Most (all excluding Apple?) laptops wil allow you to turn off / disable the wireless chipset in the bios.
The Apple macOS menu bar has status indicators. One is for wifi. Select it and a dropdown menu appears. One of the options is "Turn Wi-Fi Off".
And if you prefer to run Windows 10 directly on Apple hardware (Boot Camp rather than emulation) then select the wifi status indicator on the task bar and use the WiFi on/off toggle button.
Streaming is not necessarily devoid of commercial influence. Steamed songs are not necessarily requested or otherwise searched for. The providers often provide some sort of links or lists to some sort of "suggested" content.
Its not a perfect fit but the radio analogy is a good one and streaming may deserve no more influence than radio. A "listen" does not necessarily suggest a "like", while a "payment" for a specific album/song can be strongly correlated with a like. A person may listen to a song once or twice and then decide it is nothing special. Perhaps adding it to a playlist would be a better metric than a mere "listen", or of course numerous "listens" by an individual.
Denial due to a lack of evidence is unscientific, scientific is hypothesizing and seeking evidence.
No it's not. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the scientific method. It does not preclude forming hypotheses and seeking evidence. You assume the 2 are mutually exclusive, but they're not.
Actually denial is precluding, it is a conclusion; and it is a conclusion that goes beyond unscientific to illogical since it tries to claim a negative due to a lack of evidence. Proper denial requires evidence to the contrary not ignorance. Denial is something different than "there is currently no evidence to support/demonstrate/etc".
"Argument from ignorance (from Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proved false (or vice versa). This represents a type of false dichotomy in that it excludes a third option, which is that: there may have been an insufficient investigation, and therefore there is insufficient information to prove the proposition be either true or false." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My point is not about presuming something exists, its about ruling out its existence given our limited and flawed understanding of things. Denial due to a lack of evidence is unscientific, scientific is hypothesizing and seeking evidence.
I know (think) you're joking. But why do so many of these replies equate evidence solely with things you can see. We can't see dark matter, but we can see it's effects.
Perhaps because in causal conversation people very often refer to "seeing" something, directly or indirectly (via a displayed number, pointer on a gauge/meter, physical byproduct, etc). For example we can "see" gravity on a bathroom scale, particles in a cloud chamber, etc. "Seeing" isn't necessarily being used in a literal sense, rather a figurative one.
But I also think people are sometimes making an indirect point, trying to somehow demonstrate the evolving nature of human understanding, of discovery, of the existence of things that were until very recently beyond belief. Demonstrating the logical flaw in that if we can not directly or indirectly perceive something it must not exist. That the universe is not limited to things we perceive or understand. Which addresses your statement: "I deny the existence of anything for which there is no evidence." The Higgs boson existed whether we had evidence or not, whether we even had a theory of its existence or not, whether we existed as a species or not.
I think in the late 19th and early 20th centuries intelligent alien life was a concept more widely accepted than today. For example life on Mars was considered a possibility. Visible features of Mars being interpreted as canals received some support until better optics were developed and the "canals" were determined to be an illusion.
If inefficiencies add X% to manufacturing costs but import tariffs would be X+5% would it not be worth it? As long as Apple does not have to heavily invest in plant, property and equipment or can recoup such costs fairly quickly.
No, crashing macs when connecting to an external, but recommended, display is apple's fault. But shoddily made hardware sold by a different company is most certain not Apple's fault. Although they will get deservedly hammered for it anyway.
When you shut down your own display line and **recommend** a particular 3rd party make/model as the premier display for your new line of computers, yes, you deserve to get hammered.
No. Companies don't test shit like this. They plug it in, see it's good to go, check that their partner is ISO9001 certified and push it out the door.
Actually when you are shutting down your own display line and recommending a particular make/model 3rd party monitor to all your customers as the premier monitor for your new line of computers, you might do a little more than look for the ISO checkbox. And that testing might include some "eating your own dog food" type testing on a real desktop or two.
Did Apple try one of these things before recommending it, highlighting it in the MPB rollout?
People sometimes have their wifi router sitting behind their monitor. Hell, I bought a couple of add on shelves for an Apple monitor so my cable modem and wifi router are literally sitting on the back of the the monitor. Pretty damn convenient for keeping crap off the desk.
This is an Apple failure in part, not solely LG's.
The real problem is Windows support. Apple sales doubled once they switched to Intel, once you could have full performance Windows and macOS on the same machine. Once you no longer had to choose Mac or Windows but could have both.
Emulation works well today since they don't have to emulate an instruction set architecture. Recompilation of the binary from one ISA to another could help but may still feel sluggish, its not quite the same as starting from the source code. And of course there is Boot Camp which would no longer be an option, a current option that lets Windows run directly on the hardware for maximum performance and compatibility.
This path may be even worse for an open source project. At least Microsoft can pay people to work on uninteresting things and bloated/complicated code. For a volunteer based project its more difficult. Its much more interesting to add something new. If maintenance is made more difficult it could endanger the project.
Scripts can be very dangerous as well. Many problems have been caused by scripts that are tested while logged in as a user and then run under the root crontab, where the starting directory or environment variables are not the same.
You can have a typo or mistake in the script and have it occur once (in a test environment usually). Or you can have a potential typo or mistake (typing from wrong directory here too) every time you manually execute commands on a production system. There are potential typos and mistakes on either path, but one reduces the risks.
They usually don't give you a Windows CD anymore when you buy a PC/Laptop so I couldn't tell you how to install the Windows version you paid for when buying the computer on anything...
Microsoft makes iso images available. The vendor probably provided a key some where.
So the number one complaint about the pixel was the cost but ignore it for the next generation?
They can follow the Apple model. Have three tiers of phones at different price levels. The middle tier is basically last year's design, the low tier the design from two years ago.
Donald Knuth is an elitist. It is not necessary to have a background in mathematics to write software. I taught myself PHP and I certainly don't have any kind of mathematics background whatsoever. It isn't dumbing down as he claims. It's about creating opportunities. If you can code and you can do it well without mathematics, so be it. The math side is for those that want to do research. I work in the real world....
In the "Art of Computer Programming" context mathematics includes various things related to the performance of algorithms (code). Such things are useful, even essential, well beyond the domain of research, in many areas of the real world of software development (coding).
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Yeah - that's just a software control though and (i imagine) trivially turned on programatically.
BIOS is software control too. :-)
Most (all excluding Apple?) laptops wil allow you to turn off / disable the wireless chipset in the bios.
The Apple macOS menu bar has status indicators. One is for wifi. Select it and a dropdown menu appears. One of the options is "Turn Wi-Fi Off".
And if you prefer to run Windows 10 directly on Apple hardware (Boot Camp rather than emulation) then select the wifi status indicator on the task bar and use the WiFi on/off toggle button.
Most (all excluding Apple?) laptops wil allow you to turn off / disable the wireless chipset in the bios.
The Apple macOS menu bar has status indicators. One is for wifi. Select it and a dropdown menu appears. One of the options is "Turn Wi-Fi Off".
Streaming is not necessarily devoid of commercial influence. Steamed songs are not necessarily requested or otherwise searched for. The providers often provide some sort of links or lists to some sort of "suggested" content.
Its not a perfect fit but the radio analogy is a good one and streaming may deserve no more influence than radio. A "listen" does not necessarily suggest a "like", while a "payment" for a specific album/song can be strongly correlated with a like. A person may listen to a song once or twice and then decide it is nothing special. Perhaps adding it to a playlist would be a better metric than a mere "listen", or of course numerous "listens" by an individual.
Denial due to a lack of evidence is unscientific, scientific is hypothesizing and seeking evidence.
No it's not. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the scientific method. It does not preclude forming hypotheses and seeking evidence. You assume the 2 are mutually exclusive, but they're not.
Actually denial is precluding, it is a conclusion; and it is a conclusion that goes beyond unscientific to illogical since it tries to claim a negative due to a lack of evidence. Proper denial requires evidence to the contrary not ignorance. Denial is something different than "there is currently no evidence to support/demonstrate/etc".
"Argument from ignorance (from Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proved false (or vice versa). This represents a type of false dichotomy in that it excludes a third option, which is that: there may have been an insufficient investigation, and therefore there is insufficient information to prove the proposition be either true or false."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My point is not about presuming something exists, its about ruling out its existence given our limited and flawed understanding of things. Denial due to a lack of evidence is unscientific, scientific is hypothesizing and seeking evidence.
The Apple iPod nano supports FM Radio
http://www.apple.com/ipod-nano...
How to get stem cell research funded ... promote it as a way to get more bacon.
... promote it as a way to get a new heart after all that bacon.
How to get human stem cell research funded
I know (think) you're joking. But why do so many of these replies equate evidence solely with things you can see. We can't see dark matter, but we can see it's effects.
Perhaps because in causal conversation people very often refer to "seeing" something, directly or indirectly (via a displayed number, pointer on a gauge/meter, physical byproduct, etc). For example we can "see" gravity on a bathroom scale, particles in a cloud chamber, etc. "Seeing" isn't necessarily being used in a literal sense, rather a figurative one.
But I also think people are sometimes making an indirect point, trying to somehow demonstrate the evolving nature of human understanding, of discovery, of the existence of things that were until very recently beyond belief. Demonstrating the logical flaw in that if we can not directly or indirectly perceive something it must not exist. That the universe is not limited to things we perceive or understand. Which addresses your statement: "I deny the existence of anything for which there is no evidence." The Higgs boson existed whether we had evidence or not, whether we even had a theory of its existence or not, whether we existed as a species or not.
I think in the late 19th and early 20th centuries intelligent alien life was a concept more widely accepted than today. For example life on Mars was considered a possibility. Visible features of Mars being interpreted as canals received some support until better optics were developed and the "canals" were determined to be an illusion.
I deny the existence of anything for which there is no evidence.
God and Heaven are just made of Dark Matter, that's why we can't see them. See, no contradiction with physics. ;-)
I think the Bible is quite clear that non-human intelligent life exists. For example the angels.
If inefficiencies add X% to manufacturing costs but import tariffs would be X+5% would it not be worth it? As long as Apple does not have to heavily invest in plant, property and equipment or can recoup such costs fairly quickly.
No, crashing macs when connecting to an external, but recommended, display is apple's fault. But shoddily made hardware sold by a different company is most certain not Apple's fault. Although they will get deservedly hammered for it anyway.
When you shut down your own display line and **recommend** a particular 3rd party make/model as the premier display for your new line of computers, yes, you deserve to get hammered.
No. Companies don't test shit like this. They plug it in, see it's good to go, check that their partner is ISO9001 certified and push it out the door.
Actually when you are shutting down your own display line and recommending a particular make/model 3rd party monitor to all your customers as the premier monitor for your new line of computers, you might do a little more than look for the ISO checkbox. And that testing might include some "eating your own dog food" type testing on a real desktop or two.
Did Apple try one of these things before recommending it, highlighting it in the MPB rollout?
People sometimes have their wifi router sitting behind their monitor. Hell, I bought a couple of add on shelves for an Apple monitor so my cable modem and wifi router are literally sitting on the back of the the monitor. Pretty damn convenient for keeping crap off the desk.
This is an Apple failure in part, not solely LG's.
The real problem is Windows support. Apple sales doubled once they switched to Intel, once you could have full performance Windows and macOS on the same machine. Once you no longer had to choose Mac or Windows but could have both.
Emulation works well today since they don't have to emulate an instruction set architecture. Recompilation of the binary from one ISA to another could help but may still feel sluggish, its not quite the same as starting from the source code. And of course there is Boot Camp which would no longer be an option, a current option that lets Windows run directly on the hardware for maximum performance and compatibility.
This path may be even worse for an open source project. At least Microsoft can pay people to work on uninteresting things and bloated/complicated code. For a volunteer based project its more difficult. Its much more interesting to add something new. If maintenance is made more difficult it could endanger the project.
I invested time and learned to use Latex.
I think there is an OpenOffice extension that outputs latex. :-)
Touted As 'One of the Most Feature-Rich Releases' Ever
That is a very Microsoft like statement, "goodness" defined by feature count, and probably not a good path to go down.
Scripts can be very dangerous as well. Many problems have been caused by scripts that are tested while logged in as a user and then run under the root crontab, where the starting directory or environment variables are not the same.
You can have a typo or mistake in the script and have it occur once (in a test environment usually). Or you can have a potential typo or mistake (typing from wrong directory here too) every time you manually execute commands on a production system. There are potential typos and mistakes on either path, but one reduces the risks.
That's why you always always run ls first.
ls -ld /home/user1 /home/user2 /home/ user3
Then edit the command to rm. Always.
Or you use scripts.
somescript user1 user2 user3
They usually don't give you a Windows CD anymore when you buy a PC/Laptop so I couldn't tell you how to install the Windows version you paid for when buying the computer on anything...
Microsoft makes iso images available. The vendor probably provided a key some where.
So the number one complaint about the pixel was the cost but ignore it for the next generation?
They can follow the Apple model. Have three tiers of phones at different price levels. The middle tier is basically last year's design, the low tier the design from two years ago.
Donald Knuth is an elitist. It is not necessary to have a background in mathematics to write software. I taught myself PHP and I certainly don't have any kind of mathematics background whatsoever. It isn't dumbing down as he claims. It's about creating opportunities. If you can code and you can do it well without mathematics, so be it. The math side is for those that want to do research. I work in the real world ....
In the "Art of Computer Programming" context mathematics includes various things related to the performance of algorithms (code). Such things are useful, even essential, well beyond the domain of research, in many areas of the real world of software development (coding).