Apple has already blocked the installation of Linux by having the T2 chip disable all internal storage when you try.
Don't install to the internal storage. Thunderbolt is plenty fast enough to host an external bootable drive. Set the external to target mode and you're off to the races.
For everything else, if it doesn't show up on Netflix... I simply don't care.
You would be surprised how much Disney owns. It won't just be Star Wars and The Little Mermaid disappearing from Netflix. All of the decent Marvel Original Series will be gone for instance. It could make Netflix a far weaker choice.
Then again, anything recent that Netflix has done with Paramount has been great (Maniac, Haunting of Hill House.) so there is hope.
Hell, when he came onboard he wouldn't (and never did) use Linux at all: instead he used a Mac, and so did the rest of the EMT (executive management team) over time. What company is run by people who refuse to use its own product except for one that doesn't have faith. The person on top of the BRAND AND PEOPLE team "needed" an iPad, she said, to do her work (quoting a friend in the IT dept who was asked to get it and set it up for her).
Which year of "linux on the desktop" was this? Lots and lots of Linux shops don't run Linux on their Desktop systems. At least they opted for a UNIX. Similarly, what tablet does RH offer?
The best part is, unlike Google Maps, I can preload the entire maps onto my phone, like an actual GPS device, so I do not need a data connection to navigate.
You mean exactly like Google Maps. This has been an option for some time, or at least you can select regions to download.
Friend of mine has an iPhone and wants to go to Android. But somehow she is unae to download her 6000 photos of her travels around the world. So eother ditch sevetal years of memory, or stick with Apple.
There are many ways to accomplish this. One would be prior to ditching her iPhone, sync those photos to service of choice. Google Photos I assume can do this for instance.
Apple's approach in insane. Its either 'let us do it all for you' or 'well fuck you, you are on your own'. Also, they have two different paradigms for how they treat the device. Itunes treats the device as disposable, where all master copies reside on the computer. For photos, it treats the device as a sacred repository where anything deleted of it also deletes the master copy on the server. Its outright stupid.
If you use Apple Music (or iTunes Match), the behaviour is similar to what you describe photos as. If you don't use iCloud photos, the behaviour is similar to what you describe for iTunes. Not evaluating the sanity of the situation, just pointing out you're comparing.. well Apples to something.
What's lacking in both instances is a method of saying "purge my local copies, but keep it in the cloud." It's somewhat achievable on a Mac via terminal. On an iDevice, you can toggle syncing of Photos, or documents, to purge the local copies but keep them in the cloud.
Folks, never trust Apple fan boys when they try to argue technical matters, especially if such matters involve health consequences.
You were doing great, right up until here. Why the typical "Apple fan boy" bash? It adds absolutely nothing to your point, furthermore, it's not even clear if the OP even is an Apple fan boy.
To your point about microwaves; I'd expect a 1,200W bluetooth headset to cause all sorts of damage, ionizing or not.
Gadgets are (usually) expensive doodads that provide no unique functionality and are pushed on marketing.
Smartwatches are gadgets, not technology.
That depends entirely on use case. There are things a smartwatch can do, that a traditional smartphone cannot do nearly as well. Biometrics for one (sure a smartphone can, but there are times when you don't want or can't have your smartphone with you.) If biometrics are important to the user, then everything other function provided is simply a bonus.
It's not just retro hipsters. Modern games are just dumb. Shallow and predictable game play, shallow plots, and with big name titles pushing out sequels every year whether or not they have obvious bugs. Really, if you like Assassin's Cry #19, then you'll like gaming in the cloud.
I disagree. There have been lots of gems the past few years. And those gems aren't pushed out yearly. If you want to talk shallow plots, that's not something endemic to modern games; I doubt you played Asteroids, Pitfall and Custer's Revenge for the story.
At any rate, what you describe isn't even unique to gaming. s/games/movies for instance.
I imagine this has a lot to do with the announcement during the WWDC keynote that they are working on allowing iOS apps to run in macOS. That's far simpler if they stick with Metal and do away with Open GL.
The real problem these days is fingerprinting. Particularly installed fonts and user agent strings. Those two alone are often pretty unique, and combined with canvas fingerprinting and IP address are very powerful tracking mechanisms.
They are addressing this as well in Mojave. Slimmed down system information, it only reports system fonts. Essentially one MacBook will look like the next, etc. In theory, anyway
I dispute it too. They've got the grand total of 14 years data and they're drawing possible conclusions about "climate change"?
I'll clue the folks in at NASA: the Earth has been around for ~4 billion years. When your satellite has been up there for a billion years or 2, then get back to me with your analysis.
As long as clues are being passed around, where exactly, even in the damned summary, does it say they used the satellite data to draw the conclusions? The FIRST WORDS of the quote from the article indicate otherwise. From what I'm reading only one coffee in, they seem to have used the satellites to identify regions showing said changes THEN used other data from those regions to draw their conclusions.
I also think the EFF is a bit paranoid in issuing a 'full stop' to using PGP until this is fixed. At worst, you should send a link to the PGP document you'd like the user to read (in plaintext of course.)
The EFF said no such thing; they recommended uninstalling or disabling widgets that *automatically* decrypt in the MUA.
No, if everything comes from the same digital master, then vinyl's difference in sound quality comes from imperfections in the medium itself.
Partially correct; You're missing a step. The engineering done for CDs/digital, especially starting in the 2000s, is typically massively over compressed. By compression I'm referring to dynamics compression. This isn't the case with vinyl.
Take a track from the DDD recording for Power Windows by RUSH, the original CD, and a track from Vapor Trails (original, not remastered.) Compare the waveforms. It's not pretty. Vapor Trails is a solid thick line. The vinyl release of the original Vapor trails likely looks nothing like it did digitally.
In other words, Vinyl usually isn't engineered to sound like loud dren.
A functioning PDP costs 1-2kW to run and can be fully replaced by a Raspberry Pi using 10W. In what world does it make sense to keep running (other than nostalgic reasons).
If your goal is to unplug one, and install the other simply to save hydro costs, mission accomplished. Since you haven't discussed having the Pi do what the PDP was doing, you can simply shut off the PDP for even greater savings. Assuming you DO want to replace the functionality, you're likely looking at massive development hours, re-documenting, retraining etc. just to get to that point.
Besides, if there is a PDP out there somewhere, there a BOFH who insist it shouldn't be replaced just for job security.
A good example of why you would want to reconsider is the Phoenix pay system in Canada (as an analogy, I don't believe the previous system ran on PDP,) It has cost tens of millions of tax payer money, not to mention what the federal employees who have had to deal with maybe getting payed regularly have suffered. And it STILL doesn't accomplish what the old system did.
... I like the map navigation app when I remember to use it while walking to a new place.
I love it for driving; haptic feedback for turns. Rarely need spoken directions or glancing at the map. Great for those spaced out days on the commute home, when I may miss my exit.
Not that it's the only thing I like about my watch.
Off the top of my head - if each Twitter user had a "reliability" reputation associated with their account that decreased on false retweeting and increased with "true" retweeting, and their ability to tweet frequency-limited by that reputation score, would that put a check to this problem?
If the assumption is that people who tweet are only reporting "news" then perhaps. Displaying reliability would be a possibility, but who judges that? If for instance, Fox News assigned it once, and CNN another, you would have wildly varying outcomes. On the other hand, displaying the reliability value would likely break Twitter's layout if Trump is in your news feed.
Kidding aside, I like your idea, just not sure how it could be implemented.
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Apple has already blocked the installation of Linux by having the T2 chip disable all internal storage when you try.
Don't install to the internal storage. Thunderbolt is plenty fast enough to host an external bootable drive. Set the external to target mode and you're off to the races.
For everything else, if it doesn't show up on Netflix ... I simply don't care.
You would be surprised how much Disney owns. It won't just be Star Wars and The Little Mermaid disappearing from Netflix. All of the decent Marvel Original Series will be gone for instance. It could make Netflix a far weaker choice.
Then again, anything recent that Netflix has done with Paramount has been great (Maniac, Haunting of Hill House.) so there is hope.
In fact, they're so much alike they may as well just be Team Fucking Purple for all intents and purposes.
It's been this way forever and it's not likely to change as long as we have a two party system.
Indeed. There should also be Team Fucking Green too. They should then fight for an entire fucking cycle.
Hell, when he came onboard he wouldn't (and never did) use Linux at all: instead he used a Mac, and so did the rest of the EMT (executive management team) over time. What company is run by people who refuse to use its own product except for one that doesn't have faith. The person on top of the BRAND AND PEOPLE team "needed" an iPad, she said, to do her work (quoting a friend in the IT dept who was asked to get it and set it up for her).
Which year of "linux on the desktop" was this? Lots and lots of Linux shops don't run Linux on their Desktop systems. At least they opted for a UNIX. Similarly, what tablet does RH offer?
The best part is, unlike Google Maps, I can preload the entire maps onto my phone, like an actual GPS device, so I do not need a data connection to navigate.
You mean exactly like Google Maps. This has been an option for some time, or at least you can select regions to download.
Friend of mine has an iPhone and wants to go to Android. But somehow she is unae to download her 6000 photos of her travels around the world.
So eother ditch sevetal years of memory, or stick with Apple.
There are many ways to accomplish this. One would be prior to ditching her iPhone, sync those photos to service of choice. Google Photos I assume can do this for instance.
Apple's approach in insane. Its either 'let us do it all for you' or 'well fuck you, you are on your own'. Also, they have two different paradigms for how they treat the device. Itunes treats the device as disposable, where all master copies reside on the computer. For photos, it treats the device as a sacred repository where anything deleted of it also deletes the master copy on the server. Its outright stupid.
If you use Apple Music (or iTunes Match), the behaviour is similar to what you describe photos as. If you don't use iCloud photos, the behaviour is similar to what you describe for iTunes. Not evaluating the sanity of the situation, just pointing out you're comparing.. well Apples to something.
What's lacking in both instances is a method of saying "purge my local copies, but keep it in the cloud." It's somewhat achievable on a Mac via terminal. On an iDevice, you can toggle syncing of Photos, or documents, to purge the local copies but keep them in the cloud.
Folks, never trust Apple fan boys when they try to argue technical matters, especially if such matters involve health consequences.
You were doing great, right up until here. Why the typical "Apple fan boy" bash? It adds absolutely nothing to your point, furthermore, it's not even clear if the OP even is an Apple fan boy.
To your point about microwaves; I'd expect a 1,200W bluetooth headset to cause all sorts of damage, ionizing or not.
The Buddy Holly video from Weezer was far and away the best part of the windows 95 install CD (or was it Plus pack?)
Gadgets are (usually) expensive doodads that provide no unique functionality and are pushed on marketing.
Smartwatches are gadgets, not technology.
That depends entirely on use case. There are things a smartwatch can do, that a traditional smartphone cannot do nearly as well. Biometrics for one (sure a smartphone can, but there are times when you don't want or can't have your smartphone with you.) If biometrics are important to the user, then everything other function provided is simply a bonus.
It's not just retro hipsters. Modern games are just dumb. Shallow and predictable game play, shallow plots, and with big name titles pushing out sequels every year whether or not they have obvious bugs. Really, if you like Assassin's Cry #19, then you'll like gaming in the cloud.
I disagree. There have been lots of gems the past few years. And those gems aren't pushed out yearly. If you want to talk shallow plots, that's not something endemic to modern games; I doubt you played Asteroids, Pitfall and Custer's Revenge for the story.
At any rate, what you describe isn't even unique to gaming. s/games/movies for instance.
I imagine this has a lot to do with the announcement during the WWDC keynote that they are working on allowing iOS apps to run in macOS. That's far simpler if they stick with Metal and do away with Open GL.
The real problem these days is fingerprinting. Particularly installed fonts and user agent strings. Those two alone are often pretty unique, and combined with canvas fingerprinting and IP address are very powerful tracking mechanisms.
They are addressing this as well in Mojave. Slimmed down system information, it only reports system fonts. Essentially one MacBook will look like the next, etc. In theory, anyway
I dispute it too. They've got the grand total of 14 years data and they're drawing possible conclusions about "climate change"?
I'll clue the folks in at NASA: the Earth has been around for ~4 billion years. When your satellite has been up there for a billion years or 2, then get back to me with your analysis.
As long as clues are being passed around, where exactly, even in the damned summary, does it say they used the satellite data to draw the conclusions? The FIRST WORDS of the quote from the article indicate otherwise. From what I'm reading only one coffee in, they seem to have used the satellites to identify regions showing said changes THEN used other data from those regions to draw their conclusions.
I also think the EFF is a bit paranoid in issuing a 'full stop' to using PGP until this is fixed. At worst, you should send a link to the PGP document you'd like the user to read (in plaintext of course.)
The EFF said no such thing; they recommended uninstalling or disabling widgets that *automatically* decrypt in the MUA.
They made fun of me decades ago, but who's got the last laugh now!
No, if everything comes from the same digital master, then vinyl's difference in sound quality comes from imperfections in the medium itself.
Partially correct; You're missing a step. The engineering done for CDs/digital, especially starting in the 2000s, is typically massively over compressed. By compression I'm referring to dynamics compression. This isn't the case with vinyl.
Take a track from the DDD recording for Power Windows by RUSH, the original CD, and a track from Vapor Trails (original, not remastered.) Compare the waveforms. It's not pretty. Vapor Trails is a solid thick line. The vinyl release of the original Vapor trails likely looks nothing like it did digitally.
In other words, Vinyl usually isn't engineered to sound like loud dren.
Lovely. That will play real nice with a Domain Controller. QA/QC at Micro$oft has gone to total shit; as if it wasn't already bad.
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with your allegation that Microsoft has ever done QA/QC
What 32 bit apps are in use these days. I haven't used anything since maybe 12 or more years.
IIRC, the Mac Steam client for one, as shoddy as it is.
A functioning PDP costs 1-2kW to run and can be fully replaced by a Raspberry Pi using 10W. In what world does it make sense to keep running (other than nostalgic reasons).
If your goal is to unplug one, and install the other simply to save hydro costs, mission accomplished. Since you haven't discussed having the Pi do what the PDP was doing, you can simply shut off the PDP for even greater savings. Assuming you DO want to replace the functionality, you're likely looking at massive development hours, re-documenting, retraining etc. just to get to that point.
Besides, if there is a PDP out there somewhere, there a BOFH who insist it shouldn't be replaced just for job security.
A good example of why you would want to reconsider is the Phoenix pay system in Canada (as an analogy, I don't believe the previous system ran on PDP,) It has cost tens of millions of tax payer money, not to mention what the federal employees who have had to deal with maybe getting payed regularly have suffered. And it STILL doesn't accomplish what the old system did.
JustWontDuet
Thanks, I'll be here all week!
If you stay with the previous release of macOS, YouCanDuet
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... I like the map navigation app when I remember to use it while walking to a new place.
I love it for driving; haptic feedback for turns. Rarely need spoken directions or glancing at the map. Great for those spaced out days on the commute home, when I may miss my exit.
Not that it's the only thing I like about my watch.
Off the top of my head - if each Twitter user had a "reliability" reputation associated with their account that decreased on false retweeting and increased with "true" retweeting, and their ability to tweet frequency-limited by that reputation score, would that put a check to this problem?
If the assumption is that people who tweet are only reporting "news" then perhaps. Displaying reliability would be a possibility, but who judges that? If for instance, Fox News assigned it once, and CNN another, you would have wildly varying outcomes. On the other hand, displaying the reliability value would likely break Twitter's layout if Trump is in your news feed.
Kidding aside, I like your idea, just not sure how it could be implemented.
You could see that daily on Slashdot a couple of decades ago.