When Apple was planning the Infinite Loop Campus, the city (Cupertino) insisted Apple have on-site food service -- they were afraid of the traffic that would be caused by all those employees going off to forage for lunch over more or less the same period of time.
But now providing such services are unfair to local businesses?
I know, logically you can't have it both ways, but arguments such as this are seldom based in logic.
Amazing lack of detail in the article, but how is this different from or better than Eidson's PTP protocols, also known as IEEE 1588? That lets you synchronize and time stamp packets on a network, at least on the LAN - extended LAN.
How is he (or his successor) going to feel when they see this same language in Chinese, or other language, as an assault on the entry of U.S. designed products into other markets?
The U.S., under more rational administrations in the past, has decried "non-tariff barriers to entry" against U.S. products and services, such as the language now being used by the FCC.
What's good for the goose is mighty damn fine for the gander -- and I hope you like the taste of it, because it's going to be rammed down our throats (or into other orifices) by other nations barring U.S. products from their markets.
So much history (and transition of Apple as a company) involved in Lisa...
68k with custom memory map, two very funky disk interfaces (twiggy and pippin), big bitmapped display (rectangular, not square like the Macintosh)
As much as possible written in Pascal, designed and documented!
I'll call it the first large scale Apple project designed and built by engineers, particularly software engineers (the design part is important)
Yes, Apple/// SOS was designed and built by software professionals (Tom Root, Bob Etheredge, and many more), but not at all the scope of Lisa which went from the core OS out to the document model
Such incredible effort went into Lisa -- the origins of Quickdraw graphics (Atkinson), modeless text editing (Tesler), software design on a large scale, a document model rather than an app-centric model
Of course some issues (problems), such as applications software tied to the serial number of the machine, not enough RAM, not enough disk space, not enough CPU horsepower
And even though many of the foundations for the Macintosh came from Lisa (mouse, bitmapped screen, Quickdraw, overall engineering rigor), with very few exceptions, if you worked on Lisa, Steve considered you to be second rate (a view not shared by most of engineering)
Lisa also lead the way in other ways -- the locked-down, invitation only secrecy and internal isolation that was anathema to the Apple ][ and Apple/// worlds of that time, but which has come to define the current Apple.
Lisa was an amazing development, particularly at that time in Apple's history. I have so much respect for those people, and for the Apple/// team as well. At the time, the biggest knock both these projects took was not matching the (incredible for the time) sales volume of the Apple ][.
I saw this happen from across the street in Bandley 3... An incredible time at Apple, and in the computer racket.
(Apple Employee 1xxx)
This is like a scene out of Repo Man, J Frank Parnell:
Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.
Datatrieve was an early Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) database product for PDP-11 and later, VAX Don't know if it ran on the PDP-10 or not..
Don't remember the name of the guy who did it, but it was a well received hack in the field (and us software types didn't care what management thought of it).
The troublesome bird was SVN-23, one of the oldest GPS birds, launched in 1990!
It was the last of the Block IIA birds, and had an expected 8 year lifetime, which it beat by quite a few years!
It featured a combination of cesium and rubidium clocks -- two of each.
Now decommissioned -- http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?Do...
Read more of this bird's interesting history -- http://www.schriever.af.mil/ne...
Lots of folks on the time-nuts mailing list have GPS-based systems to maintain not only precision time, but also precision frequency standards, and many of them saw and recorded this one.
Does anyone remember home cordless phones moving off the 902 - 928 MHz band to 2.4 GHz a decade or more ago, to escape all the garbage filling that chunk of spectrum?
Amateur radio operators have that band (33cm) as a secondary allocation -- and can run up to 1500 Watts. Ha-Lo? Good-Bye! It's also primary to ISM (Industrial, Scientific, Medical) equipment. Still a lot of cordless phones, baby monitors, wireless audio and video extenders.
And that's the home of the "new" Ha-Lo devices... Oh, the strategies.AH uses will help some, but they'll still be susceptible to all the other crap already operating on that band. And remember, FCC Part 15 means they have to put up with whatever's out there.
If anything, they're hoping most of that crap has aged out of existence. There's still a lot out there. Oh, it's also ITU region 2 only -- the Americas. No sales in Europe, and no (legal anyway) sales in China, Japan, etc.
AI's aren't going to replace lawyers in the near term, particularly in discovery - doc production work, but for a different reason.
Why bring in an expensive machine when you can get a swarm of peons for really cheap, and throw them away when you're done?
In most large cities in the country, there are way too many lawyers (yeah, insert favorite joke here), with more being hatched every year. When a big case comes up, or any legal matter requiring a lot of gruntwork, such as going through tons of documents, a lot of law firms hire throw-away lawyers for some times as little as $20 an hour -- and for most of these, they have more folks looking for work than they need. Why would you go with an AI in a situation like that? They're too expensive (at this time), and if the docs are in printed form (which is how the other side will present them to the other side's life as difficult as possible), the docs have to be handled, bates stamped, scanned, and then analyzed. Why not hire a roomful of out of work lawyers $20 an hour to do that, with a few more at a higher rate (say, $30) to do spot check and general QA, eventually feeding to that high priced ($125 an hour) law firm paralegal. And dump them when the task is done.
(Disclosure: I passed the California bar in 1990 and have been through this ratshit. People that save every email they've ever received or sent make a lot of money for law firms handling discovery. Please, don't save all that shit unless it's really needed and useful?)
--cover the ornamental, nonfunctional aspects of a design. Think fins on a car, or the flare of the fenders -- again, ornamental and nonfunctional. There's a set of early design patents on the patterns produced by one manufacturer's water fountains.
Design patents on icons and UI elements go back twenty years or more. Early on they were sort of an arms-race among companies with GUIs (disclosure: I'm a patent attorney and filed quite a few design patents for icons over a period of a few years).
Seeing how they cover, once again, ornamental and nonfunctional aspects of a design, getting sued on a UI design patent practically means someone has done something really stupid, like copying the elements of someone's UI design.
Come on, draw your own slider! Use squares instead of circles at the ends! Do something original! Or be ready to argue that the aspects of the element you copied are functional, and not ornamental.
I"m not a fan of patent litigation, but to get nailed on design patents usually means it's pretty close copying.
Look at the track for N404KR on that day (2015/12/02) -- it spent hours circling over the area. It's a Cessna 182T, so a smaller payload capability, but slower with more loiter time over a tighter area.
And it's registered out of a P.O. box in Virginia, along with many similar companies and aircraft.
Please, read Dava Sobel's book, Longitude, about the trials and travails of Harrison -- it's a tremendous read. And if you ever get to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich (England), look at the Harrison models, they are amazing.
This is a guy who was a Maker -- self taught and more.
To start with, I have to dedicate a PC to Windows 10 in order to do Windows development for my Pi 2?
Or, I can continue to run Raspbian (Debian) on the Pi and host development on the Pi, or do cross-development on other Linux hosts or my Mac.
I know the overhead/footprint Raspbian imposes, and I know how to carve out the bits I don't need.
How do I do that with Windows 10?
Easy! Stick to Raspbian!
Oh, I realize I won't have access to the latest development tools like Visual Studio,.NET APIs, viruses, trojans, and whatnot infesting on the Windows 10 ecosystem.
Thanks, I'll stick with Raspbian on the Pi, and not having to support a separate Windows 10 box as well.
Gee, an Apple product did this in the 90's, compressing memory segments assigned to processes not currently executing.
(see, for example, https://www.usenix.org/legacy/...)
The same product was Apple's first to use pre-emptive multitasking,
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When Apple was planning the Infinite Loop Campus, the city (Cupertino) insisted Apple have on-site food service -- they were afraid of the traffic that would be caused by all those employees going off to forage for lunch over more or less the same period of time.
But now providing such services are unfair to local businesses?
I know, logically you can't have it both ways, but arguments such as this are seldom based in logic.
Amazing lack of detail in the article, but how is this different from or better than Eidson's PTP protocols, also known as IEEE 1588? That lets you synchronize and time stamp packets on a network, at least on the LAN - extended LAN.
...the merger being blocked (or at least impeded) by AT&T
Maybe not in a manner easily traced back to AT&T, but isn't that what friends are for?
How is he (or his successor) going to feel when they see this same language in Chinese, or other language, as an assault on the entry of U.S. designed products into other markets?
The U.S., under more rational administrations in the past, has decried "non-tariff barriers to entry" against U.S. products and services, such as the language now being used by the FCC.
What's good for the goose is mighty damn fine for the gander -- and I hope you like the taste of it, because it's going to be rammed down our throats (or into other orifices) by other nations barring U.S. products from their markets.
So much history (and transition of Apple as a company) involved in Lisa... /// SOS was designed and built by software professionals (Tom Root, Bob Etheredge, and many more), but not at all the scope of Lisa which went from the core OS out to the document model
/// worlds of that time, but which has come to define the current Apple.
/// team as well. At the time, the biggest knock both these projects took was not matching the (incredible for the time) sales volume of the Apple ][.
68k with custom memory map, two very funky disk interfaces (twiggy and pippin), big bitmapped display (rectangular, not square like the Macintosh)
As much as possible written in Pascal, designed and documented!
I'll call it the first large scale Apple project designed and built by engineers, particularly software engineers (the design part is important)
Yes, Apple
Such incredible effort went into Lisa -- the origins of Quickdraw graphics (Atkinson), modeless text editing (Tesler), software design on a large scale, a document model rather than an app-centric model
Of course some issues (problems), such as applications software tied to the serial number of the machine, not enough RAM, not enough disk space, not enough CPU horsepower
And even though many of the foundations for the Macintosh came from Lisa (mouse, bitmapped screen, Quickdraw, overall engineering rigor), with very few exceptions, if you worked on Lisa, Steve considered you to be second rate (a view not shared by most of engineering)
Lisa also lead the way in other ways -- the locked-down, invitation only secrecy and internal isolation that was anathema to the Apple ][ and Apple
Lisa was an amazing development, particularly at that time in Apple's history. I have so much respect for those people, and for the Apple
I saw this happen from across the street in Bandley 3... An incredible time at Apple, and in the computer racket.
(Apple Employee 1xxx)
This is like a scene out of Repo Man, J Frank Parnell:
Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.
Hey, where's the headline about this being patched back in March?
Oh, but it takes time to verify that these patches won't...
Yeah, and how long is it going to take you to recover from getting slammed, and at what cost? For something that was patched TWO MONTHS AGO.
Not a zero day, a YESTER-DAY!
And if you're still relying on XP...
...With an Apple Watch 2 -- I liked the pebble, but it's been abandoned (and mine is getting flakey).
As are the Silicon Valley homes of Tandem Computers, and HP's computer division -- both sites swallowed up to become the Apple Spaceship
Notable not only for what it holds, but also for where it is -- in the shell of what had been an industry-leading company -- Silicon Graphics.
Remember, all are as Rome...
Help Wombat and Help Advanced Wombat
Datatrieve was an early Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) database product for PDP-11 and later, VAX Don't know if it ran on the PDP-10 or not..
Don't remember the name of the guy who did it, but it was a well received hack in the field (and us software types didn't care what management thought of it).
The troublesome bird was SVN-23, one of the oldest GPS birds, launched in 1990!
It was the last of the Block IIA birds, and had an expected 8 year lifetime, which it beat by quite a few years!
It featured a combination of cesium and rubidium clocks -- two of each. Now decommissioned -- http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?Do...
Read more of this bird's interesting history -- http://www.schriever.af.mil/ne...
Lots of folks on the time-nuts mailing list have GPS-based systems to maintain not only precision time, but also precision frequency standards, and many of them saw and recorded this one.
Here's the top 25 captured by my SSH honeypot so far this year as count [account/password]:
2132 [root/root]
2110 [root/admin]
2107 [root/123456]
2107 [root/1234]
2104 [root/password]
2102 [root/root123]
2102 [root/12345]
2101 [root/p@ssw0rd]
2101 [root/123]
2098 [root/1]
2091 [root/test]
1907 [root/wubao]
1905 [root/!q@w]
1905 [root/jiamima]
1905 [root/!@]
1900 [root/idc!@]
1900 [root/!]
1899 [root/!qaz@wsx]
1899 [root/admin!@]
203 [root/superuser]
203 [root/public]
203 [root/power]
203 [root/calvin]
203 [root/alpine]
203 [root/admin123]
Around 400k ssh login attempts so far in 2016, mostly from China.
If someone could explain "wubao" and "jiamima" I would greatly appreciate it!
Does anyone remember home cordless phones moving off the 902 - 928 MHz band to 2.4 GHz a decade or more ago, to escape all the garbage filling that chunk of spectrum?
.AH uses will help some, but they'll still be susceptible to all the other crap already operating on that band. And remember, FCC Part 15 means they have to put up with whatever's out there.
Amateur radio operators have that band (33cm) as a secondary allocation -- and can run up to 1500 Watts. Ha-Lo? Good-Bye! It's also primary to ISM (Industrial, Scientific, Medical) equipment. Still a lot of cordless phones, baby monitors, wireless audio and video extenders.
And that's the home of the "new" Ha-Lo devices... Oh, the strategies
If anything, they're hoping most of that crap has aged out of existence. There's still a lot out there. Oh, it's also ITU region 2 only -- the Americas. No sales in Europe, and no (legal anyway) sales in China, Japan, etc.
AI's aren't going to replace lawyers in the near term, particularly in discovery - doc production work, but for a different reason.
Why bring in an expensive machine when you can get a swarm of peons for really cheap, and throw them away when you're done?
In most large cities in the country, there are way too many lawyers (yeah, insert favorite joke here), with more being hatched every year. When a big case comes up, or any legal matter requiring a lot of gruntwork, such as going through tons of documents, a lot of law firms hire throw-away lawyers for some times as little as $20 an hour -- and for most of these, they have more folks looking for work than they need. Why would you go with an AI in a situation like that? They're too expensive (at this time), and if the docs are in printed form (which is how the other side will present them to the other side's life as difficult as possible), the docs have to be handled, bates stamped, scanned, and then analyzed. Why not hire a roomful of out of work lawyers $20 an hour to do that, with a few more at a higher rate (say, $30) to do spot check and general QA, eventually feeding to that high priced ($125 an hour) law firm paralegal. And dump them when the task is done.
(Disclosure: I passed the California bar in 1990 and have been through this ratshit. People that save every email they've ever received or sent make a lot of money for law firms handling discovery. Please, don't save all that shit unless it's really needed and useful?)
--because the FAA says the database will be searchable, so all the info you enter will be available to anybody that wants it.
How long until folks start getting all sorts of exciting offers based on their registrations?
See, isn't that a whole lot better than OPM? Go ahead and enter that credit card number...
--cover the ornamental, nonfunctional aspects of a design. Think fins on a car, or the flare of the fenders -- again, ornamental and nonfunctional. There's a set of early design patents on the patterns produced by one manufacturer's water fountains.
Design patents on icons and UI elements go back twenty years or more. Early on they were sort of an arms-race among companies with GUIs (disclosure: I'm a patent attorney and filed quite a few design patents for icons over a period of a few years).
Seeing how they cover, once again, ornamental and nonfunctional aspects of a design, getting sued on a UI design patent practically means someone has done something really stupid, like copying the elements of someone's UI design.
Come on, draw your own slider! Use squares instead of circles at the ends! Do something original! Or be ready to argue that the aspects of the element you copied are functional, and not ornamental.
I"m not a fan of patent litigation, but to get nailed on design patents usually means it's pretty close copying.
Look at the track for N404KR on that day (2015/12/02) -- it spent hours circling over the area. It's a Cessna 182T, so a smaller payload capability, but slower with more loiter time over a tighter area.
And it's registered out of a P.O. box in Virginia, along with many similar companies and aircraft.
Nothing suspicious here, move along citizen...
Amazon already decamped it's UAV/drone research to Canada.
Who's next? Bureaucratic red tape and regulation can only hurt.
Please, read Dava Sobel's book, Longitude, about the trials and travails of Harrison -- it's a tremendous read. And if you ever get to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich (England), look at the Harrison models, they are amazing.
This is a guy who was a Maker -- self taught and more.
To start with, I have to dedicate a PC to Windows 10 in order to do Windows development for my Pi 2?
.NET APIs, viruses, trojans, and whatnot infesting on the Windows 10 ecosystem.
Or, I can continue to run Raspbian (Debian) on the Pi and host development on the Pi, or do cross-development on other Linux hosts or my Mac.
I know the overhead/footprint Raspbian imposes, and I know how to carve out the bits I don't need.
How do I do that with Windows 10?
Easy! Stick to Raspbian!
Oh, I realize I won't have access to the latest development tools like Visual Studio,
Thanks, I'll stick with Raspbian on the Pi, and not having to support a separate Windows 10 box as well.
Tell people that instead of saying "in the cloud" they say "on somebody else's computer" and see how that goes--
"We store the company's most important information on somebody else's computer"
"We control access to that data by storing it on somebody else's computer"
"We back up all our mission-critical information to somebody else's computer"
"Our data is secure because we store it on somebody else's computer"
Doesn't sound so good, eh?
Gee, an Apple product did this in the 90's, compressing memory segments assigned to processes not currently executing.
(see, for example, https://www.usenix.org/legacy/...)
The same product was Apple's first to use pre-emptive multitasking,
The product? Newton.
the linked document is the publication copy, not the issued patent. the issued patent is as cited above, which issued on June 9.
on first blush the claims seem pretty limited to speed/acceleration and location/speed.
I'd bet there's a continuation in the works on this one, going for broader claims.