...but will we be able to fix them when they stop working?
The iMac has been king in this space for nearly two decades now; it uses proprietary parts and is a pain to repair but is at least popular enough that you can find replacement parts for a long time.
These also-rans have the same flaws, plus they are built in small quantities; the channels for their proprietary parts dry up fast and then you've got a doorstop when something decides to fail.
Until another company is willing to go toe-to-toe with Apple in the AIO space I can't recommend anything besides the iMac, and even it only conditionally.
(note: somebody needs to develop a super-flat form factor for PCs that can be clipped to the back of a monitor)
Per a Buzzfeed interview, summarized by MacRumors:
The idea for the removal of the headphone jack was raised during the development of the iPhone 7. In a nutshell, the "driver ledge" for the display and backlight, traditionally placed near the camera, was interfering with the new camera systems in the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, leading Apple to explore other placement options. It was moved near the audio jack, but it also caused interference with various components, including the audio jack itself, so Apple engineers toyed with the elimination of the jack altogether.
When the headphone jack was removed, Apple realized it was easier to install the new Taptic Engine for the pressure-sensitive Home button, implement a bigger battery, and reach an IP7 water resistance rating, so the elimination of the headphone jack became essential for all of the other features in the iPhone 7.
Apple executives also believe the headphone jack is outdated technology that needed to go to make room for new advancements. According to Dan Riccio, it was holding Apple back "from a number of things" the company wanted to add to the iPhone, taking up space that could be used for camera improvements, battery, and processors. "The audio connector is more than 100 years old," Joswiak says. "It had its last big innovation about 50 years ago. You know what that was? They made it smaller. It hasn't been touched since then. It's a dinosaur. It's time to move on." [...]
For Dan Riccio, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, the iPhone's 3.5-millimeter audio jack has felt something like the last months of an ill-fated if amicable relationship: familiar and comfortable, but ultimately an impediment to a better life ahead. "We've got this 50-year-old connector -- just a hole filled with air -- and it's just sitting there taking up space, really valuable space," he says. According to Apple's Phil Schiller, there's no ulterior motive behind the move away from the 3.5mm headphone jack. "We are removing the audio jack because we have developed a better way to deliver audio. It has nothing to do with content management or DRM -- that's pure, paranoid conspiracy theory," he said.
They didn't make the phone thinner, they increased the battery size and life, the adapter is not particularly overpriced at $9, and they include one with the phone.
Source devices like PCs, tablets, and smartphones will be able to output HDMI video and multi-channel audio from a USB-C port, just as they can now with DisplayPort.
Yes, and they can do 4K @ 120Hz over DisplayPort's USB-C implementation, or 4K @ 30Hz over ours! Just the same!
Well, being able to access production *logs* is useful. The problem was that sensitive data was being written to those logs, not that a developer had access to them.
The cause was probably as simple as some debug code accidentally left in, but something as obvious as private data being logged should have been caught by any of the frequent security audits they claim to have.
1. In 1985 it would have been cool. 2. So you're hosting the Olympics? 3. Mozilla is a media player? 4. Bland but tolerable 5. Mozilla is a CAD program? 6. In 1995 it still wouldn't have been cool. 7. Wait, that's a Monument Valley map.
I'd suggest a simple but stylized M, with understated modern aesthetics and not the pop art of #6. People aren't looking for whimsy in an app they'll use for banking.
People sometimes get free or discounted keys and want to sell or trade them for games they actually want.
No one said there were millions of *unredeemed* keys stolen, just millions of keys. It's likely 99% of people who got keys through DLH used them immediately and the codes are meaningless now.
Some T-Mobile data features have a 'threshold' on the amount of data you can use at full speed during a billing cycle. After you pass the threshold, you still have unlimited access to data, but the speed of data is reduced...If you have a plan that was available after March 24, 2013, data speed is reduced to (at most) 128 kbps when data usage exceeds the Data Speed Reduction Threshold for data features, Mobile Internet, and data-only plans.
T-Mobile’s “optimization” consists entirely of throttling the video stream’s throughput down to 1.5Mbps.
The network limits the bandwidth available to detectable videos to a level currently at 1.5 Mbps and as a result, many video services will deliver videos at lower resolutions that will look good on mobile devices (DVD-quality, typically 480p or better) and that use less data.
T-Mobile ONE includes unlimited video at standard definition—typically DVD quality (480p)—from any service.
And the fact sheet also says exactly what the $25 gets you:
Customers can get higher-definition video, up to 4k, for $25/month per line.
The logical conclusion is that the base T-Mobile One plan will throttle all video to 480p (in other words, 1.5Mbps), you can remove said throttle by paying an extra $25 per month, though your data will likely still be deprioritized when you hit the 26GB soft cap.
T-Mobile defines 2G speed as 'up to 128kbps'. Not far from dialup, except in the dialup days pages were a lot smaller. At those speeds, the average web page today (weighing in at ~2.21MBytes) would require at least 2 minutes and 21 seconds to load. Basically useless.
Binge On throttled *all* video traffic, not just those from their zero-rated partners like Youtube and Netflix. You could opt out for free, but then all video (including partners) counted against your data plan. On the new 'unlimited' plan, they still throttle all video, and you can still opt out, but now it costs $25/mo per line to do so.
Of course you can always try a VPN to work around the video throttling, and a rooted phone with an unofficial tethering app to work around the tethering limits, and hope T-Mobile doesn't catch on.
In any case, pushing customers onto higher end plans than they need plus charging big additional fees for what used to be included is a pretty unfriendly move on T-Mobile's part.
Why is that so strange? If you have wifi at home and work and drive in between, and your social life involves actually spending time with friends instead of everyone sitting around using their phones, 2GB goes a long way.
Their unlimited plan used to include 14GB of tethering data, now on T-Mobile One you have to pay an extra $15 for every 5GB. The new plan also throttles video to "480p", you have to pay an extra $25/mo for them not to.
Basically, to match today's current unlimited plan, you'll soon have to pay $50/mo more for your first line, $45/mo more for a second line, and $25/mo more for a third and fourth line.
Users are also able to choose which of their content to make unavailable for the family, like dad's horror films, or the college daughter's explicit music.
This is the one feature sorely lacking from Apple's family sharing.
In case anyone is unfamiliar with AT&T / Verizon pricing, these fees are in addition to the 'device' charges, which run ~$20-25/mo per connected phone.
So Verizon is offering a marginally less pathetic amount of data for a marginally more outrageous sum of money. Hooray?
Swift inherited this mess from Objective-C. The Swift team stuck with the old conventions for a while to make the transition easier, but now they want to shed the ugly bits and move forward. I'm not sure there's a better way they could have handled this, to be honest. Everything has tradeoffs.
Slashdot Mirror
https://xkcd.com/927/
(do you even need to click it?)
It's not. Everything is free if you don't count time and effort.
...but will we be able to fix them when they stop working?
The iMac has been king in this space for nearly two decades now; it uses proprietary parts and is a pain to repair but is at least popular enough that you can find replacement parts for a long time.
These also-rans have the same flaws, plus they are built in small quantities; the channels for their proprietary parts dry up fast and then you've got a doorstop when something decides to fail.
Until another company is willing to go toe-to-toe with Apple in the AIO space I can't recommend anything besides the iMac, and even it only conditionally.
(note: somebody needs to develop a super-flat form factor for PCs that can be clipped to the back of a monitor)
Per a Buzzfeed interview, summarized by MacRumors:
The idea for the removal of the headphone jack was raised during the development of the iPhone 7. In a nutshell, the "driver ledge" for the display and backlight, traditionally placed near the camera, was interfering with the new camera systems in the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, leading Apple to explore other placement options. It was moved near the audio jack, but it also caused interference with various components, including the audio jack itself, so Apple engineers toyed with the elimination of the jack altogether.
When the headphone jack was removed, Apple realized it was easier to install the new Taptic Engine for the pressure-sensitive Home button, implement a bigger battery, and reach an IP7 water resistance rating, so the elimination of the headphone jack became essential for all of the other features in the iPhone 7.
Apple executives also believe the headphone jack is outdated technology that needed to go to make room for new advancements. According to Dan Riccio, it was holding Apple back "from a number of things" the company wanted to add to the iPhone, taking up space that could be used for camera improvements, battery, and processors.
"The audio connector is more than 100 years old," Joswiak says. "It had its last big innovation about 50 years ago. You know what that was? They made it smaller. It hasn't been touched since then. It's a dinosaur. It's time to move on." [...]
For Dan Riccio, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, the iPhone's 3.5-millimeter audio jack has felt something like the last months of an ill-fated if amicable relationship: familiar and comfortable, but ultimately an impediment to a better life ahead. "We've got this 50-year-old connector -- just a hole filled with air -- and it's just sitting there taking up space, really valuable space," he says.
According to Apple's Phil Schiller, there's no ulterior motive behind the move away from the 3.5mm headphone jack. "We are removing the audio jack because we have developed a better way to deliver audio. It has nothing to do with content management or DRM -- that's pure, paranoid conspiracy theory," he said.
They didn't make the phone thinner, they increased the battery size and life, the adapter is not particularly overpriced at $9, and they include one with the phone.
So... you're saying they do have courage?
Source devices like PCs, tablets, and smartphones will be able to output HDMI video and multi-channel audio from a USB-C port, just as they can now with DisplayPort.
Yes, and they can do 4K @ 120Hz over DisplayPort's USB-C implementation, or 4K @ 30Hz over ours! Just the same!
Well, being able to access production *logs* is useful. The problem was that sensitive data was being written to those logs, not that a developer had access to them.
The cause was probably as simple as some debug code accidentally left in, but something as obvious as private data being logged should have been caught by any of the frequent security audits they claim to have.
Just the creepy ones.
a word.
Agreed. My take on the set:
1. In 1985 it would have been cool.
2. So you're hosting the Olympics?
3. Mozilla is a media player?
4. Bland but tolerable
5. Mozilla is a CAD program?
6. In 1995 it still wouldn't have been cool.
7. Wait, that's a Monument Valley map.
I'd suggest a simple but stylized M, with understated modern aesthetics and not the pop art of #6. People aren't looking for whimsy in an app they'll use for banking.
After smoking the same amount of either an active or placebo form of cannabis
https://xkcd.com/1462/
People sometimes get free or discounted keys and want to sell or trade them for games they actually want.
No one said there were millions of *unredeemed* keys stolen, just millions of keys. It's likely 99% of people who got keys through DLH used them immediately and the codes are meaningless now.
Chances are most of them were already used by the intended recipient.
If I got a key from a gray market service like this I'd certainly waste no time redeeming it.
Oh, forgot one citation:
http://httparchive.org/trends....
2.21MByte average page weight is actually a bit dated—it's more like 2.5MByte now.
Citations:
https://support.t-mobile.com/d...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
https://www.t-mobile.com/conte...
I'm assuming all T-Mobile One video will be restricted to 480p because that's what it says on the fact sheet:
And the fact sheet also says exactly what the $25 gets you:
The logical conclusion is that the base T-Mobile One plan will throttle all video to 480p (in other words, 1.5Mbps), you can remove said throttle by paying an extra $25 per month, though your data will likely still be deprioritized when you hit the 26GB soft cap.
T-Mobile defines 2G speed as 'up to 128kbps'. Not far from dialup, except in the dialup days pages were a lot smaller. At those speeds, the average web page today (weighing in at ~2.21MBytes) would require at least 2 minutes and 21 seconds to load. Basically useless.
Binge On throttled *all* video traffic, not just those from their zero-rated partners like Youtube and Netflix. You could opt out for free, but then all video (including partners) counted against your data plan. On the new 'unlimited' plan, they still throttle all video, and you can still opt out, but now it costs $25/mo per line to do so.
Of course you can always try a VPN to work around the video throttling, and a rooted phone with an unofficial tethering app to work around the tethering limits, and hope T-Mobile doesn't catch on.
In any case, pushing customers onto higher end plans than they need plus charging big additional fees for what used to be included is a pretty unfriendly move on T-Mobile's part.
Why is that so strange? If you have wifi at home and work and drive in between, and your social life involves actually spending time with friends instead of everyone sitting around using their phones, 2GB goes a long way.
Their unlimited plan used to include 14GB of tethering data, now on T-Mobile One you have to pay an extra $15 for every 5GB.
The new plan also throttles video to "480p", you have to pay an extra $25/mo for them not to.
Basically, to match today's current unlimited plan, you'll soon have to pay $50/mo more for your first line, $45/mo more for a second line, and $25/mo more for a third and fourth line.
What a deal!
http://www.theonion.com/video/...
(nsfw/language)
It helps to RTFA:
Users are also able to choose which of their content to make unavailable for the family, like dad's horror films, or the college daughter's explicit music.
This is the one feature sorely lacking from Apple's family sharing.
In case anyone is unfamiliar with AT&T / Verizon pricing, these fees are in addition to the 'device' charges, which run ~$20-25/mo per connected phone.
So Verizon is offering a marginally less pathetic amount of data for a marginally more outrageous sum of money. Hooray?
I guess this is what happens to electronics that get shipped back for coil whine.
When it comes to intelligence agencies, never attribute to ignorance that which can adequately be explained by malice.
https://xkcd.com/1427/
Swift inherited this mess from Objective-C. The Swift team stuck with the old conventions for a while to make the transition easier, but now they want to shed the ugly bits and move forward. I'm not sure there's a better way they could have handled this, to be honest. Everything has tradeoffs.