I think it's at the option of the place you are buying from. Some places I always have to sign for small purchases, and for groceries, where I go the threshold is $50.
Unix time as a double is actually more sensible than a 64-bit time_t. It allows you to have microsecond accuracy, while being Y10K compliant, and not wasting ~30 bits that you will never see used. The year has to get very large before you lose single-seconds accuracy. And since the integer part is whole seconds, you don't get the pennies problem. The only good part about long long time_t is being inherently compatible with the standard libraries. So you use double internally in the OS, and have two sets of library functions, one for integer, and one for double.
I think if they switched to all-year DST, after a couple of years people would be complaining about having to wake up in the middle of the night to take the kids to school and go to work. And the ones who think that "everybody hates it" are ignorant that the ones who like it aren't complaining.
Even that Mac Mini is headed straight for the bin, but I'm sure I can con a few hundred out of some Apple fanatic for something that is basically outclassed by a Raspberry Pi nowadays
If it's one of the more recent ones with 4GB of soldered RAM, it's not really good for much of anything serious. I ended up with one (some moron had erased the internal drive and I had to set up an optical drive to re-install an OS) that I use as a MythTV client. My other mac minis with socketed RAM are doing actual useful things. And if I wanted a laptop, I wouldn't get a mini. I still don't know yet if the new MacBook Pro will have socketed RAM.
It's the same push-and-turn lid that they've been using since the Unibody era. It looks like they've even gone with standard SSD modules, since they say "all-flash PCIe-based storage". And now that external GPUs are finally a thing, you could (theoretically) even play actual games on it.
Reusing rockets isn't just about saving money, it's also about increasing launch rate. If it takes four months to build a rocket, your launch rate is limited by how many rockets you can build at once, no matter how many production lines you set up. And there's an extra cost to set up each new line, beyond the materials and labor cost for each rocket. If it takes 24 hours to refurb a rocket for reuse, you can launch a lot more often, even with only two or three production lines.
Have you really not followed the list of missions? They're about to launch the final ten of a completely new Iridium constellation next month. But we do need more Iridium-like satellites for better high-speed internet. Current satellite internet is crap because it's only using GEO sats, which are ten times as high.
Yeah, about that Soyuz, it had parachutes. No matter how you sectioned off bits of Shuttle, it's still a rock without something to slow its descent. Even the CRS-7 capsule would have survived mostly intact if it had been programmed to handle an abort. But it wasn't man-rated, so they never bothered. Supposedly it has since been updated to abort properly in the unlikely event of the same thing happening again.
We need a Bond movie with both an Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos character. Bezos would be the villain, of course, Musk would just be the red herring. With all the money going into Blue Origin, and they're still not further along than they are? He's definitely hiding some tech for evil purposes! The climax scene would involve Bond in a space suit, crawling into a Dragon v1 capsule so that he can save the day.
A few months ago, my bank sent me a new ATM card. Except it was a debit card now. Apparently the Pulse card I got back in the mid '90s (yes, I was still using a card that was over 20 years old!) was just too old of a technology to support. Back then, the PIN was set by me pressing four digit keys on this enormous typewriter-like machine (my vague recollection of that day) that embossed and encoded the card. For the new card, the number to dial for activation handled setting the PIN. I suppose that call could have been wire-tapped to get the DTMF of setting it, but it's a lot more secure than an actual human in the loop.
Caller ID is not "trustworthy", and any number you get via that is by extension not trustworthy. Anyone who hasn't learned that just from the all the "same exchange" spoofing (all but last four numbers same as yours) these days is a fool.
The thing about flying cars is that they are neither good at being cars nor planes. The two modes of transportation are sufficiently different that it is likely impossible to make something that is good at both. But fuck that, let's make them autonomous, too! (At least that avoids the other problem, of having human idiots in control of a flying vehicle!)
False. The first demo video of Minecraft was posted May 13, 2009. Infiminer source was released May 16, 2009. Obviously Notch had been working on his code for at least a few weeks before then. As you can probably tell, 16 is greater than 13.
Unfortunately that video, "Cave game tech test" by Nizzoch (F9t3FREAZ-k) is "not available in your country". This and this seem to be re-posted copies of it. I can't watch the original via Hooktube, but at least the date and description shows:
Cave game tech test
Published by Nizzotch on Wed, 13 May 2009 17:47:26 GMT
This is a very early test of an Infiniminer clone I'm working on. It will have more resource management and materials, if I ever get around to finishing it.
It currently runs at about 700 fps for a 256x256x64 tile map.
The problem with that is there is no reliable way to identify content, so this would surely end up as identified data being taxed and paid to the music/movie industry by default. Because "nobody could possibly be" downloading that much data unless they were downloading major studio content, there is nothing else that they could possibly be downloading. Even content from minor studios would end up with these taxes being paid to the major studios.
Impossible for this to happen, you say? It already happens with live performance royalties. Even if all you ever play is your own self-composed music, playing it in public at a place of business subjects you to fees that will get paid to the music industry, that will never reach you unless you first go through a bureaucratic process that is designed to require the resources of a major studio.
Apple could require the use of Apple Service Toolkit 2 ONLY until the warranty ended and then get rid of the requirement for the use of Apple Service Toolkit 2 after the warranty ended.
They could, but do you really think they would go to the effort of disabling this crap after the warranty period expires?
This is a sad day, now I know that the Macintosh is dead, and Tim Cook and a bunch of middle managers killed it. Thanks, Steve, for trying to cure freaking pancreatic cancer with new-age crap. I'll continue to use 2012-era stuff as long as I can, but I'll already be having to move to Linux as a games OS once Windows 7 support is removed from Visual Studio anyhow.
But you can't even do that because iOS mangles all the filenames.
Nope, that's just iTunes. That happened on the iPod before iOS even happened. They just wanted to appease the music companies that you wouldn't be able to yank the files out for easy piracy, no matter how silly that may sound now.
Here in DFW the ground regularly shifts and destroys foundations on homes because of fraking.
That happens in Texas anyhow because of drought vs non-drought years, combined with already poorly-built foundations that don't reach down to rock. It's been happening since long before fracking was invented. I suspect that someone told you it was because of fracking (or you decided it on your own), and you simply believed it.
The stations I used to watch from neighboring cities were out of the question - they didn't even show up on a channel scan.
If this was before the switch-over, most likely they were dual broadcasting, with the digital on a lower-powered transmitter. Where I lived, I didn't watch the local Fox station for a couple of years because I got a digital-only tuner, and their digital transmitter power was 500 watts. Yes, 500 watts, as in five light bulbs. To be fair though, there were probably some restrictions preventing more power, and IIRC they eventually cut over to digital on their original channel 7 frequency. (Low VHF 2-6 is bad for ATSC, but high VHF 7-13 works very well as long as you don't use a UHF-only antenna.)
I still think Seth got Fox to buy into it by at first making it look like they were getting "Married with Crew". All the original promos of the show were like this. Then suddenly it was Star-Trek tier SF with a misfit crew and snarks. That generation ship story would have made a great Trek episode, and it was still great with a crew of misfits. Misfit crews usually make for a fun show, too. Galaxy Quest? My first misfit crew show was Quark.
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I think it's at the option of the place you are buying from. Some places I always have to sign for small purchases, and for groceries, where I go the threshold is $50.
such as people wiping their drive of valuable data in the process.
You just had to drag Windows 10 into the discussion, didn't you?
Unix time as a double is actually more sensible than a 64-bit time_t. It allows you to have microsecond accuracy, while being Y10K compliant, and not wasting ~30 bits that you will never see used. The year has to get very large before you lose single-seconds accuracy. And since the integer part is whole seconds, you don't get the pennies problem. The only good part about long long time_t is being inherently compatible with the standard libraries. So you use double internally in the OS, and have two sets of library functions, one for integer, and one for double.
I think if they switched to all-year DST, after a couple of years people would be complaining about having to wake up in the middle of the night to take the kids to school and go to work. And the ones who think that "everybody hates it" are ignorant that the ones who like it aren't complaining.
Even that Mac Mini is headed straight for the bin, but I'm sure I can con a few hundred out of some Apple fanatic for something that is basically outclassed by a Raspberry Pi nowadays
If it's one of the more recent ones with 4GB of soldered RAM, it's not really good for much of anything serious. I ended up with one (some moron had erased the internal drive and I had to set up an optical drive to re-install an OS) that I use as a MythTV client. My other mac minis with socketed RAM are doing actual useful things. And if I wanted a laptop, I wouldn't get a mini. I still don't know yet if the new MacBook Pro will have socketed RAM.
"Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act"?
It's the same push-and-turn lid that they've been using since the Unibody era. It looks like they've even gone with standard SSD modules, since they say "all-flash PCIe-based storage". And now that external GPUs are finally a thing, you could (theoretically) even play actual games on it.
Reusing rockets isn't just about saving money, it's also about increasing launch rate. If it takes four months to build a rocket, your launch rate is limited by how many rockets you can build at once, no matter how many production lines you set up. And there's an extra cost to set up each new line, beyond the materials and labor cost for each rocket. If it takes 24 hours to refurb a rocket for reuse, you can launch a lot more often, even with only two or three production lines.
Have you really not followed the list of missions? They're about to launch the final ten of a completely new Iridium constellation next month. But we do need more Iridium-like satellites for better high-speed internet. Current satellite internet is crap because it's only using GEO sats, which are ten times as high.
Yeah, about that Soyuz, it had parachutes. No matter how you sectioned off bits of Shuttle, it's still a rock without something to slow its descent. Even the CRS-7 capsule would have survived mostly intact if it had been programmed to handle an abort. But it wasn't man-rated, so they never bothered. Supposedly it has since been updated to abort properly in the unlikely event of the same thing happening again.
We need a Bond movie with both an Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos character. Bezos would be the villain, of course, Musk would just be the red herring. With all the money going into Blue Origin, and they're still not further along than they are? He's definitely hiding some tech for evil purposes! The climax scene would involve Bond in a space suit, crawling into a Dragon v1 capsule so that he can save the day.
Hmm, yes, at least SpaceX isn't having test-stand accidents that end with hydrazine spilled all over the place.
A few months ago, my bank sent me a new ATM card. Except it was a debit card now. Apparently the Pulse card I got back in the mid '90s (yes, I was still using a card that was over 20 years old!) was just too old of a technology to support. Back then, the PIN was set by me pressing four digit keys on this enormous typewriter-like machine (my vague recollection of that day) that embossed and encoded the card. For the new card, the number to dial for activation handled setting the PIN. I suppose that call could have been wire-tapped to get the DTMF of setting it, but it's a lot more secure than an actual human in the loop.
but when someone from a trustworthy number calls
Caller ID is not "trustworthy", and any number you get via that is by extension not trustworthy. Anyone who hasn't learned that just from the all the "same exchange" spoofing (all but last four numbers same as yours) these days is a fool.
The thing about flying cars is that they are neither good at being cars nor planes. The two modes of transportation are sufficiently different that it is likely impossible to make something that is good at both. But fuck that, let's make them autonomous, too! (At least that avoids the other problem, of having human idiots in control of a flying vehicle!)
Microsoft's endgame
Porting it to C#/.NET?
False. The first demo video of Minecraft was posted May 13, 2009. Infiminer source was released May 16, 2009. Obviously Notch had been working on his code for at least a few weeks before then. As you can probably tell, 16 is greater than 13.
Unfortunately that video, "Cave game tech test" by Nizzoch (F9t3FREAZ-k) is "not available in your country". This and this seem to be re-posted copies of it. I can't watch the original via Hooktube, but at least the date and description shows:
Cave game tech test
Published by Nizzotch on Wed, 13 May 2009 17:47:26 GMT
This is a very early test of an Infiniminer clone I'm working on. It will have more resource management and materials, if I ever get around to finishing it.
It currently runs at about 700 fps for a 256x256x64 tile map.
You can follow development on my blog: http://notch.tumblr.com/
The problem with that is there is no reliable way to identify content, so this would surely end up as identified data being taxed and paid to the music/movie industry by default. Because "nobody could possibly be" downloading that much data unless they were downloading major studio content, there is nothing else that they could possibly be downloading. Even content from minor studios would end up with these taxes being paid to the major studios.
Impossible for this to happen, you say? It already happens with live performance royalties. Even if all you ever play is your own self-composed music, playing it in public at a place of business subjects you to fees that will get paid to the music industry, that will never reach you unless you first go through a bureaucratic process that is designed to require the resources of a major studio.
Have you heard about di-hydrogen monoxide? That stuff is toxic if inhaled in sufficient quantities.
Next year's Mac Mini might be the least sucky in years, but if this crap is in it, then it will come out of the box rotten to the core.
Apple could require the use of Apple Service Toolkit 2 ONLY until the warranty ended and then get rid of the requirement for the use of Apple Service Toolkit 2 after the warranty ended.
They could, but do you really think they would go to the effort of disabling this crap after the warranty period expires?
This is a sad day, now I know that the Macintosh is dead, and Tim Cook and a bunch of middle managers killed it. Thanks, Steve, for trying to cure freaking pancreatic cancer with new-age crap. I'll continue to use 2012-era stuff as long as I can, but I'll already be having to move to Linux as a games OS once Windows 7 support is removed from Visual Studio anyhow.
But you can't even do that because iOS mangles all the filenames.
Nope, that's just iTunes. That happened on the iPod before iOS even happened. They just wanted to appease the music companies that you wouldn't be able to yank the files out for easy piracy, no matter how silly that may sound now.
Here in DFW the ground regularly shifts and destroys foundations on homes because of fraking.
That happens in Texas anyhow because of drought vs non-drought years, combined with already poorly-built foundations that don't reach down to rock. It's been happening since long before fracking was invented. I suspect that someone told you it was because of fracking (or you decided it on your own), and you simply believed it.
The stations I used to watch from neighboring cities were out of the question - they didn't even show up on a channel scan.
If this was before the switch-over, most likely they were dual broadcasting, with the digital on a lower-powered transmitter. Where I lived, I didn't watch the local Fox station for a couple of years because I got a digital-only tuner, and their digital transmitter power was 500 watts. Yes, 500 watts, as in five light bulbs. To be fair though, there were probably some restrictions preventing more power, and IIRC they eventually cut over to digital on their original channel 7 frequency. (Low VHF 2-6 is bad for ATSC, but high VHF 7-13 works very well as long as you don't use a UHF-only antenna.)
I still think Seth got Fox to buy into it by at first making it look like they were getting "Married with Crew". All the original promos of the show were like this. Then suddenly it was Star-Trek tier SF with a misfit crew and snarks. That generation ship story would have made a great Trek episode, and it was still great with a crew of misfits. Misfit crews usually make for a fun show, too. Galaxy Quest? My first misfit crew show was Quark.