Skype has recently been approved for US Gov employees to use at work. This happened almost as soon as MS bought the company; took a few years, but by now it is approved pretty much govt wide. Somehow that seems like relevant information here.
Suddenly the pushiness from MS to get people on to Win10 makes perfect sense. More subscribers!
Most of us are more used to the older model of buying the software once and being able to use it forever. Is that really how it works in practice, though? A few years down the line the software is no longer the current version, and finally unsupported. I hate to be billed monthly as much as anyone, but you have to consider the upside of a win10 subscription: software always up to date.
Of course, there is a better solution: move to Linux. Software up to date and no fees. Now that model looks better than ever.
Will non-Apple OSes be able to mount this new FS? Apple's track record is not great on this; its a shame to see the question not even addressed in the couple of mentions of AFPS I have seen.
You may be right- could be that men more often find themselves watching a program that is more appealing to women. What might also be true is that men more often (than women) think that others will care about their opinion of said programs, and so spend time rating them.
That is appalling. Have you contacted MS about this? The writing is on the wall that Microsoft wants to take computer control away from the user. In some ways we should have seen this coming- how many times have I read gripes about users not knowing what they are doing in terms of managing their systems? - but it seems that the cure may be as bad as the disease. Worse for those who did know what they were doing.
I disagree that "This speaks to the weakness of the jury system"- the opposite is true. The whole point of the article, which you have encapsulated perfectly in the quoted fragment, is that "nerds" and their pursuits are/should be apart from the rest of society. The opposite is true, as we exist in society and so are judged by the standards of the same society. If we want the public at large to understand us and what we do better it is on us to disseminate what we do and bring more folks in.
System working as advertised.
Not sure if they are "breaking" win7, but they don't seem to be in a hurry to fix problems with updates to keep win7 usable to the owners of ASUS boards...
Terrible design decision by Apple. No warning box that all your local copies would be matched/stored on their machines and then deleted? My guess is that this would be too "complicated". Putting a warning in the TOS is not enough in my opinion. The software is far too 'automatic', and now ventures into the area of being opaque and unmanageable by the user.
Should be obvious that is you are going to delete a single bit of personal data off someone's drive you would give a warning.
Also: silly headline on the story.
Finally: backups or lack of them don't in any way excuse this appalling software design decision by Apple. That's just blaming the victim.
The security risk of this spec needs to be weighed against benefit. From your description, the benefit seems lower than I first assumed (my mind jumped to websites being able to access USB devices directly). The security concerns might be mitigated, but the benefit is also. Looks like a wash to me, but I may lack imagination...
I wonder if the current high level of OS X use vs Linux relates to increasing use of mobile hardware (laptops) by developers. In my experience Linux on mobile hardware is more prone to issues (poor battery life, driver problems, suspend hangups, etc) and regressions after upgrades.
Eliminating workers in FF has been an idea for a long time. Example from 2003:
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
when it is economically viable, it will happen. However, unlikely that we will see these totally unsupervised for a long time.
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Skype has recently been approved for US Gov employees to use at work. This happened almost as soon as MS bought the company; took a few years, but by now it is approved pretty much govt wide. Somehow that seems like relevant information here.
...and watching a few minutes confirms it. Bummer.
Encouraging that this outcome is possible today, even after the spate of attacks at home and world-wide.
..the guy producing live theater. Live theater also a cure for baldness. Must be true.
I was going to comment but am busy doing a few other things. Ugh, need a nap now.
Suddenly the pushiness from MS to get people on to Win10 makes perfect sense. More subscribers! Most of us are more used to the older model of buying the software once and being able to use it forever. Is that really how it works in practice, though? A few years down the line the software is no longer the current version, and finally unsupported. I hate to be billed monthly as much as anyone, but you have to consider the upside of a win10 subscription: software always up to date. Of course, there is a better solution: move to Linux. Software up to date and no fees. Now that model looks better than ever.
This story should be flagged as "opinion", I think.
Will non-Apple OSes be able to mount this new FS? Apple's track record is not great on this; its a shame to see the question not even addressed in the couple of mentions of AFPS I have seen.
You may be right- could be that men more often find themselves watching a program that is more appealing to women. What might also be true is that men more often (than women) think that others will care about their opinion of said programs, and so spend time rating them.
That is appalling. Have you contacted MS about this? The writing is on the wall that Microsoft wants to take computer control away from the user. In some ways we should have seen this coming- how many times have I read gripes about users not knowing what they are doing in terms of managing their systems? - but it seems that the cure may be as bad as the disease. Worse for those who did know what they were doing.
I disagree that "This speaks to the weakness of the jury system"- the opposite is true. The whole point of the article, which you have encapsulated perfectly in the quoted fragment, is that "nerds" and their pursuits are/should be apart from the rest of society. The opposite is true, as we exist in society and so are judged by the standards of the same society. If we want the public at large to understand us and what we do better it is on us to disseminate what we do and bring more folks in. System working as advertised.
Not sure if they are "breaking" win7, but they don't seem to be in a hurry to fix problems with updates to keep win7 usable to the owners of ASUS boards...
Terrible design decision by Apple. No warning box that all your local copies would be matched/stored on their machines and then deleted? My guess is that this would be too "complicated". Putting a warning in the TOS is not enough in my opinion. The software is far too 'automatic', and now ventures into the area of being opaque and unmanageable by the user. Should be obvious that is you are going to delete a single bit of personal data off someone's drive you would give a warning. Also: silly headline on the story. Finally: backups or lack of them don't in any way excuse this appalling software design decision by Apple. That's just blaming the victim.
Agreed. These machines are not comparable, except at the most basic level (e.g "can go online"). Strange headline.
The security risk of this spec needs to be weighed against benefit. From your description, the benefit seems lower than I first assumed (my mind jumped to websites being able to access USB devices directly). The security concerns might be mitigated, but the benefit is also. Looks like a wash to me, but I may lack imagination...
From TFA, it seems like you have hit the nail on the head. This move seems targeted at developers.
I wonder if the current high level of OS X use vs Linux relates to increasing use of mobile hardware (laptops) by developers. In my experience Linux on mobile hardware is more prone to issues (poor battery life, driver problems, suspend hangups, etc) and regressions after upgrades.
Eliminating workers in FF has been an idea for a long time. Example from 2003: https://www.techdirt.com/artic... when it is economically viable, it will happen. However, unlikely that we will see these totally unsupervised for a long time.