I've heard quite a few linguists argue that "Ebonics" is a separate language from (American) English, with often a different grammar. None of the ones I know seem to have any kind of racial agenda, just observing an interesting linguistic phenomenon of a new language being created.
When I'm in the US I also notice a large difference between the languages of people with different ethnical backgrounds, which seems to mean that the society is much more segregated than in for example my own country.
Prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law. Asshole's an idiot, I'd rather he be in prison than in the general population.
And hos is that going to help anything? The nutjobs will accuse "the government of covering up the truth". His peers will still believe the story, maybe even more so. The problem with these people is that anything contradicting their views is considered part of the conspiracy. I don't know how to break through that, but making one of them a guest of the state for a long time isn't likely to solve it.
Yeah. I am very disappointed. I really want OSX, I consider it a lot superior to Windows or Linux, as a desktop solution. I have been using Apple since 1997, and went full Apple when they switched to Intel. Their hardware has been really good from 2006-2012, then other factors seemed to become more important than having good hardware.
I have been in the market for a good Apple desktop for a while now. Instead I ended up buying a second hand Mac Pro 2012, putting a MacVidCards Nvidia GTX 980, 32 GB RAM and some SSDs into the system. This old machine comparable or better than anything Apple sells today.
I consider the new Macbook Pro a joke. I'm typing this on a 2011 MBP and I see no reason to upgrade, only downsides.
I would need to buy adapters for all my peripherals, as the new MBP has no Ethernet, DVI, mini-displayport/TB2, USB, SD-card, CD/DVD, and most importantly no magsafe connector. My 1GB Radeon HD 6750M might be a bit on the weak side, but they would need to provide Nvidia with CUDA for me to consider a new video card a big improvement. Also my 4core i7 is a bit older than the new skylake but not a very big deal. I have upgraded my RAM to 16 GB already, I would have expected at least a 32GB option for the new model.
Most password cracking is done by stealing the database with the password hashes and then using some GPU based system to crunch those against known rainbow tables and some well known tricks people use to create passwords.
None of what you suggest would make any difference.
I have seen argued by experienced security professionals that any password that can be remembered is probably easy to crack with current CPU based systems.
If a thousand people try to use their wireless devices at the same time, none are going to work, unless a lot of engineering has been put into designing things. Cell Phones might work if there are enough towers covering the area, but WiFi will not as it wasn't designed for that kind of thing.
Yes, I feel Apple lost it's edge when Steve died. Many things haven't come from Apple since than, and many things that have come would not have cut it with Steve I think.
They are no longer setting trends, but following their competition, which is a bad place to be in a market.
I also feel like they have abandoned the "Pro" market, without fully admitting it.
I was in the market for a nice Apple desktop this year. I ended up buying a 2012 Mac Pro second hand cheaply, adding SSDs, 32 GB RAM and a NVidia GTX980 (with MacVids rom from their UK reseller).
No iMac, Mini, Macbook (Pro) can match that thing, and I get really close to 2013 Mac Pro performance for a fraction of the price. Waranty could be an issue, but probably the thing will work for years.
When I bought my first Macbook Pro, just after they switched to Intel. I made a comparison, and a Dell with the same specs was more expensive. They were selling really competitive hardware for competitive prices. And most of it latest generation high end tech that worked well as a "Pro" desktop replacement.
After 2010-2012 I haven't seen anything from them that I really thought was competitive and that I would want to buy. That's why I'm running a 2012 Mac Pro and a 2011 Macbook Pro. There is no compelling reason to buy anything newer from Apple unless you really want a retina display. Before 2010 this was different.
I looked at Hackintosh, but OS changes/upgrades are a pain and even installing it in the first place.
I ended up getting a cheap 2012 Mac Pro, adding some SSDs, 32 GB RAM and a GTX980 (with MacVids ROM), fully supported hardware, and a very nice OSX desktop machine that is the equal of anything Apple can sell me right now.
When you're competing with your own hardware from 4 years ago, then in the electronics market you are doing something very wrong. Moore's Law isn't that dead yet.
I've used my iPhone 3GS for 6 years from 2009-2015. Only replaced it because I wanted 4G support and a better camera. Sure it was a little slower than my current iPhone 6+, but it was still fast enough. I used it a lot during those years, and was really happy I got the 32GB model in 2009, as especially TomTom took a lot of my space (I travel a lot, I have Europe, US&Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East offline maps on my phone.)
I still used my iPhone 3GS when I go to a festival or out on the town as it's nice and small and not as expensive to lose as my new one. It still handles WhatsApp and such to communicate with my friends.
I am typing this on a 2010 Mac Pro with 4 core Xeon, Nvidia GTX980, 32GB ram, SSDs and OSX 10.11. It runs great. My 2011 Macbook Pro also gets about 8 hours of work every day, and even my 2007 Macbook Pro still sees regular use.
Apple stuff might be expensive (although in general not much more than a PC with the same hardware). But they last. I even used my uncles iBook from 1999 a few weeks ago (MacOS 8.6!) and that still runs fine.
Unlike what seems like a large portion of Slashdot, I don't think there's an ethical defense for piracy.
I have pirated one movie. I ad bought a new Blu-Ray player a few years ago, and wanted to watch Avatar on it with some friends. I couldn't get it to play because it needed a newer version of the player's software. Something with Avatar using a never version of DRM. The software update program would not work as it ran in SD, not HD and my beamer didn't understand it, or something like that. Something weird with the HDMI.
After two hours of messing with it instead of having a fun evening with my friends, I downloaded the movie. That ran without a problem.
I haven't bought a Blu-Ray since, my player gets used for DVDs and CDs but mostly gathers dust.
I hate this kind of crap. They should make it easier to use the legal version than the illegal version. Preferably no DRM at all. I've only bough songs on iTunes that are DRM free and would prefer if all companies used that model. DRM just makes the experience worse for your paying customers and doesn't really hinder the pirates.
But what's worse is that there's only a handful of cellular carriers, and your phone has to work specifically with that carrier (a Verizon phone doesn't work with T-Mobile or AT&T or even Sprint for instance)
Oh the joy of the free unregulated market. Being able to use your phone on all the other networks is mandatory here. Blame my socialist government.
Dude, Apple fixed it with iOS 9.2.1. If you use iTunes you can put that version on your phone and unbrick it. No need to go to an Apple shop.
Sure you can repair something yourself, or have a 3rd party do it, but you usually void your warranty and no longer have a guarantee that the device will work/keep working.
They don't need access to your data in the Azure Cloud any more. They will just read all your data directly from within Windows 10, when you're using it in its unencrypted form.
I've been using TomTom navigation apps on my iPhone 3GS and now iPhone 6+ since early June 2009. It has excellent offline maps. I've travelled large parts of the USA and Canada, Brazil, many countries in Europe, some in the Middle East and Australia and New Zealand. It has been almost 7 years of regular free map updates on the first app I bought (Europe). Good offline maps are essential if you're driving some back road trying to find the Mountain View Lodge. I've been to many places that do not have a GPS signal anywhere near. I'm in no way affiliated with TomTom, but their map apps have been very useful and enjoyable to me on many occasions. There have been cases where I've only had a decent meal or a bed thanks to TomTom having accurate information of such in some remote location so that I knew that if I drove 60km in the right direction I would find something. It's also made me a safer driver in busy cities as I can concentrate on the road and traffic, while the phone will tell me where I need to navigate. New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome, Berlin and many other places.
I know I sound like an add, but I'm just a very happy customer.
If you need a gun to defend yourself and you don't have one, you may end up dead.
If you need a gun to defend yourself, your government ans society have already failed. Billions of people live happy lives without ever needing a gun to defend themselves.
I think most of these dangers are imaginary, people even make up things like the Zombie Apocalypse to justify needing a gun.
That exists where I live (The Nethelands) but it requires a signed paper form from the account owner as part of the billing contract. Not something easily done over the internet. It gets generally used for utility companies and subscriptions to magazines, cable and such. I can even view all the active billing contracts on my bank's website and cancel them from there.
There's a video in the linked article that shows how core memory is made, and it is indeed a finicky manual process manipulating things to small for even pliers.
I've been using Apple for years, and for a long time they did ship with decent graphics cards. This allowed me to also run games on the various Macs I have. They used to have things like the NV 8600GT, 9600GT, ATI 6770, GTX 680, GTX 780, al at times when these were very decent graphics cards, also for gaming.
I've been playing most of my games on Apple hardware since about 2007.
But their new offerings with only Iris (Pro) are just useless. Only the 27" iMac has a decent GPU, and even that isn't too great.
I just want a sub-$2000 Mac with a decent to good GPU. I've been able to buy that from Apple for the past 8-9 years, but today I'm looking at building a Hackintosh with a GTX 970 because Apple is no longer selling anything that. I am very disappointed in Apple.
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I believe it is mandatory in my country that a game show like that also pays the taxes on the prices it gives.
I've heard quite a few linguists argue that "Ebonics" is a separate language from (American) English, with often a different grammar.
None of the ones I know seem to have any kind of racial agenda, just observing an interesting linguistic phenomenon of a new language being created.
When I'm in the US I also notice a large difference between the languages of people with different ethnical backgrounds, which seems to mean that the society is much more segregated than in for example my own country.
Maybe you should not fund your police at the local level.
The most affluent often need police presence the least. Lack of resources breeds conflict.
The same with schools and a lot of other public services by the way.
I usually find that the US model makes no sense. So I'll add in that getting rid of a lot of guns would also help.
Tim Cook is the Steve Balmer of Apple.
He makes shareholders happy, but will be the death of the company.
Prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law. Asshole's an idiot, I'd rather he be in prison than in the general population.
And hos is that going to help anything?
The nutjobs will accuse "the government of covering up the truth".
His peers will still believe the story, maybe even more so.
The problem with these people is that anything contradicting their views is considered part of the conspiracy.
I don't know how to break through that, but making one of them a guest of the state for a long time isn't likely to solve it.
Yeah. I am very disappointed. I really want OSX, I consider it a lot superior to Windows or Linux, as a desktop solution.
I have been using Apple since 1997, and went full Apple when they switched to Intel.
Their hardware has been really good from 2006-2012, then other factors seemed to become more important than having good hardware.
I have been in the market for a good Apple desktop for a while now. Instead I ended up buying a second hand Mac Pro 2012, putting a MacVidCards Nvidia GTX 980, 32 GB RAM and some SSDs into the system. This old machine comparable or better than anything Apple sells today.
I consider the new Macbook Pro a joke. I'm typing this on a 2011 MBP and I see no reason to upgrade, only downsides.
I would need to buy adapters for all my peripherals, as the new MBP has no Ethernet, DVI, mini-displayport/TB2, USB, SD-card, CD/DVD, and most importantly no magsafe connector. My 1GB Radeon HD 6750M might be a bit on the weak side, but they would need to provide Nvidia with CUDA for me to consider a new video card a big improvement. Also my 4core i7 is a bit older than the new skylake but not a very big deal.
I have upgraded my RAM to 16 GB already, I would have expected at least a 32GB option for the new model.
Most password cracking is done by stealing the database with the password hashes and then using some GPU based system to crunch those against known rainbow tables and some well known tricks people use to create passwords.
None of what you suggest would make any difference.
I have seen argued by experienced security professionals that any password that can be remembered is probably easy to crack with current CPU based systems.
If a thousand people try to use their wireless devices at the same time, none are going to work, unless a lot of engineering has been put into designing things.
Cell Phones might work if there are enough towers covering the area, but WiFi will not as it wasn't designed for that kind of thing.
Yes, I feel Apple lost it's edge when Steve died.
Many things haven't come from Apple since than, and many things that have come would not have cut it with Steve I think.
They are no longer setting trends, but following their competition, which is a bad place to be in a market.
I also feel like they have abandoned the "Pro" market, without fully admitting it.
I was in the market for a nice Apple desktop this year. I ended up buying a 2012 Mac Pro second hand cheaply, adding SSDs, 32 GB RAM and a NVidia GTX980 (with MacVids rom from their UK reseller).
No iMac, Mini, Macbook (Pro) can match that thing, and I get really close to 2013 Mac Pro performance for a fraction of the price. Waranty could be an issue, but probably the thing will work for years.
When I bought my first Macbook Pro, just after they switched to Intel. I made a comparison, and a Dell with the same specs was more expensive. They were selling really competitive hardware for competitive prices. And most of it latest generation high end tech that worked well as a "Pro" desktop replacement.
After 2010-2012 I haven't seen anything from them that I really thought was competitive and that I would want to buy. That's why I'm running a 2012 Mac Pro and a 2011 Macbook Pro. There is no compelling reason to buy anything newer from Apple unless you really want a retina display. Before 2010 this was different.
I looked at Hackintosh, but OS changes/upgrades are a pain and even installing it in the first place.
I ended up getting a cheap 2012 Mac Pro, adding some SSDs, 32 GB RAM and a GTX980 (with MacVids ROM), fully supported hardware, and a very nice OSX desktop machine that is the equal of anything Apple can sell me right now.
When you're competing with your own hardware from 4 years ago, then in the electronics market you are doing something very wrong. Moore's Law isn't that dead yet.
I've used my iPhone 3GS for 6 years from 2009-2015. Only replaced it because I wanted 4G support and a better camera.
Sure it was a little slower than my current iPhone 6+, but it was still fast enough. I used it a lot during those years, and was really happy I got the 32GB model in 2009, as especially TomTom took a lot of my space (I travel a lot, I have Europe, US&Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East offline maps on my phone.)
I still used my iPhone 3GS when I go to a festival or out on the town as it's nice and small and not as expensive to lose as my new one. It still handles WhatsApp and such to communicate with my friends.
I am typing this on a 2010 Mac Pro with 4 core Xeon, Nvidia GTX980, 32GB ram, SSDs and OSX 10.11. It runs great. My 2011 Macbook Pro also gets about 8 hours of work every day, and even my 2007 Macbook Pro still sees regular use.
Apple stuff might be expensive (although in general not much more than a PC with the same hardware). But they last. I even used my uncles iBook from 1999 a few weeks ago (MacOS 8.6!) and that still runs fine.
Unlike what seems like a large portion of Slashdot, I don't think there's an ethical defense for piracy.
I have pirated one movie. I ad bought a new Blu-Ray player a few years ago, and wanted to watch Avatar on it with some friends.
I couldn't get it to play because it needed a newer version of the player's software. Something with Avatar using a never version of DRM.
The software update program would not work as it ran in SD, not HD and my beamer didn't understand it, or something like that. Something weird with the HDMI.
After two hours of messing with it instead of having a fun evening with my friends, I downloaded the movie. That ran without a problem.
I haven't bought a Blu-Ray since, my player gets used for DVDs and CDs but mostly gathers dust.
I hate this kind of crap. They should make it easier to use the legal version than the illegal version. Preferably no DRM at all. I've only bough songs on iTunes that are DRM free and would prefer if all companies used that model. DRM just makes the experience worse for your paying customers and doesn't really hinder the pirates.
But what's worse is that there's only a handful of cellular carriers, and your phone has to work specifically with that carrier (a Verizon phone doesn't work with T-Mobile or AT&T or even Sprint for instance)
Oh the joy of the free unregulated market. Being able to use your phone on all the other networks is mandatory here. Blame my socialist government.
Dude, Apple fixed it with iOS 9.2.1. If you use iTunes you can put that version on your phone and unbrick it. No need to go to an Apple shop.
Sure you can repair something yourself, or have a 3rd party do it, but you usually void your warranty and no longer have a guarantee that the device will work/keep working.
They don't need access to your data in the Azure Cloud any more. They will just read all your data directly from within Windows 10, when you're using it in its unencrypted form.
I've been using TomTom navigation apps on my iPhone 3GS and now iPhone 6+ since early June 2009. It has excellent offline maps. I've travelled large parts of the USA and Canada, Brazil, many countries in Europe, some in the Middle East and Australia and New Zealand. It has been almost 7 years of regular free map updates on the first app I bought (Europe). Good offline maps are essential if you're driving some back road trying to find the Mountain View Lodge. I've been to many places that do not have a GPS signal anywhere near.
I'm in no way affiliated with TomTom, but their map apps have been very useful and enjoyable to me on many occasions. There have been cases where I've only had a decent meal or a bed thanks to TomTom having accurate information of such in some remote location so that I knew that if I drove 60km in the right direction I would find something. It's also made me a safer driver in busy cities as I can concentrate on the road and traffic, while the phone will tell me where I need to navigate. New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome, Berlin and many other places.
I know I sound like an add, but I'm just a very happy customer.
Changes root password and calls it a day.
Ah, but you would have to change the root password from St4m|nu5 to Stup|du5
(St4m|nu5 was apparently the root password they used, according to the hackers, so it might not be true).
If you do your security "properly" you will be more expensive than the competition and you will go out of business.
Capitalism is fun sometimes.
That exists where I live (The Nethelands) but it requires a signed paper form from the account owner as part of the billing contract.
Not something easily done over the internet.
It gets generally used for utility companies and subscriptions to magazines, cable and such.
I can even view all the active billing contracts on my bank's website and cancel them from there.
There's a video in the linked article that shows how core memory is made, and it is indeed a finicky manual process manipulating things to small for even pliers.
Very nicely worded.
Why would you want to replace the battery?
The battery on my iPhone 3GS is still fine and that phone is almost 7 years old now.
I've been using Apple for years, and for a long time they did ship with decent graphics cards. This allowed me to also run games on the various Macs I have.
They used to have things like the NV 8600GT, 9600GT, ATI 6770, GTX 680, GTX 780, al at times when these were very decent graphics cards, also for gaming.
I've been playing most of my games on Apple hardware since about 2007.
But their new offerings with only Iris (Pro) are just useless. Only the 27" iMac has a decent GPU, and even that isn't too great.
I just want a sub-$2000 Mac with a decent to good GPU. I've been able to buy that from Apple for the past 8-9 years, but today I'm looking at building a Hackintosh with a GTX 970 because Apple is no longer selling anything that. I am very disappointed in Apple.