That said, the delivery system is still pretty obnoxious. Whether or not the cloud of exhaled vapor is "just water vapor" or not, it still projects into the air and affects the people around the vaper.
Whereas caffeine's delivery system is totally isolated, only the person consuming it will be affected.
It can be obnoxious, but not every paper is a cloud chaser. And I bet those who object to the clouds still prefer that to cigarette smoke.
As for caffeine, it has a strong odour. I'm sure someone somewhere would complain about that.
More to the point, when AIs learn to write code better than human coders, the humans are no longer coders, they will instead be writing specifications for the code that the AI will write: essentially they will be managers for the AI.
Which will require some language in order to provide said specifications. So, programmers will still be programmers, but maybe someday (pick $favourite_human_language) will be the language not (pick $favourite_programming_language)
Sorry but Tim Cook is living in a bubble, the majority of people are totally unfit to code.
The majority of people are unfit to write professionally. Does this mean they shouldn't learn a language? I don't think the intent is that everyone become a professional programmer. But gaining some knowledge into how, and why a computer works would certainly be valuable.
That doesn't even address people coding as a hobby, or out of self interests (Maybe writing a quick python script to solve a particular one-off problem.
All you nerdy nerds think the rest of have the fuckin time to be script kiddies like you? No, we don't, we've got other shit to do, like paying bills so kids like you can stay at home until they're in their mid 30's.
All the nerdy nerds, on a site with news for nerds. Shocking. Sigh. I remember when Slashdot had a thriving and witty troll community. Now we're reduced to angst filled random text generators.
It's the weaponization of something considered a base necessity to the functioning of computers. It's the equivalent of poisoning a city's primary water supply. Yes there are others but this one is well known and been used for so long that many are dependent on it for what it provides.
If running an antivirus is a base necessity, you've chosen your operating system poorly.
Same reason they are late to the market with everything else, they are cheap, don't want to pay license fees, prefer vendor lock-in to their own pet projects (remember the first company to sell AAC formatted music outside of the film industry?), and in general are happy to sell you yesterday's devices at tomorrow's prices.
But hey, whatever floats your boat.
Ah yes, AAC. Good example. Didn't know Bell Labs, Dolby Labs, and Sony were all aliases for Apple.
The same arguments the summary makes could be applied to all of them; the cheaper versions of each provide the same functions. There will be those who can easily justify the price tag, and those who wouldn't assign them the same worth.
Apple's solution is probably "buy a new Mac". Tim Cook said himself that Apple products are not for the rich so buying another $1000+ computer every year or two shouldn't be a problem for anyone.
Next up: Tim Cook doesn't understand the meaning of "rich" compared to the rest of the population.
Except that the people who upgrade their Macs every year or two are few and far between. Apple knows this well. That said, TFA even mentions the EFI update failed on certain percentages of NEWER systems, like the 2-16 MacBook. To wit: " And three versions of the 2016 Macbook Pro had the wrong EFI version for their operating system version in 25% to 35% of cases, suggesting they too had serious EFI update failure rates."
This doesn't sound nefarious to me, it sounds more like there's a hiccup in the update process, which thankfully doesn't render the system a brick when it fails. Naturally something that needs to be addressed though.
For what it's worth, I'm happily working away on a 2011 iMac, which in the past 6 years has only had one problem, a failed hard drive. This was a recent, and certainly not unexpected failure. Anecdotal for sure, but this is the case for most people I know who own a Mac as well. It's also the reason they (and I) will purchase a new one when the time is right. I know it's trendy to blindly bash on Apple though.
Those are sort of on the desktop. Granted given that the general trend is people are using mobile devices more often than not, and your choices are a Linux kernel or Mach, we've already been there a while.
I do shop at some retail stores that actually give value and don't present a terrible experience. They tend to be small, sole proprietorships rather than chains. If they don't have what I need, then I go online.
I understand what you're saying, however I think those small proprietorships have an advantage because they tend to focus on a particular set of merchandise. Consider best buy vs. a local Stereo shop. The local shop won't also stock washers and dryers and god knows what else. So they tend to know what they are selling very, very well.
I would say that the Apple Store tends to give that same sort of experience; they are focused on a very small set of products, have them on hand and know them well. (I know I'll probably get bashed just for mentioning Apple, but hey, I've only ever had great experiences at the Apple Store.)
Ah... you seem to be miss-informed about IBM these days.
Once upon a time that would have been true, these days IBM specialises in not even delivering a solution in the first place, and still somehow keeping a bit pile of the money involved. Then they let things cool off for a year or so, and have another dig at the gravy trough.
The usual formula seems to be that a project that could be done for $x by getting local companies to quite it is instead quietly contracted through a process only involving several of the 'big names' for $x*100, and then IBM is given the contract for 5 to 10 times that figure, and bollocks it up so badly it never ever works.
I think we call it progress and open government?
IBMs primary skill is a small group of nice suits who talk a very good talk and present a very good presentation, and then walk away never to be seen near that project every again.
Oh, and the fact that still, no one ever gets fires for buying IBM.
Case in point: The Phoenix payroll system the Canadian Government wasted millions upon millions on. Not just on the non-functional system itself, but on major staffing needed to manually process payroll so employees could actually get paid.
...and the presentation was wounded mightily by commercials.
No joke. In Canada, we get the show via CraveTV (similar to Netflix.) So while there were no commercials, the 2nd episode was exactly 38 minutes. They really needed 22 minutes of commercials for the show? I would definitely turn to other means of watching the show, if it weren't available commercial free rather than be subjected to that.
I have no way of knowing how secure or not secure Face ID is, so I'm not even going to venture a guess about that.
But, even if it is perfectly secure, are there really people who don't see that it's straight-up creepy?
I for one don't find it at all creepy. The ultra paranoid could easily say that any smart phone turns on the front camera when the user is in front of it and discreetly sends it to {pick your favorite evil corporation/government entity}. You have no way of knowing if that's going on either. On the other hand, I'm far less likely to forget my face than the passcode I'm forced to change every 3 months, so I'm glad for the feature.
Please do not buy X and start sending a message to this company that double charges you for the same hardware found in other devices. Have you looked at the component list of manufacturers?! How can one call this an apple product at all? Part chosen and assemble by Apple maybe? 1984 by Ghost of Steve? Seriously when will the masses wake up?
Not to derail your clearly well thought out rant, but can you name a single manufacturer who also manufacture every single component in their device?They once said that Steve Jobs had a reality distortion field, but you sir have him beat by leagues.
I'm not a smoker, but it seems to be there's been an illogical campaign against e-cigarettes, even in the "public service announcement" arena. I don't doubt that nicotine has negative health affects, but nicotine + water vapor has to be better than nicotine + 1000's of tar based substances, yet you would think they're more unhealthy than cigarettes from the anti-e-cig campaign. And where was this nicotine research when nicotine patches got FDA approval?
It's not water vapor, and it's dangerous to assume that's all it is.
I have a LONG list of things that I think Mr. Gates should be embarrassed about regarding Windows. The three finger salute is very, very low on my list.
Personally, I've always hated CTRL-C, CTRL-V for copy and paste, and would belong near the top of the list. Mind you, that's likely not Bill's fault. But an ongoing, long lived annoyance.
I like how everyone forgets that MacOS originally used the colon for directory separators, among other weirdness.
Conforming to UNIX standards was not that common in the budding PC industry. MS always gets the blame because they're one of the few companies that actually survived.
Or that VMS used a dot, and a semicolon for file version.
Of course, the right thing for Apple to do would have been to completely replace the proprietary lightning connectors with the standard USB-C connectors on all of their new device models going forward, but alas, shareholders gotta eat.
Queen tried to warn them ages ago. "Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning..."
A few days ago, I happened to be reading something online and paused and said you myself aloud, "Are you serious?"
And suddenly, my iPhone — which was far across the room and plugged in — lit up and Siri asked me what I wanted.
Apparently, "Are you serious" sounds like "Hey, Siri."
I've had no luck reproducing this. I thought perhaps "Siri" would be enough on it's own (Since depending on pronunciation Serious has a "Siri" in it) but that didn't work either
I think the key is "far across the room." There may have been enough uncertainty at a distance with "Are You" but the phone recognized "Siri(ous)" and assumed it was a wake up call. Or Siri just though you were drunk again!
8k resolution is close to IMAX for detail. Not quite as good as 70mm film, but close.
You also have to remember that even if your eyes can't see individual pixels at that resolution (a good thing), what matters is the Nyquist frequency which is half the sampling frequency. That's why CDs sample at 44.1kHz, even though the human ear can't hear much about 20kHz.
I would assume it has more to do with the Bayer Filter and demosaicing in particular, than Nyquist, however the point is well taken. At least as far as sampling is concerned. For example, you wouldn't shoot with the intent of displaying on a 1MP display with a 1MP sensor.
What you have to bear in mind is that for a lot of people, "it's bad for your health" was the rationalisation for smoking bans, but not the actual reason. For a lot of people (me included) cigarette smoke is unpleasant and annoying.
To wit: Until Canada in its infinite wisdom banned flavoured tobacco (including pipe tobacco) I was a pipe smoker. As per my usual routine, i would typically smoke as far away from everyone (aside from other smokers) as possible. However, at a family event (prior to the ban) I was actually beckoned to come closer, and join the crowd because they enjoyed it. Heck, I was asked to light up again because everyone missed the aroma.
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That said, the delivery system is still pretty obnoxious. Whether or not the cloud of exhaled vapor is "just water vapor" or not, it still projects into the air and affects the people around the vaper.
Whereas caffeine's delivery system is totally isolated, only the person consuming it will be affected.
It can be obnoxious, but not every paper is a cloud chaser. And I bet those who object to the clouds still prefer that to cigarette smoke.
As for caffeine, it has a strong odour. I'm sure someone somewhere would complain about that.
More to the point, when AIs learn to write code better than human coders, the humans are no longer coders, they will instead be writing specifications for the code that the AI will write: essentially they will be managers for the AI.
Which will require some language in order to provide said specifications. So, programmers will still be programmers, but maybe someday (pick $favourite_human_language) will be the language not (pick $favourite_programming_language)
Oh damn, did I just doom us to relive COBOL?
We have unlimited computing power with distributed systems.
For very small values of unlimited.
Sorry but Tim Cook is living in a bubble, the majority of people are totally unfit to code.
The majority of people are unfit to write professionally. Does this mean they shouldn't learn a language? I don't think the intent is that everyone become a professional programmer. But gaining some knowledge into how, and why a computer works would certainly be valuable.
That doesn't even address people coding as a hobby, or out of self interests (Maybe writing a quick python script to solve a particular one-off problem.
This comment is almost as stupid as saying that if you need an immune system, then your genes are defective and you should have made a better choice.
And yet no where near as stupid and your comment, apt-analogy boy.
All you nerdy nerds think the rest of have the fuckin time to be script kiddies like you? No, we don't, we've got other shit to do, like paying bills so kids like you can stay at home until they're in their mid 30's.
All the nerdy nerds, on a site with news for nerds. Shocking. Sigh. I remember when Slashdot had a thriving and witty troll community. Now we're reduced to angst filled random text generators.
It's the weaponization of something considered a base necessity to the functioning of computers. It's the equivalent of poisoning a city's primary water supply. Yes there are others but this one is well known and been used for so long that many are dependent on it for what it provides.
If running an antivirus is a base necessity, you've chosen your operating system poorly.
Same reason they are late to the market with everything else, they are cheap, don't want to pay license fees, prefer vendor lock-in to their own pet projects (remember the first company to sell AAC formatted music outside of the film industry?), and in general are happy to sell you yesterday's devices at tomorrow's prices.
But hey, whatever floats your boat.
Ah yes, AAC. Good example. Didn't know Bell Labs, Dolby Labs, and Sony were all aliases for Apple.
Why would anyone spend $1,000 on a video card?
Why would anyone spend $100,000 on a car?
Why would anyone spend $500,000 on a house
The same arguments the summary makes could be applied to all of them; the cheaper versions of each provide the same functions. There will be those who can easily justify the price tag, and those who wouldn't assign them the same worth.
Apple's solution is probably "buy a new Mac". Tim Cook said himself that Apple products are not for the rich so buying another $1000+ computer every year or two shouldn't be a problem for anyone.
Next up: Tim Cook doesn't understand the meaning of "rich" compared to the rest of the population.
Except that the people who upgrade their Macs every year or two are few and far between. Apple knows this well. That said, TFA even mentions the EFI update failed on certain percentages of NEWER systems, like the 2-16 MacBook. To wit: " And three versions of the 2016 Macbook Pro had the wrong EFI version for their operating system version in 25% to 35% of cases, suggesting they too had serious EFI update failure rates."
This doesn't sound nefarious to me, it sounds more like there's a hiccup in the update process, which thankfully doesn't render the system a brick when it fails. Naturally something that needs to be addressed though.
For what it's worth, I'm happily working away on a 2011 iMac, which in the past 6 years has only had one problem, a failed hard drive. This was a recent, and certainly not unexpected failure. Anecdotal for sure, but this is the case for most people I know who own a Mac as well. It's also the reason they (and I) will purchase a new one when the time is right. I know it's trendy to blindly bash on Apple though.
Those are sort of on the desktop. Granted given that the general trend is people are using mobile devices more often than not, and your choices are a Linux kernel or Mach, we've already been there a while.
I do shop at some retail stores that actually give value and don't present a terrible experience. They tend to be small, sole proprietorships rather than chains. If they don't have what I need, then I go online.
I understand what you're saying, however I think those small proprietorships have an advantage because they tend to focus on a particular set of merchandise. Consider best buy vs. a local Stereo shop. The local shop won't also stock washers and dryers and god knows what else. So they tend to know what they are selling very, very well.
I would say that the Apple Store tends to give that same sort of experience; they are focused on a very small set of products, have them on hand and know them well. (I know I'll probably get bashed just for mentioning Apple, but hey, I've only ever had great experiences at the Apple Store.)
Ah... you seem to be miss-informed about IBM these days.
Once upon a time that would have been true, these days IBM specialises in not even delivering a solution in the first place, and still somehow keeping a bit pile of the money involved.
Then they let things cool off for a year or so, and have another dig at the gravy trough.
The usual formula seems to be that a project that could be done for $x by getting local companies to quite it is instead quietly contracted through a process only involving several of the 'big names' for $x*100, and then IBM is given the contract for 5 to 10 times that figure, and bollocks it up so badly it never ever works.
I think we call it progress and open government?
IBMs primary skill is a small group of nice suits who talk a very good talk and present a very good presentation, and then walk away never to be seen near that project every again.
Oh, and the fact that still, no one ever gets fires for buying IBM.
Case in point: The Phoenix payroll system the Canadian Government wasted millions upon millions on. Not just on the non-functional system itself, but on major staffing needed to manually process payroll so employees could actually get paid.
...and the presentation was wounded mightily by commercials.
No joke. In Canada, we get the show via CraveTV (similar to Netflix.) So while there were no commercials, the 2nd episode was exactly 38 minutes. They really needed 22 minutes of commercials for the show? I would definitely turn to other means of watching the show, if it weren't available commercial free rather than be subjected to that.
I have no way of knowing how secure or not secure Face ID is, so I'm not even going to venture a guess about that.
But, even if it is perfectly secure, are there really people who don't see that it's straight-up creepy?
I for one don't find it at all creepy. The ultra paranoid could easily say that any smart phone turns on the front camera when the user is in front of it and discreetly sends it to {pick your favorite evil corporation/government entity}. You have no way of knowing if that's going on either. On the other hand, I'm far less likely to forget my face than the passcode I'm forced to change every 3 months, so I'm glad for the feature.
Please do not buy X and start sending a message to this company that double charges you for the same hardware found in other devices.
Have you looked at the component list of manufacturers?!
How can one call this an apple product at all?
Part chosen and assemble by Apple maybe?
1984 by Ghost of Steve?
Seriously when will the masses wake up?
Not to derail your clearly well thought out rant, but can you name a single manufacturer who also manufacture every single component in their device?They once said that Steve Jobs had a reality distortion field, but you sir have him beat by leagues.
I'm not a smoker, but it seems to be there's been an illogical campaign against e-cigarettes, even in the "public service announcement" arena. I don't doubt that nicotine has negative health affects, but nicotine + water vapor has to be better than nicotine + 1000's of tar based substances, yet you would think they're more unhealthy than cigarettes from the anti-e-cig campaign. And where was this nicotine research when nicotine patches got FDA approval?
It's not water vapor, and it's dangerous to assume that's all it is.
I have a LONG list of things that I think Mr. Gates should be embarrassed about regarding Windows. The three finger salute is very, very low on my list.
Personally, I've always hated CTRL-C, CTRL-V for copy and paste, and would belong near the top of the list. Mind you, that's likely not Bill's fault. But an ongoing, long lived annoyance.
I like how everyone forgets that MacOS originally used the colon for directory separators, among other weirdness.
Conforming to UNIX standards was not that common in the budding PC industry. MS always gets the blame because they're one of the few companies that actually survived.
Or that VMS used a dot, and a semicolon for file version.
Of course, the right thing for Apple to do would have been to completely replace the proprietary lightning connectors with the standard USB-C connectors on all of their new device models going forward, but alas, shareholders gotta eat.
Queen tried to warn them ages ago. "Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning..."
A few days ago, I happened to be reading something online and paused and said you myself aloud, "Are you serious?"
And suddenly, my iPhone — which was far across the room and plugged in — lit up and Siri asked me what I wanted.
Apparently, "Are you serious" sounds like "Hey, Siri."
I've had no luck reproducing this. I thought perhaps "Siri" would be enough on it's own (Since depending on pronunciation Serious has a "Siri" in it) but that didn't work either
I think the key is "far across the room." There may have been enough uncertainty at a distance with "Are You" but the phone recognized "Siri(ous)" and assumed it was a wake up call. Or Siri just though you were drunk again!
8k resolution is close to IMAX for detail. Not quite as good as 70mm film, but close.
You also have to remember that even if your eyes can't see individual pixels at that resolution (a good thing), what matters is the Nyquist frequency which is half the sampling frequency. That's why CDs sample at 44.1kHz, even though the human ear can't hear much about 20kHz.
I would assume it has more to do with the Bayer Filter and demosaicing in particular, than Nyquist, however the point is well taken. At least as far as sampling is concerned. For example, you wouldn't shoot with the intent of displaying on a 1MP display with a 1MP sensor.
If Trump can do it, why couldn't I?
Didn't see much of anything. Still don't?
How many deliberate rootkits have those three companies sold?
Does Windows count as a rootkit? How about Internet Explorer?
What you have to bear in mind is that for a lot of people, "it's bad for your health" was the rationalisation for smoking bans, but not the actual reason. For a lot of people (me included) cigarette smoke is unpleasant and annoying.
To wit: Until Canada in its infinite wisdom banned flavoured tobacco (including pipe tobacco) I was a pipe smoker. As per my usual routine, i would typically smoke as far away from everyone (aside from other smokers) as possible. However, at a family event (prior to the ban) I was actually beckoned to come closer, and join the crowd because they enjoyed it. Heck, I was asked to light up again because everyone missed the aroma.