Democrats REALLY want the Federal Government to gain control of the Internet.
Net Neutrality is a backdoor to let their SJW insanity control the Internet.
Net Neutrality Rules implying government control of the Internet is like saying Freedom of the Press in the Constitution implies Government control of the Press.
Most people advise trying to dumb down the descriptions to make them more understandable the uninitiated. I don't typically do this, unless I'm dealing with children. When you simplify your descriptions, you are effectively simplifying (in their minds) what it is you do. You make it sound simple, and they suddenly think you're paid to do simple things.
Hit them with the complexity. You probably don't have to force it and go overboard with jargon (no need to activate peoples BS meters). Talk to them as if you were talking to a colleague. This will generally have one of two outcomes:
0. They are genuinely interested and ask relevant follow-up questions and are impressed with your knowledge, or
1. It goes over their heads, they assume you're some sort of wizard, and they never ever ask you these questions ever again.
But you also get expandability, and of particular interest in your specific case Resolve leverages multiple GPUs so if things start to slow down you can simply add another GPU to the HP system and you're good to go, to improve the performance on the iMac you have to scrap the entire system, including the display, and buy a new one.
Traditionally the big sale season in Canada has always been the Boxing Week Sales immediately after Xmas. This is the time to get next years wrapping paper and decorations ultra-cheap, and to pickup the stuff Santa didn't bring you for a discount. For many households, it was both the time to stock-up for next year, and to get some big ticket items when they were cheap.
For the last several years some chains have been trying to push "Black Friday" sales in order to compete with online retailers in the US, and people who go cross-border shopping for deals. To be honest, I don't know a single person here in Canada that gets all that excited for Black Friday sales here in Canada. It's not a holiday for us, so people are only going to get to the stores on the Saturday or Sunday at best, and it feels like an artificial, unauthentic sale imported from the US. The "deals" generally aren't that great, and you don't get lineups outside the doors (that I've seen) or people trampling each other to get what few "door crashers" may exist at any given store.
As a lifelong Canuck, you guys can keep your Black Friday sale. If I need something I'll catch the Boxing Week sales like my parents and grandparents before me[0].
Yaz
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[0] - Yeah, I'm probably just going to order from Amazon. Screw the crowds and parking!:P
BTW. Probably the most evil thing that C has inflicted upon the world is counting from 0. All pre C languages count from 1, as do children. And then it all changed. And we will live with off by one errors for the rest of time.
In my ideal world, there would be 3 layers, scripting/incrementally compiled managed-code/native code.
That's pretty easy to achieve, via Groovy/Java/JNI. I have no idea how suitable it is for the work you're doing, but you can certainly write Java classes that use native methods via JNI, and then script those classes through Groovy.
Why these phones even need "activation" rather than just "insert your SIM card and everything starts working" like with every phone I have ever owned is beyond me.
For the last several generations, iPhones (and iPads with cellular data FWIW) feature "Apple SIM", a programmable SIM that can be used with multiple carriers. The system is setup online, and allows you to pick your carrier and plan directly from the device. This is especially useful if you travel internationally -- as soon as you hit the tarmac in another country, you can register and get online with a local provider. It does, however, require an activation stage to program the SIM.
Of course, if you want to insert a standard micro SIM you can still do that, no activation necessary.
I thought that when the robot that was looking to the end of one of the "Star Shafts" (back in 2002), a chamber like this was hypothesized because the robot came to the "door" at the end of the shaft.
They did finally send in another probe to drill a hole in the door, revealing a tiny compartment with either a back wall or another door. There has been no further attempts permitted since.
Not that it matters -- those shafts come from the Queens Chamber, and don't intersect at all with the newly discovered chamber, as can be seen in this diagram. The newly discovered chamber(s) are immediately above the Grand Gallery.
I'm not saying there aren't other potential sources of bloat and inefficiency that can build up over time -- simply that file fragmentation isn't one of them, as it doesn't introduce any noticeable performance issue on solid state media.
The entropy of any computer system will tend to increase with system and application updates - databases will grow, files will fragment and access to them will slow.
(Emphasis added).
All iOS devices use solid-state storage. As SSDs have built-in wear levelling, at the physical layer everything larger than a 4k file is always fragmented. As there is no seek time, reads from any given sector take exactly the same amount of time, regardless of what sector was read last.
There can be a tiny increase in read time on an SSD if a file is fragmented at the filesystem level, as a sector range can potentially be processed more efficiently than a sector list, however this processing is going to happen at the CPU clock speed, which is way faster than the SSD bus speed; while a tiny measurable difference may be possible, I doubt if a human could tell the difference on a standard iOS device.
Point being, fragmentation isn't an issue in these devices. And FWIW, Apple converted all iOS devices capable of running iOS 10 to APFS starting back in March; APFS doesn't bother to do online defragmentation when running on SSDs as is causes more wear levelling, with no real performance benefit (to the defrag -- APFS is much more efficient on SSDs than HFS+ was, providing a global performance boost for disk I/O operations).
OS X was one of the best things that ever happened to Apple. System 7 to OS 9 were preemptive multitasking, where if one program didn't call a WaitNextEvent(), the entire OS would freeze, necessitating a hard reset.
That's not preemptive multitasking -- that's cooperative multitasking. OS X is preemptive.
A bigger issue is that when you plug an unformatted disk in, it pops up the usual message that its unreadable and to initialize it. Clicking initialize opens disk util which then does not show the unformatted drive (which it did in all previous versions). So for the average user, this could be confusing.
Yeah, but what "average user" is buying an unformatted drive? Virtually everything is pre-formatted out of the factory these days so users don't have to format in order to start using their new drives.
A dumb bug to be sure -- but the impact should only be to those who have blanked out a drive on their own without re-formatting/re-initializing it at the same time.
How do you expect to format a drive to make it appear when you can't make it appear to format the drive?
Okay -- it's a pretty dumb bug. One that is hopefully fixed quickly.
From a practical point however, how many people are actually ever going to run into this? The drive hardware built into Macs is pre-formatted, so it won't trigger this bug. Likewise, virtually every other external drive you can buy these days is pre-formatted, so again -- you're not going to be able to trigger this bug unless you erase the drive without re-initializing it at the same time.
I use Fing quite a bit for quick network scans. It's super useful because it identifies a large number of devices by brand. It does this by using MAC addresses.
Unfortunately, allowing apps to access your MAC address gives them a unique device identifier that can be sent over the network and used for tracking. Apple has removed this tracking vector. It sounds like Fing found the one useful non-tracking use for MAC addresses, and it got caught up in the security improvements.
Mea culpa. As I mentioned above, however, the BBC reported that the URLs were to iOS 11 GM code. The BBC misreported, and I based my comment off the bit of misinformation. What they should have said was that the binaries were leaked.
I'd still say that's bigger (for Apple) than your usual "rumour" leak. At the very least, they have an unknown untrustworthy actor within their organization, who is acting with an agenda against the company in general.
However, the BBC has independently confirmed that an anonymous source provided the publications with links to iOS 11's golden master (GM) code that downloaded the software from Apple's own computer servers.
Having looked into things further you are correct that the leak was of compiled binary data -- which isn't code. The BBC article says that it was links to iOS 11 GM code that was leaked, hence my error.
I know it's too much to ask people to RTFA, but you can at least read the summary.
This wasn't a features leak -- this was a leak of the entire iOS 11 Golden Master source code. Apparently for all current Apple products at that. Sure, some people have used the leak to divine what new features are in iOS 11 -- but the real damage is that the entire source for iOS 11 GM is now out there in the wild.
That certainly isn't something that happens prior to every presentation.
I'm not saying anything about Python. I'm just saying that looking at the number of questions may not give valid results.
It gives valid results -- but not for what they are claiming. As you have effectively pointed out, what they are measuring is "how many people have questions about language X, and how does it change over time"?
Obviously a language that gets a lot of questions is popular, however as you say a well-designed, well-known language isn't going to get as many questions.
Of course, it also doesn't touch on the quality of questions. How many of those Python questions wound up with the answer being "you only have seven space on line 62, instead of 8"?
If Apple were going to start supporting js apps, you might have a case, otherwise not...
The original iPhone 1 was targeted towards web applications using HTML/CSS/Javascript _only_ at release. When Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone to the world in 2007, he stood up on stage and told the audience that they could use the web technologies they were used to to build apps on Day 1, and nothing else.
That is still supported. The problem comes in that web apps suck. Developers begged Apple for an iPhone SDK, and the eventually delivered -- when they released the iPhone 3G, a year later in 2008.
The point being, Apple doesn't need to "start" supporting JavaScript apps. It already does, and has since the very first iPhone. Few use this facility, because web apps on mobile suck, and JavaScript is too limited to provide high-performance applications, particularly if they need to do anything outside the DOM or standard JS APIs.
(Every other day I wonder why everyone gave up on usenet.
Something or other about spammers is what they usually say,
but compared to other crap we've got to deal with, there had to
be some hack that could cover for that problem...)
I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you there. Sure there were heavily spammed and toxic USENET communities (comp.os.os2.advocacy, I'm looking at you here...), but a decentralized discussion system that allowed you to use any client, and for which you could get offline capabilities is something I too frequently miss. For every really bad USENET group, there were a number of amazing communities, and if you wanted to ensure you got as far away as possible from the junk, you could always find a.moderated group to your liking.
Does anybody care? I only spent five minutes researching the subject, but from what I can find virtually nobody is using Reddit's Open Source code to run their own websites.
Reddit's reasoning seems dickish -- they benefitted from being Open Source when it benefitted them, but as soon as it didn't, they decided to stop. I find their reasoning for making the code closed source specious -- does having video really give them some sort of competitive advantage? Video is hardly new on the web -- every major service already supports it. I doubt they're doing anything so new that nobody else can figure out how to do it on their own competing websites.
Sorry Reddit. It's a dick move and your reason sucks, but somehow I doubt anyone really cares all that much how your code is licensed, as virtually nobody is using it anyway.
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[...]unless they eschew cable service entirely.
Ever hear of cord cutting? It's happening more and more, and the cable companies are losing out because of it big time.
I'm fortunate in that my employer pays for my cable bill, but if they didn't I'd cut the cord as well.
Yaz
The more you tighten your grip cable companies, the more customers will slip through your fingers.
Yaz
Democrats REALLY want the Federal Government to gain control of the Internet.
Net Neutrality is a backdoor to let their SJW insanity control the Internet.
Net Neutrality Rules implying government control of the Internet is like saying Freedom of the Press in the Constitution implies Government control of the Press.
Yaz
Most people advise trying to dumb down the descriptions to make them more understandable the uninitiated. I don't typically do this, unless I'm dealing with children. When you simplify your descriptions, you are effectively simplifying (in their minds) what it is you do. You make it sound simple, and they suddenly think you're paid to do simple things.
Hit them with the complexity. You probably don't have to force it and go overboard with jargon (no need to activate peoples BS meters). Talk to them as if you were talking to a colleague. This will generally have one of two outcomes:
Yaz
But you also get expandability, and of particular interest in your specific case Resolve leverages multiple GPUs so if things start to slow down you can simply add another GPU to the HP system and you're good to go, to improve the performance on the iMac you have to scrap the entire system, including the display, and buy a new one.
That is not true -- macOS High Sierra supports external Thunderbolt 3 connected GPUs.
Yaz
Baloney. I am Jewish and I don't know any Jews who celebrate Christmas. I doubt any Muslim or Hindu celebrates Christmas.
My Jewish sister-in-law celebrates Xmas. My Muslim wife does as well. You just need to expand the number of people you know.
Yaz
Newsflash: most people are not Christians.
Yeah -- some people are...Canadians.
Traditionally the big sale season in Canada has always been the Boxing Week Sales immediately after Xmas. This is the time to get next years wrapping paper and decorations ultra-cheap, and to pickup the stuff Santa didn't bring you for a discount. For many households, it was both the time to stock-up for next year, and to get some big ticket items when they were cheap.
For the last several years some chains have been trying to push "Black Friday" sales in order to compete with online retailers in the US, and people who go cross-border shopping for deals. To be honest, I don't know a single person here in Canada that gets all that excited for Black Friday sales here in Canada. It's not a holiday for us, so people are only going to get to the stores on the Saturday or Sunday at best, and it feels like an artificial, unauthentic sale imported from the US. The "deals" generally aren't that great, and you don't get lineups outside the doors (that I've seen) or people trampling each other to get what few "door crashers" may exist at any given store.
As a lifelong Canuck, you guys can keep your Black Friday sale. If I need something I'll catch the Boxing Week sales like my parents and grandparents before me[0].
Yaz
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[0] - Yeah, I'm probably just going to order from Amazon. Screw the crowds and parking!
BTW. Probably the most evil thing that C has inflicted upon the world is counting from 0. All pre C languages count from 1, as do children. And then it all changed. And we will live with off by one errors for the rest of time.
Can I just leave this here?. I feel like I need to leave this here for you to read.
Yaz
In my ideal world, there would be 3 layers, scripting/incrementally compiled managed-code/native code.
That's pretty easy to achieve, via Groovy/Java/JNI. I have no idea how suitable it is for the work you're doing, but you can certainly write Java classes that use native methods via JNI, and then script those classes through Groovy.
Yaz
Why these phones even need "activation" rather than just "insert your SIM card and everything starts working" like with every phone I have ever owned is beyond me.
For the last several generations, iPhones (and iPads with cellular data FWIW) feature "Apple SIM", a programmable SIM that can be used with multiple carriers. The system is setup online, and allows you to pick your carrier and plan directly from the device. This is especially useful if you travel internationally -- as soon as you hit the tarmac in another country, you can register and get online with a local provider. It does, however, require an activation stage to program the SIM.
Of course, if you want to insert a standard micro SIM you can still do that, no activation necessary.
Yaz
I thought that when the robot that was looking to the end of one of the "Star Shafts" (back in 2002), a chamber like this was hypothesized because the robot came to the "door" at the end of the shaft.
They did finally send in another probe to drill a hole in the door, revealing a tiny compartment with either a back wall or another door. There has been no further attempts permitted since.
Not that it matters -- those shafts come from the Queens Chamber, and don't intersect at all with the newly discovered chamber, as can be seen in this diagram. The newly discovered chamber(s) are immediately above the Grand Gallery.
Yaz
I'm not saying there aren't other potential sources of bloat and inefficiency that can build up over time -- simply that file fragmentation isn't one of them, as it doesn't introduce any noticeable performance issue on solid state media.
Yaz
The entropy of any computer system will tend to increase with system and application updates - databases will grow, files will fragment and access to them will slow.
(Emphasis added).
All iOS devices use solid-state storage. As SSDs have built-in wear levelling, at the physical layer everything larger than a 4k file is always fragmented. As there is no seek time, reads from any given sector take exactly the same amount of time, regardless of what sector was read last.
There can be a tiny increase in read time on an SSD if a file is fragmented at the filesystem level, as a sector range can potentially be processed more efficiently than a sector list, however this processing is going to happen at the CPU clock speed, which is way faster than the SSD bus speed; while a tiny measurable difference may be possible, I doubt if a human could tell the difference on a standard iOS device.
Point being, fragmentation isn't an issue in these devices. And FWIW, Apple converted all iOS devices capable of running iOS 10 to APFS starting back in March; APFS doesn't bother to do online defragmentation when running on SSDs as is causes more wear levelling, with no real performance benefit (to the defrag -- APFS is much more efficient on SSDs than HFS+ was, providing a global performance boost for disk I/O operations).
Yaz
OS X was one of the best things that ever happened to Apple. System 7 to OS 9 were preemptive multitasking, where if one program didn't call a WaitNextEvent(), the entire OS would freeze, necessitating a hard reset.
That's not preemptive multitasking -- that's cooperative multitasking. OS X is preemptive.
Yaz
A bigger issue is that when you plug an unformatted disk in, it pops up the usual message that its unreadable and to initialize it. Clicking initialize opens disk util which then does not show the unformatted drive (which it did in all previous versions). So for the average user, this could be confusing.
Yeah, but what "average user" is buying an unformatted drive? Virtually everything is pre-formatted out of the factory these days so users don't have to format in order to start using their new drives.
A dumb bug to be sure -- but the impact should only be to those who have blanked out a drive on their own without re-formatting/re-initializing it at the same time.
Yaz
How do you expect to format a drive to make it appear when you can't make it appear to format the drive?
Okay -- it's a pretty dumb bug. One that is hopefully fixed quickly.
From a practical point however, how many people are actually ever going to run into this? The drive hardware built into Macs is pre-formatted, so it won't trigger this bug. Likewise, virtually every other external drive you can buy these days is pre-formatted, so again -- you're not going to be able to trigger this bug unless you erase the drive without re-initializing it at the same time.
Yaz
I use Fing quite a bit for quick network scans. It's super useful because it identifies a large number of devices by brand. It does this by using MAC addresses.
Unfortunately, allowing apps to access your MAC address gives them a unique device identifier that can be sent over the network and used for tracking. Apple has removed this tracking vector. It sounds like Fing found the one useful non-tracking use for MAC addresses, and it got caught up in the security improvements.
Yaz
Even failed passwords from PassGAN seemed pretty realistic: saddracula, santazone, coolarse18.
You know, somewhere out there a /.er is frantically trying to change their password now that /. has posted it on the front page.
Yaz
Mea culpa. As I mentioned above, however, the BBC reported that the URLs were to iOS 11 GM code. The BBC misreported, and I based my comment off the bit of misinformation. What they should have said was that the binaries were leaked.
I'd still say that's bigger (for Apple) than your usual "rumour" leak. At the very least, they have an unknown untrustworthy actor within their organization, who is acting with an agenda against the company in general.
Yaz
No, it's bad reporting on the BBC's part:
However, the BBC has independently confirmed that an anonymous source provided the publications with links to iOS 11's golden master (GM) code that downloaded the software from Apple's own computer servers.
Having looked into things further you are correct that the leak was of compiled binary data -- which isn't code. The BBC article says that it was links to iOS 11 GM code that was leaked, hence my error.
Yaz
I know it's too much to ask people to RTFA, but you can at least read the summary.
This wasn't a features leak -- this was a leak of the entire iOS 11 Golden Master source code. Apparently for all current Apple products at that. Sure, some people have used the leak to divine what new features are in iOS 11 -- but the real damage is that the entire source for iOS 11 GM is now out there in the wild.
That certainly isn't something that happens prior to every presentation.
Yaz
I'm not saying anything about Python. I'm just saying that looking at the number of questions may not give valid results.
It gives valid results -- but not for what they are claiming. As you have effectively pointed out, what they are measuring is "how many people have questions about language X, and how does it change over time"?
Obviously a language that gets a lot of questions is popular, however as you say a well-designed, well-known language isn't going to get as many questions.
Of course, it also doesn't touch on the quality of questions. How many of those Python questions wound up with the answer being "you only have seven space on line 62, instead of 8"?
Yaz
If Apple were going to start supporting js apps, you might have a case, otherwise not...
The original iPhone 1 was targeted towards web applications using HTML/CSS/Javascript _only_ at release. When Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone to the world in 2007, he stood up on stage and told the audience that they could use the web technologies they were used to to build apps on Day 1, and nothing else.
That is still supported. The problem comes in that web apps suck. Developers begged Apple for an iPhone SDK, and the eventually delivered -- when they released the iPhone 3G, a year later in 2008.
The point being, Apple doesn't need to "start" supporting JavaScript apps. It already does, and has since the very first iPhone. Few use this facility, because web apps on mobile suck, and JavaScript is too limited to provide high-performance applications, particularly if they need to do anything outside the DOM or standard JS APIs.
Yaz
(Every other day I wonder why everyone gave up on usenet. Something or other about spammers is what they usually say, but compared to other crap we've got to deal with, there had to be some hack that could cover for that problem...)
I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you there. Sure there were heavily spammed and toxic USENET communities (comp.os.os2.advocacy, I'm looking at you here...), but a decentralized discussion system that allowed you to use any client, and for which you could get offline capabilities is something I too frequently miss. For every really bad USENET group, there were a number of amazing communities, and if you wanted to ensure you got as far away as possible from the junk, you could always find a .moderated group to your liking.
Yaz
Does anybody care? I only spent five minutes researching the subject, but from what I can find virtually nobody is using Reddit's Open Source code to run their own websites.
Reddit's reasoning seems dickish -- they benefitted from being Open Source when it benefitted them, but as soon as it didn't, they decided to stop. I find their reasoning for making the code closed source specious -- does having video really give them some sort of competitive advantage? Video is hardly new on the web -- every major service already supports it. I doubt they're doing anything so new that nobody else can figure out how to do it on their own competing websites.
Sorry Reddit. It's a dick move and your reason sucks, but somehow I doubt anyone really cares all that much how your code is licensed, as virtually nobody is using it anyway.
Yaz