Fully rectified 240V AC RMS is already very close to 380V DC
Uh, no. No it isn't. Not even vaguely, in fact. 240V effectively *is* the DC equivalent (ignoring rectification losses), the PMPO (ie. peak voltages your 50 or 60hz sine wave actually hits) will probably be around 380v though. If you want 380VDC, then you need the same or more AC.
Before anything else - this is my favourite local Indian Restaurant. Been eating there for a few years now and will continue to do so.
Secondly, 'several ambulances'? People 'writhing on the floor, fainting and vomiting'? Here's what actually happened:
Restaurant holds a curry-eating competition. Top of the list in the later rounds is the 'Kismot Killer', a curry that recently replaced a naga-based one, as too many people were finishing it easily. Anyway, if you order a killer, the restaurant staff will do everything in their power to put you off - there's warnings all over the place and you have to sign a disclaimer before eating it. If you *really* insist on eating the damn thing, you can't say you weren't warned. But anyway. So two people get to the later stages (one American, FWIW) and one of them has the bright idea of vomiting immediately after eating so as to avoid the after-effects. The other continues eating *despite being in pain and feeling faint*. I mean, seriously? So despite having the red cross present (it was a charity event), they got an ambulance to take these two to hospital for safety. The hospital gave them strong anti-indigestion medication and kicked them out.
Short version - idiots did idiotic things, complained that they shouldn't have to have any personal responsibility when the inevitable happened.
If you could program one language, you can program in any language. It's inherent on the Turing-completeness of programming languages. It's all just a matter of syntax. Sure, mastering a language takes time, but you've probably see already much things and that means you can easily apply what you know to the knew languages.
See, I agree with you 100%, more if I could. In my years developing, most of the languages I now use to program are not the ones I was employed to do, but ones where I've been dropped into a project, had to hit the ground running and learn on the fly. It's not difficult, once you know the concepts of *how* to program.
But. Try going in to a job interview and saying "No, I don't have 5 years of this language, but give me a week, some small changes to work on and access to google and I'll be able to program it as well as most of your other developers". It may be true, but it doesn't wash with HR people or project managers. They have a ticksheet of skills and levels and they don't care a damn how easily transferrable any of them are - if you don't have it exact, tough.
Well generally, the facts that not only is it cheap enough to be an impulse purchase, but also that the last time a substantial piece of Apple software appeared on a p2p network (iLife, if I remember correctly) it had malware embedded in it.
For an evening's beer money, it hardly seems worth the risk.
And now the boot is on the other foot. Suddenly *they* have no secrets. How awesome is that?
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I believe there are other reasons for not going to version 1.
Hopefully the esteemed Mr Tatham won't mind if I quote him directly, but in 2007 he wrote this about why puTTY wasn't version 1 yet:
But that's not primarily what's holding back a 1.0 release. The real thing I
want to do first is to sort out the data storage: there are quite a few
features on the wish list which would require a revamp of that, such as
- ability to store some settings in HKEY_CURRENT_USER and others in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, so that a sysadmin could set up some default saved
sessions and a default host key cache which would then be the starting point
for each user's personal configuration
- inheritable saved sessions (so that when I change, say, my font preference
in Default Settings it automatically propagates to all my other sessions
_except_ those in which I've specifically asked for a non-default font)
- storing configuration in a disk file as an alternative to the registry (so
that people can carry around PuTTY plus their config file on a USB stick)
- ability to configure all PuTTY's options from the command line (rather than
having to do a lot of them by the cumbersome method of creating a saved
session and using -load).
Now I'm not saying I want to have _implemented_ all those features before 1.0,
but I want to have made a commitment to a data storage format which is capable
of supporting them. Currently PuTTY's data storage only tries to be upward-
compatible, meaning that you can upgrade PuTTY and it'll still work with your
old settings. Use an older PuTTY with newer settings, and you're on your own.
My goal is that within the 1.0 series, the data storage should be compatible in
_both_ directions. (Not because I anticipate people deliberately downgrading
PuTTY, although it's been known occasionally, but because I can easily imagine
people using different versions on two machines which happen to be sharing a
network-stored configuration.)
Given that several different companies were selling cars in 1911, you might want to revise the claim that 'Petrol and diesel powered cars had not yet been invented 100 years ago'. The first petrol-powered 4 wheeled vehicles appeared in the states in the 1890s.
Dover - Wick (ie. going straight up the country) is 750 miles.
If you want to go 'end to end' (which maybe doesn't qualify for how long the country is, but is still a single road journey) it's 840 miles. Whichever way you look at it, the whole island of Britain is somewhat more than 'only ~500 miles long'.
"If I ever had to 'go rouge' I feel that I could last for years just off of common sense alone by using different public computers in a place with no cameras."
You'd probably still be caught red-handed, though...
However, I live in a city with a fair bit of history, too (Edinburgh, Scotland). It too has a university (in fact it has three) with a good tech reputation and it too has 50mbit broadband. Know how many iPhones I see?
Shitloads. iPhones every-bloody-where. You pretty much can't spit without hitting someone carrying one of the damn things, in fact.
Somehow, given Apple's sales figures, and even with a population of only 120,000, I doubt there's a black hole in iPhone sale in one specific area of the west of England...
He's being sued for suggesting that the chiropractors were willfully giving people treatments they knew to be be useless. Personally, I don't see think that's what he meant in his article and that's his argument, too, but the one thing he's *not* being sued for is saying chiropractic remedies are little more than horseshit - there's be no lawsuit if that was all he'd said.
There always seems to be a remarkable amount of bitching about the British libel system, but really all it boils down to is that if you publicly smear someone, you'd better be able to damn well prove it. Where exactly is the problem in that? From what I've seen of American media and politics, it'd be a hell of a lot better if there were some requirement for people to be able to back up their accusations...
Except Dream Theater are on RoadRunner (a Warner subsidiary) rather than Warner directly. Even then Warner merely own a majority shareholding in the parent company - they don't own them outright.
RoadRunner may be a subsidiary (and by all accounts bastards in their own right), but they've had a notably different approach from Warner to this kind of thing, particularly in the case of YouTube.
Not quite. That was what the adverts creators intended the message to be, but Apple twisted the meaning to be anti-IBM at the very first screening of it ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSiQA6KKyJo ).
Given the rhetoric in the rest of your edit though, I suspect it's really not worth adding any more than that. You don't like them, you think people who do like them are sheep. People who do like a lot of the things they make think differently. Ho hum.
I know, it was an easy shot, but there's an important difference.
The lockdown here is on *two* devices. You want a laptop or desktop you can do whatever you want with? There's the macbook, imac and mac pro for that. Want an expandable handheld appliance with a limited (albeit ever-expanding) functionality that'll have no hidden surprises? There's your iPad and iPhone.
You may as well criticise arcade machine makers for vetting all the roms you can put in their hardware. Or any of the console makers for vetting what's available for theirs. Or that kindle can't do anything but display books. Experience has shown them all, time and time again that as soon as you open up a platform to anyone and everyone, quality and reliability take a hit, not to mention susceptibility to attack. It's a specific product for a specific market and like the iPhone, will be hated by geeks everywhere, but loved by everyone else who want something that just works. Apple will likely do little to stop people jailbreaking these things, they'll just make it difficult enough that only determined people do it.
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Why? It's a country looking to lead the world in censorship, to protect protect politicians and religious sensibilities.
Hang on, we're still talking about India here, right?
Fully rectified 240V AC RMS is already very close to 380V DC
Uh, no. No it isn't. Not even vaguely, in fact. 240V effectively *is* the DC equivalent (ignoring rectification losses), the PMPO (ie. peak voltages your 50 or 60hz sine wave actually hits) will probably be around 380v though. If you want 380VDC, then you need the same or more AC.
Are we going back to transputers again, then?
Really? So you only use graphics cards with open source firmware, do you? No, thought not.
Look carefully - the firmware blob is closed, just as it is an most commercial graphics cards. The driver, on the other hand, is open.
Before anything else - this is my favourite local Indian Restaurant. Been eating there for a few years now and will continue to do so.
Secondly, 'several ambulances'? People 'writhing on the floor, fainting and vomiting'? Here's what actually happened:
Restaurant holds a curry-eating competition. Top of the list in the later rounds is the 'Kismot Killer', a curry that recently replaced a naga-based one, as too many people were finishing it easily. Anyway, if you order a killer, the restaurant staff will do everything in their power to put you off - there's warnings all over the place and you have to sign a disclaimer before eating it. If you *really* insist on eating the damn thing, you can't say you weren't warned. But anyway. So two people get to the later stages (one American, FWIW) and one of them has the bright idea of vomiting immediately after eating so as to avoid the after-effects. The other continues eating *despite being in pain and feeling faint*. I mean, seriously? So despite having the red cross present (it was a charity event), they got an ambulance to take these two to hospital for safety. The hospital gave them strong anti-indigestion medication and kicked them out.
Short version - idiots did idiotic things, complained that they shouldn't have to have any personal responsibility when the inevitable happened.
It's already running Debian.
If you could program one language, you can program in any language. It's inherent on the Turing-completeness of programming languages. It's all just a matter of syntax. Sure, mastering a language takes time, but you've probably see already much things and that means you can easily apply what you know to the knew languages.
See, I agree with you 100%, more if I could. In my years developing, most of the languages I now use to program are not the ones I was employed to do, but ones where I've been dropped into a project, had to hit the ground running and learn on the fly. It's not difficult, once you know the concepts of *how* to program.
But. Try going in to a job interview and saying "No, I don't have 5 years of this language, but give me a week, some small changes to work on and access to google and I'll be able to program it as well as most of your other developers". It may be true, but it doesn't wash with HR people or project managers. They have a ticksheet of skills and levels and they don't care a damn how easily transferrable any of them are - if you don't have it exact, tough.
Well generally, the facts that not only is it cheap enough to be an impulse purchase, but also that the last time a substantial piece of Apple software appeared on a p2p network (iLife, if I remember correctly) it had malware embedded in it.
For an evening's beer money, it hardly seems worth the risk.
And now the boot is on the other foot. Suddenly *they* have no secrets. How awesome is that?
Hopefully the esteemed Mr Tatham won't mind if I quote him directly, but in 2007 he wrote this about why puTTY wasn't version 1 yet:
But that's not primarily what's holding back a 1.0 release. The real thing I want to do first is to sort out the data storage: there are quite a few features on the wish list which would require a revamp of that, such as
- ability to store some settings in HKEY_CURRENT_USER and others in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, so that a sysadmin could set up some default saved sessions and a default host key cache which would then be the starting point for each user's personal configuration
- inheritable saved sessions (so that when I change, say, my font preference in Default Settings it automatically propagates to all my other sessions _except_ those in which I've specifically asked for a non-default font)
- storing configuration in a disk file as an alternative to the registry (so that people can carry around PuTTY plus their config file on a USB stick)
- ability to configure all PuTTY's options from the command line (rather than having to do a lot of them by the cumbersome method of creating a saved session and using -load).
Now I'm not saying I want to have _implemented_ all those features before 1.0, but I want to have made a commitment to a data storage format which is capable of supporting them. Currently PuTTY's data storage only tries to be upward- compatible, meaning that you can upgrade PuTTY and it'll still work with your old settings. Use an older PuTTY with newer settings, and you're on your own. My goal is that within the 1.0 series, the data storage should be compatible in _both_ directions. (Not because I anticipate people deliberately downgrading PuTTY, although it's been known occasionally, but because I can easily imagine people using different versions on two machines which happen to be sharing a network-stored configuration.)
Given that several different companies were selling cars in 1911, you might want to revise the claim that 'Petrol and diesel powered cars had not yet been invented 100 years ago'. The first petrol-powered 4 wheeled vehicles appeared in the states in the 1890s.
Er, try again.
London - Edinburgh is 400 miles.
Dover - Wick (ie. going straight up the country) is 750 miles.
If you want to go 'end to end' (which maybe doesn't qualify for how long the country is, but is still a single road journey) it's 840 miles. Whichever way you look at it, the whole island of Britain is somewhat more than 'only ~500 miles long'.
But then it would be AC (alternating corpse)...
Last I heard, the bandwidth problems had a lot more to do with an undersea cable fault that they've had for some time, now.
It's not throttling, just hellish routing, by all accounts.
Great. Now when you get a virus, it'll be able to reprogram your *hardware*. I'm sure that couldn't go horribly wrong at all...
A little more here, sadly: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dxmvr/oracle_google_directly_copied_our_java_code/c13qfov
Upshot: Decompile the code with JAD and it's identical. It looks like someone screwed up pretty badly in this instance.
I was obviously *too* subtle...
"If I ever had to 'go rouge' I feel that I could last for years just off of common sense alone by using different public computers in a place with no cameras."
You'd probably still be caught red-handed, though...
That's nice for you.
However, I live in a city with a fair bit of history, too (Edinburgh, Scotland). It too has a university (in fact it has three) with a good tech reputation and it too has 50mbit broadband. Know how many iPhones I see?
Shitloads. iPhones every-bloody-where. You pretty much can't spit without hitting someone carrying one of the damn things, in fact.
Somehow, given Apple's sales figures, and even with a population of only 120,000, I doubt there's a black hole in iPhone sale in one specific area of the west of England...
That should be "I don't think that's what he meant". Brain and hands apparently not entirely connected today...
*sighs*
That's not what he's being sued for.
He's being sued for suggesting that the chiropractors were willfully giving people treatments they knew to be be useless. Personally, I don't see think that's what he meant in his article and that's his argument, too, but the one thing he's *not* being sued for is saying chiropractic remedies are little more than horseshit - there's be no lawsuit if that was all he'd said.
There always seems to be a remarkable amount of bitching about the British libel system, but really all it boils down to is that if you publicly smear someone, you'd better be able to damn well prove it. Where exactly is the problem in that? From what I've seen of American media and politics, it'd be a hell of a lot better if there were some requirement for people to be able to back up their accusations...
Except Dream Theater are on RoadRunner (a Warner subsidiary) rather than Warner directly. Even then Warner merely own a majority shareholding in the parent company - they don't own them outright.
RoadRunner may be a subsidiary (and by all accounts bastards in their own right), but they've had a notably different approach from Warner to this kind of thing, particularly in the case of YouTube.
Not quite. That was what the adverts creators intended the message to be, but Apple twisted the meaning to be anti-IBM at the very first screening of it ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSiQA6KKyJo ).
Given the rhetoric in the rest of your edit though, I suspect it's really not worth adding any more than that. You don't like them, you think people who do like them are sheep. People who do like a lot of the things they make think differently. Ho hum.
I know, it was an easy shot, but there's an important difference.
The lockdown here is on *two* devices. You want a laptop or desktop you can do whatever you want with? There's the macbook, imac and mac pro for that. Want an expandable handheld appliance with a limited (albeit ever-expanding) functionality that'll have no hidden surprises? There's your iPad and iPhone.
You may as well criticise arcade machine makers for vetting all the roms you can put in their hardware. Or any of the console makers for vetting what's available for theirs. Or that kindle can't do anything but display books. Experience has shown them all, time and time again that as soon as you open up a platform to anyone and everyone, quality and reliability take a hit, not to mention susceptibility to attack. It's a specific product for a specific market and like the iPhone, will be hated by geeks everywhere, but loved by everyone else who want something that just works. Apple will likely do little to stop people jailbreaking these things, they'll just make it difficult enough that only determined people do it.
I hate to break this to you, but the 1984 ad was aimed at IBM, not Microsoft. Microsoft were small-fry at the time, in comparison.