EVERY ONE except the 1% has trouble affording health insurance these days. An unfunded mandate that helps only the desperate is not going to help anything.
It's not even a band-aid on a bullet wound, it's some rouge.
This is a massive gift to the insurance industry that is responsible for this mess to begin with.
The real problem is that we have a tax averse half of the congress that would fight to the death anything labeled honestly. The non-corrupt solution to this "coverage" problem is to pick up the slack for those that can't or won't pay now by having a real tax to cover the shortfall.
You could add it as an "Obamacare" tax next to SS and Medicare.
Yes, and car insurance mandates are pretty worthless. You still have people ignoring the law. The mandated minimums are grossly inadequate while being a large financial burden for those that are high risk.
I still need to have my own coverage to insure that my own interests are looked after.
Based on the stated purpose of the mandate, it is a total failure.
That's not even getting into the basic separation of powers issue here and the fact that I can avoid cars and car insurance entirely if I so choose.
Are you kidding? Sparc and PPC are plenty of competition for HP in the server space. If anything, HP/UX has always been an ugly redheaded stepchild when it comes to Oracle support.
If you're running HP, you're already trying to smash a square peg into a round hole here.
That said: Oracle should still be held to any contracts it made.
How can you know ANYTHING about cars and come up with nonsense like that? Cars have had highly derivative (or similar) designs for pretty much forever.
Cars are in fact a great example of an industry that would be thrown into total chaos if Apple Fanboy patent standards were applied to it.
Fanboys that make remarks about cars are always funny.
Patent is simply not meant to protect that sort of thing.
Calling Samsung a "filthy plagarizing scum" sounds nice but it has no real legal or even ethical basis. Companies copy each other all the time. That's part of what helps technology forward. That's how society and humanity in general moves forward.
Patents are supposed to be for trade secrets that would not otherwise be disclosed, interesting things that can't be easily copied just by looking at something.
No. You simply don't understand what was going on.
You don't understand what a 3rd degree burn is and the importance of how McDonald's deviated from industry practice. At the temperatures in question, a few degrees are a lot more significant than "proud ignorance" might lead you to believe.
Plus McDonald's had a habit of suppressing information about the problem.
You want to whine about abuse and injustice in the American legal system. How about you whine about that?
The GUI's not having all of the options is not a problem limited to Linux. A cursory search of enabling TRIM in Windows and MacOS quickly led me to references for command line tools.
The last time I looked into enabling GPU video decoding in Windows, the instructions weren't for the faint of heart either.
Everyone assumes that there's never any problems with Windows or even MacOS and it's all some idealistic fantasy. It isn't necessarily.
If you don't bother to know what you are buying, you can end up with a lemon. The fact that you are running Windows doesn't alter this. Stuff still needs to be fit for your purposes, reliable, and fast enough.
I am not holding up it's mere existence as a negative.
I am holding up the fact that the GUI is broken and that I have to use the shell as a replacement as a negative.
That encapsulates everything that's supposed to be wrong about Linux.
The most glaring bit of crippled I find with MacOS is remote GUI support. It comes with a castrated version of VNC with no user configurable options. It's dog slow even when compared to other non-MacOS versions of VNC. It's painful to use when compared to X or RDP.
I think of MacOS and cringe every time someone mentions Wayland.
Being a locked down walled garden appliance kind of limits their usefulness. Note how you are trying to segregate them from PCs when that's what they really are.
Your kind of ignorance is what you get when you don't really educate students about technology. They don't realize how much bullshit you're spewing right now. They don't understand what's going on.
This is just a PC with different IO devices and some artificial crippling.
That limits who can contribute in general and who you in particular you can benefit from.
No one else should cut it any slack just because you are getting all hot and bothered about your personal brand fetish becoming the new monopoly and replacing the old one.
I really don't see the great appeal of the Mac desktop. While some complexity is hidden, other things are crippled to the point of being not useful. If you have demanding requirements, you may find yourself right back at the console.
Perhaps there are more things you can BUY for MacOS, but Windows is much better in that respect.
That technological sophistication also translates to sophistication in general. This includes methods of getting more while spending less even when it has nothing to do with computers.
Not being distracted by shiny shiny brands and having little if any brand loyalty also helps.
Bragging about how much you spent versus how you didn't spend much. Of course Orbitz knows a sucker when they see one coming.
That's no less of a problem for the Mac users that this article is about. "Mainstream titles" are either completely unavailable or lag behind. Often they are haphazardly ported and hardware support is inferior to the original. This tends to magnify the problems associated with how Apple likes to ship trailing edge components.
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You just don't get it.
EVERY ONE except the 1% has trouble affording health insurance these days. An unfunded mandate that helps only the desperate is not going to help anything.
It's not even a band-aid on a bullet wound, it's some rouge.
This is a massive gift to the insurance industry that is responsible for this mess to begin with.
The real problem is that we have a tax averse half of the congress that would fight to the death anything labeled honestly. The non-corrupt solution to this "coverage" problem is to pick up the slack for those that can't or won't pay now by having a real tax to cover the shortfall.
You could add it as an "Obamacare" tax next to SS and Medicare.
That would be too honest though.
Yes, and car insurance mandates are pretty worthless. You still have people ignoring the law. The mandated minimums are grossly inadequate while being a large financial burden for those that are high risk.
I still need to have my own coverage to insure that my own interests are looked after.
Based on the stated purpose of the mandate, it is a total failure.
That's not even getting into the basic separation of powers issue here and the fact that I can avoid cars and car insurance entirely if I so choose.
Are you kidding? Sparc and PPC are plenty of competition for HP in the server space. If anything, HP/UX has always been an ugly redheaded stepchild when it comes to Oracle support.
If you're running HP, you're already trying to smash a square peg into a round hole here.
That said: Oracle should still be held to any contracts it made.
So that's why there's an iPad on the Discovery in the movie 2001 made in 1969!
Are you serious?
What are you? 5?
How can you know ANYTHING about cars and come up with nonsense like that? Cars have had highly derivative (or similar) designs for pretty much forever.
Cars are in fact a great example of an industry that would be thrown into total chaos if Apple Fanboy patent standards were applied to it.
Fanboys that make remarks about cars are always funny.
Recognizing a phone number from text? An invention? Really?
That's like a high school programming assignment. It's not even complex enough to rate a University programming assignment.
Your whining doesn't really matter.
Patent is simply not meant to protect that sort of thing.
Calling Samsung a "filthy plagarizing scum" sounds nice but it has no real legal or even ethical basis. Companies copy each other all the time. That's part of what helps technology forward. That's how society and humanity in general moves forward.
Patents are supposed to be for trade secrets that would not otherwise be disclosed, interesting things that can't be easily copied just by looking at something.
No. You simply don't understand what was going on.
You don't understand what a 3rd degree burn is and the importance of how McDonald's deviated from industry practice. At the temperatures in question, a few degrees are a lot more significant than "proud ignorance" might lead you to believe.
Plus McDonald's had a habit of suppressing information about the problem.
You want to whine about abuse and injustice in the American legal system. How about you whine about that?
The GUI's not having all of the options is not a problem limited to Linux. A cursory search of enabling TRIM in Windows and MacOS quickly led me to references for command line tools.
The last time I looked into enabling GPU video decoding in Windows, the instructions weren't for the faint of heart either.
Everyone assumes that there's never any problems with Windows or even MacOS and it's all some idealistic fantasy. It isn't necessarily.
That's not "keeping it going". That's tinkering.
If you don't bother to know what you are buying, you can end up with a lemon. The fact that you are running Windows doesn't alter this. Stuff still needs to be fit for your purposes, reliable, and fast enough.
I am not holding up it's mere existence as a negative.
I am holding up the fact that the GUI is broken and that I have to use the shell as a replacement as a negative.
That encapsulates everything that's supposed to be wrong about Linux.
The most glaring bit of crippled I find with MacOS is remote GUI support. It comes with a castrated version of VNC with no user configurable options. It's dog slow even when compared to other non-MacOS versions of VNC. It's painful to use when compared to X or RDP.
I think of MacOS and cringe every time someone mentions Wayland.
You would think this would be a more obvious thing given this crowd. Relevant advertisements can be quite frequently heard on NPR.
Being a locked down walled garden appliance kind of limits their usefulness. Note how you are trying to segregate them from PCs when that's what they really are.
Your kind of ignorance is what you get when you don't really educate students about technology. They don't realize how much bullshit you're spewing right now. They don't understand what's going on.
This is just a PC with different IO devices and some artificial crippling.
That limits who can contribute in general and who you in particular you can benefit from.
New tech has to prove itself.
No one else should cut it any slack just because you are getting all hot and bothered about your personal brand fetish becoming the new monopoly and replacing the old one.
Ironically some Linux interfaces are more simple because they don't have a lot of this upgrade treadmill driven cruft.
Those interfaces would have previously been eviscerated for not having a "rich set of features".
I really don't see the great appeal of the Mac desktop. While some complexity is hidden, other things are crippled to the point of being not useful. If you have demanding requirements, you may find yourself right back at the console.
Perhaps there are more things you can BUY for MacOS, but Windows is much better in that respect.
Buy a Mac? Why bother?
What tinkering exactly?
What exactly does "a lot of work to keep working" actually mean beyond completely empty rhetoric.
Except the rest of us simply don't buy it.
You are just buying another fruity logo. The idea that it is a "superior product" is just conspicuous consumer suburban nonsense.
You don't have to compromise and you don't have to treat money like you didn't have to do anything to earn it either.
In truth, they are probably paying more for some fruity logo.
Actual requirements or notions of quality have no bearing on the situation.
It's the "BMW" mentality applied to hospitality.
That technological sophistication also translates to sophistication in general. This includes methods of getting more while spending less even when it has nothing to do with computers.
Not being distracted by shiny shiny brands and having little if any brand loyalty also helps.
Bragging about how much you spent versus how you didn't spend much. Of course Orbitz knows a sucker when they see one coming.
WiFi just sucks. Laying this at the feet of Linux is like trying to pretend that Flash runs any better on Windows.
If you can't find compatible gear at Fry's, you simply aren't trying.
That's no less of a problem for the Mac users that this article is about. "Mainstream titles" are either completely unavailable or lag behind. Often they are haphazardly ported and hardware support is inferior to the original. This tends to magnify the problems associated with how Apple likes to ship trailing edge components.
You mean organized networks of couch surfing?
It's been done already.
No. Poor people get free lunches at school.
This includes working class white children.