The passwords are kept in local encrypted storage...at least that is what the password manager is supposed to do. Not sure how the Google account syncing goes. Remembering passwords is fine, autofilling in passwords is a major security issue and this is why reputable browsers turned that off. There is some inconvenience, but looking up the password in the password manager is not that difficult.
Quite a difference between hiring dirt cheap suppliers and cafeteria rice...which I doubt the workers get a break to eat anyway. Apple has so much cash that they struggle putting it somewhere. There is absolutely no need for Apple to continue business with companies that treat employees that badly. Of course, enslaving Chinese workers might just eek out that extra cent per part to make the already wildly obnoxious profit margin even bigger. So how far up does the responsibility go? Within Apple it goes all the way to the top. Sadly, Chinese workers lack the legal protections that are common in other places. So how far does the responsibility go? All the way to the side as well. Anyone buying Apple product is endorsing such labor practices!
Not even that! Paper ballot and a pen. Done! Hand count the votes and have all parts of the election process open to public inspection. There is no need to involve computers at all. Yes, results will come in later, but I rather wait a day and have them be trustworthy than be fast and wonder who hacked the system. Paper ballots go into envelopes that get sealed and dropped into a transparent ballot box. That way observers can make sure that there is no ballot box stuffing going on. The only problem is with transporting the ballot boxes to the counting place, but using a bus will take care of that concern. Plenty of space for observers to travel with the ballot boxes to make sure that nobody slips in a bunch of extras.
Nope...only if there is a physical presence as the OP states. That can be anything from a warehouse or a sales office. I wonder how this will work out if it gets changed. Some states have no sales tax, others have around 4% while others have more than double that. Plus, counties and municipalities often have their own sales taxes as well. It also does not solve the question where an online trade takes place. In the state where the seller has the central office? In the state where the warehouse is? In the state where the server for the transaction is located (may even vary by minute to minute in the cloud!)? Or where the buyer is located? Other countries do not have this issue because the sales tax / VAT is the same everywhere in the country and federal/state/local figure it out on their terms who gets how much of the pot. Makes it a heckuva lot easier for businesses and consumers!!
Another aspect is that the majority of households no longer has the cash to spend on toys like a new PC. Cost of living and especially health care expenses grow drastically while real income is flat or even declining. If the PC makers want folks to buy more stuff then they should start and make a point by not paying their C level chair warmers millions in salaries and even more in stock. Do I like to have a rocket with a Ryzen CPU and a kick-ass graphics card paired with only SSDs and 10G Ethernet? Sure...but my focus is getting food on the table and pay the mortgage. After that not much money is left.
Look at what the demo guys pull out of a C64 or even the original IBM PC! If coders would code that efficiently and with more focus on performance we'd all be in a much better place.
The HUGE difference is that any tablet lacks a decent keyboard and mouse input. For even light office work a tablet on its own is useless. Some are powerful enough to operate a desktop setup, but then the argument that a tablet can be used is no longer accurate.
Folks, running Mac OS X in a VM is against the license agreement you need to accept. Nevertheless, there are ways to run OS X on VMWare Workstation using a patch that gets distributed in a popular Mac forum....use Bing to google for the rest of the info.;)
If you do that you violate the end user agreement!! Look it up, you have to compile on Apple hardware, not on a virtualized environment. You may want to keep quiet on that part.
And virtualization has become a commodity even in the home. You can get decent used VMWare servers for a few hundred bucks, add a regular desktop setup with big disks running FreeNAS, an inexpensive 10G networking setup, and you got enough resources to serve the family. Keep a decent gaming PC around and the rest is inexpensive Raspberry Pis that are good enough for casual stuff and can remote into a beefy VM any time. Plus...more and more stuff moves to tablets and phones, the need to have an array of PCs for various tasks is just not there anymore...and most users never had that in the first place.
Apple is no longer a computer manufacturer, but geared towards mass market consumer electronics while keeping the obnoxious premium price. In the PC area they grab somewhat decent off the shelf components, stuff them into a designer case, and slap a 2,000 $ price tag on it although the parts are only 800 $ worth if bought retail. The difference is the OS and after using it regularly the past years I still cannot make any sense of it. The workflow is often clunky, items are arranged in the least intuitive manner, and simple processes like installing an application take far too many clicks. It's far from "just works". I get the same or often a better experience from any one of the Linux distros that get skinned like OS X...for a fraction of the price with far better performance on much cheaper hardware.
Apple should farm out their hardware builds to companies like Alienware (although I am sure they can do better), have some design input, and otherwise license the OS and also sell it retail after making it AMD compatible. It is obvious that Apple has zero interest in the desktop market, but they can grow their ecosystem if they leave the desktop hardware part to others.
AMD doesn't have as much issues as the overpriced Intel junk. There are problems, but they are harder to abuse and, although harder to mitigate as well, fixed by now without any reboot issues or other new flaws. Intel used to be the go to vendor for performance CPUs, but with Ryzen the gap closed. Sure, they may be some odd cases where Intel still fares better, but not twice as much money better. The folks at Intel hang out too much with the morons from Apple.
It is a similar case like the proceedings against tobacco companies. Or do you argue that they were without fault because they did not force anyone to light up?
NYC should do its part as well and stop yellow cabs driving around aimlessly in anticipation of customers. Have distributed waiting areas for the taxis to park and a means to call a cab that shows up at the street corner a few minutes later. That will not only minimize the waste of gas, but also reduce traffic, and reduce the fine dust emissions from exhaust and rubber tires hitting crappy roads.
No wonder, electricity providers are still operating with 60s tech..if they "modernized", typically it is the same way as Edison did. How about investing in that rather than a pointless border wall?
As voiced by others, as far as broadband is concerned, it ought not to matter what the transmission medium is. Compare it to HD TV, same quality and properties no matter if it comes over copper, fiber, or the air.
Moving the goal post as in this case is always bad. Declaring a bit better than dial-up service as broadband is nothing else than political gaming so that in a fe months the administration can claim they brought broadband to all of rural America. This plan is totally ignoring facts that in order to take part in the digital world folks will need big pipes. The fix here is municipal fiber, but for bizarre reasons that is illegal in most states.
Since when is 4/1 ever considered broadband? This is like giving everyone in class an A and celebrating oneself as awesome teacher, no matter how dumb the students remain. Maybe Pai, Trump, and a few others went to such a class....
Allow municipal fiber across the nation and the issue will resolve itself in a short time. Trump is a fool thinking that for profits make massive investments into infrastructure to serve a few hundred customers. There is a reason why there is no broadband in rural America and access to federal land and buildings is not one of them.
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The passwords are kept in local encrypted storage...at least that is what the password manager is supposed to do. Not sure how the Google account syncing goes. Remembering passwords is fine, autofilling in passwords is a major security issue and this is why reputable browsers turned that off. There is some inconvenience, but looking up the password in the password manager is not that difficult.
Quite a difference between hiring dirt cheap suppliers and cafeteria rice...which I doubt the workers get a break to eat anyway. Apple has so much cash that they struggle putting it somewhere. There is absolutely no need for Apple to continue business with companies that treat employees that badly. Of course, enslaving Chinese workers might just eek out that extra cent per part to make the already wildly obnoxious profit margin even bigger. So how far up does the responsibility go? Within Apple it goes all the way to the top. Sadly, Chinese workers lack the legal protections that are common in other places. So how far does the responsibility go? All the way to the side as well. Anyone buying Apple product is endorsing such labor practices!
To be fair, a good chunk of blame for that goes to Linux. I still have nightmares about setting up Samba shares that work reliably.
Does this also apply to the US financial industry who insisted on NOT implementing the PIN requirement?
Not even that! Paper ballot and a pen. Done! Hand count the votes and have all parts of the election process open to public inspection. There is no need to involve computers at all. Yes, results will come in later, but I rather wait a day and have them be trustworthy than be fast and wonder who hacked the system. Paper ballots go into envelopes that get sealed and dropped into a transparent ballot box. That way observers can make sure that there is no ballot box stuffing going on. The only problem is with transporting the ballot boxes to the counting place, but using a bus will take care of that concern. Plenty of space for observers to travel with the ballot boxes to make sure that nobody slips in a bunch of extras.
Nope...only if there is a physical presence as the OP states. That can be anything from a warehouse or a sales office. I wonder how this will work out if it gets changed. Some states have no sales tax, others have around 4% while others have more than double that. Plus, counties and municipalities often have their own sales taxes as well. It also does not solve the question where an online trade takes place. In the state where the seller has the central office? In the state where the warehouse is? In the state where the server for the transaction is located (may even vary by minute to minute in the cloud!)? Or where the buyer is located? Other countries do not have this issue because the sales tax / VAT is the same everywhere in the country and federal/state/local figure it out on their terms who gets how much of the pot. Makes it a heckuva lot easier for businesses and consumers!!
Another aspect is that the majority of households no longer has the cash to spend on toys like a new PC. Cost of living and especially health care expenses grow drastically while real income is flat or even declining. If the PC makers want folks to buy more stuff then they should start and make a point by not paying their C level chair warmers millions in salaries and even more in stock. Do I like to have a rocket with a Ryzen CPU and a kick-ass graphics card paired with only SSDs and 10G Ethernet? Sure...but my focus is getting food on the table and pay the mortgage. After that not much money is left.
Look at what the demo guys pull out of a C64 or even the original IBM PC! If coders would code that efficiently and with more focus on performance we'd all be in a much better place.
Yep! I use it to test hardware that then gets used in different systems. FreeDOS is the fastest way to get an OS on any PC hardware.
The HUGE difference is that any tablet lacks a decent keyboard and mouse input. For even light office work a tablet on its own is useless. Some are powerful enough to operate a desktop setup, but then the argument that a tablet can be used is no longer accurate.
Folks, running Mac OS X in a VM is against the license agreement you need to accept. Nevertheless, there are ways to run OS X on VMWare Workstation using a patch that gets distributed in a popular Mac forum....use Bing to google for the rest of the info. ;)
If you do that you violate the end user agreement!! Look it up, you have to compile on Apple hardware, not on a virtualized environment. You may want to keep quiet on that part.
The only reason why you need a Mac of iOS is license restrictions. There is no technical reason why a Windows box could not compile an iOS app.
There are not enough CAD operators to sustain the entire PC market.
And virtualization has become a commodity even in the home. You can get decent used VMWare servers for a few hundred bucks, add a regular desktop setup with big disks running FreeNAS, an inexpensive 10G networking setup, and you got enough resources to serve the family. Keep a decent gaming PC around and the rest is inexpensive Raspberry Pis that are good enough for casual stuff and can remote into a beefy VM any time. Plus...more and more stuff moves to tablets and phones, the need to have an array of PCs for various tasks is just not there anymore...and most users never had that in the first place.
Apple is no longer a computer manufacturer, but geared towards mass market consumer electronics while keeping the obnoxious premium price. In the PC area they grab somewhat decent off the shelf components, stuff them into a designer case, and slap a 2,000 $ price tag on it although the parts are only 800 $ worth if bought retail. The difference is the OS and after using it regularly the past years I still cannot make any sense of it. The workflow is often clunky, items are arranged in the least intuitive manner, and simple processes like installing an application take far too many clicks. It's far from "just works". I get the same or often a better experience from any one of the Linux distros that get skinned like OS X...for a fraction of the price with far better performance on much cheaper hardware.
Apple should farm out their hardware builds to companies like Alienware (although I am sure they can do better), have some design input, and otherwise license the OS and also sell it retail after making it AMD compatible. It is obvious that Apple has zero interest in the desktop market, but they can grow their ecosystem if they leave the desktop hardware part to others.
AMD doesn't have as much issues as the overpriced Intel junk. There are problems, but they are harder to abuse and, although harder to mitigate as well, fixed by now without any reboot issues or other new flaws. Intel used to be the go to vendor for performance CPUs, but with Ryzen the gap closed. Sure, they may be some odd cases where Intel still fares better, but not twice as much money better. The folks at Intel hang out too much with the morons from Apple.
It is a similar case like the proceedings against tobacco companies. Or do you argue that they were without fault because they did not force anyone to light up?
NYC should do its part as well and stop yellow cabs driving around aimlessly in anticipation of customers. Have distributed waiting areas for the taxis to park and a means to call a cab that shows up at the street corner a few minutes later. That will not only minimize the waste of gas, but also reduce traffic, and reduce the fine dust emissions from exhaust and rubber tires hitting crappy roads.
No wonder, electricity providers are still operating with 60s tech..if they "modernized", typically it is the same way as Edison did. How about investing in that rather than a pointless border wall?
As voiced by others, as far as broadband is concerned, it ought not to matter what the transmission medium is. Compare it to HD TV, same quality and properties no matter if it comes over copper, fiber, or the air.
Moving the goal post as in this case is always bad. Declaring a bit better than dial-up service as broadband is nothing else than political gaming so that in a fe months the administration can claim they brought broadband to all of rural America. This plan is totally ignoring facts that in order to take part in the digital world folks will need big pipes. The fix here is municipal fiber, but for bizarre reasons that is illegal in most states.
Not only the last mile, but also that we pay 3-4 times as much for craptastic service compared to other countries.
Since when is 4/1 ever considered broadband? This is like giving everyone in class an A and celebrating oneself as awesome teacher, no matter how dumb the students remain. Maybe Pai, Trump, and a few others went to such a class....
Allow municipal fiber across the nation and the issue will resolve itself in a short time. Trump is a fool thinking that for profits make massive investments into infrastructure to serve a few hundred customers. There is a reason why there is no broadband in rural America and access to federal land and buildings is not one of them.