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I love stuff like this. An iPad (or other device with flash based storage) full of apps weighs more than an iPad fresh out of the box.
The extra weight comes from flash storage storing more data in memory. The transistors in flash memory distinguish between a 1 and a 0 by trapping electrons.
It’s obviously nothing you can weigh or feel at home. Read the full piece on Cult of Mac.
Det är alltid kul att se hur bortgjord man blir efter en förutsägelse. Jag postade mina tankar inför Apples oktoberevent, vilket gick av stapeln igår kväll, och det blev väl… Ja, hur blev det egentligen?
Hyfsat ändå, tycker jag. Klarade du dig bättre?
Twitpic’s shutting down again. I would just go ahead and export my images, had I been a Twitpic user, because it’s never a good sign when a service is fiddling about like this.
Marco Arment explains why there’s no Thunderbolt displays on the horizon.
Pushing this many pixels requires more bandwidth than DisplayPort 1.2 offers, which is what Thunderbolt 2 ports use for outputting video signals. (I wrote about this a few times.) Doing it right will require waiting until DisplayPort 1.3 in Thunderbolt 3 on Broadwell’s successor, Skylake, which isn’t supposed to come out for at least another year — and Intel is even worse at estimating ship dates than I am, so it’s likely to be longer.
It may be possible to use two Thunderbolt 2 cables to power a 5K display, but only if the GPU could treat each port as its own full-bandwidth DisplayPort 1.2 channel, the sum of which represented one logical display, and had the panel using something like MST to combine the two at the other end. But the only Mac with more than one Thunderbolt bus (not port) is the current Mac Pro, and I can’t see today’s Apple shipping an external display that none of their laptops can use.
There is no way Apple will launch proper 5K retina Thunderbolt displays, on par with the new retina iMac, anytime soon. I based my predictions on the matter on the same basis.
Netflix stock is down 24% due to the company missing its subscriber forecast. From Recode:
The company missed on both its US and international numbers: It ended the quarter with 37.2 million domestic subscribers, and it had predicted 37.6 million; it also had 15.84 million subscribers outside the U.S., and it had told Wall Street to expect 16.16 million.
24% down because of that? 24% is a lot, to put things mildly. Now’s probably a good idea to buy Netflix stocks…
Will.i.am’s smartwatch isn’t a watch, he says. Most people’ll disagree. Anyway, it’s happening and it’s not just an extension of your phone. The Puls, as it’s called, is a mobile device on its own, with impressive specs and its own 3G connection. This kills it for me, because there’s no way I’ll have a 3G transmitter strapped on my wrist at all times, that doesn’t sound healthy at all.
The following quote is from The Verge:
There was no word on the Puls’ battery life. At the end of the event, Will.i.am brought models out on stage who were wearing clothing that contained battery packs capable of transferring battery power to the Puls as long as part of it remained in contact with the sleeve. A jacket worn by one model is capable of powering the watch for two and a half days, he said. Technology should be part of more of the things we wear, Will.i.am. said. “Pardon me for dreaming, but fuck it — let’s dream,” he said.
Make of that what you will, but if you have to make clothing to power your devices, I think you’re in trouble. No word on pricing or real release date yet.
Recode, describing Facebook’s new emergency check-in feature:
Safety Check works by sending users a push notification asking them if they are safe whenever a natural disaster strikes the area they list as their current location. User’s can then see a list of their Facebook friends in the area, and see which users have checked-in as safe, and which have not.
What constitutes as a disaster is determined with local authorities. There’s no cross-reference of data at this, but that can’t be far off.
Robert Nyman, of Mozilla fame, shares his thoughts on email. I don’t share his method these days, but stay on top of email without much effort nonetheless. This part struck me as true:
Many people complain that e-mail is broken, but I think it’s a great communication form. I can deal with it when I feel I have the time and can get back to people when it suits me. If I need to concentrate on something else, I won’t let it interrupt my flow – just have notifications off/e-mail closed/don’t read it, and then get to it while you can.
Big day for Google lovers. The company officially launched Android 5.0 Lollipop, with something they call Material Design, really a visual overhaul, and a slew of other things. In the words of Dan Seifert of The Verge:
In addition to a visual overhaul, Lollipop brings over 5,000 new APIs for developers to tap into and lets multiple different Android devices with various form factors work better together. Google says that things such as songs, photos, apps, and recent searches can be seamlessly synced across various Android devices. Lollipop also includes new notification controls to limit alerts during meetings and other times, a new battery saver mode that can eke out 90 more minutes of life between charges, multiple user accounts, guest user modes, and new ways to secure your device via trusted Bluetooth connections. Many of these features have been implemented by various Android device makers on their own smartphones and tablets for some time, but Google is now making sure they are part of the core Android experience.
Sounds good, right? It probably is, but I’ll have to get back to you with a proper verdict.
Se upp för bluffmakare som försöker sälja på dig domäner över telefonen, det är budskapet i Peter Forsmans post hos .SE.
Det här är inte bara ”oseriös försäljning” utan den uppringde kunden blir lurad i flera led. För så klart finns det ingen privatperson som lagt någon beställning i första läget, utan det är bara det påtryckningsmedel de använder för att få en förskräckt reaktion hos den uppringde. Det är lätt att blir lurad. Kunskapen om domännamn och hur branschen fungerar är generellt låg.
Jag vill poängtera att inga seriösa webbhotell/återförsäljare av domäner i Sverige sysslar med den här typen av telefonförsäljning. De aktuella blufföretagen har bedrivit den här typen av oseriös verksamhet under flera olika bolags- och verksamhetsnamn, bland andra Bizzno, Ecentera, Tengmart, Bridge, Aktiva Work, under flera års tid.
Tipsa ovetande kollegor och vänner om att det här är något som försigkommer, för lurendrejerier drabbar oftast de som är okunniga om branschen. Och köp inte saker av telefonförsäljare, även om de verkar trovärdiga – be dem istället skicka underlaget via e-post så att du får kika på det i lugn och ro, och sedan göra ett eventuellt köp i kontrollerad miljö.
Sure, the Apple and U2 promotion of the latter’s album Songs of Innocence could’ve been executed a lot better. The biggest problem were for people with the setting to download new purchases automatically, because the album essentially was a new purchase, albeit free and unintended, and thus it’d dowbload to your device(s). It would’ve been much better to just promote the hell out of a link to the album’s page on iTunes, and just set the price to free. Not as disruptive obviously, but without the backlash and its removal tool.
Still, I think the whole thing got a bit carried away. You got a somewhat decent rock album from one of the biggest bands in the world for free. Not everyone’ll like the music, but it’s not like it cost you anything. Except space if you have automatic downloads enabled (which I don’t, I use iTunes Match and stream instead), and you can always just remove the album from your device(s). It’s a fuckup, but not a big one, and not even remotely serious. There are more important things to worry about.
Jag tycker du ska skicka bågra slantar till Ghostwoods Books Kickstarter-kampanj för “fair trade publishing”. Som en liten bonus får du antologin Haukter Futures, med bland annar Warren Ellis, Richard Kadrey, och Chuck Wendig – det kan inte bli dåligt!
Behöver du ytterligare incitament? Okej då, jag bjussar på följande.
Still on the ropes huh? Tell you what, I’ll do what I did to help the Fireside Fiction Year 2 campaign, and write a short story which you’ll be able to download for free. I like my publishing fair, you see. So! Not only will you get the awesome stuff from the Ghostwoods Books perks, I’ll publish a free short story here too. What are you waiting for?
Seså, öppna plånboken nu!
Ghostwoods Books, a small press based in the UK, are trying to kickstart a better world for authors and editors alike. It’s a great cause on its own, and with the money – £11,111, or about $17,680 – they can get a lot of possibly great books into the grubby hands of readers. Among those, the Haunted Futures anthology stands out.
If this project is funded on top of their other rewards all backers will receive Haunted Futures, a book that will only be possible if this Kickstarter is funded. A multi-genre anthology with stories by Warren Ellis, John Reppion, Liesel Schwarz, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Blackmoore, Seanan McGuire and more, maybe even you! Illustrated by John Coulthart (Lovecraft’s Monsters). The print book will also available in paperback and hardcover editions as a reward.
As of writing, the Kickstarter campaign is closing in on 50%, with four days to go. That’s not exactly great odds, but it is possible. Go pitch in to help fund some quality fair share publishing.
Still on the ropes huh? Tell you what, I’ll do what I did to help the Fireside Fiction Year 2 campaign, and write a short story which you’ll be able to download for free. I like my publishing fair, you see. So! Not only will you get the awesome stuff from the Ghostwoods Books perks, I’ll publish a free short story here too. What are you waiting for?
Hur mycket tjänar du? Vänta, berätta inte för mig, kolla SVT Pejls sköna webbleksak, där du petar in din peng före skatt, och får se hur mycket mer eller mindre du tjänar än andra. Väl genomfört, om än kanske inte så hemskt intressant som sådant eftersom de som tjänar mycket tenderar vara medvetna om det, och de som tjänar lite är det än mer.
Datan kommer förstås från Skattemyndigheten:
Data som visas är den taxerade inkomsten (deklarationsuppgifter) för alla som deklarade 2013, dvs 2012 års inkomster för alla svenskar mellan 15-99 år. Inkomsterna är den taxerade inkomsten, dvs innan skatt, men efter alla avdrag som kan göras i deklarationen. Taxerad inkomst är både inkomst av tjänst – och inkomst av näringsverksamhet. Observera att även pension räknas som inkomst.
Först och främst, om du inte löser Andrev Waldens fenomenala blogg Rymdslottet så gör du något fel. Nämligen att du inte läser Rymdslottet. Här får kungafamiljen vara backdrop till fascinerande resonemang kring livet i rymden, ljusets hastighet, och så vidare. Det borde vara en tidsfråga innan Walden erbjuds ett bok-kontrakt för det här.