Other than being a first class engineer and proven visionary?
You are a massive retard if you think he has any vision. Jobs had the vision. This moron was still pushing the Apple II well after it was obsolete. Every venture this guy has been in after he left Apple has been a massive failure.
Why don't you Log In and Repeat that Post, COWARD?
I've attended two talks by him in person, some fifteen years apart, and they were essentially identical, filled with the same anecdotes about events from the 1970s, which were also in his biography.
Because that's what the people who ask him to speak at these events always want to hear.
Fix the music industry's (and Apple's) focus on mp3 first
Apple has never been focused on MP3. They use AAC (which is an industry-standard CODEC that is demonstrably far superior to MP3 at any given bitrate below about 160 kbps), and ALAC, which is Lossless.
Just put aptX on Bluetooth like most decent quality Headphones and smart phones have. My Samsung Note 4 has supported aptX for almost 2 years now.
Gee, keep up with old technology....
I believe that the BT 5 audio standard is UNCOMPRESSED (or at least Lossless). That isn't possible without improving the underlying bitrate, which I believe BT 5 offers.
"It appears that Bluetooth 5.0 may provide support for higher quality audio"
So the sane decision is to wait until BT5.0 is out, widely adopted, and stable, before cutting the cord, yes?
Sure. And since "widely adopted" means that the Device OEMs, not the Earbud OEMs, will drive that; how does one avoid the "Chicken v. Egg" problem that has doomed many a nascient technology for no good TECHNICAL reason?
From what I have read, Apple is taking care of the "adoption" by supplying BT 5 earbuds with the new iPhone. And when Apple starts shipping iPhones (and presumably iPads and iPod Touches and Macs?) with BT 5, two things will happen:
1. Every single mobile device will also adopt BT 5 next model iteration. Don't EVEN think that won't happen.
2. A metric buttload of BT 5 headphones/earbuds and adapters will appear, magically taking care of the "widely adopted" issue.
Who left Apple more than 30 years ago, and hasn't done anything since.
He stopped working day-to-day at Apple in the early 90's; but in no way would I characterize his Post-Apple endeavors as "not doing anything". Far from it. He just doesn't self-aggrandize; so most people never hear of the many, many things he has done after leaving his day-to-day job at Apple.
When I take something like Ketamine that neutralizes my depression completely,
Do you find that Ketamine works better than Memantine (Namenda?).
I have a friend who is bipolar, but is constantly SEVERELY pegged-out on the Depression side of things, to the point of being basically completely non-functional. He was helped GREATLY by Memantine for about a year, but then it Just. Stopped. Working.
They're called hobbies. I have many and I enjoy my time off when I get it.
"On my planet, "to rest" is to rest, to cease using energy. To me it is quite illogical to run up and down on green grass USING energy instead of saving it." - Mr. Spock, TOS ep. 15, "Shore Leave"
So let me get this straight: We all have to worry about Hairspray, Cow Farts, and every other perceived man-made cause of "Climate Change" (f/k/a "Global Warming"); but now we want to intentionally "pollute" the ionosphere?
If you're referring to Ctrl+Insert for copy and Shift+Insert for paste
No, it's mainly the use of Enter (Return) rather than Ctrl-C for Copy that drives me nuts.
I suppose you will say that "Return" (Enter) is simply "Accepting" the IMPLIED "Copy" that follows the separate "Mark" Action; but would it have killed them to include keybindings for Ctrl-C,X,V,Z for people who are going back and forth between a GUI OS like Windows and PowerShell?
After 20 years of MS trying to kill the shell, they relented and decided the Windows platform needed one. But in typical MS style, they asked themselves "How can we make a shell that's notably different from everything else that already works?" and someone piped up "OOP is the Way of Everything." Welcome to another episode of Redmond: Not Invented Here Syndrome.
And if "DOS is indeed DEAD", why, oh, why would you do something as RETARDED as using its horridly non-standard Copy/Paste keystrokes?!? Especially in a Shell that is presumably going to be used in a largely GUI OS???
Ugh, PS is horrendous - especially trying to learn the f***ed up way it works.
But on Windoze hosts you have nothing else command line wise to manage AD and Exchange (mostly what I punish my self with).
It's object oriented. If you don't have a even a basic understanding of how objects work, of course it's going to be confusing. Once you break past that wall however, you find a well documented and sane terminal. Sadly many think "different" = "bad".
No.
It's just bloody OBNOXIOUS. Full Stop.
Plus there's shit like a Suite of Cmdlets where MOST of them will accept a "DOS Path" as well as a UNC Path, and other Cmdlets in the same Suite will NOT accept UNC Paths. And FFS, it's 2016, why in THE FUCK don't UNC Paths work EVERYWHERE in Windows???
And? Won't this still require fiber optic connections between equipment?
This looks to be a new type of transponder not a new type of cable.
Fibre optic cables usually hook up to a fibre optic transceiver that has fancy lasers on it made on a different process to digital silicon chips, that then has to hook up to a comms chip, thus adding cost.
The silicon photonics just announced involves building a fibre optic transceiver on a silicon chip process so it can be integrated with the associated digital logic, eliminating unnecessary hardware and more closely coupling the data handling hardware with the fibre link.
Yep. NOW you will see the true advantage of LightPeak/Thunderbolt.
Apple is full of discarded/dead enterprise-level technologies. Just look at Web Objects/EOF. Now consider what came before it. Now consider that you cannot even run those older OS's/systems inside virtual machines -- I think 10.7 was the first one that you could legally license for use in a virtual machine, and every Apple-specific technology was dead by then.
Every OS is full of discarded/dead "enterprise-level" technologies, FFS! OS X/macOS is, on balance, pretty much the same as every other modern, overbloated OS (Linux included).
I don't think you've even been able to buy WebObjects for over a decade; and if OS X/macOS SERVER still includes a limited license for it (which it very well may not at this point), that's about the extent of continuing WO support.
But WO was some pretty cool stuff in the day; too bad it didn't see wider adoption.
You are dead wrong about the virtualization licensing for OS X/macOS: it is actually worse than you misstated. Unless Apple has recently changed their Virtualization stance, there is only ONE version of OS X that is allowed to be virtualized: OS X SERVER 10.6.8 You can actually STILL order a DVD Install disc of that version from Apple Tech Support. And you can install it on a VM.
which no one knows how to fix, and which affect all ARM-based devices, including iOS devices.
How do you know that?
Apparently you don't know that, unlike your typical Android OEM, Apple holds one of only a few "Architecture" licenses from ARM, and thus can, and DOES, actually DESIGNS THEIR OWN ARM CORES FROM THE GROUND UP.
So, unless you actually have PROOF of this working on an iOS device, you shouldn't just lump them in with all the Android devices, just because they share (mist of) a common instruction set.
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Other than being a first class engineer and proven visionary?
You are a massive retard if you think he has any vision. Jobs had the vision. This moron was still pushing the Apple II well after it was obsolete. Every venture this guy has been in after he left Apple has been a massive failure.
Why don't you Log In and Repeat that Post, COWARD?
I've attended two talks by him in person, some fifteen years apart, and they were essentially identical, filled with the same anecdotes about events from the 1970s, which were also in his biography.
Because that's what the people who ask him to speak at these events always want to hear.
He also founded CL 9, maker of the first programmable universal remote control.
Among many other things.
Sounds good ... if there isn't a corresponding increase in battery consumption.
(i.e. you can't get something for nothing, especially when they constantly try to make phones thinner at the same time for some stupid reason)
From what I have read, Apple will be using a new, lower-power BT standard that boasts something like 4 X the battery life of current BT.
Fix the music industry's (and Apple's) focus on mp3 first
Apple has never been focused on MP3. They use AAC (which is an industry-standard CODEC that is demonstrably far superior to MP3 at any given bitrate below about 160 kbps), and ALAC, which is Lossless.
So, DO try to keep up with 2003, will ya?
Just put aptX on Bluetooth like most decent quality Headphones and smart phones have. My Samsung Note 4 has supported aptX for almost 2 years now.
Gee, keep up with old technology....
I believe that the BT 5 audio standard is UNCOMPRESSED (or at least Lossless). That isn't possible without improving the underlying bitrate, which I believe BT 5 offers.
"It appears that Bluetooth 5.0 may provide support for higher quality audio"
So the sane decision is to wait until BT5.0 is out, widely adopted, and stable, before cutting the cord, yes?
Sure. And since "widely adopted" means that the Device OEMs, not the Earbud OEMs, will drive that; how does one avoid the "Chicken v. Egg" problem that has doomed many a nascient technology for no good TECHNICAL reason?
From what I have read, Apple is taking care of the "adoption" by supplying BT 5 earbuds with the new iPhone. And when Apple starts shipping iPhones (and presumably iPads and iPod Touches and Macs?) with BT 5, two things will happen:
1. Every single mobile device will also adopt BT 5 next model iteration. Don't EVEN think that won't happen.
2. A metric buttload of BT 5 headphones/earbuds and adapters will appear, magically taking care of the "widely adopted" issue.
Who left Apple more than 30 years ago, and hasn't done anything since.
He stopped working day-to-day at Apple in the early 90's; but in no way would I characterize his Post-Apple endeavors as "not doing anything". Far from it. He just doesn't self-aggrandize; so most people never hear of the many, many things he has done after leaving his day-to-day job at Apple.
bet the results are irreproducible and thus not science at all.
Sure they are. You can even have them published in The Journal of Irreproducible Results!
When I take something like Ketamine that neutralizes my depression completely,
Do you find that Ketamine works better than Memantine (Namenda?).
I have a friend who is bipolar, but is constantly SEVERELY pegged-out on the Depression side of things, to the point of being basically completely non-functional. He was helped GREATLY by Memantine for about a year, but then it Just. Stopped. Working.
Yep. Evidently scientists have to do something. Sometimes the only science that's getting done is the science of getting funded. :)
That needs to be added to the Slashot QOTD Database!
They're called hobbies. I have many and I enjoy my time off when I get it.
"On my planet, "to rest" is to rest, to cease using energy. To me it is quite illogical to run up and down on green grass USING energy instead of saving it." - Mr. Spock, TOS ep. 15, "Shore Leave"
Russia is today a major supplier of vacuum tubes used in such things as guitar amplifiers and Faux audiophile equipment.
FTFY.
The military just wants to be able to do it on their schedule and with more intensity.
Yeah, so it'll be JUST like what the Sun does.
Oh, wait...
So let me get this straight: We all have to worry about Hairspray, Cow Farts, and every other perceived man-made cause of "Climate Change" (f/k/a "Global Warming"); but now we want to intentionally "pollute" the ionosphere?
What could possibly go wrong?
If you're referring to Ctrl+Insert for copy and Shift+Insert for paste
No, it's mainly the use of Enter (Return) rather than Ctrl-C for Copy that drives me nuts.
I suppose you will say that "Return" (Enter) is simply "Accepting" the IMPLIED "Copy" that follows the separate "Mark" Action; but would it have killed them to include keybindings for Ctrl-C,X,V,Z for people who are going back and forth between a GUI OS like Windows and PowerShell?
After 20 years of MS trying to kill the shell, they relented and decided the Windows platform needed one. But in typical MS style, they asked themselves "How can we make a shell that's notably different from everything else that already works?" and someone piped up "OOP is the Way of Everything." Welcome to another episode of Redmond: Not Invented Here Syndrome.
And if "DOS is indeed DEAD", why, oh, why would you do something as RETARDED as using its horridly non-standard Copy/Paste keystrokes?!? Especially in a Shell that is presumably going to be used in a largely GUI OS???
Ugh, PS is horrendous - especially trying to learn the f***ed up way it works.
But on Windoze hosts you have nothing else command line wise to manage AD and Exchange (mostly what I punish my self with).
It's object oriented. If you don't have a even a basic understanding of how objects work, of course it's going to be confusing. Once you break past that wall however, you find a well documented and sane terminal. Sadly many think "different" = "bad".
No.
It's just bloody OBNOXIOUS. Full Stop.
Plus there's shit like a Suite of Cmdlets where MOST of them will accept a "DOS Path" as well as a UNC Path, and other Cmdlets in the same Suite will NOT accept UNC Paths. And FFS, it's 2016, why in THE FUCK don't UNC Paths work EVERYWHERE in Windows???
And? Won't this still require fiber optic connections between equipment? This looks to be a new type of transponder not a new type of cable.
Fibre optic cables usually hook up to a fibre optic transceiver that has fancy lasers on it made on a different process to digital silicon chips, that then has to hook up to a comms chip, thus adding cost.
The silicon photonics just announced involves building a fibre optic transceiver on a silicon chip process so it can be integrated with the associated digital logic, eliminating unnecessary hardware and more closely coupling the data handling hardware with the fibre link.
Yep. NOW you will see the true advantage of LightPeak/Thunderbolt.
Then as payments come in from sales, the band is paid their percentage once any unpaid expenses are subtracted.
Or, IOW, never.
but remember they are owned by Conde Nast
Most people here probably don't understand why that is relevant. I do; but I'll let you inform the others.
;-)
You tell it bettter anyway...
I wonder where the other 19 were?
Too soon.
Why are you people so obsessed with privacy from the government?
"the Tree of Liberty, it seems, needs to be refreshed from time to time with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants."
250 years of U.S. History, and a few THOUSAND years of collective social history, and still we have to ask a question like yours....
Apple is full of discarded/dead enterprise-level technologies. Just look at Web Objects/EOF. Now consider what came before it. Now consider that you cannot even run those older OS's/systems inside virtual machines -- I think 10.7 was the first one that you could legally license for use in a virtual machine, and every Apple-specific technology was dead by then.
Every OS is full of discarded/dead "enterprise-level" technologies, FFS! OS X/macOS is, on balance, pretty much the same as every other modern, overbloated OS (Linux included).
I don't think you've even been able to buy WebObjects for over a decade; and if OS X/macOS SERVER still includes a limited license for it (which it very well may not at this point), that's about the extent of continuing WO support.
But WO was some pretty cool stuff in the day; too bad it didn't see wider adoption.
You are dead wrong about the virtualization licensing for OS X/macOS: it is actually worse than you misstated. Unless Apple has recently changed their Virtualization stance, there is only ONE version of OS X that is allowed to be virtualized: OS X SERVER 10.6.8 You can actually STILL order a DVD Install disc of that version from Apple Tech Support. And you can install it on a VM.
How do you know that?
Apparently you don't know that, unlike your typical Android OEM, Apple holds one of only a few "Architecture" licenses from ARM, and thus can, and DOES, actually DESIGNS THEIR OWN ARM CORES FROM THE GROUND UP.
So, unless you actually have PROOF of this working on an iOS device, you shouldn't just lump them in with all the Android devices, just because they share (mist of) a common instruction set.