'Asshole' actually has origins as an anti-homosexual slur. It should be considered similar to 'the N word' but few people even understand the history behind the term.
It does matter what's driving it, though. If it's so abstracted away that you can't actually address the real port hardware it might as well be an io module plugged into a windows box and programmed with labview or visual basic. And no, if you work in "IT" you probably don't get what I mean.
So now you're going to audit the wire-wrap runs? It would be fairly trivial to find the critical data path where it runs through a certain TTL gate in a discrete-gate computer. Since the gates are so low-level, you program a PIC or similar embedded controller to emulate that gate but also perform a 'tap' and pass the data going through it somewhere else. The PIC processor could probably even be re-marked to look like the original 74LS244 gate (or whatever part number the data path goes through.) Better review your wire-wrap panel(s) fairly regularly, if anybody else has access to it.
Also, the compiler binaries in your keyboard's processor, your hard drive's processors, your Ethernet card's processors. The list can go on and on, and all those processors are running extremely closed embedded software.
Every processor of the era had a 16 bit address bus. Otherwise, with an 8 bit address bus, the machine could only address 256 bytes of memory. Whoops. That wouldn't work, eh?
If you're going to futz around with a GPS device on a moving motorcycle, make sure you don't wear a helmet, either. And make sure you're signed up as an organ donor.
Bluetooth for the headphone, wireless charging for the battery, and you have the ability to EASILY make a waterproof phone because there are now no electrical interfaces that need to pass from the interior to the exterior.
The Telco vendors love that sort of thing. I remember my old 'feature phone' that had a camera, but there was no data path to the outside world, so you could transfer a single photo out of the phone by paying $0.99 to send a message with photo attachment.
I use pop.gmail.com to connect, and seldom use any other logged-in google services. I make a point, even, of not storing 'logged in' google cookies in the browser I use.
Sylpheed is a great email client. The web is for web browsing, not ads alongside your email messages.
The most glaring failure in electrical safety in the iPhone design is the metal case. It wouldn't matter what cable was used to connect the phone to a faulty charger that has a leakage path to the AC mains. Any cable would do, even the best most sanctioned phone bought at treble the price from the Apple Store. The direct path from the circuit being charged that a metal case provides to the user (who in the case in question was in a bathtub, grounded to the AC return circuit by plumbing) is there regardless of the cable used, so long as a defective charger was in use.
The metal case is inherently unsafe in comparison to the 'cheap' plastic cases most other vendors use. In fact, perhaps Apple should start a marketing campaign about this. "Buy the iPhone 5c. With it's plastic case, it's less likely to electrocute you than any previous model of iPhone!"
Look into the history of Trofim Lysenko , dude. A famous Russian 'scientist.'
During the Stalinist era, the official party line was bat-shit crazy non-science. It took the Russians a considerable amount of time to get over that nonsense.
He tore down the Berlin Wall. He caused the USSR to cease to exist. And he caused Eastern Europe to become liberated from the Russians who had been occupying them.
We'll see, if that eventuality occurs. As it stands now, Snowden doesn't see Russia as his new 'homeland.'
Why would Russia not allow him to leave anyway? Heck, they let Lee Harvey Oswald come and go in the middle of the Cold War. And he actually believed that he wanted to live in the USSR.
Face it. The whole point of the Space Program in the 1960s was to point up at the sky and explain to the taxpayers that the Missile technology being developed was for space exploration.
The Atom Bomb had proven itself very unpopular in the 1950's and the government needed launch vehicles. NASA was a research and development program for military technology.
You're right. If we knew the world as we know it was completely coming to an end in 5 years, it would be imperative to go all-in with plans to leave.
It still almost certainly wouldn't work. We can't build a robust sealed habitat here on earth that would be permanently complete and balanced for eternal balanced living.
It's far more complicated than most people think. We're composed of big symbiotic clusters of life. We couldn't survive without the life forms that thrive around us and inside us.
I'm not aware of any 16-bit code written for 1 MHz machines.
By the time 16-bit machines were common, they were much faster than 1 MHz. In fact, only the very first generation of 8-bit machines ran with a clock that slow. The slowest IBM PC was 4.77 MHz, and that was a kinda-sorta 8/16 machine (16 bits internally, but it had an 8 bit data bus.) The 6800 was 1 MHz, but it was a first generation 8 bit processor.
This is Slashdot. We can care about things like this, and not let it slide when somebody says things so ignorant.
That is simply because you have a chosen hobby of authoring your own personal parody-conservatives to make fun of. Like many other hobbies, you don't have to construct them all yourself. A thriving industry provides you with kit-parody-conservatives to help you along in your stereotyping.
It's fine to be amused. But don't think of yourself as more enlightened than the average stamp collector, or dude who buys pewter game figures at the hobby shop to paint.
I paid $200 for a mid-range Android phone (a Samsung Galaxy Victory) and now I pay $35 a month, unbound to any contract, for 'unlimited' data and 400 minutes. It's completely bound to Virgin Mobile, but most of the people around me pay twice a month what I do for capped data plans (with unlimited minutes- but I seldom use voice on a cell phone.)
I feel that I pay significantly less than others in my market are paying, but could never bring my phone to another company. I refuse to be bound to a contract.
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'Asshole' actually has origins as an anti-homosexual slur. It should be considered similar to 'the N word' but few people even understand the history behind the term.
This is what happens when one party passes a law that they otherwise wouldn't be able to pass, using a gimmick called 'Reconciliation.'
And you should stop biting the pillow. Or is that how you cope when Rachel Maddog comes at you wearing a strapon?
You're right. "What they want doesn't matter." All that matters is: "Icky, icky poo poo! Republicans! Yuk!"
Putin is about to get a Nobel Prize, to match Obama's. They should dress as twins, though it's obvious who would be the bossy twin.
It does matter what's driving it, though. If it's so abstracted away that you can't actually address the real port hardware it might as well be an io module plugged into a windows box and programmed with labview or visual basic. And no, if you work in "IT" you probably don't get what I mean.
Yep. During the Roosevelt administration, if I remember correctly.
So now you're going to audit the wire-wrap runs? It would be fairly trivial to find the critical data path where it runs through a certain TTL gate in a discrete-gate computer. Since the gates are so low-level, you program a PIC or similar embedded controller to emulate that gate but also perform a 'tap' and pass the data going through it somewhere else. The PIC processor could probably even be re-marked to look like the original 74LS244 gate (or whatever part number the data path goes through.) Better review your wire-wrap panel(s) fairly regularly, if anybody else has access to it.
Also, the compiler binaries in your keyboard's processor, your hard drive's processors, your Ethernet card's processors. The list can go on and on, and all those processors are running extremely closed embedded software.
Every processor of the era had a 16 bit address bus. Otherwise, with an 8 bit address bus, the machine could only address 256 bytes of memory. Whoops. That wouldn't work, eh?
If you're going to futz around with a GPS device on a moving motorcycle, make sure you don't wear a helmet, either. And make sure you're signed up as an organ donor.
Bluetooth for the headphone, wireless charging for the battery, and you have the ability to EASILY make a waterproof phone because there are now no electrical interfaces that need to pass from the interior to the exterior.
The Telco vendors love that sort of thing. I remember my old 'feature phone' that had a camera, but there was no data path to the outside world, so you could transfer a single photo out of the phone by paying $0.99 to send a message with photo attachment.
No thanks. Keep a usb connector on the thing.
I use pop.gmail.com to connect, and seldom use any other logged-in google services. I make a point, even, of not storing 'logged in' google cookies in the browser I use.
Sylpheed is a great email client. The web is for web browsing, not ads alongside your email messages.
'Brushed metal and logos' is now code-speak for Apple-hate?
Oh, come on.
The most glaring failure in electrical safety in the iPhone design is the metal case. It wouldn't matter what cable was used to connect the phone to a faulty charger that has a leakage path to the AC mains. Any cable would do, even the best most sanctioned phone bought at treble the price from the Apple Store. The direct path from the circuit being charged that a metal case provides to the user (who in the case in question was in a bathtub, grounded to the AC return circuit by plumbing) is there regardless of the cable used, so long as a defective charger was in use.
The metal case is inherently unsafe in comparison to the 'cheap' plastic cases most other vendors use. In fact, perhaps Apple should start a marketing campaign about this. "Buy the iPhone 5c. With it's plastic case, it's less likely to electrocute you than any previous model of iPhone!"
Look into the history of Trofim Lysenko , dude. A famous Russian 'scientist.'
During the Stalinist era, the official party line was bat-shit crazy non-science. It took the Russians a considerable amount of time to get over that nonsense.
He tore down the Berlin Wall. He caused the USSR to cease to exist. And he caused Eastern Europe to become liberated from the Russians who had been occupying them.
We'll see, if that eventuality occurs. As it stands now, Snowden doesn't see Russia as his new 'homeland.'
Why would Russia not allow him to leave anyway? Heck, they let Lee Harvey Oswald come and go in the middle of the Cold War. And he actually believed that he wanted to live in the USSR.
Wrong. There isn't a single goal.
People have tried before to focus large portions of humanity on single goals.
It really sucked every time it was tried in the 20th Century.
We're really far too inventive a species for there to be 'goals' that some leader enforces.
Face it. The whole point of the Space Program in the 1960s was to point up at the sky and explain to the taxpayers that the Missile technology being developed was for space exploration.
The Atom Bomb had proven itself very unpopular in the 1950's and the government needed launch vehicles. NASA was a research and development program for military technology.
You're right. If we knew the world as we know it was completely coming to an end in 5 years, it would be imperative to go all-in with plans to leave.
It still almost certainly wouldn't work. We can't build a robust sealed habitat here on earth that would be permanently complete and balanced for eternal balanced living.
It's far more complicated than most people think. We're composed of big symbiotic clusters of life. We couldn't survive without the life forms that thrive around us and inside us.
I'm not aware of any 16-bit code written for 1 MHz machines.
By the time 16-bit machines were common, they were much faster than 1 MHz. In fact, only the very first generation of 8-bit machines ran with a clock that slow. The slowest IBM PC was 4.77 MHz, and that was a kinda-sorta 8/16 machine (16 bits internally, but it had an 8 bit data bus.) The 6800 was 1 MHz, but it was a first generation 8 bit processor.
This is Slashdot. We can care about things like this, and not let it slide when somebody says things so ignorant.
Small collectives known as 'families.'
Get off our land, stranger. Fuck off, government dude.
What I find fascinating about conservatives
That is simply because you have a chosen hobby of authoring your own personal parody-conservatives to make fun of. Like many other hobbies, you don't have to construct them all yourself. A thriving industry provides you with kit-parody-conservatives to help you along in your stereotyping.
It's fine to be amused. But don't think of yourself as more enlightened than the average stamp collector, or dude who buys pewter game figures at the hobby shop to paint.
I paid $200 for a mid-range Android phone (a Samsung Galaxy Victory) and now I pay $35 a month, unbound to any contract, for 'unlimited' data and 400 minutes. It's completely bound to Virgin Mobile, but most of the people around me pay twice a month what I do for capped data plans (with unlimited minutes- but I seldom use voice on a cell phone.)
I feel that I pay significantly less than others in my market are paying, but could never bring my phone to another company. I refuse to be bound to a contract.
Call the Stasi. Tell them to bring a loaded hypo.