Because you want to be able to walk up to the box and get a console without having to fuck around with drivers, functions, endpoints, pipes and the rest of the USB stack. Serial just works - bang bits at the right speed and you're in business. You can build a really simple, dumb serial device that acts as a terminal. USB doesn't have a universal way to talk to devices like that.
Serial ports are definitely still alive and well as a connection of last resort. All my network switches, rack mount servers etc. have a serial console port to help when you can't use the usual network administration interface. Professional desktops also tend to have serial ports allowing you to do initial setup of one of these devices without the need for a USB to serial adaptor.
Centronics-style parallel printer ports, on the other hand, really do seem to have disappeared. You'd be hard pressed to find a computer that includes one any more. They were always a bit troublesome, without good two-way speed negotiation, and with generally unreliable daisy-chaining of peripherals. Requiring thick cables and using unbalanced signals also contributed to poor reliability at higher speeds. It was nice for hobby projects to be able to get logic levels straight out of the connector, but they weren't the best interface for anything else.
You can't have been alive at the time. It really did seem that Reagan may have been crazy enough to attack the USSR under the belief he was doing gods work.
You know she was never connected to FreeBSD in any official capacity. She helped organise the meetbsd conference, but that's it. She worked for Yahoo at one point but was sacked for under-performance, and she's been a professional SJW ever since as far as I can tell.
Oh but what about official firmware updates you ask?
I've yet to own a device that's ever received one.
What shitty unsupported devices are you buying? Every wifi AP and DSL modem I've bought has had at least one official firmware update after purchase, including an old Netgear DG632 (still in use), three generations of Apple AirPort Express, some shitty Billion DSL router, and an AVM FritzBox.
It will work on anything that supports a standard USB keyboard, assuming the keyboard layout selected on the host device matches what the barcode reader is generating key-presses for (e.g. if you have French keyboard but the barcode reader generates US key-presses selected you'll get A instead of Q).
I had that issue with an older e-mail client. I worked around it by creating an xinetd service listening on a local TCP port that establishes the TLS connection to the e-mail server using the ncat (from nmap project). The mail client opens a plaintext connection to the local server and it all works nicely.
You're completely missing the point of the article: it doesn't matter if your development environment is clean if a library you use was built in a trojanised environment. Whichever IDE or build tool you use the same applies. It wouldn't have mattered whether the app developer used clean Xcode, clean Code::Blocks, or whatever, the malware got into their app by way of a third-party library built with a bad copy of Xcode. The moral is, be careful who you trust.?
(Also, can you actually develop for iPhone/iPad with Code::Blocks anyway? Don't you need to use Xcode in some form for the signing process to work? I could be wrong, I've never actually developed an iApp, but I suspect AC hasn't either.)
Because the Wii U isn't competing head-to-head with the other consoles. It's relying largely on people who want games from exclusive franchises (Mario Bros, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Legend of Zelda, and so on). No-one is going to make a decision to buy a Wii U based on the total number of games on the market.
I don't think you know what Nintendo's target audience actually plays. Their most successful franchises at the moment are Mario Bros (platforming), Mario Kart (racing), Legend of Zelda (action adventure) and Smash Bros (fighting). None of these would be playable with the Apple TV controller, and the 200MB limit would make load times for each level intolerably slow. There's no way they could take Nintendo's customers with what they've got.
No-one in the Chinese government actually likes the one-child policy. It's seen as a problem in many ways. However there are many people tied up administering it. If you were to abolish it completely you'd be seen as the evil politician who put all those people out of jobs. So instead they make lots of exceptions to it, and now change it to a two-child policy. So all those public servants can keep their jobs.
What the actual fuck? I was born in an environment where English, Kanada, Hindi and Dutch were spoken. I can speak five languages now. I understand how to use tenses, and that different languages have different tenses available. That's never been an issue for me. Are you going to claim next that bilingual children can't use articles? Or the verb to be? Oh I know, verb conjugation! That's an easy one! Bilingual children can't conjugate verbs!
I'll grant that a child whose parents aren't fluent English speakers isn't going to learn to speak perfect English at home, that's to be expected. But isn't school supposed to remedy that? What's the point of sending the kids to school if it isn't even providing basic language education? Don't they teach English/ESL?
I think there's another issue at play, in that some teachers simply take English for granted and never put in the effort to actually understand it fully, leaving them unable to teach it properly. Perhaps one should be required to speak at least one other language in order to be qualified to teach English. You learn a lot about how a language works when you see how another language does it differently.
I disagree with your last assertion. I had exposure to multiple languages from the day I was born, and I think it was great for me because it gave me that disconnect between concepts and words. I have far less trouble learning languages than my wife, who grew up with a single language and learned English later.
Agree. I run my own e-mail servers for a few domains and have no trouble at all. You need to be absolutely 100% sure that you aren't operating an open relay, or you'll be blacklisted immediately. You also need correctly configured STARTTLS with a valid certificate signed by a widely accepted root. Most relays will reject mail if STARTTLS is not used. Reverse DNS helps but isn't 100% essential. You want reverse DNS to resolve to something in the same domain. For example if people connect to the server as mail.domain.com but reverse DNS calls it srv1.domain.com that will be accepted by the vast majority of relays. If you want Google/Yahoo/Outlook to accept your mail you need DKIM signing, which involves generating key pairs, putting the public keys in DNS and configuring your mail server to sign messages. Correctly configured SPF improves your reputation, too.
Your whole philosophy is that femininity is good and masculinity is bad, and therefore anything bad must be caused by masculinity. You're demonising half the population. Have you considered that men's depression may not be caused by masculinity? Have you considered that this constant derision of masculinity may have negative effects on men?
But straight away you go and blame it on "toxic masculinity" - you're labelling men as the problem again. You're not interested in anything that would support men, only in demonising them.
The issue they're talking about is that feminists have a history of only wanting equality when it benefits them. For example in the US, women successfully obtained the right to vote without the responsibility of being eligible for conscription. Yes, the US is not the entire world. You can agree or disagree about whether this is a desirable situation, etc.
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Because you want to be able to walk up to the box and get a console without having to fuck around with drivers, functions, endpoints, pipes and the rest of the USB stack. Serial just works - bang bits at the right speed and you're in business. You can build a really simple, dumb serial device that acts as a terminal. USB doesn't have a universal way to talk to devices like that.
Serial ports are definitely still alive and well as a connection of last resort. All my network switches, rack mount servers etc. have a serial console port to help when you can't use the usual network administration interface. Professional desktops also tend to have serial ports allowing you to do initial setup of one of these devices without the need for a USB to serial adaptor.
Centronics-style parallel printer ports, on the other hand, really do seem to have disappeared. You'd be hard pressed to find a computer that includes one any more. They were always a bit troublesome, without good two-way speed negotiation, and with generally unreliable daisy-chaining of peripherals. Requiring thick cables and using unbalanced signals also contributed to poor reliability at higher speeds. It was nice for hobby projects to be able to get logic levels straight out of the connector, but they weren't the best interface for anything else.
Not really. Most rockets these days use solid fuels, kerosene/LOx, hydrazine or other fuels. H2/O2 isn't the most common rocket fuel by a long way.
What's behind changing your sig from the previous LGBTt line to the current one that completely dissociates t from LGBT? Just curious.
You can't have been alive at the time. It really did seem that Reagan may have been crazy enough to attack the USSR under the belief he was doing gods work.
You know she was never connected to FreeBSD in any official capacity. She helped organise the meetbsd conference, but that's it. She worked for Yahoo at one point but was sacked for under-performance, and she's been a professional SJW ever since as far as I can tell.
What shitty unsupported devices are you buying? Every wifi AP and DSL modem I've bought has had at least one official firmware update after purchase, including an old Netgear DG632 (still in use), three generations of Apple AirPort Express, some shitty Billion DSL router, and an AVM FritzBox.
It will work on anything that supports a standard USB keyboard, assuming the keyboard layout selected on the host device matches what the barcode reader is generating key-presses for (e.g. if you have French keyboard but the barcode reader generates US key-presses selected you'll get A instead of Q).
I had that issue with an older e-mail client. I worked around it by creating an xinetd service listening on a local TCP port that establishes the TLS connection to the e-mail server using the ncat (from nmap project). The mail client opens a plaintext connection to the local server and it all works nicely.
No, more importantly than that they use outside air for the reaction mass, and this is what makes them so much more efficient than a rocket.
You're completely missing the point of the article: it doesn't matter if your development environment is clean if a library you use was built in a trojanised environment. Whichever IDE or build tool you use the same applies. It wouldn't have mattered whether the app developer used clean Xcode, clean Code::Blocks, or whatever, the malware got into their app by way of a third-party library built with a bad copy of Xcode. The moral is, be careful who you trust.?
(Also, can you actually develop for iPhone/iPad with Code::Blocks anyway? Don't you need to use Xcode in some form for the signing process to work? I could be wrong, I've never actually developed an iApp, but I suspect AC hasn't either.)
Using a different build tool won't protect you from an infected 3rd-party library.
It's the sound of backup generator testing that the residents have complained about.
Because the Wii U isn't competing head-to-head with the other consoles. It's relying largely on people who want games from exclusive franchises (Mario Bros, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Legend of Zelda, and so on). No-one is going to make a decision to buy a Wii U based on the total number of games on the market.
I don't think you know what Nintendo's target audience actually plays. Their most successful franchises at the moment are Mario Bros (platforming), Mario Kart (racing), Legend of Zelda (action adventure) and Smash Bros (fighting). None of these would be playable with the Apple TV controller, and the 200MB limit would make load times for each level intolerably slow. There's no way they could take Nintendo's customers with what they've got.
No-one in the Chinese government actually likes the one-child policy. It's seen as a problem in many ways. However there are many people tied up administering it. If you were to abolish it completely you'd be seen as the evil politician who put all those people out of jobs. So instead they make lots of exceptions to it, and now change it to a two-child policy. So all those public servants can keep their jobs.
I don't find it funny at all. I guess if that's his best, the rest of his material must be absolute shit.
Is the resemblance between your nick "guestapoo" and "Gestapo" intentional or coincidental?
And MOX has a relatively low proportion of plutonium coupled with a very high ignition temperature. It probably wouldn't catch fire.
What the actual fuck? I was born in an environment where English, Kanada, Hindi and Dutch were spoken. I can speak five languages now. I understand how to use tenses, and that different languages have different tenses available. That's never been an issue for me. Are you going to claim next that bilingual children can't use articles? Or the verb to be? Oh I know, verb conjugation! That's an easy one! Bilingual children can't conjugate verbs!
I'll grant that a child whose parents aren't fluent English speakers isn't going to learn to speak perfect English at home, that's to be expected. But isn't school supposed to remedy that? What's the point of sending the kids to school if it isn't even providing basic language education? Don't they teach English/ESL?
I think there's another issue at play, in that some teachers simply take English for granted and never put in the effort to actually understand it fully, leaving them unable to teach it properly. Perhaps one should be required to speak at least one other language in order to be qualified to teach English. You learn a lot about how a language works when you see how another language does it differently.
I disagree with your last assertion. I had exposure to multiple languages from the day I was born, and I think it was great for me because it gave me that disconnect between concepts and words. I have far less trouble learning languages than my wife, who grew up with a single language and learned English later.
Agree. I run my own e-mail servers for a few domains and have no trouble at all. You need to be absolutely 100% sure that you aren't operating an open relay, or you'll be blacklisted immediately. You also need correctly configured STARTTLS with a valid certificate signed by a widely accepted root. Most relays will reject mail if STARTTLS is not used. Reverse DNS helps but isn't 100% essential. You want reverse DNS to resolve to something in the same domain. For example if people connect to the server as mail.domain.com but reverse DNS calls it srv1.domain.com that will be accepted by the vast majority of relays. If you want Google/Yahoo/Outlook to accept your mail you need DKIM signing, which involves generating key pairs, putting the public keys in DNS and configuring your mail server to sign messages. Correctly configured SPF improves your reputation, too.
Your whole philosophy is that femininity is good and masculinity is bad, and therefore anything bad must be caused by masculinity. You're demonising half the population. Have you considered that men's depression may not be caused by masculinity? Have you considered that this constant derision of masculinity may have negative effects on men?
But straight away you go and blame it on "toxic masculinity" - you're labelling men as the problem again. You're not interested in anything that would support men, only in demonising them.
The issue they're talking about is that feminists have a history of only wanting equality when it benefits them. For example in the US, women successfully obtained the right to vote without the responsibility of being eligible for conscription. Yes, the US is not the entire world. You can agree or disagree about whether this is a desirable situation, etc.