Tell your ineffective boss to GFY and upgrade to a real job. I'm not even joking a little. A shop that won't give you the tools to effectively do your job is a special kind of hell that no one deserves. Get out of there before your skills fall so far out of date that you're stuck for life.

Agreed, and I'd never do that. I asked it OP was sure that they weren't hardware problems on his own computer and not something more widespread. I did that because I haven't seen any of those problems myself and hadn't heard of them before now.

Also agreed. I've filed plenty of bugs to Apple's tracker over the years so that they know someone's affected by them.

Of course not. Apple makes Xcode available for free and you can use it to your heart's content. The paid license is for distributing apps through Apple's store. That's almost a requirement for iOS development (although you can install home-written software on your own stuff, I think), but not at all needed for Mac development. Lots of software is available via the Mac app store; lots more is available through developers' own websites.

They wouldn't be. Fortunately, they don't have to be.

What's the free equivalent?

I've experienced literally none of those things on any of the Macs or iOS devices that I come in contact with daily. Are you certain that those aren't particular to your own system?

Not implying that those are bug-free OSes, I say typing on "ComputerName (23)".

In what way?

The AMD 7000 series in the XBox One and PS4 is about the equivalent of a GeForce 580. There are some console based optimizations that may make it faster than an equivalent PC 580 though, which is why W3 requires a 660. The 660 and 660 Ti are close enough performance-wise that the game is fine on either. Also while the Ti is slower on total performance (by a tiny amount), it has quite a few more shaders and texure mapping units (about 30-33% faster). Incidentally, I'm playing Witcher 3 on a 660 Ti and with nVidia optimized settings have not seen any issues. Honestly, I'm guessing the game is actually playable on even lower end cards but you may have framerate drops below 30FPS and that wasn't acceptable to CD Projekt Red.

750s are often a bit slower than the 660s, however, due to lack of cores (especially on the low end), but I'm guessing the game would still be playable, as the AMD equivalent on the PS4 and XOne is 1152 cores and unless something has changed recently, one nVidia core generally performs about the same speed as 2 AMD cores (from what I recall, AMD's cores aren't fully general purpose for texture and pixel operations, but are for general purpose, which is why AMD is often preferred for stuff like bitcoin mining and password cracking).

But did it carry dragons?

Why. It's not criminally PC to use either singular pronoun when referring to a hypothetical person. I think the fact that you felt it necessary to comment on it says more about you than the author.

In my hometown, Red Cross kept raising the rates they charged to local hospitals for donated blood. Eventually it became so expensive that a local coalition founded their own blood bank and began distributing blood products for much lower prices.

I don't begrudge the Red Cross selling donated blood. Supplies, equipment, refrigeration, etc. all cost a lot of money and even a 100% volunteer organization can't wave that stuff away. I begrudge them charging so much that another, much smaller group without the same national recognition or economies of scale can set up a parallel system offering the same services for far less money.

Or you could rip them with "illegal" software, at least as far as the US government is concerned. Since you are entitled to one backup by copyright law into any format you choose, the DMCA vs copyright is kind of nebulous. You could probably legally ship it to some other country where it is legal to rip, have it ripped there, then have it and the copy shipped back and not break either law. Or you could rip your CDs/DVDs while on vacation to such a country, but you probably legally have to delete the ripping software before returning to the US.

Franken always votes with Obama, so how is that a surprise, lol. Don't know Klobuchar's excuse, probably Obama's bitch, too.

Not sure why the others opposed it, but I know why I oppose it - it allows bulk vacuuming calls made on non-phones, like Skype, VoIP, etc. and frees any company providing information to the NSA about these calls from liability. Also, extends section 215 by 4 years, has an added watchperson for FISA but any or all information can be redacted from that person, allows a nebulously defined "emergency powers provision," etc. The bill is highly flawed and ripe for the exact same type of NSA overextension as the Patriot Act gave them.

Not to mention the NSA scare tactic of saying if the dragnet goes down, people will die. The admitted ZERO terrorists caught by the dragnet proves this.

I use this argument a lot with anti-gun people. While I personally have actually shot animals with guns (rabbits at a farm that were out of control pests for 10 cents a kill), the vast majority of things I've shot are paper targets. I've also shot far more clay pigeons than rabbits (about 3 dozen to 2). I don't own any guns and don't plan to buy any soon, so I'm not some raging pistol shooting Yosemite Sam.

Incidentally, encryption was considered a munition until Clinton moved it (and increased the amount). Back then you could only export 40 bit encryption unless the code was published in a book and OCR scanned in (books were free speech), which is how PGP was exported.

Had to start doing this on my laptop. Was searching for gift ideas for her for Christmas and didn't use incognito mode, but her desktop computer started having problems (hard drive was failing) so she used my laptop and, while I'd cleared browser history (which I do religiously, anyway, mainly because some development work I do can pull in old pages if not cleared), ads for the things I looked at started appearing in her Facebook feed. Fortunately, she didn't notice, but I only shop Incognito now.

James Comey (head of the FBI) has pretty much said he wants all encryption outlawed. Having personally read a ton of emails that were not mine just for fun in college (via packet sniffer), including some very personal ones (though most not - I also scooped up numerous passwords but never used them... can't say that's true for the other kids that did the same, though), I'd say this is a terrible idea. Let's all go back to party lines, too, because you'll never know who's listening and therefore everyone is more secure.

  Incidentally, I learned never to send any private or personal information via email because I learned about and how to use packet sniffers. I would never sext or send personal info via text, either - only fools trust their phone company security (at least in America). Now that the America FREEDOM Act has passed, can't trust Skype or VoIP either, because those are all permitted to be dragnet vacuumed up now (FREEDOM for what? more government snooping it seems) and companies like Microsoft are protected from liability for letting the NSA scoop them up.