Murder doesn't involve corporate dollars. I think it's more than obvious that money has a much higher priority than life. Especially money that the rich have spoken for.
A better question would be if Windows 10 has accelerated the slump. It means nothing if Windows 10 had zero impact one way or the other. But if PC purchases slowed down at an even faster rate after Windows 10's release, then that would be very damning.
It's completely pointless and unnecessary. Macs, Windows PCs and Linux PCs all have their own strengths and weaknesses, and it all boils down to what you need it for.
I personally prefer OS X, because it very closely matches to what I want to do. For others, Windows is a better fit. Ditto for Linux.
All platforms have strengths and weaknesses, and it's silly to castigate a platform for some particular weakness when your own preferred platform has weaknesses of it's own.
If this was a required move as part of whatever upgrade they were doing, they would have notified people beforehand to expect it.
The most charitable explanation is that their management is incompetent in failing to provide that heads up.
The most likely explanation was that they quietly tried to close the door on people trying to jump ship, and now they're backpedalling because of the uproar.
I haven't touched Yahoo for many years now, and it seems like they've made it their mission to justify my departure as much as possible.
I'm doing the same thing. The differences are purely incremental, I haven't run into any significant bugs in current LTS, and some of the improvements (such as low-gfx mode) are going to be backported anyway, so.... I'm not going to update solely because I mindlessly covet the latest shiny.
Easier, yes, but functionally limited compared to software-controlled keys.
Also, I can think of lots of ways just off the top of my head, as to how people would screw this up.
Personally, I've always wanted to learn to type with a dvorak layout, but it's damn near impossible to find keyboards like that. Being able to programatically change the keys would make this not only possible, but easy and convenient.
I think it makes perfect sense for a business troll to own a board that spawns online trolls. They can synergize their core competencies and raise trolling to new, unheard of, levels.
Whoa? Did it just get a whole lot quieter all of a sudden? Suddenly a whole lot of vociferous Apple-haters suddenly have feet in their mouths.
Not that I actually care, or anything. My purchasing decisions are based on the best compromise between what I need, what I want, and what's actually available.
But I can't help feel a bit of schadenfreude when reality dumps a bucket of ice water over zealots who raise the whole Apple vs Android thing to religious levels.
An announcement on the front page of GPGTools.org: "IMPORTANT: GPGMail, our plugin for securing emails using GPG in Mail.app is not yet compatible with macOS Sierra. If you rely on GPGMail, please refrain from updating to macOS Sierra for the time being!" This is kind of important to me, so...
Thank you for providing one of the few useful comments to this article.
Maybe it wouldn't be necessary to create a "Lite" version if their main app combo (messenger + facebook apps) didn't take 3/4 of a friggin GIGABYTE.
I can't even fathom what kind of nimrods Zuckerberg hires, but it is certainly strong evidence against his position that self-taught developers are just as good those from degree-awarding institutions.
Considering that "Cyber" is often used as a slang term for cybersex, it was all I could do to not bust a gut laughing while listening to him drone on about whatever he might have thought he was talking about.
The internet has been a wholly commercial entity for decades now.
If the government wanted to keep control of it, they shouldn't have handed it over, practically for free, to the various commercial interests that now have a stranglehold. It's a bit late to be complaining about it being "US property".
The only news I ever hear coming out of China is how everyone is screwing each other to make a quick buck. It's to the point where I make a point of avoiding any and all foodstuffs that originate in China cause I don't wanna be poisoned.
Don't any decent people live over there? Or do all the decent ones simply say "screw this" and leave, because the Chinese people I meet locally are great people.
I can see VERY easily why this is a good thing. Because people don't know any better. Even worse, people that *think* they know better but actually don't. There was a fracas (last year or early this year, I think...) where idiot developers downloaded pirated copies of xcode that ended up being bundled with malware. And the apps they created ended up on the App Store until Apple figured out what was going on. And these developers didn't even know because they had completely disabled gatekeeper. If gatekeeper had been running, they would have been warned that their copy of xcode was dodgy.
If you're not smart/experienced enough to figure out how to run an unsigned application then you are, by definition, not smart/experienced enough to make the judgement call that a given piece of software is safe to use.
I am a very experienced computer user, and I *still* leave Gatekeeper enabled. Because if I run an application that I expect should be signed, but it isn't, I damn well want to know. Disabling Gatekeeper is just plain moronic, IMO.
As long as they don't completely take away the ability to run unsigned applications, I see no issue with them making it more difficult to do so. It's a heck of a lot easier for me to field questions like, "Why can't I run this comet cursor app I downloaded from this porn site?" than "How come all the documents on the server are suddenly gibberish?" or "Why is my computer suddenly sending spam?"
Well, I was being facetious. Everything else Oracle does comes with ludicrous costs. Even if their upfront cost is cheap, once they are entrenched they will tighten the vice and milk you for everything you've got.
Oracle doesn't do *anything* unless they heavily weigh it in their favour. They make Microsoft look like the Make-a-Wish foundation.
So even if their cloud prices look good, there's gonna be a catch somewhere. It may not be immediate, but it will most certainly be there somewhere.
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Murder doesn't involve corporate dollars. I think it's more than obvious that money has a much higher priority than life. Especially money that the rich have spoken for.
You want to sit and look cool in your turtle-neck with your Cappuccino in the coffee shop that's way too expensive for me?
Pfft. Cappuccinos were so last year. I drink hipster coffees that don't even have a name yet.
A better question would be if Windows 10 has accelerated the slump. It means nothing if Windows 10 had zero impact one way or the other. But if PC purchases slowed down at an even faster rate after Windows 10's release, then that would be very damning.
How about we *don't* have a flamewar?
It's completely pointless and unnecessary. Macs, Windows PCs and Linux PCs all have their own strengths and weaknesses, and it all boils down to what you need it for.
I personally prefer OS X, because it very closely matches to what I want to do. For others, Windows is a better fit. Ditto for Linux.
All platforms have strengths and weaknesses, and it's silly to castigate a platform for some particular weakness when your own preferred platform has weaknesses of it's own.
I honestly don't know. It was mentioned in the article. I personally don't care about that feature, so I didn't look into it further.
If this was a required move as part of whatever upgrade they were doing, they would have notified people beforehand to expect it.
The most charitable explanation is that their management is incompetent in failing to provide that heads up.
The most likely explanation was that they quietly tried to close the door on people trying to jump ship, and now they're backpedalling because of the uproar.
I haven't touched Yahoo for many years now, and it seems like they've made it their mission to justify my departure as much as possible.
I'm doing the same thing. The differences are purely incremental, I haven't run into any significant bugs in current LTS, and some of the improvements (such as low-gfx mode) are going to be backported anyway, so.... I'm not going to update solely because I mindlessly covet the latest shiny.
Easier, yes, but functionally limited compared to software-controlled keys.
Also, I can think of lots of ways just off the top of my head, as to how people would screw this up.
Personally, I've always wanted to learn to type with a dvorak layout, but it's damn near impossible to find keyboards like that. Being able to programatically change the keys would make this not only possible, but easy and convenient.
Err, that was supposed to be Dear Mr., not Dr.
At what point did you decide that it was reasonable to blatantly screw over others for personal profit? What contributed to that decision?
I think it makes perfect sense for a business troll to own a board that spawns online trolls. They can synergize their core competencies and raise trolling to new, unheard of, levels.
Whoa? Did it just get a whole lot quieter all of a sudden? Suddenly a whole lot of vociferous Apple-haters suddenly have feet in their mouths.
Not that I actually care, or anything. My purchasing decisions are based on the best compromise between what I need, what I want, and what's actually available.
But I can't help feel a bit of schadenfreude when reality dumps a bucket of ice water over zealots who raise the whole Apple vs Android thing to religious levels.
An announcement on the front page of GPGTools.org: "IMPORTANT: GPGMail, our plugin for securing emails using GPG in Mail.app is not yet compatible with macOS Sierra. If you rely on GPGMail, please refrain from updating to macOS Sierra for the time being!" This is kind of important to me, so...
Thank you for providing one of the few useful comments to this article.
Maybe it wouldn't be necessary to create a "Lite" version if their main app combo (messenger + facebook apps) didn't take 3/4 of a friggin GIGABYTE.
I can't even fathom what kind of nimrods Zuckerberg hires, but it is certainly strong evidence against his position that self-taught developers are just as good those from degree-awarding institutions.
At least until Apple patches the flaw. In the meantime, it's amazing how a large stack of cash can assuage one's guilt.
Considering that "Cyber" is often used as a slang term for cybersex, it was all I could do to not bust a gut laughing while listening to him drone on about whatever he might have thought he was talking about.
The internet has been a wholly commercial entity for decades now.
If the government wanted to keep control of it, they shouldn't have handed it over, practically for free, to the various commercial interests that now have a stranglehold. It's a bit late to be complaining about it being "US property".
Just.... *facepalm*
How do you even begin to argue something so breathtakingly incorrect and ignorant that it's not even wrong?
Torrents have been around for HOW many years now, and they just figured this out?
The only news I ever hear coming out of China is how everyone is screwing each other to make a quick buck. It's to the point where I make a point of avoiding any and all foodstuffs that originate in China cause I don't wanna be poisoned.
Don't any decent people live over there? Or do all the decent ones simply say "screw this" and leave, because the Chinese people I meet locally are great people.
Unlike Microsoft, Apple tends to leave features like this disabled by default.
I can see VERY easily why this is a good thing. Because people don't know any better. Even worse, people that *think* they know better but actually don't. There was a fracas (last year or early this year, I think...) where idiot developers downloaded pirated copies of xcode that ended up being bundled with malware. And the apps they created ended up on the App Store until Apple figured out what was going on. And these developers didn't even know because they had completely disabled gatekeeper. If gatekeeper had been running, they would have been warned that their copy of xcode was dodgy.
If you're not smart/experienced enough to figure out how to run an unsigned application then you are, by definition, not smart/experienced enough to make the judgement call that a given piece of software is safe to use.
I am a very experienced computer user, and I *still* leave Gatekeeper enabled. Because if I run an application that I expect should be signed, but it isn't, I damn well want to know. Disabling Gatekeeper is just plain moronic, IMO.
As long as they don't completely take away the ability to run unsigned applications, I see no issue with them making it more difficult to do so. It's a heck of a lot easier for me to field questions like, "Why can't I run this comet cursor app I downloaded from this porn site?" than "How come all the documents on the server are suddenly gibberish?" or "Why is my computer suddenly sending spam?"
North Korea will save us. They've been testing their missiles for a while now. I'm sure they'd be happy to nuke it into oblivion.
Well, I was being facetious. Everything else Oracle does comes with ludicrous costs. Even if their upfront cost is cheap, once they are entrenched they will tighten the vice and milk you for everything you've got.
Oracle doesn't do *anything* unless they heavily weigh it in their favour. They make Microsoft look like the Make-a-Wish foundation.
So even if their cloud prices look good, there's gonna be a catch somewhere. It may not be immediate, but it will most certainly be there somewhere.