its not just apple — i think samsung and all the other manufacturers are always being driven by the american consumer credo 'the lowest price is the law' — forcing manufacturers to pay its people the least.
so long as 'the lowest price is the law' — this trend will continue for all manufacturers.
mosty physical locks are also pickable — with a pick and a tension bar — at 25% — the electronic locks might be less pickable than their physical counterparts..:-p
titling a post 'last chance' — is really trolling.
people were predicting the death of the Mac for twenty years — the iPad is still bringing millions of dollars of revenue (not loss) for the company.
does apple kill off apple TV because it doesn outsell the iphone? no — they keep it, because it fits into the overall design and usage patterns of many users very well, and has the best (human-vetted) software library out there.
danger man — a precursor to james bond —used all sorts of clever not-digital methods of subterfuge — which were decidedly 'low tech'. John Drake does not employ cutting edge gadgets, relying instead on his wits. The most 'advanced' device used, is a closed circuit television and a tape recorder. Messages are passed in matchboxes and folded newspapers with photographic microdots. He would use the spy's own bugs against him by feeding it false information — check out Danger Man in action — https://youtu.be/6brtYw3s7_0?t...
mac hardware lets you run all three major OS's (osx + windows + linux) on a single piece of hardware.
also — you get all the commandline UNIX-y goodness + the ability to run Microsoft Word + the ability to run Adobe Photoshop right beside your terminal window.
and it never stops running for some arcane reason after a pkg update.
heh — i thought he was referring to some sort of real-time OS that was able to handle interrupts with really low-latency, or something devised in LISP which dealt with high-level feature-abstraction about real-world objects.
meh — he's just talking about languages with which you programme controllers — and the current languages which are already adequate to that.
drones didnt exist, became a thing, and have to be registered by february - wonder how many more years itâ(TM)ll take before guns have to be registered..?!?
but this is america - where kinder surprise is illegal, and guns are a god-given right..:-/
the guy who developed clang - Chris Lattner - also wrote swift.
he first modernized the architecture of the compiler, and then wrote a better language on top of it that is capaable of doing system level things like C++ with a cleaner semantic style.
| the estimated time in seconds that the battery will take to | fully discharge, as well the remaining battery capacity | expressed as a percentage. Those two numbers, taken together, | can be in any one of around 14 million combinations, meaning | that they operate as a potential ID number
okay — so why not decrease the provided resolution of the values?
i.e. time til battery discharges expressed in minutes instead of seconds, and remaining battery capacity expressed to the nearest 5% -- this will provide substantially less unique combinations to ID your battery, while still being sufficiently useful enough for what the feature was intended.
yeah — learning code should be hard and arcane and locked up in air conditioned rooms full of punched card readers, and the only way you're going to get to programme a computer is if you solder a CPU to a motherboard and your name is WOZ — like its such a horrible thing for a good elegant language to exist that finally replaces god-awful basic with line numbers, and is able to compile a mach kernal and the whole OS using the same language. — who wants a good easy deep language (or be stuck with java and objectiveC for the next 20 years!?) — the nerve of those folks, making good tools like this available for free.
we've been in a desert for so long, and now you grow up with good compilers and plenty of RAM — and i just dont get it — why the author is complaining!?!?
you can be handed good tools and still not know how to draw — but you may be drawn into the art and craft and learn and get better.
by the same logic — should we ban typewriters!?!? — because millions of people might now be enabled to write crappy literature!?
please dear author of this post — wtf!?
If a head and a book come into collision and the resulting sound is hollow,
the fault need not necessarily be that of the book! (Lichtenberg)
we may have some ideas about how the brain works — at an electro-chemical level — it has been well studying and documented. a good text would be by neurologist — john eccles:
as for treating a simulation of the brain as having the same qualities as a real functioning brain is to fear getting wet from a simulation of a rainstorm. there are scientists which would disagree that human consciousness is actually simulable in this way:
one of the worst mistakes in cognitive science.. is to suppose that in the sense in which computers are used to process information, brains also process information. (john searle, cognitive scientist, 1990)*
2009 MacBook Pro 13" 2.26Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo; 4Gb RAM, NVidia GeForce 9400m 256Mb. 1Tb 2.5" Internal Hard Disk Drive which resides where the DVD-R used to reside.
Peripherals: External Scarlett 6i6 USB Audio/MIDI Interface; and 19" HP LCD Monitor; 7Port power USB Hub; CM Storm w Cherry MX Blue keyswitches & Apple Magic Mouse.
This notebook has been a tank day in and day out for over 6 years. It has been dropped and dented; the internal SATA bus died, and I installed a primary drive in the optical drive bay, and that is running solid. It has running OSX 10.6 - 10.10; back in the day it also ran powerPC apps on OSX 10.6. I use a lot of software. XCODE and iOS Development; Music and MIDI Software; Adobe CS Photoshop and Illustrator.. and VNC and Remote Desktops for IT Support; still use Terminal and GCC. running hundreds of Apps over the years, games, emulators and custom software.
It contains my whole digital life: migrated from TRS80 > Mac512 > Mac IIcx; Quadra 700; PowerBook 520; PowerBook 5200; Bondi iMac; iBook; iMac G5 > and finally 2009 MacBook Pro — and it is the most solid reliable machine ever. I love it!!
i have to agree with your observations — i have a friend, who is very intelligent and gifted, yet he lacks motivation, and gets nowhere. without the fire within, none shines without.
play chess with them — it strips away all the semantic crap that will change from language to language, and gets it right down to developing the sort of critical thinking that is required to think logically and consistently in programming.
The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by z" and "w" by " v".
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
the changing semantics of languages and APIs will change — best way to teach the sort of mental discipline is to abstract it to the level of chess —
then using something like SDLTRS to run an old version of TRS80 or Apple II Basic, and have them solve simple problems (like Towers of Hannoi, generating Prime Numbers, Loop and Display their name 1000x on the screen).
Infrastructure for Bikes costs a lot less to construct than infrastructure for cars.
Instead of designing infrastructure that assumes cars — design for bicycles — then there is no more oil crisis, people live longer and happier.
I commuted in a car every day for over 7 years — and going 113km x 2 = 226km day — and three hours a day wasted sitting stuck in traffic. Sold the car, bought a bike and moved in to town — ten years later — still one of the best decisions of ever made.
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its not just apple — i think samsung and all the other manufacturers are always being driven by the american consumer credo 'the lowest price is the law' — forcing manufacturers to pay its people the least.
so long as 'the lowest price is the law' — this trend will continue for all manufacturers.
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mosty physical locks are also pickable — with a pick and a tension bar — at 25% — the electronic locks might be less pickable than their physical counterparts.. :-p
titling a post 'last chance' — is really trolling.
people were predicting the death of the Mac for twenty years — the iPad is still bringing millions of dollars of revenue (not loss) for the company.
does apple kill off apple TV because it doesn outsell the iphone? no — they keep it, because it fits into the overall design and usage patterns of many users very well, and has the best (human-vetted) software library out there.
the ipad isnt going anywhere.
jp
danger man — a precursor to james bond —used all sorts of clever not-digital methods of subterfuge — which were decidedly 'low tech'. John Drake does not employ cutting edge gadgets, relying instead on his wits. The most 'advanced' device used, is a closed circuit television and a tape recorder. Messages are passed in matchboxes and folded newspapers with photographic microdots. He would use the spy's own bugs against him by feeding it false information — check out Danger Man in action — https://youtu.be/6brtYw3s7_0?t...
mac hardware lets you run all three major OS's (osx + windows + linux) on a single piece of hardware.
also — you get all the commandline UNIX-y goodness + the ability to run Microsoft Word + the ability to run Adobe Photoshop right beside your terminal window.
and it never stops running for some arcane reason after a pkg update.
heh — i thought he was referring to some sort of real-time OS that was able to handle interrupts with really low-latency, or something devised in LISP which dealt with high-level feature-abstraction about real-world objects.
meh — he's just talking about languages with which you programme controllers — and the current languages which are already adequate to that.
geez.. the jobâ(TM)s no done til you clean up after yourselves.
its like those bad designers that leave al. sorts of unused mislabelled layers in a file.
install the new, remove the cruft. maintain a clean system.
drones didnt exist, became a thing, and have to be registered by february - wonder how many more years itâ(TM)ll take before guns have to be registered..?!?
but this is america - where kinder surprise is illegal, and guns are a god-given right.. :-/
the guy who developed clang - Chris Lattner - also wrote swift.
he first modernized the architecture of the compiler, and then wrote a better language on top of it that is capaable of doing system level things like C++ with a cleaner semantic style.
++
| the estimated time in seconds that the battery will take to
| fully discharge, as well the remaining battery capacity
| expressed as a percentage. Those two numbers, taken together,
| can be in any one of around 14 million combinations, meaning
| that they operate as a potential ID number
okay — so why not decrease the provided resolution of the values?
i.e. time til battery discharges expressed in minutes instead of seconds,
and remaining battery capacity expressed to the nearest 5% -- this will
provide substantially less unique combinations to ID your battery, while
still being sufficiently useful enough for what the feature was intended.
2cents
jp
yeah — learning code should be hard and arcane and locked up in air conditioned rooms full of punched card readers, and the only way you're going to get to programme a computer is if you solder a CPU to a motherboard and your name is WOZ — like its such a horrible thing for a good elegant language to exist that finally replaces god-awful basic with line numbers, and is able to compile a mach kernal and the whole OS using the same language. — who wants a good easy deep language (or be stuck with java and objectiveC for the next 20 years!?) — the nerve of those folks, making good tools like this available for free.
we've been in a desert for so long, and now you grow up with good compilers and plenty of RAM — and i just dont get it — why the author is complaining!?!?
you can be handed good tools and still not know how to draw — but you may be drawn into the art and craft and learn and get better.
by the same logic — should we ban typewriters!?!? — because millions of people might now be enabled to write crappy literature!?
please dear author of this post — wtf!?
If a head and a book come into collision and the resulting sound is hollow,
the fault need not necessarily be that of the book! (Lichtenberg)
we may have some ideas about how the brain works — at an electro-chemical level — it has been well studying and documented. a good text would be by neurologist — john eccles:
http://www.amazon.ca/Evolution...
http://home.earthlink.net/~joh...
as for treating a simulation of the brain as having the same qualities as a real functioning brain is to fear getting wet from a simulation of a rainstorm. there are scientists which would disagree that human consciousness is actually simulable in this way:
one of the worst mistakes in cognitive science.. is to suppose that in
the sense in which computers are used to process information, brains
also process information. (john searle, cognitive scientist, 1990)*
* Is the Brain a Digital Computer?
https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/...
2009 MacBook Pro 13" 2.26Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo; 4Gb RAM, NVidia GeForce 9400m 256Mb.
1Tb 2.5" Internal Hard Disk Drive which resides where the DVD-R used to reside.
Peripherals: External Scarlett 6i6 USB Audio/MIDI Interface; and 19" HP LCD Monitor;
7Port power USB Hub; CM Storm w Cherry MX Blue keyswitches & Apple Magic Mouse.
This notebook has been a tank day in and day out for over 6 years.
It has been dropped and dented; the internal SATA bus died, and I installed a primary drive in the optical drive bay, and that is
running solid. It has running OSX 10.6 - 10.10; back in the day it also ran powerPC apps on OSX 10.6. I use a lot of software.
XCODE and iOS Development; Music and MIDI Software; Adobe CS Photoshop and Illustrator.. and VNC and Remote Desktops
for IT Support; still use Terminal and GCC. running hundreds of Apps over the years, games, emulators and custom software.
It contains my whole digital life: migrated from TRS80 > Mac512 > Mac IIcx; Quadra 700; PowerBook 520;
PowerBook 5200; Bondi iMac; iBook; iMac G5 > and finally 2009 MacBook Pro — and it is the most solid
reliable machine ever. I love it!!
2cents from Toronto Island
john p
light pushes the fins of a radiometer in a vacuum - could this be a similar phenomenon??
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things,
because that would also stop you from doing clever things. (Doug Gwyn)
i have to agree with your observations — i have a friend, who is very intelligent and gifted, yet he lacks motivation, and gets nowhere.
without the fire within, none shines without.
play chess with them — it strips away all the semantic crap that will change from language to language, and gets it right down to developing the sort of critical thinking that is required to think logically and consistently in programming.
just chess.
that's all.
2cents
john p
The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has
been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that
English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a
five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for
short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c".
Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the
hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up
konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like
"fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be
expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are
possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters,
which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil
agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is
disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
"th" by z" and "w" by " v".
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords
kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer
kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be
no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand
ech ozer.
Den, Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
all the crazy stuff the parents went through — and now the kids are screwed up.
is this really surprising?
downloaded and listened to some of the tracks — not bad — liking the orange sample..
but this has already been done more excellently by professional musicians —
try this for coding to — SLOWDIVE — https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
enjoy :-D
the changing semantics of languages and APIs will change — best way to teach the sort of mental discipline is to abstract it to the level of chess —
then using something like SDLTRS to run an old version of TRS80 or Apple II Basic, and have them solve simple problems (like Towers of Hannoi, generating Prime Numbers, Loop and Display their name 1000x on the screen).
keep it simple.
2cents
jp
GOETHE explained this through the effect of turbidity on the perception of colour.
Light shining through a darker medium yields yellow; whereas an illuminated turbid medium before a dark background yields blue.
Check out: Light Darkness and Colours @time: 23:30 on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Infrastructure for Bikes costs a lot less to construct than infrastructure for cars.
Instead of designing infrastructure that assumes cars — design for bicycles — then there is no more oil crisis, people live longer and happier.
I commuted in a car every day for over 7 years — and going 113km x 2 = 226km day — and three hours a day wasted sitting stuck in traffic.
Sold the car, bought a bike and moved in to town — ten years later — still one of the best decisions of ever made.
A 10 year cyclist in from Toronto.
Bicycles are the key to a sustainable future.
a TRS80 or apple ][ emulator would be good for this —something like SDLTRS..
http://sdltrs.sourceforge.net/
uhh — to think clearly..