The dignity of three presidential candidates who disagree with each other, sitting quietly while allowing the other to finish using their allotted time…
Magnetic keyboard on the iPad is such a lose. Some Thai hacker got full macOS running on his iPhone over Christmas. Apple are cowards collecting dividends.
It's the countless little things. Like my iPhone stops playing any kind of audio if I plug it in with one charging cable but not the other. I get reminded about calendar events AFTER the event. The quality control is embarrassingly bad.
The transparency is cool, but everything got turned into bubbly corners, like someone wanted to live the Lost In Space timeline where everyone is computing with circular video monitors controlled by joysticks.
Scalia was right in saying that the checks and balances slowing things down is a feature, not a bug. The Framers were right about protections against faction. I’m not sure they understood how badly malicious schemers could deliberately manipulate the system. Things just aren’t getting done, and it is killing people.
Of course they are. Once every economic variable has been optimized and protected behind a corporation, while banks have adverts showing people high-fiving each other in their Manhattan financial literacy café, and the health insurance system and party in power look for every excuse not to provide health insurance (but do download our mindfulness app), everyone recognizes the cognitive dissonance. Just because you publish Pravda doesn’t mean that people believe in it. You take away the things that give meaning to someone’s life and hope for the future.
My macOS display system is pushing megapixels and with some good exceptions it feels like many apps have not much more visible information or options than an 80x25 VGA display. This is not to trash VGA displays which were often very well-designed. Some web pages now only show a single paragraph at a time on screen because of cumulative pop-ups, borders, and rounded corners.
Do mechanics prefer to work with their own tools, or is this like a restaurant getting away with paying a tipped employee less than minimum wage because they can?
Nobody will be left to deal with the exceptions, which is just about everything, as the article points out. Unitree robots get rooted and start beating the shit out of human beings while Boston Dynamics robots are still being humped by dogs.
I contacted SGI in their later years when my department had a little extra budget. Knowledgeable guy on the phone tried to talk me out of buying one of their workstations. They really were only interested in selling to a certain type of customer. Innovative, flashy, and desirable products for a hot minute, but that company was managed to death. Apple beware.
Didn’t Word used to be installed from 2 floppy disks? Now Calculator.app leaks 40 GB of memory. Software in this sorry state cannot be run on a supercomputer, it needs one of those theoretical ocean-boilers.
It's sad, because the issues at stake, which used to be considered highly-technical and the domain of experts or hackers, are now things that everybody understands.
Has lost. Tim Cook chose the path a decade ago. He’s a guy you can call Tim Apple to his face in front of everybody and he’ll sit there and take it. He is the wrong person for the job.