Atari tried blocking third-party software from their hardware...
You can buy a copy of Windows and run it on your Mac hardware all you want. Thousands do; maybe that's why Windows sales haven't dropped when non-Mac PC sales have.
Around here (Cincinnati), Duke puts a lighting arrestor on each transformer. It essentially grounds the high-voltage wires when there's a lighting strike. Unless the lighting hits the low-voltage wires directly, the lighting will not come in on the power lines. So, yes, the power company has taken measures to protect their transformer and your service.
When lightning struck nearby earlier this week, it induced a current in some twisted-pair Ethernet cables, killing a Linksys switch, a Westell router and an XBox 360. Go ahead and protect your power lines all you want; it may not do any good.
Gee, I didn't know that Apple had to pay for any press. After all, even PC Magazine seems to have more Apple articles these days than Microsoft articles. I think you're just jealous. Not everything that I submit gets posted, either. I'm over it already.
If so, why do I hate their stuff? Oh, right - because locked down, proprietary bullshit that I pay for but technically do not own is the complete opposite of "functional" in my book.
So buy a MacBook Pro; it's not locked down at all. My comment is a joke to anyone who knows Apple. Apple even tells you how to root it.
I rooted a Mac once so I could change the name of the main administrative user (as I recall).
Mod parent up. This is the point that most people miss:
Every company has to recoup its costs which includes taxes.
You can tax corporations as much as you want and they will just pass the tax on to their customers. In Ohio, we have a Corporate Activity Tax that is, by law, not to be passed on to customers but some companies do it anyway (no, I can't prove it so I won't name names).
Here's one reference, there are many more. We had one in Ohio where a woman on welfare ended up owning several homes unknown to her. She only found out when the mortgages in her name went bad. No, this was not identity theft, she signed the papers. She just didn't understand what she was signing.
From the article: "Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written." [Emphasis added]
It's a survey, no more, no less. Using it to make decisions about your career is foolhardy at best.
Obviously, we're only hearing your side of the story, but you seem rather intelligent. When you develop a track record, people will start listening to you. The right people will make money off of you which hopefully they will share with you in the form of stock. You need to keep fighting and not give up just yet. You will have plenty of time later to become cynical.
Part of your challenge is dealing with a world filled with what appear to be stupid people. They're not stupid, they just don't operate at your level. But they usually want the same things you want. You just have to herd them (like a dog herds cattle) to get them to the same place you want to go.
You may need to work on your knife skills. When you stab someone, you don't want them to complain about it, you want them to tell you that they now feel better and could you stab them somewhere else as well. This, my friend, takes people skills. However, the right boss/owner can work with you even if your people skills aren't great if your technical skills are.
If you haven't read it yet, read Steve Jobs' biography. I think you may find that you have a lot in common with him.
But this question illustrates the problem: Someone who really knows science will be totally confused by it. The average person, incorrectly thinking of the mushroom as a plant, answers it quickly (A: Cat) and goes on. Since the person writing the test is average, he/she also says the correct answer is A. They're writing the tests so that smart kids do worse than average kids. And that is just wrong.
You learned a lot about human nature in college. Maybe you shouldn't touch someone else's claim to authority, but you don't have to accept it at face value, either. I hope you don't pull your punches because of your experiences but are now in a position to show people what a truly intelligent person can accomplish. Started a company yet?
A mushroom is not a plant, so the relationship is "the first item is similar to the second but not a member of it." Since a cat is an animal, A is wrong. Since of the three left, only a rock is not manmade, so I say the the correct answer is C. But that's a poor question for a test.
Here's my take: You configure IPv6 on your device. You upgrade the software to version 6. The IPv6 functionality that you configured earlier works just like before. You just can't make any changes. If you want to make changes, use version 5.6. The thought is that version 6.1 will restore the configuration tools.
This happened because version 6 is a total rewrite.
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Atari tried blocking third-party software from their hardware...
You can buy a copy of Windows and run it on your Mac hardware all you want. Thousands do; maybe that's why Windows sales haven't dropped when non-Mac PC sales have.
Around here (Cincinnati), Duke puts a lighting arrestor on each transformer. It essentially grounds the high-voltage wires when there's a lighting strike. Unless the lighting hits the low-voltage wires directly, the lighting will not come in on the power lines. So, yes, the power company has taken measures to protect their transformer and your service.
This will still not protect against induced voltages. Electromagnetic waves can go right through walls, you see.
When lightning struck nearby earlier this week, it induced a current in some twisted-pair Ethernet cables, killing a Linksys switch, a Westell router and an XBox 360. Go ahead and protect your power lines all you want; it may not do any good.
Meanwhile, they only pay the programmers $150k per year. What a ripoff.
Many services compress the photos when uploaded. It's important to preserve a minimally-compressed version before uploading.
Gee, I didn't know that Apple had to pay for any press. After all, even PC Magazine seems to have more Apple articles these days than Microsoft articles. I think you're just jealous. Not everything that I submit gets posted, either. I'm over it already.
Yes, so all the fanboys can wet their pants!
Probably b'cos the new iPad is already used w/ the newest A5X that there is. There, fixed that for you.
Apart from that, if you can't replace a non-user replacable battery in a MacBook Pro yourself, what business do you have posting on Slashdot?
Exactly.
If so, why do I hate their stuff? Oh, right - because locked down, proprietary bullshit that I pay for but technically do not own is the complete opposite of "functional" in my book.
So buy a MacBook Pro; it's not locked down at all. My comment is a joke to anyone who knows Apple. Apple even tells you how to root it.
I rooted a Mac once so I could change the name of the main administrative user (as I recall).
Locked down? Why, I rooted my MacBook Pro in less than 15 minutes! I think the hardest part was figuring out what password to use.
To illustrate that companies will pass corporate taxes on to their customers even when they are specially banned from doing so.
No, we're geeks. And bad English is part of our DNA.
Every company has to recoup its costs which includes taxes.
You can tax corporations as much as you want and they will just pass the tax on to their customers. In Ohio, we have a Corporate Activity Tax that is, by law, not to be passed on to customers but some companies do it anyway (no, I can't prove it so I won't name names).
Here's one reference, there are many more. We had one in Ohio where a woman on welfare ended up owning several homes unknown to her. She only found out when the mortgages in her name went bad. No, this was not identity theft, she signed the papers. She just didn't understand what she was signing.
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From the article: "Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written." [Emphasis added]
It's a survey, no more, no less. Using it to make decisions about your career is foolhardy at best.
And get addicted to Oxycodone. Driving around in pickup trucks with guns and breeding is painful.
Obviously, we're only hearing your side of the story, but you seem rather intelligent. When you develop a track record, people will start listening to you. The right people will make money off of you which hopefully they will share with you in the form of stock. You need to keep fighting and not give up just yet. You will have plenty of time later to become cynical.
Part of your challenge is dealing with a world filled with what appear to be stupid people. They're not stupid, they just don't operate at your level. But they usually want the same things you want. You just have to herd them (like a dog herds cattle) to get them to the same place you want to go.
You may need to work on your knife skills. When you stab someone, you don't want them to complain about it, you want them to tell you that they now feel better and could you stab them somewhere else as well. This, my friend, takes people skills. However, the right boss/owner can work with you even if your people skills aren't great if your technical skills are.
If you haven't read it yet, read Steve Jobs' biography. I think you may find that you have a lot in common with him.
But this question illustrates the problem: Someone who really knows science will be totally confused by it. The average person, incorrectly thinking of the mushroom as a plant, answers it quickly (A: Cat) and goes on. Since the person writing the test is average, he/she also says the correct answer is A. They're writing the tests so that smart kids do worse than average kids. And that is just wrong.
You learned a lot about human nature in college. Maybe you shouldn't touch someone else's claim to authority, but you don't have to accept it at face value, either. I hope you don't pull your punches because of your experiences but are now in a position to show people what a truly intelligent person can accomplish. Started a company yet?
Old pizza? Not in my world!
A mushroom is not a plant, so the relationship is "the first item is similar to the second but not a member of it." Since a cat is an animal, A is wrong. Since of the three left, only a rock is not manmade, so I say the the correct answer is C. But that's a poor question for a test.
Here's my take: You configure IPv6 on your device. You upgrade the software to version 6. The IPv6 functionality that you configured earlier works just like before. You just can't make any changes. If you want to make changes, use version 5.6. The thought is that version 6.1 will restore the configuration tools.
This happened because version 6 is a total rewrite.
Read the comments on the original article: IPv6 is implemented, just not configurable. If you want to configure it, use 5.6.