We have all seen annual upgrade tactics on different applications. What makes WordPress theme extremely awkward however, is the fact that none of the features actually change and/or fixed since the release. If there is a glitch, it must be fixed regardless of “upgrade”, and if it is an entirely new feature, likely the designer will sell it as version 2.0 not as an update. This business model can only be shady as it cannot merit consumers by all means.
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Beta Software is not a Press Release Copy
In light of possible obsolesce of eGPU support on TB1/2 machines, I thought it would be a good time to go back to the basics for this week. Public and/or developer beta is hardly a reliable source of information. Features will be added, dropped, and then added again in betas. And if you need an insider information just hang around by the Apple campus instead of trying to whip up a news.
State of eGPU Support on Coming High Sierras
High Sierra tuned in native support for eGPUs, but recent updates on eGPU support on older Macs are looking grim. If you own a Mac that does have a USB-C port, (or any plain MacBooks) it is very likely your computer does not support Thunderbolt 3. Any Mac with Thunderbolt 1 or 2 ports are now less likely to support eGPU even with High Sierra or higher.
Blockchain-Based Currency is Not the Money We Know
An introduction to Bitcoin makes it sound so user-friendly and a simpleton business, but elegant with modern encryption, but the actual system design is largely kept a secret like a Death Star. It doesn’t matter how a 100 km-wide space station roams around in space freely and shoot out a laser beam that will utterly destroy 12,500 km-wide planet; what mattered was that it destroys planets and can be stopped by a “one-man starship”. Considering how we even got a good prequel out of that story alone, the story behind Bitcoin also deserves some attention with its ever-increasing exchange rate.
Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity
이 문제는 휘트먼과 휘트먼의 사상을 알고 있더라면 쉽게 풀 수 있습니다. 만일 이 문제가 문학을 염두에 둔 새로운 수능의 영어 예제 문제로 나왔더라면 쌍수를 들고 환영할 겁니다. 저만 하더라도 원문이 되는 책은 몇번이나 읽어봤으니까요. 저 문단 하나로 당대의 분위기와 시인을 동시에 파악할 수 있기 때문에 대학에서 흔히 텍스트로 씁니다. 거기다 사용하는 단어도 미국에서 흔히 접할 수 있는 것들 뿐입니다.
FBI is Still Nagging Apple for Backdoor Access
Apparently books on iPhone back doors from 2015 is not officially closed for FBI. FBI Director shared the actual stats behind the requests last Sunday, around 6,900 devices. Following the Texas shooting, FBI once again shared its frustration that the bureau was unable to decrypt the shooter’s phone. Although the law enforcement did not disclose what kind of information they may be able to find on the device, it only supports the hypothesis that FBI is using reactive policing as a cover for broader proactive policing.
Apple Firing Engineer over iPhone X Vlog Reveals “Emerging Adult” Mishap
“There have been many names” can’t have described it better when it comes to obsession found primarily in Western culture on the subject of emerging adulthood. Now that quote is from none other than Da Vinci Code, the movie, a story of a woman who wants to find a killer of her grandfather, which then turns its head around for a conspiracy. Emerging adulthood gains its name from endless pursuit in open-ended, fruitless, and yet always irresponsible actions done by adults, the group of people who, bizarrely enough, can only be categorized by age.
High Sierra Second Public Beta is Here
Second public beta of High Sierra with rather grim news. Aside from obvious bug fixes, eGPU.io confirmed High Sierra is more confining than that Sierra is and was. The drivers aside from Radeon RX 470/480/570/580 definitely exists in High Sierra and can be found rather easily. My testing showed High Sierra was able to “grab” the RX 560, but could not actually utilize it. Currently Apple is not allowing the use of other graphics card as eGPU.
High Sierra Public Beta is Here
Public beta for High Sierra is here, and boy, we didn’t see this kind of mess since Lion. This devastation is only comparable to the first release of public beta OS X Lion, and if you are in for it, you won’t be disappointed. I’m not even sure how developers are supposed to work with this shit.
eBay Sniping Can’t Work, Because Reasons
Apparently there is something called “sniping” in eBay, now taken as a community norm. Does it work? In its essence, yes. Does it work on theoretical level? Not really. Let me lay it out bits by bits.
An Argument For Wireless Audio in iPhone 7
Newest turmoil around iPhone is now the lack of 3.5mm headphone jack. Apple, at least Phil Schiller believes it is “courage” to remove headphone jack to move toward wireless future. Several arguments had been made against it, and here are some of them that hold up to criticism.
“Colonial Boomerang” Can’t be Worse Choice of Word
ORIGINALLY ON NYT, SEOUL’S COLONIAL BOOMERANG The issue of comfort women is devastating. Let’s leave it there. Because there hasn’t been a single article that dealt the issue with a proper perspective it deserves. It was Americans who decided to give Japan a slack in American military court, not Asians nor Europeans, both the victims of “Comfort Women” system. It was Americans who decided give peace to a country full of statutory-rapists or a.k.a. Johns.
3DTV Is Announced Dead
We’ve been waiting for it. When will 3D finally be a new standard? Guess what, never. Gizmodo just ran an article based on CES 2015, and apparently the next big thing will be Smart TV, not 3D. Nobody wants a half-baked computer, so I’d say in a couple of years, Smart TV will be announced dead as well.
9 out of 10 million iPhones are affected, Apple says
This is actually getting funny. Apparently Apple only had received 9 complaints so far as to the bending issue of new iPhone 6+. And unlike what the internet has suspected, iPhone 6 is durable enough to withstand the “bending.”
Apple Bend-Gate Is Coming
I’m sure most of you have already heard of iPhone 6+ is more bendable —or malleable— then any other phones, and customers are crying for Apple’s comment. I couldn’t find any hints on iPhone 6 being bendable, but they are all made out of aluminum, better be prepared.