> It would be interesting to know how many of those that complain about a broken digitizer on the 6 have a screen protector film
I mean, the word on the net is that this is ultimately based on the same issue that the 6+ was infamous for at lauch- bending. With less structural integrity than any iPhone before or after, the solder on certain chips can get messed up.
Also, there's several types of screens- the glass ones, for instance, seem unlikely to be porous. The current "best practice" seems to be to have your iPhone 6 Plus in a case of some sort.
A good point. A less partisan point is, what happens if you have "online voting", or any goddamned thing that requires a net to function, and it doesn't?
We have an infrastructure problem- plenty of systems assume that the internet will either always be up, or be up at least, for instance, daily.
The problem is that DDOS is a core vulnerability based on how the internet is built. If you get packets that should go somewhere, you try to push them there. You don't know that the guy who handed them to the guy that handed them to the guy that handed them to you is a botnet node: you just know packets go a place. You forward them.
Eventually, you hit a point where someone in that link COULD figure out that packets are part of a DDOS, but in the current model, that's just too damned far along.
I mean, at the end of the day, any contest will have rules. If the question is doping, the only question should be, "what should the rules be on this". Questions regarding the harshness of the punishment, economic inequality, certain nations getting butthurt because they thought they had a foolproof way to cheat and did not... all are secondary. If you have a set of rules, those that violate them can't really be said to be participating at all.
Good link, and it seems mostly to be aimed at that.
Apple got where they were by being a meritocracy. They shouldn't respond to diversity criticism. They should be a proud meritocracy, which is the only reason they are successful today. Racism is bad for business, no matter what race you are discriminating against.
> As I posted elsewhere, Trump will need a miracle.
A miracle? If Hillary wins, the hindsight narrative will be "she was leading in most polls until the summer, and then she was leading in some of them, polls never wrong!". If Trump wins, the hindsight narrative will be "he trailed until polls until summer, and then some started to turn his way, polls never wrong!".
Trump and Hillary have a reasonably close race right now.
> The 2016 electoral map is identical to the 2008 and 2012 electoral maps
I don't even understand how this makes sense to say. Those were Obama's maps. Has Hillary earned the assumption that she's a third term Obama?
> Trump has to do better than McCain (2008) and Romney (2012) â" and he's not even trying.
Every news station is Trump Trump Trump. Every candidate from the start was "well unlike Trump blah blah". Trump is dashing around on his jet from rally to rally, and insulting his opponents at like 5 AM on twitter. Trump has already defeated a large field of Republicans who spent most of their time and money shitting on Trump. And somehow you read all this as "less effort than Romney"? Gimme a break. A Trump loss won't be because of a lazy Trump. That guy is a ball of action.
> This is the historical record.
Hold up, lemme get a roof ladder to help you down from that high horse. Claiming that "the current two term Democratic president had more electoral votes, therefore the Democratic contender does before the first vote has been cast" is silly as fuck. There's no historical precedent that benefits or hinders Trump, and most years there's no historical precedent that is useful anyway. In 2008, if someone was claiming that the electoral votes were "white votes", and that it is the historical record that a candidate of mixed race had never gotten any electoral votes, that would have been a silly extrapolation based on a technically true fact- and it would not have been predictive.
> I love trolling the trolls on Slashdot. Thank you for participation!
A deflection of "I'm too good to be here" is a pretty lame one. I expect a better in the event that Trump wins in November!
Also, if you think I'm a troll, I recommend you research the term.
You've already been wrong on statements about Hillary- your prior claims and beliefs were falsified by leaked emails and FBI statements- but that didn't affect your opinions about her at all. Walking into a thread and claiming to predict the future based on the past should give you pause, given how you were previously unable to even predict *the past and present*.
If Trump wins and I link you to your post, what will you do? Probably ignore it, or have some crazy thing to blame, or just be like "how could I be expected to know?"
You are now on record as not just predicting that Hillary will win, but that her electoral votes will be a landslide. This is a solid and falsifiable claim. Lets see how it turns out!
Older posts of yours (from before the FBI email statement) show that you didn't think Hillary sent emails classified at the time of sending (contrary to later statements from the FBI), imply that you think 16 GB will remain the lowest capacity iPhone, and call Trump a "corporatist" (not falsified yet, but seemingly less likely based on the large corporations throwing a lot of weight into defeating him). Your crystal ball may not be outright covered in crap, but it is definitely at least a little blurry.
> I support neither of the two morons or the koolaid their followers drink. Drink up!
It's totally reasonable to not support either candidate (or ANY candidate), but do remember that our system is defacto two-party until we change our election methods. People are going to care, and compromise, because either a Democrat or a Republican will get the votes needed to the be the president this year.
It is possible that, in some fashion, you need the rest of the universe in order to make sense of rotation, and we just don't know that because the universe is constant in all experiments.
> . In the past they had to have a one size fits all approach to D/A conversion for the headphones
Oh fuck off with that. You can buy lightning headphones right now, they have a built in D/A conversion. They work with existing phones that actually have a 3.5 jack as well. You can buy a lightning DAC right now. These work with existing phones that actually have a 3.5 jack as well. All they are doing is removing choice- all the options you are talking about work with older iPhones.
> It would be pretty easy to represent a parse tree as XML.
Well, you definitely came up with something worse than tabs. Now the file just fucking starts as garbage for everyone. And everyone who doesn't use your exact IDE can get bent, I guess. And uh oh, there was a bug in the XSL, and now we have a goto fail bug.
I definitely admire your dedication to finding novel ways to insert bugs into C code. We have so many already, and the elders told us that all the ways had been discovered. And here you go proving them wrong!
> Because your shitty text editor should be able to handle cutting and pasting them.
Like all tabbers, you begin by dismissing every editor you don't personally like, and taking joy in hurting those who don't use your exact solution. How excellent. What a team player. It's fine that your code can only be edited properly in your own personal IDE.
> I'll even suggest that a free-form text editor is an annoyingly primitive tool for programming.
So, everyone else is wrong, and fuck every extant tool for coding, and fuck them for not doing the right thing (which in this case is, "use an editor that doesn't even exist yet").
Coincidentally, you also recommend tabs. Hrm. Coincidence?
Which one is further to the right? Oh, it depends on the tab setting.
Does the tab mean a tab stop? In that case, where are the tab stops? Note: this is the intended use of tab. Does the tab mean "go forward N spaces"? In this case, N=4 and N=2 flip the indentation of Word1 and Word2
Guess what a space means? IT MEANS SPACE JUST USE THAT
> EMACS can deal quite nicely with both. With smart-tabs mode, it uses tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment which, as a couple of people above have pointed out, always keeps things properly aligned regardless of tab size.
And then someone else has to edit the code, and fuck them in the peehole if they don't use your exact version of EMACS right? Also, fuck them if they need to use the command line. And fuck them if they have to use a different diff tool. And fuck them if they need to search for the next instance of (space)axe, because it might actually be (tab)axe, and now they have to do a regex or something.
Basically, every tab solution is "fuck everyone else forever".
> The tab solution would be great IF (text) editors implement elastic tabs:
Hold up, right now, the actual intended purpose of a tab is to advance to a tab stop. Some editors have it move the cursor a fixed number of spaces. Other editors let you set that fixed number, with an implementation specific thing. Command line tools just have a default and maybe there's a shell variable to override it.
So tabs already mean two completely different things to professionals.
You want to add a third.
Also, once you add that third thing, everyone is now tied to whatever IDE uses that.
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> It would be interesting to know how many of those that complain about a broken digitizer on the 6 have a screen protector film
I mean, the word on the net is that this is ultimately based on the same issue that the 6+ was infamous for at lauch- bending. With less structural integrity than any iPhone before or after, the solder on certain chips can get messed up.
Also, there's several types of screens- the glass ones, for instance, seem unlikely to be porous. The current "best practice" seems to be to have your iPhone 6 Plus in a case of some sort.
I love my Logitech mice. It's all I use for gaming, productivity, whatever. They are the best.
But I'm *scared* at what they'll do to Saitek. Those HOTAS setups are beyond what Logitech can handle unless they run them as a separate division.
A good point. A less partisan point is, what happens if you have "online voting", or any goddamned thing that requires a net to function, and it doesn't?
We have an infrastructure problem- plenty of systems assume that the internet will either always be up, or be up at least, for instance, daily.
The problem is that DDOS is a core vulnerability based on how the internet is built. If you get packets that should go somewhere, you try to push them there. You don't know that the guy who handed them to the guy that handed them to the guy that handed them to you is a botnet node: you just know packets go a place. You forward them.
Eventually, you hit a point where someone in that link COULD figure out that packets are part of a DDOS, but in the current model, that's just too damned far along.
I mean, at the end of the day, any contest will have rules. If the question is doping, the only question should be, "what should the rules be on this". Questions regarding the harshness of the punishment, economic inequality, certain nations getting butthurt because they thought they had a foolproof way to cheat and did not... all are secondary. If you have a set of rules, those that violate them can't really be said to be participating at all.
Good link, and it seems mostly to be aimed at that.
Apple got where they were by being a meritocracy. They shouldn't respond to diversity criticism. They should be a proud meritocracy, which is the only reason they are successful today. Racism is bad for business, no matter what race you are discriminating against.
> As I posted elsewhere, Trump will need a miracle.
A miracle? If Hillary wins, the hindsight narrative will be "she was leading in most polls until the summer, and then she was leading in some of them, polls never wrong!". If Trump wins, the hindsight narrative will be "he trailed until polls until summer, and then some started to turn his way, polls never wrong!".
Trump and Hillary have a reasonably close race right now.
> The 2016 electoral map is identical to the 2008 and 2012 electoral maps
I don't even understand how this makes sense to say. Those were Obama's maps. Has Hillary earned the assumption that she's a third term Obama?
> Trump has to do better than McCain (2008) and Romney (2012) â" and he's not even trying.
Every news station is Trump Trump Trump. Every candidate from the start was "well unlike Trump blah blah". Trump is dashing around on his jet from rally to rally, and insulting his opponents at like 5 AM on twitter. Trump has already defeated a large field of Republicans who spent most of their time and money shitting on Trump. And somehow you read all this as "less effort than Romney"? Gimme a break. A Trump loss won't be because of a lazy Trump. That guy is a ball of action.
> This is the historical record.
Hold up, lemme get a roof ladder to help you down from that high horse. Claiming that "the current two term Democratic president had more electoral votes, therefore the Democratic contender does before the first vote has been cast" is silly as fuck. There's no historical precedent that benefits or hinders Trump, and most years there's no historical precedent that is useful anyway. In 2008, if someone was claiming that the electoral votes were "white votes", and that it is the historical record that a candidate of mixed race had never gotten any electoral votes, that would have been a silly extrapolation based on a technically true fact- and it would not have been predictive.
> I love trolling the trolls on Slashdot. Thank you for participation!
A deflection of "I'm too good to be here" is a pretty lame one. I expect a better in the event that Trump wins in November!
Also, if you think I'm a troll, I recommend you research the term.
You've already been wrong on statements about Hillary- your prior claims and beliefs were falsified by leaked emails and FBI statements- but that didn't affect your opinions about her at all. Walking into a thread and claiming to predict the future based on the past should give you pause, given how you were previously unable to even predict *the past and present*.
> Hillary's going to win.
If Trump wins and I link you to your post, what will you do? Probably ignore it, or have some crazy thing to blame, or just be like "how could I be expected to know?"
You are now on record as not just predicting that Hillary will win, but that her electoral votes will be a landslide. This is a solid and falsifiable claim. Lets see how it turns out!
Older posts of yours (from before the FBI email statement) show that you didn't think Hillary sent emails classified at the time of sending (contrary to later statements from the FBI), imply that you think 16 GB will remain the lowest capacity iPhone, and call Trump a "corporatist" (not falsified yet, but seemingly less likely based on the large corporations throwing a lot of weight into defeating him). Your crystal ball may not be outright covered in crap, but it is definitely at least a little blurry.
> I support neither of the two morons or the koolaid their followers drink. Drink up!
It's totally reasonable to not support either candidate (or ANY candidate), but do remember that our system is defacto two-party until we change our election methods. People are going to care, and compromise, because either a Democrat or a Republican will get the votes needed to the be the president this year.
> Rotating with respect to what?
This is closer to philosophy than physics. The rotation is absolute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It is possible that, in some fashion, you need the rest of the universe in order to make sense of rotation, and we just don't know that because the universe is constant in all experiments.
Floppy drives were obsolete for years before going away. Headphone jacks don't face those pressures, and are not obsolete in any way.
> . In the past they had to have a one size fits all approach to D/A conversion for the headphones
Oh fuck off with that. You can buy lightning headphones right now, they have a built in D/A conversion. They work with existing phones that actually have a 3.5 jack as well. You can buy a lightning DAC right now. These work with existing phones that actually have a 3.5 jack as well. All they are doing is removing choice- all the options you are talking about work with older iPhones.
> Has anyone actually ever used Chinese software?
No dude, Chinese software uses YOU.
> (and yes, Axe is just perfume marketed to guys)
Axe is nowhere near concentrated enough to be a perfume. I'm not even sure it qualifies as a cologne.
> so Dems will retake the Congress for 2 years
I think the Senate is likely. The House? Unlikely but possible.
The drinking age is still 18, and mostly for that reason.
Each state has raised it to 21 at this point, but there's plenty of places outside of state law but inside federal law.
...
Apparently not all of it!
> Most IDE's (and some better text editors) have options to
"Fuck anyone who doesn't use my IDE or one I deem suitable" -> Every pro-tab argument in every thread about this.
Yea, they move your type to predefined tab stops. I don't know why you'd want them in a text file though.
> It would be pretty easy to represent a parse tree as XML.
Well, you definitely came up with something worse than tabs. Now the file just fucking starts as garbage for everyone. And everyone who doesn't use your exact IDE can get bent, I guess. And uh oh, there was a bug in the XSL, and now we have a goto fail bug.
I definitely admire your dedication to finding novel ways to insert bugs into C code. We have so many already, and the elders told us that all the ways had been discovered. And here you go proving them wrong!
> Because your shitty text editor should be able to handle cutting and pasting them.
Like all tabbers, you begin by dismissing every editor you don't personally like, and taking joy in hurting those who don't use your exact solution. How excellent. What a team player. It's fine that your code can only be edited properly in your own personal IDE.
What a joke.
> There is usually a command to set a tab at the current column, clear at tab at the current column and to clear all tabs.
Or you could just use spaces, instead of forcing everyone who has to read your code to figure out how to parse your binary, what you meant by it, etc.
> I'll even suggest that a free-form text editor is an annoyingly primitive tool for programming.
So, everyone else is wrong, and fuck every extant tool for coding, and fuck them for not doing the right thing (which in this case is, "use an editor that doesn't even exist yet").
Coincidentally, you also recommend tabs. Hrm. Coincidence?
(tab)(tab)(tab)(space)(space)(space)Word1
(tab)(tab)(tab)(tab)Word2
Which one is further to the right? Oh, it depends on the tab setting.
Does the tab mean a tab stop? In that case, where are the tab stops? Note: this is the intended use of tab.
Does the tab mean "go forward N spaces"? In this case, N=4 and N=2 flip the indentation of Word1 and Word2
Guess what a space means? IT MEANS SPACE
JUST USE THAT
ffffffffffffff
> EMACS can deal quite nicely with both. With smart-tabs mode, it uses tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment which, as a couple of people above have pointed out, always keeps things properly aligned regardless of tab size.
And then someone else has to edit the code, and fuck them in the peehole if they don't use your exact version of EMACS right? Also, fuck them if they need to use the command line. And fuck them if they have to use a different diff tool. And fuck them if they need to search for the next instance of (space)axe, because it might actually be (tab)axe, and now they have to do a regex or something.
Basically, every tab solution is "fuck everyone else forever".
> The tab solution would be great IF (text) editors implement elastic tabs:
Hold up, right now, the actual intended purpose of a tab is to advance to a tab stop. Some editors have it move the cursor a fixed number of spaces. Other editors let you set that fixed number, with an implementation specific thing. Command line tools just have a default and maybe there's a shell variable to override it.
So tabs already mean two completely different things to professionals.
You want to add a third.
Also, once you add that third thing, everyone is now tied to whatever IDE uses that.
Or just don't be an asshole, and use spaces.