It says the payments will be $600 for a 5 year loan at ~3% interest
And after these five years, I'd expect the range of the car to have dropped 20% or so. So you can then start saving for a new battery pack, if you want to keep driving the car.
Back it up one share in each of ten places with 5 share threshold; 5 have to get compromised before your secrets are lost, and if you hear about one getting compromised you can rekey for the other 9.
Or do what Tolkien did: three for the elves, seven for the dwarves, nine for mortal men, and one for yourself.
I back up to multiple media anyway on the assumption that a fire, flash flood and massive EMP/magnetic anomaly won't all be hitting me at the same time
I can download and compile all my favorite FOSS software the same way I always have -./configure; make; make install.
Give Homebrew a shot. For me, it's the best package manager available. Most OSS can be installed with a quick "brew install ".
If you're used to that, install Brew Cask. It's a package manager for most commercial software and relies on the Homebrew infrastructure. You can quickly install Chrome for example: "brew cask install google-chrome".
With these two combined, it's a great way to write a script that gets yourself up to speed on a fresh OS X install.
I like OS X as a desktop operating system... but I've never seen the point of having it on a server, even when Apple sold them.
It's Unix, and who wants a GUI on a Unix server? And without the GUI, why bother with OS X? Heck, for system stuff I'm using the command line more and more even on my Mac laptop.
I love my (virtualized) Linux servers to death, but on the desktop -- yeah it's OS X for me. And it has a very, very decent commandline.
Nowadays, I can just install a Mac and run a giant script that first sets all preferences (with "defaults write com.apple.blahblah"), and then another smaller script that installs all open source software with "brew install" and most commercial stuff with "brew cask install". Love it.
Is there a reason why they're all not all together in one enclosure?
As for the beach balls, I have the feeling from reading here and there that the nMP is a fickle machine. Leo Laporte of Twit.tv actually give his nMP away (or sold it or some such) because of the stability issues. Not at all what one would expect from such a machine.
I'm still running a MacBook Air from 2013. It's not a pro, but it handles most of what I throw at it and it's been so bizarrely reliable that I have no problem waiting for the Skylake update.
That's getting a bit old. If you want to use iCloud and related, sure you're locked in.
But if you're a techie like most of the people here, you'll switch that off and use apps that are cross-platform. OwnCloud/Dropbox, SimpleNote, WhatsApp, etc. For the regular stuff like email and calendaring, just use anything that works over IMAP and CalDav.
I have the feeling that most people complaining about the Mac Pro actually don't have a Mac. They are not asking for a better product than they have, they just keep complaining without ever buying.
That, or they may continue to make good money with 3 year old CPUs.
Except for the iMac, virtually the entire Mac lineup gets the advice: "don't buy" because they're all based on Intel's previous gen chips (Haswell). Skylake is nowhere in sight currently: http://buyersguide.macrumors.c... Now I have to admit, the MacBook Pro series only uses Intel's high-end integrated GPU, so they've actually been waiting on Intel the whole time. But still.
What really holds back electric vehicles is not just the limited range alone but the recharge rate.
I don't think it works like that. You recharge your electric car at home, at night. Every morning, it's fully charged. If you occasionally make trips that aren't within your EV's range, then some manufacturers, like Nissan, have contracts where you can pick up a ICE rental car for free (with a limit of a couple of weeks per year).
Of course, if you routinely make trips longer than the EV's range, you're totally right.
Just flash these routers with DD-WRT. I found an old router that I got for free some time ago from SamKnows (an European company doing broadband performance measurement). When the campaign was finished, the thing was just lying in a cupboard. Got it revived with DD-WRT and it works fine now. Great stuff!
OwnCloud is awesome like that. Personally, I rent a cheap VPS server with just enough disk space for my needs. But if you have the hardware and have a nice internet connection at home, that is also great.
This is going to make for a weird situation with other phone makers.
Google essentially controls the source code, and keeps it closed for a couple of months until a release. Phone makers used to have early access. But now these same phone makers will be their direct competitors.
Also, Google isn't exactly the bastion of consistence. Previously, they announced that they'd produce and sell a cheap budget Android mobile phone for India. But they have retracted that also, after backlash from local sellers.
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It says the payments will be $600 for a 5 year loan at ~3% interest
And after these five years, I'd expect the range of the car to have dropped 20% or so. So you can then start saving for a new battery pack, if you want to keep driving the car.
It's different now. By default, it uses Safari's in-built content blocker.
First, get into the shade.
Second, wear a black t-shirt.
Back it up one share in each of ten places with 5 share threshold; 5 have to get compromised before your secrets are lost, and if you hear about one getting compromised you can rekey for the other 9.
Or do what Tolkien did: three for the elves, seven for the dwarves, nine for mortal men, and one for yourself.
And in the darkness, bind them.
I back up to multiple media anyway on the assumption that a fire, flash flood and massive EMP/magnetic anomaly won't all be hitting me at the same time
You idiot, you just told everyone your weak spot! Now anyone with access to firefighter truck equipped with a mounted flamethrower and an explosively pumped flux compression generator can delete your backups!
The link in the summary is in the process of being slashdotted... Here is the link to the Kickstarter page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
I can download and compile all my favorite FOSS software the same way I always have - ./configure; make; make install.
Give Homebrew a shot. For me, it's the best package manager available. Most OSS can be installed with a quick "brew install ".
If you're used to that, install Brew Cask. It's a package manager for most commercial software and relies on the Homebrew infrastructure. You can quickly install Chrome for example: "brew cask install google-chrome".
With these two combined, it's a great way to write a script that gets yourself up to speed on a fresh OS X install.
I like OS X as a desktop operating system... but I've never seen the point of having it on a server, even when Apple sold them.
It's Unix, and who wants a GUI on a Unix server? And without the GUI, why bother with OS X? Heck, for system stuff I'm using the command line more and more even on my Mac laptop.
I love my (virtualized) Linux servers to death, but on the desktop -- yeah it's OS X for me. And it has a very, very decent commandline.
Nowadays, I can just install a Mac and run a giant script that first sets all preferences (with "defaults write com.apple.blahblah"), and then another smaller script that installs all open source software with "brew install" and most commercial stuff with "brew cask install". Love it.
Replying to undo accidental "overrated" post (please mod it funny :)).
Thanks for posting! Congrats on the new job!
On one hand, it does. On the other hand, you usually don't pick Apple just for the hardware. You pick it for the combination of software and hardware.
So if you are seriously pining for something particular Apple hardware, I think you must already be using OS X.
You may want to rethink that. The iMac is one of the few pieces in the lineup that's actually been updated with Skylake CPUs.
Is there a reason why they're all not all together in one enclosure?
As for the beach balls, I have the feeling from reading here and there that the nMP is a fickle machine. Leo Laporte of Twit.tv actually give his nMP away (or sold it or some such) because of the stability issues. Not at all what one would expect from such a machine.
I'm still running a MacBook Air from 2013. It's not a pro, but it handles most of what I throw at it and it's been so bizarrely reliable that I have no problem waiting for the Skylake update.
That's getting a bit old. If you want to use iCloud and related, sure you're locked in.
But if you're a techie like most of the people here, you'll switch that off and use apps that are cross-platform. OwnCloud/Dropbox, SimpleNote, WhatsApp, etc. For the regular stuff like email and calendaring, just use anything that works over IMAP and CalDav.
How can an app actually intercept SMS? Is this common on the Android platform, that apps can intercept that kind of deep system stuff?
I have the feeling that most people complaining about the Mac Pro actually don't have a Mac. They are not asking for a better product than they have, they just keep complaining without ever buying.
Apple may surprise us with new MacBooks
That, or they may continue to make good money with 3 year old CPUs.
Except for the iMac, virtually the entire Mac lineup gets the advice: "don't buy" because they're all based on Intel's previous gen chips (Haswell). Skylake is nowhere in sight currently: http://buyersguide.macrumors.c... Now I have to admit, the MacBook Pro series only uses Intel's high-end integrated GPU, so they've actually been waiting on Intel the whole time. But still.
There's God the Father, God the Sun, and God the Holy Ghost
So, it's basically, God, Ra, and God again? :-P
What really holds back electric vehicles is not just the limited range alone but the recharge rate.
I don't think it works like that. You recharge your electric car at home, at night. Every morning, it's fully charged. If you occasionally make trips that aren't within your EV's range, then some manufacturers, like Nissan, have contracts where you can pick up a ICE rental car for free (with a limit of a couple of weeks per year).
Of course, if you routinely make trips longer than the EV's range, you're totally right.
Just flash these routers with DD-WRT. I found an old router that I got for free some time ago from SamKnows (an European company doing broadband performance measurement). When the campaign was finished, the thing was just lying in a cupboard. Got it revived with DD-WRT and it works fine now. Great stuff!
By building a giant laser array in space BLAH BLAH BLAH unlikely we'll see the fruit of this anytime in the next few decades
You had me at giant laser array 3
Just use owncloud with a hp n40L
OwnCloud is awesome like that. Personally, I rent a cheap VPS server with just enough disk space for my needs. But if you have the hardware and have a nice internet connection at home, that is also great.
This is going to make for a weird situation with other phone makers.
Google essentially controls the source code, and keeps it closed for a couple of months until a release. Phone makers used to have early access. But now these same phone makers will be their direct competitors.
Also, Google isn't exactly the bastion of consistence. Previously, they announced that they'd produce and sell a cheap budget Android mobile phone for India. But they have retracted that also, after backlash from local sellers.
Thanks for noticing that!
I suspect the 'pc' is far far more versatile and a bit faster as well....
After some searching, I did find the result eventually:
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-...
Single-core performance, the Celeron M 430 scores 894 and the Atom scores 761. However the Atom is a quad-core so probably makes up for it.