I was so excited about the iWatch this summer that I bought a Pebble.Steel.
No, actually I bought the Pebble Steel without even thinking about the iWatch, because I had a practical use for it. (and it was $99, and it runs about a week between charges)
I readily admit that I don't get out to look at the new hardware that often, but the only 'shiny' device I have seen recently was an overpriced Alienware gaming laptop with an OLED display. It wasn't even a big display, but it reached out and wanted me to buy it. Thank goodness I came to my senses, because it was expensive. (about 2/3 the price of a Macbook Pro)
Macs are technically UNIX boxes, but only in the same sense that my Android Phone is a UNIX box. The GUI layer on top of the 'UNIX' part of a Mac's operating system is totally proprietary and completely the opposite of the UNIX design philosophy.
As such, you can say that macOS runs on the carcass of a UNIX box.
The MacBook Pro is probably better for running macOS on, too. Though I could run it on my older i7 Dell Latitude, which I bought for $250 second hand. It's a known working Hackintosh model.
This guy is comparing Apples to Oranges. But not the Apple II to the Orange Peel, which was an Apple II clone that Apple drove off the market with their legal muscle. They did that a lot in the old days.
Microsoft Office, or should I say, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, were products for the Macintosh long before there was a robust Windows to run them on. All of Excel's early success as a product was on the Mac. In fact, Microsoft was a major factor in making the Mac a viable work computer because they produced Word and Excel to run on it. Microsoft made a LOT of money selling software for the early Macs.
Well, I have an Asus Windows tablet that only has 2GB of memory, and while it has a 64 bit processor it runs 32 bit Windows 10. Maybe we should use that to compare to the MacBook Pro. I bet the Mac users would be happy with the comparison.
Worse yet, it's easy for a supplier to give the customer a quote in an Office document format that has a revision history that said customer can pull open and examine.
You can't really reduce Windows to 'a kernel.' The kernel doesn't even contain much at all of the Windows subsystem. If Microsoft were more open with their product, for example, you could probably run a Win32 subsystem on the Linux kernel, since that's a component Microsoft produces to run as a subsystem on the NT kernel. In fact there's a WINE project that aims to accomplish that.
Indeed, it gives you a whole lot of control over your 'users.'
That's very satisfying for you. And it's an order of ten times more difficult to 'figure out' than Windows, so your pesky nephew isn't going to butt in and challenge your family empire.
It's almost like the old days when forms needed to be submitted in triplicate and every box filled. Use a number 2 pencil, btw. You'll need a form '27 b stroke six'.
Your IT staff has things firmly under control. Bravo for them! It's almost like the good old days, when you got to wear white coats, and the other people in your company had to pass job requests in to you through the half-door to the Machine Room.
It's almost like the PC revolution never happened!
So you're saying it's time to shitcan the constitution? It's a good thing you're not a standing member of the military, because if you were you are violating a pledge you made.
What other parts of the Constitution is it time to 'get rid of'???
The cities in the big states like California and New York are essentially similar to the 'Capitol City' in The Hunger Games. Decadent and controlling the destiny of the people in all the other districts.
It's too bad we can't airlift the people in the big cities who are now screeching they want to emigrate to Canada out into the 'flyover area' for awhile. Give them bows and arrows, and trench knives.
The Kardashians, rap stars, DC parasites, and the Silicon Valley mandarins could have it out, and it could be televised to the rest of us.
It's bad because the more left-leaning populations on the east and west coast think 'they are smarter than the rest of the country'. It's like a bossy big sister. I had one of those, growing up. There are even home movies of her taking toys away from the rest of us.
Well, as an example, North and South Dakota used to be called 'Dakota' when it was a territory. So I suspect a process of gerrymandering occurred when they decided where to draw the line splitting it into two states. A whole big chunk of the country, even reaching up into present day Minnesota, used to be called Louisiana.
History is fascinating, even though our US history is rather short compared to many other parts of the world.
It isn't a matter of 'rural areas' and 'urban areas.'
We are a republic made up out of United States. We have State Governments who answer to the population that lives within them.
The 'Voice of All America' doesn't exist.
The 'Popular Vote' incidentally, isn't anything official. It's just a tricky number that journalists obtain by clumping together smaller numbers there are irrelevant outside the context of each State.
Heck, if Apple has to stuggle in a world market, maybe their focus will change from thinness and how their product looks in a socal coffee bar, into real and meaningful functionality. Being taken down a notch or two would be good for Apple.
Those millions of unemployed US workers' zero dollars an hour paychecks will NOT get smaller. Some smug fucks in Silicon Valley.. might see some change in their ability to afford another new Tesla this month...
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Apple is the company that requires you to use iTunes to copy music files to their MP3 player.
I was so excited about the iWatch this summer that I bought a Pebble.Steel.
No, actually I bought the Pebble Steel without even thinking about the iWatch, because I had a practical use for it. (and it was $99, and it runs about a week between charges)
I readily admit that I don't get out to look at the new hardware that often, but the only 'shiny' device I have seen recently was an overpriced Alienware gaming laptop with an OLED display. It wasn't even a big display, but it reached out and wanted me to buy it. Thank goodness I came to my senses, because it was expensive. (about 2/3 the price of a Macbook Pro)
Macs are technically UNIX boxes, but only in the same sense that my Android Phone is a UNIX box. The GUI layer on top of the 'UNIX' part of a Mac's operating system is totally proprietary and completely the opposite of the UNIX design philosophy.
As such, you can say that macOS runs on the carcass of a UNIX box.
The MacBook Pro is probably better for running macOS on, too. Though I could run it on my older i7 Dell Latitude, which I bought for $250 second hand. It's a known working Hackintosh model.
This guy is comparing Apples to Oranges. But not the Apple II to the Orange Peel, which was an Apple II clone that Apple drove off the market with their legal muscle. They did that a lot in the old days.
Microsoft Office, or should I say, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, were products for the Macintosh long before there was a robust Windows to run them on. All of Excel's early success as a product was on the Mac. In fact, Microsoft was a major factor in making the Mac a viable work computer because they produced Word and Excel to run on it. Microsoft made a LOT of money selling software for the early Macs.
Well, I have an Asus Windows tablet that only has 2GB of memory, and while it has a 64 bit processor it runs 32 bit Windows 10. Maybe we should use that to compare to the MacBook Pro. I bet the Mac users would be happy with the comparison.
Worse yet, it's easy for a supplier to give the customer a quote in an Office document format that has a revision history that said customer can pull open and examine.
You can't really reduce Windows to 'a kernel.' The kernel doesn't even contain much at all of the Windows subsystem. If Microsoft were more open with their product, for example, you could probably run a Win32 subsystem on the Linux kernel, since that's a component Microsoft produces to run as a subsystem on the NT kernel. In fact there's a WINE project that aims to accomplish that.
Indeed, it gives you a whole lot of control over your 'users.'
That's very satisfying for you. And it's an order of ten times more difficult to 'figure out' than Windows, so your pesky nephew isn't going to butt in and challenge your family empire.
The City Bureaucrats probably dig that, a lot.
It's almost like the old days when forms needed to be submitted in triplicate and every box filled. Use a number 2 pencil, btw.
You'll need a form '27 b stroke six'.
Your IT staff has things firmly under control. Bravo for them! It's almost like the good old days, when you got to wear white coats, and the other people in your company had to pass job requests in to you through the half-door to the Machine Room.
It's almost like the PC revolution never happened!
And if you ask your IT guy, he will say 'systems that require you to pay more for me to administer are better! oh yeah. let's go with Linux!'
It's also time we got rid of a system...
So you're saying it's time to shitcan the constitution? It's a good thing you're not a standing member of the military, because if you were you are violating a pledge you made.
What other parts of the Constitution is it time to 'get rid of'???
The cities in the big states like California and New York are essentially similar to the 'Capitol City' in The Hunger Games. Decadent and controlling the destiny of the people in all the other districts.
It's too bad we can't airlift the people in the big cities who are now screeching they want to emigrate to Canada out into the 'flyover area' for awhile. Give them bows and arrows, and trench knives.
The Kardashians, rap stars, DC parasites, and the Silicon Valley mandarins could have it out, and it could be televised to the rest of us.
It's bad because the more left-leaning populations on the east and west coast think 'they are smarter than the rest of the country'. It's like a bossy big sister. I had one of those, growing up. There are even home movies of her taking toys away from the rest of us.
National Popular Vote doesn't exist. It's just a journalistic construct.
Well, as an example, North and South Dakota used to be called 'Dakota' when it was a territory. So I suspect a process of gerrymandering occurred when they decided where to draw the line splitting it into two states. A whole big chunk of the country, even reaching up into present day Minnesota, used to be called Louisiana.
History is fascinating, even though our US history is rather short compared to many other parts of the world.
It isn't a matter of 'rural areas' and 'urban areas.'
We are a republic made up out of United States. We have State Governments who answer to the population that lives within them.
The 'Voice of All America' doesn't exist.
The 'Popular Vote' incidentally, isn't anything official. It's just a tricky number that journalists obtain by clumping together smaller numbers there are irrelevant outside the context of each State.
It would require a Constitutional Amendment.
Go for it. Good luck. You'll need it.
Heck, if Apple has to stuggle in a world market, maybe their focus will change from thinness and how their product looks in a socal coffee bar, into real and meaningful functionality. Being taken down a notch or two would be good for Apple.
Those millions of unemployed US workers' zero dollars an hour paychecks will NOT get smaller. Some smug fucks in Silicon Valley.. might see some change in their ability to afford another new Tesla this month...
How was that crow you had for breakfast?
being a racist, foul-mouthed and sexist demagogue who likes to grab women by the pussy is OK
The only people I hear translating Trump's message to that seem like they're projecting.
What kind of libertine are you, anyway??
What I wish is that Rand Paul hadn't run as a Republican.
If he had waited and run as the Libertarian Party candidate, he might be president-Elect now.