Agreed. I prefer Apple to keep iMessage to themselves. It will make sure its adoption never become widespread.
We don't need proprietary messaging protocols.
You are part of the niche which needs a dual-CPU and high end GPU for your work and that's fine. But most people don't need that, and might still want a tower Mac. These people have to settle down for an iMac, or pay more for a Mac Pro they don't need. And even there, the new Mac Pro misses many advantages of a tower, such as expandability, and ease to upgrade/repair.
None. When science hasn't fully resolved a question based on the evidence, none of the competing theories should be used as a basis for public policy.
Now I understand the denial logic.
Let say science is 90% confident that a comet is going to crash on the earth, we shouldn't do anything since the question is not fully resolved, right?
That's just plain stupid, whether it's applied to a comet or climate change. Man made climate change is happening. Are we 100% confident? No, but close enough so that we should live accordingly. Again, is the science 100% settled? No. But while we continue research on the matter, there is no reason not to act.
Also it's not just about bash-completion. Most command line tools that have improved over the years and that we take for granted under Linux still have a version from the 80s in OS X (and Solaris and many other UNIX-like OS). An example of that is the tar program which doesn't support the -J argument (xz compression)
https://developer.apple.com/li...http://linux.die.net/man/1/tar
Most GNU version of the coreutils are much more usable.
It's tab completion done right.
ls --[tab] will list all possible arguments of ls starting with --.
sudo a[tab] will list all executables starting with letter "a". Regular bash from the 80s will instead list all files in the current directory starting with letter "a", even if it make no sense.
/etc/[tab] will list only directories and executable in/etc. Regular bash will also list all non-executable files I don't care about.
man 2 o[tab] will list all pages of manual section 2 starting with letter "o"
ssh m[tab] will list all saved ssh hosts I connect to starting with letter "m".
You probably can install bash-completion on Mac. It just isn't there by default, and you probably have to go to some obscure third party repositories to get it.
Sun and IBM machines aren't good examples either. They are stuck in the 80s too. Last time I used Solaris, I was just as frustrated as when I last used OS X about the command line and the lack of bash-completion.
They are not making an SD card or even a reader. They are buying the reader from someone else. Any patents on the card readers must have been paid for by the manufacturer.
Yeah but let say I want to reinstall in two years. Why would I not want to install the latest version directly, which is likely not going to be available from the laptop manufacturer?
I agree that DP is superior. However it's not superior enough for the switch to be worth it. Also DP release was a mess. They started with a connector that was quickly phased out and replaced by mini-DP on almost everything. I have DP ports on my not so old, perfectly working video card. What are they good for now? mDP is still too big for phones, and full-size DP or HDMI are small enough for laptops. Why change again?
The HDMI port is not technically limited to half the bandwidth of DP. It's only that there is no current need for more bandwidth as HDMI 2.0 can drive 4k monitors. I'm sure they will release HDMI 3.0 with more bandwith when needed.
HDMI has CEC. While an equivalent could be developped for DP, not such standard exists yet while CEC is working right now with current devices.
Also, DP devices can't magically support HDMI. They need dual mode support, which basically add the costs of implementing the HDMI/DVI protocol over the costs of DP. You don't end-up saving anything.
DP will never replace HDMI on TVs. So thanks to that competiting standard which brings almost 0 advantage to the end-user, we will be stuck with mDP-HDMI adapters.
Why not?
There are more monitors and TVs out there with an HDMI port than with a display port. Therefore you have more chances of needing an adapter or special cable if you have DP on your laptop than HDMI.
They just won't be allowed to put a SDXC logo sticker on the laptop.
Nothing stops you from bundling a SDXC controller in hardware without the software support for exFAT.
It's still not as easy / integrated as VB6. VB6 was a single package which integrated the IDE, the GUI designer. You could double click a button in your GUI to create a function associated with the "on click" event.
VB6 was simple and allowed very easy GUI creation, which is cool for young students.
VB.NET is much more complex and not as useful (Excel macros).
Python as a language is much better. However beginners will be limited to command line programs, which is not as cool.
Apple doesn't sell into all the market segments. If you want what they're offering, they're quite reasonable. If you don't, then you're going to pay extra for things you don't want or don't care about.
Exactly. And my point was that many people buy Macs, paying extra for things they don't care about, and then they will justify their choice by saying that a similar PC would have been just as expensive, while they would have been just fine with a cheaper PC.
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When will Blackberry stops discriminating against non-Blackberry users by releasing their mobile OS to other manufacturers?
Agreed. I prefer Apple to keep iMessage to themselves. It will make sure its adoption never become widespread. We don't need proprietary messaging protocols.
You are part of the niche which needs a dual-CPU and high end GPU for your work and that's fine. But most people don't need that, and might still want a tower Mac. These people have to settle down for an iMac, or pay more for a Mac Pro they don't need. And even there, the new Mac Pro misses many advantages of a tower, such as expandability, and ease to upgrade/repair.
None. When science hasn't fully resolved a question based on the evidence, none of the competing theories should be used as a basis for public policy.
Now I understand the denial logic. Let say science is 90% confident that a comet is going to crash on the earth, we shouldn't do anything since the question is not fully resolved, right? That's just plain stupid, whether it's applied to a comet or climate change. Man made climate change is happening. Are we 100% confident? No, but close enough so that we should live accordingly. Again, is the science 100% settled? No. But while we continue research on the matter, there is no reason not to act.
Even when the 2009 Mac Pro was new, it was a hell of an expensive gaming machine, even if you could upgrade it. Especially the single CPU Mac Pro.
Also it's not just about bash-completion. Most command line tools that have improved over the years and that we take for granted under Linux still have a version from the 80s in OS X (and Solaris and many other UNIX-like OS). An example of that is the tar program which doesn't support the -J argument (xz compression) https://developer.apple.com/li... http://linux.die.net/man/1/tar Most GNU version of the coreutils are much more usable.
It's tab completion done right.
/etc/[tab] will list only directories and executable in /etc. Regular bash will also list all non-executable files I don't care about.
ls --[tab] will list all possible arguments of ls starting with --.
sudo a[tab] will list all executables starting with letter "a". Regular bash from the 80s will instead list all files in the current directory starting with letter "a", even if it make no sense.
man 2 o[tab] will list all pages of manual section 2 starting with letter "o"
ssh m[tab] will list all saved ssh hosts I connect to starting with letter "m".
McAfee free for 30 days. Windows 10 one year. What a hell it will be to buy a Dell laptop next year.
You probably can install bash-completion on Mac. It just isn't there by default, and you probably have to go to some obscure third party repositories to get it. Sun and IBM machines aren't good examples either. They are stuck in the 80s too. Last time I used Solaris, I was just as frustrated as when I last used OS X about the command line and the lack of bash-completion.
They are not making an SD card or even a reader. They are buying the reader from someone else. Any patents on the card readers must have been paid for by the manufacturer.
Yeah but let say I want to reinstall in two years. Why would I not want to install the latest version directly, which is likely not going to be available from the laptop manufacturer?
But in order to carry the SDXC logo, the device must be capable of reading and writing the patented file system.
I am pretty sure they couldn't care less about that logo.
I agree that DP is superior. However it's not superior enough for the switch to be worth it. Also DP release was a mess. They started with a connector that was quickly phased out and replaced by mini-DP on almost everything. I have DP ports on my not so old, perfectly working video card. What are they good for now? mDP is still too big for phones, and full-size DP or HDMI are small enough for laptops. Why change again?
The HDMI port is not technically limited to half the bandwidth of DP. It's only that there is no current need for more bandwidth as HDMI 2.0 can drive 4k monitors. I'm sure they will release HDMI 3.0 with more bandwith when needed.
HDMI has CEC. While an equivalent could be developped for DP, not such standard exists yet while CEC is working right now with current devices.
Also, DP devices can't magically support HDMI. They need dual mode support, which basically add the costs of implementing the HDMI/DVI protocol over the costs of DP. You don't end-up saving anything.
DP will never replace HDMI on TVs. So thanks to that competiting standard which brings almost 0 advantage to the end-user, we will be stuck with mDP-HDMI adapters.
Just do enable the non-free and contrib repositories on Debian and you are fine then.
And these OS are never maintained / updated so are worthless.
What was wrong with standard Linux distributions such as Debian / Ubuntu / whatever?
Why not? There are more monitors and TVs out there with an HDMI port than with a display port. Therefore you have more chances of needing an adapter or special cable if you have DP on your laptop than HDMI.
DisplayPort also have DRM (HDCP). HDMI is still more useful than DisplayPort given it's on every TV and many computer monitors.
r8169 works well in most cases. I'm sure the particular chipset used in that laptop has been tested.
They just won't be allowed to put a SDXC logo sticker on the laptop. Nothing stops you from bundling a SDXC controller in hardware without the software support for exFAT.
It's still not as easy / integrated as VB6. VB6 was a single package which integrated the IDE, the GUI designer. You could double click a button in your GUI to create a function associated with the "on click" event.
VB.NET is more powerful, but not any easier to learn than say Java or C#.
VB6 was simple and allowed very easy GUI creation, which is cool for young students. VB.NET is much more complex and not as useful (Excel macros). Python as a language is much better. However beginners will be limited to command line programs, which is not as cool.
Apple doesn't sell into all the market segments. If you want what they're offering, they're quite reasonable. If you don't, then you're going to pay extra for things you don't want or don't care about.
Exactly. And my point was that many people buy Macs, paying extra for things they don't care about, and then they will justify their choice by saying that a similar PC would have been just as expensive, while they would have been just fine with a cheaper PC.
If you think your laptop hardware is ever going to break or die within the timeframe of a warranty (hint: they almost always do)
Maybe for Apple products, but other laptop almost never fail within the first year.