I priced out an equivalent Dell a year ago on my latest purchase, and the Dell wound up being $400 more, with less capable hardware, but it did have 0.5" more screen!
Reminds me of the old days, when Apple always sold smaller monitors than the others. Even when those monitors used the same CRT. Turned out that Apple measured the visible part of the tube, and the others the whole tube. That's way Apple 12" CRT was actually what others sold as a 13" CRT.
Well what this story talks about is something that could be what happens. Apple Loves to do things to get people and keep people in their system to keep buy their over priced crap.
Highly evolved animals such as humans have a pretty impressive track record when it comes to seeing into the future. The problem does exist that some if not all of us have evolved enough to plan adequately into the long term.
Highly evolved animals such as humans ALSO have a pretty impressive track record when it comes to constructing money- and power-grabbing scams, and detecting such scams when they're being perpetrated upon them.
Unfortunately, the Global Warming Solution Advocates, regardless of the merits of their concerns, used something that has the form of a gigantic scam when promoting their proposals, and promoted proposals that involve massive transfers of wealth, increases in government intervention in private lives and businesses, and reductions in standards of living.
Of course the only reason why this is so is because the most obvious, and easiest solution "Stop burning fossil fuels" was universally answered by "Make me" by the highly evolved animals. Don't like the ways to "make you"? You had your chance.
Because it is based on Mantle, which is not Metal.
So you admit that you want Apple to use Vulkan because it is based on a proprietary product by somebody else, and even so it isn't ready for use. Because of your irrational hatred for Apple.
Unless Apple decide that they want exclusive content and the copyright owners grant them this.
If you then what this content, your are limited to using their service. Or simply decide that this content isn't worth it.
Services with exclusive content is crap and deserve to disappear from the market.
So goodbye Google Play, Amazon, Spotify, et bloody cetera.
Note that it has been going on for two years already when that article was published in 2008. Meaning that Apple was in the middle a legal wrangle about their DRM when Jobs essay was published.
You (like the moronic politician from Norway) seem to be unaware that the music industry forced Apple to use DRM. Not the other way around.
Oddly enough, there's not a single music publisher who says they have even been contacted by Apple concerning that issue -so either Apple has every single publisher in their pocket already - or the clowns at BusinessInsider are again blowing their coke the wrong way.
Yeah, that's why they constantly bring out more games-related APIs - because they just don't care. And looking at how many iOS Apps use them, neither do the developers. [/sarcasm]
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What's more interesting is how hard Apple is trying to sell all the music publishers on not allowing ANY access to their catalogs for free streaming.
At least that's what the competition is claiming, who is left behind by Artists who don't want to but up with them anymore.
So instead of creating their own proprietary closed specification and API why is it not open and could have been used as the basis for the new Khronos standard?
How do you know Metal isn't the basis for Vulkan? Put up, or shut up, instead of basing all your "arguments" on the fact that you have an irrational hatred for Apple.
Anybody else think that Apple should ditch Metal in favour of Vulkan? If they want the latest games ported to Mac then they should use an open API that is used on other platforms.
Oh, the old "Shouldn't Apple use the new standard that will be finished next year instead of their own solution, which has been used by developers for a year now (and was the reason why the new standard has been pushed from being two years away)."
So you understand "1.4x faster than the original speed" and "1.4x the original speed" to mean the same thing? Plenty of people say incorrect things, that doesn't mean it's not wrong.
So to you "Zero times faster" and "One time the original speed" are the same? And "minus half times faster" the same as "half the speed"?
Torvalds dislikes the GPL3 because he likes Tivo-ization. He would rather have corporations use his code without giving back, instead of not using it. And that's fine, he wrote it.
So you want to give Torvalds that right, but not Apple. Sure, sounds fair.
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Unlikely, those most likely to migrate or starve don't have nuclear capability and we're working hard to make sure they don't get it.
So you want to nuke a large part of humanity, and this will not be a threat to "long term survival" of humanity.
I priced out an equivalent Dell a year ago on my latest purchase, and the Dell wound up being $400 more, with less capable hardware, but it did have 0.5" more screen!
Reminds me of the old days, when Apple always sold smaller monitors than the others. Even when those monitors used the same CRT. Turned out that Apple measured the visible part of the tube, and the others the whole tube. That's way Apple 12" CRT was actually what others sold as a 13" CRT.
Well what this story talks about is something that could be what happens. Apple Loves to do things to get people and keep people in their system to keep buy their over priced crap.
Hey, will you admit how stupid you look now?
Fucking fanbois...
Yeah, you'd love to. But they don't.
Jobs was an asshole.
So are you - so die already.
Support nuclear power. That'll fix carbon emissions by a lot.
Sure. Are you going to pay the actual price for it, or just the heavily subsidized one?
Highly evolved animals such as humans have a pretty impressive track record when it comes to seeing into the future. The problem does exist that some if not all of us have evolved enough to plan adequately into the long term.
Highly evolved animals such as humans ALSO have a pretty impressive track record when it comes to constructing money- and power-grabbing scams, and detecting such scams when they're being perpetrated upon them.
Unfortunately, the Global Warming Solution Advocates, regardless of the merits of their concerns, used something that has the form of a gigantic scam when promoting their proposals, and promoted proposals that involve massive transfers of wealth, increases in government intervention in private lives and businesses, and reductions in standards of living.
Of course the only reason why this is so is because the most obvious, and easiest solution "Stop burning fossil fuels" was universally answered by "Make me" by the highly evolved animals. Don't like the ways to "make you"? You had your chance.
For those who don't want to follow the link:
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They forgot Fu Manchu? Not PC?
How do you know Metal isn't the basis for Vulkan?
Because it is based on Mantle, which is not Metal.
So you admit that you want Apple to use Vulkan because it is based on a proprietary product by somebody else, and even so it isn't ready for use. Because of your irrational hatred for Apple.
Unless Apple decide that they want exclusive content and the copyright owners grant them this. If you then what this content, your are limited to using their service. Or simply decide that this content isn't worth it. Services with exclusive content is crap and deserve to disappear from the market.
So goodbye Google Play, Amazon, Spotify, et bloody cetera.
Sorry for being late, but have a look at this:
https://gigaom.com/2008/10/08/...
Note that it has been going on for two years already when that article was published in 2008. Meaning that Apple was in the middle a legal wrangle about their DRM when Jobs essay was published.
You (like the moronic politician from Norway) seem to be unaware that the music industry forced Apple to use DRM. Not the other way around.
The link didn't work in above for some reason. Apple pushing music labels to kill free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch Why Apple wants to end the era of free music streaming
Oddly enough, there's not a single music publisher who says they have even been contacted by Apple concerning that issue -so either Apple has every single publisher in their pocket already - or the clowns at BusinessInsider are again blowing their coke the wrong way.
Are they still blocking a button on the iWatch to activate a fart app?
Well, if you are the kind of "Gamer" whose highest aim is to "play" a fart from his watch, than Apple really isn't interested in "Games".
Apple hasn't cared about games for a long time.
Yeah, that's why they constantly bring out more games-related APIs - because they just don't care. And looking at how many iOS Apps use them, neither do the developers. [/sarcasm]
What's more interesting is how hard Apple is trying to sell all the music publishers on not allowing ANY access to their catalogs for free streaming.
At least that's what the competition is claiming, who is left behind by Artists who don't want to but up with them anymore.
So instead of creating their own proprietary closed specification and API why is it not open and could have been used as the basis for the new Khronos standard?
How do you know Metal isn't the basis for Vulkan? Put up, or shut up, instead of basing all your "arguments" on the fact that you have an irrational hatred for Apple.
Anybody else think that Apple should ditch Metal in favour of Vulkan? If they want the latest games ported to Mac then they should use an open API that is used on other platforms.
Oh, the old "Shouldn't Apple use the new standard that will be finished next year instead of their own solution, which has been used by developers for a year now (and was the reason why the new standard has been pushed from being two years away)."
Anyway, https://www.khronos.org/vulkan... lists Apple under Working Group Participants. FWIW
And what exactly is faster? They don't say
Actually, yes they do. In the keynote and on their web page. http://www.apple.com/osx/elcap...
But that does mean you need to a valid Apple Account and it also means you need a valid credit card.
No, it doesn't.
So you understand "1.4x faster than the original speed" and "1.4x the original speed" to mean the same thing? Plenty of people say incorrect things, that doesn't mean it's not wrong.
So to you "Zero times faster" and "One time the original speed" are the same? And "minus half times faster" the same as "half the speed"?
If that is what the author meant then it is wrong. The concept that "faster" includes a baseline is a pretty concrete and very simple.
Yes. And the baseline for percentages and for "times" are different. Deal with it.
" The real value of [open sourcing] Swift will be whether it can realistically be used anywhere but Apple's walled garden."
It'll be interesting to see what language the Apple Music and the Switch to iOS Android apps are written in.
The real value of Swift will be whether it can realistically be used anywhere but Apple's walled garden.
This could by answered with an emphatic "no".
Any question could be - that doesn't make it true.
Look at Lua, originally a company language for PetroBras. It never became mainstream.
Well, unless you count video game scripting. "Lua has become an extremely popular programming language, so much so that it's achieved a critical mass of developers in the game industry, meaning Lua skills are transferable from company to company."
Torvalds dislikes the GPL3 because he likes Tivo-ization. He would rather have corporations use his code without giving back, instead of not using it. And that's fine, he wrote it.
So you want to give Torvalds that right, but not Apple. Sure, sounds fair.