When it works in villages of fewer than 1,000, national forests on unpaved or unstriped roads regularly frequented by deer, elk, cows, and the occasional owls that like the residual heat, and when they can handle winters that can have upwards of 12' of snow: THEN I might consider giving up my Subaru with snow tires. Handling areas that are unmapped by Google or Apple street views is definite bonus. Even GPS doesn't know exactly how to get to my house, I have to send a map of Google directions and then a Google satellite view and tell people to ignore the last bit of the Google directions and look at the satellite view.
I disagree. At least at a minimal level Apple inspects code to try and find malware, they also have standards about reading address books and such. If third parties start selling software for side-loads, frankly I don't trust them to not do this. I admit some creepy software has gotten in to the Apple Store, and it gets yanked as soon as it's revealed to be creepy. I read about creepy apps in the Android store, and it seems to depend upon which Android store it's discovered on whether or not anything happens. There seems to be a lot more caveat emptor in the Android app marketplace, and I really don't want to be bothered with it.
I've been on iPhones since the 4S, I tried Androids and I just don't care for the OS. Personal preference, to each their own. iPhones work just fine for me, I neither need nor want side-loading. If the case breaks in the direction of allowing side-loading for iOS, I'll continue getting my apps only from Apple unless somehow they rule that the Apple Store must go away, and I can't see that happening.
I used to do IT for a police department a couple of decades ago, and that included the crime lab. At the time I was quite a gun nut, and I always had fun waiting for people in the crime lab because they had these cases full of pistols and I could "ooh and ahhh" over them. One such pistol was a Raven.25 that has a 4x Tasco telescope sight mounted on it. I asked the guy I was meeting with what the story was.
He said "That's our sniper model." His exact words.
The story is that two dudes got in to a fight in a bar, bouncer evicts them. It eventually breaks up in the lot and the two guys walk in opposite directions to their cars. One decides he's still pissed, and when they're about 25 yards apart, he turns, pulls a Raven out of wherever, points it up in an arc and fires it. The bullet arcs over, hits the other guy in the head and kills him.
Absolute freak, proverbial one in a million, couldn't do it again if you tried, shot. So the crime lab bought a cheap Tasco sight and mounted it on one of their sample Ravens as a joke.
It was a good job, learned a lot, and got a fantastic collection of stories. Some of which I'll only repeat in very carefully considered company.
I think in the late '80s it only handled 4k. There was another editor that handled larger files, I don't recall the name.
At that time I was the network administrator for a state gov't agency, and I once got a help desk call from a fellow IT worker who said her computer wouldn't boot. I asked what was the last thing she did: she needed to make a configuration change, so she edited command.com.
I knew that couldn't be right. I grabbed my boot and utility floppies, went to her office, and sure enough, her computer wouldn't boot. Booted it off my master floppy, did a DIR C:\, and there was a Command.com sized 4096 bytes and a Command.bak that was 65k. She'd opened it in edlin, saw all the hex code, and exited instead of quitting. It wrote the memory back to the 4k mark and that was it. I guess she meant to edit config.sys or autoexec.bat, I don't remember. Copied a fresh copy of command.com to the computer rather than use the one there, deleted the.bak, and all was well.
Thanks for the link. A prev job had an old 400 and I really enjoyed working on it and would enjoy playing on one again. Pity some people thought they could make a quick buck off it.
I like your list. The kit you use is a complex issue and you choose what you run for multiple reasons. I switched to Mac in '08 because my Lenova was on its last legs and I was sick and tired of updating on a seemingly daily basis and having crashes pretty much just as often. My wife bought me a Mac laptop and I haven't looked back. She's an astronomer and her observatory is Mac-based because their data center is Linux-based. I've been Mac-based since then and use VMs to spin up Windows when I need SQL Server which is my professional bread and butter, but not for long. I use an iPhone and iPads because they integrate wonderfully with my iMac and used MacBook Pros, and I look at all of the spyware in the Android marketplace and am quite content with the Apple Store Walled Garden. I've previously owned Android tablets and I just don't like the feel of the UI.
But to each their own. If you like the Windows ecosystem, go for it. If you want the Linux ecosystem, go for it. I run all three and I'm happy, but mainly I'll stick with Apple. And my Pebble Time Steel, until it dies. Dunno what will follow it.
I do not find Apple Pay convenient to use for in-store transactions over standard plastic cards, though I understand that if I had an Apple Watch that it's pretty spiffy. I imagine Android's pay system is no more convenient. I tried to use Apple Pay to buy something online once via my iMac and iPhone, and while the tech was impressive, it failed, but PayPal had been failing, it was sort of a last ditch thing to buy a book from the USA via an Irish site. And if Goldman Sachs is in the picture it guarantees that I will not get an Apple credit card. GS is one company that I would happily dance in their ashes after all the shit they've pulled over the years.
Thank you for posting this, you got it in last night while I read Slashdot over breakfast. Too few know about what they did to/with Greece and the other evils that they have done. GS is a company that should have been reduced to cinders over the crash, but they would have simply reconstructed themselves under another name.
I have an iPhone 6. The only thing I use my fingerprint for is buying books and accessing a couple of bank accounts: it's otherwise secured for login by a six digit number. I've been considering for my next upgrade getting a 128 gig iPod Touch ($299) and wiping my phone: leave a dozen or so contacts, and use it for a hot spot if I ever want to connect my iPod to the internet. If I ever need to actually replace the phone, find a cheap 4G international phone and have done. Next time I leave the USA and come back in, hand it to them with a smile.
I should talk to some of my former law enforcement contacts and see what's involved in hacking an iPod Touch.
Problem is, Warren isn't a young man and I don't think he'd put up with the BS in Washington. He needs to be appointed Dictator for 4 years and then let him retire in peace. Drumpf doesn't have the smarts to hire someone like him.
Heh. I did about 15 hours work over two days at a local medical practice last year that got slammed with one or two different ransomewares. Running Windows Server 2008, based on the rest of the practice it was probably RTM. ISP-provided router, no firewall. And they balked at me charging them $30 an hour! (I was giving them a break while I checked out how bad the situation was) And they bought a Cisco enterprise-grade firewall, I wonder if it's still in the box as I don't know anyone locally, including me, who can configure that beast.
No backups, naturally. Their client practice software had some, but their internet connection was so bottlenecked that they weren't reliable.
Pity you posted as AC as you may or may not see this. I came across an excellent article on in-house vs out-sourced cleaning and what it meant to some people. In the case of the former Eastman Kodak, a woman of color rose to become an executive in the company, compared to people, as you say, lucky to make $15 an hour and frequently working two jobs to make ends meet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
Warren Buffet (IIRC) had an excellent suggestion to encourage long-term thinking in companies: tax the C-levels 100% on their stocks if they sell them while they're in the company or their first year out. It then goes down 10-20% every year afterwards. It would eliminate pump & dump, might even kill off vultures like Bain.
It'll never happen, but I think it's a lovely thought.
I went from a 4S to a 6, and I'd like an SE because of the form factor, except they borked the unlock and it is kind of goofy in the way it handles international SIMs. Unless they fix it with a new generation, my current plan is to buy a 5S via Ebay.
About half an hour after my post I was reading Ars Technica and I learned of the Rebble project. I hope they succeed! I wonder what they'll have in terms of an app store, and I hope my watch survives long enough!
It's a shame that the app store couldn't be released or opened up so people could continue to develop and load apps, unless there's such a method that I'm unaware of. I guess I'm good until my Time Steel needs a reset and then I'll be unable to reload what I need on it and I'll be done with it, which really sucks. I was thinking about buying another Pebble when the company went bust, but then I lost my job and it lost its priority, and now it's kinda too late.
I'd be willing to pay towards supporting a store via Patreon or something just to keep it going, but I doubt it'll happen. Probably too much IP entanglement.
There's undoubtedly many movie studios. What would be more meaningful is a breakdown as to how many movies they've released over the last decade and their grosses and to see how that's trended. Then merge Fox in to the Disney numbers and see what that looks like. The complaint is mainly that Disney, through its acquisitions, has disproportionate power for one company and that this merger will further distort the market.
I'm still wearing mine (Time Steel), and will continue to do so until it dies. I may look to buy another one, but I think I'll wait until this one dies and then reevaluate how support is doing.
That's the thing that I don't get: your watch having to live on a charger overnight just doesn't appeal. I can get two weeks out of my Pebble if I turn it off at night. And the cost of the Apple Watch makes me flinch.
They also didn't spend money on good code. I've been using Yahoo Mail for years, and whenever it comes up with the "Yahoo Mail logs you out periodically for security purposes", or whatever the stupid message says, you don't have to log back in again 95% of the time. Type mail.yahoo.com and you're back in your mail again without typing in your password.
"The soap opera effect." Thank you for putting a name to something that's bothered me for a few years. A while back my film club showed Soylent Green, the guy's TV was at least 5' diagonal, and it was so sharp that the movie just didn't look right to me, and soap opera effect is exactly what it was. I have a feeling that I'm going to be looking for ways to dumb down output to 1080p when TVs grow beyond my liking.
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When it works in villages of fewer than 1,000, national forests on unpaved or unstriped roads regularly frequented by deer, elk, cows, and the occasional owls that like the residual heat, and when they can handle winters that can have upwards of 12' of snow: THEN I might consider giving up my Subaru with snow tires. Handling areas that are unmapped by Google or Apple street views is definite bonus. Even GPS doesn't know exactly how to get to my house, I have to send a map of Google directions and then a Google satellite view and tell people to ignore the last bit of the Google directions and look at the satellite view.
Court? Betcha it's binding arbitration, SUCKAS!
I disagree. At least at a minimal level Apple inspects code to try and find malware, they also have standards about reading address books and such. If third parties start selling software for side-loads, frankly I don't trust them to not do this. I admit some creepy software has gotten in to the Apple Store, and it gets yanked as soon as it's revealed to be creepy. I read about creepy apps in the Android store, and it seems to depend upon which Android store it's discovered on whether or not anything happens. There seems to be a lot more caveat emptor in the Android app marketplace, and I really don't want to be bothered with it.
I've been on iPhones since the 4S, I tried Androids and I just don't care for the OS. Personal preference, to each their own. iPhones work just fine for me, I neither need nor want side-loading. If the case breaks in the direction of allowing side-loading for iOS, I'll continue getting my apps only from Apple unless somehow they rule that the Apple Store must go away, and I can't see that happening.
I used to do IT for a police department a couple of decades ago, and that included the crime lab. At the time I was quite a gun nut, and I always had fun waiting for people in the crime lab because they had these cases full of pistols and I could "ooh and ahhh" over them. One such pistol was a Raven .25 that has a 4x Tasco telescope sight mounted on it. I asked the guy I was meeting with what the story was.
He said "That's our sniper model." His exact words.
The story is that two dudes got in to a fight in a bar, bouncer evicts them. It eventually breaks up in the lot and the two guys walk in opposite directions to their cars. One decides he's still pissed, and when they're about 25 yards apart, he turns, pulls a Raven out of wherever, points it up in an arc and fires it. The bullet arcs over, hits the other guy in the head and kills him.
Absolute freak, proverbial one in a million, couldn't do it again if you tried, shot. So the crime lab bought a cheap Tasco sight and mounted it on one of their sample Ravens as a joke.
It was a good job, learned a lot, and got a fantastic collection of stories. Some of which I'll only repeat in very carefully considered company.
I think in the late '80s it only handled 4k. There was another editor that handled larger files, I don't recall the name.
.bak, and all was well.
At that time I was the network administrator for a state gov't agency, and I once got a help desk call from a fellow IT worker who said her computer wouldn't boot. I asked what was the last thing she did: she needed to make a configuration change, so she edited command.com.
I knew that couldn't be right. I grabbed my boot and utility floppies, went to her office, and sure enough, her computer wouldn't boot. Booted it off my master floppy, did a DIR C:\, and there was a Command.com sized 4096 bytes and a Command.bak that was 65k. She'd opened it in edlin, saw all the hex code, and exited instead of quitting. It wrote the memory back to the 4k mark and that was it. I guess she meant to edit config.sys or autoexec.bat, I don't remember. Copied a fresh copy of command.com to the computer rather than use the one there, deleted the
Thanks for the link. A prev job had an old 400 and I really enjoyed working on it and would enjoy playing on one again. Pity some people thought they could make a quick buck off it.
I like your list. The kit you use is a complex issue and you choose what you run for multiple reasons. I switched to Mac in '08 because my Lenova was on its last legs and I was sick and tired of updating on a seemingly daily basis and having crashes pretty much just as often. My wife bought me a Mac laptop and I haven't looked back. She's an astronomer and her observatory is Mac-based because their data center is Linux-based. I've been Mac-based since then and use VMs to spin up Windows when I need SQL Server which is my professional bread and butter, but not for long. I use an iPhone and iPads because they integrate wonderfully with my iMac and used MacBook Pros, and I look at all of the spyware in the Android marketplace and am quite content with the Apple Store Walled Garden. I've previously owned Android tablets and I just don't like the feel of the UI.
But to each their own. If you like the Windows ecosystem, go for it. If you want the Linux ecosystem, go for it. I run all three and I'm happy, but mainly I'll stick with Apple. And my Pebble Time Steel, until it dies. Dunno what will follow it.
I do not find Apple Pay convenient to use for in-store transactions over standard plastic cards, though I understand that if I had an Apple Watch that it's pretty spiffy. I imagine Android's pay system is no more convenient. I tried to use Apple Pay to buy something online once via my iMac and iPhone, and while the tech was impressive, it failed, but PayPal had been failing, it was sort of a last ditch thing to buy a book from the USA via an Irish site. And if Goldman Sachs is in the picture it guarantees that I will not get an Apple credit card. GS is one company that I would happily dance in their ashes after all the shit they've pulled over the years.
Thank you for posting this, you got it in last night while I read Slashdot over breakfast. Too few know about what they did to/with Greece and the other evils that they have done. GS is a company that should have been reduced to cinders over the crash, but they would have simply reconstructed themselves under another name.
I thought it was Fix Or Repair Daily. Could be both, I suppose.
I have an iPhone 6. The only thing I use my fingerprint for is buying books and accessing a couple of bank accounts: it's otherwise secured for login by a six digit number. I've been considering for my next upgrade getting a 128 gig iPod Touch ($299) and wiping my phone: leave a dozen or so contacts, and use it for a hot spot if I ever want to connect my iPod to the internet. If I ever need to actually replace the phone, find a cheap 4G international phone and have done. Next time I leave the USA and come back in, hand it to them with a smile.
I should talk to some of my former law enforcement contacts and see what's involved in hacking an iPod Touch.
And in case they disable that, three words:
Camera in cellphone.
Problem is, Warren isn't a young man and I don't think he'd put up with the BS in Washington. He needs to be appointed Dictator for 4 years and then let him retire in peace. Drumpf doesn't have the smarts to hire someone like him.
Heh. I did about 15 hours work over two days at a local medical practice last year that got slammed with one or two different ransomewares. Running Windows Server 2008, based on the rest of the practice it was probably RTM. ISP-provided router, no firewall. And they balked at me charging them $30 an hour! (I was giving them a break while I checked out how bad the situation was) And they bought a Cisco enterprise-grade firewall, I wonder if it's still in the box as I don't know anyone locally, including me, who can configure that beast.
No backups, naturally. Their client practice software had some, but their internet connection was so bottlenecked that they weren't reliable.
Pity you posted as AC as you may or may not see this. I came across an excellent article on in-house vs out-sourced cleaning and what it meant to some people. In the case of the former Eastman Kodak, a woman of color rose to become an executive in the company, compared to people, as you say, lucky to make $15 an hour and frequently working two jobs to make ends meet. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
Warren Buffet (IIRC) had an excellent suggestion to encourage long-term thinking in companies: tax the C-levels 100% on their stocks if they sell them while they're in the company or their first year out. It then goes down 10-20% every year afterwards. It would eliminate pump & dump, might even kill off vultures like Bain.
It'll never happen, but I think it's a lovely thought.
I went from a 4S to a 6, and I'd like an SE because of the form factor, except they borked the unlock and it is kind of goofy in the way it handles international SIMs. Unless they fix it with a new generation, my current plan is to buy a 5S via Ebay.
About half an hour after my post I was reading Ars Technica and I learned of the Rebble project. I hope they succeed! I wonder what they'll have in terms of an app store, and I hope my watch survives long enough!
It's a shame that the app store couldn't be released or opened up so people could continue to develop and load apps, unless there's such a method that I'm unaware of. I guess I'm good until my Time Steel needs a reset and then I'll be unable to reload what I need on it and I'll be done with it, which really sucks. I was thinking about buying another Pebble when the company went bust, but then I lost my job and it lost its priority, and now it's kinda too late.
I'd be willing to pay towards supporting a store via Patreon or something just to keep it going, but I doubt it'll happen. Probably too much IP entanglement.
There's undoubtedly many movie studios. What would be more meaningful is a breakdown as to how many movies they've released over the last decade and their grosses and to see how that's trended. Then merge Fox in to the Disney numbers and see what that looks like. The complaint is mainly that Disney, through its acquisitions, has disproportionate power for one company and that this merger will further distort the market.
I'm still wearing mine (Time Steel), and will continue to do so until it dies. I may look to buy another one, but I think I'll wait until this one dies and then reevaluate how support is doing.
That's the thing that I don't get: your watch having to live on a charger overnight just doesn't appeal. I can get two weeks out of my Pebble if I turn it off at night. And the cost of the Apple Watch makes me flinch.
They also didn't spend money on good code. I've been using Yahoo Mail for years, and whenever it comes up with the "Yahoo Mail logs you out periodically for security purposes", or whatever the stupid message says, you don't have to log back in again 95% of the time. Type mail.yahoo.com and you're back in your mail again without typing in your password.
Bad design by design.
Home Depot sells some pretty good rubber feet, not too expensive either.
"The soap opera effect." Thank you for putting a name to something that's bothered me for a few years. A while back my film club showed Soylent Green, the guy's TV was at least 5' diagonal, and it was so sharp that the movie just didn't look right to me, and soap opera effect is exactly what it was. I have a feeling that I'm going to be looking for ways to dumb down output to 1080p when TVs grow beyond my liking.