Error

Rick Thues October 1, 2020 Uncategorized 3 Comments

Episode 609 October 3, 2020 Apple seldom makes mistakes, but they are not without their errors.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SNtIOfuszg Some of us old timers remember Mac OS 7 which erased my hard drive. The errors in OS 7 were mostly due to Apple’s transition from Motorola processors to PowerPC processors. The eminent transition from Intel processors to Apple's own arm A14 processors will have growing pains as Apple prepares its operating systems and applications to run natively. Last week Apple made another big error. This error only affected computers with macOS Mojave 10.14 installed. If you have macOS Catalina installed you...

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Basic conversation

Rick Thues September 21, 2020 Uncategorized 5 Comments

Episode #608 September 26, 2020 What is the language of a computer? Some would name a programming language like Basic, Objective-C, Swift or Java. These are languages used to create applications that run on the computer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vmWQmROAck The language of the computer is how applications converse with the user. Conversely, the user must know how to converse with the applications. It is up to the user to initiate conversation with the computer. Otherwise the computer does not know what to do. Everything that happens on a computer is an operation. Every operation includes selection, instruction and action. These are the...

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Patience

Rick Thues September 16, 2020 Uncategorized 2 Comments

Episode 607 September 19, 2020 Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. It is important to approach any situation cautiously and with patience.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So0ZrTwf8vI Navy seals training dictates a slow, cautious and aware ingress. A cautious approach allows troops to take in the lay of the land. The more that is observed the better the formulation of a plan. The better the plan, the less resistance is likely to be met. The phrase, "Slow is smooth and smooth is fast" may have originated with Wyatt Earp when he said, "Take your time in a hurry" while describing a gun...

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New Computer

Rick Thues September 7, 2020 Uncategorized 4 Comments

Episode #606 September 11, 2020  i was pretty sure that my next computer would be an iPad Pro.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQIZ-Esbg_c Since i moved my bLog composition online to WordPress my most critical application is platform agnostic.  With a monitor, external keyboard and mouse the iPad can replace my aging 27” iMac desktop. An iPad is very portable. The cost of an iPad is less than an iMac or a MacBook Pro. Fully loaded with 1TB of storage a 12.9” iPad Pro costs $1,500. i already have a 30” monitor, keyboard and mouse so those are not additional costs for me....

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Mountain to Muhammad

Rick Thues August 31, 2020 Uncategorized 4 Comments

Episode 605 September 5, 2020 “Mahomet cald the Hill to come to him. And when the Hill stood still, he was neuer a whit abashed, but said; If the Hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet wil go to the hil.” —Francis Bacon, “Essays, 1625. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FtbEIMAsBsY If an unmovable force will not be moved, then it must be approached on its own terms.  Muhammad ordered Mount Safa to come to him and it did not. He concluded that God had been merciful, since if the mountain had come he and his followers would have been crushed. So Muhammad went to...

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POD

Rick Thues August 28, 2020 Uncategorized 9 Comments

Episode 604 August 29, 2020 Last week my dear friend Patrick Owen Doyle died. Since high school, fifty years ago, he was always there to listen, talk and understand.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_TFkut1PM What follows are two tributes. The first tribute is a poem written about Pat in 2003 for his 50th birthday. pod the inventor, a recombinator whose vision sees simple, "all the technology exists," t.s. eliot said. there is nothing that is new, only what is, in a new group next year. an engineer, precision assembler, everything dependent on what was before and after, like cascading dominos, once begun cannot...

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