Hang on to them (Link is to the text of the Asimov short story "The Fun They Had").
Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed May 17, 2157, she wrote, "Today, Tommy found a real book!"
It was a very old book. Margie's grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper.
They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to--on a screen, you know. And then, when they turned back to the page before, it had the same words on it that it had had when they read it the first time.
It's an open design that has been in use for years in most phones with no trouble at all. Why would it need to be tested further? The marketplace has shown that it meets its goals.
Usually those extra accessories will try to take advantage of a unique feature in the phone, so even if the cable fits it doesn't mean the software will work with it.
USB is a standard. The USB on my kyocera will work on your HTC. That's what STANDARD means. "Sticking it to the Americans" is just stupid. Remember, Google's Nexus uses the same STANDARD mini-USB as everyone else's phones... except Apple, who seem to be taking a page from Microsoft's playbook.
Introducing the iLamp (requires iBulbs). See the problem?
You guys find a backdoor in a Chinese product and say it's the NSA?? If these were Cisco routers I'd agree, but I don't see the NSA putting back doors in Chinese firmware. I'd say it's so the Chinese government can spy on their citizens. You don't really think the USA is alone in building a surveillance state, do you?
For two "troll" downmods in a post that merely states the opinion that a page about how to secure against SQL injection either someone hates your sig and thought it was part of the comment, or you're the victim of a mod bomber.
The law is only for little people. Who went to prison when Sony rooted and vandalized thousands of computers with their XCP malware? Nobody. You have to hack a rich person's or organization's computers to go to jail. You and I don't count.
I'm puzzled by complaints about fragility and having to be plugged in the right way. My last two phones and the one I have now had and have micro-USB. The cables outlasted the phones. OTOH, I've had a lot of those 1/8 inch audio jacks break. U wish they'd use RCA jacks on computers (it wouldn't work on a phone).
I would guess that most problems with any plugs stem from users pulling them out holding the wire rather than the plug.
USB itself will only plug in one way, polarized wall plugs only plug in one way, and I don't remember anyone bitching when they went from non-polarized to polarized wall plugs.
I don't like carrying more than a hundred dollars in cash, I drink in a bad neighborhood. ATMs are a waste of money with their stupid fees, I stopped using them years ago.
I think his reaction to a kidney transplant in ST IV: The Search for Greenpeace belies that.
The 1966 McCoy, not the 1986 McCoy. And even there the 1982 McCoy couldn't cure Kirk's age-related presbyopia without eyedrops that soften aging lenses, but Dr. Yeh cured mine in 2006 with surgery (that the 1986 McCoy would have called "barbaric" despite the fact that it was painless).
Well, slide rules have been around for 500 years. As to my grandparents, they would have been wowed by radio, let alone TV. They would have been in their early 20s when broadcasting started.
I remember my grandma telling me how cool it was when she saw her first airplane fly over when she was eight, she was born 3 months before the Wright Brothers took off at Kitty Hawk. From being amazed at an airplane and radio to seeing a man walk on the moon on TV.
To me, the most wondrous thing I own is inside my eyeball. I wore thick glasses all my life until I got the implant, now I not only don't need corrective lenses at all, I have better than 20/20 vision at all distances, and I'm 61 years old!
A 14 year old today watching ST:TOS would not see the same show I saw at 14. Flat screen computers with voice recognition, communicators, doors that opened by themselves, McCoy's sick bay were all fantasy then. Now it's not only old hat, normal things a 14 year old would have grown up with, but it all looks primitive today compared to what we have now. McCoy would be in awe of a modern hospital.
I wondered what a kernel panic looked like. Ten years of Linux and never experienced that myself. I guess KDE is more stable than Android (or the computer's hardware is better).
There is a great deal of evidence to indicate we are no longer capable of advancing software. It has been remarked that if we built buildings the same way we build software the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
That seems a bit contradictory. If the state of the art sucks (i.e., is primitive) there is certainly room for advancement.
The only measure of how good software is depends on how shiny and "innovative" the user interface is. What the software actually does is utterly irrelevant.
Well, the front end and back end are equally important. But the thing is, anybody can write software. Learn a language and outdo everybody. Or learn assembler and write a new language that overcomes the downfalls of present languages.
But I think your gripe is with how commercial software is developed. Fuck commercial software, real nerds will do without it.
There are plenty of bugs in iOS, even for low-permission apps.
It may not even have to exploit a bug. You could reboot DOS with a program a few bytes long. You could exploit a feature of the OS in a way nobody thought of before to BSOD any device, provided everything fell into place.
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Hang on to them (Link is to the text of the Asimov short story "The Fun They Had").
It's an open design that has been in use for years in most phones with no trouble at all. Why would it need to be tested further? The marketplace has shown that it meets its goals.
Usually those extra accessories will try to take advantage of a unique feature in the phone, so even if the cable fits it doesn't mean the software will work with it.
USB is a standard. The USB on my kyocera will work on your HTC. That's what STANDARD means. "Sticking it to the Americans" is just stupid. Remember, Google's Nexus uses the same STANDARD mini-USB as everyone else's phones... except Apple, who seem to be taking a page from Microsoft's playbook.
Introducing the iLamp (requires iBulbs). See the problem?
You guys find a backdoor in a Chinese product and say it's the NSA?? If these were Cisco routers I'd agree, but I don't see the NSA putting back doors in Chinese firmware. I'd say it's so the Chinese government can spy on their citizens. You don't really think the USA is alone in building a surveillance state, do you?
Class action isn't about customers winning, it's purpose is to teach the company a lesson.
For two "troll" downmods in a post that merely states the opinion that a page about how to secure against SQL injection either someone hates your sig and thought it was part of the comment, or you're the victim of a mod bomber.
Some people shouldn't be allowed to moderate.
The law is only for little people. Who went to prison when Sony rooted and vandalized thousands of computers with their XCP malware? Nobody. You have to hack a rich person's or organization's computers to go to jail. You and I don't count.
I'm puzzled by complaints about fragility and having to be plugged in the right way. My last two phones and the one I have now had and have micro-USB. The cables outlasted the phones. OTOH, I've had a lot of those 1/8 inch audio jacks break. U wish they'd use RCA jacks on computers (it wouldn't work on a phone).
I would guess that most problems with any plugs stem from users pulling them out holding the wire rather than the plug.
USB itself will only plug in one way, polarized wall plugs only plug in one way, and I don't remember anyone bitching when they went from non-polarized to polarized wall plugs.
Not just drinking, of course. I love good food and hate cooking, so I spend more in restaurants than in bars.
Yeah, getting that genie back in the bottle will surely be successful. Right.
I'd downmod you for being stupidly wrong but I don't have mod points, shill.
I don't like carrying more than a hundred dollars in cash, I drink in a bad neighborhood. ATMs are a waste of money with their stupid fees, I stopped using them years ago.
Yes. More likely I was just lucky.
I think his reaction to a kidney transplant in ST IV: The Search for Greenpeace belies that.
The 1966 McCoy, not the 1986 McCoy. And even there the 1982 McCoy couldn't cure Kirk's age-related presbyopia without eyedrops that soften aging lenses, but Dr. Yeh cured mine in 2006 with surgery (that the 1986 McCoy would have called "barbaric" despite the fact that it was painless).
About 350lbs short, I suspect.
Even more glad now!
Well, slide rules have been around for 500 years. As to my grandparents, they would have been wowed by radio, let alone TV. They would have been in their early 20s when broadcasting started.
I remember my grandma telling me how cool it was when she saw her first airplane fly over when she was eight, she was born 3 months before the Wright Brothers took off at Kitty Hawk. From being amazed at an airplane and radio to seeing a man walk on the moon on TV.
To me, the most wondrous thing I own is inside my eyeball. I wore thick glasses all my life until I got the implant, now I not only don't need corrective lenses at all, I have better than 20/20 vision at all distances, and I'm 61 years old!
A 14 year old today watching ST:TOS would not see the same show I saw at 14. Flat screen computers with voice recognition, communicators, doors that opened by themselves, McCoy's sick bay were all fantasy then. Now it's not only old hat, normal things a 14 year old would have grown up with, but it all looks primitive today compared to what we have now. McCoy would be in awe of a modern hospital.
I wondered what a kernel panic looked like. Ten years of Linux and never experienced that myself. I guess KDE is more stable than Android (or the computer's hardware is better).
Ah, I missed the word "most". Good catch.
There is a great deal of evidence to indicate we are no longer capable of advancing software. It has been remarked that if we built buildings the same way we build software the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
That seems a bit contradictory. If the state of the art sucks (i.e., is primitive) there is certainly room for advancement.
The only measure of how good software is depends on how shiny and "innovative" the user interface is. What the software actually does is utterly irrelevant.
Well, the front end and back end are equally important. But the thing is, anybody can write software. Learn a language and outdo everybody. Or learn assembler and write a new language that overcomes the downfalls of present languages.
But I think your gripe is with how commercial software is developed. Fuck commercial software, real nerds will do without it.
Chill out, dude.
No, I laughed harder at "you win" (but I've been smoking tonight). Somebody mod these jokers up, I enjoyed that!
Of course, right now I'd probably laugh at the government... Oh, wait...
There are plenty of bugs in iOS, even for low-permission apps.
It may not even have to exploit a bug. You could reboot DOS with a program a few bytes long. You could exploit a feature of the OS in a way nobody thought of before to BSOD any device, provided everything fell into place.
But damn it, I'm jealous! I'm running Linux on my computer and Android on my phone and they don't have that feature! Damn.
Always behind the curve, I am.
I guess I'm glad I'm not you.
Someone please mod this guy up. It's a much broader view.