The problem as I see it with Apple doing this is that it doesn't make a lot of sense for most MacBook Pro users. At least that's my understanding of the market. Perhaps Apple is privy to market information that I'm not (in fact I'm sure they are). However, when I hear life-long die-hard Apple power users complaining about MacBook Pros and Mac Pros for years in a row, feeling like they've been abandoned by Apple, maybe there's something to that.
I was a hard-core Mac user from 2001-2008, but I realized they were moving away from my needs after that in favor of iOS and jumped ship.
The touch bar is just the opening volley. Meanwhile Apple is doing the boiled frog thing with key travel, slowly getting users used to less and less key travel.
Eventually, they will probably replace the entire keyboard with a touch-board of some kind and expect that users will simply adjust. I think they've lost the plot somewhere.
Note this is not my original idea -- Merlin Mann mentioned it on the Back to Work podcast and I think he's spot on. And he's a huge Apple fan.
I have seen a few reports that they are lasting quite a bit longer than expected and still performing, in some cases 10 years past their estimated 20 year functional lifespan. If we have to make a lined pit in the ground and throw them all in it every 30 years, that will be fine.
They have no moving parts (unless you use trackers) and they take advantage of "free" energy that will be here as long as the earth is habitable. It is inevitable that they will take over energy production.
It must be really frustrating if that many of your applicants answer as you say. I don't know much of that in depth and I was still thinking it would be a multiple hour answer.
I've never watched much TV as an adult, and only had cable when my roommates wanted it in college. However, there are a few things I want to watch sometimes, and it's extremely frustrating to try to find one to three services that will allow me to watch those few things at a reasonable price.
If I watched more than this, I think it would probably be simpler and cheaper to just get cable or satellite.
I suspect and hope that one day the shakeout that's happening now will be resolved, and real a la carte service will be available.
Code.org seems pretty good actually for teaching programming logic with a sort of visual pseudocode. My 8 y/o has been enjoying it. They use it at her school too.
Wireless is hard. I run a wireless ISP in a rural area. Every time I see these "independent mesh network" pipe dreams come up, all I can do is shake my head and laugh.
Good luck, it's not going to happen. A much more reasonable idea is to run an encrypted meta-network on top of the existing infrastructure. That's been tried too (freenet, Tor hidden services) and it's not easy but it's at least feasible.
IMO patent trolls buy loads of patents with no intent to develop the technology or whatever into a product, and make money strictly by suing companies that they claim infringe the patents.
I would not call WARF a patent troll. They are a University Tech Transfer office trying to commercialize the University's R&D. They are prosecuting their own patents.
This is fairly accurate. I run Linux on the desktop but for an all-around laptop I now prefer Windows 10. I used OS X from about 2001 to 2008. Your evaluation is spot-on.
However, MobaXterm is mostly better than the Windows Subsystem for Linux, at the moment. I hope that will change.
I have the X1 tablet from Lenovo. That's not the problem. You didn't read very hard. You also didn't know my requirements because I didn't post what they were.
I am a big fan of USB C. I searched high and low for a laptop that charges over USB C and meets my other requirements. I found one. I use a Pixel XL. Both these devices charge over higher voltages (5-9V for the pixel, 12-20V for the laptop) using USB Power Delivery. It was supposed to be Utopia. Instead, I've had to dig through spreadsheets, comb through reviews, and still haven't been able to find everything I'm looking for in terms of USB C accessories.
Yes, one day everyone will catch up. A surface pro would help it along. But I can't blame them for waiting. They're right.
I think Hackintoshes have become more popular as Apple has let the high-end desktop market languish. I listen to a podcast by a couple of longtime die-hard Mac users and it sounds like they and a lot of their friends have gotten pretty frustrated waiting for a real Mac Pro that's with the times. One of them finally built a Hackintosh to get around this wait and was very happy with it.
I saw the writing on the wall in 2008 and went back to Linux with a little bit of Windows. However, Dan Benjamin is pretty sharp and has a great guide if you still need/want a powerful mac desktop.
I also own a WISP and was going to post basically the same comment.
"We'll just set up self organizing wireless mesh nodes that anyone can power up and join the network with!"
Ahahahahahahaha.... No.
We had an Eagle 8086 with two 5.25" floppy drives. Later it got an upgrade to a hard drive as well. It had a green monochrome display, which would sometimes shrink the image down tiny in the middle, and you'd have to whack the side of the monitor to get it back to normal.
Mostly the text appears to be an attempt to smear Snowden, although who knows what's in the redacted bits. He may have been in contact with Russian intelligence (they'd be stupid not to try), but he claims he got rid of his own ability to access the documents before going there, leaving that all in the hands of journalists.
I initially preordered a Thing-O-Matic, but was quickly warned off while waiting for it to cancel and get one of the many great RepRap kits available. I'm glad I did. Anyone that spent more than an hour or two a week trying to 3D print stuff quickly came to realize that MakerBot printers were to be avoided. They cost more and were less capable than most of the alternatives. When people can 3D-print their own custom designs and thereby rapidly improve existing 3D printer designs, mass-producing printers on a long product life cycle is a losing proposition.
As far as I can tell they only got as far as they did on Bre Pettis' cult of personality and hype.
While Thingiverse is handy it is/was also subject to their whims and censorship, and they blocked any weapons or weapon parts from being uploaded there, highlighting the need for other methods of sharing 3D printing designs.
All I can say in conclusion is good riddance to MakerBot, long live 3D printing.
If you did a lot of 3D printing, it might make sense to print prototypes of a part to make sure you've got it right, then send it off to somewhere like Shapeways for the final part.
I've built and used two 3d-printers, which can be super handy if you know how to use them, and I've ordered stuff from Shapeways. They each have their place but I think it's a pretty useful combination.
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I'm glad it wasn't just me. I had to reread the title 3x before I had a vague idea what the hell it was even trying to say.
The problem as I see it with Apple doing this is that it doesn't make a lot of sense for most MacBook Pro users. At least that's my understanding of the market. Perhaps Apple is privy to market information that I'm not (in fact I'm sure they are). However, when I hear life-long die-hard Apple power users complaining about MacBook Pros and Mac Pros for years in a row, feeling like they've been abandoned by Apple, maybe there's something to that.
I was a hard-core Mac user from 2001-2008, but I realized they were moving away from my needs after that in favor of iOS and jumped ship.
The touch bar is just the opening volley. Meanwhile Apple is doing the boiled frog thing with key travel, slowly getting users used to less and less key travel.
Eventually, they will probably replace the entire keyboard with a touch-board of some kind and expect that users will simply adjust. I think they've lost the plot somewhere.
Note this is not my original idea -- Merlin Mann mentioned it on the Back to Work podcast and I think he's spot on. And he's a huge Apple fan.
Good discussion including moxie here.
I have seen a few reports that they are lasting quite a bit longer than expected and still performing, in some cases 10 years past their estimated 20 year functional lifespan. If we have to make a lined pit in the ground and throw them all in it every 30 years, that will be fine.
They have no moving parts (unless you use trackers) and they take advantage of "free" energy that will be here as long as the earth is habitable. It is inevitable that they will take over energy production.
First class.
That's not pirating at all, that's the nature of open source. For example, take a look at RHEL and CentOS.
It must be really frustrating if that many of your applicants answer as you say. I don't know much of that in depth and I was still thinking it would be a multiple hour answer.
I've never watched much TV as an adult, and only had cable when my roommates wanted it in college. However, there are a few things I want to watch sometimes, and it's extremely frustrating to try to find one to three services that will allow me to watch those few things at a reasonable price.
If I watched more than this, I think it would probably be simpler and cheaper to just get cable or satellite.
I suspect and hope that one day the shakeout that's happening now will be resolved, and real a la carte service will be available.
Code.org seems pretty good actually for teaching programming logic with a sort of visual pseudocode. My 8 y/o has been enjoying it. They use it at her school too.
Wireless is hard. I run a wireless ISP in a rural area. Every time I see these "independent mesh network" pipe dreams come up, all I can do is shake my head and laugh.
Good luck, it's not going to happen. A much more reasonable idea is to run an encrypted meta-network on top of the existing infrastructure. That's been tried too (freenet, Tor hidden services) and it's not easy but it's at least feasible.
IMO patent trolls buy loads of patents with no intent to develop the technology or whatever into a product, and make money strictly by suing companies that they claim infringe the patents.
I would not call WARF a patent troll. They are a University Tech Transfer office trying to commercialize the University's R&D. They are prosecuting their own patents.
This is fairly accurate. I run Linux on the desktop but for an all-around laptop I now prefer Windows 10. I used OS X from about 2001 to 2008. Your evaluation is spot-on. However, MobaXterm is mostly better than the Windows Subsystem for Linux, at the moment. I hope that will change.
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He's not using it in accordance with hardware constraints. I use the hell out of chrome all day every day but I have 64 GB of RAM and a high end Xeon.
Most lower-power devices like phones will charge with 5V, just slower, but all the USB C laptops I've seen need at least 12V to charge at all.
I have the X1 tablet from Lenovo. That's not the problem. You didn't read very hard. You also didn't know my requirements because I didn't post what they were.
I am a big fan of USB C. I searched high and low for a laptop that charges over USB C and meets my other requirements. I found one. I use a Pixel XL. Both these devices charge over higher voltages (5-9V for the pixel, 12-20V for the laptop) using USB Power Delivery. It was supposed to be Utopia. Instead, I've had to dig through spreadsheets, comb through reviews, and still haven't been able to find everything I'm looking for in terms of USB C accessories. Yes, one day everyone will catch up. A surface pro would help it along. But I can't blame them for waiting. They're right.
I think Hackintoshes have become more popular as Apple has let the high-end desktop market languish. I listen to a podcast by a couple of longtime die-hard Mac users and it sounds like they and a lot of their friends have gotten pretty frustrated waiting for a real Mac Pro that's with the times. One of them finally built a Hackintosh to get around this wait and was very happy with it.
I saw the writing on the wall in 2008 and went back to Linux with a little bit of Windows. However, Dan Benjamin is pretty sharp and has a great guide if you still need/want a powerful mac desktop.
http://hackintoshmethod.com/
I also own a WISP and was going to post basically the same comment. "We'll just set up self organizing wireless mesh nodes that anyone can power up and join the network with!" Ahahahahahahaha.... No.
We had an Eagle 8086 with two 5.25" floppy drives. Later it got an upgrade to a hard drive as well. It had a green monochrome display, which would sometimes shrink the image down tiny in the middle, and you'd have to whack the side of the monitor to get it back to normal.
Mostly the text appears to be an attempt to smear Snowden, although who knows what's in the redacted bits. He may have been in contact with Russian intelligence (they'd be stupid not to try), but he claims he got rid of his own ability to access the documents before going there, leaving that all in the hands of journalists.
I initially preordered a Thing-O-Matic, but was quickly warned off while waiting for it to cancel and get one of the many great RepRap kits available. I'm glad I did. Anyone that spent more than an hour or two a week trying to 3D print stuff quickly came to realize that MakerBot printers were to be avoided. They cost more and were less capable than most of the alternatives. When people can 3D-print their own custom designs and thereby rapidly improve existing 3D printer designs, mass-producing printers on a long product life cycle is a losing proposition. As far as I can tell they only got as far as they did on Bre Pettis' cult of personality and hype. While Thingiverse is handy it is/was also subject to their whims and censorship, and they blocked any weapons or weapon parts from being uploaded there, highlighting the need for other methods of sharing 3D printing designs. All I can say in conclusion is good riddance to MakerBot, long live 3D printing.
If you did a lot of 3D printing, it might make sense to print prototypes of a part to make sure you've got it right, then send it off to somewhere like Shapeways for the final part. I've built and used two 3d-printers, which can be super handy if you know how to use them, and I've ordered stuff from Shapeways. They each have their place but I think it's a pretty useful combination.