Or you could just have an OS boot drive that's SSD.
This is pretty trivial to setup in Unix. It should not be such a chore in Windows or MacOS. A hybrid device makes more sense in a laptop since you have severe space constraints. For anything else, a special purpose device seems like a bad hack to get around fragile system software.
The Supremes have already opened that door. You now no longer have any rights. Any corporation can force them from you by contract as a condition for you doing business with anyone. It's all based on the fiction that you are in an equal negotiating position with any corporation.
Any scheme that involve 3rd parties or "media companies' is going to be fundementally broken. I would view any notice originating from a media company as a problem. Doesn't matter if it comes with an implicit threat of a lawsuit.
I would much rather my ISP keep things between us. If there is some shenanigan, it should get no further than my ISP and that confidentiality should be protected by law.
Something like this should be more along the lines of a security service offered along with the rest of my ISP service rather than my ISP playing toadie for some company I would prefer to avoid any contact with.
The underlying problem here is that there aren't any real damages.
It's not worth the cost a civil trial either way and law enforcement agencies simply have better things to do. If you are fortunate enough to find yourself a victim of petty theft or fraud, you can see this very thing in action yourself.
Actual damages are small. Cops don't want to bother. The relevant corporation doesn't want to bear the cost of enforcement.
The real problem here is that a RICO style statutory damages been misapplied to average individual citizens.
> Next to native MS office, indesign and photoshop
Those are pretty much worthless to the vast majority of people and by far not worth the limited hardware choices and increase costs you will have to deal as part of the Apple collective.
If photoshop is really the best you can come up with then you really are a clueless do-nothing twit that could probably get by just as well with an iPad.
MacOS doesn't spank anything. It's a weird mixture of the bad parts of both Linux and Windows. It's not as well suported while being more closed.
The fact that the closed bits were bolted onto FreeBSD really don't change this.
> Again, this hasn't been a problem for me. Apple ships with a built-in Samba so it offers itself up to Windows quite nicely.
This is just such a joke. I had to resort to managing MacOS with command line tools because it's filesharing is so unreliable. It doesn't matter if you are talking about samba or Apple's own native stuff. It's all crap.
The existence of something pre-bundled can't be used to imply any thing about it's effectiveness or reliability.
If you are an artistic professional, you might need a $600 image editor or a $1000 video editor. However, most people don't even fully exploit what comes bundled with MacOS.
Those of us that are somewhere in the middle are much better served by Linux or Windows.
There is a sort of "justify yourself" mentality with MacOS. That is in stark contrast to the "why not" mentality you will find with Linux or Windows.
Anything that Macs can't readily do is modded down by the group think.
People like that already think that Miguel ran off the rails a long time ago.Their reaction would be more along the lines of "so what". Why are we even paying attention to this guy anymore? He can't even be inventive with his FUD.
He sounds like a lame Apple fanboy trapped in 2006.
It reads more like "Famous Windows user defects to MacOS".
I view this as an extension of the "my house, my rules" principle.
If they want me to run things, then I have to be free to run things. Otherwise they are free to fend for themselves in exactly the same way that they would expect me to if the roles were reversed.
That includes killing the sacred cow if the actual user requirements warrant it. There is nothing "platform-agnostic" about mindlessly fixating on a particular (monopoly) brand of product.
That kind of nonsense is why this issue is a problem to begin with.
No one ever forces the 800lb gorilla to get it's act together. So the crapulence continues.
VNC is the sort of thing that gives you a renewed appreciation for things like SSH and telnet. It's the worst performing GUI option out there. You can even finagle X to perform better (with NX).
Windows is single platform and proprietary. The bread and butter of Microsoft has been binary compatibility with the original IBM PC. They have resisted any attempts to change this over the last 30 years.
That pretty effectively buggers Intel and makes it hard for them to dump x86.
How's that for a "let's blame Microsoft" response.
> general purpose = internet surfing, email and maybe a movie
Plenty of movies will clobber ARM appliances.
Even content consumption benefits from a better general purpose CPU. As with any general purpose device, you can do things that weren't originally designed into your device. You also have the ability to make updates and fixes or just dump the bundled software entirely.
Specialty silicon is cool of course but also limited.
Except "massive processing" power includes simple things like games and video decoding. Even if you are the computing equivalent of a couch potato, there's reason to have a decent amount of computing power at your disposal.
Cheap ARM devices that are throwbacks to the 90s are very limiting in this regard. That's why there's apps like AirVideo and Plex that run on PCs for the benefit of tablets.
It's very easy to overwhelm a weak system built for the "640k is enough" crowd just by doing something inventive or creative.
> If someone has a degree that is so specialised that there are no US citizens with that skill, then why wouldn't they expect to be paid $100K or more?
Enough of us have seen first hand that it's simply not the case.
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Or you could just have an OS boot drive that's SSD.
This is pretty trivial to setup in Unix. It should not be such a chore in Windows or MacOS. A hybrid device makes more sense in a laptop since you have severe space constraints. For anything else, a special purpose device seems like a bad hack to get around fragile system software.
The Supremes have already opened that door. You now no longer have any rights. Any corporation can force them from you by contract as a condition for you doing business with anyone. It's all based on the fiction that you are in an equal negotiating position with any corporation.
Any scheme that involve 3rd parties or "media companies' is going to be fundementally broken. I would view any notice originating from a media company as a problem. Doesn't matter if it comes with an implicit threat of a lawsuit.
I would much rather my ISP keep things between us. If there is some shenanigan, it should get no further than my ISP and that confidentiality should be protected by law.
Something like this should be more along the lines of a security service offered along with the rest of my ISP service rather than my ISP playing toadie for some company I would prefer to avoid any contact with.
No, "stealing music" isn't "sticking it to the man".
"Stealing music" is the ultimate end goal of copyright.
"Stealing music" is just taking what's rightfully yours.
Your presumption of guilt is precisely why this new scheme intolerable.
The "be a good little sheep" option simply won't help you.
The underlying problem here is that there aren't any real damages.
It's not worth the cost a civil trial either way and law enforcement agencies simply have better things to do. If you are fortunate enough to find yourself a victim of petty theft or fraud, you can see this very thing in action yourself.
Actual damages are small. Cops don't want to bother. The relevant corporation doesn't want to bear the cost of enforcement.
The real problem here is that a RICO style statutory damages been misapplied to average individual citizens.
> It is nice having something that just works.
Yes it is. It's too bad that the Apple version of that idea is so limited. MacOS is great so long as you never stray off the reservation.
If you are the least bit creative, you will find a way to do that.
Then you find that it's more difficult to deal with than Linux.
> Next to native MS office, indesign and photoshop
Those are pretty much worthless to the vast majority of people and by far not worth the limited hardware choices and increase costs you will have to deal as part of the Apple collective.
If photoshop is really the best you can come up with then you really are a clueless do-nothing twit that could probably get by just as well with an iPad.
MacOS doesn't spank anything. It's a weird mixture of the bad parts of both Linux and Windows. It's not as well suported while being more closed.
The fact that the closed bits were bolted onto FreeBSD really don't change this.
> Again, this hasn't been a problem for me. Apple ships with a built-in Samba so it offers itself up to Windows quite nicely.
This is just such a joke. I had to resort to managing MacOS with command line tools because it's filesharing is so unreliable. It doesn't matter if you are talking about samba or Apple's own native stuff. It's all crap.
The existence of something pre-bundled can't be used to imply any thing about it's effectiveness or reliability.
If you are an artistic professional, you might need a $600 image editor or a $1000 video editor. However, most people don't even fully exploit what comes bundled with MacOS.
Those of us that are somewhere in the middle are much better served by Linux or Windows.
There is a sort of "justify yourself" mentality with MacOS. That is in stark contrast to the "why not" mentality you will find with Linux or Windows.
Anything that Macs can't readily do is modded down by the group think.
My PC? Probably not. It doesn't like to run MacOS in a VM.
MacOS is very picky about what hardware it will run on. It is far far FAR more restrictive in this regard than Linux.
You can't just grab a bit of random kit and expect it to run.
It's nothing like Linux or Windows in that regard.
> The trolls gotta be hating.
People like that already think that Miguel ran off the rails a long time ago.Their reaction would be more along the lines of "so what". Why are we even paying attention to this guy anymore? He can't even be inventive with his FUD.
He sounds like a lame Apple fanboy trapped in 2006.
It reads more like "Famous Windows user defects to MacOS".
I view this as an extension of the "my house, my rules" principle.
If they want me to run things, then I have to be free to run things. Otherwise they are free to fend for themselves in exactly the same way that they would expect me to if the roles were reversed.
> Because a true nerd is platform-agnostic.
That includes killing the sacred cow if the actual user requirements warrant it. There is nothing "platform-agnostic" about mindlessly fixating on a particular (monopoly) brand of product.
That kind of nonsense is why this issue is a problem to begin with.
No one ever forces the 800lb gorilla to get it's act together. So the crapulence continues.
VNC is the sort of thing that gives you a renewed appreciation for things like SSH and telnet. It's the worst performing GUI option out there. You can even finagle X to perform better (with NX).
> Getting my mom to install Team Viewer was not an option
Why would that be a problem? The system should have been set up so that you could manage it remotely. It's Unix. That's kind of what it's for.
The GUI bits might have been hard to pull off but you can certainly manage a Unix box remotely.
Actually it means exactly that.
Blood is thicker than water. The state is not your family. Your employer is not your family either.
This is also not about being a criminal.
The person who is the subject of this article is not a criminal. She was not accused of anything. If anything, she's the next of kin.
Perhaps she should have married the guy and invoked spousal priveledge.
Windows is single platform and proprietary. The bread and butter of Microsoft has been binary compatibility with the original IBM PC. They have resisted any attempts to change this over the last 30 years.
That pretty effectively buggers Intel and makes it hard for them to dump x86.
How's that for a "let's blame Microsoft" response.
When I have to do something not built into the SoC through some sort of speciality acceleration hardware, Atom runs circles around ARM.
Atom also tends to come with much better specialty silicon than anything that comes with an ARM device.
ARM isn't even in the same league as AMD.
> general purpose = internet surfing, email and maybe a movie
Plenty of movies will clobber ARM appliances.
Even content consumption benefits from a better general purpose CPU. As with any general purpose device, you can do things that weren't originally designed into your device. You also have the ability to make updates and fixes or just dump the bundled software entirely.
Specialty silicon is cool of course but also limited.
Except "massive processing" power includes simple things like games and video decoding. Even if you are the computing equivalent of a couch potato, there's reason to have a decent amount of computing power at your disposal.
Cheap ARM devices that are throwbacks to the 90s are very limiting in this regard. That's why there's apps like AirVideo and Plex that run on PCs for the benefit of tablets.
It's very easy to overwhelm a weak system built for the "640k is enough" crowd just by doing something inventive or creative.
You choose to be lazy and use the "my time is valuable" excuse.
That is contradictory to the idea of running Steam even under the most ideal conditions.
> If someone has a degree that is so specialised that there are no US citizens with that skill, then why wouldn't they expect to be paid $100K or more?
Enough of us have seen first hand that it's simply not the case.
I would go farther than that.
If they are worth importing, then they are worth treating as a person. They should get full rights the moment they hit US soil.