True enough. My iPad can't update to iOS 11, it's stuck on 10, which presumably won't be patched. Not that it matters to me, I only use Bluetooth for music.

The 68000 definitely had more thought put into the design, but that actually turned out to be a bad thing. The later models, the 040 and 060, wasn't fully backwards compatible, but was close enough that you could bridge the gap with emulation. After the 060 Motorola gave up, dropped addressing modes and other bothersome instructions, and gave the architecture a new name... ColdFire.

x86 is ugly, full of bad design, being a 16-bit cpu pretending to be a 8-bit cpu with 32-bit extensions and a 64-bit patchjob on top. Yet, x86 somehow avoided all the really difficult mistakes done in competing architectures. All x86 instructions conforms to a strict read-modify-write form with no interrupts in the modify stage. It's addressing modes may seem weird, but on the hardware level it's not too much of a bother. No cleverness like branch delay slots, that turned out to be a real headache when implementing out of order execution. Partial register stalls is an issue, but it's not too horrible.

End of the day, the elegant 68k architecture just couldn't compete with the wart called x86.

EA had some popup in a game that was so hard to decipher that it was difficult to give it anything but five stars, and also gave you a reward if you did press that five star button. I think this is made to avoid that silliness.

That said, app store/play store/windows store ratings have consistently been worthless. If an app is utter crap, it might get 4 1/2 stars. I don't know if this is because apps game the system, but the end result is the same, ratings means nothing.

Amazon/Steam is better, but even there middling products gets "very positive" scores. It's kind off the opposite of what I'd expect, as people who dislike stuff tends to talk the loudest.

The "new remote" Samsung "Smart TV" impressed me. It's fast and elegant, unlike every other smart TV I've tried. The only drag was a bug in the HBO app that force you to manually rewind shows you've watched.

The Apple TV is very nice, especially the touch remote, but I got rid of mine since my Philips smart TV (while slow) works, and I only got 3 HDMI inputs.

Having written both a PDF and PS interpreter, I can tell you that PDF command streams (the stuff that tells the viewer how to draw the page) has no loops or variables. You can't do calculations, the closest being PostScript functions, but you can't directly use the output of such a function (it's used to calculate colors).

Now, to be fully PDF compliant, you must support a limited subset of PostScript commands. There at least you can do math, but loops need not be implemented, just a few math related operators.

In theory, Type1 fonts is just PostScript code, but PDF viewers never actually execute that code.

TrueType fonts have executable code that is executed, but I don't know if it's Turing-complete.

Of course, PDF v.1.7 allows for JavaScript.

Yeah, that's a great feature. Stupid that they're changing that.

My point is that you can generalise. I.e. that green1's statment was correct.

I'd say "I'm glad you're alive," instead of "Oh you survived, too bad, your life will suck from now on."

No, but stating that rape is as bad as murder will make some victims feel that way.

You're comparing rape with a killing someone on their death bed. Sure, people have been killed right before they would have died, but that does not make rape worse than murder. By that logic you can say that bullying and teasing is as bad as murder, because there are people that would rather die than be bullied.

If I was lying on my deathbed in great agony and a man came in and gave me the choice of rape/murder, I'd pick murder. So yes, it's possible to think up scenarios where murder is the lesser evil. But it's contrived. People generally aren't raped on the deathbed. Instead it's, say, between a man raping or killing your teenage daughter. In the former she "may" kill herself, while in the latter she "can't" get her life back in order because she's dead. I.e. rape is the lesser evil.

I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm not saying that one should blame the victim of rape or not talk about it. Saying murder is worse than rape is not victim blaming.

Rape isn't trivial, but implying that people should just as well be dead because they were raped pisses me off. People have killed themselves over such attitudes.

"Can" in this context does not mean "will". Yes, there are rape victims that kill themselves, but he's not saying anything against that.

A rather contrived scenario. I too know without a doubt which victim I'd rather be. And that's alive, thank you very much, don't pick for me.

Research have shown that people can suffer trauma from make-belief fantasies. Conversely people can be brutally abused and not suffer any trauma at all. People are complex, yes.

No it's utterly right. In fact, attitudes like these causes trauma in rape victims. Believing themselves to be damaged goods and worthless.

I think many folks don't realize this in particular. In my perfect dream state there would be noise limits along with speed limits.