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spyked: afaik ios (the other smartphone os besides android) runs on 1 hardware platform and the os doesn't multitask (or maybe it does in the newer versions? hell if I know). while all other smartphones besides
apple's run android, and there's some diversity in the hardware platforms, which is why they based the os on the kernel that "runs on everything".
mircea_popescu: of course it is. much like anyone with head out of ass sees
apple as
apple. wtf would they have seen it as.
mircea_popescu: which all the fucktards who hyped it feel no need to ever mention again ; they'll just reuse the hype with s/groupon/
apple/g instead.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-02 01:17 mircea_popescu: phf reminds me of fucktard murdock "oh, we were first
apple store"
mircea_popescu: and in other "holy shit these people", flour bag comes with
apple pie recipe. which is just as well cuz gals just baked one. the flour bag recipe calls for... 3-4 apples, HALF A POUNT OF BUTTER and two.5 cups flour.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-02 01:17 mircea_popescu: phf reminds me of fucktard murdock "oh, we were first
apple store"
mircea_popescu: it's not a bad plan, go to SF for a week, join all the events, from bdsm munches to
apple hackathon day, and just doe eye one or two dweebs per. then suck cock like your life depends on it, and then get married.
ben_vulpes: this is the ass end of nowhere, populated entirely by
apple fanbois
a111: Logged on 2018-01-03 16:05 asciilifeform: but in very unrelated lulz,
https://archive.is/bON1p >> 'It’s a bit absurd that a modern gaming machine running at 4,000x the speed of an
apple 2, with a CPU that has 500,000x as many transistors (with a GPU that has 2,000,000x as many transistors) can maybe manage the same latency as an
apple 2 in very carefully coded applications if we have a monitor with nearly 3x the refresh rate.'
mircea_popescu: understand how this works : usg comes to buy an
apple for $1000 because it imagines it'll pay $1000 to itself and get an
apple. then it turns out it can't take the $1000 and gets butthurt.
spyked: yes, very! funny enough, one of the people who worked on that (while a student himself) became my PhD advisor. he recently showed me a contraption that ran Basic, CP/M *and* had extensions for
apple ii compatibility. (with an extra memory module? was it? I dun remember; anyway, it was soldered to the motherboard using a pair of wires, because no place to stick it in. communism was harsh, but people made the best of it)
a111: Logged on 2018-01-18 20:33 BingoBoingo: From the WaPo: "Six buses operated by Silicon Valley tech companies to shuttle employees to their offices have been attacked on the highway over the past week. The California Highway Patrol reports that four
Apple and one Google bus had their windows shattered on Tuesday by unidentified projectiles"
BingoBoingo: From the WaPo: "Six buses operated by Silicon Valley tech companies to shuttle employees to their offices have been attacked on the highway over the past week. The California Highway Patrol reports that four
Apple and one Google bus had their windows shattered on Tuesday by unidentified projectiles"
☟︎ phf: i actually found a lab that repairs
apple motherboards of certain vintage, cheap
phf: when i started to
apple there was an odd network of
apple repair shops, that were completely warranty voiding, but they could do non-trivial operations on a mac (in fact with a few exceptions the owners were knowledgable tinkerers ready and willing to chat about finer points of electronics hackery), the network has been completely destroyed by the bait and switch of "authorization" that
apple pulled right after they started the whole
apple store thing.
mircea_popescu: in short, i don't want to read what sort of code
apple wrote ; i want
apple to never write any code again as long as any of them live.
mircea_popescu: adobe,
apple, microsoft, olivetti, "the united states of america", "russian revolution", all depersonalized-but-persons corporations.
BingoBoingo:
Apple's own, choosing the letter "J" with a bite taken out of the side."
BingoBoingo: And guess who the wops beat in court: "Brothers Vincenzo and Giacomo Barbato named their clothing brand "Steve Jobs" in 2012 after learning that
Apple had not trademarked his name. "We did our market research and we noticed that
Apple, one of the best known companies in the world, never thought about registering its founder's brand, so we decided to do it," the two told la Repubblica Napoli. The Barbatos designed a logo that resembles
ben_vulpes: let's just continue with the
apple idiocy: "try the new safari! fast, energy efficient, and with a beautiful new design."
mircea_popescu: but then
apple targetted women and stole their cake because boys may hunt, but women reliably nest and that's that ?
shinohai: But I always like my
apple kyklos cake a bit crumbly
mircea_popescu: perhaps. or perhaps vice-versa :
apple tree was spectacular bit of steel, marketing cocksuckers trying to take it over.
ben_vulpes: the
apple tree was a spectacular spot of marketing; doesn't mean the guy lacked in steel.
mircea_popescu: i eschew buying fucking
apple laptop. he eschews nothing.
mircea_popescu: so basically, will be driven via cloud and google/
apple duopoly.
mircea_popescu: ima, dontcha know, follow the funnel they constructed, like everyone's got an
apple concept store.
phf: “MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes
Apple's “root” Bug Patch (wired.com)”
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> anyway, there's a fundamental divide between people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "basically large phone switchboard with robotic switchmaid" and people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "squee!
apple drawing thing!" << In sixth grade computer (
Apple II) was introduced to class as drawing thing (turtle graphics)
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a fundamental divide between people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "basically large phone switchboard with robotic switchmaid" and people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "squee!
apple drawing thing!"
mircea_popescu: this
apple piece makes for fabulous companion reading.
mircea_popescu: back then everything came with its own
apple-style keyboard etc, nothing fucking worked. subtly.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo moar eastern style, deviled eggs,
apple pie, that sorta thing. bbq lamb...
mircea_popescu: "
apple could buy russia and inqtel could buy a fifth of mohammad bin salman's drunken romp"
ben_vulpes extracted a
apple extended keyboard ii from the parental domus this morning, only to find that a) the capslock key has a physical lock and b) apparently needs some nutty 'teensy' micro to turn the ancient proprietary '
apple device bus' serial format into usb; and turning it into serial is apparently Just Not Done
lobbes: "CarPlay is an
Apple standard that enables a car radio or head unit to be a display and also act as a controller for an iPhone." << oh god
BingoBoingo: In other news,
Apple's "car play" infotainment software is coming to... The 2018 Honda Goldwing (2-wheels), this is sure to be lulzy
mircea_popescu: just had this 3kg
apple pie come out of the oven so i have trouble feeling for radioshack-of-the-day
mircea_popescu: i can picture too. that tribe, like the yarvin tribe, like the yukowsky tribe, like all the "alt" bullshits, exactly like "debian was an early
apple appstore" and so on.
mircea_popescu: in other news, should saucy mcsaucerson be a burlesque magic act ? or a really bad
apple juggler ?
mircea_popescu: imagine, you know, getting ian "debian was the early
apple appstore" murdock into a terrible, decapitating bike accident at age 5, rather than waiting for him to be fucking forty and get it from its own team.
mircea_popescu: so, if i show you two items, an
apple and an orange, and i tell you they're all "Fruit" and ask you why, you might say "because they're all round". this is not correct.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-31 22:37 mircea_popescu: media buying.
apple survived by being a judicious media buying company.
mircea_popescu: media buying.
apple survived by being a judicious media buying company.
☟︎ phf: like Sun itself,
apple was perhaps also like Sun for a very brief period, until it wasn't.
mircea_popescu:
apple could buy russia, if you're drunk and all the russians go to space ; meanwhile bitcoin bought america.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the idea was, restaurants don't work like
apple stores, there's a "concept store" etc. they work more like music acts i guess.
mircea_popescu: i can appreciate that the only way they even got this far, having read all those books they had to read to be able to discuss something interesting in science today, as opposed to 1700 ; and all the time doing definitionally boring shit in the lab (because it's NOT "i can't recall what the solvent was" it is therefore boring!) is by subduing the natural voice saying "fuck this shit, let's go roll in the grass under the
apple mircea_popescu: this, btw, should probably count as augmented intelligence : the normal workings of the normie brain make the past very foggy. the deliberate design of the
apple and
apple-clones makes memory both more costly and less useful than it'd be naturally.
mircea_popescu: can't have a faux media piece without "on the day of the moon landing i was eating an
apple pie" '''human''' bullshit.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 02:50 BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no. i recall the faggots, not yet VERY overweight, going to the things that meanwhile got captured by
apple, much like coca-cola captured xmas << In elementry school historical context for the then present was established to be "on the verge of paradise, if only we stop littering"
mircea_popescu: anyway. i'll rack the "us--major player in ddt history" up there with "
apple could buy russia" and all other self-referential wank.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no. i recall the faggots, not yet VERY overweight, going to the things that meanwhile got captured by
apple, much like coca-cola captured xmas << In elementry school historical context for the then present was established to be "on the verge of paradise, if only we stop littering"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: no. i recall the faggots, not yet VERY overweight, going to the things that meanwhile got captured by
apple, much like coca-cola captured xmas
mircea_popescu: phf that restores my faith in
apple engineering. could buy its own ass!
mircea_popescu: and plox don't tell me "it's because your instruments are dirty, in factr
apple could buy russia", as these discussions usually tend to go.
mircea_popescu: you understand trhis is where
apple's "offsore" "could buy russia" stash is, right ?
mircea_popescu: the only question left is if
apple could buy iLegal action and make a country out of it.
erlehmann: if, on the other hand, you are looking to experience tourist hate, take an airbnb in mitte, in the vincinity of st. oberholz. take a wheelie case and new
apple devices with you.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the internet as a not-
apple-paysite even exists in the first place because it allowed its silver age ; and in so allowing also destroyed, of course, but different discussion.
mircea_popescu: this base tendency is what the whole google/
apple/etc (redhat, you name it, "open source") shitworlds try to cater to.
mircea_popescu: apparently
apple could buy russia ; but icbc, which not only "could" but ACRTUALLY BUYS america (not the fucking us shithole, THE WHOLE CONTINENT), that dun exist, never happened, etc.