That doesn't negate the fact that not everyone's experience with Apple is as rosy as yours. It sounds like you live near a competently-staffed store; be thankful for that.
I understand some people have issues. My point is that when you go to a store, it's usually not a problem. FYI, I live near multiple stores, and my travels have put me near quite a few more. Additionally, friends across the country give me 2nd hand reports in several areas I don't visit. Service has been more than adequate by all counts. I will also state that I did have one issue with Apple service years ago, but a complaint and follow up after an Apple initiated call fixed me up with no further issues. All in all, it's been as good a series of customer service as I could ever hope to have. It's one reason I recommend Apple, although I disagree with several of their decisions: the nerfing of the mini in 2014, the ending of the Airport devices, and the 2013 Mac Pro. The mini was a stupid decision IMHO, the Airport is understood but seriously sad as that is about the most effective business class hardware you can get for the money, and the Mac Pro was an interesting design but failed to be expandable and thus lead to a seriously hamstrung box.
Oh, you're so such a sweetie. You just defined 'news media' as 'organisations that publish shit I agree with'.
Are you really dead set on proving some pre-conceived point? You just keep repeating the same tripe over and over and claim "I win". (Reminds me of someone....) What I did was define news media as something that actually makes sense and limits it to actual news (facts) so a realistic discussion can be had. If you include generic opinion and define that as "news', we have nothing more to discuss.
I don't understand that either. I read some of the surrounding articles but don't see why he is too blame. The only thing I can think of is that he could have warned the cops this was going to happen or not provided a fake address - assuming he knew that a swat was going to take place.
I'm sure more detail with be provided at some point, but right now with what's available, I don't see how this guy is in any way shape or form to blame. He probably spit out some random sounding address of a street name he might be familiar with is my guess. Without further information it is all speculation.
No reason? Have you thought about the contents of the 911 call?
Had an armed crazy man, who already had shot one and threatened to shoot other hostages while setting up to set a fire to kill even more folks actually been true, nobody would have questioned what they did but you'd likely be miffed that they waited too long. They cannot win with you people.
So I call your local PD and mention that a crazy armed bobbied is running around and has shot 1 kid and is holding 3 others hostage, etc, and it's ok if the police show up and kill you too? The police's first and foremost job is to protect the public, at least the last time I was dealing with one. That means showing up and establishing what's going on, not riding in on a racing bike and shooting up the place.
A portion of the public believes fucking everything. That's hardly a challenge to the wisdom of the crowds.
We agree on the first part. I personally do not believe in "wisdom of the crowd". 500 years ago, the crowds thought the earth was flat and the center of the universe. Today, a significant portion (as in majority) of the crowd still believe in an invisible friend and other fairy tales. Sorry, there's no wisdom in knowing what Beyonce's latest song is or what Kim's attire reveals about her butt on a particular day.
The news has listed them as conspiracy theories.
Except for the news media published by the members of the public that believe they're true. Which, inconveniently for you, means that members of the media believe those theories to be true. Fortunately I'm not stupid enough to claim that because one fuckwit publication believes in a conspiracy theory all media is guilty as charged.
You really are fucking excellent at disproving your own points. You're a fucking magician at it.
I see the problem - "news" published by members of the public is not "news media". Otherwise everyone's asshole is producing "news". So, if we define "news media" as established organizations that endeavor to publish actual factual news and not things masquerading as news but are really editorials and opinions (e.g., Fox News exclusively and others such as MSNBC and less CNN as they do have a blurb about the writer at the top on opinion pieces) then we can have a conversation about "news". Otherwise, you're primarily talking about propaganda and opinions, and that's pretty much a waste of time.
Actually, the police's use of force is not well-documented. It is only partially documented, and it's not looking good. In fact, if you read the stories in the (real) news media that investigate overall use of force over the past 10+ years, you'll quickly find out that there's no actual reporting requirement and that a lot of use of force and even complaints are buried at the local level and never even make local news nor are available. BTW, that means skipping all the editorial and opinion pieces, which are rife throughout many "news" media outlets, in some cases comprising almost all of their output.
Regarding the wage gap, yes, it is interesting. However, you never get real information in those stories, because in many cases they are written what I can only assume is a SJW slant. I look for hard evidence such as man with BS degree and 5 years experience in job A making 25% more than woman with BS degree and 5 years in job A as a statistical fact. Not man in job 10A for 5 years with 30 years experience against woman in job 5B for 3 years with 10 years experience. That's apples to oranges and will always be different. I do disagree that largely female dominated jobs such as nursing and teaching are underpaid compared to other jobs in the field with similar requirements that are male dominated, but if men and women in those fields are largely paid equally, then there's no wage gap. What there is is a group of people that need to demand better pay or walk and get a different job. Unemployment is under 4% after all.
Nope, sorry. Those things are still making the rounds. A portion of the public believes it. The news has listed them as conspiracy theories. Try again.
There is no hindsight required. The police were in the wrong, the whole way through. They had no reason to shoot. They did have reason to approach cautiously with a larger than normal presence. That doesn't give them the right to shoot someone if they sneeze no more than it does so on any street in any town anywhere.
This could actually be a monumental case if the right legal team gets involved.
There is no denying their actions were wrong, however, there's a major question as to whether the police were criminally negligent by failing to properly assess the situation prior to storming the building. A reasonable person would expect they would verify claims before acting on them.
Oh, they should be fully prosecuted with maximum sentences for the things they actually did, which may be less than they're being charged with (manslaughter for the intended target that gave an address? I'm not sure that applies but haven't read the full charges as they aren't in any of the links). The police (re)action is irrelevant to how guilty these guys are for the charges listed. That said, that doesn't absolve the police and their actions. That's a separate issue that needs to be addressed independently. The only innocent people in this sad scenario are the victim and his family/friends.
The same public that can't differentiate -or simply doesn't care about- the difference between fact and fake news?
The public has for a long time now been calling out and blasting the media on all sorts of stories they don't like. The public, far from "not being able to read" has a track record of believing in aliens and conspiracy theories despite the press' attempts at clarification for some time now...
FTFY
In short, the public has proven a most untrustworthy source of determining anything real or accurate. Look at Pizzagate. Uranium One fantasies. The JFK assassination. Roswell. Aliens. The "fake" moon landing. The current focus on "fake news".
Now where's your list that supports you in any way?
Honestly, as a document format HTML was pretty much fine for everything necessary 20 years ago. Applets/ActiveX/Flash were providing interactive functionality that HTML was never intended to supply.
...when your product has become a commodity, you have three choices:
There's a fourth option. Go up market. Sony really missed the mark on that one. They had the biggest name in electronics, and blew it...
They did, for 1 simple reason - they hate their customers. Check out the list of things they did to their customers, including what's effectively a bait and switch practice where they sold a few expensive pieces of equipment prior to mass producing them with cheap chinese knockoffs. Inserting root kits into their CDs. DRMing their content to hell and back. And more... much more. Customers will only stand for that abuse for so long before buying the clone from the company producing your sanctioned cheap knockoffs.
If you have an FB account and ever touch it, they'll know pretty much everything about you and your online activities. If you don't have a FB account, they'll still know a lot more about you than you think. Unless you actively block FB and their subdomains, FB will track you.
FYI - I live closer to an Apple Store than you, and it is within my weekly if not daily travel span. So a trip to Apple doesn't count since I can work it into my travels. Waiting time at any Apple store I've gone to has been no more than 15 min from my appointment. If yours is longer, I'd file a comment/complaint with them and mention it on my way out. My time with Geniuses has been minimal, the longest was 1 hour, where I knew what the problem was with an older 17" MBP that was out of warranty and they still checked it out for free confirming the problem. It was a temperamental SATA controller on the logic board that caused really odd glitches on startup, and only startup. Once running, it was usually fine for a month or more until it glitched during a wakeup. It actually took them 2 days to figure it out. Talk about fun.
In another case, I had a mini bought as a refurb that exhibited odd behavior within a month - took it in, described the problem, walked out with a brand new one in less than 10 minutes. Haven't had a problem with it since, other than I did swap the HD out for an SSD after a couple of years. Still works fine for its intended purpose.
To be fair, I actually have a second fallback machine, as, like you, I am responsible for my own work machines and cannot afford to be machineless. The secondary is usually the last laptop I bought, although currently it is about to be replaced by a new super light smaller notebook as they're powerful enough and better for travel. My desktop will likely be obsoleted within the next year, to be replaced by either a docked laptop or a small form factor CPU/GPU combo.
I intentionally left out the diminishing returns in manufacturing-related R n' D because this applies to their competition just as much as it applies to Intel.
But, as Intel was ahead, this particular wall they hit allowed everyone else to catch up.
As for the dead end that was the NetBurst microarchitecture, that was first and foremost them thinking they could build a really inefficient architecture (massive 20-something stage pipeline running at a frequency way higher than anyone else) and make it work by having a way better manufacturing process.
The thing that killed it was that the assumptions they had about context switching didn't hold as multi-threaded multi-process computing became far far more common.
In the end Intel was able to stay competitive during the Netburst days and in the mobile space where efficiency was paramount they had a separate, much more efficient, architecture (Pentium M) that they later used as basis for the Core 2 series.
Netburst popped when the Opteron came out on the scene and literally blew away anything Intel had in the server space. If it wasn't for the mono OS culture of the time, Sparc, MIPS, or PowerPC would have killed Netburst concepts far earlier.
Core 2 was still pretty sucky in its first release or two. Had AMD been able to release higher end Opterons at a lower price or a faster release cycle, it's likely we'd all be running AMD today. Intel successfully used their bank to reclaim the CPU space.
I don't blame Millenials for adopting this attitude. It's a perfectly rational response to a warped market. Employers crying about it won't help.
Since the 80s companies have fostered this attitude as a result of their quarter focused results via "flexible" employees. When you can't count on your employer, you start looking out for yourself as number 1 if you're even semi-rational. After that switch in attitude, everything else just follows. The employers have no one to blame but themselves.
Even in my first job I was already looking at my career path and whether I was going where I wanted to be. Within 2 years I knew it wasn't going to work out and started working on alternative. For me, that meant a career change. It's not often you can swap careers for the same employer, but this one even encouraged it, otherwise I would have moved on before my 4th year.
Actually, in a right to work state the employer can let an employee go for no reason. Even when an employer blatantly violates labor laws, it is almost never worth your time to pursue it unless you can prove you were let go because of sexual or racial discrimination. And then you have to have irrevocable physical evidence. Right to work cuts both ways though. You can literally walk out the door with no notice.
You're right, it was DOS 3.0 that originally came with my 286. But, the hodgepodge of memory managers and methods tossed out there went from roughly 84 through 89, for me anyways.
While I'm glad you took the comment as tongue-in-cheek, there's an underlying truth to it also. Much serious work requires secure communication. That usually means not on 3rd party cloud hosted systems which leaves out pretty much every product you'd probably like to name in 2018. Almost everything is subject to simple 3rd party interception, unless you're running some additional endpoint specific encryption software.
Honestly, the only people that don't are marketers.
That said, on my phone I use BlueMail with Imap to my home server. That one unfortunately shows the images. As I do not use it often (perhaps 2 - 3 times a week) I am too lazy to find anything else and using ssh on a phone is even worse.
I use Apple's mail app on my phone. It does not show images nor any other remote content. I do the same on my desktop and laptop. It greatly speeds up reading email.
And some of us would argue the only thing Outlook does well, maybe, is integrate with Exchange for calendaring and email. In every other way it's a substandard client running on a substandard OS (marketshare is meaningless from a technical assessment) And to state that Outlook has less bloat than something else makes me question the quality of that something else more than anything else.
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That doesn't negate the fact that not everyone's experience with Apple is as rosy as yours. It sounds like you live near a competently-staffed store; be thankful for that.
I understand some people have issues. My point is that when you go to a store, it's usually not a problem. FYI, I live near multiple stores, and my travels have put me near quite a few more. Additionally, friends across the country give me 2nd hand reports in several areas I don't visit. Service has been more than adequate by all counts. I will also state that I did have one issue with Apple service years ago, but a complaint and follow up after an Apple initiated call fixed me up with no further issues. All in all, it's been as good a series of customer service as I could ever hope to have. It's one reason I recommend Apple, although I disagree with several of their decisions: the nerfing of the mini in 2014, the ending of the Airport devices, and the 2013 Mac Pro. The mini was a stupid decision IMHO, the Airport is understood but seriously sad as that is about the most effective business class hardware you can get for the money, and the Mac Pro was an interesting design but failed to be expandable and thus lead to a seriously hamstrung box.
Oh, you're so such a sweetie. You just defined 'news media' as 'organisations that publish shit I agree with'.
Are you really dead set on proving some pre-conceived point? You just keep repeating the same tripe over and over and claim "I win". (Reminds me of someone....) What I did was define news media as something that actually makes sense and limits it to actual news (facts) so a realistic discussion can be had. If you include generic opinion and define that as "news', we have nothing more to discuss.
I don't understand that either. I read some of the surrounding articles but don't see why he is too blame. The only thing I can think of is that he could have warned the cops this was going to happen or not provided a fake address - assuming he knew that a swat was going to take place.
I'm sure more detail with be provided at some point, but right now with what's available, I don't see how this guy is in any way shape or form to blame. He probably spit out some random sounding address of a street name he might be familiar with is my guess. Without further information it is all speculation.
No reason? Have you thought about the contents of the 911 call?
Had an armed crazy man, who already had shot one and threatened to shoot other hostages while setting up to set a fire to kill even more folks actually been true, nobody would have questioned what they did but you'd likely be miffed that they waited too long. They cannot win with you people.
So I call your local PD and mention that a crazy armed bobbied is running around and has shot 1 kid and is holding 3 others hostage, etc, and it's ok if the police show up and kill you too? The police's first and foremost job is to protect the public, at least the last time I was dealing with one. That means showing up and establishing what's going on, not riding in on a racing bike and shooting up the place.
I think he wins low UID status today, so far. There's a bunch of 3 and 4 digit UIDs posting, more than I've seen in a long long time.
Yeah, holy crap, it's like /. of old when I mostly lurked. Too bad I lost my original login.
A portion of the public believes it
A portion of the public believes fucking everything. That's hardly a challenge to the wisdom of the crowds.
We agree on the first part. I personally do not believe in "wisdom of the crowd". 500 years ago, the crowds thought the earth was flat and the center of the universe. Today, a significant portion (as in majority) of the crowd still believe in an invisible friend and other fairy tales. Sorry, there's no wisdom in knowing what Beyonce's latest song is or what Kim's attire reveals about her butt on a particular day.
The news has listed them as conspiracy theories.
Except for the news media published by the members of the public that believe they're true. Which, inconveniently for you, means that members of the media believe those theories to be true. Fortunately I'm not stupid enough to claim that because one fuckwit publication believes in a conspiracy theory all media is guilty as charged.
You really are fucking excellent at disproving your own points. You're a fucking magician at it.
I see the problem - "news" published by members of the public is not "news media". Otherwise everyone's asshole is producing "news". So, if we define "news media" as established organizations that endeavor to publish actual factual news and not things masquerading as news but are really editorials and opinions (e.g., Fox News exclusively and others such as MSNBC and less CNN as they do have a blurb about the writer at the top on opinion pieces) then we can have a conversation about "news". Otherwise, you're primarily talking about propaganda and opinions, and that's pretty much a waste of time.
Actually, the police's use of force is not well-documented. It is only partially documented, and it's not looking good. In fact, if you read the stories in the (real) news media that investigate overall use of force over the past 10+ years, you'll quickly find out that there's no actual reporting requirement and that a lot of use of force and even complaints are buried at the local level and never even make local news nor are available. BTW, that means skipping all the editorial and opinion pieces, which are rife throughout many "news" media outlets, in some cases comprising almost all of their output.
Regarding the wage gap, yes, it is interesting. However, you never get real information in those stories, because in many cases they are written what I can only assume is a SJW slant. I look for hard evidence such as man with BS degree and 5 years experience in job A making 25% more than woman with BS degree and 5 years in job A as a statistical fact. Not man in job 10A for 5 years with 30 years experience against woman in job 5B for 3 years with 10 years experience. That's apples to oranges and will always be different. I do disagree that largely female dominated jobs such as nursing and teaching are underpaid compared to other jobs in the field with similar requirements that are male dominated, but if men and women in those fields are largely paid equally, then there's no wage gap. What there is is a group of people that need to demand better pay or walk and get a different job. Unemployment is under 4% after all.
Nope, sorry. Those things are still making the rounds. A portion of the public believes it. The news has listed them as conspiracy theories. Try again.
There is no hindsight required. The police were in the wrong, the whole way through. They had no reason to shoot. They did have reason to approach cautiously with a larger than normal presence. That doesn't give them the right to shoot someone if they sneeze no more than it does so on any street in any town anywhere.
This could actually be a monumental case if the right legal team gets involved.
There is no denying their actions were wrong, however, there's a major question as to whether the police were criminally negligent by failing to properly assess the situation prior to storming the building. A reasonable person would expect they would verify claims before acting on them.
Oh, they should be fully prosecuted with maximum sentences for the things they actually did, which may be less than they're being charged with (manslaughter for the intended target that gave an address? I'm not sure that applies but haven't read the full charges as they aren't in any of the links). The police (re)action is irrelevant to how guilty these guys are for the charges listed. That said, that doesn't absolve the police and their actions. That's a separate issue that needs to be addressed independently. The only innocent people in this sad scenario are the victim and his family/friends.
The same public that can't differentiate -or simply doesn't care about- the difference between fact and fake news?
The public has for a long time now been calling out and blasting the media on all sorts of stories they don't like. The public, far from "not being able to read" has a track record of believing in aliens and conspiracy theories despite the press' attempts at clarification for some time now...
FTFY
In short, the public has proven a most untrustworthy source of determining anything real or accurate. Look at Pizzagate. Uranium One fantasies. The JFK assassination. Roswell. Aliens. The "fake" moon landing. The current focus on "fake news".
Now where's your list that supports you in any way?
Honestly, as a document format HTML was pretty much fine for everything necessary 20 years ago. Applets/ActiveX/Flash were providing interactive functionality that HTML was never intended to supply.
...when your product has become a commodity, you have three choices:
There's a fourth option. Go up market. Sony really missed the mark on that one. They had the biggest name in electronics, and blew it ...
They did, for 1 simple reason - they hate their customers. Check out the list of things they did to their customers, including what's effectively a bait and switch practice where they sold a few expensive pieces of equipment prior to mass producing them with cheap chinese knockoffs. Inserting root kits into their CDs. DRMing their content to hell and back. And more... much more. Customers will only stand for that abuse for so long before buying the clone from the company producing your sanctioned cheap knockoffs.
If you have an FB account and ever touch it, they'll know pretty much everything about you and your online activities. If you don't have a FB account, they'll still know a lot more about you than you think. Unless you actively block FB and their subdomains, FB will track you.
FYI - I live closer to an Apple Store than you, and it is within my weekly if not daily travel span. So a trip to Apple doesn't count since I can work it into my travels. Waiting time at any Apple store I've gone to has been no more than 15 min from my appointment. If yours is longer, I'd file a comment/complaint with them and mention it on my way out. My time with Geniuses has been minimal, the longest was 1 hour, where I knew what the problem was with an older 17" MBP that was out of warranty and they still checked it out for free confirming the problem. It was a temperamental SATA controller on the logic board that caused really odd glitches on startup, and only startup. Once running, it was usually fine for a month or more until it glitched during a wakeup. It actually took them 2 days to figure it out. Talk about fun.
In another case, I had a mini bought as a refurb that exhibited odd behavior within a month - took it in, described the problem, walked out with a brand new one in less than 10 minutes. Haven't had a problem with it since, other than I did swap the HD out for an SSD after a couple of years. Still works fine for its intended purpose.
To be fair, I actually have a second fallback machine, as, like you, I am responsible for my own work machines and cannot afford to be machineless. The secondary is usually the last laptop I bought, although currently it is about to be replaced by a new super light smaller notebook as they're powerful enough and better for travel. My desktop will likely be obsoleted within the next year, to be replaced by either a docked laptop or a small form factor CPU/GPU combo.
I intentionally left out the diminishing returns in manufacturing-related R n' D because this applies to their competition just as much as it applies to Intel.
But, as Intel was ahead, this particular wall they hit allowed everyone else to catch up.
As for the dead end that was the NetBurst microarchitecture, that was first and foremost them thinking they could build a really inefficient architecture (massive 20-something stage pipeline running at a frequency way higher than anyone else) and make it work by having a way better manufacturing process.
The thing that killed it was that the assumptions they had about context switching didn't hold as multi-threaded multi-process computing became far far more common.
In the end Intel was able to stay competitive during the Netburst days and in the mobile space where efficiency was paramount they had a separate, much more efficient, architecture (Pentium M) that they later used as basis for the Core 2 series.
Netburst popped when the Opteron came out on the scene and literally blew away anything Intel had in the server space. If it wasn't for the mono OS culture of the time, Sparc, MIPS, or PowerPC would have killed Netburst concepts far earlier.
Core 2 was still pretty sucky in its first release or two. Had AMD been able to release higher end Opterons at a lower price or a faster release cycle, it's likely we'd all be running AMD today. Intel successfully used their bank to reclaim the CPU space.
I don't blame Millenials for adopting this attitude. It's a perfectly rational response to a warped market. Employers crying about it won't help.
Since the 80s companies have fostered this attitude as a result of their quarter focused results via "flexible" employees. When you can't count on your employer, you start looking out for yourself as number 1 if you're even semi-rational. After that switch in attitude, everything else just follows. The employers have no one to blame but themselves.
Even in my first job I was already looking at my career path and whether I was going where I wanted to be. Within 2 years I knew it wasn't going to work out and started working on alternative. For me, that meant a career change. It's not often you can swap careers for the same employer, but this one even encouraged it, otherwise I would have moved on before my 4th year.
Actually, in a right to work state the employer can let an employee go for no reason. Even when an employer blatantly violates labor laws, it is almost never worth your time to pursue it unless you can prove you were let go because of sexual or racial discrimination. And then you have to have irrevocable physical evidence. Right to work cuts both ways though. You can literally walk out the door with no notice.
You're right, it was DOS 3.0 that originally came with my 286. But, the hodgepodge of memory managers and methods tossed out there went from roughly 84 through 89, for me anyways.
While I'm glad you took the comment as tongue-in-cheek, there's an underlying truth to it also. Much serious work requires secure communication. That usually means not on 3rd party cloud hosted systems which leaves out pretty much every product you'd probably like to name in 2018. Almost everything is subject to simple 3rd party interception, unless you're running some additional endpoint specific encryption software.
I agree, it would be better. But imagine the tsunami of customer support calls when people complain they can't see their FB notification emails.
I hate HTML in Email.
Honestly, the only people that don't are marketers.
That said, on my phone I use BlueMail with Imap to my home server. That one unfortunately shows the images. As I do not use it often (perhaps 2 - 3 times a week) I am too lazy to find anything else and using ssh on a phone is even worse.
I use Apple's mail app on my phone. It does not show images nor any other remote content. I do the same on my desktop and laptop. It greatly speeds up reading email.
And some of us would argue the only thing Outlook does well, maybe, is integrate with Exchange for calendaring and email. In every other way it's a substandard client running on a substandard OS (marketshare is meaningless from a technical assessment) And to state that Outlook has less bloat than something else makes me question the quality of that something else more than anything else.