|
maze3 wrote: 'd recon this smart home just trying to show off.
The annoying thing is that if you throw a cocktail party, you still have to invite it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
A narrative is growing that Ive’s exit from Apple started years ago Once you've seen one polished piece of aluminum, you've seen them all
Or aluminium, if you prefer. (really, it does make more sense)
|
|
|
|
|
Quote: Or aluminium, if you prefer. (really, it does make more sense)
I prefer.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
|
|
|
|
|
Nope - I prefer to stay with the choice of the guy who first identified it. Not some name invented by a board of pseudo-intellects.
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
|
|
|
|
|
I want the word to be shorter - like "steel", "bronze", "gold", "silver", and "iron". Aluminum and magnesium are too freakin long. "Lum", and "Mag" are plenty long enough.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
|
|
|
|
|
So why not just called them "Al" and "Mg"? Even shorter!
Hmm... Didn't Paul Simon write a song about the naming of Aluminium? "Call me Al"?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
|
|
|
|
|
Sir Humphry (the guy who first identified it) made a bit of a mess of naming this new element, at first spelling it "Alumium" (this was in 1807) then changing it to "Aluminum", and finally settling on the correct and proper "Aluminium" in 1812.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
|
|
|
|
|
Freakin Limeys! Always adding additional letters to perfectly good words... 
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
|
|
|
|
|
Freakin Yanks! Always dropping perfectly good letters from words... 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
|
|
|
|
|
And then not pronouncing them. Cholmondeley, for instance. Well, the French are good at that, too. At least the Germans are sensible. There's a letter there? You will include it in the pronunciation!
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: aluminum
Reading US dictionaries is good exercise for your funnybone.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/1/20676755/jony-ive-exit-tim-cook-disinterest-in-product
Ive disagreed with “some Apple leaders” on how to position the Apple Watch. Ive pushed for the Apple Watch to be sold as a fashion accessory, not as an extension of the iPhone. The product that went on sale was a compromise. Apple only sold a quarter of what the company forecasted in the first year, according to the WSJ, with “thousands” of the $17,000 gold Apple Watch Edition left unsold.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
|
|
|
|
|
Who did they think would buy a $17000 apple watch, and why did they think "thousands" of people would?
|
|
|
|
|
#realJSOP wrote: Who did they think would buy a $17000 apple watch, and why did they think "thousands" of people would?
Fanbois would have bought them at any price, if they weren't too heavy for the plonker-pulling arm.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
...for the same reason why some people would drop a couple hundred thousand on a new Italian sports car. Because it appeals to them. I've always considered myself a more "function before form" designer, and while I have enjoyed many Apple products in the past, today's Apple has become a slave to the form and not the function.
I've followed Jony Ive since he began his tenure at Apple, and actually met him a couple times, and while the conversations were brief, you could see the wheels turning with ideas. But he is like all of us creatives...many great and wonderful ideas, but they each need a champion other than the originator. Call it lack of ambition or zeal or even the inability to see the good ideas because all the details get in the way.
But in Steve Jobs, Jony found a great champion willing to tilt at windmills to see his best ideas make it through to reality. And while Steve was a bit of a jerk (well, rather a lot, actually) to some, he always got results. And he had enough charisma to bend the world to fit his view.
|
|
|
|
|
The Osaka Track might help digital business -- if it gets enough support. At least until it becomes inconvenient
Or the government changes, or someone else uses it to an advantage....
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: or someone else uses it to an advantage....
As it would not yet happen
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
Keeping data local isn't protectionism in the economical sense; it is being reasonable in the security-sense.
Ransomware-attacks, like the one in Lake City[^] (Florida) prove how vulnerable most of the IT-infrastructure is.
Google's China-filter also shows how sharing of data has its political limits. The thing those countries will agree upon is sharing face-recognition data and financial transactions from the masses 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
|
|
|
|
|
It will only work partially in North America.
Walls work.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
We noticed back in October 2018 that Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system was not creating Registry backups anymore. Because nothing bad ever happens to the Registry information
|
|
|
|
|
It is not a bug... it is a feature.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
Their explanation was that "it works on our boxes".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
|
|
|
|
|
But seriously, how freakin big IS the registry if MS felt the need to do this?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
|
|
|
|
|
Quote: To recover a system with a corrupt registry hive, Microsoft recommends that you use a system restore point.
Nice idea. Except for that fact that system restore is turned off by default for most Windows 10 installs. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
|
|
|
|
|
Richard Deeming wrote: system restore is turned off by default for most Windows 10 installs.
Because they don't want people doing anything in any ways that aren't their latest (and therefore stupidest) ways.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
