Animations serve a useful purpose in a UI. Humans are really bad at spotting things that have changed, so having changes move smoothly can draw your attention to the correct bit of the UI. Unfortunately, a lot of developers rush into the 'ooo shiny' approach, in much the same way that some managers add PowerPoint animations to everything.
When Windows 95 was introduced, a load of Windows users really hated the Start menu (you shut down by pressing start? WTF? And the icons are so small and hard to hit, plus you need to go through loads of layers of menus if you have a lot of apps installed!). 20 years later, and I wonder how many of them are the ones complaining that it's gone.
A few places in the UK have already started having tolls for vehicles that emit pollution at the point of use. It's not much of a stretch to imagine congestion fees for non-electric motor vehicles in urban areas. Most plug-in hybrids can manage 20-30km on the electric, which is enough for the in-city part of most trips, and the people with old cars would have a financial incentive to upgrade. This would do a huge amount to improve air quality in cities.
It's not really a billion person market. Most of those people can't afford anything that Apple produces. China's middle class is around 109M people (2015 numbers, but probably not changed by more than a few percent since then), which makes it a slightly larger market than north America (105M), but not a vastly larger one. The rest of the Asia-Pacific region in aggregate is much bigger (171M), Europe is around 194M.
Maybe he is a racist or a nationalist an Chinese people are simply less deserving of basic rights in his opinion?
I'm not sure it's racist or nationalist for someone to push his own country to respect the principles under which it was founded, yet not try to change another country to also respect those principles.
Exactly. We were all complaining about TTIP and friends because we don't like the idea of a company being able to tell a nation state how to behave. If China wants to ban the NYT then it shouldn't be up to Apple to decide not to abide by local laws, but it should be up to the US and EU governments to remember this next time they're negotiating trade treaties with China.
I'm in very similar situation to the grandparent: my desk monitor became a 4K one a couple of years back. I can't remember the exact resolution of the old one: a little bit over 1080p. It's a huge difference in terms of readability. With the 4K monitor, I can't see individual pixels unless I get a lot closer than I normally sit and text is a lot more crisp and readable. 8K wouldn't be much benefit for a monitor this size, but some of my colleagues use dual-monitor configurations with individual ones the same size as mine and a single 8K monitor that big would probably be better.
True, however Android also suffers from very long delays between serious vulnerability being found and the majority of network-connected installs being patched. The combination of that and a large number of vulnerabilities is pretty bad.
Even when things are CPU limited, you hit diminishing returns because you care about the reciprocal of the speed. A task that takes an hour and a half is a significant bottleneck. Double the speed and it's still a bottleneck at 45 minutes. Double again, and 22.5 minutes is annoying. Double again, 11.25 minutes is a pain. Double again, 5.63 is a tolerable delay. Double again, 2.82 minutes isn't really much of an improvement. One of the projects that I work on took about an hour and a half to do a clean build when I started working on it. Now it takes me about 5 minutes on my laptop. If I do the build on one of our nice build servers (24 cores, 768GB of RAM, big SSDs), then it takes 1-2 minutes, which isn't a speedup that I care about most of the time.
Ars hasn't been worth reading since Hannibal left. His were the only articles where I'd read something in a field that I knew about and not only fail to spot any glaring errors, but also learn something new. None of the other Ars authors seems to have even a vague clue about what they're writing about.
And how do you fill in the card catalogue without having to pay someone to update it? If you have a card catalogue, then every book that goes into storage needs a card written about it telling you which box it's in. When you take it out again, someone needs to update the card. If you're packing books into boxes, the time spent updating the cards takes the vast majority of the time (as it does for current inter-library loans: my mother was a librarian and hated this part of the process). In contrast, selling the books just requires piling them up on a table and having someone take money periodically.
Even if storage is free, there's a cost involved in indexing them prior to long-term storage and in retrieval. Even if that were free, if a book hasn't been requested for two years, there's a very good chance that it will never be requested again. If you sell them off, you can typically buy one new book for every 5-10 that you sell. If there's less than a 10% probability of the book being requested again then it's probably better to sell it now and buy a new copy later if there's a spike in demand.
That said, I do wish libraries would either sell all or none of the books in a series. It's fantastically annoying when they have all except the first one, or books 1, 3, 4 and 5 but not book 2 in a series. And once they've got a hole in the middle, people never make it to the end of the series because they don't want to skip one, so demand goes down for the later ones, so they get rid of those, then eventually get rid of the first one because no one wants to read the first book in a series from a library that doesn't have any of the rest.
The problem is that we're conflating the two. The answer to the first one is pretty much certainly yes. The answer to the second is a lot less clear and, given that the attack didn't require anything like the capabilities of a state-level adversary, the response is a problem. The evidence that we have for the hack shows that a script kiddie, probably in Russia, hacked the DNC. Russia might have done it as a state-sanctioned operation, but so might one of hundreds of individuals (including a load of bored teenagers).
The real story with regard to the emails is that the DNC (and, most likely, the GOP) has really crappy infosec and is basically wide open and many parts of the US government are probably in a similar situation. The NSA has been tasked with a dual mission of attack and defence and has prioritised attack the point that it has completely failed at defence.
Blaming Russia and kicking our Russian diplomats led to retaliation and made the US look stupid. Everyone knows that attribution for cyber attacks is incredibly hard and all that this has done is shown that the relevant agencies in the USA doesn't know how incompetent they are because they don't even understand the problem properly.
Why? He's acting as their agent. His job is to represent them to producers in exchange for a cut of their earnings. If he fails to get any of them jobs, then he's not doing anything technically illegal. It was only illegal in this case because he didn't even try: If he'd tried a little bit and failed completely then he'd have been covered.
On Linux, it's called a kernel panic. On OS X, it is as well but you get a tasteful grey box in the middle of the screen telling you in four languages to reboot the system.
The XBox has had a Green Screen of Death since quite early on. In one of the early demos, it blue-screened while Bill Gates was showing it off. He told the engineers that it must never blue screen again... so they made it green. I suspect that making it green on pre-release versions is simply to make it obvious that it isn't a production version that's crashed. You expect some instability if you're running a testing version and if someone takes photos of it crashing then it's easy to point at and say 'it's green, it's a beta'.
And how much did it cost and what else do you invest in? I looked at living on a canal boat a few years back, but the cost of a comfortable one was about the same as the deposit on a house and was a depreciating asset. The house was an appreciating asset.
Is it? Complete discharge is very bad for LiIon batteries. Shutting down at 30% is a good way of extending the life of the battery (and, if it doesn't have a user-replaceably battery, of the device). The real problem is the software reporting 30% and not 0% when it is about to shut down.
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Animations serve a useful purpose in a UI. Humans are really bad at spotting things that have changed, so having changes move smoothly can draw your attention to the correct bit of the UI. Unfortunately, a lot of developers rush into the 'ooo shiny' approach, in much the same way that some managers add PowerPoint animations to everything.
When Windows 95 was introduced, a load of Windows users really hated the Start menu (you shut down by pressing start? WTF? And the icons are so small and hard to hit, plus you need to go through loads of layers of menus if you have a lot of apps installed!). 20 years later, and I wonder how many of them are the ones complaining that it's gone.
A few places in the UK have already started having tolls for vehicles that emit pollution at the point of use. It's not much of a stretch to imagine congestion fees for non-electric motor vehicles in urban areas. Most plug-in hybrids can manage 20-30km on the electric, which is enough for the in-city part of most trips, and the people with old cars would have a financial incentive to upgrade. This would do a huge amount to improve air quality in cities.
The Chinese middle class is about a third the size of the US population and very slightly larger than the US middle class.
They'll sell ads to other companies that don't make any money, but expect later to be able to monetise their userbase by selling ads.
It's not really a billion person market. Most of those people can't afford anything that Apple produces. China's middle class is around 109M people (2015 numbers, but probably not changed by more than a few percent since then), which makes it a slightly larger market than north America (105M), but not a vastly larger one. The rest of the Asia-Pacific region in aggregate is much bigger (171M), Europe is around 194M.
Maybe he is a racist or a nationalist an Chinese people are simply less deserving of basic rights in his opinion?
I'm not sure it's racist or nationalist for someone to push his own country to respect the principles under which it was founded, yet not try to change another country to also respect those principles.
Exactly. We were all complaining about TTIP and friends because we don't like the idea of a company being able to tell a nation state how to behave. If China wants to ban the NYT then it shouldn't be up to Apple to decide not to abide by local laws, but it should be up to the US and EU governments to remember this next time they're negotiating trade treaties with China.
It's a Lexx reference.
I think the new version is 'Don't. Be evil.'
I'm in very similar situation to the grandparent: my desk monitor became a 4K one a couple of years back. I can't remember the exact resolution of the old one: a little bit over 1080p. It's a huge difference in terms of readability. With the 4K monitor, I can't see individual pixels unless I get a lot closer than I normally sit and text is a lot more crisp and readable. 8K wouldn't be much benefit for a monitor this size, but some of my colleagues use dual-monitor configurations with individual ones the same size as mine and a single 8K monitor that big would probably be better.
True, however Android also suffers from very long delays between serious vulnerability being found and the majority of network-connected installs being patched. The combination of that and a large number of vulnerabilities is pretty bad.
Even when things are CPU limited, you hit diminishing returns because you care about the reciprocal of the speed. A task that takes an hour and a half is a significant bottleneck. Double the speed and it's still a bottleneck at 45 minutes. Double again, and 22.5 minutes is annoying. Double again, 11.25 minutes is a pain. Double again, 5.63 is a tolerable delay. Double again, 2.82 minutes isn't really much of an improvement. One of the projects that I work on took about an hour and a half to do a clean build when I started working on it. Now it takes me about 5 minutes on my laptop. If I do the build on one of our nice build servers (24 cores, 768GB of RAM, big SSDs), then it takes 1-2 minutes, which isn't a speedup that I care about most of the time.
Ars hasn't been worth reading since Hannibal left. His were the only articles where I'd read something in a field that I knew about and not only fail to spot any glaring errors, but also learn something new. None of the other Ars authors seems to have even a vague clue about what they're writing about.
And how do you fill in the card catalogue without having to pay someone to update it? If you have a card catalogue, then every book that goes into storage needs a card written about it telling you which box it's in. When you take it out again, someone needs to update the card. If you're packing books into boxes, the time spent updating the cards takes the vast majority of the time (as it does for current inter-library loans: my mother was a librarian and hated this part of the process). In contrast, selling the books just requires piling them up on a table and having someone take money periodically.
Even if storage is free, there's a cost involved in indexing them prior to long-term storage and in retrieval. Even if that were free, if a book hasn't been requested for two years, there's a very good chance that it will never be requested again. If you sell them off, you can typically buy one new book for every 5-10 that you sell. If there's less than a 10% probability of the book being requested again then it's probably better to sell it now and buy a new copy later if there's a spike in demand.
That said, I do wish libraries would either sell all or none of the books in a series. It's fantastically annoying when they have all except the first one, or books 1, 3, 4 and 5 but not book 2 in a series. And once they've got a hole in the middle, people never make it to the end of the series because they don't want to skip one, so demand goes down for the later ones, so they get rid of those, then eventually get rid of the first one because no one wants to read the first book in a series from a library that doesn't have any of the rest.
The problem is that we're conflating the two. The answer to the first one is pretty much certainly yes. The answer to the second is a lot less clear and, given that the attack didn't require anything like the capabilities of a state-level adversary, the response is a problem. The evidence that we have for the hack shows that a script kiddie, probably in Russia, hacked the DNC. Russia might have done it as a state-sanctioned operation, but so might one of hundreds of individuals (including a load of bored teenagers).
The real story with regard to the emails is that the DNC (and, most likely, the GOP) has really crappy infosec and is basically wide open and many parts of the US government are probably in a similar situation. The NSA has been tasked with a dual mission of attack and defence and has prioritised attack the point that it has completely failed at defence.
Blaming Russia and kicking our Russian diplomats led to retaliation and made the US look stupid. Everyone knows that attribution for cyber attacks is incredibly hard and all that this has done is shown that the relevant agencies in the USA doesn't know how incompetent they are because they don't even understand the problem properly.
Why? He's acting as their agent. His job is to represent them to producers in exchange for a cut of their earnings. If he fails to get any of them jobs, then he's not doing anything technically illegal. It was only illegal in this case because he didn't even try: If he'd tried a little bit and failed completely then he'd have been covered.
How many third-party drivers do you have installed on your Mac? How many do you have installed on the Windows machines that you see crash regularly?
On Linux, it's called a kernel panic. On OS X, it is as well but you get a tasteful grey box in the middle of the screen telling you in four languages to reboot the system.
The XBox has had a Green Screen of Death since quite early on. In one of the early demos, it blue-screened while Bill Gates was showing it off. He told the engineers that it must never blue screen again... so they made it green. I suspect that making it green on pre-release versions is simply to make it obvious that it isn't a production version that's crashed. You expect some instability if you're running a testing version and if someone takes photos of it crashing then it's easy to point at and say 'it's green, it's a beta'.
And how much did it cost and what else do you invest in? I looked at living on a canal boat a few years back, but the cost of a comfortable one was about the same as the deposit on a house and was a depreciating asset. The house was an appreciating asset.
20% of $650,000 is $130,000. If you have that much spare cash lying around, you don't count as poor by most metrics.
Don't have a car?
I don't, but I still have stuff delivered, which comes along roads, and I still buy things in shops, which are stocked by vehicles driven on roads.
Don't have lawsuits?
Nope, but I still benefit in many ways from living in a society governed by the rule of law.
Is it? Complete discharge is very bad for LiIon batteries. Shutting down at 30% is a good way of extending the life of the battery (and, if it doesn't have a user-replaceably battery, of the device). The real problem is the software reporting 30% and not 0% when it is about to shut down.