Assuming that the technical challenges could be overcome, this isn't a technical problem. It's a social one. And that social issue will simply carry over to the new network. For those old enough to remember, the internet wasn't always like this. It was pretty darn good.
But then it became commercialized, and an expoitable resource. And then everyone and their goldfish could access the internet, resulting in every douche-nozzle having an easy and low cost venue to causing mischief.
What we have right now is an internet where the commercial interests control the pipes, and the network itself is more or less anarchy. Net neutrality laws can help with the former, until the gov't becomes a toady to those same commercial interests (like exactly what has happened in the US), but there is nothing that we can do about the latter because people will *always* come up with a way to get around anything the 'good guys' come up with. The only way to fix it would be to impose a draconian sense of order that would make China rubs their hands with glee.
False equivalence much? What are you? 10 years old?
"Oh look, THAT company might have accidentally dropped a hammer on my foot, therefore is perfectly acceptable that this other company chop of your entire leg whenever it feels like".
That's the argument you are making. I am still using an iPad Air 1. It's certainly not as zippy as my iphone 7, but it's a VERY big stretch to declare it "unusable".
And if you think that a slightly slower device is in any way equivalent to a company forcing you to update your OS, then arbitrarily denying you support before the OS has even reached EOL, you are an idiot. No wonder you posted A/C.
Windows 10 has to be the single best example of how NOT to roll out an operating system.
Forcing people to migrate their hardware out of fear that their OS will simply stop running arbitrarily, is complete and utter bullshit. Where do they get the right to arbitrarily change their license/support terms on the fly like this?
And why hasn't any governments slapped them into next year for it?
If you look at raw specs, yes. But we all know that it's not just about a checklist of features in the hardware and the OS.
It's the UI, the reliability of the device, the reputation of the vendor, the ecosystem that the device falls into. Are there any particular worthwhile features that trump everything else? All those elements factor into the overall "value" of a device. The question then becomes, HOW valuable is that to a given person?
For me for example, I wanted *solid* bluetooth performance. I've had such dismal experience with bluetooth that I had effectively dismissed the entire technology as over-hyped garbage. I had zero plans on purchasing an iPhone 7... until I discovered that it had Bluetooth Power Class 1, which AFAIK no other mobile device on the entire market can do. So I took a chance and bought one (128GB storage), along with a BeatsX headphones. They were stupidly expensive. Ended up dropping ~$1400 on the whole shebang. And you know what? I don't regret it at all. I have had exceptionally flawless performance. I had exactly one drop out, and that was when I passed an electrical room that puts out so much EM that there is literally no hope for *any* wireless anything to function. The phone itself performs more or less as expected. (iTunes, of course, is still just as much shit as it ever was... but I only needed it long enough to be able to do my initial sync of music and configure non-cloud wifi backups.)
I personally have a very low tolerance for bullshit, especially when it comes to technology when something is supposed to "just work", and I have no qualms about paying a premium for a device that doesn't give me grief.... because that is extremely valuable to me. The entire Android ecosystem fell well below my expectations and requirements. Other people have different requirements, and that's fine.
Incidentally, the last 2 or so releases of Android have dramatically improved (especially in terms of power management), and if I was starting from scratch, I would probably give it another try. However, I've purchased enough iOS apps that I'm now effectively commited to the platform, and it's just not worth it for me to migrate.
Tangentially, I *almost* gave up on Mac because Apple's handling of their hardware HAS been that grievous. But then Microsoft said "hold my beer" and released Windows 10, so now it's become not a question of "which one is better", but "which one hurts less".
I anticipate a serious, informative and insightful discussion on not just the merits of the iphone, but about the general concepts of value and how it relates to personal preferences and requirements.
It boggles my mind how hard it is for people to understand such a simple point. No wonder you posted AC. You probably couldn't figure out how to use the login prompt.
Despite Apple's bad versioning, 10.6 and 10.7 were major releases, and there were announcements that Rosetta was being discontinued. So as annoying as it was to lose Rosetta, it didn't come as a surprise.
Furthermore, Apple didn't force people to upgrade to 10.7, and then take Rosetta away *after* they upgraded.
Okay fine, you don't like Apple. But lying doesn't accomplish anything apart from spreading FUD and diluting the real issues.
Apple has never forced anyone to upgrade to a newer version of an OS, only to intentionally break that same version of the OS later on.
Apple has very clear upgrade policies. You may not like them, but they are clear, and they don't change retroactively when it suits them. They don't pull "I have altered our agreement, pray I do not alter it further" bullshit the way Microsoft is doing.
Bang for the buck. Children are the most at risk for these things because their immune systems are less established, they are less fastidious and they're more likely to get in contact with a given pathogen because children are packed together in the hundreds every day. It's also a much smaller demographic and easier to track.
Doing the adults too would obviously be a good thing, but it's a much greater (and costly) task.
Not to mention that most current adults *are* already vaccinated, because *their* parents weren't anti-vax asshats.
SSL Certificates is all about trust. If, as a cert authority, you violate that trust in *any* way, then you shouldn't be allowed to sell certificates anymore.
It's destressing the companies like Symantec (and Comodo for that matter) are still in the certificate authority business despite their multiple massive screwups.
Anyone who blindly says "yes" or "no" can be safely ignored.
As always, it depends on various factors. What features will it provide? Does it do what you want? Does it do something particularly attractive to you that no other phone does? Are those features worth it to you to pay the Apple Tax?
I just spent $1200 on an iPhone 7 Plus because I didn't want to be restricted in storage, and it's the only mobile device on the market that supports Bluetooth Power Class 1. Paired with a BeatsX headphone ($175), I have had audio quality that I didn't realize was even possible. I have had exactly one connection interruption and that was in a known area with exceptionally bad RF interference. This is in comparison to my previous setup where I couldn't even walk down the street without multiple interruptions.
My time is finite, and I choose not to waste it futzing around with an appliance that should Just Work(tm).
Also, I considered holding off my purchase and waiting till the 8 came out, but Apple hardware seems to work like Microsoft software. The early adopters invariable feel some kind of teething pains that can take months to sort out, and I wasn't willing to put up with that.
*looks up into the sky* Look waaaaaay up there. That's the point that flew over your head.
Just because you don't agree with a 2nd party's response to a 1st party's speech, doesn't mean the 1st party's "free speech rights" were violated. The reasonableness is completely irrelevant.
Free speech has a very specific and explicit definition, and that definition doesn't change based on how offended you are. If you wanna be pissed off at CNN's response, go right ahead. But this is *not* a "Free Speech" issue.
I concede that it's mostly IMO. I'll have to take your word for it, since I don't know what the minimum requirements are for declaring something as being libel and slander.
I'm really REALLY sick of the way Trump and his Trumplings are misusing Fake News. This is a legitimate issue, and they've turned it into some pathetic plaything to represent anything they happen to not like at any given moment.
Why shouldn't they have the power? They were a victim of his trolling, which basically was libel and slander.
But maybe you're right. They should have just published his name and be done with it. That way all the people affected by his other racist remarks could also seek redress.
The only thing I find annoying is that I wish they would go after Trump with the same enthusiasm as they went after some random no-account internet troll. Trump is literally reshaping the reality of US with his words. I remember "Fake News" used to mean "News that was fabricated, with maybe a sprinkle of facts to give it legitimacy". Now it means "Anything Trump doesn't like". And a disturbing number of people haven't even noticed the change.
This is all well and good for jobs that only require basic technical skills, but all that does is increase the pool of available people for jobs that only require basic technical skills.
And really, this has *always* been true for pretty much *any* company who isn't divorced from reality and think they need a PhD graduate with 20 years of experience for a junor java position.
However, this will be a massive problem if people blindly try to apply the same technique to higher skilled jobs that require not just the ability to push buttons and mechanically crank out whatever they're told to crank out. I've lost count of the number of people I've run into who have massive Dunning-Kruger syndrome, and think that they grok more than they actually do. These are the kind of people whose projects end up on sites like http://thedailywtf.com/ .
It's one thing to have "the skillz". It's another thing entirely to understand which of those skills is appropriate to use in a given circumstance. It's the equivalent of a carpenter that knows how to use a hammer, a screw driver, and a saw, but uses a hammer to bash a piece of wood in half instead of using the saw.
Trump is focused exclusively on manipulating the masses emotionally. And the masses, like the stupid opiate addicted sheep they are, suck it up completely without so much as a single thought spared to how all this nonsense is affecting them at a practical level.
Storage manufacturers market their devices with quantities in GiB, which is why when you plug the drive in the OS invariable reports that the drive is noticeably smaller. I know of no OS that reports in GiB, unless you're using some kind of tool that happens to report in those units.
Probably should clarify... When Big Business, POTUS, etc, are talking about "Jobs", they actually mean "more profits for the rich".
Having a bunch of mom and pop shops popping up will do nothing but drive money back in the direction of the plebes, not to the elite where it rightfully belongs.
For anyone who is interested, I've purchased an iphone 7 and a set of BeatX bluetooth headphones.
My experiments have shown that just the BeatX bluetooth alone is overwhelmingly superior to pretty much every bluetooth headset I've own previously. I've been using them daily. The sound quality is decent (for in-ear headphones, at least), and I have not had a single signal interruption in the couple weeks I've used it.
I found an immediate improvement in connectivity even with my previous iphone, but with the iphone 7 the signal goes even farther, allowing me to maintain full connectivity throughout my entire house. I haven't really tried to push the limits yet, but as it is I already have much better quality than previous headphones I've used.
That being said, it still can't punch through this one deadspot in our office near the electrical room, but I'm pretty sure at this point that nothing short of a parabolic dish system can do that.
Also, as an ironic side-effect to the better connectivity, it seems like the battery tends to drain more quickly. Whether that's because of the signal power, or simply because it is able to maintain the phone connection better and thus doesn't auto power-off as readily, I can't say.
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Assuming that the technical challenges could be overcome, this isn't a technical problem. It's a social one. And that social issue will simply carry over to the new network. For those old enough to remember, the internet wasn't always like this. It was pretty darn good.
But then it became commercialized, and an expoitable resource.
And then everyone and their goldfish could access the internet, resulting in every douche-nozzle having an easy and low cost venue to causing mischief.
What we have right now is an internet where the commercial interests control the pipes, and the network itself is more or less anarchy. Net neutrality laws can help with the former, until the gov't becomes a toady to those same commercial interests (like exactly what has happened in the US), but there is nothing that we can do about the latter because people will *always* come up with a way to get around anything the 'good guys' come up with. The only way to fix it would be to impose a draconian sense of order that would make China rubs their hands with glee.
We've been implicated with working closely with Russian Intelligence. I know! FREE SOFTWARE FOR EVERYONE!
If the parents cannot prove that the child was vaccinated, or could not be vaccinated due to a health condition, charge them with manslaughter.
Because that's *exactly* what they did.
False equivalence much? What are you? 10 years old?
"Oh look, THAT company might have accidentally dropped a hammer on my foot, therefore is perfectly acceptable that this other company chop of your entire leg whenever it feels like".
That's the argument you are making. I am still using an iPad Air 1. It's certainly not as zippy as my iphone 7, but it's a VERY big stretch to declare it "unusable".
And if you think that a slightly slower device is in any way equivalent to a company forcing you to update your OS, then arbitrarily denying you support before the OS has even reached EOL, you are an idiot. No wonder you posted A/C.
Windows 10 has to be the single best example of how NOT to roll out an operating system.
Forcing people to migrate their hardware out of fear that their OS will simply stop running arbitrarily, is complete and utter bullshit. Where do they get the right to arbitrarily change their license/support terms on the fly like this?
And why hasn't any governments slapped them into next year for it?
If you look at raw specs, yes. But we all know that it's not just about a checklist of features in the hardware and the OS.
It's the UI, the reliability of the device, the reputation of the vendor, the ecosystem that the device falls into. Are there any particular worthwhile features that trump everything else? All those elements factor into the overall "value" of a device. The question then becomes, HOW valuable is that to a given person?
For me for example, I wanted *solid* bluetooth performance. I've had such dismal experience with bluetooth that I had effectively dismissed the entire technology as over-hyped garbage. I had zero plans on purchasing an iPhone 7... until I discovered that it had Bluetooth Power Class 1, which AFAIK no other mobile device on the entire market can do. So I took a chance and bought one (128GB storage), along with a BeatsX headphones. They were stupidly expensive. Ended up dropping ~$1400 on the whole shebang. And you know what? I don't regret it at all. I have had exceptionally flawless performance. I had exactly one drop out, and that was when I passed an electrical room that puts out so much EM that there is literally no hope for *any* wireless anything to function. The phone itself performs more or less as expected. (iTunes, of course, is still just as much shit as it ever was... but I only needed it long enough to be able to do my initial sync of music and configure non-cloud wifi backups.)
I personally have a very low tolerance for bullshit, especially when it comes to technology when something is supposed to "just work", and I have no qualms about paying a premium for a device that doesn't give me grief.... because that is extremely valuable to me. The entire Android ecosystem fell well below my expectations and requirements. Other people have different requirements, and that's fine.
Incidentally, the last 2 or so releases of Android have dramatically improved (especially in terms of power management), and if I was starting from scratch, I would probably give it another try. However, I've purchased enough iOS apps that I'm now effectively commited to the platform, and it's just not worth it for me to migrate.
Tangentially, I *almost* gave up on Mac because Apple's handling of their hardware HAS been that grievous. But then Microsoft said "hold my beer" and released Windows 10, so now it's become not a question of "which one is better", but "which one hurts less".
I anticipate a serious, informative and insightful discussion on not just the merits of the iphone, but about the general concepts of value and how it relates to personal preferences and requirements.
Please? Maybe?
Speak of which, do you have any suggestions to running PPC apps in 10.7+?
Having to dig up an old copy of 10.6 and cajoling it to install under Parallels seems like overkill.
It boggles my mind how hard it is for people to understand such a simple point. No wonder you posted AC. You probably couldn't figure out how to use the login prompt.
Despite Apple's bad versioning, 10.6 and 10.7 were major releases, and there were announcements that Rosetta was being discontinued. So as annoying as it was to lose Rosetta, it didn't come as a surprise.
Furthermore, Apple didn't force people to upgrade to 10.7, and then take Rosetta away *after* they upgraded.
So you lose. Please play again.
Okay fine, you don't like Apple. But lying doesn't accomplish anything apart from spreading FUD and diluting the real issues.
Apple has never forced anyone to upgrade to a newer version of an OS, only to intentionally break that same version of the OS later on.
Apple has very clear upgrade policies. You may not like them, but they are clear, and they don't change retroactively when it suits them. They don't pull "I have altered our agreement, pray I do not alter it further" bullshit the way Microsoft is doing.
Bang for the buck. Children are the most at risk for these things because their immune systems are less established, they are less fastidious and they're more likely to get in contact with a given pathogen because children are packed together in the hundreds every day. It's also a much smaller demographic and easier to track.
Doing the adults too would obviously be a good thing, but it's a much greater (and costly) task.
Not to mention that most current adults *are* already vaccinated, because *their* parents weren't anti-vax asshats.
I don't know anyone who thinks that, apart from Visa, and they're not what I would call unbiased.
The only thing "Dangerous" about cash, is that the government can't track the transactions, and credit companies can't profit from them.
SSL Certificates is all about trust. If, as a cert authority, you violate that trust in *any* way, then you shouldn't be allowed to sell certificates anymore.
It's destressing the companies like Symantec (and Comodo for that matter) are still in the certificate authority business despite their multiple massive screwups.
Anyone who blindly says "yes" or "no" can be safely ignored.
As always, it depends on various factors. What features will it provide? Does it do what you want? Does it do something particularly attractive to you that no other phone does? Are those features worth it to you to pay the Apple Tax?
I just spent $1200 on an iPhone 7 Plus because I didn't want to be restricted in storage, and it's the only mobile device on the market that supports Bluetooth Power Class 1. Paired with a BeatsX headphone ($175), I have had audio quality that I didn't realize was even possible. I have had exactly one connection interruption and that was in a known area with exceptionally bad RF interference. This is in comparison to my previous setup where I couldn't even walk down the street without multiple interruptions.
My time is finite, and I choose not to waste it futzing around with an appliance that should Just Work(tm).
Also, I considered holding off my purchase and waiting till the 8 came out, but Apple hardware seems to work like Microsoft software. The early adopters invariable feel some kind of teething pains that can take months to sort out, and I wasn't willing to put up with that.
*looks up into the sky* Look waaaaaay up there. That's the point that flew over your head.
Just because you don't agree with a 2nd party's response to a 1st party's speech, doesn't mean the 1st party's "free speech rights" were violated. The reasonableness is completely irrelevant.
Free speech has a very specific and explicit definition, and that definition doesn't change based on how offended you are. If you wanna be pissed off at CNN's response, go right ahead. But this is *not* a "Free Speech" issue.
I concede that it's mostly IMO. I'll have to take your word for it, since I don't know what the minimum requirements are for declaring something as being libel and slander.
I'm really REALLY sick of the way Trump and his Trumplings are misusing Fake News. This is a legitimate issue, and they've turned it into some pathetic plaything to represent anything they happen to not like at any given moment.
https://xkcd.com/1357/
Why shouldn't they have the power? They were a victim of his trolling, which basically was libel and slander.
But maybe you're right. They should have just published his name and be done with it. That way all the people affected by his other racist remarks could also seek redress.
The only thing I find annoying is that I wish they would go after Trump with the same enthusiasm as they went after some random no-account internet troll. Trump is literally reshaping the reality of US with his words. I remember "Fake News" used to mean "News that was fabricated, with maybe a sprinkle of facts to give it legitimacy". Now it means "Anything Trump doesn't like". And a disturbing number of people haven't even noticed the change.
That may well be true, but I suspect he's also concerned about being able to go home again.
This is all well and good for jobs that only require basic technical skills, but all that does is increase the pool of available people for jobs that only require basic technical skills.
And really, this has *always* been true for pretty much *any* company who isn't divorced from reality and think they need a PhD graduate with 20 years of experience for a junor java position.
However, this will be a massive problem if people blindly try to apply the same technique to higher skilled jobs that require not just the ability to push buttons and mechanically crank out whatever they're told to crank out. I've lost count of the number of people I've run into who have massive Dunning-Kruger syndrome, and think that they grok more than they actually do. These are the kind of people whose projects end up on sites like http://thedailywtf.com/ .
It's one thing to have "the skillz". It's another thing entirely to understand which of those skills is appropriate to use in a given circumstance. It's the equivalent of a carpenter that knows how to use a hammer, a screw driver, and a saw, but uses a hammer to bash a piece of wood in half instead of using the saw.
So basically this confirms what we already knew.
Trump is focused exclusively on manipulating the masses emotionally. And the masses, like the stupid opiate addicted sheep they are, suck it up completely without so much as a single thought spared to how all this nonsense is affecting them at a practical level.
It's the other way around.
Storage manufacturers market their devices with quantities in GiB, which is why when you plug the drive in the OS invariable reports that the drive is noticeably smaller. I know of no OS that reports in GiB, unless you're using some kind of tool that happens to report in those units.
Probably should clarify... When Big Business, POTUS, etc, are talking about "Jobs", they actually mean "more profits for the rich".
Having a bunch of mom and pop shops popping up will do nothing but drive money back in the direction of the plebes, not to the elite where it rightfully belongs.
Maybe she should spend less time thinking with her Yoni and get an actual education.
For anyone who is interested, I've purchased an iphone 7 and a set of BeatX bluetooth headphones.
My experiments have shown that just the BeatX bluetooth alone is overwhelmingly superior to pretty much every bluetooth headset I've own previously. I've been using them daily. The sound quality is decent (for in-ear headphones, at least), and I have not had a single signal interruption in the couple weeks I've used it.
I found an immediate improvement in connectivity even with my previous iphone, but with the iphone 7 the signal goes even farther, allowing me to maintain full connectivity throughout my entire house. I haven't really tried to push the limits yet, but as it is I already have much better quality than previous headphones I've used.
That being said, it still can't punch through this one deadspot in our office near the electrical room, but I'm pretty sure at this point that nothing short of a parabolic dish system can do that.
Also, as an ironic side-effect to the better connectivity, it seems like the battery tends to drain more quickly. Whether that's because of the signal power, or simply because it is able to maintain the phone connection better and thus doesn't auto power-off as readily, I can't say.