The contribution to this scam could be going toward valuable research that might actually change something. Wasting millions on a toy is still waste.
Ah yes, the "money wasted on X could be better spent elsewhere" fallacy.
Utterly irrelevant. The same millions could go to feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, researching a cure for cancer, or a thousand other worthy things.
The entire project is financed by private entities, whose legally-accrued money is theirs to do with as they please as long as it doesn't harm others. And by definition it's not a scam because the project is ultimately doing exactly what "investors" were told it would do.
No argument from me that socialist/communist is traditionally represented by red, but one cheap shot deserved another.
Reading further on this, it seems there was no consistent colouring between by broadcasters up until the 2000 election, when the post-election confusion made the media settle it for good. One graphics editor claims it was simply that Republican and Red both start with an "R" so it was easier to remember which colour had been assigned to which party.
Let me know when Netflix releases their html5 extension for the Mac.
I'm saying it would've been better all this time to have had a single devil than two. Flash crashing Macs is a totally moot point as far as Netflix is concerned, because right now Netflix on Mac requires Silverlight, and if someone has Silverlight installed, they almost certainly have Flash installed too.
I'd rather they just use Flash. It's not going anywhere on the desktop. And while I don't have it actually installed as a system-wide plug-in, whenever I wanted to watch Netflix on my computer I would do what I do now with other Flash-only content: fire up Chrome with its self-contained Flash plugin.
But no, Netflix had to use Silverlight, which I refuse to install, and now they're going to an even more limited IE11-only extension.
When I was reading that I thought the $100/mo included some premium channels (and excluded internet), but you say that's for *basic* cable? Plus rental for a couple non-PVR cable box should still only be $10.
What company are you with? I thought Canadian TV companies ripped off its customers, but when I axed cable TV the $100/mo I saved (including taxes, month-to-month) was for digital HD + specialty + $25/mo HD PVR. Now I have Netflix and an antenna that gets 6 over-the-air stations, most in HD--is OTA not an option where you are (or with your wife?)
This has zip to do with respecting his decision. He is quite simply a perfect example that despite being 100% committed to his diet and lifestyle, he *still* got cancer, and afterwards did *not* cure him. This flies in the face of those who claim a certain diet or lifestyle choices is far more effective at protecting you from diseases. Most undoubtedly help improve your chances, but take it to extremes (like refusing any modern medical treatment or drugs) at your own peril... or at your dependents' peril).
This also has nothing to do with modern medicine being 100% effective. Of course it's not, and no one claims that.
Whenever I see a serious advocate of alternative-only medicine and vegan diets for treating/preventing terrible or even terminal illness, I point to the highest-profile example and how that did not work for him: Steve Jobs. What a damn waste--he had a type of pancreatic cancer that 95% of victims they had, i.e. the treatable, survivable kind of pancreatic cancer, and he squandered his luck by delaying conventional treatment for almost a year.
I believe there's benefits to it when tax time comes around, including a sort of averaging of incomes which can lower the family's overall tax rate. There's also division of assets if you divorce, and someone mentioned a case of enormous tax burden due to death of their partner because the union wasn't recognized (there was no link to source so I don't know the details).
So clearly the government does add some value to a recognized marriage. If the government didn't grant any benefits whatsoever to married people or those in common-law relationships, that'd be an entirely different thing.
This is where States rights come in and the Federal governments rights stop. Well, it used to be that way. Because of Federal dollars luring the States to follow what the Federal govt wants done, States rights are becoming fewer and fewer.
You make it sound like states have a choice whether to accept the money or not. If this is the case, then a state that's taking significant amounts of money from the feds can't really complain when there are conditions attached.
I know it's more complicated than this, e.g. states want something back from what their residents paid in federal taxes, because those obviously aren't just going to pay for representation in Washington and protection by the US military... but can you give some examples where states are somehow "forced" to accept funding?
If you know you're going to go, why do people train their offshore replacements. Just get it over with.
Well, I can't speak for IBM, but I've been through layoffs before.
If they tell you you're being laid off, but you still need to do the training of your replacements, you likely only get any severance package they're giving you if you comply.
If you tell them to fuck off and train themselves, they might say "OK, you quit so you get no severance package".
So, if your choice is do it and get your severance, or not do it and get nothing at all, most people would choose the former. If you're in a position to go for the moral satisfaction of telling them to screw themselves, well, go ahead.
On top of severance, countries like Canada have (un)employment insurance where employees get a portion skimmed from salary, so if they're laid off there's some financial support while they look for work.
However, you only get it if you lose your job involuntarily, and you have to have been working there for a long while. Quit (even if under duress), be fired with cause, return to school, etc are all reasons to deny you EI benefits.
Of course, the company can *still* screw you over even if train the replacement and jump through all the other hoops they throw at you... they can then "accidentally" put the wrong reason for job loss on your record of employment, even though there's no financial cost to the company at that point whether you get EI or not. There's an appeals process, but you're not getting benefits in the meantime either way.
Google Maps was included with the initial release of the iPhone, before Android. Try again.
And just in case someone thinks otherwise, it was Apple, not Google, that wrote the original iPhone Maps app. They just used Google APIs like any 3rd party developer was allowed to.
You can't believe something that has only been able to be talked about in public for less than 15 years (legal homosexsual marage) wasn't in your lowest bidder made, god knows how old Government computer system?
You got it wrong. The unbelievable part is that the lowest bidder developed software bothered to take time to add and test such a check in the first place.
My own encounters with development houses included software that by the time it reached us for the first round of testing, still didn't have some of the most basic security checks... like don't use incremental counters as user record IDs in the URL seen by the user over the internet (fundamental design error), and for frak sake don't pull up someone else's record if they simply change the ID in the URL.
This actually happened to a new application/renewal system Passport Canada put online, about 5-7 years ago. The glaring security hole was discovered and reported on the news soon after, and they took the system down pretty quickly after that.
2nd amendment backers should have started a revolution by now. Not to protect their own pet amendment, but over violations of all the others.
By failing to defend the 1st, 4th and other amendments, and even siding *against* them in some cases, the proponents of the 2nd don't deserve to keep theirs either.
Indeed, there's no option to manage/delete from a list of networks you're not already in range of. You unfortunately have to do a "Reset network settings", which clears everything out but of course means re-entering passwords for wifi stations you *do* want to keep (next time you're in range).
And that's even forgetting for a moment that this idea would be nixed on anti-terrorist grounds. A plane above a certain size does not leave the confines of a secure airport when on the ground, but it's nearly impossible to effectively monitor and protect the entire length of a train track, so these capsules could easily pick up some unwanted package while on rails en route to the airport. There'd be a hull inspection before being mated to a flyer and taking off, but there's lots of other things it can damage before it gets to that point.
Steve Wozniak is the chief scientist at Fusion IO, which makes a range of PCIe flash storage devices, including ones meant high-performance database servers. Woz has gone to previous WWDCs so his attending the keynote doesn't necessarily mean a thing, but I'm willing to bet that Fusion IO is involved in some way with the new Mac Pro's PCIe storage.
While true, there's no denying that Apple charging a per-port fee on Firewire ports (on devices at both ends of a cable) was a major motivation to get USB2 spec and devices out there faster.
It was a facepalm moment when I first heard it announced and knew right then Firewire's chances of becoming a ubiquitous interface was over. This was in early 1999, almost 3 years before they introduced the first iPod. Apple was in no position to dictate the direction of hardware at the time, having just started shipping the first iMac a quarter earlier.
As much as Sony wants to play up the idea that the PS4 is an island onto itself so you can enjoy entertainment on your terms, those days are long gone. Ultimately, as with any closed source anything, you have no way to know what it wants to do and, ultimately, you don't own the hardware.
There's a lot of people who swear they'll never buy an Apple device because of how locked down it is, can't sideload unapproved apps/games, etc.
It'll be interesting to hear the justifications of many of those same people who won't hesitate to line up and buy an Xbox One or PS4.
The rotation is nice in theory, but notice that the power cable port is right there as well and also rotates with the unit. So this rotation is great when nothing is plugged in. As soon as you start plugging stuff in then either it doesn't rotate or you've got so much extra cabling on your desk that it's a spaghetti nightmare.
As opposed to dragging the entire case on its non-slip feet a meter from under the desk, along with all the attached cables, like I have to with my PC gaming tower?
Even sitting on a desk, you have to pull a PC tower forward or turn it to the side to access the back.
So, in fact, this rotation is great whether it's plugged in or not. It's certainly no worse than a traditional tower in this respect.
What they really should do is offer a second version of the same case as another product, with a power supply and four or five hard drive slots. It should as an option automatically put them in a RAID and even include wifi so it becomes a NAS. Then you can just have two of these things connected together locally via thunderbolt or separately over wifi or LAN instead of a mess of external drives.
I totally agree there needs to be a multi-bay external Thunderbolt enclosure, but it shouldn't be Apple doing this. They aren't in the high-end storage business and shouldn't try to be.
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The contribution to this scam could be going toward valuable research that might actually change something. Wasting millions on a toy is still waste.
Ah yes, the "money wasted on X could be better spent elsewhere" fallacy.
Utterly irrelevant. The same millions could go to feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, researching a cure for cancer, or a thousand other worthy things.
The entire project is financed by private entities, whose legally-accrued money is theirs to do with as they please as long as it doesn't harm others. And by definition it's not a scam because the project is ultimately doing exactly what "investors" were told it would do.
No argument from me that socialist/communist is traditionally represented by red, but one cheap shot deserved another.
Reading further on this, it seems there was no consistent colouring between by broadcasters up until the 2000 election, when the post-election confusion made the media settle it for good. One graphics editor claims it was simply that Republican and Red both start with an "R" so it was easier to remember which colour had been assigned to which party.
Indeed. There's a reason that their school color is red.
Ah yes, red, the colour of the US Republican party when it comes to identifying which states they control...
Let me know when Netflix releases their html5 extension for the Mac.
I'm saying it would've been better all this time to have had a single devil than two. Flash crashing Macs is a totally moot point as far as Netflix is concerned, because right now Netflix on Mac requires Silverlight, and if someone has Silverlight installed, they almost certainly have Flash installed too.
I'd rather they just use Flash. It's not going anywhere on the desktop. And while I don't have it actually installed as a system-wide plug-in, whenever I wanted to watch Netflix on my computer I would do what I do now with other Flash-only content: fire up Chrome with its self-contained Flash plugin.
But no, Netflix had to use Silverlight, which I refuse to install, and now they're going to an even more limited IE11-only extension.
When I was reading that I thought the $100/mo included some premium channels (and excluded internet), but you say that's for *basic* cable? Plus rental for a couple non-PVR cable box should still only be $10.
What company are you with? I thought Canadian TV companies ripped off its customers, but when I axed cable TV the $100/mo I saved (including taxes, month-to-month) was for digital HD + specialty + $25/mo HD PVR. Now I have Netflix and an antenna that gets 6 over-the-air stations, most in HD--is OTA not an option where you are (or with your wife?)
This has zip to do with respecting his decision. He is quite simply a perfect example that despite being 100% committed to his diet and lifestyle, he *still* got cancer, and afterwards did *not* cure him. This flies in the face of those who claim a certain diet or lifestyle choices is far more effective at protecting you from diseases. Most undoubtedly help improve your chances, but take it to extremes (like refusing any modern medical treatment or drugs) at your own peril... or at your dependents' peril).
This also has nothing to do with modern medicine being 100% effective. Of course it's not, and no one claims that.
Moderation in anything is key.
he had a type of pancreatic cancer that 95% of victims wish they had, i.e. the treatable, survivable kind of pancreatic cancer
Fixed that for me... sigh...
Dammit, a key word got deleted during editing. Most got it from context I think, but it definitely should have read:
he had a type of pancreatic cancer that 95% of victims wish they had, i.e. the treatable, survivable kind of pancreatic cancer
Whenever I see a serious advocate of alternative-only medicine and vegan diets for treating/preventing terrible or even terminal illness, I point to the highest-profile example and how that did not work for him: Steve Jobs. What a damn waste--he had a type of pancreatic cancer that 95% of victims they had, i.e. the treatable, survivable kind of pancreatic cancer, and he squandered his luck by delaying conventional treatment for almost a year.
I believe there's benefits to it when tax time comes around, including a sort of averaging of incomes which can lower the family's overall tax rate. There's also division of assets if you divorce, and someone mentioned a case of enormous tax burden due to death of their partner because the union wasn't recognized (there was no link to source so I don't know the details).
So clearly the government does add some value to a recognized marriage. If the government didn't grant any benefits whatsoever to married people or those in common-law relationships, that'd be an entirely different thing.
This is where States rights come in and the Federal governments rights stop. Well, it used to be that way. Because of Federal dollars luring the States to follow what the Federal govt wants done, States rights are becoming fewer and fewer.
You make it sound like states have a choice whether to accept the money or not. If this is the case, then a state that's taking significant amounts of money from the feds can't really complain when there are conditions attached.
I know it's more complicated than this, e.g. states want something back from what their residents paid in federal taxes, because those obviously aren't just going to pay for representation in Washington and protection by the US military... but can you give some examples where states are somehow "forced" to accept funding?
Well, I can't speak for IBM, but I've been through layoffs before.
If they tell you you're being laid off, but you still need to do the training of your replacements, you likely only get any severance package they're giving you if you comply.
If you tell them to fuck off and train themselves, they might say "OK, you quit so you get no severance package".
So, if your choice is do it and get your severance, or not do it and get nothing at all, most people would choose the former. If you're in a position to go for the moral satisfaction of telling them to screw themselves, well, go ahead.
On top of severance, countries like Canada have (un)employment insurance where employees get a portion skimmed from salary, so if they're laid off there's some financial support while they look for work.
However, you only get it if you lose your job involuntarily, and you have to have been working there for a long while. Quit (even if under duress), be fired with cause, return to school, etc are all reasons to deny you EI benefits.
Of course, the company can *still* screw you over even if train the replacement and jump through all the other hoops they throw at you... they can then "accidentally" put the wrong reason for job loss on your record of employment, even though there's no financial cost to the company at that point whether you get EI or not. There's an appeals process, but you're not getting benefits in the meantime either way.
Google Maps was included with the initial release of the iPhone, before Android. Try again.
And just in case someone thinks otherwise, it was Apple, not Google, that wrote the original iPhone Maps app. They just used Google APIs like any 3rd party developer was allowed to.
You can't believe something that has only been able to be talked about in public for less than 15 years (legal homosexsual marage) wasn't in your lowest bidder made, god knows how old Government computer system?
You got it wrong. The unbelievable part is that the lowest bidder developed software bothered to take time to add and test such a check in the first place.
My own encounters with development houses included software that by the time it reached us for the first round of testing, still didn't have some of the most basic security checks... like don't use incremental counters as user record IDs in the URL seen by the user over the internet (fundamental design error), and for frak sake don't pull up someone else's record if they simply change the ID in the URL.
This actually happened to a new application/renewal system Passport Canada put online, about 5-7 years ago. The glaring security hole was discovered and reported on the news soon after, and they took the system down pretty quickly after that.
2nd amendment backers should have started a revolution by now. Not to protect their own pet amendment, but over violations of all the others.
By failing to defend the 1st, 4th and other amendments, and even siding *against* them in some cases, the proponents of the 2nd don't deserve to keep theirs either.
Indeed, there's no option to manage/delete from a list of networks you're not already in range of. You unfortunately have to do a "Reset network settings", which clears everything out but of course means re-entering passwords for wifi stations you *do* want to keep (next time you're in range).
And that's even forgetting for a moment that this idea would be nixed on anti-terrorist grounds. A plane above a certain size does not leave the confines of a secure airport when on the ground, but it's nearly impossible to effectively monitor and protect the entire length of a train track, so these capsules could easily pick up some unwanted package while on rails en route to the airport. There'd be a hull inspection before being mated to a flyer and taking off, but there's lots of other things it can damage before it gets to that point.
Steve Wozniak is the chief scientist at Fusion IO, which makes a range of PCIe flash storage devices, including ones meant high-performance database servers. Woz has gone to previous WWDCs so his attending the keynote doesn't necessarily mean a thing, but I'm willing to bet that Fusion IO is involved in some way with the new Mac Pro's PCIe storage.
While true, there's no denying that Apple charging a per-port fee on Firewire ports (on devices at both ends of a cable) was a major motivation to get USB2 spec and devices out there faster.
It was a facepalm moment when I first heard it announced and knew right then Firewire's chances of becoming a ubiquitous interface was over. This was in early 1999, almost 3 years before they introduced the first iPod. Apple was in no position to dictate the direction of hardware at the time, having just started shipping the first iMac a quarter earlier.
Choosing what products to buy based on which one has the fewest deplorable anti-features rather than best actual features. Great.
Choosing the least worst option... Sounds a lot like elections these days.
OTOH, the third option in this case is actually viable: not voting (with your wallet).
As much as Sony wants to play up the idea that the PS4 is an island onto itself so you can enjoy entertainment on your terms, those days are long gone. Ultimately, as with any closed source anything, you have no way to know what it wants to do and, ultimately, you don't own the hardware.
There's a lot of people who swear they'll never buy an Apple device because of how locked down it is, can't sideload unapproved apps/games, etc.
It'll be interesting to hear the justifications of many of those same people who won't hesitate to line up and buy an Xbox One or PS4.
The rotation is nice in theory, but notice that the power cable port is right there as well and also rotates with the unit. So this rotation is great when nothing is plugged in. As soon as you start plugging stuff in then either it doesn't rotate or you've got so much extra cabling on your desk that it's a spaghetti nightmare.
As opposed to dragging the entire case on its non-slip feet a meter from under the desk, along with all the attached cables, like I have to with my PC gaming tower?
Even sitting on a desk, you have to pull a PC tower forward or turn it to the side to access the back.
So, in fact, this rotation is great whether it's plugged in or not. It's certainly no worse than a traditional tower in this respect.
Why the heck should I need to buy a NAS if all I want is a workstation?
External backup?
What they really should do is offer a second version of the same case as another product, with a power supply and four or five hard drive slots. It should as an option automatically put them in a RAID and even include wifi so it becomes a NAS. Then you can just have two of these things connected together locally via thunderbolt or separately over wifi or LAN instead of a mess of external drives.
I totally agree there needs to be a multi-bay external Thunderbolt enclosure, but it shouldn't be Apple doing this. They aren't in the high-end storage business and shouldn't try to be.