When the first generation Macbook airs showed up with defects that caused overheating leading to the machine throttling what did Apple do?
You're literally comparing mild overheating on the Apple notebook with the Samsung product that the FAA has asked removed from planes because it's a danger to passengers.
I think Google made Chrome was to help drive the internet the way they wanted it to go (you can take that however you want).
Amusingly, before Chrome browser existed, Google funded Mozilla pretty heavily. So their motives haven't changed - just their execution. Chrome was essentially using webkit earlier, then forked off it's own engine (blink).
Let's face it, thanks to Newt Gingrich's Contract with America during the Republican Revolution,
s/with/on/
It turned out to be the Contract on America [1]. And it was when conservatives became neo-conservatives (which is to say they did an about face on anything actually designed to balance budgets or adhere to actual conservative values) and the Christian right-wing merged with the GOP.
Pretty sure it's the liberals who wanted to mandate government issue marriage certificates to gays. This issue does not support your argument unless there's recent examples of laws passed to prevent same-sex people from having civil ceremonies and living together as "married."
This is exactly what we're complaining about - a local jurisdiction approved same-sex marriage (as without such legislation same-sex spouses couldn't even see the other spouse in the emergency room), then the conservative response [1] is to pass constitutional amendments through fear and hysteria.
You might want to research before posting next time.
In sum, the committee says, "Cover Oregon failed for two main reasons: The state acted as their own system integrator (like HeathCare.gov), and the state tried to revamp its entire health care system, not just build an exchange."
Seems to me that the state had more to do with it than Oracle. I am sure you are great at making "simple credit card web app" but if you have ever done anything with healthcare in the US it is a nightmare. And yes I currently work building software for healthcare in the US at a state level.
So they're paying millions of dollars for Oracle to claim they don't know how to do it? Maybe it is Oracle's fault after all... sales says "ok, we'll pad the budget, but it should be dead simple" and then implementation teams come in and realize they were actually undersold and then begin trying to suck all the blood out of a walking-dead project.
Oracle is at fault here for saying they knew the fuck what they were doing.
I'm surprised so many people want to listen to playlists that somebody else made.
Why not? I can't listen to the same stuff all the time - content discovery is, like, 90% of the joy of say, shopping or dating. We're hardwired to like discovering new things (some of us more than others).
For what it is worth, as an iPhone 6 user on T-Mobile who did the upgrade yesterday I have not had any problem. I just verified that I can call myself and make outgoing calls. Whatever the problem is it apparently doesn't affect everybody.
Increment the counter for me. No issues, same situation. Could it be location specific, perhaps?
No matter where you are on the political spectrum, you have to admit to the obstructionism which the Republicans have used over the last 8 years.
This has effectively meant that nothing has been done (mostly) except the bare minimum, for the last 8 years.
The really amusing (read: evil) part of this is that these are the same crowd who then complain that "government can't do anything". Well, duh... it's a goddamn self-fulling prophecy if they're the ones in power and do nothing.
These clowns should get held in contempt of Congress and held without bail at Club Fed until they cough up the records.
Just imagine if these guys were Democrats... imagine the GOP uproar...
There is no excuse to eliminate an audio jack from a phone, much less a Macbook. Too many complications with wireless headphones and microphones, and peripherals to add the functionality back just add to clutter for a portable device.
You might be a bit late to the protest march - they did that over a year ago and it still sold - the USBC Macbook has no headphone port.
To be honest many many BT headphones and speakers have "multipoint" and can pair with several input sources, and switch on the fly. Even my old LG HBS730 (3 year old model - keep it as backup) does multipoint.
If The Matrix were able to simulate chemical reactions, such as we are seeing in abrupt climate change, then there would be no need for humans to be used as batteries. Just because a banker in the necrocene can't accept that his precious capitalism is causing our immanent extinction, in no way should he be allowed to speak for the algorithm that controls his mind. Come to think of it, why can't we have an algorithm, crowd sourced by mathematical truths and overseen by humanity, to run for President?
The Matrix (movie) had it wrong -we're not batteries, we're processors... and maybe by overheating us, it's like overclocking. Read Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons http://www.librarything.com/wo...
Of course they are. Audible prices are a massive rip-off. The high prices ensure most people do not use it, but there are enough that do that make it very profitable. but when you have them sponsoring well know tech people, effectively spamming many pod/tv-casters, who never shut the fuck up about the service, you have to wonder how much more successful they'd be coming down a book prices and saving the spam-verts. It would also be nice if they increased the quality. There's no excuse for the massively over-compressed low bandwidth shite they peddle these days. We're not dealing with dial-up downloads.
I honestly use and love Audible as I commute often and I share Prime with my family who also read the audiobooks. I do agree they're ripe for disruption, but book publishers have been successful in pushing against disruption of the existing licensing/pricing model, and Audible is (so far) the best experience.
I'm fine paying $15 (or less) for a good read (getting 47h of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon for 1 credit feels like theft). Not sure what you're talking about w/r/t quality - it's decent.
That's a pretty limited subset of the thousands of books at Audible.
So it's more of a teaser (that happens to rotate every month). Just like Prime Video - where they make it difficult for you to search for free video, and try to sell you to buy the non-free Amazon video.
Cross-promotion within the company's product suites? Wake me up when they get serious.
Your T-Mobile version will not work on any of these CDMA2000 networks. In particular, it won't work in those parts of the United States where Verizon has a CDMA2000 signal and T-Mobile has 0 bars.
I don't think my t-Mobile iPhone6 can roam onto CDMA right now anyway. Can you prove this is currently possible?
Actually, all of the conspiracy-theorists I know are all extremely left-leaning.
Actually, it depends.
The left-leaning ones talk about how the good government is being corrupted by evil businesses. The right-leaning ones talk about how the evil government is fighting good businesses.
You see it all makes sense if you add in well known problems like the revolving door [1] and regulatory capture [2]. In this case the evil/corrupt corporations (and their wealthy owners) take over the government (and vice-versa), and then fight the good business to help out their evil cronies.
Finally, the combination of these two work together to perform rootkits on democracy like the Citizens United ruling, and the TPP/TTIP/TISA, so they can corrupt and dominate other countries as well.
It works if you think of corruption like an infection.
Hell, they probably got exploited by exploits they hoarded and were discovered independently.
But hey, remember folks, everything should have a Government-approved back door in it which only the Government can use, just in case they need access. It'll absolutely be secure...
Just like that time Microsoft thought the Clipper chip was a great idea and lost the master key to their entire Surface subscriber encrypted disks?
Oh, that and the fact that G+ conflated my "mission-critical" GMail, Voice, Wallet (mainly for Express), and other stuff with my personal life, where I could get banned for saying the wrong thing to the wrong person.
Yeah, about the same kind of incentive mismatch as Apple Ping (where I had to worry if Apple's closeness with the music/movie industry meant I couldn't discuss torrents/etc).
You have everything to lose (your Google identity) with G+, and little to gain - why should I bother?
the odd types of security flaws often found in iOS and in particular OSX, and Apple's suspiciosly long silence before fixing them, even when the fix is simple and given to them, clearly shows that they are willing to both insert and leave discovered security holes in their products because the government tells them to. The whole hard stance on privacy is a necessity to keep the sales up, and to keep all that sweet money from going to foreign competitors. Don't think for a second your Apple devices and computers are a good choice for privacy.
Compare to every other phone manufacturer and tell me who does it better. Lemme guess - you don't own a mobile phone? Cause thats about the only way you can guarantee privacy if you don't have some level of trust in your phone manufacturer.
the ridiculous noise was the first thing i noticed when my employer bought these computers. there was no dust in them back then. there simply isn't a large enough air exhaust to be quiet.
Macs are the quietest laptops (about 1/3 of the population) in our company of 5000+. Are you sure you or your employer aren't mining bitcoin in the background or something?
Slashdot Mirror
When the first generation Macbook airs showed up with defects that caused overheating leading to the machine throttling what did Apple do?
You're literally comparing mild overheating on the Apple notebook with the Samsung product that the FAA has asked removed from planes because it's a danger to passengers.
Right on. I see where you're coming from!
I think Google made Chrome was to help drive the internet the way they wanted it to go (you can take that however you want).
Amusingly, before Chrome browser existed, Google funded Mozilla pretty heavily. So their motives haven't changed - just their execution. Chrome was essentially using webkit earlier, then forked off it's own engine (blink).
Let's face it, thanks to Newt Gingrich's Contract with America during the Republican Revolution,
s/with/on/
It turned out to be the Contract on America [1]. And it was when conservatives became neo-conservatives (which is to say they did an about face on anything actually designed to balance budgets or adhere to actual conservative values) and the Christian right-wing merged with the GOP.
http://www.rollingstone.com/po...
Pretty sure it's the liberals who wanted to mandate government issue marriage certificates to gays. This issue does not support your argument unless there's recent examples of laws passed to prevent same-sex people from having civil ceremonies and living together as "married."
This is exactly what we're complaining about - a local jurisdiction approved same-sex marriage (as without such legislation same-sex spouses couldn't even see the other spouse in the emergency room), then the conservative response [1] is to pass constitutional amendments through fear and hysteria.
You might want to research before posting next time.
[1] http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOL...
In sum, the committee says, "Cover Oregon failed for two main reasons: The state acted as their own system integrator (like HeathCare.gov), and the state tried to revamp its entire health care system, not just build an exchange."
Seems to me that the state had more to do with it than Oracle. I am sure you are great at making "simple credit card web app" but if you have ever done anything with healthcare in the US it is a nightmare. And yes I currently work building software for healthcare in the US at a state level.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-08/cover-oregon-health-care-disaster-showcases-havoc-wrought-by-obamacare/
So they're paying millions of dollars for Oracle to claim they don't know how to do it? Maybe it is Oracle's fault after all... sales says "ok, we'll pad the budget, but it should be dead simple" and then implementation teams come in and realize they were actually undersold and then begin trying to suck all the blood out of a walking-dead project.
Oracle is at fault here for saying they knew the fuck what they were doing.
Is there a printer vendor that doesn't play games with the consumables?
My Canon AirPrint cheap-o laser has done fine for over a year. I see the toner level on my print dialogs, so no surprises.
Pandora is not worth $0 while Jango still lives.
How is Jango any better than Pandora or Spotify Radio?
I'm surprised so many people want to listen to playlists that somebody else made.
Why not? I can't listen to the same stuff all the time - content discovery is, like, 90% of the joy of say, shopping or dating. We're hardwired to like discovering new things (some of us more than others).
For what it is worth, as an iPhone 6 user on T-Mobile who did the upgrade yesterday I have not had any problem. I just verified that I can call myself and make outgoing calls. Whatever the problem is it apparently doesn't affect everybody.
Increment the counter for me. No issues, same situation.
Could it be location specific, perhaps?
No matter where you are on the political spectrum, you have to admit to the obstructionism which the Republicans have used over the last 8 years.
This has effectively meant that nothing has been done (mostly) except the bare minimum, for the last 8 years.
The really amusing (read: evil) part of this is that these are the same crowd who then complain that "government can't do anything". Well, duh... it's a goddamn self-fulling prophecy if they're the ones in power and do nothing.
These clowns should get held in contempt of Congress and held without bail at Club Fed until they cough up the records.
Just imagine if these guys were Democrats... imagine the GOP uproar...
There is no excuse to eliminate an audio jack from a phone, much less a Macbook. Too many complications with wireless headphones and microphones, and peripherals to add the functionality back just add to clutter for a portable device.
You might be a bit late to the protest march - they did that over a year ago and it still sold - the USBC Macbook has no headphone port.
To be honest many many BT headphones and speakers have "multipoint" and can pair with several input sources, and switch on the fly. Even my old LG HBS730 (3 year old model - keep it as backup) does multipoint.
If The Matrix were able to simulate chemical reactions, such as we are seeing in abrupt climate change, then there would be no need for humans to be used as batteries. Just because a banker in the necrocene can't accept that his precious capitalism is causing our immanent extinction, in no way should he be allowed to speak for the algorithm that controls his mind. Come to think of it, why can't we have an algorithm, crowd sourced by mathematical truths and overseen by humanity, to run for President?
The Matrix (movie) had it wrong -we're not batteries, we're processors... and maybe by overheating us, it's like overclocking. Read Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons http://www.librarything.com/wo...
Of course they are. Audible prices are a massive rip-off. The high prices ensure most people do not use it, but there are enough that do that make it very profitable. but when you have them sponsoring well know tech people, effectively spamming many pod/tv-casters, who never shut the fuck up about the service, you have to wonder how much more successful they'd be coming down a book prices and saving the spam-verts. It would also be nice if they increased the quality. There's no excuse for the massively over-compressed low bandwidth shite they peddle these days. We're not dealing with dial-up downloads.
I honestly use and love Audible as I commute often and I share Prime with my family who also read the audiobooks. I do agree they're ripe for disruption, but book publishers have been successful in pushing against disruption of the existing licensing/pricing model, and Audible is (so far) the best experience.
I'm fine paying $15 (or less) for a good read (getting 47h of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon for 1 credit feels like theft). Not sure what you're talking about w/r/t quality - it's decent.
That's a pretty limited subset of the thousands of books at Audible.
So it's more of a teaser (that happens to rotate every month). Just like Prime Video - where they make it difficult for you to search for free video, and try to sell you to buy the non-free Amazon video.
Cross-promotion within the company's product suites? Wake me up when they get serious.
Your T-Mobile version will not work on any of these CDMA2000 networks. In particular, it won't work in those parts of the United States where Verizon has a CDMA2000 signal and T-Mobile has 0 bars.
I don't think my t-Mobile iPhone6 can roam onto CDMA right now anyway. Can you prove this is currently possible?
Are the issues something related to bad cables?
see: Benson Leung
Actually, all of the conspiracy-theorists I know are all extremely left-leaning.
Actually, it depends.
The left-leaning ones talk about how the good government is being corrupted by evil businesses. The right-leaning ones talk about how the evil government is fighting good businesses.
You see it all makes sense if you add in well known problems like the revolving door [1] and regulatory capture [2].
In this case the evil/corrupt corporations (and their wealthy owners) take over the government (and vice-versa), and then fight the good business to help out their evil cronies.
Finally, the combination of these two work together to perform rootkits on democracy like the Citizens United ruling, and the TPP/TTIP/TISA, so they can corrupt and dominate other countries as well.
It works if you think of corruption like an infection.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Hell, they probably got exploited by exploits they hoarded and were discovered independently.
But hey, remember folks, everything should have a Government-approved back door in it which only the Government can use, just in case they need access. It'll absolutely be secure...
Just like that time Microsoft thought the Clipper chip was a great idea and lost the master key to their entire Surface subscriber encrypted disks?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Let's face it, not being on the list is noteworthy enough to have you put on a list... so at least you avoided that!
It's lists all the way down.
The real name policy was a complete turnoff.
Oh, that and the fact that G+ conflated my "mission-critical" GMail, Voice, Wallet (mainly for Express), and other stuff with my personal life, where I could get banned for saying the wrong thing to the wrong person.
Yeah, about the same kind of incentive mismatch as Apple Ping (where I had to worry if Apple's closeness with the music/movie industry meant I couldn't discuss torrents/etc).
You have everything to lose (your Google identity) with G+, and little to gain - why should I bother?
the odd types of security flaws often found in iOS and in particular OSX, and Apple's suspiciosly long silence before fixing them, even when the fix is simple and given to them, clearly shows that they are willing to both insert and leave discovered security holes in their products because the government tells them to. The whole hard stance on privacy is a necessity to keep the sales up, and to keep all that sweet money from going to foreign competitors. Don't think for a second your Apple devices and computers are a good choice for privacy.
Compare to every other phone manufacturer and tell me who does it better. Lemme guess - you don't own a mobile phone? Cause thats about the only way you can guarantee privacy if you don't have some level of trust in your phone manufacturer.
I agree with most of what you said (8TB is pretty extreme - how do you get that with PCIe SSDs?).
Also, 32GB RAM would be preferable.
Both storage and RAM sizing increases look debatable with a slimmer body...
the ridiculous noise was the first thing i noticed when my employer bought these computers. there was no dust in them back then. there simply isn't a large enough air exhaust to be quiet.
Macs are the quietest laptops (about 1/3 of the population) in our company of 5000+. Are you sure you or your employer aren't mining bitcoin in the background or something?
Such a simple solution to that problem, that *not* doing it makes them look incompetent.
Incompetence at large scale is indistinguishable from malice in the outcome. Insiders should be suspect in such a clear case of fucking up.
Gray's Law
http://wikidumper.blogspot.com...
"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice.
At this stage all reports indicate that the ABS cocked things up big time. The DDoS angle seems to be furious spin doctoring.
Basic Electoral fraud starts with gerrymandering - an input of which requires census data to be amenable to the district hacking.