A lot of RIPscrip hasn't been ported either, and yet I still manage to get out of bed every morning.
Flash is dead. It may not realize it yet, but it's dead. I'll miss certain Flash apps and animations in much the same way I'd miss old DOS and Amiga apps that're a pain in the neck to run now. That is, they're still viewable if you're determined enough but chances are you'll rarely want to.
I don't like the Heartland Institute and I wouldn't attempt to defend them or their actions, but your points are weak:
creating controversy and doubt over the fact that smoking causes health problems
OK, that's indefensible.
drafting policies targeted at reducing the services provided by the federal government to nothing more than a "competitive marketplace"
You're begging the question by assuming that they're wrong. I'm not saying they're right, but I don't think either "big government" or "small" government approach is inherently correct.
instituting "market reform" into the education system and championing charter schools (here in los angeles, charter schools show up in the news once a week for some major breech of trust, child abuse or embezzlement scandal)
the same reaganite health care privatization and deinstitutionalization mentality that landed an entire generation of schitzophrenics and invalids on the streets of skid row.
That's just sensationalism.
Again, I'm not defending them. It's just that you've done a really poor job of illustrating why they're not to be trusted.
Apache is "simple" in the same way that PHP is: it has excellent documentation because it has to or else no one would ever be able to use it. I've been using it professionally since the late 90s and am reasonably happy and comfortable with it, but I still have to RTFM every time I want to do something non-trivial.
Seriously, they stated the top 5% in congested markets would be throttled, which would be fine, if they utilized the actual top 5%.
Not if you bought an unlimited plan, it shouldn't be fine. Also, 5% always means "1 in 20". If you kick the top 5% of users off your network this month, next month there'll be a new top 5%. Eject them and there's a new 95th percentile the following month.
Disclaimer: I don't even use AT&T. I just hate when companies blatantly lie by misrepresenting statistics.
These are the people, of course, who would take advantage of the free gate checking of bags but they've managed to pack something valuable into the bag and don't want to let it go baggage class.
I was with you up until this point. I'm one of those people who refuses to pay to check bags unless I absolutely have to. I'm also a stickler for the rules, if for no other reason that I don't want to give the airlines any reason whatsoever to make me pay for extra services I don't want. Because of that, my bag is completely within regulation size and weight limits, and I don't have a lot of sympathy for airlines who can't find a way to make my standards-compliant carryon luggage fit into the space it was designed for.
Furthermore, because it's now so expensive to check luggage, all of my daily necessities are in my carry-on. The fact is that sometimes the airlines lose luggage. Another fact is that I've never once lost my own luggage that I was carrying with me. Unless forced, I'd rather take responsibility for my own belongings so that I won't find myself going to a job interview with unbrushed teeth and wearing the same clothes I wore during travel.
There are plenty of selfish reasons to want to bring as much possible in a carryon. That doesn't automatically make those reasons bad or invalid.
By the age when people are typically diagnosed with Alzheimer's, skin cancer is very common. Is anyone likely to question a purely coincidental diagnosis of skin cancer in a 70-year-old and its subsequent treatment?
Perhaps TBL was hedging his bets by using logic that would either 1) win the case, or 2) cause the case to be lost so terribly badly and with such devastating precedent that major tech firms would join him in opposing software patents.
If they wrote the browser themselves, then they might have a claim that an IPC-aware browser was a novel thing.
He would've been in a race with AMosaic, an Amiga web browser with an ARexx interface that allowed it to interact with other applications and scripts and which was publicly released on Christmas 1993.
It takes an author years of their life to arrange the words in such a way as to bring entertainment value to you in the form of a book. But, because of this new technology that makes copying that arrangement effortless they don't deserve to get paid for years of work?
Your message was typed into a free web browser connected to a non-proprietary, royalty-free network and delivered to a crowd full of F/OSS advocates on a free website running on a Free operating system.
I don't know about the rest of your writing skills, but you have the whole irony thing down, my friend.
You beat me to it. For the vast majority of apps, adding a new architecture to a build is as simple as changing the build target in Xcode. The other 1% needing more low-level control should be sufficiently competent to port the CPU-specific code to a new architecture.
I think Apple developers learned something in the PPC->Intel migration: Apple won't support your bad architectural decisions to the detriment of all their other vendors and customers.
While this is a great idea, in some cases it'll be a race to get an open spot, even worse than now.
So add a feature where you can reserve a spot with your credit card by pre-paying double the normal rate from the moment of reservation to the moment you actually park your car. Take reserved spots off the list and make them clearly visible in real life, like with a blinking red LED on top showing that it's unavailable.
Plenty of people would pay double for a few minutes for the privilege of having a spot waiting for them.
Having lived there in the early 90s, I can say that my car was much more of a hindrance than a blessing!
I moved here three weeks ago and I'm selling the car I have back home ASAP. You're exactly right: transit is so plentiful and cheap, and walking so easy, that I have absolutely no desire to register, insure, drive, and park a car here. It's way more of a hassle than just taking the BART or Muni to within a block of my destination and walking the rest.
I hadn't been on public transportation in nearly two decades before moving here and was never interested in it, but this has won me over. It's a model of how it can and should be. Plus, we have Zipcar for when you really need to drive around for a few hours.
The biggest stumbling block was with my parents. That BASIC cartridge wasn't exactly free and they were gun shy about buying me a better system. I kept my mouth shut about the limitations of that little ZX81 until I learned enough to make use of it anyway. I was able to impress them enough with my enthusiasm that it was easier to talk them into getting a Commodore 64 a few months later.
Again, my own ZX81 came with the 16KB cartridge. It had 1KB "native".
My ZX81 came with an external 16KB RAM expansion. When I said "the ZX81", I meant "the ZX81 my parents bought me for Christmas in hopes that I'd stop bugging them for a computer".
Plenty. First, the overt purpose of the military is national defense, not to be a jobs program. Second, many (most?) jobs in the military are for four-year contracts. You don't have to fire many soldiers to downsize when probably 20% of them are already scheduled to quit in any given year. Finally, there are plenty of non-military roles for a typically young, healthy workforce. I'd bet a large portion of would-be soldiers would be good candidates for jobs updating our national infrastructure. Rather than paying a soldier to spend a year drilling and training for a war that hopefully won't happen, why not pay him as a civilian to repair bridges?
Again, I'm not anti-military in any way. I just think we're investing a lot of money on military spending that doesn't actually provide a good return in national security.
There is even a YouTube channel for the diehard 8-bit fans out there
8-bit? 2-bit. Good grief, that thing was painfully limited except relative to its immediate competitors. Prior to my parents buying my a ZX81 for Christmas, my home computer was an Atari 2600 with a BASIC Programming cartridge. It had 62 bytes of code memory.
Let me repeat that in case you thought I misspoke: it had 62, sixty-two, 2^6-2 bytes of memory.
The ZX81 came with a whopping 16KB, which seemed mansionlike to my very inexperienced mind. But that's like having a better civil rights record than North Korea. It wasn't the worst of the worst but it wasn't far from it.
When did Paul advocate eliminating the military? Look, I'm a vet. I'm very much for having a strong national defense. There is no credible way in which you could describe me as anti-military. But we spend 78% percent as much as the rest of the world combined ($687B for America vs $876B total for everyone else). Do we have to? I mean, could we reduce that to just outspending China, France, UK, Russia, Japan, Germany, and Saudia Arabia combined ($426.8B)? That'd save $260B from the budget each year while still giving us a stronger military than the next 7 put together. Can we call that good enough?
Out of curiosity, is that actually a significant memory leak? Yes, it's extremely bad form and the kind of thing that should be fixed ASAP. But did it result in a typical leak rate of a few KB per day, or would it lose 100MB an hour? Without that kind of information there's no way to tell if that's a real problem that affects people, or something more theoretical that should be fixed because it's the right thing to do.
[citation needed] Recent C/C++ compilers churn out code that runs as good (or better) on a modern out-of-order, superscalar processor as code hand-written by almost any human. Things might get a little dicey when legendary coders are thrown into the equation, but those guys are few and far between by definition.
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A lot of RIPscrip hasn't been ported either, and yet I still manage to get out of bed every morning.
Flash is dead. It may not realize it yet, but it's dead. I'll miss certain Flash apps and animations in much the same way I'd miss old DOS and Amiga apps that're a pain in the neck to run now. That is, they're still viewable if you're determined enough but chances are you'll rarely want to.
I don't like the Heartland Institute and I wouldn't attempt to defend them or their actions, but your points are weak:
creating controversy and doubt over the fact that smoking causes health problems
OK, that's indefensible.
drafting policies targeted at reducing the services provided by the federal government to nothing more than a "competitive marketplace"
You're begging the question by assuming that they're wrong. I'm not saying they're right, but I don't think either "big government" or "small" government approach is inherently correct.
instituting "market reform" into the education system and championing charter schools (here in los angeles, charter schools show up in the news once a week for some major breech of trust, child abuse or embezzlement scandal)
As we all know, all regular public schools have spotless reputations. Can you cite evidence that charter schools have higher crime rates than non-charter schools?
the same reaganite health care privatization and deinstitutionalization mentality that landed an entire generation of schitzophrenics and invalids on the streets of skid row.
That's just sensationalism.
Again, I'm not defending them. It's just that you've done a really poor job of illustrating why they're not to be trusted.
Apache is "simple" in the same way that PHP is: it has excellent documentation because it has to or else no one would ever be able to use it. I've been using it professionally since the late 90s and am reasonably happy and comfortable with it, but I still have to RTFM every time I want to do something non-trivial.
Seriously, they stated the top 5% in congested markets would be throttled, which would be fine, if they utilized the actual top 5%.
Not if you bought an unlimited plan, it shouldn't be fine. Also, 5% always means "1 in 20". If you kick the top 5% of users off your network this month, next month there'll be a new top 5%. Eject them and there's a new 95th percentile the following month.
Disclaimer: I don't even use AT&T. I just hate when companies blatantly lie by misrepresenting statistics.
These are the people, of course, who would take advantage of the free gate checking of bags but they've managed to pack something valuable into the bag and don't want to let it go baggage class.
I was with you up until this point. I'm one of those people who refuses to pay to check bags unless I absolutely have to. I'm also a stickler for the rules, if for no other reason that I don't want to give the airlines any reason whatsoever to make me pay for extra services I don't want. Because of that, my bag is completely within regulation size and weight limits, and I don't have a lot of sympathy for airlines who can't find a way to make my standards-compliant carryon luggage fit into the space it was designed for.
Furthermore, because it's now so expensive to check luggage, all of my daily necessities are in my carry-on. The fact is that sometimes the airlines lose luggage. Another fact is that I've never once lost my own luggage that I was carrying with me. Unless forced, I'd rather take responsibility for my own belongings so that I won't find myself going to a job interview with unbrushed teeth and wearing the same clothes I wore during travel.
There are plenty of selfish reasons to want to bring as much possible in a carryon. That doesn't automatically make those reasons bad or invalid.
If your kid came home with a note like that and I could afford it, I'd make you the same offer. You'd have won as a parent.
By the age when people are typically diagnosed with Alzheimer's, skin cancer is very common. Is anyone likely to question a purely coincidental diagnosis of skin cancer in a 70-year-old and its subsequent treatment?
Perhaps TBL was hedging his bets by using logic that would either 1) win the case, or 2) cause the case to be lost so terribly badly and with such devastating precedent that major tech firms would join him in opposing software patents.
As a third-party observer, the funny part is watching people fall all over themselves to be the first to correct the OP's statement.
If they wrote the browser themselves, then they might have a claim that an IPC-aware browser was a novel thing.
He would've been in a race with AMosaic, an Amiga web browser with an ARexx interface that allowed it to interact with other applications and scripts and which was publicly released on Christmas 1993.
It takes an author years of their life to arrange the words in such a way as to bring entertainment value to you in the form of a book. But, because of this new technology that makes copying that arrangement effortless they don't deserve to get paid for years of work?
Your message was typed into a free web browser connected to a non-proprietary, royalty-free network and delivered to a crowd full of F/OSS advocates on a free website running on a Free operating system.
I don't know about the rest of your writing skills, but you have the whole irony thing down, my friend.
Which lesson is that? Keep your code portable?
You beat me to it. For the vast majority of apps, adding a new architecture to a build is as simple as changing the build target in Xcode. The other 1% needing more low-level control should be sufficiently competent to port the CPU-specific code to a new architecture.
I think Apple developers learned something in the PPC->Intel migration: Apple won't support your bad architectural decisions to the detriment of all their other vendors and customers.
While this is a great idea, in some cases it'll be a race to get an open spot, even worse than now.
So add a feature where you can reserve a spot with your credit card by pre-paying double the normal rate from the moment of reservation to the moment you actually park your car. Take reserved spots off the list and make them clearly visible in real life, like with a blinking red LED on top showing that it's unavailable.
Plenty of people would pay double for a few minutes for the privilege of having a spot waiting for them.
Having lived there in the early 90s, I can say that my car was much more of a hindrance than a blessing!
I moved here three weeks ago and I'm selling the car I have back home ASAP. You're exactly right: transit is so plentiful and cheap, and walking so easy, that I have absolutely no desire to register, insure, drive, and park a car here. It's way more of a hassle than just taking the BART or Muni to within a block of my destination and walking the rest.
I hadn't been on public transportation in nearly two decades before moving here and was never interested in it, but this has won me over. It's a model of how it can and should be. Plus, we have Zipcar for when you really need to drive around for a few hours.
Whenever the GOP is in power they seem to spend more time grandstanding for political advantage than doing the work of the people
...he says in response to a news story about a Democratic in power refusing to do the work of the people.
Can we get past the idea that either major US party cares more about the citizenry than the other?
The biggest stumbling block was with my parents. That BASIC cartridge wasn't exactly free and they were gun shy about buying me a better system. I kept my mouth shut about the limitations of that little ZX81 until I learned enough to make use of it anyway. I was able to impress them enough with my enthusiasm that it was easier to talk them into getting a Commodore 64 a few months later.
Again, my own ZX81 came with the 16KB cartridge. It had 1KB "native".
My ZX81 came with an external 16KB RAM expansion. When I said "the ZX81", I meant "the ZX81 my parents bought me for Christmas in hopes that I'd stop bugging them for a computer".
Plenty. First, the overt purpose of the military is national defense, not to be a jobs program. Second, many (most?) jobs in the military are for four-year contracts. You don't have to fire many soldiers to downsize when probably 20% of them are already scheduled to quit in any given year. Finally, there are plenty of non-military roles for a typically young, healthy workforce. I'd bet a large portion of would-be soldiers would be good candidates for jobs updating our national infrastructure. Rather than paying a soldier to spend a year drilling and training for a war that hopefully won't happen, why not pay him as a civilian to repair bridges?
Again, I'm not anti-military in any way. I just think we're investing a lot of money on military spending that doesn't actually provide a good return in national security.
I think what he meant was you had to "soldier on" and write all the programs yourself, because I, for one, had a damned hard time finding any. ;)
I didn't. There were cardboard crates full of jumbled discount tapes at the local bargain store. "Ooh, look! A coupon manager!"
Are there any emulators for modern PCs that will run Sinclair BASIC or TS-1000 machine code and will read the tapes?
I can't imagine it'd take more than 50 lines of Python.
There is even a YouTube channel for the diehard 8-bit fans out there
8-bit? 2-bit. Good grief, that thing was painfully limited except relative to its immediate competitors. Prior to my parents buying my a ZX81 for Christmas, my home computer was an Atari 2600 with a BASIC Programming cartridge. It had 62 bytes of code memory.
Let me repeat that in case you thought I misspoke: it had 62, sixty-two, 2^6-2 bytes of memory.
The ZX81 came with a whopping 16KB, which seemed mansionlike to my very inexperienced mind. But that's like having a better civil rights record than North Korea. It wasn't the worst of the worst but it wasn't far from it.
When did Paul advocate eliminating the military? Look, I'm a vet. I'm very much for having a strong national defense. There is no credible way in which you could describe me as anti-military. But we spend 78% percent as much as the rest of the world combined ($687B for America vs $876B total for everyone else). Do we have to? I mean, could we reduce that to just outspending China, France, UK, Russia, Japan, Germany, and Saudia Arabia combined ($426.8B)? That'd save $260B from the budget each year while still giving us a stronger military than the next 7 put together. Can we call that good enough?
Out of curiosity, is that actually a significant memory leak? Yes, it's extremely bad form and the kind of thing that should be fixed ASAP. But did it result in a typical leak rate of a few KB per day, or would it lose 100MB an hour? Without that kind of information there's no way to tell if that's a real problem that affects people, or something more theoretical that should be fixed because it's the right thing to do.
Assembly is not "as fast as C++", it is faster :-)
[citation needed] Recent C/C++ compilers churn out code that runs as good (or better) on a modern out-of-order, superscalar processor as code hand-written by almost any human. Things might get a little dicey when legendary coders are thrown into the equation, but those guys are few and far between by definition.
When did you start drinking lite beer? That's an export that I deeply apologize for.
He started out intending a discreet colon transform.