IMO, Apple started this crap in '88 with the 'look and feel' suit against Microsoft and HP, or even earlier with their suit against DRI regarding GEM. What really hurt us all to this day was Xerox's suit being dismissed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corporation Please note that by the time of the suit all the relevant players had taken the tour at Xerox.... and most had made some arrangement with them or DRI viz. licensing.
As for closed garden, while I appreciate some of why Apple went with forked file headers, along with their own diskette format, it made them incompatible with everyone else.
While some say the Woz is past it, he still provides a bit of fresh air in today's litigious cesspit, and his enthusiasm for 'stuff that matters' is way refreshing.
"We can capture the knowledge--but it's the skills I think we most risk losing."
Even the 'simple' stuff. Watch a brick/block layer trim pieces to fit. Looks easy, and it is - until you try it for yourself. Had some related experience with this doing pattern-cut flagstone, working through caprock (nowadays, all bed is done with saws; cap is simply drilled and blasted off.)
As best I can figure, centuries of _de facto_ and _de jure_ (to the extent that law applies to diplomacy) do not support your definition of _casus belli_.
China asked for help against the Japanese invasion. The U.S. and others did so, and in such a way as to maintain at least a figurative fig leaf against international condemnation or Japan being able to point to it as an act of war. It certainly helped that Japan did not want war with U.S., the U.S.S.R., or anyone in Europe.
For recent relevant albeit short discussion of this, may I suggest starting with "Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants and Their War" by Eric Larrabee.
Perhaps for a bit of perspective, remember the thirty-odd years of proxy wars 'tween U.S. - U.S.S.R.? Berlin blockade? Reconnaisance overflights? Cuba and IRBMs? (And yes, I'm aware the Soviets considered it tit-for-tat viz. Jupiters in Turkey, etc.) However close these and other actions danced to the edge of 'acts of war' they weren't considered so by the two parties.
Correction: all members of 1st American Volunteer Group resigned from their respective service before joining. They were all volunteers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_tigers but I've read the same long ago in other sources.
U.S. did not cut off Japan's oil supplies; we stopped selling them ours some years after their invasion of China; an allied embargo on oil and other strategic supplies finally started in Fall '41. These measures were part of the effort to bring Japan to heel in China and prompt them to withdraw. Even Germany supported China, until '38.
Which is why I use ghostery. As far as I can figure out it blocks a crapload of tracking stuff. Drawback is most initial images to Wired articles don't show up, for example.
"I mean I never have even seen, smelled, or eaten anything with maple syrup."
I don't know whether to consider you culturally-deprived or -depraved, so I'll go with both, and extend to you my sympathy and well-wishes for a speedy recovery.
If able, cut loose with a tenner and scour your locale for a pint of real, true, maple syrup. If necessary, have some shipped to you.
As with honey, maple syrup dresses biscuits, muffins, corn bread, not just pancakes, waffles, French toast. It can even make buttered grits palatable.
Thanks for the tips, I'll keep 'em in mind - have saved the info in a text file.
I've got a Phenom x4 95W, don't have the ready to put it to use right now, nor available outlets/amps to operate more than I have at the moment. My apartment is in an old house with too many common underpowered circuits.
Oh, my 1090T at stock works just fine, especially considering I don't do much - a few games, the occasional virtual machine, some odds and ends. I wouldn't mind a somewhat better video card with more RAM, and doing another build would give me a backup system. (My power supply failed last month but luckily I had another on hand.)
But: World Community Grid - I wouldn't mind having a few more cores to contribute.
Well, it depends on prices, but it'll take most of a year to save for the build. So I'll look at both PD and SR, then decide if it makes more sense for me to consider Intel.
The Tandy/Radio Shack Model II, with one built-in 8-inch drive (mounted vertically) started shipping in October '79. http://oldcomputers.net/trs80ii.html
On my own and other's machines, later on, it was not uncommon to get a 3.5" diskette to read by pulling aside the slide and blowing dust off the floppy - even if that dust or lint had come from the drive itself.
"After all who is gonna want to buy a system that has to get stuck with Win 8 just to have it run correctly?"
Guess it depends on what one wants to do. I was under the impression that the patches for BD had been included in the last Linux kernel or two (not that it'll help AMD's bottom line viz. market percentage.) As for Win8, if nothing else a third-party dev will have a 'Metro' app with a "click/touch/punch/yell here to get to a real desktop" icon.
I like a lot of what Intel has been doing recently with performance/power/price but have found it daunting to plow through the huge list of SKUs and trying to match them up with sockets and all. After too much reading I think I settled on something like the i5-5430 for a theoretical build.
Meanwhile, my three-year old system has seen two Phenom x4s and a Phenom II x6 on the same mobo with one or two BIOS updates, so it's been simple enough for me to deal with. If I can do a build next year, I suspect it's gonna be a tough choice depending on how well Steamroller does.
Well done. I was taught long ago that the first use of an abbreviation, acronym, or technical term was to be spelled out and a concise definition given if appropriate.
As it happens, I knew what "pico" was; the problem I have is trying to visualize the very small and very large. I suppose that's why I appreciate things such as furlongs per fortnight.
In '04 I was running Xandros OCE on an old Dell Optiplex, a GX100 built ~'99, had a Celeron-A @533MHz and RAM upgraded to 384Mb, added a 500GB HDD. Ran fine.
@AC - probably not, but I've worked under various fiduciary and performance bonds where the consequences for screwing up carried the risk of jail time.
Thorodin - ah, good, some discussion. I don't see that fines work: cost is passed to clients' insurance; the highers and stockholders are not affected in any meaningful way. Notice I said top down - not the bods and sods in IT (unless they'd been screwing the pooch.)
How many stories and posts have we seen just in the last year or so where upper management assigns the vague task "make it secure" and then hamstrings everything/everyone trying to do that?
No, I have but few clues as to just how complex the matter is. What does seem clear, though, is that "business as usual" is not working too well. Have you any ideas on what might could be done to make things better?
To hell with fines. Felony-grade jail time in no less than medium-security, from top people on down, with the parole condition that upon release they never work with customer information or data again.
Back late Fifties a smart, rich old trader (who also happened to teach econ) was asked by a government panel what he'd do to "fix the market." He specified two things: eliminate puts and calls; any stock bought must be held minimum six months.
On older Win systems I found using erunt with ntregopt along with pagedefrag from sysinternals generally worked well, and erunt was one of the first things I installed on my Win7 box.
Several times over the years erunt registry backups saved me some grief as well (but backing up hives on boot adds a wee bit to the boot time.)
Ok, thanks. I was aware of this, but given some of your posts, wondered if you were.
Years back, did a crash six-month no-meat diet. Used "Diet for a Small Planet" as initial resource (great section on amino-acid requirements and balance, improved in the second edition), abetted by further reading at university libes, and help from several people I knew in town. I allowed grains, nuts, legumes, vegetables, fruit, and a bit of seaweed.
Worked fine, felt good, but I continued taking vitamins. (It's been said that Westerners have the most expensive urine in the world. Given my peripatetic diet over the years I figure it's just a good practice.)
Yup, we're omnivores - adapted to eat whatever we can hunt, catch, pick or grow. Finding reasonable balance, not so easy.
Nope. Went to apply for a key at Microsoft and was linked to Symantec - and the signing authority was given as Verisign, if I recall a-rightly. Don't have the money right now, though.
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IMO, Apple started this crap in '88 with the 'look and feel' suit against Microsoft and HP, or even earlier with their suit against DRI regarding GEM. What really hurt us all to this day was Xerox's suit being dismissed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corporation Please note that by the time of the suit all the relevant players had taken the tour at Xerox.... and most had made some arrangement with them or DRI viz. licensing.
As for closed garden, while I appreciate some of why Apple went with forked file headers, along with their own diskette format, it made them incompatible with everyone else.
While some say the Woz is past it, he still provides a bit of fresh air in today's litigious cesspit, and his enthusiasm for 'stuff that matters' is way refreshing.
"We can capture the knowledge--but it's the skills I think we most risk losing."
Even the 'simple' stuff. Watch a brick/block layer trim pieces to fit. Looks easy, and it is - until you try it for yourself. Had some related experience with this doing pattern-cut flagstone, working through caprock (nowadays, all bed is done with saws; cap is simply drilled and blasted off.)
The video for the story is worth watching, btw.
As best I can figure, centuries of _de facto_ and _de jure_ (to the extent that law applies to diplomacy) do not support your definition of _casus belli_.
China asked for help against the Japanese invasion. The U.S. and others did so, and in such a way as to maintain at least a figurative fig leaf against international condemnation or Japan being able to point to it as an act of war. It certainly helped that Japan did not want war with U.S., the U.S.S.R., or anyone in Europe.
For recent relevant albeit short discussion of this, may I suggest starting with "Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants and Their War" by Eric Larrabee.
Perhaps for a bit of perspective, remember the thirty-odd years of proxy wars 'tween U.S. - U.S.S.R.? Berlin blockade? Reconnaisance overflights? Cuba and IRBMs? (And yes, I'm aware the Soviets considered it tit-for-tat viz. Jupiters in Turkey, etc.) However close these and other actions danced to the edge of 'acts of war' they weren't considered so by the two parties.
Correction: all members of 1st American Volunteer Group resigned from their respective service before joining. They were all volunteers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_tigers but I've read the same long ago in other sources.
U.S. did not cut off Japan's oil supplies; we stopped selling them ours some years after their invasion of China; an allied embargo on oil and other strategic supplies finally started in Fall '41. These measures were part of the effort to bring Japan to heel in China and prompt them to withdraw. Even Germany supported China, until '38.
Which is why I use ghostery. As far as I can figure out it blocks a crapload of tracking stuff. Drawback is most initial images to Wired articles don't show up, for example.
Bravo! (or is it brava?) No mods, so thanks. Last para is a keeper. [grin]
Lots of good, useful stuff, I really appreciate the input. Thanks! As it happens, I've got a 9350e sitting around....
"I mean I never have even seen, smelled, or eaten anything with maple syrup."
I don't know whether to consider you culturally-deprived or -depraved, so I'll go with both, and extend to you my sympathy and well-wishes for a speedy recovery.
If able, cut loose with a tenner and scour your locale for a pint of real, true, maple syrup. If necessary, have some shipped to you.
As with honey, maple syrup dresses biscuits, muffins, corn bread, not just pancakes, waffles, French toast. It can even make buttered grits palatable.
Thanks for the tips, I'll keep 'em in mind - have saved the info in a text file.
I've got a Phenom x4 95W, don't have the ready to put it to use right now, nor available outlets/amps to operate more than I have at the moment. My apartment is in an old house with too many common underpowered circuits.
Mind fucker.
Oh, my 1090T at stock works just fine, especially considering I don't do much - a few games, the occasional virtual machine, some odds and ends. I wouldn't mind a somewhat better video card with more RAM, and doing another build would give me a backup system. (My power supply failed last month but luckily I had another on hand.)
But: World Community Grid - I wouldn't mind having a few more cores to contribute.
Well, it depends on prices, but it'll take most of a year to save for the build. So I'll look at both PD and SR, then decide if it makes more sense for me to consider Intel.
The Tandy/Radio Shack Model II, with one built-in 8-inch drive (mounted vertically) started shipping in October '79.
http://oldcomputers.net/trs80ii.html
On my own and other's machines, later on, it was not uncommon to get a 3.5" diskette to read by pulling aside the slide and blowing dust off the floppy - even if that dust or lint had come from the drive itself.
"After all who is gonna want to buy a system that has to get stuck with Win 8 just to have it run correctly?"
Guess it depends on what one wants to do. I was under the impression that the patches for BD had been included in the last Linux kernel or two (not that it'll help AMD's bottom line viz. market percentage.) As for Win8, if nothing else a third-party dev will have a 'Metro' app with a "click/touch/punch/yell here to get to a real desktop" icon.
I like a lot of what Intel has been doing recently with performance/power/price but have found it daunting to plow through the huge list of SKUs and trying to match them up with sockets and all. After too much reading I think I settled on something like the i5-5430 for a theoretical build.
Meanwhile, my three-year old system has seen two Phenom x4s and a Phenom II x6 on the same mobo with one or two BIOS updates, so it's been simple enough for me to deal with. If I can do a build next year, I suspect it's gonna be a tough choice depending on how well Steamroller does.
Well done. I was taught long ago that the first use of an abbreviation, acronym, or technical term was to be spelled out and a concise definition given if appropriate.
As it happens, I knew what "pico" was; the problem I have is trying to visualize the very small and very large. I suppose that's why I appreciate things such as furlongs per fortnight.
"Can Linux run with a gui on a 10 year old PC?"
In '04 I was running Xandros OCE on an old Dell Optiplex, a GX100 built ~'99, had a Celeron-A @533MHz and RAM upgraded to 384Mb, added a 500GB HDD. Ran fine.
@AC - probably not, but I've worked under various fiduciary and performance bonds where the consequences for screwing up carried the risk of jail time.
Thorodin - ah, good, some discussion. I don't see that fines work: cost is passed to clients' insurance; the highers and stockholders are not affected in any meaningful way. Notice I said top down - not the bods and sods in IT (unless they'd been screwing the pooch.)
How many stories and posts have we seen just in the last year or so where upper management assigns the vague task "make it secure" and then hamstrings everything/everyone trying to do that?
No, I have but few clues as to just how complex the matter is. What does seem clear, though, is that "business as usual" is not working too well. Have you any ideas on what might could be done to make things better?
To hell with fines. Felony-grade jail time in no less than medium-security, from top people on down, with the parole condition that upon release they never work with customer information or data again.
Back late Fifties a smart, rich old trader (who also happened to teach econ) was asked by a government panel what he'd do to "fix the market." He specified two things: eliminate puts and calls; any stock bought must be held minimum six months.
Outstanding. Thanks for my first really good laugh all day.
On older Win systems I found using erunt with ntregopt along with pagedefrag from sysinternals generally worked well, and erunt was one of the first things I installed on my Win7 box.
Several times over the years erunt registry backups saved me some grief as well (but backing up hives on boot adds a wee bit to the boot time.)
Ok, thanks. I was aware of this, but given some of your posts, wondered if you were.
Years back, did a crash six-month no-meat diet. Used "Diet for a Small Planet" as initial resource (great section on amino-acid requirements and balance, improved in the second edition), abetted by further reading at university libes, and help from several people I knew in town. I allowed grains, nuts, legumes, vegetables, fruit, and a bit of seaweed.
Worked fine, felt good, but I continued taking vitamins. (It's been said that Westerners have the most expensive urine in the world. Given my peripatetic diet over the years I figure it's just a good practice.)
Yup, we're omnivores - adapted to eat whatever we can hunt, catch, pick or grow. Finding reasonable balance, not so easy.
What supplements? Could you elaborate?
...was a Presbyterian and a Christian...
I hadn't realized that the latter was optional for them.
"The signing authority is *MICROSOFT!*"
Nope. Went to apply for a key at Microsoft and was linked to Symantec - and the signing authority was given as Verisign, if I recall a-rightly. Don't have the money right now, though.