It's actually been years since anybody, even an MS Office user, sent me a.doc(x) file. Always PDF these days. The only reason people send.doc(x) files now is for editing, and Googledocs is way more effective for that.
I haven't touched MS Office in many years. I rely on LibreOffice (formerly OpenOffice) for my office-type needs. It does all the spreadsheeting and document preparation I need, way more than I need, actually. I get free lifetime updates. When I need to communicate with inmates on the Microsoft prison island, PDF works fine. When I need to collaborate on documents, Googledocs. Whatever. Microsoft is just irrelevant these days, some folks haven't gotten the memo yet.
IMHO Linux on the desktop is a dead end because too many of the developers working on it are focusing on what they want, rather than what the users want. Ubuntu had a chance, but then went off track forcing features users didn't necessarily want down their throats because the people in charge of it wanted to.
Not sure what you're going on about here. Canonical set out to own the Linux desktop space and succeeded at that. Now busy leveraging that as an entry into the far more lucrative server space. Hard to see what's wrong with that strategy. And Linux has somewhere between 40 and 80 million desktop users now, based on 2% share of the market. Those are serious numbers by any standard.
Linux in its heart is a Server OS. Its desktop/workstation features are almost a hack onto the systems to make useful.
Oh wow, insightful! And how is that different from MacOS, based on FreeBSD, a server OS? Or Windows 10, based on Windows NT, a server OS? And gosh, isn't it just amazing that Google was able to take over the mobile handset market with a Java API bolted onto a server OS. Insightful indeed.
What you do when people pester you with unreadable proprietary documents? You tell them to fuck off, until they have learned to install another program which is free, and produce a readable document with it...
Well, that usually doesn't work too well as you know. But asking for a pdf instead pretty much always works just fine.
What happens when someone sends you a document that your version of OpenOffice doesn't like...
You have the same problem when somebody sends you a document that your version of MS Office doesn't like. Which happens. A lot. In fact, OpenOffice (Update: LibreOffice) has a reputation for being able to handle documents from various older MS Office versions better than Microsoft does.
Didn't see this coming but it looks like the republicans will control all branches. It will be interesting to see what they do with that power in the upcoming years.
You're literally comparing mild overheating on the Apple notebook with the Samsung product that the FAA has asked removed from planes because it's a danger to passengers.
You Apple cultists really break me up. How about comparing Samsung battery fires to Apple electrocuting kids in their sleep? Sure, Apple blames it on knockoff chargers, but Apple can't deny providing the deadly conductive path from battery to case that made these (multiple!) electrocutions possible.
Hey, did Apple ever take out a full page ad to apologize for that? (Rhetorical question.)
Zbrush is a really bad choice for your argument. Pros use Maya, the rest of us use Blender which arguably surpassed Zbrush long ago and is widely considered as good as or superior to Maya for most of the things a 3D artist needs to do. I'm going to need to write your argument off mainly to fear of exercising neurons. Just remember this: use them or lose them.
You know. . . many folks HAVE to run a Windows OS due to the software they utilize not running on anything else.
That may be true for a small minority people, for the rest it's just an excuse for inaction. Easy to prove: people are abandoning their Windows peecees in droves and doing everything with their phones, tablets, Linux desktops or even macthings. Fact. Kinda erodes any sympathy I might otherwise have for people whining about the evil things Microsoft does to them. It's their choice and they created that monster. They know what to do about it.
There's a large overlap between professional and "prosumer". Your typical wedding photographer is certainly a "professional", but they're not using a Hasselblad medium-format with a tethered digital back, they're just using a standard high-end DSLR, which these days all use SD cards.
Have SD slots, you mean, not use. CF cards are bigger and faster so professionals mainly use them, probably most prosumers too.
Except that on the pro end of the camera spectrum most of them are using or prefer compact flash...
I have a pro-end camera with compact flash slot(s), but I mainly use USB for transfer, which the Macbook pro also doesn't have in any way that I have a cable for.
I would wager that most IT professionals only use the ethernet port when at their own desk, so any adapter can stay on the desk or attached to a dock...
Where it will get lost. Guaranteed. And will not be there for you when you're at some other desk. And that tends to happen especially often when you don't have your adaptor with you.
I have a laptop bag without adapters, because I have a Samsung 500 series, which has a standard ethernet socket and a couple of standard USB A's, which I use constantly for things like, erm, my DSLR, my phones, my 3D printer. You know, stuff that matters. Not that that would mean much to a shambling Apple zombie.
They'll keep getting more intrusive until too many people start bitching about them...
Actually, I'm in favour of more pain for sheeple who still think Windows is the thing to run. At worst it's free entertainment for Linux users, who we now know number in the tens of millions if you only count PCs, or billions if you count Android. And Windows actually does serve one useful purpose: it provides a vibrant (not quite dead yet) supply of subsidized PCs to run Linux on.
Or equivalently: fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Keep it up Tim, Apple can afford it. And don't worry about those pesky shareholders, they just don't get what real courage is.
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It's actually been years since anybody, even an MS Office user, sent me a .doc(x) file. Always PDF these days. The only reason people send .doc(x) files now is for editing, and Googledocs is way more effective for that.
I haven't touched MS Office in many years. I rely on LibreOffice (formerly OpenOffice) for my office-type needs. It does all the spreadsheeting and document preparation I need, way more than I need, actually. I get free lifetime updates. When I need to communicate with inmates on the Microsoft prison island, PDF works fine. When I need to collaborate on documents, Googledocs. Whatever. Microsoft is just irrelevant these days, some folks haven't gotten the memo yet.
You can't really reduce Windows to 'a kernel.'
You can't really reduce Linux to 'a kernel' either (one word: libc) so what's the difference?
IMHO Linux on the desktop is a dead end because too many of the developers working on it are focusing on what they want, rather than what the users want. Ubuntu had a chance, but then went off track forcing features users didn't necessarily want down their throats because the people in charge of it wanted to.
Not sure what you're going on about here. Canonical set out to own the Linux desktop space and succeeded at that. Now busy leveraging that as an entry into the far more lucrative server space. Hard to see what's wrong with that strategy. And Linux has somewhere between 40 and 80 million desktop users now, based on 2% share of the market. Those are serious numbers by any standard.
Linux in its heart is a Server OS. Its desktop/workstation features are almost a hack onto the systems to make useful.
Oh wow, insightful! And how is that different from MacOS, based on FreeBSD, a server OS? Or Windows 10, based on Windows NT, a server OS? And gosh, isn't it just amazing that Google was able to take over the mobile handset market with a Java API bolted onto a server OS. Insightful indeed.
What you do when people pester you with unreadable proprietary documents? You tell them to fuck off, until they have learned to install another program which is free, and produce a readable document with it...
Well, that usually doesn't work too well as you know. But asking for a pdf instead pretty much always works just fine.
What happens when someone sends you a document that your version of OpenOffice doesn't like...
You have the same problem when somebody sends you a document that your version of MS Office doesn't like. Which happens. A lot. In fact, OpenOffice (Update: LibreOffice) has a reputation for being able to handle documents from various older MS Office versions better than Microsoft does.
Of course what we're discussing here is really a report. A report written by Accenture, a known Micosoft toady.
I do believe that the money you refer to belonged to Iran.
The level had gone down already for years. The repeated and increasingly vocal racism and vulgarity, the inanity, the name-calling, the bigotry...
Take heart, the Natalie Portman posts are gone.
Not that I think Reagan's policies were all great, but he did do an excellent job of being presidential...
He did an excellent job of acting presidential. As a president, Reaganomics was extremely costly to the US economy, and he was demented, literally.
Didn't see this coming but it looks like the republicans will control all branches. It will be interesting to see what they do with that power in the upcoming years.
Change the constitution so it stays that way?
Now stay tuned for the massive transfer of taxpayer funds to bankrupt Trump ventures.
You're literally comparing mild overheating on the Apple notebook with the Samsung product that the FAA has asked removed from planes because it's a danger to passengers.
You Apple cultists really break me up. How about comparing Samsung battery fires to Apple electrocuting kids in their sleep? Sure, Apple blames it on knockoff chargers, but Apple can't deny providing the deadly conductive path from battery to case that made these (multiple!) electrocutions possible.
Hey, did Apple ever take out a full page ad to apologize for that? (Rhetorical question.)
Zbrush is a really bad choice for your argument. Pros use Maya, the rest of us use Blender which arguably surpassed Zbrush long ago and is widely considered as good as or superior to Maya for most of the things a 3D artist needs to do. I'm going to need to write your argument off mainly to fear of exercising neurons. Just remember this: use them or lose them.
You know. . . many folks HAVE to run a Windows OS due to the software they utilize not running on anything else.
That may be true for a small minority people, for the rest it's just an excuse for inaction. Easy to prove: people are abandoning their Windows peecees in droves and doing everything with their phones, tablets, Linux desktops or even macthings. Fact. Kinda erodes any sympathy I might otherwise have for people whining about the evil things Microsoft does to them. It's their choice and they created that monster. They know what to do about it.
There's a large overlap between professional and "prosumer". Your typical wedding photographer is certainly a "professional", but they're not using a Hasselblad medium-format with a tethered digital back, they're just using a standard high-end DSLR, which these days all use SD cards.
Have SD slots, you mean, not use. CF cards are bigger and faster so professionals mainly use them, probably most prosumers too.
Except that on the pro end of the camera spectrum most of them are using or prefer compact flash...
I have a pro-end camera with compact flash slot(s), but I mainly use USB for transfer, which the Macbook pro also doesn't have in any way that I have a cable for.
So you're the guy that writes that Apple software....
I would wager that most IT professionals only use the ethernet port when at their own desk, so any adapter can stay on the desk or attached to a dock...
Where it will get lost. Guaranteed. And will not be there for you when you're at some other desk. And that tends to happen especially often when you don't have your adaptor with you.
I have a 2013 MBP and a laptop bag with adapters.
I have a laptop bag without adapters, because I have a Samsung 500 series, which has a standard ethernet socket and a couple of standard USB A's, which I use constantly for things like, erm, my DSLR, my phones, my 3D printer. You know, stuff that matters. Not that that would mean much to a shambling Apple zombie.
USB-C is just a mobile port, and will remain so for at least decades.
No it won't. Now Apple have dumped USB-A, everybody else will do the same.
Haha, that's funny. I do believe you overestimate the influence of Apple's declining desktop/laptop line.
Boy do you have it wrong. They will keep doing until sufficient people start harassing the fuck out of government to make it fucking illegal.
I agree, being stupid enough to run windows should be illegal.
They'll keep getting more intrusive until too many people start bitching about them...
Actually, I'm in favour of more pain for sheeple who still think Windows is the thing to run. At worst it's free entertainment for Linux users, who we now know number in the tens of millions if you only count PCs, or billions if you count Android. And Windows actually does serve one useful purpose: it provides a vibrant (not quite dead yet) supply of subsidized PCs to run Linux on.
Or equivalently: fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Keep it up Tim, Apple can afford it. And don't worry about those pesky shareholders, they just don't get what real courage is.