Terrorist attacks are conducted by organized groups. When the attack is over, there is usually still a body of comrades of the terrorist out there free and about. These groups then posture and issue statements.
When a deranged individual kills a bunch of people and has at most a few associates out there in the world still free after he has done his 'action,' it's a massacre by a deranged individual.
No real nerd will make it through "Cryptonomicon"; the only people likely to swallow that crap are the ones as clueless as Stephenson himself.
No kidding. I read part of the book and said 'fuck this' and went back to being a nerd. If I had to choose between a book by Neal Stephenson or Don Lancaster, the choice would be simple.
This is one of the silliest versions of a Singularity I've seen yet, and there are already a lot of contenders.
I just had to stare at the original post in wonderment. The whole 'self-fueling feedback loop which creates 'a Moore's law for artificial intelligence,' with accelerating returns'
Da-woop-dee-woop-de-woo.
An AI generated that big clump of meaningless drivel and buzzwords, didn't it?
Or has Minsky broken into the liquor cabinet again?
IT SHOULD NOT BE NEWS THAT TEXAS SAID THAT EVOLUTION WAS OKAY.
But it has to be on the news, because such hysteria has been whipped up about 'them morons in flyover.' It just SHOCKS the intelligentsia when the perfectly ordinary happens in Texas. Their comic-book rendering of reality fails again.
As you state, the spec. is 500mA from any powered USB port. So the iPod/Phone should simply work with any USB source it is plugged into. For the special case of a charging circuit that can supply the 1ampere, the iDevice can query before stepping up.
Your reasoning doesn't work. Before one of the 4.x iOS releases any dumb two-wire 'USB' charging circuit would charge the iDevice properly. I had a modified 5 volt 1amp cell charger I built to accomplish that.
Apple's objective wasn't 'meeting the spec.' Their intention was to see to it that the existing inventory of low-cost chargers in blister packs at retail outlets was instantly obsolete due to a firmware update. They didn't have the 'kissed Steve Jobs ring' seal of approval on them, so any Dollar Store or Walgreens that had foolishly stocked them was due to be punished.
Apple loves doing that kind of shit. If you're not closely involved with their marketing/licensing people they get a special joy out of fucking you over.
Your comment was disingenuous, though, in that those 'screws' are not manipulable with the common screwdriver most people reading the comment would have readily on hand. Don't try to pretend it isn't a significant barrier that Apple went out of their way to use 'tamper preventive' screws.
Thats 3 screwdrivers including one thats probably not in everyones toolbox.
Thats by design. Apple 'engineers' have been conducting a screwdriver arms race against hackers ** since the launch of Macintosh.
(* Jobs himself jubilantly declared that the Mac was 'hacker proof' in a presentation broadcast on the radio from the National Press Club at the launch of the Macintosh. Many of us first said 'fuck you' to Apple that day.)
That would be unsafe. Like allowing people to put their own replacement ink in printer cartridges. The safety of Apple's consumables marketing division is of paramount importance.
The firmware is so that Apple can make sure you are only using Apple-approved battery chargers to charge your i Device. They disabled many of the low-cost chargers on the iPhone/iPod platform with one of the early iOS 4.x releases. Suddenly the charger I had made by just hooking up a fairly hefty 5 volt supply to the power pins on an old synch cable ceased working. (Reverse engineers have discovered that there's a hack, using voltage divider reisistors in the data pins on the USB connection that 'fixes' the issue.)
Just as printer manufacturers put 'smarts' in ink cartridges to force people to not refill, Apples battery charging technology has been tweaked so we only buy accessories from vendors who have kissed Steve's.... er... ring.
Back when Excel first came out (Excel for Windows 2 which installed it's own runtime version of Windows on your DOS machine) I FORCED it to install on a PC-XT clone. I say 'forced' because the copy I had was on 1.2M 5-1/4" disk and I crammed those onto a bunch of 5-1/4" 360k disks because it was an XT clone I was installing it on. It was really, really slow.
My White album is on vinyl and from the 70's. But 'Martha My Dear' has a skip on it. It doesn't matter, though, because the CD copy of the White album from the local public library was easy to check out.
Few people (not businesses) have a 3TB drive wirth backing up.
Sure, you have your 'movie collection' on there, but that's just something used to justify having all that storage.
One of the things that is really depressing about the way the Internet has been saturated with 'file sharing' is that it's largely a huge redundant clump of the same stuff, that has been converted 60 times by 600 people using 580 different codecs. And it's all the same content.
By design or not, the GCC has many non-standard compiler extensions. People write code that they assume is cross-platform, but later discover will only compile on GCC.
"Oh well, hardly anybody was building the Irix port anyway."
"Irix won't run Gnuwidgiwidt? I guess there's no point in maintaining those servers."
I am being hypothetical, and the non-standard extensions in GCC were not deliberately introduced. But the end result is about the same as what Microsoft ended up doing with J++.
To be honest, that Latvian radio looks like it has a total of six or seven transistors in it.
I would challange Apple to produce anything at all that anybody would want, with only 6 transistors. They use more transistors than that just to make sure you can't use a non-approved cigarette plug adapter to charge your iPod.
In fact, I have purchased 'Textool' ZIF sockets (zero insertion force IC sockets) from a Chinese eBay seller. They are made of a lower grade plastic than the real Textool sockets (Textool is a 3M company) but appear to be plastic that was shot in the real tooling. I kind of knew what I was getting, because the real sockets are about $25 each from Digikey, and the eBay seller was selling them at $10 for five of them. Since mine is a hobby application, I was quite satisfied with the deal I got. I wouldn't use these ZIF sockets in equipment on a factory floor, but they're great for my breadboards and homebrew device programmers.
What Linux was created as in 1991, and what it has become because of whom jumped on the bandwagon since then are two different things. Refugees from OS/2 and the Amiga community were early examples of bandwagon jumpers (they had nowhere else to jump) who brought with them an anti-MS attitude.
There is a lot of Microsoft-hate out amongst Linux-users. It isn't pervasive, though.
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Terrorist attacks are conducted by organized groups. When the attack is over, there is usually still a body of comrades of the terrorist out there free and about. These groups then posture and issue statements.
When a deranged individual kills a bunch of people and has at most a few associates out there in the world still free after he has done his 'action,' it's a massacre by a deranged individual.
It's good to know that he's still around. His best period was longer than a decade ago. The Mondo 2000 period.
Mondo 2000 was the magazine that Wired has always wanted to be, but never could be, because the guys from marketing run Wired.
No real nerd will make it through "Cryptonomicon"; the only people likely to swallow that crap are the ones as clueless as Stephenson himself.
No kidding. I read part of the book and said 'fuck this' and went back to being a nerd. If I had to choose between a book by Neal Stephenson or Don Lancaster, the choice would be simple.
My favorite work by Stephenson is 'The Big U.'
And yes, I have a copy and read it back when he was suppressing republication because he found it embarrassing.
It's fresh and fun and creative. Stephenson has gotten worse as a writer over time, as he thinks he's getting better.
It's very disappointing, because Snow Crash wasn't that bad.
This is one of the silliest versions of a Singularity I've seen yet, and there are already a lot of contenders.
I just had to stare at the original post in wonderment.
The whole 'self-fueling feedback loop which creates 'a Moore's law for artificial intelligence,' with accelerating returns'
Da-woop-dee-woop-de-woo.
An AI generated that big clump of meaningless drivel and buzzwords, didn't it?
Or has Minsky broken into the liquor cabinet again?
Minsky!!!??!!?
IT SHOULD NOT BE NEWS THAT TEXAS SAID THAT EVOLUTION WAS OKAY.
But it has to be on the news, because such hysteria has been whipped up about 'them morons in flyover.' It just SHOCKS the intelligentsia when the perfectly ordinary happens in Texas. Their comic-book rendering of reality fails again.
As you state, the spec. is 500mA from any powered USB port. So the iPod/Phone should simply work with any USB source it is plugged into. For the special case of a charging circuit that can supply the 1ampere, the iDevice can query before stepping up.
Your reasoning doesn't work. Before one of the 4.x iOS releases any dumb two-wire 'USB' charging circuit would charge the iDevice properly. I had a modified 5 volt 1amp cell charger I built to accomplish that.
Apple's objective wasn't 'meeting the spec.' Their intention was to see to it that the existing inventory of low-cost chargers in blister packs at retail outlets was instantly obsolete due to a firmware update. They didn't have the 'kissed Steve Jobs ring' seal of approval on them, so any Dollar Store or Walgreens that had foolishly stocked them was due to be punished.
Apple loves doing that kind of shit. If you're not closely involved with their marketing/licensing people they get a special joy out of fucking you over.
Your comment was disingenuous, though, in that those 'screws' are not manipulable with the common screwdriver most people reading the comment would have readily on hand. Don't try to pretend it isn't a significant barrier that Apple went out of their way to use 'tamper preventive' screws.
I've fought with Ebay, and I've fought with Paypal.
Now, though, you're being redundant.
Thats 3 screwdrivers including one thats probably not in everyones toolbox.
Thats by design. Apple 'engineers' have been conducting a screwdriver arms race against hackers ** since the launch of Macintosh.
(* Jobs himself jubilantly declared that the Mac was 'hacker proof' in a presentation broadcast on the radio from the National Press Club at the launch of the Macintosh. Many of us first said 'fuck you' to Apple that day.)
if you're one of those relatively few people that swaps out batteries to keep working, then a new MacBook isn't your best choice
Brilliant. That text should be included, maybe a bullet point, in all of Apple's marketing literature.
That would be unsafe. Like allowing people to put their own replacement ink in printer cartridges. The safety of Apple's consumables marketing division is of paramount importance.
The firmware is so that Apple can make sure you are only using Apple-approved battery chargers to charge your i Device. They disabled many of the low-cost chargers on the iPhone/iPod platform with one of the early iOS 4.x releases. Suddenly the charger I had made by just hooking up a fairly hefty 5 volt supply to the power pins on an old synch cable ceased working. (Reverse engineers have discovered that there's a hack, using voltage divider reisistors in the data pins on the USB connection that 'fixes' the issue.)
Just as printer manufacturers put 'smarts' in ink cartridges to force people to not refill, Apples battery charging technology has been tweaked so we only buy accessories from vendors who have kissed Steve's.... er... ring.
I have a vintage 1958 Lawnboy, actually. I've used it occasionally to cut grass, but.... the owner's manual alone sells for about $50 on eBay.
as one click takes months to respond.
Back when Excel first came out (Excel for Windows 2 which installed it's own runtime version of Windows on your DOS machine) I FORCED it to install on a PC-XT clone. I say 'forced' because the copy I had was on 1.2M 5-1/4" disk and I crammed those onto a bunch of 5-1/4" 360k disks because it was an XT clone I was installing it on. It was really, really slow.
The reedmaking would still be a bitch, though.
I make a habit of sleeping for about 8 hours at a stretch...
My White album is on vinyl and from the 70's. But 'Martha My Dear' has a skip on it. It doesn't matter, though, because the CD copy of the White album from the local public library was easy to check out.
Few people (not businesses) have a 3TB drive wirth backing up.
Sure, you have your 'movie collection' on there, but that's just something used to justify having all that storage.
One of the things that is really depressing about the way the Internet has been saturated with 'file sharing' is that it's largely a huge redundant clump of the same stuff, that has been converted 60 times by 600 people using 580 different codecs. And it's all the same content.
By design or not, the GCC has many non-standard compiler extensions. People write code that they assume is cross-platform, but later discover will only compile on GCC.
"Oh well, hardly anybody was building the Irix port anyway."
"Irix won't run Gnuwidgiwidt? I guess there's no point in maintaining those servers."
I am being hypothetical, and the non-standard extensions in GCC were not deliberately introduced. But the end result is about the same as what Microsoft ended up doing with J++.
To be honest, that Latvian radio looks like it has a total of six or seven transistors in it.
I would challange Apple to produce anything at all that anybody would want, with only 6 transistors. They use more transistors than that just to make sure you can't use a non-approved cigarette plug adapter to charge your iPod.
In fact, I have purchased 'Textool' ZIF sockets (zero insertion force IC sockets) from a Chinese eBay seller. They are made of a lower grade plastic than the real Textool sockets (Textool is a 3M company) but appear to be plastic that was shot in the real tooling. I kind of knew what I was getting, because the real sockets are about $25 each from Digikey, and the eBay seller was selling them at $10 for five of them. Since mine is a hobby application, I was quite satisfied with the deal I got. I wouldn't use these ZIF sockets in equipment on a factory floor, but they're great for my breadboards and homebrew device programmers.
What Linux was created as in 1991, and what it has become because of whom jumped on the bandwagon since then are two different things. Refugees from OS/2 and the Amiga community were early examples of bandwagon jumpers (they had nowhere else to jump) who brought with them an anti-MS attitude.
There is a lot of Microsoft-hate out amongst Linux-users. It isn't pervasive, though.
IBM is a convicted monopolist, too.
Many, many companies use embrace/extend/extinguish. Even the GNU project has done that to an extent.
I have to say this may be the arrogant fuck up that makes us look at blocking Google completely.
No, you're wrong. You will be the arrogant fuck up that blocks Google from your 'users.'
Just sayin'.