I have almost given up hope for a headline announcing a user serviceable Mac with lots of slots and connectors. Like the old days. I wish Apple split into two - Macintosh and Apple. Their hardware could have been great.
Let me introduce you to Jay Lazerowitz, a lawyer... https://www.nj.com/bergen/inde...
Ethics my arse. (Allegedly) stole over $4 million from folks that entrusted him to watch over their savings.
I can see it working but it's a big gamble. In a nutshell there are a few categories of funds needed by a business: startup costs (building, enhancements, equipment, etc), fixed costs (your monthly bills including payroll, utilities, service contracts, etc.), and variable costs (depends on the interest, but here it would be the costs to make a film or series - the more films/series, the more it costs). The revenue then goes against these expenses, and there's a break even point where you make X number of widgets and take in enough revenue (from sales, licensing, etc.) to cover the costs.
You would think that Netflix has saturated the market by now, so how does throwing more money at content generate more revenue? Netflix has obviously done some thinking.
More original content would mean less licensing films and TV shows from other companies. And they need a bootstrap to produce enough to begin to be free of other studios and distributors. But then where do we go for all the shows that brought us to Netflix? Maybe it's Plan B. br/>
Original content is still key, but perhaps Netflix knows about other markets, like PPV. I don't have any idea how much people pay for films that were recently in theaters and are now in PPV. It could be that Netflix wants to do more films that are either screened broadly or maybe limited run and then charge a few more bucks to watch them.
Whatever they do it's a lot of money and a big risk. The markets are not looking favorably at tech right now, either. I'd be cautious.
Where I work all our source control is hosted by TFS on Azure. So all of our checkouts/checkins and code reviews are in limbo. Surely we aren't the only ones who have bought into the whole cloud idea. I may be too old fashioned, but I have a hard time putting all my eggs in someone else's basket. Besides, isn't the cloud supposed to prevent this from happening? I'm curious to know how many shops are affected by this.
I know we're in the age of "World Love" and everyone is equal, but what the hell are we doing selling Chinese drugs in the US or GB or anywhere but China?
This is from yeterday's news: "Blood Pressure Medication That May Contain Cancer-Causing Impurity Is Recalled" http://fortune.com/2018/07/16/...
We have no oversight and have to operate on trust. Right. You jump and I'll catch you.
David, you mush have gone through it. I used to work at ADR (Applied Data Research) where most of my coworkers were chewed up and spit out, and then at OSI (Online Software Intl.) where I experienced it (along with many of my former ADR coworkers). CA used to mine the "maintenance contracts" that were standard fare. You bought your software and paid for quarterly or annual upgrades. CA realized the cost was in the development and the cash cow was the maintenance fee. So they fired virtually all the developers and kept a skeleton crew of the maintenance folks. And they single handedly decimated an entire industry.
I paid the bills as a Carbon (who knew?) developer. Considering I've always been able to keep current and learn new skills every few years, I was blindsided by Cocoa/Objective-C and the change to the Apple Developer tools. Inside Macintosh was a great resource and when Cocoa was born Inside Macintosh was left by the wayside. The small independent/inhouse developer was left to flounder. For all the greatness attributed to Steve Jobs, he seemed to have abandoned the small developers who couldn't go to "boot camps" or wherever else folks went to get on board the new platform. OS X is nice, but Carbon was a well documented and easy to navigate environment. Carbon made the Mac what it was and Apple and Steve Jobs decided to push NeXT OS instead. I am not alone in having fond memories of Carbon while using Microsoft's tools to ply my trade.
If AI ever gets as powerful and unchecked as some visionaries predict then this little tidbit may be our undoing. It needs to be fully researched and documented and not just tossed out there as fact. I sure wish Asimov were still alive to enforce the 3 (4?) laws.
Back in the 1960's, if I remember correctly, Marty Goetz sued IBM and won the ability to open their vaults to developers. Prior to Mr. Goetz's suit, the software that ran the big iron of IBM was proprietary and closely guarded. Marty created AutoFlow and a string of successful mainframe products with his company Applied Data Research, in the Princeton, NJ area. MetaCobol, Librarian, Roscoe, Ideal, DatacomDB and more were deployed all across the country and were top notch products. (ADR was first swallowed by Ameritech - spawn of NJ's AT&T, and then the evil empire of Charles "Wang, not Wang" Wang of CA.)
New Jersey was also home to Online Software International (also swallowed by CA) and others. It was, in my opinion, the birthplace of software as we know it.
I'm surprised the military and research institutions don't have a new research network by now. Maybe they do and I'm just not aware of it, and if so they messed up big time by not isolating this. Either way, someone violated protocol. Probably won't be the last time this will happen.
My first thought was "Blade Runner" and lo and behold it was the first post. Appropriately so, I might add. Then, I thought "Dark Star" - who wouldn't want to argue existential philosophy with a bomb, or surf into the rings of Saturn? Yes, I shall vote for "Dark Star".
My first home computer was a Heathkit H-8 that I built while in college. It had an Intel 8080 and a relatively open architecture. It even offered a breadboard expansion. Most of the boards were optional, like the serial and parallel I/O. I used dual cassette decks to read and write programs. The biggest challenge and reward was entering the first programs via the hex keypad in front. It really cemented my appreciation for assembler language and memory management. The static RAM was very costly back in those days and going from 4K up to 16K cost a small fortune. (I bought the extra RAM in a clandestine drug-dealing-like transaction from one of the employees.)
This is a very touching story. I don't think it was symbolic, given the lengths to which both the examiners and Dr. Syllm-Rapoport went to legitimately defend her research. Kudos all around and a great wrong was righted. (Yes, there are and have been many atrocities committed and their number doesn't diminish the greatness of any individual act of restoration.)
Really, I'm n years old and it is a miracle I am still alive. I may always forget to bring my bicycle helmet with me but now I feel safer than ever. Will the President soon remind me to brush my teeth before I go to bed (or with the help of the NSA and IRS jack up my dental insurance rates if I don't)? Surely I'll deserve it. Maybe my WiFi enabled light bulbs will be turned off from Washington when they figure if there are three of us in the house but lights are on in four rooms one has to go. (One of us or one of the lights? Cost/benefit ananlysis leans in favor of one of us getting disappeared the next time we get a flu shot at the government overseen dispensary. Just sayin'.
I think the original question is valid and shouldn't be dismissed, as well. During the 1980's in the peak of mainframe development, a few of us were writing channel programs, small but really cool pieces of "machine code" that would be executed on a disk controller. We did this to add a big performance gain to our software. Remember, back then memory was expensive and a resource shared by possibly hundred of concurrent jobs (programs).
With a channel program one could directly control the reading and writing of consecutive blocks, cylinders, and tracks. If you could get cylinder allocations to meet your needs, then all the read/write heads are aligned and you could write to (read from) as many platters the disk had simultaneously. If a disk had 11 platters, you would chain up the commands to point to the data and do a DMA 'blast" of data out to 11 tracks in parallel. Then, you would step out to the next consecutive track and blast another string of data, and so on.
The neat thing of channel programming is that these systems would also allow you to query the drives capabilities and you could write them dynamically. So no matter what, your software could adapt to the connected hardware. And, since the disk controllers were small computers themselves, once the channel program was set up (and they were just sets of descriptors - commands and addresses, not unlike any other machine code) the work was done asynchronously with your application code. Or you could wait if you couldn't figure out how to do that.
I think the inability to control disk I/O programatically is a serious deficiency in modern PC's, whether they are desktop or rack-mounted. Remember, the operating systems of today are not meant for people who read IBM's Principle of Operations and Supervisor Services and Macros. They are designed for the least common denominator.
I have AT&T's Uverse for phone/TV/internet and its set-top boxes communicate over coax. They are using IP over coax, since the router shows the boxes' IP addresses as though they were on a an Ethernet network. The boxes run Windows Media Edition, for what it's worth.
Right or wrong (and by a matter of degree and your point of view), we all owe a lot to Marty for making it possible for us to code. Marty broke software free from the monastery and the monks of IBM. He created the entire software industry as we know it. (Of course he is human, and indirectly helped destroy mainframe software by selling ADR to Ameritech, which then sold it to Charlie "The Craw" "Not Wang, Wang!" Wang and CA.)
Marty is one cool cat, and let us play ping-pong in his luxurious office. Even if he was there working! As far as I am concerned, what Marty wants, Marty Goetz!
Which of our former classmates and colleagues (and/or professors) work on these kinds of systems? Thirty-something years ago I never would have imagined my peers working to undermine our freedoms by writing such code. I just don't get it. We were taught in classes such as "Computers in Society" things like ethics. This was before the year 1984, and most of us had read (or were aware of the premise of) Orwell's "1984." This would never happen, we thought.
Unfortunately this, and other data mining crap has been created and 1984 is alive and well and it can't be undone. All because some people - some programmers - thought that getting paid was better than doing what is moral and ethical in a free state. We are no longer free, ladies and gentlemen.
Between the promise to not hire lobbyists, the parade of appointees who have had problems paying their taxes, the proposal floated to have soldiers provide their own insurance for battle injuries (since rescinded), and now this, I hope people start to realize they voted for Obama for the wrong reason. It was more of a vote against Bush and his party than anything. and it was also a fantastically executed marketing campaign. More money was spent on the Obama campaign than any other election. They tapped into what their target audience wanted, hired the best speech writers, and pulled it off.
As I've been spending more and more time on firearm-related sites (and sights) and less on Slashdot, I have seen an amazing amount of UK chatter. First guns were taken away, now knives, and this. None of it comes as any surprise to me or any one else who is keeping an eye on 2nd Amendment rights.
While a lot of people in the US fear guns (because we've been taught to), if we let our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms be taken away, just wait for all the other freedoms granted us to be eroded (even more), as well.
Why the British people are just rolling over and letting their rights be taken away from them is mind boggling.
Why not be more informative and point out that 32,691 died from poisoning and another 33,541 from drugs. And that over 50% of the firearm deaths were suicides? And that people who are going to kill themselves are going to find a way, whether it is guns, razor blades, ropes, etc.?
If you are going to post stats, don't cherry pick them. At least you put the link to the PDF so others could see the fuller picture.
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I have almost given up hope for a headline announcing a user serviceable Mac with lots of slots and connectors. Like the old days. I wish Apple split into two - Macintosh and Apple. Their hardware could have been great.
Let me introduce you to Jay Lazerowitz, a lawyer... https://www.nj.com/bergen/inde...
Ethics my arse. (Allegedly) stole over $4 million from folks that entrusted him to watch over their savings.
the original MareNostrum was capable of performing 42.35 teraflops -- 42.35 trillion operations per second
And no mention of teraflops either? Big difference between operations per second and floating point operations per second.
Just wait until the magnet poles swap. No one's experienced that before and it's sure going to cause a stir.
ht to IMDB...
Neo: What is it?
Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
I can see it working but it's a big gamble. In a nutshell there are a few categories of funds needed by a business: startup costs (building, enhancements, equipment, etc), fixed costs (your monthly bills including payroll, utilities, service contracts, etc.), and variable costs (depends on the interest, but here it would be the costs to make a film or series - the more films/series, the more it costs). The revenue then goes against these expenses, and there's a break even point where you make X number of widgets and take in enough revenue (from sales, licensing, etc.) to cover the costs.
You would think that Netflix has saturated the market by now, so how does throwing more money at content generate more revenue? Netflix has obviously done some thinking.
More original content would mean less licensing films and TV shows from other companies. And they need a bootstrap to produce enough to begin to be free of other studios and distributors. But then where do we go for all the shows that brought us to Netflix? Maybe it's Plan B.
br/> Original content is still key, but perhaps Netflix knows about other markets, like PPV. I don't have any idea how much people pay for films that were recently in theaters and are now in PPV. It could be that Netflix wants to do more films that are either screened broadly or maybe limited run and then charge a few more bucks to watch them.
Whatever they do it's a lot of money and a big risk. The markets are not looking favorably at tech right now, either. I'd be cautious.
Where I work all our source control is hosted by TFS on Azure. So all of our checkouts/checkins and code reviews are in limbo. Surely we aren't the only ones who have bought into the whole cloud idea. I may be too old fashioned, but I have a hard time putting all my eggs in someone else's basket. Besides, isn't the cloud supposed to prevent this from happening? I'm curious to know how many shops are affected by this.
I know we're in the age of "World Love" and everyone is equal, but what the hell are we doing selling Chinese drugs in the US or GB or anywhere but China? This is from yeterday's news: "Blood Pressure Medication That May Contain Cancer-Causing Impurity Is Recalled" http://fortune.com/2018/07/16/... We have no oversight and have to operate on trust. Right. You jump and I'll catch you.
David, you mush have gone through it. I used to work at ADR (Applied Data Research) where most of my coworkers were chewed up and spit out, and then at OSI (Online Software Intl.) where I experienced it (along with many of my former ADR coworkers). CA used to mine the "maintenance contracts" that were standard fare. You bought your software and paid for quarterly or annual upgrades. CA realized the cost was in the development and the cash cow was the maintenance fee. So they fired virtually all the developers and kept a skeleton crew of the maintenance folks. And they single handedly decimated an entire industry.
I paid the bills as a Carbon (who knew?) developer. Considering I've always been able to keep current and learn new skills every few years, I was blindsided by Cocoa/Objective-C and the change to the Apple Developer tools. Inside Macintosh was a great resource and when Cocoa was born Inside Macintosh was left by the wayside. The small independent/inhouse developer was left to flounder. For all the greatness attributed to Steve Jobs, he seemed to have abandoned the small developers who couldn't go to "boot camps" or wherever else folks went to get on board the new platform. OS X is nice, but Carbon was a well documented and easy to navigate environment. Carbon made the Mac what it was and Apple and Steve Jobs decided to push NeXT OS instead. I am not alone in having fond memories of Carbon while using Microsoft's tools to ply my trade.
If AI ever gets as powerful and unchecked as some visionaries predict then this little tidbit may be our undoing. It needs to be fully researched and documented and not just tossed out there as fact. I sure wish Asimov were still alive to enforce the 3 (4?) laws.
Back in the 1960's, if I remember correctly, Marty Goetz sued IBM and won the ability to open their vaults to developers. Prior to Mr. Goetz's suit, the software that ran the big iron of IBM was proprietary and closely guarded. Marty created AutoFlow and a string of successful mainframe products with his company Applied Data Research, in the Princeton, NJ area. MetaCobol, Librarian, Roscoe, Ideal, DatacomDB and more were deployed all across the country and were top notch products. (ADR was first swallowed by Ameritech - spawn of NJ's AT&T, and then the evil empire of Charles "Wang, not Wang" Wang of CA.) New Jersey was also home to Online Software International (also swallowed by CA) and others. It was, in my opinion, the birthplace of software as we know it.
I'm surprised the military and research institutions don't have a new research network by now. Maybe they do and I'm just not aware of it, and if so they messed up big time by not isolating this. Either way, someone violated protocol. Probably won't be the last time this will happen.
My first thought was "Blade Runner" and lo and behold it was the first post. Appropriately so, I might add. Then, I thought "Dark Star" - who wouldn't want to argue existential philosophy with a bomb, or surf into the rings of Saturn? Yes, I shall vote for "Dark Star".
My first home computer was a Heathkit H-8 that I built while in college. It had an Intel 8080 and a relatively open architecture. It even offered a breadboard expansion. Most of the boards were optional, like the serial and parallel I/O. I used dual cassette decks to read and write programs. The biggest challenge and reward was entering the first programs via the hex keypad in front. It really cemented my appreciation for assembler language and memory management. The static RAM was very costly back in those days and going from 4K up to 16K cost a small fortune. (I bought the extra RAM in a clandestine drug-dealing-like transaction from one of the employees.)
This is a very touching story. I don't think it was symbolic, given the lengths to which both the examiners and Dr. Syllm-Rapoport went to legitimately defend her research. Kudos all around and a great wrong was righted. (Yes, there are and have been many atrocities committed and their number doesn't diminish the greatness of any individual act of restoration.)
Really, I'm n years old and it is a miracle I am still alive. I may always forget to bring my bicycle helmet with me but now I feel safer than ever. Will the President soon remind me to brush my teeth before I go to bed (or with the help of the NSA and IRS jack up my dental insurance rates if I don't)? Surely I'll deserve it. Maybe my WiFi enabled light bulbs will be turned off from Washington when they figure if there are three of us in the house but lights are on in four rooms one has to go. (One of us or one of the lights? Cost/benefit ananlysis leans in favor of one of us getting disappeared the next time we get a flu shot at the government overseen dispensary. Just sayin'.
I think the original question is valid and shouldn't be dismissed, as well. During the 1980's in the peak of mainframe development, a few of us were writing channel programs, small but really cool pieces of "machine code" that would be executed on a disk controller. We did this to add a big performance gain to our software. Remember, back then memory was expensive and a resource shared by possibly hundred of concurrent jobs (programs).
With a channel program one could directly control the reading and writing of consecutive blocks, cylinders, and tracks. If you could get cylinder allocations to meet your needs, then all the read/write heads are aligned and you could write to (read from) as many platters the disk had simultaneously. If a disk had 11 platters, you would chain up the commands to point to the data and do a DMA 'blast" of data out to 11 tracks in parallel. Then, you would step out to the next consecutive track and blast another string of data, and so on.
The neat thing of channel programming is that these systems would also allow you to query the drives capabilities and you could write them dynamically. So no matter what, your software could adapt to the connected hardware. And, since the disk controllers were small computers themselves, once the channel program was set up (and they were just sets of descriptors - commands and addresses, not unlike any other machine code) the work was done asynchronously with your application code. Or you could wait if you couldn't figure out how to do that.
I think the inability to control disk I/O programatically is a serious deficiency in modern PC's, whether they are desktop or rack-mounted. Remember, the operating systems of today are not meant for people who read IBM's Principle of Operations and Supervisor Services and Macros. They are designed for the least common denominator.
sorry, I realize my post contributed nothing.
I have AT&T's Uverse for phone/TV/internet and its set-top boxes communicate over coax. They are using IP over coax, since the router shows the boxes' IP addresses as though they were on a an Ethernet network. The boxes run Windows Media Edition, for what it's worth.
Right or wrong (and by a matter of degree and your point of view), we all owe a lot to Marty for making it possible for us to code. Marty broke software free from the monastery and the monks of IBM. He created the entire software industry as we know it. (Of course he is human, and indirectly helped destroy mainframe software by selling ADR to Ameritech, which then sold it to Charlie "The Craw" "Not Wang, Wang!" Wang and CA.)
Marty is one cool cat, and let us play ping-pong in his luxurious office. Even if he was there working! As far as I am concerned, what Marty wants, Marty Goetz!
Which of our former classmates and colleagues (and/or professors) work on these kinds of systems? Thirty-something years ago I never would have imagined my peers working to undermine our freedoms by writing such code. I just don't get it. We were taught in classes such as "Computers in Society" things like ethics. This was before the year 1984, and most of us had read (or were aware of the premise of) Orwell's "1984." This would never happen, we thought.
Unfortunately this, and other data mining crap has been created and 1984 is alive and well and it can't be undone. All because some people - some programmers - thought that getting paid was better than doing what is moral and ethical in a free state. We are no longer free, ladies and gentlemen.
Between the promise to not hire lobbyists, the parade of appointees who have had problems paying their taxes, the proposal floated to have soldiers provide their own insurance for battle injuries (since rescinded), and now this, I hope people start to realize they voted for Obama for the wrong reason. It was more of a vote against Bush and his party than anything. and it was also a fantastically executed marketing campaign. More money was spent on the Obama campaign than any other election. They tapped into what their target audience wanted, hired the best speech writers, and pulled it off.
As I've been spending more and more time on firearm-related sites (and sights) and less on Slashdot, I have seen an amazing amount of UK chatter. First guns were taken away, now knives, and this. None of it comes as any surprise to me or any one else who is keeping an eye on 2nd Amendment rights.
While a lot of people in the US fear guns (because we've been taught to), if we let our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms be taken away, just wait for all the other freedoms granted us to be eroded (even more), as well.
Why the British people are just rolling over and letting their rights be taken away from them is mind boggling.
Why not be more informative and point out that 32,691 died from poisoning and another 33,541 from drugs. And that over 50% of the firearm deaths were suicides? And that people who are going to kill themselves are going to find a way, whether it is guns, razor blades, ropes, etc.? If you are going to post stats, don't cherry pick them. At least you put the link to the PDF so others could see the fuller picture.