avon b7

ireland said:

avon b7 said:

A follow up to my previous post. Huawei just let slip some information by accident.

http://www.techradar.com/news/huawei-just-accidentally-revealed-the-mate-10-chipset-early-at-ifa-2017

They are claiming the world's first mobile AI processing unit.

The official presentation isn't until tomorrow but if what is being claimed actually works on the device, they may have upped the ante a little. This makes me think Apple might also have something along those lines for their big reveal on the 12th.

The cloud is always going to be more powerful.

The cloud can do a lot but local will always be better for some aspects. In this case, x50 in battery efficiency and x25 in CPU efficiency is being touted. Seems far fetched but that's what is being said.

I would also love to see some Siri commands resolved locally too. Music control for example.

holyone said:

avon b7 said:

holyone said:

Awh, are people still on this ? If you don't like the landlord's rules move, the Chinies people need to deal with theire government, every free and democratic nation got that freedom by fighting for it, they can't expect foreign business entities to do it for them, every freedom and privilege enjoyed anywhere was paid for with blood, this is why its treasured so. Lets hope that the "Asian spring" is coming in the not too distant future

It isn't as easy or clearcut as you make it seem. If you consider the landlord's rules to be illegal in some way, what should you do? Just move out and let things stand?

But it is though, it is the landlord's house after all, that he built with his own hands, if he says no loud music after nine, that Goddamn it no fucking loud gangster rap after nine end of story, you can't just say "but the neighbors allow music till twelve" screw that, go live there then. If Apple was doing something even vaguely resembling lawbreaking the Chinese government would be the one going after Cupetino, what this is is disgruntled citizens fighting a dictatorship indirectly through a tech company. I mean Apple cant fight the Chinese ruling party, Apple ins't Chinese, and that be the quickest way to get the iPhone banned in China, then what ? 

Compered to the oppressive regime they live under App Store regulation should seem like heaven, and let's not foget Apple ain't the only game in town, there's plenty of hot competition, if a developer is so unhappy then how bout he invents his own revolutionary tec and a store then implement whatever rules he wants. I understand that fairness is important and commendable but it isn't owed to anyone, not in this situation.

My suspicion is that China wants to be the next North Korea with their money and expertise they figure they can do it better, then, who ever rules can rule forever

The moment you decide to rent your property you subject yourself to be legally bound by local rental legislation. That legislation covers both the landlord's responsibilities and obligations as well as those of the tenant(s). It is not a dictatorship where you can do exactly as you please and expect the tenant to swallow.

Within that framework however,  the landlord can set all the rules that are needed - as long as they fall within the legislation in force. The moment the landlord steps out of that framework he becomes open to complaint and someone else will decide what is legal or not.

At this point in time, a complaint has been lodged and it will be evaluated. There might even be a hearing and ruling but we cannot say outright that Apple can do as it sees fit just because it is their store. That will depend on local legislation which I know nothing about. Time will tell, and we cannot assume that the Chinese government would have taken action on its own accord. Sometimes it happens but more often than not, a formal complaint is the detonator of these kinds of cases. It seems that is what we have here.

bedouin said:

Most of my work involves word processing and research. Over the past few days the weather has been in the mid 30s to low 40s celsius, and the GPU temperature has stayed in the 60s (as shown in the screenshot).

I rarely game, but came across a title last night that I interested me. I checked the GPU temperature after about 30 minutes and saw that it had reached 80-something degrees. I was a bit surprised that the iMac's firmware did not ramp up the fans substantially to bring that number down a bit. I manually increased the speed of all three fans by a little over 50% and managed to get the temperature down to the mid-40s — even while gaming.

Since the iMac is not particularly aggressive about keeping things cool, I can see how certain types of users would have GPU failures very quickly. From now on I will keep my eye on the GPU temperature whenever I am doing any graphics intensive tasks. I have also started putting the computer to sleep more often when I am not using it. For years I always believed that the sleep-wake process was harder on machines than merely letting them run nonstop, but perhaps the nature of electronics has changed somewhat in the past 20 or so years.

avon b7 said:

My machine will only boot into safe mode and I cannot source a new part from Apple where I live. I have seen new parts for sale online in Canada but at over $300. When prices come down I will get one and bring it back from the dead or get it reflowed if I can find someone reputable locally.

Can your machine be put into target display mode in its current state?

I haven't actually tried it as all my data is accessible from backups. That said, booting via TDM wouldn't remove the vertical bars caused by the failed graphics card so I prefer to use a MBP.

Remember that it's not only applications that you would expect to push the machine hard that can be problems. Depending on your system, use etc something as stupid as a runaway Flash process can wreak havoc and send temperatures into overdrive.

These iMacs are thermally challenged. If you live in a hot climate without air conditioning the risk of failure is high IMO. I looked into this when my graphics card failed (late 2009 i7 27inch) and found lots of RadeonHD cases. I spoke to several authorized repair shops who confirmed that they slow cooked themselves over time. Check the grills for dust accumulation. They block very easily and moreso if your heat is humid as the dust becomes sticky.

My machine will only boot into safe mode and I cannot source a new part from Apple where I live. I have seen new parts for sale online in Canada but at over $300. When prices come down I will get one and bring it back from the dead or get it reflowed if I can find someone reputable locally.

Try to clean your vents and keep an eye on the temps.

Mine failed while using Preview. The machine wasn't under any kind of stress at the time but it was the beginning of summer.

Keep your fingers crossed but don't get paranoid over it.

I hope you can avoid this issue.

The message is, competition must be encouraged. If you happen to use your dominant position to unfairly reduce competition you could be investigated possibly fined.

As for targeting US companies. No. The biggest fines have been mainly set for US companies but that is because those companies have been proportionally bigger. EU companies get fined too, not only for abusing dominant positions but also for things like price fixing or unjust unfair competition in the classic sense. Some of the fines are large enough to put severe financial stress on the affected companies. 

I know of one particular case in the chemicals industry where, for simply attending an invite to a meeting, a company got fined over 50 million euros. The (American) multinational that was (according to my client) responsible for the meeting and the proposals was the one that finally pulled the rug from the others, reported the case to the EU and was not fined.

In this case against Google I haven't read through the available material so I can't really give an opinion on whether I consider it just or not. However, generally speaking I tend to support the investigations of the commission when it comes to antitrust cases.

If this case, and others in progress, lead to more competition and a more even playing field, it is a good thing.