Given how much of old-world mac Toolbox behavior was in ROM; and how this project's plan to not require ROM dumps to run(as the current classic macOS options do); it sounds a bit more DOSbox than Wine.
IIRC The older MacOSes didn't do a whole lot as far as APIs went. There were some menu management routines, printer drivers, networking and some hooks for desktop accessories, but most of the heavy lifting was done by the toolbox. This left more memory for applications and bitmaps, as the old macs were pretty RAM constrained.
Once the Mac Plus came out and you could have 4MB of RAM, you saw the MultiFinder introduced, and some rudimentary APIs showing up as well.
They already use bots to do basic housekeeping - looking out for vandalism, updating links, flagging dead links, applying style templates, stuff like that. I could see where some basic machine learning algorithms might come in handy looking for vandalism - IE loads of unsigned edits coming from a particular IP address, copypasta, etc...
I've poked around and I can't find a good summary of the lawsuit. The claimants are saying it was unlawful for the FCC to repeal the network neutrality rules? Under what basis? There weren't rules, then there were, then there weren't. Did congress pass something instructing them to regulate network neutrality? Otherwise it seems pretty clear it's entirely up to the FCC.
1. The interest rates on the loans are below market, to the point that they will probably just barely make their money back if the loans are paid, depending on inflation 2. They are making loans to begin with - sometimes banks won't give out loans to develop low income housing as it's risky
Money that could be used to grow the start-up to make it thrive and prosper is just lining the pockets of an already wealthy individual
And that's a problem for the investors in the company. He's the largest investor. If the other investors, such as SoftBank, don't like how he's managing the company:
1. If they are nice about it, they can sue him in court 2. If they want to be mean, they can complain to the SEC - if he's even close to violating an SEC rule, he could wind up in prison (it can be difficult to get the SEC to investigate something, but once they get going they can be pretty harsh. You don't hear about it much because people who take plea deals sign gag orders so they *can't* talk about it) 3. If they want to be nasty, they can short the stock, dump all of their shares and make a bunch of money off of his wrecked company
Nuclear power plant construction is exceedingly slow and exceedingly expensive.
The old designs are. They are working on small, modular reactors that could ideally be mass produced. Even the 20-year old Gen 3 reactors are much cheaper and faster to build. Keep in mind that most people's idea of a nuclear power plant are what were designed in the 50's and 60's, and built in the 70's. Technology has progressed since then.
The really high speed 5G will only be in cities and more densely populated areas. The long range 5G based on existing cell towers will be rolled out everywhere. It will offer marginally faster speeds, though from what I've read the main benefit is better channel management, meaning towers will be able to pump out more speed overall.
So basically, Netflix didn't say that their movie is a CYOA movie but reviewers and people on social media does and therefore we want money from Netflix...
Wow, that's just dumb. Summary judgement with expenses time.
Depends on how it was framed. If they used it in marketing materials they *may* be in trouble. If a director, or producer, or Netflix exec said it in an interview, they are probably safe.
Because they use cheap panels. Vizio regularly tops reviewer's image quality lists. And, as the Vizio exec said, they tend to last a long time. My friend bought a Vizio back when they were making decent quality TVs for *very* cheap prices, and it's still going 10 years later.
The issue here is you are dealing with a country without an open market system. China's economy has market mechanisms for some things, but mostly, it's tightly controlled by the state. The state has direct influence and control over nearly every aspect of the economy. If they decide your business is too important for you to run it, the state will simply take it over and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. China's government doesn't see their economy as thousands of self-regulating parts. They see it as one large machine that they control. The problem is, as with any large entity, that management becomes impossible, and any mistake you made at a high level is amplified a thousand times greater than if a single company made an error.
You can see how fragile and fundamentally screwed up their economy is by the rescinding of the American ZTE ban. If left in place, the ban would have essentially crushed China's economy, because the expansion of ZTE was built into China's economic plans. Factories were built. Apartments were built for the workers. Capacity expanded at suppliers. Supply chains were set up ahead of time. Everything was prepared. If ZTE failed, a chunk of China's economy would freeze. In a normal market economy ZTE would go out of business and it's competitors would absorb the lost business. That's not what was planned for, though.
This is whom the investors are representing. China is trying to spend and expand it's way out of it's problems instead of fixing them. It's what Japan tried to do in the 80's, and the result was a crashed economy with a decade of stagnation. We shouldn't be encouraging this type of behavior.
GraphicsConverter - basically a GUI version of ImageMagick - could open absolutely anything, and pretty damn fast at it
SoundApp - GraphicConverter for sound files. It was the only thing fast enough to play high quality MP3s on my old PowerMac 6100
Fetch - THE FTP client. Only thing I've used that's even close to being as simple and clean is FileZilla
PlayerPro - All in one MOD file player with cool as hell spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, per-track VU meters...
Stuffit Expander / Compressor / ShrinkWrap - Open any archive or disk image file and do pretty much anything with it - the coolest thing is you could (trivially) script it to automatically expand something, drop the archive into one folder, then put the contents in another folder depending on the file type.
ZTerm - Dialup client with Zmodem - essential for BBSes
NIH Image - Freeware image editing software designed to do medical imaging analysis - but it had all kinds of crazy filters and color modification algorithms that let you do Photoshop-style color channel operations for free
Realmz - Massive tile-based role playing game with tons of character options, weapons and gear
Their beyond-reason loyal fanbase enabled that for a while, but this is getting ridiculous, goes against any logic so could not possibly be sustained for long.
So the fan base is unreasonable, but their prices are beyond reason, so their beyond-reason fanbase is now rebelling against the unreasonable price increases. Right.
in the anti-capitalist notion of increasing income simply by increasing prices.
You can charge whatever you want for your product in a free market economy, but that doesn't mean anyone will buy it. People will buy it if they think it provides value to them. You're free to do your own cost benefit analysis. There isn't even a requirement to own one of these things. Everyone got along just fine before smart phones.
At the moment he's been loaning them money to set himself up as the primary creditor so he gets paid when they liquidate.
All the good stuff is gone. The assets of Sears that are left will barely cover the costs of bankruptcy. What *is* worth money are various tax credits that Sears holds. Lampert can use those to cover tax liabilities in other areas, but not if the company is liquidated.
*Potable* drinking water, on the other hand, can be remarkably rare in nature.
Yes, this is one of the reasons that there is no animal life on Earth.
There is what animals will drink to keep themselves alive, then there is what the citizens of developed nations consider "potable" drinking water. The requirements are quite a bit different. We demand no trace of heavy metals or bacteria in our water supply. Naturally occurring aquifers with these specifications are pretty rare.
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The police already have actual assault rifles, armored assault vehicles, and grenade launchers. Why would you need the military?
Given how much of old-world mac Toolbox behavior was in ROM; and how this project's plan to not require ROM dumps to run(as the current classic macOS options do); it sounds a bit more DOSbox than Wine.
IIRC The older MacOSes didn't do a whole lot as far as APIs went. There were some menu management routines, printer drivers, networking and some hooks for desktop accessories, but most of the heavy lifting was done by the toolbox. This left more memory for applications and bitmaps, as the old macs were pretty RAM constrained.
Once the Mac Plus came out and you could have 4MB of RAM, you saw the MultiFinder introduced, and some rudimentary APIs showing up as well.
They already use bots to do basic housekeeping - looking out for vandalism, updating links, flagging dead links, applying style templates, stuff like that. I could see where some basic machine learning algorithms might come in handy looking for vandalism - IE loads of unsigned edits coming from a particular IP address, copypasta, etc...
Before the EU slaps them with an anti-trust lawsuit. Can't have some US upstart eating into BMW/MB/Audi profit margins.
+3 if I could.
to the internet. You seem to be new here...
I've poked around and I can't find a good summary of the lawsuit. The claimants are saying it was unlawful for the FCC to repeal the network neutrality rules? Under what basis? There weren't rules, then there were, then there weren't. Did congress pass something instructing them to regulate network neutrality? Otherwise it seems pretty clear it's entirely up to the FCC.
1. The interest rates on the loans are below market, to the point that they will probably just barely make their money back if the loans are paid, depending on inflation
2. They are making loans to begin with - sometimes banks won't give out loans to develop low income housing as it's risky
A nice hot piece of toast!
Money that could be used to grow the start-up to make it thrive and prosper is just lining the pockets of an already wealthy individual
And that's a problem for the investors in the company. He's the largest investor. If the other investors, such as SoftBank, don't like how he's managing the company:
1. If they are nice about it, they can sue him in court
2. If they want to be mean, they can complain to the SEC - if he's even close to violating an SEC rule, he could wind up in prison (it can be difficult to get the SEC to investigate something, but once they get going they can be pretty harsh. You don't hear about it much because people who take plea deals sign gag orders so they *can't* talk about it)
3. If they want to be nasty, they can short the stock, dump all of their shares and make a bunch of money off of his wrecked company
Nuclear power plant construction is exceedingly slow and exceedingly expensive.
The old designs are. They are working on small, modular reactors that could ideally be mass produced. Even the 20-year old Gen 3 reactors are much cheaper and faster to build. Keep in mind that most people's idea of a nuclear power plant are what were designed in the 50's and 60's, and built in the 70's. Technology has progressed since then.
The really high speed 5G will only be in cities and more densely populated areas. The long range 5G based on existing cell towers will be rolled out everywhere. It will offer marginally faster speeds, though from what I've read the main benefit is better channel management, meaning towers will be able to pump out more speed overall.
So basically, Netflix didn't say that their movie is a CYOA movie but reviewers and people on social media does and therefore we want money from Netflix...
Wow, that's just dumb. Summary judgement with expenses time.
Depends on how it was framed. If they used it in marketing materials they *may* be in trouble. If a director, or producer, or Netflix exec said it in an interview, they are probably safe.
Then how can Sceptre sell 4K "dumb" TVs so cheap?
Because they use cheap panels. Vizio regularly tops reviewer's image quality lists. And, as the Vizio exec said, they tend to last a long time. My friend bought a Vizio back when they were making decent quality TVs for *very* cheap prices, and it's still going 10 years later.
In the US, you have quite a bit of regulatory capture, which is a whole other ball of wax.
The issue here is you are dealing with a country without an open market system. China's economy has market mechanisms for some things, but mostly, it's tightly controlled by the state. The state has direct influence and control over nearly every aspect of the economy. If they decide your business is too important for you to run it, the state will simply take it over and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. China's government doesn't see their economy as thousands of self-regulating parts. They see it as one large machine that they control. The problem is, as with any large entity, that management becomes impossible, and any mistake you made at a high level is amplified a thousand times greater than if a single company made an error.
You can see how fragile and fundamentally screwed up their economy is by the rescinding of the American ZTE ban. If left in place, the ban would have essentially crushed China's economy, because the expansion of ZTE was built into China's economic plans. Factories were built. Apartments were built for the workers. Capacity expanded at suppliers. Supply chains were set up ahead of time. Everything was prepared. If ZTE failed, a chunk of China's economy would freeze. In a normal market economy ZTE would go out of business and it's competitors would absorb the lost business. That's not what was planned for, though.
This is whom the investors are representing. China is trying to spend and expand it's way out of it's problems instead of fixing them. It's what Japan tried to do in the 80's, and the result was a crashed economy with a decade of stagnation. We shouldn't be encouraging this type of behavior.
I think it's more like paying DropBox or Azure for faster downloads. I don't see a problem with it.
What can we blame bad parenting on now? It used to be comic books, then radio, then TV, then violent video games.
This would possibly imply that kids learn bad behaviors by:
1. Watching their parents
2. Their parents not setting boundaries and sticking to them
GraphicsConverter - basically a GUI version of ImageMagick - could open absolutely anything, and pretty damn fast at it
SoundApp - GraphicConverter for sound files. It was the only thing fast enough to play high quality MP3s on my old PowerMac 6100
Fetch - THE FTP client. Only thing I've used that's even close to being as simple and clean is FileZilla
PlayerPro - All in one MOD file player with cool as hell spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, per-track VU meters...
Stuffit Expander / Compressor / ShrinkWrap - Open any archive or disk image file and do pretty much anything with it - the coolest thing is you could (trivially) script it to automatically expand something, drop the archive into one folder, then put the contents in another folder depending on the file type.
ZTerm - Dialup client with Zmodem - essential for BBSes
NIH Image - Freeware image editing software designed to do medical imaging analysis - but it had all kinds of crazy filters and color modification algorithms that let you do Photoshop-style color channel operations for free
Realmz - Massive tile-based role playing game with tons of character options, weapons and gear
I don't really understand the benefit of these, since it won't reduce cable clutter around your desk.
They want to get rid of every port and make the case completely sealed. Much easier to make them waterproof / dustproof / etc...
But buying a computer and posting on forums isn't?
Their beyond-reason loyal fanbase enabled that for a while, but this is getting ridiculous, goes against any logic so could not possibly be sustained for long.
So the fan base is unreasonable, but their prices are beyond reason, so their beyond-reason fanbase is now rebelling against the unreasonable price increases. Right.
in the anti-capitalist notion of increasing income simply by increasing prices.
You can charge whatever you want for your product in a free market economy, but that doesn't mean anyone will buy it. People will buy it if they think it provides value to them. You're free to do your own cost benefit analysis. There isn't even a requirement to own one of these things. Everyone got along just fine before smart phones.
At the moment he's been loaning them money to set himself up as the primary creditor so he gets paid when they liquidate.
All the good stuff is gone. The assets of Sears that are left will barely cover the costs of bankruptcy. What *is* worth money are various tax credits that Sears holds. Lampert can use those to cover tax liabilities in other areas, but not if the company is liquidated.
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Yes, this is one of the reasons that there is no animal life on Earth.
There is what animals will drink to keep themselves alive, then there is what the citizens of developed nations consider "potable" drinking water. The requirements are quite a bit different. We demand no trace of heavy metals or bacteria in our water supply. Naturally occurring aquifers with these specifications are pretty rare.