Just signed 702 Bill to authorize foreign intelligence collection," Trump tweeted. "This is NOT the same FISA law that was so wrongly abused during the election.
Are people really dumb enough to believe this? It’s just as bad as it ever was and still allows warrantless surveillance with pretty much non-existent oversight.
They really don't give a damn about anything that runs OS X these days and it's a shame. You'd think with all the money they have they'd be willing to take some risks and innovate.
Innovate? Uh, hello....? Apple has definitely been innovating!
Non-user removable laptop batteries? Soldered in RAM? Non-user removable hard drives?
It seems that these companies (Microsoft and Ubuntu and others) are forgetting everything about sound software development practices here. They're in such a hurry to deploy patches that they aren't taking the time to fully test them. The cure is worse than the ailment.
Is it really that they are forgetting or do they just not care?
1. No headphone jack. Will stick with the 5s until it dies.
2. No DVD writer. Will stick with my ancient MacBook Pro until it dies. Already updated to 16gb and SSD, so there.
The iMac Pro is only worth its price to those who can expense it. I can't.
I'm with you but don't even know if it is worth the price for people who can expense it.
It's time to look elsewhere when a manufacturer starts intentionally making a product difficult to upgrade so that you will either use their upgrade service, buy their dongles, or max it out at the time of purchase.
Computers changed the hub model. Before computers, linking 3 hops for hundreds of people was impossible. So if you flew everyone into a hub at 11 a.m., then out of the hub at 1 p.m., you had a 2 hour window, and could get anyone from anywhere to everywhere.
With early computers, you could have more flights, and more complex connections. Today, with more powerful computers, you optimize passengers, not routes, and we learn that mesh routes are best, and the demand/sales is analyzed to predict where to put planes to minimize costs for a passenger (remember, a old hub style required two flight, unless you lived in, or were flying to, a hub). Also, as you fly mesh routes, you cut travel time, which increases demand.
Hub makes sense for flying from US to Europe, where you fly JFK to Heathrow, But within a market, hubs are dying.
I kind of liked the hub model in 1990. Seats were more spacious and the flight crew were pleasant and not overworked. They even gave free food on the airplanes and transported my luggage for free.
Are you saying that computers and the mesh routing have taken that all away from me?
The sale was more than likely schedule well in advance of that date - which would be before the defect was reported. As such he is not trading on insider information since he was not relying on any insider information. It doesn't necessary look good, and if he were interested in the optics of it -- he could have cancelled it... but it was not a requirement. The majority of his assets are likely Intel stock by the fact he gets paid in it - and financially it makes sense to diversify - especially with the renewed competition with AMD.
So lucky, bad optics, but nothing illegal.
Also, The stock price is actually at or above the price that it was in November...
What you mean to say is that the stock sale was scheduled in advance, so he just pushed the announcement of the security exploit back by a few months to prevent himself from losing millions.
This just goes to show how people's expectations and tolerances get more and more demanding (and forgetful) over time as technology improves.
Before Apple and others made this move to maximize battery space by removing the capability to user-replace, everyone complained about battery life.
Now, despite battery life being hours more than before, we forget how much benefit the capacity benefit has brought, and move on to the next complaint about how the battery isn't user replaceable and eats into performance when it gets old (mind you, performing and delivering usable hours far beyond what was possible before).
So users, which is it? Is this not the nightmare of technology developers, when people keep on demanding the next thing, and you no longer get acknowledgement / it's just table stakes for the achievements you've made so far.
Well, since you bring this up, users are now complaining about: (1) battery life, (2) decreased phone performance with age, (3) the missing headphone jack ("courage"), and (4) the inability to simultaneously charge the phone while using wired headphones.
Seriously, read that last sentence again and think about how that could possibly bring the user an improved experience.
You get acknowledgement for achievements made so far when you actually make them. Instead, all I see is them removing hardware capability while adding 0.25 GHz of processing overhead per update for all their "features" like BS bitmojis and animations. How do I buy the iOS verison for people over the age of 12?
They did the same thing to the Mac Pro on its last redesign. You can't replace anything, but it sure is pretty streamlined... until you connect the time machine, RAID drive, DVD player, mouse, keyboard, monitor, and 50,000 adapters needed to do any real work.
Apple has started making idiotic design decisions and they need to get back on track.
"A bit inconvenienced". Sure. Tell that to your kid on Christmas eve when you don't have the toy he sooooo wanted because Amazon shipped it in a cardboard box and the delivery guy wanted to find out whether he can punt it directly to your door.
Don't order gifts at the last minute and you won't have that problem. Just because you get two-day shipping doesn't mean you should wait to order all your gifts until December 20th! Or if you really have a problem with their approach, go to a brick and mortar store!
Also, I don't think Amazon actually wants your product to get broken. Then it costs them two products + three shipping fees. So they are probably working hard to keep the packages safe.
Do think about all the years spent looking through store after store to find what you wanted. In traffic. In the snow. Fighting all the other shoppers. Even if you don't shop online exclusively, it is really nice to have that option nowadays!
Before assuming you'll be screwed over by the tax plan, I suggest using the nytimes' calculator to see what your tax changes will be. As it stands, virtually no poor or middle class citizens will see a tax increase. https://www.nytimes.com/intera... (I myself will see a few thousand dollar decrease in taxes)
As has been very widely reported the tax bill is front loaded with expiring sweeteners for the Middle Class that expire after some years, while the tax cuts for corporations and the rich do not ever expire.
This is more than a bit like "introductory interest rates" on loans or credit cards that jump up after a period of time.
You don't understand. This tax plan is intended to help the middle class.
It will make them try harder to be richer, so that their tax cuts will never expire.
The Republicans are all about you helping yourself!
If the patient forges the doctor's prescription, that should be on the patient!
It has always irked me that you need an eye doctor's prescription to get lenses or contacts. I view it as collusion between the optometrists and the lens providers since the prescription expires after a period of time.
They are my eyes. I should be able to do whatever I want to them. Make me sign a legal disclaimer, but let me have control over my own prescription!
You must make over $276K a year or not live in Silicon Valley then?
I'm not sure how I even feel about this. On one hand, it sucks to be upside down like that. On the other hand, if you can't make ends meet in an area like that, it's probably time to bite the bullet and move elsewhere. You should not have to live as a modern day serf.
You may not be able to live in California, but you will be able to live in a house with food. (And I type this as someone who moved away from California.)
Ok.. and do tourists, visitors to America, people on work visa's, etc, do they need to register their drone if they decided to bring one with them on their trip?
How is that going to work?
They don't need to register their drone if they want to extend their vacation in Guantanamo.
But didn't you hear? Trump's building a wall, so they won't be coming anyway.
Xeon CPUs and powerful GPUs inside a pointlessly thin computer with a built-in display? What for? Who the fuck asked for this?
Either the internal heat will kill components prematurely or the thing will make even more jet noise than an old PowerPC G4 tower.
They are redesigning the Mac Pro to be modular again. They want to cash in on their desperate customers with the iMac Pro before they release it though!
I used to hate going to starbucks because it took 5-10 minutes of waiting in line just to order a cup of drip coffee. My time is too valuable to piss it away doing something like standing around.
Now i place my order from my phone as i am rolling out of the drive way in the morning. 7-9 minutes later when i get there it's on the counter with my name on it. They didn't need a person to take my order and no one had to wait. This is the what innovation is all about folks.
On a side note, when i go into starbucks to get my drink now, there normally isn't even a person working the register. Everyone is making drinks for mobile orders and the drive thru. Much more value added use of resources.
I bought a nice espresso machine for $300 (that's ~60 Starbucks drinks). Now i place my order in my own mind as i am rolling out of the bed in the morning. 7-9 minutes later it's on the counter with my name on it. I didn't need a person to take my order and no one had to wait. This is the what innovation is all about folks.
Something you will never hear an American ask themselves.
Generally speaking, when you are buying so much "shit" for so much cheaper than the rest of the world, there is a good chance that this is only possible because a lot of people down the line are being fucked. But hey... cheap tv for you so who give a fuck, am i right?
Ha ha! The article is about the UK. But maybe you didn't read it since this is/.
However, in the OP's blurb, the take home pay amount (160) was preceded by the pound symbol.
What is particularly impressive is not that your hate blinded you to reality, but that five other readers also modded you up as insightful.
I guess poor reading comprehension of news articles is not a uniquely American trait? But it's always easier to blame others than to look in the mirror.
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That's right, people are going to have to plug their headphones into something else, to listen to your music.
And I think we all know what they can plug.
Just signed 702 Bill to authorize foreign intelligence collection," Trump tweeted. "This is NOT the same FISA law that was so wrongly abused during the election.
Are people really dumb enough to believe this? It’s just as bad as it ever was and still allows warrantless surveillance with pretty much non-existent oversight.
But it's NOT the same! It's worse.
Oh man. I had to clean my monitor after drinking coffee and reading that one! Nice!
They really don't give a damn about anything that runs OS X these days and it's a shame. You'd think with all the money they have they'd be willing to take some risks and innovate.
Innovate? Uh, hello....? Apple has definitely been innovating!
Non-user removable laptop batteries? Soldered in RAM? Non-user removable hard drives?
No headphone jack!!!??
COURAGE!
It seems that these companies (Microsoft and Ubuntu and others) are forgetting everything about sound software development practices here. They're in such a hurry to deploy patches that they aren't taking the time to fully test them. The cure is worse than the ailment.
Is it really that they are forgetting or do they just not care?
Hello? Is this story even true?
We clearly don't trust Intel ... why would we trust Chinese CPUs??
Who is more likely to put in a backdoor for the NSA? Intel or China?
Yes.
1. No headphone jack. Will stick with the 5s until it dies.
2. No DVD writer. Will stick with my ancient MacBook Pro until it dies. Already updated to 16gb and SSD, so there.
The iMac Pro is only worth its price to those who can expense it. I can't.
I'm with you but don't even know if it is worth the price for people who can expense it.
It's time to look elsewhere when a manufacturer starts intentionally making a product difficult to upgrade so that you will either use their upgrade service, buy their dongles, or max it out at the time of purchase.
You say "SSD" like that means anything. Does YOUR SSD do writes on a fully encrypted partition at 2996MB/sec?
It better write fast because you will NEVER be replacing it!
Har har har!
Funny how unrelated things change everything.
Computers changed the hub model. Before computers, linking 3 hops for hundreds of people was impossible. So if you flew everyone into a hub at 11 a.m., then out of the hub at 1 p.m., you had a 2 hour window, and could get anyone from anywhere to everywhere.
With early computers, you could have more flights, and more complex connections. Today, with more powerful computers, you optimize passengers, not routes, and we learn that mesh routes are best, and the demand/sales is analyzed to predict where to put planes to minimize costs for a passenger (remember, a old hub style required two flight, unless you lived in, or were flying to, a hub). Also, as you fly mesh routes, you cut travel time, which increases demand.
Hub makes sense for flying from US to Europe, where you fly JFK to Heathrow, But within a market, hubs are dying.
I kind of liked the hub model in 1990. Seats were more spacious and the flight crew were pleasant and not overworked. They even gave free food on the airplanes and transported my luggage for free.
Are you saying that computers and the mesh routing have taken that all away from me?
The sale was more than likely schedule well in advance of that date - which would be before the defect was reported. As such he is not trading on insider information since he was not relying on any insider information. It doesn't necessary look good, and if he were interested in the optics of it -- he could have cancelled it... but it was not a requirement. The majority of his assets are likely Intel stock by the fact he gets paid in it - and financially it makes sense to diversify - especially with the renewed competition with AMD.
So lucky, bad optics, but nothing illegal.
Also, The stock price is actually at or above the price that it was in November...
What you mean to say is that the stock sale was scheduled in advance, so he just pushed the announcement of the security exploit back by a few months to prevent himself from losing millions.
There's more than one way to skin a cat, eh?
Close Facebook down.
You've made enough money Mark, now make the world a better place.
You just didn't watch long enough...
This just goes to show how people's expectations and tolerances get more and more demanding (and forgetful) over time as technology improves.
Before Apple and others made this move to maximize battery space by removing the capability to user-replace, everyone complained about battery life.
Now, despite battery life being hours more than before, we forget how much benefit the capacity benefit has brought, and move on to the next complaint about how the battery isn't user replaceable and eats into performance when it gets old (mind you, performing and delivering usable hours far beyond what was possible before).
So users, which is it? Is this not the nightmare of technology developers, when people keep on demanding the next thing, and you no longer get acknowledgement / it's just table stakes for the achievements you've made so far.
Well, since you bring this up, users are now complaining about: (1) battery life, (2) decreased phone performance with age, (3) the missing headphone jack ("courage"), and (4) the inability to simultaneously charge the phone while using wired headphones.
Seriously, read that last sentence again and think about how that could possibly bring the user an improved experience.
You get acknowledgement for achievements made so far when you actually make them. Instead, all I see is them removing hardware capability while adding 0.25 GHz of processing overhead per update for all their "features" like BS bitmojis and animations. How do I buy the iOS verison for people over the age of 12?
They did the same thing to the Mac Pro on its last redesign. You can't replace anything, but it sure is pretty streamlined... until you connect the time machine, RAID drive, DVD player, mouse, keyboard, monitor, and 50,000 adapters needed to do any real work.
Apple has started making idiotic design decisions and they need to get back on track.
is a much better teacher than any other college!
"A bit inconvenienced". Sure. Tell that to your kid on Christmas eve when you don't have the toy he sooooo wanted because Amazon shipped it in a cardboard box and the delivery guy wanted to find out whether he can punt it directly to your door.
Don't order gifts at the last minute and you won't have that problem. Just because you get two-day shipping doesn't mean you should wait to order all your gifts until December 20th! Or if you really have a problem with their approach, go to a brick and mortar store!
Also, I don't think Amazon actually wants your product to get broken. Then it costs them two products + three shipping fees. So they are probably working hard to keep the packages safe.
Do think about all the years spent looking through store after store to find what you wanted. In traffic. In the snow. Fighting all the other shoppers. Even if you don't shop online exclusively, it is really nice to have that option nowadays!
Before assuming you'll be screwed over by the tax plan, I suggest using the nytimes' calculator to see what your tax changes will be. As it stands, virtually no poor or middle class citizens will see a tax increase. https://www.nytimes.com/intera... (I myself will see a few thousand dollar decrease in taxes)
As has been very widely reported the tax bill is front loaded with expiring sweeteners for the Middle Class that expire after some years, while the tax cuts for corporations and the rich do not ever expire.
This is more than a bit like "introductory interest rates" on loans or credit cards that jump up after a period of time.
You don't understand. This tax plan is intended to help the middle class.
It will make them try harder to be richer, so that their tax cuts will never expire.
The Republicans are all about you helping yourself!
Yeah, just a rhetorical question -- which of you, here, has 'lost your grasp on reality' due to any tech being produced, anywhere?
You don't think that Facebook has caused people to lose their grasp of reality?
If the patient forges the doctor's prescription, that should be on the patient!
It has always irked me that you need an eye doctor's prescription to get lenses or contacts. I view it as collusion between the optometrists and the lens providers since the prescription expires after a period of time.
They are my eyes. I should be able to do whatever I want to them. Make me sign a legal disclaimer, but let me have control over my own prescription!
You must make over $276K a year or not live in Silicon Valley then?
I'm not sure how I even feel about this. On one hand, it sucks to be upside down like that. On the other hand, if you can't make ends meet in an area like that, it's probably time to bite the bullet and move elsewhere. You should not have to live as a modern day serf.
You may not be able to live in California, but you will be able to live in a house with food. (And I type this as someone who moved away from California.)
Ok .. and do tourists, visitors to America, people on work visa's, etc, do they need to register their drone if they decided to bring one with them on their trip?
How is that going to work?
They don't need to register their drone if they want to extend their vacation in Guantanamo.
But didn't you hear? Trump's building a wall, so they won't be coming anyway.
Xeon CPUs and powerful GPUs inside a pointlessly thin computer with a built-in display? What for? Who the fuck asked for this?
Either the internal heat will kill components prematurely or the thing will make even more jet noise than an old PowerPC G4 tower.
They are redesigning the Mac Pro to be modular again. They want to cash in on their desperate customers with the iMac Pro before they release it though!
I used to hate going to starbucks because it took 5-10 minutes of waiting in line just to order a cup of drip coffee. My time is too valuable to piss it away doing something like standing around.
Now i place my order from my phone as i am rolling out of the drive way in the morning. 7-9 minutes later when i get there it's on the counter with my name on it. They didn't need a person to take my order and no one had to wait. This is the what innovation is all about folks.
On a side note, when i go into starbucks to get my drink now, there normally isn't even a person working the register. Everyone is making drinks for mobile orders and the drive thru. Much more value added use of resources.
I bought a nice espresso machine for $300 (that's ~60 Starbucks drinks). Now i place my order in my own mind as i am rolling out of the bed in the morning. 7-9 minutes later it's on the counter with my name on it. I didn't need a person to take my order and no one had to wait. This is the what innovation is all about folks.
Glasses, surgery, steroids, cosmetic surgery, etc.
Not all bad, but not what nature intended when she designed natural selection.
Something you will never hear an American ask themselves.
Generally speaking, when you are buying so much "shit" for so much cheaper than the rest of the world, there is a good chance that this is only possible because a lot of people down the line are being fucked.
But hey... cheap tv for you so who give a fuck, am i right?
Ha ha! The article is about the UK. But maybe you didn't read it since this is /.
However, in the OP's blurb, the take home pay amount (160) was preceded by the pound symbol.
What is particularly impressive is not that your hate blinded you to reality, but that five other readers also modded you up as insightful.
I guess poor reading comprehension of news articles is not a uniquely American trait? But it's always easier to blame others than to look in the mirror.