And if you look at the pricing structures, it's not at all more expensive to buy physical copies. You do have to not life your life as lite as a grasshopper, though.
I get updates from the Google Play Store all the time. Including updates to critical Android subsystem components. The only difference is that with Android, your updates are more granular. People with a cellphone 6 years old get the latest updated version of Chrome, Maps, etc.
If you like monolithic updates once each sales-cycle (year) go for Apple.
All of this leads to inefficiency, fragmentation, despecialization, higher prices, lower wages, and lower living standards.
The horrors! You mean that globalists, and people who hitch their wagon to the globalism cart, won't make the maximum possible return on their effort?!?
Perhaps Vizio could design an LED indicator on the front of their products that will light up when their Smart TV is spying on a customer.
It could even be a bi-color LED, that lights up with a certain color when the TV is on and spying on them at a high rate, and lights up with a different color when the TV is off and the level of spying has been slightly reduced.
I bought my new cellphone last week. It was $199.00 which to me seemed like quite a bit. But now I don't expect I'll need to spend more on mobile device hardware for two or more years.
The display cabinet purpose of the TPP was to 'deal with China stealing IP.' The actual purpose was to ratchet down environmental and worker protection laws in the U.S. to 'level the playing field.'
The logical answer is to spend your energy taking up torches and pitchforks
Torches do almost no damage at all, and the pitchfork is a pathetic two hander. You can rack up XP using it but almost anything else you can get from a drop has more power.
"Update" Windows installs have always been a bad idea. Well, maybe updating to Windows for Workgroups 3.11 wasn't a bad move.
The proper approach has always been to do a full-clear on the hard drive the new Windows will be installed on, or better yet, pull the old drive and install the new Windows on a new larger hard drive. Put the old drive into a $10 external USB enclosure and after you've migrated anything important off, use it as an offline backup drive.
Third party binaries aren't meant to just be used 'in place' on a new Windows environment, even if Microsoft tries to make that possible. That isn't just a Microsoft thing, either. I have a boxed retail copy of the ApplixWare office suite for Linux that I bought in the late 90's. I wouldn't assume it will work on Linux with newer than a 1.2 kernel (though it might, I suppose)
When 'Freon' refrigerants were banned, the replacement refrigerants only worked well at higher pressures. End result: more likely to leak into the environment. More expensive equipment needed to work with.
Also: it's not a coincidence that 'Freon' refrigerants tend to be 'banned' shortly after DuPont's patent runs out on the old refrigerant.
Office has other stuff, like a complex numerical calculation tool called Excel. An easy-to-use database frontend called Access.
But since the only 'Office crap' you have direct experience with is Word, from your 'keyboarding' remedial course you took Freshman year, and that you've used to write 'reports' for classes that actually required writing skills... it's understandable.
You can even make a career out of being the person who digitally signs the macros. Your nephew can run the business that produces the forms needed to request review of macros for approval.
To say nothing of the warm fuzzy feeling of power you get when those mere 'Macro users' come to your office to plead for their macro to be allowed to run on their system.
Also, your sister-in-law runs the business that sells the air-gapped additional computer that 'users' who want to create macros have to use to create the macros. She also sells the 'secured' USB flash drives they are required to use to transfer said macros to your review staff for evaluation.
No, never mind. The 'sister-in-law' and 'nephew' cronyism part of that is made up nonsense. You'd never be that good at capturing control of the whole setup. You just like bossing people around 'for their protection' and it makes you feel good to do so.
A better example of an analogy for a virus scanner would be a thick woolen blanket, that you drape over yourself when you are at the beach, to protect against solar radiation that would give you skin cancer.
I mean, really. That's what we have more megahertz and RAM for, isn't it? For better and more powerful Antivirus agents.
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And if you look at the pricing structures, it's not at all more expensive to buy physical copies. You do have to not life your life as lite as a grasshopper, though.
He's not an idiot. He's a supply-chain/logistics wizard.
Now, when they switch to being more of a vendor of model railroad components, his outlook on product design will be awesome and valuable.
Not being responsible enough to fly his own airplane, where he can use bluetooth during the flight?
Not necessary. The Apps are sandboxed away from the kernel and OS.
Obviously it isn't perfect. It no better or worse, just different, from the Apple update scheme.
Apple TV and Apple Music aren't doing that well, though. I suppose there are Apple customers who use both.
The 'chin' is an ergonomic zone. A place for the physical home and back buttons. It's about usability, not appearance.
I get updates from the Google Play Store all the time. Including updates to critical Android subsystem components. The only difference is that with Android, your updates are more granular. People with a cellphone 6 years old get the latest updated version of Chrome, Maps, etc.
If you like monolithic updates once each sales-cycle (year) go for Apple.
For some reason said 'chin' is considered objectionable.
Not that 'the rest of us' have been able to figure out why.
If I could vote, I'd say we should strip off the eighth bit on all char data posted to the site.\
Next time say something original.
Sadly, there's a whole generation out now who will defend the idea that it is entertainment to watch somebody else play video games.
It's just weird, but that's the deal.
Unfortunately, to be a YouTube Star, you need to be a burning star. To be a burning star, you have to burn.
That rarefied life experience has been long proven and it isn't anything new.
All of this leads to inefficiency, fragmentation, despecialization, higher prices, lower wages, and lower living standards.
The horrors! You mean that globalists, and people who hitch their wagon to the globalism cart, won't make the maximum possible return on their effort?!?
Perhaps Vizio could design an LED indicator on the front of their products that will light up when their Smart TV is spying on a customer.
It could even be a bi-color LED, that lights up with a certain color when the TV is on and spying on them at a high rate, and lights up with a different color when the TV is off and the level of spying has been slightly reduced.
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I bought my new cellphone last week. It was $199.00 which to me seemed like quite a bit. But now I don't expect I'll need to spend more on mobile device hardware for two or more years.
Has Apple trademarked the phrase 'hardware refreshes'? Because it's another example of slick terminology and they should get right on it.
The display cabinet purpose of the TPP was to 'deal with China stealing IP.' The actual purpose was to ratchet down environmental and worker protection laws in the U.S. to 'level the playing field.'
The logical answer is to spend your energy taking up torches and pitchforks
Torches do almost no damage at all, and the pitchfork is a pathetic two hander. You can rack up XP using it but almost anything else you can get from a drop has more power.
And when that's all you want, you've done more than objectify women, you've objectified yourself.
It's a very reductive form of gratification.
"Update" Windows installs have always been a bad idea. Well, maybe updating to Windows for Workgroups 3.11 wasn't a bad move.
The proper approach has always been to do a full-clear on the hard drive the new Windows will be installed on, or better yet, pull the old drive and install the new Windows on a new larger hard drive. Put the old drive into a $10 external USB enclosure and after you've migrated anything important off, use it as an offline backup drive.
Third party binaries aren't meant to just be used 'in place' on a new Windows environment, even if Microsoft tries to make that possible. That isn't just a Microsoft thing, either. I have a boxed retail copy of the ApplixWare office suite for Linux that I bought in the late 90's. I wouldn't assume it will work on Linux with newer than a 1.2 kernel (though it might, I suppose)
Just a side-point here:
When 'Freon' refrigerants were banned, the replacement refrigerants only worked well at higher pressures. End result: more likely to leak into the environment. More expensive equipment needed to work with.
Also: it's not a coincidence that 'Freon' refrigerants tend to be 'banned' shortly after DuPont's patent runs out on the old refrigerant.
You can use any text editor for 'writing.'
Office has other stuff, like a complex numerical calculation tool called Excel. An easy-to-use database frontend called Access.
But since the only 'Office crap' you have direct experience with is Word, from your 'keyboarding' remedial course you took Freshman year, and that you've used to write 'reports' for classes that actually required writing skills... it's understandable.
You can even make a career out of being the person who digitally signs the macros. Your nephew can run the business that produces the forms needed to request review of macros for approval.
To say nothing of the warm fuzzy feeling of power you get when those mere 'Macro users' come to your office to plead for their macro to be allowed to run on their system.
Also, your sister-in-law runs the business that sells the air-gapped additional computer that 'users' who want to create macros have to use to create the macros. She also sells the 'secured' USB flash drives they are required to use to transfer said macros to your review staff for evaluation.
No, never mind. The 'sister-in-law' and 'nephew' cronyism part of that is made up nonsense. You'd never be that good at capturing control of the whole setup. You just like bossing people around 'for their protection' and it makes you feel good to do so.
A better example of an analogy for a virus scanner would be a thick woolen blanket, that you drape over yourself when you are at the beach, to protect against solar radiation that would give you skin cancer.
I mean, really. That's what we have more megahertz and RAM for, isn't it? For better and more powerful Antivirus agents.