Yes, exactly. That is safe computing. I'd like to tattoo what you wrote on some of my customers' chests, backwards so they could read it in the mirror every morning.
"Safe computing", as you alluded, doesn't mean never surf the web and never use freeware, it means use half a brain and learn to recognize the things you shouldn't click on. (And the check boxes you need to uncheck. I've lost count of the amount of times I've uninstalled McAfee Free Complainer and Rocket Annoying Adware from users' machines.)
My mother in law, who's in her seventies, practices safe computing, does quite a bit of stuff on the computer, and has only caught a virus once (one of those "your computer is infected" popups) and that was when she loaned the machine to her nephew. (Which she does not do anymore.)
On the other hand, my wife's best friend's machine gets infested on a regular basis, not just one or two viruses, but also three to six adwares and a bunch of useless and annoying "add-ons" and in record time -- two to three months from the last time I cleaned it, and it's totally infested again.
So... for mother-in-law, when she has a problem I take it seriously and make a good faith effort to find and correct the root cause without making major changes to her machine. Because she deserves it. For wife's friend, I pull her photos and documents onto a thumb drive and do a recovery install. Your apps? Sorry. Reinstall them. Don't want to have to do that every other month? Learn safe computing.
I think the difference is, there isn't a tremendous amount of marketing pressure to replace your i3646 for an i3647 the moment it comes out. Nobody ever stood in the rain waiting for a Dell store to open.
I've got a work-issued Dell also, and it's failed a few times. I fixed it once, and the desktop group fixed it the other two times. Shrug.
including such beauties as drag and drop now failing on older versions of Photoshop in Yosemite
So Adobe's shitty code is Apple's fault?
If you say so, but whomever's fault it is, the reason I don't use a mac anymore is because there were fewer problems with Adobe CS series on Winders. [1]
I know, I'm as shocked as you are, but there you go. Apple can say it's Adobe's fault... might even be true (I am not in a position to know) but I need Adobe for my work, and Apple is just a platform. It's not an application. It needs applications to be useful.
[1] Admittedly, assuming I don't do too much else on the Windows box and that I'm very careful about practicing Safe Computing. And I don't "upgrade" to Windows 8.
My kid hasn't made a phone call in years. Now if you broke text messaging There'd be hell to pay
Don't they use WhatsApp in its place? As for calls, don't they use FaceTime?
Oddly enough, FaceTime and its ilk really hasn't caught on with teens in my experience. Apparently, contrary to all those science fiction stories, people in general really don't want videophones after all, even after they became practical. To my knowledge, only uber-geeks are using it, and only because they can.
At the risk of posting the obvious, this is not a Windows phone, it's just a slightly different price point in Nokia's previously existing line of low end feature phones. Probably running Series 40. (TFM says "Series 30+" whatever that means.)
...according to TFM it does contain a browser (opera) but if running Series 40 it accesses the web through the service provider's html portal. Data is Edge speed.
In other words, it has roughly the capabilities of 2003 smartphones, where you could go out and buy a paper faster than you could display a list of local movies on the phone.
If you didn't think to take the battery out before putting it in the oven, then perhaps evolution would prefer that you not pass on any of your genes this time around.
But taking the battery out is... easy... Oh, sorry, forgot we were talking about a Macbook. Never mind.
What never really materialized was those really cool whiz-bang gesture-controlled applications we were all promised a few years back. Those commercials showing someone creating and manipulating a magazine page with tony-stark-like gestures... yeah, that never came to pass. All of those cool tablet-based workflows you saw in police procedurals... still fiction. At least on the consumer/prosumer level, tablets never got past simple media consumption. They tried to appeal to the power user but the software never really caught up. So tablets rapidly went from trendy to lowest common denominator -- someone who wanted basic web access and maybe Netflix. And lowest common denominator is a race to the bottom for designers and manufacturers, so the situation was not likely to get better.
Tablets didn't die out, they committed suicide, from self-induced neglect.
...and this is making me depressed. I really was looking forward to the day I could leave my PC at home and take a tablet into the field to manipulate and publish photos. But the software to do so never materialized. Oh, there's a few products out there, but they're toys, suitable for drawing mustaches on party photos, not for serious work.
I don't know about reinventing... Doing it at home in a regular oven was kinda cool. In a previous job years ago, we did vapor phase reflow soldering on a lab bench with a hotplate, a big glass beaker, and a couple pints of fluorinert as a proof of concept.
Over Christmas break, at my daughter's request, I installed an old Windows 95 game on her Windows 7 PC, and it worked! I was deeply impressed. And a little appalled.
I won't be impressed until you successfully some of the early DOS games (like Lunar Lander) where the speed of the game play was dependent on the 8086's clock frequency. I've probably even got the 5.25" installation floppies laying around somewhere...
And if you manage to install them, and can stay alive longer than 0.1 second - I'll be REALLY impressed! I remember the first time I tried one of those on a newer machine with a 20MHz 80286...
Maybe you're just slowing down in your old age.:-)
A little off topic, but that's actually a solved problem. Google "moslo" or wiki "slowdown utility". I seem to recall I had to research this in order to play the original Wing Commander on a modern machine.
Just ditch Trident. Why do we need more browser engines? What is wrong with WebKit? Why waste man hours and money on this waste of time project instead of helping with the development of WebKit?
I can't believe I'm trying to justify a rumor of what Microsoft (of which I'm not a fan) might be doing, but it's not necessarily bad to have more than one rendering engine out there. For instance, a significant security hole in the engine wouldn't take, like, the whole world down.
Enh. TFA seems long on speculation. I can see Microsoft doing this in an effort to (a) create a browser that is performant on portable hardware, (where their competition clearly beats them) and (b) try to (eventually) dump the millstone of decades of backwards compatibility, which is, in general, a good thing. [1] But just because it's a logical move is not proof in and of itself that Microsoft is actually doing it.
But I wonder how different, and especially how "lightweight" this hypothetical browser can be if it's using the same rendering engine? Wouldn't it just be IE with a different skin?
[1] apropos of nothing: Over Christmas break, at my daughter's request, I installed an old Windows 95 game on her Windows 7 PC, and it worked! I was deeply impressed. And a little appalled.
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Using the same rendering engine makes it basically the same browser? So that makes both Safari and Chrome just skinned versions of Konqueror?
In terms of footprint and efficiency, perhaps.
Yes, exactly. That is safe computing. I'd like to tattoo what you wrote on some of my customers' chests, backwards so they could read it in the mirror every morning.
"Safe computing", as you alluded, doesn't mean never surf the web and never use freeware, it means use half a brain and learn to recognize the things you shouldn't click on. (And the check boxes you need to uncheck. I've lost count of the amount of times I've uninstalled McAfee Free Complainer and Rocket Annoying Adware from users' machines.)
My mother in law, who's in her seventies, practices safe computing, does quite a bit of stuff on the computer, and has only caught a virus once (one of those "your computer is infected" popups) and that was when she loaned the machine to her nephew. (Which she does not do anymore.)
On the other hand, my wife's best friend's machine gets infested on a regular basis, not just one or two viruses, but also three to six adwares and a bunch of useless and annoying "add-ons" and in record time -- two to three months from the last time I cleaned it, and it's totally infested again.
So... for mother-in-law, when she has a problem I take it seriously and make a good faith effort to find and correct the root cause without making major changes to her machine. Because she deserves it. For wife's friend, I pull her photos and documents onto a thumb drive and do a recovery install. Your apps? Sorry. Reinstall them. Don't want to have to do that every other month? Learn safe computing.
I think the difference is, there isn't a tremendous amount of marketing pressure to replace your i3646 for an i3647 the moment it comes out. Nobody ever stood in the rain waiting for a Dell store to open.
I've got a work-issued Dell also, and it's failed a few times. I fixed it once, and the desktop group fixed it the other two times. Shrug.
> iTunes has always been a swiss army knife. If a swiss army knife were made out of rusty nails, bits of string and some pudding. By chimpanzees.
including such beauties as drag and drop now failing on older versions of Photoshop in Yosemite
So Adobe's shitty code is Apple's fault?
If you say so, but whomever's fault it is, the reason I don't use a mac anymore is because there were fewer problems with Adobe CS series on Winders. [1]
I know, I'm as shocked as you are, but there you go. Apple can say it's Adobe's fault... might even be true (I am not in a position to know) but I need Adobe for my work, and Apple is just a platform. It's not an application. It needs applications to be useful.
[1] Admittedly, assuming I don't do too much else on the Windows box and that I'm very careful about practicing Safe Computing. And I don't "upgrade" to Windows 8.
My kid hasn't made a phone call in years. Now if you broke text messaging There'd be hell to pay
Don't they use WhatsApp in its place? As for calls, don't they use FaceTime?
Oddly enough, FaceTime and its ilk really hasn't caught on with teens in my experience. Apparently, contrary to all those science fiction stories, people in general really don't want videophones after all, even after they became practical. To my knowledge, only uber-geeks are using it, and only because they can.
My kid hasn't made a phone call in years. Now if you broke text messaging There'd be hell to pay
My kid only makes a phone call when she's mad about something. Because, apparently, text messaging isn't loud enough. Or something.
wiping out a phone's ability to make phone calls, for instance (8.0.1, iPhone 6), is somewhat of a faux pas
Somewhat? Sounds more like "the biggest faux pas you can make where a phone is concerned." :-P
Enh. Who makes phone calls anymore? I'm surprised they still test the feature in quality control. Or not, in this case, apparently.
At the risk of posting the obvious, this is not a Windows phone, it's just a slightly different price point in Nokia's previously existing line of low end feature phones. Probably running Series 40. (TFM says "Series 30+" whatever that means.)
In other words, it has roughly the capabilities of 2003 smartphones, where you could go out and buy a paper faster than you could display a list of local movies on the phone.
If you didn't think to take the battery out before putting it in the oven, then perhaps evolution would prefer that you not pass on any of your genes this time around.
But taking the battery out is... easy... Oh, sorry, forgot we were talking about a Macbook. Never mind.
You can quickly charge your iPhone 6 by putting it in the microwave on high for 3 minutes. Try it, it works great!!!
I've wondered if Apple started this rumor in order to sell more iphones.
> ...once we know about them?
FIFY
What never really materialized was those really cool whiz-bang gesture-controlled applications we were all promised a few years back. Those commercials showing someone creating and manipulating a magazine page with tony-stark-like gestures... yeah, that never came to pass. All of those cool tablet-based workflows you saw in police procedurals... still fiction. At least on the consumer/prosumer level, tablets never got past simple media consumption. They tried to appeal to the power user but the software never really caught up. So tablets rapidly went from trendy to lowest common denominator -- someone who wanted basic web access and maybe Netflix. And lowest common denominator is a race to the bottom for designers and manufacturers, so the situation was not likely to get better.
Tablets didn't die out, they committed suicide, from self-induced neglect.
I don't know about reinventing... Doing it at home in a regular oven was kinda cool. In a previous job years ago, we did vapor phase reflow soldering on a lab bench with a hotplate, a big glass beaker, and a couple pints of fluorinert as a proof of concept.
Sorry.
...Or better yet apply enough solder correctly the first time....
But... but... but... but... I thought Apple's build quality was the best there can be?!?!?
The product only has to last until the next incremental improvement is available.
> And walking around with it gets you arrested and held for psychiatric evaluation.
If it doesn't get you shot outright.
Over Christmas break, at my daughter's request, I installed an old Windows 95 game on her Windows 7 PC, and it worked! I was deeply impressed. And a little appalled.
I won't be impressed until you successfully some of the early DOS games (like Lunar Lander) where the speed of the game play was dependent on the 8086's clock frequency. I've probably even got the 5.25" installation floppies laying around somewhere...
And if you manage to install them, and can stay alive longer than 0.1 second - I'll be REALLY impressed! I remember the first time I tried one of those on a newer machine with a 20MHz 80286...
Maybe you're just slowing down in your old age. :-)
A little off topic, but that's actually a solved problem. Google "moslo" or wiki "slowdown utility". I seem to recall I had to research this in order to play the original Wing Commander on a modern machine.
If you say so.
Just ditch Trident. Why do we need more browser engines? What is wrong with WebKit? Why waste man hours and money on this waste of time project instead of helping with the development of WebKit?
I can't believe I'm trying to justify a rumor of what Microsoft (of which I'm not a fan) might be doing, but it's not necessarily bad to have more than one rendering engine out there. For instance, a significant security hole in the engine wouldn't take, like, the whole world down.
Enh. TFA seems long on speculation. I can see Microsoft doing this in an effort to (a) create a browser that is performant on portable hardware, (where their competition clearly beats them) and (b) try to (eventually) dump the millstone of decades of backwards compatibility, which is, in general, a good thing. [1] But just because it's a logical move is not proof in and of itself that Microsoft is actually doing it.
But I wonder how different, and especially how "lightweight" this hypothetical browser can be if it's using the same rendering engine? Wouldn't it just be IE with a different skin?
[1] apropos of nothing: Over Christmas break, at my daughter's request, I installed an old Windows 95 game on her Windows 7 PC, and it worked! I was deeply impressed. And a little appalled.
How about straight vegetable oil?
Yes, great idea. Let's burn our food as fuel.
Or a generator pod on a small trailer.
That runs on gasoline! That's brilliant! You could fill up anywhere!
No, wait...
> Basically, because the grass is greener on this side of the fence.
I understand the current administration has a solution for that.
Of course Emacs is an operting system! However it lacks a decent editor!
That is why I use vi/vim as well!
I always thought that was the real reason Emacs had a VI emulator plugin -- because every OS needs an editor.