I see no reason why I shouldn't be allowed to keep using old software as long as I want to.
You can do that with Apple - I have very old Apple laptops that still work perfectly well.
Not quite true. If ever your filesystem gets corrupted you probably have no simple way (if any) of reinstalling the Apple software you currently have. How do you install an old version of MacOS? How do you install an old version of Keynote? Or GarageBand? Or anything really.
If you read the graph on the link you posted yourself you would see that by the $/MWh metric nuclear power is far lower than offshore wind and solar. It is more expensive than conventional coal and hydro, and also onshore wind which still require a stable electricity production such as coal, gas or nuclear for when there's no wind.
So no, Nuclear is not the most expensive, not even by far.
So, what make you think you deserve other people's money flowing your way? Your suffering is somewhat more worthy than other's?
Also, if success is now the exception, please explain who is going to pay for these $1000/mo ?
And last, throwing money at the poor does a lot of short term good. That's true. But it doesn't solve the root cause and actually aggravates it as it removes a lot of incentive to the poor to get out of their misery. It's hard to say but someone with an empty belly usually works harder.
So finding a balance is important. Giving flat out $1000/mo to everyone is IMO way way way overboard. Plus no state can fund that. At all. And money doesn't grow on trees.
> these cached thumbnails are stored on non- > encrypted hard drives,... content stored on > encrypted containers.
This does not make sense. If the hard drives are encrypted by FileVault; the storage location for these thumbnails would be encrypted too. Where else is this cache supposed to live? I'm pretty sure that Apple does not add an extra, secret, non-encrypted drive to everyone's Macs so as to cache these silly little images. And as if the summary weren't bad enough, it gets worse when you read the article. QuickLook isn't new, as they claim. It was introduced as part of Leopard, more than a decade ago. And a quick check on my CLI shows that TEMPDIR is very much part of my encrypted root volume. I'm thinking these people are not the "macOS security experts" they claim to be; and msmash failed as an editor in not properly vetting the article he chose to post.
I guess the issue is when you have your laptop drive not encrypted and you connect an encrypted USB-stick on it. It then creates thumbnails of what's on your USB stick and store them on your unencrypted system drive.
Canada, the Philippines, and the United States had been among the only countries to use first-to-invent systems, but each switched to first-to-file in 1989, 1998, and 2013 respectively.
So the US is in a first to file mode now and prior art doesn't mean a thing to invalidate a patent. Only a previous patent can.
And it has been from the beginning. Zuckerberg called his first few thousand users "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their data, and that's how he's built the whole thing: screw people and their data.
Now it shows.
What surprises me the most is how this did not happen before.
Why are you instantly interpreting this as a bug? It may very well be a feature. People have been complaining that animations hamper usability. I see this animation "glitch" as a clever way of making the text appear instantly and then wrapping the background around it through an animation. This way you get the animation and the instant text that helps usability.
And talk about being subtle. I did watch this segment of the video 3 times before giving up and reading what the glitch was.
This animation is fine by me.
The poor handling of the animations in the calculator was news. This is just barinless Apple bashing.
I'm going to have to cite Anubis IV in the post he made just above yours:
It’s interesting to note, but I agree that it’s of little significance. Moreover, while it looks odd, I can’t say with 100% certainty that it’s a bug at all (though if I had to bet, I’d bet it was), given that it allows the eye to start processing the text before the animation completes, which may have been an intentional decision. There are numerous examples of companies intentionally making odd choices of exactly that sort in order to enhance usability, even if it comes at the cost of what looks correct when you go through it frame by frame or pixel by pixel.
I am indeed not sure this is a bug. It may be more subtle. But don't let that slow down your rage against Apple.
Wired headphones require a chip from them to work 100%
Nope they don't. It's simple analog connectivity, even for the remote (volume plus one button)
Any apps you buy must be through them
True. But you have a fair share of free apps though, which does not require you to buy anything.
Any ads through said apps are through their ad service
Nope. Plenty of third party Sdks or APIs provide ads that Apple has nothing to do with. iAd is dead and even when alive, it was not a requirement to go through them.
Speaking of which, good luck on their invasion of privacy
Being one of the only GAFA company that makes zero money off of your data, I am fairly confident that there is no other company in this selected group I'd rather place my data with.
APL (like Google) is selling your information to provide ads
Apple do not provide ads. iAd is dead. What are you talking about? Cookies? They just killed third party cookies on all their browser. Idfa? True they provide a unique identifier for their phones to apps so that they can identify a device. That's hardly selling your information.
Disclaimer: I own an iPhone which is the only Apple thing I've ever owned. This does not make me a fan, but I try and stay objective. Apple has a lot of horrible flaws, but your list is just ridiculous. Why not attacking them on their drawbacks instead of spreading lies?
You're reading it completely backward. It's not that modern computers satisfy users needs, it's that developers stopped doing bloated software thinking that in two years the hardware will make it run fine. Because Moore's law stopped and new computers stopped being 2x more powerful every 18 month. Increase in power is much slower these days, so your 5 year old computer is still not that less powerful from the top of the line today. So software written for the top of the line run fine on yours.
It's the same for smartphones. 3G iPhone was slow as hell compared to a 3GS, itself much slower than a 4, etc... These days, the power increase is much more incremental, so a 3 years old iPhone is a bit more powerful than an iPhone X, but not that much, so it is able to run the same software at more than acceptable speed.
It's not about user needs. It's about year over year speed increases slowing down.
FLAC and Apple Lossless is probably as best as it's going to get. High res audio - while useful for mastering/mixing and other pro transformations - is utterly useless for end-user music listening gear.
It's probably less than 25% in that a single page's javascript operates on a single logical core and a dual-core processor w/hyperthreading has four logical cores.
JavaScript has been able to work with multiple threads on modern browsers for quite a while now. Just google "web workers".
All that you are saying is true. But you should read my post and the post I was replying to. You'll then realise that what you are saying has nothing to do with my point.
I agree completely with almost everything you said, except this:
"could have made a lot of money off of people replacing their batteries."
While that is true, it's a LOT less money than they'll make from people replacing the entire phone instead, which I think most folks would do.
The question being, which scenario would lead the user to buy a new phone faster: 1) the phone randomly shuts down when below 30% and using a lot of CPU 2) the phone displays a message "Your battery is about to die we will slow it down to ensure proper usability"
If it is illegal, at least it cannot be used against you in a court of law. that's the only difference.
Of course, when they see someone doing illegal stuff on a regular basis, they ask for a warrant and then everything becomes legal. But in order to ask for a warrant they are supposed to convince a judge of the hint you have. Not that much of a roadblock I guess. But still.
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I see no reason why I shouldn't be allowed to keep using old software as long as I want to.
You can do that with Apple - I have very old Apple laptops that still work perfectly well.
Not quite true. If ever your filesystem gets corrupted you probably have no simple way (if any) of reinstalling the Apple software you currently have. How do you install an old version of MacOS? How do you install an old version of Keynote? Or GarageBand? Or anything really.
Google comparing its $799 phone with $449 iPhone. WOW.
It's worse than that: Google comparing its $799 latest flagship phone with a 2 years old $449 iPhone.
WOW indeed.
Android Studio is very much on par with visual studio to be fair, but that's probably because it's basically resharper.
Android Studio is IntelliJ IDEA, not resharper, although both are provided by JetBrains.
Exactly. Why are we even letting Trump bring Russia and Korea into the house?
Because you elected him as your president ?
If you read the graph on the link you posted yourself you would see that by the $/MWh metric nuclear power is far lower than offshore wind and solar. It is more expensive than conventional coal and hydro, and also onshore wind which still require a stable electricity production such as coal, gas or nuclear for when there's no wind.
So no, Nuclear is not the most expensive, not even by far.
Remember Apple fanboys laughing at the Samsung exploding battery fiasco. Poor Apple Fanboys.
One damaged iPad explosion in a shop vs hundreds of new phones catching fire in consumer's hands.
I guess Apple fanboys are still laughing.
is better :P
Third is lame though.
And the hackers go to jail now, right?
or the designer who left that feature (as in authentication) out?
You apparently haven't been following the news lately. White hats go to jail for disclosing blatant security holes but the designers are fine.
So, what make you think you deserve other people's money flowing your way? Your suffering is somewhat more worthy than other's?
Also, if success is now the exception, please explain who is going to pay for these $1000/mo ?
And last, throwing money at the poor does a lot of short term good. That's true. But it doesn't solve the root cause and actually aggravates it as it removes a lot of incentive to the poor to get out of their misery. It's hard to say but someone with an empty belly usually works harder.
So finding a balance is important. Giving flat out $1000/mo to everyone is IMO way way way overboard. Plus no state can fund that. At all. And money doesn't grow on trees.
> these cached thumbnails are stored on non- ... content stored on
> encrypted hard drives,
> encrypted containers.
This does not make sense. If the hard drives are encrypted by FileVault; the storage location for these thumbnails would be encrypted too. Where else is this cache supposed to live? I'm pretty sure that Apple does not add an extra, secret, non-encrypted drive to everyone's Macs so as to cache these silly little images. And as if the summary weren't bad enough, it gets worse when you read the article. QuickLook isn't new, as they claim. It was introduced as part of Leopard, more than a decade ago. And a quick check on my CLI shows that TEMPDIR is very much part of my encrypted root volume. I'm thinking these people are not the "macOS security experts" they claim to be; and msmash failed as an editor in not properly vetting the article he chose to post.
I guess the issue is when you have your laptop drive not encrypted and you connect an encrypted USB-stick on it. It then creates thumbnails of what's on your USB stick and store them on your unencrypted system drive.
No need to be an expert. Common sense is enough.
You mean, why did apple allowed apps to access your address book after you gave it the explicit consent to do it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The relevant part:
Canada, the Philippines, and the United States had been among the only countries to use first-to-invent systems, but each switched to first-to-file in 1989, 1998, and 2013 respectively.
So the US is in a first to file mode now and prior art doesn't mean a thing to invalidate a patent. Only a previous patent can.
No, I'm one of those users who thinks SFTP is unnecessary for anonymous FTP access.
What https does is twofold: 1. Encrypt, 2. Prevent MITM attacks.
Even your anonymous FTP download could be MITMed and you have no guarantee that you're even talking to the right server.
And it has been from the beginning. Zuckerberg called his first few thousand users "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their data, and that's how he's built the whole thing: screw people and their data.
Now it shows.
What surprises me the most is how this did not happen before.
Care to elaborate ?
Why are you instantly interpreting this as a bug? It may very well be a feature. People have been complaining that animations hamper usability. I see this animation "glitch" as a clever way of making the text appear instantly and then wrapping the background around it through an animation. This way you get the animation and the instant text that helps usability.
And talk about being subtle. I did watch this segment of the video 3 times before giving up and reading what the glitch was.
This animation is fine by me.
The poor handling of the animations in the calculator was news. This is just barinless Apple bashing.
I'm going to have to cite Anubis IV in the post he made just above yours:
It’s interesting to note, but I agree that it’s of little significance. Moreover, while it looks odd, I can’t say with 100% certainty that it’s a bug at all (though if I had to bet, I’d bet it was), given that it allows the eye to start processing the text before the animation completes, which may have been an intentional decision. There are numerous examples of companies intentionally making odd choices of exactly that sort in order to enhance usability, even if it comes at the cost of what looks correct when you go through it frame by frame or pixel by pixel.
I am indeed not sure this is a bug. It may be more subtle. But don't let that slow down your rage against Apple.
If that was even true, they'd have to prosecute everyone who loses their card. Because that's the same thing, legally.
But in any event, that's not what the case was over. He had a legal fare.
Losing a card and willingly destroying it is hardly the same thing in regard of the law.
Wow. So many lies. Let's try and fix that:
Wired headphones require a chip from them to work 100%
Nope they don't. It's simple analog connectivity, even for the remote (volume plus one button)
Any apps you buy must be through them
True. But you have a fair share of free apps though, which does not require you to buy anything.
Any ads through said apps are through their ad service
Nope. Plenty of third party Sdks or APIs provide ads that Apple has nothing to do with. iAd is dead and even when alive, it was not a requirement to go through them.
Speaking of which, good luck on their invasion of privacy
Being one of the only GAFA company that makes zero money off of your data, I am fairly confident that there is no other company in this selected group I'd rather place my data with.
APL (like Google) is selling your information to provide ads
Apple do not provide ads. iAd is dead. What are you talking about? Cookies? They just killed third party cookies on all their browser. Idfa? True they provide a unique identifier for their phones to apps so that they can identify a device. That's hardly selling your information.
Disclaimer: I own an iPhone which is the only Apple thing I've ever owned. This does not make me a fan, but I try and stay objective. Apple has a lot of horrible flaws, but your list is just ridiculous. Why not attacking them on their drawbacks instead of spreading lies?
You're reading it completely backward. It's not that modern computers satisfy users needs, it's that developers stopped doing bloated software thinking that in two years the hardware will make it run fine. Because Moore's law stopped and new computers stopped being 2x more powerful every 18 month. Increase in power is much slower these days, so your 5 year old computer is still not that less powerful from the top of the line today. So software written for the top of the line run fine on yours.
It's the same for smartphones. 3G iPhone was slow as hell compared to a 3GS, itself much slower than a 4, etc... These days, the power increase is much more incremental, so a 3 years old iPhone is a bit more powerful than an iPhone X, but not that much, so it is able to run the same software at more than acceptable speed.
It's not about user needs. It's about year over year speed increases slowing down.
Apple Music is at 256 kbps. Airplay can do 16/44.1, basically redbook audio. No high res, though...
FLAC and Apple Lossless is probably as best as it's going to get. High res audio - while useful for mastering/mixing and other pro transformations - is utterly useless for end-user music listening gear.
It's probably less than 25% in that a single page's javascript operates on a single logical core and a dual-core processor w/hyperthreading has four logical cores.
JavaScript has been able to work with multiple threads on modern browsers for quite a while now. Just google "web workers".
All that you are saying is true. But you should read my post and the post I was replying to. You'll then realise that what you are saying has nothing to do with my point.
I agree completely with almost everything you said, except this:
"could have made a lot of money off of people replacing their batteries."
While that is true, it's a LOT less money than they'll make from people replacing the entire phone instead, which I think most folks would do.
The question being, which scenario would lead the user to buy a new phone faster:
1) the phone randomly shuts down when below 30% and using a lot of CPU
2) the phone displays a message "Your battery is about to die we will slow it down to ensure proper usability"
My bet is on #1.
If it is illegal, at least it cannot be used against you in a court of law. that's the only difference.
Of course, when they see someone doing illegal stuff on a regular basis, they ask for a warrant and then everything becomes legal. But in order to ask for a warrant they are supposed to convince a judge of the hint you have. Not that much of a roadblock I guess. But still.