By offering their services only in places where people don't willingly submit to tyranny? Not everyone lives in "upscale" places full of rich douchebags who think it's their right to impose their will on you just in case you might drop their artificially inflated property value $0.50. A lot of those places are full of people that think doing your own lawn work or fixing your own car is low class and trashy. Or try to get you booted because your car is old and ugly. Those people can afford to have their car towed to a shop and use their spare.... not the target market.
1.) Assuming pro users would buy a souped-up Macbook Air with no ability to upgrade RAM or storage.
2.) Assuming pro users will only want pen and touch support in a locked-down consumer appliance that's not suited for content creation. We want a Macbook tablet/2-in-1.... preferably with SO-DIMM slots and replaceable SSD. The iOS and Mac teams should not worry about "competing" with each other.
3.) Assuming pro users are OK with dated CPU and weaker GPU's compared to cheaper Winblows machines.
I'm actually OK with USB-C and needing dongles in the short-term (though I want magsafe back). I just want a modern capable machine that can be upgraded and the ability to use pen and touch. And for them trying to slowly lock people into the Mac App Store.
Private citizens maybe but I think e-mail and cloud storage providers should be treated more as "common carriers" and only respond to legit legal requests for such data rather than enthusiastically embarking on witch hunts to do law enforcement dirty work. What you're sort of advocating would be like the post office reading all of your sealed mail in just in case you might be a pedophile and letting law enforcement know you might be a pothead.
Why shouldn't I expect the same rights that I enjoy (theoretically, not in practice) with telephones and snail mail to carry over into the digital realm? The USPS is govt run in name only these days and is more of a private organization. Would you be cool with UPS searching all of your packages because a computer said there could be pictures of underage titties in there somewhere?
What this boils down to is the government is using private companies to circumvent the constitution using the same old "think of the children" tripe that brought us the drug war with a double-dose of tyranny and it's sickening.
Funny.... I'd have PTSD from being forced to engage in warrantless surveillance. Splitting hairs because it's "Microsoft's server, since they aren't the feds they can do anything they want" doesn't make it a good thing to do. They are effectively acting as law enforcement and assisting the feds in sidestepping the 4th amendment. The few people they catch doesn't warrant the intrusion on many people who didn't deserve it. Much like the patriot act and butthole searches at airports. Especially if they report "other crimes" which may be victimless.
THAT would give me PTSD. If I wanted to be law enforcement and "catch bad guys" I would have gotten a criminal justice degree and worked in law enforcement where there's proper checks and balances.
- Only device you can get a touchscreen/active stylus with is an overpriced boutique internet appliance.
- Only hardware innovation in years is a goofy touch bar.
- Only major changes in hardware is to make things slightly thinner and remove any aspect of user upgrade/serviceability. Can't even swap SSD or upgrade RAM in PRO models.
- OSX is becoming increasingly locked down. Even installing something like TotalTerminal has become a pain in the ass.
- Increasing efforts to force everyone through a silly app store on desktop systems.
If Apple truly gave a shit about the OSX ecosystem they would either license it to other PC manufacturers or open source it. The mac division is slowly committing suicide. I would love something like an MS Surface with a better keyboard and OSX. They also need to bring back a mid-range tower with slots. The iMac is just not the end-all be-all of desktop machines and is far from affordable. The Mac Pro has even been left to rot.
There is just nothing appealing for the creatives/power users/engineers that evangelized for and made the platform great. It's just overpriced locked down Wintel trash that is disposable these days. I'm not paying $1,500+ for a disposable computer.
You honestly think Boeing and Lockheed haven't blown anything up and we've never experienced rockets exploding upon launch before when overpaid pork-barrel contractors are involved? Remember the Navy's kaputnik? Remember Challenger? Remember many test pilots killed in experimental planes? How about combat pilots killed due to the P-38's issues in a dive?
Stop being a shill. Rockets explode sometimes, especially ones that are innovative and new.
Hydrogen in a rigid airship is kept in bladders, a tear in the outer covering wouldn't cause a massive leak. A blimp is a different story where the craft is kept rigid by pressurized gas. A zeppelin is NOT a blimp. Different animal even if they look similar from the outside.
Not really needed.... you could shoot at WW1 zeppelins all day as the hydrogen wasn't kept at high pressures. They just had a guy wandering around with a bucket of epoxy to patch holes. It wasn't until the incendiary bullets that they had any major issues.
Doom and quake 1/2/3 have native Linux builds, just use them and swipe the data files from the Windows version. It's not rocket science. I was playing native Doom on Linux back in '94.
I'm sure that the workers would rather make a living wage than destroy their health working unsustainable hours doing manual labor and racking up medical bills they can't afford to pay. Your fat ass probably couldn't make it through a single shift in one of those sweat shops.
One rule for them and another for us. Hillary using email doesn't sound so bad in comparison now does it?
Hillary using e-mail wasn't the problem. It was her setting up an insecure private MS Exchange server in order to avoid oversight from the government or public (via FOIA requests) and to make her willful destruction of evidence so much easier.
I love how people try to downplay this as if it was an "accidental" slip and a trivial oversight on her part. Flynn is obviously a douche as well who needs his ass kicked.
Oh.... almost forgot.... FUCK YOUR PARTISAN BULLSHIT!
Wrong, Voyager used a mutant custom architecture. The first real microprocessor in space was the RCA 1802 which flew on some MAGSAT, Galileo and even hubble. The 1802 was the first microprocessor built in a radiation hardened version. Kinda weird but it was a cool CPU and very power efficient but a bit slower than the 8080 or 6502.
I didn't support either of those ass-clowns. I'm not a Trump supporter in the least and I didn't vote for him. I don't support the leftists and I don't support Christian Nationalism. I'm just a simple Libertarian.
And yeah, I'm fairly old and experienced enough to realize the road to hell is paved with good intentions that are eventually used to inflict mass tyranny by the next guy. If you like anti-"hate speech", blasphemy laws and far left-leaning governments that coddle their citizens, I hear the EU is pretty nice.
You can feel that I'm "dumb" because I'm more than willing to let anyone "appropriate" any part of my culture that they like regardless of their race or class. You can feel that I'm an idiot for not identifying with a bunch of brats on an Ivy League campus I could never hope to attend screaming about "white privilege". You can think I'm an idiot for not giving a shit about "hate speech" because driving bigotry underground is dangerous. But you know what? That's your right and I won't stop you from being naive, young and stupid. After all, this is America.
Get a grip, not everyone in the tech industry is a left-leaning, over-sensitive cry-baby.
So people being harassed for "cultural appropriation" for having dreadlocks is an appropriate response? What if my wife were to harass a black woman for straightening her hair? Or if I harassed a native American for wearing a western-style business suits without attending a board meeting, business function or office interview? Or a rap fan for wearing a Slayer T-shirt? Or if a religious nutter harasses people who decorate their house with crosses without attending a Christian church?
In short, I'll "appropriate" whatever the hell I want. Chances are, those cultures ripped it off from some other culture (modern or ancient) along the way anyway.
Then you've never attended college in recent years. I've heard plenty of them pissing and moaning about "white privilege" and "cultural appropriation" since I decided to go back to school. There are even recent cases of harassment and assault of white students for having dreads because even that is considered "cultural appropriation".
No, YOU need to grow up and release the extreme views that the left (especially the naive younger lefties) has started to champion are the reason the alt-right crowd exists. I don't consider myself "alt-right", more of a simple Libertarian.
I wasn't aware they released InDesign, Logic Pro, ProTools or MS Office for Linux. With a Mac, I can run these.... and most of my favorite X11 based FOSS software natively.
USB-C is perfectly usable for all those tethered things you described. You just need an adapter. Soon there will be USB-C versions of all those devices as well. People bitched about USB for years too. Now everyone uses FTDI USB->RS232 adapters.... I have an industrialized 4-port FTDI USB->serial box on my desk right now.... plugged into my Hackintosh. USB-C is certainly fast enough to handle gigabit ethernet adapters, etc.
Just like USB, thanks to Apple, USB-C will be standard on your cheap Wintel hardware in a couple years too.
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wonder how they'll get around that.
By offering their services only in places where people don't willingly submit to tyranny? Not everyone lives in "upscale" places full of rich douchebags who think it's their right to impose their will on you just in case you might drop their artificially inflated property value $0.50. A lot of those places are full of people that think doing your own lawn work or fixing your own car is low class and trashy. Or try to get you booted because your car is old and ugly. Those people can afford to have their car towed to a shop and use their spare.... not the target market.
So once you got to grad school you had to make calibrated multichambered bongs with working valves and heat resistant materials?
Apple's biggest issues IMHO....
1.) Assuming pro users would buy a souped-up Macbook Air with no ability to upgrade RAM or storage.
2.) Assuming pro users will only want pen and touch support in a locked-down consumer appliance that's not suited for content creation. We want a Macbook tablet/2-in-1.... preferably with SO-DIMM slots and replaceable SSD. The iOS and Mac teams should not worry about "competing" with each other.
3.) Assuming pro users are OK with dated CPU and weaker GPU's compared to cheaper Winblows machines.
I'm actually OK with USB-C and needing dongles in the short-term (though I want magsafe back). I just want a modern capable machine that can be upgraded and the ability to use pen and touch. And for them trying to slowly lock people into the Mac App Store.
Private citizens maybe but I think e-mail and cloud storage providers should be treated more as "common carriers" and only respond to legit legal requests for such data rather than enthusiastically embarking on witch hunts to do law enforcement dirty work. What you're sort of advocating would be like the post office reading all of your sealed mail in just in case you might be a pedophile and letting law enforcement know you might be a pothead.
Why shouldn't I expect the same rights that I enjoy (theoretically, not in practice) with telephones and snail mail to carry over into the digital realm? The USPS is govt run in name only these days and is more of a private organization. Would you be cool with UPS searching all of your packages because a computer said there could be pictures of underage titties in there somewhere?
What this boils down to is the government is using private companies to circumvent the constitution using the same old "think of the children" tripe that brought us the drug war with a double-dose of tyranny and it's sickening.
Funny.... I'd have PTSD from being forced to engage in warrantless surveillance. Splitting hairs because it's "Microsoft's server, since they aren't the feds they can do anything they want" doesn't make it a good thing to do. They are effectively acting as law enforcement and assisting the feds in sidestepping the 4th amendment. The few people they catch doesn't warrant the intrusion on many people who didn't deserve it. Much like the patriot act and butthole searches at airports. Especially if they report "other crimes" which may be victimless.
THAT would give me PTSD. If I wanted to be law enforcement and "catch bad guys" I would have gotten a criminal justice degree and worked in law enforcement where there's proper checks and balances.
- Only device you can get a touchscreen/active stylus with is an overpriced boutique internet appliance.
- Only hardware innovation in years is a goofy touch bar.
- Only major changes in hardware is to make things slightly thinner and remove any aspect of user upgrade/serviceability. Can't even swap SSD or upgrade RAM in PRO models.
- OSX is becoming increasingly locked down. Even installing something like TotalTerminal has become a pain in the ass.
- Increasing efforts to force everyone through a silly app store on desktop systems.
If Apple truly gave a shit about the OSX ecosystem they would either license it to other PC manufacturers or open source it. The mac division is slowly committing suicide. I would love something like an MS Surface with a better keyboard and OSX. They also need to bring back a mid-range tower with slots. The iMac is just not the end-all be-all of desktop machines and is far from affordable. The Mac Pro has even been left to rot.
There is just nothing appealing for the creatives/power users/engineers that evangelized for and made the platform great. It's just overpriced locked down Wintel trash that is disposable these days. I'm not paying $1,500+ for a disposable computer.
There's plenty of obvious innovation. If you can't see that, you're either stupid or trolling.
To be a death trap, they'd have to kill someone in it first. So far they have yet to kill someone unlike previous NASA contractors.
You honestly think Boeing and Lockheed haven't blown anything up and we've never experienced rockets exploding upon launch before when overpaid pork-barrel contractors are involved? Remember the Navy's kaputnik? Remember Challenger? Remember many test pilots killed in experimental planes? How about combat pilots killed due to the P-38's issues in a dive?
Stop being a shill. Rockets explode sometimes, especially ones that are innovative and new.
You know that most actual TARGETED "hacks" usually involve someone getting their foot in the door via social engineering or phishing right?
Hydrogen in a rigid airship is kept in bladders, a tear in the outer covering wouldn't cause a massive leak. A blimp is a different story where the craft is kept rigid by pressurized gas. A zeppelin is NOT a blimp. Different animal even if they look similar from the outside.
Not really needed.... you could shoot at WW1 zeppelins all day as the hydrogen wasn't kept at high pressures. They just had a guy wandering around with a bucket of epoxy to patch holes. It wasn't until the incendiary bullets that they had any major issues.
Doom and quake 1/2/3 have native Linux builds, just use them and swipe the data files from the Windows version. It's not rocket science. I was playing native Doom on Linux back in '94.
We have battalion, Doom, Quake II and Xlander! What more do you need?!
What the hell does this have to do with Emacs? This is about Common Lisp, a real language.... not the crippled Emacs Lisp.
I'm sure that the workers would rather make a living wage than destroy their health working unsustainable hours doing manual labor and racking up medical bills they can't afford to pay. Your fat ass probably couldn't make it through a single shift in one of those sweat shops.
One rule for them and another for us.
Hillary using email doesn't sound so bad in comparison now does it?
Hillary using e-mail wasn't the problem. It was her setting up an insecure private MS Exchange server in order to avoid oversight from the government or public (via FOIA requests) and to make her willful destruction of evidence so much easier.
I love how people try to downplay this as if it was an "accidental" slip and a trivial oversight on her part. Flynn is obviously a douche as well who needs his ass kicked.
Oh.... almost forgot.... FUCK YOUR PARTISAN BULLSHIT!
Wrong, Voyager used a mutant custom architecture. The first real microprocessor in space was the RCA 1802 which flew on some MAGSAT, Galileo and even hubble. The 1802 was the first microprocessor built in a radiation hardened version. Kinda weird but it was a cool CPU and very power efficient but a bit slower than the 8080 or 6502.
I didn't support either of those ass-clowns. I'm not a Trump supporter in the least and I didn't vote for him. I don't support the leftists and I don't support Christian Nationalism. I'm just a simple Libertarian.
And yeah, I'm fairly old and experienced enough to realize the road to hell is paved with good intentions that are eventually used to inflict mass tyranny by the next guy. If you like anti-"hate speech", blasphemy laws and far left-leaning governments that coddle their citizens, I hear the EU is pretty nice.
You can feel that I'm "dumb" because I'm more than willing to let anyone "appropriate" any part of my culture that they like regardless of their race or class. You can feel that I'm an idiot for not identifying with a bunch of brats on an Ivy League campus I could never hope to attend screaming about "white privilege". You can think I'm an idiot for not giving a shit about "hate speech" because driving bigotry underground is dangerous. But you know what? That's your right and I won't stop you from being naive, young and stupid. After all, this is America.
Get a grip, not everyone in the tech industry is a left-leaning, over-sensitive cry-baby.
So people being harassed for "cultural appropriation" for having dreadlocks is an appropriate response? What if my wife were to harass a black woman for straightening her hair? Or if I harassed a native American for wearing a western-style business suits without attending a board meeting, business function or office interview? Or a rap fan for wearing a Slayer T-shirt? Or if a religious nutter harasses people who decorate their house with crosses without attending a Christian church?
In short, I'll "appropriate" whatever the hell I want. Chances are, those cultures ripped it off from some other culture (modern or ancient) along the way anyway.
Then you've never attended college in recent years. I've heard plenty of them pissing and moaning about "white privilege" and "cultural appropriation" since I decided to go back to school. There are even recent cases of harassment and assault of white students for having dreads because even that is considered "cultural appropriation".
No, YOU need to grow up and release the extreme views that the left (especially the naive younger lefties) has started to champion are the reason the alt-right crowd exists. I don't consider myself "alt-right", more of a simple Libertarian.
Yet SJW's whine about "cultural appropriation" all the time. How can it be a melting pot is "cultural appropriation" is evil?
Ya know..... that's actually a cool idea.
I wasn't aware they released InDesign, Logic Pro, ProTools or MS Office for Linux. With a Mac, I can run these.... and most of my favorite X11 based FOSS software natively.
USB-C is perfectly usable for all those tethered things you described. You just need an adapter. Soon there will be USB-C versions of all those devices as well. People bitched about USB for years too. Now everyone uses FTDI USB->RS232 adapters.... I have an industrialized 4-port FTDI USB->serial box on my desk right now.... plugged into my Hackintosh. USB-C is certainly fast enough to handle gigabit ethernet adapters, etc.
Just like USB, thanks to Apple, USB-C will be standard on your cheap Wintel hardware in a couple years too.
That dude was also in a position of power and had the authority and and a respected platform from which to order someone's death.
That one is iffy and also heavily debated. That's more of a "I expect someone to do this and no one has done it yet, what's wrong with you people?".