I don't think you disagree with me as much as you think you do...
I probably did not make it clear enough but I do support third parties being able to get official repair equipment and parts from Apple as well. I am totally fine with that.
Where I differ is I think it should remain OK for products to possibly be difficult to service, because you are shutting out a lot of design priorities by making it easier.. in fact there is a risk you are making it MORE likely products will break down more often by having shirt sighted design choices. As it is, in Apple's case at least all of the devices are recycled anyway so who cares if they are harder to fix? I'll take that tradeoff for the devices generally lasting me 2-3x longer than any other electronics I have owned.
I can buy any part I want, and for a long time lead the way in water proof phones.
You can buy any part you want but don't install it yourself if you want to keep the phone waterproof... that's the problem with letting the average consumer buy parts, they will on average break more than they fix (at least for something as compact and delicate as a phone).
I'd still rather err that way, but it does have downsides.
It carried on a lot longer than that, according to LIVING HERE.
It's only a few days after the bomb cyclone we've started actually approaching average temperatures.
So how do we have more melting that normal with below average tertmpetures?
Again, you are totally ignoring the fact that the bomb cyclone dropped a lot more moisture across the region than it would normally see... there is a huge amount of snowpack left because it's also way above average. so right there cleanly disproves the theory that the floods are from record melting.. if anything we have had below average melting, against because of the temperatures.
You can dance around it all you like, but the fact is you and your scientifically, data starved ignorant friends are simply wrong about what is happening now, and you base your forecasts on this fundamentally mistaken view of the world... sad.
Funny how those rare events keep increasing in frequency.
You misspelled decreasing. Just like a climate alarmists to confuse weather for climate.
Pretty telling that I am the only one providing real data while you try to spread fear and panic by totally ignoring what the weather is actually doing.
I'll let you have the last response, since at this point everyone is onto your game of deception... everyone except for you it would seem.
I think right to repair is important - especially with what Deere has been doing, which I read about off and on.
The one caution I would make is, I like making it so that third parties can get official means and parts to do repairs. I'm not as on-board with any kind of law that would limit how objects should be manufactured...
My long term worry is that products would become more crappy if it's mandated they cannot be sealed a certain way. Both Android and iPhone owners enjoy greta waterproofing abilities of modern phones, and I would seriously be annoyed to lose that just because of a law that said you had to be able to easily remove the back of a phone (for instance).
Will calling it something besides a cable company change the reputation? No.
So what do you do?
It's pretty simple. Make a new company "FutureCast", just something with a better name to start with. Pretend it's a new company.
Now, take your employees that are actually good, transfer them all to FutureCast. Provide good quality commercial cable modems for internet only, and rent those out instead of your own crappy hardware. Prioritize network traffic over the Comcast network for FutureCast customers.
So you have customers that interact with a company that doesn't rent overpriced garbage boxes, delivers what people actually want which is internet only for a reasonable price without pushing extra packages, and actually has employees that are not like playing Service Russian Roulette any time you have to deal with them. Who would NOT love that company?
What above older Comcast customers you ask? Well, how would they even notice a drop in service quality...
At some point, he did a stunt that contained some pretty anti-Semitic content
True but that would make him a Democrat (see: Trump and Golan heights for the opposite of an anti-semite).
Alt-righters gravitated toward him because they've been in a similar position
Almost the entire right support Israel and jews generally. Again, for anti-semitic hatred you can look almost everywhere on the Democrat side of things now. There are some that are not, but they are being drowned out and sidelined at the moment.
I have seen on Twitter recently that PewDiePie is "alt-right", but as is usual with anything labeled "alt-right" that is Fake News.
What the hell have you seen that would make him alt-right? I don't watch his videos much but in the few I have seen there is zero political content of any kind. He does meme reviews for crying out loud!
I am pretty sure he has irked some people, these days anyone who is mad at you for anything simply labels you "alt-right". Don't propagate slander and lies.
P.S. if you don't realize the NZ shooter simply used his name to try as a kind of trolling, you've not been paying attention to what happened there.
I have Comcast for internet only. It might work for me.
The idea of a streaming service aggregator is a little mystifying to me, since I just run separate streaming apps and that works really well.
Maybe if the aggregator UI was better than the stream apps UI? I can't see that being true for Netflix though (maybe for Prime which has a terrible UI).
For searching, I can already search for content across multiple streaming apps on an AppleTV so it doesn't help any there...
Maybe the Comcast specific aggregator would offer some kind of quality boost or improved level of performance?
Seems like, if companies have a lot of demand for workers, and it's harder to reign in foreign workers, that it's good news for legal U.S. workers already here...
Some things may be moving to Canada but even the summary sure made it look as if the tech market in the U.S. was still growing also. Which you'd honestly expect.
So if you only ever have to do it twice, then you just spent 4 hours, plus the time to run the code twice on completing a task that would have taken you twenty minutes.
It's faster in the abstract.
*I* understand.
P.S. Also over time you realize that even if that time it wasn't falser overall you probably learned something to make something similar faster later.
One of the guy's point is that with streaming only games you are limiting what people can do with games. Mods and making tools for games is 100% the reason I became a programmer.
You can easily support mods with streamed games, by allowing users to upload content for their own accounts, or of course allowing community generated content to be distributed to all players (probably more practical).
The system will have to have some way to at least save some custom things like controller configuration related to your account, so they will have some storage space per user already, that could easily hold mods as well.
So if you want to see that kind of thing, make a game for the Google streaming platform that supports it (thereby pushing Google into supporting the concept).
You don't bribe the AI, you bribe the people who make the AI.
Just like the classic game of telephone, bribing a programmer to influence an AI has way too abstract and indirect a result to really matter the same way old fashioned direct human graft has - and even worse, it has a paper trail of actions by the programmer. Right now you cannot yet dump the mind of a politician to see how he/she/xen arrived at a conclusion.
Also if an AI does not do what you paid for, can you call it up and yell at it? No. AI don't care.
Remember lastly the people who have to agree to put the AI in place are the ones it will replace and take over revenue streams from. NOW do you think it will ever happen?
Anyone who owns a premium mac, is wealthy and likes premium gaming experiences will probably own a PC.
That seems like a dubious statement, insofar as they will "probably own a PC".
But I'm not even talking about really wealthy people, someone with just about any modern MacBook Pro and an eGPU could easily do VR these days. Or the iMacs that just came out, which are not that expensive.
Macs don't have suitable drivers for the video card and the apps/software runs on Windows.
They have capable hardware so that is not an excuse. In what way do they not have "suitable drivers"?? Are you saying I couldn't easily drive a Rift from a Thunderbolt 3 connection and an eGPU or iMac Pro GPU? Come on.
Plus, you'd need a Mac Pro,
Nope. Newer iMacs, any laptop that can support eGPU, an iMac Pro. Multiple options for how it could happen and consumer who would pay if it worked well. Very likely as large a market as those who are willing to spring for VR gear in the first place. When Apple enters the market they will dwarf all existing marketshare near instantly and show just how wrong that opinion is.
I seriously appreciate the efforts of people to archive the entire web, and video games.
But at some point, I think you have to accept the fact it's up to the people making some things to preserve them also - and if you can't you just have to let them go.
Basically I'm against forcing people to limit in what ways they can do things, just to accommodate some third party edge cases.
I've used Oculus headsets for a few short things, including some experiences at the Void.
While they were pretty cool I could tell that even higher resolution would for sure help with fidelity, as sometimes you are looking at things you can tell should have more detail but the resolution is failing you...
Hope they are finally getting around to having these headsets work on the Mac though. Ignoring a customer base with a lot of money seems like a pretty stupid play for VR makers, or at least opens up a giant door for Apple to eventually drive in through.
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I don't think you disagree with me as much as you think you do...
I probably did not make it clear enough but I do support third parties being able to get official repair equipment and parts from Apple as well. I am totally fine with that.
Where I differ is I think it should remain OK for products to possibly be difficult to service, because you are shutting out a lot of design priorities by making it easier.. in fact there is a risk you are making it MORE likely products will break down more often by having shirt sighted design choices. As it is, in Apple's case at least all of the devices are recycled anyway so who cares if they are harder to fix? I'll take that tradeoff for the devices generally lasting me 2-3x longer than any other electronics I have owned.
I can buy any part I want, and for a long time lead the way in water proof phones.
You can buy any part you want but don't install it yourself if you want to keep the phone waterproof... that's the problem with letting the average consumer buy parts, they will on average break more than they fix (at least for something as compact and delicate as a phone).
I'd still rather err that way, but it does have downsides.
I'm going to subscribe to T-Series now because of the retards that did this.
How do you know this was not the intent of the people that made the malware?
Think about it, who benefits most from malware like this... most people would think as you do.
Two days, again according to your own article.
It carried on a lot longer than that, according to LIVING HERE.
It's only a few days after the bomb cyclone we've started actually approaching average temperatures.
So how do we have more melting that normal with below average tertmpetures?
Again, you are totally ignoring the fact that the bomb cyclone dropped a lot more moisture across the region than it would normally see... there is a huge amount of snowpack left because it's also way above average. so right there cleanly disproves the theory that the floods are from record melting.. if anything we have had below average melting, against because of the temperatures.
You can dance around it all you like, but the fact is you and your scientifically, data starved ignorant friends are simply wrong about what is happening now, and you base your forecasts on this fundamentally mistaken view of the world... sad.
Funny how those rare events keep increasing in frequency.
You misspelled decreasing. Just like a climate alarmists to confuse weather for climate.
Pretty telling that I am the only one providing real data while you try to spread fear and panic by totally ignoring what the weather is actually doing.
I'll let you have the last response, since at this point everyone is onto your game of deception... everyone except for you it would seem.
I think right to repair is important - especially with what Deere has been doing, which I read about off and on.
The one caution I would make is, I like making it so that third parties can get official means and parts to do repairs. I'm not as on-board with any kind of law that would limit how objects should be manufactured...
My long term worry is that products would become more crappy if it's mandated they cannot be sealed a certain way. Both Android and iPhone owners enjoy greta waterproofing abilities of modern phones, and I would seriously be annoyed to lose that just because of a law that said you had to be able to easily remove the back of a phone (for instance).
Higher temperatures sooner in the year causing earlier melting.
In Colorado we've had record low temperatures for February.
A trend which carried on in March
Where do you think much of the snowpack is, hmm...
Maybe flooding is due to more moisture?? Like, say from a rare event that dropped a lot more moisture across a wide region than normal??
Nah, can't be! Has to be the mythical Spaghetti Monster vibrating the atmosphere to shake out all the water!
Let's take the example of "Comcast".
Will calling it something besides a cable company change the reputation? No.
So what do you do?
It's pretty simple. Make a new company "FutureCast", just something with a better name to start with. Pretend it's a new company.
Now, take your employees that are actually good, transfer them all to FutureCast. Provide good quality commercial cable modems for internet only, and rent those out instead of your own crappy hardware. Prioritize network traffic over the Comcast network for FutureCast customers.
So you have customers that interact with a company that doesn't rent overpriced garbage boxes, delivers what people actually want which is internet only for a reasonable price without pushing extra packages, and actually has employees that are not like playing Service Russian Roulette any time you have to deal with them. Who would NOT love that company?
What above older Comcast customers you ask? Well, how would they even notice a drop in service quality...
At some point, he did a stunt that contained some pretty anti-Semitic content
True but that would make him a Democrat (see: Trump and Golan heights for the opposite of an anti-semite).
Alt-righters gravitated toward him because they've been in a similar position
Almost the entire right support Israel and jews generally. Again, for anti-semitic hatred you can look almost everywhere on the Democrat side of things now. There are some that are not, but they are being drowned out and sidelined at the moment.
I have seen on Twitter recently that PewDiePie is "alt-right", but as is usual with anything labeled "alt-right" that is Fake News.
What the hell have you seen that would make him alt-right? I don't watch his videos much but in the few I have seen there is zero political content of any kind. He does meme reviews for crying out loud!
I am pretty sure he has irked some people, these days anyone who is mad at you for anything simply labels you "alt-right". Don't propagate slander and lies.
P.S. if you don't realize the NZ shooter simply used his name to try as a kind of trolling, you've not been paying attention to what happened there.
I have Comcast for internet only. It might work for me.
The idea of a streaming service aggregator is a little mystifying to me, since I just run separate streaming apps and that works really well.
Maybe if the aggregator UI was better than the stream apps UI? I can't see that being true for Netflix though (maybe for Prime which has a terrible UI).
For searching, I can already search for content across multiple streaming apps on an AppleTV so it doesn't help any there...
Maybe the Comcast specific aggregator would offer some kind of quality boost or improved level of performance?
I came here to say the same thing, but you laid it the multiple levels of ethics failure perfectly.
It's crazy to me that any level of a company thinks stuff like this is acceptable.
Seems like, if companies have a lot of demand for workers, and it's harder to reign in foreign workers, that it's good news for legal U.S. workers already here...
Some things may be moving to Canada but even the summary sure made it look as if the tech market in the U.S. was still growing also. Which you'd honestly expect.
You can get an IMAX level of immersion if you get a projector and sit close to the screen.
You can even get curved projection screens. Though I wonder how projector focus is affected, and if any projectors allow for curvature adjustment...
So if you only ever have to do it twice, then you just spent 4 hours, plus the time to run the code twice on completing a task that would have taken you twenty minutes.
It's faster in the abstract.
*I* understand.
P.S. Also over time you realize that even if that time it wasn't falser overall you probably learned something to make something similar faster later.
Lag is not so much an issue that game streaming is not viable. Just ask John Carmack.
One of the guy's point is that with streaming only games you are limiting what people can do with games. Mods and making tools for games is 100% the reason I became a programmer.
You can easily support mods with streamed games, by allowing users to upload content for their own accounts, or of course allowing community generated content to be distributed to all players (probably more practical).
The system will have to have some way to at least save some custom things like controller configuration related to your account, so they will have some storage space per user already, that could easily hold mods as well.
So if you want to see that kind of thing, make a game for the Google streaming platform that supports it (thereby pushing Google into supporting the concept).
Ive been saying this for years! Everybody chosen MUST serve.
The Armed forces of the U.S. found ages ago that dedicated military personnel were far more effective and engaged than conscripts.
So what you are proposing would make for even worse politicians than we have now!
You want better politicians, start participating. There are no shortcuts.
You don't bribe the AI, you bribe the people who make the AI.
Just like the classic game of telephone, bribing a programmer to influence an AI has way too abstract and indirect a result to really matter the same way old fashioned direct human graft has - and even worse, it has a paper trail of actions by the programmer. Right now you cannot yet dump the mind of a politician to see how he/she/xen arrived at a conclusion.
Also if an AI does not do what you paid for, can you call it up and yell at it? No. AI don't care.
Remember lastly the people who have to agree to put the AI in place are the ones it will replace and take over revenue streams from. NOW do you think it will ever happen?
Anyone who owns a premium mac, is wealthy and likes premium gaming experiences will probably own a PC.
That seems like a dubious statement, insofar as they will "probably own a PC".
But I'm not even talking about really wealthy people, someone with just about any modern MacBook Pro and an eGPU could easily do VR these days. Or the iMacs that just came out, which are not that expensive.
Can't bribe or influence an AI the way you can humans; so it's a no-go for replacing any existing government.
Macs don't have suitable drivers for the video card and the apps/software runs on Windows.
They have capable hardware so that is not an excuse. In what way do they not have "suitable drivers"?? Are you saying I couldn't easily drive a Rift from a Thunderbolt 3 connection and an eGPU or iMac Pro GPU? Come on.
Plus, you'd need a Mac Pro,
Nope. Newer iMacs, any laptop that can support eGPU, an iMac Pro. Multiple options for how it could happen and consumer who would pay if it worked well. Very likely as large a market as those who are willing to spring for VR gear in the first place. When Apple enters the market they will dwarf all existing marketshare near instantly and show just how wrong that opinion is.
I seriously appreciate the efforts of people to archive the entire web, and video games.
But at some point, I think you have to accept the fact it's up to the people making some things to preserve them also - and if you can't you just have to let them go.
Basically I'm against forcing people to limit in what ways they can do things, just to accommodate some third party edge cases.
I've used Oculus headsets for a few short things, including some experiences at the Void.
While they were pretty cool I could tell that even higher resolution would for sure help with fidelity, as sometimes you are looking at things you can tell should have more detail but the resolution is failing you...
Hope they are finally getting around to having these headsets work on the Mac though. Ignoring a customer base with a lot of money seems like a pretty stupid play for VR makers, or at least opens up a giant door for Apple to eventually drive in through.
Still, if something goes wrong one day, why would you fly the aircraft the next day?
Because if you did that, planes would hardly ever be flying.
lots are correcting for all kinds of crap, all the time.
This is just one of the worse cases, where training mattered more than most other times...
I was curious what WebAssembly was, so I hunted down an FAQ.
Summary is that WebAssembly is a binary format to use in place of Javascript, to avoid parsing time.
Really happy to see LLVM carry on, what a great project!
I thought they would have run out of other people's money by now.
Well why do you think they are asking for a year up front....
"I'll gladly give you a movie in December if you pay me for one today...."
Yeah right.