You are joking right? I.T.'s relationship with Microsoft has ALWAYS been adversarial. If there was a better choice out there for their use-cases, people would drop MS in a second because they are fucking dicks to work with. My Linux installs will NEVER reboot without me explicitly telling it to (barring a hardware/software fault). Cant say the same for a WIndows machine and that is a big deal for a LOT of people.
They arent wrong. Most AV software bothers the hell out of you with notifications and constantly tries to frighten you. Its not the installing that is difficult, its living with the software day-to-day that pisses people off.
No. This only would apply once computation power, density and cooling all reach a plateau. Even after that political forces will alter the price. "The future is here, it is just unevenly distributed" still applies, even with the power of 'the cloud'.
90s internet service over telephone lines was probably the closest we ever got to total ubiquity of service from many providers. We were covered by a plethora of providers enough to push the price into 'cant build it cheaper, can only enter under-served markets' zone.
The long and short of it is the government needs to learn that even warrants have limits. It doesnt matter how politely or legitimately they ask, some things are simply not available to them and no amount of strong-arming is going to change it.
You are right, no one should ever murder another person, but thats not what we are talking about here. Murder is the UNLAWFUL taking of life. There are many instances where it is completely lawful to commit homicide, including that person being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
'portable server'? I think you mean WORKSTATION. You dont 'lug' a server, you migrate it from one fixed location to another. You are running non-operational simulations on a workstation, you are not serving.
What if i dont want my computer to send you that information? It doesnt matter what YOU want it for, I DO NOT WANT YOU TO HAVE IT. Why is that so hard to understand? Telemetry is great, we all know its benefits, thats not the argument here. The argument is that the user ultimately should have the right to decide what data you get and that choice should be sacrosanct.
Absolutely yes. I could harness a 1000 GHZ CPU, and 10,000 TB of storage TODAY no problem. IT would vastly increase my output. Yes, we need more, and that need is not going to abate for at least another 30 years without a quantum jump in storage tech. 4k/60 FPS video is BIG, imagine what 4K 360-degree VR video will take up, and then 8K. Its an unending thirst that will take us the better part of a century to quench.
Its not a backup if its write-accessible to the originating machine. Backups are stored OFFLINE or at least employ a physical/logical gap. Time Machine is more of a hot spare than a backup in this context.
"Apple FORCED YOU TO USE a way to manage and play music files more intelligently via iTunes and metadata."
FTFY. Itunes is way too heavy handed and takes liberties it really shouldn't (like obfuscating folders instead of databasing the existing filenames).
TO me, drag and drop is VASTLY superior to Itunes in EVERY way. Only idiots need itunes to manage their music. Winamp was pretty much the pinnacle of MP3 player design. its all downhill after that.
It all comes back to modern users want all the power and none of the responsibility.
I bought an RPi right when it came out. I immediately set it up with a webserver (lighttpd) pushing out static webpages. It had an uptime of over a year before i took it offline. It was the original design (no mounting holes, 256 MB RAM) with all its warts... I have been running Pis for almost 4 years, they are solid if you play to their strengths and not whine about what could/should be. The fact that the Pi3 is a DROP-IN replacement for Pis i deployed years ago is a huge bonus.
People who are interested in that kind of audio performance either build it themselves out of boards like Pis and high quality, custom made I2S DACs or buy it at the high end.. You choose an INCREDIBLY poor example for your argument. Also FIIO, Pono Player and the very high end Sony Walkman do exist.
Context > grammar. You have the most powerful context analyzer in the known universe sitting between your ears, use it. Complain about ambiguities, or untruths, not grammar. You are noise in the signal.
People who defend MS like this simply have not been watching them long enough to understand what they are. They are a PROVEN threat to consumers, over and over and over. Convicted abusive monopolist, right there next to Standard Oil and AT&T. They tried to outright kill Linux by funding SCO. People like you dont understand the incredible pain MS inflicted on computer science. I have been watching MS for almost 25 years, they havent changed much in that time. Still a ravenous, obtuse, stumbling elephant.
"Of course, if you don't pay your taxes, then you're a thief"
Considering taxes are paid under duress at all times, you should rethink your word choice. Its something, but its not theft. Also, your 'love it or leave it' attitude sucks, its the argument of a person who doesn't see others as fully equal citizens. Finally, no one owes for 'getting to live in the US', thats an incredibly stupid train of thought. We are citizens, not 'taxpayers'.
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You are joking right? I.T.'s relationship with Microsoft has ALWAYS been adversarial. If there was a better choice out there for their use-cases, people would drop MS in a second because they are fucking dicks to work with. My Linux installs will NEVER reboot without me explicitly telling it to (barring a hardware/software fault). Cant say the same for a WIndows machine and that is a big deal for a LOT of people.
Like money? The vast majority of people's money is just bits in a database.
They arent wrong. Most AV software bothers the hell out of you with notifications and constantly tries to frighten you. Its not the installing that is difficult, its living with the software day-to-day that pisses people off.
No. This only would apply once computation power, density and cooling all reach a plateau. Even after that political forces will alter the price. "The future is here, it is just unevenly distributed" still applies, even with the power of 'the cloud'.
90s internet service over telephone lines was probably the closest we ever got to total ubiquity of service from many providers. We were covered by a plethora of providers enough to push the price into 'cant build it cheaper, can only enter under-served markets' zone.
Just parsing the word 'Minitrue' gave me chills....we are DEEP into a doublespeak era....
The long and short of it is the government needs to learn that even warrants have limits. It doesnt matter how politely or legitimately they ask, some things are simply not available to them and no amount of strong-arming is going to change it.
You are right, no one should ever murder another person, but thats not what we are talking about here. Murder is the UNLAWFUL taking of life. There are many instances where it is completely lawful to commit homicide, including that person being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
'portable server'? I think you mean WORKSTATION. You dont 'lug' a server, you migrate it from one fixed location to another. You are running non-operational simulations on a workstation, you are not serving.
Capone was LEGITIMATELY convicted of a real law. The same laws Wesley Snipes did federal prison time for.
Yeah, when Amazon actually makes something interesting with Lumberyard, then you can add it to the list.
When you go to a museum, do you completely ignore the history of art and shit on anything that is not in the modern realist style?
If they are speaking a romance language, my brain will start trying to find the Latin common ancestor to the words.
A 'traitor' can betray anyone, not just a nation-state...... You are purposefully ignoring the context to make a shitty point.
I block Forbes.com at the router. No news is worth going there.
I block Forbes.com at the router.
What if i dont want my computer to send you that information? It doesnt matter what YOU want it for, I DO NOT WANT YOU TO HAVE IT. Why is that so hard to understand? Telemetry is great, we all know its benefits, thats not the argument here. The argument is that the user ultimately should have the right to decide what data you get and that choice should be sacrosanct.
He killed Kruge in honrable comabt and thus became Captain of the Bird of Prey. Thats how Klingons roll.
Absolutely yes. I could harness a 1000 GHZ CPU, and 10,000 TB of storage TODAY no problem. IT would vastly increase my output. Yes, we need more, and that need is not going to abate for at least another 30 years without a quantum jump in storage tech. 4k/60 FPS video is BIG, imagine what 4K 360-degree VR video will take up, and then 8K. Its an unending thirst that will take us the better part of a century to quench.
Its not a backup if its write-accessible to the originating machine. Backups are stored OFFLINE or at least employ a physical/logical gap. Time Machine is more of a hot spare than a backup in this context.
"Apple FORCED YOU TO USE a way to manage and play music files more intelligently via iTunes and metadata."
FTFY. Itunes is way too heavy handed and takes liberties it really shouldn't (like obfuscating folders instead of databasing the existing filenames).
TO me, drag and drop is VASTLY superior to Itunes in EVERY way. Only idiots need itunes to manage their music. Winamp was pretty much the pinnacle of MP3 player design. its all downhill after that.
It all comes back to modern users want all the power and none of the responsibility.
I bought an RPi right when it came out. I immediately set it up with a webserver (lighttpd) pushing out static webpages. It had an uptime of over a year before i took it offline. It was the original design (no mounting holes, 256 MB RAM) with all its warts... I have been running Pis for almost 4 years, they are solid if you play to their strengths and not whine about what could/should be. The fact that the Pi3 is a DROP-IN replacement for Pis i deployed years ago is a huge bonus.
People who are interested in that kind of audio performance either build it themselves out of boards like Pis and high quality, custom made I2S DACs or buy it at the high end.. You choose an INCREDIBLY poor example for your argument. Also FIIO, Pono Player and the very high end Sony Walkman do exist.
Context > grammar. You have the most powerful context analyzer in the known universe sitting between your ears, use it. Complain about ambiguities, or untruths, not grammar. You are noise in the signal.
People who defend MS like this simply have not been watching them long enough to understand what they are. They are a PROVEN threat to consumers, over and over and over. Convicted abusive monopolist, right there next to Standard Oil and AT&T. They tried to outright kill Linux by funding SCO. People like you dont understand the incredible pain MS inflicted on computer science. I have been watching MS for almost 25 years, they havent changed much in that time. Still a ravenous, obtuse, stumbling elephant.
"Of course, if you don't pay your taxes, then you're a thief"
Considering taxes are paid under duress at all times, you should rethink your word choice. Its something, but its not theft. Also, your 'love it or leave it' attitude sucks, its the argument of a person who doesn't see others as fully equal citizens. Finally, no one owes for 'getting to live in the US', thats an incredibly stupid train of thought. We are citizens, not 'taxpayers'.