Look, I don't wear pink glasses. Electric cars are great, but we can't reduce our CO2 output without making some sacrifices. The problem is that NOT reducing our CO2 output will force us to make even MORE sacrifices in the long run. If you still don't understand what it means, it means that it would make people poorer.
Now, I say "we" as the human specie as a whole. That doesn't mean there aren't going to be winners and losers in both cases. The oil company CEO would be better off if we didn't try to reduce our CO2 emissions, of course.
But as a whole, we are better off with less CO2 emissions, which means that reducing CO2 is a real solution.
Swift is an relatively elegant language and as thus a good candidate as first language. I was not aware that you focused on 'first language'.
That was the whole point of the discussion. Which language to introduce to community college students, most of which never used another language before.
On Linux it should be easy to install Swift with an 'apt get' equivalent.
Maybe it should. But it isn't. Nobody cared for Swift enough in the Linux community to include it in most repositories. It's a sign that it's not used outside the Apple closed world.
I use Firefox because I can have it both on PC and phone, with synced passwords and history, and with an ad-blocker (u-block) on both. Chrome didn't allow ad blockers on phone last time I checked. Has it changed?
"Wealth transfer is a facet of civilization, and has been since the beginning. You act as if it's a bad thing."
Crippling the economies of Western nations to make the Chinese rich is certainly a bad thing if you happen to be poor and living in the West.
Why do you hate poor people?
Either you are racist (against the Chinese) or just don't get it. There are more poor people in China and they are poorer than those in the West.
Wealth transfer from the polluters to those who suffer from pollution, is fair. Poor people tend to pollute much less than rich people, by the way. Smaller cars, smaller houses, less air travel.
The US just has to reduce its CO2 emissions by something like 90% and then you could complain and start asking China for money. Until then... shut up.
Because nobody uses it. Nobody has the runtime/interpreter/libraries/whatever to execute your swift program. Because it isn't in major distros (just checked and it's not in my Debian stable). On their web sites they only have packages for Ubuntu, I didn't check if they are also part of the Ubuntu repository or not.
Why use Swift with all these shortcomings when you can use something else?
If I was to learn a new language and would need to write for Linxu, I would take Swift (I already can C++ and Java etc.)
But would you learn it as your first and only language? That seems counterproductive.
Probably yes. And how many languages were created at the same time as Python? Dozens? Hundreds? How many of them are still relevant today? Not much. Python is now a major language. Maybe because it has a good design, maybe because of luck, it doesn't matter, it's being used, therefore it's a good language to learn. It's also considered an easy language to first time learners which is a bonus.
Swift isn't being used except on Apple iThings. Just because you are using it on Linux in your mom's basement doesn't make it any more relevant to develop on non-Apple devices. By the time Swift get popular on other platforms, Apple will have killed it and replaced it by their next language.
Which major Linux, Windows, Android or BSD application is written is Swift? I can't think of a single one.
Are you going to rewrite Firefox, KDE or the Linux kernel in Swift? Of course not. It's as simple as that. If you want to develop on Windows, BSD or Linux, you don't choose Swift as a programming language.
That would be a terrible mistake. Why change to a language only useful on one platform from one vendor? And don't tell me swift has some other use cases than developing on iOS.
Get over it. You have access to most, probably 99% of Netflix in any browser. Altough you might need a plugin, I didn't check. And yes, you PC can be "rooted" (admin rights) and it still work, with both browser and windows application.
What does SIM-unlocking the device has to do with this? Also, will Netflix allows me to watch it on my "rooted" PC? Is there any PC which is not "rooted" which would satisfy Netflix?
But you still have a local copy. The whole point of this feature is NOT having a local copy. Not on SD card, not on main storage, nothing. And still be able to seamlessly access files.
I don't know what your setup is but with the latest version of windows and one drive, you can't browse your cloud files in the file manager without syncing (downloading a local copy). So either you sync it or you don't. But if you don't, you must manually either sync the file or get it from a web browser, which is painful in both cases.
I tried to help someone with a Mac remotely over team viewer. Told her to download it and run the executable. She got an error message saying the application must be installed from the App Store. Admin rights were not enough to execute the program.
The big question is whether this is truly an evil deal where Microsoft and Apple have colluded in such a way that the ONLY way to install iTunes is now through the Microsoft store.
This would be a great deal for Microsoft, getting Apple to force iPhone/iPad users running Windows 10 to sign up for the Windows store.
No need to collude. Microsoft could just do like Apple and block all executable not installed by the App Store by default.
This is actually a feature I was waiting for. These days tablets have a small 128 or 256 GB SSD but you can have 1 TB cloud storage which will now be much more useful. I hope they will add a feature to automatically delete the local copy of a file not used for X days.
They charge $55/month for 100 Mbps cable, albeit with slow (3 Mbps) upload. I was expecting double that amount if not more, to warrant an article like this.
triple play from $150/month. Expensive, but I've seen much worse.
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Look, I don't wear pink glasses. Electric cars are great, but we can't reduce our CO2 output without making some sacrifices. The problem is that NOT reducing our CO2 output will force us to make even MORE sacrifices in the long run. If you still don't understand what it means, it means that it would make people poorer.
Now, I say "we" as the human specie as a whole. That doesn't mean there aren't going to be winners and losers in both cases. The oil company CEO would be better off if we didn't try to reduce our CO2 emissions, of course.
But as a whole, we are better off with less CO2 emissions, which means that reducing CO2 is a real solution.
Swift is an relatively elegant language and as thus a good candidate as first language.
I was not aware that you focused on 'first language'.
That was the whole point of the discussion. Which language to introduce to community college students, most of which never used another language before.
On Linux it should be easy to install Swift with an 'apt get' equivalent.
Maybe it should. But it isn't. Nobody cared for Swift enough in the Linux community to include it in most repositories. It's a sign that it's not used outside the Apple closed world.
It doesn't matter. If US consumerism create pollution, it must be discouraged. The only effective way to do it is by taxes or cap and trade.
I use Firefox because I can have it both on PC and phone, with synced passwords and history, and with an ad-blocker (u-block) on both.
Chrome didn't allow ad blockers on phone last time I checked. Has it changed?
"Wealth transfer is a facet of civilization, and has been since the beginning. You act as if it's a bad thing."
Crippling the economies of Western nations to make the Chinese rich is certainly a bad thing if you happen to be poor and living in the West.
Why do you hate poor people?
Either you are racist (against the Chinese) or just don't get it.
There are more poor people in China and they are poorer than those in the West.
Wealth transfer from the polluters to those who suffer from pollution, is fair. Poor people tend to pollute much less than rich people, by the way. Smaller cars, smaller houses, less air travel.
The US just has to reduce its CO2 emissions by something like 90% and then you could complain and start asking China for money. Until then... shut up.
Why not?
Because nobody uses it. Nobody has the runtime/interpreter/libraries/whatever to execute your swift program.
Because it isn't in major distros (just checked and it's not in my Debian stable). On their web sites they only have packages for Ubuntu, I didn't check if they are also part of the Ubuntu repository or not.
Why use Swift with all these shortcomings when you can use something else?
If I was to learn a new language and would need to write for Linxu, I would take Swift (I already can C++ and Java etc.)
But would you learn it as your first and only language? That seems counterproductive.
Probably yes. And how many languages were created at the same time as Python? Dozens? Hundreds? How many of them are still relevant today? Not much.
Python is now a major language. Maybe because it has a good design, maybe because of luck, it doesn't matter, it's being used, therefore it's a good language to learn. It's also considered an easy language to first time learners which is a bonus.
Swift isn't being used except on Apple iThings. Just because you are using it on Linux in your mom's basement doesn't make it any more relevant to develop on non-Apple devices. By the time Swift get popular on other platforms, Apple will have killed it and replaced it by their next language.
Exactly. But I would also add, how often do you see GNUStep and NeXT? Sounds pretty much like never to me.
Which major Linux, Windows, Android or BSD application is written is Swift? I can't think of a single one.
Are you going to rewrite Firefox, KDE or the Linux kernel in Swift? Of course not. It's as simple as that. If you want to develop on Windows, BSD or Linux, you don't choose Swift as a programming language.
That would be a terrible mistake.
Why change to a language only useful on one platform from one vendor? And don't tell me swift has some other use cases than developing on iOS.
How many USB-C devices do you currently have? Not 5 years from now when you will have replaced your laptop, now?
And no, you dongles don't count.
The right thing to do would have been to include at least 1 USB-A port.
Get over it. You have access to most, probably 99% of Netflix in any browser. Altough you might need a plugin, I didn't check. And yes, you PC can be "rooted" (admin rights) and it still work, with both browser and windows application.
Sure there is, it's called a web browser. Plus there is also a Windows Store application.
they really believe people are going to use smartphones to rip shows?
What does SIM-unlocking the device has to do with this?
Also, will Netflix allows me to watch it on my "rooted" PC? Is there any PC which is not "rooted" which would satisfy Netflix?
You must not have the latest OS X or turned off that setting.
I did the latter - created a local copy.
But you still have a local copy. The whole point of this feature is NOT having a local copy. Not on SD card, not on main storage, nothing. And still be able to seamlessly access files.
I don't know what your setup is but with the latest version of windows and one drive, you can't browse your cloud files in the file manager without syncing (downloading a local copy). So either you sync it or you don't. But if you don't, you must manually either sync the file or get it from a web browser, which is painful in both cases.
That's why I said BY DEFAULT.
I would certainly have done it have I been able to connect remotely... but I wasn't.
I tried to help someone with a Mac remotely over team viewer. Told her to download it and run the executable. She got an error message saying the application must be installed from the App Store. Admin rights were not enough to execute the program.
The big question is whether this is truly an evil deal where Microsoft and Apple have colluded in such a way that the ONLY way to install iTunes is now through the Microsoft store.
This would be a great deal for Microsoft, getting Apple to force iPhone/iPad users running Windows 10 to sign up for the Windows store.
No need to collude. Microsoft could just do like Apple and block all executable not installed by the App Store by default.
also launching WSL is instant, starting a VM isn't.
general corporate doesn't really care or use Mac anyways
This is actually a feature I was waiting for. These days tablets have a small 128 or 256 GB SSD but you can have 1 TB cloud storage which will now be much more useful.
I hope they will add a feature to automatically delete the local copy of a file not used for X days.
They charge $55/month for 100 Mbps cable, albeit with slow (3 Mbps) upload.
I was expecting double that amount if not more, to warrant an article like this.
triple play from $150/month. Expensive, but I've seen much worse.