The specs matter when what you are doing needs is. The new iPhone has a bigger screen so that means more pixels to manage. So you need a better GPU. Now the OS can make a difference as well. iPhone focuses on app experience, android on app performance. Both are good and have their trade offs. So the iOS device may need more specs to do the same as the android. But that is expected as to get the better experience it needs to do more.
However if what you do is good enough. Don't upgrade.
Gullibility unfortunately is a survival mechanism. Part of our nature to form communities and work as a group. Gullibility allows us not to waste time thinking about consequences if someone else seems to know the answer. We use less brain power, increasing our energy level needing less food, and could survive the next day.
We look with pity at the elderly. It is because when we are a kid and are traumatized by the fact that we will die. We get older, we get gray hair, then we will die. As a kid when we get that idea it puts us into shock and really scares us. While we learn to deal with it, the initial fear is still there.
Wanting to die young seems more comforting as you won't see it coming.
Science is a tool used by engineers. An important one. However many things are engineered without science, but with intuition, instead.
I use to live in a 100+ year old house. The structure was ridiculously over done. 12x12 logs holing up the roof, The bricks were 5 layers deep. In essence it was engineered by someone without strong science knowledge. He just figured more is better. So it was over engineered because of lack of knowledge of the science.
In general this story was from an Android fan boy who in general just wanted to make himself look smart by posting a rant about Apple products, in a way that looks like a general question.
I guess it comes down too if you want the features or speed
IOS 7 was the last OS for the iPhone 4 iOS 8 is the last for the 4s I expect the following for the future... iOS 9 for the 5 iOS 10 for the 5s / 5c iOS 11 for the 6 iOS 12 for the 6s...
If you want good performance don't upgrade to the last cycle.
Well you could stop blindly following such a strict definition of free software.
DRM is hear and it is going to stay. Why? Back in the analog days. We had tape for VHS. Sure you can copy it. But after 2 or 3 copies of copies the quality degrades. So to mass share VHS movies ends up being costly with poor quality over generations.
Then we had CD's where at the time they held more data then you could really fit on your drive. So you had non-DRM data however because you couldn't store it on something other then other CD's which were costly in themselves. As well would take hours to download.
Today with the internet and modern computers we can ship and store massive amounts of data there. In Economic terms digital data has nearly infinite supply thus making its cost to $0.00. However to make such data costs money, so safeguards to artificially limit supply to keep prices higher are implemented aka DRM. Now what would happen if there wasn't DRM. Netflix would still be shipping you DVD in the mail, you will have to buy all your music on CD's. They would probably even stop CD's and push Records or Tape. As to prevent digital copying.
The fact that for $10.00 a month you get unlimited movies off of Netflix is actually a big gain. And we have to thank DRM for that. Otherwise big companies will not go digital as it will produce too many units and they would be giving it away at a cost.
I have lost 75lbs. Part of it was exercise, and the other part is cutting out Diet food from my Diet. If I want something sweet, I eat something with Real Sugar. If I want something fattening then I will eat something fattening, like with real butter.
I am not about organic and all natural. But you should focus more on foods that you know of. They will tend to fill you up and stop the craving. Diet food, doesn't fill you up or solve your craving. So you eat more of it.
I agree, but I think overall as the characters mature in the show, they become less awkward over time. With the exception of Sheldon, where I kinda wish they would just come out and state that the character is autistic at some level. Instead of just making him a super scientist who needs to make all these trade-offs in his personal life to be there. While I do not fall on the recorded Autism spectrum. The way they make Sheldon would be very insulting to people with these problems.
I am curious on why Tovalds opinion on systemd really matters. I congratulate him for his work on the Linux Kernel, He made a really good OS, and put enough effort and skill to keep a strong team of developers focused. However that doesn't make him an expert in all thing. Even all things related to the OS he had pivotal to create.
The systemd argument is about methodology not technology. It is the same as most political redirect. Two groups with a different vision of an end goal, taking different approaches to get there.
Exactly, I am not sure why Apple tries so hard to make their device so thin. Thin cost money, the more it cost the thicker case you will want to put on it to protect it.
The Government Bidding process for services is corrupt by design. You can make bid for service. Then you have stipulations which weigh it in a companies favor, not because they are required for the job, but to write the contract for the company.
I have seen State Bids for services for a Web Site. Which has odd requirements, such as 20+ years in COBOL, 10+ Years in RPG, 3 Years of HTML, 2 Years of ASP.NET When you see these contracts you know they are for a particular person they want to keep on board.
How dare Netflix provide services that the customer wants at a price the can afford! That people are willing to follow a bunch of hacking methods to get access to a service that they will pay for!
My main issue is we are entering a post desktop world. (No the desktop isn't dyeing, but it isn't the center of our computing world) So we need the following. 1. A platform to create moble apps. 2. Being able to create these apps on different systems.
It is actually very lame to have to have a Mac to build an iOS app. You really should be able to do it on at least the Big three OS Windows,Mac,Linux. Because we are not desktop centrist anymore and people will go around with different Desktops and OS's freely.
The biggest issue with a lot of of the home grown Open Source Apps, is getting past the dreaded 80% complete mark. This is the point in the program where all the interesting proof of concepts and interesting algorithms are all set. However that last 20% is a lot of the detail fine tuning that really puts all the pieces in play. This last 20% mark when it no longer becomes fun, is where the project looses steam and sometimes dies off. Having a company putting money towards development with management and direction and all those MBA Buzzwords basically means we push the developers to get that last 20% done. But of course if they are pushing to get that set done, and are putting in resources to help that, it is going to be their vision of 20% not necessary yours.
I know a lot of the Open Source people have this Anti-Corporate everything mind set... However to make it in the world there needs other sources of motivation other then just feeling good.
Analog Data fairs better when it isn't touched, every read could damage it a bit, and copying a copy of a copy using analog methods will degrade its content.
For digital data, it wants to be moved around. The more you copy and move digital data the better it is. Raid Disks makes sure you have a couple of copies. You post it the cloud and it will last longer. You could get fancy and have a backup method that copies your data from one drive to an other. When it fails you swap the drive out with a new one.
Being that your 32bit Macbooks are 8 years old. You really should expect to not get much updates in any software what so ever. I am surprised that Google had 32bit mac support.
I have to agree 2.5 billion for a game title is over the top. Especially as most game titles do not have a long life. Sure it is popular now... However in 5 years? 10 years? Nintendo got lucky with a few franchisees. Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon. But these are charactors/story universes. Mindcraft doesn't have such an in-depth story it is just the game fad of the time.
For the most part people are happy with that. When you own something it is up to you to keep it maintained. When you have these services the owner needs to do the maintenance, if something goes off it is their fault. As well on the average they have the resources to keep all their devices maintained.
Sure I kinda wish these companies can give us the option to own or rent. For those cases where I feel I am better off owning it even with the extra responsibility of ownership.
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The specs matter when what you are doing needs is.
The new iPhone has a bigger screen so that means more pixels to manage. So you need a better GPU.
Now the OS can make a difference as well. iPhone focuses on app experience, android on app performance. Both are good and have their trade offs.
So the iOS device may need more specs to do the same as the android. But that is expected as to get the better experience it needs to do more.
However if what you do is good enough. Don't upgrade.
The min installs are close. However many of the packages. Are setup for desktop or general use. Not desktop.
Gullibility unfortunately is a survival mechanism.
Part of our nature to form communities and work as a group. Gullibility allows us not to waste time thinking about consequences if someone else seems to know the answer. We use less brain power, increasing our energy level needing less food, and could survive the next day.
You are giving money for a project to succeed. You are not giving money for it to fail.
We look with pity at the elderly.
It is because when we are a kid and are traumatized by the fact that we will die.
We get older, we get gray hair, then we will die.
As a kid when we get that idea it puts us into shock and really scares us. While we learn to deal with it, the initial fear is still there.
Wanting to die young seems more comforting as you won't see it coming.
Science is a tool used by engineers. An important one.
However many things are engineered without science, but with intuition, instead.
I use to live in a 100+ year old house. The structure was ridiculously over done. 12x12 logs holing up the roof, The bricks were 5 layers deep. In essence it was engineered by someone without strong science knowledge. He just figured more is better. So it was over engineered because of lack of knowledge of the science.
In general this story was from an Android fan boy who in general just wanted to make himself look smart by posting a rant about Apple products, in a way that looks like a general question.
How does slow not make it operate properly?
I guess it comes down too if you want the features or speed
IOS 7 was the last OS for the iPhone 4 ...
iOS 8 is the last for the 4s
I expect the following for the future...
iOS 9 for the 5
iOS 10 for the 5s / 5c
iOS 11 for the 6
iOS 12 for the 6s
If you want good performance don't upgrade to the last cycle.
Well you could stop blindly following such a strict definition of free software.
DRM is hear and it is going to stay.
Why?
Back in the analog days. We had tape for VHS. Sure you can copy it. But after 2 or 3 copies of copies the quality degrades. So to mass share VHS movies ends up being costly with poor quality over generations.
Then we had CD's where at the time they held more data then you could really fit on your drive. So you had non-DRM data however because you couldn't store it on something other then other CD's which were costly in themselves. As well would take hours to download.
Today with the internet and modern computers we can ship and store massive amounts of data there. In Economic terms digital data has nearly infinite supply thus making its cost to $0.00.
However to make such data costs money, so safeguards to artificially limit supply to keep prices higher are implemented aka DRM.
Now what would happen if there wasn't DRM.
Netflix would still be shipping you DVD in the mail, you will have to buy all your music on CD's. They would probably even stop CD's and push Records or Tape. As to prevent digital copying.
The fact that for $10.00 a month you get unlimited movies off of Netflix is actually a big gain. And we have to thank DRM for that. Otherwise big companies will not go digital as it will produce too many units and they would be giving it away at a cost.
Yes, but that is putting the weight on the person being investigated, not the company who offers the services.
Snowden is American.
Americans are westerners.
I have lost 75lbs. Part of it was exercise, and the other part is cutting out Diet food from my Diet.
If I want something sweet, I eat something with Real Sugar.
If I want something fattening then I will eat something fattening, like with real butter.
I am not about organic and all natural. But you should focus more on foods that you know of. They will tend to fill you up and stop the craving.
Diet food, doesn't fill you up or solve your craving. So you eat more of it.
In short someone who who could afford the car is someone who really shouldn't need the tax credits. An other case of normal politics.
The right makes it so the Rich doesn't have to pay taxes.
The left makes it so the Rich are the only one able to avoid paying taxes.
I agree,
but I think overall as the characters mature in the show, they become less awkward over time.
With the exception of Sheldon, where I kinda wish they would just come out and state that the character is autistic at some level. Instead of just making him a super scientist who needs to make all these trade-offs in his personal life to be there.
While I do not fall on the recorded Autism spectrum. The way they make Sheldon would be very insulting to people with these problems.
I am curious on why Tovalds opinion on systemd really matters.
I congratulate him for his work on the Linux Kernel, He made a really good OS, and put enough effort and skill to keep a strong team of developers focused.
However that doesn't make him an expert in all thing. Even all things related to the OS he had pivotal to create.
The systemd argument is about methodology not technology. It is the same as most political redirect. Two groups with a different vision of an end goal, taking different approaches to get there.
Exactly, I am not sure why Apple tries so hard to make their device so thin.
Thin cost money, the more it cost the thicker case you will want to put on it to protect it.
The Government Bidding process for services is corrupt by design.
You can make bid for service.
Then you have stipulations which weigh it in a companies favor, not because they are required for the job, but to write the contract for the company.
I have seen State Bids for services for a Web Site. Which has odd requirements, such as 20+ years in COBOL, 10+ Years in RPG, 3 Years of HTML, 2 Years of ASP.NET
When you see these contracts you know they are for a particular person they want to keep on board.
How dare Netflix provide services that the customer wants at a price the can afford!
That people are willing to follow a bunch of hacking methods to get access to a service that they will pay for!
My main issue is we are entering a post desktop world. (No the desktop isn't dyeing, but it isn't the center of our computing world)
So we need the following.
1. A platform to create moble apps.
2. Being able to create these apps on different systems.
It is actually very lame to have to have a Mac to build an iOS app. You really should be able to do it on at least the Big three OS Windows,Mac,Linux. Because we are not desktop centrist anymore and people will go around with different Desktops and OS's freely.
The biggest issue with a lot of of the home grown Open Source Apps, is getting past the dreaded 80% complete mark.
This is the point in the program where all the interesting proof of concepts and interesting algorithms are all set. However that last 20% is a lot of the detail fine tuning that really puts all the pieces in play.
This last 20% mark when it no longer becomes fun, is where the project looses steam and sometimes dies off.
Having a company putting money towards development with management and direction and all those MBA Buzzwords basically means we push the developers to get that last 20% done.
But of course if they are pushing to get that set done, and are putting in resources to help that, it is going to be their vision of 20% not necessary yours.
I know a lot of the Open Source people have this Anti-Corporate everything mind set... However to make it in the world there needs other sources of motivation other then just feeling good.
Analog Data fairs better when it isn't touched, every read could damage it a bit, and copying a copy of a copy using analog methods will degrade its content.
For digital data, it wants to be moved around.
The more you copy and move digital data the better it is.
Raid Disks makes sure you have a couple of copies.
You post it the cloud and it will last longer.
You could get fancy and have a backup method that copies your data from one drive to an other. When it fails you swap the drive out with a new one.
Being that your 32bit Macbooks are 8 years old.
You really should expect to not get much updates in any software what so ever.
I am surprised that Google had 32bit mac support.
I have to agree 2.5 billion for a game title is over the top. Especially as most game titles do not have a long life. Sure it is popular now... However in 5 years? 10 years?
Nintendo got lucky with a few franchisees.
Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon. But these are charactors/story universes. Mindcraft doesn't have such an in-depth story it is just the game fad of the time.
For the most part people are happy with that.
When you own something it is up to you to keep it maintained. When you have these services the owner needs to do the maintenance, if something goes off it is their fault. As well on the average they have the resources to keep all their devices maintained.
Sure I kinda wish these companies can give us the option to own or rent. For those cases where I feel I am better off owning it even with the extra responsibility of ownership.
Being that the iphone is more useful. I expect it goes thew more rigor on the average then an android.