Europe is ditching the DST switching as well, there was a public EU wide poll which apparently went 80% or more in favor of dropping the time shifting (but have in mind 70% of all votes came from central europe which was affected most by the constant time shifting lightwise and hated it most) So in the end we will drop it around 2020/21 over here, but it is not yet clear if france and spain for instance will move into the GMT timezone because they were in the wrong timezone anyway (for business reasons) and keeping a permanent DST might be painful for them. Thats the hard part to figure out and agree on. The worst which can happen is a tapestry of timezones instead of clear border lines.
I bet to differ, I had a first gen macbook air, a 2500 dollar stinker never fixed. The system was overheating and crashing so apples fix was to simply toggle down the processor once it hits critical temp to a non usable state, this happened after 10 minutes pushing the system into an unusable crawl state. Then the hinges broke, this was fixed by a repair program after apple lost a class action suit (so no fix before they lost in court) Apple never admitted the heating problems, but silently made a bugfix revision half a year later and left the old customers standing in the rain without any upgrade option to the fixed version.
My experience is Apple only gives in once they have been dragged to court and lost the case otherwise they try to weasel their wait out by sentences like "You are holding it wrong"
I think so as well, the problem really is that the AAA publishers nickel and dime every cent of the customers mobile style. They basically saw that this worked for mobile games and some of them raked huge profits (casual market which does not really know any better) and then they basically brought this business model to the PC and console side and alienated a lot of core gamers that way especially when this model was pay2win mobile style. P2W models are basically also the main reason why I do not look at mobile games anymore and why I am slowly giving up pc gaming as a hobby (or limit myself to old games which do not have any of this junk) Add to that that a game usually is fully done with all extensions about 1 year after the first release and 3-4 months later hits the bargain bins and you can see why there is not a huge incentive anymore to buy games.
I am just waiting for the day... that an entire productive force or at least the part driving the development simply quits away and founds their own company in case of such a layoff. I am just gessing what panic the management suddenly would get in case of such a situation.
Yeah some items sold are outright dangerous and even popping up in the Amazon promited goods list. Actually it is hard enough to get a good replacement LiION battery somewhere nowadays, I cannot find an devent samsung etc.. originals over here in Europe especially not for those parts which are supposed to be not user servicable, but it is literally impossible to find anything than pure junk in this area on Amazon which does not scream for flames. Same goes for USB-C some of the cables sold there are outright dangerous but at least you still can find officially certified ones and manufacturers where you know they look at the quality, but they are far far in between all those chinese sell ands run companies.
actually Jobs was the reason why the Apple III failed in the first place. The design was ok, but jobs insisted on a fanless design and the cooling fans were pulled, the rest is history.
Since AMD has shot itself out of the pc gaming market, and NVidia has a pseudo monpoly atm. The same happened with Intel Processors during the AMD piledriver era.
A classical example of the reduce costs for the next bonus, is microsoft where the testers of the Windows team were fired to a huge percentage to cut costs, the results were shoddy buggy rolling releases.
Lisa Su is also a very smart person, who did a degree because it was the hardest degree she could do. Compare that to the average business shifter who does the degree for money and because other degrees are way too hard. Thats probably also the main difference between Su and other CEOs of other companies. First she is exceptionally smart. Secondly she comes from an electrical engineering/processor design background and knows the stuff she is having produced first hand and not only the business numbers third she is willing to take risks. The average CEO usually just sees the numbers the people involved and is trying to reduce costs for the next bonus round. AMD is on a good way, but she also pretty much had a free hand given that AMD when she took over basically almost was bankrupt and the stock a penny stock
Intels 10nm is not even there that much (and already 4 years late), they produce a handful of very simple chips. TSMCs 7nm is pretty much the same ans Intels 10nm, both are marketing numbers anway. The main difference, TSMC is producing already millions of rather complex processors for Apple, Amd and NVidia and others while Intel had a stockholder launch 4 years late producing a handful of the simplest celerons they have with high failure rate and apu disabled to keep the stockholders calm. 2019 will be interesting AMD then will release their 7nm line of processors which is currently produced and Intel wont have 10nm ready for their mainline of processors. This might be the first year in decades where AMD will get the performance crown over Intel in the absolute high end.
Oled has been suffering from burn in since day zero. Hence i always have been staying away from Oled TVs. Not sure if this problem is even entirely fixable you can hack around it to some degree.
from a usability standpoint is to avoid any IOS upgrade after the second year. I have seen it with three devices that the usability severely suffered with the third upgrade to a point that you did not want to use that device anymore. Intentional, I dont know but apparently it happened with all three devices with the third os upgrade they got. I came to the conclusion not to buy IOs devices anymore. The problem is the situation is not better on the Android side. The device manufacturers leave you hanging entirely after the second year but at least the devices are still usable then. This is an entirely hellish situation from a security standpoint of course.
Problem is this will never make it into the Mainstream kernel. The Linux Kernel devs have opposed a stable driver ABI for decades now. The chipset manufacturers have happily setteled in and provide only binary blobs with ABI adaptions for a certain timeframe, and everybody is happy except for the screwed customers.
For me this would mean I would drop Apple entirely. I dropped their iPhone line already after I had to deal with shoddy quality in my old iPhone 5. I dropped the Mac Minis because of disinterest from Apple to provide decent machines (the NUCs are better nowadays). I dropped the Airport line after apple kicked it off their products list. I am a happy Fritzbox customer now, way better in any regard. The Ipad 3 was replaced by a Sony tablet after apple patched the performance out of the thing with their third annual software update. The last remaining piece of Apple hardware I still use is the Macbook Pro but Apple makes it harder every year to stay with those as a customer.
Would not suprise me if this posting is true. Google already has such a system in place with their Chromebooks. Microsoft is also but slowly moving into this direction with their planned Windows for Cloud system. I just wonder how they want to keep the relatively huge developer community and huge companies like IBM as their customers who rely on their unix underpinnings relatively open system and the Intel compatibility to run Windows. But on the other hand, when did Apple ever care to alienate existing customers.
The always on info came rather late, according to several news sites, you must have a connection every once in 24 hourse and kinect has to be on as soon as the console is on, games must be enabled online once via code. This thing is DOA if you ask me.
I see it also like that. There was nothing coming out of Lucasarts except mediocre Star Wars tie ins for decades. The Lucasarts of the old with great games died a long time ago.
I have been following the thread on the Apple Support Forums for quite a while, there are some infos missing.
a) The thread was reset viewwise at 600.000 views hence the actual number of views is much higher b) Only LG displays seem to show the issue, also affected by this issue are the 13 inch retina macbook pros and the new iMacs. Apple did not change their behavior regarding their supply chain even after months of knowing they had an issue on their hands. c) Apple seems to run a checkerboards test which basically tells if the image retention is bad enough that it warrants a display exchange. So if you have a certain amount of burn in your changes are high that you wont get your display replaced as Apple states this is totally normal behavior for an IPS panel. Whether Apple is right in this or not I do not know. d) Apple still is silent on this issue, they probably simply want to sit this out instead of offering a full recall, given that they seem to still sell lots of machines with LG panels which show ghosting indicates that they do not have to many options due to having burned their bridges with Samsung. e) The thread does not indicate on how many machines are affected, but given the huge number of posts a lot of them.
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Europe is ditching the DST switching as well, there was a public EU wide poll which apparently went 80% or more in favor of dropping the time shifting (but have in mind 70% of all votes came from central europe which was affected most by the constant time shifting lightwise and hated it most)
So in the end we will drop it around 2020/21 over here, but it is not yet clear if france and spain for instance will move into the GMT timezone because they were in the wrong timezone anyway (for business reasons) and keeping a permanent DST might be painful for them.
Thats the hard part to figure out and agree on. The worst which can happen is a tapestry of timezones instead of clear border lines.
This market will be fractured again by exclusives once companies start to earn real money with streaming.
I bet to differ, I had a first gen macbook air, a 2500 dollar stinker never fixed.
The system was overheating and crashing so apples fix was to simply toggle down the processor once it hits critical temp to a non usable state, this happened after 10 minutes pushing the system into an unusable crawl state.
Then the hinges broke, this was fixed by a repair program after apple lost a class action suit (so no fix before they lost in court)
Apple never admitted the heating problems, but silently made a bugfix revision half a year later and left the old customers standing in the rain without any upgrade option to the fixed version.
My experience is Apple only gives in once they have been dragged to court and lost the case otherwise they try to weasel their wait out by sentences like "You are holding it wrong"
I think so as well, the problem really is that the AAA publishers nickel and dime every cent of the customers mobile style. They basically saw that this worked for mobile games and some of them raked huge profits (casual market which does not really know any better) and then they basically brought this business model to the PC and console side and alienated a lot of core gamers that way especially when this model was pay2win mobile style.
P2W models are basically also the main reason why I do not look at mobile games anymore and why I am slowly giving up pc gaming as a hobby (or limit myself to old games which do not have any of this junk)
Add to that that a game usually is fully done with all extensions about 1 year after the first release and 3-4 months later hits the bargain bins and you can see why there is not a huge incentive anymore to buy games.
I am just waiting for the day... that an entire productive force or at least the part driving the development simply quits away and founds their own company in case of such a layoff.
I am just gessing what panic the management suddenly would get in case of such a situation.
Yeah some items sold are outright dangerous and even popping up in the Amazon promited goods list. Actually it is hard enough to get a good replacement LiION battery somewhere nowadays, I cannot find an devent samsung etc.. originals over here in Europe especially not for those parts which are supposed to be not user servicable, but it is literally impossible to find anything than pure junk in this area on Amazon which does not scream for flames.
Same goes for USB-C some of the cables sold there are outright dangerous but at least you still can find officially certified ones and manufacturers where you know they look at the quality, but they are far far in between all those chinese sell ands run companies.
actually Jobs was the reason why the Apple III failed in the first place. The design was ok, but jobs insisted on a fanless design and the cooling fans were pulled, the rest is history.
just a shortage of Intel CPUs...
Since AMD has shot itself out of the pc gaming market, and NVidia has a pseudo monpoly atm. The same happened with Intel Processors during the AMD piledriver era.
A classical example of the reduce costs for the next bonus, is microsoft where the testers of the Windows team were fired to a huge percentage to cut costs, the results were shoddy buggy rolling releases.
Lisa Su is also a very smart person, who did a degree because it was the hardest degree she could do. Compare that to the average business shifter who does the degree for money and because other degrees are way too hard.
Thats probably also the main difference between Su and other CEOs of other companies. First she is exceptionally smart. Secondly she comes from an electrical engineering/processor design background and knows the stuff she is having produced first hand and not only the business numbers third she is willing to take risks. The average CEO usually just sees the numbers the people involved and is trying to reduce costs for the next bonus round.
AMD is on a good way, but she also pretty much had a free hand given that AMD when she took over basically almost was bankrupt and the stock a penny stock
Intels 10nm is not even there that much (and already 4 years late), they produce a handful of very simple chips. TSMCs 7nm is pretty much the same ans Intels 10nm, both are marketing numbers anway. The main difference, TSMC is producing already millions of rather complex processors for Apple, Amd and NVidia and others while Intel had a stockholder launch 4 years late producing a handful of the simplest celerons they have with high failure rate and apu disabled to keep the stockholders calm.
2019 will be interesting AMD then will release their 7nm line of processors which is currently produced and Intel wont have 10nm ready for their mainline of processors. This might be the first year in decades where AMD will get the performance crown over Intel in the absolute high end.
It is now...
It just looks good.
Oled has been suffering from burn in since day zero. Hence i always have been staying away from Oled TVs.
Not sure if this problem is even entirely fixable you can hack around it to some degree.
from a usability standpoint is to avoid any IOS upgrade after the second year. I have seen it with three devices that the usability severely suffered with the third upgrade to a point that you did not want to use that device anymore. Intentional, I dont know but apparently it happened with all three devices with the third os upgrade they got. I came to the conclusion not to buy IOs devices anymore. The problem is the situation is not better on the Android side. The device manufacturers leave you hanging entirely after the second year but at least the devices are still usable then.
This is an entirely hellish situation from a security standpoint of course.
Problem is this will never make it into the Mainstream kernel. The Linux Kernel devs have opposed a stable driver ABI for decades now. The chipset manufacturers have happily setteled in and provide only binary blobs with ABI adaptions for a certain timeframe, and everybody is happy except for the screwed customers.
For me this would mean I would drop Apple entirely. I dropped their iPhone line already after I had to deal with shoddy quality in my old iPhone 5. I dropped the Mac Minis because of disinterest from Apple to provide decent machines (the NUCs are better nowadays).
I dropped the Airport line after apple kicked it off their products list. I am a happy Fritzbox customer now, way better in any regard.
The Ipad 3 was replaced by a Sony tablet after apple patched the performance out of the thing with their third annual software update.
The last remaining piece of Apple hardware I still use is the Macbook Pro but Apple makes it harder every year to stay with those as a customer.
Would not suprise me if this posting is true. Google already has such a system in place with their Chromebooks. Microsoft is also but slowly moving into this direction with their planned Windows for Cloud system. I just wonder how they want to keep the relatively huge developer community and huge companies like IBM as their customers who rely on their unix underpinnings relatively open system and the Intel compatibility to run Windows.
But on the other hand, when did Apple ever care to alienate existing customers.
"Where should I screw our customers today?"
The always on info came rather late, according to several news sites, you must have a connection every once in 24 hourse and kinect has to be on as soon as the console is on, games must be enabled online once via code. This thing is DOA if you ask me.
Actually it sucks, because Metro generally sucks if you have to use it with a mouse. It might be fine for a touch based interface though.
The problem is not that Win8 is simplistic, it simply has a lousy UI and is definitely a step down usabilitywise from Windows 8.
I see it also like that. There was nothing coming out of Lucasarts except mediocre Star Wars tie ins for decades.
The Lucasarts of the old with great games died a long time ago.
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I do not know whether the issue is fixed by now or not.
I have been following the thread on the Apple Support Forums for quite a while, there are some infos missing.
a) The thread was reset viewwise at 600.000 views hence the actual number of views is much higher
b) Only LG displays seem to show the issue, also affected by this issue are the 13 inch retina macbook pros and the new iMacs. Apple did not change their behavior regarding their supply chain even after months of knowing they had an issue on their hands.
c) Apple seems to run a checkerboards test which basically tells if the image retention is bad enough that it warrants a display exchange. So if you have a certain amount of burn in your changes are high that you wont get your display replaced as Apple states this is totally normal behavior for an IPS panel. Whether Apple is right in this or not I do not know.
d) Apple still is silent on this issue, they probably simply want to sit this out instead of offering a full recall, given that they seem to still sell lots of machines with LG panels which show ghosting indicates that they do not have to many options due to having burned their bridges with Samsung.
e) The thread does not indicate on how many machines are affected, but given the huge number of posts a lot of them.