Intel could do a better job indicating which CPU is better than the other and letting you know what you're buying.
But it's changed now, the simple gigahertz days are over. The same thing has been happening with GPUs for years, you could never just look at the number of SPs, clockspeed or amount of RAM. If you want to know what's better then look at benchmarks.
I spent about 5 minutes talking to some lady who asked me why I liked my android phone, and if I recommended it to her over an iPhone. I told her about how its open source, its not as draconian, etc. But it was a waste of time - she'd be happier with an iPhone, and I should have just recommended it to her. I want android to win, but telling old ladies to buy an android phone to forward my cause is selfish, not helpful.
Different things for different people. My partner has an iphone and i have an n900, no way would i recommend the n900 to her, but i certainly wouldn't go back to an iphone myself. There is no single product that suits everyone, use whatever works for you.
If you are a typical user you will only need one or two to run an OS with Web Browser and Word Processor.
Those are just the tasks that average users have in common. You'll find the vast majority of users do much more than just web browsing and word processing, but that same vast majority have those tasks in common.
Here's my take. Gaming is not the question here. Gaming is, has, and will be about clock speed and graphics card.
"is and has"...yes. "always will be"...absolutely not. Once we have enough power in a massively parallel system we will be able to provide much more visually accurate virtual environments through realtime raytracing in interactive applications.
Have you ever touched a TV antenna? What did that do to the signal?
Capacitive coupling...it improves the signal.
An exposed metal antenna is an obvious potential point of failure.
why?
Balls get dropped. It happens all the time. This was not one of those problems that couldn't be forseen or tested for. This was a problem that should have been caught in testing, if not design. Someone screwed up. People screw up, it happens. But someone screwed up.
The issue is that apple didn't front up to it, they decided to first blame the user, when that didn't work they blamed the software and when that didn't work they finally had to admit that it was a problem and it was their fault, but even then they have tried to excuse themselves by saying the issue affects all phones, though it would seem not to the same degree.
(3) Classify permissions so the user is alerted more violently for more risky permissions - this may depend on the circumstances (e.g. a browser add-on usually shouldn't be asking for the same sort of privileges as backup software);
So the user has to not only understand the permissions levels of the OS but each set of permissions defined by each software package, and subsequently each addon for that software package, and so on...
The backlash on the annoyance of UAC is proof enough that users don't want this sort of fine-grained privilege security, as secure an implementation of permissions that it is most end users would just turn off notifications and go for a 'yes to all'.
Consumer Reports clearly created this article to sell copies rather than push factual information.
'Clearly'? I think not, the information contained in it is factual. Proving that Apple's claims of the issue being wholly related to a software glitch regarding the displaying of signal bars is false.
People tend to only use the word censorship on the Internet when they are pissed off at a moderator. I sometimes feel sorry for them when they have to do the work that everybody hates.
This thread is closed as it was turning into a flamewar.. Censorship.
This post was deleted for inappropriate language. Censorship.
This post is off topic and has been moved to a board that is not searchable. Censorship.
People break the forum EULA not to talk about copying DVDs, ROM hacking, and other illegals. Censorship.
But those are forum rules, clearly defined rules. I can't find anything in apple's forum rules that relates to negative press or negative comments about their products. Sure if it was obvious falsehoods or conjecture then they should absolutely censor it, but not when it's a proven fault or a user's opinion.
I would like to tell you that HTTP is not for this
It wasn't intially designed with this in mind, but welcome to the technology industry, it may shock you but the internet wasn't designed for with streaming video in mind either.
Since the discussion is about/. (as per the comment i initially replied to, which you would know if you bothered to actually read it) other news is irrelevant. It seems either you didn't read it or are unable to comprehend that/. = slashdot.
The discussion was never limited to Slashdot.
What are you talking about? See the comment i initially replied to, quite clearly the context is/. how is that so difficult to understand? Did you not even read it? Here it is:
"fervent Apple backlash that's taken over/. as of late."
My point is disputing the statement that opinion on Apple is overwhelmingly negative.
Then wtf are you talking to me for? I didn't suggest that, the AC i replied to suggested that, i merely suggested that if that is the case it wouldn't be surprising due to the type of news stories posted on/. and their current procedures.
The headliner story may say one thing, but the split of comments inside the story is about even.
So yes, it is 50/50.
Comments != News. So no, you're wrong.
In any case the point of my post was to suggest that if there has been a rise in negative comments it is due to the change in the company and proliferation of negative news stories related to it.
Im not sure the point you're trying to make, first it was that there isn't much bad press on/. and that i must be an apple hater, then i proved you wrong. Now it's that there is a 50/50 split in the comments, which im not arguing with. So what's your point?
looking at the front page of apple news on/. right now you would see a couple of negative app store stories, negative antenna issue stories and a negative proximity sensor issue story. As for the rest it's neither good nor bad, just issues that may affect apple in some way.
In reality the news is far more positive, but you just choose to believe the negative because you fall more towards category #3. To say that it's pretty much all bad news is blatantly false.
On slashdot the news that is posted is mostly negative, in fact most news in general is bad. And just because i don't agree with you doesn't make me an apple-hater, in fact i have an iPhone and an iPad and i used to have an iMac.
'Walled garden' is a metaphor for the user experience that seems quite accurate, within those walls it's brilliant, however if you require something outside there is simply no way to get it. Not sure what you think is wrong with that phrase.
the fervent Apple backlash that's taken over/. as of late.
When it's pretty much all bad news directed towards a company that supposedly prides itself on the user experience and the 'it just works' philosophy what do you expect? If 'it just works' and there's transparency to their 'walled garden' procedures then people don't care so much about the control-freak nature of the company. But these days the consumer-friendliness seems to be up shit creek, the platform doesn't 'just work' and now it seems they're starting to blame the user.
They used to be the niche-market player making great products and having great service, their mass-market approach has really had a negative effect. Just look at their 'best way to browse the web' except it doesn't do a large part which is flash (but they don't tell the consumer that), or their 'it's magical' where they really don't think much of their target audience. They used to have a nice balance of form and function, now it's clearly form over function, and by function it's not just features but the whole usability of the devices. At least this applies to their mobile devices, not so much the desktop, but then mobile is where the negative comments and press are directed anyway.
If I get a defective product, it means one of two things:
If you've got that defective product then you're out of the scope of parent's context, assuming you were actually able to comprehend it before launching into a rant. He didn't say wait a year if you've got an iphone 4, he said wait a year to upgrade if you've got an iphone 3g(s) until apple come out with hardware that doesn't suffer these issues.
What I mean is that even inside complicated mathematical algorithms there could be mathematical back doors. That all this probably should not only be understood, but verified rigorously.
In an open source project this happens when code is committed by the community, there are always many eyes looking over the code. But you have to remember that as technology advances things thought previously secure - or at least 'secure enough' - may become vulnerabilities, just look at WEP. You can't write code that is 100% secure, there will always be vulnerabilities at some level and even if there weren't you'd still be vulnerable to hardware attacks at the physical level, such as glitching attacks.
But today we are working with multi-gigahertz multi-core processors on nearly every machine. It's truly a lot of processing power. Is it being wasted?
Other browsers get by just fine without hardware acceleration. Why does MSIE need it?
Utilising the display hardware for rendering the display sounds like a pretty logical and effective use to me. I'd say it would be a waste not using the specific hardware for it's intended purpose.
But they're not back in the game until they stop all this nonsense and backport IE9 to XP (and, heck, Win2K while you're at it!) If your retort is "oh it costs too much to support, oh the API's have changed, oh you should upgrade your 9 year old turd of an OS!". C'mon. Cost? API's? We're talking about moneybags Microsoft here! They can do whatever they want
No car analogy sorry, but while we're on the topic of backports where's my multi-tasking for the original iPhone? They should backport it to the 2G, i mean c'mon we're talking about the company with the biggest market cap in the industry, not to mention 20-something billion in cash reserves. Why won't they support and maintain my obsolete device at their expense?
The internet is being viewed on a lot of tablets, phones and netbooks that don't have the hardware support for this.
It's hardware accelerated support for canvas features, not IE-specific features. If this drives hardware accelerated support for these elements on other devices then so much the better for the end user experience.
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Intel could do a better job indicating which CPU is better than the other and letting you know what you're buying.
But it's changed now, the simple gigahertz days are over. The same thing has been happening with GPUs for years, you could never just look at the number of SPs, clockspeed or amount of RAM. If you want to know what's better then look at benchmarks.
I spent about 5 minutes talking to some lady who asked me why I liked my android phone, and if I recommended it to her over an iPhone. I told her about how its open source, its not as draconian, etc. But it was a waste of time - she'd be happier with an iPhone, and I should have just recommended it to her. I want android to win, but telling old ladies to buy an android phone to forward my cause is selfish, not helpful.
Different things for different people. My partner has an iphone and i have an n900, no way would i recommend the n900 to her, but i certainly wouldn't go back to an iphone myself. There is no single product that suits everyone, use whatever works for you.
They proved long ago they do not win on price/preformance.
Assuming you're talking about standard desktop processors for Athlon V. Pentium4...you're right. For Phenom V. Core...you're wrong.
And they are still the only company that ever sold me a defective chip that couldn't do math.
Yes that Flag erratum - or whatever they called it - was bloody annoying, but so was the more recent AMD TLB issue.
I tend to prefer an non-religious approach and just buy whichever is best at the time.
If you are a typical user you will only need one or two to run an OS with Web Browser and Word Processor.
Those are just the tasks that average users have in common. You'll find the vast majority of users do much more than just web browsing and word processing, but that same vast majority have those tasks in common.
Here's my take. Gaming is not the question here. Gaming is, has, and will be about clock speed and graphics card.
"is and has"...yes. "always will be"...absolutely not. Once we have enough power in a massively parallel system we will be able to provide much more visually accurate virtual environments through realtime raytracing in interactive applications.
Must a man seek alternatives with a reason other than a head full of curiosity?
But it's an idiot who jumps, head-first, into a pool without checking it's depth.
Have you ever touched a TV antenna? What did that do to the signal?
Capacitive coupling...it improves the signal.
An exposed metal antenna is an obvious potential point of failure.
why?
Balls get dropped. It happens all the time. This was not one of those problems that couldn't be forseen or tested for. This was a problem that should have been caught in testing, if not design. Someone screwed up. People screw up, it happens. But someone screwed up.
The issue is that apple didn't front up to it, they decided to first blame the user, when that didn't work they blamed the software and when that didn't work they finally had to admit that it was a problem and it was their fault, but even then they have tried to excuse themselves by saying the issue affects all phones, though it would seem not to the same degree.
(3) Classify permissions so the user is alerted more violently for more risky permissions - this may depend on the circumstances (e.g. a browser add-on usually shouldn't be asking for the same sort of privileges as backup software);
So the user has to not only understand the permissions levels of the OS but each set of permissions defined by each software package, and subsequently each addon for that software package, and so on...
The backlash on the annoyance of UAC is proof enough that users don't want this sort of fine-grained privilege security, as secure an implementation of permissions that it is most end users would just turn off notifications and go for a 'yes to all'.
surely a network connection of some kind is a requirement for most of those functions though, i know it is for most people.
Consumer Reports clearly created this article to sell copies rather than push factual information.
'Clearly'? I think not, the information contained in it is factual. Proving that Apple's claims of the issue being wholly related to a software glitch regarding the displaying of signal bars is false.
People tend to only use the word censorship on the Internet when they are pissed off at a moderator. I sometimes feel sorry for them when they have to do the work that everybody hates.
This thread is closed as it was turning into a flamewar.. Censorship.
This post was deleted for inappropriate language. Censorship.
This post is off topic and has been moved to a board that is not searchable. Censorship.
People break the forum EULA not to talk about copying DVDs, ROM hacking, and other illegals. Censorship.
But those are forum rules, clearly defined rules. I can't find anything in apple's forum rules that relates to negative press or negative comments about their products. Sure if it was obvious falsehoods or conjecture then they should absolutely censor it, but not when it's a proven fault or a user's opinion.
So don't buy Apple then. No big deal, it's your choice to make.
The issue is where you've bought the device and been locked into a contract and then they make these changes.
I would like to tell you that HTTP is not for this
It wasn't intially designed with this in mind, but welcome to the technology industry, it may shock you but the internet wasn't designed for with streaming video in mind either.
With the capabilities of HTML5 you'd think they'd do webapps instead of platform-specific ones.
Slashdot stories != news either
Since the discussion is about /. (as per the comment i initially replied to, which you would know if you bothered to actually read it) other news is irrelevant. It seems either you didn't read it or are unable to comprehend that /. = slashdot.
The discussion was never limited to Slashdot.
What are you talking about? See the comment i initially replied to, quite clearly the context is /. how is that so difficult to understand? Did you not even read it? Here it is:
"fervent Apple backlash that's taken over /. as of late."
My point is disputing the statement that opinion on Apple is overwhelmingly negative.
Then wtf are you talking to me for? I didn't suggest that, the AC i replied to suggested that, i merely suggested that if that is the case it wouldn't be surprising due to the type of news stories posted on /. and their current procedures.
The headliner story may say one thing, but the split of comments inside the story is about even. So yes, it is 50/50.
Comments != News. So no, you're wrong.
In any case the point of my post was to suggest that if there has been a rise in negative comments it is due to the change in the company and proliferation of negative news stories related to it.
Im not sure the point you're trying to make, first it was that there isn't much bad press on /. and that i must be an apple hater, then i proved you wrong. Now it's that there is a 50/50 split in the comments, which im not arguing with. So what's your point?
looking at the front page of apple news on /. right now you would see a couple of negative app store stories, negative antenna issue stories and a negative proximity sensor issue story. As for the rest it's neither good nor bad, just issues that may affect apple in some way.
So no, it isn't 50/50 good/bad at all.
In reality the news is far more positive, but you just choose to believe the negative because you fall more towards category #3. To say that it's pretty much all bad news is blatantly false.
On slashdot the news that is posted is mostly negative, in fact most news in general is bad. And just because i don't agree with you doesn't make me an apple-hater, in fact i have an iPhone and an iPad and i used to have an iMac.
'Walled garden' is a metaphor for the user experience that seems quite accurate, within those walls it's brilliant, however if you require something outside there is simply no way to get it. Not sure what you think is wrong with that phrase.
the fervent Apple backlash that's taken over /. as of late.
When it's pretty much all bad news directed towards a company that supposedly prides itself on the user experience and the 'it just works' philosophy what do you expect? If 'it just works' and there's transparency to their 'walled garden' procedures then people don't care so much about the control-freak nature of the company. But these days the consumer-friendliness seems to be up shit creek, the platform doesn't 'just work' and now it seems they're starting to blame the user.
They used to be the niche-market player making great products and having great service, their mass-market approach has really had a negative effect. Just look at their 'best way to browse the web' except it doesn't do a large part which is flash (but they don't tell the consumer that), or their 'it's magical' where they really don't think much of their target audience. They used to have a nice balance of form and function, now it's clearly form over function, and by function it's not just features but the whole usability of the devices. At least this applies to their mobile devices, not so much the desktop, but then mobile is where the negative comments and press are directed anyway.
I'm sorry, wait a year?
If I get a defective product, it means one of two things:
If you've got that defective product then you're out of the scope of parent's context, assuming you were actually able to comprehend it before launching into a rant. He didn't say wait a year if you've got an iphone 4, he said wait a year to upgrade if you've got an iphone 3g(s) until apple come out with hardware that doesn't suffer these issues.
What I mean is that even inside complicated mathematical algorithms there could be mathematical back doors. That all this probably should not only be understood, but verified rigorously.
In an open source project this happens when code is committed by the community, there are always many eyes looking over the code. But you have to remember that as technology advances things thought previously secure - or at least 'secure enough' - may become vulnerabilities, just look at WEP. You can't write code that is 100% secure, there will always be vulnerabilities at some level and even if there weren't you'd still be vulnerable to hardware attacks at the physical level, such as glitching attacks.
But today we are working with multi-gigahertz multi-core processors on nearly every machine. It's truly a lot of processing power. Is it being wasted?
Other browsers get by just fine without hardware acceleration. Why does MSIE need it?
Utilising the display hardware for rendering the display sounds like a pretty logical and effective use to me. I'd say it would be a waste not using the specific hardware for it's intended purpose.
Really people!!! Don't we want to use something that will work across all platforms?????
We can, how would MS' implementation of the canvas element in IE possibly stop you from using a cross-platform browser?
But they're not back in the game until they stop all this nonsense and backport IE9 to XP (and, heck, Win2K while you're at it!) If your retort is "oh it costs too much to support, oh the API's have changed, oh you should upgrade your 9 year old turd of an OS!". C'mon. Cost? API's? We're talking about moneybags Microsoft here! They can do whatever they want
No car analogy sorry, but while we're on the topic of backports where's my multi-tasking for the original iPhone? They should backport it to the 2G, i mean c'mon we're talking about the company with the biggest market cap in the industry, not to mention 20-something billion in cash reserves. Why won't they support and maintain my obsolete device at their expense?
The internet is being viewed on a lot of tablets, phones and netbooks that don't have the hardware support for this.
It's hardware accelerated support for canvas features, not IE-specific features. If this drives hardware accelerated support for these elements on other devices then so much the better for the end user experience.