"...they have to answer to Congress, and Congress has to answer to us, their constituents,"
Before you go spouting off regarding who answers to whom, remember just how much people don't give a shit about Rights anymore. Just last week, Millennial's confirmed they would gladly give up their Right to Vote in exchange for getting some college debt relief.
And you, dear sir, clearly don't give a shit about basic grammar.
And you, dear sir, have failed to understand your value here. When simple grammatical errors do not misconstrue the point being made, it only reaffirms why we often associate Nazi with grammar.
"remember just how much people don't give a shit about Rights anymore. Just last week, Millennial's confirmed they would gladly give up their Right to Vote in exchange for getting some college debt relief."
And 90 million Americans that could've voted in 2016, didn't.
That's not a hypothetical - that actually fucking happened. Somehow I don't think there are 90 million millennials (nearly 1/3rd of the US).
Over a quarter (27.1%) of the US population is under 21 years of age. The median age is 37 years old.
That's not a hypothetical - those are actual fucking statistics taken in 2014, so yes there are likely a considerable number of Millennials represented in the US now.
It's really starting to feel like the year 2000 again with the kind of hubris, absurd valuation claims, etc. coming from the tech world in general. One of my favorites: https://www.wired.com/1999/09/...
It doesn't matter whether or not we learn about history.
Our timeless ability to be ignorant and stupid all but guarantees we will repeat it.
We don't know what will happen because it hasn't been engineered and built yet. Determining how it handles various types of failures will certainly be part of the engineering process. Worst case scenario is everyone dies, which isn't much different than a plane crash. But just like with a plane, plenty of fail safes will be there to allow for managed failures. Most catastrophic failures will probably just cause the train to come to a gradual halt.
A total power failure at 30,000 feet has a completely different end result, so perhaps we should not try and label a train coming to a gradual halt as "catastrophic"...
"The idea of getting from one city to another at 700 MPH without having to suffer through an airport and all that jazz is revolutionary..."
Since you're quick to dismiss the suffering, care to tell me how Elon's solution would get rid of the TSA and all other forms of pain-in-the-ass security screening that "jazz" up airports today?
I missed have missed the part where terrorist risks and unending government waste were magically eradicated from this form of travel...
My son is in 7th grade and the US History class is doing a unit on the Constitution.
The teacher gave them a list of 20 rights written in plain language, which included the bill of rights and some others not in the constitution (everyone is entitled to a free education) and they had to pick 10 from the list. I'm pretty sure fewer than half of the original bill of rights wound up in their aggregate list.
No offense directed at your son, but when a twentysomething Millennial barely recognizes the value of the Right to Vote, I'm pretty sure a 7th grader won't have a clue as to how to value Rights, reinforced by a complete lack of real-world application.
Meeting friends at a restaurant is getting to be a problem. It used to be you'd decide in advance where and when you'd meet.
Uh, this is still considered proper behavior between two people who respect each other's time, which is often limited and valued.
Nowadays, they expect you to be reachable all the time, so they can make their decision at the very last minute.
Oh, you are supposed to be reachable at all times, so they can make their decision at the very last minute? Fuck that shit. I'm a friend who should be respected, not some personal assistant at someone's beck and call. If a friend can't manage to respect my time and schedule as much as their own, then I doubt I would continue to find reasons to accommodate them.
"...they have to answer to Congress, and Congress has to answer to us, their constituents,"
Before you go spouting off regarding who answers to whom, remember just how much people don't give a shit about Rights anymore. Just last week, Millennial's confirmed they would gladly give up their Right to Vote in exchange for getting some college debt relief.
He's complaining about the technology, but it is the people using it that make companies build it that way. They don't want to put any thought into the process, they just want to put in a minimal amount of info and get a reasonable answer.
30 years ago, if you wanted to operate a computer, you either put in the effort to learn how to do it yourself (assuming you held the intelligence and technical proficiency to do so), or you found some "geek" who was proficient enough to operate one.
Today, every idiot wants to operate a computer. Thus, manufacturers had to dumb down every UI to make it idiot-proof in order to capitalize on that demand. App stores are a perfect example of idiot-proofing software installations.
Regarding his complaints about computers not allowing for creativity, I disagree. Social media has done more to advance mass narcissism than anything else in our history. Never before have we been more entertained by creative idiots online.
I'll repeat again: when you stop browsing, any partial work disappears.
The world never stops browsing, but people do.
This is exactly why I mentioned streaming services. You can probably get some considerable crunching done when the word "binge" is often used to describe browser session times. Wouldn't be surprised one bit if the next YouTube/Netflix app upgrade comes with a few extra lines of JS.
On top of that, I'll give it about another HFT micro-second before someone realizes the value of breaking up JS cryptomining assignments into 60-second chunks to try and counteract that "partial" work problem, and take advantage of this distributed mining model. Or perhaps they'll wrap this around something that is always running in the background; you've only got about 1,000 opportunities to do this with Win10 telemetry services...
And ratios: how many JS miners do you need to equal a current (affordable) GPU card, combined with -- as AniMoJo first mentioned -- the fact that when you stop browsing, any partial work disappears. That's really a killer.
And yet can you imagine the performance if legitimate companies that offer streaming services (Netflix,YouTube, etc.) embedded JS mining as a "feature" on their sites?
The world never stops browsing, which is why volume matters.
Depression is not a single condition. Pick up the Harvard Guide to Psychiatry, there are myriad disorders, i.e., paranoia, grandiosity, etc. One person usually does not have a single one but is some smorgasbord of different conditions. That makes picking drugs that much harder.
So go ahead believing a just society will cure depression. Just societies also generate serial killers.
Believing the pill-pushing healers is also difficult to swallow due to the one constant that stands out; Greed.
Greed has infected the Pharma industry, and it wouldn't matter if the pill was as worthless as a placebo; if it generates revenue and comes with the benefit of being able to generate more revenue due to side effects, it's considered a good thing and the answer in our corrupt world of ruthless capitalism.
With regards to what a just society is capable of generating, Big Pharma is now the largest opium dealer on the planet, with Greed killing tens of thousands of people every year.
Guess I don't follow your logic with that theory, since I believe a warranty is used to demonstrate the actual durability of a product.
If we follow your idea, then the courts would be clogged with cases of impossible to meet guidelines. A Kitchen-Aid stand mixer might last 30 years but that would require Kitchen-Aid to fully guarantee all their mixers for 30 years. My computer lasted 5 years before the power supply blew; my buddy's same model is still going after 10 years, I should sue.
Please don't be ignorant about this and assume the extreme. Yes, an iPhone could last 3-5 years for a lot of people. All I'm asking is for a vendor to match consumer expectations and offer a factory warranty that mirrors what carriers are pushing, which is two years. That should not be asking for a lot from a company that is marketing (and defending in court) a "durable" product. If it's durable, then back up your damn marketing and legal defense with a reasonable warranty.
So you didn't hear about the Cuisinart blade recall then? I had a food processor that was at least 10 years old covered under this. The replacement blade came on a slow boat from China but it was free and eventually made it.
I know people with 30 year old stand mixers. I expect to be able to get spare parts for mine when mine is that old.
That's kind of why I bought it (and the Cuisinart) and stopped buying the cheap crap.
This is also why I own a Cuisinart mixer, and a Vitamix blender. Good warranties and vendor support, are worth it.
I have other electronic products that are factory warrantied up to a decade, and was included in the base price.
Are they mobile phones? It's one thing if an electronic device is going to sit on a shelf or under a desk. It's another if it's going to be thrown in a pocket or backpack, knocked around a car, rained on, etc...
Samsung mobile device warranty: 1 Year
HTC: 1 Year
Google Pixel: 1 Year
Sony XPeria: 1 Year
Motorola: 1 Year
Microsoft Lumia - 1 Year
Notice a trend?
Yeah, it's called collusion.
How many of those vendors specifically defend themselves in court, stating their products are durable?
That is my point here. Either back up your durable claim with a real warranty that exceeds the rest of the market, or stop with your bullshit marketing.
No, what I'm asking for is a company that claims to make a "durable" product back up that claim.
Both Craftsman and Snap-On offer free replacements on broken hand tools but no professional is going to buy Craftsman tools. Craftsman just overcharges so much for their cheap shit that they can afford to hand out free replacements until the owner figures out that a Snap-On tool is a much better replacement. Snap-On isn't cheap because they make stuff that is really hard to break. If for some reason you do break it (such as due to a random manufacturing flaw) then they'll give you a free replacement to keep you as a customer. The feedback in learning how their tools break so they can do better is worth "buying" the broken tool from you for the price of a replacement.
Lifetime warranties are worth nothing. It's the reputation that matters.
To be clear, I respect both Craftsman and Snap-On, but your argument (and Snap-Ons pricing) hardly holds water when both companies are willing to replace hardware for free for life. I used a Craftsman screwdriver as a crowbar and bent the shit out of it, no questions with replacement. Yes, perhaps 5% of consumers will break Craftsman tools more often than Snap-On tools, but the initial investment is considerably more with Snap-On. For that reason, I would choose Craftsman. If I'm worried about a tool breaking at the wrong time and not getting a replacement in time, then I'll buy two of them. That is when two is one, one is none rules apply.
And most companies do analysis on failed hardware, especially if it becomes repetitive. It's the only way to make a better product.
The reason it is longer in Europe is due to them wanting a "high level of consumer protection." There are certainly times when US law could take a lesson from others. This would likely be one of them.,
Yes but since this happened in the US, what do you expect Apple to do? Their warranty is covered under US laws.
No, their warranty is excused under US laws. Other countries validate this.
Every auto manufacturer could limit the factory warranty on every car sold in the US to one year regardless of consumer expectation or loan lengths, if they wanted to be a greedy dick about it.
And what you are advocating is that regardless of what the auto warranty says, my bank loan overrides the warranty even though the manufacturer never agreed to the terms. My 7 year car loan automatically forces my auto manufacturer to warranty my car for 7 years.
You are failing to understand my statement. What if your favorite auto maker suddenly changed their warranty to 1 year, and forced you to pay for anything more than that? Would you still feel confident in the product and buy a new car from them, or would you re-consider, based on their calculations and reasoning for limiting their product to one year? I have a feeling you would think about it, for there is always a validated reason to limit warranties on hardware, and it usually has to do with reliability.
?Third party terms or product demand have far less to do with my argument than the bullshit claim that Apple makes a durable product. If they do, then prove it with a decent warranty that conforms to consumer expectations.
By your argument, any company that has made a "durable" product must offer unlimited lifetime warranties. A decent warranty for most electronics is 1 year and limited.
That "decent" warranty would be mocked in other countries who believe in protecting the consumer. And ironically enough, when sales start to drop for any product, one of the first things a manufacturer does to boost sales is to extend the factory warranty, proving just how minimal the financial impact really is.
A product is "durable" or it isn't. Stop with the bullshit marketing if all you're going to offer is the same shit warranty that every other vendor offers.
The iPhone 8 battery is rumored to perhaps be a s big as 2,700 mAh. Thus assuming no loss in charging, a 2.7 amp 5 volt power supply could charge it in one hour (that is the same amount of power the battery produces in an hour). The 29W power supply produces 5.8 amps at 5 volt (29 / 5 = 5.8). So not counting any loss, the 29W power supply produces enough power to charge the battery to 100% capacity in 28 minutes. So if we assume up to 50% inefficiency during charging, a 29W power supply could still charge the phone to 50% capacity in 30 minutes. If the battery was much larger (like in the plus models), or the charging is less efficient than 50%, a bigger power supply would be needed to charge to 50% in 30 minutes.
Ah, a refreshing reminder that math is the universal language that is truly timeless. Thanks for the detail.
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"...they have to answer to Congress, and Congress has to answer to us, their constituents,"
Before you go spouting off regarding who answers to whom, remember just how much people don't give a shit about Rights anymore. Just last week, Millennial's confirmed they would gladly give up their Right to Vote in exchange for getting some college debt relief.
And you, dear sir, clearly don't give a shit about basic grammar.
And you, dear sir, have failed to understand your value here. When simple grammatical errors do not misconstrue the point being made, it only reaffirms why we often associate Nazi with grammar.
"remember just how much people don't give a shit about Rights anymore. Just last week, Millennial's confirmed they would gladly give up their Right to Vote in exchange for getting some college debt relief."
And 90 million Americans that could've voted in 2016, didn't.
That's not a hypothetical - that actually fucking happened. Somehow I don't think there are 90 million millennials (nearly 1/3rd of the US).
Over a quarter (27.1%) of the US population is under 21 years of age. The median age is 37 years old.
That's not a hypothetical - those are actual fucking statistics taken in 2014, so yes there are likely a considerable number of Millennials represented in the US now.
It's really starting to feel like the year 2000 again with the kind of hubris, absurd valuation claims, etc. coming from the tech world in general. One of my favorites: https://www.wired.com/1999/09/...
It doesn't matter whether or not we learn about history.
Our timeless ability to be ignorant and stupid all but guarantees we will repeat it.
We don't know what will happen because it hasn't been engineered and built yet. Determining how it handles various types of failures will certainly be part of the engineering process. Worst case scenario is everyone dies, which isn't much different than a plane crash. But just like with a plane, plenty of fail safes will be there to allow for managed failures. Most catastrophic failures will probably just cause the train to come to a gradual halt.
A total power failure at 30,000 feet has a completely different end result, so perhaps we should not try and label a train coming to a gradual halt as "catastrophic"...
"The idea of getting from one city to another at 700 MPH without having to suffer through an airport and all that jazz is revolutionary..."
Since you're quick to dismiss the suffering, care to tell me how Elon's solution would get rid of the TSA and all other forms of pain-in-the-ass security screening that "jazz" up airports today?
I missed have missed the part where terrorist risks and unending government waste were magically eradicated from this form of travel...
My son is in 7th grade and the US History class is doing a unit on the Constitution.
The teacher gave them a list of 20 rights written in plain language, which included the bill of rights and some others not in the constitution (everyone is entitled to a free education) and they had to pick 10 from the list. I'm pretty sure fewer than half of the original bill of rights wound up in their aggregate list.
No offense directed at your son, but when a twentysomething Millennial barely recognizes the value of the Right to Vote, I'm pretty sure a 7th grader won't have a clue as to how to value Rights, reinforced by a complete lack of real-world application.
Meeting friends at a restaurant is getting to be a problem. It used to be you'd decide in advance where and when you'd meet.
Uh, this is still considered proper behavior between two people who respect each other's time, which is often limited and valued.
Nowadays, they expect you to be reachable all the time, so they can make their decision at the very last minute.
Oh, you are supposed to be reachable at all times, so they can make their decision at the very last minute? Fuck that shit. I'm a friend who should be respected, not some personal assistant at someone's beck and call. If a friend can't manage to respect my time and schedule as much as their own, then I doubt I would continue to find reasons to accommodate them.
And no, hiding it in fine print, hoping people don't realize, is fraud.
You misspelled The American Way of Doing Business...
"...they have to answer to Congress, and Congress has to answer to us, their constituents,"
Before you go spouting off regarding who answers to whom, remember just how much people don't give a shit about Rights anymore. Just last week, Millennial's confirmed they would gladly give up their Right to Vote in exchange for getting some college debt relief.
He's complaining about the technology, but it is the people using it that make companies build it that way. They don't want to put any thought into the process, they just want to put in a minimal amount of info and get a reasonable answer.
30 years ago, if you wanted to operate a computer, you either put in the effort to learn how to do it yourself (assuming you held the intelligence and technical proficiency to do so), or you found some "geek" who was proficient enough to operate one.
Today, every idiot wants to operate a computer. Thus, manufacturers had to dumb down every UI to make it idiot-proof in order to capitalize on that demand. App stores are a perfect example of idiot-proofing software installations.
Regarding his complaints about computers not allowing for creativity, I disagree. Social media has done more to advance mass narcissism than anything else in our history. Never before have we been more entertained by creative idiots online.
I'll repeat again: when you stop browsing, any partial work disappears.
The world never stops browsing, but people do.
This is exactly why I mentioned streaming services. You can probably get some considerable crunching done when the word "binge" is often used to describe browser session times. Wouldn't be surprised one bit if the next YouTube/Netflix app upgrade comes with a few extra lines of JS.
On top of that, I'll give it about another HFT micro-second before someone realizes the value of breaking up JS cryptomining assignments into 60-second chunks to try and counteract that "partial" work problem, and take advantage of this distributed mining model. Or perhaps they'll wrap this around something that is always running in the background; you've only got about 1,000 opportunities to do this with Win10 telemetry services...
Canada has had a number of successful technology companies, but they've all been plagued by mismanagement see Blackberry, Nortel, Corel, etc
Perhaps they need to enact a Too-Big-To-Fail law.
That way, they could reward mismanagement like the US does (see banking industry, auto industry, etc.)
The performance all comes down to volume.
And ratios: how many JS miners do you need to equal a current (affordable) GPU card, combined with -- as AniMoJo first mentioned -- the fact that when you stop browsing, any partial work disappears. That's really a killer.
And yet can you imagine the performance if legitimate companies that offer streaming services (Netflix,YouTube, etc.) embedded JS mining as a "feature" on their sites?
The world never stops browsing, which is why volume matters.
Depression is not a single condition. Pick up the Harvard Guide to Psychiatry, there are myriad disorders, i.e., paranoia, grandiosity, etc. One person usually does not have a single one but is some smorgasbord of different conditions. That makes picking drugs that much harder.
So go ahead believing a just society will cure depression. Just societies also generate serial killers.
Believing the pill-pushing healers is also difficult to swallow due to the one constant that stands out; Greed.
Greed has infected the Pharma industry, and it wouldn't matter if the pill was as worthless as a placebo; if it generates revenue and comes with the benefit of being able to generate more revenue due to side effects, it's considered a good thing and the answer in our corrupt world of ruthless capitalism.
With regards to what a just society is capable of generating, Big Pharma is now the largest opium dealer on the planet, with Greed killing tens of thousands of people every year.
...it's a nice change from the usual destructive malware in ads.
Guess that all depends on where the Bitcoin profits go.
Funding physical destruction wouldn't be a hard stretch in a warmongering environment.
And Javascript isn't exactly known for its high performance when it comes to maths.
That was my first thought. People spend so much on top-tier GPUs for mining, and these guys go for JS.
I bet the malware guys are using this as a proof-of-concept for something else.
How many people have a JS enabled-browser installed vs. how many people have top-tier GPUs installed?
The performance all comes down to volume. And with Bitcoin valued at over $3000, I doubt that something else needs be a motivator.
Guess I don't follow your logic with that theory, since I believe a warranty is used to demonstrate the actual durability of a product.
If we follow your idea, then the courts would be clogged with cases of impossible to meet guidelines. A Kitchen-Aid stand mixer might last 30 years but that would require Kitchen-Aid to fully guarantee all their mixers for 30 years. My computer lasted 5 years before the power supply blew; my buddy's same model is still going after 10 years, I should sue.
Please don't be ignorant about this and assume the extreme. Yes, an iPhone could last 3-5 years for a lot of people. All I'm asking is for a vendor to match consumer expectations and offer a factory warranty that mirrors what carriers are pushing, which is two years. That should not be asking for a lot from a company that is marketing (and defending in court) a "durable" product. If it's durable, then back up your damn marketing and legal defense with a reasonable warranty.
So you didn't hear about the Cuisinart blade recall then? I had a food processor that was at least 10 years old covered under this. The replacement blade came on a slow boat from China but it was free and eventually made it.
I know people with 30 year old stand mixers. I expect to be able to get spare parts for mine when mine is that old.
That's kind of why I bought it (and the Cuisinart) and stopped buying the cheap crap.
This is also why I own a Cuisinart mixer, and a Vitamix blender. Good warranties and vendor support, are worth it.
I have other electronic products that are factory warrantied up to a decade, and was included in the base price.
Are they mobile phones? It's one thing if an electronic device is going to sit on a shelf or under a desk. It's another if it's going to be thrown in a pocket or backpack, knocked around a car, rained on, etc...
Samsung mobile device warranty: 1 Year HTC: 1 Year Google Pixel: 1 Year Sony XPeria: 1 Year Motorola: 1 Year Microsoft Lumia - 1 Year
Notice a trend?
Yeah, it's called collusion.
How many of those vendors specifically defend themselves in court, stating their products are durable?
That is my point here. Either back up your durable claim with a real warranty that exceeds the rest of the market, or stop with your bullshit marketing.
No, what I'm asking for is a company that claims to make a "durable" product back up that claim.
Both Craftsman and Snap-On offer free replacements on broken hand tools but no professional is going to buy Craftsman tools. Craftsman just overcharges so much for their cheap shit that they can afford to hand out free replacements until the owner figures out that a Snap-On tool is a much better replacement. Snap-On isn't cheap because they make stuff that is really hard to break. If for some reason you do break it (such as due to a random manufacturing flaw) then they'll give you a free replacement to keep you as a customer. The feedback in learning how their tools break so they can do better is worth "buying" the broken tool from you for the price of a replacement.
Lifetime warranties are worth nothing. It's the reputation that matters.
To be clear, I respect both Craftsman and Snap-On, but your argument (and Snap-Ons pricing) hardly holds water when both companies are willing to replace hardware for free for life. I used a Craftsman screwdriver as a crowbar and bent the shit out of it, no questions with replacement. Yes, perhaps 5% of consumers will break Craftsman tools more often than Snap-On tools, but the initial investment is considerably more with Snap-On. For that reason, I would choose Craftsman. If I'm worried about a tool breaking at the wrong time and not getting a replacement in time, then I'll buy two of them. That is when two is one, one is none rules apply.
And most companies do analysis on failed hardware, especially if it becomes repetitive. It's the only way to make a better product.
The reason it is longer in Europe is due to them wanting a "high level of consumer protection." There are certainly times when US law could take a lesson from others. This would likely be one of them.,
Yes but since this happened in the US, what do you expect Apple to do? Their warranty is covered under US laws.
No, their warranty is excused under US laws. Other countries validate this.
Every auto manufacturer could limit the factory warranty on every car sold in the US to one year regardless of consumer expectation or loan lengths, if they wanted to be a greedy dick about it.
And what you are advocating is that regardless of what the auto warranty says, my bank loan overrides the warranty even though the manufacturer never agreed to the terms. My 7 year car loan automatically forces my auto manufacturer to warranty my car for 7 years.
You are failing to understand my statement. What if your favorite auto maker suddenly changed their warranty to 1 year, and forced you to pay for anything more than that? Would you still feel confident in the product and buy a new car from them, or would you re-consider, based on their calculations and reasoning for limiting their product to one year? I have a feeling you would think about it, for there is always a validated reason to limit warranties on hardware, and it usually has to do with reliability.
?Third party terms or product demand have far less to do with my argument than the bullshit claim that Apple makes a durable product. If they do, then prove it with a decent warranty that conforms to consumer expectations.
By your argument, any company that has made a "durable" product must offer unlimited lifetime warranties. A decent warranty for most electronics is 1 year and limited.
That "decent" warranty would be mocked in other countries who believe in protecting the consumer. And ironically enough, when sales start to drop for any product, one of the first things a manufacturer does to boost sales is to extend the factory warranty, proving just how minimal the financial impact really is.
A product is "durable" or it isn't. Stop with the bullshit marketing if all you're going to offer is the same shit warranty that every other vendor offers.
to see how stupid their customers really are...
Uh, they tried that, about three models ago. $250 billion in cash reserves was the end result of that test.
History will be scratching it's head for centuries over this era.
buy a nickel's worth of copper, formed into a $1 cable and priced at $50 in a white "Designed by Apple in Cupertino California" box.
(Contestant) - "What is how to amass $250 billion in cash reserves?"
(Alex Trebek) - "Correct!"
The iPhone 8 battery is rumored to perhaps be a s big as 2,700 mAh. Thus assuming no loss in charging, a 2.7 amp 5 volt power supply could charge it in one hour (that is the same amount of power the battery produces in an hour). The 29W power supply produces 5.8 amps at 5 volt (29 / 5 = 5.8). So not counting any loss, the 29W power supply produces enough power to charge the battery to 100% capacity in 28 minutes. So if we assume up to 50% inefficiency during charging, a 29W power supply could still charge the phone to 50% capacity in 30 minutes. If the battery was much larger (like in the plus models), or the charging is less efficient than 50%, a bigger power supply would be needed to charge to 50% in 30 minutes.
Ah, a refreshing reminder that math is the universal language that is truly timeless. Thanks for the detail.
My Nexus 6P also can only fast charge on a USB-C charger.
The real news is that the iPhones don't include the cable and fast charger in the box.
Dear Smartphone World,
You're doing it wrong.
Sincerely,
- Apple Profit Margin Analysis Group