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Tataffe

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  1. There's nothing wrong with Dropbox, though. I'm using it because I share several folders with other people, from my university or family, and I don't bother using more than one cloud service when I still have plenty of free space in my Dropbox. Anybode here know how to deactivate OneDrive in Windows 10?
  2. Using two-factor-authentication as well, with my phone via SMS. I do not like the way Dropbox handles this. I received an email telling me that all passwords from 2012 an earlier were going to be reset. No mention of the hack as a reason. Plus if I used a very secure password* before, the chances that someone retrieves my new password using a man-in-the-middle-attack are higher than the chances that my old password will be breached. *) My Dropbox password was generated by KeePass using an algorithm that puts out stuff like n@fY^`Ö{{w'ZE&<oQNOSÖ](r|däwzBKd, which I would call pretty secure.
  3. It's a shitty situation. The iPhone 6 was the most sold smartphone of 2015, with the 6S ranking #5. Plus no company is met with higher expectations regarding build quality than Apple. They really should take care immediately ...
  4. Apple takes much more care of their costumers than all the others. Be it through several years of OS updates or the implemented data security features, for instance. Also they don't sell your data like Google or Microsoft do, which is why the devices usually cost more. They make more balanced choices regarding the hardware they use. An example here would be that they do not take part in the race for more dpi. They know that 300-400 dpi is enough and everything above gives no benefits, only drawbacks (more GPU required mostly). Apple costumers don't care for numbers on a spec sheet (and there's nothing wrong with that). This is why many self-proclaimed "tech enthusiasts" (sadly also on this forum) have issues relating to Apple's success, even though you can experience it for yourself when Apple devices run as fast and smooth or even more so although they have less [insert unit here] under the hood.
  5. Most of the people who buy iOS devices do it for the user experience. Most of the people who buy Android devices just want a cheap phone, which is why only a small part of them use the really good ones. The amount of users who don't use the app ecosystem is way higher with Android. Someone who just wants to call and text will usually not buy an iPhone. I'm really glad Windows Phone is dying. It's a taste of their own medicine for Microsoft. If it wasn't for the chicken-and-egg problem of software availability, desktop Windows would have died years ago, so they better not complain.
  6. LTT forum at it again, comparing products that do not compete with each other in order to make AMD look bad. Last time it was GTX 1060 vs. RX 480 (340 USD vs. 200 USD), now it's i5-5675C vs. A10-7860K (290 USD vs. 110 USD). Honestly, if you think these stupid comparisons make any sense then I'm not sorry for you if you don't get optimal performance for your budget. They do not make any sense. Even a $/fps comparison is not in place at these relative price differences. Prices pulled from newegg.com.
  7. Autonomous vehicles have way more control over the outcome of an accident than human drivers do. They have second to none reaction delay, precise steering and way more "computing power" than a human brain. Therefore they have to make choices that human drivers can't make: Who to kill in an accident? You can give your opinions at moralmachine.mit.edu! You will be presented with a series of 13 scenarios per test. Make sure to read the instructions for every image, since the depictions are inaccurate sometimes. At the end, you will be given a result and a comparison between you and the average judge.
  8. Speaking as a German, don't bother learning our language. It's like a very complicated version of the English language. Also most of the young people (< 50) speak and understand English quite well, so should you ever have to come here for your job, you will be fine with English (or even French).
  9. You know you are an Apple user when you have your device patched more than a day before there's a thread on the issue on the LTT forum.
  10. That's not the iNEXT, that's the "Vision Next 100", which is a concept car.
  11. This was announced today. The German premium car maker will team up with the US-American processor expert Intel and the Israeli sensor guru Mobileye in order to design an autonomous vehicle until 2021. Now you might ask what advantage this will bring compared to the currently available systems. Quoting The Verge: That means the term "autopilot" will be appropriately used for the first time (aerospace engineering student speaking here^^). The car's project name is "iNEXT", which had been announced before. It is generally assumed that the iNEXT will be an electric car. Quoting TechCrunch: My opinion: Autonomous vehicles offer far more possibilities than many people think of. It is way more than "not steering yourself". Just imagine a city whose resident's mobility is exclusively provided by a fleet of autonomous vehicles, basically a mixture of public transport, a taxi service and a personal vehicle. The type of engine (fossil fuel, electric, fuel cell etc. or any hybrid of these) is not even important, although electric vehicles will be far more feasable then. I'm really glad that there will be at least one alliance of highly experienced and professional companies dealing with the topic, companies which (at least to me) are not known for releasing half-finished stuff to customers or even celebrating it (looking at you here, Tesla!). Sources: http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/1/12078120/bmw-autonomous-car-announced-intel-mobileye https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/01/bmw-mobileye-and-intel-are-building-a-full-self-driving-car-for-2021/
  12. I had that in my head, but I'll look my own apps up to give a better answer, because it looks like I'm slightly off here. Twitter: 8.0 Snapchat: 8.0 YouTube: 8.0 HERE Maps: 8.0 Instagram: 7.0 Google Maps: 7.0 SwiftKey: 8.0 FB Messenger: 7.0 imgur: 8.0 ebay: 8.0 Sleep Cycle: 8.0 Steam: 6.1 So for the apps that require iOS 8.0 you need the iPhone 4S (launched some days before the release of Android 4.0). None of the apps I tested (which I pulled from my "recently updated"-list) required any higher than iOS 8.0. The Steam app can be updated even on the iPhone 3GS (launched 06/2009 / Android 1.5). I wonder how this will continue after the release of iOS 10.
  13. Most apps on the App Store only require iOS 7 as of now, which means that all devices down to the iPhone 4 (released 2011, when the current Android version was 2.2), the iPad 2 and the iPod touch 5 can have them.
  14. You do realise that the article quoted in the OP is from 2006, right?
  15. Hey @zMeul, where did your thread on this go? (https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/595018-amd-in-hot-water-with-aib-partners-polaris-might-not-see-computex/)
  16. The BMW i3 for instance is a decent electric car (own experience here). The problem: Since German car manufactueres (and any other car manufacturer except for Tesla) want to make profit by selling the car, the i3 starts at 35 000 €. Making an electric car is expensive right now, and if you don't want to sell them at a loss like the Model S, then you'll have to ask for a price that keeps most people from buying them. That's why they're not built in the first place right now. And I'm afraid, with oil being as cheap as it is right now, this will not change for some time.
  17. The German government has announced that it will introduce a subvention for battery-electric and hybrid-electric cars, starting in mid-may. The total amount of money given away is one billion euros, so once that's gone, it's over. The bonus will be funded by the government and the German car manufacturers at a 50:50 ratio. It is only awarded if your vehicle's base price is below 60 000 € in order to only give it to people who can not easily buy an electric vehicle since they are usually more costly than their gas- or diesel-driven counterparts. Therefore many German high-end hybrid cars will not be elegible (inb4 "anti-Tesla-subvention"). Personal opinion: I wholeheartedly disagree with this. At the current technological stage, electric cars are not a product for the masses and our government should acknowledge that instead of naively clinging to their utopian goal of having one million electric vehicles on German roads in 2020 (current number: 50 000 of 45 million vehicles in total). The one billion tax euros that are now being wasted on this could have been put to much better use for research of the technology for electric cars and their infrastructure. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/04/27/business/27reuters-autos-electric-germany.html
  18. This is why we can't have nice things. Why can't every news poster be fair, knowledgeable, friendly and unbiased, you know? Why do we have to keep dealing with duplicitous, agressive fanboys who unnecessarily attack other people on what used to be a better place, the LTT forum before people like zMeul showed up ... OT: I think that the words "Highly Optimized for AMD" might be meant as an implication of the DX12 support ....
  19. You need a phone/internet connection to transfer the data, and (at least at BMW) this is not a basic feature at this time. Why would they lock mobile users out? Here Maps could serve as an advertisement for the aforementioned carmakers, by showing how good it is.
  20. Why would they want to make it exclusive? They want to collect as much live data as they can get for better traffic information. So Here Maps will likely continue to be available on mobile phones. Because Here Maps will be installed in many built-in GPS systems (all Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, MINI and maybe other Volkswagen brands), the user base will be rather large without the users noticing and the overall market share will be rather big. Collecting traffic data and working with it will probably be better than the competitors in the end, when many cars, stand-alone GPS systems and more phones use it.
  21. Being an intern at BMW Group (one of Here's owners), I'm currently trying out the app on iOS. I have not found any major problems. It's basically like Google Maps with a different color scheme, you can save locations to select them quickly afterwards, also you can download maps for offline use (does Google Maps offer this? I don't know). Because Here Maps will be fed by the built-in GPS systems in the most recent Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz models plus many stand-alone GPS systems, it's going to reach the same or better accuracy in live traffic than Google Maps. TL;DR: In my opinion, Here Maps is like Google Maps with privacy.
  22. We actually already have one of those. The sound quality is really good, but sometimes it does not work properly, which is a problem of this particular model though and not a general one.
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