Posts by Dan 55

Re: Amiga connects..none.. very different histories..nope you're wrong

I might ask the same question. My point was here was a concrete documented example of an Amiga feature that ended up ported to BeOS in spite of protestations to the contrary.

Re: Amiga connects..none.. very different histories..

You've got it back to front. AmigaOS was developed in the US even though it found success in Europe, however many BeOS developers were European.

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I actually had one of the first BeBoxes at home in Stockholm

There was only a small circle of developers then, many of them from France where Be got much of their initial capital.

And Amiga developers asked Be for AmigaOS-like features and they were written into the BeOS:

A case in point is Datatypes.lib, a generic data translation service much like EasyOpen on the Mac, except with an API mere mortals can understand. It started as a request to Be from some old Amiga developers to adopt the Amiga "datatypes" system service, which apparently is a very basic way of identifying and loading the contents of a disk file into an application. Many people liked the idea, but thought the Amiga implementation was flawed, and a lot of discussion ensued. To cut down on the clutter and flames, I decided one weekend to take the best of the discussion and just implement it. I did, and posted the result for comments. The first round was pretty harsh (and rightly so) but version 1.1 really had everything you'd need in a basic data translation package, including identification, import, export, making it easy to write add-on translators, and abstracting translation from storage so you could use any translator going to/from any source (such as disk, memory, or a network connection). Judicious use of C++ abstract base classes made this both forward compatible and easy to implement.

And finally, it really wasn't really an Apple/BeOS land, as in the end we all know which OS Apple chose.

Re: Overlay

Reminded me about a lecture on where we might have gone wrong since then:

The Thirty Million Line Problem (1:48:54)

Re: A bit odd to focus on amount of redundancy pay

Perhaps it's because Twitter didn't consult within the required timeframe first and is offering less than 90 day's pay? See section 3 here.

Also, Twitter seem to have fired the person in charge of filing accounts with Companies House.

Re: parents are stopped from taking responsibility by the social media network

No, it's a problem with social media networks, that's why I said "social media networks". Where did you get "internet service providers" from?

You may even be aware that a social media account can be accessed from many devices and the account's settings and associated parental controls (or lack of them) have little to do with the device its accessed from.

Re: Multiple responsables

And yes there is also responsibility by the user or their parents.

Until recently no social media network had built-in parental controls. Now some claim they have parental controls but that usually means a pointless parent guide explaining what the settings page does. In other words parents are stopped from taking responsibility by the social media network while their children get hooked on the dopamine hits.

At a guess that's something to do with the social media addling half the students' brains or the chance of getting shot being pretty high, and no politician doing a thing about it for years because they like the money from lobbying and are scared of the Freeze Peach and Freedumb mobs. If schools didn't have those things to contend with then they could be a lot less dreadful.

Re: NULL Pointers On Unix and Windows, Sappeur

Page sizes on x86, x64, MIPS, and ARM are 4K, not 64K. You appear to be arguing that there aren't many structures > 64K so it doesn't matter as it'll segfault anyway, there are many more structures > 4K.

Really not a good advert for your supposedly memory safe language.

Re: WEF

From Wikipedia:

WEF chief executive officer Klaus Schwab described three core components of the Great Reset: creating conditions for a "stakeholder economy"; building in a more "resilient, equitable, and sustainable" way, utilising environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics; and "harness[ing] the innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution."

Why is this so terrible?

Re: Shirley?

Also Tesla seem particularly terrified of someone suing them if a car bumps into them while it's automatically parking at 3mph and refuses to park if anyone is nearby, so it would be unable to park in any high street you'd find in any European town.

Re: Shirley?

That's because YouTube spams "brand-friendly content" with ads, and the creator probably doesn't even know.

NewPipe on mobile or uBlock origin plugin on desktop.

Re: Very interesting

Once you've got a serial port set up somehow... KA9Q had TCP/IP and started out on CP/M. It could probably be persuaded to FTP files from floppy disk to an FTP server on the LAN from what I vaguely remember. Looks like it can be downloaded from the links here.

Gmail service is way more interesting for smartphone only users because the easy to use app. Telco email has to be used with a separate mail client and you have to setup arcane parameters for IMAP and POP3 and TLS.

That's very much by design. Thunderbird automatically figures it out based on the domain in the e-mail address.

Re: Serves Google right

If you want parental controls on an Android or ChromeOS device, the Google account has to be an @gmail.com account.

And they also want the parent's credit card number because... reasons.