"As Secretary of State, she had the authority to declare what server are secure!"
Not true. The Sec of State only has classification authority over documents originating with the Dept of State. The classified info they found originated in other agencies.
I believe, if you look at the documents themselves, out of the 110 or so found, none originated on her server that were classified at the time of sending. The rest were classified after the fact. That still doesn't get around the fact that Hillary, Rice, and Powell all used non-governmental email servers. Powell, at least, should have known better, and was the one that started the practice.
Currently in the US, to be patentable, an invention must be new (novel), useful, produce something useful for a particular purpose, and not be obvious to someone skilled in the art. Obviousness is not in retrospect - the question whether a practitioner who hadn't seen the patent would do it that way, NOT whether, after having read the patent, they'd say "oh yeah, that makes sense".
If only the PTO would bother to only approve those patents that weren't obvious. Like the Eolas patent as a shining example?
In computer science, another name for an algorithm is a "machine". Machine and algorithm are one and the same.
No. No amount of mushy mealy mouthed word smithing will make machine = algorithm in terms of patents. To be clear, a "machine" is an implementation of an algorithm. The code you mention is covered under copyright, not patents, as it probably should be. The resulting silicon is a machine, subject to patents, much like design drawings vs, say, a printing press.
In case you're wondering, I'm on the side of "no" to the question of whether pure business processes can be patented.
you can't patent the laws of physics or math, so you can't patent gravity, but you can patent a new elevator design. An elevator USES gravity.
An elevator is a physical mechanism that does something innovative. That it uses gravity (it doesn't any more than a lever does and is wholly dependent upon orientation) is irrelevant.
You can't patent the associative law of addition, you can patent a cool new technique load balancing across a world-class network, which uses mathematical concepts in its implementation.
Patenting an algorithm is currently allowed. Should it be? That's been a back and forth question with proponents on both sides. However, an algorithm is nothing more than a mathematical expression with potentially some physical model conditionals thrown in.
In a nutshell, everything he's done in the past year and a half, including taking some heat during phony summits and ignoring the hypocrisy of pussy-hurting liberals like you
Even the Koch brothers are against Trump at this point. Think about what that implies, and they're no liberals.
He's destroyed jobs and the middle/lower class in an effort to funnel yet more money to the small circle of his friends. Just take his campaign trail promise on coal. Even with solar panel tariffs destroying installer jobs coal has had no resurgence, as everyone but Trump expected. So now he wants to subsidize coal. Does he care about all the solar panel related jobs he's destroyed? Not a whit, but his coal stock owning buddies sure are happy. And the list goes on and on from there. Everything Trump does or supports either directly profits his business holdings or those of his close and supportive circle of family and friends. Anyone else benefitting is by mere happenstance.
But note that you're still getting 10.12 updates, so the time frame of support we're talking about will extend into 10 years, at least. MS looks like an optimistic maximum of 6 years.
Employee ID numbers can be like this too. I worked for Cisco back in the early 2Ks. They had just changed their employee number system from sequential to a random unused five digit number to avoid an even more obvious pecking order situation.
TBH, that's the best way to remove this asinine DSW element out of the workplace. And what I find most hilarious about TFS is that the guy thinks it's awesome. I rather think ownership percentage is awesome, but hey, if all it takes is a few letters for his email address, well, he sold cheap.
Honestly, I my opinion of Agile when the manifesto was released was that someone had outlined the core of what I was doing followed by the realization that they had only taken the highlights and then totally missed the details. In fact, the things Agile promoted were exactly the things I struggled against project after project: kindergartners let loose without supervision. It's not that everything Agile states is bad, it's that Agile as a package totally and completely fails anywhere and everywhere it might be applied with one possible exception - the initial release of a POC. FWIW, I'm currently unwrapping yet another originally Agile project, this one truly makes me sad. It resulted in a DB that is inherently broken in its current state and various pieces of data will be lost because it's meaningless and useless in the current concept. Only with Agile could you get this screwed up.
First, this is the first headline I've seen where the answer is an unmitigated "YES!!!!"
2) The agile manifesto is good. (tbh it's actually kind of funny how many people are "doing agile" without ever having heard of the manifesto itself. Kind of hard to keep the core principles of the process if you don't even know they exist.)
What's funny is how Agile took notes of people that were successful in releasing software projects and got the message so entirely absolutely wrong. It never was "Waterfall" or "Agile". Strict waterfall works, but it is expensive. You may have heard some of the success stories, anything done for NASA for one. Working on such a contract can be excruciating and boring, and truly leads to the misconception that all programmers are merely cogs, because in such a project merely being a medium level syntax proficient programmer is all that's required.
But back to the point - truly successful projects in the internet time-based world required faster turn-arounds than waterfall allows. It requires active management leadership, and quicker feedback loops to make up for the removal of the heavy front-end design and specifications phase. The guys that wrote Agile seem to have glommed onto a few of the traits from successful projects without paying attention to the context within they were used. Just IMNSHO. (while I respect Dave Thomas, he was so so so wrong on Agile and from what I gather he seems to concur more with the underlying basis of what I stated above) So now we're going back to a more sane project leadership based system, or at least those that are successful have done so.
Examples? Much as I'm an Apple user, I am also an Android user, have been for 7 years, upgrade yearly simply because I want the latest and greatest, and have never seen this.
Very specifically the 4.2 releases on T-mobile vs AT&T vs Verizon vs the 4.4.x releases by each on the same type devices for those that were able to be upgraded. I don't recall specifically what the calls were that got broken, but switching between those devices while testing as far GUI interaction was concerned was... excruciating.
Mining? On a laptop? No. As I was writing my previous post, I had a browser and an IDE open. I had been playing some YouTube videos while I was working, but paused them while I replied to you. Truly nothing strenuous; and, before you suggest I check it, my battery has seen 140 cycles, has a "full charge" capacity of 6385mAh, and reports condition "Normal". My battery is fine.
That just makes me more curious. My laptop generally runs at least 2 IDE instances, 2 DBs, at least 1 DB GUI client, at least 1 appserver, mail and calendar clients, 2 or 3 messaging clients, and any where from 0-100 browser tab/windows depending on the day and that day's work habits. I admit I do not play YouTube videos, or really any videos, but I do on occasion have itunes or other music media players running. Under that working load I can easily make 6 hours, even when running multiple builds with full tests, which tend to hammer that entire system. If I watch a movie, it's generally 5 or so odd hours.
If you're watching this under Safari, have you tuned Safari not to aggressively preload 1 or 2 layers of links? Otherwise, I'd seriously investigate what's eating your battery. There's no reason for that load to drop you down to 2 hours of battery life.
Consumer includes the Inspiron, XPS, and Alienware lines. Business includes the Vostro, Latitude, and XPS lines. XPS is the odd man out, as they're "dual purpose" but the quality is more in line with their consumer junk.
I'm aware they make those distinctions, but other than Alienware definitely being high end consumer, I'm not seeing any material differences in XPS and Latitude regarding biz vs consumer. Vostro I haven't looked at at all as they lost me as a customer before that line came out.
Well, when they both break easily, there needs to be some way to differentiate them. Mind you, I've never broken a keyboard on a PC laptop. Seems we have had opposite experiences in that regard, so I'll chalk that up to I was lucky with PCs, you were luck with Macs, and they both have shit keyboards; being able to replace the keyboard easily and without disassembling the entire machine, then, becomes a discussion point.
I will agree that opening any MBP after 2015 is nontrivial, and you definitely have a case there if something breaks. Regarding solid keyboards - the original IBM Thinkpads has some seriously decent keyboards.
That may or may not work, on that particular version. Yes, it's that bad.
Apple does require the code and the device to be registered with them for non Apple Store based loading unless you're into jail-breaking.
Can you provide a link to more details regarding that program? As an iOS developer, myself, this conversation is truly the first I'm hearing of it.
It's part of the private beta program. You can register 'x' devices. It used to be 50, I think, and has now been upped to 200/500. I don't recall. There are other limitations and shortcomings to using that route. The VPP you mentioned is a way to run private Apple Store provided enterprise apps. That's a different solution.
MacOS (formerly OS X) is an Apple product, which might be why one may expect the genius bar to support it.
And quite clearly is not purchasable, nor Apple Care supported. The hardware, however, is.
But it's fully relevant in a discussion regarding vendor lock-in. You say using an Apple keyboard is a workaround, I say it doesn't get you support (even though MacOS is and Apple product and, according to you, used legally by way of attaching an Apple keyboard), and you don't seem to be able to refute that. Therefore, the only way to ensure that your MacOS installation works, and continues working, is to buy Apple hardware above and beyond simply a keyboard. You're locked in to buying one vendor's hardware in order to receive support for their software. That's vendor lock-in, my friend.
If you want support, yes.
The Thinkpads were originally spec'd to gov standards, IIRC. They definitely were the workhorses of their time. They were also heavy. Slow. Big. And expensive! Let's be honest. I had 3 between 2000 and 2014. My MBPs beat them handily in a large number of categories including portability.
It's almost as though you don't realize they still exist... and have gotten thinner and lighter, while still retaining that durability. Don't just take my word for it. They're no more expensive than (functionally) equivalent Apple products, but much more durable which, well, if you use your portable devices as portable devices in the real world, matters. A lot. As for portability, yes, I can bring my MacBook Pro with me practically anywhere, but there are a good many places I would never bring it because it wouldn't last more than 30 seconds in most work environments. That's where more durable systems, even if a few ounces heavier, will always win; the ability to actually use the machine as a portable device.
Thinkpads no longer exist. Just because the label is on a Lenovo doesn't make it a real "Thinkpad" in terms that we were discussing. TBH, I haven't considered anything from Lenovo as worthy of purchase. Just too many problems, the major one being trust. That said, there are places where ruggedized machines are needed. Neither your normal Thinkpads nor MBPs are suitable there. Instead, a lot more durable machine is needed and compromises in size and weight are definitely made.
I mean in 2009 a sub 2-hour battery and enough heat to toast your lap and anything you might care about?
Yet that's where Apple went in 2016. Hell, my 2011 17" would roast my lap and only last 1 hour under the right load (which just so happened to be a common use case for me). A 2009 Envy ran at comparable temps and had comparable battery life to a 2009 Mac laptop at similar loads; the reason for the perceived difference is that HP chose to rate battery life under actual work loads, while Apple rates battery life based on browsing mostly text web pages.
From your choice of vendors. If your current vendor does something stupid like removing the headphone jack that you still use, ditching fingerprint unlocking that you still use, or heavily restricting NFC functionality even though you may find it useful if it were made available to you, you can switch to another vendor's hardware and still have the same OS and access to all of your purchased apps. That's the beauty of not being locked to a single vendor.
That's kind of sort of not true, and you know it. Different vendor, no telling what you're getting OS-wise. Maybe that's changed with Oreo. But to state that you get the same OS is absolute and total bullshit. Even in the same damn version, I get OSes that behave and look quite differently from each other. This is even a claimed benefit - that vendors can customize the OS. You can't have it both ways. It winds up being build once test on all devices. It's been getting a little better, and I restrict myself to core OS features only.
That Google gives away the IDE, an IDE you must otherwise purchase BTW
Which IDE is this? You can develop Android applications in notepad.
That would be the Android Studio, a moderately/heavily reskinned version of IntelliJ, heaped on top of gradle crap. And sure, you can write your app in notepad, it'd be most painful and slow, compared to what you can accomplish codewise with an IDE. But the integration of the SDK, Fabric, and Google Play with AS makes it pretty much a slam-dunk for the most efficient way to develop Android apps, no matter what the underlying bullshit (*cough* gradle *cough*) among other things are.
All that said, you can start with iOS development at no cost. You can even micro-publish (up to 100 or 500 devices, I don't recall specifically) an app at no cost.
That sounds like a great way to launch the next killer app. But really, no, there's actually a cost to that: you must either buy Apple hardware in volume or pay $299/yr and, in either case, distribution is limited to devices which are registered as part of your organization.
You might be thinking of Apple's bastardized version of sideloading, which requires you to distribute your source code, so that the end user can compile it and load it onto their device. While that might be great for an open source project, it's probably not the best way to ensure that you get to market before your competitors; after all, you're literally giving them all of your work for free.
I had no problem running some private beta software on upwards of 20 devices, but I have paid the developer fee because I'm using the Apple Store for other apps. Apple does require the code and the device to be registered with them for non Apple Store based loading unless you're into jail-breaking. There's other negatives with this approach, btw. Far better to just go through the $99 dev license. VPP is a different solution. One that I may utilize in the near future.
If you read that EULA very carefully, using an apple keyboard, mouse, trackpad or monitor is enough to get you "legal";) Unless that thing has materially changed its definition of equipment to be a lot more specific in the past 3 years.
So I can bring my PC, equipped with an Apple keyboard, to the "Genius" bar and they'll support an OS issue? Mind you, I wouldn't expect hardware support (unless it was a problem with the keyboard, that is). No. You want support, you buy Apple hardware. And don't claim that this is the only way they can cover the cost of that support because the OS is free; if I walked in with a PC with an Apple keyboard, running MacOS, and a briefcase
Yup, throwing on custom firmware and configs expecting things to not crash occasionally...
Seems like what I expect out of my router - something that routes reliably. Apparently you consider reliability as a lesser requirement.
or jumping into a router where you can't possibly ever do any of the functions you list?
What functions did I list?
Yeah, I know which one isn't going to crash (mostly because the user). Any $100+ router I've ever used never needed reboots, and those that are $100 only crash when heavily loaded (which I expect).
Well, considering I've owned at least 3 that also purported to run DD-WRT reliably, which they did when the hardware didn't lock up.... At least I'm assuming the hardware because it was a consistent problem across multiple firmware releases across all three. And several of those routers were in the $150 range. And I don't expect my router to crash due to load unless I'm actually intentionally causing a DOS situation on the interface. Normal TCP based usage should not crash a router, ever.
I've also never recieved a notification to reboot my router, so there's that.
I was referring to notifications about issues regarding routers, as sent by various newletters, RSS/Atom feeds, ISPs or even noted in websites about potential router issues.
Enjoy being locked to the simple interface.
I enjoy the simple interface because it suffices and I don't see it often. If I was in a situation where I constantly needed to reconfigure my router, I'd place a linux/bsd based firewall into the DMZ configuration and deal with all configuration there because I'd likely need more capabilities than any simple consumer based router provides. Right tool, right job. In fact, this is how I'm setup. You can continue to enjoy your unreliable and inherently less capable router, however.
Not so. The properties of quantum computers are well understood; you can learn about them on an undergrad CS course. It's the engineering that's a problem.
The properties of something we are still investigating and have no samples of are well understood?
FYI - I do have to agree that the interface on the airport utility 6.x is too simple, for about 0.01% of the target audience. It's adequate for 99% of the things people would ever need to do. However, not having an admin interface that exposes the functionality that was available in the 5.6 utility such as signal strength, logs, etc is something I highly desired enough to install 5.6 alongside the new 6.x utility. I don't know if 5.6 works with the latest AEs though.
The Airport Extreme is hands down the most reliable consumer grade router out there. In fact, it's better than a handful of business class routers I have used. For years I refused to buy one because I thought "why, it's just a router and it's expensive!" Well, years of fighting with various routers configs, reboots, updates, custom firmware, etc, and noting that the routers I was buying had started going up in price, I finally caved and bought one. My main reason was a friend stated he'd not rebooted his in years and I had no issues at his house. Sure enough, plugged it in, and a host of network weirdness disappeared immediately. Reboots? I generally don't even think about it unless some notification comes out that actually makes me think about my router. I've had more trouble with my ISP in any given year than my router. I'm going to buy another one before stock runs out.
But have they committed a crime? I have absolutely no idea. If they have, then I think it should be investigated and we should throw the book at them. But from my naive perspective, it looks like they're just "being shitty" which isn't really a crime.
It's the cover-up that's worse than the "crime". Cover-ups are almost always criminal in some form. I'd agree they're openly being asshats, but short of proof of bribery or some form of kick-back, there's little real crime going on. Violation of the trust placed in them taking the offices they hold? Absolutely. Still not a crime. Which is why the cover-up is the best route to getting Pai in jail. Getting him to state things under oath would be the most likely route, I doubt he can keep all his lies straight enough to survive such questioning.
Point is, it's a valid example of media bias. And they're in no way "lost kids," rather cases where the people they were placed with didn't respond when contacted. That characterization legitimizes Trump's claims of "fake news," because it's deliberately misleading.
Does anyone know where they are? If not, they're effectively "lost", right? Non-response is not an excuse.
The mainstream media seemed much more fair and balanced when it was only a few TV networks doing an hour a day, a few weekly magazines covering issues in more depth, and a daily newspaper.
The reason was due to the FCC Fairness Doctrine, removed under Reagan. If the FCC truly wanted to serve the people, they'd reinstate this one ruling, and all "news" would actually be news instead of one-sided editorialized opinions.
Umm, that's because a certain minority representative party has gamed the system for 30 years to enable this end-game. And end-game it is, just not the one they wanted. The GOP will disintegrate over the next year or two. It's going to be interesting.
It seems to me that the issue is more a combination of incompetence and wishful thinking than it is an FCC conspiracy.
Can't it be all three?
And after all the incompetence and confirmation bias, after publicly stating a bunch of things that turned out to be bullshit, they don't want to investigate, they don't want anyone else to investigate, and they don't want to provide any information. Because the results will make them look either partisan or stupid.
Again, can't it be both, and add on top of that a cover-up (conspiracy) etc to give the legal hounds something to really go after? I mean, Ajit Pai in jail would be true justice, given how hard he's trying to defraud the American people.
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"As Secretary of State, she had the authority to declare what server are secure!"
Not true. The Sec of State only has classification authority over documents originating with the Dept of State. The classified info they found originated in other agencies.
I believe, if you look at the documents themselves, out of the 110 or so found, none originated on her server that were classified at the time of sending. The rest were classified after the fact. That still doesn't get around the fact that Hillary, Rice, and Powell all used non-governmental email servers. Powell, at least, should have known better, and was the one that started the practice.
Currently in the US, to be patentable, an invention must be new (novel), useful, produce something useful for a particular purpose, and not be obvious to someone skilled in the art. Obviousness is not in retrospect - the question whether a practitioner who hadn't seen the patent would do it that way, NOT whether, after having read the patent, they'd say "oh yeah, that makes sense".
If only the PTO would bother to only approve those patents that weren't obvious. Like the Eolas patent as a shining example?
In computer science, another name for an algorithm is a "machine". Machine and algorithm are one and the same.
No. No amount of mushy mealy mouthed word smithing will make machine = algorithm in terms of patents. To be clear, a "machine" is an implementation of an algorithm. The code you mention is covered under copyright, not patents, as it probably should be. The resulting silicon is a machine, subject to patents, much like design drawings vs, say, a printing press.
In case you're wondering, I'm on the side of "no" to the question of whether pure business processes can be patented.
you can't patent the laws of physics or math, so you can't patent gravity, but you can patent a new elevator design. An elevator USES gravity.
An elevator is a physical mechanism that does something innovative. That it uses gravity (it doesn't any more than a lever does and is wholly dependent upon orientation) is irrelevant.
You can't patent the associative law of addition, you can patent a cool new technique load balancing across a world-class network, which uses mathematical concepts in its implementation.
Patenting an algorithm is currently allowed. Should it be? That's been a back and forth question with proponents on both sides. However, an algorithm is nothing more than a mathematical expression with potentially some physical model conditionals thrown in.
I can see patenting a gene they created, or patenting a non obvious use for that gene (putting whale DNA into a cat to create a cat with a blowhole).
Would be just as ridiculous a patent as patenting the original blowhole DNA.
In a nutshell, everything he's done in the past year and a half, including taking some heat during phony summits and ignoring the hypocrisy of pussy-hurting liberals like you
Even the Koch brothers are against Trump at this point. Think about what that implies, and they're no liberals.
He's destroyed jobs and the middle/lower class in an effort to funnel yet more money to the small circle of his friends. Just take his campaign trail promise on coal. Even with solar panel tariffs destroying installer jobs coal has had no resurgence, as everyone but Trump expected. So now he wants to subsidize coal. Does he care about all the solar panel related jobs he's destroyed? Not a whit, but his coal stock owning buddies sure are happy. And the list goes on and on from there. Everything Trump does or supports either directly profits his business holdings or those of his close and supportive circle of family and friends. Anyone else benefitting is by mere happenstance.
That's because each one of those experts is expertly reference a well-thumbed notebook of potential responses based on keywords in question.
But note that you're still getting 10.12 updates, so the time frame of support we're talking about will extend into 10 years, at least. MS looks like an optimistic maximum of 6 years.
Employee ID numbers can be like this too. I worked for Cisco back in the early 2Ks. They had just changed their employee number system from sequential to a random unused five digit number to avoid an even more obvious pecking order situation.
TBH, that's the best way to remove this asinine DSW element out of the workplace. And what I find most hilarious about TFS is that the guy thinks it's awesome. I rather think ownership percentage is awesome, but hey, if all it takes is a few letters for his email address, well, he sold cheap.
Honestly, I my opinion of Agile when the manifesto was released was that someone had outlined the core of what I was doing followed by the realization that they had only taken the highlights and then totally missed the details. In fact, the things Agile promoted were exactly the things I struggled against project after project: kindergartners let loose without supervision. It's not that everything Agile states is bad, it's that Agile as a package totally and completely fails anywhere and everywhere it might be applied with one possible exception - the initial release of a POC. FWIW, I'm currently unwrapping yet another originally Agile project, this one truly makes me sad. It resulted in a DB that is inherently broken in its current state and various pieces of data will be lost because it's meaningless and useless in the current concept. Only with Agile could you get this screwed up.
First, this is the first headline I've seen where the answer is an unmitigated "YES!!!!"
2) The agile manifesto is good. (tbh it's actually kind of funny how many people are "doing agile" without ever having heard of the manifesto itself. Kind of hard to keep the core principles of the process if you don't even know they exist.)
What's funny is how Agile took notes of people that were successful in releasing software projects and got the message so entirely absolutely wrong. It never was "Waterfall" or "Agile". Strict waterfall works, but it is expensive. You may have heard some of the success stories, anything done for NASA for one. Working on such a contract can be excruciating and boring, and truly leads to the misconception that all programmers are merely cogs, because in such a project merely being a medium level syntax proficient programmer is all that's required.
But back to the point - truly successful projects in the internet time-based world required faster turn-arounds than waterfall allows. It requires active management leadership, and quicker feedback loops to make up for the removal of the heavy front-end design and specifications phase. The guys that wrote Agile seem to have glommed onto a few of the traits from successful projects without paying attention to the context within they were used. Just IMNSHO. (while I respect Dave Thomas, he was so so so wrong on Agile and from what I gather he seems to concur more with the underlying basis of what I stated above) So now we're going back to a more sane project leadership based system, or at least those that are successful have done so.
Examples? Much as I'm an Apple user, I am also an Android user, have been for 7 years, upgrade yearly simply because I want the latest and greatest, and have never seen this.
Very specifically the 4.2 releases on T-mobile vs AT&T vs Verizon vs the 4.4.x releases by each on the same type devices for those that were able to be upgraded. I don't recall specifically what the calls were that got broken, but switching between those devices while testing as far GUI interaction was concerned was ... excruciating.
Mining? On a laptop? No. As I was writing my previous post, I had a browser and an IDE open. I had been playing some YouTube videos while I was working, but paused them while I replied to you. Truly nothing strenuous; and, before you suggest I check it, my battery has seen 140 cycles, has a "full charge" capacity of 6385mAh, and reports condition "Normal". My battery is fine.
That just makes me more curious. My laptop generally runs at least 2 IDE instances, 2 DBs, at least 1 DB GUI client, at least 1 appserver, mail and calendar clients, 2 or 3 messaging clients, and any where from 0-100 browser tab/windows depending on the day and that day's work habits. I admit I do not play YouTube videos, or really any videos, but I do on occasion have itunes or other music media players running. Under that working load I can easily make 6 hours, even when running multiple builds with full tests, which tend to hammer that entire system. If I watch a movie, it's generally 5 or so odd hours.
If you're watching this under Safari, have you tuned Safari not to aggressively preload 1 or 2 layers of links? Otherwise, I'd seriously investigate what's eating your battery. There's no reason for that load to drop you down to 2 hours of battery life.
Consumer includes the Inspiron, XPS, and Alienware lines. Business includes the Vostro, Latitude, and XPS lines. XPS is the odd man out, as they're "dual purpose" but the quality is more in line with their consumer junk.
I'm aware they make those distinctions, but other than Alienware definitely being high end consumer, I'm not seeing any material differences in XPS and Latitude regarding biz vs consumer. Vostro I haven't looked at at all as they lost me as a customer before that line came out.
Well, when they both break easily, there needs to be some way to differentiate them. Mind you, I've never broken a keyboard on a PC laptop. Seems we have had opposite experiences in that regard, so I'll chalk that up to I was lucky with PCs, you were luck with Macs, and they both have shit keyboards; being able to replace the keyboard easily and without disassembling the entire machine, then, becomes a discussion point.
I will agree that opening any MBP after 2015 is nontrivial, and you definitely have a case there if something breaks. Regarding solid keyboards - the original IBM Thinkpads has some seriously decent keyboards.
The important part was:
and access to all of your purchased apps
That may or may not work, on that particular version. Yes, it's that bad.
Apple does require the code and the device to be registered with them for non Apple Store based loading unless you're into jail-breaking.
Can you provide a link to more details regarding that program? As an iOS developer, myself, this conversation is truly the first I'm hearing of it.
It's part of the private beta program. You can register 'x' devices. It used to be 50, I think, and has now been upped to 200/500. I don't recall. There are other limitations and shortcomings to using that route. The VPP you mentioned is a way to run private Apple Store provided enterprise apps. That's a different solution.
MacOS (formerly OS X) is an Apple product, which might be why one may expect the genius bar to support it.
And quite clearly is not purchasable, nor Apple Care supported. The hardware, however, is.
But it's fully relevant in a discussion regarding vendor lock-in. You say using an Apple keyboard is a workaround, I say it doesn't get you support (even though MacOS is and Apple product and, according to you, used legally by way of attaching an Apple keyboard), and you don't seem to be able to refute that. Therefore, the only way to ensure that your MacOS installation works, and continues working, is to buy Apple hardware above and beyond simply a keyboard. You're locked in to buying one vendor's hardware in order to receive support for their software. That's vendor lock-in, my friend.
If you want support, yes.
The Thinkpads were originally spec'd to gov standards, IIRC. They definitely were the workhorses of their time. They were also heavy. Slow. Big. And expensive! Let's be honest. I had 3 between 2000 and 2014. My MBPs beat them handily in a large number of categories including portability.
It's almost as though you don't realize they still exist... and have gotten thinner and lighter, while still retaining that durability. Don't just take my word for it. They're no more expensive than (functionally) equivalent Apple products, but much more durable which, well, if you use your portable devices as portable devices in the real world, matters. A lot. As for portability, yes, I can bring my MacBook Pro with me practically anywhere, but there are a good many places I would never bring it because it wouldn't last more than 30 seconds in most work environments. That's where more durable systems, even if a few ounces heavier, will always win; the ability to actually use the machine as a portable device.
Thinkpads no longer exist. Just because the label is on a Lenovo doesn't make it a real "Thinkpad" in terms that we were discussing. TBH, I haven't considered anything from Lenovo as worthy of purchase. Just too many problems, the major one being trust. That said, there are places where ruggedized machines are needed. Neither your normal Thinkpads nor MBPs are suitable there. Instead, a lot more durable machine is needed and compromises in size and weight are definitely made.
I mean in 2009 a sub 2-hour battery and enough heat to toast your lap and anything you might care about?
Yet that's where Apple went in 2016. Hell, my 2011 17" would roast my lap and only last 1 hour under the right load (which just so happened to be a common use case for me). A 2009 Envy ran at comparable temps and had comparable battery life to a 2009 Mac laptop at similar loads; the reason for the perceived difference is that HP chose to rate battery life under actual work loads, while Apple rates battery life based on browsing mostly text web pages.
As a consumer, you must buy Android hardware.
From your choice of vendors. If your current vendor does something stupid like removing the headphone jack that you still use, ditching fingerprint unlocking that you still use, or heavily restricting NFC functionality even though you may find it useful if it were made available to you, you can switch to another vendor's hardware and still have the same OS and access to all of your purchased apps. That's the beauty of not being locked to a single vendor.
That's kind of sort of not true, and you know it. Different vendor, no telling what you're getting OS-wise. Maybe that's changed with Oreo. But to state that you get the same OS is absolute and total bullshit. Even in the same damn version, I get OSes that behave and look quite differently from each other. This is even a claimed benefit - that vendors can customize the OS. You can't have it both ways. It winds up being build once test on all devices. It's been getting a little better, and I restrict myself to core OS features only.
That Google gives away the IDE, an IDE you must otherwise purchase BTW
Which IDE is this? You can develop Android applications in notepad.
That would be the Android Studio, a moderately/heavily reskinned version of IntelliJ, heaped on top of gradle crap. And sure, you can write your app in notepad, it'd be most painful and slow, compared to what you can accomplish codewise with an IDE. But the integration of the SDK, Fabric, and Google Play with AS makes it pretty much a slam-dunk for the most efficient way to develop Android apps, no matter what the underlying bullshit (*cough* gradle *cough*) among other things are.
All that said, you can start with iOS development at no cost. You can even micro-publish (up to 100 or 500 devices, I don't recall specifically) an app at no cost.
That sounds like a great way to launch the next killer app. But really, no, there's actually a cost to that: you must either buy Apple hardware in volume or pay $299/yr and, in either case, distribution is limited to devices which are registered as part of your organization. You might be thinking of Apple's bastardized version of sideloading, which requires you to distribute your source code, so that the end user can compile it and load it onto their device. While that might be great for an open source project, it's probably not the best way to ensure that you get to market before your competitors; after all, you're literally giving them all of your work for free.
I had no problem running some private beta software on upwards of 20 devices, but I have paid the developer fee because I'm using the Apple Store for other apps. Apple does require the code and the device to be registered with them for non Apple Store based loading unless you're into jail-breaking. There's other negatives with this approach, btw. Far better to just go through the $99 dev license. VPP is a different solution. One that I may utilize in the near future.
If you read that EULA very carefully, using an apple keyboard, mouse, trackpad or monitor is enough to get you "legal" ;) Unless that thing has materially changed its definition of equipment to be a lot more specific in the past 3 years.
So I can bring my PC, equipped with an Apple keyboard, to the "Genius" bar and they'll support an OS issue? Mind you, I wouldn't expect hardware support (unless it was a problem with the keyboard, that is). No. You want support, you buy Apple hardware. And don't claim that this is the only way they can cover the cost of that support because the OS is free; if I walked in with a PC with an Apple keyboard, running MacOS, and a briefcase
Yup, throwing on custom firmware and configs expecting things to not crash occasionally...
Seems like what I expect out of my router - something that routes reliably. Apparently you consider reliability as a lesser requirement.
or jumping into a router where you can't possibly ever do any of the functions you list?
What functions did I list?
Yeah, I know which one isn't going to crash (mostly because the user). Any $100+ router I've ever used never needed reboots, and those that are $100 only crash when heavily loaded (which I expect).
Well, considering I've owned at least 3 that also purported to run DD-WRT reliably, which they did when the hardware didn't lock up.... At least I'm assuming the hardware because it was a consistent problem across multiple firmware releases across all three. And several of those routers were in the $150 range. And I don't expect my router to crash due to load unless I'm actually intentionally causing a DOS situation on the interface. Normal TCP based usage should not crash a router, ever.
I've also never recieved a notification to reboot my router, so there's that.
I was referring to notifications about issues regarding routers, as sent by various newletters, RSS/Atom feeds, ISPs or even noted in websites about potential router issues.
Enjoy being locked to the simple interface.
I enjoy the simple interface because it suffices and I don't see it often. If I was in a situation where I constantly needed to reconfigure my router, I'd place a linux/bsd based firewall into the DMZ configuration and deal with all configuration there because I'd likely need more capabilities than any simple consumer based router provides. Right tool, right job. In fact, this is how I'm setup. You can continue to enjoy your unreliable and inherently less capable router, however.
If my trust in Microsoft could be quantified it would be a large negative number.
It exceeds the lower bounds of a long?
I'm 99% sure they will try to slide something into the source. Who says all code submitted was written by MS employees?
Not so. The properties of quantum computers are well understood; you can learn about them on an undergrad CS course. It's the engineering that's a problem.
The properties of something we are still investigating and have no samples of are well understood?
FYI - I do have to agree that the interface on the airport utility 6.x is too simple, for about 0.01% of the target audience. It's adequate for 99% of the things people would ever need to do. However, not having an admin interface that exposes the functionality that was available in the 5.6 utility such as signal strength, logs, etc is something I highly desired enough to install 5.6 alongside the new 6.x utility. I don't know if 5.6 works with the latest AEs though.
Not before it is consumed by the red giant the sun will become prior to collapsing.
The Airport Extreme is hands down the most reliable consumer grade router out there. In fact, it's better than a handful of business class routers I have used. For years I refused to buy one because I thought "why, it's just a router and it's expensive!" Well, years of fighting with various routers configs, reboots, updates, custom firmware, etc, and noting that the routers I was buying had started going up in price, I finally caved and bought one. My main reason was a friend stated he'd not rebooted his in years and I had no issues at his house. Sure enough, plugged it in, and a host of network weirdness disappeared immediately. Reboots? I generally don't even think about it unless some notification comes out that actually makes me think about my router. I've had more trouble with my ISP in any given year than my router. I'm going to buy another one before stock runs out.
But have they committed a crime? I have absolutely no idea. If they have, then I think it should be investigated and we should throw the book at them. But from my naive perspective, it looks like they're just "being shitty" which isn't really a crime.
It's the cover-up that's worse than the "crime". Cover-ups are almost always criminal in some form. I'd agree they're openly being asshats, but short of proof of bribery or some form of kick-back, there's little real crime going on. Violation of the trust placed in them taking the offices they hold? Absolutely. Still not a crime. Which is why the cover-up is the best route to getting Pai in jail. Getting him to state things under oath would be the most likely route, I doubt he can keep all his lies straight enough to survive such questioning.
Point is, it's a valid example of media bias. And they're in no way "lost kids," rather cases where the people they were placed with didn't respond when contacted. That characterization legitimizes Trump's claims of "fake news," because it's deliberately misleading.
Does anyone know where they are? If not, they're effectively "lost", right? Non-response is not an excuse.
The mainstream media seemed much more fair and balanced when it was only a few TV networks doing an hour a day, a few weekly magazines covering issues in more depth, and a daily newspaper.
The reason was due to the FCC Fairness Doctrine, removed under Reagan. If the FCC truly wanted to serve the people, they'd reinstate this one ruling, and all "news" would actually be news instead of one-sided editorialized opinions.
The GOP will disintegrate over the next year or two.
People keep saying that, and then their supporters keep embracing ever-greater levels of hypocrisy and corruption.
I'm not sure they can get any worse than today and still retain the dressings of democracy.
Umm, that's because a certain minority representative party has gamed the system for 30 years to enable this end-game. And end-game it is, just not the one they wanted. The GOP will disintegrate over the next year or two. It's going to be interesting.
It seems to me that the issue is more a combination of incompetence and wishful thinking than it is an FCC conspiracy.
Can't it be all three?
And after all the incompetence and confirmation bias, after publicly stating a bunch of things that turned out to be bullshit, they don't want to investigate, they don't want anyone else to investigate, and they don't want to provide any information. Because the results will make them look either partisan or stupid.
Again, can't it be both, and add on top of that a cover-up (conspiracy) etc to give the legal hounds something to really go after? I mean, Ajit Pai in jail would be true justice, given how hard he's trying to defraud the American people.
Kinda like the NYT and CNN pushing a story of immigrant kids in cages using a picture from the Obama days, eh?
This picture used in place of 1500 kids we can't find.