lowededwookie

Soli said:

lowededwookie said:

Soli said:

Is it too much to ask that every modernized country use the same three 3-digit code for calling emergency services?

America wanted to be different to England which is also the reason why America drives on the right hand side of the road.

We'll talk again when America accepts the internationally recognised dd(d)-mm(m)-(yy)yy format instead of it's inane mm(m)-dd(d)-(yy)yy format

  

I've heard such stories before but I've never seen any evidence to back up an entire nation's decision for policy change based on some pettiness against the UK, especially when there are so many other things in common, evidence that US English is close to colonial English than British English is today, and more reasonable explanations, like dialing 9 first on a rotary phone would limit accidental dials, but then using the number 1 for the next two would help speed up the calls to emergency services. This also unsubstantiated but it at least sounds like a reasonable explanation based around utility.

Actually the 999 thing (here in New Zealand it's 111) has to do with the old phone systems. 999 or 111 are the most opposite end of the old rotary dial phones to the start position. By using these numbers it creates a timespan that the old systems could recognise so you didn't get a misdial. Here in New Zealand when we went to push button tone phones people were pressing 111 too fast and it would misdial every time because the phone system couldn't pick up the tone correctly. We had a campaign called "Think 1-go-1-go-1" to alleviate the issue. Not so much an issue now though. At one stage New Zealand's Telecom had to add 911 to the emergency service numbers thanks to the popularity of William Shatner's 911 in the '90s and people were dialling 911 instead of 111 and getting failed calls.

America might like to think that their version of English is the closest to colonial English but truthfully there is no such thing. The reason British English uses "colour" instead of "color" has to do with the fact that much of the words in English are taken from French and Spanish as a result of conquests. So by dropping these letters America actually makes themselves further from colonial English than modern British English. Also English is a constantly changing language so there literally is no right or wrong English. English itself is such a mongrel language that to believe in a standardised English is a bit of a misbelief. I mean you've got a Germanic language using words from French, Spanish, Hindi/Gujurati/etc, Latin, Greek, Mandarin, African, and basically any other language that England came into contact with with their own conquests that you can't actually say English has a standard. Even within England there are different forms of English and different ways of using words that getting pedantic about grammar and spelling is a fool's errand. Hell, we still use in some form words that were made up by William Shakespeare so English literally contains made up words and people get all up in arms about how to properly use them? Fool's Errand indeed.

lkrupp said:

appex said:

Deal breaker!

Freetard

I don't disagree with the original poster.

I don't see anything in this app that warrants $40 a year when there are free alternatives out there that do the same thing.

I looked at Ulysses and thought does the app do more than the other apps, free or paid, that I currently use and came to the conclusion that it costs more than the ones I currently use and does less than them as well.

So to me Ulysses' subscription model is more of a money grab than something valuable.

This is the thing the so-called "Pros" don't get.

Thunderbolt 3 has greater throughput than PCI-e which means that you don't need internal upgrades other than RAM as it can all be done over Thunderbolt 3.

In otherwords Thunderbolt 3 makes upgrading your setup infinitely simpler and can in theory even allow for more videos cards to be used than you ever could with a big box Mac. Think about it, from all the big system boards I've seen in the past 5 years in the PC world the most PCI-e ports I've ever seen on a system board were two. That's not a lot of expansion capabilities but with Thunderbolt 3 I believe each port is capable of daisy chaining four Thunderbolt 3 devices. That means this new iMac Pro literally has 16 PCI-e capable ports that can be used at least in theory.

To not call this machine a pro machine is a delusion.

I doubt Apple will allow system access. That's not the direction they've headed with iOS.

I suspect it will be a cross platform method of accessing files bringing a similar "Finder" interface to macOS and iOS. It seems the most logical idea and will require iCloud therefore I suspect it's a replacement for the iCloud Drive app.

misa said:

All this really says is that GPU tech has plateaued. Apple made their own ARM chips because CPU tech plateaued (yes they got faster, but that is a consequence of die shrinks, nothing else. A CPU you bought in 2007 is the same as one you bought in 2017, only faster due to die shrinks.) And we've reached the end of what can be accomplished with die shinks. Any further die shrinks will come with a much larger increase in per chip costs. So don't expect sub 10nm processes in anything for a while. You'll just see multiple refinements of the previous die process with a larger chip that takes more power.

And yes, pretty much GPU tech has plateaued for mobile designs. If you want more GPU power you need to move up to the iPad/Tablet platform and have a much larger battery. There's probably still some more innovation left in the GPU pipe, but like the CPU tech, they're going to be refinements, not leaps.

Hence, Apple will probably just go with their own IP core for the GPU of the mobile devices. Don't expect to see this in Laptops or Desktops where Apple can just buy CPU and GPU's that are suitable. Apple's end-game appears to be to eliminate the desktop/laptop space entirely by making the iphone/ipad your one-and-only computer, and you just drop the iphone into a docking station to get the full iMac/Mac Pro experience *shudder*

I just don't see how neglecting their professional users has done anything but push Mac Users away from the Apple Ecosystem.

Professional users are morons. They think that they need all the latest and greatest power but in truth it's EXACTLY like you just stated with the CPU and GPUs on the desktop/laptop plane. Apple shouldn't update the desktop and laptop machines simply to plug in a new CPU or GPU that doesn't actually provide any real advantage. The real advantage comes not from the hardware now but from the software and that's what the "pros" SHOULD be looking at not some spec on something that Intel, AMD, or Nvidia are writing which has no bearing on real life anyway.

Pro apps that make use of Metal will outperform the hardware simply because of the way Metal is tied into the OS. This means there is NOTHING that can't potentially be done on a "pro" level that can't be done on an iPad so long as the SOFTWARE is written to allow it. There is no real advancement being done on desktop/laptops at the moment other than speed bumps that you mention so don't ever think Apple has given up on these markets and given up on pro users when in fact it's pro users have given up on Apple simply because a machine hasn't been updated in three years. I mean can the "pros" NOT do what they've been doing for a long time now that their machines are three years old? NO. And they're not going to be better off by getting a machine with the latest and greatest CPUs when you're only getting a 0.1GHz speed bump. So can the "pros" please shut up about Apple not caring about them when it's not even their fault that you're not getting any advancements.

Apple hasn't been neglecting their pro users at all. Apple has done heaps in macOS for pro users the problem is the apps that "pro" users are using aren't being developed to make use of those features of macOS simply because they don't want to lose their Windows users. Compare the speeds that Photoshop has for rendering to the speeds that Pixelmator has for doing the same things and you'll see that Pixelmator often wins hands down. That's not a hardware thing that's a software thing because Pixelmator leverages features of macOS. The problem is pro users felt let down by Final Cut and Logic before they gave it a real chance simply because it did things different to how they used to do things despite the fact they can now do far more powerful things using these apps than the ones they now use. So the problem for pro users isn't that Apple has neglected them with a lack of hardware updates it's that pro users don't understand what is happening in the tech world and have gone off to underpowered software because of some vain ideology that Apple doesn't care about them anymore.

Like I said, "pro" users are morons and masters of their own demise.