You missed the tongue-in-cheek nature of my message. You also missed my clearly-stated point: How can you expect phone calls to be considered private when you can be heard through the whole restaurant and the person you're talking to can be heard 3 tables down?
The FBI is saying phone calls placed when in public have no expectation of privacy. I was, in a joking manner, pointing out where they get that notion.
I blame the assholes who use speakerphone and almost-yell in the middle of restaurants. How can you expect phone calls to be considered private when you can be heard through the whole restaurant and the person you're talking to can be heard 3 tables down?
Officially, only 8GB, but it'll happily use 16GB if you install it yourself. Not sure on the older models, though; look up your model identifier (from System Information -> System Report -> Hardware) on everymac.com to find out for sure. I'd really love to still be running Snow Leopard, but it's really not a great idea; the NTP and Shellshock issues aren't the only security issues Apple has fixed since SL stopped getting updates. Hell, they're not even the worst of the lot.
I have an 11" Vaio tablet convertible running Ubuntu for travel and a Vaio laptop that's on par with my MBP specs-wise running Win7 for audio/video work and Windows-based testing. I have no interest in paying a premium price for a machine I can't upgrade (the Vaio tablet more or less falls into that category, but I didn't pay a premium price for it), so the current MacBook (including Pro) lineup is out as far as I'm concerned.
Good tip on the iPad as a second display. I've been using AirDisplay for some time now and absolutely love it. Between the laptop display, 2 flat panels, my iPad, and my Android phone, I have 5 display when at my desk, and I love it. Skype and iMessage go on the iPad and notifications get shoved onto the phone, so I can put those screens out of view when I need to work uninterrupted or any period of time.
Wrong anyway as well, in Europe certainly more than 20% of the smartphone owners have an iPhone.
Did you also not notice that he said "of the world market"?
Perhaps bottom line they last longer
I've never broken an Android phone, or had one die on me. I have a friend who dropped an Atrix2 and cracked its screen; he's also purposely destroyed several Android phones after upgrading because he's paranoid about his data being pulled off it if he sells it or trades it in. That's the extent of dead Android phones I've seen: one accidental and several on-purpose. Meanwhile, my wife is the only iPhone owner I know who hasn't had an iPhone fail. Not break due to being dropped or mishandled, but outright fail, though there has been some amount of screen-breakage there, as well. For the record, there's about a 50/50 split between Android and iPhone in my circles, ignoring other platforms.
I know, I know, anecdote and small sample size. Whatever.
As for me, personally, I've always been in the market for my next phone since the day I bought my first phone, so we're going on 15 years now. From my first candy-bar style phone, to my first flip phone, the first MP3-capable phone (made by Samsung back in the day), a couple Nokias with flip-out keyboards (I loved those!), a handful of BlackBerry models, a Palm Pixi+ (great OS, shit-tier hardware), then an iPhone 3Gs, before my first Android phone, of which I've had 6 including my current model and an HD2 (WP6-based) I unlocked to run CM7. Each model was lacking something but, for some reason, I've stopped looking for a new phone since I got my LG G3.
Of the 20 or so phones I've used in the last 15 years, the one I used for the shortest period was the iPhone. Not because I don't like iOS, I love my iPad; iOS simply doesn't agree with how I (and many people I know) use a phone.
No idea why everybody who owns a Mac or iOS device is insulted/titled as a fanboi/fanboy:D
Once again:
Sent from my MacBook Pro.
We aren't all titled as fanboys. Some of us don't prop up a company without merit. Don't get me wrong, I love my MBP, but it (a mid-2011 17" model) is the last laptop Apple made that actually caught my attention long enough to finish reading the spec sheet. Fortunately, with 16GB of RAM and a high-end SSD, it's looking like it'll last me until Apple decides it's not worthy of a version of OSX that still gets security updates; hopefully they bring back 17" displays by then, or I'll end up seeing how well the then-current version of Windows runs on it (sadly, I need Adobe products for my work; I have to be able to open what my clients send me and designers aren't using OSS tools, no matter how much one might want to wish; otherwise, I happen to know it runs Ubuntu quite nicely).
And if the company's mail server passes mail over port 25 (where even Google doesn't support TLS or SSL)? You do realize this is the default for 90+% of mail servers, right?
The content is licensed for where it is being viewed. So a U.S.A. person who travels to the U.K. should only see content licensed for the U.K.
Nope. If you're a US user and you travel out of the country, it lets you log in to manage the account, but you can't stream a damn thing. Nothing. Period. Not the US content, not the local content where you happen to be. Nothing. But they're still happy to take your money and the studios are still happy to collect royalties while providing you literally nothing but an account management interface. No product, whatsoever.
This isn't a pricing issue at all. People are perfectly willing to pay the current pricing and the studios are simply unwilling to sell to them. What I'd like to see (and what I think would be the most profitable across the board) is Netflix North America, Netflix Mexic, Netflix Frace, etc, each available as their own subscription service, defaulting to the user's local content. That way, users subscribe to what they want and if they want content from, say, the US and France, they pay for both subscriptions. If Netflix costs 2x as much in France, so be it, let US subscribers pay the same price French subscribers pay for French content and let French subscribers pay the same price US subscribers pay for US content.
Simply making other regions' content available on a secondary subscription basis means more people will pay for those secondary subscriptions so they can legally access that content. Not doing so means the studios are missing out, since Netflix pays them royalties on a per-subscriber basis. Sure, it means giving up a little bit of control, but control doesn't pay the bills. Cash does, and this would net them more of it.
Okay, that's great, neither am I so, please, allow me to explain this for you in simple terms. nVidia's Windows drivers outperform their binary blob Linux and BSD drivers by a decent margin, AMD's OSS driver is beating their Windows drivers in some benchmarks and on par with the Windows drivers in others. Basically, unless you're running OSX, AMD clearly has the better solution; if you're running OSX it's a bit less clear, but it also doesn't matter nearly as much since you're kind of stuck with what Apple ships unless you're hackintoshing, in which case you're limited by what you can find drivers for.
as well as water vapor that can form heat-trapping clouds...
QUICK! DRAIN THE FUCKING OCEANS! 70% of the surface of the planet is trying to kill us all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!one1111111eleven!
Seriously, global warming theorists, if water vapor is near enough to the top of your list that you actually tout it as an argument for... well... anything... Really? You expect to be taken seriously with that shit?
Now, I'm no climatologist, but from where I'm sitting, with arguments like that, the whole thing sounds like bullshit to me. If you're right, stick to the strong arguments; if you're wrong, piss off. Just don't make lame arguments like that, as they're prone to making the problem worse (assuming there is one) by making you, the messenger, look like a fool. Nobody wants to listen to a fool.
I love shopping. I hate pushing my way through the inconsiderate and unaware masses at stores like Target and Walmart. There's a difference; one brings me some enjoyment and the other makes me wonder if prison would really be that bad.
That's a great system. It's actually what I did before the PO system, and it worked well until I met my wife. She has an interesting definition of "need".;)
It works for everything. It's greatly reduced the number of regrettable purchases (there are still products that look good in the store but turn out to be complete garbage) and completely eliminated regrettable impulse purchases.
You have to be willing to hold yourself to the PO system, though; you won't know until you try.
I was going to fully agree with your comment, until I read this gem:
better they track me so they put stuff i buy up front rather than me having to walk through the whole store
You think they'll bring the products you want to the front of the store just because they see that you buy them a lot? That's naively cute. It's also dead wrong.
They want you to walk through the whole store. That's how they convince you to spend more. The 2 items you're there for are almost guaranteed to be at the back of the store, on opposite sides, once they start tracking you, for that very reason. Enjoy.
Of course, they do the same thing now based entirely on sales records. This will just make it more efficient by allowing them to determine where mot people travel before finding what they're looking for, so they can optimize placement of high-margin impulse buys for customers who aren't walking the entire store.
I'm fine with this, anyway, as I've started running my household budget the same way I run my business budget: a PO for every purchase. For household, I do attach a discretionary budget to each PO, so if I see some new product I want to try, I can, but I can't fill my cart with every piece of crap they line the aisles with. The only exception to this is entertainment; if I'm actually setting out to blow money on shit I don't need, trust me when I say I know how to do that.
It hasn't killed the fun of shopping, either; I still shop. A lot. I just don't buy unless I've filled out a household PO, which actually makes the shopping trip more enjoyable, as I don't have to think about budget or if I have room in the car for whatever I'm looking at; it simply doesn't matter, it's not coming home with me today, anyway. If I absolutely must have it right now, I can always talk to my wife and we can agree on a provisional PO for that item. That works both ways, too, and has stopped her from coming home with several-hundred dollar purses on a whim (while giving me a list of awesome gift ideas); and she knows all she really has to do is come home, fill out a PO, and go buy it, so if she really wanted it that badly, she would.
They're not what they were 14 years ago when I worked there, either. They were starting their decline around that time and I'm surprised they've lasted this long, honestly. Sad, I loved the place as a kid, which is why it was one of my first jobs as an adult (my first was within walking distance until I could afford a car).
Interesting info. I've only encountered production automotive and small marine engines, which explains why I've never seen it. Looks like someone decided it would be a good idea to add yet another somewhat fragile hydraulic system to our vehicles while, at the same time, removing a safety feature (physical timing restrictions) and sought out to develop this after all.
It'll be interesting, when these hit the market, to see how they fare in terms of longevity. I'm sure they perform great, but what good is that if you have to rebuild it every few thousand miles?
We weren't talking about IDS, we were talking about audits. I wasn't arguing, but rather pointing out, for those who may not realize, that audits alone do not catch competent attacks.
Do you know at all how VVT works? There are 2 distinct types of VVT systems I have encountered and both use cam rods. One has different sets of lobes (the most I've seen is 3) for discreet, still hardware-limited, valve timing, while the other uses an adjustable gear at the end of the camshaft, allowing maybe 15-20 degrees of adjustment in total; still hardware-limited. The VVT systems I've seen have all been configured such that the earliest and latest physically possible timings were still well within safe operating parameters.
Did you think the valves were individually operated by servos? Pull your valve cover and take a look sometime; it's at most a dozen bolts, most likely all 10mm.
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Way to miss an opportunity to quote Wargames.
The nipple is part of the breast. Men have nipples. If A-B and B-C, then A-C.
I can still have my fun, no?
You missed the tongue-in-cheek nature of my message. You also missed my clearly-stated point: How can you expect phone calls to be considered private when you can be heard through the whole restaurant and the person you're talking to can be heard 3 tables down?
The FBI is saying phone calls placed when in public have no expectation of privacy. I was, in a joking manner, pointing out where they get that notion.
I blame the assholes who use speakerphone and almost-yell in the middle of restaurants. How can you expect phone calls to be considered private when you can be heard through the whole restaurant and the person you're talking to can be heard 3 tables down?
Officially, only 8GB, but it'll happily use 16GB if you install it yourself. Not sure on the older models, though; look up your model identifier (from System Information -> System Report -> Hardware) on everymac.com to find out for sure. I'd really love to still be running Snow Leopard, but it's really not a great idea; the NTP and Shellshock issues aren't the only security issues Apple has fixed since SL stopped getting updates. Hell, they're not even the worst of the lot.
I have an 11" Vaio tablet convertible running Ubuntu for travel and a Vaio laptop that's on par with my MBP specs-wise running Win7 for audio/video work and Windows-based testing. I have no interest in paying a premium price for a machine I can't upgrade (the Vaio tablet more or less falls into that category, but I didn't pay a premium price for it), so the current MacBook (including Pro) lineup is out as far as I'm concerned.
Good tip on the iPad as a second display. I've been using AirDisplay for some time now and absolutely love it. Between the laptop display, 2 flat panels, my iPad, and my Android phone, I have 5 display when at my desk, and I love it. Skype and iMessage go on the iPad and notifications get shoved onto the phone, so I can put those screens out of view when I need to work uninterrupted or any period of time.
Wrong anyway as well, in Europe certainly more than 20% of the smartphone owners have an iPhone.
Did you also not notice that he said "of the world market"?
Perhaps bottom line they last longer
I've never broken an Android phone, or had one die on me. I have a friend who dropped an Atrix2 and cracked its screen; he's also purposely destroyed several Android phones after upgrading because he's paranoid about his data being pulled off it if he sells it or trades it in. That's the extent of dead Android phones I've seen: one accidental and several on-purpose. Meanwhile, my wife is the only iPhone owner I know who hasn't had an iPhone fail. Not break due to being dropped or mishandled, but outright fail, though there has been some amount of screen-breakage there, as well. For the record, there's about a 50/50 split between Android and iPhone in my circles, ignoring other platforms.
I know, I know, anecdote and small sample size. Whatever.
As for me, personally, I've always been in the market for my next phone since the day I bought my first phone, so we're going on 15 years now. From my first candy-bar style phone, to my first flip phone, the first MP3-capable phone (made by Samsung back in the day), a couple Nokias with flip-out keyboards (I loved those!), a handful of BlackBerry models, a Palm Pixi+ (great OS, shit-tier hardware), then an iPhone 3Gs, before my first Android phone, of which I've had 6 including my current model and an HD2 (WP6-based) I unlocked to run CM7. Each model was lacking something but, for some reason, I've stopped looking for a new phone since I got my LG G3.
Of the 20 or so phones I've used in the last 15 years, the one I used for the shortest period was the iPhone. Not because I don't like iOS, I love my iPad; iOS simply doesn't agree with how I (and many people I know) use a phone.
No idea why everybody who owns a Mac or iOS device is insulted/titled as a fanboi/fanboy :D
Once again:
Sent from my MacBook Pro.
We aren't all titled as fanboys. Some of us don't prop up a company without merit. Don't get me wrong, I love my MBP, but it (a mid-2011 17" model) is the last laptop Apple made that actually caught my attention long enough to finish reading the spec sheet. Fortunately, with 16GB of RAM and a high-end SSD, it's looking like it'll last me until Apple decides it's not worthy of a version of OSX that still gets security updates; hopefully they bring back 17" displays by then, or I'll end up seeing how well the then-current version of Windows runs on it (sadly, I need Adobe products for my work; I have to be able to open what my clients send me and designers aren't using OSS tools, no matter how much one might want to wish; otherwise, I happen to know it runs Ubuntu quite nicely).
Android is basically 80% of the worldwide market for smartphones. Apple do really well in the US, but not so much overseas.
You must have missed that in your haste to demonstrate what a raving fanboi you are.
Sent from my MacBook Pro.
You quoted the footnote marker, but not the footnote. Go back and read it.
And if the company's mail server passes mail over port 25 (where even Google doesn't support TLS or SSL)? You do realize this is the default for 90+% of mail servers, right?
The content is licensed for where it is being viewed. So a U.S.A. person who travels to the U.K. should only see content licensed for the U.K.
Nope. If you're a US user and you travel out of the country, it lets you log in to manage the account, but you can't stream a damn thing. Nothing. Period. Not the US content, not the local content where you happen to be. Nothing. But they're still happy to take your money and the studios are still happy to collect royalties while providing you literally nothing but an account management interface. No product, whatsoever.
Unless you use a VPN, that is.
This isn't a pricing issue at all. People are perfectly willing to pay the current pricing and the studios are simply unwilling to sell to them. What I'd like to see (and what I think would be the most profitable across the board) is Netflix North America, Netflix Mexic, Netflix Frace, etc, each available as their own subscription service, defaulting to the user's local content. That way, users subscribe to what they want and if they want content from, say, the US and France, they pay for both subscriptions. If Netflix costs 2x as much in France, so be it, let US subscribers pay the same price French subscribers pay for French content and let French subscribers pay the same price US subscribers pay for US content.
Simply making other regions' content available on a secondary subscription basis means more people will pay for those secondary subscriptions so they can legally access that content. Not doing so means the studios are missing out, since Netflix pays them royalties on a per-subscriber basis. Sure, it means giving up a little bit of control, but control doesn't pay the bills. Cash does, and this would net them more of it.
Linux is about open source.
No, Linux is a tool. So are you, but Linux is at least useful.
Okay, that's great, neither am I so, please, allow me to explain this for you in simple terms. nVidia's Windows drivers outperform their binary blob Linux and BSD drivers by a decent margin, AMD's OSS driver is beating their Windows drivers in some benchmarks and on par with the Windows drivers in others. Basically, unless you're running OSX, AMD clearly has the better solution; if you're running OSX it's a bit less clear, but it also doesn't matter nearly as much since you're kind of stuck with what Apple ships unless you're hackintoshing, in which case you're limited by what you can find drivers for.
as well as water vapor that can form heat-trapping clouds...
QUICK! DRAIN THE FUCKING OCEANS! 70% of the surface of the planet is trying to kill us all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!one1111111eleven!
Seriously, global warming theorists, if water vapor is near enough to the top of your list that you actually tout it as an argument for... well... anything... Really? You expect to be taken seriously with that shit?
Now, I'm no climatologist, but from where I'm sitting, with arguments like that, the whole thing sounds like bullshit to me. If you're right, stick to the strong arguments; if you're wrong, piss off. Just don't make lame arguments like that, as they're prone to making the problem worse (assuming there is one) by making you, the messenger, look like a fool. Nobody wants to listen to a fool.
Because when you connect to your mail server using SSL, it then turns around and passes it along to the next in plaintext.
I love shopping. I hate pushing my way through the inconsiderate and unaware masses at stores like Target and Walmart. There's a difference; one brings me some enjoyment and the other makes me wonder if prison would really be that bad.
That's a great system. It's actually what I did before the PO system, and it worked well until I met my wife. She has an interesting definition of "need". ;)
It works for everything. It's greatly reduced the number of regrettable purchases (there are still products that look good in the store but turn out to be complete garbage) and completely eliminated regrettable impulse purchases.
You have to be willing to hold yourself to the PO system, though; you won't know until you try.
better they track me so they put stuff i buy up front rather than me having to walk through the whole store
You think they'll bring the products you want to the front of the store just because they see that you buy them a lot? That's naively cute. It's also dead wrong.
They want you to walk through the whole store. That's how they convince you to spend more. The 2 items you're there for are almost guaranteed to be at the back of the store, on opposite sides, once they start tracking you, for that very reason. Enjoy.
Of course, they do the same thing now based entirely on sales records. This will just make it more efficient by allowing them to determine where mot people travel before finding what they're looking for, so they can optimize placement of high-margin impulse buys for customers who aren't walking the entire store.
I'm fine with this, anyway, as I've started running my household budget the same way I run my business budget: a PO for every purchase. For household, I do attach a discretionary budget to each PO, so if I see some new product I want to try, I can, but I can't fill my cart with every piece of crap they line the aisles with. The only exception to this is entertainment; if I'm actually setting out to blow money on shit I don't need, trust me when I say I know how to do that.
It hasn't killed the fun of shopping, either; I still shop. A lot. I just don't buy unless I've filled out a household PO, which actually makes the shopping trip more enjoyable, as I don't have to think about budget or if I have room in the car for whatever I'm looking at; it simply doesn't matter, it's not coming home with me today, anyway. If I absolutely must have it right now, I can always talk to my wife and we can agree on a provisional PO for that item. That works both ways, too, and has stopped her from coming home with several-hundred dollar purses on a whim (while giving me a list of awesome gift ideas); and she knows all she really has to do is come home, fill out a PO, and go buy it, so if she really wanted it that badly, she would.
Try it. You might get into it.
They're not what they were 14 years ago when I worked there, either. They were starting their decline around that time and I'm surprised they've lasted this long, honestly. Sad, I loved the place as a kid, which is why it was one of my first jobs as an adult (my first was within walking distance until I could afford a car).
Interesting info. I've only encountered production automotive and small marine engines, which explains why I've never seen it. Looks like someone decided it would be a good idea to add yet another somewhat fragile hydraulic system to our vehicles while, at the same time, removing a safety feature (physical timing restrictions) and sought out to develop this after all.
It'll be interesting, when these hit the market, to see how they fare in terms of longevity. I'm sure they perform great, but what good is that if you have to rebuild it every few thousand miles?
We weren't talking about IDS, we were talking about audits. I wasn't arguing, but rather pointing out, for those who may not realize, that audits alone do not catch competent attacks.
That's not an audit, that's an intrusion detection mechanism. You can't redefine industry standard terms to make your argument.
Do you know at all how VVT works? There are 2 distinct types of VVT systems I have encountered and both use cam rods. One has different sets of lobes (the most I've seen is 3) for discreet, still hardware-limited, valve timing, while the other uses an adjustable gear at the end of the camshaft, allowing maybe 15-20 degrees of adjustment in total; still hardware-limited. The VVT systems I've seen have all been configured such that the earliest and latest physically possible timings were still well within safe operating parameters.
Did you think the valves were individually operated by servos? Pull your valve cover and take a look sometime; it's at most a dozen bolts, most likely all 10mm.