Nice to see another brand of highly overpriced routers fold up.
While the Airport might indeed be essentially an overpriced router, the Time Machine is pure genius.
Essentially it's a hard drive attached to a router, but it will seamlessly set up backups for your macbook.
If your disk gets hosed, you can restore almost everything, with diffs taken something like every hour.
While some/.'ers might point out the ability to do this with cheaper hardware and rolling your own using rsync, I defy you to find a similarly simple solution.
Literally I just told my parents to buy a time machine, and their mac is backed up. Nothing else I need to do, brain dead simple!
At least rsync is going to work on the 95% of PCs out there which aren't Macs. It's not simple if it only works for 5%.
Apple was not even a sane choice in the router segment, so it doesn't remove any choice for the well-informed customer.
Also, less vendor lock-in is better for the consumer. So to see companies trying to vendor lock-in us the most going out of a market segment is always good news.
Exactly. And Jesus is born in the year 1 before himself (December 25, year 1 BC). A few days later was January 1 AD, the beginning of year 1. That is according to Christian mythology, of course.
16:9 has won, get over it. Just stop changing the number for the sole purpose of changing it. 18:9 smartphones are dumb. But if you are NOT going to comply with the 16:9 standard, at least make it different enough. 4:3 would be fine, but don't do 18:9 or 16:10. The difference from 16:9 is not big enough to be worth not respecting the standard.
It also highlights how fucked up the money situation has become in the US.
I agree. As a tourist, I was surprised to see that tolls on I-95 didn't accept credit cards. Instead, they hire a lot of people just to count cash and give back change while this could easily be automated. And no, tourists won't get ez-pass and car rental companies charge WAY too much to use theirs.
as well as pre-paid "credit" cards. So there is no discrimination when going cash less.
Here in Canada, debit card is the preferred option by restaurants (and most merchants), since they avoid the high fees of credit cards and the hassle of cash.
If people in the experiment received $690 per month, how much did the others, not part of the experiment, receive? Logically, they should get more money, since they lose it all if they get a job.
But those who didn't plan to find a job and got selected for this experiment got less money? Surely they must complain. So the only way to perform this experiment is to give the same amount of money to all of them. Except that those part of the experiment are allowed to get a job AND keep their $690.
So then, how to we figure if the experiment is a success or not? Of course more people chosen for the experiment got a job than those not participating. But how do we say if the experiment was a success?
switching for a single user is much easier than for an organization. Also you may not have locked-in yourself too badly if you didn't purchase apps and tons of accessories. However you are now on iOS so let me know when you successfully switch back to something else. Hint: don't use any of the Apple services (mail/calendar/music/photos)
I agree it's hard, but it doesn't mean they should pick the absolute worst. Apple is the top in vendor lock-in. Either Windows PCs or chromebooks are a lot less locked-in since you can always purchase hardware from another manufacturer while keeping the same OS. Any school manager deciding to buy Apple products should be fired. Ideally, schools should also favor the purchasing of applications which are cross platform. So an iOS only application should be banned.
If you want to vendor lock-in yourself or your family go for it. You'll have only yourself to blame if you are unable to switch away from Apple in a few years if you don't like their new products or the price increases. But schools should not force that vendor lock-in to students, and not use tax payer's money to dig a vendor lock-in hole.
Schools should not invest in an eco system with a single vendor for both hardware and software while there are more open alternatives. This is especially true for public schools, which shouldn't be allowed to enter such a high level of vendor lock-in.
No, your claim in comment 56250303 was that nobody writes in C# because the IDE, libraries etc were written in C/C++.
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I never claimed that.
The Unity Engine is written in C/C++. Games using it may be developed in C#. I am asking if there is any example of one of these game which is 1. popular/major 2. Not targeting the Windows OS (or xbox or any other Microsoft platform) 3. Not developed in Visual Studio
It depends. Anthropogenic global warming isn't controversial on Wikipedia or in most countries' politician scenes. Same thing for evolution. In the USA, however...
If you read the discussion, you'd understand why it is relevant.
My original question was:
Could you name one major piece of software written in C# not specifically made to be executed on Windows? Without a visual studio project file in the source repository?
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Apple in Bose in the same sentence. I hope you used Monster cables to connect all of these.
Nice to see another brand of highly overpriced routers fold up.
While the Airport might indeed be essentially an overpriced router, the Time Machine is pure genius.
Essentially it's a hard drive attached to a router, but it will seamlessly set up backups for your macbook.
If your disk gets hosed, you can restore almost everything, with diffs taken something like every hour.
While some /.'ers might point out the ability to do this with cheaper hardware and rolling your own using rsync, I defy you to find a similarly simple solution.
Literally I just told my parents to buy a time machine, and their mac is backed up. Nothing else I need to do, brain dead simple!
At least rsync is going to work on the 95% of PCs out there which aren't Macs.
It's not simple if it only works for 5%.
Apple was not even a sane choice in the router segment, so it doesn't remove any choice for the well-informed customer.
Also, less vendor lock-in is better for the consumer. So to see companies trying to vendor lock-in us the most going out of a market segment is always good news.
So Apple users are going to be buying the next version anyways.
Exactly. And Jesus is born in the year 1 before himself (December 25, year 1 BC). A few days later was January 1 AD, the beginning of year 1.
That is according to Christian mythology, of course.
.but we can at least be hopeful that the market will prevent this in the potential extreme.
The market should self-enforce Net Neutrality. The problem is that market forces don't apply in an oligopoly/monopoly situation.
probably a lot more than their share on CD sales.
16:9 has won, get over it. Just stop changing the number for the sole purpose of changing it. 18:9 smartphones are dumb.
But if you are NOT going to comply with the 16:9 standard, at least make it different enough. 4:3 would be fine, but don't do 18:9 or 16:10. The difference from 16:9 is not big enough to be worth not respecting the standard.
It also highlights how fucked up the money situation has become in the US.
I agree. As a tourist, I was surprised to see that tolls on I-95 didn't accept credit cards. Instead, they hire a lot of people just to count cash and give back change while this could easily be automated. And no, tourists won't get ez-pass and car rental companies charge WAY too much to use theirs.
as well as pre-paid "credit" cards. So there is no discrimination when going cash less.
Here in Canada, debit card is the preferred option by restaurants (and most merchants), since they avoid the high fees of credit cards and the hassle of cash.
of course but we still say he discovered America, and we don't refer to the USA but to the continent.
North America is part of America. Columbus discovered America by landing in Hispaniola, he never set foot in the actual USA.
this discussion is not about retirement money but welfare money for the unemployed.
If people in the experiment received $690 per month, how much did the others, not part of the experiment, receive?
Logically, they should get more money, since they lose it all if they get a job.
But those who didn't plan to find a job and got selected for this experiment got less money? Surely they must complain. So the only way to perform this experiment is to give the same amount of money to all of them. Except that those part of the experiment are allowed to get a job AND keep their $690.
So then, how to we figure if the experiment is a success or not? Of course more people chosen for the experiment got a job than those not participating. But how do we say if the experiment was a success?
It's nearly impossible anymore to find a regular TV.
Just buy any TV and do not connect it to the Internet.
switching for a single user is much easier than for an organization. Also you may not have locked-in yourself too badly if you didn't purchase apps and tons of accessories. However you are now on iOS so let me know when you successfully switch back to something else.
Hint: don't use any of the Apple services (mail/calendar/music/photos)
Most chromebook apps work on Google Chrome web browser on any platform (not just Google OS), and some even work in other browsers.
I agree it's hard, but it doesn't mean they should pick the absolute worst. Apple is the top in vendor lock-in.
Either Windows PCs or chromebooks are a lot less locked-in since you can always purchase hardware from another manufacturer while keeping the same OS. Any school manager deciding to buy Apple products should be fired.
Ideally, schools should also favor the purchasing of applications which are cross platform. So an iOS only application should be banned.
If you want to vendor lock-in yourself or your family go for it. You'll have only yourself to blame if you are unable to switch away from Apple in a few years if you don't like their new products or the price increases. But schools should not force that vendor lock-in to students, and not use tax payer's money to dig a vendor lock-in hole.
Schools should not invest in an eco system with a single vendor for both hardware and software while there are more open alternatives. This is especially true for public schools, which shouldn't be allowed to enter such a high level of vendor lock-in.
Also if most of the game is not written in C# but uses a small piece of C# to interface with Unity, that would be a very poor example.
No, your claim in comment 56250303 was that nobody writes in C# because the IDE, libraries etc were written in C/C++.
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I never claimed that.
The Unity Engine is written in C/C++. Games using it may be developed in C#. I am asking if there is any example of one of these game which is
1. popular/major
2. Not targeting the Windows OS (or xbox or any other Microsoft platform)
3. Not developed in Visual Studio
It depends. Anthropogenic global warming isn't controversial on Wikipedia or in most countries' politician scenes. Same thing for evolution. In the USA, however...
If you read the discussion, you'd understand why it is relevant.
My original question was:
Could you name one major piece of software written in C# not specifically made to be executed on Windows? Without a visual studio project file in the source repository?
which one of the popular games based on the unity engine are not developed in Visual Studio and/or don't run on Windows?
what's the difference?
Car stereo or heatphones, both are outputs devices