I remember yelling profusely at the Amiga community that they should drop all this PPC nonsense and just adopt x86. The community insisted they didn't want Intel Inside, but more importantly, the people who owned the rights to AmigaOS were scared to death that people would pirate the OS and run it on generic hardware, so they insisted on re-badging buggy PPC dev boards (which in one case, couldn't even use disk DMA correctly).
Same mindset as the 80's, with predictable results.
Ironically, fast 68K cores implemented on FPGAs is now coming into vogue, so PPC might very well be dead even in the stubborn Amiga community.
Of course corporations should have a monopoly on efficiency and strength in numbers. We can't have the commoners using the same techniques as a business to make their causes practical or even viable.
Even back in the 90's, I remember each employer showing me anti-union videotapes as a standard hiring procedure. I never thought I'd see the day when arbitration became widely tolerated, let alone people believing that unions are universally bad.
More appropriately, many of the problems we experience in communication technology are driven by politics. It's really hard to develop a technical solution to a political problem, no matter how much skill and spare time you have.
I've been running my own e-mail server for over 15 years, because I don't want my ISP or a media mogul to do it for me. Ask me how many mails I can actually send/receive with so many big networks blacklisting smaller domains they don't recognize. Oh well... might as well give up and get a Discord like everyone else! All the cool kids are doing it (since they allready forgot what happened to Skype).
I could go on a huge rant about all the problems I had with my previous Macs that Apple never acknowledged and never fixed. Audio not working at all, CD-ROMs disappearing after a system update, can't do a factory reset with the original install media, can't use any non-Apple display because the DVI-D port is not clocked to spec...
But, nobody ever believes me 'cause I'm just a "hater". I don't bother anymore.
Whether it's IE, or Flash, or Java, or floppy disks, no technology should be forced to die. Obsolete tech dies naturally on its own.
This is why I was pissed when Chrome dumped Applet support, and I'll be even more pissed when all the browsers ban Flash. It should be my decision when to stop using old tech... not anyone else's.
Because humans are a wee bit more complicated than animals, and have desires beyond mere survival.
This applies to animals as well, depending on how complex their social activities are.
There's a guy who lives in a rural area of Nova Scotia. He has a YouTube channel, and he regularly films himself feeding wild raccoons every day in his backyard. Despite doing this for over a decade, the number of animals visiting his house every day hasn't changed. The man explains that despite the commonly held myths that raccoons are solitary and lazy, they are actually quite social and active, and will regularly hunt, nest in groups, and seek new territories, even when easy food is available.
The catch is that raccoons must be raised among their own kind for this to work. If they are raised alone (especially as a pet), they cannot adapt to living with other raccoons, and if released into the wild they will eventually starve. Social contact with their own kind is necessary to develop foraging skills.
Reminds me of the Kodak Picture Maker workstations I used when working in a small photo store. They cost a fortune and were horrible, horrible machines running (incredibly slowly) on obsolete Sun workstations. They later switched to standard PC hardware and the performance improved immensely, but that didn't happen until after I left the store sometime in 2006.
Having worked with a lot of "professional" equipment, I know very well that proprietary hardware is bad news. I once upgraded a $5,000 workstation with a $25 Matrox video card, and instantly image processing was, like, 20 times faster. It had plenty of other proprietary hardware and a license dongle, but thankfully it ran WinNT, so it wasn't hard to swap out some of the hardware.
I'm not a tax guy, so could someone explain why the amount owed to the public (taxes) hasn't actually been disclosed to the public? I assume it has to be made public at some point, given that both parties have agreed to a deal and the amount isn't likely to change.
Also, I'm not sure this is to be celebrated, because it's rather likely that a negotiation took place, and Apple is likely paying less than it was originally supposed to. That's the way "deals" work, as opposed to "orders."
As much as I hate to say it, forcing people to do the right thing never works. People who don't care about doing the right thing will always do terrible work, and you'll always make things more difficult for the people who do.
In my case, it was security policy problems. Every time I updated the runtime, stuff would break, because Sun was constantly changing what constituted a security violation. It wasn't always possible to resolve the issue by configuring the JVM. Then, of course, there was mandatory code signing, which broke practically every applet in existence with no way to override since Oracle removed that security option in the control panel.
Remember when just playing audio was deemed a security violation, and every Java program suddenly went silent? Apparently, they never figured out the awesome power of a mute button or... asking users for permission to enable audio. Nope, enabling audio required the application to be updated.
Overall, the constantly changing security policies were way more of a nuisance than the potential exploits.
Later Amigas were worse, as they would only display the software error message for a few seconds before continuing, so it was hard to write down the message. At least the A1000 showed the Guru permanently until you clicked the mouse button. There was always a command-line utility to retrieve the last error message, though.
On that note, the only reason Guru was a thing was because AmigaOS was too immature and buggy to handle exceptions properly. Not having an MMU and memory protection certainly was a bummer, but the OS didn't even try to recover from errors. A soft reset was just standard practice. I was quite surprised to learn how bad both AmigaOS and MacOS were at handling errors once I recently started learning 68K assembly.
I still use Win7, and almost every time I click on something I get a broken URL. The reason why, of course, is that MS has deleted a huge amount of the Win7 documentation from their site, and all I get is ads for Windows10.
Online documentation for anything, never mind KB articles, is a dumb idea in general.
Given you knowledge of how Windows works it's not surprising you somehow managed to break your system.
If you haven't used Windows for a few weeks and turn your machine on, it will go berserk and peg the CPU for hours at 100%. It's regular scheduled maintenance, and it is certainly real. I see this all the time when diagnosing problems with various machines. Even Win7 does it on occasion if you haven't turned off all the background crap.
But, yeah, there's always someone out there like you who loves to shout, "User error... as usual!"
Reminds me of when Microsoft first broke WindowsUpdate on Win7, so it would sit there for hours at 100% CPU and never do anything. To fix it properly you needed to manually update the WindowsUpdate client, and Microsoft does not provide a handy link to it -- you have to search for the latest KB article yourself, which changes regularly. Check the Microsoft forums, and there were scores of people shouting, "User error!", because, "It works just fine for me!"
Given how crap Windows has been for decades, I find it remarkable how many people pretend that Win10 is actually a good OS underneath. It's not.
XBox One was supposed to be online-only even though it uses a disc drive, but due to backlash (and jeering from Sony), Microsoft changed their mind at the last minute before launch.
I think they need a new CEO to put on the breaks and realistically raise prices and or do a limited bankruptcy.
Tesla is only successful because they have been an endless hype machine, and that is largely due to Musk's idiotic/brilliant PR stunts. If he leaves, Tesla is as good as dead.
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I remember yelling profusely at the Amiga community that they should drop all this PPC nonsense and just adopt x86. The community insisted they didn't want Intel Inside, but more importantly, the people who owned the rights to AmigaOS were scared to death that people would pirate the OS and run it on generic hardware, so they insisted on re-badging buggy PPC dev boards (which in one case, couldn't even use disk DMA correctly).
Same mindset as the 80's, with predictable results.
Ironically, fast 68K cores implemented on FPGAs is now coming into vogue, so PPC might very well be dead even in the stubborn Amiga community.
But... but... you can still work for an employer who doesn't do this stuff. The free market will take care of itself. Honest!
It's shocking how hard it is to find a EULA that doesn't have a binding arbitration cause. It only took a few years for everyone to start doing it.
Of course corporations should have a monopoly on efficiency and strength in numbers. We can't have the commoners using the same techniques as a business to make their causes practical or even viable.
Even back in the 90's, I remember each employer showing me anti-union videotapes as a standard hiring procedure. I never thought I'd see the day when arbitration became widely tolerated, let alone people believing that unions are universally bad.
User error. He probably lost the Kickstart disk.
Dang... I was all set to call up MegaMaid.
More appropriately, many of the problems we experience in communication technology are driven by politics. It's really hard to develop a technical solution to a political problem, no matter how much skill and spare time you have.
I've been running my own e-mail server for over 15 years, because I don't want my ISP or a media mogul to do it for me. Ask me how many mails I can actually send/receive with so many big networks blacklisting smaller domains they don't recognize. Oh well... might as well give up and get a Discord like everyone else! All the cool kids are doing it (since they allready forgot what happened to Skype).
I could go on a huge rant about all the problems I had with my previous Macs that Apple never acknowledged and never fixed. Audio not working at all, CD-ROMs disappearing after a system update, can't do a factory reset with the original install media, can't use any non-Apple display because the DVI-D port is not clocked to spec...
But, nobody ever believes me 'cause I'm just a "hater". I don't bother anymore.
Thank goodness some people still have sense.
Whether it's IE, or Flash, or Java, or floppy disks, no technology should be forced to die. Obsolete tech dies naturally on its own.
This is why I was pissed when Chrome dumped Applet support, and I'll be even more pissed when all the browsers ban Flash. It should be my decision when to stop using old tech... not anyone else's.
Because humans are a wee bit more complicated than animals, and have desires beyond mere survival.
This applies to animals as well, depending on how complex their social activities are.
There's a guy who lives in a rural area of Nova Scotia. He has a YouTube channel, and he regularly films himself feeding wild raccoons every day in his backyard. Despite doing this for over a decade, the number of animals visiting his house every day hasn't changed. The man explains that despite the commonly held myths that raccoons are solitary and lazy, they are actually quite social and active, and will regularly hunt, nest in groups, and seek new territories, even when easy food is available.
The catch is that raccoons must be raised among their own kind for this to work. If they are raised alone (especially as a pet), they cannot adapt to living with other raccoons, and if released into the wild they will eventually starve. Social contact with their own kind is necessary to develop foraging skills.
Are you kidding? Of course they work, even when they don't have to. They just have different jobs than the rest of us.
I'd much prefer if Trump were unemployed and stayed at home eating Cheetos all day.
Reminds me of the Kodak Picture Maker workstations I used when working in a small photo store. They cost a fortune and were horrible, horrible machines running (incredibly slowly) on obsolete Sun workstations. They later switched to standard PC hardware and the performance improved immensely, but that didn't happen until after I left the store sometime in 2006.
Having worked with a lot of "professional" equipment, I know very well that proprietary hardware is bad news. I once upgraded a $5,000 workstation with a $25 Matrox video card, and instantly image processing was, like, 20 times faster. It had plenty of other proprietary hardware and a license dongle, but thankfully it ran WinNT, so it wasn't hard to swap out some of the hardware.
I'm not a tax guy, so could someone explain why the amount owed to the public (taxes) hasn't actually been disclosed to the public? I assume it has to be made public at some point, given that both parties have agreed to a deal and the amount isn't likely to change.
Also, I'm not sure this is to be celebrated, because it's rather likely that a negotiation took place, and Apple is likely paying less than it was originally supposed to. That's the way "deals" work, as opposed to "orders."
I think you just suggested that we either switch to multi-core CPUs (welcome to 2010), or we switch to cloud rendering (over my dead body).
As much as I hate to say it, forcing people to do the right thing never works. People who don't care about doing the right thing will always do terrible work, and you'll always make things more difficult for the people who do.
In my case, it was security policy problems. Every time I updated the runtime, stuff would break, because Sun was constantly changing what constituted a security violation. It wasn't always possible to resolve the issue by configuring the JVM. Then, of course, there was mandatory code signing, which broke practically every applet in existence with no way to override since Oracle removed that security option in the control panel.
Remember when just playing audio was deemed a security violation, and every Java program suddenly went silent? Apparently, they never figured out the awesome power of a mute button or... asking users for permission to enable audio. Nope, enabling audio required the application to be updated.
Overall, the constantly changing security policies were way more of a nuisance than the potential exploits.
It's not the charge, but the sentence that matters. Sentences take intent into consideration.
Later Amigas were worse, as they would only display the software error message for a few seconds before continuing, so it was hard to write down the message. At least the A1000 showed the Guru permanently until you clicked the mouse button. There was always a command-line utility to retrieve the last error message, though.
On that note, the only reason Guru was a thing was because AmigaOS was too immature and buggy to handle exceptions properly. Not having an MMU and memory protection certainly was a bummer, but the OS didn't even try to recover from errors. A soft reset was just standard practice. I was quite surprised to learn how bad both AmigaOS and MacOS were at handling errors once I recently started learning 68K assembly.
I still use Win7, and almost every time I click on something I get a broken URL. The reason why, of course, is that MS has deleted a huge amount of the Win7 documentation from their site, and all I get is ads for Windows10.
Online documentation for anything, never mind KB articles, is a dumb idea in general.
Given you knowledge of how Windows works it's not surprising you somehow managed to break your system.
If you haven't used Windows for a few weeks and turn your machine on, it will go berserk and peg the CPU for hours at 100%. It's regular scheduled maintenance, and it is certainly real. I see this all the time when diagnosing problems with various machines. Even Win7 does it on occasion if you haven't turned off all the background crap.
But, yeah, there's always someone out there like you who loves to shout, "User error... as usual!"
Reminds me of when Microsoft first broke WindowsUpdate on Win7, so it would sit there for hours at 100% CPU and never do anything. To fix it properly you needed to manually update the WindowsUpdate client, and Microsoft does not provide a handy link to it -- you have to search for the latest KB article yourself, which changes regularly. Check the Microsoft forums, and there were scores of people shouting, "User error!", because, "It works just fine for me!"
Given how crap Windows has been for decades, I find it remarkable how many people pretend that Win10 is actually a good OS underneath. It's not.
XBox One was supposed to be online-only even though it uses a disc drive, but due to backlash (and jeering from Sony), Microsoft changed their mind at the last minute before launch.
Next generation, however...
Although the article mentions the iPhone in its title, the article itself is talking about Apple's trashcan-shaped desktop computer. The big one.
Heck, I'm surprised Apple even uses screws instead of gluing the things shut, like what they actually do to their phones.
Ask people what kinds of new jobs will be created, and they will say, "I don't know, they haven't been created yet!"
It's not the robots that have people worried... it's the lack of social planning. "Don't panic, everything will be fine" is not a solution.
Don't be silly. No need for human trials, as we can just lock up cows in fart mills.
Just wait until the certified organic farts are available. Hipsters will pay a hefty premium for that.
I think they need a new CEO to put on the breaks and realistically raise prices and or do a limited bankruptcy.
Tesla is only successful because they have been an endless hype machine, and that is largely due to Musk's idiotic/brilliant PR stunts. If he leaves, Tesla is as good as dead.
Musk is a marketeer and attention whore. Stuff like this is how he and his enterprises stay in the news.
Whether he seriously believes that we live in a simulation or not is anyone's guess.