iTunes was the most useable at version 9. When they added this ridiculous interface we see today where even on the "large screen" iPhone 7+ / 8+ it can show all of four albums at a time instead of 10+ in a list with scaled album art and ABSOLUTELY NO LANDSCAPE FUNCTIONALITY WHATSOEVER, it's been downhill ever since.
Remember CoverFlow? Bring that back for if someone cares about the album art. Otherwise, just give us a damn list like the iPod has had since 2001 - it's more efficient and just works better.
It's true that iTunes for Windows is an abomination, for many of the same reasons that Microsoft products for OS X and iOS were fucking horrible a few years back - they tried to extend the UI paradigms of the OS you are not running into the one you are. iTunes for Windows tried to have Mac-like window widgets and such, and it just confused the hell out of Windows users, and bloated the thing up in order to not just render a regular window view.
Microsoft has mostly fixed this with their iOS apps, but I imagine they got thousands of bug reports when they were rendering shit off the side of the screen, expecting you to just know to scroll horizontally like Windows Phone 7/8 did, and no other iOS app does.
Unfortunately, WFB kept buying other smaller banks and sticking it to all of their customers. That was the growth strategy, apparently; be a parasite on existing customers to increase capital sufficiently to buy competition, and parasitically infest their customers too.
And yet their cloud business still isn't bigger than AWS, and they still have less servers on the Internet than Linux, and secure boot still allows you to install Linux with the one-time "hassle" of disabling it (was all of three mouse clicks on a brand new Dell laptop, and you won't find a friendlier OEM to Microsoft than Dell) with no end to that policy in sight.
Nice FUD though. I'm sure disabling Secure Boot on anything but Microsoft hardware will happen Real Soon Now (tm) and all the doom-and-gloom prognostications from people on Slashdot over the past 10 years will come true...
If the best you've got is attempting (and failing) to taunt someone because of their chosen online account name, you have spectacularly failed at what you set out to accomplish, and you've done it very publicly.
Except that this is hardly unprecedented at Apple, even during the Reign of the Steve.
Remember OS X 10.5 "Leopard" ? Followed by OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" which, when introduced at WWDC, was claimed to be entirely motivated by "build a better Leopard" ?
They succeeded too. 10.6.x was an excellent release, only slightly tarnished by the absence of ZFS which was yanked out at literally the last minute due to not being able to come to terms with Sun.
The good news is that the FUD will be largely ineffective, because MPEG's biggest customers are the founders / members of the AOM that are looking to extinguish MPEG for good.
You can only spread FUD to people that don't already know better.
They're also learning the lesson that Rambus learned. Yeah, you can get a design score from one of the leading manufacturers of PC hardware standards and rake in some fat stacks of cash; but if everyone hates your breathing guts, they will do everything they can to cut you out.
I look forward to reminiscing about MPEG in the same way in 15 years when some new asshat company / organization tries to encumber the next generation of technology, or patent torpedo an industry-wide standard.
Apple is a founding member of AOM, as well as Netflix, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Hulu is a member. So that's >80% of streaming media that will absolutely support the AOM codecs.
Apple also happens to be a hardware manufacturer who makes their own mobile CPUs. So you can bet that iOS / tvOS / macOS will support the codecs.
Google also happens to be a mobile OS manufacturer, so you can bet there will be codec support in Android and ChromeOS.
Broadcom is a member, and they're currently trying to buy Qualcomm. Should that sale go through, you could bet that Qualcomm designers would get on board. Especially because ARM is a founding member, and could incorporate hardware decode into their core designs.
AMD, Intel, and Nvidia are all founding members, so that covers roughly 100% of laptops and PCs.
Samsung would basically be forced to get on board, as any relevant service would support AOM codecs, and everyone's hardware except theirs supports decode in hardware. It becomes an "adapt or die" situation - either take a pounding in your marketing when every single one of your competitors boasts several hours more playback time of UHD video on battery, or join up.
Actually this is very consistent for Chairman Pai - he's a telecom shill and (officially) former Verizon lobbyist, so both rejecting the Federal government from becoming a supplier for Verizon, as well as killing Net Neutrality is entirely consistent with serving his corporate overlord.
He can't serve two masters, and only one of those masters is paying him 30 coins of silver to sell the rest of us out.
Answering your question: electricity generation. Like it or not, the Tennessee Power Authority and the Bonneville Power Authority in the Pacific Northwest generate a shitload of electricity and wholesale it to the grid operators. Sure, there aren't really rapid advancements in that field like there are with telecommunications so it's not a perfect example (far from it, really) but it's an example of where the government has "kept pace" with the free market.
The irony though: it's not like you would have federal employees out there standing up cell masts - they would contract the whole mess out to Verizon / ATT / Sprint to use existing cell sites, and give those telcos a nice big scapegoat for any customer service complaints about service quality.
This is just a proposed government giveaway to the telcos, again. Big surprise. Instead of them footing the bill for the network rollout, the taxpayer does. And then they continue charging the shit out of us for access to it.
If it was "proven" then why aren't there Congressional hearings in front of the Justice committees? Articles of Impeachment being offered and voted on?
Oh, because all 535 members of Congress are in on it too?
You know that the 535 members of Congress can't agree on anything, no matter how unimportant or inconsequential, right?
How many times does it need to be said? Crying about the popular vote is just moving the goalposts from the election rules that have been in place since Thomas Jefferson.
I fucking hate Trump, but he got the ELECTORAL VOTES necessary to win the Presidency. If you don't like that, then work to not nominate the only person from the Democratic Party that had enough negatives to actually lose to that asshole. Or, convince the DNC to actually campaign somewhere between the mountain ranges not named Chicago. Or get them to stop trying to sell out the middle class to Wall Street yet again. Or using the middle class's children to protect "American" (read: corporate) interests abroad in the guise of national military service.
Those last two sentences apply equally to the Republican Party, if not more so. Just to be somewhat Neutral, here's an incomplete list of things the Republicans should stop doing:
- bloviating about balanced budgets and government spend while treating massive military spending as a sacred cow that must be increased while cutting everything else
- ridiculously craven jingoistic politics and the treating of hard working immigrants that just want a better life for themselves and their families as a punching bag in order to toss metaphorical "red meat" to the fraction of ignorant racists and bigots in their "base"
- pretending that religion has any place in the federal government whatsoever
Also, impeachment has a definition, with procedures defined behind it. "We don't like him" is not included in "treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors" and you should be glad for that, or every single President would constantly be having fringe cranks from the opposition party drumming up real impeachment resolutions in Congress rather than the joke speeches and stunts we get today.
If he's actually committed any of those crimes, and you have proof, call your representative and hand over the evidence. Otherwise, wait for the Office of the Independent Counsel to complete their investigation and issue their report. Please. I'd love to see that guy being perp lwaked from the White House by the FBI.
ULA even beats the GP post's price handsomely with both Delta IV Heavy ($14000/kg) and Atlas V ($8200/kg) to LEO if you put as much payload on there as it's rated for. The only reason to use Delta IV Heavy is if you have a big single payload that won't work on anything else, or you are leaving Earth orbit with something that weighs as much as 5 average sedans.
Even Saturn V, fully loaded, and adjusted for inflation, would be $3750/kg to LEO. Even the most expensive shuttle launch ever at $1.5B would have cost $54500/kg to LEO if fully loaded. Average Shuttle launch cost according to NASA was $450M, which puts the fully loaded cost at $18350/kg.
I'm not really sure what he's on about with $60k/kg to LEO, that's never been the case.
Yeah, except the numbers are actually there for Falcon 9 Heavy (if it works - we'll know more next week). http://www.nss.org/articles/fa...
1/4 the launch cost of a Delta IV Heavy while boosting over 2x the payload weight. Delta IV Heavy costs about an order of magnitue more per pound of payload.
People probably said the same thing about air travel in the 1950s. And in the 1970s it became common for everyday people. And in the 1990s it became uncommon to meet someone that hasn't traveled by air at some point if you live in an industrialized nation.
But good job staring at the metaphorical ground and never looking up at the horizon.
Not really. The FireTV "car" is trying to be able to use anybody else's "gas" and Google's gas stations keep changing out their nozzles to work with everybody but the FireTV "car" because the company that makes the FireTV "car" isn't selling Google's "car".
This would be like if Ford bought Sunoco or Chevron, and then years later decided they arbitrarily weren't going to pump gas into Toyotas any more, because Toyota dealerships aren't selling the F-150. There's still gas stations out there that will pump into your Toyota, but you are the collateral damage in a pissing contest between two corporations who can't play nice.
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iTunes was the most useable at version 9. When they added this ridiculous interface we see today where even on the "large screen" iPhone 7+ / 8+ it can show all of four albums at a time instead of 10+ in a list with scaled album art and ABSOLUTELY NO LANDSCAPE FUNCTIONALITY WHATSOEVER, it's been downhill ever since.
Remember CoverFlow? Bring that back for if someone cares about the album art. Otherwise, just give us a damn list like the iPod has had since 2001 - it's more efficient and just works better.
It's true that iTunes for Windows is an abomination, for many of the same reasons that Microsoft products for OS X and iOS were fucking horrible a few years back - they tried to extend the UI paradigms of the OS you are not running into the one you are. iTunes for Windows tried to have Mac-like window widgets and such, and it just confused the hell out of Windows users, and bloated the thing up in order to not just render a regular window view.
Microsoft has mostly fixed this with their iOS apps, but I imagine they got thousands of bug reports when they were rendering shit off the side of the screen, expecting you to just know to scroll horizontally like Windows Phone 7/8 did, and no other iOS app does.
Unfortunately, WFB kept buying other smaller banks and sticking it to all of their customers. That was the growth strategy, apparently; be a parasite on existing customers to increase capital sufficiently to buy competition, and parasitically infest their customers too.
And yet their cloud business still isn't bigger than AWS, and they still have less servers on the Internet than Linux, and secure boot still allows you to install Linux with the one-time "hassle" of disabling it (was all of three mouse clicks on a brand new Dell laptop, and you won't find a friendlier OEM to Microsoft than Dell) with no end to that policy in sight.
Nice FUD though. I'm sure disabling Secure Boot on anything but Microsoft hardware will happen Real Soon Now (tm) and all the doom-and-gloom prognostications from people on Slashdot over the past 10 years will come true...
That's what she said.
If the best you've got is attempting (and failing) to taunt someone because of their chosen online account name, you have spectacularly failed at what you set out to accomplish, and you've done it very publicly.
Well done, dipshit.
Except that this is hardly unprecedented at Apple, even during the Reign of the Steve.
Remember OS X 10.5 "Leopard" ? Followed by OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" which, when introduced at WWDC, was claimed to be entirely motivated by "build a better Leopard" ?
They succeeded too. 10.6.x was an excellent release, only slightly tarnished by the absence of ZFS which was yanked out at literally the last minute due to not being able to come to terms with Sun.
The good news is that the FUD will be largely ineffective, because MPEG's biggest customers are the founders / members of the AOM that are looking to extinguish MPEG for good.
You can only spread FUD to people that don't already know better.
The problem he is trying to solve: he's a carnivorous scavenger dinosaur looking up at a fireball descending in the sky.
Extinction for his kind is coming. And he knows it.
They're also learning the lesson that Rambus learned. Yeah, you can get a design score from one of the leading manufacturers of PC hardware standards and rake in some fat stacks of cash; but if everyone hates your breathing guts, they will do everything they can to cut you out.
I look forward to reminiscing about MPEG in the same way in 15 years when some new asshat company / organization tries to encumber the next generation of technology, or patent torpedo an industry-wide standard.
Apple is a founding member of AOM, as well as Netflix, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Hulu is a member. So that's >80% of streaming media that will absolutely support the AOM codecs.
Apple also happens to be a hardware manufacturer who makes their own mobile CPUs. So you can bet that iOS / tvOS / macOS will support the codecs.
Google also happens to be a mobile OS manufacturer, so you can bet there will be codec support in Android and ChromeOS.
Broadcom is a member, and they're currently trying to buy Qualcomm. Should that sale go through, you could bet that Qualcomm designers would get on board. Especially because ARM is a founding member, and could incorporate hardware decode into their core designs.
AMD, Intel, and Nvidia are all founding members, so that covers roughly 100% of laptops and PCs.
Samsung would basically be forced to get on board, as any relevant service would support AOM codecs, and everyone's hardware except theirs supports decode in hardware. It becomes an "adapt or die" situation - either take a pounding in your marketing when every single one of your competitors boasts several hours more playback time of UHD video on battery, or join up.
Actually this is very consistent for Chairman Pai - he's a telecom shill and (officially) former Verizon lobbyist, so both rejecting the Federal government from becoming a supplier for Verizon, as well as killing Net Neutrality is entirely consistent with serving his corporate overlord.
He can't serve two masters, and only one of those masters is paying him 30 coins of silver to sell the rest of us out.
I can't remember - where did the Internet come from again?
Oh yeah, the US Government, though it was named ARPAnet at the time.
Answering your question: electricity generation. Like it or not, the Tennessee Power Authority and the Bonneville Power Authority in the Pacific Northwest generate a shitload of electricity and wholesale it to the grid operators. Sure, there aren't really rapid advancements in that field like there are with telecommunications so it's not a perfect example (far from it, really) but it's an example of where the government has "kept pace" with the free market.
The irony though: it's not like you would have federal employees out there standing up cell masts - they would contract the whole mess out to Verizon / ATT / Sprint to use existing cell sites, and give those telcos a nice big scapegoat for any customer service complaints about service quality.
This is just a proposed government giveaway to the telcos, again. Big surprise. Instead of them footing the bill for the network rollout, the taxpayer does. And then they continue charging the shit out of us for access to it.
Yeah, Jobs was hardly perfect with product feature sets.
Remember the iPod HiFi?
Ping?
MobileMe?
G4 Cube?
Enemy? Was there a declaration of war from the Congress that everybody but you missed?
I think the word you are looking for is "rival". And countries having rivals can sometimes be a good thing - it keeps everybody honest.
If it was "proven" then why aren't there Congressional hearings in front of the Justice committees? Articles of Impeachment being offered and voted on?
Oh, because all 535 members of Congress are in on it too?
You know that the 535 members of Congress can't agree on anything, no matter how unimportant or inconsequential, right?
How many times does it need to be said? Crying about the popular vote is just moving the goalposts from the election rules that have been in place since Thomas Jefferson.
I fucking hate Trump, but he got the ELECTORAL VOTES necessary to win the Presidency. If you don't like that, then work to not nominate the only person from the Democratic Party that had enough negatives to actually lose to that asshole. Or, convince the DNC to actually campaign somewhere between the mountain ranges not named Chicago. Or get them to stop trying to sell out the middle class to Wall Street yet again. Or using the middle class's children to protect "American" (read: corporate) interests abroad in the guise of national military service.
Those last two sentences apply equally to the Republican Party, if not more so. Just to be somewhat Neutral, here's an incomplete list of things the Republicans should stop doing:
- bloviating about balanced budgets and government spend while treating massive military spending as a sacred cow that must be increased while cutting everything else
- ridiculously craven jingoistic politics and the treating of hard working immigrants that just want a better life for themselves and their families as a punching bag in order to toss metaphorical "red meat" to the fraction of ignorant racists and bigots in their "base"
- pretending that religion has any place in the federal government whatsoever
Also, impeachment has a definition, with procedures defined behind it. "We don't like him" is not included in "treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors" and you should be glad for that, or every single President would constantly be having fringe cranks from the opposition party drumming up real impeachment resolutions in Congress rather than the joke speeches and stunts we get today.
If he's actually committed any of those crimes, and you have proof, call your representative and hand over the evidence. Otherwise, wait for the Office of the Independent Counsel to complete their investigation and issue their report. Please. I'd love to see that guy being perp lwaked from the White House by the FBI.
Note: have not read TFA. But the headline is "built-in meltdown and spectre protection"
That doesn't sound like "fixed" - that sounds like "mitigated" or "avoided"
This is a hardware hack, not a proper fix.
ULA even beats the GP post's price handsomely with both Delta IV Heavy ($14000/kg) and Atlas V ($8200/kg) to LEO if you put as much payload on there as it's rated for. The only reason to use Delta IV Heavy is if you have a big single payload that won't work on anything else, or you are leaving Earth orbit with something that weighs as much as 5 average sedans.
Even Saturn V, fully loaded, and adjusted for inflation, would be $3750/kg to LEO. Even the most expensive shuttle launch ever at $1.5B would have cost $54500/kg to LEO if fully loaded. Average Shuttle launch cost according to NASA was $450M, which puts the fully loaded cost at $18350/kg.
I'm not really sure what he's on about with $60k/kg to LEO, that's never been the case.
Yeah, except the numbers are actually there for Falcon 9 Heavy (if it works - we'll know more next week). http://www.nss.org/articles/fa...
1/4 the launch cost of a Delta IV Heavy while boosting over 2x the payload weight. Delta IV Heavy costs about an order of magnitue more per pound of payload.
Sounds like progress to me (if it works).
People probably said the same thing about air travel in the 1950s. And in the 1970s it became common for everyday people. And in the 1990s it became uncommon to meet someone that hasn't traveled by air at some point if you live in an industrialized nation.
But good job staring at the metaphorical ground and never looking up at the horizon.
Not really. The FireTV "car" is trying to be able to use anybody else's "gas" and Google's gas stations keep changing out their nozzles to work with everybody but the FireTV "car" because the company that makes the FireTV "car" isn't selling Google's "car".
This would be like if Ford bought Sunoco or Chevron, and then years later decided they arbitrarily weren't going to pump gas into Toyotas any more, because Toyota dealerships aren't selling the F-150. There's still gas stations out there that will pump into your Toyota, but you are the collateral damage in a pissing contest between two corporations who can't play nice.
It's perfectly plausible that they can both be total shitheads.
Why is there this mentality that for one party to be evil, the other absolutely cannot be? It's not a god damn side of a coin.
Actually, this is more like being in a bar and seeing the two biggest assholes punching other random people in the nuts for no reason.
How does Google blocking my nephew from being able to see YouTube videos on a FireTV hurt Amazon in any way?