>. There have been a couple of subjects, my Ph.D is in Applied Mathematics, where I can trace it to the source (or what appears to be the source) where somebody either did not know, made a mistake, was willfully negligent, or just failed to communicate well.

That reminds me of some .htaccess rules I posted back in the 1990s. Several other web sites immediately copied-pasted it, without link or attribution. A couple of weeks later, I found an error in my code and fixed it. I couldn't fix the dozen or so sites, some very popular, who copy-pasted me, nor the hundreds of sites who copy-pasted from the first generation of copiers. Seventeen years later, most sources which show how to prevent hot linking still include my original error - an error I corrected in 1998. Which means most web sites which attempt to prevent hotlinking are affected by that error I briefly had on my site.

So yeah, I'm the erroneous source. :)

What fine are you talking about? This isn't a case about a crime. If you bump my car in a parking lot and it costs $200 to fix, you owe me $200. It doesn't matter how my you make - if you dent my car, you get it fixed, simple as that. That's called "damages". Same here - the plaintiff claims that Apple's conduct caused financial damage to their business, so Apple needs to make it right by paying the amount of the damage. It called "making the plaintiff whole", restoring them to the same condition they would be in had the event not occurred.

Splendid post. You might, however, want to include a potentiometer with those microphone jack leads. That way you won't be applying 120 volts to an input designed for less than 100 MILLIvolts.

My local power company has four generators, wired together to provide power for the city. They are connected into a regional grid with hundreds of other generators, but to make it simple to understand ignore those and just think about the four generators which are right next to each other . What do you think happens if one generator is trying to push the grid positive while another is trying to push it negative? That doesn't work out to well, so all the generators have to be in sync to within a few milliseconds. They do that by spinning them all to run at exactly the same frequency (60hz).

Coincidentally, an overloaded generator will also slow down, because it's power source doesn't provide enough power to spin that fast against the electro-magnetic physical resistance while also supply the needed amperage. What that means is that a generator spinning to slow is a generator that overloaded. It indicates that more input power is required, so throttles should be wired to take feedback from the tach in order to maintain 60 hz.

I still find it odd that people completely make stuff up completely from their imagination and post it as if it were fact, without having the foggiest idea what they're talking about.

My damn browser kills the on-screen keyboard regularly, then applies a click wherever your finger happens to be when it takes the keyboard away. So yeah, I can press the letter "H" in a textbox, the H will show up, then the keyboard will vanish it'll register a click on the submit button, which was under the H key.

I typed this post out as an SMS message. I'll copy-paste from the SMS to the browser, to avoid a repeat of the same problem by trying to type in the browser.

My browser submitted the post before I was done writing it.

Distributing those pulses to the different windings has to be done externally, via transistors or other controlling electronics. So the pulses don't need precision timing or anything, you just have to count them.

On the other hand, stepper motors can only have a certain number of steps per revolution (64 steps is a typical example, but other values are available) . So if you want something like 1/1000th turn, you do need a gear or screw of some sort.

For very slow rotation, such as clocks, synchronous motors are normally used. They use the ac swing from positive to negative rather than a commutator. They're quite accurate, and used to be more so, because the ac supply is regulated to exactly 60 hertz in order to allow power companies to interconnect. Again you don't have to deal with any intricate control of the pulses, just count the number of swings from positive to negative and back. The precision of the 60 hertz ac rate was recently reduced in the US, but it's still precise enough for most purposes.

> I'm not really all that well versed in electric motors but isn't the precision of an electric motor dependent on how precise the bursts of current are applied to it? I am assuming that any electric motor has a set minimal step it must take..

No, for tasks which require controlling the position or rate of rotation, the precision is NOt dependent on how precise the bursts of current are. You used the magic word there, "step". If you want to control the rotation of a motor with any precision, you use a type of motor called a stepper motor. You may be familiar with the commutator which regular hobby motors use to distribute current to different windings as the motor turns. By basically just removing the commutator, you end up with a motor that turns only 1/64th rotation with each pulse, and distributing those pulses to the different windings has yo be do

This demonstrates that you can have any gear ratio you want, in the palm of your hand. UP TO 11 million : 1. It's essentially unlimited.

You may have dealt with some problems related to the 2GB or 2TB disk size limits in Windows and MBR. At the same time, other people had storage systems which would support up to 8 petabytes, or even exabytes. Exabyte storage volumes didn't actually exist, so one could say the large disk formats had no practical application, but the practical application was that it was NOT limited to 2 TB. You could (and we did) have 16 TB raid volumes, because the limit was so high as to be essentially unlimited.

I see this the same way - it demonstrates a design that has practically unlimited ratio.

> You are attacking a straw man of 'wanting ununlimited [sic] choices' (nobody said they want that),

"As many ways as possible" - FlufferMutter

> Nobody was talking about keyboard shortcuts

I see above in this thread talk about ctrl-w, ctrl-F4, "cycle through windows using the keyboard ".

Seriously, if you want a powerful, fast interface that requires learning, the bash CLI is a thousand times faster than any gui. Try it out. GUI is all about being simple by putting the knowledge in the world, not in the head. That means showing the common, sensible default choices.

> you are attacking ...

It's a suggestion, for something you'll probably like, not an attack, silly. Don't tell me you're one of those guys who feels that if his first idea is ever imperfect, that makes him stupid, so he must defend all of his ideas from "attacks" rather than learn anything, or take any suggestions.

> Who cares whether a Unix is certified? Linux is the big daddy of the server rhythm these days

Linux has a huge installed base, absolutely. Most of my work throughout my career has been on Linux. We also know that GNU stands for Gnu's Not Unix. Linux is popular, and it's explicitly Not Unix. There is no guarantee your Unix software or integrations will continue to work on any particular version of any particular Linux distribution, as they try out a third init system in as many years.

So who cares about certified Unix? Two groups of people. People who have enterprise production systems running Unix software that MATTERS care. If you're running a payroll system for 10,000 employees and a glitch means missing a pay day, or perhaps ending up with the decimal point in the wrong place on everyone's pay check, certification of the whole stack is good. You can, at a cost, show that the software uses only official Unix apis, and will therefore run on any certified Unix. Similarly , regulators and such like certified components for similar reasons.

The second group is represented by alot of the systemd comments. Certified Unix means you have certain guarantees about how things (still) behave. You won't have important stuff changed out from under you, if you interface with the system as a Unix system, not as a Brand X version y.z system. Apple CAN'T fuck certain things up in the next version, systemd style, without losing their certification. That can be attractive to a lot of people.

The claim was that "advanced users" don't use Macs.
To reply "I use a Mac" would be pointless and not advance the discussion in any way, because it wouldn't tell you whether "advanced users" ever use Macs.

What does move the discussion forward is to show that some advanced users do in fact use Macs, so a relevant post must establish two things:
a) I'm an advanced user
b) I use a Mac

Point a is made quickly, and in an easily verifiable way, by mentioning where you can find my name on your system.

If you want ununlimited choices, where you can do anything from anywhere, any time, that's called CLI. I open a bash prompt and I can do millions of things in one step, without opening any new windows, navigating to any other location, etc. Unlimited choices. I do most of my work at the command line because that's what I like as well.

The entire point of a GUI is to present the user with the most relevant and common choices for the current task at hand, in an easy-to-use way, so they don't have to KNOW all of the choices available, they can SEE the choices available at the present time.

If you want to memorize arbitrary key strokes to get things done quickly, that's precisely what the command line IS. A GUI is the alternative, for people who want to visibly SEE the choices, not LEARN them.

Learning hundreds of arbitrary keystrokes and using them in a gui is like using a motorcycle to move furniture- precisely the wrong tool for the purpose you wish to achieve.

Here's a post a made over two years ago.

http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

Not very good at this internet thing, are you?

You're talking about me.

I've been a developer for 17 years. My name is in the kernel changelog. I've designed and built custom servers with power tools. I use Mac Pros for work.

It seems GP might think that Apple only makes iPhones. Mac Pros, which run certified Unix (OS X) are possibly the _best_ option for serious professionals. There are also a couple other companies making one or two choices in well-built hardware you can install enterprise Linux on, of course.

You're thinking of the iPhone and iPad, toys for people who don't care about control over their property, but perhaps do care about build quality, vs. Macs, which are powerful Unix computers.

I've been a developer for 17 years. My name is in the kernel changelog. I've designed and built custom servers with power tools. I use Mac Pros for work.