I am not at ALL sure the "Trump Administration" (whatever that LEGALLY means!) can actually "Ban" (whatever THAT means!) a Government Agency from the exercise of Free Speech.
For example, certain Protections, such as Copyright, do not apply to the Government. Afterall, just WHO is the Government going to enforce that Copyright AGAINST?
Are you running that as a Hackintosh? If not, you are losing a significant "hidden value" right there, IMHO.
No, as unmodified macOS install images don't run on AMD and there was no Ryzen kernel available the day I built it. Add to that, some of the software I built that machine to run simply doesn't exist on a Mac. My DAW, for example. Even if I were willing to adjust my workflow to a new DAW, many of my (expensive) VSTs don't have Mac versions; even if I were willing to spend the money to replace those, the replacements wouldn't provide the same functionality or sound, so it's not even an option.
On a Mac, use Logic. Period. And there is now a Freeware VST-Wrapper (which also has a 32-bit to 64-bit Wrapper, too!) by the same guy. Can't remember the name; but I've got it bookmarked at home. That will get you out of the VST conundrum.
BTW, is there a Ryzen Kernel now? (I assume that you mean a version of Darwin recompiled for AMD, right?)
Then, there's gaming... even my "I'll never use a PC" wife now maintains a Windows laptop for gaming because Mac ports of games, when they even exist, just simply suck. Take Fortnite as a recent example; not only is the macOS version roughly twice the size of the Windows version (I can't imagine why and won't speculate, I'm simply stating it as a fact), it barely runs on a brand new MacBook Pro.
Shitty WIndows-centric Coders.
And I'm not talking about low framerates at the lowest quality settings; that's what I've come to expect from a Mac when gaming is involved and I would have accepted that just as well... No, I'm talking about 1-5 second stalls. Amazingly, when it's not stalled, it has no trouble keeping up on more or less medium quality settings, but the stalls kill it.
Even with Games that are "Metal"-based?
What prompted my wife to seek a PC for gaming was, of all the simplistic crap a Mac could possibly have trouble with, The Sims. Even her 2016 5k iMac with 32GB of RAM struggles to run it at 1080p with moderate quality settings. I was in a state of utter disbelief when she told me, so I spent a couple hours working with her, tweaking the settings, insisting that she must have messed the settings somehow to make it so slow and unstable but no... Mind you, she does have a lot of mods and expansions, so my next move was to blame those. No, she hadn't gotten it running satisfactorily enough to have bothered installing them by that point. When I built my workstation, I ended up giving her the Windows laptop I had been using and, despite having half the RAM and an older-gen i7 than the iMac, she's managed to get all of her mods and expansions installed and working and it runs fast and stable at 4k.
That's just poor-ass coders. Nothing intrinsic to the Mac is causing that. Sorry.
And you bloody-well know that.
Like most people, my wife and I derive value from our systems by using them for the things we want (or need) to use them for; some of those things are just better on Windows. For my primary work tasks, the MacBook Pro w/ Touch Bar that I'm writing this post on currently (a machine I swore, when it was released, I would never buy, mind you) is more than sufficient; for the things I built that workstation for, the Mac platform isn't even an option. Perhaps if Apple sold systems with that kind of power, developers of applications that need that kind of power would bother dedicating resources to maintaining (or creating; many simply don't exist) their Mac ports?
Then there's the little matter of no warranty
No warranty? Every part I bought has a warranty, many of those are longer than the 1 year I'd get from an OEM. Sometimes it's hard to take you seriously.
That autocorrect made me giggle a bit, tho... I'm assuming you meant "consider"?
My Ryzen build with dual 4k displays, dual GPUs, 64GB of RAM, 1TB of m.2 PCIe storage clocking in at ~4GB/sec read/write and 1TB of SATA RAID SSD storage clocking in at ~1GB/sec read/write runs circles around the iMac Pro for $1k less. I was a launch-day adopter of the platform and bought parts on preorder; most of the parts I bought are cheaper now, none have increased in price, so you could probably build this same system today for closer to $3500.
You good, bro?
Are you running that as a Hackintosh? If not, you are losing a significant "hidden value" right there, IMHO.
Then there's the little matter of no warranty. Believe it or not, OEMs co spider that as a COGS for their products. Whether or not that is worth an extra $1k is, of course, debatable...;-)
Why... thought? I mean buying a product at $5,000 and it comes with a graphics card, that's two generations behind? Because of some weird brand-love that Apple wants to have with AMD? There's truth in that Apple people don't need the top-end hardware, and then there's truth in fucking over your customer with a high energy consumption, louder, shittier product in all respects.
They explained that "brand new love" when the MBP 2016 came out.
It has to do with the number of 4k and 5k displays that can be driven, and since you can take advantage of that with TB, and considering that this is much more likely to be used as a high-end GRAPHICS machine, rather than a Polygons-per-second GAMING machine, the decision makes perfect sense.
Do I fail the fanboy test here or does that not make any sense? A (very) small segment of the user population needs a workstation class machine. For those who do and want to run OSX...welp break out the corporate cards. For everyone else, you can get more for less AND not have such a high level of lock-in. Maybe Apple will even let you upgrade this system...!
You say the "You can get more for less", and then proceed to NOT prove it.
Apple gave launchd to the world as Open Source, and has been using it in macOS pretty much flawlessly since OS X 10.4 (Tiger) (and more recently, probably iOS, WatchOS and TVOS, too).
If that STUPID FUCK, Pottering, and his ilk had simply taken the ALREADY-DEVELOPED-AND-TESTED GIFT that was offered by Apple, instead of going "Apple is teh Evilz!"; we'll show THEM we don't need no Steenking gift Daemons!" Most of this hand-wringing could have been avoided.
For one thing, this is a Mac exclusive. For another, it requires the developer to have ported the application to iOS in the first place. Or since when has there become a way to take an Android or UWP application and recompile it for iOS with no changes?
My post was rep,ting to a post that alluded to the fact that the App had already been recompiled/ported to iOS, and that the only barrier at that point was having to deal with the iOS App Store for a corporate App.
And although XCode is necessary to develop/compile for an iOS target, Cydia's "Impactor" will allow the loading of already-compiled ".ipa" files, and has versions that run not only on macOS, but also Windows (and possibly Linux?). That neatly sidesteps your other non-argument.
That might work for large companies, which can afford sufficient instances of all six major platforms on which to test compiled executables as well as the recurring fees for a presence on iOS and Windows app stores. It might not work quite as well for amateurs or small companies, which cannot.
iOS hasn't really needed this since iOS 8. Either use XCode or Cydia Reflector, and you can install any Apps you want, sans App Store.
Right now they do function locally, my chromebook does editing, cooking timer, calculator and a host of other minor things, including VNC to other machines on my LAN - all without internet. It's what makes the thing useful to me (and all those apps also work on my more-capable machines too, for a unified UE). Saying chromebooks will never catch on is kinda missing the fact that they already have for education and some other uses where sysadmining is too much hassle - it's nice they don't need it. Some people immediately "break" any other type of machine, it's hard to ruin a chromebook...and easy to reset to working status. .
If they remove the ability to work offline, it will seriously reduce the usefulness of these things...and I'll just put linux on mine instead.
Just buy a Mac and you won't need a SysAdmin either.
Only Windows and Linux require such arcane meatsack-appliances to work in a corporate environment.
Slashdot is getting as untruthful as Trump's Tweets.
What they have an API for, is the LOW RESOLUTION mo-cap data that is updated in real-time; NOT the "30,000 Points of Light" data that is used for FaceID.
This is the same data that is used to drive the Animoji "expressions", and apparently to breathe more "life" into certain gaming avatars.
As far as being able to stuff like gender, which is already much more obtainable through a gazillion sources, and sexuality (gimme a break!), that is simply a big nothing-burger.
IOW, nothing to see (or identify) here, move along.
There's all kinds of cosmetic and usability bugs floating around, and Apple doesn't seem to be in a hurry to fix them. They're the kind of bugs that aren't showstoppers but are still very annoying or can result in bad data.
The Calculator bug in iOS is one example of a recent bug that can produce bad data and wasn't fixed. Until iOS 11.2 (which isn't out yet!) even though it was reported way back in 11.0 beta, before the OS was released to the public.
Another recent issue, though less important, is that the Weather widget will randomly stop updating, so you'll be seeing last night's weather instead of right now. This bug was also reported several versions ago and is as of yet unfixed in the latest 11.2 beta.
I know bugs happen; nobody is perfect. But these are obvious, reproducible bugs that are not being fixed after being reported months prior. What the hell, Apple?
Oooh, how horrible!
A UI bug in the free Calculator App, and an Update bug in the Weather Widget?
Seriously?
Now, let's compare that against Windows and Linux, shall we?
I thought it required physical access, as well; then I read reports of people being able to access screen sharing and AFP shares using this method. I don't have a system running High Sierra to be able to verify those claims, but it seems plausible.
This just isn't a bug you accidentally introduce into a properly designed auth system. That means either someone was acting maliciously, or the system was designed with extreme incompetence. Since we're talking about Apple, I don't think many fanbois will accept the incompetence explanation, so we'll go with malice to avoid triggering them. Since they allow Apple to maliciously empty their wallets, they seem to be okay with malice......... I write as I check the shipping status of my new MabCook Pro.
But, then, I'm a user, not a fanboi -- and I placed the order before this was made public.
What's the big deal?
Apple already published a simple workaround, which will completely fix the issue until a properly-tested update can be released. (Note: Yesterday's article had a link to an Apple Knowledge Base Article on how to fix the bug temporarily; but now that the Update has been released, MacRumors edited that out of their article, so here's what's left of the original workaround).
Slashdot Mirror
I am not at ALL sure the "Trump Administration" (whatever that LEGALLY means!) can actually "Ban" (whatever THAT means!) a Government Agency from the exercise of Free Speech.
For example, certain Protections, such as Copyright, do not apply to the Government. Afterall, just WHO is the Government going to enforce that Copyright AGAINST?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But, apparently, Federal Agencies, like the CDC, do NOT have First Amendment rights against the Federal Government:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Oh well, it was worth a try...
It has to do with the number of 4k and 5k displays that can be driven
You didn't outright say it, but you sure implied it.
You used to have such good arguments for the Mac; what happened?
Getting burnt-out on Slashdot, I guess...
Are you running that as a Hackintosh? If not, you are losing a significant "hidden value" right there, IMHO.
No, as unmodified macOS install images don't run on AMD and there was no Ryzen kernel available the day I built it. Add to that, some of the software I built that machine to run simply doesn't exist on a Mac. My DAW, for example. Even if I were willing to adjust my workflow to a new DAW, many of my (expensive) VSTs don't have Mac versions; even if I were willing to spend the money to replace those, the replacements wouldn't provide the same functionality or sound, so it's not even an option.
On a Mac, use Logic. Period. And there is now a Freeware VST-Wrapper (which also has a 32-bit to 64-bit Wrapper, too!) by the same guy. Can't remember the name; but I've got it bookmarked at home. That will get you out of the VST conundrum.
BTW, is there a Ryzen Kernel now? (I assume that you mean a version of Darwin recompiled for AMD, right?)
Then, there's gaming... even my "I'll never use a PC" wife now maintains a Windows laptop for gaming because Mac ports of games, when they even exist, just simply suck. Take Fortnite as a recent example; not only is the macOS version roughly twice the size of the Windows version (I can't imagine why and won't speculate, I'm simply stating it as a fact), it barely runs on a brand new MacBook Pro.
Shitty WIndows-centric Coders.
And I'm not talking about low framerates at the lowest quality settings; that's what I've come to expect from a Mac when gaming is involved and I would have accepted that just as well... No, I'm talking about 1-5 second stalls. Amazingly, when it's not stalled, it has no trouble keeping up on more or less medium quality settings, but the stalls kill it.
Even with Games that are "Metal"-based?
What prompted my wife to seek a PC for gaming was, of all the simplistic crap a Mac could possibly have trouble with, The Sims. Even her 2016 5k iMac with 32GB of RAM struggles to run it at 1080p with moderate quality settings. I was in a state of utter disbelief when she told me, so I spent a couple hours working with her, tweaking the settings, insisting that she must have messed the settings somehow to make it so slow and unstable but no... Mind you, she does have a lot of mods and expansions, so my next move was to blame those. No, she hadn't gotten it running satisfactorily enough to have bothered installing them by that point. When I built my workstation, I ended up giving her the Windows laptop I had been using and, despite having half the RAM and an older-gen i7 than the iMac, she's managed to get all of her mods and expansions installed and working and it runs fast and stable at 4k.
That's just poor-ass coders. Nothing intrinsic to the Mac is causing that. Sorry.
And you bloody-well know that.
Like most people, my wife and I derive value from our systems by using them for the things we want (or need) to use them for; some of those things are just better on Windows. For my primary work tasks, the MacBook Pro w/ Touch Bar that I'm writing this post on currently (a machine I swore, when it was released, I would never buy, mind you) is more than sufficient; for the things I built that workstation for, the Mac platform isn't even an option. Perhaps if Apple sold systems with that kind of power, developers of applications that need that kind of power would bother dedicating resources to maintaining (or creating; many simply don't exist) their Mac ports?
Then there's the little matter of no warranty
No warranty? Every part I bought has a warranty, many of those are longer than the 1 year I'd get from an OEM. Sometimes it's hard to take you seriously.
That autocorrect made me giggle a bit, tho... I'm assuming you meant "consider"?
I didn't even see it, sorry!
So the current-gen cards can drive fewer displays than the older ones? Huh...
Where did I say that?
My Ryzen build with dual 4k displays, dual GPUs, 64GB of RAM, 1TB of m.2 PCIe storage clocking in at ~4GB/sec read/write and 1TB of SATA RAID SSD storage clocking in at ~1GB/sec read/write runs circles around the iMac Pro for $1k less. I was a launch-day adopter of the platform and bought parts on preorder; most of the parts I bought are cheaper now, none have increased in price, so you could probably build this same system today for closer to $3500.
You good, bro?
Are you running that as a Hackintosh? If not, you are losing a significant "hidden value" right there, IMHO.
Then there's the little matter of no warranty. Believe it or not, OEMs co spider that as a COGS for their products. Whether or not that is worth an extra $1k is, of course, debatable... ;-)
And yeah, I'm good...
dup swap pop pop .
I like working in government IT. We keep the terrorists from taking away our freedoms.
Instead, nowadays, we just have your Overlords to do that...
Why... thought? I mean buying a product at $5,000 and it comes with a graphics card, that's two generations behind? Because of some weird brand-love that Apple wants to have with AMD? There's truth in that Apple people don't need the top-end hardware, and then there's truth in fucking over your customer with a high energy consumption, louder, shittier product in all respects.
They explained that "brand new love" when the MBP 2016 came out.
It has to do with the number of 4k and 5k displays that can be driven, and since you can take advantage of that with TB, and considering that this is much more likely to be used as a high-end GRAPHICS machine, rather than a Polygons-per-second GAMING machine, the decision makes perfect sense.
Please link me to one
Notice, they NEVER do...
Suddenly Windows 10 doesn't seem so bad. I bet I could even get XCode running in a VM on an Asus laptop if I had to.
Found the Troll...
Needs beefy machine.
Runs 2011 MBP.
Do I fail the fanboy test here or does that not make any sense? A (very) small segment of the user population needs a workstation class machine. For those who do and want to run OSX...welp break out the corporate cards. For everyone else, you can get more for less AND not have such a high level of lock-in. Maybe Apple will even let you upgrade this system...!
You say the "You can get more for less", and then proceed to NOT prove it.
Good job!
Apple gave launchd to the world as Open Source, and has been using it in macOS pretty much flawlessly since OS X 10.4 (Tiger) (and more recently, probably iOS, WatchOS and TVOS, too).
If that STUPID FUCK, Pottering, and his ilk had simply taken the ALREADY-DEVELOPED-AND-TESTED GIFT that was offered by Apple, instead of going "Apple is teh Evilz!"; we'll show THEM we don't need no Steenking gift Daemons!" Most of this hand-wringing could have been avoided.
use XCode
For one thing, this is a Mac exclusive. For another, it requires the developer to have ported the application to iOS in the first place. Or since when has there become a way to take an Android or UWP application and recompile it for iOS with no changes?
My post was rep,ting to a post that alluded to the fact that the App had already been recompiled/ported to iOS, and that the only barrier at that point was having to deal with the iOS App Store for a corporate App.
And although XCode is necessary to develop/compile for an iOS target, Cydia's "Impactor" will allow the loading of already-compiled ".ipa" files, and has versions that run not only on macOS, but also Windows (and possibly Linux?). That neatly sidesteps your other non-argument.
just compile the damn code for each plaform
That might work for large companies, which can afford sufficient instances of all six major platforms on which to test compiled executables as well as the recurring fees for a presence on iOS and Windows app stores. It might not work quite as well for amateurs or small companies, which cannot.
iOS hasn't really needed this since iOS 8. Either use XCode or Cydia Reflector, and you can install any Apps you want, sans App Store.
Right now they do function locally, my chromebook does editing, cooking timer, calculator and a host of other minor things, including VNC to other machines on my LAN - all without internet. It's what makes the thing useful to me (and all those apps also work on my more-capable machines too, for a unified UE). Saying chromebooks will never catch on is kinda missing the fact that they already have for education and some other uses where sysadmining is too much hassle - it's nice they don't need it. Some people immediately "break" any other type of machine, it's hard to ruin a chromebook...and easy to reset to working status.
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If they remove the ability to work offline, it will seriously reduce the usefulness of these things...and I'll just put linux on mine instead.
Just buy a Mac and you won't need a SysAdmin either.
Only Windows and Linux require such arcane meatsack-appliances to work in a corporate environment.
Here's a negative comment about this: how about those of us who bought an early version of the Apple TV?
Where's the Amazon app for the 2nd and 3rd-generation Apple TV?
Well, not 2nd; but apparently they are pushing this out to the 3rd gen Apple TVs.
An article about Apple that has literally no negative connotations. .
Even though it'll be hard to twist this post into an anti-Apple argument, vigilant posters will find a way.
You mean like This:
https://apple.slashdot.org/com...
Or This:
https://apple.slashdot.org/com...
or even This:
https://apple.slashdot.org/com...
Howabout This?:
https://apple.slashdot.org/com...
Or This:
https://apple.slashdot.org/com...
Then there's This:
https://apple.slashdot.org/com... ...and like that (tired of scrolling).
Slashdot is getting as untruthful as Trump's Tweets.
What they have an API for, is the LOW RESOLUTION mo-cap data that is updated in real-time; NOT the "30,000 Points of Light" data that is used for FaceID.
This is the same data that is used to drive the Animoji "expressions", and apparently to breathe more "life" into certain gaming avatars.
As far as being able to stuff like gender, which is already much more obtainable through a gazillion sources, and sexuality (gimme a break!), that is simply a big nothing-burger.
IOW, nothing to see (or identify) here, move along.
While this bug has not been patched in the 10.13.1 Update, it has been patched once-and-for-all in the upcoming 10.13.2 Update, now in Beta Testing.
Those who Install 10.13.1 simply need to re-run the current version of the "root access" Security Update, and all will be well.
Just some overlapping package-release timing stuff, exacerbated by Apple's desire to patch the original vulnerability as quickly as possible.
Please stop replying to every fucking Apple complaint. You look pretty pathetic.
Please go fuck yourself.
True enterprise level bugs, only from Apple
Oh, really?
Wanna check out some Windows and Linux bug-lists?
There's all kinds of cosmetic and usability bugs floating around, and Apple doesn't seem to be in a hurry to fix them. They're the kind of bugs that aren't showstoppers but are still very annoying or can result in bad data.
The Calculator bug in iOS is one example of a recent bug that can produce bad data and wasn't fixed. Until iOS 11.2 (which isn't out yet!) even though it was reported way back in 11.0 beta, before the OS was released to the public.
Another recent issue, though less important, is that the Weather widget will randomly stop updating, so you'll be seeing last night's weather instead of right now. This bug was also reported several versions ago and is as of yet unfixed in the latest 11.2 beta.
I know bugs happen; nobody is perfect. But these are obvious, reproducible bugs that are not being fixed after being reported months prior. What the hell, Apple?
Oooh, how horrible!
A UI bug in the free Calculator App, and an Update bug in the Weather Widget?
Seriously?
Now, let's compare that against Windows and Linux, shall we?
I thought it required physical access, as well; then I read reports of people being able to access screen sharing and AFP shares using this method. I don't have a system running High Sierra to be able to verify those claims, but it seems plausible.
This just isn't a bug you accidentally introduce into a properly designed auth system. That means either someone was acting maliciously, or the system was designed with extreme incompetence. Since we're talking about Apple, I don't think many fanbois will accept the incompetence explanation, so we'll go with malice to avoid triggering them. Since they allow Apple to maliciously empty their wallets, they seem to be okay with malice... ... ... I write as I check the shipping status of my new MabCook Pro.
But, then, I'm a user, not a fanboi -- and I placed the order before this was made public.
What's the big deal?
Apple already published a simple workaround, which will completely fix the issue until a properly-tested update can be released. (Note: Yesterday's article had a link to an Apple Knowledge Base Article on how to fix the bug temporarily; but now that the Update has been released, MacRumors edited that out of their article, so here's what's left of the original workaround).
https://www.macrumors.com/how-...
And in fact, here is the REAL Update:
https://www.macrumors.com/2017...
Less than 24 hour turnaround? I'd say that's about as good as it gets!
Really? I felt it was regular corporate-speak..
As with most things, there's not a lot of substance behind it - where's the offer of compensation etc?
Compensation for what, exactly?
Talk is cheap. Let's see what the audit finds. And why did previous audits fail to find the flaw?
Because it requires a specific, multi-step process to trigger.