I use Sylpheed and haven't logged into my gmail account via the web in months. Sylpheed is available on Windows and even available in pkgsrc on NetBSD, for pete's sake.
My Sylpheed mail folder has made the transition without any messing around at all, back and forth on desktops on multiple OSes that I've used. I don't know why it isn't more popular.
Quibbling bullshit like you just engaged in is why regular people settle for a guy like Trump who calls you on your bullshit language soup. (Trump isn't much better, if at all, but people want a way to respond to the psuedo-intellectual drivel you promulgate.)
Simply put: quit being such a fucking prat. I know it's difficult, but 'clever' will be the death of you.
Apple uses Touch ID to brick phones repaired by an unauthorized third party. There is always a need to put terror into the heart of Apple customers who don't go directly to the 'Genius' bar when anything scary happens.
I wanted a notch in my phone's display. It wasn't good when they implied the new Applephone would have no bezel. Faceid is just a good way of insuring that people know when watching a video that they have a genuine Apple product, because of that part of the view that is obscured.
My wife spent like $47 on two hot pretzels, a tub of popcorn and two bottles of water at the movie theater a few months ago. The pretzel sucked and I didn't eat all of it.
I didn't find out until about a day later how much she had paid for it all. Just as well, I wouldn't have enjoyed the movie much.
The conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra can't run a website, either.
I bet Mick Jagger would struggle to run a website as well.
In between sneering about that, maybe you can hop up in a jiffy and see if the toner needs changing in the LaserJet on third floor for us, like a good IT guy?
Maybe the glasses were designed to sell at a loss or at a very low margin to build the brand of the Snapchat app/site and they couldn't afford for people to buy them for use by non-chat users.
A book will come out about it in a few years and it will all become clear.
I don't get what GP commenter is getting on about. The original XBox isn't musty old 8 or 16 bit hardware. It's got a Pentium 3 processor in it. Hardly the kind of processor that you do 'inline optimization' type coding on. I suspect there are lots of driver programmers who program Pentium 3 processors with ASM optimizations. I doubt very much that there were/are many console game coders touching ASM on a Pentium 3 processor.
Yes, there are several instances of rather extreme executions performed by the NK regime in recent times. They are nasty and ruthless in how they rule the country. And all that stuff was public because when they identify someone who has betrayed 'the revolution' they want EVERYBODY to know they took care of it. The above extreme measures of 'discipline' were performed by the Communist Party with Kim as leader. Not because he had a tummy ache and needed to take it out on somebody.
For the record, since you're calling me 'comrade', in my book collection, I have a nearly complete set of the English language edition of 'The Collected Works of Josef Stalin' published by the Foreign Language Press, Moscow, in the early 1950's. I'm still trying to chase down two of the thirteen volumes.
I have one of Mao's 'Little Red Books' in my collection. I have a pamphlet of a Teng Shio Peng speech published in English by the Chinese Foreign Language in the early 1960s, before he was 'taken down' for about a decade before being rehabilitated. It's probably extremely rare, because they burned stuff like that during the Cultural Revolution in China.
A few weeks ago, at Half-Price Books, I came upon a 1992 copy of Volume 1 of Kim Sun Un's Collected Works, published by the Foreign Language Publishing House, Pyonghang. So I snapped it up, because:
1. I thought it would be interesting to read dude's perspective on things regarding the Korean Revolution.
2. It struck me as a novelty to purchase the only physical book published in North Korea that was probably available in my white-bread county in the Midwest. I told the clerk at the checkout counter as I paid for it that 'this is probably the only book in your store that was printed in North Korea.'
I have several authentic vintage Communist Party Membership Cards. One is Russian, the other is Romanian (I think). They have the real photograph of the dude who was in the party, and the monthly rubberstamps showing he was current in his membership. It's amazing some of the weird stuff you could buy on eBay from Russians and East Europeans a few years ago if you are a collector of such items.
I have one of the Military Medals that was Issued to the Military Personnel who participated in the cleanup operation at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. There were hundreds of thousands of workers who were 'drafted' into that effort who got the medals, and again... eBay.
None of the above makes me a communist. Though if some stupid fucking 'patriot' like you stormed into my house, you'd see my bookcase and clearly I am a 'commie' and have been corrupted by the presence of vile propaganda.
No, I'm not a communist, nor a Communist. I spent enough time around people like that when I was in college to realize that for the most part, American Communists are like American Nazis, or 21st Century Klansmen: they are all somewhat deluded (because they think they are 'real') equivalents of Civil War Reenactment enthusiasts. They play pretend revolution and hold rallies and look like fucking fools any time they come near the real working class. They're foolish fucking adventurists (an actual Communist term to refer to that kind of people) They're playing around. If actual Communists ever tried to take power in this country, the theoretical idiots in the American Parties would be some of the first motherfuckers up against the wall.
So when you're fucking rocking left and right, back and forth in your swivel chair, throwing around the term 'comrade' to "redbait" somebody on the internet..... get..... a..... fucking..... clue, brother.
So you're not talking about the much hearalded 'old days when software was free' in the 1960s. Because back then there were a few hundred computer installations of any size in the whole world, and the software was 'free' because the hardware it ran on cost many millions of dollars per system, and the hardware clock time to run software was metered in CPU seconds. The software was 'free' because there was hardly any of it, and it made sense for it to be free.
There cannot be 'primary sources' on archive.org, because the sources regarding pre-colonial African civilization aren't housed on the Internet.
For cripes sake. There is a LOT of history that predates the creation of ARPANET.
And the point I was making regarding the existence of 'human and civilized pre-colonial African culture' isn't negated by warlords corrupted by the European colonialists. You're referring to small-time operators who pandered to the Europeans.
Stick to your white power websites if you want to circulate racist garbage.
Correct, Kaspersky is the only software of this type that we can even partially trust. All the raving on Capital Hill about Kaspersky is because it poses a severe threat to the US Government sponsored malware and spyware. All the US companies are properly heeled at their master's feet. Those foreign 'coyote' software companies must be hunted to extinction!!
Nationalism liberated the African continent from any of the cultural traditions that had made the African peoples humane and civilized in their past. Those cultural traditions predate the times when the European explorers arrived to corrupt the African peoples, btw.
When the Europeans withdrew, they left the borders drawn on the land that they had imposed there. This left the traditional social/political structures of the African peoples sliced up by artificial political boundaries, which is a BIG part of the problem now as things exist on that continent.
Singapore is the kind of place where 'adding cars' would be worded in a way that indicates that it is the responsibility of 'authorities' to increase the number of cars on the road.
Social harmony is very, very important in Singapore. I am surprised there isn't an approved list of vehicle colors. Red and Black cars are permitted, but Red can only be used for official vehicles, and only several very expensive models can be 'added' that are finished in the color black. Teal and 'mustard' colored cars will be the norm, because those are the colors deemed less jarring to the eye.
The beauty of the 'home directory' structure design of a UNIX system is that if malware, or a faulty application you are coding, attempts to wipe out your filesystem, the only thing it will be able to touch is your personal data, the things you actually use the computer to create and manipulate.
Your/home directory can be wiped, and any databases, etc. that you have permission to manipulate can be corrupted. But the binaries that can be re-installed from a CD-ROM or an NFS share in a matter of minutes with a reinstall of the OS are both vigorously protected and easily replaced.
Only the important bits on the computer are vulnerable. Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
The file permissions on Windows filesystems are far more granular and not just based on an xxx field of bitmaps like on vintage OSes like Unix.
What I would like to see for the defanging of ransomware is a way to permanently disable filesystem encryption unless it is re-enabled by a very-restricted-access tool, i.e. filesystem encryption can be permanently disabled on a system and re-enabling it requires a local admin account running in Safe Mode to re-enable plus answer a prompt at reboot.
Encryption and similar password-restricted functions hard-coded into a system, i.e. BIOS passwords, are a catch-22. If you don't enable them, you have to leave them sitting there 'open' for some other entity to enable. Why not just leave the encryption libraries not-installed on a system that doesn't want or need them?
CP/M for 16 bit machines wasn't just announced. CP/M-86 was one of the operating systems that was complete and available to purchase from IBM to run on the original IBM PC. It continued to exist for awhile after release, in fact. There were mutliple OSes available to run on the IBM PC.
The IBM PC could even be used without any OS at all. It had a Microsoft-produced BASIC interpreter in ROM. Any 8088-generation IBM-PC will boot into the BASIC interpreter prompt after a delay, if it finds no bootable OS, just like an Apple, Commodore or TRS-80 computer of the era would.
Until the PC/XT the IBM machines had a second DIN socket next to the keyboard interface to plug an audio cassette player into to save BASIC programs, and also DATA to/from BASIC programs if you wished.
Most PC-clones still had the sockets on the motherboard for ROM chips similar to the BASIC interpreter ROMs from IBM, but they were unpopulated, because the BASIC roms were copyrighted. Microsoft had to produce a disk-based version of BASIC (GW-Basic) for MS-DOS (the proper DOS to use on PC-clones, though IBM's PC-DOS mostly works) to replace the BASIC and BASICA interpreters in IBM's PC-DOS, because BASIC/BASICA made use of direct calls to the routines in the IBM ROM chips.
You can go ahead and parrot the propaganda that the US spreads about North Korea. They will spread their propaganda within North Korea about what conditions are like in the US. Both are distortions.
One of the key words to pick at in your first paragraph is 'regularly.' Every instance of that sort of severe punishment is amplified as propaganda against NK. Why wouldn't it. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
What leftist advocate within the United States wouldn't celebrate severe punishment of high ranking Military officials in this country for corruption?
Your language usage, i.e. 'Beloved Cheeto' shows that you're quite fond of the kind of rhetoric Authoritarian Regimes like to use to ridicule their opponents. Too bad you can't be in charge, dude. Too bad.
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I use Sylpheed and haven't logged into my gmail account via the web in months. Sylpheed is available on Windows and even available in pkgsrc on NetBSD, for pete's sake.
My Sylpheed mail folder has made the transition without any messing around at all, back and forth on desktops on multiple OSes that I've used. I don't know why it isn't more popular.
YouTube is a defacto monopoly at this point. It was set up to be a Commons where everybody could participate. It has no competitor of a similar scale.
So perhaps it should be broken away from Google and made a separate entity again. Google can still contract with them to sell ads on it.
Or maybe it should be made into a true Commons without a corporate overlord running it.
iPhone, the Buick of phones.
Quibbling bullshit like you just engaged in is why regular people settle for a guy like Trump who calls you on your bullshit language soup. (Trump isn't much better, if at all, but people want a way to respond to the psuedo-intellectual drivel you promulgate.)
Simply put: quit being such a fucking prat. I know it's difficult, but 'clever' will be the death of you.
Apple uses Touch ID to brick phones repaired by an unauthorized third party. There is always a need to put terror into the heart of Apple customers who don't go directly to the 'Genius' bar when anything scary happens.
I wanted a notch in my phone's display. It wasn't good when they implied the new Applephone would have no bezel. Faceid is just a good way of insuring that people know when watching a video that they have a genuine Apple product, because of that part of the view that is obscured.
My wife spent like $47 on two hot pretzels, a tub of popcorn and two bottles of water at the movie theater a few months ago. The pretzel sucked and I didn't eat all of it.
I didn't find out until about a day later how much she had paid for it all. Just as well, I wouldn't have enjoyed the movie much.
The conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra can't run a website, either.
I bet Mick Jagger would struggle to run a website as well.
In between sneering about that, maybe you can hop up in a jiffy and see if the toner needs changing in the LaserJet on third floor for us, like a good IT guy?
60,000 hits? That is amazing. How can a website cope with such high numbers? They need to use "AI" to speed it up.
It's a classical old-school Institution. The server is probably a SparcStation 2 in the stacks, behind the Journals from 1976.
Even at $29 you'd be better off getting a cam module you don't have to chop out, and that has published specs, etc.
Now, a dumpster dive when they throw out 10,000 of them would make it worth the reverse-engineering and extraction effort.
Maybe the glasses were designed to sell at a loss or at a very low margin to build the brand of the Snapchat app/site and they couldn't afford for people to buy them for use by non-chat users.
A book will come out about it in a few years and it will all become clear.
I don't get what GP commenter is getting on about. The original XBox isn't musty old 8 or 16 bit hardware. It's got a Pentium 3 processor in it. Hardly the kind of processor that you do 'inline optimization' type coding on. I suspect there are lots of driver programmers who program Pentium 3 processors with ASM optimizations. I doubt very much that there were/are many console game coders touching ASM on a Pentium 3 processor.
Yes, there are several instances of rather extreme executions performed by the NK regime in recent times. They are nasty and ruthless in how they rule the country. And all that stuff was public because when they identify someone who has betrayed 'the revolution' they want EVERYBODY to know they took care of it. The above extreme measures of 'discipline' were performed by the Communist Party with Kim as leader. Not because he had a tummy ache and needed to take it out on somebody.
For the record, since you're calling me 'comrade', in my book collection, I have a nearly complete set of the English language edition of 'The Collected Works of Josef Stalin' published by the Foreign Language Press, Moscow, in the early 1950's. I'm still trying to chase down two of the thirteen volumes.
I have one of Mao's 'Little Red Books' in my collection. I have a pamphlet of a Teng Shio Peng speech published in English by the Chinese Foreign Language in the early 1960s, before he was 'taken down' for about a decade before being rehabilitated. It's probably extremely rare, because they burned stuff like that during the Cultural Revolution in China.
A few weeks ago, at Half-Price Books, I came upon a 1992 copy of Volume 1 of Kim Sun Un's Collected Works, published by the Foreign Language Publishing House, Pyonghang. So I snapped it up, because:
1. I thought it would be interesting to read dude's perspective on things regarding the Korean Revolution.
2. It struck me as a novelty to purchase the only physical book published in North Korea that was probably available in my white-bread county in the Midwest. I told the clerk at the checkout counter as I paid for it that 'this is probably the only book in your store that was printed in North Korea.'
I have several authentic vintage Communist Party Membership Cards. One is Russian, the other is Romanian (I think). They have the real photograph of the dude who was in the party, and the monthly rubberstamps showing he was current in his membership. It's amazing some of the weird stuff you could buy on eBay from Russians and East Europeans a few years ago if you are a collector of such items.
I have one of the Military Medals that was Issued to the Military Personnel who participated in the cleanup operation at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. There were hundreds of thousands of workers who were 'drafted' into that effort who got the medals, and again... eBay.
None of the above makes me a communist. Though if some stupid fucking 'patriot' like you stormed into my house, you'd see my bookcase and clearly I am a 'commie' and have been corrupted by the presence of vile propaganda.
No, I'm not a communist, nor a Communist. I spent enough time around people like that when I was in college to realize that for the most part, American Communists are like American Nazis, or 21st Century Klansmen: they are all somewhat deluded (because they think they are 'real') equivalents of Civil War Reenactment enthusiasts. They play pretend revolution and hold rallies and look like fucking fools any time they come near the real working class. They're foolish fucking adventurists (an actual Communist term to refer to that kind of people) They're playing around. If actual Communists ever tried to take power in this country, the theoretical idiots in the American Parties would be some of the first motherfuckers up against the wall.
So when you're fucking rocking left and right, back and forth in your swivel chair, throwing around the term 'comrade' to "redbait" somebody on the internet..... get..... a..... fucking..... clue, brother.
So you're not talking about the much hearalded 'old days when software was free' in the 1960s. Because back then there were a few hundred computer installations of any size in the whole world, and the software was 'free' because the hardware it ran on cost many millions of dollars per system, and the hardware clock time to run software was metered in CPU seconds. The software was 'free' because there was hardly any of it, and it made sense for it to be free.
There cannot be 'primary sources' on archive.org, because the sources regarding pre-colonial African civilization aren't housed on the Internet.
For cripes sake. There is a LOT of history that predates the creation of ARPANET.
And the point I was making regarding the existence of 'human and civilized pre-colonial African culture' isn't negated by warlords corrupted by the European colonialists. You're referring to small-time operators who pandered to the Europeans.
Stick to your white power websites if you want to circulate racist garbage.
Hillary wasn't elected, so the 'Reset Button' is not wired to anything any longer.
Correct, Kaspersky is the only software of this type that we can even partially trust. All the raving on Capital Hill about Kaspersky is because it poses a severe threat to the US Government sponsored malware and spyware. All the US companies are properly heeled at their master's feet. Those foreign 'coyote' software companies must be hunted to extinction!!
Nationalism liberated the African continent from any of the cultural traditions that had made the African peoples humane and civilized in their past. Those cultural traditions predate the times when the European explorers arrived to corrupt the African peoples, btw.
When the Europeans withdrew, they left the borders drawn on the land that they had imposed there. This left the traditional social/political structures of the African peoples sliced up by artificial political boundaries, which is a BIG part of the problem now as things exist on that continent.
Do you mean back when software was distributed on mylar punched tape, or are you talking the really old sofware distributed on wired diode arrays?
Singapore is the kind of place where 'adding cars' would be worded in a way that indicates that it is the responsibility of 'authorities' to increase the number of cars on the road.
Social harmony is very, very important in Singapore. I am surprised there isn't an approved list of vehicle colors. Red and Black cars are permitted, but Red can only be used for official vehicles, and only several very expensive models can be 'added' that are finished in the color black. Teal and 'mustard' colored cars will be the norm, because those are the colors deemed less jarring to the eye.
The beauty of the 'home directory' structure design of a UNIX system is that if malware, or a faulty application you are coding, attempts to wipe out your filesystem, the only thing it will be able to touch is your personal data, the things you actually use the computer to create and manipulate.
Your /home directory can be wiped, and any databases, etc. that you have permission to manipulate can be corrupted. But the binaries that can be re-installed from a CD-ROM or an NFS share in a matter of minutes with a reinstall of the OS are both vigorously protected and easily replaced.
Only the important bits on the computer are vulnerable. Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
The file permissions on Windows filesystems are far more granular and not just based on an xxx field of bitmaps like on vintage OSes like Unix.
What I would like to see for the defanging of ransomware is a way to permanently disable filesystem encryption unless it is re-enabled by a very-restricted-access tool, i.e. filesystem encryption can be permanently disabled on a system and re-enabling it requires a local admin account running in Safe Mode to re-enable plus answer a prompt at reboot.
Encryption and similar password-restricted functions hard-coded into a system, i.e. BIOS passwords, are a catch-22. If you don't enable them, you have to leave them sitting there 'open' for some other entity to enable. Why not just leave the encryption libraries not-installed on a system that doesn't want or need them?
CP/M for 16 bit machines wasn't just announced. CP/M-86 was one of the operating systems that was complete and available to purchase from IBM to run on the original IBM PC. It continued to exist for awhile after release, in fact. There were mutliple OSes available to run on the IBM PC.
The IBM PC could even be used without any OS at all. It had a Microsoft-produced BASIC interpreter in ROM. Any 8088-generation IBM-PC will boot into the BASIC interpreter prompt after a delay, if it finds no bootable OS, just like an Apple, Commodore or TRS-80 computer of the era would.
Until the PC/XT the IBM machines had a second DIN socket next to the keyboard interface to plug an audio cassette player into to save BASIC programs, and also DATA to/from BASIC programs if you wished.
Most PC-clones still had the sockets on the motherboard for ROM chips similar to the BASIC interpreter ROMs from IBM, but they were unpopulated, because the BASIC roms were copyrighted. Microsoft had to produce a disk-based version of BASIC (GW-Basic) for MS-DOS (the proper DOS to use on PC-clones, though IBM's PC-DOS mostly works) to replace the BASIC and BASICA interpreters in IBM's PC-DOS, because BASIC/BASICA made use of direct calls to the routines in the IBM ROM chips.
You can go ahead and parrot the propaganda that the US spreads about North Korea. They will spread their propaganda within North Korea about what conditions are like in the US. Both are distortions.
One of the key words to pick at in your first paragraph is 'regularly.' Every instance of that sort of severe punishment is amplified as propaganda against NK. Why wouldn't it. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
What leftist advocate within the United States wouldn't celebrate severe punishment of high ranking Military officials in this country for corruption?
Your language usage, i.e. 'Beloved Cheeto' shows that you're quite fond of the kind of rhetoric Authoritarian Regimes like to use to ridicule their opponents. Too bad you can't be in charge, dude. Too bad.
Truth isn't a matter of popularity.