And Apple _might_ NOT be planning to launch, so this is geek news because?
I like me 5SE and I hope that the phone downturn gets them to get back to a phone with that form factor again, Sadly I'm not holding my breath for that.
1: vim plugin 2: I agree on the stupid change to 1/2 size cursor keys, that was dumb but apparently no one at Apple touch types (as evident by the touchbar you have to look at).
I'm one of those people who can actually work without looking at the keyboard, I guess that is a lost skill.
Ok, after observing issues like data leaks it looks like the corporate plan is to report some low number that will get people upset but hide the real and often scary number for a later 'confession'. This way people won't be upset with the now much bigger number.
I swear that they must teach this in evil^H^H^H^H MBA school.
HP was backing Eucalyptus which worked pretty well for having transparent local or cloud hosting.
It would basically front-end AWS or local hosting and actually worked pretty well when I was testing with it. Alas it was always a bit behind of AWS so the idiots I work for didn't like the fact that we could use the latest greatest AWS feature in production.
You couldn't be more wrong. I have an older 11" w/ i7 and 8G and do development, run vm's basically everything I do on my main machine with the exception of the number of vms I can run at one time.
Yeah it's a little slower but it's my goto machine when I'm on call and traveling where I won't be doing a ton of development.
It's just sad that they dropped the 11" it was amazing.
Everyone is seeing how bitcoin has this great big distributed network and (in my experience) the people thinking we will us the same blockchain distribution haven't figured out that it's not going to be free to have multiple hosts for the chain.
I had an iMac a couple generations back but once I realized that there was no upgrade path I moved to a MacPro and a couple Dell monitors.
I don't think I'll continue down this path since the OS hasn't really brought anything to the table for power users (people who can touch type).
I was really hoping to get a 12 core 64G laptop by now but for now, in the mac world, 16G is enough.
I'm not sure who is in control of the desktop/server OS anymore but it can't be someone who uses it every day. They should spin off the computer division to people who will do it justice.
Apple, who was also building a TV set and then they were going to build an electric car (but for some reason can't make Car Play work without being plugged in) is going to do AR. I'm pretty sure by 2020 something else will be out there to displace this.
I've given up trying to care what Apple won't do. I used to get my hopes up for some cool tech but now it's just a waste of time to care.
I can't even image what they are going to wreck on the next OS release.
and I'm happy, a week on a charge, I can read the screen in day light, It doesn't do everything that the apple watch can do but it is a watch and it tells time.
Even better the Garmin doesn't light up in the middle of the night destroying my night vision. I'm also not concerned about getting it wet.
I gave apple a chance and they just couldn't deliver.
It's sad that this hasn't taken off more, it's pretty nice to be able to jump back and forth between a private/local bunch of vms and then throw them out on AWS if the need arises. Note that it doesn't have 100% of the AWS functionality but works for my smaller projects.
I don't see how Apple can pull of a whole car solution when they can't even get car play out in the field.
It might be due to the fact that they don't own the head units in car play but they aren't getting market penetration. The car play I last tried you have to plug in your phone to use it. That is so far away from 'it just works' that I switched back to the default interface.
we're the only ones who we believe can produce this stuff.
I doubt it, I think Intel can make some OK processors but they really aren't great at innovating.
They actually think that people buy their stuff because it says "Intel Inside".
What really irks me though is when they show concepts and then wait for someone else to actually implement. I do give them credit with the Intel NUC though, that's one nice, cheap headless server for the home.
I switched over with the Intel push, before that I was buying a new laptop every year. Between the Sony Vaio's that would overheat or just some crappy laptop construction it was getting to be a pain. I do recognize that this was just after the cpu frequency wars that didn't really help much.
I still have and use a 2012 MBP although my daily system is the last gen system since I see no use for the touchbar and for me 16G is getting tight, if I'm going to drop some serious money (to me at least) it will need to be 32G if not more.
So while they used to be solid, reliable systems that were nice to use they got all confused with what computer was and started down the path of making it like a big phone. Best example is the stupid full screen functionality. I'm on 3 monitors nothing needs to be full screen. In the old days full screen would size the window to the perfect size. now it's just huge.
I'm slowly and somewhat sadly moving to other systems. I'm not sad to be moving off of itunes which they could never really seem to make work and have given up on AppleTV now that Plex is working well. But they really dropped the ball on the hardware.
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My take is that IBM is pushing hard to get blockchain working and is really running this. They think that it's a viable product even if it isn't.
Never underestimate the power of a golf game in getting stupid stuff implemented.
So I'm waking through the airport and someone is announcing her for president in the middle of a blizzard, it was pretty impressive.
She gets my vote just for not being afraid of the weather.
And Apple _might_ NOT be planning to launch, so this is geek news because?
I like me 5SE and I hope that the phone downturn gets them to get back to a phone with that form factor again, Sadly I'm not holding my breath for that.
I'm not finding any information where the court ordered ULA to be merged from Lockheed and Boeing.
Can you provide a link?
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2: I agree on the stupid change to 1/2 size cursor keys, that was dumb but apparently no one at Apple touch types (as evident by the touchbar you have to look at).
I'm one of those people who can actually work without looking at the keyboard, I guess that is a lost skill.
Even more interesting is if they are double counting a female black/latin student.
Ok, after observing issues like data leaks it looks like the corporate plan is to report some low number that will get people upset but hide the real and often scary number for a later 'confession'. This way people won't be upset with the now much bigger number.
I swear that they must teach this in evil^H^H^H^H MBA school.
HP was backing Eucalyptus which worked pretty well for having transparent local or cloud hosting.
It would basically front-end AWS or local hosting and actually worked pretty well when I was testing with it. Alas it was always a bit behind of AWS so the idiots I work for didn't like the fact that we could use the latest greatest AWS feature in production.
Dropping the SE size screen/phone will finally drive me to Android. I just want a phone, I don't want to have to carry my phone in my back pocket.
It's fun to look back when it was a race to see who could make the smallest phone to now where it's a race to see who can make the biggest phone.
I'm waiting for a flip phone comeback next. That will be interesting.
You couldn't be more wrong. I have an older 11" w/ i7 and 8G and do development, run vm's basically everything I do on my main machine with the exception of the number of vms I can run at one time.
Yeah it's a little slower but it's my goto machine when I'm on call and traveling where I won't be doing a ton of development.
It's just sad that they dropped the 11" it was amazing.
Everyone is seeing how bitcoin has this great big distributed network and (in my experience) the people thinking we will us the same blockchain distribution haven't figured out that it's not going to be free to have multiple hosts for the chain.
link to another discussion: https://www.quora.com/In-a-pri...
I for one can't wait for Oracle to enter this market. (disclaimer - I hate Oracle).
Perfect example is where Uber didn't like the law that Austin Tx passed so bought off the state to override.
https://austin.curbed.com/2017...
I had an iMac a couple generations back but once I realized that there was no upgrade path I moved to a MacPro and a couple Dell monitors.
I don't think I'll continue down this path since the OS hasn't really brought anything to the table for power users (people who can touch type).
I was really hoping to get a 12 core 64G laptop by now but for now, in the mac world, 16G is enough.
I'm not sure who is in control of the desktop/server OS anymore but it can't be someone who uses it every day. They should spin off the computer division to people who will do it justice.
Apple, who was also building a TV set and then they were going to build an electric car (but for some reason can't make Car Play work without being plugged in) is going to do AR. I'm pretty sure by 2020 something else will be out there to displace this.
I've given up trying to care what Apple won't do. I used to get my hopes up for some cool tech but now it's just a waste of time to care.
I can't even image what they are going to wreck on the next OS release.
Subject stolen from another story. :-)
Apple has had a lot issues with dates, clocks and alarms on the mobile devices. Including the interesting 1970 bug. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/02/26/apple-will-unbrick-iphones-bricked-by-1970-bug/
Better QA might help but this shouldn't be so hard.
One study, well then I'm sold.
But do you know who likes Continuous Delivery?
Not the users.
The users hate stuff changing for the sake of change, but trying to convince management seems an impossible task.
The fire service agrees, I sat next to fire fighter in the Phoenix airport who will be up in Idaho because they think a lot of fires will get started.
and I'm happy, a week on a charge, I can read the screen in day light, It doesn't do everything that the apple watch can do but it is a watch and it tells time.
Even better the Garmin doesn't light up in the middle of the night destroying my night vision. I'm also not concerned about getting it wet.
I gave apple a chance and they just couldn't deliver.
The point a lot of people don't know is that Intel (Basis) bought back a bunch of the watches
https://www.cnet.com/news/basi...
My wife had one and really liked how it worked. It seemed to really work from our limited testing.
So Intel - bought the company and then killed the product and bought back a bunch of the already sold products.
Since people like this seem to always lie I"m guessing he didn't short and just trying to make some quick money.
It would be interesting to see who is really pushing this since politicians never do anything without someone pushing them to.
I suspect that it's Walmart who can't seem to get any real traction and aren't able to counter the shift away from the giant stores filled with crap.
This has been around for some time, although more like a - run AWS locally - and it works pretty well.
https://github.com/eucalyptus
It's sad that this hasn't taken off more, it's pretty nice to be able to jump back and forth between a private/local bunch of vms and then throw them out on AWS if the need arises. Note that it doesn't have 100% of the AWS functionality but works for my smaller projects.
I don't see how Apple can pull of a whole car solution when they can't even get car play out in the field.
It might be due to the fact that they don't own the head units in car play but they aren't getting market penetration. The car play I last tried you have to plug in your phone to use it. That is so far away from 'it just works' that I switched back to the default interface.
From the headline:
we're the only ones who we believe can produce this stuff.
I doubt it, I think Intel can make some OK processors but they really aren't great at innovating.
They actually think that people buy their stuff because it says "Intel Inside".
What really irks me though is when they show concepts and then wait for someone else to actually implement. I do give them credit with the Intel NUC though, that's one nice, cheap headless server for the home.
The bigger issue here is that most of the devices tested were gen 1 devices and I think that the technology and software has gotten better.
Basis Peak is not even on the market anymore.
The rest have been surpassed by multiple generations.
I switched over with the Intel push, before that I was buying a new laptop every year. Between the Sony Vaio's that would overheat or just some crappy laptop construction it was getting to be a pain. I do recognize that this was just after the cpu frequency wars that didn't really help much.
I still have and use a 2012 MBP although my daily system is the last gen system since I see no use for the touchbar and for me 16G is getting tight, if I'm going to drop some serious money (to me at least) it will need to be 32G if not more.
So while they used to be solid, reliable systems that were nice to use they got all confused with what computer was and started down the path of making it like a big phone. Best example is the stupid full screen functionality. I'm on 3 monitors nothing needs to be full screen. In the old days full screen would size the window to the perfect size. now it's just huge.
I'm slowly and somewhat sadly moving to other systems. I'm not sad to be moving off of itunes which they could never really seem to make work and have given up on AppleTV now that Plex is working well. But they really dropped the ball on the hardware.