The "crap about global warming" is about the next one.
I just went through my first typhoon, visiting inlaws in Taiwan. They're getting hit a lot more frequently now - my wife has some pics of typhoon damage from a trip she went just a month before. At one point there were 3 cat 4 typhoons in the Pacific at the same time, also a historical first.
There's the path "it's caused randomly so we can't do anything about it" there's also the path "it's caused by ____ so lets yell at ____ so we feel better, but it's about how we showed ____ is the bad guy and we don't actually do anything".
I hope there is a path "it's caused by ____ so lets try to fix ____"
4. A dig at apple reminding consumers of the App Store cut.
I don't agree with #2, i think the "Apple Sheeple" trope is just that, a trope. Removing that, the list above collapses to just 1.
Of course Google has a cut of anything sold on Google Play,but is willing to eat that cut, or take it out of pretend revenues from Irish leprechauns or something. (not that Apple doesn't pretend the iPad was invented by Irish Leprechauns, for tax purposes)
I have a wife and kids, and am over 40. I also just read an article about how rents in Mouintain View make some folks rather live in their car and use Google corporate perks as part of their "home" (food, showers, laundry services, etc.)
The "have a family" and "living in a car" are mutually exclusive. This skews Googlers to non-family people, and also younger people. Whether that's an accident or by design, i'm not sure. But Google gets a bunch of people just out of school, fewer competing responsibilities, ability to get less sleep at night, etc...
The Apple ][ had very very bad hardware. You could basically ping the speaker, that's it. People built around that, making libraries that eventually became sound, then music. The Amiga had really good sound hardware (as did the Commodore 64), so not a lot of "geek builder cred" there. The PC had whatever hardware you put in, from the bare bones "ping the speaker" that essentially Apple had, to real dedicated spend a hundred or so sound cards. that makes PCs "it depends"
I heard stories of the old days of mainframes where they used disc packs for sound - access them a certain way for certain sounds that can be called "music" if you try hard enough.
I've seen references to "don't get your panties in a bunch", Mr Garrett called "girly" in a negative tone, and a "pussy", in a negative tone. And people wonder why some form the opinion of developers as sexist?
And we all talk about OpenSource as choice, yet when someone chooses to leave a project because of non-technical issues such as language choice from managers, we deride them. So, choice is good, as long as you choose to follow what I tell you...
Weren't the founders worried about Russia and data collection from the government? They've created away of collecting data about you across multiple devices and environments that the CIA/NSA/KGB/The Stasi do/would dream about. As indicated by the NSA trying to use Google cookies to track users. The additional irony of Google then being pissed that the NSA using those cookies to track. Hey only WE can track people across everything, not agents of an elected government.
(The last sentence is not saying NSA are choir boys in this, just that Google a company that 99.999999% of humans have no control over is tracking me with much greater efficiency than a government that i can conceivably vote out of office).
Oddly enough, me and my wife argue about #1 and #3.
No signaling: if you signal to change lanes, a lot of times that's just a signal to the guy in the lane you're going to... "wait, you're going in front of ME! fuck that" and he hits the gas. I get the "why do you bother, you're just making it harder on yourself to drive.
Safe following distance: my safe following distance tends to be big enough that someone will always jump in front of me.That means i need to now drop back, for another safe following distance. That allows another car to possibly jump in front... Lather, Rinse, Repeat. I get the "do you really want to go slower" from the wife.
So, me trying to drive safely causes me to be much slower because a lot of other jerk drivers. Perverse incentives.
Though the "dragging disk to trash" makes zero sense now, it at least made half sense back with the first Macs which had a single floppy drive. Half sense may be a bit much; Quarter sense? can I make up stupid terms like that?
Anyways, the first macs were single floppy only affairs, with the OS on a floppy, and presumably you have a user floppy. And you'd have to eject the system floppy to get your user disk in. And then swap back and forth. The OS would need to keep track of the volumes, even if ejected, so they know what disk to ask for. so you got these grayed out icons for known-but-ejected-disks. But, now, you have this grayed out "i know about you but you're gone" icon and you want to get rid of it. well, we have a trash can! get rid of the *placeholder* by trashing it.
Of course, even that's stupid. and it makes no sense at all for a disk that's inserted. But they stretched that metaphor out, and that's how to eject an inserted disk. so when macs started getting dual floppies, or even hard drives, "you want me to put my disk in the trash!!??"
I worked at a mac lab in the System 6 System 7 days, and this always always freaked out new users. I had to go through a big explanation.
The virtual reality interface in Minority Report, it's Microsoft Bob i tell you. If you rent the movie and freeze frame, you can see that dog pop up every once in a while. And Clippy talks to Tom Cruise in Comic sans thought bubbles.
As far as games go, Microsoft (smartly) killed gaming on the Mac.
There was an awesome game called Marathon on the Mac, from a new firm called Bungiesoft. It was a quantum leap past what most Mac games were (and PC for that matter), and could have made PowerPC the gamer's choice (anyone remember the Pipin? im sure you don't). But Microsoft and Gates smartly bought out Bungiesoft, and their next Mac game Halo got quickly made into a PC/XBox only affair. Imagine a world where Halo was a Mac game, a Halo halo effect as it were, and the home computing world is much different.
In MacOS6, all control panels were in a DeskAccessory called Control Panel. There was a selector on the left, and a general area to fill with content on the right. Why did the author pick windows 95 for this "all in one control panel" instead of the Mac's own legacy from 5 years previous to Win95 I don't know.
Also, the 3 buttons in the window, that's as much to do with XWindows as Microsoft. Remember MacOSX has roots in NeXT which has roots in UNIX. It's odd to attribute to Windows when there's a direct line to XWindows.
I had TCP/IP on my personal Mac in 92 or 93, with MacTCP and either MacSLIP or MacPPP (as my back end improved). I don't know how you go from "Apple bundled previously separate Mac Specific freeware" to "it was Win95 that did it sir!". Everything going to TCP/IP was obvious back then.
There are several stretches in the article to attribute things to Win95 when it's easy to see sources elsewhere. Not that Win95 didn't have influence. But no need to say the world changed ONLY because of Win95 when there were several things moving in the same direction.
So there's this, and them blindly going after anything named Pixels any place and specifically on Youtube. Sandler's movies are doing bad enough recently, Do you really want him hated for over-aggressive Rights/Restrictions management? Whatever you think of the piracy around Metallica, their popularity really fell off the map once they lost their fans from what some felt was over-aggressive policing.
Not this one. It's had 5 figure box office take it's first weekend. Low 5 figures. I never even heard of the Cobbler other than the bad reviews and lack of ticket sales. I never heard of Men Women and Children til I googled this. Pixels radically underperformed. I'd rather see the Pixels short on youtube over and over than the Sandler movie.
Cobbler did inspire a great quote tho:
So I just saw 'The Cobbler' and all I can assume is that Adam Sandler got tired of everyone saying 'Little Nicky' was his worst movie.
Pretty much all Outlook viruses were design issues, not bugs. They designed a mail system which, on a OS where files were executable by extension, attachments from unverifiable senders had their extension hidden so you didn't know it was an executable.
This was baked in design. It wasn't an execution bug.
There are entire classes of bugs you could get rid of by certain design choices. Address space layout randomization helps a lot. W ^ X, or if you can write to memory, you can't execute it. These are not infallible (there's lots of webpages on how to get past ASLR) but if we design these things as more secure, we will be more secure.
It's like PHP. Horribly designed, but it does something nothing else was able to do at the time.
PHP: horribly insecure, but a quick and dirty way of mixing in dynamic HTML with some DB access without mucking with forced MVC of servlets and jsp.
Bitcoin: not ready to scale, not convenient for normal folks, has various attack modes, but easy enough to make paymensts long ditances with some measure of anonymity and "hands off" ness. I think of it more as an escrow system (that allows speculation) than an actual currency.
Slashdot Mirror
The "crap about global warming" is about the next one.
I just went through my first typhoon, visiting inlaws in Taiwan. They're getting hit a lot more frequently now - my wife has some pics of typhoon damage from a trip she went just a month before. At one point there were 3 cat 4 typhoons in the Pacific at the same time, also a historical first.
There's the path "it's caused randomly so we can't do anything about it" there's also the path "it's caused by ____ so lets yell at ____ so we feel better, but it's about how we showed ____ is the bad guy and we don't actually do anything".
I hope there is a path "it's caused by ____ so lets try to fix ____"
4. A dig at apple reminding consumers of the App Store cut.
I don't agree with #2, i think the "Apple Sheeple" trope is just that, a trope. Removing that, the list above collapses to just 1.
Of course Google has a cut of anything sold on Google Play,but is willing to eat that cut, or take it out of pretend revenues from Irish leprechauns or something. (not that Apple doesn't pretend the iPad was invented by Irish Leprechauns, for tax purposes)
I have a wife and kids, and am over 40. I also just read an article about how rents in Mouintain View make some folks rather live in their car and use Google corporate perks as part of their "home" (food, showers, laundry services, etc.)
The "have a family" and "living in a car" are mutually exclusive. This skews Googlers to non-family people, and also younger people. Whether that's an accident or by design, i'm not sure. But Google gets a bunch of people just out of school, fewer competing responsibilities, ability to get less sleep at night, etc...
what does privacy policy even do? The privacy policy could consist of solely "fuck you we'll do what we want" and still be a policy.
Since boars are mammals, don't they actual do have, you know, mammary glands? and feed their young?
Far be it from me to poke a hole in a good cliche though :)
A very solid phone, will run android 5, and no Pepsi tie-ins.
And XiaoMi will eat them for lunch everywhere but the US. Well, until XiaoMi sells here.
We do have them. It's pretty much how train engines work.
Do you want to work on iconic cars like the VW Bus? Design the next one, and then we'll throw you under the bus!
The Apple ][ had very very bad hardware. You could basically ping the speaker, that's it. People built around that, making libraries that eventually became sound, then music. The Amiga had really good sound hardware (as did the Commodore 64), so not a lot of "geek builder cred" there. The PC had whatever hardware you put in, from the bare bones "ping the speaker" that essentially Apple had, to real dedicated spend a hundred or so sound cards. that makes PCs "it depends"
I heard stories of the old days of mainframes where they used disc packs for sound - access them a certain way for certain sounds that can be called "music" if you try hard enough.
I've seen references to "don't get your panties in a bunch", Mr Garrett called "girly" in a negative tone, and a "pussy", in a negative tone. And people wonder why some form the opinion of developers as sexist?
And we all talk about OpenSource as choice, yet when someone chooses to leave a project because of non-technical issues such as language choice from managers, we deride them. So, choice is good, as long as you choose to follow what I tell you...
anyways, carry on.
Wow, someone remembers this... kudos to whoever you are. I had to Altavista, errr, Google if netcraft was still a thing.
Weren't the founders worried about Russia and data collection from the government? They've created away of collecting data about you across multiple devices and environments that the CIA/NSA/KGB/The Stasi do/would dream about. As indicated by the NSA trying to use Google cookies to track users. The additional irony of Google then being pissed that the NSA using those cookies to track. Hey only WE can track people across everything, not agents of an elected government.
(The last sentence is not saying NSA are choir boys in this, just that Google a company that 99.999999% of humans have no control over is tracking me with much greater efficiency than a government that i can conceivably vote out of office).
I didn't see, where did the certificate come from in the first place?
At least one person saw what you did there....
More like underpants gnomes...
1) treat a mental process as something subject to pure mathematical modeling
2) ?????
3) PROFIT!!
Though 2) may be "overcharge for consulting services...."
Oddly enough, me and my wife argue about #1 and #3.
No signaling: if you signal to change lanes, a lot of times that's just a signal to the guy in the lane you're going to... "wait, you're going in front of ME! fuck that" and he hits the gas. I get the "why do you bother, you're just making it harder on yourself to drive.
Safe following distance: my safe following distance tends to be big enough that someone will always jump in front of me.That means i need to now drop back, for another safe following distance. That allows another car to possibly jump in front... Lather, Rinse, Repeat. I get the "do you really want to go slower" from the wife.
So, me trying to drive safely causes me to be much slower because a lot of other jerk drivers. Perverse incentives.
Yes, yes they can
Though the "dragging disk to trash" makes zero sense now, it at least made half sense back with the first Macs which had a single floppy drive. Half sense may be a bit much; Quarter sense? can I make up stupid terms like that?
Anyways, the first macs were single floppy only affairs, with the OS on a floppy, and presumably you have a user floppy. And you'd have to eject the system floppy to get your user disk in. And then swap back and forth. The OS would need to keep track of the volumes, even if ejected, so they know what disk to ask for. so you got these grayed out icons for known-but-ejected-disks. But, now, you have this grayed out "i know about you but you're gone" icon and you want to get rid of it. well, we have a trash can! get rid of the *placeholder* by trashing it.
Of course, even that's stupid. and it makes no sense at all for a disk that's inserted. But they stretched that metaphor out, and that's how to eject an inserted disk. so when macs started getting dual floppies, or even hard drives, "you want me to put my disk in the trash!!??"
I worked at a mac lab in the System 6 System 7 days, and this always always freaked out new users. I had to go through a big explanation.
The virtual reality interface in Minority Report, it's Microsoft Bob i tell you. If you rent the movie and freeze frame, you can see that dog pop up every once in a while. And Clippy talks to Tom Cruise in Comic sans thought bubbles.
As far as games go, Microsoft (smartly) killed gaming on the Mac.
There was an awesome game called Marathon on the Mac, from a new firm called Bungiesoft. It was a quantum leap past what most Mac games were (and PC for that matter), and could have made PowerPC the gamer's choice (anyone remember the Pipin? im sure you don't). But Microsoft and Gates smartly bought out Bungiesoft, and their next Mac game Halo got quickly made into a PC/XBox only affair. Imagine a world where Halo was a Mac game, a Halo halo effect as it were, and the home computing world is much different.
In MacOS6, all control panels were in a DeskAccessory called Control Panel. There was a selector on the left, and a general area to fill with content on the right. Why did the author pick windows 95 for this "all in one control panel" instead of the Mac's own legacy from 5 years previous to Win95 I don't know.
Also, the 3 buttons in the window, that's as much to do with XWindows as Microsoft. Remember MacOSX has roots in NeXT which has roots in UNIX. It's odd to attribute to Windows when there's a direct line to XWindows.
I had TCP/IP on my personal Mac in 92 or 93, with MacTCP and either MacSLIP or MacPPP (as my back end improved). I don't know how you go from "Apple bundled previously separate Mac Specific freeware" to "it was Win95 that did it sir!". Everything going to TCP/IP was obvious back then.
There are several stretches in the article to attribute things to Win95 when it's easy to see sources elsewhere. Not that Win95 didn't have influence. But no need to say the world changed ONLY because of Win95 when there were several things moving in the same direction.
IoNUEPT
Internet of Never Updated, Easily Pwn3d Things.
So there's this, and them blindly going after anything named Pixels any place and specifically on Youtube. Sandler's movies are doing bad enough recently, Do you really want him hated for over-aggressive Rights/Restrictions management? Whatever you think of the piracy around Metallica, their popularity really fell off the map once they lost their fans from what some felt was over-aggressive policing.
Not this one. It's had 5 figure box office take it's first weekend. Low 5 figures. I never even heard of the Cobbler other than the bad reviews and lack of ticket sales. I never heard of Men Women and Children til I googled this. Pixels radically underperformed. I'd rather see the Pixels short on youtube over and over than the Sandler movie.
Cobbler did inspire a great quote tho:
— Stephen Whitty (@StephenWhitty) March 3, 2015
Pretty much all Outlook viruses were design issues, not bugs. They designed a mail system which, on a OS where files were executable by extension, attachments from unverifiable senders had their extension hidden so you didn't know it was an executable.
This was baked in design. It wasn't an execution bug.
There are entire classes of bugs you could get rid of by certain design choices. Address space layout randomization helps a lot. W ^ X, or if you can write to memory, you can't execute it. These are not infallible (there's lots of webpages on how to get past ASLR) but if we design these things as more secure, we will be more secure.
It's like PHP. Horribly designed, but it does something nothing else was able to do at the time.
PHP: horribly insecure, but a quick and dirty way of mixing in dynamic HTML with some DB access without mucking with forced MVC of servlets and jsp.
Bitcoin: not ready to scale, not convenient for normal folks, has various attack modes, but easy enough to make paymensts long ditances with some measure of anonymity and "hands off" ness. I think of it more as an escrow system (that allows speculation) than an actual currency.