. I know someone who just duplicates his array to a second set of disks once a month. If he's not doing the backup the disks are in the safety deposit box.
So if something goes badly wrong with the computer during the creation of the backup set, he's got nothing.
If you one is going to the trouble of a safety deposit box. Have at least 2 separate sets of disks in it, and rotate which set you use from month to month. That way all 3 sets are never in the same place, and NEVER all hooked up to the same computer at the same time.
No offense... but I read your post twice... and I seemed to have missed your point. You gave us quite a detailed description what languages you and people you know have been exposed to... and then just stopped.
I presumed you were somehow going to tie it back to the article or summary; but you never got around to it??
For my part I took french immersion in high school; and that was enough for me to completely agree with the summary; that the gestalt switch one makes to think -in- another language changes how one thinks. To the point where I'd be thinking in french and have to think very hard how to translate a thought back to English despite it being my first language.
I'm surprised this has only recently gotten any actual study?!
yo have to go to something that looks like a failure state before you can create a local account. fucking ridiculous.
Not quite. It prompts you to sign in with your existing Microsoft account. At the bottom of that screen, it says "Don't have one? And a link to "create a new account".
Contextually that, for a lot of people is interpreted to mean "Create a new Microsoft account" however, if you click it you are presented with an account creation page for a Microsoft account but at the bottom it offers another link "Sign in without a Microsoft account" and you can create a local account from there.
The fail state you refer to is the -other- way of reaching the same page -- where you enter dummy microsoft credentials in; force it to fail to login; and that lands you on a page where you can create a local account as well.
However, the "proper" way to reach the local account option is the first:
Create new Account Sign in without a Microsoft account
So its not as bad you suggest, I agree it's just obscure enough to be misleading.
For what its worth a lot of OEMs are shipping with a local user account pre-configured or are otherwise customizing it to create a local account by default.
I would only believe you if you are using the Microsoft Design Language variant.
I'm not even sure what that is. I'm guessing that's the Windows 8 full screen app version?
No, its just a regular Windows 7 PC with an i7, 16GB RAM, SSD, And IE11.
I don't know what to tell you. IE11 starts as fast as Chrome does; if anything I'd give the edge to IE11. However both are comfortably sub-second from launch to loaded and ready to use.
I've got an other older i7 windows 7, with spinning disk drives. Booted it up, fired up IE. Got about 1.5 seconds of the spinning cursor, then the window displayed and it was ready to go in under a second. Exited it. Subsequent launches lack the 1.5 seconds of spinning, and display and load the window immediately; ready to use still comfortably under a second. (And that is a first gen i7 from 2011.)
For the record, Firefox and Chrome were similiar. A second or so of busy-cursor before the window appeared; ready to use within half a second or so of the window appearing.
No other webbrowser does this and I can easily reproduce this on any Windows machine I get my hands on.
Again, not sure what to tell you. I have no stake in lying to you; and I have seen the behaviour you describe... of the IE window loading, and being able to type in the address bar, only to have it overwrite it and start loading the default home page. And I agree THAT is a flaw. But I've only seen it on crappy old low spec computers at the office. I just assumed it was slow computers.
However I do not have issues with IE loading slowly on my computers.
Perhaps its a plugin or addon? Perhaps its something to do with settings; for example perhaps you have it set to automatically look for your proxy settings -- that's known to cause a delay on startup with some systems?
Bottom line, assuming your telling the truth, and I'm happy to take you at face value, then there is something else going on, because IE does not have this issue on either Win7 computer here in my office, nor my laptop, nor that I use regularly, nor my Win8.1 HTPC i have in my living room.
I prefer Firefox myself; but do use IE from time to time, and it's not exhibiting the issue you describe.
Nope, still freezes up, then replaces the link I just wrote with about:blank. Still broken.
Mine doesn't give me remotely enough to even click in the address bar before its finished loading. Nevermind time to type in an address.
Presumably yours is loading slow enough that you have time to type something in the address box before its finished starting up; and then it autoloads the homes page after you've typed in an address as part of its start up?
Bug fix for IE should be to not allow text entry into the address bar until its finished starting up; or alternatively, if something is already in the address bar when its ready to load the homepage to just skip loading the home page.
Either way combining a slower computer with aggressive usage -- typing an address before its finished loading is a pretty minor defect easily worked around by simply waiting for the program to finish starting before you try and use it.
The slow start itself is just your hardware not inherent to IE. As I said, mine is nearly instantaneous.
As a gamer, with a gamer wife and a gamer son, I LOVE steam.
Do you only have one computer? Because that's the only scenario where steam family sharing isn't a steaming pile of ass.
The ability to share game purchases within my family by using the Steam app is just GOLD.
The restriction that if one person is playing a game from their library, no one else may use any other game from that library is ASS.
The only games that we need to buy multiple copies of are online games we want to play together.
If I'm playing Wolfenstein New Order -- my son can't play thing in my library.
Dicking around with online/offline mode is a crappy work around; which of course doesn't do anything for multiplayer games.
Steam needs to relax the restrictions on family accounts. And let you have up to 6 titles running at once from one library or something.
FFS I've got 200 games on the account, and another 200+ DLC. I've had the account nearly 10 years. I'm not stealing from them. I'm not a pirate.
And yes, the restriction is costing them sales. I actively seek to buy titles now on GoG if they carry it precisely because then my family isn't locked out if I'm playing something on steam; and we don't have to putz around with offline/online mode with those games.
I have bought multiple copies of games to play together Portal 2, and Torchlight 2 both come to mind as games i have a couple copies of so we can play together. But I have many other multiplayer games that we have no interest in playing together in my libary... but my son often wants to try them out, and many of them have online play. This shouldn't be restricted.
Steam isn't bad, I was pretty exicted when family sharing came out myself, but in practice its nearly worthless. Before family sharing my wife and kids just used my steam account to play my games when I wasn't using anything on the library. Now... they use there own account when I'm not using anything on the library. The only advantage that has brought? My son doesn't need his friends on my friends list anymore. Big fucking deal.
I can't build an impregnable vault that the government can't get into either if they are so inclined. But its still a pretty safe place to store valuables in the meantime.
The fact that a given hacker or government might be able to defeat a self-encrypting drive doesn't mean it necessarily won't defeat most people most of the time.
It is not supposed to be a way to generate revenue
I propose that all traffic fine revenue should simply be placed into a pot, and then distributed back each year to everyone with a vehicle insured in the jurisdiction. Then its revenue neutral to the police / government / state; and its only function is to be used as a punitive / disincentive to driving poorly. I figure that solves a lot problems.
A tax increase is required to offset it though since we'd have to fund the police enforcement directly. But that's a good thing.
Driving without a license plate and or parking in a handicapped spot does not put people into danger. It may be rude or even morally wrong but it is putting anyone in danger so it not reckless.
I agree. But I also wouldn't call 15mph over the limit to be reckless in a LOT of scenarios. It might be reckless in some scenarios... in others it is just going with the regular flow of traffic.
If you want to do fines right IMHO the first fine in a year should be 1 day the second 10 days and third 50 days and the fourth 100 days.
That's not half bad. I think it scales a bit too fast for regular speeding tickets, but for reckless driving... sure.
Now, you COULD get around this in a few ways- but ultimately, it's just a bad idea to trust hardware encryption. It is fundamentally not trustworthy.
As with all things, its a question of what you are trying to accomplish.
If you don't want to have your laptop stolen out of your car and then find your identity stolen a self-encrypting drive isn't a bad idea; and might work out quite well.
If your a suspected terrorist and want to keep the US or Chinese government out... no, its not good enough.
You "really hate" moving the year from the start to the finish?
I know I do. For two reasons:
Year at the front in YYYY-mm-dd format (with leading zeros on single digit months and days) lets you sort sort dates as text without having to do anything extra. That's more than a little bit convenient in a LOT of situations.
The other issue with mm-dd-YYYY is that is indistinguishable from dd-mm-YYYY for a stupidly large number of dates; and both versions are in common use -in english speaking countries (US is mm/dd/yyyy; UK is dd/mm/yyyy so its a nightmare.) I've seen documents with both formats used interchangeably.
If you see YYYY-nn-mm you KNOW its Year-month-day, because nobody anywhere ever uses YYYY-day-month.
The difference is this - to be "commercial" there has to be the intention and expectation of *making a profit* from your activities.
Intention is sufficient. One does not have to successful nor even expect to be successful for it to be commercial.
If the suggestion that he has made less than 1 dollar from this is true, then he is *not* in any reasonable sense a commercial drone operator.
Then I guess film production companies are a charity since they usually lose money; at least as far as the accounting is concerned.
I agree, when push comes to shove this guy is NOT a problem, and not what the FAA should be going after but they didn't single him out.
Someone *complained*, and they are required to follow up, and it *is* commercial activity... so here we are...
Did they throw the book at him? No. They warned him that he'd have to stop. I don't publish to youtube... can he not opt out of posting his videos with affiliate advertising?? If so... done.
I've seen a LOT more people down a flight of shooters than shotgun six beers in a row though.
And for this powder... i dunno... I could see people just eating it straight and letting it dissolve in their stomachs... or getting it moist and shoving it up their asses.
And I can definitely see them sneaking it it into schools, onto planes, into sports venues etc... not that any of these things don't happen with alcohol now. But if you make it easier it will happen more.
Targeting files that can easily be replaced by exactly the same means that they were gotten in the first place doesn't seem like a super brilliant move.
Presumably they'd be targeting the save games.
Given that PC gamers are by and large usually at least a bit technically savvy, and often very savvy going after the executables doesn't seem like a winning strategy. You'd catch someone I'm sure... but only a fraction of the audience would even care.
Then again... only a fraction of the audience is really that invested in their save games. The truly valuable stuff (relatively speaking) is all tied to mmo accounts (and therefore not stored on your PC anyway).
Other manufacturers have (even on thicker notebooks) either put the Ethernet-port in a bulge thicker than the rest of the computer, turned the port so the locking flap is always pressed (and the cable can easily be removed by accident), or use an proprietary adapter.
Hardly a universal truth; and if anything a distinct minority. I've seen lots of perfectly fine Ethernet ports on laptops from other manufacturers.
, and if every song using four chords is a derivative work
Alternatively, you could just argue that 4 chords by itself is not sufficient to make a copyright claim.
The 4 chords in a '4 chord song' are G, C, F, A And yes, if you play them in sequence at the right tempo, and then sing, you can do 100 pop songs. Big deal. The fact that songs as different sounding as Poker Face and No Woman No Cry rest on them just argues to what small degree the chord sequence is to the whole song.
Go ahead grab a guitar or a piano and just play G, C, F, A over and over again. You aren't playing anything. Not even the intro to Journey's Don't stop believing is as simple as that.
Its harmonic; and you can play along with Journey or a 100 other songs as compatible accompaniment; but you aren't playing the songs, anymore than you would be than if you were just keeping time by tapping your feet.
No, commerce represents the will of the people in the community. If you put up a strip club and nobody shows up and it goes out of business, that is the will of the community.
If 95% of the people don't want it in the community, the remaining 5% that patronize it can still keep it thriving; especially if its bringing traffic from outside the neighborhood its actually in as well.
Commercial viability vs the will of the community are not necessarily in alignment either.
If you want to put up a strip club and the government says no, that may or may not be the will of the community
In many of THOSE cases its government functioning as it should -- representing the will of the people in the community.
Lots of communities CITIZENS don't want strip clubs or pawn shops or porn shops or Walmarts or whatever; but they aren't illegal and the community can't outlaw them outright.. so the local government's mazes of red-tape to make opening such a business in the community difficult are simply a reflection of what the community wants implemented with the tools they have available to them.
Not always, of course, but often.
On the one hand its annoying if you want to open such a business; on the other hand... why exactly shouldn't a community be able to decide what businesses it does and doesn't want within its borders? It raises all kinds of genuinely interesting questions about the role of local government.
The real problem is that RJ-45 is much too big for a notebook over an inch thick - the weird solutions I've seen on non-Apple notebooks speak volumes. Solutions nobody would accept on an Apple product.
The rj-45 on my 13" 2012 (?) macbook pro is just fine. And I don't need a pro laptop to be thinner than that. I'm buying a pro because I want flexibility, performance, and capability not "maximum thin". If I wanted maximum thin at the expense of ports... I wouldn't be buying a Pro.
I was on the Apple platform back then (and maybe you were too?) but honestly, no one gave a crap
YOU didn't give a crap it was missing. I get that. but you wouldn't have given a crap if it was there either. And the dime it added to the cost of your mac wouldn't have offended you either.
But if NO ONE gave a crap, the market for usb-adb adapters wouldn't have existed. In our case, it was a big PITA, at the time I worked for retail company that was all mac -- every workstation and laptop had barcode scanners. Not cheap-o ones either. (And yeah, they went with imacs for the aesthetics / counter appeal.)
but we gained a huge selection of USB devices.
Yes, the addition of USB was a godsend.
SCSI was kind of a problem for a tiny bit, but Firewire was so much better.
And did nothing for you if you had a big SCSI stack on your desk (which I had). The idea that I'm going to replace thousands of dollars of high end scsi gear just because i got a new computer... it was bonkers. The external SCSI port should have hung around longer too.
My 3 year old MBP has one. Never been used. All it does is catch dust.
Ok. That's you.
WiFi is not the bottleneck, so why would I tie myself to a wire?
Wifi isn't always available. I typically configure wifi access points and other network gear using wired connections; because wired is working long before wireless is even turned on and configured.
I've been in hotel rooms that don't have wifi, but have wired as recently as last year.
I've been in client sites that don't have wifi but have wired as recently as this year.
Other times its absolutely the bottleneck:
I've needed to transfer 10s of GB of data between client and server in both home and office environments and waiting 20x as long for wifi to do it would be ridiculous.
I've used my laptop on occasion as an impromptu ISO storage to get citrix xen virtual machines installed... glad i had gigabit for that too.
WiFi is not the bottleneck, so why would I tie myself to a wire?
If its available, and not a bottleneck, you wouldn't. But if you find you do need it... what then? You've got it. It added a nickel to the price of your laptop.
How can you be for Apple to make another nickel of profit (because its not like they pass that savings on to you)? What do you get in return for that? You get to carry an adapter around with you everywhere just in case. You get to shell out an absurd amount of money for said adapter. And murphy's law dictates that you probably won't have it with you when you need it anyway... wasting your time and money to source another one.
If you think a $10k piece of Jewelry is an investment
The average person who WOULD consider buying a $10,000 trinket would THIS particular trinket shockingly bad value.
This trinket is not for people who can justify spending $5000 on a clutch, or $1500 on a pair of shoes, or $10000 on a necklace... because those things will last them the rest of their lives. Its not like my wife thinks of her Prada handbags and Louboutin shoes etc are investments; they are things she loves, wears to special events and occasions will keep for the rest of her life.
This trinket might not be compatible with her next phone, rendering it potentially useless as soon as a year from now. Its certainly not going to be something she might decide to wear to an event in 2025 or 2040...
THIS trinket is for people who can justify spending $5000 on a bottle of wine with dinner, $1500 on a cab ride, $10000 on a dress they will wear to the event Saturday and then never again.
Its for a whole next level of "money to burn" above even people who have that kind of money to burn on trinkets.
Not when it compromises the size, battery-life and/or weight it's not. Especially for people that don't need any of those things.
As I said, its forgiven for the macbook air. Its a ridiculous direction with the macbook pro.
The Mouse and keyboard requirement is particular misguided. Not only is there a trackpad and keyboard built in, they are obvious candidates for Bluetooth.
I know scads of people who prefer to use a full size keyboard with a proper number pad etc at their desks. And the number of that prefer a mouse to the trackpad is legion.
And bluetooth is great. But it costs several times what a wired connection does, and if both are sitting on your desk, the wires aren't really a problem. So not having to pay more for a device you have to re-charge/replace batteries; and don't have to worry about pairing; and futzing around with when it doesn't work because wired is cheap and just works... that appeals to a lot of people.
And Ethernet is virtually extinct for laptops these days
Agreed. On a consumer aimed laptop or ultra portable: sure. On a mac book pro? Not having one is idiotic. Especially given the performance differential between a busy wifi network and gigabit Ethernet.
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. I know someone who just duplicates his array to a second set of disks once a month. If he's not doing the backup the disks are in the safety deposit box.
So if something goes badly wrong with the computer during the creation of the backup set, he's got nothing.
If you one is going to the trouble of a safety deposit box. Have at least 2 separate sets of disks in it, and rotate which set you use from month to month. That way all 3 sets are never in the same place, and NEVER all hooked up to the same computer at the same time.
No offense... but I read your post twice... and I seemed to have missed your point. You gave us quite a detailed description what languages you and people you know have been exposed to... and then just stopped.
I presumed you were somehow going to tie it back to the article or summary; but you never got around to it??
For my part I took french immersion in high school; and that was enough for me to completely agree with the summary; that the gestalt switch one makes to think -in- another language changes how one thinks. To the point where I'd be thinking in french and have to think very hard how to translate a thought back to English despite it being my first language.
I'm surprised this has only recently gotten any actual study?!
yo have to go to something that looks like a failure state before you can create a local account. fucking ridiculous.
Not quite. It prompts you to sign in with your existing Microsoft account. At the bottom of that screen, it says "Don't have one? And a link to "create a new account".
Contextually that, for a lot of people is interpreted to mean "Create a new Microsoft account" however, if you click it you are presented with an account creation page for a Microsoft account but at the bottom it offers another link "Sign in without a Microsoft account" and you can create a local account from there.
The fail state you refer to is the -other- way of reaching the same page -- where you enter dummy microsoft credentials in; force it to fail to login; and that lands you on a page where you can create a local account as well.
However, the "proper" way to reach the local account option is the first:
Create new Account
Sign in without a Microsoft account
So its not as bad you suggest, I agree it's just obscure enough to be misleading.
For what its worth a lot of OEMs are shipping with a local user account pre-configured or are otherwise customizing it to create a local account by default.
I would only believe you if you are using the Microsoft Design Language variant.
I'm not even sure what that is. I'm guessing that's the Windows 8 full screen app version?
No, its just a regular Windows 7 PC with an i7, 16GB RAM, SSD, And IE11.
I don't know what to tell you. IE11 starts as fast as Chrome does; if anything I'd give the edge to IE11. However both are comfortably sub-second from launch to loaded and ready to use.
I've got an other older i7 windows 7, with spinning disk drives. Booted it up, fired up IE. Got about 1.5 seconds of the spinning cursor, then the window displayed and it was ready to go in under a second. Exited it. Subsequent launches lack the 1.5 seconds of spinning, and display and load the window immediately; ready to use still comfortably under a second. (And that is a first gen i7 from 2011.)
For the record, Firefox and Chrome were similiar. A second or so of busy-cursor before the window appeared; ready to use within half a second or so of the window appearing.
No other webbrowser does this and I can easily reproduce this on any Windows machine I get my hands on.
Again, not sure what to tell you. I have no stake in lying to you; and I have seen the behaviour you describe... of the IE window loading, and being able to type in the address bar, only to have it overwrite it and start loading the default home page. And I agree THAT is a flaw. But I've only seen it on crappy old low spec computers at the office. I just assumed it was slow computers.
However I do not have issues with IE loading slowly on my computers.
Perhaps its a plugin or addon? Perhaps its something to do with settings; for example perhaps you have it set to automatically look for your proxy settings -- that's known to cause a delay on startup with some systems?
Bottom line, assuming your telling the truth, and I'm happy to take you at face value, then there is something else going on, because IE does not have this issue on either Win7 computer here in my office, nor my laptop, nor that I use regularly, nor my Win8.1 HTPC i have in my living room.
I prefer Firefox myself; but do use IE from time to time, and it's not exhibiting the issue you describe.
Nope, still freezes up, then replaces the link I just wrote with about:blank. Still broken.
Mine doesn't give me remotely enough to even click in the address bar before its finished loading. Nevermind time to type in an address.
Presumably yours is loading slow enough that you have time to type something in the address box before its finished starting up; and then it autoloads the homes page after you've typed in an address as part of its start up?
Bug fix for IE should be to not allow text entry into the address bar until its finished starting up; or alternatively, if something is already in the address bar when its ready to load the homepage to just skip loading the home page.
Either way combining a slower computer with aggressive usage -- typing an address before its finished loading is a pretty minor defect easily worked around by simply waiting for the program to finish starting before you try and use it.
The slow start itself is just your hardware not inherent to IE. As I said, mine is nearly instantaneous.
As a gamer, with a gamer wife and a gamer son, I LOVE steam.
Do you only have one computer? Because that's the only scenario where steam family sharing isn't a steaming pile of ass.
The ability to share game purchases within my family by using the Steam app is just GOLD.
The restriction that if one person is playing a game from their library, no one else may use any other game from that library is ASS.
The only games that we need to buy multiple copies of are online games we want to play together.
If I'm playing Wolfenstein New Order -- my son can't play thing in my library.
Dicking around with online/offline mode is a crappy work around; which of course doesn't do anything for multiplayer games.
Steam needs to relax the restrictions on family accounts. And let you have up to 6 titles running at once from one library or something.
FFS I've got 200 games on the account, and another 200+ DLC. I've had the account nearly 10 years. I'm not stealing from them. I'm not a pirate.
And yes, the restriction is costing them sales. I actively seek to buy titles now on GoG if they carry it precisely because then my family isn't locked out if I'm playing something on steam; and we don't have to putz around with offline/online mode with those games.
I have bought multiple copies of games to play together Portal 2, and Torchlight 2 both come to mind as games i have a couple copies of so we can play together. But I have many other multiplayer games that we have no interest in playing together in my libary ... but my son often wants to try them out, and many of them have online play. This shouldn't be restricted.
Steam isn't bad, I was pretty exicted when family sharing came out myself, but in practice its nearly worthless. Before family sharing my wife and kids just used my steam account to play my games when I wasn't using anything on the library. Now... they use there own account when I'm not using anything on the library. The only advantage that has brought? My son doesn't need his friends on my friends list anymore. Big fucking deal.
It still freezes up for a few seconds when you start it, ignores the address you just entered and visits the homepage regardless.
Tools -> Internet Options -> General tab -> Home page
type: about:blank
click ok.
Problem solved. Most home pages are annoying.
That's just from the top of my head. A secure turd is still a turd.
I prefer Firefox myself; but I really have nothing against IE11.
I can't build an impregnable vault that the government can't get into either if they are so inclined. But its still a pretty safe place to store valuables in the meantime.
The fact that a given hacker or government might be able to defeat a self-encrypting drive doesn't mean it necessarily won't defeat most people most of the time.
It is not supposed to be a way to generate revenue
I propose that all traffic fine revenue should simply be placed into a pot, and then distributed back each year to everyone with a vehicle insured in the jurisdiction. Then its revenue neutral to the police / government / state; and its only function is to be used as a punitive / disincentive to driving poorly. I figure that solves a lot problems.
A tax increase is required to offset it though since we'd have to fund the police enforcement directly. But that's a good thing.
Driving without a license plate and or parking in a handicapped spot does not put people into danger. It may be rude or even morally wrong but it is putting anyone in danger so it not reckless.
I agree. But I also wouldn't call 15mph over the limit to be reckless in a LOT of scenarios. It might be reckless in some scenarios... in others it is just going with the regular flow of traffic.
If you want to do fines right IMHO the first fine in a year should be 1 day the second 10 days and third 50 days and the fourth 100 days.
That's not half bad. I think it scales a bit too fast for regular speeding tickets, but for reckless driving ... sure.
Now, you COULD get around this in a few ways- but ultimately, it's just a bad idea to trust hardware encryption. It is fundamentally not trustworthy.
As with all things, its a question of what you are trying to accomplish.
If you don't want to have your laptop stolen out of your car and then find your identity stolen a self-encrypting drive isn't a bad idea; and might work out quite well.
If your a suspected terrorist and want to keep the US or Chinese government out... no, its not good enough.
You "really hate" moving the year from the start to the finish?
I know I do. For two reasons:
Year at the front in YYYY-mm-dd format (with leading zeros on single digit months and days) lets you sort sort dates as text without having to do anything extra. That's more than a little bit convenient in a LOT of situations.
The other issue with mm-dd-YYYY is that is indistinguishable from dd-mm-YYYY for a stupidly large number of dates; and both versions are in common use -in english speaking countries (US is mm/dd/yyyy; UK is dd/mm/yyyy so its a nightmare.) I've seen documents with both formats used interchangeably.
If you see YYYY-nn-mm you KNOW its Year-month-day, because nobody anywhere ever uses YYYY-day-month.
The difference is this - to be "commercial" there has to be the intention and expectation of *making a profit* from your activities.
Intention is sufficient. One does not have to successful nor even expect to be successful for it to be commercial.
If the suggestion that he has made less than 1 dollar from this is true, then he is *not* in any reasonable sense a commercial drone operator.
Then I guess film production companies are a charity since they usually lose money; at least as far as the accounting is concerned.
I agree, when push comes to shove this guy is NOT a problem, and not what the FAA should be going after but they didn't single him out.
Someone *complained*, and they are required to follow up, and it *is* commercial activity... so here we are...
Did they throw the book at him? No. They warned him that he'd have to stop. I don't publish to youtube... can he not opt out of posting his videos with affiliate advertising?? If so... done.
Its not even newsworthy.
You must have never seen someone shotgun a beer.
I've seen a LOT more people down a flight of shooters than shotgun six beers in a row though.
And for this powder... i dunno... I could see people just eating it straight and letting it dissolve in their stomachs... or getting it moist and shoving it up their asses.
And I can definitely see them sneaking it it into schools, onto planes, into sports venues etc ... not that any of these things don't happen with alcohol now. But if you make it easier it will happen more.
People are stupid.
Targeting files that can easily be replaced by exactly the same means that they were gotten in the first place doesn't seem like a super brilliant move.
Presumably they'd be targeting the save games.
Given that PC gamers are by and large usually at least a bit technically savvy, and often very savvy going after the executables doesn't seem like a winning strategy. You'd catch someone I'm sure... but only a fraction of the audience would even care.
Then again... only a fraction of the audience is really that invested in their save games. The truly valuable stuff (relatively speaking) is all tied to mmo accounts (and therefore not stored on your PC anyway).
Other manufacturers have (even on thicker notebooks) either put the Ethernet-port in a bulge thicker than the rest of the computer, turned the port so the locking flap is always pressed (and the cable can easily be removed by accident), or use an proprietary adapter.
Hardly a universal truth; and if anything a distinct minority. I've seen lots of perfectly fine Ethernet ports on laptops from other manufacturers.
, and if every song using four chords is a derivative work
Alternatively, you could just argue that 4 chords by itself is not sufficient to make a copyright claim.
The 4 chords in a '4 chord song' are G, C, F, A
And yes, if you play them in sequence at the right tempo, and then sing, you can do 100 pop songs. Big deal. The fact that songs as different sounding as Poker Face and No Woman No Cry rest on them just argues to what small degree the chord sequence is to the whole song.
Go ahead grab a guitar or a piano and just play G, C, F, A over and over again. You aren't playing anything. Not even the intro to Journey's Don't stop believing is as simple as that.
Its harmonic; and you can play along with Journey or a 100 other songs as compatible accompaniment; but you aren't playing the songs, anymore than you would be than if you were just keeping time by tapping your feet.
No, commerce represents the will of the people in the community. If you put up a strip club and nobody shows up and it goes out of business, that is the will of the community.
If 95% of the people don't want it in the community, the remaining 5% that patronize it can still keep it thriving; especially if its bringing traffic from outside the neighborhood its actually in as well.
Commercial viability vs the will of the community are not necessarily in alignment either.
If you want to put up a strip club and the government says no, that may or may not be the will of the community
Of course.
In many of THOSE cases its government functioning as it should -- representing the will of the people in the community.
Lots of communities CITIZENS don't want strip clubs or pawn shops or porn shops or Walmarts or whatever; but they aren't illegal and the community can't outlaw them outright.. so the local government's mazes of red-tape to make opening such a business in the community difficult are simply a reflection of what the community wants implemented with the tools they have available to them.
Not always, of course, but often.
On the one hand its annoying if you want to open such a business; on the other hand... why exactly shouldn't a community be able to decide what businesses it does and doesn't want within its borders? It raises all kinds of genuinely interesting questions about the role of local government.
Of course, since you are innocent until proven guilty, bail is unconstitutional, but that is another topic.
Bail is clearly allowed by the constitution. In particularly read the 8th amendment.
The real problem is that RJ-45 is much too big for a notebook over an inch thick - the weird solutions I've seen on non-Apple notebooks speak volumes. Solutions nobody would accept on an Apple product.
The rj-45 on my 13" 2012 (?) macbook pro is just fine. And I don't need a pro laptop to be thinner than that. I'm buying a pro because I want flexibility, performance, and capability not "maximum thin". If I wanted maximum thin at the expense of ports... I wouldn't be buying a Pro.
I was on the Apple platform back then (and maybe you were too?) but honestly, no one gave a crap
YOU didn't give a crap it was missing. I get that. but you wouldn't have given a crap if it was there either. And the dime it added to the cost of your mac wouldn't have offended you either.
But if NO ONE gave a crap, the market for usb-adb adapters wouldn't have existed. In our case, it was a big PITA, at the time I worked for retail company that was all mac -- every workstation and laptop had barcode scanners. Not cheap-o ones either. (And yeah, they went with imacs for the aesthetics / counter appeal.)
but we gained a huge selection of USB devices.
Yes, the addition of USB was a godsend.
SCSI was kind of a problem for a tiny bit, but Firewire was so much better.
And did nothing for you if you had a big SCSI stack on your desk (which I had). The idea that I'm going to replace thousands of dollars of high end scsi gear just because i got a new computer ... it was bonkers. The external SCSI port should have hung around longer too.
My 3 year old MBP has one. Never been used. All it does is catch dust.
Ok. That's you.
WiFi is not the bottleneck, so why would I tie myself to a wire?
Wifi isn't always available. I typically configure wifi access points and other network gear using wired connections; because wired is working long before wireless is even turned on and configured.
I've been in hotel rooms that don't have wifi, but have wired as recently as last year.
I've been in client sites that don't have wifi but have wired as recently as this year.
Other times its absolutely the bottleneck:
I've needed to transfer 10s of GB of data between client and server in both home and office environments and waiting 20x as long for wifi to do it would be ridiculous.
I've used my laptop on occasion as an impromptu ISO storage to get citrix xen virtual machines installed ... glad i had gigabit for that too.
WiFi is not the bottleneck, so why would I tie myself to a wire?
If its available, and not a bottleneck, you wouldn't. But if you find you do need it... what then? You've got it. It added a nickel to the price of your laptop.
How can you be for Apple to make another nickel of profit (because its not like they pass that savings on to you)? What do you get in return for that? You get to carry an adapter around with you everywhere just in case. You get to shell out an absurd amount of money for said adapter. And murphy's law dictates that you probably won't have it with you when you need it anyway... wasting your time and money to source another one.
If you think a $10k piece of Jewelry is an investment
The average person who WOULD consider buying a $10,000 trinket would THIS particular trinket shockingly bad value.
This trinket is not for people who can justify spending $5000 on a clutch, or $1500 on a pair of shoes, or $10000 on a necklace... because those things will last them the rest of their lives. Its not like my wife thinks of her Prada handbags and Louboutin shoes etc are investments; they are things she loves, wears to special events and occasions will keep for the rest of her life.
This trinket might not be compatible with her next phone, rendering it potentially useless as soon as a year from now. Its certainly not going to be something she might decide to wear to an event in 2025 or 2040...
THIS trinket is for people who can justify spending $5000 on a bottle of wine with dinner, $1500 on a cab ride, $10000 on a dress they will wear to the event Saturday and then never again.
Its for a whole next level of "money to burn" above even people who have that kind of money to burn on trinkets.
Not when it compromises the size, battery-life and/or weight it's not. Especially for people that don't need any of those things.
As I said, its forgiven for the macbook air. Its a ridiculous direction with the macbook pro.
The Mouse and keyboard requirement is particular misguided. Not only is there a trackpad and keyboard built in, they are obvious candidates for Bluetooth.
I know scads of people who prefer to use a full size keyboard with a proper number pad etc at their desks. And the number of that prefer a mouse to the trackpad is legion.
And bluetooth is great. But it costs several times what a wired connection does, and if both are sitting on your desk, the wires aren't really a problem. So not having to pay more for a device you have to re-charge/replace batteries; and don't have to worry about pairing; and futzing around with when it doesn't work because wired is cheap and just works... that appeals to a lot of people.
And Ethernet is virtually extinct for laptops these days
Agreed. On a consumer aimed laptop or ultra portable: sure. On a mac book pro? Not having one is idiotic. Especially given the performance differential between a busy wifi network and gigabit Ethernet.
Exactly. Blocking some servers means treating their data unequally and is therefor a violation.
Blocking a site for censorship or copyright has NOTHING to do net neutrality whatsoever.
Next you'll be arguing that ISPs aren't allowed to block email spam and known phishing sites either because "net neutrality".
And god forbid they do anything at all to stop a DoS attack... because that would require treating some packets unequally.
Exactly. Blocking some servers means treating their data unequally and is therefor a violation.
Seriously. Get over yourself.