It's clear that it's time to grab the old 6502 design and modernize it â" let's call it the 656464. A 7nm, 64-core, 64-bit version (basically change nothing else other than needed glue between the chips, memory linkages, and the instruction width), with a decent cache attached, would not take up all that much die space, and would be really interesting, albeit slow in many ways due to a good number of modern tricks not being in place. But without those tricks many security issues they cause could be avoided, and they could be added in to later versions after extensive vetting. (And yes, RISC-V could be a step this way.)
Unless there is a mechanism to keep non-workers out of neighborhoods where workers live, there will be massive crime. We'll have a population of people who have the basics met, but who won't have extra money for luxuries (or whatever is a step up from basic) and who will also have all the time in the world on their hands. Resentment will build, boredom will take over, and workers will regularly come home to find their homes looted, with cops who will care less about it than even now. Sounds fun, man.
This tell you all you need to know â" ads are now officially surveillance tools. Why they'd admit such a thing is unclear. Continue to block, block, block away.
Rather than, ""Every single link to non-trusted websites should open, by default, in a Private/Incognito window," it should read, ""Every single link should open, by default, in a Private/Incognito window." In fact, there should be no way for a website to determine where else you've been. Sandbox everything; it's the only way to force advertisers and tracking companies to do things differently.
The real issue is probably something utterly unrelated. Beijing is simply using this as leverage to get something else out of Apple that they want (which is probably an end-around when it comes to encryption). It's all about the long game.
Use particular browsers for particular sites. A feature I'd love for a browser to have would be something in-between the "everything goes" mode and Incognito mode. Something that siloed each site, letting it store data from itself but not see what anything else was doing, would be absolutely fantastic. Each site you visited would be told, in effect, that the only site you ever visited was theirs.
Having seen the bloom of CPU architectures in the 80s and 90s, and the effective monoculture we have now on the performance end of things, it would be interesting to see competing models and new attempts start popping up here and there. Everyone points to Apple's A-series as possibly moving to the desktop, but why just them? The world worked just fine when there was competition â" x86 vs 68k, PPC vs Alpha vs x86, etc. etc. Good things could grow if Intel would no longer be the 500-lb beast.
The Fascist nature of Earth's government had a double purpose â" keep down the masses, encourage the best and brightest to want to flee and give away their skills and work.
It's simple â" get people used to not being able to block content sent to them, and you'll get people who won't say boo when government-required tracking software is mandatory on any net-connected device. When people don't believe that what belongs to them is theirs, there are amazing things you can get done.
I have heard an argument from the corporate IT side that Apple needs to continue to offer the 16gb model for the sake of corporate clients, who don't want to stuff them full of data or apps, but want to tightly control what apps are on them, and need little more room for anything else. As they're not going to make one just for corporations (this is Apple, after all â" scaling & possible scaling down the road, or they're not going to do it), they might as well make it the baseline version.
5S: performance is just as good if not better (Safari really is better) â" I'm happy about that. Battery life, however, is much worse than under 7. I could go 2 days under 7 without recharging, so long as I used it for light browsing, texting, and a few calls. The same usage under 8 means I have to recharge at least once a day, and that is with pretty much everything turned off in the background. I'm not so happy about that.
x1440 is OK, but I'd still prefer the 16:10 to 16:9. x1600 would be the next best step to preserve that view. More vertical pixels is good, but the view is still squished when the horizontal is taken into account.
Why x1080 when x1200 works so, so much better? Finding an affordable monitor with useful vertical space is getting difficult. There are a good number of people who use their boxen to do something more useful than watching movies.
If the quality of results could be dialed back to 2000â"2004 or so, that would be nice. Also, when I ask for a specific string, that is what I am asking for. Please don't give me something else...
Here's the fun part: most people that make $400,000 live like people with $25,000; they're also up to their eyeballs in debt, they're just doing it with the same sorts of things, only (marginally) better. They could be living like kings with what they have, if they'd just drive basic cars and live in decent houses, but the vast majority feel the need to signal what they own, and in so doing, leave themselves just as badly off as those supposedly below them. Those in the top range may have more access to credit, but they, in many cases, have no more liquidity than those at the lower end. Stupid, right? But it is how it is.
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That hadn't come to mind. Good call.
It's clear that it's time to grab the old 6502 design and modernize it â" let's call it the 656464. A 7nm, 64-core, 64-bit version (basically change nothing else other than needed glue between the chips, memory linkages, and the instruction width), with a decent cache attached, would not take up all that much die space, and would be really interesting, albeit slow in many ways due to a good number of modern tricks not being in place. But without those tricks many security issues they cause could be avoided, and they could be added in to later versions after extensive vetting. (And yes, RISC-V could be a step this way.)
Unless there is a mechanism to keep non-workers out of neighborhoods where workers live, there will be massive crime. We'll have a population of people who have the basics met, but who won't have extra money for luxuries (or whatever is a step up from basic) and who will also have all the time in the world on their hands. Resentment will build, boredom will take over, and workers will regularly come home to find their homes looted, with cops who will care less about it than even now. Sounds fun, man.
Paging Wittgenstein!
This tell you all you need to know â" ads are now officially surveillance tools. Why they'd admit such a thing is unclear. Continue to block, block, block away.
Rather than, ""Every single link to non-trusted websites should open, by default, in a Private/Incognito window," it should read, ""Every single link should open, by default, in a Private/Incognito window." In fact, there should be no way for a website to determine where else you've been. Sandbox everything; it's the only way to force advertisers and tracking companies to do things differently.
...playing TF2 for free. Later, Blizz!
Cookies, etc., should never be able to see each other without permission. Let's hope this trend continues.
The real issue is probably something utterly unrelated. Beijing is simply using this as leverage to get something else out of Apple that they want (which is probably an end-around when it comes to encryption). It's all about the long game.
Use particular browsers for particular sites. A feature I'd love for a browser to have would be something in-between the "everything goes" mode and Incognito mode. Something that siloed each site, letting it store data from itself but not see what anything else was doing, would be absolutely fantastic. Each site you visited would be told, in effect, that the only site you ever visited was theirs.
A modern take on the problems of interacting with AI, to be sure.
Having seen the bloom of CPU architectures in the 80s and 90s, and the effective monoculture we have now on the performance end of things, it would be interesting to see competing models and new attempts start popping up here and there. Everyone points to Apple's A-series as possibly moving to the desktop, but why just them? The world worked just fine when there was competition â" x86 vs 68k, PPC vs Alpha vs x86, etc. etc. Good things could grow if Intel would no longer be the 500-lb beast.
The Fascist nature of Earth's government had a double purpose â" keep down the masses, encourage the best and brightest to want to flee and give away their skills and work.
It's simple â" get people used to not being able to block content sent to them, and you'll get people who won't say boo when government-required tracking software is mandatory on any net-connected device. When people don't believe that what belongs to them is theirs, there are amazing things you can get done.
I have heard an argument from the corporate IT side that Apple needs to continue to offer the 16gb model for the sake of corporate clients, who don't want to stuff them full of data or apps, but want to tightly control what apps are on them, and need little more room for anything else. As they're not going to make one just for corporations (this is Apple, after all â" scaling & possible scaling down the road, or they're not going to do it), they might as well make it the baseline version.
ZAngband is great. And needs an update...
>A good keyboard has dampened keys that don't make noise. Wrong beyond words.
Check out geekhack and Deskthority. You might be surprised.
5S: performance is just as good if not better (Safari really is better) â" I'm happy about that. Battery life, however, is much worse than under 7. I could go 2 days under 7 without recharging, so long as I used it for light browsing, texting, and a few calls. The same usage under 8 means I have to recharge at least once a day, and that is with pretty much everything turned off in the background. I'm not so happy about that.
x1440 is OK, but I'd still prefer the 16:10 to 16:9. x1600 would be the next best step to preserve that view. More vertical pixels is good, but the view is still squished when the horizontal is taken into account.
Why x1080 when x1200 works so, so much better? Finding an affordable monitor with useful vertical space is getting difficult. There are a good number of people who use their boxen to do something more useful than watching movies.
If the quality of results could be dialed back to 2000â"2004 or so, that would be nice. Also, when I ask for a specific string, that is what I am asking for. Please don't give me something else...
You're probably thinking of Beneath Apple DOS. Beneath Apple ProDOS is also quite good.
Here's the fun part: most people that make $400,000 live like people with $25,000; they're also up to their eyeballs in debt, they're just doing it with the same sorts of things, only (marginally) better . They could be living like kings with what they have, if they'd just drive basic cars and live in decent houses, but the vast majority feel the need to signal what they own, and in so doing, leave themselves just as badly off as those supposedly below them. Those in the top range may have more access to credit, but they, in many cases, have no more liquidity than those at the lower end. Stupid, right? But it is how it is.
I'd be happy with a Pip-Boy equivalent. Then I could ditch the phone taking up room in my pocket, too.