That's exactly what I might have said, for years now... But, I am done with FF's over-riding my own "default" search engine choice. It keeps reloading all the 'default" search engines, AND selecting GOOG for the address bar, despite my having eliminated all but my own so-called "choice" for "my" search engine from their installed bundle/list. If I can find a legacy version of FF that doesn't ignore settings/prefs, or, another browser that can run uBlock Origin, I'm done with Mozilla's contemporary thing, forever.
[If you could see and feel the dramatic, negative impact of these hordes of self-entitled "tech" workers on present day San Francisco (and even parts of the East Bay)]...would have been to pass an ordinance which "confined" tech workers to remaining on-campus, dining inside the company store cafterias, thus sparing the citizens, and actually working people, of our community. Please, kiddies, go back to your "open plan" cubbyholes in Mtn View, Sunnyvale, Fremont (LOL)... wherever...
After 8 months of posting no updates, and rarely logging in, no one has even noticed I'm inactive. If they have, they're not bothered to send a DM to see whats up. Friends lol.
That's right. he should give all his money to every man, woman, and child in the US. Cut us a one time check for $460, and it will surely change our lives.
Actually for quite a few people, it would.
That's a few months of food for a family.
Yes, and Facebook remembers literally everything about you for decades, but it magically can't remember that you selected Chronological Order... You have to reselect it. Every. Fucking. Day.
In most companies, if the first tier of tech support is unable to resolve your issue it gets escalated to a 2nd tier of support personnel. At Apple it gets escalated to black hole, requiring customers to file class actions to get resolution.
That is completely, utterly false, without any historical backup, and zero present-day merit, whatsoever. You are either an idiot, retarded, or an assole... or, my guess, based on using Apple gear (and tech support) since 1978... you're all of those things. Please go fuck yourself, quietly, if possible.
This is what happens when you don't beta test your "pro" hardware designs on actual power users.
Exactly. I hate the keyboard enough to use it in clamshell mode, with a Logitech Craft external (Which has its own set of stupid design choices). I accidentally drowned my previous MacBook Pro in coffee, in Brooklyn, and had no idea how much I was going to regret moving up to the newest MBP.
Dreadful. I do copy-editing, sub-title syncing & editing, lots of work in Logic Pro X, and some a/v stuff in FCPX, and I'd have gone totally around-the-bend mad, a while ago, if I hadn't dumped their internal keyboard.
I've been on Apple gear since '78. Not exclusively, at work (I've used SPARCstations, and Windows and Linux boxes for years.), but always at home (and at home, always with Linux and Windows available in Parallels). I hate to sound like a cliche, or meme, but... Apple's game took a seriously awful hit when S. Jobs passed. Not the same biz, at all.
I was running jailbroken phones, for years, primarily due to user interface (you know, "design") issues that bothered me, the "user." Were they minor issues? Yeah. Ex: the Dock, even when not used, is always there, with their crazy-useless gray "blur" effect. Why? No ability to have nested folders. Again, why? Folders, in their limited usage/availability, also have that stupid gray "blur" background... Yeah, why? No killall for backgrounded apps. Why?
I lost my JB on an SE about 8 months ago. I went out and bought (consecutively, with "swaps" in between) a series of Iphone 8 and X models, in a vain effort to find one with an early-enough, jail-breakable shipping version of iOS. No-go... So, I decided to hell with it, and just bought a iPhone 7, in factory-default everything.
And I no longer care, but it bothers me, that even with my apps all in logical folders, on Page 2, my Homescreen still has a cropped version of my wallpaper (the alley in SF where Sam Spade's partner gets killed near the beginning of the Maltese Falcon), riding on top of that useless, ugly, blurry-gray Dock.
Ives needs a very long vacation, yes indeed, but the people who decided it was "his way, or no way" in terms of benign UI factors... those people need to be run out of town, permanently.
Trust me, I know that none of this shit actually "matters." I get it. But why must we have these simple UI chains inside their "walled garden?"
I'm not exactly sure what people use them for, Facebook or something I guess,
That your best guess? Really. Well, try these, dumbass:
Final Cut Pro
Logic Pro
And guess what? When plugin guys are too lazy and/or stupid to update their 32-bit stuff to 64 bit, they're out of the show (and post-production, also), like, immediately, no matter how crucial they think they are. Bye bye, see ya...
Oh, and I run Windows 10 Pro, and a couple versions of Linux at the same time (rarely) on the Mac, also, in that one-in-a-hundred scenario where I actually need some old thing to do some oddball operation... So, Windows isn't entirely "useless," just, not as necessary... in the production world as it might once have been. Probably great for Chrome and other google/nsa/MS spycraft bullshit, though, I'd imagine... Good luck with all that shit, sport.
This has always been an appeal to emotion rather than reliance on actual facts and figures.
Thank you for speaking up, and shining a bit of the light of reality on this subject, and specifically, this right-wing, pro-corporate, absurdist "argument" against moderate regulation of would-be unfettered capitalism, not to mention the necessity of enforcing equal treatment before the Law.
There's all kinds of cosmetic and usability bugs floating around...
Final Cut Pro X can't be launched on a MacBook Pro in "clamshell" mode. Five iterations of 10.13.2 beta have failed to fix, despite Apple's escalated support knowing about this since the betas of 10.13.0. Obviously not going to affect many, but for me, and quite a few others, a serious fuckup.
Mail.app links launch Safari, despite any other browser being chosen as "default." Annoying. Fixed, temporarily, by deleting safari.app. Then, on second test, Evernote gets launched. Moved evernote to external drive, and firefox.exe, inside Windows 7, inside Parallels, launches. Moved Parallels to an external drive, now, finally, firefox.app launches. Success, but... Pathetic.
Ongoing USB issues; Devices often needing to be hot unplugged/re-plugged in order to register and kick in. Lame.
"Ignore Trackpad when other device present" staying "active" (i.e., disabled) even when external device is disconnected... the beat goes on...
Analysis? They're spending way too much time on the phone.
Same here, back on FF 53, mainly to keep extensions, but a huge part of the reason is to try and defeat the minor shit-tonne of UI glitches and screwups involved in macOS High Sierra. The issues are just rolling over through four (and counting...) iterations of the beta updates... Don't get me started on that, Apple has clearly spent too much time on the phone. And Mozilla is a performing dog trainer that periodically, for zero reason, pulls an Old Yeller on the trainee... It's crazy out here
Which is pretty much how municipal fiber ought to work.
1) City forms wholly owned non-profit
2) City underwrites bonds for fiber optic network
You clearly understand how a muni system could/shoulfd be set up in order to actually work (be viable down the line).
My wife happens to be a counsel for a group of cable/telecoms in California, and she got a call from a USF professor who is on SF's Blue Ribbon Panel that has simply voted on the "idea." This is worlds away from anything approaching a done deal, for one, and secondly, the nature of the "Panel" member's questions show that they have not even gotten as far thinking about Step 1 in your helpful list of the method for setting a utility, like this "proposed" one, up.
I'm rather amazed to see slashdot folks looking at this municipal vaporware as something that has been, or will be put in place. Pipe dreams, people, move along now...
All cities are dependent on complex support services to function, it is incredibly bad strategy to displace the workers who maintain it. Spatial relationships matter, that is what makes cities work. Pushing out the support layer means the city falls apart until budgets rise to cover increased costs from dis-agglomeration and scattering of labor increasing their costs in a vicious circle. The cop-out of blaming local government only works when the companies responsible for the bubble and especially their employees actually pay full and complete taxes, otherwise they only increase the demand on local services without paying for increasing capacity. That means less is available for everyone, if distribution were even. In practice distribution is not remotely even, so this directly means less for everyone else (the older residents), while the new rich few horde everything they can.
Okay so you're a know-nothing. Congratulations! Meanwhile, I continue to use my VPN, one of 4 that I rotate through, over the last eight years, with zero interference. Just lucky, I guess,, huh, fuckhead?
you shouldn't put much faith in the claims made by service providers
Depends on the provider. People need to do some research.
It is not rocket science.
Also, people who are up to clearly nasty behavior also need to make sure they don't start logging into their "normal" sites (facebook, banks, anything connected to GOOG...etc.) while using their vpn. "Shared IPs" might mitigate a bit of risk, but the enemy is perfectly capable of connecting a tagged browser with whatever IP their VPN assigns them.
User Error is at the root of... what? 95% of the fuckups? who knows. I've seen a total of one DMCA-related 'warming' or whatever... since Napster days. Like I said, it isn't rocket science but the onus is clearly on the user to play head's up.
Tobacco companies don't want to harm ecigarettes because they cut into their profit. They produce ecigarettes and want to ladle on expensive regulations so only they can afford to produce them, and take the profits themselves.
This
That's the story behind all those phony commercials. Mom 'n pop e-cig people are already going out of business while the tobacco cartel just sits and waits for politicians to screw the whole biz. At which point they're the only ones left.
And, yes, the tobacco companies DO produce the shittiest devices out there.
Should people carry both a Windows laptop and a MacBook to run both Windows apps and macOS apps?
Jeeze, that's been answered since a long time ago. I boot Win7ult on my MacBook Pro in about ten seconds, drag and drop, clipboard-sharing, common VPN... Seriously, we hardly need 2 of anything in the modern world..
...and unsubscribing is an attempt to remove temptation.
This is exactly correct. 40+ years ago I was selling encyclopedias, door-to-door, in western Canada (the BC interior, Alberta "ditto", and the Northwest Territories). I quickly learned the futility of knocking on 100+ doors in an evening, and would cruise the neighborhood, or town, looking for a number of "tells," one of which (my fave) was that little "No peddlers, solicitors, or agents" sticker/sign. Several people I was training one evening were surprised, and asked why I did that, and I told them, "People put those signs up because they're afraid that if a salesman comes to their door they might buy something."
It came in handy, especially given winter climes and the difference between knocking on 100+ doors, and knocking on 3 or 4.
Strange things happen when you take naive, out-of-touch leftists and then give them huge amounts of money that they didn't really earn in any meaningful way.
Leftists in Silicon Valley? Who are you referring to... the homeless? LOL
Listen up son, most of the owners/investors in Silicon Valley are right-wingers or Libertarians (Sorta the same thing...).
I take it you're from Des Moines, or some other backwater where hasty generalizations blow up in people's faces on a regular basis, yeah?
The real theft is not copying, but rather copyright itself!
Exactly right.
Copyright and patent protection (both of which have seen their "terms" deepened and lengthened to incredible depths and lengths) are forced on the developing world, right along with the rest of the so-called "first" world, to the detriment of normal, average people, globally. They're one of the chief methods that have been employed, relentlessly, in a successful effort to distribute more and more money toward the 1% from everyone else, again, globally.
This tactic is why cancer drugs, for example, cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, when their "cost" would be a small fraction of that in an actual free market.
In textbook trade theory, if a country has a larger trade surplus for royalties and patent licensing fees, it will have a larger trade deficit in manufactured goods and other areas. (That, courtesy of Dean Baker, in his book, *Rigged*, published by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C.)
He goes on: "Of course we have to pay for the research to develop new drugs or any innovation. We also have to compensate creative workers who produce music, movies, and books. But there are efficient alternatives to patents and copyrights, and the efforts by the elites in the United States and other wealthy countries to impose these relics on the developing world is just a mechanism for redistributing income from the world's poor to Pfizer, Microsoft, and Disney. Stronger and longer patent and copyright protection is not a necessary feature of a 21st century economy."
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That's exactly what I might have said, for years now... But, I am done with FF's over-riding my own "default" search engine choice. It keeps reloading all the 'default" search engines, AND selecting GOOG for the address bar, despite my having eliminated all but my own so-called "choice" for "my" search engine from their installed bundle/list. If I can find a legacy version of FF that doesn't ignore settings/prefs, or, another browser that can run uBlock Origin, I'm done with Mozilla's contemporary thing, forever.
[If you could see and feel the dramatic, negative impact of these hordes of self-entitled "tech" workers on present day San Francisco (and even parts of the East Bay)] ...would have been to pass an ordinance which "confined" tech workers to remaining on-campus, dining inside the company store cafterias, thus sparing the citizens, and actually working people, of our community. Please, kiddies, go back to your "open plan" cubbyholes in Mtn View, Sunnyvale, Fremont (LOL)... wherever...
Anonymous LOL.
Really? Like what? Cat food?
No Shit. This.
That is completely, utterly false, without any historical backup, and zero present-day merit, whatsoever. You are either an idiot, retarded, or an assole... or, my guess, based on using Apple gear (and tech support) since 1978... you're all of those things. Please go fuck yourself, quietly, if possible.
They'll somehow manage to get by without your $$$... You're still a fucking idiot.. and a parrot... and a dimwit... etc...
Exactly. I hate the keyboard enough to use it in clamshell mode, with a Logitech Craft external (Which has its own set of stupid design choices). I accidentally drowned my previous MacBook Pro in coffee, in Brooklyn, and had no idea how much I was going to regret moving up to the newest MBP.
Dreadful. I do copy-editing, sub-title syncing & editing, lots of work in Logic Pro X, and some a/v stuff in FCPX, and I'd have gone totally around-the-bend mad, a while ago, if I hadn't dumped their internal keyboard.
I've been on Apple gear since '78. Not exclusively, at work (I've used SPARCstations, and Windows and Linux boxes for years.), but always at home (and at home, always with Linux and Windows available in Parallels). I hate to sound like a cliche, or meme, but... Apple's game took a seriously awful hit when S. Jobs passed. Not the same biz, at all.
Totally agree... and then some.
I was running jailbroken phones, for years, primarily due to user interface (you know, "design") issues that bothered me, the "user." Were they minor issues? Yeah. Ex: the Dock, even when not used, is always there, with their crazy-useless gray "blur" effect. Why? No ability to have nested folders. Again, why? Folders, in their limited usage/availability, also have that stupid gray "blur" background... Yeah, why? No killall for backgrounded apps. Why?
I lost my JB on an SE about 8 months ago. I went out and bought (consecutively, with "swaps" in between) a series of Iphone 8 and X models, in a vain effort to find one with an early-enough, jail-breakable shipping version of iOS. No-go... So, I decided to hell with it, and just bought a iPhone 7, in factory-default everything.
And I no longer care, but it bothers me, that even with my apps all in logical folders, on Page 2, my Homescreen still has a cropped version of my wallpaper (the alley in SF where Sam Spade's partner gets killed near the beginning of the Maltese Falcon), riding on top of that useless, ugly, blurry-gray Dock.
Ives needs a very long vacation, yes indeed, but the people who decided it was "his way, or no way" in terms of benign UI factors... those people need to be run out of town, permanently.
Trust me, I know that none of this shit actually "matters." I get it. But why must we have these simple UI chains inside their "walled garden?"
hahaha
That your best guess? Really. Well, try these, dumbass:
Final Cut Pro
Logic Pro
And guess what? When plugin guys are too lazy and/or stupid to update their 32-bit stuff to 64 bit, they're out of the show (and post-production, also), like, immediately, no matter how crucial they think they are. Bye bye, see ya...
Oh, and I run Windows 10 Pro, and a couple versions of Linux at the same time (rarely) on the Mac, also, in that one-in-a-hundred scenario where I actually need some old thing to do some oddball operation... So, Windows isn't entirely "useless," just, not as necessary... in the production world as it might once have been. Probably great for Chrome and other google/nsa/MS spycraft bullshit, though, I'd imagine... Good luck with all that shit, sport.
Thank you for speaking up, and shining a bit of the light of reality on this subject, and specifically, this right-wing, pro-corporate, absurdist "argument" against moderate regulation of would-be unfettered capitalism, not to mention the necessity of enforcing equal treatment before the Law.
Final Cut Pro X can't be launched on a MacBook Pro in "clamshell" mode. Five iterations of 10.13.2 beta have failed to fix, despite Apple's escalated support knowing about this since the betas of 10.13.0. Obviously not going to affect many, but for me, and quite a few others, a serious fuckup.
Mail.app links launch Safari, despite any other browser being chosen as "default." Annoying. Fixed, temporarily, by deleting safari.app. Then, on second test, Evernote gets launched. Moved evernote to external drive, and firefox.exe, inside Windows 7, inside Parallels, launches. Moved Parallels to an external drive, now, finally, firefox.app launches. Success, but... Pathetic.
Ongoing USB issues; Devices often needing to be hot unplugged/re-plugged in order to register and kick in. Lame.
"Ignore Trackpad when other device present" staying "active" (i.e., disabled) even when external device is disconnected... the beat goes on...
Analysis? They're spending way too much time on the phone.
Same here, back on FF 53, mainly to keep extensions, but a huge part of the reason is to try and defeat the minor shit-tonne of UI glitches and screwups involved in macOS High Sierra. The issues are just rolling over through four (and counting...) iterations of the beta updates... Don't get me started on that, Apple has clearly spent too much time on the phone. And Mozilla is a performing dog trainer that periodically, for zero reason, pulls an Old Yeller on the trainee... It's crazy out here
...let me know.
You clearly understand how a muni system could/shoulfd be set up in order to actually work (be viable down the line).
My wife happens to be a counsel for a group of cable/telecoms in California, and she got a call from a USF professor who is on SF's Blue Ribbon Panel that has simply voted on the "idea." This is worlds away from anything approaching a done deal, for one, and secondly, the nature of the "Panel" member's questions show that they have not even gotten as far thinking about Step 1 in your helpful list of the method for setting a utility, like this "proposed" one, up.
I'm rather amazed to see slashdot folks looking at this municipal vaporware as something that has been, or will be put in place. Pipe dreams, people, move along now...
Somebody gets it. Thank you.
Okay so you're a know-nothing. Congratulations! Meanwhile, I continue to use my VPN, one of 4 that I rotate through, over the last eight years, with zero interference. Just lucky, I guess,, huh, fuckhead?
Depends on the provider. People need to do some research.
It is not rocket science.
Also, people who are up to clearly nasty behavior also need to make sure they don't start logging into their "normal" sites (facebook, banks, anything connected to GOOG...etc.) while using their vpn. "Shared IPs" might mitigate a bit of risk, but the enemy is perfectly capable of connecting a tagged browser with whatever IP their VPN assigns them.
User Error is at the root of... what? 95% of the fuckups? who knows. I've seen a total of one DMCA-related 'warming' or whatever... since Napster days. Like I said, it isn't rocket science but the onus is clearly on the user to play head's up.
This
That's the story behind all those phony commercials. Mom 'n pop e-cig people are already going out of business while the tobacco cartel just sits and waits for politicians to screw the whole biz. At which point they're the only ones left.
And, yes, the tobacco companies DO produce the shittiest devices out there.
Jeeze, that's been answered since a long time ago. I boot Win7ult on my MacBook Pro in about ten seconds, drag and drop, clipboard-sharing, common VPN... Seriously, we hardly need 2 of anything in the modern world..
This is exactly correct. 40+ years ago I was selling encyclopedias, door-to-door, in western Canada (the BC interior, Alberta "ditto", and the Northwest Territories). I quickly learned the futility of knocking on 100+ doors in an evening, and would cruise the neighborhood, or town, looking for a number of "tells," one of which (my fave) was that little "No peddlers, solicitors, or agents" sticker/sign. Several people I was training one evening were surprised, and asked why I did that, and I told them, "People put those signs up because they're afraid that if a salesman comes to their door they might buy something."
It came in handy, especially given winter climes and the difference between knocking on 100+ doors, and knocking on 3 or 4.
Wow. Just... wow.
Leftists in Silicon Valley? Who are you referring to... the homeless? LOL
Listen up son, most of the owners/investors in Silicon Valley are right-wingers or Libertarians (Sorta the same thing...).
I take it you're from Des Moines, or some other backwater where hasty generalizations blow up in people's faces on a regular basis, yeah?
Exactly right.
Copyright and patent protection (both of which have seen their "terms" deepened and lengthened to incredible depths and lengths) are forced on the developing world, right along with the rest of the so-called "first" world, to the detriment of normal, average people, globally. They're one of the chief methods that have been employed, relentlessly, in a successful effort to distribute more and more money toward the 1% from everyone else, again, globally.
This tactic is why cancer drugs, for example, cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, when their "cost" would be a small fraction of that in an actual free market.
In textbook trade theory, if a country has a larger trade surplus for royalties and patent licensing fees, it will have a larger trade deficit in manufactured goods and other areas. (That, courtesy of Dean Baker, in his book, *Rigged*, published by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C.)
He goes on: "Of course we have to pay for the research to develop new drugs or any innovation. We also have to compensate creative workers who produce music, movies, and books. But there are efficient alternatives to patents and copyrights, and the efforts by the elites in the United States and other wealthy countries to impose these relics on the developing world is just a mechanism for redistributing income from the world's poor to Pfizer, Microsoft, and Disney. Stronger and longer patent and copyright protection is not a necessary feature of a 21st century economy."