Well, you've got 2 choices:
A) Demanding Instagram charge a monthly fee for no-adverts accounts,
B) Running your own photo-sharing web-site and paying the costs for all your subscribers.
Or C) Run you own photo sharing web site and be done with it. There's no costs, and no real connectivity issues considering most people will see little more than a few tens of connections at most downloading pics, unless you get a viral hit. Even then, upload speeds are so pathetic, the "correct" way of sharing would be republishing those pics, and life would get a lot better for everyone except the centralized services.
Last I checked, I wasn't forced to download a new OS at the whim of vendors on any of my devices. When was the last time you could turn on your Win10 system and not worry about whether it was the same system as the last time you shut it down while you have an internet connection?
Targeted personalized micro targeting...So while YOU may not like it, it works, and it's not going away.
It's not that I don't like personalized micro marketing, it's that I don't like "marketing".
IOT products are flying off the shelves. Most of these products in my opinion are stupid. But that's just me. If there is sufficient market share for the "Non Spy" version, it will be produced, but I doubt it. One doesn't build products for which there is a very small market.
The funny thing is most things would be better and cheaper without spy versions. It's just that the data can be sold to marketers and provides a subscription service for something that essentially doesn't need it.
Some of us can't go offline... it affects our paychecks. So while going to airplane mode while driving may work for you, it doesn't work for others who are "on-call".
I'm sure you're quite capable of handling an emergency that requires you to answer while driving. Seems like perhaps you shouldn't be driving. Certainly not in certain areas of the country.
The battle over your computer spying on you was lost a LONG TIME AGO.
I believe it's still ongoing, very strongly. That you caved in and joined the sheep isn't something I can help with.
Truth be told, most folks actually like personalized, micro targeted marketing - which is what this data is used for. Sure, when you tell them how it works, they are terrified and see BIG BROTHER. But every web site you visit tracks absolutely everything... already.
I'd disagree, people that understand micro-marketing want nothing to do with it. The web site tracking can be defeated.
Just look at how many people own devices that let anyone watch then (Webcams permanently connected or on phones), or listen to everything they say (Smart phone, webcam, Amazon's Alexa, Microsoft's Cortana, Google's new voice command). This isn't going away, it's going to become more pervasive with IOT. How many of you own cars with phone bluetooth adapters, or a Ford with Sync? Sync takes over your phone to send diagnostic email reports, so yes, they can listen to everything in the car too if they want.
As soon as a non-spying version is developed, and it will be, more folks will start using it. People "love" streaming, until crap doesn't work during a weather event, for example. I'm not subject to those issues. Lots of people have cut the cord. You can now do that relatively easily without losing your DVR capabilities for OTA at least. Apparently there is enough interest for several competing solutions to have come out that allow for that capability. I own a car with BT. It doesn't send anything, nor can "they" listen to anything.
So either go live in a Ted Kazinsky shack in the woods, or deal with it. This is simply the way things are today.
You may have embraced Big Brother and bend over daily, but those of us knowledgable enough enjoy everything we wish the way we wish. It's not an either/or situation. I have a full media capable semi-smart house at this time (still installing and configuring things, just takes time). About the only concession I've made to the situation is the possibility of cell phone tracking. And even that can be fixed while driving. I prefer no communications at that time anyways, so entering airplane mode is convenient. I am not the only one. We are not all sheep ready to be shorn.
I'd go so far as to argue that birth isn't a determination either.
The fourteenth amendment says that it is. It was necessary to enforce the thirteenth (ending slavery).
You are incorrect. The fourteenth amendment as interpreted by courts is currently a bit of an odd inconsistent view by any normal standards. You're a US citizen if born on US soil, except when you're not. "Not" being 1 of 2 classes arbitrarily chosen - diplomats and enemy invaders. Note that in the first case there is actually little to no way of directly ascertaining whether said child is a citizen or not and likely can get a US passport if they so wished, providing all the documents required.
These countries define their citizenship to be the elite, not everyone who lives in the country for an extended time or is born there.
That is partially true for the US as well, not everyone that lives here for an extended time is considered to be a citizen, nor should they be. I'd go so far as to argue that birth isn't a determination either.
It'd be an interesting idea, but could you make money on it, and then immediately be cast as the pro something and anti something else, because the world you're stepping in everything is binary, ever since the Republicans straight jacketed candidates with "you are with us or against us" in getting all republicans to support their planks.
You know, I understand the data sharing objection to Windows 10, but never? Ever? You do understand that lots of people just don't care, right? That your phone apps routinely hoover up all kinds of data? And that they get millions of Likes, downloads, and installs all the same? That Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and all the rest data mine the crap out of everything?
You do realize someone somewhere has to be the first to state that's wrong and actually do something about it? Otherwise the path will not be changed.
Windows 10 is a perfectly fine and viable solution to lots of people. If it's not for you then I respect that. What I don't respect is you deciding for others, what is good for them.
Win10 is not a viable solution for anyone, no more than a daily opium dose is.
Never ever ever recommend Win10. That's just inviting spy ware into someone's home. I agree with much of what you say, with the exception of the laptops, at least until the touchbar MBPs. There really is a performance difference between those and anything else out there. The touchbar could have been a cool improvement and still may be. We will see. I have multiple Android devices as well, I still prefer my iphone for most things, as it just runs better, even with the screwups known as iOS 9 and 10. If I could roll back to iOS 8, I think I'd probably be pretty happy with my iPhone. I also don't think iOS 9 would ever have passed by Jobs' desk. It really does suck that badly.
Obviously they don't need to change anything - people are happy as-is.
First - the early 2016 MBPs were darn good, as good or better than anything else out there. I'd buy one today. The TouchBar MBP? I think I'll wait a model or three and see if something better comes along, either with Apple or the competition. Linux will run on a laptop now, and for what I do most of the time, it will be fine. A VM can offer whatever minor things I might need that it doesn't support. The last mini worth buying was the updated 2012 model, a Core i7 quad. The mac pro is the one sticking point. To have a meaningful increase in performance, you'll be easily quadrupling your CPU cost. That's $10K for just the CPU to get a maximum 50% increase over the mac pro's current CPU. I would like to see the Mac Pro pricing come down, and a new GPU option or two show up.
The scrolling direction is settable. I didn't use spotlight regularly until it 10.10, so I have no idea how it changed before that. I only use itunes on the rare occasions I must. I don't use Spaces as it's a massive waste of time IMHO, and I configured Finder, Mail, and the browsers to operate how I wish, none of which have ever been standard.
So for me, the way I work has changed very little across 10 versions. Certainly less than between two consecutive release of Windows. And in case you're wondering, I currently have systems running 10.6, 10.8, 10.10, 10.11, and 10.12. I have no issues switching between any of those and getting on a new network, setting up printers, or just using the machine. Same hotkeys work and do largely what I need. I can't say the same for XP, Win7 and Win10. I totally skipped Win8 as that was a dead end on delivery.
Actually - it's pretty simple to train spotlight to load apps in the same manner as QS. The differences after 10 minutes of configuration and training, including figuring out how to remove a bunch of options in Spotlight I don't want, which makes spotlight almost as fast as QS in starting apps. I use the Cmd-Spacebar combo, which was what I used to use for QS. I used to have to change Spotlight's hotkeys on every new OS install (I used Ctrl-Optn-Spacebar) so QS could use the Cmd-Spacebar. For what it's worth, in System Preferences -> Spotlight I remove Mail & Messages, Contacts, Events & Reminders, Images, Bookmarks and History, Fonts, Other, Bing Web Searches, and uncheck "Allow Spotlight Suggestions in Spotlight and Look Up". I also have Applications as the #1 return. That appears to remove all network access by Spotlight and significantly improves the performance of Spotlight overall. You can obviously remove a lot of other options if you wish, but those greatly improved my Spotlight usability.
You know what's funny? I've been through 10 versions of OSX. In that time,
the way I interact with the OS to start apps etc has effectively changed: 0 times. (However, I did switch from QuickSilver to just Spotlight in 10.10)
The way I configure the OS and apps has changed: 0 times.
The way I setup networking has remained in the same place with only minor changes overall to address new options (ip6, new wireless pieces, new bridges, etc)
Now, some setup pieces for code I run has changed significantly, especially given that launchctl has evolved and the security clamp down that continues to evolve in the last 4 releases, but most of those are relatively minor and usually the result of either the app ignoring recommended practices or some fundamental change, like Java now being an Oracle product instead of the Apple version.
Climate change aside, any island that "drowns" from the centimeter-class sea level rise we're actually talking about here was an incredibly poor place to set up shop.
From the linked article:
"Estimates for the 20th century show that global average sea level rose at a rate of about 1.7 mm yr"
so 100 years = 170 mm, which is a little over half a foot. That's a global average, which turns out to be significantly higher near the equator than the poles. What's interesting is that this is not merely affecting islands, there's some land perhaps close to you that's also affected.
In this case, I was making year by year statements, because the Krakatoa effects was sudden and of limited time effect. While it had a large impact, that impacted was dissipated by time relatively quickly. That actually makes me wonder how long the Chicxulub impact (500K times more powerful and threw 8000 times more material into air) took too clear.
Maldives, Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands suffer from high surface erosion + sea level rise. But sea level has been rising for hundreds if not thousands of years - pretty much with the same trend throughout. If you're going to blame man for that I'm going to call BS on it because, you know, it's completely ridiculous.
You're making a blanket statement there. Yes, sea levels vary. During the peak of the ice age they were quite a bit lower than they are now. However, over the past 50 years, the levels have been rising faster than they have previously, in fact, there's debate whether the levels were largely stable since Roman times and perhaps earlier. In any case, it seems the last major rise related to the ending of the last significant Ice Age ended about 5000 years ago.
They found that reef islands change shape and move around in response to shifting sediments, and that many of them are growing in size, not shrinking, as sea level inches upward. The implication is that many islands—especially less developed ones with few permanent structures—may cope with rising seas well into the next century.
You see the problem here is that these nations are seeking rent, mostly from the west. "climate justice" I think it's called. They may be able to persuade enough gullible twats to give them a few billion $. I mean if you could do that you would, wouldn't you? You'd engage in mind-fumblingly stupid stunts like holding cabinet meetings under water. Sheeeesssssshhh. I'd love break from all the climate bs. It's driving me nuts.
Personally, I don't want to send them a dime. That's not going to solve anything but their immediate problems. It would be much better to deal with the cause of the rising temperatures, at least those pieces that are definitely related to us. I note that you totally skipped responding to the actual questions, and only side-stepped the rising sea reference to cast it as a money grabbing conspiracy without addressing the fact that yes, the seas are rising recently and may actually have been at stable levels for thousands of years. Prior to that they definitely rose since the low in the last Ice Age, which no one disputes, at least I hope not.
You're on the wrong side of it. Krakatoa blew its top and created a cooled down effect. There was a temporary dip, which had a year over year warming trend afterwards that was rather steeper than at any other time in history. If you're going to average temps over a decade, the effect will certainly be minimized.
An object ejected onto an Earth crossing trajectory does end up on Earth. And regardless you're not going to lower an entire asteroid to the surface of the Earth in one chunk.
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Well, you've got 2 choices: A) Demanding Instagram charge a monthly fee for no-adverts accounts, B) Running your own photo-sharing web-site and paying the costs for all your subscribers.
Or C) Run you own photo sharing web site and be done with it. There's no costs, and no real connectivity issues considering most people will see little more than a few tens of connections at most downloading pics, unless you get a viral hit. Even then, upload speeds are so pathetic, the "correct" way of sharing would be republishing those pics, and life would get a lot better for everyone except the centralized services.
Last I checked, I wasn't forced to download a new OS at the whim of vendors on any of my devices. When was the last time you could turn on your Win10 system and not worry about whether it was the same system as the last time you shut it down while you have an internet connection?
Thanks for the reply.
You're welcome.
Targeted personalized micro targeting...So while YOU may not like it, it works, and it's not going away.
It's not that I don't like personalized micro marketing, it's that I don't like "marketing".
IOT products are flying off the shelves. Most of these products in my opinion are stupid. But that's just me. If there is sufficient market share for the "Non Spy" version, it will be produced, but I doubt it. One doesn't build products for which there is a very small market.
The funny thing is most things would be better and cheaper without spy versions. It's just that the data can be sold to marketers and provides a subscription service for something that essentially doesn't need it.
Some of us can't go offline... it affects our paychecks. So while going to airplane mode while driving may work for you, it doesn't work for others who are "on-call".
I'm sure you're quite capable of handling an emergency that requires you to answer while driving. Seems like perhaps you shouldn't be driving. Certainly not in certain areas of the country.
The battle over your computer spying on you was lost a LONG TIME AGO.
I believe it's still ongoing, very strongly. That you caved in and joined the sheep isn't something I can help with.
Truth be told, most folks actually like personalized, micro targeted marketing - which is what this data is used for. Sure, when you tell them how it works, they are terrified and see BIG BROTHER. But every web site you visit tracks absolutely everything... already.
I'd disagree, people that understand micro-marketing want nothing to do with it. The web site tracking can be defeated.
Just look at how many people own devices that let anyone watch then (Webcams permanently connected or on phones), or listen to everything they say (Smart phone, webcam, Amazon's Alexa, Microsoft's Cortana, Google's new voice command). This isn't going away, it's going to become more pervasive with IOT. How many of you own cars with phone bluetooth adapters, or a Ford with Sync? Sync takes over your phone to send diagnostic email reports, so yes, they can listen to everything in the car too if they want.
As soon as a non-spying version is developed, and it will be, more folks will start using it. People "love" streaming, until crap doesn't work during a weather event, for example. I'm not subject to those issues. Lots of people have cut the cord. You can now do that relatively easily without losing your DVR capabilities for OTA at least. Apparently there is enough interest for several competing solutions to have come out that allow for that capability. I own a car with BT. It doesn't send anything, nor can "they" listen to anything.
So either go live in a Ted Kazinsky shack in the woods, or deal with it. This is simply the way things are today.
You may have embraced Big Brother and bend over daily, but those of us knowledgable enough enjoy everything we wish the way we wish. It's not an either/or situation. I have a full media capable semi-smart house at this time (still installing and configuring things, just takes time). About the only concession I've made to the situation is the possibility of cell phone tracking. And even that can be fixed while driving. I prefer no communications at that time anyways, so entering airplane mode is convenient. I am not the only one. We are not all sheep ready to be shorn.
I'd go so far as to argue that birth isn't a determination either.
The fourteenth amendment says that it is. It was necessary to enforce the thirteenth (ending slavery).
You are incorrect. The fourteenth amendment as interpreted by courts is currently a bit of an odd inconsistent view by any normal standards. You're a US citizen if born on US soil, except when you're not. "Not" being 1 of 2 classes arbitrarily chosen - diplomats and enemy invaders. Note that in the first case there is actually little to no way of directly ascertaining whether said child is a citizen or not and likely can get a US passport if they so wished, providing all the documents required.
These countries define their citizenship to be the elite, not everyone who lives in the country for an extended time or is born there.
That is partially true for the US as well, not everyone that lives here for an extended time is considered to be a citizen, nor should they be. I'd go so far as to argue that birth isn't a determination either.
how about having to pay for medical care at all?
Because enslaving doctors and nurses seems like such a better solution.
Technically, Mac OS X is not FULLY closed source.
Technically, OSX is open source compared to Windows.
It seems really backwards to be rooting for either apple or Android, since both are walled gardens compared to any PC platform.
Have you seen Win10?
It'd be an interesting idea, but could you make money on it, and then immediately be cast as the pro something and anti something else, because the world you're stepping in everything is binary, ever since the Republicans straight jacketed candidates with "you are with us or against us" in getting all republicans to support their planks.
You know, I understand the data sharing objection to Windows 10, but never? Ever? You do understand that lots of people just don't care, right? That your phone apps routinely hoover up all kinds of data? And that they get millions of Likes, downloads, and installs all the same? That Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and all the rest data mine the crap out of everything?
You do realize someone somewhere has to be the first to state that's wrong and actually do something about it? Otherwise the path will not be changed.
Windows 10 is a perfectly fine and viable solution to lots of people. If it's not for you then I respect that. What I don't respect is you deciding for others, what is good for them.
Win10 is not a viable solution for anyone, no more than a daily opium dose is.
a webpage detailing gaslighting, Perhaps something like this.
Ugh, I feel like I just delved into Trump's mind.
I now recommend Windows 10
Never ever ever recommend Win10. That's just inviting spy ware into someone's home. I agree with much of what you say, with the exception of the laptops, at least until the touchbar MBPs. There really is a performance difference between those and anything else out there. The touchbar could have been a cool improvement and still may be. We will see. I have multiple Android devices as well, I still prefer my iphone for most things, as it just runs better, even with the screwups known as iOS 9 and 10. If I could roll back to iOS 8, I think I'd probably be pretty happy with my iPhone. I also don't think iOS 9 would ever have passed by Jobs' desk. It really does suck that badly.
Obviously they don't need to change anything - people are happy as-is.
First - the early 2016 MBPs were darn good, as good or better than anything else out there. I'd buy one today. The TouchBar MBP? I think I'll wait a model or three and see if something better comes along, either with Apple or the competition. Linux will run on a laptop now, and for what I do most of the time, it will be fine. A VM can offer whatever minor things I might need that it doesn't support. The last mini worth buying was the updated 2012 model, a Core i7 quad. The mac pro is the one sticking point. To have a meaningful increase in performance, you'll be easily quadrupling your CPU cost. That's $10K for just the CPU to get a maximum 50% increase over the mac pro's current CPU. I would like to see the Mac Pro pricing come down, and a new GPU option or two show up.
Note that this is the way I use the OS.
The scrolling direction is settable. I didn't use spotlight regularly until it 10.10, so I have no idea how it changed before that. I only use itunes on the rare occasions I must. I don't use Spaces as it's a massive waste of time IMHO, and I configured Finder, Mail, and the browsers to operate how I wish, none of which have ever been standard.
So for me, the way I work has changed very little across 10 versions. Certainly less than between two consecutive release of Windows. And in case you're wondering, I currently have systems running 10.6, 10.8, 10.10, 10.11, and 10.12. I have no issues switching between any of those and getting on a new network, setting up printers, or just using the machine. Same hotkeys work and do largely what I need. I can't say the same for XP, Win7 and Win10. I totally skipped Win8 as that was a dead end on delivery.
Actually - it's pretty simple to train spotlight to load apps in the same manner as QS. The differences after 10 minutes of configuration and training, including figuring out how to remove a bunch of options in Spotlight I don't want, which makes spotlight almost as fast as QS in starting apps. I use the Cmd-Spacebar combo, which was what I used to use for QS. I used to have to change Spotlight's hotkeys on every new OS install (I used Ctrl-Optn-Spacebar) so QS could use the Cmd-Spacebar. For what it's worth, in System Preferences -> Spotlight I remove Mail & Messages, Contacts, Events & Reminders, Images, Bookmarks and History, Fonts, Other, Bing Web Searches, and uncheck "Allow Spotlight Suggestions in Spotlight and Look Up". I also have Applications as the #1 return. That appears to remove all network access by Spotlight and significantly improves the performance of Spotlight overall. You can obviously remove a lot of other options if you wish, but those greatly improved my Spotlight usability.
Now, some setup pieces for code I run has changed significantly, especially given that launchctl has evolved and the security clamp down that continues to evolve in the last 4 releases, but most of those are relatively minor and usually the result of either the app ignoring recommended practices or some fundamental change, like Java now being an Oracle product instead of the Apple version.
TBH, I don't think there's a way to fix Win10. Where OSes need to be is not where Win10 is going.
Yes, let's never make any progress and just keep things the same way forever...
Change is not necessarily progress, if you define progress as "moving forward in some sense".
Of course it's easy. You just reformat the hard drive, and then install Windows 7 (or your other preferred flavor)
Linux Mint?
Climate change aside, any island that "drowns" from the centimeter-class sea level rise we're actually talking about here was an incredibly poor place to set up shop.
From the linked article:
so 100 years = 170 mm, which is a little over half a foot. That's a global average, which turns out to be significantly higher near the equator than the poles. What's interesting is that this is not merely affecting islands, there's some land perhaps close to you that's also affected.
In this case, I was making year by year statements, because the Krakatoa effects was sudden and of limited time effect. While it had a large impact, that impacted was dissipated by time relatively quickly. That actually makes me wonder how long the Chicxulub impact (500K times more powerful and threw 8000 times more material into air) took too clear.
Maldives, Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands suffer from high surface erosion + sea level rise. But sea level has been rising for hundreds if not thousands of years - pretty much with the same trend throughout. If you're going to blame man for that I'm going to call BS on it because, you know, it's completely ridiculous.
You're making a blanket statement there. Yes, sea levels vary. During the peak of the ice age they were quite a bit lower than they are now. However, over the past 50 years, the levels have been rising faster than they have previously, in fact, there's debate whether the levels were largely stable since Roman times and perhaps earlier. In any case, it seems the last major rise related to the ending of the last significant Ice Age ended about 5000 years ago.
They found that reef islands change shape and move around in response to shifting sediments, and that many of them are growing in size, not shrinking, as sea level inches upward. The implication is that many islands—especially less developed ones with few permanent structures—may cope with rising seas well into the next century.
You see the problem here is that these nations are seeking rent, mostly from the west. "climate justice" I think it's called. They may be able to persuade enough gullible twats to give them a few billion $. I mean if you could do that you would, wouldn't you? You'd engage in mind-fumblingly stupid stunts like holding cabinet meetings under water. Sheeeesssssshhh. I'd love break from all the climate bs. It's driving me nuts.
Personally, I don't want to send them a dime. That's not going to solve anything but their immediate problems. It would be much better to deal with the cause of the rising temperatures, at least those pieces that are definitely related to us. I note that you totally skipped responding to the actual questions, and only side-stepped the rising sea reference to cast it as a money grabbing conspiracy without addressing the fact that yes, the seas are rising recently and may actually have been at stable levels for thousands of years. Prior to that they definitely rose since the low in the last Ice Age, which no one disputes, at least I hope not.
You're on the wrong side of it. Krakatoa blew its top and created a cooled down effect. There was a temporary dip, which had a year over year warming trend afterwards that was rather steeper than at any other time in history. If you're going to average temps over a decade, the effect will certainly be minimized.
An object ejected onto an Earth crossing trajectory does end up on Earth. And regardless you're not going to lower an entire asteroid to the surface of the Earth in one chunk.
That depends upon your goals.