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by vaxman 6y ago
Sorry the Bloomberg link showed me a purported recent picture of Celine Dion and I found it hard to concentrate. Seriously, we the people need to force Apple and Google to authorize qualified third-party app stores and open source the minim
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by vaxman 6y ago
I tell yah there is nothing sadder than some poor CPA who has lost all of his client files and some of his baby's pictures when the Fusion Drive in his iMac failed (what a horrible piece of technology) only to discover that their backu
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by vaxman 6y ago
Really? They discovered quarks at my university (I wrote the kernel mode code to handle the data bursts from our Cyclotron on sub-MIPS processors) and I have four decades of systems experience. So, what are your qualifications? Hmm?
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by vaxman 6y ago
The Sun was in a relative quiet period for most of those 15 years. Intel removed ECC from the consumer products to keep businesses from buying them --they didn't count on an entire generation of Computer Scientists being wiped out in t
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by vaxman 6y ago
Sure we do, it's called AB2088 and it means private equity as we know it is going away in California. There is also the not insignificant risk that we may also face lightweight socialism at the national level in January. Who knows what
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by vaxman 6y ago
Instantly reminded me of Desqview, one of many systems murdered by Bill Gates’ dirty tricks while the government was asleep at the switch of an IBM 360.
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by vaxman 6y ago
Don’t do it! For (your own) source code or valuables, you need ECC memory and a capacitor on the power supply for your storage device which, by the way, should not be prone to corruption when the device is vibrated a little too hard causing
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by vaxman 6y ago
saw the word "delighted", stopped reading; my rules serve me well ;)
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by vaxman 6y ago
As was widely reported at that time, the three letter agencies were among the largest customers of NeXTStep, the software that forms the basis of the professional operating system that Apple later acquired to replace the original unorthodox
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by vaxman 6y ago
Rockin' dem downvotes from people who know Woz only from fictional books and movies. Woz is a deity-like figure to my peeps (not because of Apple) and he says what he wants, when he wants to. Need something kept secret? Use the Cone Of
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by vaxman 6y ago
downvoted for referencing Jon Sculley's famous demoting/firing of Steve Jobs https://youtu.be/a1Tpe-dbPQI This is why I love this website.
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by vaxman 6y ago
Don't talk about politics, religion or text editors at work, son. They used to ban people for starting rWars on USENET (that is, outside of the forums specifically for rWars) back in the day.
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by vaxman 6y ago
Apple won’t “respond”...it would become actual news (instead of “Hacker News”) if they made any comment. Nope, this is going down like firing the worker for letting his little girl blog from the lunchroom with a prototype within view or the
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by vaxman 6y ago
Uh...except that one time in 1985 ROFLMAO
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by vaxman 6y ago
I see what you did there. Poor Woz, rofl
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by vaxman 6y ago
It’s true, but it misses the point that they can be sued for age discrimination, violating their own governance policies, not properly training the worker, intentional infliction of abnormal stress, etc. BTW, I couldn’t downvote you if I wa
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by vaxman 6y ago
He was caught being old and under the influence of Steve’s original creative spirit. Apple is run by mobsters again (not talking about Tim Apple) —only thanks to Steve coming back, they have nearly unlimited capital and capacity. The joke i
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by vaxman 6y ago
Places you can’t use a (consumer grade) smartphone (because they will self power off) or even an outdoor WiFi hotspot (because the transceivers distort). If your car breaks down...
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by vaxman 6y ago
The worst part is how they are inspiring the next generation of tech gangsters to behave this way. I seriously doubt Tim Apple could be this moronic and still be brilliant on the process side. The fail idiots will be fine in retirement, rea
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by vaxman 6y ago
My dad should have married her. Same story except Spartans instead of Wolverines and he went into Defense instead of IBM, and he’s older and still rockin’ Siri on his AppleWatch.
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by vaxman 6y ago
Are politics like that allowed on here? Doesn’t sound like a good idea. ‘Old Biden was a good man anyway, but be has one confirmed brain aneurism and may have a second, plus we are in a depression that everyone calls a recession (to avoid p
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by vaxman 6y ago
Asbestos fibers enters the capillaries in the lungs and over 20 years work their way into the sack holding the capillaries to then scab and become tumors. During that 10-20 years, shallow coughing and shortness of breath could lower blood o
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by vaxman 6y ago
Dental X-Ray power levels!
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by vaxman 6y ago
oh look, but one source located with 10 seconds of Googling... https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-silent-update-zoom-a...
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by vaxman 6y ago
The idiot you are replying to has no clue how apps work on the Mac --remotely killing a bundle identifier is not sufficient to stop a piece of malware. to cleanup a mess, they at least have to run a script that makes all kinds of changes, i
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by vaxman 6y ago
pull your head out and stop spouting off your (totally inaccurate) opinion as authoritative. You do realize you used the F word, referenced the Taiwanese flag and the word "appropriately" all in the same post, right?
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by vaxman 6y ago
Pretty sure you are completely wrong. It's well documented they have done it in the past and publicly made statements about it --but downvote away idiots!
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by vaxman 6y ago
Very glad Phil remains in control of AppStore mainly because he has respect for independent software developers. Eddy Cue, Hairforce One and Apple Employee #8 see them like unsigned musicians and should not be involved with developers in
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by vaxman 6y ago
You are correct, Sir, but application-level people are happy to write a few lines of funny looking mnemonics to optimize their boring sort functions and then brag on LinkedIn. Also, if you are still in "_hk", please stop wasting t
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by vaxman 6y ago
Alexa is taking over the game, even with the not-quite-natural syntax and privacy concerns. That said, speech is laborious compared to thought. Elon Musk is working on thought (for real).

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