Microsoft Developers have got to be the laziest on the planet. EVERYTHING that MS does is done for the ease of their Developers, regardless of what hoops or inconvenience it causes the User.
Given that in the this case the kludge only affects Microsoft developers, it forces other developers and users to go through exactly zero hoops.
Microsoft backdates their drivers so that they don't win timestamps and will only win on version compares. I think changing the order of the timestamp and version compares would be a simple solution, but I can imagine that they considered that and had some reason why that led to undesirable results. So they have a solution where they backdate their drivers and nobody else has to.
This is where certain Slashdotters would accuse me of being a "shill", if I were defending an Apple policy; so, pray tell, why wouldn't the term apply to you and your response?
Seems like a really badly designed system to me. If the time stamp of a driver somehow got changed by accident, it would lead to a very hard to find problem.
Especially since you can change the tine stamp of a Windows file by so much as looking sideways at it.
. Maybe it's all the weed talking, but I've really lost the will to even attempt to understand all the insane complexity of modern PCs. I feel like I do nothing but constantly deal with all sorts of bizarre glitches and software harassing me in numerous ways, to the point where I mostly use the computer for the sake of maintaining itself, rather than any actual work.
There's a word for this method of solving a problem: it's a kluge.
Exactly what I came here to say.
Microsoft Developers have got to be the laziest on the planet. EVERYTHING that MS does is done for the ease of their Developers, regardless of what hoops or inconvenience it causes the User.
... the real reason is that VR is dead. Normal people get sick after about 15 minutes of using VR. You cannot solve that problem. It is physiological. Facebook wasted billions.
Just to clarify, I've never had the jack fail. I've had plenty of wires fail. I mostly blame Apple for that. At some point, they decided to make headphones with really thin wires under the premise that more flexibility is somehow better. Unfortunately, that makes them more fragile. And then everybody copied their design, and now you almost can't buy headphones with wires that aren't thin and flimsy.
Believe me, there were PLENTY of headphones and earbuds with flimsy cables YEARS before Apple had any product offerings in that space.
I use 1/8" plugs on an almost daily basis, and the last time I had a mini jack failure was on a PowerBook 145, back in the mid-1990s. By contrast, I've gone through three micro-USB-to-Lightning adapters (from different manufacturers) in less than a year. They get to the point where they only make proper contact if you shove them in at a certain exact angle, and the slightest touch causes them to disconnect.
I've given up on micro-USB. The failure rate is just plain staggering compared with anything else I've worked with. It is a terrible, horrible, flaky, unreliable nightmare connector suitable for use only in disposable products. If you haven't had problems with it, then you obviously aren't being nearly as hard on your charge connectors as you are on your headphones.
And that is one of the biggest reasons why Apple designed the Lightning connector. Because microUSB is hideous.
Never have owned an Apple device, and I never will for exactly this kind of reason. It's like the whole fucking company is run by women or something, they can't make up their mind, try 14 different things, and eventually wind up settling on something different than everyone else.
...and just renamed itself to "Dongle". They clearly have a love affair with making you carry 12 other boxes so that your phone can be 0.1mm slimmer. Shame you need a bag for all the dongles to achieve it.
Where in the article does it suggest that Apple is making a power play here to position Metal like the headline says? This really doesn't have a whole lot to do with Metal specifically, and is instead about leveraging the entire class of APIs that have been coming out that are closer to the (lowercase) metal. In fact, they specifically said so in the summary:
No way is Apple making this power play.
If they did then they'd take 3d graphics hardware more seriously. As it is Apples graphics offerings are a joke, both literally and figuratively.
Apple was a member of Vulkan and those of us who code to GPUs were excited to have a unified target finally coming into view - until Apple withdrew and announced a proprietary alternative. They shouldn't be allowed to influence the standard now.
I'm guessing; but I would bet that Apple got tired of the typical cat-herding of Open Source projects, and decided they couldn't uplift the project maintainers enough; and so got out while the gettin' was good.
Good on them that they want to make their version Open Source as well, though.
But then how can Apple gain a proprietary stranglehold on the industry? How can they force adoption of their own standard and ensure a way to monetize all future 3D web graphics?
Considering the history of Apple open source contributions in things like OpenGL, I'd say your concerns are at best not really likely. Also Apple is proposing a new standard which means it will be a standard unlike MS and the embrace and extend philosophy.
Exactly. Apple has a pretty good track record of leaving things Open. Take CUPS for example.
So only 76 third party applications use HTTPS on iOS?
I don't think so. Rather, I think the blame lies with developers using self signed certs on their test servers, and tweaking the SSL options in their app so that works for them.
To be fair, TFS did sort of lay the blame where it belonged. But it sure as HELL didn't make a point of it.
Via ADB one can use a custom hosts file on a droid that's rooted, easily (Apple devs get "GodMode" rooted phones they SSH into to alter hosts, you don't & yes, jail breaking is possible (iirc, go up > 1024 folders & it's useless)).
What's Apple Desktop Bus got to do with this?
And oh, look! ANOTHER Unverifiable, specious Apple-Hating comment from yet ANOTHER Anonymous Coward!
We wanted to verify that the certificate we get from our service is issued by the CA we actually get our certificate from (sometimes called certificate pinning), but Apple only allows this for their own apps. Us third-party, second-class developers have to trust whatever bogus certificate comes over the network. Blame Apple.
Another Apple Hater comment, from a (wait for it) Anonymous Coward.
There is nearly a 100% correlation between the two. Wonder why...?
So the quarter before the last quarter was shorter than average but I didn't see any articles saying that was misleading because it was a short quarter. No this is only brought up when the newas sounds good.
In reality what's being argues about here is the rate of growth of the rate of income. a second derivative. Apple's trend is actually growing in revenue steadily steadily.
Exactly. If you stand back a little ways, the "jaggies" start to blur together, and you start seeing the "Trend" a lot easier.
And, overall, Apple's "trend" looks a LOT healthier than say, Microsoft's...
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Microsoft Developers have got to be the laziest on the planet. EVERYTHING that MS does is done for the ease of their Developers, regardless of what hoops or inconvenience it causes the User.
Given that in the this case the kludge only affects Microsoft developers, it forces other developers and users to go through exactly zero hoops.
Microsoft backdates their drivers so that they don't win timestamps and will only win on version compares. I think changing the order of the timestamp and version compares would be a simple solution, but I can imagine that they considered that and had some reason why that led to undesirable results. So they have a solution where they backdate their drivers and nobody else has to.
This is where certain Slashdotters would accuse me of being a "shill", if I were defending an Apple policy; so, pray tell, why wouldn't the term apply to you and your response?
Seems like a really badly designed system to me. If the time stamp of a driver somehow got changed by accident, it would lead to a very hard to find problem.
Especially since you can change the tine stamp of a Windows file by so much as looking sideways at it.
. Maybe it's all the weed talking, but I've really lost the will to even attempt to understand all the insane complexity of modern PCs. I feel like I do nothing but constantly deal with all sorts of bizarre glitches and software harassing me in numerous ways, to the point where I mostly use the computer for the sake of maintaining itself, rather than any actual work.
That's not how it was back in the Amiga days.
You need to shitcan that Linux box and buy a Mac.
There's a word for this method of solving a problem: it's a kluge.
Exactly what I came here to say.
Microsoft Developers have got to be the laziest on the planet. EVERYTHING that MS does is done for the ease of their Developers, regardless of what hoops or inconvenience it causes the User.
... the real reason is that VR is dead. Normal people get sick after about 15 minutes of using VR. You cannot solve that problem. It is physiological. Facebook wasted billions.
Exactly.
Just to clarify, I've never had the jack fail. I've had plenty of wires fail. I mostly blame Apple for that. At some point, they decided to make headphones with really thin wires under the premise that more flexibility is somehow better. Unfortunately, that makes them more fragile. And then everybody copied their design, and now you almost can't buy headphones with wires that aren't thin and flimsy.
Believe me, there were PLENTY of headphones and earbuds with flimsy cables YEARS before Apple had any product offerings in that space.
Everything isn't Apple's fault, ya know.
I use 1/8" plugs on an almost daily basis, and the last time I had a mini jack failure was on a PowerBook 145, back in the mid-1990s. By contrast, I've gone through three micro-USB-to-Lightning adapters (from different manufacturers) in less than a year. They get to the point where they only make proper contact if you shove them in at a certain exact angle, and the slightest touch causes them to disconnect.
I've given up on micro-USB. The failure rate is just plain staggering compared with anything else I've worked with. It is a terrible, horrible, flaky, unreliable nightmare connector suitable for use only in disposable products. If you haven't had problems with it, then you obviously aren't being nearly as hard on your charge connectors as you are on your headphones.
And that is one of the biggest reasons why Apple designed the Lightning connector. Because microUSB is hideous.
Never have owned an Apple device, and I never will for exactly this kind of reason. It's like the whole fucking company is run by women or something, they can't make up their mind, try 14 different things, and eventually wind up settling on something different than everyone else.
I think you are confusing them with Microsoft.
There are still some two-digit UID lurkers. I must admit I haven't seen a single-digit UID for a very long time.
YOU WIN!!!!
There used to be active users with three-digit UIDs.
Actually, there was one that posted a few weeks ago.
...and just renamed itself to "Dongle". They clearly have a love affair with making you carry 12 other boxes so that your phone can be 0.1mm slimmer. Shame you need a bag for all the dongles to achieve it.
Mods? Insightful?
How about Idiotic?
Yeah, no connectors, bluetooth for any additional devices, inductive charging.
Calling it now, they'll be doing that for the iPhone 9.
I think you are late by one major revision (not including "s" revisions).
In this case, money will talk. A lot. It sure as shit did at Apple. The only thing that is truly horseshit here is Design being a slave to Greed.
Bitch, please.
Where in the article does it suggest that Apple is making a power play here to position Metal like the headline says? This really doesn't have a whole lot to do with Metal specifically, and is instead about leveraging the entire class of APIs that have been coming out that are closer to the (lowercase) metal. In fact, they specifically said so in the summary:
No way is Apple making this power play.
If they did then they'd take 3d graphics hardware more seriously. As it is Apples graphics offerings are a joke, both literally and figuratively.
Then why do you sound so nervous?
Apple was a member of Vulkan and those of us who code to GPUs were excited to have a unified target finally coming into view - until Apple withdrew and announced a proprietary alternative. They shouldn't be allowed to influence the standard now.
I'm guessing; but I would bet that Apple got tired of the typical cat-herding of Open Source projects, and decided they couldn't uplift the project maintainers enough; and so got out while the gettin' was good.
Good on them that they want to make their version Open Source as well, though.
But then how can Apple gain a proprietary stranglehold on the industry? How can they force adoption of their own standard and ensure a way to monetize all future 3D web graphics?
Considering the history of Apple open source contributions in things like OpenGL, I'd say your concerns are at best not really likely. Also Apple is proposing a new standard which means it will be a standard unlike MS and the embrace and extend philosophy.
Exactly. Apple has a pretty good track record of leaving things Open. Take CUPS for example.
The jokes just write themselves, don't they?
>What's Apple Desktop Bus got to do with this?
That's what my brain parses ADB to every time.
It must be a function of age.
Glad I'm not the only one... ;-)
Android Debugging Bridge [...] Via ADB one can use a custom hosts file
What's Apple Desktop Bus got to do with this?
Nothing, which is why he spelled it out. What's next, a claim that the fellow's initials can only stand for Android Package?
It was a joke, son... ;-)
Sucks to be a faggat or a hispter.
WOW!
TWO Spelling errors in EIGHT words! That has to be some kind of record!
Well done, you illiterate, homophobic, luddite moron!
Because it's a excuse to talk shit about Apple, that's why it's Slashdot News worthy.
EXACTLY!
So only 76 third party applications use HTTPS on iOS? I don't think so. Rather, I think the blame lies with developers using self signed certs on their test servers, and tweaking the SSL options in their app so that works for them.
To be fair, TFS did sort of lay the blame where it belonged. But it sure as HELL didn't make a point of it.
Via ADB one can use a custom hosts file on a droid that's rooted, easily (Apple devs get "GodMode" rooted phones they SSH into to alter hosts, you don't & yes, jail breaking is possible (iirc, go up > 1024 folders & it's useless)).
What's Apple Desktop Bus got to do with this?
And oh, look! ANOTHER Unverifiable, specious Apple-Hating comment from yet ANOTHER Anonymous Coward!
Amazing!
We wanted to verify that the certificate we get from our service is issued by the CA we actually get our certificate from (sometimes called certificate pinning), but Apple only allows this for their own apps. Us third-party, second-class developers have to trust whatever bogus certificate comes over the network. Blame Apple.
Another Apple Hater comment, from a (wait for it) Anonymous Coward.
There is nearly a 100% correlation between the two. Wonder why...?
So the quarter before the last quarter was shorter than average but I didn't see any articles saying that was misleading because it was a short quarter. No this is only brought up when the newas sounds good.
In reality what's being argues about here is the rate of growth of the rate of income. a second derivative. Apple's trend is actually growing in revenue steadily steadily.
Exactly. If you stand back a little ways, the "jaggies" start to blur together, and you start seeing the "Trend" a lot easier. And, overall, Apple's "trend" looks a LOT healthier than say, Microsoft's...