"it is at heart a NextSTEP derived OS, and NextSTEP is a kludge from the days of proprietary Unix back in the mid 90's."
Some 'FreeBSD' userland was grafted on because at the time NextSTEP was stinking sort of like ten year old milk. And now that grafted on FreeBSD is ten years old, too.
What good is a schematic to repair a $20 device, when a an hour of a repair tech's time is $50?
The schematic enables a repair tech to figure out the problem. Then they reach over to the stack of $20 devices that have queued up and fix each one in five minutes.
And really, source code? Try to find a shop you can take something to in order to have it reprogrammed. And then how much is several hours of a coder's time going to cost you?
The coder spends several hours creating the improved software patch, then posts it on a blog and 1,500 people can apply it. Furthermore, the coder had an easy time performing the improvement because the blog had discussion threads with hundreds of contributors providing feedback and suggestions.
Look at a laptop computer nowadays. One board. Memory and even sometimes the SSD are soldered down. Unquestionably the lowest cost way to manufacture it.
Incorrect. It's easy to question whether it's the lowest cost way to manufacture. Production facilities are places where products are built up out of sub-assemblies. When all the modules are soldered together, rework is more expensive. And modular construction allows manufacturers to make many different models with the base build being a lot of components that can be snapped together to produce said different models. I am not expounding this to say it is the be-all-end-all. Just to challenge that 'unquestionably' nonsense.
Scandinavian countries historically have succeeded because they have silo cultures. They have been miniature self-sufficient states. Racial homogeneity, which when it erodes, as it has recently, goes very bad very quickly.
They work well for the civil servants, those who can afford to bribe, and the welfare recipients. The rest of us just get along, like in the other mentioned 'isms.'
I would still rather pay an extra two cents to a bookstore on a website completely unassocited with Amazon. You seem to consider Amazon a business partner. I consider them a sometimes necessary evil.
It's my understanding that the patents that Qualcomm is contesting Apple using IP from are not the ones agreed upon to be placed under the 'common license'. Apple is going beyond that point and using Qualcomm IP that isn't licensed that way to other Qualcomm customers either.
However, Apple is involved, so people will climb out of Steve Jobs grave (where they live) to raise a hue and cry.
I have the Amazon App store installed on my Samsung Galaxy phone. It's just a matter of downloading the apk from Amazon and sideloading it. It is pretty easy right now to have an Android phone or tablet without being personally logged into the Google ecosystem.
I abandoned them when it became obvious that they were only a Last Mile provider here. That means we always had an excellent DSL connection, but there were days and days when there was no DNS or any kind of connectivity past the DSL connection.
CenturyLink provided tech support that consisted of 'unplug your modem' quality, and after weeks of dealing with intermittent zero connectivity I gave up.
My only conclusion was that they were not interested in selling me anything over copper wire.
I mean, I can't see how anybody is going to penetrate my Windows 10 DVD-ROM disk, it's hard and plastic and pretty thin. Since that's the sum and whole of Windows 10, I am safe, just like the Linux kernel is safe, especially if it's kept safely housed in a tarball.
So the Tesla only has to sit idle during the 'speed competition' for two or maybe three hours, whereas the 'vette has three or maybe four 5 minute refueling stops.
When the PC/AT came out, they had 1.2MB drives that purportedly could read and write the above formats too, but they often didn't.
The 1.2MB 5-1/4" HD floppy drives could read the older DSDD 360K floppies. They could also write to them. But because they were 80 track drives, and the 360K floppies were 40 track disks, they only wrote to half of the track width on the 40 track diskettes. If there was already data on sectors that had been written using a 40 track drive, the narrow data written by the 80 track drive didn't remagnetize the whole wide track. Trying to read the disk again on a 40 track drive would end up with corrupted data sectors. This could even be a problem when reading the 40 track disks on a different 80 track drive, because slight head misalignment on the second 80 track drive would pick up the 'off track' magnetic flux.
It is a very unreliable process, and obviously very easy to corrupt the DSDD diskette. IBM didn't really intend it as a downgradable process. You were supposed to get your PC-AT and not look back, I guess.
The only way to reliably write to a 40 track (360K) disk in a HD floppy drive if you want to read it in a 40 track drive is to start with a brand new never-formatted DSDD diskette in the HD drive, format it in that drive, and then read it in the 40 track drive. (this could prove necessary if you want to get data onto a machine with only the DSDD drive from a machine with only the HD drive. The alternative to starting with a 'new' diskette is to thoroughly degauss a DSDD diskette before formatting it in the HD drive. But this isn't that easy to accomplish, because it has to be very flat and cleanly degaussed.
That should be enough arcana that nobody will care about for tonight.
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Just another Madison Avenue outfit, updated for the Digital Age.
That's Google.
Correction:
"it is at heart a NextSTEP derived OS, and NextSTEP is a kludge from the days of proprietary Unix back in the mid 90's."
Some 'FreeBSD' userland was grafted on because at the time NextSTEP was stinking sort of like ten year old milk. And now that grafted on FreeBSD is ten years old, too.
It's a package deal.
What good is a schematic to repair a $20 device, when a an hour of a repair tech's time is $50?
The schematic enables a repair tech to figure out the problem. Then they reach over to the stack of $20 devices that have queued up and fix each one in five minutes.
And really, source code? Try to find a shop you can take something to in order to have it reprogrammed. And then how much is several hours of a coder's time going to cost you?
The coder spends several hours creating the improved software patch, then posts it on a blog and 1,500 people can apply it. Furthermore, the coder had an easy time performing the improvement because the blog had discussion threads with hundreds of contributors providing feedback and suggestions.
Look at a laptop computer nowadays. One board. Memory and even sometimes the SSD are soldered down. Unquestionably the lowest cost way to manufacture it.
Incorrect. It's easy to question whether it's the lowest cost way to manufacture. Production facilities are places where products are built up out of sub-assemblies. When all the modules are soldered together, rework is more expensive. And modular construction allows manufacturers to make many different models with the base build being a lot of components that can be snapped together to produce said different models. I am not expounding this to say it is the be-all-end-all. Just to challenge that 'unquestionably' nonsense.
Scandinavian countries historically have succeeded because they have silo cultures. They have been miniature self-sufficient states. Racial homogeneity, which when it erodes, as it has recently, goes very bad very quickly.
They work well for the civil servants, those who can afford to bribe, and the welfare recipients. The rest of us just get along, like in the other mentioned 'isms.'
I would still rather pay an extra two cents to a bookstore on a website completely unassocited with Amazon. You seem to consider Amazon a business partner. I consider them a sometimes necessary evil.
Coal Mining can be mostly automated. We don't need to send old time miners down into the hole anymore. Modern robotics and all that.
I don't live in a town or a city. I agree that not everybody gets to have that choice, though.
and over 300 baud if you were lucky,
"110 baud should be enough for everybody." - Bill Gates, while in Jr. High School and sitting in front of an ASR-33.
We don't need to move to another protocol.
Just use a deprecated older version. I.e. run NoScript and when pages won't work, you can either whitelist them or navigate away.
Smart web developers won't want to lose eyes. Even Slashdot will load with javascript blocked (except mobile slashdot)
That would especially be cool if it was iOS only.
Something more interesting than standing in line at the Apple store once a year.
There is an article that is probably more direct, on People's Daily about this matter.
Abe.com has copies of that book for $2.99 Creimer, and you don't get your referral bonus if people buy the book there.
I have a Pebble watch on my wrist. I am the one abandoned, not some people who worked at Pebble. Who got new jobs at Fitbit anyway.
Some VCs are starting to pull out from these unprofitable unicorns.
If they pull out early enough they will have an easier time fighting the paternity suits.
It's my understanding that the patents that Qualcomm is contesting Apple using IP from are not the ones agreed upon to be placed under the 'common license'. Apple is going beyond that point and using Qualcomm IP that isn't licensed that way to other Qualcomm customers either.
However, Apple is involved, so people will climb out of Steve Jobs grave (where they live) to raise a hue and cry.
Thus lowering the quality of the developers who work on iOS which increases the bug count.
No, I don't think a positive feedback loop is a good idea.
I have the Amazon App store installed on my Samsung Galaxy phone. It's just a matter of downloading the apk from Amazon and sideloading it. It is pretty easy right now to have an Android phone or tablet without being personally logged into the Google ecosystem.
CenturyLink can promise whatever they want.
I abandoned them when it became obvious that they were only a Last Mile provider here. That means we always had an excellent DSL connection, but there were days and days when there was no DNS or any kind of connectivity past the DSL connection.
CenturyLink provided tech support that consisted of 'unplug your modem' quality, and after weeks of dealing with intermittent zero connectivity I gave up.
My only conclusion was that they were not interested in selling me anything over copper wire.
And Windows 10 is a DVD-ROM.
I mean, I can't see how anybody is going to penetrate my Windows 10 DVD-ROM disk, it's hard and plastic and pretty thin. Since that's the sum and whole of Windows 10, I am safe, just like the Linux kernel is safe, especially if it's kept safely housed in a tarball.
Mae Ling Mak, naked and petrified.
So the Tesla only has to sit idle during the 'speed competition' for two or maybe three hours, whereas the 'vette has three or maybe four 5 minute refueling stops.
I know for a fact that electric bike technology has made significant strides in the last decade. Isn't that a solution they should look at?
When the PC/AT came out, they had 1.2MB drives that purportedly could read and write the above formats too, but they often didn't.
The 1.2MB 5-1/4" HD floppy drives could read the older DSDD 360K floppies. They could also write to them. But because they were 80 track drives, and the 360K floppies were 40 track disks, they only wrote to half of the track width on the 40 track diskettes. If there was already data on sectors that had been written using a 40 track drive, the narrow data written by the 80 track drive didn't remagnetize the whole wide track. Trying to read the disk again on a 40 track drive would end up with corrupted data sectors. This could even be a problem when reading the 40 track disks on a different 80 track drive, because slight head misalignment on the second 80 track drive would pick up the 'off track' magnetic flux.
It is a very unreliable process, and obviously very easy to corrupt the DSDD diskette. IBM didn't really intend it as a downgradable process. You were supposed to get your PC-AT and not look back, I guess.
The only way to reliably write to a 40 track (360K) disk in a HD floppy drive if you want to read it in a 40 track drive is to start with a brand new never-formatted DSDD diskette in the HD drive, format it in that drive, and then read it in the 40 track drive. (this could prove necessary if you want to get data onto a machine with only the DSDD drive from a machine with only the HD drive. The alternative to starting with a 'new' diskette is to thoroughly degauss a DSDD diskette before formatting it in the HD drive. But this isn't that easy to accomplish, because it has to be very flat and cleanly degaussed.
That should be enough arcana that nobody will care about for tonight.