>The Apple crowd is not terribly worried about the headphone jack for the most part.
Well I use Apple products and I do care about the headphone jack. My iPhone 8 plus is my last iPhone and when I replace it, it will be with a phone with a headphone jack.
Your happiness is your goal. Weird deal breaker to me - but hey, some people were really pissed aabout rounded corners. Android will make you happy and all will be well.
can simply plug their headphones into the little adapter that comes with every iPhone
A connector that's designed for connecting your phone for charging and data exchange turns out not to be so good for connecting headsets: the requirements are quite different.
Can you give me the citations on the degradation that occurs? Granted, I didn't buy a Wireless device to put wires on it - I use Bluetooth.
What is it - wrong type of metal? Chemtrails?
Even then, I have to chuckle at the Android Audiophiles out there. Must be more like listening to live than live. The biggest fun is when they bitch about sound quality in one sentence, then in the next talk abou their 5 dollar headphones from Big Lots.
I guess I'm a member of the "Apple crowd" (whatever that is) but not the "We hate everything Apple" crowd; I've owned Macs as my home computer since 1987 when I bought a Mac Plus, and I have had a iPod, iPod Touch, and now an iPhone as my portable music+data, Internet, and telephone communications device starting in 2008. With respect to the iPhone, I vastly prefer it over Android devices for a variety of reasons, including security as one of the big ones. However, I think Apple's "strategy" of dropping the headphone jack is stupid, and it will probably play a role in my future decision to replace my iPhone 5 with when it fails;
By all means, get the Android device and you will be happier than you are now. Just like I said before.
I do understand that people are very convenience oriented today, and the effort of plugging in an adapter is simply too much for them to handle. You might think this is sarcasm - it is not. I come at the interfacing issue from a professional level. I have a large plastic organizer container full of adapters RF, audio, power - it means nothing to me to use an adapter. I also use bluetooth if for some reason I want to use a headset with either my Apple or Android devices. But it apparently enrages a lot of people. If I want to use my professional headphones with my iPhone, I have still to have an adapter. If I want to use it with my Android devices - I have a number of Android pads - I still have to use an adapter.
But seriously buy a fraggin' Android phone and you will have no fiurther phone problems. You will be happy you ditched the iPhone. You will have the headphone jack.
Does Cook actually know a damn thing about his own market demographics? The people who bought the SE in the first place are more conservative buyers who don't like the new form factor. This is just a big fuck you to the demographic they're trying to target.
Yeah - got the cites to prove your point? Your spittle flecked outrage over a little adapter that comes with the phone is hardly in line with all of the inconvenience that comes with it - which approaches zero.
Or are the Android fanbois that delicate and easily moved to raging fits over a phone that they'd never buy anyhow.
Chillaxe, Bro. Life is too short to become overwhelmed with anger about the tiny little adapter that comes with every iPhone. Its all about options.
There is a middle ground between not pursuing anti-consumer agendas (e.g. removing the 3.5mm jack) and pretending it's 1990 (i.e. what you're suggesting).
The Apple crowd is not terribly worried about the headphone jack for the most part. And those who want to use those 5 dollar Big Lots headphones that seem to be a touchstone for the people who are crapping their pants can simply plug their headphones into the little adapter that comes with every iPhone. If that's too much trouble, well, plugging in a charger is too much trouble, and even with wireless charging, putting the phone in the charger dock is a unacceptable abuse of the consumer.
All this umbrage and gnashing of teeth is just a "We hate everything Apple" crowd talking point.
And okay - whatever - it is hardly important that people who would never ever buy an Apple device have yet another thing to whine about.
If the headphone jack is the number one must have deal breaker for people who would never buy an iPhone....... Wait! that makes no sense.
Buy your Android phone and enjoy it. They work just fine. But don't piss on our legs and claim its raining.
Everyone at NASA should walk out in protest. Everyone at the EPA should walk out in protest. Everyone at NOAA should walk out in protest. Everyone at....
Sounds like the hopes of lot of modern crypto-conservatives. That money freed up by the disbanded agencies could build a lot of wall.
No, you alos know that the new head is an anti-science fool and a bigot. For some reason you're ignoring those. Even if you don't care about the bigotry, the anti science foolishness should matter to you for the head of NASA.
Its the time (dis)honored deflection tactic. This guy deserves ridicule. Similar circumstances are appointing Betsy DeVoss as Secretary of education. A not exceptionally bright woman who is obviously not all that interested in education except for money.
Which is always interesting. Her Brother is Eric Prince of BlackWater infamy.
So perhaps there ia likewise a money trail to be discovered with an anti-science bigoted appointment to this agency.
ROAD CLOSED—LOCAL TRAFFIC ONLY (R11-3) or ROAD CLOSED TO THRU TRAFFIC (R11-4) signs should be used where through traffic is not permitted, or for a closure some distance beyond the sign, but where the highway is open for local traffic up to the point of closure
So if that sign is there, why don't you tell a policeman that you know better, and have him follow you to the point where you turn onto the next street which under your bizarre system, also must have a Road closed to through traffic. Than see what happens. Sounds like a great test case.
I'm certain he'll realize the error of the rules and tell you to just drive wherever you feel like driving - rules are silly anyhow.
So your point is that in order to keep these speeders off my street, I have to break the law to leave my house. If every street in my neighborhood was illegal to use as a street to get somewhere else, we'd all be trapped.
Through traffic is, by definition, traffic that enters and exits a specified area (typically not a single street unless the street constitutes the entirety of the area, usually a housing development or small residential neighborhood) without having a destination inside that area. If your house simultaneously exists inside and outside your neighborhood, you are already breaking the laws of physics. I would be more concerned about that.
One way in, one way out, no deviation allowed. The solution is worse than the problem.
So the solution is to put up signs at every intersection and implement bogus "Not a through street" zones.
The signs are not bogus if they are put up by the official traffic department. And the traffic department has no more reason to put them at every intersection than for any other sign.
So your point is that in order to keep these speeders off my street, I have to break the law to leave my house. If every street in my neighborhood was illegal to use as a street to get somewhere else, we'd all be trapped.
Seriously, I'm more about hitting them in the wallet. We've had people driving at least 55 on the 25 mph road in front of my house. I would dearly love to use every legal means at my disposal to punish them as much as possible. Including - if we can put up this bogus no through traffic signs, we can make the new zones permanent construction zones so that when they are caught, they'll lose their license for a while. Don't like it? Cry me a river.
This is the first time I've seen that splendid sobriquet so I apologize for being picky but shouldn't "baby" in "Kenyan Terror baby" have a capital B because we are referring not to a random baby suffering from Kenyan Terror but a specific, indeed The, Kenyan Terror Baby? Is there more than one?
Good point and agreed. It shall now be The Kenyan Terror Baby.
So anyhow this lame ass solution would be a great thing for mapping apps, as large sections of developments and towns become terra incongnita, where no one is allowed to map to people that live along the "private road".
The solution is really simple. Mark the street as "No Thru Traffic" since that's essentially what he wants. Waze and others will update their maps accordingly.
So the solution is to put up signs at every intersection and implement bogus "Not a through street" zones. Which by the way, will result in demand to force the waze users right back onto the streets they were trying to get away from.
As well it sets up a positive feedback loop, as along the side routes used now will add the designation, and the program will route it to other side streets, so they will too. eventually your simple solution will simply break the app, as there will be no options.
Which in turn will be a disaster for mapping program driving directions as they try to figure out how to get to n address while using no streets designated as "no through street. There will be locations in the middle of developments that will be impossible to map out directions to.
Or add "NO THROUGH TRAFFIC" signs on the roads that they desire no through traffic to be on. This is exactly why signage and traffic laws exist.
Everything that Waze is doing is legal. There just isn't any room for argument from municipalities as there might be with AirBNB and Uber.
So - you figure that we're going to need to have police on every corner to insure that the fine citizens who are using our streets as through streets don't?
A more simple cure is enabling citizens to issue speeding tickets with the authority of the municipality. The rationale is simple. The same people who feel the need to use neighborhood roads to keep off the main roads are going to violate the speed limits. That's what people in a hurry do.
So deputize all of the locals, let them use the apps that will calculate speed, take a photo, and turn 'em in.
Nice and legal.
Maybe take a cut of the fine as well. Sounds like we'd be encouraging you to speed down our streets - baby needs a new pair of shoes.
Just about any app can do what they are butt hurt at cambridge and guess what Clinton campaign used the same thing and so did Obama camp in 2012 that PIONEERED the practice to use it like it was.
Citations that The Clinton campaign and the Kenyan Terror baby used Cambridge Analytica needed.
The Cambridge Analytica leak was the result of technical incompetence, and poor code review, not bad policy at the level an auditor would see. It is not reasonable to expect a financial auditor to discover bad code.
Nothing short of hilarious that while giving Cambridge Analytica and gawd knows who else people's personal data to be weaponized, they present a redacted copy of the audit to the public. Gotta protect privacy yaknow
Good thing Linked in and Facebook don't actually have my real information...
I'm no fool... Even if the information these sites have "leaks" they will only be sharing my alter ego's information, not mine.
Leaks hell - LinkedIn actually asked me for my email Password when I was going to sign up. Took care of that. My email is fucklinkedin@kissmyass.com, and the password is eatshitanddie19$$
I do, but carefully. I don't push my views on people who don't want them. If you want to stay employed, you're doing the right thing by not making a fuss about your views.
You don't understand. If I do not know the person very well - I have no opinion on anything. No views. Now if I were to express a view that fits with the permissible view, I would be able to carry placards and march around in protests The University environment is remarkably intolerant. Here on Slashdot is one of the few places I express it, never at work.
But not to whine about it too much, it doesn't matter to me a whole awful lot except that the University environment was at one time a place where differnt views were celebrated. I remember when speakers like G.Gordon Liddy, and even people like KKK Wizards would come to speak.
Today Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher are not allowed to talk or won't because they do not conform.
I kind of miss the days when I could respectfully listen to someone I might not share the views of.
I'll concede that perhaps some clearer wording might help allay some concerns, and that it could be misinterpreted.
Of course clearer wording would be great. By the way, roughly 30 percent of women ages 18 to 24 consider winking at them as sexual harassment, source https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017...
Its a pretty interesting chart - if a bit weird in layout. So I'm not completely certain that this is a edge case as you might suggest. Is Yougov UK a fringe group? Looks like something to avoid, I think you would agree.
You figure I'd be fired for my views if I worked at Google?
Nope. You might be fired if you made a nuisance of yourself pushing your views on others, like Damore did. (I did read what the Labor Relations board concluded.)
I do not express my opinion in the workplace for other than work subjects. This is even for people who push their views on me.
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>The Apple crowd is not terribly worried about the headphone jack for the most part.
Well I use Apple products and I do care about the headphone jack. My iPhone 8 plus is my last iPhone and when I replace it, it will be with a phone with a headphone jack.
Your happiness is your goal. Weird deal breaker to me - but hey, some people were really pissed aabout rounded corners. Android will make you happy and all will be well.
You are oblivious. Iâ(TM)
Try typing without the "Iâ(TM) bullshit, and people might read your posts.
A connector that's designed for connecting your phone for charging and data exchange turns out not to be so good for connecting headsets: the requirements are quite different.
Can you give me the citations on the degradation that occurs? Granted, I didn't buy a Wireless device to put wires on it - I use Bluetooth.
What is it - wrong type of metal? Chemtrails? Even then, I have to chuckle at the Android Audiophiles out there. Must be more like listening to live than live. The biggest fun is when they bitch about sound quality in one sentence, then in the next talk abou their 5 dollar headphones from Big Lots.
I guess I'm a member of the "Apple crowd" (whatever that is) but not the "We hate everything Apple" crowd; I've owned Macs as my home computer since 1987 when I bought a Mac Plus, and I have had a iPod, iPod Touch, and now an iPhone as my portable music+data, Internet, and telephone communications device starting in 2008. With respect to the iPhone, I vastly prefer it over Android devices for a variety of reasons, including security as one of the big ones. However, I think Apple's "strategy" of dropping the headphone jack is stupid, and it will probably play a role in my future decision to replace my iPhone 5 with when it fails;
By all means, get the Android device and you will be happier than you are now. Just like I said before. I do understand that people are very convenience oriented today, and the effort of plugging in an adapter is simply too much for them to handle. You might think this is sarcasm - it is not. I come at the interfacing issue from a professional level. I have a large plastic organizer container full of adapters RF, audio, power - it means nothing to me to use an adapter. I also use bluetooth if for some reason I want to use a headset with either my Apple or Android devices. But it apparently enrages a lot of people. If I want to use my professional headphones with my iPhone, I have still to have an adapter. If I want to use it with my Android devices - I have a number of Android pads - I still have to use an adapter.
But seriously buy a fraggin' Android phone and you will have no fiurther phone problems. You will be happy you ditched the iPhone. You will have the headphone jack.
Does Cook actually know a damn thing about his own market demographics? The people who bought the SE in the first place are more conservative buyers who don't like the new form factor. This is just a big fuck you to the demographic they're trying to target.
Yeah - got the cites to prove your point? Your spittle flecked outrage over a little adapter that comes with the phone is hardly in line with all of the inconvenience that comes with it - which approaches zero.
Or are the Android fanbois that delicate and easily moved to raging fits over a phone that they'd never buy anyhow.
Chillaxe, Bro. Life is too short to become overwhelmed with anger about the tiny little adapter that comes with every iPhone. Its all about options.
Your Android phone works. Use it and rejoice.
There is a middle ground between not pursuing anti-consumer agendas (e.g. removing the 3.5mm jack) and pretending it's 1990 (i.e. what you're suggesting).
The Apple crowd is not terribly worried about the headphone jack for the most part. And those who want to use those 5 dollar Big Lots headphones that seem to be a touchstone for the people who are crapping their pants can simply plug their headphones into the little adapter that comes with every iPhone. If that's too much trouble, well, plugging in a charger is too much trouble, and even with wireless charging, putting the phone in the charger dock is a unacceptable abuse of the consumer.
All this umbrage and gnashing of teeth is just a "We hate everything Apple" crowd talking point.
And okay - whatever - it is hardly important that people who would never ever buy an Apple device have yet another thing to whine about.
If the headphone jack is the number one must have deal breaker for people who would never buy an iPhone....... Wait! that makes no sense.
Buy your Android phone and enjoy it. They work just fine. But don't piss on our legs and claim its raining.
Everyone at NASA should walk out in protest. Everyone at the EPA should walk out in protest. Everyone at NOAA should walk out in protest. Everyone at....
Sounds like the hopes of lot of modern crypto-conservatives. That money freed up by the disbanded agencies could build a lot of wall.
All I know is
No, you alos know that the new head is an anti-science fool and a bigot. For some reason you're ignoring those. Even if you don't care about the bigotry, the anti science foolishness should matter to you for the head of NASA.
Its the time (dis)honored deflection tactic. This guy deserves ridicule. Similar circumstances are appointing Betsy DeVoss as Secretary of education. A not exceptionally bright woman who is obviously not all that interested in education except for money.
Which is always interesting. Her Brother is Eric Prince of BlackWater infamy.
So perhaps there ia likewise a money trail to be discovered with an anti-science bigoted appointment to this agency.
Come on, editors. Wtf? How is that relevant or helpful to the conversation?
As helpful as appointing him in the first place.
If your start or destination is in the neighborhood then you're not "through traffic" and you can be routed there.
You seriously need to take up with these guys. https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/HTM...
From the regulations:
ROAD CLOSED—LOCAL TRAFFIC ONLY (R11-3) or ROAD CLOSED TO THRU TRAFFIC (R11-4) signs should be used where through traffic is not permitted, or for a closure some distance beyond the sign, but where the highway is open for local traffic up to the point of closure So if that sign is there, why don't you tell a policeman that you know better, and have him follow you to the point where you turn onto the next street which under your bizarre system, also must have a Road closed to through traffic. Than see what happens. Sounds like a great test case.
I'm certain he'll realize the error of the rules and tell you to just drive wherever you feel like driving - rules are silly anyhow.
Slashdot will go Nucking fiuts over this. Tequila shots with ya popcorn anyone?
So your point is that in order to keep these speeders off my street, I have to break the law to leave my house. If every street in my neighborhood was illegal to use as a street to get somewhere else, we'd all be trapped.
Through traffic is, by definition, traffic that enters and exits a specified area (typically not a single street unless the street constitutes the entirety of the area, usually a housing development or small residential neighborhood) without having a destination inside that area. If your house simultaneously exists inside and outside your neighborhood, you are already breaking the laws of physics. I would be more concerned about that.
One way in, one way out, no deviation allowed. The solution is worse than the problem.
So the solution is to put up signs at every intersection and implement bogus "Not a through street" zones.
The signs are not bogus if they are put up by the official traffic department. And the traffic department has no more reason to put them at every intersection than for any other sign.
So your point is that in order to keep these speeders off my street, I have to break the law to leave my house. If every street in my neighborhood was illegal to use as a street to get somewhere else, we'd all be trapped.
Seriously, I'm more about hitting them in the wallet. We've had people driving at least 55 on the 25 mph road in front of my house. I would dearly love to use every legal means at my disposal to punish them as much as possible. Including - if we can put up this bogus no through traffic signs, we can make the new zones permanent construction zones so that when they are caught, they'll lose their license for a while. Don't like it? Cry me a river.
This is the first time I've seen that splendid sobriquet so I apologize for being picky but shouldn't "baby" in "Kenyan Terror baby" have a capital B because we are referring not to a random baby suffering from Kenyan Terror but a specific, indeed The, Kenyan Terror Baby? Is there more than one?
Good point and agreed. It shall now be The Kenyan Terror Baby.
Why send a letter? You can mark it as "private road" in the editor at https://www.waze.com/editor
So anyhow this lame ass solution would be a great thing for mapping apps, as large sections of developments and towns become terra incongnita, where no one is allowed to map to people that live along the "private road".
If you don't want people speeding through your street, put speed bumps there.
Oh no, but that would slow down you too.
Meh. I much prefer deputizing the locals to record and send in tickets of speeders There are apps for that yaknow.
The solution is really simple. Mark the street as "No Thru Traffic" since that's essentially what he wants. Waze and others will update their maps accordingly.
So the solution is to put up signs at every intersection and implement bogus "Not a through street" zones. Which by the way, will result in demand to force the waze users right back onto the streets they were trying to get away from.
As well it sets up a positive feedback loop, as along the side routes used now will add the designation, and the program will route it to other side streets, so they will too. eventually your simple solution will simply break the app, as there will be no options.
Which in turn will be a disaster for mapping program driving directions as they try to figure out how to get to n address while using no streets designated as "no through street. There will be locations in the middle of developments that will be impossible to map out directions to.
Simple my ass
Or add "NO THROUGH TRAFFIC" signs on the roads that they desire no through traffic to be on. This is exactly why signage and traffic laws exist. Everything that Waze is doing is legal. There just isn't any room for argument from municipalities as there might be with AirBNB and Uber.
So - you figure that we're going to need to have police on every corner to insure that the fine citizens who are using our streets as through streets don't? A more simple cure is enabling citizens to issue speeding tickets with the authority of the municipality. The rationale is simple. The same people who feel the need to use neighborhood roads to keep off the main roads are going to violate the speed limits. That's what people in a hurry do.
So deputize all of the locals, let them use the apps that will calculate speed, take a photo, and turn 'em in.
Nice and legal.
Maybe take a cut of the fine as well. Sounds like we'd be encouraging you to speed down our streets - baby needs a new pair of shoes.
Just about any app can do what they are butt hurt at cambridge and guess what Clinton campaign used the same thing and so did Obama camp in 2012 that PIONEERED the practice to use it like it was.
Citations that The Clinton campaign and the Kenyan Terror baby used Cambridge Analytica needed.
The Cambridge Analytica leak was the result of technical incompetence, and poor code review, not bad policy at the level an auditor would see. It is not reasonable to expect a financial auditor to discover bad code.
Nothing short of hilarious that while giving Cambridge Analytica and gawd knows who else people's personal data to be weaponized, they present a redacted copy of the audit to the public. Gotta protect privacy yaknow
Good thing Linked in and Facebook don't actually have my real information...
I'm no fool... Even if the information these sites have "leaks" they will only be sharing my alter ego's information, not mine.
Leaks hell - LinkedIn actually asked me for my email Password when I was going to sign up. Took care of that. My email is fucklinkedin@kissmyass.com, and the password is eatshitanddie19$$
I do, but carefully. I don't push my views on people who don't want them. If you want to stay employed, you're doing the right thing by not making a fuss about your views.
You don't understand. If I do not know the person very well - I have no opinion on anything. No views. Now if I were to express a view that fits with the permissible view, I would be able to carry placards and march around in protests The University environment is remarkably intolerant. Here on Slashdot is one of the few places I express it, never at work.
But not to whine about it too much, it doesn't matter to me a whole awful lot except that the University environment was at one time a place where differnt views were celebrated. I remember when speakers like G.Gordon Liddy, and even people like KKK Wizards would come to speak.
Today Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher are not allowed to talk or won't because they do not conform.
I kind of miss the days when I could respectfully listen to someone I might not share the views of.
you really need to rethink your approach to women.
Why? If I'm not bothering anyone, who are you to judge?
I'm just the quiet guy that keeps to himself around the ladies.
I'll concede that perhaps some clearer wording might help allay some concerns, and that it could be misinterpreted.
Of course clearer wording would be great. By the way, roughly 30 percent of women ages 18 to 24 consider winking at them as sexual harassment, source https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017...
Its a pretty interesting chart - if a bit weird in layout. So I'm not completely certain that this is a edge case as you might suggest. Is Yougov UK a fringe group? Looks like something to avoid, I think you would agree.
Nope. You might be fired if you made a nuisance of yourself pushing your views on others, like Damore did. (I did read what the Labor Relations board concluded.)
I do not express my opinion in the workplace for other than work subjects. This is even for people who push their views on me.