I just recently upgraded to Sennheiser headphones. I wanted the best sound I could get with good noise isolation but NOT active noise cancelling, but cheap enough (~$130 on sale, IIRC) that I don't care too much if they get trashed.
Also, two of my cars don't have bluetooth. One is a 1991 ZR-1 Corvette. To go the bluetooth route, I'd have to install a 3rd-party head unit and gut the interior to run signal cables, amplifiers, and build custom speaker enclosures to fit where the BOSE amp+speaker assemblies are. So... 3.5mm-to-cassette adapter (or just listen to CDs) for that car. I'm not terribly worried about originality any more since a tree fell on the car... but I rather LIKE the stock appearance so when I restore it, I'm hoping to keep the stock head unit. I'll probably do a stealth install of speakers and amps at that point though, sacrificing the rear storage compartments - and possibly ABS since I used to disable ABS in that car anyhow.
The other is a Saab 9-3 that didn't come with bluetooth, so I use an AUX jack. I'd upgrade the head unit in a heartbeat, if it wouldn't result in a loss of functionality (car system alerts and sounds - everything including door and light alerts, turn indicators, etc. run through the stereo system). if a CAN bus interface which preserves these features is released I'd go for it... but since SAAB is long dead as an entity and there will never be any more Saabs built, the probability of such a device being released is near zero.
And, I use 3.5mm to RCA/phono jacks for playing content via my home stereo receiver. If you think I'm going to accept further degradation of the sound via bluetooth, you're nuts. It would be a waste of Klipsch speakers. I may have well stuck with the crappy JBLs I had previously (they were almost as bad as BOSE - no highs... although the JBLs produced decent lows, unlike BOSE.. why BOSE thinks their shit smells like a rose, no one knows...).
So, yeah... I use the headphone jack... a lot!
I also use bluetooth: in the Lesbaru (which DOES have bluetooth... and a surprisingly decent sound system!), and for hands-free phone calls in the above-mentioned vehicles.
It probably has a shitty DRM track to prevent your PC from "seeing" the music tracks. If you see a data track, look carefully at the disc under various lights and if you can identify the data track, black it out with a permanent marker (if clone cd, etc. fail) and then try ripping it. See: http://club.myce.com/f3/anothe...
> You're expecting a religious systemd opponent to read a manual. Don't do that, it only angers them.
They're probably angry because they're naturally assuming, based on their past experience, that like most F/OSS projects that its official documentation sucks... and that assumption isn't wrong. However lots of third party documentation projects (including various distros' documentation sites) resolve that shortcoming.
Adobe CC (Lightroom and Photoshop primarily, although CS2 would run fine under crossover, or WINE with tweaking, for when I need Illustrator) Embroidery software Games (more and more games are available on Steam, but many are not) Label printer software PowerDVD and any games that work with 3D Vision (will 3D Vision ever get ported to Linux? Doubtful.. NVIDIA hasn't shifted focus away from 3D, unfortunately, just like everyone else has just as the tech matured to the point where 3D is not just usable, but actually enjoyable)
I work with Linux all day long and on my laptops I dual boot Windows 7 and Linux (OpenSUSE on one, Ubuntu 16,04 LTS on the other) but rarely boot the laptops to Windows.
My desktop PC has Windows 7 installed on the host; I run Linux guests (RHEL, Ubuntu) under Virtualbox on my desktop.
The second I can get Adobe CC, software for my embroidery machine, label printer software, and 3D Vision support (with 3D video players for my Blu-Ray collection) on Linux, I'll wipe my desktop and install a Linux distro.
From RedHat (SystemD) to what - CentOS (RHEL clone built from RHEL sources, more recently with support from RHEL itself)? Ubuntu LTS (SystemD)? SLES (SystemD)? Oracle Linux (another RHEL clone, SystemD of course)? Mandriva (first, bwahahaha! second: also SystemD)? ClearOS (Based on CentOS, also SystemD)? Arch (SystemD)?
All the distros that matter, and even the ones that don't (Mandriva), have gone or are going the SystemD route. Learn to love it, because for enterprise you're stuck with it as you migrate off older releases.
I suppose you could choose Slackware (no dependency resolution, great for hacking, shitty for a maintainable system - it is THE distro for luddites and masochists)?
So, I suppose the answer to the question is no one would rationally abandon RHEL due to SystemD; they'll just resist upgrading until they NEED an updated framework they cannot get off the epel or ius repositories, or until PCI or HIPAA compliance requirements forces them to move out of the stone age.
The wealthy have an interesting sense of entitlement; they accuse the poor of having an "entitlemernt" mentality but they are projecting upon the poor.
Apple is a good example of this. So are the music and film industries.
How?
Apple's revenue decreased slightly, but is still close to a quarter of a trillion dollars, eclipsing the revenue of its closest competitors combined. And yet, they're still achieving astounding numbers in a supersaturated market with intense competition. They've beating everyone else by a wide margin, and the board isn't happy with that. They aren't happy that Apple is maintaining its lead and tremendously profitable numbers, and they're punishing Cook for results that anyone else can only dream of.
That is entitlement right there; when obscene profits aren't enough, or they consider a slight decline in sales while maintaining leadership and near-record-breaking profits to be a loss.
Where did GP claim that mankind is the only source of burning fossil fuels? Yes, we are aware of coal pits that a burning as result of lightning strikes or other natural phenomena.
But, the CO2 released is miniscule compared to how we're willfully fucking up the only known habitable planet.
> so, the poors that can only use Linux because they can't afford PCs or macs now have a vested interest in Linux succeeding because a) they want the free ride to continue and b) they can claim some level of expertise for a nice computer janitor job
For a "janitor job" it pays extremely well - certainly better than your mop janitor job.;)
> now you get to SCO vs IBM. If IBM wins, AIX becomes the standard Unix instead of smelly hippie free "as in beer and speech!!!!" Linux
Linux != UNIX. It never was, and was never intended to be. It was intended to work just like Linux, but free of UNIX licensing constraints. It is a UNIX clone. That it usurped UNIX's throne everywhere from appliances to big iron, from lowly tablets to the largest supercomputers only serves as a testimony to its relative stability and extensibility. Is it the perfect UNIX-like OS? Certainly not... but it is a very solidly competent jack of all trades.
Regarding your use of the term "the poors": I'm assuming you're a white trash Trump supporter living in a red state who benefits from the wealthy blue states' paying more taxes.
American politics are truly fucked up: the blue states pay the highest taxes because they are the wealthiest. The blue states basically vote to tax themselves more so the red states can get more assistance.. and the red states are voting against it... and based on your post, I'm assuming you're one of those idiots voting against their own best interest.
using a piercing would likely be far less painful than magnetic methods. Have you ever tried novelty magnetic earrings, or clip-on earrings? They fucking hurt, while piercings do not once they are healed.
> Back in the day, someone dedicated could learn everything he had about a system, from the CPU, registers, RAM, I/O, video, etc. It was relatively simple.
> Had an LED watch at one time too, so tech isn't something I shy away from.
Ugh. My first digital watch was a Star Wars LED watch. I thought it was awesome at the time... but in my defense, I was only five years old.
I have a smartwatch - a Gear S2. I bought it after I learned how much the Vivofit devices suck... Gear S2 + S Health is excellent for tracking my workouts - and I will be upgrading to the Gear S3 Frontier soon as it will be nice to be able to leave my phone behind -- no need to worry about damaging the phone when skating or hiking and climbing.:)
I wouldn't be worried about the phone if Samsung and Apple weren't in a competition to make the sharpest, thinnest phone possible. I'd rather the phone be a bit thicker and resistant to damage, retain the headphone jack, a replaceable battery, and not dig into my hand when I am holding it.
As an example of a rugged phone, I literally ran over my iPhone 4 on a stone driveway with my car. Damage was limited to a few of small chips out of the glass (so clearly a lot of pressure was on the phone if stones were able to dig chips out of the glass) - and the digitiser was completely unaffected and the phone did not bend and it still works to this day (I keep my old phones as spares).
Meanwhile, the iPhone 6+ gets trashed just from people sitting with the phones in their pockets. Is it user error? Eh, not really, because one would expect a cellphone to be more stuff than a piece of cardboard. Samsung phones will be exactly the same way if they keep trying to make their phones thinner.
But yeah... I use a smartwatch for fitness tracking, and One Of These Days When I Have Free Time(tm) I'll work on a couple of app ideas I've been kicking around for a while.
An interesting legal issue; what will happen when (not if) one of their vehicles is involved in a hit & run collision, and for the traffic violations? If the decision makers at Uber are willing to take on the felony charges and traffic violations and do time or pay the fines out of their own personal pockets when this happens then we should be all for them testing without the proper permits and no drivers in the vehicles.
> Don't forget the dangers of solar energy production. > I can barely sleep at night worrying about the possibility of a solar leak
We have it under good authority (Bobby Mann) that solar panels will suck all the energy from the sun and burn it out. We need to fight against the liberal solar agenda to prevent this catastrophe. What, facts? Science? Those are just more liberal propaganda. Facts don't actually exist, according to Scottie Nell Hughes.;)
The GOP is highly unlikely to impeach him though. So, convicting him for his abusing the office to enrich his own pockets (as he is already doing) will have to wait until at least after the mid-term elections.
Why? Because various gadgets' software often require Windows or a Mac to function. If they subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud, they'll be on Windows or a Mac (gimp is NOT a Photoshop replacement, and there is no F/OSS photo processing/lightroom software as good and easy to use as Lightroom). If they're into 3D gaming (3D Vision) they'll be running Windows. If they're running $GameNotOnSteam, they'll be running on Windows rather than mess with Linux + Crossover Office and find it doesn't work out of the box.
Yes, it is, and it is actually gaining popularity thanks to Samsung Gear, Google Cardboard, and others who are starting to make inroads into the market.
Keep the SD slot and headphone jack, and I'll upgrade from my S7 Edge. Nix the headphone slot, the S7 Edge will be the last Samsung phone I buy until/unless Samsung come to their senses.
"We have thousands of open positions at any given moment, and we intend to hire about 25,000 professionals in the next four years in the United States," Rometty wrote in a USA Today piece published on Tuesday afternoon.
Ginni Rometty did not indicate that IBM would hire Americans. They would hire " 25,000 professionals in the next four years in the United States" - and Ginni did not specify "additional." For all we know they could be laying off 25K Americans and be bringing in 25K H1-B and L-1 workers to replace them.
Next paragraph:
IBM spokesman Adam Pratt declined to say how that hiring might be offset by staff reductions or disclose how many people IBM employs in the United States.
See? It is nothing but DoublePlusGood DoubleSpeak.
You forget that Jobs was maniacal about motherboard (oh excuse me: "logic board") layout - not for efficiency or reliability but specifically so the board looked cool. That it often compromised performance and reliability was no matter. It had to LOOK good. Jobs valued form over function - which is stupid when you consider that a a computer is a tool. Sure, make the case look cool, but don't compromise performance, efficiency, or reliability for the sake of the inner components of a machine "looking cool."
You know, a simple "Thank you for finding this flaw in our product. Here is a $check as our thank you for finding this and reporting it before the $BadGuys exploited it."
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I just recently upgraded to Sennheiser headphones. I wanted the best sound I could get with good noise isolation but NOT active noise cancelling, but cheap enough (~$130 on sale, IIRC) that I don't care too much if they get trashed.
Also, two of my cars don't have bluetooth. One is a 1991 ZR-1 Corvette. To go the bluetooth route, I'd have to install a 3rd-party head unit and gut the interior to run signal cables, amplifiers, and build custom speaker enclosures to fit where the BOSE amp+speaker assemblies are. So... 3.5mm-to-cassette adapter (or just listen to CDs) for that car. I'm not terribly worried about originality any more since a tree fell on the car... but I rather LIKE the stock appearance so when I restore it, I'm hoping to keep the stock head unit. I'll probably do a stealth install of speakers and amps at that point though, sacrificing the rear storage compartments - and possibly ABS since I used to disable ABS in that car anyhow.
The other is a Saab 9-3 that didn't come with bluetooth, so I use an AUX jack. I'd upgrade the head unit in a heartbeat, if it wouldn't result in a loss of functionality (car system alerts and sounds - everything including door and light alerts, turn indicators, etc. run through the stereo system). if a CAN bus interface which preserves these features is released I'd go for it... but since SAAB is long dead as an entity and there will never be any more Saabs built, the probability of such a device being released is near zero.
And, I use 3.5mm to RCA/phono jacks for playing content via my home stereo receiver. If you think I'm going to accept further degradation of the sound via bluetooth, you're nuts. It would be a waste of Klipsch speakers. I may have well stuck with the crappy JBLs I had previously (they were almost as bad as BOSE - no highs... although the JBLs produced decent lows, unlike BOSE.. why BOSE thinks their shit smells like a rose, no one knows...).
So, yeah... I use the headphone jack... a lot!
I also use bluetooth: in the Lesbaru (which DOES have bluetooth... and a surprisingly decent sound system!), and for hands-free phone calls in the above-mentioned vehicles.
It probably has a shitty DRM track to prevent your PC from "seeing" the music tracks. If you see a data track, look carefully at the disc under various lights and if you can identify the data track, black it out with a permanent marker (if clone cd, etc. fail) and then try ripping it. See: http://club.myce.com/f3/anothe...
In a related stories, wooden pencil sales are up 140%.
> You're expecting a religious systemd opponent to read a manual. Don't do that, it only angers them.
They're probably angry because they're naturally assuming, based on their past experience, that like most F/OSS projects that its official documentation sucks... and that assumption isn't wrong. However lots of third party documentation projects (including various distros' documentation sites) resolve that shortcoming.
What keeps me on Windows:
Adobe CC (Lightroom and Photoshop primarily, although CS2 would run fine under crossover, or WINE with tweaking, for when I need Illustrator)
Embroidery software
Games (more and more games are available on Steam, but many are not)
Label printer software
PowerDVD and any games that work with 3D Vision (will 3D Vision ever get ported to Linux? Doubtful.. NVIDIA hasn't shifted focus away from 3D, unfortunately, just like everyone else has just as the tech matured to the point where 3D is not just usable, but actually enjoyable)
I work with Linux all day long and on my laptops I dual boot Windows 7 and Linux (OpenSUSE on one, Ubuntu 16,04 LTS on the other) but rarely boot the laptops to Windows.
My desktop PC has Windows 7 installed on the host; I run Linux guests (RHEL, Ubuntu) under Virtualbox on my desktop.
The second I can get Adobe CC, software for my embroidery machine, label printer software, and 3D Vision support (with 3D video players for my Blu-Ray collection) on Linux, I'll wipe my desktop and install a Linux distro.
From RedHat (SystemD) to what - CentOS (RHEL clone built from RHEL sources, more recently with support from RHEL itself)? Ubuntu LTS (SystemD)? SLES (SystemD)? Oracle Linux (another RHEL clone, SystemD of course)? Mandriva (first, bwahahaha! second: also SystemD)? ClearOS (Based on CentOS, also SystemD)? Arch (SystemD)?
All the distros that matter, and even the ones that don't (Mandriva), have gone or are going the SystemD route. Learn to love it, because for enterprise you're stuck with it as you migrate off older releases.
I suppose you could choose Slackware (no dependency resolution, great for hacking, shitty for a maintainable system - it is THE distro for luddites and masochists)?
So, I suppose the answer to the question is no one would rationally abandon RHEL due to SystemD; they'll just resist upgrading until they NEED an updated framework they cannot get off the epel or ius repositories, or until PCI or HIPAA compliance requirements forces them to move out of the stone age.
The wealthy have an interesting sense of entitlement; they accuse the poor of having an "entitlemernt" mentality but they are projecting upon the poor.
Apple is a good example of this.
So are the music and film industries.
How?
Apple's revenue decreased slightly, but is still close to a quarter of a trillion dollars, eclipsing the revenue of its closest competitors combined. And yet, they're still achieving astounding numbers in a supersaturated market with intense competition. They've beating everyone else by a wide margin, and the board isn't happy with that. They aren't happy that Apple is maintaining its lead and tremendously profitable numbers, and they're punishing Cook for results that anyone else can only dream of.
That is entitlement right there; when obscene profits aren't enough, or they consider a slight decline in sales while maintaining leadership and near-record-breaking profits to be a loss.
Where did GP claim that mankind is the only source of burning fossil fuels?
Yes, we are aware of coal pits that a burning as result of lightning strikes or other natural phenomena.
But, the CO2 released is miniscule compared to how we're willfully fucking up the only known habitable planet.
> so, the poors that can only use Linux because they can't afford PCs or macs now have a vested interest in Linux succeeding because a) they want the free ride to continue and b) they can claim some level of expertise for a nice computer janitor job
For a "janitor job" it pays extremely well - certainly better than your mop janitor job. ;)
> now you get to SCO vs IBM. If IBM wins, AIX becomes the standard Unix instead of smelly hippie free "as in beer and speech!!!!" Linux
Linux != UNIX. It never was, and was never intended to be. It was intended to work just like Linux, but free of UNIX licensing constraints. It is a UNIX clone. That it usurped UNIX's throne everywhere from appliances to big iron, from lowly tablets to the largest supercomputers only serves as a testimony to its relative stability and extensibility. Is it the perfect UNIX-like OS? Certainly not... but it is a very solidly competent jack of all trades.
Regarding your use of the term "the poors": I'm assuming you're a white trash Trump supporter living in a red state who benefits from the wealthy blue states' paying more taxes.
American politics are truly fucked up: the blue states pay the highest taxes because they are the wealthiest. The blue states basically vote to tax themselves more so the red states can get more assistance.. and the red states are voting against it... and based on your post, I'm assuming you're one of those idiots voting against their own best interest.
Except, with the S7, Samsung has abandoned MHL
Also, Jabba (and Boba Fett) made it into the Star Wars graphic novels.
He originally was (the scenes were shot and can be seen on youtube) but Lucas cut them because the budget and schedule didn't allow for the extra special effects.
using a piercing would likely be far less painful than magnetic methods. Have you ever tried novelty magnetic earrings, or clip-on earrings? They fucking hurt, while piercings do not once they are healed.
> Back in the day, someone dedicated could learn everything he had about a system, from the CPU, registers, RAM, I/O, video, etc. It was relatively simple.
And fully documented, in a real manual.
> Had an LED watch at one time too, so tech isn't something I shy away from.
Ugh. My first digital watch was a Star Wars LED watch. I thought it was awesome at the time... but in my defense, I was only five years old.
I have a smartwatch - a Gear S2. I bought it after I learned how much the Vivofit devices suck... Gear S2 + S Health is excellent for tracking my workouts - and I will be upgrading to the Gear S3 Frontier soon as it will be nice to be able to leave my phone behind -- no need to worry about damaging the phone when skating or hiking and climbing. :)
I wouldn't be worried about the phone if Samsung and Apple weren't in a competition to make the sharpest, thinnest phone possible. I'd rather the phone be a bit thicker and resistant to damage, retain the headphone jack, a replaceable battery, and not dig into my hand when I am holding it.
As an example of a rugged phone, I literally ran over my iPhone 4 on a stone driveway with my car. Damage was limited to a few of small chips out of the glass (so clearly a lot of pressure was on the phone if stones were able to dig chips out of the glass) - and the digitiser was completely unaffected and the phone did not bend and it still works to this day (I keep my old phones as spares).
Meanwhile, the iPhone 6+ gets trashed just from people sitting with the phones in their pockets. Is it user error? Eh, not really, because one would expect a cellphone to be more stuff than a piece of cardboard. Samsung phones will be exactly the same way if they keep trying to make their phones thinner.
But yeah... I use a smartwatch for fitness tracking, and One Of These Days When I Have Free Time(tm) I'll work on a couple of app ideas I've been kicking around for a while.
An interesting legal issue; what will happen when (not if) one of their vehicles is involved in a hit & run collision, and for the traffic violations? If the decision makers at Uber are willing to take on the felony charges and traffic violations and do time or pay the fines out of their own personal pockets when this happens then we should be all for them testing without the proper permits and no drivers in the vehicles.
> Don't forget the dangers of solar energy production.
> I can barely sleep at night worrying about the possibility of a solar leak
We have it under good authority (Bobby Mann) that solar panels will suck all the energy from the sun and burn it out. We need to fight against the liberal solar agenda to prevent this catastrophe. What, facts? Science? Those are just more liberal propaganda. Facts don't actually exist, according to Scottie Nell Hughes. ;)
The GOP is highly unlikely to impeach him though. So, convicting him for his abusing the office to enrich his own pockets (as he is already doing) will have to wait until at least after the mid-term elections.
I fear the drama is just beginning.
Why?
Because various gadgets' software often require Windows or a Mac to function. If they subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud, they'll be on Windows or a Mac (gimp is NOT a Photoshop replacement, and there is no F/OSS photo processing/lightroom software as good and easy to use as Lightroom). If they're into 3D gaming (3D Vision) they'll be running Windows. If they're running $GameNotOnSteam, they'll be running on Windows rather than mess with Linux + Crossover Office and find it doesn't work out of the box.
Yes, it is, and it is actually gaining popularity thanks to Samsung Gear, Google Cardboard, and others who are starting to make inroads into the market.
Keep the SD slot and headphone jack, and I'll upgrade from my S7 Edge. Nix the headphone slot, the S7 Edge will be the last Samsung phone I buy until/unless Samsung come to their senses.
The actual quote:
Ginni Rometty did not indicate that IBM would hire Americans. They would hire " 25,000 professionals in the next four years in the United States" - and Ginni did not specify "additional." For all we know they could be laying off 25K Americans and be bringing in 25K H1-B and L-1 workers to replace them.
Next paragraph:
See? It is nothing but DoublePlusGood DoubleSpeak.
You forget that Jobs was maniacal about motherboard (oh excuse me: "logic board") layout - not for efficiency or reliability but specifically so the board looked cool. That it often compromised performance and reliability was no matter. It had to LOOK good. Jobs valued form over function - which is stupid when you consider that a a computer is a tool. Sure, make the case look cool, but don't compromise performance, efficiency, or reliability for the sake of the inner components of a machine "looking cool."
You know, a simple "Thank you for finding this flaw in our product. Here is a $check as our thank you for finding this and reporting it before the $BadGuys exploited it."