I'll have a stab. The environment is just 'better'. Application software works well together, synchronisation with the phone is excellent, the gesture-controlling is really nice (trackpad on desktop and/or laptop - never been a fan of Apple's mice). For the more technical there's the Unix underpinnings too, although that has been eroded a little by Win 10's ability to install a Windows kernel-based Unix distro and run natively.
Text rendering is better - I really, really notice the difference in typography when switching between Windows, Linux and the Mac. The graphic design is arguably better, though that comes down to preference and I don't dislike Win 10's design language. Consistency is better - when you have the latest shiny Win 10 UI, you know that as you click around in the new Settings you'll eventually hit ye olde Control Panel and apps that don't appear to have been updated in looks since NT4. The new stuff is normally a veneer too - every time you get serious with a Windows machine, you end up blowing past its current shell and into the old NT4 tools to do 'real work'.
File handling is better - none of this "can't move a file because it's open" nonsense, and you can rename the files as they're open as well. Built-in back-up.
You get the idea. It's not the just the machine, it's not just the software - it's the overall environment that's nicer. That's what makes it worth it to me.
Posting from a 'too thin single-port MacBook with its passively cooled CPU' here: absolutely do not agree. Back to the GP's comment - not everyone is trying to optimise for the same things.
I love the silence and portability of this machine. I look at the new MacBooks as being just too huge for me. On here I run Logic Pro X without any hassles (which is the heaviest my CPU-loading gets), my document-based stuff works well and so does my online stuff. I also drop into Terminal (well, Cathode actually, for a bit of fun) and work on the Unix side of things too. I run VMs without issue - what's not to like?
As you have done with C - the CPU speaks binary, not C. Multiple layers of automated translation have been applied to your syntactic sugar. Otherwise known as - compiling.
1st generation high level makes it 3rd generation language. C is often called 2nd, even though it's newer, because of its mix of low level and high level constructs. You don't hear so much about 4GLs anymore, but stuff like Powerbuilder etc. - the powerful, expressive and obvious way to program a computer that eliminates the need to learn programming syntax and cuts out the middle man.
The UK was ahead in recognising format shifting, but was slapped back by the copyright lobby demanding payment for format shifting and working that angle via the EU.
This one is a great book about the early days of getting computer companies established. The significance of Commodore is often overlooked these days, but at the time they were trouncing the likes of Apple.
Unfortunately, Jack Tramiel never really evolved into a big company player and kept small practices like starving suppliers etc. going. The later nepotism didn't help much either. This is a fascinating book of how a company that should have become what Apple is today, with tech way ahead of its time, fell into ruin. Well worth the read.
Ah, is this why all these things keep popping up? I keep thinking "but I can already do that and have been able to for years". Decades in fact (and at this point, for almost a decade on mobile as well).
Genuine point of education for me if people don't mind please - can you not just use your own banking app, or a national standard similar to PAYM? Is it that people are charged for doing that in the US?
Couldn't happen to a nicer site. They stole that data and took it private anyway - I was contributing to that in good faith when it was still a community project driven from Cardiff University. An early lesson for me, and one I've not forgotten.
Not many wild chickens in the world. If we could make artificial chicken meat, and I'd be all for eating it since it seems less cruel to me, then people would stop breeding chickens for food.
Chicken isn't the most perfect example for this because we also eat eggs. Apply that logic to pigs though - yep, much more of a problem.
....and the inflammatory sexist statement, made without any proof, at the end doesn't help. Extrapolating from the timing (we have literally nothing else to go on) it looks to me that he wasn't fired for wanting to take care of his wife. Seems more likely he was let go for either lying (or "sin of omission") at the interview and then asking for special treatment when he turned up.
We don't know what the role was, so we don't know how likely it would be for evening/weekend work etc.. A company may well have a duty of care to its employees, but it does not have a duty of care to people who aren't its employees. Unless this was all nailed down at interview then the company didn't get what they were told they were getting. Sympathy for an employee is one thing and we don't know how the company would have responded to an existing employee suddenly having that need. What we're seeing appears to be a potential employee hiding something until actually employed and then trying to spring it on a company as an obligation.
I am currently at a company that has been extremely generous to me in terms of time needed at home. I would not expect that same generosity if I had turned up at interview asking for the same, and I certainly wouldn't expect it if I turned up without letting them know and then saying "surprise, I'm working like this now".
The sharper image is the problem. You need a multisync that can go down to a resolution as low as 128x128 without issues, at half the rates of VGA (15Khz). The Hantarex repair page gives a small insight into the kind of specs required.
My own MAME machine has a 20" (I think) Hantarex being driven by a 1st gen ArcadeVGA - really old nVidea that has a custom BIOS flashed to guarantee 15Khz scan rates. It is superb. Without this, you're relying on software scaling to try and smooth things out, and it's really not the same.
What? He had nothing to do with DNS, that's all pre-the web. I used to use the old uk.ac.someuni.somemachine conventions on JANET in 1990, then we bridged over to the internet and had to start using the other one. Definitely pre-web.
Agree except for the iPhone bit (or high-end Android phone , it's not a platform war I'm describing). That has exactly the same rationale as the the high end graphics card - if I'm going to be using something constantly, then I want the best/fastest/most functional/. A high-end phone rather than el cheapo is exactly the kind of choice that getting the high-end graphics card is, if you actually plan on using the capabilities they have.
All you have to do is specify the requirements, then you can just graphically draw it and put the app together! That's it! That's all you'll ever need to do. And it will work, just like it did in the 90s.
Actually, it will work exactly like it did in the 90s. Which is to say not at all, and to store up a load of 4GL take-out projects for the early 2000s...
To what question? Different investors are looking for different outcomes. Some are risk averse, some might be bet-it-all-on-red, some might be looking to gain exposure to different market segments, others might be wanting to diversify...
Correct. Universal apps, or fat binaries or whatever you want to call them, are the norm in Appleland and have been for quite some time. You distribute a single application and the system picks which binary to actually run.
Apple has said no such thing and this is assumption based on extrapolation of some dialog text. I think it is likely, but this is being presented as fact when it's still assumption at this point.
They're not emulating, they're virtualising. Direct passthrough to the hardware via a hypervisor API is possible, so it's possible that there is advantage to running an Intel-tuned VM on an Intel hardware platform.
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Depends on the tech - programmers seem to love 'em (including myself, though sadly I don't code anywhere near as much I used to).
I'll have a stab. The environment is just 'better'. Application software works well together, synchronisation with the phone is excellent, the gesture-controlling is really nice (trackpad on desktop and/or laptop - never been a fan of Apple's mice). For the more technical there's the Unix underpinnings too, although that has been eroded a little by Win 10's ability to install a Windows kernel-based Unix distro and run natively.
Text rendering is better - I really, really notice the difference in typography when switching between Windows, Linux and the Mac. The graphic design is arguably better, though that comes down to preference and I don't dislike Win 10's design language. Consistency is better - when you have the latest shiny Win 10 UI, you know that as you click around in the new Settings you'll eventually hit ye olde Control Panel and apps that don't appear to have been updated in looks since NT4. The new stuff is normally a veneer too - every time you get serious with a Windows machine, you end up blowing past its current shell and into the old NT4 tools to do 'real work'.
File handling is better - none of this "can't move a file because it's open" nonsense, and you can rename the files as they're open as well. Built-in back-up.
You get the idea. It's not the just the machine, it's not just the software - it's the overall environment that's nicer. That's what makes it worth it to me.
Posting from a 'too thin single-port MacBook with its passively cooled CPU' here: absolutely do not agree. Back to the GP's comment - not everyone is trying to optimise for the same things.
I love the silence and portability of this machine. I look at the new MacBooks as being just too huge for me. On here I run Logic Pro X without any hassles (which is the heaviest my CPU-loading gets), my document-based stuff works well and so does my online stuff. I also drop into Terminal (well, Cathode actually, for a bit of fun) and work on the Unix side of things too. I run VMs without issue - what's not to like?
As you have done with C - the CPU speaks binary, not C. Multiple layers of automated translation have been applied to your syntactic sugar. Otherwise known as - compiling.
1st generation high level makes it 3rd generation language. C is often called 2nd, even though it's newer, because of its mix of low level and high level constructs. You don't hear so much about 4GLs anymore, but stuff like Powerbuilder etc. - the powerful, expressive and obvious way to program a computer that eliminates the need to learn programming syntax and cuts out the middle man.
Hmm.
This is the exact opposite of what has happened - in fact the EU already prevented the UK from liberalising such rules, as it wanted a tax on blank media or similar as per other EU countries. Guardian link on the same subject if you prefer.
The UK was ahead in recognising format shifting, but was slapped back by the copyright lobby demanding payment for format shifting and working that angle via the EU.
This one is a great book about the early days of getting computer companies established. The significance of Commodore is often overlooked these days, but at the time they were trouncing the likes of Apple.
Unfortunately, Jack Tramiel never really evolved into a big company player and kept small practices like starving suppliers etc. going. The later nepotism didn't help much either. This is a fascinating book of how a company that should have become what Apple is today, with tech way ahead of its time, fell into ruin. Well worth the read.
Ah, is this why all these things keep popping up? I keep thinking "but I can already do that and have been able to for years". Decades in fact (and at this point, for almost a decade on mobile as well).
Genuine point of education for me if people don't mind please - can you not just use your own banking app, or a national standard similar to PAYM? Is it that people are charged for doing that in the US?
Couldn't happen to a nicer site. They stole that data and took it private anyway - I was contributing to that in good faith when it was still a community project driven from Cardiff University. An early lesson for me, and one I've not forgotten.
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Nothing fledgling about it in 1991, everything well on the way.
It can. Emacs, on the other hand...
Oh for gawd's sake - your argument is "I can't wait for two weeks, so I'm going to turn to crime". I mean, really...
Not many wild chickens in the world. If we could make artificial chicken meat, and I'd be all for eating it since it seems less cruel to me, then people would stop breeding chickens for food.
Chicken isn't the most perfect example for this because we also eat eggs. Apply that logic to pigs though - yep, much more of a problem.
....and the inflammatory sexist statement, made without any proof, at the end doesn't help. Extrapolating from the timing (we have literally nothing else to go on) it looks to me that he wasn't fired for wanting to take care of his wife. Seems more likely he was let go for either lying (or "sin of omission") at the interview and then asking for special treatment when he turned up.
We don't know what the role was, so we don't know how likely it would be for evening/weekend work etc.. A company may well have a duty of care to its employees, but it does not have a duty of care to people who aren't its employees. Unless this was all nailed down at interview then the company didn't get what they were told they were getting. Sympathy for an employee is one thing and we don't know how the company would have responded to an existing employee suddenly having that need. What we're seeing appears to be a potential employee hiding something until actually employed and then trying to spring it on a company as an obligation.
I am currently at a company that has been extremely generous to me in terms of time needed at home. I would not expect that same generosity if I had turned up at interview asking for the same, and I certainly wouldn't expect it if I turned up without letting them know and then saying "surprise, I'm working like this now".
Money. You're doing it for money, and that's where the app revenues are.
The sharper image is the problem. You need a multisync that can go down to a resolution as low as 128x128 without issues, at half the rates of VGA (15Khz). The Hantarex repair page gives a small insight into the kind of specs required.
My own MAME machine has a 20" (I think) Hantarex being driven by a 1st gen ArcadeVGA - really old nVidea that has a custom BIOS flashed to guarantee 15Khz scan rates. It is superb. Without this, you're relying on software scaling to try and smooth things out, and it's really not the same.
What? He had nothing to do with DNS, that's all pre-the web. I used to use the old uk.ac.someuni.somemachine conventions on JANET in 1990, then we bridged over to the internet and had to start using the other one. Definitely pre-web.
Agree except for the iPhone bit (or high-end Android phone , it's not a platform war I'm describing). That has exactly the same rationale as the the high end graphics card - if I'm going to be using something constantly, then I want the best/fastest/most functional/. A high-end phone rather than el cheapo is exactly the kind of choice that getting the high-end graphics card is, if you actually plan on using the capabilities they have.
All you have to do is specify the requirements, then you can just graphically draw it and put the app together! That's it! That's all you'll ever need to do. And it will work, just like it did in the 90s.
Actually, it will work exactly like it did in the 90s. Which is to say not at all, and to store up a load of 4GL take-out projects for the early 2000s...
To what question? Different investors are looking for different outcomes. Some are risk averse, some might be bet-it-all-on-red, some might be looking to gain exposure to different market segments, others might be wanting to diversify...
Correct. Universal apps, or fat binaries or whatever you want to call them, are the norm in Appleland and have been for quite some time. You distribute a single application and the system picks which binary to actually run.
It doesn't. Apple have said you must support 64bit. They haven't said you must drop 32bit. Universal apps could still be supported.
Apple has said no such thing and this is assumption based on extrapolation of some dialog text. I think it is likely, but this is being presented as fact when it's still assumption at this point.
The century-old pound was a different currency, literally. The current currency started in 1971 with decimalisation.
They're not emulating, they're virtualising. Direct passthrough to the hardware via a hypervisor API is possible, so it's possible that there is advantage to running an Intel-tuned VM on an Intel hardware platform.