[after playing out all possible outcomes for Global Thermonuclear War] Joshua: Greetings, Professor Falken. Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua. Joshua: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
Back in the day it meant LDS long distance phone calls to the general public. (And get off my lawn.)
That was the name of one of the companies providing third-party long distance service back in the '80s, where you had to dial up a redirector and punch in 15-20 digits to make your call. But the name is so generic that it's been almost completely "paved over" as a search term by both the generic term and the mormons. I was able to find some photographic evidence of the existence of LDS, thanks to also looking up the name of their primary competitor, MCI.
They don't like to change article titles because the RSS feed thinks it's a new article, or something like that. (Which is why they should pay more attention when they green-light an article!)
I also have a 37" in the living room hooked up to my PC. I have to set the PC to 720p because I can't read text on the screen at 1080p. I download 480p torrents whenever I can. There really isn't much difference when watching anime unless you cheap out on the bit rate when compressing.
On the other hand, I usually notice the difference when something has 5.1 audio.
Pre-Retina MacBook Pros should be downgradable to 10.6, but it's not trivial. The last shrink-wrap retail copy of Snow Leopard was 10.6.3, and these need at least 10.6.7. You can download a burnable (dual-layer!) image of 10.6.7 via TPB or similar sources. There is some missing hardware support, but you can now run the 10.6.8 updater. (Note: If you want to use the migration tool, do it during the 10.6.7 install! I didn't do it until post-install, and it was a pain because it migrated my home folder to a new user ID.) After all this was done, I put the 10.6.7 DVD-R and a CD-R with the 10.6.8 updater in my Snow Leopard box.
Installing Rosetta is then your next hurdle. In my case, I think it pulled it in during the migration from my previous MacBook Pro. Otherwise you'll have to find the installer package for it. I'm not sure if it's on the 10.6 install discs (I think it is) or if you need to go back to 10.5.
CS2 ought to run reasonably well under Rosetta. I still run a Carbon era version of Photoshop because it supports the driver to an old scanner I use, and it's usable for general image editing tasks, but the marching ants effect can cause the fan to run.
I was referring to whatever is cin/cout, which I never use, so I wasn't familiar with which header they are in. A quick check shows that what I meant was iostream. And anything which might use the heap is generally Right Out with small embedded stuff. Can you trust the STL to not use dynamic allocation?
And seriously, you think sorting/searching efficiency is important when programming microcontrollers? It doesn't matter how efficient your sorting algorithm is if it is never used. Or searching is only used a few times per second on small data sets. They have so little memory and so much speed that you can get away with walking linked lists for the times when you can't just declare stuff as arrays.
Then banish any use of cstdio, STL, and compile with -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti and check again. In other words, "C with classes" mode.
C++ does have a few good features that can be useful in small embedded code if you know where C++'s bloat is and avoid it. Using classes as "structs with functions attached" helps encapsulate your code. And in particular, virtual methods are a significant improvement in readability over function pointers, and generally will have a smaller read-write segment footprint. For bonus points, learn how to use fixed allocation pools with placement new to avoid the problems you can get from having a heap.
It's depressing that Objective-C, Ruby and VB.Net have gone up, and see C# go down...
It's depressing to see a Microsoft-proprietary language, that they're not even supporting on one of their most recent platforms, go down in popularity? Really?
Sounds like this is a hack to let unsigned apps in. While it's not impossible to have an app which is actually a Linux boot loader, it would actually have to take control away from the kernel first. All this does is tell the kernel not to check the app.
I'm rather surprised that El Reg didn't take an opportunity in their article about this to snipe about Linux still being locked out.
Yes, they spend their days at drafting desks... drawing lines! They don't spend their days at drafting desks typing documents, replying to e-mail, or working with spreadsheets. Powerpoint might be the closest "business PC use" to drafting, but you still have to type in a bunch of text.
And you know what? At this time, probably over 99% of PCs still have one monitor! The only thing you can count on having a second monitor is a Nintendo DS/3DS. The problem is that MS is trying to make touch the "preferred" interface.
You can also move closer to a blackboard than you can to that screen on your desk or laptop on your legs. This means that your upper arm can be kept much more at rest than if you have to reach out to touch something.
Zero thought has been put into the ergonomics of any UI changes in over a decade. I've only ever heard of Apple doing that seriously back in the '80s. Now UI changes are driven by designer egos. (it's only missing the 'r'!)
For me, it is specifically that rubber-band effect with empty space beyond the content when scrolling past the end of a scrollable area that keeps me from going beyond 10.6. I just find it extremely annoying. I also didn't like the "scroll bar arrows at the end" thing that came from NeXT, but at least they let you turn it off. (There was still no reason to leave as the default other than Steve's ego.)
The nice thing about MacOS back in the day was that Apple actually took the time to test new UI ideas with actual users. That's why they went with the menu bar instead of menus in windows and menus on right-click, because it was actually more usable. Now nobody does that. It seems that UIs these days are designed by the marketing division to look flashy and "different" (as an incorrect opposite of "old" and "boring"), with no regard to whether they add to or detract from usability. Well, except that even open source projects are copying questionable UI ideas, too, and they don't have a marketing department.
I, for one, do not welcome our ego-driven user interface overlords.
That's nothing. Having conflicting filenames in an OS codebase such that a case-sensitive filesystem is required to store/compile it, now that takes true idiocy. I'm referring to Linux, in case you didn't guess, specifically the netfilter code.
I think on 3720 terminal keyboards, the enter key WAS the right shift key, or rather was where the right shift key belonged. Someone at IBM apparently decided it was redundant or something, and removed it or moved it so far out of position that it didn't matter. My first year of college in the early '80s, they were still using that old IBM crap. The next semester they started getting rid of it in favor of a VAX 780 and way too many terminals hanging off it. In that one semester, the touch typing I had learned in high school was forever broken in that I never used the right shift key again while touch-typing. When I do shift-A, I use the 2WSX finger for the A.
I don't know what your definition of "finished up" is, but "first unmanned test launch in two years if Congress behaves" isn't mine. That assumes that the Senate doesn't change their minds about the distribution of pork, causing the Senate Launch System to be even further behind than it already is.
Good thing we've got three private commercial crew launch systems underway (you forgot Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser), one of which is based on an already working (I won't call it "proven" without a few more successful missions) cargo system with currently the only significant mass return capability other than a crewed Soyuz.
Brownsville, TX / Boca Chica beach is just a hair south of 26 N, and is one of the locations that SpaceX is considering for a launch site. Parts of Florida are south of that, but are not as suitable as Canaveral. The Boca Chica area is not unlike Canaveral in being a sparsely populated wetlands area. There is still some hurricane danger, but it shouldn't have anywhere near the rain days problem of KSC.
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[after playing out all possible outcomes for Global Thermonuclear War]
Joshua: Greetings, Professor Falken.
Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua.
Joshua: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
I heard there was a second Matrix movie, but they scrapped it with only the last 10-15 minutes still needing to be filmed. Oh well.
(Too bad The Matrix didn't get made 20 years earlier, or they might have made a Christmas special!)
So it should start saying "Okeley-dokeley diddly"?
Back in the day it meant LDS long distance phone calls to the general public. (And get off my lawn.)
That was the name of one of the companies providing third-party long distance service back in the '80s, where you had to dial up a redirector and punch in 15-20 digits to make your call. But the name is so generic that it's been almost completely "paved over" as a search term by both the generic term and the mormons. I was able to find some photographic evidence of the existence of LDS, thanks to also looking up the name of their primary competitor, MCI.
They don't like to change article titles because the RSS feed thinks it's a new article, or something like that. (Which is why they should pay more attention when they green-light an article!)
I also have a 37" in the living room hooked up to my PC. I have to set the PC to 720p because I can't read text on the screen at 1080p. I download 480p torrents whenever I can. There really isn't much difference when watching anime unless you cheap out on the bit rate when compressing.
On the other hand, I usually notice the difference when something has 5.1 audio.
Barium?
They cremated 'im!
Pre-Retina MacBook Pros should be downgradable to 10.6, but it's not trivial. The last shrink-wrap retail copy of Snow Leopard was 10.6.3, and these need at least 10.6.7. You can download a burnable (dual-layer!) image of 10.6.7 via TPB or similar sources. There is some missing hardware support, but you can now run the 10.6.8 updater. (Note: If you want to use the migration tool, do it during the 10.6.7 install! I didn't do it until post-install, and it was a pain because it migrated my home folder to a new user ID.) After all this was done, I put the 10.6.7 DVD-R and a CD-R with the 10.6.8 updater in my Snow Leopard box.
Installing Rosetta is then your next hurdle. In my case, I think it pulled it in during the migration from my previous MacBook Pro. Otherwise you'll have to find the installer package for it. I'm not sure if it's on the 10.6 install discs (I think it is) or if you need to go back to 10.5.
CS2 ought to run reasonably well under Rosetta. I still run a Carbon era version of Photoshop because it supports the driver to an old scanner I use, and it's usable for general image editing tasks, but the marching ants effect can cause the fan to run.
I was referring to whatever is cin/cout, which I never use, so I wasn't familiar with which header they are in. A quick check shows that what I meant was iostream. And anything which might use the heap is generally Right Out with small embedded stuff. Can you trust the STL to not use dynamic allocation?
And seriously, you think sorting/searching efficiency is important when programming microcontrollers? It doesn't matter how efficient your sorting algorithm is if it is never used. Or searching is only used a few times per second on small data sets. They have so little memory and so much speed that you can get away with walking linked lists for the times when you can't just declare stuff as arrays.
Then banish any use of cstdio, STL, and compile with -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti and check again. In other words, "C with classes" mode.
C++ does have a few good features that can be useful in small embedded code if you know where C++'s bloat is and avoid it. Using classes as "structs with functions attached" helps encapsulate your code. And in particular, virtual methods are a significant improvement in readability over function pointers, and generally will have a smaller read-write segment footprint. For bonus points, learn how to use fixed allocation pools with placement new to avoid the problems you can get from having a heap.
It's depressing that Objective-C, Ruby and VB.Net have gone up, and see C# go down...
It's depressing to see a Microsoft-proprietary language, that they're not even supporting on one of their most recent platforms, go down in popularity? Really?
"... Except Linux"
Sounds like this is a hack to let unsigned apps in. While it's not impossible to have an app which is actually a Linux boot loader, it would actually have to take control away from the kernel first. All this does is tell the kernel not to check the app.
I'm rather surprised that El Reg didn't take an opportunity in their article about this to snipe about Linux still being locked out.
Yes, they spend their days at drafting desks... drawing lines! They don't spend their days at drafting desks typing documents, replying to e-mail, or working with spreadsheets. Powerpoint might be the closest "business PC use" to drafting, but you still have to type in a bunch of text.
And you know what? At this time, probably over 99% of PCs still have one monitor! The only thing you can count on having a second monitor is a Nintendo DS/3DS. The problem is that MS is trying to make touch the "preferred" interface.
Not to mention that your finger and hand get in the way of viewing the screen, too.
It's probably time to invest in shares of SC Johnson because of all the Windex they'll be selling.
You can also move closer to a blackboard than you can to that screen on your desk or laptop on your legs. This means that your upper arm can be kept much more at rest than if you have to reach out to touch something.
Zero thought has been put into the ergonomics of any UI changes in over a decade. I've only ever heard of Apple doing that seriously back in the '80s. Now UI changes are driven by designer egos. (it's only missing the 'r'!)
For me, it is specifically that rubber-band effect with empty space beyond the content when scrolling past the end of a scrollable area that keeps me from going beyond 10.6. I just find it extremely annoying. I also didn't like the "scroll bar arrows at the end" thing that came from NeXT, but at least they let you turn it off. (There was still no reason to leave as the default other than Steve's ego.)
The nice thing about MacOS back in the day was that Apple actually took the time to test new UI ideas with actual users. That's why they went with the menu bar instead of menus in windows and menus on right-click, because it was actually more usable. Now nobody does that. It seems that UIs these days are designed by the marketing division to look flashy and "different" (as an incorrect opposite of "old" and "boring"), with no regard to whether they add to or detract from usability. Well, except that even open source projects are copying questionable UI ideas, too, and they don't have a marketing department.
I, for one, do not welcome our ego-driven user interface overlords.
That's nothing. Having conflicting filenames in an OS codebase such that a case-sensitive filesystem is required to store/compile it, now that takes true idiocy. I'm referring to Linux, in case you didn't guess, specifically the netfilter code.
I think on 3720 terminal keyboards, the enter key WAS the right shift key, or rather was where the right shift key belonged. Someone at IBM apparently decided it was redundant or something, and removed it or moved it so far out of position that it didn't matter. My first year of college in the early '80s, they were still using that old IBM crap. The next semester they started getting rid of it in favor of a VAX 780 and way too many terminals hanging off it. In that one semester, the touch typing I had learned in high school was forever broken in that I never used the right shift key again while touch-typing. When I do shift-A, I use the 2WSX finger for the A.
The key above Enter? Oh, you mean the plus key!
which is being finished up
I don't know what your definition of "finished up" is, but "first unmanned test launch in two years if Congress behaves" isn't mine. That assumes that the Senate doesn't change their minds about the distribution of pork, causing the Senate Launch System to be even further behind than it already is.
Good thing we've got three private commercial crew launch systems underway (you forgot Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser), one of which is based on an already working (I won't call it "proven" without a few more successful missions) cargo system with currently the only significant mass return capability other than a crewed Soyuz.
You have now given me a vision of Richard Branson as Dr. Evil. "He may be evil, but he's fast!"
Fortunately there was nothing in my mouth at the time, so my keyboard and screen are just fine.
Brownsville, TX / Boca Chica beach is just a hair south of 26 N, and is one of the locations that SpaceX is considering for a launch site. Parts of Florida are south of that, but are not as suitable as Canaveral. The Boca Chica area is not unlike Canaveral in being a sparsely populated wetlands area. There is still some hurricane danger, but it shouldn't have anywhere near the rain days problem of KSC.
"Cletus!"
"Wut is it, Brandine?"
"I'm-a hungry now!"
"All right, I'll go get me mah shotgun and look for one o' dem dere pizza birds flying by."