A lot of people in US jails are in for drug related offenses. The US has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world and there is no excuse for that.
"why on earth does a simple B&W laser printer need special hardware instructions just to print a Word document?"
They don't. Printer companies internally have this figured out. Google HP PCL or Samsung SPL. If you have the money you've never had to bother with even those. Any laser printer with native Postscript (PS) support doesn't need a custom driver.
I don't think EVs are a fad. The batteries are still kind of expensive but the prices are coming down. You don't need a 400 mile range. There's like no one who regularly drives that distance. It would only add extra battery weight, expense, and decrease efficiency for no good reason. I could see a battery rental business becoming available for such users but other than that it makes no sense for most users.
200 miles range is quite enough. The advantages? Much lower fuel cost per mile driven, higher acceleration, and more comfortable driving experience overall.
I use an old style quartz watch (Casio). I need to change the batteries like once every 5 years. At one time I had an old style winding watch but got bored of winding it up every day. Apple iWatch users have to recharge theirs like once every day as well. Guess which watches are more profitable and more of a fad right now.
"What if Egyptian Pharos were a bit like European royalties, where the Austrian princess would marry the ruler of France or German royalty would marry the Russian Tzar. And these mummified people were prince or princes from Near East empires marrying into Egyptian royalty to forge political bonds?"
Actually, from what I remember of Egyptian marriages, they mostly married with people from noble families inside Egypt, their cousins and things like that. It would be more similar to the Japanese imperial court marriage system than anything else really.
Actually I've heard you can just hook a cable from the audio jack of a music player device to the ZX Spectrum to and load software from an MP3 music file or whatever. It's kinda bloated but it works.
Some of us want to play modern games with real GPUs with hundreds of watts of power consumption. Or have a hundreds of watts CPU for compiling things. A tower machine easily fits below a desk and thus takes no desktop space. What did you want instead? Something built into the monitor, so that you can't easily replace the monitor for one that better fits your space or whatever requirements? That will be under-powered because the heat dissipation will be crap? Or a smaller box with external expansion that requires external power bricks to power high power consumption add-ons? (like the dustin MacPro). If people wanted either of those they would just use a laptop!
Want to expand the memory? It's slotted so it can be done. Want to get a new video card? You can slot in a new one. An extra disk? Same. Bluray? Yep.
The tower design is not broken so don't fix it. I think the only other alternative is something like the HTPC format. While you could shrink the design down the high power requirement will still be there, so it WILL need a fan to cool it down despite whatever Saint Steve Jobs told you about fans. Unless you want to use water cooling with a heat dissipation panel that's larger than an ATX case. High maintenance, expensive, and costly to build.
Actually I knew the iMac was going to be successful before it came out. When you consider the amount of high-end users in DTP that Apple still had even with their crummy MacOS 8 (basically a cooperative multitasking OS with no memory protection where an app has to surrender control to task switch), a new machine with a NeXTSTEP UNIX derived OS, with native support for Display Postscript, was clearly going to be a major success for them. The new APIs and language were also much easier to develop for. Not to mention the software development tools were better as well. So there was a low barrier for someone to write new applications even if the existing vendors dragged their feet too much.
So they targeted high-end media and multimedia apps. DTP (Desktop Publishing), DTV (Desktop Video). The iMacs came builtin with a Firewire connector, that you could hook to a DV camcorder. Back then in the PC that typically required an add-on card. Well it was an obvious success from the get go to me. I still didn't buy one because it was too expensive for me, also to be honest I thought the iMac looked kinda tacky and I hated that puck mouse, but I certainly appreciated the basic design and the excellent software architecture. If I talk about Final Cut Pro and GarageBand people will probably still remember it today. NeXTSTEP (MacOS X) was also the OS they used as a base for iOS development so even today that decision to replace the OS still has a major impact.
Well you know what... Firefox was great back then. The only alternative we had was Internet Explorer. If you can call that an alternative.
Eventually the software would need major rewrites. But so what. I think their idea to make a new object oriented language, i.e. Rust, and build on that is a good one. Now the language itself might be shit, I know I don't like the syntax even if some of the concepts seem good, but at least they're trying. A big issue with Firefox is the gargantuan size of the codebase and that's probably the major reason why it's so hard to improve it. I mean have you ever even tried to compile the thing. I know I have and it made compiling the Linux kernel seem fast and simple in comparison.
What happened with Eich was just one more sign that the company has its priority's backwards. They should be worrying about his on the job performance not his personal life. This is supposed to be a democracy and it was put up to a vote wasn't it? It was just a sign the Mozilla leadership has gone totally off its rocker.
I still hate Chrome's text scrolling. They never, EVER, fixed it properly and I even bothered writing a bug report for it. They've claimed to have fixed it several times but they never did. The plugins are also much worse than Firefox's, it uses a ton more memory, the major thing it has is speed. Oh and don't get me started on the privacy concerns. I suppose Chromium at least takes care of that.
No shit. Think of all the things they could have been selling instead. FPGA boards, Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, build your own drone kits, build your own 3D printer kits. You name it.
This. I heard all sorts of wonderful tales about Radio Shack when I was a kid. First time I went to the Bay Area almost two decades ago I was delighted that I found a store and went inside. Only to find a place with gaudy dressed employees trying to pawn Monstercables and similar shit on people. With no way to buy any computer or electric parts to speak of whatsoever.
Whatever it was that made them great it was long dead. I'm surprised it didn't close sooner.
You could delete half the news item text and you wouldn't lose anything. The first paragraph is useless scare mongering. While the the second paragraph only has relevant information in the end. This is getting pretty pathetic. I thought Slashdot had better tech coverage than this. It's like I'm reading a frikin news for dummies site.
How about just saying a vulnerability in Samba was found, describe the vulnerability, then the impact? kthx bye.
You can assemble your own desktop compute from parts if you like. But yeah most of them will be manufactured at China or Taiwan or South Korea. AMD still manufactures their CPUs in Europe/USA and Intel and Micron still have fabs in the USA but that's about it.
A lot of the chip design still is made in the USA though.
Last time I bought a hard cover book from Amazon it came dented and they claimed it wasn't their fault. I would rather be able to inspect something before I buy it thank you very much.
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Saint Jobs said people had better things to do than tidy up their desktop. So no file manager for youuuu...
Here, get educated courtesy of the Oatmeal.
A lot of people in US jails are in for drug related offenses. The US has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world and there is no excuse for that.
"why on earth does a simple B&W laser printer need special hardware instructions just to print a Word document?"
They don't. Printer companies internally have this figured out. Google HP PCL or Samsung SPL. If you have the money you've never had to bother with even those. Any laser printer with native Postscript (PS) support doesn't need a custom driver.
Neither the VM or the language are that good actually. The language is probably the least bad of the two.
I don't think EVs are a fad. The batteries are still kind of expensive but the prices are coming down. You don't need a 400 mile range. There's like no one who regularly drives that distance. It would only add extra battery weight, expense, and decrease efficiency for no good reason. I could see a battery rental business becoming available for such users but other than that it makes no sense for most users.
200 miles range is quite enough. The advantages? Much lower fuel cost per mile driven, higher acceleration, and more comfortable driving experience overall.
I use an old style quartz watch (Casio). I need to change the batteries like once every 5 years. At one time I had an old style winding watch but got bored of winding it up every day. Apple iWatch users have to recharge theirs like once every day as well. Guess which watches are more profitable and more of a fad right now.
There is more to it than that. The electric cars still need to use the public roads.
"What if Egyptian Pharos were a bit like European royalties, where the Austrian princess would marry the ruler of France or German royalty would marry the Russian Tzar. And these mummified people were prince or princes from Near East empires marrying into Egyptian royalty to forge political bonds?"
Actually, from what I remember of Egyptian marriages, they mostly married with people from noble families inside Egypt, their cousins and things like that. It would be more similar to the Japanese imperial court marriage system than anything else really.
He ported it from FORTRAN to C I believe?
I guess the guys at Google didn't watch this 3dfx commercial.
Actually I've heard you can just hook a cable from the audio jack of a music player device to the ZX Spectrum to and load software from an MP3 music file or whatever. It's kinda bloated but it works.
Some of us want to play modern games with real GPUs with hundreds of watts of power consumption. Or have a hundreds of watts CPU for compiling things. A tower machine easily fits below a desk and thus takes no desktop space. What did you want instead? Something built into the monitor, so that you can't easily replace the monitor for one that better fits your space or whatever requirements? That will be under-powered because the heat dissipation will be crap? Or a smaller box with external expansion that requires external power bricks to power high power consumption add-ons? (like the dustin MacPro). If people wanted either of those they would just use a laptop!
Want to expand the memory? It's slotted so it can be done. Want to get a new video card? You can slot in a new one. An extra disk? Same. Bluray? Yep.
The tower design is not broken so don't fix it. I think the only other alternative is something like the HTPC format. While you could shrink the design down the high power requirement will still be there, so it WILL need a fan to cool it down despite whatever Saint Steve Jobs told you about fans. Unless you want to use water cooling with a heat dissipation panel that's larger than an ATX case. High maintenance, expensive, and costly to build.
Actually I knew the iMac was going to be successful before it came out. When you consider the amount of high-end users in DTP that Apple still had even with their crummy MacOS 8 (basically a cooperative multitasking OS with no memory protection where an app has to surrender control to task switch), a new machine with a NeXTSTEP UNIX derived OS, with native support for Display Postscript, was clearly going to be a major success for them. The new APIs and language were also much easier to develop for. Not to mention the software development tools were better as well. So there was a low barrier for someone to write new applications even if the existing vendors dragged their feet too much.
So they targeted high-end media and multimedia apps. DTP (Desktop Publishing), DTV (Desktop Video). The iMacs came builtin with a Firewire connector, that you could hook to a DV camcorder. Back then in the PC that typically required an add-on card. Well it was an obvious success from the get go to me. I still didn't buy one because it was too expensive for me, also to be honest I thought the iMac looked kinda tacky and I hated that puck mouse, but I certainly appreciated the basic design and the excellent software architecture. If I talk about Final Cut Pro and GarageBand people will probably still remember it today. NeXTSTEP (MacOS X) was also the OS they used as a base for iOS development so even today that decision to replace the OS still has a major impact.
I thought the Terminator had a 6502 compatible processor.
Well you know what... Firefox was great back then. The only alternative we had was Internet Explorer. If you can call that an alternative.
Eventually the software would need major rewrites. But so what. I think their idea to make a new object oriented language, i.e. Rust, and build on that is a good one. Now the language itself might be shit, I know I don't like the syntax even if some of the concepts seem good, but at least they're trying. A big issue with Firefox is the gargantuan size of the codebase and that's probably the major reason why it's so hard to improve it. I mean have you ever even tried to compile the thing. I know I have and it made compiling the Linux kernel seem fast and simple in comparison.
What happened with Eich was just one more sign that the company has its priority's backwards. They should be worrying about his on the job performance not his personal life. This is supposed to be a democracy and it was put up to a vote wasn't it? It was just a sign the Mozilla leadership has gone totally off its rocker.
I still hate Chrome's text scrolling. They never, EVER, fixed it properly and I even bothered writing a bug report for it. They've claimed to have fixed it several times but they never did. The plugins are also much worse than Firefox's, it uses a ton more memory, the major thing it has is speed. Oh and don't get me started on the privacy concerns. I suppose Chromium at least takes care of that.
No shit. Think of all the things they could have been selling instead. FPGA boards, Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, build your own drone kits, build your own 3D printer kits. You name it.
This. I heard all sorts of wonderful tales about Radio Shack when I was a kid. First time I went to the Bay Area almost two decades ago I was delighted that I found a store and went inside. Only to find a place with gaudy dressed employees trying to pawn Monstercables and similar shit on people. With no way to buy any computer or electric parts to speak of whatsoever.
Whatever it was that made them great it was long dead. I'm surprised it didn't close sooner.
It could be worse. It could be an SSH or SSL bug.
You could delete half the news item text and you wouldn't lose anything. The first paragraph is useless scare mongering. While the the second paragraph only has relevant information in the end. This is getting pretty pathetic. I thought Slashdot had better tech coverage than this. It's like I'm reading a frikin news for dummies site.
How about just saying a vulnerability in Samba was found, describe the vulnerability, then the impact? kthx bye.
You can assemble your own desktop compute from parts if you like. But yeah most of them will be manufactured at China or Taiwan or South Korea. AMD still manufactures their CPUs in Europe/USA and Intel and Micron still have fabs in the USA but that's about it.
A lot of the chip design still is made in the USA though.
The Centauri Republic is a vague allegory of the Roman Empire.
Last time I bought a hard cover book from Amazon it came dented and they claimed it wasn't their fault. I would rather be able to inspect something before I buy it thank you very much.
Well the mainframe uses its own architecture. It is based on the POWER CPU design but AFAIK it isn't the same thing. You are correct about AS/400.