>> Or are Mac owners expected to carry an external drive on which to store any file that should be accessed by more than one operating system? And if so, in which file system should said external drive be formatted?
> So that makes it just like any other OS,
Nope. Not even close. Other operating systems tend to be much more accommodating. Either the OS vendor itself is more accommodating or the end users pick up the slack.
Mac users are pretty much alone in the "NIH and that's find with us" mentality.
That's the single biggest problem with Macs really.
> Nutritionists, the real scientists in this field, have not wavered from the idea of the balanced diet. While adjustments have been made, the basics of what makes for good nutrition have not.
So Mulligan's Stew being replaced with that obviously and highly unbalanced "food pyramid" must have just been my imagination then.
I have induced type 2 diabetes from the drugs I am currently taking.
ANY carb will trash my blood sugar. it doesn't matter if it's a good carb or not. Strangely enough I have found that carbs spiked with some fat work out the best.
This leads to some interesting "counter intuitive" results. (Junk food for breakfast)
The whole sugar+fat thing probably clears itself out faster in my case too.
I eat more fats simply because I have to avoid carbs and I need to eat something. I also have to mind my protein intake because it's too easy to OD on those while avoiding carbs.
The end result is a slightly calorie restricted diet but the calorie restriction is entirely a side effect.
"nor does it suggest that you should eat at McDonalds every day"
Based on the numbers presented in the article it would be fun to see what kinds of eating habits actually conform better to the stated "ideal". I'm betting it won't be any of the currently trendy "healthy" diets.
They have a high compliance culture. We have a long history of rebellion and insurrection whereas they're more used to getting their heads lopped off at the slightest infraction.
The Japanese are very good at doing what they're told.
They outdo even the Scandanavian Socialist Utopias when it comes to the relevant "health care statistics".
That said, even they are beginning to succomb to the McJuggernaut.
> While that may be true, other threads in Slashdot, even recently, have been dominated by the "a calorie is a calorie" experts.
Carbs mess up some people's sense of saeity.
Knowing what to do was always easy. Actually doing it has always been hard.
Sabotaging yourself with your diet makes it harder. It doesn't change the math.
Different people have different triggers. Some of us have no problems self-regulating with a higher carb diet. Most people don't.
It turns out that the old "Eat a little bit of everything and not too much of anything in particular" was the least harmful approach for the largest number of people.
A NAS isn't nearly fast enough for this to even matter. The N part of the whole thing will be your big bottleneck. Even the random read/write access pattern where SSD shines will be trashed by the fact that you're connecting across the network.
A single piece of spinning rust can saturate gigabit on it's own.
When I had to go into the hospital for an extended period I decided that the price advantage was no longer worthwhile. I was just replacing the buggers (Seagate) too often. I was no longer in the position to "baby" my arrays.
So I dumped all my Seagate drives for WD.
Those Amazon prices of yours really don't reflect a discount sufficient enough to justify the extra bother.
> I cannot even begin to comprehend how a person would think that is a worthwhile investment to watch at home.
I have a 10 foot screen. Anything less than an XD or IMAX screen (at a closer than halfway back the house) is going to be a LESS compelling experience than what many of us have at home.
Even with a big screen, if the house isn't set up properly it's going to be inferior. A local house with those posh recliners is like this because of how seats are laid out. The screen is great but there's really no good location to sit in the house because of how they have those posh recliners arranged.
Then there's the whole issue of sound. If the sound in the house is crap then that blows the whole thing.
Being there will cost you between 5K and 250K per butt.
> Live sports is where cable/sat tv still reign supreme. Sit down in front of the TV, put the game/match whatever on and it just works. No buffer, no putzing with computers.
Why do you think there would be "putzing with computers" for a streamed PPV event in 2017? Specialized devices have been available for quite some time now.
Except now a "cable outage" impacts everyone rather than just a single cable market.
Except you are not going to get a better option out of a Democrat. You're kidding yourself if you think so. All of those virtue signalling companies in Silicon Valley wouldn't stand for it.
Even crass pragmatism has to acknowledge the negative implications of frivolous patents.
20 year monopolies over stupid shit aren't a trivial matter. They are a burden on everyone. Even crass corporations can give lip service to "the greater good".
> Agreed. Tivo definitely had a valid claim against those companies
No. Not really. Their patents were the very definition of obvious. People are willing to overlook sound governance once their pet brand is involved. Tivo is the perfect example.
I was wondering how long it wouI was wondering how long it would take for some fanboy to crawl out from under his rock and defend them.
That is the real problem here. People are willing to make excuses for bad practices (when it's their pet brand) even in a forum like this where people in general are willing to attack the status quo. Doesn't matter that the majority would attack the choice just based on the President who made it.
Principles are very wibbly wobbly things these days.
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>> Or are Mac owners expected to carry an external drive on which to store any file that should be accessed by more than one operating system? And if so, in which file system should said external drive be formatted?
> So that makes it just like any other OS,
Nope. Not even close. Other operating systems tend to be much more accommodating. Either the OS vendor itself is more accommodating or the end users pick up the slack.
Mac users are pretty much alone in the "NIH and that's find with us" mentality.
That's the single biggest problem with Macs really.
> Because being forced into APFS is terrible... why exactly?
It takes change control out of the hands of the end user.
You would have to let heavy industry into our most well known natural park. The blow back from that would probably knock you out of your chair.
> Nutritionists, the real scientists in this field, have not wavered from the idea of the balanced diet. While adjustments have been made, the basics of what makes for good nutrition have not.
So Mulligan's Stew being replaced with that obviously and highly unbalanced "food pyramid" must have just been my imagination then.
Troll misses obvious problem of mutually contradictory scientific conclusions.
It's like the weather in some places. If you don't like it, don't worry. It will change in a few minutes.
I have induced type 2 diabetes from the drugs I am currently taking.
ANY carb will trash my blood sugar. it doesn't matter if it's a good carb or not. Strangely enough I have found that carbs spiked with some fat work out the best.
This leads to some interesting "counter intuitive" results. (Junk food for breakfast)
The whole sugar+fat thing probably clears itself out faster in my case too.
I eat more fats simply because I have to avoid carbs and I need to eat something. I also have to mind my protein intake because it's too easy to OD on those while avoiding carbs.
The end result is a slightly calorie restricted diet but the calorie restriction is entirely a side effect.
"nor does it suggest that you should eat at McDonalds every day"
Based on the numbers presented in the article it would be fun to see what kinds of eating habits actually conform better to the stated "ideal". I'm betting it won't be any of the currently trendy "healthy" diets.
They have a high compliance culture. We have a long history of rebellion and insurrection whereas they're more used to getting their heads lopped off at the slightest infraction.
The Japanese are very good at doing what they're told.
They outdo even the Scandanavian Socialist Utopias when it comes to the relevant "health care statistics".
That said, even they are beginning to succomb to the McJuggernaut.
> Well, the longest lived communities in the world have one thing in common. They DO eat very little meat and fish
Completely untrue.
> While that may be true, other threads in Slashdot, even recently, have been dominated by the "a calorie is a calorie" experts.
Carbs mess up some people's sense of saeity.
Knowing what to do was always easy. Actually doing it has always been hard.
Sabotaging yourself with your diet makes it harder. It doesn't change the math.
Different people have different triggers. Some of us have no problems self-regulating with a higher carb diet. Most people don't.
It turns out that the old "Eat a little bit of everything and not too much of anything in particular" was the least harmful approach for the largest number of people.
Get over yourself. When people talk about sugar, NOBODY is talking about naturally occurring fructose or lactose.
They are talking about the highly refined white stuff that looks a bit like a narcotic.
Also, most of our "cellular fuel" isn't consumed in the form of simple sugars.
> It's sad that Windows and Linux users have to go to such troubles.
Why do you have this deranged idea that PC users are forced to buy any particular brand of hard drive? We can buy any brand we like.
A NAS isn't nearly fast enough for this to even matter. The N part of the whole thing will be your big bottleneck. Even the random read/write access pattern where SSD shines will be trashed by the fact that you're connecting across the network.
A single piece of spinning rust can saturate gigabit on it's own.
When I had to go into the hospital for an extended period I decided that the price advantage was no longer worthwhile. I was just replacing the buggers (Seagate) too often. I was no longer in the position to "baby" my arrays.
So I dumped all my Seagate drives for WD.
Those Amazon prices of yours really don't reflect a discount sufficient enough to justify the extra bother.
>> to watch two large sweaty men
> Large?
The person that called McGreggor a Leprechaun really wasn't exaggerating. =D
> I cannot even begin to comprehend how a person would think that is a worthwhile investment to watch at home.
I have a 10 foot screen. Anything less than an XD or IMAX screen (at a closer than halfway back the house) is going to be a LESS compelling experience than what many of us have at home.
Even with a big screen, if the house isn't set up properly it's going to be inferior. A local house with those posh recliners is like this because of how seats are laid out. The screen is great but there's really no good location to sit in the house because of how they have those posh recliners arranged.
Then there's the whole issue of sound. If the sound in the house is crap then that blows the whole thing.
Being there will cost you between 5K and 250K per butt.
> Live sports is where cable/sat tv still reign supreme. Sit down in front of the TV, put the game/match whatever on and it just works. No buffer, no putzing with computers.
Why do you think there would be "putzing with computers" for a streamed PPV event in 2017? Specialized devices have been available for quite some time now.
Except now a "cable outage" impacts everyone rather than just a single cable market.
> Minus the class action chasing lawyer fees, good luck with that.
The standard for the lawyer's cut is a third. That still leaves you with a judgement larger than the price of the fight.
No. There were PPV sporting events during the 80s.
Some of us were actually alive then and remember this stuff.
They charged an insane amount for Star Wars when it finally hit PPV.
So you don't care about fraud and corruption so long as you have a reason to make fun of the victim? Nice.
I will take your "few bucks" and add a zero or two.
That's not a pissing match you are going to win.
No. Patent trolls are anyone that abuse the patent system. it doesn't matter if they are a manufacturer or not.
You're trying to claim that harm doesn't exist because of the nature of the harm.
You still have someone claiming ownership over something that isn't theirs. THAT is the relevant part of the "bridge troll" metaphor.
Bullshit is bullshit regardless of whether or not you have a device that will be the only one allowed to be bought by the rest of us for 20 YEARS.
> And hence we have a low-IQ idiot as a president
Except Forrest Gump bothered to acknowledge the rules and game those rules to his advantage.
This triggered thunderous shrill cries of "unfair! change the rules!".
That's not bad for a drooling mouth breather.
Except you are not going to get a better option out of a Democrat. You're kidding yourself if you think so. All of those virtue signalling companies in Silicon Valley wouldn't stand for it.
Crass pragmatism has limits.
Even crass pragmatism has to acknowledge the negative implications of frivolous patents.
20 year monopolies over stupid shit aren't a trivial matter. They are a burden on everyone. Even crass corporations can give lip service to "the greater good".
> Agreed. Tivo definitely had a valid claim against those companies
No. Not really. Their patents were the very definition of obvious. People are willing to overlook sound governance once their pet brand is involved. Tivo is the perfect example.
I was wondering how long it wouI was wondering how long it would take for some fanboy to crawl out from under his rock and defend them.
That is the real problem here. People are willing to make excuses for bad practices (when it's their pet brand) even in a forum like this where people in general are willing to attack the status quo. Doesn't matter that the majority would attack the choice just based on the President who made it.
Principles are very wibbly wobbly things these days.