It's very simple, really. Richard Stallman was right, and saw this coming over 30 years ago. It's better to use inferior Free software than it is to use the world's best non-Free software. In some cases, it's even better to resort to pencil and paper than to rely upon non-Free software. I fought against this notion for years, but it finally clicked for me about 20 years ago when all the proprietary software I relied upon was pulled out from under me.
I could write a very long treatise as to why Free software is always a better choice than non-Free software. One major point is that you will learn how to make Free software work for you, even when it has missing features, and will then be free of the near absolute power wielded against you by large corporate interests which do not dovetail with your own.
LibreOffice. I've used OpenOffice (and now LibreOffice) at work for 13 years in an environment that mandates Microsoft Office file formats. This has been a solved problem for a long time now.
Besides, it's easy enough to bypass the "analog hole" with a 3.5mm adapter on Apple.
For now, but don't expect it to stay that way forever. This is a long game, and this is just the next move. It's like boiling a lobster slowly, so it won't release its poisons, rather than killing it outright.
Only thing I can imagine is if that's 4.4mm wide, and pretty flat.
This whole debacle is all about Digital Restrictions Management, and nothing else. None of these new jacks are analog, but rather are all digital. Remember the musical mafiaa's complaining about the "Analog Hole" for decades? They convinced Apple to fill it, and then everyone else dutifully followed along.
This has nothing to do with aesthetics, size, production costs, and any of the other nonsensical explanations. This is solely to set the stage so you can't easily record what you hear.
I wouldn't be surprised if bitcoin crashes badly or dies someday leaving a sour taste in crytocurrency.
And it should. Bitcoin is, and always has been, a scam to separate stupid people from their money. Some people with money to burn saw this and bought in early, while Bitcoin was merely absurdly overpriced (and I envy those people for their foresight/good luck). Now that the Bitcoin curtain is being drawn back to reveal the shady players behind it, those people are cashing out and making a killing while Bitcoin is ludicrously overpriced. But the sad thing is that dumb people are being taken to cleaners over it.
Bitcoin will be properly priced when it falls to about a hundredth of a penny per coin. However, there is no getting around the inherent, ever-increasing transaction costs to using Bitcoin on a day to day basis. Bitcoin, and all Blockchain uses, will crumble. It's just a matter of when.
Yours has so far been the most intelligent posting to what is otherwise an absurdly ridiculous article. Technology did not create the problem. It merely provided an efficient tool for enhancing analytical abilities. It is the users that determine how to use that ability. The writer of this tripe is promoting the idea that since hammers have been used to hurt people, we should stop making and using hammers.
Any tool that can be used for bad can also be used for good (and vice-versa).
My University required a decent grade on the ACT, but then administered its own set of placement exams. ACT scores were used for such things as determining scholarship qualifications, while the the school's placement exams were used solely to determine which (if any) classes could be skipped.
it's going to have an awfully hard time doing anything after that.
Maybe, but it's entirely possible that there is code in Windows that will re-enable any or all of those things. There is no way for you, or anyone not employed by Microsoft, to know for sure. You could very well disable every known entry point to Windows Update, and still miss many more that are not known.
For all we know, Microsoft embeds versions of those files in Windows itself, ready to be re-created if Windows finds them missing at some heretofore unpublished juncture. There is no way to know, and no way to find out. You're completely under the thumb of Microsoft. That realization was one of many factors that made me leave Windows back in 1999.
Firstly clearly the distribution was too wide as it was given there was a moratorium on disclosure scheduled for tomorrow to allow all patching to be in place in advance.
You largely validated his posting with this one sentence. This is exactly what he's complaining about. How do you expect patching to be in place in advance for OpenBSD if the kernel developers weren't notified? Since OpenBSD isn't Tier-1, so they weren't notified. Apparently, only Microsoft was notified in advance, which is a clusterfuck so big, that should be reason enough to prove willful negligence by Intel.
There are only so many people in the world smart enough to even fully understand modern superscalar designs let alone contribute usefully to it.
I remember those same arguments being made about why an Open Source video driver was impossible. But now, all of my video card purchases are AMD solely because of the fantastic Open Source driver. Also, the same thing was said about Linux for a LONG time. But now it completely dominates everything but the desktop, and that is almost entirely because of vendor lock-in.
The more FOSS you use, the less the platform matters. All of the software I use is FOSS, and the vast majority of data center software is FOSS. As such, the CPU architecture won't matter much.
If you're a single-person household, Netflix-watching couch potato, then 10Mb is probably fine for you. If you live in a family household, or if you have anything even remotely resembling an entrepreneurial spirit, 10mb down doesn't do much. And 1mb up?! That's a bad joke with a really shitty punchline.
25mb down and 4mb up is just (barely) enough to satisfy fundamentally basic needs for someone with more drive than just an old, fat cat. And even that is chuckle-worthy. 100mb symmetrical at about $50/month should be a minimum mandated starting point to drive innovation.
I can completely understand NSA workers being demoralized. Their mission has changed from protecting U.S. citizens from externals threats to becoming the threat to U.S. citizens. If my job were to continuously violate the U.S. Constitution, and thereby be hated by most of America, I would be demoralized, too.
[R]eturning to its pre-bubble value in a hurry....
Not even close. When the value of Bitcoin is around $3.00, then it will return back to its pre-bubble (and actual, defensible) value. Every single penny of "value" above that is just hot air.
This has been a problem since the beginning of human civilization. Christians, Muslims, and everyone else who can't distinguish fact from fiction need to be enrolled in the first classes.
If and when self-driving cars really become a thing, vandalism of street signs will probably have to be elevated to a felony....
I think this will be a temporary issue, at best. First, this has never been a big issue. Second, I suspect that street signage is already on the endangered species list. There is already nothing significant stopping such signage from becoming part of vehicles' on-board systems -- whether integrated into new vehicles, or as add-ons to older ones.
Linux dares to expose its internals, and worse yet, DEMANDS that you learn about how it works underneath in order to use it effectively.
If you're using Slackware, then yes. If you're using something like the *buntu's or their derivitives (Kubuntu, Mint, etc.), then that hasn't ever been true. My customers and I all find these distributions to be far easier to use than Windows.
Paying to replace a battery (aside from a reasonable price [emphasized because this is Apple] for the battery) is ridiculously stupid. The battery needs to be end-user serviceable: remove an easily removable cover, easily remove the battery, easily insert a new battery, easily replace the cover.
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It's very simple, really. Richard Stallman was right, and saw this coming over 30 years ago. It's better to use inferior Free software than it is to use the world's best non-Free software. In some cases, it's even better to resort to pencil and paper than to rely upon non-Free software. I fought against this notion for years, but it finally clicked for me about 20 years ago when all the proprietary software I relied upon was pulled out from under me.
I could write a very long treatise as to why Free software is always a better choice than non-Free software. One major point is that you will learn how to make Free software work for you, even when it has missing features, and will then be free of the near absolute power wielded against you by large corporate interests which do not dovetail with your own.
I'm not sure what a good solution to that is....
LibreOffice. I've used OpenOffice (and now LibreOffice) at work for 13 years in an environment that mandates Microsoft Office file formats. This has been a solved problem for a long time now.
Besides, it's easy enough to bypass the "analog hole" with a 3.5mm adapter on Apple.
For now, but don't expect it to stay that way forever. This is a long game, and this is just the next move. It's like boiling a lobster slowly, so it won't release its poisons, rather than killing it outright.
Only thing I can imagine is if that's 4.4mm wide, and pretty flat.
This whole debacle is all about Digital Restrictions Management, and nothing else. None of these new jacks are analog, but rather are all digital. Remember the musical mafiaa's complaining about the "Analog Hole" for decades? They convinced Apple to fill it, and then everyone else dutifully followed along.
This has nothing to do with aesthetics, size, production costs, and any of the other nonsensical explanations. This is solely to set the stage so you can't easily record what you hear.
I wouldn't be surprised if bitcoin crashes badly or dies someday leaving a sour taste in crytocurrency.
And it should. Bitcoin is, and always has been, a scam to separate stupid people from their money. Some people with money to burn saw this and bought in early, while Bitcoin was merely absurdly overpriced (and I envy those people for their foresight/good luck). Now that the Bitcoin curtain is being drawn back to reveal the shady players behind it, those people are cashing out and making a killing while Bitcoin is ludicrously overpriced. But the sad thing is that dumb people are being taken to cleaners over it.
Bitcoin will be properly priced when it falls to about a hundredth of a penny per coin. However, there is no getting around the inherent, ever-increasing transaction costs to using Bitcoin on a day to day basis. Bitcoin, and all Blockchain uses, will crumble. It's just a matter of when.
The amazing part is that someone actually runs a closed source virus suite....
You could have stopped right there, and we would have been in complete agreement.
Yours has so far been the most intelligent posting to what is otherwise an absurdly ridiculous article. Technology did not create the problem. It merely provided an efficient tool for enhancing analytical abilities. It is the users that determine how to use that ability. The writer of this tripe is promoting the idea that since hammers have been used to hurt people, we should stop making and using hammers.
Any tool that can be used for bad can also be used for good (and vice-versa).
My University required a decent grade on the ACT, but then administered its own set of placement exams. ACT scores were used for such things as determining scholarship qualifications, while the the school's placement exams were used solely to determine which (if any) classes could be skipped.
it's going to have an awfully hard time doing anything after that.
Maybe, but it's entirely possible that there is code in Windows that will re-enable any or all of those things. There is no way for you, or anyone not employed by Microsoft, to know for sure. You could very well disable every known entry point to Windows Update, and still miss many more that are not known.
For all we know, Microsoft embeds versions of those files in Windows itself, ready to be re-created if Windows finds them missing at some heretofore unpublished juncture. There is no way to know, and no way to find out. You're completely under the thumb of Microsoft. That realization was one of many factors that made me leave Windows back in 1999.
You do know that you can just disable the Windows Update service right?
Microsoft frequently ignores that setting.
Firstly clearly the distribution was too wide as it was given there was a moratorium on disclosure scheduled for tomorrow to allow all patching to be in place in advance.
You largely validated his posting with this one sentence. This is exactly what he's complaining about. How do you expect patching to be in place in advance for OpenBSD if the kernel developers weren't notified? Since OpenBSD isn't Tier-1, so they weren't notified. Apparently, only Microsoft was notified in advance, which is a clusterfuck so big, that should be reason enough to prove willful negligence by Intel.
I completely agree with Theo.
Anything that disables IME or PSP is a net positive for the world.
There are only so many people in the world smart enough to even fully understand modern superscalar designs let alone contribute usefully to it.
I remember those same arguments being made about why an Open Source video driver was impossible. But now, all of my video card purchases are AMD solely because of the fantastic Open Source driver. Also, the same thing was said about Linux for a LONG time. But now it completely dominates everything but the desktop, and that is almost entirely because of vendor lock-in.
The more FOSS you use, the less the platform matters. All of the software I use is FOSS, and the vast majority of data center software is FOSS. As such, the CPU architecture won't matter much.
If you're a single-person household, Netflix-watching couch potato, then 10Mb is probably fine for you. If you live in a family household, or if you have anything even remotely resembling an entrepreneurial spirit, 10mb down doesn't do much. And 1mb up?! That's a bad joke with a really shitty punchline.
25mb down and 4mb up is just (barely) enough to satisfy fundamentally basic needs for someone with more drive than just an old, fat cat. And even that is chuckle-worthy. 100mb symmetrical at about $50/month should be a minimum mandated starting point to drive innovation.
This is the exact same type of b.s. that got them sued by the DOJ 23 years ago.
But since Microsoft dodged any meaningful penalties for that bad behavior, they have no reason to stop doing it.
I can completely understand NSA workers being demoralized. Their mission has changed from protecting U.S. citizens from externals threats to becoming the threat to U.S. citizens. If my job were to continuously violate the U.S. Constitution, and thereby be hated by most of America, I would be demoralized, too.
[R]eturning to its pre-bubble value in a hurry....
Not even close. When the value of Bitcoin is around $3.00, then it will return back to its pre-bubble (and actual, defensible) value. Every single penny of "value" above that is just hot air.
This has been a problem since the beginning of human civilization. Christians, Muslims, and everyone else who can't distinguish fact from fiction need to be enrolled in the first classes.
The fact that it is hashed, rather than merely checksumed, also means it is very difficult to corrupt.
Until the hash is broken, and the entire house of cards comes crumbling down.
Or better, another reason to not have your essential services require Internet access.
Donald Trump conned....
And that's different from any other President...how?
If and when self-driving cars really become a thing, vandalism of street signs will probably have to be elevated to a felony....
I think this will be a temporary issue, at best. First, this has never been a big issue. Second, I suspect that street signage is already on the endangered species list. There is already nothing significant stopping such signage from becoming part of vehicles' on-board systems -- whether integrated into new vehicles, or as add-ons to older ones.
That's the extend part.
I see the other direction more likely: once Windows admins get used to Linux programs, the move away from Windows to Linux becomes much easier.
Linux dares to expose its internals, and worse yet, DEMANDS that you learn about how it works underneath in order to use it effectively.
If you're using Slackware, then yes. If you're using something like the *buntu's or their derivitives (Kubuntu, Mint, etc.), then that hasn't ever been true. My customers and I all find these distributions to be far easier to use than Windows.
They do [market battery replacement].
Paying to replace a battery (aside from a reasonable price [emphasized because this is Apple] for the battery) is ridiculously stupid. The battery needs to be end-user serviceable: remove an easily removable cover, easily remove the battery, easily insert a new battery, easily replace the cover.