PC Magazine used to have printed hexadecimal assembly code that you could type into Microsoft's debug program to create small utilities in the.com format.
That goes back a LOT further than "PC Magazine", whippersnapper!
I think one of the most painful projects I ever had was trying to interface Filemaker, a campus Oracle DB and Mailman. Take student records from the Oracle db, transfer them to Filemaker for , god knows what reason, then push them later to mailman for mass mail. The first demo somehow the mailman instance broke and turned into a kind of loop that spammed about 9000 students with nearly 100 mails each, mostly just repeated "out of office" messages.
I never drank so hard as I did that night.
So, because YOU didn't take time to learn FileMaker properly, it is FILEMAKER's Fault?!?
I suspect he's still out there, somewhere, causing people to be stuck with Filemaker.
Doubtless an open-source, platform-agnostic solution works better. I use Drupal these days when I want to do a job like that. It provides all the usual functionality you expect from a CMS, and a fairly small set of modules will let you create views on arbitrary database tables so that you can use it as a glorified database reporting tool without ever writing a line of code, CSS aside. You just create views. And the CSS is only needed to make it look pretty, not to make any sense of the information at all. And there are export tools.
Maybe, if you want to re-invent every aspect of every wheel.
But FileMaker simply can't be beat for being able to bang-out a really decent-looking, and acting, application in almost zero time.
Hypercard's logical successor is Filemaker Pro. I don't know whatever happened to that, but it let you construct interfaces by dragging and dropping. Back when web interfaces were a relatively young thing, I participated in creating a tool to let users select VLANs on Catalyst switches so that they could connect ports on their desks with ports in the testing lab using Filemaker Pro on Windows as the server, and perl on Linux for the backend (using Expect to actually talk to CatOS.) That took about three days, including making it acceptably attractive and usable. And web interfaces aren't (or weren't, no idea what's up with Filemaker now) even the program's primary goal.
FileMaker lives on!
Still an Apple Subsidiary. Still Cross-Platform (Mac and WIndows + iOS + Web). Standalone, on-Prem Server, and Cloud-Based Server Options.
Still the hands-down Easiest GUI Form and Report Editors on the Planet!
Only Multi-User DBMS I know of with LIVE record-updating to ALL users sitting on the same Record!
Still the most misunderstood and ignored Multi-User, Multi-Platform DBMS ever!
I love HyperCard and HyperTalk; but it does NOT have nearly the "Natural Language" properties that Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler thought it did. And as far as "wordiness", COBOL has NOTHING on HyperTalk!!!
It's likely just a PITA to replace one and they probably destroy a phone on accident every now and then. The things weren't made to be changed. They were made to be disposable.
While it isn't a completely-trivial task, Apple doesn't use glue, per se, anymore (they use adhesive strips that are similar to the 3M "Command" adhesive (designed to release when "stretched")); so replacing the battery in the affected iPhones is not even close to a destructive process, especially for someone who has done a few of them before.
And if I plug in a dongle I can extend that to: ahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahaha ahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahaha ahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahaha
So sorry; but it's true.
It"s actually only FIFTY TWO ports, but it's still more than any other laptop, period.
Plus, post 2015, they port-neutered the MacBook Pro so all it is anymore is an higher powered, oversized MacBook anyway - so there's very little lineup differentiation.
Bullshit.
The 2016-2017 15" MBP has more I/O capability than any other laptop, period.
You can break-out its 4 TB3/USB-C Ports into a myriad of configurations of up to FIFTY-SIX SIMULTANEOUS "legacy" I/O Ports.
Maybe they have something else in the pipeline. Or maybe they don't care about losing market-share in the laptop area...
Maybe they see the difference between the current MacBook Air and MacBook minor. When the new MacBook was introduced it did seem to move towards the Air concept.
Your snarky misuse of product names has left your comment completely incomprehensible.
Apple also sells displays, keyboards/mice, routers / networked storage drives, and software.
They could pretty easily start pushing a line of I/O devices designed to talk to your iOS or Mac OS devices in a tightly integrated ecosystem designed around the idea that your phone is your computer, your PC is an external processor bank and storage array for "big jobs", and any of the displays and/or keyboards (made by Apple) in your immediate vicinity can be grabbed and used as convenient.
Or rather, if anyone can do it Apple can due to their existing vertical integration and reputation for upturning cars when it suites their vision to do so.
Their "Continuity" feature would provide the perfect "glue" to make that a wonderful experience for a certain market-segment, too.
Logic Pro X is an EXCELLENT DAW, easily equal to or better than ProTools. Outside of the USA (curiously enough), it is quite well-represented. And even in the USA, since Macs own Pro Audio, most pro studios support Logic as well as ProTools.
And it isn't a Subscription model. $199 and its yours. Forever.
And if you do things live, MainStage3 is a spectacular package. I think it is like $30.
Ok thank you!!
This year, I'm upgrading my work station from the MBP late 2011 core i7 16GB ram...and getting an iMac Pro....
Awhile back, I went and applied at a local community college for the grad program. Mind you, I never enrolled or took a class. I paid about $25 application fee, and likely $35 or so for transcripts to be sent there. And I went and got my Student ID made...which has NO expiration date.
I now use this to get educational software and hardware.
When I get the iMac pro, I can also get the educational bundle they offer for $199 with Logic, FPCX (I already have this),, Motion, Compressor, and the MainStage, etc.....so, I think I'f go for it.
I really don't know music,..but I do own more guitars than I know chords...and awhile back, bought a midi keyboard..so, thinking I can plug in and maybe try to learn to do some simple things for my videos, etc.
LOL...yeah, awhile back, I thought if you bought enough equipment, you'd eventually sounds like Jimmy Page.
Apparently I missed the part about hard work and practicing...hahaha.
Anyway, again, thank you for the input!!
Yeah, and with all the software instruments that Logic Pro and Mainstage come with, you will have a BLAST with that MIDI keyboard!!!
Oh yeah, that Educational Bundle is the best-kept secret on the planet!!!
Now, if THAT isn't the Deal of the Century, I don't know what is!
What is your opinion of Logic Pro X in comparison to the other two tools?
Thank you!!
Logic Pro X is an EXCELLENT DAW, easily equal to or better than ProTools. Outside of the USA (curiously enough), it is quite well-represented. And even in the USA, since Macs own Pro Audio, most pro studios support Logic as well as ProTools.
And it isn't a Subscription model. $199 and its yours. Forever.
And if you do things live, MainStage3 is a spectacular package. I think it is like $30.
As many of us have known for many years, the iPhone is a cheaply made, poorly designed, and vastly overpriced steaming turd! Android phones that are far superior to the iPhone can be bought for $100 to $150! Anyone who has paid more than that for a "smart" phone is an idiot that got ripped off big time!!
So what does that make the GN8 owners who paid $949 for their kit?
The main "mistake" with the iPhone X is the price. As Apple is now realizing, not many people are willing to pay $1000 for a phone. They don't have to discontinue it to fix that.
Galaxy Note 8 is $949 for the same amount of storage.
More probably than not they're just trying to get all the EU profits they didn't pay any taxes on back home as quickly as possible on now after the EU knows about this after someone blew the whistle on their illegal and secret deal with the Irish.
Let me ask a serious question:
Is there ANYTHING that Apple could, or would, do in ANY scenario that you would NOT find a way to find a way to spin-negatively?
3 year old Android still benchmarking within 10% of new, on original battery, and theyâ(TM)re slowing down 1 year-old iPhone 7â(TM)s, even while plugged in. GO APPLE!
My over 3 year old iPhone 6 Plus is at 93% battery health, and Benchmarks ABOVE the GeekBench target scores.
Now what?
BTW, it seems that YOU have the mental problems, especially with your snap-judgement regarding the mental health of certain people, based solely on their platform choice.
In fact, you really shouldn't be in the mental health-care field at all. You are highly unprofessional, to say the least!
An example may be I'm in an office with chargers, and I find the snow down irritating.
Isn't this what happens right now? My Android, if it's in power saving mode and I connect it to the charger it automatically changes to performance (you can see it on the screen brightness, for instance). Doesn't iPhone, such an innovative device, have the same?
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PC Magazine used to have printed hexadecimal assembly code that you could type into Microsoft's debug program to create small utilities in the .com format.
That goes back a LOT further than "PC Magazine", whippersnapper!
I think one of the most painful projects I ever had was trying to interface Filemaker, a campus Oracle DB and Mailman. Take student records from the Oracle db, transfer them to Filemaker for , god knows what reason, then push them later to mailman for mass mail. The first demo somehow the mailman instance broke and turned into a kind of loop that spammed about 9000 students with nearly 100 mails each, mostly just repeated "out of office" messages.
I never drank so hard as I did that night.
So, because YOU didn't take time to learn FileMaker properly, it is FILEMAKER's Fault?!?
Got it!
I suspect he's still out there, somewhere, causing people to be stuck with Filemaker.
Doubtless an open-source, platform-agnostic solution works better. I use Drupal these days when I want to do a job like that. It provides all the usual functionality you expect from a CMS, and a fairly small set of modules will let you create views on arbitrary database tables so that you can use it as a glorified database reporting tool without ever writing a line of code, CSS aside. You just create views. And the CSS is only needed to make it look pretty, not to make any sense of the information at all. And there are export tools.
Maybe, if you want to re-invent every aspect of every wheel.
But FileMaker simply can't be beat for being able to bang-out a really decent-looking, and acting, application in almost zero time.
Hypercard's logical successor is Filemaker Pro. I don't know whatever happened to that, but it let you construct interfaces by dragging and dropping. Back when web interfaces were a relatively young thing, I participated in creating a tool to let users select VLANs on Catalyst switches so that they could connect ports on their desks with ports in the testing lab using Filemaker Pro on Windows as the server, and perl on Linux for the backend (using Expect to actually talk to CatOS.) That took about three days, including making it acceptably attractive and usable. And web interfaces aren't (or weren't, no idea what's up with Filemaker now) even the program's primary goal.
FileMaker lives on!
Still an Apple Subsidiary. Still Cross-Platform (Mac and WIndows + iOS + Web). Standalone, on-Prem Server, and Cloud-Based Server Options.
Still the hands-down Easiest GUI Form and Report Editors on the Planet!
Only Multi-User DBMS I know of with LIVE record-updating to ALL users sitting on the same Record!
Still the most misunderstood and ignored Multi-User, Multi-Platform DBMS ever!
http://www.filemaker.com/
Congratulations you invented LOGO!
Or, they could've dug through their own software catalogue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
I love HyperCard and HyperTalk; but it does NOT have nearly the "Natural Language" properties that Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler thought it did. And as far as "wordiness", COBOL has NOTHING on HyperTalk!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Proof: One has to look no further than AppleScript, which is the syntactic kissing-cousin of HyperTalk.
I don't know anything about this Senator; but on this one topic alone, he would have my vote!
I'd suggest we all write him and thank him for his courage and intelligence...
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/c...
It's likely just a PITA to replace one and they probably destroy a phone on accident every now and then. The things weren't made to be changed. They were made to be disposable.
While it isn't a completely-trivial task, Apple doesn't use glue, per se, anymore (they use adhesive strips that are similar to the 3M "Command" adhesive (designed to release when "stretched")); so replacing the battery in the affected iPhones is not even close to a destructive process, especially for someone who has done a few of them before.
they are called sheep for a reason
They're called Anonymous COWARDS for a reason.
Steve Jobs is dead. Your reality distortion field no longer works. You're shilling it wrong.
Is that really the best you've got?
I'm actually disappointed.
I can name 3, at least:
MacBook (non-Pro)
Google Pixelbook
Dell XPS 12
Undoubtedly there are more, and will be even more; but I only had a couple of minutes to search.
The 2016-2017 15" MBP has more I/O capability than any other laptop, period.
ahahahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahahahahahahha.
Okay but seriously though:
ahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahaha
And if I plug in a dongle I can extend that to: ahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahaha ahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahaha ahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahaha
So sorry; but it's true.
It"s actually only FIFTY TWO ports, but it's still more than any other laptop, period.
Plus, post 2015, they port-neutered the MacBook Pro so all it is anymore is an higher powered, oversized MacBook anyway - so there's very little lineup differentiation.
Bullshit.
The 2016-2017 15" MBP has more I/O capability than any other laptop, period.
You can break-out its 4 TB3/USB-C Ports into a myriad of configurations of up to FIFTY-SIX SIMULTANEOUS "legacy" I/O Ports.
Name one other laptop that can do that.
Maybe they have something else in the pipeline. Or maybe they don't care about losing market-share in the laptop area ...
Maybe they see the difference between the current MacBook Air and MacBook minor. When the new MacBook was introduced it did seem to move towards the Air concept.
Your snarky misuse of product names has left your comment completely incomprehensible.
MacBook minor == MacBook Pro?
MacBook == MacBook?
Or what?
Apple also sells displays, keyboards/mice, routers / networked storage drives, and software.
They could pretty easily start pushing a line of I/O devices designed to talk to your iOS or Mac OS devices in a tightly integrated ecosystem designed around the idea that your phone is your computer, your PC is an external processor bank and storage array for "big jobs", and any of the displays and/or keyboards (made by Apple) in your immediate vicinity can be grabbed and used as convenient.
Or rather, if anyone can do it Apple can due to their existing vertical integration and reputation for upturning cars when it suites their vision to do so.
Their "Continuity" feature would provide the perfect "glue" to make that a wonderful experience for a certain market-segment, too.
Great idea!
https://support.apple.com/en-u...
Ok thank you!!
This year, I'm upgrading my work station from the MBP late 2011 core i7 16GB ram...and getting an iMac Pro....
Awhile back, I went and applied at a local community college for the grad program. Mind you, I never enrolled or took a class. I paid about $25 application fee, and likely $35 or so for transcripts to be sent there. And I went and got my Student ID made...which has NO expiration date.
I now use this to get educational software and hardware.
When I get the iMac pro, I can also get the educational bundle they offer for $199 with Logic, FPCX (I already have this),, Motion, Compressor, and the MainStage, etc.....so, I think I'f go for it.
I really don't know music,..but I do own more guitars than I know chords...and awhile back, bought a midi keyboard..so, thinking I can plug in and maybe try to learn to do some simple things for my videos, etc.
LOL...yeah, awhile back, I thought if you bought enough equipment, you'd eventually sounds like Jimmy Page.
Apparently I missed the part about hard work and practicing...hahaha.
Anyway, again, thank you for the input!!
Yeah, and with all the software instruments that Logic Pro and Mainstage come with, you will have a BLAST with that MIDI keyboard!!!
Oh yeah, that Educational Bundle is the best-kept secret on the planet!!!
Now, if THAT isn't the Deal of the Century, I don't know what is!
Looks like it's still a "thing"...
https://www.apple.com/us-k12/s...
Have fun!
Interesting info on Pro Tools, and Reaper....
What is your opinion of Logic Pro X in comparison to the other two tools?
Thank you!!
Logic Pro X is an EXCELLENT DAW, easily equal to or better than ProTools. Outside of the USA (curiously enough), it is quite well-represented. And even in the USA, since Macs own Pro Audio, most pro studios support Logic as well as ProTools.
And it isn't a Subscription model. $199 and its yours. Forever.
And if you do things live, MainStage3 is a spectacular package. I think it is like $30.
...MS is playing catch-up....
Then why not distinguish itself by not doing all the tracking and data collection?
You mean like Apple has done?
As many of us have known for many years, the iPhone is a cheaply made, poorly designed, and vastly overpriced steaming turd! Android phones that are far superior to the iPhone can be bought for $100 to $150! Anyone who has paid more than that for a "smart" phone is an idiot that got ripped off big time!!
So what does that make the GN8 owners who paid $949 for their kit?
The main "mistake" with the iPhone X is the price. As Apple is now realizing, not many people are willing to pay $1000 for a phone. They don't have to discontinue it to fix that.
Galaxy Note 8 is $949 for the same amount of storage.
Now what, Hater?
Yeah you're entirely free to leave the insecure version of iOS on your phone, unless you want to take all the other shit they force on you.
So, let me get this straight, Hater:
1 Apple is teh Evilz if they strongly urge you to Upgrade.
2. Apple is teh Evilz if they DON'T strongly urge you to Upgrade.
Is that about it?
If this is the case how they providing an option to turn this feature off? Is this switch called please randomly crash my phone?
It should be; or possibly, the "Ok, you asked for it!" Switch.
If this truly is an issue just display a warning saying your phone battery is old please replace.
Yeahrightsure. You mean the "Please Contact the Class-Action Lawyer For Frivolous Lawsuit" Notification?
Do other phones experience the same thing?
Yes. THIS is why ALL the Class-Action Bullshit-Suits are DOOMED...
Samsung:
https://www.google.com/search?...
HTC:
https://www.google.com/search?...
LG:
https://www.google.com/search?...
Even Older iPhones (that the meme says "Never used to shut off!") :
https://www.google.com/search?...
Get the Picture?
"1. You are free to run whatever version of iOS you want to LEAVE on your Device (there actually are NO "Forced Upgrades")."
Until your bank says, "We long longer support your iOS. You have a month to update or else we're cutting you off."
Which is the only reason why I updated my 5c from 8.xx to 10.3.3. And have continually regretted it.
So, let me get this straight:
It's APPLE's fault that your BANK "forced you" to Upgrade?
And your BANK Held your Money HOSTAGE, PREVENTING you from going BANK-SHOPPING?
See the flaw in your logic?
(BTW, I am typing this on my iPad 2, which CANNOT be Upgraded past iOS 9.xx, and MY Bank lets me use both its older App and its web portal just fine).
Perhaps it IS time to switch Banks... AND STOP BLAMING APPLE!
More probably than not they're just trying to get all the EU profits they didn't pay any taxes on back home as quickly as possible on now after the EU knows about this after someone blew the whistle on their illegal and secret deal with the Irish.
Let me ask a serious question:
Is there ANYTHING that Apple could, or would, do in ANY scenario that you would NOT find a way to find a way to spin-negatively?
Seriously.
3 year old Android still benchmarking within 10% of new, on original battery, and theyâ(TM)re slowing down 1 year-old iPhone 7â(TM)s, even while plugged in. GO APPLE!
My over 3 year old iPhone 6 Plus is at 93% battery health, and Benchmarks ABOVE the GeekBench target scores.
Now what?
BTW, it seems that YOU have the mental problems, especially with your snap-judgement regarding the mental health of certain people, based solely on their platform choice.
In fact, you really shouldn't be in the mental health-care field at all. You are highly unprofessional, to say the least!
An example may be I'm in an office with chargers, and I find the snow down irritating.
Isn't this what happens right now? My Android, if it's in power saving mode and I connect it to the charger it automatically changes to performance (you can see it on the screen brightness, for instance). Doesn't iPhone, such an innovative device, have the same?
Actually, it does.