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More AI hiking crap that will probably kill someone

So tired of this crap flooding the hiking community. Hiking communities are being bombarded by crap apps at the moment (particularly trip planning apps)

Do not trust this data.

The Mac Studio definitely shouldn't be.

My M2 studio was the only computer I ever owned that had issues with the USBC ports not working with certain cables (and for the price, it should have had better performance).

I've owned a M2 Mac Studio, PowerMac G5, Mac Pro. Every single one had flaws that you would consider inexcusable on PC Hardware priced half that amount.

The PowerMac G5 had terrible video cards (the liquid cooled ones also had issues with leaks, but ignoring that). The Mac Pro also had terrible Video cards (they were PCI-X), but also Fully Buffered ECC ram (which cost substantially more than any other ram)..

Apple still can't even manufacture a proper mouse (who the hell puts a USB C port at the bottom).

It's ridiculous..

If Linux distro's had a way to integrate Android as a first class citizen (like IOS is in MacOS), it would greatly boost the number of apps available in ecosystem, and have a huge impact on MacOS I feel. Waydroid is good, but, it still is too clunky (I'd like to see something more like Wine for Android, where its native)

They're not even moderating anymore

They also bought Dyn.com too. Not sure if that's new news, or just nobody reported it.

No idea why Oracle hasn't been split apart

I haven't seen any serious issues on any machines.. In all the csaes there were issues they were automatically rolled back by windows itself..

Have you disabled System restore or done anything like that?

I love firefox.. My big problem as a late though seems to be that sites stop loading intermittently, need to be refreshed or I need to wait (and I don't have this problem on Chrome).

Also, I got kind of annoyed when one of their leaders came begging for donations by email, but are getting paid FAR beyond normal wage.

Actually, back in early days, Linux was probably worse than Windows 98. A few things changed the landscape. Compositing on Xorg (to make the desktop modern finally), Pulseaudio (before then, Audio always had issues), DBUS and the rest of project Utopia. Steam also made a huge difference.

I think Linux will be the better option after: SNAP/Wayland goes mainstream and JACK becomes easier (Low latency Audio on Linux is still a nightmare compared to Windows and OSX).

But there are still a few rough edges. That being said, I use it for everything at home now, except for my Suunto GPS tracker, and Serato.

Instead of Ableton, you could use Bitwig which was developed my ex Ableton employees..

Since they did have the choice to switch jobs, I think the most they should be able to claim is councelling fees.

That still introduces other issues though. You will probably need larger than 200ms to be safe, which will make the setup annoying for applications such as gaming.

Or it would need great error correction. Either way, wifi equipment needs to accept interference (nothing you can do)

Great idea, but I'd say practical applications are limited..

Industrial sensors shouldn't rely on Wifi. Hospitals shouldn't rely on WiFi. In a car just run ethernet alongside power.

Since you can't guarentee wireless maximum latency on WiFi, I still wouldn't use it for multi-channel audio (only multi-room, which NTP is good enough for anyway probably). Especially a problem if you want to sync against Video.

So its a nice idea, but it will probably affect very few people..

The funny thing about 4K is that I do home AV installs, and its almost impossible not to have compatibility issues still.

To this day, I don't think we've had a single installation with 4K projector / Receiver / player working together of different brands without some kind of serious issue.

ARC is another disaster that we STILL are having trouble with, and thats been out for years. I really hope that more has been done in the way of standardisation to help iron out these issues

UPDATE: Looks like Openoffice doesn't support saving to OOXML anyway.

So seems the only reason OO implemented it, is to encourage people to save to their own standard. So, from one perspective, OpenOffice are trying to destroy standardisation too (they are trying to force people to use their own standard).

Really, the whole thing is a power struggle to become the dominant format anyway. Since their main competitors are doing dodgy stuff to help force people to move to their own standards, I'd say its hardly surprising Microsoft aren't willing to sacrifice functionality to help competitors.

If OpenOffice were serious about standardisation, they would add support for OOXML saving, but they haven't yet!

Yep, lets all make assumptions on beta-quality code.

Firstly, Microsoft aren't the only ones who don't play well with others. Openoffice, Abiword, iWork and every other office suite on the planet uses its own formats.

Secondly, is OpenOffice OOXML 100% Strict compliant yet?

Finally, it's easy for people to stand by on the sidelines and whinge that a year old bug isn't fixed, or a new feature isn't added. Developers often calculate an estimated time required for development in advance, and for all we know, perfect compliance with the standard now may have been pushed back because implementation would have forced other features to be dropped. From a business/development perspective, this often makes sense.

Next release if they aren't compliant with strict, then yes, its time to freakout. But from a business decision, it doesn't make sense to rewrite code many times before it becomes a standard. And when applications sometimes do so, the end result is a mess, because the browsers then often need to support their broken standard, and the correct standard, or risk breaking compatibility with some websites.

Microsoft had no way of knowing exactly when the standard would be approved, or how many changes would be made. I don't think this is overwhelming proof that they are going out of their way to destroy standardisation.

No.. They didn't.. For starters, Steve Jobs didn't have anything to do with the HTML5 tags, it was introduced by consumer demand. However, it seems he is trying to take credit for its introduction. Every non-Apple geek wanted the change anyway (but sure, despite the fact I don't use Apple equipment anymore, my feedback to Google "was inspired by Apple" obviously).

Everyone knows that there are still no good tools to replace Flash's development tools, and sites which used flash before, are unlikely to switch only because of the iPhone or iPad (the iPad isn't out yet and the iPhone only has a tiny marketshare). Furthermore, FLASH DOES MORE THAN VIDEO! I am sick of every Pro-Apple article pretending as though video is its only purpose.

There's been a few sites which brought this up..

On a totally unrelated note, anyone know if VOIP is working better on the nexus one's these days?

Frankly, despite him teaming up with Schwarznegger, I don't think he really cares about other people anyway (the only reason he cares in this case is because he experienced it). He's just another business man which for some reason gets praised.

There is very little evidence that he donates or helps the needy (one article can be found from http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2006/0... ) and he seems more concerned with his companies image than anything else.

It seems that the guy can barely breathe without the media twittering it to us. I really don't think we should be placing him on a pedestal for being nice. He really doesn't do much...

Thanks,

I might wait a bit then, because I'm trying to find a mobile which I always have, which has good video quality (because I never know when I need one)..

Yes, but clearly Microsoft is well aware that doing so would put a huge dent in their image, which would cause them to lose sales (not gain profit).

Apple only sues everyone because they can get away with it. They have brainwashed enough of the population to believe that everything they do is innovation, so people think that its fair nuff that they sue everyone.

If you read their press release, to me, it suggests to me, that they might try to bring anti-trust into it against Apple too.

But yeah, this was obvious

A second request wont destroy your website. Yes a second request takes a tiny bit more bandwidth, but realistically, its impact is nil.

No.. They wont declare a patent war? Why would they?

Linux isn't having an enormous effect on their sales, and Microsoft aren't the sue-happy type anyway (despite claims by users), because they KNOW that lawsuits are frowned upon by users, and would cause an exodus.

I think its pretty obvious that the recent lawsuits by Apple aren't viewed favorably (and has probably encouraged users to avoid them). Furthermore, the same companies selling Android phones, are also selling Windows phones (whereas Apple are the only ones producing Apple phones). Why would Microsoft alienate its vendors?

There is nothing in this article which in the real world screams out that a lawsuit will happen. It's just a bunch of silly assumptions.

I'm not really sure about this. Sound's like the suggestions I agree with, is being aimed for anyway.

3) "Applications work unless they don’t." Not just a smartphone thing! And it isn't done on purpose. The OS shouldn't just magically skip over conditions which cause crashes normally (that could create infinite loops for instance). Naturally, he hasn't actually explained how this would be possible. Maybe he knows a magic spell that will work?

4) "The application development environments don’t leverage any of the new ideas in software engineering". Like Keltex says, unit testing is included. And whilst I'm unsure about the iphone SDK (haven't used that), I see plenty happening in the android toolkit which isn't exactly archaic (and I'm only 3rd chapter in the book).

I wouldn't put Ruby on Rails on a pedestal anyway. There isn't a single published book out there that I could find where the 1st example provided wasn't broken (I tried at least 3 of them ). All used depreciated API's, or relied on a much older version of the eclipse addon. So clearly the Ruby developers have a thing to learn about stabilising their API.

6) "Password sprawl." Welcome to OpenID. Maybe he should avoid all sites which don't use it? The good thing is that we wont see him on hacker news because it doesn't support it. I'd love to hear his solutions for this. Granted OpenID isn't the most secure technology in the world, I don't see him suggesting any ways to make it work better.

It's worth noting that the author is an eBay employee too. That's semi-hypocritical, considering that Paypal, skype or ebay (all the same company) don't use OpenID. In fact, of all the large companies out there, they are the ONLY one without even a company-wide means of centralised login (yup, even Yahoo has a single sign in mechanism for their services).

Sorry, but this article seems to be living in fairy land. I'm not saying his wrong, but he doesn't provide any worthwhile solutions or evidence that his suggestions can be done anyway. I think I can simplify them "don't crash", "be totally secure", "magically centralise all your logins", "make coding different, and uber easy". Yes, all that stuff would be nice in theory. But if he trusted his ideas (like the store), he'd go implement them.

OH WAIT! Yes, that's right, its rumored eBay (his employer) wants to get into the mobile application sales business. And yes, I guess providing featured applications would make sense to them then. I'm guessing the implementation he's proposing is to offer the market provider slightly more profit, for the opportunity to be featured? Yeah.. Funny that..

Hows the video recording quality? Is it jumpyish? I really want one (and was going to place the order today), but wanted an opinion about the video recording.. I'm in Australia though, so I'd be ordering it from overseas (any tips of when it will come here though from your google friend?)

I'm hoping to get into android development and code a flight computer, because there don't seem to be any for android available, and pilots are being charged $150 for a glorified calculator.. The Android SDK is great in that regards from experience (I can code without a phone). And can barely afford a Nexus one, hence if its coming to Australia, hoping I could cut $100 off the cost :P

Its a dodgy chart anyway, because it is comparing the iPhone 1G versus sales in an already saturated market, where many are concerned about now concerned about the economy? I wonder how it fared in recent sales vs the iPhone, or even against the latest generation iPhone?

In regards to reviews, the Nexus One is getting excellent reviews, and its more a marketing issue (as mentioned by Buster). Steve Job's stepped onto the stage and lied to the world that he invented multitouch (total BS), and that's why many people purchased the iPhone. In regards to pure usefulness, the iPhone 1G was a joke, and whilst it may have been able to compete against other smartphones at the time, the only useful thing about it, was the web-browsing capabilities. It didn't have application support, and I used to own an iPod touch (which is basically the same thing), and frankly, a nokia phone was more useful.

Sorry, but this isn't a failure. It has barely even launched yet, and assumptions are being made from a graph which isn't comparing Oranges to Oranges.

That's like comparing the sales of Windows Vista to OSX Snow Leopard.

EDIT: I'll also add that these are estimates anyway..

The nexus one maybe, but I adobe have already said it will only be available for smartphone's with fast CPU's, and so not sure if the Droid qualifies (of course I hope it does though).

Either way, mobile technology moves so quickly, this will quickly change. And we all know that Apple does get away with selling inferior hardware devices anyway, so Apple might succeed even if they they sell garbage to people.

CSS3 isn't a finalised standard, and the test only tests a few things. You do realise there is a lot which this doesn't test too right? That's why some browsers took so quick passing ACID3 (because they focused on fixing the cases tested by ACID3 only)

And as mentioned, one of them is a speed test which is affected by external circumstances.

I'm not saying its irrelevent, but I am saying that a 100% pass rate doesn't mean its 100% compliant with the things being tested. Furthermore, we shouldn't be punishing companies which aren't willing to implement support for standards which are drafts.

ACID2 was genuinely useful because it was all finalised standards. ACID3 though I think could have done better.. So its nice to pass, but a 100% pass just says you are compliant with 100 tests. I'm betting the compliance testing suites used by browsers are a LOT more comprehensive..

Certainly looks as though Microsoft are finally willing to try to take on the competition (they are actually flaunting the progress of ACID3, and posting benchmarks).

In fact, its interesting that their new engine is so fast. Its going to get very interesting, especially since personally, I couldn't give a damn about supporting unfinalised standards the ACID3 tests (in fact, one of the ACID3 tests can't be passed 100% of the time anyway).

Speed is important, and since a lot of applications use the IE engine, maybe this will speed up some other applications as well.

Btw, I can confirm their sunspider benchmark.. Their preview does run faster than Firefox on my system (although, unsure if my addons are having an impact on that, or external causes). As its just a preview, it should only be taken with a grain of salt anyway..

That could also be because there are only a few countries where it is being sold, and the lack of advertising for the Nexus One. Many people haven't even heard of it, but I think once they know that flash wont apparently run on a droid, they will consider the nexus one.

What a joke. The author seems to believe that Apple invented tablets, and that people would rather carry around a tablet than a smartphone.

Reality check, the reasons for NOT buying a tablet still applies, and whilst the HP slate might change that, the iPad certainly wont.

But yeah, as written by machrider, the heading here is more intended as flamebait, and the author of the article only used TV adverts for research (rather than perform non-biased research).