Well, for one thing, it's nice to be able to run something besides a web browser in that 16GB of RAM at the same time. Like maybe an over-bloated email cllient. Or an over-bloated messaging app. Maybe even an application to get actual work done.
We've had multitasking for over 30 years now, are you suggesting that we step back to the days of the Apple II and the original IBM PC? Except with pretty graphics and untold waste of system resources?
Blackberry (and before they called themselves that, Research in Motion) had a chance to absolutely own both smartphones and internet messaging, but they decided to play the proprietary licensing game and bleed everyone for every dime they could. Now they are a joke of a company that likely has more lawyers on staff than engineers.
The shareholders should just vote to liquidate and let them sit in the history books where they belong.
Wait, what's a rollback plan? You mean that you shouldn't have a script that switches DNS to the new servers, and auto-terminates the old servers with zero delay in between? And erases any backups, wipes databases, and sets fire to the data center?
YOLO, we'll do it live, other applicable Internet memes.
So they are no longer supporting something that is now 11 years old, and didn't really sell that well in comparison to the numbers they are shifting of the newer models which are far more capable and based on standard (at least, for Apple) hardware that is a close relation to the hundreds of millions of phones and tablets they've also sold. Should this really be a surprise? I'm surprised they were still supporting it.
What other OEM set top box has been supported that long? Is anything even close?
I was just on a Delta flight last week, and used my 15" Dell just fine in "economy" on the outbound trip, and my upgraded "comfort plus" on the way back. Return flight even had a power port, which I thought was nice considering it was an old MD-90 that I expected to still see CRT televisions in...
Words have meanings. Someone that lives in a $220,000 house, unless they are really out on the edge of probability and statistics, is not in the top 1% of gross earners.
This is exactly why stock trades (usually) take 72 hours to clear and settle, so that if there is electronic fuckery going on (unless it's sanctioned electronic fuckery like HFT), it can be rolled back and everyone gets a do-over.
I'm right with you. Typing this on a Dell laptop, the first non-Apple laptop I've used for more than two days in a row in 20 years. If they made a MacBook Pro that was anywhere near competitive spec-wise to the XPS 9560, I probably would have bought it - but they don't at any price; and this Dell, fully loaded, was cheaper than the cheapest 15" MacBook Pro. And with just a tweak or two, runs Ubuntu 17 pretty damn good - if Nvidia would get off their ass and put out a decent driver for Wayland, it would probably run great.
You know that NAFTA is an acronym, right? NORTH AMERICAN Free Trade Agreement.
Venezuela is in SOUTH America, and is not a signatory to that trade agreement.
Care to try blaming their collapsed, failing economy on external boogeymen again, or maybe the fact that when your government goes an steals^H^H^H^H^H^H nationalizes entire industries and retail chains, it decreases the incentives for investment for foreign entities past zero?
Here's a tip: when you can't get goods into your country, it causes massive shortages and unbelievable inflationary pressure on what is already there, or what middle-men bring over the borders to profiteer on that situation. To combat this inflation, you tie your currency to the one commodity that you have a load of: oil. Unfortunately, when they did that, oil was at the historical high price, and now it is selling for a third of that price; there are no more economic levers to pull and the whole thing is circling the drain.
You may be correct that cheap goods exported from other countries may have played a part in Venezuela's collapse, but the majority of the blame goes to their own short sightedness.
This whole article is clickbait trolling, getting the fanboys out to bloviate about how the Apple ecosystem is more than the sum of it's parts, and the haters to then reply about how that is comical horseshit, proven by single anecdote; etc.
Yes, it is a violation of the Microsoft OEM license agreement. The license that you just dumpster-dived is tied to the hardware found in the dumpster. Microsoft says you can't use it on anything else but that specific hardware. So as long as you use that machine that was tossed, you're all set.
It doesn't matter if it's "useless" for anything else. The OEM license agreement ties that key to the machine the sticker is on, and not just the case - the OEM agreement says that it must be a hard disk or motherboard / CPU. Just because you can use it due to their not being some even more draconian measure locking it up, doesn't mean that it isn't a violation of the (bullshit) agreement.
Microsoft's OEM license disagrees with you - OEM licenses are tied to the hardware they are shipped with. The reasoning is that they give the OEMs a price break because of this restriction.
Yeah, because they would NEVER standardize on that size / configuration for future models, and try to do the whole ecosystem a favor by getting the software to work properly on it in advance...
No, it's more like the repeal of a regulation last month didn't prevent Charter from operating in a manner that was against regulations a year ago.
Or, more succinctly: the repeal of Net Neutrality didn't all of a sudden stop someone from violating regulations a year ago. Just the same as if the Clean Air Act was repealed for some insane reason tomorrow, it wouldn't have all of a sudden made smoke stacks stop belching terrible things in the 1950s.
The US requires a massive influx of money from outside too See: the $12T and counting debt. I'd rather that sum be spent on cleaner water, air, electricity than more military we don't need and giveaways to companies and people that don't need.
The US could have a balanced budget as well as many of the things stated above, if we were to realize that Eisenhower was correct almost 60 years ago, and that chasing after perfect security is the same as tilting at windmills.
Why should it be the responsibility of Amazon Web Services to police other people's content, outside of legal DMCA Safe Harbor type exceptions? And what does that look like, anyway? Constantly scanning all of every S3 region for anything you don't like? Or that they don't like? Or that someone arbitrarily decides they don't like? And what does your "vetting" entail? Credit checks? Background checks? What the fuck does that look like?
If they were scanning and selectively blocking stuff being served from S3 / CloudFront you would probably be the first on here bitching about censorship, anticompetitive practices, and all that other rot. And if they denied people service based on some arbitrary vetting process, they would constantly be accused of denying people for unacceptable reasons, which you'd probably be on here bitching about too.
AWS doesn't stick their nose in your business, just the same as if you colo'd your own server somewhere. Do you expect Iron Mountain to constantly scan everything in their data center too? How about Google Cloud Services? Rackspace? DigitalOcean? Azure?
Sure, but it's a phone call, or even a web form to remove it unless you are on contract, in which case the carrier lock is more leverage for you to abide by your contract - either pay off early, or you don't get to use the phone on someone else's network.
Sure, it's shit; but don't get a subsidised phone if you don't like subsidized terms.
Exactly. They have partial ownership of their home, otherwise known as a lien.
Do you have the title for your home if you are still paying a mortgage? No you do not - it's in the bank's possession. Do you have the title to a car that you have a bank loan on? No you do not. Also owned by the bank.
This works the same way, except there is no title, so there is only a contract.
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Well, for one thing, it's nice to be able to run something besides a web browser in that 16GB of RAM at the same time. Like maybe an over-bloated email cllient. Or an over-bloated messaging app. Maybe even an application to get actual work done.
We've had multitasking for over 30 years now, are you suggesting that we step back to the days of the Apple II and the original IBM PC? Except with pretty graphics and untold waste of system resources?
... and those who can't, sue.
Blackberry (and before they called themselves that, Research in Motion) had a chance to absolutely own both smartphones and internet messaging, but they decided to play the proprietary licensing game and bleed everyone for every dime they could. Now they are a joke of a company that likely has more lawyers on staff than engineers.
The shareholders should just vote to liquidate and let them sit in the history books where they belong.
Wait, what's a rollback plan? You mean that you shouldn't have a script that switches DNS to the new servers, and auto-terminates the old servers with zero delay in between? And erases any backups, wipes databases, and sets fire to the data center?
YOLO, we'll do it live, other applicable Internet memes.
So they are no longer supporting something that is now 11 years old, and didn't really sell that well in comparison to the numbers they are shifting of the newer models which are far more capable and based on standard (at least, for Apple) hardware that is a close relation to the hundreds of millions of phones and tablets they've also sold. Should this really be a surprise? I'm surprised they were still supporting it.
What other OEM set top box has been supported that long? Is anything even close?
I was just on a Delta flight last week, and used my 15" Dell just fine in "economy" on the outbound trip, and my upgraded "comfort plus" on the way back. Return flight even had a power port, which I thought was nice considering it was an old MD-90 that I expected to still see CRT televisions in...
Words have meanings. Someone that lives in a $220,000 house, unless they are really out on the edge of probability and statistics, is not in the top 1% of gross earners.
You can't possibly be this stupid.
If you think that Model 3 is for the 1%, you must not have any fucking clue how much money "the 1%" actually makes.
Here's a hint: they may buy a model 3 for their kids, but they would be driving a Model X.
This is exactly why stock trades (usually) take 72 hours to clear and settle, so that if there is electronic fuckery going on (unless it's sanctioned electronic fuckery like HFT), it can be rolled back and everyone gets a do-over.
I'm right with you. Typing this on a Dell laptop, the first non-Apple laptop I've used for more than two days in a row in 20 years. If they made a MacBook Pro that was anywhere near competitive spec-wise to the XPS 9560, I probably would have bought it - but they don't at any price; and this Dell, fully loaded, was cheaper than the cheapest 15" MacBook Pro. And with just a tweak or two, runs Ubuntu 17 pretty damn good - if Nvidia would get off their ass and put out a decent driver for Wayland, it would probably run great.
The Saudis also walk a fine line between selling to, and pissing off, their biggest customers.
Venezuela does not.
You know that NAFTA is an acronym, right?
NORTH AMERICAN Free Trade Agreement.
Venezuela is in SOUTH America, and is not a signatory to that trade agreement.
Care to try blaming their collapsed, failing economy on external boogeymen again, or maybe the fact that when your government goes an steals^H^H^H^H^H^H nationalizes entire industries and retail chains, it decreases the incentives for investment for foreign entities past zero?
Here's a tip: when you can't get goods into your country, it causes massive shortages and unbelievable inflationary pressure on what is already there, or what middle-men bring over the borders to profiteer on that situation. To combat this inflation, you tie your currency to the one commodity that you have a load of: oil. Unfortunately, when they did that, oil was at the historical high price, and now it is selling for a third of that price; there are no more economic levers to pull and the whole thing is circling the drain.
You may be correct that cheap goods exported from other countries may have played a part in Venezuela's collapse, but the majority of the blame goes to their own short sightedness.
This whole article is clickbait trolling, getting the fanboys out to bloviate about how the Apple ecosystem is more than the sum of it's parts, and the haters to then reply about how that is comical horseshit, proven by single anecdote; etc.
Welcome to the new Slashdot.
Yes, it is a violation of the Microsoft OEM license agreement. The license that you just dumpster-dived is tied to the hardware found in the dumpster. Microsoft says you can't use it on anything else but that specific hardware. So as long as you use that machine that was tossed, you're all set.
It doesn't matter if it's "useless" for anything else. The OEM license agreement ties that key to the machine the sticker is on, and not just the case - the OEM agreement says that it must be a hard disk or motherboard / CPU. Just because you can use it due to their not being some even more draconian measure locking it up, doesn't mean that it isn't a violation of the (bullshit) agreement.
Instead of being an asshat and asking why someone is late, maybe celebrate they arrived at all.
You are the reason why people hate linux zealots.
Common sense says you are correct.
Microsoft's OEM license disagrees with you - OEM licenses are tied to the hardware they are shipped with. The reasoning is that they give the OEMs a price break because of this restriction.
And that's totally what happens for applications that support the iPhone X display and "notch" today. Nope, not even close.
Don't be an idiot.
Yeah, because they would NEVER standardize on that size / configuration for future models, and try to do the whole ecosystem a favor by getting the software to work properly on it in advance...
No, it's more like the repeal of a regulation last month didn't prevent Charter from operating in a manner that was against regulations a year ago.
Or, more succinctly: the repeal of Net Neutrality didn't all of a sudden stop someone from violating regulations a year ago. Just the same as if the Clean Air Act was repealed for some insane reason tomorrow, it wouldn't have all of a sudden made smoke stacks stop belching terrible things in the 1950s.
Use your brain.
Sorry, $20T. I haven't had coffee yet this morning.
The US requires a massive influx of money from outside too See: the $12T and counting debt. I'd rather that sum be spent on cleaner water, air, electricity than more military we don't need and giveaways to companies and people that don't need.
The US could have a balanced budget as well as many of the things stated above, if we were to realize that Eisenhower was correct almost 60 years ago, and that chasing after perfect security is the same as tilting at windmills.
Why do they make you log into a cloud service to use it? It's a FUCKING MOUSE.
You are looking for logic where it already has been proven to be absent.
You know it's possible to have government regulations and taxes, and not be a globally shunned despotic autocratic wasteland, right?
See: Europe
Why should it be the responsibility of Amazon Web Services to police other people's content, outside of legal DMCA Safe Harbor type exceptions? And what does that look like, anyway? Constantly scanning all of every S3 region for anything you don't like? Or that they don't like? Or that someone arbitrarily decides they don't like? And what does your "vetting" entail? Credit checks? Background checks? What the fuck does that look like?
If they were scanning and selectively blocking stuff being served from S3 / CloudFront you would probably be the first on here bitching about censorship, anticompetitive practices, and all that other rot. And if they denied people service based on some arbitrary vetting process, they would constantly be accused of denying people for unacceptable reasons, which you'd probably be on here bitching about too.
AWS doesn't stick their nose in your business, just the same as if you colo'd your own server somewhere. Do you expect Iron Mountain to constantly scan everything in their data center too? How about Google Cloud Services? Rackspace? DigitalOcean? Azure?
What you've suggested is absurd.
Sure, but it's a phone call, or even a web form to remove it unless you are on contract, in which case the carrier lock is more leverage for you to abide by your contract - either pay off early, or you don't get to use the phone on someone else's network.
Sure, it's shit; but don't get a subsidised phone if you don't like subsidized terms.
Exactly. They have partial ownership of their home, otherwise known as a lien.
Do you have the title for your home if you are still paying a mortgage? No you do not - it's in the bank's possession. Do you have the title to a car that you have a bank loan on? No you do not. Also owned by the bank.
This works the same way, except there is no title, so there is only a contract.