Yet they are rumored to be sourcing 2026 CLA engine from Chinese Geely. Nothing agains Chinese companies, but aren't MB suppose to be luxury brand? Geely will probably offer vehicle with same engine, more tech for half the price.
Mercedes is pushing some pretty awful motors, like the new C63 4cyl turbo hybrid thing. Of course, a lot of this is driven by regulation, not Mercedes being cheap.
That R&D budget hasn't resulted in Mercedes making good engines. For example the M271 was notorious for going through timing chains, a supposedly lifetime part, in about 100 000 km.
I've also owned two Mercedes and both have had the rear brake lines rust away. Thankfully in the latter they were replaced before they rusted through.
I would imagine fewer and fewer manufacturers are wanting to invest in combustion engine development at this stage, but regulations are getting ever tighter in much of the world. Plus an increasing number of people just want a vehicle as an appliance; if it looks cool and it's nice inside, they don't care what's making it go as long as it's reasonably reliable and doesn't drink fuel.
Out of all the Chinese car companies, the one that owns Volvo and Lotus is probably not a bad choice. They also plan to produce the Smart electric vehicles as a part of a joint venture with Geely. The CLA is also supposed to get self driving tech from Chinese startup Momenta.
Normal users literally don't care. It was invented as touchpad so touch pad it is, no matter what Apple wants users to call it now. Don't see a point get butt hurt about that.
The touchpad is the touchpad, i.e. another term for the trackpad. It's called the touch bar because the name touchpad was already taken by the thing below the space bar. "Touchpad" isn't some weird marketing term, it's probably a more common term for "trackpad" than "trackpad".
Besides, neither you nor I nor anyone reading or writing anything on HN is a normal user. If you're not a little butthurt by people using the wrong technical terms for things, you are in the wrong place and/or the wrong line of work.
He isn't a normal user. He's someone who claims to be a software architect and Microsoft MVP -- yet doesn't know/can't care enough to use the correct terminology when he's writing a blog post from his "developer's point of view"?
Yeah. I mean: one could even make the argument that Apple is the one that often insists on using "creative" terminology for marketing reasons, and there is no reason to be sympathetic to them; I also remember this device being called a "touch pad" a long time ago--the device which had "track" was the "trackpoint" from IBM--but I also remember the device had always been stalled different things by different people.
In the article for this device, which Wikipedia canonically calls a "touchpad", we see comments on its terminology and the only place in the history section where the device is called a "trackpad" is jarring and happens to be in a sentence about Apple (where I would argue it should be corrected).
"""Apple Inc introduced touchpads to the modern laptop in the PowerBook series in 1994, using Cirque’s GlidePoint technology;[8] later PowerBooks and MacBooks would use Apple-developed trackpads."""
"""As touchpads began to be introduced in laptops in the 1990s, there was often confusion as to what the product should be called. No consistent term was used, and references varied, such as: glidepoint, touch sensitive input device, touchpad, trackpad, and pointing device.[9][10][11]"""
"""Apple's PowerBook 500 series was its first laptop to carry such a device,[citation needed] which Apple refers to as a "trackpad"."""
Why is this downvoted? "Touch pad" is the perfect mix of ambiguity between track pad and touch bar. It's a pretty careless mistake to write a blog post about a piece of tech and not even get the name of the tech right...
"Touch pad" is what most non-Apple vendors call the mouse replacement below the keyboard, and I think the meaning is perfectly clear. "Track pad" makes me think of the IBM/Lenovo-style trackpoint nipple mouse, even if it's Apple's documented name for their mouse input. "Track bar" is different enough from "track pad" that it doesn't seem confusing to me (I use the former term daily, so the latter term provides enough mental surprise to make the difference obvious).
The post you replied to is correct, but not usefully correct. It sounds overly pedantic and elitist, like arguing that one shouldn't call "LEGO bricks" "Legos".
They should have called it "MacBook Hipster". Call me stupid, but this spring I bought mbp 13" mid-2012 model not because it's the cheapest one they have, but because that's the only one they had with swappable hdd, ram, battery and even with ethernet port that I personally don't care that much about.
I much rather have slightly lower specs but when the day comes and my ram is corrupted or i need ssd replacement I could order one online and get delivered the next day, rather than drive 200km to drop it for repairs, wait god knows how long and drive those damn 200km to pick it up.
Hispter glue sandwiches is not something I'm planing to buy as my next computer, I just really hope Apple will get their sh*t together and release another laptop for old school guys like me...
I've got the mid-2012 13" mbp as well and it has been great! I have the RAM maxed out to 16GB and replaced the CD drive with an internal SSD adapter. Now it has 1TB of space across two Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSDs. It's still very fast!
With that said, I'm leaving it on El Capitan. Nothing in Sierra tempts me to upgrade and pay the price of configuring everything again and being left with worse performance. It's sad, I truly believe this is the last Apple laptop that I will purchase as they continue down a path of adding things I don't care about.
Just couple days ago I decided to give 5 weeks android course on edx a shot. I'm in week 5, spend like 3-4hrs to complete 1-4 weeks work (including time spent watching videos), wrote probably no more than 30-50 lines of code mostly something simple as "smth++". I feel like the quality went down dramatically compared to first courses they had, now its all about the money...
Andecdotally, there does seem to be an increase in the number of courses on these platforms. I'm not sure that's wholly negative given that the data has shown pretty consistently that with each week more learners stop engaging. Which suggests that smaller chunking might be more effective.
Of course, it also means that there are more opportunities to sell for a given amount of content, so I certainly don't rule out monetization as a factor.
For me, it's something of a tradeoff. On the one hand, there aren't many courses that are good enough and that I care enough about to devote university levels of work to. On the other hand, I'm taken some that were so trivial that it would be hard to say I got anything lasting out of them.
I understand that the longer the course is the less people will complete it, but at the same time, if you have to write 3-5 lines of code for each assignment what is the value in there? What does the certificate certify?
No argument here. As I said, I've taken or started to take a few courses that were so cursory (at least with respect to my level of existing knowledge) that they were largely a waste of time. I may not be prepared to spend 10+ hours a week over the course of 2+ months for very many classes--but if the whole class amounts to watching a webinar or reading a chapter in a book, it's probably not very valuable.
I'm surprised M$ haven't killed skype like the next day they bought it as they often do when they buy/take over companies and their products.
Skype is actually the only M$ product I use, and I would be more than happy to move to anything else as long as there would be a good alternative to it...
I doubt ads is the main source of revenue. They do sell DIDs, VOIP calls to landline phones and mobiles (with insane rates) so ads (only in few countries) doesn't account for much.
M$ bought lots of companies before, that eventually came to EOL even though they were doing pretty well before M$ bought them, it's not particularly about the skype (even though we see it gets worse over the time).
The sooner they gone the better. It's clear that they only here for benefits, not jobs, peace or freedom. Nobody wants to go to live eastern european countries (EU) as a refugee, though they equally peaceful, open-minded, but there are no benefits (or limited), no free housing and no free cars...
Btw, everyone suddenly forgot about existing unemployment in Spain (20%, dec data) or Greece(24%, dec data). Other EU countries also struggling, especially in youth employment...
This is true, Hungary was the first in EU to put up wire around its border to Serbia to prevent immigration.
Frankly Eastern Europe has enough problems with it's own economic burdens - lack of capital, low productivity, low % of capable working population and significant brain drain, high corruption and low respect for property ownership, a lot of destroyed capital and outstanding obligations to existing retired people, etc. - most of which can be traced back to Communism. Also they already have problems with poor integration of Roma.
And you forget the whole Ottoman rule thing. We brunt the conquerors wrath up to Vienna and barely stopped them. Had our development extinguished for 3-5 centuries. When people in Eastern Europe see the hordes of young, fighting age passing trough they have different associations - like Devşirme
I wanted to say something about that but it's not that black and white.
For example there were/are a lot of Muslims in the Balkans after the Ottoman empire - but they are integrated within the society - some of them drink/eat pork, none of them expect gays/adulterers to be stoned etc. Just like modern Christians reject the extreme parts of their religion (eg. they mostly ignore the stuff in old testament).
I don't think "islamophobia", in the sense that you'll be ostracized for being a muslim, is more common than the rest of EU.
They against havoc, littering, blocked roads, squatted trains, destroyed property, etc. Keep in mind that people never intended to stay in any of those eastern european countries, they all were going to Germany.
The refuees are not leaving Syria/Iraq etc looking for benefits. They are leaving a severe civil war. Yes there are economic migrants moving to Europe as well but they are and will be deported. The reason they aren't staying in the poorer countries is simply that. They are poorer and simply can't handle the refugee intake nor provide basic essential services.
You can't blame genuine refugees for wanting to goto countries where they have the best opportunity of leaving a normal life.
> You can't blame genuine refugees for wanting to goto countries where they have the best opportunity of leaving a normal life.
And there lies the crux of the problem: many - if not most - of these migrants want to lead a 'normal life' among people of their own ethnic group, from their own background,
speaking their own language and perpetuating their own culture. A culture which is often diametrically the opposite from that in which they landed. They don't want to 'integrate' or 'assimilate', they want to be amongst their peers. While this is understandable, it is a recipe for disaster as a quick look at eg. Malmö/Rinkeby/etc in Sweden, the banlieux in Paris, Schilderswijk in The Hague (etc) shows. It leads to segregation, unemployment due to language barriers, increased crime rates due to the latter as well as due to cultural differences (see the 'rape epidemic' in Sweden) and more such destabilising problems.
I have late 2011 MBP 13. I did upgrade it with 16GB ram/512SSD and 32GB MiniDrive (SD). Don't see any reason to upgrade ATM. Looking at MBP 12'' single port insanity im scared to even think about it...
