The current Clover-based solutions do modify the system, except it's done on the fly, so that no patching of install media is needed, and you could essentially boot from a working OS X drive taken from Apple hardware. The hackintosh VM will require a small EFI drive with Clover on it to boot from, and then can use most any OS X system partition to successfully boot.
Still, the hardware integration sucks. I thought that Dell would be better than the Asus ROG I had. Sorry to say, in terms of integration of basic soft controls it still sucks. I'm afraid that somehow only Apple got it right till now.
I think that this is just the design being incompatible with learned habits, not somehow inherently broken. My kid has gotten used to it. Now she dislikes touchbar-less machines. But it took some adaptation time.
I use a hackintosh as my main dev and engineering machine and it's just fine. It's currently on OS X 10.10.5, but I will be updating it soon to 10.11. With modern Clover the set-up is not a big deal anymore - it does require some hardware-specific tweaking, but once it's done, it's done, and then works fine across the given minor OS version. IOW, stock Apple install images work for me. So I don't quite see the reliability ever being a factor. It's not as if the whole thing somehow randomly crashes any more often than it would on well configured Windows 10. My desktop's current uptime is 32 days.
How is something being soldered on a problem? You essentially insist that the most advanced tool used in repair should be your hands and some screwdrivers. No miniaturization is possible that way. Rework stations are a thing. It's 2017, replacing BGA-packaged assemblies is not advanced dark magic anymore.
To be completely frank, the only tightly integrated PC hardware comes from Microsoft in their Surface line. Those are indeed the only machines that have the Apple-like integration where everything in the hardware works cleanly and without disruptions. Every other notebook I try, and I try them just about every 2 weeks, has some hardware integration issues on the side Windows side of things. I refer to all the idiotic hundreds-of-megabytes-and-more hardware support packages that pretty much are there just to support the custom keys and controls, take ages to start up even from SSD, don't work before login, etc. Just a shitshow, and anyone who pretends that these problems aren't there clearly doesn't pay attention to what's going on. Say, like Asus gaming notebooks that consider it user-friendly not to offer keyboard backlight when you're supposed to type in your fine bitlocker password. I mean: what the fuck? This actually has never happened to me on a MacBook, and neither has any of the other fuck-upery that is commonplace in OEM integration drivers/software on Windows. Heck, there are now mainstream PC laptops that have better enthusiast-developed OS X hardware integration than the OEM provides for Windows!!
I use a hackintosh at work. I rely on lots of Unix tools and workflows, so it's just easier that way. Solid Edge runs just fine on Windows in a VM. The mac-PC distinction is blurry at best. It's obvious that people who need to run Windows can just start up a virtual machine and call it a day.
Perhaps causality is only a characteristic of our Universe. Perhaps, elsewhere, it's optional, and if you think it up, it becomes. Who knows and, frankly, who cares.
Exactly. Witcher was a freaking awesome value for the money, and it was done by real craftsmen and artists, not some corporate slaves who're just about ready to jump off a bridge. You can really tell whether the team working on a game enjoys themselves or not. Most of them seemingly don't.
Perhaps LAN parties attract a particular kind of a pirate and you suffer from selection bias.
My anecdote: last time I was at a LAN party was in high school quarter of a century ago. Games back then were priced well out of the range of what a high schooler could afford in Eastern Europe. These days I don't pirate for the simple reason that it makes 0 sense: it costs me more in my time to pirate than to get a legal download. If need be, I'll make an "illegal" copy through a HDCP stripper and watch it in the format I want and on a device I want, plus I can keep a backup that way, but I still own the original, so that's not a means for e.g. ripping stuff from the library.
> Do you have IP, which is to say, creative works protected by Copyright?
We all do. Almost everything original you write down is automatically protected by Copyright. Every single picture you take, with very minor exceptions, is protected by Copyright. Every answer on stackoverflow. Every nontrivial comment on any social site. Pretty much all of the Tweets that are full-length. Etc.
The widely spread myth is that Copyright is something special, only applicable to works made with a "purpose". It's not, and no matter what kind of work you create, if it's copyrightable at all, it doesn't require any special action to be protected. In the U.S., registration of a work (could be your kids' scribbles on a piece of paper) with the relevant office gives you a bit more financial return in case there's a case for infringement, but is not necessary for a work to be protected.
The entirety of your comment is protected by the copyright law. So is mine. We both gave slashdot users a license to use it, but we retain the rights in spite of that.
The "chip" thing is a term getting long in the tooth. Nobody is changing any chips anymore. People refer to firmware reflashes as "chips" because the car world is slow to adapt.
Remember that they're collecting field test data from all of those 2nd-gen autopilot cars, over the air. They are the only ones who can do that. They have a forward-looking very underutilized compute platform in the car, and they use it to test all of the processing flows they're working on. Field testing of sensor data processing is a big cost for everyone but Tesla. Nobody other than them can do self-driving research on a fleet of tens of thousands of cars, in all sorts of real-world conditions. Market analysts with no grounding in tech seem not to pay much attention to that. Tesla flleet's telemetry is worth way more than $1B/year if anyone else were to decide to spend on getting such data. Each year the continue to exist, they get another $B+ bucks worth of data. It won't take long until just the test data they get over the air will be worth a good chunk of their market cap. They are doing some other cool things in terms of data gathering when their cars come in for service, that nobody else is doing, and that gives them a lot of industry unique data as well. Tesla is superficially a car company, just like Walmart is superficially a retail company. Over the years other retailers had to play catch up in terms of their IT and data capture. Same will happen to car companies, but right now Tesla compared to other companies is like Walmart was compared to other grocery retailers in the early days of its data processing push. Very much ahead of the game.
This is not a reprint, nor even a re-layout. The work involves re-notation of books 7-13, and re-drawing of diagrammatic notation in books 1-6. It's a lot of work, it'll be a completely new, unique edition not merely in its aesthetics.
What they're doing is not available. They will use the graphical notation throughout, and that has thus far been done only for the first 6 books, not all 13.
Use CI for development. Then you always start from a clean slate and it's procedurally required that you have all the data needed to get a full build environment going from scratch.
Why do people keep forgetting that iOS location services uses GPS as just one of the possible inputs? When you have WiFi and BT enabled on an iPhone, enabling location services will increase load on those two radios, and on the cellular radio, and it will enable the GPS receiver, and it will also power up the inertial platform (gyro, accelerometer, magnetometer). The data is then fused from all of these sources. Generally speaking, the GPS receiver power demand itself is maybe 10% of the overall load burden caused by location services. And that's in line with what you're saying. Even in airplane mode you'll get load from GPS and inertial sensors.
Please don't conflate location services with GPS. You can enable location services as a complete package deal, or you can turn them off. When they are enabled, the GPS radio is turned on, but on top of that all other enabled radios (cellular, WiFi, BT) are actively used to determine your position. The location service system then fuses the information from all of those sources, and from the "inertial" platform (magnetometer, gyro and accelerometer). So enabling location services can potentially ramp up power on several subsystems. That's not what some last-decade GPS receiver would do, and that's also why sometimes you can get decent location information indoors where there's no GPS reception of any kind. There's a department store that I frequent where there's no GPS signal (even very sensitive professional receivers stay unlocked) yet the phone is quite good at figuring out where on the floor you are. That's because it uses signal strength from wifi access points, fixed location bluetooth devices, a few iBeacons present on the floor, and fuses all that with inertial data.
I sure hope that at least some office workers will also have music background. With that, it's a simple matter of generating new passwords: advance through the piece. How you map from notation to passwords is up to you.
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The current Clover-based solutions do modify the system, except it's done on the fly, so that no patching of install media is needed, and you could essentially boot from a working OS X drive taken from Apple hardware. The hackintosh VM will require a small EFI drive with Clover on it to boot from, and then can use most any OS X system partition to successfully boot.
Still, the hardware integration sucks. I thought that Dell would be better than the Asus ROG I had. Sorry to say, in terms of integration of basic soft controls it still sucks. I'm afraid that somehow only Apple got it right till now.
I think that this is just the design being incompatible with learned habits, not somehow inherently broken. My kid has gotten used to it. Now she dislikes touchbar-less machines. But it took some adaptation time.
I use a hackintosh as my main dev and engineering machine and it's just fine. It's currently on OS X 10.10.5, but I will be updating it soon to 10.11. With modern Clover the set-up is not a big deal anymore - it does require some hardware-specific tweaking, but once it's done, it's done, and then works fine across the given minor OS version. IOW, stock Apple install images work for me. So I don't quite see the reliability ever being a factor. It's not as if the whole thing somehow randomly crashes any more often than it would on well configured Windows 10. My desktop's current uptime is 32 days.
How is something being soldered on a problem? You essentially insist that the most advanced tool used in repair should be your hands and some screwdrivers. No miniaturization is possible that way. Rework stations are a thing. It's 2017, replacing BGA-packaged assemblies is not advanced dark magic anymore.
To be completely frank, the only tightly integrated PC hardware comes from Microsoft in their Surface line. Those are indeed the only machines that have the Apple-like integration where everything in the hardware works cleanly and without disruptions. Every other notebook I try, and I try them just about every 2 weeks, has some hardware integration issues on the side Windows side of things. I refer to all the idiotic hundreds-of-megabytes-and-more hardware support packages that pretty much are there just to support the custom keys and controls, take ages to start up even from SSD, don't work before login, etc. Just a shitshow, and anyone who pretends that these problems aren't there clearly doesn't pay attention to what's going on. Say, like Asus gaming notebooks that consider it user-friendly not to offer keyboard backlight when you're supposed to type in your fine bitlocker password. I mean: what the fuck? This actually has never happened to me on a MacBook, and neither has any of the other fuck-upery that is commonplace in OEM integration drivers/software on Windows. Heck, there are now mainstream PC laptops that have better enthusiast-developed OS X hardware integration than the OEM provides for Windows!!
I use a hackintosh at work. I rely on lots of Unix tools and workflows, so it's just easier that way. Solid Edge runs just fine on Windows in a VM. The mac-PC distinction is blurry at best. It's obvious that people who need to run Windows can just start up a virtual machine and call it a day.
Perhaps causality is only a characteristic of our Universe. Perhaps, elsewhere, it's optional, and if you think it up, it becomes. Who knows and, frankly, who cares.
It's also pretty cool that you can mix and much open-source and closed components quite well. No such thing from MS on their OS front so far.
Yep. Piracy is usually a criminal offense. Copyright infringement is usually a civil matter.
Exactly. Witcher was a freaking awesome value for the money, and it was done by real craftsmen and artists, not some corporate slaves who're just about ready to jump off a bridge. You can really tell whether the team working on a game enjoys themselves or not. Most of them seemingly don't.
Hey, maybe we could slashdot his store and make him sell out :)
Perhaps LAN parties attract a particular kind of a pirate and you suffer from selection bias.
My anecdote: last time I was at a LAN party was in high school quarter of a century ago. Games back then were priced well out of the range of what a high schooler could afford in Eastern Europe. These days I don't pirate for the simple reason that it makes 0 sense: it costs me more in my time to pirate than to get a legal download. If need be, I'll make an "illegal" copy through a HDCP stripper and watch it in the format I want and on a device I want, plus I can keep a backup that way, but I still own the original, so that's not a means for e.g. ripping stuff from the library.
> Do you have IP, which is to say, creative works protected by Copyright?
We all do. Almost everything original you write down is automatically protected by Copyright. Every single picture you take, with very minor exceptions, is protected by Copyright. Every answer on stackoverflow. Every nontrivial comment on any social site. Pretty much all of the Tweets that are full-length. Etc.
The widely spread myth is that Copyright is something special, only applicable to works made with a "purpose". It's not, and no matter what kind of work you create, if it's copyrightable at all, it doesn't require any special action to be protected. In the U.S., registration of a work (could be your kids' scribbles on a piece of paper) with the relevant office gives you a bit more financial return in case there's a case for infringement, but is not necessary for a work to be protected.
The entirety of your comment is protected by the copyright law. So is mine. We both gave slashdot users a license to use it, but we retain the rights in spite of that.
The "chip" thing is a term getting long in the tooth. Nobody is changing any chips anymore. People refer to firmware reflashes as "chips" because the car world is slow to adapt.
Remember that they're collecting field test data from all of those 2nd-gen autopilot cars, over the air. They are the only ones who can do that. They have a forward-looking very underutilized compute platform in the car, and they use it to test all of the processing flows they're working on. Field testing of sensor data processing is a big cost for everyone but Tesla. Nobody other than them can do self-driving research on a fleet of tens of thousands of cars, in all sorts of real-world conditions. Market analysts with no grounding in tech seem not to pay much attention to that. Tesla flleet's telemetry is worth way more than $1B/year if anyone else were to decide to spend on getting such data. Each year the continue to exist, they get another $B+ bucks worth of data. It won't take long until just the test data they get over the air will be worth a good chunk of their market cap. They are doing some other cool things in terms of data gathering when their cars come in for service, that nobody else is doing, and that gives them a lot of industry unique data as well. Tesla is superficially a car company, just like Walmart is superficially a retail company. Over the years other retailers had to play catch up in terms of their IT and data capture. Same will happen to car companies, but right now Tesla compared to other companies is like Walmart was compared to other grocery retailers in the early days of its data processing push. Very much ahead of the game.
This is not a reprint, nor even a re-layout. The work involves re-notation of books 7-13, and re-drawing of diagrammatic notation in books 1-6. It's a lot of work, it'll be a completely new, unique edition not merely in its aesthetics.
What they're doing is not available. They will use the graphical notation throughout, and that has thus far been done only for the first 6 books, not all 13.
Use CI for development. Then you always start from a clean slate and it's procedurally required that you have all the data needed to get a full build environment going from scratch.
Touch ID is orientation-agnostic. Check it out.
Why do people keep forgetting that iOS location services uses GPS as just one of the possible inputs? When you have WiFi and BT enabled on an iPhone, enabling location services will increase load on those two radios, and on the cellular radio, and it will enable the GPS receiver, and it will also power up the inertial platform (gyro, accelerometer, magnetometer). The data is then fused from all of these sources. Generally speaking, the GPS receiver power demand itself is maybe 10% of the overall load burden caused by location services. And that's in line with what you're saying. Even in airplane mode you'll get load from GPS and inertial sensors.
Please don't conflate location services with GPS. You can enable location services as a complete package deal, or you can turn them off. When they are enabled, the GPS radio is turned on, but on top of that all other enabled radios (cellular, WiFi, BT) are actively used to determine your position. The location service system then fuses the information from all of those sources, and from the "inertial" platform (magnetometer, gyro and accelerometer). So enabling location services can potentially ramp up power on several subsystems. That's not what some last-decade GPS receiver would do, and that's also why sometimes you can get decent location information indoors where there's no GPS reception of any kind. There's a department store that I frequent where there's no GPS signal (even very sensitive professional receivers stay unlocked) yet the phone is quite good at figuring out where on the floor you are. That's because it uses signal strength from wifi access points, fixed location bluetooth devices, a few iBeacons present on the floor, and fuses all that with inertial data.
You can still do OO as a means of encapsulation if you use modern C++. It'll generate decent code.
I sure hope that at least some office workers will also have music background. With that, it's a simple matter of generating new passwords: advance through the piece. How you map from notation to passwords is up to you.
Who cares? You can buy a refurb 1.5TB drive for $30 sometimes. No point in tape. None whatsoever.