badmonk

The lack of RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) is still a glaring lack in a technical calculator or are Zoomers unaware that this form of calculator even exists?

Just asking ?s here.

Personally I use Retro15C…greatest calculator app ever.

Thanks Mike and William for the article and thanks Mike for defending common sense in the comment section.  

This DOJ action is an example of our government’s misguided sense of priorities and how they are out-of-touch with real issues…real monopolies and financial abuses that affect us are ignored (Ticket Master, credit card, banking overcharges, payday lending) are the examples that comes to mind and real criminality (hacking, the exploitation of the elderly, other forms of cybercrime) are ignored.

The other perplexing thing here are the big-tech things they are ignoring—Google’s monopoly on independent video delivery (YouTube), search, the way they handle ad sales; the stranglehold Amazon has on sellers in their marketplace.

Yeah the Life of Brian quote is appropriate- “hate those Romans, what have they done for us?”

Apple just attracts the hate for reasons I can never understand.

And don’t get me started on the misguided Tick Tock ban because of politicians’ “feelings.”

slow n easy 

There is absolutely nothing wrong with what Tesla is doing, and it's ridiculous to call Tesla owners guinea pigs. They are required to pay $12,000 or $200/month if they want the car to drive itself, and they have to be almost constantly touching the steering wheel, or the system will deactivate. They also use a strike system, so if you get (I believe 3 strikes) then you are cut off for a week or something like that. So people are required to take their role as a Beta Tester seriously. Also FSD 12 should go to wide release any day now. That is end-to-end AI and an elimination of 300,000 lines of code. It should be a total game changer. Tesla is still the only auto manufacturer where every vehicle they sell is capable of driving on every road in the country by itself. They are so far ahead of everyone else, it's hard to imagine that the other car companies will ever catch up. I'm guessing that they will have to license Tesla's technology. Tesla already gave away their charge port, and every auto company except Stellantis is using it starting in 2025. There is no way that Stellantis can hold out forever or people will stop buying their cars.

Good points but I think Tesla’s auto-drive system flaws are not related to insufficient software but because Elon made the decision to deprecate LIDAR as a cost-savings move.  Any self-driving system based on visible light sensors is invariably going to have holes.  My cars crash avoidance system cuts out in fog at the same time I can’t see.  What’s the point?  I agree with the article’s author that Ai cannot account for human stupidity or variance of others on the road or the perpetual construction complex.

I would also be worried that a forever $12,000 beta-product is eventually going to poke the ire of consumers or regulators or worst of all, the mass-tort legal firms for an over-promise and under-delivery fraud class action.  Tesla has issues going forward.

That said EVs are becoming a low-margin commodity thanks to China.  Apple made the right decision here.  I think the European automakers and EU don’t know what is going to be hitting them in the next decade as these  BYD EVs flood their market as they focus on smart phone app stores.

I think Apple will be able to salvage the work they did here by partnering with an legacy automotive company.  I know it’s not the usual Apple thing but I think they will have something to offer and bring some value to the proposition.

I would also add that Toyota’s plans to not jump on the EV market but instead focus on plug-in hybrids seems like a brilliant idea in retrospect.  If i had to buy today that is the way I would go.  EVs had their own ecological nightmare issues-battery waste, wanton deep sea mining, on-land mineral mining in conflict zones, vehicle weight and tire wear (which contributes to environmental plastic burden) etc, coal for electricity generation.  We just were not aware of them all.

This is a big deal to get right.  Note-

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/10/dogs-inner-life-what-robot-pet-taught-me-about-consciousness-artificial-intelligence?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The Sony Robotic Dog (note also $3000) has been noted to raise privacy concerns.

I showed up at 7am for the opening at the Gardens Mall Apple Store in Palm Beach Gardens Florida and it had a similar vibe, maybe slightly less than a dozen people by 8am, about 1/3 for pickups, the rest for demos like nyself.

The experience of the staff was first rate and I had my demo at 8:30.  The UI was good but the 3D videos and the immersion experiences were trippy.  I felt intensely uncomfortable with Alicia Keys singing 5’ away from me in the studio, like I was going to be found out and slapped with a restraining order.  Likewise the soccer and baseball experiences were great…like being in the stadium.  The natural world experiences likewise.

I think the AVP will be a thing if the 3D and immersion content can be built out rapidly.  I hope AppleTV and Disney are on the ball with this.

It would be great to get influencers/amateurs on board but I am concerned about interference from Alphabet and Meta in this regard (because they will have hardware to compete as well) as they have YouTube and Instagram as obvious portals for content.