Apple is also the one advancing web browsers (WebKit),
Wasn't that the KDE web browser from Linux??
Isn't Swift the language that even Apple still isn't doing much substancial with? I bet the Swift compiler is still written in a variant of C.
There is not a single large computer company that anbody with a creative spirit would work in today. That's like working for an Office Equipment company. Hay! Cool! I have a job at Steelcase making modular cubicle compnents!!
I have a 2012 i7 Dell Latitude that I bought at a flea market for $250. And I know exactly where it came from (reconditioned from a University surplus auction) so it's not shady goods.
Steve Jobs stood on a speaking platform and proclaimed the 128K Mac 'hacker proof.' What he meant was that it was a sealed-case unit and that there would be nobody fidgeting around inside the sealed box.
That was when I started hating Apple. They'd done a few reprehensible things before that point, but that was when they became hateful to hardware hackers and nerds and assorted freaks. Apple used to be reviled here on Slashdot in the early days, a sentiment pushed by us nerds.
And don't get me started on the long-promised "universal inbox and address book"....
Ummm, That would be a problem, because people would be constantly losing the 'unit' or the 'identity labeling device.' So it would need to be permanently strapped to the wrist or implanted.
When they introduced high resolution displays on the iPod Touch and Iphone, they most certianly did NOT 'just work.' It broke many, many apps in the App Store. App developers had to then 'fix' their apps to work on the Retina display.
That's just one example. When they broke 'removable storage' with the first iMac, millions of users had to go out and buy a USB floppy drive.
There are countless other examples. They are no different than any other tech company.
Several large purchasers don't dwarf the millions of single vehicle purchasers who choose a pickup truck. Maybe you live in a region that is different, where car snobbery is more important. I bought my light truck off the dealer's lot new with two digits on the odometer in 2006 for $15K and 0% interest. It was a very low cost for a quite durable vehicle that now has 160k miles and I hope to be driving another 10 years..
What are these "truck things" you speak of? I drive a very stripped (not even air conditioning or power anything in the cab) Ford Ranger with the four cylinder engine. It's certainly not dicksize compensation. It's good for hauling anything I want, and the high clearance and high ride is nice.
The sheepfuckers (what does a farmer keep a "Ram" on the farm for except to service the ewes?) are of course a very different thing.
It's lots of individuals buying pickup trucks. Maybe you live in a different area than I do, but lots of individually owned trucks are on the road here. Possibly the covenant in your neighborhood doesn't allow trucks in your driveway. Here where I live goats aren't even forbidden.
Perhaps the cuts are being made to improve education. I notice that a significant number of the positions being eliminated are non-teaching. Sometimes thick layers of administrative bloat have to be sloughed off to improve an entity. It would certainly improve education in the US to prune administrative staff at many schools.
Why is a person's SSN and date of birth 'sensitive information.'
Now, I know that the Credit Industry wants to be able to use this information to obligate us to assume responsibility for any debt they might choose to inflict on us.
But how is it in our benefit for this to be Secret Information? The Social Security Administration was not intended to issue 'secret numbers' to people.
The Government should publish all SSNs and in effect disallow the Credit Agencies from using this information against us. It wouldn't even take the government to shut down this system. If 10% of the population decided that enough was enough and disclosed their SSNs with a statement 'this is not enough information to authorize credit disbursement' it would take down the system.
Well, if you strip off the ++ part, you have C, and C has pointers, which are actually hardware memory addresses, so it can be low level. Not C++ or Java, though.
You'd better learn to deal with the fact that your "layout" is fluid on the World Wide Web. People can choose how to render your hypertext markup on their own machines. If they chose to use this Brave browser it's none of your business. If it upsets you, program your server to respond to their User Agent as you choose.
As far as copyrighted layouts go, fuck off. Reference my first sentence.
I wouldn't call NetBSD the least stable. Porting an OS to many different architectures shakes out a lot of bugs that you don't see with an architecture that plods along running on only one or a few platforms.
The BSDs, particularly NetBSD and FreeBSD, are very compact, and there's only one 'distribution' of them. When a tag is laid down for a new version, it's not just a kernel, it's an entire core userland that can be checked out, updated, and built consistently. BSD isn't a 'distro' because it's not composed of whatever dogs breakfast of utilities and toolchains one particular person or group kludged all together to call a 'distribution.' And the core installer for a BSD is compact and quick to install. The NetBSD 7.0 i386 installer iso is only 414,408 KB.
Yes, but after removing the leaves, the lawn fanatic dumps chemicals into it to keep that poor over managed grass alive.
Our yard has a big ten foot round faerie ring of mushrooms in it. I don't fuck with it because it's neat to have a many decades old mycellium in the soil near our house
Bitcoin has always been a hype thing, like Beanie Babies or Magic the Gathering cards. Currencies need to have stable known values so they are useful as a means to exchange. Not wildly fluctuating speculation instruments.
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Apple is also the one advancing web browsers (WebKit),
Wasn't that the KDE web browser from Linux??
Isn't Swift the language that even Apple still isn't doing much substancial with? I bet the Swift compiler is still written in a variant of C.
There is not a single large computer company that anbody with a creative spirit would work in today. That's like working for an Office Equipment company. Hay! Cool! I have a job at Steelcase making modular cubicle compnents!!
I have a 2012 i7 Dell Latitude that I bought at a flea market for $250. And I know exactly where it came from (reconditioned from a University surplus auction) so it's not shady goods.
Nice anecdote. What kind of crap websites is your daughter hanging out on? I'd ask that question before I'd worry about a little malware.
without being conned or fleeced.
With Apple's margins you can say things like that with a straight face?
People are slowly figuring it out. Apple is 'such a rich company' because of lots of money they got somewhere and people are figuring it out.
I bought a 6S. I wouldn't buy an Android other than the occasional one I have to buy for development reasons. The OS and the available apps are shit.
A lot of us have vowed we will never again buy an iOS based device. Because we have earlier devices that have been abandoned by the App Store.
Saying 'the OS and the available apps are shit' is really cheap words. What the fuck do you really mean?
Steve Jobs stood on a speaking platform and proclaimed the 128K Mac 'hacker proof.' What he meant was that it was a sealed-case unit and that there would be nobody fidgeting around inside the sealed box.
That was when I started hating Apple. They'd done a few reprehensible things before that point, but that was when they became hateful to hardware hackers and nerds and assorted freaks. Apple used to be reviled here on Slashdot in the early days, a sentiment pushed by us nerds.
When a company is highly successful, the business shitbags climb aboard en mass. That's just how it always goes.
And don't get me started on the long-promised "universal inbox and address book"....
Ummm, That would be a problem, because people would be constantly losing the 'unit' or the 'identity labeling device.' So it would need to be permanently strapped to the wrist or implanted.
Ummm.
When they introduced high resolution displays on the iPod Touch and Iphone, they most certianly did NOT 'just work.' It broke many, many apps in the App Store. App developers had to then 'fix' their apps to work on the Retina display.
That's just one example. When they broke 'removable storage' with the first iMac, millions of users had to go out and buy a USB floppy drive.
There are countless other examples. They are no different than any other tech company.
Real truck, as in the same chassis as a pickup but with a custom bed replacement or a van body on it?
Or are you meaning an 18 Wheeler?
Nowhere to put the groceries?? Are you buying pallet loads of groceries, and your truck has a bed too narrow for the pallet?
Or do you have a "decorative" cover over the bed with a spoiler on back?
Several large purchasers don't dwarf the millions of single vehicle purchasers who choose a pickup truck. Maybe you live in a region that is different, where car snobbery is more important. I bought my light truck off the dealer's lot new with two digits on the odometer in 2006 for $15K and 0% interest. It was a very low cost for a quite durable vehicle that now has 160k miles and I hope to be driving another 10 years..
What are these "truck things" you speak of? I drive a very stripped (not even air conditioning or power anything in the cab) Ford Ranger with the four cylinder engine. It's certainly not dicksize compensation. It's good for hauling anything I want, and the high clearance and high ride is nice.
The sheepfuckers (what does a farmer keep a "Ram" on the farm for except to service the ewes?) are of course a very different thing.
It's lots of individuals buying pickup trucks. Maybe you live in a different area than I do, but lots of individually owned trucks are on the road here. Possibly the covenant in your neighborhood doesn't allow trucks in your driveway. Here where I live goats aren't even forbidden.
Perhaps the cuts are being made to improve education. I notice that a significant number of the positions being eliminated are non-teaching. Sometimes thick layers of administrative bloat have to be sloughed off to improve an entity. It would certainly improve education in the US to prune administrative staff at many schools.
Why is a person's SSN and date of birth 'sensitive information.'
Now, I know that the Credit Industry wants to be able to use this information to obligate us to assume responsibility for any debt they might choose to inflict on us.
But how is it in our benefit for this to be Secret Information? The Social Security Administration was not intended to issue 'secret numbers' to people.
The Government should publish all SSNs and in effect disallow the Credit Agencies from using this information against us. It wouldn't even take the government to shut down this system. If 10% of the population decided that enough was enough and disclosed their SSNs with a statement 'this is not enough information to authorize credit disbursement' it would take down the system.
And you're an anonymous commenter on a blog. Get off that hobby horse, runt.
Well, if you strip off the ++ part, you have C, and C has pointers, which are actually hardware memory addresses, so it can be low level. Not C++ or Java, though.
You'd better learn to deal with the fact that your "layout" is fluid on the World Wide Web. People can choose how to render your hypertext markup on their own machines. If they chose to use this Brave browser it's none of your business. If it upsets you, program your server to respond to their User Agent as you choose.
As far as copyrighted layouts go, fuck off. Reference my first sentence.
You are entitled to TRY to make money off your website.
We're entitled to not care if you don't.
I can forsee that a lot of people would rather still pay the $.99 per year and not deal with this new 'business model.' Will that be an option?
(who am I kidding?)
I wouldn't call NetBSD the least stable. Porting an OS to many different architectures shakes out a lot of bugs that you don't see with an architecture that plods along running on only one or a few platforms.
The BSDs, particularly NetBSD and FreeBSD, are very compact, and there's only one 'distribution' of them. When a tag is laid down for a new version, it's not just a kernel, it's an entire core userland that can be checked out, updated, and built consistently. BSD isn't a 'distro' because it's not composed of whatever dogs breakfast of utilities and toolchains one particular person or group kludged all together to call a 'distribution.' And the core installer for a BSD is compact and quick to install. The NetBSD 7.0 i386 installer iso is only 414,408 KB.
Sun was never a Linux company. Linux on Sparc has always and will always be rather weak. You run Sparc hardware, it's Solaris or a BSD.
Yes, but after removing the leaves, the lawn fanatic dumps chemicals into it to keep that poor over managed grass alive.
Our yard has a big ten foot round faerie ring of mushrooms in it. I don't fuck with it because it's neat to have a many decades old mycellium in the soil near our house
Bitcoin has always been a hype thing, like Beanie Babies or Magic the Gathering cards. Currencies need to have stable known values so they are useful as a means to exchange. Not wildly fluctuating speculation instruments.