Cuz everyone knows SGI, DEC and Sun used to give source for their compilers.
Just because Apple has a mutant version doesn't mean you couldn't build plain GCC and an assload of free software.
And couldn't the LLVM/Clang move be for performance reasons? Last I checked GCC was merely an "OK" compiler, not the end all be all of compiler technology.
I don't think running "vi" is officially sanctioned or supported by Apple. Or setting a different login shell..... or even opening Terminal.app without a Level 2 support rep explicitly telling you to do so with Steve Jobs on the other line.
And to beat the old drum, most of the exploits aren't root level, especially on hardened servers running something like OpenBSD.
And to speak like a Windows weenie, UNIX and UNIX-like servers have been the dominant platform of choice for internet-facing services (web and otherwise) since the early-mid 80's across a dozen CPU architectures. Of course they'll be the most widely exploited. At least you can usually plug a UNIX box into a network unpatched without it becoming infected in minutes.
UNIX systems are much less prone to easily deployed malware that requires no user assistance. You can't code around stupid.
Any douche can write a destructive trojan that will get by a scanner for a while. Seriously. Doesn't matter what platform your using.
Not a real virus. By ANY..... STRETCH......OF......THE......IMAGINATION.
I saw some real viruses under Classic MacOS in the System 6 and System 7 days. So far none for OSX.
No amount of tech can stop people from clicking on something destructive. Trojans do NOT count as viruses. No OS update or security software is going to make users smarter. Sorry.
Apple entered the mobile world in the early 90's with the Newton. By 1997 it actually didn't suck. With addons it could make phone calls, etc. Kind of a pity it was axed, the OS was neat. Handwriting recognition sucked horridly from the onset and the device's rep never recovered, even after they got it working fairly well on the StrongARM-based MP2000 and MP2100 after a couple updates. The SA110@162-220Mhz was no slouch for those days in a handheld. 2 PCMCIA slots ruled too. What they missed is most people who don't understand tech abuse it and making a sharp stick the implement for manipulating to UI for average Joe with no real touch support was silly. MS followed suit. So did Palm.
If you think $99 a year sucks for the iPhone, you should have seen what the Newton Toolkit developer environment cost. Free programming environments were unheard of outside of UNIX circles except for the BASIC interpreter your computer came with (ATARI BASIC WOOOO!!!!). Even most UNIX environments didn't come with FREE development environments. Like Solaris for a long time, except a few scripting languages. ESPECIALLY for mutant embedded operating systems. VxWorks, QNX, etc..
I'm sure you can find GCC binaries for OSX outside of XCode. And I'm sure it's easier than trying to get GCC 2 to compile with DEC C under Ultrix/VAX. Quit crying. Some things cost money. Don't like it, download GCC and write another IDE. Me, I'd rather spend $5.
But if I have to pay them for THEIR development environment.... last I checked, there could be no other competing development environments within the walled garden of the App Store on iOS. I would be incredibly pissed off to see this happen on OSX.
Yeah really, and the iPhone 6 will have some 6" 48,000dpi LCD at a pixel resolution beyond the range of current math coprocessors to comprehend. And the $4,500 MacBook AirPro base model will only have a 2560x400 display in glossy. Matte will cost you $2,000 more.
And because Apple will lead the charge, expect a race to the bottom from everyone else to produce similar crap at retardedly low price points.
Yeah but until I got a newer monitor, I was running a 17" at 1024x768 since my vision ain't what it was in the 90's when I started in the biz. The cheap LCD's in the same price range as my big monitor were higher rez but shitty color. Technically the monitor is capable of greater than 1280x960 but anything less than 80Hz on a CRT starts giving me headaches. It'll do 1600x1200 and 1734xsomething.
The main reason I still prefer CRT's is I switch resolutions a lot. I can run games at a lower rez with'em without scaling. Lower quality movies look good in full screen. Doing that on an LCD sucks. They are simply just not as versatile as an analog display. For some reason everyone got this idea that analog electronics suck and never bothered furthering the tech much in recent years. Even my HDTV is CRT for this reason, I can plug an older console into it without it looking like shit. And if my house ever gets broken into, it will be the only thing left due to weight.
Hell, most guitarists still prefer tube amps. Analog ain't dead.
If UI's aren't designed around it, it's useless. I understand what you're meaning, but current monitors + current software just don't work at lower resolutions. If I were still learning and programming in DOS, maybe, but not now.
Gee, I seem to get plenty of work done with my 19" CRT running at 1280x960. With Logic, Photoshop and many other apps.
I also regularly use Linux systems from 80-column text consoles, one of my boxes even uses a serial terminal for a console.
I think you have fonder memories of your old system than it really deserves;) I know I had the same problem with Super Mario Brothers... I remembered it as being awesome, but when I played it again, it just felt... tedious.
All side scrollers suck. Games like Star Raiders on the Atari 400/800 has much more replay value in my book. The original vector Star Wars arcade game and Atari Battlezone still bring me enjoyment once in a while, even on emulators with the right screen. My CRT HDTV does a good job with vector games but isn't nearly as bright.
No, it's not useless, just most UI's aren't designed around it.
I used to have a full IDE (Think C) on a 512x384 screen on my mac plus and it was usable. 800x600 and 1024x768 on the IIci I replaced it with felt spacious. 1152x870 on a 21" CRT later on was just unreal and with the widget and font sizes of the day incredibly productive.
In fact, I'm disappointed that high-density mono or grayscale LCD's disappeared. Density and sharpness of those displays is unmatched except in really expensive color displays and even then, a mono LCD with the same tech can be denser. Imagine the battery life you could get out of a phone with a modern (green or white) LED backlit mono LCD. And being partially colorblind, I find color displays on mobiles distracting, especially on a dashboard. Sticking in grayscale mode just results in a lame looking display. I had several PDA's and HPC's/Pocket PC's/PSPC's over the years. I think the iPaq 3600 was the last one I saw with a grayscale screen.
X10 is retarded simple and pretty much works out of the box. Either replace light switches themselves with X10 versions or simply use plug-in modules on things you want to control.
The only thing you need is a stupid controller interface plugged into the PC which doesn't take squat to make work or you can ditch the computer interface and use simple remotes.
If you can plug in a light and make sure the "house code" is the same on the modules, your good. If you can't plug in an X10 module you wouldn't get the Android Light Switch either.
X10 is great if you want the lights to work 40% of the time.
In most of the small (sub-1200 sq ft) places I've ever been able to really afford X10 has always been 100% reliable for me. If it's not reliable for you your either doing something wrong, have a weird electrical system or have a pretty damn big house.
the rest of us use Crestron,AMX, or a system that is 100% reliable and two way communication.
The rest of us who? The rest of you overprivileged rich boys with $250,000 houses that can afford dumping several grand into home automation? The rest of US do more with less and like the fun hackery involved. X10 equipment can be had for a song on eBay and has always worked quite well for me. It's also incredibly well documented.
If I had enough money to blow on that sort of thing I'd probably just try to roll my own.
I remember reading in Antic magazine as a kid that you could hook up X10 stuff via serial to Atari 8-bits. I had an already pretty old Atari 800 but no X10 equipment until I was much older. And typing that BASIC listing in the back would have taken forever.... then saving to cassette.... ick.... I didn't get a floppy drive for a couple years. It had to be a really cool game or a project I could scrounge parts from my dad's crap back then.
I didn't get to play with X10 until my dad got a controller and a few modules and got bored with it quickly. Originally it was connected to my old beat up Mac Plus. Playing with it via handhelds didn't come until much later. I used it to automate my room and the bathroom light when I was a kid. And to torture my little sister mercilessly. She was convinced she had ghosts in her room for a little while. Took two lamp modules w/ fairly random dimming and an appliance module on the black and white TV set to a channel with all static. Muahahahaha
You can join my old Newton MessagePad 100 plugged into a serial X10 transmitter controlled via NS BASIC. Get off my lawn...
Oh that's right.... those born before '86 probably don't even realize that the iPad isn't the first non-Windows low-power "tablet" to ever hit the market....
Hell, my first smartphone was a WinCE Palm-sized PC (Originally a rebranded Everex Freestyle made by Trogon or something, then a Philips Nino) tethered to my phone with the sync cable connected to a null modem block connected to the serial data cable I bought for the phone which was an old Kyocera 2035. Tucked the cables in my pocket. People thought it was neat. For a lot of us who were alive in the 80's and have been in IT since the 90's or at least near it, none of this shit is remotely new.....
And back to the main point, any computer with a serial port can turn lights on and off. Any handheld can wirelessly send a signal (Cell, IrDA, Bluetooth, 802.11) to a machine connected to an X-10 controller or various other power control systems. It's retarded simple really. Just never been marketed heavily before that I remember. I did it with shell scripts to watch for commands and the old x10 daemon that shipped with freebsd way back when.
Actually this would not be as bad as you think. By writing your web app in something like TCL and having that executing on NaCL, your code runs on anything NaCL does.
If Google decides not to be a dick and Mozilla adopted NaCL and they both provided a NaCL for each architecture they supply a browser on, it wouldn't be so bad. Just means you gotta cross-compile your native web app code (or TCL interpreter) for x86, ARM and maybe if you feel real nice MIPS and PowerPC to catch a lot of weird embedded devices (mobiles or kiosks) and/or old macs.
I could a "Fat Binary" type of thing being done for cross-platform NaCL code. Or a different binary being distributed to client depending on architecture the browser is running on.
Wouldn't be too hard to turn this into something usable by everyone, the performance advantages of native code running client-side is too hard to ignore. I could see a lot of great uses for this. And if both Chrome and Firefox adopted it, IE would have to eventually.
As far as TCL over NaTCL goes.... I personally don't know JavaScript nor do I really want to, I do know and love TCL however and have used it since I got started with UNIX. Being able to call other NaCL code from TCL would be interesting as well....
My primary concern with native code is security really. I'm sure Google has come a long way since ActiveX was introduced by MS however.
Does web access is a right mean the government doesn't have to subsidize my computer, but if I have a computer the government can't prevent my access?
Sounds good to me.
So if I find an insufficiently secured WiFi access point, the government can't stop my access? I can't be arrest for theft of service?
I don't get it.
Depends, if they made some sort of attempt to secure it and you do something like MAC spoofing or WEP cracking to get in then you're a dick and should probably be at least fined especially if you disrupt access for legit users.
If they went to Best Buy, grabbed a cheap Linksys off the shelf, plugged it in, saw they had net access and left it open.... well in my opinion a completely open network is a public network. Don't bathe my laptop in your free open signal if you don't want me using it. There are public networks intentionally left open as well and it's impossible to tell who WANTS you to use their network. If you don't take any measure to avoid providing a public network, you are providing a public network. Don't understand any basics about a technology you're about to depend on? Have someone qualified set it up for you or don't effin buy it. Laws to protect people from their own ignorance won't help.
Wrong..... I'm 29.... started with an Atari 800XL as a small child, got a 130XE for my 9th christmas w/ a 1010 cassette drive and later a 1050 5.25" floppy drive and 1200bps modem. Still play the hell out of Star Raiders.... so does my son. My first programming language was Atari BASIC. Hell I even was a regular MINIX user on PC's for a while. I even own a small VAX that runs Ultrix.... never owned an -11 however.
Not poor, small business owner actually. Doing reasonably so far. Been in IT professionally since 1997 though admittedly I was a screw turning tech for the first year. And yes, your math is correct, I had to pay child support at an early age.
So while you were probably wasting your first few working years at restaurants or 7-11, I already had tech certifications (at least an A+), a nice work area/office and my own extension. Fuck you.
While my Android phone is rooted, I have yet to flash a new ROM on it. Though I'd much rather have a modern Newton MP2100 with a phone duct taped to it, Android is cool, get over it. Oh, and I had smartphones back before they were cool....though they ran PalmOS and cost $500+ back in 2000.
Stupid? I probably got started in this industry BEFORE you did douchenozzle and have actually had to support myself and survive with several kids. I can't be too stupid.
As a general rule, just because you're older doesn't mean you've studied harder, studied as long, have as much experience (life or work) or talent as someone a few years younger. I've met folks in their mid-40's in IT that can't even write a simple batch file. And that was a SysAdmin....one who insisted you don't need the command line for sysadmin tasks and that "he doesn't bother with it". Supposedly had 25 years of tech experience. Didn't even believe in automated deployment.....liked to look busy so everyone thought he was overworked.
In short, people like you with age complexes make me sick especially since when it comes to actual achievement, most of these sorts tend to be on the average to below-average side and try to keep their position based on golf games and seniority rather than actual merit and honest performance reviews.
There's a reason I work for myself now and people like you are one of them. But sadly while folks like you pass folks like me up for promotions and treat them like shit at work, they're more than willing to shell out $150/hr in consulting fees when we DON'T work there. And I'm happy to take it.
I agree, when the system fails, it really *IS* up to the people to make things happen or stop things from happening when tyranny, corruption and backroom dealing are obvious and blatantly open. The US Govt have become tyrant sockpuppets for the even-more-evil corporate tyrants. Personally I'm sick of it. I'm glad a few folks did SOMETHING even if it just costs Sony a few grand.
As robotic warfare becomes mainstream, armed revolution becomes worthless because we'll be the only ones that actually die in combat. Electronic and network warfare may end up being our only real options later down the road as things get worse.
Sony can do anything they choose but once they sell me a piece of hardware, we're done doing business. I can and will do whatever the fuck I want with it. I didn't rent it. I don't care if they tried to put artificial barriers to me taking full advantage of the hardware in software. If I want to uncripple my shit to make the device more useful to me, I'll do it.
Now, should they be able to void my warranty or block me from PSN? Absolutely. THAT is covered by their right on how they can decide how they want to do business.
They never had me agree to anything prior to the sale. I am not "borrowing" the console from them. If they don't want me looking at their firmware, don't ship the device with it.
They can give me no more shit about jailbreaking a console than jailbreaking a phone. Personally I don't care where the law falls on this, I'll continue to do whatever the hell I want regardless and Sony can go f**k themselves and if jailbreaking consoles becomes illegal due to some horrible precedent here I'll make plenty of money off of local high school and college students because the demand for the work will skyrocket.
Integrated GPUs suck in general and will continue to suck for some time.
A few years ago I'd agree but the GeForce 9400M in my 2009 Macbook is certainly more capable of a GPU than most users utilize. The newer incarnations of it certainly don't suck for most apps and are well-supported for OpenCL apps under MacOS X at least.
If you want to play the latest and greatest at 1600x1200 at max settings and 4x antialiasing it ain't gonna cut it but for light gaming and ACTUAL WORK they do just fine.
Now Intel's integrated GPU's suck. So do most of the ATI offerings but they have a few that are adequate. Not sure about OpenCL support on the ATI integrated GPU's however.
I called him Bushitler. Doesn't mean I sympathized with hinckley or Fromme.
Instead of outright assassination, I wanted Bush to be dragged through the streets, tarred and feathered, then tried and executed for treason and/or war crimes.
Would I have complained if Bush was shot? No. He was a LOT more deserving than this congresswoman. Hell, Palin DEFINITELY is more worthy than this congresswoman. Bush directly screwed all of us with absolutely no remorse and removed a lot of the checks and balances that make it possible to settle the score without bullets and Obama is doing more of the same. Any one of us is now considered either a terrorist or a felon by some definition.
This woman from what I can tell certainly deserved nothing like this. She certainly doesn't seem like a tyrant.
Bush was a tyrant. Plain and simple. I can see why he had attempts on his life. They were warranted.
Obama has perpetuated the tyranny and added some of his own. I understand why he gets death threats.
What did THIS woman do that was remotely in the same class? This guy was a retard. And he's now a child murderer as well. I hope they botch his execution so it's extra painful.
I don't know, but I feel that simply revising X11 forwarding will not cut it. Besides, NX client works on other platforms too, not just Linux/Unix. I am atleast not aware of any good way of doing X11 forwarding to a Windows client.
It's called downloading PuTTY (the SSH client) and downloading a Winblows X11 server.....
X11 forwarding isn't all that bad unless you are a moron with your desktop environment. There's also the good ol' LBX extensions and such if they're still around.
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Cuz everyone knows SGI, DEC and Sun used to give source for their compilers.
Just because Apple has a mutant version doesn't mean you couldn't build plain GCC and an assload of free software.
And couldn't the LLVM/Clang move be for performance reasons? Last I checked GCC was merely an "OK" compiler, not the end all be all of compiler technology.
I don't think running "vi" is officially sanctioned or supported by Apple. Or setting a different login shell..... or even opening Terminal.app without a Level 2 support rep explicitly telling you to do so with Steve Jobs on the other line.
apache != unix
And to beat the old drum, most of the exploits aren't root level, especially on hardened servers running something like OpenBSD.
And to speak like a Windows weenie, UNIX and UNIX-like servers have been the dominant platform of choice for internet-facing services (web and otherwise) since the early-mid 80's across a dozen CPU architectures. Of course they'll be the most widely exploited. At least you can usually plug a UNIX box into a network unpatched without it becoming infected in minutes.
UNIX systems are much less prone to easily deployed malware that requires no user assistance. You can't code around stupid.
None of these are viruses.
Any douche can write a destructive trojan that will get by a scanner for a while. Seriously. Doesn't matter what platform your using.
Not a real virus. By ANY..... STRETCH......OF......THE......IMAGINATION.
I saw some real viruses under Classic MacOS in the System 6 and System 7 days. So far none for OSX.
No amount of tech can stop people from clicking on something destructive. Trojans do NOT count as viruses. No OS update or security software is going to make users smarter. Sorry.
Apple entered the mobile world in the early 90's with the Newton. By 1997 it actually didn't suck. With addons it could make phone calls, etc. Kind of a pity it was axed, the OS was neat. Handwriting recognition sucked horridly from the onset and the device's rep never recovered, even after they got it working fairly well on the StrongARM-based MP2000 and MP2100 after a couple updates. The SA110@162-220Mhz was no slouch for those days in a handheld. 2 PCMCIA slots ruled too. What they missed is most people who don't understand tech abuse it and making a sharp stick the implement for manipulating to UI for average Joe with no real touch support was silly. MS followed suit. So did Palm.
If you think $99 a year sucks for the iPhone, you should have seen what the Newton Toolkit developer environment cost. Free programming environments were unheard of outside of UNIX circles except for the BASIC interpreter your computer came with (ATARI BASIC WOOOO!!!!). Even most UNIX environments didn't come with FREE development environments. Like Solaris for a long time, except a few scripting languages. ESPECIALLY for mutant embedded operating systems. VxWorks, QNX, etc..
I'm sure you can find GCC binaries for OSX outside of XCode. And I'm sure it's easier than trying to get GCC 2 to compile with DEC C under Ultrix/VAX. Quit crying. Some things cost money. Don't like it, download GCC and write another IDE. Me, I'd rather spend $5.
But if I have to pay them for THEIR development environment.... last I checked, there could be no other competing development environments within the walled garden of the App Store on iOS. I would be incredibly pissed off to see this happen on OSX.
*cough* tcl/tk *cough*
Though I'm surprised, I'm glad OSX still ships with it. I like tcl personally.
Yeah really, and the iPhone 6 will have some 6" 48,000dpi LCD at a pixel resolution beyond the range of current math coprocessors to comprehend. And the $4,500 MacBook AirPro base model will only have a 2560x400 display in glossy. Matte will cost you $2,000 more.
And because Apple will lead the charge, expect a race to the bottom from everyone else to produce similar crap at retardedly low price points.
Yeah but until I got a newer monitor, I was running a 17" at 1024x768 since my vision ain't what it was in the 90's when I started in the biz. The cheap LCD's in the same price range as my big monitor were higher rez but shitty color. Technically the monitor is capable of greater than 1280x960 but anything less than 80Hz on a CRT starts giving me headaches. It'll do 1600x1200 and 1734xsomething.
The main reason I still prefer CRT's is I switch resolutions a lot. I can run games at a lower rez with'em without scaling. Lower quality movies look good in full screen. Doing that on an LCD sucks. They are simply just not as versatile as an analog display. For some reason everyone got this idea that analog electronics suck and never bothered furthering the tech much in recent years. Even my HDTV is CRT for this reason, I can plug an older console into it without it looking like shit. And if my house ever gets broken into, it will be the only thing left due to weight.
Hell, most guitarists still prefer tube amps. Analog ain't dead.
If UI's aren't designed around it, it's useless. I understand what you're meaning, but current monitors + current software just don't work at lower resolutions. If I were still learning and programming in DOS, maybe, but not now.
Gee, I seem to get plenty of work done with my 19" CRT running at 1280x960. With Logic, Photoshop and many other apps.
I also regularly use Linux systems from 80-column text consoles, one of my boxes even uses a serial terminal for a console.
I think you have fonder memories of your old system than it really deserves ;) I know I had the same problem with Super Mario Brothers... I remembered it as being awesome, but when I played it again, it just felt... tedious.
All side scrollers suck. Games like Star Raiders on the Atari 400/800 has much more replay value in my book. The original vector Star Wars arcade game and Atari Battlezone still bring me enjoyment once in a while, even on emulators with the right screen. My CRT HDTV does a good job with vector games but isn't nearly as bright.
There were some classics tha
No, it's not useless, just most UI's aren't designed around it.
I used to have a full IDE (Think C) on a 512x384 screen on my mac plus and it was usable. 800x600 and 1024x768 on the IIci I replaced it with felt spacious. 1152x870 on a 21" CRT later on was just unreal and with the widget and font sizes of the day incredibly productive.
In fact, I'm disappointed that high-density mono or grayscale LCD's disappeared. Density and sharpness of those displays is unmatched except in really expensive color displays and even then, a mono LCD with the same tech can be denser. Imagine the battery life you could get out of a phone with a modern (green or white) LED backlit mono LCD. And being partially colorblind, I find color displays on mobiles distracting, especially on a dashboard. Sticking in grayscale mode just results in a lame looking display. I had several PDA's and HPC's/Pocket PC's/PSPC's over the years. I think the iPaq 3600 was the last one I saw with a grayscale screen.
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Apple has a history for rapid course changes and leaving the installed base to rot.
*cough*NewtonOS*cough*
X10 is retarded simple and pretty much works out of the box. Either replace light switches themselves with X10 versions or simply use plug-in modules on things you want to control.
The only thing you need is a stupid controller interface plugged into the PC which doesn't take squat to make work or you can ditch the computer interface and use simple remotes.
If you can plug in a light and make sure the "house code" is the same on the modules, your good. If you can't plug in an X10 module you wouldn't get the Android Light Switch either.
X-10 != reliable.
X10 is great if you want the lights to work 40% of the time.
In most of the small (sub-1200 sq ft) places I've ever been able to really afford X10 has always been 100% reliable for me. If it's not reliable for you your either doing something wrong, have a weird electrical system or have a pretty damn big house.
the rest of us use Crestron,AMX, or a system that is 100% reliable and two way communication.
The rest of us who? The rest of you overprivileged rich boys with $250,000 houses that can afford dumping several grand into home automation? The rest of US do more with less and like the fun hackery involved. X10 equipment can be had for a song on eBay and has always worked quite well for me. It's also incredibly well documented.
If I had enough money to blow on that sort of thing I'd probably just try to roll my own.
I remember reading in Antic magazine as a kid that you could hook up X10 stuff via serial to Atari 8-bits. I had an already pretty old Atari 800 but no X10 equipment until I was much older. And typing that BASIC listing in the back would have taken forever.... then saving to cassette.... ick.... I didn't get a floppy drive for a couple years. It had to be a really cool game or a project I could scrounge parts from my dad's crap back then.
I didn't get to play with X10 until my dad got a controller and a few modules and got bored with it quickly. Originally it was connected to my old beat up Mac Plus. Playing with it via handhelds didn't come until much later. I used it to automate my room and the bathroom light when I was a kid. And to torture my little sister mercilessly. She was convinced she had ghosts in her room for a little while. Took two lamp modules w/ fairly random dimming and an appliance module on the black and white TV set to a channel with all static. Muahahahaha
yes I did....my fault....
You can join my old Newton MessagePad 100 plugged into a serial X10 transmitter controlled via NS BASIC. Get off my lawn...
Oh that's right.... those born before '86 probably don't even realize that the iPad isn't the first non-Windows low-power "tablet" to ever hit the market....
Hell, my first smartphone was a WinCE Palm-sized PC (Originally a rebranded Everex Freestyle made by Trogon or something, then a Philips Nino) tethered to my phone with the sync cable connected to a null modem block connected to the serial data cable I bought for the phone which was an old Kyocera 2035. Tucked the cables in my pocket. People thought it was neat. For a lot of us who were alive in the 80's and have been in IT since the 90's or at least near it, none of this shit is remotely new.....
And back to the main point, any computer with a serial port can turn lights on and off. Any handheld can wirelessly send a signal (Cell, IrDA, Bluetooth, 802.11) to a machine connected to an X-10 controller or various other power control systems. It's retarded simple really. Just never been marketed heavily before that I remember. I did it with shell scripts to watch for commands and the old x10 daemon that shipped with freebsd way back when.
Actually this would not be as bad as you think. By writing your web app in something like TCL and having that executing on NaCL, your code runs on anything NaCL does.
If Google decides not to be a dick and Mozilla adopted NaCL and they both provided a NaCL for each architecture they supply a browser on, it wouldn't be so bad. Just means you gotta cross-compile your native web app code (or TCL interpreter) for x86, ARM and maybe if you feel real nice MIPS and PowerPC to catch a lot of weird embedded devices (mobiles or kiosks) and/or old macs.
I could a "Fat Binary" type of thing being done for cross-platform NaCL code. Or a different binary being distributed to client depending on architecture the browser is running on.
Wouldn't be too hard to turn this into something usable by everyone, the performance advantages of native code running client-side is too hard to ignore. I could see a lot of great uses for this. And if both Chrome and Firefox adopted it, IE would have to eventually.
As far as TCL over NaTCL goes.... I personally don't know JavaScript nor do I really want to, I do know and love TCL however and have used it since I got started with UNIX. Being able to call other NaCL code from TCL would be interesting as well....
My primary concern with native code is security really. I'm sure Google has come a long way since ActiveX was introduced by MS however.
Does web access is a right mean the government doesn't have to subsidize my computer, but if I have a computer the government can't prevent my access?
Sounds good to me.
So if I find an insufficiently secured WiFi access point, the government can't stop my access? I can't be arrest for theft of service?
I don't get it.
Depends, if they made some sort of attempt to secure it and you do something like MAC spoofing or WEP cracking to get in then you're a dick and should probably be at least fined especially if you disrupt access for legit users.
If they went to Best Buy, grabbed a cheap Linksys off the shelf, plugged it in, saw they had net access and left it open.... well in my opinion a completely open network is a public network. Don't bathe my laptop in your free open signal if you don't want me using it. There are public networks intentionally left open as well and it's impossible to tell who WANTS you to use their network. If you don't take any measure to avoid providing a public network, you are providing a public network. Don't understand any basics about a technology you're about to depend on? Have someone qualified set it up for you or don't effin buy it. Laws to protect people from their own ignorance won't help.
Wrong..... I'm 29.... started with an Atari 800XL as a small child, got a 130XE for my 9th christmas w/ a 1010 cassette drive and later a 1050 5.25" floppy drive and 1200bps modem. Still play the hell out of Star Raiders.... so does my son. My first programming language was Atari BASIC. Hell I even was a regular MINIX user on PC's for a while. I even own a small VAX that runs Ultrix.... never owned an -11 however.
Not poor, small business owner actually. Doing reasonably so far. Been in IT professionally since 1997 though admittedly I was a screw turning tech for the first year. And yes, your math is correct, I had to pay child support at an early age.
So while you were probably wasting your first few working years at restaurants or 7-11, I already had tech certifications (at least an A+), a nice work area/office and my own extension. Fuck you.
While my Android phone is rooted, I have yet to flash a new ROM on it. Though I'd much rather have a modern Newton MP2100 with a phone duct taped to it, Android is cool, get over it. Oh, and I had smartphones back before they were cool....though they ran PalmOS and cost $500+ back in 2000.
Stupid? I probably got started in this industry BEFORE you did douchenozzle and have actually had to support myself and survive with several kids. I can't be too stupid.
As a general rule, just because you're older doesn't mean you've studied harder, studied as long, have as much experience (life or work) or talent as someone a few years younger. I've met folks in their mid-40's in IT that can't even write a simple batch file. And that was a SysAdmin....one who insisted you don't need the command line for sysadmin tasks and that "he doesn't bother with it". Supposedly had 25 years of tech experience. Didn't even believe in automated deployment.....liked to look busy so everyone thought he was overworked.
In short, people like you with age complexes make me sick especially since when it comes to actual achievement, most of these sorts tend to be on the average to below-average side and try to keep their position based on golf games and seniority rather than actual merit and honest performance reviews.
There's a reason I work for myself now and people like you are one of them. But sadly while folks like you pass folks like me up for promotions and treat them like shit at work, they're more than willing to shell out $150/hr in consulting fees when we DON'T work there. And I'm happy to take it.
I agree, when the system fails, it really *IS* up to the people to make things happen or stop things from happening when tyranny, corruption and backroom dealing are obvious and blatantly open. The US Govt have become tyrant sockpuppets for the even-more-evil corporate tyrants. Personally I'm sick of it. I'm glad a few folks did SOMETHING even if it just costs Sony a few grand.
As robotic warfare becomes mainstream, armed revolution becomes worthless because we'll be the only ones that actually die in combat. Electronic and network warfare may end up being our only real options later down the road as things get worse.
Sony can do anything they choose but once they sell me a piece of hardware, we're done doing business. I can and will do whatever the fuck I want with it. I didn't rent it. I don't care if they tried to put artificial barriers to me taking full advantage of the hardware in software. If I want to uncripple my shit to make the device more useful to me, I'll do it.
Now, should they be able to void my warranty or block me from PSN? Absolutely. THAT is covered by their right on how they can decide how they want to do business.
They never had me agree to anything prior to the sale. I am not "borrowing" the console from them. If they don't want me looking at their firmware, don't ship the device with it.
They can give me no more shit about jailbreaking a console than jailbreaking a phone. Personally I don't care where the law falls on this, I'll continue to do whatever the hell I want regardless and Sony can go f**k themselves and if jailbreaking consoles becomes illegal due to some horrible precedent here I'll make plenty of money off of local high school and college students because the demand for the work will skyrocket.
PDP-1 SpaceWar was a milestone but the arcade version from Cinematronics was a lot more fun I thought....
Integrated GPUs suck in general and will continue to suck for some time.
A few years ago I'd agree but the GeForce 9400M in my 2009 Macbook is certainly more capable of a GPU than most users utilize. The newer incarnations of it certainly don't suck for most apps and are well-supported for OpenCL apps under MacOS X at least.
If you want to play the latest and greatest at 1600x1200 at max settings and 4x antialiasing it ain't gonna cut it but for light gaming and ACTUAL WORK they do just fine.
Now Intel's integrated GPU's suck. So do most of the ATI offerings but they have a few that are adequate. Not sure about OpenCL support on the ATI integrated GPU's however.
I called him Bushitler. Doesn't mean I sympathized with hinckley or Fromme.
Instead of outright assassination, I wanted Bush to be dragged through the streets, tarred and feathered, then tried and executed for treason and/or war crimes.
Would I have complained if Bush was shot? No. He was a LOT more deserving than this congresswoman. Hell, Palin DEFINITELY is more worthy than this congresswoman. Bush directly screwed all of us with absolutely no remorse and removed a lot of the checks and balances that make it possible to settle the score without bullets and Obama is doing more of the same. Any one of us is now considered either a terrorist or a felon by some definition.
This woman from what I can tell certainly deserved nothing like this. She certainly doesn't seem like a tyrant.
Bush was a tyrant. Plain and simple. I can see why he had attempts on his life. They were warranted.
Obama has perpetuated the tyranny and added some of his own. I understand why he gets death threats.
What did THIS woman do that was remotely in the same class? This guy was a retard. And he's now a child murderer as well. I hope they botch his execution so it's extra painful.
I don't know, but I feel that simply revising X11 forwarding will not cut it. Besides, NX client works on other platforms too, not just Linux/Unix. I am atleast not aware of any good way of doing X11 forwarding to a Windows client.
It's called downloading PuTTY (the SSH client) and downloading a Winblows X11 server.....
X11 forwarding isn't all that bad unless you are a moron with your desktop environment. There's also the good ol' LBX extensions and such if they're still around.