Well there are different qualities of SSD drive. Such as a high speed NvME which is probably the best thing you can do today to improve your overall computing experience, for most cases. Cost more than the slower SATA drives.
Now for 2019 I do not know of any really good brand PC maker but Apple has been lagging behind them all. While Apple never produced the bleeding edge in gear, they were normally 6 months behind in terms of performance technology. But offered bells and whistles that people wanted, such as in 2002 Powerbook, having Wi-Fi built in, or in the 2006 MacBook Pro having a (High Resolution at the time) video camera, built in. With a slim and light form factor that was hard to match with the competitors. But post 2010s Apple is more or less in a slump, they haven't really offered anything worth the Premium cost. And their update delays really puts a hamper on people willing to wait for the next version to upgrade.
The only reason to get a Mac today in 2019 is if your home is wired on the Apple Ecosystem. Wanting to take advantage of airplay, or the Home Kit products. Today there isn't really much advantage in owning any one Apple product, as they are better products available across all the business units, but the fact they work together more seamlessly then the competition makes it having the ecosystem more palatable and overall useful.
I have a 1070 on my laptop, Which I use for 4k gaming. I also use these high end cards, because they are great at massive parallel processing. It brings me back to my college days 20 years ago, where I took a course on Parallel processing and got to use a MassPar computer with 1024 processors setup in a SIMD 32x32 grid layout. Of course now my laptop has all that power on a chip in the laptop, that only has the downside of needing to be plugged in while in use.
Not all games need to be fast pace twitch action games. Some games can focus more on graphics detail, vs high frame rates. Also for the cut-scenes, They can be custom rendered in semi-real time, to give a cut scene customizable to the action at hand. having your character in the right spot. That item you had destroyed will show its current state.
Also to a point, just because you don't want to upgrade, why should game designers try to stick so far behind that waiting for that one guy to upgrade.
There is always someone afraid of disruptive products going to the market. While the Race to the bottom is rarely every beneficial to anyone, it is often considered the best way to do things. Here is the Race to the Bottom. I have trinket X which I sell for $50.00 A competitor sells their trinket X for $40.00 because it is cheaper they sell more of them, but often they have lower quality, or their profit margin is slimmer. So now I have two options still sell X for $50.00 and try to convince people why it is better, or sell my product of $30.00 where I may need to cut Quality or cut into my bottom line where I may no longer be profitable. Now the competitor has to do the same thing. This goes on until we are both selling utter garbage, or one of us goes out of business first. Once one is out of business it will take a long time to get your margins up to be profitable again.
So while getting the cheaper product, the consumer looses out, because they are getting a crap product, and/or facing a market with soon less competition.
Nearly every store have their generic store brands versions of common supplies. They sometimes market them so they look more classy, or just keep the packaging bland, to let you know you are getting the cheap version.
Someone who buys an AmazonBasics Mice, Keyboard, Cables... Are not interested in getting the High End Fast Responce Mouse, The mechanical keyboard with clicky blue switches (or less clicky brown). Cables that are not coated in Gold because they think you will get a better result from it, or at least need to less worry about it corroding.
The reason why we will often go to a Name Brand, isn't because the Brand is better, but more to the point there is less of a chance it will suck, for the known brand names, the companies work rather hard to keep their quality consistent. Vs that one generic keyboard that worked like a champ for decades, while the next on you bought (same model) had keys popping out from too fast typing.
The primary reason to get rid of the headphone jack on phones, is because the amount of empty space it takes up, which could be used for something else, or allow for enough space for battery expansion, and prevent explosions (Note 7).
The iPad as more room to engineer around, so adding a headphone jack is less of an engineering trick.
Could Apple design a phone with a headphone jack... Sure, but other then angering a bunch of people who wouldn't buy Apple anyways most people don't use headphones too much with their phone anyways, many of the ones who do, use the headphones included in the box, or just use the dongle, and keep their external phones plugged in. Sue I will get a hundreds of people who say they were Apple users until this switch... But really I am more willing to bet that you wanted to get off Apple anyways and you had an excuse.
The problem is the iPads, are still limited by iOS apps. So most iOS apps, will not be made to handle the newest models, because for one it needs to support on the lower power phones, and just change the screen display (to save on re-coding) and the fact that most people are not using the newest and wowest iPad.
These are not PC laptops. These are low power devices and are limited in what they can do.
What I am more curious is, why does it it seem meteors always hit Russia? Yes it is the largest country in area, but still I don't remember any big explosions over Canada, the United States, China, Braille.
However the level or respect should be equal. When these community leaders get a free pass, or instant assumption that they are on the side of truth, opens the door further to corruptions. As in I can wear a black shirt with a white collar, and assume that my word over the guy who is in worn blue collar uniform is more truthful.
Police are not judges, they will investigate the crime, this included following leads and the pathway down the innocent.
I always equate people issue with someone hosting your data to be like flying. While the math shows you are much safer with your data in the cloud, vs you doing it yourself. There isn't a 100% chance your data will stay with the cloud company. And like with an aircraft or a bus, when there is an accident, the loss is huge. However with people trying to hold onto their data themselves, there is a much higher chance that it will go away. Disk Rot, CDs getting discolored or scratched, Flooding, over heating, fire... Sure if you dedicate a good portion of your life to make sure your personal data is secure, you will probably be better off then a cloud company, but that would require, a lot of money in infrastructure, climate controlled buildings, Server area, to support older media storage, RAID storage, that need to be managed and upgraded.
Being a Pastor, Priest, Rabi... Is your job, your job doesn't determine if you are a good person or not. The police's job is to investigate crime, and not give preferential treatment to any particular group or person.
The police when doing their job correctly and non-corruptly, are not on your side and are not against your side, but looking out for the general public, and the rule of law.
A good portion of the New Testament of the bible, is Jesus pointing out how many of the Holy figures in the communities are actually corrupt and are not following God, and your actions not your position is what makes you a good person. So why should the Police Automatically Trust the Pastor? In recent history we have been getting a lot of news about the failures in our religious systems, creating abuse in many levels, and they have been getting away with for an unforeseen amount of time, by covering it up by the fact that their job title demand respect,
The BBC is one of the worlds most respected media outlet. Normally when there is a polarizing debate, where I find both side to be exaggerated (which is easy to get on American News, and flipping sources to weed out the truth from hyperbole) I find that the BBC give a much more level headed explanation on the topic.
Now the BBC could be banking on its good Karma, and work with the ransomware makers, but you can burn good Karma much faster then you can build it up. Besides Ransomware really doesn't bring in that much money.
I understand why businesses want a telephone number, so they can contact you if there are problems with service, and so they try to insure your bill gets paid.
The Robocalls and other Telemarketing problem is really the fault of the Telephone/Telecommunication companies being too lazy with their service. 1. They have the technology to log every call you made to send you an itemized bill.But not to give the receiver of the call the ability to see where the call is truly coming from. I understand the legit use of Caller ID Spoofing. At work we send automated Appointment Reminders for Doctors Visits. The company that send the calls out for us is about 500 miles away from us, but if someone calls back we want the right people to answer the phone. (With our organizations name, to insure the right number was called). However such things shouldn't be done willy-nilley but with some levels of authentication of the phone number holder, and perhaps a modest fee for the administrative expense.
2. Unlimited call plans. Much like the debate on ISP's capping or throttling heavy Internet users, with Unlimited Internet Plans, because some people get abusive with it. We should do this with telephone calls. Really get rid of Unlimited, and replace with plans, that encourage proper telephone use, and not mass robocalling.
3. (OK not fully the Telephone company, and breaks my assertion that it is squarely on the telephone company) But the politics loophole, is damn annoying. What was probably sold to the public, as a way for the officials to alert the public about a major problem, has became a wall of phone calls during reelection season.
4. Trying to work with the Do Not Call registry. Heck the best thing a telephone company can do, is with basic data analysis determine who is a robocall or telemarketing company. Ping it against the Do Not Call Registry, and let the phone number ring 4 times, before going to your phone. This will mean the less calls the telemarketing company can deal making their operation more expensive (unless they obey the Do Not Call Registry) and not bug their customers with unwanted calls, because most calls hang up after 4 or 5 rings.
We want solid good guys and bad guys. And the world to fit into our preconceived notions on how the world works. We don’t want to think of that bully who we finally got the courage to punch in the face to stop him from harassing you is actually living a tough life and may not be eating every day. Or the Fat Woman down the street isn’t lazy and just over eating but starving herself with constant diets and avoiding the public because of fear of ridicule. When ever we find out that someone needs something extra to function in the we call it charity so we feel good offering it to them, but we don’t feel bad if we refuse. No matter how tough you life is you can look at these people and figure that you must be a better person then them.
The problem is the justice/legal system is far too much by the books. There are too many people who use the word of law and regulations to do things that are in contradiction to what benefits society or are worded in a way where innovative way to help society are not allowed because of flaws in the law.
Americans and the English culture seems to encourage following the Letter of the Law, and people will protest and fight people who break the letter of the law, even though what they are doing is beneficial to them because they are told that the law needs to be followed so carefully.
Because the culture wants to follow the law, this makes laws very complex, because an easy general law, will be abused because if someone says you are causing them harm, they just point out to the letter of the law and state they are not doing anything wrong.
There is a lot of debate on either too much or too little regulation, however, it is more of a problem on how we enforce the regulation when to let something slide, or crack down further.
The main point, is most websites want to be done on the CHEAP. Hiring skilled people to actually make a solid web site, even for just a public bill board, contact list, and open positions page, can cost a lot of money to be done right. Too much for most companies, so they will find a way to do it for cheap. Wordpress has name recognition, and most site can be made to look presentable without those expensive people who know what they are doing.
The issue is one of scale. We are often shown our Solar System, with an inaccurate scale. Mostly so we can see the order from the sun. This article, is kinda of an Oh-Yea that makes sense to me, but I never really though about the average closest planet, I always think in terms of closest possible.
Technology projection: 1 year: The technology works, we are just trying to find a vendor to sell it. 5 years: We have a proof of concept working, however we don't know how to mass produce it. 10 years: We have a theory that a proof of concept should work, trending shows it is possible a goal. 20 years: We have no idea, but it seems possible 100+ years: Impossible and have no idea on where to start. But it sounds nice.
If your business model is based on numbers and traffic, (to show advertising) taking away content will normally bite back. It allowed Adult Content, it blocked it, there is a population who used the platform for that content, and now no longer uses it. Thus less add content.
If Tumblr never allowed the content to begin with, users wouldn't have used the site for such content, and they wouldn't have such a dip in users.
In general a cut in revenue is worse, then having a slow steady rise in revenue. As any of you who had pay cuts or got fired from your job know. We buy housing, and transportation based on what we are able to support, If we make more money we will usually get a more expensive one. With a price cut, we have a lot of large expenses that is difficult to trim down quickly. That house mortgage is still there, you may still have car payments, It will take time to sell your house and your car may be too devalued to make it affordable to trade in for a cheaper version. Tumblr probably now needs to figure out how to run more lean, as a lot of their resources were needed in the past and now they don't need as much anymore, costing them more to operate with less revenue in.
It is reversing time, like me restoring my PC from a backup and resetting the system clock to the time of the backup. For my PC being a closed system, it would be like it is back in time, but the passage of time hasn't changed.
The real exciting thing, is having a reset option on a quantum computer.
My first computer that I bought was an Amstrad CPC1512 and the Display we great for the time, Being able to handle 640x200 16 color graphics, too bad it wasn't EGA compatible. I had a few games (mostly from Sierra) that supported it (well one game King Quest IV, but I copied the drv file to the other games and they worked fine, up until SCI2) But the display was really good, and combined with the default font, which made ANSI block character 176, 177 178 and 219 line up without that 1px spacer that we saw on VGA displays.
Now the Amstrad CPC was meant to be sold to businesses. While the Display was really good for its time, Businesses still preferred monochrome displays, mostly due the the fact that Text was crystal clear on a monochrome (As a monochrome display doesn't have prosper separators, so a pixel will be a solid pixel). Besides a color display would be too much fun, and you can't have that. We don't want the employees using the business computers to play games all day.
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Well there are different qualities of SSD drive. Such as a high speed NvME which is probably the best thing you can do today to improve your overall computing experience, for most cases. Cost more than the slower SATA drives.
Now for 2019 I do not know of any really good brand PC maker but Apple has been lagging behind them all. While Apple never produced the bleeding edge in gear, they were normally 6 months behind in terms of performance technology. But offered bells and whistles that people wanted, such as in 2002 Powerbook, having Wi-Fi built in, or in the 2006 MacBook Pro having a (High Resolution at the time) video camera, built in. With a slim and light form factor that was hard to match with the competitors. But post 2010s Apple is more or less in a slump, they haven't really offered anything worth the Premium cost. And their update delays really puts a hamper on people willing to wait for the next version to upgrade.
The only reason to get a Mac today in 2019 is if your home is wired on the Apple Ecosystem. Wanting to take advantage of airplay, or the Home Kit products. Today there isn't really much advantage in owning any one Apple product, as they are better products available across all the business units, but the fact they work together more seamlessly then the competition makes it having the ecosystem more palatable and overall useful.
I have a 1070 on my laptop, Which I use for 4k gaming. I also use these high end cards, because they are great at massive parallel processing.
It brings me back to my college days 20 years ago, where I took a course on Parallel processing and got to use a MassPar computer with 1024 processors setup in a SIMD 32x32 grid layout. Of course now my laptop has all that power on a chip in the laptop, that only has the downside of needing to be plugged in while in use.
Not all games need to be fast pace twitch action games. Some games can focus more on graphics detail, vs high frame rates. Also for the cut-scenes, They can be custom rendered in semi-real time, to give a cut scene customizable to the action at hand. having your character in the right spot. That item you had destroyed will show its current state.
Also to a point, just because you don't want to upgrade, why should game designers try to stick so far behind that waiting for that one guy to upgrade.
There is always someone afraid of disruptive products going to the market.
While the Race to the bottom is rarely every beneficial to anyone, it is often considered the best way to do things.
Here is the Race to the Bottom.
I have trinket X which I sell for $50.00
A competitor sells their trinket X for $40.00 because it is cheaper they sell more of them, but often they have lower quality, or their profit margin is slimmer.
So now I have two options still sell X for $50.00 and try to convince people why it is better, or sell my product of $30.00 where I may need to cut Quality or cut into my bottom line where I may no longer be profitable.
Now the competitor has to do the same thing.
This goes on until we are both selling utter garbage, or one of us goes out of business first. Once one is out of business it will take a long time to get your margins up to be profitable again.
So while getting the cheaper product, the consumer looses out, because they are getting a crap product, and/or facing a market with soon less competition.
Nearly every store have their generic store brands versions of common supplies.
They sometimes market them so they look more classy, or just keep the packaging bland, to let you know you are getting the cheap version.
Someone who buys an AmazonBasics Mice, Keyboard, Cables... Are not interested in getting the High End Fast Responce Mouse, The mechanical keyboard with clicky blue switches (or less clicky brown). Cables that are not coated in Gold because they think you will get a better result from it, or at least need to less worry about it corroding.
The reason why we will often go to a Name Brand, isn't because the Brand is better, but more to the point there is less of a chance it will suck, for the known brand names, the companies work rather hard to keep their quality consistent. Vs that one generic keyboard that worked like a champ for decades, while the next on you bought (same model) had keys popping out from too fast typing.
More room.
The primary reason to get rid of the headphone jack on phones, is because the amount of empty space it takes up, which could be used for something else, or allow for enough space for battery expansion, and prevent explosions (Note 7).
The iPad as more room to engineer around, so adding a headphone jack is less of an engineering trick.
Could Apple design a phone with a headphone jack... Sure, but other then angering a bunch of people who wouldn't buy Apple anyways most people don't use headphones too much with their phone anyways, many of the ones who do, use the headphones included in the box, or just use the dongle, and keep their external phones plugged in.
Sue I will get a hundreds of people who say they were Apple users until this switch... But really I am more willing to bet that you wanted to get off Apple anyways and you had an excuse.
The problem is the iPads, are still limited by iOS apps. So most iOS apps, will not be made to handle the newest models, because for one it needs to support on the lower power phones, and just change the screen display (to save on re-coding) and the fact that most people are not using the newest and wowest iPad.
These are not PC laptops. These are low power devices and are limited in what they can do.
What I am more curious is, why does it it seem meteors always hit Russia?
Yes it is the largest country in area, but still I don't remember any big explosions over Canada, the United States, China, Braille.
However the level or respect should be equal. When these community leaders get a free pass, or instant assumption that they are on the side of truth, opens the door further to corruptions. As in I can wear a black shirt with a white collar, and assume that my word over the guy who is in worn blue collar uniform is more truthful.
Police are not judges, they will investigate the crime, this included following leads and the pathway down the innocent.
I always equate people issue with someone hosting your data to be like flying.
While the math shows you are much safer with your data in the cloud, vs you doing it yourself. There isn't a 100% chance your data will stay with the cloud company. And like with an aircraft or a bus, when there is an accident, the loss is huge.
However with people trying to hold onto their data themselves, there is a much higher chance that it will go away. Disk Rot, CDs getting discolored or scratched, Flooding, over heating, fire...
Sure if you dedicate a good portion of your life to make sure your personal data is secure, you will probably be better off then a cloud company, but that would require, a lot of money in infrastructure, climate controlled buildings, Server area, to support older media storage, RAID storage, that need to be managed and upgraded.
Being a Pastor, Priest, Rabi... Is your job, your job doesn't determine if you are a good person or not. The police's job is to investigate crime, and not give preferential treatment to any particular group or person.
The police when doing their job correctly and non-corruptly, are not on your side and are not against your side, but looking out for the general public, and the rule of law.
A good portion of the New Testament of the bible, is Jesus pointing out how many of the Holy figures in the communities are actually corrupt and are not following God, and your actions not your position is what makes you a good person.
So why should the Police Automatically Trust the Pastor? In recent history we have been getting a lot of news about the failures in our religious systems, creating abuse in many levels, and they have been getting away with for an unforeseen amount of time, by covering it up by the fact that their job title demand respect,
The BBC is one of the worlds most respected media outlet. Normally when there is a polarizing debate, where I find both side to be exaggerated (which is easy to get on American News, and flipping sources to weed out the truth from hyperbole) I find that the BBC give a much more level headed explanation on the topic.
Now the BBC could be banking on its good Karma, and work with the ransomware makers, but you can burn good Karma much faster then you can build it up. Besides Ransomware really doesn't bring in that much money.
I understand why businesses want a telephone number, so they can contact you if there are problems with service, and so they try to insure your bill gets paid.
The Robocalls and other Telemarketing problem is really the fault of the Telephone/Telecommunication companies being too lazy with their service.
1. They have the technology to log every call you made to send you an itemized bill.But not to give the receiver of the call the ability to see where the call is truly coming from. I understand the legit use of Caller ID Spoofing. At work we send automated Appointment Reminders for Doctors Visits. The company that send the calls out for us is about 500 miles away from us, but if someone calls back we want the right people to answer the phone. (With our organizations name, to insure the right number was called). However such things shouldn't be done willy-nilley but with some levels of authentication of the phone number holder, and perhaps a modest fee for the administrative expense.
2. Unlimited call plans. Much like the debate on ISP's capping or throttling heavy Internet users, with Unlimited Internet Plans, because some people get abusive with it. We should do this with telephone calls. Really get rid of Unlimited, and replace with plans, that encourage proper telephone use, and not mass robocalling.
3. (OK not fully the Telephone company, and breaks my assertion that it is squarely on the telephone company) But the politics loophole, is damn annoying. What was probably sold to the public, as a way for the officials to alert the public about a major problem, has became a wall of phone calls during reelection season.
4. Trying to work with the Do Not Call registry. Heck the best thing a telephone company can do, is with basic data analysis determine who is a robocall or telemarketing company. Ping it against the Do Not Call Registry, and let the phone number ring 4 times, before going to your phone. This will mean the less calls the telemarketing company can deal making their operation more expensive (unless they obey the Do Not Call Registry) and not bug their customers with unwanted calls, because most calls hang up after 4 or 5 rings.
We want solid good guys and bad guys. And the world to fit into our preconceived notions on how the world works.
We don’t want to think of that bully who we finally got the courage to punch in the face to stop him from harassing you is actually living a tough life and may not be eating every day.
Or the Fat Woman down the street isn’t lazy and just over eating but starving herself with constant diets and avoiding the public because of fear of ridicule.
When ever we find out that someone needs something extra to function in the we call it charity so we feel good offering it to them, but we don’t feel bad if we refuse.
No matter how tough you life is you can look at these people and figure that you must be a better person then them.
The problem is the justice/legal system is far too much by the books. There are too many people who use the word of law and regulations to do things that are in contradiction to what benefits society or are worded in a way where innovative way to help society are not allowed because of flaws in the law.
Americans and the English culture seems to encourage following the Letter of the Law, and people will protest and fight people who break the letter of the law, even though what they are doing is beneficial to them because they are told that the law needs to be followed so carefully.
Because the culture wants to follow the law, this makes laws very complex, because an easy general law, will be abused because if someone says you are causing them harm, they just point out to the letter of the law and state they are not doing anything wrong.
There is a lot of debate on either too much or too little regulation, however, it is more of a problem on how we enforce the regulation when to let something slide, or crack down further.
The main point, is most websites want to be done on the CHEAP. Hiring skilled people to actually make a solid web site, even for just a public bill board, contact list, and open positions page, can cost a lot of money to be done right. Too much for most companies, so they will find a way to do it for cheap. Wordpress has name recognition, and most site can be made to look presentable without those expensive people who know what they are doing.
Still better then what the bosses Nephew who knows HTML can generate.
No you can be far more annoying, and ask them?
On Average? Or when the orbits reach their closest points? Or When orbits reach the furthest points?
For some reason I have hard time making friends.
The issue is one of scale.
We are often shown our Solar System, with an inaccurate scale. Mostly so we can see the order from the sun.
This article, is kinda of an Oh-Yea that makes sense to me, but I never really though about the average closest planet, I always think in terms of closest possible.
Technology projection:
1 year: The technology works, we are just trying to find a vendor to sell it.
5 years: We have a proof of concept working, however we don't know how to mass produce it.
10 years: We have a theory that a proof of concept should work, trending shows it is possible a goal.
20 years: We have no idea, but it seems possible
100+ years: Impossible and have no idea on where to start. But it sounds nice.
Or at least enhance its NSFW protections.
If your business model is based on numbers and traffic, (to show advertising) taking away content will normally bite back.
It allowed Adult Content, it blocked it, there is a population who used the platform for that content, and now no longer uses it. Thus less add content.
If Tumblr never allowed the content to begin with, users wouldn't have used the site for such content, and they wouldn't have such a dip in users.
In general a cut in revenue is worse, then having a slow steady rise in revenue. As any of you who had pay cuts or got fired from your job know. We buy housing, and transportation based on what we are able to support, If we make more money we will usually get a more expensive one. With a price cut, we have a lot of large expenses that is difficult to trim down quickly. That house mortgage is still there, you may still have car payments, It will take time to sell your house and your car may be too devalued to make it affordable to trade in for a cheaper version.
Tumblr probably now needs to figure out how to run more lean, as a lot of their resources were needed in the past and now they don't need as much anymore, costing them more to operate with less revenue in.
It is reversing time, like me restoring my PC from a backup and resetting the system clock to the time of the backup. For my PC being a closed system, it would be like it is back in time, but the passage of time hasn't changed.
The real exciting thing, is having a reset option on a quantum computer.
My first computer that I bought was an Amstrad CPC1512 and the Display we great for the time, Being able to handle 640x200 16 color graphics, too bad it wasn't EGA compatible. I had a few games (mostly from Sierra) that supported it (well one game King Quest IV, but I copied the drv file to the other games and they worked fine, up until SCI2) But the display was really good, and combined with the default font, which made ANSI block character 176, 177 178 and 219 line up without that 1px spacer that we saw on VGA displays.
Now the Amstrad CPC was meant to be sold to businesses. While the Display was really good for its time, Businesses still preferred monochrome displays, mostly due the the fact that Text was crystal clear on a monochrome (As a monochrome display doesn't have prosper separators, so a pixel will be a solid pixel). Besides a color display would be too much fun, and you can't have that. We don't want the employees using the business computers to play games all day.