If they boycott iPhones it will only feed Trump's vindictive streak since he doesn't like Cook. They have to pick products that would hurt his cronies. (I'm sure they realize this; iPhones make for good headlines).
I wish I were writing this as a flippant comment but one of the few Trumpisms that isn't hyperbole ("I'll build a wall". "He's a Nazi") is that he bears and escalates petty grudges.
Apple doesn't support wireless MTP in Photos or image capture on mac or iPhone. You can get clients for the phone, but not to feed into Photos on the Mac. Grr!
When someone else controls the content, you end up as a "dumb pipe". The carriers don't like that (fuck them -- they should just become a public utilitty like the water) and Netflix had the same problem at layer 7. So instead they are burning capital making their own content. Good luck to them.
I assume they made payoffs to the publishers to avoid this problem with DVDs. Redbox would't and famously had troubles.
...because Comcast charges me less if I subscribe to TV+Internet than the cost of Internet alone. Its even cheaper if I get cablecard, so I have one taped to the wall where the cable comes in. That way I can find it if I ever cancel service.
Originally it was a special deal but when 11 1/2 months were up I called to cancel TV and the rep said he'd extend it for a year. And also told me to call next year and he was sure they'd extend it again.
I know I'm helping them scam the TV networks but since I don't like them either I figure why not?
I agree pretty shocking: Apple made sure there was a way for knowledgable users to do what they like while reducing the chance that less experienced users could get unwittingly pownd by accidentally downloaded apps. The nerve!
Revolutions always come from the haves, not the have nots.
The American revolution was the powerful landholders against the powerful government in Whitehall (and was won via lobbying/bribery in London, not on the battlefield). The American civil war was the landed gentry fighting to save their capital (i.e. slaves) against mechanization and increased opposition to slavery in the north.
The French Revolution was not the revolution of the sans coulottes as it was portrayed -- Danton et all were all well education scions of the aristocracy and merchant class. Napoleon was from the provinces, but was wealthy enough to buy a commission under the King.
Lenin and Trotsky were well educated (OK, Stalin was not). Ho Chi Minh attended the Sorbonne. Nehru, Jinna et al met at Oxford.
You're answering questions I didn't ask. The power companies serve everyone yet we don't subsidize them. Why should this random huge sector receive a subsidy while others don't?
To your point: where I live, Palo Alto, the big madrassas (Sacred Heart, Santa Clara U) serve only the wealthiest. The St Francis church in nearby poverty-stricken East Palo Alto serves fewer kids than the Boys and Girls Club, yet gets a larger subsidy.
If you think that these support services are worth funding, then those can be funded directly. The nonsensical system of arbitrary payments to organizations with opaque finances is, to be most charitable about it, inefficient.
I think the largest bluetooth headset seller is some anonymous company in China. The cheap BT headsets you can see on Amazon or Alibaba mostly all look the same, so I suspect are just barely-rebadged versions of the same thing. And surely their volume collectively exceed the sum of Beats, Bose and (never heard of them) Jaybird. And by "volume" I don't just mean units, but as the unit number is so enormous, I also mean dollars.
It's hard to get good info since the term is so mushy. I was thinking specifically of a combination of running code customer code, storing data, and providing related services. I.e. not just storage (dropbox or box) or vendor provided service (gmail, fastmail, openDNS) or just VMs (maybe i should consider that but I don't use VMs/VPSes).
So in my perhaps artificially restricted definition AWS is the clear #1. I hear anecdotally that microsoft is doing pretty well but their offerings, afaict, aren't of any use to me (not flame bait, I just aren't interested in that stack) and may be beating google. But it feels like both of them (MS and goog) are far behind amazon.
Presumably the mysterious "sources" ("people familiar with the matter") are Google trying to hype up their cloud business which is either #2 or #3 depending on whom you talk to. There's no reason for anyone else to "spill the beans".
I use all those scare quotes because the whole thing is rediculous. Reporters used to care about being played; now they can't be bothered worrying about it.
There are plenty of reasons to choose Google over Amazon and to choose Amazon over Google. Hype is not one of them.
Since congress rushed to mandate electronic voting (despite warnings from all the experts that it would increase vulnerabilities) it is clear voting just isn't considered all that important.
Given that it seems quite appropriate to give responsibility to the useless and incompetent DHS.
I have read the complaint and the seem to be charging him with not getting permission to link to a file and for putting ads on his site, neither of which is, as far as I know, a crime in any jurisdiction. Which might explain why he didn't try to "hide his tracks" -- why should he? Oh yes, they do say he "stole" over a billion dollars, but that's like saying High TImes sold billions of dollars worth of pot. They don't claim he actually receieved any of this mythical billion, which makes "stole" hard to understand.
This isn't a troll: I actually don't see a crime being committed.
Isn't the House made up of the same bunch who think the government is incompetent, can't be trusted, and is dangerous? And they are all fired to give it more power? WTF?
Times sure have changed if pole dancing and maggot eating are considered the modern equivalent of vaudeville or opera....
Vaudville was considered cheap entertainment at its time, and both pole dancing and maggot eating would have fit right in. Come to think of it I'm pretty sure both must have appeared on the vaudeville stage at some point.
Opera was the spectacle of its age (in essence the Michel Bay of its time) exploiting whatever advanced technology was possible, and plenty had risque lyrics (not necessarily Aïda, or any Wagner, but Mozart wrote plenty of opera buffa). Broadway shows are its natural heir. Tickets weren't cheap like vaudeville but that was because technology was expensive, not because it was in any way highbrow.
There's tons of great (and crappy) classical music, but a bunch of pretentous loser fans fucked it up early in the 20th century. If you think of Mozart and Lady Gaga as roughly equivalent smart pop musicians you will have a more accurate perspective.
Actually I prefer Lady Gaga to Mozart, but I prefer the sublime Bach and Grateful Dead to them both.
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If they boycott iPhones it will only feed Trump's vindictive streak since he doesn't like Cook. They have to pick products that would hurt his cronies. (I'm sure they realize this; iPhones make for good headlines).
I wish I were writing this as a flippant comment but one of the few Trumpisms that isn't hyperbole ("I'll build a wall". "He's a Nazi") is that he bears and escalates petty grudges.
Apple doesn't support wireless MTP in Photos or image capture on mac or iPhone. You can get clients for the phone, but not to feed into Photos on the Mac. Grr!
Not to defend Apple here but in this case it's the banks complaining that Apple Pay doesn't let them abuse their customers.
Globalsign being an American company, do they owe anyone money?
When someone else controls the content, you end up as a "dumb pipe". The carriers don't like that (fuck them -- they should just become a public utilitty like the water) and Netflix had the same problem at layer 7. So instead they are burning capital making their own content. Good luck to them.
I assume they made payoffs to the publishers to avoid this problem with DVDs. Redbox would't and famously had troubles.
If only that were true: http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
And the ruling that blocked the FCC from mandating competition? It was a suit filed by NC and TN.
We use about 350g/month. Switching to 4K video might blow 1TB out.
Mostly red states. Wonder if there's any sinister logic there.
...because Comcast charges me less if I subscribe to TV+Internet than the cost of Internet alone. Its even cheaper if I get cablecard, so I have one taped to the wall where the cable comes in. That way I can find it if I ever cancel service.
Originally it was a special deal but when 11 1/2 months were up I called to cancel TV and the rep said he'd extend it for a year. And also told me to call next year and he was sure they'd extend it again.
I know I'm helping them scam the TV networks but since I don't like them either I figure why not?
I agree pretty shocking: Apple made sure there was a way for knowledgable users to do what they like while reducing the chance that less experienced users could get unwittingly pownd by accidentally downloaded apps. The nerve!
Revolutions always come from the haves, not the have nots.
The American revolution was the powerful landholders against the powerful government in Whitehall (and was won via lobbying/bribery in London, not on the battlefield). The American civil war was the landed gentry fighting to save their capital (i.e. slaves) against mechanization and increased opposition to slavery in the north.
The French Revolution was not the revolution of the sans coulottes as it was portrayed -- Danton et all were all well education scions of the aristocracy and merchant class. Napoleon was from the provinces, but was wealthy enough to buy a commission under the King.
Lenin and Trotsky were well educated (OK, Stalin was not). Ho Chi Minh attended the Sorbonne. Nehru, Jinna et al met at Oxford.
You're answering questions I didn't ask. The power companies serve everyone yet we don't subsidize them. Why should this random huge sector receive a subsidy while others don't?
To your point: where I live, Palo Alto, the big madrassas (Sacred Heart, Santa Clara U) serve only the wealthiest. The St Francis church in nearby poverty-stricken East Palo Alto serves fewer kids than the Boys and Girls Club, yet gets a larger subsidy.
If you think that these support services are worth funding, then those can be funded directly. The nonsensical system of arbitrary payments to organizations with opaque finances is, to be most charitable about it, inefficient.
Tax-deductions for donations to ~10% of the GDP? That just means the rest of us have to pay more taxes. Absurd.
I think the largest bluetooth headset seller is some anonymous company in China. The cheap BT headsets you can see on Amazon or Alibaba mostly all look the same, so I suspect are just barely-rebadged versions of the same thing. And surely their volume collectively exceed the sum of Beats, Bose and (never heard of them) Jaybird. And by "volume" I don't just mean units, but as the unit number is so enormous, I also mean dollars.
As for their actual motivations etc...whatever.
It's hard to get good info since the term is so mushy. I was thinking specifically of a combination of running code customer code, storing data, and providing related services. I.e. not just storage (dropbox or box) or vendor provided service (gmail, fastmail, openDNS) or just VMs (maybe i should consider that but I don't use VMs/VPSes).
So in my perhaps artificially restricted definition AWS is the clear #1. I hear anecdotally that microsoft is doing pretty well but their offerings, afaict, aren't of any use to me (not flame bait, I just aren't interested in that stack) and may be beating google. But it feels like both of them (MS and goog) are far behind amazon.
Presumably the mysterious "sources" ("people familiar with the matter") are Google trying to hype up their cloud business which is either #2 or #3 depending on whom you talk to. There's no reason for anyone else to "spill the beans".
I use all those scare quotes because the whole thing is rediculous. Reporters used to care about being played; now they can't be bothered worrying about it.
There are plenty of reasons to choose Google over Amazon and to choose Amazon over Google. Hype is not one of them.
What kind of "new threat" is this? All he's saying is that running code on a machine can have affect its state.
Since congress rushed to mandate electronic voting (despite warnings from all the experts that it would increase vulnerabilities) it is clear voting just isn't considered all that important.
Given that it seems quite appropriate to give responsibility to the useless and incompetent DHS.
Yes, but for the use case of a TV remote, the most important thing is to be able to use it without looking at it.
Cars too, but "ooh, shiny" seems to have taken off there as well.
Oh boy, faster ads, just what I've ALWAYS wanted!!
Oh I don't know: If that 30-second pre-roll add flashes by in two frames I'd be perfectly contented not to block it.
That's because IMAP and POP and HTTP were designed by engineers who were unaccustomed to designing a world that's proof against flaming assholes.
Actually IMAP was designed by an engineer who was himself a flaming asshole.
I have read the complaint and the seem to be charging him with not getting permission to link to a file and for putting ads on his site, neither of which is, as far as I know, a crime in any jurisdiction. Which might explain why he didn't try to "hide his tracks" -- why should he? Oh yes, they do say he "stole" over a billion dollars, but that's like saying High TImes sold billions of dollars worth of pot. They don't claim he actually receieved any of this mythical billion, which makes "stole" hard to understand.
This isn't a troll: I actually don't see a crime being committed.
Isn't the House made up of the same bunch who think the government is incompetent, can't be trusted, and is dangerous? And they are all fired to give it more power? WTF?
Times sure have changed if pole dancing and maggot eating are considered the modern equivalent of vaudeville or opera....
Vaudville was considered cheap entertainment at its time, and both pole dancing and maggot eating would have fit right in. Come to think of it I'm pretty sure both must have appeared on the vaudeville stage at some point.
Opera was the spectacle of its age (in essence the Michel Bay of its time) exploiting whatever advanced technology was possible, and plenty had risque lyrics (not necessarily Aïda, or any Wagner, but Mozart wrote plenty of opera buffa). Broadway shows are its natural heir. Tickets weren't cheap like vaudeville but that was because technology was expensive, not because it was in any way highbrow.
There's tons of great (and crappy) classical music, but a bunch of pretentous loser fans fucked it up early in the 20th century. If you think of Mozart and Lady Gaga as roughly equivalent smart pop musicians you will have a more accurate perspective.
Actually I prefer Lady Gaga to Mozart, but I prefer the sublime Bach and Grateful Dead to them both.
[...]You do sound a bit astro-turfy.
Heh, nope, perhaps just easily impressed.