So you had Jobs who had vision. Then you have Cook who is very good at ops. He can squeeze every last cent out of everything they do.
I'm in the Apple ecosystem - have been for about 15 years. But Tim Cook - and the current crop of vocal Apple apologists - remind me uncannily of Steve Ballmer and the Microsoft apologists from 15 years ago.
Another great show I managed to kill off... When I really like a show, you can pretty much guarantee it's not going to last. At least this one made it a couple seasons.
RIP Max Headroom, Twin Peaks, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Firefly - and too many others to mention. Some of them you can't even get on DVD, the interest is so low...
There was a campy, over-the-top parody TV show called "Sledge Hammer" back in the 80s... although even if you're old enough, you may not remember it since it wasn't exactly a roaring success. The "protagonist" (using that term loosely) was a gun-happy cop whose solution to everything involved using his gun. If someone was stealing a candy bar, he might shoot the candy bar out of the perp's hands, for instance. If an old lady missed her bus, he might shoot out the tires of the bus.
Anyway, right now Intel reminds me of the show's intro. Most of it just featured glamour shots of Sledge Hammer's gun... but, at the end, Sledge Hammer says "Trust me, I know what I'm doing", and he shoots - but the bullet miscarries, resulting in a (virtual) bullet hole on your TV screen.
I'd forgotten those were optical out, since they also handle analog (and that's how I've generally used them). The Express is certainly more flexible in that regard. If you can get them from Apple's refurbished store, and if you're in the Mac ecosystem, they're worth grabbing for $65 or thereabouts.
A last option I'm seriously considering though, is just getting a really nice set of speakers to put wherever I'd put a smart speaker, and then buy a box to make them AirPlay compatible (if they did not come that way already).
While it's questionable whether Apple is going to update the hardware... I've used the Airport Express for this sort of thing. Alternatively, if you want optical audio out, you could do the same thing with a cheap third-gen Apple TV (probably cheaper than the Express).
If you'd said that ten years ago, I'd have bought it - but, since that time, Google has proven it doesn't really know how to develop and sustain any sort of strategy outside of its core advertising group.
"Facebook" might be a better bet to own the internet in 20 years, though.
There was no patch released for El Capitan, nor one for Sierra to the best of my knowledge. Both are still maintained by Apple.
I expect those patches will come later, as did the Meltdown and Spectre fixes.
It’s too bad Apple is such a small shop... they should consider hiring a couple extra folks so they can keep on top of all their supported products. I certainly wouldn’t want something trivial, like development a security patch, to adversely impact the release schedule of the Animoji team.
I expect this is just step one. Once Chrome users are used to this, then Google will introduce step 2. That may be Google rewriting the links to channel everything through AMP, or it may be something less blatant but more insidious.
It's just another reason not to use IE6... er, I mean, Google Chrome. They're just going to keep taking further and further advantage of their dominant market position to go into full-MS mode. Twenty years from now, people will be amazed that anyone saw Google as anything but the second coming of Y2K Microsoft.
With MS Office, at least, I believe it’s Microsoft’s guidance even on x86 to use the 32-bit version unless you have a specific need for 64-bit. So it’s not like there’s a functional difference in that use case.
I haven’t had this problem with either UPS or FedEx.
Amazon delivery, on the other hand... a couple weeks ago, I had to return a package that had been thrown into the grass inside a fenced yard (not for the first time). It was out there a couple days because the Amazon delivery driver had recorded “handed directly to a neighbor” - some of my neighbors have odd hours, so it takes a while to make contact with all of them. I finally happened to notice a small yellow corner of an envelope poking up amid a bunch of tall grass..
I’ve had Amazon drivers stuff boxes into trees (“left in a secure location”, the delivery note said - thank God the imbecile actually took a delivery photo that time!); in the grass; sitting in the rain, right underneath a laminated 8”x11” sign stating “please deliver packages to the back door”; all sorts of ridiculous locations. I’ve complained every time, and been told each time that I can’t exclude Amazon delivery from my options.
I’ve had Prime for years... but, after the latest debacle, I cancelled all my subscribe and save deliveries and am spending the next ten months (till renewal time) exploring alternatives to Amazon. There are certainly a number of companies trying to get into that space...
Yeah, when I’m working on the train... the problem isn’t that my LTE connections aren’t fast enough - they are plenty fast. The issue is the holes in coverage where the speed drops to almost nothing.
And those holes seem to be shared across providers, at least along my Sounder train route. My phone is on T-Mobile now, but I used to be with AT&T - and I have also checked using a Verizon iPad. They all seem to crap out in the same spots.
Its a bit odd, since Verizon does a better job when I head into the true boonies (which is the reason I bought that device). But they do have some holes in their urban coverage.
How long must I wait How much more can I take Before loneliness will cause my heart Heart to break?
No I can't bear to live my life alone I grow impatient for a love to call my own But when I feel that I, I can't go on These precious words keeps me hangin' on
Melissa Hobley:
You can't hurry love No, you just have to wait She said love don't come easy It's a game of give and take
You can't hurry love No, you just have to wait You got to trust, give it time No matter how long it takes
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Since the summary and article specifically refer to Americans... we write checks, not “scribble cheques”.
(And I can’t remember the last time I actually wrote a check, although I do have a checkbook - I use my debit card, and pay bills via my bank’s online bill pay)
Instead, I do distracted train riding. I’m so reckless, I’ve been known to read books while the train flies along. If I’m feeling especially daring, I’ll close my eyes - sometimes for minutes at a time.
Could WIndows and Mac ever become fully compatible with Linux software?
There's a lot of unix software which will "configure - make - sudo make install" just fine on Mac. For other stuff that's more complicated, projects like Fink or Brew or MacPorts can often help. And, even if these projects don't offer the software you're looking for, those tools can probably provide the underlying libraries your software requires for building.
(although I have yet to manage to get mlocate installed on my Mac)
My wife’s primary computer is an iMac, but we have Windows 7 installed in a VM (Parallels) so she can run her sewing and pattern-making software. Given she doesn’t actually browse the web* or read email inside of Windows... I wonder if there’d be any harm in just keeping that VM on Windows 7 after 2020-01-14?
* She downloads her patterns and even software from the Mac side of things.
Slashdot Mirror
"What would you do for a Klondike Bar?"
"Would you become a Klondike Bar?"
We were close to have Herpes-Man running around!!!
As I understand things, there are quite a lot of them running around already.
Something in particular about that specific robot dog really creeps me out.
So you had Jobs who had vision. Then you have Cook who is very good at ops. He can squeeze every last cent out of everything they do.
I'm in the Apple ecosystem - have been for about 15 years. But Tim Cook - and the current crop of vocal Apple apologists - remind me uncannily of Steve Ballmer and the Microsoft apologists from 15 years ago.
Love it!
Another great show I managed to kill off... When I really like a show, you can pretty much guarantee it's not going to last. At least this one made it a couple seasons.
RIP Max Headroom, Twin Peaks, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Firefly - and too many others to mention. Some of them you can't even get on DVD, the interest is so low...
There was a campy, over-the-top parody TV show called "Sledge Hammer" back in the 80s... although even if you're old enough, you may not remember it since it wasn't exactly a roaring success. The "protagonist" (using that term loosely) was a gun-happy cop whose solution to everything involved using his gun. If someone was stealing a candy bar, he might shoot the candy bar out of the perp's hands, for instance. If an old lady missed her bus, he might shoot out the tires of the bus.
Anyway, right now Intel reminds me of the show's intro. Most of it just featured glamour shots of Sledge Hammer's gun... but, at the end, Sledge Hammer says "Trust me, I know what I'm doing", and he shoots - but the bullet miscarries, resulting in a (virtual) bullet hole on your TV screen.
That's Intel, in a nutshell.
I'd forgotten those were optical out, since they also handle analog (and that's how I've generally used them). The Express is certainly more flexible in that regard. If you can get them from Apple's refurbished store, and if you're in the Mac ecosystem, they're worth grabbing for $65 or thereabouts.
A last option I'm seriously considering though, is just getting a really nice set of speakers to put wherever I'd put a smart speaker, and then buy a box to make them AirPlay compatible (if they did not come that way already).
While it's questionable whether Apple is going to update the hardware... I've used the Airport Express for this sort of thing. Alternatively, if you want optical audio out, you could do the same thing with a cheap third-gen Apple TV (probably cheaper than the Express).
If you'd said that ten years ago, I'd have bought it - but, since that time, Google has proven it doesn't really know how to develop and sustain any sort of strategy outside of its core advertising group.
"Facebook" might be a better bet to own the internet in 20 years, though.
There was no patch released for El Capitan, nor one for Sierra to the best of my knowledge. Both are still maintained by Apple.
I expect those patches will come later, as did the Meltdown and Spectre fixes.
It’s too bad Apple is such a small shop... they should consider hiring a couple extra folks so they can keep on top of all their supported products. I certainly wouldn’t want something trivial, like development a security patch, to adversely impact the release schedule of the Animoji team.
I expect this is just step one. Once Chrome users are used to this, then Google will introduce step 2. That may be Google rewriting the links to channel everything through AMP, or it may be something less blatant but more insidious.
It's just another reason not to use IE6... er, I mean, Google Chrome. They're just going to keep taking further and further advantage of their dominant market position to go into full-MS mode. Twenty years from now, people will be amazed that anyone saw Google as anything but the second coming of Y2K Microsoft.
With MS Office, at least, I believe it’s Microsoft’s guidance even on x86 to use the 32-bit version unless you have a specific need for 64-bit. So it’s not like there’s a functional difference in that use case.
I haven’t had this problem with either UPS or FedEx.
Amazon delivery, on the other hand... a couple weeks ago, I had to return a package that had been thrown into the grass inside a fenced yard (not for the first time). It was out there a couple days because the Amazon delivery driver had recorded “handed directly to a neighbor” - some of my neighbors have odd hours, so it takes a while to make contact with all of them. I finally happened to notice a small yellow corner of an envelope poking up amid a bunch of tall grass..
I’ve had Amazon drivers stuff boxes into trees (“left in a secure location”, the delivery note said - thank God the imbecile actually took a delivery photo that time!); in the grass; sitting in the rain, right underneath a laminated 8”x11” sign stating “please deliver packages to the back door”; all sorts of ridiculous locations. I’ve complained every time, and been told each time that I can’t exclude Amazon delivery from my options.
I’ve had Prime for years... but, after the latest debacle, I cancelled all my subscribe and save deliveries and am spending the next ten months (till renewal time) exploring alternatives to Amazon. There are certainly a number of companies trying to get into that space...
Yeah, when I’m working on the train... the problem isn’t that my LTE connections aren’t fast enough - they are plenty fast. The issue is the holes in coverage where the speed drops to almost nothing.
And those holes seem to be shared across providers, at least along my Sounder train route. My phone is on T-Mobile now, but I used to be with AT&T - and I have also checked using a Verizon iPad. They all seem to crap out in the same spots.
Its a bit odd, since Verizon does a better job when I head into the true boonies (which is the reason I bought that device). But they do have some holes in their urban coverage.
Me: 2004 Camry ...
Me: smirks at the guy with the new car.
Lonely Silicon Valley men:
How long must I wait
How much more can I take
Before loneliness will cause my heart
Heart to break?
No I can't bear to live my life alone
I grow impatient for a love to call my own
But when I feel that I, I can't go on
These precious words keeps me hangin' on
Melissa Hobley:
You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take
You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
You got to trust, give it time
No matter how long it takes
(Apologies to the Supremes and/or Phil Collins)
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Since the summary and article specifically refer to Americans... we write checks, not “scribble cheques”.
(And I can’t remember the last time I actually wrote a check, although I do have a checkbook - I use my debit card, and pay bills via my bank’s online bill pay)
Costco also charges you an annual membership fee... and Amazon does their damnedest to do the same thing.
Instead, I do distracted train riding. I’m so reckless, I’ve been known to read books while the train flies along. If I’m feeling especially daring, I’ll close my eyes - sometimes for minutes at a time.
So be careful if you see my train coming!
Could WIndows and Mac ever become fully compatible with Linux software?
There's a lot of unix software which will "configure - make - sudo make install" just fine on Mac. For other stuff that's more complicated, projects like Fink or Brew or MacPorts can often help. And, even if these projects don't offer the software you're looking for, those tools can probably provide the underlying libraries your software requires for building.
(although I have yet to manage to get mlocate installed on my Mac)
For what you're doing - why dual-boot? A VM would serve just as well.
I, for one, would never believe that Gal Gadot shot up a school...
My wife’s primary computer is an iMac, but we have Windows 7 installed in a VM (Parallels) so she can run her sewing and pattern-making software. Given she doesn’t actually browse the web* or read email inside of Windows... I wonder if there’d be any harm in just keeping that VM on Windows 7 after 2020-01-14?
* She downloads her patterns and even software from the Mac side of things.
Google needs 4 messaging apps, so why not 4 email apps?
Email client #4, “Flotsam”, is currently being dogfooded at Google with a soft-scheduled external launch date just before Memorial Day.