All we're saying is that it was considered a Pretty Good Thing when the mainframe era was brought down by the PC. Now, people like you are standing around cheering while the monster reassembles itself.
People older than you remember the way IBM dominated both the hardware and software sectors for many years. They held their customers hostage in every sense but the literal one. They used every technical and legal tool available to suppress third-party innovation. Eventually, people like Ross Perot, Jobs and Wozniak, and finally Bill Gates barged into the room and threw their proverbial hammers at the screen.
Fast forward to 2012. Steve Ballmer is pulling underhanded, abusive shit that would have earned him a fistbump from T. J. Watson. The rebels who once sponsored the '1984' commercial are now working feverishly to put the pieces of the telescreen back together... only this time, they're using Gorilla Glass.
Some of us are old enough to understand that this is not how things were supposed to go. If you're not so old or wise, that's fine... but by calling people who disagree with you "children," your post only shows your own lack of awareness and conscience.
No, this is a classic slippery slope. In the UEFI version that supports Windows 9, only secure boot is supported. You can't turn it off, but you can still enter a key manually when installing an Untrusted Non-Microsoft OS (UNMOS). The key is 256 characters long, and looks like a ROT13-encoded Perl script.
The version that supports Windows 10 also supports secure boot only, and still requires key entry. This time, though, UNMOSes are now called IOSes (Insecure Operating Systems.) They will run under a Microsoft-supplied hypervisor that includes mandatory hardware packet filtering.
And wait'll you see the third-party OS support strategy for PCs approved for Windows 11, code-named "Overton." The plan for Overton is that third-party OSes called PDOSes, or Potentially Defective Operating Systems, can still be run, but not on your local hardware. They will run only on cloud-hosted secure platforms over VNC.
All of this will happen because someone noticed that people will cheerfully bend over and accept restrictions in each generation that would not have been tolerated in the previous one. Evidence of this claim? Look at the history of Trusted Computing. Starting with the innocent-sounding idea of TPMs with unique CPU ID stamps, which were fought heroically by users until the next season of American Idol came on and everybody kinda forgot about it, the people behind the curtain have gotten everything they wanted over time. All they had to do was demand a little more "compromise" than they could get at any one stage of development.
In short, everything old is new again. We are all IBM customers now.
The original Apple II used a good-sized board with a lot of chips. If Jobs actually did the layout by himself, I'm surprised, and a bit more respectful of him. I'm not sure why Wozniak would have delegated it to him.
They always seem to aim for increased security and safety
The first time SpaceX kills a crew of astronauts, you'll be amazed at how NASA-style "security uber Alles" paralysis comes flooding back. There will be another lost decade of wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth, just as if another Shuttle had been lost.
Humans are ultimately pussies. No other way to spin it.
And by the way, if you think it's okay to kill anyone who thinks it's okay to kill people they disagree with, what makes you different from the people you want to kill? Think about it.
I did. I concluded that you don't understand logic.
("Judge Jones thinks it's OK to capture and confine kidnappers against their will. That makes Judge Jones a kidnapper.")
I thought it was going to be a memo about how to improve the snoozefest that is soccer/futbol.
Let's see...
1.1.14.a: All players will be issued 9mm handguns with one cartridge each, except that the goalkeeper shall receive three cartridges. Players are allowed to handle the ball with their elbows, heads, feet, or rackets. All horses, except for those participating in the game, must be tied securely on the sidelines with sponsors' logos removed or covered. Matches will continue for 25 minutes or until no players remain awake. Players may purchase supplementary PCP at the on-field concession stand. Broadcasts, recordings, and retransmissions in any form are prohibited without the express written consent of Batman. The use of polearms in excess of 3 meters in length is prohibited except during league play.
Yeah, I guess that explains why Ballmer followed Jobs around like a bipolar chimpanzee, repeatedly insulting and dismissing Apple products on Monday and paying legions of engineers to try their best to copy them on Tuesday.
Yeah, Jobs and Ballmer, two peas in a pod.
Just one question: were you dropped on your head as a child?
If only there were some sort of mechanism, some sort of economic framework for commercial activity between willing parties, that could be used to sort out the question of who deserves how much money.
Probably just the usual EU regulators' shakedown of a wealthy US corporation. Last time it was Microsoft's turn in the barrel, now it's Google's. I imagine Apple is next.
They are pretty much shit outta cash over there, in case you haven't picked up a copy of The Economist lately.
I've never seen a launch aborted this late before. The announcer had already said "Liftoff," and you could see the flames building up rapidly as usual. The rocket was only one second from moving off the pad when the shutdown command was triggered.
Gwynne Shotwell's quote in another article was a good one -- paraphrasing, she told the reporter that the launch wasn't really seen as a "failure," because that's what happens when you fail to catch a fault condition in time.
Just as any landing you can walk away from is a good landing, any launch that doesn't end with the rocket in a million flaming pieces is a good launch. They can try again in 3 days.
Things will keep going this way... and yes, you'll have to look elsewhere for your computer purchases, because Apple won't even pretend to be selling "computers" before long.
Their oscilloscopes rely more on the name than actual market leading quality and features.
You must be thinking of Tektronix. Agilent has by far the best general-purpose scopes right now (meaning, the ones most people actually need.) And the high end oscilloscope market is a back-and-forth fight between Agilent and LeCroy, with Tek not even playing in the same ball park.
The point is that you cannot distinguish a square wave from a sine wave at the same fundamental frequency, if you can't hear the odd harmonics. You cannot have a square wave at a given frequency without the odd-order harmonics. If you don't have the odd harmonics, you don't have a square wave -- you have a sine wave.
Nitpicking arguments about the frequency of a signal in the time domain are not relevant. Human hearing operates in the Fourier domain -- almost literally, if you understand how the cochlea works -- not the time domain.
It may be less confusing if I put it this way: If you can't hear a sine wave beyond, say, 20 kHz, then you are not going to be able to tell the difference between a sine wave at 7 kHz and a square wave whose fundamental frequency is 7 kHz. That's because the lowest harmonic in the square-wave signal will be at 21 kHz. Your ears will filter it out, just as the antialiasing filter in the recording system would need to do.
Now, that being said, the argument has been made that intermodulation effects in the human ear can allow us to perceive sounds beyond the usual 20 kHz limit when they mix with each other. To the extent these effects occur when listening to the source material at a given level, you could argue that the ultrasonic parts of a performance should be captured and reproduced along with everything else, and that would require a higher sampling rate.
The showstopper for this argument is that any desirable sonic content resulting from IMD at ultrasonic frequencies could only be reproduced "properly" at a specific volume level, because distortion products by definition are generated by nonlinear processes.
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To quasi-quote Obi-Wan Kenobi - Only an idiot deals in absolutes.
(Shrug) Hey, I'm not the one claiming any insight into the political preferences of the creator of the Universe.
Yes. Next question?
Welcome Europeans. You're now just like Americans - part of one gigantic whole rather than individual states.
Well, not just like Americans. Our founders had the sense not to attempt to create a fiscal union without an accompanying political one.
Congratulations, you are now a 'grown up'.
Sigh.
All we're saying is that it was considered a Pretty Good Thing when the mainframe era was brought down by the PC. Now, people like you are standing around cheering while the monster reassembles itself.
People older than you remember the way IBM dominated both the hardware and software sectors for many years. They held their customers hostage in every sense but the literal one. They used every technical and legal tool available to suppress third-party innovation. Eventually, people like Ross Perot, Jobs and Wozniak, and finally Bill Gates barged into the room and threw their proverbial hammers at the screen.
Fast forward to 2012. Steve Ballmer is pulling underhanded, abusive shit that would have earned him a fistbump from T. J. Watson. The rebels who once sponsored the '1984' commercial are now working feverishly to put the pieces of the telescreen back together... only this time, they're using Gorilla Glass.
Some of us are old enough to understand that this is not how things were supposed to go. If you're not so old or wise, that's fine... but by calling people who disagree with you "children," your post only shows your own lack of awareness and conscience.
So I'm sorry but FUD is FUD and this is FUD
No, this is a classic slippery slope. In the UEFI version that supports Windows 9, only secure boot is supported. You can't turn it off, but you can still enter a key manually when installing an Untrusted Non-Microsoft OS (UNMOS). The key is 256 characters long, and looks like a ROT13-encoded Perl script.
The version that supports Windows 10 also supports secure boot only, and still requires key entry. This time, though, UNMOSes are now called IOSes (Insecure Operating Systems.) They will run under a Microsoft-supplied hypervisor that includes mandatory hardware packet filtering.
And wait'll you see the third-party OS support strategy for PCs approved for Windows 11, code-named "Overton." The plan for Overton is that third-party OSes called PDOSes, or Potentially Defective Operating Systems, can still be run, but not on your local hardware. They will run only on cloud-hosted secure platforms over VNC.
All of this will happen because someone noticed that people will cheerfully bend over and accept restrictions in each generation that would not have been tolerated in the previous one. Evidence of this claim? Look at the history of Trusted Computing. Starting with the innocent-sounding idea of TPMs with unique CPU ID stamps, which were fought heroically by users until the next season of American Idol came on and everybody kinda forgot about it, the people behind the curtain have gotten everything they wanted over time. All they had to do was demand a little more "compromise" than they could get at any one stage of development.
In short, everything old is new again. We are all IBM customers now.
The original Apple II used a good-sized board with a lot of chips. If Jobs actually did the layout by himself, I'm surprised, and a bit more respectful of him. I'm not sure why Wozniak would have delegated it to him.
Would you be willing to take a commercial air flight if the failure rate was 25%? 15%? 5%?
Fortunately, our ancestors were a bit braver than you, or I'd be typing this from a tree or a cave in Africa.
They always seem to aim for increased security and safety
The first time SpaceX kills a crew of astronauts, you'll be amazed at how NASA-style "security uber Alles" paralysis comes flooding back. There will be another lost decade of wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth, just as if another Shuttle had been lost.
Humans are ultimately pussies. No other way to spin it.
No
And by the way, if you think it's okay to kill anyone who thinks it's okay to kill people they disagree with, what makes you different from the people you want to kill? Think about it.
I did. I concluded that you don't understand logic.
("Judge Jones thinks it's OK to capture and confine kidnappers against their will. That makes Judge Jones a kidnapper.")
I thought it was going to be a memo about how to improve the snoozefest that is soccer/futbol.
Let's see...
Nope, still not worth watching.
Yeah, I guess that explains why Ballmer followed Jobs around like a bipolar chimpanzee, repeatedly insulting and dismissing Apple products on Monday and paying legions of engineers to try their best to copy them on Tuesday.
Yeah, Jobs and Ballmer, two peas in a pod.
Just one question: were you dropped on your head as a child?
If only there were some sort of mechanism, some sort of economic framework for commercial activity between willing parties, that could be used to sort out the question of who deserves how much money.
Ah, I've apparently graduated from "anarchist" to "libertarian." At this rate, I'll be a Republican by next Tuesday. Catch you then.
(Shrug) Mall cops didn't kill 100,000,000 of their own fellow citizens in the twentieth century alone.
I'd be a little careful throwing around terms like "naive" if I were you. Read some history.
Well, yeah, they are, because you can fire them.
This is aerospace engineering, not kid stuff. You have to buy the optional Monster Cables and add the extended warranty.
Probably just the usual EU regulators' shakedown of a wealthy US corporation. Last time it was Microsoft's turn in the barrel, now it's Google's. I imagine Apple is next.
They are pretty much shit outta cash over there, in case you haven't picked up a copy of The Economist lately.
Which explains what you're doing here, right?
I've never seen a launch aborted this late before. The announcer had already said "Liftoff," and you could see the flames building up rapidly as usual. The rocket was only one second from moving off the pad when the shutdown command was triggered.
Gwynne Shotwell's quote in another article was a good one -- paraphrasing, she told the reporter that the launch wasn't really seen as a "failure," because that's what happens when you fail to catch a fault condition in time.
Just as any landing you can walk away from is a good landing, any launch that doesn't end with the rocket in a million flaming pieces is a good launch. They can try again in 3 days.
Things will keep going this way... and yes, you'll have to look elsewhere for your computer purchases, because Apple won't even pretend to be selling "computers" before long.
Their oscilloscopes rely more on the name than actual market leading quality and features.
You must be thinking of Tektronix. Agilent has by far the best general-purpose scopes right now (meaning, the ones most people actually need.) And the high end oscilloscope market is a back-and-forth fight between Agilent and LeCroy, with Tek not even playing in the same ball park.
Thanks for the pointers; some interesting stuff there. I am not up to speed on the physiological and psychoacoustical angles.
The point is that you cannot distinguish a square wave from a sine wave at the same fundamental frequency, if you can't hear the odd harmonics. You cannot have a square wave at a given frequency without the odd-order harmonics. If you don't have the odd harmonics, you don't have a square wave -- you have a sine wave.
Nitpicking arguments about the frequency of a signal in the time domain are not relevant. Human hearing operates in the Fourier domain -- almost literally, if you understand how the cochlea works -- not the time domain.
Try a high but more audible frequency.
It may be less confusing if I put it this way: If you can't hear a sine wave beyond, say, 20 kHz, then you are not going to be able to tell the difference between a sine wave at 7 kHz and a square wave whose fundamental frequency is 7 kHz. That's because the lowest harmonic in the square-wave signal will be at 21 kHz. Your ears will filter it out, just as the antialiasing filter in the recording system would need to do.
Now, that being said, the argument has been made that intermodulation effects in the human ear can allow us to perceive sounds beyond the usual 20 kHz limit when they mix with each other. To the extent these effects occur when listening to the source material at a given level, you could argue that the ultrasonic parts of a performance should be captured and reproduced along with everything else, and that would require a higher sampling rate.
The showstopper for this argument is that any desirable sonic content resulting from IMD at ultrasonic frequencies could only be reproduced "properly" at a specific volume level, because distortion products by definition are generated by nonlinear processes.