Exactly this. I fully expected I would have to get a new card to run DOOM but my 970 and i5 run it on ultra with no lag whatsoever. I simply have no reason to upgrade. Though I am considering going to AMD if their open source drivers turn out to be good.
Apple's main "technology" development in the past half decade has been making things "thinner." That's basically it.
It's becoming increasingly clear their vision died with Jobs. That they've been able to coast for 5 years is a testament to the momentum that asshole built. But as it stands Apple is running on technology fumes. All "style" in the world can't mask feature retardation, i.e. their flagship OS is hopelessly outdated in most of its core technologies; they don't seem to be able to improve on a 15+ yr old filesystem, their graphics stack hasn't yet entered this decade, their online services are worst in class consistently, etc, etc, etc.
I worked at Apple when they were tossing around ZFS as an option. I still for the lif eof me can not figure out why they cling to HFS+. That filesystem has eaten more data than any filesystem I can think of. Shameful how they drag that out.
54% *claim* to have never interacted with an AI. They probably have (at least indirectly), and just don't realize it.
I just learned recently that my employer uses an AI to vet expense reports for errors and potential fraud. I'd give decent odds that similar things are being done across the financial industry, even if it is not explicitly referred to as "AI".
How does one interact with an AI when we've yet to actually create AI?
Okay stop right there. Are you proposing that the vendor of the most popular mobile OS adopts a similar model to probably the most miserable failure in the entire history of mobile OSes?
I think you need your morning coffee.
And yet that miserable failure did a better job of pushing out security and OS updates than Google ever has.
Not buying it. Google already places restrictions on them if they want to include Google Play services. That is your leverage. Use it. Force them to submit drivers to AOSP or no Google Play Services.
Google made this bed. You don't get to then pass the buck and blame OEMs who already have to play by your rules. The Android ecosystem is a fucking disgrace to modern engineering.
If the T&C for one app took 30 hours I might give a shit. But to make their point they read from 33 apps? I mean lets just read from 100 while we're at it! Lets really make a big fucking impact! Hell, we can even get super dramatic and get Sir Anthony Hopkins to read it. British accents make everything serious.
66 whole reports?! Why, we need a law immediately! Someone call Congress!
Since you're the self-appointed arbiter, please specify the minimum number of people injured / killed before any action (or even investigation) should be taken on a possibly faulty or poorly designed consumer product? Is it okay for 66, but not 100... While I assume you were joking, there *are* people that think like that.
Of course there are people that think like that. I was directly making fun of them. It's not about numbers, it's about personal choice and responsibility. These should be civil cases and remain civil cases. The press should do their job (in this case they did) and report on it. People can then make an educated decision.
If cell phones could blow up in peoples pockets, I'm not sure why people didn't think these things wouldn't blow up in their faces. But how many people were burned by regular cigarettes in the same time period? How many fell asleep and burned their houses down with a lit cig? We can play numbers games all day long.
Shopping at the grocery store for infinitely more nutritious food than the poison McDonald's serves.
Glad someone pointed this out. McDonalds competition isn't other chains at this point. Its the grocery store where I can buy 10 times the food for the same price and spend just a few extra minutes cooking it rather than driving to go get it. Feel better afterwards and not get sick. I'll also get exactly what I want without having to haggle with some teenager over why my wife doesn't want onions on something.
Yup. This isn't really a valid argument against increasing the minimum wage.
At worst, it merely hastens the inevitable by a few years, but this is going to happen.
This is relevant to the current election cycle for multiple reasons - free trade agreements are a major source of contention, and Trump talks about bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US - the problem is, as the recent massive Foxconn layoffs proved, the majority of those jobs are NEVER coming back no matter what you do, unless you enact a New Jersey-style law against automation. (New Jersey requires all gas stations to be full-service, you cannot pump your own gas. One of the reasons for this rather unique law is to create jobs.)
Yes the upgrade tactics have been heavy handed. But so has the push back, the FUD from sites like Slashdot and other supposed "tech" blogs. If you have an Android phone and are bitching about Windows 10 you're a fucking hypocrite, full stop.
Saying "Company X is doing this bad thing, but if given the chance, Company Y would do the exact same thing" does not prove that the thing is fine to do.
So no, not hypocrisy. If Google were in this situation I'd be criticizing them exactly the same.
Honestly, I can't 100% blame them. We witnessed how hard people hung onto XP. I still see companies with Windows Server 2003 in play (some of them still DEPLOY 2003). We know there are large swathes of people that simply do not accept change, no matter how good it might be (there are legitimate debates about win10 being better).
Their marketshare is not my concern. My ability to use my own computer is.
Google IS doing it with Android. So why aren't you complaining? Because you're a hypocrite.
I can't think of anything the fruit peddler has done that comes close to the arrogance Microsoft is showing regarding anything about Windows 10.
It's enough to make a cynical paranoid think Microsoft is being paid to be this obnoxious and intrusive. Paid by whom? I'll leave that to the conspiracy theorists.
Win 10 sounds like a data-collecting piece of spyware, don't it?
Honestly, I can't 100% blame them. We witnessed how hard people hung onto XP. I still see companies with Windows Server 2003 in play (some of them still DEPLOY 2003). We know there are large swathes of people that simply do not accept change, no matter how good it might be (there are legitimate debates about win10 being better).
On the one hand Microsoft should be saying "screw them" and just move on. On the other, those people hanging on help to deteriorate the security posture of the rest of the internet and harm Microsofts reputation when they get hit with malware or other security issues.
Microsoft has an enormous user base. Trying to get that user base to move forward is painful. They're giving the OS out for free and people still push back.
Where MS has gone horribly wrong is in their invasion of privacy. But I have a very hard time taking these complaints seriously when in every case the people bitching are using Google for everything they can. Microsoft isn't doing anything with Win10 that Google isn't doing with Android/Chrome/Search and a plethora of web analytics. If Google was in control of Windows 10 you could bet the privacy intrusiveness would be 10 times worse than what Microsoft is doing.
Yes the upgrade tactics have been heavy handed. But so has the push back, the FUD from sites like Slashdot and other supposed "tech" blogs. If you have an Android phone and are bitching about Windows 10 you're a fucking hypocrite, full stop.
Smartwatches are the 2016 equivalent to walking around with a bluetooth in your ear 24/7.
I used to agree. I tried a pebble and liked it but the apps suck and it lacked a heart rate monitor. I ended up getting a Garmin Vivosmart HR which works as a watch/fitness tracker with notifications from my phone and some basic stuff like weather etc. I love it. I actually took it off for a week because my wrist was getting irritated and I noticed the difference of not having notifications on my wrist. I wear slightly baggy pants and keep my phone in my pocket. I rarely feel it vibrate and I prefer to not have audible noises coming from it that will irritate others. The slight vibration on my wrist I find invaluable.
The problem with the watches and fitness trackers is no one is doing it right. The android wear devices are fucking enormous, the Apple watch is horrendously overpriced with terrible battery life. Pebble gets a lot right but the software needs maturity.
No one has hit it out of the park yet. My Garmin is close to perfect for me, aside from the fact its ugly as shit. Luckily I dont get dressed up often so its not a problem for me.
He's an anarchist. Which these days means an emo kid with internet access.
I would say that was more true in the 90's than now. Just look at how hackers were depicted back then.
Anarchist these days is really more libertarian. They want little to no government intervention because they see the police state we're in and the globalization that is ruining western society and do not trust it.
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Exactly this. I fully expected I would have to get a new card to run DOOM but my 970 and i5 run it on ultra with no lag whatsoever. I simply have no reason to upgrade. Though I am considering going to AMD if their open source drivers turn out to be good.
Apple's main "technology" development in the past half decade has been making things "thinner." That's basically it.
It's becoming increasingly clear their vision died with Jobs. That they've been able to coast for 5 years is a testament to the momentum that asshole built. But as it stands Apple is running on technology fumes. All "style" in the world can't mask feature retardation, i.e. their flagship OS is hopelessly outdated in most of its core technologies; they don't seem to be able to improve on a 15+ yr old filesystem, their graphics stack hasn't yet entered this decade, their online services are worst in class consistently, etc, etc, etc.
I worked at Apple when they were tossing around ZFS as an option. I still for the lif eof me can not figure out why they cling to HFS+. That filesystem has eaten more data than any filesystem I can think of. Shameful how they drag that out.
This WWDC is so boring I've actually stopped watching. Is it just me or is the age of Tim Cook extremely dull? This is like watching paint dry.
I guess BuzzFeed needs a safe space. Too much triggering going on. The micro-aggressions were just too much.
Are you always such a drama whore?
will facts equal hate speech??? will not believing in some political views equal hate speech???
Yes
Isn't this the way capitalism is supposed to work? Find a need and fill it?
Yes. They are called pentesters. These however are no pentesters.
54% *claim* to have never interacted with an AI. They probably have (at least indirectly), and just don't realize it.
I just learned recently that my employer uses an AI to vet expense reports for errors and potential fraud. I'd give decent odds that similar things are being done across the financial industry, even if it is not explicitly referred to as "AI".
How does one interact with an AI when we've yet to actually create AI?
Well, he does seem to love child labor so of course he wants them trained in the fourth grade. Just think of the potential for profits!
Even Microsoft ...
Okay stop right there. Are you proposing that the vendor of the most popular mobile OS adopts a similar model to probably the most miserable failure in the entire history of mobile OSes?
I think you need your morning coffee.
And yet that miserable failure did a better job of pushing out security and OS updates than Google ever has.
Not buying it. Google already places restrictions on them if they want to include Google Play services. That is your leverage. Use it. Force them to submit drivers to AOSP or no Google Play Services.
Google made this bed. You don't get to then pass the buck and blame OEMs who already have to play by your rules. The Android ecosystem is a fucking disgrace to modern engineering.
Whoever has been paying you for 30 years should ask for their money back. You're a moron of the worst kind.
If the T&C for one app took 30 hours I might give a shit. But to make their point they read from 33 apps? I mean lets just read from 100 while we're at it! Lets really make a big fucking impact! Hell, we can even get super dramatic and get Sir Anthony Hopkins to read it. British accents make everything serious.
66 whole reports?! Why, we need a law immediately! Someone call Congress!
Since you're the self-appointed arbiter, please specify the minimum number of people injured / killed before any action (or even investigation) should be taken on a possibly faulty or poorly designed consumer product? Is it okay for 66, but not 100 ... While I assume you were joking, there *are* people that think like that.
Of course there are people that think like that. I was directly making fun of them. It's not about numbers, it's about personal choice and responsibility. These should be civil cases and remain civil cases. The press should do their job (in this case they did) and report on it. People can then make an educated decision.
If cell phones could blow up in peoples pockets, I'm not sure why people didn't think these things wouldn't blow up in their faces. But how many people were burned by regular cigarettes in the same time period? How many fell asleep and burned their houses down with a lit cig? We can play numbers games all day long.
In the US you are correct. In the EU this gets a little stickier, for example:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i...
Parents in France can be sued for posting pics of their children without permission.
66 whole reports?! Why, we need a law immediately! Someone call Congress!
Entropy is a problem in VM's, especially when they don't have actual devices attached.
How about we leaving the teaching to the teachers and the armchair quarterbacks can go fuck themselves? I like that approach.
Shopping at the grocery store for infinitely more nutritious food than the poison McDonald's serves.
Glad someone pointed this out. McDonalds competition isn't other chains at this point. Its the grocery store where I can buy 10 times the food for the same price and spend just a few extra minutes cooking it rather than driving to go get it. Feel better afterwards and not get sick. I'll also get exactly what I want without having to haggle with some teenager over why my wife doesn't want onions on something.
Go ahead and automate. I don't go there anyway.
Yup. This isn't really a valid argument against increasing the minimum wage.
At worst, it merely hastens the inevitable by a few years, but this is going to happen.
This is relevant to the current election cycle for multiple reasons - free trade agreements are a major source of contention, and Trump talks about bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US - the problem is, as the recent massive Foxconn layoffs proved, the majority of those jobs are NEVER coming back no matter what you do, unless you enact a New Jersey-style law against automation. (New Jersey requires all gas stations to be full-service, you cannot pump your own gas. One of the reasons for this rather unique law is to create jobs.)
It's not unique. Oregon does this too.
Yes the upgrade tactics have been heavy handed. But so has the push back, the FUD from sites like Slashdot and other supposed "tech" blogs. If you have an Android phone and are bitching about Windows 10 you're a fucking hypocrite, full stop.
Saying "Company X is doing this bad thing, but if given the chance, Company Y would do the exact same thing" does not prove that the thing is fine to do.
So no, not hypocrisy. If Google were in this situation I'd be criticizing them exactly the same.
Honestly, I can't 100% blame them. We witnessed how hard people hung onto XP. I still see companies with Windows Server 2003 in play (some of them still DEPLOY 2003). We know there are large swathes of people that simply do not accept change, no matter how good it might be (there are legitimate debates about win10 being better).
Their marketshare is not my concern. My ability to use my own computer is.
Google IS doing it with Android. So why aren't you complaining? Because you're a hypocrite.
I'm going to upgrade your car next week. Nothing you can do about it.
It'll look shinier, but I pulled a few cables, and put your old engine & tires in it.
Hopefully, I didn't pull too many cables.
It's just good for you, and free.
Don't whine if it doesn't work as well as your old car, you were stubbornly refusing to upgrade.
Oh look. A car analogy, these always work out well.
I can't think of anything the fruit peddler has done that comes close to the arrogance Microsoft is showing regarding anything about Windows 10.
It's enough to make a cynical paranoid think Microsoft is being paid to be this obnoxious and intrusive. Paid by whom? I'll leave that to the conspiracy theorists.
Win 10 sounds like a data-collecting piece of spyware, don't it?
Honestly, I can't 100% blame them. We witnessed how hard people hung onto XP. I still see companies with Windows Server 2003 in play (some of them still DEPLOY 2003). We know there are large swathes of people that simply do not accept change, no matter how good it might be (there are legitimate debates about win10 being better).
On the one hand Microsoft should be saying "screw them" and just move on. On the other, those people hanging on help to deteriorate the security posture of the rest of the internet and harm Microsofts reputation when they get hit with malware or other security issues.
Microsoft has an enormous user base. Trying to get that user base to move forward is painful. They're giving the OS out for free and people still push back.
Where MS has gone horribly wrong is in their invasion of privacy. But I have a very hard time taking these complaints seriously when in every case the people bitching are using Google for everything they can. Microsoft isn't doing anything with Win10 that Google isn't doing with Android/Chrome/Search and a plethora of web analytics. If Google was in control of Windows 10 you could bet the privacy intrusiveness would be 10 times worse than what Microsoft is doing.
Yes the upgrade tactics have been heavy handed. But so has the push back, the FUD from sites like Slashdot and other supposed "tech" blogs. If you have an Android phone and are bitching about Windows 10 you're a fucking hypocrite, full stop.
Smartwatches are the 2016 equivalent to walking around with a bluetooth in your ear 24/7.
I used to agree. I tried a pebble and liked it but the apps suck and it lacked a heart rate monitor. I ended up getting a Garmin Vivosmart HR which works as a watch/fitness tracker with notifications from my phone and some basic stuff like weather etc. I love it. I actually took it off for a week because my wrist was getting irritated and I noticed the difference of not having notifications on my wrist. I wear slightly baggy pants and keep my phone in my pocket. I rarely feel it vibrate and I prefer to not have audible noises coming from it that will irritate others. The slight vibration on my wrist I find invaluable.
The problem with the watches and fitness trackers is no one is doing it right. The android wear devices are fucking enormous, the Apple watch is horrendously overpriced with terrible battery life. Pebble gets a lot right but the software needs maturity.
No one has hit it out of the park yet. My Garmin is close to perfect for me, aside from the fact its ugly as shit. Luckily I dont get dressed up often so its not a problem for me.
He's an anarchist. Which these days means an emo kid with internet access.
I would say that was more true in the 90's than now. Just look at how hackers were depicted back then.
Anarchist these days is really more libertarian. They want little to no government intervention because they see the police state we're in and the globalization that is ruining western society and do not trust it.
Frankly I don't blame them.