I agree: I've been using wireless charging since the end of 2012 when I got my Note2, and it's a required feature for me. Why would I want to deal with plugging in my device every time I set it down? I just set it on it's charger, roughly centered, and there's no penalty for picking it up again.
Free! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last!!
Are you by any chance that person on the First World Problems meme?
... and my guess is that the slashdotters that love it are merely rhapsodizing about it as a feature count because they hate everything Apple, or perhaps don't understand that as a technical solution, its right up there with green ketchup.
And my guess is that you run off on a rant without actually having used a wireless charger with your phone regularly.
Wireless charging is a silly feature on paper. And I find it nice and convenient in practice.
I don't need nor want a wireless charger. Some of my most important uses of my iPhone are for driving guidance. Long days, brightness up full, volume up full, the phone sitting in a cradle, plugged in to it's charger (my Jeep has an inverter in it). How am I going to do that with a wireless charger? Aside from a ridiculous looking kludge.
I don't recall ever saying it doesn't work. I have said often it is a silly solution that is inefficient, and steals valuable interior phone space, and you can't charge while you talk.
But hey - If plugging in a charger is something that inconveniences you so badly, then use wireless technology, and you will be happy. It certainly doesn't work for my use, and the inconvenience of plugging in a charger is about the same as the inconvenience of breathing. I do it without even thinking about it.
So... you agree with me? This is a useless feature and the only reason Apple is implementing it is because Android did it first and Apple wants to match Android bullet for bullet.
I don't presume to know the reasons Apple does anything. I do know I don't want it because it is as you say, a useless feature - a step backwards as far as I am concerned.
Did you watch the most recent WWDC keynote? Literally everything they covered was done elsewhere first.
But what does that mean? Does it mean that whoever did it first gets 10 extra years of life or something? In the world of smartphones, I need the thing to work, to make phone calls, to text, to email to give me driving guidance, and occasionally to access the internet. I want it to work well, not first. Apple first, android first means nothing to me.
Which does bring me to a possible show stopper. When I use driving guidance the most, it is on cross country trips that I take several times a year. The phone is in a cradle on the dash, happily plugged in and running in a mode that tends to suck batteries dry quickly. After 16 or so hours driving, I pull off a fully charged phone. ready to program for tomorrow's driving.
Glad you prompted me, I gotta get hold of Apple to see what the options are for someone who has to have plug-in charging.
Solar and wind sound great until you eliminate the subsidies. Take away those subsidies and they become far more expensive. Once that happens, nobody will want to pay the extra costs and renewables will decline again. Like everything with the climate change agenda, it's a house of cards built on deception and lies.
Fresh meat! Give me a list of the energy sources that do not get subsidized.
Oil - yes, Gas yes, Nuclear? Bitch, please.
Come back and make your argument when the only energy source left that is getting any form of subsidy is alternative.
It has been a long, long time since university. But, I seem to recall that distance is also a factor - and that even seemingly small distances add up quickly. Inverse square, I think?
Which means I'm not willing to speculate on how efficient this will be in real-world use.
Indeed they do add up quickly. The energy transfer will get so low as to be useless in short order.
The closest I can get to the concept of a useable wireless charger is similar to a physical dock, where you drop the phone into it, with little slots that align the two parts of the transformer. But then, that would be kinda like the docks that Police and Hams plug their handheld devices into. I have several. And they work quickly and flawlessly. The difference is that they have actual contacts. And most are waterproof.
Wireless charging is what, 20% efficient. So ra ra on the windmills and solar energy, but we're gonna charge our phones at a worse efficiency than Edison's light bulbs cuz it's too hard to plug in a cable.
Wireless charging is simply a marketing ploy, I mean wireless internet is a great thing, so now with wireless charging, I'll just walk around the house and my phone will always be charged, amiright?
When in truth, its just that one side of a transformer is inside the dock or pad, and the other side is inside the telephone. Which makes for a piss-poor transformer at best, and loses efficiency the further one coil gets from the other, and takes up valuable space that might be better used for say - a bigger battery? Longer battery life?And it makes for a very specific place that the phone has to be to be charged.
Its ancient technology, and my guess is that the slashdotters that love it are merely rhapsodizing about it as a feature count because they hate everything Apple, or perhaps don't understand that as a technical solution, its right up there with green ketchup.
Because Android phones have that feature and Apple has forgotten how to innovate.
You are not a technical person in the least, gauging from that statement.
Wireless charging as an innovation was around a long time ago. It never caught on because it is terribly inefficient, and you have to have the charging device closely coupled to the dock or pad.
It's like 3D films, Everyone cums in their pants about it every 30 years or so. Then it fades away.
Apple invented wireless charging... (or maybe they're just re-inventing it... or just copying something I have been using for five years now.)
Well Mister High technology Android user, Wireless technology has been around ever since transformers, it's as exciting as salt water. And if it sticks around this time, it will be a first.
I know, right. It was tried and abandoned as an expensive gimmick.
QI Pro: MicroUSB is fragile and annoying to plug in the right way.
QI Neg: USB-C solves the problem better and more reliably than getting the charging coil/just/ right on the pad.
However, if they're going to remove the Lightning connector entirely to get a properly waterproof phone... then you're stuck with wireless charging (good luck)
I hope they have a way of wired charging. Wireless charging is terribly inefficient, and I don't have to place my phone in some exacting sweet spot where if I don't, it will just continue to discharge.
Wireless charging is an age old technology that has been abandoned every time it has been tried. It's the flying car of charging techniques.
Oh child, you had to go there, seriously? Using those words is like calling people snowflakes or Social Justice warriors. Sorry sir, my point is that as an American, she, and we are still allowed our opinion, you are even allowed yours. Your "safe space" comment doesn't even make any sense.
But hey - I get it. That's the limits of your argument.
OK, so why is she providing tacit support to the "resist" movement which in general does NOT accept the election's results and why is she blaming the fake Russian collusion narrative, even partially?
Because this is America, and despite your fondest wishes Vlad, she is fucking allowed to do what she pleases, and if it butthurts people like you, I'm all for it.
I suspect you are doing your best to make that sort of thing illegal..
It's possible to have a program to induce people to be good to each other in specific ways. I don't know anything about "Ban Bossy" (except that I suspect it'll be blocked by my work filter), and could be wrong about it, but it sounds to me like a good step to take in a long campaign.
Okay. My apologies, but we are done here. After being told by multiple times by male feminists iin here that they aren't going to bother to even read my citations, citations that are offered in good faith, it is completely clear that you have absolutely no interest in learning anything you do not believe in, and refuse to accept any other viewpoint. Ciao, me hearty.
Interesting. So I guess the decade I spent as a member of the Apple Consultants Network means I hate Macs. And supporting an actual video editing shop that used Final Cut Server, who were left in the lurch when Apple launched FCX - that didn't happen either. And nobody ever makes newer equipment and doesn't write drivers and codecs for old end of life software.
Or, maybe you're making very bad assumptions.
Interesting - you don't post like a person who liikes Macs. Even the Apple puck mouse thinks so.
What is needed is a backup system that actually works, and is used.
I never trusted our official backup system, having seen it not work on several occasions. So I installed one of my own for the group. Sure enough, around a year later, a group member called in a total panic - she'd written a script that was supposed to perform a find then print the find results. What it managed to do was delete the whole database.
Calls me in a tearful freakout - the IT folks backup didn't work.
Mine did. There were a few things here that needed addressed. She should have been working on a copy of the database, not the main one. Shit does happen, and if she accidentally deletes a copy due to a derpy moment, its no problem at all. Fix the script, and work on a new copy.
Second is don't ever trust a backup that you can't personally verify will work.
Third is don't be afraid to have backups for backups for backups. People called me Mister OCD or Monk (referring to the television show about a detective with serious OCD issues) but after that the little jabs mysteriously went away.
Except they have earned a profit for two straight years, every quarter.
Holy fuck! That is the best performance ever by any company ever. Give Bezos a Medal of freedom for doing something no business has ever done before! I'm crying tears of joy, as the US is now set for the rest of time!
Comparing stock valuations to an artificially-depressed and manipulated interest rate
Right... there is a vast conspiracy of the rich to push down interest rates so poor people make less money on their vast bond holdings. Whatever.
Interest rates are low because inflation is low, and higher interest rates would push us into ruinous deflation. There would be nothing "natural" about that.
While I won't say for certain that there is a conspiracy, lower income people have had the rug pulled out from under them to invest for retirement. With interest rates being essentially 0, it does indeed become a tad difficult. I have a sneaking suspicion that suicide will become the new retirement plan for many. I have money, no problem for me. But I also understand math.
We have indeed, however old plants. They get safer and more reliable for every generation, like using lead as a coolant instead of water.
Wind and sun are good sources of power but we need something to generate for us the days when wind and solar cant provide what we need. If you have god Rivers near bye waterplants are good for storing and realeasing energy but not every one have that luxuruy
So tell me AC, the next invention needs to be the storage battery? Seriously my good man, Los Angeles is shutting down a natural gas peaking plant for a Tesla battery system peaking plant. Maybe you should tell them it cannot be done?
This is just stupid environmental theater. Since electricity is fungible, there is no logical reason to co-locate solar panels and charging stations, other than winning brownie points from low IQ environmentalists that care more about symbolism than reality.
Oh yes there is a logical reason. That reason is to put it right in your face, along with all of the other solar and wind deniers. This technology has gone from it's humble beginnings to we have no need for you now.
The fact that you find it necessary to whine about something that you should not care one bit about shows exactly why they would want those non grid charging stations. Just one more part of the argument you are losing.
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I agree: I've been using wireless charging since the end of 2012 when I got my Note2, and it's a required feature for me. Why would I want to deal with plugging in my device every time I set it down? I just set it on it's charger, roughly centered, and there's no penalty for picking it up again.
Free! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last!!
Are you by any chance that person on the First World Problems meme?
... and my guess is that the slashdotters that love it are merely rhapsodizing about it as a feature count because they hate everything Apple, or perhaps don't understand that as a technical solution, its right up there with green ketchup.
And my guess is that you run off on a rant without actually having used a wireless charger with your phone regularly.
Wireless charging is a silly feature on paper. And I find it nice and convenient in practice.
I don't need nor want a wireless charger. Some of my most important uses of my iPhone are for driving guidance. Long days, brightness up full, volume up full, the phone sitting in a cradle, plugged in to it's charger (my Jeep has an inverter in it). How am I going to do that with a wireless charger? Aside from a ridiculous looking kludge.
I don't recall ever saying it doesn't work. I have said often it is a silly solution that is inefficient, and steals valuable interior phone space, and you can't charge while you talk.
But hey - If plugging in a charger is something that inconveniences you so badly, then use wireless technology, and you will be happy. It certainly doesn't work for my use, and the inconvenience of plugging in a charger is about the same as the inconvenience of breathing. I do it without even thinking about it.
So... you agree with me? This is a useless feature and the only reason Apple is implementing it is because Android did it first and Apple wants to match Android bullet for bullet.
I don't presume to know the reasons Apple does anything. I do know I don't want it because it is as you say, a useless feature - a step backwards as far as I am concerned.
Did you watch the most recent WWDC keynote? Literally everything they covered was done elsewhere first.
But what does that mean? Does it mean that whoever did it first gets 10 extra years of life or something? In the world of smartphones, I need the thing to work, to make phone calls, to text, to email to give me driving guidance, and occasionally to access the internet. I want it to work well, not first. Apple first, android first means nothing to me.
Which does bring me to a possible show stopper. When I use driving guidance the most, it is on cross country trips that I take several times a year. The phone is in a cradle on the dash, happily plugged in and running in a mode that tends to suck batteries dry quickly. After 16 or so hours driving, I pull off a fully charged phone. ready to program for tomorrow's driving.
Glad you prompted me, I gotta get hold of Apple to see what the options are for someone who has to have plug-in charging.
Wireless charging sucked.
But, now Apple did it,
It's great!. It just works(tm)
No, Apple or no Apple, it sucks.
Solar and wind sound great until you eliminate the subsidies. Take away those subsidies and they become far more expensive. Once that happens, nobody will want to pay the extra costs and renewables will decline again. Like everything with the climate change agenda, it's a house of cards built on deception and lies.
Fresh meat! Give me a list of the energy sources that do not get subsidized.
Oil - yes, Gas yes, Nuclear? Bitch, please.
Come back and make your argument when the only energy source left that is getting any form of subsidy is alternative.
It has been a long, long time since university. But, I seem to recall that distance is also a factor - and that even seemingly small distances add up quickly. Inverse square, I think?
Which means I'm not willing to speculate on how efficient this will be in real-world use.
Indeed they do add up quickly. The energy transfer will get so low as to be useless in short order.
The closest I can get to the concept of a useable wireless charger is similar to a physical dock, where you drop the phone into it, with little slots that align the two parts of the transformer. But then, that would be kinda like the docks that Police and Hams plug their handheld devices into. I have several. And they work quickly and flawlessly. The difference is that they have actual contacts. And most are waterproof.
More AI BS. Just stop it already. This isn't AI. Some idiots will be claiming Eliza is AI in their next funding cycle.
Why would you say some idiots will be claiming?
Wireless charging is what, 20% efficient. So ra ra on the windmills and solar energy, but we're gonna charge our phones at a worse efficiency than Edison's light bulbs cuz it's too hard to plug in a cable.
Wireless charging is simply a marketing ploy, I mean wireless internet is a great thing, so now with wireless charging, I'll just walk around the house and my phone will always be charged, amiright?
When in truth, its just that one side of a transformer is inside the dock or pad, and the other side is inside the telephone. Which makes for a piss-poor transformer at best, and loses efficiency the further one coil gets from the other, and takes up valuable space that might be better used for say - a bigger battery? Longer battery life?And it makes for a very specific place that the phone has to be to be charged.
Its ancient technology, and my guess is that the slashdotters that love it are merely rhapsodizing about it as a feature count because they hate everything Apple, or perhaps don't understand that as a technical solution, its right up there with green ketchup.
Because Android phones have that feature and Apple has forgotten how to innovate.
You are not a technical person in the least, gauging from that statement.
Wireless charging as an innovation was around a long time ago. It never caught on because it is terribly inefficient, and you have to have the charging device closely coupled to the dock or pad.
It's like 3D films, Everyone cums in their pants about it every 30 years or so. Then it fades away.
Apple invented wireless charging... (or maybe they're just re-inventing it... or just copying something I have been using for five years now.)
Well Mister High technology Android user, Wireless technology has been around ever since transformers, it's as exciting as salt water. And if it sticks around this time, it will be a first.
I know, right. It was tried and abandoned as an expensive gimmick.
QI Pro: MicroUSB is fragile and annoying to plug in the right way. QI Neg: USB-C solves the problem better and more reliably than getting the charging coil /just/ right on the pad.
However, if they're going to remove the Lightning connector entirely to get a properly waterproof phone... then you're stuck with wireless charging (good luck)
I hope they have a way of wired charging. Wireless charging is terribly inefficient, and I don't have to place my phone in some exacting sweet spot where if I don't, it will just continue to discharge.
Wireless charging is an age old technology that has been abandoned every time it has been tried. It's the flying car of charging techniques.
Lost the argument I see.... Need your safe space?
Oh child, you had to go there, seriously? Using those words is like calling people snowflakes or Social Justice warriors. Sorry sir, my point is that as an American, she, and we are still allowed our opinion, you are even allowed yours. Your "safe space" comment doesn't even make any sense.
But hey - I get it. That's the limits of your argument.
OK, so why is she providing tacit support to the "resist" movement which in general does NOT accept the election's results and why is she blaming the fake Russian collusion narrative, even partially?
Because this is America, and despite your fondest wishes Vlad, she is fucking allowed to do what she pleases, and if it butthurts people like you, I'm all for it.
I suspect you are doing your best to make that sort of thing illegal..
how come during the election season Obama said, flat-out and public, that there was no interference going on and that everything was fine?
Because O'Blama said it, therefore as the Kenyan in chief, he was lying. Amiright?
Looks like the whole thing has just been solved, tovarisch!
Who cares about influencing the machines if you can influence the people.
What manner of bullshit is that? That is some pretty interesting defense of altering the votes there, Boris.
Collect your rubles on the way out.
Nothing can forgive the horror she inflicted on the american people by running her own personal email server!!!
Trump is much more efficient. He hands out classified data directly to the people he is working for. That's called the personal touch.
Hell, yeah, we're going to have a lot of fun blowing all this cash out my ass.
So you're underwritten by Taco Bell?
It's possible to have a program to induce people to be good to each other in specific ways. I don't know anything about "Ban Bossy" (except that I suspect it'll be blocked by my work filter), and could be wrong about it, but it sounds to me like a good step to take in a long campaign.
Okay. My apologies, but we are done here. After being told by multiple times by male feminists iin here that they aren't going to bother to even read my citations, citations that are offered in good faith, it is completely clear that you have absolutely no interest in learning anything you do not believe in, and refuse to accept any other viewpoint. Ciao, me hearty.
Interesting. So I guess the decade I spent as a member of the Apple Consultants Network means I hate Macs. And supporting an actual video editing shop that used Final Cut Server, who were left in the lurch when Apple launched FCX - that didn't happen either. And nobody ever makes newer equipment and doesn't write drivers and codecs for old end of life software.
Or, maybe you're making very bad assumptions.
Interesting - you don't post like a person who liikes Macs. Even the Apple puck mouse thinks so.
What is needed is new processes and controls.
What is needed is a backup system that actually works, and is used.
I never trusted our official backup system, having seen it not work on several occasions. So I installed one of my own for the group. Sure enough, around a year later, a group member called in a total panic - she'd written a script that was supposed to perform a find then print the find results. What it managed to do was delete the whole database.
Calls me in a tearful freakout - the IT folks backup didn't work.
Mine did. There were a few things here that needed addressed. She should have been working on a copy of the database, not the main one. Shit does happen, and if she accidentally deletes a copy due to a derpy moment, its no problem at all. Fix the script, and work on a new copy.
Second is don't ever trust a backup that you can't personally verify will work.
Third is don't be afraid to have backups for backups for backups. People called me Mister OCD or Monk (referring to the television show about a detective with serious OCD issues) but after that the little jabs mysteriously went away.
Except they have earned a profit for two straight years, every quarter.
Holy fuck! That is the best performance ever by any company ever. Give Bezos a Medal of freedom for doing something no business has ever done before! I'm crying tears of joy, as the US is now set for the rest of time!
Comparing stock valuations to an artificially-depressed and manipulated interest rate
Right ... there is a vast conspiracy of the rich to push down interest rates so poor people make less money on their vast bond holdings. Whatever.
Interest rates are low because inflation is low, and higher interest rates would push us into ruinous deflation. There would be nothing "natural" about that.
While I won't say for certain that there is a conspiracy, lower income people have had the rug pulled out from under them to invest for retirement. With interest rates being essentially 0, it does indeed become a tad difficult. I have a sneaking suspicion that suicide will become the new retirement plan for many. I have money, no problem for me. But I also understand math.
We have indeed, however old plants. They get safer and more reliable for every generation, like using lead as a coolant instead of water.
Wind and sun are good sources of power but we need something to generate for us the days when wind and solar cant provide what we need. If you have god Rivers near bye waterplants are good for storing and realeasing energy but not every one have that luxuruy
So tell me AC, the next invention needs to be the storage battery? Seriously my good man, Los Angeles is shutting down a natural gas peaking plant for a Tesla battery system peaking plant. Maybe you should tell them it cannot be done?
This is just stupid environmental theater. Since electricity is fungible, there is no logical reason to co-locate solar panels and charging stations, other than winning brownie points from low IQ environmentalists that care more about symbolism than reality.
Oh yes there is a logical reason. That reason is to put it right in your face, along with all of the other solar and wind deniers. This technology has gone from it's humble beginnings to we have no need for you now.
The fact that you find it necessary to whine about something that you should not care one bit about shows exactly why they would want those non grid charging stations. Just one more part of the argument you are losing.
If we can manage that Tesla will have no problem disconnecting most of its chargers from the grid.
It is difficult determining if the alternative power detractors are paid shills, useful idiots, or just desperately hanging on to strange nostalgia.
'Murrica is quite capable of making the switch. And we are doing it, no matter what the coal rollers think or how much they whine.