Tap water hasn't been chlorinated of half a century if not more.
In which country? Here in London, it is chlorinated heavily. We would all die otherwise. I have an under the sink filter, as my grandfather did before me. Still a slight taste of Chlorine, and some family members won't drink it.
Even those of us whose phones are not directly affected are indirectly at risk. Surely we can join a class action against the people responsible for polluting the phonosphere with pathetically insecure software. If the manufacturer wishes to end support for a phone - he should be required to open source ALL the code, and release ALL hardware documentation. Or face fines that would obliterate the company instantly in each and every country where phones could conceivably work.
And if a company dies, the IP of all its products go to the official receiver - who should put them in the public domain.
Everyone with a phone should be entitled to join a class action against any manufacturer who does not provide a way to fix security problems - so long as the phone is capable of operation: ie until physical death of said phone.
Separately, there ought to be a law preventing sale of undocumented hardware to the general public. If you don't know what it is you own, how do you know it is safe to own it? If the manufacturer prevents you from knowing, surely he takes responsibility for its safety, and should be required to place a bond with the government covering the maximum possible risk (of being sued by all phone owners, everywhere, repeatedly, with the highest legal costs that lawyers can imagine).
Lenders want to lend. If the credit-worthiness data does not correlate well with ability to repay, plausible deniability is a perfectly adequate substitute
Basically, this is a tradeoff between global warming (fuel efficiency, but high NOx) and peoples lives, but with black smoke.
Of course, here in Europe, we have Urea injection (AdBlu) which solves the problem on a test bench, but adds urea to the pollutants in any real life situation. Since Urea injection was introduced, everyone in London is complaining of "hay fever". I don't see a lot of hay in London, but there are plenty of Euro4 and Euro5 trucks (AdBlu), since they have taxed the older ones off the road.
Since a 40 ton truck can go from burning 5 litres of diesel per minute, to none, and back again in about 20 seconds (gear change while pulling from the lights) there is no way that the amount of urea will be correct. And you may have 16 or 24 gears to go through between 0 and 56MPH (speed limit for trucks). Burning slower and cooler gives longer engine life too.
It presumably also adds massively to bribes for European commissioners from the AdBlu monopoly.
The 8080 owed very little to the 8008 (yes I have written assembler for both). They were completely unrelated to the 8086, but are distantly related to the 8085.
The 8086 was a very poor attempt at a PDP11 clone - deliberately bad enough to avoid patent suits.
You are confused by the 8088 (after all, that is what it was there for). The 8088 was an 8086 with an 8 bit external bus to keep the pin count and peripheral cost down. Assembler for the 8086 was far more painful, and it has only got worse with the advent of Pentium, etc. No one writes assembler for 8086 derivatives now (except the minimum needed to initialise the machine). It is far too painful.
ARM stood for "Acorn Risc Machine" and was designed by Acorn, who made the BBC micro - kind of like Apple had designed their own CPU after the success of the Apple ][. People write ARM assembler in the same way that people get gored by bulls in Spain.
Maybe you should be more careful who you buy laptops from.
My family have preferred Linux on their laptops since about 1999, with three exceptions, including my 90 year old mother - all three exceptions are Mac users.
If a page auto-refreshes, I go to another site, unless it is there to serve the current state of something. There is more to life than watching page reload!
Having support for your device or apps is part of the Windows mobile/Wince/Windows phone experience.
Those of us who bought into Wince 4.0 and wince 5.0 have long known that as soon as MS gets bored with a version of something, they leave users in the lurch, and move on. Apple not doing this was one of the reasons the iPhone was a major success, and CM for Android users is a guarantee it wont happen (provided your phone is CM capable).
It is fair to say MS relies on the user being gullible and ill informed. This is hardly new to the computer industry.
In the early days of mainframes, every new product was completely incompatible with old products, and had no applications. This was eventually fixed by System/360.
In the early days of minicomputers, nothing was compatible with anything. New machines came out with no OS and no apps. DEC came along with PDP8, PDP11 and DEC10 families - compatibility maintained over 20 years, and the also-rans were history.
Intel managed the 8086-pentium progression pretty well, as has MS with mainstream Windows. and the also-rans are history.
Get the picture? Clearly MS are losing the plot with mobile, and have forgot what made them big (leaving aside bully-boy tactics and illegal exploitation of their monopoly, etc)
If the God theory is correct, it is more likely he will part the waters for Texans like he did for the Egyptians. Presumably Florida will get the Sodom and Gomorrah treatment.
When I were a kid, we were told "a picture is worth 1,000 words".
After more than 30 years experience of FPGAs, I can say with complete confidence, a well drawn schematic is worth 2GB of VHDL. But learn from DEC PDP11 schematics and not from British Standard compliant ones.
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In which country? Here in London, it is chlorinated heavily. We would all die otherwise. I have an under the sink filter, as my grandfather did before me. Still a slight taste of Chlorine, and some family members won't drink it.
There is no law against being a moron, and never will be: 90% of law makers are morons.
Personaly, I can't wait to vape high fructose corn syrup!
And if a company dies, the IP of all its products go to the official receiver - who should put them in the public domain.
Everyone with a phone should be entitled to join a class action against any manufacturer who does not provide a way to fix security problems - so long as the phone is capable of operation: ie until physical death of said phone.
Separately, there ought to be a law preventing sale of undocumented hardware to the general public. If you don't know what it is you own, how do you know it is safe to own it? If the manufacturer prevents you from knowing, surely he takes responsibility for its safety, and should be required to place a bond with the government covering the maximum possible risk (of being sued by all phone owners, everywhere, repeatedly, with the highest legal costs that lawyers can imagine).
FTFY
I presume by "assets" you mean their "wedding tackle" - yes freeze with liquid Nitrogen.
Of course, here in Europe, we have Urea injection (AdBlu) which solves the problem on a test bench, but adds urea to the pollutants in any real life situation. Since Urea injection was introduced, everyone in London is complaining of "hay fever". I don't see a lot of hay in London, but there are plenty of Euro4 and Euro5 trucks (AdBlu), since they have taxed the older ones off the road.
Since a 40 ton truck can go from burning 5 litres of diesel per minute, to none, and back again in about 20 seconds (gear change while pulling from the lights) there is no way that the amount of urea will be correct. And you may have 16 or 24 gears to go through between 0 and 56MPH (speed limit for trucks). Burning slower and cooler gives longer engine life too.
It presumably also adds massively to bribes for European commissioners from the AdBlu monopoly.
It is not a patch on "Gratuitous Violence 4 - the death-match orgy".
And they have added another 7 digits to all the phone numbers.
I have a slightly used shift key if you need one. See my ebay listings.
The 8086 was a very poor attempt at a PDP11 clone - deliberately bad enough to avoid patent suits.
You are confused by the 8088 (after all, that is what it was there for). The 8088 was an 8086 with an 8 bit external bus to keep the pin count and peripheral cost down. Assembler for the 8086 was far more painful, and it has only got worse with the advent of Pentium, etc. No one writes assembler for 8086 derivatives now (except the minimum needed to initialise the machine). It is far too painful.
ARM stood for "Acorn Risc Machine" and was designed by Acorn, who made the BBC micro - kind of like Apple had designed their own CPU after the success of the Apple ][. People write ARM assembler in the same way that people get gored by bulls in Spain.
My family have preferred Linux on their laptops since about 1999, with three exceptions, including my 90 year old mother - all three exceptions are Mac users.
Nuke from high orbit - its the only way to be sure. (Applies to most ink jet manufacturers).
If mission aborts, details of hardware vanish on loss of power, and battery life is limited ...
Of course, I cannot tell you what the application was...
The Independent - this means you!
Dump your Dell shares while there is still time.
Here in the UK, it was only hot enough to need a fan about 6 days a year, and we normally went to the beach those days.
80 column cards were a must. Printers were a nightmare
Maybe I need to rip it apart and replace the battery.
Not doing it for profit is communism, and undermines the great American way. Of course it needs to be stamped on with the iron jack-boot of fascism!
Those of us who bought into Wince 4.0 and wince 5.0 have long known that as soon as MS gets bored with a version of something, they leave users in the lurch, and move on. Apple not doing this was one of the reasons the iPhone was a major success, and CM for Android users is a guarantee it wont happen (provided your phone is CM capable).
It is fair to say MS relies on the user being gullible and ill informed. This is hardly new to the computer industry.
In the early days of mainframes, every new product was completely incompatible with old products, and had no applications. This was eventually fixed by System/360.
In the early days of minicomputers, nothing was compatible with anything. New machines came out with no OS and no apps. DEC came along with PDP8, PDP11 and DEC10 families - compatibility maintained over 20 years, and the also-rans were history.
Intel managed the 8086-pentium progression pretty well, as has MS with mainstream Windows. and the also-rans are history.
Get the picture? Clearly MS are losing the plot with mobile, and have forgot what made them big (leaving aside bully-boy tactics and illegal exploitation of their monopoly, etc)
Food is a deadly substance - everyone who eats it, dies. It should be banned immediately (think of the children).
I vote for "Backstep"
I have a more efficient system: put them on VHS tapes and shove them under a road roller!
If the God theory is correct, it is more likely he will part the waters for Texans like he did for the Egyptians. Presumably Florida will get the Sodom and Gomorrah treatment.
After more than 30 years experience of FPGAs, I can say with complete confidence, a well drawn schematic is worth 2GB of VHDL. But learn from DEC PDP11 schematics and not from British Standard compliant ones.