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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by debaserab2 »

deong wrote: post #300
debaserab2 wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GDocs has been the primary office tool for the past several jobs I've had across the entire staff. What can it not do that office can do?

Within large organizations, I don't think there's any replacement for Excel. Google docs are great as a Word replacement, but Google's spreadsheet offering is a spreadsheet. Excel is an extremely sophisticated development environment.

Again, I have to ask, what sophistication does Excel have that Google spreadsheet does not also offer?

COM and VBA scripting? Access database sourcing?

Google spreadsheets even has analogies to this functionality (albeit in Google flavors).

It's certainly not the formula and pivot table capabilities which Google spreadsheets has pretty good parity with. At one point in time you could argue that excel handled larger files better, but more recent versions of Google Spreadsheet seem to handle larger files pretty well.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by vetinari »

hungerstrike wrote: post #476
DrPhish wrote: post #463

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It actually turns out that you can't. [0] You are able to turn it down to "Basic" using the GUI, and if you are using the enterprise edition thru corporate volume licensing you can turn it down further to "Security" with admin tools. There is no way to turn it off completely, and since its cranked up by default, that is where it will stay for the majority of installations. As an anecdote, even Microsoft employees I'v…

Incorrect. There are in fact three ways to completely disable it. You can get the Enterprise edition [0] or modify your registry configuration [1] or by a third party tool [2]. Even if you don't want to do any of those for some reason, reading about the Basic level of telemetry - it's nothing. At least it's nothing that I care about. [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/try [1] https://winaero.com/b…

Enterprise edition is not available to non-volume accounts. I.e. not for home machines, not for small businesses.

The registry edit is specifically not honored for non-enteprise SKUs.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by cygned »

coldtea wrote: post #71
m6w6 wrote: post #6

Will Aperture still run on High Sierra, or is Photos already a viable replacement?

Photos will never be a viable replacement for the full Aperture professional use cases -- they have different goals. Aperture might or might not run on HS (not sure), but holding to it until Photos catches up is not very good strategy, at some point it will just stop working (and it's not getting any new fixes, updates, etc). Better move to Lightroom or something similar.

Using Affinity Photo after using Lightroom after using Aperture. It's pretty good, actually, and enough for what I do.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by ubernostrum »

baldfat wrote: post #404
deong wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Within large organizations, I don't think there's any replacement for Excel. Google docs are great as a Word replacement, but Google's spreadsheet offering is a spreadsheet. Excel is an extremely sophisticated development environment.

> I don't think there's any replacement for Excel That would be great. People over use Excel to no end and it causes problems. They need to use programming. Get people with R or Python and Pandas, or some other statistical program. (88% of Excel Spreadsheets contain human errors) These are human error. Use a program not an Excel sheet. https://www.forbes.com/sites/salesforce/2014/09/13/sorry-spr... One error cost $6…

Excel is programming. It's just not the kind you do or like. The number of programming things people have done in Excel and Access is astounding, as is the number of people who've learned to program without realizing it as a result of using those tools.

Could they be better? Sure. But don't knock it as not "programming" on that basis -- PHP is also bad.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by cookiecaper »

tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

The other day someone was asking why Facebook wants people to adopt to React, which is generally just a question about why all of these software vendors want to eat the world and become the source of everything that commands user attention.

This is why. Apple can use its influence to harm its competitors by frustrating the mechanisms used to promote their monetary interests, making a (legitimate) claim that doing so is beneficial to the user.

Microsoft articulated the goal well in its 1998 memos, the infamous "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". They want platform control because once you control user attention (and developer attention by extension), you can wedge your way in and do things that benefit your company over others.

Facebook controls the front-end library used by a large portion of all sites, not just facebook.com. If Apple's machine learning mechanism notices some common patterns between Facebook's code for React and Facebook's code for user tracking, either organically or because Facebook does a couple of nudges to make sure that happens, now Safari is broken, evidenced by its inability to correctly render a large portion of the web. If Facebook only had control over code running on facebook.com, then Facebook would be the apparent source of any user-facing breakage.

Note that users are not the customer being catered to. They are, rather, the resource being exploited to provide the energy necessary to undergird the MegaCorp's power expansion, in service to the other MegaCorps doing large-scale advertisement, endorsement, and censorship/speech control deals with them.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by dragonwriter »

debaserab2 wrote: post #491
deong wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Within large organizations, I don't think there's any replacement for Excel. Google docs are great as a Word replacement, but Google's spreadsheet offering is a spreadsheet. Excel is an extremely sophisticated development environment.

Again, I have to ask, what sophistication does Excel have that Google spreadsheet does not also offer? COM and VBA scripting? Access database sourcing? Google spreadsheets even has analogies to this functionality (albeit in Google flavors). It's certainly not the formula and pivot table capabilities which Google spreadsheets has pretty good parity with. At one point in time you could argue that excel handled larger f…

> Again, I have to ask, what sophistication does Excel have that Google spreadsheet does not also offer?

PowerPivot. Database Access (JDBC to a handful of DBs isn't anywhere close to what Excel offers.)

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by kbd »

otterpro wrote: post #315
kbd wrote: post #185

I still haven't updated to Sierra because I depend on Karabiner. Just tried the newest version of Karabiner-Elements and it still doesn't do everything I need.

I regretted upgrading to Sierra because I lost my favorite functionality of Karabiner. But I got most of the features back when I started using Hammerspoon. It's not GUI friendly, but it's doable and there's a lot of scripts available. It's similar to Window's Autohotkey which I use at work, but Hammerspoon has a sane, real language (Lua). My other suggestion is to actually replace keyboard. ErgoDox EZ and Ultimate H…

I use Karabiner to remap all the keys/buttons on my Razer Naga (so I can avoid using Razer's awful software). I've looked into Hammerspoon but it's not clear if/how I can remap keys only from a specific device.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by bzbarsky »

jayd16 wrote: post #358
tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

So how many decades are we going to hear about how bad it is that Google knows what kind of toothpaste I like and how important privacy is before we actually see a real world benefit? Can someone point to any situation in the past where the conclusion was "good thing the ads were less targeting to my interests!"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h... has an example (Target, not Google) where that could very well be the conclusion, yes (or rather "too bad the ads were targeted so well"). That's off the top of my head, since that one hit the national news pretty widely.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by wlesieutre »

dkersten wrote: post #465
wlesieutre wrote: post #432

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything Apple has done since iOS was first introduced (or arguably the initial iPad support in iOS 3.2 ) has been incremental improvements. But drag and drop is one of the bigger ones, IMO on-par with the initial multitasking support which incidentally was the update that finally convinced me to buy an iPad. For an example of where this smooths things out, I've been using Readdle's Documents as an approximation of…

Ok that's fair. I suppose the update seemed less to me because I haven't needed the drag and drop for my workflow (basically I don't find myself needing to copy files/images very much and the documents I author on iPad are typically text only), so I guess this feature kinda slipped by me a bit.

I actually haven't used half that stuff yet, just discovered the depth of spring loading and the weird objects it supports (contacts / maps) while I was writing that comment. But even for smoother handling of text, images, and PDF files I really like this feature.

As a downside, the interface for picking up multiple objects feels a bit weird and is probably one of the bigger learning curves that iOS has gotten.

Another example I just found - you can drag an email (or several) from Mail over to Documents where they're saved as .eml files. Documents doesn't know how to render these so you see the full markup, but I can imagine that would be a useful feature for something.

Maybe a utility app to view full email headers? I don't think Mail.app has a way to get into those.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by eugeniub »

eridius wrote: post #446
feelin_googley wrote: post #397

"Conclusion In this blog post, we briefly discussed High Sierra's "Secure Kernel Extension Loading" (SKEL) and demonstrated a new 0day vulnerability that can be exploited to fully bypass this new `security' feature. Unfortunately when such `security' features are introduced - even if done so with the noblest of intentions - they often just complicate the lives of 3rd-party developers and users without affecting the b…

It's unfortunate that there is an alleged 0day in this functionality. I don't know why the author is trying to accuse Apple of having the real goal of "wrestl[ing] control of the system away from it users". SKEL looks like a very good idea to me, and the presence of a bug does not make it any less of a good idea. It's also unclear in what way SKEL is supposed to be taking control away from Apple's users anyway. If an…

The biggest problems I have had with my Mac came from a kernel extension that I didn't know got installed, and didn't get uninstalled when I uninstalled the accompanying program.
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