Except that nobody will actually update firmware on their TV. Even those of us who would do such a thing are so used to the manufacturers not bothering to provide updates that we've stopped looking for them.
Samsung specifically lost my business when they refused to honor a settlement for repairing a design flaw in a set I paid a lot of $ for.
My current Sharp has a flaky Netflix client, but they will never update the firmware because they've already made the sale and unlike Tesla don't give a shit about post-sales.
Back in the day my employer ran large mailing lists for MSFT. They worked well and we were asked for new features and capacity. We spent half a million building what they requested, then they whined about having headers indicating a non-MSFT OS. I wanted to just munge the headers but they insisted on insourcing to run on NT, something we had even tried and found to be infeasibly broken and nonperformant. The service degraded to badly that unsubscribes failed and some recipients never got messages.
They live and breathe dog food.
Thank you for stating the obvious, one would think this not necessary but clearly it is. Both a factor of the local demographics, those willing to subject themselves to the nonstop nightmare that is the silly valley, and the fact that more H1B's are brown than light beige.
Are you talking about Public radio, or about NPR? You mention both as though they have anything to do with each other. The P in NPR stands for Pretentious. Can you get on NPR? No. Nothing public about it.
Agree wholeheartedly. Or the blindingly obvious need for compression, or Linux's continuing refusal to integrate volume management, RAID, and filesystem.
XFS over time can cause kernel mem fragmentation if you build with non-default yet documented parameters. Feh.
Agree on ZFS features. When I had to downgrade to Linux I was speechless when I saw there wasn't a usable filesystem that even imagine implemented compression. Got 30x for syslog archives with ZFS. And the lameness of MD and LVM, being at least ten years behind Solaris.
It's popular to make vague claims like this, but nobody ever describes what they consider so awful. I have to conclude that the real fault is "because it allows one to buy music".
And WTF does iTunes have to do with the goofy rebranded Beats ?
Free, as in "wait indefinitely because no parts are available".
There's also the cost of having to take off a whole day of work and sit hungry in the lobby with the TV that only plays CMT.
Linux kids whine about iTunes but I have yet to see a cogently worded description of faults. It organizes my music and syncs it to my phone. WTF else is expected ???
I'm surprised that it's only 30%. The well-known graphic from a few years ago comparing to iOS told a different story about phones abandoned by their carriers / manufacturers.
That plus being able to run a decent desktop OS.
Sometimes prices do drop a bit before refreshes; this is at times reported on MacRumors.
MacMall sells NIB previous-gen units at attractive prices; for someone who doesn't need the extra 10% of CPU that a refresh brings, it can be an economical way to get larger RAM and SSD complements. I suspect Apple uses them as a liquidator.
I have a NUC that I use to run OpenELEC. It freezes occasionally, and a couple of times a month the fan(s) escalate to full speed making a lot of noise, requiring a power cycle. I have yet to get the onboard IR to work. For the $400-$500 or whatever I paid for it, I'm less than impressed.
At some point, just buy a unit with however much RAM you'll need vs. whining about not being able to update it yourself. I find that those arguments are usually more about ego than RAM, and if Apple's markup compared to low-end open-market commodity RAM is a hardship, you most likely shouldn't be buying this sort of computer anyway.
There's a smug presentation out there from LinkedIn about their use of cfengine and how it enables them to admin 90,000 systems with 6 people. What was not stated is what exactly those 6 people do, I suspect it's a fairly narrow set of things -- given the Silly Valley wont to silo people -- and that many others contribute.
Tyson seems to spend FAR more time criticizing other people than contributing anything positive. It reflects an overblown ego and narcissism and it gets old fast.
Amazon is following in Microsoft's footsteps, helping turn Seattle into San Francisco and erasing the middle class.
If Amazon really gives a shit, they will instead hire those people, but since most of them are citizens they are ineligible.
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My question is WTF is Twitch and WTF is a streamer?
The user does get a choice, the choice to not go looking for and initiate a firmware update.
.. or 60% of wanted things, given the very incomplete set of shows available on such devices.
Except that nobody will actually update firmware on their TV. Even those of us who would do such a thing are so used to the manufacturers not bothering to provide updates that we've stopped looking for them. Samsung specifically lost my business when they refused to honor a settlement for repairing a design flaw in a set I paid a lot of $ for. My current Sharp has a flaky Netflix client, but they will never update the firmware because they've already made the sale and unlike Tesla don't give a shit about post-sales.
Back in the day my employer ran large mailing lists for MSFT. They worked well and we were asked for new features and capacity. We spent half a million building what they requested, then they whined about having headers indicating a non-MSFT OS. I wanted to just munge the headers but they insisted on insourcing to run on NT, something we had even tried and found to be infeasibly broken and nonperformant. The service degraded to badly that unsubscribes failed and some recipients never got messages. They live and breathe dog food.
Huh? Do you really need your SSD to be spinning at ANY rate?
Thank you for stating the obvious, one would think this not necessary but clearly it is. Both a factor of the local demographics, those willing to subject themselves to the nonstop nightmare that is the silly valley, and the fact that more H1B's are brown than light beige.
Forced relocation to Kansas?
Are you talking about Public radio, or about NPR? You mention both as though they have anything to do with each other. The P in NPR stands for Pretentious. Can you get on NPR? No. Nothing public about it.
There's a name for what you want: Ceph. ;)
Agree wholeheartedly. Or the blindingly obvious need for compression, or Linux's continuing refusal to integrate volume management, RAID, and filesystem.
Because some of us need to run applications
XFS over time can cause kernel mem fragmentation if you build with non-default yet documented parameters. Feh. Agree on ZFS features. When I had to downgrade to Linux I was speechless when I saw there wasn't a usable filesystem that even imagine implemented compression. Got 30x for syslog archives with ZFS. And the lameness of MD and LVM, being at least ten years behind Solaris.
⦠all of them lame. Until this.
The same holds for Judaism but it's not popular to point that out.
It's popular to make vague claims like this, but nobody ever describes what they consider so awful. I have to conclude that the real fault is "because it allows one to buy music". And WTF does iTunes have to do with the goofy rebranded Beats ?
Free, as in "wait indefinitely because no parts are available". There's also the cost of having to take off a whole day of work and sit hungry in the lobby with the TV that only plays CMT.
Linux kids whine about iTunes but I have yet to see a cogently worded description of faults. It organizes my music and syncs it to my phone. WTF else is expected ???
I'm surprised that it's only 30%. The well-known graphic from a few years ago comparing to iOS told a different story about phones abandoned by their carriers / manufacturers.
That plus being able to run a decent desktop OS. Sometimes prices do drop a bit before refreshes; this is at times reported on MacRumors. MacMall sells NIB previous-gen units at attractive prices; for someone who doesn't need the extra 10% of CPU that a refresh brings, it can be an economical way to get larger RAM and SSD complements. I suspect Apple uses them as a liquidator.
I have a NUC that I use to run OpenELEC. It freezes occasionally, and a couple of times a month the fan(s) escalate to full speed making a lot of noise, requiring a power cycle. I have yet to get the onboard IR to work. For the $400-$500 or whatever I paid for it, I'm less than impressed. At some point, just buy a unit with however much RAM you'll need vs. whining about not being able to update it yourself. I find that those arguments are usually more about ego than RAM, and if Apple's markup compared to low-end open-market commodity RAM is a hardship, you most likely shouldn't be buying this sort of computer anyway.
There's a smug presentation out there from LinkedIn about their use of cfengine and how it enables them to admin 90,000 systems with 6 people. What was not stated is what exactly those 6 people do, I suspect it's a fairly narrow set of things -- given the Silly Valley wont to silo people -- and that many others contribute.
Tyson seems to spend FAR more time criticizing other people than contributing anything positive. It reflects an overblown ego and narcissism and it gets old fast.
I'm guessing you also think 2700k Tungsten light is "warm".
Amazon is following in Microsoft's footsteps, helping turn Seattle into San Francisco and erasing the middle class. If Amazon really gives a shit, they will instead hire those people, but since most of them are citizens they are ineligible.