I used to go to the extreme of performing surgery on my mouse, to cut traces and install jumper wires to make it a left handed mouse. This was back when 'Windows' didn't govern the behavior of as many functions as it does now, back when a lot of games used DOS-level drivers.
The point is, a kid who flips out because of a three button mouse is a kid who probably shouldn't be left in a room alone with a hamster and a bell-peen hammer.
Which makes them, ta-da, a big pain to predict, and totally inconsistent across programs.
Many of us believe that the task at hand should be a factor in the design of a particular user interface, and that the user interface should not proscribe the task at hand.
You're certainly free to believe there should be one great interface, and a single unified way of doing all things, that is rigidly defined by the hardware manufacturer.
Well, if it's a Mercedes dealer and the person comes in asking to buy a Cadillac, or a BMW dealer and the person comes in wanting to buy a Fiat, that is a perfectly good response.
Full service 'system vendors' don't have to, and it would actually cost them more in support costs, to bundle an OS that they don't have staff expertise in.
Christianity is one of the worst with its track record of encouraging AIDS.
Thanks for including some of your most ribald nuttyness right in the first sentence. It helps people weigh the credibility of everything else you put in your comment.
These "terrorists" will never be able to set up ANOTHER WEBSITE.....
Without well-known publicized domains for their 'followers' to connect to, they won't have a 'web broadcast' facility. As soon as a new website becomes prominent, it can be 'whacked' too.
The analogy to 'park benches' doesn't hold, because this action is just an attempt to smash the well-known park benches. Without 'common knowledge' park benches to meet at, communication breaks down.
Your last sentence rather tips your hand. Who cares about reason and accountability? SOMEONE IS CLAIMING TO FIGHT TERRORISM! ATTACK and RIDICULE them!
Those were all 'middle period' moves by Sun in support of Linux. Back in the day they refused to release an official JVM or JDK for Linux. They've not had a consistent position on Linux and in fact were rather negative toward it for years.
Windows NT with Interix, a replacement plug-in POSIX subsystem that talks directly to the NT Kernel, paralleling the Win32 Layer (and the OS/2 1.0 layer) was a branded UNIX. Microsoft bought Softway Systems, the developers of Interix, and have crippled Interix and released it as Services for Unix. There was a point in time when they sold Microsoft Interix, which included in the on-CD bundle, the GNU Toolchain, and the GNU C Compiler. There was a popup message during the install that informed you of it's GNU-ness.
You can run a local NTP server, and install an 'Atomic Clock' receiver in it, on a Card. Basically it's a 10 MHz WWV receiver that decodes the time info and reads it into the PC. They've been around a long time.
What 'open source product' did Apple take in? They were acquired by (or they acquired, depends on how you look at it) NeXT, who had a closed-source operating system. They essentially 'open sourced' big chunks of it, enough to run a 'bare UNIX-like OS' which has been called Darwin. As part of making it a bare UNIX-like OS that would be USABLE they grafted on a FreeBSD derived userland.
In no sense of the word did they 'take an open source product' and kinda create their own fork. Unless you can tell me where to download NeXT's Source Code. I wouldn't mind having NextStep/OpenStep to run on some of the various hardware (PA-RISC, Sparc, Intel, etc.) hardware I have around here. . . It's not freely available by any means except the warez route. Certainly the source code is not available.
I can't remember the source, but when the shuttle was designed, I believe it was stated that every mission there was a 1 in 52 chance of critical failure.
Actually, when the shuttle was originally designed, it was supposed to be robust enough to not need to be totally stripped down and rebuilt between each flight. The intent was for shuttle flights to occur maybe every week or two.
Your notion of a 1 in 52 chance of critical failure doesn't jive with that at all.
Is it a large risk? Very unlikely. If there wasa substantial risk of damage, we'd seen epidemological alarms spring up already. If there is a risk, it's small.
If there's a large risk, then it will first strike, and strike hard, at that ditz where I work who walks the halls at all hours of the workday having loud argumentative conversations with family members, including her kids.
IOW- it will 'strike' at serial yakkers first and most severely. There probably hasn't been the amount of time needed yet for exposures to have had effect. Perhaps one day they will.
My biggest worry is that whatever the 'radiation' does to the yakkers will only have a slow effect, and the rest of us will end up paying their medical bills. (a swift death to cell phone yakkers is the preferred outcome)
How do you tell exactly what damages one's eyes when there are so many variables at play?
With a controlled study.
Perhaps staring at the monitor is damaging AND the cell phone radiation is damaging. The damage doesn't cancel out, and the fact that one or the other is indeed damaging doesn't mean we should all 'give up and just do nothing.'
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I used to go to the extreme of performing surgery on my mouse, to cut traces and install jumper wires to make it a left handed mouse. This was back when 'Windows' didn't govern the behavior of as many functions as it does now, back when a lot of games used DOS-level drivers.
The point is, a kid who flips out because of a three button mouse is a kid who probably shouldn't be left in a room alone with a hamster and a bell-peen hammer.
They aren't shipping PCs with Intel processors *yet* either.
You zealots' world is crumbling.
Which makes them, ta-da, a big pain to predict, and totally inconsistent across programs.
Many of us believe that the task at hand should be a factor in the design of a particular user interface, and that the user interface should not proscribe the task at hand.
You're certainly free to believe there should be one great interface, and a single unified way of doing all things, that is rigidly defined by the hardware manufacturer.
Many of us are free to disagree with you.
Some of us like 3 button interfaces. And X11 has had a three button mouse for longer than many people have even known what a mouse is.
Lotus 123 is built into the ROM of my HP-95LX palmtop.
It also has debug.exe built into ROM for those idle moments when I want to hack some Assembly.
Well, if it's a Mercedes dealer and the person comes in asking to buy a Cadillac, or a BMW dealer and the person comes in wanting to buy a Fiat, that is a perfectly good response.
Full service 'system vendors' don't have to, and it would actually cost them more in support costs, to bundle an OS that they don't have staff expertise in.
The websites are not the equivalent of 'spies living close to a military site.' The websites are broadcast organs.
Christianity is one of the worst with its track record of encouraging AIDS.
Thanks for including some of your most ribald nuttyness right in the first sentence. It helps people weigh the credibility of everything else you put in your comment.
These "terrorists" will never be able to set up ANOTHER WEBSITE.....
Without well-known publicized domains for their 'followers' to connect to, they won't have a 'web broadcast' facility. As soon as a new website becomes prominent, it can be 'whacked' too.
The analogy to 'park benches' doesn't hold, because this action is just an attempt to smash the well-known park benches. Without 'common knowledge' park benches to meet at, communication breaks down.
Your last sentence rather tips your hand. Who cares about reason and accountability? SOMEONE IS CLAIMING TO FIGHT TERRORISM! ATTACK and RIDICULE them!
Those were all 'middle period' moves by Sun in support of Linux. Back in the day they refused to release an official JVM or JDK for Linux. They've not had a consistent position on Linux and in fact were rather negative toward it for years.
Windows NT with Interix, a replacement plug-in POSIX subsystem that talks directly to the NT Kernel, paralleling the Win32 Layer (and the OS/2 1.0 layer) was a branded UNIX. Microsoft bought Softway Systems, the developers of Interix, and have crippled Interix and released it as Services for Unix. There was a point in time when they sold Microsoft Interix, which included in the on-CD bundle, the GNU Toolchain, and the GNU C Compiler. There was a popup message during the install that informed you of it's GNU-ness.
You can run a local NTP server, and install an 'Atomic Clock' receiver in it, on a Card. Basically it's a 10 MHz WWV receiver that decodes the time info and reads it into the PC. They've been around a long time.
Correct. Carly is history.
I partner with my oscilloscope. But I'm a geek, not just somebody who hangs out at screwdriver shops with a credit card.
apparently by looting the U.S. government until it financially collapses
Stopping the US government from sucking money out of the economy in the form of Taxes is 'looting the government'??
Wow. You should carry a big sign around on the sidewalk downtown that reads 'High Taxes Are Good.'
Tool.
What 'open source product' did Apple take in? They were acquired by (or they acquired, depends on how you look at it) NeXT, who had a closed-source operating system. They essentially 'open sourced' big chunks of it, enough to run a 'bare UNIX-like OS' which has been called Darwin. As part of making it a bare UNIX-like OS that would be USABLE they grafted on a FreeBSD derived userland.
In no sense of the word did they 'take an open source product' and kinda create their own fork. Unless you can tell me where to download NeXT's Source Code. I wouldn't mind having NextStep/OpenStep to run on some of the various hardware (PA-RISC, Sparc, Intel, etc.) hardware I have around here. . . It's not freely available by any means except the warez route. Certainly the source code is not available.
Family and friends??
No, this is to nail 'whitebox' sellers who purportedly sold you a copy of Windows XP but just pocketed the proceeds and left you high and dry.
"I am the DJ. I am what I play."
(David Bowie, on the Lodger album.)
You're proposing the massive layoff of Civil Servants.
(there, you've been warned)
I can't remember the source, but when the shuttle was designed, I believe it was stated that every mission there was a 1 in 52 chance of critical failure.
Actually, when the shuttle was originally designed, it was supposed to be robust enough to not need to be totally stripped down and rebuilt between each flight. The intent was for shuttle flights to occur maybe every week or two.
Your notion of a 1 in 52 chance of critical failure doesn't jive with that at all.
A really long grounding strap comes to mind.
Aside question: Have they implemented a grounding strap using Bluetooth yet?
I drive 40 miles each way to work, every day.
And yet I've never, ever, held a conversation using a cell phone.
Perhaps you're a bit premature in your judgement of how indispensible cell phones are.
Besides, if a medical hazard is identified, the cell phone technology can be redeployed at a less hazardous frequency in the radio spectrum.
The one thing we shouldn't do is nothing because 'there's nothing we can do.'
Is it a large risk? Very unlikely. If there wasa substantial risk of damage, we'd seen epidemological alarms spring up already. If there is a risk, it's small.
If there's a large risk, then it will first strike, and strike hard, at that ditz where I work who walks the halls at all hours of the workday having loud argumentative conversations with family members, including her kids.
IOW- it will 'strike' at serial yakkers first and most severely. There probably hasn't been the amount of time needed yet for exposures to have had effect. Perhaps one day they will.
My biggest worry is that whatever the 'radiation' does to the yakkers will only have a slow effect, and the rest of us will end up paying their medical bills. (a swift death to cell phone yakkers is the preferred outcome)
How do you tell exactly what damages one's eyes when there are so many variables at play?
With a controlled study.
Perhaps staring at the monitor is damaging AND the cell phone radiation is damaging. The damage doesn't cancel out, and the fact that one or the other is indeed damaging doesn't mean we should all 'give up and just do nothing.'