Older versions of the OS do not support, and are not expected to support new hardware. If I was making an OS (let us be thankful I am not), I'd do the same thing.
That being said, it's often frustrating to buy new machines that won't support an older OS version. As the network admin for a small college (happily) infested with Macs, we often deal with major software (Avid, Pro Tools, etc.) that is very version-specific. Trying to find the latest version we can run on a lab's computers that will work with every 3rd party software application that the situation demands is like walking a tightrope. Run too new an OS version and you'll break something, guaranteed.
All of this kvetching aside, I'd 100X rather manage Macs than Windows. As to Linux, and we have a number of Linux servers on campus, I sit in my office with the 27" iMac my boss so generously purchased for me, and most of what's on the two screens it's running are xterms. Yet in a moment I can switch to Photoshop CS6 to do some tweaks on an image that is soon to become part of an informational how-to poster that students and faculty alike will completely ignore. Life is fun.
It's the latest manufactured crisis. Let it happen and see just how much a (partly) shut down government affects our lives. We might just make it permanent.
I catch up on news (from an outlet I *mostly* trust, not named here). Natch, I check out/. Also Techdirt, which now and then has fantastic stuff.
But I have a deal with myself (and unspoken and unwritten with my employer.) I have my home Email accounts open at work, and I read and respond to messages. When I'm at home I have my home *AND* work Email accounts open, and I read and respond to all.
I continue to be surprised by how well this has been received at work. I guess I work at a pretty cool place.
Methinks there is more than a bit of hypocrisy floating around in the story. It's no good unless you do it for "eco" reasons?
Had an interesting conversation with a (Conservative) friend who's bought into several wells. He says when you drill a well using old technology you get about 30% of the oil in the field. It dries up, and we used to abandon those mines. Now you can drill down and from a 7" casing you can drill horizontally and fracture the strata using up to 100,000 PSI pressure. Of course, this is happening about a mile below any possible drinking water and there will be no contamination. With the well suitably "fracked" another 30% of the oil (and gas) is now recoverable. Whoa, you just doubled the usefulness of the well. But you're right, that's evil, it's not acceptable to certain opinionated individuals.
But geothermal, well, no evil oil involved here, nothing to see, move along.
Agreed. When my neighborhood cops get all excited about having "smart guns," I'll buy one or two for my collection. Until the cops are satisfied that when they put on the uniform and badge and go out to protect the concept of law and order, oh, and by the way, having some collection of algorithms running in their firearms they can depend on to stay alive in an emergency situation...
Why, then. And only then. I'll consider buying one of those wacky electronic contraptions. I manage a few networks, a number of servers. Except in a well-defined and non life-threatening economic sense, and while I do my best to keep them up 100% of the time, I depend on NONE of them for my continued existence. Computers are nice, but a fully mechanical firearm NEVER crashes. Exempt any silly "you're in a car crash and then attacked by zombie Nazis" scenarios.
Remember the story about the WWII training squadron that went down off Florida? More than 50 years later the wrecks were found and some of the.50 BMG ammo was brought up, cleaned and test-fired. More than 95% of the rounds worked perfectly after 50 years of salt water immersion. Give me a 100% mechanical firearm; I know it will work when called upon.
As to when it works, as a free citizen in the United States, when I have the reasonable expectation that my life is endangered by someone who is attacking me, I get to choose. I choose; the government doesn't; the firearm doesn't, some politician doesn't. If I fear imminent death or the possibility of crippling injury, the same "lethal response" criteria are also met. If you don't like those situations, I have a recommendation. Don't attack me. For my part, I would never commence a lethal attack against you.
I agree with the addition of a micro SD slot. My Nexus 7 has 8 GB, which hasn't been a problem for reading books, etc.
What I *really* want is the ability, on my Android tablet, to dump any app I don't want to use. Any app. Haven't signed up for Google Wallet or Google+, don't intend to. Drop it. I'm not going to buy content on the tablet, Google, get used to it!
I also agree with the earlier poster, maps are next to useless on the N7. I can't even get the app to start unless I have a WiFi connection. How lame is that?
Love it for Netflix, and of course would play my own ripped DVDs except for the space requirements. Wait, if I had a micro SD card
Finally. A service for the criminal element, so long neglected in our society. "Rob any of these, except those enumerated," says Father Crime. "For if ye rob a house marked with the Sign Of Death, ye shall surely die." So saith Father Crime.
For the uneducated, now that you know which addresses are safe, and that's MOST of them, have at 'em! It has been proven time and time again that government and its friends never err. If government or its friends publishes (or allows to be published) a list of homes that are potentially safe from encroachment, it amounts to an endorsement by Gov't/Friends that all other addresses must be considered safe to attack and/or burgle.
I have to wonder if the lib-tards that published the list can be held legally liable when the above scenario is repeated. And repeated. And repeated.
I work in one of these "killing zones." While I have a handgun carry permit in the US state in which I live, my Second Amendment rights under our Constitution somehow seemingly don't apply where I work. If just one person in the path of this destruction had been legally armed (which is fully Constitutional), the slaughter *might* have been avoided. It might not have. But there would at least be a chance, statistically.
I live in a "red" state; yet, the legislation barring any educational institution from barring handgun carry permit owners to legally carry firearms on campus was tabled and not even voted on. There are prominently posted signs around the campus saying that weapons possession on campus is a felony. Small consolation if a pile-o'-crap gunman chooses to pick our particular killing zone to express his/her frustrations.
You have no actual rights if you cannot defend them yourself. So many millions of people have died, trying to educate us on this elementary principle.
You'd dock a puppy's tail? I assume from this that you'd circumcise a male offspring, er, that you'd have your son clipped. No choice on his part; it's just a matter of scale, right? Then force-feed him the idea that he's now better off.
Indeed, let's all bow in sync and vote single party rule. After all, only one party knows what is best for you, and especially for me. Let's be like California, which has a democrat super majority, as I understand. Only good can come from this; no opposition, only sacred and loving devotion to a single party and its goals, stated and otherwise.
Nothing's quite as good as a spotted owl. After cleaning, slow roast the bird with shallots and mushrooms. Save the drippings; they're the best gravy you've ever had.
Bacon? Perhaps an eighth of an ounce. Let's not spoil this treasure!
I work at a private, non-profit college. We don't tell our students what they may say online; our efforts are directed toward known porn/malware sites (often the same thing) and keeping people from using P2P. Yes, of course there are legitimate uses of bittorrent et al, but our problem is one of bandwidth consumption. We can't afford a gigabit pipe from Google or anyone else and we can't have a few students sucking up all the bandwidth that must be shared with everyone.
Saying what you wish to say is one thing, it's well and good and under the right circumstances is protected by the Constitution. What concerns me more personally, is that not one instructor on staff has Conservative leanings; every instructor that has expressed an opinion is very Liberal. Call it "progressive" if you like; it's the same thing.
Maybe it's different at taxpayer-supported institutions; I'd like to hear from others.
Seems like you have a closed mind. You're all-knowledgeable about what people who don't share your beliefs stand for. Are you unique in this world? I sure don't have the ability to get into the minds of people whose views I oppose. Yet somehow you can.
At least there were two candidates (sorry, but that's the way it is in the US) and there were some (potentially embarrassing) responses to direct criticism.
I do feel for our European and other global commentators who had to endure this "debate." I'm an unabashed Conservative, and found myself hollering at Romney about 1/3rd as often as I did Obama.
At least it's over, and pundits (or 'pundints' as some would say) can endlessly debate who's the winner. I heard nothing about the tech sector, so why scream "we won" when we were collectively ignored?
The US election process drags its collective carcass along.
Makes me wonder if the original poster has a control thing going. This future life is far more controlled than controlling. Can you say "nanny government," "nanny society"?
The bigger government gets the fewer our liberties become. I despise tobacco in any form, but overarching government is infinitely worse. Government itself does have a quandary, on the one hand it makes huge sums from taxes on tobacco products, on the other hand the urge to control EVERYTHING is irresistible. Not that I'm expressing sympathy for government.
Anyone who thinks it's a good idea, please stop to consider that if government gains control in this situation, it's not going to stop. Sooner or later they'll come after each of us and exert increasing control over every aspect of life.
No, I'm not paranoid; they really are after all of us.
Living in AT&T land, I had their "premium" 6/0.4 DSL service. Then one fine day they poured a slab for the U-verse cabinet at the end of the street. Such a deal, phone/video/Internet! Actually, boys & girls, I only want the Internet. Turns out they suddenly lose interest if they can't sell you TV. Since I don't have a TV in my house it seemed silly to pay extra for crap-vision.
Then they started messing with my DSL service. Change the IP address up to three times a day. Really? You manage your network so poorly you have to re-arrange it that often? Of course not, we just want you to upgrade to our fine U-verse service (with TV, of course.)
Finally they made a decent offer for 18/1.5 service and I snapped it up. It's simply amazing, no - miraculous that my IP address hasn't changed since that day. I have heard they use (nearly) static addresses on U-verse to make it easier to distribute the video. But thank you, AT&T for the miracle in my life! At least, thanks for not messing with my IP address any more.
Grump, and after I spent a few hours writing my own DDNS software to cope with their former animosity...
Hitler ran the Nazi party. Nazi - translated to English it means National Socialist. That's left of center, son. Stalin was a Communist, that's even farther to the left. Sorry if the truth hurts, but the phrase "right wing authoritarians" - just doesn't scan. It's Socialism where the needs of the many outweight the needs of the few (sorry, Spock.)
I believe we'd have to put most government employees in jail. Yes, we do have many really good people in government service, but the real problem is that government "service" tends to attract the worst in society. I could use words like "greedy," "avaricious," and "corrupt" but that would tend to denigrate them. I know people who have worked in government and left in disgust. If I knew only one, I'd write it off - but I know several.
Also, as others have pointed out, this is really old news. I have to wonder how people can be isolated from what's going on to the extent it takes three weeks for the facts to trickle down to them. A little scary.
And it's not skin, it's mucosa. Stick your tongue into your cheek; that's mucosa. The head of your penis (and the inner foreskin) are mucosa - when circumcised as an infant, that single layer of cells toughens into about 17 layers. I got cut at age 21, my choice, not someone else's. Looking back, I was being foolish (the grass was SUPPOSED to be greener on the other side of that fence!) But it was my choice. Yes, there was hypersensitivity and a gradual loss of sensation in the head.
As a gay man, I've had intimate contact with both natural and cut cocks. I'll take the natural one ten times out of ten! I feel fortunate that my partner is intact.
I once met a young English man who was uncut. Love the story he told me - in the showers if you're seen to be cut they call you "three-skin" - not enough there for a foreskin.
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OK, there's some justification for this. Some.
Older versions of the OS do not support, and are not expected to support new hardware. If I was making an OS (let us be thankful I am not), I'd do the same thing.
That being said, it's often frustrating to buy new machines that won't support an older OS version. As the network admin for a small college (happily) infested with Macs, we often deal with major software (Avid, Pro Tools, etc.) that is very version-specific. Trying to find the latest version we can run on a lab's computers that will work with every 3rd party software application that the situation demands is like walking a tightrope. Run too new an OS version and you'll break something, guaranteed.
All of this kvetching aside, I'd 100X rather manage Macs than Windows. As to Linux, and we have a number of Linux servers on campus, I sit in my office with the 27" iMac my boss so generously purchased for me, and most of what's on the two screens it's running are xterms. Yet in a moment I can switch to Photoshop CS6 to do some tweaks on an image that is soon to become part of an informational how-to poster that students and faculty alike will completely ignore. Life is fun.
Finally it makes sense, the plane (which is often in the clouds) generates data (which is stored in the cloud.)
It's the latest manufactured crisis. Let it happen and see just how much a (partly) shut down government affects our lives. We might just make it permanent.
Yeah, that's fun and stuff but...
I catch up on news (from an outlet I *mostly* trust, not named here). Natch, I check out /. Also Techdirt, which now and then has fantastic stuff.
But I have a deal with myself (and unspoken and unwritten with my employer.) I have my home Email accounts open at work, and I read and respond to messages. When I'm at home I have my home *AND* work Email accounts open, and I read and respond to all.
I continue to be surprised by how well this has been received at work. I guess I work at a pretty cool place.
Not only did my aunts communicate with sound, there was hardly ever a letup.
Oh, ANTS...
Somehow it all brings Tom Lehrer back to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F42ss8
Ah, fracking by any other name.
Methinks there is more than a bit of hypocrisy floating around in the story. It's no good unless you do it for "eco" reasons?
Had an interesting conversation with a (Conservative) friend who's bought into several wells. He says when you drill a well using old technology you get about 30% of the oil in the field. It dries up, and we used to abandon those mines. Now you can drill down and from a 7" casing you can drill horizontally and fracture the strata using up to 100,000 PSI pressure. Of course, this is happening about a mile below any possible drinking water and there will be no contamination. With the well suitably "fracked" another 30% of the oil (and gas) is now recoverable. Whoa, you just doubled the usefulness of the well. But you're right, that's evil, it's not acceptable to certain opinionated individuals.
But geothermal, well, no evil oil involved here, nothing to see, move along.
Agreed. When my neighborhood cops get all excited about having "smart guns," I'll buy one or two for my collection. Until the cops are satisfied that when they put on the uniform and badge and go out to protect the concept of law and order, oh, and by the way, having some collection of algorithms running in their firearms they can depend on to stay alive in an emergency situation...
Why, then. And only then. I'll consider buying one of those wacky electronic contraptions. I manage a few networks, a number of servers. Except in a well-defined and non life-threatening economic sense, and while I do my best to keep them up 100% of the time, I depend on NONE of them for my continued existence. Computers are nice, but a fully mechanical firearm NEVER crashes. Exempt any silly "you're in a car crash and then attacked by zombie Nazis" scenarios.
Remember the story about the WWII training squadron that went down off Florida? More than 50 years later the wrecks were found and some of the .50 BMG ammo was brought up, cleaned and test-fired. More than 95% of the rounds worked perfectly after 50 years of salt water immersion. Give me a 100% mechanical firearm; I know it will work when called upon.
As to when it works, as a free citizen in the United States, when I have the reasonable expectation that my life is endangered by someone who is attacking me, I get to choose. I choose; the government doesn't; the firearm doesn't, some politician doesn't. If I fear imminent death or the possibility of crippling injury, the same "lethal response" criteria are also met. If you don't like those situations, I have a recommendation. Don't attack me. For my part, I would never commence a lethal attack against you.
I agree with the addition of a micro SD slot. My Nexus 7 has 8 GB, which hasn't been a problem for reading books, etc.
What I *really* want is the ability, on my Android tablet, to dump any app I don't want to use. Any app. Haven't signed up for Google Wallet or Google+, don't intend to. Drop it. I'm not going to buy content on the tablet, Google, get used to it!
I also agree with the earlier poster, maps are next to useless on the N7. I can't even get the app to start unless I have a WiFi connection. How lame is that?
Love it for Netflix, and of course would play my own ripped DVDs except for the space requirements. Wait, if I had a micro SD card
Finally. A service for the criminal element, so long neglected in our society. "Rob any of these, except those enumerated," says Father Crime. "For if ye rob a house marked with the Sign Of Death, ye shall surely die." So saith Father Crime.
For the uneducated, now that you know which addresses are safe, and that's MOST of them, have at 'em! It has been proven time and time again that government and its friends never err. If government or its friends publishes (or allows to be published) a list of homes that are potentially safe from encroachment, it amounts to an endorsement by Gov't/Friends that all other addresses must be considered safe to attack and/or burgle.
I have to wonder if the lib-tards that published the list can be held legally liable when the above scenario is repeated. And repeated. And repeated.
I work in one of these "killing zones." While I have a handgun carry permit in the US state in which I live, my Second Amendment rights under our Constitution somehow seemingly don't apply where I work. If just one person in the path of this destruction had been legally armed (which is fully Constitutional), the slaughter *might* have been avoided. It might not have. But there would at least be a chance, statistically.
I live in a "red" state; yet, the legislation barring any educational institution from barring handgun carry permit owners to legally carry firearms on campus was tabled and not even voted on. There are prominently posted signs around the campus saying that weapons possession on campus is a felony. Small consolation if a pile-o'-crap gunman chooses to pick our particular killing zone to express his/her frustrations.
You have no actual rights if you cannot defend them yourself. So many millions of people have died, trying to educate us on this elementary principle.
You'd dock a puppy's tail? I assume from this that you'd circumcise a male offspring, er, that you'd have your son clipped. No choice on his part; it's just a matter of scale, right? Then force-feed him the idea that he's now better off.
At least I don't have an opinion about it.
Just sayin'
Indeed, let's all bow in sync and vote single party rule. After all, only one party knows what is best for you, and especially for me. Let's be like California, which has a democrat super majority, as I understand. Only good can come from this; no opposition, only sacred and loving devotion to a single party and its goals, stated and otherwise.
Having opposition views is *so* inconvenient.
Three buttons on the dash: Ctrl, Alt and Del
Nothing's quite as good as a spotted owl. After cleaning, slow roast the bird with shallots and mushrooms. Save the drippings; they're the best gravy you've ever had.
Bacon? Perhaps an eighth of an ounce. Let's not spoil this treasure!
I work at a private, non-profit college. We don't tell our students what they may say online; our efforts are directed toward known porn/malware sites (often the same thing) and keeping people from using P2P. Yes, of course there are legitimate uses of bittorrent et al, but our problem is one of bandwidth consumption. We can't afford a gigabit pipe from Google or anyone else and we can't have a few students sucking up all the bandwidth that must be shared with everyone.
Saying what you wish to say is one thing, it's well and good and under the right circumstances is protected by the Constitution. What concerns me more personally, is that not one instructor on staff has Conservative leanings; every instructor that has expressed an opinion is very Liberal. Call it "progressive" if you like; it's the same thing.
Maybe it's different at taxpayer-supported institutions; I'd like to hear from others.
Seems like you have a closed mind. You're all-knowledgeable about what people who don't share your beliefs stand for. Are you unique in this world? I sure don't have the ability to get into the minds of people whose views I oppose. Yet somehow you can.
You must be a liberal.
At least there were two candidates (sorry, but that's the way it is in the US) and there were some (potentially embarrassing) responses to direct criticism.
I do feel for our European and other global commentators who had to endure this "debate." I'm an unabashed Conservative, and found myself hollering at Romney about 1/3rd as often as I did Obama.
At least it's over, and pundits (or 'pundints' as some would say) can endlessly debate who's the winner. I heard nothing about the tech sector, so why scream "we won" when we were collectively ignored?
The US election process drags its collective carcass along.
Makes me wonder if the original poster has a control thing going. This future life is far more controlled than controlling. Can you say "nanny government," "nanny society"?
The bigger government gets the fewer our liberties become. I despise tobacco in any form, but overarching government is infinitely worse. Government itself does have a quandary, on the one hand it makes huge sums from taxes on tobacco products, on the other hand the urge to control EVERYTHING is irresistible. Not that I'm expressing sympathy for government.
Anyone who thinks it's a good idea, please stop to consider that if government gains control in this situation, it's not going to stop. Sooner or later they'll come after each of us and exert increasing control over every aspect of life.
No, I'm not paranoid; they really are after all of us.
.
Living in AT&T land, I had their "premium" 6/0.4 DSL service. Then one fine day they poured a slab for the U-verse cabinet at the end of the street. Such a deal, phone/video/Internet! Actually, boys & girls, I only want the Internet. Turns out they suddenly lose interest if they can't sell you TV. Since I don't have a TV in my house it seemed silly to pay extra for crap-vision.
Then they started messing with my DSL service. Change the IP address up to three times a day. Really? You manage your network so poorly you have to re-arrange it that often? Of course not, we just want you to upgrade to our fine U-verse service (with TV, of course.)
Finally they made a decent offer for 18/1.5 service and I snapped it up. It's simply amazing, no - miraculous that my IP address hasn't changed since that day. I have heard they use (nearly) static addresses on U-verse to make it easier to distribute the video. But thank you, AT&T for the miracle in my life! At least, thanks for not messing with my IP address any more.
Grump, and after I spent a few hours writing my own DDNS software to cope with their former animosity...
Hitler ran the Nazi party. Nazi - translated to English it means National Socialist. That's left of center, son. Stalin was a Communist, that's even farther to the left. Sorry if the truth hurts, but the phrase "right wing authoritarians" - just doesn't scan. It's Socialism where the needs of the many outweight the needs of the few (sorry, Spock.)
Perhaps you fear liberty?
I believe we'd have to put most government employees in jail. Yes, we do have many really good people in government service, but the real problem is that government "service" tends to attract the worst in society. I could use words like "greedy," "avaricious," and "corrupt" but that would tend to denigrate them. I know people who have worked in government and left in disgust. If I knew only one, I'd write it off - but I know several.
Anybody can make a mistake, but this was a doozy!
Also, as others have pointed out, this is really old news. I have to wonder how people can be isolated from what's going on to the extent it takes three weeks for the facts to trickle down to them. A little scary.
As a gay man, I've had intimate contact with both natural and cut cocks. I'll take the natural one ten times out of ten! I feel fortunate that my partner is intact.
I once met a young English man who was uncut. Love the story he told me - in the showers if you're seen to be cut they call you "three-skin" - not enough there for a foreskin.