You, and other critics, act like Amazon is some single entity. Amazon is not. Instead, Amazon is more like a mall, a place where tens of thousands of resellers gather to serve hundreds of millions of customers. Amazon is simply the interface and provides services like sales tax computing, shipping, stocking, etc. When I buy on Amazon I'm typically buying from some business that is selling through Amazon. Even individuals like you and I can participate.
Hating Amazon is like hating eBay, the city down the road that has lots of stores, a mall, etc.
I like Amazon because it gives me easy access to a huge number of products. I live out in a very rural area. Without Amazon and other online systems I would not have access to these products that I need for my business and home.
Cool, literally, since trees help to cool the region by respirating and shading the soil which retails water, soil and nutrients. More over, if they plant good choices of species they can harvest these trees in 20 to 50 years creating a sustainable forestry project that will give them tons, literally, of wood. Harvesting the wood will boost the CO2 sequestering since older trees grow more slowly soaking up less CO2 per hectacre.
When I read this at first I thought, "Hmm... interesting idea." But, my devices aren't blocking me from accessing the net. I browse with web browsers that follow the HTML and other standards so everything is available. I happen to use Safari on the MacOS and iOS but I also have many other browsers which I sometimes use for testing my web pages to see how they load. Frankly, it is really the responsibility of the content developer (webmaster) to make sure their sites are accessible to as many users as possible which is pretty simple by following the standards.
So, no, this is not needed. I call it overregulation.
Well, I'm your #1 suspect then. Over the past 40+ years I've used Unix, CPM, DOS, Windows in many incarnations, Macs from Finder v1.0 to today, iOS, Android and many other systems. Perhaps you find flaw with the significants of my sample set at a mere few hundred. Perhaps your right. Or not.
I find that MacOS and iOS are far more stable than Windows or Android BUT I would still rather Apple spend a year, or two, or three on enhancing stability, optimizing code AND improving legacy support.
There's a lot of old software we need to access our old data. The modern hardware has more than enough power to do the necessary emulation. Cross compilers would do wonders too. We need to be able to access our software from the '00's the '90's, the 80's and heck, might as well go all the way back to the '70's.
You just changed the topic. The topic under discussion was Bluetooth and price. You've changed it to quality and your opinion. Stick with the subject on hand. If you want to discuss the quality of bluetooth or be snobbish that is another thread you could start.
Early bluetooth headphones had more problems with this but the new standards have vastly improved it and are available at reasonable prices that you can afford if you can already afford a smartphone. It's about choices and priorities. Skip the phones without jacks if it offends you.
Amazon, of course. In fact since I looked a couple of weeks ago and found the $13 pair (over the ear) I see they now have a _LOT_ of even less expensive ones. See:
which initially I didn't like due to a charging problem but that resolved through full discharge and recharge cycles and now they're doing well for me. My bed partner snores and these help block her noise.
For while I'm working I use these as they have very good noise canceling both active and passive:
I work in a noisy environment (farm and on-farm butcher shop) so these help to protect my hearing while also letting me listen to podcasts and music while I work.
Not just planting trees but also growing them and harvesting them - in other words sustainable forestry.
Even better than trees, in terms of carbon sequestering, is pasture. Pasture sucks up far more carbon than forest and then our livestock turns that biomass (grass, clover, etc) into delicious meat. Green eggs and ham. This too is carbon sequestering.
Those are both part of what we do on our farm but I doubt that there will be any tax benefit.
Bluetooth headphones are down to $13 a pair for decent sound. At that price anyone who can afford a smartphone can afford bluetooth headphones.
When Apple first nixed the jack I was a bit dubious but then I realized I hadn't been using thee jack for a while because my jack had died, or rather gotten very unreliable, so I had gotten bluetooth headphones. At this point all the headphones in our family are bluetooth. The cords and jacks were the major fail points so not having those two weaknesses has been nice.
By taking it away the FCC caused millions of last mile miles of fiber to be instantaneously laid to all the rest of the people in rural areas. Presto, magico!
Sadly this will allow for the spread of more fake news so the president wisely cut the cord.
"The real question is, how are we going to fix this problem?"
There you go assuming there is a problem. Nothing here demonstrates a problem that needs any fixing.
There are all sorts of things where group X is different than group Y but that does not mean there is a problem.
Men on average have greater muscle power, can lift more weight than women, but that does not mean that women are discriminated against. It is just biology.
Women on average have less heart attacks and live longer than men, but that does not mean that men are being discriminated against. It is just biology (for the most part). When women stop producing as much female hormones they begin catching up with the men who stop producing as much male hormones which is really much of the issue. Not really an injustice problem that needs "fixing" by PCers.
"Alternate headline: Data Proves Male Uber Drivers Should Have Their Licenses Revoked"
I assume you mean because they drive faster than their female counterparts. But you make a possibly false assumption to justify your chauvinism: you are assuming that the male Uber drivers are driving over the speed limit. That is not what the article said. It merely said that the male drivers are driving faster than the female drivers. There are several possible explanations for such a result such as the male drivers drive at the speed limit and the female drivers drove slower than the speed limit or perhaps the male drivers are quicker to see and take opportunities such as lane changes or timing lights. All of these are valid reasons why one group may be faster than the other group without violating the law. Shame on you for your sexism and your ASSumptions.
Yes, I understand, and most software does not tax the processors on either modern (>2005) Macs or iOS devices. Admittedly some very heavy duty power using software will have trouble under emulation but that isn't the software in question.
This is great but Apple should be offering legacy software support everywhere so that all iOS apps run on both iOS devices and Macs and all Mac applications run on both iOS devices and Macs. This is a fairly trivial task that would open up a huge amount of software that they have caused to be abandoned. There is a tremendous amount of excellent kids educational software that doesn't run on modern MacOSs (and iOS) that would then be available. There is also a lot of business applications and just fun other stuff. They can sandbox it all to make it safe. Apple has the resources.
"wiping out billions of dollars of investments overnight"
They have a magnificent imagination... These "Billions of Dollars of Investments" are fictional. They're not backed by something real like pigs that you can breed, grow and eat. The "investments" are a total fiction. Even the stock market is more real than this and the stock market is very not real.
Improved reliability and stability is good. Improved backward compatibility and legacy support would be even better. Apple needs to stop killing off apps by changing the OS (iOS & MacOS) such that it orphans legacy software. We still need to use the tools we used yesterday, last year, last decade, last century, last millenia (wow, we're in a time we can say all that!)
No, silly goose, their smell changes over time if they don't change their cloths...
But if they wear the same top at least (washing as needed) then they are far more recognizable. Bottoms help too but are not as critical. Hats help also.
Funny that you should bring up GHIG. A friend and I were just talking about that today. Distant memories of books gone by.
As to sizing issues, Apple's Safari in MacOS seems to handle that fine. Some elements in the title bar lose and drop out as the window gets sized too small to fit everything. I just tested that to see what would happen. Definitely an issue and Apple seems to have that working fine.
"a consistent world with physical laws is no guarantee that this world of matter is the true reality"
This is how I test if this is real or a dream. Are the rules consistent, not just here but across wake-sleep boundaries. I do this in "dreams" and find that it is indeed inconsistent and then find that I'm able to break additional rules such as I'm able to fly simply by jumping up into the air and exerting my will to fly. This leads to a conclusion that I am in a "dream" in those instances. In other instances I can't fly which does not prove that I'm in a "dream" or not. The test merely failed.
"you are always certain of consciousness"
I'm not so sure about that one... If I exist as a simulation of consciousness then am I really conscious or just emulating consciousness? At what point does the difference lie on the spectrum? I have not found a good test for this so it is still a quandary.
Drones and Driverless Vehicles are going to be the death of the Teamster's Union.
If UPS agrees to the Teamster's demands then UPS will be killed off along with the union as competitors undercut UPS by having lower costs of delivery.
If UPS balks then the Teamster's threat is they'll kill UPS now by striking. That in turn will hasten UPS to adopt drones and driverless vehicles quickening the death of the Teamsters.
Either way the Teamsters lose. They had their time and place. They are no longer needed and are now a parasite on the system. They are like the dinosaur lice that specialized to suck the blood of dinosaurs. When the dinosaurs died off so did those lice.
The only question is can UPS find a path forward that lets them get from here and now to then and there where they will have to go: drones and driverless vehicles.
I like my UPS driver. He's a great guy. But it is a job that is facing extinction. I wish him the best in finding a new and exciting job.
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You, and other critics, act like Amazon is some single entity. Amazon is not. Instead, Amazon is more like a mall, a place where tens of thousands of resellers gather to serve hundreds of millions of customers. Amazon is simply the interface and provides services like sales tax computing, shipping, stocking, etc. When I buy on Amazon I'm typically buying from some business that is selling through Amazon. Even individuals like you and I can participate.
Hating Amazon is like hating eBay, the city down the road that has lots of stores, a mall, etc.
I like Amazon because it gives me easy access to a huge number of products. I live out in a very rural area. Without Amazon and other online systems I would not have access to these products that I need for my business and home.
Don't waste good hate.
It's a free market. Other vendors produce other products. If you don't like Skype or Facetime then use something else. There are alternatives.
Cool, literally, since trees help to cool the region by respirating and shading the soil which retails water, soil and nutrients. More over, if they plant good choices of species they can harvest these trees in 20 to 50 years creating a sustainable forestry project that will give them tons, literally, of wood. Harvesting the wood will boost the CO2 sequestering since older trees grow more slowly soaking up less CO2 per hectacre.
More power to them.
When I read this at first I thought, "Hmm... interesting idea." But, my devices aren't blocking me from accessing the net. I browse with web browsers that follow the HTML and other standards so everything is available. I happen to use Safari on the MacOS and iOS but I also have many other browsers which I sometimes use for testing my web pages to see how they load. Frankly, it is really the responsibility of the content developer (webmaster) to make sure their sites are accessible to as many users as possible which is pretty simple by following the standards.
So, no, this is not needed. I call it overregulation.
Well, I'm your #1 suspect then. Over the past 40+ years I've used Unix, CPM, DOS, Windows in many incarnations, Macs from Finder v1.0 to today, iOS, Android and many other systems. Perhaps you find flaw with the significants of my sample set at a mere few hundred. Perhaps your right. Or not.
I find that MacOS and iOS are far more stable than Windows or Android BUT I would still rather Apple spend a year, or two, or three on enhancing stability, optimizing code AND improving legacy support.
There's a lot of old software we need to access our old data. The modern hardware has more than enough power to do the necessary emulation. Cross compilers would do wonders too. We need to be able to access our software from the '00's the '90's, the 80's and heck, might as well go all the way back to the '70's.
You just changed the topic. The topic under discussion was Bluetooth and price. You've changed it to quality and your opinion. Stick with the subject on hand. If you want to discuss the quality of bluetooth or be snobbish that is another thread you could start.
That's what I love about the reviews. I find that by reading the reviews I can learn more about the product than if I handled it in the store.
Early bluetooth headphones had more problems with this but the new standards have vastly improved it and are available at reasonable prices that you can afford if you can already afford a smartphone. It's about choices and priorities. Skip the phones without jacks if it offends you.
Amazon, of course. In fact since I looked a couple of weeks ago and found the $13 pair (over the ear) I see they now have a _LOT_ of even less expensive ones. See:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=s...
Slightly more for over the ear:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=s...
Pricing seems to fluctuate as I saw some of these for $13 a couple of weeks ago.
For sleeping I got these:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
which initially I didn't like due to a charging problem but that resolved through full discharge and recharge cycles and now they're doing well for me. My bed partner snores and these help block her noise.
For while I'm working I use these as they have very good noise canceling both active and passive:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
I work in a noisy environment (farm and on-farm butcher shop) so these help to protect my hearing while also letting me listen to podcasts and music while I work.
Not just planting trees but also growing them and harvesting them - in other words sustainable forestry.
Even better than trees, in terms of carbon sequestering, is pasture. Pasture sucks up far more carbon than forest and then our livestock turns that biomass (grass, clover, etc) into delicious meat. Green eggs and ham. This too is carbon sequestering.
Those are both part of what we do on our farm but I doubt that there will be any tax benefit.
Bluetooth headphones are down to $13 a pair for decent sound. At that price anyone who can afford a smartphone can afford bluetooth headphones.
When Apple first nixed the jack I was a bit dubious but then I realized I hadn't been using thee jack for a while because my jack had died, or rather gotten very unreliable, so I had gotten bluetooth headphones. At this point all the headphones in our family are bluetooth. The cords and jacks were the major fail points so not having those two weaknesses has been nice.
Wow. You are a class A chauvinist.
For your information, there are a great many people out in rural areas who are far more intelligent than you. Get your glasses fixed.
By taking it away the FCC caused millions of last mile miles of fiber to be instantaneously laid to all the rest of the people in rural areas. Presto, magico!
Sadly this will allow for the spread of more fake news so the president wisely cut the cord.
"The real question is, how are we going to fix this problem?"
There you go assuming there is a problem. Nothing here demonstrates a problem that needs any fixing.
There are all sorts of things where group X is different than group Y but that does not mean there is a problem.
Men on average have greater muscle power, can lift more weight than women, but that does not mean that women are discriminated against. It is just biology.
Women on average have less heart attacks and live longer than men, but that does not mean that men are being discriminated against. It is just biology (for the most part). When women stop producing as much female hormones they begin catching up with the men who stop producing as much male hormones which is really much of the issue. Not really an injustice problem that needs "fixing" by PCers.
"Alternate headline: Data Proves Male Uber Drivers Should Have Their Licenses Revoked"
I assume you mean because they drive faster than their female counterparts. But you make a possibly false assumption to justify your chauvinism: you are assuming that the male Uber drivers are driving over the speed limit. That is not what the article said. It merely said that the male drivers are driving faster than the female drivers. There are several possible explanations for such a result such as the male drivers drive at the speed limit and the female drivers drove slower than the speed limit or perhaps the male drivers are quicker to see and take opportunities such as lane changes or timing lights. All of these are valid reasons why one group may be faster than the other group without violating the law. Shame on you for your sexism and your ASSumptions.
Yes, I understand, and most software does not tax the processors on either modern (>2005) Macs or iOS devices. Admittedly some very heavy duty power using software will have trouble under emulation but that isn't the software in question.
This is great but Apple should be offering legacy software support everywhere so that all iOS apps run on both iOS devices and Macs and all Mac applications run on both iOS devices and Macs. This is a fairly trivial task that would open up a huge amount of software that they have caused to be abandoned. There is a tremendous amount of excellent kids educational software that doesn't run on modern MacOSs (and iOS) that would then be available. There is also a lot of business applications and just fun other stuff. They can sandbox it all to make it safe. Apple has the resources.
"wiping out billions of dollars of investments overnight"
They have a magnificent imagination... These "Billions of Dollars of Investments" are fictional. They're not backed by something real like pigs that you can breed, grow and eat. The "investments" are a total fiction. Even the stock market is more real than this and the stock market is very not real.
Improved reliability and stability is good.
Improved backward compatibility and legacy support would be even better.
Apple needs to stop killing off apps by changing the OS (iOS & MacOS) such that it orphans legacy software. We still need to use the tools we used yesterday, last year, last decade, last century, last millenia (wow, we're in a time we can say all that!)
No, silly goose, their smell changes over time if they don't change their cloths...
But if they wear the same top at least (washing as needed) then they are far more recognizable. Bottoms help too but are not as critical. Hats help also.
It really helps if people don't change their clothing.
Funny that you should bring up GHIG. A friend and I were just talking about that today. Distant memories of books gone by.
As to sizing issues, Apple's Safari in MacOS seems to handle that fine. Some elements in the title bar lose and drop out as the window gets sized too small to fit everything. I just tested that to see what would happen. Definitely an issue and Apple seems to have that working fine.
"a consistent world with physical laws is no guarantee that this world of matter is the true reality"
This is how I test if this is real or a dream. Are the rules consistent, not just here but across wake-sleep boundaries. I do this in "dreams" and find that it is indeed inconsistent and then find that I'm able to break additional rules such as I'm able to fly simply by jumping up into the air and exerting my will to fly. This leads to a conclusion that I am in a "dream" in those instances. In other instances I can't fly which does not prove that I'm in a "dream" or not. The test merely failed.
"you are always certain of consciousness"
I'm not so sure about that one... If I exist as a simulation of consciousness then am I really conscious or just emulating consciousness? At what point does the difference lie on the spectrum? I have not found a good test for this so it is still a quandary.
Drones and Driverless Vehicles are going to be the death of the Teamster's Union.
If UPS agrees to the Teamster's demands then UPS will be killed off along with the union as competitors undercut UPS by having lower costs of delivery.
If UPS balks then the Teamster's threat is they'll kill UPS now by striking. That in turn will hasten UPS to adopt drones and driverless vehicles quickening the death of the Teamsters.
Either way the Teamsters lose. They had their time and place. They are no longer needed and are now a parasite on the system. They are like the dinosaur lice that specialized to suck the blood of dinosaurs. When the dinosaurs died off so did those lice.
The only question is can UPS find a path forward that lets them get from here and now to then and there where they will have to go: drones and driverless vehicles.
I like my UPS driver. He's a great guy. But it is a job that is facing extinction. I wish him the best in finding a new and exciting job.