Couldn't put the car into neutral because it had a push button? Couldn't turn it off? Revoke that persons license right this instant, and they never get it back.
I don't give a flying fuck if its a rental, if you don't know how to use a massive chunk of metal that travels at high speed, you have no freaking right to be in it.
If you don't know better than to start driving a car around that you don't know how to use, you clearly are not responsible or intelligent enough to be driving.
Whats next? 'I didn't know the gun would kill him officer, I had no idea that pulling the trigger would make it fire' ?
assembly language as I knew it wasn't all that capable of describing the process all that well
You do realize that regardless of what language you use, it pretty much ALL makes its way down to assembly at some point... right?
It may not be output to a.asm file, but asm is just machine code thats slightly easier to read, and thats what the processor runs.
If you can do it in C/C++, C#, Basic, Python, Lua, Java, you name it... you can do it in asm.
Just because you don't know how to do it in asm doesn't mean its impossible, it most certainly IS possible.
You can make 'functions' in assembly that are EXACTLY like those that your C compiler produces, its not even hard. You can make C++ compatible classes in ASM for that matter, though it'd be dumb to not reuse the work that compilers already do for you and optimize that output as needed.
ALL languages, from ASM to Java are just preprocessors, code libraries and code generators for machine code.
Writing a PHP interpreter in ASM would most certainly be retarded. The optimizations you'd get would make so little difference considering that the overhead of dealing with 'lazy' programmers outweighs any optimization you're going to get over C by so much that its not even worth talking about. Yes, you'll probably be able to save some CPU cycles here and there, but if you're to that point, where you need that kind of optimization, you'll almost certainly be better off by not using PHP and going to something lower and removing the extra unneeded overhead of the things that PHP does that you don't really need.
... what iPod would that be? You can change the battery in every iPod, it just takes a little effort rather than a trip to walmart for a new 'pack'. Same for the iPhone. Its certainly possible for anyone who wants to put some effort into it, and since the mass of the people buying them will just replace it before the battery is shot anyway, its really not an issue. You want a replaceable battery, if thats a required feature, buy something else. You want the iPod, and its form factor, you don't get an easy to replace battery. There IS an engineering reason to it as well you know, its not just 'because they are assholes'.
Apple's also lowering DRM in lots of places, and as far as DRM goes, they have about the best system out there to date. Yes, you have to authorize your PC... ONCE, and assuming it continues to function the same you'll have no problems. You could also, of course, just buy MP3s from somewhere else like Amazon.
I have distantly wanted a Mac, just to toy with it... but why? No reason anymore.
Why is that? Macs are still the same way there were 20 years ago from any context relating to this article. If I can run Windows 7 on my Mac, I'm pretty sure you can do just about any sort of tinkering you want. Its not like you can't run Linux on one, its clearly open to screw with however you want. Nothing has changed on the Mac.
Whine whine, moan moan, bitch bitch, nothing to see here, move along. Don't like Apple, don't buy one. Do you bitch about not being able to modify the ECU in your car? Do you bitch about not being able to change the picture tube/lcd/plasma screen in your TV? Are you mad that you can't upgrade the firmware in your digital thermostat in your home or office?
and your childhood will always be something remembered as a time that was 'just better' CAUSE YOU WERE A FREAKING KID WITH NO WORRIES OR RESPONSIBILITIES.
You can still hack away on your Apple II, if you have one. You can also use any number of other computing products that are more closely matched to the Apple II than the iPad.
Not every product is well suited to what you want to do with it. How much tinkering do you do with your TV? Changed the firmware in it lately? Mine has a SD card slot for upgrades, but I have absolutely no inclination what so ever to screw with it. I have other devices for that.
Go buy a cheap netbook or a regular Mac if you want to hack. Stop this bullshit of complaining about how the product isn't what you want, go use a product that IS what you want.
There are alternatives to the iPad already on the market that are far more 'hacker' friendly. There are also regular desktop machines (Apple or otherwise), Laptops, the Apple TV, and all sorts of other crap you can tinker with.
Heres what you need to understand... the world doesn't revolve around you or what you want. You are part of a bigger picture, and as such, not everything is going to bend to your whim.
There are plenty of other products to tinker with, Apple even has some, there are also products that are DESIGNED for tinkerers, why are you ignore them?
This is just another whiner remembering yesteryear, unfortunately tunnel vision and childhood memories are blocking out the fact that there were plenty of hacker-unfriendly devices back then too. You just didn't use those, you used the one that was hacker friendly. It may have just been by chance that you got the hacker friendly device rather than one that wasn't, or maybe it was by choice.
Either way, there are FAR more options for tinkering today than there were then. Times change, people change and so do product lines. The funny part about this post is that if you paid attention over the last week, you'd have already seen a device thats kind of like the iPad that is open to all sorts of hax0ring, but instead, you've decided to be a lazy bastard and not look, just whine, moan and bitch.
Finally... someone will manage to turn the iPad into something hax0rable for hard hacks eventually, and for those who just want to do software hacking, if you can spend the money for an iPad, you can spend the money for a developers license and hax0rs to your hearts content without even messing with hacks for the OS. Hell, I'm tinkering and hax0ring with the iPad and its not even available yet thanks to the simulator.
In short, nothing has changed, except now you're old and bitchy.
What about when you already own a Mac and occasionally want to run Windows? You may not be able to buy a PC that compares to the Mac you already have for less than the cost of a windows license or a cheap PC.
And playing games in a VM still isn't as good as native, no matter how hard they try or claim that it is. Removing 2 layers of indirection (OS X and the Hypervisor) can't hurt.
There are now optimized Win7 drivers, previously you were using generic drivers without acceleration provided by Microsoft or drivers designed for Vista from old versions of Bootcamp.
Both worked fine, but lacked full acceleration and feature set.
I've noticed the trackpad is better now, not so overly sensitive to touch or irratic. I've noticed no change in video performance at all. I really don't know what the differences are from a user perspective but as a causual gamer, I haven't noticed a difference in Company of Heros or StarTrek Online. Performance or quality seems the same.
I have had a bluescreen since updating which I never had before, but that was while playing StarTrek Online which I never played before. Only happened once and may have been there before the upgrade as well. It IS Windows after all.
Not enough Apple news this week, now we're pulling out things from weeks ago? Everyone who cares already updated when they started Windows 7 and were notified that new drivers were available.
Hell the date on the links show its from the 19th.
You also don't need 10.6, just boot Windows 7 with the old drivers installed and Bootcamp will notify you of the updates and install them if you let it.
Yes, they recompiled MonoTouch against the new SDK with minor changes for being aware of the resolution. Do we post a new article for any of the previous MonoTouch releases when new iPhone SDKs came out? No.
And DUH a screen bigger than a few inches is better for remote desktop support. Guess what, your PC is far better at a remote desktop client than a phone is. Surprise surprise surprise.
I don't bash Apple, I actually love their products, which is why I'm posting from my MacBook Pro, own an iPhone and will probably by an iPad... since I have several apps on the AppStore and a few new ones in the works for the iPad.
I'm fine with calling myself an Apple fanboy, my comment history will make it clear.
But... there are freaking limits, and this isn't notable news in any sense of the word.
This is just another TIMMAH article with little to no value, I'm leaning towards no.
Untrue, deleted articles will eventually be purged. They may not be instantly purged, but Wikimedia most certainly is capable of completely removing data from itself.
For reference, you can get off of their NAT if you call them. I forget exactly how to do it as I haven't done it since I had a WinMo phone and needed the VPN to actually work. The iPhone doesn't seem to use a NAT since I can connect back to it without any problems.
Cause Verizon doesn't mind selling your location to Google, AT&T on the other hand may not. I think they sell it to Google as the iPhones map app seems to always know the tower I'm on, regardless of wifi signal available, even in the middle of west texas with no other buildings in sight (so no wifi).
I love Google, but lets be realistic, its not a matter of if, its a matter of when. The current crew may not be evil even, but they won't be there forever.
I still find this sort of thing great though, I don't plan on owning an Android device so I'm not real concerned about them spamming me with ads or whatever they plan on building in, and even with that, I'd rather be spammed with location aware ads than something thats no where near me.
It might be nice to be told that theres a new place to eat a few blocks away from the comedy club when you walk in the door, or told about some random concert I'd like to see in the park while down at city hall paying that speeding ticket I shouldn't have got.
For now, I'll take what Google offers, but I'll make sure to cover my bases so I can pull out if I need to.
The key to avoiding Google going evil and being really damaging to you is to exercise responsibility for your data and actions and consider very carefully that it can be used in all sorts of ways you don't expect. Sadly, I'm one of those people that thinks of ways to screw you over, I think its a side effect of working with a sys admin who was a security genius because he could think of all the ways to do evil. He was in love with hacking just to be the guy who did it, crazy spider sense too, woke up in the middle of the night one day because he had a dream about a virus infection spreading at the office, which... it was. Had it fixed before anyone showed up the next morning... And no, he didn't cause it. Scary, fortunately he's a good guy.
Yes, they could copy someone elses work and have an information economy. Long patents are bullshit as are patent trolls, there are lots of problems, but in general they are an acceptable thing to me, if they weren't so crazy.
However, forget the giving them medicine part. Pretend some random country gates was going to give money too builds up and creates their own info economy as you say... we'll still come along and impose sanctions on them to make it so they stay in poverty. We're the second biggest bully on the block, like it or not, you're doing what we say unless you've got some clout to say no with.
At least this way they get some help.
And realistically, if this helps them get going, and they get a good government, with a viable economy, there isn't really anything to stop them from saying 'screw you and your IP laws'.
Theres also the fact that while Americans whine and moan and bitch about 'how bad it is', we have no idea what its like to live in truely bad places.
When you go somewhere and see the population living in lean-to's, drinking water from the same tiny little water hole that the animals (and some people) deficate in, pure black and often foamy because the rare times that water makes it down the river its filled with run off from farms a thousand miles away and all the pesticides and fertilizers that go with that. THEN you see how bad it can be.
1200 doesn't buy anything useful as far as health care in America because everyone here can get that level of care fairly easy with all the government programs we already have or the fact that regardless of how bad our 'recession' is, we still can find money for this stuff.
1200 in Ethiopia still may only buy the basics, but going from absolutely 0 health care in a horrible environment to even the most basic level of vaccination its infinitely better than what they have. Its unimaginable the amount of difference that money can make.
I saw it first hand when I was very young (4 or 5 years old) and while that may have tainted my view of it, even today I think back and its hard to visualize the difference that what is such a small amount of money to us does for someone with nothing to start with.
And if you want to be selfish about it, think about how much a man or woman with a child about to die of something trivial will do for you after you save their childs life. I can't think of a way to get better allies than to save someones life.
Keep your dick in your pants, or if you don't have pants, at least don't spooge in a vagina.
Its not hard, they have faces you know, aim for that.
The problem is that the common thread here requires them to give a shit about not getting someone pregnant. Since they don't care, nothing short of sterilization will fix the problem.
The know how it works, they know what another mouth to feed means, they know how to prevent it, they do it anyway.
The cell phone doesn't change fault, regardless of law. If you are the cause of the accident, its still your fault. If he was at fault, it doesn't matter if there was a phone involved.
You don't have to prove they couldn't drive, you just have to prove they were at fault in that particular case.
If you're concerned about 'getting your money' get comprehensive coverage so you're safe either way.
Treat her like they treat drunk driving in one of the south american countries, the cop shoots you on the spot! Okay, they probably don't really do that, but its a great way to solve the problem.
Hell, one of the politicians that was pushing for the ban rear ended someone while texting! If the people pushing for the law don't follow its retarded to think anyone else will.
You actually have to have an effective way of enforcing it so people stop doing it in order to notice any difference.
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Couldn't put the car into neutral because it had a push button? Couldn't turn it off? Revoke that persons license right this instant, and they never get it back.
I don't give a flying fuck if its a rental, if you don't know how to use a massive chunk of metal that travels at high speed, you have no freaking right to be in it.
If you don't know better than to start driving a car around that you don't know how to use, you clearly are not responsible or intelligent enough to be driving.
Whats next? 'I didn't know the gun would kill him officer, I had no idea that pulling the trigger would make it fire' ?
You do realize that regardless of what language you use, it pretty much ALL makes its way down to assembly at some point ... right?
It may not be output to a .asm file, but asm is just machine code thats slightly easier to read, and thats what the processor runs.
If you can do it in C/C++, C#, Basic, Python, Lua, Java, you name it ... you can do it in asm.
Just because you don't know how to do it in asm doesn't mean its impossible, it most certainly IS possible.
You can make 'functions' in assembly that are EXACTLY like those that your C compiler produces, its not even hard. You can make C++ compatible classes in ASM for that matter, though it'd be dumb to not reuse the work that compilers already do for you and optimize that output as needed.
ALL languages, from ASM to Java are just preprocessors, code libraries and code generators for machine code.
Writing a PHP interpreter in ASM would most certainly be retarded. The optimizations you'd get would make so little difference considering that the overhead of dealing with 'lazy' programmers outweighs any optimization you're going to get over C by so much that its not even worth talking about. Yes, you'll probably be able to save some CPU cycles here and there, but if you're to that point, where you need that kind of optimization, you'll almost certainly be better off by not using PHP and going to something lower and removing the extra unneeded overhead of the things that PHP does that you don't really need.
Apple's also lowering DRM in lots of places, and as far as DRM goes, they have about the best system out there to date. Yes, you have to authorize your PC ... ONCE, and assuming it continues to function the same you'll have no problems. You could also, of course, just buy MP3s from somewhere else like Amazon.
Why is that? Macs are still the same way there were 20 years ago from any context relating to this article. If I can run Windows 7 on my Mac, I'm pretty sure you can do just about any sort of tinkering you want. Its not like you can't run Linux on one, its clearly open to screw with however you want. Nothing has changed on the Mac.
Whine whine, moan moan, bitch bitch, nothing to see here, move along. Don't like Apple, don't buy one. Do you bitch about not being able to modify the ECU in your car? Do you bitch about not being able to change the picture tube/lcd/plasma screen in your TV? Are you mad that you can't upgrade the firmware in your digital thermostat in your home or office?
and your childhood will always be something remembered as a time that was 'just better' CAUSE YOU WERE A FREAKING KID WITH NO WORRIES OR RESPONSIBILITIES.
You can still hack away on your Apple II, if you have one. You can also use any number of other computing products that are more closely matched to the Apple II than the iPad.
Not every product is well suited to what you want to do with it. How much tinkering do you do with your TV? Changed the firmware in it lately? Mine has a SD card slot for upgrades, but I have absolutely no inclination what so ever to screw with it. I have other devices for that.
Go buy a cheap netbook or a regular Mac if you want to hack. Stop this bullshit of complaining about how the product isn't what you want, go use a product that IS what you want.
There are alternatives to the iPad already on the market that are far more 'hacker' friendly. There are also regular desktop machines (Apple or otherwise), Laptops, the Apple TV, and all sorts of other crap you can tinker with.
Heres what you need to understand ... the world doesn't revolve around you or what you want. You are part of a bigger picture, and as such, not everything is going to bend to your whim.
There are plenty of other products to tinker with, Apple even has some, there are also products that are DESIGNED for tinkerers, why are you ignore them?
This is just another whiner remembering yesteryear, unfortunately tunnel vision and childhood memories are blocking out the fact that there were plenty of hacker-unfriendly devices back then too. You just didn't use those, you used the one that was hacker friendly. It may have just been by chance that you got the hacker friendly device rather than one that wasn't, or maybe it was by choice.
Either way, there are FAR more options for tinkering today than there were then. Times change, people change and so do product lines. The funny part about this post is that if you paid attention over the last week, you'd have already seen a device thats kind of like the iPad that is open to all sorts of hax0ring, but instead, you've decided to be a lazy bastard and not look, just whine, moan and bitch.
Finally ... someone will manage to turn the iPad into something hax0rable for hard hacks eventually, and for those who just want to do software hacking, if you can spend the money for an iPad, you can spend the money for a developers license and hax0rs to your hearts content without even messing with hacks for the OS. Hell, I'm tinkering and hax0ring with the iPad and its not even available yet thanks to the simulator.
In short, nothing has changed, except now you're old and bitchy.
What about when you already own a Mac and occasionally want to run Windows? You may not be able to buy a PC that compares to the Mac you already have for less than the cost of a windows license or a cheap PC.
Yes, but requiring a server license is rather expensive just so I can test development in a sandbox.
And playing games in a VM still isn't as good as native, no matter how hard they try or claim that it is. Removing 2 layers of indirection (OS X and the Hypervisor) can't hurt.
There are now optimized Win7 drivers, previously you were using generic drivers without acceleration provided by Microsoft or drivers designed for Vista from old versions of Bootcamp.
Both worked fine, but lacked full acceleration and feature set.
I've noticed the trackpad is better now, not so overly sensitive to touch or irratic. I've noticed no change in video performance at all. I really don't know what the differences are from a user perspective but as a causual gamer, I haven't noticed a difference in Company of Heros or StarTrek Online. Performance or quality seems the same.
I have had a bluescreen since updating which I never had before, but that was while playing StarTrek Online which I never played before. Only happened once and may have been there before the upgrade as well. It IS Windows after all.
Not enough Apple news this week, now we're pulling out things from weeks ago? Everyone who cares already updated when they started Windows 7 and were notified that new drivers were available.
Hell the date on the links show its from the 19th.
You also don't need 10.6, just boot Windows 7 with the old drivers installed and Bootcamp will notify you of the updates and install them if you let it.
TIMMAH!
Yes, they recompiled MonoTouch against the new SDK with minor changes for being aware of the resolution. Do we post a new article for any of the previous MonoTouch releases when new iPhone SDKs came out? No.
And DUH a screen bigger than a few inches is better for remote desktop support. Guess what, your PC is far better at a remote desktop client than a phone is. Surprise surprise surprise.
I don't bash Apple, I actually love their products, which is why I'm posting from my MacBook Pro, own an iPhone and will probably by an iPad ... since I have several apps on the AppStore and a few new ones in the works for the iPad.
I'm fine with calling myself an Apple fanboy, my comment history will make it clear.
But ... there are freaking limits, and this isn't notable news in any sense of the word.
This is just another TIMMAH article with little to no value, I'm leaning towards no.
Untrue, deleted articles will eventually be purged. They may not be instantly purged, but Wikimedia most certainly is capable of completely removing data from itself.
Seems like a pretty shitty repository of knowledge doesn't it.
Its certainly no Jedi archive or Stargate Ancients head sucker repository of knowledge downloader thingy.
For reference, you can get off of their NAT if you call them. I forget exactly how to do it as I haven't done it since I had a WinMo phone and needed the VPN to actually work. The iPhone doesn't seem to use a NAT since I can connect back to it without any problems.
Cause Verizon doesn't mind selling your location to Google, AT&T on the other hand may not. I think they sell it to Google as the iPhones map app seems to always know the tower I'm on, regardless of wifi signal available, even in the middle of west texas with no other buildings in sight (so no wifi).
I love Google, but lets be realistic, its not a matter of if, its a matter of when. The current crew may not be evil even, but they won't be there forever.
I still find this sort of thing great though, I don't plan on owning an Android device so I'm not real concerned about them spamming me with ads or whatever they plan on building in, and even with that, I'd rather be spammed with location aware ads than something thats no where near me.
It might be nice to be told that theres a new place to eat a few blocks away from the comedy club when you walk in the door, or told about some random concert I'd like to see in the park while down at city hall paying that speeding ticket I shouldn't have got.
For now, I'll take what Google offers, but I'll make sure to cover my bases so I can pull out if I need to.
The key to avoiding Google going evil and being really damaging to you is to exercise responsibility for your data and actions and consider very carefully that it can be used in all sorts of ways you don't expect. Sadly, I'm one of those people that thinks of ways to screw you over, I think its a side effect of working with a sys admin who was a security genius because he could think of all the ways to do evil. He was in love with hacking just to be the guy who did it, crazy spider sense too, woke up in the middle of the night one day because he had a dream about a virus infection spreading at the office, which ... it was. Had it fixed before anyone showed up the next morning ... And no, he didn't cause it. Scary, fortunately he's a good guy.
Yes, they could copy someone elses work and have an information economy. Long patents are bullshit as are patent trolls, there are lots of problems, but in general they are an acceptable thing to me, if they weren't so crazy.
However, forget the giving them medicine part. Pretend some random country gates was going to give money too builds up and creates their own info economy as you say ... we'll still come along and impose sanctions on them to make it so they stay in poverty. We're the second biggest bully on the block, like it or not, you're doing what we say unless you've got some clout to say no with.
At least this way they get some help.
And realistically, if this helps them get going, and they get a good government, with a viable economy, there isn't really anything to stop them from saying 'screw you and your IP laws'.
Yay for reality.
Theres also the fact that while Americans whine and moan and bitch about 'how bad it is', we have no idea what its like to live in truely bad places.
When you go somewhere and see the population living in lean-to's, drinking water from the same tiny little water hole that the animals (and some people) deficate in, pure black and often foamy because the rare times that water makes it down the river its filled with run off from farms a thousand miles away and all the pesticides and fertilizers that go with that. THEN you see how bad it can be.
1200 doesn't buy anything useful as far as health care in America because everyone here can get that level of care fairly easy with all the government programs we already have or the fact that regardless of how bad our 'recession' is, we still can find money for this stuff.
1200 in Ethiopia still may only buy the basics, but going from absolutely 0 health care in a horrible environment to even the most basic level of vaccination its infinitely better than what they have. Its unimaginable the amount of difference that money can make.
I saw it first hand when I was very young (4 or 5 years old) and while that may have tainted my view of it, even today I think back and its hard to visualize the difference that what is such a small amount of money to us does for someone with nothing to start with.
And if you want to be selfish about it, think about how much a man or woman with a child about to die of something trivial will do for you after you save their childs life. I can't think of a way to get better allies than to save someones life.
Contrary to popular belief, 'FDA Testing' is fucking trivial. Its not NEARLY as expensive as they'd like for you to think it is.
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Keep your dick in your pants, or if you don't have pants, at least don't spooge in a vagina.
Its not hard, they have faces you know, aim for that.
The problem is that the common thread here requires them to give a shit about not getting someone pregnant. Since they don't care, nothing short of sterilization will fix the problem.
The know how it works, they know what another mouth to feed means, they know how to prevent it, they do it anyway.
You can also leave the country.
Jesus christ stop with the Apple spam.
There are already RDP clients for the iPhone and Mono Touch isn't freaking new.
The cell phone doesn't change fault, regardless of law. If you are the cause of the accident, its still your fault. If he was at fault, it doesn't matter if there was a phone involved.
You don't have to prove they couldn't drive, you just have to prove they were at fault in that particular case.
If you're concerned about 'getting your money' get comprehensive coverage so you're safe either way.
Do you actually know how insurance works?
Treat her like they treat drunk driving in one of the south american countries, the cop shoots you on the spot! Okay, they probably don't really do that, but its a great way to solve the problem.
Hell, one of the politicians that was pushing for the ban rear ended someone while texting! If the people pushing for the law don't follow its retarded to think anyone else will.
You actually have to have an effective way of enforcing it so people stop doing it in order to notice any difference.
Unfortunately, no one is going to make that device unless they can find a viable business model.
The best technology NEVER wins, the best business model usually does however.