Apparently it's working to well (like ALSA, init, GNOME, and X).
The road to hell is paved with good intentions and quite often the relevant parties are completely blind. Hire some guys to write video drivers or improve one of the NLE's.
He does use the console. He just uses it as an emergency fallback mechanism. As such, it should be as simple as possible. Trying to give it the "trans-warp" treatment is just stupid and really bad engineering.
I agree with the other guy about the fancier terminal options. If you want a fancier terminal, perhaps it's finally time for you to leave the 70s and start using X.
I am highly suspicious of these ratings of health systems by country. I have lived in various states and been subjected to their healthcare systems and have had first hand experiences that directly contradict some of these published studies.
It's not an unknown number. So don't treat it as such. Don't make believe it is some shadowy "bogey man" you can point to as scary but never really spell out.
It's a wonderful argument you've got there. You can basically make up any argument you like based on numbers that don't really exist.
A lot of medical bills are pretty bogus. So if you are going by what the "MSRP" of a treatment is you are going to get a grossly inflated number versus what's actually paid. It's not clear that the usual statistics actually reflect what is spent versus what is charged.
Also, all of this whining about how Medicare and Medicaid cost is interesting considering the fact that most doctors avoid it because the reimbursement rates for either quite frankly suck. It sounds like it sucks to be a doctor in the UK if you are effectively stuck doing nothing but "medicare/medicaid".
Perhaps the US needs to start with free med school so the doctors can afford to work for peanuts.
Doctors being afraid of punishment is a GOOD thing. That's what Torts are for. Ideally, doctors would focus on successfully treating the patient. However, that seems to be an outdated idea.
In some places, Doctors have to worry about doing hard time for making mistakes. Unless something like that replaces Tort, all you are doing is giving Doctors (but mainly hospitals) a free pass and zero accountability.
Also, we don't need "The Delaware" effect for medical insurance like we had it for consumer credit. Although decoupling health insurance from the state and your employer is a good thing.
If you can't have children naturally, you should really stop to contemplate why it is that God or Mother Nature has made things difficult for you. Perhaps consider the idea that there may be a reason you should not force the issue.
A lot of that "non life threatening" stuff will turn chronic or become untreatable if you ignore it. It sounds a bit like the US system really, where you are only guaranteed timely treatment if you are at death's door.
Otherwise, your condition is left to fester until it becomes more painful and more expensive to adequately deal with.
It's pretty simple really. Someone else touched upon it.
Does the product strip me of the right as a farmer to save my own seeds and reuse them for the next planting?
If not, then that's reason enough to shun the product. The other health issues are interesting but ultimately less relevant. GMO foods create new and damaging monopolies that contaminates everyone's seed stocks and then sues the victims. Being "Roundup ready" is a bit of a side show really.
Also, chances are that if you still have a pocket calculator from the 70s or 90s that those devices are still useful for their original intended purpose. They are not made obsolete by new software that chokes on a smaller hard drive or inadequate core memory.
You are trying to commit the backyard mechanic fallacy.
The fact that something can be maintained by an expert doesn't mean that it needs to be maintained by the end user. You can benefit from a maintainable device by simply paying the expert less than it would cost to replace the expensive device.
$20/hr will get you new memory and new storage. That can take a machine that's otherwise a doorstop and breathe new life into it.
This used to be the sort of thing that Apple Fanboys used to like to brag about: getting more useful life out of a machine.
When you are talking about expensive machines, it's still cheaper to maintain and repair them. What Apple charges for it's hardware makes them not quite disposable by most people's standards.
> Good luck with finding a laptop with the MBPwRD's dimensions or display that you can upgrade.
You labor under the false assumption that the rest of us accept the set of tradeoffs that Apple has ordained for you. Whereas you are forced to frame your response in terms of those things that you (wrongly) think we can't have, we are quite happy to take advantage of the diversity that the rest of the PC marketplace allows.
We are simply not limited to those narrow few choices that Apple will allow you to have.
The fact that it is an overhyped followup to the netbook doesn't really matter.
All of this rhetoric about "this is what the customers want" is nonsense. You're an Apple user, you're stuck with what Apple wants to sell you: end of story.
When Apple seems like something more than an also-ran in computing, then their approach to putting together $2000 machines will seem more like something that people want rather than something people are forced to live with.
Not being able to upgrade RAM? Sounds like another 80s blast from the past.
> Or the last 3 versions of the iPhone, and the last decade of MacOS?
Apple's non-computing products are somewhat interesting in this regard.
Apple's computing products are just rehashes of other older stuff like BSD, Mach, and OpenStep. If anything they are a good example of "remixing".
Even Apple's more "innovative" products are good examples of remixing. They take other people's stuff and tweak it. Even the original version of MacOS fits that description well.
The problem is that Apple has lost sight of that. They have ceased to be the rebellious teenager and are now suffering from middle age and acting accordingly.
Paul Ryan is a demonstration of who the Republican President-wannabe wants to pander to. Instead of trying to go further to the middle, this particular President-wannabe has decided to veer far to the right. This has been done despite the fact that there is probably no need to "pander to the base" at this point in time.
Ryan is a great big F.U. to the rest of us the same as Palin was.
Romney might as well just put up his middle finger at his next political rally and tell his own party's moderates to f*ck off as well as the rest of us.
With the early cattle towns you didn't sell your cattle to some guy in Chicago and just pay for the shipping. You sold your cattle to the relevant Rail Barron for a pittance
An illiterate man commissioned the development of the alphabet/script you are using RIGHT NOW.
The man in the big chair doesn't have to understand all of the nuances. He just has to have the right strategic direction and the ability to find people that can implement it.
This hasn't changed in 1300 years. Likely won't change in another 1300.
Linux is not owned by a single entity like Windows is.
Windows is what MIcrosoft says it is because they own it and they can do anything they like with it. If you're offended, your only alternatives are to "hack it" or abandon it.
There isn't some other pre-packaged variant of Windows you can switch to.
BAD sandboxing is worse than none at all. It's better to have a dangerous powersaw than a useless door stop. There are plenty of doorstops available. You don't need to turn the Mac into that.
This seems more like an attempt to control the user rather than to actually protect the user from themselves.
Restricting read access to non-critical user data? Really? That's just retarded. It adds nothing to user security and just serves to encourage people to not bother at all.
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What the iPad offers is not "printing support" as it has come to be defined by common practice over the last 30 years of consumer computing.
Some hack bolted on as an afterthought? Someone could be forgiven for not considering that "printing support".
A new console? Why bother?
Apparently it's working to well (like ALSA, init, GNOME, and X).
The road to hell is paved with good intentions and quite often the relevant parties are completely blind. Hire some guys to write video drivers or improve one of the NLE's.
Leave the boring stuff alone.
You are being intentionally obtuse.
He does use the console. He just uses it as an emergency fallback mechanism. As such, it should be as simple as possible. Trying to give it the "trans-warp" treatment is just stupid and really bad engineering.
I was running X in the 80s.
I agree with the other guy about the fancier terminal options. If you want a fancier terminal, perhaps it's finally time for you to leave the 70s and start using X.
I am highly suspicious of these ratings of health systems by country. I have lived in various states and been subjected to their healthcare systems and have had first hand experiences that directly contradict some of these published studies.
So then sum that up.
It's not an unknown number. So don't treat it as such. Don't make believe it is some shadowy "bogey man" you can point to as scary but never really spell out.
It's a wonderful argument you've got there. You can basically make up any argument you like based on numbers that don't really exist.
A lot of medical bills are pretty bogus. So if you are going by what the "MSRP" of a treatment is you are going to get a grossly inflated number versus what's actually paid. It's not clear that the usual statistics actually reflect what is spent versus what is charged.
Also, all of this whining about how Medicare and Medicaid cost is interesting considering the fact that most doctors avoid it because the reimbursement rates for either quite frankly suck. It sounds like it sucks to be a doctor in the UK if you are effectively stuck doing nothing but "medicare/medicaid".
Perhaps the US needs to start with free med school so the doctors can afford to work for peanuts.
Doctors being afraid of punishment is a GOOD thing. That's what Torts are for. Ideally, doctors would focus on successfully treating the patient. However, that seems to be an outdated idea.
In some places, Doctors have to worry about doing hard time for making mistakes. Unless something like that replaces Tort, all you are doing is giving Doctors (but mainly hospitals) a free pass and zero accountability.
Also, we don't need "The Delaware" effect for medical insurance like we had it for consumer credit. Although decoupling health insurance from the state and your employer is a good thing.
Fertility treatments are extremely frivolous.
If you can't have children naturally, you should really stop to contemplate why it is that God or Mother Nature has made things difficult for you. Perhaps consider the idea that there may be a reason you should not force the issue.
In other words: it is not adequate.
A lot of that "non life threatening" stuff will turn chronic or become untreatable if you ignore it. It sounds a bit like the US system really, where you are only guaranteed timely treatment if you are at death's door.
Otherwise, your condition is left to fester until it becomes more painful and more expensive to adequately deal with.
It's pretty simple really. Someone else touched upon it.
Does the product strip me of the right as a farmer to save my own seeds and reuse them for the next planting?
If not, then that's reason enough to shun the product. The other health issues are interesting but ultimately less relevant. GMO foods create new and damaging monopolies that contaminates everyone's seed stocks and then sues the victims. Being "Roundup ready" is a bit of a side show really.
Also, chances are that if you still have a pocket calculator from the 70s or 90s that those devices are still useful for their original intended purpose. They are not made obsolete by new software that chokes on a smaller hard drive or inadequate core memory.
You are trying to commit the backyard mechanic fallacy.
The fact that something can be maintained by an expert doesn't mean that it needs to be maintained by the end user. You can benefit from a maintainable device by simply paying the expert less than it would cost to replace the expensive device.
What? No BMW analogies for the fanboys today?
So now Fanboys are part of the 1%.
That's a nice delusion you have going there.
Seeing is deceiving.
$20/hr will get you new memory and new storage. That can take a machine that's otherwise a doorstop and breathe new life into it.
This used to be the sort of thing that Apple Fanboys used to like to brag about: getting more useful life out of a machine.
When you are talking about expensive machines, it's still cheaper to maintain and repair them. What Apple charges for it's hardware makes them not quite disposable by most people's standards.
> Good luck with finding a laptop with the MBPwRD's dimensions or display that you can upgrade.
You labor under the false assumption that the rest of us accept the set of tradeoffs that Apple has ordained for you. Whereas you are forced to frame your response in terms of those things that you (wrongly) think we can't have, we are quite happy to take advantage of the diversity that the rest of the PC marketplace allows.
We are simply not limited to those narrow few choices that Apple will allow you to have.
People who buy Macs will buy Macs.
The fact that it is an overhyped followup to the netbook doesn't really matter.
All of this rhetoric about "this is what the customers want" is nonsense. You're an Apple user, you're stuck with what Apple wants to sell you: end of story.
When Apple seems like something more than an also-ran in computing, then their approach to putting together $2000 machines will seem more like something that people want rather than something people are forced to live with.
Not being able to upgrade RAM? Sounds like another 80s blast from the past.
> Or the last 3 versions of the iPhone, and the last decade of MacOS?
Apple's non-computing products are somewhat interesting in this regard.
Apple's computing products are just rehashes of other older stuff like BSD, Mach, and OpenStep. If anything they are a good example of "remixing".
Even Apple's more "innovative" products are good examples of remixing. They take other people's stuff and tweak it. Even the original version of MacOS fits that description well.
The problem is that Apple has lost sight of that. They have ceased to be the rebellious teenager and are now suffering from middle age and acting accordingly.
Paul Ryan is a demonstration of who the Republican President-wannabe wants to pander to. Instead of trying to go further to the middle, this particular President-wannabe has decided to veer far to the right. This has been done despite the fact that there is probably no need to "pander to the base" at this point in time.
Ryan is a great big F.U. to the rest of us the same as Palin was.
Romney might as well just put up his middle finger at his next political rally and tell his own party's moderates to f*ck off as well as the rest of us.
That's pretty much what he's done.
With the early cattle towns you didn't sell your cattle to some guy in Chicago and just pay for the shipping. You sold your cattle to the relevant Rail Barron for a pittance
An illiterate man commissioned the development of the alphabet/script you are using RIGHT NOW.
The man in the big chair doesn't have to understand all of the nuances. He just has to have the right strategic direction and the ability to find people that can implement it.
This hasn't changed in 1300 years. Likely won't change in another 1300.
Linux is not owned by a single entity like Windows is.
Windows is what MIcrosoft says it is because they own it and they can do anything they like with it. If you're offended, your only alternatives are to "hack it" or abandon it.
There isn't some other pre-packaged variant of Windows you can switch to.
Why fixate on Apple products?
If anything, all of this "Ultrabook" nonsense just reminds me of Sony products from the turn of the century.
The only thing really "Kindle specific" was the free WiFi.
Everything else is stuff that your book reading spouse might be interested in, especially the part about idle time.
BAD sandboxing is worse than none at all. It's better to have a dangerous powersaw than a useless door stop. There are plenty of doorstops available. You don't need to turn the Mac into that.
This seems more like an attempt to control the user rather than to actually protect the user from themselves.
Restricting read access to non-critical user data? Really? That's just retarded. It adds nothing to user security and just serves to encourage people to not bother at all.
This is Apple's answer to Vista UAC.