I always have the mouse cord tucked under my keyboard and wrapped around one of it's rear feet with just enough slack for maximum mouse movement. This way I'm not fighting gravity trying to pull the cord onto the floor and losing and yanking to regain the required slack. It is much easier on the cord - I don't how you manage to break the cords unless you are using them for some sort of BDSM ritual or something.
The only ones excited are phone makers, they think they might finally have a legitimate reason for people to buy new phones. To me it looks like the 3D TV of phones.
If you look at it from the perspective that all these phones and tablets are 'consumption devices'. Well, they want to make it more and more like a TV, such that you don't really have much control to skip content or advertisements. You can pick a channel (app) and now just watch your entertainment and whatever ads they want to show you.
Clearly being a portable TV is their end goal, not a portable computing device.
With Apple's reduction in bezel sizes the new 16" should have about the same screen size as the old 17" in a slightly smaller form factor.
I hate to break it to you but that's not how screen sizes are measured. A 16 inch screen will be 1 inch smaller screen size than a 17 inch, regardless of bezel size.
Everyone is apparently using an interpreted language? Sounds to me like they need to apply the second word of A.I. , since they keep insisting on calling it that.
And this is what bugs me, and maybe most people about patents. You can patent machine A and machine B, then some third party can come in and patent using machine A with machine B as an interaction of A and B...
Over simplified example: Someone patents a light bulb, then someone patents a light bulb socket. In my opinion there should not be an ability to patent inserting the light bulb into the light bulb socket, since it is an obvious possible interaction of previous patents, there is no invention there.
All inventions are ideas, but not all ideas are inventions, we as a society need to fix this and draw a line somewhere sane.
Right to repair is nice, but it should include easy replacement of items that wear out with use. I consider a battery a wear item. Imagine if car tires weren't serviceable? Whoops now I'm giving them ideas.
They already use ram for additional storage, but the problem still exists because the speed of data transfer across the bus between the CPU and the GPU are still the limiting factor. Also the VRAM is tuned purely for the GPU, and is significantly more efficient even if you could stick a standard dimm slot onto the graphics card right next to the GPU.
That's why you buy what you want instead of what marketers think you want. 3D won't fly until they come up with something that doesn't need glasses.
While I am at it, 4k is fine but now they have to start artificially blurring actors because some people don't like seeing real to life flaws in their celebrities. Sometimes leaving things to the imagination is a beautiful thing.
Will be well above msrp, and only go up as the year goes on. Sorry NVIDIA and ATI^^^^HAMD you have set a pricing trend on graphics cards I don't really care for. At this point you can't blame the miners, the manufacturers have had plenty of time to make additional product, and now it feels like price gauging. Good thing my interest in newer games faded long ago. I hope Intel's offering causes a price war because the current players deserve it.
This, merchants will just pass the cost increase on to the customer. All customers, since it would be too much work to offer a discount to cash customers. In fact it should be the other way around, card users incur a fee - but that would be bad for business - best to just hide it in higher prices for every one like they already do. As a cash customer, this stinks.
They already have Google Fi, so your idea is really just one step away for them. In fact I almost tried their service plan around the holidays when some of their phones were half price with a contract that only required to keep their service for a month or two to retain the half price discount on the phone, free and clear.
I was taught basic contract law in public high school in 'introduction to business', and this class was a requirement 30 years ago. What the hell are they teaching children nowadays, how to tap on a screen?
No mention of AI, I am shocked - and pleased. I have benefited from Amazon algorithm pricing wars at least once, the 3rd party's algorithm kept dropping the price to 3 cents under Amazon, and Amazon countered to simply match that new price each time. Within a day the price fell to my price point.
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I just think there may be more going on here than just "old stuff sucks"
Arrogance.
Isn't it all AI these days? Sure looks artificial.
I always have the mouse cord tucked under my keyboard and wrapped around one of it's rear feet with just enough slack for maximum mouse movement. This way I'm not fighting gravity trying to pull the cord onto the floor and losing and yanking to regain the required slack. It is much easier on the cord - I don't how you manage to break the cords unless you are using them for some sort of BDSM ritual or something.
The only ones excited are phone makers, they think they might finally have a legitimate reason for people to buy new phones. To me it looks like the 3D TV of phones.
If you look at it from the perspective that all these phones and tablets are 'consumption devices'. Well, they want to make it more and more like a TV, such that you don't really have much control to skip content or advertisements. You can pick a channel (app) and now just watch your entertainment and whatever ads they want to show you.
Clearly being a portable TV is their end goal, not a portable computing device.
From marketing dept: Buttons just get in the way of our zero bezel goal, anything else will sell less phones - trust us.
With Apple's reduction in bezel sizes the new 16" should have about the same screen size as the old 17" in a slightly smaller form factor.
I hate to break it to you but that's not how screen sizes are measured. A 16 inch screen will be 1 inch smaller screen size than a 17 inch, regardless of bezel size.
Everyone is apparently using an interpreted language? Sounds to me like they need to apply the second word of A.I. , since they keep insisting on calling it that.
And this is what bugs me, and maybe most people about patents. You can patent machine A and machine B, then some third party can come in and patent using machine A with machine B as an interaction of A and B...
Over simplified example: Someone patents a light bulb, then someone patents a light bulb socket. In my opinion there should not be an ability to patent inserting the light bulb into the light bulb socket, since it is an obvious possible interaction of previous patents, there is no invention there.
All inventions are ideas, but not all ideas are inventions, we as a society need to fix this and draw a line somewhere sane.
Right to repair is nice, but it should include easy replacement of items that wear out with use. I consider a battery a wear item. Imagine if car tires weren't serviceable? Whoops now I'm giving them ideas.
They already use ram for additional storage, but the problem still exists because the speed of data transfer across the bus between the CPU and the GPU are still the limiting factor. Also the VRAM is tuned purely for the GPU, and is significantly more efficient even if you could stick a standard dimm slot onto the graphics card right next to the GPU.
That's why you buy what you want instead of what marketers think you want. 3D won't fly until they come up with something that doesn't need glasses.
While I am at it, 4k is fine but now they have to start artificially blurring actors because some people don't like seeing real to life flaws in their celebrities. Sometimes leaving things to the imagination is a beautiful thing.
I have paid cash for gasoline my entire life, I have never been offered a discount. Do you have to beg for it or something?
Will be well above msrp, and only go up as the year goes on. Sorry NVIDIA and ATI^^^^HAMD you have set a pricing trend on graphics cards I don't really care for. At this point you can't blame the miners, the manufacturers have had plenty of time to make additional product, and now it feels like price gauging. Good thing my interest in newer games faded long ago. I hope Intel's offering causes a price war because the current players deserve it.
See now that is ass backwards, and just sounds anti-competitive to me. But common sense and legal agreements parted ways long ago :(
This, merchants will just pass the cost increase on to the customer. All customers, since it would be too much work to offer a discount to cash customers. In fact it should be the other way around, card users incur a fee - but that would be bad for business - best to just hide it in higher prices for every one like they already do. As a cash customer, this stinks.
They already have Google Fi, so your idea is really just one step away for them. In fact I almost tried their service plan around the holidays when some of their phones were half price with a contract that only required to keep their service for a month or two to retain the half price discount on the phone, free and clear.
I was taught basic contract law in public high school in 'introduction to business', and this class was a requirement 30 years ago. What the hell are they teaching children nowadays, how to tap on a screen?
No mention of AI, I am shocked - and pleased. I have benefited from Amazon algorithm pricing wars at least once, the 3rd party's algorithm kept dropping the price to 3 cents under Amazon, and Amazon countered to simply match that new price each time. Within a day the price fell to my price point.
No, your example is one of idealistic marketing, which doesn't exist.
For marketers, the holy grail is getting some idiot to want something that they won't actually ever need or use.
You jest, but but abuses of said button are what lead to things like permits and licenses...
or did they work backwards and apply algorithm 'filters' using the known existing fossil? Yup, I'm one of those AI isn't really AI crowd.
Then that is less water to fill the oceans that cause sea rise. win win!
Pff, if that actually worked no app would have advertisements because people always use the close button on them.
Wasn't this the original intent of JAVA, I mean the real one - not some script bolted onto a web browser because no one else wanted it.