However there's another effect. It takes 5 minutes to help out that user and explain what the cup holder is. The average question from the average user is probably only 10 minutes of work. But there are the HARD questions that take hours or days to resolve ("help, I'm getting an incorrect DNS response from corporate LAN in building A but it's working fine in building B"). The power users that can solve the simple stuff themselves often are the ones with the really complicated issues.
Ie, I upgraded office on the mac, then I hated how the new outlook worked and it was slowing me down so I restored the original Office from backup. This started some problems rolling along under the scenes. Later when I wanted to upgrade again with more time to deal with the issues, it didn't work. Took it to IT asking if they could upgrade office for me, and there was a lot of head scratching going on and it was half a day before I got my mac back.
I've seen lots of macbook hardware issues. We had several with the faulty batteries, and when they switched to not having user replaceable batteries or a removeable battery cover, a swelling battery bent the entire case of one unit. Part of the problem is that Apple is aggressive about reducing size and cramming more hardware into a smaller space, whereas the larger Dell laptops tend to last longer overall from what I've seen.
When google has asked me for 2-factor, they always want the phone and nothing else. They don't even say "2 factor" until you dig down and ask why. Early on I had no texting ability at all, explicitly disabled on my phone account, so providing a number would have been useless unless they were going to phone me directly. Even with texting now I don't want this as this phone will not be with me for the lifetime of the account.
The biggest security headache involved in this is losing the phone, in which case having phone as part of the authentication becomes pointless.
Hmm, maybe once. These are work computers so generally they upgrade of IT does an image transfer. But once I got a loaner and then they told me to keep the loaner as they couldn't fix the mac, so I used time machine to get home directory and personal settings transferred. Next time I think I do want to start fresh, spend extra time only copying over real data files instead of the whole Library & Documents.
Youtube doesn't have free AND legal movies. Netflix in the US though is primarily an English language service with a large Spanish subset, and isn't really programming to service all possible language groups (though it is better than average with the subtitles). If you want good German language films then maybe a German streaming service would provide that?
Personally, I want the old model. I have not seen every show ever made. I've got a huge backlog to get through. I don't really care about market forces, the market has never gone the direction that discerning consumers want to go. The market forces are for the masses. Meanwhile Netflix got it's start and rise based upon an atypical market segment (lots of cord cutters).
Aren't these very different things? Netflix has content but no hardware. Kodi is software for hardware but no content. Where is the free and legal content other than over-the-air broadcast?
If I haven't seen a movie from the 50's, then it's still new content to me. I'd rather not have to have $10 for one service, $10 for another, and so on. I did not get premium channels when I had satellite or cable, like HBO or Showtime, so going back to that model of picking and choosing individual content producers feels wrong to me. Problem is that 90% of the stuff is available on all the major streaming channels so subscribing to more than one feels like a waste.
Of course, I can get movies from the movie "rental" service but they're greatly overpriced. Stuff that's interesting has a "buy" option which is expensive and silly (I don't own it, I only have access while this company in a risky industry stays in business), with the "rent" option for less interesting movies but still typically $5. But since there are enough tv shows on Netflix I haven't yet gone through I don't need to go there anyway. After cutting the cord once my viewing has gone way down overall. A whole lot of "must see" movies I never saw in the theater and which may never be on streaming for many years (same as waiting for it to be on cable). But I can live without that.
I'm not switching to lower resolutions. I disabled all the retina junk and made my laptop resolution identical to my external monitors. It resizes windows, sometimes down to a thin title bar, sometimes windows are moved off screen except for a one pixel wide handle. I've ended up with a 1 by 2 inch window for some reason. And that's all before I connect to a projector or something else with smaller resolutions.
Both of those people don't try to pretend to be something that they're not. If Hugh Hefner ran for president, it is doubtful he would bash Hillary for being married to someone who had some affairs in the past (Larry Flynt might though). Someone should not accuse their opponents of being sleazy if they have their own sordid background.
When you say SJW you undermine whatever good ideas you may have had. The problem here is the us-versus-them mentality, and you're perpetuating that. If you dislike people being judged by how they think, then you shouldn't turn around and do the same thing by slapping a label on people. It's like saying you don't like an ethnic group because they're all bigots.
He started life being wealthy. His first major venture was a bust, but he got a loan to help cover it up. This guy is not a rags to riches success story, he's a riches to riches success story.
We need diversity of opinions in this country. We need diversity of opinions in tech. We need diversity of opinions everywhere. While I dislike Trump and can't really view what he says as "opinions" but rather as verbal hiccups, we're stuck in a difficult political decision trying to figure out who the lesser evil is and quite a lot of your family, friends, and neighbors will be choosing someone other than your preference. This does not mean that they're morons or evil.
Think about the long term. If it's ok today in a liberal community to silence and stifle conservative views, then does that means it's ok for conservative communities to silence and stifle liberal views? We already have a legislature that doesn't understand this, they naively assume they have a permanent majority and try to change the rules to suit themselves only to find that these rules backfire when a different party gets the power. Remember how the ugly nomination process of Robert Bork completely changed every nomination since then and turned them into side shows and opportunities for grand standing, but both parties.
If you want your view to be heard then you need to allow the ugly views to be heard as well.
If anyone is taking all of this politics stuff seriously they need to step back and take a deep breath, maybe pet a cat, or dog if they're a dog person, or a snake if they're a snake person. We've survived worse than whatever candidate you dislike the most.
Carry around? The macbook is essentially a desktop computer for many people. It may go mobile now and then but not with a bunch of accessories. We have power adapters, display adaptess, test equipment, and a host of USB devices, all staying on the desks.
Apple needs to stop thinking of its macbook as a hipster toy used to show off to other cafe patrons, but as a real computer doing real work. And yet the damn thing still freaks out and resizes and moves every window every time a monitor is plugged into it as if the developers never bothered to debug that code as being too important enough.
And making it smaller? The current ones already overheat easily because of having everything packed into too small of a space, so that the most popular macbook accessory I see is the laptop stand. Because it's so hot you can't put the laptop on your lap anymore.
Please Apple, I want a larger screen display, I want the same ports to stick around from one year to the next, I don't want to see change for no purpose other than to have change. There is no way to make the macbook pro smaller and still make it usable - if you want tiny unusable tech jewelry then that's what the macbook air is for. If we buy your expensive adapters then what guarantee do we have that it won't change again in the near future? Listen to the customers for once.
Yes, but his audience was Gartner analysts. To reach that audience you have to make ridiculous claims. If you tell the truth they will dismiss you as not being innovative enough and stick you into one of the other three quadrants. The analysts themselves have shown over the years that they don't really understand computers and they have to call up their kids to get help when they act up.
If a law is vague and two different interpretations are opposing each other, then what should the courts do when asked to adjudicate? The problem with the view that the courts should not be interpreting laws is used most often by people who think the laws are already perfectly clear and precise except and that their political opponents are just too stupid to see otherwise. In practice the vagueness of laws creates an entire industry of lawyers fighting back and forth hoping to make headway. After a few centuries we still have not discovered a solution to this issue; even the occasional violent revolution only serves to reset the process to start all over again only with a different bias.
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However there's another effect. It takes 5 minutes to help out that user and explain what the cup holder is. The average question from the average user is probably only 10 minutes of work. But there are the HARD questions that take hours or days to resolve ("help, I'm getting an incorrect DNS response from corporate LAN in building A but it's working fine in building B"). The power users that can solve the simple stuff themselves often are the ones with the really complicated issues.
Ie, I upgraded office on the mac, then I hated how the new outlook worked and it was slowing me down so I restored the original Office from backup. This started some problems rolling along under the scenes. Later when I wanted to upgrade again with more time to deal with the issues, it didn't work. Took it to IT asking if they could upgrade office for me, and there was a lot of head scratching going on and it was half a day before I got my mac back.
Oh, so there is actually a properly managed IT department somewhere in the world, or is this hypothetical?
I've seen lots of macbook hardware issues. We had several with the faulty batteries, and when they switched to not having user replaceable batteries or a removeable battery cover, a swelling battery bent the entire case of one unit. Part of the problem is that Apple is aggressive about reducing size and cramming more hardware into a smaller space, whereas the larger Dell laptops tend to last longer overall from what I've seen.
When google has asked me for 2-factor, they always want the phone and nothing else. They don't even say "2 factor" until you dig down and ask why. Early on I had no texting ability at all, explicitly disabled on my phone account, so providing a number would have been useless unless they were going to phone me directly. Even with texting now I don't want this as this phone will not be with me for the lifetime of the account.
The biggest security headache involved in this is losing the phone, in which case having phone as part of the authentication becomes pointless.
Hmm, maybe once. These are work computers so generally they upgrade of IT does an image transfer. But once I got a loaner and then they told me to keep the loaner as they couldn't fix the mac, so I used time machine to get home directory and personal settings transferred. Next time I think I do want to start fresh, spend extra time only copying over real data files instead of the whole Library & Documents.
El Capitan now, but I've had problems since Leopard. It's better than it was but not completely gone.
I found the Tivo/DirecTV combo to be very easy to use.
Youtube doesn't have free AND legal movies. Netflix in the US though is primarily an English language service with a large Spanish subset, and isn't really programming to service all possible language groups (though it is better than average with the subtitles). If you want good German language films then maybe a German streaming service would provide that?
Personally, I want the old model. I have not seen every show ever made. I've got a huge backlog to get through. I don't really care about market forces, the market has never gone the direction that discerning consumers want to go. The market forces are for the masses. Meanwhile Netflix got it's start and rise based upon an atypical market segment (lots of cord cutters).
Aren't these very different things? Netflix has content but no hardware. Kodi is software for hardware but no content. Where is the free and legal content other than over-the-air broadcast?
If I haven't seen a movie from the 50's, then it's still new content to me. I'd rather not have to have $10 for one service, $10 for another, and so on. I did not get premium channels when I had satellite or cable, like HBO or Showtime, so going back to that model of picking and choosing individual content producers feels wrong to me. Problem is that 90% of the stuff is available on all the major streaming channels so subscribing to more than one feels like a waste.
Of course, I can get movies from the movie "rental" service but they're greatly overpriced. Stuff that's interesting has a "buy" option which is expensive and silly (I don't own it, I only have access while this company in a risky industry stays in business), with the "rent" option for less interesting movies but still typically $5. But since there are enough tv shows on Netflix I haven't yet gone through I don't need to go there anyway. After cutting the cord once my viewing has gone way down overall. A whole lot of "must see" movies I never saw in the theater and which may never be on streaming for many years (same as waiting for it to be on cable). But I can live without that.
First link is just silly anti-muslim diatribe.
I'm not switching to lower resolutions. I disabled all the retina junk and made my laptop resolution identical to my external monitors. It resizes windows, sometimes down to a thin title bar, sometimes windows are moved off screen except for a one pixel wide handle. I've ended up with a 1 by 2 inch window for some reason. And that's all before I connect to a projector or something else with smaller resolutions.
As Sonny and Cher once sang, "the thread goes on..."
Both of those people don't try to pretend to be something that they're not. If Hugh Hefner ran for president, it is doubtful he would bash Hillary for being married to someone who had some affairs in the past (Larry Flynt might though). Someone should not accuse their opponents of being sleazy if they have their own sordid background.
Can you provide documents that indicate it might be true?
When you say SJW you undermine whatever good ideas you may have had. The problem here is the us-versus-them mentality, and you're perpetuating that. If you dislike people being judged by how they think, then you shouldn't turn around and do the same thing by slapping a label on people. It's like saying you don't like an ethnic group because they're all bigots.
He started life being wealthy. His first major venture was a bust, but he got a loan to help cover it up. This guy is not a rags to riches success story, he's a riches to riches success story.
We need diversity of opinions in this country. We need diversity of opinions in tech. We need diversity of opinions everywhere. While I dislike Trump and can't really view what he says as "opinions" but rather as verbal hiccups, we're stuck in a difficult political decision trying to figure out who the lesser evil is and quite a lot of your family, friends, and neighbors will be choosing someone other than your preference. This does not mean that they're morons or evil.
Think about the long term. If it's ok today in a liberal community to silence and stifle conservative views, then does that means it's ok for conservative communities to silence and stifle liberal views? We already have a legislature that doesn't understand this, they naively assume they have a permanent majority and try to change the rules to suit themselves only to find that these rules backfire when a different party gets the power. Remember how the ugly nomination process of Robert Bork completely changed every nomination since then and turned them into side shows and opportunities for grand standing, but both parties.
If you want your view to be heard then you need to allow the ugly views to be heard as well.
If anyone is taking all of this politics stuff seriously they need to step back and take a deep breath, maybe pet a cat, or dog if they're a dog person, or a snake if they're a snake person. We've survived worse than whatever candidate you dislike the most.
Now *that's* courage!
I dream that some day in the distant future, maybe a century from now, such networks will actually be secure enough to use.
Carry around? The macbook is essentially a desktop computer for many people. It may go mobile now and then but not with a bunch of accessories. We have power adapters, display adaptess, test equipment, and a host of USB devices, all staying on the desks.
Apple needs to stop thinking of its macbook as a hipster toy used to show off to other cafe patrons, but as a real computer doing real work. And yet the damn thing still freaks out and resizes and moves every window every time a monitor is plugged into it as if the developers never bothered to debug that code as being too important enough.
And making it smaller? The current ones already overheat easily because of having everything packed into too small of a space, so that the most popular macbook accessory I see is the laptop stand. Because it's so hot you can't put the laptop on your lap anymore.
Please Apple, I want a larger screen display, I want the same ports to stick around from one year to the next, I don't want to see change for no purpose other than to have change. There is no way to make the macbook pro smaller and still make it usable - if you want tiny unusable tech jewelry then that's what the macbook air is for. If we buy your expensive adapters then what guarantee do we have that it won't change again in the near future? Listen to the customers for once.
Even Microsoft Office is not compliant with OOXML.
Yes, but his audience was Gartner analysts. To reach that audience you have to make ridiculous claims. If you tell the truth they will dismiss you as not being innovative enough and stick you into one of the other three quadrants. The analysts themselves have shown over the years that they don't really understand computers and they have to call up their kids to get help when they act up.
If a law is vague and two different interpretations are opposing each other, then what should the courts do when asked to adjudicate? The problem with the view that the courts should not be interpreting laws is used most often by people who think the laws are already perfectly clear and precise except and that their political opponents are just too stupid to see otherwise. In practice the vagueness of laws creates an entire industry of lawyers fighting back and forth hoping to make headway. After a few centuries we still have not discovered a solution to this issue; even the occasional violent revolution only serves to reset the process to start all over again only with a different bias.