Mister Literal presents his fuckhead defense of Apple.
No, not interested in proving anything to you. You're just somebody here to toy with, because you're a religious cult member. Nerds like to make fun of people like that.
Another nice feature is that you can set the Nvidia Shield to handle volume control internally so that things like using projectors and bluetooth speakers that don't understand volume control commands over HDMI can still have their volume controlled directly via the Nvidia Shield.
I also got a second game controller and the tv remove as well. I put it to sleep, my projector goes to sleep automatically. I hit the center button on the remote and it all "just wakes up" and is ready to go.
Oh, and no batteries for the remote or game controllers... all usb rechargable.
The AppleTV also lets you set up its Remote to control your TV or Receiver's volume control, too. Even ones like mine that no idea how to use anything but an IR remote! Took me about 5 seconds to set my AppleTV up to control my oldish, kinda obscure, Receiver's volume.
Will AppleTV show you if a movie you want to buy are cheaper on other services you have access to? Roku will because they don't play favorites. And also, Roku will even show you if you a movie you want to buy are available on streaming subscription service you already use.
While it does tend to "suggest" iTunes first, AppleTV lets you choose among all the found sources for a particular program/movie without having to jump through hoops of any sort. Sources and Costs, if any, are clearly noted on the listing's result page. Once you get used to the search-results UI, you don't even have to dive into a listing to figure out if there are multiple sources for the content.
All in all, even my extremely tech-averse housemate is able to navigate the AppleTV interface without trouble, to the point where cable-cutting is actually a reality. From what I have read about all the other options, I KNOW that wouldn't be possible with any other Streaming box.
Now, if DirecTVNow would just roll-out their DVR service, the cord would cut TOMORROW... That's the only somewhat-missing link. And even that isn't really true, if you're willing to paw around in OnDemand-world...
This will never be as efficient as a fully-custom chip, but it can be good enough. Many of us will be happier using it.
This is a good point: people who care about security (like AWS) have different requirements, and may be willing to forgo some performance in exchange for security.
Thank you for this vast work of erudition, anonymous moron.
Someday, perhaps, when you are a pre-adolescent, you may aquire somewhat more knowledge of computers, though probably not enough to make you top-heavy. At that time, you may hear of a miraculous device called a gate-array which makes it possible to craft a running CPU similarly to the way that programmers write software. With this device, someone of greater skill than you will put together a computer that might not be as fast as you like, and might not have as many transistors as you like, and might use more power than you like, but will be capable of running an Open Source CPU with a known-bitstream so that the chance of there being nasties that we're not told about that spy on us built into the CPU die is reduced from today's horrible state (gate-arrays can still have them, but the people who make these nasties don't know in advance where we put the CPU implementation).
The instruction set and currently-fixed hardware features like the MMU and the translation look-aside buffer (a feature implicated today) will be repairable by changing the bitstream.
This will never be as efficient as a fully-custom chip, but it can be good enough. Many of us will be happier using it. And for those of us who require algorithm acceleration (hopefully for better reasons than mining cryptocoins, but that is one example) it will be possible to code it into the system and get the advantages of a hardware implementation without it being so hard.
Unfortunately, as you well know, this approach means goodbye to virtually very computing-type device most of us have become accustomed-to. With all due respect, IMHO, Even desktop computers would have to devolve into houselight-dimming, room-warming, five-rackspace-hogging monstrocities, with barely the compute-power of a MacBook Air. And as far as modern GPU emulation with any reasonable number of available FPGAs, forget it!
It's good only for brain storming part, which is the very beginning After that you just apply due process.
Sounds like someone who has never actually done anything that requires actual creativity.
Keep in mind that, each time a Developer, or Development Team runs into an unforseen challenge, that essentially RESETS the "Brain Storming Part" timer. So, in REALITY, "Brain Storming" actually occurs MANY TIMES during EVERY Development Project more complicated than "10 GOTO 10".
If you believe anything else; you're delusional, clueless, or both.
Rumination is free labor. If I'm thinking about a project for several weeks when I'm in the shower, trying to sleep, driving - that's extra overtime for free.
Doing all of my thinking on a tight deadline while also doing the actual design or coding involves a lot of bad guessing. But there comes a point where I could just think about all the possibilities forever and never start or get anything done.
I also like Apple Music but I think you could get that same "any music any time" kind of service from Spotify or Amazon... I just wanted to lay out the extra stuff Apple gives you related to music (though it seems like the extra stuff has not often gained much traction, I have to think it does entice some subscribers).
But I'd rather give my money to Apple than Spotify or Amazon. Especially since I am already using "Music"/iTunes on all my devices/computers anyway.
Amazon already gets enough of my money, anyway...;-)
Is he the asshole to blame for this incessant nagging by Apple to sign me up for Apple Music and the attempts to do it for me whether I want it or not?
In which case.. good riddance mother fucker.
No, you may not take my music collection, upload it to the cloud, delete my fucking copy of my fucking music, and then fucking charge me for the privilege of streaming music I ripped from my own goddamned fucking CDs.
Apple Music is one of the most obnoxious implementations of an internet service I've ever seen. Seriously, just accept that I don't want it and fuck the hell off.
Funny. It has done NONE of that to my 60+ GB of music in my personal iTunes collection.
I don't subscribe to Itunes Match; so no "Cloud Copying".
I DO Subscribe to Apple Music; but it in NO WAY interferes with my personal iTunes collection.
So, STFU, you stupid, LYING, Anonymous COWARD, Troll.
Apple Music is a cash grab, true, but it's not true that it produces nothing. There are a lot of artists that support it's twitter-like "Connect" feature with content - now weather anyone USES that stuff, that I could not say...
There was a while ago something did where Apple would interview artists and you would get this bundle of interview segments along with the song it was talking about. That was actually really great, but I think that was probably pre Apple Music... but it's another example of where Apple is doing more than simply streaming music from labels.
I actually think Apple Music is a great value.
I'm actually a big "own the physical media" kind of guy; but having access to virtually ALL of iTunes Music collection everywhere/everywhen at a whim is pretty damned cool.
I could care less about the "Stations" and all that nonsense; but the "Big Jukebox in the Sky" concept is well worth it. I just do a Search for it, and BAM! There it (usually) is! And I'm an old guy that listens to primarily fairly-obscure 70's and Prog Rock stuff, and I have been amazed that even MOST of that stuff is available.
And if I find that I have been listening to something again and again, I still have the option to buy the physical format (albeit not from Apple, which I think is a missed opportunity on their part), or as a DRM-free, great-sounding 256k AAC "iTunes Plus" download (although, with Apple Music serving it up infinitely, that doesn't seem to be a good value).
Yes, I know that the music only keeps coming as long as my subscription keeps getting paid; but in the scheme of things, $10 a month is well worth it for a Googolplex of albums I like to listen to occasionally, but would probably never actually purchase anyway, and Apple doesn't seem to care that my iPhone, iPad MacBook Pro, AppleTV and even my work Windows Laptop are sharing the same ID, Apple Music happily streams to ALL of them.
Growing up, I had always heard that the "white noise" that analog TVs would display when not tuned to an active channel was actually leftover thermal noise caused by the Big Bang.
Growing up, I had always heard that the "white noise" that analog TVs would display when not tuned to an active channel was actually leftover thermal noise caused by the Big Bang.
If that is true in the TV frequency bands, then I would assume that the same is true of the audio band as well.
So, essentially, these yay-hoos are attempting to "Copyright" a naturally-occurring (or Divinely-Created) phenomona; which I am pretty damned sure is not allowed, even under the brain-dead DMCA.
no way to recover data is bad as well offline data copying. Mix in ssd wear and you end up with an 5K brick down the road.
No Pros are going to keep their generally large datasets on internal SSD, anyway; so what's your point?
And, if you are still using that iMac Pro in THIRTY YEARS when SSD wear out MAT become an issue, then I think you can afford putting in a new pair of SSD modules.
Oh, and as far as "losing everything": It's called Time Machine. Look into it.
Honest question: What is incorrect about this? Apple has admitted that they slow down phones with bad batteries (which would include the iPhone 6s that *shipped* with bad batteries.) When asked about a slow phone, Apple Store employees do suggest buying a new one.
But, again honestly:
1. Did Apple KNOW that the 6s "Shipped with bad batteries", and if so, when? EVERYONE has supplier-issues once in awhile (See, Samsung Note 7). It's how you RESPOND to those issues that is important.
2. Is the Apple Store employees' suggestion a Company Policy; or just some overly gung-ho salespeople who didn't have any special knowledge of the battery-saving software, either? I would bet nearly my last dollar that Apple didn't TELL their store employees to "suggest buying a new one."
I would say the biggest reason to move to 10.13.x is for APFS. It took Apple a long time, but APFS is a decent filesystem. Of course, it would have been nice if Apple licensed ZFS way back when.
No.
It would have been nice if Oracle had just let ZFS remain Truly Free and Open.
No, software needs to not rely on installers / uninstallers. I'm automatically suspicious of any bit of software that comes with an installer (on a Mac OS system), because most software doesn't need it: you copy the app to your applications folder (or, for that matter, anywhere you want) and that's it. That's all normal user applications should need. Anything that wants to "install" itself makes me wonder what kind of wonky shit it's doing to my system besides just putting an app into the applications folder.
I'm with you on that feeling.
The only exceptions to that rule are genuine Apple Applications. I trust them not to install a keylogger, etc.
Try cleaning up a Windows app that installed device drivers and crap in the registry, and whose uninstaller didn't clean-up these up properly. There's no need to get frothy mouthed about Apple when it's easy enough to contrive similar situations on other platforms. This kind of thing probably happens more frequently on other platforms.
Exactly!
Or, on Windows, just TRY to Delete/Rename/Anything-Else to a File that Windows has deemed "In use by another (unnamed) Process".
OMFG! THAT little all-too-easily-encountered "nicety" requires a Reboot, which is really fun when it happens on a frickin' Production File Server...
Yes, because you really want the average user who barely understands the difference between left and right mouse clicks, to have the ability to easily modify kernel modules.
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Mister Literal presents his fuckhead defense of Apple.
No, not interested in proving anything to you. You're just somebody here to toy with, because you're a religious cult member. Nerds like to make fun of people like that.
Carry on, moonie.
Well alrighty, then!
I guess we're done here...
Another nice feature is that you can set the Nvidia Shield to handle volume control internally so that things like using projectors and bluetooth speakers that don't understand volume control commands over HDMI can still have their volume controlled directly via the Nvidia Shield.
I also got a second game controller and the tv remove as well. I put it to sleep, my projector goes to sleep automatically. I hit the center button on the remote and it all "just wakes up" and is ready to go.
Oh, and no batteries for the remote or game controllers... all usb rechargable.
The AppleTV also lets you set up its Remote to control your TV or Receiver's volume control, too. Even ones like mine that no idea how to use anything but an IR remote! Took me about 5 seconds to set my AppleTV up to control my oldish, kinda obscure, Receiver's volume.
Will AppleTV show you if a movie you want to buy are cheaper on other services you have access to? Roku will because they don't play favorites. And also, Roku will even show you if you a movie you want to buy are available on streaming subscription service you already use.
While it does tend to "suggest" iTunes first, AppleTV lets you choose among all the found sources for a particular program/movie without having to jump through hoops of any sort. Sources and Costs, if any, are clearly noted on the listing's result page. Once you get used to the search-results UI, you don't even have to dive into a listing to figure out if there are multiple sources for the content.
All in all, even my extremely tech-averse housemate is able to navigate the AppleTV interface without trouble, to the point where cable-cutting is actually a reality. From what I have read about all the other options, I KNOW that wouldn't be possible with any other Streaming box.
Now, if DirecTVNow would just roll-out their DVR service, the cord would cut TOMORROW... That's the only somewhat-missing link. And even that isn't really true, if you're willing to paw around in OnDemand-world...
Apple told the employee: "Your numbers aren't looking so good. You better sell more or we'll have to let you go."
There was no 'nudge nudge, wink wink' either. There didn't need to be one.
Prove it.
This will never be as efficient as a fully-custom chip, but it can be good enough. Many of us will be happier using it.
This is a good point: people who care about security (like AWS) have different requirements, and may be willing to forgo some performance in exchange for security.
SOME performance???
For some pretty hefty values of "Some"...
Thank you for this vast work of erudition, anonymous moron.
Someday, perhaps, when you are a pre-adolescent, you may aquire somewhat more knowledge of computers, though probably not enough to make you top-heavy. At that time, you may hear of a miraculous device called a gate-array which makes it possible to craft a running CPU similarly to the way that programmers write software. With this device, someone of greater skill than you will put together a computer that might not be as fast as you like, and might not have as many transistors as you like, and might use more power than you like, but will be capable of running an Open Source CPU with a known-bitstream so that the chance of there being nasties that we're not told about that spy on us built into the CPU die is reduced from today's horrible state (gate-arrays can still have them, but the people who make these nasties don't know in advance where we put the CPU implementation).
The instruction set and currently-fixed hardware features like the MMU and the translation look-aside buffer (a feature implicated today) will be repairable by changing the bitstream.
This will never be as efficient as a fully-custom chip, but it can be good enough. Many of us will be happier using it. And for those of us who require algorithm acceleration (hopefully for better reasons than mining cryptocoins, but that is one example) it will be possible to code it into the system and get the advantages of a hardware implementation without it being so hard.
Unfortunately, as you well know, this approach means goodbye to virtually very computing-type device most of us have become accustomed-to. With all due respect, IMHO, Even desktop computers would have to devolve into houselight-dimming, room-warming, five-rackspace-hogging monstrocities, with barely the compute-power of a MacBook Air. And as far as modern GPU emulation with any reasonable number of available FPGAs, forget it!
>So, in REALITY, "Brain Storming" actually occurs MANY TIMES during EVERY Development Project more complicated than "10 GOTO 10".
That is true. Still, it constitutes a small part
> If you believe anything else; you're delusional, clueless, or both.
And you are a presumptuous nincompoop
But a presumptuous nincompoop with a +4 Insightful on my post...
It's good only for brain storming part, which is the very beginning After that you just apply due process.
Sounds like someone who has never actually done anything that requires actual creativity.
Keep in mind that, each time a Developer, or Development Team runs into an unforseen challenge, that essentially RESETS the "Brain Storming Part" timer. So, in REALITY, "Brain Storming" actually occurs MANY TIMES during EVERY Development Project more complicated than "10 GOTO 10".
If you believe anything else; you're delusional, clueless, or both.
Rumination is free labor. If I'm thinking about a project for several weeks when I'm in the shower, trying to sleep, driving - that's extra overtime for free.
Doing all of my thinking on a tight deadline while also doing the actual design or coding involves a lot of bad guessing. But there comes a point where I could just think about all the possibilities forever and never start or get anything done.
Mod parent UP!
I also like Apple Music but I think you could get that same "any music any time" kind of service from Spotify or Amazon... I just wanted to lay out the extra stuff Apple gives you related to music (though it seems like the extra stuff has not often gained much traction, I have to think it does entice some subscribers).
But I'd rather give my money to Apple than Spotify or Amazon. Especially since I am already using "Music"/iTunes on all my devices/computers anyway.
Amazon already gets enough of my money, anyway... ;-)
Is he the asshole to blame for this incessant nagging by Apple to sign me up for Apple Music and the attempts to do it for me whether I want it or not?
In which case .. good riddance mother fucker.
No, you may not take my music collection, upload it to the cloud, delete my fucking copy of my fucking music, and then fucking charge me for the privilege of streaming music I ripped from my own goddamned fucking CDs.
Apple Music is one of the most obnoxious implementations of an internet service I've ever seen. Seriously, just accept that I don't want it and fuck the hell off.
Funny. It has done NONE of that to my 60+ GB of music in my personal iTunes collection.
I don't subscribe to Itunes Match; so no "Cloud Copying".
I DO Subscribe to Apple Music; but it in NO WAY interferes with my personal iTunes collection.
So, STFU, you stupid, LYING, Anonymous COWARD, Troll.
I guess I called it, nothing-faggot consumer whore Kendall is here to shill. What a fucking tool.
Says the scaredy-cat AC...
Bravo, moron. Well played.
Why don't you log on and fight like a man?
Apple Music is a cash grab, true, but it's not true that it produces nothing. There are a lot of artists that support it's twitter-like "Connect" feature with content - now weather anyone USES that stuff, that I could not say...
There was a while ago something did where Apple would interview artists and you would get this bundle of interview segments along with the song it was talking about. That was actually really great, but I think that was probably pre Apple Music... but it's another example of where Apple is doing more than simply streaming music from labels.
I actually think Apple Music is a great value.
I'm actually a big "own the physical media" kind of guy; but having access to virtually ALL of iTunes Music collection everywhere/everywhen at a whim is pretty damned cool.
I could care less about the "Stations" and all that nonsense; but the "Big Jukebox in the Sky" concept is well worth it. I just do a Search for it, and BAM! There it (usually) is! And I'm an old guy that listens to primarily fairly-obscure 70's and Prog Rock stuff, and I have been amazed that even MOST of that stuff is available.
And if I find that I have been listening to something again and again, I still have the option to buy the physical format (albeit not from Apple, which I think is a missed opportunity on their part), or as a DRM-free, great-sounding 256k AAC "iTunes Plus" download (although, with Apple Music serving it up infinitely, that doesn't seem to be a good value).
Yes, I know that the music only keeps coming as long as my subscription keeps getting paid; but in the scheme of things, $10 a month is well worth it for a Googolplex of albums I like to listen to occasionally, but would probably never actually purchase anyway, and Apple doesn't seem to care that my iPhone, iPad MacBook Pro, AppleTV and even my work Windows Laptop are sharing the same ID, Apple Music happily streams to ALL of them.
He gets a 10% royalty....
I see what you did there. ;-)
Growing up, I had always heard that the "white noise" that analog TVs would display when not tuned to an active channel was actually leftover thermal noise caused by the Big Bang.
Only a small percentage of it.
So, does "God" get at least co-author credit?
John Cage's lawyers would like to have a talk with you...
Exactly!
Growing up, I had always heard that the "white noise" that analog TVs would display when not tuned to an active channel was actually leftover thermal noise caused by the Big Bang.
If that is true in the TV frequency bands, then I would assume that the same is true of the audio band as well.
So, essentially, these yay-hoos are attempting to "Copyright" a naturally-occurring (or Divinely-Created) phenomona; which I am pretty damned sure is not allowed, even under the brain-dead DMCA.
no way to recover data is bad as well offline data copying. Mix in ssd wear and you end up with an 5K brick down the road.
No Pros are going to keep their generally large datasets on internal SSD, anyway; so what's your point?
And, if you are still using that iMac Pro in THIRTY YEARS when SSD wear out MAT become an issue, then I think you can afford putting in a new pair of SSD modules.
Oh, and as far as "losing everything": It's called Time Machine. Look into it.
Honest question: What is incorrect about this? Apple has admitted that they slow down phones with bad batteries (which would include the iPhone 6s that *shipped* with bad batteries.) When asked about a slow phone, Apple Store employees do suggest buying a new one.
But, again honestly:
1. Did Apple KNOW that the 6s "Shipped with bad batteries", and if so, when? EVERYONE has supplier-issues once in awhile (See, Samsung Note 7). It's how you RESPOND to those issues that is important.
2. Is the Apple Store employees' suggestion a Company Policy; or just some overly gung-ho salespeople who didn't have any special knowledge of the battery-saving software, either? I would bet nearly my last dollar that Apple didn't TELL their store employees to "suggest buying a new one."
Just use Unlocker. Usually saves from a reboot.
Didn't know about that.
Thanks for the tip!
They will wait until after the Christmas Shopping Season to tell you about the $29 option.
"Your phone is SLOW. You should buy a NEW phone."
How long is THIS (incorrect) meme going to rattle-around Slashdot?
I would say the biggest reason to move to 10.13.x is for APFS. It took Apple a long time, but APFS is a decent filesystem. Of course, it would have been nice if Apple licensed ZFS way back when.
No.
It would have been nice if Oracle had just let ZFS remain Truly Free and Open.
No, software needs to not rely on installers / uninstallers. I'm automatically suspicious of any bit of software that comes with an installer (on a Mac OS system), because most software doesn't need it: you copy the app to your applications folder (or, for that matter, anywhere you want) and that's it. That's all normal user applications should need. Anything that wants to "install" itself makes me wonder what kind of wonky shit it's doing to my system besides just putting an app into the applications folder.
I'm with you on that feeling.
The only exceptions to that rule are genuine Apple Applications. I trust them not to install a keylogger, etc.
Try cleaning up a Windows app that installed device drivers and crap in the registry, and whose uninstaller didn't clean-up these up properly. There's no need to get frothy mouthed about Apple when it's easy enough to contrive similar situations on other platforms. This kind of thing probably happens more frequently on other platforms.
Exactly!
Or, on Windows, just TRY to Delete/Rename/Anything-Else to a File that Windows has deemed "In use by another (unnamed) Process".
OMFG! THAT little all-too-easily-encountered "nicety" requires a Reboot, which is really fun when it happens on a frickin' Production File Server...
Yes, because you really want the average user who barely understands the difference between left and right mouse clicks, to have the ability to easily modify kernel modules.
Grow up.
Perfect response!