He also said something about people thinking that digital watches were really cool. If he had lived longer, he would have seen the error of his ways; the real problem was people thinking smartphones are really cool.
You didn't know impossibly bad tedium because you didn't watch it on Saturday afternoon TV back in the '70s. When it had commercials inserted, the "tunnel" scene was so long that it had at least two commercial breaks. That made it lose continunity, and as a grade school kid, my attention wandered during the commercials such that I had no chance of following the story. But I guess it turned out that it wouldn't have made much more sense anyhow, and had to wait until I read the book and watched 2010.
But at least I got to see it at an IMAX back in the '90s. I had to turn my head to see both ends of the screen. That's as close to the way it was intended to be seen as you can get.
As one of the early ARM licensees, Apple has a license allowing them to make their own original chip designs. And as I understand it, they do, in the chips the use for the iPhone/iPad. Most other ARM chip makers have to use a standard core from ARM, then they build their own stuff around it.
A zero host address in the local subnet in IPv4 means a reference to the local network. No matter your subnet length, 1.0.0.0 will always have a zero host address. 0/8 is reserved for "Local Identification". So 1.0.0.1 is the lowest valid IPv4 address.
So now we have DNS servers on 1.1.1.1, 4.4.4.4, and 8.8.8.8. Who has 2.2.2.2 and can they put a DNS server on it?
It's the "gig economy" that's the problem, where up to 20% of us don't actually have FICA withholdings from any employer at all.
You've never been self-employed in the USA, have you? The FICA being "from the employer" is just an accounting trick, either way the employer is still paying both halves of it to the IRS. If you're self-employed, YOU are the employer, and not only do you have to pay it, you have to pay it before you earn it. Even if you weren't going to have any work in the next three months, you are still required to pay the "estimated" amount on what you would have made.
Or maybe incidents like that are part of the reason it has gone so high. Just like how Superman #1 is only worth so much because of all the other copies that got thrown out.
...says the person who never lived in Texas, where it is 95F (35C) and higher all summer. Conversely, I'm sure it's harder to cycle after a heavy snow.
As did my dad from '78 to '85. Clearly Hawking had a variant with a much slower onset than usual. He also went full respirator, which added a lot of time along with the slow onset. But Hawking was also 76 on top of all that, and as being born is known to be fatal, we'll all go eventually.
I think it didn't help that they let the firehose go to weeds. There were a shitload of accounts in the 3.8-4.1 million range that constantly dumped spam into the firehose (while logged in!), and they failed to do anything useful about it. And that only encouraged them to spam more. I just checked, and yes, it's still a sewer, with accounts now in the 5.3 million range.
If any part of/. needs shadow bans, it is the firehose, with a separate karma system (submit more than a few nowhere-near-on-topic articles and your submissions are hidden from the rest of the world) and a bunch of keyword-based auto-moderation (there are a lot of spammy keywords in there) to find them.
The thing that/. does that is different from everyone else is how it gives mod points. Every time you read something on the site, it gives you a sort of micro-point called a "token". Once it reaches a threshold, you get mod points, either five or fifteen of them, for three days. As you use them, your points are depleted, and it could be weeks before you get more. Or if you don't use them, it could be days. A big thing this does is prevent new users (whether shills or simply outsiders) from immediately being able to moderate posts, and it prevents continuous abuse. Also, meta-moderation (when people actually do it in spite of the ambiguity of "does + mean agree or that the original post should be modded up?") can increase the time to months before you get mod points again.
For most of my life, I've lived in central CST, but for a year at high school age, I lived in Louisiana. The sun came up so much earlier (even though it was only half an hour) that I didn't even notice the earlier sunset.
This is also why the OS X 10.10 install disk does not work unless you set your clock back before installing. For some brillant reason, the inner disk image was signed with a certificate that expired in 2015 or so, and it aborts the installation with a cryptic error if the clock is set past that date. Fortunately, the installer environment has a sufficiently functional system to change the clock, so you can set it to 2014 and continue with the install.
What curved corners (in the video signal) came before the original Macintosh/Lisa? Apple was doing that back in 1984, and the screen was most definitely under-scanned.
Wait, there was a version of the MacBook Air that let you swap out the RAM and SSD? The SSD I can believe, if you got one of the first ones, but I thought they were already soldering RAM when they made the first Air.
It fills the purpose of a very thin, very light laptop that can be used for general web browsing and office apps. Unfortunately Apple went out of control and decided that all of their laptops need to be thin and light above all, at the expense of power, battery life, expandability, and repairability.
At least require a warning label. Something like "WARNING: This web site contains opinions known to the State of California to cause social cancer and brain defects or other rhetorical harm."
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He also said something about people thinking that digital watches were really cool. If he had lived longer, he would have seen the error of his ways; the real problem was people thinking smartphones are really cool.
You didn't know impossibly bad tedium because you didn't watch it on Saturday afternoon TV back in the '70s. When it had commercials inserted, the "tunnel" scene was so long that it had at least two commercial breaks. That made it lose continunity, and as a grade school kid, my attention wandered during the commercials such that I had no chance of following the story. But I guess it turned out that it wouldn't have made much more sense anyhow, and had to wait until I read the book and watched 2010.
But at least I got to see it at an IMAX back in the '90s. I had to turn my head to see both ends of the screen. That's as close to the way it was intended to be seen as you can get.
As one of the early ARM licensees, Apple has a license allowing them to make their own original chip designs. And as I understand it, they do, in the chips the use for the iPhone/iPad. Most other ARM chip makers have to use a standard core from ARM, then they build their own stuff around it.
A zero host address in the local subnet in IPv4 means a reference to the local network. No matter your subnet length, 1.0.0.0 will always have a zero host address. 0/8 is reserved for "Local Identification". So 1.0.0.1 is the lowest valid IPv4 address.
So now we have DNS servers on 1.1.1.1, 4.4.4.4, and 8.8.8.8. Who has 2.2.2.2 and can they put a DNS server on it?
They didn't have their own rockets.
So is tuberculosis.
It's the "gig economy" that's the problem, where up to 20% of us don't actually have FICA withholdings from any employer at all.
You've never been self-employed in the USA, have you? The FICA being "from the employer" is just an accounting trick, either way the employer is still paying both halves of it to the IRS. If you're self-employed, YOU are the employer, and not only do you have to pay it, you have to pay it before you earn it. Even if you weren't going to have any work in the next three months, you are still required to pay the "estimated" amount on what you would have made.
Or maybe incidents like that are part of the reason it has gone so high. Just like how Superman #1 is only worth so much because of all the other copies that got thrown out.
if you don't want to break a sweat
...says the person who never lived in Texas, where it is 95F (35C) and higher all summer. Conversely, I'm sure it's harder to cycle after a heavy snow.
As did my dad from '78 to '85. Clearly Hawking had a variant with a much slower onset than usual. He also went full respirator, which added a lot of time along with the slow onset. But Hawking was also 76 on top of all that, and as being born is known to be fatal, we'll all go eventually.
I think it didn't help that they let the firehose go to weeds. There were a shitload of accounts in the 3.8-4.1 million range that constantly dumped spam into the firehose (while logged in!), and they failed to do anything useful about it. And that only encouraged them to spam more. I just checked, and yes, it's still a sewer, with accounts now in the 5.3 million range.
If any part of /. needs shadow bans, it is the firehose, with a separate karma system (submit more than a few nowhere-near-on-topic articles and your submissions are hidden from the rest of the world) and a bunch of keyword-based auto-moderation (there are a lot of spammy keywords in there) to find them.
The thing that /. does that is different from everyone else is how it gives mod points. Every time you read something on the site, it gives you a sort of micro-point called a "token". Once it reaches a threshold, you get mod points, either five or fifteen of them, for three days. As you use them, your points are depleted, and it could be weeks before you get more. Or if you don't use them, it could be days. A big thing this does is prevent new users (whether shills or simply outsiders) from immediately being able to moderate posts, and it prevents continuous abuse. Also, meta-moderation (when people actually do it in spite of the ambiguity of "does + mean agree or that the original post should be modded up?") can increase the time to months before you get mod points again.
My problem is that I'm normally an early riser, and in the fall, I have trouble waking up an hour later.
Woosh.
For most of my life, I've lived in central CST, but for a year at high school age, I lived in Louisiana. The sun came up so much earlier (even though it was only half an hour) that I didn't even notice the earlier sunset.
This is also why the OS X 10.10 install disk does not work unless you set your clock back before installing. For some brillant reason, the inner disk image was signed with a certificate that expired in 2015 or so, and it aborts the installation with a cryptic error if the clock is set past that date. Fortunately, the installer environment has a sufficiently functional system to change the clock, so you can set it to 2014 and continue with the install.
What curved corners (in the video signal) came before the original Macintosh/Lisa? Apple was doing that back in 1984, and the screen was most definitely under-scanned.
And a pony.
maxed out RAM and SSD
Wait, there was a version of the MacBook Air that let you swap out the RAM and SSD? The SSD I can believe, if you got one of the first ones, but I thought they were already soldering RAM when they made the first Air.
It fills the purpose of a very thin, very light laptop that can be used for general web browsing and office apps. Unfortunately Apple went out of control and decided that all of their laptops need to be thin and light above all, at the expense of power, battery life, expandability, and repairability.
Jakarta? Nah, she looked at least thirty.
At least require a warning label. Something like "WARNING: This web site contains opinions known to the State of California to cause social cancer and brain defects or other rhetorical harm."
DigiCert didn't mail the private keys, Trustco's PHB did.
Is it just me, or does DDOSing Slashdot seem like the internet equivalent of kicking a puppy?
Then you would have to deal with the remains being an EPA superfund site. But yes, nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.