What you say may well be, or even probably true. The problem is that it doesn't make a lick of difference because at the end of the day, as their choices make them indistinguishable from "Don't Care".
The early Native Americans were blindsided by what happened. They had no way of knowing what was to come because it was completely outside of their realm of experience.
People of today do *not* have that excuse. They have zero excuse to not know how dangerous it is to let their privacy get violated. They've taken history classes in school. There have been more than plenty of identity theft stories in the news. But instead of being concerned and taking precautions, everyone's all "Well, sucks for THAT guy, but it'll never happen to me!". Until it does, and then we have yet another person standing on a soap box being ignored by everyone else.
As long as people care more about getting free smurfberries than about someone taking a mortgage out in their name, or being blatantly manipulated by politicians and the media, then things have no hope of ever improving.
The only reason XMPP failed was cause everyone (ie: Google, Facebook, etc) cared more about user capture than interoperability. This is all the more obvious considering that they HAD support for it, but then killed it off for no reason.
XMPP supported almost everything except possibly real-time video. Well, apparently the protocol itself *does* support it, but because no one actually cares, it's never seen the light of day. At least I haven't.
Everyone conveniently ignores the fact that because HTTP was a universal standard, it allowed a *ridiculous* variety of tools and systems to be developed on top of it. The internet as it exists today, wouldn't, if not for that ubiquitous standard.
But as usual, lessons in history pale to short term profits.
Oh, this has been going on for much longer than Google and Facebook had even existed. Loyalty points cards, Newspaper readership lists, etc.
The only thing that's change is the sheer scope, both in terms of number of people, and the varying kinds of data being amassed.
And the single biggest factor in this is no one else but the average person. The average person doesn't *care* that their personal data is being hoarded. They don't *care* that their privacy is being obliterated. Hell, if anything, they're *encouraging* it because of the whole "Only criminals have something to hide" attitude. If not that, then they can be very easily swayed to give up their data for minor benefits like saving a couple percent on a given purchase, etc.
IMO the defining moment was when Snowden made his revelations public. What was the response? Worse than no change. The people who were already concerned about their privacy had their fears validated, but everyone else simply didn't care. But a sizeable percentage honestly believes to this day that Snowden was in the wrong for doing what he did, and not the agencies for unlawfully collecting and hoarding all that data. The same people that scream "No big guvmint!" are somehow perfectly satisfied to have every subtle aspect of their daily lives recorded and analyzed by not just the government but by countless corporations as well.
The majority of the citizenry either doesn't care, or actually wants this to happen. The few who can (even if just vaguely) see the direction all this is going, are already taking what limited steps they can by closing social media accounts, etc. (For all the good that does at this point.:P) . But we're basically screwed, and those who don't want it are being dragged into it kicking and screaming by the majority who happily do.
Yeah, and 15 years ago Internet Explorer and ActiveX was the 'defacto standard'.
We all know how well that turned out. Anyone who isn't very new to computing, should know very well that things *will* change, and they will change *drastically*. HTTP and HTML has survived(ish) the test of time *precisely* because they are formal standards that are independent of a specific product and company.
Every single time people have tied themselves to a specific product du jour, they've been bitten very hard on the ass. Every. Single. Time.
It doesn't matter what W3C "standards" have been written. They're useless to most web users and developers until they've actually been implemented in Chrome.
This is the bit that compelled me to comment. The sorry state of web technology today is precisely because people like you think you're too good to follow something as archaic as "standards". You think you know better. The end result is *everything* is getting balkanized to hell, security is going down the toilet, and compatibility is turning into a bad joke.
Here's a truth bomb for you: You *arn't* as good as you think you are, and you *don't* know better.
Standards exist for a reason, and if you are unable to recognize that fact, then you have no business developing anything technology-related.
Thunderbird is fugly, and cumbersome. I can't remember for sure anymore, but I think there were issues trying to get it to connect to LDAP and CalDAV as well.
Regardless, it doesn't matter. I've bit the bullet and gone back to Mac cause I have work to do and Linux was getting more in my way than helping me get my job done.
That's the thing though... It's at a point now where it works just fine for basic use cases like that, but as soon as you try to get slightly more complicated, then boom. Taking so much as a single step outside the average distro's simple use cases is almost guaranteed to require you to start editing config files, or doing all sorts of other esoteric contortions.
I have a Linux box at home that I am using as a Kodi box. One distro, come hell or high water, wouldn't let me configure 5.1 sound through the SPDIF port to my receiver. Another wouldn't allow me to configure a monitor and my projector as extended displays without wierd-ass issues like VLC only full-screening to the tiny monitor and not to the projector display. I eventually gave up and just used the project alone cause I drew the line at having to manually futz with my xorg.conf. In 2017, there is no acceptable reason for me to resort to that.
At work I tried to move from a Mac to a Linux desktop. I tried almost every mail client available in the distro repo, and every single one of them failed to function in a fundamental way. If I wanted to just respond to basic email, sylpheed or even pine would be good enough. But I need to write and respond to HTML-based emails. I want to pull contacts from our Active Directory or from a carddav server. I want to sync my calendar with our caldav server. Nope. Trying to get any of those things set up is like pulling all the teeth of a shark in the middle of a feeding frenzy.
With LibreOffice, it couldn't even do it's most basic OpenGL presentation transitions, let alone produce something as polished as Powerpoint or Keynote. Hell, I'd use Prezi for a presentation before I used LibreOffice.
And this doesn't count the *myriad* bizarre little issues I ran into, like having the lock screen display whatever was last on my screen instead of blanking it, only to lock and blank *after* I wiggled my mouse and start typing. The most unbelievable thing of all.... I couldn't add an arbitrary program I downloaded to my programs menu! I had to manually construct a.desktop file from scratch, and sudo mv it to/usr/share. I mean, seriously??
These kinds of things should Just Work(tm), without question, without fiddling, without excuses. I no longer remember all the different and varied annoyances I ran into, but there were a lot of them. The above examples were just off the top of my head that I could remember.
It's one thing to put your sysadmin hat on because you're doing something even sightly complex, like configuring domain connectivity. That's fine. But for basic use cases that the average business user would perform... Linux is simply not robust and polished enough. I'm sorry, but it just isn't.
I'm at the point where I'm now just exhausted from seeing news like this, which is probably what they've been trying to accomplish in the first place.
Our choices are:
Use Google's os and get fucked over for privacy. The lackluster choices for decent desktop applications means that Chromebooks continue to be nothing more than glorified physical web browsers that are useless without always-on internet, for the foreseeable future.
Use Microsoft's OS and get even more fucked over by privacy, cause they can siphon literally anything off of your hard drive without your by or leave. They also force advertising into your OS, which is especially offensive since the average person *must* run Windows 10 because they don't have any other choice, especially for games. And if THAT wasn't bad enough, Microsoft is such a lousy track record for updates, that there are better than even odds that some update they push (which you have zero control over), will completely hose your system. So from one day to the next your computer can break due to no fault of your own.
Use Apple's OS, which out of the bunch, is actually surprisingly good, at least as far as privacy is concerned. I'm biased, but (as a casual gamer) I consider MacOS to be the best of the bunch because it's very easy for non-tech savvy users, while still giving you a whole lot of power if you want it. You actually have the option of turning stuff off, and Apple actually honours those settings. You can have as much or as little control of the OS as you want (and by control, I mean stuff that's actually important. I don't consider arbitrarily changing the colour of your menu bar background to be important). HOWEVER, they completely and shamelessly take the utter piss out of their hardware, charging a stupid amount of money for what they give you while giving you ZERO control over it. They seem to think a $4000 computer is a disposable appliance like a toaster, and if you don't like it... well... fuck you.
Use Linux, and have complete control of the OS, but the level of maintenance and knowledge required (even today in 2017), is still several levels beyond any other OS, with no guarantees that even basic functionality that you take for granted in other systems will work. While improving, general driver support is still dubious, and you may as well forget about using the latest shiny if it uses a new chipset. Desktop software ubiquitous in other OSes flat out don't exist, and the OSS equivalents are... lets be honest here... crap. Even 'flagship' software like Evolution is inexplicably lacking so much polish, that you start to wonder why you bothered to install Linux in the first place.
So yeah... having seen computer history unfold over the last few decades, it honestly seems like things are getting worse, without any sign of that trend changing.
Connect it to a non-windows machine, preferably linux. The majority of malicious software tends to target windows. While the the number of malicious entities for Mac have climbed in the past couple years, it's still a drop in the bucket compared to Windows. Linux may as well be a rounding error.
Then you can poke at it relatively safely and see if there's anything interesting on it.
If you don't have a Linux machine available, you could always use some distro's liveCD version, or you could even download a free anti-virus bootable image and boot the machine with that.
No media is perfect. There's just varying likelyhood of error rates over time, depending on the quality of the media. Without knowing ahead of time whether a specific piece of media is going to fail, the question needs to change from "How do I keep it from getting corrupted" to "How do I mitigate eventual corruption?"
And the question basically boils down to one answer: redundency.
Off the top of my head, I can think of three things you can do, and these are not mutually exclusive. 1. Multiple copies of data, stored in different locations. If something happens to a specific location, then at least the media is still safe elsewhere. Even if nothing happens to the location, media failure can still occur. The more copies you have, the more likely you will still have at least one good copy when the times comes that you want to access it.
2. Parity. There are plenty of tools available that allow you to add parity information to your files. For example, the RAR compression utility will allow you to add a 'recovery record' to your file. You choose how much RR you want to add, up to 10% of the file. Obviously this takes up additional space, but you can have a sizable portion of your.rar file become corrupted, and you can still retrieve it. Another thing you can use, is a tool that was popular in the old days of newsgroups: PAR. Unlike RAR which encapsulates your file into an archive, PAR files sit beside your data files. But the function is basically the same. PAR files provide parity data, which you can use to reconstruct files that have been damaged. I'm sure there are other tools available as well.
3. Migrate your data over time. The unfortunate fact is that media changes. If you want to keep your data for the long haul, you have two choices: Make sure that you keep backup hardware to read the media you want to read (which brings it's own longevity problems), because it may not exist in the future (eg: It's pretty darn hard to find 8" floppy drives anymore), or you periodically migrate your data to a new standard format. Just in the past 30 years, we've gone from Floppies->CDs->DVDs->Bluray->Flash(thumbdrives,SD,etc).
You do realize that if Apple is selling it directly, then it is defacto "Apple Approved" whether they explicitly say so or not.
The whole point of buying something directly from Apple, is that an average consumer has the reasonable expectation that Apple specifically vetted the device in questions as being fit for purpose against Apple-made hardware.
That would almost tempt me to try to use it as my main browser, but my minimum prerequisite is that xmarks can be used to sync my bookmarks. I just have too much crap that is too much of a PITA to move over manually.
The problem isn't the raw bandwidth, it's the time involved. How many web servers are configured to kill off a connection that's lasted longer than, say, 30 seconds? Additionally, slow connections also tend to be a lot more unreliable.
Remember dial-up modems? You were one phone pickup away from having your data connection scrambled. Obviously that's not an issue anymore, but dropouts or whatever are still entirely possible.
So what happens if your connections gets hosed? Using your example, You can choose between having 1 or 2 out of 6 images completely loaded, and 0 images completely loaded. It's better to have completely chunks of *some* data than no chunks of all your data.
If you arn't able to hire someone with two clues to rub together (which is hard and expensive) use something that produces static websites. Unless you are hosting forums or something else that specifically requires code to do the work (like maybe, a comments section), there is zero reason to use a CMS.
In the old days Dreamweaver was The Thing. You can still use it, or various similar tools (eg: Flux on OSX) to create very beautiful but static code-less sites. If you have a lot of content that requires some level of management, there are static site generators (https://staticsitegenerators.net/) available.
If you MUST use a CMS... you're gonna have a hard time cause there are very few that arn't crap... if not for the coding itself, then for the language underneath, like PHP in this case. I personally try to use systems written in more sophisticated languages such as Java, because those languages require a higher minimum level of competency just to get started, so anyone who writes a full blown application in it will be more likely to have written something solid. No guarantees, naturally, but that's the general trend that I've noticed. A risk, of course, is that administration may be more complex as well.
Okay, so they're replacing the perfectly good (and IMO far superior to USB-C) lightning connector with some moronic thing that isn't even reversible. Plenty of others have already vented their spleens about the change so I'll just leave it at that.
But what about the other end? Will THAT at least be USB-C, or will people with USB-C only computers still be stuck daisy-chaining multiple dongles just to be able to connect the phone to the computer?
I wonder how epic of a splash that's gonna make? I'll have to invest in a surfboard so that I can travel the world. Assuming, of course, that this doesn't cause a ginormous tsunami that wipes out all the coastal areas in the southern hemisphere.
Trump is effectively destroying the little gov't transparency that the US had.
This is just is just more of the same. If they could legally eliminate FOIA entirely, they would. In the mean time, they'll just have to make things more difficult for people, not to mention make it easier for requests to go missing without a track record when someone wants to learn something inconvenient to the gov't.
Unless your machine is out of warranty, I don't see the point of this. The hassle and risks greatly outweigh just contacting your vendor and getting the part/unit replaced.
And never mind that the average person is won't have the skill necessary to do such a repair anyway.
I've found easily a dozen+ docking stations available, but not a single blessed one is currently available for purchase right now, which was the thrust of my lament.
Oh nice! Somehow that device completely escaped my radar. Partially cause I never even considered that Dell might make such a thing.
When you were testing, did you check the multi-monitor functionality? I was reading info about a different port replicator and they specifically expressed their frustration in how Apple artificially limited the number of video streams to 1, despite the port easily handling more.
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I'd mod you up if I hadn't posted. :)
What you say may well be, or even probably true. The problem is that it doesn't make a lick of difference because at the end of the day, as their choices make them indistinguishable from "Don't Care".
The early Native Americans were blindsided by what happened. They had no way of knowing what was to come because it was completely outside of their realm of experience.
People of today do *not* have that excuse. They have zero excuse to not know how dangerous it is to let their privacy get violated. They've taken history classes in school. There have been more than plenty of identity theft stories in the news. But instead of being concerned and taking precautions, everyone's all "Well, sucks for THAT guy, but it'll never happen to me!". Until it does, and then we have yet another person standing on a soap box being ignored by everyone else.
As long as people care more about getting free smurfberries than about someone taking a mortgage out in their name, or being blatantly manipulated by politicians and the media, then things have no hope of ever improving.
The only reason XMPP failed was cause everyone (ie: Google, Facebook, etc) cared more about user capture than interoperability. This is all the more obvious considering that they HAD support for it, but then killed it off for no reason.
XMPP supported almost everything except possibly real-time video. Well, apparently the protocol itself *does* support it, but because no one actually cares, it's never seen the light of day. At least I haven't.
Everyone conveniently ignores the fact that because HTTP was a universal standard, it allowed a *ridiculous* variety of tools and systems to be developed on top of it. The internet as it exists today, wouldn't, if not for that ubiquitous standard.
But as usual, lessons in history pale to short term profits.
Oh, this has been going on for much longer than Google and Facebook had even existed. Loyalty points cards, Newspaper readership lists, etc.
The only thing that's change is the sheer scope, both in terms of number of people, and the varying kinds of data being amassed.
And the single biggest factor in this is no one else but the average person. The average person doesn't *care* that their personal data is being hoarded. They don't *care* that their privacy is being obliterated. Hell, if anything, they're *encouraging* it because of the whole "Only criminals have something to hide" attitude. If not that, then they can be very easily swayed to give up their data for minor benefits like saving a couple percent on a given purchase, etc.
IMO the defining moment was when Snowden made his revelations public. What was the response? Worse than no change. The people who were already concerned about their privacy had their fears validated, but everyone else simply didn't care. But a sizeable percentage honestly believes to this day that Snowden was in the wrong for doing what he did, and not the agencies for unlawfully collecting and hoarding all that data. The same people that scream "No big guvmint!" are somehow perfectly satisfied to have every subtle aspect of their daily lives recorded and analyzed by not just the government but by countless corporations as well.
The majority of the citizenry either doesn't care, or actually wants this to happen. The few who can (even if just vaguely) see the direction all this is going, are already taking what limited steps they can by closing social media accounts, etc. (For all the good that does at this point. :P) . But we're basically screwed, and those who don't want it are being dragged into it kicking and screaming by the majority who happily do.
Lactose Constrained Diets?
Too long, didn't type. Why didn't they just steal ".af" (Afghanistan today, but common abbreviation for Africa)?
Cause then every domain would be "as fuck", which could possibly cause confusion.
Yeah, and 15 years ago Internet Explorer and ActiveX was the 'defacto standard'.
We all know how well that turned out. Anyone who isn't very new to computing, should know very well that things *will* change, and they will change *drastically*. HTTP and HTML has survived(ish) the test of time *precisely* because they are formal standards that are independent of a specific product and company.
Every single time people have tied themselves to a specific product du jour, they've been bitten very hard on the ass. Every. Single. Time.
It doesn't matter what W3C "standards" have been written. They're useless to most web users and developers until they've actually been implemented in Chrome.
This is the bit that compelled me to comment. The sorry state of web technology today is precisely because people like you think you're too good to follow something as archaic as "standards". You think you know better. The end result is *everything* is getting balkanized to hell, security is going down the toilet, and compatibility is turning into a bad joke.
Here's a truth bomb for you: You *arn't* as good as you think you are, and you *don't* know better.
Standards exist for a reason, and if you are unable to recognize that fact, then you have no business developing anything technology-related.
Thunderbird is fugly, and cumbersome. I can't remember for sure anymore, but I think there were issues trying to get it to connect to LDAP and CalDAV as well.
Regardless, it doesn't matter. I've bit the bullet and gone back to Mac cause I have work to do and Linux was getting more in my way than helping me get my job done.
That's the thing though... It's at a point now where it works just fine for basic use cases like that, but as soon as you try to get slightly more complicated, then boom. Taking so much as a single step outside the average distro's simple use cases is almost guaranteed to require you to start editing config files, or doing all sorts of other esoteric contortions.
I have a Linux box at home that I am using as a Kodi box. One distro, come hell or high water, wouldn't let me configure 5.1 sound through the SPDIF port to my receiver. Another wouldn't allow me to configure a monitor and my projector as extended displays without wierd-ass issues like VLC only full-screening to the tiny monitor and not to the projector display. I eventually gave up and just used the project alone cause I drew the line at having to manually futz with my xorg.conf. In 2017, there is no acceptable reason for me to resort to that.
At work I tried to move from a Mac to a Linux desktop. I tried almost every mail client available in the distro repo, and every single one of them failed to function in a fundamental way. If I wanted to just respond to basic email, sylpheed or even pine would be good enough. But I need to write and respond to HTML-based emails. I want to pull contacts from our Active Directory or from a carddav server. I want to sync my calendar with our caldav server. Nope. Trying to get any of those things set up is like pulling all the teeth of a shark in the middle of a feeding frenzy.
With LibreOffice, it couldn't even do it's most basic OpenGL presentation transitions, let alone produce something as polished as Powerpoint or Keynote. Hell, I'd use Prezi for a presentation before I used LibreOffice.
And this doesn't count the *myriad* bizarre little issues I ran into, like having the lock screen display whatever was last on my screen instead of blanking it, only to lock and blank *after* I wiggled my mouse and start typing. The most unbelievable thing of all.... I couldn't add an arbitrary program I downloaded to my programs menu! I had to manually construct a .desktop file from scratch, and sudo mv it to /usr/share. I mean, seriously??
These kinds of things should Just Work(tm), without question, without fiddling, without excuses. I no longer remember all the different and varied annoyances I ran into, but there were a lot of them. The above examples were just off the top of my head that I could remember.
It's one thing to put your sysadmin hat on because you're doing something even sightly complex, like configuring domain connectivity. That's fine. But for basic use cases that the average business user would perform... Linux is simply not robust and polished enough. I'm sorry, but it just isn't.
I'm at the point where I'm now just exhausted from seeing news like this, which is probably what they've been trying to accomplish in the first place.
Our choices are:
Use Google's os and get fucked over for privacy. The lackluster choices for decent desktop applications means that Chromebooks continue to be nothing more than glorified physical web browsers that are useless without always-on internet, for the foreseeable future.
Use Microsoft's OS and get even more fucked over by privacy, cause they can siphon literally anything off of your hard drive without your by or leave. They also force advertising into your OS, which is especially offensive since the average person *must* run Windows 10 because they don't have any other choice, especially for games. And if THAT wasn't bad enough, Microsoft is such a lousy track record for updates, that there are better than even odds that some update they push (which you have zero control over), will completely hose your system. So from one day to the next your computer can break due to no fault of your own.
Use Apple's OS, which out of the bunch, is actually surprisingly good, at least as far as privacy is concerned. I'm biased, but (as a casual gamer) I consider MacOS to be the best of the bunch because it's very easy for non-tech savvy users, while still giving you a whole lot of power if you want it. You actually have the option of turning stuff off, and Apple actually honours those settings. You can have as much or as little control of the OS as you want (and by control, I mean stuff that's actually important. I don't consider arbitrarily changing the colour of your menu bar background to be important). HOWEVER, they completely and shamelessly take the utter piss out of their hardware, charging a stupid amount of money for what they give you while giving you ZERO control over it. They seem to think a $4000 computer is a disposable appliance like a toaster, and if you don't like it... well... fuck you.
Use Linux, and have complete control of the OS, but the level of maintenance and knowledge required (even today in 2017), is still several levels beyond any other OS, with no guarantees that even basic functionality that you take for granted in other systems will work. While improving, general driver support is still dubious, and you may as well forget about using the latest shiny if it uses a new chipset. Desktop software ubiquitous in other OSes flat out don't exist, and the OSS equivalents are... lets be honest here... crap. Even 'flagship' software like Evolution is inexplicably lacking so much polish, that you start to wonder why you bothered to install Linux in the first place.
So yeah... having seen computer history unfold over the last few decades, it honestly seems like things are getting worse, without any sign of that trend changing.
Connect it to a non-windows machine, preferably linux. The majority of malicious software tends to target windows. While the the number of malicious entities for Mac have climbed in the past couple years, it's still a drop in the bucket compared to Windows. Linux may as well be a rounding error.
Then you can poke at it relatively safely and see if there's anything interesting on it.
If you don't have a Linux machine available, you could always use some distro's liveCD version, or you could even download a free anti-virus bootable image and boot the machine with that.
The age of Trump stretches Hanlon's Razor to the snapping point.
Also, considering that they *buried* the code instead of actually removing it, makes it very clear that this was absolutely not an issue of stupidity.
No media is perfect. There's just varying likelyhood of error rates over time, depending on the quality of the media. Without knowing ahead of time whether a specific piece of media is going to fail, the question needs to change from "How do I keep it from getting corrupted" to "How do I mitigate eventual corruption?"
And the question basically boils down to one answer: redundency.
Off the top of my head, I can think of three things you can do, and these are not mutually exclusive.
1. Multiple copies of data, stored in different locations. If something happens to a specific location, then at least the media is still safe elsewhere. Even if nothing happens to the location, media failure can still occur. The more copies you have, the more likely you will still have at least one good copy when the times comes that you want to access it.
2. Parity. There are plenty of tools available that allow you to add parity information to your files. For example, the RAR compression utility will allow you to add a 'recovery record' to your file. You choose how much RR you want to add, up to 10% of the file. Obviously this takes up additional space, but you can have a sizable portion of your .rar file become corrupted, and you can still retrieve it. Another thing you can use, is a tool that was popular in the old days of newsgroups: PAR. Unlike RAR which encapsulates your file into an archive, PAR files sit beside your data files. But the function is basically the same. PAR files provide parity data, which you can use to reconstruct files that have been damaged. I'm sure there are other tools available as well.
3. Migrate your data over time. The unfortunate fact is that media changes. If you want to keep your data for the long haul, you have two choices: Make sure that you keep backup hardware to read the media you want to read (which brings it's own longevity problems), because it may not exist in the future (eg: It's pretty darn hard to find 8" floppy drives anymore), or you periodically migrate your data to a new standard format. Just in the past 30 years, we've gone from Floppies->CDs->DVDs->Bluray->Flash(thumbdrives,SD,etc).
You do realize that if Apple is selling it directly, then it is defacto "Apple Approved" whether they explicitly say so or not.
The whole point of buying something directly from Apple, is that an average consumer has the reasonable expectation that Apple specifically vetted the device in questions as being fit for purpose against Apple-made hardware.
At least the people of Oroville got a warning.... :P
That's pretty cool actually...
That would almost tempt me to try to use it as my main browser, but my minimum prerequisite is that xmarks can be used to sync my bookmarks. I just have too much crap that is too much of a PITA to move over manually.
The problem isn't the raw bandwidth, it's the time involved. How many web servers are configured to kill off a connection that's lasted longer than, say, 30 seconds? Additionally, slow connections also tend to be a lot more unreliable.
Remember dial-up modems? You were one phone pickup away from having your data connection scrambled. Obviously that's not an issue anymore, but dropouts or whatever are still entirely possible.
So what happens if your connections gets hosed? Using your example, You can choose between having 1 or 2 out of 6 images completely loaded, and 0 images completely loaded. It's better to have completely chunks of *some* data than no chunks of all your data.
If you arn't able to hire someone with two clues to rub together (which is hard and expensive) use something that produces static websites. Unless you are hosting forums or something else that specifically requires code to do the work (like maybe, a comments section), there is zero reason to use a CMS.
In the old days Dreamweaver was The Thing. You can still use it, or various similar tools (eg: Flux on OSX) to create very beautiful but static code-less sites. If you have a lot of content that requires some level of management, there are static site generators (https://staticsitegenerators.net/) available.
If you MUST use a CMS... you're gonna have a hard time cause there are very few that arn't crap... if not for the coding itself, then for the language underneath, like PHP in this case. I personally try to use systems written in more sophisticated languages such as Java, because those languages require a higher minimum level of competency just to get started, so anyone who writes a full blown application in it will be more likely to have written something solid. No guarantees, naturally, but that's the general trend that I've noticed. A risk, of course, is that administration may be more complex as well.
Okay, so they're replacing the perfectly good (and IMO far superior to USB-C) lightning connector with some moronic thing that isn't even reversible. Plenty of others have already vented their spleens about the change so I'll just leave it at that.
But what about the other end? Will THAT at least be USB-C, or will people with USB-C only computers still be stuck daisy-chaining multiple dongles just to be able to connect the phone to the computer?
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I wonder how epic of a splash that's gonna make? I'll have to invest in a surfboard so that I can travel the world. Assuming, of course, that this doesn't cause a ginormous tsunami that wipes out all the coastal areas in the southern hemisphere.
Trump is effectively destroying the little gov't transparency that the US had.
This is just is just more of the same. If they could legally eliminate FOIA entirely, they would. In the mean time, they'll just have to make things more difficult for people, not to mention make it easier for requests to go missing without a track record when someone wants to learn something inconvenient to the gov't.
Unless your machine is out of warranty, I don't see the point of this. The hassle and risks greatly outweigh just contacting your vendor and getting the part/unit replaced.
And never mind that the average person is won't have the skill necessary to do such a repair anyway.
Addendum. It's not actually for sale yet. :( .
I've found easily a dozen+ docking stations available, but not a single blessed one is currently available for purchase right now, which was the thrust of my lament.
Oh nice! Somehow that device completely escaped my radar. Partially cause I never even considered that Dell might make such a thing.
When you were testing, did you check the multi-monitor functionality? I was reading info about a different port replicator and they specifically expressed their frustration in how Apple artificially limited the number of video streams to 1, despite the port easily handling more.