- It could just be coincidence, but that timeline does seem kind of suspect.
- With that much data, it's entirely possible they just haven't found the credit card information yet. It's also possible that the data that IS in there could have been used to attain credit card information.
- The handbag I bought with your credit card was FABULOUS!;)
I see a lot of people suggesting that because APFS was "tested" by migrating iOS devices, this bodes well for MacOS devices. On the surface, this seems true (and the install base is much larger) but MacOS is not iOS. The applications aren't the same, the use case is generally not the same. The backup and restoration process is not the same. There are a lot of major differences that leave me hesitant to believe that this migration will be the same. It could (and probably will) go very smoothly for most users, but for those who have trouble, the impact will be much greater. If an iCloud backup is hanging out there and an iPhone or iPad fails somewhere in the process, you just start over. Restoring a MacBook is a little... trickier.
Honestly, I'm okay with the whole idea. HFS could stand an upgrade. My concern is that Apple, once again, has decided to shit on enterprise, education, and other large installation bases. As I read the upgrade process last week, it seems that they've failed to provide an easy method of migration for IT departments who manage large groups of users with current OS versions. Sure, new machines that show up should be easy enough to deal with, and those users that upgrade through the automated process (provided everything goes okay) should be in the clear, but applying an image to machine with an old OS and HFS is impossible without doing a migration and firmware update. If you're an IT administrator in a mixed environment... well... have fun with that.
Seriously, I know I could already do this, but an "tech-light" way of getting a bunch of people together in a video-conferencing space without having to prop a phone or fins space for a laptop would be pretty cool.
FYI: On Most Android devices, when you plug it in via USB to a PC, you get an option in your notifications that allows you to connect the device as:
- Charge this device
- Transfer files
- Transfer Photos (using PTP)
- Use the device as MIDI
If you don't select the transfer files option, you don't get to browse the directory structure of the device.
Hope that helps!
"In the long run we will lose most of the classic blue-collar workers, people doing the hot and dirty jobs in coking plants or around the blast furnaces. This will all be automated."
This was the primary goal of "The Future," remember? Making life easier, and having the hardest, most dangerous jobs done by robots...
Remember the various worker droids in Star Wars? Rosie the Robot Maid? The Stepford Wives? (Well, maybe not the Stepford Wives.)
For the life of me, I can't figure out why. While Microsoft has researchers battling Parkinson's, building programming languages for children with vision impairments, and designing eye-controlled wheelchairs, Apple... Well, Apple now has three pages of dongles to choose from: https://www.apple.com/shop/mac... - (Insert winky face to show that I'm only HALF-kidding.);)
You can eat soup with a spork, but that doesn't mean you should, especially if you have a spoon readily available. There's nothing inherently wrong with using a tablet to creating content, there are just better tools to do so with.
Why stop there? Mandatory breathalizers, no car stereos, barriers between the driver and occupants to cut out human interaction... wait. This is about human limitation? Fuck it, lets just trim the human. Shouldn't cars be driving themselves anyway?
Data shows a lot of things. Scrambling cell phones in cars creates more problems than it solves.
And in the past 6 months of owning a Mac Mini, it's been frozen or "half-crashed" more than a dozen times that I've returned to it. The Apple-branded bluetooth keyboard works less frequently than the Logitech two-button bluetooth mouse I use with it, and even its performance it dodgy. Both iTunes and iMovie crash regularly, in fact almost every time I use them.
I find the same phenomenon on every piece of non-Microsoft software I've ever used. Firefox 2.0 crashes more often than IE5 ever did, and IE5 crashed A LOT. I have more issues making Apache, PHP and MySQL play nicely together (especially after updates) on my Fedora-run server than I can remember ever having my IIS based 2003 Server machine at the office.
I could go on and on with similar examples, but it really comes down to perception. I won't talk about business practices, who's done what to other competing companies, or talks of Monopoly or antitrust. I will say that on a software vs software basis, Windows competes in its segment just fine.
Is Windows perfect, or even the best? No, not really, but my experience with the software and OS's I use certainly lends to the case that it's not exactly the worst, nor is it completely and thoroughly flawed either.
I got to this late, so one or more of the 200 replies before mine may have already mentioned it, but Microsoft's Shared Computer Toolkit (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/d efault.mspx) is a great way of locking down computers. I use it in the labs at my middle school.
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Some thoughts:
- It could just be coincidence, but that timeline does seem kind of suspect.
- With that much data, it's entirely possible they just haven't found the credit card information yet. It's also possible that the data that IS in there could have been used to attain credit card information.
- The handbag I bought with your credit card was FABULOUS! ;)
I see a lot of people suggesting that because APFS was "tested" by migrating iOS devices, this bodes well for MacOS devices. On the surface, this seems true (and the install base is much larger) but MacOS is not iOS. The applications aren't the same, the use case is generally not the same. The backup and restoration process is not the same. There are a lot of major differences that leave me hesitant to believe that this migration will be the same. It could (and probably will) go very smoothly for most users, but for those who have trouble, the impact will be much greater. If an iCloud backup is hanging out there and an iPhone or iPad fails somewhere in the process, you just start over. Restoring a MacBook is a little... trickier.
Honestly, I'm okay with the whole idea. HFS could stand an upgrade. My concern is that Apple, once again, has decided to shit on enterprise, education, and other large installation bases. As I read the upgrade process last week, it seems that they've failed to provide an easy method of migration for IT departments who manage large groups of users with current OS versions. Sure, new machines that show up should be easy enough to deal with, and those users that upgrade through the automated process (provided everything goes okay) should be in the clear, but applying an image to machine with an old OS and HFS is impossible without doing a migration and firmware update. If you're an IT administrator in a mixed environment... well... have fun with that.
...following that link and landing on a Reuters page about the eclipse?
Seriously. Just shut up.
...for playing dungeons & dragons!
Seriously, I know I could already do this, but an "tech-light" way of getting a bunch of people together in a video-conferencing space without having to prop a phone or fins space for a laptop would be pretty cool.
...few of them hold a candle to Nokia's offerings from several years ago. Shame.
Why is Comcast (doing the same, dishonest shit it always does?)
Wait, I think I answered the question by accidentally typing the question wrong...
FYI: On Most Android devices, when you plug it in via USB to a PC, you get an option in your notifications that allows you to connect the device as: - Charge this device - Transfer files - Transfer Photos (using PTP) - Use the device as MIDI If you don't select the transfer files option, you don't get to browse the directory structure of the device. Hope that helps!
I wish I had mod points for you, sir. Bravo.
Maybe at the same time we should address the slightly insane notion (at least in our modern world) that everyone needs to "have a job."
"In the long run we will lose most of the classic blue-collar workers, people doing the hot and dirty jobs in coking plants or around the blast furnaces. This will all be automated." This was the primary goal of "The Future," remember? Making life easier, and having the hardest, most dangerous jobs done by robots... Remember the various worker droids in Star Wars? Rosie the Robot Maid? The Stepford Wives? (Well, maybe not the Stepford Wives.)
Everything goes somewhere, and digital data go everywhere. (Or something...)
For the life of me, I can't figure out why. While Microsoft has researchers battling Parkinson's, building programming languages for children with vision impairments, and designing eye-controlled wheelchairs, Apple... Well, Apple now has three pages of dongles to choose from: https://www.apple.com/shop/mac... - (Insert winky face to show that I'm only HALF-kidding.) ;)
To be fair, Windows 10 says Edge is more secure than Firefox. (It only says it uses less battery than Chrome.) ;)
Focus blame on a ten year old operating system that people refuse to update or replace, not on the people out there exploiting it.
You can eat soup with a spork, but that doesn't mean you should, especially if you have a spoon readily available. There's nothing inherently wrong with using a tablet to creating content, there are just better tools to do so with.
Why stop there? Mandatory breathalizers, no car stereos, barriers between the driver and occupants to cut out human interaction... wait. This is about human limitation? Fuck it, lets just trim the human. Shouldn't cars be driving themselves anyway? Data shows a lot of things. Scrambling cell phones in cars creates more problems than it solves.
And in the past 6 months of owning a Mac Mini, it's been frozen or "half-crashed" more than a dozen times that I've returned to it. The Apple-branded bluetooth keyboard works less frequently than the Logitech two-button bluetooth mouse I use with it, and even its performance it dodgy. Both iTunes and iMovie crash regularly, in fact almost every time I use them. I find the same phenomenon on every piece of non-Microsoft software I've ever used. Firefox 2.0 crashes more often than IE5 ever did, and IE5 crashed A LOT. I have more issues making Apache, PHP and MySQL play nicely together (especially after updates) on my Fedora-run server than I can remember ever having my IIS based 2003 Server machine at the office. I could go on and on with similar examples, but it really comes down to perception. I won't talk about business practices, who's done what to other competing companies, or talks of Monopoly or antitrust. I will say that on a software vs software basis, Windows competes in its segment just fine. Is Windows perfect, or even the best? No, not really, but my experience with the software and OS's I use certainly lends to the case that it's not exactly the worst, nor is it completely and thoroughly flawed either.
I got to this late, so one or more of the 200 replies before mine may have already mentioned it, but Microsoft's Shared Computer Toolkit (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/d efault.mspx) is a great way of locking down computers. I use it in the labs at my middle school.