The staff are actually quite good at matching the phone to the individual, it may not necessarily be the most expensive phone they have on offer nor might it be the coolest looking but it will be roughly what the customer is after.
It sounds like the sales staff are active advocates for the needs of the customer, like they listen to what the customer needs and earn their salary by tailoring a package to meet those needs.
That isn't allowed in the U.S. No Sales Manager would allow such a salesperson out on their retail floor. Here 'sales' is about maximizing return to the retail establishment at whatever expense. The customer is treated like a consumable.
It probably won't happen anyway. ZFS wasn't invented at Apple, and thus will never become an important part of 'The Mac.' Unless, of course, Apple buys Sun Microsystem. Then it's a certainty. (and of course, if that happens, Darwin will be ditched for OpenSolaris (which will be closed.)
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It's incomplete and thus greatly imperfect, without a reference to Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified.
The newbs won't get it.
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Slashdot runs on a 386SX/16 clone with 4 megs of RAM and an 80MB hard drive. It runs under Minix 3.0.
You could always do like the rest of us, ditch the low UID and get a new account. Really, the LOW UID only impresses the kind of people who don't matter anyway.
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When will Slashdot stop pretending it's a user moderated site?
They can't. They can claim exemption from liability by not 'editing' the comments. The day it is established that the Slashdot Management is editing the comments, they assume considerably more liability for them. Right now they're claiming 'common carrier' status.
Of course, some would challange their 'common carrier' status, but as you said, they pretend to be a user moderated site. It's not for trivial, handwaving reasons.
If you look at China as an example they teach their kids robotics and electronics from an early age and they produce most of the worlds new gadgets.
I don't know where you get that idea. I work with production facilities in China on a day to day basis, and my experience has been that the Chinese culture teaches submission to authority. The people in production facilities are more inclined to fake that they know what they're doing and/or cover up problems than they are to step forward with creative ways to solve them. I see very little innovative energy from most of the Chinese people I have worked with. I suspect most of the bright and ambitious Chinese leave the country, as the expatriate Chinese technical people I see in the U.S. are really bright creative people.
they have each other to help each other get through those various points in their life.
"Everybody belongs to everyone else" is a slogan from Huxley's "Brave New World." Its from one of the themes from that book that usually gets brushed over in school. It's safer to stick with simple things like the 'test tube babies' theme for some horrible reason.
The level of density of the electronic parts in the Ipod, combined with the high level and complexity of the software precludes it being any sort of a meaningful eletronic kit project. I mean, people these days cop an attitude like they are a 'tech wiz' if they can master the phillips screwdriver needed to screw together a PC clone. A better place to start out to give kids good exposure to lower-level electronics and computers is with robots and the embedded controllers that energize them. Give them a stepper motor or two and a processor and some drive MOSFETS to animate it. Highly integrated consumer electronics devices like an MP3 player don't count. Even the few 'homebrew MP3 player' projects that I have seen are essentially a hardware MPEG decoder chip hooked onto a PIC, so you're not getting deep into the device at all.
One thing I don't understand is whether installing the sensors is worth it or not. It's on a fault line. Isn't it likely that the first subsequent earthquake will misalign the hole and disconnect the sensors?
Silver plated teflon jacketed wire may seem excessive, but only until you've evaluated the performance of solid silver teflon jacketed cable. The skin effect will convince you of the difference.
The UIDs were not displayed here on Slashdot for a long time. It only became 'necessary' when people started masquerading as other users. The 'fake Bruce Perens' incident was the most blatant example.
'Blatant UID display' is actually a negative thing. It hearkens back to those little BBSes where all the dinky kids had to establish their 'cred' somehow.
I remember an Apple II board back in the day where, since I was a hardware person, I was asked to repair the keyboard (the BBS ran on an Apple IIc.) Because of this I was 'granted' sysop privileges**. It was one of those 'Role Playing' BBSes. I soon thereafter 're-rolled' the board and never dared log on again. My solder job on the keyboard survived, though. I guess.
There are a LOT of us who were 'online' with BBSes for a long time before broad and common access to the Internet wiped out that scene.
(** My board at the time was a WWIV (version 3.21d which was distributed only as pascal source code so you needed to run Turbo Pascal 3.0 to roll your own binaries) and ran on an 8088 machine with a 5 meg hard drive.)
If you've been around long enough, you remember that the UID didn't used to be posted 'up front and blatant' on this site. It used to be something you had to go to somebody's info page to view. That, of course, was before the infamous 'masquerading as Bruce Perens' fiasco. "I am the Real Bruce Perens" and so on and so on.
A low UID on here is just a sign of a lack of creativity. If you haven't gotten sick of an account and thrown it away you're stuck in a rut. I've pitched at least ten accounts. They all had their +1 (known as "excellent karma" these days.) It's disturbing to think that a 'low UID' here means anything special. A lot of us have been around a LONG time without needing to strut around about it.
There's a product today that lets me run a Mac emulator using a rom. I run Basilisk with the ROM image from my Powerbook 165c. Or the one from my Quadra 650 sometimes.
Compaq reverse-engineered the only piece that was not off the shelf.
And actually, Compaq only 'reverse engineered' it in order to sell a separate version themselves. The IBM PC BIOS is published as commented Assembly Language Source Code in the Technical Reference Manuals. This is the case for the Original IBM-PC, the XT, and the AT. It was all, completely and fully disclosed. Cloners couldn't just 'grab and use' it because it was copyrighted, but anybody writing code for the IBM systems could code it down to the 'bare iron' if they wanted.
Compaq published the BIOS for the DeskPro 386 in the same fashion in their Technical Reference Manual. AT&T did for the AT&T 6300 as well. It was common back then for the BIOS to be fully documented and made available to anybody who would buy the TechRef. The Tech Ref manuals were expensive, though. The IBM Techref Manuals were more expensive than PC-DOS if I remember correctly. But it's nice to have full schematics and all the technical details for your hardware.
Without hardware protected memory, 'different user accounts' is essentially just slightly more elaborate than the 'protection' on a Windows 98 machine. You know, the OS where you hit 'cancel' to skip logging on the system.
Apple never 'got' protected mode. They ended up buying their new multitasking OS from outside developers. Microsoft was just as bad, using the '286, '386, and '486 as essentially a 'really fast 8088 machine' for a long time. I looked at the 'protected mode' features in the '286 and said 'hey, that's cool' but then saw OS vendors seldom doing anything with it. (there were some OS people who took advantage of protected mode, but not many)
My vague recollection is that the Celeron was a slot one lower-end version of the Pentium II. Kinda the 386sx for-the-new-generation. But the Celeron 300 was every kid's favorite overclocking processor for a time.
I remember at one point I sold my old Pentium-75 processor to a guy at work for a pretty decent price because he was so excited to overclock it.
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Virtually all of the proprietary Unixes.
The staff are actually quite good at matching the phone to the individual, it may not necessarily be the most expensive phone they have on offer nor might it be the coolest looking but it will be roughly what the customer is after.
It sounds like the sales staff are active advocates for the needs of the customer, like they listen to what the customer needs and earn their salary by tailoring a package to meet those needs.
That isn't allowed in the U.S. No Sales Manager would allow such a salesperson out on their retail floor. Here 'sales' is about maximizing return to the retail establishment at whatever expense. The customer is treated like a consumable.
Case in point, look at the number of nimrods who assume gnu grep and use gnu specific switches for their make scripts.
That's no surprise. The GNU Project competes with Microsoft in the 'Embrace/Extend/Extinguish' derby.
It probably won't happen anyway. ZFS wasn't invented at Apple, and thus will never become an important part of 'The Mac.' Unless, of course, Apple buys Sun Microsystem. Then it's a certainty. (and of course, if that happens, Darwin will be ditched for OpenSolaris (which will be closed.)
It's incomplete and thus greatly imperfect, without a reference to Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified.
The newbs won't get it.
Slashdot runs on a 386SX/16 clone with 4 megs of RAM and an 80MB hard drive. It runs under Minix 3.0.
I notice that in that article link, there are no comments whatsoever. Were they deleted?
Really, the fun thing would be to allow us to comment on Raymond's article NOW.
I mean, VA Linux IPO/Dot.bomb/the whole shootin match. It would be a FUN discussion.
Malda wants to meet Pete Townshend, but isn't good enough at faking that he's a 13 year old boy in chatrooms.
You could always do like the rest of us, ditch the low UID and get a new account. Really, the LOW UID only impresses the kind of people who don't matter anyway.
When will Slashdot stop pretending it's a user moderated site?
They can't. They can claim exemption from liability by not 'editing' the comments. The day it is established that the Slashdot Management is editing the comments, they assume considerably more liability for them. Right now they're claiming 'common carrier' status.
Of course, some would challange their 'common carrier' status, but as you said, they pretend to be a user moderated site. It's not for trivial, handwaving reasons.
If you look at China as an example they teach their kids robotics and electronics from an early age and they produce most of the worlds new gadgets.
I don't know where you get that idea. I work with production facilities in China on a day to day basis, and my experience has been that the Chinese culture teaches submission to authority. The people in production facilities are more inclined to fake that they know what they're doing and/or cover up problems than they are to step forward with creative ways to solve them. I see very little innovative energy from most of the Chinese people I have worked with. I suspect most of the bright and ambitious Chinese leave the country, as the expatriate Chinese technical people I see in the U.S. are really bright creative people.
they have each other to help each other get through those various points in their life.
"Everybody belongs to everyone else" is a slogan from Huxley's "Brave New World." Its from one of the themes from that book that usually gets brushed over in school. It's safer to stick with simple things like the 'test tube babies' theme for some horrible reason.
The level of density of the electronic parts in the Ipod, combined with the high level and complexity of the software precludes it being any sort of a meaningful eletronic kit project. I mean, people these days cop an attitude like they are a 'tech wiz' if they can master the phillips screwdriver needed to screw together a PC clone. A better place to start out to give kids good exposure to lower-level electronics and computers is with robots and the embedded controllers that energize them. Give them a stepper motor or two and a processor and some drive MOSFETS to animate it. Highly integrated consumer electronics devices like an MP3 player don't count. Even the few 'homebrew MP3 player' projects that I have seen are essentially a hardware MPEG decoder chip hooked onto a PIC, so you're not getting deep into the device at all.
One thing I don't understand is whether installing the sensors is worth it or not. It's on a fault line. Isn't it likely that the first subsequent earthquake will misalign the hole and disconnect the sensors?
Silver plated teflon jacketed wire may seem excessive, but only until you've evaluated the performance of solid silver teflon jacketed cable. The skin effect will convince you of the difference.
The UIDs were not displayed here on Slashdot for a long time. It only became 'necessary' when people started masquerading as other users. The 'fake Bruce Perens' incident was the most blatant example.
'Blatant UID display' is actually a negative thing. It hearkens back to those little BBSes where all the dinky kids had to establish their 'cred' somehow.
I remember an Apple II board back in the day where, since I was a hardware person, I was asked to repair the keyboard (the BBS ran on an Apple IIc.) Because of this I was 'granted' sysop privileges**. It was one of those 'Role Playing' BBSes. I soon thereafter 're-rolled' the board and never dared log on again. My solder job on the keyboard survived, though. I guess.
There are a LOT of us who were 'online' with BBSes for a long time before broad and common access to the Internet wiped out that scene.
(** My board at the time was a WWIV (version 3.21d which was distributed only as pascal source code so you needed to run Turbo Pascal 3.0 to roll your own binaries) and ran on an 8088 machine with a 5 meg hard drive.)
If you've been around long enough, you remember that the UID didn't used to be posted 'up front and blatant' on this site. It used to be something you had to go to somebody's info page to view. That, of course, was before the infamous 'masquerading as Bruce Perens' fiasco. "I am the Real Bruce Perens" and so on and so on.
A low UID on here is just a sign of a lack of creativity. If you haven't gotten sick of an account and thrown it away you're stuck in a rut. I've pitched at least ten accounts. They all had their +1 (known as "excellent karma" these days.) It's disturbing to think that a 'low UID' here means anything special. A lot of us have been around a LONG time without needing to strut around about it.
I seriously feel bad for anybody who thinks a 'ring tone' on their cellular phone is an expression of their personality.
There's a product today that lets me run a Mac emulator using a rom. I run Basilisk with the ROM image from my Powerbook 165c. Or the one from my Quadra 650 sometimes.
Compaq reverse-engineered the only piece that was not off the shelf.
And actually, Compaq only 'reverse engineered' it in order to sell a separate version themselves. The IBM PC BIOS is published as commented Assembly Language Source Code in the Technical Reference Manuals. This is the case for the Original IBM-PC, the XT, and the AT. It was all, completely and fully disclosed. Cloners couldn't just 'grab and use' it because it was copyrighted, but anybody writing code for the IBM systems could code it down to the 'bare iron' if they wanted.
Compaq published the BIOS for the DeskPro 386 in the same fashion in their Technical Reference Manual. AT&T did for the AT&T 6300 as well. It was common back then for the BIOS to be fully documented and made available to anybody who would buy the TechRef. The Tech Ref manuals were expensive, though. The IBM Techref Manuals were more expensive than PC-DOS if I remember correctly. But it's nice to have full schematics and all the technical details for your hardware.
Mr. Jobs is a meticulous perfectionist
Skip all the fancy sixteen dollar words. Mr. Jobs is very anal.
Without hardware protected memory, 'different user accounts' is essentially just slightly more elaborate than the 'protection' on a Windows 98 machine. You know, the OS where you hit 'cancel' to skip logging on the system.
Apple never 'got' protected mode. They ended up buying their new multitasking OS from outside developers. Microsoft was just as bad, using the '286, '386, and '486 as essentially a 'really fast 8088 machine' for a long time. I looked at the 'protected mode' features in the '286 and said 'hey, that's cool' but then saw OS vendors seldom doing anything with it. (there were some OS people who took advantage of protected mode, but not many)
I wanted one of those badly, back when it wasn't economically feasible for me to pay full price. Now I have a box of 'em somewhere here.
The 2940 was the industry standard. Never heard of the 2850.
My vague recollection is that the Celeron was a slot one lower-end version of the Pentium II. Kinda the 386sx for-the-new-generation. But the Celeron 300 was every kid's favorite overclocking processor for a time.
I remember at one point I sold my old Pentium-75 processor to a guy at work for a pretty decent price because he was so excited to overclock it.