You got updates on a Note 4? I'm still on 4.4.4, no official update to be found. And yes, I do check. This isn't just an anomaly either, with just 1 vendor. I have 7 Android devices across 3 major vendors, only the Nexus 7 gets updates. It's one of my reasons for avoiding Android as a personal device.
Anyone who has worked with sensitive processes (esp computer security processes) knows that relying on one person for a mission-critical function is not a "human error" - it's a process failure.
I disagree, he's right. This is down to the failure of one person to do their job properly: his. The CEO ultimately bears all responsibility, and therefore is solely to blame for this type of failure.
I recall reading about some math genius that was born with hydro-encephaly and had something like less than 4% of his brain matter along an external ring along his skull. Genius level IQ. Granted, he's an exception, but it certainly puts into perspective how much we don't know about the brain.
I didn't bother counting, but I doubt there were more than 10K LOCs in the Apollo code, and that successfully took astronauts to the moon. If there's 100M LOCs in automotive code, then there's some seriously bad code in there as well as likely tons of dead code. I don't even have to guess, this has been bandaided and patched and overlaid so many times that no one has actually spent the time to clean up the mess. After all - ABS code at it's heart is a pretty simple system, and shouldn't require a whole lot of code. Ditto for engine timing code which really should be as simple as lookup tables for conditions being reported. Everything else should be reporting options.
Naah, it's more like saying you want a hyperloop between LA and Sacremento, and two days before the trials say - sorry, we need it to run to SF, Seattle, Chicago, and NY. Can you add that and have it ready by next week?
That's where most of the PCs not being used for gaming are installed. In an office. Furthermore, it's not just about corporate desktops. It's about professional use of computers, and interoperating with other users.
You do realize that as a developer of enterprise systems I do nothing other than work precisely in that realm?
There is also very little engineering software on the Macintosh, regardless of which specific discipline you might be thinking about. But basically all of it is either developed on or has been ported from Unix to Windows. So if you're a creative but not an artist or a video or sound editor, you probably won't be able to use the Macintosh anyway.
It's been a long long time since I worked with engineering software, but the majority of stuff I worked with would most likely still not run on a windows machine. That's not actually denigrating windows, because if it wouldn't run on windows, it won't run on macs or most *NIX machines either. So I may have a slightly different view about engineering software than the common one.
Apple did own NeXTStep, though, and turned it into OSX. You can get NeXTStep installation media trivially and install it in a VM to see what you missed. Like BeOS, it made the absolute maximum use of the available hardware.
Apple "acquired" NeXTStep when Jobs returned as CEO. It might be interesting to get a NeXTStep VM just for curiosity's sake.
When they made it into OSX, not only did they somehow punch it right in the breadbasket, but they also took away its famous display resolution independence in the name of performance. They eventually brought it back, in the form of display pdf, but it's not used system-wide like Display Postscript was.
I can only agree that OSX is snappy enough. As for display resolution independence, I hadn't even noticed how limited it was until you mentioned it, because I don't tweak my GUIs visibly generally in this fashion. Everything "just works" as far as I'm concerned, and I haven't needed to muck with it. I guess that's a statement to how unobtrusive and consistent the GUI is compared to, say, Windows, where you can still get a circa NT4 dialog box in all its ugly non-scaling font inconsistent GUI glory, at least as of NT 2012 in certain control panel apps.
It was just an example. On Windows you have a lot more configurability accessible through the GUI, and on my former favorite (compiz et al.) you had vastly more, down to things like spacing, or individual graphics options. You could not only turn eye candy off, but you could also typically turn off specific elements of the eye candy. Frankly, Windows is not remarkable in this respect, but it's still ahead of the Macintosh.
I doubt it.:) Because I have 0 eye candy enabled. No effects whatsoever, sliding whirling fading nothing. On anything. (The way I do tweak my GUIs, remove time-wasting crap) Not sure why you think macs are not configurable in that context. You were willing to install compiz to gain these features, there are equivalents for macs, but you don't need them. I don't have them. It sounds more like a lack of familiarity than any real complaints, other than the system font configurability. That one I'll give you, but I'd posit it's irrelevant for 99.99% of the user base.
My understanding is that it doesn't upload ANYTHING unless you say the keyword "Alexa" first. Then it just uploads what it needs to understand the commands. You could probably verify this with any network monitoring tool...
Much like those SmartTVs, they'd never spy on you. Wait, not only was Samsung spying, but according to the Snowden leaks, the NSA actively was exploiting those insecure TVs to be able to listen and view selected targets, as verified by network monitoring tools.
Don't be a tool, anything that's proprietary and has a mike/web cam that you can't control is a potential spy tool. One that's always on is a spy tool, whether you think it's sending data or not.
Nowdays we can't even get single player games to stop requiring constant internet access. Your "home OS" will absolutely be fully online
Why? I play (when I play) all my games on a non-connected machine. If it won't start, I don't play it, there's plenty more in my backlog I haven't gotten around to. As for the "home OS", why would you allow it online? There's plenty of options out there that are fully controllable by you. Don't buy Alexa/Google/Siri products.
The rehabilitation track above is intended as a non-prison track. You've done wrong, but it's of a type (like drug possession) where no harm was intended and others weren't directly harmed.
To me, the doctor who prescribed those opiates and subsequently cut him off should be the one on trial for harming his patient and destroying lives. Opiates and opioid addiction are not new to medical science, and any doctor that thinks that they could prescribe opioids without doing harm shouldn't be practicing.
The fact is most inmates will be released at some point, and some might be your neighbor. Think about that. Do you want someone who has been treated like an animal living next door to you or preparing your food? Wouldn't you rather have the guy who's been educated in better living, learned a skilled trade, and encouraged to seek guidance from his family, friends, and pastor? After all, we're talking about people who mostly offended because they lacked those things in the first place.
I'm not sure where you got this drift from my posting (or why anyone was thinking it was flamebait) I was purely talking about phones as a privilege, and the apparent mismanagement in your posting. If it is from the clarifying line that you're in prison because you deserve it and the implication that it is not supposed to be club med, well, I guess maybe I can understand that but it wasn't the core or even a secondary point of the post.
If you don't care, just consider the next time you get a letter that isn't addressed to you. If you do anything other than write "return to sender - intended recipient not at this address" and place it back in your mail box you too are a felon and should be put in prison, denied phone access, and treated like an animal. That's what the codified law says anyway.
I do care. There's a group that should be rehabilitated and released. And then there's those that cannot be rehabilitated. But, even more, I'd prefer to catch the former group prior to entering prison, and reduce costs (in all aspects, including to that group directly) overall. My personal opinion is that prison is overused.
It usually only works for people who are not criminals in the first place.
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But ask any criminal sitting in a cell if the punishment wasn't deterring him from the deed. In most cases, these people don't even spend a minute thinking about that. They just assume they won't be caught.
You're asking the wrong people the wrong question.
You realize that was put there to end clan wars, right?
or, alternatively:
when is vindictive punishment too much? You can incite emotional responses by using the "someone hurt your mommie" push button,
but that doesn't justify whatever response. There is always someone who is never satisfied by whatever punishment is handed out.
Yes, that's the question, isn't it? The punishment needs to fit the crime for the majority, or, if the punishment is weak enough, you wind up in a tit-for-tat retribution system where victims or relatives of victims weigh the price and deem it worth it to satisfy their sense of being wronged.
actually, you're not incommunicado, you just don't have access to modern devices that can easily be misused or mismanaged. You also don't have the right to a fork and knife, for instance.
What essential task that you must do can you not do on a Mac?
That's not what it's about, because that's not how the business world works. You frequently have to use a specific software package, and most software doesn't run on the OSX. In fact, Windows is probably the single platform with by far the most software, no matter how you measure; PD, Shareware, Commercial...
OK, that's your office machine, not your personal. You may have little control over your office machine. For the past decade I admit I have had more than most. And I have found 0 reason to run Windows, except in 2 very specific cases where a VM did everything necessary for the 1 or 2 times a week I needed to access those apps officially.
What do you want to configure that's "hidden"? Why do you use a dock? (To me, the dock is much like the start menu in windows, useless)
The dock shows me at a glance what is running right now. Too bad it was so much better in NeXTStep than it is in OSX. It was even in the right place! NeXTStep was fairly peppy on a 68040@20MHz; OSX is poky even on a dual G5 at 2000 MHz. I'm not sure how Apple managed that, but it is pathetic.
NeXTStep. It's been a really really really long time since I've seen one, and I was never fortunate enough to get to use one personally as my daily system. And Apple didn't own Nextstep. That was Jobs company after his first stint at Apple. One of many he was involved in. Say what you want, he did accomplish much. Regarding the dock, I use Cmd-TAB / ~ to navigate currently running apps, and that's far more useful than the dock ever could be (with the exception of the trashcan, I don't even know if it's anywhere else) and is infinitely more useful than anything in Windows user space.
I do gripe about that; Firefox has too much important functionality hidden away in that fashion. It's definitely taking the sleazy way out. And having to go to a plist editor to change basic GUI settings is also ridiculous. I don't have to fire up regedit to change fonts.
Well, I don't go to regedit to change fonts either. Not sure what your deal is, but Cmd-T in almost any app gets me to the font properties window. Or are you wanting to customize the fonts on the OS itself? In that case, I look at that so little I never worry about it. This goes back to me saying I don't want to muck with the OS, I just want it out of my way. In fact, until relatively recently, I used the excellent QuickSilver for app launching and other tasks. Spotlight has improved to the point that I no longer run QS. If you get the drift that OSX merely serves as an app/memory/display manager for me, you'd be largely right. It also makes several other tasks easier, like backups, so there's a lot less work on my part in accomplishing what I need to accomplish.
For what it's worth, I think the justice system in the US should be split into 2 tracks - punishment and rehabilitation. That would clearly state who should be in prison and who should be under rehabilitation. I see no reason why someone that was publicly intoxicated or had 1 pill or joint on them should be in prison with murderers and rapists.
pretty labels don't change what it is. Intentionally, you hit the nail on the head - the claimed purpose is to remove harmful elements from society for the good of society. In reality, it's a punitive vengeance system to keep the "better" elements of society from seeking retribution for wrongs.
There's dual issues there, how would you feel if someone that tortured your mother and left her mentally and physically debilitated for life got a 2 year sentence to see a psychologist weekly for "anger management" and they lived next door? I don't think you'd feel justice was done. Justice implies that a cost is paid in proportion to the harm done.
Gaming is far from the sole exception. There's masses of application software which doesn't exist on the Mac.
Really.... what? What essential task that you must do can you not do on a Mac? In fact, I'd make the opposite argument that you need extra software on Windows to even come close to being able to accomplish what you can on a plain Mac installation. Now, if you're arguing that there's more software available, like 39743 versions of BD ripping software, ok, I can agree to that.
If you want to do video or photo editing, sure it's a great choice. Major Open Source packages which haven't been ported to Windows are few and far between, and you can always just run them in a virtual machine anyway, so who cares?
This goes both ways. In fact, it was because of VMs that I fully switched to macs way way way back. And then my VMs for those purposes went unused not too long after.
I, for one, prefer the Windows 7 interface to any Macintosh interface in my history, and I've used Systems 5 through X. Windows 10 would be fine too, if they hadn't moved all kinds of stuff around again for no reason. That kind of thing is, admittedly, quite irritating.
So, I think we can pin down your exposure to MS as probably having become an "expert" with Win7. Among other systems, with windows I started with Win 3.0, and went all the way through XP as a daily use system, except for a few stints with Linux and OS/2 in between. Since about 2004, I have used Linux or OSX as my main desktop, and haven't missed windows at all. So the changes in windows versions are all the more jarring when I do go into those systems on each new version.
But so is the lack of configuration options in the Apple GUI. Honestly, the best thing I've ever used was Pre-systemd Ubuntu with GNOME2+Compiz+Emerald. I even used AWN for a mac-like dock because shiny shiny.
I'm honestly confused by your statements here. What do you want to configure that's "hidden"? Why do you use a dock? (To me, the dock is much like the start menu in windows, useless) From an OS perspective, OSX does everything I want - it allows me fast access to the things I'm using, and stays out of my way, like it's not even there. That's all I ask of an OS. Let me work on what I want to work on. I don't want to work on the OS itself.
Now, I will say I've configured my system with a number of options that required a terminal (or 3rd party software if you need a gui) to tweak, but those things are not things 99% of the normal consumer market would ever want to know about, and I would fully not expect Apple to reveal those options in a GUI for someone that is click happy to really screw up their system with. The options are there, and if you know what you want you can mod them. If you don't know about them, then you likely wouldn't need to ever see them.
Or will you also gripe about the about:config in firefox, which offers a similar interface into its settings?
I know plenty about all of these platforms, and at a level most people can't even imagine. So take my following opinion as a very informed one: I dread the day when my Lumia 950XL dies and I have to endure a shitty, unsecurable, dead-end, barely-supported Android device again, but not as much as I dread the idea of iOS becoming the dominant mobile OS. If the world were perfect, both iOS and Android would vanish in a puff, forgotten and abandoned, and Windows Mobile would make everything Just Work.
I find this interesting, you list a whole shit-load of reasons why Windows mobile sucked and is wholly unsustainable, which reality has borne out. And then you come back with it should "Just Work" which MS has never been able to make work. Ever. So that's a fantasy, as is the thought that anything windows can be secured (MS wouldn't know a secure system if it walked up and locked MS in a sealed vault). I agree Android sucks from just about every way you possibly can view it, and it actually has some of the same issues windows mobile has, although not to the same degree of fragmentation. Why do you dread iOS so much? I know why I dislike it, as a developer. But from a consumer perspective, for the 99% it's actually a more than workable system, and going from version to version and phone to phone usually involves no relearning the interface (a big blow against Android's usability for consumers)
(for those without violent crimes. Incarceration was supposed to be about rehabilitation, that was lost a long time ago.
When was that ever part of the original concept of incarceration in the US? When the US was founded, prisons were all about punishment, not rehabilitation. Some of the most egregious examples of the times, debtors prisons, were officially removed nationally in 1833. They still exist, however, you might want to take a look. This noble thought of rehabilitation has never been an actual part of the prison system in the US. Once in, it's all about doing the time.
First, there's several things wrong here. Number 1 is that prisoners think they have the right to use a phone, it's a privilege. You're in prison because you did something to deserve it. But, your story only indicates the incredibly terrible mismanagement of a privilege by the prison system, and attempting to profit from a privilege. Next you'll tell me they're charging $5 for 10 sheets of toilet paper instead of the "provided" newsprint.
But, let's stay with the phone thing - why is this not managed as a true privilege that you earn a slot at the phones, and you get an allotted time for using this privilege? It would remove the queues, remove the issue of fights and stress, and basically make managing the prisoners easier overall since it would be the system regulating access and time at the phones, and best of all, it should be auditable by external sources, meaning records, et al, would all be kept automatically off-site and open to review to ensure that officials weren't actually causing more issues by favoring groups.
Finally, to address the cell phone issue - why aren't prisons blocking cell access or at least tracking cell phones on premises? It's easy enough to do, and would be relatively cheap in something as enclosed as a prison.
Apple paid $100 million to creative for the rights to the music interface that Apple copied. Revisionist history doesn't work. But I get it, you're an Apple-lyte...
Yeah, I can read that article too:
A week later, Apple countersued, claiming Creative was infringing on Apple patents for user interfaces.
The patent covers an interface that lets users navigate through a tree of expanding options, such as selecting an artist, then a particular album by that artist, then a specific song from that album, said Phil O'Shaughnessy, a Creative spokesman.
If you're not a patent troll supporter, that organization is just so flat out obvious and apparent that
"Creative is very fortunate to have been granted this early patent," Apple's CEO Steve Jobs
sums up exactly what probably everyone thinks about that patent, and its validity. Today, Jobs likely would have fought it tooth and nail to get tossed out as obvious.
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You got updates on a Note 4? I'm still on 4.4.4, no official update to be found. And yes, I do check. This isn't just an anomaly either, with just 1 vendor. I have 7 Android devices across 3 major vendors, only the Nexus 7 gets updates. It's one of my reasons for avoiding Android as a personal device.
Anyone who has worked with sensitive processes (esp computer security processes) knows that relying on one person for a mission-critical function is not a "human error" - it's a process failure.
I disagree, he's right. This is down to the failure of one person to do their job properly: his. The CEO ultimately bears all responsibility, and therefore is solely to blame for this type of failure.
I recall reading about some math genius that was born with hydro-encephaly and had something like less than 4% of his brain matter along an external ring along his skull. Genius level IQ. Granted, he's an exception, but it certainly puts into perspective how much we don't know about the brain.
Supposedly what I linked to was the entire command and control code. I didn't bother going deeper.
I have no idea what you're looking at, but try the source itself: https://github.com/chrislgarry...
I didn't bother counting, but I doubt there were more than 10K LOCs in the Apollo code, and that successfully took astronauts to the moon. If there's 100M LOCs in automotive code, then there's some seriously bad code in there as well as likely tons of dead code. I don't even have to guess, this has been bandaided and patched and overlaid so many times that no one has actually spent the time to clean up the mess. After all - ABS code at it's heart is a pretty simple system, and shouldn't require a whole lot of code. Ditto for engine timing code which really should be as simple as lookup tables for conditions being reported. Everything else should be reporting options.
Naah, it's more like saying you want a hyperloop between LA and Sacremento, and two days before the trials say - sorry, we need it to run to SF, Seattle, Chicago, and NY. Can you add that and have it ready by next week?
That's where most of the PCs not being used for gaming are installed. In an office. Furthermore, it's not just about corporate desktops. It's about professional use of computers, and interoperating with other users.
You do realize that as a developer of enterprise systems I do nothing other than work precisely in that realm?
There is also very little engineering software on the Macintosh, regardless of which specific discipline you might be thinking about. But basically all of it is either developed on or has been ported from Unix to Windows. So if you're a creative but not an artist or a video or sound editor, you probably won't be able to use the Macintosh anyway.
It's been a long long time since I worked with engineering software, but the majority of stuff I worked with would most likely still not run on a windows machine. That's not actually denigrating windows, because if it wouldn't run on windows, it won't run on macs or most *NIX machines either. So I may have a slightly different view about engineering software than the common one.
Apple did own NeXTStep, though, and turned it into OSX. You can get NeXTStep installation media trivially and install it in a VM to see what you missed. Like BeOS, it made the absolute maximum use of the available hardware.
Apple "acquired" NeXTStep when Jobs returned as CEO. It might be interesting to get a NeXTStep VM just for curiosity's sake.
When they made it into OSX, not only did they somehow punch it right in the breadbasket, but they also took away its famous display resolution independence in the name of performance. They eventually brought it back, in the form of display pdf, but it's not used system-wide like Display Postscript was.
I can only agree that OSX is snappy enough. As for display resolution independence, I hadn't even noticed how limited it was until you mentioned it, because I don't tweak my GUIs visibly generally in this fashion. Everything "just works" as far as I'm concerned, and I haven't needed to muck with it. I guess that's a statement to how unobtrusive and consistent the GUI is compared to, say, Windows, where you can still get a circa NT4 dialog box in all its ugly non-scaling font inconsistent GUI glory, at least as of NT 2012 in certain control panel apps.
It was just an example. On Windows you have a lot more configurability accessible through the GUI, and on my former favorite (compiz et al.) you had vastly more, down to things like spacing, or individual graphics options. You could not only turn eye candy off, but you could also typically turn off specific elements of the eye candy. Frankly, Windows is not remarkable in this respect, but it's still ahead of the Macintosh.
I doubt it. :) Because I have 0 eye candy enabled. No effects whatsoever, sliding whirling fading nothing. On anything. (The way I do tweak my GUIs, remove time-wasting crap) Not sure why you think macs are not configurable in that context. You were willing to install compiz to gain these features, there are equivalents for macs, but you don't need them. I don't have them. It sounds more like a lack of familiarity than any real complaints, other than the system font configurability. That one I'll give you, but I'd posit it's irrelevant for 99.99% of the user base.
My understanding is that it doesn't upload ANYTHING unless you say the keyword "Alexa" first. Then it just uploads what it needs to understand the commands. You could probably verify this with any network monitoring tool...
Much like those SmartTVs, they'd never spy on you. Wait, not only was Samsung spying, but according to the Snowden leaks, the NSA actively was exploiting those insecure TVs to be able to listen and view selected targets, as verified by network monitoring tools.
Don't be a tool, anything that's proprietary and has a mike/web cam that you can't control is a potential spy tool. One that's always on is a spy tool, whether you think it's sending data or not.
Nowdays we can't even get single player games to stop requiring constant internet access. Your "home OS" will absolutely be fully online
Why? I play (when I play) all my games on a non-connected machine. If it won't start, I don't play it, there's plenty more in my backlog I haven't gotten around to. As for the "home OS", why would you allow it online? There's plenty of options out there that are fully controllable by you. Don't buy Alexa/Google/Siri products.
The rehabilitation track above is intended as a non-prison track. You've done wrong, but it's of a type (like drug possession) where no harm was intended and others weren't directly harmed.
To me, the doctor who prescribed those opiates and subsequently cut him off should be the one on trial for harming his patient and destroying lives. Opiates and opioid addiction are not new to medical science, and any doctor that thinks that they could prescribe opioids without doing harm shouldn't be practicing.
(to hell with karma, it's already tanking :)
The fact is most inmates will be released at some point, and some might be your neighbor. Think about that. Do you want someone who has been treated like an animal living next door to you or preparing your food? Wouldn't you rather have the guy who's been educated in better living, learned a skilled trade, and encouraged to seek guidance from his family, friends, and pastor? After all, we're talking about people who mostly offended because they lacked those things in the first place.
I'm not sure where you got this drift from my posting (or why anyone was thinking it was flamebait) I was purely talking about phones as a privilege, and the apparent mismanagement in your posting. If it is from the clarifying line that you're in prison because you deserve it and the implication that it is not supposed to be club med, well, I guess maybe I can understand that but it wasn't the core or even a secondary point of the post.
If you don't care, just consider the next time you get a letter that isn't addressed to you. If you do anything other than write "return to sender - intended recipient not at this address" and place it back in your mail box you too are a felon and should be put in prison, denied phone access, and treated like an animal. That's what the codified law says anyway.
I do care. There's a group that should be rehabilitated and released. And then there's those that cannot be rehabilitated. But, even more, I'd prefer to catch the former group prior to entering prison, and reduce costs (in all aspects, including to that group directly) overall. My personal opinion is that prison is overused.
Punishment is rarely a deterrent to crime.
It usually only works for people who are not criminals in the first place.
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But ask any criminal sitting in a cell if the punishment wasn't deterring him from the deed. In most cases, these people don't even spend a minute thinking about that. They just assume they won't be caught.
You're asking the wrong people the wrong question.
Vengeance is mine, said the Lord.
You realize that was put there to end clan wars, right?
or, alternatively:
when is vindictive punishment too much? You can incite emotional responses by using the "someone hurt your mommie" push button, but that doesn't justify whatever response. There is always someone who is never satisfied by whatever punishment is handed out.
Yes, that's the question, isn't it? The punishment needs to fit the crime for the majority, or, if the punishment is weak enough, you wind up in a tit-for-tat retribution system where victims or relatives of victims weigh the price and deem it worth it to satisfy their sense of being wronged.
actually, you're not incommunicado, you just don't have access to modern devices that can easily be misused or mismanaged. You also don't have the right to a fork and knife, for instance.
What essential task that you must do can you not do on a Mac?
That's not what it's about, because that's not how the business world works. You frequently have to use a specific software package, and most software doesn't run on the OSX. In fact, Windows is probably the single platform with by far the most software, no matter how you measure; PD, Shareware, Commercial...
OK, that's your office machine, not your personal. You may have little control over your office machine. For the past decade I admit I have had more than most. And I have found 0 reason to run Windows, except in 2 very specific cases where a VM did everything necessary for the 1 or 2 times a week I needed to access those apps officially.
What do you want to configure that's "hidden"? Why do you use a dock? (To me, the dock is much like the start menu in windows, useless)
The dock shows me at a glance what is running right now. Too bad it was so much better in NeXTStep than it is in OSX. It was even in the right place! NeXTStep was fairly peppy on a 68040@20MHz; OSX is poky even on a dual G5 at 2000 MHz. I'm not sure how Apple managed that, but it is pathetic.
NeXTStep. It's been a really really really long time since I've seen one, and I was never fortunate enough to get to use one personally as my daily system. And Apple didn't own Nextstep. That was Jobs company after his first stint at Apple. One of many he was involved in. Say what you want, he did accomplish much. Regarding the dock, I use Cmd-TAB / ~ to navigate currently running apps, and that's far more useful than the dock ever could be (with the exception of the trashcan, I don't even know if it's anywhere else) and is infinitely more useful than anything in Windows user space.
I do gripe about that; Firefox has too much important functionality hidden away in that fashion. It's definitely taking the sleazy way out. And having to go to a plist editor to change basic GUI settings is also ridiculous. I don't have to fire up regedit to change fonts.
Well, I don't go to regedit to change fonts either. Not sure what your deal is, but Cmd-T in almost any app gets me to the font properties window. Or are you wanting to customize the fonts on the OS itself? In that case, I look at that so little I never worry about it. This goes back to me saying I don't want to muck with the OS, I just want it out of my way. In fact, until relatively recently, I used the excellent QuickSilver for app launching and other tasks. Spotlight has improved to the point that I no longer run QS. If you get the drift that OSX merely serves as an app/memory/display manager for me, you'd be largely right. It also makes several other tasks easier, like backups, so there's a lot less work on my part in accomplishing what I need to accomplish.
For what it's worth, I think the justice system in the US should be split into 2 tracks - punishment and rehabilitation. That would clearly state who should be in prison and who should be under rehabilitation. I see no reason why someone that was publicly intoxicated or had 1 pill or joint on them should be in prison with murderers and rapists.
pretty labels don't change what it is. Intentionally, you hit the nail on the head - the claimed purpose is to remove harmful elements from society for the good of society. In reality, it's a punitive vengeance system to keep the "better" elements of society from seeking retribution for wrongs.
There's dual issues there, how would you feel if someone that tortured your mother and left her mentally and physically debilitated for life got a 2 year sentence to see a psychologist weekly for "anger management" and they lived next door? I don't think you'd feel justice was done. Justice implies that a cost is paid in proportion to the harm done.
Gaming is far from the sole exception. There's masses of application software which doesn't exist on the Mac.
Really.... what? What essential task that you must do can you not do on a Mac? In fact, I'd make the opposite argument that you need extra software on Windows to even come close to being able to accomplish what you can on a plain Mac installation. Now, if you're arguing that there's more software available, like 39743 versions of BD ripping software, ok, I can agree to that.
If you want to do video or photo editing, sure it's a great choice. Major Open Source packages which haven't been ported to Windows are few and far between, and you can always just run them in a virtual machine anyway, so who cares?
This goes both ways. In fact, it was because of VMs that I fully switched to macs way way way back. And then my VMs for those purposes went unused not too long after.
I, for one, prefer the Windows 7 interface to any Macintosh interface in my history, and I've used Systems 5 through X. Windows 10 would be fine too, if they hadn't moved all kinds of stuff around again for no reason. That kind of thing is, admittedly, quite irritating.
So, I think we can pin down your exposure to MS as probably having become an "expert" with Win7. Among other systems, with windows I started with Win 3.0, and went all the way through XP as a daily use system, except for a few stints with Linux and OS/2 in between. Since about 2004, I have used Linux or OSX as my main desktop, and haven't missed windows at all. So the changes in windows versions are all the more jarring when I do go into those systems on each new version.
But so is the lack of configuration options in the Apple GUI. Honestly, the best thing I've ever used was Pre-systemd Ubuntu with GNOME2+Compiz+Emerald. I even used AWN for a mac-like dock because shiny shiny.
I'm honestly confused by your statements here. What do you want to configure that's "hidden"? Why do you use a dock? (To me, the dock is much like the start menu in windows, useless) From an OS perspective, OSX does everything I want - it allows me fast access to the things I'm using, and stays out of my way, like it's not even there. That's all I ask of an OS. Let me work on what I want to work on. I don't want to work on the OS itself.
Now, I will say I've configured my system with a number of options that required a terminal (or 3rd party software if you need a gui) to tweak, but those things are not things 99% of the normal consumer market would ever want to know about, and I would fully not expect Apple to reveal those options in a GUI for someone that is click happy to really screw up their system with. The options are there, and if you know what you want you can mod them. If you don't know about them, then you likely wouldn't need to ever see them.
Or will you also gripe about the about:config in firefox, which offers a similar interface into its settings?
I know plenty about all of these platforms, and at a level most people can't even imagine. So take my following opinion as a very informed one: I dread the day when my Lumia 950XL dies and I have to endure a shitty, unsecurable, dead-end, barely-supported Android device again, but not as much as I dread the idea of iOS becoming the dominant mobile OS. If the world were perfect, both iOS and Android would vanish in a puff, forgotten and abandoned, and Windows Mobile would make everything Just Work.
I find this interesting, you list a whole shit-load of reasons why Windows mobile sucked and is wholly unsustainable, which reality has borne out. And then you come back with it should "Just Work" which MS has never been able to make work. Ever. So that's a fantasy, as is the thought that anything windows can be secured (MS wouldn't know a secure system if it walked up and locked MS in a sealed vault). I agree Android sucks from just about every way you possibly can view it, and it actually has some of the same issues windows mobile has, although not to the same degree of fragmentation. Why do you dread iOS so much? I know why I dislike it, as a developer. But from a consumer perspective, for the 99% it's actually a more than workable system, and going from version to version and phone to phone usually involves no relearning the interface (a big blow against Android's usability for consumers)
We don't use them because the islands are more valuable now, and the ideas about caring for prisoners have changed from what they were.
Musk needs "volunteers" for Mars missions.
(for those without violent crimes. Incarceration was supposed to be about rehabilitation, that was lost a long time ago.
When was that ever part of the original concept of incarceration in the US? When the US was founded, prisons were all about punishment, not rehabilitation. Some of the most egregious examples of the times, debtors prisons, were officially removed nationally in 1833. They still exist, however, you might want to take a look. This noble thought of rehabilitation has never been an actual part of the prison system in the US. Once in, it's all about doing the time.
First, there's several things wrong here. Number 1 is that prisoners think they have the right to use a phone, it's a privilege. You're in prison because you did something to deserve it. But, your story only indicates the incredibly terrible mismanagement of a privilege by the prison system, and attempting to profit from a privilege. Next you'll tell me they're charging $5 for 10 sheets of toilet paper instead of the "provided" newsprint.
But, let's stay with the phone thing - why is this not managed as a true privilege that you earn a slot at the phones, and you get an allotted time for using this privilege? It would remove the queues, remove the issue of fights and stress, and basically make managing the prisoners easier overall since it would be the system regulating access and time at the phones, and best of all, it should be auditable by external sources, meaning records, et al, would all be kept automatically off-site and open to review to ensure that officials weren't actually causing more issues by favoring groups.
Finally, to address the cell phone issue - why aren't prisons blocking cell access or at least tracking cell phones on premises? It's easy enough to do, and would be relatively cheap in something as enclosed as a prison.
Apple paid $100 million to creative for the rights to the music interface that Apple copied. Revisionist history doesn't work. But I get it, you're an Apple-lyte...
Yeah, I can read that article too:
If you're not a patent troll supporter, that organization is just so flat out obvious and apparent that
sums up exactly what probably everyone thinks about that patent, and its validity. Today, Jobs likely would have fought it tooth and nail to get tossed out as obvious.