Jainism has all sorts of cool stuff that other religions don't get, so I don't think they're feeling left out. OTOH they don't get pepper steak or roast pork with crackling, which for me is a major loss in a religion.
For people unfamiliar with the terminology being used here, "aerospace-grade aluminum" is just "cheap Chinese-wok-grade aluminum, but anodized black". It's particularly popular in LED torches.
+1. I was reading it and wondering why a description of standard industry practice for the last 20 or 30 years warranted an article and Slashspot mention. MCMs are from the 1970s, and SoCs are 1980s. What's the author of the original article, or his employer, peddling that's in this field?
Let me rephrase the lawyer's text into something more comprehensible to the masses:
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the
planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it;
that does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want
to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with
this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case!
It does not make sense!
Look at me. I'm a lawyer working for a multibillion dollar software company,
and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I
am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to
remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the
Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of
this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor,
Google's victory will destroy the GPL!
SAIC are pretty scummy. They found out at one point that they were using some of our GPL'd software in a proprietary product. We said "yeah, mistakes happen, make a small payment (a few $K) to support an open-source initiative and we'll carve out a license exemption for your use case, no big deal". They then spent probably about ten times as much with lawyers arguing that their interpretation of the GPL meant they could go ahead and use it without open-sourcing anything and without needing a license exemption. In the end we just dropped the matter, it wasn't worth the hassle.
I wish I could be like you and control my ejaculation through thought alone. That way, instead of having to watch porn and waste 5 minutes masturbating, I could just think about it and tada! Instant orgasm!
The Internet has some pictures of fat chicks in bikinis if that would help.
They also didn't look at things like password reuse. I do informal tech support for family and neighbours, and for people in the (snort) "elderly" age group their one password, while it may not be "1234" or "password", is reused everywhere. No concept of sanitary password use, you've got one secret and that's good for everything from MyFaceChatsApp to online banking.
iTunes is a dumpster fire of astronomical proportions
That's an understatement. It's the Nero Burning ROM equivalent [0] from Apple, this vast bloated mass of crap hacked over and over with every imaginable feature ever dreamed up by every marketing manager ever thrown in and partially implemented by different developers without any coherent plan or interface.
[0] According to the Nero web site, Nero Burning Dumpster requires 5GB of disk space to install. 5 fucking gigabytes to burn a CD. I don't know what CDBurnerXP requires for install but the download is 5MB, so Nero is approximately one thousand times the size of my usual app for doing the same thing.
Forever, probably. The crazy thing is that at virtually any airport outside the United States of Total Paranoia you can clear security in 5-10 minutes, no queues, with no more (or less) terrorist attacks than in the USTP.
Japanese words that are "English sounding" are part of their Katakana syllabary. For example, "ice cream" becomes 'Ai su' 'ku ri mu' or Aisu Kurimu.
It's not Katakana syllabary, it's Katana syllabary. You take an English word, you chop it up with a Katana, and then you glue the remains back together to get the Japanese form.
I have an ISIS flag on one side of my house, a Pakistani one on the other, and an al Qaeda sign over the door. I live in a bad neigbourhood, but never have to worry about it because my place is watched by the CIA, the NSA, the Secret Service, the DHS, and the ATF.
Until what's authenticated? That it's a cable? I've read the USB press release and a few other articles and there's no indication anywhere as to what this "authentication" is authenticating. If I take an authentic USB 3.0 cable with authentication and authentically send 10,000 authentic volts down it, does it authentically help the authentic owner of the authentically fried device to know that it's been authentically authenticated?
All the data is right there in c:\windows\minidump.dmp
... at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard. As I said in my original post, "we have all the data but we're not going to give it to you", all you need to do to get it is walk your mother through running the command-line dumpchk.exe and interpreting the results over the phone for you. It's so simple, anyone can do it!
You can "work out the security bugaboos" by not allowing fscking remote access to your USB devices (this has to be one of the most braindamaged ideas since ActiveX). This means removing WebUSB, which is a bit of a catch-22.
That was my reaction as well, if it's like the Windows Update help stuff then it's going to be just another way of telling users "Something went wrong. We have no idea what it is, or at least we have lots of data to help diagnose it but we aren't going to give you any of it. Here's a link to a Bing search that will return 200 hits for other people who have run into this problem and couldn't solve it either. Error 800420EE". Totally, utterly useless.
It's not weird, but it's not exactly earthshaking either, the only significant advantage over the Plus was the optional HDD. It wasn't until the SE/30 came along that it was worth looking at.
From the few photos, it's almost certainly a fusor. Which is also what you'd expect for a student-project type design, they're probably not running a tokamak in someone's basment.
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Jainism has all sorts of cool stuff that other religions don't get, so I don't think they're feeling left out. OTOH they don't get pepper steak or roast pork with crackling, which for me is a major loss in a religion.
crafted from aerospace-grade aluminum
For people unfamiliar with the terminology being used here, "aerospace-grade aluminum" is just "cheap Chinese-wok-grade aluminum, but anodized black". It's particularly popular in LED torches.
Too late, I think I'm well and truly forked.
+1. I was reading it and wondering why a description of standard industry practice for the last 20 or 30 years warranted an article and Slashspot mention. MCMs are from the 1970s, and SoCs are 1980s. What's the author of the original article, or his employer, peddling that's in this field?
Well I've been watering it for a week but it's not growing another cat out of it.
would rather chance a malware infection than an involuntary Windows 10 upgrade
They're the same thing aren't they?
It's not the daemons I'm worried about, it killed my children! And ate my cat.
Let me rephrase the lawyer's text into something more comprehensible to the masses:
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!
Look at me. I'm a lawyer working for a multibillion dollar software company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, Google's victory will destroy the GPL!
SAIC are pretty scummy. They found out at one point that they were using some of our GPL'd software in a proprietary product. We said "yeah, mistakes happen, make a small payment (a few $K) to support an open-source initiative and we'll carve out a license exemption for your use case, no big deal". They then spent probably about ten times as much with lawyers arguing that their interpretation of the GPL meant they could go ahead and use it without open-sourcing anything and without needing a license exemption. In the end we just dropped the matter, it wasn't worth the hassle.
You can say that again.
"There must be some truth to that rumour, they've called a press conference to deny it".
I wish I could be like you and control my ejaculation through thought alone. That way, instead of having to watch porn and waste 5 minutes masturbating, I could just think about it and tada! Instant orgasm!
The Internet has some pictures of fat chicks in bikinis if that would help.
They also didn't look at things like password reuse. I do informal tech support for family and neighbours, and for people in the (snort) "elderly" age group their one password, while it may not be "1234" or "password", is reused everywhere. No concept of sanitary password use, you've got one secret and that's good for everything from MyFaceChatsApp to online banking.
Spirit duplicators used alcohol based solvents and smelled good, much better than mimeograph prints.
Ahh, memories of meths and aniline purple, mmmm...
iTunes is a dumpster fire of astronomical proportions
That's an understatement. It's the Nero Burning ROM equivalent [0] from Apple, this vast bloated mass of crap hacked over and over with every imaginable feature ever dreamed up by every marketing manager ever thrown in and partially implemented by different developers without any coherent plan or interface.
[0] According to the Nero web site, Nero Burning Dumpster requires 5GB of disk space to install. 5 fucking gigabytes to burn a CD. I don't know what CDBurnerXP requires for install but the download is 5MB, so Nero is approximately one thousand times the size of my usual app for doing the same thing.
Forever, probably. The crazy thing is that at virtually any airport outside the United States of Total Paranoia you can clear security in 5-10 minutes, no queues, with no more (or less) terrorist attacks than in the USTP.
Japanese words that are "English sounding" are part of their Katakana syllabary. For example, "ice cream" becomes 'Ai su' 'ku ri mu' or Aisu Kurimu.
It's not Katakana syllabary, it's Katana syllabary. You take an English word, you chop it up with a Katana, and then you glue the remains back together to get the Japanese form.
I have an ISIS flag on one side of my house, a Pakistani one on the other, and an al Qaeda sign over the door. I live in a bad neigbourhood, but never have to worry about it because my place is watched by the CIA, the NSA, the Secret Service, the DHS, and the ATF.
until it's authenticated
Until what's authenticated? That it's a cable? I've read the USB press release and a few other articles and there's no indication anywhere as to what this "authentication" is authenticating. If I take an authentic USB 3.0 cable with authentication and authentically send 10,000 authentic volts down it, does it authentically help the authentic owner of the authentically fried device to know that it's been authentically authenticated?
Actually, most of the cows I know are outstanding in their field. :-)
Only until you reach a tipping point...
All the data is right there in c:\windows\minidump.dmp
... at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard. As I said in my original post, "we have all the data but we're not going to give it to you", all you need to do to get it is walk your mother through running the command-line dumpchk.exe and interpreting the results over the phone for you. It's so simple, anyone can do it!
Assuming the security bugaboos can be worked out
You can "work out the security bugaboos" by not allowing fscking remote access to your USB devices (this has to be one of the most braindamaged ideas since ActiveX). This means removing WebUSB, which is a bit of a catch-22.
That was my reaction as well, if it's like the Windows Update help stuff then it's going to be just another way of telling users "Something went wrong. We have no idea what it is, or at least we have lots of data to help diagnose it but we aren't going to give you any of it. Here's a link to a Bing search that will return 200 hits for other people who have run into this problem and couldn't solve it either. Error 800420EE". Totally, utterly useless.
The SE is not weird.
It's not weird, but it's not exactly earthshaking either, the only significant advantage over the Plus was the optional HDD. It wasn't until the SE/30 came along that it was worth looking at.
From the few photos, it's almost certainly a fusor. Which is also what you'd expect for a student-project type design, they're probably not running a tokamak in someone's basment.