>> Beyond money, the measure would: Direct NASA to continue working on the Space Launch System and Orion multi-purpose vehicle that are the linchpins of a planned mission to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030s.
REALLY dumb to lock them into a particular vehicle and program. Especially one that is so outdated already. There are FAR better, cheaper and quicker alternatives to get to Mars already out there: http://www.marssociety.org/
>> In fairness, F1 racing pretty much compels this. True but only within a very narrow set of parameters.
>> You can't market your way onto the front row of the grid. No but it seems clear that you can buy your way onto it. I think Apple have more than enough money to do that if they wanted. My guess is that they don't really care at all about what happens with the Formula1 team, and are buying McLaren entirely for the road car division and to get their foothold in the automated/advanced tech car industry with an already established prestige brand. I guess Apple could just buy the road car part including the brand name, but not the racing team. Assuming the racing team comes with whatever they buy, I'd say there would be a 50/50 chance that they will simply stop funding the Formula1 team if they can't simply sell it off to get run under a different name.
New Zealand. I think we can give him a free pass because NZ are still part of the commonwealth (so the Queen is their head of state too:-) ), and he set up the company in the UK.
>> today, a Lenovo spokesperson claimed the Chinese giant "does not intentionally block customers using other operating systems on its devices and is fully committed to providing Linux certifications and installation guidance on a wide range of products."
Thats great. I'm sure that Lenovo are right now working hard to rush a new unlocked version of the BIOS out that fixes all the issues.
I'm not so sure about 4k needing much more then regular HD, because sites like Netflix are always gonna have to support people with the least bandwidth, so that means they're gonna compress the hell out of everything. I'm betting that the only way 4k is ever gonna look noticeably better than 1080 is if you have a 4k BluRay, or an OTA antenna and the TV companies ever start producing/broadcasting in 4k. TV over cable or the internet is gonna be compressed to hell for bandwidth reasons (like it already is), so if those are your main/only sources then in terms of picture quality, a new 4k TV wont be any better than the 1080 one its replacing.
No, Lenovo pruposely using misleading advertising and selling their product as being a PC, when it's clearly not able to do anything other than only run windows, like one of those crappy surface book things that Microsoft make.
It isn't jsut HDMI 2.0a that you need, the GPU has to be capable of supporting/outputting that resolution. One of the factors involved there is the amount of video memory it has. I would be VERY surprised if the current PS4 hardware could output 4K at all.
You obviously have never owned a BMW, Porsche, Mercedes, etc etc etc. For example, go try and buy an off-the-shelf ZF transmission and replace the one in your car, even though it uses the identical transmission.The car won't even power on past its startup check let alone let you start the motor. You need to buy the one from the registered dealer which is 3X as expensive just because they can get away with it. Literally the only difference is the right ID code programmed into the transmission's EEPROM. And no the dealer won't reflash your stock one even though they have all the equipment to, and that would fix it straight away.
I'm sure that if Apple really wanted to, they could just keep upping the offer until it's impossible for Mclaren to say no, but I REALLY hope it doesn't go through. From literally hundreds in the 50's, McLaren are one of the very few remaining actually British prestige car companies. Rolls Royce, Mini are owned by BMW (German), Bentley is owned by VW (German), Jaguar is owned by Tata (Indian), Lotus is owned by Proton holdings (Malaysian) and as far as I can tell, Aston Martin is actually a mostly Italian/Arab consortium. The only other still truly British sports car company that I can think of that actually makes cars is Morgan (Who knows whats happening with Noble and TVR, they were always very low-volume anyway). Also, McLaren are beyond obsessive about good engineering and true craftsmanship. I'm sure that under Apple/American management, they will be "educated" to be a lot more "pragmatic" about costs vs. perceived quality through branding/advertising vs actual quality through engineering.
My definition of true 4k (and I suspect most people's) is something that was rendered at 4k, not rendered at a lower resolution, then scaled/interpolated up. i.e. lossless rather than lossy.
Wait so the new PS4 is not actually rendering at 4k, it's just interpolating/upscaling? *sigh*. This reminds me of the same dirty tricks TV manufacturers used when HD was the next big deal. Tons of LCD TVs being sold as "HD-ready" and "Blu-Ray compatible" yet their panels had native resolutions much lower than 1080.
Android actively supports developers. The toolchain is free, and you can just switch any android device into developer mode then you can sideload anything you want, and it contains helpful developer tools right in the OS.
Unless you pay crazy money to Apple to get a special developer version of the iPhone and the tools, You can't even write or sideload your own app on your own damn iPhone. All regular iPhones can do is download apps from the store. Fuck Apple.
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I for one wouldn't get into a self-driving uber let alone a self-flying one.
NK represents a whole country of people that for the first 6 months will actually believe the targetted advertising claims.
I like your thinking sir.
Convenience to the customer is everything.
>> which was dispatched from the mainland to the island, arriving far more quickly than it would've taken a boat to get there.
Drones are slow. Just wait until I launch my parcel cannon service. I'm thinking of calling it TNT Express.
> I am going to be pissed if FCC decides to sell the HD airwaves to the wireless carriers.
What? Is that actually being considered?
>> Beyond money, the measure would: Direct NASA to continue working on the Space Launch System and Orion multi-purpose vehicle that are the linchpins of a planned mission to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030s.
REALLY dumb to lock them into a particular vehicle and program. Especially one that is so outdated already. There are FAR better, cheaper and quicker alternatives to get to Mars already out there:
http://www.marssociety.org/
You don't get the same experience running under an emulator.
Don't forget another $700 for a developer version of an iPhone.
>> In fairness, F1 racing pretty much compels this.
True but only within a very narrow set of parameters.
>> You can't market your way onto the front row of the grid.
No but it seems clear that you can buy your way onto it. I think Apple have more than enough money to do that if they wanted.
My guess is that they don't really care at all about what happens with the Formula1 team, and are buying McLaren entirely for the road car division and to get their foothold in the automated/advanced tech car industry with an already established prestige brand.
I guess Apple could just buy the road car part including the brand name, but not the racing team. Assuming the racing team comes with whatever they buy, I'd say there would be a 50/50 chance that they will simply stop funding the Formula1 team if they can't simply sell it off to get run under a different name.
New Zealand. I think we can give him a free pass because NZ are still part of the commonwealth (so the Queen is their head of state too :-) ), and he set up the company in the UK.
Are such DNA changes hereditary? i.e. does a smoker pass damaged DNA on to their kids (at conception)?
>> today, a Lenovo spokesperson claimed the Chinese giant "does not intentionally block customers using other operating systems on its devices and is fully committed to providing Linux certifications and installation guidance on a wide range of products."
Thats great. I'm sure that Lenovo are right now working hard to rush a new unlocked version of the BIOS out that fixes all the issues.
I'm not so sure about 4k needing much more then regular HD, because sites like Netflix are always gonna have to support people with the least bandwidth, so that means they're gonna compress the hell out of everything.
I'm betting that the only way 4k is ever gonna look noticeably better than 1080 is if you have a 4k BluRay, or an OTA antenna and the TV companies ever start producing/broadcasting in 4k.
TV over cable or the internet is gonna be compressed to hell for bandwidth reasons (like it already is), so if those are your main/only sources then in terms of picture quality, a new 4k TV wont be any better than the 1080 one its replacing.
Google are actually out there doing it.
No, Lenovo pruposely using misleading advertising and selling their product as being a PC, when it's clearly not able to do anything other than only run windows, like one of those crappy surface book things that Microsoft make.
It isn't jsut HDMI 2.0a that you need, the GPU has to be capable of supporting/outputting that resolution. One of the factors involved there is the amount of video memory it has.
I would be VERY surprised if the current PS4 hardware could output 4K at all.
You obviously have never owned a BMW, Porsche, Mercedes, etc etc etc.
For example, go try and buy an off-the-shelf ZF transmission and replace the one in your car, even though it uses the identical transmission.The car won't even power on past its startup check let alone let you start the motor. You need to buy the one from the registered dealer which is 3X as expensive just because they can get away with it. Literally the only difference is the right ID code programmed into the transmission's EEPROM. And no the dealer won't reflash your stock one even though they have all the equipment to, and that would fix it straight away.
Not that I like Microsoft, but at least they seem to be saying they will always render at 4k. Maybe its all just cleverer weasel words.
I'm sure that if Apple really wanted to, they could just keep upping the offer until it's impossible for Mclaren to say no, but I REALLY hope it doesn't go through.
From literally hundreds in the 50's, McLaren are one of the very few remaining actually British prestige car companies.
Rolls Royce, Mini are owned by BMW (German), Bentley is owned by VW (German), Jaguar is owned by Tata (Indian), Lotus is owned by Proton holdings (Malaysian) and as far as I can tell, Aston Martin is actually a mostly Italian/Arab consortium.
The only other still truly British sports car company that I can think of that actually makes cars is Morgan (Who knows whats happening with Noble and TVR, they were always very low-volume anyway).
Also, McLaren are beyond obsessive about good engineering and true craftsmanship. I'm sure that under Apple/American management, they will be "educated" to be a lot more "pragmatic" about costs vs. perceived quality through branding/advertising vs actual quality through engineering.
My definition of true 4k (and I suspect most people's) is something that was rendered at 4k, not rendered at a lower resolution, then scaled/interpolated up. i.e. lossless rather than lossy.
Even that doesn;t solve this issue:
>> the BIOS is also locked down so it could not be turned off.
The article is saying that Lenovo don't allow the owner to access the relevant bios settings.
The way I read it is that the hardware is not actually capable of true 4k.
Wait so the new PS4 is not actually rendering at 4k, it's just interpolating/upscaling? *sigh*.
This reminds me of the same dirty tricks TV manufacturers used when HD was the next big deal. Tons of LCD TVs being sold as "HD-ready" and "Blu-Ray compatible" yet their panels had native resolutions much lower than 1080.
Android actively supports developers. The toolchain is free, and you can just switch any android device into developer mode then you can sideload anything you want, and it contains helpful developer tools right in the OS.
Unless you pay crazy money to Apple to get a special developer version of the iPhone and the tools, You can't even write or sideload your own app on your own damn iPhone. All regular iPhones can do is download apps from the store. Fuck Apple.
> You buy a car from X company and can get replacement parts from anybody.
Thats absolutely not true. Most car manufacturers use slightly customized off-the-shelf parts exactly to stop you doing that.