There seems to be a problem with your use of English. I am not familar with the software you are talking about (other than AdBlock), and cannot understand this discusison at all.
I do own a mobile, use browsers, etc, and do manage servers. I do natively speak English. I do not understand the majority of the sentences in this post, or the parent or GP.
If they block ads on moiles, then I will be abe to read Slashdot on my mobile. Currently, the ads completely obscure the story, and I have to resort to a desktop!
Obviously an epic fail by/., but presumably they dont care about the loss of custom.
If the job is well defined, and you have to do it, (we need to build a bridge over the river that will carry 6 lanes of trucks, even if overloaded) then Waterfall is where to go.
If its a startup, and you have the funding, then Agile (we dont know what we are making, or how the hell we are going to make it, but WTF) is the way to spend the money and still end up with something (other than beer and pizzas).
Dealing with banks is what triggers heated calls. I should have thought any adult who has ever had to deal with an bank knows that. I have had more intelligent conversations with parrots than with banks.
And real backups are taken regularly and retained for a long time. Taking a backup every day and recycling the tape on the 8th day may save money, but won't save your data.
Another advantage of PHP is that the ugly hacks^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H tricky operations are already written for you* - you just have to Google, and then invoke, the relevant library routine.
Some people may not even remember 10, 12, 18, 24, 36 and 60 bit processors.
For ugly hacks, you can't beat trying to optimise string ops 8 bit bytes on a 60 bit (Cray) processor - they natively used 6-bit chars, and packed four 15 bit instructions in a word, but required jumps to be aligned on a double word boundary to avoid pipeline stalls. Apart from assembler, I think C is probably the only language that could do it at all.
(I it tried in Fortran and then realised there were better things to do in life).
Safari has blended the location and search fields into one. Makes sense to both young and old.
Makes dollars and cents, maybe. This is a sly trick to hijack your attempts to say where you want your data to come from. You can no longer say "connect me to this web site" without it going to a search engine first, allowing them to do a MITM.
Use Wifi
Try to connect to your home server
???
Google profits!
All queries are sent to Google (or similar), who divert the requests to themselves instead sending it to your private DNS server. Since they cannot do a DNS lookup on "http://my_music_server.home/index.html" they give you some adverts instead (more PPC that way).
This ought to be a criminal offense - obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception, fraud, tampering with computer connections, hijacking (your search), possibly in some cases, denying access to business's legitimate website.
Bing is worse: they don't even bother to do a DNS for real public web sites.
Nothing is done about this scam, because it means the search engines harvest the data for the NSA (or your local equivalent).
If you do not have a private DNS server, it may take you longer to know what has gone wrong, but you are still shafted. You don't need to read anything Snowdon released to know you are shafted on a daily basis.
I have watched the video. The computer was used for CAD. There are no ICs in a computer of that era. The one shown quite possibly used vacuum tubes. My Mum worked on similar machines in the 1960's with vacuum tubes.
The drills, mills and lathes were controlled by tape, but there was not a single IC in their control systems. I have seen machine tools of this era with the motion controlled by relays and vacuum tubes. Certainly not ICs.
It is obvious you were not there at the time. [lawn, etc]
Yes there were cnc macines in 1964. But early ones were not compter driven Even early PDP8S had discrete logic, that was because early logic ICs were VERY expensive.
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TTL was not widely used till ten years later (1974)
You might want to look up Edwin de Castro, and Ken Olsen.
I personally, look up to both of them.
Space (specifically the Apollo program) was responsible for a purchasing program that drove logic ICs down to consumer level pricing - without which PCs would not have reached the volume that drove the prices far lower.
Analog ICs would not have got far without the logic ones, because production tolerances were so loose that the concept of "it works or it does not" was critical to volume production of ICs in the early days. (Yield was under 3% for the 7400 family (first TTL logic ICs)).
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I do own a mobile, use browsers, etc, and do manage servers. I do natively speak English. I do not understand the majority of the sentences in this post, or the parent or GP.
Obviously an epic fail by /., but presumably they dont care about the loss of custom.
Yes.
So its your lawn. I was wondering about that!
If the job is well defined, and you have to do it, (we need to build a bridge over the river that will carry 6 lanes of trucks, even if overloaded) then Waterfall is where to go.
If its a startup, and you have the funding, then Agile (we dont know what we are making, or how the hell we are going to make it, but WTF) is the way to spend the money and still end up with something (other than beer and pizzas).
If you can remember Fat Freddie's cat, you did not smoke enough dope!
Dealing with banks is what triggers heated calls. I should have thought any adult who has ever had to deal with an bank knows that. I have had more intelligent conversations with parrots than with banks.
OK, I live in the UK, but banks are banks.
However, by the same definition of decent, there is a decent chance we will be killed by teenage mutant ninja turtles first.
Pray?
How, exactly, do you prepare for Ghostbusters?
Backup to disk is not much use (TM).
If the temperature in my pockets exceeds 55C, then data on a flash drive is not likely to be my biggest concern. YMMV.
If that is your idea of fast, you must be one of the people who think 2 + 2 = 5 for large values of 2.
* And in some cases, even tested too!
For ugly hacks, you can't beat trying to optimise string ops 8 bit bytes on a 60 bit (Cray) processor - they natively used 6-bit chars, and packed four 15 bit instructions in a word, but required jumps to be aligned on a double word boundary to avoid pipeline stalls. Apart from assembler, I think C is probably the only language that could do it at all.
(I it tried in Fortran and then realised there were better things to do in life).
If I told you, I would have to kill you.
There is no chance whatever of the code being replaced if its working now, because no one will sign off a replacement if it still works.
Have you people not heard of NAT?
This. A thousand times this!
Yes, that there - that is the real evidence that Microsoft are not fit people to supply software.
Makes dollars and cents, maybe. This is a sly trick to hijack your attempts to say where you want your data to come from. You can no longer say "connect me to this web site" without it going to a search engine first, allowing them to do a MITM.
Use Wifi
Try to connect to your home server
???
Google profits!
All queries are sent to Google (or similar), who divert the requests to themselves instead sending it to your private DNS server. Since they cannot do a DNS lookup on "http://my_music_server.home/index.html" they give you some adverts instead (more PPC that way).
This ought to be a criminal offense - obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception, fraud, tampering with computer connections, hijacking (your search), possibly in some cases, denying access to business's legitimate website.
Bing is worse: they don't even bother to do a DNS for real public web sites.
Nothing is done about this scam, because it means the search engines harvest the data for the NSA (or your local equivalent).
If you do not have a private DNS server, it may take you longer to know what has gone wrong, but you are still shafted. You don't need to read anything Snowdon released to know you are shafted on a daily basis.
Fiorina doesnt need experience. She would delegate the job to people on minimum wages in China.
The drills, mills and lathes were controlled by tape, but there was not a single IC in their control systems. I have seen machine tools of this era with the motion controlled by relays and vacuum tubes. Certainly not ICs.
It is obvious you were not there at the time. [lawn, etc]
Yes there were cnc macines in 1964. But early ones were not compter driven Even early PDP8S had discrete logic, that was because early logic ICs were VERY expensive. ãSPã TTL was not widely used till ten years later (1974)
I personally, look up to both of them.
Space (specifically the Apollo program) was responsible for a purchasing program that drove logic ICs down to consumer level pricing - without which PCs would not have reached the volume that drove the prices far lower.
Analog ICs would not have got far without the logic ones, because production tolerances were so loose that the concept of "it works or it does not" was critical to volume production of ICs in the early days. (Yield was under 3% for the 7400 family (first TTL logic ICs)).