1. You can "side load" Apps from Source since iOS 8 (over five years now).
Using xcode, you can build any source, and install it on your device without technical knowledge. Yes you have to download xcode, and yes you need an apple ID (which is free, and if you're going to use apple products without one, you might as well not bother, because you miss out on most of the useful features that iOS has over the competition).
On the down side, these apps will expire in something like three months, unless you have a paid apple developer account, which costs $99/year or so. This, in my view, is outrageous.
2. You can "side load" Apps from.ipa files using Cydia Impactor (and a NON-Jailbroken iOS device!) since iOS 8 (over five years now).
This is the same process, except that you don't have to build (no xcode required). You still need an apple account, and I would assume therefore that apps installed via this process will expire in the same way.
The last item is an opinion, and is therefore its own citation. For what it's worth, I don't subscribe to this opinion - I don't think that the public would be that concerned, because they are not concerned about security. If the public were concerned about security, then they wouldn't persist in using weak, identical passwords across all their accounts.
you can stick to the Google Play store and rely on Google to protect you.
But Google don't protect you at all here - there's no review process, and anybody can upload any app to the store and have it globally available in minutes. If you want a store that does actively vet what's available, then you have no choice but to use Apple devices. Added to which, the ecosystem that Apple have created has no competitor. Apple Photos syncs all your edits, across all your (apple) devices, in a non-destructive way. This alone is worth the price of admission.
Plus, you can install non-apple-vetted software on your device. You can download, build and install software through xcode for instance - However, I do agree that this isn't sufficient control over your own device, and it's time that the freedom to control your own devices should be available to everyone, always. This goes far, far beyond Apple. This covers your playstation, your car's ECMs, your home router, the software that runs inside nearly every computer that sits in your house. Why apple is consistently the target of this discussion is a bit beyond me. They make phones, for god's sake. What about John Deere, and their signed firmware for their tractor ECMs? What about your TV? Every company is trying to lock down their hardware, and it needs to stop.
I was about to complain about local devices, like my NAS, before I discovered that I can set up a self-signed cert for its local domain in a few clicks. Given how many people have the password to by wifi (pretty much anyone who ever visited the house), this is probably a good thing.
Sounds like borderline non-existent employee protection laws, and consequent insecurity of employment are the real problems here. Plus, American cities are built far too spread out, often with a dying centre, surrounded by industry, surrounded by suburbs. So city planning failed too. I'm not at all sure that other countries experience the same problems - although when I lived in the UK I commuted 40 minutes each way. That sure sucked.
Where I live now, I'm able to get to work on my bike in 20 minutes, and the kids get to their schools in five minutes on theirs. Even so, some people choose to live an hour's drive away. Go figure.
If you're a male who wants to live as a female, more power to you. But don't you dare ask me to discard reality and science and consider you to be a genuine female.
Because why? What difference does it make to you? Why are you so concerned with what's under someone's kilt, that you make a determination what constitutes a "genuine female"? Because you certainly don't sound to me as though you're "fine with it".
And moreover, what would considering someone to be a genuine female actually entail in day-to-day life? Nothing? In which case, why bring it up at all?
take hormone therapy, alter their genitals, and live as the opposite sex of what every cell in their body says they are.
Apart from their brain cells, you mean...?
And in any case, such a decision should be entirely up to them, and I can't imagine for a moment why you (or anybody else) would have a problem with it.
Let people wear what they want, live how they want, and call themselves whatever they want. The only sticking point is that we have gendered bathrooms, which doesn't really make any sense anyway. Nobody has them in their homes, for instance. We should instead have three categories of facility. Introverts - decorated in blacks and greys, low lighting and no music, Extroverts - decorated in bright pinks and oranges, music plays excitingly, and Piss Troughs - for those who like to wee into a stream.
DO now have a choice on buying electric vs fossil fuel. But most here will not choose electric.
It's much worse than that. Buying electric won't help - that power still has to be generated somewhere, and building those vehicles in the first place is very far from carbon-neutral. The real answer is to walk, or ride a bike (or skateboard, or whatever). And don't buy a new bike, use a second-hand one from somewhere. And if you live so far from your workplace that you can't, then move.
Actually, we're all paying for it with actual real money. Advertising is paid for by companies, who make profits by selling us stuff. It's like a world-wide tax on everything. The world would be a better place if we could find a way of preventing that money from going through ad agencies, and instead just somehow funnel it directly into media organisations. This is, of course, impossible.
The best description of the nature of a prime number, and the one that's never used - even though it would likely be the most helpful to high school students - is that a prime number is an integer value that cannot be arranged in a grid. Give a child thirteen draughts pieces, and see if they can find a way of arranging them in a grid pattern that isn't just a single row of counters.
The formal mathematical statement needs the '1' though, because '1' is a number, and it does divide every other number. So you're stuck with the pedantry. It is maths, after all.
To be fair, it is the number one way to screw up your life. And if not the number one, it's in the top two.
That's a statement that would need some backup, I think. People screw up their lives in a nearly infinite number of ways, of which alcohol is obviously one. They also gamble, shoot at each other, fight, become addicted to any number of things (not all of which are considered "drugs"). They might even just be a bit lazy, which you might consider a life "screwed up", if you consider wasted potential a screw-up.
But the thing is, we're all adults here. It would be nice to be treated like one, for a change. Where I live, I can't even walk down the street in town holding a drink without breaking the law. There's no evidence that I've seen that demonstrates that this law does anything positive for society at all.
When you have a machine that can program itself, it is no longer a machine. It's likely to want to keep us around for the same reason we keep each other around; Company.
That's 80kb of minified javascript. To hell with that.
And it's worse even than that. Go to an amp page, and look at what that javascript contains.
this.preconnect.url("https://facebook.com", a);
Similar stuff for instagram, and twitter, and youtube, and vimeo. And take a look at some of the un-minified code for their advertising component of AMP.
As someone else posted before, Affinity Photo is pretty much better than photoshop. The other ones are just toys, which doesn't mean that they aren't quite fun, and sometimes useful, but they're no replacement for a professional tool.
They want toys that are intellectually stimulating, environmentally friendly, contains no toxic chemicals, and all that other nonsense.
Have I passed through into a parallel universe? At what point did "intellectually stimulating", "environmentally friendly" and "non-toxic" become nonsense?
However, those features could be added. That's the beauty of FOSS.
Yes. I could add any features to any piece of software (it's in the nature of software, really), but in the case of the Adobe suite, it will take me - and a team of oh let's say fifty people, about ten years to add those features that are currently unavailable anywhere else. Which means that this comment, as it always does when raised in the context of "here's a list of things that OSS doesn't do", means jack and shit.
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how Bitcoin was created to fight corruption
And to what extent has it succeeded at this worthy goal?
Citation?
1. You can "side load" Apps from Source since iOS 8 (over five years now).
Using xcode, you can build any source, and install it on your device without technical knowledge. Yes you have to download xcode, and yes you need an apple ID (which is free, and if you're going to use apple products without one, you might as well not bother, because you miss out on most of the useful features that iOS has over the competition).
On the down side, these apps will expire in something like three months, unless you have a paid apple developer account, which costs $99/year or so. This, in my view, is outrageous.
2. You can "side load" Apps from .ipa files using Cydia Impactor (and a NON-Jailbroken iOS device!) since iOS 8 (over five years now).
This is the same process, except that you don't have to build (no xcode required). You still need an apple account, and I would assume therefore that apps installed via this process will expire in the same way.
The last item is an opinion, and is therefore its own citation. For what it's worth, I don't subscribe to this opinion - I don't think that the public would be that concerned, because they are not concerned about security. If the public were concerned about security, then they wouldn't persist in using weak, identical passwords across all their accounts.
you can stick to the Google Play store and rely on Google to protect you.
But Google don't protect you at all here - there's no review process, and anybody can upload any app to the store and have it globally available in minutes. If you want a store that does actively vet what's available, then you have no choice but to use Apple devices. Added to which, the ecosystem that Apple have created has no competitor. Apple Photos syncs all your edits, across all your (apple) devices, in a non-destructive way. This alone is worth the price of admission.
Plus, you can install non-apple-vetted software on your device. You can download, build and install software through xcode for instance - However, I do agree that this isn't sufficient control over your own device, and it's time that the freedom to control your own devices should be available to everyone, always. This goes far, far beyond Apple. This covers your playstation, your car's ECMs, your home router, the software that runs inside nearly every computer that sits in your house. Why apple is consistently the target of this discussion is a bit beyond me. They make phones, for god's sake. What about John Deere, and their signed firmware for their tractor ECMs? What about your TV? Every company is trying to lock down their hardware, and it needs to stop.
It's not.
I was about to complain about local devices, like my NAS, before I discovered that I can set up a self-signed cert for its local domain in a few clicks. Given how many people have the password to by wifi (pretty much anyone who ever visited the house), this is probably a good thing.
Houses have become much more expensive
American houses are absolutely insanely huge. The rest of the world manages just fine in much smaller accomodation.
But either of us could get fired tomorrow.
Sounds like borderline non-existent employee protection laws, and consequent insecurity of employment are the real problems here. Plus, American cities are built far too spread out, often with a dying centre, surrounded by industry, surrounded by suburbs. So city planning failed too. I'm not at all sure that other countries experience the same problems - although when I lived in the UK I commuted 40 minutes each way. That sure sucked.
Where I live now, I'm able to get to work on my bike in 20 minutes, and the kids get to their schools in five minutes on theirs. Even so, some people choose to live an hour's drive away. Go figure.
If you're a male who wants to live as a female, more power to you. But don't you dare ask me to discard reality and science and consider you to be a genuine female.
Because why? What difference does it make to you? Why are you so concerned with what's under someone's kilt, that you make a determination what constitutes a "genuine female"? Because you certainly don't sound to me as though you're "fine with it".
And moreover, what would considering someone to be a genuine female actually entail in day-to-day life? Nothing? In which case, why bring it up at all?
take hormone therapy, alter their genitals, and live as the opposite sex of what every cell in their body says they are.
Apart from their brain cells, you mean...?
And in any case, such a decision should be entirely up to them, and I can't imagine for a moment why you (or anybody else) would have a problem with it.
Let people wear what they want, live how they want, and call themselves whatever they want. The only sticking point is that we have gendered bathrooms, which doesn't really make any sense anyway. Nobody has them in their homes, for instance. We should instead have three categories of facility. Introverts - decorated in blacks and greys, low lighting and no music, Extroverts - decorated in bright pinks and oranges, music plays excitingly, and Piss Troughs - for those who like to wee into a stream.
Problem. Solved.
DO now have a choice on buying electric vs fossil fuel. But most here will not choose electric.
It's much worse than that. Buying electric won't help - that power still has to be generated somewhere, and building those vehicles in the first place is very far from carbon-neutral. The real answer is to walk, or ride a bike (or skateboard, or whatever). And don't buy a new bike, use a second-hand one from somewhere. And if you live so far from your workplace that you can't, then move.
There is one other essential problem with VR that will never be fixed.
0) Any technology that requires the user to wear something stupid strapped onto their head will always fail.
That's the trouble. It's probably not enough money to "find out".
Actually, we're all paying for it with actual real money. Advertising is paid for by companies, who make profits by selling us stuff. It's like a world-wide tax on everything. The world would be a better place if we could find a way of preventing that money from going through ad agencies, and instead just somehow funnel it directly into media organisations. This is, of course, impossible.
Let me guess. You're under 40.
The best description of the nature of a prime number, and the one that's never used - even though it would likely be the most helpful to high school students - is that a prime number is an integer value that cannot be arranged in a grid. Give a child thirteen draughts pieces, and see if they can find a way of arranging them in a grid pattern that isn't just a single row of counters.
The formal mathematical statement needs the '1' though, because '1' is a number, and it does divide every other number. So you're stuck with the pedantry. It is maths, after all.
To be fair, it is the number one way to screw up your life. And if not the number one, it's in the top two.
That's a statement that would need some backup, I think. People screw up their lives in a nearly infinite number of ways, of which alcohol is obviously one. They also gamble, shoot at each other, fight, become addicted to any number of things (not all of which are considered "drugs"). They might even just be a bit lazy, which you might consider a life "screwed up", if you consider wasted potential a screw-up.
But the thing is, we're all adults here. It would be nice to be treated like one, for a change. Where I live, I can't even walk down the street in town holding a drink without breaking the law. There's no evidence that I've seen that demonstrates that this law does anything positive for society at all.
When you have a machine that can program itself, it is no longer a machine. It's likely to want to keep us around for the same reason we keep each other around; Company.
We're probably only imagining our own intelligence anyway.
That's 80kb of minified javascript. To hell with that.
And it's worse even than that. Go to an amp page, and look at what that javascript contains.
this.preconnect.url("https://facebook.com", a);
Similar stuff for instagram, and twitter, and youtube, and vimeo. And take a look at some of the un-minified code for their advertising component of AMP.
ads/_config.js
No. Thank. You.
Weird. Other countries don't have this problem.
As someone else posted before, Affinity Photo is pretty much better than photoshop. The other ones are just toys, which doesn't mean that they aren't quite fun, and sometimes useful, but they're no replacement for a professional tool.
Affinity photo, on the other hand, is.
Thanks. I will.
They want toys that are intellectually stimulating, environmentally friendly, contains no toxic chemicals, and all that other nonsense.
Have I passed through into a parallel universe? At what point did "intellectually stimulating", "environmentally friendly" and "non-toxic" become nonsense?
However, those features could be added. That's the beauty of FOSS.
Yes. I could add any features to any piece of software (it's in the nature of software, really), but in the case of the Adobe suite, it will take me - and a team of oh let's say fifty people, about ten years to add those features that are currently unavailable anywhere else. Which means that this comment, as it always does when raised in the context of "here's a list of things that OSS doesn't do", means jack and shit.
I would agree, but Photoshop is still without peer. I'd love to use something else, but there just isn't anything that I've found that's even close.