chia

anton zuykov said:

chia said:

allmypeople said:

Lets face reality: it's not the safest place to do it anymore

Provocative nonsense

Of course, it is...especially, when you have to hush anyone with "lets not talk about this" because facts became offensive and because trucks of peace became "part and parcel of living in a big city". If you have that, then you have got a huge problem on the hands. And part of that problem is that it is not being addressed.

"Let's not talk about this" was perhaps a kind suggestion: people are still free to post and embarrass themselves to others in this forum.

Your "trucks of peace" have been an issue in the US long before recent events in London:
1920 Wall Street Bombing
1927 Bath School Disaster
1993 World Trade Center bombing
1995 Oklahoma City bombing

yet Americans still go about living their lives attending big sponsored events in their cities.
When you factor in on top of terrorism the far higher death rates in the USA from traffic accidents and violent crime compared to those of the UK, it is statistically safer for an American to attend an event in London than at home.

So just where is this huge problem that's not being addressed, the highly successful counter-terrorist operations and measures which prevent the vast majority of attacks in London and major cities around the world, or the ongoing slaughter of hundreds every week by crime and accidents on the streets of America?

allmypeople said:

Lets face reality: it's not the safest place to do it anymore

Provocative nonsense, as others have said earlier in this thread, let's not walk down this route.

The reality is that fewer people have died from terrorist attacks in London over the past fifteen years than have been murdered in New York City in the past year alone, yet events still carry on in the unsafer reality that is New York.

jdw said:

At some point you folks need to realize that your needs are best served by the MacBook or MacBook AIR, not the MacBook Pro.  And once you finally realize that, you can leave the real "pros" well enough alone.  Stop trying to take away features from other people that you yourself don't need.  Get the stripped-down Mac that best suits you -- not a "pro" level Mac.

You realise you've hijacked a thread for a product which plugs directly into the USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 ports of Apple's current MacBook Pros; no USB-A involved.

The Thunderbolt 3 ports add functionality that isn't offered through USB-A connectors.  A cheap small adaptor, cable or hub, small enough to be carried in any professional's  bag alongside the power supply, is all you need should you still need to connect equipment with older USB-A connectors.

If you find doing such a small thing to be so insurmountable as to prefer hobbling a computer's capability with slower storage and less capable interface, then I have to wonder what your ability as a professional is to overcome the challenges faced in completing any major or complex project to a professional level.

gatorguy said:

macseeker said:

mtbnut said:

As a stock analyst, I am telling all my clients to sell their APPL positions immediately. I also suspect that this will be the demise of Apple; this breach will more than likely cause the stock price to decrease at least 54% within the next 1 to 14 years.

We got a worry-wort here.

Also what company is APPL?  You're a stock analyst, really?

I think it was a joke. 

Made all the more funnier by the irony of the "stock analyst" getting the elementary fact of the stock symbol wrong.

bobolicious said:

I have a number of friends on Windows, and many are happy campers, still using W7. The sentiment I hear is 'if it ain't broke' when I ask about upgrading from a 9 year old OS...

I have to ask if that camp would ever put up with the churn of annual MacOS 'upgrades' and the associated hassles when buying new hardware and peripherals, as such may force upgrades (at expense) for other apps and limit access to legacy ones...?

I expect Apple will keep developing their OS, and ask if that may by design always limit the Mac to a niche percentage: "Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive – but would only run on 5 percent of the roads."

www.laughbreak.com/lists/if-microsoft-built-cars/

appex said:

It is hard to believe how people can use such an anti-intuitive, awkward and malware-filled operating system as Windows is. Windows is basically maintained by inertia and ignorance. The day the Mac reaches 20% market share, Windows will be history in three years.

Nine years worth of unpatched security vulnerabilities suggests Windows 7 is very much broke indeed.
Undoubtedly many malware writers and "Windows Security" call centers are happy their income is maintained by preying on those happy campers failing to upgrade and update.

You speak of the expense of annual hardware churn with Macs yet ironically as a whole Macs have longer usage lives and lower overall total cost of ownership than Windows machines.
In any case, even if were not the case, keeping up to date is usually cheaper than losing money and your financial identity to fraud.

As for the if "Macintosh [sic] would make a car" analogy, it's extremely poor:  Mercedes has  a niche, less than 5 percent marketshare yet is vehicles are capable of going anywhere the other vehicles go.
We may yet see Apple release a car...