I believe it's actually ECC RAM, which is much more expensive than the conventional desktop variety.
The thing between Microsoft and Apple is, with Apple, you know right from the beginning that they're going to gouge you, but after that they're pretty good. Quality is good. Reliability is good. You don't have to deal with bullshit. (Well, historically this has been true... this past year Apple has done a fantastic job of shoving their reputation through a woodchipper).
Microsoft, on the other hand, will screw you each day, every day, and you will either learn to accept it or throw your hands up and switch to something else. Their quality is shit. Their QA is shit. They demand that they have control of your machine, but they don't want to take responsibility for your machine, with the end result that your computer can go tits up one day through no fault of your own.
As obnoxious as Apple is, there has never been a report, for example, where all Macs across an entire continent were suddenly yanked off the net due to a bad dhcp update. Microsoft has had so many bad updates that have hosed entire fleets of machines, that it's shameful. But because Microsoft has a monopoly, they can get away with it.
Of course, I shouldn't speak too soon because so far I am very unimpressed with High Sierra, iOS 11. They have been buggy messes. And don't get me started on what they've done to their macbooks in recent years. The only reason I haven't gone back to Windows is because Apple and Microsoft seem to be in a "Hold My Beer" competition, and I can't predict how things are going to shake down, so I'll stick with the costs I have already sunk.
This is my thought. Something doesn't smell right about the situation as described. How is it possible that the environment has changed that much but these front-line people haven't changed along with it.
Opportunities to learn only end when you're 6 feet in the ground, so how is it that these guys are stuck so far behind?
How can people who have been in the industry for so long, yet never got past the "imaging machines and adding them to active directory" first-level tech support stage?
This can't be right. Even if they didn't keep up with the absolute cutting-edge stuff, I find it hard to believe that they haven't learned enough stuff over time that they should be way beyond that by now.
I personally would go mad in such an environment. Anything I do more than 3 times in a short time period, I will figure out some way to automate, and when that's stabilized I would go on to learn something new.
If the above story is at all true, then this sounds like a potentially dangerous office politics situation and I'd be concerned about how receptive they'd even BE to learning something new. If they wanted to learn new things, they'd already have figured out how to do that themselves and this situation would never have happened.
Apple didn't ruin the podcast up. They ruined the entire f__king platform.
iOS 11 is probably the single worst release they've ever put out. They're already at 11.2 after only 3 months, my bluetooth has become frustratingly unstable, the apps are definitely more wonky...
I'm beginning to regret buying my iPhone 7 earlier this year. I never imagined that Apple would screw up iOS so badly. But here it is. Apple is supposed to sell premium devices with premium experiences. That's why they charge premium prices, because that's the social contract that has been established.
If Apple doesn't pull it's head out of it's ass, and quickly, I think this is going to be my last iOS device.
The answer is no to all of those questions, so if you have any links to some quick and dirty articles so that I can at least get a basic idea of what I'm looking at, it would be greatly appreciated.
The problem is that people have been saying that for a long time, and yet the price just keeps going on. I was expecting the bubble to pop several times now, and in fact it sorta had, but then the price very quickly shot even higher than it was before that pop.
I just don't get it. Bitcoin is no longer useful even as a currency due to the transaction fees and transaction times involved. It strikes me to being a very high-stakes version of collecting Magic the Gather or Pokemon cards.
Google has monopolistic control of search, and has also effectively has a monopoly on cat videos if the latest video stats are anything to go by.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, Amazon on the other hand, is now the overwhelmingly dominant force in retail, not just crushing all other online retailers, but are being fingered for the steady decline of meatspace retail as well.
So now we have one monopoly that thinks they can do whatever they want, with another that thinks the same.
I wonder what the end result will be (apart from consumers getting screwed in the process). IMO Amazon needs Youtube far more than Google needs Amazon, so maybe Amazon will start their own youtube-like service?
No one is forced to use Google. No one is forced to use Facebook. If I did block access to them, then it wouldn't hurt anyone or hinder anyone from doing their jobs.
Further, if Google or Facebook botches an update, no one cares, because they are not essential.
Windows is a locked in requirement of doing business. You don't have a *choice* but to use Windows. That puts it in a completely different league. As a system administrator, I both have control of, and more importantly, and *responsible* for the machines under my control. Microsoft wants to take my control away, but they refuse to take responsibility. Almost every major update they've put out has hosed countless machines across the world. They took out most of Europe due to a bad DHCP update, for example. We had a pilot of Windows 10 laptops, and their Anniversary update trashed *all* of them, requiring us to revert and/or reimage them.
They want to do all that telemetry crap, consuming our bandwidth, but we derive zero benefit from this. Furthermore, they have already been slapped in Europe for the obscene amount of unnecessary data that they collect, which is completely counter to their protestations.
Between the two of us, it's clear that YOU are the one who hasn't done enough research on the issue.
Even if they did, that still won't necessarily help you because Microsoft cripples Windows 7 if you use it on a processor >= Kaby Lake or Ryzen. And there is hardware now where there arn't even drivers available for Windows 7.
They're basically trying to pull an Apple, but as usual they botch up the whole thing and end up making it look so bad that Apple actually looks reasonable by comparison.
I hate that Slashdot doesn't let you mod in the same thread you posted in. I'd totally give this a +1. I agree entirely.
The only saving grace is that they haven't fucked up Mac OS as badly as Microsoft has fucked up Windows.
Although apparently you *can* have multiple users log in remotely to a single computer, VDI style. The problem is that they use some variation of VNC so your trapped in the resolution of the physical monitor. Apparently some company tried to put out an RDP server for OSX but Apple shut them down. RDP support on Mac would be phenominal.
And the most important thing to remember is that if people had the choice of installing Windows 7 on new machines, the Win10 numbers wouldn't even be THAT high.
The only reason people are installing Windows 10 is because they have no choice. Not only is it not that particularly compelling, but there are so many downsides, that people are actively resisting using it.
I know I won't allow it at our company until we've implemented a full deployment plan including blocking all of Microsoft telemetry IP addresses, and set up a WSUS server with a VERY conservative update schedule. Microsoft has fucked up SO many updates, SO regularly, that they cannot be trusted. This probably also means we'll be forced to subscribe to their Windows 10 Enterprise nonsense since they removed so much of the GPO functionality from Pro.
It *used* to be. Now their hardware is nothing more than a gratuitously expensive appliance.
If I could easily run OSX on non-apple hardware, I'd do it in a heartbeat. (And when I say run, I mean perfectly, flawlessly, without something not working right)
I'm still using a 2010 MBP because every version they put out afterward is more and more annoying. Can't replace the battery. Can't replace storage. Can't replace ram. Now you don't even get a USB 3 or HDMI port. It's offensive.
They claim that it's "future proofing" the machine. That's nothing but a lie to mask their efforts to gouge the crap out of people on dongles.
When I first started jailbreaking, I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of crap that was available. The overwhelming majority of the stuff (by what appeared to be multiple orders of magnitude) was "themes" and other trivial nonsense. Of the stuff that was useful, it seemed like 9/10 of it was no longer maintained and/or didn't work for the version of iOS I had installed, or were buggy enough that the phone became unstable. I think out of the 10s of thousands of packages available, the number of genuinely useful ones amounted to possibly even less than 10.
Once Apple introduced new features that addressed the immediate pain points I had, the effort to maintain a jailbroken phone just wasn't worth it anymore.
This is what happens when you have a free-for-all repo that anyone can contribute to. A cesspool of unmaintained crap that quickly self-immolates, and is probably one of the best examples of what happens to uncurated repositories. It was even worse than Wordpress's plugins repository, IMO, and that's saying something.
The thing is, is that when you break down specific items like that, it IS possible to come up with alternatives. For example, Samba4 provides full Active Directory support. Linux has remote desktop stuff. In particular, I would trust Linux to stay up and running LONG after Windows shit the bed.
But Linux's biggest deficiencies are the fact that with Linux, you will hit a wall often, and completely unexpectedly. Things you take for granted on other system are a showstopper in Linux. As parent mentioned, you have to be very careful about your hardware choices cause there's an excellent chance that the hardware you pick is either not supported at all, or uses a VERY generic driver resulting in subpar performance or features. Or certain ridiculously feature omissions, like not being able to easy add items to the gnome program menu without having to construct bloody definition files using a text editor. I've had so many frustrating issues with Linux doing things as simple as trying to connect a toslink cable to an amp. Or trying to get VLC to full screen on a secondary monitor while leaving the primary display alone.
Recently I tried using Ubuntu on an asus laptop. Couldn't get bluetooth to connect reliably to a speaker. I couldn't find a single PDF viewer that handled an advanced PDF form (it had calculated fields) properly. I had some other issues as well that I no longer recall the details of, but ultimately I threw my hands up in the air and stuck with Windows 10 cause I simply didn't care enough to want to power through all these issues. I just wanted to use my bloody laptop.
Linux kicks absolute ass as a server system. It kicks ass as a developer desktop. But as an everyday user or business user desktop? It's horrific and nightmarish unless your needs are limited to very very basic things like email, facebook, and some games.
Comcast is not going to throttle small web sites unless they enter into private deals.
Are you the CEO for Comcast? No? Then don't presume to state what they will and will not do. *Especially* when they already have a track record for pulling dirty tricks.
Your argument is so breathtakingly absurd it's incredible. So because Twitter censors in ways you don't like, you feel it is completely reasonable to hand the few major ISPs the ability to do the exact same thing, but to the entire internet? Do you know that ISPs have *already* done the very same censoring that you are so upset about, in the past before NN provisions were in place?
Do you even understand what Net Neutrality is?
Net Neutrality is looking more and more like a case of projection (in the psychological sense) by highly censorious people who are attempting a bait and switch that just so happens to line their pockets more.
No, clearly you don't. And based on that statement, you're so far into left field that you're not even wrong.
There is so much wrong with this I don't know where to begin, but your argument basically boils down to "the free market will fix it".
And there is more than ample evidence that that flat out will not happen.
There are still plenty of areas where there is only one provider, sometimes none. Cities that tried to start their own ISPs were sued and forced to abandon their efforts. There are more than enough dirty tactics employed by the encumbant ISPs to make it incredibly difficult for small ISPs to get off the ground, and eliminating net neutrality will just give the existing ISPs that much more power to crush emerging competition.
A more accurate version would be: 1. You shouldn't ban guns. It's just a device. Just because some people use it to kill innocents doesn't mean guns are inherently bad. 2. You shouldn't deregulate the ENTIRE INTERNET just because you don't want a few people to pirate with bittorrent.
Because that's what his proposed changes will do. Sure, he will get his wish and allow ISPs to arbitrarily block bittorrent. But only a truly naive and ignorant person would think that that would be the extent of it.
Giving the major ISPs the ability to control whatever strikes their fancy would give them the ability to go godfather on the internet. You want people to be able to access your site/service at a reasonable speed/at all? Better pay a fee. Both you AND the end user. Why? Cause fuck you we can, that's why. They will be able to hold literally every internet facing small business over a barrel. Gee, that's a nice business you got there. Would be a shame if people couldn't get to it any more.
Not only that, but free speech goes right out the window cause they would be able to arbitrarily block whatever strikes their fancy. They've already demonstrated in the past that they would happily do so before NN provisions were in place. If you think it's bad enough that Twitter or Facebook or Reddit arbitrarily censors users, imagine companies that have absolutely nothing to do with those services doing the same thing. It's like a mailman denying your ability to receive mail from a particular business cause they happen to not like that business.
The internet has basically become a utility so critical that it's almost impossible to go without, so the ISPs will be able to jack up rates because they know you have no choice but to pay or lose access to a massive variety of services that no longer even have physical equivalents anymore. Imagine having to pay an extra electricity surcharge because you want to hang neon decorations from your window? Imagine having to pay extra gas surcharges because your basic package only allows you go to work and buy groceries, but you want to take your kids to the local amusement park? That's the ridiculous situation you are risking with your internet connectivity without Net Neutrality.
Considering that I don't use a single blessed thing in my VM that requires OpenGL, I'd say it's working just fine, TYVM.:)
I have a separate windows laptop that I use for games. For any real work, I use a Mac cause I need a machine that I can rely on that won't spontaneously reboot or force a major configuration change on me without my permission.
My greatest success was giving up and just using a full windows VM under Parallels.
Fiddling with wine is fine when you're living alone with nothing better to do. But when you have stuff you need to get done, the last thing you have time for is fiddling around with esoteric settings and figuring out why your particular version of a DLL won't work just so you can get your chosen app running.
There are a number of reason that all contribute to this sad state of affairs, and unfortunately it won't get any better until something drastic happens, on the calibre of software developers becoming regulated like other kinds of engineers.
Ageism - There is a major preference to hiring young people over old. Young people are cheaper and are willing to work more ridiculous hours. The problem there is you push out the people who have already made the mistakes and learned their lessons, causing the same mistakes to be made over and over again.
Education is frowned upon - There's a major shift towards people who are "Self-taught", etc. While having a degree isn't a guarantee that a person is any good, it's a hell of a lot more likely that they are. It's a Dunning-Kruger issue. I've run into a number of self-taught people who had absolutely no knowledge of all sorts of critical concepts that a competent developer should know. How to write de-coupled code. How floats work at the silicon level. The importance of Big O notation. How to write certain algorithms efficiently. And the resulting code quality is understandably shit. Just look at Facebook's mobile apps... last I checked they came to approx 750MB for a f__king messenger app and a newsfeed viewer.
Lowering the bar - Companies et al are constantly trying to lower the bar for new people to get into development. This feeds into the above, because it means it's easier for people who know little to slap something together. The problem is that this leads people to think that they actually know what they're doing when they don't, and the resulting mess is there for all to see. Wordpress is a great example. Not just the main package, but their "community" of breathtakingly shit-tastic plugins that is a ginormous graveyard of poorly written abandonware that do a great job of contributing to Wordpress's reputation for being a security nightmare.
Old is busted, new is hotness - For some inexplicable reason, everyone seems to be convinced that new is always better than old. Software is the only industry where people not only reinvent the wheel over and over again, they *revel* in it, and other developers eat it all up, even when that technology isn't time tested and has an excellent chance of getting trashed after barely a year or two. Javascript is a fantastic example of this.
Silver bullet paradigms - People flock to agile and continuous delivery as if they will somehow magically solve their development pipeline problems. But it does not and cannot replace spending a little bit of time planning out a vision of your product, etc.
Finally, companies are not held accountable for their products unless someone dies, and even then only maybe. Too many companies treat software developers like factory workers instead of professional engineers, which helps facilitate all of the above, and as long as they can get away with no accountability to their customers, they have no incentive to do things properly.
I think they should try harder to target javascript developers. They're used to throwing away everything they learned and switching to a completely different framework on a yearly basis.
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IIRC the joystick connected to a 15-pin game port/midi port. But yes, I had one of those logitech gamepads. It was a good pad.
WTF, how am I supposed to connect my Zip drive then?
I believe it's actually ECC RAM, which is much more expensive than the conventional desktop variety.
The thing between Microsoft and Apple is, with Apple, you know right from the beginning that they're going to gouge you, but after that they're pretty good. Quality is good. Reliability is good. You don't have to deal with bullshit. (Well, historically this has been true... this past year Apple has done a fantastic job of shoving their reputation through a woodchipper).
Microsoft, on the other hand, will screw you each day, every day, and you will either learn to accept it or throw your hands up and switch to something else. Their quality is shit. Their QA is shit. They demand that they have control of your machine, but they don't want to take responsibility for your machine, with the end result that your computer can go tits up one day through no fault of your own.
As obnoxious as Apple is, there has never been a report, for example, where all Macs across an entire continent were suddenly yanked off the net due to a bad dhcp update. Microsoft has had so many bad updates that have hosed entire fleets of machines, that it's shameful. But because Microsoft has a monopoly, they can get away with it.
Of course, I shouldn't speak too soon because so far I am very unimpressed with High Sierra, iOS 11. They have been buggy messes. And don't get me started on what they've done to their macbooks in recent years. The only reason I haven't gone back to Windows is because Apple and Microsoft seem to be in a "Hold My Beer" competition, and I can't predict how things are going to shake down, so I'll stick with the costs I have already sunk.
This is my thought. Something doesn't smell right about the situation as described. How is it possible that the environment has changed that much but these front-line people haven't changed along with it.
Opportunities to learn only end when you're 6 feet in the ground, so how is it that these guys are stuck so far behind?
How can people who have been in the industry for so long, yet never got past the "imaging machines and adding them to active directory" first-level tech support stage?
This can't be right. Even if they didn't keep up with the absolute cutting-edge stuff, I find it hard to believe that they haven't learned enough stuff over time that they should be way beyond that by now.
I personally would go mad in such an environment. Anything I do more than 3 times in a short time period, I will figure out some way to automate, and when that's stabilized I would go on to learn something new.
If the above story is at all true, then this sounds like a potentially dangerous office politics situation and I'd be concerned about how receptive they'd even BE to learning something new. If they wanted to learn new things, they'd already have figured out how to do that themselves and this situation would never have happened.
What is then the point of providing a means of public comment when the comments mean nothing?
It's all about perception. You know, like the TSA with security.
Apple didn't ruin the podcast up. They ruined the entire f__king platform.
iOS 11 is probably the single worst release they've ever put out. They're already at 11.2 after only 3 months, my bluetooth has become frustratingly unstable, the apps are definitely more wonky...
I'm beginning to regret buying my iPhone 7 earlier this year. I never imagined that Apple would screw up iOS so badly. But here it is. Apple is supposed to sell premium devices with premium experiences. That's why they charge premium prices, because that's the social contract that has been established.
If Apple doesn't pull it's head out of it's ass, and quickly, I think this is going to be my last iOS device.
The answer is no to all of those questions, so if you have any links to some quick and dirty articles so that I can at least get a basic idea of what I'm looking at, it would be greatly appreciated.
The problem is that people have been saying that for a long time, and yet the price just keeps going on. I was expecting the bubble to pop several times now, and in fact it sorta had, but then the price very quickly shot even higher than it was before that pop.
I just don't get it. Bitcoin is no longer useful even as a currency due to the transaction fees and transaction times involved. It strikes me to being a very high-stakes version of collecting Magic the Gather or Pokemon cards.
Google has monopolistic control of search, and has also effectively has a monopoly on cat videos if the latest video stats are anything to go by.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, Amazon on the other hand, is now the overwhelmingly dominant force in retail, not just crushing all other online retailers, but are being fingered for the steady decline of meatspace retail as well.
So now we have one monopoly that thinks they can do whatever they want, with another that thinks the same.
I wonder what the end result will be (apart from consumers getting screwed in the process). IMO Amazon needs Youtube far more than Google needs Amazon, so maybe Amazon will start their own youtube-like service?
That argument is stupid and you know it.
No one is forced to use Google. No one is forced to use Facebook. If I did block access to them, then it wouldn't hurt anyone or hinder anyone from doing their jobs.
Further, if Google or Facebook botches an update, no one cares, because they are not essential.
Windows is a locked in requirement of doing business. You don't have a *choice* but to use Windows. That puts it in a completely different league. As a system administrator, I both have control of, and more importantly, and *responsible* for the machines under my control. Microsoft wants to take my control away, but they refuse to take responsibility. Almost every major update they've put out has hosed countless machines across the world. They took out most of Europe due to a bad DHCP update, for example. We had a pilot of Windows 10 laptops, and their Anniversary update trashed *all* of them, requiring us to revert and/or reimage them.
They want to do all that telemetry crap, consuming our bandwidth, but we derive zero benefit from this. Furthermore, they have already been slapped in Europe for the obscene amount of unnecessary data that they collect, which is completely counter to their protestations.
Between the two of us, it's clear that YOU are the one who hasn't done enough research on the issue.
Even if they did, that still won't necessarily help you because Microsoft cripples Windows 7 if you use it on a processor >= Kaby Lake or Ryzen. And there is hardware now where there arn't even drivers available for Windows 7.
They're basically trying to pull an Apple, but as usual they botch up the whole thing and end up making it look so bad that Apple actually looks reasonable by comparison.
I hate that Slashdot doesn't let you mod in the same thread you posted in. I'd totally give this a +1. I agree entirely.
The only saving grace is that they haven't fucked up Mac OS as badly as Microsoft has fucked up Windows.
Although apparently you *can* have multiple users log in remotely to a single computer, VDI style. The problem is that they use some variation of VNC so your trapped in the resolution of the physical monitor. Apparently some company tried to put out an RDP server for OSX but Apple shut them down. RDP support on Mac would be phenominal.
And the most important thing to remember is that if people had the choice of installing Windows 7 on new machines, the Win10 numbers wouldn't even be THAT high.
The only reason people are installing Windows 10 is because they have no choice. Not only is it not that particularly compelling, but there are so many downsides, that people are actively resisting using it.
I know I won't allow it at our company until we've implemented a full deployment plan including blocking all of Microsoft telemetry IP addresses, and set up a WSUS server with a VERY conservative update schedule. Microsoft has fucked up SO many updates, SO regularly, that they cannot be trusted. This probably also means we'll be forced to subscribe to their Windows 10 Enterprise nonsense since they removed so much of the GPO functionality from Pro.
It *used* to be. Now their hardware is nothing more than a gratuitously expensive appliance.
If I could easily run OSX on non-apple hardware, I'd do it in a heartbeat. (And when I say run, I mean perfectly, flawlessly, without something not working right)
I'm still using a 2010 MBP because every version they put out afterward is more and more annoying. Can't replace the battery. Can't replace storage. Can't replace ram. Now you don't even get a USB 3 or HDMI port. It's offensive.
They claim that it's "future proofing" the machine. That's nothing but a lie to mask their efforts to gouge the crap out of people on dongles.
When I first started jailbreaking, I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of crap that was available. The overwhelming majority of the stuff (by what appeared to be multiple orders of magnitude) was "themes" and other trivial nonsense. Of the stuff that was useful, it seemed like 9/10 of it was no longer maintained and/or didn't work for the version of iOS I had installed, or were buggy enough that the phone became unstable. I think out of the 10s of thousands of packages available, the number of genuinely useful ones amounted to possibly even less than 10.
Once Apple introduced new features that addressed the immediate pain points I had, the effort to maintain a jailbroken phone just wasn't worth it anymore.
This is what happens when you have a free-for-all repo that anyone can contribute to. A cesspool of unmaintained crap that quickly self-immolates, and is probably one of the best examples of what happens to uncurated repositories. It was even worse than Wordpress's plugins repository, IMO, and that's saying something.
The thing is, is that when you break down specific items like that, it IS possible to come up with alternatives. For example, Samba4 provides full Active Directory support. Linux has remote desktop stuff. In particular, I would trust Linux to stay up and running LONG after Windows shit the bed.
But Linux's biggest deficiencies are the fact that with Linux, you will hit a wall often, and completely unexpectedly. Things you take for granted on other system are a showstopper in Linux. As parent mentioned, you have to be very careful about your hardware choices cause there's an excellent chance that the hardware you pick is either not supported at all, or uses a VERY generic driver resulting in subpar performance or features. Or certain ridiculously feature omissions, like not being able to easy add items to the gnome program menu without having to construct bloody definition files using a text editor. I've had so many frustrating issues with Linux doing things as simple as trying to connect a toslink cable to an amp. Or trying to get VLC to full screen on a secondary monitor while leaving the primary display alone.
Recently I tried using Ubuntu on an asus laptop. Couldn't get bluetooth to connect reliably to a speaker. I couldn't find a single PDF viewer that handled an advanced PDF form (it had calculated fields) properly. I had some other issues as well that I no longer recall the details of, but ultimately I threw my hands up in the air and stuck with Windows 10 cause I simply didn't care enough to want to power through all these issues. I just wanted to use my bloody laptop.
Linux kicks absolute ass as a server system. It kicks ass as a developer desktop. But as an everyday user or business user desktop? It's horrific and nightmarish unless your needs are limited to very very basic things like email, facebook, and some games.
Comcast is not going to throttle small web sites unless they enter into private deals.
Are you the CEO for Comcast? No? Then don't presume to state what they will and will not do. *Especially* when they already have a track record for pulling dirty tricks.
Your argument is so breathtakingly absurd it's incredible. So because Twitter censors in ways you don't like, you feel it is completely reasonable to hand the few major ISPs the ability to do the exact same thing, but to the entire internet? Do you know that ISPs have *already* done the very same censoring that you are so upset about, in the past before NN provisions were in place?
Do you even understand what Net Neutrality is?
Net Neutrality is looking more and more like a case of projection (in the psychological sense) by highly censorious people who are attempting a bait and switch that just so happens to line their pockets more.
No, clearly you don't. And based on that statement, you're so far into left field that you're not even wrong.
There is so much wrong with this I don't know where to begin, but your argument basically boils down to "the free market will fix it".
And there is more than ample evidence that that flat out will not happen.
There are still plenty of areas where there is only one provider, sometimes none. Cities that tried to start their own ISPs were sued and forced to abandon their efforts. There are more than enough dirty tactics employed by the encumbant ISPs to make it incredibly difficult for small ISPs to get off the ground, and eliminating net neutrality will just give the existing ISPs that much more power to crush emerging competition.
Except that's not the what the arguments are.
A more accurate version would be:
1. You shouldn't ban guns. It's just a device. Just because some people use it to kill innocents doesn't mean guns are inherently bad.
2. You shouldn't deregulate the ENTIRE INTERNET just because you don't want a few people to pirate with bittorrent.
Because that's what his proposed changes will do. Sure, he will get his wish and allow ISPs to arbitrarily block bittorrent. But only a truly naive and ignorant person would think that that would be the extent of it.
Giving the major ISPs the ability to control whatever strikes their fancy would give them the ability to go godfather on the internet. You want people to be able to access your site/service at a reasonable speed/at all? Better pay a fee. Both you AND the end user. Why? Cause fuck you we can, that's why. They will be able to hold literally every internet facing small business over a barrel. Gee, that's a nice business you got there. Would be a shame if people couldn't get to it any more.
Not only that, but free speech goes right out the window cause they would be able to arbitrarily block whatever strikes their fancy. They've already demonstrated in the past that they would happily do so before NN provisions were in place. If you think it's bad enough that Twitter or Facebook or Reddit arbitrarily censors users, imagine companies that have absolutely nothing to do with those services doing the same thing. It's like a mailman denying your ability to receive mail from a particular business cause they happen to not like that business.
The internet has basically become a utility so critical that it's almost impossible to go without, so the ISPs will be able to jack up rates because they know you have no choice but to pay or lose access to a massive variety of services that no longer even have physical equivalents anymore. Imagine having to pay an extra electricity surcharge because you want to hang neon decorations from your window? Imagine having to pay extra gas surcharges because your basic package only allows you go to work and buy groceries, but you want to take your kids to the local amusement park? That's the ridiculous situation you are risking with your internet connectivity without Net Neutrality.
Considering that I don't use a single blessed thing in my VM that requires OpenGL, I'd say it's working just fine, TYVM. :)
I have a separate windows laptop that I use for games. For any real work, I use a Mac cause I need a machine that I can rely on that won't spontaneously reboot or force a major configuration change on me without my permission.
My greatest success was giving up and just using a full windows VM under Parallels.
Fiddling with wine is fine when you're living alone with nothing better to do. But when you have stuff you need to get done, the last thing you have time for is fiddling around with esoteric settings and figuring out why your particular version of a DLL won't work just so you can get your chosen app running.
There are a number of reason that all contribute to this sad state of affairs, and unfortunately it won't get any better until something drastic happens, on the calibre of software developers becoming regulated like other kinds of engineers.
Ageism - There is a major preference to hiring young people over old. Young people are cheaper and are willing to work more ridiculous hours. The problem there is you push out the people who have already made the mistakes and learned their lessons, causing the same mistakes to be made over and over again.
Education is frowned upon - There's a major shift towards people who are "Self-taught", etc. While having a degree isn't a guarantee that a person is any good, it's a hell of a lot more likely that they are. It's a Dunning-Kruger issue. I've run into a number of self-taught people who had absolutely no knowledge of all sorts of critical concepts that a competent developer should know. How to write de-coupled code. How floats work at the silicon level. The importance of Big O notation. How to write certain algorithms efficiently. And the resulting code quality is understandably shit. Just look at Facebook's mobile apps... last I checked they came to approx 750MB for a f__king messenger app and a newsfeed viewer.
Lowering the bar - Companies et al are constantly trying to lower the bar for new people to get into development. This feeds into the above, because it means it's easier for people who know little to slap something together. The problem is that this leads people to think that they actually know what they're doing when they don't, and the resulting mess is there for all to see. Wordpress is a great example. Not just the main package, but their "community" of breathtakingly shit-tastic plugins that is a ginormous graveyard of poorly written abandonware that do a great job of contributing to Wordpress's reputation for being a security nightmare.
Old is busted, new is hotness - For some inexplicable reason, everyone seems to be convinced that new is always better than old. Software is the only industry where people not only reinvent the wheel over and over again, they *revel* in it, and other developers eat it all up, even when that technology isn't time tested and has an excellent chance of getting trashed after barely a year or two. Javascript is a fantastic example of this.
Silver bullet paradigms - People flock to agile and continuous delivery as if they will somehow magically solve their development pipeline problems. But it does not and cannot replace spending a little bit of time planning out a vision of your product, etc.
Finally, companies are not held accountable for their products unless someone dies, and even then only maybe. Too many companies treat software developers like factory workers instead of professional engineers, which helps facilitate all of the above, and as long as they can get away with no accountability to their customers, they have no incentive to do things properly.
I think they should try harder to target javascript developers. They're used to throwing away everything they learned and switching to a completely different framework on a yearly basis.