I've been an OS X user since 2006 when Intel Macs arrived. I was strictly a linux user for the prior 7 years having abandoned Windows in the late 90s.
The reason I went to OS X was that its *nix under the covers (and gave me all of the programming/scripting power I needed) and also was incredibly stable. I would literally go for months without rebooting and without native (X86, not PPC emulated) apps crashing...at all...ever.
I feel that from a stability POV OS X peaked around 10.6. Ever since then, a pattern of increasing crashes and decreasing reliability has followed every release. The amount of instability is still very small, but when as a user you are used to 0 problems, it is very frustrating. (iOS seems to have followed a similar trajectory lately as well.)
I don't know what's happened to the QA process at Apple and I also don't see the point in rushing out a new OS every year. I would love for them to go back to the simpler, more stable approach that they have 5-6 years ago.
If this was being done legally, there would be no advantage to displacing the US workers; it would only be used for skills in short supply as it was intended. This law is being totally subverted by Infosys, Tata, WiPro and everyone of their customers that uses such replacements. I think that they would qualify for prosecution under RICO statutes.
We about as ready for a paperless office as we are a paperless restroom. Both are technologically feasible, but to adequately handle all use cases is very difficult.
Eventually they will have to. It may be because most of the people they communicate eschew analog communications but its much more likely that the government will actually compel via some form of records retention regulation that will make having in person conversations unpopular because they will need to be recorded.
I've been an Apple user since 06 when they went Intel (strictly *nix for 22 years before that other than a brief, self abusive period using Windows in the late 90s) and I don't understand why the retina, multi-touch tech of the TouchBar isn't implement in the screen as well. Touch may not have seemed important 8 or 9 years ago but between tablets and smartphones touch has become a much more common part of the computing experience.
As long as I'm complaining, I also don't understand why the 13" MBP is limited to 8 Gig of Ram. Memory is cheap and Apps use ridiculous amounts of it now.
Its been interesting to watch the climate debate over the years. The talk has always been about reducing emissions and economic measures. If remediation (and clean energy) had been tackled with the kinds of efforts that won WW2 and put a man on the moon, this problem would be orders of magnitude less now (plus my cellphone charge would last weeks and I'd like that.) Instead "climate change" became all about economic rebalancing and geopolitical issues. We already have technologies that would deal with a lot of the CO2 in the atmosphere but they typically need energy and without clean energy (solar, wind, tidal, nuclear, etc) to power them, they don't do much. Now no one is willing to divert the massive amounts of money needed because that might interfere with the bread & circuses everyone wants.
What happens if you are the second purchaser of the car? There typically is no agreement executed between the manufacturer and the buyer of a used car from a third party
Is throwing quantity at this problem the right answer? If we train lots and lots of people in programming is it really going to help? Is it even going to be successful? How can people believe in this approach?
If someone opened a massive free school for training sculptors and enrolled 1000s of students no one would believe that they would end up with hundreds of Michelangelo's. They wouldn't get lots and lots of excellent sculptors. They'd be lucky to find a 1 or 2 really good ones out of every 1000 students. Then they'd find a few more fairly good ones and the rest would be mediocre to bad. Some would be able to create really elegant statues, some would be good at making blocks, bricks and tombstones and the vast majority would make gravel.
The only difference between this and the mass programming schools is that with sculpting most people could look at their rock based product and easily discern its quality. Not so for programming. That's why this industry is rife with gravel producing developers who try and pass their product off as statuary.
I accomplished the same thing by buying a stucco house with a metal roof. The mesh in the stucco and the roof together do a pretty good simulation of a Faraday cage. They stop TV, FM, Cell, etc...
I'm actually a long time Ford guy. Every vehicle I've bought since 1987 has been a Ford, except for my last purchase. I could not stomach the thought of owning a second vehicle running Sync.
That's just what we want. A company that took several decades to figure out that security and stability might have some value and that has a legacy of releasing barely beta quality software as commercial ship so that its customers could find the problems building the software that controls our cars. Anyone who has been stuck with a Ford Sync (sadly I am in that group) or MyFord Touch radio running the crap software MS built knows how bad of an idea this is.
I am skeptical. I understand that stats are not well understood and are easily twisted to correlate almost anything.
But as a graduate engineer with lots of Calculus, Algebra, Stats and Probability in my past, I personally found probability and statistics a lot harder than Algebra.
To think that people who can't handle 2x + 1 = 3x -1 are going to 'get' statistics is highly improbable to me.
While HVDC might be more efficient (no impedance I guess) there are a lot of infrastructure folks who are not big fans of HVDC. Back in the 80's I was a transmission engineer for Ma Bell and a lot of time and effort went into trying to protect our facilities near high amperage DC installations (like subways.) A fault condition in those can cause significant electrolytic damage to metallic plant. Its inconvenient in telephone plant, painful in water pipes and a serious problem in gas lines. We were constantly checking bonding, placing sacrificial anodes, etc and we weren't the only utility out there doing it.
Of course, over time we put less metal into our infrastructure (plastic pipes, fiber optic cables, etc) but there is still a lot of metallic infrastructure in place that could be adversely affected by DC fault conditions.
From the ripe old age of 7-11 I hopped on my bike everyday and rode it 2.3 miles to school in the morning and back home in the afternoon. In the summers I rode 5-6 miles out to the municipal airport to hang around planes and generally goof-off. From age 6 on, my friends and I trick-or-treated alone, camped out alone, etc...
I can't imagine the trouble my parents would be in now for allowing such behavior.
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I've been an OS X user since 2006 when Intel Macs arrived. I was strictly a linux user for the prior 7 years having abandoned Windows in the late 90s.
The reason I went to OS X was that its *nix under the covers (and gave me all of the programming/scripting power I needed) and also was incredibly stable. I would literally go for months without rebooting and without native (X86, not PPC emulated) apps crashing...at all...ever.
I feel that from a stability POV OS X peaked around 10.6. Ever since then, a pattern of increasing crashes and decreasing reliability has followed every release. The amount of instability is still very small, but when as a user you are used to 0 problems, it is very frustrating. (iOS seems to have followed a similar trajectory lately as well.)
I don't know what's happened to the QA process at Apple and I also don't see the point in rushing out a new OS every year. I would love for them to go back to the simpler, more stable approach that they have 5-6 years ago.
It's time for a little uninstaller project. A nice piece of software that will make sure that you only have the free bits installed.
So Bush and Obama had this 'scary' power as well....
The post says "Researchers at Check Point recently discovered several dozen apps, mainly in third-party app stores, that contain the malware".
Does that mean there are some apps infected with this in the Google app store as well?
At 1/3 of the cost, it's rather irrelevant to those who do nothing but stare at the bottom line all damn day long.
With those kinds of demonstrated cost savings measures, even system outages perpetuated by a lack of skills are somehow justified.
This is the BS part of the H1B Fraud that is going on. If you look up the rules around H1-B one of them is:
You must be paid at least the actual or prevailing wage for your occupation, whichever is higher.
If this was being done legally, there would be no advantage to displacing the US workers; it would only be used for skills in short supply as it was intended. This law is being totally subverted by Infosys, Tata, WiPro and everyone of their customers that uses such replacements. I think that they would qualify for prosecution under RICO statutes.
We about as ready for a paperless office as we are a paperless restroom. Both are technologically feasible, but to adequately handle all use cases is very difficult.
Eventually they will have to. It may be because most of the people they communicate eschew analog communications but its much more likely that the government will actually compel via some form of records retention regulation that will make having in person conversations unpopular because they will need to be recorded.
Yes. I see that in the store now. They didn't mention that as an option in the presentation.
You can also get 2TB SSD in 15" MBP. If/when I upgrade that may be enough to drag me back to a 15" notebook.
I've been an Apple user since 06 when they went Intel (strictly *nix for 22 years before that other than a brief, self abusive period using Windows in the late 90s) and I don't understand why the retina, multi-touch tech of the TouchBar isn't implement in the screen as well. Touch may not have seemed important 8 or 9 years ago but between tablets and smartphones touch has become a much more common part of the computing experience.
As long as I'm complaining, I also don't understand why the 13" MBP is limited to 8 Gig of Ram. Memory is cheap and Apps use ridiculous amounts of it now.
Its been interesting to watch the climate debate over the years. The talk has always been about reducing emissions and economic measures. If remediation (and clean energy) had been tackled with the kinds of efforts that won WW2 and put a man on the moon, this problem would be orders of magnitude less now (plus my cellphone charge would last weeks and I'd like that.) Instead "climate change" became all about economic rebalancing and geopolitical issues. We already have technologies that would deal with a lot of the CO2 in the atmosphere but they typically need energy and without clean energy (solar, wind, tidal, nuclear, etc) to power them, they don't do much. Now no one is willing to divert the massive amounts of money needed because that might interfere with the bread & circuses everyone wants.
What happens if you are the second purchaser of the car? There typically is no agreement executed between the manufacturer and the buyer of a used car from a third party
If it's the bottom half, then it won't be that useful
Copyright written material that can't be transformed into real things
Overreaction is a key component of all aspects of commercial aviation these days
Is throwing quantity at this problem the right answer? If we train lots and lots of people in programming is it really going to help? Is it even going to be successful? How can people believe in this approach?
If someone opened a massive free school for training sculptors and enrolled 1000s of students no one would believe that they would end up with hundreds of Michelangelo's. They wouldn't get lots and lots of excellent sculptors. They'd be lucky to find a 1 or 2 really good ones out of every 1000 students. Then they'd find a few more fairly good ones and the rest would be mediocre to bad. Some would be able to create really elegant statues, some would be good at making blocks, bricks and tombstones and the vast majority would make gravel.
The only difference between this and the mass programming schools is that with sculpting most people could look at their rock based product and easily discern its quality. Not so for programming. That's why this industry is rife with gravel producing developers who try and pass their product off as statuary.
I think the public is being deluded about this.
I accomplished the same thing by buying a stucco house with a metal roof. The mesh in the stucco and the roof together do a pretty good simulation of a Faraday cage. They stop TV, FM, Cell, etc...
I'm actually a long time Ford guy. Every vehicle I've bought since 1987 has been a Ford, except for my last purchase. I could not stomach the thought of owning a second vehicle running Sync.
That's just what we want. A company that took several decades to figure out that security and stability might have some value and that has a legacy of releasing barely beta quality software as commercial ship so that its customers could find the problems building the software that controls our cars. Anyone who has been stuck with a Ford Sync (sadly I am in that group) or MyFord Touch radio running the crap software MS built knows how bad of an idea this is.
I wonder if being a /. reader will raise your profile for being a troublemaker in such systems?
I am skeptical. I understand that stats are not well understood and are easily twisted to correlate almost anything.
But as a graduate engineer with lots of Calculus, Algebra, Stats and Probability in my past, I personally found probability and statistics a lot harder than Algebra.
To think that people who can't handle 2x + 1 = 3x -1 are going to 'get' statistics is highly improbable to me.
So much telemarketing is just scam these days
TFTFY
Most of them seem to be trying to get me to donate to their political campaign or charity, which after further research, doesn't exist.
Nowadays I think I'd rather donate to a political party that doesn't exist than to one that does..
I bought mine from a used bookstore in 1974. It hasn't degraded and for the most part still works quite well.
While HVDC might be more efficient (no impedance I guess) there are a lot of infrastructure folks who are not big fans of HVDC. Back in the 80's I was a transmission engineer for Ma Bell and a lot of time and effort went into trying to protect our facilities near high amperage DC installations (like subways.) A fault condition in those can cause significant electrolytic damage to metallic plant. Its inconvenient in telephone plant, painful in water pipes and a serious problem in gas lines. We were constantly checking bonding, placing sacrificial anodes, etc and we weren't the only utility out there doing it.
Of course, over time we put less metal into our infrastructure (plastic pipes, fiber optic cables, etc) but there is still a lot of metallic infrastructure in place that could be adversely affected by DC fault conditions.
We've spent millions of years evolving in an environment with roughly the same daily periodicity (+- a few seconds.)
Is it really shocking that we can't easily just readjust our internal clock?
From the ripe old age of 7-11 I hopped on my bike everyday and rode it 2.3 miles to school in the morning and back home in the afternoon. In the summers I rode 5-6 miles out to the municipal airport to hang around planes and generally goof-off. From age 6 on, my friends and I trick-or-treated alone, camped out alone, etc...
I can't imagine the trouble my parents would be in now for allowing such behavior.