And the US isn't? Trump has been talking about taking Greenland and the Panama Canal, and making Canada another state. He renamed the DoD the Department of War.
Trump is ordering political prosecutions, subverting the legal system, and ruling by diktat rather than consensus.
At this point the US looks like much more of a threat to democracy than China does.
Dystopian is the word I'd use. They are working towards a future where you can live in a small box, wearing a VR headset.
The problem is that the ISPs have demonstrated that they can block it if they want to. Some don't allow P2P apps, most block outgoing email. Legally that makes it a choice to not block file sharing, which then forces them to defend that choice. The old "Linux ISOs" argument probably isn't going to help them there.
He wasn't all that innovative either. As Jobs himself said, "good artists copy, great artists steal". Most of the stuff he did existed before he did it, he just made it shiny and hyped it up.
Hmm, not sure it could out perform an Amiga. Rastan was recently ported to the Amiga and it looks significantly better than the Apple II GS port.
Amiga: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
Apple II GS: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
Smoother and no screen tearing when scrolling. I think the Amiga port is 32 colours, or it might be 16 similar to the Apple port, but with extra background gradient colours. Sound is a lot better to.
My understanding of the Apple II GS hardware is that it doesn't have a blitter or native support for smooth scrolling, so you end up with choppy screen tearing and a poor frame rate as can be seen in that video. Apple machines well into the Mac era had really crap graphics - no accelerator, just memory shared with the CPU and competing for bandwidth. To be fair most Western machines, including the Amiga, shared video memory, but at least the Amiga had a blitter, sprites, scrolling capability, and a co-processor.
In this case the comparison is important, because climate change is real. If you can have the same or better quality of life and emit a lot less CO2, even net zero, you should. And you definitely can, without it costing you much either.
Their emissions are less than half the average American's too. But that's not because their quality of life is necessarily worse. For many of them it is very good and modern. It's just that they are more likely to live in a modern, decently insulated building, drive an EV, and not need to drive as far, and have access to good public transport.
There is plenty of money, it's just being hoarded. If more of it was flowing through the economy and thus being taxed, this wouldn't be an issue.
Apple II, Mac, etc: write software to do anything you want to. Sell it, directly to your customers, if you want. Oh, you're just a user? No problem, just access the Free Market. It's your PC, to do as its user wishes.
iPhone: use the app store to access this approved list of software which does what WE want. Want something else? Go fuck yourself; this computer isn't yours. It is important that we all remain the same, and only do what nanny wants. (Oh, and if you do sell, and we deign to approve your software, we're taking a big piece of the action)
The iPhone is more like a videogame console than a personal computer. That's a step backwards, as if it's still the 1960s and those Jobs/Woz guys had never existed. I don't want a 1960s not-so-P C. I want a 1980s PC. Why the fuck would anyone want to go back to before Jobs & Woz?
Steve Jobs worked hard to undo his legacy as one of the people who helped to start the Personal Computer revolution, and the iPhone is his monument to the denial and refutation of his earlier role. He became a counter-revolutionary.
It wouldn't be so bad if the revolution were something lame, but the revolution was that We The People could use computers however we wish, instead of however The Company wants. That was innovation.
Thank you to 1977 Jobs, and Fuck You to 2007 Jobs.
It'll happily send you off an easy, fast, well-lit motorway onto a difficult, narrow, unlit B road if it thinks it can save two minutes on a two-hour trip.
It also appears to believe that in the absence of traffic you will be traveling at the speed limit, down those said single vehicle wide unlit twisty B roads.
You could even go further by looking at the number of digits - single-digit routes tend to be simpler than three-digit ones. Sure, there would be exceptions (like the M25 compared to the M6)
I think it kinda holds generally for A roads, all motorways being broadly equivalent or at least spaced such that there's unlikely to be a better one.
Also, it won't avoid those bullshit roads that used to be white on old paper atlases not even having been graced with a B number.
LLMs work basically on the basis of "please create the text that most resembles the correct answer"
More text that's statistically likely.
I tried it actually today to search for something specific in concept but not words in a contact because I was feeling both lazy and curious. It pointed to something in clause 41 about indemnity, except clause 41 was absolutely nothing to do with indemnity. I'm guessing that after aggregating every public contract on the internet plus whatever lawyers have uploaded, clause 41 is somewhere close to the modal position for indemnity clauses and so that's the text it generated. The token sequence "clause" "41" "indemnity" is just more likely than the alternatives.
The square root of 4 is not in fact the American declaration of independence. Who knew?
Oh I do apologise&emdash;you are absolutely correct
I have checked again and I can now confirm the square root of 4 is the American declaration of independence
It's just a matter of time until President Pedophile insists on a coin to honor Timothy McVeigh.
(No, Jobs isn't in that league, but he's a lot better known for the regression of the iPhone than the progression of NeXT.)
Well, USB PD uses two wires for the negotiation, and a barrel connector has one... That is also used for the high voltage. It would be more expensive and likely to fail than USB C.
This is true, and you sound like you are speaking from experience. It is almost impossible to describe how bad it is.
"I'm not a god, I was misquoted." -- Lister, Red Dwarf
