When I was using Windows I always had Cygwin installed, and when I switched to using a Mac one of my favorite aspects (seriously) was having a real shell and all of the unix utilities again.
I went from Windows to Linux, but then (circa 2003) switched to Mac because it gave me all the Unix tools I relied on, along with easier access to mainstream programs I needed - like Photoshop.
Now, Microsoft is moving towards the command line for power users, while Apple appears to be dropping hints they want to lock down computers the same way they lock down iOS. When I'm ready for a new computer in two or three years, I'm not sure it'll be a Mac. I still have a lot of history-driven distrust of Microsoft, though... but Linux is still there.
And perhaps, by that point in time, systemd will include its own 64-bit Windows emulation layer. At which point I might opt for early retirement and no computers at all.
My point is: this issue is nothing new... it's the same thing we already have with IPv4. You only get one address from your cable company, and (at least with Comcast) it doesn't seem to change much, if at all. In practice, the only time my cable modem's external IPv4 address ever changed was after extended power failures.
Your ISP probably assigned a/64 to your home - so you can always keep rotating IPv6 addresses on your computer(s) if you feel the need to confuse your enemies. But they’ll still be able to see what sort of requests flow to and from your cable modem (or whatever)... just like they could with IPv4.
What do I care if it's somewhat slower than AnyDVD? I hardly buy any movies at all, anyway, since most of the time if I've seen it once I have no interest in seeing it again. And it's not like I'm hanging around while I rip a Blu-Ray or DVD.
I have the Series 1. The drop in battery life closely coincided with the update to OS 4 - I was pretty happy with my two day battery life before that, but now I’m lucky if I can make it to a day and a half. And, unfortunately, rolling back isn’t a viable option.
Since I sleep with my watch on and charge it during the day while I’m at my desk, the drop is annoying because I now have less flexibility in picking a good time to charge it.
I find it handy for rather simple things. Getting notifications and texts on my wrist means I don’t miss them any more. I find the timer app handy. Also, having an alarm clock on my wrist is preferable to the one on my nightstand - something I initially learned from my previous wearable, a Garmin Vivosmart.
That said, it’s still an open question whether this Watch will be followed by another one. The battery life isn’t great... and with watchOS 4 it got noticeably worse (heck, lots of stuff went south in watchOS 4 - as what’s been the case with other recent Apple software. Did all the good Apple coders leave six months ago?). And if it ends up having a useful life span of less than three years, I won’t bother with replacing it.
Not to mention there still seems to be boatloads of churn in the space.
It's not just battery life, it's the fact that due to internal resistance, older batteries can't deliver as much current even when they are adequately charged. This causes the phone to crash and restart, even if the battery is at 40% charge, because it has enough power but cannot deliver it fast enough.
I keep reading this, but I have to wonder... if it's just a physical battery issue, why did the "suddenly die at 32% battery charge" issue not rear its head before iOS 10.3 (or whatever point release it was)?
Rather than make up numbers, why not look them up? Here are some real numbers - have fun with them.
Cost of Medicare per person per year is roughly $12000. Medicare isn't free, either - it's significantly subsidized, but the average subscriber is paying about $7600 a year. So that means that taxpayers are paying about $5400 per year per Medicare subscriber. Medicare payments currently make up roughly 15% of the total US budget, with enrollee premiums and deductibles returning a little over 60% of that.
Cost of social security per person per year is roughly $16320. It makes up about 20% of the total budget. Social Security is (ostensibly) paid for by current-worker taxes, but is certainly going to need retooling one way or another.
Military spending in 2015 was less than 16% of the US budget, although that is currently going up.
Also interest on the debt takes up 6% of the budget.
Somebody on FOX reported that the moon landings were faked; so now Trump doesn't believe they happened and thinks really landing a man on the moon will cement his place in history.
Troubleshooting is really a bitch with systemd, much more time-consuming. For instance, often systemctl reports a daemon as failed while it's not, or suddenly decides that it didn't start because of some mysterious arbitrary timeout while the daemon just needs some time to run a maintenance tasks at startup time.
Not to mention that the damn logs are not plain text, which in itself complicates things before you even have the chance to start troubleshooting.
They didn't need a person to take my order and no one had to wait.
I'm guessing when you say "no one had to wait" you actually mean "I didn't have to wait". From what I've seen, Starbucks prioritizes mobile orders. My personal experience has been that walk-ins now wait longer because the service personnel keep getting interrupted by new mobile orders.
But, in any case, I don't go to Starbucks as much as I used to. There's this other place - Specialty's Cafe and Bakery - that's right next to the Starbucks at Seattle's International District station. The coffee is better, the baked goods are amazing (and mostly made on premises!), and walk-in service is incredibly fast. Hmm, maybe I shouldn't be encouraging more customers...
”Most stories around space today seem to revolve around SpaceX, but let's not forget that space is also a place for cool physics experiments.”
Well, if the sum total of your science reading amounts to scanning Slashdot headlines, perhaps this is true. But then you probably also believe that the vast majority of financial news stories involve Bitcoin.
Otherwise... no. There’s a lot of very cool real space science going on right now! Meanwhile Musk is essentially running an innovative delivery service.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, coal is also a renewable!
... given a long-enough timeframe.
If they can get pre-payments for the pickups, they can use them to fullfil orders for the model-3 or Y? /s
You make Tesla sound like a pyramid scheme... and maybe you have a point.
Price it under $30,000 so people who are considering (or already own) a pickup truck will actually look at this.
Until it works with The Clapper, its greatest potential benefit will be missing.
7 out of every 10 Indians are vitamin deficient. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
Probably just small sample size.
You are killing a living orgasm just to have something that is pleasurable to eat.
I cant speak for the rest of you, but I’d take the living orgasm over the tasty food, any day of the week.
When I was using Windows I always had Cygwin installed, and when I switched to using a Mac one of my favorite aspects (seriously) was having a real shell and all of the unix utilities again.
I went from Windows to Linux, but then (circa 2003) switched to Mac because it gave me all the Unix tools I relied on, along with easier access to mainstream programs I needed - like Photoshop.
Now, Microsoft is moving towards the command line for power users, while Apple appears to be dropping hints they want to lock down computers the same way they lock down iOS. When I'm ready for a new computer in two or three years, I'm not sure it'll be a Mac. I still have a lot of history-driven distrust of Microsoft, though... but Linux is still there.
And perhaps, by that point in time, systemd will include its own 64-bit Windows emulation layer. At which point I might opt for early retirement and no computers at all.
My point is: this issue is nothing new... it's the same thing we already have with IPv4. You only get one address from your cable company, and (at least with Comcast) it doesn't seem to change much, if at all. In practice, the only time my cable modem's external IPv4 address ever changed was after extended power failures.
Your ISP probably assigned a /64 to your home - so you can always keep rotating IPv6 addresses on your computer(s) if you feel the need to confuse your enemies. But they’ll still be able to see what sort of requests flow to and from your cable modem (or whatever)... just like they could with IPv4.
What do I care if it's somewhat slower than AnyDVD? I hardly buy any movies at all, anyway, since most of the time if I've seen it once I have no interest in seeing it again. And it's not like I'm hanging around while I rip a Blu-Ray or DVD.
Plus MakeMKV is available for Mac.
I have the Series 1. The drop in battery life closely coincided with the update to OS 4 - I was pretty happy with my two day battery life before that, but now I’m lucky if I can make it to a day and a half. And, unfortunately, rolling back isn’t a viable option.
Since I sleep with my watch on and charge it during the day while I’m at my desk, the drop is annoying because I now have less flexibility in picking a good time to charge it.
I find it handy for rather simple things. Getting notifications and texts on my wrist means I don’t miss them any more. I find the timer app handy. Also, having an alarm clock on my wrist is preferable to the one on my nightstand - something I initially learned from my previous wearable, a Garmin Vivosmart.
That said, it’s still an open question whether this Watch will be followed by another one. The battery life isn’t great... and with watchOS 4 it got noticeably worse (heck, lots of stuff went south in watchOS 4 - as what’s been the case with other recent Apple software. Did all the good Apple coders leave six months ago?). And if it ends up having a useful life span of less than three years, I won’t bother with replacing it.
Not to mention there still seems to be boatloads of churn in the space.
It's not just battery life, it's the fact that due to internal resistance, older batteries can't deliver as much current even when they are adequately charged. This causes the phone to crash and restart, even if the battery is at 40% charge, because it has enough power but cannot deliver it fast enough.
I keep reading this, but I have to wonder... if it's just a physical battery issue, why did the "suddenly die at 32% battery charge" issue not rear its head before iOS 10.3 (or whatever point release it was)?
Rather than make up numbers, why not look them up? Here are some real numbers - have fun with them.
Cost of Medicare per person per year is roughly $12000. Medicare isn't free, either - it's significantly subsidized, but the average subscriber is paying about $7600 a year. So that means that taxpayers are paying about $5400 per year per Medicare subscriber. Medicare payments currently make up roughly 15% of the total US budget, with enrollee premiums and deductibles returning a little over 60% of that.
Cost of social security per person per year is roughly $16320. It makes up about 20% of the total budget. Social Security is (ostensibly) paid for by current-worker taxes, but is certainly going to need retooling one way or another.
Military spending in 2015 was less than 16% of the US budget, although that is currently going up.
Also interest on the debt takes up 6% of the budget.
Especially since, unlike most "welfare/social" spending, the military budget isn't made up of mostly mandated expenditures.
But no - let's cut grandma and grandpa's Social Security and Medicare benefits. Those old folks are living high on the government-sponsored hog.
Somebody on FOX reported that the moon landings were faked; so now Trump doesn't believe they happened and thinks really landing a man on the moon will cement his place in history.
Found the Frenchman!
(more seriously, I'm all in favor of that)
Troubleshooting is really a bitch with systemd, much more time-consuming. For instance, often systemctl reports a daemon as failed while it's not, or suddenly decides that it didn't start because of some mysterious arbitrary timeout while the daemon just needs some time to run a maintenance tasks at startup time.
Not to mention that the damn logs are not plain text, which in itself complicates things before you even have the chance to start troubleshooting.
They didn't need a person to take my order and no one had to wait.
I'm guessing when you say "no one had to wait" you actually mean "I didn't have to wait". From what I've seen, Starbucks prioritizes mobile orders. My personal experience has been that walk-ins now wait longer because the service personnel keep getting interrupted by new mobile orders.
But, in any case, I don't go to Starbucks as much as I used to. There's this other place - Specialty's Cafe and Bakery - that's right next to the Starbucks at Seattle's International District station. The coffee is better, the baked goods are amazing (and mostly made on premises!), and walk-in service is incredibly fast. Hmm, maybe I shouldn't be encouraging more customers...
”Most stories around space today seem to revolve around SpaceX, but let's not forget that space is also a place for cool physics experiments.”
Well, if the sum total of your science reading amounts to scanning Slashdot headlines, perhaps this is true. But then you probably also believe that the vast majority of financial news stories involve Bitcoin.
Otherwise... no. There’s a lot of very cool real space science going on right now! Meanwhile Musk is essentially running an innovative delivery service.
I think that’s probably true for quite a few Americans; but by no means all of them. However if stereotyping makes you fell better, who am I to judge?
They could call them PAX.
Welcome to Mormon Con 2018!
With Blackjack! And Hookers!
Well, on the bright side - once all the other jobs have been automated, we'll at least be able to keep busy.