Back in the day we used Core memory. A running computer could be power cycled and the program continued running when the power was restored. I sat there and flipped the power switch and watched the running lights and it was just amazing (I was the test tech verifying that power cycling worked) That's what this technology enables. And yes there is something there that can't be done with current technology try power cycling any of your other examples and see how well they do. The battery backed memory might make it but I doubt it. We tried to duplicate the abilities of core memory by battery backing the CMOS memory we were using at the time but random changes in the values were somehow introduced and it was unreliable. Sadly that company no longer exists. They had some amazing stuff. Oh it's Computer Automation Inc. Naked Mini Division.
Have you actually read the ms office EULA. That clause is in there! Seriously it is. You just have to translate the legalese back into plain old english and translate to French and then German then back to english. It'll be there plain as day.
In a surprise move the "Onion" declares that due to the current crop of politicians and corporate bungles perpetrated by the RIAA and friends, they are ceasing publication. The work of a satirist is to point out the absurdity of real life by exaggerating it to ridiculous proportions. "You can't get much more ridiculous than Bush and friends" said the managing editor.
"We'd like to thank our fans and colleagues for supporting us as long as they did." the publisher said. "But the RIAA really did us in this time."
What is this magical term "Private Property" that people seem to think makes it a crime to be somewhere simply because it is owned. In order for the owner to revoke your right to be there he must clearly post many signs (well it can be one sign but the area better be really small), and then enforce those signs by filing a criminal complaint against the person trespassing. If you take pictures of the person trespassing you can use that to prosecute (if they take pictures and publish them that might work too) and then you can sue them for damages to the actual property. Or damages to your self esteem from them taking pictures of your unkempt lawn or whatever other imaginary right you think was violated. Taking pictures of the outside of your house has been deemed legal in most states even if you have to trespass to do it. And if your house is visible from some public area you are liable for anything illegal they take a picture of including your pale white pasty nekkid body. And you can be charged with indecent exposure for that. So what exactly are these "hoo haws" suing for? Invasion of Privacy? For driving into your driveway and taking pictures of your perfect picket fenced cape cod? Or perhaps the missus in her bathrobe getting the paper from your driveway (which the paper delivery van had to drive onto to deliver) Get over it folks.
Last I heard using development code in a production environment was a very bad idea. So any developer that got bricked deserved it and Apple may have made a mistake but the schmuck using it in his actual phone is at fault. Your post might be funny if it wasn't so far off the beam.
as it turns out I'd make a very good terrorist. I was trained in chemical warfare by the US Army, trained as a diesel mechanic and electrician by the Air Force, and I was trained in basic electronics in high school. Alas, I am not in the market for a new career killing people this year. Talk to me near retirement, if my investments tank and the Social Security system collapses I may be in the market.
Sheesh, makes me sad I spent all that time learning that stuff.
Hydrogen under that kind of pressure is quite probably metallic, I don't actually think that "accurately show how gauzy" really describes the Sun. Now the photosphere may indeed be transparent but how would you tell.
Answer#1 Why Not?: This is a simple one to dismiss: Because I said so! Answer#2 How is it free. If it is legally free then accepted, if there is a question of legality see answer #1 Answer#3 This actually is gibberish.
Hey I trained the offshore resources that replaced me. They were just fine as far as skills go. They just got paid a fraction of my salary. So low I couldn't even say, hey I'll do it for that. What they got paid wouldn't cover the gas for my commute.
Oh Please, trying to aggrandize the mafia to denigrate the RIAA. That's like asking how are lawyers not like rats, and then stating that there are some things that rats won't do.
They will charge you with theft in every civilized state in the union. Lack of self control does not absolve you of theft. Giving in to temptation should not be an excuse. Theft is theft whether you have clear access or not.
In this case we have a clear URL; which are invitations to access a resource. If you want that resource kept private then make it private or don't complain when the world (universe?) finds it and accesses it.
Actually if you had to open the door then you have committed burglary and even if the door is left open you have committed burglary. This situation is "You build a house but fail to put up walls. You built it in the middle of a public thoroughfare and you have left your TV on." We are all standing here watching your TV.
Actually I don't think a Tech Writer is a good arbiter of an interface guide any more than a game store owner is a good game designer. A tech writer spends much of his time sorting out the tangle created by the programmer interpreting a spec written by the marketing department filtered through his boss coupled with the real world requirements of the hardware/software platform. And trust me that can be a mess. No I think that the Human Interface Guides of the various platforms are a very good place to start. Then find similar tools and use them. If none exist then you have the unique job of creating a paradigm. I do Ui's in VB and C++ and Python etc for a living but I don't mess with the art, that I leave to an artist. In Business software of course there isn't any art but you can add a bit of color to the mix. Remember the principle of least surprise. In other words what would the user be least surprised at that control doing.
This is one of the most stupid law suits ever. If the planet is getting warmer and where you live isn't suitable any more, MOVE! It's what our ancestors did when the climate changed. Suing anyone over this is beyond dumb, even to make a point. And to think that we had that much to do with it (climate change) is simple hubris. We adapt or we die, this time maybe we lose a little real estate but we get a much larger climactic area to grow crops and rain forest for a while.
Get over this crap and get busy adapting. Nature can't be hurt; it will always repair itself and if one of the required corrections is our extinction, it will happen. Until a disaster hits that wipes out all life simultaneously it will adapt and recover (maybe even then it would recover). We have at least 2 billion years of evidence that this is the case. Tree hugging is irrelevant, global warming is irrelevant, we are irrelevant unless we adapt. Get busy adapting or just continue dieing I don't care which. Just stop the whining!
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Back in the day we used Core memory. A running computer could be power cycled and the program continued running when the power was restored. I sat there and flipped the power switch and watched the running lights and it was just amazing (I was the test tech verifying that power cycling worked) That's what this technology enables. And yes there is something there that can't be done with current technology try power cycling any of your other examples and see how well they do. The battery backed memory might make it but I doubt it. We tried to duplicate the abilities of core memory by battery backing the CMOS memory we were using at the time but random changes in the values were somehow introduced and it was unreliable. Sadly that company no longer exists. They had some amazing stuff. Oh it's Computer Automation Inc. Naked Mini Division.
Have you actually read the ms office EULA. That clause is in there! Seriously it is. You just have to translate the legalese back into plain old english and translate to French and then German then back to english. It'll be there plain as day.
In a surprise move the "Onion" declares that due to the current crop of politicians and corporate bungles perpetrated by the RIAA and friends, they are ceasing publication. The work of a satirist is to point out the absurdity of real life by exaggerating it to ridiculous proportions. "You can't get much more ridiculous than Bush and friends" said the managing editor. "We'd like to thank our fans and colleagues for supporting us as long as they did." the publisher said. "But the RIAA really did us in this time."
Yeah some damn fine lawyering if ya ask me!
What is this magical term "Private Property" that people seem to think makes it a crime to be somewhere simply because it is owned. In order for the owner to revoke your right to be there he must clearly post many signs (well it can be one sign but the area better be really small), and then enforce those signs by filing a criminal complaint against the person trespassing. If you take pictures of the person trespassing you can use that to prosecute (if they take pictures and publish them that might work too) and then you can sue them for damages to the actual property. Or damages to your self esteem from them taking pictures of your unkempt lawn or whatever other imaginary right you think was violated. Taking pictures of the outside of your house has been deemed legal in most states even if you have to trespass to do it. And if your house is visible from some public area you are liable for anything illegal they take a picture of including your pale white pasty nekkid body. And you can be charged with indecent exposure for that. So what exactly are these "hoo haws" suing for? Invasion of Privacy? For driving into your driveway and taking pictures of your perfect picket fenced cape cod?
Or perhaps the missus in her bathrobe getting the paper from your driveway (which the paper delivery van had to drive onto to deliver) Get over it folks.
Last I heard using development code in a production environment was a very bad idea. So any developer that got bricked deserved it and Apple may have made a mistake but the schmuck using it in his actual phone is at fault. Your post might be funny if it wasn't so far off the beam.
->dark way of thinking...
You think that's dark, in the end NO ONE gets out alive.
I guess this makes Comcast an Internet Dis Service Provider?
well at least "I am Legend" was closer to the original story than "Omega Man".
The mini series made me sick. Farther off the beam than the dreaded movie.
as it turns out I'd make a very good terrorist. I was trained in chemical warfare by the US Army, trained as a diesel mechanic and electrician by the Air Force, and I was trained in basic electronics in high school. Alas, I am not in the market for a new career killing people this year. Talk to me near retirement, if my investments tank and the Social Security system collapses I may be in the market. Sheesh, makes me sad I spent all that time learning that stuff.
Yeah now every one of us half blind idiots can find the "Reply to This" button.
>Ok, that isn't fair to the "good" politicians out there, but IMO they lack the numbers and conviction to make a difference on a grander scale.
But on the other hand, the numbers of convicted politicians may be enough to turn this tide.
Hydrogen under that kind of pressure is quite probably metallic, I don't actually think that "accurately show how gauzy" really describes the Sun. Now the photosphere may indeed be transparent but how would you tell.
Answer#1 Why Not?: This is a simple one to dismiss: Because I said so!
Answer#2 How is it free. If it is legally free then accepted, if there is a question of legality see answer #1
Answer#3 This actually is gibberish.
Surplus Tardis Chameleon Circuit...
Hey I trained the offshore resources that replaced me. They were just fine as far as skills go. They just got paid a fraction of my salary. So low I couldn't even say, hey I'll do it for that. What they got paid wouldn't cover the gas for my commute.
Oh Please, trying to aggrandize the mafia to denigrate the RIAA.
That's like asking how are lawyers not like rats, and then stating that there are some things that rats won't do.
What color is the sky in your world?
They will charge you with theft in every civilized state in the union. Lack of self control does not absolve you of theft. Giving in to temptation should not be an excuse. Theft is theft whether you have clear access or not.
In this case we have a clear URL; which are invitations to access a resource. If you want that resource kept private then make it private or don't complain when the world (universe?) finds it and accesses it.
>If you left your front door unlocked
Actually if you had to open the door then you have committed burglary and even if the door is left open you have committed burglary. This situation is "You build a house but fail to put up walls. You built it in the middle of a public thoroughfare and you have left your TV on." We are all standing here watching your TV.
Actually I don't think a Tech Writer is a good arbiter of an interface guide any more than a game store owner is a good game designer. A tech writer spends much of his time sorting out the tangle created by the programmer interpreting a spec written by the marketing department filtered through his boss coupled with the real world requirements of the hardware/software platform. And trust me that can be a mess. No I think that the Human Interface Guides of the various platforms are a very good place to start. Then find similar tools and use them. If none exist then you have the unique job of creating a paradigm. I do Ui's in VB and C++ and Python etc for a living but I don't mess with the art, that I leave to an artist. In Business software of course there isn't any art but you can add a bit of color to the mix. Remember the principle of least surprise. In other words what would the user be least surprised at that control doing.
This is one of the most stupid law suits ever. If the planet is getting warmer and where you live isn't suitable any more, MOVE! It's what our ancestors did when the climate changed. Suing anyone over this is beyond dumb, even to make a point. And to think that we had that much to do with it (climate change) is simple hubris. We adapt or we die, this time maybe we lose a little real estate but we get a much larger climactic area to grow crops and rain forest for a while.
Get over this crap and get busy adapting. Nature can't be hurt; it will always repair itself and if one of the required corrections is our extinction, it will happen. Until a disaster hits that wipes out all life simultaneously it will adapt and recover (maybe even then it would recover). We have at least 2 billion years of evidence that this is the case. Tree hugging is irrelevant, global warming is irrelevant, we are irrelevant unless we adapt. Get busy adapting or just continue dieing I don't care which. Just stop the whining!
I'm betting on the Samsonite...that stuff is nigh indestructible.
User is attempting to be arrogant and unfunny ... Deny or Allow?