It's not about apple devices but about third-party tvs (samsung, sony, vizio, etc.) that recently got airplay 2 support. It eill work fine, because it's apple certified. But When people don't use the netflix apps on those devices, netflix will get less user data from those devices, i guess.
In the naughts it was considered (at least where I live, Central Europe), that it's rude if it takes you longer than 24h to answer.
I usually still go by this, but make exceptions for people who are either exceptionally fast or slow.
sure, a lot of manual labour could be replaced, but itâll probably be too expensive and complex over the short term. jobs which can be replaced by software only, though....
i think, the more endangered jobs are typical employee jobs. who kneeds a whole accountants section when the same job could be done by a smartphone app? middle management, phone support, bank clerks, hr, a lot of jobs in law, code monkeys...
and this will hit hard, because any accountant or hr manager thinks, it will be the cab drivers and factory workers who lose their job first. when to the contrary an unskilled, versatile and cheap human will outdo a robot for quite some time.
that linux is still an unrefined, fragmented mess that has not got the professional, polished software support the others got ( niche cases aside - e.g. to take the most prominent example: gimp and the likes are a far cry from photoshop).
if you change that, you give up everything that makes linux linux - and then you get osx.
itâs just never going to happen.
that's why i bring my own snacks or buy some from the store across the road from the cinema. standing in line for snacks in the cinema also sucks pretty bad.
$12 times four for a family seems like a comparable price to home cinema rental for $50, but i'm never going to break even when i factor on n trying to build a relatively compareable setup to my local imax (and keep up with the ever changing tech)
it's an exaggeration, a metaphor. there's probably nobody starving, but for many europeans it's still a shock when the come to the US for the first time, and see the abundant, visible poverty many people live in. depends on where you come from too. while i have heard that story from lots of people visiting the US, (I live in "western" Europe), you probably won't be that shocked, if you grew up in romania.
have most people ever cared about sound quality? it's only as good as what you're used to. we were perfectly happy with shitty walkmen-sound at the time, and the same probably goes for (arguably less) shitty streaming sound today. sure, hi-fidelity was a sales termes in the past, but it isn't any more. same goes for video. 99% of people don't even care to switch off all the preset "extra" functions on their tvs that make movies look like crap (e.g. local dimming, smooth motion, over-saturated colors...), most don't even care when old 4:3 content is stretched to 16:9, and just look how many use really shitty illegal streaming sites or download cam-rips.
so, no, nobody except the producers ever care about quality - it usually already stops at broadcasting (e.g. using an optimod or focusing on tech specs rather than on quality).
really, samsung doing something everybody else has done before? qu'elle surprise. at least there's a good chance that they won't copy apple's design for a change.
if you are self-employed and want to be top of your field then that's the way to go - otherwise there will always be somebody equally talented, younger and without a personal life and no need for sleep, that will outrun you. there are definitely fields, where you can't compete when you have a relationship, let alone a family. (e.g. the movie industry)
if you're employed, there'll always be someone else reaping the fruits of your labor, so you're just letting yourself being exploited.
either way, you'll never make it to the top if you can't present and sell yourself as a hard working genius - that's even more important than actually being one.
while macs (and the rest of apple's offerings) are hardly the best in any single class of performance, they are usually also not really bad in any of them.
it's the little details/overall package that add up:
- nice hardware design, featuring little details (e.g. you can open up a mbp with one hand without lifting up the bottom, the sorely missed magsafe connector, the battery charging state LEDs on older unibody mbps...), often with a longer life-span than similar products
- nice overall hardware (good trackpad, good color calibrated monitor, good speaker for a laptop/tablet/phone,...)
- good integration of hardware and software out of the box (e.g. "handsoff" functionality, universal clipboard, icloud backup, mail drop, talking calls and writing text messages on any device...)
- a graphical UI that tries to get out of your way most of the time
- nice software tools out of the box (Terminal, iWork, Garageband, iMovie, xcode, quartz composer, automator, applescript, color picker, audio tools,...).
the loyality probably comes partly from the closed eco-system - an iphone in tandem with an apple watch and mac is just so much nicer than standalone (again: handsoff function, calls on mac/tablet,... ) - and from the "it just works". it often doesn't nowadays, and apple's latest offerings are hopelessly overpriced, but there's still a lot that sucks more in the windows/linux world, if you prefer macs. e.g. frequent and slow windows updates, pesky and sometimes uneven looking UI that need just more clicks/longer paths to get to what you want, much more fucking around with drivers, much more slowing down after some time, that ghastly registry, a lot of the software equivalent to what comes ootb with a mac has to be installed an maintained or needs helper programs running in the background, if you buy a mac you get a complete computer but without the crapware most pc manufacturers install on their complete systems...
where is it? until now i've just seen flat and badly compressed 180/360-degree video with very wrong size ratios. unless your fetish is roleplaying as a one-eyed dwarf, that's probably not the "VR"-porn you're looking for.
that's what they do - when you put on the glasses, you see the colors as intended, otherwise you get oversaturated colors (like the crappy look some TVs produce out of the box, or your typical oled-phone screen). rogue one had a very muted/washed out palette because it was supposed to be a war-film.
and the occasional 3d-movie was fun too, as long as the 3d was halfway decent. with vr/ar/mr glasses approaching the mass market, i don't think that we'll have to forgo 3d for long.
when they were at their almost-10-percent-high, they made an effort and had unique, high-quality and competitively priced machines. now half of their lineup is slowly dying. if you buy a new mac, you can't be sure that there'll be a follow-up model in that line. macpros and mac-mini sales are probably pretty flat, because of that and because of old hardware that was on the cusp of being overpriced when it was released three years ago.
new releases value aesthetical design over function and are no good value for the money. no wonder even the most hardcore mac fan nowadays lives in a mixture of sorrow and fear of what they will (not) release next.
apple is slowly eroding the fundament and fallback under it's iphone - business, but they fon't seem to care because they are still sitting on a mountain of cash, that only looks like it's getting smaller when you look at it from a distance.
the sad thing is, that there's still no competition for mac/macOS in a few areas - but as soon as a new player emerges (not counting on microsoft and linux, rhey blew it for decades, but inevitably some day somebody else will have the money and the focus) there'll be hell to pay,
i just asked someone who works at a reputable european airline (e.g. not the easy jet/ryan air league). overbooking not forbidden. it's even required by their management that they overbook flights. we've got these "european air passenger rights" so you usually get booked to a later flight and if that flight arrives more than 3 hours later than the original one, you get â250-600, depending on the travel distance. or â150 and a voucher for getting downgraded from business-class.
so what's the problem with internet-activated lightbulbs? so some fucker could theoretically remotely switch off my lights? big deal. attack an epileptic? they are not that fast. analyze the light patterns and determine whether i'm not at homr and just running an anti-burglar sequence instead of switching the lights on by hand? not going to happen (there are easier & more low-tech methods).
but having an online-store or ad-seller listen in on everyone of my conversations? thanks, i'll pass. (and wait for a company that has already made their money by selling me that voice-activation-system)
it's mostly not the early bird that catches the worm in the tch-world. besides, amazon (or google) is not the type of company, people trust to listen to their conversations 24/7
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It's not about apple devices but about third-party tvs (samsung, sony, vizio, etc.) that recently got airplay 2 support. It eill work fine, because it's apple certified. But When people don't use the netflix apps on those devices, netflix will get less user data from those devices, i guess.
as long as they also certify and ensure the quality on any bluetooth-speaker and headphones you can listen to Netflix on.
In the naughts it was considered (at least where I live, Central Europe), that it's rude if it takes you longer than 24h to answer. I usually still go by this, but make exceptions for people who are either exceptionally fast or slow.
sure, a lot of manual labour could be replaced, but itâll probably be too expensive and complex over the short term. jobs which can be replaced by software only, though.... i think, the more endangered jobs are typical employee jobs. who kneeds a whole accountants section when the same job could be done by a smartphone app? middle management, phone support, bank clerks, hr, a lot of jobs in law, code monkeys... and this will hit hard, because any accountant or hr manager thinks, it will be the cab drivers and factory workers who lose their job first. when to the contrary an unskilled, versatile and cheap human will outdo a robot for quite some time.
yeah, thatâs equally true for anybody who aspires to become president. another stupid candidate doesnât make trump smarter.
a.k.a. autonomously driving teslas, then it's probably a good idea to be concerned.
that linux is still an unrefined, fragmented mess that has not got the professional, polished software support the others got ( niche cases aside - e.g. to take the most prominent example: gimp and the likes are a far cry from photoshop). if you change that, you give up everything that makes linux linux - and then you get osx. itâs just never going to happen.
that's why i bring my own snacks or buy some from the store across the road from the cinema. standing in line for snacks in the cinema also sucks pretty bad. $12 times four for a family seems like a comparable price to home cinema rental for $50, but i'm never going to break even when i factor on n trying to build a relatively compareable setup to my local imax (and keep up with the ever changing tech)
it's an exaggeration, a metaphor. there's probably nobody starving, but for many europeans it's still a shock when the come to the US for the first time, and see the abundant, visible poverty many people live in. depends on where you come from too. while i have heard that story from lots of people visiting the US, (I live in "western" Europe), you probably won't be that shocked, if you grew up in romania.
are not really to be taken serious - like anything trump ever said.
have most people ever cared about sound quality? it's only as good as what you're used to. we were perfectly happy with shitty walkmen-sound at the time, and the same probably goes for (arguably less) shitty streaming sound today. sure, hi-fidelity was a sales termes in the past, but it isn't any more. same goes for video. 99% of people don't even care to switch off all the preset "extra" functions on their tvs that make movies look like crap (e.g. local dimming, smooth motion, over-saturated colors...), most don't even care when old 4:3 content is stretched to 16:9, and just look how many use really shitty illegal streaming sites or download cam-rips. so, no, nobody except the producers ever care about quality - it usually already stops at broadcasting (e.g. using an optimod or focusing on tech specs rather than on quality).
really, samsung doing something everybody else has done before? qu'elle surprise. at least there's a good chance that they won't copy apple's design for a change.
if you are self-employed and want to be top of your field then that's the way to go - otherwise there will always be somebody equally talented, younger and without a personal life and no need for sleep, that will outrun you. there are definitely fields, where you can't compete when you have a relationship, let alone a family. (e.g. the movie industry) if you're employed, there'll always be someone else reaping the fruits of your labor, so you're just letting yourself being exploited. either way, you'll never make it to the top if you can't present and sell yourself as a hard working genius - that's even more important than actually being one.
It sets a legal precedent for the whole EU, though.
while macs (and the rest of apple's offerings) are hardly the best in any single class of performance, they are usually also not really bad in any of them. it's the little details/overall package that add up: - nice hardware design, featuring little details (e.g. you can open up a mbp with one hand without lifting up the bottom, the sorely missed magsafe connector, the battery charging state LEDs on older unibody mbps ...), often with a longer life-span than similar products
- nice overall hardware (good trackpad, good color calibrated monitor, good speaker for a laptop/tablet/phone, ...)
- good integration of hardware and software out of the box (e.g. "handsoff" functionality, universal clipboard, icloud backup, mail drop, talking calls and writing text messages on any device...)
- a graphical UI that tries to get out of your way most of the time
- nice software tools out of the box (Terminal, iWork, Garageband, iMovie, xcode, quartz composer, automator, applescript, color picker, audio tools,...).
the loyality probably comes partly from the closed eco-system - an iphone in tandem with an apple watch and mac is just so much nicer than standalone (again: handsoff function, calls on mac/tablet,... ) - and from the "it just works". it often doesn't nowadays, and apple's latest offerings are hopelessly overpriced, but there's still a lot that sucks more in the windows/linux world, if you prefer macs. e.g. frequent and slow windows updates, pesky and sometimes uneven looking UI that need just more clicks/longer paths to get to what you want, much more fucking around with drivers, much more slowing down after some time, that ghastly registry, a lot of the software equivalent to what comes ootb with a mac has to be installed an maintained or needs helper programs running in the background, if you buy a mac you get a complete computer but without the crapware most pc manufacturers install on their complete systems...
that's what i wanted to read. thanks :-)
where is it? until now i've just seen flat and badly compressed 180/360-degree video with very wrong size ratios. unless your fetish is roleplaying as a one-eyed dwarf, that's probably not the "VR"-porn you're looking for.
that's what they do - when you put on the glasses, you see the colors as intended, otherwise you get oversaturated colors (like the crappy look some TVs produce out of the box, or your typical oled-phone screen). rogue one had a very muted/washed out palette because it was supposed to be a war-film.
and the occasional 3d-movie was fun too, as long as the 3d was halfway decent. with vr/ar/mr glasses approaching the mass market, i don't think that we'll have to forgo 3d for long.
when they were at their almost-10-percent-high, they made an effort and had unique, high-quality and competitively priced machines. now half of their lineup is slowly dying. if you buy a new mac, you can't be sure that there'll be a follow-up model in that line. macpros and mac-mini sales are probably pretty flat, because of that and because of old hardware that was on the cusp of being overpriced when it was released three years ago. new releases value aesthetical design over function and are no good value for the money. no wonder even the most hardcore mac fan nowadays lives in a mixture of sorrow and fear of what they will (not) release next. apple is slowly eroding the fundament and fallback under it's iphone - business, but they fon't seem to care because they are still sitting on a mountain of cash, that only looks like it's getting smaller when you look at it from a distance. the sad thing is, that there's still no competition for mac/macOS in a few areas - but as soon as a new player emerges (not counting on microsoft and linux, rhey blew it for decades, but inevitably some day somebody else will have the money and the focus) there'll be hell to pay,
i just asked someone who works at a reputable european airline (e.g. not the easy jet/ryan air league). overbooking not forbidden. it's even required by their management that they overbook flights. we've got these "european air passenger rights" so you usually get booked to a later flight and if that flight arrives more than 3 hours later than the original one, you get â250-600, depending on the travel distance. or â150 and a voucher for getting downgraded from business-class.
so what's the problem with internet-activated lightbulbs? so some fucker could theoretically remotely switch off my lights? big deal. attack an epileptic? they are not that fast. analyze the light patterns and determine whether i'm not at homr and just running an anti-burglar sequence instead of switching the lights on by hand? not going to happen (there are easier & more low-tech methods). but having an online-store or ad-seller listen in on everyone of my conversations? thanks, i'll pass. (and wait for a company that has already made their money by selling me that voice-activation-system)
the siri-catchphrase for this is: "hey siri" - i'm still waiting for the opportunity to say "hey siri - call me moron" on national television.
it's mostly not the early bird that catches the worm in the tch-world. besides, amazon (or google) is not the type of company, people trust to listen to their conversations 24/7