Welcome to the current US melting pot concept. However, it's not working out so well over here because instead of melting, we're getting cultural clumps that are not necessarily harmonious with the main branches of US culture (you didn't think there was just one "US culture"?) Hence the increasing issues and problems with immigrants from cultures that clash with the current set.
well, if you're going to go "mini-series", then the world opens up. Because there are lots and lots of side stories that can be fleshed out in the Hobbit, many that should have been completely removed from the movie.
Forgot about this one, then again, my calculator needs are few these days, or rather, problems solvable more efficiently by calculator.
For instance, from Finder I can search and replace to rename files in bulk.
Can you? I know you're supposed to be able to with ABFR.
Similarly, in their "Dumbed Down OS", there's a command line, and standard installs of perl, python and ruby (and probably others). Why the hate? I just don't understand it. Maybe it's an iOS thing.
The shell is a real shell, and works just like a shell should, including being replaceable and enhanceable. Windows... not so much, even with powershell. My set of tools are different, but they are the same set used on our servers, which also helps reduce errors.
But the Hobbit, at best, was a 4 hour movie. Yes, the sitting around the fireside staring morosely into darkness or flashbacks add to the overall "feel" but if you add so many that they make the movie plod along like a hamstrung zombie, perhaps it's not too entertaining?
I'd say your points would be true, except for one thing: Spotlight.
Spotlight has taken over some of Quicksilver's functionality to the point that I no longer need QS to operate. You can now reliably and quickly train spotlight to start Terminal, for instance, by typing Term, Ter, Te, or even T, just like QS. Want to discover anything, use Spotlight, type Network. See the network pane. Want to know about internet sharing, there you go. It's pretty powerful, and I continued using QS for quite a while, as it does some things better than Spotlight. The differences have gotten small enough that I'm experimenting on a new install as to whether I need QS anymore. So far, it's looking like QS will be going away.
So things have become more discoverable, not less, as items deeper in the configuration can be found relatively easily, especially compared to MS or Linux. It's just not manually searching through visual menus anymore.
I loaded CarPlay a long long long time ago. As in probably about the time I got an iPhone. Like Caffeine on OSX, it's the first thing I put on an iPhone. Haven't seen the horrible iTunes/iPlayer/iWhatever Apple is using since. Ok, not entirely true since I wind up having to navigate through iTunes for a few things, but I certainly don't use it for music directly. One day soon I'll spend the 10 minutes figuring out how to reprogram the MFi button functionality so that music won't automatically start if the other side hangs up before I do. That's bloody annoying.
And, sadly, in only 1 case may the surveillance have provided any information that wasn't already known through good ole police detective work (and the public that called in tips from suspicious activity, like the public should be doing anyways when they see or notice very odd things going on next door).
Exactly this - what's to stop your own equipment from being the static IP? You can NAT behind your own equipment, and control all aspects of what's happening with it. I use my provided equipment in this exact way - it's about as dumb as it can be. Add in VPNs, and the provided equipment can only state "there is one outbound connection with blah traffic on it. No metrics, no anything.
I'm pretty sure the orbit won't stop if we wait to apply leap-minutes. The equinoxes and various other orbital mechanics already don't adhere to our time-keeping system, so why fiddle with leap-seconds? That said, it is still a problem, and I can just see the work day starting at 3pm (with sunrise at 2pm) if we don't address it. But from a computer's perspective, seconds are incremental steps in time from an arbitrary origin, the only "issue" is conversions, much like with Gregorian based calendars for dates. So why is this a problem? Because the ITU seems to be incapable of adding 1s as determined by the planet? This should even be something very easy to calculate in general, and relatively benign if you miss the agreed upon "addition" by a few seconds. In only very few scenarios will 1s be noticed, since machines tend not to be that closely synchronized in general anyways.
If what you fear is getting shot, by a terrorist or anyone else, then it's worth pointing out that that's much much less likely in a society where no one has weapons except the bad guys (and the state, though I suspect many don't make that distinction).
If what you fear is a cataclysmic situation where it makes sense for everyone to be armed at very short notice, then the ongoing cost of gun ownership may be acceptable.
Please note that France has strict gun control laws and that from the news over the past couple of weeks hundreds of weapons(guns?) were confiscated by police while investigating the Paris attacks. Hmmm, seems like France being a victim multiple times over kind of makes the opposite point.
Not exactly... as long as you clear the intersection when your side turns green to yellow prior to the red, you're good to go. Yellow means the same thing there that it means legally here - stop if you safely can. They just enforce it.
The most effective way to improve safety is to do what Austria does - a blinking green light indicating it is about to turn yellow, and an appropriately timed yellow for the speed limit of the road. Note that Austria also has no "All Red" lights. When the light turns yellow, those waiting also get a yellow, like the countdown to green for a drag race.
The one thing I'll note - very very few red light runners in that area of Europe. Oh, they also use red light cameras, and the "entered on a yellow" is not an excuse, but an admission of guilt.
I'm aware of what they did and why. What my statement was is that if you, as an individual, publish something like Phil Zimmerman did with PGP (which was subject to these types of laws) then you have effectively neutralized these types of laws if that is your intent. Some will say this is bad, or even illegal. Phil was subjected to some intense scrutiny and an investigation, but ultimately was effectively "just" harassed as no legal action was taken. Much like DVD Jon, or any of the others were attempted to be harassed into silence most likely as warnings to others in the future. However, it appears that freedom of speech still reigns supreme, however much some try to chill it.
You know - none of that matters if you publish prior to getting informed what you just published is "classified". Oops, cat is out of the bag, barn, and farm.... Kind of like Phil....
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: Windows is unsafe by design, and cannot be fixed. It requires reworking the entire security model in the core, because it was implemented backwards (it is permissive unless restricted, rather than restricted unless explicitly permitted) and is based on a max permission model for the process with filters, rather than a minimum permission model with elevations. I'm sure there's another OS out there somewhere with this backwards security concept, but I'm not aware of it.
What that means is as soon as you get out of your immediate process's space via an overflow, dynamic DLL injection, or whatever, you can pretty much do what you want. There are fixes, of course: no DLLs will fix one of the biggest issues. Sandboxed processes that run in their own VM is another. If you're getting the idea that the problems are major and real fixes will make it unworkable, then you've just realized the utter security disaster that is Windows.
Absolutely, it's not just "Smart TVs" that matter. A truly "Smart" TV would be one that has useful stuff built in that can work standalone. But as soon as you achieve that, you basically get what I have - an HTPC setup. And why would I want to limit my HTPC setup to a single screen that likely will be replaced? So, HTPC and various monitors that can work with said HTPC via some setup is all I need. None of my TVs are connected to the LAN, nor are any IoT devices except 1 rooted hub that is segmented from everything except 1 control channel running on... my HTPC. So it's all integrated and local, no cloud anything.
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Welcome to the current US melting pot concept. However, it's not working out so well over here because instead of melting, we're getting cultural clumps that are not necessarily harmonious with the main branches of US culture (you didn't think there was just one "US culture"?) Hence the increasing issues and problems with immigrants from cultures that clash with the current set.
Hayden Christensen might be terrible,
Compared to Vin Diesel in Fast and Furious, board, meet plank....
You can still have your own eq masquerade as the static IP(s).
well, if you're going to go "mini-series", then the world opens up. Because there are lots and lots of side stories that can be fleshed out in the Hobbit, many that should have been completely removed from the movie.
Best feature of Spotlight : Built-in calculator.
cos(sqrt(8^2+4^2)) = -0.8867611255
Forgot about this one, then again, my calculator needs are few these days, or rather, problems solvable more efficiently by calculator.
For instance, from Finder I can search and replace to rename files in bulk.
Can you? I know you're supposed to be able to with ABFR.
Similarly, in their "Dumbed Down OS", there's a command line, and standard installs of perl, python and ruby (and probably others). Why the hate? I just don't understand it. Maybe it's an iOS thing.
The shell is a real shell, and works just like a shell should, including being replaceable and enhanceable. Windows... not so much, even with powershell. My set of tools are different, but they are the same set used on our servers, which also helps reduce errors.
Figure out how to connect to a non-broadcasting WiFi on W7+. It's more than 3 clicks. It's 2 clicks on OSX. :)
Yes, but you carry a cell phone on you that has a mic and gps, so someone can hear and know where you are all all times.
An electrostatic bag can take care of all of that, or a nice thick pair of corduroys will at least cover the walking and talking part.
But the Hobbit, at best, was a 4 hour movie. Yes, the sitting around the fireside staring morosely into darkness or flashbacks add to the overall "feel" but if you add so many that they make the movie plod along like a hamstrung zombie, perhaps it's not too entertaining?
I'd say your points would be true, except for one thing: Spotlight.
Spotlight has taken over some of Quicksilver's functionality to the point that I no longer need QS to operate. You can now reliably and quickly train spotlight to start Terminal, for instance, by typing Term, Ter, Te, or even T, just like QS. Want to discover anything, use Spotlight, type Network. See the network pane. Want to know about internet sharing, there you go. It's pretty powerful, and I continued using QS for quite a while, as it does some things better than Spotlight. The differences have gotten small enough that I'm experimenting on a new install as to whether I need QS anymore. So far, it's looking like QS will be going away.
So things have become more discoverable, not less, as items deeper in the configuration can be found relatively easily, especially compared to MS or Linux. It's just not manually searching through visual menus anymore.
I loaded CarPlay a long long long time ago. As in probably about the time I got an iPhone. Like Caffeine on OSX, it's the first thing I put on an iPhone. Haven't seen the horrible iTunes/iPlayer/iWhatever Apple is using since. Ok, not entirely true since I wind up having to navigate through iTunes for a few things, but I certainly don't use it for music directly. One day soon I'll spend the 10 minutes figuring out how to reprogram the MFi button functionality so that music won't automatically start if the other side hangs up before I do. That's bloody annoying.
And, sadly, in only 1 case may the surveillance have provided any information that wasn't already known through good ole police detective work (and the public that called in tips from suspicious activity, like the public should be doing anyways when they see or notice very odd things going on next door).
Exactly this - what's to stop your own equipment from being the static IP? You can NAT behind your own equipment, and control all aspects of what's happening with it. I use my provided equipment in this exact way - it's about as dumb as it can be. Add in VPNs, and the provided equipment can only state "there is one outbound connection with blah traffic on it. No metrics, no anything.
I'm pretty sure the orbit won't stop if we wait to apply leap-minutes. The equinoxes and various other orbital mechanics already don't adhere to our time-keeping system, so why fiddle with leap-seconds? That said, it is still a problem, and I can just see the work day starting at 3pm (with sunrise at 2pm) if we don't address it. But from a computer's perspective, seconds are incremental steps in time from an arbitrary origin, the only "issue" is conversions, much like with Gregorian based calendars for dates. So why is this a problem? Because the ITU seems to be incapable of adding 1s as determined by the planet? This should even be something very easy to calculate in general, and relatively benign if you miss the agreed upon "addition" by a few seconds. In only very few scenarios will 1s be noticed, since machines tend not to be that closely synchronized in general anyways.
If what you fear is getting shot, by a terrorist or anyone else, then it's worth pointing out that that's much much less likely in a society where no one has weapons except the bad guys (and the state, though I suspect many don't make that distinction).
If what you fear is a cataclysmic situation where it makes sense for everyone to be armed at very short notice, then the ongoing cost of gun ownership may be acceptable.
Please note that France has strict gun control laws and that from the news over the past couple of weeks hundreds of weapons(guns?) were confiscated by police while investigating the Paris attacks. Hmmm, seems like France being a victim multiple times over kind of makes the opposite point.
people who are wildly batshit insane keep yakking about the mythical "red mercury"
Or they watched Star Trek's "Red Matter" plot....
More precisely, "the" god. Your god, you see, doesn't exist.
"When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen Roberts
Not exactly... as long as you clear the intersection when your side turns green to yellow prior to the red, you're good to go. Yellow means the same thing there that it means legally here - stop if you safely can. They just enforce it.
The most effective way to improve safety is to do what Austria does - a blinking green light indicating it is about to turn yellow, and an appropriately timed yellow for the speed limit of the road. Note that Austria also has no "All Red" lights. When the light turns yellow, those waiting also get a yellow, like the countdown to green for a drag race.
The one thing I'll note - very very few red light runners in that area of Europe. Oh, they also use red light cameras, and the "entered on a yellow" is not an excuse, but an admission of guilt.
How exactly do they define a "private club" for this purpose? Is any arbitrary membership criteria acceptable?
I'm sure you have to sign something.
Still a bunch of delusional idiots.
The reporter should have hashed it after salting.
Sounds like potentially a good breakfast.
I'm aware of what they did and why. What my statement was is that if you, as an individual, publish something like Phil Zimmerman did with PGP (which was subject to these types of laws) then you have effectively neutralized these types of laws if that is your intent. Some will say this is bad, or even illegal. Phil was subjected to some intense scrutiny and an investigation, but ultimately was effectively "just" harassed as no legal action was taken. Much like DVD Jon, or any of the others were attempted to be harassed into silence most likely as warnings to others in the future. However, it appears that freedom of speech still reigns supreme, however much some try to chill it.
You know - none of that matters if you publish prior to getting informed what you just published is "classified". Oops, cat is out of the bag, barn, and farm.... Kind of like Phil....
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: Windows is unsafe by design, and cannot be fixed. It requires reworking the entire security model in the core, because it was implemented backwards (it is permissive unless restricted, rather than restricted unless explicitly permitted) and is based on a max permission model for the process with filters, rather than a minimum permission model with elevations. I'm sure there's another OS out there somewhere with this backwards security concept, but I'm not aware of it.
What that means is as soon as you get out of your immediate process's space via an overflow, dynamic DLL injection, or whatever, you can pretty much do what you want. There are fixes, of course: no DLLs will fix one of the biggest issues. Sandboxed processes that run in their own VM is another. If you're getting the idea that the problems are major and real fixes will make it unworkable, then you've just realized the utter security disaster that is Windows.
Absolutely, it's not just "Smart TVs" that matter. A truly "Smart" TV would be one that has useful stuff built in that can work standalone. But as soon as you achieve that, you basically get what I have - an HTPC setup. And why would I want to limit my HTPC setup to a single screen that likely will be replaced? So, HTPC and various monitors that can work with said HTPC via some setup is all I need. None of my TVs are connected to the LAN, nor are any IoT devices except 1 rooted hub that is segmented from everything except 1 control channel running on... my HTPC. So it's all integrated and local, no cloud anything.