I agree, they are wrong. But the computer world is using the colloquialisms wrong on a consistent basis and has been since before we never needed more than 640K (640 * 1024 bytes) of RAM. A better naming system could have been created, but nobody thought that at some point in the future, the off by 24 error would increase by more than 24. Using the base 2 colloquialisms have gone on for so long that anyone attempting to try to change it is just going to get unnecessarily frustrated (except HDD manufacturers which take their frustration to the bank). The overall point is that hard drives used to be measured in base 2, then the marketing types decided to market using base 2 prejudices but base 10 actual measurements. Now somebody has taken them to court for doing what we've all grumbled about over the years.
The modem speeds refer to bits per second (bps), which are single units, not bytes (Bps), which are 2^3 bits. 64Kbps is 64,000 bits per second (8,000 bytes per second). 64KBps = 64 KB per second = 64 * 1024 bytes per second = 64 * 1024 * 8 bits per second = 524,288 bits per second.
Bits and Bytes cannot be directly compared since they are different units.
Many people have jobs which require them to be on call. What would you say to them? Quit? I guess you don't really want medical care, right?
Strawman. You can get medical care working a job at McDonald's which does not require being on call. People who have jobs which require them to be on call typically have more than a subsistence lifestyle. People who have jobs which require them to be on call typically use their employers services and provide no direct source of income to the cell companies. GP was talking about people that work in the medical care industry who are on call and have to have mobile phones and pagers during their shifts. No mobile phone or pager service, very limited emergency medical care.
I went to plenty of math classes. I did not take exception to the comparative ages, I took exception with calling a 1000-year old and 1400-year old religion "new."
So coming into being around 632 A.D. makes it new and the Crusades being between 1095-1291 happened when Christianity was young...That's an interesting definition of newness and youth. The main doctrinal conventions had already been set by 451.
Offering a software update does not constitute "deliberately [trying] to destroy your device" for using hacks. The software update may brick the iPhone if it has been hacked, but also only if the software update is installed. The warranty does not require Apple to release software to hacked iPhones nor does it require iPhone owners to update their software. I think this route is bad for Apple's image, but they are within their rights to do it.
I've searched for some information on the error that you mentioned, but I have not found enough to figure out more details. Here is an article http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/SPACEFLIGH T/soviet_lunar/SP21.htm that mentions problems with the Soviet lifting platform in 1969, but it didn't give any detail other than the rockets falling and exploding. I also found information on the Vostok disaster that killed around 50 people, but that was in 1980, well after the race to the moon was over. Which disaster are you pointing out?
I personally use what looks like a professional camera (not an SLR, however). So I understand your addendum here. I think, however, that the GP was being sarcastic, given the suggested punishment for all offenders of the city ordinance.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The first amendment only prohibits Congress from abridging free speech, not an individual server administrator.
I think the unexpected loud noises would be the cause of the freak out. You would get the same reaction if you started banging cymbals together near a newborn.
For some parts of the campus you have to have registered your MAC address before they let you connect to an access point. It's just a matter of rolling it out to the entire network. Like TFA said, it isn't a big problem now because the problems are coming from parts of campus that don't have the restrictions in place.
It would be nice to have such choices at election time. However, the nature of the two-party system and the cost of getting your name out help to ensure that our choice boils down to the lesser of two silver-spoon, reality distorted evils.
To make this work, you have to assume that the location is perpetually cold and rainy and is near a large body of salt water.
Imagine if you had an auto factory that produced one car (unpainted and no clear coat) every 6-minutes. If you did not paint the car or have it moved within an hour, body cancer would set in and the car would rot. There's no point in trying to conserve the cars unless your demand is higher than the output of the auto factory.
Its always good to have say, 10% free. Out of 10 cars, leave one so that any surprise visitors might have a quick getaway as well.
Of course, the other reason you might try to conserve them is to create artificial demand. Now, half of your hourly production goes to waste. You sell the other half for very high prices saying that your supply just can't keep up with demand and that you must sell them at a higher price due to the whole free market thing.
Point is, every car you don't sell will be useless in an hour. But its better to let a car rot than to sell it for a decent price, after all.
It also has to do with the fact that the update software was an ActiveX control which most other browsers don't touch with a 10-ft (~3.05m) pole. The functionality that allows the Microsoft Update website to search the computer for software is the source of the vulnerabilities that these browsers are avoiding.
So you would be fine with Microsoft re-releasing a version of IE for Mac to wrestle some of Safari's "undeserving marketshare" from Apple?
Or, perhaps you want an operating system that doesn't come with a web browser pre-installed. That would go over well with average Joe Computer User.
User: How do I look at a web page
Tech support: Open up a web browser
User: I don't have one, how do I get one
Tech support: Go to the Apple website to download Safari or the Mozilla website to download Firefox
repeat infinitely
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"Which is better--to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or by three thousand tyrants not a mile away?" Mather Blyles
I agree, they are wrong. But the computer world is using the colloquialisms wrong on a consistent basis and has been since before we never needed more than 640K (640 * 1024 bytes) of RAM. A better naming system could have been created, but nobody thought that at some point in the future, the off by 24 error would increase by more than 24. Using the base 2 colloquialisms have gone on for so long that anyone attempting to try to change it is just going to get unnecessarily frustrated (except HDD manufacturers which take their frustration to the bank). The overall point is that hard drives used to be measured in base 2, then the marketing types decided to market using base 2 prejudices but base 10 actual measurements. Now somebody has taken them to court for doing what we've all grumbled about over the years.
The modem speeds refer to bits per second (bps), which are single units, not bytes (Bps), which are 2^3 bits. 64Kbps is 64,000 bits per second (8,000 bytes per second). 64KBps = 64 KB per second = 64 * 1024 bytes per second = 64 * 1024 * 8 bits per second = 524,288 bits per second. Bits and Bytes cannot be directly compared since they are different units.
Strawman. You can get medical care working a job at McDonald's which does not require being on call. People who have jobs which require them to be on call typically have more than a subsistence lifestyle. People who have jobs which require them to be on call typically use their employers services and provide no direct source of income to the cell companies.
GP was talking about people that work in the medical care industry who are on call and have to have mobile phones and pagers during their shifts. No mobile phone or pager service, very limited emergency medical care.
Have you seen the most recent "Man on Fire" adaptation with Denzel Washington. His character did something similar with one of the bad guys...
I went to plenty of math classes. I did not take exception to the comparative ages, I took exception with calling a 1000-year old and 1400-year old religion "new."
The story is from 1991, they've had some time to figure that out.
So coming into being around 632 A.D. makes it new and the Crusades being between 1095-1291 happened when Christianity was young...That's an interesting definition of newness and youth. The main doctrinal conventions had already been set by 451.
Offering a software update does not constitute "deliberately [trying] to destroy your device" for using hacks. The software update may brick the iPhone if it has been hacked, but also only if the software update is installed. The warranty does not require Apple to release software to hacked iPhones nor does it require iPhone owners to update their software. I think this route is bad for Apple's image, but they are within their rights to do it.
Rather the GP would be raising the question.
I've searched for some information on the error that you mentioned, but I have not found enough to figure out more details. Here is an article http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/SPACEFLIGH T/soviet_lunar/SP21.htm that mentions problems with the Soviet lifting platform in 1969, but it didn't give any detail other than the rockets falling and exploding. I also found information on the Vostok disaster that killed around 50 people, but that was in 1980, well after the race to the moon was over. Which disaster are you pointing out?
I personally use what looks like a professional camera (not an SLR, however). So I understand your addendum here. I think, however, that the GP was being sarcastic, given the suggested punishment for all offenders of the city ordinance.
I think the unexpected loud noises would be the cause of the freak out. You would get the same reaction if you started banging cymbals together near a newborn.
For some parts of the campus you have to have registered your MAC address before they let you connect to an access point. It's just a matter of rolling it out to the entire network. Like TFA said, it isn't a big problem now because the problems are coming from parts of campus that don't have the restrictions in place.
It would be nice to have such choices at election time. However, the nature of the two-party system and the cost of getting your name out help to ensure that our choice boils down to the lesser of two silver-spoon, reality distorted evils.
Would you think an elephant was a "fundamentally benevolent animal" if you were a plant?
To make this work, you have to assume that the location is perpetually cold and rainy and is near a large body of salt water. Imagine if you had an auto factory that produced one car (unpainted and no clear coat) every 6-minutes. If you did not paint the car or have it moved within an hour, body cancer would set in and the car would rot. There's no point in trying to conserve the cars unless your demand is higher than the output of the auto factory. Its always good to have say, 10% free. Out of 10 cars, leave one so that any surprise visitors might have a quick getaway as well. Of course, the other reason you might try to conserve them is to create artificial demand. Now, half of your hourly production goes to waste. You sell the other half for very high prices saying that your supply just can't keep up with demand and that you must sell them at a higher price due to the whole free market thing. Point is, every car you don't sell will be useless in an hour. But its better to let a car rot than to sell it for a decent price, after all.
It also has to do with the fact that the update software was an ActiveX control which most other browsers don't touch with a 10-ft (~3.05m) pole. The functionality that allows the Microsoft Update website to search the computer for software is the source of the vulnerabilities that these browsers are avoiding.
You need some background information first: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/ 1840256
It is common in non-US English speaking countries to refer to corporations as bodies of multiple people rather than anthropomorphizing them.
So you would be fine with Microsoft re-releasing a version of IE for Mac to wrestle some of Safari's "undeserving marketshare" from Apple?
Or, perhaps you want an operating system that doesn't come with a web browser pre-installed. That would go over well with average Joe Computer User.
User: How do I look at a web page
Tech support: Open up a web browser
User: I don't have one, how do I get one
Tech support: Go to the Apple website to download Safari or the Mozilla website to download Firefox
repeat infinitely
I think a cold fusion power plant might be more impressive to expect from him.
Indeed, I don't know Scheme.