Apple used to run on a one year refresh cycle and people complained that it was too long. Now you are whining that with one particular model, they will do what all the other manufacturers already do.
The secret is that, when a new computer model comes out, the old ones don't automatically stop working. My brother has an MBP Retina that is around five years old, and it still works fine and it is just as capable as when it first came out.
The 2008/2009 cases were (still are) fabulous. Great cooling, hugely serviceable, expandable, plenty of room for drives
Why is everybody obsessing over "space for drives"? Have you looked at a 3.5inch drive bay recently? They are enormous. On the other hand, I have a USB3.1 1Tb Samsung SSD on the desk next to me, and it is significantly smaller than a 2.5inch laptop drive even with the external case. The new Mac Pro doesn't need space for drives, it needs space for SSDs.
IO is different too compared to when the cheese grater design was invented. The new Mac Pro will almost certainly have nothing but zillions of USB-3.1 / Thunderbolt ports and an ethernet port, because in mid 2018, that's all you'll need - it's actually all you need now as long as you are OK with one of those USB-C adapters. I have one that has two USB-A ports, HDMI and an SD-card reader.
Anyway, it's bullshit. There's no reason why an intelligent computer would be any better at writing software than an intelligent human. More importantly, a intelligent computer might decide it doesn't want to write software.
No I'd say "far right" is anybody claiming that it's more important to protect people's rights to cary lethal weapons in public than to provide them with healthcare. That's extreme FU right.
Unlikely. Firstly, i think the rights of EU citizens to stay in Britain will be guaranteed fairly early on, if for no reason other than that there are many British citizens living in the rest of the EU that we don't want back.
Secondly, I think, once Brexit kicks in, I don't think this will be a country that many people would live in by choice.
Question: If the PC is only there to act as an embedded controller, and it does its job, why should you care what OS or version it uses?
Because the software that talks to the scanner would have been written for a specific version of a specific OS (most likely Windows) and they can't afford the upgrade.
Supervisor mode in the 68000 was not, in any sense a proper protected mode. All it meant was that certain instructions were not available in user mode.
The reason Google has a more appetising product is because almost everybody uses it. That means people who want to advertise (Google's consumers/customers) have to advertise on Google in preference to any other search engine.
As somebody who uses Google Search, you are not the consumer, you are the consumed.
There's absolutely nothing stopping someone from making a better search engine.
Why don't you do it then?
The reason is that it would require a huge investment in software and infrastructure which you would not be able to recoup because you will not be able to attract advertisers because nobody will be using your search engine because Google.
You do realise that the other end of the lightning cable is either a USB-A or USB-C connector? Apple chargers have standard USB ports on them - even the lap top chargers.
There are multiple different versions of "micro-USB". My laptop bag has currently got cables with four different connectors (five including the USB-C one) that all look roughly the same as a micro-USB but aren't.
There's mini-A, mini-B, micro-A, micro-B and something called UC-E6, plus whatever it is my camera uses. They all look roughly the same from a distance and in the case of some them, it's difficult to tell which way round they go in the socket until you try to ram them home. "Ramming home", coincidentally, is what I'd like to do with these plugs to anybody who whines that USB-C is making the situation worse.
Oh yes, and USB-3.1 does 10Gb/s whereas Thunderbolt 3 does 40Gb/s which is something you could have looked up pretty easily before falsely claiming it is pointless.
Reading the other comments, it looks like there are cheap USB-C cables that don't identify themselves correctly (USB-C cables have electronics to tell you how much current they can carry etc). These will then catch fire if you try to draw more power through them than is safe.
This is Slashdot, even if by your own admission you are not very familiar with the issues of net neutrality, most other people here are. John Oliver is right on this topic.
The operating system should just be named after the distribution e.g. Red Hat, Debian etc. To label them all "Linux" leads to a false view of the Linux ecosystem. We all tend to think of Linux as one operating system with a bunch of variants whereas it is a lot of operating systems that share the same kernel.
The variety of kernel isn't even all that important. You could take any non-systemd Linux distro and recompile it all on top of one of the BSDs or even Darwin and almost nobody would notice the difference.
Considering the biological drive to reproduce which makes it easier to produce children than not (otherwise why would there be such a large contraceptive industry?), I think he's done quite well not to add to the human burden the planet has to support.
gcc was his greatest achievement. The Free/Open Source Software landscape would look very different today without a free (as in beer) development toolchain.
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Apple used to run on a one year refresh cycle and people complained that it was too long. Now you are whining that with one particular model, they will do what all the other manufacturers already do.
The secret is that, when a new computer model comes out, the old ones don't automatically stop working. My brother has an MBP Retina that is around five years old, and it still works fine and it is just as capable as when it first came out.
Why is everybody obsessing over "space for drives"? Have you looked at a 3.5inch drive bay recently? They are enormous. On the other hand, I have a USB3.1 1Tb Samsung SSD on the desk next to me, and it is significantly smaller than a 2.5inch laptop drive even with the external case. The new Mac Pro doesn't need space for drives, it needs space for SSDs.
IO is different too compared to when the cheese grater design was invented. The new Mac Pro will almost certainly have nothing but zillions of USB-3.1 / Thunderbolt ports and an ethernet port, because in mid 2018, that's all you'll need - it's actually all you need now as long as you are OK with one of those USB-C adapters. I have one that has two USB-A ports, HDMI and an SD-card reader.
I'd like to RTFA, but there is no link to TFA.
Anyway, it's bullshit. There's no reason why an intelligent computer would be any better at writing software than an intelligent human. More importantly, a intelligent computer might decide it doesn't want to write software.
What you describe is already reality. I wouldn't describe it as artificial intelligence.
No I'd say "far right" is anybody claiming that it's more important to protect people's rights to cary lethal weapons in public than to provide them with healthcare. That's extreme FU right.
Because slaves aren't people, right?
Oh wait, no.
Unlikely. Firstly, i think the rights of EU citizens to stay in Britain will be guaranteed fairly early on, if for no reason other than that there are many British citizens living in the rest of the EU that we don't want back.
Secondly, I think, once Brexit kicks in, I don't think this will be a country that many people would live in by choice.
What? That bastion of free speech, the Republic of Ireland?
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
It's from the NSA... ... oh wait, I forgot Russia runs the US Government now, so yes, probably Russian.
Because the software that talks to the scanner would have been written for a specific version of a specific OS (most likely Windows) and they can't afford the upgrade.
Please read the post before mouthing off. The first three words "for my education please" are an admission of ignorance and a request for information.
Supervisor mode in the 68000 was not, in any sense a proper protected mode. All it meant was that certain instructions were not available in user mode.
The reason Google has a more appetising product is because almost everybody uses it. That means people who want to advertise (Google's consumers/customers) have to advertise on Google in preference to any other search engine.
As somebody who uses Google Search, you are not the consumer, you are the consumed.
Why don't you do it then?
The reason is that it would require a huge investment in software and infrastructure which you would not be able to recoup because you will not be able to attract advertisers because nobody will be using your search engine because Google.
Correct.
And the fact that nobody would use your search engine because Google, means that you would never ever make a return on your initial investment.
You do realise that the other end of the lightning cable is either a USB-A or USB-C connector? Apple chargers have standard USB ports on them - even the lap top chargers.
Err, no.
The problem is that the other end of the USB-A cable might need to connect into a device that could have one of seven or eight different sockets.
And that's before you start talking about USB-3 standard A plugs that look the same as USB 2 plugs but aren't.
micro-A, micro-B, mini-A, mini-B. Plus a couple of proprietary versions like the plug for my digital camera.
There are multiple different versions of "micro-USB". My laptop bag has currently got cables with four different connectors (five including the USB-C one) that all look roughly the same as a micro-USB but aren't.
There's mini-A, mini-B, micro-A, micro-B and something called UC-E6, plus whatever it is my camera uses. They all look roughly the same from a distance and in the case of some them, it's difficult to tell which way round they go in the socket until you try to ram them home. "Ramming home", coincidentally, is what I'd like to do with these plugs to anybody who whines that USB-C is making the situation worse.
Oh yes, and USB-3.1 does 10Gb/s whereas Thunderbolt 3 does 40Gb/s which is something you could have looked up pretty easily before falsely claiming it is pointless.
Reading the other comments, it looks like there are cheap USB-C cables that don't identify themselves correctly (USB-C cables have electronics to tell you how much current they can carry etc). These will then catch fire if you try to draw more power through them than is safe.
Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3 can both use the same physical USB-C port. That's what Apple laptops do.
So rather than one of each, just port two combined ports on - or more.
This is Slashdot, even if by your own admission you are not very familiar with the issues of net neutrality, most other people here are. John Oliver is right on this topic.
The operating system should just be named after the distribution e.g. Red Hat, Debian etc. To label them all "Linux" leads to a false view of the Linux ecosystem. We all tend to think of Linux as one operating system with a bunch of variants whereas it is a lot of operating systems that share the same kernel.
The variety of kernel isn't even all that important. You could take any non-systemd Linux distro and recompile it all on top of one of the BSDs or even Darwin and almost nobody would notice the difference.
Considering the biological drive to reproduce which makes it easier to produce children than not (otherwise why would there be such a large contraceptive industry?), I think he's done quite well not to add to the human burden the planet has to support.
gcc was his greatest achievement. The Free/Open Source Software landscape would look very different today without a free (as in beer) development toolchain.