rape-age I'm on a one decade boycott of all Sony products.
But from RTFA, it looks like this is more of a sit-in. I guess Anonymous are all too young to know what a 'sit-in' is.
I love my Android phone - I'd much rather have a good Android tablet than an iPad. But right now, Android on tablet sucks (3.1 please?) and the Android tablet gaming ecosystem is abysmal. One session of Infinity Blade and then browsing the iTunes App Store for iPad only apps is enough to confirm that unless you're stupidly partisan.
So if gaming is the primary use, there's no reason whatsoever for people to buy a XOOM over an iPad 2. Hell, I wouldn't either right now.
This may change in the future. I sure hope so.
(Dup of what I said to Yaur, but you deserve a thank you as well.) You're right, Impulse always had the dire warning about 'this will delete everything under Stardock' so I left it alone, but I just backed it all up and uninstalled and Fences Pro is still breezing along. Thanks.
You're right, Impulse always had the dire warning about 'this will delete everything under Stardock' so I left it alone, but I just backed it all up and uninstalled and Fences Pro is still breezing along. Thanks.
Well thank you for this, then. I'd have downgraded to Fences Free if I'd had to, but the transparency settings and auto-assign are pretty useful.
I'd also mod this up if I could, it's useful.
I love Fences Pro. I bought it legit even though it requires Impulse to install and update, which is complete overkill.
I was always willing to risk Impulse going under. I didn't even conceive of fricking GAMESTOP buying it. That's not gonna stay on my computer, so now it looks like I need to pirate an app I legitimately bought. Thanks Digital Restriction Management.
The XOOM and Galaxy Tab are just not great tablets yet because the tablet version of the OS is unfinished. It's functional enough for me now, but it's not nearly polished enough for general consumer and the lack of tablet apps is appalling. The Tab's solution of just using the phone OS is even worse.
Now looking at how fast Android improved on phones it's promising, but no matter how good the hardware is you're going to need Android 3.1 before you're in the game of competing with the super-slick iPad.
UAC works fairly well for this in Win7 /if/ you can get away with not giving them an admin account. Just like not giving root on the linux box. I've done this for two sane people, set up autoinstall of updates (including Windows defender), and so far no problems.
Of course you usually can't get away with that because users really really want to install that cool malware. And by users I mean family members.
I'd definitely go for more convergence too - though in my case I'd want a tablet that could do phone. Like the Galaxy Tab can, except all the US carriers stripped that function out... because they want you to need two devices. Bastards.
The iPad has been worth every penny so far. $50 a month (500+tax)/12 is less than my smartphone bill, and it's well worth not having to lug around the laptop most of the time. I've saved a ton of money on magazines and books which are now always available in one 'book'. And it's a great little gaming device so I've saved a lot of money I would have spent on much more expensive DS games instead.
Now I'd like to escape the Apple ecosystem, so a ~$500-600 10 inch tablet with Honeycomb would be extremely attractive. And certainly justifiable, especially with the sale of the iPad which is still worth quite a bit used.
The ones without any sense here are the people who can't even imagine the huge number of ways you can use a tablet to improve your life. Unless you're one of the people who really needs a full laptop with you constantly - then it's arguably too much for too little gain.
Like the subject says. No real paradoxes in there.
Seriously, the iPad has been great, but I'd love more control, real multitasking, and to flush iTunes back down to the depths of Hell it came from.
You've had a year to catch up and this is the best you can do? And don't say Galaxy Tab -maybe the Tab 2. I really hope this just turns out to be a normal Best Buy/Verizon 'Screw The Early Adopters' thing and it'll get saner as iPad 2 launch approaches.
Especially the WiFi activation: if true, good god, what foreskin up around his neck executive came up with that one?
Hay Sony. I think I'm gonna circumvent you now. Seriously regretting buying that PS3.
My PS3 isn't getting an update till my Other OS option is safe. It's off the net entirely.
This makes buying games real easy:
1) PC Version
2) XBox 360 version
3) Wii Version
4) Okay, okay, PS3 version. But nothing that forces a mandatory update. Sorry GT5.
MS grubs for my money in all directions, but as long as we'll all in agreement that I will at times give them that money and they will not treat me, their customer, like s@#$, they're smarter or at least more reasonable than Sony and will get my money before Sony does. Opening Kinect (after that initial reflex foot in mouth) just clinched it. I would kind of like to play LBP2 but that's the way it goes, I will go drown my sorrows in Dead Space 2. Or dismember them.
Well good on them for solving an interesting technical problem, but the use cases for this are all bad.
Obvious first use: boss will suggest we optimize the database by using only one gigantic row with two billion columns.
1) I didn't think the US was sophisticated enough to help with something like this, much less keep its Facebook privacy settings. Maybe the US contribution was just 'click on google.ir?'
2) This is much, much preferable to Israel bombing (or even nuking) bits of Iran. Shutting down their nuclear bomb program this way is far better - of course it also lets the cat out of the bag.
I bought the first iPad ep of Wired for $5 just because, and then never bought another. It was 600 MB for something that was less convenient to read than the print version because of their stupid flow tricks (and had different content in landscape and portrait modes, so if you wanted to see everything you had to keep flipping it - how asinine can you get?). And it ate up an app icon back before app folders.
On the other hand, I love Zinio, and subscribe to NatGeo, The Economist, New Scientist among others on it. Wish they had more. When Kindle gets mag subscriptions I'll check that out as well. It's far more convenient on the iPad, there's no waste, it's the same price or cheaper as the discount print subs, and you get your issues up to a week before the physical issues reach mailboxes. As long as it's all in a single app.
No, no, that's a fair question.
The answer being, of course, that he was the Senior Developer and it was a bug in his system. Honestly, a single one of the other three could have found and fixed it in less time.
We certainly sucked at management.
Speed typing isn't necessary, but when you're trying to debug something thorny and you're waiting for that one guy to stumble through commands.... hunting... pecking... typoing again and again while you have nothing better to do than resist the urge to rip the damn keyboard from his hands...
I've seen bad typing waste as much as 50% of the time of four rather well paid people.
Okay, so that's still better productivity than most meetings manage.
I always use testing (stable's too dull and experimental too exciting), so I'm currently on squeeze.
Just bought a new Core i3 server system, Asus Mini-ATX mobo, built in video, built in gigE for house side, added an old PCI 10/100 Eth card for cable modem side, Intel SSD for /, 1TB SATA for /data, 4 GB RAM. Cheap as hell, like $250 for the whole thing.
No hardware issues at all so far, everything just seems to work. It's firewalling, media serving, web serving, and all the other bits you'd expect it to do. But it's running headless now so not exercising video or audio.
Troll? Someone modded this comment as troll?
Sorry, Sony fans, I don't think pointing out the unpleasant truth of what Sony does every time there's a PS3 security breach (force an upgrade that makes your PS3s worse) is really a troll, unless you think the reality is so unpleasant you just can't internalize it without dying.
I own one. My Day one 60GB PS3 is far more functional than any you can buy now.
So I guess the real question now is what PS3 functionality Sony is going to cripple in the next forced upgrade to try to defeat this.
If this is an internal flip flop (more likely this is the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing in a beast as big as Redmond), at least they flopped in the right direction. Okay, yeah, you've hacked it, you're doing cool stuff.... fine, keep doing cool stuff, maybe we'll even help. If this were Sony they'd already be pushing updates at you that would melt the peripheral into slag if possible.
I was admittedly very flippantly lumping all languages into procedural or functional. Coming from a C background I found PHP to be no problem at all conceptually.
Let me also apologize to anyone who was offended by my lumping Perl, Python, and Ruby together.