Apple will never release an MBP that uses a third party dock. I have a 10 port USB hub sitting behind my MBP which I have to turn off and on again sometimes because the Mac won't recognise my mice. It's a real pain. The Evoluent software for my mouse is crap, too (Linux and Windows "just work" but the Mac requires the special software to remap the buttons which are dumb by default on the Mac). I swallowed the Apple pill 5 years ago but when ol' Bessy bites the dust I'm not going to take swallow another. I'm going back to Linux.
My mid or late (can't recall, I'm at work) MacBook Pro from 2013 "suffers no detectable slowdown or inability to handle complex websites, etc" as well. Mind you, a 500GB SSD, Intel i7, and 16GB of RAM should still be decent, even today.
That being said, though, the chances of my next computer being an Apple are 50:50. I'm probably going to come back to Linux and just have a decent mid tower PC.
Exactly. I got sick of all the breaking changes in Swift and have abandoned Apple development (though my two apps are still in the store; I might let them live another year, perhaps, then pull the plug). I'm learning Java now.
Most of the time I go to read an article and have to get ready to pause the auto-playing video of something that's got absolutely nothing to do with the article itself. Why is there a need to play a video about something completely irrelevant?! Often times they don't even play an ad first, they're just wasting bandwidth for no good reason. It's no wonder most of these sites are failing. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Whatever the revamped Mac Pro will be you can guarantee that it will still be massively overpriced (more so than Apple's usual pricing) and won't go anywhere near having the upgradeability that one would usually expect from a "pro" machine.
I switched to Mac back when Ubuntu started doing freaky things with Unity, but with that abomination being killed off, it might be safe to switch back to Linux again (I think I'll just go pure Debian, thanks). I find that I'm only using Chrome and Open Office most of the time anyway, so I could easily make the switch again. I'm so glad I didn't convert all my spread sheets and documents to Numbers and Pages.
All news sites do it these days. You go to read something and there it is, a great big video set to auto-play about some topic that's kinda related to the same subject, but nothing to do with the headline that got your attention in the first place. These things are a plague and the sooner reputable news sites stop doing this, the better their subscriptions might be.
Star Trek Discovery is about as enjoyable as an STD, so its abbreviation is suitable, at least. This show is utterly irredeemable. I'm like the O.P. above, I want my money back. I've been watching DS9 again and it's leagues ahead of this crap. I gave up watching it after episode three (I think) where, 10 minutes or so into the show, there was a full minute of pointless Klingon dialogue - in Klingon and with subtitles! The Orville is more Trek than this garbage. What were they thinking? I'm running out of ways to express my profound disappointment in STD.
Then those sites can get F***ED as far as I'm concerned. They're a plague on the internet and they can die a slow, cashless, death. Good riddance to bad rubbish, and get the hell off my lawn! Damn teenagers:-)
I look forward to seeing what these SJW feel-good types can produce. I'll be sticking with the standard Node.js, thanks. I couldn't care less what Vagg does in his spare time, and neither should most developers. If you care more about the politics behind each line of code, then apparently you've got oodles of spare time and don't have to be productive to earn a living. Good luck with that.
I only renewed my subscription a couple of months ago so I'll have to look into something else now... and re-upload everything to someone else. My brother recommends Backblaze. Not sure I'll go with Carbonite given the flaws that have been mentioned here (and on CrashPlan's own web site!)
That "customize" menu in Firefox is just a dog's breakfast; as my grandfather used to say, "it's all over the place like a mad-woman's poop". What's wrong with a standard popup window with tabs, combo boxes, check boxes, radio buttons, etc? With this new "customize" page/tab thingy I've got to look all over the place to try and sort out what's an option and what's not. It's just a joke.
I was mostly just venting my spleen at all this new UX fashion victimhood crap. I do press Alt-F or whatever when necessary but it annoys me having to do it.
If you didn't know how to bring up the menu bar with F10 (which I didn't, but I did know about Alt, of course) then how would you do that from the hamburger menu at the top-right? Looking at it now I have no idea how I would achieve the equivalent of: View -> Toolbars -> Menu Bar.
Gould's humming is not something that can be ignored, and coupled with the inferior sound quality, it just adds up to a very unpleasant listening experience. I don't own any Gould CDs because I won't buy them, not even at bargain basement prices. Life is too short to be subjected to bad quality audio and Gould's inability to keep his mouth shut during recording has put him at the bottom of my list:-)
Mystery meat navigation the likes of which Firefox and everybody else seems to be using these days is the surest way to scare users away. What on earth was wrong with normal menus and toolbars? Every time I have to check something in Firefox these days I have to think about how to find the options screen or any other feature which used to be easy to find. Firefox is also slow, but if it had a normal UI I'd probably use it because I prefer Firebug when debugging javascript. Now I just use Chrome because it's so fast and its interface isn't quite as bad.
The days of horizontal rules, animated gifs, blink and marquee tags, tables with border=5.... I remember them well:-) Things were so much simpler back then.
That's why I don't use Safari - I can't quickly distinguish all my tabs and bookmark links. Colours are useful things to give clues quicker than having to read, but apparently this is news to Apple.
I can't stand Glenn Gould's recordings because of his irritating humming in the background. Angela Hewitt's or Murray Perahia's recordings are much better, and 2CD sets of same can be had for the price of a few cups of coffee, so why would anyone want to slum it with old mono recordings (unless you're one of those strange Glenn Gould worshippers)?
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Apple will never release an MBP that uses a third party dock. I have a 10 port USB hub sitting behind my MBP which I have to turn off and on again sometimes because the Mac won't recognise my mice. It's a real pain. The Evoluent software for my mouse is crap, too (Linux and Windows "just work" but the Mac requires the special software to remap the buttons which are dumb by default on the Mac). I swallowed the Apple pill 5 years ago but when ol' Bessy bites the dust I'm not going to take swallow another. I'm going back to Linux.
My mid or late (can't recall, I'm at work) MacBook Pro from 2013 "suffers no detectable slowdown or inability to handle complex websites, etc" as well. Mind you, a 500GB SSD, Intel i7, and 16GB of RAM should still be decent, even today.
That being said, though, the chances of my next computer being an Apple are 50:50. I'm probably going to come back to Linux and just have a decent mid tower PC.
Exactly. I got sick of all the breaking changes in Swift and have abandoned Apple development (though my two apps are still in the store; I might let them live another year, perhaps, then pull the plug). I'm learning Java now.
Most of the time I go to read an article and have to get ready to pause the auto-playing video of something that's got absolutely nothing to do with the article itself. Why is there a need to play a video about something completely irrelevant?! Often times they don't even play an ad first, they're just wasting bandwidth for no good reason. It's no wonder most of these sites are failing. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Whatever the revamped Mac Pro will be you can guarantee that it will still be massively overpriced (more so than Apple's usual pricing) and won't go anywhere near having the upgradeability that one would usually expect from a "pro" machine.
I switched to Mac back when Ubuntu started doing freaky things with Unity, but with that abomination being killed off, it might be safe to switch back to Linux again (I think I'll just go pure Debian, thanks). I find that I'm only using Chrome and Open Office most of the time anyway, so I could easily make the switch again. I'm so glad I didn't convert all my spread sheets and documents to Numbers and Pages.
I'd love to know where that quote comes from. It's an excellent one.
For the AGW enthusiasts it's actually more like this:
Heat waves > global warming
Cold snaps > weather (even though they used to claim that snow was going to history by now)
All news sites do it these days. You go to read something and there it is, a great big video set to auto-play about some topic that's kinda related to the same subject, but nothing to do with the headline that got your attention in the first place. These things are a plague and the sooner reputable news sites stop doing this, the better their subscriptions might be.
Star Trek Discovery is about as enjoyable as an STD, so its abbreviation is suitable, at least. This show is utterly irredeemable. I'm like the O.P. above, I want my money back. I've been watching DS9 again and it's leagues ahead of this crap. I gave up watching it after episode three (I think) where, 10 minutes or so into the show, there was a full minute of pointless Klingon dialogue - in Klingon and with subtitles! The Orville is more Trek than this garbage. What were they thinking? I'm running out of ways to express my profound disappointment in STD.
Then those sites can get F***ED as far as I'm concerned. They're a plague on the internet and they can die a slow, cashless, death. Good riddance to bad rubbish, and get the hell off my lawn! Damn teenagers :-)
I look forward to seeing what these SJW feel-good types can produce. I'll be sticking with the standard Node.js, thanks. I couldn't care less what Vagg does in his spare time, and neither should most developers. If you care more about the politics behind each line of code, then apparently you've got oodles of spare time and don't have to be productive to earn a living. Good luck with that.
I only renewed my subscription a couple of months ago so I'll have to look into something else now... and re-upload everything to someone else. My brother recommends Backblaze. Not sure I'll go with Carbonite given the flaws that have been mentioned here (and on CrashPlan's own web site!)
That "customize" menu in Firefox is just a dog's breakfast; as my grandfather used to say, "it's all over the place like a mad-woman's poop". What's wrong with a standard popup window with tabs, combo boxes, check boxes, radio buttons, etc? With this new "customize" page/tab thingy I've got to look all over the place to try and sort out what's an option and what's not. It's just a joke.
I was mostly just venting my spleen at all this new UX fashion victimhood crap. I do press Alt-F or whatever when necessary but it annoys me having to do it.
If you didn't know how to bring up the menu bar with F10 (which I didn't, but I did know about Alt, of course) then how would you do that from the hamburger menu at the top-right? Looking at it now I have no idea how I would achieve the equivalent of: View -> Toolbars -> Menu Bar.
Amen! Mod this AC up.
Gould's humming is not something that can be ignored, and coupled with the inferior sound quality, it just adds up to a very unpleasant listening experience. I don't own any Gould CDs because I won't buy them, not even at bargain basement prices. Life is too short to be subjected to bad quality audio and Gould's inability to keep his mouth shut during recording has put him at the bottom of my list :-)
Mystery meat navigation the likes of which Firefox and everybody else seems to be using these days is the surest way to scare users away. What on earth was wrong with normal menus and toolbars? Every time I have to check something in Firefox these days I have to think about how to find the options screen or any other feature which used to be easy to find. Firefox is also slow, but if it had a normal UI I'd probably use it because I prefer Firebug when debugging javascript. Now I just use Chrome because it's so fast and its interface isn't quite as bad.
The days of horizontal rules, animated gifs, blink and marquee tags, tables with border=5.... I remember them well :-) Things were so much simpler back then.
That's why I don't use Safari - I can't quickly distinguish all my tabs and bookmark links. Colours are useful things to give clues quicker than having to read, but apparently this is news to Apple.
I can't stand Glenn Gould's recordings because of his irritating humming in the background. Angela Hewitt's or Murray Perahia's recordings are much better, and 2CD sets of same can be had for the price of a few cups of coffee, so why would anyone want to slum it with old mono recordings (unless you're one of those strange Glenn Gould worshippers)?
That 200 KB wouldn't have included the node_modules directory, I suspect.
You can write client apps using node.js these days. Check out Electron, for example.
Node.js apps are a dime a dozen these days, and they're all fat slugs of things. Sad.