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11... either you understand it or you don't, and if it has to be explained... well, don't bother.
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Do the sound waves have to be played in dubly?
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More than three decades ago, Apple unveiled the Apple Lisa. It turned out to be one of the biggest flops of Apple, selling only 10,000 units; Apple spent a mammoth $150 million on R&D. Are they taking pull requests?
Great news for all those 68000 not doing anything these days.
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Biggest flops? I'm not so sure about that. A large amount of its design made its way to the Mac shortly after. One interesting thing is the Apple I didn't do all that well but the II put them on the map. The Lisa didn't do all that well either but its successor sure did.
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Joseph Borg, a securities regulator, worries that the newfangled investment phenomenon is inspiring old-fashioned irrational exuberance. "When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue."
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Scientists at the University of Basel have developed a nanoelectronics chip that they can successfully cool to a record-setting, bitterly cold 2.8 millikelvin. Overclocking time!
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In this post, I’ll discuss why I think formal verification has a long way to go — and why it just doesn’t work right now. Prove it!
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In other words, your software is only as good as the tests and the program/user running the tests.
A. People are bad at defining specifications.
B. Coders are bad at implementing specifications.
C. Testers are bad at testing specifications.
Therefore there will always be bugs.
At least until AI's start writing software, and then who's the bug?
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I have nothing to add, except thanks for responding. I was starting to worry I was the only one in this week.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: except thanks for responding.
I'm attempting to take full advantage of the silence, mwahaha. 
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Maybe people is thinking: "If what you have to say it is not better than silence... STFU" 
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.
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I have this nagging feeling that the computers I use today feel slower than the computers I used as a kid. "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get."
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I question his findings. I remember being able to type faster than the Apple 2 could process the key strokes. It was one of the reasons I disliked the Apple ][.
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That one was weird - I remember my 2e clone was generally fast enough, but a friend's Genuine GM parts one was easy to out-type. Maybe switch issues with some of them?
I do remember out-typing my XT way too much though, and I'm not that fast a typist (except on the backspace key)
TTFN - Kent
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Also worth noting that he didn't differentiate OS's or software that read OnKeyUp vs OnKeyDown. That alone would cover the difference, especially if he's like me and still types hard from learning on a typewriter.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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In an effort to block emerging threats to online security, researchers at Princeton University have developed a method to verify the strength of random number generators that form the basis of most encryption systems. 3d6 ought to be enough for everyone
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In an effort to block emerging threats to online security
Stating the obvious (which has undoubtedly been stated previously as well) online security is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain. Given that people are that weak link and are never going to "randomize" their passwords, who the heck cares how strong the rest of the system is, unless your Finch in Person of Interest, then you have no problem decrypting 1024 quantum-bit encoded data.
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My parents considered my birth proof of randomness: I know this because I often heard them asking each other: "where did he come from?"
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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The grant funds a team of UM computer scientists and engineers who are developing Morpheus, a new approach to hardware design capable of creating an unhackable computer. The only unhackable computer is one that can't be turned on
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MORPHEUS hardware design concepts center around constant data movement. Information is moved and destroyed randomly and rapidly.
Maybe they should just study the fairer sex.
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Bit by bit, the PC world is continuing to drop its legacy support. "We will never make a 32-bit operating system, but I'll always love IBM."
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Back in July, Microsoft published its biannual list of features that will be deprecated or removed in the next feature update to Windows 10. On the deprecated list was Paint, the beloved app that has been a staple of Windows since the beginning. Did they misplace the source code to this as well?
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Paint should just be implemented in the CPU. We'll still be using it 100 years from now, copy/paste/cropping cute looking rocks on Mars.
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Here are three lessons we can all learn from Microsoft during the 1980’s. "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!"
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The class action suits allege people are being forced to upgrade phones early. I'm surprised it took as long as it did to get these going
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