That's true but not quite the full picture, at least in the UK. Terminals which support Apple Pay allow people to go over the normal contactless limit of £30. I don't know about Android Pay but I would imagine it's similar.
This is rose-tinted thinking. We didn't have a clue about methodologies and processes in the 80s either, when I taught myself to code in BASIC. Version control? I'd tell you I'd heard of it but I hadn't. Early 90s I did - I copied directories to different names. rcs etc.
There's irony in putting that in an article praising GitHub, i.e. git, written by a guy who resisted source control for so long and then claimed it was because every system was rubbish except his. He knew nothing about process either.
Facebook - yes. But the rest? I'm not aware of them 'partitioning of the web' - I can usually visit with any recent browser. Apple don't sell customer data either so...
All round "Huh?" from me. I kind of know what they're getting at, but it's swing-and-a-miss.
Total aside - I once was playing someone I would normally win against, but I screwed up and he completely overran me. He decided to show off by getting about six queens on the board.
The look on his face when he got the last one and realised I had placed myself in a stalemate position ready for when he did so...
And again - some make-up of that 50% or 90% will be 'green' policies. If I 45% agreed with you before, but now like your climate change policies it might tip me over the 50% needed to vote for you.
Again, the nature of democracy means that is simply not the case - there wouldn't have been enough numbers for a majority if that were true, and the mainstream parties would not have shifted position. They aren't single issue voters - such voters were likely voting for the Green Party anyway.
The point is they voted for people to make the rules. In many cases they already were doing something about them, and they wanted those rules to be the norm. They were willing, they made the change, they voted for the change to be normalised, and now it is.
This just isn't the case. I'll talk about the UK because I'm more familiar with it, but other countries will have similar stories. Changes have been made to energy consumption, rules brought in on recycling, incentives given for electric transport, stress on public transport - people see and vote for these things. Yes - every party. Clearly some in the UK want to go further than others, but there is no party that has no policy in this area.
This didn't happen by magic - this happened because the public consistently and repeatedly voted for candidates that had policies leaning more in that direction. And again - before someone tries to make this a domestic political scrap, this was for every party of every stripe. People do do things when given the chance.
It's China. They often delay live broadcasts to prevent anything hitting the screen if, say, a Human Rights protester suddenly invades the area and starts waving flags about Tiananmen Square. They often do this with news outlets and interviews of their politicians, for instance.
The delaying of the game's broadcast may have nothing to do with the game itself, and everything to do with the fact it is an international platform for China.
That's statement is also pure editorial and assumption. There's nothing to suggest that's actually the reason - it might well be for other things (demos suddenly occurring or similar, for instance).
Agreed, the lack of bundling a cable with the iPhone is a flaw they should fix and it will be interesting to know if they do with their next phone. But you can buy USB C -> Lightning, same way as you can buy USB A -> Lightning. I really don't think the entire strategy is invalid due to the lack of a $10 cable.
My MacBook, single USB C, does 'real work' just fine. The MacBook Pros will do more of it, should you need to. The aim isn't a million dongles, the point is you've bought the start of the new normal.
For my education please - I mean step-by-step. I can see it's a phishing thing. I can see it could copy itself to SMB 1 shares. But...err...then what? How did it spread, or did it not spread and the impact is 'only' to the files visible on the original machine?
Reminds me an awful lot of the old I Love You virus, which was a vbs script and which copied itself to shares as well. This new one is more sophisticated obviously, but I was around for that particular piece of 'fun'.
This is a good thing. Like the 68k->PowerPC, and then the PowerPC->Intel transition - you've got to start somewhere, or you're stuck on one architecture forever.
I see the negativity in many of the posts. I don't understand it. You have to make a start somehow, and this is a good one. If you then allow cross compilation in Visual Studio, then you're essentially taking the same approach Apple did to manage its transitions, and those transitions were damned near seamless. Thanks Microsoft for trying to move and do something different. And yes, I really mean that.
Yes but the Thinkpad is a very different form factor. My daughter has a ~5 year old (might be slightly older) Thinkpad - it's fine, but it's not comparable to the MacBook. You're describing raw CPU power and memory, but what you describe as an advantage I think of as a disadvantage. I hate fans on laptops - I don't want active cooling. I like my battery life, I care little for the front camera (never use it). The keyboard I like, and I find typing on older Mac laptops to feel sloppy now. That's personal preference and I can understand different views.
I like Thinkpads. I like my MacBook. I like my tower gaming desktop. They're all very different purposes. For my wants and needs, the MacBook is great.
Fair point so I'll explain - it doesn't work the same way. Windows back is your standard file-based backup. Time Machine is content aware and works at application level as well as files. This is both a curse and a blessing - if you know exactly what you want to do, navigating it is slow and cumbersome. If you are looking for "damn, I know this was here -some- time, let's just keep flicking until I find it" then Time Machine is better.
Well interestingly - no, you don't. The automatic PDK-equipped Porches are faster than the manuals. You think you've lost power by losing the ability to fiddle all the time, but actually you've really gained it and can just get on with the job.
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That's true but not quite the full picture, at least in the UK. Terminals which support Apple Pay allow people to go over the normal contactless limit of £30. I don't know about Android Pay but I would imagine it's similar.
I really don't think the parsing speed of RSS's XML is going to be an issue here...
This is rose-tinted thinking. We didn't have a clue about methodologies and processes in the 80s either, when I taught myself to code in BASIC. Version control? I'd tell you I'd heard of it but I hadn't. Early 90s I did - I copied directories to different names. rcs etc.
There's irony in putting that in an article praising GitHub, i.e. git, written by a guy who resisted source control for so long and then claimed it was because every system was rubbish except his. He knew nothing about process either.
It was rabid.
Facebook - yes. But the rest? I'm not aware of them 'partitioning of the web' - I can usually visit with any recent browser. Apple don't sell customer data either so...
All round "Huh?" from me. I kind of know what they're getting at, but it's swing-and-a-miss.
Total aside - I once was playing someone I would normally win against, but I screwed up and he completely overran me. He decided to show off by getting about six queens on the board.
The look on his face when he got the last one and realised I had placed myself in a stalemate position ready for when he did so...
You know, apart from exile or being confined to a single building for multiple years on end. I mean apart from that nothing too serious.
And again - some make-up of that 50% or 90% will be 'green' policies. If I 45% agreed with you before, but now like your climate change policies it might tip me over the 50% needed to vote for you.
Again, the nature of democracy means that is simply not the case - there wouldn't have been enough numbers for a majority if that were true, and the mainstream parties would not have shifted position. They aren't single issue voters - such voters were likely voting for the Green Party anyway.
It's just not the case. 'Green' position became electoral gold - politicians moved that way in order to attract more votes.
The point is they voted for people to make the rules. In many cases they already were doing something about them, and they wanted those rules to be the norm. They were willing, they made the change, they voted for the change to be normalised, and now it is.
This just isn't the case. I'll talk about the UK because I'm more familiar with it, but other countries will have similar stories. Changes have been made to energy consumption, rules brought in on recycling, incentives given for electric transport, stress on public transport - people see and vote for these things. Yes - every party. Clearly some in the UK want to go further than others, but there is no party that has no policy in this area.
This didn't happen by magic - this happened because the public consistently and repeatedly voted for candidates that had policies leaning more in that direction. And again - before someone tries to make this a domestic political scrap, this was for every party of every stripe. People do do things when given the chance.
I'm not American. UK does this a little as well, but not that frequently.
It's China. They often delay live broadcasts to prevent anything hitting the screen if, say, a Human Rights protester suddenly invades the area and starts waving flags about Tiananmen Square. They often do this with news outlets and interviews of their politicians, for instance.
The delaying of the game's broadcast may have nothing to do with the game itself, and everything to do with the fact it is an international platform for China.
That's statement is also pure editorial and assumption. There's nothing to suggest that's actually the reason - it might well be for other things (demos suddenly occurring or similar, for instance).
Still employed.
A Samsung one.
Yeah, I know. Miaaooow....
Agreed - if you're buying into USB C today, then you have early adopter status with all the attendant pain as well as benefits that comes with it.
Also agreed with the business one too - but then, look what happened to them...
Agreed, the lack of bundling a cable with the iPhone is a flaw they should fix and it will be interesting to know if they do with their next phone. But you can buy USB C -> Lightning, same way as you can buy USB A -> Lightning. I really don't think the entire strategy is invalid due to the lack of a $10 cable.
Have a look at the New York Times getting their review of the iMac so desperately wrong in 1998. You sound like that.
My MacBook, single USB C, does 'real work' just fine. The MacBook Pros will do more of it, should you need to. The aim isn't a million dongles, the point is you've bought the start of the new normal.
For my education please - I mean step-by-step. I can see it's a phishing thing. I can see it could copy itself to SMB 1 shares. But...err...then what? How did it spread, or did it not spread and the impact is 'only' to the files visible on the original machine?
Reminds me an awful lot of the old I Love You virus, which was a vbs script and which copied itself to shares as well. This new one is more sophisticated obviously, but I was around for that particular piece of 'fun'.
This is a good thing. Like the 68k->PowerPC, and then the PowerPC->Intel transition - you've got to start somewhere, or you're stuck on one architecture forever.
I see the negativity in many of the posts. I don't understand it. You have to make a start somehow, and this is a good one. If you then allow cross compilation in Visual Studio, then you're essentially taking the same approach Apple did to manage its transitions, and those transitions were damned near seamless. Thanks Microsoft for trying to move and do something different. And yes, I really mean that.
Yes but the Thinkpad is a very different form factor. My daughter has a ~5 year old (might be slightly older) Thinkpad - it's fine, but it's not comparable to the MacBook. You're describing raw CPU power and memory, but what you describe as an advantage I think of as a disadvantage. I hate fans on laptops - I don't want active cooling. I like my battery life, I care little for the front camera (never use it). The keyboard I like, and I find typing on older Mac laptops to feel sloppy now. That's personal preference and I can understand different views.
I like Thinkpads. I like my MacBook. I like my tower gaming desktop. They're all very different purposes. For my wants and needs, the MacBook is great.
Fair point so I'll explain - it doesn't work the same way. Windows back is your standard file-based backup. Time Machine is content aware and works at application level as well as files. This is both a curse and a blessing - if you know exactly what you want to do, navigating it is slow and cumbersome. If you are looking for "damn, I know this was here -some- time, let's just keep flicking until I find it" then Time Machine is better.
Well interestingly - no, you don't. The automatic PDK-equipped Porches are faster than the manuals. You think you've lost power by losing the ability to fiddle all the time, but actually you've really gained it and can just get on with the job.
The analogy is damned near perfect in fact.