a robot ethicist is the one who thinks about if a robotic car should kill you by evading a child or mow down the child instead. and about who is going to be sued afterwards.
obviously a lot of work went into this. what a pity, that it turned out so ugly. but, no problem, just make it a star wars collectible and only make 500 pieces - it'll sell, eventually. as if they knew beforehand, that it won't be pretty...
well, they won't. by the time, apple would be ready to come out with a console, game streaming on nearly every tv/set-top box/console will be available, you'll just buy a new controller for the apple-tv. but look out for their occulus/project morpheus competitor, if/when VR ever becomes successfull.
you mean those android rumors, nintendo explicitely denied? why would they make an android console when this would make porting their greatest aser, their back catalogue, more difficult. besides, they are allready going another route to mobile-gaming on android AND iOS
p.s. most ios games look like they fall somewhere between the original wii and a ps3 when it comes to "graphical chops". so, that's not an advantage - but, i'd argue, it's still "good enough". if they only had a nice, standartized controller with a pointing device - they could eat nintendo's lunch.
but the wii had the wii-remote, balance board, nunchuck and pro controller. apple has a remote that's useless for anything than the most casual games (like a single wii remote with half the functionality) and mfi controllers which all look and work slightly different (so, no sane developer will make games relying on any but a few functions common to all controllers). also, 32 gb is not very much, when it comes to downloadable, "console class" games. the wii & wii-u have at least a disc drive for bigger games. they are throwing in gaming as a bonus, and hope that it will all work out like on ios, but they didn't and still don't have the same competition on ios.
also, a wiimote or pro controller are lightyears more sophisticated than the tiny apple remote. (and mfi-controller are not standartised) and a single big ps4 game would be bigger than the available storage on a 32gig apple-tv. i don't think they are taking gaming seriously - they are just throwing stuff at the wall to see, what sticks. the big three have nothing to fear from this. but it will probably comprte with the few gaming customers of amazon fire tv, roku and ouya
no, it probably wouldn't be appropriate, if the lifes saved are not people living in ressourceful first world nations. besides, it's not about "appropriate" it's about "realistic"
the thing is, as apple is the most profitable company in the world and sells a metric shit-ton of devices. everything evil they do is automatically more evil than when everybody else does it. comes with economy of scale.
we used to look at microsoft for that, but it's google and apple right now - ms has become the underdog (besides of them selling billions of windows-copies - OSs are not very hot right now)
it's a stupid summary. you won't pay more just because of the universal search function. still, apple, will sell it as a major feature, although it's "just" software.
but they will charge double the price because of the new motion/voice controller, better cpu, and added storage - so you can play and download games with it.
i'd guess, universal "text" search, and a new, revamped "tv" service (where i could imagine one could get either single channels or packages for a reduced price) will come to the old 70$ apple tv, which the'll probably still sell for $50 from then on, as well. but you'll have to pay extra for the new hardware features and the ability to play games with it and use it as a homekit comtroller.
it's a non-issue. you take your watch off when you go to sleep anyway and snap the magnetic charger on to your bedside table onto it. it's not like a smartphone where you first have to take your phone out of your pocket or have to find your phone (with the help of your smartwatch) in the first place. the watch is on your wrist anyway, so this adds about 2 seconds to your "lights out" routine. actually, it's good that you have to recharge it every day (or every 2nd, if you pull an overnighter), because its regularly. if the watch battery were to last 7-10 days, you'd have to watch for the battery.
as for the usage case of the watch:
-quick glances after a short vibration only a wrist-flick away vs. hearing an annoying sound, pulling your phone out of your pocket, opening the case, if you have one, unlocking the phone, look at notification, do some other stuff, while you're at it, locking the phone, putting it back in your pocket.
-have a remote always on your wrist
-never have to hear your phones beeps, rings and dings again
-generally, do short stuff (set a timer, dictate a message, set a calendar entry...) faster and less obtrusive & engrossimg than with a phone
it's not that you need a smartwatch, but it's damned convenient to have one. it's like having a microwave or a dishwasher. you can't do anything with it, you can't already do with your oven or sink and they also need space, power and cleaning. but it's still nice to have them.
...turns out, it isn't as easy as you thought to rig an election. it's not their authors being "conservative" that makes those books lose. incidentially they are all - sometimes entertaining - pulp novels. it's the quality, stupid.
my roomba usually is to stupid to find it's way back to the docking station, and likes to stop/have the battery die/eat a crippling cable right under the bed or other hard to reach places. i'd really like it to have some cable avoidance and at least a rudimentary knowledge of where it is and how to get back - maybe using wifi beacons that are not as useless as the infrared "virtual wall" ones. and a little intelligence to guide it out of tight corners - it got a knack for finding a way into places that are barely wider than itself, but never finding out again.
i'm pretty sure, they haven't optimized their windows drivers. they are the only pc-macer whose sales increase, let alone their profits. why should they make windows run on their machine as good as osx - this makes zero sense for them and their business-model (including locking people into their eco-system). if you have some windows apps, you can't live without, get parallels, and if you really need windows, sure use bootcamp, if you have to - and have fun with old drivers & a keyboard not very suited for windows. just so that you are reminded of the frustrating days you had back in your windows-past.
oh, come on, you're comparing a 15-inch plastic-laptop to a 12-inch alu-laptop. at least take one of the macbook pro's the article is talking about and then compare it to the lenovo.
p.s.: sure, you can compare the cheapest dell with the macbook with the worst bang for the buck, based purely on specs. but as the mentioned laptops in the article are the macbook air and pro, i guess that's what they meant.
aah no,
$ 1300 gets you a macbook pro with an i5 - comparable to the xps 13 9343 from dell with the same cpu, ram & ssd capacity, sold for the same price. the dell is a little smaller, but got a lot of brittle carbon fibre, the mbp has more ports (hdmi & 2x thunderbolt/mini display port), a more than 50% larger battery, slightly lower screen resolution, but a faster gpu to go with it.
so it's at least a tie with the mbp being the faster, but slightly bigger & heavier machine. i'd go for the macbook, because it also got mag-safe, osx and a better touchpad. but if you're a windows user, the windows keyboard of the dell is something to consider.
that sounds like the smart move. also, launching only in a few cities would give them the advantage of a smaller, more controllable environment. and the lack of a driver would probably offset the higher costs in the long run.
even slashdot often puts an ad that's hard to dismiss over the "submit" button - at least on an ipad. fortunately, ios9 and content blockers are on their way.
i just don't like those tracking ads, bandwith/cpu hogging ads, autoplaying audio/video ads, view blocking ads, pop-ups...
just embed your ads as plain text or decent sized banners or as the first two search results (but clearly marked as ads), or even as marked paid content, and i'm fine with it - but as long as you do javascript-shit, links that track me across sites, or banners that pop over buttons, i'll fight them and avoid your sites,
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a robot ethicist is the one who thinks about if a robotic car should kill you by evading a child or mow down the child instead. and about who is going to be sued afterwards.
the industry need sexbots the same way the internet needs porn. no way around that, but thanks for bringing that forward.
obviously a lot of work went into this. what a pity, that it turned out so ugly. but, no problem, just make it a star wars collectible and only make 500 pieces - it'll sell, eventually. as if they knew beforehand, that it won't be pretty...
well, they won't. by the time, apple would be ready to come out with a console, game streaming on nearly every tv/set-top box/console will be available, you'll just buy a new controller for the apple-tv. but look out for their occulus/project morpheus competitor, if/when VR ever becomes successfull.
you mean those android rumors, nintendo explicitely denied? why would they make an android console when this would make porting their greatest aser, their back catalogue, more difficult. besides, they are allready going another route to mobile-gaming on android AND iOS
p.s. most ios games look like they fall somewhere between the original wii and a ps3 when it comes to "graphical chops". so, that's not an advantage - but, i'd argue, it's still "good enough". if they only had a nice, standartized controller with a pointing device - they could eat nintendo's lunch.
but the wii had the wii-remote, balance board, nunchuck and pro controller. apple has a remote that's useless for anything than the most casual games (like a single wii remote with half the functionality) and mfi controllers which all look and work slightly different (so, no sane developer will make games relying on any but a few functions common to all controllers). also, 32 gb is not very much, when it comes to downloadable, "console class" games. the wii & wii-u have at least a disc drive for bigger games. they are throwing in gaming as a bonus, and hope that it will all work out like on ios, but they didn't and still don't have the same competition on ios.
also, a wiimote or pro controller are lightyears more sophisticated than the tiny apple remote. (and mfi-controller are not standartised) and a single big ps4 game would be bigger than the available storage on a 32gig apple-tv. i don't think they are taking gaming seriously - they are just throwing stuff at the wall to see, what sticks. the big three have nothing to fear from this. but it will probably comprte with the few gaming customers of amazon fire tv, roku and ouya
no, it probably wouldn't be appropriate, if the lifes saved are not people living in ressourceful first world nations. besides, it's not about "appropriate" it's about "realistic"
the thing is, as apple is the most profitable company in the world and sells a metric shit-ton of devices. everything evil they do is automatically more evil than when everybody else does it. comes with economy of scale. we used to look at microsoft for that, but it's google and apple right now - ms has become the underdog (besides of them selling billions of windows-copies - OSs are not very hot right now)
yup, but there's a good chance that you'll have to emphasize "has been" pretty soon after apple has entered the market.
it's a stupid summary. you won't pay more just because of the universal search function. still, apple, will sell it as a major feature, although it's "just" software. but they will charge double the price because of the new motion/voice controller, better cpu, and added storage - so you can play and download games with it. i'd guess, universal "text" search, and a new, revamped "tv" service (where i could imagine one could get either single channels or packages for a reduced price) will come to the old 70$ apple tv, which the'll probably still sell for $50 from then on, as well. but you'll have to pay extra for the new hardware features and the ability to play games with it and use it as a homekit comtroller.
it's a non-issue. you take your watch off when you go to sleep anyway and snap the magnetic charger on to your bedside table onto it. it's not like a smartphone where you first have to take your phone out of your pocket or have to find your phone (with the help of your smartwatch) in the first place. the watch is on your wrist anyway, so this adds about 2 seconds to your "lights out" routine. actually, it's good that you have to recharge it every day (or every 2nd, if you pull an overnighter), because its regularly. if the watch battery were to last 7-10 days, you'd have to watch for the battery. as for the usage case of the watch: -quick glances after a short vibration only a wrist-flick away vs. hearing an annoying sound, pulling your phone out of your pocket, opening the case, if you have one, unlocking the phone, look at notification, do some other stuff, while you're at it, locking the phone, putting it back in your pocket. -have a remote always on your wrist -never have to hear your phones beeps, rings and dings again -generally, do short stuff (set a timer, dictate a message, set a calendar entry...) faster and less obtrusive & engrossimg than with a phone it's not that you need a smartwatch, but it's damned convenient to have one. it's like having a microwave or a dishwasher. you can't do anything with it, you can't already do with your oven or sink and they also need space, power and cleaning. but it's still nice to have them.
...turns out, it isn't as easy as you thought to rig an election. it's not their authors being "conservative" that makes those books lose. incidentially they are all - sometimes entertaining - pulp novels. it's the quality, stupid.
my roomba usually is to stupid to find it's way back to the docking station, and likes to stop/have the battery die/eat a crippling cable right under the bed or other hard to reach places. i'd really like it to have some cable avoidance and at least a rudimentary knowledge of where it is and how to get back - maybe using wifi beacons that are not as useless as the infrared "virtual wall" ones. and a little intelligence to guide it out of tight corners - it got a knack for finding a way into places that are barely wider than itself, but never finding out again.
i'm pretty sure, they haven't optimized their windows drivers. they are the only pc-macer whose sales increase, let alone their profits. why should they make windows run on their machine as good as osx - this makes zero sense for them and their business-model (including locking people into their eco-system). if you have some windows apps, you can't live without, get parallels, and if you really need windows, sure use bootcamp, if you have to - and have fun with old drivers & a keyboard not very suited for windows. just so that you are reminded of the frustrating days you had back in your windows-past.
how do you know that anything you buy on ebay is the thing the seller is really selling? well, yeah...
p.p.s. and no pre-installed mc-affee crapware on the macbook as well...
oh, come on, you're comparing a 15-inch plastic-laptop to a 12-inch alu-laptop. at least take one of the macbook pro's the article is talking about and then compare it to the lenovo.
p.s.: sure, you can compare the cheapest dell with the macbook with the worst bang for the buck, based purely on specs. but as the mentioned laptops in the article are the macbook air and pro, i guess that's what they meant.
aah no, $ 1300 gets you a macbook pro with an i5 - comparable to the xps 13 9343 from dell with the same cpu, ram & ssd capacity, sold for the same price. the dell is a little smaller, but got a lot of brittle carbon fibre, the mbp has more ports (hdmi & 2x thunderbolt/mini display port), a more than 50% larger battery, slightly lower screen resolution, but a faster gpu to go with it. so it's at least a tie with the mbp being the faster, but slightly bigger & heavier machine. i'd go for the macbook, because it also got mag-safe, osx and a better touchpad. but if you're a windows user, the windows keyboard of the dell is something to consider.
that sounds like the smart move. also, launching only in a few cities would give them the advantage of a smaller, more controllable environment. and the lack of a driver would probably offset the higher costs in the long run.
even slashdot often puts an ad that's hard to dismiss over the "submit" button - at least on an ipad. fortunately, ios9 and content blockers are on their way.
it's not about the advertising, it's about the form of advertising. just look at daringfireball.com . that's advertising done right.
i just don't like those tracking ads, bandwith/cpu hogging ads, autoplaying audio/video ads, view blocking ads, pop-ups... just embed your ads as plain text or decent sized banners or as the first two search results (but clearly marked as ads), or even as marked paid content, and i'm fine with it - but as long as you do javascript-shit, links that track me across sites, or banners that pop over buttons, i'll fight them and avoid your sites,