No, I am not talking about 'defending our Ambassador' and that whole deal (though the murder of a openly homosexual US state department official by Islamic radicals should certainly remain a red letter event.) Rather, I am asking for consideration of what Ambassador Stevens was even in that city to accomplish.
He was there to facilitate the transfer of US arms and equipment to rebels fighting in Libya. Rebels who it turns out were ISIS forces. That never gets mentioned.
Dumb old Benghazi. It still makes fumbling email server idiocy seem minor.
There are strategic resources for the equipment needed for renewable energy production and use. Rare earth metals for motor magnets for electric cars, as one example. Some of the 'new' critical resources are more localized and scarce than petroleum ever could have been. There will be new resource wars, just as there have always been.
The crazy guy in NK is also somewhat of a figurehead. There are always tons of older generals standing around him in the official photos. He only has the power his military grants him. It's an actual whole country with people in it, and not democratic, but there is a political party running things, not a kingdom.
There are English language North Korean books, from the DPRK point of view, that you can buy right in the Kindle eBook store. It is obviously totally the biased 'official' propaganda, but it's important for people to realize the NK leadership are not Marvel Comics villians. There is an 'official' Kim Jong Il (the previous leader and current leader's father) biography published by the Foreign Language Publishing House, and since they are, (uh..) kinda a non-profit, it's very inexpensive. Checking stuff out and not treating our enemies like comic book villians is the way to resolve things.
I still have an Altos 586. It's an 8086 box that runs Microsoft Xenix (from before they sold it off to create SCO). It's an 8086-based machine with 512k of RAM, a 10MB hard drive, and it has 5 RS-232 ports so five users can be logged in simultaneous on the Xenix system, which is a port of Series 3 UNIX that Microsoft produced. Yes, Microsoft was a UNIX software vendor back in the day.
Five concurrent users on an 8086 processor with 512K of RAM. From Microsoft. With dazzling hardware designed by Altos, of course.
Apple has ALWAYS been barely capable of providing driver support for the tiny stable of hardware they produce themselves. They do not have an open driver model. You point out several application-level software products that Apple did a good job on.
They are in ingrown and conceited team, the software people at Apple.
NextSTEP is 'descended' from BSD 4.4, MacOS is a layer of grease paint on NextSTEP. The really sad part is that NextSTEP is a fork of BSD 4.4, and the BSD OSes have evolved past that. The 'UNIX' in a Mac is old and neglected.
I'd just as soon install SFU (formerly 'Interix') and have a POSIX-compliant subsystem on the NT kernel.
And the word UNIX at this point is just a trademark, if you want to boil it down to essential defintions. Until very recently you could buy a UNIX license plate on the Open Group website if you want a UNIX license. (it appears that I posted the link one time too often about a month ago on/. and they've finally sold out of them!)
You're operating from the conceit that everybody out there wants to read your book. So badly that they will crack into your system to read it without your permission.
The truth is, you'll have to work hard to get any publisher's agents to even glance at the manuscript, when it's complete and you have it ready for publication.
I have two X Boxes. I also have a few Dell Optiplex G1s, which have the same Pentium III processor in them and are more useful than just as a game console.
Apple isn't good enough at software to support third party peripherals like graphics and I/O on their OS.
It's as simple as that. They eventually gave up on producing a robust MacOS with preemptive multitasking and just rolled a GUI layer on top of a UNIX-like conglomeration from outside the company.
If it's checked, it's because you didn't know well enough to uncheck it during those smooth "let's get you started, now" screens when you first use the browser.
The best part is when it actually gets kinda sulky when you don't make all the correct choices. The Microsoft 'appoval of defaults' process goes the same way.
Make no mistake about it, a LOT of design effort goes into making that a 'smooth experience' for 'the user.'
Elon is this generation's Paul Allen. Leveraging his PayPal fortune in big dreamy ways. The biggest difference between him and Paul Allen is that Allen didn't spend a 10:1 ratio of other people's money compared to his dime when he put on the US Festival.
Using Tesla's name for his venture in a big way is a bad omen. As he aged, Nicholas' crackpot ideas grew weirder and wilder. He embraced the occult and went batshit crazy and died in poverty. There's a reason why the books about Tesla are all 'weird science' coffee-table illustrated books.
It's almost certain now that you're a paid shill astroturfer for Elon. Or are you actually Elon Musk himself?
It's okay to post over-the-top boosting opinions about all of his ventures here on/., especially if you are the man himself. Just be honest about the fact that you are Elon's primo astroturfer on Slashdot.
I haven't checked posting history going waaay back... were you an putspoken defender of PayPal when that was Musks main gig?
That is important for secure e-commerce. But troubling for simple communications. There should not be authentication being performed on plain communications.
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Too busy parsing the syntax and not even attempting to extract the meaning.
Almost none run on MacOS.
This point needs to be stressed. Even Apple's EEs don't run their design tools on MacOS. To try to do so would cripple their design teams.
Most skills are improved with practice, not with study. Studying is abstract and removed from the real practice.
There is also Benghazi.
No, I am not talking about 'defending our Ambassador' and that whole deal (though the murder of a openly homosexual US state department official by Islamic radicals should certainly remain a red letter event.) Rather, I am asking for consideration of what Ambassador Stevens was even in that city to accomplish.
He was there to facilitate the transfer of US arms and equipment to rebels fighting in Libya. Rebels who it turns out were ISIS forces. That never gets mentioned.
Dumb old Benghazi. It still makes fumbling email server idiocy seem minor.
There are strategic resources for the equipment needed for renewable energy production and use. Rare earth metals for motor magnets for electric cars, as one example. Some of the 'new' critical resources are more localized and scarce than petroleum ever could have been. There will be new resource wars, just as there have always been.
The crazy guy in NK is also somewhat of a figurehead. There are always tons of older generals standing around him in the official photos. He only has the power his military grants him. It's an actual whole country with people in it, and not democratic, but there is a political party running things, not a kingdom.
There are English language North Korean books, from the DPRK point of view, that you can buy right in the Kindle eBook store. It is obviously totally the biased 'official' propaganda, but it's important for people to realize the NK leadership are not Marvel Comics villians. There is an 'official' Kim Jong Il (the previous leader and current leader's father) biography published by the Foreign Language Publishing House, and since they are, (uh..) kinda a non-profit, it's very inexpensive. Checking stuff out and not treating our enemies like comic book villians is the way to resolve things.
I still have an Altos 586. It's an 8086 box that runs Microsoft Xenix (from before they sold it off to create SCO). It's an 8086-based machine with 512k of RAM, a 10MB hard drive, and it has 5 RS-232 ports so five users can be logged in simultaneous on the Xenix system, which is a port of Series 3 UNIX that Microsoft produced. Yes, Microsoft was a UNIX software vendor back in the day.
Five concurrent users on an 8086 processor with 512K of RAM. From Microsoft. With dazzling hardware designed by Altos, of course.
Anybody who didn't have 4MB of RAM in their '286 motherboard was doing it wrong.
Tired bromides are usually not entirely wrong.
Apple has ALWAYS been barely capable of providing driver support for the tiny stable of hardware they produce themselves. They do not have an open driver model. You point out several application-level software products that Apple did a good job on.
They are in ingrown and conceited team, the software people at Apple.
NextSTEP is 'descended' from BSD 4.4, MacOS is a layer of grease paint on NextSTEP. The really sad part is that NextSTEP is a fork of BSD 4.4, and the BSD OSes have evolved past that. The 'UNIX' in a Mac is old and neglected.
I'd just as soon install SFU (formerly 'Interix') and have a POSIX-compliant subsystem on the NT kernel.
And the word UNIX at this point is just a trademark, if you want to boil it down to essential defintions. Until very recently you could buy a UNIX license plate on the Open Group website if you want a UNIX license. (it appears that I posted the link one time too often about a month ago on /. and they've finally sold out of them!)
Do you have a cite for that, and not just drive-by FUD?
You're operating from the conceit that everybody out there wants to read your book. So badly that they will crack into your system to read it without your permission.
The truth is, you'll have to work hard to get any publisher's agents to even glance at the manuscript, when it's complete and you have it ready for publication.
Nope, there are boxes pre-checked, and a 'continue forward' type button on the corner of the screen to provide a smooth user experience.
Cook should do a name change and change his last name to Dishwasher.
I have two X Boxes. I also have a few Dell Optiplex G1s, which have the same Pentium III processor in them and are more useful than just as a game console.
Apple isn't good enough at software to support third party peripherals like graphics and I/O on their OS.
It's as simple as that. They eventually gave up on producing a robust MacOS with preemptive multitasking and just rolled a GUI layer on top of a UNIX-like conglomeration from outside the company.
If it's checked, it's because you didn't know well enough to uncheck it during those smooth "let's get you started, now" screens when you first use the browser.
The best part is when it actually gets kinda sulky when you don't make all the correct choices. The Microsoft 'appoval of defaults' process goes the same way.
Make no mistake about it, a LOT of design effort goes into making that a 'smooth experience' for 'the user.'
The default should be opt-out. But Google gives away this free and shiney candy they call Chrome.
I guess it keeps grandma safer.
Do people really browse without Google Analytics blocked with NoScript?
I suppose they must.
We need fuzzing browser plug-ins. It's time to make the data miners work for a living.
So the malware all comes from the main web domain, not scattered from all over. Okay.
The browser vulns still are the main problem. Massively restricting what the browser can connect to is a chickenshit kludge of a solution.
Are you sure you're not somebody trying to make iPhone users seem like shitheads?
Elon is this generation's Paul Allen. Leveraging his PayPal fortune in big dreamy ways. The biggest difference between him and Paul Allen is that Allen didn't spend a 10:1 ratio of other people's money compared to his dime when he put on the US Festival.
Using Tesla's name for his venture in a big way is a bad omen. As he aged, Nicholas' crackpot ideas grew weirder and wilder. He embraced the occult and went batshit crazy and died in poverty. There's a reason why the books about Tesla are all 'weird science' coffee-table illustrated books.
It's almost certain now that you're a paid shill astroturfer for Elon. Or are you actually Elon Musk himself?
It's okay to post over-the-top boosting opinions about all of his ventures here on /., especially if you are the man himself. Just be honest about the fact that you are Elon's primo astroturfer on Slashdot.
I haven't checked posting history going waaay back... were you an putspoken defender of PayPal when that was Musks main gig?
The 'Big Oil refrain' is almost like my memories of grandpa (who was born in 1910) complaining about 'the oil companies' back in 1976.
That is important for secure e-commerce. But troubling for simple communications. There should not be authentication being performed on plain communications.