You still have to prove the most-likely hypothesis is correct. And a less-likely (more complicated) hypothesis can still turn out to be the correct one.
Rational people assume the most-likely until reasonable evidence proves otherwise.
"I can't think of a single compelling reason to upgrade [to iPhone 8, or iPhone 8 Plus] from an iPhone 7 [which was launched last year]," wrote Nilay Patel of The Verge.
...the rest of that paragraph from The Verge article:
Of course, if you're upgrading from anything older than an iPhone 7, the improvements in the camera and the overall speed of the phone are going to really impress you.
So same as usual, most people don't upgrade yearly. Especially in the US with two year phone contracts. Nothing to see folks, move along.
You also have a lot of people waiting for the iPhone X.
I just replaced my two Roku4 with NVIDIA Shield. I was switching from Plex (because Plex is creepy ) to Kodi and couldn't be happier. The Shield's hardware is extremely impressive, the UI is incredibly fast. It makes the Roku4 and Plex feel awful to use. Using a shared db with Kodi solved all my issues of tracking watched status between players. No cost, no accounts, no shady Plex business, a vastly superior device, a fantastic mobile app (again, at no cost) plus the flexibility and huge amount of Add-Ons available for Kodi. There's just no comparison. If you're still using Plex, I'd really consider looking at it. There are of course, like the OP pointed out, cheaper players as well.
You don't think autonomous driving and battery tech hasn't improved dramatically since the 70s? There are some very real advances happening. Keep in mind, cars were once only for the rich, too.
My assumption is that in 100 years you'll get in a small, probably multirotor craft, tell it where you want to go, and it will take off and fly you there. Pretty good chance it might even function more like uber than be personally owned by individuals.
Keep in mind the first commercial flight was barely 100 years ago, that's a long time from now in terms of technological development, but a blink of the eye in the history of mankind.
Microsoft doesn't get the benefit of the doubt and I sacrifice nothing by just avoiding them entirely. Microsoft only cares about Linux as long as it's profitable or until they can find a way to displace it with some product they can sell you. Their interests do not inherently align with mine, they just happen to overlap somewhat at the moment.
I use Kodi without any of these pirate plugin things. I have no idea how they even work. And apparently they get shut down in a matter of weeks, anyway.
Many Apple "innovations" weren't in being the first to come up with a particular technology, it's being the first to do it extremely well and integrate it with the rest of the system. Other smartphones had fingerprint scanners before TouchID (remember the Motorola Atrix?) but do you remember how universally AWFUL fingerprint scanners were before TouchID? And I don't just mean on phones, I mean everywhere. Every awful laptop fingerprint scanner, mostly swipe sensors, that took 5 tries to get it to read. Just miserable. Now I can reach in my pocket and my phone is unlocked before it's close enough to read.
Can someone explain what this is? I found this but I don't really understand. Is this some addon to view pirated content? That article is from June 2017 but apparently the repo is already shutdown?
You think you invented touch screen cell phones in 2005?
FingerWorks, a gesture recognition company, produced a line of multi-touch products in 1998, including the iGesture Pad and TouchStream keyboard. The company was acquired by Apple in 2005.
Not to mention the real innovation was multi-touch. Touchscreens were nothing new.
A lot of proxy's will support SSL/TLS termination. A lot of web proxies support this. You use a GPO to push a trusted root to your users, then you terminate their SSL sessions and create a new tunnel using your trusted cert, then inspect the traffic contents. It's usually called "TLS Inspection" or "SSL Decryption" or something like that. By the way, I'm not making any moral judgement on if this is right or wrong.
I still get most of my news via RSS. I started with Google Reader in 2005 and have been hooked on RSS since. Once they shut it down I switched to Tiny Tiny RSS which is an open source RSS reader that you can host yourself. It even has plugin for "Google Reader Shortcuts" using j, k, v, etc.
* and everyone using Slackware, Artix, Devuan, the BSDs and every other Linux distro that has chosen a different init system. Apparently Patrick Volkerding is just a "troll" and you're the real Linux expert.
URL detection is hopelessly bad, by default sending LAN IP addresses and hostnames to your favourite search engine or even going to an Internet site with the same 2nd level domain name as an internal server unless you preface it with http:/// [http] first.
While that certainly works, in chrome just adding a forward slash ("/") at the end will trigger it, which is far easier.
"Apple's iPhone line is expected to catch up with Android phones in the area of wireless charging this year... just lay the phone down on a compatible charger mat or base or dock, and watch the battery fill up."
No we don't. Henry Ford is credited with the assembly line mass production of automobiles. Everyone knows the first car was produced by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, a Frenchman. Or did you mean Robert Anderson who invented the first electric car? Oh you meant GAS powered car, after BOTH of them? Seems like as dubious distinction as Henry Ford's now, doesn't it?
That has absolutely zero to do with my post. How much you want a calorie or how sated you are by certain calories doesn't change the fact that eating a caloric deficit will cause you to lose weight. You're talking about a psychological desire I'm talking about thermodynamics.
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Personally I'm getting paid too much to go back to school to get a graduate degree that "is required" to do what I do.
You still have to prove the most-likely hypothesis is correct. And a less-likely (more complicated) hypothesis can still turn out to be the correct one.
Rational people assume the most-likely until reasonable evidence proves otherwise.
What's interesting to me is that it's clearly China's attempt to spread FUD regarding US based tech products.
Similar, not the same. The shield hardware is vastly superior to pretty much every other android box.
*woosh*
I think a lot of environments are mostly Microsoft with a handful of Linux servers.
"I can't think of a single compelling reason to upgrade [to iPhone 8, or iPhone 8 Plus] from an iPhone 7 [which was launched last year]," wrote Nilay Patel of The Verge.
...the rest of that paragraph from The Verge article:
Of course, if you're upgrading from anything older than an iPhone 7, the improvements in the camera and the overall speed of the phone are going to really impress you.
So same as usual, most people don't upgrade yearly. Especially in the US with two year phone contracts. Nothing to see folks, move along.
You also have a lot of people waiting for the iPhone X.
I just replaced my two Roku4 with NVIDIA Shield. I was switching from Plex (because Plex is creepy ) to Kodi and couldn't be happier. The Shield's hardware is extremely impressive, the UI is incredibly fast. It makes the Roku4 and Plex feel awful to use. Using a shared db with Kodi solved all my issues of tracking watched status between players. No cost, no accounts, no shady Plex business, a vastly superior device, a fantastic mobile app (again, at no cost) plus the flexibility and huge amount of Add-Ons available for Kodi. There's just no comparison. If you're still using Plex, I'd really consider looking at it. There are of course, like the OP pointed out, cheaper players as well.
You don't think autonomous driving and battery tech hasn't improved dramatically since the 70s? There are some very real advances happening. Keep in mind, cars were once only for the rich, too.
My assumption is that in 100 years you'll get in a small, probably multirotor craft, tell it where you want to go, and it will take off and fly you there. Pretty good chance it might even function more like uber than be personally owned by individuals.
Keep in mind the first commercial flight was barely 100 years ago, that's a long time from now in terms of technological development, but a blink of the eye in the history of mankind.
Microsoft doesn't get the benefit of the doubt and I sacrifice nothing by just avoiding them entirely. Microsoft only cares about Linux as long as it's profitable or until they can find a way to displace it with some product they can sell you. Their interests do not inherently align with mine, they just happen to overlap somewhat at the moment.
I use Kodi without any of these pirate plugin things. I have no idea how they even work. And apparently they get shut down in a matter of weeks, anyway.
Huh? Regardless of what carriers and OEMs do later, it's still "starting over". I think it's pretty safe to say that Google has learned quite a bit.
only dedicated data centers with thousands of ASICs
Depends on what you're mining. Ethereum for example is designed specifically to be ASIC resistant. That's what it's still mined on GPUs.
Many Apple "innovations" weren't in being the first to come up with a particular technology, it's being the first to do it extremely well and integrate it with the rest of the system. Other smartphones had fingerprint scanners before TouchID (remember the Motorola Atrix?) but do you remember how universally AWFUL fingerprint scanners were before TouchID? And I don't just mean on phones, I mean everywhere. Every awful laptop fingerprint scanner, mostly swipe sensors, that took 5 tries to get it to read. Just miserable. Now I can reach in my pocket and my phone is unlocked before it's close enough to read.
Exactly what I assume Google Fuchsia will be.
Can someone explain what this is? I found this but I don't really understand. Is this some addon to view pirated content? That article is from June 2017 but apparently the repo is already shutdown?
FingerWorks, a gesture recognition company, produced a line of multi-touch products in 1998, including the iGesture Pad and TouchStream keyboard. The company was acquired by Apple in 2005.
Not to mention the real innovation was multi-touch. Touchscreens were nothing new.
A lot of proxy's will support SSL/TLS termination. A lot of web proxies support this. You use a GPO to push a trusted root to your users, then you terminate their SSL sessions and create a new tunnel using your trusted cert, then inspect the traffic contents. It's usually called "TLS Inspection" or "SSL Decryption" or something like that. By the way, I'm not making any moral judgement on if this is right or wrong.
I still get most of my news via RSS. I started with Google Reader in 2005 and have been hooked on RSS since. Once they shut it down I switched to Tiny Tiny RSS which is an open source RSS reader that you can host yourself. It even has plugin for "Google Reader Shortcuts" using j, k, v, etc.
* and everyone using Slackware, Artix, Devuan, the BSDs and every other Linux distro that has chosen a different init system. Apparently Patrick Volkerding is just a "troll" and you're the real Linux expert.
When I type in a URL on my own LAN, I really *don't* to be feeding that URL into a search engine
In Chrome, if you're typing a URL and you want to be explicit, simply add a forward slash at the end, i.e., "internal-host/".
URL detection is hopelessly bad, by default sending LAN IP addresses and hostnames to your favourite search engine or even going to an Internet site with the same 2nd level domain name as an internal server unless you preface it with http:/// [http] first.
While that certainly works, in chrome just adding a forward slash ("/") at the end will trigger it, which is far easier.
"Apple's iPhone line is expected to catch up with Android phones in the area of wireless charging this year... just lay the phone down on a compatible charger mat or base or dock, and watch the battery fill up."
So, exactly what I do already?
No we don't. Henry Ford is credited with the assembly line mass production of automobiles. Everyone knows the first car was produced by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, a Frenchman. Or did you mean Robert Anderson who invented the first electric car? Oh you meant GAS powered car, after BOTH of them? Seems like as dubious distinction as Henry Ford's now, doesn't it?
That has absolutely zero to do with my post. How much you want a calorie or how sated you are by certain calories doesn't change the fact that eating a caloric deficit will cause you to lose weight. You're talking about a psychological desire I'm talking about thermodynamics.