my job has me doing things on all classes of machine from the smallest microcontroller
Really? I like the PIC10F200, too. It's a little bit cramped that it only has 16 bytes of data memory, but the 256 bytes of program memory is enough for tight assembly language.
Personally, I hate gold-anodized or gold-plated products. To me, they just look like they are made for those who would like others to THINK they can afford actual Gold (like the high-end Apple Watch), but in actuality, they can't.
Truly rich people are happy wearing 24 carat gold jewlery that has been copper plated. It matters just as much to them as anything else.
The $10k iWatch is only made out of gold so that it can be priced at $10k.
Has anybody figured out the scrap value? Those places that buy scrap gold need to set their rates for about a year from now when Version 1 is a turd and the new version is specifically designed to have a different case footprint.
Now, you might be correct, if Hitler was posting on Usenet.
Since Godwin's law specifically refers to Usenet, and only to Usenet if we're going to use the narrow definition, and even though Usenet is really really old, Hitler was long dead before the UUCP feeds were even a glimmer in anybody's eye, it's sorta irrelevant.
Not all Dell is broken crap any longer. Dell went private awhile back and they don't have to answer to a 'bottom line' band of shareholders any more. As a result, their product is improving significantly. It's players like Apple who have to watch their market price now.
You're working hard to spin up motivation to care about this thing. It shows. And when even one of the premiere Apple shills on slashdot has to struggle hard to justify an Apple product, it shows what a turkey the product is.
Yeah, right. Putting the same 'will be just as obsolete' module into a gold case makes it a luxury item.
Good grief. So sad to see so many fawning over these 21st century tulip bulbs.
And a year from now, nobody will care about the Apple watch. It's a company chasing after the notion that they can on a whim create a whole new product category, in a niche that doesn't even exist.
Steve would have killed it very early on. It's a shark jump product.
We can hope he has gone underground to murder the Zuck. If he's going to be in prison a long time it might as well be for a cause that will benefit all humanity.
What gave it away was pressing "iTunes Apps" opened the Android "Manage Applications" screen. There were a few other apps, settings etc that opened Android things but had Apple labels.
That sounds like an upgrade, not a knockoff. An Apple phone that ran Android would be an improvement. Better yet even if it was easy to install an open android like cyanogenmod on it.
The place I work is one of General Motor's bitches. We supply them and haven't been able to sell to other customers (our sales team claims. I think they just like being GM bitches.)
You can buy tubes of ATmega chips for a fairly trivial amount, though, well below the cost for finished Arduino boards, and if you chose a through-hole version of the Arduino board, you can even use it like a 'development system' emulator and write all your code for the bare processor chip, use the board like a 'burner' for the chips and drop bare chips into your finished design;.
So basically, it's the same thing as the original IBM PC.
Where IBM published the schematic diagrams and the source code in commented ASM for the BIOS chip ('poisoning' anybody who read that source code from being able to write a compatible BIOS and necessitating the 'clean room' approach). It was all available in the Technical Reference Manual which anybody could purchase (it was fairly expensive).
They published this same material, and used all COTS components, all the way up to the PC-AT.
Its a riot how they claim iWatch is the first time (evah!) that an entire computer system has been put onto a single chip. Do they suck all the air out of the part of the building marketing works in? Is that why nobody from the real world reviews their marketing copy?
a lot of Americans think there's a hidden secret government agenda to disarm society and implement a pseudo-socialist police state under UN control on American soil.
Naw. We just want to keep guns around. It keeps the politicians a little more honest than they would be otherwise.
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my job has me doing things on all classes of machine from the smallest microcontroller
Really? I like the PIC10F200, too. It's a little bit cramped that it only has 16 bytes of data memory, but the 256 bytes of program memory is enough for tight assembly language.
And the cost of under a dime helps, too.
Saying ChromeOS is a 'Linux distribution' is like saying that my iPod Touch runs a version of NextStep.
Apple, a Buick-class company, got BMW to answer the phone?
Personally, I hate gold-anodized or gold-plated products. To me, they just look like they are made for those who would like others to THINK they can afford actual Gold (like the high-end Apple Watch), but in actuality, they can't.
Truly rich people are happy wearing 24 carat gold jewlery that has been copper plated. It matters just as much to them as anything else.
The $10k iWatch is only made out of gold so that it can be priced at $10k.
Has anybody figured out the scrap value? Those places that buy scrap gold need to set their rates for about a year from now when Version 1 is a turd and the new version is specifically designed to have a different case footprint.
Google apps written in JavaScript lock you into Google.
Now, you might be correct, if Hitler was posting on Usenet.
Since Godwin's law specifically refers to Usenet, and only to Usenet if we're going to use the narrow definition, and even though Usenet is really really old, Hitler was long dead before the UUCP feeds were even a glimmer in anybody's eye, it's sorta irrelevant.
Not everybody has broken Dell crap, right?
Not all Dell is broken crap any longer. Dell went private awhile back and they don't have to answer to a 'bottom line' band of shareholders any more. As a result, their product is improving significantly. It's players like Apple who have to watch their market price now.
You haven't taken much Computer Science. The goal of all software is to be correct.
Possibly the medical applications will justify these things. Maybe biometric authentication use?
I could see a future of smartwatches monitoring their wearer for medical and authentication purposes. Of course also being unremovable.
You're working hard to spin up motivation to care about this thing. It shows. And when even one of the premiere Apple shills on slashdot has to struggle hard to justify an Apple product, it shows what a turkey the product is.
Yeah, right. Putting the same 'will be just as obsolete' module into a gold case makes it a luxury item.
Good grief. So sad to see so many fawning over these 21st century tulip bulbs.
And a year from now, nobody will care about the Apple watch. It's a company chasing after the notion that they can on a whim create a whole new product category, in a niche that doesn't even exist.
Steve would have killed it very early on. It's a shark jump product.
We can hope he has gone underground to murder the Zuck. If he's going to be in prison a long time it might as well be for a cause that will benefit all humanity.
What gave it away was pressing "iTunes Apps" opened the Android "Manage Applications" screen. There were a few other apps, settings etc that opened Android things but had Apple labels.
That sounds like an upgrade, not a knockoff. An Apple phone that ran Android would be an improvement. Better yet even if it was easy to install an open android like cyanogenmod on it.
The place I work is one of General Motor's bitches. We supply them and haven't been able to sell to other customers (our sales team claims. I think they just like being GM bitches.)
Snowden was an IT guy. A flunky.
Sorry to break it to all you other IT guys. He was not a top realm coder. Very few 'IT guys' are top realm coder.
Creepers and Skeletons aren't really animals. They're pure monster.
You can buy tubes of ATmega chips for a fairly trivial amount, though, well below the cost for finished Arduino boards, and if you chose a through-hole version of the Arduino board, you can even use it like a 'development system' emulator and write all your code for the bare processor chip, use the board like a 'burner' for the chips and drop bare chips into your finished design;.
So basically, it's the same thing as the original IBM PC.
Where IBM published the schematic diagrams and the source code in commented ASM for the BIOS chip ('poisoning' anybody who read that source code from being able to write a compatible BIOS and necessitating the 'clean room' approach). It was all available in the Technical Reference Manual which anybody could purchase (it was fairly expensive).
They published this same material, and used all COTS components, all the way up to the PC-AT.
PHP was created as a Personal Home Page toolbox.
That's it.
Then apparently the kernal should have been written in Assembly Language. One hell of a spectrum there.
Its a riot how they claim iWatch is the first time (evah!) that an entire computer system has been put onto a single chip. Do they suck all the air out of the part of the building marketing works in? Is that why nobody from the real world reviews their marketing copy?
a lot of Americans think there's a hidden secret government agenda to disarm society and implement a pseudo-socialist police state under UN control on American soil.
Naw. We just want to keep guns around. It keeps the politicians a little more honest than they would be otherwise.
Is Chrome on the list yet?
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I also feel that since the US turned facist
Obama isn't president-for-life. Don't panic. Just wait it out.
including Jony Ive's office in the design wing, where they could happily use their phones to photograph prototypes.
Right. And at Apple, that's the core intellectual property right there.