I call bullshit. I think the KIDS APP needs to only have approved kids stuff. Otherwise we start inching toward the line of Big Tobacco companies advertising to 5 year olds.
You can have regular adult friendly Youtube be mostly whatever, but the kids app is a whole different animal.
Similar but different take. At home, I surprised myself by using the tablets a ton more than anything else. Well I never use my phone for anything unless nothing else is available, like you said. But the one difference is my 3ish year old iPad Air 2 has performance problems. I was thinking of getting a new battery after all the press on the built-in slow downs. But I have another iPad I end up using instead.
The 2014 American movie I think you mean? I enjoyed the monster parts for sure. Have you see Shin Godzilla (2016 Japanese release) yet? Pretty interesting, and fans must see!
So like... what is going on here with WD if their HGST line is so much better than their regular line? Also, I hope people are being careful of the crazy rates for Q4, because they don't mean what they appear to mean at a surface level. Quoting the article:
"Quarterly failure rates can be volatile, especially for models that have a small number of drives and/or a small number of drive days. For example, the Seagate 4 TB drive, model ST4000DM005, has a annualized failure rate of 29.08%, but that is based on only 1,255 drive days and 1 (one) drive failure."
The non-replacement battery is very much a pain. I've already got a Wii-U battery problem. The Switch is next no doubt. Funny how you can still dust off an SNES and play old games without too much trouble. Current items... the only hope for longevity of some of these games is emulation... and I bet that gets broken sometimes by the weird inputs.
Definitely the right idea. Security and stability matter a great deal to most people, informed or not. Take your car example. Toyota and Lexus are extremely popular for the average Joe or the person with money to waste, in the US or in other countries that do business with Japan. Why? Reliability/stability is the main common theme. And with techie devices, like phones, security is basically another measure of reliability/stability.
If Apple wants to keep it's name clean, it had better get things RIGHT. The one big selling point is their stuff is fast and doesn't break much (isn't compromised much). If they don't do that correctly, why not get the competitors?
Everything I read were performance tests that were showing much slower performance. I have an ipad mini myself that is maybe 2 years old, and it is so slow surfing the web, as far as I can tell it is ANY website, as to be unusable. I have a feeling if I shell out for a new battery it's going to be fine.
I just wanted to say, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Reading up on Shelley, I looked up more on the English Romatic poets... which triggered memories of High School classes, that lead me to a poem I hadn't read in a long time. The older me definitely appreciates these guys so much more, maybe partly because of our (or my) complete saturation in technology currently. Stepping away from it all to appreciate the other things in the world is important, and yet I find it strange that a couple of poems written 150 years ago can really do something to oneself.
I'm disliking face ID... it's too slow 19 out of 20 times. WAAAAY slower than Touch ID overall. And it doesn't work about 10 or 15% of the time. I've tried resetting all the data once, turned off the "look at it" feature, but no luck getting consistent results. It really irks me.
With touch ID, you can easily learn to put your thumb in the same place each time. But with Face ID unlike touch ID, you need to have the phone and your face almost in the "perfect position" every time you want to unlock it... and that means picking up the phone to an uncomfortable height, raising your chin a certain amount, etc. This is enough for me to not ever buy a phone with Face ID again, unless they miraculously get it perfected for me and my face in the next few months.
Exactly the mentality of some small business owners I know, but the opposite of others. I see the dichotomy as such:
1. Do you hate paying taxes, but are OK with paying 2% to a bank for every single thing you do?
2. Do you trust big companies with skimming off the top, or do you trust your employees that you hand pick?
3. Do you feel OK when the rich get richer, but get pissed off when the small guy gets a bonus 1% higher than he got the year before?
Basically, I feel you should either be a Scrooge and hate losing money in any case, letting the actual measured bottom dollar make the decision (including future change)... or you should cater to your local workers and your own employees. Bigger and bigger businesses breed monopolies that eventually screw everybody if you let them. Credit cards are designed to steal from the moderately rich, middle class, and poor alike to make the richer even more so. I use them, but locally I use cash more and more to try to keep prices down.
In the reddit thread, tons of people are talking about how even having the thing plugged into power doesn't allow max performance. There are also several saying the same thing happens on Macbook laptops. And most of these guys are posting real stats from different performance testing apps and whanot. This is dirty of Apple, I don't care how you slice it or them.
I am upset. The whole problem is they are making the phone perform worse. Worse. WORSE that is. Slower is bad. Apple is supposed to give you fast products. Plus who the hell thinks "my phone is going slower, I guess it needs a new battery", that absolutely is misleading.
I am quite sure over 50% of users of old products would rather the old phone perform just as fast but need to be recharged one more time per day. Apple is going the other route because they would rather you just buy a new phone. That's dirty... they shouldn't treat people like that, they are already too rich for their own damn good.
As I recall, the reason they need the batteries in the passenger area is so if suddently a fire starts, you can grab it and "deal with it". Also they say fires are much more rare when the battery is in the device, and not just loose in luggage. I think the most common fires are when you have a few batteries loose in a bag and they touch something that allows a circuit to complete.
Where are the stats? I'm willing to bet way less than 15% of the population had cable in the US in the mid 1980s. We all should cut the cord, it's crap. The problem is the net neutrality rules they are quickly getting in their favor so that even after you cut the cord, they still have you where they want you.
There has been some studies showing some people basically can't gain much fat, but if their body still takes in too many calories it causes problems. The result is way too much LDL cholesterol or something similar in their blood... it also either lead to heart problems or diabetes or both, I can't recall.
These links might be close, but not the exact thing I remember:
It is a real concern, I mean it should be. And they should do it for the mental health of the people. Slow computers make people crazy... slow websites are some of the worst.
I showed this to three men at work and my wife at home. The guys all noticed the sound playing in their head, my wife did not.
You know I bet we'd get the same effect if we watched a lion roar with no sound. Testing it on the MGM lion... yeah I think it's the same effect. So damned freaky though with that gif, it bugs me still.
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I call bullshit. I think the KIDS APP needs to only have approved kids stuff. Otherwise we start inching toward the line of Big Tobacco companies advertising to 5 year olds.
You can have regular adult friendly Youtube be mostly whatever, but the kids app is a whole different animal.
I've got more than one iPad at my house... I don't want to pay full price for new batteries to speed them up.
Similar but different take. At home, I surprised myself by using the tablets a ton more than anything else. Well I never use my phone for anything unless nothing else is available, like you said. But the one difference is my 3ish year old iPad Air 2 has performance problems. I was thinking of getting a new battery after all the press on the built-in slow downs. But I have another iPad I end up using instead.
I can't imagine business standing for this. I'm sure many would run Office 2016 for 10 years if they had to.
The 2014 American movie I think you mean? I enjoyed the monster parts for sure. Have you see Shin Godzilla (2016 Japanese release) yet? Pretty interesting, and fans must see!
HGST is a subsidiary of Western Digital.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So like... what is going on here with WD if their HGST line is so much better than their regular line? Also, I hope people are being careful of the crazy rates for Q4, because they don't mean what they appear to mean at a surface level. Quoting the article:
"Quarterly failure rates can be volatile, especially for models that have a small number of drives and/or a small number of drive days. For example, the Seagate 4 TB drive, model ST4000DM005, has a annualized failure rate of 29.08%, but that is based on only 1,255 drive days and 1 (one) drive failure."
The non-replacement battery is very much a pain. I've already got a Wii-U battery problem. The Switch is next no doubt. Funny how you can still dust off an SNES and play old games without too much trouble. Current items... the only hope for longevity of some of these games is emulation... and I bet that gets broken sometimes by the weird inputs.
Definitely the right idea. Security and stability matter a great deal to most people, informed or not. Take your car example. Toyota and Lexus are extremely popular for the average Joe or the person with money to waste, in the US or in other countries that do business with Japan. Why? Reliability/stability is the main common theme. And with techie devices, like phones, security is basically another measure of reliability/stability.
If Apple wants to keep it's name clean, it had better get things RIGHT. The one big selling point is their stuff is fast and doesn't break much (isn't compromised much). If they don't do that correctly, why not get the competitors?
All the autorenewal BS that doesn't have a nice easy way to opt out of autorenewal should be treated with the same jailtime.
Everything I read were performance tests that were showing much slower performance. I have an ipad mini myself that is maybe 2 years old, and it is so slow surfing the web, as far as I can tell it is ANY website, as to be unusable. I have a feeling if I shell out for a new battery it's going to be fine.
Good link, I'd like to mod informative.
I just wanted to say, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Reading up on Shelley, I looked up more on the English Romatic poets... which triggered memories of High School classes, that lead me to a poem I hadn't read in a long time. The older me definitely appreciates these guys so much more, maybe partly because of our (or my) complete saturation in technology currently. Stepping away from it all to appreciate the other things in the world is important, and yet I find it strange that a couple of poems written 150 years ago can really do something to oneself.
I'm disliking face ID... it's too slow 19 out of 20 times. WAAAAY slower than Touch ID overall. And it doesn't work about 10 or 15% of the time. I've tried resetting all the data once, turned off the "look at it" feature, but no luck getting consistent results. It really irks me.
With touch ID, you can easily learn to put your thumb in the same place each time. But with Face ID unlike touch ID, you need to have the phone and your face almost in the "perfect position" every time you want to unlock it... and that means picking up the phone to an uncomfortable height, raising your chin a certain amount, etc. This is enough for me to not ever buy a phone with Face ID again, unless they miraculously get it perfected for me and my face in the next few months.
Exactly the mentality of some small business owners I know, but the opposite of others. I see the dichotomy as such:
1. Do you hate paying taxes, but are OK with paying 2% to a bank for every single thing you do?
2. Do you trust big companies with skimming off the top, or do you trust your employees that you hand pick?
3. Do you feel OK when the rich get richer, but get pissed off when the small guy gets a bonus 1% higher than he got the year before?
Basically, I feel you should either be a Scrooge and hate losing money in any case, letting the actual measured bottom dollar make the decision (including future change)... or you should cater to your local workers and your own employees. Bigger and bigger businesses breed monopolies that eventually screw everybody if you let them. Credit cards are designed to steal from the moderately rich, middle class, and poor alike to make the richer even more so. I use them, but locally I use cash more and more to try to keep prices down.
In the reddit thread, tons of people are talking about how even having the thing plugged into power doesn't allow max performance. There are also several saying the same thing happens on Macbook laptops. And most of these guys are posting real stats from different performance testing apps and whanot. This is dirty of Apple, I don't care how you slice it or them.
I am upset. The whole problem is they are making the phone perform worse. Worse. WORSE that is. Slower is bad. Apple is supposed to give you fast products. Plus who the hell thinks "my phone is going slower, I guess it needs a new battery", that absolutely is misleading.
I am quite sure over 50% of users of old products would rather the old phone perform just as fast but need to be recharged one more time per day. Apple is going the other route because they would rather you just buy a new phone. That's dirty... they shouldn't treat people like that, they are already too rich for their own damn good.
You give a satisfying comment that rings true, I'd like to mod you up if I had points.
As I recall, the reason they need the batteries in the passenger area is so if suddently a fire starts, you can grab it and "deal with it". Also they say fires are much more rare when the battery is in the device, and not just loose in luggage. I think the most common fires are when you have a few batteries loose in a bag and they touch something that allows a circuit to complete.
Somebody mod this post up, made me laugh. :)
Where are the stats? I'm willing to bet way less than 15% of the population had cable in the US in the mid 1980s. We all should cut the cord, it's crap. The problem is the net neutrality rules they are quickly getting in their favor so that even after you cut the cord, they still have you where they want you.
There has been some studies showing some people basically can't gain much fat, but if their body still takes in too many calories it causes problems. The result is way too much LDL cholesterol or something similar in their blood... it also either lead to heart problems or diabetes or both, I can't recall.
These links might be close, but not the exact thing I remember:
http://time.com/14407/the-hidd...
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2614...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
It is a real concern, I mean it should be. And they should do it for the mental health of the people. Slow computers make people crazy... slow websites are some of the worst.
Computing power will keep getting more powerful. Won't the power problems keep getting reduced?
I showed this to three men at work and my wife at home. The guys all noticed the sound playing in their head, my wife did not.
You know I bet we'd get the same effect if we watched a lion roar with no sound. Testing it on the MGM lion... yeah I think it's the same effect. So damned freaky though with that gif, it bugs me still.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
We understand you have to move on, Mr. Dev. Thanks for helping out untold thousands of people.