DOS (Windows) copied CP/M. At the time, no commands or devices were compatible; that didn't happen until Compaq cloned the IBM BIOS.
Linux is a clone of Unix, and all the commands and devices are compatible. You can take a 40 year old Unix program, recompile it, and it will run on Linux (and now on Mac as well). In fact, Windows is the only incompatible OS (except some mainframe OSes).
But by "the new CP/M" I meant incompatible with everything and obsolete.
The 1963 Act only established a basic research program. Regulatory controls for air pollution were enacted in 1970. It was our protests and letters that got the environment cleaned up (I was 18 in 1970).
Fuck you, boomer.
Informative? Why is that insulting and misleading comment not modded flamebait? Don't you guys check wikipedia before moderating?
People get injured when their parachutes don't open, they get injured on movie sets, they get injured doing stupid non-movie stunts. So yes, people do get injured when falling intentionally.
It's just more than telling if granny is on the floor, TFA I read yesterday said it can fortell falls by a person's gait, preventing the fall in the first place.
And it has the "XCP" easy-root feature, removes functionality from the device after it's already paid for, and leaves your customer info on an internet facing database in clear text.
Why would you buy a digital device from a company with a history like that? The foolishness of such a purchase borders on madness.
Stop buying eqipment from Sony lest everyone knows you to be a fool.
Blacksmithing? I took a blacksmithing class at SIU in the '70s. The only expensive part is the anvil, the rest of the tools you can make yourself. Getting coal for the forge might be problematic these days, though. You need coal or you can't make coke, and you can't blacksmith without coke.
It was one of the more fun classes I took (the physics class with lasers and holograms was a lot cooler).
The studies I saw that showed that "normal human employees will trade their passwords for sex, chocolate, or free theatre tickets" had a HUGE flaw -- they didn't check to see if the respondants were lying when they gave "their" password. Hell, if someone offered me sex for my password, I'd say "sure, it's swordfish." Which it isn't really, but I'd still get laid.
Ironically, piracy could have hurt them. Someone pirates a copy, finds out it's crap, and deletes it, when he may have gone out and bought a copy if it was any good. This is what many so-called pirates do; it isn't about being cheap, it's about not wanting to be ripped off by crap. The first time you get ripped off by a shitty $50 game you wouldn't have paid ten for, you're going to want to test drive the next one before buying.
You would think these people would learn from history, the same thing happened to game companies back in the late '80s when they were so sure that copying floppies was hurting their business. It did, because they started putting DRM on them and people howled, complained, and stopped buying.
Apogee sold 35,000 copies of the original Duke Nukem by giving it away free, and even more when the sequel was in stores. DN2 woudn't have been in stores had they not given away DN1 and become known.
Wheel chairs have their own problems and cause further medical problems. A study done a few years ago showed that 100% of the study's elderly subjects, even in their nineties (the oldest), who could walk 1/4 mile (about 1/2 km, 1 km =.6 mile) all were still alive five years later, and the distance one could walk correlated with how long you had to live.
This is only [damn, what's the word? I'm getting old!], but my cousin broke his neck at age 16 and was in a wheel chair the rest of his life -- he died last week at age 70, his mother is still thriving and in her upper 90s, as are all my mother's siblings.
In short, you stop walking, you die. Unless you're young, of course. Even then you'll die younger than you would have.
Better would be to have some sort of Segway-like tech that would help a walking geezer keep his or her balance. Or even a cane; my late WWII-era drinking buddy Ralph used a cane, and I never saw or heard of him fall.
I saw this yesterday. I'm 60, the only time I fall down is when I'm drunk. Sometimes I'm a bit wobbly when I first wake up until I've had coffee, even when I hadn't drank. What would this device "think" about that? My mother had an inner ear problem a few years ago (she's 84), I wonder if this would have kept her from breaking her arm?
So this comes down to whether you think the Constitution is a static document, written exactly how the authors pictured things in their time, or if it's designed to change and adapt as culture and language change around it.
Change was built into it, but it was deliberately made to be a hard task. It is indeed static, until amended, which it has been several times. And I see no language in it that has changed meaning since then; most words don't change meaning. I mean hell, you still dial the phone even though phones haven't had dials for over 40 years.
Name a single word in the Consitution that has changed meaning. I can't find one.
It is amazing to think that technology from 35 years ago is still operating and sending back data. We generally don't keep cars around for 35 years let alone computers, phones, or even kitchen appliances.
Not in this century, no, but that's planned obsolescence. I own a vaccuum cleaner my dad bought in 1952, and it still works. I have a mixer my grandmother bought in 1950 and it works, as well, although the motor's brushes wore out and I had to hack it back to life with a couple of springs from ballpoint pens (they don't last nearly as long as real brushes). Telephones used to last decades, and I'd wager there are phones out there from before the dial was invented that are still functional. I bought a Panasonic portable TV in 1969, and it was still going strong in 2004 when I left it at the foreclosed house. Hell, the drive-in I worked at in 1969 had a refrigerator that was manufactured in 1922.
The only reason your new stuff only lasts a few years is greed, both the manufacturer's and the consumer's -- they make it cheap and sell it cheap. In 1976 a twenty six inch TV cost $650, these days you can get a flat screen high def four times the size for less.
What's amazing about Voyager is that it's still working IN SPACE with all that hard ionizing radiation.
I never saw where the Voyagers would eventually wind up, in orbit around a neighboring star? Travelling forever between galaxies? Crashing into the Heart of Gold and being picked up by the Enterprise?
I tried making a router out of ducks once, it didn't work too well.
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TFS says it runs different desktops; take your pick. The last time I tried Suse was ten years ago. I would have liked it if half of my hardware would have worked (especially the video card). I think I'll give it another try, I have to downgrade kubuntu anyway since the latest upgrade broke Flash, and Amarok now freezes the PC if I leave it running for more than a few days. If Suse gives me trouble I'll just reinstall the earlier kubuntu (I shouldn't have upgraded, it was working fine).
Yeah, I know, I need more memory... but this isn't Windows. It should just work, like Mandrake always did. Aramok needs to work on their memory leaks.
So in short, W8 phones are as bad as W8 computers reportedly are? I'm glad I don't own MS stock!
I wonder if you can use it with Apple (even though I have no Apples, and wouldn't buy it anyway despite the fact that I have two Windows machines). No uploading or downloading?
The discrepancy between people who know technology and those who don't is huge. It's like putting mentally challenged people on a jury.
What's your IQ? If you're like most slashdotters (well, like most slashdotters seem to have used to be), most people will seem learning-disabled to you. And remember, learning-disabled people aren't disqualified from jury duty (although I would assume one or both lawyers would bounce them). AND, half of that jury will have a two digit IQ.
Nobody is an expert on everything, most of us are experts at one thing at best. It's the lawyers' jobs to find expert witnesses that can explain the details in a way that someone with an IQ of 85 can understand.
I don't think your average person on a jury understands what is at stake in a trial like this one.
It's up to the legal teams and witnesses to explain it to them.
Always been stocky. Now I'm a bit below 200 pounds, close to what I was at 14 - and I certainly wasn't fat back then.
That's the thing -- people have different metabolisms. The only time I ever gained weight was when I was on Paxil for a couple of years and gained 40 pounds. The stuff really lowered my metabolism and increased my appetite, and I was doing a lot of waling then, much more than before or after. I'm not so sure that obesity is the fat person's fault. Someone else could be cursed in the opposite way I've been blessed.
and I certainly wasn't fat back then.
Back when I was in the Air Force they instituted a "fat boy" program. If you were above a certain weight for your height they would put you out with a general discharge. One guy I was stationed with got tagged with this, a career man. But he was certainly not fat -- the guy was a weightlifter who probably didn't have two pounds of fat in his whole body. He got to stay in by eating nothing for two days, and drinking only beer and coffee to get rid of water weight. He lost enough water to stay in the service.
Similarly, it's the people entering the medicare and social security roles that are supporting things like a medicare voucher program but only for people who aren't about to retire.
And again, it's only the rich and the stupid tea partiers who listen to the rich's lies. Yes, if you're not in the top 5% and you're in the tea party, IMO you're an idiot.
there are a lot of people of that generation who are all for cutting government services for things they either received their benefit for or keep the services for things they will get benefit for, but cut it for everyone else after.
You mean like my grandparents, born in 1896 and 1903 who voted against FDR four times and railed against SS and Medicare? Again, it's not a generational thing, it's a class thing. And yes, my grandparents weren't very smart, as they were poor most of their lives. As my dad said when he was about as old as I am now, "Your grandmother keeps voting for the people who voted against the very things that keep her alive."
An awful lot of young folks I see are fine with medicare vouchers and 401Ks replacing pensions and social security. It's madness. And it's not just my generation, it's yours as well.
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I've seen folks with walkers fall too, but they were at the bar at the time. Hell, I saw one guy fall out of his motorized wheelchair!
No, it wouldn't apply to Ubisoft, but it would apply to a new game from them. Free advertising is the best kind, unless of course your product sucks.
DOS (Windows) copied CP/M. At the time, no commands or devices were compatible; that didn't happen until Compaq cloned the IBM BIOS.
Linux is a clone of Unix, and all the commands and devices are compatible. You can take a 40 year old Unix program, recompile it, and it will run on Linux (and now on Mac as well). In fact, Windows is the only incompatible OS (except some mainframe OSes).
But by "the new CP/M" I meant incompatible with everything and obsolete.
The 1963 Act only established a basic research program. Regulatory controls for air pollution were enacted in 1970. It was our protests and letters that got the environment cleaned up (I was 18 in 1970).
Fuck you, boomer.
Informative? Why is that insulting and misleading comment not modded flamebait? Don't you guys check wikipedia before moderating?
People get injured when their parachutes don't open, they get injured on movie sets, they get injured doing stupid non-movie stunts. So yes, people do get injured when falling intentionally.
Also, exoskeletons may have the same problems as wheelchairs, as far as making you die early is concerned.
It's just more than telling if granny is on the floor, TFA I read yesterday said it can fortell falls by a person's gait, preventing the fall in the first place.
The New Sony Xperia S is now supported by AOSP.
And it has the "XCP" easy-root feature, removes functionality from the device after it's already paid for, and leaves your customer info on an internet facing database in clear text.
Why would you buy a digital device from a company with a history like that? The foolishness of such a purchase borders on madness.
Stop buying eqipment from Sony lest everyone knows you to be a fool.
Blacksmithing? I took a blacksmithing class at SIU in the '70s. The only expensive part is the anvil, the rest of the tools you can make yourself. Getting coal for the forge might be problematic these days, though. You need coal or you can't make coke, and you can't blacksmith without coke.
It was one of the more fun classes I took (the physics class with lasers and holograms was a lot cooler).
The studies I saw that showed that "normal human employees will trade their passwords for sex, chocolate, or free theatre tickets" had a HUGE flaw -- they didn't check to see if the respondants were lying when they gave "their" password. Hell, if someone offered me sex for my password, I'd say "sure, it's swordfish." Which it isn't really, but I'd still get laid.
Ironically, piracy could have hurt them. Someone pirates a copy, finds out it's crap, and deletes it, when he may have gone out and bought a copy if it was any good. This is what many so-called pirates do; it isn't about being cheap, it's about not wanting to be ripped off by crap. The first time you get ripped off by a shitty $50 game you wouldn't have paid ten for, you're going to want to test drive the next one before buying.
You would think these people would learn from history, the same thing happened to game companies back in the late '80s when they were so sure that copying floppies was hurting their business. It did, because they started putting DRM on them and people howled, complained, and stopped buying.
Apogee sold 35,000 copies of the original Duke Nukem by giving it away free, and even more when the sequel was in stores. DN2 woudn't have been in stores had they not given away DN1 and become known.
Wheel chairs have their own problems and cause further medical problems. A study done a few years ago showed that 100% of the study's elderly subjects, even in their nineties (the oldest), who could walk 1/4 mile (about 1/2 km, 1 km = .6 mile) all were still alive five years later, and the distance one could walk correlated with how long you had to live.
This is only [damn, what's the word? I'm getting old!], but my cousin broke his neck at age 16 and was in a wheel chair the rest of his life -- he died last week at age 70, his mother is still thriving and in her upper 90s, as are all my mother's siblings.
In short, you stop walking, you die. Unless you're young, of course. Even then you'll die younger than you would have.
Better would be to have some sort of Segway-like tech that would help a walking geezer keep his or her balance. Or even a cane; my late WWII-era drinking buddy Ralph used a cane, and I never saw or heard of him fall.
I saw this yesterday. I'm 60, the only time I fall down is when I'm drunk. Sometimes I'm a bit wobbly when I first wake up until I've had coffee, even when I hadn't drank. What would this device "think" about that? My mother had an inner ear problem a few years ago (she's 84), I wonder if this would have kept her from breaking her arm?
So this comes down to whether you think the Constitution is a static document, written exactly how the authors pictured things in their time, or if it's designed to change and adapt as culture and language change around it.
Change was built into it, but it was deliberately made to be a hard task. It is indeed static, until amended, which it has been several times. And I see no language in it that has changed meaning since then; most words don't change meaning. I mean hell, you still dial the phone even though phones haven't had dials for over 40 years.
Name a single word in the Consitution that has changed meaning. I can't find one.
It is amazing to think that technology from 35 years ago is still operating and sending back data. We generally don't keep cars around for 35 years let alone computers, phones, or even kitchen appliances.
Not in this century, no, but that's planned obsolescence. I own a vaccuum cleaner my dad bought in 1952, and it still works. I have a mixer my grandmother bought in 1950 and it works, as well, although the motor's brushes wore out and I had to hack it back to life with a couple of springs from ballpoint pens (they don't last nearly as long as real brushes). Telephones used to last decades, and I'd wager there are phones out there from before the dial was invented that are still functional. I bought a Panasonic portable TV in 1969, and it was still going strong in 2004 when I left it at the foreclosed house. Hell, the drive-in I worked at in 1969 had a refrigerator that was manufactured in 1922.
The only reason your new stuff only lasts a few years is greed, both the manufacturer's and the consumer's -- they make it cheap and sell it cheap. In 1976 a twenty six inch TV cost $650, these days you can get a flat screen high def four times the size for less.
What's amazing about Voyager is that it's still working IN SPACE with all that hard ionizing radiation.
I never saw where the Voyagers would eventually wind up, in orbit around a neighboring star? Travelling forever between galaxies? Crashing into the Heart of Gold and being picked up by the Enterprise?
I've become bored and annoyed with an ecosystem that relies on hack upon hack just to keep your phone useful after a year.
MS has been doing that with Windows since W95. Why do you expect their phones to be any different?
I tried making a router out of ducks once, it didn't work too well.
TFS says it runs different desktops; take your pick. The last time I tried Suse was ten years ago. I would have liked it if half of my hardware would have worked (especially the video card). I think I'll give it another try, I have to downgrade kubuntu anyway since the latest upgrade broke Flash, and Amarok now freezes the PC if I leave it running for more than a few days. If Suse gives me trouble I'll just reinstall the earlier kubuntu (I shouldn't have upgraded, it was working fine).
Yeah, I know, I need more memory... but this isn't Windows. It should just work, like Mandrake always did. Aramok needs to work on their memory leaks.
So in short, W8 phones are as bad as W8 computers reportedly are? I'm glad I don't own MS stock!
I wonder if you can use it with Apple (even though I have no Apples, and wouldn't buy it anyway despite the fact that I have two Windows machines). No uploading or downloading?
Is Windows going to be the new CP/M?
I will find and excuse to use the phrase 'Schroedinger's Laptop' someday.
I have an easier one for you -- Schroedinger's fridge!
The discrepancy between people who know technology and those who don't is huge. It's like putting mentally challenged people on a jury.
What's your IQ? If you're like most slashdotters (well, like most slashdotters seem to have used to be), most people will seem learning-disabled to you. And remember, learning-disabled people aren't disqualified from jury duty (although I would assume one or both lawyers would bounce them). AND, half of that jury will have a two digit IQ.
Nobody is an expert on everything, most of us are experts at one thing at best. It's the lawyers' jobs to find expert witnesses that can explain the details in a way that someone with an IQ of 85 can understand.
I don't think your average person on a jury understands what is at stake in a trial like this one.
It's up to the legal teams and witnesses to explain it to them.
Always been stocky. Now I'm a bit below 200 pounds, close to what I was at 14 - and I certainly wasn't fat back then.
That's the thing -- people have different metabolisms. The only time I ever gained weight was when I was on Paxil for a couple of years and gained 40 pounds. The stuff really lowered my metabolism and increased my appetite, and I was doing a lot of waling then, much more than before or after. I'm not so sure that obesity is the fat person's fault. Someone else could be cursed in the opposite way I've been blessed.
and I certainly wasn't fat back then.
Back when I was in the Air Force they instituted a "fat boy" program. If you were above a certain weight for your height they would put you out with a general discharge. One guy I was stationed with got tagged with this, a career man. But he was certainly not fat -- the guy was a weightlifter who probably didn't have two pounds of fat in his whole body. He got to stay in by eating nothing for two days, and drinking only beer and coffee to get rid of water weight. He lost enough water to stay in the service.
Of course, since then they've come up with BMI.
That makes sense, thank you.
Do you also believe in leprechauns or unicorns?
They found Leprechan fossils in Indonesia, and Unicorns live in the Arctic Ocean. I didn't used to believe in either one.
"There is more in heaven and earth than dreamed of in your philosophy, Horatio."
Similarly, it's the people entering the medicare and social security roles that are supporting things like a medicare voucher program but only for people who aren't about to retire.
And again, it's only the rich and the stupid tea partiers who listen to the rich's lies. Yes, if you're not in the top 5% and you're in the tea party, IMO you're an idiot.
there are a lot of people of that generation who are all for cutting government services for things they either received their benefit for or keep the services for things they will get benefit for, but cut it for everyone else after.
You mean like my grandparents, born in 1896 and 1903 who voted against FDR four times and railed against SS and Medicare? Again, it's not a generational thing, it's a class thing. And yes, my grandparents weren't very smart, as they were poor most of their lives. As my dad said when he was about as old as I am now, "Your grandmother keeps voting for the people who voted against the very things that keep her alive."
An awful lot of young folks I see are fine with medicare vouchers and 401Ks replacing pensions and social security. It's madness. And it's not just my generation, it's yours as well.