See, there you go with actually reading the First Amendment. It's so much easier to just yell "FREE SPEECH" at the top of your lungs when there is the slightest tangental reference to censorship happening, public or private.
Because if you have several hundred VMs in an organization that do nothing but act as local domain controllers for AD, you can now not spend that money on Windows licensing and instead do it with Linux?
I'm just saying that any easy procedure that has a step which involves rooting or jailbreaking the device isn't going to work for everyone. It's fine for some people, but it's not realistic if you have a device given to you by your employer, or want to interact with your employer's systems, if your employer has enterprise security standards which forbid rooting or jailbreaking.
These policies and MDM profiles that enforce it are going to become commonplace, if they aren't already.
At one point, Outlook on the Mac was written by the Exchange team at Microsoft, and it had feature parity with Outlook for Windows, including using a MAPI protocol.
Then the Mac shop at Microsoft was formed and started doing Office for Mac, and completely scrapped the good* Outlook in favor of this abomination of a binary UI for Outlook Web Access, which is what Mac Outlook is.
Might as well just use OWA - it's the same damn thing, but with less configuration bullshit.
*all values of "good" are intended in a relativistic sense - saying "the good Outlook" is in comparison to the shit-tastic Outlook 2011 that is the "current" product available.
Visio is an expensive piece of shit, and every coworker always wonders how I have such clean high-quality diagrams that they think I spent hours on, when it took me like 10 minutes with OmniGraffle Pro.
Oh, and it reads and writes Visio if you're stuck in that hellhole of an environment as a standard.
Mac Mini server is fantastic for small "appliance" tasks, like a Software Update server for a remote site, or a distribution point for a software deployment system so you don't routinely kick the crap out of your WAN to install large software packages. No, you're not going to run massive databases on it, but it can still be quite useful in the configure-and-drop-ship scenario.
Open Directory? Really? I thought you said you worked for an enterprise IT organization. Even Apple doesn't use Open Directory internally - they use Active Directory, just like the rest of the planet. If your particular setup of Active Directory isn't friendly with Apple's LDAPv3 AD makeover, you can use Centrify DirectControl or Quest Software's QAS client for Mac OS X. There's probably others, but those are the top two in any enterprise study that's worth reading. In fact, they allow you to move your policy into AD GPOs as well without schema extension. Sure, they cost money, but what does keeping Open Directory servers cost in power, parts, and labor to maintain?
and if the company you work for requires your phone to not be rooted in order to VPN / get email / calendaring / etc., and is actively enforced by the MDM solution?
The issue isn't Democracy, it's the demagogues that want the issue to bash their opponents faces in with, rather than fixing it.
Why don't you think that Social Security has been fixed yet? It's not like we haven't had 30 years of blue ribbon commissions telling us how. Instead, the commission is thanked for their service, and then Democrats keep making ads about old people eating dog food because that's all they can afford; and Republicans keep making ads about massive deficits and the whole system going bankrupt Real Soon Now(TM).
They want the issue. They don't want to fix it. Because if they have the issue, then they can fix it Their Way(TM) once they take back the [House | Senate | White House].
Hanford made (and separated) Plutonium. In order to do that, they had to use some pretty nasty solvents that made highly radioactive liquid solution that then went into underground lined tanks.
Shockingly, 50 years later, those tanks are degrading, and still have highly radioactive liquid solution in them, yards away from the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River, with major metro areas downstream.
But we don't need a place to vitrify this shit and store it in a sane manner. We can just leave it in eastern Washington State, and shove our head into the sand right next to these single-walled 60-year old metal tanks storing some of the most heinous material ever created by man!
Would anyone really ever want to rip and encode a Blu-Ray on a woefully underpowered tablet? I don't even want to use my laptop for that, and it's got a quad-core i7.
Part of the decline of Apple during the mid-80s was due to the incredibly inept management that Apple used after Jobs left, but Jobs wasn't exactly instilling the same values at Apple back then that he did in his second tenure.
It was Apple's arrogance that caused the hardships of the 90s, and their recognition of that arrogance and the purging of all the busywork ridiculous money-bleeding projects, as well as a good amount of luck and a nice fat settlement of what could have been a billion dollar lawsuit over QuickTime that saved Apple.
Remember OpenDoc? QuickDraw 3D? Mac clones? CyberDog? eWorld? The multiple attempts at a new OS (Copeland, Rhapsody, Taligent, etc.) before they just went and bought OpenStep?
All bad projects that wasted talent and money in the mid-90s at Apple, which were summarily executed.
At least when IBM entered it's decline in the mid-80s and early 90s, it was smart enough to divest losing businesses (PC business, though Lenovo is making a go of it now) and rely on proven revenue where they make some of the best stuff on the market: servers and services.
Microsoft only has software, and it's dwindled to the Windows products, Office, and Exchange. Everything else is a loser, and the lack of innovation is starting to show cracks in the remaining three.
1. Other devices are taking a legal gamble that the RIAA won't sue their pants off, but Apple isn't going to as they are the market leader.
2. US law may not apply to you, but it does apply to Apple, as they are a corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California; a US state. The RIAA wouldn't be suing you under the AHRA, they would be suing Apple.
"On appeal, the ninth circuit upheld the lower court's decision to deny injunctive relief but found that the lower court had erred in holding that the Rio was a covered device under the AHRA. The court noted that in order to be a digital audio recording device, the Rio must be able to reproduce, either "directly" or "from a transmission," a "digital music recording." 17 U.S.C. 1001(1)."
If there's no supported method for copying the audio files off the device, then it is not a "digital recording device" under the definition in the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, thus the law does not apply.
Without that court decision, we wouldn't have portable MP3 players without paying the RIAA a shload of money for the privilege.
Yeah, but we're not talking about RTGs. RTGs are a lump of Pu-238 with a thermocouple and really couldn't be simpler. TFA is talking about a miniaturized reactor, with a criticality inside, and a mechanical control system that can bend / break / wear out.
Yeah, so that way when you get a 100-car pileup on a Texas freeway, instead of just having the chemical danger of automotive fluids and lubricants, you also get a nice Nuclear Emergency Response Team showing up and scrubbing everyone down!
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See, there you go with actually reading the First Amendment. It's so much easier to just yell "FREE SPEECH" at the top of your lungs when there is the slightest tangental reference to censorship happening, public or private.
US Law does not state that I can enjoy creamer in my coffee, yet oceans of it are sold in the US.
There are such things as natural laws. If we had to codify every single everything, everyone would have to be a lawyer just to walk down the street.
Because if you have several hundred VMs in an organization that do nothing but act as local domain controllers for AD, you can now not spend that money on Windows licensing and instead do it with Linux?
But I guess that wasn't incredibly obvious.
I'm just saying that any easy procedure that has a step which involves rooting or jailbreaking the device isn't going to work for everyone. It's fine for some people, but it's not realistic if you have a device given to you by your employer, or want to interact with your employer's systems, if your employer has enterprise security standards which forbid rooting or jailbreaking.
These policies and MDM profiles that enforce it are going to become commonplace, if they aren't already.
At one point, Outlook on the Mac was written by the Exchange team at Microsoft, and it had feature parity with Outlook for Windows, including using a MAPI protocol.
Then the Mac shop at Microsoft was formed and started doing Office for Mac, and completely scrapped the good* Outlook in favor of this abomination of a binary UI for Outlook Web Access, which is what Mac Outlook is.
Might as well just use OWA - it's the same damn thing, but with less configuration bullshit.
*all values of "good" are intended in a relativistic sense - saying "the good Outlook" is in comparison to the shit-tastic Outlook 2011 that is the "current" product available.
So much this.
Visio is an expensive piece of shit, and every coworker always wonders how I have such clean high-quality diagrams that they think I spent hours on, when it took me like 10 minutes with OmniGraffle Pro.
Oh, and it reads and writes Visio if you're stuck in that hellhole of an environment as a standard.
A couple comments:
Mac Mini server is fantastic for small "appliance" tasks, like a Software Update server for a remote site, or a distribution point for a software deployment system so you don't routinely kick the crap out of your WAN to install large software packages. No, you're not going to run massive databases on it, but it can still be quite useful in the configure-and-drop-ship scenario.
Open Directory? Really? I thought you said you worked for an enterprise IT organization. Even Apple doesn't use Open Directory internally - they use Active Directory, just like the rest of the planet. If your particular setup of Active Directory isn't friendly with Apple's LDAPv3 AD makeover, you can use Centrify DirectControl or Quest Software's QAS client for Mac OS X. There's probably others, but those are the top two in any enterprise study that's worth reading. In fact, they allow you to move your policy into AD GPOs as well without schema extension. Sure, they cost money, but what does keeping Open Directory servers cost in power, parts, and labor to maintain?
and if the company you work for requires your phone to not be rooted in order to VPN / get email / calendaring / etc., and is actively enforced by the MDM solution?
Yeah.
The GeForce GTX 670 in my 4 year old Mac Pro disagrees with you. Drivers included in Mac OS X 10.8 by default.
Never heard of trains?
You think this kind of stuff isn't transported on the rail or highway networks already?
The issue isn't Democracy, it's the demagogues that want the issue to bash their opponents faces in with, rather than fixing it.
Why don't you think that Social Security has been fixed yet? It's not like we haven't had 30 years of blue ribbon commissions telling us how. Instead, the commission is thanked for their service, and then Democrats keep making ads about old people eating dog food because that's all they can afford; and Republicans keep making ads about massive deficits and the whole system going bankrupt Real Soon Now(TM).
They want the issue. They don't want to fix it. Because if they have the issue, then they can fix it Their Way(TM) once they take back the [House | Senate | White House].
$67B / 300M people = $223.34 per citizen to finally deal with the nuclear waste issue in a somewhat responsible manner.
Who do I write the check to?
Hanford made (and separated) Plutonium. In order to do that, they had to use some pretty nasty solvents that made highly radioactive liquid solution that then went into underground lined tanks.
Shockingly, 50 years later, those tanks are degrading, and still have highly radioactive liquid solution in them, yards away from the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River, with major metro areas downstream.
But we don't need a place to vitrify this shit and store it in a sane manner. We can just leave it in eastern Washington State, and shove our head into the sand right next to these single-walled 60-year old metal tanks storing some of the most heinous material ever created by man!
Better to be prostrate on the floor, than prostate on the floor!
Now that would be a medical emergency!
Would anyone really ever want to rip and encode a Blu-Ray on a woefully underpowered tablet? I don't even want to use my laptop for that, and it's got a quad-core i7.
I use a real workstation for real work.
How much money do you think Apple would pay for it, considering the spotlight shown on their rather mediocre maps app?
Part of the decline of Apple during the mid-80s was due to the incredibly inept management that Apple used after Jobs left, but Jobs wasn't exactly instilling the same values at Apple back then that he did in his second tenure.
It was Apple's arrogance that caused the hardships of the 90s, and their recognition of that arrogance and the purging of all the busywork ridiculous money-bleeding projects, as well as a good amount of luck and a nice fat settlement of what could have been a billion dollar lawsuit over QuickTime that saved Apple.
Remember OpenDoc? QuickDraw 3D? Mac clones? CyberDog? eWorld? The multiple attempts at a new OS (Copeland, Rhapsody, Taligent, etc.) before they just went and bought OpenStep?
All bad projects that wasted talent and money in the mid-90s at Apple, which were summarily executed.
Also, it beg's the question, irregardlessly, I could care less?
This wins.
At least when IBM entered it's decline in the mid-80s and early 90s, it was smart enough to divest losing businesses (PC business, though Lenovo is making a go of it now) and rely on proven revenue where they make some of the best stuff on the market: servers and services.
Microsoft only has software, and it's dwindled to the Windows products, Office, and Exchange. Everything else is a loser, and the lack of innovation is starting to show cracks in the remaining three.
1. Other devices are taking a legal gamble that the RIAA won't sue their pants off, but Apple isn't going to as they are the market leader.
2. US law may not apply to you, but it does apply to Apple, as they are a corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California; a US state. The RIAA wouldn't be suing you under the AHRA, they would be suing Apple.
You've managed to sum up my thoughts about what iTunes has become perfectly.
Signed,
Someone that used the software when it was called SoundJam, before Apple bought it and installed a kitchen sink.
You realize that the design decision that you're complaining about here is in fact a legal restriction placed on Apple by the RIAA, right?
See: RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc.
"On appeal, the ninth circuit upheld the lower court's decision to deny injunctive relief but found that the lower court had erred in holding that the Rio was a covered device under the AHRA. The court noted that in order to be a digital audio recording device, the Rio must be able to reproduce, either "directly" or "from a transmission," a "digital music recording." 17 U.S.C. 1001(1)."
If there's no supported method for copying the audio files off the device, then it is not a "digital recording device" under the definition in the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, thus the law does not apply.
Without that court decision, we wouldn't have portable MP3 players without paying the RIAA a shload of money for the privilege.
Yeah, but we're not talking about RTGs. RTGs are a lump of Pu-238 with a thermocouple and really couldn't be simpler. TFA is talking about a miniaturized reactor, with a criticality inside, and a mechanical control system that can bend / break / wear out.
an Android user with no sense of humor.
You just said two things that mean the same thing. Ba dum PSH!!!
Yeah, so that way when you get a 100-car pileup on a Texas freeway, instead of just having the chemical danger of automotive fluids and lubricants, you also get a nice Nuclear Emergency Response Team showing up and scrubbing everyone down!