I'm not a gamer, but I suspect that games are sold and will work on both Intel & AMD CPUs but are generic binaries. This means that the vendors will have used compiler options so that they work on both, but that means that they might work faster on one. I have seen instructions generated that test which CPU & run these instructions or those ones. How much does that favour one CPU type over another ?
is needed which mandates display of: (a) ability to use third party parts; (b) ability to use third party repair shops. This should apply to any product that has an expected life of more than one month. The minimum prominence of the display (size, positioning, etc) should be specified. This should also apply to marketing, including web sites.
Once consumers start to notice this they will start to make buying decisions on this information. This will make manufacturers change. It might mean that it costs more to buy a printer, but cost over a few years should go down.
IT product review/comparison web sites could help with the problem today: Include these 2 data points in every review/comparison.
What the printer manufacturers are doing is just the same as John Deere does with tractors.
my parents bought me a Panasonic video camera when in on holiday the USA. It broke after a few months. Panasonic in the UK refused to fix it claiming that they were different than Panasonic USA. The reason is that they charge different amounts in different regions and work hard to preserve that. Multinationals exploit global price differences to their advantage and prevent the consumer from doing likewise.
I will never buy anything from Panasonic in the future -- I'll reward honourable companies (if I can find any).
Sony have deprived him of goods (ie games) that he has paid for. Sony was scammed, but that is not the user's problem, he seems able to demonstrate that the scam was not caused by something that he did wrong. In the UK he could take them to the small claims court - which is quick and easy. Yes: Sony's lawyers would get involved but they would need to convince a judge that they are not liable.
seems to me to be the cause of many problems today. These are people who have got to the top in their country, they start by beating up political opponents, often ensure their position (head of state for a long time), then go into other countries and hurt people. I won't mention names, but there are plenty around.
Most people only use 3 applications: web browser, word processor and email. For a lot, they don't create anything so a word processor is not needed and they also use some sort of web-mail - so the only application that they use is a web browser.
and other ne'er-do-wells, but the worry is that this is also happing to catch those who are not liked because they organise political protests that are entirely legitimate but just get up the noses of those in power or that individual cops just disagree with.
We do have double standards about police behaviour: we expect them to catch crooks while behaving in a 100% morally correct way. I wish that this were true, I just don't know how realistic/practical it is, crooks don't behave in a morally correct way so is it OK to allow cops to temporarily lower moral standards to catch them; fight fire with fire ?
I say ''moral'' because moral behaviour is generally better/more-desirable than behaviour this does not break the law.
It has been long known that breeding (having kids) with those distantly related to you is likely to produce healthier offspring. So: if you want healthy kids: choose a partner who has a different ancestry to you -- domeone of a different race is an easy way of doing it. Having said that what I have said is simplistic, not everyone has equally ''good'' genes, so choosing someone who is: healthy, strong, intelligent,... is also good -- these are the characteristics that many find attractive anyway. The mating game is largely about producing healthy kids - even if we do not realise it.
respond to the Amazon invite and see your branded labels lose market share to the lower cost Amazon equivalent; end up being a low margin production house.
Not respond and Amazon will go to one of your competitors and you end up losing market share anyway but without having Amazon as a customer.
Amazon can undercut since it does not have the overheads of maintaining a brand - advertising, etc.
Many, many years ago, when I was new to computers and didn't know very much, it occurred to me that I should make regular backups of all my data. Nobody told me to do that, it just seemed like common sense.
Congratulations for having the insight, the intelligence to do backups. Most of us who hang out here will also have the insight. There are however, unfortunately, many who do not understand the need of backups - some of these will be distraught by a loss that is avoidable.
because they generate most of their income by: a) selling real physical goods ('phones, etc); or b) taking a slice of others who sell into the Apple eco-system via the app store. It is much harder for the likes of facebook & google who do not charge people for their product and thus have to generate income by helping others put adverts in front of their users' eyes. This is not a criticism of Apple - but just explaining that they have a very different business model.
Having said all of that I agree with a lot of what Tim Cook says.
in the field of consumer protection if they have succeeded in all those who provide a service to act against them. It is quite simple: they think that they will be able to make more money but cutting deals all over the place; but the legislators understand that this would favour the powerful/rich over the smaller operators (web sites/services) and make innovation (startups) harder.
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I'm not a gamer, but I suspect that games are sold and will work on both Intel & AMD CPUs but are generic binaries. This means that the vendors will have used compiler options so that they work on both, but that means that they might work faster on one. I have seen instructions generated that test which CPU & run these instructions or those ones. How much does that favour one CPU type over another ?
is needed which mandates display of: (a) ability to use third party parts; (b) ability to use third party repair shops. This should apply to any product that has an expected life of more than one month. The minimum prominence of the display (size, positioning, etc) should be specified. This should also apply to marketing, including web sites.
Once consumers start to notice this they will start to make buying decisions on this information. This will make manufacturers change. It might mean that it costs more to buy a printer, but cost over a few years should go down.
IT product review/comparison web sites could help with the problem today: Include these 2 data points in every review/comparison.
What the printer manufacturers are doing is just the same as John Deere does with tractors.
Who paid you to write this ?
I have found that Brother printers are also OK with third party cartridges.
phew ... although I wonder how long before someone tries something like that.
Please tell me: who is paying people like you to try to sow doubt about the biggest existential threat that faces humanity ?
my parents bought me a Panasonic video camera when in on holiday the USA. It broke after a few months. Panasonic in the UK refused to fix it claiming that they were different than Panasonic USA. The reason is that they charge different amounts in different regions and work hard to preserve that. Multinationals exploit global price differences to their advantage and prevent the consumer from doing likewise.
I will never buy anything from Panasonic in the future -- I'll reward honourable companies (if I can find any).
are lawyers. I can't find it in my heart to grieve for them.
Sony have deprived him of goods (ie games) that he has paid for. Sony was scammed, but that is not the user's problem, he seems able to demonstrate that the scam was not caused by something that he did wrong. In the UK he could take them to the small claims court - which is quick and easy. Yes: Sony's lawyers would get involved but they would need to convince a judge that they are not liable.
The clickbait ad revenue would be peanuts compared to the lost subscriptions due to them losing reputation.
I'm not making my mind up -- I'll wait to see how this develops.
seems to me to be the cause of many problems today. These are people who have got to the top in their country, they start by beating up political opponents, often ensure their position (head of state for a long time), then go into other countries and hurt people. I won't mention names, but there are plenty around.
Most people only use 3 applications: web browser, word processor and email. For a lot, they don't create anything so a word processor is not needed and they also use some sort of web-mail - so the only application that they use is a web browser.
and other ne'er-do-wells, but the worry is that this is also happing to catch those who are not liked because they organise political protests that are entirely legitimate but just get up the noses of those in power or that individual cops just disagree with.
We do have double standards about police behaviour: we expect them to catch crooks while behaving in a 100% morally correct way. I wish that this were true, I just don't know how realistic/practical it is, crooks don't behave in a morally correct way so is it OK to allow cops to temporarily lower moral standards to catch them; fight fire with fire ? I say ''moral'' because moral behaviour is generally better/more-desirable than behaviour this does not break the law.
I don't know the answer to this.
shame that it took them so long.
It has been long known that breeding (having kids) with those distantly related to you is likely to produce healthier offspring. So: if you want healthy kids: choose a partner who has a different ancestry to you -- domeone of a different race is an easy way of doing it. Having said that what I have said is simplistic, not everyone has equally ''good'' genes, so choosing someone who is: healthy, strong, intelligent, ... is also good -- these are the characteristics that many find attractive anyway. The mating game is largely about producing healthy kids - even if we do not realise it.
Just as I will stop prevaricating -- tomorrow.
respond to the Amazon invite and see your branded labels lose market share to the lower cost Amazon equivalent; end up being a low margin production house. Not respond and Amazon will go to one of your competitors and you end up losing market share anyway but without having Amazon as a customer.
Amazon can undercut since it does not have the overheads of maintaining a brand - advertising, etc.
This, I hear, is also starting to go out to home users. It is these who I fear will lose the most.
I'm surprised more people don't use some kind of snapshot-capable server. It's not exactly rocket science.
For many people it might as well be rocket science - they would not have a clue of how to start.
Many, many years ago, when I was new to computers and didn't know very much, it occurred to me that I should make regular backups of all my data. Nobody told me to do that, it just seemed like common sense.
Congratulations for having the insight, the intelligence to do backups. Most of us who hang out here will also have the insight. There are however, unfortunately, many who do not understand the need of backups - some of these will be distraught by a loss that is avoidable.
It is about security: security of future income for Apple, its resellers and repair shops.
I guess I could find a text only email reader that "just works", though.
Try mutt
because they generate most of their income by: a) selling real physical goods ('phones, etc); or b) taking a slice of others who sell into the Apple eco-system via the app store. It is much harder for the likes of facebook & google who do not charge people for their product and thus have to generate income by helping others put adverts in front of their users' eyes. This is not a criticism of Apple - but just explaining that they have a very different business model.
Having said all of that I agree with a lot of what Tim Cook says.
in the field of consumer protection if they have succeeded in all those who provide a service to act against them. It is quite simple: they think that they will be able to make more money but cutting deals all over the place; but the legislators understand that this would favour the powerful/rich over the smaller operators (web sites/services) and make innovation (startups) harder.
Because it has better performance.