Those who don't really understand a technology think it's something you can simply learn by being taught. Programming is definitely not one of those things, some people's brains just can't comprehend certain things that you need to be a good programmer.
Back around 2000, I interviewed for a job with a major internet hosting company. Admittedly it wouldn't have been a great match because I'm naturally great at programming, but merely good at admin stuff (I've run my own web site and e-mail server on my DSL since 2000, so I'm not completely clueless there). I was really bothered when their HR bimbo said "We can teach people people to be tech people, but we can't teach tech people to be people people!" It was such a perfectly-formed yet stupid statement that I couldn't forget it. Maybe it's because you (by virtue of being in HR) understand what it takes to be "people people", but you have no clue what it takes to be "tech people"?
I'm glad I didn't get that job, as it ended up with me moving to Austin and a few months later getting my second-best job ever. (so far... the best one happened ten years later)
Exactly. Any good audio software can have its virtual knobs mapped to real knobs on a MIDI device (almost always USB these days, with adapters available to convert classic serial MIDI to USB). They will also usually include pre-programmed map support for the hundred or so most popular MIDI control devices. Not just audio editing (knobs, faders, buttons, LEDs), but music input (piano keyboards, pitch controls, variable-pressure drum pads) and DJ mixing (jog wheels, faders, knobs, buttons, pads, LEDs) as well. They all use USB MIDI, but the controllers and the messages they send are combined differently to match the standard workflows of each domain.
But it doesn't allow Xbone players, does it? That's the whole point here, they just don't want to share. And I see no reference to a Mac client anywhere, unless you're claiming that running Boot Camp is "Mac players".
You could, you know, just watch what's on the antenna for free? The only thing I normally watch that isn't on the antenna is current anime from Japan. (The current season is actually one of the best in years. It's just not big enough of a business for anyone to care about people torrenting that shit.)
Really, the only good reason to still have cable is because of live sports, which some of us can live without.
You mean in Japan, where they allowed a nuclear power plant to be built on a coast that gets tsunamis, with cooling pump emergency power generators at sea level?
Then I assume you've never tried to use a brand new Xbone out of the box without an internet connection? It requires an initial download before you can play *any* games on it. I don't ever plan to have one, I only know this because I've seen it happen.
The problem is that Iridium was not designed for digital data. It even pre-dates SMS. As I understand it, you would probably have to use an analog modem to send telemetry data. The next generation Iridium is still being launched over the next year or so. But what is really going to make such telemetry cheap is when LEO internet satellites get deployed.
For many years back in the 00s, I would see old boxed Linux distros in used bookstores. Every time I saw one, I couldn't help but think of all the exploitable services that they installed and enabled by default. Ironically, those exploits may now be so old that nobody bothers to put them in automated 'sploits. But I still wouldn't install that shit.
Yeah, you can hook up a 500GB drive to it, that ought to be enough for the entire Amiga game software library! If you're lucky, you might even find one of the rare 750GB or 1 terabyte drives that were made right as IDE got deprecated! Then you can have all that extra space ready to fill up after the army of Amiga developers makes hot new games to run on the 2000 or so of these that will ever get built! Amiga forever, maaan!
The real, real reason that 68k isn't used anymore is that Motorola fell for the PowerPC meme. 88K was supposedly a pretty decent architecture, and they killed both at the same time. Coldfire was just the scraps of 68K for the embedded market. Apple switched architectures twice because Motorola couldn't stay interested in making high-end desktop CPUs.
The x86 instruction set was horrible, and Motorola could have used the same tricks on 68K that kept x86 going so long.
But really, the root cause reason that 68k isn't used anymore happened in 1981 or so when IBM picked the 8088. There are various legends about what happened, but the most coherent intersection of them that I have been able to deduce is that Intel wanted the 68008 (because the 8-bit bus would let them make a cheaper system), Motorola didn't want to commit to their deadline, Intel went with the 8088, and then Motorola had the 68008 out by the deadline anyhow. It surely didn't help any that at the time (as related in the DTACK-Grounded newsletter), Motorola's marketing group really only wanted to sell the 68K for $10,000+ Unix systems, and couldn't be bothered with embedded or consumer customers.
Seriously, though, the moon is tidally locked, so the same side always faces Earth. What does change is what part of Earth it faces, due to both the daily rotation and the monthly orbit. Which side is facing the Sun is mostly irrelevant unless you are using solar power.
Also it would be rather nice if the now 17-year-old bug with several hundred comments on "please don't let a fat-fingered ctrl-Q (when we meant ctrl-W) quit the entire browser without confirmation"
A bit of history here... back in the ancient days of Macintosh in the '80s, the first major program to put the W key on the window close command was Microsoft Word for Mac 1.0. (It also used a bytecode VM with a segment:offset memory model, so it couldn't run above 1M in the address space and needed special handling in Multifinder.) This has been responsible for billions of accidental quits ever since then.
I stopped caring about the firehose a few years ago when it was choked with spam submissions, mostly from user IDs in the 39xxxxx and 4xxxxxx range. This was made worse by the complete lack of a karma system for rejected submissions. (Even with thousands of throwaway accounts, many of them would submit spam dozens of times.) Now I don't even remember the firehose URL to see if it's still as bad at it used to be.
While I admit that it is good for people who aren't established/. users to be able to submit stories (and you already don't need to be logged in to submit), there needs to be an automated way to reject submissions that are clearly off-topic (certain keywords were obviously bannable) or come from troublesome net blocks. (preferably with a "limbo" mode where the spammy submitter still sees them from his/24 IP block).
And they're all unencrypted, so not only can you DVR them (if you can find a DVR that doesn't assume that everyone uses cable), but you can put DVR software on a PC and have them dumped into plain old MPEG-2 transport stream files that you can keep or trade with other people.
My amazing hack was to feed the antenna (which has been in the attic of this two-story house since at least 1979!) into the input of the distribution amp that the cable company put in a box on the side of the house. Instantly the whole house gets free TV.
The next hack (after summer ends) would be to put another antenna up there, and wire them together to try to get a distant (but in-market!) channel in a different direction.
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Those who don't really understand a technology think it's something you can simply learn by being taught. Programming is definitely not one of those things, some people's brains just can't comprehend certain things that you need to be a good programmer.
Back around 2000, I interviewed for a job with a major internet hosting company. Admittedly it wouldn't have been a great match because I'm naturally great at programming, but merely good at admin stuff (I've run my own web site and e-mail server on my DSL since 2000, so I'm not completely clueless there). I was really bothered when their HR bimbo said "We can teach people people to be tech people, but we can't teach tech people to be people people!" It was such a perfectly-formed yet stupid statement that I couldn't forget it. Maybe it's because you (by virtue of being in HR) understand what it takes to be "people people", but you have no clue what it takes to be "tech people"?
I'm glad I didn't get that job, as it ended up with me moving to Austin and a few months later getting my second-best job ever. (so far... the best one happened ten years later)
Exactly. Any good audio software can have its virtual knobs mapped to real knobs on a MIDI device (almost always USB these days, with adapters available to convert classic serial MIDI to USB). They will also usually include pre-programmed map support for the hundred or so most popular MIDI control devices. Not just audio editing (knobs, faders, buttons, LEDs), but music input (piano keyboards, pitch controls, variable-pressure drum pads) and DJ mixing (jog wheels, faders, knobs, buttons, pads, LEDs) as well. They all use USB MIDI, but the controllers and the messages they send are combined differently to match the standard workflows of each domain.
But it doesn't allow Xbone players, does it? That's the whole point here, they just don't want to share. And I see no reference to a Mac client anywhere, unless you're claiming that running Boot Camp is "Mac players".
It is now advertisements for Light Novels (and sometimes manga) disguised as shows.
I've heard that they even make some LCD displays with tuners built in! Will technology ever cease to amaze us?
You could, you know, just watch what's on the antenna for free? The only thing I normally watch that isn't on the antenna is current anime from Japan. (The current season is actually one of the best in years. It's just not big enough of a business for anyone to care about people torrenting that shit.)
Really, the only good reason to still have cable is because of live sports, which some of us can live without.
You mean in Japan, where they allowed a nuclear power plant to be built on a coast that gets tsunamis, with cooling pump emergency power generators at sea level?
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Then I assume you've never tried to use a brand new Xbone out of the box without an internet connection? It requires an initial download before you can play *any* games on it. I don't ever plan to have one, I only know this because I've seen it happen.
The problem is that Iridium was not designed for digital data. It even pre-dates SMS. As I understand it, you would probably have to use an analog modem to send telemetry data. The next generation Iridium is still being launched over the next year or so. But what is really going to make such telemetry cheap is when LEO internet satellites get deployed.
Way to Go Software "Engineers".
But they were the finest Millennials that stock options could buy!
For many years back in the 00s, I would see old boxed Linux distros in used bookstores. Every time I saw one, I couldn't help but think of all the exploitable services that they installed and enabled by default. Ironically, those exploits may now be so old that nobody bothers to put them in automated 'sploits. But I still wouldn't install that shit.
All we need to do is get SCO to sue over ownership of systemd, then the world will be safe.
Yeah, you can hook up a 500GB drive to it, that ought to be enough for the entire Amiga game software library! If you're lucky, you might even find one of the rare 750GB or 1 terabyte drives that were made right as IDE got deprecated! Then you can have all that extra space ready to fill up after the army of Amiga developers makes hot new games to run on the 2000 or so of these that will ever get built! Amiga forever, maaan!
The real, real reason that 68k isn't used anymore is that Motorola fell for the PowerPC meme. 88K was supposedly a pretty decent architecture, and they killed both at the same time. Coldfire was just the scraps of 68K for the embedded market. Apple switched architectures twice because Motorola couldn't stay interested in making high-end desktop CPUs.
The x86 instruction set was horrible, and Motorola could have used the same tricks on 68K that kept x86 going so long.
But really, the root cause reason that 68k isn't used anymore happened in 1981 or so when IBM picked the 8088. There are various legends about what happened, but the most coherent intersection of them that I have been able to deduce is that Intel wanted the 68008 (because the 8-bit bus would let them make a cheaper system), Motorola didn't want to commit to their deadline, Intel went with the 8088, and then Motorola had the 68008 out by the deadline anyhow. It surely didn't help any that at the time (as related in the DTACK-Grounded newsletter), Motorola's marketing group really only wanted to sell the 68K for $10,000+ Unix systems, and couldn't be bothered with embedded or consumer customers.
Well that's quite a time tunnel to the past.
That's nothing, I remember when orbitz.com was a site about a meme soft drink with little gelatin balls in it. Also, Kibology will never die.
Seriously, though, the moon is tidally locked, so the same side always faces Earth. What does change is what part of Earth it faces, due to both the daily rotation and the monthly orbit. Which side is facing the Sun is mostly irrelevant unless you are using solar power.
Also it would be rather nice if the now 17-year-old bug with several hundred comments on "please don't let a fat-fingered ctrl-Q (when we meant ctrl-W) quit the entire browser without confirmation"
A bit of history here... back in the ancient days of Macintosh in the '80s, the first major program to put the W key on the window close command was Microsoft Word for Mac 1.0. (It also used a bytecode VM with a segment:offset memory model, so it couldn't run above 1M in the address space and needed special handling in Multifinder.) This has been responsible for billions of accidental quits ever since then.
Member when Firefox was a fork from the old Mozilla browser? Well, the browser changed its name years ago, but it's still around.
I stopped caring about the firehose a few years ago when it was choked with spam submissions, mostly from user IDs in the 39xxxxx and 4xxxxxx range. This was made worse by the complete lack of a karma system for rejected submissions. (Even with thousands of throwaway accounts, many of them would submit spam dozens of times.) Now I don't even remember the firehose URL to see if it's still as bad at it used to be.
While I admit that it is good for people who aren't established /. users to be able to submit stories (and you already don't need to be logged in to submit), there needs to be an automated way to reject submissions that are clearly off-topic (certain keywords were obviously bannable) or come from troublesome net blocks. (preferably with a "limbo" mode where the spammy submitter still sees them from his /24 IP block).
But do they recognize 0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3?
Some of those devices also play silver-colored discs that can contain music and can even be played without an internet connection!
And they're all unencrypted, so not only can you DVR them (if you can find a DVR that doesn't assume that everyone uses cable), but you can put DVR software on a PC and have them dumped into plain old MPEG-2 transport stream files that you can keep or trade with other people.
My amazing hack was to feed the antenna (which has been in the attic of this two-story house since at least 1979!) into the input of the distribution amp that the cable company put in a box on the side of the house. Instantly the whole house gets free TV.
The next hack (after summer ends) would be to put another antenna up there, and wire them together to try to get a distant (but in-market!) channel in a different direction.
Ironically, one of the dumber DRM schemes for audio CDs could be defeated by using a magic marker to color over the DRM data.