The clones that are then labelled and sold as 'FTDI' are, certainly, in all kinds of violation of trademark law
The point of trademark law is for the buyer to be able to know that the product is genuine. It's for the buyer's sake, not the company's sake. That is, something branded FTDI but not really FTDI is fraud of the buyer. For FTDI to then intentionally modify the device so that it stops working is to further harm the buyer. So FTDI is just pulling a total fail here.
Wow, those comments from the FTDI engineer who submitted the patch are damning. "This is definitely not targeting end users" except that it does exactly that. No way I will ever buy a possibly-genuine FTDI product in the future, with that kind of company culture.
And when you do have base 2 numbers then multiplication/division gives other nice base 2 numbers like 10 MiB / 2 KiB = 5 KiB.
The units cancel, so you get 5K er... 5*1024 = 5120.
My favorite solution to the issue is to treat GB, MB, and KB as special units whose meanings are 1024MB, 1024KB, and 1024B, respectively. That's what they've meant for decades, and I'm not going fiddle with giving them two incompatible meanings now. IMO if powers of two don't matter in a particular context, it's cleanest to use Gb, Mb, and kb, SI units referring to 1000Mb, 1000kb, and 1000b (bits), respectively. Bits are a fairly fundamental unit.
Other utilities like electricity and water are billed based on usage. Comcast apparently only bills by usage once it goes over a certain amount, otherwise it's a fixed fee each month. A cap to me implies a hard limit, over which they would completely cut off service.
Digital public libraries could be OK if they didn't make you use a certain OS and certain software to view the books. PDF downloads for everyone, searchable. The crap our local library has is worse than useless, because I spent lots of time trying to get it to work but it's clear it does not want it to be easy.
Awww, I read this as a SteGanographic keyboard, i.e. one that hides as you type. I thought the 225 WPM was due to all the noise words it added or something.
Taken further, Apple's employee profile in each branch should exactly match that of the population in the area where that branch of the company is. And don't leave out things like age, sexuality, height, hair color, eye color, religion, etc. If the company's distribution doesn't match that of the population, then it's clearly due to discrimination.
If the current plugs had an obvious up/down, it would go a long way to knowing which way they go. For a phone, up would be the front. For a PC, up would be marked on the plug by a face and side feeling/looking different. Those go up, depending on whether it's a horizontal or vertical socket. Things are market but it's not very visible and not tactile so you know what to feel for. This would fix the problem well enough without changing the mechanical/electrical specification.
Explanation: Light Peak causes the creation of time machines, and this author had already traveled back before 2010, written the article, and mistakenly posted it in 2011. Simple mistake, really.
I agree it shouldn't be relied upon as a troubleshooting step (you need to know what broke, why, and why it won't happen again). That said, if you go years without rebooting a machine... there is a good chance that if you ever do (to replace hardware for instance) it won't come back up without issue. Verifying that the system still boots correctly is imo a good idea.
This doesn't contradict his advice, as you're suggesting to reboot every few months when the machine is working. His advice is to not use a reboot as the first step in solving a problem. If anything, a periodic reboot when it's working is probably in-line with his advice, as it's a way to uncover more problems that may be lurking, at a time when things seem to be working (and hopefully when the downtime won't be a big issue, like during low load).
On the flip-side, you have to assume that anyone you email is clueless and will share your address, and will get some kind of virus that adds it to spam lists, so you share a forwarding alias that you can kill if it gets misused.
I read this as an algorithm that is better-suited for modern 64-bit processors, NOT one which is implemented specially in hardware. At the very minimum, this would mean that it can easily be calculated using 64-bit integers (and using the entire 64 bits, not just the low 32 bits), and perhaps also easily implemented using SSE2, and allow lots of parallelism, etc.
How does SD content look on it, particularly video games? I've always got the impression that HD CRTs basically are fixed-frequency computer monitors running at 1080p/i, so that if you feed it a lower resolution, it digitizes it, then upscales (and thus looks crappy, like on an LCD). I've been holding on to my SD CRT for playing video games, but keep seeing people getting rid of HD CRTs (for free, even).
With a gold backed currency, you can still adjust the size of the money supply by adjusting the reserve requirements for banks issuing debt.
If you had a 10% gold-backed currency, the other 90% would be what causes the problems, since it's not backed and thus can be counterfeited (by adjusting the backing requirement). Counterfeiting has the same destructive effect, no matter who's doing it.
True, though its value does increase slightly relative to other things over time, because their relative value falls. Electronics are an obvious example, where even inflationary fiat currencies are worth more electronics every year. But even other things SHOULD slowly lower in cost over time since production is improved so that they don't take as many resources to produce. I'm not grasping the deflationary thing, though; are others really suggesting that someone would just stop buying things because their dollar cost is falling each year? I take it these people don't ever upgrade their PCs then, since their costs fall quite a bit every year.
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These two are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
Mac OS Classic must have been more holy than Mac OS X. Makes sense, though, since everything is perfect. No need for protection.
God must not want anyone sharing documents. Oh, right, the OS is perfect, so no exploits possible.
The information economy has existed from the beginning of time. It's only recently that it's had huge violence-backed walls erected within it.
The point of trademark law is for the buyer to be able to know that the product is genuine. It's for the buyer's sake, not the company's sake. That is, something branded FTDI but not really FTDI is fraud of the buyer. For FTDI to then intentionally modify the device so that it stops working is to further harm the buyer. So FTDI is just pulling a total fail here.
Wow, those comments from the FTDI engineer who submitted the patch are damning. "This is definitely not targeting end users" except that it does exactly that. No way I will ever buy a possibly-genuine FTDI product in the future, with that kind of company culture.
Sounds like your space rock "chuck" should be consulted before any lawsuit.
The units cancel, so you get 5K er... 5*1024 = 5120.
My favorite solution to the issue is to treat GB, MB, and KB as special units whose meanings are 1024MB, 1024KB, and 1024B, respectively. That's what they've meant for decades, and I'm not going fiddle with giving them two incompatible meanings now. IMO if powers of two don't matter in a particular context, it's cleanest to use Gb, Mb, and kb, SI units referring to 1000Mb, 1000kb, and 1000b (bits), respectively. Bits are a fairly fundamental unit.
Other utilities like electricity and water are billed based on usage. Comcast apparently only bills by usage once it goes over a certain amount, otherwise it's a fixed fee each month. A cap to me implies a hard limit, over which they would completely cut off service.
Is it an anti-competition law? In many places they limit the number of licenses, which reduces competition and allows taxis to charge more.
Feynman's talk on this seems required reading: There's plenty of room at the bottom. None of the linked articles even mention Feynman's name.
Digital public libraries could be OK if they didn't make you use a certain OS and certain software to view the books. PDF downloads for everyone, searchable. The crap our local library has is worse than useless, because I spent lots of time trying to get it to work but it's clear it does not want it to be easy.
Awww, I read this as a SteGanographic keyboard, i.e. one that hides as you type. I thought the 225 WPM was due to all the noise words it added or something.
Taken further, Apple's employee profile in each branch should exactly match that of the population in the area where that branch of the company is. And don't leave out things like age, sexuality, height, hair color, eye color, religion, etc. If the company's distribution doesn't match that of the population, then it's clearly due to discrimination.
If the current plugs had an obvious up/down, it would go a long way to knowing which way they go. For a phone, up would be the front. For a PC, up would be marked on the plug by a face and side feeling/looking different. Those go up, depending on whether it's a horizontal or vertical socket. Things are market but it's not very visible and not tactile so you know what to feel for. This would fix the problem well enough without changing the mechanical/electrical specification.
Don't forget the desire for fresh hearts to keep your energy levels up.
Explanation: Light Peak causes the creation of time machines, and this author had already traveled back before 2010, written the article, and mistakenly posted it in 2011. Simple mistake, really.
This doesn't contradict his advice, as you're suggesting to reboot every few months when the machine is working. His advice is to not use a reboot as the first step in solving a problem. If anything, a periodic reboot when it's working is probably in-line with his advice, as it's a way to uncover more problems that may be lurking, at a time when things seem to be working (and hopefully when the downtime won't be a big issue, like during low load).
...because your boss is a dork. He should have send a message to Johnny Five (or everyone), "reminder: don't send porn to co-workers".
On the flip-side, you have to assume that anyone you email is clueless and will share your address, and will get some kind of virus that adds it to spam lists, so you share a forwarding alias that you can kill if it gets misused.
Slashdot is very friendly about signatures: you can turn them off so you never have to see their clutter anymore.
Thanks for the info. I'll have to remember this for the future, since at some point none of the CRTs will work anymore.
Both replies appreciated, and they make sense.
I read this as an algorithm that is better-suited for modern 64-bit processors, NOT one which is implemented specially in hardware. At the very minimum, this would mean that it can easily be calculated using 64-bit integers (and using the entire 64 bits, not just the low 32 bits), and perhaps also easily implemented using SSE2, and allow lots of parallelism, etc.
How does SD content look on it, particularly video games? I've always got the impression that HD CRTs basically are fixed-frequency computer monitors running at 1080p/i, so that if you feed it a lower resolution, it digitizes it, then upscales (and thus looks crappy, like on an LCD). I've been holding on to my SD CRT for playing video games, but keep seeing people getting rid of HD CRTs (for free, even).
If you had a 10% gold-backed currency, the other 90% would be what causes the problems, since it's not backed and thus can be counterfeited (by adjusting the backing requirement). Counterfeiting has the same destructive effect, no matter who's doing it.
True, though its value does increase slightly relative to other things over time, because their relative value falls. Electronics are an obvious example, where even inflationary fiat currencies are worth more electronics every year. But even other things SHOULD slowly lower in cost over time since production is improved so that they don't take as many resources to produce. I'm not grasping the deflationary thing, though; are others really suggesting that someone would just stop buying things because their dollar cost is falling each year? I take it these people don't ever upgrade their PCs then, since their costs fall quite a bit every year.