The aforementioned 2/3 of 'workers' probably don't need to be online to do their work. The simple fix is for their connection to the outside world to be snipped. Physical security measures can be used to ensure that the data is then 'protected' for the most part.
Obviously there are other means and ways for data to be stolen and leaked out, but the first order of business needs to be:
"You're too casual about security for any hardware you can access to be connected to the outside." Take away their connection. Several public shared kiosks can be set up in the office area they work in for essential needs.
The hardware producers deprecate drivers and eventually take them offline. So if you're working with an older version of hardware or need the drivers for an older version of the OS, you're out of luck.
That doesn't matter in the least for the 'shiney-new' crowd. It's 'easier' to just download the official approved drivers, and when the drivers are no longer available flash some plastic for the new hardware.
Why would anybody want 'old' stuff? Isn't it illegal to use 'old' stuff since it takes away from the producers who want you to pay them for 'new' stuff? (the boys in Washington need to get working on this issue)
If the teens DO use something, it's about to be dead. Or eventually will.
Physical distribution won't ever go away. There are entities that wish it would. But a TRS-80 Model 100 still has everything you need to write a novel. An HP-95 pocket computer still has everything you need for most mobile calculations.
Heck, an old Olivetti manual typewriter and a ream of paper is still a powerful set of tools for idea capture and creation.
Source code was distributed in interesting ways in the era when 'online' was the 7-bit ASCII stream.
I have the 'Forbidden Subjects' CD-ROM, sold by mail order out of the back of various magazines back in the 90's. It has a large collection of all the TABOO stuff from the internet back then. All the occult 'Black Magick and satanism' archives, including stuff published without permission from organizations like the OTO and TOPY.
It also has a large collect of phrack magazine and a bunch of virus newsletters and article archives. Reading it turned me off to the Virus scene because I had assumed it would have interesting discussions of exploits published as ASM source code. Instead all it featured for the most part was 'debug scripts' which were streams of characters to pipe into DEBUG to generate virus.COM files. I am sure that somewhere there were more than Script Kiddies out there, but the real hackers held their cards closer than the stuff published in the Forbidden Subjects CD.
I once encountered a floppy diskette that was part of the Microsoft Word 6.0 installation set. This was apparently a special edition, because it was on a 360K floppy diskette. I believe it was disk x of 100 something.
I still have Windows 98 on 5-1/4" floppies, because Microsoft offered to send it to you for free if you bought the edition distributed on 3-1/2" floppies. I have two sets because for some reason they shipped me two copies when I requested them.
The 5-1/4" distribution of Windows 95 is unique in that it's the only distribution of Windows 95 that doesn't require a CD key or fingerprint the diskette when you install it. For years I had a copy of that on CD that was the contents of all the diskettes copied into a single directory and burned to CD. It's the most primitive and first release of Windows 95, back when Microsoft was competing with CompuServ and AOL to be the 'Online Service', hence from before 'the Internet' had been discovered by Microsoft. It's really 'clean' and small with no Internet Anything installed. And as the first ever version of Windows 95 it has EVERY bug of the initial release (obviously)
It kind of annoyed me to see Walnut Creek being called 'shovel-ware' in the summary. They published whole archives of MS-DOS as a unit and provided a service to those of us who weren't well-connected. The SIMTEL MS-DOS archive and the CICA archive.
I would send images to this collector, but originals are going to one day be valuable collector's items.
I have the first Linux-on-CD distribution, it was published by Yggdrasil and it's called 'LGX' which I think they were hoping to coin as their own proprietary name for a Linux Distro. Yggdrail made numerous other versions of their 'Plug and Play Linux' distribution, but the first one was published with a plain white manual cover with green/black ink printing. It is THE first time Linux was published on a CD, in the Fall of 1992. I bought it at 'CD-ROM City' which was a storefront in Dinkytown. Back in the dialup era stores that sold a large variety of CD-ROMs were a godsend.
I bought the ID Anthology, which has fully registered 'legal' copies of every game published by ID. Up to Quake 1, which was the current game when the Anthology was published. There is more than the CDs in the box, there's also a Long Distance Dialing time card, some sort of pewter swag item, and there was a T-Shirt but I am certain I wore that out.
I have a lot of Walnet Creek CDs, too,
I also have a CD called the 'C CD' published by a company called Alde which was purportedly a C Source Code CD (it has a collection of public domain source code on it) but is really a hidden stash of girlie GIFs. The hidden directories are simply 'hidden' with the 'hiden' filesystem flag. It's also ISO-9660 non-compliant, I am not sure how, but it kicks out certain errors. I suspect it's either pre-ISO-9660 or was just from the era before the standard was strongly in place (or the publisher was sneaking out a CD of girlie GIFS and not paying much attention)
I hope someone is archiving the old CDROM porn collections. There were a number of publishers, and it was cheesy but quite expensive for the time.
The Trash Collection service I use is called something like 'D & R Trash Service.' (name changed to preserve anonymnity.) When I call their business number, either D or R answers the phone. They are husband and wife. It's a pretty small operation, they only have the one truck.
They never answer the phone 'master' so I assume they are not my slaves. Thus, they somehow have freely chosen to run their small Trash Hauling company because it generates revenue for them.
As a non-welfare state, this should be a basic matter of public policy in the US.
The two halves of your sentence contradict themselves. We're not a welfare state, so there shouldn't be 'public policy' wage fixations. A minimum wage is essentially a form of 'welfare.'
It's also a huge incentive for businesses to adopt more automation and/or offshore as many jobs as they can to places where there are no minimum wages, for instance to the places where Obama and the Republicans are trying to export more jobs with their latest 'Trade Policy' adventure.
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'Tea Baggers' (except for the sexual ones, of course) are advocates of a single issue where it comes to 'tea party' stuff: cutting taxes. That's all. There are a ton of different sorts of people who lean toward the Tea Party thing. Please don't be so ignorant as to slap the label around recklessly.
So you're saying that Apple should capture and control the whole market for televisions and consumer electronics, because when they do so, there will be the blissful simplicity that everyone will have the same simple to use and unified remote controls and all complexity will just wither away?
Yes. Right. But that's a little tautological. The same thing would be true if there was only one crappy TV available, say a single model picked at random from Walmart. The complexity and confusion would be gone, and we'd all have One Unified Interface we could learn.
Probably just as fast as gummi bears outsell Rolex watches. It's just as relevant a comparison. Except gummi bears go stale, but don't become obsolete in a year or two.
Rolex watches? Obsolete?? They're not crappy consumer electronics gadgets.
'Catch up' only matters if you ever look at the 'leaderboards.'
WoW is a virtual world and you can play it as a 'regular grunt' and just have fun how you wish. Sometimes just leveling up skinning in Elwynn Forest is a fun escape for a few hours or days.
As in real life, you don't have to be part of the core of the vanguard unless that's your thing. The only way to lose at WoW is to accept the notion that it is possible to win at WoW.
General skills, aka the ability to succeed in society without reverting to drug abuse, are considered when a company is hiring.
I'm not excusing it, just explaining it.
You are more likely to be discriminated against for benign hobbies like being into electronics or hobby computer programming, than for drugs. HR types want template employees who can be impressed into the Work Instructions regime as outlined in the Job Description these days, not well-rounded people with an extreme interest in the things they work with.
Have you ever: tried to get a passport for a minor without the other parent's signature? tried to travel as the sole parent of a minor? tried to enter a country as the sole parent of a minor?
What's weird is how easy it is for minors from other countries to get into the USA without their parent's documented permission. And once they are here, the government vigorously ignores the fact that they might have parents back in their home country who should take responsibility for them.
Apple has never been very good at Systems software. The old MacOS was a huge piled-on mess. Their User Interface design took precedence over robust design 'beneath the hood.'
The Macintosh didn't have per-emptive multitasking until they finally gave up on an in-house redesigned new MacOS. There was Taligent, and Butt-Headed-Astronomer (previously known as 'Sagan' until Sagan sued them!)
Apple spent many millions in attempts at a new Operating System before finally giving up and buying NeXT Step, which itself is just pretty layers on top of UNIX.
They are an 'Industrial Design' and 'Marketing' firm. Better at coming up with cute names for APIs and proprietary versions of interfaces than actual nuts and bolts design.
It's not a bad idea to put holes or pads for despiking capacitors all over the board, at least one per chip in your design. They should be connected as close as possible between the power and ground supply leads for the chips. These may not all need to be populated in the final design, but having them there will make it easier to add capacitors if they end up being needed to clean up the power distribution and prevent hardware glitches when the device is operating.
It's not a bad idea to explore around the power supply rails on the prototype circuit with a scope looking for glitches and noise induced into the circuit by rapidly changing digital signals into and out of the active parts of your circuit.
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Wouldn't Oregon Trail be on punched paper tape? Or maybe 1200 BPI 1/2" tape?
I know there were later CD-ROM versions of Oregon Trail. For the newbs.
The aforementioned 2/3 of 'workers' probably don't need to be online to do their work. The simple fix is for their connection to the outside world to be snipped. Physical security measures can be used to ensure that the data is then 'protected' for the most part.
Obviously there are other means and ways for data to be stolen and leaked out, but the first order of business needs to be:
"You're too casual about security for any hardware you can access to be connected to the outside." Take away their connection. Several public shared kiosks can be set up in the office area they work in for essential needs.
Sorry, Facebook. Sorry Google.
The hardware producers deprecate drivers and eventually take them offline. So if you're working with an older version of hardware or need the drivers for an older version of the OS, you're out of luck.
That doesn't matter in the least for the 'shiney-new' crowd. It's 'easier' to just download the official approved drivers, and when the drivers are no longer available flash some plastic for the new hardware.
Why would anybody want 'old' stuff? Isn't it illegal to use 'old' stuff since it takes away from the producers who want you to pay them for 'new' stuff? (the boys in Washington need to get working on this issue)
If the teens DO use something, it's about to be dead. Or eventually will.
Physical distribution won't ever go away. There are entities that wish it would. But a TRS-80 Model 100 still has everything you need to write a novel. An HP-95 pocket computer still has everything you need for most mobile calculations.
Heck, an old Olivetti manual typewriter and a ream of paper is still a powerful set of tools for idea capture and creation.
Source code was distributed in interesting ways in the era when 'online' was the 7-bit ASCII stream.
I have the 'Forbidden Subjects' CD-ROM, sold by mail order out of the back of various magazines back in the 90's. It has a large collection of all the TABOO stuff from the internet back then. All the occult 'Black Magick and satanism' archives, including stuff published without permission from organizations like the OTO and TOPY.
It also has a large collect of phrack magazine and a bunch of virus newsletters and article archives. Reading it turned me off to the Virus scene because I had assumed it would have interesting discussions of exploits published as ASM source code. Instead all it featured for the most part was 'debug scripts' which were streams of characters to pipe into DEBUG to generate virus .COM files. I am sure that somewhere there were more than Script Kiddies out there, but the real hackers held their cards closer than the stuff published in the Forbidden Subjects CD.
I once encountered a floppy diskette that was part of the Microsoft Word 6.0 installation set. This was apparently a special edition, because it was on a 360K floppy diskette. I believe it was disk x of 100 something.
I still have Windows 98 on 5-1/4" floppies, because Microsoft offered to send it to you for free if you bought the edition distributed on 3-1/2" floppies. I have two sets because for some reason they shipped me two copies when I requested them.
The 5-1/4" distribution of Windows 95 is unique in that it's the only distribution of Windows 95 that doesn't require a CD key or fingerprint the diskette when you install it. For years I had a copy of that on CD that was the contents of all the diskettes copied into a single directory and burned to CD. It's the most primitive and first release of Windows 95, back when Microsoft was competing with CompuServ and AOL to be the 'Online Service', hence from before 'the Internet' had been discovered by Microsoft. It's really 'clean' and small with no Internet Anything installed. And as the first ever version of Windows 95 it has EVERY bug of the initial release (obviously)
It kind of annoyed me to see Walnut Creek being called 'shovel-ware' in the summary. They published whole archives of MS-DOS as a unit and provided a service to those of us who weren't well-connected. The SIMTEL MS-DOS archive and the CICA archive.
I would send images to this collector, but originals are going to one day be valuable collector's items.
I have the first Linux-on-CD distribution, it was published by Yggdrasil and it's called 'LGX' which I think they were hoping to coin as their own proprietary name for a Linux Distro. Yggdrail made numerous other versions of their 'Plug and Play Linux' distribution, but the first one was published with a plain white manual cover with green/black ink printing. It is THE first time Linux was published on a CD, in the Fall of 1992. I bought it at 'CD-ROM City' which was a storefront in Dinkytown. Back in the dialup era stores that sold a large variety of CD-ROMs were a godsend.
I bought the ID Anthology, which has fully registered 'legal' copies of every game published by ID. Up to Quake 1, which was the current game when the Anthology was published. There is more than the CDs in the box, there's also a Long Distance Dialing time card, some sort of pewter swag item, and there was a T-Shirt but I am certain I wore that out.
I have a lot of Walnet Creek CDs, too,
I also have a CD called the 'C CD' published by a company called Alde which was purportedly a C Source Code CD (it has a collection of public domain source code on it) but is really a hidden stash of girlie GIFs. The hidden directories are simply 'hidden' with the 'hiden' filesystem flag. It's also ISO-9660 non-compliant, I am not sure how, but it kicks out certain errors. I suspect it's either pre-ISO-9660 or was just from the era before the standard was strongly in place (or the publisher was sneaking out a CD of girlie GIFS and not paying much attention)
I hope someone is archiving the old CDROM porn collections. There were a number of publishers, and it was cheesy but quite expensive for the time.
The Trash Collection service I use is called something like 'D & R Trash Service.' (name changed to preserve anonymnity.) When I call their business number, either D or R answers the phone. They are husband and wife. It's a pretty small operation, they only have the one truck.
They never answer the phone 'master' so I assume they are not my slaves. Thus, they somehow have freely chosen to run their small Trash Hauling company because it generates revenue for them.
What the hell was your point again?
you are a socialist if you don't believe in minimum wage, because you want the government to fund worker's pay.
Wow. Do you live in Bizarro-America? Cute little bromide there. Our heads are now supposed to explode, right?
The next time you find a Economics Degree in your CrackerJacks box, don't believe it.
You weren't supposed to swallow your Wobblie Song Book whole. You were only supposed to sing or chant some of the songs.
As a non-welfare state, this should be a basic matter of public policy in the US.
The two halves of your sentence contradict themselves. We're not a welfare state, so there shouldn't be 'public policy' wage fixations. A minimum wage is essentially a form of 'welfare.'
It's also a huge incentive for businesses to adopt more automation and/or offshore as many jobs as they can to places where there are no minimum wages, for instance to the places where Obama and the Republicans are trying to export more jobs with their latest 'Trade Policy' adventure.
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'Tea Baggers' (except for the sexual ones, of course) are advocates of a single issue where it comes to 'tea party' stuff: cutting taxes. That's all. There are a ton of different sorts of people who lean toward the Tea Party thing. Please don't be so ignorant as to slap the label around recklessly.
Are the Feds encouraging biomass digestors, to turn all the bird carcasses around the blades into methane?
This has to be a consideration, because, really, the birds also do matter. What are the wind energy folks doing to work on the issue?
CarpLay.
The innovative new Apple technology for enthusiasts of copulating with carp!
So you're saying that Apple should capture and control the whole market for televisions and consumer electronics, because when they do so, there will be the blissful simplicity that everyone will have the same simple to use and unified remote controls and all complexity will just wither away?
Yes. Right. But that's a little tautological. The same thing would be true if there was only one crappy TV available, say a single model picked at random from Walmart. The complexity and confusion would be gone, and we'd all have One Unified Interface we could learn.
Probably just as fast as gummi bears outsell Rolex watches. It's just as relevant a comparison. Except gummi bears go stale, but don't become obsolete in a year or two.
Rolex watches? Obsolete?? They're not crappy consumer electronics gadgets.
An Apple watch is a status symbol?
I would say it's more of a status indicator.
I would phrase it differently. A Buick is a car that is a Chevy. Because Apple hardware is Buick class in a Chevrolet market.
The BMW and Porsche allusions that are always cast is preposterous.
'Catch up' only matters if you ever look at the 'leaderboards.'
WoW is a virtual world and you can play it as a 'regular grunt' and just have fun how you wish. Sometimes just leveling up skinning in Elwynn Forest is a fun escape for a few hours or days.
As in real life, you don't have to be part of the core of the vanguard unless that's your thing. The only way to lose at WoW is to accept the notion that it is possible to win at WoW.
After 'Drugs' surrenders, we can celebrate with a nice bottle of scotch and some fine cigars.
General skills, aka the ability to succeed in society without reverting to drug abuse, are considered when a company is hiring.
I'm not excusing it, just explaining it.
You are more likely to be discriminated against for benign hobbies like being into electronics or hobby computer programming, than for drugs. HR types want template employees who can be impressed into the Work Instructions regime as outlined in the Job Description these days, not well-rounded people with an extreme interest in the things they work with.
Have you ever: tried to get a passport for a minor without the other parent's signature? tried to travel as the sole parent of a minor? tried to enter a country as the sole parent of a minor?
What's weird is how easy it is for minors from other countries to get into the USA without their parent's documented permission. And once they are here, the government vigorously ignores the fact that they might have parents back in their home country who should take responsibility for them.
Apple has never been very good at Systems software. The old MacOS was a huge piled-on mess. Their User Interface design took precedence over robust design 'beneath the hood.'
The Macintosh didn't have per-emptive multitasking until they finally gave up on an in-house redesigned new MacOS. There was Taligent, and Butt-Headed-Astronomer (previously known as 'Sagan' until Sagan sued them!)
Apple spent many millions in attempts at a new Operating System before finally giving up and buying NeXT Step, which itself is just pretty layers on top of UNIX.
They are an 'Industrial Design' and 'Marketing' firm. Better at coming up with cute names for APIs and proprietary versions of interfaces than actual nuts and bolts design.
It's not a bad idea to put holes or pads for despiking capacitors all over the board, at least one per chip in your design. They should be connected as close as possible between the power and ground supply leads for the chips. These may not all need to be populated in the final design, but having them there will make it easier to add capacitors if they end up being needed to clean up the power distribution and prevent hardware glitches when the device is operating.
It's not a bad idea to explore around the power supply rails on the prototype circuit with a scope looking for glitches and noise induced into the circuit by rapidly changing digital signals into and out of the active parts of your circuit.