For someone growing up with a cloud-connected mobile device, it is much harder.
Found the problem. Programming on your mobile device? Please. That's like trying to have a dinner party inside your kitchen's trashcan.
That Commodore was a desktop device. Today's equivalent systems are also desktops: Linux, mac, both come with pre-installed Python, among other things. Hugely more powerful than the author's Commodore SDE. You want it on Windows, it's one free-and-easy install away (or maybe it's pre-installed now, haven't used newer Windows OSs... you'd think it'd be there, because duh, but anyway it's not like it's hard for it to be there.)
Ask one very basic question "how can I write a little program" get one easy answer "go here, download X."
Seems to me that if you can't navigate those waters, you're going to drown trying to take a leak in your toilet before "learning to program" becomes a problem.
Can you explain why I now (as opposed to a couple years ago) have to reboot my iPhone 6 Plus almost every day? Why font size varies inconsistently throughout the day? Why for every incremental macOS update I need to download gigabytes of files overnight? Why Xcode is in a perpetual beta stage?
From time to time, you'll also see ^W which means "delete previous word."
I meant to say that^W this.
On a site that supports more useful HTML than slashdot does such as SoylentNews, you can use the HTML tags <STRIKE> and </STRIKE> or <DEL> and </DEL> to display text with a strike-through line, which is the modern way to express the same idea.
It's also a form of self-defense in case they blow the audio (it's not just "headphone") jack off with the s10; after all, Samsung often does follow Apple into the valley of stupid: ridiculous and inconvenient levels of thin, non-replaceable batteries, flat icons, dropped IR, etc.
I'm planning the same move: s7 to s9 if there's a proper jack and there isn't some kind of other major screwup.
The way the world works is broken. I don't know how to fix it.
One way might be:
o Stop electing the rich. o Make the elected individuals serve on whatever front lines exist, if any, before and after their terms. o Disenfranchise the lobbyists. All of them. o Make intentionally distributing provably false information a serious crime.
Or... just keep electing the rich and keep wondering why the laws favor them and their investments. I'm sure that'll help.
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It works just like Slashdot, except, you know, it actually works.
However, my mindset was best expressed by St. Thomas Aquinas:
in so far as [law] deviates from right reason it is called an unjust law; in such case it is no law at all, but rather a species of violence.
There are obvious examples: Slavery was legal; and in no case was it reasonable to follow the law. Forbidding women's right to vote was legal, and in no case was it reasonable to follow the law. And so on.
The law, unfortunately, is not a golden chalice of right and reason, and there are definitely times when extremely bad law should be ignored until/unless it can be repaired. In my personal estimation, this is one of those areas.
I really do think that something needs to be done about classic and abandoned games
I see it as even more than that. Abandoned applications of every type: operating systems, drivers, vertical applications, etc.
Frankly, if software is unsupported, I see no reason it should continue to enjoy the protection of copyright, patent, or anything else, frankly.
I don't draw a distinction as to why. If the developer is gone or no longer willing, if the "upgrade" no longer supports the operating system or hardware you've been using (or vice-versa... operating systems should be treated the same), basically if the thing no longer is "live", then it's abandonware. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who steals it, reverses it, copies it or, as here, supports it from a third-party position should be blameless.
And yes, I am a developer, and yes, I still think this should be the case. If you aren't going to support your customers, then there's no particular reason to expect your now ex-customers to support you. From my POV, that most certainly includes no longer honoring the legal protections you are awarded in trade for producing something useful. As soon as you, as a developer or large entity (Adobe, Apple, etc.) decide to abandon, compromise or outright destroy that usefulness, you are the one that has broken the compact.
That's the book I'd really, really like to see turned into a scene-by-scene, 100% follows-the-book movie. The book lives up to its title, and to this day, decades after it was written, still doesn't suffer from any serious flaws. It's a terrific adventure with great characters and really outstanding venues and circumstances, and we're finally at a point with CGI and etc. where they could actually make it.
The thing is... generally, Hollywood works pretty hard to put their own spin on things (by which I mean, they completely screw up the story... Soylent Green's ruination of Make Room, Make Room, the incredible abortion of Starship Troopers... ugh... so perhaps its best if the story is played out in the theater of my mind, where it is 100% guided by the author anyway.
So never mind. Sigh.
But if you're looking for a great SF adventure book... this has my highest recommendation.
They won the battle at the federal level, but winning that battle unleased full blown war
That's good. Leased wars are always returned in such bad shape; the next user in line always ends up with the short end of the stick. We really should buy all our wars cash on the barrelhead.
Bonus points for completely ignoring the entire concept of free will vs. deterministic process. It's rarely presented as such a clean cut (by which I mean, utterly ignorant) argument.
We don't know what consciousness is with any certainty at all, other than many animals seem to exhibit what most of us would agree upon as calling "consciousness."
It's at least wildly premature (and very likely completely absurd) to decide that it is now a component of the inanimate.
The thinking here — and I'm being very generous with the term — is so muddy as to be utterly opaque and pointless.
I think it likely there's going to be a lot of resistance to this one. There are an awful lot of perfectly good apps out there where the developers have gone away - they're just not going to make the transition to 64-bit. Apple's asking a very large number of users to take a serious a hit in terms of lost investment all at once.
There's no particularly good reason for it. The existing OS support can be frozen, and new OS stuff added; it's not like we're short on memory or storage.
For some, the answer will be to simply not move to the new OS (notice I didn't use the term "upgrade.") For others, it may be a VM, unless the VM's can't run in 32-bit mode (don't know why that would be the case, but perhaps it is.)
It is Apple's habit to go with "hey, I have an idea" where for some reason, no one stands up and tells them "you know, that's not a good idea..." They did it with the PPC emulation, they did it with headphone jacks, they did it with slowing down people's phones, and now... now they're going to kill a lot of people's tools.
You have to remember that most criminals are not particularly bright. How often do you hear that they were scuppered by posting incriminating photos on Facebook, or using the phone they just stole without wiping and disabling "find my phone"?
Yes, you hear about those.
It's the ones you don't hear about that aren't dumb.
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Found the problem. Programming on your mobile device? Please. That's like trying to have a dinner party inside your kitchen's trashcan.
That Commodore was a desktop device. Today's equivalent systems are also desktops: Linux, mac, both come with pre-installed Python, among other things. Hugely more powerful than the author's Commodore SDE. You want it on Windows, it's one free-and-easy install away (or maybe it's pre-installed now, haven't used newer Windows OSs... you'd think it'd be there, because duh, but anyway it's not like it's hard for it to be there.)
Ask one very basic question "how can I write a little program" get one easy answer "go here, download X."
Seems to me that if you can't navigate those waters, you're going to drown trying to take a leak in your toilet before "learning to program" becomes a problem.
Don't worry, the next release will be... thinner.
From time to time, you'll also see ^W which means "delete previous word."
On a site that supports more useful HTML than slashdot does such as SoylentNews, you can use the HTML tags <STRIKE> and </STRIKE> or <DEL> and </DEL> to display text with a strike-through line, which is the modern way to express the same idea.
Here is an example (at the bottom of the page.)
You have to admit that "LifeLock" is well-named. They have you locked up, all right.
Delivery is unquestionably an added-value service.
Prices should reflect that.
If delivery is affecting margins negatively, it is not priced correctly. At the very least, it should end up revenue-neutral.
Lobsters are omnivores, and will scavenge detritus from the bottom. So yes, they definitely do bottom-feed.
Crayfish are also omnivores, and will eat from the bottom, capture live fish, vegetation, etc.
So really, no significant food-chain difference other than fresh or salt water. If you eat one, you might as well eat the other.
Every site like this has to start somewhere. I find it worth my time to support a good (or at least, better) model.
You can subscribe if you want them to have some of your money.
They do that instead of sucking your personal information away to advertisers.
Much preferred, IMHO.
It's also a form of self-defense in case they blow the audio (it's not just "headphone") jack off with the s10; after all, Samsung often does follow Apple into the valley of stupid: ridiculous and inconvenient levels of thin, non-replaceable batteries, flat icons, dropped IR, etc.
I'm planning the same move: s7 to s9 if there's a proper jack and there isn't some kind of other major screwup.
Mac Pros, same thing. The trashcan is... well, trash.
But I could get a good 12/24 core Mac Pro with proper slots and storage facilities and so on on EBay. So that's what I did.
Still waiting to see if all that hot air about "we made a mistake" with the trashcan design is going to turn into anything worthwhile.
One way might be:
o Stop electing the rich.
o Make the elected individuals serve on whatever front lines exist, if any, before and after their terms.
o Disenfranchise the lobbyists. All of them.
o Make intentionally distributing provably false information a serious crime.
Or... just keep electing the rich and keep wondering why the laws favor them and their investments. I'm sure that'll help.
On Soylent News. Along with <strike> , <spoiler> , <sub> , <sup> , <abbr> , and some other really useful things that actually work. Also much more careful editing of TFS's, 10 mod points per day for everyone without forcing you to be anonymous if you want to comment, zero ads, and various useful amenities like handling characters beyond ASCII. The code's open, and you can contribute, too.
It works just like Slashdot, except, you know, it actually works.
I understand the legal issues just fine.
However, my mindset was best expressed by St. Thomas Aquinas:
There are obvious examples: Slavery was legal; and in no case was it reasonable to follow the law. Forbidding women's right to vote was legal, and in no case was it reasonable to follow the law. And so on.
The law, unfortunately, is not a golden chalice of right and reason, and there are definitely times when extremely bad law should be ignored until/unless it can be repaired. In my personal estimation, this is one of those areas.
I see it as even more than that. Abandoned applications of every type: operating systems, drivers, vertical applications, etc.
Frankly, if software is unsupported, I see no reason it should continue to enjoy the protection of copyright, patent, or anything else, frankly.
I don't draw a distinction as to why. If the developer is gone or no longer willing, if the "upgrade" no longer supports the operating system or hardware you've been using (or vice-versa... operating systems should be treated the same), basically if the thing no longer is "live", then it's abandonware. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who steals it, reverses it, copies it or, as here, supports it from a third-party position should be blameless.
And yes, I am a developer, and yes, I still think this should be the case. If you aren't going to support your customers, then there's no particular reason to expect your now ex-customers to support you. From my POV, that most certainly includes no longer honoring the legal protections you are awarded in trade for producing something useful. As soon as you, as a developer or large entity (Adobe, Apple, etc.) decide to abandon, compromise or outright destroy that usefulness, you are the one that has broken the compact.
Let the chips fall where they may.
Galactic Odyssey by Keith Laumer
That's the book I'd really, really like to see turned into a scene-by-scene, 100% follows-the-book movie. The book lives up to its title, and to this day, decades after it was written, still doesn't suffer from any serious flaws. It's a terrific adventure with great characters and really outstanding venues and circumstances, and we're finally at a point with CGI and etc. where they could actually make it.
The thing is... generally, Hollywood works pretty hard to put their own spin on things (by which I mean, they completely screw up the story... Soylent Green's ruination of Make Room, Make Room, the incredible abortion of Starship Troopers... ugh... so perhaps its best if the story is played out in the theater of my mind, where it is 100% guided by the author anyway.
So never mind. Sigh.
But if you're looking for a great SF adventure book... this has my highest recommendation.
Well, you wouldn't want your armature wound improperly, would you?
I suppose armatures are regulated by FCC field offices.
I'll just motor off, now...
That's good. Leased wars are always returned in such bad shape; the next user in line always ends up with the short end of the stick. We really should buy all our wars cash on the barrelhead.
Back when Reefer Madness was put together, common metronomes were mechanical.
So it was difficult to provide a reasonable jazz time signature. Consequently, they had to jail all the non-white people.
Otherwise your daughters might not have marched up to the altar in 4/4 time, y'see?
Bonus points for completely ignoring the entire concept of free will vs. deterministic process. It's rarely presented as such a clean cut (by which I mean, utterly ignorant) argument.
That's because it is easily-dismissible bunkum.
We don't know what consciousness is with any certainty at all, other than many animals seem to exhibit what most of us would agree upon as calling "consciousness."
It's at least wildly premature (and very likely completely absurd) to decide that it is now a component of the inanimate.
The thinking here — and I'm being very generous with the term — is so muddy as to be utterly opaque and pointless.
I think it likely there's going to be a lot of resistance to this one. There are an awful lot of perfectly good apps out there where the developers have gone away - they're just not going to make the transition to 64-bit. Apple's asking a very large number of users to take a serious a hit in terms of lost investment all at once.
There's no particularly good reason for it. The existing OS support can be frozen, and new OS stuff added; it's not like we're short on memory or storage.
For some, the answer will be to simply not move to the new OS (notice I didn't use the term "upgrade.") For others, it may be a VM, unless the VM's can't run in 32-bit mode (don't know why that would be the case, but perhaps it is.)
It is Apple's habit to go with "hey, I have an idea" where for some reason, no one stands up and tells them "you know, that's not a good idea..." They did it with the PPC emulation, they did it with headphone jacks, they did it with slowing down people's phones, and now... now they're going to kill a lot of people's tools.
Interesting times for Apple.
I read at +6 !!! With Sigs off !!!
YOU SUNK MY BAFFLESHIT!
Yes, you hear about those.
It's the ones you don't hear about that aren't dumb.