dysamoria

Meh. I’ve been over Flickr for many years now. It was a great artist community until they started driving artists away in favor of snapshot sharing. I was one of many artists who got into conflicts with Flickr staff because staff didn’t like our content, despite it being reviewed as safe and as following the rules. Certain staff, even went so far as to declare that they didn’t want to see certain types of content on their “sharing service”. I could name names, but I presume that would go against AI TOS.

I wasn’t the only artist driven away in anger, after being bullied by Flickr staff and a minority of fellow users taking advantage of the bad attitudes of staff to harass fellow users with whom they had personal issues. There were even some publicized cases of abuse of artists in the online media, but it ultimately went nowhere because Flickr was a commercial service, and a privately owned space, not a publicly owned space to engage in free expression.

I keep an account open to occasionally keep in touch with former community members. The community, and the value of the tool itself, died years ago, as far as I’m concerned. Flickr staff got exactly what their actions promoted: a storage place for people’s snapshots. Now they’re trying to cut off the very last purpose they left for it. Whatever.

Eventually Flickr will be no more. As I said: meh; I’m long past caring about it.

fastasleep said:

cgWerks said:

docno42 said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

 The Xeon's one big feature is that you can run several of them on one motherboard.

Actually the really big feature of the Xeons is ECC RAM.  Which Threadripper also has.  It's past time for an AMD Mac!  Or Intel to end the artificial segmentation with ECC RAM.  It should be criminal to offer non-ECC RAM in a modern computer - there's zero excuse.  

Ahh, thanks, yeah. I knew there was something more than multiple processors. That's one of the big things.

fastasleep said:

docno42 said:

Apple just needs to let others make the Mac Pro.  Their heart obviously isn't in it.  Charge enough of a licensing fee that there won't be a repeat of the PowerPC clones eating into their lower end or cannabilizing their higher end. 

How can you say that when you have no idea what they're actually working on right now?  Also, clones aren't ever happening again — why would they? — so you can just stop.

Probably just going by the last decade, which seems reasonable. I'm hoping Apple has learned and is course-correcting. But, I actually think maybe the Mac's days are numbered. I'm guessing it is a stop-gap in their ultimate plans to transition everything to iOS, but they just tried to move a bit too quickly.

Sigh.

Yes, we all know they fucked up with the 2013, and they admitted as such. Prior to that, there was no problem. We know they’re actively dedicated to starting over from scratch and getting it right, which is also well documented. The Mac isn’t going to iOS. It’s also been clearly stated and well documented. Also they wouldn’t be re-engineering the Pro, developing the iMac Pro, new displays or anything else significant if they were actively transitioning away. Are you even paying attention? Got any more FUD you’d like to peddle?

Come on, we all know the iMac Pro was Apple’s replacement for the Mac Pro, until they finally realized their mistake, and then promoted it as an example of their upcoming pro product lineup... ;-) :-D

Aloysius said:

mikethemartian said:

hentaiboy said:

Can’t wait for iOS 12. 11 serously f#$&*d the performance of my Air 2 😡

I still have iOS8 on my Air 1 because of a bad experience I had upgrading a 4s to iOS8. I just don't have high confidence in iOS updates after that experience. Not sure if I will even upgrade my X to iOS 12.

I'm sorry, but that's really dumb reasoning.

One bad experience shouldn't prevent you from taking advantage of OS updates, especially since they keep your device more secure. 

It's not at all dumb. It's a loss of a usable device that costs hundreds of dollars. NOT dumb reasoning!

chrisbklyn said:

If you’re going to repost this, you really need note up top that these are results from June when the first beta of iOS 12 was released and not the final current version. It would be very interesting to redo these test and compare iPhones/iPads running iOS 11 and iOS 12

Yeah, this article reposting really confused me, especially in the first two pages of comments.

Also: Don't repost testing results when they're made irrelevant by a final release.

sigh.

I'd rather see a comparison against iOS 10, not the "unbearable" iOS 11.

...and people wonder why I didn't update to iOS 11...