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Pre-Apple check by Jobs and Woz up for auction
Having been a finance clerk for several years at a church (before online donations became a thing) and processing many checks for donations weekly, as well as having run a business that took checks often, and having written enough checks for a lifetime, none of these things are really that off.retrogusto said:Weird check for so many reasons.
Would a check really require two signatures (and for such a low value)?
Why do the amounts not match? ($100.97 vs $116.97)
Would they really have written the cents as a fraction in the upper line rather than just the lower line?
Would they have written out “dollars” on the line that already says “dollars” at the end?
it also seems weird to me that the printed MICR numbers at the bottom don’t align with each other, with those at the far right matching one of the dollar amounts listed on the check (0000011697). But maybe there’s a good reason for that.The encoded check value printed lower right is printed when the check comes in to aid in the automatic processing of it so often doesn’t line up.The written amount vs the number amount is an easy enough mistake. I’ve done it myself many times.I usually write the cents on the number line as a fraction myself to avoid making it easy for someone to change the check value (it’s easy to turn a decimal into a comma). And I’ve found myself sometimes writing “dollars” on the written line before the cents more than once. I don’t usually do that. But have enough in my life. Most of these things are to help avoid ambiguity.The dual signatures is probably because it was a joint business account and either they or the bank wanted it.
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First M3 benchmarks show big speed improvements over M2
Not sure why you think gang speed or performance is exactly a match to the size. It’s probably a much more complicated picture.timmillea said:5nM/3nM = 1.6 recurring, suggesting a move from the 5nM process to the 3nM process would yield a 67% improvement in speed/power ratio. We are not seeing that.
If you delve into the TMSC public documentation on their timelines, we see it is far more complicated than the headline figures suggest. The current "3nM" process as advertised by Apple for both their A17 series and M3 series is merely a stepping stone from the previous "5nM" process, which also is not what its name says. There are probably two more generations of SOCs, As and Ms, before we actually arrive at something that can truly be called 3nM. By then, the talk will be about "2nM".
I am happy with my M1 MBA 16GB/2TB until at least the M5 comes along.
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VW chief 'not afraid' of 'Apple Car' entering the market
No. While NeXT did not make NextStep and then OpenStep from scratch, it is not a fork of BSD. The Next stuff is based on a Mach kernel. Not a BSD Kernel. They created a kernel interface that used the BSD APIs so that they could easily port higher level stuff over and for example, used a BSD user land (shells and libs etc). I don’t know which Mach originally was used but my understanding is that OS X was a Mach 2 and Mach 3 hybrid. And probably still is. It is now called xnu (since Apple took over) and the details are hereelijahg said:You realise neither Apple nor Google created iOS or Android from scratch? NeXT didn't even create NextStep from scratch, it was forked from BSD. I imagine most car companies will use a variant on Android, as many do now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
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Microsoft blames European Commission for global CrowdStrike catastrophe
Tell me you did t read the article without telling me.Pema said:
Absolutely spot on.avon b7 said:Did the EU make Microsoft do this worldwide?
The problem last week had nothing to do with the EU. It was sloppy coding, sloppy testing and with little to no resilience built into the whole process.
This is vintage Microsoft sloppiness going over 50 years now. Releasing substandard code, causing chaos first on the desktops, then when office networks became the norm and then the enterprise and now global.
Why we are still saddled with the worst o/s ever written I will never understand?
Windows is basically a graphic interface bolted on to DOS. Anyone who has ever followed the path from DOS to Windows 2000, Windows XP and now the latest incarnation Windows 11 knows that it has never been a stable O/S. The only reason that it is still pervasive is because Gates licensed it for a small fee to any PC maker. The hardware was never a concern for Microsoft. You could install DOS/Windows on your toaster if you like. So long as you pay the $25 fee per box. You are good to go.
Apple, ever the company to maintain quality control, would not split the two. Well, ok, there was a brief period when the Pepsi Cola moron ran Apple that the company licensed the OS to a guy in Texas I believe who agreed to a very stringent hardware contract. But that arrangement fell apart after a year. And since then Apple, after Jobs came back from Next, has grown into a $3 Trillion company, always maintaining the highest standards.
We have the equivalent of DOS/Windows in the phone space. It's called Android. You build any junky phone and slap Android on it and you are good to go.
This particular outage had to do with Windows but also with the way Windows is managed from the cloud. A single component of CrowdStrike called Falcon was not thoroughly tested and it cascaded down to every Windows install out there.
And it will happen again. Get rid of Windows and you solve half the problem.First, Windows has not been a GUI on top of DOS since NT came out. Second, MS code was not the cause of this problem. crowdstrike was allowed to push out an update affecting windows kernel without MS having any control. Nothing to do with MS.I’m not a MS cheerleader — I avoid MS in any form as much as possible and have no MS apps on my own computers out of principle. (Work computers are a different situation). But it’s not fair to MS to claim they have sloppy code that caused this. This was crowdstrike code that MS seemingly had to allow access at kernel level without any coordination or vetting with/by MS
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Apple stole #TakeNote from Utah Jazz basketball team
Originally an expansion team in New Orleans, they moved to Utah prior to the 1979-1980 season and have been in Utah since. So a good while. They even made it to the finals once, only to lose to Michael Jordan and the Bulls in a famous game that saw MJ perform sick and with fever at an above human level to clinch the win.JFC_PA said:Utah has a basketball team?
on a related note? I’d totally pay to hear the Tabernacle Choir do the blues.I’m pretty sure the Tab choir has done some blues but I have to admit a cursory search just now didn’t turn up anything.Disclaimer: I’ve lived in Utah 22 years. Am not from here, and when I care about sports and basketball, which is not often, I claim allegiance to the green of Boston.
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Telegram CEO claims Apple is delaying update that will 'revolutionize' messaging
So you don’t want to pay your fair share to access the largest market that Apple has paid to create?CheeseFreeze said:These app developers are right. As a game developer who created over 20 games on the app store (often tied to theatrical releases) I can only applaud these developers protesting. It's time this gets addressed. Apple's become a shit company with good hardware.If you don’t like the iOS conditions, put your games elsewhere.While I’ve not had 20 games, I’ve had it have apps I’ve worked on in the App Store and am slowly working on another personal effort for the App Store. I applaud what Apple has done and how it runs it and have no problem with what they charge for access. The tools and store alone are worth paying the fee
a lot better than when I started and you had to get stores to put your ziplock bagged diskette on their shelf or get people to mail you a check.
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Apple & ARM have been crucial to each other's survival for three decades
Well they spent a lot of effort and time with it to just bury it. StrongARM evolved into Xscale and between the two Intel ran the business for almost 10 years after acquiring it from DEC. In 2006 Intel sold the PXA line of Xscale SoC to Marvel. I don’t know what happened to the various Xscale embedded/IO controller/etc non SoC Xscale based lines as Wikipedia specifically mentions the Xscale PXA (SoC) in the sale to Marvel.hammeroftruth said:
I doubt that Intel wanted anything more from DEC, but to buy it and bury it. They didn’t want any RISC chips interfering with their plans and they also got Microsoft to help by shelving Windows for PPC.chadbag said:What would have happened if Intel hadn’t just sold its Xscale division (its ARM based processors inherited from DEC and its StrongARM processors which DEC first developed with Apple MessagePad as its target)? and then when Apple came calling for an iPhone processor had been able to offer an ARM based Intel Xscale processor, which I presume would have performed better than the Samsung ARM Apple used)?Anyway, just daydreaming.Intel used StrongARM to replace their foundering i860/i960 risc processors. Eventually, after 10 almost 10
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EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals
Speaking out of both sides of his mouth. EU policy doesn’t promote innovation. Just ask Apple. They innovated and created a vibrant ecosystem and now the EU has said they have to share it with competitors who can’t innovate themselves.
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MacStadium adds M4 Mac mini to its cloud-based virtual machines
Well 60F is not bad. But this reminds me of my first job out of high school long long ago. I had a summer job as a night operator for DEC at their main software engineering facility in S NH. The job was midnight to 8am and mostly we spent our time in huge computer rooms with row and rows of VAX mini computers, big tape drives, and big rows of disk drives and my job was to do nightly backups, mostly to tape. The rooms were heavily air conditioned and being a summer job the outside weather was 85-95F or hotter and usually 60-90% humidity. Hardly sweater or hoodie weather. But a good many of the night operators brought or wore sweaters or sweat shirts to work as the server rooms were very cold. Especially late at night when you were tired and your body’s self defense mechanism not working well so you felt extra cold. It was funny to see people coming in with shorts and t shirts and a sweater.tht said:
If you have ever been in a server room, you want to be in the back, where it would actually be a comfortable temperature. The front? Like 60 °F.The rows of VAX mini computers were a double row back to back with cable trays up high in between the two rows of computers. There was enough room to walk or even put an office chair on wheels in this space between the backs of the two rows of computers.You often found me and other operators behind the computers while we were waiting for jobs to finish as the computers exhausted huge amounts of warm air out into the space.
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Apple Intelligence inches closer to Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator
So Elon Musk doesn’t get credit for usable EVs then as they had EVs roaming the streets a century ago. Is that how we score it?cg27 said:Um, interesting story, but go back to 1968 when 2001: A Space Odyssey blew everyone’s mind, on several levels, the tech depiction being just one. HAL, tablets (albeit “laying” on a desk since they were 50 years ahead of the tech), etc etc
Let’s not give Sculley any credit for this.
