That was the point. You don't just "install macos". You have to find a copy of MacXL (ex-Lisa) and install that. Moreover, ex-Lisa owners usually pulled out the Twiggy drives, which were compatible with pretty much nothing, and replaced them with one crunchy drive and one hard drive. (In our case, a 5 Mbyte hard drive. Ooooh, storage!)
I'm not sure what would be involved with switching it back to the Lisa OS. Partly because I don't remember whether it was a Lisa 1 or Lisa 2, and I'm not sure how much peripheral compatibility MacXL and LisaOS share. It could be just a matter of an OS install. But for products from back then, in the wild west of unstandardized hardware, it might be problematic.
The act of illegally downloading content was not the example I was looking for, it's just the first one we got. The point I was trying to make is that your ISP has the ability to cause you all kinds of grief in unexpected ways if you, for example, choose to use a streaming service rather than the ISP's own cable TV service. Or use a competing home automation product. The example in TFA is one that a lot of people can agree with -- you do crimes on the internet, you should expect your ISP to take action. What I'm saying is that this same mechanism can, and probably will be used any time there's a conflict of interest with the ISP's own products.
...but total percentage is small. Difficult to tell at this point whether this is a trend or only a correction.
I'd like to think that it's part of a trend in US companies towards outsourcing where it makes sense, not going offshore simply to cut costs. But that would assume that CIOs suddenly looked around and realized that they weren't getting the huge savings the salescreatures told them about. And had the guts to admit it.
> "Instead of 10 people, what if we have three people to work on (a project). If we don't have the software, then some others will take the advantage (away from us)," Vishal Sikka, the former CEO of the Bengaluru-based company, said in February.
I'm sorry, I can't parse that. Could someone explain what Mr. Sikka was trying to convey?
I wonder if my mom still has her Mac XL. She used to run a business on it years ago. It was already converted to Mac when she bought it. I wonder what it would take to convert it back to a Lisa.
Ignoring the "fighting words" for a moment, the big problem with free market solving this in this particular case, is that the market is NOT free. Until customers commonly have a choice of ISP, instead of having only the choice of the local monopoly or nothing, having the market solve it is not on the table.
If ISPs are an area-based monopoly (which they are now in most cases) then government regulation is appropriate. If at some future time the consumer has free choice of which ISP to use wherever they happen to be living, government regulation is not appropriate. (I think a lot of libertarians would agree with this.) Comcast is trying to have it both ways -- they want to be an unregulated monopoly. Both Republicans and Democrats should be philosophically opposed to that.
I'm getting to be that age also, but haven't been in the position to give notice, yet. That said, in every place I've worked so far, if you give six months notice, they'll start looking for a replacement immediately, and find a reason to dump you as soon as they're confident of business continuance. Don't do that to yourself.
Consider also, that if you retire you might get some benefits that you wouldn't get if you were, for instance, fired. A big disadvantage to announcing that you're going to leave sometime in the next several months is that it gives the company that long to figure out how to get rid of you at minimum cost to the company.
Even if your boss is a good guy and wouldn't do that to you, there are probably people higher up that would see the minimal cost option as business as usual.
Keep in mind also that some companies don't want an employee continuing to work there who has announced his intention to leave, to reduce the risk of pilfering and sabotage. Often, you give two weeks notice and they ask you to leave right away, and pay you for the two weeks.
And finally, your boss knows how old you are. If he doesn't have a plan in place already, it's on him, not you.
So in conclusion: Don't tell anyone. Just do your job up until it's time to give two weeks notice. It's safer for you.
I do that also. I'm a big fan of tiddlywiki because all the data is in one file and the search feature is robust. There are ways to compensate, but it's been difficult to carry on a technical conversation when I have to keep looking up terms.
Ok, as an old phart, my first question is, is there a TREATMENT? Yes, my memory retention has declined. It scares me. In IT, you have to keep up with current technology, which means retaining what you learned. That's become more and more difficult. (Not to the point where I can hide my own easter eggs, though.) Ok, it's good to know a possible cause. What do I do about it? I can't see myself retiring.
To put this in perspective, I'm libertarian leaning conservative. The Republicans are full of carp on this issue. Very specifically, "taking over the internet" and "net neutrality" really don't belong in the same sentence. That's like saying, "taking over the the marketplace" and "free trade" in the same sentence. It doesn't scan.
I strongly suspect that most congress critters don't understand what the term "net neutrality" means, they just know, dimly, which side their party is on. Ron Wyden does understand the real issue. I think Chuck Schumer is engaged only because prominent Republicans are on the other side of the issue.
This looks like a huge extrapolation from a single datum.
My understanding of those large wine glasses are to show off the other, non-drinking qualities of the wine. The empty space in the globe collects the wine's bouquet, allowing you to experience more of the wine's scent as you drink, and the large diameter makes it easy to check the wine's density (tip slightly, return to upright, observe how fast the wine on the side of the glass returns to the pool).
Test by: Take your SO to a nice restaurant, order a bottle, and observe the waiter filling the glass. If he fills it all the way to the top, he's doing it wrong (and you should rethink your choice in restaurants). The glass will be about 1/3 full.
Also test by: In, say, 1930, two people would have one approx 730 ml bottle of wine with dinner. In 2017, two people would have one 730 ml bottle of wine with dinner. The size of the glass does not indicate the amount of wine consumed.
Glasses in which adult beverages are served have changed over the years. Champagne glasses, you may have noticed, generally switched in the latter part of last century from the wide "Marie Antoinette" glasses to the slightly taller, slender tulip glasses. (The reason being, the tulip glasses hold the carbonation longer.) Shall we look at this and make the leap that people are drinking drastically less champagne? Panic!
Of course, your mileage may vary. If you're drinking Badger Mountain from a box while watching Claws, you're probably using a water glass anyway. Or a jelly jar.
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I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
That was the point. You don't just "install macos". You have to find a copy of MacXL (ex-Lisa) and install that. Moreover, ex-Lisa owners usually pulled out the Twiggy drives, which were compatible with pretty much nothing, and replaced them with one crunchy drive and one hard drive. (In our case, a 5 Mbyte hard drive. Ooooh, storage!)
I'm not sure what would be involved with switching it back to the Lisa OS. Partly because I don't remember whether it was a Lisa 1 or Lisa 2, and I'm not sure how much peripheral compatibility MacXL and LisaOS share. It could be just a matter of an OS install. But for products from back then, in the wild west of unstandardized hardware, it might be problematic.
The act of illegally downloading content was not the example I was looking for, it's just the first one we got. The point I was trying to make is that your ISP has the ability to cause you all kinds of grief in unexpected ways if you, for example, choose to use a streaming service rather than the ISP's own cable TV service. Or use a competing home automation product. The example in TFA is one that a lot of people can agree with -- you do crimes on the internet, you should expect your ISP to take action. What I'm saying is that this same mechanism can, and probably will be used any time there's a conflict of interest with the ISP's own products.
There's more to it than that. The hardware is different. A trivial example is that the display geometry is different.
I'd like to think that it's part of a trend in US companies towards outsourcing where it makes sense, not going offshore simply to cut costs. But that would assume that CIOs suddenly looked around and realized that they weren't getting the huge savings the salescreatures told them about. And had the guts to admit it.
> "Instead of 10 people, what if we have three people to work on (a project). If we don't have the software, then some others will take the advantage (away from us)," Vishal Sikka, the former CEO of the Bengaluru-based company, said in February.
I'm sorry, I can't parse that. Could someone explain what Mr. Sikka was trying to convey?
I dunno...
I wonder if my mom still has her Mac XL. She used to run a business on it years ago. It was already converted to Mac when she bought it. I wonder what it would take to convert it back to a Lisa.
Ignoring the "fighting words" for a moment, the big problem with free market solving this in this particular case, is that the market is NOT free. Until customers commonly have a choice of ISP, instead of having only the choice of the local monopoly or nothing, having the market solve it is not on the table.
If ISPs are an area-based monopoly (which they are now in most cases) then government regulation is appropriate. If at some future time the consumer has free choice of which ISP to use wherever they happen to be living, government regulation is not appropriate. (I think a lot of libertarians would agree with this.) Comcast is trying to have it both ways -- they want to be an unregulated monopoly. Both Republicans and Democrats should be philosophically opposed to that.
I'm getting to be that age also, but haven't been in the position to give notice, yet. That said, in every place I've worked so far, if you give six months notice, they'll start looking for a replacement immediately, and find a reason to dump you as soon as they're confident of business continuance. Don't do that to yourself.
Consider also, that if you retire you might get some benefits that you wouldn't get if you were, for instance, fired. A big disadvantage to announcing that you're going to leave sometime in the next several months is that it gives the company that long to figure out how to get rid of you at minimum cost to the company.
Even if your boss is a good guy and wouldn't do that to you, there are probably people higher up that would see the minimal cost option as business as usual.
Keep in mind also that some companies don't want an employee continuing to work there who has announced his intention to leave, to reduce the risk of pilfering and sabotage. Often, you give two weeks notice and they ask you to leave right away, and pay you for the two weeks.
And finally, your boss knows how old you are. If he doesn't have a plan in place already, it's on him, not you.
So in conclusion: Don't tell anyone. Just do your job up until it's time to give two weeks notice. It's safer for you.
First rule of being a proofreading nazi, your rants will have mistakes too. :-)
You beat me to it. It's almost as if the summary is trying to mock Apple's lack of quality with a similar lack of quality. Or something.
"But on the other hand, Apple isn't some budget hardware maker pushing stuff out on a shoestring and scrabbling for a razor-thin profit margin."
Not yet.
Ah, RTFA. I knew I had forgotten to do something.
I do that also. I'm a big fan of tiddlywiki because all the data is in one file and the search feature is robust. There are ways to compensate, but it's been difficult to carry on a technical conversation when I have to keep looking up terms.
Ok, as an old phart, my first question is, is there a TREATMENT? Yes, my memory retention has declined. It scares me. In IT, you have to keep up with current technology, which means retaining what you learned. That's become more and more difficult. (Not to the point where I can hide my own easter eggs, though.) Ok, it's good to know a possible cause. What do I do about it? I can't see myself retiring.
To put this in perspective, I'm libertarian leaning conservative. The Republicans are full of carp on this issue. Very specifically, "taking over the internet" and "net neutrality" really don't belong in the same sentence. That's like saying, "taking over the the marketplace" and "free trade" in the same sentence. It doesn't scan.
I strongly suspect that most congress critters don't understand what the term "net neutrality" means, they just know, dimly, which side their party is on. Ron Wyden does understand the real issue. I think Chuck Schumer is engaged only because prominent Republicans are on the other side of the issue.
Browser proxy? The first browser fake-runs the whole thing, the second browser scrapes the first and only plays the part the user really wants to see?
Um, nope. Just you.
Also test by, look at the size of brandy snifters. Wow, what lushes we are!
This looks like a huge extrapolation from a single datum.
My understanding of those large wine glasses are to show off the other, non-drinking qualities of the wine. The empty space in the globe collects the wine's bouquet, allowing you to experience more of the wine's scent as you drink, and the large diameter makes it easy to check the wine's density (tip slightly, return to upright, observe how fast the wine on the side of the glass returns to the pool).
Test by: Take your SO to a nice restaurant, order a bottle, and observe the waiter filling the glass. If he fills it all the way to the top, he's doing it wrong (and you should rethink your choice in restaurants). The glass will be about 1/3 full.
Also test by: In, say, 1930, two people would have one approx 730 ml bottle of wine with dinner. In 2017, two people would have one 730 ml bottle of wine with dinner. The size of the glass does not indicate the amount of wine consumed.
Glasses in which adult beverages are served have changed over the years. Champagne glasses, you may have noticed, generally switched in the latter part of last century from the wide "Marie Antoinette" glasses to the slightly taller, slender tulip glasses. (The reason being, the tulip glasses hold the carbonation longer.) Shall we look at this and make the leap that people are drinking drastically less champagne? Panic!
Of course, your mileage may vary. If you're drinking Badger Mountain from a box while watching Claws, you're probably using a water glass anyway. Or a jelly jar.
I think "magic scrap fairy" is my new favorite term.
I did not know this. Thanks to both ShanghaiBill and Gilgaron.