i remember when XP was released and WGA ( or it's predecessor ) was new and people were worried that MS would shutdown their servers and make it impossible to reinstall in some cases.
MS promised that they would release a key or some sort of patch that would allow you to install without the server.
Where is it?
They publicly stated that the activation servers will not be turned off, so there is no need yet for such a patch.
The thing I always ask myself when I hear people claim that MS has an obligation to "support" Windows XP indefinitely is - where do you draw the line? What IS "support and fixing security issues"? XP is so old by now that it is lacking a lot of newer security features, so it "by design" is less secure than, say, Windows 7 or 8. If those people demanding eternal support got their way, would Microsoft have to "fix" these security issues by providing updates which effectively would turn Windows XP into a more modern operating system? Would Microsoft face lawsuits if they said "nope, those are features only Windows 7 and 8 have, we won't put those into XP" and then the machines running XP got turned into spam zombies due to someone exploiting those security holes?
Other radical ideas were thrown in, apparently from just trying to do something different without trying it, such as "People weren't 100% happy with the auction house in XI, so let's not have an auction house! We'll make people's characters stand around and bazaar their stuff even when they're not online!" Except that the number one problem with that is NO INDEXING. If you want, say, a cotton thread, you have to check every character's stuff individually, with no way to compare prices or even know who has what you want. Or at least that's what I understood the problem was from reading a bunch of forum posts from people in beta, because no way was I going to start another grindy MMO from the start, so I stayed with XI.
Yes, that is exactly what it was like. If you wanted to buy some specific item, you had to go to some "bazaar" area, which was basically one of several larger halls inside town, in which you found the NPC retainers of other players standing around, pretty much like the terracotta army. Each retainer was the private shop of one player, and you had to walk up to each and every single one to check if that shop had the item you wanted, and at which price. So if you wanted to see all the options for a particular item, you had to check all the shops, because there was no overall list of items on offer. The only saving grace was that at least the bazaar areas were labelled as to which areas were for which general type of items (like armor, weapons,...). But this was, as far as I can remember, not enforced, so you could have private shops in the wrong area. And the server lag made checking out the private shops as slow and annoying as you can imagine. Basically the whole system was as bad as it was possible to make it.
Anything that doesnt require java, flash, silverlight, or god knows what else.
Anything that works in all browsers.
This. Seriously. Any management GUI which requires Java deserves to die in a fire. Because when you need to use it - which for some management GUI like a storage box which is configured once and then left alone until something needs to be changed might happen once every couple months - you can be ABSOLUTELY SURE that the computer you are sitting at either has no Java runtime environment at all or one which is the wrong version. At work, I have special VMs sitting around which I can fire up in case I need to connect to one of those ancient remote management boards which need Java 1.4.1 or stuff like that, and I have to be careful not to accidentally update those machines.
It is super annoying to find out that just to be allowed to click that one button, you first have to get a Java runtime (in the right version!) and install it, because sometimes you do not have an Internet connection available so you have to mess around with a USB stick, you introduce additional security risks by installing Java, most likely you accidentally forget about NOT leaving that Ask toolbar install option selected and have to clean up afterwards, etc.
It's as simple as that - you do not understand WHY people visit Slashdot.
Nobody goes here to read amazing fresh news. It's safe to say what whatever "news" you put up have already been posted elsewhere at least half a day before. Your users come here for the discussions, to read what other Slashdot users think about the stories and to reply to those comments. That's why the comments are absolutely, 100%, the most important thing on the Slashdot website, and your beta site makes them much more annoying to read and reply to. Seriously, how can you NOT see that this will cause an exodus if it will go live? This is not a minor inconvenience people will get used to after a few days, it is a fundamental flaw, like replacing the juicy steak on someone's plate with a huge steaming turd.
Your website redesign is going in a completely wrong direction. Everybody is telling you that, you claim to hear it, but you ignore it. This won't end well.
Oh, and get rid of all that whitespace. I am using a 27" screen, not a portrait-oriented iPad, thank you very much.
Pictures on a pure tech site that posts news are not needed and take away valuable screen space.
Yup, especially if the pictures have nothing to do with the actual story, but instead are stock photography etc. If a story is about some new networking equipment, I do not need a large picture of a bunch of network cables above the story.
"...beginning September 2013, Hewlett-Packard Company will change the way firmware updates on HP Integrity and HP 9000 products are accessed..."
No. It's also standard Proliant servers. Read the mails quoted in other posts here. The summary just links to a mail received by somebody owning HP9000 stuff, that's why it only mentions HP9000 products.
The notice is about HP 9000 (read PA-RISC and HP-UX) and HP Integrity (read Itanium and HP-UX). HP 9000 was end-of-saled years ago and you know Itanium. The products are a dying remnant that some companies may be trying to stick to. Honestly, sometimes just people need to let go.
So if you're yelling loudly about your network or PC stuff not getting BIOS-upgrades, go back to fix your comments. (What a coincidence, the captcha word is "extort")
No, it's just that the link went to the email received by a customer who is using HP9000 stuff. The change DOES also apply to the usual stuff like HP Proliant DL380 etc. For example, the mail I received today (as a Proliant user) was:
"Update: HP ProLiant Servers: Access to Firmware Updates & Service Pack for ProLiant
You are receiving this communication because you have been identified as a customer using HP ProLiant Servers and HP Services.
HP has made significant investments in its intellectual capital to provide the best value and experience for our customers. We continue to offer a differentiated customer experience with our comprehensive support portfolio. HP, as an industry leader, is well positioned to provide reliable support services across the globe with proprietary tools, HP trained engineers, and genuine certified HP parts. Only HP customers and authorized channel partners may download and use support materials.
In line with this commitment, starting in February 2014, Hewlett-Packard Company will change the way firmware updates and Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) on HP ProLiant server products are accessed. Select server firmware and SPP on these products will only be accessed through the HP Support Center http://customer.hp.com/r?2.1.3... to customers with an active support agreement, HP CarePack, or warranty linked to their HP Support Center User ID and for the specific products being updated. We encourage you to review your current support coverage to ensure you have the appropriate coverage to maintain uninterrupted access to firmware updates and SPP for these products. "
- taking the car to the grocery store that's 100 meters from your place is just stupid.
How are you going to get the groceries back home, make 10 trips? I think I'd prefer to drive.
If you do not own a car, you simply shop more often. After all, it does not take as much time if the grocery store is only a couple hundred meters away. In other words, you go there, buy one or two large bags of stuff and walk home. And then two or three days later when you ate everything, you walk there again. This works well when you're single or maybe a family with one kid, you just have to plan accordingly "today and tomorrow I want to cook this-and-that, so I need two litres of milk, salad, two steaks,...". Of course sometimes you still need to do that one large shopping spree to buy bulk stuff like toilet paper, mineral water/beer/..., heavier stuff like packs of flour/sugar/... and for that you usually also do not go to the small shop around the corner, but instead the larger supermarket somewhere else which has a parking lot etc. For example my mom, who lives alone and has no car of her own, either asks me to help her once every two weeks or so or just goes shopping together with a neighbour (who has a car). So yes, it of course is still more convenient to have a car, but you definitely can live without one if you just KNOW someone who has one and who can help you out once in a while when you need to transport the heavy stuff.
A couple of the photos show the explorers. My immediate thought was how ill equipped for the cold they look by today's standards. Then I started wondering about space suits. They obviously can withstand the cold and also have some durability for the elements given that on earth astronauts train wearing them under water. What are some practical limitations of space suits (perhaps modified to, e.g., not have to carry oxygen) that make them impracticable for working near the poles?
The major point against using space suits for arctic exploration imo might be that space suits actually are COOLING suits. They are designed to prevent the astronauts from overheating, because evaporative cooling (sweating) does not work in space. Also, the suits are pressurized and quite hard to move in, plus they are very heavy.
The thing is, though, plenty of Nvidia's and AMD's consumer level gaming cards will run Revit just fine, and some of them will actually run it FASTER than their pro level cards. You can usually pick up a consumer level card for around a quarter of what you would have payed for the comparably specced "professional" level card. Autodesk isn't the only computer that does this, too. If you're at a big firm, it's probably a better use of time to just buy a standard, pre-built workstation, but if you're at a smaller firm, telling your boss you can put together four new Revit workstations for $10000 less than you'd pay if you ordered them from Dell will definitely score you some points.
Until you have a support case (which might not even be caused by the "unsupported" cards) while working on a big project, and the software support tells you "well, THOSE cards are not on our certified list, so first replace those, then you can come back to us with your problem". Had it happen a couple times with some departments here which used "unsupported" hardware (not graphics cards) to save money - if you give support an easy way out by letting them point at something which "clearly" could cause problems, they will take it. And the next time your boss will gladly pay the extra money just to avoid the headache.
and while it doesn't make that much of a difference in the total their case was 160 bucks.. motherboard 280 bucks.. going mATX really bites. and get this, 50-75 bucks for bluetooth and wifi(wtf??).
and then going for luxury taxed firepro's. 3400 bucks each. the point with going with the pc is that you can choose something else as well. heck, you get a monster of a machine just by going with two 1000 bucks gaming cards, if you don't need that bit switched on to make it a "pro opengl" card(or just nvidias "pro" cards, either way you would shave off a whopping 4800 bucks!! that's nearly HALF OF THE FUCKING PRICE for no practical performance loss - or heck, maybe even a gain).
it's their choice of parts that makes it expensive as hell, not the choice of where they priced them from.
*luxury tax here refers to paying for something someone just building a pc at home with their own money would never buy... something that is marked up just because some companies don't give a shit.
It's not really a useful comparison if you do not go for, as far as possible, the exact same specs on the PC side. What is the point in saying "well, our PC does not have the same components and it's slower, but IT IS CHEAPER!". They wanted to find out if Apple is putting the usual "luxury tax" on the hardware and it seems that this time, they did not do that - if you choose the same or very similar PC components (e.g. THE SAME graphics cards and not "ah well, just as fast in games and who cares about certified drivers and more RAM for professional software anyway" gamer cards), the PC will be more expensive.
And when you use a good pair of noise-cancelling headphones while you concentrate on your work, so you don't hear all the noise, you'll be fine.
All the reviews so far mention that the new Mac Pro is about as loud as a Mac Mini, i.e. unless you are in a completely silent room, you will not hear it.
OK, I take 8-cored Galaxy S4 and other dual-core phone, both 1.6GHz, then I get exactly same score in 3DMark.
Now, how stupid I was I paid like 3 times more for the galaxy S4! I could get the cheaper phone that works exactly the same (at least 3DMark says so).
Well, it depends on how actual games behave. If they are programmed similarly and do not make use of the additional cores (which I guess might very well be the case, since devs usually do not spend much time on optimizing apps for hardware which is not widely in use yet), then yes - you COULD have just bought the cheapo phone and gotten the same performance in those games. Or the other phone which costs a bit more than the cheapo phone (but still less than the S4), which also has a dual-core CPU but a slightly faster GPU, which gives it a higher score in 3DMark than the S4.
Like I said, it depends. It would not surprise me at all if in actual daily use multi-core monster phones make no sense at all (yet), except for bragging rights.
Well, you have the power cable to the wireless charger:-)
I use the wireless charger for my Galaxy S4, and while it is nice to just put the phone onto the charger, I still have to plug in the CHARGER every time (since I do not want to leave the charger powered and in standby forever). So wireless charging is kinda pointless except for the "cool" factor, unless you do not mind wasting electricity.
The right to self-determination overrides the state's desire to have total control over public health.
Period, full stop. Anything else is just oppression and a human rights violation.
If it's only about things like "I want to eat lots of fat food until I die from a heart attack", you're right. It's your choice. It is a stupid choice, but it only affects your own health.
Problem is that your choice about not vaccinating your children endangers the health of OTHERS, too. And since there are more of the others than of you, you lose.
I am not an expert when it comes to vaccines, so I cannot say for sure whether there is or isn't a relationship between vaccines and autism. But everything I read so far leads me to believe that if there IS a relationship, it is very very small. And I also know that I would rather choose the very small risk of having an autistic child than the LARGE risk of having my child suffer from the serious consequences of not being vaccinated against nasty diseases. Read about the things measles can do to you and then tell me you would prefer that over autism.
as for having touch as an interface is beyond stupidity in a car, why do 99% of cars have knobs and buttons ? clue: it isnt a technological problem its more of a "how can i adjust ac/settings/radio/nav without taking my eye of the road"
good luck in court
I agree, real knobs and buttons in a car are a necessity. Try adjusting temperature or fan setting via a touch screen, especially a GLOSSY touch screen. Now compare to a simple illuminated button which you can ALWAYS see (and feel, and feel the feedback). It's like typing blind on a simulated keyboard on your tablet vs. on a "real" keyboard.
It's what happens when you completely run out of ideas. You take some old stuff and glue on the new "in" thing.
"Let's make a movie about vampires... (booo!)..... IN SPACE!!!! (yay!!!)"
And in this particular case - let's use the existing car design and old components... PLUS HYBRID!
And yes, I have no idea either how they want to sell this car at that price. It just fails on so many levels (plus, imo, it is ugly). At that price, you could easily buy either the Tesla S for pure electric drive or for thousands less a hybrid by BMW/Mercedes or any other luxury brand with more luxury and build quality. Yes, usually they have less pure electric range, but come on - it does not matter if the range is 35 miles or maybe 10 miles, either one will not get you to work and back, and e.g. the Mercedes E-class hybrid at least has a DIESEL engine.
I opened it. Unlike the current design, it did not scale to fit my 1400x1050 screen, leaving large whitespace borders on both edges. If that's what it does on a 4:3 screen with a narrower horizontal resolution than many modern widescreen "high definition" displays, then this is a bad thing.
I already complained about that during the Alpha, because the new design looks silly on my 2560x1440 screen - it uses only a third of the available horizontal space, leaving the rest empty. But it seems that is not high on the to do list, or maybe even not intended to be fixed at all. Anyway, the current design is MUCH better on high resolution screens.
Lift the fingerprint from the touch sensor of your iPhone. There's no need to have another source for the fingerprint.
Actually true. The usual fingerprint sensors (the small sensor you swipe your finger over) were "safer" in that regard - on the iphone sensor, you can get the fingerprint you need right where you will use it: on the sensor. Still, considering you could also get the same fingerprint from all over the rest of the phone, it's not really a huge security hole.
iOS7 should be fine on an iphone 5 or 4s, but there definitely should be a noticeable slowdown on an iphone 4. That hardware is a bit old by now, and iOS7 is designed for the newer hardware. E.g. the iphone 4 still has a single core A4 CPU, while the 4s already has the dual core A5. The newer phones (5 and up) also have twice the RAM. Still, upgrading to iOS7 is a user option, and it's better to have that option than not to have it. Not many 3 year old Android phones still get OS upgrades.
"an independent, comprehensive, and authoritative report"... "sponsored by three nonprofit organizations: the Science and Environmental Policy Project, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, and The Heartland Institute"
Please forgive me for not taking that report seriously when it has been sponsored by these people.
Basically, they pedalled back a bit. They now claim they never warned about Windows 8 itself, but about possible risks when combining Windows 8 with TPM 2.0, because the user no longer has complete control over his system and that because of that, the user could end up in a situation where the system is permanently unusable. They no longer mention the US / the NSA and the possibility for backdoors, instead they now just mention the possibility of "sabotage", and the need for an opt-in AND opt-out for things like TPM 2.0.
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i remember when XP was released and WGA ( or it's predecessor ) was new and people were worried that MS would shutdown their servers and make it impossible to reinstall in some cases.
MS promised that they would release a key or some sort of patch that would allow you to install without the server.
Where is it?
They publicly stated that the activation servers will not be turned off, so there is no need yet for such a patch.
The thing I always ask myself when I hear people claim that MS has an obligation to "support" Windows XP indefinitely is - where do you draw the line? What IS "support and fixing security issues"? XP is so old by now that it is lacking a lot of newer security features, so it "by design" is less secure than, say, Windows 7 or 8. If those people demanding eternal support got their way, would Microsoft have to "fix" these security issues by providing updates which effectively would turn Windows XP into a more modern operating system? Would Microsoft face lawsuits if they said "nope, those are features only Windows 7 and 8 have, we won't put those into XP" and then the machines running XP got turned into spam zombies due to someone exploiting those security holes?
Other radical ideas were thrown in, apparently from just trying to do something different without trying it, such as "People weren't 100% happy with the auction house in XI, so let's not have an auction house! We'll make people's characters stand around and bazaar their stuff even when they're not online!" Except that the number one problem with that is NO INDEXING. If you want, say, a cotton thread, you have to check every character's stuff individually, with no way to compare prices or even know who has what you want. Or at least that's what I understood the problem was from reading a bunch of forum posts from people in beta, because no way was I going to start another grindy MMO from the start, so I stayed with XI.
Yes, that is exactly what it was like. If you wanted to buy some specific item, you had to go to some "bazaar" area, which was basically one of several larger halls inside town, in which you found the NPC retainers of other players standing around, pretty much like the terracotta army. Each retainer was the private shop of one player, and you had to walk up to each and every single one to check if that shop had the item you wanted, and at which price. So if you wanted to see all the options for a particular item, you had to check all the shops, because there was no overall list of items on offer. The only saving grace was that at least the bazaar areas were labelled as to which areas were for which general type of items (like armor, weapons, ...). But this was, as far as I can remember, not enforced, so you could have private shops in the wrong area. And the server lag made checking out the private shops as slow and annoying as you can imagine. Basically the whole system was as bad as it was possible to make it.
Anything that doesnt require java, flash, silverlight, or god knows what else.
Anything that works in all browsers.
This. Seriously. Any management GUI which requires Java deserves to die in a fire. Because when you need to use it - which for some management GUI like a storage box which is configured once and then left alone until something needs to be changed might happen once every couple months - you can be ABSOLUTELY SURE that the computer you are sitting at either has no Java runtime environment at all or one which is the wrong version. At work, I have special VMs sitting around which I can fire up in case I need to connect to one of those ancient remote management boards which need Java 1.4.1 or stuff like that, and I have to be careful not to accidentally update those machines.
It is super annoying to find out that just to be allowed to click that one button, you first have to get a Java runtime (in the right version!) and install it, because sometimes you do not have an Internet connection available so you have to mess around with a USB stick, you introduce additional security risks by installing Java, most likely you accidentally forget about NOT leaving that Ask toolbar install option selected and have to clean up afterwards, etc.
It's as simple as that - you do not understand WHY people visit Slashdot.
Nobody goes here to read amazing fresh news. It's safe to say what whatever "news" you put up have already been posted elsewhere at least half a day before. Your users come here for the discussions, to read what other Slashdot users think about the stories and to reply to those comments. That's why the comments are absolutely, 100%, the most important thing on the Slashdot website, and your beta site makes them much more annoying to read and reply to. Seriously, how can you NOT see that this will cause an exodus if it will go live? This is not a minor inconvenience people will get used to after a few days, it is a fundamental flaw, like replacing the juicy steak on someone's plate with a huge steaming turd.
Your website redesign is going in a completely wrong direction. Everybody is telling you that, you claim to hear it, but you ignore it. This won't end well.
Oh, and get rid of all that whitespace. I am using a 27" screen, not a portrait-oriented iPad, thank you very much.
Pictures on a pure tech site that posts news are not needed and take away valuable screen space.
Yup, especially if the pictures have nothing to do with the actual story, but instead are stock photography etc. If a story is about some new networking equipment, I do not need a large picture of a bunch of network cables above the story.
someone should edit the top post...
"...beginning September 2013, Hewlett-Packard Company will change the way firmware updates on HP Integrity and HP 9000 products are accessed..."
No. It's also standard Proliant servers. Read the mails quoted in other posts here. The summary just links to a mail received by somebody owning HP9000 stuff, that's why it only mentions HP9000 products.
The notice is about HP 9000 (read PA-RISC and HP-UX) and HP Integrity (read Itanium and HP-UX). HP 9000 was end-of-saled years ago and you know Itanium. The products are a dying remnant that some companies may be trying to stick to. Honestly, sometimes just people need to let go.
So if you're yelling loudly about your network or PC stuff not getting BIOS-upgrades, go back to fix your comments.
(What a coincidence, the captcha word is "extort")
No, it's just that the link went to the email received by a customer who is using HP9000 stuff. The change DOES also apply to the usual stuff like HP Proliant DL380 etc. For example, the mail I received today (as a Proliant user) was:
"Update: HP ProLiant Servers: Access to Firmware Updates & Service Pack for ProLiant
You are receiving this communication because you have been identified as a customer using HP ProLiant Servers and HP Services.
HP has made significant investments in its intellectual capital to provide the best value and experience for our customers. We continue to offer a differentiated customer experience with our comprehensive support portfolio. HP, as an industry leader, is well positioned to provide reliable support services across the globe with proprietary tools, HP trained engineers, and genuine certified HP parts. Only HP customers and authorized channel partners may download and use support materials.
In line with this commitment, starting in February 2014, Hewlett-Packard Company will change the way firmware updates and Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) on HP ProLiant server products are accessed. Select server firmware and SPP on these products will only be accessed through the HP Support Center http://customer.hp.com/r?2.1.3... to customers with an active support agreement, HP CarePack, or warranty linked to their HP Support Center User ID and for the specific products being updated. We encourage you to review your current support coverage to ensure you have the appropriate coverage to maintain uninterrupted access to firmware updates and SPP for these products. "
- taking the car to the grocery store that's 100 meters from your place is just stupid.
How are you going to get the groceries back home, make 10 trips? I think I'd prefer to drive.
If you do not own a car, you simply shop more often. After all, it does not take as much time if the grocery store is only a couple hundred meters away. In other words, you go there, buy one or two large bags of stuff and walk home. And then two or three days later when you ate everything, you walk there again. This works well when you're single or maybe a family with one kid, you just have to plan accordingly "today and tomorrow I want to cook this-and-that, so I need two litres of milk, salad, two steaks, ...". Of course sometimes you still need to do that one large shopping spree to buy bulk stuff like toilet paper, mineral water/beer/..., heavier stuff like packs of flour/sugar/... and for that you usually also do not go to the small shop around the corner, but instead the larger supermarket somewhere else which has a parking lot etc. For example my mom, who lives alone and has no car of her own, either asks me to help her once every two weeks or so or just goes shopping together with a neighbour (who has a car). So yes, it of course is still more convenient to have a car, but you definitely can live without one if you just KNOW someone who has one and who can help you out once in a while when you need to transport the heavy stuff.
A couple of the photos show the explorers. My immediate thought was how ill equipped for the cold they look by today's standards. Then I started wondering about space suits. They obviously can withstand the cold and also have some durability for the elements given that on earth astronauts train wearing them under water. What are some practical limitations of space suits (perhaps modified to, e.g., not have to carry oxygen) that make them impracticable for working near the poles?
The major point against using space suits for arctic exploration imo might be that space suits actually are COOLING suits. They are designed to prevent the astronauts from overheating, because evaporative cooling (sweating) does not work in space. Also, the suits are pressurized and quite hard to move in, plus they are very heavy.
The thing is, though, plenty of Nvidia's and AMD's consumer level gaming cards will run Revit just fine, and some of them will actually run it FASTER than their pro level cards. You can usually pick up a consumer level card for around a quarter of what you would have payed for the comparably specced "professional" level card. Autodesk isn't the only computer that does this, too. If you're at a big firm, it's probably a better use of time to just buy a standard, pre-built workstation, but if you're at a smaller firm, telling your boss you can put together four new Revit workstations for $10000 less than you'd pay if you ordered them from Dell will definitely score you some points.
Until you have a support case (which might not even be caused by the "unsupported" cards) while working on a big project, and the software support tells you "well, THOSE cards are not on our certified list, so first replace those, then you can come back to us with your problem". Had it happen a couple times with some departments here which used "unsupported" hardware (not graphics cards) to save money - if you give support an easy way out by letting them point at something which "clearly" could cause problems, they will take it. And the next time your boss will gladly pay the extra money just to avoid the headache.
xeons already have a luxury tax...
and while it doesn't make that much of a difference in the total their case was 160 bucks.. motherboard 280 bucks.. going mATX really bites. and get this, 50-75 bucks for bluetooth and wifi(wtf??).
and then going for luxury taxed firepro's. 3400 bucks each. the point with going with the pc is that you can choose something else as well. heck, you get a monster of a machine just by going with two 1000 bucks gaming cards, if you don't need that bit switched on to make it a "pro opengl" card(or just nvidias "pro" cards, either way you would shave off a whopping 4800 bucks!! that's nearly HALF OF THE FUCKING PRICE for no practical performance loss - or heck, maybe even a gain).
it's their choice of parts that makes it expensive as hell, not the choice of where they priced them from.
*luxury tax here refers to paying for something someone just building a pc at home with their own money would never buy... something that is marked up just because some companies don't give a shit.
It's not really a useful comparison if you do not go for, as far as possible, the exact same specs on the PC side. What is the point in saying "well, our PC does not have the same components and it's slower, but IT IS CHEAPER!". They wanted to find out if Apple is putting the usual "luxury tax" on the hardware and it seems that this time, they did not do that - if you choose the same or very similar PC components (e.g. THE SAME graphics cards and not "ah well, just as fast in games and who cares about certified drivers and more RAM for professional software anyway" gamer cards), the PC will be more expensive.
And when you use a good pair of noise-cancelling headphones while you concentrate on your work, so you don't hear all the noise, you'll be fine.
All the reviews so far mention that the new Mac Pro is about as loud as a Mac Mini, i.e. unless you are in a completely silent room, you will not hear it.
OK, I take 8-cored Galaxy S4 and other dual-core phone, both 1.6GHz, then I get exactly same score in 3DMark.
Now, how stupid I was I paid like 3 times more for the galaxy S4!
I could get the cheaper phone that works exactly the same (at least 3DMark says so).
Well, it depends on how actual games behave. If they are programmed similarly and do not make use of the additional cores (which I guess might very well be the case, since devs usually do not spend much time on optimizing apps for hardware which is not widely in use yet), then yes - you COULD have just bought the cheapo phone and gotten the same performance in those games. Or the other phone which costs a bit more than the cheapo phone (but still less than the S4), which also has a dual-core CPU but a slightly faster GPU, which gives it a higher score in 3DMark than the S4.
Like I said, it depends. It would not surprise me at all if in actual daily use multi-core monster phones make no sense at all (yet), except for bragging rights.
Well, you have the power cable to the wireless charger :-)
I use the wireless charger for my Galaxy S4, and while it is nice to just put the phone onto the charger, I still have to plug in the CHARGER every time (since I do not want to leave the charger powered and in standby forever). So wireless charging is kinda pointless except for the "cool" factor, unless you do not mind wasting electricity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination
The right to self-determination overrides the state's desire to have total control over public health.
Period, full stop. Anything else is just oppression and a human rights violation.
If it's only about things like "I want to eat lots of fat food until I die from a heart attack", you're right. It's your choice. It is a stupid choice, but it only affects your own health.
Problem is that your choice about not vaccinating your children endangers the health of OTHERS, too. And since there are more of the others than of you, you lose.
I am not an expert when it comes to vaccines, so I cannot say for sure whether there is or isn't a relationship between vaccines and autism. But everything I read so far leads me to believe that if there IS a relationship, it is very very small. And I also know that I would rather choose the very small risk of having an autistic child than the LARGE risk of having my child suffer from the serious consequences of not being vaccinated against nasty diseases. Read about the things measles can do to you and then tell me you would prefer that over autism.
as for having touch as an interface is beyond stupidity in a car, why do 99% of cars have knobs and buttons ? clue: it isnt a technological problem its more of a "how can i adjust ac/settings/radio/nav without taking my eye of the road"
good luck in court
I agree, real knobs and buttons in a car are a necessity. Try adjusting temperature or fan setting via a touch screen, especially a GLOSSY touch screen. Now compare to a simple illuminated button which you can ALWAYS see (and feel, and feel the feedback). It's like typing blind on a simulated keyboard on your tablet vs. on a "real" keyboard.
It's what happens when you completely run out of ideas. You take some old stuff and glue on the new "in" thing.
"Let's make a movie about vampires ... (booo!) ..... IN SPACE!!!! (yay!!!)"
And in this particular case - let's use the existing car design and old components ... PLUS HYBRID!
And yes, I have no idea either how they want to sell this car at that price. It just fails on so many levels (plus, imo, it is ugly). At that price, you could easily buy either the Tesla S for pure electric drive or for thousands less a hybrid by BMW/Mercedes or any other luxury brand with more luxury and build quality. Yes, usually they have less pure electric range, but come on - it does not matter if the range is 35 miles or maybe 10 miles, either one will not get you to work and back, and e.g. the Mercedes E-class hybrid at least has a DIESEL engine.
A great deal of the (all negative) comments are about the fixed-width design, which is horrible--especially for wide monitors. And I agree.
Yes, that is my main complaint (together with the text spacing, which also reduces the amount of text you get on screen).
Just to show an example, this is what the new design looks like on my 2560x1440 screen (screenshots of the old and the new design in Firefox):
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/8241/vpnt.jpg
I opened it. Unlike the current design, it did not scale to fit my 1400x1050 screen, leaving large whitespace borders on both edges. If that's what it does on a 4:3 screen with a narrower horizontal resolution than many modern widescreen "high definition" displays, then this is a bad thing.
I already complained about that during the Alpha, because the new design looks silly on my 2560x1440 screen - it uses only a third of the available horizontal space, leaving the rest empty. But it seems that is not high on the to do list, or maybe even not intended to be fixed at all. Anyway, the current design is MUCH better on high resolution screens.
Lift the fingerprint from the touch sensor of your iPhone. There's no need to have another source for the fingerprint.
Actually true. The usual fingerprint sensors (the small sensor you swipe your finger over) were "safer" in that regard - on the iphone sensor, you can get the fingerprint you need right where you will use it: on the sensor. Still, considering you could also get the same fingerprint from all over the rest of the phone, it's not really a huge security hole.
iOS7 should be fine on an iphone 5 or 4s, but there definitely should be a noticeable slowdown on an iphone 4. That hardware is a bit old by now, and iOS7 is designed for the newer hardware. E.g. the iphone 4 still has a single core A4 CPU, while the 4s already has the dual core A5. The newer phones (5 and up) also have twice the RAM. Still, upgrading to iOS7 is a user option, and it's better to have that option than not to have it. Not many 3 year old Android phones still get OS upgrades.
http://climatechangereconsidered.org/#tabs-1-1
They will be releasing the nongovernmentaql report tomorrow.
http://climatechangereconsidered.org/ccr-2013/
Solidly rebutting climate alarmism.
From that page:
"an independent, comprehensive, and authoritative report" ... "sponsored by three nonprofit organizations: the Science and Environmental Policy Project, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, and The Heartland Institute"
Please forgive me for not taking that report seriously when it has been sponsored by these people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heartland_Institute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_%26_Environmental_Policy_Project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_the_Study_of_Carbon_Dioxide_and_Global_Change
The BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) published a clarification after websites reported about that Windows 8 warning: https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2013/Windows_TPM_Pl_21082013.html
Basically, they pedalled back a bit. They now claim they never warned about Windows 8 itself, but about possible risks when combining Windows 8 with TPM 2.0, because the user no longer has complete control over his system and that because of that, the user could end up in a situation where the system is permanently unusable. They no longer mention the US / the NSA and the possibility for backdoors, instead they now just mention the possibility of "sabotage", and the need for an opt-in AND opt-out for things like TPM 2.0.