You are under the false assumption that there is any competition.
Most service locations in the US has one actual broadband option, usually with a shitty DSL option as 'competition'. Only in rare circumstances are there several multi-megabit services available to choose from.
Depending on the Nvidia chipset, they have been known to be cunts in the past and disable "consumer" cards when running through a detected hypervisor. Apparently they feel this is a 'pro' feature that should only work with Quadro cards that cost far more.
I feel that their rights to how the card is used ends when I hand over my credit card. If what I'm doing has a legit chance of causing damage and invalidating a warranty - fine, invalidate the warranty. But you don't get to sabotage me from using the card through a hypervisor utilizing PCI passthrough just because you want more money.
Apple gives plenty of latitude to screw up OS X, but you usually have to go out of your way to do it. Windows gets screwed up through normal operation.
Well that's a terrible IT department then, or they are buying terrible hardware from terrible OEMs.
Lenovo makes a unified installer for each model that can be incorporated into a image build process without much effort. I'm sure that Dell and HP also do, but I haven't worked with their stuff in a while. Also, these companies all offer imaging services where they put your build on the machine at the factory for like $4.
Seriously, whoever is doing endpoint management at your company needs to be given the opportunity to look for opportunities elsewhere. These companies (as well as Microsoft) made this dead easy with Windows 7 Enterprise and newer. It wasn't even that hard on Windows XP.
That's nice. What about driver support for the new chipsets that accompany those new CPUs? Because there's never ever been problems between those and Windows before.
Considering your analogy to television: there is 'free' over-the-air TV in the US. And then there is subscription-based cable and satellite providers that still make money on expanded offerings.
I don't see why Internet service couldn't be similar - a basic muni wireless service can be there, but it won't be anywhere close to as good as if you subscribe to the offerings from a traditional telco. I'm good with it as long as I can use policy routing to send some traffic over the muni, and other traffic over my subscription connection in order to use both...
So you think that if a sensor is locked out, that it will still work? What part of "the hardware security trust has been broken, so the phone won't listen to any inputs from that device" exactly confuses you? And you're calling me dumb?
The iPhone 7 doesn't have the mechanical button any more. It's just the fingerprint reader. So if the fingerprint reader is locked out, so is the not-a-button that servers as a home button.
I'll refrain from putting some snarky idiot question on the end of this post, as I hope the irony has already caught up.
On iPhone 7, the home button isn't a real button anymore - it's just more touch sensitive space.
The old models probably still had software that triggered on the manual button click which is completely separate from the fingerprint reading / encoding software, and that software probably still exists for older models in the most modern versions of the OS. However, that button doesn't exist any more, so only the fingerprint software with the lockout ever gets used on iPhone 7. It's entirely possible that Apple didn't mean for it to be this way, or it was discovered at some point and they didn't care enough to do anything about it.
If there's more than one activation of the scan in a short period of time, you know the previous one that was just sent didn't work - overwrite it. If there's no call for another scan in the next 5 seconds or so, you know it was likely a good one and you commit it to memory. Then replay that when called to do so by nefarious people.
That's called 'collusion' and it's illegal. Other types of competing corporations have been charged, tried, and convicted of it, and levied massive fines.
I really am surprised that some ISP hasn't tried to offer a lower cost service that runs through a proxy where they can inject their own ads. I suppose with most of the web transitioning to HTTPS that might get harder, but has nobody tried that?
He probably feels he is insulated from retaliation due to the last President talking about chemical weapons being a "red line" and then doing jack shit after their use. Sure, Assad gave up stockpiles that were known, and maybe even a cache or two that were unknown just to show what a good-faith actor he was being. But nobody other than Assad knows if they were all handed over, and now he has the convenient excuse of "but we disarmed - John Kerry says so!"
That late 2013 iMac should still do Target Display Mode though. Yet another amazing feature that Apple decided to do away with when they moved to the 5K version. At least you can still use it as a background processor and secondary display.
Well at least they heard the bit about 'expandability and storage' - two things completely absent from the trash can Mac Pro. Unless you count paying extra for less performance by way of Thunderbolt, which I don't.
Thunderbolt might take care of the storage bit by way of 10gbe and fiber channel adapters. It is a sorry excuse for GPU expandability though, especially since Apple has gone out of their way to prevent GPUs from working on Thunderbolt by way of software lockout.
Skip the 'pro iMac' and just make a Mac Pro like you had in 2010, except with 2017 hardware inside. How fucking hard is that?
You're acting like the writers get final say in what is filmed and eventually broadcast. And you are acting like the entertainment industry is a merit-driven business.
On the other hand, they were the top 10 grossing films from last year. Clearly there is a market for superhero adaptations, book adaptations, remakes of remakes, and sequels / prequels.
Your comment amounts to bitching about Hollywood following the money. If people didn't pay to see these things, they wouldn't spend hundreds of millions to film them.
Blaming streaming media for shorter seasons is fucking ridiculous. HBO has been doing seasons of shows that are only 10 or 11 episodes since like 2002.
I guess those bastards at NetFlix invented a time machine and went back 15 years to convince HBO to do that?
My heart pumps purple piss for these studio assholes that refuse to adapt to changing technology and customer expectations. If you don't want to lose your customers to a more agile company offering better service, then you can either make your offerings better, or continue to lose relevance.
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So what does it tell you that I wish I could get Comcast, and fire Time Warner / Charter / Spectrum?
Your rent control metaphor is flawed - people can move.
With ISPs, you are stuck with whoever owns the lines where you live. Removing the controls allows potential abuse of monopoly.
You are under the false assumption that there is any competition.
Most service locations in the US has one actual broadband option, usually with a shitty DSL option as 'competition'. Only in rare circumstances are there several multi-megabit services available to choose from.
Depending on the Nvidia chipset, they have been known to be cunts in the past and disable "consumer" cards when running through a detected hypervisor. Apparently they feel this is a 'pro' feature that should only work with Quadro cards that cost far more.
I feel that their rights to how the card is used ends when I hand over my credit card. If what I'm doing has a legit chance of causing damage and invalidating a warranty - fine, invalidate the warranty. But you don't get to sabotage me from using the card through a hypervisor utilizing PCI passthrough just because you want more money.
Apple gives plenty of latitude to screw up OS X, but you usually have to go out of your way to do it. Windows gets screwed up through normal operation.
Well that's a terrible IT department then, or they are buying terrible hardware from terrible OEMs.
Lenovo makes a unified installer for each model that can be incorporated into a image build process without much effort. I'm sure that Dell and HP also do, but I haven't worked with their stuff in a while. Also, these companies all offer imaging services where they put your build on the machine at the factory for like $4.
Seriously, whoever is doing endpoint management at your company needs to be given the opportunity to look for opportunities elsewhere. These companies (as well as Microsoft) made this dead easy with Windows 7 Enterprise and newer. It wasn't even that hard on Windows XP.
That's nice. What about driver support for the new chipsets that accompany those new CPUs? Because there's never ever been problems between those and Windows before.
Considering your analogy to television: there is 'free' over-the-air TV in the US. And then there is subscription-based cable and satellite providers that still make money on expanded offerings.
I don't see why Internet service couldn't be similar - a basic muni wireless service can be there, but it won't be anywhere close to as good as if you subscribe to the offerings from a traditional telco. I'm good with it as long as I can use policy routing to send some traffic over the muni, and other traffic over my subscription connection in order to use both...
So you think that if a sensor is locked out, that it will still work? What part of "the hardware security trust has been broken, so the phone won't listen to any inputs from that device" exactly confuses you? And you're calling me dumb?
Be quiet, adults are having a conversation.
The iPhone 7 doesn't have the mechanical button any more. It's just the fingerprint reader. So if the fingerprint reader is locked out, so is the not-a-button that servers as a home button.
I'll refrain from putting some snarky idiot question on the end of this post, as I hope the irony has already caught up.
On iPhone 7, the home button isn't a real button anymore - it's just more touch sensitive space.
The old models probably still had software that triggered on the manual button click which is completely separate from the fingerprint reading / encoding software, and that software probably still exists for older models in the most modern versions of the OS. However, that button doesn't exist any more, so only the fingerprint software with the lockout ever gets used on iPhone 7. It's entirely possible that Apple didn't mean for it to be this way, or it was discovered at some point and they didn't care enough to do anything about it.
That said, it's still shitty.
If there's more than one activation of the scan in a short period of time, you know the previous one that was just sent didn't work - overwrite it. If there's no call for another scan in the next 5 seconds or so, you know it was likely a good one and you commit it to memory. Then replay that when called to do so by nefarious people.
Anything important? Such as the entire EM spectrum? And all regulations over telecommunications and broadcast services?
Nah, nothing important.
That's called 'collusion' and it's illegal. Other types of competing corporations have been charged, tried, and convicted of it, and levied massive fines.
I really am surprised that some ISP hasn't tried to offer a lower cost service that runs through a proxy where they can inject their own ads. I suppose with most of the web transitioning to HTTPS that might get harder, but has nobody tried that?
He probably feels he is insulated from retaliation due to the last President talking about chemical weapons being a "red line" and then doing jack shit after their use. Sure, Assad gave up stockpiles that were known, and maybe even a cache or two that were unknown just to show what a good-faith actor he was being. But nobody other than Assad knows if they were all handed over, and now he has the convenient excuse of "but we disarmed - John Kerry says so!"
That late 2013 iMac should still do Target Display Mode though. Yet another amazing feature that Apple decided to do away with when they moved to the 5K version. At least you can still use it as a background processor and secondary display.
Why do they need new ways? They still haven't fixed a lot of the old ways yet.
Well at least they heard the bit about 'expandability and storage' - two things completely absent from the trash can Mac Pro. Unless you count paying extra for less performance by way of Thunderbolt, which I don't.
Thunderbolt might take care of the storage bit by way of 10gbe and fiber channel adapters. It is a sorry excuse for GPU expandability though, especially since Apple has gone out of their way to prevent GPUs from working on Thunderbolt by way of software lockout.
Skip the 'pro iMac' and just make a Mac Pro like you had in 2010, except with 2017 hardware inside. How fucking hard is that?
And the producers and buyers follow the ticket sales and Nielsen ratings.
If people weren't watching the remakes, then they wouldn't get filmed.
You're acting like the writers get final say in what is filmed and eventually broadcast. And you are acting like the entertainment industry is a merit-driven business.
Both of these are false assumptions.
On the other hand, they were the top 10 grossing films from last year. Clearly there is a market for superhero adaptations, book adaptations, remakes of remakes, and sequels / prequels.
Your comment amounts to bitching about Hollywood following the money. If people didn't pay to see these things, they wouldn't spend hundreds of millions to film them.
Blaming streaming media for shorter seasons is fucking ridiculous. HBO has been doing seasons of shows that are only 10 or 11 episodes since like 2002.
I guess those bastards at NetFlix invented a time machine and went back 15 years to convince HBO to do that?
If my desktop gets hacked and they decide to change my wallpaper to goatse, yeah I do worry about my eyeballs getting hacked.
You can't unsee some things.
Exactly.
My heart pumps purple piss for these studio assholes that refuse to adapt to changing technology and customer expectations. If you don't want to lose your customers to a more agile company offering better service, then you can either make your offerings better, or continue to lose relevance.