Yeah, the problem is that the Internet is dominated by the voices of the PC generation, who somehow never learned that there actually was a long history of computing before the PC and MS-DOS.
Such as IBM offering VM functionality for almost 10 years prior to the PC's introduction.;-)
Agreed! TSRs were a blast to write, and back in ye olden days it was a really useful bit of functionality. I could have done without dealing with segmented memory, though.
These days, you can buy a BeagleBone Black or similar system-on-chip computer for very cheap, it comes with a full-blown GNU/Linux development environment that beats the pants off DOS.
For some things, yes. If you need a hard realtime system with sub-microsecond timing requirements and deterministic interrupt handling, Linux isn't going to do it, but DOS will. Even RTLinux couldn't meet those kinds of requirements.
According to Microsoft OS/2 1.x with Presentation Manager was the "upgrade path" from DOS. For users stuck with legacy software they were going to add a comparable GUI to DOS called Windows.
Windows had already been available for nearly three years before Presentation Manager was released with OS/2 1.1, and was introduced only three months after the OS/2 development agreement between MS and IBM was signed. At the time the agreement was signed, Windows had already been in development for about a year as a response to other PC-based UI products, and of course the Lisa/Macintosh. The PM API was designed to be similar to the Windows API, not the other way around, and still had some substantial differences. Interestingly, the original 1985 HELLO sample program that Charles Petzold based his famous "Hello World" example on will still compile and run almost unmodified under Windows 10, with the needed modifications mostly being limited to variable types that have since changed.
Having similar APIs was helpful, but they were different enough to make a common code base impractical.
I am constantly amazed by the belief of friends and family who have no technical background that Google (Alphabet) and all things related to Google are the outcome of an altruistic and open minded company intent on making the internet of things a better place.
Especially given Google's propensity to just drop entire products/services at will.
We need more works entering the public domain. If creative works enter the public domain sooner, within reason to allow creators to profit for awhile from their works, there will be more derivative works and more innovation.
Which is what we had in the U.S. prior to 1978, when the Copyright Act of 1976 went into effect. I think the terms of the original Copyright Act of 1790 (14 years plus a 14 year extension) were adequate, and further extensions have been a cash grab by creators at the expense of society in general - a very real form of theft. Patents only receive 20 years of protection, so what's so frigging special about copyright? What we have now is an abomination that completely and totally defeats the purpose of the Copyright Clause in the U.S. Constitution, IMO. How exactly does extending protection for works after the creator's death encourage new works by that creator?
Legally, it doesn't work like that. As soon as you've handed in your written resignation, they can walk you to the door. And as most people aren't giving notice until they already have a new job lined up, they wouldn't get any unemployment at all.
It did when I did it a few years ago. I put my notice in, the manager said "tell you what, that's not necessary, pack your stuff". They fought me on the unemployment, and they lost because the state considered it a dismissal without cause.
Their code also remains buggy as hell. There are still serious bugs in WoW that have been there for years and years with no apparent motivation to fix them (which *also* costs them subscriptions), so it's not surprising that the client continues to be easily hacked as well.
If the players are legitimate, then they've already bought the game, and haven't lost that sale.
They're almost certainly losing monthly subscription renewal sales as a result of the cheating. In particular, Blizzard makes far more money from WoW subscriptions than it does from the initial game purchase.
This stuff falls into pseudo-science much like a polygraph does.
Agree 100%. I was tasked to implement a sentiment scoring feature like this in a corporate monitoring/surveillance product a couple of years back, intended to evaluate IMs, emails, etc. for potential leaks/corporate espionage/other bad stuff. I told them that we didn't have the time or in-house expertise to do it ourselves, and every single one of the commercially available libraries that I evaluated turned out to be snake oil.
it's the people around me I have to watch out for because I don't know what they might do in the next second.
You got that right. Just yesterday, a truck attempted to occupy my lane, apparently oblivious to the fact that I was there. About an hour later I got cut off by a limo that blew a stop sign without even slowing down.
I think a large part of the problem is that a lot of people don't have the situational awareness that they should, aren't doing things like checking their mirrors regularly, and in the case of the limo driver, just don't care. I also believe the vast majority simply don't know what the traffic laws are, as evidenced by the folks I see that will drive for miles in the left lane, making right turns into the left lane, etc. I think driving tests should be much more stringent, instead of this "make four right turns and parallel park" silliness that passes for an exam in a lot of places.
Slams on the brakes while crashing into trailer...
I don't think it braked at all. The car went another 900 feet before ending up in a guy's front yard, going through two fences and taking down a utility pole on the way. At the stated 65 mph, that's almost 10 seconds, and I'm sure the car wasn't going that fast after hitting the truck. I'm kinda wondering why the car didn't notice a sudden deceleration (too sudden for anything but a collision) and didn't stop right then and there. Also of note - the airbags didn't deploy.
From the summary: The one caveat is that the item must be a Prime product, meaning it is fulfilled by Amazon and can be shipped to shopper's doorsteps within two days or less.
Prime doesn't always mean "two days or less". More and more Prime items are being quoted 4-6 days or longer, and I've had several Prime items arrive more than a week after ordering over the past year.
My 54GL finally gave up the ghost a couple of months ago after many, many years of faithful service. An Asus RT-AC56U with Shibby's Tomato firmware has replaced it, and is doing very well so far.
There are, but not so many in the category of electronic gadgets. The oldest that I know of is the Alesis SR16 drum machine, which came out in 1990 and is still being sold today with no hardware changes. IIRC the last firmware update was issued in 2004.
I've replaced three of them on my '02 GMC Sierra with 130K miles. The stupid Bowden cable assemblies that everyone uses now run a stainless steel cable over nylon pulleys and are pretty much guaranteed to die at some point. The older scissor-lift mechanisms were heavier, but much sturdier, and you could replace just the motor instead of the whole damned assembly.
Otherwise my Sierra has been a tank.
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Yeah, the problem is that the Internet is dominated by the voices of the PC generation, who somehow never learned that there actually was a long history of computing before the PC and MS-DOS.
;-)
Such as IBM offering VM functionality for almost 10 years prior to the PC's introduction.
Agreed! TSRs were a blast to write, and back in ye olden days it was a really useful bit of functionality. I could have done without dealing with segmented memory, though.
These days, you can buy a BeagleBone Black or similar system-on-chip computer for very cheap, it comes with a full-blown GNU/Linux development environment that beats the pants off DOS.
For some things, yes. If you need a hard realtime system with sub-microsecond timing requirements and deterministic interrupt handling, Linux isn't going to do it, but DOS will. Even RTLinux couldn't meet those kinds of requirements.
According to Microsoft OS/2 1.x with Presentation Manager was the "upgrade path" from DOS. For users stuck with legacy software they were going to add a comparable GUI to DOS called Windows.
Windows had already been available for nearly three years before Presentation Manager was released with OS/2 1.1, and was introduced only three months after the OS/2 development agreement between MS and IBM was signed. At the time the agreement was signed, Windows had already been in development for about a year as a response to other PC-based UI products, and of course the Lisa/Macintosh. The PM API was designed to be similar to the Windows API, not the other way around, and still had some substantial differences. Interestingly, the original 1985 HELLO sample program that Charles Petzold based his famous "Hello World" example on will still compile and run almost unmodified under Windows 10, with the needed modifications mostly being limited to variable types that have since changed.
Having similar APIs was helpful, but they were different enough to make a common code base impractical.
It'd be nice if they spent half as much thought on the actual legislation as they did inventing a childish contrived acronym for it.
I am constantly amazed by the belief of friends and family who have no technical background that Google (Alphabet) and all things related to Google are the outcome of an altruistic and open minded company intent on making the internet of things a better place.
Especially given Google's propensity to just drop entire products/services at will.
The only cloud I trust is my own. If it had anything important on it, I'd have VMs at more than one hosting provider.
Preferably on different networks separated by some distance.
Not everyone that worked at Hostess was on the production floor, and Hostess sold more than just Twinkies.
If you don't even manufacture in China it's hard for them to get your IP.
Depends on what it is. For a lot of things, all they have to do is order a couple and take measurements.
We need more works entering the public domain. If creative works enter the public domain sooner, within reason to allow creators to profit for awhile from their works, there will be more derivative works and more innovation.
Which is what we had in the U.S. prior to 1978, when the Copyright Act of 1976 went into effect. I think the terms of the original Copyright Act of 1790 (14 years plus a 14 year extension) were adequate, and further extensions have been a cash grab by creators at the expense of society in general - a very real form of theft. Patents only receive 20 years of protection, so what's so frigging special about copyright? What we have now is an abomination that completely and totally defeats the purpose of the Copyright Clause in the U.S. Constitution, IMO. How exactly does extending protection for works after the creator's death encourage new works by that creator?
Florida, one of the most labor-unfriendly states in the U.S.
Legally, it doesn't work like that. As soon as you've handed in your written resignation, they can walk you to the door. And as most people aren't giving notice until they already have a new job lined up, they wouldn't get any unemployment at all.
It did when I did it a few years ago. I put my notice in, the manager said "tell you what, that's not necessary, pack your stuff". They fought me on the unemployment, and they lost because the state considered it a dismissal without cause.
Their code also remains buggy as hell. There are still serious bugs in WoW that have been there for years and years with no apparent motivation to fix them (which *also* costs them subscriptions), so it's not surprising that the client continues to be easily hacked as well.
If the players are legitimate, then they've already bought the game, and haven't lost that sale.
They're almost certainly losing monthly subscription renewal sales as a result of the cheating. In particular, Blizzard makes far more money from WoW subscriptions than it does from the initial game purchase.
This stuff falls into pseudo-science much like a polygraph does.
Agree 100%. I was tasked to implement a sentiment scoring feature like this in a corporate monitoring/surveillance product a couple of years back, intended to evaluate IMs, emails, etc. for potential leaks/corporate espionage/other bad stuff. I told them that we didn't have the time or in-house expertise to do it ourselves, and every single one of the commercially available libraries that I evaluated turned out to be snake oil.
Valid point. Not only are you having to worry about what's going on around you, you also don't know what the car will and will not do.
it's the people around me I have to watch out for because I don't know what they might do in the next second.
You got that right. Just yesterday, a truck attempted to occupy my lane, apparently oblivious to the fact that I was there. About an hour later I got cut off by a limo that blew a stop sign without even slowing down.
I think a large part of the problem is that a lot of people don't have the situational awareness that they should, aren't doing things like checking their mirrors regularly, and in the case of the limo driver, just don't care. I also believe the vast majority simply don't know what the traffic laws are, as evidenced by the folks I see that will drive for miles in the left lane, making right turns into the left lane, etc. I think driving tests should be much more stringent, instead of this "make four right turns and parallel park" silliness that passes for an exam in a lot of places.
Slams on the brakes while crashing into trailer...
I don't think it braked at all. The car went another 900 feet before ending up in a guy's front yard, going through two fences and taking down a utility pole on the way. At the stated 65 mph, that's almost 10 seconds, and I'm sure the car wasn't going that fast after hitting the truck. I'm kinda wondering why the car didn't notice a sudden deceleration (too sudden for anything but a collision) and didn't stop right then and there. Also of note - the airbags didn't deploy.
How would it stop abruptly in case of emergency?
Any variety of ways - via the brakes, a large tree, other traffic, a ditch...
From the summary: The one caveat is that the item must be a Prime product, meaning it is fulfilled by Amazon and can be shipped to shopper's doorsteps within two days or less.
Prime doesn't always mean "two days or less". More and more Prime items are being quoted 4-6 days or longer, and I've had several Prime items arrive more than a week after ordering over the past year.
My 54GL finally gave up the ghost a couple of months ago after many, many years of faithful service. An Asus RT-AC56U with Shibby's Tomato firmware has replaced it, and is doing very well so far.
There are, but not so many in the category of electronic gadgets. The oldest that I know of is the Alesis SR16 drum machine, which came out in 1990 and is still being sold today with no hardware changes. IIRC the last firmware update was issued in 2004.
The car will be programmed to take whatever action minimizes the manufacturer's liability.
Schematics, theory of operation, and a fully commented ROM listing. The original IBM PC had the same info available in a manual that could be purchased separately.
Granted, window motors have died repeatedly
I've replaced three of them on my '02 GMC Sierra with 130K miles. The stupid Bowden cable assemblies that everyone uses now run a stainless steel cable over nylon pulleys and are pretty much guaranteed to die at some point. The older scissor-lift mechanisms were heavier, but much sturdier, and you could replace just the motor instead of the whole damned assembly. Otherwise my Sierra has been a tank.