As compared to Apple, where I have heard of no one wanting to downgrade to previous versions because of the low quality of the new OS itself (hardware speed notwithstanding.)
Funny you should mention that. I found it cheaper to upgrade my hardware to more recent Macs and get a new OS for free, that to pay upgrade fees into aging hardware....
It helps to consider that timely upgrades mean that the secondary markets, such as Ebay can provide a considerable rebate your upgrade, assuming you don't wait too long to catch up. Eg. If you are still rocking a G4 or G5, you are fucked. As well you should be....
No manufacturer owes you a break when you haven't purchased a significant product in 5 to 7 years.
Last time I checked.... minors are not afforded full protection under the constitution. Only adults beyond the age of consent are afforded full constitutional protection.
I seem to recall a case in Alaska where a student was denied the right to free speech because they unwittingly were participating in a school sanctioned function on public property, and so the school was allowed to discipline the acts of the accused even though this person was NOT a Ward of the State at the time of their expression.
The line between school and private life, for minors has become seriously blurred.
back in the old days ALL computer vendors included full schematics, including theory of operation, and Apple even included the LIST output from the assembler for the monitor ROM in the Technical Manual. The first Disk// manuals also included this level of detail.
Even the IBM PC included all this technical info.... which proved to be their downfall.... and after that NO commercial computer vendor included technical information of such quality.
iPhones have a serial port, USB 2.0 OTG port, video out, stereo_audio_line_out, and stereo_audio_line_in all on the interface connector, as well as a 3V ADC input (used for device/power detection)
BlueTooth provides support for HID, audio I/O and bulk data transfer.
Theoretically, you could plug your iPhone into a TV and use a WiiMote to control a game.
The iPhone is more like a handheld version of a high-end 1998-2000 desktop computer than a bleeding edge 1980's game-console cum desktop computer.
If you want to compare it to any 80's hardware, an Amiga would be a much fairer comparison. The Amiga actually had hardware accelerated video AND provisions for video capture.... which the iPhone 3Gs can also do via the Camera....
Interestingly the iPhone 3Gs would easily outperform any laptop with a build date before circa 2001 in a computational benchmark, and any laptop build before 1998 in terms of available memory, and available storage.
Apple//c's 65C02 ran at 1.023 Mhz just like the Apple II, II+ and Apple//e, being based on the same core logic as its predecessors albeit as an ASIC derived from the//e.
The Apple//c+ ran at 3.57545MHz not 4MHz. The Apple//gs ran at 3.57545 MHz The//c+ and//gs were both based on the Mega// ASIC that created two execution contexts for the system. The 'fast side', and the 'slow side.' The 'slow side' emulated an apple//e with an 80 column video card, dual serial cards, a Language Card( AKA Microsoft SoftCard) and a IWM (Integrated Woz Machine) to support up to four external Disk// and/or Disk 3.5 drives.
The fast side had access to the extended memory (above the 128K supported a//e with an 80 column board) via the extended address bits (//gs only)
The//c+ supported only the 128K extended memory found in the//e with an 80 column card. It used the fast side only to synchronize the 3.57545 MHz processor with the memory system, which still ran at 1.023MHz. The extended features of the Mega// ASIC were not available since the 658C08 did not support the extended address multiplexing found in the 658C16.
Did congress NOT accept Bush's Declaration of War on Afghanistan and Iraq?
Dude, with all do respect we are at war! As bullshitty and stupid as it has been it's a freaking war.
Many people who appear to accessorize with tin-foil head-gear suggest, rather strongly, that we have been deprived of Habeas Corpus since the beginning of WWII. IANAL, or trained in the field so I have little in the way of knowledge either way, but it's an interesting possibility AFAIK.
No cops are breaking into my house and robbing me, or hauling me to jail for no lawful reason. Even the Tax man knows that I have no money to pay and leaves me alone.
I have the Internets.
I have TV, though I do not watch it.
I have a car, and it's paid off, and legal to drive on the public roads.
I have a home, though I do not own it.
I do not have a job.... but thats not much to worry about for the short term. Unemployment mets my needs for the foreseeable future.
My debtors cannot take my freedom for what I do not have to repay them.
I have enough money to pay for food, hot and cold water. I have plumbing, and it is all satisfactory. Though I cannot afford to eat out much, or go to the movies much.... or go to clubs... I do not worry these things are not important to me.... I am a simple Christian man.
I have alcohol and drugs if I wish, though I do not partake of the drugs, for religious and philosophical reasons. I keep my consumption of alcohol moderate and reasonable with in the context of my social environment. I drink, but I am not a drunk.
Should I become ill; I have no assets I can get emergency and critical medical care without cost to me.
Yes, my life could be better. Yes, I'd like a nice house that I own and be able to travel and socialize like a wealthy person. God has a plan for me and I must understand it.... and I will go to heaven because I have accepted Jesus as my savior:)
Can I really complain? There is nothing... and I mean nothing oppressing me.
I write what I wish to write none can order me not to.
I say what I wish to say none can order me not to.
I am able to continue my education and maybe some day get my BS degree, and the goverment has provided me loans to facilitate that.
I create all the things that I wish to with no one telling me I am forbidden until I harm others or create a credible risk to the safety of others.
As much as I might have ideological arguments against the government and social order as it is instantiated today, it doesn't rise to revolution.
I may not be happy.... but I am not discontented ether. Yes there are people who are worse off than me, but in my experience they did REALLY dumb things.... I have done dumb things and been subjected to the consequences... I hope that I can avoid doing dumb things in the future....
I am a citizen of the United States of America.... and all the noise out there concerns me.... but so far.... has not really affected me or my life style.
Sincerely,
Joe Sixpack
------
Now.... with all the above in mind do you think the USA is ready for a revolution?
I don't thinks so... not without Joe Sixpack getting really hungry or oppressed. So far thats not happening.
The so called high you get from marijuana goes away after continual use, much like many medicines that come with the warning about operating machinery.
This fallacy is very common and flat out wrong.... people who smoke habitually do get a tolerance. However they are still stoned.
There mental processes are colored by the THC running through their blood even i they don't feel the "high."
I speak from personal experience on this issue. Until I went completely clean from pot I didn't understand what I had lost while living with my brain on perpetual THC intoxication.
There is no way I'd tolerate operating heavy machinery or dangerous industrial processes with people who had significant THC levels in their blood due to increased tolerance.
A funny quote that makes my point: "Hey man, you know your perceptions are fucked... you gotta let your hands do the driving!"
Having written the above I do believe that THC intoxication represents far less societal/public risk than alcohol, or say prescription pain killers.
Unfortunately the current business model would have to be rewritten to account for legalization. At this time we have neither the resources or the desire to change our business model at this time. Current profit centers are acceptable, and still in the growth phase. Change to the prevailing market could present risk to the existing profit stream, as new competitors enter the market, and existing market reorients around legal consumption rather than organized suppression.
The current business organization would likely need to be scrapped in contemplating such a far reaching business model. At this time it is not a viable consideration for development.
silly rabbit. Nothing can be banned in the US system of law. So a tax is imposed similar to the tobacco tax where a stamp is issued for the sale. However in the case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Marihuana_Tax_Act
NO STAMP WAS EVER ISSUED, and NO PROVISION WAS MADE TO ISSUE IT!
production and sale of Cannabis Hemp at the federal level is a tax crime.
If a person smoke pot the way tobacco is smoked I'd agree. But they don't... A few hits of the modern cultivars and you are done smoking for many hours.
This study has been pointed out before showing how flawed the government funded studied were. At the time some argued that these flaws were deliberate. I'm not convinced that they weren't but there is no proof that the ignorance was willful.
Maybe they were smoking 'shake' that some kid sold them?
And don't forget William Randolph Hearst... who had huge holdings in pulp timber and news papers. His anti-hemp campaign started at the time a patent for a harvesting machine for hemp (comparable in stature to Elehi Withey's cotton gin) was announced in Popular Science. It was well established previously that hemp would be much less expensive to process into high quality paper. If only a suitable harvesting machine could be developed, then it could be commercialized. Since hemp required only a mild hydrogen peroxide solution to bleach the pulp to a fine white, it would also reduce industrial waste as well.
Hearst bought the patent for the harvester and campaigned through his "yellow journalism" papers to help strangle the hemp industry in the US.
One article from that time period read [IIRCC],"... Consumption of Reefer by Negroes is particularly troublesome in this age of Jazz, since it might cause a Black man look at a white woman twice."
Another interesting point from the druggie side is that commercial drugs like aspirin have toxicity ratios of about 15:1, that is the fatal toxic dose of the drug is 15 times the therapeutic dose. Alcohol is 20:1. Cocaine is 25:1. Heroine is 8:1. Morphine is 12:1... etc.... THC, the most prevalent psychoactive active of the Cannaboids found in Cannabis has a toxicity ratio of 5000:1. In it's natural form it is impossible to over dose on, and nearly impossible to overdose on in a refined form.
NOTE: The Toxicity ratios are recalled from memory.
No I don't smoke pot. I got bored of it many years ago. But freaking tobacco is probably going to kill me.
It could replace synthetic fibers in textiles and increase the strength, durability, comfort, threadfastness and affordability of the clothing and cloth products that it goes into.
Funny you should mention this. Back in the early 90's I had a Hemp/Cotton blend, button down, shirt. It was a 50/50 blend. Made by a small startup called CropCircle; don't know if they are still around. It outlasted every stitch of clothing I owned from that period in durability and comfort, even Levi's and Carharts. It was a true favorite of mine. I finally sent it off to a buyer on Ebay for $25 in 2002, and the shirt was still in new-looking condition. Why did I sell it? It didn't fit any more. I'd gone from a bean-pole to a more healthy weight over those ten or so years.
The main problem I see with trying to find evidence of life on Mars is that it lost its Mojo so long ago. Short of bacterial fossils I do not think that much will be found.
3.5By ago, Earth had lots of single celled soup. Why would Mars be any different. It takes a long time to go from SCO(Single Celled Organisms, not a pariah to FOSS) to MCO and eventually to Vertebrates.
If anything resembling a virus or SCO is found I'd be amazed, if they find higher order life I'd suspect the sources.
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As compared to Apple, where I have heard of no one wanting to downgrade to previous versions because of the low quality of the new OS itself (hardware speed notwithstanding.)
Funny you should mention that. I found it cheaper to upgrade my hardware to more recent Macs and get a new OS for free, that to pay upgrade fees into aging hardware....
It helps to consider that timely upgrades mean that the secondary markets, such as Ebay can provide a considerable rebate your upgrade, assuming you don't wait too long to catch up. Eg. If you are still rocking a G4 or G5, you are fucked. As well you should be....
No manufacturer owes you a break when you haven't purchased a significant product in 5 to 7 years.
I'd like to know what happy Microsoft consumers are thinking.
I'd ask the same thing about happy Americans. I don't know any.
And I don't know any happy Windows users either...
They both whine like abused wives that haven't accepted that the hubby has got to go.
Hmmm Snow Cat.... wont run on that..... I'd say thats incentive to sell the G5 QC.....
YMMV
Curse Henry Ford....
He taught them to play that tune.....
Ironically you just made an argument for why M$ does not deserve their monopoly.
Maybe, just this once, the VCR's of the world will not crush the Beta-max of the world....
Ah time for an extinction event!
Odd since his sister's ended up on the front page of a lot of news-rags....
God rest his soul.....
Lets be clear. Schools are NOT public property.
Simple test.
go hang out on a school property in broad day light on a school day, and see how long it takes for the police to escort you off the property.
State property is NOT public property, unless the State explicitly says it is. Eg. a public park, or a State park, or a National Park.
The State further reserves the right to stipulate WHEN you can park your carcass in these 'public' spaces.
Last time I checked.... minors are not afforded full protection under the constitution. Only adults beyond the age of consent are afforded full constitutional protection.
I seem to recall a case in Alaska where a student was denied the right to free speech because they unwittingly were participating in a school sanctioned function on public property, and so the school was allowed to discipline the acts of the accused even though this person was NOT a Ward of the State at the time of their expression.
The line between school and private life, for minors has become seriously blurred.
Gee, if you, or I, claimed ignorance of the law in court we'd get the book thrown at us....
This is America?
Oh yeah.... we are a Banana Republic now.
FTW?
Santee, you insensitive clod, was a really cool place to be roaming pre-teen in the 70's. so, GTFO!
d) Core development and tech demos can be initiated without even owning an iPhone, or a paid subscription to the SDK.
(assuming you already own an Intel based computer running OSX 1.5 or later)
back in the old days ALL computer vendors included full schematics, including theory of operation, and Apple even included the LIST output from the assembler for the monitor ROM in the Technical Manual. The first Disk // manuals also included this level of detail.
Even the IBM PC included all this technical info.... which proved to be their downfall.... and after that NO commercial computer vendor included technical information of such quality.
iPhones have a serial port, USB 2.0 OTG port, video out, stereo_audio_line_out, and stereo_audio_line_in all on the interface connector, as well as a 3V ADC input (used for device/power detection)
BlueTooth provides support for HID, audio I/O and bulk data transfer.
Theoretically, you could plug your iPhone into a TV and use a WiiMote to control a game.
The iPhone is more like a handheld version of a high-end 1998-2000 desktop computer than a bleeding edge 1980's game-console cum desktop computer.
If you want to compare it to any 80's hardware, an Amiga would be a much fairer comparison. The Amiga actually had hardware accelerated video AND provisions for video capture.... which the iPhone 3Gs can also do via the Camera....
Interestingly the iPhone 3Gs would easily outperform any laptop with a build date before circa 2001 in a computational benchmark, and any laptop build before 1998 in terms of available memory, and available storage.
Apple //c's 65C02 ran at 1.023 Mhz just like the Apple II, II+ and Apple //e, being based on the same core logic as its predecessors albeit as an ASIC derived from the //e.
The Apple //c+ ran at 3.57545MHz not 4MHz. //gs ran at 3.57545 MHz //c+ and //gs were both based on the Mega // ASIC that created two execution contexts for the system. The 'fast side', and the 'slow side.' The 'slow side' emulated an apple//e with an 80 column video card, dual serial cards, a Language Card( AKA Microsoft SoftCard) and a IWM (Integrated Woz Machine) to support up to four external Disk // and/or Disk 3.5 drives.
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The fast side had access to the extended memory (above the 128K supported a //e with an 80 column board) via the extended address bits (//gs only)
The //c+ supported only the 128K extended memory found in the //e with an 80 column card. It used the fast side only to synchronize the 3.57545 MHz processor with the memory system, which still ran at 1.023MHz. The extended features of the Mega// ASIC were not available since the 658C08 did not support the extended address multiplexing found in the 658C16.
Did congress NOT accept Bush's Declaration of War on Afghanistan and Iraq?
Dude, with all do respect we are at war! As bullshitty and stupid as it has been it's a freaking war.
Many people who appear to accessorize with tin-foil head-gear suggest, rather strongly, that we have been deprived of Habeas Corpus since the beginning of WWII. IANAL, or trained in the field so I have little in the way of knowledge either way, but it's an interesting possibility AFAIK.
Joe Sixpack's view of the world at his feet:
The lights still go on when I flick the switch.
No one is breaking into my house and robbing me.
I could own a gun but I do not wish to.
No cops are breaking into my house and robbing me, or hauling me to jail for no lawful reason. Even the Tax man knows that I have no money to pay and leaves me alone.
I have the Internets.
I have TV, though I do not watch it.
I have a car, and it's paid off, and legal to drive on the public roads.
I have a home, though I do not own it.
I do not have a job.... but thats not much to worry about for the short term. Unemployment mets my needs for the foreseeable future.
My debtors cannot take my freedom for what I do not have to repay them.
I have enough money to pay for food, hot and cold water. I have plumbing, and it is all satisfactory. Though I cannot afford to eat out much, or go to the movies much.... or go to clubs... I do not worry these things are not important to me.... I am a simple Christian man.
I have alcohol and drugs if I wish, though I do not partake of the drugs, for religious and philosophical reasons. I keep my consumption of alcohol moderate and reasonable with in the context of my social environment. I drink, but I am not a drunk.
Should I become ill; I have no assets I can get emergency and critical medical care without cost to me.
Yes, my life could be better. Yes, I'd like a nice house that I own and be able to travel and socialize like a wealthy person. God has a plan for me and I must understand it.... and I will go to heaven because I have accepted Jesus as my savior :)
Can I really complain? There is nothing... and I mean nothing oppressing me.
I write what I wish to write none can order me not to.
I say what I wish to say none can order me not to.
I am able to continue my education and maybe some day get my BS degree, and the goverment has provided me loans to facilitate that.
I create all the things that I wish to with no one telling me I am forbidden until I harm others or create a credible risk to the safety of others.
As much as I might have ideological arguments against the government and social order as it is instantiated today, it doesn't rise to revolution.
I may not be happy.... but I am not discontented ether. Yes there are people who are worse off than me, but in my experience they did REALLY dumb things.... I have done dumb things and been subjected to the consequences... I hope that I can avoid doing dumb things in the future....
I am a citizen of the United States of America.... and all the noise out there concerns me.... but so far.... has not really affected me or my life style.
Sincerely,
Joe Sixpack
------
Now.... with all the above in mind do you think the USA is ready for a revolution?
I don't thinks so... not without Joe Sixpack getting really hungry or oppressed. So far thats not happening.
The so called high you get from marijuana goes away after continual use, much like many medicines that come with the warning about operating machinery.
This fallacy is very common and flat out wrong.... people who smoke habitually do get a tolerance. However they are still stoned.
There mental processes are colored by the THC running through their blood even i they don't feel the "high."
I speak from personal experience on this issue. Until I went completely clean from pot I didn't understand what I had lost while living with my brain on perpetual THC intoxication.
There is no way I'd tolerate operating heavy machinery or dangerous industrial processes with people who had significant THC levels in their blood due to increased tolerance.
A funny quote that makes my point: "Hey man, you know your perceptions are fucked... you gotta let your hands do the driving!"
Having written the above I do believe that THC intoxication represents far less societal/public risk than alcohol, or say prescription pain killers.
You legalize marijuana and you can cut down on the number of arrests made, cut down on the number of cops
Stop right there and think....
Do you really think that the Criminal Justice System wants to scale back? Those are American Jobs representing billions of dollars is revenue...
Do you really want to put 30% of the cops on the streets today out of work?
What about their families?
Think about the children!
Unfortunately the current business model would have to be rewritten to account for legalization. At this time we have neither the resources or the desire to change our business model at this time. Current profit centers are acceptable, and still in the growth phase. Change to the prevailing market could present risk to the existing profit stream, as new competitors enter the market, and existing market reorients around legal consumption rather than organized suppression.
The current business organization would likely need to be scrapped in contemplating such a far reaching business model. At this time it is not a viable consideration for development.
Sincerely,
The Executive Staff
silly rabbit. Nothing can be banned in the US system of law. So a tax is imposed similar to the tobacco tax where a stamp is issued for the sale. However in the case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Marihuana_Tax_Act
NO STAMP WAS EVER ISSUED, and NO PROVISION WAS MADE TO ISSUE IT!
production and sale of Cannabis Hemp at the federal level is a tax crime.
If a person smoke pot the way tobacco is smoked I'd agree. But they don't... A few hits of the modern cultivars and you are done smoking for many hours.
This study has been pointed out before showing how flawed the government funded studied were. At the time some argued that these flaws were deliberate. I'm not convinced that they weren't but there is no proof that the ignorance was willful.
Maybe they were smoking 'shake' that some kid sold them?
And don't forget William Randolph Hearst... who had huge holdings in pulp timber and news papers. His anti-hemp campaign started at the time a patent for a harvesting machine for hemp (comparable in stature to Elehi Withey's cotton gin) was announced in Popular Science. It was well established previously that hemp would be much less expensive to process into high quality paper. If only a suitable harvesting machine could be developed, then it could be commercialized. Since hemp required only a mild hydrogen peroxide solution to bleach the pulp to a fine white, it would also reduce industrial waste as well.
Hearst bought the patent for the harvester and campaigned through his "yellow journalism" papers to help strangle the hemp industry in the US.
One article from that time period read [IIRCC] ," ... Consumption of Reefer by Negroes is particularly troublesome in this age of Jazz, since it might cause a Black man look at a white woman twice."
Another interesting point from the druggie side is that commercial drugs like aspirin have toxicity ratios of about 15:1, that is the fatal toxic dose of the drug is 15 times the therapeutic dose. Alcohol is 20:1. Cocaine is 25:1. Heroine is 8:1. Morphine is 12:1... etc.... THC, the most prevalent psychoactive active of the Cannaboids found in Cannabis has a toxicity ratio of 5000:1. In it's natural form it is impossible to over dose on, and nearly impossible to overdose on in a refined form.
NOTE: The Toxicity ratios are recalled from memory.
No I don't smoke pot. I got bored of it many years ago. But freaking tobacco is probably going to kill me.
It could replace synthetic fibers in textiles and increase the strength, durability, comfort, threadfastness and affordability of the clothing and cloth products that it goes into.
Funny you should mention this. Back in the early 90's I had a Hemp/Cotton blend, button down, shirt. It was a 50/50 blend. Made by a small startup called CropCircle; don't know if they are still around. It outlasted every stitch of clothing I owned from that period in durability and comfort, even Levi's and Carharts. It was a true favorite of mine. I finally sent it off to a buyer on Ebay for $25 in 2002, and the shirt was still in new-looking condition. Why did I sell it? It didn't fit any more. I'd gone from a bean-pole to a more healthy weight over those ten or so years.
The main problem I see with trying to find evidence of life on Mars is that it lost its Mojo so long ago. Short of bacterial fossils I do not think that much will be found.
3.5By ago, Earth had lots of single celled soup. Why would Mars be any different. It takes a long time to go from SCO(Single Celled Organisms, not a pariah to FOSS) to MCO and eventually to Vertebrates.
If anything resembling a virus or SCO is found I'd be amazed, if they find higher order life I'd suspect the sources.
$0.02.... thats all it's worth.
I'd buy that for a dollar!