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  • How Steve Jobs saved Apple with the iMac 27 years ago

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    williamh said:
    s.metcalf said:
    They still haven’t beaten that iMac G4’s floating display arm.  That computer got a lot of sales in customer service/kiosks for that reason alone.
    The arm had a tendency to go bad and no longer support the weight of the screen, leaving the screen flopping down.  It was a cool design but I don’t think they worked that well. 
    Horse puckey.

    I only ever replaced ONE arm.  One.  The iMac G4 I have today has no problem with the arm, it's still in perfect condition.  I replaced optical drives, hard drives, a few fans, RAM, a few logic boards.  And one singular arm.  I've seen FAR more Intel iMac screens that flop down than I ever saw problems with the iLamp arm.
    dewme

  • Senator Warren doesn't have a plan to break up Apple, but still wants to pretty badly

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    She's not wrong.

    Apple has gotten too big.  It's not the only company that needs to be broken up, of course, but it's time.
    9secondkox2spheric

  • Amateur performers embrace VR porn on Apple Vision Pro

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    ssfe11 said:
    It was just a matter of time before the above mentioned industry conquered the Vision Pro. This alone of course will make AVP a huge seller. 
    It's such an obvious application.  Apple really needs to be forced to allow normal software installation for their own good.  The walled garden silliness is going to kill the AVP.
    Ofer9secondkox2

  • Amateur performers embrace VR porn on Apple Vision Pro

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    dominikhoffmann said:
    This is really disgusting. Yet another way to cheapen the marital act!
    LOL at the puritan who thinks sex has anything to do with marriage.
    sphericmike1Oferbradchatellierssfe11SpitbathneoncatroundaboutnowStrangeDaysappleinsideruser

  • Tesla wants Apple's help to beat Autopilot death lawsuit

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    Xed said:
    "the car maker believes that Autopilot is safe to use, and that it only becomes a danger when drivers are not paying attention to the road"
    Define 'auto'...?
    Would you use that simplistic answer also work for automobile? I'm guessing you wouldn't.

    On the one hand, fuck Tesla and Musk's lies about Autopilot's capabilities, but on the other, autopilot doesn't mean the driver doesn't have to be aware, present, etc. Airplanes have had autopilot for over a century and yet we're still not flying airplanes without pilots in them. Well, except for the drone category and those are controlled by a remote operator. I'm assuming that if a commercial airliner crashed and the NTSB discovered that it was because the pilot was playing games you wouldn't be defending the pilot with a comment like "define 'auto'?"

    I love all the automation I have in my car which allow for more relaxed and safer driving, but I understand that I'm still required to have situational awareness with those automated systems in place inside my automobile. Anything less is just asking to be a Darwin Award nominee.
    Turdla literally sells cars with something that they call "full self driving".

    Does that imply to you that a human driver still needs to be aware or present?

    The word "autopilot" isn't confusing to actual pilots, but it can be to the general public.  But if Cessna started selling "full self flying", I guarantee you that even a licensed pilot would expect that would be a fully automated aircraft.  I also guarantee the FAA wouldn't allow anything named that to be sold if it wasn't capable of full automation.
    We have had full self flying systems for years, I.e. Auto-land. Even when it’s a fully functional, non-touch system, the crew will always actively monitor and be prepared to take over in case of anomalies. In aviation it’s never about the functionality, it’s always about the potential for failure. 
    That wasn't an inexperienced crew.  Would they have lived if they had been stick flying?  Dunno.  But full self flying does not exist yet, the regulators still won't even allow single-pilot operation beyond small planes no matter how much the airlines want it.

    Partial automation can be dangerous.  And that's just due to human nature, we're NOT great at taking over from the automated system in an emergency, because our brains zone out.  Years ago when I was learning to drive, one of the big things everybody was warned about was "freeway hypnosis" where you're staring ahead for hours in what feels like a very non-threatening situation, and if something goes wrong it takes much longer to put your full attention on the problem.  The recommendation was to make sure you looked around periodically to try to not let your brain partially sleep.  And that's when the only automation available in any car was cruse control - just autothrottle, no lane keep assist, no collision avoidance, no ABS, no autobrake, no traction control.

    I think the reality is that these automated steering systems that are designed to disengage when something goes wrong are a huge mistake.  It needs to be all or nothing, a system that's good enough that I can recline and take a nap, or it shouldn't take over steering AT ALL.  I'm honestly better with it in aircraft than cars, mostly because pilots are better trained than drivers, but even they screw up by relying too much on the partial automation sometimes and not being ready to take over when it gets things wrong.

    I'd love to be able to get in my car and push a go button.  But the halfass crap that Turdla is selling is not that system, and given that they're still trying to do an all-camera setup without radar or lidar, it's NEVER going to be that system.
    tmaymuthuk_vanalingam