> Are they still trying to insinuate themselves into each and every transaction, so they can both datamine and line their pockets?
Maybe, but they are also trying to get a proper mobile payment platform for Android off the ground.
Android had the host based card emulation API for a long time - allowing any bank to write an app with NFC functionality. Very few banks did so.
Now that Google has done the work, they want some reward for it. Maybe 0.15% is a bit much, maybe 0.1% or 0.01% would be better, but at least the principle is sound.
0.15% is what Apple Pay charges the BANK. But then again, they don't insinuate themselves into every transaction, nor do they get any data about the transaction itself.
Seems to me that Google should PAY the USER (Customer) for the datamining, and for getting in the middle of a financial transaction. After all, that's one of the ways that financial institutions make money. It's called "Overnight Loans", and it explains why a whole BUNCH of financial transactions take DAYS to "process", when in reality, NOTHING these days takes more than 24 hours. If that.
There is NO such requirement as 'accept interference without causing improper operation'. That statement is not a technical requirment, it is a regulatory one. What it means is 'as this is an unlicensed device, you have no regulatory recourse for any and all interference, including that which causes unwanted operation'.
The second part is 'must not CAUSE interference' which means that if the device causes interference, regardless of the reason, you must stop using it.
Faraday cages aren't magic interference stoppers. The emission here was most likely via the power supply cables (or, less likely, data), and those would have to pass through the cage.
Here's how you fix it: 1. Read an article on noise surpression, choke design, capacitive coupling in inductors, choke self-resonance and core material selection. 2. Go ask your nearest ham to build you a noise filter.
Back through a SMPS? Those things generally have ferrite rings and fairly hefty inductors in the power supply. And besides, the SMPS is chopping everything up into little pieces anyway; so I kind of doubt it is RF reflected back onto the power line.
Harshly worded letter? They'll fine him $10,000 and then seize the equipment and destroy it. Don't mess with the FCC where interference is concerned, he's lucky they gave him a warning instead of just outright fining him because they could have just hit him with the $10k fine and seized the equipment on the first contact.
What ever happened to that requirement to "accept RF interference" without causing improper operation?
Doesn't his equipment have the "right" to spew anything it wants, at any frequency it wants, as long as the radiated power is below 100 mW?
You're just speculating that Apple would raise their fees.
I am speculating that a corporation wants to make as much money as possible.
There's that "speculating" word again...
And besides, NO ONE will EVER get EVERYONE on board with their payment system; so no worries there!
It doesn't matter. If gets to the scale of Visa or Mastercard, they will have won. Ever wondered why credit card companies charge 3% fee?
And how much howling do you think the BANKS (who are the ones getting charged, NOT YOU) would do if Apple even approached 1%?
The fee is not charged to the Merchant nor the Customer. It is charged to the Bank.
Yeah, as I said, the bank will pass the fee, one way or another. You think they will just happily forfeit part of their profit?
That much? Yes. Yes I do. We're talking about a Bank charging more to every customer because the price they pay for toilet paper went up 50 cents per roll. Not EVERY cost gets directly (or even indirectly) "passed-on".
And do you know what 0.15% of 1000 dollars is?
$1.50
So, I don't think anyone is too worried.
Then let the user choose. No need to force the merchants into not adding an extra fee for credit cards/Apple Pay. And see if it becomes popular.
WTF, over? The MERCHANTS aren't charged ANYTHING. Neither is the CUSTOMER. Only the BANK gets hit for 0.15%. How many times do I have to explain that?
Besides, the user DOES choose to enroll in Apple Pay, and DOES choose to use it (or not) every single time they make a payment where there is an NFC input device. For example, I have used Apple Pay exactly ONCE (just to see how it worked) in the two-plus years I have been "enrolled". And the BANK chooses whether to participate at all.
Slashdot, the Verge, and other Apple-fan sites can only view everything through their Apple lens. It is tiresome... just report on the product (it is supposed to be "News for Nerds" after all), ad keep your pre-digested spin to yourself.
Do you see the merchants claiming they want more Apple Pay, and stop using other payment methods? No? Then it's probably because the merchants don't think it's worth it.
The Merchant hardly has anything at all to do with it. To them, it's just another cashless transaction. In fact, most Merchants (and even vending machines) that have the capability for NFC payments accept Apple Pay whether they advertise it or not.
They start with 0.15%, but they will raise fees if they manage to get everyone on board with their payment system. Also, people had the option to save 0.15% by not using Apple Pay, nobody would be using it. Especially not for big purchases.
You're just speculating that Apple would raise their fees. And besides, NO ONE will EVER get EVERYONE on board with their payment system; so no worries there!
The fee is not charged to the Merchant nor the Customer. It is charged to the Bank.
Why can't I use my Apple Device to send Cash to an Android User? Why do stores need to support each device separately?
While I ask the question, the answer is relatively simple. Each company wants to be the leader in the area, and wants their technology to win, so they don't need to pay royalties to the other.
Sometimes competition is good, other times it steps on each other and creates problems for the consumers that most just don't want to deal with.
Subtitled: "Whatever happened to Quadraphonic Records?"
I wish they don't, because they charge a fee to the banks, and banks end-up passing that fee to the consumers and/or merchants (which pass them to consumers) one way or another.
I also wish banks drop support for Apple Pay for the same reason.
Yeah, Apple is REALLY putting the screws to the banks! 0.15 percent. Wooo....
The problem lies in the weasel-word "reasonable". That is EXACTLY the type of language that "slippery-slopes" are paved-with!!! As ambiguous as the wording of the 2nd Amendment is, it still has the all-important phrase "shall not be infringed."
So you agree with my core premise - that all gun regulations are unconstitutional according to that interpretation?
Anything else invites a police-state....
So you're 100% for giving every convict on release a loaded M-16A, a grenade launcher and a Colt 45? If not, why not?
If you said no, then do you oppose letting them buy one? What if they're a convicted murderer? A multiple murderer?
How about if they're batshit insane but kept "ok" and ready for release thanks to modern medications? (I ask this because these particular folks tend to not like how the drugs make them feel and tend to stop taking them on occasion)
Short story IMNSHO - guns need strong regulation, at least to the level we allow people to drive cars, and should likely be registered yearly plus inspections just like cars, with a yearly fee to cover registration. On top of that, I'd propose that you have to be 21 or even 25 to purchase a gun, all fall under the guise of a well-regulated militia, which was the justification for the 2nd. Technically, with the second taken as a whole, that doesn't even go against the second, it falls under the well-regulated militia portion of the clause. As for the age of majority, 21 is that age and those under it are not part of the "people" under the Constitution for legal purposes (aren't lawyers fun?) so an outright ban for under 21s also does not fall afoul of the 2nd and that can be done at the federal level. Note that none of what I proposed prevents any one wanting a gun for hunting or sport that is not a convict or mentally unstable, both cases which have special rules regarding rights. It does impose regulations, which is not an infringement as implied by the 2nd. I specifically left out defense, because the 2nd implies that is the onus of the well-regulated militia, not individuals. In today's world in the US, if you need a weapon for defense there's a bigger problem that your weapon isn't going to help with unless you happen to be that very very tiny 0.000001% of the population that lives essentially in wilderness areas where wildlife is actually a threat.
Not so humble opinion, INDEED!
I was trying to have a civil discourse with you; but then you just started spewing nonsense.
1. The "age of majority" is 18. Has been ajudicated that since people bitched about being able to be drafted and die at 18, but not able to vote.
2. The Supremes have decided that the term "Militia" originally applied to "all males between the ages of 18 and 45", and therefore, the second amendment is an INDIVIDUAL right, not a power (governments don.'t have rights) of the government.
3. You don't have to be living in the wilds of Alaska to be in an area where "the police" are simply too far away to be of ANY practical protection/help. There are a LOT of people that live far enough out of town that calling 911 isn't going to bring a response in any reasonable amount of time. I used to live in such an area. It was about 15 minutes BEST CASE by car from the nearest town with ANY Police. A LOT can happen in 15 minutes!!! I can assure you, EVERYONE in that area had a gun for protection, and slept much better for it. But even in an urban area (I now live about four blocks from a police station), and if an intruder was standing in my bedroom doorway, "Stop or I'll DIAL!" would NOT have the same positive effect as making the door jamb disappear next to his head...
4. School shootings can be effectively brought to zero with a few changes:
a. Stop prescribing SSRIs to people under the age of 30.
b. Have at least TWO armed and trained guards at each and every school, and encourage and allow
As someone who has had a quite decent midi keyboard for some years, and a linux user for close to 20.. yes, she would be quite happy.
The jack backend is absolutely lovely for connecting everything together, and there are a myriad of sampled synths and modelled synths available. In terms of mixing/recording ardour is a popular choice but again with jacks architecture there are plenty of choices.
While there still may be some things that can be hard to do on linux.. I cannot off hand think of any.
So where are all the examples of this myriad of sampled and modeled synths?
>> iOS hasn't been a "Walled Garden" since iOS 8, over FOUR years ago. What is it then ? A golden cage ?
Haha.
What I meant was that Apple has officially supported "side-loading" of applications on iOS devices (without Jailbreaking) since the release of iOS 8, which, IIRC, happened in 2014.
Two ways to do this:
1. If you have a Mac, you can use XCode (free, no developer license required) to download and "make" any one of a number of Open Source iOS Apps available written in Objective-C and Swift. Here's some sources:
Ok, so you don't have a Mac? You can still play, thanks to the folks at Cydia...
2. You can upload any number of precompiled ".ipa" packages into your iOS devices using Cydia Impactor (which does not require Jailbreaking), which has versions that run on Mac, Linux and Windows. And of course, there have been websites that offer these packages. Again, Apple is FINE with all this... (Or at least fine with the many apps that don't require Jailbreaking) :
https://www.unlockboot.com/bes......and like with the open source list, above, there are many other search results. Try a search for "iOS.ipa files download sites".
So, THAT's what I meant by "no longer a Walled Garden"; because it just ISN'T, and hasn't been since September, 2014:
"If your sister WERE to develop a sudden urge to create music, would Linux STILL serve her needs? IOW, after she conducted that research, what would she find?"
I have no idea and no reason to do the research. However, I wouldn't be surprised to find that there are a number of Linux programs that work with that kind of hardware. I do know, as an example, that when I bought a laptop and replaced Windows Vista with Fedora Linux, the program Cheese detected and used the built in webcam right from the start, with no need to install extra software.
Well, although I just guessed at an area that Linux was deficient in, if you look down through this article's comments, you will find posters that HAVE done that research into audio production on Linix, and came up wanting. Apparently, Linux has had longstanding issues with sound drivers, and it just hasn't gotten much better over several years.
Also, knowing the Linux-friendly bent of this site, if there were some facts to clobber me with, SOMEONE would have come along and "educated" me..
Oh, boy! You managed to defined a stable configuration of email client and web browser. But now, your sister says she wants to try her hand at multitrack audio recording and editing, and she's buying a MIDI keyboard because she heard there are a lot of nice soft-synths she can use.
Now, now, now, don't forget all of the work she's done with LibreOffice, chairing two annual SF conventions. However, I see your point. Although that's not the type of thing she's interested in, if she were, I'd tell her to check around on the Ubuntu Forum, find out what brands/models are known to work and pick one from that list. It's not exactly rocket surgery, doing a bit of research before you buy something like that, is it?
I was actually just picking a hypothetical interest that I suspected Linux might not be so good at.
As a Mac user for decades, I am well-familiar with the "must find a COMPATIBLE "... So the question becomes, "If your sister WERE to develop a sudden urge to create music, would Linux STILL serve her needs? IOW, after she conducted that research, what would she find?"
It's not a given that there would be SOMETHING, even in this day and age. I was looking for a suitable blood pressure monitor with Mac-compatible software (even though every one of the devices have a USB interface, with an undoubtedly bog-simple comm. protocol!) for a friend of mine. No dice. I could find no end of BP Monitors with iOS Apps, but NONE with a Mac Application!!! And even though my friend had. MacBook Pro, he actually had no smartphone, nor any iOS device. So, after nearly sweet of on and off searching, I had to give up! In 2016!!!
So, even now, it STILL seems to be primarily a Windows-World, and, even in the 21st Century, the rest of us still have to but HOPE we can get what we need/want to get done on our platform of choice!
It doesn't work. The government is fucking retarded and corrupt. There is no legal way to restrict people's rights to keep or bear arms in this country without first amending the constitution. Yet they shit on our rights all the time.
It is technically possible, but something that Microsoft and Apple absolutely do not want to see happen. If Linux ever comes to close for comfort, expect to see patent and copyright lawsuits in abundance, and continuing changes to their products to make sure compatibility stays sufficiently broken.
Come to think of it, didn't I already see this happening?
I don't know about Windows, but Apple actually actively encourages the porting of *nix software to macOS:
When will Application developers finally cross compile their code to work on linux, and release linux versions of their software? If they aren't doing it why not?
There. Fixed your question.
Answer: They already are. The entire cloud / internet runs on open code that runs on a nix stack. Steam is available under linux. Open and Libre office run under linux. I've found suitable replacements for almost all software I used to use under linux. I haven't booted into Windows (at home) in years. If a company just wants to support wall gardens then I'm happy not to use their software.
If you want to spew Apple Hate, then at least man up and invoke the enemy by name!
Oh, and don't insinuate things that aren't true:
1. MacOS NAS NEVER been a "Walled Garden".
2. iOS hasn't been a "Walled Garden" since iOS 8, over FOUR years ago.
Next time, do at least TRY to not embarrass yourself.
And it is unusable garbage (unless you're one of those weirdos who *LIKES* to do everything the hardest way possible).
Wrong, wrong, wrong, utterly wrong. About a decade or so ago, my sister, who knows how to use a computer but not how to do any troubleshooting asked me to convert her system from Windows to Ubuntu. Since then, she's asked me for computer help about once or maybe twice a year, mostly about system upgrades. Aside from that, It Just Works.
About three years ago, I did the same for a friend's wife because he doesn't know Linux. Again, It Just Works and she's never needed any assistance. If you can't get Linux to work, either you have hardware problems or you're doing something wrong, and I've no idea which it is in your case.
Oh, boy! You managed to defined a stable configuration of email client and web browser.
But now, your sister says she wants to try her hand at multitrack audio recording and editing, and she's buying a MIDI keyboard because she heard there are a lot of nice soft-synths she can use.
I stand corrected. Thanks for that one. So, interestingly enough, that brings me to the second, which based on that reading essentially says that any law denying guns is unconstitutional, Supreme Court common sense rulings be damned. Perhaps it's time to pass an amendment clarifying the second for today's world. We no longer have the same needs, worries, nor civil issues from back in the 1700s, and perhaps it is time to amend the second to allow reasonable controls.
No, it isn't.
The problem lies in the weasel-word "reasonable". That is EXACTLY the type of language that "slippery-slopes" are paved-with!!!
As ambiguous as the wording of the 2nd Amendment is, it still has the all-important phrase "shall not be infringed."
Anything else invites a police-state.
And the Courts have hammered out the rest of the ambiguities, and taken the mantle of "interpreting" the Founders' language as it applies to "modern" times. And they have also ceded much governmental restraint afforded by 2nd Amendment to the States and Municipalities, anyway; so you almost have what you want already.
Such and such a state wants to ban "concealed carry". The courts say that's fine.
Another state wants to ban handgun (remember when they were called "pistols"?) sales to ADULTS under the age of 21. Supremes agree that is a STATE right (in DIRECT derogation with the 2nd Amendment )
The next state wants to ban ammunition magazines larger than 8 rounds. Supreme Court says the States have the "power to regulate firearms". How does THAT square with the Supremacy Clause, as applies to the 2nd Amendment (which, BTW, is actually EXPLICITLY ADOPTED into most, if not ALL STATE Constitutions as wel!!! HOW DOES THAT WORK!?!
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> Are they still trying to insinuate themselves into each and every transaction, so they can both datamine and line their pockets?
Maybe, but they are also trying to get a proper mobile payment platform for Android off the ground.
Android had the host based card emulation API for a long time - allowing any bank to write an app with NFC functionality. Very few banks did so.
Now that Google has done the work, they want some reward for it. Maybe 0.15% is a bit much, maybe 0.1% or 0.01% would be better, but at least the principle is sound.
0.15% is what Apple Pay charges the BANK. But then again, they don't insinuate themselves into every transaction, nor do they get any data about the transaction itself.
Seems to me that Google should PAY the USER (Customer) for the datamining, and for getting in the middle of a financial transaction. After all, that's one of the ways that financial institutions make money. It's called "Overnight Loans", and it explains why a whole BUNCH of financial transactions take DAYS to "process", when in reality, NOTHING these days takes more than 24 hours. If that.
The MERCHANTS aren't charged ANYTHING. Neither is the CUSTOMER. Only the BANK gets hit for 0.15%. How many times do I have to explain that?
To whom does the BANK pass on this hit?
No one. No more than they pass-on the "hit" when someone leaves their office lights on over the weekend.
Wow, what a complete mis-reading of part 15.
There is NO such requirement as 'accept interference without causing improper operation'. That statement is not a technical requirment, it is a regulatory one. What it means is 'as this is an unlicensed device, you have no regulatory recourse for any and all interference, including that which causes unwanted operation'.
The second part is 'must not CAUSE interference' which means that if the device causes interference, regardless of the reason, you must stop using it.
Thanks for the clarification!
Faraday cages aren't magic interference stoppers. The emission here was most likely via the power supply cables (or, less likely, data), and those would have to pass through the cage.
Here's how you fix it:
1. Read an article on noise surpression, choke design, capacitive coupling in inductors, choke self-resonance and core material selection.
2. Go ask your nearest ham to build you a noise filter.
Back through a SMPS? Those things generally have ferrite rings and fairly hefty inductors in the power supply. And besides, the SMPS is chopping everything up into little pieces anyway; so I kind of doubt it is RF reflected back onto the power line.
Harshly worded letter? They'll fine him $10,000 and then seize the equipment and destroy it. Don't mess with the FCC where interference is concerned, he's lucky they gave him a warning instead of just outright fining him because they could have just hit him with the $10k fine and seized the equipment on the first contact.
What ever happened to that requirement to "accept RF interference" without causing improper operation?
Doesn't his equipment have the "right" to spew anything it wants, at any frequency it wants, as long as the radiated power is below 100 mW?
You're just speculating that Apple would raise their fees.
I am speculating that a corporation wants to make as much money as possible.
There's that "speculating" word again...
And besides, NO ONE will EVER get EVERYONE on board with their payment system; so no worries there!
It doesn't matter. If gets to the scale of Visa or Mastercard, they will have won. Ever wondered why credit card companies charge 3% fee?
And how much howling do you think the BANKS (who are the ones getting charged, NOT YOU) would do if Apple even approached 1%?
The fee is not charged to the Merchant nor the Customer. It is charged to the Bank.
Yeah, as I said, the bank will pass the fee, one way or another. You think they will just happily forfeit part of their profit?
That much? Yes. Yes I do. We're talking about a Bank charging more to every customer because the price they pay for toilet paper went up 50 cents per roll. Not EVERY cost gets directly (or even indirectly) "passed-on".
And do you know what 0.15% of 1000 dollars is?
$1.50
So, I don't think anyone is too worried.
Then let the user choose. No need to force the merchants into not adding an extra fee for credit cards/Apple Pay. And see if it becomes popular.
WTF, over? The MERCHANTS aren't charged ANYTHING. Neither is the CUSTOMER. Only the BANK gets hit for 0.15%. How many times do I have to explain that?
Besides, the user DOES choose to enroll in Apple Pay, and DOES choose to use it (or not) every single time they make a payment where there is an NFC input device. For example, I have used Apple Pay exactly ONCE (just to see how it worked) in the two-plus years I have been "enrolled". And the BANK chooses whether to participate at all.
So, where exactly is that lack of choice?
And do you know what 0.15% of 1000 dollars is?
$1.50
So, I don't think anyone is too worried.
If you're doing the math, I'm worried.
I admittedly REALLY suck at math.
But isn't 0.15% a "multiplier" of .0015?
If so, 1000 * .0015 = 1.5
Or, IOW, $1.50
The All-Knowing Google seems to agree:
https://www.google.com/search?...
Slashdot, the Verge, and other Apple-fan sites can only view everything through their Apple lens. It is tiresome... just report on the product (it is supposed to be "News for Nerds" after all), ad keep your pre-digested spin to yourself.
The same might be said of you, too...
...is that you never need to associate a bank account or credit card with it.
You don't have to do that with an iPhone, either.
Subtitled: "Whatever happened to Quadraphonic Records?"
Obscure. You probably know what bakelite is, too.
Yes. Yes, I do.
Is knowledge a bad thing around here now?
Do you see the merchants claiming they want more Apple Pay, and stop using other payment methods? No? Then it's probably because the merchants don't think it's worth it.
The Merchant hardly has anything at all to do with it. To them, it's just another cashless transaction. In fact, most Merchants (and even vending machines) that have the capability for NFC payments accept Apple Pay whether they advertise it or not.
They start with 0.15%, but they will raise fees if they manage to get everyone on board with their payment system.
Also, people had the option to save 0.15% by not using Apple Pay, nobody would be using it. Especially not for big purchases.
You're just speculating that Apple would raise their fees. And besides, NO ONE will EVER get EVERYONE on board with their payment system; so no worries there!
The fee is not charged to the Merchant nor the Customer. It is charged to the Bank.
And do you know what 0.15% of 1000 dollars is?
$1.50
So, I don't think anyone is too worried.
Why can't I use my Apple Device to send Cash to an Android User? Why do stores need to support each device separately?
While I ask the question, the answer is relatively simple. Each company wants to be the leader in the area, and wants their technology to win, so they don't need to pay royalties to the other.
Sometimes competition is good, other times it steps on each other and creates problems for the consumers that most just don't want to deal with.
Subtitled: "Whatever happened to Quadraphonic Records?"
I wish they don't, because they charge a fee to the banks, and banks end-up passing that fee to the consumers and/or merchants (which pass them to consumers) one way or another.
I also wish banks drop support for Apple Pay for the same reason.
Yeah, Apple is REALLY putting the screws to the banks!
0.15 percent. Wooo....
The banks are REALLY hurtin' now!
https://www.macrumors.com/2014...
Are they still trying to insinuate themselves into each and every transaction, so they can both datamine and line their pockets?
Yes, Apple does get a REALLY small transaction-fee; but otherwise, is COMPLETELY blind to the transaction itself.
I think the transaction fees as simply aggregated into a lump-sum payment to Apple, with absolutely NO per-transaction information divulged to them.
Until Google will accept that model (which I am SURE they will never do), they can go pound sand.
No, it isn't.
The problem lies in the weasel-word "reasonable". That is EXACTLY the type of language that "slippery-slopes" are paved-with!!! As ambiguous as the wording of the 2nd Amendment is, it still has the all-important phrase "shall not be infringed."
So you agree with my core premise - that all gun regulations are unconstitutional according to that interpretation?
Anything else invites a police-state....
So you're 100% for giving every convict on release a loaded M-16A, a grenade launcher and a Colt 45? If not, why not?
If you said no, then do you oppose letting them buy one? What if they're a convicted murderer? A multiple murderer?
How about if they're batshit insane but kept "ok" and ready for release thanks to modern medications? (I ask this because these particular folks tend to not like how the drugs make them feel and tend to stop taking them on occasion)
Short story IMNSHO - guns need strong regulation, at least to the level we allow people to drive cars, and should likely be registered yearly plus inspections just like cars, with a yearly fee to cover registration. On top of that, I'd propose that you have to be 21 or even 25 to purchase a gun, all fall under the guise of a well-regulated militia, which was the justification for the 2nd. Technically, with the second taken as a whole, that doesn't even go against the second, it falls under the well-regulated militia portion of the clause. As for the age of majority, 21 is that age and those under it are not part of the "people" under the Constitution for legal purposes (aren't lawyers fun?) so an outright ban for under 21s also does not fall afoul of the 2nd and that can be done at the federal level. Note that none of what I proposed prevents any one wanting a gun for hunting or sport that is not a convict or mentally unstable, both cases which have special rules regarding rights. It does impose regulations, which is not an infringement as implied by the 2nd. I specifically left out defense, because the 2nd implies that is the onus of the well-regulated militia, not individuals. In today's world in the US, if you need a weapon for defense there's a bigger problem that your weapon isn't going to help with unless you happen to be that very very tiny 0.000001% of the population that lives essentially in wilderness areas where wildlife is actually a threat.
Not so humble opinion, INDEED!
I was trying to have a civil discourse with you; but then you just started spewing nonsense.
1. The "age of majority" is 18. Has been ajudicated that since people bitched about being able to be drafted and die at 18, but not able to vote.
2. The Supremes have decided that the term "Militia" originally applied to "all males between the ages of 18 and 45", and therefore, the second amendment is an INDIVIDUAL right, not a power (governments don.'t have rights) of the government.
3. You don't have to be living in the wilds of Alaska to be in an area where "the police" are simply too far away to be of ANY practical protection/help. There are a LOT of people that live far enough out of town that calling 911 isn't going to bring a response in any reasonable amount of time. I used to live in such an area. It was about 15 minutes BEST CASE by car from the nearest town with ANY Police. A LOT can happen in 15 minutes!!! I can assure you, EVERYONE in that area had a gun for protection, and slept much better for it. But even in an urban area (I now live about four blocks from a police station), and if an intruder was standing in my bedroom doorway, "Stop or I'll DIAL!" would NOT have the same positive effect as making the door jamb disappear next to his head...
4. School shootings can be effectively brought to zero with a few changes:
a. Stop prescribing SSRIs to people under the age of 30.
b. Have at least TWO armed and trained guards at each and every school, and encourage and allow
As someone who has had a quite decent midi keyboard for some years, and a linux user for close to 20.. yes, she would be quite happy.
The jack backend is absolutely lovely for connecting everything together, and there are a myriad of sampled synths and modelled synths available. In terms of mixing/recording ardour is a popular choice but again with jacks architecture there are plenty of choices.
While there still may be some things that can be hard to do on linux.. I cannot off hand think of any.
So where are all the examples of this myriad of sampled and modeled synths?
>> iOS hasn't been a "Walled Garden" since iOS 8, over FOUR years ago.
What is it then ?
A golden cage ?
Haha.
What I meant was that Apple has officially supported "side-loading" of applications on iOS devices (without Jailbreaking) since the release of iOS 8, which, IIRC, happened in 2014.
Two ways to do this:
1. If you have a Mac, you can use XCode (free, no developer license required) to download and "make" any one of a number of Open Source iOS Apps available written in Objective-C and Swift. Here's some sources:
https://github.com/dkhamsing/o...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
This list has some amazing Open Source Apps written in Swift:
https://medium.com/@pradeep_ch... ...and that's just the beginning. Search For "open source ios apps" for a real eye-opener!
Ok, so you don't have a Mac? You can still play, thanks to the folks at Cydia...
2. You can upload any number of precompiled ".ipa" packages into your iOS devices using Cydia Impactor (which does not require Jailbreaking), which has versions that run on Mac, Linux and Windows. And of course, there have been websites that offer these packages. Again, Apple is FINE with all this... (Or at least fine with the many apps that don't require Jailbreaking) :
http://www.cydiaimpactor.com/
https://www.ultimatetech.org/t...
https://www.unlockboot.com/bes... ...and like with the open source list, above, there are many other search results. Try a search for "iOS .ipa files download sites".
So, THAT's what I meant by "no longer a Walled Garden"; because it just ISN'T, and hasn't been since September, 2014:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Weren't expecting THAT answer, were you?
"If your sister WERE to develop a sudden urge to create music, would Linux STILL serve her needs? IOW, after she conducted that research, what would she find?"
I have no idea and no reason to do the research. However, I wouldn't be surprised to find that there are a number of Linux programs that work with that kind of hardware. I do know, as an example, that when I bought a laptop and replaced Windows Vista with Fedora Linux, the program Cheese detected and used the built in webcam right from the start, with no need to install extra software.
Well, although I just guessed at an area that Linux was deficient in, if you look down through this article's comments, you will find posters that HAVE done that research into audio production on Linix, and came up wanting. Apparently, Linux has had longstanding issues with sound drivers, and it just hasn't gotten much better over several years.
Also, knowing the Linux-friendly bent of this site, if there were some facts to clobber me with, SOMEONE would have come along and "educated" me..
Oh, boy! You managed to defined a stable configuration of email client and web browser. But now, your sister says she wants to try her hand at multitrack audio recording and editing, and she's buying a MIDI keyboard because she heard there are a lot of nice soft-synths she can use.
Now, now, now, don't forget all of the work she's done with LibreOffice, chairing two annual SF conventions. However, I see your point. Although that's not the type of thing she's interested in, if she were, I'd tell her to check around on the Ubuntu Forum, find out what brands/models are known to work and pick one from that list. It's not exactly rocket surgery, doing a bit of research before you buy something like that, is it?
I was actually just picking a hypothetical interest that I suspected Linux might not be so good at.
As a Mac user for decades, I am well-familiar with the "must find a COMPATIBLE "... So the question becomes, "If your sister WERE to develop a sudden urge to create music, would Linux STILL serve her needs? IOW, after she conducted that research, what would she find?"
It's not a given that there would be SOMETHING, even in this day and age. I was looking for a suitable blood pressure monitor with Mac-compatible software (even though every one of the devices have a USB interface, with an undoubtedly bog-simple comm. protocol!) for a friend of mine. No dice. I could find no end of BP Monitors with iOS Apps, but NONE with a Mac Application!!! And even though my friend had. MacBook Pro, he actually had no smartphone, nor any iOS device. So, after nearly sweet of on and off searching, I had to give up! In 2016!!!
So, even now, it STILL seems to be primarily a Windows-World, and, even in the 21st Century, the rest of us still have to but HOPE we can get what we need/want to get done on our platform of choice!
It doesn't work. The government is fucking retarded and corrupt. There is no legal way to restrict people's rights to keep or bear arms in this country without first amending the constitution. Yet they shit on our rights all the time.
Unfortunately, you are correct.
It is technically possible, but something that Microsoft and Apple absolutely do not want to see happen. If Linux ever comes to close for comfort, expect to see patent and copyright lawsuits in abundance, and continuing changes to their products to make sure compatibility stays sufficiently broken.
Come to think of it, didn't I already see this happening?
I don't know about Windows, but Apple actually actively encourages the porting of *nix software to macOS:
https://developer.apple.com/li...
When will Application developers finally cross compile their code to work on linux, and release linux versions of their software?
If they aren't doing it why not?
There. Fixed your question.
Answer: They already are. The entire cloud / internet runs on open code that runs on a nix stack. Steam is available under linux. Open and Libre office run under linux. I've found suitable replacements for almost all software I used to use under linux.
I haven't booted into Windows (at home) in years. If a company just wants to support wall gardens then I'm happy not to use their software.
If you want to spew Apple Hate, then at least man up and invoke the enemy by name!
Oh, and don't insinuate things that aren't true:
1. MacOS NAS NEVER been a "Walled Garden".
2. iOS hasn't been a "Walled Garden" since iOS 8, over FOUR years ago.
Next time, do at least TRY to not embarrass yourself.
And it is unusable garbage (unless you're one of those weirdos who *LIKES* to do everything the hardest way possible).
Wrong, wrong, wrong, utterly wrong. About a decade or so ago, my sister, who knows how to use a computer but not how to do any troubleshooting asked me to convert her system from Windows to Ubuntu. Since then, she's asked me for computer help about once or maybe twice a year, mostly about system upgrades. Aside from that, It Just Works.
About three years ago, I did the same for a friend's wife because he doesn't know Linux. Again, It Just Works and she's never needed any assistance. If you can't get Linux to work, either you have hardware problems or you're doing something wrong, and I've no idea which it is in your case.
Oh, boy! You managed to defined a stable configuration of email client and web browser.
But now, your sister says she wants to try her hand at multitrack audio recording and editing, and she's buying a MIDI keyboard because she heard there are a lot of nice soft-synths she can use.
NOW is she going to be happy?
I stand corrected. Thanks for that one. So, interestingly enough, that brings me to the second, which based on that reading essentially says that any law denying guns is unconstitutional, Supreme Court common sense rulings be damned. Perhaps it's time to pass an amendment clarifying the second for today's world. We no longer have the same needs, worries, nor civil issues from back in the 1700s, and perhaps it is time to amend the second to allow reasonable controls.
No, it isn't.
The problem lies in the weasel-word "reasonable". That is EXACTLY the type of language that "slippery-slopes" are paved-with!!!
As ambiguous as the wording of the 2nd Amendment is, it still has the all-important phrase "shall not be infringed."
Anything else invites a police-state.
And the Courts have hammered out the rest of the ambiguities, and taken the mantle of "interpreting" the Founders' language as it applies to "modern" times. And they have also ceded much governmental restraint afforded by 2nd Amendment to the States and Municipalities, anyway; so you almost have what you want already.
Such and such a state wants to ban "concealed carry". The courts say that's fine.
Another state wants to ban handgun (remember when they were called "pistols"?) sales to ADULTS under the age of 21. Supremes agree that is a STATE right (in DIRECT derogation with the 2nd Amendment )
The next state wants to ban ammunition magazines larger than 8 rounds. Supreme Court says the States have the "power to regulate firearms". How does THAT square with the Supremacy Clause, as applies to the 2nd Amendment (which, BTW, is actually EXPLICITLY ADOPTED into most, if not ALL STATE Constitutions as wel!!! HOW DOES THAT WORK!?!